The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1770-04-06 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
Vol. XIV. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday April 6, 1770.
Numb. 703 | Weeks since this Paper was published.
From the Essex Gazette, March 13.
Mr. HALL,
I lately met, by accident, with an Extract from the political State of Great Britain for the Month of December, 1730, in which the Author gives an Account of the Contest between Belcher the Governor, and the then Representatives, of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, I doubt not the Author's Remarks upon that Dispute will be as agreeable to many of your Readers, as they were to your humble Servant,
A New-England Man.
THE Governor, pursuant to royal Instructions, demanded (as other Governors had done before him) a fixed Salary for himself & his Successors: But the House almost unanimously refused to grant it. Thereupon he made a Speech to the Council and the House, endeavouring to persuade them (especially the latter) to a compliance. And, after mentioning "the dutiful Inclination of the King's Council to do what they would hope might be acceptable to his Majesty in Answer to what he had so long and so often required of his Government;" and expressing his own Satisfaction therewith; goes on to say how that Pleasure was damp'd "by their" [the Representatives'] "going on in the Way they had been in, and so doing nothing that looked like a decent Respect to his Majesty"—and that their Proceedings would certainly (in his Opinion) produce fatal consequences "which they and their Posterity might groan under when it might be too late to find a Remedy." Fourteen Days after this the Governor sent the House a Message, in the same Strain with his Speech; and therein, among other things said, "he had good Reason to believe their Principles (meaning the Towns they represented) were more inclined than ever to live in duty and Obedience to the King, and to free themselves from the Charge they" [the Representatives] "were constantly bringing upon them in this Affair:"—And he was afraid they would think their Representatives had not that Care and Solicitude for the Welfare of their Country, which their Constituents might justly expect.
Upon this Speech and Message the Author makes the following Reflections:
"I am persuaded that these Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, who are so resolute against the Commands of the Crown, have the Honour and Interest of their Native Country, and the Liberties and Properties of those they represent, nearly at Heart, otherwise they would never venture to make such a Stand against Royal Power, which has now so many ways of rewarding its humble Servants, and so large a Scope for punishing its Opposers.
"I must acquaint my Readers, that the assembly of this Province resembles our Parliaments in ENGLAND, the Governor represents the King, the Council represents our Lords, & the Representatives represent our Members of the House of Commons: And each of the Members both of the Council, and House of Representatives, have as much a Privilege and Freedom of speaking their Minds, and Voting as they think proper in their Assemblies, as any of our Lords or Commons have in our Parliament. After this Observation, I must take notice, that there are Expressions both in his Excellency's Speech & Message, which I believe every Member of our Parliament would hear from the Throne with Disdain; that Members of Parliament shall be taxed with doing nothing that looks like a decent respect to his Majesty, and threatened with Consequences that they and their Posterity may groan under, only for dissenting from a Measure projected by the Crown and which they think (as must be presumed) inconsistent with the Liberties of their Country, are Terms more proper for a French Monarch, or a Turkish Bashaw, than for an English Governor; &
it is to be hoped, that if this Affair comes before the British Parliament, they will take a Care, that no Governor for the future shall irritate his People by such Expressions.
The Governor says in his Message, that it is his Majesty's Pleasure that his Governors shall be maintained honourably and independently, I am sure his Majesty is so gracious, that he never desired to be independent of his Parliament; and therefore I cannot think that he ever desired that any of his Governors should be independent of the People they are sent to rule over. The mutual Dependence of our King and Parliament is the only Support, and great Happiness of our Constitution; and the Minute that either of them can honourably subsist without any dependance upon the other our Constitution is at an end, and the useless Member will soon be laid aside. Upon this dependance our Liberties, and Properties, and every Thing that's dear to us wholly depend; and it's to be hoped the Link of our Happiness at Home will always extend to our Dominions abroad.
"I hope I have no Occasion to beg Pardon of any British Subject, for being so full in my Remarks upon the Subject of this Contest in New-England.
—I am persuaded that his Majesty has so great a Regard for the Liberties of his People, that he will not give the least handle for oppressing them in any Part of his Dominions, nor be obliged at any Man who delivers his Sentiments bravely and freely either in Parliament or out of Parliament. It is the singular Happiness of the King of Great-Britain, that he is not obliged to take the Approbation of his Measures from Sycophants and Flatterers, but from the unbounded Liberty of Speech in Parliament, and from the Liberty of the Press in his own Metropolis: As long as any King takes this Method of being informed of the just Complaints of his Subjects, he will reign secure, and may put a Stop to any Grievance before it comes to the height; but that Moment he puts a Stop to such Informations he is in danger of being cajoled by Court Parasites, and lulled asleep with detestable Falsehoods, till the Nation becomes generally disaffected, and he himself is involved in a Ruin, which was at first only designed against his Ministers. * Nor is a Standing Army of any Effect in such Circumstances, for wherever they are established, and have the absolute command, it's evident from all Histories, that the King, the Ministers, and the Government are upon the most precarious Footing, & are much more unhappy than in a regular, & well constituted Form of Government.
"This Affair of the Dispute between the Governor and House of Representatives in New England is of the more Weight, that New-England is one of the best, and most powerful Colonies we have in the West-Indies. We ought to consider, that in all Nations Oppression and arbitrary Sway has generally taken its rise in the most remote Parts, like a dead Palsy, it generally first seizes the Hands and Feet, but from thence it soon reaches the Heart and makes an End of the Body Politic. For this Reason I have been and always will be particularly interested in the Affair of that Colony, because I am afraid it should one Time or other serve as a Precedent at Home.
* This Passage I would particularly recommend to be administered to such squeamish Stomachs as have discovered (or been affected with) a violent Loathing of a Letter lately published in the Essex Gazette, signed JUNIUS, addressed to -----.
L O D O N, January 6.
In the year 1763, and before that unhappy period, so great was the veneration the Colonists had for the old countries, that it was by much, more easy to incense a Marylander against a Virginian, or any one Colonist against another, to such a degree, that they would decide their difference by fighting, than to stimulate any of them to fight with an English-
man; but the stamp-act, and subsequent revenue laws, have already raised a flame in the colonies, which will not now be speedily allayed.
We hear, that although every Colony on the Continent of America, except one or two, have come into resolutions not to import British goods, yet not a manufacturing village in this kingdom complains of a slack trade; nay, what is more, when some of them were applied to, at the close of the last Session, to sign a Petition, setting forth their distresses arising from the suspension of the American orders, they said, that they were then so fully employed that they could not, with any colour of truth, sign such a Petition.
The following dreadful account from the fort of Cape Corse Castle, on the coast of Africa, has been confirmed, word for word, by other letters received from the Guinea coast:----- Towards the latter end of last April a shower of rain fell in the neighbourhood of that fort, which when over was followed with a fall of a white earth, or more likely a mineral dust. This dust came with a sweep from a south-east wind, attended with a white sky, and falling upon the most exposed nerve of the human body, the eye, immediately occasioned the loss of that nerve, and brought on a mortification, which carried off the unhappy sufferers in the course four days. Out of eighty persons in that fort the Governor is the only one who escaped this pestilential vapour, which was most probably of the arsenical kind. The Governor finding himself attacked, immediately took a boat, and got on board one of the merchant's ships then in the road, and by proper bleeding and purgation, did not fall a victim. The fifty soldiers, who composed the military garrison in that fort, were every one of them carried off by this fatal blast, it is observable, that after this white arsenical powder had fallen upon the eye, the body first turned yellow, and afterwards was covered with a black dye. And it is well worthy notice, that none of the Blacks were in the least incommoded by this dreadful vapour.
The proposed match between the P—r & a daughter of the F— King, may be ranked as one of the happy consequences of the late glorious peace.
The Gentlemen of the University of Oxford have honoured General Paoli with the Degree of Doctor of Laws.
A celebrated Preacher yesterday, at the West End of the town, concluded his Sermon, which was up on the present National Grievances, in words to the following purport, "Let us rouze ourselves from this idle notion of our Liberties being in danger; let us, whenever a day of fasting and humiliation is appointed, pray to God to preserve our happy Constitution as it is at present at the zenith of prosperity and freedom, and fortify the Administration with resolution to oppose the wicked views of those, who, like Catiline, wish to aggrandize themselves by the destruction of their country."
The fire which broke out at Berkeley Castle, in Gloucestershire, the seat of the Earl of Berkeley, burnt with great fury for several hours, and what rendered it more alarming, there was no engine within several miles. It began in the house-keeper's chamber, who, it is imagined, fell asleep, leaving her candle burning, and who unhappily perished in the flame. Two rooms above, and two below stairs, the servants apartments, were entirely destroyed, but the fire was providentially prevented from reaching the principal part of the Castle. The house-keeper had lived 30 years in the family.
THIS is to desire all those who have Accounts open with me the Subscriber, to come and settle them immediately, or they may depend upon being sued. Joseph Savel Hart.
Portsmouth, March 21. 1770.

A Vessel arrived at Maryland from Ireland, has brought a Cork Paper of the 23d of January, from which the following Advices are taken, viz.
L O N D O N, January 10. The humble Address of the House of Commons to the KING.
Most gracious Sovereign, WE your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Great-Britain in parliament assembled, beg leave to return your Majesty our humble thanks for your most gracious speech from the throne. We cannot but look upon it as a very serious misfortune, that, notwithstanding every precaution which could be used for preventing the communication of the infectious disorder among the horned cattle from foreign parts, that most alarming distemper appears to have again broke out in some parts of the kingdom: at the same time, we are truly sensible of your Majesty's paternal care and vigilance for the security of your people, in having given the earliest directions for every measure to be pursued, that might be the most likely to give an immediate check to the first spreading of the infection; and we will not fail to take this important matter into our immediate consideration; and make such provisions as shall appear best calculated to carry into effectual and complete execution your Majesty's salutary intentions; and thereby, as far as human means can be accomplished, to guard against the danger of so great a calamity becoming general.
Your faithful Commons have too just a sense of the blessings of peace, and feel with your Majesty, too tender a concern for the ease of their fellow-subjects, not to rejoice at the prospect which the assurances given by the other great powers of Europe afford to your Majesty, that the present disturbances will not extend to any part where the security, honor, or interest of this nation, may make it necessary for your Majesty to become a party. We have the fullest confidence that your Majesty will never be unmindful of those important objects; and we observe with great satisfaction, your Majesty's wise attention to the general interest of Europe, in your determination not to acknowledge any claims of any of the other powers of Europe, contrary to the limitations of the late treaties of peace.
We sincerely lament, that your Majesty's endeavours to bring back your subjects in America to a just sense of their duty, have hitherto proved so little successful. The state of your Majesty's government there does undoubtedly well deserve the serious attention of parliament; and no endeavours shall be wanting on our part, to make effectual provisions against the unwarrantable measures, carried on in some of your Majesty's colonies, which are so irreconcilable to every principle of commercial subserviency to the interest of the mother country, that ought to prevail in the colonies, and which, by attempting to subject the highest legal authority to the controul of individuals, tend to subvert the foundation of all government.
Your Majesty may be assured, that we will with the utmost cheerfulness and dispatch grant the necessary supplies for the service of the current year.
We acknowledge with the warmest gratitude that the welfare of these kingdoms has been the constant object of your Majesty's wishes, and the unwearied rule of your actions. Permit us, Sir, at the same time, to offer to your Majesty our most dutiful thanks for the favourable opinion which your Majesty is pleased to entertain of the conduct of your parliament; and to assure your Majesty that we will steadily persevere in such principles as are most agreeable to the true spirit of this free constitution, & invariably pursue such measures as are most conducive to the real happiness of the people.
Earnestly desirous of justifying to all the world your Majesty's gracious declaration of your confidence in us, we will make it our study to avoid all heats and animosities, and to cultivate that harmony amongst ourselves, which, we are truly sensible, is at this time peculiarly necessary, to give weight to our deliberations, to establish the prosperity, and to maintain in its true lustre the reputation of this country.
And while we on our part are faithfully executing the trust reposed in us, by endeavouring to the utmost of our power to promote these good ends, we trust that all who live under this happy constitution will be convinced how indispensably it is their duty to pay that obedience to the laws, and just reverence to lawful authority, by which alone their own rights can be preserved, and the distinguished blessings which they enjoy above all other nations, be secure and permanent.
The House of Lords in their Answer to that Part of his Majesty's Speech relative to America, say,
"WE assure your Majesty, that we will take into our most serious consideration the state of your government in America. We beg leave to express our utmost concern, that the success of your Majesty's endeavours to bring back your subjects there to a due sense of lawful authority, have not answered your Majesty's expectations. We shall be ready to give every assistance in our power, for rendering effectual those your Majesty's gracious intentions, and for discountenancing those unwarrantable measures practised in some of your Majesty's colonies, which appear calculated to destroy the commercial connection between them and the mother country."
Jan. 11. A certain Sp--ch, from its not mentioning a word of some late petitions, has occasioned great speculation in the political world.
A correspondent says, "Early on yesterday morning the last stab was given to expiring -----."
On a division, upon a very important question on Tuesday, in a numerous assembly, the majority against the question was 254, and the minority for the question 138.---In a less numerous assembly, on a division on a question of the same nature and tendency, the majority against the question were nearly to the minority for the question as three to one.
Lord Chatham spoke long, and with great spirit and force, and replied to the several arguments used against him in the course of the debate.
We are informed, that a certain unpopular nobleman is going to sell his estates in Bedfordshire.
Jan. 12. The memory of the following Lords will be revered from the 6th instant to latest posterity, as friends to the British constitution and assertors of the rights of their fellow subjects.
The Dukes of Richmond, Portland, Manchester, and Northumberland. The Marquis of Rockingham. Earls of Suffolk, Stamford, Abingdon, Scarborough, Albemarle, Tankerville, Aylesford, Macclesfield, Effingham, Buckinghamshire, Fitzwilliam, Temple, Radnor and Chatham. Viscount Torrington. Lords Abergavenny, Byron, Craven, Boyle, Trevor, King, Monson, Chedworth, Edgecumbe, Fortescue, Ponsonby, Lyttleton, Wycombe, Grosvenor, Milton, Camden.
The odds on Tuesday were 89 to 36, & 254 to 138.
It is said that Lords Temple, Lyttleton, Marquis of Granby, and Mr. Grenville, have had frequent conferences with the Earl of Chatham.
A person of great eminence in the law has joined the minority, as has also another great Lawyer.
It is said, that a certain military commander, of the highest rank, who has ever been deservedly a favorite with the people, has joined the minority, and declared, that "he shall ever look upon his conduct, during the last year, as the most reproachful era of his life."
Jan. 13. It was the fullest house of commons on Tuesday last, that ever was known on the first day of the session; it exceeded above 40, of any first day in the most busy times of Sir Robert Walpole.
The Duke of Manchester has resigned his place as Lord of the bed-chamber; but we have not yet learnt who is to succeed him.
Every fiftieth man is raising in the dominions of the Empress of Russia, to compleat her armies and marine.
The odds on Wednesday night were 89 to 26. A certain D-- near Charing-crofs joined the minority.
The Duke of N----- taking part against the M-----, is matter of astonishment to both parties.
In a certain political club on Tuesday night, a motion was made for an amendment to the A-----s, by adding, "that they would also in due time take into consideration the complaints and grievances of the people;" which produced much opposition from Sir F-----N-----, L-----B-----n, & L-----N-----th: This motion being supported by C-----l B-----e, Mr. B-----, & Mr. G. G-----lle. L-----B-----n, in examining the remarks that had been made upon that part of the sp---h relative to the colonies, observed, "that Lord B-----'s appointment for the government of Virginia, was so far from being disagreeable to the inhabitants of that colony, that he was highly caressed there by the people of every rank." C-----l B-----e was severe upon the present as well as the preceding f-----h. Mr. B-----ke was diffusive, and uncommonly elegant.
In one part of his harangue took off Sir F-----N----- in his manner & mode of his expression, as he did likewise L-----N-----th.
It is said that a n-----le D----- near C-----g C-----s, has again relinquished the opposition, in consequence of a mandate sent him by a great personage.
If a Chancellor of a kingdom be keeper of the King's conscience, as he is generally termed, can a King do better than consult his father confessor?
It is now certain that an officer of the law, and an officer of the army will be immediately removed, for their conduct in a great assembly last Tuesday.
It is said Mr. York will succeed Lord Camden, & General Conway the Marquis of Granby.
The public are rejoiced to hear, that a first minister and the Earl of C-----m are of the same opinion, with respect to the disputes in America.
Strict orders are given that no person be admitted to hear the debates in the H-----s of C-----ns.
In a certain assembly on Wednesday, the D. of G----- spoke near an hour. The principal speakers in the opposition were, Lord C-----n, the L-----d Ch-----l-t, Lord T-----e, and Lord S-----b-----e.
Mr. B-----ke, the same day, in a certain place, spoke two hours. There were thirty-one speakers.
Colonel B-----e, the other day, declared in a certain place, that the M-----y had alienated the minds of thirteen millions of people.
The King of Prussia's minister has left the Court of France abruptly, so a rupture between them and Prussia is daily expected.
The necessity of an immediate d-----n of P-----t we hear, was strongly enforced by a great Crown-officer on Tuesday last. The only person who made a tolerable figure on the other side, it is said, was Mr. R-----y.
It is an undoubted matter of fact, that upwards of 80,000 free-holders have signed the several petitions to his Majesty.
If the account of the Turks having seized our merchants ships in the ports of their dominions, on account of the assistance given by us to the Russians be true, it cannot fail of involving us in the quarrel, and probably with more than one power of Europe. This news is said to have been received by an English brigantine, called the Mary, purposely dispatched to our Consul at Leghorn, in order to acquaint him with it.
By authentic letters from various parts of England, we learn that notwithstanding the late infection, cattle in general bears a very moderate price.
This morning it was rumoured, at the court end of the town, that 17 respectable names had joined the minority.
Mr. Wilkes had again this morning a great number of visitors of rank and fortune.
Yesterday the Lord Chancellor was at court, staid there some time, and returned back with the seals.
The French Court are greatly alarmed at a secret intelligence communicated to them last week, and by which they are given to understand, that when Admiral Elphinstone's fleet shall have joined the Russian fleet, now in Port-Mahon, that the Court of Russia will declare war, against France, and immediately make a descent on the Island of Corsica, in order to conquer it, and for which purpose, it is said, Pashal Paoli is to embark on board one of the Russian ships of war, now daily expected in one of the Ports of Great-Britain.
A gentleman lately arrived from Berlin asserts, that the military establishment of the King of Prussia is not less than one hundred & fourscore thousand men.---A considerable part of them, however, are not maintained as soldiers, but suffered to work at the respective occupations they were bred to. They are nevertheless, registered, and regularly exercised, & subject to such command, that they must join their respective corps instantly on notice. The King continually employs himself in reviews, and the study of martial improvements, and is so jealous of their being carried elsewhere, that it is dangerous for any foreigner to appear to observe, or make any enquiry into the particulars. Some have been obliged to the speed of their horses, for escaping being called to account for a slight indulgence of their curiosity.
PHILADELPHIA, March 15. Capt. Crew from Sardinia informs, that the Admiral of four sail of Russian men of war and several transports were arrived at Port-Mahon, which is destined for their Rendezvous. The Russians had begun to build several small vessels, the frames of which were carried there on board the men of war, which small vessels are to take on board a large number of Greeks, who are to proceed with the fleet, to the place of their destination.
Capt. Currey from Barcelona, touched at Gibraltar the 20th of January last, and informs, that a day or two before he got in there, about 30 sail of Russian men of war, and transports sailed from thence for Mahon, and that a great number of Russian soldiers, &c. were sick.
N E W - Y O R K, March 19. The Grace, Capt. Chambers, arrived here last Saturday Morning, in 10 Weeks from Bristol: He sailed from thence the 7th of January, but has brought no Prints so late as we received by Way of South Carolina: By him we have several Letters from London, most of them acquainting us, That the American Revenue Acts would be repealed soon after the Parliament met; and that there was a very great Probability our Money Bill would receive the Royal assent; to effect which, our present Governor Lord Dunmore, was using his utmost Endeavours; and that his Excellency may be expected here the latter End of May or beginning of June, in a King's Ship.
B O S T O N, March 29. We hear the Honourable House of Representatives have made Choice of the Rev. Mr. SAMUEL COOKE, of Cambridge, to preach on the Anniversary of the Election of his Majesty's Council on the last Wednesday of May next.
We hear that the Buildings lately consumed by Fire at Penobscot, were the Property of Thomas Goldthwait, Esq; Capt. of the Garrison there, who erected them at his Expense for the Convenience of the Trade with the Indians as Truckmaster.
Capt. Thacher of this Place writes that in his Passage from hence to Barbados, he saw a Vessel in a hard Gale of Wind, but was not able to speak with her, which shift a Sea that swept off the Watch that was on Deck.
April 2. Yesterday se'nnight his Majesty's 16th Regiment embarked on board Transports at New-York, and were to sail from thence for Pensacola the next Day.
Friday last the Senegal Sloop of War arrived here from Rhode-Island.
Yesterday sailed the Betty Packet, Capt. Gardner, hired by this Town to carry to England a full Representation of the fifth ult.
Extract of a letter from Bristol, Dec 30. 1769. "The Ministry have assured some Persons in the American Trade,
that so far as the King's servants can promote the Repeal of the Duties on Tea, Paper, Glass and Paints, they will, so that the Spring Trade to the Colonies shall not be lost."
MR. DRAPER, Mention was just made in the Papers of December last of the untimely death of Mr. [Daniel], by mistake for] * David Stinson, a student of Harvard College, and a native of Woolwich upon Kennebec. The particulars were not specified. The distance of his friends, and the difficulty of conveyance in the winter-season, prevented the following account being sent till now, which you are desired to publish.
IN the beginning of December he embarked for Boston on his return to College, aboard a coasting vessel, Thomas Smart, master: before the vessel got out of the harbour, the truck, or rather grounded upon a rock; but no leak immediately ensuing, it was tho' safe to proceed on the voyage. In the evening of the 9th of December having just entered Casco-Bay, the master suddenly perceived the vessel sinking under him; and cried out, "For God's sake take to the boat!" Scarcely were the people, five in number, got into the boat, when the vessel was all under water, and turned down upon one side. The perils they had now to encounter surpass description. The wind high and blowing off shore,---the cold extreme,---the sea boisterous,---the boat small, open, leaky. And what greatly added to their distress, one of the two oars they were furnished with, pretty soon broke.---Death in the most ghastly form was continually staring them in the face; to which Mr. Stinson, being soon overcome by the rigour, she was beset with, resigned himself up. By morning he and a lad of the company expired. The rest, assisted by a vessel coming across them, got into Kennebec river alive some time in the forenoon.
Mr. David Stinson, youngest son of Mr. Thomas Stinson, for many years an elder of the presbyterian church at Georgetown, was of an amiable character, much beloved by all his acquaintance.---He had a taste for literature from his early youth; which appears from this remarkable circumstance, that he could read the Bible very well at the age of five years. The disadvantages the remote part of the Province his parents lived in, laboured under for want of Grammar-school masters, prevented his being initiated in the learned language, so early as they desired and attempted. His thirst for learning increased with his years. What could not be obtained at home in the usual time, he was prompted to go abroad to seek, when arrived to maturer age. He was admitted into Harvard College in his 22d year; and was, when he died, in the class of junior-sophisters: His proficiency in the arts and sciences, was proportionate to his standing. His inclination was peculiarly turned to mathematical studies & the belles lettres. He had a very happy talent at composition, which, added to the seriousness his mind appeared to be impressed with, promised success, had God spared his life, in the Gospel ministry, to which he had devoted himself.
* Boston Weekly News-Letter, Dec. 28, 1769. H A R T F O R D, March 25. Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman at Gibraltar, to his Friend in Norwich, dated December 17. 1769.
Now undertake to give you an account of what passes here, (or at least what is reported) and first, you are to take notice, that the Russians and the Greeks are of the same religion.---That there are said to be more Greeks in Europe than Turks, and in all the islands in the Archipelagoes four Greeks to one Turk, now the Empress of Russia, has had her emigrations for more than 12 months past, in every part of Turkey, where the Greeks are. She has at this time, not less than 40 generals in the very heart of Turkey, trying to bring about a revolution: and in order to animate the Greeks to shake off the Turkish yoke, she has fitted out a large fleet, consisting of 40 ships of the line, besides frigates, and store ships, the first division of this fleet passed by last week except 5 sail, which stopped here a few days, and has since sailed. We hourly expect the second division, which is said to be 15 sail, 25 having passed us---their first place of rendezvous is at Minorca; there the commander in chief is to meet them from Leghorn. This general has been to Constantinople---has come down through every part of Turkey, where he chose to visit---he travels in the Greek dress, as do all the rest of the Russian generals now in Turkey. They all speak the Greek language, by which means they pass unobserved, this general is he who brought about the revolution, and is the Empress's particular favourite, and is her first in command---we are told that as soon as the Russian fleet makes its appearance up the arches, the Greeks will directly revolt from the Turks, and join the Russians; if so, the Russian fleet will sail directly from Constantinople down the Hellepont, into the black sea. If once this is accomplished, the Turks, will have no footing in Europe. This is the grand design of the empress of Russia; for she does not scruple to say (as we are informed) that she would drive the Turks over the Hellepont.---The last battle fought between the Russians & the Turks, the former came off victorious, though vast numbers were killed on both sides. The French are fitting out 15 sail of the line at Toulon, it is said to join the Turks. Capt. -----, in one of our frigates, is cruising off Toulon, to watch the motions of the French. We are also inform'd there is another fleet fitting out at Brest.
It is the opinion of our politicians here, that unless the Russians and Turks make a peace this winter, all Europe will be brought into a War before the next.
L O N D O N, December 3. 1770. The obdurate and pertinacious Mr. G----- G-rn-lle, has at last entirely given up his favourite scheme of internally taxing the North-Americans, and, for the first time, has allowed himself to have been originally in the wrong, declaring that he was led into this error by an Act of Parliament, which, as he thought, primarily empowered the Crown to tax the people of Ireland; whereas this power, he now finds, was not granted to the Crown of England by virtue of that Act of Parliament above-mentioned, but by virtue of the original Compact, or Charter, acceded to on the part of the Irish in Henry the Second's reign, and confirmed to them by that King as the rule or law to be reciprocally kept & observed, as well by the governor as by the governed.
Before the Stamp-Act, every Colony in America was divided into court and country parties: but now, union, and oeconomy, are universal all over that large continent. Internal manufactures flourish; and as these improve, a contempt of European delicacies becomes the rising mode. The planter struts in his homespun, and casts an indignant look on that meanness of soul, which hopes for a superior distinction, by the consumption of the manufactures of a country that exulted in enslaving America. Such are the blessed effects of your new-taxing laws; & such is the spirit they have infused into that large continent.

 A List of the Numbers that came up Prizes, in the Third Class of Stratham and Newmarket 
LOTTERY , drawn March 15th, 1770.
    3 320 632 5 81 1163 30 1445 1744 2038 2324 2613 2936 5   8 23 34 88 5 71 47 45 40 31 15 37   9 26 35 89 74 48 46 41 12 33 19 38   17 27 36 90 76 51 48 46 36 22 43   20 30 37 92 77 52 53 47 38 10 24 44   21 31 38 93 78 53 55 50 41 28 45   24 33 40 96 79 55 56 52 42 30 47   26 34 5 44 99 82 58 57 54 45 35 51   34 39 45 902 84 60 59 57 56 37 20 53   36 12 40 46 3 85 65 66 58 65 42 54 11   41 42 47 4 88 66 97 30 68 66 45 58   49 43 51 6 91 68 69 76 68 5 47 59   50 49 54 11 94 69 70 78 70 48 66   57 52 10 56 12 97 73 72 81 71 49 67   60 57 57 14 98 74 73 84 72 50 68   63 63 58 15 99 40 75 74 88 73 52 70   67 64 10 64 19 1200 76 76 10 89 84 53 76   71 66 65 20 1 78 83 90 85 54 77   72 67 68 21 20 8 80 85 95 89 58 85   77 70 70 22 11 83 92 97 91 61 86   79 77 5 71 26 12 5 91 96 99 10 93 77   80 79 72 27 16 95 40 1800 2100 20 94 78   85 80 74 28 19 97 10 1 98 86 92   88 84 75 29 21 99 15 4 2402 88 96   91 88 77 31 24 40 1500 16 5 7 89 5   94 95 78 33 25 4 17 8 90 3000 5   96 96 84 36 28 8 18 17 9 91   98 97 85 37 31 9 12 18 10 93   104 98 95 44 33 10 30 20 11 96   8 99 99 46 34 29 40 22 15 98   13 12 401 707 47 35 31 42 23 16 2701   14 12 2 11 51 38 37 44 25 18 3   15 4 14 53 39 42 45 26 25 10 5   16 6 15 56 42 46 52 27 29 12   23 12 16 57 44 47 60 28 35 13   33 13 17 61 47 49 62 35 37 18   35 14 50 20 65 48 50 63 38 38 24   37 15 22 68 55 52 64 42 41 25   41 16 25 69 58 53 65 46 46 26   44 17 31 73 62 56 66 48 47 10 33   46 19 32 76 69 57 67 49 48 34   47 26 33 78 73 58 71 58 51 35   50 27 41 83 74 63 74 20 60 53 39   51 31 44 85 75 65 78 62 55 42   52 41 45 89 76 66 81 66 50 60 45   55 44 48 1000 79 69 82 73 63 49   63 47 54 1 80 71 83 74 65 54   64 49 57 3 81 77 87 76 67 59   66 51 58 30 4 82 82 10 88 77 70 60   75 52 59 5 84 83 91 85 72 61   78 58 63 6 89 86 92 95 73 62   80 59 64 7 90 88 95 96 77 63   81 62 5 65 11 92 90 96 2201 81 64   82 63 66 12 93 91 99 2 83 71   84 65 68 18 94 93 1907 5 84 74   85 70 72 19 97 98 8 7 93 78 5   87 83 73 22 1300 1600 5 9 10 40 2501 81   90 503 74 32 2 8 11 11 11 6 88 12   93 5 76 33 9 13 17 12 11 10 89   97 11 79 35 30 10 17 5 18 14 40 18 90   202 12 82 38 11 18 26 20 19 92 40 92   3 13 10 83 40 22 21 28 21 21 96   5 14 12 87 49 24 30 30 30 26 99   6 15 88 57 25 33 31 33 32 2804   7 18 20 89 59 31 34 32 35 12 35 7   11 32 93 62 32 38 33 36 36 8   24 34 97 63 35 42 34 40 37 9   33 35 98 66 36 46 20 36 41 10   38 38 801 67 38 48 37 42 41 11   41 39 2 68 40 52 38 46 45 16   44 40 3 10 69 41 53 45 47 46 17   48 42 4 74 44 54 47 49 49 19   51 47 8 77 45 57 49 52 50 22   52 53 13 78 49 58 54 58 51 34   54 54 14 86 51 60 55 59 52 35   57 59 15 87 52 63 56 62 54 37   58 60 17 92 61 67 58 10 65 41   59 61 18 94 12 65 73 60 66 62 54   63 66 21 95 67 74 68 67 63 58   65 67 23 97 70 76 69 74 5 69 63   75 69 27 1101 71 78 70 75 73 65   76 73 30 3 72 5 81 71 5 80 71   79 75 37 4 75 83 77 82 50 80 5   81 78 38 10 78 84 95 89 83 75   84 79 40 15 79 91 2003 94 20 84   85 83 42 18 83 1702 4 96 30 86 77   88 85 45 21 84 3 30 5 97 88   89 88 54 23 90 9 10 11 99 89   94 89 57 24 92 10 15 5 2304 90   95 90 58 28 93 11 17 7 93 88   97 91 59 34 97 12 19 9 94 92   300 96 66 37 1402 17 20 20 10 95 98   1 98 67 39 11 18 21 11 96 2903   2 601 68 100 40 15 20 25 12 2601 5 5   7 2 69 42 18 23 26 10 13 2 15   8 9 72 43 26 25 28 17 5 19   9 15 75 46 29 27 31 18 6 25   10 17 78 48 40 39 32 19 7 30 29   11 21 79 59 5 41 41 35 21 8 31 20   19 26 80 61 12 43 42 36 23 9 33   
|| Sailsbury. §
NOTICE is hereby given to the several delinquent Proprietors of SALISBURY (late Stevens Town) in New Hampshire, that have not paid their several and respective Taxes, voted to be laid on each original Right or Share in said Township, at sundry legal Meetings, that so much of their said Rights be sold at Publick Vendus at the House of Peter Abber, Innholder in Kingston, on Monday the 30th Day of April next, at Two o'Clock Afternoon, agreeable to the Laws of said Province, unless they prevent the same by paying said Taxes before the Time of Sale, to me at my House in Kingston, with incidental Charges,
The delinquent Proprietors are as follows, viz.
The Sums are in Lawful Money.
    The Sums are in Pounds, shillings, pence.   £. s. d. £. s. d.     Tristram Quinby 3 7 0 Samuel Brown 0 7 6   Ephraim Collins 1 6 9 Jer. Webster, Esq; 0 9 6   John Hontoon 2 0 0 Humphry Hook 0 5 6   Jonathan Greeley 0 17 0 Peter Dearborn 0 7 0   Phillip Call 0 2 5 Edward Scribner 0 2 0   Abraham Green 0 14 6 Enoch Bean 0 2 7   Nathaniel Ladd 0 15 0 William Loverin 0 3 2   Ebenezer Page 0 8 0 John Chalis 0 2 0   Samuel French 0 12 8 John Fifield 0 3 2   Ebenezer Long 0 4 0   
JOHN CALEF, Collector.
Kingston, March 29. 1776.
TO BE SOLD.
A good new Dwelling-House, Barn, Well, and other Accommodations, with half an Acre of choice Land, on which is a small Orchard; a pleasant Situation, lying in South Hampton, on the main Road, within about ten Rods of Phillips White, Esq; very suitable for a Doctor, ( there not being one within Four Miles ) or any other Business. Enquire of Micaiah Morrill, living on the Premises.
T HE Superior Court by Law held on the first Tuesday in February ulto. was then adjourned to Tuesday the 17th Day of April next, at Ten o'Clock A. M. at which Time the Petit Jurors are required to attend. By order of Court,
GEO. KING, Clerk.
Portsmouth, March 20, 1870.
§ Piermont. §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of PIERMONT, in the Province of New Hampshire, on the 12th Day of March, 1765, at a legal Meeting held for that purpose, voted to raise the Sum of Eighteen Shillings Lawful Money on each Right in said Township ; and also at another Meeting the Sum of Forty two Shillings Lawful Money on each Right in said Town, which several Sums have been legally assessed, and the Subscriber hath been authorized by a Warrant from the Assessors of said Propriety to collect the same, according to Law : And notwithstanding Notice has been given thereof, several of the said Proprietors have neglected to pay their said TAXES ; these are therefore to Notify the said delinquent Proprietors, that unless they pay their said Taxes to me the Subscriber by the tenth Day of April next, the whole or so much as may be requisite, of their Right, will be then sold at a publick Vendue, at the House of Mr. Enoch Clark, Innholder in Greenland, to pay the same, with incidental Charges, according to LAW.
 The original delinquent Proprietors are as follows, viz.     James Nevin, Esq;  2  2  0  Col. John Goffe,  3  0  0    Nathl. Barrell, Esq;  3  0  0  C. Ezekiel Worthen  3  0  0    Andrew Clarkson,  3  0  0  Jonathan Church  3  0  0    Benjamin Stevens,  3  0  0  Robert Temple, Esq  3  0  0    Col. Samuel Barr,  3  0  0  Timothy Bedel, Esq  2  2  0    Maj. Joseph Smith,  3  0  0  Thomas Packer, Esq  3  0  0    John Page, Esq;  3  0  0  Samuel Wentworth,  3  0  0    Samuel Emerson,  3  0  0  John Tuston Mason  3  0  0    Joseph Wright  3  0  0  George Levius,  3  0  0    Dr. John Hale,  3  0  0  Charles Paxton, Esq;  3  0  0    Joseph Blanchard,  3  0  0  Robert Achmuty, Esq  3  0  0    Capt. Sam. Greely  3  0  0        
RICHARD JENNESS.
[ New-Brittain. ]
The Proprietors of the Township of NEW BRITTAIN, ( so called ) are hereby Notified, to meet at the House of Capt. Caleb Sanborn, Innholder in Hampton Falls, on Monday the Ninth Day of April next, at One of the Clock Afternoon.
1. To choose a Moderator for said Meeting. 2. To choose a Proprietors Clerk ; a Committee to call Proprietors Meetings, Assessors, a Collector. &c. Also a Committee to wait on the Honorable Gentlemen the Grantors of said Township, if Occasion calls for it ; Also to see what said Proprietors will do further towards clearing and repairing Roads in said Township ; Also to see if they will raise any Sum of Money for the above Purposes or any other Charges that may arise in settling said Township. Anthony Emery ) Com.
THIS is to forbid all Persons crediting LOVE, the Wife of me the Subscriber, as I shall pay no Debts of her contracting from the Date hereof, her behaviour being such as obliges me to this.
Lee, March 19, 1870.
John Runels.