The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1770-01-19 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday Jan. 19, 1770.
Vol. XIV. GAZETTE,
CHRONICLE,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
Numb. 692 | Weeks since this Paper was publish'd.
From the BOSTON GAZETTE, Jan. 8, 1770.
The following Piece was first publish'd at New-York: The General Assembly there resolv'd that it was a Libel; and Lieut. G. COLDEN issued his proclamation against it as such, offering a Reward of a £. 100 to any person who should discover the author or authors—Whether it be in truth a Libel, the American Publick, a grand Tribunal! will judge—There cannot be any doubt but the Inhabitants of the City and Colony of New-York have abundant reason to be displeas'd with the Conduct of the Assembly, in granting their money to maintain a standing army against their Consent: Nor can it be the least mitigation of the Conduct of the REPRESENTATIVES of the People who voted for it that they did not know the minds of their Constituents.—They could have known their sentiments; and they ought to have suspended their Votes upon a matter of so interesting a nature, till they could have consulted their Constituents—We have no Reason to suspect the firm Attachment of our Brethren and fellow Sufferers the Inhabitants of New-York in general, to the common Cause: We hope they will explicitly make known their sentiments as the Citizens have done.—In the mean Time we are not so much concern'd at this Instance of Conduct in the Assembly, when we consider that the Vote was carried in a very thin House, there being a majority of one only, of 23 members present.
To the BETRAYED Inhabitants of the City and Colony of NEW-YORK.
My dear Fellow-Citizens and Countrymen, IN a day when the minions of tyranny and despotism in the mother Country, and the Colonies, are indefatigable in laying every snare that their malevolent and corrupt hearts can suggest, to enslave a free people; when this unfortunate country has been striving under many disadvantages for three years past, to preserve their freedom; which to an Englishman, is as dear as life,—when the merchants of this city and the capital towns on the continent, have nobly & cheerfully sacrificed their private interests, to the public good, rather than to promote the designs of the enemies of our happy constitution; it might justly be expected that in this day of constitutional light the Representatives of this Colony, would not be so hardy, nor be so lost to all sense of duty to their Constituents, (especially after the laudable example of the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and South-Carolina, before them) as to betray the trust committed to them. This they have done, in passing the vote to give the troops 1000l. out of any monies that may be in the treasury, and another thousand out of the money that may be issued, to be put out on loan, which the colony will be obliged to make good, whether the bill for that purpose does or does not obtain the royal assent. And that they have betrayed the Liberties of the people, will appear from the following considerations; to wit: That the Ministry are waiting to see, whether the Colonies, under their distressed circumstances, will divide on any of the grand points, which they are united in, and contending for, with the mother-country; by which they may carry their designs against the colonies, and keep in the administration. For if this should not take place, the acts must be repealed; which will be a reflection on their conduct, and will bring the reproach and clamour of the nation on them, for the loss of trade to the Empire, which their mal-conduct has occasioned.
Our granting money to the troops, is implicitly acknowledging the authority that enacted the Revenue-Acts, and their being obligatory on us. As these acts were enacted for the express purpose of taking money out of our pockets, without our consent; and to provide for the defending and support of government in America; which revenue we say by our grant of money, is not sufficient for the purpose aforesaid; therefore we supply the deficiency.
This was the point of view in which these acts were considered, by the Massachusetts & South-Carolina assemblies, and to prevent that dangerous construction, refused it. On this important point we have differed with those spirited colonies, and do politically approve of all the tyrannical conduct of the ministry to the Bostonians, and by implication censure their laudable and patriotic denial. For if they did right (which every sensible American thinks they did) in refusing to pay the billeting money, surely we have done wrong, very wrong, in giving it. But our assembly says, they do their duty, in granting the money to the troops: Consequently the Massachusetts assembly did not do theirs, in not obeying the ministerial mandate. If this is not a division in this grand point, I know not what is: and I doubt not but the ministry will let us know it to our cost; for it will turnish them with arguments and fresh courage. Is this a grateful retaliation to that brave & sensible people, for the spirited and early notice they took of the suspending act? No; it is base ingratitude, and betraying the common cause of Liberty.
To what other influence than the deserting the American cause, can the Ministry attribute so pusillanimous a conduct, as this of the Assembly; so repugnant and subversive of all the means we have used, and opposition that has been made by this and the other Colonies, to the tyrannical conduct of the British parliament! To no other. Can there be a more ridiculous farce to impose on the people, than for the assembly to vote their thanks to be given to the merchants, for entering into an agreement not to import Goods from Britain, until the Revenue Acts should be repealed, while they at the same time counteract it by countenancing British acts, and complying with ministerial Requisitions; incompatible with our freedom? Surely there cannot.
And what makes the Assembly's granting this Money the more grievous, is, that it goes to the support of Troops kept here, not to protect, but to enslave us. Has not the truth of this remark been lately exemplified in the audacious domineering and inhuman Maj. Pullaine, who ordered a guard to protect a sordid miscreant, that transgressed the laudable non importation agreement of the merchants, in order to break that, which is the only means left them, under God, to baffle the designs of their enemies, to enslave this continent. This consideration alone ought to be sufficient to induce a free people, not to grant the Troops any supply whatsoever. If we had no dispute with the mother-country, that made it necessary not to concede any thing that might destroy our freedom; reasons of economy and good policy, suggest, that we ought not to grant the troops money.
Whoever is the least acquainted with the English history must know, that grants frequently made to the crown, are not to be refused, but with some degree of danger of dis-
turbing the repose of the kingdom or colony. This evinces the expediency of our stopping these grants now, while we are embroil'd with the mother-country; that so we may not, after the grand controversy is settled, have a new bone of contention about the billeting money; which must be the case if we do not put an end to it at this time: For the colony, in its impoverished state, cannot support a charge which amounts to near as much per annum, as all the other expences of the government besides.
Hence it follows, that the assembly have not been attentive to the Liberties of the continent, nor to the property of the good people of this colony, in particular. We must therefore attribute this sacrifice of the public interest, to some corrupt source. This is very manifest in the guilt and confusion, that covered the faces of the perfidious abettors of this measure, when the house was in debate on the subject. Mr. Colden knows, from the nature of things, that he cannot have the least prospect to be in administration again; and therefore, that he may make hay while the sun shines, and get a full salary from the assembly; flatters the ignorant members of it, with the consideration of the success of a bill, to emit a paper currency, when he and his artful coadjutors must know, that it is only a snare to impose on the simple; for it will not obtain the royal assent. But while he is solicitous to obtain his salary, he must attend to his posterity. And as some of his children hold offices under the government; if he did not procure an obedience to its requisitions, or do his duty, in case the assembly refused the billeting money, by dissolving them, his children might be in danger of losing their offices. If he dissolved the assembly, they would not give him his salary.
The Delancy family knowing the ascendancy they have in the present house of assembly, and how useful that influence will be to their ambitious designs, to manage a new governor, have left no stone unturned to prevent a dissolution. The assembly, conscious to themselves, of having trampled on the liberties of the people, and fearing their just resentments on such an event; are equally careful to preserve their seats, expecting that if they can do it at this critical juncture, as it's imagined the grand controversy will be settled this winter, they will serve for seven years; in which time they hope the people will forget the present injuries done to them. To secure these several objects, the Delancy family, like true politicians, altho' they were to all appearance, at mortal odds with Mr. Colden; and represented him in all companies, as an enemy to his country; yet a coalition is now formed, in order to secure to them the sovereign lordship of this colony. The effect of which, has given birth to the abominable vote, by which the liberties of the people are betrayed. In short, they have bro't matters to such a pass, that all the checks resulting from the form of our happy constitution, are destroyed. The assembly might as well invite the Council, to save the trouble of formalities, to take their seats in the house of assembly, and place the Lieut. Governor in the Speaker's chair, and then there would be no waste of time in going from house to house, and his honor would have the pleasure to see how zealous his former enemies are in promoting his interest to serve themselves. Is this a state to be rested in, when our All is at stake? No my countrymen, rouse! imitate the noble

example of the friends of liberty in England, who rather than be enslaved, contend for their rights with K—, Lords and Commons. And will you suffer your liberties to be torn from you by your own representatives? Tell it not in Boston: publish it not in the streets of Charlestown! You have means yet left to preserve a unanimity with the brave Bostonians and Carolinians; and to prevent the accomplishment of the designs of tyrants. The House was so nearly divided on the subject of granting the money in the way the vote passed, that one would have prevented it; you have therefore a respectable minority. What I would advise to be done, is, to assemble in the fields, on Monday next, where your sense ought to be taken on this important point; notwithstanding the impudence of Mr. Jauncey, in his declaring in the house, that he had consulted his constituents, and that they were for giving money. After this is done, go in a body to your members, and insist on their joining with the minority to oppose the bill; if they DARE refuse your just requisition,—appoint a committee to draw up a state of the whole matter, and send it to the Speakers of the several Houses of assembly on the continent, and to the friends of our cause in England, and publish it in the News-Papers, that the World may know your sentiments on this matter, in the only way your circumstances will admit: And I am confident it will spirit the friends of our cause, and chagrin our enemies. Let the notification to call the people, be so expressed, that whoever absents himself, will be considered as agreeing to what may be done by such as shall meet.—And that you may succeed, is the unfeigned desire of,
A SON OF LIBERTY.
New-York, Dec. 16th, 1769.
THE Passions are incident to Humanity, the agreeable and pleasing, as well as the revengeful and savage: but the LOVE of our Country arises from another Source; from popular Prejudice in the Mobility; but in the Man of Reason and Philosophy, from Sentiment and Knowledge; and Encomiums on our Soil or our Trade are alike agreeable to Clowns and Philosophers. But are our Valour and Learning, our Manners or Customs celebrated by a Writer of our Nation; though dull, cold and phlegmatic in Diction, we regard him with an Eye of Pleasure and Satisfaction? Such Compliments are partial, as the Writer in thus speaking, receives behind the Curtain, the Adulation to himself. But the Testimony of a Foreigner, unbiaised by Prejudice, and un-influenced by Dependence, must and ought to be decisive. How soothing to our Pride, how flattering to our Imagination, must the following Quotation from a Frenchman, revered throughout Europe, not less for his Virtue, Humanity and Candour, than for his metaphysical Acumen and paradoxical Ingenuity! To a general Inveigh against the English Nobility, in the Mouth of a Person in Rage, concluded with particular, tho' unjust Reflection, his Lordship answered,—— “Whatever you may think of me; “Sir, I should be very sorry to be able to give no other Proof of “my Merit, than the Name of a Man born five hundred Years “ago: If you know the Nobility of England, you know that it “is the least prejudiced, best informed, most sensible and bravest “of all Europe; after which, it is needless to ask, whether it be “the most ancient; for when we talk of what is, we never mind “what was. We are not, it is true, the Slaves, but the Friends “of a Prince, not the Oppressors of a People, but their Leaders. “The Guardians of Liberty, the Pillars of our Country, and the “Support of the Throne, we maintain an Equilibrium between “the PEOPLE and the KING. Our first Regards are due to the “Nation, the second to Him that governs: We consult not his “Will, but his just Prerogative. Supreme Judges in the House “of Peers, and sometimes Legislators, we render equal Justices to “King and People, and suffer none to say, GOD AND MY “SWORD, but only GOD AND MY RIGHT.” Were such the Sentiments of Rousseau? they do not less Honour to his Understanding than Credit to his Impartiality:
To the PRINTERS.
Please to insert the following in your Gazette, as it was publish'd in London the 12th of October last, and is taken from the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser of that Date.
To the E--- of H——h.
IN my preceding letters to your L--d--p I have taken a general view of your connections and conduct; give me leave now to be a little more particular.
Your L--d--p's entrance into a new department for North America was at a critical time when a sense of fresh attempts, made on their liberties, had raised in our colonies a general disposition to complain. To complain is a privilege, which even the despotism of Turkey does not deny its wretched slaves; & instances have occurred even there, of the heads of very arbitrary Bashaws falling a sacrifice to the reiterated complaints of the people. But your L--d--p would refine on eastern tyranny, and stifle even the murmurs of misery in the oppressed subject.
In this true spirit of modern ministers, you transmitted a circular letter to every G-----r on the continent of North America, enjoining them to dissolve their respective assemblies, should they attempt to complain. In what words shall I admire your L--d--p's wisdom, who thus planned the support of government by the dissolution of all government? But I beg your pardon: you had in reserve a mode of government, in your judgment infinitely better than the one established by the constitution; I mean that of the military. My L--d, may I solicitate you on this laudable expedient? Has it succeeded to your wish? Have you been able to re-act, on the common of Boston, the glorious tragedy of St. George's Field; and emulate in the fame of that brilliant day; your renowned co-adjutors in office, the Lords B—g--n and W--y-----h?
To effect this change of civil into military government, you entered into a close and confidential correspondence with G—B—; who was the avowed incendiary of America; and with the Commissioners of C—t—ms in Boston, who were personally, as well as officially, the objects of universal abhorrence and contempt; for they were men, who, to the odium of former bad characters, added the deeper guilt of treachery, in becoming the willing instruments of oppression over their fellow-subjects.—It was obvious you were in a fair way of receiving the most impartial and conciliating intelligence from such informers.
Intigated by these councillors, but, above all, by that truly constitutional spirit of administration, which taught them effectually to support the civil Magistracy by military force, your L--d--p commenced hostilities in form, both by sea and land, against the town of Boston. Your Generals then reaped laurels abundantly, and transmitted them to you in the triumphant assurance, that they were in full possession of the town. Such was their phrase for quartering troops there in defiance of the law, and making a hostile parade in the midst of peace. Encouraged by them, the common soldiers spurned at all civil authority, abused the inhabitants, assaulted the officers of justice, & carried the law on the point of their swords. These were glorious times! but, alas, my Lord, all human triumphs are frail. Your troops have been obliged to abandon their conquests; all their laurels are blasted. Cushing still lives; Otis harangues with spirited firmness, and the civil power begins to resume its hated offices: nay worse, the day of retribution approaches, and your L--d--p must answer “for having invaded the privileges of a free assembly, by a threatening letter, and having infringed an act of parliament, in quartering troops in Boston, expressly contrary to law.
These offences, my L--d, are rank, they smell to heaven. Your crimes are great, the proofs are pregnant, & vengeance will pursue you, even under the protection of your Thane.
The prejudice, artfully infused into mens minds, by your tools, the enemies of all constitutional liberty, “That the Americans were seditiously opposing the just authority of this country,” has prevented the people here from paying that attention to the complaints of their fellow subjects in America, to which their hatred of arbitrary power would naturally have disposed them—under the protection of this prejudice, your L--d--p has too long conducted your despotic system unmolested. But this evil is daily removing, and I hope a little time will lay your character and conduct before the public in their genuine lustre; and trust me, my Lord, it shall not be my fault, if any light be wanting to demonstrate, how true you have been to those principles, which have ever actuated your patron, and rendered him most execrable.
It was precisely on the principles which recommended you to his choice, that your L--d--p has advanced the disappointed tools of despotism in the stamp-act, to offices of respectability & trust in America. The appointments in the Judge Admiralty Courts, and in the Deputy Governorship of N—C—a, of men, contemptible in character, abilities, and fortune, were sufficient to have reflected disrespect on any offices: men who had nothing
to recommended them but the alacrity they had before manifested, in aiding to violate the sacred rights of their country; as if, in your L--d--p's estimation, the stamp office was the best school for Judges and Governors, and that they, who had betrayed their fellow-subjects, were most likely to judge amongst them uprightly, and govern them with moderation. The temper of the times called for conciliatory measures, and your L--d--p wisely met this temper, by irritating resolves, and by prostituting a title on him, whom a malignant endeavour to kindle an unextinguishable and fatal enmity between Great Britain and her colonies, had raised from contempt to detestation. Will you, my L--d, give me leave to augur ill of these proceedings; that the effect of them must be to excite universally the hatred of the people? and Cicero will instruct your L--d--p, that the hatred of the people is able to ruin the most absolute authority. You have ventured to make the trial: tremble at the issue.
JUNIUS AMERICANUS.
CHARLESTOWN, S. Carolina, Dec. 12.
Friday last the Honorable the Commons House of Assembly had Leave to adjourn to Tuesday the 9th of January next; and is accordingly adjourned to that Time. We hear, that before the Adjournment they entered into a Resolution, that the Public Treasury do advance the Sum of Fifteen Hundred Pounds Sterling, to be paid into the Hands of Mr. Speaker, Mr. Gadsten, Mr. Rutledge, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Dart, and Mr. Lynch, to be by those Gentlemen remitted to Great-Britain, for the Support of the just and constitutional Rights of the People of that Kingdom and America.
Sunday last the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield set out from hence on his Way to Georgia, having preached several Times since his Arrival here to large Audiences.
Advices from Bristol inform, That Sir William Draper, and Capt. Collins, of the Navy, were soon to embark there for this Province, in order to begin their Tour though North-America.
ANNAPOLIS, (in Maryland) Dec. 21.
This morning at ten o'clock, at a numerous meeting by beat of the Town-Drum, at which were many of the Gentlemen Committees from the several Counties of this Province, who, in July last, formed and entered into the Articles for Non-Importation of British superfluities, and for promoting Frugality, Oeconomy, and the Use of American Manufactures.
Resolved unanimously, That the said articles be most strictly adhered to, and preserved inviolate; and that each and every gentleman present at this meeting, will use his utmost endeavour to those laudable ends.
B O S T O N, January 15, 1770.
Our Friends at New-York write “that the Merchants there continue firmly to adhere to their Agreement, that the Goods which were imported and stored belonging to Persons in that City did still remain in the public Store (and not in each Man's own Possession) and that there doth not appear in any Person in that City the least Desire or Inclination to have any Part of their said Goods until the Act imposing Duties on Paper, Glass, Tea, &c. is repealed, and other Goods arrived there afterwards from Great-Britain; and they write further, that if any Person or Persons should attempt getting any of the said Goods out of the Store on any other Conditions, that such Person or Persons would incur the Displeasure and Resentment of the Inhabitants of that City, and be inevitably exposed to the like Disgrace as were Mr. Cooley and the few others who dared to violate the said Agreement.
On Thursday last one Johnstone, stood in the Pillory here one Hour, and was to have received 30 Lashes at the Whipping Post, pursuant to his Sentence, for attempting a Rape on a Girl at Dorchester about ten Years of Age; but he was so severely handled by the Populace that the latter Part of his Sentence was obliged to be postponed.
Yesterday Capt. Cales failed for London.
William Marshall, who was brought from the Cape last Thursday and committed to Goal on Suspicion of Piracy, on board the Ship Black Prince, William Hawkins Master, on the Coast of Africa, as already mentioned in this Paper; was sent home in Irons in order to be tried for the same.
The Hartford Mail due last Wednesday Evening, did not arrive till Saturday, owing to the great Rains last Saturday night, which raised the River 15 Feet, which is higher than has been known these 15 Years past; great damage is done to the Bridges, Mills, &c.
We are assured that the Commander in Chief when he prorogued the General Assembly told his Council that he did not ask their Advice, about the Matter, because he had express Orders to do so from King James the first, tho' he told his Parliament when he did it, that he had a Right to do as he pleas'd, but at the same Time assured them that he did it by the unanimous Advice of his Council. (Bost. Gaz.)

Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in New-York, to his Friend in Boston, dated December 22, 1769.
YOUR's of the 21st ult. is come safe to hand, with the Pamphlet in Vindication of the Town of Boston, wherein I verily think the Nettleham Baronet is nettled; and that the General, if he is not altogether callous, which some affirm, must feel the Lash. As to affairs in G. B. our Opinions coincide exactly. I firmly believe there will be very serious work , before they purge themselves of the Leaven of Unrighteousness. Those who are called our Friends may be very desirous to promote a Repeal on commercial Principles; but I asked you if you imagined they would consent to our enjoying all the Rights of a free People, in order to gain your Attention to the Improbability of it. I am not by any means for considering those Events as remote, when we daily see such enormous Strides taken by the Enemies of the Constitution, who may, unless timely prevented, bring all into Anarchy here as well as in Europe, in order to erect a Tyranny or Despotism.
Relative to our Affairs here, tho' we could not procure regular Instructions to our Representatives, yet, as soon as they appeared Ground of Suspicion, they were ply'd with sundry Letters from different Hands, a Copy of one I enclose you and leave you to guess the Author."
Gentlemen, AS Friends to you and our Country, and its Constitution, we conjure you, each and every of you, by the sacred trust with which you are invested, by the love of Liberty, your Country, Posterity, and every valuable Enjoyment in life, not to grant any Supplies to the Troops on any terms whatever. We don't mean to insult you, neither do we expect to intimidate you; we are too justly impressed with a due veneration for the dignity of our offices as legislators, to offer you any indecency; but to be silent in a time of such imminent danger, we conceive would be highly criminal. We therefore beg your patience whilst we recite some of the many evils which you will unavoidably entail on your country and constituents, if you do, contrary to Nineteen Twentieths of your fellow Citizens Inclinations, give away their substance to their sworn Enemies of the British Constitution; that is, the present Ministry of G. B. and their Tools—the Military. In the first place, you will set a most unconstitutional example, which will always be cited as a Precedent; and you must be too well acquainted with the Power of Example to make any comment of ours necessary thereon. The Military Establishment, as it has been every where else, will be enlarged, Luxury and Voluptuousness will be the certain Concomitants of a Standing Army—Commerce, Industry and Frugality will be despised, together with Mechanism and Agriculture. The two grand Sources of Wealth and Independence. Secondly—You will most unjustly impose on your Countrymen and Constituents a twofold Interest, that is, one for a Permission to do what no power on earth has any Right to prevent their doing, viz. furnishing themselves with a necessary Medium of Trade. The other for a sinking Fund, or the Contingencies of Government, &c. Thirdly, you will thereby annihilate the Freedom, Honour, Dignity, and every Thing worth contending for of your own House; as at one Vote you think yourselves to the abject State of an executive Body, who are obliged to do as they are commanded, by the insolent Mandate of every cringing Sycophant—the Descendant of some small Hopes, or other perhaps. Fourthly, you will ipso facto, forfeit all federal Confidence of the Colonies, which at this time is so essentially necessary to our political existence—together with the Will and Esteem of your Constituents and American Brethren, besides erecting to yourselves a Monument of everlasting Shame! These are only a few of the Evils that will inevitably result from your granting Supplies to those Mercenaries, at this Time. But should you, on the contrary, persevere in a free, noble, emulous and consistent Conduct, (for it appears very inconsistent to us to oppose the Stamp and Revenue Acts, &c. &c. and yet grant Money to the Troops, either on a Ministerial or Parliamentary Requisition) then will you acquire true Renown and Glory! which no Age—no length of Time, no Series of Years will ever cancel in the Minds of your Fellow Citizens! Nay, unborn Posterity will celebrate your Names with festive Acclamations! Yes, you will be enrolled among the glorious Company of Martyrs to the British Constitution! Thus we have in a few Words, set Good and Evil before you; choose which you list; "and the Lord reward you accordingly!"
From a Number of your Friends and Constituents. To John Cruger, James Delancy, } Esqrs. Representatives for the City & Jacob Walton, } County of New-York in General James Jauncey, } Assembly convened. New-York, Dec. 12, 1769.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in New-York, to his Friend in Boston, dated December 22, 1769.
THE General Assembly of this colony in their last session, voted to supply hisMajesty's quarters here, which gave great umbrage to their constituents. The assembly in order (as is supposed) to quiet the minds of the People, made a unanimous declaration in the house that it should be the last supply of the kind they would ever grant, until our grievances were redressed. This declaration satisfied the people who rely'd on the promise of their representatives. However the house in their present session, have pass'd a vote for a further supply to the troops of 2000. one thousand to be paid out of the treasury immediately, and the other out of a bill now pending for striking 120,000 in bills of credit to be let out on loan, which bill has no probability of receiving the Governor's assent. The procedure of the assembly greatly inflamed the minds of the people, who expressed their oneasiness and indignation in the most unreserved manner. Several consultations were held in order to fall on such measures as should induce the house to drop the bill. A number of printed papers were dispersed through the city, some wrote with decency; others couched in different terms, tho' containing many truths and just observations. Yesterday Mr. Lamb attended the bar of the house, a vast number of the inhabitants attended on the occasion. Mr. Lamb being called on and charged by the Speaker, desired to be heard; which being granted, he began by confessing the charge, and conducted himself in such a manner, that I am certain the house repented of their ordering him before them. Our city members told him in substance as follows, 'That the people had no right to convene and disapprove the proceedings of the assembly.' Mr. Lamb answered that he had assembled with the rest of his fellow citizens, and had propos'd questions, which as a citizen, a freeman, and an Englishman, he had a right to do, and was surprized to hear it controverted. The house found that they had before them a man of sense, knowledge and resolution, who was determined to assert the rights of his countrymen and fellow-citizens, gave up the point, and dismissed him. He has by his judicious and spirited conduct on this occasion, gained lasting honor, by opposing the destructive measures of a venal house of assembly, tho' I am of opinion, after all, they will give the money, unless frightened out of it.
Capt. Nathaniel Dowse, in a Vessel from Cadiz, bound to Piscataqua, with Salt, lately put into Nantucket, but the Vessel being in so bad a Condition that she was not able to proceed to her port, was condemned and sold there.
Last Wednesday Evening came to Town, by Land, from the Vineyard, Capt. Pascal N. Smith, of the Sloop Speedwell, from New-York for this Place: He informs, that last Saturday Se'nnight the following Vessels came to sail with him from Home's Hole, viz. Capt. Hinston, in a Schooner from the Western Islands for this Place; Capt. Stevens, in a Sloop from the West Indies for Casco Bay; Capt. Parsons, in a Sloop from the West Indies for Cape Ann; capt. Hatch, (late capt. Butt, who died at the Mole) in a Schooner for this Place; but that soon after they sailed came on a Gale of Wind and thick Weather, so that the two latter, with capt. Smith, were obliged to come to Anchor; the other two, being faster sailing Vessels, and considerably a-head, proceeded on their Way, and have not since been heard of. That the Gale still increasing, capt. Smith and Parsons lost each of them an Anchor, and capt. Hatch, both of his, and were forced to put back again, where they remained last Monday when capt. Smith came away; together with a Sloop from Connecticut, bound to Piscataqua, also a Sloop from the West Indies for Newbury, who had put out 12 Days before, and returned again.
It is now certain, that several considerable Merchants in this town, besides those advertised by the "Well Disposed" have opened and are now Selling their Goods as usual, by which means TEA, which was lately Sold by some of the "Well Disposed" Committee, at Six Shillings lawful Money per Pound, can now be had for little more, than half that Money! (Chronicle.)
To the Public.—It is reported that a cursed Design is on foot to ruin the Credit of the Merchants of this Town, and enslave North-America.—If so, may the Inhabitants behave like Men and like Christians.
(Ev. Post.) A Freeholder.
Messieurs EDES & GILL, WHEN we see the Enemies of our Country using every Art to prevent the Plan of Non-Importation from taking Effect, we are from thence encouraged to hope it will answer the valuable Purpose intended; & that our Enemies themselves think so—They are done Laughing at it as the Effort of an expiring Faction, & treat it as indeed it is, a Matter of the last Importance; knowing that if we hold out, it must and will defeat their cursed Plot to enslave & ruin us. They now tell us, that the Troops will be ordered to do that which Art and Chicanery would not effect.—But all we have to do is to persevere and scorn them. We seem to be near, very near a Crisis! there undoubtedly is an united Scheme of the whole Cabal, to annoy us; but let the Friends of Liberty and their Country take Care and hold the few (I do not hear of more than four or five) to their CONTRACT; oblige them to fulfil their AGREEMENT; let us hold out only a few Months longer, and we and our Posterity are safe from the Jaws of Tyranny. TOM STURDY.
SALE M, January 16. Last Wednesday the Reverend Mr. DANIEL FULLER was ordained Pastor of the Second Church and Congregation in Gloucester, as Colleague with the Rev. Mr. STEPHEN JACQUES, who has been for several Years past disabled from active Service in the Ministry, through bodily Indisposition. A Dwelling-House was consumed at Andover last Sunday Night, and Mr. David Farnum, with two of his Sisters, all elderly Persons, perished in the Flames. The Southern Mail for last Week, was not arrived at Boston, Yesterday Noon.
CUSTOM HOUSE, Piscataqua Jan. 18th, Inward Entries, NONE. Outward Bound, NONE. Clear'd for Departure, FOR. Ship Pitt, Thomas Curtains, Chivers, Bristol. Brig Friendship, John Wormald, Ditto. Brig Pitt, Wingate Newman, West-Indies. Brig Success, Daniel Jackson, Ditto. Schooner Merriam, Robert White, Ditto. Schooner Charlotte, Samuel Harris, North-Carolina.
Province of Portsmouth, Jan. 19, 1770, New-Hampshire, }
ALL Persons concerned at his Majesty's Superior Court of Judicature, to be held on the first Tuesday of February next, are hereby notified that the said Court will then meet, to give Judgment on such Actions as lay before the Court only; at which Time the Persons chosen Grand Jurors are required to attend. Those who may be returned for the Petty Jury may defer giving their Attendance, until the Adjournment of said Court; of the Day of which Adjournment they will have Notice in this Paper. By Order of Court, GEO. KING, C'k.
Dr. M'Lain and White, From NEW-YORK, HEREBY inform the Public, that with God's Assistance, they will cure the Gravel, Hytericks, Old Sores and Humours in the Blood, &c. &c. N. B. Tells the Disorders without asking Questions, gives Advice for One Shilling Lawfull Money. Cures the Tooth-Ach without drawing, and has Tincture to sell for preserving the Teeth. To be spoke with at Capt. Zechariah Fols's, Inholder in Portsmouth.
To be sold at publick Vendue, at the House of Capt. Zechariah Fols, on Tuesday the 22d of this present Month. A PEW in Queen's Chapel, the Property of the late Capt. Samuel Appleton Mariner. deceased. The Sale to begin at 5 o'Clock P. M. the Pew to be struck off to the highest Bidder he paying one half what the Pew is sold for, down, the other Half on Delivery of the Pew. Portsmouth, Jan. 16, 1770.
§ Leavett's-Town § NOTICE is hereby given to the several delinquent Proprietors of Leavett's-Town, in New Hampshire, that unless they pay the several and respective sums at which their several and respective Lots are assessed, to me the Subscriber, Collector for said Town, that their several and respective Lots of Land in said Town, will be exposed to Sale at Public Vendue, on Monday the 12th Day of February next, at the House of John Leavett, Esq; Inholder at North-Hampton, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon, agreeable to a Law of said Province, unless the said Delinquent prevent by paying the several and respective sums, affixed to their several and respective Names herein after mentioned, and set forth, viz.
   1st Div. 2d Div.     Benjamin Johnson, 0 12 0 2 8 0   Benjamin Perkins 0 12 0 4 12 0   Benjamin Palmer 0 12 0 2 8 0   David Marston 0 6 0 1 4 0   David Knowles, jun. 0 12 0 2 8 0   David Knowles 0 12 0 2 8 0   Isaac Marston 0 6 0 1 4 0   Joshua Brown 0 6 0 1 4 0   John Marston, 0 6 0 1 4 0   Jonathan Norris 0 12 0 2 8 0   John Dearborn 0 6 0 2 4 0   Joseph Towel 0 12 0 2 8 0   Samuel Marston 1 3 0 4 12 0   Samuel Smith, 0 12 0 2 8 0   William Weeks 0 12 0 2 8 0   Simon Nudol 0 6 0 1 4 0   Walter Briant 0 18 0 3 12 0   Zechariah Batchelder 0 12 0 2 8 0   Jonathan Marston 0 6 0 1 4 0   Thomas Nudol 0 6 0 1 4 0    JOHN DEARBORN, Collector, North Hampton, Jan. 16, 1770,
§ CAMPTON. § Whereas the Proprietors of CAMPTON, in the Province of New Hampshire, at a legal Meeting on the Sixth Day of November last, voted to raise a TAX of Ten Dollars on each original Right, towards defraying Proprietors Charges; Therefore publick Notice is hereby given to all the Proprietors of said Campton, that they pay said Tax to me the Subscriber, living in said Campton, being chose, to collect the same, on or before the first Day of June next: And the Proprietors have Liberty to pay Five Dollars of said Tax on each original Right in Labour on High Ways, at Three Shillings per Day, provided said Labour is done before the first Day of said next June. Samuel Fuller, Collector. Jan. 17, 1770.
THE Creditors of the Estate of Thomas Goodwin, late of Berwick, in the County of York, deceased, represented Insolvent, are hereby notified to bring their several Claims well vouched, unto Capt. Philip Hubbard and Richard Hodsdon Commissioners, appointed by the Judge of Probate, for said County, to receive and examine the Claims; and six Months is allowed from the first Day of January Inst. for that Purpose. The Commissioners will attend that Business at the House of Capt. Philip Hubbard, Inholder in Berwick, in said County, on the last Tuesday in January, and the last Tuesday of the five following Months, from three to six o'Clock Afternoon, each Day. Berwick, Jan. 12, 1770. Philip Hubbard, Richard Hodsdon.
To be Sold, One Hundred Thousand of square Bundles of SHINGLES very cheap for Cash or West-India Goods, by Neal Mc Intyre.
TO BE SOLD AT William Scott's Store, North-side of Faneuil-Hall BOSTON, On reasonable Terms for Cash, by Wholesale & Retail, Twelve Hundred Pieces of Irish LINNENS—Three quarter, seven eighth, and Yard wide, from One Shilling to Six Shillings sterl. per Yard.—Nine eighths and Ell wide Sheeting, from sixteen Pence, to Two and Six Pence Sterling per Yard.—Diaper and Damask Table Cloths, from Three and Six Pence to Thirty Six Shillings Sterling per Piece.—Low and high priced Diapers—Dowlasies of all Prices—Check Linnens—Cambricks—Lawns, &c. &c.

Just Imported from LONDON And to be SOLD,
By George Craigie,
At his Shop next the Market House on Spring Hill, Portsmouth, a Fresh Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS , suitable for the Season, exceeding cheap for Cash, viz.
B road Cloths, German Serges, Kerseys, Bearskins, Flannels, Swanskins, Blankets, Thicksets, Shalloons, Calamancoes; black, blue, pink, and cloth colored Tammies and Durants; Camblets, Cotton Gowns, striped Camblets, Callicoes, and Chinces, yard wide and seven 8ths white Linnen, Lawns, Demy Cambricks, Silesia Linnens, Checks, Taffity, Persians, Capuchin Silk, Silk Damasks, Romalls, Bed Tick, Oznabrigs, and Ticklingburg, Castor and Felt Hatts, Pewter, Shot, Writing Paper, Breeches Patterns, Men's Stockings, Worsted Caps, Mill'd Caps, Mill'd Gloves, Buckram, Sewing Silk, Knee Garters, Buttons, Twist, Qualities, Gartering, Needles, Pins, Tapes, Sheers, Scissars, Thimbles, Knives & Forks, 4d, 6d, 10d, and 20d Nails; — Earthen Ware, — New Raisins, — Tea, Coffee, — Chocolate, — Rum, — Sugar, — Pepper, — Indigo, Starch, — Rice, — Snuff, — Mustard, — Looking Glasses, — &c. &c. &c. &c.
WATCHES. SIMNETT, only perfect Watchmaker ever in this Country. ——— Parade, PORTSMOUTH.
S C H O O L. The Subscriber hereby informs the PUBLIC, that he has open'd SCHOOL opposite Dr. LANGDON's Meeting House, on the East Side the Parade; where he purposes teaching Writing, Arithmetic Vulgar and Decimal, Merchants Accompts, Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, Navigation, Gauging, Surveying, the Use of the Globes; and such Astronomical Problems as are of Use in the Art of Navigation; on the most reasonable Terms. Such GENTLEMEN as intend to learn any of the above Branches, may depend on being taught with the greatest Care and Expedition, by BARNABY BREMNOCK.
N. B. A Night SCHOOL will be kept from the Hours of Six 'till Nine.
THE delinquent Proprietors of CHATHAM, are hereby notified that so much of each of their Rights or Share of Land in said Township, will be Sold agreeable to former Advertisements, as shall pay the respective Taxes then due, and Costs of Sale, at the House of Jeremiah Folsom, Junr. Innholder at Newmarket, on the first Monday in February next. The Tax on each Right is Thirty Shillings Lawful Money. Walter Bryant, Junr. Collector.
Those Proprietors of the Township of CONWAY in New Hampshire who have not paid a Tax voted by the Proprietors of said Conway, at their Meeting at Chester, the 12th of December 1765, are requested to pay the same to Walter Bryant, Junr. Esq; at his House in Newmarket, or to James Cochran, at his House in Londonderry, both in said Province, Collectors of said Tax for said Proprietors, before the first Monday in February next, or so much of each delinquent Proprietors share of Land in said Township, as will pay said Tax and Cost of Sale, will be sold at Public Vendue, at the House of Jeremiah Folsom, Junr. Innholder at Newmarket in said Province, on said first Monday in February, at 10 of the Clock before Noon, the Delinquent Rights, and Sums to be paid are as follows, the original Right of Clement March, Esq; 49s. 49s. Benjamin Ingals, 30s: John Ingals, 24s. Ala Foster 27s. & 6d. all Lawful Money. Newmarket, James Cochran, Nov. 14, 1769, Walter Bryant, Junr.
This is to inform Temple William Coles,
Who was resident in Rowan County, in the Province of North Carolina, in the Year 1768, that an Estate in Ireland, of Sixty Pounds Sterling, per Annum, income, hath lately devolved upon him. As the Lease of the said Estate is near expired, the said Temple William Coles, must personally prove his being alive, or transmit an authenticated Certificate thereof immediately, to DORCAS MANLE, in Aungier Street, Dublin; or Possession of said Estate will be lost from him and his Mother. For further Particulars enquire of GEORGE KING, Esq; of Portsmouth, in the Province of New Hampshire. January 9th, 1770.
Jonathan Moulton
Of Hampton, ONCE MORE , earnestly requests those Persons, that have Accounts open with him, respectively to close the same, as soon as possible, as he is now determined to make a thorough Settlement of all his old Affairs, it being the Time of Year, he usually sets a-part for that Purpose. He would also remind those that are indebted to him by promissory Notes, that notwithstanding his public Notice in October last, of his real, and absolute want of Cash, to answer some Demands made upon him, desiring them without fail, to pay their respective Notes; yet many have neglected to comply with his Request; — HE THEREFORE, (his call for Cash being still very pressing) ONCE MORE AND FINALLY , desires those that have neglected as above, to be kind enough to pay at least, one half of their respective Notes, by the First Day of February next, OTHERWISE, he cannot possibly avoid putting their Notes in suit, WITHOUT THE LEAST DISTINCTION OR ANY FURTHER NOTICE. This being so reasonable a Request, he hopes no one, will inadvertently bring upon himself, the aforesaid Trouble.
N. B. Said MOULTON, also desires all Persons, who have Accounts against him, to bring in and adjust the same with him, before the said first of February.
Very reasonably will be Sold by Jonathan Moulton, OF HAMPTON,
A FINE FARM , situated in Hampton Falls, near the Meeting House, lying partly on the Country Road, leading from Portsmouth to Boston, containing about Two Hundred and Twenty Acres, consisting of Upland and Marsh, with two dwelling Houses and a large Barn thereon; one of the said Houses standing on said Country Road, pleasantly situated for a Merchant or Tradesman; which House has for many Years past being improv'd as a Public Tavern; the other standing a few Roads from said Road on the main Body of the Land, suitable for a Gentleman's Country Seat, and is commodiously fixed with Conveniences for Farming. Said Farm has two good Orchards thereon, and is proportionably divided, into suitable Land, for Mowing, Tillage, &c. and yearly produces Hay sufficient to fill the Barn thereon, which is upwards of one hundred Feet in length — Said Farm may with Convenience be divided into two good ones. For further Particulars enquire of said MOULTON. Also to be let, on reasonable Terms by said Moulton,
A FARM in Hampton, About a Mile and a half from the Meeting House, lying on the Country Road, containing about Two Hundred Acres of Upland, Marsh and Woodland, with a good House, two Barns, and Orchard thereon, and is suitably divided for Tillage, Mowing, Pasturing, &c. Apply to said MOULTON for Particulars.
Col. Moulton of Hampton, will sell his FARM in Hampton Falls, Advertised above, on the following Terms, viz. one Third Part of the Money to be paid within six Months; one third part within one Year, and the other third within two Years, with good Security and Lawful Interest.
ALL Persons that have any Claims or Demands on the Estate of Benjamin Scribner, late of Brintwood, in the Province of New Hampshire, Yeoman, deceased, are hereby notified, forthwith to bring in their Claims to John Scribner, of Poplin, Administrator on said Estate in order for Settlement; and those that are indebted to said Estate, are likewise notified to make speedy Payment to said Administrator. Poplin, January 9th, 1770.
WHEREAS I the Subscriber, Collector of the several Taxes Voted by the Proprietors of the Township of Orford to be raised on each Proprietors Right in said Township, did on the 5th day of May last, in the New Hampshire Gazette N. 656 and from that Time three Weeks successively in said weekly Gazette (agreeable to a Law of said Province) advertze and notify the delinquent Proprietors of said Township, that unless they paid the several Taxes, voted on their respective Rights, or the Ballances of the same, which was therein set forth against each delinquent's Name, so much of their said Rights would be exposed to public Sale, on Monday the 12th Day of June, then next ensuing, at the House of Lieutenant Jonathan Leavitt, Innholder in Hampton, at Two of the Clock P. M. which intended Time of public Sale is past, and the Execution of the same necessarily prevented; — And as said Proprietors have not since paid me said Taxes; I now hereby Notify the same said delinquent Proprietors, that so much of their said Rights will certainly be exposed to public Vendue, at the place above mentioned, on Monday the 22d Day of January next, at Two o'Clock in the Afternoon, in order to pay the said Taxes, with other intervening Charges, unless they respectively prevent it by their paying the same. Also, I the Subscriber, in my said Capacity, did, at the Time and in Manner aforesaid, advertise such Proprietors of said Township, as had not settled their respective Rights, that the said Proprietors of Orford, for the immediate Settlement of said Township, at their Meeting held the 21st Day of January 1769, Voted to raise a Tax of Seven Pounds ten Shillings Lawful Money on the original Rights of those Proprietors who should not settle their said Rights by the First Day of July then next ensuing, and that unless they severally paid the same by the said First Day of July, so much of their Rights should be sold, at public Vendue, on the Third Day of said July, at the aforesaid place, at Two of the Clock, in the Afternoon, as would pay said Tax, with incidental Charges; and accordingly I Notified the same, and therein set forth a List of said Delinquents, which intended Time of public Sale is past, and the Execution thereof necessarily prevented; and as the same said Proprietors have neither settled their said Rights, nor paid said Tax, I hereby notify them, that so much of their respective Rights will be exposed to public Vendue, at the abovementioned place, on Monday the 22d Day of January next, at Two o'Clock P. M. in order to pay said Tax, with incidental Charges, unless they prevent it by their respectively paying the same. JONATHAN MOULTON.
[Perry's Town.] NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of Perry's Town, so called, that so much of the Rights of said Proprietors as are herein named, will be sold at a Public Vendue by me the Subscriber, at the House of John Hall, Innholder in Plaistow, as to pay the Taxes on said Rights (as has been lately advertised) and the Charge of this Advertisement, &c. The Sum total of said Taxes due is set against the Name of each original Proprietor of the Rights delinquent; and also the No. of the Lots in said Township, that are laid out to each said Right, set below as follows:      £.  s.  d.  1st Div.  2d Div.     John Ayer jun. 1 1 0 43 27  Edward Barnard, 1 1 0 55 9  James Cushing, 1 1 0 46 34  James Eaton, 1 1 0 62 47  Benjamin Eaton, 1 1 0 66 57  William Eaton, 1 1 0 36 38  David Graves, 1 1 0 48 61  Obadiah Perry, jun. 1 1 0 72 1  Jonathan Poor, 1 1 0 77 58  Jonathan Plummer, 1 1 0 53 13  Aaron Sergeant, 1 1 0 81 42  Zebadiah Sergeant, 1 1 0 27 29  Parker Stevens, 1 1 0 33 11  Stephen Whittaker, 1 1 0 34 37    Said Vendue to begin on Monday the 29th Day of January, A. D. 1770, at 2 o'Clock, P. M. Articles of Sale may be seen at Time and Place. JOHN KNIGHT, Collector,
RUNAWAY the Third of this Inst. January, from his Master, Benjamin Mackay, of Portsmouth, a fair Complexion Apprentice Boy, named John Bowler, about 16 Years of Age, thick set; had on when he went away, a light blue Pea Jacket; new Leather Breeches, and blue Stockings; wore his own Hair. All Masters of Vessels and others are hereby cautioned against entertaining or carrying off said Boy, as they would avoid the Penalty of the Law. Whoever will take up said Boy, shall have One Shilling Lawful Money Reward, and all necessary Charges paid by me, BENJAMIN MACKAY.