The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1775-03-17 00:00:00

THE New-Hampshire AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Vol. XIX GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
FRIDAY March 17, 1775.
No. 960 } Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd.
From the SPECTATOR to a former FRIEND.
Much deluded Sir, AS I have no Desire to detract from the Merit of your former Actions, I readily allow, that for many Years your prudent Conduct gained you the Affections of almost all the People in this and the neighbouring Colonies. No Man in your Station could be more honoured and revered: No Person could exert himself more in favour of the Province, or exceed you in promoting the true Interest of it. You did not prostitute Commissions, but endeavoured to add Dignity to your Courts; and Honour to your Militia: You caused Harmony to subsist between the several Officers and Soldiers throughout the Province; and doubtless felt that Satisfaction yourself which ever Results from a Consciousness of having done well; you well know what Effects this produced, & with Pleasure saw the Zeal with which the People espoused and defended your Cause against the Rage and Malice of some who have since become your Bosom Friends. But Sir, let me ask you whether your late Conduct has not been totally different? Have you not, without Provocation, risen up against your native Country, and done all in your Power, to enslave it? Have you not used your utmost Endeavours to enforce those unconstitutional Acts, against which America has made so violent an Opposition? Have you not arbitrarily deprived the People from any share in their own Government for near twelve Months, and reduced your People to the sad Necessity of being governed by the Crown, or its immediate Servants; or of being reduced to a State of Anarchy? Have you not devised various Methods to divide and weaken the People, that their Opposition to Parliamentary Measures might be less powerful? Have you not issued your Writs for the Election of Representatives to Towns where the Number of Inhabitants were inconsiderable, when compared with others, which you chose to pass by, without the least Notice? Have you not excepted your Vengeance on all those who have stood forth to defend the Liberties of their Country, upon the Members of the late Congress; upon civil Magistrates and military Officers? you have; How then can you expect to rule in the Hearts of this People? can you conceive that they take no Notice of these Things? be not deceived, a few fawning Sycophants may endeavour to flatter you; but believe me Sir, the Affections of the People will never be possessed by you in future. They well know that you was the only Person who endeavoured to procure Workmen, to build Barracks for the Enemies of America; they are fully sensible, that the Officers who have been foremost in disciplining their Men, and fitting them for Action; and the Men who have been engaged for the Preservation of the sacred Rights of the People, who have warned the People of their Danger and exhorted them to shun it, have been made the Objects of your Resentment, these Men you have dismissed from every civil and military Employment; But what is the Consequence; you already see that Numbers of Officers have resigned, nobly refusing to hold Commissions when nothing can secure them but consenting to the Ruin of their Country; and you will soon find that the same Spirit will discover itself in every Part of the Government; and of course, the Militia will be in the same State as that of the Massachusetts, Maryland, &c. I suppose that in Excuse for this Conduct, you will say that you were expressly ordered to do this, and could by no means avoid it, and secure your own Standing; which perhaps may be the Case; but then, I must beg leave to observe that if those Orders were from General GAGE, and you can by no Means secure your Standing, but by obeying them; you can claim but little Merit for any Acts you may do in future; as General Gage, with his Nod, can direct the public Affairs of this and every other Colony upon the Continent. If it proceeded from the Mandates of a Minister, then it is immaterial, whether we are governed by Lord NORTH or any other Person, as every Thing is to be regulated by his arbitrary Will and Pleasure.
I however incline to think that this is our deplorable Situation, that the Person who presides over us, has little more to do than echo the Voice of a despotic Minister, and see that his Mandates are obeyed; I must therefore pity the Person appointed to preside, and the unhappy People who are call'd to obey. No Situation can be more unhappy, no Slavery can be more complete. I think myself acquainted with the natural Goodness of your Heart, and will venture to affirm, that you would not (if left to yourself) make such a wanton Use of the Prerogative, or deprive the People for such a Length of Time from having a Share in their own Government. You well know that by the same Kind of Conduct, the People may be deprived of the inestimable Right of Representation, whenever and for whatever Length of Time an arbitrary Minister may think proper. I shall conclude, by assuring you that I am far from being your Enemy; and that I sincerely grieve for you, and a number of others, who I am persuaded must, if they retain their Commissions, owe their future Greatness to their Country's Ruin.
THE SPECTATOR.
N E W-Y O R K, March 2.
On Tuesday at Noss, a most awful Fire broke out in the city Hospital, which, after raging with inexpressible Fury, destroyed that very useful and beautiful Structure, to the most sensible Affliction of all the Inhabitants.
We are informed by a Captain of a Vessel who arrived a few Days ago from Antigua, that Admiral Parry with the Royal Squadron under his command on that Station, has received Orders to sail for Boston, where this Gentleman will be second in command, as is just Vice Admiral of the blue Flag to Admiral Graves: The Gentleman who brought this Advice, added, that he heard Admiral Parry himself declare, the above Destination of his Majesty's Ships.
The Hon. JOHN PENN, Esq; Governor of Pennsylvania, has sent a Message to the Representatives of that Province, now sitting, informing them of the good Effects which would probably be productive of a dutiful Petition to the Throne.
In Cecil County, Maryland, they have contributed 300l. for the Relief of their suffering Brethren at Boston; and have also raised 400l. to purchase a Magazine of Arms, in order to save Government the Trouble of keeping a standing Army during Peace.
Last Week Orders were received from Virginia for the Purchase of as large a Quantity of Arms as can be procured in this City.
Mr. FOWLE,
IN a Publication in your last Paper under the Signature of Mr. SULLIVAN, we have been favoured with a Copy of an Engagement, entered into, by a Number of People, to meet at Durham Falls, (Durham Falls indeed) once a Week for the space of six Months to come, in order to acquire Military Skill under Officers to be appointed by themselves monthly.
As this is a Matter of Public Concern, I shall beg Permission, Mr. Printer, through the Channel of your Paper, to lay some Animadversions before the Public upon it, which I think it would be unparadonable to neglect.
In the first Place the Appointment of all Military Officers, whether for a Day, a Week or a Month, is the sole Right of the King, or of those deriving Authority from him, and (to treat the Matter in the most moderate Terms) it is a very improper Step for any Body of Men, to assume that Power to themselves upon any Occasion or Pretence whatsoever.
The Laws of the Province require the Militia to be drawn forth to learn the Military Exercise four Times a Year, and no more; Mr. Sullivan may probably tell us, that this new modelled Company does not come under this Limitation, yet I presume he will not deny but that the Meeting of any Part of the Militia, and these People declare themselves, to belong to it, any otherwise than the Law directs, is at least an Evasion, if not a direct Violation of the Law, both which ought to be equally avoided.
The Town of Durham by having Eighty two of it's Inhabitants employed, one Day in a Week (for we cannot suppose they will mind any other Business on those Days) for six Months, in military Exercises instead of their Husbandry, will sustain a Damage of £327 L. M. computing the Loss of their Labour only at half a Dollar a Day for each Person. Supposing now that all the Men in the Province, fit to bear Arms, which may be reasonably calculated at 14,000, should catch this military Ardor, as most Infections are catching, and according to the Tendency of this Plan, follow the Example of Durham, it would, after Durham fashion, occasion a Damage of £54,000 L. M. to the Province. A pretty Tax truly for a new Country! Whatever Reason Mr. Sullivan may have to rejoice in thus leading on the People to their own Damage, I am sure the Province would have abundant Reason, not to rejoice in his Rejoicing, but to regret their own Folly; & it is well known that many are at this Day in the like Predicament on Account of some past Transactions amongst us. I hope therefore the People will judge for themselves, and avoid incurring a Damage to the Province, which no doubt the Legislature had in Contemplation to prevent by limiting the Times of training the Militia to four Days in a Year.
Moreover this extraordinary Spirit to acquire the Use of Arms, at a juncture when the Noise of civil Discord begins to roar in our Neighbourhood, marks strongly a Disposition to employ our Arms against the Power and Authority we ought to support and defend, every Appearance of which should be avoided with the utmost Caution and Circumspection.
As I with not, Mr. Printer, to trespass too much on your Indulgence, I shall for the present only take Notice, that though Sullivan plainly discovers the Durham Plan to be a Child of his own, yet I still hope he will upon Reflection, have Candor enough to acknowledge the Deformities of his BABY, and take it in good part in me to advise him to abandon the System he hath for some Time past been engaged in; a System manifestly tending to bring Calamity and Distress upon the good People of this once happy Province.
M O N T O R.
From the NEW-YORK JOURNAL, March 2.
By Capt. Quill who arrived here Yesterday in 30 Days from the Bay of Honduras, we learn that the Inhabitants of that Place are about to send a Donation of 100,000 Feet of Mahogany to be sold in Europe for the Relief of the Poor of Boston.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman of undoubted Veracity.
In Mr. Gaine's Mercury of last Monday, is an Affection (that 3 Fourths of the People in the Manor of Cortlandt, have declared their Unwillingness to enter into Congressional Measures) which is an imposition upon the Public. There is not any of the Landholders in said Manor, except one C-----y a Miller at Peek's Kill, and a few Interlopers of his Kidney, that are of that perverse Sentiment. The Proprietors of the Manor of Cortlandt, together with all the other Landholders, except the above Miller and his few adherent Tories, are unanimous in Favour of the Congress Measures. Should be glad you would give a Hint in your Paper, of the Sense of the People in the Manor, that that notorious false Affection, may appear in its true Light.
I am, &c. March 1st, 1775.
Another Letter from the same Place.
An artful piece has been handed about here, condemning the proceedings of the Congress, and asserting absolute Dominion by the King and Parliament, and the Question is put, "You must sign the Paper, that you join the King, otherwise you will be declared Rebels; and when the King's Standard is set up, you will be destroyed." Come, I am in haste, will you sign it, or not? ----- Thus, are People drawn into an Act, which, on Reflection, they abhor.
Committee, Chamber, Feb. 27. 1775.
ORDERED, That as the Non Importation of India Tea, is to take place in a few Days, the 3d Article of the Association be printed in all the public Papers of this City, in order that the Inhabitants be apprized thereof.
By Order of the Committee.
ISAAC LOW, Chairman.
To the Freeholders, and Freemen, of the City and County of NEW-YORK.
AS the last Congress, held at Philadelphia, recommended, that another Congress should be convened at the same place, on the 10th Day of May next, and the Election of Delegates ought not to be longer delayed, most of the other Colonies having already appointed them. And as the Committee has no power without the Approbation of their Constituents, to take any Measures for that purpose, they therefore request that the Freeholders and Freemen of the City and County of New York, will be pleased to assemble at the Exchange, on Monday the 6th Instant, at 12 o'Clock, to signify their Sense of the best Methods of choosing such Delegates, and whether they will appoint a certain Number of Persons, to meet such Delegates as the Counties may elect for that purpose and join with them in appointing out of their Body, Delegates for the next Congress.
By Order of the Committee, ISAAC LOW, Chairman.
PORTSMOUTH.
LAST Wednesday the new born INFANT of His Excellency GOVERNOR WENTWORTH, was christened at Queen's Chapel by the Rev'd Mr. SAMUEL PARKER of Boston, by the Name of CHARLES MARY.
The SPONSORS were the MARQUISS and MARCHIONESS of ROCKINGHAM, and PAUL WENTWORTH, Esquire by Proxy, and the Hon. THEODORE ATKINSON, Esquire.
By Capt. Wirt, who is arrived at Cape Ann from Lisbon, we are favoured with a London Paper of December 20, (three Days later than our former Intelligence) from which we have extracted the following Articles, viz.
L O N D O N, December 20, 1775.
IT is said a great law Lord declared in his place, that were he an American he would resist the present Measures even to the last drop of his Blood.
The Merchants and Manufacturers are determined to petition Parliament for redress of our fellow Subjects in America; to prevent the Consequences of a Civil War, and the total Loss of our Commerce.
A Gentleman who has been lately in France assures us, that there are Boats in Readiness to transport 20,000 Men into this Kingdom, which will probably be attempted the Moment we involve ourselves in a War with our Colonies.
Extract of a Letter from a Merchant at Manchester, to an American Merchant in London.
"I agree as to what you said in your last, that your Losses on Account of the American Disputes must be exceeding great, and greatly exceed in value those of us Country Traders; but you must allow ours is our all, we cannot so easily change the Course of Merchandise as you in the great City. A Merchant of London, though called a Russia, Virginia, or Carolina Merchant, seldom confines his dealings to those respective Branches of Trade; but w's in the manufacturing Towns cannot easily shift our Channel, and if the Market which used to take off our Goods is once stopped, we cannot easily open a way to another. I was lately at a Meeting of several great Dealers from Birmingham, Sheffield, this Place, and many other Towns, who used to send vast quantities of our different Manufactures to America; you would have been shocked at the dismal Faces; every Man appeared to think himself ruined, and seemed without Hope; they not only gave up their American Debts as lost, but they saw no Prospect of engaging again in Business with success; their Affairs were ruined by shutting the Port, and they conceived that opening it again would hardly retrieve them. The design of the Meeting was for preparing a Petition, but such was their dependency that the Meeting broke up without any Resolution being formed. Need I repeat to you the distresses of the Artificers and Manufacturers? You have been told many have gone to America, and many who remain behind, in their rage and despair, dedicate themselves ready at all hazard to vindicate the injured Americans. My Misfortunes have broke my Spirit, and I Reason with the little that remains, with more coolness than my desperate Fellow-Sufferers. I am willing to suppose the Americans to blame. I am ready to acknowledge their Resistance to the Stamp-Act shewed too forward a Disposition towards the Authority of the Mother Country; though justified by the repeal of the Act. I persuade myself their Opposition to the Quebec Bill, and embarrassing the Minister in his mode of levying a reasonable supply by Taxation, at the hazard of Slavery or a Civil War, is a Zeal for Liberty, trained to the highest Pitch of Enthusiasm and Madness, but what shall we say of those at Home, who knowing the Enthusiasm of this People, push them to Madness? A wise Minister suits his Measures to the Disposition of Men and the Temper of the Times; he is resolute for the End, but indifferent as to the Means. America must contribute her quota for the support of the common Cause. I must have it, cries the Minister: You won't give it me in the form of a Tax, you will raise the Sum among yourselves, and in your own mode. Do so, cries the knowing Minister; give me the Purse, and I care not for the colour: But the headstrong, violent, and despotic Minister cries, I will have the Sum; you shall give it me in what mode, in what Purse, of what colour I please, and thus begins the WAR of the Big-Endians & Little-Endians.---I wish it may come to a happy Conclusion."
A Correspondent observes, that Lord NORTH is but a lame Minister at best, and would have been obliged long since to crawl upon all fours, if it had not been for his Scotch Jacobitical, and English Tory Crutches, lined with the hot Fur of corrupt & senegade Whigs.
To the many Puns which have lately been made upon Lord North's Slip, a Correspondent desires to add another: The Fall of the Minister will be the Rise of the Americans.
A Scotch Member of the House of Commons thought proper lately, to term the present Minority a despicable one; a Majority in America will soon make it more respectable, and reduce the prevailing numbers in St. Stephen's Chapel to a few Ciphers.
What Chance can the People have for their Liberties when they have so many Foes combined against them? when so many corrupt and worthless Men are continually taking their Oaths upon the Altars of Bribery, Corruption and Perjury, to destroy the Remains of all Virtue and Freedom?
The Court of Versailles has, it is said, unexpectedly declined giving any specific Promises in Relation to agreeing to Regulations respecting any Intercourse which French Subjects may be induced to carry on with British America.
Salem, March 14, 1775.
On the 26th ult. in a very thick Fog, a coasting Sloop, loaded with Wood, from the Eastward, was run down by a large Schooner Samuel Gorham, Master, & entirely lost. The Sloop was under Water, in 5 Minutes after the Schooner struck her. The Master, John Lechmere, and one of the Men, were so fortunate as to jump into the Boat while it was floating off the Deck, and were afterwards taken up by the Schooner. But two of the Men, John Moore and James Giles, were lost.

Continental Congress continu'd.
The Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, continu'd from our last.
A COURT has been established at Rhode Island, for the purpose of taking colonies to England to be tried.
Humble and reasonable petitions from the representatives of the people have been frequently treated with contempt; and assemblies have been repeatedly and arbitrarily dissolved.
From some few instances it will sufficiently appear, on what pretences of Justice those dissolutions have been founded.
The tranquility of the colonies having been again disturbed, as has been mentioned, by the statutes of the year 1767, the Earl of Hillsborough, Secretary of State, in a letter to Governor Bernard, dat. April 22, 1768, censures the "presumption" of the house of representatives for resolving upon a measure of so inflammatory a nature as that of writing to the other colonies, on the subject of their intended representations against some late acts of parliament, then declares that, "his Majesty considers this step as evidently tending to create unwarrantable combinations, to excite an unjustifiable opposition to the constitutional authority of parliament."—and afterwards adds, "It is the King's pleasure, that as soon as the general court is again assembled, at the time prescribed by the charter, you shall require of the house of representatives, in his Majesty's name, to rescind the resolution which gave birth to the circular letter from the Speaker, & to declare their disapprobation of, and dissent to that rash and hasty proceeding."
"If the new assembly should refuse to comply with his Majesty's reasonable expectation, it is the King's pleasure that you should immediately dissolve them."
This letter being laid before the house, and the resolution not being rescinded according to the order, the assembly was dissolved. A letter of a similar nature was sent to other Governors to procure resolutions approving the conduct of the representatives of Massachusetts-Bay to be rescinded also; and the houses of representatives in other colonies refusing to comply, assemblies were dissolved.
These mandates spoke a language to which the ears of English subjects had for several generations been strangers. The nature of assemblies implies a power and right of deliberation; but these commands, prescribing the exercise of judgment on the propriety of the requisitions made, left to the assemblies only, the election between dictated submission and the threatened punishment: A punishment too, founded on no other act, than such as is deemed innocent even in slaves—of agreeing in petitions for redress of grievances, that equally affected all.
The hostile and unjustifiable invasion of the town of Boston, soon followed these events in the same year; though that town, the province in which it is situated, and all the colonies, from abhorrence of a contest with their parent state, permitted the execution even of those statutes, against which they so unanimously were complaining, remonstrating and supplicating.
Administration, determined to subdue a spirit of freedom, which English ministers should have rejoiced to cherish, entered into a monopolising combination with the East-India company, to send to this continent vast quantities of Tea, an article on which a duty was laid by a statute, that, in a particular manner attacked the liberties of America, and which therefore the inhabitants of these colonies had resolved not to import. The cargo sent to South Carolina was stored, and not allowed to be sold. Those sent to Philadelphia and New-York, were not permitted to be landed. That sent to Boston was destroyed, because Governor Hutchinson would not suffer it to be returned. To be continu'd.
A Few Cask of Choice New Raisins
To be sold by JACOB SHEAFE, junr. Also, Malaga WINE per Cask, Lisbon FEATHERS per Bag, and Stone LIME per Hhd. cheap for Cash.
BOSTON.
MASSACHUSETTENSIS continu'd. To the INHABITANTS of the Province of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
My DEAR COUNTRYMEN, SOME of you may perhaps suspect that I have been wantonly scattering Firebrands, Arrows and Death, to gratify a most depraved, malicious and revengeful Disposition: The Truth is this; I had seen many excellent detached Pieces, but could see no Pen at Work to trace our Calamities from their Source, & point out the many adventitious Aids, that conspired to raise it to its present Height, though I impatiently expected it, being fully convinced that you wait only to know the true State of Facts, to rectify whatever is amiss in the Province, without any foreign Assistance. Others may be induced to think that I grudge the industrious Poor of Boston their Scantlings of Charity.— I will issue a Brief in their Favour.— The Oppulent, be their political Sentiments what they may, ought to relieve them from their Sufferings, & those who by former Donations have been the innocent Cause of protracting their Sufferings, are under a tenfold Obligation to assist them now; and at the same Time to make the most explicit Declarations, that they did not intend to promote nor ever will join in Rebellion.— Great Allowances are to be made for the Crossings, Windings and Tergiversations of a Politician; he is a cunning Animal, and as Government is said to be founded in Opinion, his Tricks may be a Part of the Arcana Imperandi . Had our Politicians confined themselves within any reasonable Bounds, I never should have molested them; but when I became satisfied, that many innocent unsuspecting Persons were in Danger of being seduced to their utter Ruin, and the Province of Massachusetts-Bay in danger of being drenched with Blood and Carnage, I could restrain my Emotions no longer; and having once broken the Bonds of my natural Reserve, was determined to probe the Sore to the Bottom, tho' I was sure to touch the Quick. It is very foreign from my Intentions to draw down the Vengeance of Great-Britain upon the Whigs; they are too valuable a Part of the Community to loose, if they will permit themselves to be saved; I wish nothing worse to the highest of them, than that they may be deprived of their Influence, till such Time as they shall have changed their Sentiments, Principles & Measures.— Seditious has already been marked through its zigzag Path to the present Times. When the Statute for regulating the Government arrived, a match was put to the Train, and the Mine that had been long forming sprung, and threw the whole Province into Confusion and Anarchy. The Occurrences of the Summer and Autumn past are so recent and notorious, that a particular History of them is unnecessary. Suffice it to say, that every Barrier that civil Government had erected for the Security of Property, Liberty and Life was broken down, & Law, Constitution and Government trampled under Foot by the rudest Invaders. I shall not dwell upon these harsh notes much longer. I shall yet become an Advocate for the leading Whigs; much must be allowed to Men in their Situation, forcibly actuated by the Chagrin of Disappointment, the Fear of Punishment, and the Facination of Hope at the same Time.
Perhaps the whole Story of Empire does not furnish another Instance of a forcible Opposition to Government with so much apparent and little real Cause, with such Apparent Probability without any Possibility of Success— The Stamp-Act gave the Alarm. The Instability of the public Councils from the Grenville Administration to the Appointment of the Earl of Hillsborough to the American department, afforded as great a Prospect of Success, as the Heavy Duties imposed by the Stamp-Act, did a Colour for the Opposition. It was necessary to give the History of this Matter in its Course, offend who it would, because those Acts of Government that are called the greatest Grievances, became proper and necessary, through the Misconduct of our Politicians, and the Justice of Great-Britain towards us, could not be made apparent without first pointing out that. To be continu'd.
BOSTON.
NOVANGLUS, to be continu'd. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.
My FRIENDS,
Writer, under the Signature of Massachusetts, has addressed you, in a Series of Papers, on the great national Subject of the present Quarrel between the British Administration and the Colonies. As I have not in my Possession more than one of his Essays, and that is in the Gazette of December 26, I will take the Liberty, in the Spirit of Candor and Decency, to bespeak your Attention, upon the same Subject.
There may be Occasion, to say very severe Things, before I shall have finished what I propose, in Opposition to this Writer; but there ought to be no reviling, Rem ipsam dic, mitte male loqui , which may be justly translated, speak out the whole Truth boldly, but use no bad Language.
It is not very material to enquire, as others have done, who is the Author of the Speculations in Question. If he is a disinterested Writer, and has nothing to gain or lose, to hope or fear, for himself, more than other Individuals of your Community; but engages in this Controversy from the purest Principles, the noblest Motives of Benevolence to Men, and Love to his Country, he ought to have no influence with you, further than Truth and Justice will support his Argument.—On the other Hand, if he hopes to acquire or preserve a lucrative Employment, to screen himself from the just detestation of his Countrymen, or whatever other sinister Inducement he may have; as far as the Truth of Facts and the Weight of Argument, are in his Favour, he ought to be heard and regarded.
He tells you "that the temporal Salvation of this Province depends upon an entire and speedy Change of Measures, which must depend upon a Change of Sentiments respecting our own Conduct and the Justice of the British Nation."
The Task, of effecting these great Changes; this courageous Writer, has undertaken in a Course of Publications in a News-Paper.— Nil desperandum is a good Motto, and Nil admirari is another. He is welcome to the first, and I hope will be willing that I should assume the last.—The Public, if they are not mistaken in their Conjecture, have been so long acquainted with this Gentleman, & have seen him so often disappointed, that if they were not habituated to strange Things, they would wonder at his Hopes, at this Time to accomplish, the most unpromising Project of his whole Life.—In the Character of Philanthrop, he attempted to reconcile you to Mr. Bernard.—But the only fruit of his Labour was to expose his Client to more general Examination, and consequently to more general Resentment and Aversion.—In the Character of Philalethes, he essay'd to prove Mr. Hutchinson a Patriot, and his letters not only innocent, but meritorious. But the more you read and considered, the more you were convinced of the Ambition and Avarice, the Simulation and Dissimulation, the Hypocrisy and Perfidy of that destroying Angel. This illfated unsuccessful, tho' persevering Writer, still hopes to change your Sentiments and Conduct—by which it is supposed that he means to convince you that the System of Colony Administration, which has been pursued for these ten or twelve Years past, in a wise, righteous and humane Plan: That Sir Francis Bernard and Mr. Hutchinson with their Connections, who have been the principal Instruments of it, are your best Friends;—and that those Gentlemen in this Province, and in all the other Colonies, who have been in Opposition to it, are from Ignorance, Error, or from worse and baser Causes, your worst Enemies.
This is certainly an Inquiry, that is worthy of you: And I promise to accompany this Writer in his ingenious Labours to assist you in it.—And I earnestly intreat you, as the Result of all shall be, to change your Sentiments or persevere in them, as the Evidence shall appear to you, upon the most dispassionate & impartial Consideration, without regard to his Opinion or mine.
He promises to avoid personal Reflections, but to penetrate the Arcana , and expose the

wretched Policy of the Whigs. The Cause of the Whigs is not conducted by Intrigues at a distant Court, but by constant Appeals to a sensible and virtuous People; it depends entirely on their good Will, and cannot be pursued a single Step without their Concurrence, to obtain which all designs, Measures & Means are constantly published to the collective Body. The Whigs therefore can have no Arcana: But if they had, I dare say they were never so left, as to communicate them to this Writer: You will therefore be disappointed if you expect from him any Thing which is true, but what has been as public as Records and News-Papers could make it.
I, on my Part, may perhaps in a Course of Papers, penetrate Arcana too.— Shew the wicked Policy of the Tories—trace their Plan from its first rude Sketches to its present compleat Draught—Shew that it has been much longer in Contemplation, than is generally known...who were the first in it...their Views, Motives and secret Springs of Action...& the Means they have employed. This will necessarily bring before your Eyes many Characters, living and dead. From such a Research and Detail of Facts, it will clearly appear who were the Aggressors...and who have acted on the defensive from first to last...who are still struggling, at the Expence of their Ease, Health, Peace, Wealth and Preferment, against the Encroachment of the Tories on their Country...and who are determined to continue Struggling, at much greater Hazards still, and like the Prince of Orange resolve never to see it's entire Subjection to arbitrary Power, but rather to die fighting against it in the last Ditch.
It is true as this Writer observes, "that the Bulk of the People are generally but little versed in Matters of State, that they rest the Affairs of Government where accident has placed them." If this had not been true, the Designs of the Tories had been many years ago, entirely defeated. It was clearly seen by few, more than ten Years since that they were planning & pursuing the very Measures, we now see executing...The People were informed of it, and warned of their Danger: But they had been accustomed to confide in certain Persons, and could never be persuaded to believe, until Prophecy became History...Now they see and feel, that the horrible Calamities are come upon them, which were foretold so many Years ago, and they now sufficiently execrate the Men who have brought these Things upon them...Now alas! when perhaps it is too late...If they had withdrawn their Confidence from them in Season, they would have wholly disarmed them.
The same Game, with the same Success, has been played in all Ages and Countries, as Massachusetts observes...When a favourable Conjecture has presented, some of the most intriguing and powerful Citizens have conceived the Design of enslaving their Country, and building their own Greatness on its Ruins...Philip and Alexander, are Examples of this in Greece...Caesar in Rome...Charles the fifth in Spain...Lewis the eleventh in France...and ten Thousand others.
"There is a latent Spark in the Breasts of the People, capable of being kindled into a Flame, & to do this has always been the Employment of the Disaffected."...What is this "latent Spark"?...The Love of Liberty? a Deo, hominis est indita naturæ. Human Nature itself is evermore an Advocate for Liberty. There is also in Human Nature, a Resentment of Injury, and Indignation against Wrong. A Love of Truth and a Veneration for Virtue.
These amiable Passions, are the "latent Spark" to which those whom this Writer calls the "disaffected" apply...If the People are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the Difference between True & False, Right and Wrong, Virtue and Vice, to what better principle can the Friends of Mankind apply, than to the Sense of this Difference.
A Quantity of VERY GOOD New Ship-Bread, New-York CRACKERS, and BUTTER-BREAD, To be sold by NOAH PARKER.
§ Chichester. §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of Chichester in the County of Rockingham, in the Province of New Hampshire, at several of their annual Meetings (hereafter mentioned) voted to raise certain Sums of Money to be assessed on each original Right in said Township. V.z. at their Meeting held March 8th 1769, 6/ on each original Right. At another held March 14 1770, 12/ on ditto. At another held March 13, 1771 24/ on ditto. And at another held March 10, 1773 12/ on ditto; and chose me the Subscriber Collector to collect the same; of which the Proprietors have been legally and frequently notified; Notwithstanding many are yet delinquent in whole or in Part. This is therefore to notify such delinquent Proprietors that so much of their Rights or Lots of Land will be exposed to public Sale at the House of Lieut. Jonathan Leavitt Innholder in Hampton, on Tuesday the 4th Day of April next at one of the Clock in the Afternoon as will pay said Taxes with incidental Charges. The delinquent Original Proprietors Names are as follows with the Sums due on the several Lots, and undivided Lands.
N B. The First Column is the original Proprietors Names, the 2d, the Sum due on the 1st Division — the 3d on the 2d Division, the 4th on the 3d Division, and the 5th of the undivided Lands.
   1 d 2 d 3 d 4 d 5 d    Colonel Atkinson 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Moses Blake 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Capt. Currier 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Thomas Cram 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Abraham Drake 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Joseph Dearborn 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  George Frost 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Jonathan Fitch'd 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  John Frost, Esq. 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Jonathan Garland 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  George Jeffrey 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Hezekiah Jennett 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Nathan Longfellow 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  John Odlin 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Jonathan Odiorne 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Christopher Page 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Matthew Plant 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  John Prescott 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  James Ring jun. 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  John Robinsen 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Shubel Sanborn 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Stephen Sanborn 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  John Sanborn 13 6 16 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Samuel Titing 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Jethro Tilson 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  John Webster 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Daniel Weare 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Rev. Joseph Whipple 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Thomas Webster 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  John Wentworth 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Bradstreet Wiggin 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Ebenezer Weare 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  Richard Wibirt 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6 13 6  
Samuel Jennett, Collector. Rye February 23d, 1775. N. B. The Collector will deduct to any Proprietors or Owners of Right or Lots what they have paid in Part, tho' no allowance could be conveniently made of the same in the above List.
§ Packerfield. §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Town of Packerfield in the County of Cheshire, and the Province of New Hampshire, at a Meeting of said Proprietors held by Adjournment, Tuesday the thirteenth Day of September, 1774, at the House of Mr. Breed Batchelder, Innholder in said Township, it was voted to raise two Pence Lawful Money on each Acre in the settling Rights in said Township, to defray Proprietors Charges; and the Assessors for the said Proprietors have given me an Assessment of that Sum, and proportioned as follows. Three Pounds eleven Shillings and two Pence on each settling Right; and seventeen Shillings and four Pence on each Hundred & four Acre Lot, and a Warrant under their Hand and Seal, to collect the same according to Law. These are therefore to notify the Owners of said Land to pay the said Taxes to me the Subscriber at my Dwelling House in said Packerfield, by the thirtieth Day of March next; and if Payment be not made accordingly, the Money will be levied by Sale of the Interest and Property of the delinquent Proprietors as the Law directs in such Cases.
ABIJAH BROWN Collector. Packerfield January 25th 1775.
[ Sanborntown. ]
THIS is to give Notice to the Proprietors of Sanborntown that at their last Meeting they voted a Tax of two Dollars on each original Right or whole Share; therefore this is to desire the said Proprietors to pay the above Tax to me the Subscriber, at my dwelling House in Epping, at or before the first Day of May next, otherwise I shall notify their Lands for public Sale as the Law directs in such Cases. Epping March 8th 1775. SETH FOGG Coll.
Cambridge.
Province of New Hampshire, Grafton, ss. WHEREAS Application is made to me the subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for said County, by the Proprietors and Owners of more than a 16th Part of a Tract of Land in the northern Part of said Province lately granted by his Excellency Governor WENTWORTH, in Council, by the Name of Cambridge, that a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Township or Tract of Land, may be called and held at the House of Mr. Nathaniel Rogers, Innholder in Ossipee, on Wednesday the 12th day of April next at 3 o'Clock P. M. then and there to vote on the following Articles, viz. 1st to chuse a Moderator. 2d. A Proprietors Clerk. 3d. To chuse a Committee, Assessors, Treasurer and all other Officers necessary to transact the Affairs of said Proprietors — 4th. To raise Money to defray Charges of procuring the Charter of said Cambridge, looking it out, & surveying it, and other Contingencies; likewise, such other Matters as may be necessary for fulfilling the Conditions of said Charter. 5th To determine how Proprietors Meetings shall be called & held in future. PURSUANT to which Application, I do hereby notify and warn the Proprietors of the Township or Tract of Land called Cambridge, to meet at the place and day aforesaid, at 3 o'Clock P. M. to vote and act on the several Articles aforesaid.
ISRAEL MOREY.
Ossipee, March 6th, 1775.
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Eli Damerit, late of Madberry, deceased, are desired to settle the same immediately with Ebenezer Damerit, Executor to the Estate of said deceased.
Moultonborough.
WHEREAS the proprietors of the Township of Moultonborough, in the province of New Hampshire, have been lately Notified, to pay an Assessment of Ten pounds Tax on each of the proprietors Right or Lot of Land in said Township to me the subscriber, and several of them being yet delinquent in whole or in part,— This is therefore to Notify such delinquent proprietors, that so much of their Right or Lot of Land will be exposed to Sale at a public Vendue, at the House of Lt. Jonathan Leavitt Innholder in Hampton on Monday the 10th Day of April next, at one of the Clock in the Afternoon, as will pay said Tax with incidental Charges.
The delinquent original Proprietors Names as follows with the Sums due on their several Lots.
N. B. The first Column is the original Proprietors Names, the second the Sums due on the 1st Division Lots, the Third on the 2d Division Lots, the 4th on the 3d Division Lots.
   1 d 2 d 3 d 4 d    John Taylor 2 10 2 10 5 0  Christopher Teppan, Esq. 2 10 2 10 5 0  Worthington Moulton 2 10 2 10 5 0  Simen Nudd 2 10 2 10 5 0  Jehiah Dearborn 2 10 2 10 5 0  Thomas Rand 2 10 2 10 5 0  Jonathan Shaw jun. 2 10 2 10 5 0  Joseph Garland 2 10 2 10 5 0  John Garland 2 10 2 10 5 0  Benjamin Mason 2 10 2 10 5 0  George Place 2 10 2 10 5 0  Samuel Robertson 2 10 2 10 5 0    JONATHAN MOULTON, Collector
Barnstead.
THE Proprietors of Barnstead, are hereby Notified, to meet at the House of Ezekiel G. Adams, Innholder in Newington, on Tuesday the 28th Day of March Instant, at one o'clock in the Afternoon, agreeable to Charter, viz. 1. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting. 2. To chuse all Proprietors Officers for said Propriety this current Year 1775.— 3. To see if the Proprietors will vote to raise Money to settle the Damages and Cost recovered by the proprietors of Chichester against one Dodivah Bunker, a Settler under Barnstead. 4 To raise Money to carry on and defend an Action or Ejectment commenced by the proprietors of said Chichester against said Bunker. 5. To vote how said Money shall be raised either on each proprietors share or on the Acre. 6. To chuse a Collector to collect said Money, and vote or act on any other Matters or Things the proprietors may think necessary. Benjamin Adams Newington, Samuel Shackford } Select Men. March 8, 1775, John Geo Pickering }
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of Wakefield, (formerly East Town, that there is a Tax of Eighteen Shillings Lawful Money, voted to be raised on each original Proprietor's Right or share of Land in said Town, for the Year 1774, which Tax they are desired to pay to me at my Dwelling House in Rochester immediately, otherwise their Land will be advertised for Sale at the Law directs. BARNABAS PALMER Coll.

Boston, Monday March 13.
At a Meeting of the General Assembly of Georgia, at Savannah, on the 18th of January, the Governor opened the Session with the most soothing and affectionate Speech, wherein he addressed the Passions, rather than the Reason of his Audience, and urged them not to imitate the British Nation, (that is the Ministry) by adopting the Measures of the other Colonies. But by the Addresses of the two Houses, it appears, that the upper House, though they say they disapprove some of the Measures of the other Colonies, yet appear to be heartily disposed to maintain their Rights and Liberties. "that they may enjoy all the Rights and Privileges of British Subjects, as fully and effectually in all Respects as the Inhabitants of Great-Britain; and to that End think it necessary, that their constitutional Rights should be clearly and fully defined, and firmly established," &c.
The Commons House of Assembly say, "They should be insensible, not to feel their numerous Grievances; and with them redressed. That they only contend for the Enjoyment of their constitutional Rights and Liberties—which soften every Care of Life, and render Existence itself desirable."
We hear that his Majesty's armed Schooner Halifax, commanded by Lieut. Nunn, was lately cast away near Machias, at the Eastern Part of this Province; the Vessel entirely lost, but the People with some Difficulty, saved themselves.
On the 9th of last Month was ordained at Brimfield, the Rev. Mr. Nehemiah Williams, Colleague with the Rev. Mr. James Bridgham.
We learn from Providence, that last Thursday se'nnight, about five o'clock in the Afternoon, a great Number of the Inhabitants Assembled at the Market-Place there, and after kindling a large Fire, they threw into it about three Hundred Weight of Tea, as a free-will Offering of that pernicious Herb, collected from the several Inhabitants; a Tar-Barrel, Lord North's Speech, Rivington's and Mills and Hick's News-Papers, and divers other Ingredients entered into the Composition.
We are informed, that through the Prudent and spirited Behaviour of the Minute-Men in and near Peterham, a little inveterate Knot of Conspirators against the Constitution of their Country, has been entirely broke up—they were made Prisoners in a House they had fortified; and upon their signing an Engagement not to act against their Country for the future, & to behave themselves peaceably, the Whigs, who are as merciful as they are bold and resolved, have forgiven their Offences, and promised them Favour so long as they keep up to their Engagements.
In the Packet that sailed last Thursday se'nnight from New-York for Falmouth, went Passenger, Richard Acklum Harrison, Esq; Collector for this Port.
The Act of Tarring and Feathering not repealed.
Last Thursday Morning a Countryman was tarred and feathered and carted through some of the Streets in this Town by a Party of Soldiers attended by some Officers. The following is the Man's own Deposition, relative to that Affair, sworn to before a Magistrate; upon which we shall make no Remarks, but leave the Public to judge of the Conduct of some of those who are said to have been sent among us to preserve Peace and good Order, and to prevent Mobs, Tumults and other unlawful Assemblies.
Thomas Ditson jun. of Billerica, Husbandman, testify and declare, that while walking in Fore-Street on the 8th of March, in the Afternoon, I enquired of some Townsmen who had any Guns to sell; one whom I did not know, replied he had a very fine Gun to sell. The Man appeared to be a Soldier, and I went with him to a House where one was, whom the Soldier called Serjeant, and seeing some old Cloaths about the House, I asked whether they sold such things; the Serjeant replied that they did frequently; I then asked his Price for an old red Coat ript to pieces; he asked 3s. 6d. Sterling, but I refused to give it. Then one M'Clenchy, the Soldier I met with at first in the Street, said he had some old Cloaths to sell, and sent his Wife out after them to a Man he called a Serjeant, and she soon brought an old Coat and an old Jacket; I then asked him if he had any Right to sell them and the Serjeant said that they frequently sold them, and he would give a Writing if I desired it, but said there was no Occasion. I then bought the Coat and Jacket, and gave two Pistareens, and then put the Cloaths in a Bag, which I left behind; after which I went to M'Clenchy to see his Gun, which he said was a very fine Piece; I asked him if he had any Right to sell it, he replied he had, and that the Gun was his to dispose of at any Time; I then asked him whether he thought the Country would not take it from me at the Ferry, as I had heard that some Persons had had their Guns taken from them, but never thought there was any Law against trading with a Soldier; he then told me he had good Country, and that they frequently let them pass; he then asked me what I would give him for the Gun, I told him I would give four Dollars if there was no Risk in carrying it over the Ferry; he said there was not, and that I might rely on his Word. I then agreed to give four Dollars for his Gun, but did not take it nor pay the Money; coming away, he follows me down Stairs and says that there was a Serjeant had an old rusty Piece that he would sell cheap; I asked him the Price, he said he would sell it for one Dollar and an Half if I would pay the Money down, and he urged me to take it; I then agreed to give him said Sum. His Wife, as he call'd her, then came down, and said M'Clenchy what are you going to do, to bring the Man into a Scrape; I then told them that if there was any Difficulty to give me my Money again, but he refused, and replied his Wife made an Oration for nothing, and that he had a Right to sell his Gun to any Body. I was afraid from her speaking that there was something not right in it, and left the Gun, and coming away he followed me & urged the Guns upon me; I told him I had rather not take them for Fear of what his Wife had said; he then declared there was no Danger, for he had spoken to the Officer or Centry, who said he had a Right to dispose of them, and urged me to pay the four Dollars I had offered for the Gun, which I then refused and desired I might have the one and Half Dollar back which I had paid for the Gun, he refused, saying there was no Danger, and damned me for a Fool. I then paid him the four Dollars for the good Gun, but did not receive any one of them. After I had paid the Money, he then said take Care of yourself, and the first Thing I saw was some Men coming up; I kept off to go after my great Coat, but they followed and seized me and carried me to the Guard-House upon Foster's Wharf; this was about 6 or 7 o'clock in the Evening. When I came into the Guard-House they read me a Law which I never before saw or heard of. I was detained there till about 7 in the Morning, when I expected I should have been obliged to pay the £5 mentioned in the Law read to me, and hired a Regular to carry a Letter to some Friends over the Ferry, which was to desire them to come to me as quick as possible with the Money to pay my Fine. Soon after the Serjeant came in and ordered me to strip; I then asked him what he was going to do with me, he said damn you I am going to serve you as you have serv'd our Men; then came in a Soldier with a Bucket of Tar and a Pillow-Bear of Feathers. I was then made to strip, which I did to my Breeches; they then tarred and feathered me, and while they were doing it, an Officer who stood at the Door, said Tar and Feather his Breeches, which they accordingly did, and I was then tarred and feathered from
Head to Foot, and had a Paper read to me, which was then tied round my Neck, but afterwards turned behind me, with the following Words wrote upon it, to the best of my Remembrance. "American Liberty or Democracy exemplified in a Villain who attempted to entice one of the Soldiers of his Majesty's 47th Regiment to desert and take up Arms with Rebels against his King and Country."—I was then ordered to walk out and got into a Chair fastened upon Trucks, which I did; when a Number of the King's Soldiers, as I imagined, about 40 or 50, armed with Guns and Bayonets, surrounded the Trucks, and they marched with a Number of Officers before them, one of whom I was told was the Col. of the 47th Regiment, who I have since heard was named Nesbit, together with a Number of Drums and Fifes; from the Wharf up Kingstreet and down Forestreet, & then through the Main-Street, passing the Governor's House, until they came to Liberty-Tree, they then turned up Frog Lane and made a Halt, and a Serjeant, as I took him to be, said get down: I then asked where I should go, and he said where you please. Near the Governor's House, the Inhabitants pressed in upon the Soldiers, the latter appeared to me to be angry, and I was afraid they would have fired, they being ordered to load their Muskets, which they did. Thomas Ditson, jr. Suffolk, ss.
THE above named Thomas Ditson, jun. Boston, March 9, 1775 personally appearing, maketh solemn Oath to the Truth of the foregoing Deposition, by him subscribed. Before, EDM. QUINCY, J. Pacis.
Garden Seeds.
A Fresh Assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, with the following GOODS to be Sold by JOSEPH BASS,
At his Shop in PORTSMOUTH, as cheap for CASH as can be bought in the Province, viz.
  Early golden Hot-spur Peas  True tennis ball Lettice    Early charlton ditto  Head Lettice    Ormerods ditto  Marble ditto    Large Marrowfats  Round Spinnage    Dwarf ditto  Prickley ditto    Spanish Morattoes  Red Beet    Black eyed sugar Peas  Green ditto    Crooked sugar ditto  White ditto    Ramhorn ditto  Upright Cellery    White Roundivals  Solid ditto    Blue Union Peas  White Mustard    Early Lisbon Beans  Double Parsley    Large Windsor ditto  Single ditto    Early white kidney ditto  Early Culliflower    Early yellow bush dit.  Early battersea Cabbage    Speckled ditto  Early low Dutch dit.    White Spanish Onion  Early Yorkshire ditto    Red Portugal ditto  Early sugar-loaf ditto    Yellow Spanish ditto  Large winter and red Cabbage    Lemmon Carrot  Green & yellow curl'd    Orange ditto  Savoy    Purple ditto  Early prickley Cucumber    Best swelling Parsnip  Long green ditto    Early Dutch Turnip  Long Roman ditto    Long French ditto  Sweet Marjoram    Turnip Radish  Summer Savory    Scarlet ditto     Crimson ditto     Black Spanish ditto   
ALSO 8, 9 & 10 gr. Bed Quilts; 8, 9 & 10 gr. Cotton Counterpaines; blue, red & purple Copper Plate Furniture; red, blue, green and yellow Furniture Check; crimson and green Harrateen; crimson, green & blue Chaney; 7 8 & 3 gr. English Bed Ticks; green, blue, and red Buckram; black figur'd Horse Hair for Chair Bottoms; crimson and white; scarlet and white; green & white; blue & white; yellow & white; all Crimson and all Green; Tossels & Cord for Curtains; handsome Chaney and print Curtains; all Sorts of Laces; Rings & Tapes for Curtains; Matrasses; Sea Beds and Rugs; Oznabrigs; crimson, green and blue Sleeve Silk; strip'd Swan skin; wide Persian; yard wide Mode; scarlet & green worsted Caps; letter'd Gathering; quality Bindings; large and small Barcelona Handkerchiefs; sewing Silk; Threads; Crewells; Pins and Needles; Looking Glasses; Girth-Webb; Brass Nails; 14 oz. Tacks; Shoe Nails; brass cloak Pins; Leather Casters; Seives and Seive Bottoms; Playing Cards; Snuff and Snuff Boxes; Pewter Dishes; Quarts, Pints, Bacons and Poringers of all Sizes; Coffee; Chocolate; Pepper; Allspice; Ginger; long and short Pipes; coarse Sheeps Wool; Copperas; Logg & Red Wood; Choice new Feathers; An Assortment of Cream colour'd WARE. Choice French INDIGO, &c. &c.
Likewise to be had at the above Place Bed and Window Curtains; Squabs; Cushions; Sophas; Settees; easy Chairs; Feather Beds, with all other Kinds of Upholstery WARE, made in the genteellest Manner.
The Publisher hereof must desire all those who are in Arrears for this Paper, or for Advertisements, &c. to pay off immediately; or he cannot support it much longer. And also desires those who send Advertisements, that the Pay may accompany them. Those at a Distance may send what they think may be due by the Post-Riders, and Receipts shall be sent them.
From PEMBROKE, New-Hampshire. Mr. PRINTER, Please to insert the following in your next, and you will oblige one of your constant Readers. On the 2d Inst. the Clerk of a Militia Company in Pembroke, having as I was informed, a sufficient Warrant under the Hand & Seal of the Commander of a Company in said Pembroke, to gather a Number of Fines for Non Appearance on a Training Day, the Clerk making an Attempt to take a Fine from one Aaron Whitemore in a civil Manner, and to fulfil his Office, but was assaulted and abused very much; the said A. W. Holding the Clerk at a Disadvantage, and striking him several Times with a large Club, and crying Murder, Murder, and said to his Mother, Mother for God's Sake call some of the Sons of Liberty if there be any; at which Out-Cry came one James Head with two or three of his Sons running through the Fields, and ordered the Clerk to be gone, or he would have his House tore down over his Head if he proceeded in gathering Fines; at which the Clerk was obliged to make the best of his Escape: I was informed the said A. W. and J. H. are part of a Committee of Correspondence for said Pembroke. March 3d, 1775.
PORTSMOUTH, Yesterday sailed Capt. Byrn, for London, with whom went Mr. Thomas Martin, Merchant, & Mr. Clapham of this Place.
Whoever has in Possession a BOOK entitled Salmon's Musical Grammar, with Thomas Chadbourne's Name in it, is desir'd to leave it at the Printing-Office.
Unity.
WHEREAS the proprietors of a Township of Land called UNITY, in the county of Cheshire, and province of New Hampshire, who have not paid their respective Taxes in said Town, are hereby Notified, that so much of their Lands in said Town as will pay Taxes, will be exposed to sale, according to Law, at a public Vendue, unless previous payment prevent, on the first Tuesday of April next, at two o'clock in the Afternoon, at the House of Solomon Wheeler in Kingstwn, Innholder, by me the subscriber, Jonathan Glidden, Collector.
Deerfield, March 15th, 1775. The Names of the above Delinquents are as follows,
   l. s. d. l. s. d.     Simon French 0 13 6 Jeremi. Philbrick 0 18 0   William Long 1 16 0 Jacob Garland 0 9 0   Samuel Wislow 1 16 0 Nathan Taylor 0 9 0   Nathaniel French 1 16 0 Phillip Hunteon 1 16 0   John Sherburn 1 16 0 John Mason 0 9 0   Samuel Judkins 1 16 0 Edward Fiske 1 16 0   John Sweet 1 16 0 James Bean 1 16 0   Thomas Scrivner 1 16 0 Samuel Dearborn 0 9 0   Moses Sleeper 1 16 0 Thomas Clough 1 16 0   Tristram Sandborn 1 16 0 John Webster 0 18 0   Daniel Moulton 1 7 0 William Bafwell 0 10 9   John Moulton 1 7 0 T. Atkinson, Esq. 0 15 0   Benja. Sandborn 1 7 0 Nathaniel Barr 0 15 0   Isaac Godfrey 1 7 0 T. Atkinson junr 0 15 0   William Godfrey 1 7 0 Messch West, Esq. 0 12 0   Samuel Concord 0 18 0 B. Westworth, Esq. 1 10 0   Capt. John Webster 0 9 0  
THE Creditors to the Estate of Richard Calley, late of Epping, in the county of Rockingham, Taylor, deceased, Represented Insolvent, are hereby Notified, that the Comm'sioners appointed to receive and examine their several Claims to said Estate, will attend that Business at the Dwelling House of Lieut. Colonel Samuel Folsom, Innholder in Exeter, on the third Monday of this and the four following Months, from five to seven o'clock P. M. of said Day.
March 14th, 1775.
Wanted to hire immediately For six or eight Months, five or six good Labourers, who are acquainted with the Business of cleaning of Land; one or two Carpenters, and one Blacksmith, who can shoe Horses— Also, Wanted two or three Bushels of well cleaned Hards Grass SEED. Enquire of Joseph Whipple.
Broke Open, on the Night Following the Fifteenth Instant, the subscriber's Shop at Exeter, and was stole from thence the following Articles, viz. Sixty pair of Copper and Brass cut Rimmed Shoe Buckles, and about thirty pair of Knee dit. sundry pair of Brass Sleeve Buttons, sundry new Files, chiefly of the glazing Kind; also sundry small Boxes with a Quantity of second handed Stores for Sleeve Buttons in them, and also another small wooden Box with a Tea Spoon and some Money in it, together with sundry other Articles in the Goldsmith and Braziers Business. Whoever shall apprehend the Thief or Thieves, so that he or they may be brought to Justice, shall have Three Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid by Ichabod Shaw Davis.
N. B. 'Tis apprehended that some or all the above mentioned Articles may be offered to some Goldsmith for sale; if so, it is desir'd they may be stopped. Exeter, March 16, 1775.