Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1787-01-06 00:00:00

Bounties on Farms.
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.
Agriculture Encouraged.
AS nothing can promote the interest of this state so much as the increase and improvement of agriculture therein; a person who has the strongest desire to see it in prosperity proposes the following premiums to those persons who shall attain to the productions of the several articles below enumerated, on lands within the limits of the townships of Northumberland, Strafford, Dartmouth and Lancaster in the county of Grafton, or any tracts of land or townships within the distance of ten miles of either of those townships within the said county, viz.
FIFTY POUND lawful money to be paid to the person who shall produce on one farm the largest quantity of good merchantable Winter-Wheat, not less than 1000 bushells in the year 1788.
TWENTY-FIVE POUND for the next largest quantity, not less than 600 bushells.
FIFTEEN POUND for the next largest quantity, not less than 400 bushells.
ONE HUNDRED POUND to the person who shall on one farm produce in one season the greatest quantity of good Hemp, not less than 4 tons in or before the year 1789.
FIFTY POUND for the next greatest quantity, not less than 3 tons.
TWENTY-FIVE POUND for the next greatest quantity not less than 2 tons
TEN POUND for the next greatest quantity, not less than 1 ton.
THIRTY POUND to the person who shall raise the greatest quantity of Flax, not less than 2 tons in the years 1787 or 1788.
TEN POUND for the next greatest quantity, not less than 1 ton.
FIFTY POUND will be given, also, as a premium to the person who shall have the greatest number of Sheep on one farm, which shall be wintered thereon and shorn in one season, viz. in or before the year 1789, not less than 500 sheep.
THIRTY POUND for the next greatest number, not less than 400.
TWENTY POUND for the next greatest number, not less than 300.
TEN POUND for the next greatest number, not less than 200; and to induce farmers to procure the best breed of sheep for Wool—a premium of
THIRTY POUND will be given to the person who shall get at one shearing from a flock not less in number than 30 sheep the greatest quantity of Wool, not less than the average of 4 pounds of Wool per fleece in or before the year 1789.
TWENTY POUND for the next greatest average quantity from a flock of the like number, not less than 3 lb. per fleece.
TEN POUND the next greatest average quantity not less than 2 lb. and a half per fleece.
The foregoing premiums will be paid in land, on conditions of settlement at their appraised cash value, on proof of the several productions being made to the selectmen of said Northumberland, who will have power to effectuate the payment of said premiums as above proposed.
* There are flocks in the district that now exceed this quantity.
It is well known from experiments made on many farms in the above district, that no land in America can produce better Wheat, or more in quantity per acre.
Experiments have been made of Hemp which has appeared to grow with a luxuriant beyond expectation.
One farm within the above district has raised 2000 lb. of Flax in one year, though under improvement but 2 or 3 years—and subject to many inconveniences in its then new state.
Though many persons are discouraged from raising sheep on account of the danger from wolves and other animals of prey, yet it has been found by experience, that they may be raised with safety in the most distant settlements when proper care is taken in securing them at night in yards with high rock or pole fences, and in the day time in inclosures near habitations.
The above described lands take in an extent of country upwards of 40 miles in length, and 16 in breadth. It is hoped that other persons or associations will make proposals of this nature in other districts so as to extend to every part of the state:—or that the legislature when freed of its embarrassments will offer something of this kind. One thing is now in the power of the latter, maugre the present public difficulties,—namely, the exercise of some degree of liberality in causing good roads to be made—the want whereof is the greatest discouragement to agriculture.
LISTS of the CIVIL, MILITARY and ECCLESIASTICAL DEPARTMENTS of the STATE of NEW-HAMPSHIRE, from June, 1786, to June 1787.
Coroners for the county of Hillsborough.
 Augustus Blanchard, Amberst  Jonathan Eastman, Hollis  Zaccheus Chandler, Bedford  Samuel Haywood, New-Ipswich  John Hogg, Dunbarton  Ebenezer Webster, Salisbury 
Justices of the Peace for the county of Hillsborough.
 George Jackman, Boscawen  Isaac Andrews, Hillsborough  Robert Macgregore, Goffstown  Joseph Bartlett, Salisbury  Noah Worcester, Hollis  William Smith, Peterborough  John, Robie, Weare  Joshua Bailey, Hopkinton  Benjamin Mann, Mason  John Cochran, jun. New-Boston  John Duncan, Antrim  Moses Little, Goffstown  Peter Clark, Lyndeborough  William Abbot, Wilton  Jonathan Weare, Andover  Ebenezer Rockwood, Wilton  John Preston, New-Ipswich  Jonathan Searle, Mason  Henry Gerrish, Boscawen  Daniel Emerson, jun. Hollis  Samuel Philbrick, Weare  Samuel Marsh, Nottingham-West  Nathaniel Bean, Warner  Asa Davis, Nottingham-West  Ebenezer Webster, Salisbury  John Hogg, Dunbarton  Matthew Pettingale, Salisbury  Zephaniah Clark, Fishersfield  Nenian Aiken, Dearing  Levi Spaulding, Lyndeborough  Matthew Wallace, Peterborough  Augustus Blanchard, Amberst  Richard-Cutts Shannon, ditto 
 Enoch Sawyer, Goffstown  Samuel Douglass, Raby  Aaron Greeley, Hopkinton  John Shepard, Amberst  Samuel Wilkins, Amberst  Timothy Taylor, Merrimac  Robert Means, Amberst  Samuel Fowler, Boscawen  Timothy Gibson, Henniker  William M'Queston, Litchfield  Benjamin Wadley, Sutton  James Hosley, Hancock  John Orr, Bedford  Simeon Cummings, Esq'rs. Merrimac 
Coroners for the county of Hillsborough.
 Augustus Blanchard, Amberst  Jonathan Eastman, Hollis  Zaccheus Chandler, Bedford  Samuel Haywood, New-Ipswich  John Hogg, Dunbarton  Ebenezer Webster, Salisbury  Joseph Simons, Hillsborough  Samuel Kimball, Henniker  Elias Boyaton, Temple  Samuel Moore, Peterborough  Jacob M'Gaw, Merrimac  Timothy Wortley, Weare  James Caldwell, New-Boston  Jonathan Martin, Wilton  Abel Kimball, Hopkinton  William Forsyth, Dearing  Daniel Campbell, Amberst  Robert Wilson, Peterborough  Daniel Gould, Lyndeborough  Samuel Douglass, Raby  Samuel Heywood, Amberst  Ebenezer Hunting, New-London  John Dutton, Esq'rs, Hillsborough 
Civil Officers for the county of Cheshire.
 Justices of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas.  Hon. Simeon Olcott, Charlestown  Samuel Ashley, Claremont  Benjamin Bellows, Walpole  Francis Smith, Esq'rs. Plainfield 
Samuel Hunt, Esq. Sheriff.
Hon. Thomas Sparhawk, Esq. Judge of Probate.
Michael Lawrence, Esq. Register of Probate.
Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum for the county of Cheshire.
 Hon. Samuel Chase, Cornish  Simeon Olcott, Charlestown  Enoch Hale, Rindge  Benjamin West, Esq'rs Charlestown 
Justices of the peace for the county of Cheshire
 Frances Smith, Plainfield  Thomas Sparhawk, Walpole  Joseph Greenwood, Dublin  Thomas Baker, Keene  Calvin Frink, Swansey  Moses Whipple, Croydon  John Hubbard, Charlestown  Charles Huntoon, Unity  Abel Stevens, Grantham  Abalom Kingsbury Alstead  Daniel Newcomb, Keene  Michael Cressy. Chesterfield  John Bellows, Walpole  Jonathan Hildreth, Chesterfield  Oliver Capron, Richmond  Sanford Kingsbury. Claremont  Oliver Ashley, ditto  Jahn Doolittle, Westmorland  Lemuel Holmes, Surry 
Errata: Column 2. line 6. for luxuriant read luxurians line 18 for rock & pole read, rock & pale

William Ripley, Cornish Samuel Kendall, Fitzwilliam Samuel Griffin, Packersfield Jacob Copland, Stoddard Daniel Croot, Acworth Daniel Kimball, Jaffrey Roger Gilmore, Newport Josiah Stevens, Rindge Edward Jewett, Winchester Jonathan Arnold, Winchester Reuben Alexander, Lemster Elijah Frink, Alstead Amos Shephard, Alstead Alexandrew Parkman, Marlborough Elijah Grout, Charlestown Nathan Young, Grafton Samuel Works, Winnisquam Joseph Rounsevil, Washington
Coroners for the county of Cheshire.
George Kimball, Charlestown Isaac Hammond, Swansey James Philbrick, Rindge Daniel Chase, Cornish Samuel Trot, Walpole Joseph Burt, Wolfeborough John Colburn Luther Ames, Keene Samuel Buss, Isaac Temple, Alstead
(To be continued.)
The evils lamented in the following Address, exist in this State, perhaps as much as in the State for which they were designed for;—we have therefore judged an insertion of it in the Gazette necessary; and if there is truth in the assertion of the poet, that
"Vice is a monster of so frightful a mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen—"
we may hope, by having it so plainly exposed to our view, that an althorence may follow, and a reformation be effected.
From the CONNECTICUT MAGAZINE, for December 7.
To the PUBLICK.
WHEN every person is complaining of the scarcity of cash, burthen of taxes, and extravagance of living, permit an individual to state a fact which ought to make a nation BLUSH. It appears by the returns of the excise collectors into the pay table office, that the people of Connecticut pay excise for almost four hundred thousand gallons of rum in a year. Every gallon of West-India rum, which constitutes fourteen fifteenths of the whole that is drank, costs the consumer four shillings a gallon; consequently this State pays for rum annually about eighty thousand pounds. This calculation is founded on fact—and makes no allowance for vast quantities of spirit which are drank without excise, in evasion of the law. The interest of our national debt amounts to about sixty thousand pounds a year; our rum, therefore a single useless article, costs us one quarter more than the interest of our domestick debt. For shame then, my countrymen, say no more about taxes! There are two gallons of distilled spirits to one soul, consumed in this state annually. Other states consume in the same proportion. And the greatest misery of the whole, is, that the poor people consume more than the rich. A labouring man must have his half pint or pint, every day, and at night take half his wages in rum.
But the expense is not the only grievance; the injury to health and morals is certain, it is great, it is irreparable! Ask any candid physician, and he will tell you, that scarcely a man dies, whose life is not shortened by the use of this pernicious article.—Go to a tavern, or a dram shop, and view a crowd of poor people, whose families are starving and freezing at home, draining their pockets of the last penny to purchase a gill of rum. This is no uncommon sight; it happens every day, and in every town. In vain are we told that spirit is sometimes necessary. It is not necessary in the ordinary labour of life—it is generally pernicious, even in fatigue. Men, during the war, underwent the fatigue of harvest, and enjoyed more perfect health, without any spirit, than they now enjoy with as much as they can drink. Spirit is necessary sometimes, I allow. It is necessary as a medicine; just like opium, or
Jesuits bark, and ought to be used with the same caution.
In vain are we told that rum costs us nothing but old horses, and not cash. This is the declaration of ignorance. Horses fetch money in the West-Indies, and the money would come into the country to pay our taxes, purchase our farms, were it not left to produce that curse of all curses, spirit. We have no way to get cash, but by the West-Indies. No articles we can send to Europe from the northern states, will furnish any considerable supply of money. If our old horses, therefore, our beef, our pork, and our lumber are all our dependance for cash, what folly, what stupidity, what political and moral madness is it, to consume all the profits of those articles in the beastly gratification of an appetite that disgraces a savage, in the purchase of an article which in general is of no use, which impairs reason, preys upon the health, and sinks that dignified animal, man to a brute.
Our country supplies us with liquors, which are good enough for common use. Our cider and malt liquors might render all spirits unnecessary.
In England, rum is six or eight shillings sterling a gallon. It pays a duty of four shillings, consequently few can buy it. The people there drink beer, which is a manufacture of their own—this is a healthy liquor, it furnishes poor people with employment—and all classes of people will drink it. This is English policy, and it is good. We might do the same, had we any continental power to impose uniform duties on importations. We might make spirit too dear for people to purchase—we might encourage, by bounties, the manufacture of malt liquors—we might thus raise a revenue to the publick—supply ourselves with cash from the West-Indies—save the morals, the health, the lives and estates of the inhabitants. But this cannot be done without a union of measures in the States; for high duties in one State alone, throw all the trade into the hands of her neighbours. In short this and all other publick evils may be traced to this one cause, a want of federal power. Let our blustering patriots clamour about liberty, and spout their jealousy of a continental government, until the hard hand of poverty and distress shall grind them—until the demands of our publick creditors become serious, and threaten a civil war, or a foreign invasion—until dire experience shall force conviction to their minds—but let them remember what I now tell them; that we cannot exist long in confederacy, without a power over the continent, sufficient to silence the clashing interests of the different States, and subject them to one uniform system of measures. A great state composed of many parts, never did exist without a power to controul the whole, and never can exist until God Almighty shall regenerate the whole human race, and elevate them above the present rank of mortals.
Every man complains that his wife and daughters impoverish him by the purchase of gauzes, of feathers and ribbons. But where is the man that opens his mouth against the use of spiritous liquors? Gauzes and all the gewgaws which ladies wear are trifles, when compared with the consumption of rum.* Let the ladies imitate the savages if they please, in sticking upon their heads feathers and flowers. Their Indian finery may be a proof of their bad taste; but the expense of it is a trifle compared with the enormous use of spiritous liquors. What are we but a race of polished savages? A Tuscarora will barter a township of land for a few beads and feathers. And a country
* This is not laid to reflect upon the economical Association, or to insinuate that there is no necessity for the females to retrench their expenses. They may do much to alleviate our distresses, and we admire the noble example set us by the Association. We wish permanent improvement of taste among the ladies. We believe there is room for it. But the foregoing remarks are meant to draw a comparison between male and female expenses.
girl among us will labour hard a week for a bunch of flowers. A tribe of Indians will barter all their territories and their furs for a keg of brandy; and there are many people in our gospel land who will sell the bread out of their mouths for a pint of rum. Alas! my friends! I wish reformation to you. Z.
L O N D O N,
October 7. Messages of a disagreeable nature have passed, within these few days, between Lord George Gordon, and Comte Luci, the Prussian Ambassador. Lord George Gordon seeing his friends in Holland in difficulties, determined to have an unequivocal answer from Comte Luci, whether the new King of Prussia would or would not take the part of his friends in Holland?—On Wednesday his Lordship sent the following note by his servant.
"Lord George Gordon presents his compliments to Comte Luci—he had called twice upon his excellency as Ambassador from Prussia, within these two days; and requests to know if he can have the honour of speaking to him, this evening, on the affairs of Holland. The bearer will wait his excellency's answer. Wolbeck street, Wednesday, 3 o'clock. "
Comte Luci, after perusing the note, sent back a verbal answer to Lord George, "that he could not write in English." Lord George sent back his servant with a verbal message to tell Comte Luci, he might write in any language he pleased. To this Comte Luci replied, that "he would not send any answer."
Lord George's servant still persisting to press the necessity of the Comte's answer to his master, the ambassador's servants threatened to use him very ill, if he did not go out of the house directly.—Lord George Gordon called on Thursday at the Ambassador's and desired the servants to tell Comte Luci, that his first answer was a shuffling one; his second an ill-judged one for an ambassador, and a very impertinent one from Comte Luci to the son of a Duke.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of Meshech Drew, late of Madbury, deceased, are requested to bring in their accounts for settlement, to the subscribers Administrators to said estate, who will attend for that service at the house of Silas Drew, inholder in Barrington, on the second Mondays and Tuesdays in the two following months.
SILAS DREW, } Administrators. STEPHEN DREW, } Barrington, December 26, 1786.
Now in the PRESS, and will soon be Published By LAMPSON and RANLET, AN ADDRESS To the PUBLICK,
Containing some remarks on the PRESENT POLITICAL SITUATION of the AMERICAN REPUBLICKS.—A work that deserves the attentive perusal of all those who wish for the prosperity and reputation of the United States.
Exeter, December 16, 1786.
State of New Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Alstead, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on the third Monday in January next, at one o'clock, P. M. at the house of Capt. Nathan Fay, inholder in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   acres. s. d.     Lot No 3 3d Range, 100 2 0   Lot No 10 Second Div. 27 10   Lot No 4 3d Range, 50 1   Lot No 3 6th Range, 130 2 8   Lot No 3 4th Range, 30 8   Lot No 2 4th Range, 30 8  
ELI HARRINGTON, Collector. Alstead, October 30, 1786.

L O N D O N, Oct. 10.
Extract of a letter from Elsinour, Sept. 23.
By accounts received from Jutland, we are informed, that on the 5th instant it blew a violent hurricane, in which between 400 and 500 farms, or boor houses, were entirely blown down, besides many churches and gentlemen's houses. Several vessels have been drove on shore, some of which are totally lost, and others have suffered very great damage. Many lives we are sorry to add, have been lost on this occasion.
"Several shipmasters from Massand and Gottenburgh say, that they heard of about thirty sail of vessels being lost, and drove on shore, on the coasts of Norway and Sweden, but can give no particular."
Oct. 16. Letters from Lisbon, dated September 20th, mention, that the Queen has absolutely entered into a treaty with the United States of America and the Venetian, for forming a confederacy with the Piratical States. Supposing such a maritime league should be concluded, it is highly probable that the Algerines, &c. would be more than a match for them, and carry on an offensive war with great advantage. The united fleet of the Americans and Portuguese, admitting it should exceed, in strength any that could be fitted out by Tunis, Tripoli, and Algiers, could not put stop to piracies in every quarter. Single ships would rove the seas as usual, and in the winds, tides, currents, and friendly ports on the Barbary and Turkish coasts, elude the vigilance of their confederated enemies.
October 3. Mr. Adams, the American Ambassador, has, since his return from Holland, had repeated conferences with his Majesty's confidential servants, which gives room to suspect that something of importance in the way of negotiation is now agitating.
October 11. The following curious inscription appears over the door of a house at Ashburton in Devonshire:—"Too bee oedn hire the shath off the nife and fauk withh wich Margate Nichulfun attempted too tak away the prestus loife of oure good deer rial suvren. N. B. You miss pa a pene or spind a pot of bear."
Letters from different parts of the kingdom are filled with accounts of the damages occasioned by the late storms; and we hear that the coasts of France, Holland, Denmark, &c. as well as our own, are covered with shipwrecks.
J A M A I C A.
MONTEGO BAY, Oct. 23. On Thursday night, the 19 inst. between 11 and 12 o'clock, it began to blow in squalls from the eastward, accompanied with heavy showers, which continued till daylight, when the wind shifted to the southward, from which quarter it blew with great violence all Friday, and rained incessantly.
Our accounts from Hanover and Westmoreland are of a very alarming nature: many of the estates in the leeward part of each parish, are equally in as bad a situation as after the hurricane of October, 1780. The works of Ether, the Spring, and Hardning-Hall estates are totally destroyed, and many others materially suffered in their buildings, canes and provisions.
At Savanna la Mar, all the small craft are ashore; a ship (the only one there) rode it out. The town has suffered a good deal. Mr. Antrobus's house and some others are blown down, and a great many damaged in the roofs.—A letter from Westmoreland mentions, "The appearance every where demonstrates the superior vehemence of this gust over all we have experienced since 1780: the trees, stripped of their leaves, exhibit an appearance as if fire had devoured their verdure: the shores are covered with the dead bodies of duck, teal, and other aquatic birds, that have been driven with irresistible impetuosity against the trunks of the mangroves, and dashed to pieces.—When this devoted country is to have rest from her fore visitations, God only knows."
Six ships and brigs, in the harbour of Kingston, were driven ashore, and damaged.
Also a great many schooners and sloops on shore between this town and Greenwich.
To the melancholy statement of the damages sustained by the shipping in the late storm, we have now to add the following accounts of its farther devastation:
A small shallop wrecked on Gun Quay, and the crew lost.
Ship Mercury Packet, Gillespie, from Georgia, drove ashore on Great Goat Island.
The Schooner Sally, Miller, from Quebec, laden with fish and lumber, bound for this port, overset near Cow Bay. The Captain, Messrs. McKenzie and McDonald, passengers, and six seamen, were drowned.
Capt. Young, of the Schooner Endeavour, saw, off Portland Point, a large ship and a small vessel totally wrecked on the rocks.
The brig Wilhelmina, Craig, from this port, bound to Shelburne, is wrecked in Green Bay, the Captain and crew saved.
A ship is said to be wrecked on Salt-Pond Bay, and a large Schooner in Bull Bay.
C O N N E C T I C U T.
LITCHFIELD, Dec. 12. In the storm on Saturday evening last, the wife of Mr. Eliza Birge of this town, unfortunately perished.—The fury of the tempest seeming to threaten an immediate dismemberment of the long erected and decayed mansion of their residence, a naturally timid disposition induced Mrs. Birge fatally to determine on leaving it, and seek an asylum in a neighbouring house; from which resolution she could not be persuaded to recede, however hazardous the attempt: She had not proceeded far, when Mr. Birge followed, and immediately overtook her: Having wandered about the dreary waste some time in fruitless search of the friendly cottage, her hapless survivor suggested that they had mistook the road, and urged their return; but, alas! too late—she was falling asleep—the chilling winds and hoary frost had deprived her of speech and sense; and beside the bending chest of an aged tree, she expired in his arms.
N E W Y O R K, December 23.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Jefferson, Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, to the Prevot des Marbands and Sheriffs of Paris.
"The inhabitants of the province of Virginia, as an acknowledgment of the important services rendered to America by Major-General the Marquis de la Fayette, have come to a resolution to erect a statue to him in their capital town. They hope that the Hon. Prevot and Sheriffs of the city of Paris which gave birth to so great a man, will consent to receive a second token of their gratitude and esteem, by accepting the bust of so brave an officer, to be placed in the mansion-house of the noblest metropolis in Europe; which will prove to present to future ages an everlasting monument of homage and attachment from the allies of his most Christian Majesty."—The King, who had been apprised of Mr. Jefferson's request, graciously permitted the town to receive the bust, and it was accordingly placed at the sound of military musick in one of the halls of the mansion-house.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, December 15.
Extract of a letter from Grenada (an English Island in the West Indies) to a gentleman in this city, dated November 11, 1786.
"The inhabitants of this place are in great spirits and highly elated, owing to a report, that an insurrection has taken place in New-England, and that 15,000 men had already taken arms, and 20,000 more in readiness to join them, against the Congress, and in support of the British flag."
B O S T O N, January 4.
Papers brought in the Brig Christiana, which arrived here on Thursday last, after a passage of 73 days from Amsterdam, confirm the accounts already published of a commencement of civil war in the United Netherlands—And inform, in addition thereto, that all the troops in the pay of the province of Holland (about 25,000 men) have marched into that Province, and garrisoned all the frontier and fortified places—That upwards of 5000 volunteers have marched to the assistance of Utrecht—That the provinces of Overijssel, Groningen, Zeeland, and Friesland, have called in all the troops in their pay, which are ordered not to interfere in any matters relative to the citizens, and also that the Prince of Orange, as proposed by the States of Holland, should be forever dismissed as Captain-General, be forbidden to give any further orders to the troops, or to appoint any officer whatever—And that the answer of their Noble Mightinesses the States of Holland, on the offered mediation of
the present King of Prussia, through two Ambassadors sent for the purpose, was referring him to their late answer given to the late King of Prussia, and adding, as matters had altered so greatly since, by a commencement of hostilities on the part of the Stadtholder, that the King must be convinced, that no reconciliation can be proposed between a severaign Republick and a Monier of State .
Capt. Turner, who arrived here on Thursday last, from Amsterdam, on the 23d inst. a little to the eastward of Georges Banks, spoke a Schooner, Capt. Cox, from the Banks of Newfoundland, bound for Beverly, who informed him, that some weeks before, he spoke a ship from Bristol, bound for Shelburne, in Nova-Scotia, out upwards of an hundred days, and being short of provisions, had been obliged to kill one man to satisfy their hunger.
The General Assembly of Virginia have appointed George Washington, Patrick Henry, Edmund Randolph, John Blair, James Madison, George Mason, and George Wythe Esquires, Commissioners "to meet such Deputies as may be appointed by other States, to assemble in Convention at Philadelphia, and to join with them in discussing all such alterations as may be necessary to render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of the Union."
P O R T S M O U T H, January 6.
The court-martial lately held at Exeter, having presented his Excellency, the Commander in Chief with a copy of their proceedings, for approbation, his Excellency postponed acting thereon until he had laid them before the legislature, in order to collect the sense of both houses upon the subject, and act accordingly. Their proceedings were read before both houses on Wednesday last, with the following sentences.—Maj. Cochran, Capt. Cochran, and Lieut. Robinson, of the 11th regiment, broke—the Major recommended for a restoration. Capt. McKeen and Lieut. McClary, of the 8th regiment; Capt. Dow, Lieut. Clough and Ensign Cotton, of the 7th regiment, broke—Col. Stone of the 20th regiment acquitted—Quarter Master Brown, of the 3d troop in the 1st regiment of light horse, reprimanded—Lieutenant Weare, of the same troop, broke—but recommended in strong terms for a restoration.
After the above were read before both houses, several warm debates occurred upon the illegality of trying civil offenders by law-martial, conceiving it a great stretch of power, and a deviation from the true principles of the constitution. His Excellency reminded the Court, that he had called the court-martial agreeably to their vote, requesting him so to do. The hon. Speaker was very much averse to the procedure of trying civil offences by law-martial. A variety of observations were made upon the subject, after which it was determined to refer the whole proceedings to a committee of both houses, who were appointed accordingly, and now have the matter before them.
A person wishes that some of our correspondents skilled in chances, would inform the public, how many years it would probably take Great-Britain or Holland to get rid of their hard money, so far as not to retain enough for common use: If they by law could pay the interest of their public debts in paper, and should hinder their creditors from recovering any hard money of their debtors, by a tender act, & after their money was once gone, how long time would it require, to get back as much money as they were possessed of, when the above laws first took place, if they should continue the same laws in force
Sunday evening last, was married by the Rev. Mr. Buckminster, the honorable JAMES SULLIVAN, Esq. of Boston, to the amiable Mrs. MARTHA SIMPSON, of this town, relict of the late THOMAS SIMPSON, Esq. commander of the continental frigate Ranger.
On Tuesday evening last, was also married by the Rev. Mr. Buckminster, Mr. CHARLES TREADWELL, aged 82, to Mrs. PHEBE DENNET, aged 67, both of this town.
Died since our last, a child of Mr. Nathaniel Sherburnes, of the Plains; a child of Mr. William Ayers; a child of Mrs. Eunice Whipples; a Negro woman.
HIGH WATER at PORTSMOUTH.
From Saturday Jan. 6 to Saturday Jan. 13.
   Saturday 21 minutes after 1   Sunday 10 - - 2   Monday 56 - - 2   Tuesday 40 - - 3   Wednesday 22 - - 4   Thursday 4 - - 5   Friday 48 - - 5  

Parnassian Spring.
The End of TIME, a Vision
And the Angel which I saw stand upon the Sea and upon the Earth, lifted up his Hand to Heaven, and swore by him that liveth for ever and ever, that there should be time no longer. Rev. part of Chap. x.
WHEN the great blaze of day withdrew his light, And wrapt creation in the veil of night; Fast in the down of placid sleep I lay, And dreamt the wonders of the last great day, I saw, descending from ethereal height, A mighty angel urge his rapid flight; Cloath'd with a cloud that all around him spread, The purple rainbow crown'd his sacred head; His face the glory of the sun surpass'd, His burnish'd feet celestial lightning flash'd; On earth and sea, in high majestick state, He stood, and held th'eternal book of fate: Then rais'd his hand aloft in air, and swore, By heaven's great king, that time should be no more.
All nature sicken'd as the angel spoke, And her mysterious chain asunder broke; The sun grew dark, the moon to blood was turn'd, The stars went out, and all creation mourn'd Drear darkness swiftly spreads from pole to pole, And fear prevail'd o'er ev'ry living soul, The brutes, unconscious of a future state Were struck with wonder, and a dread of fate; But chiefly man, the fav'rite of the skies, Was seiz'd with ghastly horror and surprize.
Th' appointed day was come, and now in sight The blessed Jesus from the realms of light: Myriads of angels knelt before his throne, And thro' th' expanse his radiant glory shone. The quick and dead were summon'd to attend, And all, with trembling steps his court ascend; No murm'ring voice the silent horror broke, While the great judge the final sentence spoke, Ye wicked go—for you a hell's prepar'd! Ye righteous come—a heaven is your reward!
A new scene open'd, and, as quick as thought, Up from th' affrighted earth the bless'd were caught; And, swift as rays of light, by heaven's kind aid, Unhurt, to happy regions were convey'd. Not so the curs'd; for they, in deep despair, Were left behind, the fruits of sin to share. Now rumbling earthquakes rock'd the pond'rous frame,
To ruin all her num'rous structures came: Hills roll'd o'er hills; earth from her center pour'd A flood of fire, which every thing devour'd; Celestial lightning, with dread fury hurl'd, Off from its orbit struck the crackling world; The ruin'd globe, to every power a prey, Like a red comet, blaz'ing roll'd away; Loud thunder follow'd, every system quak'd, I heard the wild uproar, and, frighted, wak'd.
Thus, while we sleep, the soul her pow'r displays, And in her dreams awak'ning scenes surveys; Awake or sleeping, still eternal love Bids thee, O man! the present time improve: Soon out of reach the fleeting moments hasten, And this, for ought thou know'st, may be thy last. Th' immediate now is thine; when that is o'er, 'Tis past, 'tis gone, and will return no more.
State of New-Hampshire.
Notice is hereby given to the nonresident owners of land in the following towns, viz. Rumney for the year 1781; Chesterfield and Hawk for 1782; Grafton for 1783; Northfield for 1783 and 1784; Lyman from 1774, nine years; Cardigan from 1776, nine years; Hindsdale from 1780, six years; Amherst for 1783, 84, and 86; Wilton for 1784 and 85; Mason and Wendell for 1784; Nottingham, New-Durham, Washington, Fitzwilliam and Hopkinton, for 1785 and 86; Moultonborough, Pembroke, the Gore, Pittsfield, Raymond, Andover, Canaan, Middleton, Grantham, Rochester and Campton for 1785; Northumberland, Antrim, Stoddard, Francistown, Tamworth, New-Boston, Lempster and New-Ipswich, for 1786—that their lands in said towns are taxed for the years aforesaid, and if the taxes are not paid within eight weeks, from the first publication of this advertisement, either to the Collectors or the subscriber, they will be advertised for sale.
THOMAS ODIORNE, (Receiver of non residents' taxes.) Exeter December 6, 1786.
State of New - Hampshire.
THE subscriber being Constable for the town of Lyme, in said state, for the year 1782, and having a tax for said year committed him to collect; notice has been given according to law, to the non-residents and others, owning land in said Lyme to pay the same; these are therefore to notify the delinquents whose names are hereafter inserted, that unless they pay the several sums to each of their names hereafter affixed, with cost, so much of their respective lots of land in said town will be sold at public vendue, on the fourth Tuesday of January next; at the dwellinghouse of the Widow Darcas Green, in said Lyme, at ten o'clock in the forenoon as will pay the same with charges.
   D. Qty. £. s. d.    John Leg { 50 0 17 1  { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  Thomas Peverley { 50 0 17 1  { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  John Bartholomew { 50 0 17 1  { 50 0 17 1  { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  John Libbey { 50 0 17 1  { 50 0 17 1  { 50 0 17 1  Thomas Warren { 50 0 17 1  { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  Thomas Wentworth { 50 0 17 1  { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  John Nelson { 50 0 17 1  { 50 0 17 1  { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  Dunkin Quentin { 50 0 17 1  { 50 0 17 1  { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  Edward Morris { 50 0 17 1  { 50 0 17 1  { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  Stephen Hatch { 50 0 17 1  { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  Thomas W. Waldron { 50 0 17 1  { 50 0 17 1  { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  James Brown { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  Edward Ayers { 50 0 17 1  { 50 0 17 1  { 50 0 17 1  Charles Blunt { 50 0 17 1  { 50 0 17 1  John Gilbert { 100 1 0 6  John Wentworth { 50 0 17 1  William Canaday { 50 0 17 1  William Blunt { 100 1 0 6  John Clark { 50 0 17 1  { 50 0 17 1  { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  Thomas Martin { 50 0 17 1  James Thomson { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  Heirs Isaac Fellows { 50 0 17 1  { 100 1 0 6  { 100 0 14 6  { 400 4 2 0  
JONATHAN GOODEL, Collector. Lyme, December 4, 1786.
State of New Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the township of Raby, who have not paid taxes for the year 1784, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 19th day of February 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 on said day, at my dwelling-house in Raby, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Acres. s. d.    Land where Nath'l Patten lives 100 5 6  Land south of Capt. Douglass's 100 4 6  Common land west side Bare hill 100 4 6  
RANDELL M'DONELL, Collector. Raby, December 25, 1786.
Two Dollars Reward,
WHEREAS some evil disposed person or persons, have in the fall past, cut and carried off sundry young trees, as also the fencing stuff and fowl from the farm on which the subscriber now dwells; this is to offer a reward of two dollars to any person that will discover the trespassers, so that they may be prosecuted and convicted in course of law for the same. THO's PACKER.
State of New-Hampshire,
Notice is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the township of Sandwich, in the State aforesaid, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1778 and 1779, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Wednesday the 3rd day of February next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at one o'clock on said day, at my dwelling-house in Sandwich, unless prevented by previous payment.
   R. l. s. R. l. s. R. l. s. R. l. s.    John Folsom jr. 1 8 6 6 27 6 11 22 3 11 3 5  Josiah Miles 1 9 6 10 21 3 2 14 0 17 0 6  Caleb Thuston 7 20 6  Samuel Folsom 9 30 9 0 0 0 9 30 9 17s. 6d  Gen. Nathaniel Folsom's hundred acre lot, call'd the Davis's lot.  
JACOB SMITH, Collector. Sandwich, Dec. 2, 1786.
State of New - Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Hancock, who have not paid their taxes, that so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the house of Joseph Symonds, in said town, on Thursday the eleventh day of January next, at one o'clock afternoon, as will pay the tax assessed on said lands, in my list of taxes for the year 1785, with incidental charges unless prevented by previous payment.
   £. s. d.    William Ayers — — 0 2 4  Robert Moor's heirs — — 0 2 4  James Moor — — 0 1 0  Peter Perram — — 0 2 4  Nathan Miriam — — 0 13 4  Nathan Jones — — 0 2 4  Lynda & Hancock — — 0 7 0  
JAMES DUNCAN, Collector. Hancock, December 22, 1786.
To be sold cheap,
A genteel SLEIGH, fit for one Horse or two, the term of payment will be made easy. Apply to the PRINTER.
State of New Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Marlborough, who are delinquent in paying their taxes for the year 1783, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber at my dwelling-house in said town, on or before the first Monday in February next, so much of their lands as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at one o'clock in the afternoon on said day, at the dwelling-house of Maj. Richard Roberts, in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. R. s. d. q.    James Loyns 3 5 12 9 0  Thomas Cochran 59 3 10 0  ditto 60 7 1 1  William Gilmore 3 4 14 2 2  ditto 4 4 8 2 1  — Wilson 5 3 5 7 3  ditto 6 3 6 8 3  Jonathan Wagon 1 5 5 7 0  Andrew Emmer 3 6 15 2 2  ditto 5 4 5 7 0  Samuel Allison 4 6 8 2 0  ditto 4 4 3 10 2  ditto 2 5 10 2 0  — Dunulap 44 6 2 2  John Gilmore 10 1 4 1 0  Robert Allen 7 1 5 9 2  ditto 13 7 3 0 0  James Moore 2 3 6 2 0  Thomas McClary 100 3 10 0  John Morrison 9 1 6  ditto 9 2 1  Samuel — 6 6 2 6 3  ditto 12 7 2 1 2  Samuel Cochran 3 2 2 1 2  Hugh Montgomery 10 2 10  John Moore 78 5 10 2  Robert Moore 56 2 1  Samuel Wilson 46 2 4 2  John Cochran 2 5 2 6 3  Samuel Allison 1 6 1 4 2  Joseph Green 343 5 6 4  
JAMES LEWIS, Collector. Marlborough, November 27, 1786.