Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-06-08 00:00:00

F O W L E's  NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,  A N D  GENERAL  T H E  ADVERTISER.
T H U R S D A Y,
J U N E 8, 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. 1546.
The writings of Mr. Payne, author of the publications under the signature of Common Sense, have ever been acceptable to American readers—At this juncture, when the advocates for Paper-Money, are using every endeavour to have it again introduced among us—his opinion on the subject may be particularly so.
On Paper-Money.
By the Author of COMMON SENSE.
I REMEMBER a German farmer expressing as much in a few words as the whole subject requires; "Money is money, and Paper is paper." All the invention of man cannot make them otherwise. The alchymist may cease his labours, and the hunter after the philosopher's stone go to rest, if paper can be metamorphosed into gold and silver, or made to answer the same purpose in all cases.
Gold and silver are the emissions of nature; paper is the emission of art. The value of gold and silver is ascertained by the quantity which nature has made in the earth. We cannot make that quantity more or less than it is, and therefore the value being dependent upon the quantity, depends not on man,—Man has no share in making gold or silver; all that his labours and ingenuity can accomplish is, to collect it from the mine, refine it for use, and give it an impression, or stamp it into coin.
Its being stamped into coin adds considerably to its convenience, but nothing to its value. It has then no more value than it had before. Its value is not in the impression, but in itself. Take away the impression and still the same value remains. Alter it as you will, or expose it to any misfortune that can happen, still the value is not diminished. It has a capacity to resist the accidents that destroy other things. It has, therefore all the requisite qualities that money can have, and is a fit material to make money of; and nothing, which has not all those properties can be fit for the purpose of money.
Paper considered as a material whereof to make money, has none of the requisite qualities in it.—It is too plentiful, and too easily come at. It can be had any where and for a trifle.
There are two ways in which I shall consider paper.
The only proper use for paper, in the room of money, is to write promissary notes and obligations of payments in specie upon. A piece of paper, thus written and signed, is worth the sum it is given for, if the person who gives it, is able to pay it, because, in this case, the law will oblige him. But if he is worth nothing, the paper note is worth nothing. The value therefore, of such a note, is not in the note itself, for that is but paper and promise, but in the man who is obliged to redeem it with gold or silver.
Paper, circulating in this manner, and for this purpose, continually points to a place and person where, and of whom, the money is to be had, and at last finds its home; and, as it were, unlocks its master's chest and pays the bearer.
But when an assembly undertake to issue paper as money, the whole system of safety and certainty is overturned, and property set afloat. Paper notes given and taken between individuals as a promise of payment is one thing, but
paper issued by an Assembly as money is another thing. It is like putting an apparition in the place of a man; it vanishes with looking at, and nothing remains but the air.
Money when considered as the fruit of many years industry, as the reward of labour sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and the children's portion, and alleviating the afflictions of life, and making old age a scene of rest, has something in it sacred that is not to be sported with, or trusted to the airy bubble of paper currency.
By what power or authority an Assembly undertake to make paper money is difficult to say. It derives none from the constitution, for that is silent on the subject. It is one of those things which the people have not delegated, and which, were they at any time assembled together, they would not delegate. It is therefore an assumption of power which an Assembly is not warranted in, and which may, one day or other, be the means of bringing some of them to punishment.
I shall enumerate some of the evils of paper money, and conclude with offering means to prevent them.
One of the evils of paper money is, it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value, and the uncertainty of its faith continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value of itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice and party, and as it is the interest of some to depreciate, and of others to raise its value, there is a continual intervention going on that destroys the morals of the country.
It was horrid to see and lustful to recollect how loose the principles of justice were let by means of the paper emissions during the war. The experience then had, should be a warning to any Assembly how they venture to open such a dangerous door again.
As to the romantick if not hypocritical tale, that a virtuous people need no gold and silver, and that paper will do as well, requires no other contradiction than the experience we have seen: Though some well meaning people may be inclined to view it in this light, it is certain that the sharper always talks this language.
There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money, and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have it made a legal tender under the pretence of supporting its credit; and when out to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a great deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.
But why, since the universal custom of the world has established money as the most convenient medium of traffick and commerce, should paper be set up in preference to gold and silver? The productions of nature are surely as innocent as those of art; and in case of money, are abundantly, if not infinitely more so. The love of gold and silver may produce covetousness, but covetousness, when not connected with dishonesty, is not properly a vice. It is frugality run to an extreme.
But the evils of paper money have no end. Its uncertain and fluctuating value is continually awakening or creating new schemes of deceit. Every principle of justice is put to the rack, and the bond of society dissolved: The suppression therefore of paper money, might very properly have been put into the act for preventing vice and immorality.
The pretence for paper money has been, that there was not a sufficiency of gold and silver.—This, so far from being a reason for paper emissions, is a reason against them.
As gold and silver are not the productions of North America, they are, therefore articles of importation: and if we set up a paper manufactory of money, it amounts, as far as it is able, to prevent the importation of hard money, or to send it out again as fast as it comes in; and by following this practice we shall continually banish the specie, until we have none left, and be continually complaining of the grievance instead of remedying the cause.
Considering of gold and silver as articles of importation, there will in time, unless we prevent it by paper emissions, be as much in the country as the occasions of its require, for the same reasons, there are as much of other imported articles. But as every yard of cloth manufactured in the country occasions a yard less to be imported, so it is by money, with this difference, that in the one case we manufacture the thing itself, and in the other we do not. We have cloth for cloth, but we have only paper dollars for silver ones.
As to the assumed authority of any Assembly in making paper money, or paper of any kind, a legal tender, or in other language, a compulsory payment, it is a most presumptuous attempt at arbitrary power. There can be no such power in a republican government: The people have no freedom and property, no security where this can be acted: And the Committee who shall bring in a report for this purpose, or the member who moves for it, and he who seconds it, merit impeachment, and sooner or later may expect it.
Of all the various sorts of base coin, paper money is the basest. It has the least intrinsic value of any thing that can be put in the place of gold and silver. A hobnail or a piece of wampum far exceeds it. And there would be more propriety in making those articles a legal tender than to make paper so.
It was the issuing base coin, and establishing it as a tender, that was one of the principal means of finally overthrowing the power of the Stewart family in Ireland. The article is worth reciting as it bears such a resemblance to the progress practiced on paper money.
Brass and copper of the basest kind, old cannon, broken bells, household utensils were assiduously collected; and from every pound of such vile materials, valued at four pence, pieces were coined and circulated to the amount of five pounds nominal value. By the first proclamation they were made current in all payments to and from the King, and the subjects of the realm, except in duties on the importation of foreign goods, money left in trust, or due by mortgage, bills or bonds; and James promised that when the money should be debased, he

would receive it in all kinds of payment. As brass and copper grew scarce it was made of still viler materials, of tin and pewter, and old debts of one thousand pounds were discharged by pieces of vile metal, amounting to thirty shillings intrinsic value.—Had King James thought of paper he needed not to have been at the trouble or expence of collecting brass and copper, broken bells and household utensils.
The laws of a country ought to be the standard of equity, and calculated to impress on the mind of the people the moral as well as the legal obligation of reciprocal justice. But tender laws, of any kind, operate to destroy morality, and to dissolve by the pretence of law what ought to be the principle of law to support, reciprocal justice between man and man: And the punishment of a member who should move for such a law ought to be DEATH.
When the recommendation of Congress in the year 1780, for repealing the tender laws was before the Assembly of Pennsylvania, on casting up the votes for and against bringing in a bill to repeal those laws, the numbers were equal, and the casting vote rested on the Speaker, Col. Bayard 'I give my vote,' said he, 'for the repeal, from a consciousness of justice; the tender laws operate to establish iniquity by law.'—But when the bill was brought in, the House rejected it, and the tender laws continued to be the means of fraud.
If any thing had, or could have, a value equal to gold and silver it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and therefore all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust, and calculated to support fraud and oppression.
Most of the advocates for tender laws are those who have debts in discharge, and who take refuge in such a law, to violate their contracts and cheat their creditors. But as no law can warrant the doing an unlawful act, therefore the proper mode of proceeding, should any such laws be enacted in future, will be to impeach and execute the members who moved for and seconded such a bill, and put the debtor & creditor in the same situation they were in, with respect to each other before the law was passed. Men ought to be made to tremble at the idea of such a barefaced act of injustice. It is in vain to talk of restoring credit, or to complain that money cannot be borrowed at legal interest, until every idea of tender laws is totally and publicly reprobated and extirpated from among us.
As to paper money, in any light it can be viewed, it is at best a bubble. Considered as property, it is inconsistent to suppose that the breath of an assembly, whose authority expires with the year, can give to paper the value and duration of gold—They cannot even engage that the next Assembly shall receive it in taxes. And by the precedent (for authority there is none) that any one Assembly makes paper money, another may do the same, until confidence and credit are totally expelled, and all the evils of depreciation acted over again. The amount, therefore of paper money is this, that it is the illegitimate offspring of Assemblies, and when their year expires they leave it a vagrant on the hands of the public.
TO BE SOLD,
THAT well known, large and very convenient DWELLING HOUSE, now in the occupation of Capt. Zechariah Foss, in Portsmouth, near the Court House, which has been for a number of years improved as a public inn, for the entertainment of travellers by said Foss; it's situation is well calculated for any gentleman in the country, who may incline to remove into this town, with a view to accommodate his friends and others with lodgings and entertainment, especially during the sessions of the General Assembly, and other Courts. Such a person may now have a most favourable opportunity of purchasing a house for that purpose, accommodated with an uncommon number of well finished rooms. A generous credit will be given for part of the consideration money. It may be so divided as to suit two purchasers if more agreeable; such a building for the said purpose, on account of the situation and accommodations, is not to be got in this town, on the same terms of payment. An inculpable title will be given of the same.
Inquire of JOHN WENDELL.
Portsmouth, May 8, 1786.
Foreign Intelligence.
L O N D O N, March 28.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, March 17.
"Last Wednesday the states assembled, and immediately adjourned the meeting till the following day, for the purpose of affording an opportunity of impressing the minds of the people with an idea of the majesty of their sovereign assembly; in consequence, the garrison was ordered to range themselves, being clothed in their best uniforms, before the door of the hall of the states. This being done, the president ordered the Stadtholderian gate to be opened, and a piquet of grenadiers immediately advanced to execute that command. On this occasion between three and four thousand people were assembled, appearing to be strongly disposed to tumultuous behaviour; but they were deterred from proceeding to acts of violence by the firm behaviour of the troops, who had their bayonets fixed. The door remained open during the sitting of the senate, and the meeting was dissolved without any tumult. But the same good order was not maintained this day; the corps of burghers, raised to support the cause of the prince, had secretly contrived to oppose the fatal door being opened, and particularly to prevent any of the members passing by that avenue. When the assembly was preparing to adjourn, and when M. de Gyzelar, the pensionary of Dordrecht, was proceeding in his coach toward the gate, two desperate persons supported by fifteen or sixteen adherents, interrupted him, discharging against him the most opprobrious execrations. A dreadful massacre was expected to be the consequence; but the troops performed their duty without proceeding to extremities, and a company of cavalry rushed upon the fanatics, sword in hand, and secured one of them, but the other escaped; the rest of the Orange party then dispersed. The miserable victim to his enthusiasm for the Stadtholderian gate, was conducted to prison, and, it is expected, will be hanged on Monday. M. de Gyzelar passed in his coach through the gate, and may boast of having first made free that famous passage. Further consequences are expected this night, but entinels are stationed in different parts, and a triple guard is upon duty. The prisoner is a master peruke maker. This tumult, it is supposed, will prevent the speedy return of the Orange family to the Hague."
Letters from the Hague assert, that great alarms continue to prevail in all parts of the United Provinces lest the subsisting political dissensions should terminate in a rebellion. The same letters add, that a correspondence is commenced between the courts of France and Berlin, respecting the critical state of affairs in Holland, and that a conjecture prevails, that those powers have it in contemplation to interpose their friendly offices for reconciling those contentions which have long interrupted the internal tranquility, and are now aggravated to a height dangerous to the very existence of the Republic.
A letter from Cork says, that the Hannibal, Capt. Frazier, is arrived there from New-York, but last from Halifax, in 28 days. The Capt. says, that he found no demand for any part of his cargo at New-York, and therefore steered for Halifax, where he found a quick sale for his whole cargo, as goods manufactured in Ireland are in great esteem there; and that according to what he could learn, it is the most flourishing place for trade in all that part of the world. He adds, that Nova-Scotia is crowded with inhabitants from all parts, on account of the great plenty of every necessary of life, and that new houses are continually building.
APRIL 28. Yesterday commodore Elliot took leave of the lords of the admiralty, and set off to Portsmouth, to take command of the fleet at Newfoundland.
A large ship was seen in flames near the chops of the channel on Tuesday last, but as the sea was tolerably calm at the time, it was imagined the crew were saved in the boats.
The death of the king of Prussia was very currently believed on Tuesday in the city.
There are various opinions concerning the probable consequences of the death of the great monarch of the north; most are of opinion that
it will procure peace to the United Provinces; but there are some who think that it may have an effect just the reverse—and that not through the fault of his successor.
Yesterday Earl Cornwallis took his final leave of their majesties, at St. James's, previous to his going to the East-Indies.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, March 25.
"We have accounts from Groningen, that the Stadtholder not having approved of the election of the new regents, 800 burgers have presented a memorial to the magistracy, requesting that the new elected persons do have the oaths administered to them, notwithstanding the disapprobation of the Prince: this request was well received, but the magistracy have written to his Serene Highness, requesting him to declare, within the space of 15 days, his reasons for refusing to approve the new elected regents; at the expiration of which time the request of the Burgers will be complimented with, and the new regents will have the oaths administered to them."
"We have accounts from Wykvan Duurstede in the Province of Utrecht, that the Burgers and six regents of that city had taken the oaths under the new regulation, which annuls that of 1674: the regents which refused to take the oath on that and the next day were dismissed, and they were to proceed to replace them on the 22d and 23d of this month."
"The city of Amsterdam having by a majority of voices come to the resolution to restore the Prince Stadtholder to the command of the Hague, some of the opposing members have written a letter and a memorial to the States of Holland, declaring their reasons of opposition, which letter and memorial are now under consideration. It is however hoped that the end will be a reconciliation of differences with the Prince Stadtholder."
Aaron Hill,
Has received by the last vessel from London, A few Piece GOODS,
Among which are a good assortment of low priced Calicoes and Irish Linens, ready for sale at his Shop opposite the State House, where may be had in exchange for Cash Fins a few Hds. of Salt, and a variety of other Goods as usual. LIKEWISE,
A few Barrels of SUGAR.
Portsmouth, June 7. 1786.
William Sheafe
Has for SALE, At his STORE, North End, West-India Rum, Sugar & Coffee, Also, a variety of
English GOODS,
State or New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the following towns, viz. Piermont from 1774 to 1786, Lyndborough, 1779, 1781, 1782 and 1785. Concord, alias Gunthwait, from 1774 to 1784, Unity, 1780, Conway, 1782, Pelham, 1781, 1782, 1783 and 1784, Profectworth, 1782 and 1785, Hollis 1783 and 1784, Dorchester, 1782 and 1785, Salisbury, 1783 and 1784, Canterbury, 1784 and 1785, Chichester, 1784 and 1785, New Chester, 1784 and 1785, Peterborough and Strafford, 1783, Raymond, 1783 and 1784, Moultonborough, 1781 and 1782, New Boston, 1784 and 1785, Deerfield, Fishersfield, Enfield, Middleton, the Gore and Acworth, Alstead, Dublin, Raby, Nottingham, Epsom, Pembroke, Society, Candia and Grafton for the year 1784, Ossipe, Northumberland, New Ipswich, Packerfield, Sandwich, Marlborough, Hancock, Lempster, New London, Cambell's Gore, New-Bradford, Wakefield, Francistown, Weare, Wolfborough, Gilmantown, Dearing, Northwood, Effingham and Tamworth, 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, either to the collectors or the subscriber, they will be advertised for sale.
THO'S ODIORNE, Receiver of Exeter, May 17 1786. non-residents taxes.
All persons indebted, or that have claims against the estate of the Rev. DANIEL ROGERS, late of Exeter, deceased, are desired to settle the same with the subscriber, executor to his will. THOMAS ODIORNE.
Exeter, May 20, 1786.

American Intelligence.
SAVANNAH, (Georgia) May 3.
Last Friday failed for Philadelphia, the brig Georgia Packet, in which went Passengers, the Honorable William Houston, and William Few, Esquires, delegates from this State to Congress.
CHARLESTON, (S. C.) April 27.
The resolution entered into by a number of the citizens to bring to publick ignominy and punishment all such speculators and peculators as shall attempt to depreciate the new paper money will give it all the benefits of a legal tender.
More specie has been imported into this State, during the late fall, than at any period since the peace, one vessel in particular brought here one hundred thousand dollars to purchase produce.
May 10. The brig Two Brothers, Captain Cochran, which arrived on Monday last, in 9 days from Philadelphia, entered the port with her colours lowered; the crew reported that a French Captain threw himself into the sea a few days before they made the land; and that the deceased wrote a letter in French, two days before, to the French consul.—This being delivered, was found to contain an opinion that he stood in the greatest danger of being either strangled or drowned; conjuring him in the most earnest manner to do him justice in case he was missing, and that some money which was in his trunks might be taken care of, and remitted to France for his daughter. In consequence of this information the Captain and Sailors were committed to prison until the matter is thoroughly investigated. The original destination of the brig was that she should call here and then proceed to one of the French West-India Islands, and for this purpose was provided with a French and American Captain and two sets of papers.
MAY 8.
The rage for commerce which prevails all over Europe at this time, must ultimately tend to the revolutions of empires; where superiority of interest in commerce is destroyed, the world will have more manufacturers than tools, and more manufactures than individuals to consume them.
It is worthy of observation, that since the days of Queen Elizabeth, specie has depreciated nearly as much in Europe as the Continental money did in America. In the life time of that good Queen it was frequently the case that an ox was sold for ten shillings, which now in Smith-field (London) will bring 3 l. and every article of consumption was proportionably cheap.
PHILADELPHIA, May 27.
Extract of a letter from a person of veracity at Fort Pitt, dated April 25, 1786.
"Captain O'Hara, who has just arrived from the Miami, informs, that the Indians killed some men at a small station near Fort Finney. The men had gone out to hunt their horses, in consequence of which the hostages had run off. He adds, that they had also killed about fifteen people on Beargrass, and two men, and wounded another, on the eighteen mile island. And from the best information he could get, three parties had crossed the Ohio to go to war; and that Captain Finney is obliged to keep a continual look out, aided by some of the militia. We have heard nothing further from the party that had made their appearance at Fort McIntosh."
A correspondent says, that a fair opportunity now presents itself to propagate the Gospel in China. The Chinese are a mild and in many respects a wise people, and would now, perhaps, hear a true servant of Christ with the necessary attention. The Jesuits succeeded in propagating after their manner the christian-faith among them, and were not expelled till they were found out in the attempt to gain the temporal dominion of the country in their hands. The Moravians, it is said, have lately succeeded, after indefatigable labours in spreading the Gospel over Lapland. They could spread it perhaps, at once in China. Are the disciples of Fox and Barclay, as well as other denomination of Christians, inattentive to the glorious work of bringing distant nations under the salutary dominion of the Redeemer of mankind? How beautiful (saith the scriptures) are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace, and carry glad tidings of good things!
NEW-YORK, May 24.
Extract of a letter from an English gentleman at Madrid March 1.
"It is reported here, that very disagreeable accounts have arrived of a revolt in Spanish American which has occasioned a total stop to the commerce from St. Jago, in Chili, to old Spain. It is difficult in this country to come immediately at the truth of any publick calamity; but it is certain a large body of troops have received orders to embark for that part of the globe."
"The American Minister, employed by the United States to negotiate a treaty of trade with this Court, a few days since set out for Bayonne, without having accomplished his purpose. The truth is, the Spanish Ministry look with a jealous eye on the emancipation of North-American, and naturally dread a power, which may at some distant period, possess itself of the treasures of Mexico and Peru."
Last Sunday arrived the British Packet Carteret, Capt. Newman, in 42 days from Falmouth; in who came passengers Mr. Peters, Mr. Nash, Mr. Hold, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton.
The Printers of the New-York PACKET are requested to insert the following, as it may tend to put a stop to the practice of Ireland in sending out convicts to America, as indented servants.
From the DUBLIN VOLUNTEERS JOURNAL.
"As the circumstance of illicitly sending of Felons and Convicts of IRELAND to the United States of America, has been much the subject of conversation lately, and some doubts of the fact being thrown out, a wellwisher to the harmony and trade between Ireland and America, thinks proper to state the following fact, and leave it to the usual candour and liberality of Irishmen, if such outrageous insults to both countries, and particularly to America, should not in future be put a stop to."
"The Snow Anne Mary Anne, Capt. Nevin, purchased for the purpose, and owned in Dublin, sailed from hence about the middle of September last, and took upwards of one hundred convicts from the goals here, she call'd at Cork for the like purpose, & failed from thence on the 1st of Octo. also sweeping the gaols of that city of every felon under sentence of transportation; this vessel arrived in Chesapeake Bay early in December, and being met by a pilot, off the Capes which was sent out for the purpose of the House in Baltimore, to whom she was consigned, (a partner of which House was then in Dublin) the destination of the ship was altered from the port of Baltimore, to that of George Town on Potowmack river, in Maryland, where those wretched people were also sold, and disposed of under the false colour of their being indented servants from Ireland. The people of Virginia and Maryland not knowing they were convicts, received them; but the affair soon got wind, and caused much noise and execration towards the parties concern'd in such a nefarious commerce, and which in truth neither does credit to them, nor serves the cause of Ireland in America. What is more extraordinary, it is confidently laid, another cargo of this sort is going from hence in a few weeks to the same place."
"If any person doubts these facts, or wishes for further information, the Printer will inform him where he may learn more on the subject."
The above mentioned vessel, the Anne Mary Anne, Captain Nevin, is expected daily to return to Dublin to take out such another cargo, under the auspices and direction of her owner Mr. Stockden, merchant in Dublin, who has the contract for sending convicts from Dublin to British America on similar terms to his Excellency Governor Duncan Campbell, the director of the hulks on the river Thames.
NEW-HAVEN, May 30.
The French packet le Courier de l'Europe, Capt. de Sionville, arrived at New-York on Thursday evening last, from l'Orient, after a passage of 30 days.—In the Packet came passenger, Col. Humphreys late Aid de Camp to his Excellency Gen. Washington, and Secretary to Mr. Jefferson, the American Ambassador at the Court of Versailles.—Col. HUMPHREYS passed through this city on Saturday last, on his way to Hartford: By him we learn that the several States except Connecticut are charged with violating the treaty of peace,—and that the consequence will be a refusal of the British to deliver up the line of forts on our frontiers.
BOSTON, June 5.
How extremely absurd and ridiculous, says a correspondent who has read the paragraphs in a Monday's paper respecting some particular gentlemen, must that person appear, who can suppose, that the government, liberty and happiness of the United States, established in despite of the whole power of Britain, and all her adherents, now stood on so slender a foundation as to be in danger from the residence among us of any, or all of Britain's quondam American friends—or that a system of politicks suited to our colonial situation in 1774, can be applicable to our present independent state.
The Legislature of South-Carolina have passed an Ordinance, empowering Mr. Charles Borrel to coin 20,000. sterling, in silver coin, and 10,000. sterling, in copper.—The silver to be three-fourths in pieces of the value of one shilling, and one fourth in pieces of sixpence each, which pieces are to be of the same weight as English shillings and six-pences, and to contain an alloy proportioned to that of the French crowns: This coin is declared to be the lawful money of that State, receivable and issuable as such at the value aforesaid in all payments at and from the Treasury, and a tender in law according to the rates and value aforesaid, in satisfaction of all private contracts, and the counterfeiting, clipping, defacing or debasing the same is felony without the benefit of clergy.
We hear that application will be made to the present General Court, for liberty to build a bridge over Penny-Ferry, (so called) at the upper end of Charles-town.
PORTSMOUTH, June 8.
By a letter from L'Orient, to a gentleman in this town, we learn, that the King of Great Britain has had the audacity to propose to the division of the thirteen States, who have made the following reply, that he wished for the king of the kind, as he had been their protector in the late war, he most heartily wished to see them a flourishing independent people; and that he intended to afford them all the assistance in his power, and let them enjoy the liberty of their ports in Europe and the West Indies, that once they had built in addition to his fleet 40 or 50 sail of the line, the smallest of which was a 74.
Yesterday the General Court of this State, met at Concord, agreeable to adjournment, for the dispatch of business.
Last Thursday his Excellency James Bowdoin, Esq. was declared Governor, and his Honor Thomas Cushing, Esq. Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Notwithstanding the observations of Common Sense, let it be remarked that the legislature of the very State in which he now resides, has made a paper currency on loan since its publication and six other States have adopted the same measures, a plain proof that the united wisdom of their legislatures consider his arguments rather calculated to serve his rich friends, than the distressed people.
The number of baptisms in the city of Paris, during the last year, amounted to 19,857—the marriages to 5,234—the foundlings to 6,918—and the deaths to 23,365 persons.
NAVAL OFFICE,
PORT OF PISCATAQUA, June 8, 1786.
   ENTERED, From     Sloop Randolph Gardner, Trinidad,   Brig Kitty, Tbwing, St. Eustatia.   Brig Two Sisters, Jackson, Baltimore.   Schooner Polly, Burke, Philadelphia.   Sloop Sally, Smith, Ditto,   CLEARED, FOR   Brig Polly, Rice West Indies;   Ship Hero, Wardrobe, Ditto.   Brig Irish Gimblet, Welch, Ditto.   Brig Mary, Pearle, Ditto.   Brig Endeavour, Riley, Ditto.  
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Pittsfield, who have not paid their State taxes for the year 1784, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Monday the 19th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock, on said day, unless prevented by previous payment. the vendue will be held at the house of John Cram, Esq. innholder in said town.
   No. Range. Div. l. s. d.     46 John Sanborn 3 3 0 6   62 Stephen Page 5 3 0 6   70 Benjamin Gamblin 5 3 0 6   14 Stephen Cross 1 2 0 6   28 Jarvis Ring 2 2 0 6   10 Richard Gove 25 2 0 6   31 Richard J. Neffs 2 2 0 6  
JEREMIAH GARLAND, Collector. Pittsfield May 12, 1786.
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Antrim, who have not paid their state and meeting house taxes for the year 1785, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, on Thursday, the fifteenth day of June next, at my dwelling house in said town, at three o'clock in the afternoon, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment. State and Meeting-house.
   s. d. l. s. d.     William Boyd 4 6 0 16 8   Samuel Vose 3 4 0 12 6   John Patten 0 3 0 1 1   David Clark 0 8 0 2 3   John Wallace 5 1 0 10 0   Peter Wheeler 2 6 0 9 2   John McAlvain 1 8 0 6 3   William McAlvain 1 8 0 6 3   Joseph Ardway 1 2 0 4 2   Richard Emerion 1 2 0 4 7   John Moore 4 6 0 11 8   Robert Moore's heirs, half 6 9 1 5 4   Page 2 10 0 10 5   William Dunlap 1 3 0 4 6   Abijah Hadley 1 2 0 4 2   Joseph Clark's heirs 2 3 0 8 4  
THOMAS STUART, Collector. Antrim, May 2, 1786.
TO BE LETT,
A convenient noted House & Shop, on Spring Hill, well situated for Trade, lately improved by Mr. Massey. Enquire of John Cuts, adjoining said House.

Parnassian Spring.
THE CONSOLATION.
WHEN anxious thoughts oppress the mind, What charm relief affords? None we in mirth or music find, Or pompous flow of words. Broad laughter may, awhile, be clad In happiness' array; But soon the heart, that's truly sad, Sees folly fleet away. The charm of soft, harmonious sounds, May give a transient ease; But this relief has narrow bounds, And ceases soon to please. In crowded rooms, where Slander keeps Her universal court; Envy and Discord never sleep; Each neighbour's woe is sport. Can heart felt sorrow here be lost, And happiness be found? No:—On Detraction's whirlpool tost, Calm, helpless Peace is crown'd. Since music, mirth, with scandal fail, And all the senses cloy; Let me, divinest Friendship hail, The source of lasting joy. Thy steady beams, like Sol's bright rays, Are permanent and clear; Not as the lawless meteor's blaze, That vanishes in air. A friend sincere, will kindly treat Each woe that racks the mind; The sympathetic heart will beat, Where Friendship's bands conjoin'd. Dividing thus the load of grief, Life's ceaseless care is less; Her soothing converse yields relief; Her pity can redress. The flame of love too fiercely warms; His vot'ries all repine; Like lightning, his destructive beams Oft burn, as well as shine. Since then, through life no greater bliss, On strictest search we find; Hear me, ye powers, continue this; A Friend of virtuous Mind.
TAKEN up adrift some time last month, a large Pine YARD, and one Mill LOG:—the owner may have them by paying charges.—Enquire of the Printer. Portsmouth, June 2.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands upon the estate of Jonathan Shaw, late of Brintwood, deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts to Samuel Cram, Administrator to said estate. Brintwood, June 2, 1786.
Wanted to purchase,  A good FARM, For which good pay will be made. Inquire of the PRINTER.
For Sale,  A genteel new CHAISE, Also,  A second-hand CHAISE, For which payment will be made easy; a good Horse will be received in part pay. Inquire of the PRINTER.
RAN AWAY from me the subscriber on the 9th of October last, an Apprentice BOY, named Asa Wheeler, (the reason he was not advertised sooner was, because his father would have brought him to his service ag'n). Whoever will take up said boy, and return him to the subscriber, shall have six shillings reward; and all persons are cautioned against harbouring or trusting him on my account, as they would avoid the penalty of the law. NEHEMIAH WHEELER. Epping, May 25, 1786.
MRS. WORMWELL begs leave to inform her friends, and the public in general, that on Monday the 15th inst. she will open a genteel BOARDING SCHOOL, for the reception of YOUNG LADIES, who will be taught every thing necessary to compleat their EDUCATION.
Portsmouth, May 3, 1786.
Alexander Bruce,  Boot and Shoe-Maker,
ACQUAINTS the Public in general, and those who please to favour him with their custom, in particular, that he has removed from Boston to this place, and has opened Shop in Buck-Street (formerly Queen's-Street) where Gentlemen may be supplied with BOOTS and SHOES, as neat as in London:—He has also brought with him an assortment of the best of Draw-Boot LEGS, and other LEATHER of the first quality. Portsmouth, May 18.
Genteel Boarding
For Young Masters and Misses, from the country, on reasonable terms, in a creditable family, and proper care taken that they shall be fitted for their daily schools. Enquire of the Printer.
A genteel Fallback Chaife, TO BE SOLD CHEAP FOR English or West-India GOODS, OR Part CERTIFICATES. Enquire of the Printer.
ALL Persons indebted to, or who have claims against the estate of JOSEPH PURINGTON, late of Pittsfield, deceased, are desired to settle the same with the subscriber, executor of his Will. JAMES PURINGTON. Pittsfield, April 27, 1786.
ROCKINGHAM, ss. THE subscribers appointed Commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of JOSEPH HIXON, late of Portsmouth, in said county, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent; give notice that they will attend and receive said claims, at the dwelling-house of Capt. George Hart, on the last Tuesday of this, and the five following months, from 6 to 9 o'clock, P. M. (six months being allowed for that purpose.) JOSHUA BRACKETT, JOHN PARKER, JACOB TREADWELL. Portsmouth, May 18, 1786.
KETTLES.
A few large Pot-Asb Kettles To be Sold by Samuel Hill. Portsmouth April 27, 1786.
THE creditors to the estate of John Wilson, late of Plastow, miller, deceased, represented insolvent, may receive an additional proportion thereof, by applying to James Waddel of Chester, one of the administrators of said estate. May 22, 1786.
THE creditors to the estate of Doctor Caleb Greenleaf Adams, late of Exeter, deceased, represented insolvent, are hereby notified that six months longer are allowed them to bring in their claims, and the commissioners will attend the receiving them at the dwelling house of the deceased on the first Monday of the five following months, from four to eight o'clock, P. M. Exeter, May 17, 1786.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands upon the estate of John Elliot, late of Portsmouth, glazier, deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts for settlement, to Hannah Elliot, executrix to his last will and testament. Portsmouth, May 19, 1786.
State of New-Hampshire.
THE proprietors of the township of Warren, in the county of Grafton, in said State, who are delinquent in paying their proprietary taxes, are hereby notified, that unless they pay the same to me at my house in South-Hampton, in the county of Rockingham, and State aforesaid, what is due in the tax bill committed me to collect by the assessors of said propriety, dated Dec. 3, 1784, also, another dated Dec. 6, 1785, as herein set down, to much of the undivided land of each delinquents share, and also of the five hundred acres reserved, or granted to his Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq. as will pay said taxes and charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Mr. Benjamin Lamson, innholder in Exeter, in the county of Rockingham, and State aforesaid, on Wednesday the 12th day of July next, at 10 o'clock before noon, and if then not sold, to continue from day to day until enough be sold to pay the taxes and charges 1781. 1785. Original Proprietors names. Specie. ditto. Cert.
   Joseph Greeley, Esq. l. s. 4s. 6s. 18s.    Joseph Page 1 4  Samuel Page 1 4 6 18  Moses Page 1 4  Silas Nowel 1 4  Peter Coffin, jr. 1 4 6 18  Samuel Dudley 1 4 6 18  Joseph Tilton 1 4 6 18  Jonathan Greeley, third 1 4 6 18  Hon. Theo. Atkinson, Esq. 1 4 6 18  James Nevin, Esq. 1 4 6 18  Benning Wentworth, Esq. 2 8 12 16  Francis Bachelder 6 18  Joseph Greely 6 18  David Morill 6 18  David Clough 6 18  Reuben True 6 18  Abel Davis 6 18  John Page, jr. 6 18  Ephraim Page 6 18  Jacob Currier 6 18  
PHILLIPS WHITE, Collector. South Hampton, May 22, 1786.
State of New-Hampshire.
THE proprietors of the township of Wentworth, in the county of Grafton, in said State, who are delinquent in paying their proprietary taxes, are hereby notified, that unless they pay the same to me, at my house in South-Hampton, in the county of Rockingham, and State of New-Hampshire, which is due in a tax bill committed me to collect by the assessors of said propriety, dated December 6, 1785; and herein set down, to much of the undivided land of each delinquents share, and also of the five hundred acres reserved or granted to his Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq. as will pay said taxes and charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Mr. Benjamin Lamson, innholder in Exeter, in the county aforesaid, on Tuesday the 11th day of July next, at ten o'clock, before noon, if not all disposed of on that day, the vendue to continue from day to day, until there is enough sold to pay the taxes and incidental charges.
N. B. The last column may may be paid in interest certificates. 1781. 1785.
   Specie. Specie. Cert.   Col. March l. s. 4s.    Jonathan Greeley Esq. 1 10 1 4 7  Samuel Page 1 10 1 4 7  —Bachelder 1 10 1 4 7  Samuel Dudley 1 10 1 4 7  Nathaniel Greeley 1 10 1 4 7  Ebenezer Stevens, jr. 1 10 1 4 7  Jacob Gale 1 10 1 4 7  Jacob Stevens 1 4 7  Jonathan Evans 1 4 7  John Page, jr. 1 4 7  Jacob Currier 1 4 7  Ephraim Page 1 4 7  Lemuel Stevens 1 4 7  John Page, Esq. 1 4 7  Benning Wentworth, Esq. 2 8 14  
PHILLIPS WHITE, Collector. South-Hampton, May 22, 1786.
ALL persons that have any demands on the estate of Mayhew Clark, late of Wakefield, deceased, are desired to exhibit the same to Mary Clark, of Wakefield, aforesaid, administratrix on said estate, and all persons indebted to said estate are desired to make speedy payment to MARY CLARK. Wakefield, May 11, 1786.
A very good SHIP, of 250 tons, on the stocks, with the lower decks in, for sale on easy terms, inquire of Smith and Swasey, at Exeter.