The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-08-28 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday Aug. 28, 1772.
Vol. XVI. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 827 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd.
L O N D O N, June 12. Y ESTERDAY General Paoli had a long conference with Lord North at his house in Downing-Street. There will be no levees at the Cockpit during the summer.
Since Sunday last the Bishop of London ordained 50 young clergymen at his Chapel at Fulham.
Yesterday morning came on at eleven o'clock (after waiting two hours for the Attorney General, who did not appear at last) before Lord Mansfield and a common jury, in Westminster-hall, the great cause between Mr. Townshend and Mr. Hunt, for a trespass in the collection of the Land-Tax. Mr. Serjeant Glynn opened the cause, and, in a most elegant speech, laid before the Jury every circumstance relating to the Middlesex Election; in which he insisted Mr. Wilkes had been chosen by a great majority of freeholders, but kept out of his seat, and Mr. Luttrell seated in his room, who never was chosen. He further told them, that when the act for the Land-Tax passed in the house, the county of Middlesex was represented only by one member, and that it was on this account the action was brought. He then proceeded to call evidence to show how legally Mr. Wilkes had been chosen, but Mr. Wallace, counsel on the other side, starting up, produced the act of parliament which they seized under, and Lord Mansfield saying that the evidence offered by Serjeant Glynn was inadmissible, and therefore that he could not admit it, directed the Jury to find for the Defendant, telling them there was no evidence before them. The Clerk of the Court then said, Gentlemen of the Jury, have you agreed on your verdict; do you find for the Plaintiff or the Defendant? Mr. Reynolds, the Under-Sheriff, then said, that one of the Jury had not agreed, which caused some little confusion in the Court, as they all seemed going out: but Lord Mansfield telling them again there was no evidence before them, and therefore that they must find for the Defendant, the Jury then brought in a verdict accordingly. The cause lasted in the whole about three quarters of an hour; the Counsel for Mr. Townshend were, Mr. Davenport, and Serjeant Glynn: for Mr. Hunt, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Mansfield.
June 13. All the Servants of her Majesty's household, and all the servants of their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Gloucester and Cumberland, and the Princess Amelia, have received their salaries in full to the last quarter day.
WAR - OFFICE, May 26 T HE King has been pleased to direct that, for the future, the Captain-Lieutenants of the Cavalry and Marching Regiments shall have Rank, as well in the Army as their respective Regiments, as Captains; that the present Captain-Lieutenants shall take the said Rank from this Day; and all future Captain-Lieutenants from the Date of their respective Commissions. BARRINGTON.
L O N D O N, June 1. Friday being the 29th of May, the Two Houses of Parliament should have gone to Church to hear a sermon on the occasion as usual; but the fulsome Doctrines preached by Doctor Nowell in his sermon on the 30th of January last, it is imagined has made the Members sick of these annual commemorations.
June 2. Mrs. Cornwallis, Lady to the Archbishop of Canterbury, had on Monday sen' night, a grand rout at Lambeth Palace, at which courtiers and patriots indiscriminately assisted. The number of coaches was near three hundred; the road was illuminated, and the company, in general, did not retire till between eleven and twelve o'clock. His Grace the Archbishop was present. The same will be repeated next Monday evening. The late Archbishop being a batchelor, routs and revelry are quite a new amusement at Lambeth Palace.
A Correspondent says, that the late Secretary to a patriotic Society, who eloped with a young Lady of fortune, set out last week from Lisle, without his prize, on his way to Italy, he not being married to her as has been reported.
June 10. Lord Chatham, in speaking to the Dissenters Bill in the House of Lords, shewed as much oratory and fire as, perhaps, he ever did in his life. In replying to one of the Bishops who talked a great deal of the dogmas of foreign Colleges, he said, "There was a College of much greater antiquity, as well as veracity, which he was surprized he never heard so much as mentioned by any of his Lordship's fraternity; and that was, the College of the poor, humble, despised Fishermen, who pressed hard upon no man's conscience, yet supported the doctrine of Christianity both by their lives and conversations superior to all; but, my Lords, probably I may affront your rank or learning, by applying to such simple, antiquated authorities, for I must confess, there is a wide difference between the Bishops of those times and the present."
The following anecdote may be depended on as a fact: During the time the Dissenters Bill was before the House of Commons, a few favourers of the Bill requested Lord Denbigh's assistance in its going thro' the Upper House; upon which his Lordship replied, with that openness and patriotic sensibility which has ever so much distinguished his Lordship's character, "I'll tell you what Gentlemen, our way in this here matter, is this: We are to go as the Bench of Bishops go; for its a settled rule with Administration, that as they serve us in temporals, we serve them in spirituals."
Lord Chatham extolled the sacred College composed of the poor Fishermen, and said, That as they had no rich Benefices to bestow he would not become a Member of their Society.
It is said, that the Bill which was rejected by the House of Lords, called a Bill for the Relief of Dissenters, was more properly a Bill for the Relief of Arians and Socinians.
The Parliament of Ireland was prorogued on the 2d of June to the 14th of July; previous to which an Address was presented to the Lord Lieutenant from the House of Lords and one from the Commons; and a Speech was made to both Houses by the Lord Lieutenant, in which he says, "I feel the most perfect Satisfaction in now repeating to you my acknowledgements for the very honorable manner in which (after a residence of near five Years amongst you) have declared your entire Approbation of my conduct."
June 11. A Merchant in Lisbon writes to his correspondent here, that the Court of Portugal has for some time past entertained thoughts of raising the value of their gold coin. A moiore is to be worth 28s. and a 35s. piece is to be valued at 37s. 6d.
When his Majesty went to the House of Peers to put an end to the Session of Parliament, he was attended by his Grace the Duke of Ancestre and the Earl of Pembroke, amidst a great Concourse of People, who assembled on the Occasion; every Thing was conducted peaceable and quiet, and no Accident happened. The House of Peers was prodigiously crowded by the Attendance of a great Number of Foreign Nobility, who expressed a great Satisfaction at the grand Appearance of his Majesty on the Throne, surrounded by his Peers, all in their Robes, declaring they never saw any thing equal to it in their Lives.
June 12. Lord Barrington, Secretary at War, has appointed Anthony Chaumier, Esq; to be his chief Secretary, in the Room of Christopher D'Oily Esq; who has resigned.
June 17. Yesterday the Earl of Hillsborough, Secretary of State for the Plantations, had a great Levee at his House in Hanover Square, at which several Merchants and Agents for the Colonies were present.
Died in Park Place, St. James's, Thomas Whately Esq; Member of Parliament for the Borough of Castle-Rising, and one of his Majesty's Under Secretaries of State (in the Earl of Suffolk's Office) for the Northern Department.
William Eden, Esq; appointed Under Secretary, Hon. Henry Fane, Esq; is appointed Keeper of his Majesty's private Roads, Gates and Bridges; and Lord Guernsey is chosen Member for Castle-Rising; all in the Room of Thomas Whately, Esq; deceased.
The Commissioners of the Navy gave Notice that on the 16th of June they should be ready to treat with such Persons as are willing to let a Catt or Bark of 300 Tons, with two Decks, to carry Stores to Halifax, and afterwards to lie as a Store-Ship in Boston. They also gave Notice, that on the 30th of June they should be ready to treat with such Persons as are willing to let Ships to proceed to North-America, to carry Troops from thence to Antigua and Jamaica, for the Relief of the Troops there.
June 15. The Board of Treasury have resolved most laudably, that the Houses of Ambassadors shall no longer be sacred against the visitation of Custom-house officers. "It is more decent (said Lord North, that they should apply to us for protection, than we should ask their permission to execute the Laws;) and Cromwell himself was never more anxious for the dignity of the English name than I am determined to be if I continue in the service of his Majesty."
The report of General Conway's having resign'd his place of Lieutenant General of the Ordnance is groundless, he only has declared that he would not be superceded by any officer of inferior rank.
They write from Genoa, that a great Bankruptcy has happened in the most capital house there, which has thrown every one there into confusion, and done incredible damage.
Captain Brown, of the Sukey, arrived at Bristol from Oporto, says, that on the 12th of April, 40 leagues West of Bayone Islands, he passed a wreck (a Brig) with black sides, the paint work of her lower a very light blue, and her frieze-board red; her main-mast, bowsprit, and flying gibs-boom standing, her fore-mast gone ten feet above deck, and all her yards, and her quarter-deck blown up, she appeared to be American built, and was lumber-laden.
The Chatham man of war, Admiral Parry, failed from St. Helen's on Friday last, for the West-Indies.
The true reason, says a Correspondent, that Messrs. Bankes and Solander do not go to the South-Sea, is, the Court of Spain have strongly remonstrated against our navigating in those seas, and our Court have meanly and cowardly given upon the original design. And to cover their own baseness in this matter, the ship intended for Messrs. Bankes, &c. was fitted out in so bad a manner, the Gentlemen could not go in her. This pitiful trick was contrived, threw that blame upon them which really belongs to the Ministry.
A few days before Mr. F. the celebrated Banker, absented himself from business he went to Mr. M. a very eminent Merchant, and asked the loan of 30,000l. Mr. M. did not advance the money; and after Mr. F. had left him, he began to reflect on the circumstance, and he grew somewhat suspicious of Mr. F's situations and designs; and at this instant recollecting a Friend who he knew kept cash at Mr. F's House, and being
rather alarmed for his Friend's safety, he luckily hit on the following admirable expedient to serve him: Mr. M. went to his Friend and pretended to want 8,000l. or 9,000l. His Friend said he had 8,000l. at F's Bank which he should be welcome to, and immediately gave him a draught for the money. The draught was paid, and the next day Mr. F. absented himself. On this Mr. M. returned his Friend the 8,000l. which he had thus secured for him, without running the least hazard of injuring Mr. F's reputation, had his suspicions proved groundless; as, in that case he would never have divulged either his doubts or his schemes.
A Gentleman who deposited 20,000l. in the hands of a certain bankrupt Banker, has, on account of his failure, been obliged to part with his house, equipage, horses, &c. and discharge all his servants.
It is said, that the Banker, who absented had a difference of ten per cent. to pay on a million and half of Indian Stock, of which he had been a bear for many Months past.
Since the failure of a certain Banker, such numbers of people have placed their money in the Funds, who formerly used to trust their cash with Bankers, that the Clerks of the Bank were ordered to attend earlier than usual on Saturday, and continued in their offices until late at night, having so many new accounts to open.
Several other failures are shortly expected, all owing as it is said, to the conduct of the Directors of the Bank, in refusing to discount bills. The public, particularly the trading part of the nation, have most undoubtedly a right to call the Directors to a severe account for their behaviour, as they have given a wound to Credit which must, in the end, prove more fatally destructive than it is possible at present to conceive.
Messrs Neal, James, and Down, have advertised, that Mr. Fordyce the Banker, did not communicate this intention to them of being absent from Business, they request all that have Demands on the House to bring them in, that they may ascertain them as soon as possible.
Mr. Alexander of Edinburgh, now in London, advertises that he is ready to pay all Bills drawn or indorsed by the Bank of Douglas, Heron and Co. on such Houses as have stop'd Payment.
No less than eight capital houses have already been obliged to stop payment on account of the late failure of a late Banker.
The moment a late great failure in the city was known, a gentleman rode off express to Edinburgh to the bankers there, and back again, which is near 850 miles, in so short a time as 103 hours.
In consequence of that gentleman's return, the Bank of England on Wednesday advanced 400,000l. to the bankers there, who, but for this timely supply, must have become bankrupts.
June 22. The late misfortunes which have happened to some eminent Bankers, seem to have occasioned a general alarm and uncertainty among the trading people of this Metropolis, many of whom, from a suspicion that their money was not secure in private hands, having drawn all their cash from the places where they usually kept it, & placed it in the Bank of England, which occasioned so much employment for the Clerks, &c. in the Offices there, that several supernumerary hands were obliged to be called in to their assistance on Friday and Saturday last.
Mr. F-----'s fine estate at Rochampton is served with an extent from the crown; he was the correspondent of the Receiver-general of the land tax for Scotland, and through his hands came all the remittances of that department; now he has stopped payment, his acceptances have been refused, and on this the crown founds a right to seize on his estate or effects.
Letters arrived in Town on Saturday last from Edinburgh, confirm the failure of the most capital Bank in that City, which has produced the most fatal effects to public credit, all over the northern part of this Kingdom.
June 3. Mr. M-----, the late Secretary to the Bill of Rights Club, about whom all the prints are so unaccountably silent, notwithstanding his honorable treatment of his word, the daughter too of his benefactor, returns, we hear, no more to England these eight years, a period which must elapse before Miss Hart-ford is of age.
The Town is amazingly dull; no News no Patriotic Speeches, no dying black coats red, no mile-end Committees. No, to the Printers Misfortune not a Subject stirring worthy a Paragraph.
From good Authority, it is said, that a late Earthquake has destroyed all the Fortifications about Oran, and made other considerable Destruction on the Shores of Barbary.
June 15. A letter, it is said, was received at St. James's on Wednesday last from Copenhagen, containing a refutation of all the crimes alledged against the young Queen, and signed by a great personage, who avows to a thorough belief of her innocence.
Letters from Vienna mention that a report prevailed there that the Grand Signior lately died at Constantinople.
June 18. It is now asserted that Lord Viscount Townshend is to be Master General of the Ordnance, which gave rise to the report of General Conway's resignation. General Conway was appointed a Lieutenant General in 1759, and Lord Viscount Townshend in 1770.
June 19. It is currently reported at the west end of the town that the Lord Chancellor has resigned.

Yesterday a little before one o'clock, a Chapter of the Order of the Charter was held at St. James's, at which Lord North was elected, and invested with the ensigns of the Order; the Dukes of Gloucester, Grafton, Rutland and Newcastle, and the Earls of Albemarle, Gower and Hartford, assisting at the ceremony.
Yesterday Lord North gave a splendid Entertainment to the Knights of the Garter, and a great Deal of the Nobility, &c. at his House in Downing-Street, on the Occasion of his Lordship's being created a Knight of that most renowned Order.
It is worthy of Remark, that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland was the only Knight of the Garter that was not summoned to attend the Chapter yesterday at St. James's, to invest Lord North with the Ensigns thereof.
Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, June 17.
This Morning failed from Spithead the Augusta Yacht, with Lord Sandwich, &c. for Plymouth; also the Centaur, 74, Capt. Bentinck; Royal Oak, 74, Capt. Balfour; Worcester, 64, Capt. Hughes, and Terrible, 64, Capt. Arbuthnot, for Plymouth, where they are to join the rest of the Squadron that are ordered on a Cruise---We hear Lord Sandwich intends cruising with this Squadron for a Fortnight.
One Gentleman, it is said, has just determined to retire from Business with a Fortune 30,000l. but the Event has proved, that he had unfortunately built his Castle in the Air.
On Friday the 29th of May the Coronation of his Majesty the King of Sweden was solemnized at Stockholm.
A Correspondent assures us, that General Conway by no Means intends to part with the Blues, unless he receives an actual Dismissal.
The French Ambassador has received Orders from his Court to lay a Complaint against some Officers of Men of War on the Newfoundland Station, for their Depredations by sending some French Vessels, and carrying them into St. John's in Newfoundland, and to demand their Release, and Satisfaction for the Damages they may have sustained by their Detention.
If it be true, as generally reported, that the French King has not appeared in public for upwards of three Weeks, it is more than probable that he is dead. Many a King has been politically alive, long after he has been naturally dead; as on the contrary, many more have been politically dead tho' they continued long after to be naturally alive.
June 22. A very respectable Correspondent assures us, that Lord Harcourt is for certain to replace Lord Townshend in the Lieutenancy of Ireland. His Lordship we hear does not set out for his Government till the Month of December next.
A Disagreement subsists at this Time, between the French Court and the courts of Vienna and Berlin, which may be productive of the most important Consequences. We cannot relate the particular Circumstances of it, but the Foundation appears to be this. The French by whose private Munificence the Polish Dissidents were enabled to keep the Field so long, have taken the greatest Umbrage at the Parts which Austria and Prussia now act against the Confederates, to their own Aggrandizement. A thundering Memorial in the usual Style of Versailles, was therefore dispatched to Germany and answered by the Emperor (the near Relation of France) with the utmost Contempt. All Decorum was now thrown aside: The Parties grew abusive, and the French Ambassador left the Imperial Court in a very abrupt Manner.
The Imperial and Prussian Ambassadors have been recalled from the Court of Versailles.
B O S T O N, August 17.
By Capt. Goddard, who arrived at New-York, from Falmouth, we have the following Advices viz.
E U R O P E A N I N T E L L I G E N C E,
H A M B U R G H, [Denmark] May 9.
IN Consequence of orders issued in the Danish Gazetts not to demolish the scaffold on which the bloody scene took place on the 28th of April, most people were fearful that more cruelties of that sort were to be exercised: But other letters from Copenhagen of the 2d instant give us reason to hope, they have renounced the design, as they inform us, that the scaffold has been taken down, that none of the prisoners who were out of the castle had been removed thither, and that Counsellor Struensee has had his irons taken off.
C A D I Z, [Spain] April 19.
Letters from Mogador of the 29th of February say, that the foreign merchants settled at Saffie and St. Croix had received orders to quit those two places in forty days; that the former of these ports is granted exclusively to the Genoese company, under the obligation of receiving all there the returns in merchandise, which two Jews appointed by that Prince are to purchase and deliver on his account to the company, without specifying either the quality or prices of the said merchandise. The second of the above ports is granted to two very rich Jews, but we know not on what conditions. This news occasions a good deal of uneasiness among the foreign merchants settled in Barbary, and it is apprehended that very considerable prejudice may arise from so strange a revolution.
P A R I S, May 4.
THE last Advices from St. Domingo import that some misunderstanding has arisen between the French and Spaniards relative to their possessions in that island. The Spaniards attempted to do themselves Justice with respect to some district in dispute, where they plundered the Habitations of the French, who immediately made reprisals; in consequence of which the two parties came to blows, and many were killed and wounded on both sides; but from the harmony which subsists between the two Nations, it is hoped this Affair will be attended with no ill Consequences.
P A R I S, [France] May 9.
There is a great tumult at Bourdeaux. The Parliament refuse to register the edict for the twentieth pennies, and it is even feared that they will go so far as to forbid the gathering of the tax.
L O N D O N, May 21.
By letters from Cadiz, over land, dated April first, we learn, that a Jew, whose name is Guidalia, has farmed of the Emperor of Morocco, the ports of Saffie and Santa Cruz, so that no ships can now enter either of these two ports, without a permit or licence from this Jew Merchant.
May 23. It is said that Admiral Pye will soon sail with a reinforcement for the West-Indies, where he is to take the command in the room of Sir G. Bridges Rodney, who is to return home.
The calamity attending the late fire at the play-house Amsterdam was not so bad as has been represented; for by a
printed account received by yesterday's mail, it appears 31 persons only perished on that melancholy occasion. During the fire, a desperate gang of villains tore and cut from the hands, necks, and ears, of the living as well as the dead and dying, ladies, diamonds and other jewels to a very great amount. Some among the unfortunate ladies who narrowly escaped, give a variety of dismal anecdotes, one of which is worthy notice, viz. A gentleman no less distinguished by birth and fortune than by the integrity of his character, was heard, in the midst of his distress, to offer publicly a gratuity of 50,000 crowns (5000l. sterling) to any person rescuing his wife (whose hold he lost through the violence of the throng) from the jaws of death; the attempt appearing impracticable, he was also heard to say he could not but share the same fate with his wife; he turned back, threw himself in her arms, and fell; in this affecting position they were dug from under the ruins, the next morning.
Extract of a Letter from Brumpton-Ralph, May 23.
I have just received an account of a dreadful accident which happened at a lone-house, in the parish of King's Brumpton, in the county of Somerset, last Tuesday night; a woman and her six children were all burnt to death; the particulars as well as I can learn are as follows:---The husband went away Tuesday evening to fetch some fish at Topsham, near Exeter (they were fish-mongers) and did not return till Wednesday night, the house was discovered on Wednesday morning by some neighbours, burnt down, and on searching it, found the seven unhappy creatures all burnt to death. The woman was found in the chimney-corner, and the eldest, a Girl about fourteen or fifteen years of age, was found in the oven, with her legs burnt off; the youngest, a child about six months old, just inside the door; and the other four together, one upon another. How this accident happened no one can tell.
Yesterday the undertakers men were taking down stairs for interment, the body of a woman that had lain for dead for eight days, at a house near the new Swan, Knightbridge, she knocked against the lid of the coffin, and when they opened it she was alive; they put her into a warm bed, and she seems now perfectly well.
May 28. Prince Mazerino, the Spanish Ambassador, will leave this kingdom some time in August, being appointed Ambassador to the court of France.
On Monday the committee appointed by the Livery waited on Messrs. Oliver and Lewis, to acquaint them with the Livery's intention of nominating, and supporting them for the office of Sheriff the ensuing year; when those gentlemen received the committee very politely, and assured them of their ardent wishes for the welfare of the public cause, and ready compliance with any measure that may conduce to that salutary end.
They write from Madrid, that in the night of the 4th inst. one of the great Officers of the court was arrested by the King's order and sent to Granada, his Secretary was also arrested and sent to Valladolid.
The Wolf sloop of war of 16 guns at Portsmouth, is ordered to be got ready for an advice boat to the West-Indies, America, and Newfoundland.
Page 2. They write from Peterburgh, that her Imperial Majesty has formed a design (and is proceeding to carry it into execution) of establishing a company of Merchant adventurers for carrying on a trade to the East-Indies.
On Monday last, a bett for 150 guineas was run for between two gallows, who were to set out from Wood's Gate, about four miles beyond Tunbridge, and run to Kent-street end, in the Borough, and back again, which is near four score miles, without baiting; and which ever arrived first at the place of starting, DEAD or ALIVE, was to be the winning horse. One of the horses, when he had about fifteen miles to run, dropped down dead; the other could only make a walk. The friends and abettors of the dead horse procured a fish cart, from some distance, mounted the dead horse upon the cart, set the rider upon his back and with four horses galloped at the rate of ten miles an hour, passed the living horse, arrived first, and was adjudged the winner. The first instance of a dead horse winning a match from a living one. Those who betted in favour of the living horse, when they discovered the intent of their opponents, endeavoured to avail themselves of the same artifice, but no other fish cart was to be got, otherwise the wager would have been determined by a race between the two fish carts.
B O S T O N, August 18.
Friday last being the Anniversary of the 14th of August, a Number of Stanch Friends to Liberty repaired to the Turk's Head Tavern in Dorchester, where an elegant Entertainment was provided: And after the Repast the following Toasts were drank, viz.
 1. The King.  2. Queen and royal Family.  3. The glorious House of Burgeffes of Virginia, who in the Year 1765, so nobly resolved.  4. The Sons of Liberty, who on the 14 of August 1765, gave the first Blow towards breaking that detestable Chain (forged for enslaving America) the Stamp-Act.  5. The glorious 92 Representatives of the Massachusetts Bay who in the Year 1768, Voted not to rescind.  6. The Honourable James Otis, and Thomas Cushing, Esqrs, Mr. Samuel Adams and the Honourable John Hancock, Esq; those noble Patrons of America, and Representatives for the Town of Boston, for 1768.  7. May the 14th of August 1765, be kept in perpetual Remembrance, by all true Sons of Liberty.  8. All true Sons of Liberty in America, who have not bowed the Knee to Baal.  9. May all the Sons of America, who (for the Sake of a Place, Post or Pension, for themselves or Friends) have meanly betrayed their Country, either in thought word or deed, by supporting a corrupt, arbitrary and abandoned M---y, or their Tools, meet the Fate of a Corsican Executioner*.  10. A speedy Removal of the odious Board of Commissioners, with all other Vermine, from America.  11. A speedy Removal of all unconstitutional Governors.  12. May the R-t-l-d Colonel, and all of his Stamp, be held in the utmost Detestation by all true Sons of Liberty in Ireland and America.  13. May that chaste Matron, fair LIBERTY, never want any of her Race in America, to curb the Insolence of Despots, and open the Eyes of her Sons, that they may see the Artifice of those who strive to enslave them.  14. All true Sons of Liberty throughout the Globe. 
* The Hangman of Corsica is a great curiosity, being held in the utmost detestation, he durst not live like another inhabitant of the island, he is obliged to take refuge in the Castle, and there he is kept in a little corner turret, where he has just room for a miserable bed, and a little fire to dress such victuals for himself as is but just sufficient to keep him alive, for nobody will have any intercourse with him. Vide Boswell's Account of Corsica.
Boston, August 20.
This Morning arrived Capt. Pierpont in 9 Weeks from New-Castle: On his Passage the 27th July, in Lat. 47. Long. 40 spoke the Brig Peggy, John Napier, Master, from West-Indies bound to Milford, in Wales, all well.
We hear John Butler, Esq; of Halifax is appointed Agent Victualer and Paymaster to his Majesty's Forces in Nova-Scotia and Newfoundland, in the Room of the Hon. Benjamin Gerrish, Esq; lately deceased in England.
Married at Halifax. Capt. Stannus of the 64th Regiment to Miss Suckey Gerrish, Daughter to the Hon. Joseph Gerrish, Esq; of that Place.
The Saturday Night when the Thunder and Lightning were so severe, as has been mentioned, a low House near Kelley's Ferry in Warren was struck; a Man that was standing at the Door was drove to the Fire-Place, where he lay senseless for some time, but recovered without receiving any hurt. The Lightning shivered the Post of a Bedstead which was in the Room, and killed a Dog under the Bed; two Children were in the Bed the same time, but were not even awaked by the Thunder, nor received the least harm.
A Barn full of Grain belonging to Mr. Woodruff of Farmington was set on Fire by the Lightning, and entirely consumed.
A House in Torrington, in Connecticut, belonging to Mr. Trall, was entirely destroyed by Fire, with the whole of his Furniture.
Last Saturday Afternoon two Oxen were killed by the Lightning at Marlborough.
Monday last in the Afternoon, one Boxley, with his Wife being on Rowe's Wharf looking for a Boat to go on board an armed Schooner to which he belonged, his Feet accidentally slipping, fell into the Water, altho' Assistance was had in a few Minutes, he was drowned.
We hear from Cape-Ann, That as two Men were going ashore at Manchester in a Boat deep laden with Fish from a Schooner lying off that Place, the Boat sunk soon after they left the Vessel, and the Men were both drowned.
MONDAY, August 24.
We hear from Lisbon, that his Prussian Majesty ordered his minister at the Court of Great-Britain to inform his Britannic Majesty, That in case he sent a fleet against Copenhagen, he would march his whole army into Hanover.
Last Week failed from Newport, the Rast Snow St. Catharine, Captain Smith, containing upwards of a thousand tons of timber.
Last Friday afternoon, a melancholly accident happened at Charlestown. Mr. Jabez Whittmore and his wife, of that town, returning home in a chaise from attending lecture, were cross met by a man in a sulkey, who driving very furiously, over-set the chaise, whereby Mrs. Whittmore was instantly killed, and Mr. Whittmore so much bruised that we hear 'tis uncertain, at present, whether he will recover. The Fellow was committed to goal the same evening.
His Majesty's ship Arthufa, Captain Hammond, is arrived at New York. We hear she is going to Virginia, where she is to be stationed.
Last Week Captain Wood arrived here from the Bay of Honduras;---About a fortnight before, a young man named Burditt, only son of a widow woman in this town, fell from the fore-top mast head down upon deck, whereby he was instantly killed.
S A L E M, August 25.
Last Sunday divine Worship was performed, for the first Time, in the new Congregational Meeting-House in this Town, in which Mr. THOMAS BARNARD, jun. the intended Minister, officiated.
We don't learn that any of the Thieves, who broke out of our Goal a few days since, are yet apprehended. One of them, we are informed, the Morning after they escaped, was seen to swim across Penny-Ferry, on his Way to Boston. It is said, that another of them, or it may be the same, was seen in that Town last Sunday.
PORTSMOUTH August 28, 1772.
On Tuesday last was apprehended in this Town, a Man who was supposed to be one of the Prisoners that made their Escape out of Salem Goal, the 17th instant: He is about 5 feet 4 Inches high, has short red Hair and a red Face, much pockbroken, and has been branded in the Forehead, and answers the Description of William Campbell. We hear he Yesterday was attended with a safe Convoy to Newbury Port.
For Want of Room we are obliged to omit many Articles which will be in our next.
   CUSTOMHOUSE, PISCATAQUA August 27th.   Inward Entries FROM.     Ship Recovery, John Salter. Bristol.   Schooner Industry, James Maxwell, Newfoundland.   OUTWARD BOUND   FOR. FOR.   Brig Charming Molly, Ebenezer Ricker, West-Indies.   CLEAR'D FOR DEPARTURE   Ship Race Horse, James Drew, Newfoundland.   Sloop Betsey and Polly, James Johnson, West-Indies.   Sloop Speedwell, Henry Swan, Ditto.   Snow Industry, Shadrack Hodgdon, Ditto.   Brig Betsey, John Grant, Ditto.   Schooner Endeavour, Richard York, Ditto.  
N E W-Y O R K, August 13.
We hear from Wall Kill, in Ulster County, that a few days past, as one Francis Bedine was walking towards his door, he was observed by his Wife and a Gentleman then in the House, to stagger and reel, they immediately took hold of him to Lead him to the Bed; the Gentleman said to the Man's Wife, "your Husband is dying." "Lord have mercy on me" says she, "I am a dying also," and they both expired in a few Minutes, without uttering another Word. A striking Instance of the uncertainty of Life, and a loud Call to all to be up & doing, and to obey these Words be ye also ready.
We hear from Newburg, in Ulster County, that on Friday the 7th Instant, the House of Samuel Sands, Esq; was struck with Lightning, and much damaged; a Negro Man and Woman were struck down so that their Lives are despaired of; but providentially no more of the Family were Hurt, altho' as one of his Daughters had a pewter Plate in her Hand, the whole of the Rim was melted off in one Lump, except where she had hold of it. In this the good Providence of God is conspicuous.

Messieurs Fewles:
I perceived in your last Gazette a Warrant for calling a Meeting of the Proprietors of Orford, from one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the Reasons there assigned for applying to a Magistrate was because the Proprietor's Clerk, by whom the Proprietors have directed their Meetings to be called had been applied to and declined. I was much surprised to see that such a Representation should be imposed on a Magistrate, to be made publick in the manner it has been. As I am the Proprietor's Clerk there alluded to, if it's allowed that I had refused or neglected to comply with the Request, I might lay under some Reflections, which if I am silent will be allowed—Therefore in Justice to myself, I beg you will inform the Public, as well as the Proprietors of Orford that I never declined calling that Meeting, according to the Tenor of the Request, notwithstanding the Confidence of any one to assert it—The State of the Application made to me is thus. On Monday Evening the 10th inst. I was attending a Proprietor's Meeting of Orford, when the Request was offered to me by Capt. William Simpson, signed by himself and one other, I told him I would comply with it; There was at this Time a Proprietor's Meeting subsisting under a short Adjournment in which most of the Articles inserted in that Request, were to be acted upon. The Recollection of which, after I had parted with Capt. Simpson, occasioned a Doubt in my Mind, whether it was legal to call a Meeting while there was another subsisting, in which much Business was to be transacted—The next Morning Mr. Simpson called on me for the Warrant; I told him of my Doubt, and as he did not request the Meeting to be held till the 28th of September, I chose first to take proper Advice; and if legal I was very willing, and would seasonably advertise a Warning for the Meeting. Mr. Simpson insisted that I should either deliver him a Notification, or refuse his Request, in Answer to which I told him that if there was no Doubt in my Mind I apprehended that it would be improper for me to deliver him the Notification, which properly belonged to me (in my Capacity) to publish, and as to denying his Request I would not, for I purposed to call the Meeting, after I had taken Advice, if it was in my Power: Upon which Mr. Simpson used some warm and indecent Expressions, and left me. This the World may depend upon as a true State, however otherwise insinuated, publickly or privately. Notwithstanding I hope the Affairs of the Township will still remain in that remarkable peaceful and harmonious State they have been in, ever since the Grant of the Township and if any Person or Persons have been or are now designing to the contrary, I wish their Endeavours may prove ineffectual, and that for the future a greater Part of their Time may be employed, and Money expended, to a much better Purpose.
JOHN MOULTON, Prop. Clerk.
Hampton August 18, 1772.
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ss. Orford.
APPLICATION being made by the Proprietors and Owners of more than 40 Proprietors Rights or Shares in said Township, to me the Subscriber to Notify and warn a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Township, to convene at the House of Jeha Leavitt, Esq; in North Hampton, in the County and Province aforesaid, on Monday the 7th Day of September next, at One of the Clock P. M. for the following purposes viz. 1. To choose a Moderator, and other Officers, that the Prop's at the Meeting may think necessary. 2. To see if the Proprietors will allow and accept the Proprietor's Collector and Treasurer's Accounts, as allowed by the Committee chosen to examine the same. 3. To chuse a Committee to examine the Proprietor's Book of Records and report thereupon. 4. To see what Sum of Money the Proprietors will vote to give John Moulton Esq; for his Trouble in being the Proprietor's Clerk, ever since the first Grant of the Township. 5. To determine what part the Proprietors will sustain of the Expence in settling and supporting Revd. Mr. Noble, Minister of Orford, and in building a Meeting House in said Township. 6. To determine the place for holding Proprietor's Meetings for the future. 7. To see if the Proprietors will allow any more Pitches to be made for Settlement, before the committee chosen at the last Meeting to prepare for drawing the 2d. and 3d. Division Lots, meet to prepare therefor. 8. To see if the Proprietors will have the Common and undivided Land in said Township letted out and drawn; if so to chuse a Committee for that Purpose.
WHEREAS the Proprietors at a Meeting, held September 1, 1765, voted that those River Lots which were much inferior in Quality to the River Lots in general, should have other Lands to make them equivalent to the other River Lots. And the Proprietors at a Meeting held June 23d 1772, then voted to several Proprietors an Hundred Acre Lot each on the same Consideration. 9. To see if the Proprietors will vote any such further Allowance for any River Lots that may be made to appear to them to be much inferior to the River Lots in general. 10. To see if the Proprietors will be at the Expence of having a Duplicate taken of the Proprietors Book of Records, to be lodg'd with Some Person living in Orford, whom the Proprietors may see fit.
PURSUANT to the above Request, I hereby Notify the Proprietors of the Township aforesaid, to meet at the abovementioned Time and Place, for the purposes aforesaid.
JOHN MOULTON, prop. Clerk. Hampton August 18, 1772.
JOSIAH & JON A MOULTON In Company, inform the Public,
THAT their honoured Father JONATHAN MOULTON, Esq; having resigned unto them his Business of Shop keeping in Hampton. They are now opening the Store, lately improved by him, with a new and good Assortment of English, West-India and other Goods, which will be ready for Sale by Monday next, the 31st of August Inst. and which they are determined to sell so low for Cash, as they apprehend must give entire Satisfaction to all who will be kind enough to favour them with their Custom.
Constant Attendance will be given, and the smallest Favour acknowledged.
They beg leave to present the following List, which they have for a present Supply, viz.
SUPERFINE , midling and low priz'd broad cloths, of various colours; black, olive and cloth coloured velvets; larges of all colours; ratten, bear skins, kersy, drugget, wilton; green, scarlet and crimson baizes; whitneys, thicksets and buckram; assortment of shallons; ditto of calamancoes; ditto of tammies; figur'd stuffs; bedtick; blk. worsted breeches patterns; men's white, black, and grey worsted hose; cotton and thread ditto; men's worsted; mill'd and Biboa caps; cloth coloured and striped camblets; check'd and strip'd linnens; cznbrigs; dowlas and white Russia drab; Irish linnens, cambricks, plain lawn and spotted ditto; lawn handkerchiefs with and without flowered borders; gauze, damaskus and ginghams; a neat assortment of chinches and calicoes; blk. taffy and figur'd made; cotton and silk romals; blk. silk handkerchiefs; ebony and ivory stick fans; silk and worsted mitts; men's purple and wash leather gloves; men's and Women's white and black lamb skin ditto; black gauze, cyprus and crapes; ribbons, silk serret, quality those binding and tapes; a good assortment of mohair and metal buttons; twiss, sewing silk, thread and knee garters; scarlet, snail and fur trimmings; coarse and fine sieve bottoms; wool cards; bellows; cod and shore lines; writing and cartridge paper; long and short pipes; leather breeches; hose and knee-buckles, quart and pint blk jackets; ink powder; copper tea kettles; iron ditto; flat irons, and a good assortment of cast iron, 2d. 1d. 6d. 4d. and pump nails; an assortment of Window glass; powder, shot, lead, and cutlery ware; a variety of glass stone and delph ware; New England ditto &c. &c. Also West India and New England rum, wines, molasses, leaf and brown sugar; flour; raisins, cinnamon; mace; cloves; pepper; aspic; nutmegs; tea; coffee, chocolate, caparas, brimstone, best French indigo &c. &c. &c. also a number of other articles which would be two tedious to enumerate.
Notwithstanding their present supply they expect a fresh assortment in the fall, and shall always endeavour to keep such an assortment as is most suitable to the seasons and the country, and sell at such prices, as that those who favour them with their custom, may find it to their intrest to continue to deal with them.
Hampton August 25, 1772.
CHOICE Vinegar for Pickles, by the Barrel or less Quantity, to be sold by David Griffith.
The Annual Convention of Ministers is to be held at the House of the Rev. Mr. Daniel Rogers in Exeter on Wednesday the 16th Day of September next.
Jonathan Moulton
of Hampton
HAVING resigned his Business of Shop keeping to his Sons, requests that those who have Accounts open with him to settle them immediately, either by paying or giving their Notes for their respective Balances, which he must insist upon, as he purposes to confine his Business principally to the settling and improving the Lands in the several Townships in which he is interested; if any meet with trouble for neglect they must only reflect on themselves. He would also remind those that are still indebted to him by Notes or otherwise of long standing, that unless they respectively settle, they may expect to meet with Trouble, for he is determined, (if Health permit) to have all them Accounts settled in a short Time.
August 25, 1772.
Deacon & Hughes
HAIR DRESSERS FROM LONDON, Inform the Ladies and Gentlemen they have opened their dressing Shop opposite Doctr. Hall Jackson in Pitt Street where they hope to meet with Encouragement as they propose to dress Ladies and Gentlemen by the Month Quarter or Year; also Ladies' Curts & Toupees made on a new Construction, and Gentlemen's Perriwigs made in the genteellest Taste; also best perfumed Hair-Powder Pomatom & Pins &c' &c' &c'
Ladies and Gentlemen waited on at the shortest Notice, and all Favours acknowledged by their humble Servants
JAMES DEACON and ROBERT HUGHES.
N. B. Two genteel front Chambers to Lett on reasonable Terms.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the Hon. John Wentworth, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills, and granting Administrations for the County of Rockingham to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors of the Estate of Hezekiah Ward, late of Hampstead, in the County of Rockingham aforesaid, Suter, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give public notice to the Creditors of said Estate that we will attend that Service at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on the last Monday of this and the five next following Months, from five to eight o'clock, P. M. on said Days.
Portsmouth August 10, 1772, } H. WENTWORTH, } RICHARD C. SHANNON.
L O N D O N, June 3.
It has been reported during the last three or four days, that Col. Lutrel will, this day, in the House of Commons, pretend to be conscience stricken, and desire to vacate his seat. [He failed in his attempt with the Cabinet-makers.]
A few days after the arrival of the Duke of Gloucester, Lady Waldegrave (as she has been hitherto called) obtained his permission to write a letter to her father, Sir Edward Walpole, acknowledging her marriage with the Duke. In her letter she says, "That they were married on the 6th day of September 1766; but that they have no children." There are many circumstances which make it believed the King has not been ignorant of this marriage. Some time ago, when the Duke of Gloucester gave a grand entertainment to the Royal Family, Lady Waldegrave performed the honours of the house. The Queen shewed her particular marks of Attention. Either the Queen knew she was Duchess of Gloucester, or the Duke was un pardonably indiscreet to produce any other woman before her Majesty. The Duke is extremely acquiescing to the King, and takes particular care never to oppose his Royal will. This clearly shews, that a clandestine marriage is not disagreeable at Buckingham house. The contract is striking. The brother, who has spirit to avow his marriage to the nation, is not to be forgiven. But the brother who keeps his marriage a secret and may thereby occasion a contested succession to the Crown, is caressed, promoted, has a grand Levee, and, if Colonel Clinton says true, is very soon to be made Commander in chief. For the Queen of Denmark, the public has been attempted to be stirred in her behalf. For the Princess of Brunswick, when come to take her last leave of her mother, a common lodging was provided in Pall-Mall. This is vice rewarded and virtue punished. Lady Waldegrave's letter, it is obvious, was written with a view of justifying her character to her family, her friends, and the world. It was impossible she should approve of ranking, in their opinion, in the same line with the Italian strumpet, which the Duke, her husband, has so long not only kept under his roof, but under her nose. However, to rob her of this consolation, for matrimony is not the fashion now, Mr. Le Grand is running about in all parts of the town, assuring every person he meets Lady Waldegrave is not married to the Duke of Gloucester. Is than a state of concubinage more honorable than matrimony, in Mr. Le Grand's eyes; And do the King and Queen think so!—What can be more cruel?—Lady Waldegrave is ill.
M I T T A U, May 16.
The dissolution of the marriage between the Duke of Courland and his Duchess took place for no other reason than the fears of the extinction of the family, as the Duchess, after trying every remedy since her last laying-in, is in a very declining state of health.

Thomas Martin,
INTENDING for ENGLAND the ensuing Fall, desires those that have any Demands upon him would call and receive their Balances, and all those who are indebted to him, either by Book, or Note of Hand, are earnestly intreated to make speedy Payment, and save him the disagreeable Task of pursuing the Steps of the Law.
He has for sale an Assortment of English piece Goods, among which is a pretty Variety of exceeding cheap Chincies, and a few Pieces of Nankeens. A numerous assortment of HARD WARE, in Iron, pewter and Brass—Nails and Brads of various Sizes, 6 by 8, 7 by 9, and 8 by 10 Crown Glass, Carpenter's, Joiner's, Turner's and Shoemaker's Tools, Croscut, Whip, Hand, Compass, Sash and Tenant Saws; Powder and Shot, a Variety of Painter's Colours, and all Sorts, of Cloathers Materials; all which he is determined to sell at the very lowest Rate for Cash or a short Credit for the above Reason.
West India Goods and Grocery of every Kind. Best Superfine and common Philadelphia Flour. He will take good Flax Seed in payment for any of the above Articles, or give Cash therefor, if more agreeable to the Seller. Best Wool Cards, so low as 2s. 3d. a pair.
Province of New-Hampshire. Rockingham, ss.
WHEREAS the Clerk of the Propriety of ORFORD, was empowered by Vote to call a Meeting upon an Application of more than one Tenth part of the Proprietors thereof, and such an Application having been made to said Clerk for that purpose, and by him declined; so that there is no Relief to be had, but by Recourse to the Province Law, for calling Proprietary Meetings: And an Application being made to me the Subscriber, by more than one Sixteenth part of the Proprietors of said Township, to call a Meeting of the proprietors to be held on the 28th Day of September next, at three o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the House of Mr. John Stavers, Innholder in Portsmouth, then & there to act upon the following Matters and Things viz First, To chuse a Moderator. Second, To chuse a new Clerk, if thought necessary. Thirdly, To agree upon some Method to ascertain the Right of Voting at proprietors Meetings, so that every proprietor of a whole or part of a Right, shall have an equal Representation. Fourthly, To see if the Proprietors will agree that a pitch may be made by any original proprietor, (who has not already made his pitch) out of the Hundred Acre Lots laid out, and to cast Lots for said Pitches, provided the same be made in a Time to be allow'd for that purpose, after which period, Drawings to be made for the Residue. Fifthly, To appoint a Committee to allot out all the Common and undivided Lands in said Township, and to agree upon a Time when the same shall be drawn, to the Right of each original proprietor. Sixthly, To appoint another Committee to examine the State of the Treasurers and Collectors Accounts; as also to inspect into the proprietors Records, and make a Report whether any Votes therein made are illegal or not, that the same may be advised upon, by which much Expence may be saved. Seventhly, To see if the proprietors will agree that all future Meetings be held in the Township of Orford, and in such case, that the present Clerk shall deliver the Records of the propriety to any other Clerk that may be chosen.
Agreeable to said Application, I do hereby notify and warn a Meeting of said Proprietors of Orford, to meet at the above Time any Place, to act upon the several Matters notified.
DANIEL ROGERS, Jus. Pac. Portsmouth, August 13, 1772.
( \frac{1}{2} )(CANAAN)( \frac{1}{2} )
Province of New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the delinquent Proprietors of said Canaan, that the Vendue Meeting of said Proprietors stands adjourned to the 28th of this Instant August, to the dwelling House of Mr. Charles Hill, Innholder in Lebanon, at 3 o'clock Afternoon, and if all the Delinquent's Lands are not sold that Day at said Meeting to be adjourned to the Monday following.
JEDIDIAH HEBBARD Collector. Canaan, August 31. 1772.
(MARLOW)
WHEREAS the Proprietors of MARLOW have appointed me the Subscriber a Collector to collect the several Taxes of the several delinquent Rights, in Marlow aforesaid, I do hereby warn the said Proprietors that have not Paid up their Taxes, to come and settle them with me, before the second Tuesday in September next, or expect them soon to be advertised and sold to pay the same; the first Tax was voted July 15th, 1768, for twenty Shillings lawful Money, the next for fifteen Shillings, to clear the Roads in said Town, the next Sept. 5th 1769, for the Sum of six Shillings, to pay Mr. William Malfen for to see if he could recover the Land taken off by the Patent Line; the next January 6th 1772, to pay for getting the Charter extended, four Shillings; The last was voted March 10th 1772, the Sum of two Shillings, all lawful Money Taxes, the whole of the Taxes were to defrey the necessary Charges of said Proprietors, which I desire the Proprietors to settle with me before the 20th of September next, or I shall advertise the Rights to be sold as the Law directs.
Aug 5, 1772. EBER LEWIS, Proprietor's Collector.
(PIERMONT)
THE Proprietors of PIERMONT are hereby notified that a TAX of 18 Shillings was voted in the Year 1765 on each Proprietor's Right; also another Tax of two Pound two Shillings, voted the 12th of March 1768; also another Tax of 18 Shillings, voted in August 1770; all which Sums sundry of the Proprietors still neglect to pay, although the Collector has so indulged them as to pay it himself, and been out of his Money for Years past: Also another Tax of eight Dollars voted in July last, on each Proprietor's Right, to pay sundry Debts now due; the Proprietors are hereby earnestly desired to pay their respective Taxes to the Subscriber, otherwise their Lands will be advertised for Sale as the Law directs; those Delinquents in the three former Taxes are desired to pay them speedily, otherwise their Land will be sold first.
Rye, August 17, 1772. RICHARD JENNESS Coll.
Dorchester.
WHEREAS at a legal Meeting of the Proprietors of DORCHESTER on the first Day of June past, they Voted to lay an Assessment of TEN DOLLARS on each Original Right, and committed to me the Subscriber to collect: This is therefore to Notify the said Proprietors, that unless they pay the same to me, at my House in Hanover, by the Tenth Day of September next, their Rights will be advertised for Sale.
Aug. 1, 1772. JOHN HOUSE, Collector.
§ Dorchester. §
WHEREAS the Proprietors of the Township of DORCHESTER, have been legally Notified, to pay an Assessment on each Proprietor's Right of Land in said Township, to me the Subscriber; and said Proprietors being yet delinquent;—This is therefore to notify such delinquent Proprietors, that their Lands will be exposed to Sale at public Vendue, at the House of William Bell Junr. Innholder in Lyme, on the second Monday in September next, at one of the Clock, P. M. to pay said Taxes, with incidental Charges, unless it's prevented by payment of the same. Delinquents as follows.
   l. s. l. s.     John Wright 1 16 John Smith 1 16   Thomas Porter 1 16 Abijah Smith 1 16   Gideon Rud 1 16 Saml. Hobart Esq; 1 16   Jonathan Freeman 1 16 John Pengrey } 1 16   Jonathan Burnap 1 16 Williams.   Timothy Bush 1 16 August 13th, 1772.  
WILLIAM SIMPSON, Collector.
Edmund Wendell, intending for England in the first Ship, desires all Persons that have any Demands on him, to bring in their Accounts to him, or to Mr. Joshua Wentworth, Merchant in Portsmouth, for an immediate Payment thereof; and all Persons Indebted to him by Book or Note, are desired to discharge the Same, as he does not expect to return to this Country soon again.
EDMUND WENDELL. Portsmouth, August 13th, 1772.
SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Esq; and Mr. RICHARD CUTTS SHANNON, having entered into Partnership in the Practice of the Law, have opened an Office, next Door to the Revd. Doctor HAVEN'S in Portsmouth, where constant Attendance will be given by one or both said Partners. Portsmouth August 13th, 1772.
Province of New Hampshire, Cheshire ss. WHEREAS Application has been made to me the Subscriber one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for said County, by more than the sixteenth Part of the Owners of the Township of MARLOW in said County, desiring that a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Marlow might be warned to be held at the House of Mr. Nehemiah Royce, in said Marlow, on Tuesday the 15th Day of September next, at 10 o'Clock in the Forenoon, to act on the following Articles, if they see fit, viz. 1. To choose a Moderator to govern said Meeting. 2. To choose a Proprietors Clerk and Treasurer. 3. To see the Minds of said Proprietors, whether they will agree to confirm all or any Part of the Votes that have been heretofore passed at any former Meetings, and vote the same. 4. To chuse a Committee to settle all former Accounts that have been transacted by said Proprietors, with former Committees or Collectors, or Treasurers, and make Return to the Proprietors at their next Meeting of those Proceedings. 5. To chuse a Committee to transact any Business for said Proprietors that shall be thought needful. 6. To agree upon some proper Method for calling Proprietor's Meetings for the future and vote the same. 7. To vote such Sum or Sums of Money that shall be thought needful for the Use of said Proprietors, to bring forward the Settlement of said Town and clear Roads. 8. To chuse Assessors for said Propriety. 9. To see if the Proprietors will agree to lay out all or any Part of the undivided Land.
In Consequence whereof, I do hereby notify said Proprietors to meet at Time and Place aforesaid. Walpole July 7th 1772, BENJAMIN BELLOWS, Justice Peace.
To be sold by Auction, This Afternoon, By PHILIP BAILEY,
At his Vendue Room, Queen-Street, Portsmouth. TWO Desks and Bookcases, Tables, Chairs, Ozabrigs, Ticklinburghs, strip'd flowered and plain Lawns, Handkerchiefs, &c. &c. &c. The Goods may be viewed the Morning before Sale, which will begin precisely at three o'clock.
ALL Persons that have any Demands on the Estate of James Mc Hard, Esq; late of Haverhill, deceased, are desired to send in their Accounts to James Mc Hard, Executor, for settlement; and also those Indebted to said Estate, are desired to make speedy Payment. Haverhill. Aug 7 1772.
George Libbey
Hath to sell at his Shop in the pav'd Street next Door but one to the Printing Office, A Genteel Assortment of Paper Hangings; a neat Assortment of Glass and Crockery Ware;—English and West India Goods;—Best Velvet Corks;—A few Boxes of best London 18 Inch T. D. Pipes; Also best Kippen's Snuff per Dozen or single Bottle; cheap for Cash. N.B. Cash given for old Pewter at said Shop
GREGORY PURCELL will receive Coppers at 13 Pence Old Tenor in all Payments in his Shop.
Forge Masters,
(who refine BAR-IRON) MAY be supplied with good PIG-METAL, at Twenty Dollars per Ton, on Application to Mr. JOHN MORTON, Merchant, on Hunter's Quay, in New-York.