The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-04-03 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Frefhest ADVICES
Friday April 3, 1772.
Vol. XVII. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 806 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd }
A REMARKABLE ANECDOTE.
A Noble Lord in the county of ***** lately falling desperately in love with one of his tenants daughters he took every opportunity of accomplishing his determined purpose of ruining her ; but, "so coy a dame was she to him," not all his vows or never ceasing love, not all the vast profusion of toys and presents that he proffered her, nor the alluring proposition of a settlement, that would have insured her state and equipage for life, "could win her to his bed."—Her virtue served but as fuel to his fire. What was to be done ? Disclose his unconquerable and unconquering passion to her father—hum !—yea, now there are hopes indeed ; a father's poverty may supersede a father's love ; a lavish bribe may annihilate a parent's duty. He succeeded to his wish. The terms indeed were high—a THOUSAND POUNDS ! but "All for love ; or the world well lost." The father received the wages of his consent and aid, and (true to his promise) introduced his Lordship into his daughter's chamber at the dead of night, with a solemn promise, that no assistance should be consequent of any cries of distress. Cries, indeed, for some time were made ; but what did they avail ? "The cruel spoiler triumphed, cropt the fair rose, and rifled all its sweetness;"—but, "at length the morning came," when behold ! who did the noble enamorado find himself embracing ? No other than his "wedded wife," whom the justly artful and resenting father had privately acquainted with "the story of her husband's love."—What followed this discovery ?—Disappointment—rage, distraction—fullness—reflection—shame—contrition—intercession—reconcilement—pardon.—The rescued victim then was led, blushing, by her honoured honourable parent, to the presence of the noble, & now happy couple : When her ladyship (praising her virtue, and folding her in her arms) generously doubled to the lovely girl the sum that had been paid by his Lordship to her father, as the intended purchase of her honour.
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland Jan. 30.
The Winter here has been in general very mild until Sunday Evening last, when it began to snow, which continued without Intermission until Tuesday Night. Yesterday Morning we had again the Appearance of fine moderate Weather, but in the Evening it began to snow very fast, which continued all the night ; 'tis supposed the Depth where it has not drifted, is upwards of Three Feet, and it is with the utmost Difficulty People pass from one Houe to another. The Quantity of Snow has also chilled the Water to such a Degree, that though the Frost has not been severe for these few Days past, yet our Navigation is entirely stop't up by the Ice.
PHILADELPHIA, March 9.
Capt. Waldell from Jamaica, informs, That on the 27th ult. a few leagues W. of our capes, spoke a large black schooner, but could not learn the master's name, nor to what port she was bound, on account of it blowing a very hard gale, and she appeared to be in great distress, but Capt. Waldell could give them no assistance.
Capt. Cooke, from Boston, on the 2d instant on the edge of soundings, spoke a schooner, Captain Hall, from Virginia for Cape Ann, out six days all well,
Captain Harris, from Georgia, on the 28th ult. in lat. 35, 34, long. 75, spoke a sloop from St. Vincents for Cape Fear, who had been drove off the coast, and were very sickly.
As a proof that Pot and Pearl Ash is in a fair way to become a great article of export from this country, we have procured, and here insert for the perusal of our readers, an account of the quantity of Pot and Pearl Ashes inspected in the city of New-York in the small space of ten Months, viz. From the 25th of April, 1771, to the 29th of February, 1772.
POT, 13 hogheads 4205 barrels of first, 2 hogheads 667 barrels of second, and one hoghead 497 barrels of third sort.
PEARL, 82 hogheads 467 barrels of 1st, 74 hogheads and 347 barrels of 3d sort.
  Cwt. qrs. lb.   Total of the above, 20,541 2 11   Tons, Cwt qrs. lb.   Or, 1027 1 2 11. 
WILLIAMSBURGH, (Virginia) Feb. 20.
The Justitia, Capt. Gillies, is arrived in Rappabannock from London, in 40 days, with 120 convicts, among whom is JOHN EYRE, Esq; who, though worth upwards of 30,000l. sterling, was convicted of stealing eleven quires of paper.
NEW-YORK, March 16.
A few days since the eyes of Catharine Kyson, of this city, aged 72 years, was couched by Doctor STEPHEN LITTLE, of Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, and instantly restored to sight, which had been totally blind six years ; also sundry operations has of late been performed by the Doctor, with equal success, in this and the adjacent towns. We hear that his stay in this city, will be about a month from this time.
NEWPORT, March 23.
Last Friday we had almost as severe a snow storm as any the preceeding winter. The highness of the tides, and violence of the wind did considerable damage to several wharves in this town.
We hear from Providence, that last Saturday, a large barn, filled with hay, belonging to Mr. Thurber, took fire from the sparks of a Black-smiths shop, and was entirely consumed.
The 18th instant being the anniversary of the repeal of the ever to be detested Stamp-Act was distinguished in this town by the ringing of bells, a display of colours on liberty tree, &c. with other demonstrations of joy and loyalty.
A number of gentlemen being on a hunting match some time the winter past, at South-Kingstown, among whom was an honest Hibernian ; they started a fox, which ran by the Hibernian within five rods, of which he took no notice ; and being asked by the other gentlemen, why he did not fire ? Answered, Arrah ! but I never feed him till he was quite out of sight.
PROVIDENCE, March 21.
Wednesday last, the 18th of March, a day sacred and auspicious to American Freedom, by the happy repeal of the Stamp-Act, there was a splendid ball at Mr. Hacker's elegant long room, where the friends of liberty and their country spent the evening with joy & festivity.
NEW-LONDON, March 20.
His honour the Governor, with advice of his Council, has been pleased to issue a pro-
clamation, dated the 18th day of March instant, to prohibit the transporting, or shipping on board any vessel for transportation out of this colony, wheat, rye, or Indian Corn, until the twentieth day of May next.
Yesterday Capt. Niles in a brig arrived here from Surinam, last from St. Eustatia, in 25 days, just before he sailed from the latter place letters were received there by a vessel in six weeks from Holland, giving a melancholly account of the scarcity of provisions there ; by which means many of the poor were dying with famine—beef sold at 16 stivers a pound, and loaf of poorest bread at about 2lb. wt. at 16 stivers. (A stiver is the tenth part of pistereen.) The distilling of geneva was prohibited on pain of death.
BOSTON, March 26, 1772.
We hear from Newbern, in North Carolina, that Mr. James Fish, of Falmouth, in the County of Barnstable, Mate of the Sloop Harrison, Capt. Hooton, belonging to this Place, was lately drowned there, by means of the Boat's sinking in which they had just before weighed the Anchor ; the other People who were in the Boat with him saved their Lives by swimming to the Shore.
On the 19th ult. the Rev. Mr. James Coggeshall was installed at the Parish of Scotland in Windham, in Connecticut.
Uxbridge March 27th 1772.
The 14th Instant departed this Life, and this Day was decently intered, the Revd. Mr. NATHAN WEBB, the first, and well beloved Minister in this Town, in the 42d Year of his Ministry, and 67th of his Age ; leaving a sorrowful Widow, but no Issue ; He left a considerable Legacy to the Church to procure Utenfils for the Lord's Table, and for a Fund to support a learned orthodox, pious, congregational Minister in this Town. He was a Pattern of Piety, Patience and Fidelity in the various Relations he sustained.
Thursday the Ninth of April is appointed as a Day of Fasting and Prayer in the Colony of Connecticut.
It is said, That in the Month of Nov. no less than 100 Sail of Ships from 500 to 600 Tons burthen, arrived in Holland laden with Rye from Archangel in Russia, which sold at so high a Price, that the gain thereby was double.
Capt. Daniel Starr from New-London to Guadalupe, going off the Coast, met with a Gale of Wind in which he lost two Horses and one Ox, and his Hay of the Awnings.
Capt. Crowell in a Schooner belonging to Norwich who failed for Liverpool, Nova-Scotia, January 1st, for that Port, was drove off the Coast, and arrived at St. Eustatia in 26 Days.
Captains Rogers and Cook from Boston, and Captain Mansfield from Salem, are arrived at Philadelphia.
The TRUE FRIEND.
HOW oft do those we think our friends, Prove such but for some private ends ? How hard the task a friend to find, To whom we may impart our mind ; One who can sympathize in woe, And share the grief our bosoms know ; When fortune frowns or smiles, the same, To serve his friend his only aim ? Oh grant me Heav'n ! a friend like this, To share my griefs, and taste my bliss.

Fresh Advices.
By the Captains Cales and Myrick, from London, who arrived at Boston last Saturday, we have the following Advices, viz.
L O N D O N, January 21, 1772. This Day the Parliament met at Westminster, when his Majesty opened the Session with the following Speech viz, My Lords and Gentlemen,
IT gives me much satisfaction that nothing in the situation of our affairs, either foreign or domestic, has obliged me to require your attendance earlier than might have been consistent with your private convenience; and that now you are met together, you will find yourselves at liberty to give your whole attention to the establishment of wise and useful regulations of law, and the extension of our commercial advantages.
The performance of the engagement of the King of Spain, in the restitution of Port Egmont and Falkland Island, and the repeated assurances I have received of the pacific disposition of that court, as well as of other powers, promise to my subjects the continuance of peace; and we may, with the greater confidence hope, that we shall not be disturbed in the enjoyment of this blessing; as there is no reason to apprehend that we shall become involved in the troubles which still unhappily prevail in one part of Europe.
The danger of the farther spreading of the infectious sickness in Europe, is, I trust, very much abated. But I must recommend it to you, not to suffer our happiness, in having been hitherto preserved from so dreadful a calamity, to lessen your vigilance in the use of every reasonable precaution for our safety.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
I have ordered the Estimates for the service of the current year to be laid before you. I make no doubt but you will see the propriety of maintaining a respectable establishment of my naval forces: I am pleased, however, to find that I shall be under no necessity of asking of you, at this time, any extraordinary aid.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
The concerns of this Country are so various and extensive, as to require the most vigilant and active attention; and some of them, as well from remoteness of place, as from other circumstances, are so peculiarly liable to abuses, and exposed to danger, that the interposition of the Legislature for their protection may become necessary. If in any such instances, either for supplying defects, or remedying abuses, you shall find it requisite to provide any new laws, you may depend upon my ready concurrence in whatever may best contribute to the attainment of those salutary ends.
[The Addresses were agreed to without a debate.]
L O N D O N, January 17.
ALL thoughts of a change in administration are now subsided. Lord North, the Duke of Grafton, and Lord Sandwich, with the assistance of Lord Mansfield have settled all the great operations of the ensuing sessions. No extraordinary supplies will be wanted, and it is thought some popular steps will be taken with respect to the Taxes upon the necessaries of life, and some articles of luxury will be duly attended to for supplying the deficiency.
It is said that no notice will be given to Parliament of the two late marriages in any manner whatever.
It is said that Lord Weymouth will shortly succeed Lord Townshend as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Jan. 18. We are told, that it is a fixed point, that the affairs of America shall be taken under consideration soon after the meeting of Parliament.
The Spanish Ambassador has given the strongest assurances to our Ministry, that his most Catholic Majesty never had the most distant intention of interrupting the Peace of America, or in any other manner violate the articles of the late convention.
We hear that the celebrated Dr. Dodd (whose pretensions to a Mitre have been so long overlooked in this degenerate age in point of taste as well as politics) is the first, and we hear, the only person under contemplation for the new See of America.
Jan. 20. The French Ambassador, Count de Guignes, is arrived at his house in Great George Street. It was given out that he would never return, on account of the fire at Portsmouth.
The Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Common-council of Dublin, in respect to the memory of the late Dr. Lucas, his great merit and behaviour in Parliament, have granted a pension of 50l. a year to his Widow and three Children, to commence from the fourth of November, on which day he died.
It is said that Governor Bernard (having put Lord Hillsborough into the hands of Mr. Hutchinson, the present Governor of New-England) is now entirely done with the guidance of all kind of American Affairs; and that his Lordship, for past services, has exerted his utmost secret interest to get his Governor, to the Board of Trade, in the room of the late Mr. Fitzherbert, but that his Lordship's utmost and final efforts have not been CROWNED with success.
Jan. 24. At a Court of Common Council, three Cops, one of 200l. value, the other of 100l. each, were voted, the first to Bras Crosby, Esq; late Lord-Mayor, the others to Alderman Wilkes, and Oliver, for the noble Stand they made in the Business of the Printers, against (as it is expressed) an arbitrary Vote of the House of Commons.
That Part of the Royal Speech which recommends an Attention to Abuses in the remoter Dominions of the British Empire, is peculiarly directed to the East Indies.
Yesterday Morning some Dispatches were sent down to Gosport to be forwarded by the St. John Schooner, to the Governors of Boston and South Carolina.
Jan. 28. It is thought that two Millions of the National Debt will be paid off this Year.
They write from the Hague, that it is the public Report there, that a Prussian Army is hourly expected to invest Dantzick City.
Advice is received that the Emperor of Morocco has declared War against Spain, having got an army of 80,000 men well trained and exercised; that he has likewise a good fleet of ships ready to put to Sea; and it is said he will be assisted by several of the Moorish Princes adjacent to his Country, as many of their Countrymen have been cruelly used by the Spaniards.
Jan. 29. It is said Letters from Paris mention that the French King is so ill that his life is despaired of.
The Rev. Mr. Coombe, an ingenious American Clergyman, remarkable for his Oratory, having been appointed one of the Chaplains to the Marquis of Rockingham, and taken his Degree here, is going to embark in a few Days for Philadelphia, where he is appointed to a very valuable Living.
They write from Berlin, that the King of Prussia has demanded a Gift of 500,000 Crowns of the Jews, for the Privileges they enjoy in his Dominions.
Six Ships of the Line are to be got ready for the West-Indies, which are to carry over with them four Regiments from Ireland and two from England.
Jan. 31. On Wednesday last, just as the Levee at St. James's was going to begin, an Express arrived from Copenhagen, with an Account that a Revolution had happened there. The Queen (Sister to our K-g) it seems, had for some Time, been intriguing with her Physician. Her growing Power and flagrant Conduct, occasioned general Alarm and Dissatisfaction throughout the Citizens of Copenhagen. They suddenly rose, and surrounded the Palace, and as suddenly possessed themselves of every Apartment in it. The Physician was instantly put into an iron Cage. The Queen was made Prisoner. And the King was carried directly to the Senate; whose deliberations they were attending when the express came away; at which Time Conditions to the King were preparing; which, as there is no material Accusation against him, are said to be moderate. Only two of them are at present known, these are that he shall sign an Instrument dissolving his Marriage, and that the Queen shall be imprisoned in one of the Castles for Life. Upon the News of this Event the Levee was forbid.
Another account says, that the Nobles having the fullest information that there had been for some Time past an improper Connection between the Queen of Denmark and her Physician; and having great Reason to suppose, from the King's late illness, that Poison had frequently been administered to him, by the said Physician, went in a Body to the Palace, and insisted on the King's repairing immediately to the Senate, to sign an order for the Queen's perpetual Imprisonment, and for the immediate execution of the Physician, whose Head was immediately taken off.
Feb. 1. The Princess Amelia was so much affected with the News from Denmark, that she has been ill ever since.
The present King of Denmark was born Jan. 19. 1749, and married the 1st of October, 1766, to Caroline Matilda, sister to his Majesty, who was born July 22d. 1751.
We hear that Lord Hillsborough, supported by the Premier, proposes to bring in a Bill for the Repeal of the Tea-Duty in America.
Feb. 2. The Minister in the Course of the Debate on the Motion for augmenting the Navy, assigned as a Reason for that Measure, that the French have a considerable Armament in the East-Indies. How far such a Reason is consistent with the peaceable Declarations contained in a late Speech, is left to our Readers to determine.
Our Correspondent at Warsaw, of the 11th of January, gives us the following authentic and important Advice; namely, that a Turkish Prince is now at Petersburg, having in Charge, to deliver the Plan of pacification to her imperial Majesty; one Article of which is, that the Grand Signior consents to acknowledge his present Polish Majesty as King of Poland; and by a second Article, the Ottoman Porte declares, that he will not, for the future interfere with the Affairs of Poland. These two Articles having been very palatable to her Czarish Majesty, an Amnesty between the two Courts of Constantinople and Petersburg has taken Place, which has been notified in Form to the Court of Warsaw.
Feb. 4. A great LADY in Pall-Mall was worse last Night than she has been since her Illness; her Physicians have only directed Palliatives for some Days past; and it is positively asserted there is now no Hope of her Recovery.
A Correspondent informs us, that Col. Keith, the British Minister, at the Danish Court, has shown the greatest Spirit and good Conduct, during the late Revolution: It seems the Senate, in the first Transport of their Fury, had given Orders for putting the Queen to immediate Death: They had (without any Form of Trial) unanimously declared her guilty of Adultery, and of poisoning her Husband. Upon which Mr. Keith instantly repaired to the Senate-House, and solemnly protested against any Act of Violence being offered to the Queen; he in the strongest Terms urged her innocence and the improbability of the Accusations against her, and concluded with denouncing the Vengeance of the British Nation and the Terrors of an English Fleet against the Senate and People of Denmark, if any Act of violence and injustice was committed on a Daughter of Britain, and the Sister of the King his Sovereign.
A Letter from Altona in Denmark, Jan. 24.
"On the 17th Instant her Majesty the Queen (of Denmark) with the young Princess and Lady Moiflyn, under a guard of 30 Dragoons were conducted to the Fortress of Cronenburgh. The Counts Stuenesse and Brandt, the Councillor Stuenesse, General Gahler and his Lady, are likewise sent to Prison; the Master of the Horse, Bulow, General Gude, Col. Falkenschild, Lieutenant-General Hesselberg, the privy Councillor Wildebrand, the States Secretary Zoega, Panning and more are arrested in their own Houses, under strong Guards. The Papers belonging to the above mentioned Persons are sealed up, and Commissioners appointed to enquire into the Affair. His Majesty gave all his Orders relative to the above, after he came from the Ball, at one o'clock in the Morning, which were directed to be immediately executed."
That the Q--- of D-----, for a considerable time have behaved exceedingly imprudent (even in public, and given loose to an unhappy passion for the Minister and Physician, Strenuense, a German) may be depended on. The connection hath been too barefaced to escape the notice of the people; and the great preferments heaped on this miscreant and his family, thro' the Q---'s intercession with the K-g, has made them watchful observers of his actions, which now too plainly are found to be villainous. The well known access of a Prime Minister, joined to the profession of a Physician, must have at any Court, will account for Strenuense's opportunities for insinuating himself with the Q---, and imposing on the K. intoxicating medicines to prevent suspicions of his Actions, in which he too long succeeded.
Whoever considers the present situation of our most gracious Sovereign, properly, must feel for & pity him. His royal mother is in a state of health that must naturally give him much uneasiness; his aunt lately dead; one of his brothers dying abroad; the other ruining his reputation at home; one of his sisters lately arrived, which, it is supposed, has brought him no agreeable news from abroad; the other ----- in short, without saying any thing of her, we have enumerated distresses sufficient to hurry the wisest philosopher into a state of madness. Who then can envy a monarch his power and dignity, when a tythe of these vexations, as it certainly will if strictly considered preponderate the whole train of royalty, and render life irksome.
It is reported that instructions were on Thursday last sent from St. James's, to the English Ambassador at Copenhagen, to make a demand of the Queen to be given up to her friends, with the dowry; that the Fubbs' yacht at Deptford is ordered to be fitted with all expedition; and that a squadron will be sent with it.
The House of Commons have voted that 17,547 effective men, including 1522 invalids, be employed for the year 1772. 629,491l. 12s. 4d. 7-8ths for the pay of the said forces, ----- 388,953l. 12s. 7d. 3-4ths, for guards and garrisons in the plantations of Africa, Minorca, Gibraltar, for the forces in North America, &c.
DIED, Henry Cromwell, Esq; great grandson to the Protector Cromwell.
The following is His MAJESTY's Most gracious Answer to the ADDRESS of the House of Commons.
GENTLEMEN,
I Thank you very heartily for this most dutiful ADDRESS. Your affectionate Congratulations on the BIRTH of another
PRINCE, and the Regard you express for the QUEEN, are highly acceptable to Me.
I receive with Pleasure and Approbation the Assurances you give me of your zealous Endeavours for the Extension and Security of the National Interest and Advantage.
I have Nothing so much at Heart, as to see my Kingdoms flourishing in Commerce, and my People happy under my Government.
The following is the number answer to the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, in reply to the King's speech.
Die Martis, 21o Januarii, 1772.
Most gracious Sovereign,
WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, return your Majesty our humble thanks for your most gracious speech from the throne.
Permit us, Sir, to offer to your Majesty our most dutiful congratulation, on the happy event of the encrease of your Royal Family by the birth of another Prince; and to assure your Majesty, That every addition to your Majesty's domestic happiness must always afford the highest satisfaction to your faithful subjects.
We beg leave to express to your Majesty our most grateful sense of your Majesty's regard for our private convenience, in not commanding us to an earlier attendance; & to declare to your Majesty our determination, to give our most diligent attention to the promotion of the domestic interests of these kingdoms, and the extension of our most commercial advantages, by the establishment of useful regulations of law.
We return your Majesty our humble thanks for your goodness and condescension, in acquainting us from the throne with the restitution of Port Egmont, and Falkland's Island, on the Part of the King of Spain; and with the assurances your Majesty has received of the pacific disposition of Foreign powers. We are made happy by learning, That your Majesty had no reason to apprehend that the peace, which we at present enjoy, will be disturbed by our being any wise involved in the calamities of war, which still unhappily prevail in one part of Europe.
Your Majesty's paternal care in recommending to us a due vigilance in the use of every precaution to preserve this country from that most dreadful contagion, from which, under the Divine Providence, it has been hitherto our happiness to remain free, calls for our sincerest acknowledgments, and commands our utmost attention.
We beg leave to assure your Majesty That our most diligent endeavours shall be employed to frame such laws as shall, in our judgement, tend to supply the defects, and remedy the abuses, which may appear to have been introduced in any branch of the various and extensive concerns of this country: and we look upon your Majesty's gracious assurance of your ready concurrence, in whatever may best contribute to the attainment of those salutary ends, as a fresh proof of the desire, which has constantly been shewn, by your Majesty, to promote the welfare of your people.
To which his Majesty was pleased to make the following most Gracious Answer.
MY LORDS,
I Thank you for this loyal and dutiful ADDRESS. I receive with Pleasure your Congratulations on the Increase of my Family, and the Assurances of the Attention you will give to these Objects which I have recommended to you for the public Good. Nothing can be more acceptable to me than the Sense you express of my Desire to promote the Welfare of my People.
NEW-YORK, March 5, 1772.
Last Saturday Week George Crawford, and John Anderson, having Occasion to bring some Wheat from Rodman's Island, opposite New Rochelle, in the Sound, in a Cance, the Wind blowing fresh, after they pushed from Shore, a Dispute arose between them whether they should proceed or put back for the Island, but by Means of their paddling against each other, they overset the Craft, and were both drowned, so near the Shore, that when the Tide fell one of their Bodies was taken up on the dry Sand, and the other in about two Feet Water only.
Friday Night last a Seafaring Man, named John Res, belonging to the Ship Lucy, Capt. Anderson, of Liverpool, in going on board the Vessel, in this Harbour, fell into the Dock, and notwithstanding he was but a very short Time in the Water, was drowned.
A Man Named Richardson, who used to sell Oysters in this City, was also drowned last Week in this Harbour.
The Brig Conolly, Capt. Miller, from Dublin for Philadelphia, that was supposed to be lost on the Coast of Wales in October last, is arrived at the Island of Antigua, having been blown off this Coast.
The Ship Grace, Capt. Chambers, of this Port, is arrived at Bristol, after a Passage 26 Days.
A Schooner from New-England for Topsham, drove from her Anchors in the Island of Scilly, the 7th of December last.
The Mercury Packet, Capt. Dillon, is to sail this Day, with the Mail for Falmouth.

WILLIAMSBURGH, in Virginia, Feb. 25. Extract from the JOURNAL of the Honorable HOUSE of BURGESSES TUESDAY, Feb. 28, 1772.
MR. Treasurer acquainted the House that he had a Message from the Governor to this House, signed by his Excellency, and he presented the same to the House, it was read by Mr. Speaker, and is as follows, viz.
GENTLEMEN, H A V E thought proper to lay before you a list of the fees, which I found had been usually paid to the Clerks of my predecessors in this government, but which has been objected to in one instance since I have taken the administration upon me. In order therefore, to give the people over whom I have the honour to preside the clearest proof of the uprightness of my own intentions, and to let them see my readiness to remove, as soon as I can discover it, every possibility of a dispute between me and those whose affection I would gladly conciliate, I desire you will take the said list of fees under your consideration; and, as I suppose, if they appear to be just and reasonable to you, upon comparison of them with what is the practice in similar cases, in all other governments, that you will have no objections to the establishing of them by law; so, on my part, if you judge otherwise of them, I shall not hesitate at consenting to abolish them all, or in part, exactly as you shall think proper to propose.
DUNMORE. The list mentioned in the said Message is as followeth, viz. FEES usually paid to the GOVERNOR'S CLERK.
   l. s. d.     For County Lieut's. Commission 2 0 0   Colonel's - - - - - 1 1 6   Lieutenant Colonel's - - - - - 1 1 6   Major's - - - - - 1 1 6   Sheriff's - - - - - 1 5 0   Principal Inspector's - - - - - 0 15 0   Assistant Inspector - - - - - 0 10 0   Coroner's - - - - - 0 10 0   Mediterranean Pass - - - - - 11 5 0   Quarter Master's - - - - - 1 0 0   Presentiation to a Parish - - - - - 1 10 0   Escheat Master - - - - - 1 1 6   Commissary of Stores - - - - - 1 1 6  
Resolved, That this House will, upon Thursday next, resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to take into consideration the Governor's Message, and the list of fees therein mentioned.
Feb. 27. The Honorable House of Burgesses presented the following Address to his Excellency the Governor, in consequence of his Message to them respecting his Clerk's Fees.
My LORD, WE, his Majesty's dutiful subjects, humbly beg leave to return your Excellency our unfeigned thanks for your very candid and polite Message. It affords us the highest pleasure and satisfaction to find your Excellency so cordially disposed to cultivate with the country that agreeable harmony which will undoubtedly conciliate to you the affection of his Majesty's loyal subjects of Virginia, and thereby establish our mutual happiness upon the most solid and permanent foundation. We bear the greatest respect to your Excellency's important and exalted station among us, and think there is a necessity for supporting the honour and dignity of our Governor; but, my Lord, give us leave, on this occasion, humbly to represent to your Excellency that we consider the emoluments of government, as by law established, adequate, and amply sufficient, for those purposes. The fees which appear to have been received by the Clerk of your Excellency's Predecessors, for issuing commissions for the appointment of public officers, and which we are now, for the first time, regularly informed of by your Lordship's Message, are unknown to our Laws; and therefore we cannot sufficiently applaud your Lordship's wisdom and goodness in embracing, so early, an opportunity of expressing your willingness, if they should be found disagreeable to us, as they really are, to have them totally abolished.
To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following ANSWER.
MR. SPEAKER, and Gentlemen of the House of BURGESSES, I AM obliged to you for your polite Address; and as you are of opinion that the Fees received by the Clerks of my Predecessors, for issuing public commissions, were illegal, I will not only take care that my Clerk shall not in future receive any, but also that he shall return those which he has received since my arrival in this Colony.
BOSTON, March 30th, 1772. By Capt. Cales, we hear, that the Captains Scott and Callahan were to sail from London for this Place, in about a Week, or ten Days after him.
Extract of a Letter from London, January 16. "You doubtless have heard that Mr. Temple has got a gentle Provision: It is Surveyor-General of the Customs in this Kingdom, under the Commissioners of the Customs in London, worth 700l. per ann. Salary, and from 300l. to 500l. per ann. Emoluments; whether the latter is so or not I cannot warrant, but the Appointment may be depended upon. It is quite a new Appointment; there are but two only for the whole Kingdom."
Saturday last arrived here the Schooner Katy, William Cowell, Master, from Cadiz, after a tedious Passage of 12 Weeks, 7 of which he had been within Soundings, and had been greatly distressed for want of Provisions; but on the 24th instant, on George's Bank, he was relieved by Capt. Jotham Blanchard, in the Brig Minerva, from Piscataqua, bound to the West-Indies, who very generously, and in a polite Manner, not only supplied him with ship's Provision, but imparted to him of his Cabin Stores.
Last Thursday arrived here his Majesty's Ship Glasgow, from England, but last from Lisbon.
And on Saturday arrived the Tamar Man of War from Halifax.
Last Friday Capt. Harvey arrived here in a Brig in 52 Days from Chester in England.
Capt. Harvey on the 14th inst. in Lat. 43. Long. 49 spoke with the Ship Charlotte, Captain Rogers, bound from Rhode-Island to London, 15 Days out, who had met with bad Weather, and the Day before had his Mainmast struck by Lightning in three Places, and one Man, named William Ford, killed, and two others wounded; but the Vessel and Cargo little damaged.
The Fishing-Boat, drove ashore and lost at Nahant, as mentioned last Week, belonged to Cape-Ann. Two Men only were on board, viz. William Boynton and Jonathan Collins; the former, whose Body is not yet found, has left a Widow and six Children; and the later, who was the one mentioned to be taken up, was a young Man of about 18 or 19 Years of Age.
THIS DAY PUBLISHED, (And to be Sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street, Boston,) [Price Nine Pence.]
AN ORATION DELIVERED March 5th. 1772. At the REQUEST of the INHABITANTS of the TOWN of BOSTON. To Commemorate the Bloody TRAGEDY of the FIFTH of March, 1770.
By Dr. JOSEPH WARREN. Quis talis fando, Myrmidonum, Dolopumve, aut duri miles Ulysses, Temperet a lacrimis. Virgil.
The Author speaking of the ruinous Consequences of standing Armies to free Communities, Jays,
THEIR baneful influence is most suddenly felt, when they are placed in populous cities; for, by a corruption of morals, the public happiness is immediately affected; and that this is one of the effects of quartering troops in a populous city, is a truth, to which many a mourning parent, many a lost, despairing child in this metropolis, must bear a very melancholy testimony.---Soldiers are also apt to consider arms as the only arbiters by which every dispute is to be decided between contending states;---they are instructed implicitly to obey their commanders, without enquiring into the justice of the cause they are engaged to support: Hence it is, that they are ever to be dreaded as the ready engines of tyranny and oppression.---And it is too observable that they are prone to introduce the same mode of decision in the disputes of individuals, and from thence have often arisen great animosities between them and the inhabitants, who whilst in a naked defenceless state, are frequently insulted and abused by an armed soldiery. And this will be more especially the case when the troops are informed, that the intention of their being stationed in any city, is to overawe the inhabitants. That, this was the avowed design of stationing an armed force in this town, is sufficiently known; and we, my fellow-citizens have seen, we have felt the tragical effects!---The FATAL FIFTH OF MARCH 1770, can never be forgotten---The horrors of that dreadful night are but too deeply impressed on our hearts---Language is too feeble to paint the emotions of our souls when our streets were stained with the Blood of our Brethren,---when our ears were wounded by the groans of the dying, and our eyes were tormented with the sight of the mangled bodies of the dead.---When our alarmed imagination presented to our view our houses wrapt in flames,---our children subjected to the barbarous caprice of the raging soldiery---our beauteous virgins exposed to all the insolence of unbridled passion,---our virtuous wives endeared to us by every tender tie, falling a sacrifice to worse than brutal violence, and perhaps like the famed Lucretia, distracted with anguish and despair, ending their wretched lives by their own fair hands.--- When we beheld the authors of our distress parading in our streets, or drawn up in regular battalia, as though in a hostile city; our hearts beat to arms; we snatched our weapons, almost resolved by one decisive stroke, to avenge the death of our Strangled Brethren, and to secure from future danger, all that we had most dear: But propitious heaven forbade the bloody carnage, and saved the threatening victims of our too keen resentment, not by their discipline, not by their regular array,---no, it was royal GEORGE's livery that proved their shield---it was that which turned the pointed engines of destruction from their breasts. The thoughts of vengeance were soon buried in an inbred affection to Great-Britain, and calm reason dictated a method of removing the troops more mild than an immediate recourse to the sword. With united efforts we urged the immediate departure of the troops from the town---you urged it, with a resolution which ensured success---you obtained your wishes, and the removal of the troops was effected, without one drop of their Blood being shed by the inhabitants!'
P O R T S M O U T H. Yesterday was observed and kept as a Day of Fasting, &c.
List of Prizes in Newmarket & Statham Lottery, is come to hand, and will be publish'd next Week.
Messieurs Fowles,---The following curious Questions and Answers, accidentally came to my hands, if you think proper, let them have a Place in your entertaining Paper.
Saville, March 10th, 1772. A School-Master in the Country, who had no fondness for the CATECHISM; but being in the capacity of a Teacher was requested by the Parents, to teach it their Children, who were under his care; which he proceeded to do, but it was evident by his Manner of proceeding, that it was with Design to confound that excellent Rule which was compil'd by so many learned Divines.
He began first with a Question of his own, which was this, who made the Catechism, and was answer'd, by one and all, God made it. No, says he, that is wrong answer'd, God did not make it, Man made it, and therefore it is not to be depended on. He then proceeded to the first Question in the Catechism, to which he did not make any Objection---He then put the second Question to them, viz. What Rule hath God given to direct us, how we may glorify and enjoy him? Their Answer to which was this, The Word of God which is contain'd in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, is the only Rule to direct us, how we may glorify and enjoy him. That's right, says the Master, the Word of God, is the only Rule---Therefore the Catechism is no Rule, and you need not mind it at all.
Thus he thinks he has brought an Answer from its own Bowels to destroy its usefulness, (for it must be understood as a Rule.) Therefore it behoves those who Value this much used Rule, to clear it of this Absurdity, least it should thereby, be brought into Contempt.
The Superior Court, stands adjourn'd to the 20th April, Ten o'Clock, A. M.
To be sold at public Vendue, On Thursday the 24th of April, at Five o'Clock in the Afternoon, by SAMUEL BOWLES, at his Vendue Room, in his Dwelling House, opposite the Post Office, in Portsmouth, sundry sorts of ENGLISH GOODS---A good Silver Watch---Mens Cloathing; Mens and Womens Leather Shoes; Household Furniture, among which is a good new Black Walnut Desk and Table; a few new common Kitchen Chairs. Any Person disposed to enlarge the Sale, may apply at said Place.
Said Bowles, has to sell at private sale, very cheap for Cash only, a general Assortment of English GOODS: Likewise, Bohemian Tea, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Mens, Womens and Childrens Shoes of all sorts.
ALL PERSONS indebted to, or have Demands on the Estate of Capt. JOHN BROWNE, late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceased, are desired to settle the same immediately with the Subscriber Administratrix to said Estate, MARY BROWNE.
TO BE SOLD A PEW in Doctor Langdon's MEETING HOUSE; Enquire of the Printers.
Stolen, a large bay Mare, 12 Years old, from the Subscriber, on the Night following the 22d Ult. a small Star in her Forehead, Paces and Trotts. Whoever shall take up said Mare and inform me of the Thief, so that he may be bro't to Justice, shall have Four Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid. The suppos'd Thief, is about five Feet eight Inches high, about 22 Years old, black Hair, cut short before, had on a blue Coat, large brass Buckles in his Shoes: as such a Man was seen at Chester, Epping and Lee the Day before, on a small black Horse, very poor, and much tired, which he left at my Barn, where the Owner may have him paying Charges. Joseph Sias. Lee, March 23d, 1772.
Steel & Iron plate Mills Saws, Cheap for Cash or good Boards, made and Sold by ROBERT FURNESS, of Berwick.
MARY HOMANS, LIVING opposite the Printing Office, begs leave to inform the Public, that she shall open a BOARDING SCHOOL for Misses, the first of April, to be taught any Sort of Needle-Work.---Likewise Reading and Spelling.

POET'S CORNER.
To the Printers of the Gazette.
By inserting the following Piece in your useful Paper, you will oblige your constant reader, A. B.
THE W I S H.
COULD I obtain the bliss I most desire, Virtue & beauty should my pray'r inspire
If I am doom'd to lead a single life, And pass alone thro' all this scene of strife; Then Virtue's heav'nly pow'r possess my soul! Thy precepts all my actions shall control: Thee with unceasing ardour I'll pursue; For thee all vain, ambitious thoughts subdue. The pains of life thy joys shall turn to ease, And fortify my soul with inward peace. Riches with honour'd titles, empire, fame, And every vanity the world can name, I'll spurn disdainfully and prize thee more Than the poor miser loves his rusty store, More than the haughty Nobleman esteems Ensigns of greatness; vanity of dreams! Yea, more than Emperors can prize a crown, And more than heroes wish for bright renown. For thee I'll leave the world with ev'ry care, And to some solitary spot repair, Where soft-ey'd melancholy loves to dwell With innocence beneath the hermit's cell; There, leaving ev'ry vain, delusive joy, Heav'n only shall my peaceful thoughts employ.
But if some lovely nymph will bear a part In every scene of life, and rule my heart: If Heav'n will grant some kindred soul to (mine, And in the bands of love and friendship join; O! may my love be beauteous, virtuous, kind, Her charms enlivened by an heav'nly mind: May she despise the tricks of female art, And pride in nothing but a tender heart. Blest with her converse, joyfully I'll blend The tender husband with the faithful friend. My constant flame shall by fruition grow, And no decrease my fond affection know. Thus will we pass thro' all this vale of tears, Our mutual love increasing with our years; Till when no more to love below 'tis giv'n, One gentle gasp shall waft our souls to (heav'n.
[East-Town.]
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
WHEREAS the proprietors of the Township of EAST-TOWN, have been legally NOTIFIED to pay an Assessment on each proprietor's Right or Lots of Land in said Township, to me the Subscriber, and several of them being yet delinquent in the whole or part. This is therefore to NOTIFY such Persons, that their delinquent proprietors Lands will be exposed to Sale at public VENDUE, at the House of Captain Jonathan Ham, Innholder in Rochester, on the second Tuesday in APRIL next, at One of the Clock in the Afternoon, to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges. The delinquent proprietors Names are as follows, with the Sums due.
First Division and second Division.
Lawful Money.
   £. s. d. £. s. d.     Joseph Hussy 1 2 9 1 2 9   Isaac Horn 0 0 0 2 0 0   Eben zer Downs, juar. 0 0 0 2 5 6   Nathan el Horn, 2 5 6 0 0 0   Amos Howard, 2 5 6 0 0 0   William Gerrish 2 5 6 0 0 0   James Keley 0 0 0 2 5 6   James Kanney 0 0 0 2 5 6   Stephen Varney 2 5 6 2 5 6   Love Roberts 0 0 0 2 5 6   Ebenezer Hanson 0 0 0 2 5 6   Ebenezer Tuttle 2 5 6 2 5 6  
ICHABOD CANNEY, Collector.
Madbury, March 27. 1772.
[Middletown.]
THIS is to give NOTICE to the proprietors of MIDDLETOWN, That at their last Meeting they voted a TAX of Four 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 Somersworth, on or before the First Day of May next, otherwise I shall NOTIFY their LANDS for public Sale, as the LAW directs in such Cases.
Somersworth, March
CHARLES BAKER,
17. 1772.
Collector.
This Evening, (April 3d)
[Bretton-Woods.]
Whereas Application has been
made to me the Subscriber one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the Province of New Hampshire by the Proprietors or Owners of more than a sixteenth part of the Township of BRETON-WOODS, in the County of Grafton, and Province aforesaid, requesting me to call a Meeting of said proprietors for the Purposes and Articles following viz. First, To chuse a Moderator, for & to govern said Meeting, also, a Clerk, Collector & Treasurer, and any necessary Committees. Secondly, To divide said Town into such Parcels or Lots, as shall be thought proper. Thirdly, To see what Method the proprietors will come into, for immediately getting on a number of Settlers, and agree on the Encouragement for that Purpose. Fourthly, To lay such a Tax on all the Rights and Shares, as shall be sufficient to pay past, and some Charges that will immediately arise, and do, and act on any other Matters and Things, that the proprietors when assembled, shall think proper, for bringing forward the Settlement of said Township, and agree on a Method for calling Meetings in future.
I do therefore in consequence of said Application hereby Notify and Warn said proprietors, to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, on Friday the 3d of April, for the Purposes aforesaid, at five o'Clock, Afternoon.
HUNTING WENTWORTH, Justice Peace.
Portsmouth, March 17, 1772.
Bretton-Woods is about Forty
Miles from his Excellency's Seat in Wolfborough, and but Twenty Miles to Connecticut River; — the Great Road, known by the Name of the Co'soi Road, goes through said Township, for which Reason a House or two directly erected there, would be very convenient for Travellers bound into that excellent Part of the Province, and beneficial to the Person who should first erect one, and the more so, if he should open a sort of Tavern, — therefore any leading good Man or other Persons, able to carry up all Necessaries for that Country, and willing to settle on the choice Lands of BRETON WOODS, this Spring, may have good Encouragement by applying to the Printers hereof.
Notice is hereby given to the
Proprietors of HAVERHILL, that at a legal Meeting of said proprietors, a Tax of Forty two shillings has been laid on each original Right or Share, in said Township, which Tax is committed to me to Collect. I therefore desire the proprietors aforesaid, to pay the same to me the Subscriber at my House in Haverhill, on or before the eighteenth Day of April next, otherwise their Rights will be Advertised for Sale as the Law directs. Joshua Hayward, Collector.
Haverhill, March 10, 1772.
Province of New Hampshire. Rockingham, ss.
To the Proprietors of the Township of Barnstead, in said Province.
Pursuant to Charter, Ye are
hereby Notified to meet at the Parish House in Newington, on Tuesday the 31st Instant, at two o'Clock P. M. 1st. To chuse a Moderator. 2dly. To chuse all necessary Officers for said propriety this Current Year. 3dly. To hear the report of the Committee chosen by the propriety, to sell and exchange the common Land on the North side of said Barnstead, for making a Road thro' said Town, called the Province Road. 4thly, To hear the report of the Committee appointed, to adjust the Accounts of sundry Persons, who have done Service for the propriety, and to accept the same. 5thly, To see if the propriety will make any allowance, or pay those proprietors who repaired the Bridge, that was carried away with the Freshet, on Suncook River the last Spring; Finally, to pass any other Vote or Votes which may be thought necessary.
BENJAMIN ADAMS, } Selectmen: EPHRAIM PICKERING, }
Newington, March 16, 1772.
John M'Master AND COMPANY,
GIVES Notice, That we have removed from Col. Wallingsford's to Mr. David Moore's Store, North End, where we have opened a good assortment of GOODS, suitable for the Season, lately imported from Great Britain and Ireland; and as we always make this a General Rule, to sell low for Cash or short Credit, in order to give Encouragement to our Customers, in Town and Country, so in favouring us with their further Custom, they may depend on being as well used, as they could at any Ware House in Boston.
TO BE SOLD THE Subscribers Farm,
IN LONDONDERRY, Containing near one Hundred Acres, mostly under improvement. A large Quantity of Stone Wall. Two good Houses and Barns. Two good Orchards: Is situated on the Barder of Chester, and upon the Main Road: equally handy to Mr. Flag's Meeting House, as to any in Londonderry. With a Wood-Lot of about 150 Acres, and an exceeding good Brook Meadow. The first about a Mile, the other between two and three Miles distance. The whole duly improved, is well sufficient to support 2 middling Families. Will be sold either together or apart, as will suit the Purchasers; and upon lower Terms than any Farm of the Value in these Parts for a long Time. One Third of the price paid down, the Purchaser may have Trust for the remaining two Parts, for a Year, or some longer on reasonable Terms. — Any Person desiring to know further, concerning the Premises, may apply to James M'Gregor or James M'Gregor, junr. both of Londonderry.
N B. The said Farm, if not sold, will be let a Year, on very advantageous Terms.
James Rogers.
Province of New Hampshire. Hillsborough, ss.
Whereas Application is made
to me the Subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for said County, by more than the 16th part of the owners or proprietors of Cockermouth, in said Province, that a Meeting of said proprietors may be called, to meet at the Dwelling-House of Samuel Cummings, Innholder in Hollis, in said County on Monday the 8th Day of April next, at One o'Clock Afternoon, to vote, and act on the following Articles, viz. 1st. To chuse a Moderator, to regulate said Meeting. 2d y. To chuse any Committee or Committees, to settle any matter or matters transferred, or to transact, any matter or things for said proprietors. 3dly, To see if the proprietors will lay out any part, or the whole, of the remaining undivided Land, and in what manner, and to raise any Sum, or Sums of Money by Tax, or by disposing of Lands, to defray the necessary Experiences of making and repairing Roads, Mills, and other Charges in said Town. — I do in Consequence of said Application, Notify and Warn said proprietors to meet at Time and Place, and for the purposes aforesaid.
SAMUEL HOBART, Justice Peace.
Hollis, March 10, 1772.
ALL Persons indebted to, or
that have any Demands on the Estate of Captain Richard Rand late of Rye, deceased, are desired, once more to bring in their Accounts to Nathaniel Rand, of Rye aforesaid, administrator to said Estate, in order for an immediate Settlement, — otherwise their Accounts will be put in suit.
LIKEWISE,
ALL Persons that have any Accounts with Nathaniel Rand of Rye, are desired to settle the same immediately, to prevent further Trouble.
[Weare.]
THIS is to notify the delinquent Proprietors of a Tract of LAND granted to Ichabod Robie Esq; and others, now called WEAR, that the VENDUE that was held at the House of Captain Jonathan Burnam, Innholder in Hampton Falls, for the SALE of those delinquent proprietors LANDS, on March the twelfth Day is adjourned to Monday the twentieth Day of APRIL next, at One of the Clock on said Day, at the House of said Jonathan Burnam's in said Hampton Falls.
Hampton Falls, | BENJAMIN LEAVITT, March 16, 1772. | Collector for Wear.
All Persons Indebted to, or that
have any Demands on the Estate of Ephraim Green, late of Stratham, Yeoman, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Samuel Smith of Stratham aforesaid, Administrator on said Estate, in order for Settlement. Stratham, March 24th, 1772
All Persons indebted to, or that
have any demands on the Estate of Theophilus Smith, Esq; Deceased, are desired to settle the same immediately, with Theophilus Smith, Esq; of said Exeter, sole Executor of the last Will and Testament of the Deceased.
TO BE SOLD,
A Strong young Negro Man, brought up to the Farming Business, for Particulars enquire of Theophilus Smith, Esq; of Exeter.