The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1790-01-20 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful and entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Congress-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
TWENTY-FIRST ACT OF CONGRESS.
An Act to recognize and adapt to the Constitution of the United States the establishment of the Troops raised under the resolve of the United States in Congress assembled, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the establishment contained in the resolve of the late Congress, of the third day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, except as to the mode of appointing the officers, and also as is herein after provided, be, and the same is hereby recognized to be the establishment for the troops in the service of the United States.
And be it further enacted, That the pay and allowances of the said troops be the same as have been established by the United States in Congress assembled, by their resolution of the twelfth of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty five.
And be it further enacted, That all commissioned and non-commissioned officers and privates, who are or shall be in the service of the United States, shall take the following oaths or affirmations, to wit: "I, A. B. do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States." "I, A. B. do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) to bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and to serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies or opposers whatever, and to observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States of America, and the orders of the officers appointed over me."
And be it further enacted, That the said troops shall be governed by the rules and articles of war which have been established by the United States in Congress assembled, or by such rules and articles of war, as may hereafter by law be established.
And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of protecting the inhabitants of the frontiers of the United States from the hostile incursions of the Indians, the President is hereby authorized to call into service from time to time, such part of the militia of the States respectively, as he may judge necessary for the purpose aforesaid; and that their pay and subsistence while in service, be the same as the pay and subsistence of the troops abovementioned.
And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
FREDERICK A. MUHLENBURG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved—September the 29th, 1789. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
BRADFORD.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the owners of land in Bradford, that the selectmen of said town have assessed their lands agreeable to an act of the Hon. General Court of the State aforesaid, passed January 1789, for levying one penny annually for three years next following on each acre of land in said town, (excepting that part of the town which was taken off from Washington) therefore unless they pay the same to the selectmen of said town, on or before the 5th day of March next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue at ten o'Clock, A. M. on said day at the dwelling-house of Ebenezer Eaton in said town.
Table with 2 columns: No., s. d. Rows include Thomas Packer, Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, and March. Includes names of Selectmen: EBENEZER EATON, AAC DAVIS.
B O W. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors or owners of land in the town of Bow, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1785, and 1786, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the first Tuesday in February next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on said day, at my dwelling-house in said town.
Table with 4 columns: No., R., s., d., q. Lists 100 acre lots for the year 1785.
Table with 4 columns: No., R., s., d., q. Lists 20 acre lots for the year 1786.
Table with 4 columns: No., R., s., d., q. Lists 100 acre lots for the year 1786.
Table with 4 columns: No., R., s., d., q. Lists 20 acre lots for the year 1786.
S A N D W I C H. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Sandwich, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 10th day of February next, so much of their land as will the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling-house in said town, at twelve o'clock on said day.
Table with 7 columns: Range, Lots, Ord., Indent., Cont'd, Silver, C. Silver. Lists land assessments for Sandwich.
C R O Y D O N. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Croydon, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the first Tuesday in March next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Abijah Hall, in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
Table with 4 columns: No., D., R., Q'ty, s., d., q. Lists land assessments for Croydon.
H I L L S B O R O U G H. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Hillsborough, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the third Thursday in March, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of John Dutton, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock A. M. on said day.
Table with 4 columns: No., D., R., Q'ty, s., d., q. Lists land assessments for Hillsborough.
C R O Y D O N. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Croydon, who have not paid their penny tax for the year 1789, that unless they pay said tax to us the subscribers, on or before the first Tuesday in March next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at ten o'clock forenoon, on said day, at the dwelling-house of Mr. Abijah Hall in said town.
Table with 4 columns: No., D., R., Q'ty, s., d., q. Lists land assessments for Croydon.
To AMMI R. CUTTER, Esq. Proprietors Clerk of the Township of Dummer.
WE the subscribers, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the Township of Dummer, request you to call a meeting of the Proprietors of said Township, to be held at the house of Mr. Daniel Symes, innholder in Portsmouth, on Thursday the 28th of January, at 3 o'clock, P. M. for the following purposes, viz:— 1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting. 2d. To adjust and settle all accounts
of said Proprietary, which at present remain open.
3d. To determine upon some measures for more effectually settling said township. 4th. To see what sums the Proprietors will assess, for the purpose of building mills, and having such roads made thro' said township, as may be thought necessary, and for other purposes for the speedy settlement of said township. 5th. To transact any other business, which may then appear necessary for the benefit of said proprietary. SAMUEL HAVEN, JOSEPH HAVEN, JOHN PEIRCE, NATH'L A. HAVEN. Portsmouth, January 1, 1790. AGREEABLY to the foregoing request, I hereby notify the Proprietors of Dummer, to meet at the time and place, for the purposes therein mentioned. A. R. CUTTER, Proprietors Clerk.
SOCIETY LAND. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Societyland, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the second Tuesday in March next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Joseph Putnam, in said town, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. Silver. ind's cert.
Table with 4 columns: No., D., R., Q'ty, s., d., q. Lists land assessments for Societyland.
This Day, New Auction.
Country Tardars, Shopkeepers, and others in town and country, are invited to Abra'm Isaac's AUCTION-ROOM in Water-Street, at Col. Sherburne's Brick-House, this Day—at which time and place will be sold at Public Vendue, a general Assortment of
GOODS,
suitable for the season, in large or small lots, as will best suit the purchasers. The sale to begin precisely at 3 o'clock. The Subscriber having opened an Auction-Room proposes to carry it on, statedly once a week, viz. every Wednesday provided suitable encouragement offers. He will take goods in upon very low commissions, and will endeavour to do justice both to buyer and seller. Constant attendance will be given, and the smallest favours gratefully acknowledged by the Public's humble servant, ABRAHAM ISAAC.
N. B. Also will be sold at the same place, a number of RED SILK INDIA HANDKERCHIEFS. Jan. 20.
The Vendue for the sale of Pews which was advertised to be held at the South Meeting-House on the 3d day of December last, is adjourned to Thursday the 4th day of February next, at 3 o'clock, P. M. at said meetinghouse. This is to notify the delinquent proprietors that unless the arrearage tax on the pews are paid by said day they will be sold without further notice.
TIMOTHY GERRISH, Collector. Portsmouth, January 13.
BLANKS of all sorts printed and sold at J. MELCHER'S Printing-Office, in Congress-Street, VERY CHEAP.

To the Honorable the medical society of The humble petition of HUMPHRY TROGMORTON of
Sheweth, THAT the expence your honors meant to save to your patients, by a resolve passed not long since in curtailing the four meetings of the farriers down to two, annually, has not answered, nor is like to answer, that salutary end which your honors proposed. That as your petitioner has a servant man, who, if he happens to be cut short of, and go without his dinner, is sure to eat a double supper to make it up: so your honors servants, the farriers, can hold their meetings twice as long as they did before—or can adjourn, which amounts to the same thing.—That the number of farriers have increased in a ratio not proportioned to your honors' patients; having now risen up to the number of forty odd, instead of twenty five; and this in the short space of two years. That at this rate of multiplying, in twenty years more, may it please your honors, they will be two hundred strong—that then the expence will be a full match for all our other expences.—That your honors patients now have to find hay and oats, for some horses while they are impounded and under cure, five months and twenty nine days, instead of two months and twenty eight days. That the economical vote which your honors passed above two years ago, respecting the inclosing pound-yards, and erecting buildings therein for disordered horses to tread out corn in, in order to pay for their keeping, currying, &c. through the unaccountable negligence of the farriers, has never been carried into effect, to the great detriment of your honors patients. That the holding these farrier meetings is necessary, if it is for no other purpose than that each district in the place may have a spokesman there to vote how much money shall be raised for the service of —, and how, when and where it shall be laid out and expended, is not true; in as much as the town wherein your petitioner dwells, have not passed a single vote, in their meetings, to raise a penny of money, for these twenty years, and upwards; but have always left that matter entirely to the selectmen, to do therein as they thought proper; but have annually had a check upon said selectmen, by choosing a committee to audit their accounts, and yet your petitioner never heard of so much as a single pair of lips being opened against them for mal-administration in this respect.
Your petitioner therefore humbly prays that your honors will be pleased to give order that your apprentices may take all disordered horses under their care and charge, where, if they should fail being cured, that then the said horses may be carried up to your honors surgeons, at which place or places it may be done in a workmanlike manner, and with a great saving of expence to your honors patients.
Or, your petitioner humbly prays that your honors will be pleased to restrict the farriers down to a certain number, consisting of three, four or even five, who may be specially named and appointed to hold these meetings in peace, order, regularity and decency—and with becoming sobriety and dignity, and not in that language, timid, and ridiculous, half-awkward kind of confusion, which sometimes attend town meetings, where almost every person present is a member.
But if your honors shall think that neither of these methods will answer—your petitioner then (and not else) humbly prays, that, instead of the manner the said farrier meetings are now held, your honors will be pleased to give your assent that every animate being in the district, dress in human form and flesh—men, women, children and all, may meet in some convenient place therein, and hold these meetings themselves. Your petitioner could demonstrate to your honors a thousand advantages that would accrue from this arrangement; the principal of which is, that where there are so many heads, 'twill be next a kin to impossible for any wrong to be done.
Your petitioner also humbly prays this honorable Society to take such further order respecting the premises as to them shall seem meet.
And your petitioner shall pray, &c. HUMPHRY TROGMORTON.
Cash given for old Pewter, By John Gooch, at his Shop, at the sign of four Plates, in Daniel Street.
PARIS, October 23. It must give real satisfaction to every one to be informed, that the two men who waited at the lamp-iron, tying the rope that strangled the Baker, with so much savage pleasure, have both dearly suffered death at the same place. The manner in which they were taken is singular: One of them wished to get within the circle of guards before the Hotel de Ville, and was refused, which brought from him a complaint of the return that was made to men who had deserved well of their country. "I am the man (said he vauntingly) that hung the Baker." "You shall most undoubtedly pass (replied the guard) and be allowed an attendant to the Hotel de Ville itself."—On being brought there, the wretch imagined he had been mistaken for some other, and still went on indemnifying his person, and stating circumstantially his guilt as a ground of reward; but fearing all this would not well be made out without evidence, he added, that he could bring a witness to his character, who had helped him to pull the rope: Justice itself could not refuse; the witness was brought—they were both fairly examined, fairly tried, and fairly hung at the same lamp-iron, under which they conceived they had two days before achieved honor and renown.
LONDON, November 10. AN ORDER Is passed, for all the nobles and persons of landed property to appear at Paris, within a limited time, on pain of confiscation of all their property for the use of the nation.
THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE Still retains his popularity in France—He is the WASHINGTON of that kingdom—as full of ideas of genuine liberty as he is replete with courage.
REVOLUTIONS, says the great SYDNEY—like storms, though destructive at first to individuals, are salutary in their effects—the one clears the air—the other clears the land of noxious particles. This FRANCE will experience.
By a chain of connections, those men in France who have led on the people, will pass to posterity as Patriots—but they might have died as Traitors!—The Epigram says right— Treason doth never prosper—What's the reason? Why—if it prosper—none dare call it Treason!
BALTIMORE, Dec. 29. Extract of a letter from a master of a vessel to his owners in this town, dated Port Louis, Isle of France, July 16, 1789.
"I arrived here on the 10th of June, after a passage of 124 days. The day before, Capt. Coffin, in a brig from Salem, arrived, after 154 days passage, and proceeded on his voyage—Capt. Frazier in the ship adventure, from Boston, arrived this day, and proceeded on his voyage.—Likewise arrived here, one ship and two brigs from Salem, commanded by Captains Fulger, Murphy, and Lambert."
NEW-YORK, Jan. 2. The company at the PRESIDENT'S yesterday was unusually crowded and respectable. The members of the Senate and House of Representatives—the principal Officers of the Government of the United States—the Governor, and Officers of the State of New-York—the Mayor and many foreigners and citizens of distinction paid him their respects on the commencement of a New-Year. The weather was remarkably fine; and it must have afforded real pleasure to the contemplative mind, to have beheld the pleasing felicitations of all ranks of citizens, and the general joy that pervaded every breast.
HARTFORD, Jan. 7. Since the first of September 1788, ten thousand, two hundred and seventy eight yards of Woollen Cloth have been made at the Woollen Manufactory in this City. It is with pleasure we add that this Manufactory is in a flourishing state—four thousand weight of fine wool has just come to hand from Spain, which with what was before on hand makes a large stock.—A number of good workmen are employed, and broad and narrow cloths of various colours, superfine, midling and low priced, are sold on as reasonable terms as they can be imported.
BOSTON, Jan. 13. Of French News we have but little.—it is said, that there has been a recent change in the Administration of that kingdom—and that
M. de MIRABEAU, is Minister of Paris. Bishop of AUTUN, Minister of Finance. Marquis de SUGER, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Duc de ROCHEFOUCAULT, Keeper of the Seals. These are all members of the National Assembly.
O tempora! O mores!—In perusing an English paper the other day, our eyes readily caught the words in capitals, "BY EXPRESS," at the head of a couple of columns, and our imagination instantly fastened on it, in expectation of something more important and highly interesting—But our mortification may be easily conceived, when we found it nothing but an account of a boxing match between JOHNSON and PERRINS, in Oxfordshire—with a lengthy account of the stage, the umpires, [two Noblemen!] bottle holders, &c. 100,000 guineas depended on this combat—and Johnson the victor received 1200 guineas as his part of the door money!!!
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. In the night of the 5th inst. the house of Mr. TISDALE WINSLOW, in Rochester, Plymouth county, took fire, and was burnt down, almost instantly—and four of five children perished in the flames—the fifth escaping so much burnt, that its life is despaired of. The mother of the children was also much burnt. Mr. WINSLOW was not at home, and it is not known how the accident took place.
SHIP NEWS Extract of a letter from Capt. JAMES ORR, dated St. Pierre, Martinico, Dec. 5.
"I failed from Boston, Oct. 10, in the Brig Active, owned by JOSEPH RUGGLES, Esq. and others, of Roxbury with provisions and 150 sheep on deck. In lat. 33, 30, long. 60, Oct. 19th, the wind veering from N. W. to S. E. at 8 A. M. it began to blow, accompanied at 11 o'clock, with rain. I hove too under a double reefed mainfail; and it blowing so furiously at 11 o'clock, I got the foreyard on deck—Before we had got secured, it blew so strong, that no man could go aloft, and I lay under bare poles until two o'clock—when like a raging Tornado, the gale still increased. I got the Brig before the wind, and the gale was so strong as to blow her head under water—and would not steer. I went to heave the hay and sheep overboard immediately—and from the blowing of the sea, rain, &c. it was so dark that we could not see the jib-boom end at times—the sea running mountains high. At half past two, P. M. the Tornado died away to a breath—and soon after came on from the opposite point with redoubled fury—nothing could stand it, and we scudded before it against the old sea from S. E. until a mast high sea filled the waist, carried all clean before it, hove me on my beam-ends, and I broached too with my head to N. E. In that condition, with the main yard nearly in the water, I lay 15 minutes almost covered up with the sea—at length the main mast went overboard, and all belonging to it, breaking about two feet from the deck—I instantly righted, nothing standing but the foremast—It blew my fore-top sail-yard to the mast head—parted the clue lines and buntlines, all new, with the braces, bowline, tackling, &c. and blew it away, with the topmast, short off at the fore cap—at 4 P. M. fine weather, but great sea."
"On the 20th, in lat. 32, 24, long. 50, 59, spoke sloop Ranger, Joshua Merrill, master, from Casco-Bay, dismasted—he told me the wind was so strong, that it blew away his mast as if it had been made of paste—and that he and all his hands, except a boy were washed overboard and washed in again.—The Captain was much bruised, and had no boat. As I had also no boat, I could not help him to water, which he wanted. I arrived here Nov. 22—since which time six vessels have arrived—the crews of which went on board several wrecks at sea. A Capt. Swain, of Hudson, arrived here yesterday, under jury-masts, bound on whaling."
A sloop from Charleston, bound to North-Carolina, belonging to this State, was cast away 25th Nov. about 8 miles northward of Ocracoke, the cargo saved, and the vessel lost.
Several wrecks with lumber, flour, &c. have been seen at sea. The export of horses and cattle from the port of New-London, in 1789, was 6673. In 1788, 6369.—Excess in 1789 304.
The MEDLEY.
SOME years since, when Doctor Franklin used to ride express from Boston to Philadelphia, he met a sea-faring man in Connecticut, who had been shipwrecked, and carried into some southern port, was on his way home to Boston. He told the Doctor his distress, and asked his assistance—informing, that he had property at home, and could readily make repayment. "I have not," said the Doctor, "much money with me, but I'll put you in a way to get home without any." By the Doctor's directions, the man wrote two advertisements, describing himself by name, &c. as having deserted from one of the King's ships then in Boston harbour, and offering fifty guineas reward, and all necessary charges, to any person who would return him to the commander in Boston. These advertisements the Doctor posted up, and it was not long before the mariner was apprehended, put into a chaise, and brought by two men to Boston, who entertained him very well on the road.—The commander of the ship, on their arrival, swore that the man did not belong to his or any of the ships, and that he had nothing to do with him; and the men were obliged finally to dismiss him, though not before the mariner had invited them to his house, treated them well, told them the scheme, and repaid them all the expenses of the journey.
ANECDOTES.
A SHORT time since at a Court not far distant, a Lawyer had been pleading with great ability the cause of his client for near an hour. When he had done, his antagonist, with a supercilious fling, said he did not understand a word the other had said—who neatly replied, "I believe so, Sir, for I was speaking LAW!"
Dr. CHENEY once, when one of his patients, named Nash, was ill, drew up a prescription for him, which was sent in accordingly. The next day the Doctor going to see his patient, found him up and well; upon which he asked if he had followed his prescription? Followed your prescription! cried Nash, no! Egad, if I had, I should have broke my neck; for I flung it out of the two pair of stairs window.
A MAXIM.
THIS maxim long the ancients knew— "Pay every man his honest due": To this if some would now aspire, And "pay the Labourer off" his hire, 'Twould energy and strength impart— While Gratitude warm from the heart, Should burst, tho' in the forms of winter. From whom? Inquire of THE PRINTER.
INFLUENZA—BON MOTS.
During the late rage of the Influenza, it was difficult at first to find a name for the distemper—A citizen told a countryman that many called it "The Federal Cough," on the idea that it was taken on the arrival of our illustrious President—They are wrong, replied the countryman, it is "The antifederal Cough certainly, for it is inimical to the Constitution."
A person calling it the Washington Cough, was corrected by another, who observed that it was more properly the Murry Cough—as it was an Universal one.
From a London Paper.
A PAINTER'S BILL.
COPY of a PAINTER'S BILL, presented to the VESTRY, at Christmas, for work done to the painted walls of a well known Church in Ireland.
TO filling up the chinks in the Red Sea, and repairing the damages of Pharaoh's Host.
To a new Thief on the Cross.
To cleaning six Apostles, and adding an entire new Judas Iscariot.
To a new pair of hands for Daniel in the lion's den, and a new set of teeth for the lions.
To a new alteration in the Belief.
To mending the Commandments, and making a new Lord's prayer.
To repairing Nebuchadnezzar's beard.
To mending the pitcher of Jacob's daughter.
To a pair of sleeves for Susannah's shift, and repairing the breeches of one of the Elders.
To cleaning the whale's belly, varnishing Jonah's face, and mending left arm.
To a new shirt to Joseph's garb, and a lascivious eye for Potiphar's wife.
To a jury man, and a long jury man.

To making a new head for Holifernes, and cleaning Judith's hands.
To making perfect the Eunuch attending on Esther.
To giving a blush to the cheek of Eve, on presenting the apple to Adam.
To mending the net in the miraculous drought of fishes.
To a perspective glass for David viewing Bathsheba, and mending his right eye.
To painting a new City in the land of Nod.
To cleaning the Garden of Eden after Adam's expulsion.
To finishing the Tower of Babel, and furnishing most of the figures with new heads.
To painting a shoulder of mutton and a shin of beef, in the mouths of the two ravens feeding Elijah.
FROM A LATE PHILADELPHIA PAPER OUR COUNTRY'S RICHES.
The following is the produce of 35 acres of ground, 14 acres of which is ploughed ground, farmed by William Johnson , at Frankford mill.—170 1/2 bushels Barley, 139 ditto Rye, 56 ditto Wheat, 256 1/2 ditto Buckwheat, 180 ditto Indian Corn, 50 tons Hay, 20 ditto pumpkins, 250 bushels Potatoes, 100 ditto Turnips, 1/2 acre Flax.
THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH, Received by yesterday's MAIL.
CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Jan. 7.
A MESSAGE was sent to the Senate, informing them that a quorum of the House was now assembled.
Mr. Boudinot, Mr. Sherman and Mr. White, were appointed a committee to report the unfinished business of the last session.
A resolution was received from the Senate, by which Mr. Strong and Mr. Izard is appointed a committee on their part, to wait on, and inform the President of the United States, that the two Houses of Congress are now formed, and request to know of him, what time he will assign to meet them in the Senate Chamber, to lay before them the business he has to communicate. The House concurred in this resolution, and appointed Mr. Gilman, Mr. Ames, and Mr. Seney, a committee on their part.
Mr. Gilman, of the committee appointed to wait on the President informed the house, that the President had assigned To-Morrow, 11 o'clock to meet, and address both Houses of Congress, in the Senate Chamber. Adjourned to half after 10 o'clock, to-morrow morning.
JANUARY 8.
The House being assembled, adjourned to the Senate Chamber. At 11 o'clock, THE PRESIDENT of the United States, attended by his Aids, and Secretary, was received by the two Houses of Congress in the Senate Chamber, when he was pleased to make the following
S P E E C H.
FELLOW-CITIZENS of the SENATE, and HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES.
I EMBRACE with great satisfaction the opportunity, which now presents itself, of congratulating you on the present favorable prospects of our public affairs. The recent accession of the important state of North-Carolina to the Constitution of the United States (of which official information has been received)—the rising credit and respectability of our country—the general and increasing good-will towards the government of the union, and the concord, peace and plenty, with which we are blessed, are circumstances, auspicious in an eminent degree to our national prosperity.
In resuming your consultations for the general good, you cannot but derive encouragement from the reflection, that the measures of the last session have been as satisfactory to your constituents, as the novelty and difficulty of the work allowed you to hope.—Still further to realize their expectations, and to secure the blessings which a gracious Providence has placed within our reach, will in the course of the present important session, call for the cool and deliberate exertion of your patriotism, firmness, and wisdom.
Among the many interesting objects, which engage your attention, that for the common defence, in particular regard.—To be prepared for war is one of the most essential of preserving peace.
A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactures, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies.
The proper establishment of the troops which may be deemed indispensable, will be entitled to mature consideration. In the arrangements which may be made respecting it, it will be of importance to conciliate the comfortable support of the officers and soldiers, with a due regard to economy.
There was reason to hope, that the pacific measures adopted with regard to certain hostile tribes of Indians, would have relieved the inhabitants of our southern and western frontiers from their depredations. But you will perceive, that the informations contained in the papers which I shall direct to be laid before you, (comprehending a communication from the Commonwealth of Virginia) that we ought to be prepared to afford protection to those parts of the Union; and, if necessary, to punish aggressors.
The interest of the United States require, that our intercourse with other nations shall be facilitated by such provisions as will enable me to fulfil my duty in that respect, in the manner, which circumstances may render most conducive to the public good: And to this end, that the compensations to be made to the persons, who may be employed, should, according to the nature of their appointments, be defined by law; and a competent fund designated for defraying the expences incident to the conduct of our foreign affairs.
Various considerations also render it expedient, that the terms on which foreigners may be admitted to the rights of Citizens, should be speedily ascertained by a uniform rule of naturalization.
Uniformity in the currency, weights and measures of the United States, is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.
The advancement of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home; and of facilitating the intercourse between the distant parts of our country, by a due attention to the Post-Office and Post-Roads.
Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing, which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of Science and Literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one, in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community, as in ours, it is proportionably essential. To the security of a free Constitution it contributes in various ways: By convincing those, who are entrusted with the public administration, that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people: And by teaching the people themselves to know, and to value their own rights; to discern and provide against invasions of them; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority; between burthens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience, and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society; to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness, cherishing the first, avoiding the last, and uniting a speedy, but temperate vigilance against encroachments, with an inviolable respect to the laws.
Whether this desirable object will be the best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients, will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the Legislature.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives. I SAW with peculiar pleasure, at the close of the last session, the resolution entered into by you, expressive of your opinion, that an adequate provision for the support of the public credit, is a matter of high importance to the national honor and prosperity.—In this sentiment I entirely concur.—And to a perfect confidence in your best endeavours to devise such a provision, as will be truly consistent with the end, I add an equal reliance on the chearful co-operation
of the other branch of the Legislature. It would be superfluous to specify inducements to a measure in which the character and permanent interests of the United States are so obviously and so deeply concerned; and which has received so explicit a sanction from your declaration.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and House of Representatives, I HAVE directed the proper officers to lay before you respectively such papers and estimates, as regard to affairs particularly recommended to your consideration, and necessary to convey to you that information of the state of the union, which it is my duty to afford.
The welfare of our country is the great object to which our cares and efforts ought to be directed.—And I shall derive great satisfaction from a co-operation with you, in the pleasing, though arduous task of ensuring to our fellow citizens the blessings which they have a right to expect, from a free, efficient, and equal government.
G. WASHINGTON.
UNITED STATES, January 8, 1790. The President then retired and the House returned to their own room: When the President's Speech being read by the Clerk, it was voted that the House would to-morrow take the same into consideration in a Committee of the whole on the state of the Union.—On motion, it was voted to proceed to ballot for a Chaplain, when the votes being collected, it appeared, that the Rev. Dr. LYNN was re-elected.
Adjourned till to-morrow, 11 o'clock, in the forenoon.
LEXINGTON (Kentucky) Oct. 31.
On Thursday last, it was so dark from about two o'clock until about half after four in the evening, that the inhabitants of this place were obliged to have lighted candles to dine by.
Various are the conjectures with respect to the cause of the darkness: some suppose it proceeded only from an uncommon thick fog or clouded atmosphere; whilst others are of opinion that some immense opaque body passing at that time between the body of the Sun and the Earth, was the cause. All objects had that yellow appearance which they have in a great eclipse of the Sun.
ALEXANDRIA, (Virg.) Dec. 24.
The following Resolve was passed by the Legislature, at the October session, 1789.
RESOLVED, That a copy of the act for the cession of ten miles square, or any lesser quantity of territory within this State, to the United States in Congress assembled, for the permanent seat of the General Government, be transmitted to the General Assembly of Maryland without delay, and that it be proposed to the said Assembly, to unite with this legislature in an application to Congress, that in case Congress shall deem it expedient to establish the permanent seat of Government of the United States on the banks of the Potomack, so as to include the session of either State, or a part of the session of both States, this assembly will pass an act for advancing a sum of money not exceeding ONE HUNDRED, and TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, to the use of the General Government, and to be applied in such manner as Congress shall direct, towards erecting public buildings; —the said Assembly of Maryland, on their part advancing a sum not less than three fifths of the sum advanced by this State, for the like purpose.
BOSTON, January 16.
FROM NEW-YORK—via Providence.
Jan. 9. I herewith communicate to you the Gazette of the United States of this day, in which you will see the excellent SPEECH of THE PRESIDENT of the United States. The information it conveys of the happy situation of our country; and the measures it recommends; must give great pleasure to all our citizens.
OF THE SENATE.
The following are present:— THE PRESIDENT, Hon. Mr. Schuyler, Hon. Mr. Langdon, Mr. King, Mr. Wingate, Mr. Patterson, Mr. Strong, Mr. Izard, Mr. Dalton, Mr. Butler, Mr. Ellsworth, Mr. Feau, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Henry. 14.
OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The Speaker, Hon. Messrs. Ames, Baldwin, Benion, Boudinot, Brown, Burke, Cooledge, Coles, Floyd, Foster, Gerry, Gilman, Goodloe, Griffin, Grout, Huger, Lawrence,
Livemore, Matthews, Muhlenburg, Patridge, Van Ranselaer, Scott, Seney, Sherman, Smith (S. C.), Sturgis, Thatcher, Tucker, Wadsworth, White, and Wynkoop. 33.
PORTLAND, January 4.
On Tuesday last the inhabitants of this town met agreeably to adjournment, and the Committee appointed for the purpose, reported a Petition to Congress, stating certain grievances, and praying that they might be redressed.
The Petition was read, paragraph by paragraph, and then voted in gross, without a single amendment.
A motion was made, and strongly supported by STEPHEN HALL, Esq. to forward the abovementioned Petition to the Hon. FISHER AMES, Esq.—which passed in the affirmative.
Instructions were then given to D. DAVIS, Esq. our Representative, to use his endeavors in the General Court, that the whole of the Excise may be abolished.
PORTSMOUTH, January 20.
THE PRESIDENT
Of the United States, when he addressed the two Houses of Congress, was dressed in a crow coloured suit of clothes of American manufacture: The cloth appeared to be of the finest texture—the colour of that beautiful changeable hue, remarked in shades not quite black. This elegant fabrick was from the manufactory in Hartford.
A Philadelphia paper, Jan. 2, says—“Our harbour is thronged with shipping—numbers of vessels are daily arriving, and numbers sailing to various parts of the world. This day boys were bathing in the river with as much freedom as if it were June.”
The freedom of the press, says a certain writer, has given liberty to literature in England. It has given them a propriety of thinking and acting; and it is to this they are indebted for so many bold systems, so many spirited and useful truths with which their philosophers and mathematicians have enriched human nature. From thence also proceed those daring flights of genius, and those new paths which their historians and their poets have opened, and win which they have, as it were, enlarged the world of ideas.
Next to the Liberty of the Press, we may name the Habeas Corpus Act, and Trial by Jury; and finally, the right of being represented in the National Council, and the privilege of public remonstrances.
When any of these rights are infringed in any country, we may safely conclude that “there is something rotten in the state.”
Died—Mrs. Mary Priest, aged 32, wife of Mr. Amos Priest, and a foreigner, name unknown.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
CLEARED for Snip Cleopatra, M c Clure, West-Indies. Brig Polly, Gerrish, Cayenne. Brig Olive, Shores, Tobago. Sloop Laurel, Brown, ditto.
ENTERED from Schooner Betsey, Leavit, St. Johns
For Sale by AUCTION
To-Morrow, 3 o'Clock, P.M.
AT
Dearborn's Auction-Room,
L I N E N, Indigo, Handkerchiefs, Shawls, Waistcoat-Patterns, Sewing-Silk, Knives, Buttons, Buckles, Hats, Gloves, Writing-Paper, Cinnamon, Souchong Tea, warranted good, and many other articles, among which are a few elegant sea Charts, and a handsome New Slay.
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1790.
H O L L I S.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Hollis, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the first Thursday in March next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Jonathan Eastman, in said town, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on said day.
   specie. indents. cert.   s. d. s. d. s. d.     Col. William Brown, 3 4 2 0 0 10   Enoch Little, 1 4 0 9 0 4   Capt. John Lund. 17 1 8 4 3 7   Prop's of old Danstable, 1 2 0 8 0 4    JAMES RIDEOUT, Constable. Hollis, December 23, 1789.

P A C K E R S F I E L D. ————— State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors or owners of land in Packerfield, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 31st of March next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of Thomas K. Breed, in said Packerfield, at 10 o'clock A. M. on said day.
   Indents. Certificates. State Specie. County.   No. R. Q'ty. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Israel Skinner, 0 0 36 0 6 1 0 8 2 0 3 2   David Bennett 0 0 52 0 9 0 1 0 0 0 5 0   Thomas Packer 1 7 200 4 0 3 5 8 1 2 3 2   East of Beamis, unknown 0 0 12 0 2 3 0 2 3 0 1 1   William Tolford 0 0 400 6 9 1 9 5 3 3 9 3   Col. Gilbert's Heirs 0 0 70 1 3 0 1 9 0 0 8 1   Capt. Jonas Minot 2 11 35 0 8 1 0 11 2 0 4 2   Josiah Flint 1 8 100 2 0 2 2 10 0 1 1 3   Thomas Packer 0 0 5600 1.4 18 2 0.6 17 5 2.1 2.15 0   John Tolford 0 0 400 6 9 2 9 5 3 3 9 3   N.E. Quarter Aaron Felt 1 1 33 0 6 3 0 9 2 0 3 3   Dea. Kindell 4 3 60 0 7 0 0 10 0 0 4 0   Benjamin Tenney 3 11 40 0 8 0 0 11 2 0 4 2   Lt. Jacobs 2 5 150 1 3 1 1 9 1 0 8 2   Eleazer Baldwin 5 4 30 0 5 0 0 7 1 0 2 3   Unknown 3 5 100 0 8 0 0 11 2 0 6 0   William Upton 1 10 50 1 0 1 1 5 0 0 6 3   Unknown 4 1 200 1 1 1 1 5 0 0 6 3   S. East Timothy Fox 0 0 100 1 8 1 2 4 2 0 11 2   Abel Twitchel 0 0 13 0 3 0 0 4 1 0 1 3   Capt. ————— Twitchel 0 0 50 0 9 0 1 1 0 0 5 0   John Minot 0 0 600 6 5 1 9 0 0 3 7 1  
AMOS CHILD, Collector. ————— Packerfield, January 1, 1790
W A K E F I E L D. ————— State of New-Hampshire
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Wakefield, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 25th of February, 1790, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling-house in said town, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, on said day.
   Acres, No. Div. silver. indents. St. cer.   s. d. q. s. d. q.     Moses Gage, 100 10 1 2 3 0 2 0 3   John Gage, Esquire, 96 17 1 1 1 2 1 0 1   ditto, 110 17 2 3 6 1 3 1 4   Thomas Miller, jr. 62 22 2 0 9 0 0 8 1   Love Roberts, 110 25 2 0 6 0 0 4 0   Stephen Varney, 70 38 2 1 6 0 1 4 2   Stephen Evans, 110 42 2 1 2 0 1 0 1   John Horn, 110 48 2 1 4 2 1 2 1   Joshua Roberts, 110 59 2 2 3 0 2 0 3   Ebenezer Hanson, 110 39 2 1 6 0 1 4 2   Samuel Dame, 50 70 1 1 3 0 1 1 1   Thomas Wallingsford, Esquire, 110 85 2 1 3 0 1 1 1   William Gerrish, 100 87 1 1 6 0 1 4 2   John Harford, 100 89 1 1 6 0 1 4 2   John Marden, 50 74 2 0 6 0 0 5 0   James Canney, 66 75 2 0 8 0 0 6 0   Solly and March, 59 77 2 0 6 0 0 5 0   Richard Downs, 100 92 1 0 9 0 0 8 1   Samuel Downs, 100 93 1 0 7 2 0 6 0   Solomon Emerson, 100 95 1 0 9 0 0 8 1   William Willand, 80 97 1 1 9 3 1 6 2   Samuel Page's Gore, 98 0 2 4 6 0 4 0 6   Part of the Gore, 47 0 2 1 0 0 0 9 1   Richard Huffy, 55 26 2 1 0 0 1 0 1   John T. Mason, Esq. 50 56 1 1 2 0 1 0 1   ditto, 55 56 2 0 6 0 0 5 0  
THOMAS CLOUTMAN, Collector. ————— Wakefield, December 25, 1789.
W A K E F I E L D. ————— State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Wakefield, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 11th day of February next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock A. M. on said day, at the dwelling-house of David Copp, Esq. in said town.
   Q'ty. No. Div. Specie. indents. certif.   s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     John Gage, Esq. 96 17 1 1 9 3 1 0 0 0 6 0   ditto, 110 17 2 6 8 3 5 8 1 1 10 0   Thomas Miller, jun'r, 62 22 2 1 2 2 0 8 0 0 4 0   Ebenezer Downs, 100 30 1 1 5 2 0 10 0 0 5 0   Paul Gerrish, 17 27 2 0 8 1 0 4 0 0 2 2   John James, 34 33 1 0 7 1 0 4 0 0 2 2   ditto, 110 33 2 1 9 3 1 0 0 0 6 0   Ebenezer Wentworth, 50 53 1 1 9 3 1 0 0 0 6 0   ditto, 110 53 2 1 8 0 0 10 0 0 5 0   Joshua Roberts, 100 59 1 2 10 2 1 6 0 0 9 0   ditto, 110 59 2 3 7 2 2 0 0 1 0 0   Samuel Herd, 110 36 2 3 7 2 2 0 0 1 0 0   Stephen Varney, 70 38 2 2 5 0 1 4 0 0 8 0   Stephen Evans, 110 42 2 1 9 3 1 0 0 0 6 0   Samuel Dame, 100 70 1 2 9 0 1 5 0 0 0 0   William Twombly, 110 47 2 1 9 3 1 0 0 0 0 0   William Huffy, 70 79 1 1 11 0 1 1 0 0 7 1   Thomas Wallingsford, Esq. 110 85 2 2 10 0 1 6 0 0 9 0   Samuel Page's Gore 155 86 0 8 0 3 4 5 8 3 3 3   Solomon Emerson, 100 95 1 1 2 2 0 8 0 0 4 4   John Ham, 70 82 2 2 2 1 1 2 0 0 7 1   John Miller, 50 83 2 1 9 2 0 11 0 0 6 0   Ebenezer Hanson, 110 39 2 2 1 3 1 2 0 0 8 8   Thomas Downs, 110 72 2 1 2 2 0 8 0 0 8 8   William Gerrish, 100 87 1 2 5 0 1 11 0 0 8 8   John Marden, 55 74 2 0 7 1 0 4 0 0 2 2   John Hartford, 100 89 1 2 3 0 1 4 0 0 8 8   James Caney, 66 75 2 1 0 3 1 4 0 0 3 3   Richard Downs, 100 92 1 1 2 2 0 8 0 0 4 4   Solly and March, 110 77 2 1 3 2 0 8 0 0 4 4   Samuel Downs, 53 93 1 1 0 3 0 6 0 0 3 3     Benjamin Ham, 100 84 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0   Thomas Downs, 50 72 1 6 0 0 3 8 1 1 0 0  
DANIEL HALL, Collector. ————— Wakefield, December 21, 1789.
D U B L I N. ————— State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident owners of land in Dublin, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 30th day of March, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of John Morse, innholder in Dublin, at ten o'clock A. M. on said day.
   No. R. A. Specie. Certific. Indents. C.spe. county   s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     William Davis, 3 1 50 0 9 1 0 6 3 2 3 2 1 0 3   Benjamin Bullard, 2 1 50 0 8 1 0 6 1 2 2 2 0 0 3   Amos Bianton, 5 1 40 0 11 1 0 8 0 3 3 2 3 1 0   Robert Mullican, 5 2 20 0 5 0 0 3 1 1 2 1 1 0 2   ditto, 6 2 50 0 8 3 0 6 2 2 3 2 0 0 3   ditto, 7 2 30 0 7 3 0 5 2 2 2 2 0 0 3   James Taggart, 1 3 50 0 8 3 0 6 2 2 3 2 1 0 3   Joseph Bayley, 7 3 100 1 1 0 0 9 2 4 2 3 1 1 1   Tho's Wallingford, 1 4 100 1 2 2 0 1 2 4 2