The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1790-05-12 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful and entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21.
IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
AFTER considering several propositions respecting the rate of interest—Mr. SHERMAN proposed to modify one of the propositions so as to admit one of the following—“That the debts contracted by the several States for the common defence and benefit of the Union, ought to be considered as a part of the domestic debt of the United States: That proper provision ought to be made for the immediate debt of the United States; and that the faith of government ought to be pledged to make provision at the next session, for so much of the debts of the respective States as shall have been subscribed upon any of the terms expressed in the last resolution; provided that subscriptions shall not be received for a greater amount, than the following sums, viz.
[Here the names of the several States were inserted without any sums.]
That the remainder ought to be left to the respective States to provide for, until a final settlement of their accounts with the United States, for which settlement, effectual provision ought now to be made.
Provided that no debts be assumed but such as have been liquidated in specie value, and evidenced by notes or certificates issued by authority of the respective States, before the day of 1790.
And if the creditors of any State shall not subscribe to the amount of the debt of such State to be assumed as aforesaid, such State shall receive interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, on the remainder of said sum, until a final settlement of its accounts with the United States, to be applied to the payment of interest to its non-subscribing creditors, for which, and for the sums that may be assumed, the respective States shall be accountable to the United States.
Mr. SHERMAN being called upon to ascertain in what proportion he meant to fill up the blank, read the following as a statement of the debts owing by the States, and the proportion he wanted to have assumed.
Assumption of the State Debts, not exceeding the sums in the last column.
Due as per Sec'y's report. Sums to be assumed.
   DOLLARS. [Summed.]     New-Hampshire, 300,000 300,000   Massachusetts, 5,226,801 4,000,000   Connecticut, 1,951,173 1,600,000   New-York, 1,167,575 1,000,000   New-Jersey, 788,680 750,000   Pennsylvania, 2,200,000 2,000,000   Delaware, 100,000   Maryland, 800,000 750,000   Virginia, 3,600,743 3,000,000   North-Carolina, 1,600,000   South-Carolina, 5,386,232 4,000,000   Georgia, 200,000   19,300,000  
These resolutions were opposed with as much spirit as the original proposition for the assumption. The Committee rose without coming to a vote on them.
THURSDAY, APRIL 22.
Reports on sundry memorials and petitions from the Secretary at War were read.
In Committee of the whole on the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. SHERMAN's resolutions were again read, and an interesting debate ensued, but no decision took place.
FRIDAY, APRIL 23.
The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury, on the difficulties attending the execution of the Revenue Laws, was read, and committed:
And his report on the memorial of General JAMES WARREN, against complying with the prayer thereof, was read. Mr. PATRIDGE moved, that the sum of 380l. be allowed Gen. W. being for short pay, due him:—Negatived.
ASSUMPTION OF STATE DEBTS.
Mr. AMES said, that previous to taking up the order of the day, he wished to introduce a motion for the consideration of the House; he observed, that it had been asserted in the course of the debates on the assumption of the State debts; that the State of Virginia had advanced for the common defence beyond her proportion; advantage appeared to be taken of such assertions; he thought it necessary that facts should be known; that the committee might act with certainty in conducting this important question: He therefore moved the following in substance, viz.—That the Secretary for the Department of War be directed to lay before the House a statement of the troops, including the militia, and ordnance stores furnished by the respective States for the general defence, during the late war.—This motion was opposed as tending to procrastinate the funding business, and as leading to excite invidious comparisons respecting the relative merits and exertions of the several States.—It was however carried in the affirmative, with this addition proposed by Mr. BLAND, “and that the Commissioners of accounts between the United States and individual States, be directed to furnish an abstract of the claims of the several States and the United States, specifying the principles on which the claims are founded.” On the above motion, the previous question was called for by Mr. LEE, which was lost, and the main question agreed to—28 to 26.
Mr. GERRY then moved that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report to the House a statement of all payments both of indents and other paper, as well as specie, which have been made by the several States to Congress, from the commencement to the end of the late war. This was agreed to.
Mr. MADISON moved that a statement of the unliquidated claims of the several States against the United States should be furnished by the Commissioners—this was also agreed to.
MONDAY, APRIL 26.
The Committee of the whole was discharged from further Proceedings on THE SECRETARY OF WAR's Militia Report . The report was then committed to a select Committee.
Mr. FITZSIMONS moved, That the Committee of the whole should, for the present, be discharged from further proceeding on that part of the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, which relates to the assumption of the State debts. This motion produced a warm, though desultory debate. Messrs. GERRY, SMITH, AMES, VINING, BLAND and SHERMAN, opposed the motion. It was supported by Messrs. MADISON, STONE, JACKSON and PAGE.
Mr. VINING moved the previous question—which being put in the manner following, “shall the main question be now put?”—it was resolved in the affirmative.—Ayes 32—Nocs 19.
The Committee having agreed to certain resolutions, rose and reported the same.
The House took the said report into consideration, and agreed to the same—which report is in the words following.
Resolved, That adequate provision
ought to be made for fulfilling the engagements of the United States, in respect to their foreign debt.
Resolved, That permanent funds ought to be appropriated for the payment of interest on, and the gradual discharge of the domestic debt of the United States.
Resolved, That the arrears of interest including indents issued in payment thereof, ought to be provided for, on the same terms with the principal of the said debt.
Resolved, That it is advisable to endeavour to effect a modification of the domestic debt, with the voluntary consent of the creditors, by a loan, upon terms mutually beneficial to them and to the United States.
Resolved, That for the purpose expressed in the last preceding resolution, subscriptions towards a loan ought to be opened, to the amount of the said domestic debt, upon the terms following.
That for every hundred dollars subscribed, payable in the said debt (as well interest as principal) the subscriber be entitled at his option, either
To have two thirds funded at an annuity or yearly interest of six per cent. redeemable at the pleasure of the government by payment of the principal, and to receive the other third in lands in the Western Territory, at the rate of twenty cents per acre—or
To have the sum funded at an annuity, or yearly interest of four per cent. irredeemable by any payment exceeding six dollars per annum, on account both of principal and interest—and to receive as a compensation for the reduction of interest, fifteen dollars and eighty cents, payable in lands as in the preceding case—or
To have sixty-six dollars and two-thirds of a dollar funded immediately at an annuity of six per cent. irredeemable by any payment exceeding six dollars per annum, on account both of principal and interest—and to have at the end of seven years, thirty-three dollars and one third of a dollar, funded at the like interest and rate of redemption.
Resolved, That the funds which shall be appropriated according to the second of the foregoing Resolutions, be applied in the first place to the payment of interest on the sums subscribed towards the proposed loan—and that if any part of the said domestic debt shall remain unsubscribed, the surplus of the said funds be applied, by a temporary appropriation to the payment of interest on the unsubscribed part, so as not to exceed for the present four per cent. per annum, but this limitation shall not be understood to impair the right of the non-subscribing creditors to the residue of the interest on their respective debts:—And in case the aforesaid surplus should prove insufficient to pay the non-subscribing creditors at the aforesaid rate of four per cent. that the faith of government be pledged to make good such deficiency.
Mr. STONE, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. WHITE, Mr. CLYMER, and Mr. GILMAN, were appointed a committee to prepare and bring in a bill conformable to these Resolutions.
Mr. GERRY proposed a resolution that a committee to consist of a member from each State, and an equal number, for, and against the assumption, be appointed to consider of, and report a plan of accommodation on this subject.
This motion was laid on the table for further consideration.
TUESDAY, APRIL 27.
Mr. GILMAN of the committee of
enrollment, reported that the joint committee had examined the enrolled bill, entitled an act to regulate the militia establishment of the United States. The Speaker signed this act.
ON THE SECRETARY'S REPORT.
Committee of the whole.
Mr. FITZSIMONS observed, that the House having determined the rate of interest on, and the mode of funding the domestic debt of the United States, it remains to devise the ways and means. In order to bring the subject before the committee, he proposed resolutions, containing extracts from the Report, of the duties proposed by the Secretary of the Treasury. These resolutions were read by the Clerk as follows, viz.
Resolved, That from and after the day of next, the duties heretofore laid upon wines, distilled spirits, teas and coffee, shall cease, and that instead of them the following duties be laid, viz.—
Resolved, That upon every gallon of Madeira Wine, of the quality of London particular, there be paid a duty of thirty-five cents.
Upon every gallon of other Madeira Wine, thirty cents.
Upon every gallon of Sherry, twenty-five cents.
Upon every gallon of other Wines, twenty cents.
Upon every gallon of distilled Spirits, more than ten per cent. below proof, according to Dicas's hydrometer, twenty cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits under five, and not more than ten per cent. below proof, according to the same hydrometer, twenty-one cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits of proof, and not more than five per cent. below proof, according to the same hydrometer, twenty-two cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits above proof, but not exceeding twenty per cent. according to the same hydrometer, twenty-five cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits more than twenty, and not more than forty per cent. above proof, according to the same hydrometer, thirty cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits more than forty per cent. above proof, according to the same hydrometer, forty cents.
Upon every pound of Hyson Tea, forty cents.
Upon every pound of other Green Tea, twenty-four cents.
Upon every pound of Souchong and other black Teas, except Bohea, twenty cents.
Upon every pound of Bohea Tea, twelve cents.
Upon every pound of Coffee, five cents.
That upon Spirits distilled within the United States, from Molasses, Sugar, or other foreign materials, there be paid—
Upon every gallon of those Spirits, more than ten per cent. below proof, according to Dicas's hydrometer, eleven cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits under five, and not more than ten per cent. below proof, according to the same hydrometer, twelve cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits of proof, according to the same hydrometer, thirteen cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits above proof, but not exceeding twenty per cent. according to the same hydrometer, fifteen cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits more than twenty, and not more than forty per cent. above proof, according to the same hydrometer, twenty cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits more than forty per cent. above proof,

according to the same hydrometer, thirty cents.
Resolved , That upon Spirits distilled within the United States, in any city, town, or village, from materials of the growth or production of the United States, there be paid—
Upon every gallon of those Spirits more than ten per cent. below proof, according to Ducas's hydrometer, nine cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits under five, and not more than ten per cent. below proof, according to the same hydrometer, ten cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits of proof, and not more than five per cent. below proof, according to the same hydrometer, eleven cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits above proof, but not exceeding twenty per cent. according to the same hydrometer, thirteen cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits more than twenty, and not more than forty per cent. above proof, according to the same hydrometer, thirteen cents.
Upon every gallon of those Spirits more than forty per cent. above proof, according to the same hydrometer, twenty-five cents.
Resolved , That upon all stills, employed in distilling Spirits from materials of the growth or production of the United States, in any other place than a city, town or village, there be paid the yearly sum of sixty cents, for every gallon, English wine measure, of the capacity of each Still, including its head.
These Resolutions were agreed to in Committee, and reported to the House; the House immediately took the same into consideration, and adopted the report with an amendment to the duty on Still proposed by Mr. PARKER in the following words "Or cents per gallon on Spirits distilled from grain—and cents per gallon on Spirits distilled from fruit in such stills."
A Committee was then appointed, consisting of Mr. FITZSIMONS, Mr. HUNTINGTON, Mr. JACKSON, Mr. CONTEE, and Mr. BLOODWORTH to bring in a bill conformable to the said resolution.
AMBASSADORS, &c.
In Committee of the whole, on the bill providing the means of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations.
By this bill it was proposed that 50000 dollars be appropriated for the purposes therein named.
That a Minister Plenipotentiary be allowed the sum of 11250 dollars, and a Charge des Affaires 4500 dollars per annum. The Committee reduced the above sum to the following, viz. 30000 dollars the appropriation—9000 to a Minister Plenipotentiary, and 3000 to Charge des Affaires. The committee then rose, and reported the bill with amendments.
Mr. GILMAN then moved that an addition of seven Members be made to the Committee appointed to bring in a bill providing for the national defence; which was done.
The Committee of the whole was discharged from further proceeding on the Post-Office bill; and the bill with the report of the Post-Master-General were referred to a select Committee, consisting of a Member from each State.
The bill for accepting the cession of the Light House within the bar of the harbour of Charleston it was moved should be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury—which was voted in the affirmative.
FROM THE AMERICAN MERCURY.
REMARKS ON THE INFLUENZA.
T HE Influenza is a new disorder in this country, and very different from a common cold; being attended with putridity or inflammatory symptoms. As the atmosphere is always pure, except when infected with a noxious effluvia from the earth; to find the causes of this disorder, we must enquire
what has been the peculiar state of the surface of the ground since the last summer.
It is a well known fact, that the heat of the last summer exceeded what is usual in our climate. Heat produces no great inconvenience to the human body, while vegetation is in vigour; for it is obvious that vegetables when growing absorb the putrid particles that float in the atmosphere. Hence June is the healthiest month in the year; vegetation being then most rapid. * Indeed there cannot be a great degree of putridity on the surface of the earth at this period. But when the vegetables begin to die, or cease to grow, putrid particles infect the air and produce diseases.
Heat however, without moisture, will not create the putrid miasma to a great degree. To generate putridity in great quantities, heat and moisture must both unite and act upon the vegetable substances on the surface of the earth. These causes were very prevalent in August, September and October of the last year. For several days in September the heat of the weather was extreme, and attended with a moist, hazy, unelastic state of the air, which unstrung the vigour of the body, and rendered perspiration easy and profuse. This weather generated a noxious vapour from the earth; at the same time, by relaxing the human body, rendered it less able to resist its effects.
The atmosphere being thus corrupted, and the human body rendered very susceptible of disease, nothing was wanting to produce it but a sudden change of air to cold, which should close the avenues by which the body had hitherto thrown off the morbid matter. This took place in October; the pores were shut, and the putrid exhalations of the earth, which had been carried off by perspiration, were thrown back upon the intestines. The Influenza then may be denominated an epidemic putrid cold.
It is supposed that this disorder is contagious. This is true to a certain degree. Every disease, attended with symptoms of putridity, is, in a degree, contagious; for the noxious effluvia, which must be multiplied about the diseased person, are easily communicated. But that the influenza was produced by the state of the atmosphere, is evident; for whole towns were seized in the space of a few days. It was indeed progressive, beginning southward and westward, and spreading eastward; which was doubtless occasioned by the earlier state of vegetable putridity at the southward; for it is remarkable that its progress in New-England from south to north was about as rapid as vegetation in the spring.
I do not know exactly the time of its appearance in Philadelphia and New-York; I only know it was sometime before its appearance in New-England. In the county of Fairfield, in Connecticut, bordering on New-York the disorder was general, before it appeared in Hartford, about 70 miles to the north east. It appeared in Hartford about the 12th or 15th of October, on the 19th I set out on a journey to Boston, and the next day felt some symptoms of the disorder. On the 24th, I was confined. At this time, the disorder had not appeared among the inhabitants of Boston; but in the first week in November, it became general in that town.
The late winter has been a remarkable one; the weather having been as variable, as the winter weather in Virginia. Great quantities of snow have fallen; but it has melted away like the snows of April in common seasons. Is it not probable the phenomenon may be ascribed to the extraordinary degree of heat, in the months of August and September last, which warmed the earth to an unusual depth? But whatever may have been the cause + there is little doubt that the rains and mild weather have augmented the mass of putrid matter, upon the surface of the earth. As soon as spring opened the noxious exhalations from the earth produced the same disorder.
In those parts of the country, where the soil is clayey, cold and wet, the disorder continues longer than where the soil is warm and has been sweetened by cultivation. On the range of hills between Connecticut and Hudson's rivers, whole families have been sick for weeks. Whereas on Connecticut river, persons if properly managed are not usually confined with it more than two or three days. But every where, the disorder seems to be attended with more inflammation than it was last autumn. Indeed, in many persons, it runs into a violent pleurisy. I have not yet heard whither this disorder prevails this spring in the middle and southern states; but it appeared on Hudson's river about a fortnight before it did on Connecticut river, which was about the 8th or 10th of April. It is yet very general, and people with great reason wish to breathe a warm, dry, pure air, and to see the earth once more clothed with verdure.
N. W.
P. S. I have given it as my opinion that the degrees of heat in these northern latitudes, the last autumn, far exceeded the usual temperature of the climate. Since the foregoing was written, I have examined the meteorological tables, made by observations in Pennsylvania, for September and October the three last years, and find my opinion established by facts.
Mean temperature of the air by Fahrenheit. For September. For October.
  1787—64° 7 51 1   1788—65 5 54 5   1789—75 63 7 
The heat of these two months, last autumn, will average ten degrees above that of the same months the two preceding years. The reader is left to judge what effects this uncommon degree of heat must have had upon the surface of the earth, the atmosphere, and of course upon the human body.
Hartford, April 20, 1790.
NOTES.
* In the northern states: But in the southern, where vegetation is earlier, May is the healthiest month.
† Some suppose there is a revolution of the atmosphere regularly producing hard or mild winters in certain periods of time. Such persons should assign the cause of this revolution. Is it in the moon or the planets? It appears to me we shall find most of the alterations in our climate, proceed from the clearing of the country.
L O N D O N, February 18.
Another moniack was yesterday taken into custody at the Queen's House, where he went, and in a frantic manner demanded the Crown and Sceptre. He was conveyed to Sir Sampson Wright's; and was last night confined in a Watch-House.—His name appears to be Edward Derick.
A Correspondent from Brussels informs us that "the Congress, to calm the people, circulated, on the 11th inst. the copy of a letter from their Agent at the Hague, M. Vanleempool assuring them, that the three United Powers of England, Prussia and Holland, declared the independence of this country:—but, upon the above extract being published, it only appears, that the Three Powers declare, they will not attempt to change the Constitution or suffer others to change it.—The town swarms with Prussians—The French have likewise a strong party, and an agent publicly here.—They are preparing a large army to strengthen the frontiers, the Generals of which are to be Messrs. de Rochambeau, de Bouille, and de la Fayette.—In short, a continental war seems inevitable."
MARCH 10.
Extract of a letter from Naples, Dec. 29. "A very extraordinary circumstance happened a few days ago. For some time past the road between Capo di Monte and Minao, a few miles distance from this capital, had been infested by a robber, who had always found means to elude all pursuit. A merchant who had been well acquainted with him, having business at Minao, set off for that place early in the morning, taking with
him in his chaise his Corsican dog, which he covered with his great coat to keep him from the cold. At a narrow part of the road he was stopped by the robber. The merchant at first reminding him of their old acquaintance, hoped to persuade him to be satisfied with a present, but he answered that he knew nobody, and that if the merchant wished to save his life, he must give every thing valuable he had about him. The merchant pretending to comply, waked his dog, which was sleeping between his feet, and set him on. The intrepid animal seized him by the throat, threw him on the ground, and found means to baffle the attempts he made with his pistols and dagger to rid himself of his assailant. In the mean time the merchant drove off at full speed, and stopped at the first inn. Shortly after, his dog scratched and barked at the door, and upon admission leaped about his master with the greatest signs of joy, although the blood was streaming from the several wounds he had received. When the day broke, the robber was found dead on the road."
N E W - H A V E N, May 5.
A correspondent observes, since Congress have given their Servants the pay of Gentlemen, they find it necessary to give them an education suitable to their pay, and therefore have determined to collect a library. We may expect in future not only learned Clerks, but learned Door-keepers, and learned Sweepers.
P R O V I D E N C E, April 29.
The following Anecdote is recommended to the attention of those members of Congress who are in favour of funding the whole debt of the U. S. and assuming the State debts.—A Clergyman in the State of Connecticut, whose people had not been very punctual in paying him his salary, in one of his public discourses, after recanting upon the pernicious consequences to society of people not fulfilling their contracts, concluded as follows: "All the inference I shall draw from what has been said is—that it is a trick of the Devil, and a devilish trick, for any man, or body of men, to promise more than they know they can perform."
B O S T O N, May 8.
O! blust COLUMBIA! every tribute raise; Erect the sculptur'd Marble to his praise— The youth at equal praise may boldly aim, And catch at FRANKLIN's tomb worth's ballow'd fame.
FROM PHILADELPHIA, April 27.
YOU will have heard of the death of our venerable Friend. I send you such particulars, as I have heard of his will, which I think are authentic, but do not vouch for. Some lots, in Philadelphia, he has left to Mr. BACHE*, for himself, in a handsome, affectionate manner. His library chiefly to TEMPLE FRANKLIN†, with his manuscripts and the copy-right to his Life—the Farm in Jersey, value 3000l. a tract of land, in Georgia, next to General WAYNE's, 3000 acres, valuable—and from 500l. to 600l. sterling of monies at Paris. To Mr. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BACHE†, his Printing-Materials, &c. valued at 2000l. To his sons, 500l. to 600l. of the same monies, and some land in Nova-Scotia, because in the jurisdiction of the country he chose to live under.
To the city of Philadelphia, 1000l. sterling, at interest: The income to promote a Society of Arts and Manufactures, for 15 years, then to be applied to the conveyance of water to the city, which he conceives will then want it from its increased size.
To the town of Boston, 1000l.—Particulars you will know. [The Editor has endeavoured to procure these particulars—and will feel greatly obligated to any gentleman who will be so good as to furnish him with them.]
To President WASHINGTON, a Cane, with the Figure of LIBERTY, merely to pay him a very handsome compliment, of leaving LIBERTY in charge to him.

Mr. and Mrs. BACHE, the residuary Legatees, to have the income for life, of the remainder of his fortune, to be divided equally amongst their children at their death.
To Judge HOPKINSON, his Philosophical Apparatus, &c.
His Life to 1757, he has sent to Mr. V.—He has gone no further—though he has left many scattered materials. It being observed to a relation of the Doctor that it was a great loss to the world, he observed not so great, as that of the former period would have been. That contains his thoughts from which mankind may draw advantage—The latter his actions which the world knows and others may record.
He preserved his intellects, clear and intelligent as ever, until a few hours of his death. He a few days before his death, having his maps before him, dictated a letter to Mr. JEFFERSON, upon the boundaries of the United States, which I understand is as perfect as anything he ever wrote.
He has long lived retired, and as it appeared, forgotten by the world, because, from his situation, incapable of being noticed by it—his death removed this barrier—and it is astonishing how the whole city was moved—His funeral was as crowded as at the entry of Gen. WASHINGTON; all seemed as if they had lost a parent or a friend, and such indeed he was to more than the world knew. The different institutions, which conceived themselves benefited by him, without previous concert, appeared to honor his remains. It appeared that almost every institution was represented and held him as Founder or Benefactor. They cast lots for places—The Philosophical Society got the first—The University, I believe, the next—The Printers 3d—the two former yielded to the latter, as he had been a Printer. The Philosophical Society met, and have appointed Mr. RITTENHOUSE, and Dr. SMITH, to form an eulogium on his memory. The State officers, &c. go in mourning. We were jealous lest strangers should be the first to honor a character to which we were so much indebted—Such honors reflect as much light upon those who bestow, as those who are thus noticed with esteem and veneration. His general character is too well known to need anything to be said—He was a practical Philosopher, whose doctrines, theories, and practice, all had one ultimate grand view—making mankind better, happier, and more independent. Every day was marked with some useful project, and the perdidi Diem , I believe, could not have been repeated by him at any period of his long life—His life was more governed by reason, than that of any person we have heard of—and he was an example to others of what he wished them to be. His fortune was the effect of Industry and Savings ; not of Avarice or Desire of Wealth , but from a strong principle of practical economy, as the necessary part of a good citizen, and a necessary principle to make a State thrive—I remember a circumstance happening one evening, when I was at his house—a fresh taper was brought wrapped in paper, a child attempted to throw the paper in the fire, the Doctor saved it, made her cut it into strips, and put it on the mantle-piece, observing that it would always be ready to light the taper without wasting useful paper, which she had often done, and made a lesson of economy the child will never forget, nor shall I. It was his happy talent to draw instruction from every thing. He died as he lived, doing good. Beloved whilst alive, he will be canonized now dead, in the hearts of those who cherish the memory of the benefactors to mankind. Some men leave fortunes to pious uses, as a species of compensation for their uncharitableness whilst living. Few, like Dr. FRANKLIN make usefulness, and promoting public felicity the great object of their lives—Numbers, have, as public men, endeavoured to promote public good; few, like the Doctor have, as it were, entered into the family, and by perfecting the parts, operated the good of the whole.
His sentiments were honored whilst living, now he is dead, they will become more honored—more sought after, and I hope be more generally adopted. He was buried near his wife, in Christ Church burying-ground, by his desire. Mr. HILL, Mr. DUFFIELD, Judge JAY, and Judge HOPKINSON, are his Executors.
* The Gentleman who married the Doctor's daughter.
† His Grandson and Secretary.
‡ Another Grandson.
§ The Governor of New-Jersey, previous to the late war.
May 10. In the year past eleven thousand bushels of Barley were imported into Philadelphia from the State of Rhode-Island. As, in the event of their rejecting the federal Constitution, it is probable the foreign duties and tonnage, and some other restrictions, may render it impossible for Rhode-Island to send their Barley of the ensuing crop (or any other article) it seems advisable for our farmers to put in Summer Barley , to supply the want of the Rhode-Island grain, fourteen breweries, that can work to good profit in this city, will require a greater quantity of Barley.
SHIP-NEWS.
Thursday last sailed ship Boston-Packet , Edward Davis, for London.
Friday arrived ship Favourite , Capt. Reed, in 22 days from Liverpool.
Saturday, the schooner Columbia , Crocker, from Liverpool, 43 days. In lat. 42, 48, spoke a brig from Philadelphia, bound to Havre-de-Grace, all well.
The brig Boston and Liverpool Packet , was put up at Liverpool, for Boston the 18th March.
Yesterday arrived, ship Commerce Capt. Doble, from Liverpool, but last from Scotland, 51 days out. May 1. spoke the brig Polly , Capt. Wishart, for Barbadoes, two days out, all well.
Ship Thomas , of this port arrived at Milford, February 25.
There arrived at New York the 26th ult. 5 ships, 2 brigs, 1 sloop and 1 schooner, in all, 9 sail, and principally from Europe.
SALE M, May 4.
We hear that several coasting and fishing vessels were driven ashore, and the hands perished, in the violent storm last Tuesday night, but can learn no particulars. So heavy a gale of wind has not been experienced here for a number of years.
PORTSMOUTH, May 12. Extract of a letter from Savannah, March 17.
M c Gillivray, there is reason to fear, is still meditating mischiefs of some kind or another. Want of ability to give us trouble does not constitute any part of this man's character. He is not only well informed, but is bold and daring, deliberate in laying plans and determined in the execution of them. This wild man (the Orson of Georgia) has been educated in Europe, and is acquainted with the ease and elegancies of life, but seems to prefer living in the Indian manner. With these savages he will get drunk, and dance every night sometimes for a week together. By the latest accounts of him, he is not in want of any supplies from the sea coast. St. Augustine has the name of being the medium thro' which he obtains guns, powder, shot, blankets, &c. but it is thought another capital, farther north, may come for a good share of the trade, I should have mentioned to you, that this supposed Indian (M c Gillivray) is the
offspring of a Scotch father, and Indian mother.
The people of France now enjoy as great a constitutional freedom as those of any nation on earth: every right of citizenship is extended not only to non-catholic Christians, but even to the Jews.
We learn from Savannah, that the Grand Lodge of the State of Georgia, at their quarterly communication of the 6th of March last, appointed the Right Worshipful Brothers Jackson & Stevens , and the Worshipful Brother Edward Lloyd , a committee to communicate with the different Grand Lodges on the Continent, and to assent to a Masonic Convention, for the purpose of establishing a SUPREME GRAND LODGE OF THE UNITED STATES.
DIED]—In France, Admiral GUICHEN .—In England, ANN YOUNG ; an ancient and eminent preacher among the Quakers.—In this town, Mrs. CATHARINE STAVERS , aged 69, consort of Mr. John Stavers .
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE ENTERED FROM Sloop Jane Ann , Reid, Barbadoes. Snow Salter , Sands, Maryland. Brig Lucretia , M c Clintock, St. Croix.
CLEARED FOR Brig Polly , Smith, West-Indies. Schooner Industry , Trefethen, ditto. Schooner Dove , Tredick, Martinico. Schooner Polly , Wiggin, St. Peters.
STRAYED away yesterday from the subscriber, a black and white MILK's cow, branded H. Y. on both horns. Whoever will take up said Cow and return her to the owner, shall be rewarded for their trouble.
HOPLY YEATON.
Portsmouth, May 12, 1790.
State of New-Hampshire.
To the Hon. JOSIAH BARTLETT , Esq. one of the Justices to keep the Peace, in and throughout the State.
WE the subscribers, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Unity, in the county of Cheshire, in said State, desire you to call a meeting of the Proprietors, to be held at the house of Solomon Wheeler, Esq. innholder in Kingston, on Tuesday the 18th day of May next, at one o'clock in the forenoon, for the purposes following, viz.
1st. To choose a Moderator. 2d. To choose a Proprietors Clerk, and all other officers necessary for said proprietors or owners. 3d. To choose a Committee to do and transact any business that may be given them, which may be to the proprietors or owners benefit. 4th. To agree upon and vote some method for calling proprietors or owners meetings, and where to be held for the future.
DAVID WEED, CHARLES HUNTOON, SAMUEL HUNTOON, JOHN CALEF, JOHN HUNTOON, ELIJAH WEED, ABNER CHASE, AMOS CHASE, BENJAMIN CLOU, EBENEZER STEVENS, NATH l BACHELER, CALEB WEBSTER, JOSEPH BEAN,
Kingston, March 13, 1790.
State of New-Hampshire.
PURSUANT to the above request, the proprietors of said Unity are notified to meet at the time and place for the purposes therein mentioned.
JOSIAH BARTLETT.
Kingston, March 13, 1790.
On Thursday Evening
At the Assembly-Room, Mr. MPHERSON will deliver the most pleasing parts of the celebrated Lecture on Heads, &c. Doors to be open at 7 o'clock.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General-Court by the selectmen of Bath, representing that said town hath been twice granted and that the land is chiefly laid out into lots, but the lots are not appropriated amongst either of the Grantees and the selectmen know not to what right either the settled or unsettled lots belong, and therefore could not assess a tax either upon the proprietors or owners of the lots as the law directs,—Whereupon the General-Court in 1786 passed a Resolve directing that the unimproved lands should be taxed by the number and range of the lots, and that all outstanding taxes should be taxed in one bill, distinguishing each years tax by itself—Upon which the selectmen committed a tax bill to the constable, with a warrant for collecting the same, a copy of which was sent to the collector of non-resident taxes and published in form, said taxes not being paid, the constable proceeded to advertize the lots of the delinquents for sale—Whereupon Enoch Bartlett of Haverhill in the Massachusetts in behalf of himself and other proprietors of said Bath, petitioned the General-Court, praying that the aforesaid Resolve might be disannulled, on which petition the General-Court ordered that "all sales of non-residents land in Bath be stayed until the decision of the General-Court," which decision hath not yet been had, and said order hath prevented said constable from proceeding any farther in collecting said tax, notwithstanding which extents have been issued against said town diverse times.—Wherefore they pray that some way may be devised for their redress, so that the remainder of said taxes may be collected by authority of law.
They further represent that toward the latter part of the year 1787, the constable of Bath published the sale of the delinquents lands in the Freeman's Oracle instead of the Gazette—That by the sales of land under that advertisement, a considerable part of the taxes were collected and paid into the Treasury, and therefore, they pray that the sale of such lands may be established as legal and valid.
Upon which petition the General-Court ordered that the petitioners may be heard thereon before them, on the second Tuesday of their next session; and that in the mean time they cause the substance of said petition and order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively prior to the sitting of said Court, in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause, if any they have why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, J. PEARSON, Secretary. Secretary's Office, Feb. 15, 1790.
PRESTON.
State of New-Hampshire, Stratford.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of the township of Preston in the county of Grafton in said State, that at a legal meeting of the proprietors of said township held at said Stratford.—A tax of four pounds ten shillings L. M. was granted on each proprietors right in said township, on the 23d day of October 1788, and committed to me the subscriber to collect, said tax was granted for the purpose of paying the charges of allotting said township, and making a road through the same, and paying former bills of expences, and unless said tax is paid to me subscriber at said Stratford, by the 1st of June next, the land will be dealt with as the law directs, JOSEPH HOLBROOK, jr. Collector Stratford, March 2, 1790.

Parnassian SPRING.
The DISCOVERY.
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A SONG.
FIRST when love obtains possession, Of a tender female's heart : Loath to make the soft confession, Close she hugs the pleasing smart ; While the fragrant passion's flowing, Rapid through each swelling vein ; All her sweet confusion shewing, Painful pleasure, pleasing pain ! Still she labours to conceal it, With her utmost skill and art ; Each vain scheme doth more reveal it, More betray the wounded heart ; Watch the bosom's palpitation, Mark the actions of her eyes, Sighs and glances own the passion, Which the tutor'd tongue denies.
DETECTION.
State of New-Hampshire.
Cheshire, ss.
APPLICATION having been made to me the subscriber, by more than one sixteenth part of the proprietors of the township of Preston in the county of Grafton in said state, to warn the proprietors of said township to meet at the dwelling-house of Mr. Jabez Baldwin in Stratford, in said county, on Monday the 7th day of June next, at one o'clock, P. M. then and there to act on the following articles, viz.
 1st. To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting.  2d. To choose a Proprietors Clerk.  3d. To see if the Proprietors will ratify and confirm all former votes or transactions already done or voted, respecting said township, in or out of this State.  4th. To see and agree what encouragement the Proprietors will give to the inhabitants already settled in said township, and likewise to those who shall settle immediately in said township.  5th. To see if the Proprietors will release a part of the present committee, and appoint others in their room.  6th. To see if the proprietors will agree to raise a sum of money to build mills, and to pay other necessary charges, such as finishing the allotment of said township, and likewise mending the road.  7th. To see if the Proprietors will appoint an Agent, to represent said township, if need be.  8th. To act upon any other business that may be thought proper, when met for the benefit of the Proprietors. 
THIS is therefore to notify and warn all the Proprietors of said township, to meet at time and place above mentioned, to act on the above-mentioned articles.
THOMAS BAKER, Justice Peace. Keene, April 20, 1790.
TO BE SOLD
A LOT of land with a valuable Water privilege pleasantly situated near Pickering's mills, at the south end of the town, terms of payment will be made easy to the purchaser, for further particulars apply to the printer hereof.
Portsmouth, May 6, 1790.
THE commissioners for receiving and examining the claims on the estate of Jonathan Moulton late of Hampton Esq. deceased, will meet at the house of Benjamin Leavitt innholder in North-Hampton on the last Thursday and Friday of this and the following month for that purpose,—The two last times.
May 7, 1790.
C O R N I S H. — State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Cornish, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788 and 1789, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the third day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling-house, in said town, at nine o'clock, A. M. on said day.
Certifi's Ind's
   D. N. R. Q'ty. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Thomas March — — 2 9 3 100 4 7 0 0 4 2   Ebenezer Cate — — 0 3 5 100 3 1 0 0 3 0   Gen. Jonathan Chase — — 0 16 6 100 3 4 2 0 6 0   Walter Bryant — — 0 16 7 0 4 1 3 0 2 2   William Blazo — — 0 17 7 0 4 1 3 0 2 2   0 19 7 0 4 1 3 0 2 2   Gen. Jonathan Chase — — 0 5 7 0 8 3 2 0 7 2   Widow Clark — — 0 3 2 0 14 7 0 1 2 0   George March — — 0 16 4 0 8 0 0 0 7 0   Simeon Dearborn — — 0 17 4 0 8 0 0 0 1 0   Stephen March — — 0 2 5 0 8 0 0 0 7 0   Noah Emery — — 0 12 6 0 2 5 0 0 4 0   Benjamin Philbrook — — 0 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 9 3   Thomas Sherburne — — 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 9 0  
1786.
Certifi's County. Specie.
   D. No. R. Q'ty. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Benjamin Philbrook — — 1 5 4 100 0 6 2 0 5 0 1 5 0   John Dudley — — 2 4 1 0 0 5 0 0 3 3 1 1 0   John Weeks — — 0 17 3 0 0 9 2 0 5 2 1 8 2   William Temple — — 0 7 4 0 0 6 2 0 5 0 1 5 0   George March — — 0 16 4 0 0 6 2 0 5 0 1 5 0   William Cate — — 0 13 6 0 0 4 1 0 6 1 0 7 0   Thomas March — — 0 9 3 0 0 9 2 0 7 2 1 8 0  
1787.
Certificate. C'ty. Specie. Ind.
   D. N. R. Q'ty. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Thomas March — — 1 9 3 100 0 10 0 7 2 2 3 1 8   Ditto — — 2 9 3 0 1 0 0 9 0 2 8 2 0   Ditto — — 0 16 3 0 0 11 0 7 2 2 3 1 10   Jonathan Marston — — 0 6 4 0 0 8 0 6 0 1 10 1 4   George March — — 0 16 4 0 0 2 0 6 0 1 10 1 4   Noah Emery — — 0 12 5 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 1 0 5   Joseph Jackson — — 0 15 5 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 6 0 5>   William Blazo — — 0 17 7 0 0 3 0 2 2 0 8 0 6  
1788.
Certifi. C'ty. Specie. Ind.
   D. N. R. Q'ty. £. s. d. d. s. d. d. s. d.     Thomas March — — 1 9 3 100 0 3 6 4 1 3 1 8   Benjamin Philbrook — — 0 5 4 100 0 18 0 3 1 0 1 4   Thomas March — — 2 9 3 100 1 7 0 5 1 6 2 0   George March — — 0 16 4 0 0 18 0 3 1 0 1 4   William Blazo — — 0 17 7 0 0 6 9 1 0 6 0 5  
1789.
   D. N. R. Q'ty. £. s. d. d. s. d. d. s. d.     George March — — 2 16 4 100 — — 0 9 —   William Blazo — — 0 17 7 — — 0 3 —   Benjamin Philbrook — — 1 5 4 — — 0 3 —   Bracket Johnson — — 0 8 4 — — 0 9 —   William M'Clary — — 2 5 2 — — 0 9 —  
JOHN MORSS, Collector. — Cornish, May 7, 1790.
C A N D I A. — State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Candia, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the 17th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Col. John Carr, innholder in said town, at two o'clock, P. M. on said day.
Silver. Indents. Cert.
   No. Q. D. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Edward Sanborn — — 106 52 3 0 8 3 0 5 1 2 2   John Calf — — 109 60 0 0 8 1 0 4 3 2 1   Clement Hughs — — 110 65 0 0 8 3 0 5 1 2 2   Jacob Basford — — 118 80 0 0 11 0 0 6 1 3 0   John Prescott — — 122 40 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 2   Thomas Packer's Gore — — 0 60 0 3 7 3 1 2 3 7 1   Edward Sanborn — — 28 36 2 0 11 0 0 6 1 3 1   James Perkins — — 88 35 4 0 4 2 0 2 2 1 1   Richard Clefford — — 93 36 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 2  
THOMAS COLCORD, Collector. — Candia, April 24, 1790.
Private SCHOOL for MISSES.
BY the desire of a number of gentlemen, the subscriber proposes to open a School next Monday, at the North-School-House, in this town, for the purpose of teaching Misses Writing, Arithmetic, &c. —The hours of attendance from six till seven o'clock in the morning, six mornings in the week, and one hour immediately after the dismissal of the boys in the afternoon,—Thursdays and Saturdays excepted, the price seven shillings per quarter.
JONATHAN C. HILL.
Portsmouth, May 4, 1790.
THIS is to give notice to all those that are indebted to the subscriber, either by Note, Book or otherwise, to call and settle the same with him immediately, or they may expect to be called on in another manner without further notice.
JONATHAN DOWNING.
Newington, April 28, 1790.
PIERMONT.
THE non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Piermont, in the County of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, are hereby notified that a tax is committed to me the subscriber to collect, and appropriate to the repairing the main road leading from Warren through said Piermont to Haverhill, agreeable to an act of the General-Court passed at their last sessions, granting leave to the said non-resident owners of land in said Piermont to work out their taxes, allowing to each able bodied man three shillings for each day's labor any time before the first day of September next ; all those who shall neglect will have their land advertised for sale agreeable to law.
WILLIAM TARLTON, Surveyor. Piermont, April 26, 1790.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of Capt. BENJAMIN HOLMES, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are requested to exhibit their accounts well vouched to Benjamin Holmes, administrator on said estate.
CROYDON.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Croydon, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 27th day of May next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Mr. Abijah Hall, in said town, at ten o'clock A. M. on said day.
silver. ind. cert.
   No. D. Q'ty s. d. s. d. d. q. s. d. d.     E. Sherman 46 0 60 0 5 0 3 1 2   Meadow 13 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 0   J. Holland 18 1 100 1 2 0 9 4 2   17 2 100 0 9 0 6 3 0   76 0 60 0 5 0 4 1 2   Meadow 11 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 0   Tho's Denny 40 1 100 1 6 1 0 6 0   E. Sherman, jr. } Timber 1 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 0   J. Weight 59 2 100 1 6 1 0 6 0   J. Aldrick 47 0 60 1 2 1 0 2 2   Benj. Wood 78 1 100 1 2 0 7 3 2   16 0 60 0 3 0 2 2 2   Bishop 12 1 100 1 1 0 9 5 0   E. Rawson 11 2 100 0 10 0 7 4 0   Dan. Putnam 54 2 100 0 10 0 7 4 0   11 0 60 0 1 0 1 1 0   26 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 0   J. Downing 18 0 50 0 11 0 7 4 1   48 2 100 0 9 0 6 3 0   Rev. Mr. Parsons } Parsons 8 0 50 0 10 0 7 3 2   34 2 100 0 11 0 7 4 0   L. Druary 79 1 100 1 1 0 9 5 0   5 2 100 0 10 0 7 4 0   J. Miriam 27 1 100 0 10 0 7 4 0   6 2 100 0 7 0 5 3 0   2 0 60 0 5 0 3 2 2   Stephen Chase 1 2 100 1 6 1 0 6 0   8 0 60 0 5 0 3 2 2   Wid. M. How 20 2 100 1 6 1 0 6 0   E. Hall, jr. 49 0 60 0 4 0 3 2 2   Daniel Reed 58 0 60 0 4 0 3 2 2   Wm. Weight 33 1 100 1 6 1 0 6 0  
BENJAMIN BARTON, Collector. Croydon, April 22, 1790.
CROYDON.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Croydon, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 27th day of May next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Mr. Abijah Hall, in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.