Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1785-12-16 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 16, 1785.
P O R T S M O U T H: By MELCHER AND OSBORNE,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN PAVED STREET.
VOL. XXIX.]
"OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE:—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST."
No. 1522
Thomas Martin,
H AVING 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 ferges, wiltons, shalloons, russells, calimancoes, 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, oznabrigrs, Irish linens, lutestrings, persians, farsnets, and modes, chinties, 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 earthenware.—Copperas, brimstone, allum, redwood, Durham flour of mustard, sweet oil, almonds, hair-powder, Poland starch, Castile and crown soap.—Pepper, cloves, mace, cinnamon, bohea, hylon, 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.
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.
A S I observed, the blades of a good stooling plant fall, spread and creep along the ground, but if it be crowded when young, it throws up a perpendicular leader or straw from the middle of the root, and though it be thinner afterwards, yet it never changes the first bad set it gets, but this perpendicular leader takes up all the crown and substance of the root. It is true upon being thinned, it will throw out more shoots round about, but they will be small and good for little and a stooling root of wheat is not good, except the ears be near of an equal size. Though I had some ears that were only about three inches long; yet most of the good stooling roots had not an ear but what was from five to six inches long; for they were all nearly of one size.
I cut some of the leaders off, from those plants that were likely to be bad stoolers, and I found that this was the remedy to make them stool well; therefore it is a good thing to turn sheep in, for that purpose, after weeding or thinning, which would make them stool amain. But the best method that could be taken with a crop of wheat sown in the old or new method, would be to hoe it.
I had some roots, that produced upwards of fifteen hundred fold, having from twenty to thirty ears at a root; but this was all in the good land, at the lowest end of the field, which was most inclined to clay, the wheat at the other end, that was inclined to a sandy loam, stooling full as well; but the corn in the ear was not so plump or large, neither were the ears so long, or well set, but loamy, and the chases stood thin and wide so consequently could not produce in the same length of ears, so many grains.
As to the middle of the land, which was a high gravelly hill, and a shallow soil, it was hard to find above fifteen stalks or ears from one root, however the ears though not quite so long, yet produced as much real substance as the best, for they were thick and well set, with a large bold grain.
This was all from the ridge that was sown the thinnest, at the rate of ten pounds to the acre.
As to the ridge which was sown at the rate of twenty pounds to the acre, it was impossible to find a root with above seventeen ears at it, in the best part of the land, and so in proportion in other parts: this was the most convincing thing of all to the reapers and by-standers, who were all helping to seek, and they found more on the thin sown ridge at thirty ears and upwards to one root, than on the other ridge at seventeen ears to a root.
This gave me so great an insight, that I think, I would not have missed sowing the ridges with two different quantities of seed as above, for fifty pounds, for it did not only convince me, but it convinced those by-standers, who were the most averse to thin sowing, and who used frequently to rally me in their old canting way, that if I did not sow, I could not reap.
My field lay along by a high road side, and was the subject of many a taunting joke to the travellers, which I have often heard, when I was at the inside of the hedge, unknown to them, particularly one day, two farmers were going by, and one said to the other, "see Paddy, where the Englishman is seeking for a plant of wheat (for I was counting how many stalks grew out from one root.) Yes says the other, but he will not find many without his spectacles." Answered Paddy, if they have no better crops in England than that will be, they must be obliged to have relief from poor old Ireland, as well for bread as beef, or they could not be able to beat the French."
Indeed my wheat, at that time, cut a poor figure to a traveller, for the land was a little rough, and the plants were flat on the ground, so that a person on the road could scarce see any appearance of corn, until about the middle of April, then it began to cock up its head and by the fifteenth of May, it had covered the ground, and was a full flourishing crop, then people wondered where it came from, some would have it, that I had sown the land over again; others reported that I filled the ground, by taking it out of the other fields, and transplanting it there.
Thus various reports were spread: however at harvest, when they saw the many ears from one root, and the length of the ears, &c. they were obliged to let their false reports vanish. But their malice did not end here, for a few days before it was reaped, some one went up and down each ridge, and cut off a great many of the largest ears.
This vexed me greatly; however after all, I had fifty three stone, five pounds of the finest wheat I ever in my life saw. Every sheaf yielded a stone or upwards, but the sheaves were made large, the produce was at the rate of about twelve barrels to an Irish acre, which is near equal to thirty two bushels to an English one.
I picked as many stalks, which had the ears cut off, as made two large sheaves, this was in order to give as near a guess to the crop as possible, but doubt-
less a great many escaped me, and perhaps some were broke off from the root in cutting, these I could see nothing of.
The crop was late, before it was ready to reap, it was the latter end of October; it happened to be a fine dry time, or it is a doubt to me, if it had been wet, if it would have ripened well at all, for it was sown too late, and was still put back by having to branch out.
I must not forget to observe, that I did not pickle, wet, or lime my seed at all, for it was the first time I had tried my machine, therefore I was afraid, that if I wet the corn so small a quantity would not run and spread so even out of the hopper, as the orifices were obliged to be so very small to discharge it.
I must also tell my reader, the seed was of different sorts; such as red lammas, white lammas, the long eared wheat, and two or three sorts of bearded wheat. I found a great deal of difference in the produce, both in the size of the ears and in the stooling part; the red lammas was the best, the long eared wheat the next.
I expected the white lammas should be the best, but it was not. The greatest produce in number of ears was from the long-bearded wheat, and I could like it as well as any of them to sow thin.
There was another sort of bearded wheat, of which the beard, ear, and straw were shorter than those of any of the rest, but it produced a great many little ears, I did not like this at all, it was the worst of them all, and there were more sorts than I can mention.
I sowed the rest of the field with barley with different quantities on an acre, on one side of the wheat I sowed an acre with sixteen stone, the old accustomed quantity, it was not worth reaping, for it was all lodged, and grown green through, before harvest, except a top of the gravelly hill, and this was small like hen corn.
I sowed an acre on the other side of the wheat, with three stone, which was a very good crop, for it branched to fill the ground with a fine long eared corn, it branched from two to six or eight ears out of a root, according to the distance the grains fell from each other, just so they stooling or branched until they filled the ground.
I produced some roots to the Right Honourable the Dublin Society, with fifteen ears at them, and wheat with from twenty to thirty ears at each root.
The remainder of the field I sowed with eight stone of barley to an acre, which was an excellent crop.
I forgot to observe, that I found a root of bere, or winter barley among the wheat, that had fifty-three ears at it, and some of the ears had above an hundred grains in them, this grain, in general, is a very great planter or stooler; but the grain is much smaller than barleys and longer; in fact it is not comely grain at all.
I mentioned these facts just as they happened. I often hear of people producing, out of gardens, roots of wheat, &c. with sixty or eighty ears of them, but these can be no experiment for improvement; an experiment can never be rightly tried out of its own sphere or latitude, in which it is wont to grow, or must be cultivated in, it cannot be expected, that a farmer can turn his fields into gardens and cultivate every plant as he would one in a garden that is nursed.
Every thing looses its value by being too expensive and troublesome; however it was not the case with this experiment, for it had not even equal justice done it. But it convinced me of the quantity of seed that ought to be sown on an acre, and at what distances each plant ought to stand.
To be continued.
The Subscriber having been so often imposed on, by ill minded Persons, frequenting the North-Mills, hereby informs his good Customers, and others, that may occasionally call to have their Grain ground, that unless their Bags are marked with the Owners Name at large, he shall not hold himself accountable for any that may be taken away, whether by mistake or otherwise, which has frequently been the Case of late.
SETH WALKER, Miller,
Portsmouth, Dec. 12, 1785.

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DENMARK, (ALTENA) July 15.
On the 2d instant a very extraordinary phenomenon was observed here:—A cloud descended upon the surface of the Elbe, and after appearing to confound itself with the river, rose, taking up with it a great quantity of water. At a little distance another cloud descended, and plunged ten or twelve times into the river, the bed whereof became clearly discernible. In a few minutes, these clouds discharged the water they had taken up into the river, and then uniting, they took a direction over this city in a kind of whirlwind, whereby the roofs of several buildings were injured.
L O N D O N, Sept. 20.
A few days since a wedding was celebrated at a village within seven miles of the metropolis, which had the following very extraordinary circumstances: The bridegroom was 86 years of age, the bride 19; the father who gave away the bride was 91 years of age. There was six men, the youngest of whom was 61, who danced with six maidens, the oldest (though nearly of a size) only 17. There were at the dinner the father, mother, grandmother, great uncle, and great aunt of the bride; and the son, daughter, five grand children, and one great grand child of the bridegroom, the latter of whom was fourteen years of age, and acted as master of the ceremonies.
Sept. 24. The project of establishing colonies on the North-West parts of America, though it seems at present to be the favourite topic of the people of England, must be considered indeed as truly chimerical. In arriving at this remote part, and returning back, a voyage of more than the circumnavigation of the globe must be made, and without numerous colonists that country could never be cultivated, or its trade worth pursuing. If the North-East or North-West passage to China and the East-Indies be discovered, it must then turn out a matter of the most important concern; but nature, with a jealous hand, has barred these passages with the invincible obstacle of eternal ice.—The Russians are the only people that can form settlements in these quarters, and derive essential benefit from the same. As to the sea otter skins that abound in these parts, they may indeed turn out to great profit, but they could not possibly be procured in such abundance as to compensate the risque and expense of such a voyage.
Octo. 1. Yesterday the Marquis of Carmathen, and several others of the ministerial Nobility, dined with Mr. Adams, the American Plenipotentiary, at his house in Grosvenor-square.
Extract of a letter from Algiers, August 11.
“On the 5th a Neapolitan prize was brought in, as also two Spanish vessels from America, ladea with sugar, coffee, skins, and some specie; these were, however, liberated by the Regency, as the Count D'Espilly proved that they were really Spanish, and not Neapolitan vessels, as had been supposed.—Three Portuguese vessels in ballast have been taken, and the crews consisting of 32 men, put in irons. A packet boat belonging to his Most Christian Majesty, with dispatches from the French squadron in the Mediterranean for Brest, an English and two other vessels, were brought in under pretence that their passports were not regular, and it was with great difficulty that the English and French Consuls obtained their release. Ten corsairs who sailed the 5th of July are returned, and two others are hourly expected; they have taken during their cruise, two Neapolitan, one Genoese, one American, and seven Portuguese vessels.
“It is impossible to read the above accounts, without shuddering at the audacity of these robbers; who seize without hesitation, whatever falls in their way. But the greatest blame is surely due to the absurd system, which not only suffers them to infest the seas and interrupt commerce, but furnishes them with the means by annual tributes meanly paid to these banditti.”
Oct. 12. Humiliating as the terms are which the Dutch have been obliged to accept from the Austrians, it is probable they would not have come off so easily, had not the Emperor been embarrassed by the German confederacy, and therefore lowered his demands, especially with regard to the money, the loss of which is more severely felt by the mercantile Hollanders, than even that of territory. However, the giving up their forts upon the Scheldt (particularly that of Lillo, which is a place of strength, and really the key to that river) must be peculiarly grating. They have found the assistance of France more nominal than real, and their dread of Prussia, arising partly from the well known ambition and enterprising temper of that monarch, partly from his connection with the Prince of Orange, and his open disapprobation
of the steps they have taken and are still taking to annihilate the power of the Stadtholder, prevented them from accepting the offers of so dangerous an ally. Thus circumstanced, without a single power on the sincerity of whose friendship they could rely, for their conduct had so irritated the British nation that no minister would have been bold enough to have even proposed taking an active part in their favour, they may think themselves happy that they have for the present escaped so well. But let them take warning by the past, lay aside their domestick quarrels and their ill-timed parsimony, and join heartily and contribute liberally to put their country in a posture of defence, or they may depend upon it their present suffering is only a prelude to what is to come. For it is with nations as with individuals, injuries and insults will always be the lot of those to whom they may be offered with impunity.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23.
Extract of a letter from Richmond, (Virginia) dated Nov. 18, 1785, to a gentleman in Baltimore.
“Three or four Algerines are brought here on suspicion that they are spies; they give very inconsistent accounts of themselves; they came in an English ship to Norfolk, and have been examined by the Governor; but what will be done with them is yet uncertain.”
Nov. 25. A body of troops, consisting of 70 men, of the first American regiment, under the command of Major Maitraminach, lately marched through Carlisle on their way to Fort Pitt, where they are to do duty; and we hear that a large party have gone through York county, for the same place and purpose.
Friday last Mr. Fitzsimons presented to the House of Assembly, a memorial from the committee of merchants of this city, declaring their approbation of the law for the protection and encouragement of domestic manufactures, one particular excepted, viz the duty on wines &c. coming from the Portuguese islands, these islands, being open for the admission of American flour, &c. though the ports of Portugal are closed thereto.
N E W Y O R K, Dec. 1.
A gentleman has informed us of a certainty that the late hurricane has been general, and very fatal in Hispaniola;—Cape-Francois, Port-au-Prince, Jeremie, Jacmel, and Aux-Cayes, in particular, have suffered immense mischief. Great numbers of buildings, both in town and country, have been blown to the earth; many vessels wrecked in the different harbours, every plantain tree in the island cut down by the fury of the tempest, and many valuable lives were lost.
An English paper has the following paragraph. There is a certain young lady, living (or rather miserably existing) in London, who, falling asleep with pins in her mouth, swallowed several of them, which are now working out from different parts of her body, and particularly some from the ends of her fingers. The excessive pain she must feel, may be easily conceived. It is hoped, therefore, this paragraph will be of service to several ladies, who most imprudently and dangerously keep pins in their mouths.
A correspondent observes, that he fears greatly for the State of Massachusetts least they should relax from that genuine and truly republican spirit which formerly governed all their councils.—They have already ingloriously fettered the press,—and now, behold an act is passed their house of assembly for the admission of those pests of our land, the refugees. At this, however their constituents express the greatest dissatisfaction, and hope it will be negatived by the senate. How do the mighty fall! &c.
R H O D I S L A N D.
NEWPORT, Dec. 5. A letter from Quebec, of October 28. says, “Just after the total darkness, a large ball of fire fell into the river, near a large ship, which was seen by many. It caused an uncommon agitation in the water.”
Since the hurricane, Jamaica has been very unhealthy. We are told that the sea about that island still continues to have uncommon emotions, exceeding its usual bounds.
The General Assembly of Maryland, on the 14th ult. elected the Hon. William Smallwood Governor of that state.
C O N N E C T I C U T.
EAST-HADDAM, Nov. 28. On the night after the 23 instant, two persons, viz. one Porter a noted villain, belonging to Waterbury, and one Parker of Wallingford stole forty sheep, chiefly the property of one man in Waterbury, and drove them to this town. The affair was conducted with much secrecy, that they arrived safe, and having accomplished their business, Parker set out to return home with his new flock of sheep, &c. But the scene soon changed; the poor man was met by two pursuers, who had found out the place of their destination, and apprehended him, and put him under keepers until they had pursued and overtaken his accomplice. This day, we hear, they are to be handcuffed together, turned among the flock of sheep, and driven back to Waterbury.
M I D D L E T O W N, November 22.
Extract of a letter from Fort Pitt, dated October 13, 1785, to a Gentleman in this City.
“We marched from West-Point the 7th of September, with a full company of 70 men, compleatly equipped with arms, cloathing, and camp equipage.
“The cloathing was very good, the coats excepted, which are coarse.
“We arrived at this post yesterday, after a march of thirty six days, with as little trouble as could be expected on so long a march, and with recruits.
The company is healthy and in good spirits, except two men, who were left upon the road, by reason of their sickness. Eight deserted from us during our march, and we were so unfortunate as to retake none of them. We shall remain at this post but one or two days. Col. Harmer met us five days before our arrival, on his route to New York. He informed us that our destination is down the river Ohio, as far as Muskingum, which is 170 miles distant, where we are to build a stockade fort to prevent our being insulted by the Indians, and but for the winter. Major Doughty with a company of New-York troops, is now at Fort McIntosh, awaiting our arrival, when we shall go down the river together. Major Hamtrack was at West Point when we departed, with a company nearly complete, and expected to march on in a few days. Col. Harmer expects to send on two companies more from the State of Pennsylvania this fall. One company that he re-enlisted from the year's men has gone down to the Miami with the commissioners, upon the treaty. The whole force here will then consist of six companies. Col. Harmer will exert himself to have a respectable garrison in the Indian country this winter. We flatter ourselves we shall spend the winter very agreeably, as it is excellent hunting and fishing where we are to quarter.—The commissioners departed from Fort McIntosh the 20th ult. to go down to the treaty.—The surveyors are some of them at this place. We had the pleasure to meet Col. Sherman here, who has been down the Ohio about forty miles.—Capt. Hutchins with some of the surveyors began to run the East and West line; but have not proceeded more than three miles.—they apprehend it unsafe at present. The surveyor General is determined not to proceed till he has the protection of some of the Indian Chiefs; for which he has sent a messenger among them, who has not yet returned. If this measure is unattended with success, he will set off instantly for Congress.
“There is a Delaware warrior detained a prisoner in this fort who in a frolic here some months since, killed two men and wounded two more.—His trial comes on next week, and it is not doubted but he will be sentenced to suffer death: he is one of the principal warriors of his nation, and occasioned as much mischief in the late war.
“I must just make mention of the agreeable surprize I met with to day.—We happened to arrive here the day before a grand horse racing was to take place, and continue for three days, and instead of being in an uninhabited country, I found myself one among a thousand spectators, and principally from the country adjacent.
“Pittsburgh is very pleasantly situated, and consists of upwards of an hundred buildings near the fort.—Here are goods in the greatest plenty; but they bear a high price.—Provisions are remarkably cheap; flour is at two dollars per cent. and beef at twenty shillings,—venison is sold for a copper per pound.”
B O S T O N, December 12.
A Shelburne paper mentions that the sum demanded by the Algerines of the United States, as price of peace and amity, is three hundred thousand pound sterling paid down, and one hundred thousand annually.
We hear from Springfield, a few days since, Stephen Burrough, and Glazier Wheeler, two notorious offenders, attempted to make their escape from the jail in that town by setting it on fire—fortunately the fire was discovered before it had got to any height; and they were committed to the house of correction, when the usual discipline of the whip was bestowed upon them very liberally.
John Bayard, Charles Pettit, Arthur St. Clair, William Henry, and James Wilson, Esquires, are elected Delegates to represent the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Congress, the ensuing year.
C H A R L E S T O N, Dec. 9.
The proprietors of the bridge erected across Charles-river having purchased the hull of a large prize ship Lord Howe, for the purpose of sinking her in inch a position in the river, as to defend the bridge from the ice; on Wednesday the attempt was made, when by some mistake in the conductors, she was unfortunately sunk in the channel, where her stem and stern just appear at low water. She went down so unexpectedly and rapidly, that two men, who were assisting, had no time to quit her, but being left in the water, were saved by swimming till taken up by the boats.
Rockingham County.
Pursuant 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
Choice George's Stone Lime.
ALSO,
Double refined LOAF-SUGAR,
TO BE SOLD BY
Jacob Sheafe, jun'r.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 14, 1785.
A L M A N A C K S,
of all Kinds—to be sold by
Alford Butler,
—By the Groce, Dozen, or Single—
ALSO,
Record Books,
Made and Sold, at his Shop, just below Mr. BOWLES’.

YOUR FRIEND OF GOVERNMENT has drawn his Quill in a good cause—we lament that he has conducted it with so little ability, and paid so small attention to his subject. But my business is not with him. To analyse the Tender Act, to trace it through its variety of political consequences, be the employment of an abler pen: I shall cautiously avoid the wide field in which he has wandered, and confine myself to a few observations on the late act of our legislature “for the recovery of small debts in an expeditious way and manner.” We will see how it comports with the 20th and 21st articles of our Bill of Rights. “In all controversies concerning property, and in all suits between two or more persons, except in cases in which it has been heretofore otherwise used and practised, the parties have a right to a trial by JURY; and this method of procedure shall be held sacred, unless in causes arising on the high seas, and such as relate to mariners wages, the legislature shall think it necessary hereafter to alter it.”—And again—“In order to reap the fullest advantage of the inestimable privilege of the trial by JURY, great care ought to be taken that none but qualified persons should be appointed to serve; and such ought to be fully compensated for their travel, time and attendance.” CONSTITUTION of New Hampshire.
Now for the law, “Be it enacted, &c. (as usual) that every Justice of the Peace in the town where he resides, be and hereby is fully authorised and empowered to hear, try and determine all pleas and actions of debt and trespass, where title of land is not concerned, arising or happening within this State, to the value of ten pounds, or under, and to give judgment therein, and to award execution thereupon.” &c. &c. LAW of New Hampshire.
The Constitution says “the parties have a right to a trial by JURY, except in cases in which it has been heretofore otherwise used and practised.”—If we enquire what cases these were, we shall find, that for almost ninety years preceding the constitution, every subject of this government was entitled to a trial by JURY, in all civil causes whatever, (those of the admiralty, probate, and matrimony excepted) where the demand exceeded forty shillings, in whatever court they originated and in the first stage of the action.
If the officers and magistrates of government are the substitutes of the people, and accountable to their constituents (and by the Constitution they are so) the legislature must answer,
1st. By what mode of interpretation this law and the Constitution can be made to consist?
2d. Have the parties now a right to a trial by Jury in all controversies concerning property, except in cases in which it has been heretofore otherwise practised?
3d. Can the fullest advantage be now reaped of this inestimable privilege?
4th. In what sense this method of procedure is held SACRED?
Before the passing of this ever memorable law, every subject in this state had a right to bring his action to the Inferior Court in the first instance—he was there entitled to a Jury in the first stage of his action. If he was dissatisfied with their verdict, he might review his action at the same court, and commit his cause to another Jury.—He might appeal from the judgment of that court to the Superior Court, where he would have had Judges more learned in the law, his cause given to a better Jury, the advantage of any new evidence he could not before obtain, and if he failed there on the first trial, he might have another on review. Thus his property could not eventually have been taken from him, but by the verdict of four Juries, successively impanelled in every stage of the action from its first commencement at the Common Pleas to its final issue at the Superior Court on review. By this law, in all actions less than ten pounds, the party may be deprived of two of his most important Juries, and may have none at all but by an appeal.
I make no strictures on the general ignorance of country justices, their want of education and their consequent prejudices, their liability to impose and be imposed on by artifice and chicanery, by special pleading, by averring that to be proved which is not so, by suppressing a part of the evidence and distinguishing away the remainder, and their very small acquaintance with the law. On none of these points (to spare their feelings) shall I remark; but only mention that precisely one half the value to which our ancestors esteemed the jurisdiction of their common pleas barely competent, their wiser sons interest to the determination of a simple justice!
The consideration of the constitutional question has been the more explicit because it appears to me to be of the greatest magnitude.—How far the law may answer the purposes of the legislative, is altogether another matter. The question before us is that of right not of utility. If the legislature can enlarge a justices' jurisdiction from 40s. to 10l. why not to 10,000l.? what shall check them? they appear to me to be equally repugnant to our Bill of Rights. What power but that of the collective body of the people, shall prevent the legislature's making the jurisdiction of a justice unlimited as well in criminal as civil matters? When we see powerful and formidable inroads on the constitution, our trial by Jury abridged, and the jurisdiction of our Inferior and Superior Courts infringed (which under God are the only preservatives of our freedom) what are we next to apprehend? may we not expect that the legislature, at their next session may take it under consideration, intirely to abolish both those Courts, and as a salvo to their proceedings, make the salaries of the Judges, and the expense, travel, and attendance of Jurymen, a specious and plausible but servile and unmeaning apology to the people.
If there can be a duty we owe to ourselves, our children, our families and our posterity, it is concentrated in this—to examine our constitution with critical attention, to recur to its fundamental principles, and
to see that the bold and daring violators of it (whoever they may be) escape not with impunity. When the legislature of any country exceed the boundary prescribed them, when they violate the ORIGINAL CONTRACT between them and the people, the latter have a natural and indisputable right to resume the power, with which, to promote their own happiness they invested them, and to take the reins of government into their own hands. The gaudy phantom of authority vanishes in a moment, and though the drummers and trumpeters of a faction, may for a while silence the voice of truth and reason, the time is inevitable when they will command attention, when the injuries of a free people must have reparation, and their wrongs—justice.
December 8. A CITIZEN.
NEWBURY-PORT, Dec. 14.
In the course of last week, a family in this neighbourhood removed, with their effects, into a newly finished house, and having considerable company, were necessitated to conclude to take up their lodgings in chambers lately plastered, and not sufficiently dried—in some of these chambers the company spent part of the evening, till at length, a sister to the owner of the house complaining of being unwell, and a pain in her stomach, it was thought prudent for her to retire to bed, but during her preparation therefor, her sister (wife to the owner of the house) fainted, and on recovering herself a little, made the same complaints—their difficulties increasing, a Doctor was sent for, who, when he came, found 8 or 9 of the company in much the same situation, among whom was the master of the house, who fainted, and complained as the rest. The Doctor ordered them out of the damp rooms, and they soon found relief—This is inserted for a caution to others
Portsmouth, December 16.
During the last session of the General Court of this State, a motion was made, as we are informed, and seconded, to appoint a committee to consider the expediency of altering the mode of punishment for petty-crimes; and of obliging such as may be convicted of them, to work out their salvation, not with fear and trembling, but with—the nail and the hammer.
DIED] A son of Major WILLIAM GARDINER's—aged 9 years.
MARINE LIST.
PORT OF PISCATAQUA. Dec 16. ENTERED. Brig Irish Gimblet, Welch, from Cape Francois. CLEARED. Schooner Dove, Trefethern, for West-Indies. Brig Two Sisters, Jackson, Ditto. Brig Mary, Stokell, Ditto.
Imported, and to be sold by DANIEL RINDGE, At his Store, in Paved Street, 8 by 6, 9 by 7, 10 by 8 Window Glas; 4d. 6d. 10d. and 20d. Nails; a large Assortment of Pewter, viz. Dishes and Plates, two-Quart, one-Quart and Pint Basons; Quart and Pint-Pots, Porringers of several sizes, Table and Tea-Spoons, fashionable Block-Tin Tea-Pots, Warning-Pans, Frying-Pans, Shovels and Tongs, Shoemaker's Tools, Locks and Hinges, Table Knives and Forks, Cutteau and Penknives, Tailor's Shears and Shaping Scissars Womens Scissars, Spring and Thumb-Latches, flat Plate-Bolts, Candlesticks, Curry-Combs, and many other Articles in Hard Ware. Fashionable Buttons; Men's and Youth's low priced, middling and very fine Hats; Painters' Colours; Bar and Sheet Lead and Shot; St. Peter's Cod-Lines, &c. &c. Also, blue and light coloured Broad-Cloths; light blue, dark blue, claret and Cloth-coloured German Serges; Forest Cloths, Beaver Coatings, Bath-Beavers, Shalloons and Tammy's, Men's Hose, Linens and Chintzes.
WANTED TO PURCHASE, A Quantity of good WHARF-TIMBER. Enquire of the PRINTERS. PORTSMOUTH, Decemb. 16, 1785.
All Persons who have Demands against the Town of Portsmouth for Supplies or Labour, are desired to exhibit them to the Selectmen, before the last Day of the present Month; as it is necessary the Accounts of the Town should be closed with the current Year.
JOHN NOBLE, PETER COWES, W. GARDINER, JOHN SPARHAWK, } Selectmen. Portsmouth, Dec. 8, 1785.
All Taverners and Retailers, who have not settled their Excise in the Subscriber's District are requested to call and settle the same, on or before the Meeting of the General Sessions of the Peace, at Exeter, the 4th Tuesday, inst. Otherwise he must proceed as the Law directs.
JONATHAN CASS. Exeter, Dec. 15, 1785.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors and Owners of Land, in Barnstead, who have not paid their Proprietors's Taxes, for the year 1785, that so much of their Lands will be sold by Public Vendue, at the House of Charles Hoddon, Innholder in said Town, as will pay said Taxes, with incidental Charges, unless prevented by previous Payment, on Thursday the 5th Day of January next.
Barnstead, Nov. 18, 1785. 1st Div. 2d Div.
   Proprietors's Names. No. s. No. s. d.    Rev. Joseph Adams 24 10 65 7 4  John Downing 63 16 8  James Pickering 34 10  John Walker 74 10  Richard Downing 18 10 73 16 8  John Fabens 17 16 8  James Nutter 72 10 56 16 8  John Fabens, jun. 86 16 8  Joshua Pickering 88 10 111 16 8  Ensign Hatevel Nutter 92 10  Hatevel Nutter 39 10 37 12 6  Thomas Tricker 58 16 8  Elezer Colman 68 16 8  Joseph Downing 71 10  George Walton 41 10 45 12 8  Jonathan Downing 37 10 24 12 6  Joshua Downing 104 10 70 16 8  Joseph Fabens 35 12 6  Moses Furber 71 16 8  Benjamin Downing 91 16 8  John Decker, jun. 65 10  John Night, jun. 59 16 8  Frances Truckey, 75 5  John Walton 30 10 47 16 8  Andrew Peters 46 10 43 16 8  Thomas Brckford 89 10 61 16 8  Edward Emerson 31 16 8  Jethro Furber 101 16 8  Samuel Thompson 64  John Thompson 27 5 10  Moses Dame 89 5 6  Jonathan Downing 102 15  John Wolingslold 20 10 100 16 8  Henry Allard 43 10 108 16 8  Thomas Leighton 7 10 67 16 8  Joseph Rolens 15 10  Josiah Downing 79 10  Shadrack Wolton, jun. 26 10  John Dame 56 10  John Dame, jun. 83 10  Richard Dame 14 10 113 16 8  Elethan Dame 61 10 85 16 8  Mark Ayrs 19 10 106 16 8  Hatevel Nutter 110 10  Thomas Ayrs 86 10  John Brock 112 5 62 8 4  John Downing, 3d. 55 10 66 16 8  John Huntreis 5 10 118 2 8  Samuel Shackford 90 16 8  Syprah Jeffey 26 12 6  Benjamin Wolton 17 16 8  Benjamin Wentworth 67 10  Hunken Wentworth 6 10  David Wentworth 69 10 84 16 8  James Jeffery 11 2  George Jeffery, jun. 33 10 84  Ebenezer Ware 80 10  Sampson Sheaf 3 10  Mathew Plant 27 10 81 1 8  Robert Acnotey 57 16 8  Timothy Gerrish 117 88 8 4  Peter Ware 31 10  John Plaistered 34 16 8  James Davis 40 10 55 16 8  John Gilman, Esq. 92 16 8  Capt. John Downing 51 10  Capt. John Gilman 82 5  Paul Gerrish 77 10 94 16 8  Samuel Tibbets 51 16 8  Ephraim Dennet 69 16 8  Theodore Atkinson 50 12 6  Ebenezer Stephens 57 10  Richard Jennes 89 10 40 16 8  James Jeffery 60 10 39 16 8  Nathaniel Shores 98 16 8  Gilbert McFedras 90 10 38 16 8  Benjamin Clark 22 10  Ebenezer Wentworth 4 10 41 16 8  John Wentworth, jun. 68 10 95 16 8  Samuel Shute, Esq. 107 10  George Fellers 97 16 8  Richard Wibert 78 10  Col. Thomas Westbrook 119 1  Archibald McFedras 93 10  Shadrack Wolton 76 10 25 12 6  John Frost 81 10 32 16 8  Jotham Odeori 10 10 82 16 8  John Redman 16 10  Comons Ammi R. Cutter  Mathers Comons 7  John B. Hansons Comons 16  
JONATHAN CHESLEY, Collector.
A large Moses-Boat was taken up
Last Tuesday at Small-Point in Newington, near Mr. Nicholas Pickering's Farm. The owner may have her again, paying Charges. Enquire of said PICKERING or STEPHEN THOMAS.

Parnassian Spring.
ADDRESS to POVERTY.
O vitæ tutæ facultas Obscuræ, augustæque lares, O munera nondum Intellecta Deum.  LUCAN.
P ALE want! thou Goddess of consumptive hue, If thou design to haunt me still in view; Is still thy presence must my steps attend, At least continue, as thou art, my friend.
When wide example bids me be unjust, False to my word, or faithless to my trust; Bid me the painful error, counsell'd, see, And shun the world to find repose in thee!
When vice to wealth would turn my partial eye, Or interest shut my ear to sorrow's cry; Or leading custom would my reason bend My foe to flatter, or desert my friend; Present, kind Poverty, thy temper'd shield, And bear me off, unvanquish'd, from the field!
If giddy fortune should return again, With all her idle, restless, wanton train: Her magic glass should false ambition hold, Or avarice bid me put my trust in gold; To my relief, thou virtuous goddess, haste, And with thee bring thy smiling daughters chaste, Health, Liberty, and Wisdom; sisters bright! Whose charms can make the worst condition light; Beneath the hardest fate the mind can chear, Can heal affliction and disarm despair: In chains, in torments, pleasure can bequeath, And dress in smiles the tyrant brow of death.
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,
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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, Perl-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
State of New-Hampshire, Concord, Nov. 3. 1785.
P UBLIC notice is hereby given, that Barnabas Bar- ker, of Rindge, in the county of Cheshire, hath peti- tioned 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 build- ings thereon, which land the said Tufton purchased of one Jehoshaphat Groot, and one Silas Burdoo, since which time said Tufton hath absented himself and gone to some place unknown to him the petitioner, and never record- ed the deeds to him from said Groot, 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 re- corded; 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 peti- tion 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'y-ry.
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.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE 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, 3 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.
THESE 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 grant- ed 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 there- of may not be granted.
Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'y-ry. Concord, October 24, 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.
WINTER GOODS,
Just arrived from LONDON, AND TO BE SOLD BY
James Sheafe,
Baizes, Forest Cloth, Blankets, Plains, Coatings, Serges,
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London Porter, Hhds. Earthen Cheshire Cheefe, 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.
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 imme- diately, agreeable to Law; those who neglect after this Public Notice, may expect to have the Laws put in Execu- tion. The Firewards expect that those Persons that have received Orders for the putting their Chimnies in repair, will not fail of complying with so rea- sonable a Request.
Portsmouth, Dec. 7, 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.
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.
Six 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 Mr. Daniel Sherburne , late of Portsmouth, merchant, deceased, represented insolvent, we therefore give notice that we will attend on said bus- iness on the third Monday of this, and the five follow- ing months, from 10 to 12 o'clock, A. M. at the house of Capt. William Brewster , inholder in Portsmouth.
DANIEL RINDGE, NATT SPARHAWK, RICHARD HART. } Commissioners.
Portsmouth, Dec. 1, 1785.
ROCKINGHAM, ss.  T HE Creditors to the Estate of Caleb Greenleaf Adams, late of Exeter, in said County, Physician, deceased, repre- sented 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.