Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1785-12-09 00:00:00

FOWLE'S NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL
THE ADVERTISER.
F R I D A Y,
D E C E M B E R 9, 1785.
P O R T S M O U T H: By MELCHER AND OSBORNE,
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VOL. XXIX.] "OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE:—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST." No. 1520.
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Agriculture.
From Mr. Varlo's new System of Husbandry.
Experiments made in 1764, by the Author, to find out the true distance, or quantity of Land that Wheat ought to have, to grow upon.
IN 1764 I finished making my machine, that harrows, sows, and rolls at one time, and as it will sow any quantity of grain, on an acre, the broad cast way, I was resolved to make a trial in the method of sowing wheat thin on the ground, it being always my opinion, that a great deal of seed was lost, or thrown away by the old method.
However, I was in some degree disappointed in the season, because it was the first week in February, before I finished my machine, therefore out of wheat seed time, but being full of the thing, I was resolved though late as it was, to try with a little.
And to make my experiment good, I fixed upon the middle of a fifteen acre field, which had three different sorts of land in the length of a ridge, which was forty perch long. One end of the field lay low, the soil was a strong loamy clay, the middle was a high hill, the soil at top was a kind of clay gravel, very shallow, and mixed with a middle sized paving stone,
The other end was not so low as the first, neither was it so strong a clay, but was what we call a loamy sand, upon the whole, it was very good wheat earth, but the bottom of the field was rather more so, the top of the hill was more proper for barley than wheat.
This field had been much worn by long tillage, and was much inclined to weeds, the last crop which was oats, was but indifferent, and full of weeds, but in order to recover the land, and kill the weeds, it had been followed two years, in which time it had got only seven ploughings, which if I had had the management earlier, as I had not, should have been at least twice as many, but it only came into my hands, the Michaelmas before; though upon the whole, it was in good order, and by far a better fallow than the common run. I gave it a thin top of wet turf ashes (for I had no other) and harrowed them in with the feed.
I measured two ridges very exactly, and on the Fifteenth of February, I sowed fourteen ounces on one ridge, which according to the measurement of the ridge, was at the rate of ten pounds to the acre, on the other ridge, I sowed twenty eight ounces, which according to measurement, was at the rate of twenty pounds to the acre.
The ground was very wet, and the horses sunk as far as the plough went, however the seed was not trod in, because it was sown between the harrow and the horses feet, but the harrow could not come over it the second time, without making the ground in mortar, so that it was only harrowed once in a place, therefore I am clear more than half the seed lay bare, or unco-
vered, but as the ground and weather was wet, it soon vegetated, so that (except what the fowls got, which I believe was not much) it all grew.
Though the machine sowed the grain pretty even, yet as the land was rough from the plough, it tumbled into holes, and as the earth clogged or stuck to the harrow it dragged some on heaps. But however, all this afforded me a better opportunity of proving my experiments for a future event. For if each grain had been placed at a regular distance, they would have lain within about six or seven inches of each other, so that I could not have had an opportunity to know how they would grow at the distance of nine, twelve, eighteen, or twenty inches. But as they fell by chance, and irregular, it afforded matter for speculation, in this case, and as the seed was not covered with a rake, or howed, or nurfed, in any degree, it made me thorough master of the subject, and a fairer trial never could be made, for I sowed the rest of the field with barley and clover, and I sowed this wheat also with clover at the same time, namely, about the tenth of May, and rolled it across, along with the rest of the field, gathered the stones and carried them off in a tumbrel or box fixed (as I always do) upon the frame of the roller.
About ten days after the seed was sown, it began to shew itself above the ground, from this to the time it had done stooling or branching, I seldom missed a day without a visit to it, so that I closely observed all its stages, situations, or motions.
I measured and noted every distance I could distinguish any alterations in the plant, and found that in general where a plant had the most room, it made the most shoots from the root, particularly in the good ground, till it came to the distance of about eighteen inches, that is about nine inches each way. If they stood thinner than this, it makes no great difference, because the blades not being above nine inches long, did not meet with their neighbour, to obstruct each other in spreading.
For the nature of a plant of wheat is such, that it grows perpendicular, till it is weaned from the kernel, that is, till the flour of the corn, has all grown into top and root, for it divides each way, and leaves the chaff or husk in the middle, standing perpendicular at the surface of the earth resembling a blown egg shell.
As soon as all the inside or flour is exhausted, so that the blade or top has nothing to depend upon for nourishment but the earth, the two blades open, and fall flat on the ground at the two opposite sides of the root, then as fast as the root gathers strength, it throws or forces out more plants round it, till it forms a figure like a star, or an open full blown marygold, and thus the blades keep growing, and creeping along the earth, until they meet with some living obstruction, as grass, weeds, or corn, immediately after which they raise up the points of their grassy blades, and give over stooling, and what is very extraordinary, though there should be more room at one side of the root than at the other, yet they all bear, as it were harmony, and in tea- with each other, as if they were sensible of swls, Ch put upon them by an encroaching enemy. When one blade is obstructed, that root gives over stooling, and rises to a perpendicular altitude.
In rich, clean, good, well tilled land, a plant of wheat may stool to fill eighteen inches square, yet I chose to fix my standard to one foot square in good land, as that will bring forth to maturity, from one root, but were those thirty ears to have thirty roots, in the same space of land, they certainly would fall down, and what we call root welt, but if they stood, the ears and grain in them would be small and good for little, this I have accounted for in another place.
(To be continued.)
For Sale, an elegant young Horse, suitable for Chaise or Saddle; Cash or clear Boards will be received in payment. Inquire at the House of Mrs. PURCELL.
From the St. JAMES'S CHRONICLE. To the PRINTER.
OF all human pursuits none, I believe, vary so little as that of matrimony. The two chief qualifications, which are looked after in courtship, are beauty and fortune. The former must be required by a man of opulence, a man who can support the gaieties and dissipations of the fashionable circles; a man profuse in his expenses and liberal in his spirit. For beauty will be extravagant, and will admit of no controul. The latter is indeed acceptable to any rank of life. It has for its admirers the avaricious rich and needy poor. The man, marries from the incitements of pure affection, enjoys that bliss and happiness which proceeds from mutual love and regard; but he, who plunges himself headlong into the bonds of matrimony, merely from views of interest, cannot taste the sweets of conjugal mutuality, and the satisfaction which arises from love, unspotted and reciprocal. Perhaps from a distorted countenance, a disproportion of members, or from what is more disgusting, a deficiency of understanding, all which wants, in his eagerness to gratify his avarice, he had neglected to attend to; he may, when all these farthings make their appearance, be unable to reconcile himself to the object, to whose extrinsic endowments, not personal accomplishments, he had paid his addresses. There is, however, a medium between beauty without inheritance, and inheritance without deformity. I reckon that the happiest state in matrimony, where an union is cemented from a reciprocity of sentiment, and from mutual affection. Where the wife brings a sufficiency to support a small family with decency, in case of adversity, independent of the husband's industry and endeavours. The consequence of such an union is harmony and bliss. No general rule, however, is without its exceptions, and no one, I may venture to affirm, will admit of more than the assertion I have now advanced. For many unforeseen circumstances may arise, which may tend to estrange and alienate the affections. The cares of a numerous family may sour the temper of one, and increase the labour and toil of the other, to acquire a competency to support the expences which attend an increase of offspring. To sum up the whole: The man, who is captivated into marriage from the allurements of beauty, may for a short time be happy; but the fair and handsome, as well as the foul and ugly, cannot avoid the wrinkles of old age and child-bearing. On the other hand, the avaricious pursuer of matrimony may, from a fortuitous concurrence of circumstances, perhaps light upon a fortunate match, and enjoy the sweets of a state which he did deserve.
Thus I have considered matrimony in all its different forms, and from an unwillingness of being liable to the misfortunes and uneasiness which sometimes attend a married state, I am and ever shall remain,
CELEBS.
A N E C D O T E, But a REAL FACT.
A Gentleman belonging to Covent-Garden Theatre, having been made a present of two pointer puppies, called one of them Pitt, and the other Thurlow.—As soon as he had them home, Mr. Fox, who keeps the Hercules Pillar, in Great-Queen-street told him, that he might lodge them in his stable, to prevent trouble and litter in his own house. Unluckily for poor THURLOW and PIT! the very day they came under Fox's roof, proved fatal to them by the fall of a new cheek, which knocked both on the head as they lay asleep under it. A mind inclined to superstition would draw inferences from such an event. The unlucky puppies, with great names, fell a sacrifice to a reform made in a stable, by Fox the publican, in Great-Queen-street. Quere, whether another Fox may not shortly make a reform in another stable, to prove equally fatal to the political existence of their name-sakes, if he should catch them snapping .
ROCKINGHAM, fs. THE Creditors to the Estate of Caleb Greenleaf Adams, late of Exeter, in said County, Physician, deceased, represented insolvent, are hereby notified that Six Months, from the Date hereof are allowed them to exhibit their Claims against said Estate; and that the Subscribers appointed Commissioners to receive and examine said Claims will attend that Business at the late Dwelling-House of said deceased, on the last Monday of this and the five following Months, from Three to Six o'Clock, P.M. ELIPHALET HALE, WILLIAM PARKER, Jr. } Commissioners Exeter, Nov. 4, 1785.

A NOBLE INSTANCE OF GENEROSITY.
THE Elizabeth, an English man of war, would infallibly have been lost in the shoals on the coast of Florida, in 1746, had not Captain Edwards ventured into the Havanna. It was in the time of war, and the port belonging to the enemy. "I come," said the Captain to the Governor, "to deliver my ship, my sailors my soldiers, and myself into your hands: I only ask the lives of my men." No, "(said the Spanish commander)" I will not be guilty of so dishonourable an action. Had we taken you in fight, or in open sea, or upon our coasts, your ship would have been ours, and you would be our prisoners. But, as you are driven in by stress of weather, and are come hither for fear of being cast away, I do, and ought, to forget that my nation is at war with yours. You are men—so are we—you are in distress and have a right to our pity. You are at liberty to unload and rest your vessel; and, if you want it, you may trade in this port, to pay your charges; you may then go away, and you will have a pass to carry you safe beyond the Bermudas. If, after this, you are taken, you will be a lawful prize; but, at this moment, I see in Englishmen, only strangers, for whom humanity claims our assistance."
An account of a base and barbarous Stratagem practised by a Moorish Prince.
HISTORY records a very singular and cruel scheme of politics projected and executed by Mehmet Almedhi, king of Fez, a prince not less remarkable for his ambition than his refined craft and hypocrisy. He had a long war to maintain against some neighbouring nations, who refused to submit to his tyranny. He gained over them several victories, but having afterwards lost a battle, wherein he had exposed his troops with a blind faith, they were so dispirited that they refused to go against the enemy. To inspire them with courage he imagined the following stratagem:
Having assembled secretly a certain number of officers who were best affected to him, he proposed them considerable rewards, if they would consent to be shut up for some hours, in graves, as if they had been killed in battle; that he would leave them a sufficient vent for breathing, and that when, in consequence of a superstitious device he designed cunningly to spread through the army, they should happen to be interrogated, they were to answer, that they had found what their king had promised them; that they enjoyed the rewards of martyrdom, and that those who should imitate them by fighting valiantly, and should die in that war, would enjoy the same felicity. The thing was executed as he had proposed. He laid his most faithful servants among the dead, covering them with earth, and left them a small vent for drawing breath. He afterwards entered the camp, and assembled the principal chiefs about midnight: "You are (said he) the soldiers of GOD, the defenders of the faith, and the protectors of truth. Prepare to exterminate your enemies, who are likewise the enemies of the most high, and depend upon it you will never find so sure an opportunity of being pleasing in his sight. But, as there may be dastards and stupid wretches, among you, who do not believe my words, I am willing to convince them by the sight of a great prodigy. Go to the field of battle, ask those of your brethren who have been killed this day; they will assure you that they enjoy the most perfect happiness, for having lost their lives in this war." He then led them to the field of battle, where he cried out with all his might: "O assembly of faithful martyrs, make known how many wonders you have seen of the Most High God?"
They answered, "We have received from the Almighty infinite rewards, which the living can have no idea of." The chiefs, surprised at this answer, ran to publish it in the army; and revived courage in the hearts of the soldiery. Whilst this was transacted in the camp, the King feigning an ecstasy, caused by this miracle, remained near the graves where his buried servants waited for deliverance; but he stopped up the holes through which they breathed, and sent them to receive, in the other world, by his barbarous stratagem, the reward they had merited.
PERSIAN APOLOGUE.
A KING had condemned one of his slaves to death. The slave, in the anguish of his despair, knew no bounds, but abused the Prince his master with the most bitter reproaches. What doth he say? said the monarch to his favourite, who stood near the slaves. Sir, answered the favourite, he says that the golden gates of Paradise open themselves to the merciful; and he entreats your forgiveness with the most prostrate supplication. I grant him forgiveness, said the King.
A courtier, who had been a long time the enemy of the favourite, had heard the real words of the slave. You are grossly deceived, Sir, said he to the Monarch; that wretch reviles you in the most bitter terms. The King answered, the lie is the lie of humanity; thy truth is the truth of cruelty. Then, turning to his favourite, he said, Oh my best friend, thy words SHALL be the truth!
A N E C D O T E.
Of the humane Dr FOTHERGILL, a celebrated Physician, and one of the people called Quakers, to which Society of Christians he was truly an honour.
THE following anecdote was communicated by a clergyman, who reveres the name of this amiable physician, and places his obligations to him, in a very particular manner, to his heart. A friend of his, a man of a worthy character, who has at this time an income of about 1000, per annum, church preferment, was, in the earliest part of life, seated in London upon a curacy of 200, per annum, with a wife and a numerous family. An epidemical disease, which was at that time prevalent, seized upon his wife and five of his children. In this time of distress he looked up to his doctor for assistance, but dared not apply to him, from a consciousness of his
being unable to reward him for his attendance. A friend, who knew his situation, kindly offered to accompany him to the Doctor's, and give him his fee. They took the advantage of his hour of audience, and after a description of the several cases, the fee was offered and rejected, but a note was taken of his place of residence. The Doctor called assiduously the next and every succeeding day, till his attendance was no longer necessary. The curate, anxious to return some grateful mark of the sense he entertained of his services, strained every nerve to accomplish it; but his astonishment was not to be described, when instead of receiving the money he offered, with apologies of his situation, the Doctor put 10 guineas into his hand, desiring him to apply to him without diffidence in further difficulties.
L O N D O N.
Sept. 24. A cause of a most singular nature will come on in Doctor's Commons the ensuing term, brought by the wife of a person in Blackfriars, for non-performance of conjugal rites, after a cohabitation of six months.
By private letters received from France we are informed, that a print-seller in Paris, being seized with the disorder called l'ennui de vivre, hanged himself a few days ago. His intention was to take along with him a travelling companion upon his long journey, and he actually proposed to his shop boy to hang him first, with a positive assurance that he would dispatch himself instantly afterwards. The youth not relishing the proposal ran out for help, but before any one could interfere, his master had time to effect his fell purpose.
Sept. 27. There is great entertainment to be found in observing how quick a progress the United States and their rebel children make in Machiavellian policy. The North-Carolina remonstrance already accuses the infant principality (self-named Franklin) of betraying their parent state to the Indians.—The rebel child retaliates by charging the North-Carolinians with murder.—Pleasant elevations of the glorious doctrines of the great Price, and the great Franklin! Probably both these reciprocal accusations are true, yet it shews wondrous folly in the Americans to permit these proofs in their depraved morals to stand unauthenticated on their journals.—Wretched independents! Was it for your present contemptible state; was it for your still more deplorable prospect, that you quitted your parent's care? Bitterly indeed have you revenged on yourselves the folly of that parent.
The following very melancholy accident happened on Wednesday evening last: a waggon hired by the Henley carrier, returning from Reading Fair heavily loaded with cheese, &c. in going down a hill near the Plough at Shiplake, in Oxfordshire, the linch pin of one of the forewheels came out, owing to the axle-tree being split, and the wheel flying off, the waggon pitched forward, and turned quite over; two women, a boy about 12 years old, and a child, that were riding at the top, were buried under the goods, and instantly crushed to death; two other women and a man that were also on the waggon, finding themselves falling, leaped off, and fortunately escaped unhurt. One of the deceased women was wife to a journeyman shoemaker, and was going to Henley, with her child, to see some relations; the other woman was a native of Henley; and the boy belonged to the charity school there; but what renders it still more shocking is, that both the women were far gone with child. The coroner's inquest sat on the bodies the next day, and brought in their verdict, accidental death.
Several of the Lay Monks, who became entirely unprovided for in the Emperor's dominions by his suppression of the religious houses, have entered into the army. None of the books of the Convents have been destroyed; many of them are very valuable, bearing the compass of Antwerp, and the lily of Florence and Rome; in the same manner as the anchor distinguishes the books printed in the last century, at Leyden, and the fountain those at Paris.
Anecdote of G. F. allowed by Dr. Johnstone. George said that E. that they drained Ireland of fifty thousand pounds of this specie annually, for fifty years. "How?" said Dr. Johnstone, "you must have a very useful trade." "No trade." "Very rich mines." "No mines." "From whence, then, does all this money come?" "Come! why out of the blood and bowels of the poor people of Ireland."
The pious Dr. Prettyman has resolved in consequence of his late church preferment, to take his text from the chapter of the loaves and fishes; but not a word is to be said of the bottomless pit!
G E R M A N Y.
Vienna, Sept. 3. One Francis Finatsy, a merchant, aged 56 years, died lately at Presburgh; his bulk was so extraordinary, that he weighed 488 pounds. During twelve years past he confined himself to his chamber; twelve men could with difficulty carry him to the grave. He was a very intelligent man, of an irreproachable character, and whose company had been much courted on account of his sprightly wit.
K I N G S T O N, [Jamaica] Oct. 24.
We hear from the island of New Providence, that on the 6th of September a small sail, having a signal of distress was described by Mr. Tod, from governor Moutrie's plantation, at the south side of this island. Mr. Tod immediately set off in a boat to her assistance, and found her to be a small raft made of planks and spars lashed together, on which were no fewer than seventeen men, who were all then nearly knee deep in water, and with difficulty could prevent themselves being washed away by the sea breaking over them. Mr. Tod got them all safe on shore, but they were so weak that he was under the necessity of having them carried to his house. The master and supercargo, by the help of broken English, informed Mr. Tod, that they were the crew of a French snow, bound from Cape-Francois for Old France, laden with sugar and coffee; that they had left the Cape the 23d of last month; that four days after they sailed, they lost their vessel in a heavy gale, at or near Ackland's Key; that having lost their long boat, they had framed a raft, with which, and the ship's yawl, they attempted to get to some inhabited place; that they lost their yawl on the 5th day; that one of their companions was drowned on the 10th day; and that they had been 11 days on the raft, 5 of them without fresh water or provisions, when Mr. Tod picked them up.
N E W Y O R K Nov. 28.
MR. LOUDEN,
Please to insert the following short extract of a letter I received from Canada, giving an account of the most curious phenomenon there; requesting at the same time some of your philosophic correspondents, to give us in return a solution. Yours, &c.
"ON the 16th of September, at half after two P. M. a darkness came on and increased till three, when it was as dark as our darkest nights, attended with a light wind and a little rain; at five minutes after three it grew light, and at fifteen minutes after three it became as dark as before; at 25 minutes after three it lightened up again, attended with heavy rain, lightning and thunder,—the horizon of the whole hemisphere was filled with heavy, dark, angry looking clouds; at 50 minutes after three it became dark again, with very heavy thunder, violent rain and a continued blaze of lightning flashing from all round the horizon to the zenith; the wind was stronger than before: the rain that fell was of a blackish colour, and had the appearance and smell of water mixed with gunpowder. It continued to rain, thunder and lighten till the day closed.—The wind during all this time shifted from N. to N. E. and so back and forward between these two points. I was unlucky from home, or I would have communicated to you the state of the barometer and thermometer."
B O S T O N, December 5.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at New-York, to a gentleman in this town, dated November 23.
"The new Congress met to day, and made choice of Mr. HANCOCK for President.—This repeated mark of federal approbation, is highly honorary; it is more so, as the choice was unanimous.
The following is a more particular account of the inhuman and unnatural deed lately perpetrated at Pepperell, as mentioned in our last.
"A William Scott of Pepperell, lately married a second wife, aged about 40 years who had had no children, and who was intirely destitute of any kind of parental affection, and so hardened to every tender feeling, as to influence him to nearly the same degree of austerity. One of their daughters aged about 14 years, got infected with the itch—for which she was highly reprimanded, and treated with the greatest severity. Flour sulphur, as usual, was administered repeatedly. After its being applied several times the child told them that she was cured, and begged that they would desist from their cruelty, and told them any farther operations of the kind would deprive her of life; but they turned a deaf ear to her supplications—continued their severities, and threatened that in case any opposition was made against using the same means as before-mentioned, she might depend on receiving a severe flagellation, and accordingly prepared a number of sticks on Saturday evening, the 15th October. The Sunday evening following, the girl was ordered to undergo a repetition of the same arduous task as before—a great fire was made up, and a screen hung round the fire-place to prevent the admission of air—the parents were present to see that their commands were obeyed—the girl after standing by the fire above two hours, complained of their inhuman treatment to her, and begged a release from such cruelty—the answer was, that the fire should be increased, and immediately ordered some pitch-pine knots to be laid on the fire—she now begged a release with greater earnestness; but was told if she did not stand there until she was entirely cured of the disorder, they would nail her hands to the mantle-piece, and roast her. The child continued a few moments longer and fainted, at which, the parents were so enraged, that they whipped her severely until she was almost lifeless. She was then put into a cistern of hot water, and immediately leaped out upon the floor, and again fainted—her father directly exercised the same discipline as before—at last her strength failing by means of such barbarous treatment—they were induced to put her to bed, and being apprehensive that the consequence of such barbarity would prove fatal to the child, sent for a physician, who, when he came, said no relief could be afforded her, for she was expired—she died on Monday following. The Selectmen on hearing the report, ordered the body to be dug up on the 24th October, and on open-

ing the coffin and examining the body, many stripes were to be seen, and her back burnt almost black.—The parents being present, and examined by a Jury of Inquest, were brought in guilty of wilful and pre-meditated Murder, and were both committed to Concord goal.
NEW BURY-PORT, December 7.
Yesterday afternoon as one David Collier was at work on Capt. Thomas's Wharf, a certain John Murray, of this town, Labourer, threw a Pipe Stave, which instantaneously deprived him of his life.—The Jury of Inquest were of opinion, from the evidence which could be collected, that the Stave was maliciously thrown, though perhaps not with real intent to put a period to his existence. He was committed to goal, and is to take his trial next June.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 9.
A gentleman directly from St. Ubes, favoured us with the following copy of a letter from Capt. Obrian, dated Algiers, August 16, 1785, to his friend at St. Ubes.
Sir,
I was taken the 30th of July, which was two days after I sailed from St. Ubes, by an Algerine cruiser, mounting 34 guns, and four hundred men, I arrived here yesterday in the cruiser, and all my crew, which consisted of 15 in number, my ship is not arrived yet, but is expected in two days: The same cruiser took 3 Portuguese, all of which are in this port. I am present am in the strongest house I ever was in, and to morrow the people are to be sold, what they will do with us God knows, we were all hands striped naked by the Moors: There is another American, which is a Schooner from Boston, loaded with flour. You will be pleased to write to America concerning us unfortunate sufferers, and pray acquaint Mr. Dobman of us; they are fitting out several cruisers here. Direct for me at the English Consul's, Algiers. (Signed) O BRIAN.
The above gentleman sailed in company with the ship Mary-Ann, Clifton, master, bound for Philadelphia. Left at St. Ubes, brig Robert and Sally, Rob; brig from Fialt, belonging to Marblehead, master's name unknown; a brig, Holland master, belonging to Philadelphia, ready to sail; a ship from Philadelphia, just arrived, master's name unknown. At Lisbon, a Schooner from Boston, Gage, master.
A correspondent has favored us with the following extract of a letter from the Hague, [Holland] dated September 21.
"If we may judge of events by the dispositions that announce them, we can no longer doubt that war must begin immediately; the Austrians are almost at the gates of Lillo, to the number of 8 or 9,000 men, under the command of the Governor-General himself; another army is encamped near Tongres, under the command of the Generals Colloredo and Alton, and a third division of the same force is at Hogg-staten, near Breda.
"The troops that are in full march from Germany, are to encamp, as they arrive, on the borders of the Meuse, near Maestricht. To face every danger, and shew, at least, that to yield benevolently is not their intention, the States-General have given orders to begin the inundations at Lillo, at Sas de Gand, and all the circumjacent Polders (Dykes): This has already made some advanced guards of the Austrians to fall back, who had made a lodgment at Putten, closed by Lillo. At Breda, his Serene Highness the Prince Stadtholder, has erected strong batteries in all the places that are accessible, and inundated all the rest. At Bois le Duc, the Count de Maillebois, who has assembled his legion there, has taken the same precautions, to secure the town from an insult. In Dutch Flanders, General Dumolin is exerting, with the genius and activity peculiar to himself, every means that art and nature can furnish for the defence of that favored country; and as to Maestricht, that city is so well garrisoned that an army of forty thousand men would certainly miscarry against its walls.—We may then assure, without fear, that the Emperor ought to have at least twice as many troops as he has, to hope to break in upon the Republic, whose whole system is purely defensive, and consists in waiting for the enemy, shut up within her own ramparts. But the state of the question is to know, whether things will really come to this extremity; and those who can have the best information always incline to, and bet for, the negative. And, indeed, two couriers are arrived, one upon another, at the Ambassador of France's hotel, who immediately had long conferences with the Ministers of State; and it has transpired in public, that the Court of Versailles, which nothing suits worse than this war, demands even with instance, that the Republic will terminate amicably with the Emperor; and as a courier has been dispatched this morning, it is concluded from it, with some likelihood, that he is charged with pacific proposals. This is an exact account of the present state of things.
"M. de Maillebois is decidedly appointed General in Chief of all the troops of the State (under the Captain General.)
"The Generals Sander, Verfebur, and Kretschmar, set out from hence this morning for Breda."
On Wednesday the 23d ult. Dr. John Giddings, of Exeter, put a period to his existence by drowning himself.—He has left a sorrowful widow and five children to bemoan his loss.
We hear that John Temple, Esq. Consul-General, from the Court of Great-Britain, is that of the United States of America, together with his family, lately arrived at New-York, passengers on board the Ship Union, Capt. Johnson, on the 21st ult.
The General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have taken off, in part, the restriction laid upon foreign vessels in the navigation act, (British excepted) an act worthy imitation:—'Tis to be wished that every State in the union might be deeply impressed with the necessity of giving the commerce of the United States a preference to that of any other nation.
Last Wednesday, a person who called himself William Saunders, was committed to gaol on suspicion of stealing, and on the day following was brought before a justices court, upon trial he was convicted, and sentenced to receive thirteen stripes, (which were decently laid on by the sheriff) to leave the town immediately, upon his non-compliance to receive the like number.—A reward justly due to such pests of society.
¶ The piece signed A CITIZEN came to hand too late for this, but will have a place in our next.
On Monday the 28th ultimo, died, universally lamented, the Hon. General WILLIAM WHIPPLE , a Judge of the Superior-Court of this State. In him concentrated every principle that exalts the dignity of man. His disinterested patriotism and public services are now known to all; and when news-paper encomiums are lost in oblivion, the pen of the historian shall preserve the remembrance of his virtues in the breast of succeeding generations. During a long course of unequalled sufferings, he endured his lot with a firmness correspondent to the greatness of his mind. He viewed his approaching dissolution with a heroic fortitude, in full confidence, that he who made him, best knew how to dispose of him. In his extremest agonies, his mind was still revolving schemes for the happiness of mankind, and those sentiments of benevolence which distinguished him while living, were the last that died in him. He was generous and humane, and "the Elements so mixed in him, that nature might rise up and say, THIS WAS A MAN."
MARINE LIST.
PORT OF PISCATAQUA. Dec. 9.
ENTERED,
Brig Astrea, Salter, from Cape Francois. Brig Kitty, Thwing, Ditto. Brig Lydia, Tibbetts, St. Ubes.
CLEARED,
Brig Nancy, Frost, for West-Indies. Schooner Betsey, Manning, Martinico.
Thomas Martin,
HAVING removed to the store lately occupied by Mr. Aaron Hill, near the market, continues to sell, as usual, at the lowest cash prices, European, East and West-India goods, among which are:—Superfine broad-cloths with trimmings, cassimeres German serges, wiltons, shalloons, russells, calamancoes, tammies, worsted and mock velvet caps, silk, thread, cotton, and worsted hose, marseilles quilting, dimothys, men's and women's gloves, silk mitts and gloves, worsted mitts, quality, gartering, and shoe binding, tapes, corduroys, needles, pins, fans looking-glasses, laces, and edgings, ribbonds, gauzes, oznabrigris, Irish linens, lutestrings, persians, sarinets, and modes, chintses, sheeting, table-cloths, cambricks, lawns, sewing silks, and threads, chips, combs, temple and nose spectacles, near-sighted glasses.—Frying-pans, slates, paper and Dutch quills, wool-cards, powder, shot, playing-cards, plated and common shoe-buckles, codlines and hooks, hammers, hinges, plane-stocks and irons, brass kettles, iron pots and kettles, Jew's-harps, glew, copper and tin tea-kettles, and coffee-pots, China bowls, China coffee-cups with handles and saucers, decanters, tumblers, wine-glasses, salts, cruets, and a variety of tin and earthern ware.—Copperas, brimstone, allum, redwood, Durham flour of mustard, sweet oil, almonds, hair-powder, Poland starch, Castile and crown soap.—Pepper, cloves, mace, cinnamon, bohea, hyson, and souchong teas, coffee, chocolate, ginger and allspice.—Rum, sugar, molasses, salt, &c. &c. &c.
A convenient store may be had for landing salt and other goods without any expense of trucking, and scales which will weigh a ton weight, at small expense.
Portsmouth, Dec. 8, 1785.
All Persons having any Demands against the Estate of Samuel Morrill, Gentleman, deceased, late of Epping, in the County of Rockingham, are desired to exhibit the same to David Lawrence, junr. of Epping, Attorney to Anna Morrill, Administratrix to said Estate, and those indebted are requested to make speedy Payment to said Attorney.
Epping, Dec. 5, 1785.
The Owners and Occupants of Houses in this Town, that are destitute of suitable Ladders to their Houses, are once more requested and directed by the Firewards, to furnish themselves immediately, agreeable to Law; those who neglect after this Public Notice, may expect to have the Laws put in Execution. The Firewards expect that those Persons that have received Orders for the putting their Chimnies in repair, will not fail of complying with so reasonable a Request.
Portsmouth, Dec. 7, 1785.
The Co-partnership of GODDARD and STORER being mutually dissolved, all Persons having any Demands on the late Company, are desired to exhibit their Accounts, and those indebted, are once more called upon to make immediate Payment to either of the Subscribers, who will be ready to settle the same.
JOHN GODDARD.
CLEMENT STORER.
Portsmouth, Nov. 26, 1785.
John Goddard,
Has opened his Shop directly opposite the Printing-Office in Paved-Street, where he has for Sale,
A very general Assortment of Drugs & Medicines,
—ALSO—
Madeira, Sherry, Port, Lisbon, Teneriff, Claret, Frontiniac, and Malaga W I N E S,
Linseed Oil, Painters Brushes, and an Assortment of Painters Colors and Dryers,
Loaf and brown Oatmeal, Rice,
Sugar, Pepper, Allspice, Ginger, Rum, Brandy, Gin, Flour, Indigo, Starch, Olive and Florence Oil, Coffee, Chocolate, Nails, Hyson, Congo and Bohea Glass, Powder and Shot, Tea, Redwood, Logwood, Raisins, Currants, Figs, Fustick, Allum, Copperas, Olives, Capers, Almonds, Pet-Ash, Castile and Tamarinds, Citron, common Soap. Preserves, Cinnamon, Writing Paper. Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs. Bar IRON, &c. &c.
The above articles will be sold on the most reasonable terms, and Indian Corn, Rye, Wheat, Oats, Flour, Pork, Butter, &c. will be received instead of cash for any of them.
Portsmouth, Dec. 1, 1785
Whereas ELIPHALET LADD of
Exeter, and SAMUEL HILL of Portsmouth, have purchased, and are now carrying on the
Distillery in Portsmouth,
They hereby inform the Publick, that they will supply any Quantity of NEW-ENGLAND RUM, as good and as cheap as can be purchased on the Continent, at Exeter or Portsmouth. They have also for Sale, at their Stores, a general Assortment of
European and West-India Goods.
—LIKEWISE,
L I N S E E D O I L.
They pay CASH and the highest Price for Flax-Seed, Shipping-Furs, or Pot-Ash.

ON THE ART OF PRINTING.
H AIL noblest Art that man's sublimest thought, Daring on eagle wing, e'er soar'd to reach! Thy genial rays illumine the darksome shades That Sol's bright eye ne'er pierc'd; for thou, And thy illustrious offspring, love to find Dark, dreary mansions; there to cheer the hearts Of those whom heav'n denies the light of nature; Them thou suppliest with a mental ray, Welcome as Phœbus' beams, when high in glory, Though ambient air the God exulting flings His warmest radiance on a grateful world. Hail PRINTING! friend of learning and of virtue! On thee the genius of our freedom leans, And owns he's all-dependent on thy glories; For thou canst mark, and sound through all the land, The strides DESPOTIC SWAY dare make, to crush, The freeborn goddess of these happy shores. By thee bright virtue and her sons are crown'd With fair-twin'd wreaths of never-fading laurel; And after-times, instructed by thy page Shall view with pleasure ev'ry gen'rous deed The sons of honor do: While black train'd tyrants, Patrons of lust and cruelty, shall shrink, And agonizing tremble at thy truths. 'Tis thine, blest ART, to train the infant soul To ev'ry thing that's noble and refin'd; To call a nation to assert its worth, And lead to glory and to deathless fame; To mark its morals with attentive eye, And war eternal with the slaves of sin. Then let exulting nations chaunt the lay To HIM who first inspir'd the glo'rous thought, And blest mankind with this ILLUSTROUS ART.
* Books.
***** The Progress of LOVE.
N ATURE when she form'd a man, Gave a soul for love design'd; Love with life at first began, And possess'd his infant mind. When upon the breast he lay, Love began to grow within; With his milk, he every day, Suck'd the soothing passion in. First a feeble spark, it glow'd, Glow'd and brighter still became, Beauty fuel soon bestow'd, Youth increas'd it to a flame.— Till by age and weakness worn, Half extinguish'd it shall lie: Thus was every mortal born, Once to love and once to die.
State of New-Hampshire, Concord, Nov. 3, 1785.
P UBLIC notice is hereby given, that Barnabas Barker, of Rindge, in the county of Cheshire, hath petitioned the General Court, setting forth that in the year 1779, he purchased of one Thomas Sackville Tufton, a tract of land in said Rindge, viz. all of lot No. 7, in the 6th range of lots, excepting twenty acres; also the whole of the lot No. 8, in the 7th range, the whole containing two hundred and fifty acres, with the buildings thereon, which land the said Tufton purchased of one Jehoshaphat Grout, and one Silas Burdoo, since which time said Tufton hath absented himself and gone to some place unknown to him the petitioner, and never recorded the deeds to him from said Grout, and said Burdoo, whereby he is in danger of losing said land; wherefore he prayed the General Court to confirm to him the title of said lands, as fully as though said deeds had been recorded; on which petition the General Court ordered, that the petitioner be heard thereon before them, on the second Tuesday of their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioner cause the substance of said petition and order of court thereon to be published three weeks successively, in one of the New-Hampshire papers, that any person may then appear and shew cause why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, E. THOMPSON, Sec'yry.
S I X months longer being allowed by the Hon. Judge of Probate, for the county of Rockingham, to the commissioners, to receive and examine the claims to the several creditors to the estate of creditors to the estate of Mr. Daniel Sherburne, late of Portsmouth, merchant, deceased, represented in solvent, we therefore give notice that we will attend on said business on the third Monday of this, and the five following months, from 10 to 12 o'clock, A. M. at the house of Capt. William Brewster, inholder in Portsmouth.
DANIEL RINDGE, NAT'L SPARHAWK, } Commissioners. RICHARD HART. }
Portsmouth, Dec. 1, 1785.
Rockingham County.
P ursuant to an order of the General Court, the Excise on Spirituous Liquors, in the County of Rockingham, for the term of one Year, from the first Day of October last, will be farmed out at Public Vendue, at the House of Benjamin Lampson, innholder in Exeter, on Wednesday, the 28th day of December next, at two o'clock P. M.—Also a Quantity of Medicines will be sold at the same time.
CHRISTOPHER TOPPAN, for the Committee. Portsmouth. November 28, 1785
State of New Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the resident and non-resident owners of land in Cornish, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Tuesday the 27th day of December next, at the house of Ebenezer Cornis, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
First Division.
No. R. s. d.
Residents.
Col. Jonathan Chase, 10 3 6 0 ditto, 15 0 6 0
Second Division.
Moses Chase, Esq. 6 2 6 0 Ebenezer Rawson, 8 5 3 0 Col. Jonathan Chase, 9 0 6 0 Capt. Levi Spaulding, 16 0 4 6 Moses Chase, Esq. 2 5 6 0 ditto, 4 0 4 6
Third Division.
Non-Residents.
Walter Bryant, 1 2 6 0 ditto, 2 0 6 0 Joseph Storer, Esq. 1 3 6 0 Noah Amory, 4 0 6 0 ditto, 5 0 6 0 ditto, 9 0 6 0 Capt. Phillip Jackson, 1 4 6 0 Major Jonathan Moulton, 2 0 6 0 Benjamin Philbrook, 5 0 6 0 Bracket Johnson, 8 0 6 0
Second Division.
Capt. John Dudley, 4 1 4 6 Samuel Haines, 7 0 4 6 Benjamin Philbrook, 18 0 4 6 ditto, 9 0 6 0 John Weeks, 17 0 6 0 Nathaniel Huggins, jr. 18 0 6 0 Thomas Johnson, 1 4 6 0 Josiah Clark, 5 0 6 0 Major Jonathan Moulton, 6 4 6 0 Hon. William Wentworth, 18 0 6 0 ditto, 19 0 6 0 Simeon Dearborn, 17 0 6 0 John Temple, Esq. 19 0 6 0 ditto, 12 5 4 6 ditto, 15 0 4 6 ditto, 19 0 6 0 Samuel Ayers, 8 6 6 0 Noah Emery, 12 0 5 3 Joseph Jackson, 15 0 5 3 ditto, 7 7 5 3 ditto, 8 0 5 3 Capt. Phillip Johnson, 4 0 5 3 John Hill, 11 0 4 6 ditto, 19 0 3 9
Eleazer Jackson, Collector.
Cornish, November 23, 1785.
State of New Hampshire.
T HESE are to give notice, that at the session of the General Court, held at Concord, on the 19th of October, 1785, A Petition was preferred to said Court, by Benjamin Bellows, of Walpole, Esq. praying for the privilege of a ferry across Connecticut river, to extend from the south line of Walpole, three miles as the river runs north; and that a hearing was granted on said petition, on the second Tuesday of the then next session, for any person or persons to appear and shew cause why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'yry. Concord, October 24, 1785.
TO BE SOLD.
O NE hundred Acres of Land, in the Town of Fitz William, in the County of Cheshire, in the State of New-Hampshire, and is Lot unnumbered Fourteen, in the eleventh Range. For further Particulars inquire of WILLIAM VANS and Son, Merchants in Salem.
November, 1785.
A LL persons indebted to the estate of John Griffin, late of Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham, mariner, deceased, are hereby desired to make immediate payment to the subscriber, administratrix of said estate; and all persons having demands are desired to exhibit them for settlement. ANNA GRIFFIN.
|| Lime. ||
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Lime, who have not paid their tax due for State Beef for the year 1780, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, on the 10th day of December next, at the house of Capt. John Thomson, of Lime, as will pay said tax with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Orig. Grantees. No. Div. Sum Af- fekt. No. 2d Div. Sum Af- fekt. No. 3d Div. Sum Af- fekt. Sum of all.   s. d. s. d.     Robert Brown 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 5 1 3 9   James McNitt 0 0 10 0 8 16 5 1 3 9   David Shaw, jr. 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0   Thomas Johnson 8 3 1 0 0 1 5 1 3 9   William Brown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   James Lamont 19 3 1 10 0 8 18 5 1 3 9   Sam. S. Palmer 9 3 1 10 0 7 0 0 0   Isaac Fellows 10 & 44 2d Div. 3 9 0 0 0 0   Tho's Warren 20 3 1 10 &55 3 9 55 5 1 3 9   B. Wentworth 10 3 1 10 &62 3 9 3 5 1 3 9   John A. M'Clellan 10 0 8 58 5 3 1 3 9   Seth Shaw 25 3 1 28 5 3 2 6 0   Bernard M'Nitt 56 5 1 3 9   William Shaw 48 5 1 3 9   T. M'Clenathan 3 1 10 7 63 5 0 0 0   James Brown 64 5 0 0 0   Robert Hunter 10 &67 3 9 38 216 1 3 9   John Lee 3 3 1 10 &54 3 9 26 5 1 3 9   Charles Nelson 1 3 1 10 &65 3 9 0 0   William Sloan 1 3 9   T. M'Clellan 3 3 1 10 &30 3 9 35 5 1 3 9   William M'Clenathan 29 5 0 0 0   William Lamont 11 5 1 3 9   William M'Nitt 1 3 1 12 5 1 3 9   T. Johnson jr. 13 3 1 1 3 6   William Spear 18 3 1 10 &28 3 9 0 0   William Bell, jr. 1 3 6   J. Bartholomew 10 3 1 1 3 9   Robert Bratton 1 3 9   John Nelson 10 0 7 53 5 1 3 9   Francis Lamont 1 3 9   John Clark 2 3 1 10 &61 3 9 30 5 1 3 6  
WILLIAM CHILD, Collector.
Lime, October 14, 1785.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
CONCORD, October 31, 1785.
P UBLIC notice is hereby given, that Joshua Foss, jun. in behalf of the town of Barrington, hath petitioned the General Court, setting forth, that said town is thirteen miles, and has three roads the whole length of the town. That the inhabitants are poor and unable to keep them in repair.
Therefore he prayed, that said town might be enabled to assess and collect a Tax of one penny per acre annually for three years, on all the lands in said town, to be appropriated towards making and repairing said roads; and that a committee be appointed to assess and lay out said money. On which petition the General Court ordered, that the petitioner be heard thereon, before said Court, on the second Thursday of their next session, and that in the mean time he cause the substance of said petition and order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively, in one of the New-Hampshire papers, that any person might then appear and shew cause why the prayer thereof might not be granted.
Attest, E. THOMPSON, Sec'yry.
WINTER
GOODS,
Just arrived from LONDON, AND TO BE SOLD BY
James Sheafe,
Baizes,                               Forest Cloth, Blankets,                           Plains, Coatings,                           Serges,
— ALSO —
London Porter,               Hhds. Earthen Cheshire Cheese,           Ware, Port Wine,                      Nails, Loaf Sugar,                   Roll Brimstone, Painters Colours,           Allum, Linnen,                           Coals, Paper,                           Grindstones, Oznabrigs,                   Gun-Powder, English Duck,              Iron Tea-Kittles. Hemp,                           &c. &c.
Portsmouth, Dec. 1, 1785.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for this paper, at Four shillings & six pence for six Months (exclusive of postage) are taken in at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth and Exeter, where Essays, Letters of Intelligence, Advertisements, &c. are received, and all kinds of Printing performed expeditiously, and at a reasonable Rate.