The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1782-02-23 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[V. XXVI.]
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1782.
[No. 1321.]
from the UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.
THE FEMALE SEX.
Woman! lovely Woman! Nature made thee to temper Man. Hadst thou been Brutes without you.
OTWAY.
If we take a survey of ages and of countries, we shall find the women, almost without exception—at all times, and in all places, adored and oppressed. Man who has never neglected an opportunity of exerting his power in paying homage to their beauty, has always availed himself of their weakness. He has been at once their tyrant and their slave.
Nature herself, in forming beings so susceptible and tender, appears to have been more attentive to their charms than their happiness. Continually surrounded with fears and fears, the women more than share our miseries, and are besides subjected to those which are peculiarly their own. They cannot be the means of life without exposing themselves to the loss of it; every revolution which they undergo alters their health, and weakens their existence. Cruel distempers rack their beauty—and the hour, which forms their release from those, is perhaps the most melancholy of their lives. It robs them of the most essential characteristic of their sex. They can then only hope for protection from the humiliating claims of pity, or the feeble voice of gratitude.
Society, instead of alleviating their condition, is to them the source of new miseries. More than one half of the globe is covered with savages; and among all those people women are completely wretched. Man, in a state of barbarity, equally cruel and indolent, active by necessity, but naturally inclined to repose, is acquainted with little more than the physical effects of love; and, having none of those moral ideas which only can soften the empire of force, he is led to consider it as his supreme law, subjecting to his despotism those whom reason had made his equal, but whose imbecility betrayed them to his strength. 'Nothing' (says Professor Miller, speaking of the women of barbarous nations) 'can exceed the dependance and subjection in which they are kept, or the toil and drudgery which they are obliged to undergo. —The husband, when he is not engaged in some warlike exercise, indulges himself in idleness, & devolves upon his wife the whole burden of his domestic affairs. He disdains to assist her in any of those servile employments. She sleeps in a different bed, and is seldom permitted to have any conversation or correspondence with him.'
The women among the Indians of America are what the Helots were among the Spartans, a vanquished people, obliged to toil for their conquerors. Hence, on the banks of the Oroonoko, we have seen mothers slaying their daughters out of compassion, and smothering them in the hour of their birth. They consider this barbarous pity as a virtue.
The men (says Commodore Byron, in his account of the inhabitants of South-America) exercise a most despotic authority over their wives, whom they consider in the same view they do any other part in their property, and dispose of them accordingly: Even their common treatment of them is cruel; for tho'
the toil and hazard of procuring food lies entirely on the women, yet they are not suffered to touch any part of it 'till the husband is satisfied; and then he assigns them their portion, which is generally very scanty, and such as he has not a stomach for himself.' Among the nations of the East, we find another kind of despotism and dominion over all—the Seraglio, and the domestic servitude of women, authorised by the manners and established by the laws. In Turkey, in Persia, in India, in Japan, and over the vast empire of China, one half of the human species is oppressed by the other.
The excess of oppression in those countries springs from the excess of love.
All Asia is covered with prisons, where beauty in bondage waits the caprices of a master. The multitude of women there assembled have no will, no inclinations but his: Their triumphs are only for a moment; and their rivalry, their hate, and their animosities, continue 'till death. There the lovely sex are obliged to repay even their servitude with the most tender affections; or, what is still more mortifying, with the counterfeit of an affection, which they do not feel: There the most gloomy tyranny has subjected them to creatures, who, being of neither sex, are a dishonor to both: There, in short, their education tends only to debase them; their virtues are forced; their very pleasures are involuntary and joyless; and after an existence of a few years—'till the bloom of youth is over—their period of neglect commences, which is long and dreadful. In the temperate latitude where the climates, giving less ardour to passion, leave more confidence in virtue, the women have not been deprived of their liberty, but a severe Legislation has, at all times, kept them in a state of dependence. One while, they were confined to their own apartments, and debared at once of business and amusement; at other times, a tedious guardianship defrauded their hearts, and insulted their understandings. Affronted in one country by apolygamy, which gives them their rivals for their inseparable companions; enslaved in another by indissoluble ties, which often join the gentle to the rude, and sensibility to brutality: Even in countries where they may be esteemed most happy, constrained in their desires in the disposal of their goods, robbed of their freedom of will by the laws, the slaves of opinion, which rules them with absolute sway, and construes the slightest appearances into guilt; surrounded on all sides by Judges, who are at once tyrants and their seducers, & who, after having prepared their faults, punish every lapse with dishonor—nay, usurp the right of degrading them on suspicion! Who does not feel for the tender sex? Yet such, I am sorry to say, is the lot of women over the whole earth. Man, with regard to them, in all climates, and in all ages, has been either an insensible husband, or an oppressor; but they have sometimes experienced the cold and deliberate oppression of pride, and sometimes the violent and terrible tyranny of jealousy. When they are not beloved, they are nothing; and, when they are, they are tormented. They have almost equal cause to be afraid of indifference and of love. Over three quarters of the globe Nature has placed them between contempt and misery.
'The melting desires, or the fiery passions,'
says Professor Ferguson, 'which in one climate take place between the sexes, are, in another, changed into a sober consideration, or a patience of mutual disgust. This change is remarkable in crossing the Mediterranean, in following the course of the Mississippi, in ascending the mountains of Caucasus, and in passing from the Alps and the Pyrenees to the shores of the Baltic.'
The burning ardours and torturing jealousies of the Seraglio and Haram, which have reigned so long in Asia and Africa, & which in the southern part of Europe, have scarcely given way to the differences of religion and civil establishments, are found however, with an abatement of heat in the climate, to be more easily changed, in one latitude, into a temporary passion, which ingrosses the mind without interblending it, and which excites to romantic achievements. By a farther progress to the north it is changed into a spirit of gallantry, which employs the wit & fancy more than the heart; which professes intrigue to enjoyment, and substitutes affection and vanity where sentiment and desire have failed. As it departs from the sun, the same passion is farther composed into a habit of domestic connection, or frozen into a state of insensibility, under which the sexes at freedom scarcely chuse to unite their society.'
Even among people where beauty received the highest homage, we find men who would deprive the sex of every kind of reputation: 'The most virtuous woman,' says a celebrated Greek, 'is she who is least talked of.'
That morose man, while he imposes duties upon women, would deprive them of their sweets of public esteem, and, in exacting virtues from them, would make it a crime to aspire at honor.
If a woman were to defend the cause of her sex, she might address him in the following manner:
'How great is your injustice! If we have an equal right with you to virtue, why should we not have an equal right to praise? The public esteem ought to wait upon merit. Our duties are different from yours, but they are not therefore less difficult to fulfil, or of less consequence to society: They are the fountains of your felicity, and the sweetness of life. We are wives and mothers. 'Tis we who form the union and the cordiality of families; 'tis we who soften that savage rudeness which considers every thing as due to force, and which would involve man with man in eternal war. We cultivate in you that humanity which makes you feel for the misfortunes of others, and our tears forewarn you of your own danger. Nay, you cannot be ignorant that we have need of courage not less than you: More feeble in ourselves, we have perhaps more trials to encounter. Nature assails us with sorrow, law and custom press us with constraint, and sensibility and virtue alarm us by our continual conflict. Sometimes also the name of citizen demands from us the tribute of fortitude. When you offer your blood to the State, think that it is ours. In giving it our sons and our husbands we gave more than ourselves. You can only die on the field of battle, but we have the misfortune to survive those whom we love most. Alas, while your ambitious vanity is unceasingly laboring to cover the earth with statues with monuments, and with inscriptions, to

eternise, if possible, your names, and give yourselves an existence, when this body is no more, why must we be condemned to live and to die unknown? Would that the grave and eternal forgetfulness should be our lot. Be not our tyrants in all: Permit our names to be sometimes pronounced beyond the narrow circle in which we live: Permit friendship, or at least love, to inscribe its emblems on the tomb where our ashes repose; and deny us not that public esteem, which after the esteem of one's self, is the sweetest reward of well-doing.
All men, however, it must be owned, have not been equally unjust to their fair companions. In some countries public honors have been paid to women. Art has erected them monuments, Eloquence has celebrated their virtues, and History has collected whatever could adorn their characters.
I shall perhaps hereafter trouble you with some more reflections upon this agreeable subject, and am, with great respect, &c.
L O N D O N October 22.
The following is a list of ships intended to reinforce the fleet in the West Indies, which will absolutely sail from Spithead the latter end of next month, viz.
   Guns. Guns.     Fame 74 Anson 64   Warrior 74 Agamemnon 64   Sceptre 64 Prothee 64  
We hear, that in the course of a very few weeks a formidable naval and military armament will sail from Brest for the West Indies, under the command of Mons. le Chev. Laurence.
October 25. We have every reason to fear that M. le Motte Piquet has sailed with 10 or 12 ships of the line for the West Indies; in which case our Islands will be entirely left to his mercy, before a reinforcement can be sent from hence, or our fleet be able to return thither from America. This will truly correspond with the topic continually urged by the Minister, that if America gains her freedom, our western islands must be lost; but how they can answer to the people for resigning these valuable possessions, while they are fighting for a shadow on the Continent, their own ideas of responsibility may best be able to flatter their minds.
Oct. 27. We hear from Waterbury, that a woman of that town, who was in the 4th or 5th month of her pregnancy, was taken with a most violent longing, to eat the flesh from her husband's arms: he indulged her in making several attempts, but her teeth were not sufficient for that purpose; and her unaccountable longing continued until her delivery, which was about three weeks ago: The infant refusing the breast, or any sustenance usually given to infants, it was offered the raw flesh of a fowl cut fine, and dipped in the fowl's blood, on which it has fed heartily every day since its birth, and is the only food the child has taken till a few days since, when it eat a little milk mixed with blood.
It is wonderful indeed, says a correspondent, that a man of Lord Shelburne's good sense & acquired knowledge, should think, as he does, that by a change of Ministers, and a fair discussion of the matter, the Americans might yet be brought back to a constitutional subordination to this country! As well might his Lordship think and assert, that the Goodwin Sands might be recovered to the British dominions, and again become fine fruitful fields and pastures to the descendants of Earl Goodwin, if any such be living.
S A L E M, February 21.
From some late English papers, found on board the prize ship Experiment, captured by the Junius Brutus privateer of this port, we have taken the following advices, viz.
L O N D O N, November 3.
Extract of a letter from Lisbon, September 27.
"The French Cabinet are straining every nerve to embroil this Court in the present war. We have remonstrance after remonstrance to open this port to the Americans. Several of the Nobility have privately assured that it is scarce possible for this Court to escape declaring for one side or the other: if it should be against her old ally, England, which is very much against her interest, we shall all be sent home to visit our friends."
The last mail brought over a number of letters from Antwerp; among others the following is extracted from one wrote by an English gentleman resident in that city, to his correspondent in London:
Extract of a letter, dated Antwerp, Octo. 18.
"You have heard of a treaty going on between France and Holland: my correspondent at Paris gives me notice of such a contract being actually signed which consists of a great number of articles; among others the following are nearly the tenor thereof: A stipulation of a mutual guarantee of the Dutch & French dominions in Europe. Asia, Africa & America. A general guarantee of the Dutch dominions absolutely held by them at the time of signing. A private article respecting America. A new tariff on the commerce between the two powers. No other sovereign state to be admitted to a participation of certain articles of this treaty. The article of guarantee to be in force, and extend to all possessions falling to the lot of either of the contracting powers at the time of a general peace. No treaty entered into hereafter with any power or powers whatever, to effect the full performance of this treaty by the contracting powers. Six weeks to be allowed for the exchanging the several ratifications, in order to take away any suspicion of trifling in either of the parties. One extra article is said to be, that France shall forever oppose the erecting the Republic of the States General into a Monarchy. This last causes a variety of speculation."
The troops destined for the American reinforcement for the campaign of 1782, are not yet finally determined on; but it is agreed on all hands that it is meant to be a very considerable one; some say 20, but none estimate it at less than 15,000.
Nov. 10. A commercial treaty between our Court and the Emperor, it is said, is nearly concluded; which, it is imagined, will be followed by another, offensive and defensive — It is likewise reported, that similar treaties are now in agitation between Great Britain, the Emperor, and the Court of Russia. If the above grand objects are carried into execution, it will greatly change the present state of affairs, and must, in its consequences, tend to bring about a general peace.
In the Supplement to the Leyden Gazette of the 2d inst. we read, that by letters dated Barcelona, Octo. 3 the following intelligence was received: — "By the several deserters who have joined the Duke de Crillon, we are informed, that the garrison is well supplied with provisions of all kinds, but that, through excessive toils and fatigue, a great many of their men had perished; that the governor looks for a powerful succour about the middle of Nov. that on our landing, the enemy were in such confusion, that had our troops rushed upon them, the fort must have fallen an easy prey, as
nothing but disorder and confusion prevailed among the garrison. Every deserter who comes over to us, receives a doubloon of eight in money, and a pass to retire where ever he thinks best. The state of the garrison, according to the above report, is as follows: 51st. regiment, 477 men; 61st, 315; Prince Ernest's Hanoverian regiment, 331; 4th of Goldacker, 325; three companies of artillery, 135; sailors taken out of the ships of war, 400; making in all 1983, now reduced to 1857, by our taking of the 5th. regiment, 44; of the 61st, 23 men; 9 Hanoverians, and 50 sailors; in all 117."
His Majesty's most gracious SPEECH to both Houses of Parliament.
Tuesday, November 27, 1781.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
WHEN I last met you in parliament, I acquainted you with the arduous situation of public affairs at that time, and I represented to you the objects which I had in view, and the resolution with which I was determined to persevere in the defence of my dominions, against the combined power of my enemies, until such a pacification could be made as might consist with the honor of my crown, and the permanent interest and security of my people. The war is still unhappily prolonged by that restless ambition which first excited our enemies to commence it, & which still continues to disappoint my earnest desire and diligent exertion to restore the public tranquility. But I should not answer the trust committed to the sovereign of a free people, nor make a suitable return to my subjects, for their constant, & alacris, and affectionate attachment to my person, family and government, if I consented to sacrifice, either my own desire of peace, or to their temporary ease and relief, those essential rights and permanent interests, upon the maintenance and preservation of which, the future strength and security of this country, must principally depend.
The favourable appearance of our affairs in the East Indies, and the safe and prosperous arrival of the numerous commercial fleets of my kingdom, must have given you satisfaction; but in the course of this year, my arduous endeavours to guard the extensive dominions of my crown have not been attended with success equal to the justice and uprightness of my views; and it is with concern that I inform you, that the events of war have been very unfortunate to my arms in Virginia, having ended in the loss of my forces in that province.
No endeavours have been wanting on my part to extinguish that spirit of rebellion which our enemies have found means to foment and maintain in the colonies, and to retain to my deluded subjects in America that happy and prosperous condition which they formerly derived from a due obedience to the laws; but the late misfortunes in that quarter calls loudly for your firm concurrence and assistance to frustrate the designs of our enemies, equally prejudicial to the real interests of America, and to those of Great Britain:
In the last session you made considerable progress in your enquiries into the state and condition of our dominions and revenues in the East Indies: You will, I am persuaded, resume the prosecution of that important deliberation, with the same spirit & temper in which it was begun, and proceed with the same attention and anxiety to consider how those remote pro-

vinces may be held and governed with the greatest security and advantage to this country, and by what means the happiness of the native inhabitants may be best promoted.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
I will order the estimates for the ensuing year to be laid before you. I rely on your wisdom and public spirit for such supplies as the circumstances of our affairs shall be found to require; among the many ill consequences which attend the continuation of the present war, I most sincerely regret the additional burthens which it must unavoidably bring upon my faithful subjects.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
For the prosecution of this great and important contest in which we are engaged, I retain a firm confidence in the protection of divine providence, and a perfect conviction of the justice of my cause; and I have no doubt but that, by the concurrence and support of my Parliament, by the valor of my fleets and armies, and by a vigorous, animated, and united exertion of the faculties and resources of my people, I shall be enabled to restore the blessings of a safe and honorable peace to all my dominions.
PHILADELPHIA, February 12.
For some time past a report has circulated in this city, that the speech of his Britannic Majesty to his Parliament, in November last, was arrived at New York, and indeed in this city; but we have had no ground to believe it, until yesterday, when we were assured, that a vessel arrived last Thursday at New York, in a short passage from England, which our informant says, brought accounts, that the news of the capture of Cornwallis had occasioned great disturbances in England: Lord George Gordon having paraded the streets of London at the head of a great number of men, and the British King had lodged himself in the Tower for the security of his person.—We do not pretend to authenticate this news, but give it as report.
TRENTON, February 6.
On the 19th ult. arrived in Tom's river, the privateer schooner Dart, from Salem in New England, Capt. William Gray, and brought in with him a prize sloop, taken from the Black Jack, a galley belonging to New-York; and the next day his boat with seven men, went in pursuit of a brig which was near the bar, but neither boat or men have since been heard of.
F I S H - K I L L, February 14.
We hear that the Dutch have granted to Congress a loan of ten millions of livres; and by a gentleman from Philadelphia, we hear that the Spaniards have taken Providence and the other Bahama islands.
B O S T O N, February 21.
Last Monday a brig arrived at Newport, belonging to the Southward, in 15 days from Cape Francois, the master of which brings a further confirmation of the taking of St. Kitts by the Count de Grasse; and it was generally believed at the Cape, that Antigua was in possession of the French before he sailed from the Cape.—Five days before this vessel arrived at the Cape, she met with Captain Wadgley, in a brig from Newbury Port, in a very bad situation, having lost his masts three days after he left Newbury, and had a very long passage, but arrived at the Cape eight days after he was spoke with.
A specimen of African humour.
On the arrival of the news of the capture of Lord Cornwallis and his whole army, one African meeting another, salutes him thus: "O! how do Cuffee? You hear about Cornwallis?" "No. What about Cornwallis?" "Why, General Washington shell off the Corn, now he Cobwallis."
S A L E M, February 21.
Last Tuesday arrived at a safe port, the prize ship Experiment, Daniel Sinclair, late master, captur'd the 23d ult. on her passage from England to Jamaica, by the privateer
ship Junius Brutus, Capt. Brookhouse, of this port. The cargo of this prize consists chiefly of flour; having on board 1500 barrels. She mounts 18 long six-pounders, and fought 3 glasses before she struck, had 2 men killed, and 5 wounded. The Brutus had one killed, and two slightly wounded.
The Experiment sailed from Portsmouth on the 1st of December, in company with the British grand fleet, said to be bound on a cruise. Since her being captured, in Lat. 17. N. Long. 54. W. she spoke with the ship Count de Grasse, from Newbury Port, all well; also with the privateer brig Fair American, from New-London, which had taken a ship bound to New York.
We have just heard, that a vessel belonging to Newbury Port, commanded by Capt. Calfe, and bound in there from the West Indies, ran ashore on Plumb Island beech, when eight of the people, by endeavouring to save themselves in the boat, were unfortunately drowned. The remainder, three in number, by staying on board, were happily preserved. Among the drowned are, Capt. Calfe, who commanded the vessel, & Capt. James Barr, of this town. Both vessel and cargo were finally saved.—The surviving people, we hear, give an account, that Brimstone Hill having surrendered to the French forces, the whole island of St. Kitts is now in the quiet possession of our gallant & victorious Allies.
WHEREAS the Convention for framing a permanent System of Government for the State of New Hampshire, stands adjourned to first Tuesday of June next, then to meet at Concord, in said State; the several towns within the same are requested, on or before that time, to send in their votes respecting the Plan of Government lately sent out for their inspection and revision, to the President or Secretary of said Convention; and to be very particular in their returns, specifying all their objections and proposed amendments, with the number of voters for and against each article.—And whereas the major part of the towns thro' the State, have hitherto neglected the choosing and sending the Delegates to said Convention, agreeably to the precepts issued by the General Assembly of said State—And whereas it is of the highest importance that there should be a full and free representation of the people in said Convention, to advise, deliberate and determine on a matter of such moment to themselves and posterity; and it having been also recommended by the General Assembly.—The Convention, therefore, earnestly request all such towns as have hitherto neglected, to neglect no longer, but to proceed to choose and send to said Convention, one or more members, as they shall judge best; and those towns that have already sent, to add other members, if they shall think it expedient or promotive of the general advantage.
In the name, and pursuant to a resolution of said Convention,
GEO. ATKINSON, President.
Attest. J. M. SEWALL, Secretary.
Feb. 22, 1782.
TO BE SOLD, BY PUBLIC VENDUE,
On WEDNESDAY the 13th of March next, at Mrs. Tilton's, in Portsmouth, at Eleven o'Clock, A. M.
SUNDRY valuable Lots of Land in Wolfeborough, from one to two Hundred Acres in a Lott, as may best suit the Purchasers; some lying on the westerly side and some on the easterly side of said Town. Portsmouth, Feb. 9, 1782.
TO BE SOLD, A good young Milch COW. Inquire of the Printers;
Cheap for Cash,
AT RICHARD CHAMPNEY'S STORE,
On Mess. Sherburne & Langdon's Wharf, SUNDRY GOODS, viz.
BEST HYSON and Bohea Tea, per hund. doz. or smaller quantity; Stone Lime per hoghead; Sward's and Spanish Iron, per ton or hundred; Rattle Duck; best French Brandy, per pipe; Clarret Wine, per pipe; Molasses per hoghead; Lisbon and St. Martin's Salt; Coffee, per hundred; and a variety of piece Goods.—Also, a good Assortment of Cuttoes, Penknives, Scissors, Razors, Knives and Forks, &c. &c. &c.
State of New Hampshire.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that Nathaniel Batchelder of Deerfield in the county of Rockingham and State aforesaid, yeoman, in behalf of himself and Moley his wife, hath preferred a petition to the General Court, sitting forth, that Joseph L. Libbee of Rye in said county, yeoman, some time in the year 1764, died intestate, leaving the petitioners said wife his only child and Heir: Soon after his decease, Abraham Libbee, of said Rye, yeoman, and the widow of the deceased, now wife of Reuben Dearborn, of North-Hampton, in said county, yeoman, took administration of the estate of the intestate, exhibited an inventory of his real and personal estate, amounting to eight thousand three hundred and fifty five pounds of the then old tenor.
Nine years afterwards the administrators preferred their administration account to the judge of probate, wherein they charged themselves with the personal estate, and other articles, to the amount of two hundred and four pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, lawful money, and credited themselves for about one hundred and fifty pounds like money, by which there then appeared a considerable balance in favor of the estate in the hands of the administrators: Since which, the petitioner can find no account exhibited by the administrators, yet they in an unaccountable manner obtained a licence to sell the real estate of the intestate to pay his debts. By virtue of which licence, and with a design to defraud the creditors to, and Heir of said estate, (as he conceives) the administrators sold by deed of sale bearing date the seventeenth day of April, A. D. 1774, by them executed, full and convey in fee to Samuel Hale, Jan. then of Portsmouth in said county, attorney at law, an absentee, the following tracts of land situate in said Rye, viz. That tract of land owned by the said Joseph in his life time, on which his house stood, and in which he dwelt, bounded as follows:—beginning at a pine tree at Nicholas Dabey's southwest corner, then runs northwesterly by said Dabey's land till it comes to the land lately owned by James Hobbs, and by said land the same course about twenty rods till it comes to the southwest corner of said land, thence southeasterly by said Hobbs's land thirty rods more or less, thence southerly by said Hobbs's and Garland's land till it comes to the highway & by the highway easterly till it comes to the boundary began at: And also one half of an acre of land called the orchard lot on the south side of the highway, beginning at the place where Richard Lang's shop stands and runs easterly on said highway twenty rods to a pine stump, thence southwesterly by said Lang's land about twenty five rods thence ten rods to the bounds began at: Both said tracts containing the home place of the said Joseph Libbee. Which deed the petitioner can prove by the conditions of the said Hale's Bond, and other evidence, was not bonafide made for a good and valuable consideration, but only for a cover. And as the creditors by this covetous sale must be still prevented from getting their just demands, and the Heir from inheriting what of said estate may be left after payment of the debts, unless the deed so given the said Hale, be made void. Wherefore the petitioner prays, that the same deed may be vacated by act of the legislature, and the land thereby conveyed, and restored.
Upon which petition, the General Court ordered that the petitioner be heard thereon before them on the first Tuesday of the next Session, and that in the meantime, he cause the substance of said petition, and order of court thereon, to be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest. JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'y.
Exeter, Jan. 3 1782.
TO BE SOLD, for Country Produce, TWO Rights of Land in Rochester, one of 216 and the other of 60 acres. Inquire at the Printing Office.

L O N D O N, October 18.
Advice is received at Paris from the East-Indies, by the way of Martinico.—The return of M. Dorves to the Isle of France is confirmed. That event is attributed to the difficulty of procuring himself provisions and ammunition, after having beat about the coasts upwards of three months. The letters received by that channel, contain an anecdote unknown in Europe; which is, that the English having set a price upon the head of Hyder Ally, that furious Prince had immediately ordered the right hands of all the English prisoners in his power, to be cut off.
October 22. The last week has made a wonderful alteration in the tone of Government. Before that untoward period, nothing but the utter destruction of the Carolinas was talked of by the Ministry & their creatures; but since the French have blocked up the Chesapeake, and landed eight thousand troops, they can condescend to think it very well if Lord Cornwallis should be lucky enough to effect his escape back to New-York.
The manufacturers at Manchester are almost ready for an insurrection, through a want of employment, on account of the scarcity of cotton. They are only restrained by the hopes of a Jamaica fleet, and if it should not arrive safe, the apprehensions of famine will probably drive them to outrage.
What an intolerable insult to be tamely born by the British flag, blocking up a large Dutch fleet in the Texel, to see a single Swedish ship of 74 guns, purchased for the audacious purpose, quietly convoy the Dutch fleet under protection of its flag, and proudly bid defiance to ten English sail of the line to touch the prey they had been so long watching in vain.—This tale is so unusually ignominious, that it may seem the extravagance of fiction, but we again pledge our utmost credit to the public for the strict truth of it.—What madness is it thus to resign our ancient honour and interest, while, through an inhuman revenge, we are fighting for a shadow in a distant world!
We can assure the public, from very good authority, that 44 Dutch merchantmen, destined for different ports in the Baltic, sailed on the 10th instant from the port of Vlie, under Swedish colours, and under the protection of a Swedish frigate, the Jaramas, of 44 guns. They were soon after met by an English man of war; but the commander of the Swedish frigate absolutely claimed and protected them as Swedish property, though it is publicly known in Holland that they are all Dutch property, though destined for Swedish ports, and that the said protection had been purchased with a considerable sum of money. These are the effects of the convention of the armed neutrality, so prejudicial to England. The Dutch may now carry on their trade, under Russian, Danish, Swedish, or Prussian colours, and may purchase the protection of the men of war of these confederated powers, at a cheaper rate than fitting out convoys themselves; and if any of our men of war should attack or molest such convoy, it will be a sufficient pretext for those powers to demand the most exorbitant satisfaction, or declare for an open rupture with us. Our ministry have been duly acquainted with this circumstance; but the dread of the least litigation with any of the confederated powers, makes them pass over every thing in the most sullen silence. Oh! England, how art thou humiliated!
The ROYAL ADVENTURER.
PRINCE William of the Brunswick race, To witness George's sad disgrace, The royal Lad came over, Rebels to kill by Right divine ;— Deriv'd from that illustrious line, The beggars of Hanover. So many chiefs got broken pates In vanquishing the rebel States, So many nobles fell, That George the third in passion cry'd, "Our royal blood shall now be try'd ;" 'Tis that must break the spell. To you (the fat pot valiant SWINE To Digby said) dear friend of mine, To you I trust my boy. The rebel tribes shall quake with fears, Rebellion die when he appears ; My Tories leap with joy." So said, so done—the boy was sent, But never reach'd the continent, An island held him fast— Yet there his friends danc'd rigadoons, The Hessians sung in high Dutch tunes "Prince William's come at last" "Prince William comes!"—the Briton cry'd— The glory of our empire rises Shall now be soon restor'd— Our Monarch is in William seen, He is the image of our Queen, Let William be ador'd! The Tories came with long address, With poems groan'd the Royal press , And all in William's praise— The boy astonish'd look'd about To find their vast dominions out, Then answer'd in amazement, "Where all your Empire wide can be, Friends for my soul I cannot see; It's but an empty name; There wasted islands and a town In rubbish bury'd—half burnt down, Is all that we can claim: I am of royal birth, 'tis true, But what alas, can princes do, No armies to command? Cornwallis conquer'd and distrest— Sir Henry Clinton grown a jest— I curse—and leave the land."
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ALL PERSONS indebted to the Estate of THEODORE ATKINSON, Esq; late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to make immediate Payment to GEORGE ATKINSON, Feb. 9, 1782. (Executor.)
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford ss. T HE non-resident proprietors or present owners of part of that share of land allotted and drawn to Thomas Wallingford Esq; deceased, in that tract of land called the Gore, in said County, adjoining Winnepesaukee-Pond, (which said part of said share is said to have been severed and set off to Hannah Brown and Lydia Costelloe, in the Division of said Wallingford's estate) are hereby advertised, that unless they pay me the several sums of money due, according to two lists of taxes for the year 1779, and one for the year 1780, committed to me to collect, so much of their lands will be sold by public vendue at the dwelling house of Joseph Roberts Esq; in said Gore, on the 25th day of March next, at 2 o'clock P. M. as will be sufficient to pay said taxes with incidental charges. The names of the delinquent owners of said rights, with the sums due, are as follows, viz, Hannah Brown 222 acres. 1st. tax, 2l. 15s. 2d. tax, 4l. 18s. for the year 1779. Lydia Costelloe, 360 acres 1st. tax, 4l. 7s. for the year 1779. Hannah Brown, 222 acres, 44l. 8s. for the year 1780. Lydia Costelloe, 360 acres 72l. for the year 1780. JACOB CHAMBERLAIN Collector. February 8. 1782.
W HEREAS the proprietors of land in Marlborough, in the State of New-Hampshire, did at a legal meeting held in said town the twelfth day of July 1775 Vote to raise one farthing per acre on all the ratable land in said town, which assessment being made was committed to me the subscriber to collect: These are to notify the owners of land in said town, to pay their respective taxes to me at my dwelling house in said town, on or before the first day of March next, or their land will be advertised for sale. DAVID WHEELER, Collector. Marlborough, Jan. 16, 1782.
ALL Persons indebted for this Gazette , are once more requested to settle their accounts with the Publishers, (especially those who have been long in arrears) as they find it impossible to continue the publication of it much longer, without that piece of justice is done them, being obliged to pay the cash down for every sheet of paper they use, as well as for the immediate necessaries of life.—'Tis expected they settle up to the first of March next; and those who wish to continue customers after that time, will advance 6s. which is the stated rule at Boston, Salem, &c.—Those of the Country, will recollect that it has been good sledgeing for some time past, which it's probable will continue; they therefore can have no apology for being deficient in bringing wood, provisions, &c. which will be receiv'd of all who can't conveniently advance the cash. February 9, 1782.
State of NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, That Daniel Newcomb , trustee to the estate of Dr. Josiah Pomeroy , late of Keene, an absentee hath preferred a petition to the General Assembly, setting forth, that the said Josiah had, before his absenting himself from Keene, purchased, taken deeds of, taken into possession, paid for, and was the proper owner of the following tracts of land lying in Keene aforesaid, viz. two house lots, No. 42 and 43, containing about sixteen acres with a barn and orchard thereon; one piece of meadow land in ash-swamp (so called) containing about twelve acres, being two six acre lots laid out to the right of house lot No. 42; one other piece of meadow land lying in ash swamp (so called) containing about twelve acres, laid out in an after division to the right of house lot No. 42; one tract of meadow land, containing about eleven acres, being the westerly part of the eight-acre lots No. 26, 27 and 28, and lyeth partly on Bullards island (so called) one tract of land lying northerly of the meeting-house in said Keene, containing about seventy acres; one other tract, of land lying northerly of said meeting-house about ten acres. Also one eight acre meadow lot No. 24 laid out to house lot No. 4. Also one tract of land lying on east-beech hill (so called) being part of thirty acre lots No. 3 & 4, containing about forty acres. And one tract of unimproved land in said Keene, ninety-three acres and ninety-six rods, which includes part (viz. forty acres) of a sixty-acre pitch in the ninth division of land in said town, and was drawn to house lot No. 62. The remainder of said tract consists of two pitches in the tenth division of land in said town, the one drawn to house lot No. 62, and the other to house lot No. 25, excepting out of said tract of land one undivided part twenty-five acres belonging to Benjamin Arber . That the said Pomeroy's deeds of the aforesaid tracts of land have never been recorded, but are concealed so as not to be come at by the said trustee; and the said trustee is apprehensive that he cannot lawfully make sale of said tracts of land for the use of said state, without some special act of Court for that purpose; therefore, he prays for direction how to proceed relative thereto. And if the said tracts of land are confiscated, and in the care of the said trustee, he further prays, that the said tract of land may be declared to be forfeited to said state, and he be as effectually secured in making sale of said lands as if the said deeds had been duly executed and recorded.
Upon which petition, the General Assembly ordered that the petitioner should be heard thereon, before them, on the second Wednesday of their next session; and that in the mean time, he cause the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette , that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
Attest. JOSEPH PEARSON, Dep'y. Sec'y:
Rockingham, Portsmouth, January 30th. 1782. T HE Commissioner appointed by the Hon. Judge of Probate for the County of Rockingham, in the State of New-Hampshire, to examine the Claims on the Estate of Capt. Thomas Pickering late of Portsmouth, deceased—give notice that a further time is allowed by the Judge to receive the Claims on said Estate, and that they will attend that business for the last time, at the House of Mrs. Tilton in Portsmouth, on Tuesday the 26th Day of February next, at 6 of the Clock, P. M. Pearce Long, } Commissioners: John Sparhawk, } Thomas Martin, }
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