The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1784-09-25 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Vol. XXVIII.]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1784.
[No. 1455.]
From the FREEMAN's JOURNAL. Mr. PRINTER,
SIR,
ON my way from Pittsburgh to Bedford court, and within four miles of Bedford town, I was struck with a view of the great ravage amongst the trees of the mountains, by a whirlwind on the 11th of June last. As far as my view extended, which was about half a mile on the east side, there was a lane cut through the woods of the breadth of 20 perches. Many trees of the largest size were blown from the roots, but the greatest part were twisted off, some near the root, and others about the middle of the body of the tree. It must have been an amazing force that could twist off, in this manner, trees two foot over, as a person would twist a small rod. The current at this place, had barely touched a dwelling house, and carried away the roof. Large pieces of timber, I was informed, were carried by it 7 or 8 miles in the air, and thrown from the tops of the hills into the vallies at a great distance. The town of Bedford barely escaped the blast. Every house in it must have been demolished if the tornado had found it in its way.
I have made enquiry concerning the rout in this remarkable blast; where it began and the effects of it in other places. The place where it took its rise is not known; a person now sits by me who has seen its vestiges 40 miles from this place. Its progress was from the Laurel hill. It came down a valley, called Ben's Creek Valley, and turning at right angles went up a large water called Stoney Creek, the distance of about three miles; then took its course about south east to the town of Bedford. When it quitted the bed of Stoney Creek it is observable that it waited not for the advantage of a hollow way, or breach in the mountains, but rushed over a very lofty ridge, making a tract of desolation amongst the oaks and pines about a mile wide. At the mouth of Ben's Creek above mentioned, it took up large logs and cast them many hundred yards. In an old field, it tore up large stumps of trees from the earth, and over the space of three thousand acres left not even a shrub in the soil. The bank of the river at this place, ten or twelve feet high, and overgrown with spruce and pine, is washed level: stones weighing sixty pound weight, are thrown out of the bed of the river to the distance of fifty yards. Hickory trees eighteen inches over are twisted from their stumps and thrown into the bed of the river, bodies of trees are found of a different wood from those in that place, and which must have been brought from a different part of the wilderness. One oak tree, particularly, at this place three feet over, has been broken about the middle, and the top thrown an hundred yards in one direction, and the trunk split down, and the larger division torn up and thrown 20 yards in a contrary course.
I am, Sir, your most obedient Bedford, July 15. humble servant, M.
Since writing the above, I am informed that the torrent proceeded from what we call the Indian Country, beyond the Ateghany river, and it is observed that in places where it had a free passage it was not a whirlwind, but a violent current of air in one direction:—but that in places where the mountains had confined it, it was a rapid whirlwind, and twisted every object in
a circular manner, as a boy would twist a rod. It is said also to have caused greater devastation farther back, so that the effects of it in the decrease of its force has been observed by us. If I was a member of the Philosophical Society, I would say something on the nature of this remarkable current. But until I shall have leisure to dissect a musketo, or to write a dissertation on the wings of a butterfly, or discover some odd kind of a worm, I shall not entertain the hopes of being taken notice of by that learned body.
BOSTON, September 20.
Last Friday arrived here the brig Nancy, Capt. Patterson, from London, after a passage of 38 days, by whom we have advices to the 7th of August, viz.
LONDON, August 4.
Letters from the island of St. Vincent's mention, that a burning mountain of a prodigious extent was discovered there in the month of June last. It has attracted the notice of the naturalists, and a more particular account of it is daily expected.
A negotiation has commenced between Government and the Dutch, since signing the definitive treaties between England and Holland, for the restoration of the settlement of Negapatnam, in the East Indies, according to the fourth article of the treaty: The whole of the business will be brought before parliament; but it is at present in Embryo ; nor is it likely to be ready for the public inspection till after Christmas.
Aug. 5. The peace concluded at Mangalore on the 11th of March, is probably by this time at an end. For to such a height have the cruelties, exercised by the Company's servants arose, that the natives are determined on the total extirpation of the English government. The French and Spaniards have been applied to, and it is thought that a very serious remonstrance against the unprecedented, frequent, and numerous murders of the rich natives in that part of the world, will soon arrive from those courts. And this probably may occasion a new war in Europe. The unhappy Queen of Cananore has applied to France, and a petition is sent over to the Queen of France, from the unhappy widow and children of the murdered Ali Cawn. The French have begun a war with this country on slighter pretences than the black conduct of the servants of the East India Company.
The express which brought over the news of peace being ratified between Tippoo Saib and the India Company was received from the Presidency of Bombay; whence it came over land by way of Bassora and Constantinople.
Aug. 6. Sir Edward Hughes was at Bombay the latter end of March last, in the Sultan mari of war of 74 guns, with four other men of war; and there was no talk of his sailing from thence. There were also five of the East India Company's ships on the Malabar Coast, which would be in the line of return to Europe in a few weeks.
According to letters from the Portuguese settlements at Goa, the country powers on the Malabar coast are falling into dissensions among themselves; a circumstance which cannot fail to lead to fresh raptures with the Europeans, as they may happen to espouse the cause of those with whom they are on the score of com-
merce most nearly engaged. The Portuguese Governor mentions, that he had made peace with the Mahrattas, but advises the necessity still of having reinforcements sent to him: as it was not likely that any pacification on the Continent could last long, the interest of the various powers being so opposite, to which they were not a little agitated by the Europeans.
By a letter from Madrid, we are informed, that the opinion which the Abbe Raynal threw out in his history, concerning the possibility of a Spanish East India trade, has been lately particularly attended to. Mr. Cabarrus has formed a project of a Spanish East India Company, and it was laid before the assembly; it has met with some opposition, but that opposition was the less effectual, as the King sent his approbation, and an order, by M. de Galvez, Secretary of State for the Indian department, that it should be adopted.
Letters from Amsterdam, dated July 24, declare, that the Imperial Minister had proposed to the States General, in order to accommodate the matters in dispute relative to the Emperor's antient claims on that republic, a cession of part of the Island of Ceylon in the East Indies; but that their High Mightinesses determination upon that point had not transpired.
The principal harbor on the Island of Ceylon, is Trincomale, which is better calculated for wooding and watering a squadron than most others in the East Indies. It very much resembles Portsmouth, and is almost land locked; but this last circumstance in so hot a climate is an inconvenience, for it greatly obstructs the sea breezes, so necessary to refresh the men on board the ships.
The trade of this port is very inconsiderable; and it is manifest the sole view of the Dutch in fortifying this, and the several bays and rivers round the island, is to prevent other nations from settling there, or having any commerce with the natives.
Mr. Pitt, it is said, is to be married to a rich East India Director's daughter. Hence the mutual affection for the late Bill. But Mr. Pitt is no more than other men, and why should he not make hay while the sun shines?
A letter from Toulon says, that an advice boat is arrived there from Leghorn, the master of which says, that he fell in with a combined fleet steering for Algiers; but he says, that he has been lately there, and that the Algerines have made such improvements in the fortifications, and raised some new batteries at the entrance of the harbor, that he thought they had no more chance of taking Algiers than the Spaniards had in taking Gibraltar. That the new batteries they have raised are mounted with heavy cannon, which will prevent any ship entering the harbor without danger of being sunk, and without they can get into the harbor, neither their guns nor bombs will reach the town.
Extract of a letter from Paris, July 26.
To the great satisfaction of the Helvetic Body, the Marquis de Vergennes resumes his embassy to Switzerland.
The Dauphin is entirely recovered; that Prince is still at la Muette.
Cash or New-Hampshire New-Emiſſion Money given for the New Emiſſion of the State of New-York. For particulars inquire at Col. Samuel Folsom's, Exeter.

L O N D O N, July 31:  Extract of a letter from Tillicherry, Coast of Malabar, Feb. 10.
"I cannot conclude my letter without relating an affair that happened at Mangalore, which will give you some idea of the character of Tippoo Saib. He ordered the Kalidar (or Governor) of Mangalore, with the principal officers who surrendered that place to us last spring, to be brought down in chains to the camp, and at the head of his troops, in sight of our garrison, he ordered all of them to be blown from the mouths of his great guns, after making this singular speech: "I invested and besieged this place for eight months, with 30,000 men; I took their outworks; I breached their walls; I in vain attempted to storm it; prevented supplies from entering the fort; and yet could not take it.—How then could your dastardly souls suffer 800 men to take it from 4000?—A man in the vigor of life, with such ideas, must prove no contemptible foe."
August 6.
Extract of a letter from Vienna, July 12.
"The Magistrates of Buda, in Hungary, having asked leave of the Emperor to erect a statue to him, the following is the answer he wrote to them with his own hand; an answer which does him more honor, than all the monuments in the universe do to those sovereigns in whose honor they have been erected.
"When prejudices shall have given place to sounder notions, respecting a sincere love for the country and welfare of the monarchy; when every individual shall contribute with pleasure to the necessities of the State, and to the general safety and prosperity; when the people's minds shall have been enlightened; and simplified studies shall have diffused a knowledge of religious truths, and of the civil laws; when the progress of agriculture shall have brought a very numerous population; when emulation shall have given life to every class of citizens; when the manufacturers shall flourish; when all the products shall circulate freely through the whole extent of the monarch and disseminate riches therein; then let the statue be raised to me; but not now, the city of Buda has yet only obtained from me a greater consumption of its wines, and, by the removal of the Tribunals of Presburgh, now transplanted within its walls, a higher price for their houses."
(Signed)
JOSEPH.
Vienna, June 23, 1784.
KINGSTON. [Jamaica] July 14.
By the depositions of two seamen who bro't the Schooner Providence (formerly commanded by Mr. Robert Ferguson) into Port Royal, it appears that the said Schooner, being on a voyage from this island to that of Curacoa, put into an unfrequented harbor on the Spanish main, commonly called Bay Hunday, where Capt. Ferguson with four of his hands went on shore, leaving only two men on board to take care of the vessel. Shortly after they landed they were attacked by a numerous body of Savages, well armed; who without the smallest provocation fired upon them; whereby two seamen were shot dead on the beach, and Capt. Ferguson mortally wounded, tho' he made shift to escape from his murderers and got on board the Schooner, but died the next day in great agony. The persons who were left on board the Schooner can give no account of the other two men, but that they were separated from their companions by the Indians, and perhaps suffered a more lingering death, as they never saw them afterwards. The two deponents who were eye witnesses to this most tragical scene, without being able to afford their assistance, very much to their credit navigated the vessel back to this port.
BALTIMORE, August 27.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, June 29:
"This evening several of the distant corps arrived for review on Monday. The Athy rangers halted at the Exchange for half an hour under arms: they marched off, and took the road to York street, thro' the Lower Castle yard and Palace street, with drums beatings, fife
playing, and colors flying. Words cannot express the amazement of the castle guard: all in a moment was an uproar of dismay—alarm—terror. The grenadiers flew to their posts—drums beat to arms—the viceroy trembled even in the capital. The attack was upon the arms, stores, artillery lodged in the ordnance—rebellion was the universal exclamation—the town-major flew from post to post—when behold! the Athy rangers calmly evacuated the citadel, after making their way through the castle guard, and were saluted by the sentinels at the Ship-street gate. Since the year forty one, never was there such confusion in the castle of Dublin."
N E W Y O R K, September 9.
Letters from the Marquis La Fayette, dated at Mount Vernon, announce his intention of returning to this city in the course of a few days, on his route to the eastern states.—It is to be hoped that the legitimate sons of Columbia in this city, and in every town and city in the union, will take an early opportunity of expressing the sensations of gratitude that must glow in every breast at beholding the man who has rendered such signal services to this country both in the cabinet and field.
His Excellency Governor Clinton left Albany some days since on his way to the Indian treaty, which is to be held at Fort Schuyler.—We are informed that a number of Indian Chiefs have arrived at said place.
N E W L O N D O N, September 10.
Last week arrived at New York Capt. John Shannon, in a brig from Jamaica:—We hear, that on the passage he fell in with a dismasted ship, laden with rum, sugar, cotton, &c. having nine feet water in her hold, and no person on board:—Capt. Shannon, we hear, was three days along side of the wreck, and took out 12 hogheads of rum, 20 ditto of sugar, and 80 bails of cotton.
Saturday arrived the sloop Little Dick, Capt. Weaver, from Jamaica, which he left the 25th July. Capt. Joseph Smith, in a brig from Middletown, was to sail in ten days after the Little Dick: in lat. 24, August 10th, Capt. Weaver saw a dismasted ship, towed by two other ships, but did not speak with them: in the same lat. he fell in with a sloop by which he was informed there had been a severe gale of wind the 1st of August.
Capt. Sheffield arrived last Monday at Stonington from Gaspee, in a fishing vessel.—We are told, that a frigate had arrived there from Halifax forbidding their curing of fish on the neighboring shore; which compelled Captain Sheffield, with a considerable number of other vessels, to quit the ground.
B O S T O N, September 20.
An Antigua paper of the 15th of June mentions his Britannic Majesty's sloop of war, the Experiment, having sailed from Grenada to St. Vincents, with the light infantry company of the 60th regiment, to assist in curbing the insolence of the Caribs, who have become extremely troublesome to many of the planters, having been furnished with arms and ammunition from Martinico.
P O R T S M O U T H, September 25.
A late London paper says, that the 20th regiment, which came to America about nine years since, upwards of 1000 strong, returned to England in March last, reduced by sickness and the sword to 170; they were defeated at Saratoga, at that memorable period when the flower of the British troops were captured by the Americans, and made prisoners of war.
Died since our last—Hunking Wentworth, Esq; aged 87.—Mrs. Joanna Beck, aged 48, consort of Mr. Samuel Beck, of this town.—Mrs. Priscilla Pevey, aged 38.—Mrs. Susannah Clark, aged 20.—A Child of Mr. Charles Roberts.
N A V A L - O F F I C E,
PORT OF PISCATAQUA. September 25, 1784.  E N T E R E D, From Sloop Commerce, McAdam, St. Kitts. Brig Ganganelli, Stacy, Turks-Island. Brig Lovely Laïs, Whitehouse, Barbados.  C L E A R E D, For Schooner Friendship, Chamberlain, West-Indies. Brig Tom, Ward, St. Lucia. Ship Jupiter, Ross, Jamaica.
A list of Letters remaining in the Post Office, Portsmouth, September 14, 1784.
  A Sam. Marble, Stratham.   Jona. Allen, 2 Green. C. March, Greenland.   Joseph Anton. (land. Andrew McMullan.   B Cap't. J. Muchemore.   Cy. Baldwin, Dunstable. Robert Magill, 2   Silas Bullard, Mason. Rev. David M c Clure,   S. Bradford, Hillsboro' (N. Hampton.   Andrew Bradford, ditto. John McLoughlin,   Lt. Beatman, 2 Sandersf. (New-Boston.   Andrew Beard, N. Boston Mons. Ahoul Minister 2   Robert Barclay, Bath. (New Castle.   Richard Burke, York. N   Tho. & Henry Brown, 2. Henry Nutter.   Peleg Brown. Rev. Seth Noble, New-   C (market.   John Carter, Plymouth. P   Messrs. Coxe, and Co. Tho. Patterson, Lon-   Peggy Cotton. (donderry   John Coodman. Isaac Perkins, Wells.   Samuel Coffin. N. Peabody, 2 Atkinson.   Jery Clancy, 2. Sam. Phillips, Andover.   D Henry Parkenson,   Capt. Simon Davis. (Pembrook,   Lydia Denet. Dennes Prendergast,   E R   John Edwards. Col. George Reid 2   Daniel Evans. (Londonderry.   F S   B. Folsom, Newmarket. Sam. Shapley, Kittery.   J. fish Folsom, Dover. Wm. Smith, Peterboro'.   Mons. Le Colonneille Capt. Edward Sargent.   Froute. Sam. Sawyer & Comp.   Pel. Freeman, O. York. (O. York.   D. Gideon Frost, Wells. James Sellers, Ditto.   J. Fletcher, 2 Thornton. Brig. Gen. Stark, 2 Lon-   G (donderry.   N. Gilman, Newmarket. Nathaniel Sinkler.   Mr. Grant, Newcastle. Richard Skinner.   Dr. P. Green, Concord. T   Sam. Gove, Nottingham Wm. Trefeichen, Rye.   H Nath. Tobey, Kittery.   Samuel Ham. Madame Thabel.   Stephen Hassard South- Benj. Thurston, Exeter.   (Kingston. W   Henry Hancock, 2 Ha- Beza Woodward, Dun-   (verhill. (stable.   James Hamilton. Dn. T. Wilson Concord.   Mathias Hogan. Mr. Whitmans, Exeter.   J Rev. Simon Williams,   Sarah Jones, 2 (Windham.   John Jones. Paul. D. Woodbridge.   Rich. Jordon, Exeter. (2 York.   Col. Gab. Johonnot. Joseph Wilchingham,   John Jardine, Kittery. (Dartmouth College.   L Y   Capt. Sam. Langdon. John Young, Dover.   M 
N. B. Those which have no place annexed to their names, are of Portsmouth.
Best Philadelphia Iron, By the Ton or smaller Quantity, To be SOLD at the STORE of  John Langdon, Esq.
GEORGE TURNER,
Has for SALE,
At his shop in Queen street,
ENGLISH Draw Leather Boots. Men's and Boy's Shoes, by the dozen. Children's Morocco Shoes, by ditto. Ladies Shoes and Pumps. Quilted Petticoats. Florentine Waistcoats and Breeches. Ready made Holland Shirts. Men's and Boy's Check Shirts. Irish Linens. Chintzes. Gentlemen's Horse whips. Chaife whips, and sundry other articles. All which, he will sell by wholesale or retail, at a very low advance.
EDMUND H. QUINCY
Has for SALE
At his STORE nearly opposite the Post Office, Stone Lime by the Hoghead, or less Quantity. ALSO, Excellent old Sherry, Lisbon and Malaga Wine; Taunton Ale, &c. &c. The above articles, English and West India Goods, or Cash given for FLAX SEED , by said Quincy.
Portsmouth, September 14.

From the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, for May, 1784.
Mr. URBAN, I AM surprized at not having seen in your useful repository any account of Dr. Moyes, of Edinburg, who, I think, ought to be commemorated as one of the literary phenomena of the present age tho' he must be well known to many of your readers, as he gave philosophical lectures at both ends of the town, in the spring of 1783. To others let me say, that this wonderful man, now only 29 years of age, though he has been quite blind ever since he was 18 months old, is possessed of an almost unequalled fund of knowledge in chemistry, and in every branch of natural philosophy and history, with all the mechanical arts; is well versed in polite literature; and is yet modest and diffident in his opinions, amiable in his manners, benevolent in his heart. He read, or rather deliver'd, his lectures in London (as mentioned above) in 1783, and afterwards repeated them to a numerous set of subscribers (upwards of one hundred) twice at Norwich, and then at Yarmouth, as much to their satisfaction as to his own pecuniary advantage. He returned to Scotland last summer, in order to arrange at his leisure the materials for another series of lectures, on a noble and extensive plan, to be delivered at London and elsewhere. But I have lately heard he has since been induced to accompany a friend to America.
[The Doctor has since arrived at Providence, and has begun his Lectures on The Philosophy of Chemistry and Natural History , which, so far as they are proceeded in, have afforded the highest satisfaction.]
TO BE SOLD,
By JONATHAN WARNER,
At his Store, and just Imported,
A Good assortment of CLOTHS, and a Number of Articles, suitable for the Fall and the Winter. — Likewise, Hds of TIN WARE — Boxes of HARD WARE, and Boxes of PIPES; for which he will take good White Oak Timber and Plank, Pine Timber and Plank, from 2 to 4 Inch — small Masts from 15 to 22 Inches; white and red Oak Hogshead Staves and Pine Boards.
Portsmouth, Sept. 14, 1784.
Just Imported, AND TO BE SOLD,
By PETER PEARSE,
Swansey COAL,
Of the best Quality, for Blacksmiths — A Variety of Wollen Goods, suitable for the Winter Season.
Cordage, Clarret by the dozen.
English Cheese, English Soap, &c.
Washington.
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident owners of land in Washington, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1783, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Thursday the 21st day of October next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at my house in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
Q. N. R. D. State, City, War tax l. s. d. d. s. d.
  Abel Foster, 100 0 0 0 5 4 2 4 0   Timothy Wheelock, 75 4 2 3 0   Benjamin Hart, 477 2 1 2 1 2 4 9 17   Charles Barrett, 380 5 2 2 19 10 9 15 3 
JONATHAN BROCKWAY, Constable.
Washington, September 13, 1784.
LOST, between Portsmouth
and Hampton, by a gentleman belonging to Salem, a red Morocco POCKET BOOK, containing a number of valuable PAPERS, which can be of but little value to any but the owner. Whoever has found the same, are desired to send it immediately to Capt. John Weeks, innholder in Greenland, who will give a handsome reward for the same: and they will confer a great obligation on the owner.
Greenland, September 10, 1784.
State of New-Hampshire. ALL persons having accounts open with the Board of War, for this State, are desired to attend at the War-Office in Exeter, for settlement from 27th to 30th September instant. September 9, 1784.
T E A.
JUST IMPORTED, And to be sold by Nathaniel Sparhawk, at his Store adjoining Capt. Turner's, Bohea, Souchong and Hyson tea, by the hundred, dozen, or smaller quantity;
The following Articles may be Bought of
SAMUEL BOWLES,
At his SHOP
A little below the STATE HOUSE; PORTSMOUTH;
  Broad Cloths.  §  Desk Furniture.    Serges. Beafskins.  §  Saddle Furniture.    Shalloons.  §  Door & Chest Locks.    Tammies.  §  HL & table Hinges.    Durants.  §  Thumb & knob    Calamancoes.  §  Latches.    Camblets.  §  Files. Case Knives.    Lastings.  §  Jack & pen Knives.    Corduroys.  §  Best London Pewter.    Fustians.  §  Warming Pans.    Oznabrigs.  §  Flat Irons. Augers.    Buckram.  §  Gimblets.    Sewing Silk.  §  Large & small best    Silk Twist & Mohair.  §  blocktin Quart Pots.    White & colour'd  §  Ditto Tea Pots.    Thread.  §  Large and small    A variety of Twist  §  Sythes & Sickles.    and mettled But-  §  Hour & hall hour    tons.  §  Glasses.    A variety of Calli-  §  Brutes.    coes & Chinizes.  §  A variety of mettled    Coarse & fine Irish  §  Buckles.    Linnens.  §  Ivory Combs:    Check'd ditto.  §  Horn ditto.    Sattin. Persian.  §  Needles & Pins.    Mode. Taffety.  §  Cloves. Cinnamon.    Ribbons. Bindings.  §  Mace. Pepper.    Taste and Gown  §  Figgs. Raisins and    Trimmings.  §  Oatmeal.    Fanns.  §  Malaga Wine.    Women's silk, worst-  §  Loaf & Brown Sugar    ted and leather  §  Rum & Molasses.    Mitts & Gloves.  §  Green Tea.    A variety of wide  §  Bohea dit. per doz.    and narrow black  §  or single pound.    and white Gauze.  §  Coffee. Chocolate.    Gauze Handker-  §  Die Wood.    chiefs.  §  Indigo. Coperas.    Large & small silk  §  Alum. Madder    Handkerchiefs.  §  and Otter.    Stamp and check  §  Men's leather Shoes.    Linnen ditto.  §  Women's and chil-    Tiffany of different  §  drens ditto.    colours.  §  Women's English    Men's & Women's  §  and Lynn Shoes.    worsted Hose.  §  Good Virginia To-    Cotton & thread do.  §  bacco, by the C.    Worsted & cotton  §  Caps.    Caps.  §  Joyner's Tools.    Joyner's Tools.  §  wt. or retail.   With a variety of other Articles, As cheap for CASH as at any Store in Portsmouth.
Just Published in BOSTON,
And to be sold at the Printing Office in PORTSMOUTH, — Number III. & IV. of
THE GENTLEMAN and LADY'S Town and Country MAGAZINE, or REPOSITORY of Instruction and Entertain- ment, for July and August, 1784.
Subscriptions for the above Magazine (which comes out in Monthly Numbers) are received as above.
TO BE SOLD
BY THOMAS SHEAFE, At his Store adjoining the Town Wharf, North end, A large assortment of Nova Scotia Grind-Stones.
ALSO, A neat assortment of English, India, and West-India GOODS.
JUST PUBLISHED, in Boston, And to be sold at the Printing Office, Portsmouth, embellished with three elegant copper plates, and illustrated with near 400 texts of scripture; The PORCUPINE, alias the HEDGE-HOG:
or, FOX turned PREACHER. Written after the manner of Ignatius Donny , Bartholomew Burlesque and Samuel Satire . By L. S. living in Fox Island. "If a Fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall." Nehemiah. "O Israel! thy prophets are like the foxes in the wilderness." Ezekiel.
AARON HILL, Has imported from London, Bristol and Liverpool, An assortment of Piece GOODS, Hard Ware, Glass Ware, and Crockery Ware, Which he is selling at his Store in Paved-street, very cheap, by wholesale and retail, for Cash or Certificates.
William Parker,
TAKES this method of informing the pub- lic, that he carries on the business of clean- ing and repairing, CLOCKS and WATCHES, at his Shop, directly opposite Mr. Bowles's, in State-Street, Portsmouth; where all favors will be gratefully acknowledged.
State of New Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given, that John Holbrook, of Strafford, in this State, hath petitioned the General Court, setting forth that there are three islands in Connecticut river, opposite said town of Strafford, containing in the whole about forty-five acres; that he the petitioner was an early settler in that new country; that he had been taken prisoner by the Indians; that he had endured great diffi- culty in supporting his family in that wilderness to the present time, and had likewise sustained much loss in supplying soldiers during the late war: Wherefore, he prayed that the General Court would grant the aforesaid islands to him, his heirs and assigns. On which peti- tion the General Court ordered that the petitioner be heard on said petition, before said Court on the first Friday of next session. And that in the mean time he cause the substance of his said petition to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person may then appear and shew cause why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest, Concord, June 21, 1784. E. THOMPSON, Sec'y.
State of New Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition was preferred to the General Court by William Dana, of Lebanon, in the county of Grafton, in March last, setting forth that he was one of the first settlers in said Lebanon, that he has suffered greatly by the passing of persons through his land, in going over Connecticut river to Hartford, in the state of Vermont (so called) — that the privilege of a ferry in said river parallel with said Lebanon, has not been granted; but the pro- fits of assisting to the crossing said river against said Lebanon, have been engrossed by those that live not in the state of New-Hampshire, and have no estate therein, and can easily evade any law of said state for the regulation of ferries: — Therefore he prays, that the privilege of keeping a ferry, beginning at the northwest corner of his house-lot in said Lebanon, thence extending across said river in a direct line with the north line of said lot to the western bank of said river, thence south on said bank one mile and a half, thence east across said river, thence north on the eastern bank of said river to the first mentioned bound. Upon which petition, the General Court ordered, that the petitioner be heard before them, on the second Tuesday of their next session under the new Constitution (if they see fit) — and that in the mean time he cause the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hamp- shire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. N. B. The hearing of the aforesaid petition was postponed by a vote of the General Court of the 12th of June 1784, until the second Tuesday of their next session; of which all concerned, may take no- tice and govern themselves accordingly. Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'y.
THE conduct of ABIGAIL the wife of me the subscriber, has been so notoriously infa- mous and licentious, that it is absolutely impos- sible for me ever to cohabit with her again. I am therefore compelled by necessity, though with reluc- tance, anxiety and regret — to forbid any person trusting her, the said Abigail, on my account, as I am absolutely determined never to pay one farthing of her contracting. THOMAS RANKINS.

GODDARD & STORER,
Have for SALE At their STORE in paved street, the following Articles, viz.
Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, Port, Malaga, Frontiniac, Teneriff, Fyall and Claret W I N E S , of the purest qualities. London Porter, by the cask or dozen. Cheshire and Gloucester Cheese. Loaf Sugar, by the hundred or loaf. Excellent Hyson, Hyson Skin, Congo and Bohea Teas, by the large or small quantity. Philadelphia Flour, by the Barrel. Bar Iron, by the ton or smaller quantity. New England Rum, by the Barrel. Ship Bread, by the hundred. Stone Lime, by the hogshead. 20d, 10d, 8d, 6d and 4d, Nails. 8 by 10, 7 by 9 and 6 by 8 Window Glass. Iron and Crockery Ware, Pepper & Allspice, by the dozen or less quantity. Cinnamon and Cloves, by the pound. Mace, Nutmegs, Raisins, Currants, Figs, Prunes, Oatmeal, Almonds, Olives, Capers, Anchovies, French Preserves, Rum, Brandy, French Cordials, Molasses, Coffee, Chocolate, Velvet Corks, Pearl Ash, Turpentine, Pitch, and Rosin. A general assortment of PAINTERS COLORS , Painters Brushes and Tools, Spirits of Turpentine, by the cask or smaller quantity. White Vitirol, Allum, and Cepperas, A few pair of draw'd Legs for Boots.
—A L S O.—
A very general assortment of Drugs & Medicines,
as usual; on the most reasonable terms. N. B. A few Boxes of Lisbon LEMMONS , very Cheap.
Portsmouth, September 11.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Canterbury, who are delinquent in paying their taxes for the year A. D. 1783, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Jeremiah Clough, Esq; innholder in said town on the last Wednesday in October next, as will pay said taxes and incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Division. No. Quant. s. d.    John Demerit 1 149 40 2 3  Daniel Davis 1 2 40 2 3  Ditto 2 146 100 6 0  John Glines 1 9 40 2 3  Elias Critchett 1 10 40 2 3  Thomas Stevenson 2 88 100 16 6  George Chesley 2 110 100 9 0  Henry Tibbetts 2 85 100 12 0  Ditto 3 77 100 12 0  Richard Waldron, jun. 2 153 100 7 6  Timothy Tibbetts 1 46 40 3 6  Ditto 2 143 100 15 0  Samuel Hill 2 2 100 6 0  Job Clement 1 52 40 1 2  John Plaistead 1 54 40 3 6  Ditto 3 43 100 10 6  Shadrack Walton 3 78 100 12 0  Col. Mark Hunking 2 92 100 9 0  Ditto 3 82 60 3 4  Samuel Doe 2 126 100 10 0  Eli Clark 2 148 100 6 0  Joseph Eastis 2 149 100 13 6  Jonathan Woodman 1 122 40 3 0  Micah Emerson 3 125 100 6 0  Benjamin Jones 1 134 40 3 0  Ditto 2 115 100 9 0  Peter Mason 2 111 100 9 0  Benjamin Smith 3 30 100 6 0  John Shepard 1 143 40 2 3  John Ambler 1 146 40 2 3  Joseph Jones 1 157 40 2 3  Ditto 2 50 100 9 0  Henry Tibbetts son to Nath'l. 1 175 40 2 3  Ditto 2 144 100 7 6  John Downing 1 170 40 2 3  Ditto 2 67 100 15 0  John Carter 2 72 100 6 0  Nathaniel Rendle 1 160 40 2 3  John Giles 2 147 100 6 0  Ditto 3 81 100 6 0  Edward Tibbetts 1 158 40 2 9  Frances Matthews 1 152 40 2 3  George Jaffery, Esq; 1 151 40 1 9  Thomas Rynes 1 200 40 2 3  Ditto 2 52 100 6 0  Ditto 3 45 100 12 0  Capt. Thomas Westbrook 2 29 100 4 6  Joseph Perkins 1 188 40 2 9  John Gilman 1 187 40 2 3  Thomas Willes 1 183 40 1 0  Joseph Hicks 1 182 40 1 3  Ditto 2 31 94 8 0  Eli Demerit 1 176 40 1 9  Henry Dearborn's purchase 100 6 0  
Canterbury, Sept. 18, 1784. John Bean, Collector.
THOMAS MARTIN, HAS FOR SALE,
directly opposite the north door of the State House, in Portsmouth,
A small, but pretty general Assortment of European & West-India Goods,
suitable for all seasons, Which he is now selling at the lowest prices for Cash, Flax Seed, Pot and Pearl-Asb, Shipping Furs, State Securities or Certificates, &c.
HE has in his occupation that large and convenient store on Church hill belonging to the Hon. Mark Hunking Wentworth, Esq; where a vessel of almost any common burthen may come under the end thereof, and discharge a cargo of casks, &c. with the convenience of a crane, and without the expence of either wharfage or truckage, or deliver a cargo of salt, corn, coals, &c. from the vessel into the door; together with a small but convenient wharf for receiving lumber and laying it secure from thieves: Any person wanting storage room for a shorter or longer time, may find this convenience on reasonable terms.
He has scales and weights capable of weighing draughts of more than a ton weight, where persons may be accommodated at any time in the day.
Gentlemen disposed to intrust said Martin with commission business of any kind, may depend on punctuality and dispatch.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Barnstead, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1783, that unless they pay them to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday the 28th of September next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Charles Hodgdon, innholder in said town, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges.
   First Division. N. l. s. d.    William Fellows, 50 18  John Gilman, 54 18  John Deme, 56 14  Thomas W. Waldron, 59 18  James Nutter, 72 18  Samuel Thompson, 73 18  John Gilman, 82 9  Thomas Trickey, 75 9  Paul Gerrish, 77 1 7  Richard Jenns, 85 1 7  John Rindge, Esq; 87 18  Hativel Nutter, 92 18  Lemuel Mason, 102 19  Harison Downing, 106 1 2  John Brooks, 112 1  Thomas W. Waldron 119 1  Thomas W. Waldron, 120 1  John Downing, 51 18  Second Division.  Samuel Tibbetts, 51 8  George Walton, 45 7  William Farber, 71 1 10  Thomas W. Waldron, 83 1 10  Paul Gerrish, 94 7  Harrison Downing, 102 3 2  Henry Allord, 108 5  John Thomson, 27 12  Mathews Commons, 1  John Wallingford, 100 1 10    RICHARD SINCLER, Collector. Barnstead, September 6, 1784.
NOTICE is hereby given, that Joshua Lamblin, of Strafford, in this State, hath petitioned the General-Court, setting forth, that there is an island in Connecticut-river, near his dwelling-house, containing about nineteen acres, and that the late Governor gave his promise to charter the same to him; in consequence of which, he had made improvements thereon: Wherefore, he prayed that the said island might be granted him, his heirs and assigns, under such restrictions as the Court think fit. On which petition the General-Court ordered that the petitioner be heard thereon before said Court, on the first Friday of the next session. And that in the mean time, the petitioner cause the substance of said petition and order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette; that any person may then appear and shew cause why the prayer thereof should not be granted. Attest, E. THOMPSON. Sec'y. Concord, June 11, 1784.
Lost a few days ago, a Boy's silver Shoe BUCKLE, between Mr. Dearborn's School and the Market—Whoever finds the same, and will leave it at the Printing Office, shall be Rewarded therefor.
COTTON WOOL, by the bagg,
and good HOLLAND GINN, by the case,
may be had cheap for Cash of JOHN WENDELL, jun. At his STORE on SPRING HILL, PORTSMOUTH.
State of New Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Francestown, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1783, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Tuesday the 19th of October next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of Capt. Oliver Holmes, innholder in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.     Quantity. s. d.    Odiorne right, No. 13 & 14. 50 2 8  Capt. Adam Johnson, 100 5 6  Daniel Bixby, 120 6 3  William Bixby, 50 2 8  Undivided land to Pearce's right, 200 10 6  John Burns, jun. £. 1 15 4  Homans, 50 2 8  Coffin, 200 10 6  Henry Parkinson, No. 9, 100 10 6  Israel Town, 50 2 8  John Wiggins, 105 8 2  Nehemiah Hutchinson, 50 2 8    Benjamin Sleeper, Constable. Francestown, Sept. 6, 1784.
State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners and proprietors of land in the township of Tamworth, that unless they pay their taxes to me the subscriber at my dwelling house in said town, with incidental charges, for the year 1783, so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Mr. Levi Folsom, in said town, on Thursday the 30th day of September, at ten o'clock A. M. as will pay said taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Proprietors Names. R. Qy. State. War. County.   s. d. s. d.    Simon Whitman, No. 3; east 50 1 6 0 3 0 1  Isaac Whitman, No. 6. east 50 1 6 0 3 0 1  Thomas Mudget, No. 9 east 50 1 6 0 3 0 1  George Frost, No. 12. west 100 3 0 6 0 2  Mathew Gannet, No. 6 west 100 3 0 6 0 2  James Quimby, No. 8 east 50 1 6 0 3 0 1  Thomas Phillips, No. 3. west 50 1 6 0 3 0 1  John Webster, 253 7 7 1 1 0 1  Joseph Cockeran, ditto 7 7 1 1 0 3  Enoch Webster, ditto 7 7 1 1 0 3  Joseph Catheran, jr. 7 7 1 1 0 3  John Merrill, 7 7 1 1 0 3  George Abbot, 7 7 1 1 0 3  William Rogers, 7 7 1 1 0 3  John Moore, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Samuel Osgood, 7 7 1 1 0 3  William Catheran, 7 7 1 1 0 3  John Webster, jr. 7 7 1 1 0 3  Jonathan Stickney, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Thomas Stickney, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Isaac Miles, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Joseph Hall, jr. 7 7 1 1 0 3  Samuel Moore, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Daniel Stickney, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Walter Bryant, Esq 7 7 1 1 0 3  John Cockeran, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Samuel Cockeran, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Stephen Holland, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Joseph Emery, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Jonathan Cockeran, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Moses Barnet, 7 7 1 1 0 3  James Wallace, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Abel Chandler, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Isaac Cockeran, 7 7 1 1 0 3  John Davidson, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Hamilton Davidson, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Jonathan Morrison, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Thomas Clough, 7 7 1 1 0 3  James Head, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Peter Coffin, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Robert Fulton, 7 7 1 1 0 3  William Coffin, 7 7 1 1 0 3  R. Barnet, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Jonathan Kimball, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Thomas Wallace, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Robert Rogers, junr. 7 7 1 1 0 3  Moses Coffin, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Samuel Dickey, 7 7 1 1 0 3  John Barnet, junr. 7 7 1 1 0 3  John Webster, Esq; 7 7 1 1 0 3  James Dwyer, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Enoch Coffin, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Israel Gilman, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Samuel Gilman, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Col. Todd, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Lt. Col. Barre, 7 7 1 1 0 3  Jacob Fowles, 7 7 1 1 0 3  
WILLIAM EASTMAN, Collector. TAMWORTH, September 6th, 1784
PRINTED AT PORTSMOUTH.