The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1789-02-18 00:00:00

The New-Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Volume xxxiv.—Number 1694.)
WEDNESDAY, February 18, 1789.
(Letter-Box in the window.)
PORTSMOUTH: Published by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, where Advertisements, Articles of Intelligence, &c. are thankfully received and carefully inserted—This Paper contains all the Laws of the State passed since January 1787.
State of Newhampshire.
In the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Nine.
An ACT,
For the better observation of the LORD'S Day, and to repeal all Laws heretofore made in this State for that purpose.
L. S.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN GENERAL COURT CONVENED, That no Tradesman, Artificer, or any other person whatsoever, shall do, or exercise any labour, business, or work of their secular calling, (works of necessity and mercy only excepted) nor use any game, play or recreation on the LORD'S Day, or any part thereof, upon pain that every person so offending, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings, or less than five shillings.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no person shall travel on the LORD'S Day, or any part of it, unless from necessity, or to attend Public Worship, visit the Sick, or do some office of Charity, on penalty of a sum not exceeding forty shillings, nor less than five.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no Taverner, Retailer, or other person keeping a public house of entertainment, shall suffer any of the inhabitants of the respective towns where they dwell, or others not being strangers, or lodgers, in such houses, to abide, or remain in the houses, yards, or appendages thereof, drinking or idly spending their time on the LORD'S Day, upon the pain and penalty aforesaid. And the person or persons, who shall be found so drinking or abiding in such houses or dependencies thereof as aforesaid, shall each suffer the like penalty.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each town and district within this State, shall at the time of choosing town or district Officers annually and every year, appoint certain persons (being of good substance and sober life) to be Tythingmen of such town or district, of which officers, no town or district shall appoint less than two, whose duty it shall be, to inform of all breaches of this act; and all such Tythingmen shall take the following Oath:
YOU being chosen a Tythingman for the town of _____ for the year ensuing, and until another shall be chosen and sworn in your room, do solemnly swear that you will diligently attend to, and faithfully execute the duties of said office, without partiality and according to the best of your discretion and judgment.
So help you GOD.
And be it further enacted, That if any person shall, on the LORD'S day within the walls of any house of public worship, or about such house, whether in the time of public service or between the forenoon and afternoon services of said day, behave rudely or indecently, he or she shall pay a fine not exceeding ten shillings, nor less than three shillings.
And be it further enacted, That the Oath of any Tythingman or Selectman shall be deemed full and sufficient evidence upon trial of any offence against this act, unless in the judgment of the Court or Justice, the same shall be invalidated by other evidence that may be produced.
And be it further enacted, That the Parents of any children under age, the Guardians of any minors, and the masters of servants, who shall have no Parents or Guardians, shall be respectively
liable for the fines of their children, wards or servants, who shall be convicted of any offence against this act.
And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for each and every Justice of the Peace, to take such assistance as shall be needful, and forcibly to stop and detain any person or persons, he shall suspect of travelling unnecessarily on said day, for and during such time as shall be necessary for demanding the cause or reason of such person's travelling, his name and place of abode, and receiving the answer to such demands. And in case any person shall not give satisfaction to the Justice demanding the same, such Justice shall have full power and authority to detain in his custody such person or persons, until a regular trial can be had.
And be it further enacted, That the Selectmen, of the several towns, and places of this State, and the Tythingmen chosen and sworn as aforesaid, be and they hereby are required to inform of all breaches of this act within their precincts. And if any person charged with a breach of this act, shall be acquitted upon trial, he shall recover costs against the complainant, unless the complainant shall be a Justice of the Peace, Tythingman, or Selectman; And in that case no costs shall be allowed to the person acquitted.
And for the better execution of all and every the forgoing Orders, every Justice of the Peace within the county where any offence against this act, shall be committed, shall have power and authority to convene before him, any person or persons offending as aforesaid; and upon his own view or other evidence sufficient to convict any person of such offence, to impose the fine and penalty for the same with costs, and to restrain and commit the offender until the same be satisfied, or to cause such fine, penalty and cost to be levied by distress, and sale of the offender's goods, returning the overplus if any be. All fines and penalties accruing by this act, to be for the benefit and relief of the poor of such town where the offence is committed, and delivered into the hands of the Selectmen or Overseers of the poor for that purpose.
And be it further enacted, That any person shall have the right of appeal to the Court of General Sessions of the Peace from any sentence of a justice given against him in pursuance of this act.
Provided nevertheless, That it shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace on application, to grant a licence for any person to travel, or do any secular business on said day, which shall appear to him to be a work of necessity or mercy: and such Certificate shall be a bar to any prosecution therefor. And the informing officers aforesaid, shall have a right to enquire of any person apparently offending against this act, the cause or necessity of his so doing, and if he shall neglect or refuse to assign such reason or reasons as may appear on trial to be sufficient or shew such certificate, he shall pay costs of prosecution, any other reason he shall give on trial notwithstanding.
And be it further enacted, That all prosecutions for offences against this act, shall be commenced within thirty days after the offence shall have been committed and not afterwards.
And be it further enacted, That an act intitled "an act for the better observation and keeping the LORD'S Day," passed in the late Province, now State of New-Hampshire, in the year of our LORD, seventeen hun-
dred—and also an act intitled "an act for the better observation and keeping the LORD'S Day," made and passed June 23d, 1785, be and they hereby are repealed.
And it is hereby recommended to the Ministers of the Gospel, to read this act publickly in their Congregations annually, on the Lord's day next after the choice of town officers.
In the House of Representatives, January 31, 1789.
The foregoing bill having been read a third time, voted that it pass to be enacted.
Sent up for concurrence:
THO'S BARTLETT, Speaker.
In Senate, Feb. 2d, 1789.
This bill having been read a third time, voted that the same be enacted.
JOHN PICKERING, President.
A true copy: Attest: J. PEARSON, Secretary.
List of Acts and Resolves passed at the late session of the General Court,
(Continued from our last.)
An act to restore Daniel Sargent, John Amory, Thomas Amory, and Edward Davis, to their law.
An act to authorize and empower Samuel Mansfield, of Henniker, in the county of Hillsborough, in said state, to make sale of the real estate of Shubael Bailey, deceased.
A resolve to adjourn the inferior court of common pleas to be holden at Portsmouth, to the first Tuesday of March next.
An act taxing the improved lands in the town of Marlborough.
An act empowering the superior court of judicature of this state, to hear and try any causes respecting or relating to the forfeiture of lands within this state heretofore granted, or that may hereafter be granted, for non-performance of the conditions of such grants, to determine and give judgment, &c.
An act to empower Ebenezer Thompson, esq. to collect certain excise duties due and unpaid in the county of Strafford.
A resolve that there be one adjutant appointed to each regiment of light-horse in this state.
An act to enable the inhabitants of Peterborough-flip, in the county of Hillsborough, to assess, levy and collect money for repairing the highways.
An act establishing a deed given by Jonathan Moulton, late of Hampton, in the county of Rockingham, esq. deceased, to Winthrop Smith, of Ossipee.
An act for reducing the number of the times for holding the court of general sessions of the peace within the several counties in this state.
An act to enable Ezra Moorey, esq. to review an action originally brought by Jonathan Moulton, esq. deceased, against said Moorey.
An act to establish an equitable method of making rates and taxes, and determining who shall be legal voters in town and parish affairs.
An act for making and establishing a new proportion of the public taxes among the several towns, parishes, and places within this state.
An act for raising 57,268 dollars, in indents, and 5000 in specie, for defraying the charges of government the current year, and other contingencies.
An act in addition to an act for carrying into effect an ordinance of Congress of the 13th of September, 1788, relating to the Constitution of the United States, passed the 12th of November last.
ST. ANTHONY and the LOBSTER.
ON my paying a visit to a nobleman whose country residence was about 20 miles from Padua, he carried me into a room built on purpose for a choice collection of pictures, painted by the most eminent Italian masters. After having examined and admired them for some time, he said, I have yet one more, and carrying me into an adjoining apartment, shewing me a very large picture; do you know the subject? said he. It is, I answered, the story of St. Anthony of Padua preaching to the fishes. You are right, he replied; only observe the expression of agony in the saint's countenance, the ideas of the painter must have been consonant to the saint's distress.—Distress! I replied, and for what? Why, said the nobleman, in the ecstasy of his discourse, he dropt his rosary over the rock which is so finely painted, and implored the aid of heaven for its recovery, his prayers were heard, as you may observe the painter has drawn a lobster crawling up the rock with the rosary on one of his claws; on my smiling, he asked me the reason; I replied, the picture is admirably drawn, and highly finished, and does honor to the artist; but my lord, the painter has committed an egregious blunder. In what? much surprised he asked. In the colouring of the lobster, that my lord, is a boiled lobster. It is, he replied, and in that the painter has evinced his high ideas of the miracle, a living lobster might be supposed to do it, but a boiled lobster's performing it, was truly miraculous.
WARSAW, October 12.
To-morrow the Diet will assemble for the fourth time. Their deliberations have as yet been carried on with a tranquility little to have been expected, from the present situation of affairs in the North. The only contested point was, how far our army should be augmented. It is at length determined that, instead of increasing it to 100,000 men, as originally proposed, it shall only consist of 60,000, who, it is said, are to be paid from the revenues of the church. This last circumstance we little expected.
GENOA, October 15.
In the night of the 7th we experienced a dreadful hurricane here. At one o'clock in the morning, a thunderbolt fell upon the church of Capuchins, and penetrated into the choir, where all the Monks were assembled, singing their matins, in order to deprecate the divine vengeance. On this awful occasion, two lay-brothers were struck dead.
L O N D O N,
Oct. 15. The Turks employ buffaloes to drag their artillery, even 24 and 48 pounders, over the highest mountains; and the Ottomans are so earnest in the pursuit of their warlike operations, that they have brought their whole harvest from Macedonia upon an immense number of camels, mules, and other beasts of burthen, to their army.
It should be remembered to the honor of the Duke of Leeds, that from the instant of the appointment of his son, the Marquis of Carmarthen, to the post of Secretary of State, he has very disinterestedly refused the receipt of his pension of 3000l. per annum. Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, Sept. 30.
"A loan is now positively going on here by subscription for the King of Denmark, notwithstanding the Edict to prevent lending to any foreign powers has still two months to expire. Nothing can, however, pre-

vent people giving their money away; and the present is little more, as no security can be obtained but the good faith of the Danish Government. The sum is not fixed; it is conjectured, about a million of ducats of gold."
Nov. 3. The Empress, it is said, had formed a plan to place a King of her own on the throne of Poland. The person she had in view to nominate, was Prince Potemkin, now commanding before Oczakow. To this, or any interference whatever in the affairs of Poland, the King of Prussia put his decided negative, and the Empress has revoked her intentions by the following declaration: "that she renounced the project of a more close alliance with the King and the Republic, and should leave the Diet to act according to their own judgment."
Nov. 4. The Emperor of Morocco's eldest son is half an Irishman, his mother, who is alive, being from that country. The young Prince is remarkably fond of the British nation. He speaks English tolerably, and has been taught the military discipline, and even the small sword, at which he is very expert, by masters from Gibraltar. The father and son hate each other mortally. They seek each other's death with great avidity. The son is beloved by the whole empire, unless, indeed, the Negro-slaves, who are as faithful to the Emperor, as the Swiss-guards to Louis. They are supposed to be 50,000 strong. When the son comes to the throne he means to abolish all slavery of the English, and invite them, by particular exemptions, to settle in his dominions.
The Hibernian Empress of Morocco, who, poor woman, is closely confined, expressed some time ago a wish to see her mother, who, it seems, lived near Dublin. The Emperor accordingly gave in her name and place of residence to several English who touched there, in the Empress's handwriting, with promises of great presents to his mother-in-law, if she would come over. About a year since she arrived, and was guarded to Mequinez, in a most royal style, where she now resides with her daughter. Although this singular article be totally new to the public at large, yet its authenticity is well known by many at Gibraltar, and by the people on board our ships of war on the Mediterranean station.
The Emperor wrote lately to an intimate friend in the following style:
"No one can feel but those who wear crowns, the anxieties, perplexities and the burthensome troubles of my exalted station; particularly in the present state of my affairs. To see my brave soldiers partly mowed down by the scythe of dreadful sickness, and partly fall by the edge of the sword of a furious and an enraged enemy, has made a deep impression on my mind, never to be forgotten; but I believe in one God (so do also the Turks, and are besides no Trinitarians) who I hope will turn the tide of luck in my favor, and yet restore my affairs, so that I may come off with honor and glory, from the tribulations I am now in."
Extract of a letter from Paris, Nov. 1.
"The Archbishop of Sens was some few days ago on the point of being placed far beyond the resentment of the nation, and out of the reach of the Attorney-general and Parliament. It was not a Cardinal's Hat, or a Royal Noli Prosequi that had like to have produced such effects; it was the hand of death that was on the point of snatching from the Parliament their victim. The Prelate was at Brienne, the seat of his brother, from which that nobleman derives his title of Count Brienne. Across the chimney of the room in which the Archbishop lay, ran a beam, which served also as a prop to the chimney of the adjoining apartment in which a fire was constantly kept—several faggots and billets of wood having been put on, raised the blaze so high, that it reached
the beam, and set fire to it: the flames, unperceived in the night, gained ground, and directed by the beam, at last reached his Grace's apartments: it was with difficulty he found means to escape, half suffocated, in his shirt. Several fine paintings, and other valuable effects were destroyed; but through the activity of a numerous family of servants, the fire was got under, before it had reached a third apartment. The Count de Brienne immediately waited upon his brother to congratulate him on his escape; he then took a tender leave of him, and returned to Paris: the Archbishop is probably by this time beyond the boundaries of the French dominions. His departure from Brienne was fixed for the 28th of October: his destination for Italy; but, as he had reason to apprehend the violence of the people of Burgundy, and other provinces lying in the direct road from Brienne to Italy, it was thought he would take his way through Flanders, the Parliament of that province not having been included in the severities exercised on the other Parliaments of the kingdom: from Flanders he will pass into Germany, and so through the Tirolese into Italy."
Extract of a letter from Bremen, Oct. 16.
"A fight rather unusual has been lately displayed here, by the appearance of two Hanoverian men of war, La Confeille of 24 guns, and Rhaffembourg of 20 guns. They are officered and manned by Germans, and considering the character that people bear as seamen, they are truly respectable. A Prussian frigate of 26 guns, is now cruising off the mouth of the Aller. Such an unusual measure forebodes something."
NOVEMBER 5.
To the disgrace of the rising States of America, their inhabitants retain even now, in peace, the same venomous aversion to their Parent Country, which in the war, they carried to so odious an excess. In one of the last Boston newspapers, which particularly describes a procession made by the citizens in demonstration of their joy for the accession of their States to the new confederacy, there is an article pointing out with exultation, that "the British flag, hoisted on a cart, was drawn along displayed, and was perpetually saluted by volleys of small shot, in testimony of the detestation in which that perfidious nation ought to be held by America."—The brutality, insolence and cowardice, testified in this story, would render the fact incredible, were it not for this public record of it, which may be read at any of the American coffee-houses in the city.
Extract of a letter from Paris, Nov. 4.
"Our cabinet far from displaying that unanimity that should give solidity and weight to its measures, exhibits a miserable scene of confusion. On most subjects of finance, and particularly on that system of rigid economy which M. Neckar wishes to introduce into every department of the State, he is very obstinately opposed. The Queen, it is said, will not hear of retrenchments in the royal households nor have her expenditures limited. It is chiefly on this ground that her faction oppose Monsieur Neckar."
"If in all his measures he continues to be thwarted, it is supposed he will resign: and that at the Assembly of the States-General they will be obliged to reinstate him. The Count de Brienne is at the head of the Queen's party."
DUBLIN, November 1.
Advices from Cadiz, and other Spanish ports mention, "that several thousand barrels of butter from this kingdom remain unsold, on account of their high price."
Thursday morning between two and three, the body of the late Earl of Nugent, was carried in a common hearse, attended by two mourning coaches, from the vice regal lodge in the Phoenix park, to the lower end of the North wall, where it was let down
into a boat which conveyed it on board the vessel that is to carry it to England!—Thus have ended the funeral obsequies of the venerable Nugent, a Peer of this realm! and the father of our vice Queen.
RICHMOND, January 14. Copy of a letter from young KIRK, the noted Indian Killer, to John Watts, now Chief War Captain of the Cherokee nation.
"SIR,—I have heard of your letter lately sent to Chudney John (the Indian name for John Sevier). You are mistaken in blaming him for the death of your uncle. Listen now to my story. For days and months, Cherokee Indians, little and big, women and children, have been fed and kindly treated by my mother. When all was peace with the Tanistee towns, Slim Tom, with a party of Sattigo and other Cherokee Indians, murdered my mother, brothers and sisters, in cold blood, when children just before were playful about them as friends, and at the instant some of them received the bloody tomahawk, they were smiling in their faces. This began the war—and, since, I have taken ample satisfaction, and can now make peace, except with Slim Tom. Our beloved men, the Congress tell us to be at peace—I will listen to their advice, if no more blood is shed by the Cherokees, and the head men of your nation take care to prevent such beginnings of bloodshed in all times to come. But if they do not, your people may feel something more to keep up the remembrance of JOHN KIRK, jun."
Captain of the Bloody Rangers, To Capt. John Watts.
Oct. 17, 1788.
WILMINGTON, [N. C.] Jan. 1.
The number of vessels that have arrived in this port since our last, exceeds any that has ever been known in so short a time.
A correspondent of information informs us, that a considerable part of the freight of the above vessels is Spanish milled dollars.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 16.
Among other curious natural productions presented to Mr. PEALE's American Museum, since his arrival in this town, are the following:
A Fish of the South Sea, 4 feet long and not more than 4 inches in the girth, and the head and eyes disproportionately large, and the jaws set with a single row of very sharp teeth—and sundry beautiful specimens of Coral—by Capt. David Howlen—The Salamander of Africa, the Trumpet Fish, and a remarkable Fish commonly called the Squib—by Dr. Keerl.—A piece of Crystal, dug out of Mr. Christopher Raborg's cellar, whose diameters, when entire, were 4 inches by 3—by Mr. Christopher Raborg.
—The Jaws and Tail of a Shark, 17 feet long, and 7 feet in the girth; the jaws, extended, measure 6 feet round, where the teeth are set—by Messrs. Melcher and John Keener.—A Grinder of the non-descript Animal of the Western Country, found at the Big-bone Saltlick, and weighing four pounds—by Mr. William Lux.
PHILADELPHIA, January 30.
On Sunday night last, Thomas Shepard, an honest sober and industrious porter, living near the hospital, was attacked in his house by villains, who after beating him in so shocking a manner as to leave him almost lifeless, robbed him of all they could carry away, particularly about 45 pounds in money, which the poor man had been, with incessant application, and under miserable health, a long time gathering.
NEW YORK, January 21.
The following is the most excellent remedy for preventing any water from insinuating itself between the junctures of bricks or stones—Quench quicklime with vinegar; mix with those ingredients of iron filings about one half the quantity of the quick-lime;
add to this half as much fresh cowdung—work the whole well together, and it will be fit for immediate use.
State of Newhampshire. In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, February 3, 1789.
RESOLVED, That the Treasurer be, and he is hereby directed and impowered to issue his extents at his own discretion, any time prior to the 15th day of May next, against any delinquent town or place, or at the request of the selectmen of such delinquent town or place, for all taxes due prior to the year 1787: and that in case of such taxes being unpaid on that day, that he immediately issue his extents against such delinquent towns and places—and that he issue his extents for the taxes of 1787, against all such towns and places as may be delinquent on the 15th day of June next.
Sent up for concurrence, THO'S BARTLETT, Speaker. In SENATE, the same day read and concurred.
J. PEARSON, Secretary. State of Newhampshire. In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, February 3, 1789.
THE committee on excise reported, that the treasurer be directed to issue extents against the farmers of excise for the payment of all bonds due from them prior to the first day of October last, if they shall not be discharged by the 15th day of March next: and that all other bonds now due, shall be paid in by the second Wednesday of June next. Signed,
PIERSE LONG, for the committee. Which report being read and considered, voted, that it be received and accepted, excepting the bond or bonds signed by James Macgregore, esq. and John Neal, esq. late deceased, when partners in said excise.
Sent up for concurrence. THO'S BARTLETT, Speaker. In SENATE, the same day read and concurred.
J. PEARSON, Secretary. Treasury-Office, } February 13, Newhampshire, } 1789.
PURSUANT to the above orders of the honorable Court, the subscriber gives this general notice to all delinquent towns and individuals, that unless payment is made for the outstanding taxes, excise bonds, &c. conformable to the foregoing requisitions, he shall be under the disagreeable necessity of issuing extents therefor, and which, he wishes to avoid by their punctual compliance.
W. GARDNER, Treasurer.
State of Newhampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the creditors to the estate of JOHN GOFFE, esq. late of Derryfield, in said county, deceased; that six months from the 26th of January 1789, is allowed for the creditors to bring in their claims.—The commissioners will attend said business at the house of Capt. Stephen Dole, in Bedford, on the last Tuesday of March, May, and June next, from three to eight o'clock in the afternoon.
JOHN ORR, } Commissioners. STEPHEN DOLE, } Bedford, Feb. 3, 1789.
TO BE SOLD, On MONDAY the 2d day of March next, at ten o'clock, A.M. at the Coffee-house-tavern, in Portsmouth,
Part of the real estate of Ebenezer Jackson, late of Portsmouth, deceased. Conditions will be known at time and place of sale.
NATHANIEL FOSS, Administrator. Portsmouth, Feb. 4, 1789.

L O N D O N, Nov. 17.
Mr. Neckar is going to open a new loan for 100,000,000 of livres; the interest of which he will pay without any new tax. A fund has been established in France arising from the estates of suppressed convents, retrenchments in the king's household, &c. and from the produce of some church livings, in the gift of the crown, which produce during vacancy between the death of one incumbent, and presentation of another, belongs to the king. This fund produces at present 500,000 livres a year; that it may be increased to 10,000,000, the king has agreed that he will not present to any of those livings (chiefly abbeys and prebends in Cathedral churches without cure of souls) for three years.
Nov. 18. As the revolution that took place in Great-Britain and Ireland by the accession of King William the Third, is an eventful period in the general annals of Christendom, having wrought so great a change in its commercial and political system, it may not be unsatisfactory to such of our readers as are not in the habit or opportunity of such particular information, if we lay before them the state of population that existed at that period, contrasted with what it is at this day, both taken from the most approved and accurate accounts that have been published respecting the undermentioned great cities, &c. viz.
   No. of souls in 1688. In 1788.     London, contained 696,000 1,100,000   Paris, 488,000 800,000   Marseilles, 200,000 180,000   Lyons, 250,000 150,000   Naples, 200,000 354,000   Rome, 200,000 157,400   Amsterdam, 187,000 185,000   Venice, 134,000 100,000   Bordeaux, 100,000 200,000   Dublin, 69,000 170,000   Rouen, 66,000 100,000   Bristol, 48,000 50,000   Cork, 40,000 90,000   Liverpool, 20,000 60,000  
By which it appears, that the cities of London, Paris, Naples, Bordeaux, Dublin, Rouen, Bristol, Cork, and the town of Liverpool, have increased; and that Marseilles, Lyons, Rome, Amsterdam and Venice, have decayed in their population; from which circumstance, Naples from the fifth has become the third. Bordeaux from the ninth the fourth, and Dublin from the tenth the seventh in rank, as to the number of inhabitants.
CHARLESTON, (S. C.) Jan. 15.
Capt. Hewan, on his passage from the coast, to Jamaica, touched at Dominica, and informs, that on Thursday the 27th of November last, the Solebay frigate came from Barbadoes to Dominica, with an account of the arrival of the Charon man of war, and two other 44 gun ships, all armed en flute, at Barbadoes, on Tuesday the 25th, having 800 troops on board for Jamaica, and a considerable number for Dominica.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5.
We learn from Sunbury, that a farmer near that place, on the Susquehanna, has lately made two barrels of Sweet oil (equal to the present olive oil) out of hickory nuts, by simple expression. One half of the smallest species of these nuts, viz. the Shell bark, yielded by an experiment, 30 drops of oil. The oil obtained from these delicious nuts has been used in diet, and from the want of oil of an inferior quality, has been burnt in lamps. Every day's experience serves to convince us of the resources of our country for wealth and happiness. The historian of future ages, in recording the events of the American revolution, will probably write as follows: "The United States published a declaration of their independence upon Great-Britain on the 4th of July, 1776; but this was only a nominal act. They returned in the year 1783 to their ancient habits of affection and dependence upon
Great-Britain. Their cloathing, furniture, carriages, and many other articles of their provisions, were all of British manufacture. In vain did the British ministry neglect and insult their returning attachments. It was not till the year 1788 that the Americans awaked from their sleep on the lap of their step mother, and proclaimed, by their industry, and economy, that they were an independent people."
Extract of a letter from Batavia; dated July 14, 1788.
"On the 12th of June we spoke capt. Barry, in the straits of Sunda, all well on board."
"The Dutch and Maltese are at present much engaged in war throughout the Chinese seas; two of their European Indiamen have been captured this season, one of whom has been since retaken in an engagement with the frigates on that station."
"This is the most destructive part of the globe to foreigners, owing to its low situation, and impurity of its waters: there are few that visit this port, without experiencing the effects of both."
"Since we left China in January, 1787, there has been a civil war throughout the empire, which still continues; in consequence of which a famine, then but partial, is now become general."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Augusta, Georgia, to his friend in Petersburg, dated Nov. 6.
"The political state of Georgia, at present, stands in a most disagreeable predicament, owing to two circumstances; viz. their dispute with the Creek Indians, and the depreciating state of their paper currency; the former has affected me very little, but I have suffered very considerably by the latter; this in a great measure has cured me of the partiality I first had conceived of the place, and I wish before I came to it, I had adhered a little to the old maxim, "That it is better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others we know not of."
POUGHKEEPSIE, Feb. 3.
We are informed that a young man by the name of Howard, of Beekman's precinct near Fredericksburgh, was bit by a mad dog about 7 or 8 weeks ago; the bite was in the wrist, which it is said entirely healed up. About the middle of the week before last, he complained of severe pains in his arm, which grew worse and penetrated to his head and body, and in a day or two was entirely mad barking and snapping as a dog would do:—He was so outrageous, that the family was obliged to fasten him to the floor, and in a few hours he expired in most painful agonies possible, on Monday last week. Several other persons were bit by the same dog, who have not yet discovered any effect from it.
NEW YORK, February 4.
Tuesday the 27th ult. the House of Assembly went into a committee on the bill for appointing electors to choose a President of the United States—The first enacting clause proposes that they shall be elected by the Senate and Assembly, in like manner as delegates to Congress have heretofore been chosen. Much debate ensued on the propriety of the mode of election; and whether the Senate would not deem it an insult to have a bill sent them for concurrence, in the same form with the one they had so recently refused to pass. The federalists moved three several amendments, each of which, though differently modified, proposed to give both Houses an equal voice in the election, but the prevailing party thought proper to negative them, and the bill was passed in its original form—the probable consequence is, that the Senate will disagree with the Assembly, and that the bill will again be lost.
We are further informed that the bill for electing Senators to represent this state in the Congress of the United States, is returned by the Senate
with amendments, which are exactly the same as those they made to the bill which was the subject of the late conference. These amendments, were to be taken up in the House of Assembly on Thursday last.
BOSTON, Feb. 16.
Extract of a letter from Albany, dated Jan. 28.
"The Assembly have now before them a bill for appointing Federal Senators, and another bill for choosing Electors of the President and Vice-President of the United States. It is generally believed that these bills will be enacted into laws."
Extract of a letter from New York, dated February 8, to a gentleman in this town.
The ship Hope arrived two days ago, in this harbour, from London. She brings advices to the 20th or 21st of December, when King George III. was alive, notwithstanding the printed accounts of his Death.
"By accounts last evening from Connecticut, we are informed, that the Electors of that State were unanimous for Mr. Washington; and gave five Votes for Mr. Adams, and two for Mr. Huntington. The Jersey Electors were unanimous for Mr. Washington; and divided between Mr. Jay and Mr. Livingston. In Pennsylvania, they were unanimous for Mr. Washington; and gave six Votes out of Ten for Mr. Adams. 'Tis said these three States really wish to have Mr. Adams Vice-President; and would have been unanimous for him, had they not been fearful he might have been placed in the Chair, which they wish to have filled by the great Washington. This State have omitted choosing Electors; their Representatives are to be chosen in March."
PORTSMOUTH, February 18.
Yesterday his Excellency JOHN LANGDON, Esquire, sat out from this town for New-York, to take his seat in the senate of the United States. His Excellency was escorted as far as Greenland (where a collation was provided) by a number of respectable gentlemen, citizens of this town. The inclemency of the weather prevented many citizens from paying this patriotic gentleman that respect, on his quitting the town, which his exertions in the cause of Freedom and good Government, so justly intitled him to receive.
After partaking of a collation at Greenland, his Excellency took an affectionate leave of his friends, received their warmest wishes for his welfare, and proceeded on his journey.
SHIP NEWS.
The brig Resolution, Capt. Kean, is arrived at Philadelphia, from Batavia, in the East Indies, after a passage of four months.
In a late London paper mention is made of a "Capt. G. Stewart, of the brig Jenny, of Derry, on the 22nd of July last, on his passage from Antigua, in lat. 39, 20 N. long. 46, 10 W. discovering a rock at about a mile's distance. Capt. Stewart, in consequence of an high surf, did not think it safe to hoist out his boat, and therefore could make no other remark than this, that he judged the rock to be about ten feet above the surface of the water, and to be about 150 yards in circumference."
The brig Hector, Capt. Lewis, of Salem, bound to Virginia, got on the Matchapungo Shoals, the evening of 25th Dec. where the vessel and cargo were lost—the crew were all saved.
Arrived at N. London, sloop Sally, Tracy from Turk's Island, in 21 days. No American vessel is permitted to load salt, having the least kind of produce on board—Ballast and cast will get salt. Gov. Hood just arrived there from England to take the command. On the 18th Jan. Capt. Tracy, in lat. 35, 30, long. 73, spoke the brig Bee, Tinny, from Cape Francois, out 18 days, bound to Virginia, and belonging to Newburyport—all well.
Died, since our last, Mr. Thomas Moses, aged 37 years.
His Swedish Majesty has rewarded the inventor, or rather improver, of a machine for measuring the way of a ship at sea; there is a pallet, which meeting a resistance from the water as the vessel moves, has by that means a circular motion under water faster or slower as the ship moves. The motion is communicated to a dial in the vessel; the dial has a bell; the bell precisely strikes the number of geometrical leagues, miles, or paces, which the ship has run; and thus her distance is ascertained.
The Resolve of the General Court published in our last, directing the Naval Officer to receive orders drawn by the President upon the Treasurer, payable out of the fund arising from the Naval Office, was non-concurred at the Senate.
N A V A L - O F F I C E, Port of Piscataqua, February 18, 1789.
ENTERED from Schooner Betty, Gardner, Shelburne. Schooner Charlotte, Gray, ditto. Schooner Blossom, Muchmore, N. York.
CLEARED for Sch. Adventure, Trefethen, Baltimore. Schooner Betty, Gardner, Shelburne.
TO BE SOLD,
By virtue of a licence from the honorable Judge of Probate, two thirds of the one eighth of the
HOUSE and LAND
where the late madam MEHITABEL ODIORNE lived. The sale to be at the house the 19th day of this month, at three o'clock, P. M.
Portsmouth, Feb. 9, 1789.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands upon the Estate of Capt. Nathaniel Brackett, late of Greenland, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same immediately for settlement to
SHADRACH ROBINSON. Greenland, January 26, 1789.
WANTED,
SIR Henry Spelman's History and Fate of Sacrilege, discovered by examples, &c. and the book called Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence. Whoever has either of these to dispose of, will find a purchaser by applying to the printer hereof.
STOLEN from the subscriber's barn in Durham, the 28th of January last, a dark red MARE, 15 hands high, trots and paces, has a black main and tail, and three or four white spots on the left side of her head. Whoever will discover the thief or thieves, so that the right owner may have his Mare, shall be handsomely rewarded for his trouble, and all charges paid by ISAAC MEDAR. Durham, Feb. 6, 1789.
A N T R I M.
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Antrim, who are delinquent in paying their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 22th day of March next, that so much of their lands as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock on said day, at my dwelling-house in Antrim, unless prevented by previous payment.
No. acres. | Specie. | Facil.
   s. d. s. d.     David Putnam, 70 1 2 0 6   Judge Lynds, 100 1 8 0 9   2 6 1 2   John M'Keen, 105 10 1 4 6   Benjamin Peirce 9 0 2 0 0   Richard Emerson, 50 0 10 0 5   J. Clark's Children 70 1 2 0 8   DANIEL M'FARLAND, Collector.   Antrim, February 10th, 1789.  

Parnassian Spring.
A SAILOR'S SONG. Tune, 'The top-sails shiver in the wind.'  T HE sailor ploughs the stormy main Alarm'd by no weak fear; His anxious heart but hopes to gain, The port where lives his dear: As points the needle to the pole, So just and true's the sailor's soul.  The Gordian knot's not half so strong, As that we seamen tie, For absence short, or absence long, Affects not constancy: A gallant sailor scorns deceit, And love and courage ever meet.  Let fops whine out a subtle tale, With lies and envy fraught; Oh, think when blows the stubborn gale On you we fix our thought: Each jolly tar when far away, Will by each gale, a sigh convey,  The poles however distant wide, How wide the planets roll, The tar who fears not wind or tide, Will thus declare his soul, The poles shall join, the planets meet, Ere we betray,—or, love deceit.  Fair Albion's cliffs our spirits warm, Our dangers past we scorn; 'Tis only lovers know the charm, When we to home return; We rapid fly to fond embrace, And tears of joy bedeck each face.
The following Churchyard Poetry shines upon a widow's wooden tombstone in Hertfordshire.
G RIEVE not for me, my dearest dear, I am not dead, but sleeping here, With patience wait prepare to die, And in short time you'll come to I. A wag going by underwrote. I am not griev'd, my dearest life, Sleep on, I've got another wife, Therefore I cannot come to thee, For I must go to bed to she.
T HE subscribers appointed commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Samuel Cate , late of Portsmouth, gentleman, deceased, represented insolvent; give notice, that they shall attend for that purpose, at the late dwelling-house of the deceased, on the last Monday of February, and the five following months, from five to eight o'clock, P. M.
Samuel Sherburne, } Commissioners. Walter Akerman, } Jonathan Ayers, jr. }
Portsmouth, Jan. 22, 1789.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the following towns, viz. Mason 1783, 1784, and 1787. Hopkinton 1784. Wilton 1784 and 1787. Cornish 1785. Gilson 1785, 1786 and 1787. Windham, Keen, Thornton, Pembroke and Lyndeborough, for 1786. Piermont 1786, 1787 and 1788. Boscawen, Lebanon, Barrington and Meredith, 1786 and 1787. The Gore, 1787 and 1788. Alstead, Hancock, New-London, Epsom and Peterborough-Slip, for 1787. Portsmouth, Stoddard, Lyman, Northumberland, Weare, Marlborough, Washington, Hillsborough, Antrim, Dublin, Bridgewater, Francistown, Andover, Fitzwilliam, Wentworth, Orford, Moultonborough, Loudon, Northwood, Fisherfield, Lime and Bradford, for 1788. That their lands in said towns are taxed for the years aforesaid; and if they are not paid within eight weeks from the first publication of this advertisement, to the collectors or the subscriber, they will be advertised for sale.
THOMAS ODIORNE, (Receiver of non-resident taxes. Exeter, February, 2, 1789.
State of New-Hampshire.
To the Hon. NATHANIEL FOLSOM , Esq. one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace in and throughout the said State.
Humbly shew
T HE subscribers, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the land owned and claimed by the heirs of the Hon. Samuel Allen, Esq. deceased, and their assigns, as proprietors thereof, in the right of the said Samuel, deceased; more especially that part of said lands commonly called and known by the name of Mason's Patent, lying in New-Hampshire and elsewhere.—
That a meeting of said proprietors is necessary for the following purposes, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting.
2d. To choose any officer or officers that may be found necessary for said proprietors.
3d. To receive and consider a report of the doings of the agents for said proprietors.
4th. To choose other agents or trustees to transact the business of said proprietors, if by them adjudged expedient; and to give them, or the present agents, such further or greater powers as the said proprietors, may adjudge necessary; for carrying into effect the good designs of their former votes and instructions, and for fully ascertaining the limits of and title to said lands, with power to make sale of the whole or any part thereof, as may be thought for the good of said proprietary, and to pass such deed or deeds, or other instruments of conveyance as may be necessary for that purpose.
5th. To ratify and confirm any former votes or grants, that the proprietors may find necessary.
6th. To make any further grants of the land that the proprietors may think proper, and to choose such committees and pass such votes as the proprietors may judge expedient for effecting any or all the foregoing purposes, and for the benefit of said proprietors.
7th. To agree upon and vote some method for calling proprietary meetings in future.
And therefore pray your Honor to notify and warn a meeting of the proprietors, heirs, and assigns aforesaid, to be holden at the house of Capt. James Thurston, in Exeter, in the county of Rockingham, and State aforesaid, on Friday the 27th day of February next, at one of the clock, P. M. for the purposes aforesaid.
Samuel Lauchlen, Moses Little, William Mercer, James Sullivan, Willis Hall, Leonard Whiting, John Sullivan, John Neal.
State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ss.
(L.S.) PURSUANT to the foregoing application, I do hereby notify and warn the owners and proprietors therein described, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes mentioned and set forth in said application.
Given under my hand and seal, at Exeter, in the county of Rockingham aforesaid, this 4th day of February, 1789.
NATHANIEL FOLSOM.
TO BE SOLD
A complete pair of Millstones for making the finest flour (imported from Europe) with bolting cloths for that purpose.— Inquire of the Printer.
TO BE SOLD
At PUBLIC VENDUE,
on Tuesday the 24th inst. at 10 o'clock A. M. at the dwelling-house of JOHN MOFFATT , late of Portsmouth, Esq. deceased.
All the personal estate
of said deceased, consisting of household Furniture, &c. &c.
Portsmouth, February 4, 1789.
TO BE SOLD
At PUBLIC VENDUE,
at the house of the widow Martha Folsom , innholder in Stratham, on Monday the second day of March next, at one o'clock in the afternoon,
BY virtue of a licence
from the Hon. Phillips White , Esq. Judge of Probate, &c. for the county of Rockingham, several pieces of land lying in Stratham aforesaid, also a Wall Pew below in the Meeting-house, being the estate of Cornet Thomas Wiggin , late of Stratham, deceased. Conditions of sale to be known at time and place. (trator. NATHAN BARKER , Adminif-Stratham February 11, 1789.
N OTICE is hereby given, that the EXCISE on SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, and other exciseable articles enumerated in the excise act for the county of Strafford, will be farmed at the house of Jonathan Gage , innholder in Dover, on Thursday the 19th day of February instant, at 2 o'clock, P. M. at which time and place the conditions of sale will be made known.
JOHN WALDRON, JOSEPH BADGER, jr. } Committee. JAMES CALEF,
A LL persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of Mehitable Odiorne , late of Portsmouth, widow, deceased, are desired without delay to settle the same with the subscribers, executors of the last Will and Testament of the said deceased.
SAMUEL PENHALLOW, DANIEL ODIORNE.
State of New-Hampshire.
Rockingham ss.
T HE subscribers being appointed commissioners, by the Hon. Phillips White , Esq. Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Joseph Wiggin , late of Stratham, in said county, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice that we will attend that business on the third Wednesday in March at two of the clock in the afternoon, and on the four following months, from two to six o'clock P. M. on each day at the house of the widow Martha Folsom , innholder in Stratham.
JONA. WIGGIN, NATHAN BARKER, } Commissioners. MARK WIGGIN,
Stratham, February 4, 1789.
T HE subscriber, appointed by the Hon. Phillips White , Esq. Judge of Probate, for the county of Rockingham, Guardian to Noah Wiggin , late of Loudon in the State of New-Hampshire, but now of Stratham, being non compos mentis, hereby caution any person or persons trading with said Wiggin or Sarah his wife on any pretence whatever, as they will after this notice be dealt with as the law directs in like cases.
 WILLIAM WIGGIN. 
Stratham, February 5, 1789.
— Law Book. —
Portsmouth, January 1789.
I T being very difficult to procure a complete set of the Laws of this State, passed since the Revolution, therefore, the following
P R O P O S A L S are handed to the public by the subscriber
For Printing by Subscription All the Acts and Laws of the State of New-Hampshire , Passed since the Revolution up to the present day.
CONDITIONS.
 I. The work shall be neatly and correctly printed in one large Octavo Volume, with a beautiful new type, on good paper, with an index.  II. The price in law-binding shall be only twelve shillings L. M. (which is less than one third part of the sum the State has heretofore paid for them unbound.)  III. The work shall be committed to the press and completed with all possible expedition as soon as 500 books, only, are subscribed for.  IV. No money to be paid until the books are ready for delivery, when punctual payment will be expected. 
JOHN MELCHER.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are received by several gentlemen in various parts of this State, with whom subscription papers are lodged.
W HEREAS at sundry legal meetings of the proprietors of the lands called Amherst , lately Souhegan-West , No. 3, in the state of New-Hampshire, several taxes have been voted to be raised on each right or share in said town, which has been advertised in the New-Hampshire Gazette , according to law; yet sundry persons neglect to pay the same to the collectors of said town.—This is therefore to notify those that are delinquent, that unless they pay the following sums in lawful money, annexed to the name of each proprietor or owner of said delinquent's land, at or before the first Tuesday in April next, so much of their rights and lots will be sold at public vendue, on said day, and so from day to day until the whole is sold, at the dwelling-house of Ephraim Hildreth , innholder in said Amherst, as will discharge the said sum assessed on each lot, with incidental charges. The number and division of their lots, rights, and shares, are as follows, viz.
One first division lot, No. 23, charged 12s 5d 2q. One fourth division lot on Bell's right, 6s 3d 2q. The heirs of Samuel Bradford , No. 108, 3d division, 14s. The heirs of col. John Shepard , No. 106, 1st division, and two 3d division lots No. 11 and No. 15, 4s 13s 3d. The original right of Fry , 4th division lot, 6s 3d 2q.—One 4th division on Symond's right, 6s 3d 2q.—One 4th division on Prescott's right, 6s 3d 2q.—One 4th division on Rament's right, 6s 3d 2q.—One 4th division on Collins's right, 6s 3d 2q.—One 4th division on Marsh's right, 6s 3d 2q. One 4th division on Dodge's right, 6s 3d 2q.
WILLIAM PEABODY , Collector. Amherst, Dec. 22, 1788.
State of New-Hampshire.
T HE undersigned Administrators of the estate of JOHN NEAL , late of Londonderry, in the county of Rockingham, in said state, Esq. deceased, request the creditors of said estate, to exhibit their respective claims, so that the situation thereof may be known, in order for a speedy settlement: and those indebted to said estate, are desired to make immediate payment.
MARY NEAL, JOHN NEAL.
Londonderry, Jan. 24, 1789.
B LANKS of all sorts printed and sold at J. Melcher's Printing-Office, VERY CHEAP.