The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-12-04 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday Dec. 4, 1772.
Vol. XVII. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 842 } Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
BOSTON, November 26. Tuesday last arrived here Captain Jenkins, in a Ship in six Weeks from LONDON, by whom we have the public Prints to the 14th of October, which contain the following Articles, viz.
VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 6. WE have this Moment received Advice, that the Congress of Peace which was held at Foczany, is absolutely broke off, because the Turkish Plenipotentiary would not Consent to the Independence of the Crimea, as demanded by the Empress of Russia. We hear that the chief Articles the Parties could not agree upon are the following: First, the Independence of the Crimea; 2dly, her Imperial Majesty would build a Fortress upon the Dardanelles for the Assurance of the free Navigation to the Black-sea and a free Passage into the Mediterranean, and 3dly, to have Walachia and Moldavia for a Mortgage, till the Sum of Money is paid which the Porte is to give her Majesty by Way of Indemnification of the enormous Expences of the 5 Years War.
Notwithstanding the Conferences are broken up between the Russians & Turks, a certain Period was to be allowed (forty days if we remember right) before Hostilities commenced on either side; so that it is possible matters may still be composed without much Bloodshed.
Extract of a letter from Smyrna, August 21. "This day a terrible fire broke out here, and continued burning all the next day. Three thousand houses which made three parts of the city, were destroyed; from 3 to 4000 shops, 16 mosques, 12 caravanserans, 7 bathos, 9 synagogues, and 3 public markets, have been all consumed; a large quantity of corn, 2000 sacks of rice, and 150 bales of coffee, have been lost in the conflagration. The whole loss is computed at 20 millions of dollars. It did not effect the English quarter."
St. JAMES'S October 9. HIS Majesty has appointed the Right Hon. Simon Earl of Harcourt Lieutenant General and General Governor of his Majesty's Kingdom of Ireland. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Stormont (now at the Court of Vienna) to be his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of Versailles.
His Majesty has been pleased to grant the Dignity of Baronet to Richard Sutton, Esq; of Norwood Park.
LONDON, October 2. The Lords Lyttleton, Temple, and Camden, have been observed to have courted each other's Company lately with uncommon Affinity. Their Lordships, particularly the two former, have often very long Conferences together.
Lord Mansfield has interceded very strongly with a great Personage in favour of the Dukes of Gloucester and Cumberland; and his Lordship's Endeavours to reconcile the Family Differences now subsisting, have been seconded by several Persons of great Influence with his Majesty.
It is reported that the Duke of Mecklenburgh, alarmed at the Progress of the Swedish and Danish Troops, which surround his Dominions, has applied to the Courts of London & Peterburgh for their Performance of the Guarantee Treaty subsisting between them.
The latest Accounts from Copenhagen advise, that vast Preparations are making for War, in order to retrieve the Honour of the Danish Arms: All the military Arrangements are settled, the Troops are in motion, and the Navy is augmenting with great Expedition.
October 3. It is said that a very considerable Naval force will towards the End of next Month, depart for America; Part of which is to cruise on the Banks of Newfoundland, and the other Southward as far as the Gulph of Florida.
It is said that application has been made to a Great Personage, that no English Subjects may be permitted to join the Colony to be settled on the Mississippi.
October 5. Three great evils now threaten the nation: 1. Europe being on the eve of a general war: Great-Britain, notwithstanding Lord North's prophecy must be drawn into the general vortex.
2. The East India Company, by the jobbing of the Directors, must break, and in the language of eloquent Mr. E. Burke, cut off one of the nation's hands.
3. The Livery of London, regardless of the liberty of the press, and consequently of general liberty, begin to forget what they owe to Alderman Wilkes. Till their charter is invaded, and their magistrates imprisoned, they will not stir. With what face can they henceforward present remonstrances, or complain of corruption in the lower house? The acceptance of a bribe of five guineas from a Prussian barber renders them totally contemptible.
The congress at Foczany is broke up. France has gained her end, and Europe is returned to the very situation in which it stood at the beginning of the negotiation with Spain, Sweden will take up arms against Russia; Prussia and Poland, and France, will join the confederacy, and the Turks will once more lift up their heads. Austria, Russia and Prussia, foreseeing this event, have seized upon Parts of Poland in order to make them, during the war, serve the same purpose as Saxony did in the last war with the King of Prussia.
The French and Spaniards are prepared to strike a blow on both Indies. The former have not withdrawn their eight thousand men from the Mauritius, nor the latter their fleet from the Havannah. Bengal and Jamaica are both in jeopardy; the one from its defenceless situation and the discontent of the Negroes; the other from the rapine of the Company's servants and the gambling of the Directors.
Octo. 7. It is reported that Lord Howe will shortly be appointed to the Command of a Squadron of Observation to be stationed on the Coasts of France and Spain.
We hear that a Great Personage has signified an Inclination of permitting the Queen of Denmark to visit this Kingdom, but Lord M. still urges the Impropriety of it.
We hear a certain illustrious Heir Apparent was in Disgrace a few Days ago, for wishing, as he declared he did from his Heart, that Wilkes might be Mayor.
On Thursday last died in Compton-street, Soho, Thomas Smyth Esq; late a Brigade Major in the 12th regiment of foot.
By Advices from Berlin we learn, that the Prussians are indefatigable in building Fortresses, and putting Garrisons in every Place of Consequence in Polish Prussia.
We are told by recent Letters from New-England that the Proprietors of Iron Mines, both there and in Pennsylvania, are entering largely into the Manufacture of Steel Wares, by Means of many able Artificers lately engaged from Birmingham.
The 2d ult. arrived at Plymouth, eight Transports from the Downs, to take on board the 6th Regiment bound for the West-Indies.
On Friday last a Journeyman Taylor began to walk for a large Wager, 1000 Miles, which he is to perform in 1000 Hours, at only one Mile an Hour, on a Spot of Ground marked out for the Purpose, near Tyburn Turnpike.
It is reported that Capt. Walter Nugent, a near Relation of Lord Clive, was killed in a Duel, a few Days since in Ireland.
Octo. 8. The Contents of the Budget for the ensuing Year, are expected to give the greatest Satisfaction, as we hear Lord North is assisted in forming it by some of the first Personages in the Kingdom.
A Number of Persons of Rank and Fortune are now making Application to Government, for Grants of Lands near the Mississippi.
An Ambassador extraordinary is soon expected here from Warsaw, where some important Negotiations are said to be on the Carpet for supporting the political Balance in the North of Europe.
On the 29th of last Month died, at his House in Dublin, Lord Lambart, Earl of Cavan, who is succeeded in his Title and Dignities by his Cousin German, Major General Richard Lambart, of the Foot Guards, now Earl of Cavan.
Octo. 9. The Reason why the Parliament is to meet earlier the approaching Session than usual, is, that the Affairs of the East India Company, which are now almost at an entire Stop, may be discussed without Loss of Time.
Lord North now enjoys the greatest Honors any Commander ever possessed in this Kingdom, as he is a Knight of the Garter, Chancellor of the first University in Europe and Minister of the State.
It is remarkable, that Lord Chatham, Lord Dartmouth, Lord Suffolk, and Lord North, were all educated at the little College of Trinity, in the University of Oxford.
It is much expected that Lord Camden will be soon appointed to some important Office in the Administration, for he has lately been honoured with two Visits from Lord North.
A Gentleman lately arrived from France says, that during the Time he was at St. Maloes no less than 12 Vessels arrived there with Flour from North-America.
Yesterday the Rev. Dr. Fothergill, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, was installed Vice-Chancellor of that University.
Octo. 13. The Earl of Bute we are told from very good Authority, is now on a Visit to Lord Camden at his Seat at Chiffel hurst, in Kent, where he has been for some Days.
All the latest Advices from Spain agree, that all the Spanish Settlements in the South Seas are putting into a State of Defence with all possible Dispatch.
Advice is received, that the King of Prussia has taken Possession of Cracow, and placed a Garrison of 5000 Men there to defend it for the King of Poland against his rebellious Subjects; but the same Advices say, it is apprehended that he has other Designs in View.
Advices are said to be received from Lisbon, that the Castle of Eltramedura in Spain had revolted, and had murdered the Governor thereof, and that a Body of Troops had marched to prevent any further ill Consequences.
Betts were on Thursday last laid by a great Man at the Smyrna, that our Assistance either by Land or Sea would be demanded by four different Powers on the Continent.
On Thursday last died at Richmond, in Surrey, Thomas Hanway Esq; one of the Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy.
Octo. 14. A Correspondent observes, that the ambitious Views of the King of Prussia seem to indicate that a general War is not at any very great Distance, except the Powers of Europe become tame Spectators while this petty Monarch dismembers the great and once flourishing Kingdom of Poland. He wishes for the Peace of Europe, that the common Disturber of Mankind may be most heartily humbled; and that instead of Poland, which seems at present to be deserted by all the Powers of Europe, the Dominions of this haughty Prince may become the Subject of Partition amongst the contending Parties, which will be the only Means of securing to Europe the Sweets of a lasting Peace.
Something more than common takes up the Attention of the great People at the West End of the Town. At this Time all the Officers of State seem in Commotion.
We are informed that the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer has actually resigned, and though it was expected he would be succeeded by Mr. Baron Smythe, yet we are now told the Attorney General will succeed him, and that Mr. Wedderburne will be appointed Attorney General.
It is the general Opinion of all the discerning, that Poland cannot be dismembered without a continental War.
Died at his House in Allen's Moor, Hertfordshire, after a long Illness, John Patshall Esq; he has bequeathed, exclu-
sive of a few Legacies, his Fortune to Edmund Lechmere Esq; who is to take upon him the Name of Patshall.
Deal, October 1. Came down the Bristol Packet, Skimmer for Boston.
ARRIVALS.] At Falmouth, Lord Hyde Packet from New-York, in 23 Days.---The Sally, Babson; the Nancy, Bartlet, from Malaga.
At Portsmouth, His Majesty's Sloop Beaver, Linsley from Boston. At Gottenburgh, the Venus, Tanner from R. Island. At Pool, The Welcome, Bunker, from New-England. At Cork, The James, Mr. Culloch, from Philadelphia. At Gravesend. The Hero, Lovering, from New London. Hope, Homes, from New-York.---Tryon, Peshley, from Philadelphia.
A violent Storm happened about the 25th of September, and a Number of Vessels lost on the Coast of England; among which was a large Ship of 300 Tons Burthen, Name unknown, supposed to be laden with Corn or Flour, bound from Baltimore in America to Dublin; She was seen to drive on the Banks of Arklow, with many People on Board, and in a few Minutes after disappeared and all Perished.
The Chantrelap, Capt. Tobin, from the Granades, was totally lost on the Devonshire Coast. The Captain and all the Crew except one Man, perished.
In the Papers of September there are many Pieces in Vindication of the Character of Lord Hillsborough, against the Abuses that have been cast upon him since his Resignation.---"It is proved by Facts, not Party-clamour, that every Charge hitherto advanced against his Lordship was vague, was idle, ill-founded, or absurd. When in office, we may suppose envy, & a desire of supplanting his Lordship might be the principal Motives for thus bespattering him; but after Resignation, after acting with a consistency seldom to be met with amongst Ministers, after retiring sooner than depart in the smallest tittle from Patriotism, Rectitude, and Honor, after this there is a cruelty beyond Expression, in any Writer, to attack a Nobleman whose Mind is Virtue in human form." Thus writes an Advocate for Lord Hillsborough.
On the 28th of September Messrs. Wilkes and Bull addressed the Liverymen of the City of London, on the Expiration of their Sheriffalty.
The next Day being Michaelmas, came on the Election of a Lord Mayor for the ensuing Year. A Poll was demanded for Aldermen Halifax and Shakespeare, together with Aldermen Wilkes and Townsend. The Poll was continued to the 6th of October, when the Numbers were for Mr. Wilkes 2301.---Townsend 2278. Halifax 2126. Shakespeare 1912. During the Polling there were many Altercations between the Parties, which are too numerous and lengthy to reprint here. On the 7th of October a Scrutiny was demanded by Alderman Halifax and Shakespeare against Ald. Wilkes and Townsend; upon which Ald. Wilkes (and a Gentleman in Ald. Townsend's Name who was out of Town the whole of the Time) demanded a Scrutiny on their Parts. The Declaration will not be made till the 18th of November. The Reason given for demanding a Scrutiny is, that there are upwards of 300 bad Voters on the side of Messrs. Wilkes and Townsend, and not above 100 on the other side.
WILKES'S SPEECH. The SPEECH of Mr. Alderman WILKES to the Livery at Guildhall.
"Gentlemen and Brother Liverymen, I WANT Powers to express the deep Sense I have of the distinguished Honor you have done me by a Majority of your free suffrages. I find you are now, on the most frivolous Pretexts, to be harassed by a Scrutiny; but I know the Event will only confirm the Justice of the Poll, and demonstrate the Fairness and Honor of the Proceedings of my Friends during the whole Election.
"The present Sheriffs, Gentlemen, in the Course of this Election, have maintained a Firmness and Impartiality, which are the most pleasing Omens of a patriotic Conduct for the whole Year of their Sheriffalty.
"During the present Contest a remarkable Paper has been published relative to the Liberty of the Press, one of the great Bulwarks of all our Liberties. I find it authenticated by one of our own Body, a Freeman in Paternoster-row, Mr. Thomas Evans. In that Paper we are told that Col. Burgoyne, Chairman of the Select Committee of the House of Commons for enquiring into East India Affairs, came into this City, and threatened the Printer, in consequence of his having published their Minutes, that if he did not give up the Person, or Persons, who favoured him with the Proceedings of that Committee, the House of Commons would proceed against him with the utmost Severity. I rejoice, Gentlemen, that the honest Printer has not been frightened by so insolent and illegal a Menace, and I here declare that he, and every other Fellow-Citizen, shall have the most spirited legal Support from me, both for his own private protection & Security, & for the Punishment of every Violation of the Laws of our Country, and the Franchises of our City. While God continues me Health to do my Duty among you, the Powers, with which you have armed me, shall be exerted against every Attempt of Violence and Injustice, even from the highest usurped Authority. Our Right, as Constituents, to be fully informed of the Proceedings of our Representatives in Parliament has been clearly demonstrated, but the Force of Truth is not likely to prevail against Men, lost to all Sense of Shame, even so atrociously wicked beyond the Example of the most barbarous Nations and Times, as to corrupt the great Fountain of Public Justice, by erasing a judicial Record, 'till that Hour held almost sacred in every civilized Country. I congratulate you, Gentlemen, that you possess several excellent Magistrates, who in a good Cause have the Fortitude to meet the Rage of a Senate."

composed chiefly of Hirelings and Slaves. I fear however that your present Mayor will neither merit, nor even wish this Praise, for it would be very new, and wonderful indeed, if such a Man should risk the smallest personal Advantage, or Convenience, for you or the Public; but as we have among us Magistrates of Ability, Firmness and Intrepidity, real and warm Friends of the People, I am persuaded that our Liberties and Franchises are safe against every hostile Attack. The Event must be happy, the Defeat of Despotism, the Victory of the Constitution.
"I can never, Gentlemen, sufficiently acknowledge the Honor you have done me by the unanimous Resolution of your entire Approbation of my conduct during my past Sheriffalty. Permit me likewise on this occasion thus publicly to return Thanks to my late Colleague. Thro' the whole Course of the last Year he has given repeated Proofs of his steady Attachment to the Cause of Liberty, and to the Duties of his Office. He has shared with me the various Fatigues and Difficulties inseparable from our late Charge. I have regularly experienced from him the most obliging Readiness to lessen the Weight of whatever was painful or oppressive, and to co-operate in every Measure for the common Welfare, and the Good of this Capital. Your private Feelings, Gentlemen, will I am sure justify me in this Public Tribute of the Gratitude I owe to so worthy a Friend, and excellent a Magistrate, as Mr. Alderman Bull."
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 4. 1772.
DIED. At Falmouth, Casco-Bay, Mr. JAMES MILK, a Gentleman who for a long Course of Years has sustain'd several Offices of Trust in said Town, which he discharged with great Faithfulness.
Mr. Nathan Wilson, an honest FRIEND.
We hear from Hollis , that on Tuesday last, one Wilkins , about 30 years of age, killed his Father, by throwing a Billet of Wood at his head, which entered his skull, of which wound he very soon expired, He was apprehended by order of the Worshipful SAMUEL HOBART, Esq; and after Examination committed to Amherst Jail .
N E W-Y O R K, Nov. 23.
Lieutenant Hutchins, who is employed as Engineer on the Coast of Florida, relieved 22 Men on a desolate Island about 120 Miles to the Westward of Pensacola, where they had been ship-wrecked 28 Days, and were in the greatest Distress, being at an Allowance of Half a Pint of Water per Day. We do not hear who they were.
The Craysfort Man of War is arrived at Pensacola with the Loss of her Foremast, Mainmast, 9 Guns, a Lieutenant, Boats, &c. in a Gale of Wind the Beginning of September.
S A L E M, November 24.
Last Thursday Morning two young Men went down the North River a Gunning, in an Indian Canoe, which overset a little below the Town, whereby one of them, named John Smethurst, was drowned.
Last Sunday se'nnight, and not before, the Hope armed Schooner, Capt. Dawson, sailed from Newport for Boston.
[DIED.] At Marblehead, JOSHUA ORNE, Esq; Æt. 65.
S A L E M, December 1.
By Letters received from Spanish Town, we have the Confirmation of the News of the Death of the Hon. SAMUEL PICKMAN, Esq; who died on the 25th of August last, in the 61st Year of his Life. He has been for many Years one of the Council of the Leward Islands, and Deputy-Governor of Spanish-Town. He was a Native of this Town, and only Brother to the Hon. BENJAMIN PICKMAN, Esq.
Wednesday last was ordained at Beverly, the Rev. Mr. JOSEPH WILLARD, Colleague with the Rev. Mr. CHAMPNEY.
On Wednesday, 25th of November, a Church was gathered at Atkinson, in New-Hampshire, adjoining to Haverhil, and the Rev. Mr. STEPHEN PEABODY ordained Pastor of it.
Extract of a Letter from Lannarchysnead in Anglesea, in North Wales.
"A very extraordinary affair happened at a house in this neighbourhood lately. An old woman went to make some mustard in a wooden platter (as is customary with the poorer sort of people in that country) & she had an old ball that she made use of to grind mustard; this ball she put in some hot turf ashes, in order to keep it from rust and damp; but alas! the ball proved to be a bomb shell, full of combustibles, which took fire, and threw the old woman on her back and made its way through the window, into an adjoining field, where a young woman was going with a pitcher of water in her hand; it broke the pitcher all to pieces, & the young woman escaped unhurt; providentially it did no other damage than frightening the old woman into fits, breaking the windows, &c."
CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina,) Nov. 2.
We hear from the West-Indies, that the operations against the black Charabs of St. Vincent are commenced. Being amply provided with Arms and Ammunition, they had killed several of his Majesty's sub-
jects in the Island, and have cut off the crews of two or three vessels that were unfortunately becalmed where they could attack them in their canoes; Sixteen of them have been made Prisoners in a skirmish they had with a detachment of the King's troops.
W I L L I A M S B U R G, Nov. 5.
Yesterday a Murder was committed in Hanover, by Nathan Phillips of that County, on James Aylett, his Overseer, by shooting him through the Body with a Musket. Phillips, we hear, has for some Time been disordered in his Mind; and this Day delivered himself up to Justice, and is now in the public Jail.
A N N A P O L I S, Nov. 12.
Yesterday Morning, about eight o'Clock Capt. William Dunlop, on board a Schooner Flat bound from Baltimore to the Eastern Shore, being seized as is supposed with a Frenzy, leaped overboard near Greenbury's Point, with his Cloaths and Boots on, and was drowned.
H A L I F A X, Nov. 17.
We hear that his Majesty's Ship Tartar, is ashore at Canso-Gut.
On Friday last at the Supreme Court, William Lambert of the 65th Regiment, received Sentence of Death for committing a rape on Hannah Baur; and is to be executed the 25th inst.
O N I D L E N E S S.
THE Jews have a saying among them, that "he who does not bring his son up to some business makes him a thief." Idleness they look on as the ground of all evil, whether public or private; for the mind of a man will be employed, and rather than do nothing will work mischief. The Parthians were such enemies to idleness that they did not suffer their children to eat till they had sweated at their exercises; and Scipio, surnamed Nasica, fearing peace should introduce this bane to the common wealth of Rome, said that he looked upon the Romans (after the destruction of Carthage) to be in greater danger than ever they had yet been, for they had no enemies. Idleness he esteemed a more terrible enemy to the state than Carthage had been, though that common wealth had reduced the Romans to the greatest extremity.
There are numbers contaminated with this vice, yet think themselves entirely free from it; He who is ever found with cards, or a dice box, in his hand; he too that flies to a bottle, or a strumpet, to kill thought, and to prevent time's lying on his hands: and those ladies that pass their day in talking scandal, or, when that flags, divert their time in impertinent visits to shopkeepers, asking a thousand questions, and even tumbling over their goods without a thought of buying any; these may be well ranked among the idle. He that neglects his duty and real employment, naturally endeavours to fill his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly; and does anything but what he ought to do, with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
Solon introduced a severe law into his commonwealth against idleness, and the Areopagites (Judges in criminal cases) were very vigilant in enquiring into the life and manners of every particular subject, and in seeing this law put in execution, as may be seen by the following story.
There were at Athens two poor young men, Mendemus and Asclepiades, who were greatly addicted to the study of philosophy, they had no visible means of support, yet kept up their flesh and colour, looked hale, well, and in good case. The judges had information given them of the retired life of these two, and of their having neither any thing to live on, nor apparently doing any thing to maintain them; consequently, as they could not live without sustenance, they must have some clandestine means of subsisting. On this information, the young men were summoned before the judges, & ordered to answer to the charge. One of the accused said, little credit was given to what a man could urge in his own defence it being natural to believe every criminal
would either deny or extenuate the crime he is charged with; and as the testimony of a disinterested person was not liable to suspicion, he desired a certain baker, whom he named, might be summoned, and answer for them, The baker being come, he declared that the young men under examination took it by turns to grind his corn every night, and that for the night's work he every morning paid the young man who ground at his mill a drachma (a groat). The judges, surprised at their abstinence and industry, ordered a reward of 200 drachmas to be paid them, out of the public treasury.
Seneca says, we all complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or else in doing nothing that we ought to do.
Every member of society is under a tacit obligation to contribute to the general good. He is unjust if he does not, and ought to be looked upon as a burthensome member; and as he will do nothing for the public, ought to receive no protection from it.
From a NEW-YORK Paper.
Mr. HOLT, Please to insert the following in your next, by which you'll oblige one of your constant Readers.
AS Words are those Channels, by which the Knowledge of Things is conveyed to our Understandings: And upon a right apprehension of them depends the Rectitude of our Ideas; so, in order to form our Judgments right, they must be used in their true and proper Sense, both in Writing and Speaking: For if the Words of the Writer or Speaker be used in a wrong or improper Sense, they form erroneous Ideas in the Mind, concerning the Thing spoken or written of, causing Confusion in the Hearers or Readers; and too often render the whole unintelligible.
The Reason of my troubling the Printer and the Publick with the following Anecdote and Observations, is the continual improper Use made, in the New-England Governments, of the Word, Improve ; which in our Language, by its true and etymological Meaning always signifies to meliorate or make better ; but the Inhabitants of that Country almost universally use the Word in lieu of occupy, possess, tenant or rent . Instead of more the following Instances may suffice.—In the Account published in some of the Boston Papers after the late great Fire there, we read of several Houses being burnt, which had been improved , (not by Carpenters or Masons, but) by Tailors,—Barbers, and—Persons of such like Occupations, no ways likely to improve the Tenements in which they resided. In the Times of the Troubles in Boston, when the Manufacturing House was taken possession of by the Military, we read that the House was improved by Mr. Brown. And the late Account we had of a Man being found in a Chimney in Boston, we are informed that the House was improved by Messrs Homans and Williams. This perverted Sense of this Word is not only used among those People in common Conversation and the News-Papers, but has made its Way even to the Pulpit. A young Candidate (as I was lately credibly informed) preaching upon the Devices of Satan, said that Satan was permitted (for a certain and limited Time) to improve the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden; but whether he improved the Tree by pruning the luxuriant Branches, manuring the Soil, or by meliorating the Fruit, it seems, he did not inform his Audience.—We sometime find the same Word used instead of Employ : An Instance of which I remember some Years past; when an ancient Matron, speaking of a skilful Doctor they had in the Town where she lived, said, she had improved him upwards of 20 Years. I concluded, however, if the Doctor had no better Improvements than that old Lady seemed capable of affording, he still stood in need of much greater Improvements to render him a competent Proficient in the medical Art.

My whole End will be answered, Mr. Printer, if you and the other Printers of the public Papers on this Continent, whenever you take an Article from any Paper where the Verb improve or any of its Derivations are used improperly, will hereafter print them in different Types, that the Learned in the other Parts of his Majesty's Dominions, may see your Disapprobation of so great a Barbarism in the English Language.
To the PRINTERS.
TO increase and multiply, was an ancient command of Heaven; which passage of inspiration, perhaps has been as fully understood by the human race, and as faithfully complied with, from the early ages of the world, as any text in all the sacred canon. It was also the agreeable will of Heaven to institute a marriage covenant, in which it becomes the duty of a man to forsake father and Mother, and stick fast to his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh. This was a measure consistent with infinite wisdom, and is admirably calculated for the due regulation of society in this probationary state. In order that a state of matrimony might be happy, it was thought necessary in former days, that there should be between the parties a peculiar affection for the persons of each other, as well as a similarity of tempers, dispositions &c. but how strangely is the scene changed, in modern times, amongst the beaux of the present age, whose stations in life are a little exalted. Virtue, good sense, a beautiful form, and the most accomplished breeding, have very little or no charms; but CASH is the thing. A great sum of money is their summum bonum , and will carry them twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or a hundred miles, to visit the most ugly, deformed and rough-hew'd of all human objects; and when they arrive to their journey's end, a prospect of this gain will seemingly make those objects appear not disagreeable, but will supply all deficiencies, and make the most ghastly visages look tolerable. Of such conduct as this, in persons who would be loth to be esteemed wanting in their sagacity, I myself, of late years, have had personal knowledge.—When I contemplate upon these things, it brings to my mind the saying of a plain honest man, who was not distinguished for his politeness; when he was asked the reason why he did not marry, he made this reply: Them that I would have, says he, won't have me; and them that would have me, the devil would not have. However true this might be without the chink , yet give this latter sort ten thousand pounds portion each, and the sparks of the times in which we live, some of the black coats not excepted, who would make people believe that religious companions were by all means what they were after; I say, this being the case, they will pass thro' all difficulties, face all weathers, stem all oppositions to obtain them; and when they have accomplished their design, take unwearied pains to make themselves and others imagine they have really got a prize; neither of which is in their power ever to bring to pass. Is human nature thus fallen? Is it pitch-pool'd in such a manner as this? What! for men to make their whole lives compleatly miserable for the sake of a little gold? and not only so, but the mind never to be composed, and in a proper situation to prepare for another state? Alas! alas! tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon, lest the daughters of the people shall triumph over their sons, slight and contemn them for their unparelleled baseness, in preferring a quantity of shining dust, with a ridiculous body, and ghastly intellects, to a decent form, a virtuous mind, and to every accomplishment which can rationally be estimated of lasting worth. Q. D.
A CURE for the FLUX.
A GENTLEMAN coming into the coffee-house at Southampton, complained, with a volley of oaths, that he had a violent flux; a QUAKER overhearing him, shrewdly said, Swear on, friend—oaths are binding.
Hearing that an handsome Grave Stone was preparing for the late Mr. SCALES, we beg'd leave to take a Copy of the Inscription for this Paper, and the rather as it contains a just and compendious Character of the Deceased.
Sepulchrum indicat hic Lapis, STEPHANI SCALES, A. M. Collegii Harvardini olim Alumni, et ejusdem nuper Tutoris: Ingenii cujus Acumen. Virtutes eximie, et Diligentia pariter singularis, Famam ejus et Honorem plus plura: indices amplificaverunt. Jurisprudentiae studio dicatus, toto Animo incubuit, et multum profecit. Rubellis dum laboravit e Vivis derepente correptus est, Quinto Novembris, Anno Salutis humanae 1772. Aetatis 31.
----- "O mi Amice Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam, jam te premit Nox."-----
L O N D O N, August 26.
Yesterday the Royal Regiment of Artillery was reviewed on Blackheath. As soon as his Majesty appeared on the field, he was saluted by the cannon. The men then proceeded to go thro' the manual exercise; but on account of the wet, they were obliged to omit several of the new manœuvres. Before they began to use the field pieces, the morning cleared up, and proved very cool and favourable to the Officers and Men.—They carried on a very brisk canonade for some time, which produced an agreeable effect. The mock engagement afforded a very pleasing entertainment to the spectators. It represented a real action, with a close and smart fire of cannon and running fire with the small arms. The battalion who were victors, after having caused the supposed enemy to quit the field, made themselves master of their cannon, ammunition, &c. His Majesty was on the Heath at quarter past nine o'clock, and the whole concluded at quarter past eleven. To have seen the concourse of people present, who continued going from a little past 4 in the morning till 10, a person would have imagined London must have been drained of its inhabitants. At half past eight, a very severe shower of rain fell at Deptford, and the scene it afforded was better than the review; several Macaronies in whiskies, and on horseback looked dejected, as they had taken some pains to appear agreeable on the field; some few charitable persons let drop a tear of pity on seeing several females, mounted on long tail'd prancers, as wet as a toast in a tankard. When his Majesty left the field, the confusion it occasioned was incredible. The inhabitants of Blackheath and Deptford enjoyed the sun; for at one view were to be seen Ambassadors, Dukes, Lords, Gentlemen, Beggars, Chimney Sweepers, and Thieves; and this motley group were for upwards of four hours continually passing. Notwithstanding the innumerable collection of spectators, and the furious manner of returning, we hear of no material accident happening.
Sept. 2, A subscription is, it is said, opened in Dublin for the Hearts of Steel who were lately acquitted; for tho' the people do not think them entirely faultless, they do not think them criminal in the extremes, and look upon them even with a sort of respect as a kind of forlorn hope in the general cause of freedom.
The Vanity of Earthly Enjoyments.
LIFE, how vainly held a Blessing, worthy Man's high Hopes to share, Proves to ev'ry one possessing, full of Sorrow, full of Care; What if Fortune should befriend ye, still the busy Fiend prevails, Or should adverse Fate attend ye, Sorrow ever with it dwells. See the Beau in Chariot loitering. All without a gaudy scene, Take him on his Pillow rolling, Slave to Tyrant thoughts within; Grant the fawning Courtier favour, Give him all his hopes pur- Still you hear him craving ever, Still he pines for something new. Fill the Miser's bags with Treasure, Spread the Heroe's Glory round, Fear out weighs the Scale of Pleasure, Envy tramples Honour down; Places, Titles, Pomp and Riches, Sweets im bitter'd are by Pain, Thus experience daily teaches, Life and all its Joys are vain.
THE first physicians by debauch were made, Excess began and sloth sustains the trade. By chase our long liv'd fathers earn'd their food, Toil stirring the nerves, and purify'd the blood. But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to three score years and ten. Better to hunt the fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wife for cure on exercise depend, God never made his work for man to mend.
FALMOUTH, (Casco-Bay,) Nov. 28.
The Day before the Execution of Solomon Goodwin, he wrote an affectionate Letter, directed to his Wife, his Children and his Friends, wherein he earnestly counselled and exhorted them to live in the Fear of GOD, and to be constant and fervent in their Prayers and Supplications to Him for Grace and Direction in the Concerns of this Life; particularly, that He would enable them to make a right Use and Improvement of their Time, and be always prepared for that future State which they may be called to suddenly and unaware; that they might be contented with the Allotments of Providence, and bear Afflictions with Patience and Resignation; but above all, that they might be kept from the Snares and Seductions of wicked Company, which he assures them was the Cause that brought about his unhappy Fate. And now, says he, I must bid adieu to the World, and may the LORD have Mercy upon us all.
This Evening,
At the ACADEMY-ROOM in Pitt-Street, Portsmouth, the Exhibitions will be perform'd as usual with Alterations.
Province of New Hampshire, U N I T Y.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of UNITY, in the Province of New Hampshire in the County of Cheshire, have been Notified to pay their Tax to me the Subscriber; notwithstanding divers of the Proprietors have neglected to pay, This is to Notify those Persons that unless they pay the same by the first Monday in January next, so much of their Lands will be Sold at Publick Vendue at the House of Capt. John Huntoon, Inn-holder in Kingston, at one of the Cocks in said Day, as will pay their Tax with incidental Charges.—Delinquents Names are as follows, viz.
   £. s. £. s.     William Long, 0 10 Isaac Godfrey 1 7   Samuel Judkins, 1 10 Nathan Taylor 0 9   Thomas Scribner, 1 7 John Mason 0 9   Moses Sleeper, 1 16 Edward Field 1 16   Tristram Sanborn, 1 7 Samuel Dearborn 0 9   Daniel Moulton, 1 1 John Webster 0 9   Nathaniel Samborn 0 9   Kingston, Dec. 2. BENJAMIN HUNTOON, Collr.  
TO BE SOLD BY
Mendum Janvrin,
At his SHOP in Queen-Street, adjoining Deacon Jackson's a genteel assortment of Crockery & Glass WARE,
Flax, Powder, and Shott; as also a few English GOODS, amongst which are the best of London made Shoes at 7/6 L. M.
LIKEWISE
West-India RUM,
by the Hogshead or less Quantity; some excellent old RUM, by the Hogshead, Barrell or Gallon, SUGAR by the Barrell, Hundred or single Pound, Green TEA by the Pound or Quarter.
A large Brindle COW
STRAYED or STOLEN out of the Pasture of the Hon. GEORGE JAFFREY, Esq; in Portsmouth, between Ten and Eleven Years old: she has a white Streak on her Belly, the Tops of her Horns much wore. Whoever finds said COW, so that the Owner may have her again, shall have TWO DOLLARS Reward, for their Trouble by BENJAMIN MACKAY.
About Eighty Thousand Feet
of good Merchantable BOARDS at Five Dollars per Thousand, and the Charges down the River, to be Sold by JACOB SHEAFE, Junr. Also 100 Quintals of Jamaica FISH to be Sold by said Sheafe, Portsmouth.
Duck, Cordage,
Anchors, &c. to be Sold
By JOHN PENHALLOW, at his Store in Portsmouth, for Cash only, viz.
Cables and Cordage of various Sizes, Duck from No. 1 to 8; fine Ozanbrigs, sewing Twine, House-Line, and Marline, Anchors small and large; also 4d, 6d, 10d, 20d, Nails; Glass by the Box, or smaller Quantity, 8 by 10, 7 by 9, 6 by 8. Kerseys, Broad Cloths, Serges, Duffils, 7, 8, and 9 Quarter Blankets; spotted Rugs, green and blue dit. Coverlids, Bed-Quilts, Bever Coating, Bear Skins, Frieze, Flannels, Baizes; and a Variety of other Articles.

IT must afford a very sensible Pleasure to every Well wisher to Learning in general, and to the Seminary in Cambridge in particular, when any Encouragement is given to hope for its Prosperity, And all of this Character will be ready to improve every Opportunity to promote so good a Cause.--- Such an one is now offered to the Public in the following
LOTTERY
Granted by the General Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, for the Purpose of raising £ 3200 Lawful Money, towards building a New-Hall at Cambridge, for the better Accomadation of the Students. To the Management whereof Joseph Jackson and William Blair Townsend, Esqrs; William Greenleaf, Jonathan Mason, Samuel Austin and Henry Hill, Merchants, have been appointed and duly Sworn.
HARVARD COLLEGE LOTTERY
consists of 10,000 Tickets at Six Dollars each, of which 3337 are Prizes of the following Value, viz.
   Prizes. Value. Dollars.     1 of 5000 is 5000   1 of 3000 is 3000   1 of 1000 is 1000   3 of 500 are 1500   10 of 200 are 2000   15 of 100 are 1500   30 of 50 are 1500   3276 of 10 are 32760  
3337 Exclusive of the above Prizes, the first Ticket which shall be drawn on the first 6 Days will be intitled to 50 Dollars each } 300 The Ticket which shall be drawn last in said Lottery will be intitled to } 100
6663 Blanks 48660
Remain for the College, 11340
10,000 Tickets at 6 Dollars are 60,000 Dollars. There are not two Blanks to a Prize.
As this Undertaking is designed solely for the Benefit of the College, it is hoped those who have received the Honors of that Society; and all others, who have at Heart the Cause of Learning, with which the Good of Society is so nearly connected, will readily, and cheerfully Encourage it, by becoming Adventurers.
Public and seasonable Notice will be given of the Time and Place of drawing; and when finished a List of the Prizes will be published in Edes & Gill's Boston Gazette, and the Money will be paid to the Possessors of the Benefit Tickets, within 20 Days after a Publication of a List of Prizes.
Gold as well as Silver will be taken for the Tickets, and the Prizes will be paid off in like Manner. Prizes not demanded within Twelve Months after they are drawn, will not be paid, but will be deemed as generously given for the Purposes aforesaid, and will be applied accordingly.
The above Lottery is calculated more to the Advantage of the Adventurers, than perhaps any other ever yet offered to the Public on this Continent; when this is considered, together with the generous Design of it the Managers cannot but flatter themselves, that they shall be able to draw said Lottery in a few Months.
Tickets are sold by the Managers in Boston, and Mr. Joshua Wentworth in Portsmouth.
Province of New Hampshire.
THESE are to give Notice to the
PROPRIETORS of PERRYS TOWN, in the Province of New Hampshire, That there was a legal Assessment made on the 10th Day of Nov. inst. for the payment of Two Pounds Ten Shillings, on each original Right in said Town, & committed to me to collect. And that I have also in my Hands as Attorney to Stephen Harriman, a Collector for said Propriety, a List of Assessment, made on the 9th Day of December last Twelve Shillings, on each Right in said Town, of which I am to compleat the Collection. I therefore desire a speedy payment of these several Taxes, which may prevent the disagreeable Charges, that must arise, if I am obliged to notify the Sale of Lands.
CUTTING MARSH, Collector. Haverhill, Nov. 12, 1772.
TO BE SOLD
A Lott of Land in Berwick, Containing about 10 Acres, within Thirty Rods of Quampeggan Mills, well situated for a Trader.
Also a RIGHT in the Township of Lebanon — For further Particulars, Enquire of Deacon John Hill of Berwick aforesaid.
WHEREAS a Raft of MASTS for the use of His Majesty's NAVY, were lost in towing them into Piscataqua River, on the 20th Day of October last, which are Number'd and Mark'd I. D. and I imagine are drove ashore between the said River and Cape-Cod.—I promise a Reward of Three Pounds Lawful Money, to be paid upon the safe Delivery of each Mast in the said River Piscataqua, provided they are not Damaged and rendered unfit for Service, and the Sum of Two Pounds L. M. for each that shall be Delivered in like manner to Mr. George Brinley, Merchant in Boston.—I Caution all Persons who may find the said Masts not to Destroy or Damage them, as they will be liable to a Penalty of Fifty Pounds Sterl. for each, besides the value of the Mast.—Upon finding any of the above Masts immediate Notice is requested to be sent to Portsmouth, EDWARD PARRY, Nov. 16, 1772. Agent for Masts for His Majesty's Navy.
Whereas the Proprietors of the Township of HAVERHILL, in the Province of New Hampshire, have been legally notified to pay an Assessment of Forty-two Shillings on each original Proprietor's Share or Lots of Land in said Township to me the Subscriber, and several of them being yet delinquent in the Whole or Part. This is therefore to notify such delinquent Proprietors that so much of their Rights or Lots of Land will be exposed to Sale, at public Vendue at my dwelling-House in Haverhill aforesaid, on the last Tuesday in December next as will pay said Taxes with incidental Charges. The Sale to begin at one o'clock, Afternoon.
The delinquent original Proprietor's Names are as follows, with the Sums due on their several Lots and undivided Land.
N. B. The first Sum is a Tax voted on Meadow Lots. The second on House Lots. The third on 100 Acre Lots. The fourth on undivided Land.
   s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.     Stephen Knight 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6   Maj. Richard Emery 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6   William Tobern 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6   Robert Peasey 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6   John Page 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6   Joseph Blanchard 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6   Thomas Johnson 10 6 10 6 10 6 10 6  
JOSHUA HAYWARD Collector. Haverhill November 10, 1772.
[ New-Brittain. ]
WHEREAS an Assessment of six shillings Lawful Money is made on each original Right of the Proprietors of NEW BRITTAIN, so called, agreeable to a Vote of said Proprietors; and a List of said Assessment committed to me the Subscriber to collect; I hereby Notify all said Proprietors, that unless Payment of said TAX be made to me at my Dwelling House in Kensington, in the County of Rockingham, at, or before the 29th Day of December next, so much of each original Proprietors Right will be advertised for Sale as will pay said Tax with incidental Charges.
SAMUEL PRESCUTT, Collector. Kensington, Nov. 16. 1772.
[ New-Brittain. ]
WHEREAS an Assessment of fifteen shillings Lawful Money is made on each original Right of the Proprietors of NEW BRITTAIN, so called, agreeable to Votes of said Proprietors, and a List of said Assessment committed to me the Subscriber to collect, I hereby Notify all said Proprietors, that unless Payment of said TAX be made to me at my Dwelling House in Hampton Falls, in the County of Rockingham, at, or before the thirtieth Day of December next, so much of each original Proprietors Right will be advertised for Sale as will pay said TAX with incidental Charges.
BENJAMIN LEAVITT, Collector. Hampton Falls, Nov. 16. 1772.
Philadelphia Flour, Bread and Bar Iron, to be sold by JACOB SHEAFE, junr. Also a neat Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS,
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ss.
[ RELHAN. ]
WHEREAS the Proprietors of RELHAN, at a Meeting legally held at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on the 27th of April, 1770, voted and laid a Tax of Eighteen Shillings, on all the Rights or Shares of Land in said Township, for Purposes heretofore made public, and chose me the Subscriber Collector of the same, of which Notice has been repeatedly given, notwithstanding many of the Proprietors have neglected paying the same, to the Damage of the Town, as it retards the Settlement; those are once more requested to discharge the above Tax, also, two former Taxes, in case they have not paid them to the old Collectors.
They are likewise notified, that at a Meeting, held at said Tilton's, on Tuesday the 24th November, 1772, a Tax was voted and assessed on each and every Right or Share of Land in the said Township of RELHAN, of two Pounds two Shillings, lawful Money, for the Purposes of building a Saw-Mill, and Grist Mill in said Town, a Bridge over Mascamy River, and for paying a Balance due to the Treasurer, who is considerably in advance: this is therefore to desire all the Proprietors of the said Town of RELHAN, to make Payment of said Taxes to me at Portsmouth, on or before the first of January next, 1773. or so much of their Rights or Shares, of Land in said Township will be immediately after advertised for Sale, agreeable to the Laws in that Case made and provided, as shall be sufficient to pay said Taxes, with all incidental Charges.
ROBERT LUIST FOWLE, Collector. Portsmouth Nov. 26th 1772.
Whereas JOHN WOLFE, a
Seaman of middle Stature, brown Complexion, wears his own Hair, had on when he run away, a red under Jacket, and a blue or brown upper Jacket: and JOHN RICHARDS, Seaman, strong made, of middle Stature, dark Complexion, wears his own Hair, had on a blue under Jacket, and brown upper Jacket — were legally committed to Goal in Falmouth, in the County of Cumberland, on the 30th of October, in order to proceed the Voyage, having first attempted to run from the Brent Hall , Captain GEORGE HASTINGS, now lying in the Harbour of Falmouth,— and on the 20th of Nov. Instant, about Sunset, they run out of said Goal, and have not since returned. This is therefore to give Notice, to all Persons that shall be known to secrete the said Seamen, they shall be prosecuted as the LAW directs, or otherwise a Reward of Five Guineas shall be given to such Person or Persons as shall bring said Seamen on Board said Ship, or to Capt. GEORGE HASTINGS, to proceed the Voyage.
Falmouth, County of JAMES HEATH, Cumberland, Nov. 23. 1772. For GEORGE HASTINGS.
TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC VENDUE, on Monday the 7th Day of December next, at the House of Mr. Nabum Marshall, Innholder in Berwick, at Four o'Clock in the Afternoon,
A very convenient
DWELLING HOUSE with one Acre of choice Land, a good Barn, Well, &c. very convenient for a Trader or Tradesman, being situated on the main Road, within a Quarter of a Mile of Quampeggan Landing (so called)
N. B West India Goods will be taken in Pay, and short Credit given if required.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners by the Honorable JOHN GOFFE, Esqrs Judge of Probate of Wills for the County of Hillsborough, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors of the Estate of Thomas Jewell, late of Hopkinton, in the County aforesaid, deceas'd, Represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed to Receive and Examine said Claims in, therefore Notice is hereby given, that we will attend said Service at the House of Timothy Clement, Innholder in said Hopkinton, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon on the last Tuesday of November current, and the five following Months, until the Expiration of the Term of six Months allowed, as aforesaid.
Hopkinton, Oct. 30, 1772. Timothy Clement. Enoch Eastman.
CHOICE
Grenada Old Spirit, By the Barrell or smaller Quantity, to be Sold by DANIEL EVANS, at a very reasonable Price, in Portsmouth.