Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1787-03-03 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
"WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE."
PORTSMOUTH: Printed and published by JOHN MELCHER, in Market-Street, where Subscriptions, (at SIX SHILLINGS and EIGHT PENCE pr. Ann.) Advertisements, &c. for this Paper are taken in, the favours of correspondents carefully attended to, and the Printing Business carried on at a reasonable rate.—Also—Advertisements, Subscriptions, &c. taken in by T. ODIORNE, Esq. Exeter.
To the Printer of the New-Hampshire GAZETTE. SIR,
AS a piece has appeared in the New Hampshire Mercury, of the 21st Feb. censuring the conduct of the General Court, in granting me my depreciation, and as I know the gentleman has nothing in view but the public good—never aimed to injure any person that he might climb the stage of public employment—has never discovered, that malice and self interest govern his conduct—has sacrificed immense sums in transacting business for the public—and was exceedingly incensed that he could not be permitted to sacrifice more in the same way;—and now has, from the most disinterested motives, taken this public mode of enquiring for his own satisfaction, and of censuring the conduct of the General Court, for acting agreeably to a resolve of Congress. I shall, to satisfy his candid enquiries, state the facts, as the records of Congress and the General Court will prove.
It is a fact well known, that all our troops had their depreciation made up in state notes, by order of Congress; that interest was allowed in all from January, 1780, for services performed before that time, and that this was about the time I left service: These notes, when they issued, were for some time equal to silver and gold, and the certificates annually issuing on them continued for a long time so; and both have since been gradually depreciating until the notes are reduced to four shillings on the pound, and certificates to six shillings and eight pence. While all other officers and soldiers were enjoying the benefit of their depreciation, I remained silent, having never received anything from the public but my nominal wages in paper money. The last year I applied to Congress, through the honourable Judge Livermore and Colonel Long, for my depreciation. Congress caused the Paymaster-General to cast up the amount of my depreciation, and ordered the state "to make me up that sum in the same manner as they had made up the pay of the other General officers, and charge the same to the account of the United States." Colonel Long was present, and assured the General Court, that in addition to the plain meaning of the words in the vote of Congress, it was their intention repeatedly expressed. The committee on depreciation assured the Court that the way of making up depreciation to other General officers, was to allow interest from January, 1780, for all services performed prior to that day, and that it had been uniformly so done to all other officers.
But a certain person, out of his abundant zeal for the public interest, without the least malice against me, or desire to make a distinction between me and other General officers, raised a party against allowing me interest, upon which to secure the State, and prevent clamour, I gave bond to refund whatever part of the interest Congress did not think fit to allow.
I must now beg leave to ask this disinterested and candid enquirer, the following questions, viz. Whether there can be any substantial reason assigned, why I should not have the same claim to depreciation as the rest of my brother officers and fellow soldiers?
Whether by drawing my depreciation at this day, I have not lost four fifths of the value of the principal sum due to me, while they received theirs at par?
Whether I have not lost the benefit of the interest when certificates were equal to gold and silver, and now receive them when they are at six shillings and eight pence on the pound.
Whether the State can be benefited by defrauding their own citizens of the reward of their services when they are constantly taxed to make up the reward of similar services to citizens of other states?
Whether this State can be in any danger of loosing when they have a bond of indemnification?
Whether if this writer had nothing else in view but the public good, he might not by private enquiry have saved himself the mortification, of appearing both ignorant and ridiculous?
JOHN SULLIVAN. Durham, February 24th, 1787.
THE Committee appointed to devize ways and means for paying this towns' proportion of the public debt, beg leave to report, That the select men apportion this town's proportion of the foreign domestic and state debt, upon the polls and estates within this town, and deliver the list to some discreet person, who is to be appointed and impowered as collector, with a warrant impowering him to collect the same in the following manner, viz. the foreign debt in silver or gold with the interest thereof, since the first day of January last to the time of payment, or in corn at four shillings per bushel, white oak ship-timber at fifteen shillings per ton, merchantable boards at thirty shillings per thousand, white oak plank two and a half inch, at the rate of six pounds, when reduced to two inch, red oak plank at four pounds per thousand, good merchantable red oak hoghead staves at twenty-four shillings per thousand, good flax at seven pence per pound, good sheeps wool at two shilling per pound, good beef at twenty shillings per hundred weight, until the first day of July next, and at eighteen shillings per hundred afterwards. — That the collector shall not be compelled to take more than one third part of any man's tax in any one of the articles aforesaid, nor shall he receive more unless so ordered by the selectmen, or by the person who may be contracted with to build a vessel for this town. That the domestic debt shall be collected in public securities of the liquidated debt of the United States, and the interest from the first of January last to the time of payment in interest certificates on such securities, and the State debt in State notes, and the interest calculated as aforesaid in interest certificates thereof, all of which is by him to be paid to the selectmen, and by them to be paid over to the State treasurer, that the said collector shall be allowed per cent for collecting said tax, and shall deliver the articles by him collected for payment of the foreign debt to the order of the selectmen, and shall have an allowance for removals or inability of persons taxed as has been usual in this town. Your Committee further beg leave to report, that the selectmen be impowered as soon as a sufficiency of materials are collected, to agree with some person to contract for a double decked brig of one hundred and seventy tons, for the use of this town, to be paid for in such articles as may be collected for payment of the debt aforesaid—and in order that the said vessel after being constructed and launched, may be rigged, loaded and fitted for
sea, and that said vessel and cargo may be sent to some foreign market and sold, to enable the inhabitants of this town to discharge themselves from the foreign debt and the interest: your Committee further report, that all persons shall have liberty to deliver either of the articles aforesaid, except ship-timber, to the selectmen for the time being, at the prices aforesaid, or to their order, in payment of the requisition of Congress of September 1785, or August 1786, and a certificate thereof from either of them or the surveyor of lumber, or such other person as they shall appoint to receive the same, shall discharge so much of such persons taxes; and the selectmen may by themselves or such agent as they may appoint, have liberty to dispose of a sufficient quantity of the articles so collected, for purchasing rigging, or for procuring money to fix out said vessel, and reserve the residue for loading said vessel, and may after said vessel is launched, agree with an agent to rigg, load and fix said vessel for sea;—your Committee further report, that they may dispose of any of said articles to procure salt, and casks to salt up such beef as may be collected, and may agree with any person to salt and pack the same at a reasonable price.
Your Committee further report, that the said vessel, materials and cargo shall be the joint property of the persons paying taxes in this town, in proportion to the sums they are assessed, each one of whom shall be intitled to receive his proportion of the surplus money, arising from the sale of said vessel and cargo, if any shall remain after payment of his proportion of the sums aforesaid; and in case of falling short, shall be liable to a second assessment for the deficiency.
And to guard against a total loss, your Committee further report, that said vessel and cargo shall be insured to the port of delivery, and the proceeds insured back to the port of Piscataqua.
JOHN SULLIVAN. (for the Committee. Durham February 19, 1787.
N. B. The principal of the foreign debt, and of the domestic and state debt, consolidated at the present value of those securities amounted to only forty-four shillings and eight pence on the pole in Durham, by the proportion given off by the treasurer, that of other towns will be nearly the same.
PHILADELPHIA, February 10.
We hear a very valuable copper mine has been broke up near Woodbridge, in New-Jersey; and those who have examined the ore do not scruple to assert it is equal if not superior in richness to any that has been yet discovered on this continent, or elsewhere. There are at present a considerable number of persons working in it.
Notwithstanding all that has been said of the discovery of one or two rich gold mines in these states, it does not yet appear that the intelligence is founded on facts. Nature has, in all probability, denied that valuable metal to this part of the continent, and in lieu thereof given us a soil, which, with proper industry, will always command a sufficiency of the treasures of Peru and Mexico. The Romans of old became rich without such assistance, and considered it as their glory, as we learn from Horace;
"Despising gold, she'll greater shine Than forcing it from out the mine, With sacrilegious hand to fill The world with that destructive ill."
Handwritten signatures: John Melcher, Richard, John, John, John

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency JAMES BOWDOIN, Esq. Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the General-Court of this Commonwealth did, on the fourth of February instant, declare, that a horrid and unnatural Rebellion and War hath been openly and traiterously raised and levied against this Commonwealth, with a design to subvert, and overthrow the constitution and form of government thereof:—And whereas it appears, that Daniel Shays of Pelham, and Luke Day of West-Springfield, in the county of Hampshire, Adam Wheeler of Hubbardston, in the county of Worcester, and Eli Parsons of Adams, in the county of Berkshire, have been the principals in, and abettors and supporters of this unnatural, unprovoked and wicked rebellion against the dignity, authority and government of the said Commonwealth. I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of Council, and at the desire of the General Court, to issue this Proclamation, hereby requiring all Judges, Justices, Sheriffs, Grand Jurors, Constables and other Officers, civil and military, and also recommending it to all other good subjects within this Commonwealth to use their utmost endeavours, for discovering and apprehending the said Daniel Shays, Luke Day, Adam Wheeler and Eli Parsons, and them to deliver to the high Sheriff for the county of Suffolk, so that they, or either of them, may be rendered to justice: And for the encouragement of such persons as shall apprehend the said Daniel Shays, Luke Day, Adam Wheeler and Eli Parsons, or either of them, and deliver them to the Sheriff as aforesaid: It is hereby declared that he, or they shall thereupon be entitled to receive out of the public treasury for that service, a reward of ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY POUNDS for Daniel Shays, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS each, for Luke Day, Adam Wheeler and Eli Parsons.—And all persons whatsoever are hereby strictly commanded, not to harbour, entertain or conceal the said Daniel Shays, Luke Day, Adam Wheeler, or Eli Parsons, as they will answer the contrary at their peril, and avoid the penalties in this case by law provided.
Given at the Council in Boston, this ninth day of February, in the year of our LORD, one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-seven; and in the eleventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.
JAMES BOWDOIN.
By His Excellency's Command, JOHN AVERY junr. Secretary.
State of New-Hampshire. By His Excellency JOHN SULLIVAN, Esquire, President of the State of New-Hampshire.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS Daniel Shays of Pelham, and Luke Day of West-Springfield, in the County of Hampshire, Adam Wheeler of Hubbardston, in County of Worcester, and Eli Parsons of Adams, in the County of Berkshire, all in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, stand charged with having been principals in, and supporters of a wicked and unnatural Rebellion against the Commonwealth aforesaid, and with having openly and traiterously raised a war against the same, with intent to subvert and overthrow the Constitution and form of Government thereof, and it is suggested, that to avoid justice, and to screen themselves from the punishment due to their offence, they have secreted themselves within this State; and His Excellency the Governor of said Commonwealth, having agreeably to the fourth article of the Confederation, and perpetual Union of the United States, demanded that they be delivered up and removed to the said Commonwealth, which alone can have jurisdiction of the offence.
I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of Council, to issue this Proclamation, hereby requiring all Judges, Justices, Sheriffs, Grand Jurors, Constables and other Officers, Civil and Military, and also recommending it to all other good subjects within this State, to use their utmost endeavours for discovering and apprehending the said Shays, Day, Wheeler and Parsons, and them commit to any of the common goals in this State, so that they may be secured and delivered over to the authority of the aforesaid Commonwealth, hereby engaging that a reward of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS, will be paid by the said Commonwealth, to the person or persons who shall apprehend and secure the said Shays, and ONE HUNDRED POUNDS for each of the other before-mentioned offenders. And all persons are hereby strictly enjoined and required not to harbour, conceal, secrete, or entertain, either of the said offenders.
And whereas His Excellency the Governor of
the said Commonwealth, has also, by virtue of the said fourth article of Confederation and perpetual Union, demanded the following persons, charged with the crime of Treason in raising a Rebellion , and levying war against the aforesaid Commonwealth, viz.
   Names. Towns. Counties.    Nathan Smith, Shirley Middlesex  John Kelsey, ditto ditto  Adam Wheeler, Hubbardston Worcester  Norman Clark, Princeton ditto  Abraham Gale, ditto ditto  Jonathan Holman, Templeton ditto  Daniel Shays, Pelham Hampshire  Jared Ingersole, Pittsfield Berkshire  Rufus Allen, ditto ditto  Samuel Rust, ditto ditto  Thomas Goeld, ditto ditto  Thomas Grover, Montague ditto  Luke Day, Westfield ditto  Daniel Gray, ditto ditto  Doct. Sam. Willard, Uxbridge Worcester  Hezekiah Chapman, ditto ditto  Moses Smith, Barre ditto  Thomas Bicknell, Grafton ditto  Oliver Watson, junr. Spencer ditto  Samuel Slocum, Hubbardston ditto  Benjamin Convers, Hardwick ditto  John Haseltine, ditto ditto  Capt. — Fisk, S. Brimfield Hampshire  Elijah Day, West-Springfield ditto  Capt. Sacked, Westfield ditto  Capt. Jewele, Chesterfield ditto  Capt. Brown, Whateley ditto  Samuel Morse, Worthington ditto  Capt. Billings, Amherst ditto  Obed Foot, Greenfield ditto  Capt. Dinsmore, Conway ditto  Capt. Hill, Claremont ditto  John Powers, Shutesbury ditto  Joseph Sargent, Princetown Worcester  James Freeland, Sutton ditto  Daniel Baird, Worcester ditto  Aaron Smith, Shrewsbury ditto  Daniel Sacket, Pittsfield Berkshire  Daniel Hubbard, ditto ditto  Joseph Fairfield, ditto ditto  Linester Grosvenor, Windsor ditto  William Davis, ditto ditto  Thomas Robinson, ditto ditto  Hezekiah Green, ditto ditto  John Wiley, Dalton ditto  Robert Wiley, ditto ditto  Joseph Chamberlain, ditto ditto  Benjamin Chamberlain, ditto ditto  Eliphalet Chamberlain, ditto ditto  Ephraim Cleveland, ditto ditto  Andrew Spafford, ditto ditto  Phineas Watkins, Partridgefield ditto  Aaron Bingham, ditto ditto  Eli Parsons, Adams ditto  Reuben Hinman, ditto ditto  William Whiting, Esq. Great Barrington  John Hubbard, Sheffield ditto  Jesse Mason, Lanesborough ditto  John Nutting, Pepperell Middlesex  James Perry, Baton Bristol  David Volentine, Freetown ditto  Mathew Randall, ditto ditto  Job Pierce, Rehoboth ditto  Hezekiah Hix, junr. ditto ditto  Deliverance Bennet, Dartmouth ditto  Gideon Pond, Mansfield ditto  Pardon Peirce, Swanzey ditto  
Also said to have concealed themselves within this State, to avoid being brought to trial for the aforesaid atrocious offence. These are therefore to require all the Officers civil and military within this State, and I do hereby, with advice of Council, recommend to all other good subjects within the same, to use their endeavours to apprehend the said offenders, and them to commit to some common goal in this State, that they may be conveyed to the said Commonwealth and delivered over to the authority of the same, to receive the punishment due to their offence. And all the good subjects of this State, are hereby strictly enjoined not to harbour, conceal or entertain any of the said offenders, as they will answer it at their peril.
Given at the Council Chamber at Portsmouth, this twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our LORD, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and in the eleventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.
JOHN SULLIVAN.
By His Excellency's Command, JOSEPH PEARSON, Secretary.
GENERAL ORDERS,
Given at Portsmouth, the 28th day of February, 1787.
THE uniform of the 2d regiment of Light-Horse commanded by Col. Green, is to be white Waistcoat and Breeches, and a green Coat cuffed and faced with white.—That of the third
regiment a green Coat cuffed and faced with buff, with buff Waistcoat and Breeches, and in case the Field Officers of the third regiment find that buff cannot be procured, the uniforms of the third regiment may be the same as the second.
JOHN SULLIVAN, Captain-General.
To the Printer of the New-Hampshire Gazette,
A REPORT having been industriously propagated through the country by wicked and designing men, that his Excellency the President charged and received fifteen pounds for every regiment he reviewed in the circuits of last fall; the falsity of which is so notorious, that justice must veil her face, and infamy assume an air of triumph, were it not in the most public manner contradicted, and those dealers in slander and defamation detected in their diabolical purposes.—This malicious report is so far from truth that every member of the General Court know that the President was so far from making any request for compensation on account of reviewing the militia, that he often declared that his expences in the tour were very trifling, and that he esteemed it a part of his duty as Captain-General of the State, for which no allowance ought to be made; and when a report was circulated by some designing persons during the session of the Court, that he had a large account to exhibit for that service, which being told him in Senate, he replied that his expences were too small to exhibit an account for, and in case he ever presented one, or requested any allowance therefor, begged them never to allow it; this the whole Senate will testify; and it is well known that the grant made him for his services, was exactly the same as was made to his predecessor in office, who was not at that trouble. How ungenerous, how unmanly, how cruel is it thus to impose on the credulity of artless, honest men, and how devilish, when the reputation of a good man is to be sacrificed by the forgery; what is more precious to a man than his character, or what will a man give in exchange for it? when reports are circulated to the prejudice of our neighbour (especially those in exalted stations, and who have distinguished themselves in our behalf) let us before we give heed to them examine their nature, tendency, probability, evidence and every other circumstance necessary to our crediting them, and when even these seem to have the sanction of truth, we ought not to rest here, but push our enquiry when we can to the fountainhead, where compleat evidence can be obtained; and until truth blazes forth in its native lustre, and confirms them inexpress our minds, or influence our actions; but on tracing reports in general to their origin, we find by inquiry that rumour, freedom, and thoughtlessness take an active part in them, and experience teaches us that scandal, falsehood and detraction do not sleep on their posts.
BENEVOLUS.
PHILADELPHIA, February 14.
There are now in this city a number of the disciples of a certain Jemimah Wilkinson, a native of Rhode-Island, a person who professes that "she is Jesus Christ come again in the flesh a second time without sin unto salvation;" though it should be noted, that her followers do not admit she is a woman, as a female Messiah appears an incongruity, and they therefore of consequence deny her name, and appear to resent it as an affront when she is called Jemimah Wilkinson, and declare in the most solemn manner they know no such person. Some of the society, when asked to explain themselves, do it after the following manner; "That the names of persons most properly belong to the soul, but while body and soul are in union, the body may also be called by the name of the soul; but when a person dies, and the soul leaves the body, the body then can no more be called by its former name:—now some years ago there was a person by the name of Jemimah Wilkinson, but she died, and her soul went to heaven, after which the Divine Spirit re-animated that same body, and it arose from the dead; now this divine inhabitant is Christ Jesus our Lord, the friend to all mankind, and gives his name to the body to which he is united, and therefore body and spirit, conjointly, is the universal friend." To complete the character of so extraordinary a personage, she has her attendants of the extraordinary kind also, and those attendants are said to be the two witnesses which are prophesied of by John the divine in the Revelations. See chap. xi. from the 3d to the 13th verses.
The extraordinary personages above described, according to this fanaticism, are a certain James Parker and Sarah Richards, the latter is now in this city, with some others, both men and women, the disciples of the aforesaid universal friend, or Jemimah Wilkinson, and are endeavouring to establish the society here, meeting often together for this purpose.

To such of the curious as have never seen those singular people, nor perhaps ever will see them, it may afford some satisfaction to describe their persons. The Universal Friend, as she is stiled, appears to be about 30 years of age, about the middle size of women, not genteel in her person, and rather awkward in her carriage, her complexion good, her eye black and remarkably brilliant, her hair black, and waving in beautiful ringlets upon her neck and shoulders, her features regular, and the whole of her face thought by many to be perfectly beautiful; as she is not to be supposed of either sex, so this neutrality is manifest in her external appearance; she wears no cap, letting her hair hang down as above described upon her neck and shoulders, her neckcloth she wears like a man, her shift buttons round her neck, and her shift sleeves are brought down to her hands, and buttoned as is common with men, her outside garment is a loose robe, that resembles a morning gown, such as both men and women commonly wear, under this it is said her apparel is very expensive, and the form of them conveys the same idea as her external appearance of her being neither man nor woman; her understanding not deficient, except touching her religious fanaticism. She is very illiterate, yet her memory very great, artful in discovering many circumstances which fall out among her disciples, and in making them believe that as she is divine, nothing can be hid from her. On all occasions she requires the most extraordinary attendance that can be bestowed upon her, having little regard to the conveniency of families wherever she happens to be, and either one or more of her disciples usually attendant upon her, and ready to do her the most menial service. Her voice is masculine, and her pronunciation in the peculiar dialect of the most illiterate of the country people of New-England, her preaching has but little connection, and frequently very lengthy, standing at times for several hours, sometimes cold and languid, but at other times it is said she is lively, and discovers that kind of zeal and animation which gives reason to suppose she may really apprehend herself to be a person that is divine. She is commonly referred to strangers, and only grows familiar as she discovers in them a great respect for her, and as she is very attentive to the disposition of those about her, she soon distinguishes such who are affected by her peculiar manner. Her first address to strangers is usually in a grim masculine authoritative tone of voice, with expressive countenance and piercing eye; and though these are the effects of her spiritual pride, yet she often strikes the beholder with a profound awe, and the immoral are sometimes convicted before her, which she is artful to improve so as to raise in them a great veneration for her; and when she discovers any one properly prepared in this way, she usually puts some question to them relating to her own imagined divinity. Of a particular person she asked the following question, What God dost thou worship? upon the person replying they worshiped the Creator of heaven and earth, she added, "No man can come to the Father but by me—no man can come to the Father but by the son." Of another person she asked, Whom they took her to be? the person replied, they thought she had the spirit of God; she then asked them, If they did not believe that Christ was come within the vail?—Such interrogations being usually accompanied with an appearance of high authority, and seeming sanctity, the person's judgment is often bewildered, and by this means prepared for a farther deception, which she well knows how to carry on, and some times ends in a full and clear declaration to them of her being Christ Jesus our Lord, to the amazement and profound veneration if the inoffensive believer. It is asserted, that some have fallen prostrate at her feet; but if the observer that her ambiguous expressions give some offence, as discovering spiritual pride, she is then immediately reserved and cautious in what she further says, and either advances or retreats as occasions require.
Sarah Richards , one of the witnesses before mentioned, is a widow, appears to be about 28 years of age, is sensible, and would be a comely person were she to dress as becomes her sex, but as she imitates the person they call the friend, in her external appearance, and particularly in wearing her hair down like a man, she is by that means rather disfigured; it is said she is now clothed in what they call sackcloth (that is mourning,) in which she is to fulfil the days of her prophecy; she is remarkable for an infirmity of body, being subject to a particular kind of fit in which she appears for some time dead, upon her recovering, she pretends she has conversed with the dead, divers relations of this kind having been taken down in writing; the angel Raphael is her guardian angel, and at some times when she is in those fits (or as they term them, views,) she is conducted by Raphael to distant parts of this world, and there sees what mankind are doing, at other times taken to heaven and says that the throne of Jesus at present is
vacant, and will be so until the friend ascends to heaven and is seated thereon. With the above, and many more idle reveries not necessary to mention, does she entertain her credulous admirers.
James Parker , the other witness, appears to be about 45 years of age, is artful, conceited, and illiterate; and, as the countenance of a man is sometimes a tell tale, so those who are skilled in physiognomy may see in his face the cunning which lies hid in his heart, though varnished over with an apparent candour and freedom in conversation, and as he possesses none of the fire of a divine enthusiast, so neither does he possess that zeal which is necessary to complete the character of an impostor; he is crafty, but cold and unanimating, and that moderate share of understanding which he possesses does not appear so much clouded with an imagination of his own sanctity, as he appears desirous of making others believe him a faint, and on the whole, it seems as if he endeavoured to be great among this mistaken people, from a principal of a most ridiculous species of vanity, and for the sake of an indolent life. But as there are divers of them who appear simple and sincere, so it is hoped, amidst all this delusion of their understanding, there are some innocent among them; but with respect to the principal persons in this society, the writer of these remarks gives it as his opinion, that they are villainous impostors, and therefore sincerely hopes that all good people will shun them, unless it be to endeavour to reclaim them from their impiety.
WORCESTER, Feb. 22.
We learn from Berkshire, that many turbulent fomentors of the Rebellion, and those who joined in it in arms, are taken up; all privates, and those who acted as non-commissioned officers, who deliver up their Arms, and take and subscribe the Oath of Allegiance, are liberated. Others, who have been aggravatedly guilty in spreading sedition, and those who have acted as commissioned officers, are committed for trial by the laws of their country. Many of the principal leaders and abettors have fled into other States; but, from the assurances government has had from such States as it has applied to, we learn, that they will not have any protection granted them, but be delivered up to the authority of this State. Shays's wife and children passed through Northampton last week, on their way to Bennington, escorted by a brother-in-law of Shays's.
BOSTON, February 27.
Last Saturday afternoon, at five o'clock, Major JOHONNOT arrived in town, with dispatches to his Excellency from the Hon. Major-General Lincoln, whom he left at Pittsfield in the forenoon of the 22d inst.—By him we learn, that there have been small straggling parties of the insurgents hovering on the line in Vermont and New-York, where they are well received by the disaffected in those governments: That their leaders still continue to threaten and to circulate the most scandalous falsehoods; but that they are daily coming in; that several of the leaders have offered to surrender themselves, and be laid under bonds, provided they can enjoy their personal liberty: That Royall Tyler, Esq. is in Vermont, where he has found a good reception and encouragement, for the purpose of apprehending some of the principal characters; that a party of his men captured Adam Wheeler, and kept him four hours, but that he was rescued by forty Yorkers: That—Perry, Esq. at Easttown, was apprehended on a seditious visit to Egremont: That the service of raising the new levies goes on very well in the Counties of Hampshire and Worcester—&c. &c. He informs also, that Major Lyman, Aid-de-Camp to the Hon. Major-General Shepard, is appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the new enlisted troops.
Extract from the Orders of the 22d instant.
Head Quarters, Pittsfield.
"With this day the time expires for which the troops now in the field engaged to serve. That the great objects for which they embodied are so nearly accomplished, the General is persuaded must be highly pleasing to all. He congratulates the troops on the important event: That it has so speedily taken place may be justly ascribed, under the Supreme Disposer of all Events, to the great exertions and military zeal exhibited, on every occasion, by the officers and soldiers of the line, and by the system and unremitted attention in the staff departments, without which every operation must have been delayed.—In justice to
the army, and as a gratification of his own feelings, he will take the earliest opportunity to lay before the Governor the high sense he entertains of their important services."
We are informed that the General Court have agreed upon a Bill for excusing those who have been concerned in the present rebellion from penalties for not serving as jurors, and for preventing persons disqualified therefor from serving in that office.
They have also agreed upon a Bill, providing for the Supreme Judicial Court to hold a session in the county of Berkshire on the 3d Tuesday of March next; in the county of Hampshire, on the first Tuesday of April next; at Worcester, on the Tuesday next preceeding the last Tuesday in April; and at Middlesex, on the first Tuesday in May; and the arrangement of their sessions, in the other counties, is made conformable.
Yesterday the two companies of troops raised by this town, as its quota of the army which marched to the Western counties in the course of the last month, returned home, excepting such as have re-enlisted.
Justus Wright , an old offender in rebellious proceedings, and Capt. Harvey , a member of the present General Court, were escorted into town by the above troops, and safely lodged in jail.
PORTSMOUTH, March 3.
On Monday last the gentlemen composing the alarm list in this town, assembled at the state house, agreeable to notification, for the purpose of chusing their officers, and after a full consideration, agreed to form themselves into three companies, and made choice of George Gains, Esq. as Captain, with the rank of Colonel; Capt. Samuel Ham, Lieutenant, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; Jeremiah Libbey, Esq. Ensign, with the rank of Major, for the company in the northerly part of the town, from Buck street, to Broad street, and up Illington road. Mr. Elisha Hill, as Captain, with the rank of Colonel; Mr. Jeremiah Hill, Lieutenant, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and Mr. Mark Seavy, Ensign, with the rank of Major, for the company in the middle district, and Oliver Whipple, Esq. as Captain, with the rank of Colonel; Capt. George Jerry Osborne, Lieutenant, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; Mr. Abner Bisdel, Ensign, with the rank of Major, for the company in the southerly part of the town, all of whom have since been commissioned accordingly.
On Wednesday, the 28th ult. was ordained to the pastoral charge of the church of Christ in Dover, the Reverend Mr. ROBERT GRAY. The Rev. Mr. Hasey, of Lebanon, opened the solemnity with prayer; the Rev. Samuel Haven, D. D. of Portsmouth, delivered an ingenious, pertinent, and profitable discourse, from 1st Thessalonians, iii. 8; the Rev. Samuel McClintock, of Greenland, made the ordaining prayer; the Rev. Benjamin Stevens, D. D. of Kittery, gave the charge; the Rev. John Thompson, of Berwick, gave the right hand of fellowship; and the Rev. Benjamin Balch, of Barring-ton made the concluding prayer.
At the entrance of the council into the church, the 10th hymn of the first book of Dr. Watt's collection was sung, with great propriety, by a choir of singers; and the exercises were closed by an anthem from the 2d chap. of Luke. A crowded assembly did themselves honour, by the propriety of their conduct, comparing with the solemnities of the day.
Died since our last, a daughter of Mr. Nahum Akerman, aged 13 years.
The Public, are hereby cautioned against certain spurious hand bills, secretly struck off—and now industriously circulating among the people, calculated for to serve sinister purposes, by the promulgation of the most audacious ungenerous and base falsehoods upon our worthy President.—These children of darkness, will be exposed on the House top.
†† Errata , in the Gazette of Feb. 10, 17, 24, in the advertisement for the sale of lands in Wentworth, in 16th l. read, Said taxes is for a deficiency in the sale (instead of rate) of the undivided lands, &c.

Parnassian Spring.
From DOCTOR WARTON's admirable ODE on SUICIDE.
(Affecting to defend the practice, he thus elegantly expresses himself)—
AH! from the muse that bosom mild, By treacherous magick was beguill'd To strike the deathful blow! She fill'd his soft ingenuous mind With many a feeling too refin'd, (woe. And rous'd to livelier pangs his wakeful sense of Then with not o'er his earthly tomb The baleful night shades lucid bloom, To drop its deadly dew; Nor oh forbid the twisted thorn, That rudely binds his turf forlorn, (anew, With Spring's green swelling buds to vegetate What though refus'd each chanted rite? Here viewless mourners shall delight To touch the shadowy shell; And Petarch's harp, that wept the doom Of Laura lost in early bloom. In melancholy tones shall ring his pensive knell.
(When thus sublimely, in the concluding part of the Poem, he contrasts this false, but beautifully poetick, reasoning)—
Forbear, fond Bard, the partial praise, Nor thus for guilt in specious lays The wreath of glory twine: In vain, with hues of gorgeous glow, Gay fancy gives her vest to flow, (confin'd. Unless truth's matron hand the floating folds Just heaven, man's fortitude to prove, Permits, through life at large, to rove The tribes of hell-born woe: Yet the same power, who wisely sends Life's fiercest ills, indulgent lends (foe, Religion's golden shield to break the embattled Vain man! 'tis heaven's prerogative To take what first it deign'd to give— Thy tributary breath. In awful expectation plac'd, Await thy doom, nor, impious, haste To pluck from God's right hand his instruments of death.
Joseph Haven,
Hath lately received from Europe, a valuable Assortment of
G O O D S,
—consisting of—
Cloths; Serges; Planes; Coat- ings; Bays; Frize; Shalloons; Ante- loons; Durants; Calimancoes; Tam- mies; Camblets; Crapes; Poplins; Last- ings; Sattinets; Russels; Linens; Checks; Stripes; Check-Handkerchiefs; Ticks; Oznabourg; Ticklinbourg; Corduroys; Fustians; Jeans; Black silk Handkerchiefs; Modes; Gauzes; Worsted Hose, Caps, Mits, and Gloves; Beaver and Lamb Gloves; Men's Hats; Chip Hats; No. 3½ and 4 Pins; Writing Paper; Loaf Sugar; 7 by 9 Crown Glass; which he will sell, WHOLESALE and RETAIL, very Cheap.
PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 1787.
A GOOD OFFER.
Eight hundred & Eighty acres of excellent good upland, with eighty acres of intervill, in the township of Percy, upper Cohasset, to be given to eight good men for settlement, apply to Jacob Treadwell of Portsmouth, or Joseph Peaverly, Esq. at Northumberland.
For Cash or Country Produce, The best of Clover, Herd's Grass & Red Top, By the hundred, bushel or smaller quantity, To be sold by
Joseph Bass,
At his Shop in Portsmouth.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non- resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Stoddard, who are delinquent in paying their taxes for the year 1785, that unless they pay the same on or before Tuesday the 20th of March next, so much of their land as will pay the same to- gether with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the fore- noon on said day, at the dwelling house of Capt. Israel Towne, in said Stoddard, un- less prevented by previous payment.
State. County.
   No. R. s. d. q. d. q.     John Chamberlin 2 7 2 4 0 4 0   ditto 24 5 1 4 3 2 2   Capt. Jona. Keep 10 9 1 9 0 3 0   Moses Jenson 10 13 1 5 1 2 2   Abel Longly 9 13 1 5 1 2 2   John Vernum, Esq. 19 14 1 4 3 2 2   Col. Sampson 9 16 0 10 1 1 2   Stoddard's Heirs 10 16 1 2 0 2 0   ditto 8 15 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 9 15 1 2 0 2 0   ditto 11 14 1 2 0 2 0   ditto 20 8 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 22 6 1 9 0 3 0   ditto 28 5 0 10 1 1 2   ditto 3 4 0 10 1 1 2   ditto 18 5 1 0 0 2 0   ditto 4 3 0 10 1 1 2   ditto 28 2 0 10 1 1 2   ditto 27 2 0 10 1 1 2   ditto 17 2 0 8 0 1 2   ditto 13 2 0 7 0 1 0   ditto 13 5 0 8 0 1 2   Philips Bardins 21 4 1 4 3 2 2   Sarah Richardson 1 14 1 2 0 2 0   Elijah Bardins 13 7 1 2 0 2 0   Peter Hunt 10 5 0 7 0 1 0   ditto 11 5 0 7 0 1 0   James Dunn 26 13 1 4 3 2 2   Joseph Blanchard 3 No. 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 14 15 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 19 2 0 8 0 1 2   ditto 25 6 0 8 0 1 2   ditto 14 16 0 10 0 1 2   ditto 26 3 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 19 3 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 10 3 1 4 3 2 2   Joseph Reed 26 4 1 2 0 2 0   ditto 18 4 1 9 0 3 0   ditto 16 2 0 7 0 1 0   Hugh Wilson 5 14 1 9 0 2 2   ditto 15 3 0 10 1 1 2   Mathew Thornton 2 No. 0 7 0 1 0   ditto 5 No. 1 4 3 2 2   ditto 2 13 1 2 0 2 2   ditto 23 2 1 4 3 2 2   Titus Curch in No. 1 4 3 2 2   Samuel Stevins 9 11 0 8 0 1 2   Col. Stoddard's Heirs 28 7 1 2 0 2 0   Joseph Blanchard 12 5 0 10 0 1 2   Nathaniel Cotton 28 3 1 2 0 2 0   JOHN N. MATHER, Collector. 9 12 0 2 0 0 2  
Stoddard, February 23, 1787.
State of New Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non re- sident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Hanover, who are delin- quent in paying their taxes for the year 1785, that unless they pay the same to me the sub- scriber at my dwelling-house in said town, on or before the first Wednesday in March next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at my dwelling-house in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Rio. H. 21 Ac. 1st hun. 2d hun. 60 Ac. lots. No. Range.   s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.     A. Blackman jr 0 0 2 9 2 9 0 0 0 0 7 1 15   Wm. Johnson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5   Hue. Storrs 0 0 5   Mala. Conant 0 0 5   W. Woodward 0 0 5   Joseph Storrs jr 0 0 7 2   Moses Walcot 1 2   D. Richardson 0 7 5   Pince Freeman 0 0 5   Phineas Allen 0 7 1 7   Jona. Freeman 0 0 1 7   Samuel Storrs jr 0 2 4   Stephen Walcot 0 0 7   John Wright jr 0 0 4 15 2   John Parker 0 0 2 9 2   John Sherwine 0 0 2 1 4 15 2 2 8   Nath. Hopkins 0 0 2 9 5 9 19   Joseph Storrs 0 0 5   Ozias Strong 1 2 2 9 5 9 19   Josh. Sherwine 0 0 5   J. Downing Esq. 1 2 1 4   Mj Wentworth 0 0 2 9 1 8 1 4   Col. J. Smith 0 0 5   John Knight 0 0 2 9 2 9 5 3 5   Elea. Stoddard 0 0 5   Step. Freeman 0 0 2 9 5 9 1 7   Noah Jones 0 0 4 6 8   A. Richardson jr 0 0 1 5 4  
Benjamin Hatch, Collector.
Hanover, January 7, 1787.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of William Folsom, late of Newmarket, deceased, are desired to present the same for an immediate settlement to
ELIPHALET SMITH, Executor, Newmarket 27th February, 1787.
Cash for a Horse.
WANTED, a very fine pacing GILD- ING or MARE, of any colour, not less than fourteen and a half hands high, that can travel swiftly, and easy to the ri- der whether fast or slow, spirited, with a good mouth, head and tail, sure-footed, and not vicious.—A good price will be given for a beast of the above description, and no one need be offer'd deficient in either point men- tioned. Enquire of the Printer.
TO BE SOLD,
The late Mansion-House of Governour Wentworth, with the Stable and appurtenances, now in the occupation of Jonathan M. Sewall Esq. also, the late ele- gant Mansion House of Nathaniel Adams, Esq. deceased, with its appurtenances, now in the occupation of Richard Champney, Esq. also, the House & land adjoining north of the last mentioned premises, now in the occupation of Mr. James Greward.
Apply to JOHN PEIRCE. Portsmouth, February 13, 1787.
A Joiner wanted.
WANTED very cheap, for a short term of time, a House Joiner. Apply to the Printer hereof.
A few of the late Lord Chester- field's valuable Principles of Politeness for sale at this office, where Blanks may be had as cheap as any office in the United States.