The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-05-01 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE A N D H I S T O R I C A L
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Friday May 1, 1772.
T H E
Vol. XVII.
G A Z E T T E, C H R O N I C L E, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 810 { Weeks since this Paper } was first Publish'd.
Continuation of the Piece begun in our Paper the Week before last.
Y OUR Story, cried Mr. Fenton, is as pleasant as it is apt, and reminds me of an Observation made by Harry the IVth, of France, that is equally pertinent to the Subject. — A certain Judge of a Court of Law, in that Kingdom, had grown aged on the Bench and honoured by innumerable Sentences which he had passed, and which were all deemed conformable to the most perfect Measure and Dispensation of Equity. The Gainers of the several Suits applauded his Discernment and Justice to the Skies; and even the Losers allowed they had no right to complain. The fame of his Wisdom and Integrity reached the Throne; the Monarch was curious to see a Judge of so peculiar a Cast and Character; and he sent for him under Colour of thanking him for the great Honours which he had done to his Regency. After a most gracious Reception, and some Compliments at the Levee, the Prince took him apart, and in Confidence said, — "My Lord Judge, the infinite Complaints that come before me from all Parts of the Kingdom respecting the erroneous or iniquitous Sentences daily passed by your Fraternity, cast the highest Lustre on the singularity of your Conduct, and give me an eager curiosity to know by what measures you have been enabled to content all Parties. I adjure you then by all that you reverence, to disguise nothing from me on this Head. You have not any thing to fear from my Censure of Means that have proved so very successful, and you have all things to hope from my Approbation." — The Judge, thereupon, cast himself at the Feet of his Prince, and, rising addressed him thus. "To you, my Sovereign, as to Heaven, I will open my whole Soul. — In the first Place in order to enable myself to give a Guess whether the Judgments to be pronounced were wrong or right, I gave all possible attention to the Merits of each Case during the Process; I daily took Minutes of the Pleadings on either Side; I enlarged and commented on those Minutes while Matters were fresh in my Memory; and I never interrupted any Cause, till it had run itself out of Breath, through the circuit of Forms and due course of Law.
In the next Place, may it please your Majesty, I never took a Bribe or Present of any kind, or from any Hand, least favour or inclination should insensibly tempt me to cog, or give a partial turn to the final Cast. — Thus prepared, as soon as matters were ripe for a Decree; that is to say, as soon as the respective Lawyers had agreed among themselves, that nothing more was to be said, nor any thing more to be got, on either side of the Question, I summed up the repugnant Merits so equally and impartially, with Respect to circumstance, Evidence, and ordinance of Law, as induced both Parties, now wearied and wishing for rest, to think that the Decree must inevitably be given against themselves; and having appointed a certain Hour for uttering the fatal Sentence, I got up under visible concern, and retired. From the Bench, may it please you Majesty, I withdrew to my Closet; and having locked myself up, I called upon my tutelary and never-erring Directors in the Solution of all Knots, and unwinding of all Intricacies; in short, I went to a little Drawer and took out — my Box and Dice"
"Box and Dice, exclaimed the Monarch, half starting from his Seat. "Yes, Sire, replied the Judge, I repeat it, Box and Dice. And if your Majesty will be pleased to attend, for a few Moments, I trust to convince you of Propriety of this Proceeding."
Humanum est errare. This, my Liege, is a Maxim that has never yet been controverted by precept or Practice, and is as much as to say, that Life is a mere Labyrinth of Errors, in which all men are appointed to travel or to stray. Nothing save Number and Measure is yet determined upon Earth, Nothing is certain, save that 2 & 2 make 4, and that Lines are equal or differ according to their Dimensions.
All Men, further than this, depend upon Reason, as their Enlightner and Director in the Search of Truth. And yet Reason itself has nothing whereon it may rest or depend. It first doubts, and then proceeds to examine. It calls in Evidence and Arguments, on this side and on that side, pro and con . It compares, canvasses, and discusses; sifts and bolts matters, suppose to the very Bran. It endeavours to poise the Scales of its own uncertainty, and now recovers some lapsed Circumstance, and casts it into this Scale; and again throws some new Proof or Discovery into that Scale, and so changes its Opinion from Day to Day; while Prejudice and Partiality stand invisibly at its Elbow, and at length determine the long suspended Balance, by casting their own Weights into one Scale or the other, according as Interest or Pleasure would wish to preponderate. — Truth, may it please your Supremacy, has been sunk into so very deep a Well, as to mock the five-inched Fathom of mere human Ratiocination; whether it be a Dealer or Retailer of Physic or Metaphysics; of the Distinctions in Law, or the Distinctions of Philosophy: and I flatter myself, that I have hit upon a Method for fishing up Truth, by a Line which I acknowledge is not of my own twisting. — Within my Memory, and nearly within that of your Majesty, particular Laws have been in force for Trial by Combat, and Trial by Ordeal; and though at present those Laws are held to have been iniquitous and wholly absurd, they could not have been instituted without just and ponderous Reasons, they related, my Liege, as my Sentences do, to the Interposition of Providence in the Jewish Lots; whereby all Doubts however general, could be speedily ascertained, where the Nation drew Lots according to Tribes, the Tribes according to Families and the Families by individuals, 'till the Criminal was detected.
Thus, in Trial by Combat, I have known and read of manifold Instances, wherein Guilty Courage and Prowess have been foiled by the weak and fearful. And in Trial by Ordeal, Heaven never failed to guide the Steps of the Hoodwink'd Innocent, between the narrow Intervals of the burning Ploughshares. And thus, conscious of my own infirmity and Blindness, I have referred all my Decrees to a Power of better Discernment; and he never failed to determine according to truth." — Indeed, said the Monarch, I cannot wholly disapprove your Method, when I reflect on the Motive. And, according to your Account, when I think on the Plague and Anxiety, Loss of Time and Loss of Fortune, to which my Subjects are put by these Professors of the Law; you have
clearly convinced me, my good Lord Judge, that it would be INFINITELY BETTER TO CAST A DIE AT THE BEGINNING, THAN TO GIVE THE MOST RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT AT THE END OF ANY LAWSUIT.
Messrs Fowles,
If you think the following Piece deserving of a Place in your Paper, please to insert it. Yours, A. Z.
THERE is nothing to which the Mind of Man is more a Dupe, than Prejudice. And perhaps few Things are harder to guard against or eradicate. Amongst the various Kinds of Prejudice, that of the religious Sort seems to be the most obstinate and universal. We frequently see Persons, even of Capacity, perversely maintaining Tenets directly opposite to every Principal of Reason, and sometimes almost to the Convictions of their own Minds, without assigning any other Cause for their Conduct but that they have been educated in them. Whether this is the Case with the Author who so zealously undertakes to censure the Conduct of the Country School-Master, in your last, I will not determine; but he certainly appears too much heated with something, to attend calmly to the Objections hinted at by the honest Pedagogue.
That the Book he speaks of, to wit, the Catechism, composed by the reverend Assembly at Westminster, contains many excellent Truths, and much sound Divinity, no one can with justice Dispute. Nor can I think any one foolish enough, to discredit a known scriptural Doctrine merely because it is also to be found in a Catechism. It neither gains nor loses Authority by this. For it is GOD on whom we depend for its Truth, and HE only is incapable of Deception. The Reverend Gentlemen before mentioned were, no Doubt, both wise and good. But they were MEN, and consequently liable to Error. Therefore to sift and examine their Writings, to compare them with the Standard of true Religion, the BIBLE, and to receive, or reject whatever in them agrees, or disagrees therewith, is not only highly becoming, but the indispensable Duty of all who profess to love that Liberty wherewith CHRIST has made them free. And whoever, on any pretence, departs from this, and places his Dependence on the Westminster Divines, or any other fallible Mortals, in a Matter of such infinite concernment as his eternal Salvation, insults the glorious Author of it, and acts in direct opposition to his positive Commands.
The Censurist seems too much warmed with his Subject to make the Distinction between relying on the Authority of the Catechism as such, and believing any Truth contained in it, supported by Scripture and Reason.
I cannot think with the Gentleman that the Question put by the School-Master has, or even appears to have, the least Tendency to ensnare his Pupil. On the Contrary his Answer, I think, proves its Propriety. The Child really believed (as many Children and others do;) that the Supreme-Being was the Author of the Catechism — which surely was a Mistake very proper for the Master to rectify; even though the Book had contained nothing contradictory to the Word of GOD. How far this is the Case — whether the Doctrines of original Sin, Election, &c. so strongly inculcated in this Author's favourite Book, are in all Respects consonant with the Scriptures, or even with common Sense, is a Point that has been so often debated, with so much Zeal, and to so little Purpose, that I am not vain enough to suppose I can now determine it. One Objection to the use of it for Children, I will venture to mention, and that is, it is too hard and abstruse to be comprehended by them, — Many Parts of it being quite unintelligible to those of riper Years.
Before I conclude, I hope the Author will not be offended, if in the Spirit of Meekness, I recommended to him for the future to be more candid and dispassionate; to aim at Truth; to understand, before he attempts to answer; that his Zeal may not exceed his knowledge.
Finally to put no Confidence in human Inventions but to "search the Scriptures" — That so "his Faith may not stand in the Power of Man but of GOD."
NEWPORT, April 13.
Last Wednesday 1e'nnight a Cow, belonging to Philip Taylor, Esq; of little Campton, brought a red Bull Calf, which, at 20 Hours old, weighed 119lb, and it is supposed the Cow, well fatted, will not exceed 600 lb.
An Ewe Sheep belonging to Mr. Stephen Hall of Chatham in Connecticut, lately brought forth four Lambs at a Litter.
In the violent Snow Storm which began the 5th of December last, Capt. Shand who failed for London that Day, lost his Boat and almost every thing off his Deck, had one of his Hands washed overboard and drowned; & the Vessel was very near foundering.
Capt. Gilbert arrived at Providence from London, on the 20th of March in Lat. 44 : 39, Long. 31 : 35. saw a large Vessel Bottom upwards; Her Stern was beat in; she had a red Bottom, and did not appear to have been long at Sea.

L O N D O N,
Jan. 5. We hear, that the Terms offered the D---s of C---d, to renounce her Publick Title are ten Thousand Pounds in Money, and four Thousand Pounds a Year Jointure; the last being the same Sum settled on the Countess of Waldegrave; both of which were peremptorily refused.
Jan. 6. It is very true that Mr. M. F. went out of the World in the English Way. This Gentleman was once the Bolum-Friend of Mr. Wilkes, though he afterwards betrayed the Patriot. Is it not strange, that almost all the principal Persons who either persecuted or deserted Mr. Wilkes, have come to an untimely End.—Lord E— shot himself; Lord H.—himself; Mr. F. hanged himself.—Wilkes is certainly Heaven-defended.
His royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland bids fair for being the greatest Patriot that ever was in England.
Jan. 11. About ten Days ago Mr. W. an eminent Attorney, who lived near Chester, set out from his House on Horseback, attended by one Footman, to transact some particular Business a few Miles distant. Soon after his Departure, his Wife dispatched a Man and a Horse, with a Letter, after Mr. W. strongly urging him to return, not to go that Day, but defer the Business to another. The Man soon overtook him; he read the Letter, and bid the Man tell his Mistress, that, to oblige her he would postpone his Journey; but that, as he was out he would take a little Turn for an Airing. Soon after riding along, the Footman perceived some Blood drop slowly upon the Ground, from (as he supposed,) his Master's Horse; the Blood, however becoming a little current, he hastily rode up, asked his Master, "For God's sake, what was the Matter with his Horse?" but had only Time enough to catch Mr. W. in his Arms. He had first cut his Throat, and afterwards stabbed himself in three Places on the Side of his Belly.—No one of the Family can, in any Manner, account for this most shocking Transaction.
February, 18. It is but Justice due to the invaluable Character of the late Princess Dowager, to publish the following Facts: Her Charity was very extensive, never so little as 8000l. per Ann. and distributed in the most unostentatious Manner; her last Act of Charity will forever endear her Memory to the World, and being the last is a sad Reflection to the distressed and needy.—A few Days before she died, she had lost the Power of Speech, but well enough to read the daily Papers, and on laying down the Paper, she took out her Purse, laying a Sum upon a Paragraph of Distress, making a Design to her Attendant, and pointed to it: 'twas in Consequence applied to a poor Woman, who had lately been brought to Bed of three Children: this her last Act is an Epitome of her Character.—Permit me to mention one Act of Charity in the King, among many others of the same Nature I could produce which happened when he left his Mother dead, as he retired through the Weeping Attendants, he thanked them for their Care, and, as the only Comfort he could administer, told them, their Salaries should be continued during their Lives.
February, 20. It is now universally agreed, that nothing but a Parliamentary Enquiry can be able to lay open the Fraud, Rapine, Cruelty and Injustice of a certain overgrown company; twenty or thirty Scoundrels are made immensely rich, at the Expence of whole Provinces; to the utter Ruin of Commerce and the Contempt of all Law, Justice and Humanity.
February 28. Yesterday Sir George Saville made a Motion in the House of Commons, "for Leave to bring in a Bill for more effectually securing the Rights of the Electors of Great-Britain, with Respect to the Eligibility of Persons to serve in Parliament"; the House divided, when the Numbers were for the Bill 135, against it 181.
From a LONDON PAPER.
A Question being proposed to the East-India Company respecting the intended alteration on the Duty on TEA, was answer-
ed as follows, "The Court of Directors do not mean at present to enter into any fresh Agreement, or Contract, with Government with respect to the indemnity on Tea, and they are of opinion that, at the expiration of their present agreement, the old Duty of one Shilling per Pound will again take place, & the Drawback cease. They do not imagine that any additional Duty will be laid on Teas, but do agree to indemnify the Holders in case any such Duty should take place on stock in hand, cleared before the expiration of the Agreement with Government, which terminates the 5th of July next."
YORK, March 3. Last week passed through New-castle from Scotland, for London (at the request of Lord North) a gentleman, son-in-law to the late Capt. Coats, some time since employed in the Hudson's Bay Company's service, with a chart and account of the North-West passage, discovered by the Captain. The papers were met with in a private drawer after his death, and supposed to be suppressed during his life-time from interested motives. In the year 1769, the late Capt. Cinney, of London, gave intimation of the same kind to his particular friends; the affair, however, was suddenly hushed; the reason for which may perhaps reach the public's ear with the above.
L O N D O N,
The following is handed about as the copy of a letter from a new-made Dutchess to a noble Lord at the head of the Treasury, in answer to one lately received from him on the Subject of her Marriage.
"My Lord,
Windsor-Lodge, Dec. 19, 1772
"I had the honour of your letter two days since; and tho' it required no hesitation on my part to decide me how to act, yet I waited to have the sentiments of those who, from the ties of honour and relationship, I should respect superior to my own, as I have the satisfaction to find my opinion confirmed, I can the more readily answer such particulars, as you want to be informed of.
"You urge my political motives for my relinquishing the public title of D---s of C---d, and add, how agreeable it would be to his M---y I should be on the same footing with the C---s of W---e, who 'bating public precedence, is received by all branches of the R---l Family as D---s of G---r; as a succedaneum to all these, you enter into the true spirit of your character as a statesman, and offer me, by way of bribe, a handsome jointure.
"All these, I must confess, are flattering circumstances, but do not by any means constitute my happiness. In regard to the first point, I must frankly tell you I am no judge of politics ; therefore shall never take it into consideration: In respect to the second, I am much obliged to his M---y for such condescension, but however a reception on such terms may suit the still mind of the Countess, who as a Lord Chalkstone says, "may prefer fattening on the summum bonum ," my ambition leads to a larger compass, and six shining footmen calling out, "the D---s of C---d's carriage here," at any of the public places, will give me more heart-felt satisfaction, than all the R---l paris guares I should ever have at B---m House.
"Your Lordship's sagacity will readily see my objection to the third point, is necessarily involved in my refusal to the two former; but least it should not, I tell you, once for all, not even the possession of your golden key , or the greatest overflow of the Treasury, should induce me to alter my sentiments. My husband's fortune, though not at present equal to his rank, with interior economy , is sufficient to make a suitable appearance in PUBLIC. I am perfectly content with that, and whenever it shall graciously please his M---y to think more favourably of me, I flatter myself I shall not be behind hand with any of my family in duty and affection.
"I have the honour to be, &c."
Thursday five persons were apprehended by Mr. Gates, the City Marshal, for singing ballads in St. Paul's Church-yard, and other parts of the city, reflecting on her Danish Majesty and others of the Royal Family; the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor committed them all to Bridewell to hard labour, and hath given strict orders to the Marshal to patrol the streets diligently, and to bring before him all persons that he shall find offending in so infamous and scandalous a manner.
February 14. Authentic advices come by the last mail from Lisbon, that a treaty was going forward between that court and Madrid, by which the Portuguese were to furnish the Spaniards with ten sail of the line, and several smaller ships immediately, in consideration of a loan to be advanced by his Catholic Majesty.
N E W - H A V E N, April 10.
We are told, that there has been exported from this Port, between the 15th of March 1771, and the 20th of March 1772, 1499 Horses, 1531 Oxen, 752000 Hoops, 882500 Staves, and 172600 Weight of Pot-ash.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, April 9.
On the first instant, a fine Bermudian Brig, commanded by Capt. Seymour, from Surinam, for this port, with upwards of 200 hogheads of molasses, ran ashore on the Hen and Chickens, near Cape Henlopen, and received so much damage, that she sunk immediately after beating over them; the people had but just time to save themselves in their boat, the vessel soon after went to pieces, & the cargoe is entirely lost.
Capt. Biddle, from Hispaniola, informs, that a Brig from Virginia, Graham, Master, was lately seized by a French Frigate, for having four Hogheads of Sugar on board, which the Captain had taken in
at Leoganne, in Pay for Flour sold to the French General. The Vessel was carried to Port-au-Prince, where she was condemned, and afterwards fitted out as a Guarda-Coasta.
The House of Burgesses in Virginia have concurred with the Assembly of Maryland, in the Expediency of erecting a Light-House on Cape Henry; and appointed commissioners to carry the same into Execution. A Duty to be laid on the Tonnage of all Vessels, excepting those belonging to the two Provinces of Virginia and Maryland, coming into those Colonies.
After the three Persons confined in the Goal of Philadelphia died in the late cold Weather for want of Necessaries, large Contributions of Victuals, Bedding, Wearing Apparel, and Wood were sent to the Prisoners then remaining in Goal. And on St. Patrick's Day, a Number of Irish Gentlemen generously contributed above Thirty Pounds for their Relief.—Twenty-eight Pounds was also collected for them at St. Paul's Church in this City.
It is said, that near 600 Sheep perished in the Sea at Point Judith, in the late Storms of Snow.
Extract of a Letter from the Illinos Country, dated Kaskaskias, January 17, 1772.
"The next day after Lieut. Chapman and Ensign Hutchins left this place, the Kickappo Indians killed an Englishman and a Negroe on your plantation, but did no other mischief. Since then they have been seen three miles from Fort Charters, to the number of about forty. You have a very large crop of wheat and corn in the ground, I will do all in my power to have it gathered in and to keep the cattle together. We live, as usual, in hourly expectations of more murders being committed by the savages. Extract of a Letter from the same Gentleman, at the Illinois, dated at Kaskaskias, January 17, 1772.
"On the 17th of July last I went to your plantation, to see if your harvest was gathered in, according to my agreement with the Frenchman I had hired for that purpose. A few minutes after I had entered the house, eight Kickapoo Indians, who had seen me riding through the grande Prairie , followed me into the house, and as I had no means to defend myself, they immediately made me prisoner. From thence they conducted me through the Prairies to Wiotonon (their town near the head of the Wabache river) where we arrived the ninth day of a most fatiguing march. They rode my horse by turns, but would never allow me the same indulgence. On our arrival at the town, they stripped and painted me black, as is usual with the savages when they intend to burn their prisoners. The next day they alighted a fire, bound & laid me before it, and were proceeding to exercise the most cruel tortures on me, when some French traders from Detroit, touched with compassion, interceded for my life, which after two days consultation, the savages agreed to allow, on the payment of a very great ransom; which, with my expenses to return here, &c. will cost about Three Hundred Pounds. The 3d of August I left Wiotonon, and arrived here the 15th, from a miserable and distressing tour, which was worse than death to undergo.
"Since we have had possession of the Illinois country, the above nation of Indians, with their adherents, have taken seven Englishmen and one woman prisoners, scalped one soldier, of the 18th regiment, alive, killed and scalped upwards of thirty Englishmen from the age of 18 to 30. and robbed English merchants boats and stores, to the value of Ten Thousand Pounds, yet no measures are fallen on to chastise their perfidy?"
Clocks & Watches
Clean'd in the Cheapest and best Manner, by Nathaniel Sheaff Griffith, in Portsmouth, who has for Sale, Silver plated Shoe and Knee-Buckles, &c. &c. Portsmouth, April 30.

The following Account of the dreadful Effects of the Bite of a Mad-Dog in Wrentham, we shall publish in the plain Narrative as given by the Parent of the Child that suffered.
ON the 13th of November last, a Boy of about 9 Years old, Son to Mr. Ebenezer Blake, Junr. of Wrentham, being at a little Distance from the House, seeing a large Dog coming up to him, screamed so that the People ran out, who found the Dog had got the Boy on the Ground with his Face down, being taken up they discovered the Mark of the Teeth in his upper Lip, and ten or eleven Holes in his Cheek—A Doctor was sent for, who used proper Means to guard his Stomach and heal the Wounds; and in about a Fortnight the Boy seemed to be well, only one Issue that continued discharging, but this did not prevent his going about as before for the Space of one Month, without much Complaint, until Tuesday the 7th of January last, when he was so weak he could hardly go, and had no Appetite for eating or drinking, and the same Night he slept but a Quarter of an Hour: he had no sleep after this till his Death—the next Day he complained of an Oppression at his Stomach, and was feverish, the Doctor gave him a Puke;—January the 9th about break of Day he said he felt hot, but could not drink, his Puls intermittent, the Air, even the Breath of Persons was troublesome to him, he could speak but little, and was afraid of the Consequences, he said he should die, and cried for Mercy: About 11 o'clock in the Forenoon, he grew very uneasy, could not set nor lie; by 12 his Father was obliged to hold him by main Strength; he was in as great Agonies, as was supposed by the Beholders, as cannot be expressed, and yet in this Extremity desired his Father to bind him, least he should do him a Mischief, by Advice he was bound. The Child's Actions were near like a Dog's as possible, by snapping at the Spoon when the Doctors (there being two present) administered any Thing to him, though he never offered to hurt any Body, but continued in this distressed Condition and Motions from 12 o'clock till 3, when his Strength failed him, and about twilight he died, which was the same Time of Day he was born. He was born June 9, 1762, and died January 9, 1772, aged 9 Years and seven Months.
BOSTON, April 27.
Last Monday the Wife of one Mr. Stetson, of Braintree, was delivered of a fourth Pair of Twins, within Eight Years, besides having had two single Births between.
We hear that Mr. Lewis Dennis, lately mentioned in this paper to be found dead at New-Salem in the County of Hampshire, informed several persons there a short time before his Death, that he was born at Marblehead, and had several Children then living at Andover:—He was about 50 Years of Age. Last Wednesday the Ship London, Capt. Calef, failed for London.
We hear that Capt. Belton, in a Ship from Bristol for this place, and who was blown off the Coast last Fall, put into Newport last Week, and may be now daily expected here.
Wednesday last one Widow Appleton was found drowned in the mill-pond. She has left 8 children.
Yesterday arrived Captain Turner, in a Brig from the Mole: About a Fortnight before, in Lat. 35. his Mainmast was struck with Lightning, by which unhappy accident a young Man named Gertham Ewen was killed, & another Person very much wounded; the Mast was greatly shattered, and the after part of the Vessel considerably damaged.
We hear from Milton, that Yesterday there were 6 Couple published for the first Time, and three Children baptized the same Day. This we hope will help the Minister, who has lately had a Hundred pounds taken off his Salary, by the Town.
The Great and General-Court of the Massachusetts-Bay is Dissolved.
EXTRACT from Governor HUTCHINSON's Speech at the Dissolution of the late Assembly.
Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
I THANK you for the dispatch which you have given to the public business, and for that harmony which has generally prevailed in the course of the present session.
I am sorry that there is any material point remaining in which the several branches of the legislature cannot yet agree.
In conformity to Charter, which limits the time of your continuance, I am now obliged to dissolve an Assembly which has discovered a very good disposition to such measures as tend to promote the prosperity of the Province. I have great reason to believe the People of the Province in general are in the same disposition, and that I shall meet a new Assembly as well inclined to the like measures.
Council-Chamber, Cambridge, 25th April 1772.
PORTSMOUTH, May 1, 1772.
We hear the Rioters in Hillsborough County being sensible of their Error, have delivered themselves up to Justice, and appear very penitent; a Court is order'd to bind them over, for Trial, which will come on before the Honorable Superior Court at Amherst next September: they make great Promises, it is said, never to be guilty of the like again, which it's hop'd they will strictly observe, as their Families are really to be pitied.
Messieurs Printers please to insert the following in your publick Gazette.
WHO made the Catechism? Answer, The God of Truth made the Catechism so far as it is agreeable to the Testimony of Truth, contained in the Bible. Q. Is not the Catechism in every Part agreeable to the Bible? A. Perhaps some few Words are justly exceptionable, notwithstanding it does not admit of any fatal Error. Q. How did the God of Truth and infinite Perfection make the Catechism if the least Exception may be justly taken against one Word only? A. The God of Truth and infinite Perfection made the Catechism by the Instrumentality of fallible, though faithful Men, not by immediate Inspiration, but by the ordinary Influence and Teaching of his Holy Spirit, in that same ordinary Manner and by that same Spirit that influenced and assisted the Martyrs of Jesus, since the Apostles, to bear Testimony to the Evidence of Truth, and to seal it with their Blood. Q. Are we then bound in Conscience to observe the Catechism? A. Search the Scriptures with Diligence for Instruction, and reject that and all other Compositions of Men, though performed by divine Assistance so far only as such Performances are not supported by the Evidence of Truth and Authority of divine Writ; but yet don't condemn an excellent System of Divinity for a small Error, for no Man is Infallible or perfect this Side Heaven, and it is equally true that any Man living in the allowed habitual Indulgence of any known Sin though a little one, is in the broad Way to Ruin and Perdition, and unless renewed by converting Grace, he cannot escape the Damnation of Hell. Q. What is the Catechism? A. Spiritual Milk drawn from the Bible, for the Soul's Nourishment, of Babes in Christ. Q. Wherein may the Catechism be said to be Spiritual Milk, drawn from the Bible? A. Inasmuch as it is a brief Summary of the most helpful to Babes in Knowledge, the Understanding of the most interesting and essential Truths, contained in the Bible. Q. May not we then neglect the Bible and observe the Catechism as a Rule of Faith and Practice? A. Every Man has a Right to judge for himself, and to regard the Catechism so far only as it is evidently agreeable to Scripture: If you adhere to the Catechism you cannot neglect the Bible, for it evidently refers us to the Bible as the only infallible Rule of Direction. Q. If the Bible is an infallible Rule of Direction, of what Use then is the Catechism? A. The Catechism is very beneficial, as it is a savory Stream issuing from a pure Fountain, the Scriptures, from whence it is continually supplied, and is useful to convey to weak Minds the Knowledge of God and his Will when it is accompanied with and set Home upon the Conscience by the Power of the Holy-Ghost. Q. How is the Catechism a savory Stream issuing from a pure Fountain the Scriptures, and how is it continually supplied thence? A. As the Catechism with the Help of the good Spirit shews Man his miserable and deplorable State by Nature and his Remedy by Christ in a Gospel way, thence it is a savory Stream, and so long as God's unchangeable Word indures, and stands in full Force and Virtue in the Bible, so long it is supplied thence by the numerous Scriptures that harmonize therewith.
CUSTOM-HOUSE PISCATAQUA April 30. Inward Entries
  Sloop Polly, William Furnell, Philadelphia.   Sloop Cynthia, Joseph Harris, St Croix.   Brig William, Samuel Paul, St Eustatia.   Brig Betsey, Samuel Haynes St. Lucea.   Brig Charming Betsey, Joshua Stackpole Barbadoes.   Brig Sarah, Samuel Hatch Ditto.   Brig Charming Molly, Ebenezer Ricker, Ditto.   Schooner Britania, William Willcomb, St. Nichola.   Ship Rochingham, Joseph Jones, Grenada.   Outward Bound, FOR.   Brig Two Brothers, Nathaniel Odiorne, Newfoundland.   Schooner Greyhound, Abraham Trefethen, Maryland.   Clear'd for Departure FOR.   Sloop Friendship, Jacob Bell, New-Haven.   Schooner Unity, Seth Clark, West-Indies.   Schooner Betsey, Robert Alcock, Ditto.   Ship Exchange, William Hayman, LONDON.   Brig Thames, Samuel Miller, Ditto. 
ALL Persons Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Captain MONSIEUR BUNBURY, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to settle the same, with HANNAH BUNBURY, Administratrix. Portsmouth, May 1st, 1772.
All Persons Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Capt. Richard Waldron, late of Dover, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to John and Joseph Waldron, Executors of the last Will and Testament, of said Deceased, in order for Settlement.
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss. Six Months is further allowed from the first Day of May next, by the Honorable John Wentworth, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for said County, for the Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of John Brown, late of Atkinson, in said County, Esquire, deceased, intestate, represented Insolvent. We the Subscribers do hereby notify said Creditors, that we will attend for the Purposes aforesaid, at the House of Mr. James Little, Innholder in said Atkinson, upon the last Mondays in the five next ensuing Months from two to Seven of the Clock, P. M. upon each of said Days. Atkinson, April 24. 1772. Nathaniel Peabody, Moses Kelly.
WANTED
A genteel Carriage-Horse, Six Years old, that Trotts well, carries a good Head, and has no bad Tricks.—Enquire at the Printing Office.
The VENDUE, of Mr. Bowles, advertisd on the other Side this Paper, to be on the 18th Instant, is put off to Thursday the 28th Instant.
THE Province Excise
On Spirituous Liquors,
WHICH was to have been Sold at Public Vendue on Thursday the twelfth of last March, at the House of James Stoodly, Esq; is adjourned to the first Thursday in May last, by reason of the bad Travelling, People not being able to attend; then to be Sold by the Committee of the General Court for that Purpose, to the highest Bidder, at the said House, in three Divisions, from the 4th of September last, to the first Day of November 1772. CONDITIONS of Sale to be made known at the Time and Place of Sale. By Order,
JONATHAN WARNER, Chairman,
[ Cockermouth. ]
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Hillsborough ss. WHEREAS Application is made to me the underscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for said County, by the Owners or Proprietors of more than the sixteenth part of the Township of COCKERMOOUTH in said Province, that a Meeting of said Proprietors may be notified and called, to be held at the Dwelling House of Samuel Cummings, Innholder in Hollis in said County, on Monday the 18th Day of May next, at one o'clock P. M. to vote and act on the following Articles, viz. 1st. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting. 2d. to chuse a Committee or Committees to settle any Matter or Matters transacted, or to transact any Matter or Things for said Proprietors. 3d. To see if the Proprietors will lay out Part or the whole of the remaining undivided Land in said Town, and to raise any Sum or Sums of Money, that shall be necessary to defray the Charges of the same, and for making and repairing Roads, Mills, or any other Charges that shall be necessary in bringing forward the settlement of said Town.—I do in consequence of said Application, notify and warn said Proprietors to meet at Time and Place for the Purposes aforesaid.
E. G. LUTWYCHE Just. Peace. Hollis April 22d 1772.
Imported from London, And to be Sold by
David Griffith,
At his shop, the sign of the Goldsmith's Arms in Queen street, Portsmouth, very cheap for Cash.
A variety of English Goods, suitable for the approaching Season.—7 by 9 and 8 by 10 Glass, per Box— West India Goods of all kinds—Womens and Childrens Callimanco shoes of all sorts, equal to most of those imported from London, common ditto of all sizes—Mens, Womens and Childrens Leather Shoes.
TO BE SOLD By Philip Bayley,
A House at the Plains opposite the Globe Tavern Two Story, Three Rooms on the Floor, Two large Chambers, one of them compleatly finish'd, a Barn and one Acre of Land to it.—Likewise a Parcel of twice lay'd Cordage, a Cable 8 Inches. 4 Shroud Hawsers of 5 and half Inches, a short one of 6 and half Inches, and sundry other Articles, to be sold at publick Sale on Wednesday the 13th of May, the Cordage to be seen at the Store of JOHN MOFFATT, Esq;
Cables from 4 to 8 or 8 and half Inches, a Set of standing and running Rigging, Saltitudes and St. Martins Salt, to be sold by John Moffatt at his Store.
Choice BOHEA TEA, TO BE SOLD BY Daniel Peirce junr.
By the Dozen or less Quantity, as cheap as at any Place in Town. Likewise a good Assortment of ENGLISH, & WEST INDIA GOODS, and GROCERIES, NAILS, GLASS, &c. &c. Also PEPPER and GINGER by the Dozen.
N. B. Very good WOMEN'S Callimanco and Leather SHOES cheap. TO BE SOLD AT
PUBLICK VENDUE, the 11th of May next, at Two o'Clock Afternoon, Two Thirds of a Double Two Story HOUSE and two Thirds of a BARN, with one Acre of Land which belongs to said two Thirds, lying in Dover, near Cochecho Landing; the House was formerly Joseph Hanson's Esq; Also about sixteen Acres of Pasture Land belonging to the same— And about Four Acres of Wood Land, two Miles from said House—the whole of which belongs to the Estate of Humphry Hanson, deceased, and will be sold by Moses Varney, Administrator to said Estate.

Just Imported from London, And to be SOLD BY Jeremiah Libbey, At his Shop opposite Mr. Samuel Griffith's, cheap for Cash, A N Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS. also West-India and New-England Rum, Sugar, Molasses, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Cotton, Pot-Iron, &c. &c. &c.
A Quantity of Granada RUM and some Coffe just Imported and to be SOLD BY John Evans, At his Store on Capt. Janvrins Wharf. Portsmouth April 20th 1772.
Garden Seeds, to be Sold by Gillam Butler, At his Shop, that was lately improved by Captain George Turner. E ARLY Charlton and Marrowfat Peas, Windsor, Long-Pod and Kidney Beans, Summer Savery, Sweet Marjoram, Thyme, Colliflower, White Mu- stard, Spinage, Sallary, Squash, Turnip, Parsley, Reddish, Carrot, Lettuce, best Pepper Grass, Green Pepper, Onion, Cabbage, with several other sorts.— Also, a Variety of ENGLISH GOODS, and EAR- THEN WARE, RUM, WINE, SUGAR, MO- LASSES, COFFE; — TEA at Four shillings per Pound, and cheaper by the Dozen, warranted to be good, if it proves otherwise, will be taken back, and the Money returned.
[ Barnstead. ]
Province of New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss. W HEREAS there are several Proprietors of Barn- stead, who have neglected to pay the Sums due on their respective Rights in Barnstead, though often requested, and Money being due to sundry Persons for service done for the Propriety—These are there- fore to give NOTICE to such Delinquents, that so much of their Rights will be sold at Public Vendue, at the Parish House in Newington, on Tuesday the 26th Day of May next, at Three o'Clock P. M. as will raise Money sufficient to pay the Sums due on their Rights and Charges arising, unless prevented by the same being paid to me the Subscriber Collector for said Propriety, before that Time. The Names of the delinquent proprietors, and the sums due on their respective Rights are as follows, L. Money.    Jethro Furbur 1 15 0 Henry Allard, 1 0 0   Samuel Shute, Esq. 1 15 0 Shadrack Walton 1 0 0   Bonja. Bickford, 1 15 0 John Dam 1 0 0   Richard Jenness, 1 19 0 John Gilman, 1 0 0   James Nutter 1 0 0 Andrew Wiggin, 1 0 0   Lemuel Bickford, 1 0 0 John Sandborn, 1 0 0   George Walton, 1 0 0 Ebenezer Stevens 1 0 0   John Hodsdon, 1 0 0 George Jaffrey 1 0 0   Sam. Thompson, 1 0 0 John Frost 1 0 0   JOHN NUTTER, Collector. Newington, April 21. 1772.
N. B. The Proprietors of Barnstead aforesaid, are desired to take Notice, that their annual Meeting stands adjourned to the above-said 26th of May next at Ten o'Clock A. M.
TO BE SOLD AT
P UBLICK VENDUE, (if not sold before at private Sale) by Abraham Libbee of Rye, on Monday the 11th Day of May next, at Five of the Clock Afternoon, THE DWELLING HOUSE, with a new BARN, and about twenty Acres of good LAND, and a good ORCHARD, where the said Libbee now lives, being the House which has been improved as a TAVERN for many Years past, and is the best situated in Rye for a Tavern or Trader— Also about seven Acres of WOOD LAND, within about one Mile of the aforesaid House.
T HIS is to give NOTICE to those Persons who go through the Land now improved by Mr. Caleb Brewster, which belongs to Mr. William Treadwell, to forbear, other- wise they will be prosecuted.
TO BE SOLD CHEAP, A H OUSE, BAKE HOUSE, Barn and Garden, with other Accommodations, near Mr. Fal- som's Tavern, in Greenland For further Particu- lars Enquire of the Printers..
( RUMNEY )
T HE delinquent Proprietors of RUMNEY, that have not paid the following TAXES vo- ted by said Proprietors, to be raised on each original Right in said Town, namely one Tax of twelve shil- lings on each Right to defray the Charge of an Ac- tion brought against the Proprietors by the Rev. Mr. NILES, at a legal Meeting of the Proprietors of Rumney aforesaid, on the tenth Day of April, A. D. 1771. Also a Tax of two Pounds two Shillings, to pay the Rev. Mr. Niles, for three last Years preach- ing, voted at a legal Meeting of the Proprietors of Rumney aforesaid, by adjournment on the 14th Day of August, A. D. 1771, are notified to pay the same to JAMES HEATH, Collector of Taxes, at Rumney, on or before the 27th Day of May next; otherwise their Land will be advertised and sold for the same, pursuant to Law, JAMES HEATH Collector. Rumney, April 16th 1772,
AS that Part of the above Advertisement which mentions my bringing an Action against the Proprietors of RUMNEY, may, in the View of those who are unacquainted with the true State of the Af- fair, carry in it a tacit Reflection on my Character, as if my Disposition were litigious, and so may operate to my Prejudice: therefore a Regard to Truth, and the Justice I owe to my own Character, lead me to take this Method to inform the Public— That previous to my commencing an Action against the Proprietors, I had Year after Year, requested the principal Proprietor, who has been Agent for the Proprietors, to pay my Salary agreeable to Vote, but was refused, and given to understand in plain Lan- guage that he would not pay me till he should be obliged to do it by Execution. Notwithstanding I was very averse to put the Action in Suit, and it was not till after I had been sued myself by one of my Creditors, and threatened by others, and was paying Interest for Money, that the Action was com- menced against the Proprietors; and after the Ac- tion was entered I made a public Offer in the Pro- prietors Meeting of April the 10th 1771, to with- draw the Action, and moreover to give in forty Dol- lars of my Salary, if they would soon pay the Re- mainder according to their Votes, without putting me to further Trouble. This reasonable and gene- rous Offer was rejected to by the Proprietor's Agent before mentioned, and he carried the Vote to raise the 12 Shillings on each Proprietor's Right, to de- fray the Charges of the said Suit, against the Minds of all the Proprietors who were present, (one excep- ted) who were unanimous to comply with my Of- fer, and now after I have been forced to prosecute the Affair in the civil Law, I have agreed to leave it to the Judgement of three impartial Men, to with- draw the Action and bear the Costs that have hitherto arisen on my Part.
From this true State of Facts the Public are left to judge where the Blame ought to fall, and the non resident Proprietors to consider, whether it is for their Interest, or a likely Means to promote the Set- tlement of a new Town to lodge such Power in one Man, as to enable him to carry any Affair, when he pleases against the Minds of all the other Inhabi- tants, to oppress them with unnecessary Charges. THOMAS NILES. Portsmouth, April 20th 1772.
The Inhabitants of the Town of Portsmouth are hereby required to render unto the Selectmen upon oath, on Invoice of the Number of Male Polls, from Eighteen Years old & upwards, and all Male and Female Slaves from sixteen to fifty Years old, Cattle and Horses from one Year old, and upwards, and the Number of Acres of improved Land, and all Houses, Mills, Warehouses, Tann Houses, Still Houses, and other Buildings, & Wharves, and all Stock whether Money at Interest, or improv- ed in Trade.
The Selectmen will sit at Union Hall in Portsmouth aforesaid, every Tuesday in May and June next, from Three to Eight o'Clock P. M. to Receive the same. April 24th, 1772.
By Order of the Select-Men of the TOWN of PORTSMOUTH, it is desir'd that the Inhabitants would either kill or confine their DOGS, as it is apprehended there is great Danger of much Damage being done by them; several of late being observed to have the Symptoms of Madness on them, and have bitten Creatures in the Neighbour- hood, one Heifer in particular has been kill'd in Con- sequence thereof, having been bitten, and to Appear- ance was mad.
TO BE SOLD. A Good HOUSE, BAKE HOUSE, Barn, and Garden, with other Accommodations, plea- santly Situated in Portsmouth, near the Canoe- Bridge, now in the Occupation of Mr. John Walter Cooke: Enquire of said Cooke, or of the Printers
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss. [ RUMNEY ]
N OTICE is hereby once more given to the de- linquent Proprietors of RUMNEY who have not paid their Tax to me the Subscriber, voted by said Propriety to be raised on each original Right in said Town—viz. one Tax of twenty shillings and another of six Shillings, voted the 21st of July, 1767, another Tax of thirty Shillings, voted the 31st of No- vember, 1767, also a Tax of eleven Shillings on each Right voted the 13th of September 1768, and a Tax of twenty four Shillings, and another of twelve Shillings, voted the 15th of December, 1768, that so much of each Delinquent's Rights of Land in said Township as shall be sufficient to pay the Taxes with incidental Charges, will be sold at public Vendue on Wednesday the 27th Day of May next, at one o' clock in the Afternoon, at the House of Daniel Brainerd, Esq; in said Town.
The Names of the Delinquents are as follows, v.z. The Sums annexed are in Lawful Money.
   On each Right     Moses Smart 5 3 0   James Heath 5 3 0   Alexander Cragge 5 3 0   Aaron Brainerd 5 3 0   William Presson 5 3 0   Humphry Colby 5 3 0   Joseph Wright 5 3 0   Tristram Cessn Sleeper 5 3 0   Moses Seavy 5 3 0   Samuel Wells 5 3 0   Israel Spencer 5 3 0   Humphry Lyon 5 3 0   Jabez Chapman 5 3 0   Thomas Mesely 5 3 0   Bickford Long 5 3 0   Samuel Selden 5 3 0  
JAMES HEATH Collector. Rumney April 10th 1772.
[ New-Britain. ]
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. THE Proprietors of the Town- ship of NEW-BRITAIN (so called) are hereby no- tified to meet at the House of Capt. Caleb Sanborn, Innholder in Hampton Falls, on Monday the fourth Day of May next, at one of the Clock in the After- noon, to act on the following Articles, v.z.
 1st, to choose a Moderator for said Meeting.  2d. a Proprietor's Clerk.  3d To see if said Proprietors will agree to build a Meeting House in said Township.  4th to see if said Proprietors will agree to hire Preaching in said Township, some Part of this present Year.  5th, to see what said Proprietors will do towards clearing and repairing Roads in said Township.  6th, To see if said Proprietors will agree to raise any Sum or Sums of Money for the Purposes aforesaid, and to pass any other Votes that may be necessary. 
Anthony Emery } Committee Caleb Sanborn } Hampton April 13th 1772.
Tar, Pitch, Turpentine, Candles per Box, Doct. Stevens, Clove, Anniseed, Snakeroot and Orange Waters, By the Cask, Kip- pens Snuff, per Cask or single, also TOBACCO of all Sorts sold by
Neal Mc. Intire, at his Store on Spring Hill, very cheap for Cash.
TO BE SOLD By Joshua Wentworth, Sundry Sets of largest Size
Pot-Ash Kettles, at his Ware-House in Portsmouth, near the Long-Wharfe.
TO BE SOLD AT P UBLICK VENDUE on THURSDAY the Eighteenth Day of MAY, at Five o'Clock in the Afternoon, by SAMUEL BOWLES, at his VENDUE ROOM in his Dwelling House in Port- smouth, a second-Hand CHAISE and Harness, a few Pair of Men's Silk HOSE, BROAD CLOTH, Lead Pencils, Pipes, Fire Locks, Men's Cloathing; with many other Articles. Likewise, at private Sale, a General Assortment of ENGLISH and WEST- INDIA GOODS, at the very lowest Rate for Cash.
TO BE SOLD A PEW in Doctor Langdon's MEETING HOUSE; Enquire of the Printers.