The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1787-11-03 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND GENERAL
[VOLUME XXXII.—No. 1625.] GAZETTE, THE ADVERTISER.
S A T U R D A Y,
P O R T S M O U T H : By JOHN MELCHER,
N O V E M B E R 3, 1787.
PRINTED and PUBLISHED in MARKET-STREET.
[8s.]
pr Ann.]
“WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE.”
On the Federal Government, No. 2.
WE have seen that the late honorable Convention, in designating the nature of the chief executive office of the United States, have deprived it of all the dangerous appendages of royalty, and provided for the frequent expiration of its limited powers—As our President bears no resemblance to a King, so we shall see the Senate have no servitude to nobles.
First then not being hereditary, their collective knowledge, wisdom and virtue, are not precarious, for by these qualities alone are they to obtain their offices; and they will have none of the peculiar follies and vices of those men, who possess power merely because their fathers held it before them, for they will be educated (under equal advantages and with equal prospects) among and on a footing with the other sons of a free people—If we recollect the characters, who have, at various periods, filled the seats of Congress, we shall find this expectation perfectly reasonable. Many young men of genius, and many characters of more matured abilities without fortunes, have been honored with that trust. Wealth has had but few representatives there, and those have been generally possessed of respectable personal qualifications. There have also been many instances of persons, not eminently endowed with mental qualities, who have been sent thither from a reliance on their virtues, public and private—As the Senators are still to be elected by the legislatures of the States, there can be no doubt of equal safety and propriety in their future appointment, especially as no future pecuniary qualification is required by the constitution.
They can hold no other office, civil or military, under the United States, nor can they join in making provisions for themselves, either by creating new places or increasing the emoluments of old ones. As their sons are not to succeed them, they will not be induced to aim at an increase or perpetuity of their powers, at the expence of the liberties of the people of which those sons will be a part. They possess a much smaller share of the judicial power, than the upper house in Britain, for they are not, as there, the highest court in civil affairs. Impeachments alone are the cases cognizable before them and in what other place could matters of that nature be so properly and safely determined? The judges of the federal courts will owe their appointments to the president and senate, therefore may not feel so perfectly free from favor, affection and influence, as the upper house, who receive their power from the people, through their state representatives, and are immediately responsible to those assemblies, and finally to the nation at large.—Thus we see when a daring or dangerous offender is brought to the bar of public justice, the people who alone can impeach him by their immediate representatives, will cause him to be tried, not by judges appointed in the heat of the occasion, but by two thirds of a select body, chosen a long time before, for various purposes, by the collected wisdom of their state legislatures. From a pretence or affection of extraordinary purity and excellence of character their word of honour is the sanction, under which these high courts in other countries, have given their sentence—but with us, like the other judges of the union, like the rest of the people of which they are never to forget they are a part, it is required, that they be on oath.
No ambitious, undeserving or unexperienced youth can acquire a seat in this house by means of the most enormous wealth or most powerful connections, till thirty years have ripened abilities and fully discovered his merits to his country—a more rational ground of preference surely than mere property.
The senate though more independent of the people as to the free exercise of their judgment
and abilities, than the house of representatives, by the longer term of their office, must be older and more experienced men, and the public treasures, the sinews of the state, cannot be called forth by their original motion. They may restrain the profusion or errors of the house of representatives, but they cannot take the necessary measures to raise a national revenue.
The people, through the electors, prescribe them such a president as shall be best qualified to controul them.
They can only, by conviction on impeachment, remove and incapacitate a dangerous officer, but the punishment of him as a criminal remains within the province of the courts of law, to be conducted under all the ordinary forms and precaution which exceedingly diminishes the importance of their judicial powers. They are detached as much as possible, from local prejudices in favour of their respective states, by having a separate and independent vote, for the sensible and conscientious use of which, every member will find his person, honor and character seriously bound—He cannot shelter himself, under a vote in behalf of his state, among his immediate colleagues. As there are only two, he cannot be voluntarily or involuntarily governed by the majority of the deputation—He will be obliged, by wholesome provisions, to attend his public duty, and thus in great national questions must give a vote, of the honesty of which, he will find it necessary to convince his constituents.
The senate must always receive the exceptions of the president against any of their legislative acts, which without serious deliberations and sufficient reasons, they will seldom disregard. They will also feel a considerable check from the constitutional powers of the state legislatures, whose rights they will not be disposed to infringe, since they are the bodies to which they owe their existence, and are moreover to remain the immediate guardians of the people.
And lastly, the senate will feel the mighty check of the house of representatives—a body so pure in its election, so intimately connected, by its interests and feelings, with the people at large, so guarded against corruption and influence; so much, from its nature, above all apprehensions, that it must ever be able to maintain the high ground assigned to it by the federal constitution.
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
A N E C D O T E.—from a correspondent.
I MUST not forget to mention that one of the newspapers of your town, sometime in August last, by the accidental transposition of a single letter occasioned an explanation that has afforded some merriment. The paper, instead of the words United States read Untied States . A farmer of my acquaintance reading over the paper was at a loss what to make of the matter. Untied States, Untied States , (said he) what can this mean? certainly it cannot mean that our government are dissolved.”—The same evening he carried the paper to old Mr. G—, who, you know, keeps a school in the neighbourhood, and desired an explanation.—Mr. G—, after putting on his spectacles to prevent a possibility of deception, examined the paragraph, and found what the man said to be true.—“It is even as you say, John, (replied he) and I think can mean nothing more than that the States are, or shortly will be no longer bound by their old constitutions: That is, they will be completely untied from them, as soon as the new constitution comes abroad!
The Prayer of a wife HEATHEN.
GREAT Jove, this one petition grant; [Thou knowest best what mortals want] Ask'd, or unask'd, what's good supply: What's evil—to our Pray'rs deny!
An EPITAPH upon a COLLEGE SWEEPER.
WITHIN the belly of this doleful tomb, Lies honest Harry Pancriss with his broom; His ashes-box, and eke his faithful shovel, With their great master in the ground do grovel. And should the curious ask the reason why Their honors useles in the dust do lye? Old sweeping Death, with his destructive besom, Walking the rounds, into this hole did squeeze'em.
IMPORTED
In the last Ships from London, And to be Sold by
Abel Harris,
next door north of the Market,
G O O D S
suitable for the season, consisting of
  L OW priced  W orsted Hose    Broad Cloths,  Buckram,    Serges, Coatings,  Silk and Cotton    Frizes, Duffils,  Handkerchiefs,    Strankins,  Dowlas Sheeting,    Half-Thicks,  Yard wide \frac{3}{4} & \frac{4}{3}    Bath Beaver,  Linnens,    Colchester and  Check'd ditto,    Drapery Baize,  Calicoes, Muslins,    & \frac{1}{2} Blankets,  Clear and spotted    Olive Corduroys,  Lawns, Cambricks,    Black and olive  Bed-Ticks, Tapes,    Velvets, Shalloons,  Paper, Sealing Wax,    Tammies, Durants,  Wafers,    Calimancoes,  Ink-Powder, Slates,    Cambleteens,  Knives and Forks,    Poplins, Crapes,  Pen-Knives,    Princess-Stuffs,  Scissors,    Lastings,  Iron Candlesticks,    \frac{3}{4} Ell and \frac{4}{3} Modes,  Warming Pans,    Black and coloured  Pelham and Snaffle    Sewing Silk,  Bits,    Small death-head  Girt and Sircingle    Buttons, Twists,  Webb,    Qualities,  Nutmegs,    Shoe Bindings,  Cinnamon,    Black Plumes,  Currants, Ginger,    Large & No 4 Pins,  Pepper, Indigo,    Worsted Mitts, and  Powder & Shott,    Gloves,  &c. &c.  
Pot-Ash Kettles.
Cash and a generous price, given for Shipping
Furs, Bees Wax & Pot-Ash.
Portsmouth, October 26.
A House to be Sold cheap, And on terms easy to the purchaser, Being the House wherein Charles Waters lives, together with
The Lot on which it stands, well situate in Pitt-Street.
For particulars apply to
Daniel Humphreys,
Portsmouth, October 26.

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 25.
The last letters from Aleppo, dated the 31st ult. advised, that the plague raged there with such violence, as to carry off from a thousand to fifteen hundred persons daily.
UTRECHT (Holland) July 30.
On the 26th & 27th of this month, two detachments marched from this city, one commanded by General Rhygrave de Salm, and the other by Colonel Kleinebergh. The first having arrived at the advanced post of the Stadtholder's camp between nine and ten at night, an action began between the advanced guard of both parties; but the General having waited an hour in expectation of the main body, and finding they were not disposed to attack him, gave orders for return of the party: but the attack of Col. Kleinebergh has been more serious: this brave officer having presented himself with his cavalry at the head of the bridge which leads to the castle of Zoetdyk, the infantry of the enemy made so brisk a fire, that our cavalry gave way, and occasioned some disorder in our infantry that were in the rear: but two French officers, Mons. Gadue and Mons. Des Imbert, by their conduct, kept our infantry steady, who commenced a fire, from which the enemy suffered no less than our cavalry did on the onset. We learn that the number of killed and wounded on both sides is nearly equal. Many brave fellows lost their lives.—The dreadful flame of civil war has now burst forth, and none can foresee how far it may extend. The Prussian troops are daily expected to the support of the Stadtholder.
L O N D O N, August 21.
The Province of Holland has had the modesty to propose to the Court of France, that it should guarantee its immediate establishment of a distinct unconnected government, and the secure possession of the Dutch settlements in the East and West Indies. This would instantly involve Europe in war, particularly the rival powers of France and England. But the French cabinet will hardly attend to so extravagant a proposal—say the brewed English politicians .
Aug. 25. On Thursday a messenger extraordinary arrived at the Secretary of State's office, from Sir James Harris, at the Hague, whose dispatches contain the following particulars: The night on which the messenger set off, a large body of armed men, of the French party, were before the gates, and insisted upon entrance into the Hague, on which a Council was summoned (and was sitting when the messenger set off) to determine what was best to be done.
A letter from Naples, dated July 12, says, "The armed Fellucca, which was cruising against the Barbary vessels at the expence of the owners of the Felluccas, destined to fish for coral, commanded by Captain Michael Accardo of this city, has taken a Tunisian merchant galley, richly laden with leather, silk, &c. and several sums of money belonging to some rich Algerine merchants."
Our letters from Paris, bring dreadful accounts of a late storm which happened on the 13th of July, in Chestrain, particularly at Saumery, Bowville, Vitray, and Andeville, where it was so extremely violent, that in less than a quarter of an hour, the earth was covered a foot deep with the hail.—Men, horses, birds, and in short every thing has suffered from this dreadful visitation; the harvest is entirely destroyed and the face of the country desolated. The hail stones were of an angular form, and as large as pullet's eggs.
P E T E R S B U R G, (Virg.) October 11.
The following atrocious murder was lately committed by a widow woman, on a young man who has since proved to be her only son, and who had been absent from her many years:—It appears from the circumstances we have been able to collect, that after having served in the army until the troops were disbanded, he had, by his industry and economy, collected a sum of money, with which he was desirous of paying his mother a visit, and by his presence and assistance, to render the remainder of her days easy and comfortable. Upon his arrival in the neighbourhood where she lived, it was agreed between him and some of his former acquaintances, that he should personate a traveling stranger in search of quarters for the night, in order to see whether his mother would recollect him, as well as to guard against the effects which so unexpected an interview might have upon her. Accordingly in the evening he applied to her, but to no purpose, until, as his last resource, he informed her, that he had a large sum of money with him, which he did not wish to risk by being on the road at a late hour, or lodging at a public house, and of which he desired she would take charge. At this unfortunate moment, the demon Avarice appears to have taken full possession of her mind, and to have suggested to her the practicability of making the golden prize her own, by means almost too horrid for recital, She therefore, as
if over-persuaded, consented to his request; and the evening being spent without any discovery on her part, he was lodged in a room to which she had access; and when in a sound sleep from fatigue and security, and unsuspecting of his approaching fate, she murdered him by cutting his throat from ear to ear. She has since made a confession of the crime, and is now in custody waiting her doom.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, October 20.
Within these few days two large ships have arrived here, one from Amsterdam, the other from Rotterdam, with Dutch redemptioners, and a considerable number of passengers.
We learn by a gentleman from Carlisle in Cumberland county, that at a meeting of the citizens of that town the new Federal Government was unanimously approved of, and the conduct of Mr. Whitehill, and the other antifederal absconders, severely reprehended. The Hon. Gen. Armstrong presided, we are informed at this meeting.
N E W - Y O R K, October 12.
Further accounts from Dominica say, that every droger and small craft are entirely lost; twelve ships and brigs in the harbour of Roseau were also destroyed; that two thirds of the coffee crops are ruined, and the sugar-canes, &c. greatly damaged.
The sloop Cato, John Watts, from New-York, to Martha Brae, was on the night of the 4th of August, in a heavy gale, wrecked on the Grand Caicos reef.
B O S T O N, October 27.
The present prevailing military spirit throughout this Commonwealth, cannot but afford real pleasure to every lover of his country, as to all her advantages, this spirit will render her citizens her defence.
On Thursday, we hear, the Honorable Senate accepted the report of the committee in favor of the petition of the Hon. George Cabot, Esq. and others, for building a bridge across the river at Beverly-ferry.
Yesterday the House of Representatives, after a very lengthy debate, passed a resolve, That no further time be allowed for the collecting of taxes prior to No. 4—and for suspending the issuing of executions against sheriffs, for taxes No 4 and 5, to a further time.
N E W B U R Y P O R T, October 31.
By the southern papers it appears that at the meeting of the freeholders in a number of counties in the states of New-Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia, the Federal Government has been highly approved of—and some of them have 'Resolved to support the new Constitution, if it is adopted, with their lives and fortunes.'
A correspondent informs, That a small Frigate, lately fitted out by the good people of this town for the protection of their liberties appears to be so much shattered in her upper works, by an engagement with the ship Constitution, on Wednesday last, that the owners, deeming her unfit for further service, have generally agreed to condemn her.
C H R E S T O N'S M E S C E L L A N Y.
As for myself, I resolve to go on in my quiet, calm, moral course of life, taking no sort of notice of man's anger, or woman's scandal, with virtue in my eye, and truth upon my tongue.
The unfortunate have an opportunity of making an infallible experiment of the human heart; for the decline of fortune is generally attended with that of friendship.
Young people, for want of proper acquaintance, are apt to over-reach persons and things;—reason, which ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat, and rule in its stead; those who would prevail, address themselves to the weaknesses, senses and passions, but seldom to the reason of mankind.
To please an audience as a speaker, one must not over value it; and to govern mankind, one must not over rate them.
Distrust all those who pretend to love you extremely on very slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.
Never affectedly display your own excellencies, whatever you think they may be; if real, they will infallibly be discovered without your pointing them out, and much more to your advantage.
Industriously avoid affectation; modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
A man who tells nothing, and he who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.
Never maintain an argument with heat and clamour; but give your opinion with coolness and modesty, which is the only way to convince.
Never yield to the temptation of exposing other people's weaknesses, for the sake either of diverting your companions, or showing your own superiority. The persons whom you ridicule you make your lasting enemies, and even those who laugh with you, will, on reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.
A R I T H M E T I C,
Recommended to the Ladies.
For the following Reasons:
 1. NUMERATION will teach them to make figures in life, and to enumerate all they hear and see with more truth than it is said they now generally do.  2. Addition will teach them to add to the number of their gallants children, and amusements.  3. Subtraction will teach them to take from their neighbour's merit, in order to increase their own.  4. Multiplication will teach them to multiply as fast as their husbands can possibly maintain.  5. Division will teach them how to parcel out the estate with advantage, in all cases of separate maintenance.  6. The Rule of Three will teach them how to manage at one time a husband and a gallant, so as to estimate to a certainty, if a husband is able of affording her so much happiness, what a husband and gallant must afford.  7. Practice will complete them in learning all those accomplishments and allurements by which they make daily so many conquests.  8. Simple Interest will teach them that it should all centre in their own person and pleasure.  9. Compound Interest will teach them that it is their interest to compound with their husbands, by obedience at home, for the sake of pleasure abroad; and to compound with the world, by sacrificing character for the sake of enjoyment.  10. Reduction will teach them to bear with patience the loss of one lover, for the sake of the rest.  11. Vulgar Fractions will teach them to despise the ill-natured and groveling ideas of the low-bred world. 
State of New-Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors or owners of land in Salisbury, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784 and 1786, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on the third Wednesday in November next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at my dwelling house in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   specie. cer't. county. cer't.   1786 1786 1786 1784   Qty s. d. s. d.     John Darling 30 0 2 0   Joseph Greely 80 7 9 2   ditto 100 7 9 2   ditto 30 2 3 1   Moses Quimby 80 10 1 1   Jonathan Greely, jr. 30 2 3 1   Ebenezer Long 30 2 3 1   Joseph Eastman 100 1 5 1   ditto 30 2 3 1   Nathaniel Ladd 100 1 3 1   Samuel Webster 30 2 3 1   Ben. Wadsworth 100 4 1 0   ditto 60 4 6 2   ditto 30 2 3 1   Samuel Eastman 80 1 6 1   William Calef 100 10 1 0   ditto 80 1 6 1   ditto 30 2 3 1   Joshua Webster, jr. 30 2 3 1   Samuel Winslow 100 3 4 1   ditto 80 6 8 2   Elisha Sweat 60 2 3 1   ditto 30 2 3 1   David Greely 80 1 3 1   ditto 60 6 8 2   ditto 30 2 3 1   Joseph Bean, jr. 60 4 6 2   ditto 30 2 3 1   Tho's Wallingsford 30 2 3 1   Jonathan Sanborn, jr. 80 2 2 5   Meserve & Others 80 2 2 5   Samuel Bean 30 2 3 1   Abraham Green 80 1 1 4   ditto 30 2 3 1   Jacob Quimby 80 2 5 3   ditto 30 2 3 1   Jacob Gale 120 2 2 9   Jotham Odiorne 50 1 1 1   one third paid 30   John Sanborn, gore 60 2 11 3   Will'm Parker, Esq. 100 1 6 1   ditto 80   Joseph Clefford 80 paid 5d 3/4    JOSEPH FRENCH, Constable. Salisbury, October 1, 1787.

S A L E M, October 30.
A friend at Marblehead favors us with the following particulars of a late melancholy occurrence:
"The most astonishing scenes are continually pouring in upon our minds in this place, to strengthen and establish our belief in a governing Providence, and at the same time keep alive every tender sensibility of the human heart."
"This day arrived from sea Mr. Anthony Jones, cloathed with the melancholy tidings, that the Schooner Washington, in the hurricane of the 29th of August, was upset and entirely lost—adding, like the messenger of Job, this most distressing part, and I only have escaped to tell you."
"The master, Capt. Samuel Gale, has left, besides a numerous family, a widow disconsolate for the loss of a child as well as husband, in the effecting catastrophe—still further heightened by the circumstance of another at home, arrived to mature age, already, to appearance, encircled within the arms of death. The mate, Mr. William Ingals, has left a parent in the bitterest anguish for the loss of an only son, and her only earthly support; besides a train of little ones, and a companion just ready to have presented him with a new pledge of their conjugal affection."
"The relator of the sorrowful tale escaped in a most marvellous manner. His first attempt for safety was by throwing himself into the sea, and then returning to the hull, unto which he clung for the space of an hour; but, being washed off, his next alternative was swimming to a piece of the fore-boom, not larger than a buoy, which was floating along, on which he supported himself for thirteen hours more, in the midst of the tumultuous sea. The only gleam of hope, which dawned upon him, arose from the appearance of a disabled brig, bearing towards him, but when arrived, not a boat was left belonging to her, to take in the poor supplicant. Though faint, and seemingly exhausted, sufficiency of strength remained, properly to secure around his own body a rope, thrown out for the purpose, by means of which he was drawn up into this ark of safety, to the no small joy and surprise of the humane and generous strangers."
"His gratitude was augmented by seeing, in a few moments after he was received on board, a multitude of sharks, those fishes of percy, hovering around them; though not one was discovered by him, when in his former perilous situation."
"While we triumph in the goodness of God towards this man, human reason would have been for selecting a different person for the subject of this astonishing deliverance, in the room of him, who has not a single deputation. But God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts."
We hear from Beverly, that yesterday morning, a midwife in that place attended the birth of a child, which completed two thousand times of her being present on similar occasions.
P O R T S M O U T H, November 3.
A correspondent observes that this is a period of momentous concern—to be a united nation of importance, or petty anarchy is now the question.—The inefficacy of our present government is fully proved by the encroachments on our commerce, the decline of national honor, and the confusion pervading every State. Thus maturat- ed in knowledge by painful experience, we are called on to adopt a system, produced and organized by the deliberations of men whose virtues and abilities will be an immortal honor to America.—Should any state reject this salutary system, unbiaffed posterity will consign their names to an infamous immortality—Should it be rejected by the union it will involve us in consequences the most fatal—some bold usurpers will establish government for us pregnant with all the evils of the most abject slavery.
We hear from Deerfield, in this State, that a few days since, a woman in that town was safely delivered of three daughters, two of which weighed fourteen pounds.—
His Excellency the President, with advice of Council, has been pleased to appoint Thursday, the 29th inst. to be observed, throughout this State as a day of public Thanksgiving and praise.
It is a fact as true as consolatory, that the internal resources of America never were in so flourishing a state as at present. The wounds of the war are in a great degree healed; the stock on our farms, which had been lessened by it, is replaced; and every traveller agrees that there are more acres of land (in the several states) under tillage this year than were ever known to be cultivated in a season since the first white man set foot on the continent. Heaven has smiled singularly upon our harvests, and, in spite of all our grumbling, will enable, if not compel us, to pay our just debts.
The cloud which gathers in the European hem-
isphere, serves, as a foil to set off the lustre, of the prospect that opens upon America. While the ancient establishments of the world are rent with civil discord and national contention, this infant empire deliberately examines her present wants and weakness, in order to provide for her future strength and glory. Thus the doings of our parent continent is stained with ambition and fantastic pride, while the vigorous youth of the confederated states, expands under the influence of reason and philosophy.
Died since our last, Mr. Samuel Jones, aged 55, and Mr. Roger Hayes, aged 65 years, both of this own.
   N A V A L O F F I C E.   PORT of PISCATAQUA, Nov. 3, 1787.   E N T E R E D, F R O M.     Sloop Mary, Fernald, Cape Francois.   Schooner Blossom, Haven, Madeira.   Sloop John, Yeaton, Philadelphia.   C L E A R E D, F O R.   Brig Polly, Rice, Great-Britain.  
The most pleasing Sort of R E V E N G E.
In a war between the French and Spaniards in Flanders, a soldier, being ill treated by a general officer, and struck several times with a cane, said coolly, that the officer should soon repent of it. A short time after, the same officer commissioned the Colonel of the trenches to find him out a bold fellow, who for a reward would undertake a dangerous piece of work. The soldier mentioned offered his service; and taking with him thirty of his comrades, performed the work with success. The officer highly commended him, and gave him a hundred pistoles, the reward promised. The soldier, after distributing them among his comrades, turned to the officer and said, 'I am, Sir, the soldier you abused fifteen days ago, and I told you that you would repent it.' The officer melted into tears, threw his arms around the soldier's neck, begged his pardon, and instantly gave him a commission.
A SOLILOQUY ON ADVERSITY.
WHAT shall I do? Shall I abandon myself to a dispirited despair, or fly in the face of the Almighty; Surely both are unworthy of a wise man; for what can be more vain, than weakly to lament my fortune if irretrievable, or, if hope remains, to offend that Being who can most strongly support it. But are my passions then voluntary? Am I so absolutely their masters, that I can resolve with myself, so far only will I grieve? Certainly no. Reason, however, we flatter ourselves, hath no such despotic empire in our minds, that it can with impartial voice bush all our sorrows in a moment. Where then is its use? for either it is an empty sound, and we are deceived in thinking we have reason, or it is given us to some end, and hath a part assigned it by the all-wise Creator.
 FRESH GOODS,  A great variety of Fall and Winter  GOODS,  &c. just imported, and to be sold by  Joseph Champney,  Opposite the Post-Office,  BY  Wholesale and Retail.  Portsmouth, Nov. 2. 
Captains of the foot Companies, Which are to meet the 12th inst. May be supplied with TICKETS For calling their Companies together By applying to the Printer hereof, Nov. 3.
TO BE SOLD AT Public Vendue, at Mrs. Purcell's On Monday the 3d day of December next, at 3 o'Clock, P. M. The Dwelling-House and Land of Elizabeth Banfill, situate on Spring Hill. Portsmouth, Nov. 1.
State of New-Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors or owners of land in the township of Wolfborough, who have not paid their tax for the year 1786, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the 22d day of November next, that so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges will then be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock on said day, at my dwelling-house in said town, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. acr. s. d. q. s. d. s. d.     T. Wallingford 4 300 3 0 0 4 6 4 5   James Stoodley 2 400 4 2 2 6 5 10   Dr. Hall Jackson 3 400 4 2 2 6 5 10   William Torry 17 327 3 3 2 4 10 4 8   George Glyn 5 226 2 8 3 4 3 3   Col. Stepen Evans 7 492 5 3 7 6 7 3   Phineas Wiggin 50 6 3 9 7   WILLIAM ROGERS, Collector. Wolfborough, October 8, 1787.  
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Dorchester, who are delinquent in paying their taxes for the years 1777, 1778, 1779, 1781, 1782 and 1783, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday the 27th November next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue on said day, at the dwelling house of Samuel Fellowes, in said town unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. acr. s. d.    John 1 100 12 6  Nathaniel West 3 100 12 6  James Bingham 1 100 12 6  ditto 3 100 12 6  Otis Little 2 100 12 6  ditto 3 100 12 6  David Woodward 3 100 12 6  Ambrous Cushman 3 100 12 6  Thomas Porter 2 100 12 6  ditto 1 100 12 6  Gideon Rud 2 100 12 6  Benning Wentworth 1 100 12 6  Abijah Smith 3 100 12 6  Thomas Floyd 1 100 12 6  Henry Sherburne 2 100 12 6  Thomas Daverson 2 100 12 6  ditto 3 100 12 6  Joseph Sherburne 2 100 12 6  ditto 3 100 12 6  Silas Tiffeny 1 100 12 6  ditto 3 100 12 6  Samuel Hubbert 3 100 12 6  John Sullivan, Esq. 1 100 12 6  ditto 2 100 12 6  William Simpson, Esq. 2 100 12 6  ditto 3 100 12 6  Isaac Rindge, Esq. 2 100 12 6  ditto 3 100 12 6  James Melcher 3 100 12 6  Samuel Parker 2 100 12 6  ditto 3 100 12 6  Joseph Patterson 2 100 12 6  ditto 3 100 12 6  John P. Williams 1 100 12 6  William Gardner 2 100 12 6  ditto 3 100 12 6  Thomas McDoney 2 100 12 6  Nathan R. Thomas, Esq. 2 100 12 6  Witeman Clagget 2 100 12 6  Woodbury Langdon, Esq. 1 100 12 6  ditto 3 100 12 6  John Marshall 2 100 12 6  ditto 3 100 12 6  Ephraim Ham 2 100 12 6  George Marshall, jr. 1 100 12 6  B. Woodward 3 100 12 6  John Hurd, Esq. 1 100 12 6  ditto 2 100 12 6  John Parker, Esq. 2 100 12 6  John Burnafs 3 100 12 6  Isaac Burnafs 3 100 12 6  
SAMUEL FELLOWES, Constable. Dorchester, October 19, 1787.
BLANKS For sale at this Office.

Parnassian Spring.
ON WANT.
WANT is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood, Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The darling of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active deligence. Prudence at once and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives; For ev'n that indigence, which brings me low, Makes me myself and Him above to know. A good which none would challenge; few would chuse A fair possession, which mankind refuse, If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatt'rer from the friend.
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprie- tors and owners of land in Hawke, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1782, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Thursday the 8th day of November next, at ten o'clock, A. M. at the dwelling house of the widow Mary Sanborn in said town, as will pay the tax and charges unless prevented by pre- vious payment. State tax. war & county.
   No. first division s. d. q.     112 John Brock 3 4 0   120 Thomas W. Waldron 2 11   51 John Downing 2 2   73 Samuel Thompson 2   77 Paul Gerrish 2 2 3   71 Joseph Downing 2 2   72 James Nutter 2 2 3   76 Shadrack Walton 2 2 3   80 Ebenezer Wear 2 2 3   81 John Frost 2 2 3   82 Capt. John Gilman 11   83 John Dame, jr. 2 2 3   94 Samuel Nutter 2 2 3   96 Benjamin Downing 2 2 3   104 Josiah Downing 3 4   108 Joseph Faybens 2 8   50 William Fellows 2 2 3   55 John Downing 2 2 3   56 John Dame 1 8   57 Ebenezer Stephens 2 2 3   59 Thomas W. Waldron 2 2 3   65 John Decker 2 2 3   7 Thomas Leighton 1   20 John Wolingsford 2 2 3   33 George Jeffrey 2 2 3   41 George Walton 2 2 3   42 Nathaniel Morrel 2 2 3    second division     108 Henry Allard 8   102 Herison Downing 4 10   Mathies's, Commons 1 4   59 Thomas Gerrish 4 10   71 William Furbur 4 8   73 Richard Downing 1 6   81 Mathew Plant 8   86 John Faybens 4 8   96 Paul Gerrish 3 4   94 Nathaniel Morril 3 4   Jonathan Warner, commons 8 2    BENJAMIN NUTTER, Collector. Barnstead, October 15, 1787:
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Piermont, in the county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, who have not paid their taxes from the year 1775 to the year 1785, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 19th day of November next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges will then be sold at public vendue, at one o'clock on said day at my dwelling-house in Piermont, if not prevented by previous payment.
<    No. R. Q'ty 1775. 1776. 1777. 1778. 1781. 1782. 1783. 1784. 1785.   d. q. d. q. d. q. d. q. d. q. d. q. d. q. d. q. d. q.     New Emission.   George Swius 1 1 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 1 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Hall Jackson 2 1 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 1 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Leveret Hubbard 100 2 1 0 4 0 1 4 2 1 9 2 4 3 0 3 1 2 0   undivided 100   R. Downing undivided 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   House lot 4 2 45   Joseph Smith 2 2 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   How'd Henderson 3 2 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Sam'l Wentworth 4 2 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Samuel Emerson 6 2 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Joseph Newmarch 7 2 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Wiseman Clagget 8 2 100 9 2 1 0 0 4 1 0 5 4 0 12 10 0 9 5 0 2   meadow lot 15 8   undivided 100   Jonathan Moulton 1 3 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   John Goffe 4 3 100 9 2 1 0 0 4 1 0 5 4 0 12 10 0 9 5 0 2   undivided 100   House lot 32 1 45   Benjamin Stevens 3 3 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   Undivided 100   Peter Levins 5 3 100 9 2 1 0 0 4 1 0 5 4 0 12 10 0 9 5 0 2   House lot 11 2 45   undivided 100   Jonathan Carlton 6 3 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Charles Paxton 7 3 100 9 2 1 0 0 4 1 0 5 4 0 12 10 0 9 5 0 2   House lot 6 2 45   undivided 100   Andrew Clarkson 8 3 100 9 2 1 0 0 4 1 0 5 4 0 12 10 0 9 5 0 2   House lot 10 2 45   undivided 100   Maj. Wentworth 10 3 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   John Downing 11 3 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Ezekiel Worthen 12 3 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Robert Achmuty 1 4 100 6 1 0 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Nathan Whiting 3 4 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Jonathan Church 4 4 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Richard Jennens 5 4 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Andrew Wiggin 6 4 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   John Hale 7 4 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 0 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Samuel Barr 8 4 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 1 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Christop'r Toppan 9 4 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 1 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   George Frost 10 4 100 6 1 0 7 2 2 8 2 3 6 2 8 6 1 6 3 0 1   undivided 100   Robert Temple 11 3 100 9