The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1771-07-19 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday July 19, 1771.
THE
Vol. XV.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 770 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
(Next Monday, July 22.)
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the new Township of Lebanon, in the County of York, at their several meetings, regularly called & held for that purpose, have voted to raise several sums of money upon the Rights in said township, for the support of the Gospel, and other necessary charges in bringing forward the settlement of said township; and there being several of said Proprietors who have neglected to pay the sums due on their respective Rights, notwithstanding they have been duly notified of the same: These are therefore to give Notice, that so much of their rights will be sold at public Vendue, at the House of Mr. Nahum Marshall, innholder in Berwick, on Monday the 22d of July next, at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, as will raise Money sufficient to pay the Sums due on their Rights, and Charges arising, unless prevented by the same being paid to the Treasurer of said Proprietors before that Time.
The Names of the original Proprietors, and the Sums due on their respective Rights, are as follows.
   £. s. d.     Richard Cutts, Esq; 4 10 0   Benjamin Libby, 3 18 0   Richard Hearl, 4 5 3   Ralph Farnham, 6 0 0   Ebenezer Moulton, 3 7 3   Jonathan Swards, 4 10 0   Nathaniel Bray, 7 0 0   Ebenezer Blaisdell, 3 1 9   Tarah Sprague, 0 13 4   Capt. Jonathan Bowers, 1 0 0   Nathan Blodger, 2 0 0   Samuel Kendall, 3 17 4   Nathaniel Gubtail, 2 0 0   Daniel Smith, 2 5 0   John Fall, 1 10 0   Thomas Kidder, 2 0 0   Crisp Bradbury, 3 13 0   John Hosfson, 1 0 0   John Lewis, 1 2 6   Richard Millbury, 2 0 0   Berwick, Benjamin Chadburne, } Com-   May 25, John Wentworth, } mit-   1771: Moses Carr, } tee.  
Province of New Hampshire.
WHEREAS at a legal Meeting of the Proprietors of LANCASTER, held at the House of David Page, Esq; on the 12th of March last, a Tax of Three Pounds Six Shillings, Lawful Money, was voted to be laid on each original Right or Share of Land, in said Township, for paying the Expences of building Mills, clearing Roads, hiring Preaching, &c. &c. in order to expedite the immediate settlement of said Lancaster; and the subscriber was chosen Collector of the said Tax, who hereby gives Notice, to all the proprietors, that he expects they pay the same, on or before the first of August next, on Failure of which their Rights will be advertised for sale in this Paper, agreeable to Law.
N. B. The aforesaid Mills, when built, are to be sold at public Vendue, for the Use of the proprietors, and the Money applied as they shall order. Lancaster, July 1. 1771. DAVID PAGE, Collector.
B O S T O N, April 11.
Last Evening came to Town, JOHN FOXCRAFT, Esq; from the Southward, Deputy-Post-Master-General for North-America, and his Lady.
By him we are favoured with a Philadelphia Paper so late as Thursday last, from which we have the following Articles, viz.
PHILADELPHIA, July 4.
Extract of a Letter from London, May 1, 1771 " Things continue exactly in the same State as they have done for some Time past. The Peace is now become, in all Probabi-
lity, permanent, both the Spaniards and we having actually disarmed. Fifteen Ships of the Line were ordered the other Day to be paid off; and yet it is intended to keep in Commission a much larger Number of Ships than we had before our late Armament. It now appears pretty evidently, that neither the Spaniards nor the French meant, in Earnest, to break with us upon this Occasion. Happily for Great Britain the intended State of France and the various Causes of Discontent, which rather encrease then abate among the People, and which actually threaten to terminate in some great Convulsion, leave us little Room to dread any Disturbance from that Quarter for a great while to come. And, so far as I am able to judge, the present Ministry, & every Thing else, respecting the Public, will remain for some Time in their present Situation.
" The Papers will inform you, that our great Patriots are now falling out among themselves. The Seceders from the Supporters of the Bill of Rights now call themselves The Constitutional Society . Townsend, Sawbridge and Oliver, are in Opposition to Wilkes & his personal Friends, the latter refusing to stand along with him for the Office of Sheriff next Midsummer Day. Horne and Wilkes, in particular, are at Enmity; which ever Party prevails, it must end in their Destruction. Wilkes himself is indefatigable in acting his Part; but I am convinced his utmost Efforts will be fruitless, and that his Glory is upon the Wain.
" American Affairs have not been so much as mentioned of late. Probably they will be resumed next Session, and some Regulations regarding Trade proposed, that will tend to our mutual Benefit.
" We have had a very long and hard Winter, & hardly any Appearance of Spring yet; so very backward a Season I never remember before. The Price of all the Necessaries of Life are nearly doubled within these few Years. Notwithstanding which, as Money is much circulated, and every Body in full Employment, we hear very few Complaints."
Fresh Intelligence.
By the Snow Anna, Captain Livingston, in 33 Days from Lisbon, we are favoured with a London Paper of the 11th of May, from which we have the following Advices, viz.
Paris April 29. By decree of the Parliament of the Court, the arrest of the Parliament of Rouen on the common hangman, as a seditious libel, infringing upon the royal authority and the laws of the realm, as tending to render the King suspicious of the sentiments of the Magistrates, to shame the loyalty of the people, to withdraw their obedience, and as falsely attributed to the said Parliament.
E L B I N G, April 17.
We have received advice, that the Russian army, under Count Romanzow, is in full march. His magazine is immense. Poland is taxed to furnish him 54,000 bushels of oats, 3084 last of wheat, the last to consist of 10 measures, and 25,000 carriages.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman at Berlin to his Friend in London, April 27.
" I have reason to think that the cloud gathering in Germany will not disturb the present peace of the Empire. My barome-
ter is the actual state of security and tranquility in which the King of Prussia remains, for from the knowledge I have of that Prince's temper and way of acting, I have reason to think, that if he entertained but the remotest suspicion of any hostile intention against him, or dangerous consequence to his natural ally Russia, from the present armaments of the House of Austria, he would not be so inactive, and appear so unconcerned. Besides, the good understanding which apparently subsists at this moment, betwixt him and the Court of Vienna, confirms me the more in this opinion, and induces me to believe that he is no stranger to the present views and designs of that power, which tend, it is thought, with the mutual consent of the Courts of Berlin and Peterburgh, to restore tranquility to Poland and to oblige the Turks to a peace with Russia, who, it is assured, had declared her inclination to the Court of Vienna, to treat with the Porte on terms so moderate and equitable, as gave the greatest satisfaction to the Austrian Court. A very short time, however, will soon discover the end and intention of the present immense warlike preparations of the House of Austria, with regard to which the greatest secrecy is observed at Vienna."
Extract of a letter from the Hague, May 3.
" If some letters from Madrid may be relied on, there seems to be a coldness between the Courts of Madrid and Versailles, occasioned, it is said, by the King of Spain having been informed, that the French King has some thoughts of re-establishing the Jesuits within his dominions; a step which hath so much affected the Spanish Monarch, that he hath sent orders to his Ambassador, resident at Paris, to declare to the Court of Versailles, that if it should take the resolution of re-establishing that society in its states, at a time when affairs are in so good a train to annihilate totally that pernicious society, by whose destructive machinations France, preferably to all other kingdoms, hath too severely suffered, his Catholic Majesty will find himself obliged to break the treaty, known by the name of The Family Compact , and to declare that he will no longer, in any manner, be bound by it; also that he will recal his Ambassador from Paris. If this is true, as these letters assure us it is, his Most Christian Majesty will re-consider this matter before he determines to re-al the disciples of Loyola into his kingdom.
[ There are no London Dates between the 4th and 10th of May, in which Time there is no doubt that the Parliament was prorogued and the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver discharged.
L O N D O N, May 10.
The Lord Mayor finding himself seized yesterday morning with a slight fit of the gout, by the advice of his friends, set out for his house at Dulwich, to spend a few days there for the recovery of his health, & Sir William Stephenfon sat at the Mansion house in his room.
Yesterday Mr. Alderman Oliver visited Earl Temple, at his house in Pall-Mall, & afterwards paid his respects to other Noblemen, &c.
May 11. There are several letters in town which positively affirm, that the interior provinces of Russia are almost depopulated, by means of the wars, notwithstanding the success of their arms.

CHARLESTOWN, (South-Carolina,) April 16.  The Legislature of this Colony, taking the affairs into consideration, passed an act for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies, and for restoring the public tranquility, formed upon the British Riot-Act; in consequence of which a special Court of Oyer and terminer was holden at Newbern the 11th of March last, when Bills of INDICTMENT were found against Messieurs Husband, Howell, Hunter, and many others, in all about sixty, for the riots and assaults at Hillsborough in September last, and they were required by proclamation, to surrender themselves within 60 days from March 16th, under the pains and penalties prescribed by the said act; but as they stand out, his Excellency Governor Tryon has, by virtue of an act of the Legislature, raised and embodied two thousand men, with a train of artillery to enforce the laws, and bring the delinquents to justice. His Excellency commands in chief as Captain General; Col. Waddel, with a commission as General, is second in command, and the other officers are of the first rank and property in the province. The troops are in pay, under military discipline. His Excellency is to march from Wilmington on the 20th instant, and if the Regulators should attempt to make a stand, the country must suffer all the horrors of a civil War.
CHALESTOWN, (S. Carolina) June 17. About the middle of last month, a party of Creek Indians, going to war, met a party of Choctaws on the same errand; a battle ensued, in which 9 Creeks were killed, and it is said not more than two or three Choctaws. Some weeks before the skirmish abovementioned, a party of Creeks from the Alabama Fort, fell in with a party of Choctaws, three of whom they killed, and took one man and three women prisoners; a few days after their return home, they burnt the man in the Tuskegee Town; the women they keep as slaves. All the appearances of a peace between the Creeks and Choctaws are vanished. The late excessive rains in this province have done considerable damage to the crop now in the ground.
NEWBERN, (North-Carolina) June 7. Since our last, the Hon. SAMUEL CORNELL, Esq; returned home from our Troops in Orange County, and brings a certain Account of the Regulators being entirely broken and dispersed, and that near 13 or 1400 of them have laid down their Arms, taken the Oaths of Allegiance to his Majesty, and returned to their Habitations in Peace.
His Excellency the Governor, after the Battle, marched into the Plantations of Husband, Hunter, and several others of the outlawed Chiefs of the Regulators, and laid them waste; they having most of them escaped from the Battle, and are since fled. A Reward of 1000 Acres of Land, and 100 Dollars, is offered by his Excellency for Husband, Hunter, Butler & Rednap Howell, and several of the Regulators have been permitted to go in Quest of them, on leaving their Children Hostages.
The Lands of the outlawed Regulators are to be sold by the Sheriff of the County where they lie, agreeable to Act of Assembly; & many of them are of great Value, being perhaps the best Lands on this Continent, particularly Herman Husband's, who had growing on his Plantation about 50 Acres of as fine Wheat as perhaps ever grew, with Clover Meadow equal to any in the Northern Colonies; but infatuated, unhappy Man, about 400 Head of Horses, which were turned in on it by our Troops, in a few days left it without a Spear of Corn, Grass, or Herbage growing, and without a House or Fence standing? A melancholy Consideration, but made necessary by the Laws of War.
Thus has his Excellency the Governor, at the Head of a handful of Troops, compared to the Numbers of the Regulators thro' the immediate Hand of Divine Providence, broke this dangerous and daring Conspiracy that every day increased, and threatened to overwhelm this once flourishing Province in one Scene of horrid Confusion and lalefs Fury! For who but the Almighty Ruler of Heaven and Earth could guide the Balls from the Rifles of the Regulators to fly over the Heads of our Troops in the Day of Battle, as they did by ten Thousands; which otherwise, as they were at least five Times the Number of our Troops, must have cut them off by Hundreds, and left the Field a dismal Scene of Blood and Carnage.
NEW-YORK, July 3. Thursday last the Harriot Packet, Capt. Oak, failed from hence with the Mail for Falmouth.
Saturday last his Majesty's Ship Rose Captain Caldwell, arrived here from Boston.
HARTFORD, July 2. Last week a man in Middletown bathing in a mill pond was drowned. He was about 21 years of age. We have not been able to obtain his name.
Last Friday a child of Mr. Coleman of Weathersfield, about 7 years of age, riding in a cart with his father, fell from his seat to the ground, before one of the wheels, which (before his father could stop his cattle) went over his head and killed him in a moment.
NEW-HAVEN, July 5. We hear from Meriden, that one day last week, Mr. Nicholas Andrews, of that place, having finished a piece of plowing, he took his horse from the plow, and delivered him to the care of his son, (a lad about 10 years old) by some means the hook that fastened the gears to the plow, caught in the boy's clothes, and the horse taking a sudden fright, drew him with such violence against a stone, that he was kill'd in an instant.
PROVIDENCE, July 6. Capt. Hammond, who arrived at Newport on Monday last from No. Carolina, brings Advice, that Governor Tryon, with his Party, were returned to Newbern.
On Wednesday last was ordained to the Work of the Ministry, at Warren, in Bristol County, by the unanimous choice of the Baptist Church and Congregation in that Town, the Rev. Charles Thompson, A. B. the first Son of Rhode-Island College that has yet engaged in that sacred Office.
PHILADELPHIA, July 4. Sunday last seven Men and a Boy being at Work in a Field near Mount Holly, a Flash of Lightning struck the Lad, and stunned him in such a manner, that it was doubtful whether he would live; the Men immediately carried him under a Tree at a
little distance, and began to rub him, and render him all the Assistance, when another Flash killed four of the Men outright, and the other three were struck down, and very much hurt, but we hear they, with the Lad are likely to recover.
BOSTON, July 11. The Britannia, Capt. Davenport, arrived here last Monday from London; but brought no public News.
MONDAY July 15. We hear from Lunenburg, that as Lieutenant Samuel Reed of that Place was driving a loaded Waggon thro' Shirley, on Monday the first of this Instant, he fell from the Tongue on which he was standing, down before the Wheels, which running lengthways over his Back, broke several of his Ribs, and so bruised his Face and Body that notwithstanding the best Help which speedily came to his Assistance, he languished 'till the Saturday Night following, and then died, to the great Grief of his Family, and the Loss of the Town of which he was a very valuable Inhabitant. He was a Man of a meek & quiet Spirit which he manifested during his Pain and Weakness, by great Patience and Resignation; and though it was his prevailing Belief that he should not recover, he did not appear to be terrified with the thoughts of Death, and when it came, seemed to have an easy Passage. He has left a sorrowful Widow and seven Children, at an Age when he might have been very serviceable to them.
Last Saturday a Negro Man belonging to Mrs. Summers, fell down dead in the Street, as he was talking with another Negro. Last Saturday failed for London, the Ship Boston Packet, Capt. Lyde, in whom went Passenger, Henry Marchant, Esq; Attorney-General of the Colony of Rhode Island, and joint Agent with Joseph Sherwood, Esq; for that Colony at the Court of Great-Britain.
Duxboro', July 5, 1771. A very malignant putrid Fever has, for some Time past, much prevailed in this Town; about 150 Persons, chiefly Children, having had it in the Course of a few Months: to a considerable Proportion of whom it has proved fatal. More especially of late its Malignity has very much increased. And in one Family in particular, (Mr. Benjamin Waaworth's) five Children out of Six have died of it in the short Space of a Week; the only one surviving being now dangerously sick. This Fever seems to differ from what has been usually called the Scarlet Fever only in Point of Malignity; the Appearances in those who have it favourably being in all Respects the same. It is remarkable that though it has made its Appearance in every Part of this Town, scarce a Family or person in any of the neighbouring Towns have as yet been visited with it.
S A L E M, July 16. By Captain Davenport, arrived at Boston from England, we have the Pleasure to hear of the safe Arrival in London, from Carolina, of Capt. Stephen Higginson, in the Ship Minerva, belonging to this Place, whose Safety was for some Time considered as dubious.
Little or no Credit is given to the Account from Newport, relative to the Regulators taking Governor Tryon, inserted in the first Page, as a Letter from New-York, dated Yesterday forenoon, says, 'That Governor Tryon, with another Gentleman, arrived there that Day from North-Carolina.'
John Stavers, Who at a very great Expence, has supported a STAGE COACH, Post Chaise, &c. for several Years past, between Portsmouth and Boston, informs the Public, That one or either of these Carriages, will as usual, continue to ply between these two Places once a Week, to set out from the Earl of Halifax Tavern every Tuesday Morning, which is kept by said Stavers in Pitt Street, Portsmouth, and from Boston every Friday Morning, and be in Town again on Saturdays. A careful Driver will always be provided, and both Carriages and Horses kept in such Order, that Nothing but some unforeseen Accident, shall at any Time give Hindrance, or by any Means retard the Journey. The Public, after taking these Matters into serious Consideration, and at the same Time reflecting, with what Difficulty, Expence, Discouragements, and very little, if any profit, said Stavers, when no other Person would undertake it, surmounted every Obstruction, and through Heat and Cold, Rain and Snow Storms, push'd forward, at Times when every other Conveyance fail'd, to bring and carry his Passengers, as also the Mails of Letters and News Papers—will now give his Coach the Preference, which he thinks it intitled to, before any others, whose Drivers, big with Importance, new and flaming Coaches, expect mighty Things—However he wishes great Success to their Undertakings, but thinks it would have been full as generous to have omitted (what the first Snow Storm will frighten them into) or at least taken Days and a Road, separate from the Stage-Coach, Number One.
TO BE SOLD On Wednesday the 31st Day of July instant, at a public Vendue, at the House of Mr. Samuel Baker, Innholder in Newmarket, (if not sold at private Sale before)
A very genteel Dwelling House, Ware House, out Houses and Barn, & all the Land adjoining; and is thought to be one of the best Places in North America, for a Merchant or Trader to make a Fortune, being on the great Road from Nottingham, and many other Towns from whence great Quantities of Lumber of all Kinds is brought to a good Landing in Newmarket yearly, new in the Possession of Captain Nathaniel Rogers. For further particulars enquire of Joseph Hoit, Esq; in Stratham and Daniel Scott of Boston.
Gillam Butler,
INFORMS his Customers and others, That he has remov'd his Shop to the House lately improv'd by the late Major Shackford, in the Street that leads from the Town Wharf to Mr. Sherburne's Wharf, Where he has to sell, a good Assortment of Goods, which are sold on the very lowest Terms, as cheap as at any store in Town, without Exception.
Constant Attendance is given.
ON Tuesday the 23d of July
next, at Ten in the Morning, will be sold by public Vendue, to the highest Bidder or Bidders, at the House of James Stoodley, Esq; Innholder in Portsmouth, between fifteen and sixteen Hundred
ACRES of common LAND,
lying on the North Side of the Township of Barnstead, in said Province, and joyning to Coulrain, so called, alias the Gores: Said Lands will or may be divided into Hundred Acre Lots, and Sold, if it be thought more advantageous to the Property, than to sell it in a Body. The abovesaid Common Lands, are ordered to be sold in Order to pay Richard Jennings and John McDuffee, Esq; for making a Road or High Way thro' said Barnstead.—For further Particulars, Enquire of the Subscribers.
By Order and agreeable to a Vote of the Proprietors.
Newington, June 25th. 1771
  Benjamin Adams,  Com-    Benjamin Colebath,  mit-    Richard Downing,  tee,  
Robert Fowle,
At the Stationary Shop, on the Parade, near the State House, in Portsmouth, has for sale the following Articles, very low for Cash only, v.z.
MEDIUM , Atm, Foolscap and Pot Writing-Paper, of the best Kind; Ink Chests of various kinds; Ink Stands with and without tops; Ink Powder, Cake Ink; common and Lignumvite Sand Boxes; Pounce and pounce Boxes; the best of shining Sand; excellent sealing Wax; black lead Pencils; best Vermilion Wafers; Crown ditto. Fe ding, common and Ivory handled Penknives; Ivory Folders; Penner Pressers; Pocket Cases very neat; Dutch Quills; Marbled Paper; large and small Slates; Account Books, Temple Spectacles, Slate Pencils; ready made Pens; Playing Cards of a new and excellent kind; Watts's Psalms and Hymns, bound together and separate; Tate and Brady's Ditto; Spelling Books; Pslters & Primers by the Dozen; Pressing Paper, &c. &c. together with a variety of Books, among which are a few sets of Tiffet on Health, a new and much esteemed Performance; Account Books of any kind are made as expeditiously and neat as ever was or can be done in the Province.
A few of the Trials of the Soldiers in Boston to be sold at the above Shop.
Notice is given to all Persons
having any Demands on the Estate of the late THOMAS PACKER Esq; to bring their Accounts properly proved, that they may be immediately paid; ALSO those indebted thereto, are requested to make speedy Payment, in Order to an immediate and final Settlement of said Estate.
By Order of the Executor, JOHN HURD. Portsmouth, July 1st. 1771
We the subscribers appointed
and constituted Commissioners, by the Hon. John Wentworth, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills for the Province of New Hampshire, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of John Titcomb, late of Dover, in said Province, Esq; Intestate, deceased, represented Intestament, hereby notify the Creditors to said Estate, that six Months from the 24th of June last past, was allowed by the Judge for that purpose, and that we shall punctually attend at the Dwelling House of said Deceased, to examine and receive all Claims well prov'd on the last Monday of this, and the four following Months, from two to five of the Clock in the Afternoon of said Days.
John Gage, junr. Dover, July 3d, 1771. Joseph Roberts.
Custom-House, Piscataqua, July 18.
   Inward Entries, From.     Schooner Susanna, Silas Nowell, North-Carolina.   Sloop Molly, Simon Mansfield, St. Lucia.   Sloop three Sisters, John Brown, Ditto.   Schooner Industry, Joseph Adams, St. Martins.   Ship Instufty, Shadrack Hodgson, Ditto.   Outward Bound, FOR.   Brig Occasie, Mark Fernald, West-Indies.   Brig two Brothers, Daniel Evans, Ditto.   Clear'd for Departure, FOR.   Schooner General Wolfe, Ebenezer Pearse, West-Indies.   Sloop John, James Whitney, Rhode-Island.   Brig Lion Joseph Jellings, Newfoundland.   Snow Fedington, Joseph Greenleaf, London.   Ship three Brothers, John Whitefield, Biddelford.  

L O N D O N, May 11. Sir Fletcher Norton had a grand levee at his house on Wednesday evening, where the nobility and others that paraded the streets that evening repaired; and testified their respects, by breaking most of the windows.
Wednesday night a desperate fray happened between the mob and a party of chairmen, in St. James's Square, when two of the former, it is said, were killed on the spot, and several, on both sides, dangerously wounded.
They write from Birmingham, that 15,000 muskets, with bayonets and cartouch boxes, were sent from thence in waggons, to be shipped at Bristol for St. Peterburgh, on the Empress's account the 24th ult.
When the Lord Mayor came out of the Tower, he gave ten guineas to the Wardens as a compliment for the civility they shewed to him and his friends, whilst he was under confinement.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, May 5.
"Letters just received from Paris mention, that it was never more necessary for persons there to devote themselves to the God of Silence than at this time. Three persons, who now probably regret not having kept their lips sealed, were lately arrested, and conducted to prison, as they were coming out of the Place. Two others met with the same fate as they were quitting the Chatelet."
Last Wednesday night the mob assembled before Lord N---'s house in Downing street and broke several of the windows; likewise the fan light, and the two lamps over the door.
Sir F. N. came home not above half an hour before the mob assembled in his court yard; they threw stones so fast at the windows, that the family were obliged to remain all the time in the back apartments.
A Gentleman sent a complimentary card yesterday morning to Sir Fletcher Norton, desiring to know how he did after the riot; to which he is said to have returned for answer, "That he was very easy, for he had not one pane left."
This morning their Majesties came from Richmond to the Queen's-Palace, where Lord Rochford attended to deliver an express to the King, which arrived last night in haste from the Hague.
On Wednesday night his Majesty's wardrobe at Richmond was broke open, and robbed of valuables to the amount of 6000l.
We are assured that some very important secrets, relative to the expenditure of a large sum of the national treasure, have been brought to light, within these few days, by the indefatigable zeal of some patriotic members.
We are assured, by recent letters from Paris, that the States General have presented a Remonstrance to the French King, touching the injustice done to the subjects of Holland, who hold annuities in that kingdom.
A loan of 500,000l. is now negotiating by an agent in London, at 5 per Cent. for the King of Prussia.
The sudden change of affairs in Lisbon, in favour of the English traders, we are assured was effected by a Remonstrance sent from our Court by Captain Belfour, in the Venus Frigate.
It is a fact, that the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor received yesterday a letter, highly approving his conduct with respect to the Printers, from a person in a distinguished office at Court.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, since his arrival at the Mansion-house, has received upwards of 200 cards of congratulation from the Minority, on his releasement from the Tower; to all which his Lordship returned suitable answers.
We hear that the Ball and entertainment intend to be given by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house, will be on the 20th instant.
Thursday commissions were sent to Birmingham and Sheffield to the amount of 50,000l. for goods to be got ready for exportation to America.
Gravesend, April 20. Passed by, the Hannah, Simms from Boston.
L O N D O N, April 20. A correspondent informs us, that lately as the Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver were at dinner with Col. M---y, and the officers in the Tower, according to invitation, Mr. Wilkes had occasion to wait on the Lord Mayor relative to some city business, but was refused admittance by Col. Murray, and his Lordship was obliged to leave his company upon that account.
April 23. It is said that a very great coolness subsists between the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver, occasioned by the former espousing the cause of Mr. W. with respect to the Shrievalty.
April 30. The much-talked-of affair between Col. Murray and Mr. Wilkes is said to have been misrepresented, and that the following is a true account of it.---The Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver being at dinner with the Colonel, a message came, informing them, that Mr. Alderman Wilkes was below stairs; one of the officers said in a joke, "Let him come up." "No," replied Col. Murray (brother to the Duke of Athol) "Mr. Wilkes is no acquaintance of mine; if you want to see him you may; but not in this place, while I am present. I am very happy in the company of the Lord Mayor, and Mr. Oliver, to whose brother, in the West-Indies, I owe my life and preservation; they are gentlemen who do me honour, they are gentlemen of property, but the other is a stranger to me." "It is very odd," says Mr. Oliver, "that this man will always intrude himself upon companies;" and the Lord Mayor subjoined, "Tell Mr. Wilkes I am at dinner, and will see him another time."
A celebrated Female Historian it is whispered is now writing an History of the Reign of our present Sovereign, in which it will appear, from incontrovertible Authority, that a great Personage who has been much calumniated, has always advised the most lenient Measures.
Extract of a letter from Paris, March 22. "As I know your curiosity with respect to every thing that relates to Madame du Barre, the following chit-chat of this metropolis may not be disagreeable to you. This lady, since her elevation to power and influence at the Court of Versailles, is haughty and insolent even to her royal benefactor; of which she has given a recent instance. One evening this lent she had assisted at a concert-spiritual, on her return to petit-souper in her apartment, found that her paramour had made pretty free with la soupe Angloise (Anglice rum punch) when he said to her, with a hiccup, Madame, euss vous grise? [Madam, are you grey?] To which she replied, Non, Monsieur, je suis brune, a l'ordinaire, mais je vois que vous etes grise d' haut en bas. [No; Monsieur, I am brown as usual, but I see you are grey from head to foot.] The sequel of this ill-timed repartee, it is assured, has been fatal to the haughty beauty. The King, piqued at her insolence, retired to rest alone that night: He went the next day to Marli, without the Madame Barre, where he saw a black eyes file, who caught his present unsettled heart. The girl in question is named Mazelot, who was in no higher rank than that of a Milliner; neither hath she any extraordinary personal charms; and her mental endowments are as yet unknown: She is, however, it must be acknowledged, a genteel figure, and is very vivacious. This, probably, will be but a transitory attachment, if Madame Barre is prudent enough to make a concession for her ill-prudent jeu de mots. In the mean while, this affair is in the mouths of all Paris; and the event is waited for with the most eager impatience, particularly by the friends of Choiseul, who, some pretend, are the instigators of Mademoiselle Mazelot's conduct."
* A word used equivocal, either signifying the colour grey, or being drunk.
L O N D O N, May 4. The following is said to be the Substance of what was spoken by Lord CHATHAM on Tuesday last in the Upper Room.
Lord Chatham, after giving the warmest support to the Duke of Richmond's motion on Tuesday, on the Middlesex Election, entered largely into the melancholy state of the country, the depraved system of government, which had, in a few years, reduced us from a most flourishing, to a most miserable condition. He went through the whole proceedings of the House of Commons, in the late business of the Printers; he warmly defended the magistrates, in the conscientious discharge of their duty; said that the House, in committing them to prison, without hearing their defence upon the point of privilege, had been guilty of an act of tyranny;---that they had heard the prostituted electors of Shoreham, in defence of an agreement to sell a borough by auction, and had refused to hear the Lord Mayor of London, in defence of the laws of England; that their expunging, by mere force, the entry of the recognizance, was the act of the Mob, but that their daring to assume a power of stopping all prosecutions by their vote, struck at once at the whole system of the laws;---that it was solely owing to the measures of Government, equally violent and absurd, that Mr. Wilkes owed all his importance;---that they, in effect, had made him an Alderman of London, and Representative of the County of Middlesex; and now it seems they intend to make him Sheriff, and, in due course Lord Mayor of London;---that, after repeated resolutions, by which they had declared him amenable to their jurisdiction, they had shamefully given up the point at last, and, in the face of the world, acknowledged him to be their Lord and Master!---That there remained but one possible remedy for the disorders with which the Government of this country was universally affected:---That to save the name & institution of Parliaments from contempt, this House of commons must be dissolved. This he hoped might restore good government on one side, good humour & tranquility on the other; yet that this was rather a hope in him than any sanguine expectation. He feared that it might prove only a temporary and partial remedy that to resist the enormous influence of the Crown, some stronger barriers must be erected in defence of the constitution. That formerly the inconveniency of shortening the duration of Parliaments had had great weight with him, but that now it was no longer a question of convenience; the summa rerum is at stake; your whole Constitution is giving way; and therefore, with the most deliberate and solemn conviction to his understanding, he now declared himself a Convens to Triennial Parliaments.
His Lordship concluded with desiring a call of the House for next day, and declared his intention to move an address for the dissolution of the present Parliament.
Paris, (France) April 15. On Sunday morning last all the Princes of the Blood (except the Count de la Marche) received a letter from his Majesty, forbidding them to appear in his presence, or to visit any of the Royal Family; permitting them however to go where they please, except to Court.
April 19. Some of the Peers, after the example of the Princes of the Blood, have likewise protested against every thing which was done at the late bed of Justice.
April 22. As soon as the Parliament of Rouen was informed of the formation of a new Parliament of Paris, it passed an arrest couched in stronger terms than any that has yet appeared, and at the conclusion it forbids all officers belonging to the Parliament of Rouen to acknowledge any acts of this nominal Parliament of Paris.
We hear a Great Lady has declared her intention to quit England, and never to return.
April 8. The Recorder yesterday, at Guildhall, in summing
up to the Jury the arguments relative to the finding of the Bill against Whitham the messenger, concluded with advising them to find a special verdict, because the proof and decision of the whole cause must depend on a point of law. On which Mr. Alderman Townsend immediately got up, and asked, "Well, Mr. Recorder, and who is to judge of this point of law, and this verdict?---The Judge, or the Jury?"---The Recorder sat down without speaking a word.
The following was published in the Carolina Papers some Months ago;---it gives some Light into the Disputes between the Regulators and the Government.
CHARLESTOWN, (South Carolina,) April 10
THE disturbances in North-Carolina by the people who call themselves Regulators still continue. One of them named Herman Husbands, a Member of Assembly was expelled the House and committed to goal; but soon after discharged, the Grand Jury having thrown out the Bill against him. While he was in Prison they threatened to destroy Newbern and the palace, which occasioned entrenchments to be made, and fortifications raised for defence, the militia of several counties were called out, who on his discharge were disbanded. The following letter published in the North-Carolina Gazette, from one of the Regulators to another of the same party, which we suppose has been intercepted, will in some measure explain their designs:
"Respected Friends, Halifax, Feb. 16, 1771."
On my setting out for Halifax my Horse fell sick, which detained me some time, so that on my arrival here I had certain information that Herman was at liberty, so that I found it needless to raise the country, but I am satisfied it could be done, if occasion required. However, I have animated the people here to join the regulation, and Saturday come two weeks they are to have a meeting for that purpose. If it once takes a start here, it will run into the neighbouring counties of Edgecumbe, Bute, & Northampton; and this will undoubtedly facilitate justice to poor Carolina. I will now inform you of such things as I have learnt since I left home: At Newbern the Governor called a general muster of 1100 men.---After treating them at yours and my expence, he tried to prevail on them to march against the Rebels; but on one man's absolute refusal, he ordered him to turn out of the ranks for a traitor, which he very readily did, and all the Regiments followed him. The Governor perceiving his mistake, says, Gentlemen, you mistook me; I only meant should they come down, and destroy all your livings would not you fight them? They answered, yes; on which he dismissed them. They then gathered in companies of six, eight, ten and twelve, growling and swearing should the mob come down they would join them. In Dobbs a general muster was called for the same purpose, but only seven men attended. I am informed the Clerks places in the new counties are parcelled out among the quality. One Cooper is designed for your county; but if you suffer any Rascal to come there, may eternal oppression be your lot. As I cannot solely depend on the Irish ahead, pray you would reserve that morsel for yours to serve; for as the whole province is in your favour you may do as you list in that respect. I understand Butler and you are to be outlawed; despise it, laugh at it. We hear the Governor has sent a proclamation to you, importing, as the French and Spaniards are now at war with us, 'tis a pity to breed a civil war among ourselves; and that the chief cause of the troubles was the counterfeit money, for which the great men were to blame.---Artful v---n! If he could have raised the province on us he would soon have told another tale; however if this be true, the day is ours in spite of Lucifer. I gave out here that the Regulators are determined to whip every one who goes to law or will not pay his just debts, or will not agree to leave his cause to men, where disputed; that they will choose Representatives, but not send them to be put in goal; in short, to stand in defiance? and as to thieves to drive them out of the country. I leave the plan to your consideration. From your sincere friend.
REDNAP HOWELL.
"For Mr. James Hunter, living on Sandy Creek, Orange-County, This.
To the care of Simon Dixon."

Province of New Hampshire, Concord, July 4, 1771  WHEREAS Application hath been made to me the Subscriber, Clerk for the Proprietors of the Township formerly known by the Name of Rumford or Pennecock, by said proprietors, Owners of more than a Tenth part of all the common and undivided Land in said Township, to notify and warn a Meeting of said proprietors to meet at the Meeting House, in that part of Rumford, lately incorporated by the Name of Concord, on Monday the 29th of July current, at one of the Clock in the Afternoon, then and there to act on the following particulars, viz. First, To chuse a Moderator, Assessors and Collectors. Second, To vote a Tax on each Right sufficient to defray their part of Expence, that may be supposed to arise in compleating a Settlement with the proprietors of Bow, and others holding Lands under them, within said Rumford. Also, with the proprietors of Mason's Patten and the proprietors of Canterbury. Third, To chuse a Committee to make a final Settlement with said proprietors and others abovementioned, if it can be done on the Terms proposed by the proprietors of Bow, and consented to at their Meeting in April last, and likewise the Terms proposed by Mason's propriety. Fourth, To see what the proprietors will do respecting their Note which some of them gave to Joseph Hall, or order, as security to defray their part of Expence, that might arise by prosecuting or defending any Law suit commenced, or to be commenced by the proprietors of Bow, against the proprietors of Rumford. Fifth, To see if they will dismiss their Committee lately chosen to settle Accounts between the proprietors and the Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker, Benjamin Rolf, Esq; and the Survivors of the Committee chosen by the said proprietors to lay out the common Land, and chuse another Committee to settle with the said Walker, Rolf, and the Survivors of the Committee to lay out Land as aforesaid. Sixth, To see if the proprietors will vote to have Benjamin Rolf, Esq; their former Clerk, deliver the proprietors Books, to John Kimball, their present Clerk. In pursuance of which Application, I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors of said Rumford, to meet at the Time and place above mentioned, for the Ends and Purposes aforesaid. per JOHN KIMBALL, Prop's Clerk.
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Mr. John Marshall, late of Portsmouth, Cordwainer, deceased, are desired to bring their Accounts to David Griffith, Administrator en said Estate, in order for Settlement.
TO BE SOLD By Peter Pearse,
At his Shop near the Parade in Portsmouth BROAD Cloths of different colours, with trimmings, Plains, fine Bath Coatings, Blanketing, Baizes, Ruggs, Shalloon, Stuffs: an Assortment of Irish Linnens, Sheeting, Dowlas, Russia Linnen, Crates of Ware, Glocester and Cheshire Chees, English Loaf Sugar, Sheeps wool, cotton Wool, Powder, Shot and Flints, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Pepper, Indigo, Mens and Womens worsted & cotton Stockings, Linn Shoes, Barcelona Handkerchiefs, writing Paper, check Linnen, Ozenbrigs, Leather Breeches, Wool Cards, Sythes, Stock Locks, Kippens Snuff, Bunting, Thicksett, Fustin, and Jeans, Knives and Forks, Scizars, metal and mohair Buttons, Twist, sewing Silk, Pins, Needles, Buckles, Cork Screws, &c. &c. &c,
N. B. the above Articles he will sell as cheap as can be bought in Portsmouth. Some of them were lately imported directly from the Makers.
To be sold by STEPHEN HARDY , at his Shop opposite Dr. Jackson's, the
True German Blacking Balls, superior in goodness to any hitherto invented. They giving a peculiar power to Leather to resist water, and to soften and nourishes the Shoes and Boots, that they never crack, and leaves it a most beautiful jet Black, which never daubs or soils the Hands, &c. when dressing. This Composition will keep Years, therefore it is very convenient to carry abroad or far to take into the Country; this Ball has gained Reputation superior to any of its kind for these thirty Years past.
Russia Duck,
Ticklinburg, Oznabrigs, Superfine broad CLOTHS, Wiltons, German Serges and Shalloons; NAILS of every size, with a variety of Ironmongery; GLASS of all sizes and in sheets; PAINTS of various colours; Beaver and Beaveret HATTS; All sorts of CLOTHIERS Materials; — FISH - HOOKS, Lines and Leads; — TOBACCO, Leaf, Cut and Pigtail, by the Quantity; CHINA, Glass, Queens color, Stone, Tin and Iron WARE; GRINDSTONES — A great variety of GROCERY — SHIP CHANDLERY and STATIONARY — English and West-India GOODS, To be Sold by
Thomas Martin,
At his Store in Portsmouth, at the lowest CASH Price.
James M'Master, And Company,
NOTIFIES their Customers and others, that they have just now opened at their Store in Portsmouth, an elegant Assortment of English, India and Scotch GOODS, consisting of a variety of Articles, well assorted — Of not filling up the News Paper with the several Articles, it is presum'd will be of no Disadvantage or Hindrance, for which it is a general Opinion, where People can be served Nigh without being at the Trouble and Expence of going Further, he'd will prefer the abovementioned Store with their Custom, where due Attendance is given in order of quick Dispatch. After first Word no Abatement, and likewise Customers will be supplied with Goods, as cheap if not lower than in Boston, or any other Where, as they endeavour to supply Gentlemen and Ladies to their intire Satisfaction. Good POTASH and West India RUM, taken in at the aforesaid Place.
N. B. Said M'Masters earnestly desires all Persons that has Accounts long Standing open, may come and Settle them either to Portsmouth or Boston, any of the two Places they think convenientest, without being put to further Trouble.
The Proprietors of HAVERHIL in the Province of New Hampshire, are hereby notified, that their Rights are assessed to the Amount of five Pounds two Shillings lawful Money, and that they pay the same to me the Subscriber on or before the 11th Day of August next at my dwelling House in Haverhil aforesaid, or their Rights will be advertised for sale at publick Vendue in the New-Hampshire Gazette,
EZEKIEL LADD Prop's Collector, Haverhil July 3d 1771.
The Proprietors and Grantees of the Township of Barrington, are hereby notified to meet at the Meeting House in said Barrington on Monday the twenty second Day of July Instant at eleven of the clock, before noon, for the following Purposes viz. 1st. to choose a Moderator for the Meeting. 2d. to see if the proprietors and Grantees will vote a further sum of money to be raised by a Tax on the Lands in said Barrington in order to defray the Expence of clearing a Road from Barrington to Barnstead. 3d. If a Sum is voted to be raised to chuse a Committee to make a just and impartial Assessment on the Land of the proprietors and Grantees. 4th. To choose a Committee to examine the Accounts of the former Committee. And fifthly to chuse a Collector to collect the money as soon as may be after the Assessment is made.
By order of the Committee, SAMUEL BREWSTER Prop's Clerk. Barrington July 2 1771.
(Perry's Town)
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of PERRY'S TOWN, so called, in the Province of New-Hampshire, that there was nine Shillings raised on each Right of said Proprietors April 1, 1771, committed to me to collect, which unless paid to me immediately at my House in Plaftow, their Rights will be advertised for Sale at Public Vendue, according to Law, in the New-Hampshire Gazette.
EBENEZER NOYES, Collector.
Plaftow July 10 1771
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of PERRY'S TOWN, so called, in the Province of New Hampshire, that so much of their Rights will be sold by me the Subscriber at public Vendue as to pay the sums herein set against the Name of each original Owners of the rights delinquent and lost, if not paid to prevent the same, on Monday the 12th Day of August next, at two o'clock, Afternoon, at the House of Oliver Knight, Innholder in Atkinson.
The original Proprietors are as follows, viz.
  James Clement £ 0 15 0   Abraham Perry 1 1 0   Daniel Poor 0 14 3   John Pecker 1 1 0   John Plummer 1 1 0 
JOHN KNIGHT, Collector.
Atkinson July 2 1771.
NOTICE is hereby given to the delinquent Proprietors of PERRY'S TOWN, so called, that so much of their Rights will be sold at public Vendue, by me the subscriber, as will pay the sum set against the Name of each original Owner, on the 12th Day of August next, at the House of Mr. Oliver Knight, Innholder in Atkinson, at Five o'Clock Afternoon. The Delinquents are as follows,
   l. s. d. l. s. d.     Edward Barnard 1 4 0 Abraham Perry 1 4 0   John Barker 1 4 0 Ebenezer Perry 1 4 0   Thomas Hale 1 4 0 John Pecker 1 4 0   Jacob Hancock 1 4 0 Mark Plummer 1 4 0   Asa Kimball 1 4 0 Thomas Fallanbee 1 4 0   Thomas Hale, jr. 1 4 0 Jacob Woodward 1 5 0   Thomas Noyes 1 4 0  
Ebenezer Noyes Collector.
Plaftow July 10 1771.
All Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Jeha Perkins, junr. late of Dover, in the Province of New Hampshire, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts duly attested, to Patience Perkins, Widow, Relect. of said Deceased, and Administratrix, to said Estate in order for settlement.
Runaway from Robert Barber, the 24th June last, a Prentice Boy, named Levi Champman, sixteen Years of Age, of light Complexion, light Hair, round Shoulders, and goes very stooping, and has on one of his Ankles, a bunch made by a cut, carried with him a dark colour'd Claris Homespun Coat, lined with woolen, near the same Colour, flower'd Pewter Buttons, a dark color'd Jacket and Breeches without lining, two woolen Shirts, one cotton and linen ditto, one pair of blue yarn Stockings, and one new Felt Hat.
And at the same Time Runaway, from Benjamin Pease, a Prentice Boy, named John Mannary, Shoemaker by Trade, 19 Years of Age, of a very small Stature, his left Eye very sore, his Hair growing out; carried away with him a whole suit of pepper and salt color'd Cloaths, a light color'd blue homespun Coat, a gray Jacket, a pair Leather Breeches, three Shirts, one pair blue yarn Stockings, one pair new Shoes, and new Felt Hat. Whoever takes up said Runaways, and conveys them to their said Masters, shall have Four Dollars Reward, and necessary Charges. Robert Barber, Benjamin Pease.
Province of New Hampshire.
Application being made to me by the Owners of more than one sixteenth part of the Lands in the Township of Apthorp, in said province, for a Meeting of the proprietors of said Apthorp, to be held at the Dwelling House of Captain Caleb Sanborn, Innholder at Hampton Falls, on the 12th Day of August next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, 1. To chuse a Moderator, Clerk, Assessors, a Collector and Treasurer. 2. To chuse a Committee to lay out and clear a Highway thro' said Apthorp. 3. To chuse a Committee to lay out in hundred Acre Lots the whole of the Lands in said Apthorp, which shall remain after the several Tracts granted to the several persons therein named shall be allotted. 4. To vote such Tax on said Lands as shall be thought necessary for payment of the past and future Cost in preparing said Township for speedy settlement. 5. To settle a Method for calling the future Meeting of said propriety.
I do accordingly hereby warn the proprietors of said Apthorp to meet at the time and place above-mentioned for the purposes aforesaid.
Portsmouth, June 28. 1771.
HUNKING WENTWORTH, Just. Pac. Blanks of most sorts, sold at the Printing-Office, near the State-House: