The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1790-06-10 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful and entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
State of New-Hampshire.
AN ACT,
For raising three Thousand Pounds, for defraying the charges of Government the current year.
Passed January 22, 1790.
Whereas it is necessary a sum of money should be raised for the purposes above mentioned, Therefore :
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General-Court convened, That the sum of three thousand pounds, in specie, or specie orders, on the treasury of this State, be and hereby is raised for defraying the charges of government the current year ; and the treasurer of said State is hereby directed to issue his warrants to the selectmen or assessors, of the several towns, parishes and districts within this State, according to the proportion act, passed in February, one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-nine. And the selectmen and assessors thereof, are hereby respectively required to assess, and levy said sum, and cause the same to be paid into the treasury aforesaid, at or before the first day of January next.
And the said assessments shall be made according to each persons' poll and rateable estate, which he shall have, and be possessed of on the first day of April next, and orders drawn by the President on the treasurer, shall be received in payment of the aforesaid sum, as well by the constables and collectors as by the treasurer aforesaid.
AN ACT,
In addition to the laws now in force providing for the support and maintenance of the poor.
Passed January 22, 1790.
Whereas by the laws now in force, no provision is made for the support of such poor persons as are not inhabitants of any town or place in this State.
For remedy whereof :
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General-Court convened, That when any person, not an inhabitant of any town or place in this State, shall be visited with sickness, or otherwise stand in need of relief, in any town or place in this State, the selectmen of such town or place, shall lay the account thereof before the justices of the court of General Sessions of the Peace for the county in which town or place lies ; and the said justices having examined said account and adjusted the same, shall certify such sum (as they shall think proper to allow) to the President for the time being, who is hereby authorized, with advice of Council, to draw an order for the payment of the same out of the public treasury.
Provided always, That it shall be the duty of the selectmen, in the cases aforesaid, to use all lawful means to obtain an allowance from such person or persons as by law may be liable to pay for the support of any such poor persons, previous to their application to the Sessions, in the manner before described.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.
MONDAY, MAY 24.
THE bill for the relief of Thomas Jenkins, was read the third time, and passed the house ; as did likewise the bill for giving effect to an act for the establishment of the judiciary of North-Carolina.
The petition of William Hardy and Joseph Bedford, respecting arrears of pay for capturing and destroying continental money, was read and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
The amendments proposed by the Senate to the resolutions, respecting arrears of pay due to the Virginia and North-Carolina troops, were taken into consideration by the House, and concurred in.
The order of the day was then called for, in committee of the whole on the funding bill : Mr. Seney in the chair.
The 9th, 10th, and 11th clauses being read, several amendments were proposed, but none of them were agreed to.
The 12th section, respecting the commissioners, to be appointed in each of the states : Mr. Steele moved that the place of residence of such of those commissioners should be inserted in the bill. This motion was not agreed to.
Mr. Williamson then moved, that so much of the last clause of the 12th section be struck out, as respects the clerks to be appointed under the commissioners. This was agreed to by a large majority.
Mr. Gerry submitted the following as an amendment to the bill :
"AND whereas a provision for the debts of the respective States, by the United States, would be greatly conducive to an orderly, economical and efficient arrangement of the public finances ; would tend to an equal distribution of burdens among the citizens of the several States ; would promote more general justice to the different classes of public creditors ; and would serve to give additional stability to public credit : And whereas the said debts having been essentially contracted in the prosecution of the late war, it is just that such provision should be made.
"Be it therefore further enacted, That a loan be also proposed to the amount of the said debts, and that subscriptions to the said loan be received at the same times and places, by the same persons, upon the same terms, and with the same options to the subscribers, as in respect to the loan above proposed, concerning the domestic debt of the United States, subject to the exceptions and qualifications hereafter declared.
"And be it further enacted, That the sums which shall be subscribed to the said loan, shall be payable in the principal and interest of the certificates, which, prior to the
day of last, were issued by the respective States, as acknowledgments or evidences of debts, by them respectively owing ; and which shall appear by oath, or in regard to a known Quaker, by affirmation, to have been the property of an individual or individuals, or body politic, other than a State, on the said day of last. Provided, That no greater sum shall be received, in the certificates of any States, than as follows, that is to say ;
[Here the States were mentioned, blanks left for the sums.]
"And provided, That no such certificates shall be received, which, from the tenor thereof, or from any public record, act or document, shall appear, or can be ascertained to have been issued for any purpose, other than compensations and expenditures for services or supplies, towards the prosecution of the late war, and the defence of the United States, or of some part thereof, during the same.
"And be it further enacted, That the interest upon the certificates which shall be received in payment of the sums subscribed towards the said loan, shall be computed to the last day of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, inclusively ; and that the interest upon the stock which shall be created by virtue of the said loan, shall commence or begin to accrue upon the first day of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety two, and shall be pay-
able quarter yearly, at the same times, and in like manner, as the interest on the stock to be created by virtue of the said loan, in the domestic debt of the United States. Provided always, That the interest on one third of the respective sums, which may be subscribed according to the last of the three options or alternatives upon which subscriptions may be made as aforesaid, shall not commence or begin to accrue until the first day of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine.
"And be it further enacted, That if the whole of the sum allowed to be subscribed, in the debt or certificates of any State as aforesaid, shall not be subscribed within the time for that purpose limited, such State shall be entitled to receive, and shall receive from the United States, at the rate of four per centum per annum, upon so much of the said sum, as shall not have been so subscribed, in trust, for the non subscribing creditors of such State, to be paid in like manner as the interest on the stock, which may be created by virtue of the said loan, and to continue until there shall be a settlement of accounts between the United States and the individual States ; and in case a balance shall then appear in favour of such State until provision shall be made for the full balance.
"But as certain States have respectively issued their own certificates, in exchange for those of the United States, whereby it might happen, that interest might be twice payable on the same sums.
"Be it therefore further enacted, That the payment of interest, whether to States or to individuals, in respect to the debt of any State, by which such exchange shall have been made, shall be suspended, until it shall appear to the satisfaction of the that certificates issued for that purpose, by such State, have been re-exchanged or redeemed, or until those which shall not have re-exchanged or redeemed, shall be surrendered to the United States.
"And be it further enacted, That the faith of the United States, be, and the same is hereby pledged to make provision, before the third of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one for payment of interest on the amount of the stock arising from subscriptions to the said loan, upon the like principles with the provision herein before expressed, touching the loan, to be made in the said domestic debt of the United States ; and also for the payment of the said four per cent. per annum, on so much of said debts of the respective States, as shall remain unsubscribed to said loan.
"And be it further enacted, That so much of the debt of each State as shall be subscribed to the said loan, shall be a charge against such State in account with the United States.
"And be it further enacted, That the commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid, shall have the like powers and authorities, and shall perform the like services and duties in respect to the said last mentioned loan, as in respect to the one first above proposed, relatively to the said domestic debt of the United States."
A strong opposition was made to the motion, was not decided upon this day.
District of New Hampshire, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given that the District Court, which by law was to be holden at Exeter, in said District on the third Tuesday of June instant, will then be adjourned to the second Tuesday of July next—of which all persons concerned, will take due notice and govern themselves accordingly.
By order of the Judge.
JOHN PARKER, Marshall. Portsmouth, June 2, 1790.
To the Honorable JOSEPH BADGER, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. in and for the county of Strafford, and State of New-Hampshire.
The petition of John Gage, Esquire, of Dover, in said county, administrator of the goods and estate of the Honorable John Gage, Esq. late of said Dover, deceased, intestate, in behalf of himself and the other heirs of the said estate, Humbly shews—
THAT in the year of the Lord seventeen hundred forty-nine, a tract of land in a place unincorporated, called New-Durham Gore, in said county, containing about 2200 acres, being two of the larger lots in said Gore, and numbered five and eleven, was granted by the Masonian proprietors to Walter Bryant, Thomas Bell, Joseph Blanchard, and the last named John Gage, Esquires. That the said heirs are seized of the one quarter part of said tract which they hold in common and undivided with the said Walter Bryant, or his assigns, and the heirs or assigns of the said Bell and Blanchard, deceased. That it is highly necessary said tract should be divided that a settlement may be made of the said estate on which your petitioner has administered.
He therefore prays that you would order process in the premises, and appoint a committee to make partition of said tract, and sever the share of the heirs of said John Gage, in the same, and set off said share to them in severality, according to law, and your petitioner, as in duty bound, will pray.
JOHN GAGE.
May 12, 1790.
Strafford.
AT a Court of Probate, holden at Rochester, in and for said county, on the second Wednesday of May, in the year of the Lord, seventeen hundred ninety, being the twelfth day of said month.
On reading the foregoing petition, it is ordered by the Judge that the petitioner be heard thereon, at the Court of Probate, next to be holden at Dover, in and for said county, on the third Wednesday of June next, and that in the mean time the said petition and order of Court thereon be inserted in one or more of the New-Hampshire newspapers, three weeks successively, that all parties interested in said tract of land may take notice, and then and there appear and shew cause, if any they have, why the prayer of the said petition should not be granted.
Attest, WM. ATKINSON, Reg'r.
A Copy examined by WM. ATKINSON, Reg'r.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the township of Hillsborough, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1789, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 23d day of June, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges will be sold at public vendue, at the house of John Dutton, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day. ind. spe. c'ty.
   D. No. Q'ty. s. d. d. d. q.     W. Hill, W. p't3 50 115 1 10 9 1 1   2 13 100 1 8 8 1 1   J. Hill, E. p't. 3 8 80 1 3 5 1 0   Widow Moore's farm E. p't 0 0 88 1 5 7 1 0   Brown Burt 3 6 100 1 8 8 1 1   W. Bradford's Heirs E. end 60 30 0 6 2 1 1    ANDREW WILKINS, Collector. Hillsborough, May 12, 1790.

L O N D O N, March 23. NATIONAL DEBT.
Two hundred and forty millions, which is the amount of the national debt of Great-Britain, if paid in heavy guineas, valuing them at four pounds sterling per ounce, would weigh five millions of pounds, troy weight.
Suppose this enormous quantity of gold to be put into carts, each cart to have one thousand pound weight; allow each cart two horses, and for each cart allow forty feet—the whole quantity would load five thousand carts, which would cover a road thirty-seven miles in length, with a remainder of one hundred and sixteen carts in the thirty-eighth mile.
Query —Is there in the whole world as much gold in circulation as would pay off this enormous debt?—If this be not sufficient—Is there as much gold and silver in circulation in the world, as would be sufficient for such a purpose?
A man of taste, at Hushmaite, near the village of Stillington, in the county of Lancashire, after drenching himself with drinking five quarts of ale, undertook, by way of relish, to eat the quart, which was an earthen one!—This he effectually accomplished; the wholesome effects of which were, a mortification in his bowels, which carried him off two days after.
S A V A N N A H, May 6.
Last week arrived in this river from New-York, a brig and a sloop, bound to St. Mary's with troops, to be stationed on the frontiers of this State.
C H A R L E S T O N, May 15.
The Continental troops lately arrived in Georgia, from New-York, under the command of Captain Burbeck, consist of three companies, and are to be stationed at three different posts, viz. on St. Mary, at Beard's Bluff, and on the Altamaha, and at Rock Landing.
N E W B E R N, (N. C.) April 29.
Capt. Duguld, who returned here from the West-Indies on Monday last, brings accounts that the people were in great commotions in Martinique, and had sent all the king's troops to France in an American ship, chartered for that purpose.
A L E X A N D R I A, May 20.
On Saturday last, arrived here, in 60 days from Havre-de-Grace, the ship Liberty, Captain Le Boutteillier. In her came passengers 120 French emigrants.
P E T E R S B U R G, April 15.
The severe gust of wind that we had on Tuesday the 6th instant, has done very great damage in different parts of the country, and is supposed to be the most violent, for the time it lasted, of any that ever blew in this country. Several valuable mills are entirely destroyed; on some plantations every house was blown down, and the fowls were carried up in the air considerable distance, and the wind was so violent in many places, as to lay prostrate every thing within its reach.
W I N C H E S T E R, April 24.
A letter from Kentucky, dated March 7, mentions, 'That a station has been taken by the Shawanese Indians, above the Three Islands—that it consisted of fourteen men, besides women and children, who were made prisoners of, and conveyed to the Indian country.'
N E W Y O R K, May 29.
The Ship Harmony, Capt. Willet, is arrived at Philadelphia from Bengal.—Accounts from the East-Indies state—there is a most pleasing prospect of a plentiful harvest in that part of the world—that Cotton has sold so low as 11 Tales in China—that the English settlements enjoy a profound peace—that the greatest part of treasure on board the Vanstittart one of the East-India company's Ships lately lost, had been recovered from the wreck, that the ship Durham, Capt. Kepling, and another ship were lost in a gale of wind, foundering in the road—that Tippoo Sultan, to punish the faults of some of the tributary Princes, had depopulated
and laid waste their country from Belipatam to Callicut, an extent of 80 or 90 miles, where the late possessors of its fields and habitations are seen no more.
The Hon. PETER SYLVESTER is re-elected a member of the House of Representatives of the United States—and the Hon. JAMES GORDON is chosen to serve in the same Hon. branch of the next Congress.
June 2. We have the pleasure to facilitate the public, that the President of the United States has so far recovered his health, that he yesterday saw company at his house, and received the congratulations of many respectable characters on the occasion.
June 4. We hear, that a Resolution was, on Wednesday, brought into the Senate of the United States, respecting a permanent seat of government, which after having been debated, the question for committing being put, there appeared 12 Senators in the affirmative, and 12 in the negative, and the President gave the casting vote for committing the Resolution, together with the Resolution passed in the House of Representatives, respecting a temporary residence, to a committee of five members.
[Daily Gaz.] The Governor and Legislative Council of the Province of Canada, have issued an act in addition to the act for regulating the inland commerce of that Province, whereby it is enacted, that the free importation of pig iron be permitted from the United States, provided every pig shall be marked in the moulds in legible letters. VERMONT. On Tuesday last died, at his lodgings in Broad-street, the Hon. THEODORE BLAND, one of the Representatives in the Congress of the United States from the State of Virginia, in the 49th year of his age; and on Wednesday afternoon his last remains were respectfully entombed in the Trinity-Church yard. The Hon. the Congress of the United States, the Society of the Cincinnati, and many respectable citizens, attended this last and solemn act.
B O S T O N, June 9.
FROM NEW-YORK, JUNE 3, 1790.
The Funding Bill passed the House yesterday. The vote of the House to meet the next session at Philadelphia, appears to be arrested in the Senate, and has been referred to a Committee, to whom the Bill respecting the permanent residence is committed. It is expected, that the Funding Bill will receive some amendments in the Senate—among others, a clause for the assumption of the State Debts.
The adoption of the federal Constitution by Rhode-Island, has diffused general joy throughout that State—and the Federal Members of the Convention have been received by their constituents with every mark of honor and respect.
The Hon. JOHN LAWRENCE, ROBERT BENSON, PETER SYLVESTER, CORNELIUS C. SCHOONMAKER, JAMES GORDON and JAMES TOWNSEND, Esq'rs. are elected Federal Representatives for the State of New-York. The three latter gentlemen are not of the present House: The last gentleman is since dead.
FRIDAY, JUNE 4. ASSUMPTION OF STATE DEBTS.
This day a RESOLUTION came down from the Hon. Senate, for concurrence, for making application to the Congress of the United States to ASSUME THE DEBT OF THIS STATE contracted during the late war—Together with instructions to the Senators in Congress, from this State, to use every means in their power to effect the same.
A concurrence in the above Resolution was earnestly and eloquently advocated by Mr. PARSONS, Dr. JARVIS, Mr. BRECK, Dr. EUSTIS and Mr. MASON—who were opposed by Mr. BACON. After a discussion of about four hours, the question of concurrence was
taken, and passed in the affirmative—For concurring, 83.
Against, 41. An Express, charged with this Resolution, was immediately dispatched by his Excellency the Governor, to the Senators from this State, in Congress—to be communicated.
Extract of a letter from Paris, Feb. 25.
"Last Monday Mr. Didelot made a second experiment of his Liquid for resisting and extinguishing fire. A wooden hut had been erected in Luxemburgh Gardens, and filled with inflammable materials. He first set fire to some Casks smeared over with pitch, and when the flame blazed up with much violence he instantly put it out by a single squirt of his astonishing liquid. Then muffling himself up in a cloak, impregnated with the same liquid, he passed through the burning hut, and extinguished the fire by means of a portable engine filled with anti-incendiary liquid. Some say it is a preparation of allum-water. It produces, however, the desired effect."
Accounts from New-Jersey, and from several parts of the State of New-York, say, that there never was a greater prospect of an abundant fruit-year than the present spring affords; that vegetation was never in a more flourishing state; and that the prospects of exuberant harvests of fruit and wheat are peculiarly flattering.
In a late debate, Mr. MADISON stated, that the IMPORTS of the U. S. annually, from Europe, were about 3,039,000. sterling—from the West-Indies, 927,438.1.—Total, 3,966,438.1.—And that the EXPORTS to Europe, were 3,202,448.1.—to the West-Indies, 941,552.1.—Total, 4,244,000.1. Certainly, according to this statement, the balance of Trade is considerably in favor of the United States.
A vessel has arrived in the Potomac from Old France with 160 emigrants, who are to settle on the Ohio.
P R O D U C E.
Eleven hundred and fifty-two bushels of Rye, Wheat, Barley, Buckwheat, Indian Corn, Potatoes, and Turnips, twenty tons of Pumpkins, and fifty tons of Hay, were the product, in one year, of 35 acres of land, exclusive of half of an acre of Flax—belonging to Mr. WILLIAM JOHNSON, of Frankford, Pennsylvania. Plaster of Paris was the manure of the above land.
SPAIN and PORTUGAL.
Seem strenuously bent upon keeping out the air of liberty from their dominions by the severest edicts against the freedom of the press, and the freedom of conversation; well convinced of that maxim, that where the press is free, the people will be free also. The frontiers of Spain and Portugal are in a manner lined with armed men to prevent the increase of French liberty. For a time their purposes may perhaps be effected, but it would seem that her gradual progress through Europe can hardly now be prevented. Spain may, it is suspected, in a short time, justly say to her despotic government, what the girl in love said to her jealous old governess:—
Marber, with watchful eye you strive My fancy to restrain, But know, unless I guard myself, Your guard will be in vain. My freedom can be check'd no more, Your choicest guards are fled; With bands of Wool she opens the door, Unfelt her footsteps tread; Then try no more, with fruitless care, My wishes to restrain, For if I do not guard myself, Your guard will be in vain!
S H I P N E W S.
Arrived, at Portland, Capt. Rodman, from Port-au-Prince—Provision cheap—Beef 27s. per barrel. Also, Capt. Greenleaf from Aux-Cayes—Market dull; Molasses scarce and dear; and little business done, except training and exercising the inhabitants.
W O R C E S T E R, June 3.
Owing to the unfinished state of the gaol in this town, 6 persons, who were all
confined in one room, made their escape on Saturday night last; this they effected by opening an avenue to a canal which conveys water to the vaults, and which had never been properly secured. A reward of Sixty Dollars is offered for taking and securing four of them, viz. Hawley, Kimball, Gibbs, and Dunsmore.
N E W B U R Y P O R T, June 9.
Friday last as five men were employed in scraping the side of a vessel, on a stage which was previously erected for that purpose, it accidentally gave way, by which means two of them were unfortunately drowned. The other three, by the timely exertions of those who were present, were providentially saved.
A D V I C E.
If you wish to laugh a while, Or if you only wish to smile, Or if you wish to crack a Joke, Or if to make a witty Stroke, Pray put it in the Newspaper.
If you wish to serve the State, Or useful Tidings to relate, Or if you wish Advice to give, To shew vain Fools the Way to live, Pray do it in the Newspaper.
If Politics you understand, And useful thoughts you can command, Or if a Government you plan, Or any thing to answer Man, Pray do it in the Newspaper.
If Genius should be your lot, Then value Critics not a jot But aid the Press with something new, And if your Theme you should pursue, Pray put it in the Newspaper.
O N I D L E N E S S.
THERE is an apt and comprehensive proverb I have somewhere met with, which says, that idleness is the Devil's cushing : And Pliny, who well knew the value of time, and the advantages of employment, has left us this maxim, in one of his letters: Satius est otiosum esse quam nihil agere ; which to translate with the same quaintness of the original, is as much as to say, that it is better to do the idlest thing than to continue idle .
The slothful mind as naturally turns to vice, as the untitled land turns to weeds.—The field that does not produce grass or corn, cherishes nettles or thistles.
Time, like a river, rolls imperceptibly away, while it seems to stay, until it loses itself in the unfathomable ocean of eternity. Happy they who mark its periods by deeds which shall bear record, when time itself shall be no more.
A N E C D O T E S.
DR. FRANKLIN, when a child, found the long graces used by his father, before and after meals, very disagreeable. One day after the winter's provisions had been salted, "I think, father," says Benjamin, "If you said grace over the whole cask—once for all—it would be a vast saving of time."
LORD MELCOMB was, when his name was plain Bub , intended by the administration of that time, to be sent ambassador to Spain. While this matter was in contemplation, Lord Chesterfield met him, and touching upon the proposed embassy, told Bub that he did not think him by any means fit to be the representative of the crown of England, at the Spanish Court. Bub desired to know the ground of his objection—'Why,' said his Lordship, 'your name is much too short!—Bub—Bub! Do you think the Spaniards, a people who pride themselves on their family honors, and the length of their titles, will suppose a man can possess any dignity or importance, with a name of one syllable, and which is pronounced in a second? No, my friend, you must not think of Spain, unless you can make some addition to your name'— Bub desired his Lordship to say what he would have him do. Lord Chesterfield, pausing a moment, exclaimed—'I have it—What do you think of calling yourself Silly Bub ?' I wish to quip with all."

PORTSMOUTH, June 10.
From Concord.
Proceedings of the Court.
ON Wednesday the 2d instant, the Hon. General-Court met at Concord, and after choosing Ebenezer Smith, Esq. Chairman, qualified themselves, and made choice of the Hon. Thomas Bartlett, Esq. as Speaker, and the Hon. William Plummer, Esq. as Clerk to the Hon. House of Representatives. On Thursday the House proceeded to examine the returns of the members.—On motion of Mr. Hoit, whether John S. Sherburne, Esq. by being on the list of invalid pensioners is rendered ineligible to a seat in the House of Representatives, it was voted that he was not. The yeas and nays being called for by Mr. Wentworth, there were 66 nays and 1 yea, so it passed in the negative. The four Senators who were returned chosen by the people, viz. The Hon. Oliver Peabody, John Waldron, Sanford Kingsbury and Amos Shephard, Esquires, met the Representatives in the Assembly Chamber, and proceeded to count the votes for President, it appeared that the Hon. John Pickering, Esq. had 3189—Hon. Joshua Wentworth, Esq. 2369—Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Esq. 1676—Hon. Nathaniel Peabody, Esq. 294, and 334 votes for different gentlemen; there appeared to be no choice by the people, the Senate elect and Representatives proceeded to fill up the Senate, agreeably to the Constitution, the Senate and House then repaired to the meeting-house, where the Rev. Mr. Ogden, rector of Queen's Chapel in this town, delivered an excellent sermon from Nehemiah, Chap. v. Verse 19.—“Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.”
The Hon. House of Representatives on Friday sent up to the Hon. Senate, the names of the Hon. John Pickering and Josiah Bartlett, Esquires, as candidates for the Presidency, the Senate proceeded to ballot, the Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Esq. had 6 votes, and the Hon. John Pickering, Esq. 5, therefore the Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Esq. is elected President of this State for the year ensuing.—On Saturday a very respectable Committee, Mr. Page, Mr. Smith, Mr. M'Gregore, Mr. Barrett and Mr. Eastman from the House, and Mr. Webster from the Senate, were appointed to wait on the Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Esq. and inform him of his election, they proceeded accordingly, and were very politely received by him.—On Monday he sat off from his seat in Kingstown for Concord, escorted by the light horse from Concord and Pembroke, and arrived at the ferry about 6 o'clock, P. M. where he was very politely received and escorted to his lodgings by the Hon. Senate, Representatives, private gentlemen, &c. in the following procession, viz.
 1st. Section of the cavalry in front at the distance of four rods.  2d. A corps of infantry with musick in their front.  3d. The Committee of arrangement and the Committee that waited on the President.  4th. His Excellency the President.  5th. The Hon. Council.  6th. The Senior Senator with the Secretary at his left.  7th. The Hon. Senate.  8th. The Hon. House of Representatives.  9th. The Civil and Military officers of the State.  10th. The private gentlemen attending.  11th. The main body of the Cavalry. (In our next we hope to present our readers with the President's address, &c.) 
The following vote passed the House of Representatives, without a division, viz.—That it is the opinion of this house, that an attorney of the United States for the district of New-Hampshire, is constitutionally eligible to a seat in the Legislature.
The gentlemen who compose the present Legislature, and the officers they have appointed are, PRESIDENT.
His Excellency JOSIAH BARTLETT, Esquire.
COUNSELLORS.
HONORABLE CHRISTOPHER TOPPAN, JOSEPH BADGER, JR. ROBERT WALLACE, LEMUEL HOLMES and JONATHAN FREEMAN, Esquires.
SENATORS.
County of ROCKINGHAM.—Hon. OLIVER PEABODY, NATHANIEL PEABODY, PETER GREEN, JOSEPH CILLEY and NATHANIEL ROGERS, Esquires.
County of STRAFFORD.—Hon. JOHN WALDRON and EBENEZER SMITH, Esquires.
County of HILLSBOROUGH.—Hon. ROBERT WALLACE and EBENEZER WEBSTER, Esquires.
County of CHESHIRE.—Hon. AMOS SHEPHARD and ABESOLOM KINGSBURY, Esquires.
County of GRAFTON.—Hon. JONATHAN FREEMAN, Esq.
JOSEPH PEARSON, Esq. Secretary. WILLIAM GARDNER, Esq. Treasurer. SUPPLY CLAP, Esq. Commissary-General.
REPRESENTATIVES.
 County of ROCKINGHAM.  Portsmouth, } George Gains, } John S. Sherburne, a } George Wentworth. a  Exeter, Benjamin Conner. a  Londonderry, James M'Gregore.  Chester, Joseph Blanchard.  Newington, —  Greenland, Joshua Weeks. a  Rye and New-Castle, —  North-Hampton, —  Hampton, Christopher Toppan. a  Hampton-Falls, Mr. Elisha Brown. a  Stratham, —  Kennington, —  South-Hampton, Phillips White. a  Kingstown, John Eastman.  Brintwood, —  Epping, William Plummer. a  Newmarket, —  Nottingham, Thomas Bartlett.  Deerfield, —  Epsom, Michael M'Clary.  Chichester, —  Canterbury, Jere Clough. a  Loudon, Samuel Chamberlain. a  Concord, —  Pembroke, Richard Bartlett. a  Candia, —  Raymond, —  Harke, —  Hampstead, —  Atkinson, —  Salem, —  Newtown, —  Wyndham, —  Elkhan, James Gibson. a    County of STRAFFORD.  Dover, John Kelley. a  Durham, Ebenezer Smith, jr.  Somersworth, —  Rocky, Barnabas Palmer.  Barrington, Samuel Hale.  Sanborntown, —  Gilmantown, Joseph Badger. a  Lee, Paul Giles. a  Madbury, —  Merrimack, —  Sandwich, Daniel Bede.  Moultonborough, Nathan Hoit.  Barnstead, —  Wakefield, David Copp.  Conway, Andrew M'Mellen. a    County of HILLSBOROUGH.  Amberst, Daniel Warner. a  Nottingham-West, —  Dunstable, —  Litchfield, —  Merrimack, Timothy Taylor. a  Bedford, Stephen Dole, —  Goffstown, —  Hollis, Daniel Emerson.  Raby, Obadiah Parker. a  New-Ipswich, Charles Barrett.  Francistown, —  Duxbury, —  Wilton, Jacob Abbot  Lindborough, Peter Clarke. a  Temple, Francis Cragin. a  Peterborough, Jeremiah Smith.   
 Hancock, —  Henniker, William Wallace. a  New-Boston, —  Weare, —  Hopkinton, —  Dunbarton, —  Salsbury, —  Boscawen, Henry Gerrish. a  Warner, James Flanders.  Andover, —  County of CHESHIRE.  Charlestown, William Page.  Alstead, Oliver Shepard.  Keene, Jere Stiles. a  Swanzey, Elisha Whitcomb. a  Richmond, Jonathan Gaskill.  Jaffrey, Benjamin Prescot. a  Winchester, John Alexander. a  Westmoreland, Archelus Temple.  Chesterfield, Moses Smith. a  Rindge, Daniel Rand.  Walpole, Aaron Allen.  Claremont, —  Cornish, James Welman.  Newport, Jesse Lane. a  Ashaway, William Grout. a  Wendell, —  Surrey, Lemuel Holmes.  Stoddard, Thomas Penniman. a  Dublin, Reuben Morse. a  Marlborough, —  Fitzwilliam, Abner Stone.  Plainfield, Joseph Kimball. a  Proctor, Samuel Duncan. a    County of GRAFTON.  Holderness, Moses Baker. a  Plymouth, Abraham Burnham. a  New-Chester, Thomas Crawford.  Enfield, Ebenezer Hoit. a  Hanover, —  Lebanon, Elisha Pane. a  Lime, —  Haverhill, Moses Dow. a  Piermont, William Tarlton.  Orford, Theodore Dame. a  Bath, Samuel Young. a  Northumberland, Jere Ames.    Those marked thus (a) were not of the House the last year.
On the 13th ult. Mr. Daniel Kendrick, of Hollis, who had been for some time deprived of his reason, put an end to his existence by hanging himself—He was a person much esteemed while living, and his death is greatly lamented. He was in the 30th year of his age, and has left a widow and four small children to lament his untimely death.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Antigua to his friend in this town dated May 2, 1790.
“WE are in a most shocking condition for want of rain, of which we have had but only a part of one day, since November last, our Canes are all burnt up, some estates on which were made 400 hogsheads annually, will not yield more than ten, others none, what will become of us God only knows, if we don't get rain soon no crops this year, Corn 10/6 per bushel, Beans, Pease and Flour are not permitted to come from England. Such London ships as had any of those articles on board were stoped, and the same taken out.”
The Duties paid by the Federalist Indian, lately arrived at New-York, are said to amount to 30,000 dollars!
In New-Jersey a person was lately married, aged 106 years—His daughter in law meeting him the day after, said to him, “Father, I'm offended with you for not inviting me to your wedding.” In order to atone for the neglect, he replied, Daughter, you shall be invited to my next.
From T. Allen's New-London marine list, June 3.
Arrived at New-York, THE STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND, & there moored in the UNION, two fathom only! A NARROW BY, FAITH, JACK! —(English language, just rub and go.)
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE of this district.
 C L E A R E D FOR  Brig Lucretia, M'Clintock, N. Carolina  Snow Salter, Sands, Barbadoes.  Brig Hero, Edwards, Scotland.    E N T E R E D FROM  Ship Charlotte, Mendum, Dublin.  Brig Betsey, Lord, —   
TOMORROW, At 9 in the morning, will commence the sale of a large collection of BOOKS, at DEARBORNE'S SCHOOL-ROOM.—Catalogues may had gratis. Thursday, June 10.
On TUESDAY next, At 11 o'clock, A. M. Will be sold at Public Vendue, At ABRA'M ISAAC'S Office in BUCK-STREET, A GENTEEL Curricule, with Har-ness complete; a Fall-back Chaise, with Har-ness complete; a light airy Wiskey, with Har-ness complete, and a Sulkey, together with a greater assortment of every kind of Goods than has ever been exposed for sale at said Office.
NEW-GRANTHAM. NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of the township of New-Grantham, that at a legal meeting holden in said town their lands were taxed the sum of eleven shillings and six pence, on each Right apportioned in the following manner, viz: The sixty acre lots two shillings each, the first hundred acre lots two shillings each, the second hundred acre lots five shillings each, and the after divisions two shillings and six pence each, which sums said Proprietors are hereby requested to pay to me by the fifteenth day of July next, at my dwelling-house in said New-Grantham, or in case of failure their lands will be advertised for sale as the law directs. JOHN DUNCAN, Collector. New-Grantham, May 25, 1790.
RUMNEY. WHEREAS the Proprietors of the township of Rumney, in the County of Grafton, and State of New-Hampshire, at a legal meeting of said Proprietors, held in said Rumney on the second day of January, A. D. 1786, voted to raise six shillings on each right in said Rumney, to defray the charges of laying out the remainder of their common lands, which being assessed, was committed to me with a warrant to collect the same, dated the 27th day of October, A. D. 1786.—I therefore notify said Proprietors, that unless they make payment to me at my dwelling-house in Rumney of the said tax, their land will be advertised for sale as the law directs. JOSEPH JONES, Collector. Rumney, May 25, 1790.
State of New-Hampshire. Strafford ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of Middleton in said State and county, that a proprietors meeting of said proprietors is to be held in said Middleton on Tuesday the sixth day of July next, at the house of Mr. Henry Pike in said Middleton, at two o'clock, P. M. on said day, then and there to act on the following articles, viz.— 1st. To choose a Moderator to regulate said meeting. 2d. To choose a Proprietor's Clerk. 3d. To advise with the settling Proprietors of said town respecting a settlement with the Rev. Mr. Ordway as he wants a settlement with the Proprietors and Town. 4th. To see what shall be done respecting the Proprietors Collector, who refuses to collect agreeable to a list committed to him to collect money to pay Mr. Ordway and other Proprietors charges. 5th. To see if the Proprietors will choose a new Collector and new Assessors, and any other officers that shall be thought needful, and to transact any other matters thought proper at said meeting —All concerned are desired to attend at time and place. By order of the Assessors, JOHN GAGE, Proprietors Clerk. Dover, June 5, 1790.

STODDARD. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Stoddard, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1789, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the first Monday in July next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at my own house in said town, at two o'clock, in the afternoon, on said day.
   No. R. Q'ty. meeting-house. state. ind. high-way.   Specie. ind. way. Specie. ind. way. Specie. ind. way. Specie. ind. way.     John Chamberlain 28 6 80 3 4 2 1/2 5 3 4   North Side 24 5 16 2 6 3 1/2 7 2 6 1/2   Job Hodgman, East End 12 13 60 2 6 4 8 2 6   John J. Jones, East End 14 5 58 2 5 2 1/2 5 2 5   Col. Stoddard's Heirs 9 16 65 2 8 2 3/4 8 2 8   10 16 80 3 4 3 6 3 4   9 15 75 2 8 1/2 4 8 3 4   10 15 80 3 4 4 8 3 4   9 14 80 3 4 3 6 3 4   10 14 80 3 4 4 8 3 4   3 3 80 3 4 2 1/2 5 3 4   28 2 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   13 5 80 3 4 2 1/2 5 3 4   West End 11 12 40 1 8 2 4 1 8   Elijah Bordans 13 7 80 3 7 4 8 3 4   Capt. Peter Hunt 10 5 80 3 4 2 4 3 4   Ditto 11 5 80 3 4 2 4 3 4   Nathaniel Cumings 6 14 22 0 11 1 2 0 11   Joseph Blanchard 14 15 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   4 14 14 0 7 1 2 0 7   25 6 80 3 4 2 1/2 5 3 4   12 3 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   19 3 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   18 3 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   Reuben Kidder 8 14 40 1 8 1 1/2 5 1 8   Col. Matthew Thornton 2 No 21 0 10 1/2 1 2 0 10 1/2   27 9 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   2 13 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   Samuel Stevens 9 11 18 0 9 1 2 0 9   Phillip Bardens 19 4 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   Asa Jackson 28 13 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   Ephraim Brockway In No 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   Seth Wheeler 2 14 60 3 0 1 2 3 0   15 15 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   Timothy Baker 22 11 20 0 10 1 2 0 10   23 11 40 1 8 2 1/2 5 1 8   William Jackson's Heirs 13 8 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   Levi Flitcher 8 9 40 1 8 2 1/2 5 1 8   Thomas Packer 16 13 61 2 6 1/2 3 1/2 7 2 6 1/2   28 12 80 3 4 5 10 3 4   Thomas Wallingsford 18 16 50 2 1 2 1/2 5 2 1   George Jaffrey, Esq. 7 14 26 1 1 0 0 1 1   15 12 80 3 4 0 0 3 4   7 5 80 3 4 0 0 3 4   March, Hancock and Lynde 1 10 80 3 4 2 4 3 4   2 10 80 3 4 2 4 3 4  
ANDREW ROBBE, Collector. Stoddard, June 3, 1790.
STODDARD. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Stoddard, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the first day of July next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of William Osgood, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
   Lots R. Acres. d. q. State Specie tax. Continental Ind'ts Meeting-house and High-way tax. State Certificate tax. County tax   s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     Thomas Packer 28 12 80 8 1 1 0 2 6 8 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1   Col. Stoddard's Heirs 9 15 80 6 3 0 10 2 6 8 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0   10 15 80 6 1 0 10 2 6 8 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0   9 14 80 5 2 0 8 0 6 8 0 11 0 0 3   10 14 80 6 1 0 10 2 6 8 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0   20 8 80 8 1 1 0 2 6 8 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1   East End 3 4 74 3 1 0 6 0 6 2 0 7 2 0 2   28 2 80 7 3 1 0 1 6 8 1 5 0 1 1   27 2 80 6 0 0 10 1 6 8 1 2 0 1 0   13 5 80 5 1 0 7 0 6 8 0 9 0 1 0   28 4 80 6 1 0 10 2 6 8 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0   25 4 80 6 1 0 10 2 6 8 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0   11 8 80 6 2 0 10 2 6 8 1 2 1 1 1   Thomas Wallingsford 18 16 50 5 1 0 7 0 4 2 0 9 0 0 2   Benjamin Tarble 17 15 80 8 1 1 0 2 6 8 1 5 2 1 1   17 16 80 8 1 1 0 2 6 8 1 5 2 1 1   Nathaniel Richardson 1 14 80 5 2 0 10 1 0 10 1 2 1 1 0   Capt. Peter Hunt 10 5 80 3 1 0 5 1 6 8 0 7 3 0 2   11 5 80 3 1 0 5 1 6 8 0 7 3 0 2   James Dunn 22 4 80 6 1 0 10 2 6 8 1 2 1 1 0   Joseph Blanchard's Heirs 3 No 62 5 3 0 9 1 5 2 1 1 0 0 3   North East 15 2 30 3 1 0 5 3 2 6 0 7 3 0 1   Ebenezer Farley 20 16 80 8 1 1 0 2 6 8 1 5 1 1 1   Matthew Thornton 2 No 21 2 2 0 3 2 1 9 0 5 0 0 1   2 13 80 6 3 0 10 2 6 8 1 2 1 1 0   25 5 80 5 2 0 8 0 6 8 0 11 0 0 3   23 2 80 8 2 1 0 2 6 8 1 5 1 1 1   Samuel Stevens 9 11 18 1 0 0 1 1 6 0 1 1 0 1 1   Ithamors Wheelock 6 9 80 8 1 1 0 2 6 8 1 5 1 1 1   Col. Stoddard's Heirs 5 16 80 8 1 1 0 2 6 8 1 5 1 1 1   Nathaniel Richardson 3 14 80 6 3 0 10 2 6 8 1 2 1 1 0   Asa Jackson 28 13 80 8 1 1 0 2 6 8 1 5 1 1 1   Seth Wheeler 2 14 80 6 3 0 10 2 6 8 1 2 1 1 0   15 15 80 8 1 1 0 2 6 8 1 5 1 1 1  
CALEB HUNT, Collector. Stoddard, April 14, 1790.
ACWORTH. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Acworth, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 5th day of July next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Eliphaz Silby, in said town, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
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