Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-08-03 00:00:00

F O W L E's  NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,
A N D GENERAL
THE ADVERTISER.
T H U R S D A Y,
A U G U S T 3, 1786.
P O R T S M O U T H: By JOHN MELCHER,
PRINTED and PUBLISHED IN PAVED-STREET.
Vol. XXX.]
"Open to all Parties—Influenced by none—We aim only to be Just."
[ No. 1562.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
GENERAL ORDERS,
Given at Durham, July 17, 1786.
THE Captain-General, while he returns his most sincere thanks to those officers and soldiers who are using every possible exertion to prepare themselves for appearing in the field, with all the advantages resulting from military knowledge, finds himself under the disagreeable necessity of requesting the officers whose corps have not yet been called together, to assemble them as soon as possible, to instruct them in the use of arms, and prepare them for appearing in the field with honor to themselves and credit to their officers.
The Major-Generals will from time to time issue such orders as they may think necessary for the regulation of their particular divisions, the Brigadiers such orders as respect their brigades, and the officers commanding regiments such orders as relate to the governing, regulating and ordering their respective regiments.
The officers commanding regiments are once more requested to give notice of the most proper places for their respective regiments to assemble for review.
The Captain-General flatters himself that every possible exertion will be used to procure uniforms and proper arms, without loss of time;—and he trusts that the good citizens of this State so far from deeming it a burthen to bear arms will esteem it a privilege which no person worthy the name of a freeman would willingly relinquish.
The Commissary-General having been directed to put the brass Field-Pieces in order, and deliver them to the commanding officer of the Artillery; it is expected that those pieces will be so distributed as to give opportunity to as many artillery-men to acquaint themselves with the exercise of them as possible.
As the public arms, accoutrements and munitions of war are ordered to be collected together, the Commissary-General will make a proper return of them as soon as may be.
All commissioned officers will wear black cockades and black feathers in their hats on days of parade, it is expected that no officer will appear with silver or gold lace on his hat or cloaths on muster days.
The Major-Generals will be distinguished by two epaulets with two stars in each, and the Brigadiers by one star in each, the Field Officers and Aids-de-camps will be distinguished by two plain epaulets, the Captains by one plain epaulet on the right-shoulder, and the Subalterns by one on the left, the Serjeants will be distinguished by a worsted epaulet of the colour of their facings, on the right shoulder, and the Corporals by one on the left shoulder, the Serjeant-Major will wear two epaulets, the Musicians will be distinguished by an epaulet made of a ribbond, of the colour of their facings made in a triangular form, and of the length of a common epaulet, formed with three strands for the length, at a small distance alunder at the lower end, and two strands or bars across the ends of the strands which hang down the shoulders, to be an inch below the lower bars, and a little fringed at the end; the Drum and Fife Majors, and the Serjeant-Majors will wear feathers in their hats.
Although it is the wish of the Commander in Chief that those badges of distinction, together with the proper uniforms may be procured as soon as possible, and he doubts not of the good disposition of the officers and soldiers to comply with orders and regulations, yet would not have the recommendations respecting them considered as positive and to be carried immediately into effect but as recommendations and requisitions to be complied with and put in practice as soon as circumstance will admit.
The Brigadiers or officers commanding brigades will consult their field officers and agree upon the epaulets whither to be of gold or silver, as the facings of the respective brigades may require.
The regiments may be furnished with proper standards by application from the field officers to Mr. John
Parker of Portsmouth, son of Mr. Noah Parker, or to Mr. Doig of said Portsmouth, provided the application is made immediately, as the review will soon commence, the Commander in Chief intreats the officers and soldiers to exert themselves in making every possible preparation, and although a full compliance with orders and recommendations cannot be expected in so short a space as has been given, yet it is not doubted but every thing will be done which time and circumstance will permit.
From the AMERICAN MERCURY:
"Man is an odd compound after all;
"And ever has been since the fall."
DISCONTENTMENT, instability, and inconsistency, are the characteristics of human nature. Such is the constitution of the mind, in connexion with the body, that it is incapable of receiving complete satisfaction. There is no situation in life however eligible to appearance, however perfect in its kind, that is sufficient to satisfy the boundless desires of the mind. In prosperity, happiness, the object which mankind are ever pursuing flees before them, and retreats to some distant station. With uneasiness then, the pursuers wait the revolution of time to bring about the glorious period, when they shall obtain the wished for object, and enjoy the summit of their wishes. But when the period arrives, disappointment blasts their expectations, their promised joy vanishes, the dear object HAPPINESS takes her flight to some, yet, distant retreat. Through such vicissitudes of trouble mankind are constantly passing, even in the happiest situation which human life affords: In adversity when friends, when wealth, and flattering prospects are swept away, as it were with the Beshon of destruction, more keen sensations swell the soul, and heavy sadness marks every step of the afflicted. The spirits are depressed, complaints are frequently uttered, and even providence is impeached of injustice. The life of the unfortunate, is a continued scene of inquietude & misery.
Where shall we look for human happiness? It is thought by the most sensible part of mankind, to be found in mediocrity and contentment. Yet those very persons who believe it to consist in mediocrity and contentment, will not inform themselves of the truth of their belief, by experimental knowledge. They vainly flatter themselves, that they shall find happiness in the road to human glory, in sounding titles of honor, in a puff of empty breath, in popular applause, which contains nothing but an airy phantom. There seems to be a certain principle in the human heart, which actuates mankind by motives, directly contrary to what reason dictates, or informs the mind would be best.
In this state almost every class of people, are thirsting for honor and genteel life; and it is my opinion, that they will thirst till they choak, before they obtain in the way they are now seeking for it. The general opinion seems to be, that indolence and brilliant dress are the constituent parts of a gentleman. Every one seems desirous of getting into this mode of life, and so many have attempted it with success, that poverty begins to disturb the peace of all. Common sense might; and does teach every
person, that industry is not only necessary, but commendable; yet notwithstanding this lesson of wisdom taught by our own reason, we pursue a very different line of conduct, and walk in those paths which we know are wrong: Even those who make the greatest pretensions, to refinement and information, will confess the truth; yet practice a lie.
In a country like this, if agriculture is neglected, poverty will certainly triumph. A new country cannot support but a small number of its inhabitants in learned and mercantile professions. This truth I presume is generally believed, but among us it is not practised. The profession of Law in this state is very much crowded; one fourth part of the number of attorneys, now in practice, would be amply sufficient for all the business there is to be done. Still young gentlemen are crowding into the profession; as though they thought the whole community, would live by practising Law. Yet the greater part of the practitioners do but little business, and consequently but little money, but complain hard of the badness of the times. When there is not more than two or three, each court, to a Lawyer, in a county, they must not all expect the business will be lucrative. In the medical department, the Physicians are almost as numerous as the patients, yet almost every practitioner has two or three Pupils studying with him, and all complaining that it is such healthy times they cannot get a living by their business; with this class of men it is very hard times. There are too many ignorant indolent fellows, also in the mercantile line, for the good of individuals or the community at large. Numbers there are who will get a few gew-gaws in their shop that nobody wants, and be groaning about hard times and no cash.
The lowest class of merchants, make out to procure subsistence, by holding the balance of deceit in their hands and cheating, the honest industrious citizen. In the three foregoing classes of people which I have mentioned, there are more practitioners by three fourths than is wanted, or than can be supported. Above all men the farmer complains of the hardness of the times, for he is reduced to poverty by paying a heavy tax to the public, and a still heavier one to the merchant. At this gloomy period, when poverty seems to have spread her vail over the state, and idleness as pillars support it, the people, who have had hard struggles with work, and have been overcome, see no other way to live but to have an emission of paper currency, which they seem to think would dispel the gloomy clouds, and bring a sunshine of ease and plenty. Those who have any of the productions of the earth to sell can command money, those who are so poor that they have nothing to dispose of, cannot command any, therefore they wish for a paper emission. If a paper emission should be granted, it would doubtless be of service, it would discover the depravity and imperfections of human nature, and serve as a strong evidence, to convince mankind of the inconsistency and folly of human transactions.
Blanks of most sorts may be had at this OFFICE, and of THOMAS ODIORNE, Esq. at his shop in Exeter, where may be had a variety of West-India and English Goods, cheap.

Madrid, May 6.
THE sea and land officers have all received orders to return to their respective posts. They are night and day at work in our different ports, fitting out a fleet which some people say will be very numerous; many imagine it is destined to dispute the passage of the Straights of Gibraltar with a certain power, whilst others are of opinion it is to carry on a new expedition against the Algerines, who, after having received considerable sums of money and valuable presents, still continue to raise pretences to elude the solemn publication of the treaty of peace which we have concluded with them.
F R A N C E.
Boulogne, May 28. Yesterday the murderer of Mr. Martin, attorney, was broken on the wheel. At two o'clock the criminal appeared on the scaffold; his sentence expressed, that he was to have been earlier brought from the prison, but he delayed his confession, in expectation of the arrival of the duc de Orleans, it being the custom of France, that when a prince of the blood arrives in a town, on the day of the execution of a criminal, he receives a remission of his sentence. His highness did not arrive. The unhappy culprit, after a short confession, received absolution from a priest and was placed naked on the wheel; holes, were made in it for his legs and arms. He was then broken in eleven parts, and remained for a considerable time in that state, before he received the coup de grace . The only words he made use of were "Dieu, faites, moi grace!" His unhappy family, according to custom, are forever disgraced; they lived in great affluence. One of his sisters died with grief, and a brother of his is gone mad. So great is the disgrace attending the fixing even of the apparatus for this horrid scene, that it was difficult to find a carpenter who would erect the scaffold, &c. and the one that performed the work, did it so reluctantly, that a centinel stood over him the whole time with a drawn sword. It is 48 years since a criminal expired on a wheel in this city, before the melancholy instance above mentioned.
By an order of council dated February 15, 1786, it is directed, that rice, the produce of the United States, imported directly from thence, since January 1, 1786, into any of the ports of this kingdom, until further orders, may on the importer's paying down the old subsidy, and giving bond for the payment of the remainder of the duty thereon within eighteen months, be housed in the king's locks, in warehouses appointed for that purpose.—But such rice being imported, in manner and during the time aforesaid, into the ports of London, Bristol, Portsmouth, Cowes, Liverpool, Lancaster, Falmouth, Pool, Whitehaven, Hull, Greenock, and port Glasgow, the importer may enter into bond for the payment of all the duties to which such rice is subject; and if exported from thence, the bonds to be discharged, as is done with bonds for securing the duties on tobacco.—And by a further order of council, the above regulations, &c. are extended to January 1, 1787, except previously counter ordered.
Paris May 29. A report prevails here of a serious and successful attack made by the Venetian Admiral upon the town of Stax, which, it is said, was carried on as follows: Chevalier Emo, being with his squadron off the Tunisian coast, examined what part of it was most open to an attack, and thought no place more proper than the town of Stax, not only because it lies nearer to the coast, but also on account of its being only twelve miles distant from three small islands, where, in case of a repulse, he might find a proper harbour for his ships. The attack began with incredible ardour on the part of the Venetian, and was opposed with no less bravery by the besieged; but several of the latter being unfortunately killed, or totally disabled by four large pieces of iron ordnance bursting on a sudden, the garrison was thrown into the utmost confusion. Chevalier Emo, improved the opportunity, and having landed 1500 men, attempted an assault, which succeeded perhaps beyond his warmest expectation; for the besieged, struck with a panic, took to flight, and all the rest were put to the sword.
Extract of a letter from Florence April 16.
"The Grand Duke is incessantly employed in a reform of his laws; he has begun by simplifying the law in civil cases, and mitigating the severity of the penal laws. For the last ten years there has not been one capital punishment inflicted in all Tuscany; the prisons are under such regulations, that the prisoners who are in them only suffer the loss of their liberty. The Grand Duke has also wiped off a reproach incurred by all Italy, from the custom of Autos de Fe, by appointing one ceremony of the kind, which will forever remain in remembrance of his humanity. On that day he caused all the instruments belonging to the torture to be publicly burned. The mildness which he has introduced in criminal cases has had the best effects; crimes are much less
frequent than before; and for these three months there has not been a new prisoner taken to any jail in Florence."
By the Dutch mail of yesterday we received intelligence that his Prussian Majesty is in the fairest state of health that his age and accumulated infirmities will admit. However that Sovereign is not likely to attend the military exercises usual at this season of the year; at least it is certain that the Heir Apparent has been by his Royal Uncle, appointed to attend several of the customary reviews.
On Saturday afternoon Mr. Lawton, an American gentleman, who went to visit an officer on board the Royal Admiral East Indian at Deptford, walking across a plank which led from that ship to another, unfortunately fell into the river, and, notwithstanding many endeavours were used to save him, he was carried down by the rapidity of the tide, and his body has not been since discovered.
Lord George Gordon was excommunicated yesterday from the parish church of St. Marylebone. The excommunication was very long, and took near a quarter of an hour to read it, before the sermon. Several of Lord George Gordon's friends came up from the city to hear it read. Lord George Gordon went in the afternoon to the clerk of the parish to obtain a copy of it for his own defence, but was informed that one of the spiritual court had waited in church till it was read, and carried it back with him to the spiritual court, and the clergyman who read it had it not ten minutes in his possession. In forty days the King will be applied to for a writ de excommunicato deliberando , and his Lordship will be imprisoned in Newgate, without any trial or jury, till he complies with the Archbishop's authority, and then the Archbishop will present another petition to the King de excommunicato deliberando .
Lord George Gordon's imprisonment, in Newgate, will be the first business of consequence in the Spiritual Court, at Trinity Term, the middle of next month.
L O N D O N, May 26.
A letter from Cherbourg, in Normandy, has the following article: "Though this is literally a miserable town, yet, if the works now going on are continued as briskly for another year, as they have been this last, it will one day be a scourge to England. Its situation in the channel over against the English Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, &c. will in a future war render it very hurtful to Great Britain. At present the engineers are indefatigable, and the fortifications go on with a amazing rapidity. The ship carpenters also are busy in building nine sloops that are to carry six, eight and ten pieces of cannon, and which are to be alternated at anchor in the road and in the port."
On Maundy-Thursday, at Versailles, his Most Christian Majesty washed the feet of twelve poor men, and waited on them at table, in commemoration of the Lord's Supper. The prince of Conde , Grande Master of the household, was at the head of the King's stewards and performed the office of server. The dishes were carried by Monsieur the Count d'Artois , the Duke of Orleans, Bourbon, and Enghien, the Prince of Conti, and the Duke of Penthièvre.—His Majesty went afterwards to Chapel, where a solemn mass was sung by the King's musicians. During the ceremony, the Countess de Saissavela went round with a purse, in the form of a stand-up silk bag, and collected money for the poor. It is an excellent custom in France, to select a Lady of fashion, generally young and handsome, to perform the generous part of collecting money to relieve the indigent.
Extract of a letter from Lisbon, April 4.
"A strong squadron is ordered for the Mediterranean to protect our trade in those seas, and finally to attack the Algerines, if a plan of accommodation with those barbarians, who are become more troublesome than ever, should not take place. The vessels ordered for this service are, Alajentaje, 60 guns; San Sacramento, 60; Algrave, 50; El Gabriello, 40; La Nazareth, 32; Don Pedro, 28; Barganze, 26; El Cisne, 24; and L'Apollone and Rocke Gallies, of 10 guns each. Don Solomon Alcantare is to have the command, and additions will be made to this force as circumstance may make it necessary, the court having assured the merchants that they have nothing more at heart than the protection of trade from those marauders. This squadron will put to sea next month and its first cruise will be about the Azore Islands, where the infidel flag has been seen."
Extract of a letter from Dublin, April 28.
"On Sunday morning last the following most inhuman murder was committed in Skinner's alley, on the Combe: William Toole, on his return home from prayers, having found his wife much intoxicated with liquor, began to upbraid her for her bad conduct; and being irritated to that degree, stooped under the bed in order to get a stick to beat her; which she perceiving took up a hatchet, and ran to the bed-side, and said, "your life or mine for it," and immediately split
his head in two: the poor man lived a few hours, and expired in great agony."
May 4. Monday evening, about six o'clock, there was a very smart fall of snow on Finchley common, for near twenty minutes, which was succeeded by one of the smartest frosts that we have had for two months past.
Monday about eleven, and till near one o'clock, there was the most luminous aurora borealis perhaps ever seen in this kingdom. The coruscations as vivid as the flashes of lightning in the hottest season.
A few days ago died, at Jarrow Quay, Yorkshire, aged 102, Mrs. Eleanor Railton. She could walk about and read without spectacles to the day of her death.
The following particulars of the death of the late Dr. Conyers, rector of St. Paul Deptford, being so singular, are worthy of being recorded. On the morning of his decease he seemed unusually cheerful, and about the usual time went to church, where after the prayers were over, he ascended the pulpit, and had just named his text, which was in the Acts of Apostles, "Ye shall see my face no more," when he was seized with a sudden fainting, and fell back in the pulpit, from which he recovered, however sufficient to proceed with his sermon; after which, having given the conclusive blessing, he again fainted away, and was taken home, where he continued ill till about six o'clock in the evening, at which time he expired without a groan.
From the BAHAMA GAZETTE.
NASSUA, June 3. We are authorised to inform our readers, that letters of unquestionable authenticity, and of recent date, are received here from London, which speak, in the most positive terms, of Government having determined on making this a FREE PORT, for the importation of foreign raw Materials, Provisions and Lumber, duty free, including African Productions of every species; and that such articles as can be admitted to entry in Great-Britain, may be re-exported from hence thither, in British bottoms, without being subjected to any duty or impost here; that no manufactured goods, or East-India productions, will be admitted from any other quarter than Great-Britain; that every necessary measure for making this a place of security will be immediately adopted; it being the intention of government to station a considerable naval and military force in these islands for that purpose, and for the effectual arrangement of the salt trade here and at Turks Island.
July 1. The intelligence respecting the establishment of a FREE PORT is confirmed. Bermuda is to have the same privilege.
PHILADELPHIA, July 22.
We are well assured that notwithstanding the Refugees in Halifax seem virulently interested in preventing American produce from being carried there, their markets have nothing in them but carrion—Veal sells there for 10d. and beef for 7d. per pound, sterling; and was it not for the supply of fish, which is only in summer, these vultures would starve. Such is their inveteracy and subtlety, that they have influenced the FLEXIBLE Governor PARR to prohibit the importation of provisions from the United States, except flour, and that only in British bottoms, which is distressingly experienced by the poorer sort of people, as well as much reprobated by the old inhabitants of that infant province.
The Mercury man of war, belonging to his Britannick Majesty, sailed from Halifax in May last, for England—Mr. Stanhope, the commander, having been recalled, it is said, to answer for his ungracious and indelicate addresses to Governor Bowdoin, of the commonwealth of Massachusetts; on which, since his return from Boston to that very FERTILE and POLITE province, he and his petit maitre officers have constantly plumed themselves. Mr. Stanhope, sensible of his being in a situation where correction could not be dispensed, like the Culprit in London, who, just released from the hands of justice, and being 100 miles distant from Court, "damned the Lord Mayor," has frequently embellished and enriched his vociferations in Roubalet's Coffee-Room, in Halifax, with the very LIBERAL and POLITE terms, "damn the Americans—their Country—and the Congress."
N E W-Y O R K, July 25.
We feel great concern on finding, by the Antelope, that the Shelburne packet, with the March mail, had not arrived in England, al-

though the two succeeding departures from hence reached Falmouth, in perfect safety, with the April and May letters; so that unless the Western islands should have proved the Shelburne's asylum, that ship's case will now be considered desperate.
By a letter from Richmond, Virginia dated July 11, we are informed, that an express had arrived there from the back country, with the disagreeable intelligence of a large party of Indians having suddenly attacked and killed upwards of one hundred of the frontier inhabitants.
V I R G I N I A.
PETERSBURGH, July 6. A gentleman just from Kentucky informs, that the Indians continue their practice of plundering the inhabitants; that about the middle of May last, they came into the neighbourhood of Stroud's, and stole a number of horses; but being pursued by a party, under the command of Captain M c Entire, three of the Indians and a white man were killed, and the horses retaken, together with the Indian baggage, arms and ammunition: that in a very short time after the Indians killed and scalped a white woman, who lived near a place called the Crab-Orchards.
Mr. Graves, one of the State Searchers, having received information that Capt. Dawson, of the ship Cyrus (lately from and belonging to Philadelphia) had, in order to defraud the State, made a false entry on his arrival, went over to Portsmouth on Friday morning last, where the vessel then lay, and seized her in the name of the State; but as he was not permitted to enter the ship, and observing that Capt. Dawson meant, in open violation of the law, to get under way, he thought it his duty to advise Capt. James of the armed State schooner Liberty.
About two o'clock, P. M. Capt. Dawson taking advantage of a fresh breeze from the S. W. passed the town, and the schooner being under way at the same time, came up with the ship off Lambeth's Point, and ordered the Captain to bring to, to which he replied, that should they attempt to board him he would fire into the schooner, being prepared for the purpose.
Captain James finding that he would be under the disagreeable necessity of using hostile measures, bore away for Hampton, where speedily collecting a number of volunteers, he made sail, and about ten o'clock came up with the ship between the Clump Hills and the Capes, when he again ordered the Captain to come to, warning of the dangerous consequence attending a refusal; this request not being complied with, he endeavoured to grapple the ship, when Capt. Dawson immediately fired a six pounder, loaded with langridge, into the schooner, which did her considerable damage, and slightly wounded one of the hands. Captain James immediately returned the fire, boarded her, and after a feeble resistance took possession of the ship, and brought her back into Hampton Road.
She will prove a valuable seizure, having no less than 680 hogsheads of tobacco on board, which with the ship, it is expected, will be condemned at our next Court of Admiralty, the Captain having had the temerity to sail without a clearance from the custom-house. We are sorry to learn, that during the action a gentleman on board the Cyrus was dangerously wounded.
P R O V I D E N C E.
July 20. In our last we mentioned the effect which the late act of the General Assembly, for enforcing the currency of the paper money, had upon the faces of the people in this town.—Another week has no other effect here than an increased distress from the uncommon stagnation of business, which has served not only to continue all the same disagreeable faces, but has set a great number of heads to work in this quarter of the country.—From the highest head to the lowest head—they are not as yet properly classified—but it is manifest there are many hot heads—many obstreperous heads—many noisy heads—and some furious heads who are for pushing matters to extremities.—There are also many obstinate heads—self-sufficient heads—stubborn heads and determined heads, both for the paper money and against it—who are for going on their own way, without agreeing with the others—regardless of the consequences.—There are, however, many cool, wise, foreseeing, prudent, and thinking heads—among whom may be reckoned the honest well meaning, and patriotic heads, who are a-
larmed at the present unhappy situation of affairs, who all join in complaining of the aforesaid act, and see the absolute necessity of laying all the different kinds of heads together, in order to agree upon some system of conduct, in which all parties will unite, for the restoration of mutual confidence—the preservation of public peace—and the re-establishment of that confidential intercourse and commerce, without which the state must go to ruin and destruction—and want and misery overwhelm town and country.
B O S T O N, July 31.
Several letters in town from Rhode-Island mention, that nothing can exceed the deplorableness of the situation of affairs in that little State, and this too occasioned by the ill-judged proceedings of their Legislature in issuing a flood of paper money, making it a tender in all cases and arbitrarily imposing a fine of 100l. on every person refusing it, or selling any article at a greater advance for paper than silver—the affluent are moving into other States, and the indigent giving, into every species of licentiousness—property is there no where secure, houses and stores have been promiscuously broken open, and many persons have been wounded in defending their effects from the depredation of the mob.—To other States this must operate as a warning, against the introduction of those measures, which have produced these calamities.
By the packet Antelope arrived at New-York, on Tuesday last week, in 36 days from Falmouth, we learn, that the negotiators for peace between the Algerines and the Americans have returned, without having effected their purpose, and even without any hopes of success. M. Lamb remains at Carthagena, and M. de Randal is arrived at Madrid.
A young lady, who is an only child, and belongs to Providence, in the state of Rhode Island, had the misfortune to be left an orphan, by the sudden death of both her parents, not many years since;—upon which a Guardian was appointed for her estate, which amounted to about 400l. in silver money, and she was sent to school at Boston; some few days ago on her coming of age, this conscientious Guardian, who is a citizen of Rhode-Island, and resides in Providence, sent for his ward, on business of great importance; when, to her astonishment, but agreeable to the law of that state, he discharged himself of all future demands upon him as her Guardian, by a tender of the nominal sum of 400l. in paper money, which is not generally even within the limits of that little society; and when it is received in payment, passes at the discount of five paper dollars for one silver. PATRIOTS and LEGISLATORS of America! is not this to establish iniquity by law? To devour the substance of the orphan? And to bring down the vengeance of Heaven upon a distracted people?
The drought in Jamaica, in May last, was so great that the owner of a pond of stagnated water, in the parish of St. Ann's, planted a chain of Negro centinels round it, and extorted silver or gold for every gallon that was taken away by the inhabitants. The rents and chaims in the earth, occasioned by the drought, were so great as to render it dangerous for man or beast to travel.
The British packet Shelburne, Capt. Bull, which sailed from New-York in March last, it is feared, foundered at sea. She had specie on board to the amount of 35,000l. sterling.
It is with pleasure we announce to the public the return of the Honourable Monsieur De Le Tombe, his Most Christian Majesty's Consul-General for the Eastern States, who arrived in this town last Wednesday evening, after an absence from America of one year. This gentleman's conduct, during his late administration, having been so very acceptable to the citizens of this metropolis, induces us to wish he may long continue to fill that important station.
P O R T S M O U T H.
August 3. Capt. Edmund Roberts, who arrived here on Saturday last, in the Sophia, in 58 days from l'Orient, (France) the 28th June, in lat. 42: 15 north, long. 26: 30 west, passed a vessel bottom up, she appeared to be about 150 or 200 tons burthen.—Ninth July, in lat. 44: 20 north, on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland, spoke the brig Brilliant, Capt. Bunker, from Baltimore bound to Cork, out 13 days all well.
Accounts from the country, contain the agreeable tidings of prospects of a most plenteous Harvest.—The fields are loaded with Nature's richest and most luxurious gifts, and throughout the whole State, never were the labours of industry rewarded in greater abundance.
We learn from Nova-Scotia, that they still continue seizing and insulting the American vessels and flag. The SHARKS of the Custom-House in the several ports, even send out boats beyond their harbours in quest of vessels belonging to the states.
From the CORK JOURNAL, April 6.—Last week a sow belonging to Mr. Driman, in Kinalee, farrowed seven pigs, each of which had two mouths, and in each mouth two rows of teeth.
NAVAL OFFICE. PORT OF PISCATAQUA August 2, 1786. E N T E R E D F R O M Schooner Polly, Briard, Martinico. Brig Sophia, Roberts, l'Orient. Sloop Sally, Smith, Philadelphia. C L E A R E D, F O R Sloop Dolphin, Coffin, St. Peters. Brig Kitty, Thwing, West-Indies.
Flax Seed.
—Wanted a considerable quantity.—
CASH given for FLAX SEED, By R. Champney, at the STORE opposite the Post-Office: Where may be had, Philadelphia and Sneed's I R O N, English and Raven's Duck, Cordage of all sorts, &c. W A N T E D, A few Tons of Pot and Pearl Ashes, Inquire as above. Portsmouth, August 6, 1786.
T O B E S O L D At P U B L I C V E N D U E, By a licence from the hon. Phillips White, Esq. judge of Probate, &c. for the county of Rocking- ham, on Monday the 21st inst. at three o'clock, P. M. at the house of John Stavers, innholder in Portsmouth; a FARM, lying in Portsmouth, on the road leading to Newington, about twenty- four acres, more or less, being part of the real estate of Hunking Wentworth, Esq. deceased. Conditions of sale to be known at the time and place of sale. JONATHAN WARNER, Administrator. Portsmouth, July 26, 1786.
ROCKINGHAM, s. THE Proprietors of the SOCIAL LIBRARY in Portsmouth, in said county, are desired to meet at Union Hall, in said Portsmouth, on Monday the twenty fifth day of August inst. at three o'clock P. M. then and there to consider of the request of a number of said proprietors for calling this meeting, to settle the accounts of said proprietors, and to pass the necessary votes for selling the books and dissolving the society. SAMUEL PENHALLOW, Clerk. Portsmouth, August 1, 1786.
By adjournment, will be Sold At P U B L I C V E N D U E, On Thursday the 10th August, 10 o'clock, A. M. at the dwelling-house of John Lewis, late of Port- mouth, ship-carpenter, deceased, all the House-hold Furniture of said deceased, consisting of Beds, Chairs and Tables.—Also, A good Silver Watch, &c. Portsmouth, July 8, 1786.
ROCKINGHAM, s. THE commissioners appointed to receive and examine the claims against the estate of DANIEL SHERBURNE, late of Portsmouth, mer- chant, deceased are hereby notified that two months longer are allowed them for that pur- pose, from this 19th day of July, A. D. 1786. By order of the Judge of Probate, WILLIAM PARKER, Register.
THOSE persons indebted for the New-Hamp- shire Gazette, Advertisements, &c. for the last six months past, are earnestly requested to make payment in cash, or produce of any kind. June 24.
Samuel Dearborn
R ESPECTFULLY informs the public, he is appointed by the honorable General- Court of this State, to ride Post through the following towns, viz. from Portsmouth through Newmarket, Durham, Dover, Rochester, Wakefield, Offipe-Gore, Tamworth, Sandwich and Milton- borough, and returns by way of Center Harbour, Merrimack, Gilmanstown, Barnstead, Barrington and Dover.—He will leave Portsmouth on Mon- day, and perform the route once a fortnight— and will supply them with the New-Hampshire News-Papers, and Blanks of all kinds, at a rea- sonable rate, and transact any business with fidel- ity which he may be entrusted with. Portsmouth, July 18, 1786.

Parnassian Spring.
The HAPPINESS of the AMERICANS, considered as a free and agricultural people, &c. From Col. Humphrey's Poem on the Happiness of Ame- rica.
TH RICE happy race! how blest were free- dom's heirs, Blest if they knew what happiness is theirs, Blest if they knew, to them alone 'tis given To know no sov'reign but the law and Heaven! That law for them, and Albion's realms alone, On sacred justice elevates her throne, Regards the poor, the fatherless protects, The widow shields, the proud oppressors checks! Blest if they knew, beneath umbrageous trees, To prize the joys of innocence, and ease, Of peace, of health, of temp'rance, toil, and rest, And the calm sun-shine of the conscious breast. For them the spring his annual task resumes, Invests in verdure and adorns in blooms Earth's parent lap--and all her wanton bow'rs In foliage fair with aromatick flow'rs. Their tanning wings the zephyrs gently play, And winnow blossoms from each floating spray; In bursting buds the embryo fruits appear, The hope and glory of the rip'ning year! The mead that courts the scythe, the pastur'd vale And garden'd lawn their breathing sweets exhale; On balmy winds a cloud of fragrance moves, And floats the odours of a thousand groves, For them young summer sheds a brighter day, Matures the germ with his prolific ray. With prospects cheers, demands more stubborn toil, And pays their efforts from the grateful soil: The lofty maize its ears luxurious yields-- The yellow harvests gild the laughing fields, Extend o'er all the interminable plain, And wave in grandeur like the boundless main; For them the flock o'er green savannas feeds, For them high prancing bounds the playful steeds, For them the heifer graze sequester'd dales, Or pour white nectar in the brimming pails; To them, what time the hoary frosts draw near, Ripe autumn brings the labours of the year. To nature's sons how fair th' autumnal even, The fading landscape and impurpled Heaven, As from their fields they take their homeward way, And turn to catch the sun's departing ray! What streaming splendours up the skies are roll'd, Whose colours beggar Tyrian dies and gold! 'Till night's dun curtain's wide o'er all display'd, Shroud shad'wy shapes in melancholy shade.
NEW CURE FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.
A NEW method of cure, for the bite of a mad dog, has lately been practised at West-Springfield, an account of which is published in the Hampshire Herald. The subjects of the operation were a young man, and two small children who were bitten by a mad dog, in February last. The writer, who is Aaron John Miller, of that town, in his account of the process, says, "to effect a cure, I did not in the least hesitate, not only to give mercury internally, but also at the same time, to use it externally. My reason was, because at that time, I knew mercury not only to be a noble alterative, but also a counterpoison, and consequently an antidote against the Hydrophobia. Analogical reasoning drawn from the effects of this mineral, in the virulent gonorrhea, would certainly have led to its exhibition in the present case, had I only followed the path chalked out by nature, without any other particular rule or precept. I therefore gave Colomel and other mild preparations of mercury internally, and Unguentum Neapolitanum externally, that by the conjoined force of these methods taken together, perhaps the progress of the poison might be stopped, which would have proved too powerful for any one of these alone."--The account adds that this method was attended with salutary effects, and that the writer dares to hope the patients are out of danger, not one symptom of the hydrophobia as yet having appeared.
A N E C D O T E,
Relating to WEBB , a noted Walker.--By the late Earl of Chesterfield.
THIS man was remarkable for vigour, both of mind and body, and lived wholly upon water for his drink, and chiefly upon vegetables
for his sustenance. He was one day recommending his regimen to one of his friends, who loved wine, and urged him, with great earnestness, to quit a course of luxury, by which his health and intellects would equally be destroyed. The gentleman appeared convinced, and told him that he would conform to his counsel, and that he would not change his course of life at once, but would leave off strong liquors by degrees. "By degrees!" says the other, with indignation --"If you should unhappily fall into the fire, would you caution your servants to pull you out by degrees?"
Philosophy and Christianity enlarge the Mind.
IT is evident that philosophy doth open and enlarge the mind, by the general views to which men are habituated in that study, and by the contemplation of more numerous and distant objects, than fall within the sphere of mankind in the ordinary pursuits of life. Hence it comes to pass that philosophers judge of most things very differently from the vulgar.
"When a philosopher (says Socrates) hears ten thousand acres mentioned as a great estate, he looks upon it as an inconsiderable spot, having been used to contemplate the whole globe of earth. Or when he beholds a man elated with the nobility of his race, because he can reckon a series of seven rich ancestors, the philosopher thinks him a stupid ignorant fellow, whose mind cannot reach to a general view of human nature, which would shew him that we have all innumerable ancestors, among whom are crowds of rich and poor, kings and slaves, Greeks and barbarians."
As all branches of philosophy, or speculative knowledge, are useful in that respect, astronomy is peculiarly adapted to remedy a little and narrow spirit. In that science there are good reasons assigned to prove the sun an hundred thousand times bigger than our earth, and the distance of the stars so prodigious, that a cannon-ball, continuing in its ordinary rapid motion, would not arrive from hence at the nearest of them in the space of an hundred and fifty thousand years! These ideas wonderfully dilate and expand the mind. There is something in the immensity of this distance, which shocks and overwhelms the imagination! it is too big for the grasp of human intellect! estates, provinces and kingdoms vanish at its presence!
But the Christian religion ennobled and enlargeth the mind beyond any other profession or science whatever. On that scheme, while the earth, and the transient enjoyments of this life, shrink into the narrowest dimensions, and are accounted as "the dust of a balance--the drop of a bucket--yea, less than nothing," the intellectual world opens wider to our view; the perfections of the Deity, the nature and excellence of virtue, the dignity of the human soul, are displayed in the largest characters:--and the mind feels a proportionable enlargement arising from the contemplation of these great and sublime ideas.
Astronomy opens the mind, and alters our judgment, with regard to the magnitude of extended beings; but Christianity produced an universal greatness of soul. Philosophy increaseth our views in every respect; but Christianity extends them to a degree beyond the light of nature.
How mean the most exalted potentate upon earth appear to that eye which makes innumerable orders of blessed spirits, differing in glory and perfection! How little must the amusements of science, and the ordinary occupations of mortal men, seem to one who is engaged in so noble a pursuit, as the assimilation of himself to the Deity, which is the proper employment of every Christian!
I leave it to any impartial man to judge, which hath the nobler sentiments, which the greater views--he whose notions are stunted to a few miserable inlets of sense, or he whose sentiments are raised above the common taste, by the anticipation of these delights which will satiate the soul, when the whole capacity of her nature is branched out into new faculties?--He who looks for nothing beyond this short span of duration, or he whose arms are co-extended with the endless length of eternity?--He who derives his spirit from the elements, or he who thinks it was inspired by the Almighty?
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A new nailch C O W,
that can be warranted good, for such a one the cash will be given. Enquire of the PRINTER.
J U S T P U B L I S H E D
At Providence, And to be sold by the Printer hereof, and by Mr. Alford Butler, at his Shop, NEW SENTIMENTS, Upon the Doctrine of Universal Salvation, Divine Revelation, ancient and modern Christianity and the Religion of Nations.
State of New-Hampshire.
THE proprietors of the township of Warren, in the county of Grafton in said state, who are delinquent in paying proprietary taxes, are hereby notified, that unless they pay the same to me at my house in South-Hampton, in the county of Rockingham and state aforesaid, what is due in a tax bill committed unto me to collect by the assessors of said propriety, dated December 3, 1781, also, another dated December 6, 1785, as herein set down, so much of the undivided land of each delinquent's share as will pay said taxes and charges will be sold a Public Vendue, at the house of Mr. Benjamin Lamson, innholder in Exeter, in the county of Rockingham, and state aforesaid, on Thursday the twenty-first day of September next, at ten of the clock in the morning, and if not all disposed of on that day, the Vendue will be continued from time to time, until enough is sold to pay said taxes and incidental charges.
N. B. The last column may be paid in interest Certificates. 1781. 1785.
   1781. 1785. Certi.   Specie. Specie. Specie. Specie.   l. s. s. l. s. s.     Jonathan Greeley Esq. 1 4 6 18   Hon. T. Atkinson jr. Esq. 1 4 6 18    PHILLIPS WHITE. South-Hampton, July 19, 1786.
State of New-Hampshire.
THE proprietors of the township of Wentworth, in the county of Grafton, in said state, who are delinquent in paying their proprietary taxes, are hereby notified that unless they pay the same to me at my house in South-Hampton, in the county of Rockingham, and state aforesaid, which is due in a tax bill committed unto me to collect by the assessors of said propriety dated December 3, 1781, also in another dated December 6, 1785, as herein set down; so much of the undivided land of each delinquent's share as will pay said taxes and charges will be sold at Public Vendue, at the house of Mr. Benjamin Lamson, innholder in Exeter, in the county of Rockingham, and state aforesaid, on Thursday, the twenty-first day of September next, the Vendue to begin at two o'clock in the afternoon, and if not all sold at that time, the Vendue will be continued from time to time, until enough is sold to pay said taxes and charges.
N. B. The last column may be paid in interest Certificates. 1781. 1785.
   1781. 1785. Cert.   Specie. Specie. Specie. Specie.   l. s. s. l. s. s.     Col. March 1 10 1 4 7   Jonathan Greeley, Esq. 1 10 1 4 7   Samuel Page 1 10 1 4 7   Francis Bachelder 1 10 1 4 7   Samuel Dudley 1 10 1 4 7   Ebenezer Stevens junr. 1 10 1 4 7   Jacob Gale 1 10 1 4 7   Nathaniel Greeley 1 10    PHILLIPS WHITE. South-Hampton, July 19, 1786.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Warren, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1785, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the twenty-fourth day of August next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at one o'clock on said day, at my house in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Proprietors. 1st Div. 2d Div. 3d Div.   s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.     Daniel Page 0 0 2 6 0 0   Belcher Dole 2 0 2 6 0 0   Stephen Webster 2 6 0 0 0 0   Abel Davis 2 6 2 1 2 0   William Whicher 1 17   Moses Page 2 6   Ephraim Page 1 3 2 6   Enoch Page 2 6   Benjamin French 2 6 2 6 2 6   John Darling 2 6   Moses Greeley 2 6   Abraham Morrill 2 6   Jeremiah Webster, Esq. 2 6   Thomas Piere 2 6  
WILLIAM BUTLER, Collector. Warren, July 12, 1786.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for this Paper, at Four shillings and six pence for six Months (exclusive of postage) are taken in at this Office, and by THOMAS ODIORNE , Esq. at his Shop in Exeter, where Advertisements are received, the Favors of Correspondents and all Orders in the Art of Printing attended to with Punctuality and Dispatch;