Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-11-02 00:00:00

Vol. XXXI.] F O U R T H  No. 1575.  NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND  GENERAL ADVERTISER.
THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 2, 1786.
PORTSMOUTH: By JOHN MELCHER,
PRINTED and PUBLISHED IN PAVED-STREET.
Subscriptions for the Paper, at 50 cts. per Ann. to be paid in at this Office, where Advertisements are received, the favors of Correspondents, and the art of Printing are attended to with punctuality and dispatch.—Advertisements also taken in by T. ODIORNE, Esq. Exeter.
FROM THE CUMBERLAND GAZETTE.
MR WAIT,
EVERY one allows that the times are very difficult, and every one is prescribing a remedy to suit his own turn; but the main point is to find a remedy that will relieve the whole body politick, and save the Commonwealth from anarchy and bankruptcy. This is what we want. The fall of a few is a matter of little consequence in comparison of the whole people.
Our debt is great, our imports are also great, our exports small in comparison with our debts and imports; for when our exports are fifty per cent less than our debts and imports, we are in fact sinking at the rate of 50 per cent. We have been sinking at this rate ever since the peace; and except something is done effectually, we must sink totally in a short time. Many see this, but few fear the consequences of it; therefore I think it behoves every one to lend a helping hand to prevent the catastrophe.
In conversation with a friend of mine, very lately, who pays a considerable tax for his money at interest, when asked what he thought of paper money, expressed himself thus: "Paper money saved us once, tho' I sunk by it; and if it comes again, probably I shall sink more; what then? I don't see what the country can do without it."
But, Mr. Wait if we have a paper currency, we ought by all means to believe in the doctrine of transmigration, and manifest our belief by our works; for faith without works is dead. For my part I can put explicit faith in the doctrine; and when I have any paper money, I determine to try the experiment, and to prove by my works that the doctrine is advantageous to the community at large; and all but lazy, idle, careless love-ease beings, may prove the doctrine, and confirm the truth of my observations, I will give you an example in words, as I have not the means to prove it by works.—
On supposition the legislature should issue a paper currency sufficient to pay one year's interest, and one quarter part of the principal, of their domestick debt—and, by way of digression, I think the loaners to government won't find a great deal of fault if they should lose one years interest, and one quarter part of their principal; for at the rate we go on now, they must inevitably lose the whole; and it is only trying the experiment. But to return—let this money be cloathed with all the power of the Commonwealth, and put into the publick chest.—When any creditor calls for his pay, pay him out of it. When the General Court has finished a session, pay them, in like manner, for their services; and at this rate no doubt it will soon spread. Let the General Court keep driving on taxes, as Jacob drove his cattle—softly, as the people are able to endure.
When any of it falls into my hands, and no doubt some of it will, I will endeavour to shew you my faith in the doctrine aforesaid, by my works. I will transmigrate it into boards, shingles, staves, fish, &c. &c. then export them to some foreign market, with orders to return me as much hard cash as the prime cost at least; and at this rate, which is easily performed, I cannot see why the whole may not be easily transmigrated.
And, Mr. Wait, when this paper money, thus transmigrated, be as good as any to pay our foreign debt: and at this rate we can do business—be a flourishing people—pay all our debts with honour and punctuality; and, more than all, leave the blessings of peace and independence, inviolate, to the latest posterity.
A METEMPSY COSIAN.
September, 1786.
From the New York Packet, October 12. PAPER MONEY, (raised from the dead,) speaketh for itself!—
GENTLEMEN of Saul's character, (I say with good Samuel of old) why hast thou troubled me? I should have thought that I had friends enough in America to have risen up and vindicated my character; but, alas! though in almost every newspaper my character is run down as though I was one of the worst of villains, and had been the greatest enemy to America, I cannot find that I have any friend who dare stand up and boldly speak a word in my behalf! But I trust the continent will lend an ear while I speak briefly in my own defence. Who, a few years ago, could have thought that Americans could soon had their eyes disighted by the beams of yellow dust, and so soon been dandled on the knees of foreign manufacture, when they had so solemnly exclaimed against them, and so soon been rocked asleep in the arms of luxury? But if there is any soul awake, or can possibly be awaked, do let them remember the rock from whence they were hewn, and the hole of the pit from whence they were digged. O America! America! in a few years how art thou alien by thy wicked conduct! By thy ingratitude thou hast raised thy old friend even from the dead! Poor, proud, prodigal America! do remember thy low estate, when Britain thirsted for thy blood and treasure! thou wast then so exhausted by thy long trade with England, that thou hadst no medium to stand a contest with her for thine own natural rights. Had it not been for me, thou must have been crushed beneath thy foe, and forever swallowed up! But I pitied thy miserable condition—I appeared early for thy relief.—By me thy armies were raised, clothed; victualled and paid. I delivered many out of distress and difficulty—I raised many from the dung hill—who now dispise me—and exalted them to great renown in this life. I never deserted from thy armies; as many of your pretended friend did; but kept with you under all your difficulties, though Britain and the torics did me many injuries. You had my help and strength when I was in my youth and prime, and all I could afford you in my decline of life. I spent my life, fortune and character for America; and though I died, I died in their defence, and to their great advantage:—like a good general, I left victory in fight to cheer surviving Americans. I have many foes, but can laugh disdain in the face.—I fear none of their rage and malice—I died for their deliverance from foreign foes; and will rise again to deliver them from their domestick ones, rather than America should forever be inflamed by the lovers of yellow dust!
PAPER MONEY.
S E N T I M E N T.
SAYS a late writer, "It is a maxim with Montesquieu," and a maxim too which has never been disputed, "That Virtue is necessary to the very existence of a Republick." Virtue was the main pillar of the Grecian popular governments: Had they preserved their virtue, and in this way enforced the wise laws of Solon and Lycurgus, Athens and Lacedemon might have continued to this day in all their republican simplicity and glo-
ry. But their virtue being lost, their government suffered a necessary change, and they have long experienced all the horrors of despotism.
It was this that supported the Roman Republick for a long succession of years, until by a concurrence of circumstances her Virtue received a fatal wound, and lingering, died. Ambition and avarice is as natural, succeeding to the place of virtue, and the government of consequence became despotick.
This maintains that noble spirit of freedom which actuates the popular government of Switzerland, and renders it subservient to the interests of that happy people.
In short, Virtue alone can preserve the American States from an unhappy, not to say destructive revolution in government.
The following conclusion of Mr. Bowler's ingenious treatise upon practical husbandry, lately published in Rhode Island, we hope will be acceptable to our readers.
THE improvement of land by agriculture is an advantage to the commonwealth, as well as a benefit to private persons. Whoever increases the yearly value of his estate this way, is a friend to himself and the community. We do not expect that gentlemen will be constantly employed in the common occupations of husbandry; because there are labourers enough to be hired for that purpose; but they may understand the modern methods of cultivation, and be able to direct their servants in the execution of every new improvement.
Can there be a more useful, more innocent or a more delightful employment for their vacant hours.
The spirit of man requires exercise as well as the body, or else it will soon grow out of order, and these rural amusements may help to dispel the tediousness of a melancholy hour, remove the oppression of a heavy heart, produce habitual virtue, and procure prosperity and ease to an unhappy family.
The sensible contentment of a speculative and ingenious husbandman approaches the nearest to the life of a philosopher and dignity of a wise man.
Neither is this innocent employment interrupted by the last period of old age.
The fruitful earth never fails to make ample returns to the judicious and industrious farmer.
Nothing can equal the beauty and benefit of a verdant meadow covered with luxuriant herbage, unless it be a noble field of fertile Corn.
A regular planted Orchard shades us in Summer, whilst we taste its fruitful productions, and makes us cheerful with its pleasant aspect:—to these may be added the useful variety and rich produce of a well cultivated Garden.
Roman dictators and senators were frequent taken from their fields to command armies, and bear the most important offices in the commonwealth.
The great Scillo, who conquered Carthage, and protected Rome, would very often bath himself after he had manured the ground with his own hands; for he chose to improve the lands himself, following the example of his heroic ancestors.
Cyrus, famous in history for military glory and humanity, thought agriculture worthy of his regard.
Lysander, a noble General of Sparta, waited on Cyrus whilst he was diverting himself at his farm near Sardis. After the Persian King had received some presents from the Lacedemonians, and treated Lysander with the greatest affability and politeness, he shewed him his plantation.
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with the flourishing condition of the trees, which were planted in the most regular order, the land perfectly cultivated, and covered with sweet smelling flowers, and nature appeared adorned with the greatest art. Transported with this beautiful sight, Lylander could not help commending the exact dimensions and ingenious disposition of every part of the farm. Then Cyrus acquainted him, that the plan and disposition was contrived by himself, that many of the trees were planted with his own hands, and every thing performed under his own inspection. Lylander, viewing the splendor of his garments, adorned with gold and precious stones, said "O Cyrus! the world may truly pronounce you happy, because you have so many virtues joined to your fortune."
Have we not that shining example illustrated in the person of our late Commander in Chief? who, being called forth from his domestic retirement, drew his sword in the defence of his country's invaded rights! after having conducted the great military contest with wisdom, fortitude and perseverance, until these United States have been enabled to close the war in freedom, safety and independence! like the heroes of old, resigned all military employments, and retired to his rural seat at Mount Vernon, on the Potomack, with the blessings of his fellow-citizens; and where he still continues to shed his beneficial influence by the promotion of agriculture, and patronage of the arts and sciences.
Now can any man despise that way of passing his time, which has delighted such great men, and which the most celebrated wits have so highly extolled. For it is well known from their own immortal writings, that Cicero, Virgil and Horace, were extremely fond of a country life, and retired to their farms whenever business would permit them, preferring rural amusement to the nois. splendor of a court.
DIVERSION for CHILDREN six feet high: Or, Political Cris-crofs row.
A was our army which never was paid. B is poor Boston declining in trade. C is the Courts of Session and Pleas, D is Destruction a coming on these. E is Old England, at our troubles quite funny, F Pauvre France in a sweat for her money. G are the Grievances people lay under. H is the House, torn by factions asunder. I the Insurgents who rise to stop suing. K the Kind orders which were our undoing. L are the Lawyers who make such a racket, M is our money they put in their pocket. N are the Notes, Continental and State. O the Old Conti—"beware of its fate." P is the power which Congress demand, Q is the quarrel this makes through the land. R Requisition which Congress make from us. S the Sad time they have chosen to dun us. T are the Times, hard to people who try them, U are the Usurers who make money by them. V are the Vicious—nineteen out of twenty.— W the Wise, as few they're plenty.
B O N M O T.
A CERTAIN Kentish nobleman being in company with some Scotch officers, was bragging of his Villa, and the pleasantness of the country in general; but above all insisted upon his peculiar happiness (as he had a musical ear) in having such a multitude of Nightingales about him. Nightingales! says a bonny Scot; we have an infinity of them near Edinburgh—Sir, replies my Lord; I thought those birds had never reached so far north: Pray what kind of a thing is a Nightingale? My Lord, rejoins the Scoutman it is a best as big as a Pidgeon, and has a head like a Cat, and cries whoo, whoo, whoo.
I R E L A N D.
DUBLIN, August 22. The commotions in the south of the kingdom, begin to wear a serious and alarming aspect. Besides the march of the bank companies of our garrison, under the command of General Lord Luttrell, a detachment of the royal regiment of artillery, with two field pieces, is on the road for the General's head quarters. His Lordship being sworn a privy counsellor, constitutes him a justice of the peace throughout the whole kingdom.
It was on Sunday currently reported, that an express had just arrived from Kilkenny, giving an account that an engagement had happened in that county on Friday evening, between the King's army and the insurgents, in which a Lieutenant of the light-horse was killed.
L O N D O N, June 17.
It was determined in his Majesty's Court that long depending cause the King
against Hayley. The merits of which, according to the evidence produced in court were as follows: In the year 1784 Mrs. Hayley, defendant, having debts to a very considerable amount, due to her from the subjects of the United States, embarked in the Mary, James Scott, for Boston, to attempt their recovery. The ship's crew, at the time of sailing from the river, consisted entirely of British subjects, many of whom, after having performed their voyage, quitted the ship and made other engagements more agreeable to their inclinations: this loss was therefore necessarily supplied by Americans; and as the proprietor found it advisable to continue some time on that continent, a number of Nantucketmen were procured, and the vessel sent out to the southern fishery. Having completed her fishing, she took her departure for Europe, and sometime in the year 1785, arrived at the port of London: where the oil was offered for sale at a custom-house, under this description, "British oil, from fish taken by the crew of the Mary, a British built ship, one third of whom being Nantucket British born subjects, therefore free of duty."
This not appearing satisfactory, the officers at the water side made a seizure of the cargo, the legality of which the trial in question was to determine.
The only point that appeared necessary to be ascertained, and on which the decision of the jury evidently depended, was whether at the time of fishing one third of the crew really were British born subjects? This, on the part of the prosecution, was clearly denied; and the evidence on the part of the defendant as strenuously asserted; and which nothing appearing to the court sufficient to disprove, a verdict was given for the defendant. By this decision the officers of the revenue are disappointed of property to the amount of more than £4,000. And as they will be compelled to make good the damages sustained by Mrs. Hayley, from the long detention of her property, they will be minus at least £500.
The correspondent who favoured us with the above, adds for the information of readers unacquainted with mercantile transactions, that since the separation of America from this country, an act was passed which imposed a very high duty on train oil imported into Great Britain, if made from fish not taken by British subjects; but which duty was remitted, provided one third of the crew, and the vessel were British. The bounty continuing as before, where the master and three-fourths of the crew were his Majesty's subjects; and the ship British built; the allowance of one-fourth of the crew being made for the purpose of admitting into our fishing vessels a proper number of Nantucket men, without whose assistance the southern fishery could not be carried on.
It is a matter of the most serious concern, for that the last two months the amount of the duties paid inwards at the customs, has been interior to that paid within a similar period at any time during the late war.
So strictly a fact is the above, that since December 1785, there has never been cash enough in the hands of the receiver general, to pay the bounties and drawbacks on goods exported: merchants whose debentures amounted to several thousand pounds having often been obliged to wait for payment many days together.
August 5. The army of the Empress and Emperor together, consists at this time of 650,000 men; let the Ottoman therefore beware of routing two such lions, so fortified in fangs and claws.
August 6. A short time since the following remarkable affair happened at a town in Surrey; a farmer in that place, having portioned off several of his children, both sons and daughters, in a very genteel manner, in his old age came to poverty; on which he applied to his children for relief; but, like the daughters of the unfortunate King Lear, they forsook their aged father in his distress, and referred him to the parish. The overseers told him that they did not imagine him a proper object of charity, as his children all lived in good circumstances; the poor old man being thus abandoned on all sides, drowned himself in the river near the said place, and on Thursday last, his body was discovered by some lads who were fishing there, after having been missing for a fortnight.
August 14. The vessel now fitting out at Deptford for a Voyage round the World, is the property of two English gentlemen, one of them goes with her. She is about 500 tons burthen, and sails from hence to South America; from thence she goes to China and Japan, and lastly to North Sound, in quest of those rich Furs of which Capt. Cook speaks so highly. These they are to barter with the Japanese, which trade must be remarkably lucrative. The vessel has forty hands and four years provisions.
N O V A - S C O T I A.
HALIFAX, Sept. 21. By papers and letters from New-England, and other parts of the United or rather Disunited States, we find one universal scene of anarchy and confusion prevailing: and it is the opinion of the most intelligent among them, that matters are fast hastening towards another revolution.—Each state at present possesses powers so totally independent of the others, that no general system can be adopted. They begin to find that a government with so many heads is a monster in politics—and that the democratical government is productive of more real evils than one altogether monarchical.—The happiness which these states formerly enjoyed, under the government of Britain, where the kingly and popular powers are so equally mixed, they will now in vain lament the want of.—In exchange for this, they have obtained INDEPENDENCE! a charming word indeed! but productive of more ills than Pandora's Box: for the Box of Pandora, being suddenly shut, prevented Hope from flying out with its other contents—but the precious Box of Independence has been so incautiously opened, that even Hope seems to have taken wings.
S O U T H - C A R O L I N A.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 18. Intelligence is received of the death of his Highness the Dauphin of France; his royal parents are inconsolable, the Queen in particular is so indisposed that her physicians doubt her recovery.
P E N N S Y L V A N I A.
PHILADELPHIA, October 14. The pens of the first rate geniuses of Europe have been emulously engaged in writing eulogiums on the British constitution: yet what is that boasted constitution when compared with ours? There, any profligate abandoned fellow; may for a few thousand pounds purchase the privilege of being a legislator—and retain that privilege for seven years in despite of the people, whom as he has bought, he will assuredly sell, to reimburse himself. Even in those places where there is the appearance of an election, the shameful exercise of bribery, corruption, and undue influence, not only saps the liberty of the people, but even subverts and destroys the most sacred principles of morality and virtue. By a gradual invasion of the dearest rights of their constituents—by the qualifications required in their members—and by the duration of their power,—the British house of commons, formed as the guardians of the people's liberties, have become a separate body from them, with interests not only different, but opposite and clashing—they are, in fact, a confirmed aristocracy, who would swallow up even the power and rights of the crown, as they have those of the people, did not their detested venality render them slaves of their monarch. How mult the heart of every Pennsylvanian expand with joy at a comparison of the situation of this state with that we have just glanced at! What a glorious contrast! How ungrateful to the almighty disposer of events, are those persons who are eternally murmuring at the situation of America, the most highly favoured country under heaven! did she but know, and steadily pursue her true interest! Here every man may give his vote free and unbiased! The legislator, in receiving a salary for his attendance and labour, is reminded that he is but a servant of the people—and every year lays down the bewitching and intoxicating trappings of power, to take his station once more in private life, from which he need not hope to be called again, unless his past good conduct has acquired the confidence of his constituents. And though there are many electors incapable of developing the artifices and misrepresentations employed to delude and deceive, and who may consequently be imposed upon so far as to give their votes contrary to their true interest, yet none of them are led to the place of election like slaves, to vote with a flugelman, as is the case in Great-Britain and Ireland. Happy! thrice happy Pennsylvanians! had you but sense enough to scorn to be the dupes of artful and designing men!
Extract of a letter from an Officer at the Rapids of Ohio to a Gentleman in this City.
Camp, near the Rapids of Ohio, Aug. 25, 1786. "I have the pleasure to inform you, our troops from the Miami arrived at this place on the 15th instant, and yesterday we began to hut—in about one month I presume we will compleat our buildings and finish our stockade.—A few days since, some horses were stolen from the neighbouring inhabitants, but whether by Indians, or a party of Negroes who ran away about that time, is not ascertained; the former, however, bear the blame.—On the 10th of next month General Clarke marches into the Indian country with a powerful army: He proceeds immediately to their towns, which he intends laying in ashes, destroy their corn, kill and scalp as many as he may conquer.—This scourge they justly deserve, for immediately after, and at the time of the treaty held at the Miami, they killed and plundered the inhabitants.—The settlers at Kentucky have lost upwards of five hundred horses during the summer.—Should this expedition be crowned with success, it will give peace to our frontiers for this year at least, and put a total stop to treaties hereafter, which it seems has answered no other purpose than that of spending public money, and serving the private purposes of a few designing men."
A letter from a correspondent in New Brunswick, says, "you will be surprised to hear the fertility of our country; for the other day there was a woman of 76 years of age, delivered of a fine Boy, and what is still more surprising, the child was born with two teeth in its head, large and projecting out without the upper lip, an exact resemblance of its mother."

We hear that the supreme executive council, on Monday last, unanimously appointed Colonel Timothy Pickering, protonotary of the new county of Luzerne.
A Baltimore paper of Tuesday last contains the following account of the late storm: "On Wednesday night last, we were visited with one of the severest equinoctial storms that has happened here within the remembrance of the oldest inhabitants. It continued till Thursday evening without intermission, attended, at times, with thunder and lightning, and the most violent incessant torrents of rain. About 9 o'clock, the storm abated, when a more alarming, terrifying scene of distress and horror began to appear. The waters in Jones's Falls, being risen to a very unusual height, rushed down with great violence, spreading high above their banks, and "sweeping the herds and flocks." All the mill-works, and fences along its margin, several houses, and all the bridges, in a few minutes, were carried away. The new Dutch presbyterian meeting house an elegant, valuable building, nearly finished, which stood at the east end of Market-street, on the bank of the falls, was nearly destroyed, the waters having swelled so high as to sap the foundation, which caused one half of the building, fronting the water, to tumble down—it has a melancholy appearance. A large brick-house, building on the west side of the marsh, between the upper and middle bridges, was almost destroyed. A handsome two story dwelling house, at one corner of Gay-street bridge, was completely buoyed up, carried across the street, and finally into the falls, where it was crushed to pieces, and floated away. Another house, near the same bridge, was removed a few yards, but fortunately afterwards made a stand, and repelled the flood. A house near the same, wherein was a quantity of salt, was entirely destroyed; and a number of others, built on the marsh, were in the utmost danger; in short, all the dwelling and store-houses, within its reach, together with that part of Market street newly paved, suffered amazingly. Some families finding themselves in danger, were removed with great difficulty. Several human bodies have been found, and others are still missing.
The loss suffered by the inhabitants of Baltimore town, and the adjacent country for 25 miles round, by the late storm, is calculated at £.100,000.
N E W Y O R K, August 14.
The wife of Mr. Aaron Lancaster of Pauling's precinct, Dutchess county, was lately delivered of three fine boys; and were named Moses, Aaron, and Joseph.
POUGHKEEPSIE, October 4. A correspondent has favoured us with the following affecting narrative, which he had from a credible eye-witness of the whole transaction. Frederic Manhiem was an industrious German, who, with his family, consisting of himself, his wife, a daughter eighteen years of age, and Maria and Christina, his youngest children and twins, about sixteen years old, resided near the river Mohawk, eight miles west of Johnston.—It was on the 19th day of October, 1779, the father being at work at some distance from his cottage, and the mother and eldest daughter on a visit at a neighbour's when two hostile Canasataga Indians rushed into the house and captured the twin sisters.
The party to which these savages belonged, consisted of 50 warriors, who, after securing 23 of the inhabitants and firing their houses, retired for four days with the utmost precipitancy, till they were quite safe from pursuit. The place where they halted, the evening of that day, was a thick pine swamp, which rendered the darkness of an uncommon gloomy night still more dreadful. They kindled a fire, which they had not done before, and directed their prisoners, whom they kept together, to refresh themselves with some provisions; and the Indians eat by themselves. Instead of retiring to rest after supping, as usual, the appalled captives observed their enemies busied in operations which boded nothing good. Two saplings were pruned clear of branches up to the very top, and all the brush cleared away for several rods around them. While this was doing, others were splitting pitch-pine billets into small splinters about five inches in length, and as small as one's little finger, sharpening one end, and dipping the other in melted turpentine.
At length, with countenances distorted by instant fury, and with hideous yells, the two savages who had captured the unfortunate Maria and Christina, leaped into the midst of their circle, and dragged those ill fated maidens, shrieking, from the embraces of their companions, among whom were their parents and sister. These warriors had disagreed about whose property the girls should be, as they jointly had seized them; and to terminate the dispute, agreeable to the abominable usage of the savages, it was determined, by the chiefs of the party, that the prisoners who gave rise to the contention should be destroyed; and that their captors should be the principal agents in the execrable business. These furies, assisted by their comrades, stripped the forlorn girls, already convulsed with apprehension, and tied each to a sapling, with their hands as high extended above their heads as possible; and then pitched them from their knees to their shoulders, with upwards of six hundred of the sharpened splinters above described, which at every puncture was attended with a scream of distress which echoed and re-echoed through the wilderness. And then, to complete the infernal tragedy, the splinters, all standing erect on the bleeding victims, were every one set on fire, and exhibited a scene of monstrous misery, beyond the power of speech to describe, or even the imagination to conceive. It was not until near three hours had elapsed, from the commencing of their torments, and that they
had lost almost every resemblance of the human form, that these helpless virgins sunk down in the arms of their deliverer, death.
A U G U S T 23.
His Most Christian Majesty's Packet, the Courier de l'Europe , M. de Sionville, commander, arrived yesterday morning from Port l'Orient, after a passage of 28 days, with the mail from France and four passengers. Extract of a letter from Kentucky, dated Louisville, August 10, 1786.
"About four hundred Indians lately surrounded Fort St. Vincent, with a view to cut off the American inhabitants residing there; but the French and Canadians interceded for them, and, after long persuasion, and making the Indians presents, prevailed on them to go off. It is, however, expected they will soon return.
"A party of men lately marched from this country to attack some Indians they understood were near the Wabauch river. They met with three at Salt Lick, two of which they killed, and in a few hours afterwards they were attacked by a party of Indians, whom they soon dispersed, killed three on the spot, and, we are informed, nine have since died of their wounds. Our detachment had one killed, and four slightly wounded."
On Thursday the Marshal of the admiralty, in attempting to seize a sloop under sail (libelled for seamen's wages) commanded by one Cariswell, was opposed in the execution of his office, by the daring and piratical conduct of the crew, who paraded armed on the quarter deck, and bid defiance to our laws. Upon this occasion, he was immediately assisted by Capt. d'Auvergne of the British Packet, who manned two boats, well armed, and, with the Marshal, gave chase to her; she was luckily overtaken near the Hook, and conducted up to town. The crew, on the approach of the boats, made their escape to the Long-Island shore. Too much credit cannot be given to Capt. d'Auvergne for his manly and determined conduct in support of the laws, nor to the men to the execution of their orders.
H A R T F O R D, October 23.
Extract of a letter from a merchant in Barbadoes to his friend in this city, dated Bridgetown, Sept. 24.
"On Saturday night the 2d inst. the inhabitants of this island were alarmed by storm, which for some hours seemed to threaten the same direful effects which were experienced from the hurricane of 1780. About 9 o'clock the wind blew very fresh from the N. E. and continued to increase in that quarter until half past ten, when it shifted to the S. E. and blew with the most alarming violence—changed suddenly and frequently to every point of the compass till about midnight, when it began gradually to abate. On Sunday morning Carlisle Bay exhibited the most striking picture of desolation, not a vessel having rode out the storm. The ships Townsend, Hibernia, and Generous Planter, and brig Bridgetown, ashore, and entirely lost.—One ship and two brigs ashore, but not lost. Five sail put to sea in the storm, and have since returned."
L I T C H F I E L D, October 10.
We hear from Great-Barrington, that on Tuesday last, the riotous Regulators of Government , of that county, assembled there to prevent the sitting of the Supreme Court, which by law should have been holden there that day. The judges did not come, upon the presumption that the legislature would comply with their request made a few days before, and adjourn the October session for Berkshire. Notwithstanding the general knowledge of this circumstance, the mob-gentry thought proper to embody, to guard against any imposition those appearances might cover. In the course of the day they placed guards on the different roads leading to the Court-House, who fired (their pieces being loaded with musket ball) on several persons, on their refusing to give an account of themselves, to these self-created Lords of the state: and the lives of many were greatly endangered. They also pursued the Hon. Mr. Sedgwick, with an apparent intention of taking his life, as also a Mr. Kellogg, sheriff's deputy, and one other person, who had rendered themselves obnoxious to certain leaders of the mob; and several balls were fired through a room of the house where Mr. Kellogg's family were sitting. Some damage was done to the Court-House, but private property remained unhurt. On Wednesday they dispersed.
B O S T O N, October 26.
Extract of a private letter, dated Halifax, Oct. 10.
"The information I have given ought to be kept secret for my sake, and I communicate it in the greatest confidence that it will not be divulged; but depend upon it, troops are pouring into Nova-Scotia and Canada, from here , every day; the posts in the west of the U. S. are daily fortifying; the garrisons are increased; Commissioners from Vermont are, at this moment, in treaty with the British Commissioners at Montreal, to bring about a Union with the old government: a storm is gathering over your Republics, more terrible than they have ever experienced;—nay, the thunder is now on the point of breaking upon your heads.—God grant that you may get seasonable and authentick intelligence, that you may be prepared to resist the shock!"
Is it not astonishing, says a correspondent, that, throughout the United States, there is such mortal languor and lethargy in all our publick councils? Where is our CONGRESS? What intelligence do the members of that august body hold with foreign nations, that the deepest-laid schemes for our extirpation,
as a people, do not reach them? In what readiness are we to defend our frontiers, and to protect our wives, our children, and estates, from the most barbarous enemy? in what readiness are we to prevent a revolt, in some parts of the Union, to our former enemy, who surrounds us on every side? We are on the verge of the most dangerous precipice, and no body warns us of our fate.—Rise! Rise! my countrymen, as one man, and secure the blood purchased inheritance of our fathers from the ruin that hangs over it!
The following is extracted from a letter dated the 24th of August last, lately received from a gentleman in Lisbon, respecting the famous ship laden with specie, &c. that was cast away on the coast of Portugal.
"His Excellency Don Francisco Xavier Menozo, who has the superintendence of the wreck, informs me, that all the money that was registered, is recovered, to a single piastre; but that the unregistered cash, and other valuables, are still missing; the amount of which is very considerable: that when the ship beat to pieces, her bows and stern went away with her decks, scattering gold and silver plate, jewels, dollars and copper, to a large amount, amongst rocks, sands and sea weeds, in 4 or 5 fathom water; for the recovery of which, no attempt has yet been made.
"All the immense treasure which has been taken up from this wreck, was effected without a diving bell, or any other means than simply fixing down, by a boat, a long pole, by which a diver descended, sometimes with a rope to make fast to a package, and sometimes a basket to receive the dollars as he picked them from off the bottom, which, upon his return by the pole, were hauled up by the people in the boat. After the copper was taken up, the bottom of the vessel floated, and was towed on shore at Peniche, which is 45 miles north-west of this city."
A few nights since, some of the lawless sons of riot, who infest our streets, carried their high-handed proceedings so far, as to attack, and wholly destroy the new frame of a house, lately erected, belonging to Mr. John Ennis, Glazier.—By this wicked display of hukim , a young man, just entering into life, has found the fruits of his industry and frugality destroyed in a night, by a set of ruffians, and his hopes of a habitation for a young family, blasted in the bud.
A few days since arrived at Newbury-Port, the Brig Tyger , Capt. Bradish, in 60 days from Sunderland in England, and nine from Halifax.—On Thursday se'n-night, in a heavy gale, the Tyger carried away her fore-mast and main-top mast, and with much difficulty reached port. In this vessel came passenger, Major Edward Puelton, an officer in the late American army, who has been on a visit to the latter place, and whose reception has been unexaggeratingly represented in our papers heretofore. Nothing can excite the pleasure which the sons of British America take in abusing and dishonouring the character of an American, particularly those who "dared to signalize themselves in the field." In the van of which pusillanimity, the miscreants, self-plumed "loyalists," are conspicuous.
P O R T S M O U T H, November 2.
Last Monday the inhabitants of this town met agreeable to notification in town-meeting, for the purpose of taking into consideration the plan proposed by the Hon. General-Court, for an emission of paper money, when after a warm and spirited debate on both sides, voted, that the plan would not answer the design it was intended for; they then proceeded and chose a committee to draw up a memorial, setting forth the reasons why said plan would not answer, who are to present the same to the General Court, at their next session, after laying it before the town-meeting on Monday next, to which time the meeting stands adjourned.
The refugees dreading the horrors of an approaching winter, are flocking into the United States, from New-Scotland, &c. In one vessel which lately arrived at New-Haven, from St. Johns, no less than 47 came passengers.
High WATER at PORTSMOUTH
From Thursday Nov. 2, to Thursday Nov. 9.
   Forenoon. Afternoon.     Thursday, 2m. after 8 27 —   Friday, 52m. after 8 18 9   Saturday, 45m. after 9 13 10   Sunday, 4 m. after 10 12 11   Monday, 4 m. after 11 — —   Tuesday, 15m. after 0 12 12   Wednesday, 15m. after 7 39 6   Full 5d. 9h. 41m. evening.  
N A V A L - O F F I C E,
PORT OF PISCATAQUA, November 1, 1786.
   ENTERED, FROM     Sloop Randolph, Gardner, Trimdada.   Schooner Nancy, Brown, Demarara.   CLEARED, NONE.  
W A N T E D
One or two yoke of good fat OXEN, for which pay will be made in good West-India RUM. Enquire of the PRINTER.

Parnassian Spring.
A SHORT EULOGY on his Excellency PRESIDENT SULLIVAN.
(Attempted in Pindaric Verse.)
THESE are thy arts, brave General! Form'd for high command; To enforce the laws, preserve the peace, Rule, and bless, the land, Such righteous sway Claims the homage of the present day, Ensures a future trust: Not like a short-liv'd bubble burst, As yearling honors are buried in the dust:
Or quickly fade away, And on a lonely willow lay, With harps unstrung, Their sail to mourn.
At their departing breath, Forsaken and forlorn; Like an untimely birth, Dead as soon as born.
But, lo! Apollo reigns! The golden age returns; When skill and wisdom hold the helm, The ship's as safe in storm as calm.
The inequality of metre, which we find in Pindar, is easily imitated; but the fire and other beauties of that inimitable poet, is so peculiar to himself, as to be met with in no other author in so high a degree; which makes a Pindaric essay much too arduous and hazardous for the present writer; but in so good a cause.—
“It's nobly done, To attempt the chariot of the Sun, Tho' we fall like Phaeton.”
A FRIEND to LAW and LIBERTY.
SATIRE the first, (Calculated for New England.) In imitation of Juvenal.
WHILE eastern monarchs sway the iron rod, And make their subjects fear them more than God,
While northern nations crawl before their king, Or bow to lords who rule in ev'ry thing: Behold a country void of rule or law, Rewards or punishments, or fear or awe; Nor yet restraints, nor right, nor justice seen, Extremes on ev'ry side, without a mean.
Equality's the cry, and just the sound, For equal all in poverty are found, Equal in fraud, injustice, and deceit: Is church, is law, is physic and is state; Weck'd and convuls'd, behold on ev'ry side, Effects of rising or of falling pride.
O liberty, if these be all thy charms, Give us but smiling wars, and sweet alarms!
What odds tho' liberty be stoo'n or giv'n, If us'd to violate commands of heav'n? Can laws make wrong a right, or justice wrong? Can acts make public faith an idle song? Or say, can mobs conven'd on Chester's plain, Wast gold from Chili 'cross th' atlantic main? Or can conventions met in mighty host, Ensure a harvest or avert the frost? Or say, can fifty men without a foot Of land, of money none, and but one coat, Redress the sad diseases of the nation, And put a paper-bank in circulation?
Whence all this noise? the herds a mere ma- chine,
Put into motion by some hand unseen, Some British pimp from Britain's worthless train, Or such as damn the world for private gain, Such are the men, if such deserve the name, Who set Columbia's sons in endless flame, Or whence those papers cram'd with foul deceit, To raise a glaring hook, to some a bait?
Smell not those plaisters of some vile intent To undermine the springs of government; Such it may be call'd, where ev'ry man, Strives to depreciate it what he can.—
The other causes, as you plainly see, Are ignorance supreme and liberty; That liberty which howsoe'er design'd, Has been the greatest evil of mankind; That self-same liberty which gave such leave, A brazen-bub cou'd tempt good mother Eve. Ignorance well us'd gives great content, Liberty be good when rightly be nt; Liberty and ignorance combin'd Greater evils, than can be defin'd.
And dread Boston spires beyond the clouds, Among the streets in mighty crowds; The beggar, the thief, the madman and divine, And other—“money all is thine.” And all will have cash to pay his tax.
The lab'rer will have cash to lay his axe; The surgeon swears his flock is almost out, And twenty merchants dying of the gout; The bibber must have cash to buy him wine; “And so must I or starve”—says the divine. The merchants send out cash to foreign ports, What remedy for this? Go mob the courts; To this are all agreed, but courts, and they, To save their heads, take heels and run away.
The politician puzzles out his brains, To find new methods which will bring us gains; Till seeing all his wit and patience lost, Pledges his watch for dinner to his host.
Well, money must be had, say what you will, Unlock the misers coffers break his will; But how? stay ev'ry thought of paper trash, And you'll be soon supplied with silver cash.
O glutton keep your wants within their bounds, Reizench of twenty-five just fifteen pounds; Be once content, nor kill yourself for sport, Like learned gluttons, at an unjust court. What? shall Columbia's sons, a healthy race, Despite the products of this northern space? From Indias spice, from luxury recoil, Nor build a sickly London in a healthy soil.
Will you O most unjust for selfish ends Wrong foreign allies or domestic friends, Transmit your silver to a hostile coast, As a reward for towns and cities lost? Say, do not British gewgaws show us vain Tinsel adorning drabs of Drurylane; That costly pride which first in Britain springs, Bedecking tons of whores, or whores of kings.
Let Sol's bright face withdraw his beaming light, Let sickly fumes o'er spread the weary night; Or why should nature stretch a placid hand, Or bless Columbia's sons, a restless band, Who discontent with Charles's pleasing tide, Wou'd substitute a Thames's preposterous pride;
Hug luxury with care, that servile curse, Which dama'd old Rome and trembles over us. Say, why was reason to us mortals giv'n, Or judgment e'er infus'd by breath of heav'n? Was THAT to forfeit us like beasts of prey, And this to make us ignorant as they? Was one bestow'd eternal broils to form, The other to involve us in the Roman Letred ey'd villainy forever sleep Nor from her cell hereafter dare to creep.
“If you'd be great, go dare some monstrous crime For honesty must starve at such a time.”
State of New Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to non-resident pro- prietors and owners of land in the township of Epsom, who are delinquent in paying their taxes for the year 1784, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the 9th day of November next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at two o'clock on said day, at the house of the widow Elizabeth McClary, innholder in said town, un- less prevented by previous payment.
   N: R. s. d.     Nathan G. Prescott 31 1 2 0   John Card 38 1 4 0   John Tuckerman 39 2 2 3   George Kenison 53 2 1 0  
FRANCIS LOCK, Collector.
Epsom, September 20, 1786.
State of New Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors of land in the town of Went- worth, who are delinquent in paying their taxes for the year 1785, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the 16th day of November next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at 2 o'clock, P. M. on said day, at my dwelling house in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
0    Div. l. s. d.     Samuel Page, undivided 0 0 1 9   William True 1 0 3 5   Colonel March 1 0 3 5   Ephraim Page 2 0 3 5   Benning Wentworth, Esq. 0 0 8 6  
EBENEZER GOVE, Collector.
Wentworth, October 10, 1786.
Excellent Cheshire CHEESE TO BE SOLD By James Sheafe.
Wanted to hire for six months, A sober industrious LAD, from fourteen to sixteen years old. Enquire of the Printer.
Coffee-House-Tavern, William Brewster
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has removed from the house he lately occupied as a Tavern in Congress- street, to that large and elegant house in Court- street, in which President Langdon lately lived, and which is commonly known by the name of Packer's House, where he has opened a
COFFEE-HOUSE and TAVERN, for the accommodation and entertainment of townsmen and travellers.—The elegance and commodiousness of his house (which, perhaps, surpasses any of the kind in New-England) with the convenience of its situation, induces him to hope, as well for the favors of his former cus- tomers, as for the company of strangers, whom he assures, that neither attention or expence shall be wanting to render their situation pleasing and agreeable.—His Stables are large and airy, with suitable coverings for Carriages.
He would likewise inform such Gentlemen as wish for private Lodgings, that he has appro- priated one part of his house to the accommo- dation of Boarders, so that those gentlemen who may wish to take Lodgings with him, may be as retired and free from interruption, and be en- tertained with as much elegance, and as cheap a rate, as in any private House whatever.
Portsmouth, Oct 25, 1786.
John Goddard, Has for Sale on the most reasonable terms, & his Shop opposite the Printing-Office in Paved-Street,
A very general Assortment of Drugs & Medicines,
—Also— Madeira, Sherry, Port, Cacavilla, Lisbon, Claret, Muscat, Frontinias, Malaga and George's Wines.—
   L INSEED OIL, Painters Brushes and an assortment of Pain- ters Colors and Dryers, Single and double refined Loaf Sugar, Brown ditto, Rum, Brandy, Gin, Lon- don Porter, Olive, Florence and Lu- cao Oil, Hysop, Sou- thong, Congo and Bo- hea Tea, Raisins, Figs, Currants, Prunes, Olives, Capers, Almonds, Tamarinds, Citron, Pre- serves, Cinnamon,   C LOVES, Mace, Nut- megs, Oatmeal, Rice, Pepper, Allspice, Ginger, Flour, Indigo, Starch, Coffee, Chocolate, Snuff, in bottles, Nails & Window Glass of different sizes, Redwood, Logwood, Fustick, Alum, Copperas Pearl Ash, Castile and common Soap, English and German Steel Philadelphia and Swed- ish IRON, An assortment of Iron hollow ware.  
Country produce will be recived for any of the above articles.
WHEREAS Daniel Rogers, formerly of Ro- chester, but now resident in Hoberstown, has in his possession two notes of hand upon de- mand, against Thomas Plumer of Rochester, which notes said Plumer has fully satisfied, as he will make appear by two receipts in full of the same; therefore this is to caution any person from purchasing said notes, as both of them have been already paid, and that he has no kind of a just demand against me, therefore I will not dis- charge any. THOMAS PLUMER. Rochester, October 10, 1786.
To be sold cheap for cash or produce, A genteel Fallback CHAISE, almost new. Apply to the Printer hereof.
STRAYED or stolen from York, on the 25th day of September last, A DARK RED HORSE, dark main and tail, with a star in his forehead; whoever will take up said horse, and deliver him to George Simpson, of York, in the Common- wealth of Massachusetts, shall have one dollar reward, and all necessary charges paid by George Simpson. Old York, October 10.