Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-01-27 00:00:00

F O W L E's  NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,  A N D  GENERAL  THE  ADVERTISER.
F R I D A Y,
J A N U A R Y 27, 1786.
P O R T S M O U T H: By JOHN MELCHER,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN PAVED STREET.
VOL. XXX. ]
"OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE:—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST."
No. 1528.
BATTLE between TRUTH and FALSHOOD.
A V I S I O N.
TO impede virtue by misrepresentation, and blacken innocence by calumny, has been the clandestine employment of vice in every age and nation; and though the hand of time has endeavored to detect the forgeries of falsehood, and the pen of satire has been drawn in the cause of truth and integrity; yet even their united forces have proved insufficient to retard the celerity of scandal, or stop the current of detraction. One would almost be inclined to imagine that there was an evil principle in our nature, exciting every man to consider his neighbour's wisdom as a reproach to his own folly, and his neighbour's exaltation as an obstacle to his own happiness. Hence arise the burnings, envy, the malice of comparison, and the bickerings of animosity; to this we must in a great measure attribute the removal of merit, the progress of folly, and the retrogression of wisdom and knowledge. The celerity of one writer draws after it the abuse and aspersion of a thousand; and the beauty of one distinguished female calls forth all the arrows of censure, and gives vent to all the poison of malevolence; the prying eye of envy is continually looking through the wrong end of the perspective, to magnify every blemish, diminish every perfection: No incitements are left to animate languor or encourage virtue; to disentangle sophistry, or investigate truth; while the great and good are only rendered more miserable by their accomplishments, and incur a punishment where they had deserved a reward.
Such were my last night's meditations on the hard lot of mankind, when sitting in my elbow chair, I indulged the dark suggestions of melancholy, and listened to the dictates of experience, lamenting evils which I could not remove, and probing wounds which I could not heal, when that sleep I had long in vain solicited, stole at length, insensibly upon me, and conveyed me in a moment to the ideal regions where imagination wanders without restraint, and reason resigns her sceptre into the hands of fancy. I found myself on a sudden transported into the fair and spacious plain, where I saw at a distance two armies prepared for action, and on the point of engaging with each other. I stood for a while undetermined whether I should proceed to the field of battle or retire to some place of safety, when a celestial form, with looks of sweetness and complacency approached towards me.---"Mortal, said the ariel being, with a smile, I read your uncertainty, and know your doubts; behold in me the genius of instruction: I am come to calm thy fears, and withdraw the veil of ignorance from thy understanding. Know then, the place
thou seest before thee is the spot appointed to determine the fate of mankind in this decisive day, between the rival powers of truth and falsehood, who have been long contending for the empire of the world; come with me to yonder eminence, whence thou mayest view the conflict unhurt, and undiscovered: follow me and be safe. I obeyed with chearfulness the command of my heavenly guide, who conducted me to the promised asylum, which hung immediately over the field of battle, and whence I could perceive the disposition of the armies, and be an eye witness of every motion.
The forces of truth were commanded by those illustrious generals, merit , learning , and time , who were joined by two powerful female allies, modesty and beauty : those of falsehood were led by calumny , ignorance and malice ; envy and detraction were employed as aid-de-camps, and were, as I afterwards found, of infinite service in the engagement. And now
————— together rush'd Both armies main with ruinous assault, And undistinguishable rage.
The first attack was made by falsehood's right wing, under the conduct of calumny , on the left wing of truth, commanded by merit , who by dint of courage and conduct kept the field for some time, and seemed to imbibe fresh spirit from the enemy's spears, which fell blunted to the ground. Calumny observing this, listened to the advice of experience , changed her weapons, and ordered her troops to make use of poisoned arrows which fell in such frequent and irresistible showers that the troops of merit were forced to give way, and yield to superior force. Time who was in the rear, advanced immediately to the assistance of merit , and endeavoured to rally his distressed friends, but was too slow in his motions to counteract the vigilance and activity of his adversary.
I could not help observing upon this occasion, that the success of falsehood was in a great measure owing to the assistance of ridicule , who from a subaltern, in the service of calumny had lately raised himself by art and chicanery to a distinguished rank in the army: His troops also, like those of the general under whom he fought, used poisoned arrows, which they shot in the manner of the Parthians, so that they seemed to fly from the enemy while they attacked him.
In the midst of the battle I remarked, with a mixture of surprize and indignation, a warrior, who by the splendor of his dress, and the gaily of his appearance, seemed no inconsiderable personage; but who several times, to my great astonishment deserted from truth to falsehood, and again from falsehood to truth, shifting sides almost every moment, and who was yet received by each with an equal degree of satisfaction. I found
upon enquiry, the name of this hero was wit , and soon learned that he had more of Thersites than Ajax in his composition, and served rather to divert and entertain both armies than to be of any real consequence or importance to either.
From this ridiculous object my senses were soon called off to another part of the field, to mark the bold and successful attacks of learning on ignorance, whom he could have put to flight with the utmost facility, had not he listened to the dictates of pride, and pushed his victory too far; the fatal consequence of which was, that ambushes were laid for him by the enemy, into which he fell with precipitation, and could not escape from them without danger and difficulty.
Though the two amazons modesty & beauty most heartily engaged in the defence of their beloved monarch, I could not help observing the former was greatly deficient in conduct, and the latter failed in point of courage; so that their forces were easily subdued by impudence and malice . Their defeat indeed would have occasioned a general overthrow, and determined the victory in favor of falsehood, had not virtue arrived very seasonably to the relief of truth, with a considerable reinforcement. At his approach every cheek was flushed with confidence, and every eye sparkled with delight. Merit rallied his scattered troops, and even modesty grew bold under his auspices; beauty smiled with fresh charms, and learning once more took the field with re-animated vigour. Integrity , who had the first command under this new ally, had brought with him a quantity of shields, proof against spears of malice , and impenetrable by the arrows of calumny ; with these the army of truth was soon equiped, and renewed the battle with fresh ardour and redoubled courage.
Falsehood began now in her turn to despair; her forces retreated on every side, and victory was just on the point of declaring herself the patroness of truth, when the half subdued combatant, by the advice of cunning , whom she always consulted, took a dangerous and desperate resolution, which proved but too successful. She cloathed herself in the habit of truth, assumed her air, gesture, and discourse, and coming to the enemy's camp, insinuated herself into the hearts of the soldiery, and seduced the whole army over to her territories, where it was some time before the captives discovered the fraud, and found themselves the deluded victims of treachery and dissimulation. The cries made by the unhappy prisoners on a sudden awaked me, to lament once more the undeserved fate of truth, thus doomed to fall a sacrifice to the stratagems of falsehood, who has the insolence to boast her perpetual triumphs over the united efforts of learning, merit and virtue.

L O N D O N, October 29.
The late lord Littleton, in a letter written from Festinoig, in Wales to his friend Mr. Bowler, gives the following very singular relation: Not long ago died in this neighbourhood an honest farmer, who was one hundred and five years of age: by his first wife he had thirty children, ten by his second, four by his third, and seven by two concubines; his youngest son was eighty-one years younger than his eldest, and 800 persons, descended from his body, attended his funeral.
A few days since died at his house at Enfield, Mr. Taylor, formerly a butcher in the Strand. He acquired 10,000l. in trade, with which he retired. He had been often heard to say, that he made his money by two maxims, in selling to the rich at his own price, and to the poor at theirs, by which he never had any waste.
There is a lamentable infatuation, that for some time past has inspired the councils of Great-Britain. It is an endeavour to unite the empire, not by affection and mutual happiness, but by taxation; in America it has proved fatal, and would have done so in Ireland, but the spirit of the people having acquired for themselves the establishment of a constitution and imperial legislation, operation in resisting the British system. Another idea then stated in the minds of those state empirics who are at the helm; a universal monopoly of commerce, which, when they had perfectly established in Ireland, they meant by humbug to carry into France, America, and other countries, but their very ground-work discovered the design. America, in high resentment, has coerced the trade of British ships in their ports, and France by a hostile act has ruined half the manufactures, by proscribing their entry and sale in that kingdom, in consequence whereof the city of Norwich this day exhibits a rueful spectacle of unemployed thousands; there being actually but two houses at work, in consequence of the failure of the French orders.
J A M A I C A.
KINGSTON, Nov. 26. The commerce with America seems now to be almost entirely given up in London, for no merchant in his senses will give credit to the amount of 10l. to above one house in twenty on the continent. One house in the city received bills to be paid in 12 months, to discharge one shilling in the pound; and a most curious promissory note for one shilling and nine pence in the pound, for 250l. payable 17 months after the decease of the American Trader's Mother , was received by another.
A correspondent assures us that an action of a very laughable kind is expected to be brought on at the Surry assize court, against captain R. (the gentleman supposed sometime ago to have been buried) it is no less than an action of damages for his funeral expences : As that gentleman is at present existing, says our correspondent, and may be seen every day in the streets of this town, it will require much ingenuity in the gentlemen of the Long Robe to prove him "DEAD IN LAW."
N E W - Y O R K, January 10.
It must be pleasing to the friends of America, to be informed, that, in consequence of the prohibition of books being imported into the state of Pennsylvania, an impression of 25,000 of the New Testament will shortly be struck off at Philadelphia, hitherto furnished by other countries.
However jocularly Dean Swift might have recommended it to England, to fatten Irish children, and to eat them, it was no joke in him when he asserted, that the number of people which are reputed the blessings and riches of other countries, are the curse of impoverished Ireland.
We learn from St. Johns, that about three weeks since, the infamous American traitor, BENEDICT ARNOLD, arrived off the coast, in a brig of his own, bound in there with a cargo, the sterling cost of which amounted to near 30,000l.—that an elementary contention arose, while he was in this critical situation, which baffled the generalism of this quondam soldier both as a warrior and a christian—happily no lives were lost, but the accumulated rewards of treason and murder were quick deposited in the bowels of the ocean.
Our informant further adds, that the town and country in the vicinity of St. Johns are almost deserted by the new inhabitants, the refugees, near 300 of whom have lately packed off; some from a distaste to government and country, and some through necessity. The high-handed arbitrary measures of their rulers, it seems, are intolerable; and their wilderness lands do not afford a sufficiency of bread to prevent the hunger from starving.
P O R T S M O U T H, Jan. 27.
It is said there is a great clamour raised in New Jersey about an impression of paper money. Their papers teem with productions for and against it, and petitions have been industriously circulated by each party to carry their point, however, a majority appear to be for it, which not only intitles them to the NOTICE of their legislature, but an absolute CLAIM to a compliance with their requisition.
The Russian and German Imperial Courts seem to be binding the cord of their alliance very close; and if we can form any right judgment of it, it is an alliance offensive and defensive, to enter into all one another's quarrels, views and designs, and in all wars offensive and defensive, to make a common cause of it; which ever is principally and primarily engaged, the other shall engage likewise totis viribus . This is a very formidable alliance, and may fall heavy somewhere, it is not much expected. But chiefly and immediately it appears to be pointed at the Ottoman Empire. If that is not the present object, we have no doubt of its being pointed at some other devoted European Potentate or Potentates.
The French are going to open three new ports (says a late British paper) as free ports for the Windward Islands, viz. one at St. Pierre for Martinique, one at Point au-Petre for Guadalupe and its dependencies, and one at Scarborough for Tobago; also three for Hispaniola, one at Cape Francois, one at Port au Prince and one at Cayet St. Louis.
On Saturday morning last departed this life, in the 70th year of his age, Cousin CATO;—it would be unnatural to unnotice a character so famous, and from whose death so much instruction may be drawn; his independence of spirit was remarkable, and his sentiment liberal, he lived in charity with the world, and claimed kindred to all, his philosophy did not forsake him in his last moments; when he was told the messenger was at hand, he endeavoured to assume his usual tone of voice, but hoarsely said "I have done all the good I can."—His funeral was attended on Sunday evening following, by a long train of mourning relatives, whose countenances bespoke the esteem in which they held their poor old cousin.
M A R I N E L I S T.
Port of Piscataqua, January 27, 1786.
ENTERED, none.
CLEARED,
Brig Mary, Smallcorn, for West-Indies. Sloop Mary, Gunnison, Tobago. Brig Endeavour, Riley, Surinam.
Hark ye! TATLER!
A close mouth catcheth no flies.
This proverb shews the necessity of laying a proper restraint on the tongue: As keeping the mouth closed, prevents flies and all extraneous and noisome particles from entering therein; so a due care in conversation, a cautiousness in publishing any thing to the disadvantage of others, and curbing our loquacity, prevents disagreeable altercations and contests; which every prudent person would wish to avoid.
A few Hogheads of West-India RUM, and Casks of BRANDY, To be Sold CHEAP for CASH, By John Sparhawk.
THE time allowed for receiving and delivering the mails being so short as to prevent the charging of any letters; gentlemen who attend, or send to the Office will recollect that change is necessary, as the Post Master is not always provided with it, and the letters will be detained until paid for.
Post Office, Portsmouth, Jan. 27.
By this Day's Mail!
R O M E. Oct. 12.
The earthquake felt here the 2d inst. was repeated the 9th at four in the morning, with infinitely greater force. Most of the inhabitants of the city being awaked at the same moment, they fled in the utmost consternation from their houses, lest they should be buried in the ruins. At Narnt, Terni and Spoleto, several buildings were thrown down, and a number of people were buried in the ruins. The Pope has ordered prayers for averting a repetition of this calamity, and all public diversions are suspended.
B E L F A S T, (Ireland) Sept. 1.
WE hear from Larne, that on Sunday last the ship Irish Volunteer, Captain M'Neil, failed from that port for Philadelphia and New York, full of passengers. It is unaccountable infatuation that disposes Irishmen to quit their native country at this era, when we have preserved both our independence and commerce, to combat the rigours of a long voyage and inhospitable climate, in search of a precarious competence, which by staying at home, and exerting their powers of industry in the most moderate degree, they would be certain to find.
E D I N B U R G H, Oct. 10.
Died lately in Morven, Agryllehire, one Donald M'Kean, alias M'Donald, in the 109th year of his age. He escaped from Glencoe, at the time of the massacre there, in 1692.
K I N G S T O N, (Jamaica) Nov. 26.
The emissaries from the New-England states, stationed in South Carolina and Georgia, are labouring with all their might to persuade those states to pass laws similar to the navigation acts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, excluding British vessels from their ports; but hitherto with little effect. The bills for empowering Congress to regulate their foreign trade, have been introduced into their respective legislatures, but even these they are cautious of passing without the maturest consideration, having adjourned after their first or second reading.
N E W - Y O R K, January 15.
Extract of a letter from Seneca, November 1785.
"According to promise I write to you the first opportunity after my return from Seneca. I saw the Cherokee Indians that had arrived when I left the place. My business would not permit me to tarry but two days, during which time I had an opportunity to hear the head warrior speak. He told the commissioners, that God made the Red People of this earth, and placed them on the same to live, and we must know they were the first on this ground. They were the natives, who in former times could range about the country without restraint—it was not so now; but, however, he wished those who now possessed what once was theirs would be united in friendship. He said the white people loved large corn fields, and they had been induced to give up much land; but that was not all, what was still their own was settled against their consent; but still they wished for peace."
T R E N T O N, January 9.
Arrived at Burlington, on the 30th ult. the brigantine New-Jersey, Capt. Charles Clunn, master, in 17 days from Aux-Cayes, with a cargo of molasses. On the 11th Capt. Clunn spoke the brigantine Ranger, from the same port, bound to Salem, in New-England, which on the 4th, sprung her mainmast, and on the 7th buried her Captain—Clark, at sea.
On the same day, Watson's-Island bearing S. by W. distant 14 or 15 leagues, Capt. Clunn, spoke the brigantine Azor, Capt. Johnson, from Jamaica for Cork, out 14 days, all well.
B O S T O N, January 26.
The earthquake, on the morning of the 2d inst. was observed at Andover, by a well-regulated clock, at about 14 minutes after seven: The noise was like the burning of a chimney. The tremulous motion of the earth was very sensibly felt, and was so great as to jar the windows. The course of it could not be easily determined, though the noise lasted several seconds after the trembling ceased. But its true course and extent can only be determined by collecting the observations from the various parts of the country in which it was perceived; and such a collection, respecting so great and interesting a phenomenon of nature, would certainly be gratifying to the curious.

The Emperor's and King of Prussia's ideas of GOVERNMENT contrasted.
T WO Princes, who divide between them the wishes and the interest of the German Empire, appear, in the internal economy of government, to be guided by different and even opposite maxims. The Emperor having caught the infectious rage of commerce, which is the passion, and perhaps the folly and whim of the present age, labours to open new ports to destroy those exclusive privileges of corporations which are fetters, as he thinks, to the extension of manufactures, and by all means to rouise and encourage in his dominions a spirit of trade and general improvement. For this purpose he destroys monasteries and builds magazines; abridges the number of monks and nuns, and augments that of soldiers and sailors. But, if he should succeed in his wishes to introduce trade with luxury into his dominions, perhaps posterity, on a retrospect of his conduct, might have reason to pronounce, that he blindly laboured for the ruin of the Austrian greatness.
The King of Prussia, whose maxims will probably be adopted by his successor, instead of softening the manners of his people by the introduction of foreign luxury, labours to preserve their ancient and manly virtues. To multiply his subjects by multiplying the means of subsistence, is the simple but wise policy of this Prince. And these objects he studies to accomplish by methods that tend to preserve the virtue of his people, as well as to increase their numbers. He venerates a plough more than a ship. Steel, he has proved, can command gold; and he has also proved how great a treasure there lies in parsimony. He encourages agriculture by the judicious advancement of even a million sterling annually, and by other encouragements to industrious, sober and expert farmers. He advises his people not to seek after rum, tea, coffee, and other foreign luxuries, but to content themselves, like their forefathers, with a slice of bacon, a few wholesome vegetables and a cup of ale.* In a word, it is the policy of the Prussian Monarch, by tilling the ground, and disciplining his army, to breed a race of hardy soldiers, who shall command the wealth, and repel the encroachments of his ambitious neighbours.
Behold then, in modern Germany, as in ancient Greece, two rival powers pursuing opposite systems of policy! Austria, like Athens, seeking the luxury of commerce, and the refinement of art; Prussia, like Sparta, cultivating the soil of hardy and warlike virtue.
*What have we Germans to do with tea? says his Prussian Majesty to those about him:—take a cup of ale, as I did in my younger days; I never felt any harm from so doing.
On GOOD-NATURE.
N O man who looks upon the sun, and who feels that cheerfulness which his beams inspire, but would rather wish himself like so glorious a being, than to resemble the Tygar, however formidable for its fierceness; or the serpent hated for its hissing, and dreaded for its sting. Good-nature may indeed be made almost as disusive as day-light; but short are the ravages of the Tygar, innocent the bite of the Serpent, to the vengeance of a cankered heart, or the malice of an envenomed tongue. Good nature adorns every perfection a man is master of, and throws a veil over every blemish which would otherwise appear. In a word, like a skilful Painter, it places his virtues in the fairest light, and casts all his foibles into shade.
State of New-Hampshire.
T HE subscriber begs leave to remind the inhabitants of this State, who are possessed of unliquidated claims against the United States, that by a resolution of Congress the 17th March, 1785; any person or persons, who shall neglect to deliver an account of such claim to the commissioner for settling accounts against the United States, in the State in which they reside, within twelve months from said date, shall be excluded from the benefit of settlement or allowance.
Therefore those who wish not to be precluded from an adjustment of their claims, will please to apply before the 17th of March next, as none will be received after that date.
STEPHEN GORHAM, Commisr. Exeter, January 24, 1786.
Blanks of most sorts, May be had at this Office.
On a very useful Custom which prevails in HOLLAND.
(Extracted from the 17th vol. of the celebrated Voltaire's prose works.)
T HERE are private persons who raise in their gardens the fruits which nature had appointed only to ripen under the line. We have a thousand wise laws, and a thousand excellent customs at our very doors.—These are the fruits we ought to raise in our own country—these the trees we ought to transplant; they will thrive in every climate, and will prosper in every soil. The most salutary law—the most excellent custom, and the most useful I have ever seen, is in Holland. When two persons are about to enter upon a law-suit, they are first obliged to go before a tribunal of reconciling judges called peace-makers. If the parties happen to bring with them a lawyer and a counsellor, the first thing done is to send those gentlemen about their business, as we take off wood from a fire we want to extinguish. The peace-makers tell the parties, "You are certainly great fools to spend your money to procure your own ruin; we will bring you to an accommodation without costing you one farthing. If the rage of chicane happen to be too violent in the parties, they put them off to another day, in order that time may soften and mitigate the symptoms of their disorder; after the expiration of which time, the judges summon them before them a second and a third time.—If their folly is of the incurable sort, they promise them they will consent to having their cause tried in a court of justice, in the same manner as we abandon an incurable member to the surgeon; and then the law has its course.—There is no necessity to make long declamations, or to calculate how much it would be to the advantage of humanity, were this Law universally adopted—and besides, I am by no means desirous to follow the traces of the abbe de St. Pierre, whose projects a certain minister, and a man of sense, called the dreams of a worthy man. I know that if a private person of integrity and good sense offers a proposal for the public good, it too often happens that he is abused or laughed at for his pains.—"What meddling fellow is this?" some will say, "who pretends to make us happier than we chuse to be, and goes about to reform abuses by which so many people get their living?"—What reply can be made to this? for my part I know of none.
The LIBERTY of the PRESS. A SCRAP.
M ERCIER in his Tableau de Paris , pays the English the greatest honour; in one place recommending the Liberty of the Press as being the guarantee of civil liberty, he says, "O happy Britons! Generous people, strangers to our shameful bondage, continue to maintain in its glory the liberty of the press; it is the pledge of your freedom; it distinguishes you from the rest of mankind; by its means alone you represent the universe, and support the dignity of men. The thunderbolt which strike at the pride and insolence of arbitrary power, are forged in your happy island. Human reason has found an asylum amongst you, from whence philosophy, with its innumerable blessings, can be conveyed to all mankind."
SOUTH-CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON, Dec. 10. The Minerva, Boyd, on the way from Glasgow to Jamaica, on the 17th of July, fell in with two Agerine ships, Cape St. Vincent's then bearing east about 80 leagues; they were both stretching to the south-ward; the Minerva steering S. W. So soon as they got into the Minerva's wake, they hove about and made for her; upon this she hoisted English colours, which were answered with French, but as soon as they got within hail the French flag was hauled down and their own displayed in its stead, which was a large red flag; they then ordered the Minerva to hoist out her boat in order to compare the Mediterranean pass, which luckily tallied exactly with their own. The ship that the boat went on board of mounted 32 guns, and was full of men; the other appeared to be the same size; both ships kept a sharp look-out, having a man at the top of each mast.
PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7. A correspondent says, that the ill judged, precipitate act of the late assembly for taking away the charter of the bank, should have been entitled "An act to establish the bank by taking away the charter:" for the ability of the bank to stand the shock maliciously levelled at it by certain WRONG HEADS, has proved the bank to have a real stability and permanent foundation, which, had it not been for the attack, could not have been so well known. It has fixed the credit of the bank instead of undermining it. But the attack is a woful and serious breach of faith on the part of the late assembly, and acts against themselves;
for who will hereafter permit any assembly to make paper money, when, by the precedent the late Houle has set, any future Assembly may pass a law to refuse it in taxes or redeeming it at all, and throw the loss on the holders?
Extract of a letter from Wilmington (Delaware) dated January 4.
"By a private letter from Baltimore we learn, that on the 23d ult. a dreadful fire broke out there, which consumed three two story houses, besides several small buildings. Three thousand dollars were melted in one of the houses. This accident happened by hot embers having been thrown into a cask in the cellar, which took fire, and communicated the flames to the floor."
However astonishing it may be, it is said, as a fact, that Ireland, which exports incredible quantities of provisions for the support of other countries, has almost 1,000,000 of its inhabitants in a state little short of famine and nakedness.
Extract of a letter from one of the Virginia Delegates, dated Philadelphia December 10, 1785.
"Congress have alarmed us all, by taking cognizance of petitions from the Indiana, Vandalia, Illinois, and Ouabache companies. Our Delegates have opposed their proceedings warmly, but the committee, to whom the affair was referred, determined to proceed on it, and have reported favourably; 'tis said Congress have not confirmed any thing relative to it, but it is said they talk of cutting off Virginia at the Alleghany mountains: this is too serious to pass over, and must breed mischief, which it may not be in our view to describe the consequences of."
"Every body sees the necessity of making a government on our new settlements on this side of the Ohio, the moment when the people are able to support it; but to give all our country to private companies, is insufferable. You will no doubt see the fatal tendency of Congress thus cutting our country in pieces, at the instance of private jobbers, and land speculators. A great number of emissaries may be expected among the back people, to persuade them to this measure, but it is easy to see through their wicked design. The Pennsylvanians will have the chief of the back countries, if they succeed in their schemes, and they will bribe the back people, if possible, to second their designs."
"N. B. However patriotick some of the writer's sentiments may be, it must astonish the honest politicians of the age, to learn, that what was criminated in 1781, as an abominable wickedness, can be advocated by the same set of men in 1785: For instance, that singular piece of land jobbing, the purchasing for a private company a great extent of country adjoining the Muscle Shoals. O tempora! O mores!"
W HEREAS in and by a law of the State made to establish an equitable method of assessing rates and taxes, among other things, it is therein enacted that "the buildings of non residents shall be taxed at the rate of half of one pr. cent. according to the real value thereof." And whereas in the several lists which I have received from the selectmen of the town of Portsmouth, the estate of a number of non resident proprietors are there assessed, some of whom are still delinquent for taxes in the sums hereafter mentioned; this is therefore to notify all such delinquent proprietors of houses and lands, or their agents, that unless they respectively pay me the sum or sums due on or before Wednesday the 22d day of February next, 11 o'clock A. M. so much of their lands or buildings will then be sold at public vendue, at the house occupied by Capt. William Brewster, inholder in said Portsmouth, as will be sufficient to pay said taxes together with the incidental charges.
   Estates. 1781. 1782. 1783.   Silver. N. emissi. Silver. N. emissi. Silver. N. emissi.   l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d.     Elizabeth Wallingford 7 0 3 18 10 0 7 0 0   James Gilmore 5 5 0 3 6 5 0 4 7 6   John T. Mason, Esq. 7 3 6 3 18 10 5 0 5 5 0   Samuel Hobart, Esq. 7 0 0 3 18 10 0 0 7 0 0   Nathaniel Rogers 0 14 0 0 6 1 0 0   Joseph Sherburne 9 19 9 5 2 13 2 6 5 13 9   Thomas Smith 10 10 0 6 12 10 0 8 15 0   T. W. Waldron, Esq. 3 2 0 1 10 5 13 9 1 10   James Stilson 7 17 6 4 10 11 7 0 0   J. Nelson, Goldsmith 0 0 0 4 7 6   Capt. J. Bradford 0 0 0 3 10 0  
JOSEPH AKERMAN, Collector. Portsmouth, January 24, 1786.
B y virtue of a licence from the hon. Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, will be sold at public vendue, on the 9th day of Feb. next, at 2 o'clock P. M. at the house of Mark Lang, in Portsmouth, TWENTY SIX & HALF ACRES of LAND, being the real estate of the widow Susannah Lang, late of Portsmouth, deceased, represented intestate:
MARK LANG. Administrator. Portsmouth, January 25, 1786. FOR SALE. A genteel SLEIGH. Inquire of the PRINTER.

Parnassian Spring.
THE GRUMBLING CLOWN.
B ENEATH an oak a rustick clown Lay lounging in the shade, Complaining loud of Fortune's gifts, And call'd her—partial jade. The works of Providence were wrong, And bad was all in sight; He knew some things were wrong contriv'd And would set them right. "For instance," cries the grumbling churl, "Behold this sturdy tree; "Remark the little things it bears, "And what disparity! "Again—observe yon pumpkins grow, "And see! the stalks how small! "Unable to support their fruit, "So bulky are they all! "Now, I, if I had power to do't, "Would alter thus the case: "That this large tree should pumpkins bear, "And acorns take their place." He spoke; and, rising on his breech, Strait from the tree fell down An acorn of the smaller size, And pitch'd upon his crown. "Now," says a traveller, who had heard "The whole the clown had said, "Suppose the tree had pumpkins borne, "What would have sav'd thy head?"
W HEREAS the laws of this state require that all inholders and retailers of spirituous liquors, shall once in every year procure approbation from Selectmen, and renew their licence at the court of General Sessions of the Peace in the several counties, and as that court will sit at Portsmouth, on Tuesday the fourteenth day of February next, there will then be an opportunity for any whose year is expired, or those that are disposed to retail, to obtain licence: Therefore this public notice is given, that no person may be found breaking the law, and incurring the penalty, which is great. Portsmouth, January 1786.
TO BE SOLD,
A new Easy Chair, Made in the best manner, Inquire of the PRINTER.
State of New-Hampshire.
P UBLIC notice is hereby given that a petition hath been preferred to the General Court, by Oliver Lawrence and Benjamin Cummings, setting forth, that they were bondsmen for Samuel Cummings, Esq. late of Hollis, an absentee, to the judge of Probate for the county of Hillsborough, for the just settlement of the estate of his father Samuel Cummings, late of said Hollis, Esq. deceased—and that the said Samuel was ordered by the decree of the said judge of Probate, to pay to Benjamin Cummings, the youngest son of said deceased, his equal portion out of his said father's estate, and that said Samuel went off and was considered as an absentee, and never paid said Benjamin Cummings his portion, and his estate declared confiscate to the State, by reason of all which the said Benjamin hath never received his portion, and your petitioners stand liable to pay the said Benjamin's portion, with interest ever since the date of said decree. They also say that it is represented to them that Capt. Leonard Whiting of said Hollis, hath preferred a petition to the General Court, praying to be restored to law for the recovery of a debt that the said Samuel owed him, they also further say, that it is in their power to shew that the prayer of the said Whiting's petition ought not to be granted;—Wherefore they prayed for a day of hearing on the matter before the General Court; upon which petition the General Court ordered that the petitioners be heard thereon, before them, on the second Thursday of their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioners cause the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Attest,
JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'ry.
Exeter, January 2, 1786.
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.
John Goddard,
Has opened his Shop directly opposite the Printing-Office in Paved-Street, where he has for Sale,
A very general Assortment of Drugs & Medicines,
—ALSO— Madeira, Sherry, Port, Lisbon, Teneriff, Claret, Frontiniac, and Malaga W I N E S,
Linseed Oil, Painters Brushes, and an Assortment of Painters Colors and Dryers, Loaf and brown Oatmeal, Rice,
Sugar, Pepper, Allspice, Ginger, Rum, Brandy, Gin, Flour, Indigo, Starch, Olive and Florence Oil, Coffee, Chocolate, Nails, Hyson, Congo and Bohea Glass, Powder and Shot, Tea, Redwood, Logwood, Raisins, Currants, Figs, Fustick, Allum, Copperas, Olives, Capers, Almonds, Pearl-Ash, Castile and Tamarind, 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.
[New-Bradford.]
State of New-Hampshire,
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors or owners of land, lying in New-Bradford, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, on Tuesday, the 14th day of February next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. at my dwelling-house in said town, as will pay the taxes together with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.—The tax is for the year 1784.
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WILLIAM CLEMENTS, Collector of Taxes for New-Bradford. New-Bradford, December 23, 1785.
P URSUANT to the Orders of the United-States, in Congress assembled, the Post-Master-General has entered into a contract for the conveyance of the Mails by Stages, from Portsmouth in New-Hampshire, to Savannah, in Georgia, and from the city of New-York to the city of Albany. The times of their arrival at this Office are as follow, viz. from November 1st to May 1st, on Tuesday and Friday, at 12 o'clock at noon: From May 1st to November 1st, on Monday Wednesday and Friday, at 8 o'clock in the evening.—And in two hours after, the Mails are to be made up and forwarded. The Post-Master requests that gentlemen will deliver their letters in season at the office, as the utmost punctuality is required of him in this particular.
Post-Office, Portsmouth, Jan. 12, 1786.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss. T HE Inferior Court of Common Pleas, by Law to be holden at Portsmouth, within and for the County of Rockingham, on the first Tuesday of February next, will then be adjourned to Tuesday the 28th Day of said February, of which all Jurors and others concerned are to take Notice.
By Order of Court, N. EMERY, Clerk. N. B. The Court of General Sessions of the Peace will be held at Portsmouth, on the second Tuesday of February next, the Day by Law for holding the same. Exeter, Dec. 29, 1785.
Whereas I, the Subscriber, John
Henry Hyner, have this Day been informed that a Man by the Name of JOHN MOROTTO, had offered to dispose of a Note of Hand, given by me, the said Hyner; said to have been given for almost Two Hundred Dollars; which Note must be a Forgery, as I never owed the said Morotto, nor ever gave him my Note of Hand—Therefore I forewarn all Persons from purchasing any such Note, for I will never pay the same.
JOHN HENRY HYNER.
Boston, Nov. 14, 1785.
This Day the Company of MELCHER and OSBORNE, being mutually dissolved, all persons having any demands upon the late Company are desired to exhibit the same for adjustment, and all those indebted are once more requested to make immediate payment to the late company, John Melcher.
Portsmouth, January 20, 1786.
TO BE SOLD, BY
John Penhallow, jr.
At his STORE on LONG WHARF, Flour, Bar-Iron, Tar, Turpentine, Pitch, &c. &c.
Portsmouth, Jan. 13.
A LL Persons indebted to, or that have Demands against the Estate of JOHN GIDDINGE, Esq. late of Exeter, deceased, are requested to call and settle the same with
MEHITABEL GIDDINGE, Admin'trix. Exeter, Jan. 13th, 1786.
TO BE SOLD
By John Nelson, of Gilmantown, A good F A R M,
pleasantly situated on the province road, containing one hundred and eight acres, being more or less, having a good house and barn thereon, and an orchard with 237 trees; said farm is well wooded and watered, and near two meeting houses.—Blacksmith and Mills in the first parish.
A LL Persons indebted to, or that have Demands against the late Company of GIDDINGE and BROOKS, are requested to call and settle the same with
SAMUEL BROOKS, jun'r. Exeter, Jan. 13, 1786.
A LL persons to whom the late Hon. MARK HUNKING WENTWORTH, Esq. was indebted are desired to call and receive payment; and all who are indebted to said deceased are requested without further notice to settle the demands against them: as the most speedy settlement of the estate is intended—TO BE LET, the CRANE WARE HOUSE of the deceased, with the WHARF whereon it stands, now occupied by Thomas Martin, Esq. and a STORE near Liberty bridge, in the occupation of Mr. George Howe, with the WHARF thereto belonging.
ELIZABETH WENTWORTH, Execut'ix. Portsmouth, January 19, 1786.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non resident Owners of Land in the following Towns, viz. Grantham from 1776 to 1785, Holderness from 1780 to 1785, Epping for 1780 and 1781, Windham for 1782 and 1783, New Ipswich for 1781 and 1783, Peterborough Slip, Allenstown, Conway and Wilton for 1783, Thornton for 1783 and 1784, Jeffery, Sutton, Canaan, Andover, Fitzwilliam, Rochester, Sandbornton, Barnstead, Washington, Camels Gore, Loudon, Hanover, Wendell, Northumberland, Hancock, Boscawen, Croyden, and Tamworth for 1784, Wentworth, Warren, Moultonborough, Hillsborough, Washington, Acworth, Antrim, Heniker, Rindge, Stoddard, Fishersfield, and Fitzwilliam for 1785, that their Lands in said Towns are taxed for the Years aforesaid, and if they are not paid within eight Weeks from the first Publication of this Advertisement, to the Collectors or Subscriber, they will be advertised for Sale.
THOMAS ODIORNE, Receiver of Non-Residents Taxes.
Exeter, Dec. 30, 1785.
Taken up just above Sullivan's
Fort (so called) in the Ice, a fourteen Feet Moses Boat; painted yellow and black, with two yellow Stars on her Stern. The Owner may have said Boat again by applying to Andrew Yeaton of New-Castle, paying Charges. New-Castle, Jan. 3, 1786.
A few Tons of good BAR-IRON, to be sold cheap, by Jeremiah Libbey.