Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-02-18 00:00:00

W L E's  NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,
A N D G E N E R A L
T H E A D V E R T I S E R.
S A T U R D A Y,
F E B R U A R Y 18, 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. 1531.
"PROTESTANT RELIGION,"
Constitution of NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
T HE word Protestant has been the subject of enquiry to the ingenuous, and of cavil to the libertine. For as the latter has endeavoured to ridicule the term, to shew that it has no determinate idea affixed to it, that it is disgracing the christian revelation, or indeed may as well refer to any thing else as the christian system, and at best must be considered as an illiberal reflection upon our great and good allies:—The former have been too ready to consider a term that afforded such scope for observation, as at least unsettled, and well deserving attentive investigation. The staunch orthodox on the other hand sees no difficulty in the case, and insists, that since the reformation, the uniform application of this term, when used in a religious sense, has been to signify "all those sects, of whatever denomination, which have revolted from the Roman sect." For he observes the name arose from a particular incident between the Papists and Reformers; and as the christian church in Asia, in the more eastern, and in some of the northern parts of Europe, and in Africa, had little, or perhaps no connection on religious accounts with the western parts of Europe, they are not, and cannot be considered as included under any of the distinctions which originated in those western parts. As most of the nations in Europe before the reformation, were of the Roman Catholic persuasion; and as the name of Protestant was introduced to distinguish those who protested against a number of Articles proposed by a Popish assembly, speaking the opinions of the Popish Church; and as those were esteemed to be the two grand sects of christians which divided the countries of Europe, we were most familiar with: The term must now be applied to all those various sects which have arisen in those same countries, or in America, who cannot properly be called Papists.
The constitutional Politician agrees with the Orthodoxian in the derivation and use of the term; but farther adds, though with caution, that the chief intent of the framers of the constitution, and of the freemen who assented to it, was to exclude any sect of christians, who held principles incompatible with the sovereignty, or supremacy of the State of New-Hampshire, from enjoying any office under that constitution. And as Papists avow obedience to the Pontiff of Rome, they must be excluded. And should a member of the Greek church assert the superiority of his Patriarch to the supreme power of New-Hampshire, he ought equally to be excluded with the Papist. But however this may be determined, no one in his senses can doubt, but some sects of
CHRISTIANS were intended; and indeed the constitution in another place, says, that "every denomination of christians, demeaning themselves quietly, &c. shall be equally under the protection of law."—The term Protestant, therefore, must be more confined in its sense, than that of Christian; as one refers to exclusion from office, the other to merely the protection of law.
Religion, as it is universally supposed to be the support of all government; so it is expressly declared to be a fundamental principle in our Republic; and this religion, in the case of exclusion from office, is defined to be the protestant religion.
Should any one, therefore, offer himself for election to office, who denies the divinity of christian religion, he avows his enmity to the constitution, and his contempt of the sacred decisions of the people. Should such an one be possessed of an office, he has made shipwreck of conscience, and has trifled with his God. And the only rational construction of his views is, that with his whole interest he will subvert the constitution, corrupt the electors; and for his own ease and advantage, would sacrifice his country. The same declaration our charter of rights makes of him, who believes in christianity, but who does not believe in it as a protestant: How much more opposite then must the Deist, the rejector of christianity be to its spirit and design.
The man who rejects christianity may be an honest man, but even indemnity is not promised him, and he cannot without a total dereliction of principle hold, or aspire to, any office under the present constitution of New-Hampshire. Should the first offices of government be filled with men of such principles; the forms and maxims that are established, would be similar to those of Rome, after the reign of the Emperors.— Species et preterea nihil. I would not assert that men of such principles are in possession of almost the highest offices in the State: But would observe that the representative, senator, or counsellor, who ridicules the christian revelation, who denies its divine origin, and vaunts himself as the Apostle of infidelity merits chastisement for his presumption, and the execrations of his countrymen for his insult and violation of their constitution. And if such characters are candidates for these or other important offices; let the determination of my countrymen be, Depart from us, ye workers of iniquity, and be unto us as heathens.
A. M.
GENUINE ANECDOTES.
N ED Shuter, as was often the case, was reeling home one morning to his lodgings extremely dirty, and with a remarkable long beard, when he met Gerrick under the piazza. "Heavens! said
David, Ned, when was you shaved last." "Shaved last, Davy, egad, I can't tell, for my barber has turned gentleman ever since he has had a thousand pounds in the lottery." "But, ha! ha! he—he—that may be—I never depend upon barbers, I shave every morning." "I don't doubt it, resumed Ned, or that you preserve the remainder of the lather for next day."
TWO French gentlemen, air-balloon mad, who came over to see and pursue aerial flights, having taken a post chaise and four, to follow Blanchard as fast as possible to Dover, and cross over in a swift-sailing boat, the moment he winged his way across the channel, thinking the postillion very dilatory, and not being able to express themselves in English, exclaimed, in the most vociferous manner—"Allons done—allons donc." The driver, willing to obey their orders, immediately turned about, and they found themselves opposite Whitechapel church, when they thought to have taken leave of Albion's cliffs.
SOME years before Sam Foote took leave of one of his legs, or this world, he, with many other knights of the napkin, had occasion to dine with the late lord Onslow, of facetious memory. In the course of the conversation after dinner, the long corks being introduced, which was never the case till his second-rate port guests had made their conges , "Now, Sam, said his lordship, don't you think I am a very happy fellow, I have always good wine, and good company." "Yes, my lord, said Sam, you may repeat with the poet
"From Ignorance our comforts flows, The only wretched are the wise." "Bravo! by G—d, said his lordship; Sam's never at a stand for a good thing."
Benjamin Dearborn
P RESENTS his respectful Compliments to the Parents of the Children committed to his tuition, and begs they would accept his thanks for the support and encouragement given to his School. He would also inform them, that from and after the first of March next, his price will be but TWENTY SHILLINGS per quarter, for Misses or Boys.
As Mr. Dearborn's ambition for the Credit of the school will not fall with the price, he will be thankful to his friends for every hint which may conduce to any improvement in the no less difficult than important tasks of governing and instructing.
Portsmouth, Feb. 10, 1786.
TO BE SOLD,
A new Easy Chair,
Made in the best manner, Inquire of the PRINTER.

L O N D O N,
DEC. 10. Mr. Eden has had some beautiful congratulatory lines addressed to him by General Arnold; the characters of those gentlemen bear a strong affinity to each other; they each of them deserted the cause to which they were pledged, but had it not in their power to carry a single adherent along with them.
The Americans are certainly the most extraordinary politicians in the world. For instance: What a deep scheme of the inhabitants of Nantucket, by a feigned separation from the United States, to recover their oil trade with this country: and under the cloak of Nantucket property, employ in the whale fishery one hundred square-rigged vessels belonging to the said states, to the ruin of our loyal colony of Nova-Scotia? But the plot is by much too thin; the inhabitants of Nantucket and of Boston must make the best of their independence now they have got it: They, and the rest of their countrymen, are fond of quoting the folly of Great-Britain: But her folly is not grown to such a pitch, as again to take to her bosom the viper, by which she has been already so dangerously stung. In the mean time, it is curious enough to observe the effects of American wisdom. That they might have no taxes to pay, they erected themselves into an independent state, and thereby subjected themselves to innumerable taxes, which they now find they are utterly unable to pay. That they might give unity to their councils, they established a Congress, which has no authority either to enforce its determination in internal affairs, nor to ensure the performance of its stipulations, with foreign powers.—That they might secure an extensive and permanent trade, they agreed to pay no debts they might contract for goods taken upon credit. That every man might enjoy perfect liberty, the courts of justice are under the controul of the mob: So that every man may do what mischief he pleases, and no man shall have redress.—This, say the Americans, is real liberty—these are the arts by which a state is to be happy at home—feared and respected abroad.—May our enemies ever be possessed by the like spirit of wisdom; and may Great Britain still pursue a direct contrary conduct, and thus furnish these profound sages with fresh cause to ridicule her folly.
The full amount of all the taxes gathered in France for the current year, has been 584,400,000 livres; which is, twenty-three livres, thirteen sols, eight deniers, or about one pound sterling per head. The French exportation, before the war, exceeded the importations to the amount of about 70,000,000 livres, the result of a yearly exportation to the amount of about 300,000,000, and an importation amounting to about 230,000,000.
The French Premier, like the British Minister, keeps not the situation of the finances a secret; the public, for want of information, would consider new taxes as a signal of great national distress. On the contrary, as a resource lies dormant (and is known to be so) as a corps de reserve, its extent is unknown, the idea of it is exaggerated, and the minds of the people are less disturbed.
The public expences of France, including civil and military establishments, amount nearly to 610,000,000 per annum; and the receipts are by no means adequate to this expenditure. What then has France got by the late war?
Extract of a letter from a Swedish Supercargo, at Canton, to his friend in London, Feb. 25, 1785.
“The 4th ult. we received advice from Hainan, an island on the coast of China, a few degrees to the westward, that our two ships, so long expected, were arrived, and that they intended to winter there, which is indeed very unfortunate for our Company, and for the merchants here, as they have upwards of a million of dollars on board, the circulation of which would at this time have much revived us. The like scarcity of money as at present has not been known by the oldest resident among us. Trade in general wears an unfavourable aspect, and many things that have formerly yielded large profit, will, I think, do so no more—For instance, Ginseng—such a quantity has been brought by an American ship, the Empress of China, as has reduced the price lower than it has been known for several years: and those persons who had much in hand will suffer greatly.
“It is understood, that the Americans intend to send one or more ships annually to China, with a like cargo; also with furs and other articles; and to establish themselves here, and display their thirteen stripes at Canton: so that ginseng, from the immense quantity of it produced in almost every part of North America, will, in all probability, never bear a better price than at present. I hope none of your friends on their way to us have speculated thereon. Quick-silver is a losing article, as are clocks and watches, which, by a late edict from Pekin, suppressing the customary presents and other relicks, have had a rapid decline.”
Extract of a letter from Paris, Nov. 24.
“A chymist in this capital has found out a method to transmute human bones into glass, by the means of fire. By this discovery we shall have it in our power to vitrify the dust of our friends and relations, preserve their effigies composed of their own substance, and look on them as our household gods. If the ancients had been acquainted with this secret, they would, no doubt, have made a religious use of it.”
N E W - Y O R K, February 9.
A contest, and a degree of animosity, have for some time past existed in the Maryland State, between Annapolis and Baltimore; the inhabitants of the latter making every possible exertion, and straining every nerve, to have the seat of government transferred from Annapolis, to their town; which has met with strong opposition from the inhabitants of Annapolis, conscious that the desertion and ruin of their city must inevitably ensue. On the 17th ult. a motion was made in the house of delegates of that state, that leave be given to bring in a bill for the above purpose, [i. e. the removal of the seat of government,] and after some debate, it was decided in the negative. Ayes, 18.—Nays, 35.
Last Saturday arrived the Shelburne Packet, Capt. Bull, in seven weeks from Falmouth.
We are informed, that Mr. Pitt, the British Minister, has intimated some intentions to bring in a bill before Parliament respecting a Free Trade with America. The two Houses were, by proclamation, to meet the 9th of January.
At length the Virginians have, with a good grace, passed an act for the election of Kentucky into a state independent of them. This is a great advance towards that spirit, which, according to the celebrated Price, should ever be the criterion for the subordination or connection of any body of people, to or with another, viz. reciprocity of advantage, which did not exist between Virginia and Kentucky, the benefits of the connection (if any) being almost entirely in favour of the former.
However injurious and troublesome the Algerines are at present to America, there was a period when they were still more so to England. In the year 1637, they carried their audacity to such a height as to infest even British the channel ; and, according to Mrs. Macauley, had made such a vast number of captures, as to have at one time between four or five thousand subjects of England, prisoners.
A foreign paper advises, that an English trading vessel, called the Queen of Naples, from that port to London, with a valuable cargo, was attacked on the morning of the 1st of September, off the coast of Valencia, in Spain, by two Algerine or Tunisian xebecs, full of men: but the English running out fourteen concealed guns ready charged, gave the Moors so warm a reception, that they hung out the white flag, and pretending to have mistaken them for Americans, endeavoured to apologize for so daring an insult to a friendly nation. The English Captain, with a generosity that did him honour, declined any farther contest, though he could have sunk them in a few minutes, in consideration of their distressed state, and the loss of above forty of their crews, killed in the very short engagement. The English escaped unhurt, except a few splinters shivered from the mainmast by a chain shot.
P L Y M O U T H, February 7.
An extraordinary instance of the fertility of the human race, whose natures are unimpaired by luxury, and whose constitutions are not debilitated by inactivity and idleness.—In Scituate, there is a woman by the name of _____ in very confined and straitened circumstances, who, in the space of 49 months, is the mother of seven children—she had three pair of twins successively—the children are all alive and likely to do well.—The authenticity of which may be relied on.
B O S T O N, February 16.
Last Saturday being the anniversary of the birth day of GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq. the day was noticed here by a discharge of cannon, &c. A circumstance which then occurred, being singular, may deserve notice—
About 10 o'clock, the scholars of the several public schools in town, to the number of two or three hundred, proceeded into State-Street, where they testified their respect for the day, on which was born the Deliverer of their Country, by repeated huzzas; after which they returned to their several schools. On Monday the day was celebrated as usual, at Milton—when and where were conspicuous, that joy, conviviality and true decorum which the remembrance of the virtues of the illustrious American Cincinnatus, must ever diffuse in the breasts of freemen.
We hear from Newton, that a son of Mr. John Durant, of that town, aged nine years, was on Friday morning the 3d inst. seized with the throat distemper, and expired next day at noon—the next morning another son, aged 14 years, was seized in the same manner, and expired on Sunday noon; and on Monday morning a daughter, aged 4 years, was seized in the same manner, and expired on Tuesday noon; each one living about 30 hours from the time it was first seized, so the three bodies lay dead in the house at the same time.
P O R T S M O U T H, Feb. 18.
Letters from Halifax advise, that the Governor of Nova-Scotia has issued a Proclamation, forbidding the importation, into that province, of every article of the growth and manufacture of the United-American States, EVEN IN BRITISH VESSELS (excepting flour and wheat.) Can we hesitate a moment what to do with such self-sufficient, proud, and infatuated beings? Let an act of BANISHMENT be passed against the daring wretch, who should presume to carry supplies to them, until want, remorse, shame and contrition , reduce them to reason !
Last Wednesday evening the dwelling house of Joseph Tucker of Rochester was consumed by fire, a girl of about ten years of age perished in the flames; this unhappy accident was occasioned by the girl's being intrusted with a light in the chamber where there was flax, when it is supposed she accidentally caught the same on fire, by which means she perished in the flames.
The following are the titles of some of the Acts passed by the general assembly of North-Carolina, at their last session:
An act for the relief of the widows and children of officers who have died in the service of the United-States.
An act for securing literary property:
An act for the relief of the officers, soldiers and seamen who have been disabled in the service of the United States during the late war.
An act for emitting £100,000 paper currency.
An act for the regulation of commerce.
And the following, among other acts, were passed by the general assembly of Virginia, at their last session.
An act for the naturalization of the Marquis de la Fayette.
An act to amend the act, intitled “An act for vesting in George Washington, Esq. a certain interest in the companies establishing for opening and extending the navigation of James and Potowmack rivers.”
M A R I N E L I S T.
PORT OF PISCATAQUA, Feb. 18.
E N T E R E D, none.
C L E A R E D,
Sloop Randolph, Gardner, for West Indies. Schooner Polly, Chamberlain. Demarara.
The following is extracted from an antient book, little read, and less practised, by the polite in modern times, it may perhaps, benefit some, and possibly not give offence, even to him who can say, “It ever I get enemies, it will be by my sincerity.”
“NOW I beseech you, brethren, mark them who cause divisions and offences; they watch for iniquity; they make a man an offender for a word—laying a snare for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth that they may accuse him. Report, say they, and we will report it. They learn to be idle—wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also—speaking things which they ought not. Where no wood is, there fire goeth out: so, where there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth. The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. He that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter; but he that goeth about as a tale-bearer, revealeth secrets. Every fool will be meddling; he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord among brethren.”

(From the Boston C E N T I N E L.) WHOM IT IS OUT OF CHARACTER TO COMPLAIN.
A CHAPTER OF INCONSISTENCIES.
IT is out of character for a Merchant to complain that business is dead—that trade is done—that money is scarce, and that he cannot pay neither debts nor taxes, who keeps a chariot and stud, who gives an entertainment once a week, and a card party twice—who keeps half a dozen servants, when one is enough—who indulges his family in every kind of idleness and dissipation, and whose wife and daughters surpass in the foppery and expence of their popinjay habiliments, all the bells of Jerusalem, in the days of Isaiah, in all 'the bravery of their tinkling ornaments, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, their chains, and their bracelets, and their muffslers, their bonnets, and their ornaments of the legs, and their head-bands, their tablets, and their ear-rings, their rings and nose-jewels, their changeable suits of apparel, and their mantles, and their wimples, and their crispingpins, their glasses and their fine linen, their hoods and their veils.'
¶ 2. It is out of character for a tradesman who once prided himself in the appellation of a speckled-shirt man—to complain that he cannot, money being scarce, pay his rent, or his taxes, when he wears nothing but the finest web of the loom—ruffles—silken vest—and a whole train of extravagances, doing perhaps, but two days work in a week, and receiving for that work double the wages he earns, and those his non-earnings spending for dress, punch, looting it at little-loo, or indulging the depravity of his appetite with roast turkey, or a delicious desert.
¶ 3. It is out of character for the Farmer to complain, that he cannot pay his rates, nor debts, nor any thing else, who keeps his daughters at a town-boarding-school, under the discipline of a Dancing-Master, when they should be at the spinning wheel—and who, while they should be dressed in decent homespun, as were their frugal Grandmothers, now carry half their Father's crops on their backs.
¶ 4. It is out of character for a gentleman of the robe to complain—when they receive eight times the fees, which the laws of their country give them—and when the spirit of bickering so universally prevails.
¶ 5. It is out of character for the Faculty to complain, when it is so fashionable to be indisposed , and equally fashionable for them to charge for each attendance, or each such indisposition, what an honest labourer would be a whole month in accumulating.
¶ 6. It is out of character for the society of the frail sisterhood to complain, as they of all other professions, are most liberally encouraged.
SELAH.
Thoughts on VARIOUS SUBJECTS.
1. PARTY is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
2. There never was any party, faction, sect or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent, for a bee is not busier than a blockhead.
3. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense; there are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he who will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of change.
4. Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
5. To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others, is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves, than to have others so.
6. Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
7. Atheists put on a false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions—like children, who when they go in the dark will sing for fear.
An atheist is but a mad ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion. He finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise and do a good action; like an impudent debtor, who goes every day and talks familiarly to his creditor without ever paying what he owes.
8. The scripture in time of disputes, is like an open town in time of war, which serves indifferently the occasions of both parties; each makes use of it for the present turn, and there resigns it to the next comer, to do the same.
9. The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world, is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
10. Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted, there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
11. A man of business may talk of philosophy, a man who has none, may practice it.
12. There are some solitary wretches, who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in the dark.
13. It is a certain truth, that a man is never so easy or so little imposed upon, as among people of the best sense: It costs far more trouble to be admitted or continued in ill company than in good; as the former have less understanding to be employed, so they have more vanity to be pleased, and to keep a fool constantly in good humour with himself and others is no very easy thing.
14. The difference between what is commonly called ordinary company and good company, is only hearing the same things said in a little room, or in a large saloon, at small tables, or at great tables, before two candles or before twenty sconces.
15. It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
16. There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty, as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.
17. The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves and advise most with their falsest flatterer, and worst enemy, their own self-love.
18. Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer when once we know them.
19. There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
20. A short and certain way to obtain the character of a reasonable and wise man is, whenever any one tells you his opinion, to comply with it.
21. Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good humour, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
22. I never knew any man in my life that could not bear another's misfortunes like a christian.
23. Several explanations of Casuists, to multiply the catalogue of sins, may be called Amendments of the Ten Commandments .
24. The wonder we often express at our neighbour's keeping dull company, would lessen, if we reflected, that most people seek companions less to be talked to than to talk.
25. Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
26. Many men, prejudiced early in disfavour of mankind by bad maxims, never aim at making friendships; and while they only think of avoiding the evil, miss of the good that would meet them: they begin the world knaves, for prevention, while others only end it so; after disappointment.
27. No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but many a woman hates a man for being a friend to her.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1.
The General Assembly of Virginia, at their late session, have passed no less than one hundred and twelve Acts; a copy of one of which follows:
An ACT for establishing RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
WHEREAS Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who, being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavouring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time: That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that preacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness, and is withdrawing from the ministry those temporal rewards, which, proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labours for the instruction of mankind; that our
civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physic or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence, by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which in common with his fellow citizens he has a natural right; that it tends only to corrupt the principles of that religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing, with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments, those who will externally profess and conform to it; that though indeed those are criminal who do not withstand such temptation, yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interpolation disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them:
Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly; That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or minister whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
And though we well know that this assembly, elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding Assemblies, constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act irrevocable would be of no effect in law, yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
TO BE SOLD BY
Joseph Peirce of the Gore, in the county of Strafford, several FARMS in said Gore and in Barnstead adjoining.—For particulars apply to said Peirce.
TO BE SOLD, If applied for immediately,
A House and Land, and a water Privilege, together or separate, at the north end of the town: For particulars apply to D. FOWLE, at the Printing-Office, Paved street.
State of New Hampshire, Gratton is.
WE the subscribers being appointed commissioners by the hon. Charles Johnstone, Esq. judge of probate, &c. in said county, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of John Young, late of Hanover, in the county aforesaid, Esq. deceased, represented insolvent, and three months from the date hereof, being allowed in addition to six months which has been already allowed for that purpose; do hereby give notice that we will attend said business on the third Tuesdays of the three following months, from ten of the clock in the morning, to five in the afternoon on each of said days, at the dwelling house of Mrs. Fisk, inholder in Haverhill, in said county.
ASA PORTER, EZEKIEL LADD, } Commissioners. DANL STEVENS, }
N. B. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to Samuel Young, and Joshua Young, Executors. Haverhill, Jan. 31st, 1786.

Parnassian Spring.
To the LADIES.
YE fair, possess'd of ev'ry charm To captivate the will, Whose smiles can rage itself disarm, Whose frowns, at once, can kill; Say, will you deign the verse to hear, Where flatt'ry bears no part? An honest verse that flows sincere And candid from the heart. Great is your pow'r, but greater yet Mankind it might engage, If, as ye all can make a net, Ye all could make a cage. Each nymph a thousand hearts may take; For who's to beauty blind? But to what end a pris'ner make, Unless you've strength to bind? Attend the counsel often told, Too often told in vain; Learn that best art, the art to hold, And back the lover's chain. Gamesters to little purpose win, Who lose again as fast: Though beauty may the charm begin, 'Tis sweetness makes it last.
A Thought on the Power and Goodness of GOD to his People.
WHEN Egypt's hosts, God's chosen tribes pursu'd In crystal walls, th' admiring waters flood: When thro' the dreary waste they took their way, The rocks relented, and pour'd forth a sea. What limits can th' Almighty's goodness know, Since seas can harden, and since rocks can flow?
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Rockingham ff. TO be Sold by Public Vendue, at the House of Richard Bartlett, Esq. in Pembroke, on Tuesday the 21st day of March, next, at one of the Clock, P. M. so much of the following lots of non-resident land, lying in Pembroke, as will pay the tax on them, for the year 1783, with incidental charges, unless paid before that time.
   N. R. Q'ty. s. d. q.     Jonathan Rawlins 5 7 40 4 4 2   Thomas Piper 6 10 40 3 9 2   Nathan Taylor 16 40 4 0 2   Hon. John Wentworth 7 17 40 3 9 2   Benjamin Palmer 15 40 3 9 2   Joseph Rawlins, jun. 14 40 3 9 2   Richard Jennais 9 40 4 4 2   Thomas Piper, jun. 5 40 3 9 2   Broadstreet Wiggin 8 15 40 3 6 2   Jonathan Dearborn 2 100 7 7 0   Samuel Veasey 4 100 7 7 0   Spafford Ames 100 7 7 0    THOMAS BRICKETT, Constable. Pembroke, Feb. 13th, 1786.
TO be sold at public vendue, by virtue of a licence from the Judge of Probate for the County of Rockingham, on Monday the 27th Day of February, current, at 3 o'Clock, afternoon, at the house of Jonathan Blake, Inholder in Kingston, the HOUSE, in which he lives, and about one acre of LAND thereto adjoining and belonging; being part of the real estate of Moses Bagley, late of Newbury-port, deceased, and is to be sold for the payment of his Debts, by
JOSEPH TILTON, { Attorney to the Ad- minst. of said estate. Kingston, February 4th, 1786.
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State of New Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given to all the proprietors or owners of land in the town of Fitzwilliam, that there is a tax of SIX SHILLINGS and SEVEN PENCE TWO FARTHINGS, assessed upon each lot of land, liable to pay proprietors taxes in said town, to pay the Rev. Mr. BRIGHAM's salary for the year 1785, and other outstanding debts, and the same is committed to me the subscriber to collect, and unless the same is paid me at my dwelling house in Fitzwilliam, within thirty days after the date hereof, so much of their lands as will pay the same together with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue. (propriety.) JOSEPH FARWELL, Collector for said Fitzwilliam, January 28, 1786.
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Hillborough ff. TO be sold by Public Vendue, at the House of DAVID STARRET, in Francestown, on Tuesday the 21st day of March next, at 10 of the clock, in the forenoon, so much of the following lots of Land, lying in said Francestown, as will pay the Tax on them for the year 1784, with incidental charges, unless paid before that time:
   State tax. Soldier tax. No. Acre.     Unknown £0 1/2d £0 of 10d 42 80   Coffin 2 1 1 7 11 70   Perce's und. land 4 3 150   Thomas Wilson 6 4 6 209    DAVID STARRET, Constable. Francestown, Jan. 30th, 1786.
THE Vendue, for selling the delinquent proprietors lots, in the town of Shapleigh, in the county of York, stands further adjourned to Tuesday the 21st day of February next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house of Nathan Lord, Esq. Inholder in Berwick: when and where the remaining delinquent lots will be exposed for sale, unless the taxes and intervening charges thereon are paid before that time. By order of a Committee. DANIEL SEWALL, V. M. Berwick, January 17, 1786.
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TO be Sold at Public Vendue, on Tuesday the 4th day of April next, at 1 o'clock, in the afternoon, at the house of Capt. Solomon Cutler, Inholder in Rindge, so much of the following lots of land (lying in Rindge) as will pay the following tax and incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. R. l. s. d.     John Thompson's place part of 19 9   Ditto 19 10 0 3 5   Samuel Parker's place 18 10 0 5 6   Jonath. Parker, junr's 34acrs 19 8 0 1 5    The above lots were rated in my rate list, for the year 1784, to the state tax. EDWARD JEWETT, { Const. of Rindge for the year 1784. Rindge, Feb. 13, 1786.
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