New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1778-11-24 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette OR State JOURNAL and General ADVERTISER.
Vol. I.
TUESDAY, November 24, 1778
No. 401
THE CRISIS.
NUMBER VI.
To the Earl of CARLISLE, General CLINTON, and WILLIAM EDEN, Esq; British Commissioners, at New-York.
THERE is a dignity in the warm passions of a whig, which is never to be found in the cold malice of a tory. In the one, nature is only heated—in the other she is poisoned. The instant the former has it in his power to punish, he feels a disposition to forgive; but the canine venom of the latter knows no relief but in revenge. This general distinction will, I believe, apply in all cases, and suit as well the meridian of England as America.
As I presume your last proclamation will undergo the strictures of other pens, I shall confine my remarks to only a few points thereof. All that you have said might have been comprised in half the compass. It is tedious and unmeaning, and only a repetition of your former follies, with here and there an offensive aggravation. Your cargo of pardons will have no market—It is unfashionable to look at them—Even speculation is at an end. They are become a perfect drug, and no ways calculated for the climate.
In the course of your proclamation you say, "The policy as well as the benevolence of Great Britain, have thus far checked the extremes of war, when they tended to distress a people still considered as our fellow subjects, and to desolate a country shortly to become again a source of mutual advantage." What you mean by "the benevolence of Great Britain," is to me inconceivable. To put a plain question: Do you consider yourselves men or devils? For until this point is settled, no determinate sense can be put upon the expression. You have already equalled, and in many instances excelled, the savages of either Indies; and if you have yet a cruelty in store, you must have imported it, unmixed with every human material, from the original ware-house of hell.
To the interposition of Providence, and her blessings on our endeavours, and not to British benevolence, are we indebted for the short chain that limits your ravages. Remember you do not, at this time, command a foot of land on the Continent of America. State-Island, York-Island, a small part of Long Island, and Rhode Island, circumscribe your powers; & even those you hold at the expence of the West Indies. To avoid a defeat and prevent a desertion of your troops, you have taken up your quarters in holes and corners of inaccessible security; and in order to conceal what every one can conceive, you now endeavour to impose your weakness upon us for an act of mercy. If you think to succeed by such shadowy devices, you are but infants in the political world; you have the A, B, C, of stratagem yet to learn; and are wholly ignorant of the people you have to contend with. Like men in a state of intoxication, you forget that the rest of the world have eyes, and that the same stupidity which conceals you from yourselves, exposes you to their satire and contempt.
The paragraph I have quoted stands as an introduction to the following. "But when that country (America) professes the unnatural design, not only of estranging herself from us, but of mortgaging herself and her resources to our enemies, the whole contest is changed; and the question is, how far Great Britain may, by every means in her power, destroy or render useless, a connection contrived for her ruin, and the aggrandiz-
ment of France. Under such circumstances, the Laws of self-preservation must direct the conduct of Britain, and if the British Colonies are to become an accession to France, will direct her to render that accession of as little avail as possible to her enemy."
I consider you in this declaration, like madmen biting in the hour of death. It contains likewise a fraudulent meanness; for, in order to justify a barbarous conclusion, you have advanced a false position. The treaty we have formed with France is open, noble, and generous. It is true policy, founded on sound philosophy, and neither a surrender or mortgage, as you would scandalously insinuate. I have seen every article, and speak from positive knowledge. In France, we have found an affectionate friend, and a faithful ally; from Britain, nothing but tyranny, cruelty, and infidelity.
But the happiness is, that the mischief you threaten, is not in your power to execute; and if it were, the punishment would return upon you in a tenfold degree. The humanity of America hath hitherto restrained her from acts of retaliation, and the Affection she retains for many individuals in England, who have fed, clothed, and comforted her prisoners, has, to the present day, warded off her resentment, and operated as a screen to the whole. But even these considerations must cease, when national objects interfere & oppose them. Repeated aggravations will provoke a resort, and policy justify the measure. We mean now to take you seriously up upon your own ground and principle, and as you do, so shall you be done by.
You ought to know, gentlemen, that England and Scotland, are far more exposed to incendiary desolation than America, in her present state, can possibly be. We occupy a country, with but few towns, & whose riches consists in lands & annual produce. The two last can suffer but little, & that only within a very limited compass. In Britain it is otherwise. Her wealth lies chiefly in cities and large towns, the repositories of manufactures and fleets of merchantmen.—There is not a Nobleman's country seat but may be laid in ashes by a single person. Your own may probably contribute to the proof: In short, there is no evil which cannot be returned when you come to incendiary mischief.—The ships in the Thames, may certainly be as easily set on fire, as the temporary bridge was a few years ago; yet of that affair no discovery was ever made; and the loss you would sustain by such an event executed at a proper season, is infinitely greater than any you can inflict. The East India House, and the Bank, neither are, nor can be secure from this sort of destruction, and, as Dr. Price justly observes, a fire at the latter would bankrupt the nation. It has never been the custom of France and England, when at war, to make those havocks on each other, because the ease with which they could retaliate, rendered it as impolitic as if each had destroyed his own.
But think not, gentlemen, that our distance secures you, or our invention fails us. We can much easier, accomplish such a point than any nation in Europe. We talk the same language, dress in the same habit, and appear with the same manners as yourselves. We can pass from one part of England to another unsuspected; many of us are as well acquainted with the country as you are, and should you impolitely provoke our will, you will most assuredly lament the effects of it. Mischiefs of this kind require no army to execute them. The means are obvious, & the
opportunities unguardable. I hold up a warning piece to you lenies, if you have any left, and "to the unhappy people likewise, whose affairs are committed to you." I call not with the rancour of an enemy, but with the earnestness of a friend, on the deluded people of England, lest between your blunders and theirs, they sink beneath the evils contrived for us.
"He who lives in a gizz to fe, says the Spanish proverb, should never begin throwing stones."—This, gentlemen, is exactly your case; and you must be the most ignorant of mankind, to suppose us so, not to see on which side the balance of accounts will fall. There are many other modes of retaliation, which, for several reasons, I choose not to mention. But be assured of this, that the instant you put a threat in execution, a counter blow will follow it. If you openly profess yourselves savages, it is high time we should treat you as such, and in nothing but distress can recover you to reason; to punish will become an office of charity.
While your fleet lay all Winter in the Delaware, I offered my service to the Pennsylvania Navy Board, then at Trenton, as one who would make a party with them, or any four or five gentlemen on an expedition down the river to let fire to it, and though it was not then accepted, nor the thing personally attempted, it is more than probable, that your own folly will provoke a much more vulnerable part. Say not when the mischief is done that you had not warning, and remember that we do not begin it, but mean to repay. Thus much for your saying and impolitic threats.
In another part of your proclamation you say, "But if the honours of a military life are become the object of the Americans, let them seek those honours under the banners of their rightful Sovereign, and in fighting the battles of the united British empire, against our late mutual and natural enemies." Surely! The union of absurdity with madness was never marked in more distinguishable lines than those. Your rightful Sovereign as you call him may do well enough for you, who dare not enquire into the humble capacities of the man; but we who estimate persons and things, by their real worth, cannot suffer our judgments to be so imposed upon; and, unless it is your wish to see him exposed, it ought to be your endeavour to keep him out of sight. The less you have to say about him the better. We have done with him and that ought to be answer enough. You have been often told so, strange! That the answer must be so often repeated. You go a begging with your King as with a brat, or with some unsaleable commodity you were tired of; and though every body tells us, no, still you keep hawking him about. But there is one that will have him in a little time, and as we have no inclination to disappoint you of a customer we bid nothing for him.
The impertinent folly of the paragraph I have just quoted, deserves no other notice than to be laughed at and thrown by, but the principle on which it is founded is detestable. We are invited to submit to a man who has attempted by cruelty to destroy us, and to join him in making war against France, who is already at war against him for our support.
Can bedlam, in concert with Lucifer, form a more mad and devilish request? Were it possible that a people could sink into such apostasy, they would deserve to be swept from the earth like the inhabitants of Sodom.
* General Clinton's Letter to Congress.

and Gomorrah. The proposition is an universal affront to the rank which man holds in the creation. And indignity to him who placed him there. It supposes him made up without a spark of honour, and under no obligation to God or man.
What sort of men or christians must you suppose the Americans to be, who, after seeing their most humble petitions insultingly rejected; the most grievous laws passed to distress them in every quarter; an undeclared war let loose upon them, and Indians and Negroes invited to the slaughter: Who, after seeing their kindred murdered, their fellow citizens starved to death in prisons, and their houses and property destroyed and burned: Who, after the most serious appeals to heaven; the most solemn abjuration by oath of all government connected with you, and the most heart felt pledges and protestation of faith to each other; and who, after soliciting the friendship, and entering into alliances with other nations, should at last break through all these obligations, civil & divine, by complying with your horrid and internal proposal. Ought we ever after to be considered as a part of the human race? Or ought we not rather to be blotted from the society of mankind, and become a spectacle of misery to the world? But there is something in corruption, which like a jaundiced eye, transfers the colour of itself to the object it looks upon; and sees every thing stained & impure; for unless you were capable of such conduct yourselves, you could never have supposed such a character in us. The offer fixes your infamy. It exhibits you as a nation without faith; with whom oaths and treaties are considered as trifles, & the breaking them as the breaking of a bubble. Regard to decency or to rank might have taught you better , or pride inspired you, tho' virtue could not. There is not left a step in the degradation of character; to which you can now descend; you have put your foot on the ground floor, and the key of the dungeon is turned upon you.
That the invitation may want nothing of being a compleat MONSTER, you have thought proper to finish it with an assertion which has no foundation, either in fact or philosophy, and as Mr. Ferguson, your Secretary, is a man of letters, and has made civil Society his study, and published a treatise on that subject, I address this part to him.
In the close of the paragraph which I last quoted, France is stiled the " natural enemy " of England, and by way of lugging us into the same strange idea, she is likewise stiled the late mutual and natural enemy of both the countries. I deny that she ever was the natural enemy of either, and that there does not exist in nature such a principle. The expression is an unmeaning barbarism, and wholly unphilosophical, when applied to beings of the same species, let their rank in the creation be what it may. We have a perfect idea of a natural enemy when we think of the Devil , because the enmity is perpetual unalterable and unabateable. It admits of neither peace, truce or treaty; consequently the warfare is eternal, and therefore it is natural. But man with man cannot arrange in the same opposition. Their quarrels are accidental and equivocally created.—They become friends or enemies as the change of temper or the cast of interest inclines them. The Creator of man did not constitute him the natural enemy of each other. He has not made any one order of beings so. Even wolves may quarrel, still they herd together. —If any two nations are so, then must all nations be so, otherwise it is not nature but custom, and the offence frequently originates with the aggressor. ————— England is as truly the natural enemy of France as France is of England, and perhaps more so. Separated from the rest of Europe, she has contracted an unsociable habit of manners, and imagines in others the jealousy she creates in herself. Never long satisfied with peace she supposes the discontent universal, and burned up with her own importance, conceives herself the only object pointed at, —
The expression has been often used and always with a fraudulent design, for when the idea of a mutual enemy is conceived, it prevents all other enquiries, and the real cause of the quarrel is hidden in the universality of the conceit. Men start at the notion of a natural enemy , and ask no other questions. The cry obtains credit like the alarm of a mad dog, and is one of those kind of tricks which, by operating on the common passions secures their interest through their folly.
But we, Sir, are not to be thus imposed upon. We live in a large world, and have extended our ideas beyond the limits and prejudices of an island. We hold out the right hand of fellowship to all the universe and we conceive there to be a sociality in the manners of France, which is much better disposed to peace & negotiation than that of England, and until the latter become more civilized she cannot expect to live long at peace with any power. Her common language is vulgar and offensive, and children with their milk suck in the rudiments of insult. The arm of Britain! The mighty arm of Britain! Britain that shakes the earth to its center and its poles! The scourge of France! The terror of the world! That governs with a nod and pours down vengeance like a God. This language neither makes a nation great, or little, but it shews a savageness of manners, and has a tendency to keep national animosity alive. The entertainments of a stage are calculated to the same end, and almost every publick exhibition is tinged with insult. Yet England is always in dread of France. Tied at the apprehension of an invasion. Suspicious of being outwitted in a treaty, and privately cringing though she is publickly offending. Let her, therefore, reform her manners and do justice, and she will find the idea of a natural enemy to be only a phantom of her own imagination.
Little did I think, at this period of the war to see a proclamation which could promise you no one useful purpose whatever, and tend only to expose you. One would think you were just awakened from a four years dream and knew nothing what had passed in the interval. Is this a time to be offering pardons, or renewing the long forgotten subjects of charters and taxation? Is it worth your while after every force has failed you, to retreat under the shelter of argument and persuasion? Or can you think that we, with nearly half your army prisoners, and in alliance with France, are to be begged or threatened into submission by a piece of paper? But as Commissioners, at a hundred pounds sterling a week each, you conceived yourselves bound to do something, and the genius of ill fortune told you, you must write.
For my part, I have not put a pen to paper these several months. Convinced of our superiority by the issue of every campaign, I was inclined to hope that, that which all the rest of the world can see, would become visible to you, and therefore felt unwilling to ruffle your temper by fretting you with repetitions or discoveries. There have been intervals of hesitation in your conduct, from which it seemed a pity to disturb you, and a charity to leave you to yourselves. You have often slopt, as if you intended to think but your thoughts have ever been too early or too late.
There was a time when Briton disdained to answer, and even to hear a petition from America. That time is past, and she in her turn is petitioning our acceptance. We now stand on higher ground and offer her peace; and the time will come when she, perhaps in vain, will ask it from us. The latter case is as probable as the former ever was. She cannot refuse to acknowledge our Independence with greater obstinacy than she before refused to repeal her laws; and if America alone could bring her to the one, united with France she will reduce her to the other. There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion, whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like Iron or crumbles sulkily away like a fractur-
ed arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest; their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, & the first wound is mortal. You have already began to give it up, and you will from the natural construction of the vice, find yourselves both obliged and inclined to do so.
If you look back you see nothing but loss and disgrace. If you look forward the same scene continues, and the close is an impene-trable gloom. You may plan and execute little mischiefs, but are they worth the expence they cost you, or will such partial evils have any effect on the general cause? Your expedition to Egg Harbour will be felt at a distance like an attack upon a hen roost and expose you in Europe with a sort of childish phrensy. Is it worth while to keep an army to protect you in writing proclamations or to get once a year into winter quarters? Possessing yourselves of towns is not conquest, but convenience, and in which you will one day or other be trepanned. Your retreat from Philadelphia was only a timely escape, and your next expedition may be less fortunate.
It would puzzle all the politicians in the universe to conceive what you stay for, or why you have staid so long. You are prosecuting a war in which you confess you have neither object nor hope, and that conquest, could it be effected, would not repay the charge: In the mean while the rest of your affairs are running to ruin, and a European war kindling against you. In such a situation there is neither doubt or difficulty, the first rudiments of reason will determine the choice for if peace can be procured with more advantages than even a conquest can be obtained, he must be an idiot indeed that hesitates.
But you are probably buoyed up by a set of wretched mortals, who having deceived themselves are cringing with the duplicity of a spaniel for a little temporary bread. Those men will tell you just what you please. It is their interest to amuse in order to lengthen out their protection. They study to keep you amongst them for that very purpose; & in proportion as you disregard their advice and grow callous to their complaints they will stretch into improbability & pepper off their flattery the higher. Characters like these are to be found in every country, and every country will despise them.
COMMON SENSE.
Philadelphia, October 20th, 1778.
CADIZ, July 15.
There are now in this port three ships of 80 guns, 21 of 70 guns, and 4 of 60 guns, besides 6 frigates, 2 zebecs and 2 fire ships. Besides we expect from Carthagena one ship of 70 guns and two frigates; and from Ferrol, the Saint Trinity, of 114 guns; they are also fitting out all the vessels in these two departments which are fit to put to sea.
Bilboa, July 28. We have at Cadiz 28 ships of the line compleatly armed, and more are arming at Ferrol, and Cathagena.—Yesterday I offered to lay 100 piasters that our Court would not engage in a war with Great Britain this year, and was immediately taken at my word. I must confess there is a great probability of our Court taking part with that of France, in which case England must withdraw her troops from America. It is certain the English are re-inforcing the garrison of Gibraltar.
CHARLESTON, (South Carolina) Sep. 10.
A French ship is just arrived in 36 days from Bourdeaux; we cannot learn that she brings any late European advices. She was brought to at sea by an English frigate, who after plundering part of the cargo, suffered her to proceed, as she was cleared out for St. Pierre. On leaving the ship, the sailors said that the frigate's name was the Nabob.
WILLIAMSBURGH, October 9.
The African Trade, by the accounts of the most sensible men in England, is totally destroyed.

INTE. LICENCE from the south west frontiers of this State.
Col. Clark, with a body of militia, has taken possession of Fort Charters, and the other western posts between the rivers Ohio & Mississippi. The Commandant is on his way to this city, a prisoner. Capt. Boone, the famous partisan, has lately crossed the Ohio with a small detachment of men, and near the Shawanet towns repulsed a party of the enemy, and brought in one scalp, without any loss on his side. Major Smith has marched with three companies of the militia of Washington county to support the garrisons in Kentucky. The noted Cherokee Chief Chea Cannasah, or Dragging Canoe, is lately dead, which event it is likely will unite the nation in the interest of America.
PHILADELPHIA, October 27.
We hear that the amiable and gallant Colonel BAYLOR, who was dangerously wounded sometime ago, at Tapan, in New Jersey is in a likely way to recover.
Paris, near Paris, August 12, 1778.
SIR.
I HAVE the honour to inclose a few news papers, and a letter from Spain; they contain all the news, excepting that the men of war at Toulon have gone out and taken 4 rich ships, belonging to the English said to be worth four millions of livres. I have the honour, to be, with all possible respect your most humble servant, JOHN ADAMS. President LAURENS.
Published by order of Congress.
CHARLES THOMPSON, Sec'y.
TRENTON, November 4.
Last week, Colonel Baylor's cavalry, who were made prisoners by the enemy, at Old Tapan, and taken to New York, were all exchanged, some of whom arrived here on Sunday last.
HARTFORD, November 17.
Thursday last, the Honorable Major Gen: PUTNAM arrived here, and took the Command of the troops in this town.
Last Sunday morning, the troops which were encamped in the north meadow, in this town, removed to the west division, about 6 miles from their former encampment.
NEWPORT, [Rhode Island] November 5.
Yesterday arrived here a fleet from New-York, under convoy of the Corryfort frigate Capt. Penhallow. By the above fleet we hear Admiral Byron had sailed about 8 days from Sandy Hook; and that they left the Hook in company with upwards of 100 sail of men of war and transports, who had on board the 4th, 5th, 15th, 27th, 28th, 35th, 40th, 46th, 49th, 55th, and 71st regiments, a number of foreign and 6 or 7 battalions of the Provincial Troops, their destination a profound secret.
A rebel privateer, called the New Broom, mounting 16 guns, belonging to Boston, arrived at New York, prize to Acapulco frigate.
BOSTON, November 19, 1778.
A Letter from an Officer of Distinction, dated at Providence, November 17, 1778, says, "Admiral Byron's Fleet or rather a Part of it, is in Newport. Some empty Transports are arrived, and there is great Appearance of a speedy Evacuation. Yesterday a large dismasted Ship, came into the Harbour, supposed to be of 4 Guns. A very heavy Firing was heard at Sea the 13th, which lasted 7 Hours."
The latest advices from New York, are to the 9th Instant; the enemy had not then left the city, but every appearance indicated such an event; there were but a few regiments there, but what were embarked, and the greater part of the effects of the tories were shipped, so that a few days must determine their intentions.
Such is the general discontent of the convention troops, which marched from Cambridge and Rutland, for Virginia, the last week, that numbers have left them on their march, and returned to Cambridge, determined, as no provision has or late been made
for them, to seek it where it may be found.
A person last Friday from the Cape, says, two large vessels were discovered bottom upwards on Nantucket Shoals, the beginning of last week. They are supposed to be two of those ships who were in company with the Somerset the day she ran on shore.
By intelligence that may be depended upon, from Rhode Island, it appears, that Admiral Bryon's fleet sailed from New York the first week in this month, with upwards of 100 sail of transports, having troops on board, & generally supposed to be bound to the West-Indies.—That the enemy's remaining force have orders to evacuate New York and Rhode Island, and are commanded to burn the city of New York and Newport upon their departure.—That certain intelligence had been received at New York, that Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, and Antigua, are in the possession of France.—That all the prisoners on Rhode Island are removed from the provost on board prison ships one of which is rigged, the other has her yard a thaut, and topmast launched. Since the above orders the tories are officious to send provisions and comforts to the American prisoners.
We are informed that the masts of a large ship, sunk at Nantucket Shoals, have lately been seen, supposed to be one of the British fleet, of which the Somerset was another.
The crew belonging to the Somerset, of 64 guns, lately drove ashore near Cape Cod, arrived here on Saturday last.
EXETER, November 24, 1778.
The Authority of this STATE, has appointed THURSDAY, the 10th day of December next, to be observed as a Day of publick THANKSGIVING throughout this STATE.
TO BE SOLD
By Isaac Williams, at his Shop in EXETER.
GOOD West-India, and New-England RUM, SUGAR, best of Sweet WINE, suitable for Churches, or for Sickness, Bohea TEA, Nutmegs, Pepper, Allspice, Indigo, Alum, Chalk, Brimstone, Cotton-Wool, several sorts of flower'd Ribbons, suitable for the Ladies, ditto black for Cueing of Hair, Pins and Needles, black and blue Beads, Ink Powder, with a number of other Articles.
TO BE SOLD
A Right of Land, in BRITIAN WOODS,—Enquire at the Printing-Office, in Exeter.
Kingston, in the State of New Hampshire, November 14, 1778. WHEREAS I the Subscriber, presumed upon report, that I believed that Mr. Solomon Wheeler of the above Town, & State, had gone to the Enemies of these United States, this may certify that all such reports were groundless, and the publick are desired to think him innocently at said Wheeler's character on account of his absence. JOHN POOR, of Haverhill.
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss. WE the subscribers being appointed commissioners by the Hon. Phillips White Esq; judge of the probate of Wills &c. for said County, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the Estate of Nathaniel West late of Concord in said County gentleman deceased, and 4 Months longer being allowed from the 28th day of October current, do hereby give notice that we shall attend said service, at the dwelling House of Timothy Walker Esq; in said Concord, on the last Tuesday of the 4 following months from 4 to 8 o'Clock P. M. on each of said days.
Thomas Stickney, Commissioners. James Walker, Concord Oct. 21. 1778.
Publick Vendue.
TO be sold at Publick Vendue, on Thursday the third day of December next, at the House of Benjamin Lampson, innholder in Exeter, at three o'clock Afternoon:
Five or six Acres of choice LAND, lying in said Exeter, being part of the real Estate of Doctor JOHN LAMSON, of said Exeter, deceased. Conditions of Sale to be seen at Time and Place. Exeter, November 24, 1778.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Publick Vendue.
WAR-OFFICE,
November 16, 1778.
To be sold at Publick Vendue, on Thursday the 26th Instant, at the State Stables in Exeter: A number of Waggon Horses; They may be viewed any Day before the Sale.
The Sale to begin at one o'clock, P. M.
TO be sold at Publick Vendue, on Monday the 8th of December next, at one o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the House of JOHN PHILBROOK, in Deerfield, to the highest Bidder:
A 6th part of a Lot
No. one, in the second Range, in said Deerfield, and a third part of a SAW-MILL, on said Lot. Conditions of Sale to be seen at Time and Place.
Deerfield, November 11th, 1778. 39 42
State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough ss. NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of the following lots of land in the town of Henniker, and State aforesaid, as will pay the state tax for the Year 1777, with incidental charges, will be sold at Publick Vendue, on Thursday the 31st of December next, at 10 o'clock before noon, at the House of Timothy Gibson, Esq; innholder in said town unless paid before that time.
Delinquents as follows viz. No     R. s. d.     Drawn to John Wentworth 9 1 3 6   Drawn to James Smith 1 5 3 6   Drawn to John Barr 1 8 3 6   Drawn to George Duncan 17 2 3 6   Drawn to Robert Wire 9 5 3 6   Drawn to James Evens 19 2 3 6   Drawn to Capt. John Mack 8 6 3 6   Drawn to Daniel Lefly 4 11 3 6   12 1 3 6   1 1 3 6   14 1 3 6  
JAMES JO-LYN Constable. Henniker, October 23. 1778. 39—42
Left in possession of the subscribers, Committee of Correspondence for the Town of Hollis, on the 14th of August past, by one Joseph Johnson, alias Jacob Johnson, formerly belonging to Sudbury, supposed to be a great Villain; A black MARE, Saddle and Bridle a said Mare is about 14 hands and half high, eight years old, has some white Hairs interspersed over her, hind feet white, a star in her forehead, said Mare is supposed to be stolen. The Owner by applying to said Committee, paying charges, and proving property, may have said Mare.
Hollis, October 28. 1778. Oliver Lawrence, Com. Enoch Noyes, mit. Edward Taylor, tee.
State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough, ss. NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of the following Lots of Land in the Town of Amherst, and State aforesaid, as will pay the State tax for the year 1777, with incidental Charges, will be sold at publick auction, on the last Tuesday of January next, at one o'clock P. M. at the house of Ephraim Hildreth, innholder in said Amherst, unless paid before that Time with Charges. The Delinquents are as follows, viz.
   l. s. d.     Deacon Samuel Taylor 0 11 3   Mr. Gibbs 8 5   Captain Eliphalet Hardy 2 3 0   Jeremiah Chote 3 0 8   Mather Boyles, D. D. 4 16 3   Joshua Clark 2 16 0   Not Martin 1 10 0    EBENEZER ELLINWOOD, Constable. Amherst, November 15, 1778. 40—42
Acts and Laws,
To be sold at the Printing-Office, Exeter.

State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough ss.  P UBLICK notice is hereby given the following Lots of Land in the Town of Lyndeborough, and State of New Hampshire belonging to Non Residents, were taxed the following sums for the Year 1777 and were Advertised as the Law directs, and whereas the Taxes has not been paid; this therefore is to notify the owners of said Land and others that so much of the said Lots will be sold by Publick Auction as to pay the Taxes and Incidental Charges, at the House of Daniel Goold, Inholder in Lyndeborough, on the 1st Tuesday of January next, at 8 of the Clock in the forenoon.
   Names No. s. d.     Heirs of Thomas Packer 15 11 8   Benning Wentworth Esq; 18 14 0   Moffat Esq; 2 14 0   Heirs of Prat Esq; 13 14 0   Clark 120 10 6   George Jeffrey Esq; 9 14 0   Joseph Bowditch Esq; 95 7 6   Clark 121 9 0   Heirs of Col. Fowle 45 4 5   Oliver Flitcher 72 4 5   Oliver Flitcher 2 9 0   SOLOMON CRAM, one of the Constables of the Town of Lyndenborough.   Lyndenborough, October 13th 1778. 40  
State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough ss.  P UBLICK Notice is hereby given the following Lots of Land in the Town of Lyndeborough, and State of New Hampshire, belonging to Non Residents, were taxed the following sums for the Year 1777, and Taxes has not been paid; this therefore is to Notify the owners of the said Land and others that so much of the said Lots will be sold by Publick Auction at the House of Daniel Goold, Inholder in Lyndeborough, as to pay the Taxes and Incidental Charges, on the first Tuesday of January next at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon.
   Names. No s. d.     Thomas Flucker Esq; 3 14 0   Heirs of Hick's Esq; 52 9 0   Heirs of Hicks Esq; 102 9 0   Heirs of Jeremiah Lee 33 11 8   Heirs of Dr. Lemon 34 7 0   Heirs of Dr. Lemon 37 7 0   JONAS KIDDER one of the Constables of Lyndeborough.   Lyndeborough, October 13, 1778. 40  
State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough ss.  WHEREAS Application being
Made unto me the subscriber, by the owners of one 16th part or more of the proprietors of W E A R, to call a Proprietors Meeting in said W E A R on Tuesday the fifteenth day of December next, at ten of the Clock in the forenoon, at the house of William Hutchins, Inholder in said town, to act on the following particulars; first to elect a moderator to govern said meeting; 2dly To elect a Proprietors Clerk; Assessor, Collector and treasury. 3dly. To elect a Committee to receive the proprietors Book or records from the original clerk, and to examine the accounts, and settle the same with the former treasury, and Assessor and receive the stock. 4thly. To elect a committee to settle with the persons that have the Sawmill Irons, and bring a Lewsuit against them, or any other persons that have lands or property of the proprietors in their possessions, and the same Committee to suspect, and defend any Suit that may be brought against said proprietors. 5thly. To see if the proprietors will convey the mill privilege to any person that will engage to build a mill or mills, and elect a committee for that purpose. 6thly. To elect a committee to examine the mistakes in the lot layers numbering the 130 acre lots that layeth in the north range above the center road. 7thly. To see how much money they will raise to defray charges. 8thly. To see if they will allow the town to improve the ministers lot, until there is a Minister of the Gospel settled in the town. 9thly. To see what method the Proprietors will take to call proprietors meeting for the future. These is therefore to notify and warn all the proprietors of W A R to meet at time and place above said, to act on the above articles. Coram, JEREMIAH PAGE, justice of peace. West, November 24, 1778. 38-40
TICKETS in the second Class of the UNITED STATES LOTTERY, are ready for Sale at the LOTTERY OFFICE in Portsmouth; where the Fortunate Adventurers in the First Class are desired to apply for Settlement of their Prizes. Attendance will be given from 8 in the Morning till 3 o'Clock in the Afternoon.
In CONGRESS, May 2d, 1778. Resolved, That the Drawing thereof commence on the first Day of January next, and be completed as soon as may be and that all the Tickets then unfold, be the Property and at the Risk of the United States.
State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough ss.  T o be sold at Publick Vendue on the 16 day of December next, at ten o'Clock A M. at the House of John Atwells in Holles, so much of the non resident proprietors Lands in said Holles, as will pay the taxes on them assessed for the year 1777, with incidental charges, agreeable to the law of this state. Each proprietors respective proportion is as follows: In Ebenezer Jewets list. Lea. Tyeg 31 1 1 Cp Jo. Shiply 1 12 0 Jona. Carwin 1 18 4 Cp J. Kelley 5 7 4 Jos. Parkhurst 7 1 Cl. J. hn Tyng 6 4 3 Cl. Wm. Brown 1 0 In Wm. Brooks list. One Lot called Olivers Lot 71. 12s. od One ditto called Hopsons Lot 41. 17s. 4d Ebenezer Jewet | Conitables William Brooks | for Heirs. Hollis, Nov. 2d, 1778. 38-40
TO be Sold at my House in Salem, on Tuesday the 24th Day of November next, at Ten o'Clock before noon; the whole of the Real Estate of DAVID HEATH late of Salem, deceased; Except the Widows Third of said Estate, where attendance will be given by JOSHUA HEATH Administrator on sd. Estate. Salem, October 29 1778.
TO BE SOLD, By SAMUEL HILL, In Vaughn Street, North End, Portsmouth, the following GOODS, viz.
THE belt of the old fort of Redwood, Logwood, Alum, Coperas, Rosin, Indigo, Crown Soap, Powder, Robin, Pidgeon, Duck, and Goose Shot, Flints, — 7 by 6, 9 by 7, 10 by 8, — 8 and half by 7 and half Window Glass, Sweeds Iron, Mill Saw Bars, German Steel, Iron hollow Ware, Grindstones of all sizes, Frying Pans, Shingle Nails, 10d, and 20d Nails, — Brasses and Locks for Desks, long and short Pipes, English Goloshoes, — Wool Cards Burnstone, Ginger, Pepper, Allspice, Nutmegs, Raisins, Currents, Oatmeal, Rice, Tea, and Coffee, — Salt Petre, Cotton, — A few Pieces of Linnens; and many other Articles, at the above Place, & cheap as the times will allow.
THIS is to notify the non resident proprietors and others owning Land in Dunbarton to pay their taxes to me the subscriber Constable for Dunbarton, as is set forth in this List, within eight weeks from this date, or so much of their Land will be advertised for sale at Public Vendue, as will pay said tax with Incidental Charges, said tax being for the Year 1777, is as followeth.
The Proprietors Names are as follows.     Names Lot Range s. d. q.     John Culester 89 2 4 10 1   William Stark 7 1 9 8 2   Cunningham & Stark 6 1 9 8 2   John Ramsey 9 5 9 8 2   George Marley 7 5 9 8 2   Rogers & Putney 6 5 9 8 2   Wilbord & Stark 5 5 9 8 2   Adam Dickey 4 5 7 0 0   Scovey & Ramsey 5 6 9 8 2   Foton & Varnum 1 7 9 8 2   Allot 2 7 4 10 1   Neah Emery Esq; 6 7 9 8 2   Samuel Felton 7 7 9 8 2   Cocron 2 8 4 10 1   James M'Greagry 2 9 9 8 2   Hunk. Wentworth 3 9 9 8 2   John Wentworth 3 13 9 8 2   Capt. Toad 1 14 9 8 2   John Moffat 8 1 4 10 1   John Moffat 6 2 9 8 2   M'Greagre & M'Cordey 9 1 9 8 2   Hugh Dunhee 11 6 9 8 2   Hugh Ramsey 3 6 9 8 2   Mathew Morten 3 10 9 8 2   John Morten 1 6 9 7 2   John Morten 2 6 9 8 2    JAMES MCCOLEY, Constable. Dunbarton, November 10, 1778. 39-41
State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough ss.  THE following is taxes laid on wild Lands in the town of Mason, in said State, for the
year 1777, belonging to Non Resident proprietors, in Conitable Lawrences's list.
   Names. No. Range s. d. q.     Eleazer Farwell, one Lot 1 15 3 9 3   Wm. Lawrence, one lot 5 19 7 7 3   Oliver Parker, one lot. 2 14 3 9 3  
The above Non Resident proprietors are required to pay the above taxes to me the subscriber at Mason, within eight weeks from this Date, or so much of their land will be sold as will pay the same with the charges. RICHARD LAWRENCE.
Mason, November 2d, 1778. 39-41
THE following is taxes laid on wild lands in the town of Mason, in said State, for the year 1777, list belonging to non resident proprietors, in Conitable Tarbell's List.
   Names No. Range s. d. q.     Solley & March one Lot, 5 13 5 1   Also one Lot 1 14 4 4 3   Total 10 1 3   Paul March, one Lot 5 1 3 9 3   Jona. Hubbard, one Lot 2 18 3 9 2   Theo. Atkinson, 1 lot 5 20 7 7   Also, one Lot 5 18 5 8 1   Total is 13 3 1   Maj. Jo. Hubard 1 Lot 3 4 3 5   Also, one Lot 6 12 3 9 3   John T. Mason 1 lot 7 13 17 3 1   7 20   2 12  
The above Non-Resident proprietors are required to pay the above taxes to me the subscriber at Mason, within 8 weeks from this date, or so much of their lands will be sold as will pay the same with incidental Charges, THOMAS TARBELL, Const.
State of New Hampshire.  THIS is to give public Notice, that the following Lots of Land, lying and being in the Town of Fitz-William, are taxed in the said Town as follows, viz.
No. 7 in the 12th Range, 11 in the 18 in 12, 20 in 12, 21 in 12, 10 in 9, 23 in 11, 3 in 11, 8 in 11, 20 in 11, 4 in 10, 9 in 10 22 in 5, 14 in 10, 20 in 10, 21 in 10, 8 in 7, 19 in 9, 4 in 9, 5 in 9, 14 in 9, 16 in 9, 18 in 9, 2 in 8, 3 in 8, 4 in 8, 10 in 9, 3 in 7, 4 in 6, 8 in 7, 4 in 5, 9 in 5, 2 in 4, 3 in 4, 13 in 3, 14 in 3, 15 in 3, 1 in 2, 4 in 2, 6 in 2, 15 in 1, 2 in 1, 1 in 2, three shillings each.
The Mali Lots of Land. No. 19 in 12th Range, 23 in 10, 8 in 6, 2 in 5, 6 in 4, 6 in 1, one shilling and six pence each. — The Owners of the above said Lands, are requested to pay the Tax laid on said Lands, to prevent further Proceedings with said Lands, according to Law.
CALEB WINCH, Constable. Fitz-William, October 19, 1778. 41
State of New Hampshire, Whereas there is a Proprietors
Tax of 1st. 3s. laid upon each lot of Land belonging to the proprietors of the Town of Fitz-William, in order to pay the Rev. Mr. Brigham's salary for the years 1776, and 1777, and committed to the subscriber to collect, which tax has long since been published according to order, and still there remain a number of lots unpaid: Public Notice is hereby given that the delinquent lots, or so much of them as will pay the taxes and incidental charges, will be sold at publick Vendue at the house of Captain John Mellon, Inholder in said Fitz-William, on the second Wednesday in December, 1778, the sale to begin at one o'Clock in the afternoon. The lots are as follows.
   No. R. No. R. No. R. No. R.     10 in 12 17 in 12 18 in 12 11 in 6   9 9 10 9 9 7 13 11   23 10 10 9 6 4 10 3   8 2 9 2 23 8 7 7   14 3 4 5 8 5 14 1   7 2 2 8 8 7 23 7   21 7 7 4 14 8 19 9    JOHN LOCKE, proprietors Collector. Fitz-William, October 27, 1778. 41
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss.  W E the subscribers being ap-
pointed Commissioners, by the Hon. PHILLIPS WHITE Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for said County, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Abiel Chandler, late of Concord in said County, Gentleman, deceased, and six Months being allowed for that purpose, do hereby give public Notice, that we shall attend said service at the Dwelling House of Timothy Walker, Jr. Esq; in said Concord, on the last Monday of the six following Months, from 4 to 8 o'Clock P. M. on each of said Days.
Concord, October 31, 1778. Joshua Abbot, Commit. Ephraim Colby, Scribes.
Portsmouth: Printed by Daniel Fowle.

Mr. FOWLE,
Observed a Writer, through the Channel of your Paper of the 10th Instant, handed to the Publick a Number of Facts concerning the Installment of Mr. Perley at Moultonborough; which as he justly stiles "extraordinary, and astonishing;" must, I think, have struck the Mind of every serious Reader with Amazement.
Certainly that Council could not want Knowledge of the true Nature, End, and Importance of the Gospel; nor be ignorant of their special Duty to encourage that Work purely with an Eye to the Glory of GOD, and the good of Souls, nor were they, it seems unacquainted with the Circumstances in general, more especially to the many Exceptions to Mr. Perley's moral Character—therefore it must naturally follow, that the World will judge them, to have been actuated either from sinister View, or what is equally as bad, from some certain Wiltfulness, and Olfactacy—My own Situation has enabled me to know many of the Facts, and most of the rest I believe have been credibly delivered to me: And as I really pity the Inhabitants who seem to be so egregiously injured, and oppressed by the Arbitrary and overbearing Conduct of that Council: I must own, I was well satisfied in seeing that Matter published; as for many Reasons I thought it justly ought to be.
That Writer, must be acknowledged to have stated the Facts with great Modesty, considering the Circumstances attending them; and perhaps by some thought too much so; which tho' commendable, yet as I perceive there are many omitted; I would beg the Readers Indulgence just to mention one, or two—Viz. that the last Council which was clandestinely convened, and installed Mr. Perley, consisted only of a minor part of the Members of the Council that convened in July, whereby it is evident, that he was ordained by the minor part of a Council; the whole of which, was from the first steadily objected to, as being illegal, and not the same the Church and Congregation agreed to send for, and that their being convened as aforesaid, was after their sealed to be any being of a Council.
Another is the extraordinary Conduct in this Affair of the Rev. Gentleman (Mr. Hibbard) who was Moderator of the Council; and to whose Influence the unhappy Situation of this People, may not in a small degree be attributed; which I think ought not to pass unnoticed—This Gentleman, not long before, in Conversation with another of Credit, whose Deposition I have had an Opportunity of seeing, says, "he has done every Thing in his Power to reclaim Mr. Perley; but he could not see that any Thing short of the Powers above could do it."
And I am credibly informed, that such Sentiments of Mr. Perley as this, and rather worse, he frequently advanced to others. But notwithstanding this, his Opinion of him, and from what Motives I am not able to favour the Reader with, he soon after became a great Encourager to his being installed at Moultonborough, and even a violent Prosecutor of it; indeed he almost instantaneously resolved upon it to the Universal Surprise of all about him—at his setting off in his Journey there, to meet in the first Council, he dropped many Expressions shewing his fixed Resolution to accomplish it, Viz. "That he was not going for Nothing; that he should be installed," and the like, and in truth he can't be taxed, for not using his most violent Endeavours, by the most unjustifiable, and unwarrantable Measures at that Time—And afterwards on his Journey thither to meet in the last Council he still discovers the same Resolution, by telling some on his Way, who urged him otherwise, that "I am going to the Installment of Mr. Perley, if there are only Seven, nay even Six, he shall be installed, for I will install him" And that it was effected by his overbearing, and despotic Influence, is no more a sad and sorrowful Tale than true.
How opposite is the Conduct of this venerable and Rev. Gentleman to that of a Gospel Minister, and how extraordinary in one who has sustained that Character so many years—Almost incredible! but Truth commands Belief, and the Ideas naturally suggested, are so shocking to the Mind, that I believe the Reader would almost wish them to be suppressed, did not they serve to detect the Craft of Persons, acting under the specious Pretence of Religion—This Rev. Gentleman, it is said is now not a little uneasy—and the only Excuse I understand he makes, for all the Mischief he has done, is that "Pity to the poor Man, and to secure him for the Services he had done there without his being thrown into the Law, for it was the only Inducement to his urging his Installment."
Melancholy Considerations! To be principally instrumental in solemnly setting apart a Person to so sacred an Office from temporal Views only; while they should
* This minor Part consisted of such of the Council as were present for the Settlement of Mr. Perley in July.
should with the purest engage in that holy Work—It was not my Design to be particular, as the Reader must be convinced that the Piece was the Object in View.
I should have observed further, but what the aforesaid Writer says, concerning the Conduct of Counsel, "that it must remain mysterious to such as need the Key," and as I understand that, that is preparing by one thoroughly acquainted with every Circumstance; therefore I doubt not it will be fairly, and impartially offered to the Publick.
November 15th, 1778.
A Lover of Impartiality.
† Perhaps Mr. Perley may by this Time think, that had the Man he saw showing the Staves, in his last Journey up (before he was installed) to whom he offered to change Business, accepted his Offer, he would probably have made an advantageous Bargain.
Choice Indigo by the Quantity, Or, Single Pound, TO BE SOLD, By SAMUEL GARDNER,
At his Shop in the Brick House lately improved by Messrs D. and S. Sherburne, Also,
A Few Pieces of Fashionable STUFFS for Gowns.—Scarlet, brown, blue and black Broad Cloths.—The best of 8qr. Baizes.—Calamancoes.—Camblets—Irish Linnens.—Cambricks.—Mouselins.—Blond Lace, &c.—Men's black Gloves—Likewise, A small
Assortment of Iron hollow Ware.—London Pewter Dishes, Plates and Basins,—Brown Sugar, Flour, Currants, Ginger, Brimstone, Allum, Otter, Copperas—with many other small Articles.—At the same Place may likewise be had, if applied for soon, a small Quantity of choice LISBON SALT.
JAMES DIMAN,
Acquaints his Customers and others, that he has lately received, and has for Sale at his Shop in Portsmouth, a few Doors above the State House, a fresh Assortment of Goods, among which are the following, viz.
SUPERFINE, midling, and low priz'd Broadcloths, Serges, Shalloons, Bear-Skin, Buckram, Sewing Silks, Threads, Mohair, white & check'd Linnen, Silk and Cotton for Gowns, Linnen Handkerchiefs, Chintzes, Calicoes, Cambrick, Everlasting, white striped Fustian, striped Ticking, Musling, Mill'd Caps, Women's white Leather Gloves,—Green TEA, Almonds, Capers, Olives, Anchovies,—20d, 10d, and 4d Nails,—6 by 8, 7 by 9, and 8 by 10 Window Glass,—Powder, Shot, Flints, Brimstone, German Steel, Cotton Wool, Coffee, Pepper, Ginger, Pins, Needles, Wafers, Sealing Wax, Snuff Boxes, Looking Glasses, Sleeve Buttons, Spoons, Curtain Rings, Shoe Buckles, Penknives, Cork Screws, Thimbles, Seals, Files,—Powder Flasks, Scissors, Door Locks, Flat Irons, Broad & Narrow Axes, Adds's, Hoes, Gimblets, &c.
TO BE SOLD, By John Penhallow
In Portsmouth, Massachusetts State Lottery TICKETS, Class No. I. Six Dollars per Ticket.
ALL Persons Indebted to, or have any lawful Demands on the Estate of Joseph Sayell Hart, late of Portsmouth, Boat Builder, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts properly attested, in order for settlement with GEORGE HART, Administrator. Portsmouth, Nov. 10. 1778.
Low's & George's Almanacks TO BE SOLD by the Gross, Dozen, or single, By WILLIAM APPLETON in Portsmouth.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 21. Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman of Distinction in Granada, to his Friend in London, dated July 21, 1778, taken in the Caledonia Prize.
"From England they talk of Hopes through the Commissioners:—Here, we are all inclin'd to despair of their effecting any Thing advantageous at so late a Period; and after the Treaties made by France with America.—From London, we hear of nothing but Stoppages, Bankruptcies, want of Money, universal Diffidence in the Commercial World, West India Produce daily falling, and in a Word, a Picture of Horror for all of us who are interested in these Islands. Some new System, some grand and liberal Change, must arise from all these Troubles, or we must all go fast to the Devil"
TO BE SOLD, At HENRY SHERBURNE'S SHOP, SUNDRY valuable BOOKS, among which are Sermons by President Davis, late of New Jersey College. A Greek Lexicon to the New-Testament, elegant Edition. Doddridge, his Rise, &c. The Remarkable Life of Barry. Fulfilling of the Scriptures. French Grammar. French Gil Blas, with Curts. Arabian Nights.—Also, Pasteboard—Paper—Ink Powder,—Ink—Pocket-Books,—Account Books—A few Bibles,—Testaments,—Spelling Books,—Psalters, some of which are well bound in Leather.—The several sorts of Almanacks for next Year. BOOKS bound at said Shop in the best and cheapest Manner.
On TUESDAY 1st December next, At Eleven o'Clock, Will be sold by PUBLIC VENDUE, On Tilestone's Wharf, Boston, The Prize Bark Sally,
And her Cargo, consisting of Cables, Anchors, Cordage, a great Number of Sails, suitable for Vessels of all kinds, some Feather Beds, Number of Skins (from Russia) Candles, Twine, Leather, some dry Goods, small Stores belonging to a Number of Vessels, and a Variety of other Articles. The Bark will be set up exactly at Twelve o'Clock, she is a fine new Vessel, British built, 500 Tons burthen, a compleat Sailer, and well found.—Inventory of her Stores may be seen at the Time and Place of Sale.
STRAYED or stolen the seventh Instant a Black HORSE, with a large Blaze in his Forehead; four white Feet, a Number of grey Hairs in his Tail, Age unknown, but supposed to be upwards of fifteen Years old. Whoever will return said Horse to the subscriber, shall be well Rewarded for their Trouble. Portsmouth, Nov. 16, 1778. Edward Hart.
LOST between Newbury and Rowley the 27th of October last, a Brown Kersey Great Coat, the under Part of the Sleeves a little lighter coloured, about half worn. Whoever has found the same, and will convey it to Mr. William Ham of Portsmouth, or Mr. Treadwell of Ipswich, Innholder, shall be handsomely Rewarded. Portsmouth, Nov. 16, 1778.
LOST about three Weeks ago, between the Hay Market and the Patters in Portsmouth, a very good plain Black CLOAK, pink'd round the Edge. Any Person that has found the same, and will bring it to the Print Office, shall be handsomely Rewarded. Portsmouth, Printed by D. FOWLE.