The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1782-04-27 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[Vol. XXVI.]
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1782.
[No. 1330.]
The public will probably recollect, that some time last year the British ministry commenced a prosecution against some of the London printers, for a paragraph in their several papers, respecting the Russian Ambassador; which paragraph, the mere report of the day, proved not to be true. The Ministry were eagerly glad of the opportunity, in order to curry favour with the Empress, who, by the bye, is a woman of too great and discerning a mind to be hummed by such trifling littleness; however, the Ministry went on with the prosecution; and the following, taken from the London Courant of November 29th, will show the servile and persecuting spirit of the British Ministry, and that John Miller, the printer, hath more sense, more honesty, candor and fortitude, than the King of England and all his Ministry, with Lord Mansfield at the head of them, put together; John Miller will rise when they will fall; and most probably, when he is out of prison, they will be in.
L O N D O N, Nov. 29. 1781.
Y ESTERDAY, at a little after eleven o'clock, Mr. Miller, printer of the London Evening Post, was carried up from Mr. Armstrong's, in Carey Street, to the Court of King's Bench, by habeas corpus, in order to receive the judgement of that Court, for copying a paragraph, respecting the Russian Ambassador, from a morning paper, into the London Evening Post, of which he was then the printer. After attending about an hour, Mr. Miller was brought into Court, when the Attorney General moved the judgement of it against him. Being then called upon to signify whether he had any affidavit to offer, Mr. Miller addressed their Lordships in the following words:
My LORDS!
Y OU have before you one of the most honest and boldest printers that ever lived! A professed enemy to all the enemies of Old England, and to all Scotch enemies in particular! I do not come here to entreat mercy. I cannot be served worse than my brother printers have been; unless justice chooses to make an example of itself as well as me; for it will then become a capricious, arbitrary tyrant, instead of a dispenser of justice, if I should be punished worse than others similarly circumstanced.
Hence, then, am I to go to the King's Bench prison for a year, and, to increase the punishment, I am debarred the society of my wife and children; a new species of oppression, not known in any other country in the world!
I know the worst! Neither exhortation nor punishment will produce any alteration in me; for I promise to go on, whilst I have hands, without any attention to my ears, in the great line of duty as an English printer, a character the most respectable. I shall still keep a faithful watch over the conduct of public men, where I conceive their measures may affect the public interest or public liberty! The Roman goose was not more watchful over the Capitol, nor the cock over Peter! I shall both crow and cackle when I think it right, without asking any leave, or waiting for any other approbation, than that of the public! In this conduct, I own, I may sometimes give a false alarm, but it shall be through error only, and not through design! In the present instance, all that can be laid to my charge, is, the hasty adoption of a cur-
rent report. Were the report true, I could not answer to my conscience not to publish it. Were it ill founded, it would do no harm. Men of good character are little hurt by bad reports.
As to the idea of embroiling the nation, it is too ridiculous to call for serious refutation. What! the Empress of all the Russias go to war with the King of Great Britain, because John Miller told a lie about her Ambassador! Her Imperial Majesty would certainly have been satisfied with an apology for the surmise; and so should her Ambassador be, so he has been, and which I am now, and at all times ready further to make.
But if I am proceeded against juridically, I claim at least judicial forms to be attended to. I am not to be called upon to confess guilt, unless the confession will produce me some favour.
I still say, I am not guilty! I call for proof, and demand a trial.
What is it to me that a piece of paper was left at my house?
This is a criminal proceeding.
In civil process, it may be sufficient to give a man notice, and if he does not appear, to take the charge pro confesso. In such cases there is no presumption in his favour. But, by the law of England, all men are, in criminal matters, presumed innocent, till they are found guilty. There are but two ways of finding a man guilty; one is by his own confession on record; the other is by a verdict of twelve men. But in both cases he must appear and plead. Now, I have never appeared, nor ever pleaded. I may be guilty of a contempt; punish me for that, if you please. You might indeed have proceeded to outlawry against me; but you have not done so; yet you say I am attainted of high crimes and misdemeanors. The attaint, I again insist, must come only from my pleading guilty, or my being found so by a Jury, if I pleaded not guilty.
Your taking judgment by default, is by assimilating informations with civil actions; yet you make them have the effect of indictments. I cannot stand before this court more as a culprit, by being informed against by one man without oath, than by twelve upon oath.
I demand the privilege of an Englishman; that I may be admitted to plead; I do plead not guilty. Thereupon try me; and if I am convicted upon proof by a Jury, do your worst! Till then, I am an unheard, and therefore should be considered an innocent man.
My LORD!
I have served the public fourteen years faithfully and disinterestedly; seven years of which I laboured in defending and asserting the rights of my countrymen and fellow citizens! and the last seven years in decrying and exposing the wickedness of the AC- CURSED AMERICAN WAR!
I now sit down an oppressed and distressed man! And though without a shilling in my pocket, with a wife and seven children, I go to prison, in the utmost confidence of my soul, casting them upon the public for protection and support.
Jan. 4. Last Wednesday the president of the committee of planters and merchants, concerned in the trade and territorial possessions of the West-India islands, accompa-
nied by the deputies of this respectable body went to St. James's, and at the levee had the honour of presenting the following petition to the King. The petition was very affably received, and they had all the room imaginable to flatter themselves that it would be successful.
To the King's most excellent Majesty.
The humble address of the underwritten planters and merchants, as well in behalf of themselves as others, concerned in the trade and territorial possession of the West-India islands.
Most gracious Sovereign,
WE your Majesty's most humble and faithful subjects, the planters and merchants, &c. beg leave to appear in your royal presence, with hearts penetrated with the most inviolable attachment to your person and family, and the constitution of this kingdom.
The unhappy disunion which happened between Great Britain and the colonies of North America, had no sooner broken out, than that the planters of the West India islands, and the merchants humbly represented to your Majesty and to both Houses of Parliament, how greatly they apprehended distress and danger would be the probable consequence thereof.
When the colonies of North America entered into an alliance with the ancient enemies of this kingdom, the fears of your petitioners considerably increased; and they would have failed of their duty to your Majesty, as well as in regard to the interest of this kingdom, if they had not laid before your Majesty's Ministers the additional dangers to which the British West India Islands were exposed by so powerful a league.
Hence it appears, that your petitioners have early and constantly endeavoured to impress your Majesty's Ministers with the necessity of providing the most efficacious reinforcements for their protection, and above all to engage them to maintain a superiority of force among the W. India islands, as the proper security, alone suited to protect these possessions.
The loss of divers of those islands, is a fatal proof of the necessity of these solicitations, made seasonably, and repeated without intermission.
Hoping, however, that the islands which yet remain, must be considered as objects of the most serious attention, your petitioners, not despairing, flattering themselves that the fatal experience of past losses, would dispose your Ministers to adopt measures which might efficaciously protect the islands which are left.
But it is with the deepest sorrow that your petitioners are obliged to declare, that the islands we still possess, are so unfortunately left without protection, that, since the commencement of hostilities, they have not been exposed to more eminent dangers, than they are at the threatening conjuncture of the present moment.
Your petitioners, alarmed at the inefficacious steps which your Majesty's Ministers have taken, humbly implore your Majesty, that your Majesty would be pleased to hasten the execution of the assurances which have been given to your petitioners, and that reinforcements, naval and military, proportioned to the defence of your Majesty's West-India Islands, may be dispatched without delay, in such manner, as by the Divine help,

the valuable possessions may be preserved to the British empire; and your petitioners shall ever pray, &c. &c. The foregoing was signed by 198 planters and merchants.
BALTIMORE, April 2.
On Wednesday last the brig Ranger, Capt. Bull, arrived here in about 20 days from Hispaniola. By this vessel we have advice, that two Spanish fleets had arrived at that island with troops, one from Cadiz and the other from the Havana, which were intended, in conjunction with a French armament, to make a speedy attack on the island of Jamaica, where, though there was a formidable militia, there was but a small body of regular troops, indifferently supplied with provisions, the long expected Cork fleet not having arrived when the last accounts came away. The allied army intended for the expedition against Jamaica consists of 24,000 men. They were stationed, when Capt. Bull failed, at Cape Francois, Port-au-Prince and Cape-Nichola. With Capt. Bull, came passengers Mr. Hill, late Lieutenant of the ship Minerva, Capt. Earl, of Philadelphia, (bound to the Havana, with 2100 barrels of flour, &c.) who was captured by the Licorne frigate, the Hon. Capt. Cadogan, on the 21st of January, & carried into Kingston, Jamaica, where Mr. Hill (by a cartel) got down to Cape Francois. While this gentleman was at Jamaica, on the 3d of February, a dreadful fire broke out in Kingston, which entirely destroyed a number of dwelling-houses, 59 wholesale stores, 21 shops, 9 wharves, and three large cooperages. The loss sustained by this catastrophe was estimated at 800,000. sterling. Three ships of the line (the London of 98, the Sandwich of 90, and the Ramillies of 74 guns) and 6 frigates, were at Jamaica when Lieut. Hill left that island. A general embargo was laid on all the shipping and martial law declared.
PHILADELPHIA, April 10.
The cruelties and depredations of the British army in the late travels of Lord Cornwallis through the Southern States, have made the lukewarm violent, and timid resolute, in their opposition to royal government; on the whole, public affairs wear a very pleasing aspect in South Carolina. American government is regularly administered in every department, and the reanimated Commonwealth possesses great energy and vigour.
The Hon. Mr. Gadsden, who had been confined 42 weeks in the castle of St. Augustine in violation of the capitulation of Charlestown, in the first instance, was elected Governor of the State.—This illustrious republican, who has done and suffered so much for his country, declined accepting the office in a speech to the following effect: "I have," said he, "served you in a variety of stations for thirty years, and I would now cheerfully make one of a forlorn hope in an assault on the lines of Charlestown, if it was probable that, with the certain loss of my life, you would be reinstated in the possession of your capital. What I can do for my country, I am willing to do. My sentiments of the American cause, from the stamp act downwards, have never changed: I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature. If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with a loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it; but the present times require the vigour and activity of the prime of life; I feel the increasing infirmities of old age, to such a degree that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage; I therefore beg for your sake, and for the sake of the public, that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust."
Last night came up to this city the sloop of war Gen. Monk, of 18 guns, late belonging to the British king, taken on Monday off Cape-May, by the ship Hyder Ally, Captain Barney, belonging to this State. We hear the latter had three men killed and eleven wounded, and the former twenty killed and thirty three wounded in the action.
ST. JOHN'S, (Antigua) Feb. 16.
In aggravation of our political misfortunes in this quarter of the globe, it is reported, and we fear with too much colour of certainty, that the lately acquired colonies of Demarara, Berbica, &c. have been wrested from us by the arms of our very active and too successful enemy, the French, and that some British sloops of war have fallen sacrifices upon this occasion. The ships and troops which achieved this conquest, are by some said to have come from Cayenne, by others, from Old France. Particulars, however, have not yet transpired.
FISH-KILL, April 18.
Reports mention that a general embargo, was laid last week on all shipping at New-York—that several merchants who had shipped their effects for Europe, were obliged to reland them and are murmuring much—that the hands employed on private buildings in the city are stopped working—that General Knyphausen is to embark soon for Europe—that Arnold's corps is ordered down to embark—the 17th light dragoons and some Yagers are to come to the lines—that a large fleet has been seen on the coast.
Joseph Bettis, a spy, was taken near Ball's town the 31st of last month, and committed to Albany goal, a letter was found on him wrote in cyphers.
Three men were carried to Albany last Saturday, supposed to be employed as spies from Canada.
NEW-YORK, April 12.
Yesterday arrived a fleet of 35 sail of transports, from Charlestown, under convoy of his Majesty's ships Carystort, Ostrich, Astrea and Grana.
In the Carystort came passenger the Right Hon. the Earl of Dunmore.
The Privateer brig Lark from this port, is taken in the Chesapeake, by a French frigate called the Sybil, Mons. Kergorica de Emma-ria commander, and carried into Yorktown. PRIZES sent in since our last.
Schooner Morris, Gibbons, master, from Hispaniola for Baltimore, with sugar, by his Majesty's ships the Lyon and Orpheus.
Ship Vengeance, Collier, master, of 22 guns, from Newbury for Baltimore, with rum, &c. by the above-mentioned ships.
Brig Ranger, from Boston for Baltimore, with a valuable cargo of oil, &c. &c. by the Orpheus frigate.
The privateer ship Franklin, Capt. Deval, of 22 guns [that took the Granville packet-boat] by his Majesty's frigates the Assurance and Amphitrite.
[And 15 others, whose names are omitted for want of room.]
The rebel frigate Deane, of 36 guns, is taken by his Majesty's ship Ulysses, and carried into Jamaica.
HARTFORD, April 16.
Our last advices from Europe mention, that the Emperor of Germany has lately issued orders for dismantling the Austrian Barrier, as it has been long called, the fortified towns of Brabant, in Flanders, by which the Dutch troops who, according to treaty, have garrisoned those towns, are at liberty to act elsewhere. All this looks like a perfectly good understanding between the Emperor and the Court of Versailles, since those towns were meant as a barrier against the power of France.
NEW-LONDON, April 5.
Tuesday came to town three light-horse men, deserters from New York.
NORWICH, April 8.
Monday last arrived at New-London the privateer sloop Randolph, Capt. Folsdick, and brought in with her the following prizes, viz. the privateer schooner Fox, of 10 guns, and 33 men, Capt. Joseph Hughes Burton; and the St. Patrick, of 10 guns, and 25 men, Capt. Thomas Duggen.
On Tuesday the officers and crews of the above prizes arrived in this town, under a proper guard, and yesterday set off for Windham, where they are to be secured until they can be exchanged.
We are informed by the above officers, who sailed from New York about ten days ago, that a number of troops were under orders to embark at a moment's warning, said to be on an expedition to Rhode Island.
This seems to agree with a report circulating here, that Gen. Washington has sent to Newport requesting the inhabitants to move their effects, &c. off the island, as it is strongly conjectured the enemy are meditating a descent on that place.
The two following Resolves were lately passed by the Gen. Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, viz.
"Resolved, That this House consider it to be the duty of the several States to furnish their quota of supplies agreeable to the requisitions of Congress, and are also convinced, that early, vigorous & adequate exertions are the only means, under Divine Providence, for bringing the war to a speedy and happy conclusion. Wherefore they are determined to do all in their power to call forth the resources of this State, and rely on the known zeal and virtue of their constituents to second that determination with effect."
"Resolved, That the House approve of the sentiments in the circular letter of the Superintendent of Finance, respecting the impost law, recommended by Congress, and deeply lament the delay of some of the States in this respect, as many citizens of Pennsylvania are great sufferers, by withholding the interest due on monies lent the United States: and that, in our opinion, it is equally the duty and interest of the several States, to support the public faith and credit of the union, by the grant of such effective revenues, as may be necessary for that great purpose."
S A L E M, April 26.
A brig arrived at Cape Ann last Friday night, in eleven days from Guadaloup. The French fleet, under Count de Grasse, lay at Fort-Royal, and Admiral Rodney, with the British at St. Lucia.
The report of a disturbance among the people at St. Kitts, is supposed to be without foundation, as the above vessel brings no such intelligence.
The following paragraph was taken from a New-York paper of the 6th instant:
"The Granville packet, Captain Kempthorne, bound for Charlestown, was taken the 18th of March, 14 leagues S. E. from Charlestown bar, by the privateer ship Franklin, Silas Deval, belonging to Salem: The Frank in is now cruising off the Chesapeake. On board the packet were several passengers. The Granville was arrived in Virginia."
To Joseph Gilman, Esq. Clerk of the Proprietors of the Township of Sandwich, in the County of Stafford, in the State of New-Hampshire. Greeting.
WE the Subscribers owners of more than ten whole shares or rights in said township, desire you to call a meeting of said proprietors in manner as the law directs, to be held at the house of Samuel Folsom, Esq. in Exeter, on Monday the 13th day of May next, at three o'clock, P. M. for the following purposes, viz:
1. To see if the proprietors will recognize and receive a plan of said township, with the divisions of the same into lots, thereon made and done by Daniel Beede, Esq. agreeable to said Beede's report thereof, recorded in the proprietors book of records, as a just and true plan and allotment by which to ascertain the boundaries of said township, and of the several lots therein, that have or may be drawn by said proprietors.
2. To see if the proprietors will confirm and establish the draught and division of said lots, made by and among the said proprietors, at a proprietor's meeting held the 4th day of February 1781, as recorded in the 35th page and following pages of the proprietors book of records; and all former acts and votes of the proprietors at any former meetings.
3. To see if the proprietors will appoint one or more agent or agents to appear for said proprietors in any action or actions, commenced or to be commenced by or against them; and the same to prosecute to final judgment and execution.
4. To see what sum of money the proprietors will raise by tax to discharge their debts, and to defray the charges of any actions commenced or that may be commenced by or against them.
5. To see if the proprietors will sell any of the common and undivided land for the purposes mentioned in the preceding article.
6. To choose assessors and a collector.
7. To see if the proprietors will grant to Col. Samuel Folsom the one half of Lots No. 10 & 11 in the 6th long range, to be taken off the south end of said lots, in exchange for one hundred acres of land granted him for settling a right, which hundred acres includes a part of said lots lengthwise.
Nathaniel Folsom Nicholas Gilman, Samuel Folsom.
Exeter. April 2, 1782.
THE Proprietors of Sandwich are notified to meet at the time and place and for the purposes mentioned in the above request.
JOSEPH GILMAN, Proprietors Clerk.
Exeter, April 3, 1782.
WHEREAS Missy, my wife, has eloped from my bed and board, and still refuses to live with me; this is to caution all persons from trusting her on my account, as I will pay no debts of her contracting, after the date hereof.
MOSES VARNUM
Rochester, April 27, 1782.

BOSTON, April 26.
Last Saturday the ship Commerce, Capt. West, arrived safe in port, in 39 days from Cadiz, by whom we learn, That fort St. Phillip, on the island of Minorca, had surrendered to the Spaniards. 'Tis said the garrison are prisoners of war. The whole of Minorca is now in possession of the Spaniards.
In some of the latest accounts from Europe we find a comparative state of the navy of Great Britain with that of the nations now at war with her. In late parliamentary debates upon the subject, the present number of British ships of the line, fit for service, has been shown to be no more than 79; while France it is universally acknowledged has upwards of 70, some accounts make the amount of her line of battle ships 78; and but a single ship short of the British: Spain has 60, the States of Holland between 20 and 30. This comparative view affords no great prospect that the affairs of England will be mended by a further prosecution of the war.
Lord North has said, "that the mode of carrying on the war internally upon the Continent of America, as practised under Lord Cornwallis and other Generals, is to be no longer followed, but that the form of the war is to be wholly changed." A correspondent observes, that as the Minister has tried a piratical war—a war offensive—predatory—and defensive—a war of burning—and a war of cruelty,—he is at a loss to know what war his Lordship intends for the next campaign—unless it should be a war of humanity!
It is said the British Ministry have for some time past intimated, whether seriously or politically, remains a doubt, a proposed marriage between a daughter of the Prince of Orange and the eldest son of the King of Great Britain.
PORTSMOUTH, April 27.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of character to his friend in this town, dated at Gen. Greene's Head-Quarters, near Charlestown, Feb. 20.
"The great and gallant Gen. Green has had a series of success against the enemy, they are now effectually drove into Charlestown, and have not a foot of ground out of that garrison; we now only wait the arrival of the French army, which is near at hand, when we shall march down and open the trenches against the lines of Charlestown, and I make not the least doubt that by the month of April we shall be in full possession of the capitol. The enemy is much alarmed at our approach, and of course keep very close.
"Would you believe it, the British lost to all sense of honor, have armed our slaves who fled to them into the garrison. This step I trust they will pay dear for. But, Sir, they are not only lost to every sense of honor, but they are likewise to that of shame!
"Not long since, they had a ball In Charlestown; this they called an ETHIOPIAN BALL, at which were present the officers of the army (and our female slaves only!) who these shameless tyrants had dressed up in taste, with richest silks and false rolls on their head, powdered up in the most pompous manner: these chaps who call themselves gentlemen, waited on those wretches in carriages to carry them to the ball, which they drove through the streets in pomp along side of them. Many of those wretches were taken out of houses before their mistresses faces, and escorted to the ball by these British tyrants. Inclosed I send you a copy of a card wrote to one of those shameless Brutes, by the managers of the ball, which were three negro wenches; it was held at a very capital private house in Charlestown, and the supper cost not less than 80l. Sterling; and these tyrants danced with the slaves 'till four o'clock in the morning. Thus you see to what a state of shame and perfidy the officers of that once great nation (Britain) has arrived to.
"Gen. Wayne is now within four miles of Savannah, having effectually drove the enemy into the garrison, they not occupying one post out of it.
"My Lord, YOU are invited to a ball on Thursday evening, at No. 99, meeting street; the ball to be opened at eight o'clock.
"Hagar Roupell, } Managers." "Isabella Pinckney, } Mary Fraser, }
Charlestown, Jan. 1, 1782.
"To Lord Fitzgerald."
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident proprietors of unimproved land in the town of NEW HAMPTON, in the county of Strafford, that they are taxed the following sums in the rate lists delivered to me to collect:
   Names of Original Proprietors. No. Range Acres. For 1781. For 1780. State and Continental Tax.   State & Cont'l. New Em. Silv. Beef & Cows. Cont'l Paper Cur. Silv.     William Parker, Esq. 2 1 170 12 4 8 1. 1. d.   Thomas Wallingford, Esq. 13 1 175 12 5 9 17 17 6 1. 1. d.   Joseph Garland, 19 1 50 3 6 3 3 12 0   Simon Nudd, 20 1 50 3 6 3 3 12 0   Ebenezer Lane, 21 1 150 10 6 6 10 16 0   Josiah Moulton, 25 1 250 17 5 11 17 17 6   Josiah Tuttle, 15 2 250 17 5 11 17 17 6   Richard C. Shannon, 16 2 50 3 0 2   Benjamin Mason, 20 2 250 17 6 11 17 17 6   William Verrum, junr. 23 2 100 7 4 7 4 0   Benjamin Sanborn, 24 2 150 10 5 6 10 16 0   Jeremiah Marston, 6 3 150 10 5 7 10 16 0   Christopher Tappan, Esq. 2 4 200 14 0 9   Jonathan Moulton, Esq. 5 4 60 4 3 3 3 16 0   Philip Hooker, 6 4 100 7 0 5 7 4 0   Benjamin Batchelder, 1 5 200 14 0 9 13 12 0   Joseph Sanborn, 2 5 40 3 4 2 3 0 0   Ebenezer Blake, 17 1 250 17 6 11 17 17 6   Nathaniel Tuttle, 19 2 50 3 12 0   Jonathan Shaw, junr. 29 2 100 7 0 4 7 4 0   Thomas Brown, 4 4 150 10 16 0   James Philbrick, 9 3 150 10 16 0   Anthony Emery, Esq. 12 3 174 15 6 0   John Garland, 3 4 150 10 16 0   Benjamin Batchelder, 1 5 200 13 12 0   B 4 60 4 16 0 5 0 0   C 4 50 3 12 0 11 6 0   E 3 100 7 4 0 10 0 0   G 6 180 16 0 8 13 0 0 14 0 0   H 6 180 16 0 8 13 0 0 14 0 0  
If the above taxes and intervening charges are not paid to me the subscriber, on or before Wednesday the 22d day of May next, so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, as the estate of Mr. John Pain, innholder in New Hampton at Sister Harbour (so called) on said day, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay the taxes and charges aforesaid.
ELISHA CUMMINS, Constable.
N. B. As it may be more convenient for some of the owners of the aforesaid land, to leave the money at Hampton, to the care of Col. Moulton, by the 18th day of May, who is desired to receive it—his receipt shall answer equal to mine.
Hampton, March 28, 1782.
State of New Hampshire.
TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC VENDUE , at the house of Stephen Proscott, innholder in Deerfield, on Tuesday the 14th day of May next, at ten o'clock before noon, so much of the following lots of land in Deerfield, as will pay the first and second taxes of silver and new emission, for the year 1781, with incidental charges, unless paid before that time.
   Fellow's List. No. Range Acres Silver. Paper. Silver. Paper.   £. s. d. l. s. d. £. s. d. l. s. d. £. s. d. l. s. d. £. s. d. l. s. d.     Richard and Stephen Brown, 1 4 600 16 0 1 10 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   Samuel Durant, 15 4 4 6 0 0 0   Samuel Shackford, 12 5 11 11 1 8 5   Abigail Folsom, 2 6 3 6 2   Samuel Penhallow, 8 6 1 7 16 9   Samuel Jones, 20 6 7 6 19   William Sandborn, 20 7 4 6 10 6   John Woodman, 23 7 12 1 7 8   Jeremiah Coffs, 23 8 11 11 1 8 5   Thomas Odell, 24 8 11 11 1 8 5   Rawlins and Stevens, 7 6 17 9   Present's List.   John Coffs, junr. 27 1 150 1 4 1 7 0 0 13 6 0 8 6   Mary Wheeler, 29 1 223 1 8 1 12 4 12 1 7 8   Hannah Melcher, 1 2 1 2 4 6 2 6   William Pattle, 5 3 5 4 6 3 7 9 1 12 11   Nathaniel Ward, part 10 3 125 1 11 18 11 10 10   Eliphalet Webster, 25 1 40 1 4 1 4 3 12 6 4 3   Jeremiah Folsom, 8 6 9 3 11   Nathan Merrill, 35 1 6 16 7 2 6   William and Josiah Hook, 30 4 5 4 1 8 1 8   Josiah Batchelder, 10 9 6 10   Mary Wheeler, 29 1 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 6  
Adonijah Fellows } Constables. Josiah Prescott, }
Deerfield, April 9, 1782.
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of the following lots of land in Washington, will be sold at public vendue on Tuesday the 14th day of May next, at one o'clock in the forenoon, at my house in said town, as will pay the taxes for 1781, with incidental charges, unless they are paid before that time.
   Names. No. Range. Div. Quan. Beef. War. Interest State.   Silver. Silver. Silver New Emission.     Thomas Packer, 3 2 2 £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d.   1 1 3 150 1 4 9 1 3 1 3 4 0 0 0   Thomas Wallingsford 13 2 1   1 2 2 150 1 0 10 0 8 9 2 8 2 11 7   Benjamin Hart, 3 0 0   2 1 2 150 0 18 9 0 14 4 2 1 1 19 9   3 2 3   Solly & March, 4 0 0 150   5 2 1 1 5 4 1 3 8 3 5 3 3 7   5 2 3 150   Jotham Odiorne, 10 0 0 0 16 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 11   Hollands part 0 0 0  
Washington, April 10, 1782.
DAVID DANFORTH, Constable.

ODE TO WOMEN.
YE Vixens! fond to be admir'd, With mighty rage of conquest fir'd, And universal sway; Who heave th' unconquer'd bosom high, And roll a fond inviting eye, On all the circle gay!  You miss the fine and secret art To win the castle of the heart, For which you all contend; The coxcomb tribe may crowd your side, But you will never, never gain A lover or a friend.
If this your passion, this your proudest To shine, to dazzle, and to blaze, You may be call'd divine: But not a youth beneath the sky Will say in secret, with a sigh, 'O were that maiden mine!'
You marshal, brilliant from the box, Fans, feathers, diamonds, castled locks, Your magazine of arms: But 'tis the sweet sequester'd walk, The whispering hour, the tender talk, That give you genuine charms.
The nimph-like robe, the nat'ral grace, The smile, the native of the face, Resentment without art; The eye where pure affection beams, The tear from tenderness that streams, The accents of the heart.
The trembling frame, the living cheek, Where, like the morning, blushes break To crimson o'er the breast; The look where sentiment is seen, Fine passions moving o'er the mein, And all the soul express'd.
Your beauties these--with these you shine, And reign on high by right divine, The sov'reigns of the world; Then to your Court the nations flow, The Muse with flowers the path will strew, Where Venus' car is hurl'd.
From dazzling deluges of snow, From summer noon's meridian glow, We turn our aking eye; To Nature's robe of vernal green, To the blue curtain, all serene, Of an autumnal sky.
The fav'rite tree of Beauty's Queen, Behold the myrtle's modest green, The Virgin of the grove! Soft, from the circle of her star, The tender turtles draw the car Of Venus, and of Love.
The growing charm invites the eye; See morning gradual paint the sky With purple and with gold! See spring approach with sweet delay, See rosebuds open to the ray, And leaf by leaf unfold!
We love the alluring line of grace, That leads the eye a wanton chase, And lets the fancy rove; The walk of beauty ever bends, And still begins but never ends, The labyrinth of love.
At times, to veil is to reveal, And to display is to conceal; Mysterious are your laws! The vision's finer than the view, Her landscape Nature never drew, So fair as Fancy draws.
A beauty carelessly betray'd, Enamour'd more, than if display'd All women's charms were given; And o'er the bosom's vestal white, The gauze appears a robe of light, That veils, yet opens, Heaven!
See Virgin Eve, with graces bland, Fresh blooming from her Maker's hand, In orient beauty beam! Fair on the river's margin laid, She knew not that her image made The Angel in the stream.
Still ancient Eden blooms your own; But sterile innocence alone Secures the heavenly post; For if beneath an Angel's mein, The serpent's torturous tail is seen, Our paradise is lost.
O Nature, Nature, thine the charm! Thy colours woo, thy features warm, Thy accents win the heart! Parisian paint of every kind, That stains the body or the mind, Proclaims the Harlot's art.
The midnight mistral of the grove, Who still renews the hymn of love, And woos the wood to hear; Knows not the sweetness of his strain, Nor that, above the tuneful train, He charms the lover's ear.
The zone of Venus, heavenly fine, Is nature's handy work divine, And not the web of art; And they who wear it never know To what enchanting charm they owe The empire of the heart.
LONDON, Jan. 1. It is generally believed, that upon Mr. Laurens's return from Bath, he will be appointed a Mediator between Great-Britain and Congress; and it is said, the most flattering expectations of a reconciliation between the mother country and her colonies, are founded upon that gentleman's negotiation.
ALTHOUGH many Persons esteem the Notes and other Securities of the Public, to be of no intrinsic Value, yet the Subscriber will dispose of a number of valuable lots of different quantities: of land in well settled towns within this state, for such Notes or any other securities, agreeable to the scale of depreciation, to any industrious persons who will settle the same; and if they are not possessed of any notes, a credit will be given equal to their greatest expectations, By JOHN WENDELL , of Portsmouth.
CASH given for Long Human Hair, and white Horse Hair , by JOSHUA PIKE , jun. At his Shop in Divinity-Street. Ladie's Cushions, Curls, &c. sold at his Shop. Portsmouth, April 20.
STRAYED or STOLEN from the Farm of Jonathan Warner, Esq; near Boiling Rock, a pale red STEER , 3 years old last Spring, with a white Face, the top of the right Ear cut off, and the left has a Slit in it. Whoever will return the Steer to the Farm, or give Information where he may be come at, shall have a handsome Reward; if stolen, Twenty Dollars Reward, and the Thief convicted.
State of New-Hampshire. WE the subscribers being appointed commissioners by the Hon. Thomas Sparhawk, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills for the county of Cheshire, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Col. Nathan Hale, late of Rindge, deceased, represented insolvent; and six months from this date being given to receive said claims, we do hereby notify said creditors that we will attend that service at the house of Capt. Solomon Cutler, innholder in Rindge in said county, on the last Tuesday of April next, from two to six o'clock in the afternoon, and on the last Tuesday of the four following months. Rindge, Feb. 26. David Adams, Benjamin Bancroft, Benjamin Foster, } Commis.
State of New Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of the following lots of land in Wolfeborough, will be sold at public vendue, on Tuesday the 7th of May next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Ishiel Clesford, in said town, as will pay the taxes for the year 1781, with incidental charges, unless they are paid before that time.
   No. 1 New Emillion. Silver:     Capt. George King, 13 £ 1 14 0 5/3   William Torrey, 17 1 15 0 8 6   George Glyn, 5 1 3 11 5 3   Samuel Woodhouse, 4 2 1 1   Solly and March half of 13 10 2 2 4   Thomas Packer 6 3 7   Thomas Wallingford, 4 1 3 6 5 5    Reuben Libbey, Constable.
Wolfeborough, April 5, 1782.  State of New Hampshire. Hillsborough ff NOTICE is hereby given, that there will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Capt. Samuel Douglass, innholder in Raby, on the 29th day of April inst. at ten o'clock in the forenoon, so much of the non-residents lands in said town, as will pay the taxes assessed thereon for the year 1780, with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment. Delinquents names follow.— Jonas Cutler, of Groton, £. 100 14 5 Daniel Meed, of Pepperell, 42 2 11 Benjamin Nutting, of Pepperell, 35 11 2 Ruff Land, so called, 40 11 0 A Tract of Land not owned as yet, 30 18 6 All is Continental money. Alexander McIntosh, Constable for 1780. Raby. April 1, 1782.
State of New-Hampshire. Hillsborough ff THE owners of the non-resident land lying in the town of Hollis, are hereby notified; that unless they pay the taxes assessed on their land for the years 1779 and 1780, on or before the 30th day of April instant, so much of their land will be sold on said day, at the house of John Atwell, innholder in Hollis, as will pay said taxes and incidental charges. In Constable Phineas Hardy's list.
   David Weatherby, State. Soldier. County. War.     for 1779 & 1780) £. 25 0 11 £ 0 18 34. od. £. 30 12 0   Abel Sawyer, jun. 1779. 8 1 5   Ebenezer Nutting,   for 1779 & 1780,) 24 14 3 0 14 2 4 18 3 4   Cornet Simon Gillson,   for 1780, 5 0 6 0 6 1 0 10 4 0    In Constable Jacob Jewet's List.
   The owners of Tho's )     Edwards's Lot, 1779. 76 19 2 3 8 16 4 115 12 0   and 1780,) Phineas Hardy, } Constables for   Jacob Jewet, } 1779 & 1780.  
Hollis, April 1, 1782.
BENEVOLENCE recommended. A FABLE.
A Mouse, by accident coming under the paw of a lion, begged hard for life, urging that clemency was the fairest attribute of power. The lion generously set it at liberty. The mouse, afterwards observing the lion entangled in the toils of the hunter, flew to his assistance, gnawed the net to pieces, and set him free. Hence an useful lesson, Neglect no opportunity of doing good; for even the lowest may happen to be useful to the highest.
NOTICE is hereby given, that this Town are delinquent of a few Men to compleat their Quota in the Continental Army:—Any able-bodied effective Men inclining to engage for three Years, or during the War, will meet with great Encouragement, by applying to either of the Subscribers, Joshua Wentworth, George Gains, Committee. Portsmouth, April 13, 1782.
To George Jaffrey, Proprietors Clark, &c.
AFTER a seven Year's State of Recluseness and Inactivity, and under the present suspicious Appearance of our public Affairs; you now venture forth to assert your Property beyond the Walls of your late Retirement; and had you have kept yourself to what had been your indisputable Title, it would not perhaps been much noticed:—But as you have lately in particular pointed at me, and given the publick to think I have advertized Lands in Eaton, Tamworth, &c that I have no just Title to, and thereby to check the progress of the Cultivation and Settlement of them which unhappily has been too much the Case elsewhere) which here goes on with Vigour. I am under an Obligation to inform the publick, that the Title to all the Lands I hold in said Towns, is indisputably clear, provided two points are made to appear. First, If the Governor's Grants, so called, by which the Tenure of the principal part of the Lands of this State are held, are good.— Secondly, if there is Faith and Confidence to be had in the Grants of the proprietors holding under Mason's Patent— With Respect to the first, I take it to be clear; as to the second, that seems to be the Matter in Question, and good Vouchers by both to support my Title I am furnished with, ready for public or private Satisfaction.— I would not trespass so far as to say any Thing on the vague Title of Mason's Claim, or whether it should extend to a right or curvilinear Line.—Suppose the last imaginary Line of their Claim could be fix'd by Consent or otherwise, and to include part of Tamworth, &c. my property is certainly good by the second position, viz. your own Grant, which I trust you yourselves won't dispute.—How absurd then is your publication, and how can I account for it, unless it's owing to your criminal Neglect, of not knowing your own Records and Grants; to which I refer any person concern'd for satisfaction, or to a Copy I have in possession, in Hand writing, and attested even by this same Mr. Jaffrey:—Instead of being intimidated with your Threats, you may be assur'd that I am very ready to defend the premises in due Course of Law, as soon as you please; and shall readily pursue the Cultivation and Settlement of them, notwithstanding your present Caveat, which you'll find in the issue as trifling and inefficacious as your other of November 1770— And as you have presumed to advertise said Lands for sale, I do hereby Caution and Warn all persons against trespassing or entering on said Eaton, Tamworth &c under the Right and Claim of Mason's Proprietors, so called, and in particular any Surveyor or others under them, from running any Lines there; as I am determin'd to prosecute every such person to the utmost Rigor of the Law. JONATHAN MOULTON, Hampton, April 11, 1782.
All persons having any demands against the estate of John Stockbridge, late of Stratham, deceased, are desired to exhibit the same; and those that are indebted to said estate, are desired to pay the same immediately to the subscriber. JOHN STOCKBRIDGE. Administrator.
TO BE SOLD, A FARM , lying in Deerfield, containing about 200 acres, with a good dwelling-house, barn, and Smith's shop, thereon: Said farm is well situated for three settlements, and is well watered and wooded, and has a good young orchard, &c. &c. For further particulars, inquire of Moses Marshall, on the premises. Deerfield, April 1.
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