The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1771-06-14 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE A N D H I S T O R I C A L
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday June 14, 1771.
T H E
Vol. XV.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NO. 765 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
Messieurs Fowles, Please to insert the following. Extract from an historical Essay on the English Constitution, or an impartial Enquiry into the elective Right of the People, from the first Establishment of the Saxons in this Kingdom; wherein the Rights of Parliament to tax our most distant Provinces is explained and justified upon such constitutional Principles, as will afford an equal Security to the Colonists as to their Brethren at Home.
“SO long as our Provinces were in their infancy, it was acting the part of a tender parent to indulge them, by relieving them from all national expence; since which we have continued our tenderness to a criminal excess, both in time and degree. But now that they are become able we call upon them to do their duty in a national capacity; by contributing their share to the expence of the state, with the rest of their brethren at home.
The power of providing for this national expence is the point of contest between Great-Britain and her Colonies. Amongst the resolves of the Representatives of the Massachusetts-Bay, unanimously passed in a full house, on July the 8th 1769 we have their sense upon this matter. And though the rest of our colonies, in America, may not have expressed themselves so clearly, yet their conduct fully manifests the same opinion.
I shall give one of their resolves as we have it in the public papers: Resolved, as the opinion of this house, that the sole right of imposing taxes on the inhabitants of this his majesty's colony, of Massachusetts-Bay, is now, and ever hath been legally, and constitutionally vested in the house of representatives, lawfully convened, according to the ancient and established practice; with the consent of the council and of his Majesty the King of Great-Britain, or his Governor for the time being.
I could have wished that the gentlemen of the house of representatives in the Massachusetts-Bay had been more explicit with respect to the ground upon which they found their opinion, for it is no uncommon thing to find bodies of men resolving what they have no right to resolve.—They say the sole right of taxing the people of their province is vested in them by law and the constitution. I should be glad to know by what law, or upon what principle of the constitution they find that right vested in them. If they had confined their right of taxing the people of their province, to pay the necessary provincial expences of the internal police of their province, there could have been no objection.
But if they mean to say, that they have the sole right of naming the sum of money, and taxing the people of their province to pay that sum which they ought to contribute towards the necessary expence incurred for the defence and protection and government of the whole community, of which they are only a part; I will take upon me to answer, that their opinion is neither lawfull, constitutional, just, nor reasonable. If they have got an act of parliament by which they are vested with such a power let them show it; and then we shall be all satisfied that the gentlemen of the Massachusetts-Bay are exempt by that law from the national rule of taxation; and that they are permitted to live without paying any taxes at all to-
wards the national expence; or only just as much as they shall please to afford out of their own bounty.
There is no principle in our constitution, neither was it the ancient practice (I do not mean the ancient practice of the Massachusetts-Bay,) I mean the ancient practice of England for thirteen hundred years past, that any part of the community had a right to tax themselves to defray the national expence of government. Let them take it at any point of time they please, even as far back as the saxon period before the conquest, when the constitution was in its perfection; when every shire was a distinct province as much as they are now; and a compleat government of itself, so far as to provide for the civil & military government of the shire, which they did in their shire gemots or shire assemblies among themselves.
But when any national expence became necessary for the good of the whole, it was absolutely necessary that a power should be lodged somewhere to tax the whole, and not to suffer every shire to tax itself; and they very wisely vested that power in the hands of a select number of men who were elected for that purpose; and who were to decide upon that point by a majority of voices, which bound the whole community at once; and this put an end to all contest about the matter. Whereas, on the contrary, had the shire of York, for instance, come to the same resolution THEN as the province of the Massachusetts-Bay hath now, it would have been a direct violation of the constitution, and an attempt to dissolve the community as far as in them lay; and had they succeeded, must have brought on the destruction of their old mode of government which we call the constitutional law of the land.
However, not to go so far backward as the saxon period we have an example in the city of London, which is a town and county of itself, and whose government is established upon the old constitutional principle; where the mayor, alderman and representative body of men have a power of taxing the inhabitants to defray the expence of both the civil and military government of the city; yet, notwithstanding this, they are taxed in common with the rest of the people for the national expence of the state.
Our constitution hath divided the country and people into parts; & so far as concerns the internal police of the country they are independent of one another. But the same constitution hath united all these parts into one whole; and made them all obedient to the acts and laws of one legislative authority. There cannot be a greater absurdity supposed in government, than to admit two legislative authorities in one state independent of each other. But upon this North-American principle we shall not only have two, but we may have fifty-two. For, according to them, in every province we are now, or may hereafter become possessed of; where we provide for the internal police of the country, upon the English constitutional principles; there we are to establish a legislative authority, independent of the legislative authority of Great-Britain.—Such a principle as this, can in its own nature, produce nothing but disorder and strife; is incompatible with the peace of all society, and every principle of our constitution, and not to be admitted with-
out their destruction.
The predominant principle in our constitution in this respect, is to unite many parts into one whole; but this reverses our constitutional principle, and divides one whole into many parts.
Our happy constitution cements and unites the whole together by an equality of rights, and unequality of expence; which together produce strength, peace, harmony and order.
Let us now see how the people in our distant provinces are situated, with respect to the exercise of their constitutional rights of election for members to serve in parliament. And as this seems to be the ground on which they build their main strength, and from whence they draw all their arguments, I will endeavour to give it a particular attention, and describe how the constitution operates with regard to them.
Let it be remembered, that the government of England is founded upon the common rights of mankind; where the elective power of the people forms the most essential parts of the legislative authority. And let us also remember that the king is in the constant exercise of his executive power, which is creative of wants which himself cannot supply and, therefore, he must always have his parliament within call, that he may procure their advice & assistance whenever they are wanted. In the king is placed the seat of all intelligence and information from all quarters of the world, where the British empire is concerned; by which he is enabled to know what dangers and difficulties obstruct the welfare and happiness of his people in general. Therefore he is the only person, that can be able to inform his parliament of the truth, and what means are to be taken to remove these obstructions; and to estimate the expence that will attend the same.
Were it otherwise, no king of England would be able to extend his care, or to execute any plans he may have formed for the mutual benefit of his people. He could not fit out fleets and armies at home for the protection of his distant provinces, without there were a power at home which he could depend upon, that is both able and willing to support him in all his just measures, and provide for the necessary expence at all events. This of itself is sufficient to shew the necessity of confining the formation of the legislative authority within the immediate call of the king. And hence it is evident, that the formation of the legislative authority, in a state that is founded upon a delegated power like that of England, must be in the hands of the people, where the seat of government is placed.
At the restoration of the constitution, in the reign of Henry the Third, under the sanction of our great charter, the power of election was vested in the inhabitants of certain cities, boroughs, towns, ports, and the freeholders of the respective shires, or those interested in the land; and no men, that did not fall under some one of those denominations had any power of election vested in him. From whence it evidently appears that no Englishman, barely considered as such, hath any power of election, for a representative to serve in parliament.
Upon this principle it is, that the people of our new great towns, such as Birmingham, Manchester, and many others, have no pow-

er of election vested in them ; and consequently have no representatives in Parliament of their own election at all. And therefore the people in our distant provinces are precisely and literally in the same situation as the people in these great towns, and all the villages, and open country, which contain thousands and ten thousands of the people in Great-Britain who have no power of election ; and consequently have no representation in parliament, any more than the Americans. Yet all this multitude of people who have no power of election, would receive no damage from not being electors, provided there was a competent number of electors in every place of election, so as to secure a constitutionally free and independent house of commons. As long as this is the case, it is of no consequence who elects them ; for every man that is not an elector may receive the full benefit of our constitutional mode of government as an elector. Yet every Englishman, as such, whether he be born on this, or that side of the Atlantic, hath a right to take up his power of election whenever he pleaseth to connect himself with some one of those towns, or become a freeholder ; so as to satisfy the customary mode by which every other man obtains the power of election.
But if this elective power were constitutionally so fixed to the person of an Englishman, that it must travel with him into any part of the world wherever he should think proper to settle ; and that he should have there the same constitutional right as he had in England to elect representatives to serve in the parliament of Great-Britain, which is the point contended for ; in that case we should be obliged to collect our legislative authority from the four quarters of the world, whenever Great-Britain shall think proper to establish colonies in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.
It is the determined Law of election, that every man who is vested with the power of election, shall exercise that power in person upon the spot from whence he derives that power. For if I be an house-keeper in the city of Westminster, I am an elector for the city of Westminster so long as I continue there. But if I leave the city of Westminster and never return, I lose my power of election and never recover it. Or if I be a livery man of the city of London, and retire from London, though the right of election will still remain in my person, yet I cannot exercise that right, without I return back again to the city of London.
In like manner it is with every man who leaves his native country and lives in our distant provinces ; he willingly and voluntarily relinquishes the exercise of this elective power, in favour of something more substantial ; and can never constitutionally, so long as he continues there, exercise that right in the election of any member to serve in the parliament of Great-Britain. All members of any society must submit and fall in with the constitutional laws of that society to which they belong ; and not expect that the laws of the constitution are to give way to them. For, upon that principle, a constitution would be continually fluctuating, in order to accommodate itself to every change of things that might happen.
It is the constitution itself (which must operate upon the spot where the seat of government is placed) that refuses our distant provinces to exercise their elective rights for the election of representatives to serve in parliament. For as they have placed themselves at such a distance, they have put it out of their own power to be electors ; but in every other respect they may receive the full benefit of the constitution, as much as any man at home. But to say that no Englishman is to be taxed without his consent either in person or by his representatives, is merely sound without sense, and not true in fact ; but must be limited by the constitutional mode of taxation, which only requires, that no Englishman shall be taxed without the consent of a representative body of men in parliament. Were it otherwise, as I have said before, a government founded upon the common rights of
mankind, could never advance beyond a certain limited point or form any advantageous plans by the extension of their territory, for the mutual benefit of the whole community."
B O S T O N June 6 1771. Tuesday last arrived here Capt. Wilson from Glasgow, which he left the 1st of May ; and Capt. Jenkins from London, which he left the 23d of April ; The latest Papers are to the 20th, which contains the following Articles :
L O N D O N, April 17. THREE ships of the line, and four frigates are now fitting out from Portsmouth and Plymouth that are ordered to relieve Commodore Gambier, at Boston. This force is intended to guard the coast, from Nova-Scotia to the Cape Henry, in Virginia, from the fatal effects of prohibited trade, which is now carried on in defiance of the act of navigation, and the manifest injury of the Mother country in general. At Spithead, Admiral Hughes, with 29 Sail of Men of War.
April 19 Yesterday, about One o'Clock, Serjeant Glynn made a Motion in the Court of Common Pleas, for an Habeas Corpus to remove the Bodies of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver out of the Tower ; in which he was seconded by Serjeant Jephson.
After the Affidavit and the Letter of Commitment had been read, the Lord Chief Justice granted the Habeas Corpus.
When Lord North opened the Budget on Wednesday, he took a View of the present State of Affairs, both foreign and domestic ; laughed at the late Riots, and all Mobs ; censured the late Petitions and Remonstrances ; and blamed the ten Gentlemen who divided the House Twenty-three Times upon a Question respecting the Privileges of their own House.
Mr. Cornwall objected to raise the Supplies by Way of Lottery, unless a Clause was inserted, restricting the Members of that House from receiving any Number of Tickets from the Minister, by way of Donative for past or future Services. He also expressed a Wish ( in vain ) that the Dissolution of that Assembly might speedily take Place.
Mr. Burke, the Right Hon. Thomas Townshend, Mr. Alderman Townsend, and many other Minority Gentlemen, attacked the Ministry with great Warmth, and Spirit upon their late Proceedings respecting domestic and foreign Affairs.
Mr. E. Burke made a great Figure on Wednesday in his Opposition to the Plan for raising the Supplies for the Service of the present Year.
Neither the Premier, nor any of his Friends, return'd Answers to the many weighty Objections made use of by several Members to the Contents of the Budget. After he had opened it, he threw himself back in his Seat, in his usual manner with his Arm across, and the rest of the Treasury Bench imitated him, secure in the Knowledge of the Number of their Votes.
Not a Word was mentioned by either Party concerning the Release of the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver ; nor any Notice taken of the Grand Jury's having found the Bill against the Messenger.
Letters between our Court and that of Madrid, are now said to be finally adjusted to the entire satisfaction of both parties, and Lord Grantham is to set out for his Embassy to Spain the week after next.
By a Letter from Spain, the Governor of Calcutta is brought Prisoner to Madrid ; but his crime is yet a secret.
April 19. At a very full Meeting of the Bill of Rights, a very violent Altercation passed, as usual, between Mr. Wilkes and Mr. Horne, replete with the common Expressions of false, selfish, malignant, surreptitious, fraudulent, and so forth. Mr. Wilkes, in particular, declared that Mr. Horne's Conduct, both to him and the Public, had neither been consistent with the Truth of a Clergyman, or the Faith and Honour of a Gentleman. Mr. Horne said, that the Society was become nothing more than a Scene of personal Quarrel ; the public Interests were absorbed in the petty Faction of one Individual ; that Regularity, Decency, Order, and Concord, were banished together ; he therefore moved, "That the Society should be dissolved." It was in vain objected, that a Motion of that consequence should not be put so suddenly, whatever Cause to it the present Disturbances might afford ; that, in fact, the ferment in which the Society then was, shewed an improper Temper of discussing so serious a Question ; and that the Sense of the Society be taken, whether they would rescind the restrictive Resolution against opening any new Subscriptions whatsoever, but for the private Purposes of Mr. Wilkes, till the whole List of his Debts was discharged ; as the Charge against the Society for existing only in the Capacity of Mr. Wilkes's Committee, might then be obviated. Both Parties, equally sure of a Victory, or desirous of Meeting their Defeat, were eager to put the Question. The Motion to defer the Consideration of a Dissolution, was only supported by five Members, among whom were Dr. Lee, Mr. Morris, Mr. Grieve, &c. The main Question was then put, when their appeared for the Dissolution, 24 ; against it, 26. Mr. Alderman Townsend was in the Chair ; and the whole Number present at the Meeting was 53, being the fullest Meeting which had ever been held in the Society.
The Lord Mayor is elected a Member of the Society of Supporters of the Bill of Rights.
John Wilkes, Esq; having proposed to Alderman Oliver, now in the Tower, to be colleague with him in the Office of Sheriff for the City of London, Mr. Oliver wrote for Answer that he was determined not to serve in the Office of Sheriff with him because he really did not think his political aims were similar to his.
We are assured that Mr. Bull has not promised to serve as Sheriff with Mr. Wilkes, nor has he declared his Acceptance of the Office of Treasurer to the Bill of Rights.
Mr. Alderman Kirkman having refused to be a Candidate with Mr. Wilkes for the Office of Sheriff, Mr. Alderman Rotissier has been at length prevailed upon to afford Mr. Wilkes the Credit of his Name, and he his Fellow Candidate for that honourable and important Office.
They write from Leghorn that when the Post left Constantinople an Insurrection was beginning in that City, on Account of the great Success of Ald Bey against the Turkish Arms in Egypt and Syria.
This morning at eleven o'clock the Lord Mayor and Mr. Oliver, are to attend the Court of Common Pleas in Westminster-Hall, in consequence of their application for a writ of Habeas Corpus.
April 20. Prince Gallizin, the Russian Minister at the Hague, has received a letter from Count Romanzow, dated March 15, giving an account of his having taken the town & fortress of Guirgu, on the Danube, which was defended obstinately by 10,000 Turks and covered by two intrenchments, from both of which they were driven, with the loss of 4000 men killed and taken ; after which the remainder retired to the castle for several days, when a magazine of powder blowing
up, the remainder, amounting to about 3000, on account of the want of provisions, were suffered to join the main body of their army. Sixty-two pieces of brass cannon, two mortars, and a vast quantity of warlike stores, were likewise taken. The Russians had only 400 killed, and 100 wounded ; amongst the latter, the Generals Gottenhelm and Molino, and Col. Count Natali.
There has been no shock, no misunderstanding at St. James ; the K-- will not give way : Lord North is firm and acceptable to him, his Conduct is approved of and has met with applause and grateful acknowledgement. No change was dreamt of--- none will happen. The measures of Government, though moderate, are determined and unalterable : Those of Opposition have left such a Stigma of Folly and Brutality on their Names, that to admit them into Office would add Contempt & Disgrace to ruin.
L O N D O N, April 16, A person the other day, asking his friend's advice, what method was the best to take to procure his preferment, was answered, "Do some dishonourable action that will draw on you a public mark of infamy ; that is the only ladder by which people climb to preferment."
Notwithstanding the many scandalous paragraphs that have been inserted for a week past in most of the Evening and Daily papers, to alarm the public by insinuating that there is a run upon the Bank, and that the Bank notes were at a discount ; we have authority to assure the public, that there is not the least foundation for such report, which can be only calculated by evil minded persons to depreciate public credit.
It is said the ten beds ordered to be got ready at the Tower, were intended for the Lord Mayor, Mr. Wilkes, Mr. Oliver, Mr. Townsend, Mr. Sawbridge, Col. Barre, Sir George Saville, Sir Joseph Mawbey, Sir William Meredith, and Mr. Burke.
April 18. It is an undoubted fact, that the King of Prussia is at this moment collecting as much corn as can possibly be got into magazines ; nor any ships suffered to depart from any of his ports without his special licence.
We hear that the friends of Liberty intend to nominate Frederick Bull, Esq; a gentleman of great fortune and unexceptionable character, to be one of the sheriffs of this city & county along with Mr. Alderman Wilkes, and that Mr. Bull has declared his resolution of serving that office, if he should be chosen.
Wednesday noon Robert Jones, Esq; chairman at the last meeting of the Bill of Rights, attended by Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bart. Savage Barrell, Esq; William Ellis, Esq; Mr. Alderman Wilkes went in several coaches to the Tower, and presented the Lord Mayor with a copy of his election in that society, fairly engrossed. His Lordship expressed in the handsomest manner his sense of the honour done him, and declared his resolution of paying his respects to the society as soon as possible after his enlargement.
"Wednesday the 17th of April 1771." "Committee to assist the Lord Mayor and Alderman Wilkes and Oliver in their defence, &c,"
"Resolved unanimously, that Mr. Solicitor do apply to morrow to the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster for a Habeas Corpus for the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, & to the Court of Exchequer for the like writ for Mr. Alderman Oliver, provided he should be advised that such court can and are bound to take cognizance of such matter ; and if that court cannot or are not bound to take such cognizance, that then he make such applications to the court of Common Pleas on behalf of both the said magistrates."
(Copy) HODGES." Some private letters from Berlin intimate, that the King of Prussia is very much upon the decline, both with respect to his health and his mental faculties.
Mr. Ridley had determined to move on Wednesday in the House of Commons for the releasement of the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver from the Tower, he applied to a gentleman to second him, who replied---"No, I will have no hand in any part of this infamous business let those who sent them "thither get the Aldermen out of the Tower and themselves "out of the scrape how they can ; I shall not assist them." Mr. Ridley at length persuaded Sir William Meredith to second the motion ; but finding neither side of the house willing to countenance it, it was denied.
We hear that an ingenious watchmaker has lately had the honour of shewing to his Majesty a very curious machine of his construction, calculated for accurately ascertaining the progression of sound, in order to the computation of distance. On the dial are five circles, two of which by their indexes measure time, the other three distance, viz, miles, furlongs, and feet. This machine may be very useful both in astronomical and geographical observations.
The Russians have taken the sea-port of Crajova in Wallachia, near the Dardanelles, by their possession of which, and being now masters of the Black Sea, they stop all communication with Constantinople, where, provision grow more and more dear every day ; but, as yet, we hear of no insurrection.
They write from Paris, that there is not a day passes without numbers being taken up ; since the Banishment of the Parliament, no less than 19000 persons have been arrested for no other crime than speaking rather freely in behalf of that body against the King, so that the prisons are quite full ; And what renders it still more melancholy is, that there are no judges to try them, that they may be dismissed or punished. Trade is quite at a stand. A young Clergyman has been taken into custody for writing a letter to his friend, in which he described the situation of the city, and foretold what he thought would be the consequence, which letter was intercepted. The Court of Aiders have remonstrated twice to the King, but he will return no answer.
A Correspondent informs us we may with good Authority acquaint the Public, that there will very soon be an Alteration in the Ministry ; Lord Chatham is to be Secretary of State, Lord Camden President of the Council, and the Duke of Grafton first Lord of the Treasury ; and that the Parliament will be dissolved.
This day the Ward of Billingsgate, in thirty two coaches, went to pay their compliments to the Lord Mayor in the Tower.
They write from Bristol that a meeting was soon to be called there in order to consider of an address to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver, in the Tower, for their late spirited conduct.
Twelve more ships of the line are actually fitting out at the different sea-ports.
There are now at Spithead 35 ships, including frigates, bombs, &c.
Extract of a Letter from the Hague, April 10. "We learn from the Danube that the Imperial Court having received advice from Hungary, that the Turks had attacked the Austrians advanced posts, and killed several men, and that the latter, with some troops that came to their assistance, had in their return attacked the troops and sent some thousands of them to Mahomet, immediately held a council to consider what measures to take in consequence of these proceedings, which it is apprehended may produce some hostilities from the Austrians against the Turks."

PORTSMOUTH, June 14, 1771 Province of New-Hampshire. BY HIS EXCELLENCY  JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq Captain-General, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over his Majesty's Province aforesaid, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS in and by an Act of this Province, intitled "An Act for dividing this Province into Counties, and for the more easy Administration of Justice," among other Things it is enacted, That the Province be divided into five Counties, limited and bounded as in and by the said Act is set forth; but by a Paragraph in the said Act four Months was allowed after his Majesty's Royal Approbation of the said Act should be made known, for settling the Counties, &c. and that the several Courts of Judicature &c. now established in the Province, should continue to exercise their several Powers and Authorities, until the Expiration of the said four Months, as if the said Act had not been made. And all Courts established by said Act, are suspended from exercising their respective Powers and Authorities, for the said Space of four Months; excepting the Court of General Sessions of the Peace for each County, which shall Set for the Purpose only of raising Money for building Court Houses, Prisons, &c. in each County.
AND for as much as the several Civil Officers within this Province, were by their respective Commissions, directed and empowered by the aforesaid, in Part recited Act, to exercise their Authority throughout the Province; which after the said Nineteenth Day of July next, must be restrictive to the Limits of the respective Counties. And to prevent any Mistake that may arise in or about the Premises, I HAVE thought proper to issue this Proclamation, Hereby directing all Civil Officers respectively, whose Commissions extend their Jurisdiction throughout the Province, to exercise their said Authority, agreeable to their said Commissions, until the said 19th of July next; after which Day their respective Commissions, and the Authority therein conveyed, are to cease and be determined; and they are hereby inhibited exercising any Authority of what Kind or Nature so ever thereby.
Given at Portsmouth, the 12th Day of July, in the Eleventh Year of His Majesty's Reign. Annoque Domini, 1771. By His EXCELLENCY's Command. THEODORE ATKINSON, Sec'y.
The following Gentlemen are return'd to serve as Representatives for their respective Towns, which was not come to hand, when a list of the others was publish'd. Col. Josiah Willard, Esq; for Winchester. Lieut. Benjamin Hall, for Keene. And, Mr. Simeon Olcot, for Charlestown, No. Four.
We hear from Wolfborough, that last Friday Afternoon, a House belonging to Capt. Henry Rust, who lately removed there from this Town, was entirely consumed by Fire, together with all his Furniture, Provisions, Cloathing, &c. to the Amount of the Sum of 2000. Old Tenor.
For want of Room are obliged to omit Lucretia Piece, and a number of others, all which will be inserted in their proper Order, as soon as possible. A Dose will also be prepar'd for wicked Syphax.
PAPER-BILLS of this Province are yet taken at R. POWL's Stationary Shop on the Parade; where any Articles, in the Stationary Way, are sold Eleven per Cent cheaper than can be bought at some other Shops in Town.
To be sold by Public Vendue, At the House of Lieut. Jonathan Leavitt, Inholder in Hampton, on Tuesday the 25th Day of June, Inst. at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon, about Twenty-five Acres of Mowing and Pasture Land, situate in Hampton, between the Meeting House and Free's Landing (so called) Conditions of Sale to be seen at Time and Place of Sale. Portsmouth, June 13th. 1771.
LOST a small black and white HOUND, with some red Spots, and some Spots of Tar about him, which answers to the Name of Dreadnought.—Whoever will convey him to the Printers, shall be well rewarded.
WHEREAS a number of the Wicked make a constant Practice of crossing a piece of Meadow and Orchard belonging to me, lately the Property of Mr. John Abbot, lying near James Clarksons Esq; in Portsmouth to the great Damage of the same which unless they immediately desist from doing they will be prosecuted by Samuel Hall,
Province of New Hampshire, June 4th, 1771.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of LIME, in said Province have been legally notified to pay to us the Subscribers sundry Assessments levied upon each Proprietors Right or Share of Land in said Lime, and a number of said Proprietors have hitherto neglected either in whole or in part to pay the same; These are therefore to notify said delinquent Proprietors that there will be Sold by publick Vendue, if not prevented by payment, on the fifteenth Day of August next at one o' clock P. M. at the dwelling House of William Bell, junr, in said Lime, so much of their Rights or Shares of each delinquent Proprietors Land in said Lime, as shall be sufficient to pay the Sum or Sums as shall then remain due with incidental Charges.
Isaac Fellows } Collectors. John Sloan }
( BARNSTEAD )
THIS is to give notice to a Number of the Proprietors of Barnstead aforesaid, to pay to me the Subscriber at my Dwelling House in Newington the sum or sums, hereafter fixed to each of their Names, at or before the sixteenth day of July next, Otherwise shall sell so much of their Lands as will pay the Taxes with all other Charges as the Law Directs at public Vendue, at the Parish House in Newington—Said Vendue to begin at two o'Clock P. M. on the above said Day.
JOHN NUTTER, Collector
A List of the Proprietors of said Barnstead, who have not paid their Taxes, and what is due as yet.
  John Walker, 2 2 3   John Nutter 1 15 0   John Fabian 2 1 6   George Walton 2 1 6   Joseph Fabian 1 19 0   John Decker, junr. 1 17 0   Cyprian Jeffrey 2 2 6   Jethro Furbur 1 10 0   Thomas Beckford 1 15 0   John Thompson 1 17 0   Benning Wentworth 2 1 6   Ebenezer Weare 2 1 6   Francis Jennels 1 15 0   Matthew Plant 1 15 0   Zebulon Dam 2 1 0   Nathaniel Morrill 2 10 0   Samuel Shackford 2 1 6   Samuel Huntriss 1 19 6   Capt. John Downing 2 1 6   William Fellows 2 0 6   Richard Jennels 1 15 0   James Jeffrey 0 15 0   Benjamin Clark 2 0 6   Samuel Shute, Esq; 1 15 0   Col. Mark Hunking 1 19 0   Benjamin Downing 1 15 0 
Newington, June 6th, 1771.
All Persons who are indebted to, or have any Claims on the Estate of William Boynton, late of Kingstown in the Province of New Hampshire, Yeoman, deceased are desired to settle with Richard Boynton of Boston Esq; Administrator on said Estate, or with Ebenezer Batchelor of said Kingstown, Attorney to said Administrator.
June 1st 1771.
Imported, and to be Sold by  John Penhallow, At his Store near the Rev. Dr. Langdon's Meeting-House, in Portsmouth, cheap for Cash,—A general Assortment of English GOODS, among which are, the following. Broad Cloths, Shalloons, Tam-mies, Calamancoes, &c. 6 by 8, 7 by 9, 8 by 10 Crown Glass—4d, 6d, 10d, and 20d, Nails. Also, a good Assortment of Looking Glasses.
For any of the above Articles, Paper Money will be received in Payment.
RUN AWAY from the Subscriber a servant Boy named James Gilman, about nineteen Years of Age of a light complexion, about five feet nine Inches high, had on when he went away (which was the ninth instant) a dark Homespun Coat lined with Shalloon of near the same colour, and Brass Buttons on the same, and light homespun Jacket lined with red Baize and white Metal Buttons, a pair of blew large Breeches lined with Leather and mohair Buttons and a Pair of blew yarn Stockings, carried with him 2 pair of light worsted Stockings; whoever will take up said Runaway and convey him to me or secure him in any of his Majesty's Goals and send word to me shall have two Dollars reward and all necessary Charges paid by me
Epping, June 11. Stephen Thirg.
Whereas a number of Men, Women and Children, have some Years past, and still do, make a constant Practice of crossing and stealing a great part of every Thing that grows in a certain Garden, and Orchard improved by the Printers hereof, lying on Divinity Street, Portsmouth, which is a piece of Impudence, too notorious to be bore with any longer; this is therefore for the last Time to inform them that a strict watch will be kept and no other Mercy shown, than what the Law allows.
Blanks of most sorts, sold at the Printing-Office, near the State-House.
NEW-LONDON, May 17.
Within eighteen months last past, there has passed one publick-house on the road to N o . Four, between six and seven hundred families, moving to the northward, and chiefly from this government.
This is certain, that within two years there has moved and are moving from a certain neighbourhood, within a circle of three miles, near about twenty families are all gone and going out of the government to Cohos, Otter Creek, and back of Albany, &c. by which means this government loses not only the inhabitants, but a vast interest is carried out of the government forever; and they are moving perhaps nearly in the same proportion from all parts of the government universally, and will continue to do so.
We hear a Missionary is appointed by the Hon. Society for the Church of England lately erected in Pomfret, with a Salary of 30l. Sterl. per Ann.
May 31. On Friday, the 17th instant, as three Men, Elihu Brockway, ---- Lewis and ---- Banning, were coming down Connecticut-River, near Brockways Ferry, in a Scow deep loaded with Stone, the Scow sunk about three Rods from Shore, when Brockway and Lewis were drowned, but Banning swam to Shore.
Wednesday Se'nnight, in a Thunder-Storm, a Horse and seven Sheep were killed at Stonington, and the Lightning struck a stack of Straw and about twenty Trees in different Places in that Town.
BOSTON, June 6.
Yesterday the Hon. Thomas Cushing, Esq; was unanimously chosen by both Houses of Assembly, Commissary-General.
Thomas Goldthwait, Esq; was chosen Truckmaster, for Fort Pownall. To which his Excellency has consented.
MARRIED. J Mr. John Langdon, Bookseller, and Stationer, to Miss Polly Walley, Daughter to Mr. Thomas Walley, Merchant.
We hear from Rutland District in the County of Worcester, the following remarkable Articles. That on the 21st of May at Night the Wolves killed and wounded 54 Sheep and three Swine belonging to three Persons:—On the 22d in the Day time they attacked two Men in two different Places of that District one of which was followed within one Rod of a Dwelling-House, and catch'd by his cloaths and pulled down, but rescued by a Dog.—The night following they beset the Cows in the Barn-Yard and the Swine in the Style of Mr. Nathaniel Jennison of that Place, who gives us the Information, the Noise of the Creatures waked the People of the House, who immediately went to their Relief, and with a Charge of small Shot killed a Wolf within 30 Feet of the Dwelling-House, but there had been 8 Cows and 7 Swine and one Horse wounded.
We hear from Wrentham that on the 3d of April last, Jacob Man, of that Place, a Lad about 13 Years of Age, swung 77 Pounds of Flax, and took it from the Brake, between Sun and Sun.
From several Parts of the Country we learn, that considerable Damage has been done to the Grass, &c. by a destructive Species of Worms, against which the industrious Husbandman cannot secure his Lands.
By the Papers there is no appearance of a War, nor was there any impressing of Men when the last Vessels left Great-Britain.
Capt. Tucker in a Ship for this Place, left Glasgow the Evening before Capt. Wilson.
It is supposed the Mast-Ship, on board of which were a Number of Passengers for this Place, sailed from Portsmouth, about the Time Capt. Jenkins left London.
Capt. Daverson was to leave London the Beginning of May, Capt. Jarvis and White in all that Month.
By Capt. Richardson arrived at Rhode-Island last Week from North-Carolina, we learn, That Governor Tryon, with near 2000 Men were within 40 Miles of the Regulators, who consisted of between 2 and 3000, were entrenched, and had determined to defend themselves at all Events. 'Tis also said that the Regulators had cut off the Communication of 500 Men, who were going to join Governor Tryon; so that we may soon expect to hear some dismal Accounts from thence.
MONDAY, June 10.
By a Vessel from Magadalene Islands, we learn, that Capt. Smith, in a Brig from London for this Place, who has been some time expected was lately cast away at a Place called Whitehead, near Canse, the People, 'tis said, are saved, but the Vessel, with a valuable Cargo, its thought will be lost:—We also hear that four or five outward bound Whaling Sloops were drove ashore and wrecked near the same Place.
Last Saturday Morning sailed from hence the Rose and Senegal Men of War; but Yesterday Afternoon the former returned again with the loss of her Topmasts, they being carried away about 10 Leagues without the Light-House.
A few of the Rev. Dr. Haven's Sermons, preach'd at Medfield in the Massachusetts in January last, from Mat. 25th Chap. 24th and 25th Verses, are come to hand from Boston, where they have been lately printed at the Charge of the People of said Medfield. The same Sermon the Doctor preach'd to his own People the last Winter in this Town, and being much approved of then, his good Hearers will undoubtedly be pleased to know a Copy of the same may be had at the Printing Office.
The Printers hereof cannot well avoid lamenting the decline of Religion here, and that the People are not more frequently inclined to have Sermons printed and paid for among ourselves, especially when it is allowed on all Hands, as fine Copies can be had from the Clergy of this, as any Town whatever, and as an Evidence of it, this is the second Sermon, Dr. Haven has lately had printed out of the Province, and at the Charge of Strangers — It is much wish'd this may serve as a spur to the good People of this Province, and induce them to pay more Respect to, and set a higher value on good Sermons — A fine Assortment of which may also be had at the Printing Office, together with a few of the first part of Dr. Langdon's Impartial Examination against the late Mr. Robert Sandiman.
Those Persons that are now in Town from the Country attending the Court, and are indebted for many Years News Papers, for which Reason they shun the Printing Office, and some even the Street where it stands, may depend on being sent for back, if they now neglect to settle the same, before they leave this Metropolis.

Robert Fowle,
At the Stationary Shop, on the Parade, near the State House, in Portsmouth, has for sale the following Articles, very low for Cash only, viz. MEDIUM , Atlas, Foolscap and Pot Writing-Paper, of the best Kind; Ink Chests of various kinds; Ink Stands with and without tops; Ink Powder, Cake Ink; common and Lignumvite Sand Boxes; Pounce and pounce Boxes; the best of shining Sand; excellent sealing Wax; black lead Pencils; best Vermilion Wafers; Crown ditto. Folding, common and Ivory handled Penknives; Ivory Folders; Pewter Pressers; Pocket Cases very neat; Dutch Quills; Marbled Paper; large and small Slates; Account Books, Temple Spectacles, Slate Pencils; ready made Pens; Playing Cards of a new and excellent kind; Watts's Psalms and Hymns, bound together and separate; Tate and Brady's Ditto; Spelling Books; Psalters & Primers by the Dozen; Pressing Paper, &c. &c. together with a variety of Books, among which are a few sets of Tiffot on Health, a new and much esteemed Performance; Account Books of any kind are made as expeditiously and neat as ever was or can be done in the Province.
A few of the Trials of the Soldiers in Boston to be sold at the above Shop.
TO BE SOLD the following Tracts of Land in Peterborough, late the Estate of Jeremy Gridley Esq; deceased,
ONE Lot in the second East Range, No. 104. Two Lots in the first and second east Range, No. 99 and 100, each 100 Acres.
Two Lots in the second Range, No. 69 and 70, each 100 Acres.
Two Lots in the third East Range, No. 45 and 46, each 150 Acres.
Two Lots in said third Range, No. 78 and 79, each 102.
One Lot in said third Range, No. 82. 103 Acres.
One Lot in the fourth Range from the West Line No. 89, 103 Acres.
Two Lots in the fourth Range, No. 87 and 88 each 100 Acres.
Two Lots in the fifth Range, No. 58 and 59 each 100 Acres.
Three Lots on the west side of Farm letter'd D, bounding on the North Line of the Town, No. 113, 114 and 115, 96 Acres each.
One Lot West from Farm letter'd C, No. 97, 137 Acres.
ALSO, A Tract on the North line of the Town, granted by the late Col. Bisnchard (to Jeremy Gridly, Esq;) as Agent of Mason's Proprietors. 500 Acres
For further Particulars and Conditions apply to THOMAS FLUCKER, Esq; of Boston, or of D. & R. Fowle in Portsmouth.
Province of New Hampshire. MONADNOCK, No. 4, May 5, 1771.
WHEREAS the proprietors of said Township have been legally notified to pay sundry Grants of Money, legally assessed on each Proprietors Right or Lots of Land in said Township, to me the Subscriber, and several of the proprietors being yet delinquent in the whole or part; these are therefore to notify such proprietors, that so much of each delinquent proprietors Lands will be exposed to sale at public Vendue, at the House of James Reed, Esq; Innholder in said Township, on the last Wednesday in August next, at Two o'Clock afternoon to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges.
The delinquents Lots being as followeth with the Sums due.
  Jonathan Blanchard's Lot, No. 4 in the 5th Range, and No. 11 in the 1st Range, 4l. 1 0   Mathew Thornton, Esq; No. 13 in the 12th Range, 3 0 0   Samson Stoddard, Esq; No. 22 in the 8th and No. 23 in the 8th Range 1 10 0   Samson Stoddard, Esq; No. 20 in the 10th Range 3 6 0   Nathaniel Treadwell, No. 10 in the 6th and No. 17 in the 12th Range 2 8 0   DANIEL MELLEN, Prep's Collector.
TO BE SOLD by PUBLIC AUCTION, By Philip Bailey,
On Friday the 14th June Instant, at the Vendue Room, Queen Street, Portsmouth.
An exceeding neat Curricle, & a very good Chaise. Likewise wearing Apparel, both Mens and Womens, with a number of other Articles. The above Goods to be viewed at the place of sale on Thursday and Friday Morning.
The sale to begin precisely at 3 o'Clock.
By Philip Bailey, Auctioneer.
Mendum Janvrin,
At his Shop near Dr. HAVEN's Meeting House, and in the Street leading to Liberty Bridge, has to sell the following Articles,
West India and New-England
RUM, Molasses, Leaf and Brown Sugar, Cotton Wool, Coffee, Tea, Pepper, Indigo, Seives, Snuff, Starch, Brimstone, Rosin, Nutmegs, pins, sorted Crewels, Flower, Tobacco, Gun powder, Shot of different sorts, Salt, &c. &c.
The above Rum is of the best kind, which he will sell at 3l. 10s. per single Gallon, and Sugar at 10s. lb. The other Articles in proportion.
(Gilmantown)
Province of New Hampshire.
Whereas the General Court of this Province, have passed an Act to authorise the Select Men of Gilmantown, to make an Assessment on all the Land within the said Town at so much per Acre, as will be sufficient to raise the Sum of 331l. 9s. 5d. for to pay Richard Jennens and John M'Duffee, Esq; for making a Road or High Way, through said Town. Notice is hereby given to all the Proprietors and Owners of Land in said Town, that said Tax is made, and committed to the Constable to collect, and they are desired to pay their respective Taxes to Ephraim Morrel, Constable of said Town, or to Joseph Badger, Esq; by the 8th of July next, or they may depend upon their Lands being Advertized for sale, immediately after that Time, in the New Hampshire Gazette, according to Law, as will be sufficient to pay said Taxes with incidental Charges. The Tax on each Forty Acre Lot is 4s. 4d. and on each Hundred Acre Lot 10s. 10d. and each of the Governor's Rights in said Town are taxed at 2l. 18s. 6d. and other Lands in the same proportion. Attendance will be given at the House of Joseph Badger, Esq; in said Town, 4 Days in every Week, viz. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, to receive the Taxes. Gilmantown, June 1st, 1771.
TO BE SOLD at PUBLIC VENDUE, at ten o'Clock forenoon, on Saturday June the 15th.
A parcel of Sails partly wore, some of them being Brig's Sails and some of them a Schooner's, about 90 Tuns, together with a parcel of running Rigging, and sundry other Articles, on Capt. George Janvrin's Wharf, in Portsmouth.
Whereas Abraham Libey of the Town of Rye, has a Note of Hand against me the Subscriber, for 50 Dollars, which Note I say is forged, and therefore caution all Persons from purchasing the same, as I am determined not to pay it, unless compelled by Law. Robert Moulton.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of East Town, (so called) in the Province aforesaid, to meet at the Dwelling House of Lieut David Copps, in said East Town, on Tuesday the Eighteenth Day of June next, at Ten o'Clock, in the Forenoon, to act on the following Articles, viz. 1st. To chuse a Moderator to regulate said Meeting. 2d. To chuse all proprietary Officers that is thought needful. 3d. To see what the Proprietors will do with Regard to building a Meeting House in said Town, the ensuing Summer, and if voted to build said House, to vote a Committee to do the same. 4th. To see what Money they will vote towards supplying the Inhabitants with Preaching. 5th. To see what Labour the Proprietors will vote to do on the Governor's Road through said Town. 6. To see if the Proprietors will vote to empower the former Committee, that is to do the Road to Leavitt's Town, to let out said Road, to be repaired by the Expence of said Proprietors. 7. To vote to see if the Proprietors will chuse a new Committee, to lay out the second Division in said Town. 8. To see if the Proprietors will vote to cut and clear the cross Center Road in said Town. 9. To see what Money the Proprietors will vote to raise, for the carrying on the Settlement of said Township. 10. To hear the Request of Charles Baker, and others, relating to a Right in said Township, which the said Charles Baker, and others bought, to forward the settlement of said Town. 11. To hear the Request of Col. JOHN GAGE, relating to a Privilege that he gave to a Number of Men to build a Saw Mill on, out of his Rights, to forward the Settlement of said Town; and all concern'd, are desired to attend at time and place aforesaid, By Order of the Assessors. JOHN GAGE, junr, Clerk.
Province of New Hampshire.
WHEREAS Josiah Willard, of Winchester in said Province, Esq; hath presented a Petition to his Excellency the Governor and Council of said Province, setting forth, that there are sundry Grantees in the Township of Chesterfield in said Province, viz. John Wheelwright, Joseph Wheelwright, Jeremiah Wheelwright, Nathaniel Wheelwright, Thomas Paine, John Arms, & Oliver Butler, who have themselves been totally delinquent in the Conditions stipulated in the Charter of said Township, for Improvement and Cultivation of the same; and also that the Petitioner has been at considerable Expence in improving some part of the said Rights respectively. He therefore prays, that the Forfeiture of the said Rights may be exacted, agreeable to the Tenor of the said Grant, and that the said Shares may be regranted to him the Petitioner; or that he may be otherwise reimbursed the Charge he hath been at in paying the Rates and Taxes accruing on the said Rights, and improving them, as aforesaid: This is therefore to notify the Original Proprietors aforesaid, that the 11th day of July next is appointed by the Governor and Council aforesaid, that they may appear and shew cause if any they have why the prayer of the Petitioner may not be granted: THEODORE ATKINSON Sec'y.
Moses Frazier
Takes this Method to acquaint his Customers and others, that he has Imported from LONDON, in the Captains Cales, Bryant and Gardner,
A Large and compleat Assortment of ENGLISH and INDIA GOODS, which he will sell on the very lowest Terms for ready Money, at his Shop directly opposite the North End of the Rev. Mr. CARY's Meeting House in NEWBURY-PORT. May 25th. 1771.
TO BE SOLD BY
Joseph Sherburne,
At his Shop in King Street, next Door but one above James Stoodly's, Esq; by Wholesale and Retail, cheap for Cash or short Credit,
A large Assortment of 3-4 & Yard wide Irish Linnens, 3-4, 7-8 and yard-wide Cotton and Linnen Checks, Callicoes, Cambricks, 7-8 and yard wide clear Lawns, Mens and Womens Cotton and thread Hefe, Threads, Sewing Silks, Silk Kneo Garters, Silk Mitts, Worsted Patterns, No. 4 Pins, Damascus, black figur'd Mode, a Variety of Paper Hangings, Wool Cards, Cotton Ditto, Brimstone per Hundred, Pepper per Hundred, best English refin'd Loaf Sugar per Hundred... Likewise a large Assortment of Cream color'd China and Glass Ware.
One Hundred Settlers wanted.
IF ONE HUNDRED SETTLERS will immediately apply to the subscriber, he will give from fifty to One Hundred Acres of choice Land to each of them, in different Parts of this Government; and he will accommodate Twenty or Thirty of them in such a Manner, that they may all settle on adjoining Lots, which must make it more agreeable; the Land will be near settled Towns: And if Numbers, who now hire Farms, would but consider, that if the Labour they expend on others Estates, only for a bare annual Subsistence, was employed on Farms of their own, they would soon be freed from the anxious Solicitude for a future Support in Old Age: And instead of having their Children scatter'd in distant Places, where perhaps they may never see them again, they may now have an Opportunity of keeping them together, and every Child may do its Part to bring forward an Estate, that may hereafter give them a comfortable, easy and contented Existence; and instead of their present State of Vassalage and Dependency, every Man may enjoy his own Vine, and his own Figtree; Resolution is only wanted for this Purpose.—Numbers were settled by the Subscriber the last Year, who have return'd him their Thanks, and no Temptation would remove them.—Upon an Application (which must be soon) the further Encouragements shall be made known, which are too many for an Advertisement.
An Undertaker to procure Twenty Families, shall be also encouraged and rewarded by
JOHN WENDELL.
JUST imported from LONDON, and to be SOLD cheap for CASH,
Two Pair of French Bur Mill-STONES.—Enquire of the Printers.