The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1770-04-27 00:00:00

Anno Regni Regis Georgii Tertii Magnæ, Brit- annia Franciæ & Hiberniæ, Decimo.
An Act to preserve the FISH in Piscataqua River.
WHEREAS the FISHING in Piscataqua River, and in the Harbour near the Mouth of said River, with setting Lines and Seins hath already in a great Measure obstructed and turned the Course of the Cod-Fish and Smelts in said River, and the Fishing for Bass and Blue Fish in Winter, hath almost exterminated the Bass and Blue-Fish in said River, so that those useful Fisheries are in eminent Danger of being lost, unless prevented by an Act of the General-Assembly :
BE it therefore Enacted, by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, That from and after the making of this Act, no Person shall be allowed to Fish in the said River or Harbour, or any of the Branches thereof within this Province, where the Tide ebbs and flows, with any Sein or setting Line, for any Fish whatsoever. And no Person shall by any way or Means whatsoever, catch, kill, or destroy, any Bass, or Blue-Fish in said River, or the Branches aforesaid, from the first of December to the first of April annually, on Pain that any and every Person offending in any of the Particulars aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for every Offence the Sum of Three Pounds, to be recovered by Bill, Plaint, or Information, or Indictment of the Grand-Jury, one half to the use of the Government, the other half to the Informer, in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record. And any Person or Persons are hereby authorized to destroy any Seine or setting Line, found fishing or set for Fishing in said River and Harbour within this Province. — And in case of being Sued therefor, may plead the general Issue, and give the special Matter in Evidence, and shall recover double Costs.
And whosoever shall knowingly buy or sell any Smelts, Bass, Blue-Fish, or Cod Fish, taken contrary to this Act shall forfeit Ten Shillings, to be recovered by Action or Information, before a Justice of the Peace, for the use of the Informer.
This Act to continue and be in force for the Term of two Years, and no longer, from the 16th of April 1770.
Last Week arrived at BOSTON from LONDON, the Captains Davies, Lyde, Freeman and Bryant, by whom there is public Prints to the 24th of February, from which the following is extracted, viz.
Advices from the ROBINHOOD SOCIETY. THE last time I was at the club, was on Tuesday last night. I was in the upper room, where matters of public concern are also debated with freedom, but with some what more decency and regularity than is usually observed in the lower room:—In this society (I mean the upper chamber) there are some speakers who would have made a distinguished figure in the Grecian or Roman republics, and many of their speeches are such as would have done honour to the most celebrated orators of antiquity: there is Charles Prattley & Justice Mac Murray, either of whom would have made a Cicero; and above all, there is old Will Chatwell that wields the whole thunder of Demonsthenes!
"Each aged ear plays truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished, So voluble is his discourse."
George Allworthy, the president, had just been there; I came in too late to hear him speak, but was informed that he had talked to the society concerning the present distemper among the horned cattle, and the late commotions in America; giving them also much good advice for their future conduct, and particularly recommending harmony and unanimity.—Soon after Squire Allworthy was gone, old Will Chatwell rose up, and leaning forward on a crutch-headed cane, delivered himself to the following effect:
Speech of Will Chatwell, in the Upper Club Room of the Robinhood Society.
IF I attempt to speak this Day, and in this Society, it is because I am impelled to speak. I feel an Impulse, which I cannot resist: And I should not have been easy in my own Mind, if I had not stepped forth at this alarming Crisis, to give my public Testimony in behalf of the People of England, and to declare my free Opinion of the distressed State of our Affairs in every Quarter of the Globe.
After a Peace, by which we abandoned, (shamefully abandoned!) our Allies, I thought, till this Day, that we were again on the slippery Edge of a new War, — without Allies abroad, and without Unanimity at Home. — If we turn our Eyes towards America, the Prospect is equally distressful. — Much has been said of the Disobedience of the Colonies to the Mother-Country. — My Opinion, with regard to America, is the same now, it ever was. — My Op-
inion is this, we ought to do Justice, before we expect Obedience. — I feel the warmest Regard for America: I love the Americans, because they love Liberty: Liberty has spread, like a Vine, from this Country to the Colonies: Liberty flourishes in the Wilds of America! — I honour the Plant; I revere the Tree; and I would cherish the Branches. — As to any Tumults that may have happened in America they are the Ebulitions of Liberty; they are only some Breakings-out in the Skin of the Body Politic, which if rudely restrained and improperly checked, may strike inwardly, and endanger the Vitals of the Constitution.
* * * * * The other Parts of the Speech relate to his Sentiments with regard to the club in the lower room.
L O N D O N, January 31. Monday night his Grace the Duke of Grafton resigned his post of First Lord of the Treasury; and yesterday morning his Grace wrote a letter to the Board, acquainting them of his resignation.
Notwithstanding the resignation of the Duke of Grafton, we are well informed, that every thing else is to remain for the present as before; that the same system of measures is to be pursued, in the support of which, and of nearly the same men, a great personage has engaged for the co-operating assistance of all his friends "in the world." — [The expression of the ***.]
St. James's, Feb. 5. The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Frederick North, commonly called Lord North, the Right Hon. George Onslow, Charles Jenkinson, Jeremiah Dyson, and Charles Townshend, Esqrs. to be his Majesty's Commissioners for executing the office of Treasurer of his Majesty's Exchequer.
Luna, 29 Die Januarii, 1770. THE Order of the Day being read, for the Attendance of Dr. Mulgrave, of Plymouth; and the House being informed that the said Doctor Mulgrave had material Information to lay before the House, touching an Application made by him to the Earl of Halifax, in the Month of May, 1765 (the said Earl being then His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State) to enquire into the Truth of the Account given by him to the said Earl, in relation to the Means by which the late Peace had been obtained:
Dr. Mulgrave was called in, and heard at the Bar, and examined thereon. And several Members, in their Places, gave Information to the House of what they knew touching the said Matter. And then Dr. Mulgrave was further heard. And then he was directed to withdraw.
RESOLVED, That it appears to this House, that the Information given by Dr. Mulgrave, in the Year 1765, to the Earl of Halifax, at that Time one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and now laid by Dr. Mulgrave before this House, was in the highest Degree frivolous and unworthy of Credit, and such as could not afford any reasonable Foundation for prosecuting the Enquiry demanded by the said Dr. Mulgrave.
Luna, 5 Die Februarii, 1770. THE House being informed, that Mr. Tomkyns (from the Commissioners of the Customs) attended at the Door, he was called in; and at the Bar presented to the House, pursuant to their Order, An Account of the Value of all Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, exported from England, to the British Colonies in North-America, from Christmas, 1767, to Christmas 1768, which is as far as the same can be made up; distinguishing each Colony.
Ordered, That the said Account do lie upon the Table, to be perused by the Members of the House.
Martis, 6 Die Februarii, 1770. The House being informed, that Mr. Stanely (from the Commissioners of the Customs) attended at the Door, he was called in; and, at the Bar, presented to the House, pursuant to their Order, An Account of the Custom-House Establishment in North-America, with the Salaries of the Officers employed therein, from the 5th of January, 1764, to the 5th of January 1767.
The House being informed, that Mr. Leake (from the Commissioners of the Customs in America) attended at the Door, he was called in; and, at the Bar, presented to the House pursuant to their Address to His Majesty, Copies of the Establishment of the Commissioners of the Customs in North-America, and of the several Officers under them, with their respective Salaries, since the 7th of September 1767, so far as the same have been received; and also, an Account of such additional Salaries as have been granted out of His Majesty's Revenue of Customs arising in North-America, since the 7th of September 1767; and also an Account of the incidental and contingent Expenses attending the Collection of the Revenue of Customs in North-America, since the 7th of Sept. 1767, as far as the same have been received; also, Account of the Duties collected in North-America, since the 7th of Sept. 1767; distinguishing those arising from an Act made in the 7th Year of His present Majesty's Reign.
Ordered, That the said Copies and Accounts do lie upon the Table, to be perused by the Members of the House.
A Petition of the Merchants and Traders of the City of London, trading to North-America, was presented to the House and read; setting forth, that the Petitioners have been accustomed to carry on very considerable Branches of Trade, to and from His Majesty's Colonies in North-America, the former consisting greatly in exporting thither the Manufactures of this Country, and the latter in importing from thence Raw Materials, of various Kinds necessary, to the Support of several of our most important Manufactories; and that the Trade of the Petitioners with North-America, has occasioned Yearly the Importation and Remittance to this Country of Bullion and Bills of Exchange of great Value, from different parts of the World in Payment for such American Commodities as would be super-abundant here, or are by Acts of Parliament generally forbidden to be imported, which Commodities therefore may justly be considered as having great Weight in the Commercial Balance of Europe; and that this Commerce, so necessary to afford Employment and Subsistence to the Manufactures of these Kingdoms, to Augment the Publick Revenue, to serve as a Nursery for Seamen, and to support and increase our Navigation and Maritime Strength, is at present in an alarming State of Suspension; and that the Interruption of this Trade, the Petitioners apprehend, is principally owing to certain Duties, imposed by an Act passed in the Seventh Year of his present Majesty, on Tea, Paper, Glass, and Painters Colours, imported into those Colonies; and therefore presume to lay the distressed Situation of this Trade before the House; and, for the Recovery of so important a Branch of Commerce, they pray such relief as to the House shall seem meet.
Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into Consideration upon Monday Morning next.
A CARD. RATIONALIS presents his compliments to the Ministry, and Merchants connected with America, and begs leave to acquaint them, that, in his opinion, the remedy to heal the difference between this kingdom and the Colonies can be contained in a nutshell; it is Repeal your impolitic Revenue Acts; Recall your army from America; Revoke the Board of Commissioners of Customs; Abolish the vice Courts of Admiralty; And ask such aids as you may want through their Assemblies. Do this, and all will instantly be at peace; the Colonies will embrace you; they will abandon their manufactures, and as heretofore bring you the fruits of their labour for your goods.
It is certain a very great Personage has declared, that "he will not be forced into a d-----n of P-----t, or even a change of m-----y."
A bill, it is said, is preparing with all expedition, for the regulating all expulatory and incapacitating resolutions of a certain Assembly in futuro.
It is said the dispute is now, Whether in future expulsions the funds of the Assembly, shall be collected from the voices of two thirds of the persons present, or a majority only.
We are assured as an absolute fact, that out of the 106 P-----s who voted on the side of Government on a certain interesting question last Saturday morning, upwards of 70 were unplaced & unpenioned.
Advices arrived yesterday from Genoa declare, that the appearance of the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean occasions great speculation: that they expect the Toulon squadron will fail, as soon as the Russians quit Port Mahon: and that eight Spanish ships of war are fitting out at Ferrol, and some others at Cadiz.
The distemper among the horned cattle has raged so violently, that a grazier in Buckinghamshire, about a fortnight ago, lost six cows in the space of 24 hours.
By some words that fell from the lips of the Earl of C-----m on Friday last, it appears, that a great Personage entertains so high an opinion of Lord Camden, that he even offered his Lordship the place of First Lord of the Treasury.
Feb. 13. Yesterday Sir Fletcher Norton sat as Speaker in the House of Commons, the report of that gentleman's being appointed to the Seals must therefore be premature.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester will command the army; and the Duke of Cumberland will be appointed Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, with a proper Council.
On the 10th of December the Pacha Deli Mehtuptzi marched from Constantinople with a corps of 4000 men, to join the army on the confines of Bulgaria.
Yesterday morning an eminent Counsellor at Law cut his throat in a fit of insanity, at his country seat in Middlesex.
They write from Dantzick of the 28th of January, that the Russians are equipping in all haste, a second fleet of twelve ships of the line, which is to be commanded by M. Kossin.
It is said that the Petition of the American Merchants, praying that the Parliament will repeal all the laws for internal taxation, is in consequence of a plan concerted between some of the principals in that trade and A-----n. This mode of redress is entirely disagreeable to the Americans, and has been declared so by many of them who are now in England.
Feb. 18. Thursday a full board was held at the Admiralty, Whitehall, at which Sir Edward Hawke as first Lord presided, at the breaking up of which, Messengers were sent off with dispatches for the Commissioners of the several dock-yards of Portsmouth, Plymouth, Chatham, and Sheerness.
In consequence of the thoughts of an approaching war, persons in power are daily solicited for commissions in the navy.
Accounts from Vienna declare, that advice has been received from Constantinople, that the Grand Signior will certainly put himself at the head of his troops early in the spring, and that two of the most respectable Powers in Europe, have engaged to furnish him with twenty ships of the line, in case the Russians should commence hostilities in the Mediterranean.
Authentic advices from Venice, say from a number of concurring circumstances, it is imagined the republic will be engaged in the present war between Russia and the Ottoman Porte.
Accounts from Cadiz, Ferrol, & Carthagena, mention that orders have been sent from the Court of Madrid to fit out all the men of war in those harbours with the utmost expedition, and that the like instructions had been dispatched to Corunna, Barcelona, and Malaga.
A gentleman who has lately visited most of the seaports of Spain, says, that their marine is in a very poor condition, and that it will take them a considerable time to equip a fleet of any consequence.
By advices from Margate in Kent, we are informed, that five of the six ships lately drove on the sands at the place have been got off, and are gone to Ramsgate Harbour to be repaired; the sixth is entirely broke to pieces, and the cargo lost, and five persons on board have perished.
It is now said, that if there is a repeal of the acts laying duties on paper and glass in America there will be inserted a clause to restrain them from erecting paper-mills or glass-houses of any kind whatever.
We are informed, that a Great Personage's Orders to one of his Servants, at a late Conference, relating to America, was, Let the Dignity of Government be supported with Firmness, but Moderation; and for past Offences, let Justice give place to Mercy.
Extract of a Letter from Col. Dreywitz, encamped near Kalitsch, Jan. 26, to a gentleman at Warsaw.
"I take this opportunity to acquaint you that on Tuesday the 23rd instant, I intirely defeated the Siew Swamawsky, Regimentary General of all Poland. The said regimentary and three other Marshals were taken prisoners in this action, which cost them 1500 men, who were killed upon the spot, and the loss of 15 pieces of cannon. My loss is very moderate both in killed and wounded. I am now encamped in the neighbourhood of Kalitsch."
It is reported, that the grand affair of the Americans will be amicably settled to the satisfaction of all parties.
It is reported that coercive measures with the Americans is still the prevailing maxim at a certain Board.
It is confidently asserted, that Sir Francis Bernard, late Governor of Massachusetts's Bay, has the grant of a pension of 300l. per ann.
One other paper says 600l.
We are informed that 4,239l. will be wanted for the support of the Colony of Nova-Scotia, 4,300l. for East Florida, 4,500l. for West Florida, and 8,086 for Georgia, for the present year.

BOSTON, April 23. We hear a mad Dog has done a great deal of Damage at Hardwick in this Province.
Extract of a Letter from London, Feb. 2.
The situation of things here is as bad as it can be, no prospect of a Repeal of the Duty on Tea:—The Duke of Grafton has given up his Office of first Lord of the Treasury, and Lord North succeeds him; than whom a more bitter enemy to us could not have filled his place. He has declared that the Duties on Paper, Glass and Colours, shall be set aside, but Tea shall continue to be taxed in America. This appears as the determination of the Ministry in general, therefore little hope can be entertained from the Petition to the House, which will be presented by the Merchants next Monday or Tuesday.
It is said by some that Lord North will not long continue in Office, and that Lord Rockingham's Administration will again be established. I most sincerely wish this was probable, but it does not come so authenticated as to gain my belief.—The present Set are too powerful & too well fixed to be moved by the united efforts of the people. Petitions are considered as waste paper, and received with superlative contempt; and as R—— by observed the other night in a certain House, he considered those things complained of here as grievances, as no matters of importance at all. American affairs he added, deserved consideration; and it is the sentiment of the Th—— you find by a late Speech, that the distemper among the horrid cattle is of more moment, than the complaints of the people.
The resolutions with regard to Mr. Wilkes furnish a very laconic answer to all the Petitions.
----- is confined in the King's Bench for debt, from whence it is not likely he will soon depart.
On Wednesday the 18th Instant, the Union Flag was displayed on Liberty Tree, in Demonstration of the Joy felt by the Friends to Constitutional Freedom, on the Expiration of the long Confinement of JOHN WILKES, Esq; for Misdemeanours of so dark a Nature, that all the Learning of a Court has not yet been able to discover their extreme Guilt to the Understandings of the People.
On seeing our Flag hoisted, our worthy Brethren at Roxbury did the same.
At Seven P. M. a Number of the Despisers of Tyranny, and Haters of Treachery, Bribery and Corruption, met at the Whig Tavern, Golden-Ball, and drank the following Toasts.
 1. That illustrious Martyr to Liberty, JOHN WILKES, Esq; 2. The Supporters of the Bill of RIGHTS. 3. May the Pigmy Apes of Mr. Wilkes's Oppressors be confounded and defeated in their Attempts on the brave Capt. McDOUGAL. 4. The Protecting LORDS. 5. The glorious Minority in the British House of Commons. 6. May the independent Representatives of the Massachusetts, oppose accumulated Indignities with their usual steady Resentment. 7. The late Speaker elect, who has been dignified with the Reprobation of base Ministers and dirty Minions. 8. South-Carolina, Virginia, and every American Colony deserving a like Regard. 9. May 'the betrayed Inhabitants' of a Sister Colony, by speedy and spirited Instructions to their Deputies, prevent impending Ruin. 10. Portsmouth in New-Hampshire, for their distinguished Contempt of McMasters the infamous importer. 11. Charlstown, Roxbury, and all the Towns who nobly exerted themselves in the Cause of Freedom. 12. The public-spirited Merchants throughout the Continent. 13. Their faithful and perseverant Committees. 14. The Vigilant Committees of Inspection. 15. Dr. Lucas and the Patriots of Ireland. 16. The FARMER, and all the CHAMPIONS for the Rights of Englishmen. 17. May the Infamy of the Seventeen Rescinders be the Invariable portion of the sordid importers and their abettors. 18. May all American Governors who from despotic or mercenary principles betray the honor of their master, & the Rights of the Subject, speedily meet that Punishment which their perfidy deserves. 19. Redress of Grievances, and a Dissolution of the contemptible Board of commissioners. 20. A speedy and signal Disappointment to all Expectants from Revenue filched from the Purses of a great People. 21. Success to the American Manufactures. 22. May the three Branches of the British Legislative never be ensnared, by Jacobitish Councils. 
At the Superior Court sitting here last Friday, Ebenezer Richardson and George Wilmot were tried for the Murder of one Christopher Snider, a Lad of about 11 Years of Age, who was assembled with a number of other Boys, on the 23d of February last, before the Shop of Theophilus Lillie, by means of an Exhibition there, & the said Richardson was found guilty of the Charge, viz. of firing a loaded Gun among them, by means whereof the said Christopher was killed; but Wilmot was acquitted.
In the present Term of the said Court, one George White was convicted of Burglary, in breaking into the House of Mr. John Moffatt, and had the Benefit of the Clergy, being burnt in the Hand; he was also convicted of breaking into the Province House and stealing, for which he was sentenced to be branded in the Forehead with the Letter B and to pay Cost; he was also convicted upon 2 other Indictments against him for stealing, on each of which he has been sentenced to be whipped 20 Stripes, to pay treble damages and Costs. At the same Court, one Patrick Freeman, a Soldier, (being the same that was seized by the valiant Woman at the North Part of the Town last Winter) was convicted of Burglary, and admitted to his Clergy and accordingly burnt in the Hand. One Richard Smith was also convicted of breaking into the Province House with the said White, and sentenced to be branded upon the Forehead with the Letter B and to pay Costs; he was also convicted upon six Indictments against him for Stealing, on each of which he was sentenced to be whipped twenty stripes, and to pay treble damages and Costs: And at the same Court one John Newington Clarke and Charles Lee, were convicted of stealing, and each of them sentenced to be whipped 20 Stripes, and to pay treble Damages and Costs; and the said White, Smith, Clarke and Lee, having nothing wherewith to pay said treble Damages, they were ordered to be sold upon one Indictment for six Years, upon another for four, and upon another for two, and so in proportion to the Value of the Goods Stolen, for paying said Damages. And one Stephen Bridge was convicted upon an Indictment against him for a second Theft, and sentenced to be set upon the Gallows with a Rope round his Neck, to be whipped 20 Stripes and to pay Costs.
Extract of a Letter from London, Feb. 12. 1770.
Dear Sir, I should now write in raptures, had I to inform you, that American grievances were to be redressed, and equity take place of law and power; but however your souls may thirst for these cooling waters to allay our unnatural animosities, I can transmit no such good news from this far country: Nor will you be in any great expectation of it having already peraged your doom from his Majesty's speech at the opening of the sessions.
Adm-----n could relieve you, but they will not. Should they pretend the contrary, they are not to be believed, after having shewed what a majority they have got in both houses, and when it is well known that many in the minority would join them upon such an occasion. The body and plan of the m-----y are the same, notwithstanding a few political changes.
The Duty on Tea is to continue; the Board of Customs, Commissioners, and Admiralty, are to remain in the present form.
It gives great Satisfaction to the Town to find the Trade have so strictly adhered to the Non-Importation Agreement ---Scarce a single Person that came into it have yet broke it; and out of six Vessels lately arriv'd from England there does not appear to be more than half one Load of Goods contrary to Agreement, great Part of which are Goods belonging to other maritime Towns, and the Remainder were Imported chiefly by those who refused from the first coming into the Non-Importation Agreement with the rest of the Traders, in Number about a Dozen, all whom, or as many as will
not voluntarily house such Goods under the immediate Care of the Committee of Inspection, there to remain till the Acts are totally Repealed, will, we hear, be advertised in next Thursdays Paper, & after that in all the other Papers, for two Years without Intermission---The Trade passed this Vote last Saturday at Faneuil-Hall, and then adjourn'd to Wednesday next, and we hear the Importers have already been serv'd with Copies of the Vote that they may not plead Ignorant.
The celebrated SPEECH of Edmund B——ke, Esq; delivered in the House of C——ns on Tuesday the 9th of January, being the Day of opening the present Session of Par-liament.
Mr. S——r, IT appears evident from the Speech, which now lies before the House, that the Ministers are resolved to drive the Americans to extremity, and to force this country to sheath its sword in the bowels of its own children. What else can be the meaning of calling the measures in which they have embarked, highly unwarrantable, and calculated to destroy the commercial connexion between them and this kingdom? I with they had examined their own conduct with a little more care and circumspection. They would have found that it is their measures, that are highly unwarrantable, and calculated to ruin the trade of Great-Britain and her colonies. The Americans are only contenting for an unalienable right; the right of taxing themselves, which is inseparable from every country that boasts the least degree of freedom. When they crossed the Atlantic, they did not mean to give up the rights of Englishmen. Celum, non animum, mutant, qui trans mare currunt. On the contrary, they shifted their abode in order to breathe a freer air, and to give a full scope to that independent, that unconquerable spirit, with which they're still animated. Will such men stoop their neck to the yoke of slavery? will they submit to be taxed, to have their property given away, by an assembly, in which they have no voice, no representative? None can entertain so puerile a fancy, but those men who think the people of this island so tame, so mean spirited as to suffer their creatures, their servants, I beg pardon, I mean the creatures, the servants of the ministry, to invade the most sacred of their rights, and to sell it for a mess of pottage.
What then can be more unwarrantable, more highly criminal than an attempt to involve us in a quarrel with a people, who will never yield to such ignominious terms, 'till they are utterly ruined; that is, 'till we are totally undone? For I think it is universally allowed, that the richness and greatness of this nation depend upon her colonies: Her trade with other nations being inconsiderable in comparison of that, which she carries on with them.--- Therefore, if through the mistaken politics of our present Rulers they are crushed, we must share the same fate: Force applied to them is arming the right hand against the left.
Were our right of taxation ever so manifest, which it is not, a sense of its inexpediency would deter every wise man from the exercise of it. The Americans are rather factors and servants to this island than subjects, who being on an equal footing, should bear an equal share of public burdens. They are always in debt to our merchants, because the ballance of trade is vastly against them; they have therefore much of the merchants money to trade with as a capital; are entrusted with many talents, and they do not hide them in a napkin; they return them tenfold. Are they not then to be considered as laborers to our merchants, as tributaries to this kingdom? In this light they have always appeared to every man conversant in commerce; and I believe it will be found that the greater the sums are, with which they are entrusted by our merchants to improve their plantations and staple commodities, the greater will be the advantages that will accrue to this nation. What then can be more impolitic than to levy by an internal tax, in the laying of which we are through our ignorance and distance liable to commit so many mistakes and oppressions, what must finally center among us by the nature of our commerce? Though their seas are covered with ships, it is with our ships, our sailors, our merchandise. They all work for us, we are the masters, they are the servants; and the principal part of the profit remains at last in our hands. We have every thing but the peculium , without which even slaves will not work.
What then shall we say to the present ministry, who in spite of these clear and hitherto unrefuted arguments, have renewed the pernicious scheme of taxation, which was undone in the Marquis of Rockingham's administration? Were they afraid that this nation would become too powerful and rich, if she followed the conciliating, the commercial plan, which was then sketched out? Or did they risk the public peace & security of the empire for the sake of providing places for a swarm of their creatures and dependents? I will acquit them of any premeditated scheme of destruction: They did not think at all: Nature never meant them for reasoners, otherwise they would have seen that these taxes would be swallowed up by the collectors, and must therefore be doubly distressing both to the colonies & the mother country. The vast extent of the country & the temptations thence arising to smuggling, must render such a number of collectors necessary, that, after they are paid, hardly the value of a pepper-corn will reach the exchequer.
But what foundation was there for taxing the colonies? Did they not before pay their full quota of the public burthens? Where is the necessary or convenience of life, which they do not receive from this island? Must they not therefore pay every tax with which these necessaries and conveniences are loaded? Nothing is more evident. Not a single manufacture, not a single article of trade enters their ports without being charged with all our taxes: For the suppression of manufactures in that country, comprises every species of taxes in one, and makes the colonists in reality the supporters of a large share of our public burthens. But what did I say? The suppression of manufactures in that country? Alas! that once was the case, but is now so no more.
There was a time, when the colonies and this island laboured mutually for each other, and pursued those objects for which they were severally fitted by their situation & their respective improvements. Now, thanks be to the present ministry for it, they are striving to undo each other, and in a state of open rivalry. It is not the fault of administration if they be not soon in a state of open enmity and hostility. The evident drift of this speech is to hurry us into rash and violent counsels. But I hope we have more wisdom, more knowledge, than to widen the breaches which they have made in the constitution, or to render incurable those wounds which their folly, madness, or wickedness have inflicted.
PHILADELPHIA, March 22.
Extract of a Letter from New-York, February 24. 1770. YOU have at least some colour for supposing that the violence against Capt. M'Dougall is the Effect of conscious guilt. Wise governments affect indifference at Pass-Quinades, and rarely solicitous to make discoveries, and still less inclined to prosecutions which create agitation, enquiry and disgust. What evidence Governor C-l-d-n & his Council were possessed of is not known, but there is such a general spirit of discontent, that I believe they will find it difficult to convict this Son of Liberty, especially as the publication which gives so much offence, alleges what was generally talked of before it appeared in print, and what was believed to be true. Every body knows that the D-l---ys got a lead in our assembly by real or pretended zeal for the popular opinions of this country;--- and in Sir Henry Moore's time they played them off against him. Nor can any man here of a tolerable information, be ignorant that they hated C-l-d-n for thirty years past; and that their hostilities ceased the moment of his last accession to power. This sudden and unexpected event naturally awakened the public attention,
and induced a suspicion that there was a bargain between them, but what the terms of it are, can only be collected from the contracting parties, and a knowledge of their interest; for doubtless both had advantages in view which time will discover. When the trial will come on I cannot as yet inform you. It will be a singular one, I dare say, and will open a scene that will certainly divert the public, and probably be of use. Capt. M'Dougall is so powerfully supported that he cannot want helps for full information concerning our colony politics for several years past, and I believe his enemies will find in the end that they have taken a bear by the tail. It is fortunate to the Sons of Liberty that the attack fell upon them as dauntless and sensible a man as any they have among them.
I have enquired as you desired me into his character, and indeed have a small personal acquaintance with him. By birth, I am told, he is a Caledonian of the Island of Ila, the son of an honest Ar-yl, shiremah, who was one of Capt. Campbell's disappointed adventures that came into this colony about the year 1739 40. His father altho' not in affluent circumstances, being a religious man, intended to qualify him for the ministry, but at fourteen he was so intent on going to sea, that it took his attention from his education, and his father with great reluctance was prevailed upon to let him follow the bent of his inclination. At the end of the late war he went into trade, and as he enjoyed a tolerable fortune, which he had acquired by his own industry while he followed the sea, and having youth of his side and very strong parts, he gave himself to study, and made very singular advancements in the cultivation of his mind.
The American quarrel with the Mother Country attracted his attention, and he was early (as he tells the public) in the sentiments of liberty. His understanding signalized him in the public conventions which were so frequent in those times, and being decent in his manners, he soon became generally respected. He is now about thirty-eight years of age, has three children, two of whom are sons; the eldest of them has lately finished his education at the Jersey College, and is now engaged in the study of the law. It is a pity, for the singularity of the instance, that the lad is not yet so forward in his profession, as yet to begin his public labours in the quality of advocate for his father.---This state prisoner, the first Son of Liberty in bonds for that glorious cause in America, possesses great presence of mind, is methodical, and connected in the arrangement of his ideas, writes well, speaks (altho' with some impediment) yet with tolerable ease. Has great fire and vehemence without hurry and precipitation, and with those abilities, I have no doubt but he will acquit himself so well at his trial, that he will do honour to the cause he has espoused, and confound all the tools of arbitrary power, of whom there are many in this town. His friends however hope, that in a cause of such expectation and consequence, the virtuous sons of the law will distinguish themselves by their readiness to assist him; and that the eloquence of your Farmer will come and defend the principles his pen has inculcated, and which may perhaps have excited the very zeal, so painful to our old patrons of the Stamp-Act and their present adherents.
FALMOUTH, April 6. 1770.
This Day died here in the 48th Year of his Age, to the inexpressible Grief of his Friends, SAMUEL WALDO, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. &c. for the County of Cumberland, in Commission for the Peace for same County, and Colonel of the Regiment of Militia there.
Portsmouth, April 27, 1770.
Last Monday, after the News-Papers were published, Capt. Scott arrived at Boston, about nine o'Clock at Night from London; by whom we are informed by the Post, that the Duties on Paper, Glass, and Painters Colours, are taken off---
That Governor Bernard will go to Ireland in a public Character. Lieut. Governor Hutchinson, appointed Governor of the Massachusetts; and it is said the Hon. Mr Oliver, is appointed Lieut. Governor, and the Hon. Thomas Flucker, Esq; Secretary of said Province.
On the 16th ultimo departed this Life, Mrs. SARAH TREADWELL, in the 68th Year of her Age, and on the 17th Instant Mr. JACOB TREADWELL, her Husband, aged 72, followed her to the World of Spirits; they had had 18 Children, most of whom they survived, lived together 48 Years in the marry'd State, were very happy in domestic Life, and much esteemed by all that were conversant with them; they professed the Religion of JESUS CHRIST, which was evidenced by a Conformity to his Precept.
   C U S T O M - H O U S E, Piscataqua April 26th 1770.   Inward Entries, FROM.     Ship Pepperilborough, William Moore, Barbados.   Schooner Diamond, William Vennard, North-Carolina.   Schooner True Brothers, Daniel Evans, Granada.   Schooner Abigail, John Falls, Ditto.   Schooner True Briton, John Hill, Ditto.   Outward Bound,   Schooner Greyhound, Abraham Trefethen, Maryland.   Clear'd for Departure, FOR.   Schooner Squirrel, Samuel Paul, Philadelphia.   Sloop Ambury, William Wyer, Ditto.   Sloop Peggy, William Swett, New-foundland.   Sloop Little Polly John Blunt, Ditto.   Sloop Dove, Simon Manzke, West-Indies.   Sloop Sally, Moses Hall, Ditto.   Sloop Dolphin, Daniel Toppan, Ditto.   Sloop Polly, Jeremiah Packer Ditto.   Sloop Molly, Eliphalet Ladd, Ditto.   Schooner Hawke, Joseph Greenleaf, Ditto.  
The Relhan
Proprietors are desired to take Notice, that the Meeting stands adjourned to this Evening, at Capt. Tilton's, and they are requested to give their punctual and early Attendance.
NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons who are Indebted to me the Subscriber, whose Notes, Bonds or Accounts have been of more than one Year's standing, that unless a speedy Settlement prevents, their Obligations will be put in Suit to the next June Court, without Exception. Also all Persons who have any Demands, are desired to bring in the same for Payment.
THOMAS WALLINGFORD.

It was reported yesterday, though we hope without foundation, that notwithstanding the great care lately taken to prevent the distemper among the horned cattle from spreading, a cow yesterday fell down in Forestreet, near Moorfields, so bad with the distemper, that she was obliged to be killed on the spot.
Our advices from Edinburgh acquaint us, that on the 18th instant the Court of Justiciary resumed the trial of Mungo Campbell, indicted for the Murder of the Right Hon. the Earl of Eglington, when their Lordships found the libel relevant, and appointed Monday the 5th of February next for examination of witnesses.
Lieut. Brown of the second battalion of the Royal Artillery, is appointed Adjutant in the room of ——— Williamson, Esq; appointed a full Captain.
Yesterday a mail arrived from New-York, brought by the Harriot Packet, Capt. Oak.
This day a wardmote will be held at Girdlers-Hall, for the election of an Alderman of Bassishaw Ward, in the room of Sir William Baker, Knt. deceased.
We hear that on Thursday Sir George Younge and Sir Percy Brett resigned their places as Lords of the Admiralty.
Letters from Paris mention, that the new Comptroller-General of the Finances, whom the French look upon as another Sully, told the King a few days ago, "That it was impossible to lay any new burthens upon his people, already sinking under their load; and that he must seek resources in economy, and in the coffers of the financiers, which contained all the money of the Kingdom."
We hear from Carmarthen, that on Monday the 8th instant, William Williams, of the town of Llandover, mercer, together with twelve other persons, disguised in waggons frocks, and armed with pistols, swords, cutlasses, and cased tucks, came to the dwelling house of William Powell, of Glanareth, in the county of Carmarthen, Esq; and knock'd at the back door; upon its being opened, William Williams and two of the villains, rushed into the parlour (whilst others stood centry on the kitchen door with a drawn sword and pistols) where Mr. Powell was sitting with three of his neighbours, and immediately stabbed him in nine different parts of his body, till his bowels came out, and then cut off his nose, and almost one of his hands; the people who were with him were so frightened, that they made no resistance, but immediately run out; the assassins then retreated without attempting to hurt any other person. One of the villains were taken up and confessed the whole, and that they were thirteen in number; and that they were all hired by the said William Williams to murder Mr. Powell, and not to rob the house. This William Williams, in August 1768, went with Mr. Powell's wife, and took her, and her children from the boarding-school to London; and Mr. Powell, was obliged to apply to the Court of King's Bench for a Habeas Corpus to get at his children; and, by the recommendation of the Court, allow'd her 100l. per annum for a separate maintenance. This Williams laid several schemes in order to take away Mr. Powell's life, and attempted to shoot him several times: the villains met on the seventh in Charles David Morgan's house, and continued there till they went the following evening to murder Mr. Powell. After the act was done, Williams declared he would soon possess himself of Mr. Powell's fortune. It was much to be feared that many more were concerned. One of the villains was dispatched by Williams that very night to inform Mrs. Powell's brother with what was done and ordered him to come and take possession of the estate: but Mr. Powell having made a will, and appointed guardians over his children, their scheme was defeated.
To his Grace the Duke of GRAFTON.
My Lord, THOUGH my opinion of your Grace's integrity was but little affected by the coyness with which you received Mr. Vaughan's proposals, I confess I gave you some credit for your discretion. You had a fair opportunity of displaying a certain delicacy, of which you had not been suspected, and you were in the right to make use of it. By laying in a moderate stock of reputation, you undoubtedly meant to provide for the future necessities of your character, that, with an honourable resistance upon record, you might safely indulge your genius, and yield to a favourite inclination with security. But you have discovered
your purposes too soon, and, instead of the modest reserve of virtue, have shown us the termagant chastity of a prude, who gratifies her passions with distinction, and prosecutes one lover for a rape, while she solicits the lewd embraces of another. Your cheek turns pale; for a guilty conscience tells me you are undone.—Come forward, thou virtuous Minister, and tell the world by what interest Mr. Hine has been recommended to so extraordinary a mark of his Majesty's favour; what was the price of the patent he has bought, and to what honourable purpose the purchase money has been applied? Nothing less than many thousands could pay Colonel Burgoyne's expenses at Preston. Do you dare to prosecute such a creature as Vaughan, while you are basely setting up the royal patronage at auction; Do you dare to complain of an attack upon your own honour, while you are selling the favours of the crown, to raise a fund for corrupting the morals of the people? And do you think it possible such enormities should escape without impeachment? It is indeed highly your interest to maintain the present H-e of C-s. Having sold the nation to you in gross, they will undoubtedly protect you in the retail: for while they patronize your crimes, they feel for their own.
JUNIUS.
A motion has been made in a certain Society, for an amendment in their proceedings, and that they should for the future be guided by law and custom; which was then objected to. Another motion was made in the same Society, that their proceedings relative to a certain expulsion was according to their law and custom, which, on a division, was carried by a majority of 44 only.
That a certain great Commoner was not committed for a certain speech, in a certain place, is said to have greatly disconcerted the measures of Opposition; for the members of the Minority seem now to make no great ceremony in acknowledging, that a commitment of any one of their party must have been a stroke which could not have failed terminating (by an additional cry of persecution) in their long sought-for triumph over Ad—n.
Lord Hardwick, who went down to his country seat in Cambridgeshire, in high disgust with his brother, the new Chancellor, the day before he died, was sent for up to town, and arrived in Bloomsbury-Square about three hours before the Chancellor expired. The sudden and unexpected event of Mr. Yorke's accepting the seals, joined with the equally sudden and unexpected death of his brother, has thrown Lord Hardwick into a violent fever, and may probably be attended with bad, if not fatal consequences.
An anatomical EPITAPH on an Invalid, written by himself.
HERE lies an head that often ach'd. Here lie two hands that always shak'd; Here lies a brain of odd conceit, Here lies an heart that often beat; Here lie two eyes that daily wept, And in the night but seldom slept; Here lies a tongue that whining talk'd; Here lie two feet that feebly walk'd; Here lie the midriff and the breast With loads of indigestion prest; Here lies the liver, full of bile, That ne'er secreted proper chyle; Here lie the bowels, human tripe, Tortur'd with wind and twisting gripes; Here lies that livid dab, the spleen, The source of life's sad tragic scene, That left side weight that clogs the blood, And stagnates nature's circling flood! Here lie the nerves, so often twich'd With painful cramps and poignant stich; Here lies the back, oft rack'd with pains, Corroding kidneys, loins, and reins; Here lies the skin per scurvy fed, With pimples and eruptions red.
Here lies the man, from top to toe, That fabric fram'd for pain and woe; He catch'd a cold, but colder death Compress'd his lungs, and stop't his breath; The organs could no longer go Because the bellow's ceas'd to blow.
Thus I dissect this honest friend, Who ne'er till death was at wit's end: For want of spirits ere he fell, With higher spirits let him dwell, In future state of peace and love, Where just men's perfect spirits move.
Choice BOHEA TEA
To be Sold very cheap by large or small Quantity for Cash only: Enquire three Doors south of the Ferry.
TO BE SOLD Cheap for Cash or short Credit,
Two whole Rights of Land in
the Township of Barrington, containing Three Hundred Acres in the Fifth Range, No. 227; and Two Hundred and Forty Acres in the Third Range, No. 138: For further Particulars, enquire of Edward Butler of Portsmouth, or the Printers hereof.
---A Run-away BOY---
RAN-AWAY the 26th of June
last from his Master William Brewster of Portsmouth, an Apprentice BOY named Jehoshua Brewster, about nineteen Years of Age; he is thick set, and about five Feet high: Had on when he went away, a Camblet Coat, a Serge Jacket, Buff Breeches, Felt Hat, and wears his own Hair, which is black, and short curl'd. Whoever shall take up said Apprentice Boy, and convey him to his said Master, shall have Two Dollars Reward, and necessary Charges paid by me,
William Brewster.
N. B. All Masters of Vessels and others are hereby caution'd against concealing, entertaining, or carrying off said Apprentice Boy, as they would avoid the Penalty of the LAW.
TO BE SOLD Cheap for Cash,
A likely NEGRO BOY,
Twelve Years of Age. Likewise a PEW in Queen's Chappel to be Sold or Lett. For further Particulars, enquire of the Printers.
Nathaniel Sheaff Griffith,
Clock and Watchmaker in Portsmouth near the Parade,
HEREBY informs his Customers
and others, that he continues carrying on his Business as usual, and has now by him all sorts of materials for Clocks and Watches, and those who Employ him, may depend on being faithfully and punctually served, and cheaper than by any other Watchmaker.
He has the best of clarified Owl, for Clocks and Watches, which prevents their stopping in cold Weather.
All Persons that have any Claims
or Demands on the Estate of the Rev. Mr. Jonathan Cushing, late of Dover, Intestate, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to the Subscriber, Administrator on said Estate, in order for a Settlement. And those that are Indebted to said Estate, are also desired to make speedy Payment to prevent further Trouble from
Peter Cushing.
Dover, April 25. 1770.
TO BE SOLD or LET,
The House and Land improved
by Edmund Davis, in Jew Street: For further Particulars, enquire of said Davis; who requests all those Persons who have Accounts open with him, to close them as soon as possible, as he intends to leave the Town in a short Time.
All Persons Indebted to, or that
have Demands on the Estate of Jacob Treadwell, late of Portsmouth, Tanner, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Samuel Treadwell, Executor to the Last Will of the deceased, in order for a speedy Settlement.
Garden Seeds
Warranted to be the last Years Produce, and just imported from LONDON, to be sold by
JOHN ADAMS,
In Queen Street, Portsmouth, viz.
EARLY Charlton, early golden
Hotspur, large and dwarf Marrowfat Peas, blue Rouncivals, Ledman's dwarf, Spanish Moratter, and crooked Sugar Peas.—Large Winfor, speckled dwarf, and early yellow dwarf Beans.—Strasburgh Onion, White Spanish; Silver Skin; and Red Onions; early Yorkshire, early Dutch, early Battersea, Sugar Loaf, and large Winter Cabbage.—Green Savoy, early and late Colliflower.—Green, Marble, Tennisball and Cabbage Lettuce.—Red Beet.—Parsnip.—Early yellow and Orange Carrot.—Early and late Turnip.—double and single Parsley.—White Mustard.—Round Spinnage.—Early and late Cucumber.—Celery.—London Radish.—Asparagus.—Thyme.—Sweet Marjoram, Baum, double & Single pepper Grass; Hyssop; Sage; Rosemary; Lavender; Herbs Grass and Clover, and sundry other Sorts, &c. &c.
Twelve Settlers that incline to
settle on the Township of TRECOThICK, adjoining to Rumney and Campton, in this Province, may hear of the Encouragement by applying to John Wendell of the Printers hereof.

--- ( Next Thursday. ) ---  Province Excise.
ON Thursday the 3d of May next will be exposed to Sale at PUBLIC VENDUE to the highest Bidder by the COMMITTEE of the GENERAL COURT, for that purpose, at the house of JAMES STOODLY, Esq; in Portsmouth,
THE Province EXCISE on SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, granted by AN ACT passed in the 5th Year of his late MAJESTY's Reign, intitled an Act for granting unto his Majesty an Excise on several Liquors, &c. &c. The said EXCISE will be sold for only one Year to commence from the first Tuesday in September last, and in three separate Divisions, in the following manner;—
The first Division begins at the Mouth of Piscataqua River, and up the said River to the Line between Durham and Newmarket, and by that Line and the Lines between Durham and Nottingham, and between Nottingham and Barrington, and between Chichester and Barnstead, and between Gilmantown & Canterbury to Winnipiseokee River, then down said River to Merrimack River, then down the same to the boundary Line between this Province & the Massachusetts-Bay, then Easterly to the Sea, and so to Piscataqua River, at the first bounds and contains the following Towns, and all others that may be included within the Compass above described, viz.
FIRST DIVISION.
Portsmouth, New-Castle, Rye, Greenland, New-Castle, Stratham, Hampton, N. Hampton, Hampton-Falls, Newmarket, Exeter, Epping, Nottingham, Brintwood, Kingstown, S. Hampton, New Town, Plaistow, Hampstead, Salem, Pelham, Nottingham West, Lietchfield, Londonderry, Derryfield, Chester, Albin's Town, Bow, Rumford, Suncook, Pennycrook, Epsom, Gosport, &c.
The Second Division is to be bound on the South side by the Northerly Line, or Bounds of the first Division, and to the Mouth of Pemigawasset River, and up the same to Bakers River, then up the same to the Head of the South Branch thereof, then on a straight Line to Connecticut River, on the South side of the Town of Orford, and to include the following Towns, & all others that may fall to the North and N. Easterly side of the aforesaid Line, viz.
SECOND DIVISION.
Durham, Dover, Barrington, Somersworth, Chichester, Canterbury, Gilmantown, Barnstead, Rochester, Sanborn Town, New-Salem, New-Durham, Watertown, Middlestown, Tuftonborough, Moultonborough, Wolfeborough, Leavitts-town, Holderness, Plymouth, Cockermouth, Rumney, Compton, Sandwich, Warwick, Orford, Pyrmont, Warren, Thornton, Haverhill, Coventry, Peling, Bath, Lancholp, Lincoln, Lyman, Concord, Franconia, Cheesewich, Lancaster, Stonington, Woodbury, Preston, Dryden, Dartmouth, Palmerstown, &c.
The Third Division is to contain all the Towns, on the westerly side of Merrimack River, that belongs to this Province, not included in the two former Divisions, particularly the following Towns, viz.
THIRD DIVISION.
Merrimack, Dunstable, Monson, Souhegan East, Souhegan West, No. 1, South-Town, No. 2, North Town, New-Ipswich, Salem-Canada, Peterborough, Peterborough-Ship, Monadnock No. 1, Monadnock No. 2, Monadnock No. 3, Monadnock No. 4, Monadnock No. 5, Monadnock No. 6, Monadnock No. 7, New-Concord, Richmond, New-Winchester, Hinsdale, Chesterfield, Swansey, Keene, Westmoreland, Gilsum, Walpole, Alstead, Marlow, Charlestown, Acworth, Lempster, Hillsborough, Tods-Town, Wears-Town, Starks-Town, New-Boston, Goffs-Town, New-Hopkington, Rye-Town, Contoocook, Browns-Town, Stevens-Town, Parry's-Town, Grenville, Buckingham, Clermont, Newport, Dantzick, Heideborough, Emery's Town, New-Chester, Alexandria, Cornish, Croydon, Plainfield, Grantham, Lebanon, Enfield, Grafton, Hanover, Canna, Cardigan, Lime, Dorchester, Talford's Town, &c.
Conditions of Sale shall be made known at the Time and Place of Sale.
JONATHAN WARNER, Chairman of the said Committee.
PORTSMOUTH, April 17th 1770.
PROVINCE of NEW-HAMPSHIRE } BY an ACT of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of said Province, the Treasurer is authorised, to borrow MONEY in the Name and for the Use of said Province, for one Year, at Six per Cent per Annum.— Any Person willing to lend Money to this Province, may have the Province Security for the same on the Terms herein mentioned, at the Treasurer's-Office. GEORGE JAFFREY, Treasurer. Portsmouth, April 18th. 1770.
§ A Runaway-BOY. §
RAN AWAY the Fifth of January last from his Master Mark Seavey, of Portsmouth, a Fair Complexion Apprentice BOY, named Robert Rand, about Nineteen Years of Age, about Five Feet high: Had on when he went away, a light colour'd Sagarthe Coat, light Velvet Breeches, green Serge Jacket; he wore his own Hair. All Masters of Vessels and others are hereby caution'd against entertaining, concealing or carrying off said Boy, as they would avoid the Penalty of the LAW.— Whoever will take up said Boy, and convey him to his said Master, shall have One Shilling Lawful Money Reward paid by me, Mark Seavey.
[ Dartmouth. ]
NOTICE is hereby given to the several delinquent Proprietors of DARTMOUTH, in the Province of New-Hampshire, that have not paid their respective TAXES, voted to be raised on each original Right in said Township, at sundry legal Meetings of said Proprietors (whereof Notice has already been given in a former Advertisement, according to LAW) that so much of their Rights or Shares will be SOLD at publick Vendue to the highest Bidder, at the House of Col. JOHN GOFFE, Esq; in Derryfield, on Tuesday the Fifteenth Day of MAY next, at One of the 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 Dwelling House in Bedford, with incidental Charges.
The delinquent Proprietors are as follows,     The Sums in Lawful Money. The Names of the Grantees of Dartmouth.     Bedford, April 8. 1770. James Walker, Collector. £. s.   Matthew Little 2 14 Joseph Moors 3   Ebenezer Coultou 3 Samuel Pattin 2 2   Capt. Nat. Martin 3 Noah Emery, Esq; 3 2   William Barpet 2 2 Charles Emerson, 3   Francis Barnet 2 2 John Harvey 2 2   Jonathan Martin 3 Maj. Samuel Moor 2 14   Forbes Kennedy 2 11 Joshua Martin 3   Thomas Boile 2 2 Wm. Mc Clintock 2 14   Silas Walker 2 2 Stephen Holland 3   Andrew Bradford 2 2 Col. Jacob Bailey 3   Capt. James Karr 3 James Stoodly, Esq; 3   John Bradford 2 2 Samuel Wilkins 2 2   Joseph Ardaway 3 Solomon Hutchinson 3   John Bell 3 Richard Talpy, Esq; 2 2   Capt. John Goffe 2 2 Samuel Goffe 3   John Kidder 3 John Griffin 3   Alex. Walker, Esq; 2 11 David Page 3   James Patterson 2 11 Jeremiah Alin 2 2   Adam Dickey, jun. 3 Amaziah Pollard 3   Nathaniel Patterson 2 11 Stephen Powers 3   Daniel Martin 3 John Hale 3   Capt. James Walker 2 2 John Marsh 3   J. Shepherd, jun. Esq. 2 2 Daniel Warner 3  
The Subscribers appointed by the Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the province of New Hampshire, to receive and examine the Claims of DEBT against the Estate of Henry Saunders, late of Salem, Yeoman, deceased, represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed for that purpose— Hereby give Notice, that they will attend that Business at the House of Lt. Oliver Saunders, in Salem, on the first Tuesday of May next, and of the five following Months, from six to eight o'Clock, P. M. on said Days.
Salem, April 14. 1770. Thomas Douglass } Commissioners. Jonathan Frye, } oners.
[ Hillsborough. ]
WHEREAS a Number of the Inhabitants of Hillsborough, in the Province of New-Hampshire, have petitioned the General Assembly, to pass an ACT to oblige the Proprietors and Owners of a TRACT of LAND called the Society Land, to maintain and keep in Repair a ROAD which was some Time since cut and cleared through the said Society Land, by the Inhabitants of Hillsborough aforesaid:— These are therefore to give Notice, that a Hearing is granted on said Petition on the third Day of the sitting of the General Assembly after the first Day of May next, when any Person may shew Cause why the Prayer may not be granted. GEORGE KING, D. Sec. April 10. 1770.
BROKE out of his Majesty's Goal in Portsmouth, on the 24th of March last, Capt. Joseph Kelley, belonging to Nottingham West, about five Foot ten Inches high, something pock broken and wears his Hair. Had on when he went away, a blue Cloth Coat, Leather Breeches, &c.— Whoever will take up said Runaway, and bring him to his Majesty's Goal in Portsmouth, or secures him in any other, so that he may be had again, shall have four Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid, by ELIPHALET DANIELS, Prison Keeper, in behalf of the Sheriff. Portsmouth, April 11th, 1770.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Honorable JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq; Judge of Probate for the Province of New-Hampshire, to receive and Examine the Claims of the Creditors to the Estate of Martha Bogle, late of Peterborough, deceased, represented Insolvent; and six Months being allowed by the Judge from the first Day of April current for the Creditors to bring in their Claims therein, we hereby give Notice, that we purpose to attend that Service at the House of Stephen Holland, Esq; Innholder in Londonderry, on the last Wednesday of this Month, from two to six o'Clock in the Evening of said Day; and the last Wednesday of May next, at the House of David Steel, Innholder in said Peterborough; and the four following Months, at the aforesaid Stephen Holland's. Moses Barnett, } Commissioners. Samuel Alton, } oners. April 10. 1770.
Choice Bohea Tea, by the dozen or single pound, at 4s. & 5d.— with a variety of English Goods, to be sold very low for Cash by HUGH HENDERSON, at his Shop near the Post Office in King Street, Portsmouth.
* Rumney. *
NOTICE is hereby given to the delinquent Proprietors of RUMNEY, in New Hampshire, that they pay the respective Charges arising on their Rights of Land in said Rumney, to me the Subscriber in Rumney. James Heath, Collector.
THE Subscriber intending in a short Time to leave the Province, requests all those Persons who have Accounts open with him, to close them as soon as possible.
Joseph Bais.
Portsmouth, April 9th, 1770. The said Bais has the following Articles to dispose of, which he will sell very low for the Cash, viz.
A variety of Goods, a considerable Quantity of which is in the Upholstery Way— A few Barrels of Orange, Clove, Snakeroot, and Doc. Stevens's Water.— a good House Lot of Land measuring 60 by 85 Feet, pleasantly situated, lying in the Street leading to his Excellency the Governor's, and opposite to the Rev. Dr. Langdon's Dwelling House.
Also, a wall PEW in the Rev. Mr. Haven's Meeting House. For further particulars enquire of said Bais, who has a quantity of American Grindstones to dispose of very low for Cash.
TO BE SOLD
By Gillam Butler,
At his Shop next to the Printing Office, in the Street that leads from the Parade to the Market and Ferry, on the very lowest Terms for Cash only. viz.
LINNENS, Checks, Callicoes, printed Linnen, Nankeens, Fustians, Jeans, Cotton Hollands, strip'd Hollands, Bedticks, Silk and Linnen Handkerchiefs, silk Mitts, worsted and thread Stockings, fine white Counterpins, Allamode, Cambric, strip'd & figur'd Lawn, Bindings, Tapes, Ozonbrigs, Dowlas, Felt Hats, Shalloons, white and color'd Threads, silk Twist, Mohair, Knee Garters, Breeches Patterns, Combs, Buckles, Penknives, Sizars, pins and Needles, Buttons, Leather Breeches, Mens Leather Gloves; also, Rum, Sugar, pepper, Coffee, Allspice, Chocolate, Kippen's Snuff, Cotton Wool, Tea at 4s 6d. A'lb, Velvets, Sattine, Silver Head, and Breast Flowers.
TO BE SOLD
By John Moffat,
At his Store on Spring Hill,  Fishing Strings of three and half and four Inches; CABLES of eight and half and nine Inches; also St. Martins Salt.
ALL PERSONS Indebted to the Printers for News Papers, or otherwise, are desired to make payment, at the Printing Office.