The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1792-10-25 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &amp;c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful &amp; entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
Foreign Intelligence.
BY THE LAST ARRIVALS.
PARIS, August 16.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
A MEMBER read a passage from a letter he had received from Brest:—"The 10th of August the citizens of Brest transported 72 Priests who had not taken the oaths—The ship the people of Brest chose for their conveyance had been formerly a Guineaman; and the good people ordered the Captain to make the first Spanish port." [ The Assembly applauded. ]
M. Genfonnet, in the name of the committee of general safety, proposed, and the Assembly decreed the following articles:—
1. The six Secretaries of State appointed by the Assembly, are to compose the executive power.
2. They are charged to seal and promulgate the laws of the State.
3. Each Secretary in his turn and weekly is to preside at the council board.
4. A double copy of each law is to be made out, and signed by the keeper of the seals, and sealed with the seal of State; one copy to be deposited in the keeper's archives, the other in the National Assembly.
5. The laws are to be promulgated. The decrees of the National Assembly are entitled laws, and are to be published without any previous formula—they are, however, to be concluded thus:—"In the name of the nation, the executive council, ad interim , order the administrative bodies of the courts of justice, to transcribe these presents, &c."
6. The seal of State shall be changed; henceforward it shall bear the figure of liberty armed with a pike, with a cap of liberty at the top, with this inscription, " In the name of the French nation. "
7. The sentences of the courts of justice, shall begin thus: " In the name of the French nation. "
8. The officers of justice, formerly called the King's commissaries, shall for the future be named the National commissaries.
M. Bazire, in the name of the committee de Surveillance , presented several letters and memorials found in the King's library. The letters were written from Coblenz, to M. Noailles de Poix , to obtain pay for the King's Guards at Coblenz. It appeared that the King had paid them even after the month of January, 1792.
M. Bazire informed the Assembly that the Prince de Poix had been taken in custody by order of the committee de Surveillance .
AUGUST 17.
WAR WITH RUSSIA.
M. Le Brun, Secretary for foreign affairs, notified the Assembly, that the Empress of Russia had declared War against France; the imperial Catharine, from the most remote corner of the North, ordered Frenchmen to reinstate Louis XVI. in all his royal prerogatives.—M. Genest, the French Ambassador had been expelled Russia.—Referred to the Diplomatic committee.
Louis XVI. is now in the temple, he was transferred there last Tuesday—M. Pétion was in the same carriage with the King and his family—Louis XVI. seemed afraid; the croud on the place Vendome hindered his coach from proceeding; and it stopped exactly opposite to the demolished statue of Louis the fourteenth.—The fall of the magnificent idol must have awoke strange reflections in his swollen breast, all inimical to the vanity of terrestrial affairs.—Oh Louis! how easy might it have been for you to have avoided such humiliation.
We hear that Gen. La Fayette was on the 12th informed of the events of the 10th. It is said he did not credit the report, and that he added these words:—"Let what may be fact, my army will obey me!"
LONDON, August 18.
Should the Prussian and Austrian troops march beyond the frontiers into France the desertions of the French armies will soon thin their ranks. The Austrians on all occasions have manifested their partiality for the cause of the French, and the Prussian soldiers are such slaves, that they will be happy to join the banners of freedom, where they shall be suffered to act and think like men, and enjoy the blessings of free citizens.
The Prussian army are so encumbered, and the men are so averse to fight against the French that if they meet with no impediment from the enemy, they will require several weeks before they can reach Paris. If the French are not too impetuous, it is probable that they will have the power of making their own terms, though the enemy would invade their country. If their generals agree to fight on the defensive, they must harass the army of Ex-
princes and their allies, more than people in general are aware.
Every man's heart in England must beat in unison with those of the persons who have stood forward to procure subscriptions for the brave Stanislaus , and his gallant countrymen. The audacious attack made on the liberties of this great and generous people is one of those monstrous events, that will stain forever the history of the world. Why did not the neighboring powers if their politics were not equally obnoxious as those of Russia, unite, and extirpate a people, who, in aggrandizing themselves set humanity and justice at defiance.
AUGUST 19.
The Continental Butchers, who are now endeavoring to convert France into a slaughter-house in order to prepare the Lambs of Liberty for the ravenous maws of Despotism, will probably not find their intended victims so tame and submissive as they imagine; some of their bloodhounds, it appears by the last accounts, met with a warmer reception than they expected, particularly at Maulde.
Should the Imperial (or rather imperiou ) Czarina triumph in her present unwarrantable attack on the Freedom of the people of Poland, it is said to be her intention to detach a large body of her uncivilized Janissaries, to join in the German Crusade against France.
The friends of a parliamentary Reform in this country, it is now apprehended, must put a gag upon their future conduct, lest the hoary despot of the North, after the subjugation of Poland, should transport an army of Russian bears to our shore, for the purpose of worrying the friends of freedom in Britain; her Majesty certainly possessing as much right to prevent any alteration in the English Constitution, as in that of Poland.
August 20.
Present political state of Europe. France: Running headlong to destruction.
Spain: Internally afraid of the shadow of republicanism.
Portugal: In peaceful sloth, kissing the feet of superstition.
Russia: Disturbing the peaceful habitation of liberty; the native ferocity of her people existing in despite of her intercourse with the polished nation of Europe.
Austria: Awfully prepared to chastise the insolence, madness and folly of France, and to
recivilize that now barbarous and inhuman nest of rebels and cutthroats.
Prussia: Powerfully assisting Austria in effecting a plan of future happiness for the present distracted inhabitants of France.
Holland: Considering wisely, that the peace of Europe depends on a total annihilation of the new fangled idea of liberty, attempting to be set up in France, lest the madness of doctrines, so repugnant to true liberty, might become infectious; she therefore prepares to assist the confederate powers.
America: Lopping off the luxuriant branches of the tree of liberty, least they so weaken the stem as to occasion a decay. The present situation of France has proved incontrovertible to the Americans, that when the branches shoot beyond a certain extent, the very root is in danger of destruction.
Poland: Endeavoring to stem the inundation of tyranny, and nobly preparing to conquer or die in the cause of liberty.
The Porte: Smarting under the terms of the late peace with Russia—wearing the outward mark of friendship, and harboring the spirit of resentment.
Great-Britain: At peace with all the world, revered and respected at home and abroad, her trade flourishing and her commerce extensively diffused all over the universe. [So says a London Paper !]
On the moral influence of PREACHING.
IT is frequently said that the conduct of men is little influenced by what they hear from the pulpit. It is urged that many of the discourses are not practical nor adapted to enlighten the mind. Admitting this, it is nevertheless answered, that none of them recommend an ill course of life, and many preachers paint moral beauty in the most attractive colours or exhibit the turpitude and meanness of vice with so much truth and force, as to make it appear loathsome to its very followers. Those who deny the usefulness of preaching, say that its influence is momentary. There is a rapping, say they at the door of conscience, and perhaps it opens—but it is soon shut again and bolted. The course of bad thoughts is not stop'd at all, and that of bad actions for an instant only. The thoughtless follower of vice plunges into the world, and, considering serious reflection as bad company, he contrives to get rid of it as

soon as he can. These objections only shew that good precepts will not preserve us from falling, if they be not supported by good habits. Yet many false conclusions have been drawn from these considerations. Why do we pay for preaching, if we see men persist in vice as much as ever? Do we hope better success at this day, than the world, though it has grown old in the attempt, has hitherto found?
Plausible as these ideas seem, they are not the less fallacious. Good opinions alone will not secure a man against temptation. Yet if he be intrusted in his duty, he will surely condemn himself for violating it; and still more will he condemn another in a like case. The minister by teaching men what they ought, or ought not to do, may not guard them against the allurements of guilty pleasure, but he will do something towards preventing error: They will not mistake what duty is. Right thinking may not produce right action—it is however an essential part of our moral education—To make duty plain is to strip vice of those disguises, which it is obliged to assume in order to obtain its first victory over virtue. The mind shrinks from that sense of remorse which it well knows is here to follow criminal indulgence. This restraint alone is usually sufficient to keep us from falling into great transgressions. This view of the subject regards the influence of preaching only on the operations of a man's own mind, without adverting to the shame of being seen as a criminal by the world.
And if we consider that sermons are addressed to our children as well as to those of mature age, we shall see the inestimable advantage of having the young mind pre-occupied by good impressions, and as it were, disciplined to virtue. The preacher, however, does more in favor of morality. Shame has terrors not less formidable than those of the law. Public opinion is the judge, and the minister of a vengeance which cannot always prevent crimes, but is sure to overtake the offenders. Accordingly we find that the morals of a people are nearly as accurate as the general state of knowledge among them. The clergy, by descanting on our duties, enable us to distinguish right from wrong, and by the frequency of their addresses, these distinctions become familiar. It is no small advantage to good morals to bring men together—but to do it on the terms of their observing decorum, and sitting in silence as hearers, is a still greater point gained.—Add to this, while the nature and consequences of vice and virtue are represented, each
man turns his eyes on himself, and feels conscious that every man's eye is upon him. The law of opinion is not only interpreted but actually enforced at the moment. He feels awed by that public which he sees assembled, and engaged in the work of discountenancing vice. Thus, by enlightening us in regard to our duties, and as it were forcing upon an assembled multitude the reflection upon them, the clergy, though they may not prevent the breaches of the moral law, contribute a great deal towards securing the sanctions of it. Public opinion inflicts the punishment, and probably with more effect both towards the prevention of offences and the reformation of the transgressors, than if it were suffered at the whipping post or the pillory.
It has been before hinted that the authority of public opinion is greatly increased by assembling men together. To men of cold hearts and sceptical philosophy the effects of that mysterious sympathy by which we suffer or enjoy the emotions of the beholders will seem incredible—Yet it is known that the moral and political condition of Greece was influenced by the discipline of the Gymnasium, and the active emulation of their Olympic and Isthmian games.—The excess of grief or joy sometimes proved mortal to the competitors.
Every congregation is with us a moral school in which virtue is not only rendered amiable, but publicly confided to the vigilant protection of an assembly deeply interested and carefully instructed to be faithful to the trust. It is the fault of the minister if in those places vice is not made to hang its head. Is it saying too much, that with us the church is the Gymnasium, in which youthful virtue grows strong by exercise? While facts shew that public opinion did so much in Greece, is it a rash hypothesis to suppose it able to accomplish so little in our times?
The limits of this paper would not allow us to pursue these considerations as far as we might do it with advantage. The theory of our ecclesiastical institutions is certainly excellent.—Great credit is due to our forefathers who laid the foundations of them so deeply that our habits concur with our interests as a people. It would be useful to call the attention of the wise and worthy to the means by which the clergy might be rendered even more respectable and influential than they are at present. Splitting of parishes is certainly an evil. Forming funds for the support of ministers would be well repaid by securing the peace of parishes.
The result of these reflections
is, that our moral opinions are formed in early youth and influenced afterwards by the clergy. Who does not know the sway that opinion bears? The world and its politics are governed by it. It is the business of the clergy to form and direct it in favor of virtue. This work they never quit. They begin almost at the cradle, and bear their disciple company to the grave. This order of men is of the greatest use to society. The laws govern by force; but they address themselves to men's hearts, so as that they shall govern themselves.
From a late London paper.
A short sketch of the Life of Ankerstrom, the Swedish Regicide.
HIS father was a Lieutenant-Colonel and Chevalier of the Order of the Sword; his Mother's Name was Hedwige Drusfra. He was at first brought up with his parents; but at eight years of age sent to Upsal. On the death of his Father and when he had attained his 15th year, he was received among the pages at Court, and obtained the place of Subaltern in a regiment.—Having sold this place, he was nominated an Ensign of the guards. In 1783 he resigned, and married Gustave Elizabeth Lowen, who had a dowry of 4000 crowns Argent de Banque.
Two sons and two daughters are the fruit of this marriage.
Ankerstrom soon after retired into the country, but was ejected from his residence by a process of the proprietors. In 1790 he returned to Stockholm, and fixed his abode there. During the last Summer he went to Gothland with the Seneschal Steenhof, and the Vice-Auditor Runeburg. In endeavouring to make an acquisition of some land he met with another disagreeable rencontre. In 1791 he returned to the capital, and was prohibited from leaving it; yet towards Christmas, this prohibition was taken off. He afterwards assisted at the Diet of Geke, and on its close returned to Stockholm.
The rest of his life is too well known.
Domestic Intelligence.
RICHMOND, Oct. 1.
By a letter to his Excellency the Governor, we are authorized to announce to the public, that Colonel Harden , with his companion, on a mission to the Indians, respecting a treaty of peace, on delivering their credentials, were immediately made prisoners, and sentenced to be burnt as spies. Col. Harden saw his companion expire, under all the tortures which savage ingenuity could invent; and was himself the next morning after
his friend's execution to have experienced the same fate—but, was stolen from his confinement by 8 young Wyandot warriors, who safely conducted him to Fort-Washington.
HALIFAX, (N. C.) September 12.
A very remarkable meteor was observed in the county of Rockingham, and the neighbouring counties, in the night of the 11th of last month—its diameter appeared to be as large as that of the moon when full, and shed a much brighter light for the space of a minute, when it burst into several pieces, with an explosion very much like heavy thunder. It appeared to pass rather descending, in a course from N. W. to S. E. Several persons who were in their beds, and did not observe the light, mistook the noise and shaking of the houses, for an earthquake, and there was not a single cloud to be seen.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Cape-Francois, to his friend in this city, dated September 18.
“At last the forces under the command of Gen. Desbarbes , arrived yesterday.—They consist of 6400 men, of whom 4000 are National Guards. The new civil commission arrives with them. The General appears ready to dispense with ceremony and etiquette and is anxious only for the safety of the remains of this unfortunate Colony.
“The Civil Commissioners are busy in preparing proclamations previous to exerting the strong arm of power.
“It was full time that this succour should arrive, the unhappy province of Cayes is nearly ruined, and by the manœuvres of an infernal cabal, the slaves of the parish of Gros Morne were driven to follow the example of the rebels in the northern part.
“The timely and courageous exertions of the inhabitants of Borgne, aided by colour citizens have dispersed some bands and destroyed 3 or 400 insurgents, besides capturing one hundred, 50 of whom have been executed; the remainder are kept for examination to endeavor at discovering the movers of the insurrection.”
Extract from Lindsey's Hotel Diary, October 2.
This day arrived here, in eight weeks from Guernsey, the ship Belle , Captain GAVET , who informs us, the allied armies of Austria and Prussia, amounting to 200,000 men, under command of the Duke of Brunswick, were advancing rapidly towards Paris; that at Lyons, and the borders of Normandy, the people had openly declared for the Counter-Revolution; and that assignats had fallen 40 per cent.
Extract of a letter from Kingston, (Jam.) dated August 13.
“The mulatto woman, who was drowned a few days since in the harbor, was one hundred and twenty years old. A twin sister survives her, and has yet

her eye sight in such perfection as to be able to thread the finest needle without the aid of glasses.
"It is highly requisite that the master of every vessel trading from America to this Island, should take special care that none of the seamen conceal onions on board as a venture for their own profit. It is almost impossible, such is the vigilence of our Custom House Officers, they should escape detection, and the loss of a vessel is too serious a matter to be risked for a few pounds weight of onions."
Tranquility in the West-Indies.
A letter from the municipality of Port-de-Paix to the colonial Assembly of St. Domingo, inserted in a Cape-Francois paper of the 9th ult. contains an agreeable account of the cordial re-union of the people of colour, free blacks and whites in that quarter. It says,
"The citizens of Port-de-Paix have effected reform in the national guard, and have composed the two first companies of an equal portion of white and coloured citizens; officers have been chosen, apportioned in the same manner.—These two companies have sworn, under arms, to forget the old causes of dissention, and have promised to denounce those who, by their actions or conversation should endeavour anew to create disturbances."
"They afterwards went to M. Vincent's a free negro, and wealthy proprietor, captain of the second company who gave them a splendid entertainment, at which M. Casamajor , the municipal officers and a number of citizens white and of colour assisted. Good humour was also one of the guests, Patriotic toasts were drank, and the advantages of a cordial re-union were sung."
"The same evening, M. Casamajor captain of the first company gave a ball. Several white ladies, as well as of colour assisted;—the municipality, M. Casamajor , the officers of the troops of the line and of the national navy, the grenadiers of the 1st regiment, and a great number of citizens of every class, formed a crowded company."
"All was harmony and cordiality, and an excellent supper concluded the fete.—The company separated late in the evening, well satisfied with the pleasing effects of this friendly meeting, and fully persuaded, that nothing but unanimity and a friendly union of all classes of citizens can save the colony."
PARIS, August 16.
This comparative statement of the forces of the concerting Kings, opposed to the numbers which France may bring into the field, is extracted from an essay on that subject, lately pub-
lished at Paris, by an ingenious geographical writer, M. Franfenrat.
"France contains 27,000,000 of inhabitants."
"The number of male citizens between 16 and 20 years of age is ten millions; that of its active citizens, and sons of active citizens—4,300,000 inactive."
"The number of persons capable of bearing arms, is 6,700,000—2,880,000 of whom are active citizens—3,800,000 inactive."
"The regular army of France consists of 250,000 men."
"If the French, who will defend their liberties, were to decimate themselves, that is, if one in ten capable of bearing arms, marched against the common enemy, France would have an army of 670,000 men."
"The actual forces of the powers coalesced against France are,
  Austria, - - - 200,000   Prussia, - - - 183,000   The contingent of } the empire, } 40,000   Naples, - - - 50,000   Sardinia, - - - 30,000   Tuscany, - - - 6,000   Total 509,000 
"Supposing these powers have occasion to guard their immense territory, of which the extent is 21,562 square German miles, 15 to the degree, and to keep in awe from 38 to 40 millions of people, the inhabitants of this country, who are ready to revolt."
"Supposing they are obliged to keep at home, only half of their troops, it will follow, that all the force which these powers can bring against France, will be 250,000."
"The department of Paris also contains 100,000 active citizens, 140,000 inactive: among whom are 180,000 men capable of bearing arms, 80,000 actives, and 100,000 inactives."
NEWARK, October 18.
Melancholy Intelligence if true.
A merchant of this city, has received from his correspondent in Charleston (by the Georgia Packet just arrived here) a letter dated the 15th instant, which mentions that a vessel from France, arrived at Savannah, brings news to the first of September—that the Queen of France had been murdered—that the King and the Marquis de la Fayette were missing, that 5000 of the people of Paris had been put to death (by what party the correspondent takes no notice) and that the Duke of Brunswick and his army, were whithin 30 miles of Paris.
ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 27.
On Monday last passed thro' this town, on his way to Mount Vernon, Mr. Hammond , the Minister of Great-Britain.
BOSTON, OCTOBER 20.
FROM CAPE FRANCOIS.
We have authentic intelligence of the arrival there of the succours from France . The troops, in number 7000, immediately on their arrival were ordered to their several cantonments; and measures were put in train for an effective, general sortie on the rebellious negroes—and that there was a favorable prospect of the subjugation of these marauders. Fears are however entertained, that without an utter extermination of the brigands , the cultivation of the colony cannot be prosecuted. The King of the Negroes , (as he is styled)—has made a second proposition to surrender—but only on terms of emancipation of himself and followers.
We hear that the sloop Polly of Marblehead , Bonnister , from the Eastward, for that port, was on Friday night cast away on Eagle-Island , when she immediately upset, and all on board perished. There were a number of passengers on board.
Capt. Samuel Ingersol , of Beverly , homeward bound from Port-au-Prince, ran upon rocks at Brace-Cove , and lost all but the people's lives—A large Schooner from Kennebeck , with lumber, is lost on the back of Cape-Ann , but the people are safe.
FEDERAL REGISTER.
THIRD CONGRESS.
Representatives—Maryland,
* Hon. John Mercer, Uriah Forrest, Gabriel Christie Samuel Smith, Esquires. * Re-elected,
The Directors of the National Manufactory, have established the seat of Manufactory, at the town of Paterfon , at the foot of the Great-Falls , where they are proceeding to establish the cotton manufactory, and the printing and staining of calico:—There are near 200 hands employed to carry on the buildings and other works:—The committee have recommended the speedy appointment of an able superintendant.
A Providence paper of Octo. 18, says —By Capt. Taylor , arrived here from Surinam we learn, that a sloop belonging to Mess. Graves and Whiteman , of this town, being on the coast of Africa , the slaves on board (about 20 or 30 in number) taking advantage of the Captain being confined to his cabin by sickness, rose upon the crew, and killed them all, except the mate and one hand, and then killed the Captain, and cut the sloop's cable, when she drifted on shore, and was destroyed by the natives.
Saturday arrived Ship Hero , Blunt , 50 days from Bristol .
The number of people who were butchered during the present tumult, in Paris (which no language can describe) on the 10th of August, are supposed to amount to 1500.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 25.
Two persons have been detected in passing counterfeit dollars, at Hanover, Vermont , one of which turned State's evidence, and exposed a large gang of villains, who had been some time past concerned in coining dollars, quarters of dollars, six pences, &c. with whom were found instruments with which they were coined—the impression is said to be good, but the money fails in weight, owing probably to the gentlemen coiners being in haste when in the execution of this work.
We hear that Connecticut river is so contracted, by means of the drought, that at Rockingham-Falls the water passes in only a space of 12 feet wide, and two and an half deep.
The town of Salem has lately voted to have an hospital for the sick of the small-pox.
MOSUM-RIVER CANAL.
At a meeting of the Proprietors of Mosum-Harbour Canal , in Wells , the 1st Oct. 1792, the following gentlemen were appointed officers for prosecuting the institution, viz.
DIRECTORS.
Dr. CLEM. STORER , of Portsmouth , BENJAMIN BROWN , Esq. of Wells , Maj. WILLIAM JEFFERDS , do.
TREASURER.
JOSEPH STORER , Esq. of Wells .
CLERK.
Dr. SAMUEL EMERSON , of Wells .
At this meeting all the un-subscribed shares were taken up, and Mr. RICHARD GILPATRICK contracted to complete the Canal in one year, for 1000l. to be paid by instalments. The public, may therefore reasonably expect, that the object in view will be effected in the time contracted, and that thereby the interests of commerce will be essentially promoted—the vicinity in which it is prosecuted greatly benefited—and the public spirit of the proprietors liberally rewarded.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE.
ENTERED FROM Schooner Active , Cutter, Martinico . Brig Lucretia , Martin , Gaudaloup .
CLEARED FOR Ship Benson , Watson , St. Vincents . Ship Trusty , Hall , Barbadoes . Brig Nancy , Brown , W. Indies . Schooner Sukey , Chapman , Ditto .
TO FANCY.
O FANCY! blest enchantress, deign Ever to give thy blissful reign! Frequent to sooth my languid sense, Thy visionary balm dispense!
Invest in varying colours bright Each grateful scene of past delight! Sweet dalliance let me hold with thee, Estranged from sad reality!
Public Vendue.
T O be sold at public vendue, on Wednesday the 14th day of November next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. by virtue of licence from the Hon. Judge of Probate, for the county of Rockingham , the real estate of the late JOHN AYERS , gentleman, of Portsmouth , deceased, being one small lot of land, with an old house, standing on the same, near the Long-Wharf .—The sale to be at the house of Captain Josiah Smith .—The conditions of sale to be then made known.
JONA. WARNER , Administrator. Portsmouth, October 22, 1792.

Parnassian Spring.
SONG,
Sung at the Celebration of American Independence, at Paris, July 4, 1792.
COME, come, my friends, let's hail the day, That broke our chains and set us free; May all the nations quick advance, And fix their rights like us and France.
America was young and strong; Not rich, but generous was the throng Of free-born lads who flew to arms— Yet despots say, Has freedom charms?
They fought, they bled—sometimes were beat, Yet never made a base retreat; Let Trenton's streets, and Princeton prove The force of liberty and love.
Our wives, our children, left behind, We grasp'd our arms the foe to find, And Bhenus' heights, and Yorktown's field
May tell how mercenaries yield. Fill up the glasses, toast to France, May she to strength and fame advance, May commerce all her store increase, And all her struggles end in peace.
From the Gazette of the U. S.
“A faithful king and nation implore thy assistance, and will praise in hymns of gratitude thy providence and mercy.”
Address of the King and Diet of Poland.
PARAPHRASE.
THOU—who from thy glorious throne on high, Heard'st with compassion when thy children cry; Thy gracious audience give—thine arm ex- tend—
Hear the oppressed, and their cause defend; Break ev'ry chain that cramps the freeborn mind,
Hurl vengeance on the tyrants of mankind; May those who struggle in the noblest cause, “The Rights of Man,” on just and equal laws,
Superior rise to all the arts of pow'r, And shout thy mercy in the trying hour! May Poland be supported in her claim, And disappointment blast the despot's aim; Back to their dens the Russian horde be driven, And hymns of triumph praise the God of heav'n.
Profitable Method of making Butter in Winter.
PUT your milk, soon after it comes from the cow, into a kettle on coals, heating it a lit- tle above blood warmth. Then take it from the fire, and as it grows cool the cream will rise, and of an unusual thickness. In very cold weather, it will much increase the quantity of cream, if you warm the milk again, af- ter it has become cool. After thirty-six or forty-eight hours, you may take off the cream, which you will find is much thicker than is ever raised at any other season of the year.
The long time spent in churn- ing in the winter will not be required, if the cream be raised in the above method, as, gene- rally, the butter will be made in fifteen or twenty minutes. It is also a consideration of im- portance, that by keeping fire in your milk room, it keeps it warm, and prevents freezing.
If you feed your cows with carrots once in the twenty-four hours, it will keep them in the best order; your butter will be yellow, and have much of the sweetness of May butter.
Cure for Consumption and Asthma, ap- parently in their last stages.
TWO instances are cited in an En- glish paper of persons (who were so far gone in the above disorders as to be given over by their physicians) being cured of these complaints by smoking without spitting, swallowing the saliva as it formed in the mouth—expectorating only the phlegm.—A correspondent says he has heard of the most salutary effects being derived in consumptive cases, from constantly keeping a piece of the hardest biscuit in the mouth, and swallowing the saliva it occasions.
Printing-Office, Dover, July 2, 1792.
PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A COMPENDIUM of MILITARY DUTY, Adapted for the Militia of the United States.
In Three Parts—CONTAINING
Part First—The duty of Soldiers in ge- neral—Non-Commissioned, Commis- sioned, Field and General Officers: with instructions for the conduct of each, both in the Militia, and in ac- tual service.
Part Second—The Manœuvres and Evo- lutions of the Infantry, Artillery and Cavalry, upon the plan laid down for the Army of the United States, upon the Prussian System.
Part Third—Some particular instruc- tions to officers of partisan corps, interspersed with historical facts, an- ecdotes, &c. together with the ma- nœuvres of armies.
The whole carefully collated from the Count SAXE, the Chevalier DE VAL- IERE, M. LAMONT, the Baron STEUBEN, and other eminent cha- racters.
By JONATHAN RAWSON, Esq. Late Aid-de-Camp to Gen. SULLIVAN.
To which will be added, the Militia Laws of the United States.
CONDITIONS.
I. It shall be printed with a beautiful type—and on good demy paper.
II. It will contain between three and four hundred pages—and be afforded to subscribers at the low price of 6/8.
III. Those who subscribe for twelve copies shall be entitled to a thirteenth gratis.
If sufficient encouragement offer the book will be embellished with eight copperplate cuts.
This being the first book of the kind ever published in America, although universally wished for, it will undoubt- edly meet with the encouragement just- ly due to the undertaking. A list of the names of the subscribers will be added.
Dr. Hopkins's Body of Divinity.
THE Public are hereby in- formed, that this work is now in the Press, and will be published in a few months. Persons holding subscrip- tion Papers, are requested to return them immediately, to THOMAS and ANDREWS, the Publishers, No. 45, Newbury-Street, Boston, to said THO- MAS at Worcester, or the Author; as it is intended to publish the Names of Subscribers. Those who have not yet subscribed, but intend to, are requested to do it immediately, as but few Copies will be published more than are sub- scribed for, and those will be sold at an advanced price.—One thousand Sub- scribers are already received for this va- luable Work, besides which, it is proba- ble, there are many not yet returned.
The price to subscribers for the two Volumes, handsomely bound, containing nearly 1200 pages large Octavo, is eigh- teen shillings.
A FARM.
TO be LET or SOLD within 5 miles of Portsmouth, a good FARM.—For particu- lars enquire of the printer.
Portsmouth, Oct. 17, 1792.
JUST PUBLISHED
By JOHN MELCHER, And for sale at his Office, CORNER OF MARKET-STREET, PORTSMOUTH, Neatly printed and bound, in one large octavo volume, with a copious index,
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, TOGETHER WITH
The Declaration of Independence: The Definitive Treaty of Peace between the United States of America, and his Britannic Majesty: The Constitution of New Hampshire, and the Constitution of the United States, with its proposed amendments,
THE above Volume contains all the laws of the State afore- said, up to the present day, and was published by order of the Hon. the General-Court, from attested copies, and has since been carefully compared with the originals in the Secretary's Office, and by him certified; and approved of by the Legisla- ture as a correct impression of the Laws of the State, and by their order took place on the 15th day of September last.— The very heavy expence at- tending a work of this kind, prevented the printer from printing so large a number for sale as he otherwise would have done; he therefore recommends it to every person who wishes to be furnished with a copy of the laws of this State, to be speedy in applying for the same
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STOLEN from the door of the sub- scriber, on the night of the 10th inst. a Black MARE,—about 6 years old, with a star in her forehead—her right eye of a silver cast—her main on the right side—her hind feet white— trots chiefly: Whoever will take up the Thief so that he may be brought to justice, and return the Mare to the subscriber, shall have FIFTEEN DOL- LARS reward, paid by
VOLENTINE PICKERING. Newington, October 17, 1792.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of lands in the following towns, viz. Burton 1784, 1785, 1788 & 1789; Jaffrey 1787 and 1789; Lancaster and Thornton 1788; Mason 1789; Barn- stead 1789 & 1790; Alexandria 1790; Canaan 1790 and 1791; New-Chester and Portsmouth 1791; Ossipee, North- wood and Tamworth 1792;—that the subscriber has received the lists of taxes of said towns for said years—that un- less the said taxes are paid either to him or the Collectors, within eight weeks from the first publishing this ad- vertisement, their lands will be adver- tised for sale for the payment of the same.
NATH'L PARKER. Rec'r N.R. Taxes. Exeter, October 16, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of Amoskeag-bridge, that the assessments upon each share a- mounts to twenty-one pounds, and that except the same is fully paid to the Treasurer of said propriety, on or be- fore the first day of November next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, the delinquents' shares will be sold at public auction, for the payment of the arrears; at the house of Mr. John Greenleaf, Innholder in Portsmouth at said time, agreeably to a vote of said propriety, at their last meeting—to which time and place the meeting stands adjourned.
By order of the Directors, JAMES REID, Proprietors Clerk. Goffstown, October, 10, 1792.
PETER COFFIN
Has just received per Capt's BARNARD & SCOTT, FROM LONDON, A large and fresh assortment of FALL & WINTER GOODS; Which will be sold at the lowest advance for CASH.
HE begs leave to inform his cus- tomers, and others, that the above goods were not landed at Boston, but taken from the vessel and put immedi- ately on board the coaster; and are perfectly free from any in- Portsmouth, October 10, 1792.
THE Schooner, Seaflower, a new vessel, burthen about seventy tons, carried a standing fore-top sail—Samuel Treet, commander—loaded with pro- visions, onions, &c. sailed from New-London, in Connecticut, the twenty-second of Septem- ber last, bound to the West- Indies with unlimited orders; and as there has never been any certain accounts of her arrival there, nor accounts from her since her sailing; it is con- jectured that some disaster has be- fallen her. Now if any person can give any intelligence of the said schooner, or any of the crew, any where in the United States (or elsewhere) and will please to write the same, with the time, place, and other cir- cumstances, & put the letter in- to any post-office in America, addressed to Mr. Asa Deming, merchant in Wethersfield, in Connecticut, they will receive the thanks of all the concerned, and the expences paid on sight of the letter. And all the prin- ters in the United States, are requested to re-publish this no- tification upon the generous principles of humanity.
June 30, 1792.