The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1783-06-14 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE. AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Vol. XXVII.]
SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1783.
[No. 1389.]
PORTSMOUTH.
A gentleman lately from England, has favored us with the Chester Chronicle , of the second of May, from which the following is selected:
PARIS, April 18.
IT is said to be determined, that the Court of Madrid will cede to France, Louisiana and Trinity Island, besides the entire property of St. Domingo, the islands of Marguerita and Cubagua, together with some territories in Florida; in return for which concessions, France will guarantee to Spain all Mexico, both against foreign invasions and interior troubles.
Congress have by an act granted a very large tract of country in Carolina to the Marquis de la Fayette.
AMSTERDAM, April 24.
We hear by letter the melancholy news that the Bourgogne, a ship of the line, of 74 guns, and which made a part of Admiral Vaudreul's fleet, was lost on the Spanish American coast, and that the greatest part of the crew, which consisted of 800 men perished.
LONDON, April 24.
Yesterday in the afternoon, two more American ships arrived in the river laden with wheat and other goods. Samples of the wheat were this morning brought to the Mansion-house. More vessels from Philadelphia are hourly expected, laden with corn and divers other goods, the produce of that country.
A letter from Stockholm, received by a merchant in the city, says, that several vessels were taking in their cargoes for America, having settled a correspondence in Philadelphia, Boston, and Salem, and also at Virginia and South Carolina, to all which places they are in hopes of carrying on a very extensive trade; and that the ships which are to be employed in that trade are to be from 400 to 500 tons burthen.
April 29. Accounts brought this day by the Dutch mail, say it was reported at Versailles, that the Chevalier Charles Stuart who was in Scotland, in 1745 has died childless, in Italy, so that the only heir male now remaining of that House, is Cardinal York.
Sir John Irvin, it is confidently reported, will be reinstated in the Chief Command in Ireland; and Gen. Burgoyne, it is believed will return to England with Earl Temple.
The salary of an American Ambassador is fixed at 4000. a year. There will be one at London, at Paris, and at Amsterdam, but Residents every where else.
Chester May 2. A few days ago, a sheep, the property of Mr. Peter Wedd, butcher, of Boston in Lincolnshire, yeaned a lamb with two heads, four eyes, and four ears: its heads were perfectly distinct from each other, and it received suck from both mouths. The lamb lived four days, and died by reason the ewe was destroyed.
DUBLIN, April 19.
On Wednesday last, an entry was made at the custom house by Mr. Ramage, of Granby row, of goods for exportation to America, of no less a sum than 18,000l. These goods chiefly consisted of low-priced poplins, half tabbinets, printed linnens, stuffs, &c.
CORK, April 21.
The thirteen stripes are now flying on board the Enterprize, an American ship at Cove: She arrived yesterday from Rhode-Island, with flax seed and staves.
LONDON.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 23. American Intercourse Bill.
MR. Secretary Fox having moved that the order of the day be read for the House's resolving itself into a Committee on this bill, it was read accordingly, and the Speaker having left the Chair, Mr. St. Andrew St. John took his seat at the table.
The Committee then proceeded to debate the clauses and fill up the blanks, when
Sir Robert Herries rose, and said, two matters of objection to the bill as it stood, struck him, which he would take the liberty of stating. In the first place, he conceived it was not the design of the party, who brought in the bill to place American ships on better terms than British ships, but that the benefits, advantages, and accommodation, derived under the operation of the bill, if it passed into a law, should be reciprocal. At present, as the clauses of the bill were worded, he conceived American vessels would be allowed a variety of advantages, which were not extended to British ships. Another matter that appeared to him to require some alteration was this: suppose a plague should break out in any one of the thirteen provinces of America, according to the wording of the bill, the government of Great Britain would have no authority to oblige American ships, coming under such circumstances, to perform quarantine, or produce bills of health. Sir Robert said, he did not mention these matters by way of opposing the bill, or throwing the least impediment in its way. The bill, he was convinced, was a measure extremely necessary, and he had full confidence in its being the intention and desire of his Majesty's ministers to pass it in a shape best adapted to the peculiar circumstances to which it was to apply, and in the way least liable to objection of any kind; it was enough for him, therefore, to have suggested what struck him as worthy some attention.
Mr. Secretary Fox said, he was ashamed to repeat what he had been so often obliged to trouble the house with on the subject of the present bill, but as the objection started came within the scope of the declaration he had before made, he could not avoid repeating the same answer. The present bill he begged gentlemen to recollect, was a mere temporary measure, adapted to an occasion that pressed exceedingly, viz. the necessity of opening an immediate intercourse with America. In doing it, the object of the bill was rather to remove obstacles than to provide regulations, and therefore particular care had been taken to couch the bill in as general terms as possible; in short, to avoid anything like an adhesion to the legal situation of America and Great Britain, and to leave it partly to the negotiation now going on, and partly to the consideration of Parliament in their digesting and melliorating another bill then pending, to say what rules the nature of the case rendered most necessary, and to give those rules and regulations their due authority. Had the late ministry been so good in their adjustment of the provisional treaty, as to have inserted some one article or other that had a reference to a future treaty of commerce between America and Great Britain, they would have not only done their country a very essential piece of service, but
have saved the present government, and both Houses of Parliament an infinite deal of trouble, and relieved them from a difficulty which, in every point of view that it could be considered, would be found to be of great magnitude. Had the late ministry, for instance, not only by their treaty agreed, that a cessation of hostilities should take place, in the strict and common sense of the words, viz. by the armies of the two countries no longer continuing to fight, or make war on each other, but in a more general acceptance of the term, and a more extensive sense of it, namely, that from and after the ratification of the provisional treaty, all sorts of hostilities should cease, and that the prohibitory laws that impeded the commerce of the two countries should no longer have effect on either side, in that case undoubtedly there would have been little or no occasion for the present bill. As the last administration however, had not been kind enough, in their treaty of peace with America, to have made the provision necessary to prevent the embarrassment the country now felt, it became the duty of his Majesty's present servants to apply the best and most speedy remedy, that the nature of the case would admit; and as he did not doubt that every gentleman saw the necessity of immediately opening an intercourse with America, they would join with him in thinking, that if they were to look to every possible case that might arise, (such as the case of a plague breaking out in any of the thirteen provinces, which, though it came within the scale of possibility, was not very much within that of probability, at least, if the shortness of the time, for which the present bill was intended to operate and have effect, was considered) instead of embracing the object of the bill without delay, they would scarcely ever be able to attain it. Mr. Fox therefore hoped, if the other clauses of the bill were thought unobjectionable, it would be allowed to pass without any material alteration.
When Mr. St. Andrew St. John came to the clause giving a power to his Majesty in Council to issue such order or orders as to their wisdom should seem proper during the operation of the bill, with respect to the mode of entry of American vessels, as far as regarded a dispensation with the duties, an allowance of the drawbacks, bounties, &c.
Mr. Arden rose, and after declaring that he was a firm friend to the bill, and particularly so to the purport of the present clause, which he had himself suggested as necessary to be introduced into a former bill, now, for very good reasons, suspended, said, he thought it would be more advisable to define, expressly, the full extent of the powers intended to be vested in his Majesty in Council, than to leave it to conjecture and doubtful construction. Mr. Arden reasoned very sensibly on this point, and remarked, that it was undoubtedly necessary, in the particular case in question, to give very extensive powers to the Crown; but it appeared to him to be by far the wisest way to express in the bill, the full extent of the powers so vested in the Crown, in order that gentlemen might not, at a future period, say, that when they voted for the bill, they were not aware that they gave, and that they never meant to give, powers to such an extent. Mr. Arden, after urging the necessities of this in strong

terms, proposed to insert the words "Duties, drawbacks, or otherwise," in the clause under consideration.
This occasioned a conversation between Mr. Secretary Fox, Mr. Eden, Governor Johnstone, Mr. Anthony Bacon, Mr. Thornton, and Mr. Arden, in which it was on all hands agreed, that the bill was indispensably necessary, and Mr. Secretary Fox having declared his readiness to adopt any proposition not likely to defeat the aim of the bill, the amendment was adopted, proposed, and agreed to.
The clause stating how long the bill was to have effect, was next discussed, and it became a question, what the time of its operation should be. By some six weeks, and by others a month, was proposed as the fit period. Mr. Secretary Fox said, he cared not how short it was, and if the gentlemen opposite to him could undertake to say, that the bill would be received with equal candor in the other House, and meet with as little obstruction there; in short, that it would pass the Lords in as brief a space of time as it was likely to pass the Commons, he would agree to limit its operation to one month, but as that was not a matter, upon which he could depend, he must propose six weeks.
Mr. Arden and the rest of the gentlemen smiled, but not chusing to undertake for the other House, Mr. Secretary Fox's motion was put and agreed to.
The bill at length passed the Committee.
The whole of this debate, if it can be so termed, was conducted in perfect good humour; and it was agreed on all hands that it was better policy to treat the Americans generally, than to go into the question, whether they were to be considered under any of the three distinctions of British subjects, aliens, or a people sui generis , as Mr. Burke had a few days since defined them.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 25. 1783.
PASSED the American Intercourse Bill.
N A P L E S, February 16.
The list of persons killed by the late earthquakes are not yet received by government, but the number already amounts to 27,371 persons.
C A D I Z, February 27.
The Ministry have augmented the duty on all goods imported into the kingdom, fifteen per cent.
S T O C K H O L M, March 14.
Yesterday died his Royal Highness Charles Gustavus, youngest son of the King of Sweden.
P A R I S, March 30.
On Thursday last, the Comte de Grasse obtained from the King an order, which authorises the Council of War to take cognizance of the causes of his defeat in the battle of the 12th of April. And the said Council will be held in June next, on the return of M. de Vaudreuil's squadron.
April 5. The number of killed in the battle of the 6th of July last, in the East Indies, is 178, and 601 wounded.
P O R T I C I, April 1.
A slight shock of an earthquake was felt here, and at Naples, on Friday last; and we hear from Calabria and Messina, that the earthquakes still continue in those parts.
L O N D O N, April 10.
Wednesday morning Henry Laurens, Esq; set out for Paris, to be prepared as one of the American Commissioners to negotiate a commercial treaty with Great Britain. David Hartley, Esq; will set out in a few days as Commissioner on the part of this country.
CHARLESTOWN, (S. C.) May 14.
By the last advices from Savannah, several vessels had arrived there from East Florida. They bring advice that Major Deveaux, with a few privateers, having on board 250 militia from St. Augustine, had succeeded in an expedition against New Providence, which island was surrendered to him by the Spanish Governor on the 18th ultimo.
Sir James Wallace was lately killed in a duel with one of his officers, at Bath, in England.
May 17 We are sorry to say, that more than one disagreeable rencontre has happened this week, in consequence of public, libellous attacks on private characters. But 'tis with no little emotion we acquaint the public, that one person, a Mr. James Wright, has taken a sacrifice to such unwarrantable proceedings. —A Mr. Fitzpatrick, who conceived himself injured
by Mr. Wright, posted him in a public paper as a coward and a parricide—Would to God that Printer had been aware of the consequences of such a publication!—This naturally produced a meeting, and an unlucky blow in the scuffle, has been the occasion of his death.—An inquest sat on his body this day, who are of that opinion.—It is with no little pleasure we assure the public, that a determined disposition prevails in the Executive, to nip in the bud a practice so dishonorable to Government, so destructive of the peace and happiness of society.
N E W Y O R K, June 6.
Wednesday arrived the Edward, Captain Coupar, in 5 weeks & 3 days from the Downs.
Johnson's British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, of the 20th of April, contains Sir Edward Hughes's official letters to Mr. Stephens, copied from the London Gazette, bearing date April 15, August 12 & 16, Sept. 30, and October 16, 1782, in which Sir Edward gives a circumstantial account of the two engagements which the French fleet on the 6th of July, and the 3d of September; the former engagement was general from van to rear, and mostly very close for an hour and 25 minutes, the enemy's ships consisting of two 74's seven 64's, and two 50 gun ships, and four frigates, appeared to have suffered severely both in hulls and masts; the van ship had bore away out of the line, and the French Admiral's second ship a head had lost her main-mast, the Severe had struck to the Sultan, but while the latter was weaving to join Sir Edward, made what sail she could, fired on and raked the Sultan, without shewing any colours, and then got in among his own ships: after the action Sir Edward sent a flag of truce, and demanded her; but M. Sutrém returned an evasive answer, that the halliards of his ensign were shot away, but was never intended to be struck. Sir Edward's squadron, consisting of three 74's, five 64's, one 50 gun ship, and a frigate, was very much dispersed, greatly disabled, and in general ungovernable. The engagement was withdrawn. Our loss in killed, on board the several ships, amount to 77, officers included, and 253 wounded. Cuddalore was taken by the French before the engagement, as also two armed store ships laden with stores and ammunition. The French loss is not known. In the engagement on the 3d of September, the French fleet consisted of 12 line of battle ships, 3 fifties, 2 sloops, and 2 fire ships; and Sir Edward's squadron, of 11 ships of the line, 1 fifty, 4 frigates, 2 sloops, and 1 fire ship. The action became general at 35 minutes past 2, P. M.—at 35 minutes past 5 the wind shifted suddenly, the fleets veered, and the engagement was renewed on the other tack, close and vigorously; at 20 minutes past 7 the engagement ceased, and our fleet apparently suffered so much in their masts hulls and rigging, as to be in no condition to pursue them. Sir Edward's loss consists in 55 killed, and 83 wounded, and fell particularly severe on the officers. Capt. Maclellan, of the Superb, was killed in the first, and the Hon. Capt. Lumley, of the Isis, and Capt. Watt, of the Sultan, in the last engagement. Capt. Wood, of the Worcester, was dangerously wounded, with little hopes of his recovery. Sir Edward repaired the damage done to his squadron, and sailed for Bombay.
Extract of a letter from Durekheim, on the Rhine, received by the last packet.
"While peace is taking place in your quarter, preparations for war are making in Europe, all levelled at the Turks. The Emperor is sending troops, ammunition, ordnance and every other requisite to Hungary. The King of Prussia takes part (as the papers say) and is marching 40,000 men to the same place. It is supposed this is a plan of old Fredrick, and will occasion a pretty division. Whether the French, although much in want of money, will remain silent spectators on this occasion, is much doubted; nay, it is even asserted that they are sending 80,000 men to the Rhine: if so, they will cut but a poor figure. The Emperor, the King of Prussia, and the Empress of Russia, when united, may prescribe laws to the whole world."
H A R T F O R D, June 10.
We are informed that James Gibson, now a prisoner in this town, and lately under a sentence of death for committing a rape upon a matron of a most virtuous character, has applied to our legislature for a new trial, or that his punishment might be commuted for some other. The Legislative have had the matter under their consideration; but not finding any reason to grant a new trial, as the evidence was so full as not to admit any doubt as to his guilt, and as the prisoner has never discovered any signs of contrition, it became therefore necessarily an act of kindness to give him as long a time as possible, in which he might perform the arduous task of repentance, and also to obviate, as far as it could be done, all impediments which might retard the performance of this necessary work, they have therefore wittily and graciously discharged him from the sentence of death, and in lieu thereof have ordered him to be castrated.
As we are become a free, sovereign and independent state, and acknowledged to be such, wisdom will certainly direct us, to select from the various nations of the world, their best and most excellent maxims and modes of conducting the great affairs of government, and to ingraft such of them as shall be best adapted to promote and secure human happiness, into our system of jurisprudence; certainly no man who possesses the least liberality of sentiment, but what will believe that many wise maxims of government may be derived from the principles and conduct of Asiatic princes. These princes have, from the history of their government, found, that castration, boring eyes out, chopping off limbs, and the like kind of punishments, are essentially necessary to support their authority—this mode of government has been long established amongst the Eastern nations, and they believe that great utility has been derived from it:—But, however exalted our opinion may be, as to the propriety of punishing human excesses in this manner, yet we never can, as free people, be reconciled to their modes of execution, which are almost always done either in the prison in which the criminals are confined, or in some secret place. This mode puts it in the power of the executioner to exceed his orders without the fear of detection, and by the punishment's being inflicted out of the view of the people, no salutary impressions will be made upon those who are inclined to be vicious, so as to restrain them from offences similar to those for which they see the criminal suffer. Such a mode of execution is totally abhorrent to that which we have very wittily adopted, and from which we shall never depart—the public therefore may be assured, that Gibson will be castrated at the usual place of execution, and that the public will be advertised when this operation will be performed. As this execution will be a great novelty, we cannot doubt but that it will bring great multitudes of people together to see it; all that we have to regret in this affair is, that the operator will not be able to perform his duty with that dexterity which might be expected from a Turk who has been used to the business—but however the people may be disappointed in this particular, yet we presume that many will have their curiosity wonderfully gratified in another respect; and, at any rate, such an execution will exceedingly tend to confirm that chastity and purity of mind, which it is the pious design of the legislature (by exhibiting such a public spectacle) to preserve.
P O R T S M O U T H, June 14.
We are informed by the Western Post, that on the 26th ultimo, a barn belonging to Holden, of Charlestown, in this State, was consumed by fire; it was supposed to have been set on fire by some children, three of whom perished in the flames.
Since our last, arrived here Capt. Seth Storer, in a brig, in 40 days from Lisbon, with a cargo of salt, fruit, &c.
Advertisements &c. omitted will be in our next.

From the New-Jersey Journal.  INDEPENDENCE and PEACE , which I have been the object of eight years severe contest, the ardent and constant desire of every American breast, are at length arrived; and each heart ought to glow with gratitude to the divine ruler of the universe for so great a blessing; but like all sublunary enjoyments, even these, the summit of our wishes have come with their alloy. The article of giving the renegadoes, or tories, a temporary residence among us, is a bitter ingredient in this cup of happiness; and I am confident, from the known character of our worthy commissioners, they never would have consented to it, had there been any mode to avoided it, but by a continuation of the calamities of war—and even this, I doubt not, would have been preferred by those gentlemen, had they not put entire confidence in your spirit, virtue and patriotism, believing that these would prevent what they could not.
Do not your spirits rise with indignation, your very blood curdle in your veins, at the idea of those wretches, whose hands are still smoking with the blood of your slaughtered countrymen, brothers and fathers, returned to live amongst you? are not the flames of your houses and temples always present before your eyes, whenever you cast a thought on any of those minions? Can you detach the idea of a robber, an incendiary, or a murderer, from one of their names?—If there are any among them of the least spark of proper spirit, they will disdain the thought of becoming humble suppliants to those whom they have so much insulted and injured:—therefore, none but those who are entirely devoid of every genuine principal, viz. the abandoned and profligate, will return to us—No method is left us to prevent this calamity, but general associations to render their situation, by every means in our power, so uneasy, that they will prefer a voluntary banishment to the proposed return. Let it be a crime abhorrent to nature, to have the least communication or intercourse with them. Like Cain of old, they will carry their mark in their foreheads; let them be avoided as persons contaminated with the most deadly contagion, and remain as their just demerits, "vagabonds upon the face of the earth." If this is not done at first and with spirit, time, and a continued intercourse, will gradually lessen that detestation which every honest mind must feel against them. The very money that they have gathered from their treasons, their robberies, and murders, will enable them to make some friends, and prepare the way for their final stay. It is in your power by the mode hinted at, to prevent these evils. I beseech, I implore, I obtest you, by the manes of your slaughtered friends! by the cries of your deflowered virgins! and abused matrons! by the flames of your houses! your temples! and your villages! by the calamities you have endured in a seven years war! that you forget all animosities among yourselves, and associate, and combine as one man to deprecate, and by proper measures to prevent miseries more direful than even war itself. PROBUS.
B O S T O N, June 12.
The troops enlisted to serve during the war, for this State and New Hampshire, are ordered to march for Springfield, and are expected there this week; 'tis said they are to receive dismissions, or furloughs for retirement until called on.
We hear, that an embarkation of 6000 men is taking place at New York. The British guards, with most of the troops that were under Cornwallis and Burgoyne, with the Hessians and other foreign troops, are going to England.
S A L E M, June 12.
A correspondent of veracity says, "That by recent advices from Great Britain, it had at last transpired, that the late Governor Hutchinson did, agreeable to the predictions of many true friends to this country, cut his own throat.—The probability was so great, that he never could have died a natural death (having contracted at least as much guilt as any traitor since the apostasy of Adam) that without any direct information, it might reasonably have been thought that this, or something equally shocking, was the manner of his exit—May it prove, to the end of time, a solemn warning to all hypocrites and traitors!—"
John Balch, The Western Post-Rider,
INFORMS the public, that he sets off from Mr. Brewster's tavern, in Portsmouth, on the 21st instant, at noon, on his circuitous rout thro' this State, and will continue so to do every other Saturday, as long as encouragement offers.—I hope, therefore, who chuse to honor him with their commands, may see him at Mr. Brewster's, Saturday forenoon.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Effingham, who are delinquent in paying their state and war taxes, for the year 1782; that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Capt. John Leavitt, innholder in said town, on Tuesday the first day of July next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay the taxes and incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   1st Div. 2d Div. s. d. s. d.     Levi Dearborn. 46 3 0 6 0   Simon Dearborn, 54 10 3 9   John Dearborn, 31 3 6   John Dearborn, jr. 54 1 6   Nathaniel Drake, 29 32 6 9   Nathaniel Gookins, 35 7 6   Nathaniel Hobbs, 14 8 3 9   David Knowles jr. 31 47 6 9   David Knowles, 64 7 6   Ebenezer Lovering 17 3   Moses Leavitt, 48 7 6   Simon Leavitt, 45 40 3 9   Jonathan Marston, 75 4 6   Simon Marston, 15 3   Solly & March, 43 38 4 6 15   James Marston, 48 49 3 7 6   Thomas Parsons, jr. 26 7 6   Thomas Packer, Esq; 39 42 7 6 15   Joshah Marston, 61 7 6   Thomas Robie 5th part 67 3   Ezekiel Russell, 30 6   Joseph Towle, 82 41 3 7 6   Jonathan Wedgwood, 52 29 3 7 6   David Wedgwood, 57 3   William Weeks, jr. 73 21 9 9  
WEARE DRAKE, Constable.
Effingham, May 6 1783.
State of New-Hampshire Rockingham ss
THE non-resident owners of land in the Parish of Northwood, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1781, and 1782, are hereby notified, that unless they pay the same to the subscribers, at their dwelling houses in said Northwood, on or before Wednesday the second day of July next, at ten o'clock before noon, so much of their lands as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue on said second day of July, at the house of Mr. Jonathan Clark, innholder in said Northwood.
Jonathan Clark, Constable for 1781.
Sherborn Blake, Constable for 1782.
Jonathan Clark's list.
   No. R. Qty. £. s. d. s. d.     William Clifford 10 7 124 0 15 0 5 2 9   George Jaffery 15 7 156 15 5 2 9   John Allin 17 7 78 12 6 4 2 9   David Chapin 20 7 182 1 5 8 4 7   Shadr. M'Phedress 10 8 78 13 9 4 2 6   John Wiet 21 8 156 1 2 6 7 4 1   Cutt & Moulton 26 9 78 5 2 9   Peter Gillman 7 10 192 1 5 4 7   Richard Kent 12 7 156 2 9   Benjamin Harris 21 9 135 9 9  
Sherborn Blake's list.
   No. R. Qty. £. s. d.     John Pitman 5 7 50 4 6   William Clifford 10 7 124 8 4   Richard Kent 12 7 26 1 2   George Jaffery 15 7 156 10 6   John Allin 17 7 189 8 9   David Chapin 20 7 92 10 6   Samuel Penhallow 8 8 156 1 2 9   William Sanborn 10 8 156 1 18 6   Benjamin Bickford 29 8 95 13 2   Thomas Pemick 7 9 26 10 6   Benjamin Harris 21 9 131 10 6   John Gillman 25 9 156 19 3   Cutt & Moulton 26 9 26 3 6   James Hunger 31 9 78 10 6   Elias Storer 32 9 156 1 1 0   Peter Gilman 7 10 192 17 6   Joseph Malum 8 10 19 1 6   Nathaniel Sergeant 9 10 139 7 0   William Briggs 10 10 156 15 9   Joshua Moody 5 11 156 18 6  
Northwood, June 8, 1783.
Warrantee and Quit-Claim Deeds, Shipping-Papers, &c. may be had at the Printing Office.
Just Published, and now selling at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth and Exeter—
An O R A T I O N,
On the Advantages of an early Education, delivered at Exeter, in the State of New-Hampshire, May 1. 1783 at the opening of the PHILIPS EXETER ACADEMY founded by the Hon. JOHN PHILIPS, L. L. D. By DAVID M'CLURE, A. M. Pastor of the Church at North-Hampton; and one of the Trustees of said Academy.
Choice Stone Lime
TO BE SOLD by ABNER BLAISDELL, Portsmouth.
L O S T,
A pair of Surgeon's Forceps.—Whoever has found the same, and will leave it at the Printing Office, Portsmouth, shall be handsomely rewarded.
TO BE SOLD, AT
Thomas Sheafe's
S T O R E,
adjoining the upper Town wharf,
A package of
ENGLISH GOODS,
Amounting to about £.100 sterling,
Consisting chiefly of
HARD Ware, such as Looking Glasses—Pen Knives—Case Knives & Forks—Steel Siftars—Brass Ink Pots—Awl Blades—Shoe Tacks—Knitting Needles—Men's and Women's, brass, steel and Bath metal Thimbles—Worsted Needles—white Chapel ditto—large Corking Pins—Broad-Cloath—Sheeting Linnen—Sewing Silk—Black Mode, &c. &c. which will be sold at a low advance. A L S O,
Coffee by the hundred—Rum by the hhd. or barrel—Chocolate by the box—and a few casks of Pork and Beef.
State of New-Hampshire.
BROKE out of the public Goal at Amherst, Sam'l Jones of Hillsborough, Joseph Clark of Antrim, and Bildad Soul of Goffstown, on the the night following the twenty eighth day of May, all prisoners for debt.—Samuel Jones is about five feet eight inches high, thick set, light complexion, sandy hair, round shouldered.—Joseph Clark is about the same height and size, light complexion, light curled hair, well set, stands pretty upright.—Bildad Soul is a tall slim fellow, light complexion.—Whoever shall take up the said Samuel Jones and return him to Amherst Goal, into my custody, shall have forty dollars reward, and for each of the others returned fifteen dollars reward and all necessary charges paid by
Moses Kelly, Sheriff.
Amherst, May 31. 1783.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of Land in Francistown, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1782, that unless they pay their taxes with incidental charges, to me the subscriber, on or before Tuesday the 8th day of July next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the house of Capt. Oliver Holmes, innholder in said town, as will pay said taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
Jabez Holmes, Collector.
   No. Qty. £. s. d.     Barnes's heirs 5 138 0 16 4   Thomas Boyd's heirs 200 1 4   Andrew Armer 30 4   Calf 50 6   Caldwell, of Bedford 12 100 12   Solly and March 17 100 12   Coffin 200 1 4   Undivided land to Pearce's rights 200 1 4   James Wilson 150 18   Joseph Cothran 50 6   Capt. Gilmore 100 12   Lieut. Dismor 100 12   Mr. Wilson 400 2 7   Thomas Wilson 2 30 1 7 8  
Francistown, June 4. 1783.
Two hundred acre lots of land
in Gilmantown to be sold. Enquire at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth, for further particulars.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. Strafford, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the delinquent non-resident proprietors or owners of land in said New-Hampton, that unless they reasonably pay their respective taxes to me the subscriber, taxed on their lands there, and committed to me the subscriber to collect, agreeable to the following list, so much of their land will be sold at vendue, agreeable to law, at the house of Lieutenant Elisha Smith, in said New-Hampton, on Wednesday the 25th day of June instant, at ten o'clock, A. M. as will pay the same, with all legal and incidental charges.
   Original Proprietors Names. No. R. Quan- tity Beef & County. Silver. State & Cont'l Silver. State & Cont'l New Emis. State N. Silver. Emis- sion. Beef Silver. War Silver. Rum Silver.     Thomas Wallingford, 13 1 250 4 10 0 0 12 5 0 9 7 6 1 10 3 0 9 1   Joseph Garland, 19 1 50 0 11 0 0 3 6 3 1 6 0 5 0 8 2   Ebenezer Lane, 21 1 150 0 0 10 6 6 4 6 1 2 1 9 5 3   Joshua Towle, 15 2 250 4 10 0 0 17 5 11 7 6 1 10 3 0 9 1   Richard Cutt Shannon, 16 2 50 0 0 3 6 2 1 6 0 5 0 8 2   Benjamin Mason, 20 2 250 4 10 0 0 17 6 11 7 6 1 10 3 0 9 1   William Vittum, junr. 23 2 100 2 0 0 0 7 0 4 3 0 9 1 3 2   Benjamin Sandborn, 24 2 150 2 10 0 0 10 5 6 4 6 1 2 1 9 5 3   Jeremiah Marston, 6 3 150 2 10 0 0 10 5 7 4 6 1 3 1 9 5 3   Benjamin Batchelder, 1 5 200 3 7 0 0 14 0 9 6 1 5 2 7 4   Nathaniel Towle, 19 2 50 1 0 0 0 1 6 5 0 8 2   Jonathan Shaw, junr. 29 2 100 2 0 0 0 7 0 4 3 0 9 1 3 2   James Philbrook, 9 3 150 2 10 0 0 4 6 1 3 1 9 5 3   Anthony Emery, Esq., 12 3 174 4 0 0 0 5 3 1 5 2 1 7 0   Solly and March, 11 1 250 0 0 7 6 1 10 3 0 9 1   Benning Moulton, 22 1 250 0 0 7 6 1 10 3 0 9 1   Josiah Moulton, 25 1 250 0 0 7 6 1 10 3 0 9 1   George Jeffery, 11 3 250 0 0 7 6 1 10 3 0 9 1   Common Land.   Lot marked A 3 40 0 10 1 7 4 6 0 2 1 5 0 5 0 8 2 0   Ditto B 4 100 2 0 4 8 9 2 5 3 0 8 1 3 4   Ditto C 4 100 2 0 4 8 9 2 5 3 0 8 1 3 4   Ditto D 3 100 2 0 4 8 9 2 5 3 0 9 1 3 4   Ditto E 3 100 2 0 4 8 9 2 5 3 0 9 1 3 4   Ditto F 3 220 4 2 8 9 10 0 1 0 7 0 1 9 3 0 9   Ditto G 6 180 3 6 7 9 16 0 8 5 4 1 4 2 0 7   Ditto H 6 180 3 6 7 9 16 0 8 5 4 1 4 2 0 7   Ditto J 5 200 4 0 9 4 18 4 10 6 0 1 5 2 6 4   Ditto M 1 200 4 0 9 4 18 4 10 6 0 1 5 2 6 4   Ditto M 3 250 4 10 10 10 2 10 1 2 7 6 1 10 3 0 9 1   Ditto M 3 200 4 0 9 4 18 4 10 6 0 1 5 2 6 4  
New Hampton, June 2, 1783.
ELISHA CUMINGS, Collector of said taxes.
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Barrington, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1782 that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Wednesday the 25th day of June next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   No. R. Qty. £. s. d.     Samuel Alcock 12 1 210 4 2 6   Mathew Nelson 76 2 50 0 10 1   William Croft 105 3 42 0 11 5   Thomas Beck, junr. 107 3 39 0 8 8   John Abbott 119 3 84 0 18 4   George Jaffery, Esq; part of 143 4 281 2 14 0   John Jones, part of 146 4 24 0 3 0   Thomas Packer 149 4 648 4 8 11   Joshua Pearce, part of 156 4 551 4 9 10   John Hardelon, part of 166 4 61 0 10 9   Richard Jole, part of 168 4 60 0 13 0   Widow Mary Martin 172 4 120 0 19 9   William Peasey 173 4 80 1 2 0   George Walker, part of 181 5 26 0 13 0   John Gowell 215 5 84 0 11 11   William Rols 216 5 72 0 10 1   John Sherburne 218 5 120 0 16 6   Thomas Pearce 220 5 210 1 8 5   John Edmunds 222 5 48 0 6 5   Thomas Waldron 213 5 150 1 0 2   Henry Sherburne, part of 224 5 82 0 16 0   Edward Ayers 246 6 210 2 0 9   John Sherburne 253 6 24 0 3 8   Francis Ditty 270 6 30 0 5 11   Joseph Mead 271 6 108 0 14 8   William Howard 5 0 91 0 13 9   Joseph Brewster 9 0 105 0 17 11   Timothy Waterhouse 30 0 22 0 3 2   Nathaniel Peverly, part of 40 0 6 0 2 0   The 40 acres so called 200 1 207 1 13 11   John Williams 0 20 0 5 6   Henry Bickford 140 0 20 0 3 0   James Sherburne, part of 2 7 0 17 0 2   Nathaniel Melcher, part of 2 9 0 22 0 3  
Julius Felker, Constable.
Barrington, May 30, 1783.
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the delinquent proprietors in Barrington, that unless they pay their taxes with incidental charges, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Wednesday the 20th day of July next at one o'clock P. M., at the house of Joshua Holmes in Rochester, as will pay said tax with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment. Said tax is for the year 1781.
   No. Names, Acres, £. s. d. Emis. Silver.     10 Rev. Mr. Rogers 16 0 5 0 0 5   12 Samuel Alcock 210 3 0 1 1 10   15 John Shackford 11 0 1 0 0 0   33 Robert Armstrong 240 0 0 0 1 8   51 Widow Walker 48 0 4 8 0 3   62 Edward Cane 120 0 9 8 0 10   63 Richard Waterhouse 73 0 6 3 0 6   77 Nathaniel Tuckerman 71 0 7 4 4 5   78 Timothy Davis 95 0 9 8 0 3   79 Jonathan Stoodley 190 0 9 0 0 3   101 Richard Waldron 116 1 0 8 0 8   105 William Croft 72 0 11 4 0 4   107 Thomas Beck, junr. 150 0 8 0 0 3   121 William Rols 77 0 10 0 0 3   124 John Peverly, junr. 60 0 7 4 0 3   127 Samuel Shackford 145 1 4 0 0 7   143 George Jaffery 100 0 4 4 0 7   146 John Jones 72 0 6 0 0 2   148 Nathaniel Peverly 32 3 4 6 0 1   149 Thomas Packer 640 3 4 6 2 0   Jonathan Hayes 25 0 8 0 0 0   The forty acres so called 262 3 0 0 1 10   Thomas Packer for 1780 149 0 0 0 12 11  
Joshua Holmes, Collector, for Barrington.
Rochester, May 29, 1783.
Strayed or stolen from me the
Subscriber, on or about the 24th of May last, a gray HORSE, about thirteen Hands and half high, a natural Trotter, has had a small Wound in time past on the left Side, between the Saddle Housing and Stirrup-Iron, about one inch long, nearly on one of the Ribs, very plain to be seen. — Whoever will give certain Information, so that I may have him again, shall be rewarded for their Trouble.
NATHANIEL TREADWELL.
Portsmouth, June 7 1783
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of the late Widow Hope Scammon, of Dover, deceased, are desired to render in their accounts immediately, in order for a speedy settlement to Ebenezer Tuttle, Administrator.
Dover, June 1th, 1783
PRINTED AT PORTSMOUTH.
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Peterborough, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1781, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Wednesday the 25th day of June next, at the house of Lieut. David Ames, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, unless paid before the hour of holding said vendue.
   No. Names, £. s. d. Emis. War Sil. Sil.     79 Jeremiah Gridley, Esq; 7 0 3 0 3   78 10 6 4 6 5   82 4 8 2 0 2   51 1 2 1 0 1   75 Mathew Livermore, 7 0 3 0 3   36 Mary Moors, 8 9 3 9 4   17 Solly and March, 5 3 2 3 3   18 5 3 2 3 3   24 Unknown. 2 6 1 0 1   Phillips, Esq; for part of farm D. £. 1 1 0 0 0 10   James Gordon, for part of lot 113 5 3 2 3 2   114 10 6 4 6 5   115 10 6 4 6 5   Mr. Cudworth, 99 3 6 1 6 2   Not known to whom drawn 56 3 6 1 6 2   Nathaniel McHarvey, 5 3 0 1 4 2   6 3 0 1 4 2  
William Robbe jun. Constable.
Peterborough, May 19, 1783.
Office of the Consul General of France Boston, May, 1783.
THESE are to notify all persons who have any accounts open, or demands subsisting against his Most Christian Majesty's ship AMERICA, commanded by M. Le Chevalier De MACARTY MARTEIGNE, to bring in the same, either to Mr. Joshua Wentworth, merchant, Portsmouth, or to Mr. Samuel Breck, merchant, at Boston for their immediate adjustment and payment, on or before the 15th day of next month, as no accounts can be received or paid after that time.
By direction of the Consul General of France. TOSCAN, Vice-Consul
TO BE SOLD, a Lot of Land 50 Feet front, near Pickering's Mills, running down into Piscataqua River, being a valuable Water Privilege. Enquire at the Printing Office in Portsmouth.
THE Officers of the New Hampshire Line, who were deranged the first of January 1781, or the first of March 1783, are desired to meet at Col. Samuel Folsom's in Exeter, the last Tuesday in July next, for the purpose of agreeing on an Answer to the honorable the Congress, respecting their Resolve of the 22d day of March last, relative to the Officers of the Army.
By the desire of several Officers,
JOS. CEILLY, H. DEARBORN.
A few barrels and half barrels of exceeding good
Irish Mefs PORK, TO BE SOLD,
By JOSHUA WENTWORTH.