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New Hampshire Gazette.
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Dr. FRANKLIN'S REMARKS
Concerning the SAVAGES of North America. From his Essays.
SAVAGES we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.
Perhaps, if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality, we should find no people so rude as to be without any rules of politeness: nor any so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness.
The Indian men, when young, are hunters and warriors; when old, counsellors; for all their government is by the counsel or advice of the fages; there is no force, there are no prison, no officers to compel obedience, or inflict punishment. Hence they generally study oratory; the best speaker having the most influence.
The Indian women till the ground, dress the food, nurse and bring up the children, and preserve and hand down to posterity, the memory of public transactions. These employments of men and women are accounted natural and honorable. Having few artificial wants, they have abundance of leisure for improvement by conversation. Our laborious manner of life, compared with theirs, esteem slavish and base; and the learning on which we value ourselves, they regard as frivolous and useless. An instance of this occurred at the Treaty of Lancaster in Pennsylvania, Anno 1744, between the government of Virginia and the Six Nations. After the principal business was settled, the Commissioners from Virginia acquainted the Indians by a speech, that there was at Williamsburg a College, with a fund, for educating Indian youth; and that if the Chiefs of the Six Nations would send down half a dozen of their sons to that College, the government would take care that they should be well provided for, and instructed in all the learning of the white people.
It is one of the Indian rules of politeness not to answer a public proposition the same day that it is made; they think it would be treating it as a light matter; and that they show it respect by taking time to consider it, as of a matter important. They therefore deferred their answer till the day following; when their speaker began, by expressing their deep sense of the kindness of the Virginia government, in making them that offer; "For we know, (says he) that you highly esteem the kind of learning taught in those Colleges, and that the maintenance of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are convinced therefore, that you mean to do us good by your proposal; and we thank you heartily. But you who are wise must know, that different nations have different conceptions of things; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours. We have had some experience of it: several of our young people were formerly brought up at the Colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners; ignorant of every means of living in the woods; unable to bear either cold or hunger; knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy; spoke our language imperfectly; were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, or counsellors: they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it; and to show our grateful sense of it, if the Gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them."
Having frequent occasions to hold public Councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in the foremost ranks, the warriors in the next, and the women and children in the hindmost. The business of the women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their memories, (for they have no writing) and communicate it to their children.—They are the Records of the Council, and they preserve tradition of the stipulations in treaties an hundred years back; which when we compare with our writings, we always find exact. He that would speak rises. The rest observe a profound silence. When he has finished, and sits down, they leave him five or six minutes to recollect, that if he has omitted any thing he intended to say, or has any thing to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent. How different this is from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the Speaker hoarse in calling to order; and how different from the mode of conversation, in many polite companies of Europe, where, if you do not deliver a sentence with great rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it, by the impatient loquacity of those you converse with, and never suffered to finish it.
The politeness of the Savages in conversation, is indeed, carried to excess; since it does not
permit them to contradict or deny the truth of what is asserted in their presence. By this means they indeed avoid disputes; but then it becomes difficult to know their minds, or what impression you make upon them. The Missionaries who have attempted to convert them to Christianity, all complain of this as one of the greatest difficulties of their mission. The Indians hear with patience the truths of the Gospel explained to them, and give their usual tokens of assent and approbation; you would think they were convinced. No such matter. It is mere civility.
A Swoedish Minister having assembled the Chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a Sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical facts on which our religion is founded; such as the fall of our first parents by eating an apple; the coming of Christ to repair the mischief; his miracles and sufferings, &c.—When he had finished, an Indian Orator stood up to thank him. "What you have told us (says he) is all very good. It is indeed bad to eat apples. It is better to make them all into Cyder. We are much obliged by your kindness in coming so far, to tell us those things which you have heard from your mothers. In return, I will tell you some of those we have heard from ours."
"In the beginning, our fathers had only the flesh of animals to subsist on; and if their hunting was unsuccessful, they were starving." "Two of our young hunters having killed a deer, made a fire in the woods to broil some parts of it: When they were about to satisfy their hunger, they beheld a beautiful young woman descend from the clouds, and seat herself on that hill which you see yonder among the blue mountains. They said to each other, it is a spirit that perhaps has smelt our broiling venison, and wishes to eat of it; let us offer some to her. They presented her with the tongue: she was pleased with the taste of it, and said, Your kindness shall be rewarded.—Come to this place after thirteen moons, and you shall find something that will be of great benefit in nourishing you and your children, to the latest generations. They did so, and to their surprise, found plants they had never seen before; but which, from that ancient time, have been constantly cultivated among us to our great advantage. Where her right hand touched the ground, they found maize; where her left hand had touched it they found kidney beans; and where her backside had found on it, they found tobacco."
The good Missionary disgusted with this idle tale said,
"What I delivered to you were sacred truths; but what you tell me is mere fable, fiction and falsehood."
The offended Indian replied,
"My Brother, it seems your friends have not done you justice in your education; they have not well instructed you in the rules of common civility. You saw that we, who understand and practice those rules, believed all your stories, why do you refuse to believe ours?"
When any of them come into our towns, our people are apt to crowd round them, gaze upon them, and incommode them when they desire to be private; this they esteem great rudeness, and the effect of the want of instruction in the rules of civility and good manners.
"We have (say they) as much curiosity as you, and when you come into our towns, we wish for opportunities of looking at you; but for this purpose we hide ourselves behind bushes where you are to pass, and never intrude ourselves into your company."
Their manner of entering one another's villages has likewise its rules. It is reckoned uncivil in travelling strangers to enter a village abruptly without giving notice of their approach. Therefore, as soon as they arrive within hearing, they stop and hollow, remaining there till invited to enter. Two old men usually come out to them, and lead them in. There is in every village a vacant dwelling, called, The Stranger's House . Here they are placed, while the old men go round from hut to hut, acquainting the inhabitants that strangers are arrived, who are probably hungry and weary; and every one sends them what he can spare of victuals, and skins to repose on. When the strangers are refreshed, pipes and tobacco are brought; and then, but not before, conversation begins, with inquiries who they are? whither bound? what news? &c. and it usually ends with offers of service; if the stranger have occasion of guides, or any necessaries for continuing their journey; and nothing is exacted for the entertainment.
The same hospitality, esteemed among them as a principal virtue, is practiced by private persons; of which CONRAD WEISER, our interpreter, gave me the following instance. He had been naturalized among the Six Nations, and spoke very well the mohawk language. In going through the Indian country, to carry a message from our Governor to the council at Onondaga, he called at the habitation of Canassatego, an old acquaintance, who embraced him, spread furs for him to sit on, placed before him some boiled beans and venison, and mixed some rum
and water for his drink. When he was well refreshed, and had lit his pipe, Canassatego began to converse with him, asked how he had fared the many years since they had seen each other, whence he then came, what occasioned the journey, &c. CONRAD answered all his questions; and when the discourse began to flag, the Indian to continue it said,
"CONRAD, you have lived long among the white people, and know something of their customs; I have been sometimes at Albany, and have observed, that once in seven days they shut up their shops, and assemble all in the great house; all me what is it for? What do they do there?"
"They meet there (says Conrad) to hear and learn good things." I do not doubt (says the Indian) that they tell you so; they have told me the same; but I doubt the truth of what they say, and I will tell you my reasons.—I went lately to Albany to sell my skins, and buy blankets, knives, powder, rum, &c. You know I used generally to deal with HANS HANSON; but I was a little inclined this time to try some other merchants. However, I called first upon Hans, and asked him what he would give for Beaver? He said he could not give more than 4 shillings a pound; but, says he, I cannot talk on business now; this is the day we meet to learn good things, and I am going to the meeting too, and I went with him. There stood up a man in black, and began to talk to the people very angrily. I did not understand what he said; but perceiving that he looked much at me and at Hanson, I imagined that he was angry at seeing me there; so I went out, sat down near the house, struck fire, and lit my pipe waiting 'till the meeting should brake up. I thought too that the man had mentioned something of Beaver, and I suspected it might be the subject of their meeting. So when they came out, I accosted my merchant.—Well, Hans, (says I) I hope you have agreed to give more than 4 shillings a pound. No (says he) I cannot give so much, I cannot give more than three shillings and 6d.
"I then spoke to several other dealers, but they all sung the same song, 3s. 6d. 3s. 6d. This made it clear to me that my suspicion was right; and that whatever they pretended of meeting to learn good things, they would certainly have learned some before this time.—But they are still ignorant. You know our practice. If a white man, in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I do you; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that we may allay his thirst and hunger; and we spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on; we demand nothing in return."
"But if I go into a white man's house at Albany and ask for victuals and drink, they say, where is your money: and if I have none, they say, get out your Indian Dog. You see they have not yet learned those little good things, that we need no meetings to be instructed in, because our mothers taught them to us when we were children; and therefore it is impossible their meetings should be (as they say) for any such purpose, or have any such effect; they are only to contrive, the cheating of Indians in the price of Beaver."
* It is remarkable, that in all ages and countries. HOSPITALITY has been allowed as the virtue of those, whom the civilized were pleased to call BARBARIANS; the Greek celebrated the Scythians for it. The Saracens possessed it eminently; and it is to this day the reigning virtue of the WILD ARABS.
St. PAUL too, in the relation of his voyage and shipwreck, on the island of MELITA, (now MALTA,) says, "The barbarous people shewed us no little kindness; for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold."—This note is taken from a small collection of Franklin's papers, printed for Dilly.
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DECREE of the FRENCH NATIONAL CONVENTION.
DECREE exempting from all duties articles necessary to subsistence, and other objects of provision, in the Colonies, relative to the United States, pronounced in the sitting of the 26th of March, 1793, 2d year of the French Republic.
THE National Convention, wishing to prevent, by precise regulations, the difficulties which might arise relative to the execution of their decree of the 19th of last February, concerning the United States of America; to grant new favors to that nation, their ally, and to treat it in its commercial connections, with the French Colonies, in the same manner as the vessels of the Republic, decide as follows:
Art. 1. From the day of the publication of the present decree, in the French American Colonies, the ships of the United States, of the burthen of sixty tons, at least loaded only with flour, and articles of subsistence; as also objects of provision, particularly mentioned in the 2d Article of the Decree of the 30th August, 1784, as likewise bacon, butter, salt, salmon, and candles shall be admitted into the ports of said Colonies, with exemption from all duties. The same exemption shall be extended to French vessels loaded with the same commodities from foreign nations.
Art. 2. The Captains of the vessels of the United States, who, having brought into the French American Colonies the objects comprised in the foregoing Article, would wish to carry their returns into the territory of the said United States, may load in the said Colonies, besides syrups, rums, tassias, and merchandise of France; a quantity of coffee equivalent to the fiftieth part of the tonnage of each vessel, as also a quantity of sugar equivalent to the tenth part of the tonnage, conforming to the following Articles.
Art. 3. Every Captain of American vessels, who would wish to make returns to the United States in coffee and sugar of the French Colonies, must prove, that his vessel, on entering the port, had at least two thirds of its full loading, agreeably to the first Article to that effect; he shall be bound to give into the Custom-house, of the port he puts into, within 24 hours after his arrival, a certificate from the Agents of the Marine, ascertaining the guage of his vessel, and the real tonnage of his loading. The officers of the aforesaid Custom-houses, shall take care that the exportation of sugar and coffee may not exceed the proportions determined by the 2d Article of the present Decree.
Art. 4. The Captains of the vessels of the United States of America, shall pay, at their clearing out from the Islands, like those of the Republic, only a duty of five livres per 100 weight of indigo; ten livres per 1000 weight of cotton; five livres per 1000 weight of coffee; five livres per 1000 weight of lump sugar; and fifty sous per 1000 weight of brown sugar. All other merchandise shall be exempted from duty on leaving the said Colonies.
Art. 5. The sugars and coffee, which shall be loaded, shall pay into the offices of the custom houses, which are in the Colonies, or shall be established hereafter, over and above the duties aforesaid, those imposed by the law of the 19th of March, 1791, on the sugars and coffee imported from the said Colonies into France, and conformably to the same law.
Art. 6. The Captains of ships of the United States, who shall desire to load merchandizes in the said Colonies, for the ports of France, shall give into the office of the custom-house of the port from whence they sail, the submissions required of the owners of French vessels, by the 2d Article of the law of the 10th of July, 1791, to secure the unloading those merchandizes in the ports of the Republic.
Art. 7. The ships of the nations with which the Republic is not at war, may import into the French American Colonies, all the articles mentioned in the present decree. They may also carry back, into the ports of the Republic only, all the commodities of said Colonies, on the conditions set forth in said decree, as also in that of the 19th of February.
LATE European Intelligence.
By the Brig John, Capt. Stockney, arrived at Philadelphia—The London Morning Chronicle of the 24th of September has been received, from which the following extracts are taken.
BRUSSELS, Sept. 16.
In consequence of the different bloody engagements which have taken place from the 6th to 9th of the month, between the
French army, commanded by Gen Houchard and the covering army of the siege of Dunkirk, under the command of Marshal de Freytag, in which the latter, notwithstanding the great efforts of bravery, was under the necessity of retreating before the enemy, the Duke of York, apprehensive of being cut off, was forced to raise the siege of Dunkirk, and abandon before that city his numerous train of artillery, which however he took care to have spiked before his retreat. The French, animated by this success, pursued their advantage with considerable vigor; not satisfied with having obliged the allies to retreat before them—and to evacuate the French territory on that side, they advanced upon our side and took Furnes and Menin. The Hanoverian army, conducted by Gen. WALMODEN, was at that moment posted at a league's distance from the former of these places, while the Duke of YORK, with the English army, and the Austrian corps of Gen. d'ALVINZY, established his head quarters at Dixmude. As to the Dutch troops who formed the cordon of west Flanders, forced also to abandon their posts by the superiority which the French had then acquired, and of which they took advantage to fall upon them on all sides at one time, the greater part retreated to Degrise, and onward to Ghent. In order to stop the progress of the enemy, encouraged by success, General BEAULIEU advanced towards Courtrai for the purpose of covering that city, and field Marshal prince de Saxe Cobourg, at the head of 25,000 men, set out on his march to force the French to withdraw from our territory, where they were committing excesses of every sort. A part of the unfortunate city of Menin was pillaged and sacked by the pretended defenders of the people.
It must be confessed that the check experienced by the Combined army before Dunkirk, and the disagreeable consequences resulting from it, have not only deranged the plan of the present campaign, but will likewise for a time reduce our armies to a state of inactivity extremely prejudicial to the common cause. Besides this event, by encouraging the French, and those who every where else are inclined to applaud the success of humanity.
As soon as the lower class of people in Ghent, always friendly to the violence of anarchy, were informed of the new invasion of our territory, supposing that those pretended republicans were already at the gates of their city, they flocked together in several quarters, and were guilty of the greatest excesses.—An eagle, representing the arms of the house of Austria, was then pulled down, and they publicly danced the Carmagnole in the same square where they had committed all the extravagancies. In this place several French officers, prisoners of war, have abused the permission which they had of going out and walking about the city, to assert loudly every where, that within eight days a republican army would appear to deliver them. A considerable number of wagons laden with wounded arrived yesterday.
OSTEND, September 19.
We find that the loss of the Dutch at Menin, on the 10th, was greater than at first reported.—The Prince of Waldeck, the second Prince of that name, whom they have lost in the present war, is missing.
The French, after pillaging Menin, left only a small picket guard in it, which fled at the approach of Beaulieu. It was before Courtrai that their main body was repulsed by the Austrians on Sunday.
There are to this hour stragglers coming in from the late engagement, so complete and extraordinary was the route.
LONDON, September 24.
The Dutch Mail that arrived yesterday, brought melancholy, though imperfect details of the loss sustained on the 12th and 13th by the troops under the Hereditary Prince of Orange.—When we read in the Leyden Gazette of six battalions being killed or taken prisoners at Hallum and Menin only, we cannot consider the rumor of half the Dutch army being destroyed as much beyond the truth.
The reported victory of the Duke of Brunswick over the French near Wiesbaden, seems to have been only the capture of a detached post, with the troops that defend it. We may estimate the importance of it, from its not being thought worthy an extraordinary Gazette.
It is now said to be the intention of the Combined Armies in Flanders to attempt a winter campaign, of which the siege of Lille is to be the principal object. If dear bought experience had not taught the ignorant medlers who divided them, the presumptuous folly of their
schemes, they are now too much reduced by their late hard service to be able to act separately.
DUKE OF YORK'S ARMY.
Extract of a letter from an English Officer. Camp at Menin, Sept. 19.
For the two last days and nights we have been exposed to an incessant rain, which we fear may have bad effects, as many of the regiments are uncovered, and those that have a sufficient number of tents, are entirely unprovided with straw to lie upon. Till now we have been tolerably healthy; but if this weather continues, our General must either put the Army into winter quarters, or half of it will be unfit for service. What added to the misfortune, is, that numbers of the men left their blankets behind them, in our sudden retreat in the night from Dunkirk.
The horses have suffered much. For two or three days after the retreat, they were almost entirely without forage; and most of their backs are galled by the constant pressure of the saddle, as sometimes the troops have been obliged to remain mounted, not only in the day time, but during the whole night.
Our sick and wounded are sent to Bruges, a very pleasant and healthy town, where we hope most of them will recover. Many of the poor fellows who were not dangerously hurt, perished on the road for want of attendance. I do not mention this with any intention of blaming the surgeons—I am convinced they did their duty to the best of their power! but how could they attend to every individual, when the wagons containing the wounded, formed a line of at least two miles!—There was one loss which we must regret, because it might have been avoided. This was a waggon of sick men, left by some accident on the sands near Nieuport, between high and low water mark. On the flood making up, all those who could not move, were drowned.
Of the wounded there are not quite 200 English. The rest are chiefly Hanoverians, who, forming the army of observation, bore the brunt of all the battles. There are now in Nieuport, four Hanoverian regiments, which consisted of 1000 men each, and now the four do not make 700. There is one of them, an officer, who has to lament the loss of three brothers, killed in the last engagement!
We have been told by the French prisoners, that when they attacked the Hanoverians, they had three reliefs; and these bodies were brought successively to the charge. This accounts for their superiority, and for the great carnage. The dead lay in such heaps, that they were obliged to stop and move the bodies aside to let the columns pass. The French, at first, took Gen. Freytag's army for English, because they were red. The chief distinction consists in the yellow sashes of the officers, ours, as you know, being crimson.
We are in constant expectation of another fight, and we hope that the French will come out and engage us fairly in the field. At Dunkirk they never fought us but in woods, or from behind sand-banks. Our line extends from hence to within a short distance of Furnes, which is occupied by the French. The advanced post is held by the legion of French Emigrants, which behaved very well, and had about 80 men killed in the late engagement.
It is still thought that our Generals will not give up the design upon Dunkirk. We have had certain information, that the first notion in the town was of surrendering, when the army came before it. They were in some degree taken by surprise; for they did not attend to the rumors that were circulated, and expected that Lisle or Cassel, would have been first attacked. The 24 hours that were allowed them to take into consideration the Duke's summons, afforded them time to rally and recover their spirits. The defence was not entrusted to Gen. O'Meara, though he made so bold an answer. Being a foreigner, they did not think the garrison safe under his command, but replaced him by a Frenchman.—This O'Meara had been an officer in the Irish Brigade.
Some blame the Navy, and others the Ordinance for not being ready to co-operate with us at the stipulated time; but after all the delays, we should have taken the place, if the army of observation had been strong enough to repel Houchard.
Friday, Sept. 20.
Our apprehensions respecting the farther progress of the French, in their incursions into West Flanders, subsist no longer. The arrival of a reinforcement of Austrians has put a stop to them for the
present. Gen. BEAULIEU defeated them entirely on Sunday, before Courtrai.
A State Paper, or a Court Gazette, are here, as in England, considered with the same respect as "proofs of holy writ," and like these last they require a commentary. It may appear extraordinary to many persons, who read the Brussels account, that the French, however successful at first, are always beat back at the close of an action. The truth is, that in this war of posts, now carried on between the Allies and the French, the incursions of the latter are generally made to harry or plunder: and as soon as they have accomplished their object they retire of course.
Most of the attacks made on the several points last week by the French, were false ones to cover the real attacks against the Duke of YORK's army and the corps under the Prince of Orange. These they thought the most vulnerable; and in both, they were but too successful. I know not what account the Dutch will publish of their affair on the 10th, and the succeeding day; but of this I am assured, that their army is annihilated for the remainder of the campaign. The few of their officers and men that are to be found are destitute of almost every thing.—The remnant that was saved was carried into Ghent.
Among the losses, was that of the Caisse Militaire, or military chest, with a treasure that must have been very acceptable to the Sans Culottes.
The engagement that was expected has not yet taken place, nor has any news arrived since yesterday from the Combined Army. The Duke of York has been reinforced by 5 regiments of foot. Three more are on their passage.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Whitchall, Sept. 24, 1793.
Extract of a letter from the Earl of YARMOUTH, to the Right Hon. Lord GRENVILLE, his Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Department of Foreign Affairs, dated Maikammer, Sept. 15, 1793.
AN Aid-de-Camp of the Duke of BRUNSWICK is just arrived, with an account that the Duke of BRUNSWICK was yesterday attacked by the French near Pirmasens, but that by a very judicious manœuvre, he turned their flank so completely, as to surround them, when they threw down their arms, and surrendered themselves prisoners of war, to the amount of 3000. He took 27 Pieces of cannon, and two howitzers. The number of the dead cannot be ascertained, as the Duke was left in the pursuit.
He also was so fortunate in the course of the operations, as to burn the baggage and tents of another body of French encamped near Bache. While the Duke was so well employed on one side, Gen. KALKREUTH, was attacked in another quarter, but very faintly; and the action concluded by his cutting to pieces the regiment emphatically called Sans-Culottes, and taking 67 men of another corps.
BERMUDA, Oct. 19.
We hear the Spanish forces, have taken St. Marks, and made considerable advances into the French part of St. Domingo.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 11.
Extract of a letter from London, Sept. 4, 1793.
"All American flocks are very heavy and are likely to fall, owing to an apprehension that a rupture between America and this country is probable. We hope it will prove an idle rumour, and that so distressing an event to both countries may be at a very remote distance.
"We do not like the spirit which prevails too much among a certain description of people with you—but we hope the good sense of America will prevail over these violent men. The French by their conduct have disgraced a cause which originally had been a good one, and are regardless of every principle of honor. We have seen in one of your papers, a letter from Havre, which mentions the release of the Laurens and her cargo in an handsome manner. To undeceive your fellow citizens, be so good in one of your early papers to insert the following extract of a letter from Mr. Gouverneur Morris to us, dated 11th Aug. 1793—"I wish I had good news to give you of the Laurens; but the magnitude of the cargo, has enabled the captors to do many things which for a small prize they could not have attempted. At present the determination will, I imagine, be in their favor, unless the Convention repeal the decree formerly granted on their solicitation in breach of the treaty with the United States."
NEW-YORK, Nov. 19.
ALL persons who can bring direct proofs of the act of piracy, committed in

the lat. of Martinico, and published in the New-York Daily Gazette of the 18th inst. are earnestly requested to transmit them to the Minister of the French Republic, who will do his utmost to bring the delinquent to condign punishment; and will denounce him to the administrations of the French Windward Islands.—He moreover guarantees to the injured party a provisional indemnification to be paid from the prizes of that privateer, wherever they may be, after the exhibition of the proofs to be adduced in his justification.
GENET.
New-York, Nov. 19, 1793.
BOSTON, Nov. 30.
A letter received by a gentleman at Stockbridge, dated Oneida, Oct. 21, says, "Accounts arrived in this village last evening from the Miami, which are much more favorable than when the Commissioners left that quarter. Only three of the Indian nations remain hostile; all the others have declared for peace or neutrality, and request another treaty next spring. The Commissioners on receiving their final answer at the late treaty, which put an end to the negotiation, immediately left Detroit—their sudden departure exhibited such spirit and determined resolution, as made a very favorable impression on the minds of the Indians."
Port-Antonio, in the island of Jamaica, and the port of St. John's, in the island of Antigua, are by a late act of the British Parliament, intitled to the privilege of free ports.
COMMUNICATION.
The cause of the detention and usage of the American Captains and people at Cadiz, and at other places in Europe, may be traced to the impolitic conduct of the French Ambassador in granting commissions to privateers in the United States. The permission of the transaction was considered in Europe as tantamount to a Declaration of hostility; for when the measures taken by the President to counteract it were known, confidence was instantly restored.
LIBERAL DONATION.—Mr. HORTON, lately deceased, at Philadelphia, has left by will, 5535 dollars, six per cent. stock of the United States; the interest of which to be appropriated, forever, towards the education of pious youths.
DECEMBER 2.
THE DECREE
Of the National Convention of France (in the preceding page of this paper,) must convince the Americans of the liberal disposition of that Republic, in promoting and extending the American commerce. As a commercial people, we must be sensible of the great advantages arising from our connection with France, in preference to any other power in Europe. The French appeared desirous to encourage an intercourse with the Americans, founded on the most benevolent principles—while the British in particular, in all their conduct, are as assiduous to embarrass us in our commerce, insult our national flag, and to render our navigation and trade as unproductive as possible.
This decree passed on the 26th of last March. But by the extract from Havre, published on Thursday,* it appears that it has since been reversed, and that all ships (excepting proper French ships) are prohibited from carrying freights from one port in France to another, or from France to her colonies or islands, or from the colonies to France; neither can any ship bring into France, any cargo, except it is the produce of the country of the colours she is under.
What have been the motives of the French nation in thus reversing their former decrees, time will discover; but it is apprehended that some late conduct towards their Minister, together with the many insults offered him by an aristocratic faction through the United States, have led the Republic of France, to conceive that the Americans do not feel that warm attachment to their revolution, which would have entitled them to those exclusive favors they at first intended. It is however, hoped that upon a thorough investigation of those measures that have given cause of suspicion of our want of friendship, the nation of France will restore to the American commerce all those advantages and privileges which they originally contemplated.
* See Gazette, Nov. 30.
Extract of a letter from Cadiz, September 18, 1793.
"According to a late treaty of alliance entered into between this court and that of England, offensive and defensive, they mutually agree to do all in their power to prevent all neutral vessels from carrying to
France, grain, flour, salt provisions, ammunition, or any warlike stores, or to the French islands. They will not even be allowed to carry the produce of said colonies to France, and those vessels that may have such cargoes and bound to France, will if met with by any of the maritime powers at war, be detained, and the cargoes confiscated."
A St. John's (Antigua) paper, of Sept. 10 says: A great many French prisoners, who were taken at the capture of Tobago and sent to Barbadoes, escaped from thence in a large sloop fully laden, valued at 6000l. (sterling) and proceeded with her to Martinique. A small privateer pursued, and coming up with her, found she was under convoy of a French privateer, of much greater force: They desisted and returned to Barbadoes.
December 4.
OF TOULON.
Since our last, the schooner Harriot, Captain Howes, has arrived here from Malaga,* which he left the 8th of Octo. By him we learn, that the report of the recapture of Toulon was premature; and that such an event was not even expected at Malaga; that troops had sailed from Gibraltar, Ville Franche, and Andalusia, for that place, and that the combined forces being in possession of the principal forts, thought themselves secure against any attacks which may be made thereon, from the land. The defeats of bodies of the Spaniards, in Roussillon, are confirmed.
* A town of Spain, in Grenada, in the Mediterranean sea, lat. 36. 35. long. 4. 35. Toulon is in lat. 43. 7. long. 6. 2. The sail between the two places, is about eight days.
MARINE JOURNAL.
NORFOLK, NOV. 9.
On Monday evening arrived here the Snow Jenny, of Boston, Capt. Macfall, from Jeremie, bound to Baltimore. Captain Macfall informs, that part of the 13th and 49th regiments had arrived there on the 20th, and taken possession of all the forts, &c. at Jeremie, and also the district of Grand Ance. On the 21st they took possession of Cape Nicholas Mole, and obliged the Mulattos to evacuate Cape Dumirre, which they also took possession of. Having possession of the above places, they allowed the Americans ten days to purchase and take off coffee; after the expiration of which they were only to carry away Taffia and Molasses.
All Americans clearing at Jeremie are furnished with a passport to protect them from the British privateers. Shortly after Capt. Macfall left Jeremie, he fell in with a New-Providence privateer, the Captain of which not regarding his passport, carried him back to Jeremie. Upon complaint being made to the Commandant, the Capt. of the privateer was deprived of his commission, and thrown into jail.
Capt. Macfall on his passage, on Sunday night last picked up a boat with the following persons in her:—Capt. Selby, his mate, the supercargo, and five sailors, belonging to the brig Junius Brutus, of Newfield, in New-England, which had foundered off Barnegat shoals, on Tuesday the 22d. They had been six days in the boat, and at the time of their leaving the brig were only able to save eighteen biscuits and one hundred oranges, on which they had subsisted without a drop of water. The brig was from Gaudaloupe, but touched at St. Martins, and had a valuable cargo of salt, sugar and rum on board.
On Tuesday last arrived in Hampton Roads, the ship Lydia, of Portland, the Capt. of which informs, that he discovered a wreck in the gulph. On approaching her, she proved to be a Schooner water logged, with nearly all the company washed away. The wind being high, they did not at first intend boarding her, but being short of provisions, they thought some might be saved from the wreck. The Captain and mate accordingly went on board, but finding it impossible to get at the provisions, they determined to rip up the quarter deck, which they had not sooner done than fourteen dead bodies immediately floated out, thirteen of whom from their dress appeared to be Frenchmen, and one as an American, supposed to be the Captain. Two or three trunks also floated up; by the papers contained in one of them, they discovered her to be the Schooner Betsey and Patsy, Capt. Rogers, of and from Baltimore. The other trunks contained nothing but shirts, drawers, and pocket-handkerchiefs, and about 20 joes in cash. As they perceived that the vessel had settled considerably as soon as the dead bodies came up, they hastily left her, lest she should sink too quick and drown them in the suction.
On Wednesday arrived here in 17 days from Grenada, the Schooner Polly, Captain Gelsan, who informs that the Negroes, headed by some of the French Emigrants lately from Hispaniola, had risen upon the Whites. The Governor ordered out the Militia, but kept the regular troops back—the battle was desperate—the militia were overcome and nearly cut to pieces, when the regulars, who could be no longer refrained, rushed out to their assistance. Being thus reinforced, they rallied and again gave battle. In a short time they were compelled to retreat, and in that situation nearly cut them to pieces. The above Schooner on Thursday last, was ordered down to Crany-Island, to perform quarantine.
On Wednesday night last arrived here from New-Providence, the Schooner Industrious Mary, commanded by Philip Riter, who informs, that previous to his sailing, a vessel had been
sent out from Providence, to order all the Privateers in—that all but two had come in.
The reason of this order was, they apprehended a visit from the French fleet, and wanted the men to guard the island.
Yesterday arrived here from Gaudaloupe the sloop Sifters, commanded by Thomas Calvert, who informs, that on his passage out, he was boarded by an English pirate (under the denomination of a privateer) from St. Vincents, the Captain of which ordered him on board, where he was detained 36 hours, during which time he boarded the Sifters, broke open Capt. Calvert's chest, and stole every thing of value, robbed the vessel of all their stores and then permitted Capt. Calvert to proceed—But the vessel not being pumped during Captain Calvert's detention, he found five feet water in the hold, which entirely damaged the lower tier of barrels of flour with which he was loaded.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 7.
On the 20th Sept. the ship Greenway, Capt. Oakman, of Boston, and the ship Rookby, Capt. Jones, of this port, loaded with French manufactured goods, were carried into Cadiz, as prizes to a Spanish frigate, by which they were taken 10 days out from Bourdeaux. The people are detained on board the frigate, and have all been stripped and plundered; no person is permitted to go on board to see them, or to write to them; nor are they allowed pen or paper.
A letter from Capt. Wyatt, on board whose vessel a late daring outrage was committed, in Philadelphia, to his owners in Newbury-Port, gives the following particulars:
"I had an unfortunate circumstance that took place on board of my Ship, the day that I arrived, by a mob of Frenchmen, who came from the shore, to make a demand of one of my passengers, in order to murder him on board—They tried, by force, to pass the Centry (my first mate) at the Cabin-door—and, as soon as they were resisted, they drew their swords on my mate, and shot off one of my people's arms with a Pistol Ball—Myself and mate were slightly wounded in our hands—but we dispersed them, without any further damage, at that time. The next day they began the same way again, and while I went to the Mayor of the City, for assistance, they broke the lock of my Companion-door, and took the man out, whom they almost murdered, before the Americans could rescue him. I have three of them in prison, and sufficient evidence against them."
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE.
ENTERED FROM Ship Helen, Douglass, Tobago. CLEARED FOR Sch'r Adventure, Trefethen, Baltimore.
MILLSFIELD.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of each original right of land in the township of Millsfield, situate in the county of Grafton, in the State of New-Hampshire, viz. the rights of George Boyd, Esq. Timothy White, Robert Pease, Amos Pease, Israel Morey, Esquire, Ebenezer Swan, John Morey, Frederic M'Bell, Abijah Willard, Esquire, John Sprague, Esq. Luther Richardson, Ebenezer Green, Daniel Tilton, Aaron Stiles, Amos Palmer, Moses Palmer, Daniel Tilton, jun. John Wood, Rev. Obadiah Noble, Shubael Cross, John Woodward, Solomon Morey, Benjamin Baldwin, jun. Ebenezer Baldwin, Nathan Dewey, Abraham Palmer, Samuel Phelps, John Morey, Joel Phelps, John White, James Reed, jun. James Reed, Esq. Benjamin Grant, Benjamin Grant, jr. Peter Grant, Samuel Smith, Jonathan Child, Amos Woodworth, Joel Woodworth, William Marston, Matthew Miller, Timothy Bartholomew, Benjamin Chamberlin, Noah Grant, Sylvanus Owen, John Roberts, Andrew Bell, Noah Dewey, Azariah Webb, Elijah Daley, Robert Kennedy, jr. Ichabod Palmer, John Burnham Hanlon, Samuel Hunt, Reuben Grant, John Man, Walter Fairfield, Sir Tho's Mills, Knight, George Sprowle, Thomas M'Donough, John P. Williams, Moses Rofs, Charles Waldren, Wentworth Binsley, and Benning Wentworth, will be sold to the highest bidder, on the second day of January next ensuing, at the dwelling house of Caleb Sanborn, innholder in Hampton, in the county of Rockingham, in said State of New-Hampshire, as will pay three pounds on each of said rights, with incidental charges, if payment be not previously made to me at my dwelling-house in Salem, in the county of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts; which sum was voted by the proprietors of said township of Millsfield, on the eleventh day of December last, A. D. 1792, at a legal meeting for the purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect.
JOHN SAUNDERS, jr. Prop'rs Collector. Salem (Mass.) Dec. 4, 1793.
TO BE SOLD
On reasonable terms, (if applied for soon,)
270 Acres Land in Exeter,
Commonly called the CUBA Land, for particulars apply to the Printer hereof.
A FARM FOR SALE.
TO BE SOLD
At Public Auction,
On the 16th day of December inst. at 11 o'clock A. M.
THAT excellent tract of LAND, in Newington, called the LEIGHTON Farm, with the buildings, &c. It is pleasantly situated adjacent Greenland Bay—contains upwards of 40 acres of upland and salt marsh, and has thereon a promising young orchard.—Likewise, to be sold at said time, a number of CATTLE. Conditions to be known at time and place.—Further particulars may be known by applying to the subscriber.—Sale to be on the premises.
JOEL LEIGHTON.
December 5, 1793.
N. B. A FARM in Little Bay to be sold at the same time; on which MATHIAS NUTTER now lives.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors, and owners of Lands in the following towns, viz. Campton 1786; Duxbury School Farm and mile Slip, Epsom and Windham 1789; Meredith 1790; Warren 1791; Wolfborough 1792 and Sullivan 1793: That the lists of taxes of said towns for said years are left with the subscriber, that unless they pay their taxes either to him or the Collectors thereof, within eight weeks from the first publishing this advertisement, their lands will be advertised for sale for the payment of the same.
NATH'L PARKER,
Receiver non resident Taxes.
Exeter, December 2, 1793.
ERROL.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of each original right of land in the township of Errol, situate in the county of Grafton, in the State of New-Hampshire, viz. The rights of the Hon. Timothy Ruggles, Esquire, George Boyd, Esquire, James Richardson, Esq. Phineas Hutchins, Theodrick Reed, Andrew Colburn, Joseph Heminway, Joseph Potter, Benedict Webber, Thomas Tolman, Ebenezer Tolman, William Tolman, Samuel Bishop, Elijah Clays, John Whitney, John Anger, John Fallett, Samuel Graves, Moses Whitney, Jonah Herrington, Edward Kendal, James Tiffney, Nathan Hall, Edward Platts, William Barker, James Brewer, Henry Morie, Jonathan Hammond, Greenwood Carpenter, Jonathan Woodcock, jr. Samuel Hunt, Ebenezer Green, Benjamin Grant, Benjamin Grant, jun. Peter Grant, Samuel Smith, Israel Morey, Esq. Jonathan Childs, Amasa Woodworth, Joel Woodworth, William Thompson, David Thompson, William Marston, Jacob Marston, Matthew Miller, James Miller, Timothy Bartholomew, Noah Grant, Sylvanus Owen, John Roberts, Andrew Bell, Noah Dewey, William Bell, John Chamberlin, Amos Pease, John White, Manasseh Divell, John Solendine, Phineas Butler, Robert Kennedy, junior, Elijah Daley, Azariah Webb, Hon. George Jeffry, Esq. Edward Setate, Andrew M'Gaffry, Samuel Wentworth Fisher, Daniel Sherburne, Samuel Sherburne, Edward Sherburne, John Lyford, jun. William Torrey, and Thomas M'Donough, will be sold to the highest bidder, on the second day of January next ensuing, at the dwelling house of Caleb Sanborn, innholder in Hampton, in the county of Rockingham, in said State of New-Hampshire, as will pay three pounds six shillings, on each of said rights, with incidental charges, if payment be not previously made to me at my dwelling-house in Salem, in the county of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts; which sum was voted by the proprietors of said township of Errol, on the 11th day of December last, A. D. 1792, at a legal meeting for the purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect.
JOHN SAUNDERS, jr. Prop'rs Collector. Salem (Mass.) Dec. 4, 1793.
THE
Massachusetts Register,
For 1794,
To be sold at this Office.

THE Pleasing Instructor.
On GAMING.
You'll find at least, this maxim true, Fools are the game that knaves pursue.
GAY.
IT is observable that Mahomet, in a most particular manner, forbade gaming and drunkenness to his followers, when at the same time he indulged them with plurality of women: The last he looked upon as a passion, the seeds of which are implanted as it were in our nature; whereas gaming and drunkenness he absolutely forbade, as acquired, and unnatural vices; as vices productive of the most dreadful consequences. I will not at present examine the justness of the compliment paid to amorous libertinism, which he certainly carried too far; but shall observe, that his strict commands in regard to gaming and drunkenness, have contributed more than any of his other injunctions to the happiness of his followers.
Gaming (which I shall at present consider) seems to me of all vices the greatest enemy of happiness: Its inseparable attendants are envy, deceit, profuseness, impiety, and a whole train of diabolical associates: Health, peace of mind, love, family, friends, country, and in short every thing valuable or desirable, are sacrificed to it. And to what then are they sacrificed?—Why, to avarice: Avarice, the meanest of vices. The love of gaming is nothing more than the love of other people's money. It is not the avarice of a miser, it is the avarice of a thief, a robber, or rather the cowardly avarice of a pick-pocket. It is avarice and profusion joined together; a most unnatural conjunction, and productive of more terrible consequences than either of them singly can possibly be:—Like Aaron's rod, it absorbs, it swallows up, and contains within itself all other vices; and may justly, among vices, be styled Legion : and of all its baits made use of by the grand enemy of mankind, to tempt us from our duty, and make us unhappy hereafter, gaming seems the most dangerous, and the best calculated to answer his diabolical ends.
It is ridiculous to hear the votaries of gaming term it an amusement, an inoffensive relaxation, &c. those who misal it, must notwithstanding allow it to be an irrational, an unimproving diversion; and that at the best it is but murdering time. But upon examination, every observer may find, that dallying with the temptation draws on imperceptibly to the most destructive consequences. But what shall be said of those who take no delight in gaming, yet give into it on almost every occasion? Surely complaisance is a poor excuse for doing a foolish or a wicked action, and that every gamester is a knave or a fool, and a most palpable truth. A certain nobleman hearing a gentleman spoken of who was said to be a great gamester; he is a most incorrigible blockhead, cries my Lord; but on being assured he was a man of very brilliant parts; if so, replies my Lord, he must be a rank scoundrel: Not so, my Lord, replies the other, he bears the character of a gentleman of great worth and honor: That cannot be, retorts the nobleman; every gamester is either a rogue or fool, pike or gadgeon; and honor never makes a nearer approach to the heart of such a one than the tip of his tongue.
All conversation, all improvement, is put a stop to, the moment gaming commences. Friendship and society, benevolence and humanity cease, and nothing further is thought of, but the ruin of those you are in company with; the ruin of those you often make the strongest protestations of friendship to: The gamester's happiness, like the devil's, depends on the misery of others; and, like Satan too, he smiles on those who, in his heart, he devotes to destruction.
The life of a gamester is a life of uncertainty (consequently of unhappiness); he can never properly call any thing his own, not being assured of its possession one moment longer than till his next sitting down to the gaming table. The thriving gamester! how precarious is his thriving! is the worst of robbers; and the unfortunate, the worst of self-murderers: A murderer who involves all those innocents, who unfortunately have any connection with him, in the dismal gulph of beggary and wretched dependence.
If covetousness of another's property, and discontent of our own, be a breach of the divine command, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods," &c. the gamester is ever and superlatively guilty. The late Duke of A—e, who had an aversion for all sorts of gaming, being urged to no purpose by a nobleman, to sport a little money: Sure, my Lord, cries the nobleman, you must love your money vastly, to be afraid of venturing a trifle of it.—It is true, my Lord, replies his Grace, I do love my own money; yet no person had ever reason to say I was ever fond of another man's.
The male part of mankind who give into this vice, prostitute their talents to the most vicious purposes; they become entirely absorbed by it; they stand like slaves in the market, to be bought and sold; for necessity often starves them in the face, and betrays them to venality.
If married, how can they reflect on the hazards to which they expose the happiness of wives, children, and friends? And when ill fortune flares them in the face, how often are they so cowardly as to have recourse to a pistol, and by suicide leave those innocents to confront a danger they themselves were afraid of facing? But when gaming seizes the female breast, to all the abovementioned misfortunes we may justly add loss of beauty , which is ever the consequence of late hours, ruffled passions and a corroding heart. Her honor, her chastity, can
no longer be called her own when she commences gamester. The mansion of gracefulness and beauty is converted into a foul and darksome dungeon. Attracting softness and modesty (the amiable characteristics of the sex) are changed for unbecoming fierceness and acerbity of temper, and the whole picture brings to our mind, the different situations and figure of Satan before and after the fall.
JUST IMPORTED In the ship HERO , from BRISTOL , by John & Jon a Goddard AND FOR SALE, At their Store in MARKET-STREET , Corner of Ladd-Street , A large and very general assortment of HARD WARE GOODS , Consisting of almost every article usually imported in that line.
As said Goods are received direct from the first hand, and on the most favorable terms; Gentlemen Traders, and others, in town and country, who wish to purchase, may depend on being supplied, at wholesale or retail, as cheap as at any Store in Boston.
Also, at the same store may be had, Painter's Oil, Colours and Brushes, Dye-Stuffs, Clothiers' Cards and Press Papers, 10 by 8, 9 by 7 and 8 by 6 Window Glass, 4d. 6d. 8d. 10d. 20d. and Sheathing Nails, plain and cut flint and common Glass Ware, a few complete table sets blue and green edged Crockery Ware.—Gun-Powder, Allum, Copperas, Whiting and Brimstone by the cask; Wines, Spices, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Hyson, Souchong and Bohea Teas; Rum, Flour, German Steel, 10 plate and 6 plate Stoves, Cast-Iron Backs and Jambs for Chimneys; Philadelphia Iron of a superior quality, per ton or less quantity. Portsmouth, Dec. 7, 1793.
A Fresh Assortment of GOODS Imported in the last Vessels From London & Bristol, AND TO BE SOLD, at the lowest advance—by Samuel Hill , AT HIS STORE ON SPRING-HILL, —viz.—
A General Assortment of WOOLLENS . An extensive assortment of CUTLERY and HARD-WARES , WINDOW-GLASS , of all sizes, LOOKING-GLASSES , A large assortment of Hatter's TRIMMINGS , A great variety of Gentlemen's and Ladies HATS , BRASS-KETTLES and WARMING-PANS , A general assortment of IRON-WARE :
—ALSO— MAY BE HAD AT THE SAME PLACE, West-India GOODS , GROCERIES , and many other articles, too numerous for an advertisement. *** Cash given for SHIPPING-FURS . Portsmouth, Nov. 13, 1793.
A good FARM for sale PLEASANTLY situated in Rye , about one mile and a quarter from the Meeting-House, and within seven miles of Portsmouth —containing about 107 acres of good Land , has an Orchard that produces yearly 25 barrels of Cyder , the Farm is well wooded and watered, and has good buildings on the same, and will be sold reasonably:—For further particulars apply to the subscriber, living on said farm. BICKFORD LANG.
Fresh Wollens Just Received from LIVERPOOL & HULL , and for SALE by N. FRAZIER & SON , No. 5, KILBY STREET , a little South of the Bunch of Grape's Tavern, BOSTON , A good Assortment of Wollen Goods , AMONG WHICH ARE, 250 Pieces of Baizes, 60 Ditto, Flannels, 160 Ditto, Coatings, VARIOUS COLOURS. A number of Bales of Rose and Duffil Blankets , assorted, A great Variety of
Broad Cloths, Cassimeres, Elastic Stripes, Kersies, Plains, German Serges, Frizes, &c. &c.
—ALSO— Received by Capt. Davis , just from London , AND FOR SALE, At the abovementioned Store, A Variety of other GOODS , Suitable for the Season, Consisting of Shawls, Irish Linens , A number of Chests of Calicoes , and Copperplate Furniture, Tammies, Durants, Crapes, Wildbores, Men's Camblets, Velvets, Thickflets, Corduroys, Checks, Dimitys, &c.
making in the whole, A complete assortment of FALL & WINTER GOODS , Out of which, Wholesale Purchasers may be very advantageously supplied. November 6, 1793.
THE Brethren of the ancient society of free and accepted Masons, are hereby informed, that the Festival of St. John the Evangelist, will be celebrated by the Columbian Lodge, at Brother Benjamin Butler's in Deerfield, on Friday the 27th day of December next. The Brethren are requested to attend at eleven of the clock, A. M.—Dinner will be on the table precisely at 2 o'clock, P. M. By order of the Rt. Worshipful J. CILLEY, Master. NATH'L WEARE, Sec'y. Deerfield, Nov. 18, 1793.
THE subscribers appointed commissioners to receive, examine and adjust the claims of the several creditors to the estate of REUBEN CLOUGH , late of Sandown, Esq. deceased, hereby give notice, that they shall attend that service at the house of Mr. PETER SANBORN , Inn-holder in said Sandown, on the fourth Tuesday of December next, and the five following months, from 3 to 6 o'clock, P. M.
JABEZ HOIT, WILLIAM ROWEL, } Commiss's. TIM. TILTON. Sandown, Nov. 23, 1793.
Six Pence Reward. RAN AWAY from the subscriber, last Saturday evening, BENJAMIN PEAVY , an apprentice boy, aged 17 years.—I do hereby caution all persons from harboring, concealing or employing said apprentice, as the consequence will be made disagreeable to them by such steps as the law directs.—Whoever will return said boy shall have six pence reward. SAMUEL HATCH. Greenland, November 13, 1793.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of each of the original rights of land in the township of Morristown , situate in the county of Grafton , in the State of New-Hampshire , called equal original rights, as will pay three pounds on each of said rights, with incidental charges, and so much of each of the remaining rights as will pay the same proportionable sum, with incidental charges, will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 20th day of December next ensuing, at 11 o'clock, A. M. at the dwelling house of Capt. Benjamin French , innholder in Dunstable , in the county of Hillsborough , in said State of New-Hampshire , if payment be not previously made to me at my dwelling-house in Concord , in the county of Middlesex , in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; which sum was voted by the proprietors of said township of Morristown , on the 8th day of May, A. D. 1793, at their legal meeting for the purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect, and by me advertised for payment, but still unpaid.—The grantee's names and tax on each right are as follows, viz. Ebenezer Green £3— Benja. Grant £3— Benjamin Grant, jun. £3— Samuel Cary £3— Peter Grant £3— Noah Grant £3— Thomas Swan £3— Simeon Alcott , Esquire £3— Andrew Bell £3— Samuel Hunt £3— Enos Stevens £3— Edward Howard £3— Alexander Phelps £3— Joel Phelps £3— Benjamin Chamberlin £3— Ichabod Palmer £3— Noah Dewey £3— Joel Woodward £3— John Wood £3— John Woodward £3— Abraham Palmer £3— Samuel Phelps £3— Jonathan Hatch £3— Jonathan Childs £3— Abner Howard £3— John Morey £3— Benja. Baldwin, jun. £3— Jacob Marston £3— Sir Francis Barnard , baronet £10 16 9 2—His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson , Esq. £1 3 9 3— Hon. John Temple £10 16 9 2— Theodore Atkinson , Esq. £1 18 4— Mark H. Wentworth , Esq. £10 16 9 2— Daniel Warner , Esq. £10 16 9 2— Hon. Corbin Morris , Esq. £1 3 9 3— John Nelson , Esq. £10 16 9 2— John Wendell , Esquire £1 3 9 3— Thomas M'Donough £10 16 9 2— Daniel Sherburne £10 16 9 2— Samuel Sherburne £10 16 9 2— William Ferreman £10 16 9 2. NATHAN BARRETT , Prop. Collect. Concord, Massachusetts, Nov. 18, 1793.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the township of Dorchester , situate in the county of Grafton , in the State of New-Hampshire ; that a tax of one pound ten shillings on each original right of land in said township is assessed and committed to me to collect, for the purpose of paying the proprietors debts and expenses that has, or may arise for bringing forward the settlement of said township, agreeable to the vote of the proprietors of May 8th, 1793; if said tax is not paid to me at my dwelling house in Concord , in the county of Middlesex , in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , on or before the 28th day of December next ensuing; the same will be levied by sale of the interest or property of the proprietor or owner who shall be delinquent in payment, fourteen days after the third and last week of this advertisement, and the delinquents land will be advertised for sale accordingly. JONAS MINOT, Jr. Collector for the Proprietors of the township of Dorchester aforesaid.
FOR SALE, (IF APPLIED FOR SOON) THE Brig Dispatch , 197 TONS BURTHEN, being in good repair & well found.
—ALSO— 150 or 200 Thousand feet of Merchantable Pine BOARDS . 20 or 25 Thousand of Red-Oak Hoghead STAVES . 350 Barrels PITCH, TAR and TURPENTINE . Any person wishing to purchase any of the above Articles, will know the terms by applying to RICHARD HART , North-End. Portsmouth, Nov. 30, 1793.
WANTED In a Store in this town, an active LAD of about 16 years of age, of a reputable family, and who can be well recommended. Enquire of the Printer.