The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1790-05-19 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful and entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
From the INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE
Mr. ADAMS, THE proceedings of Congress have in many instances been so vague and indecisive, as renders it difficult to reconcile them upon those genuine principles, which might rationally be supposed to influence so respectable a Body—The great objects which were expected would be immediately attended to, have been neglected to give place to the most trifling debates.—Subjects the most uninteresting have been warmly contested, while the great business of government has been almost totally laid aside.
T'is being the fact, it is full time for the People to enquire of their Rulers, what they are about?—To remind them of the business they were sent to accomplish. To inform them that we are waiting with earnest expectation for some benefits to arise from their Legislation. That we were uneasy in observing the Revenue granted with such wanton liberality,—and that we want to see our PUBLIC CREDIT revive; our COMMERCE—MANUFACTURES and AGRICULTURE promoted; rather than that the officers of government should be thieving on money which ought to be appropriated for the general good.
The late motion respecting the "LIBRARY" for Congress, is truly novel—could it be supposed that a measure so distant from any thing which can effect the general purposes of government could be introduced at this important period? Could any thing be more foreign to the real business of Congress? What connection has a Library with the public? With our commerce; or with any other national concern?—How absurd to squander away money for a parcel of books, when every shilling of the Revenue is wanted for supporting our government and paying our debts? How preposterous to originate such a mode to lay out money, more particularly, at a time when the utmost stretch of the Treasurer's genius is exerted to provide for the necessary exigencies of the government? Provided this motion is adopted, when can we expect to complete a system of finance? The Treasurer having made no provision, in his report for such an application, additional ways and means therefore must be devised, in order to raise money for this purpose—the question then is, shall our trade be burdened with an additional Impost, to furnish a Library to amuse men who are sent to do the business of the continent.
It is supposed that the Members of Congress are acquainted with history; the laws of nations; and possess such political information as is necessary for the management of the affairs of government.—If they are not , we have been unfortunate in our choice,—or, should they need the assistance of books upon any particular subject, they are able to furnish themselves with little expense at the circulating Library in the city where they reside. But why the States should be at this expence, and the time of Congress taken up in arranging a body of books for a public Library, at this important period, is a piece of policy, which no person can reconcile upon any principle of propriety, or expediency.
This motion however seems to claim a right, which appears Congress are not empowered to exercise.—"THE POWERS OF CONGRESS" do not give them this privilege. The design and end of the Constitution are for quite different purpose, than for the amusement, or even instruction of Congress. I would ask wherein is a
public Library conducive to the purposes mentioned in the preamble of the Constitution? Our Union does not require it—neither does the establishment of justice—the promotion of the general welfare; the security of liberty to ourselves and posterity—All these are the great objects of the government, but it is supposed that the members are fully competent for these purposes, without being at the expence of furnishing them with books for their improvement.—They may with equal propriety charge the public with all the expence of their cloathing, boarding, &c. as to touch the Revenue for books for their own convenience, entertainment or instruction. The people look for practical politicks, as they presume the Theory is obtained previous to the members taking their seats in Congress.
AN OBSERVER.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28.
THE mitigation bill was ordered to be engrossed for the third reading to-morrow.
The Western Territory government bill was taken up in committee of the whole, gone through, and reported to the house.—The house ordered it to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
Mr. PAGE brought in a bill describing the mode in which the acts, records, and judicial proceedings of the several states shall be provided, &c. which was read.
The Indian trade and intercourse bill was debated, in committee of the whole, and some progress made therein.
THURSDAY, APRIL 29.
After the appointment of committees to report further regulations for transacting the business between the two houses—and to bring in a bill for the government and regulation of seamen in merchants' service—
The house went into a committee on the salary bill, went through the same, and reported it.—The house then agreed to it.
The bill providing the means of intercourse with foreign nations, was agreed to by the house, as amended by the committee of the whole.
FRIDAY, APRIL 30.
The following bills— The supplementary salary bill; The bill providing for the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations (which is to continue in force two years) and the
Bill for encouraging learning, &c.—were read a third time, and passed the house.
Several petitions were read and committed.
The report of the commissioners for settling accounts between the United States and individual States, was presented—and laid on the table for information.
Referred to Messrs. Boudinot, Scot and Seney, a motion for an additional district court, at York, Pennsylvania.
Mr. BURKE brought in a bill for the relief of certain officers.
The President, by message, acquainted that he had approved of the militia establishment bill.
Agreeably to Mr. GARRY's motion, a committee was raised to report a catalogue of books necessary for the use of Congress.
Mr. GARRY from the committee for that purpose appointed, presented the
draft of a bill for finally settling and adjusting the claims of F. A. Steuben, and to reward him for his services during the war; for which it is proposed to allow him in lieu of the pay of a Major-General and Inspector-General, from the 10th of March 1778, to the 15th April, 1784, an annuity equal to 580 louis d'ors for his natural life, commencing in the year 1777, to be paid out of the impost and tonnage; which was read a first time.
The report of the committee, respecting the grant by the state of Virginia, to officers of the territory north west the river Ohio, yielded to the United States by the legislature of Virginia, &c. was referred to the committee of the whole on the state of the Union.
IN SENATE.—FRIDAY APRIL 30.
The Senate proceeded, agreeably to the order of the day, to consider the motion made yesterday, viz. That the doors of the Senate Chamber shall be open, when the Senate is sitting in their Legislative capacity—to the end that such of the citizens of the United States as may chuse to hear the debates of this House, may have an opportunity of so doing—and the question being taken, it passed in the negative.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MONDAY MAY 3.
The bill to authorize issuing certificates to a certain description of invalid officers, was read the second time, and ordered to be engrossed.
A Bill for the authentication of state proceedings in other states: And Col. ELY's Compensation Bill, passed the House.
Baron STEUBEN's Compensation Bill, referred to a committee of the whole, for to-morrow.
The Bill for the regulation of Seamen read a first and second time.
On motion of Mr. GOODHUE, the report of the committee on the petition of the inhabitants of Portsmouth, N.H. respecting an enhanced duty on foreign tonnage, was read—This report proposes that an additional duty of one dollar per ton be laid on foreign bottoms, and 10 per cent. additional impost on goods imported from ports in which American vessels are not permitted to enter. This was referred to a committee of the whole House on Friday next.
Mr. SMITH moved, that that part of THE PRESIDENT's Speech which respects the encouragement of science and literature be read: And that the subject be referred to a select committee. The question on this motion was not taken.
Baron STEUBEN's Compensation Bill, was further discussed—but no decision thereon.
TUESDAY MAY 4.
A message was received from the Senate informing the House that they have passed a Bill for extending the Judicial Law of the United States to the States of North-Carolina—also, that they have concurred in the vote of the House for the appointment of Committees to consider, if any, and what further rules are necessary to be adopted in conducting business between the two Houses—also, to determine the period at which the appointment of President, Vice-President, Senators and Representatives of the United States commenced agreeable to the Constitution.
The Bill to authorise issuing Certificates to a certain description of invalid officers, was read the third time and passed.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5.
The house receded from their amendments to the bill for the government South of the Ohio, which had been disagreed to by the Senate—they also agreed to the amendments proposed by the Senate to the bill for the mitigation or remission of forfeitures and penalties accruing in certain cases under the revenue laws.
A message was received from the Senate informing the house that they have passed a bill prescribing the mode of authenticating the acts, records and proceedings of the several States.
The committee appointed for that purpose, reported a bill for the collection of the additional duties on Wine, Rum, &c. as proposed by the late resolutions of the house. The said bill was read a first time and laid on the table.
The bill from the Senate, for extending the judiciary laws of the United States to the State of North-Carolina, was read a second time.
The house resolved itself into a committee and made further progress in the bill for adjusting and settling the claims of the Baron Steuben.
On motion of Mr. Smith (S. C.) The Secretary of the Treasury was directed to report the amount of tonnage duty collected in each of the States between the first day of September and the first day of January last; distinguishing the foreign from the domestic tonnage.
THURSDAY, MAY 6.
A very long memorial of Nathaniel Twining was read—praying further compensation for the transportation of the mail in 1787.
Mr. STONE of the committee appointed for the purpose, reported a bill for funding the public debt of the United States—which bill was read a first and second time, and made the order of the day on Wednesday next.—100 copies were ordered to be printed.
In the committee of the whole on the bill for adjusting and satisfying the claims of William Frederic de Steuben.
The clause which proposes an annuity of 2706 dollars during life was further discussed, sundry amendments were proposed to the bill—some of which were withdrawn, and others negatived, it was at length agreed to in Committee without alteration. The bill was opposed in its progress by Messrs. Williamson, Bloodworth, Steele, White, Boudinot, Seney, Sinnickson & Stone—and supported by Messrs. Smith (S.C.) Lawrance, Vinning, Huntington, Wadsworth and Clymer.
FRIDAY, MAY 7.
In Committee of the whole on the bill for adapting the Judiciary laws of the United States, to the State of North-Carolina, some amendments were agreed to, and several clauses added to the bill; the Committee then rose and reported the same; the House acceded to these amendments.
Mr. Bland after stating to the House that in consequence of obtaining (as is supposed) a surreptitious copy from a public office, of the names of officers and soldiers in the Virginia and North-Carolina lines, of the late army, to whom arrears of pay were ordered to be made by a law passed the last session of Congress, some persons had fraudulently procured assignments of pay, for a consideration much below their value. He therefore moved a resolution to prevent the frauds' taking place; in the following words, viz. Resolved, that the Secretary at war, be, and he is hereby directed to cause accurate lists to be forthwith published in the News

Papers of the States of Virginia and North Carolina, of all the officers and soldiers, who are entitled to receive certain arrears of pay, due to the lines of the army of the said States, for which money was granted and appropriated by Congress, at their last session; and that the payment be made to the said officers and soldiers, or where dead, to their legal representatives, under the same regulations as have been adopted for the payment of Invalid pensioners, in pursuance of an Act passed at the last session of Congress, entitled "an Act, providing for the payment of the Invalid pensioners of the United States," and that no claim of any assignee, under any transfer or power to receive the same be admitted, as valid to entitle any person to receive any part of the said arrears of pay, due to the officers or soldiers of the said lines, except as aforesaid.
This motion was committed to Mr. Bland, Mr. Williamson and Mr. Burke. The bill for adjusting and satisfying the claims of Baron Steuben, as reported by the committee of the whole, was taken up by the House. An amendment tantamount to a substitute for the whole bill, was moved by Mr. Boudinot; which proposed the payment of 7000 dollars, and an annuity of 1500 dollars during life, to commence from the 1st of January 1790; a motion was made, and carried to strike out 1500 dollars, to leave the sum blank.
The motion for striking out the first part of the bill, in order to admit this amendment, was determined by ayes and noes: Ayes 28—Noes 21.
The amendment was put and agreed to. Sundry other amendments consequent on this took place. It was then ordered that the bill be engrossed for a third reading on Monday next.
Report of the Committee, on the petition of James Price, was read, which was, that he have leave to withdraw his petition.
The memorial of N. Twining, was referred to Mr. Lee, Vining and Mr. Burke. Adjourned till Monday.
L O N D O N, Feb. 1.
F E M A L E H E R O I S M.
Account of Madam la Maupin, one of the singers of Lulli, the famous French composer. This extraordinary siren of the French opera was equally fond of both sexes; fought and loved like a man, and resisted and fell like a woman. She married a young husband, ran a way with a fencing-master, of whom she learned the small sword, and became an excellent fencer—soon after seduced a young woman of her own sex—set fire to the convent in which the girl's friends had confined her, carried her off in triumph, was condemned to die for this offence, but escaped by the restoration of the young woman to her friends. Went to Paris, became an opera singer, caned every man who affronted her, killed three in duels, and after other adventures, quitted the stage, was seized with a fit of devotion, recalled her husband and passed with him the last years of her life in a very pious manner, dying in 1707, at the age of thirty-four.
March 16. The Swedish Minister at Copenhagen has formerly declared that the terms of peace offered by the Empress of Russia have been rejected in toto , and that the King, his master, was fully determined to pursue the war with the utmost vigour.
A vessel sailed on the 9th of March from Port Glasgow, the Neptune, Capt. Belfour, for Davis's Straits. This vessel is provided with two patent guns of a new construction for shooting at whales or other fish. The pieces are not to be charged with balls, but harpoons. They were tried the other day on the sands of Leith, and were found to answer extremely well.
March 17. Some young ladies being on a visit at a gentleman's house in Worcester-shire, whose daughter, they strongly suspected of being in love, and knowing that the object of her affection, was to be absent a fortnight, they contrived that two people, as by accident, should come to the house with burial fa-
vors, and being asked whose funeral they had been at, should say, that such a gentleman had died suddenly, and they had attended his funeral. They all cast their eyes on the suspected lady, but no visible concern appearing in her countenance, they dismissed their suspicions, and parted company. At supper-time the young lady was missing, on which they went to her chamber, but finding the key within, after much knocking, without any answer, they broke open the door, and found her suspended in a garter; upon which the lady who contrived the unhappy scheme went distracted, and the lover, on being made acquainted with the melancholy catastrophe, shot himself through the heart, and expired immediately.
D E B T O R S.
The numbers of persons confined for debt in the different prisons in England by the late returns, amount to no less than sixteen thousand four hundred and nine persons: And nine-tenths of the sum for which they are imprisoned, are attorney's bills of costs, but which the plaintiff has paid, or he would keep company with his debtor.
H A L I F A X, May 6.
Tuesday evening arrived here his Majesty's sloop Brisle , Capt. Buller, and has brought with her two Schooners, which she has seized during her cruise.
N E W L O N D O N, April 30.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Barbadoes, to the printers of this paper, March 1, 1790.
"It is with pleasure I observe the rapid progress now making in manufactures in some of the States, which I have learnt chiefly from Mr. Cary's museum, but have not received so full an account of what is doing in New-England, as I could wish. Any information therefore which you may give me on this subject, will be acceptable. In particular, I beg to be informed what kind of oil your woolcombs mix with their wool. In the West of England, a thick kind of olive-oil is used for that purpose; but the Society of Arts in London has published an account of edulcorating rancid train oil to such a degree of purity as to render it fit for the woollen manufacture. If this, or any other fish oil, is used in New-England and is found to answer the purpose well, it will be of singular benefit to the country, because the manufacture of wool, and the fishery will, in that case, assist and promote each other. But if this should not be found fit for the purpose, some of the Southern States should immediately begin the culture of the olive. Mr. Jefferson says in his notes on Virginia, that every thing hardier than the olive will thrive in that State, consequently the olive itself must thrive in the two Southern States, as it does in the southern parts of France.—When Mr. Adams resided as ambassador in England, an account was published of Mr. Corte's new method of separating the dross from iron, by which he made pig or ballest iron, remarkably tough in a short time. Mr. Adams like a true patriot, sent over the account to New-England, and it was published in Cary's museum. You will be pleased to inform me if any persons, in the United States, have yet availed themselves of so valuable a discovery. The iron in New-England, I am told, is very brittle, therefore Mr. Corte's method of expelling the dross will be more necessary there than in Pennsylvania."
P I T T S B U R G H, April 10.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Kentucky to his friend in this town, dated February 19.
"On the 1st of December last, the Indians killed a Mr. William Brown and Mr. Allison, on their way from the Miami to Lexington, and on the 3d they fired on a boat, about 12 miles above Limestone, and wounded two men and a woman, one man and the woman died at Limestone of their wounds; a few days after this, they killed two men on Licking river, and took a boy prisoner, and on their return from doing this mischief, they attacked a boat below the Scioto, just as it had been landed, and killed four men, and took
one man and two women prisoners, and about 4 weeks ago, they fired on a boat and a canoe above the Scioto, from both sides the river, and wounded two men in the canoe; on the 17th inst. they killed a boy and wounded a man 6 miles from Upper Blue Licks. This information you may depend upon as fact, and I wish it made public, that people coming down the river may be aware of the danger, and be prepared accordingly."
April 17. On Friday the 9th inst. six persons having crossed the Ohio river, about five miles on this side of Hollyday's Cove, to the Indian side, as it is commonly called, where they were attacked by a party of Indians, and five of them were made prisoners, the other got as far as the river, and attempted to cross, but was pursued by the Indians, who fired at him several times, and it is supposed, killed him, as he has not since been heard of. This account may be relied on as authentick, as we have it from a gentleman immediately from the spot.
R I C H M O N D, April 21.
Extract of a letter from Washington county, dated April 5.
"The Indians captived two lads the 26th ult. in Powell's Valley, and a few days before, Mrs. Willey, taken last September out of Montgomery county, returned, after suffering a variety of hardships."
On the 28th ult. the ammunition voted by the General Assembly last session, was put on board a large trading boat, bound to the Mississippi."
April 29. By a gentleman who is just arrived from the mountains, we learn, that about five days ago, the snow lay on them nine inches deep.
On Tuesday last, and the evening following, the air in this place was very keen, and on Wednesday morning the water which was thrown on the ground, froze in two minutes, as thick as a dollar.
W I L M I N G T O N, May 1.
It has been uncommonly cold for the season for some time past; on Tuesday night last, and Wednesday following, a considerable quantity of snow fell.
N E W Y O R K, May 6.
On Sunday last arrived here the ship Elizabeth , Capt. William Fordyce, from London.
The Elizabeth fell in with the brig Recovery , Capt. Gordon, of London, bound to Alexandria, in Virginia, from Havre de Grace, in lat. 37: 30: long. 56: with ninety passengers on board. The Recovery was in such distress that she was just sinking, when Capt. Fordyce fell in with her, and saved the lives of the crew by taking them on board his ship and bringing them to this port.
Capt. Fordyce's very human conduct, through the whole of this distressing scene, has been acknowledged to be more than commonly benevolent, and highly deserving the approbation and gratitude of every generous heart.
On Tuesday morning died, JOHN FOX-CRAFT, Esq. Agent here for his Britannic Majesty's Packets; and, before the revolution, Joint Post-Master General with the late Benjamin Franklin, Esq.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, April 8.
Extract of a letter from Cooperstown, on the eastern branch of the Susquehannah, dated March 23.
"The season has not been very favourable for making maple sugar, but I expect soon notwithstanding (dangers from transportation excepted) to be able to unload at Market-Street wharf more than fifty hogheads of this sugar, equal and preferable to common Muscovado. Now if one man can procure this quantity in his neighbourhood, what might not ten thousand men of this extensive industry do in the various parts of the extensive country which abounds with the invaluable sugar tree?"
From the above extract, and from other authentic communications it is now reduced to a certainty, that the United States may not only supply themselves with all the sugar they can
consume, but that they may export great quantities of it to other countries. This sugar is equal in every natural quality to that which is made from the West-India cane, but it has several things to recommend it in preference to that which is imported from the West-Indies. It is obtained by the willing labor of freemen, and at a season of the year when insects of all kinds are in a torpid state. The expence of taking West-India sugar is so great, this can be sold at a much lower price. Every hoghead of sugar exported from the West-Indies is laid to cost four lives. It is therefore stained with blood.
A P R I L 22.
We are favoured with the following short account of Dr. Franklin's last illness, by his attending physician.
The stone, with which he had been afflicted for several years, had for the last 12 months confined him chiefly to his bed; and during the extreme painful paroxysms, he was obliged to take large doses of laudanum, to mitigate his tortures: still, in the intervals of pain, he not only amused himself with reading, and conversing cheerfully with his family and a few friends who visited him, but was often employed in doing business of a public as well as private nature; with various persons who waited on him for that purpose; and in every instance displayed, not only that readiness and disposition of doing good, which was the distinguishing characteristic of his life, but the fullest and clearest possession of his uncommon mental abilities; and frequently indulged himself in those jeux d'esprit and entertaining anecdotes, which were the delight of all who heard him.
About 16 days before his death, he was seized with a feverish indisposition, without any particular symptoms attending it till the third or fourth day, when he complained of a pain in the left breast, which increased till it became extremely acute, attended with a cough and laborious breathing. During this state, when the severity of his pains sometimes drew forth a groan of complaint, he would observe—that he was afraid he did not bear them as he ought—expressed his grateful sense of the many blessings he had received from that Supreme Being, who had raised him, from small and low beginnings, to such high rank and consideration among men—and made no doubt his present afflictions were kindly intended to wean him from a world, in which he was no longer fit to act the part assigned him.
In this frame of body and mind he continued till five days before his death, when his pain and difficulty of breathing entirely left him; and his family were flattering themselves with the hopes of his recovery, when an imposthumation, which had formed in his lungs, suddenly burst, and discharged a great quantity of matter, which he continued to throw up while he had sufficient strength to do it; but as that failed, the organs of respiration became gradually oppressed—a calm, lethargic state succeeded—and on the 17th, about 11 o'clock at night, he quietly expired—closing a long and useful life of 84 years and 3 months.
May 3. The honor done to the character and memory of the illustrious Dr. FRANKLIN by the House of Representatives, strongly marks the republicanism of our government. While the slaves of Europe mourn for their departed Kings, the rulers of America do homage to the superior majesty of the people by mourning for a private citizen, whom they consider by their resolution as ONE OF THE SOVEREIGNS of the United States.
Thou FRANKLIN want no marble to record How just thy tho't, how sacred was thy word, How far thy honor and how great thy mind, The love, the pride, the glory of mankind. Beyond description, and above all art, Thy honors are engrav'd on ev'ry heart; Columbia's grief, while Columbia is, Shall be An everlasting monument to thee.

BOSTON, May 11.
EXECUTION of NEGROES.
Extract of a letter from St. Pierre, Martinique.
“My last informed you of the sentence passed on the 36 Negroes sent from this to Fort-Royal, to be tried for being concerned in the insurrection; which sentence I saw put in execution. A drummer went round the town, commanding all Negroes, under pain of 50 lashes, not to be in the streets from 3 to 7 o'clock in the evening, and ordering out all the militia to guard the streets and avenues leading into town, as it was feared the country Negroes would attempt a rescue—the guard consisting of all the regular troops in garrison, about 1500, and 1000 free montados, besides the militia above mentioned—About four o'clock all the prisoners were ordered out, dressed in white and attended by the priests of the white Priery; the seven which were to be hung, went first with three priests, singing the Litanies, and after them came Mark, the ringleader, attended by one priest (this fellow was whipper to the jail, and had apportioned out the place of intendant, with 4000 joes, and the beautiful Miss——, for his wife)—Indeed they had all made choices for white wives,—The Commissary's wife was to have been honored by a fellow by the name of Gabriel; but he was disappointed in his expectations, for his bride proved the gallows. After Mark, came 14 with their hands tied behind—these were to be whipped and burned—and then followed 14 others, for the gallies for life. When Mark came to the place of execution, and looked at the rack, his courage failed him, and he told the priest he had something to communicate in private, which he revealed to the Judge; but what it was, has not yet transpired—After which he shook hands with the seven that were to be hanged, who cried out—O Mark! it was you brought us to this—then they were hung up in rotation, and Mark made to look at each of them—The mode of hanging is cruel in the extreme; the culprit goes a few steps up a ladder placed against the gallows; then turning his back, is tied up; the hangman shoves him off, puts his feet on each of his shoulders, and jumps on him until he hears his neck break—In this manner, seven were launched into eternity; then the executioner coming to Mark, told him he must now prepare to be tied on the rack—Mark, by this time, was almost intoxicated, owing to a dram of stupefying liquor he took now and then while the men were hanging up; he told the executioner he would not die, and when the priest wanted to take the crucifix out of his hand, he cried out—Allons toujours, and would not part with it—He threw himself down on the steps of the stage, which was erected for him to be broke upon, nor would he stir till he was lifted by force, and held down by three men, when he was tied upon the rack. When Mark was tied down and saw the executioner take up the horrid minister of death, he gave a most tremendous shriek: it is a piece of iron about 3 feet long, with a blunt edge, & weighs about 20lb.—The executioner then pulled up his shirt sleeves, and looking round him, began the dreadful operation, which he did by commencing his first stroke on his right arm, between the elbow and wrist, which he broke, and then broke between the elbow and shoulder, then the thigh, and then the leg in two places, at the calf and at the ankle, and went up the other side breaking in the same manner, and finished with three on his breast. Yet after all he suffered, he lived for an hour and 38 minutes, until the old gentleman who attended him was quite fatigued, as he was upon his knees on the scaffold all that time, holding the crucifix to him, and night coming on they put a cord about his neck and went under the stage, and by pulling it tight strangled him; he was then
untied from the rack and his mangled limbs and carcase rolled up in a lump and left on a wheel, with a guard to watch the bodies all night; in the morning all their heads were taken off and distributed upon trees at all the entrances into the town.”
May 15. By the act for regulating the Military Establishment of the United States, the whole number of troops is to be 1216 non-commissioned officers and privates.—The pay of the officers and privates is reduced; and they are to continue in service three years, unless sooner discharged. The troops now in service amount to 840, the addition, therefore, is 334.
The mountain laboured and a mouse was born.—Five times the galleries shut—two or three Committees chosen to consider the subject—and public expectation set on tip-toe—and all for Five Companies of men, and an additional Major!
“Westward the star of EMPIRE takes its way,” sung the Bishop of Cloyne some 30 years since; and Dr. PRICE now says, that the fine arts are travelling in that direction. It were to be wished, supposing the above to be true, that a little expedition, public spirit, and enlarged views, might accompany them—as such are at present in much demand in this Western world.
FROM NEW-YORK.
RHODE-ISLAND.
Our correspondent, in mentioning the Resolution in the Senate respecting Rhode-Island, inserted in our last, thro' haste committed an error. The following, he informs us, is more authentic. The committee of the Senate raised for that purpose, have reported to that Hon. Body a Resolution, in effect. That from and after the first day of July next, all commercial intercourse between the United States, and the State of Rhode-Island, shall be prohibited; and that a requisition be made on said State, for 27,000 Dollars to be paid before, or on the 1st of August next.
SHIP-NEWS.
Capt. Prince, Harris and Watts, of Boston; Foster, Haskell and Tucker, of Cape-Ann; Derby of Salem; Lord of Portsmouth; and Cowell, of Marblehead, were at Martinique April 16—at which time Capt. Dennie, of Boston, failed from thence for Virgin Isles.
The ship Maria and Eliza, of Portsmouth, Capt. Blunt, out 65 days from Bristol, was spoke with, 8th inst. by Capt. Haskell, 15 leagues from Cape-Ann—had been dismayed 43 days.
May 14. Arrived, brig Success, Capt. Ranau, 14 days from St. Peter's. This brig is the first that has arrived under the colours of the National Assembly of France—three stripes, white, red and blue. The Captain wears the uniform and the Cockade of the National Assembly—Brig Peggy, Capt. Dilline, 27 days from St. Martin's—Brig Ruby, Capt. Knox, seven days from Halifax—Sloop Edmund, Capt. Stone, 40 days from Gaudaloupe—Schooner Woolwich, Capt. Dillino, 26 days from Martinico.
The ship Columbia, Kendrick, and sloop Washington, from this port; are arrived at Canton.
PORTSMOUTH, May 19.
A letter from London dated March 16, (via Boston) mentions, that “by a late order no article whatever can be admitted into the ports of Great-Britain from America, in any vessel whatever British or foreign, except the same is of the actual production of the United States. Forty bales of Cotton, from Maryland, in a British ship, are now under seizure: whatever is sent hereafter, of this description, must first be to some admissible port in the continent, from whence it may be carried to Great-Britain.”
It is said the highest prize in the first class of the Massachusetts State Lottery was drawn by a number of females. About 30 girls were in joint partnership of 6 numbers, one of which proved fortunate.
The highest share among them did not exceed one dollar, and the lowest was nine-pence, expressive of the different abilities of the persons concerned. The property of the prize is by this means most agreeably divided.
It has excited a smile upon the cheek of poverty without diminishing the pleasure of those in easy circumstances. Fortune is often blamed but is not always blind.
Extract of a letter from London, Feb. 15.
“It begins to be questioned whether the expence of bringing Mr. Hastings to punishment for his abuse of power in India, will not be greater than the object is worth. The charges against him are near 2000, consequently the expence enormous, and beyond the bounds of rationality. Two sessions are already passed away in hearing the evidence in proof of two articles only, and part of another. By analogy it will take sixteen years to go through the prosecution; and three years may be added to this for defence and replication. Mr. Hastings is now upwards of 56 years of age, so that should his life be protracted to 70, he cannot see the end of his trial.”
Extract of a letter from London, dated March 18.
“Little change since my last, in public or private matters, with us, except the death of the Emperors of Germany and Morocco, and that of the Empress of Russia, hourly expected, which it is probable, will cause some change in politics on our continent, which a little time must unfold.”
We learn from the westward, that the Indians on the borders of the Ohio, are almost daily committing the most horrid murders on the white people going to Kentucky. Some of their cruelties are said to exceed any ever before practised by them.
In the town of Lynn, near Boston, 73,000 pair of Stuff Shoes are annually manufactured and chiefly sent to the southward, where they command a preference in market, even when English shoes are exposed to sale.
Calculation of the number of inhabitants existing on the Earth:
   KINGDOMS. INHABITANTS.     Great-Britain 7,500,000   Ireland 2,600,000   France 22,400,000   Spain 7,400,000   Portugal 3,600,000   Mediterranean Isles 2,700,000   Germany 20,600,000   Holland, or the Republic 3,200,000   Austrian Netherlands 1,500,000   Switzerland & Geneva Republic 3,100,000   Sweden 3,300,000   Norway 1,600,000   Prussia 17,000,000   Hungary 5,000,000   Poland 5,000,000   Turkey in Europe 18,000,000   Thus Europe contains 124,500,000   Asia is supposed at 450,000,000   Africa at 150,000,000   America at 160,000,000  
And the whole world at 884,500,000 In the course of thirty years 895,300,000 will be born and die, and consequently 81,760 will die every day.
Died, Mrs. Elizabeth Osborne, aged 21 years, and a child of Mr. Enoch Meloon.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
   ENTERED FROM     Brig Olive, Shores, Tobago.   CLEARED FOR   Schooner Industry, Brayn, Shelburne.   Sloop Friendship, Furniss, W. Indies.   Brig Polly, Rice, ditto.  
This paper will be published on Thursdays, the morning after the mail arrives from Boston, the next ensuing six months.
AN ORIGINAL ANECDOTE.
A STUDENT of the law, having applied for admission to practice in a court, the judges appointed two respectable
counsellors to examine him, one of whom was a man of more humour, and less abilities than the other, and was the oldest at the bar. The youth of course waited upon him first. The old gentleman addressing him as was his manner orotundo, said, “pray Sir, if a client were to apply to you to commence a suit for him, what is the first thing you ought to do”. “To receive my fee, Sir,” keeping a steady countenance, replied the youth. “Very well Mr.——, very well, replied the old counsellor, I see you have a good knowledge of the practice, you may now go to brother——, naming the other counsellor, “and he will examine you touching the weightier matters of the law.”
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General-Court by the selectmen of Bath, representing that said town hath been twice granted and that the land is chiefly laid out into lots, but the lots are not appropriated amongst either of the Grantees and the selectmen know not to what right either the settled or unsettled lots belong, and therefore could not assess a tax either upon the proprietors or owners of the lots as the law directs,—Whereupon the General-Court in 1786 passed a Resolve directing that the unimproved lands should be taxed by the number and range of the lots, and that all outstanding taxes should be taxed in one bill, distinguishing each years tax by itself—Upon which the selectmen committed a tax bill to the constable, with a warrant for collecting the same, a copy of which was sent to the collector of non-resident taxes and published in form, said taxes not being paid, the constable proceeded to advertize the lots of the delinquents for sale—Whereupon Enoch Bartlett of Haverhill in the Massachusetts in behalf of himself and other proprietors of said Bath, petitioned the General-Court, praying that the aforesaid Resolve might be disannulled, on which petition the General-Court ordered that “all sales of non-residents land in Bath be stayed until the decision of the General-Court,” which decision hath not yet been had, and said order hath prevented said constable from proceeding any farther in collecting said tax, notwithstanding which extents have been issued against said town diverse times.—Wherefore they pray that some way may be devised for their redress, so that the remainder of said taxes may be collected by authority of law.
They further represent that toward the latter part of the year 1787, the constable of Bath published the sale of the delinquents lands in the Freeman's Oracle instead of the Gazette—That by the sales of land under that advertisement, a considerable part of the taxes were collected and paid into the Treasury, and therefore, they pray that the sale of such lands may be established as legal and valid.
Upon which petition the General-Court ordered that the petitioners may be heard thereon before them, on the second Tuesday of their next session; and that in the mean time they cause the substance of said petition and order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively prior to the sitting of said Court, in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause, if any they have why the prayer thereof may not be granted,
Attest, J. PEARSON, Secretary. Secretary's Office, Feb. 15, 1790.
Laws of New-Hampshire, Bound or in Sheets.
THE Laws of this State, just printed with an elegant type, on good paper, from attested copies of the originals, may be had of the printer hereof either stitched up in sheets, or neatly bound and lettered, if speedily applied for, very cheap for cash.
BLANKS of all sorts printed and fold at J. MELCHER's Printing-Office in Market-Street, VERY CHEAP.

Parnassian SPRING.
ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING.
N OW Spring returns with all its beauteous train, The trees with leafy honors crown the plain; Yon skies a milder aspect seem to wear, And Phœbus from the East her head does rear; See Southern gales with milder breezes blow, And red'ning streaks from sparkling Æther glow; From yonder grove the songsters pour their lay, And sing and chirp the pleasing hours away; The fields too drest in rich attire are seen, While sportive Lads and Lasses deck the green; Observe yon grove and see along its side, A murm'ring stream with whisp'ring founds does glide; See sportive Insects o'er the surface play, While feather'd songsters skip from spray to spray; All nature seems with joy to laugh and sing, And bless the hand divine that brings the Spring.
IMPORTED
In Captain's Scott & Barnard FROM LONDON, and to be sold at the lowest Advance for Cash,
BY
William Boyd, at his Store in Market-Street, a neat assortment of English GOODS, suitable for the approaching Season, viz.—
CALICOES and fustian Chintzes, red & white Copper Plate, strip'd Muslinett with chintz colours, plain, strip'd and sprig'd Muslinett, six quarters and yard wide plain and strip'd Muslins, six quarters Book Muslin, yard wide and jaconet Muslin Handkerchiefs, ditto Book Muslin ditto, ditto Lawn ditto, Irish and check'd Linens, Modes, Sattins and Saranets; silk, cotton, brown thread, and hemp Hose, childrens Morocco Shoes from number one to eleven; Hats, ladies long and short coloured Gloves, superfine and second Broad Cloths with Trimmings, Waistcoat Shapes of silk and cotton, and all silk, Shalloons, Tammies, Durants, Calimancoes, plain and spotted black Gauzes, white Crape and Chambre do. Powder, Shott, Hard Ware, &c.
Also, may be had at said Store, Tea, Coffee, Cotton, Chocolate, Sugar, &c. N. B. Pot and Pearl-Ashe and Lumber will be received in payment. Portsmouth, May 1, 1790.
Commission-Store.
T HE subscriber informs his friends and acquaintance in the town of Portsmouth, and throughout the State of New-Hampshire, that he has opened a Commission-Store, at his house in Buck-Street, to receive and sell all sorts of merchandise as will be sent to him to dispose of, at a moderate Commission.—Cash, Pot and Pearl-Ashe—Lumber, Flax-seed and Dry-Fish, will be received in payment of the sales.—He doubts not but this way of business will meet with success—this town being the only seaport in the State, and increasing daily in business—has encouraged the subscriber to open a Store by that name. He intends to transact any kind of commission business in the mercantile line—and shall be punctual in attendance.
N. ROUSELET.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Cornish, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788 and 1789, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the third day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling-house in said town, at nine o'clock, A. M. on said day. Certifi's Ind's
   D. N. R. Q'ty. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Thomas March 1785. 2 9 3 100 4 7 0 0 4 2   Ebenezer Cate 0 3 5 100 3 1 0 0 3 0   Gen. Jonathan Chase 0 16 6 100 3 4 2 0 6 0   Walter Bryant 0 16 7 0 4 1 3 0 2 2   William Blazo 0 17 7 0 4 1 3 0 2 2   0 19 7 0 4 1 3 0 2 2   Gen. Jonathan Chase 0 5 7 0 8 3 2 0 7 2   Widow Clark 0 3 2 0 14 7 0 1 2 0   George March 0 16 4 0 8 0 0 0 7 0   Simeon Dearborn 0 17 4 0 8 0 0 0 1 0   Stephen March 0 2 5 0 8 0 0 0 7 0   Noah Emery 0 12 6 0 2 5 0 0 4 0   Benjamin Philbrook 0 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 9 3   Thomas Sherburne 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 9 0  
   D. No. R. Q'ty. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Benjamin Philbrook 1786. 1 5 4 100 0 6 2 0 5 0 1 5 0   John Dudley 2 4 1 0 5 0 0 3 3 1 1 0   John Weeks 0 17 3 0 9 2 0 5 2 1 8 2   William Temple 0 7 4 0 6 2 0 5 0 1 5 0   George March 0 16 4 0 6 2 0 5 0 1 5 0   William Cate 0 13 6 0 4 1 0 6 1 0 7 0   Thomas March 0 9 3 0 9 2 0 7 2 1 8 0  
   D. N. R. Q'ty. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Thomas March 1787. 1 9 3 100 0 10 0 7 2 2 3 1 8   Ditto 2 9 3 0 1 0 0 9 0 2 8 2 0   Ditto 0 16 3 0 11 0 7 2 2 3 1 10   Jonathan Marston 0 6 4 0 8 0 6 0 1 10 1 4   George March 0 16 4 0 2 0 6 0 1 10 1 4   Noah Emery 0 12 5 0 2 2 2 0 0 1 0 5   Joseph Jackson 0 15 5 0 2 2 2 0 0 6 0 5   William Blazo 0 17 7 0 3 0 2 2 0 8 0 6  
   D. N. R. Q'ty. £. s. d. d. s. d. d. s. d.     Thomas March 1788. 1 9 3 100 0 3 6 4 1 3 1 8   Benjamin Philbrook 0 5 4 100 0 18 0 3 1 0 1 4   Thomas March 2 9 3 100 1 7 0 5 1 6 2 0   George March 0 16 4 0 18 0 3 1 0 1 4   William Blazo 0 17 7 0 6 9 1 0 6 0 5  
   D. N. R. Q'ty. £. s. d. d. s. d. d. s. d.     George March 1789. 2 16 4 100 0 9   William Blazo 0 17 7 0 3   Benjamin Philbrook 1 5 4 0 3   Bracket Johnson 0 8 4 0 9   William M'Clary 2 5 2 0 9  
JOHN MORSS, Collector. Cornish, May 7, 1790.
C A N D I A — State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Candia, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the 17th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Col. John Carr, innholder in said town, at two o'clock, P. M. on said day.
   No. Q. D. s. d. q. s. d. q. d. q.     Edward Sanborn 106 52 3 0 8 3 0 5 1 2 2   John Calf 109 60 0 0 8 1 0 4 3 2 1   Clement Hughs 110 65 0 0 8 3 0 5 1 2 2   Jacob Basford 118 80 0 0 11 0 0 6 1 3 0   John Prescott 122 40 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 2   Thomas Packer's Gore 0 60 0 3 7 3 1 2 3 7 1   Edward Sanborn 28 36 2 0 11 0 0 6 1 3 1   James Perkins 88 35 4 0 4 2 0 2 2 1 1   Richard Clefford 93 36 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 2  
THOMAS COLCORD, Collector, Candia, April 24, 1790.
P I E R M O N T.
T HE non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Piermont, in the County of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, are hereby notified that a tax is committed to me the subscriber to collect, and appropriate to the repairing the main road leading from Warren through said Piermont to Haverhill, agreeable to an act of the General-Court passed at their last sessions, granting leave to the said non-resident owners of land in said Piermont to work out their taxes, allowing to each able bodied man there shillings for each day's labor any time before the first day of September next; all those who shall neglect will have their land advertised for sale agreeable to law.
WILLIAM TARLTON, Surveyor. Piermont, April 26, 1790.
A LL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of Capt. BENJAMIN HOLMES, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are requested to exhibit their accounts well vouched to Benjamin Holmes, administrator on said estate.
T HIS is to give notice to all those that are indebted to the subscriber, either by Note, Book or otherwise, to call and settle the same with him immediately, or they may expect to be called on in another manner without further notice.
JONATHAN DOWNING. Newington, April 28, 1790.
T HE commissioners for receiving and examining the claims on the estate of Jonathan Moulton late of Hampton Esq. deceased, will meet at the house of Benjamin Leavitt innholder in North-Hampton on the last Thursday and Friday of this and the following month for that purpose,—The two last times.
May 7, 1790.
T O B E S O L D
A LOT of land with a valuable Water privilege, pleasantly situated near Pickering's mills, at the south end of the town, terms of payment will be made easy to the purchaser, for further particulars apply to the printer hereof.
Portsmouth, May 6, 1790.
State of New-Hampshire. Cheshire, ss.
A PPPLICATION having been made to me the subscriber, by more than one sixteenth part of the proprietors of the township of Preston in the county of Grafton in said state, to warn the proprietors of said township to meet at the dwelling-house of Mr. Jabez Baldwin in Stratford, in said county, on Monday the 7th day of June next, at one o'clock, P. M. then and there to act on the following articles, viz.
 1st. To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting.  2d. To choose a Proprietors Clerk.  3d. To see if the Proprietors will ratify and confirm all former votes or transactions already done or voted, respecting said township, in or out of this State.  4th. To see and agree what encouragement the Proprietors will give to the inhabitants already settled in said township, and likewise to those who shall settle immediately in said township.  5th. To see if the Proprietors will release a part of the present committee, and appoint others in their room.  6th. To see if the proprietors will agree to raise a sum of money to build mills, and to pay other necessary charges, such as finishing the allotment of said township, and likewise mending the road.  7th. To see if the Proprietors will appoint an Agent, to represent said township, if need be.  8th. To act upon any other business that may be thought proper, when met for the benefit of the Proprietors. 
THIS is therefore to notify and warn all the Proprietors of said township, to meet at time and place above mentioned, to act on the above mentioned articles.
THOMAS BAKER, Justice Peace. Keene, April 20, 1790.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Fitzwilliam, that there is assessed on each lot of land in said township, subject to a proprietors tax, a tax of six shillings & five pence three farthings, and unless the same is paid to the subscriber, proprietors collector for the year 1789, by the fifth day of June next, their land will be advertised for sale as the law directs.
MATTHIAS FELTON, Propr's Collector. Fitzwilliam, May 6, 1790.
P R E S T O N.
State of New-Hampshire, Stratford.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of the township of Preston in the county of Grafton in said State, that at a legal meeting of the proprietors of said township held at said Stratford.—A tax of four pounds ten shillings L. M. was granted on each proprietors right in said township, on the 23d day of October 1788, and committed to me the subscriber to collect, said tax was granted for the purpose of paying the charges of allotting said township, and making a road through the same, and paying former bills of expences, and unless said tax is paid to me subscriber at said Stratford, by the 1st of June next, the land will be dealt with as the law directs.
JOSEPH HOLBROOK, jr. Collector. Stratford, March 2, 1790.
W HEREAS JOSEPH ADAMS of Barnstead, has in his possession a NOTE OF HAND, said to be signed by the subscriber, bearing date April 28, 1786, for the sum of twelve pounds, L. M. which Note said Adams must have obtained unlawfully, as I do not owe him one farthing, either by Note or Book Debt,—this is therefore to caution all persons from purchasing said Note of Hand, as I am determined not to pay the same, unless compell'd to, by law.
MOSES DENNET.
Barnstead, April 20, 1790.