Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1787-05-26 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,  A N D  GENERAL ADVERTISER.
"WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE."
PORTSMOUTH: Printed and published by JOHN MELCHER, in Market-Street, where Subscriptions, (at FOUR SHILLINGS for six months) Advertisements, &c. for this Paper are taken in, the favours of correspondents carefully attended to, and the Printing Business carried on at a reasonable rate.—Also—Advertisements, Subscriptions, &c. taken in by T. ODIORNE, Esq. Exeter.
TO THE FARMERS.
GENTLEMEN,  Please to suffer me to communicate unto you the following, which exhibits how you may raise FLAX on old ground.
LET your land run over with grass until the month of June; then plow it in, and dung the ground with sheep's dung, or yard your sheep upon it; plow it eight or nine times more before winter; early in the succeeding spring plow it three times more, and at the last time plow in your seed with some ashes, if you have any; roll a roller over the ground, to beat it down hard and make it smooth.
To impregnate the ground with nitrous salts, and generate proper nourishment for the growth of the flax, let the plowing be done early in the morning before the dew is off. If you let the plow go after that time, the nitrous particles will fly off by the exhalations of the sun. Wet land where the water stands in the spring, or after a heavy rain, ought not to be plowed until it is dry.
The plowing of the land often, prevents the generation of devouring insects. Part of the ground may be sown as early as the season will admit, and the rest at or near the full moon in May; you may expect a good crop from both parts; but if one should fail, you will, in all probability, have a good one from the other.
I am, Gentlemen, your humble servant, AGRICOLANUS.
A N E C D O T E.
"It is better to marry than burn."
THERE prevailed in Arabia a shocking custom, sprung originally from Scythia, and which being established in the Indies by the credit of the Brachmans, threatened to over-run all the East.—When a married man died, and his beloved wife aspired to the character of a saint, she burnt herself publicly on the body of her husband. This was a solemn feast, and was called the "Funeral Pile of Widowhood;" and the tribe in which most women had been burned was most respected. An Arabian of Setoc's tribe being dead, his widow, whose name was Almona, and who was very devout, published the day and the hour she intended to throw herself into the fire, amidst the sound of drums and trumpets. Zadig, a foreign Philosopher, remonstrated against this horrible custom; he shewed Setoc how inconsistent it was with the happiness of mankind to suffer young widows to burn themselves every other day,—widows who were capable of giving children to the state, or, at least, of educating those they already had; and he convinced him that it was his duty to do all that lay in his power to abolish such a barbarous practice. "The women (said Setoc) have possessed the right of burning themselves for more than a thousand years; and who shall dare to abrogate a law which time has rendered sacred? Is there any thing more respectable than ancient abuses?" "Reason is more ancient, replied Zadig. But do you speak to the chief of the tribes upon the subject, and I will undertake to wait on the young widow."
Accordingly he was introduced to her, and after having insinuated himself into her good graces by some compliments on her beauty, and told her how shameful it was to commit so many charms to the flames, he at last praised her for her constancy and courage. "You must surely have loved your husband (said he) with the most passionate fondness."—"Who, I? (replied the lady) I did not love him at all—for he was a brutal, jealous, insufferable wretch; but that has nothing to do with my resolution to perish on his funeral pile." "It would appear then, (said Zadig) that there must be a very delicious pleasure in being burnt alive." "Oh! (exclaimed the lady) it makes nature shudder—but that must be overlooked; for as I am a devotee, I shall lose my reputation, and be despised by all the world, if I do not burn myself." Zadig having made her acknowledge that she burned herself to gain the good opinion of others, and to gratify her own vanity, entertained her with a long discourse calculated to make her in love with life, and even went so far as to inspire her with some degree of good will for the person who spoke to her. "And what will you do at last, (continued he) if the vanity of burning yourself should not continue. "Alas! (said she, blushing) I believe I must get you to marry me."
Zadig went instantly to the chiefs of the tribes, and telling them what had passed, he advised them to make a law, by which a widow should not be permitted to burn herself, 'till she had conversed privately with a young man for the space of an hour. Since that time not a single woman has burned herself in Arabia.
A L B A N Y, May 10.
The following Order of the Governor of Quebec, for opening a Commercial Intercourse between the United States and that province, was handed us by a gentleman from Fort George, on Sunday last.
GUY, LORD DORCHESTER, Captain General, and Governor in Chief of the Province of Quebec, &c. &c.
L. S. T O Thomas Ainslee, Esq. Collector, and Thomas Scott, Esq. Comptroller, and other officers of the customs of the Province of Quebec:—It being represented to me that a commercial intercourse may be carried on between this Province and the neighbouring States, to the advantage of this Province, and of Great-Britain, under certain restrictions, by land, and the inland navigation on the rout and communication thro' lake Champlain: you are accordingly authorized and required, until ordinances can be obtained for the more fully regulating the said inland trade with the neighbouring States, to permit the free importation, by that rout, of masts, yards, bowsprits, spars, oak or pine planks, boards, knees, ship timber, hoops, staves, shingles, clapboards, or any sort of lumber; pitch, tar, turpentine or tallow, or any kind of naval stores; hemp, flax and their seeds, wheat, rye, indian corn, peas, beans, potatoes, rice, oats, barley, and all other species of grain; horses, neat cattle, sheep, hogs,
poultry, and all other species of live stock, and live provisions, and whatever else is the growth of the said States; and you are also authorized and required to permit the free exportation from this Province into the said States, or either of them, of any article of the growth, produce or manufacture of this Province, or of any other of the dominions of Great-Britain, furs and peltry of every kind excepted: And you and the several officers concerned are at the same time strictly charged and ordered in all things to conform yourselves to the act of parliament, granting authority to his Majesty for issuing his royal orders in council, for regulating the trade between the dominions of Great-Britain and the United States of America, and to the orders and directions contained in his Majesty's orders in council, regulating all importations into this Province by sea, and to cause the several laws made for preventing the bringing any foreign rum or spirits, or (except from Great-Britain) any goods or manufactures of any foreign European countries, or of Asia, into this Province, or any other of the British Provinces and Colonies, to be duly and effectually enforced.
Given under my hand and seal at arms, at the Castle of St. Lewis, at Quebec, the eighteenth day of April, in the twenty-seventh year of his Majesty's reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven.
(Signed) DORCHESTER.
V E R S A I L L E S, March 16.
The Notables are going on; the Comptroller General explained the eight causes upon which they are to deliberate this week; the reformation of the provincial duties, the abolition of several duties in the excise, are the chief points.
In consequence of the opposition made by some of the Notables, the Princes have all had a special meeting; and the King has held a consultation with the five Archbishops, respecting the intended land-tax. Their chief argument in favor of it is, that England, which is the most free nation, submits to it.
H A G U E, March 13.
We are assured, that the Court of Madrid, perceiving that the requisition she has made to the republic of Holland, for a passage by the Cape of Good Hope, will meet with many difficulties, has determined that her ships shall pass, notwithstanding every opposition that may be made by the republic.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, May 9.
Capt. Jones informs that the ship Hannah, Capt. Davis, belonging to Messrs. Warder, Parker and Co. of this city, was lost about three leagues from L'Orient, on her passage from Charleston, South Carolina, and three of the crew perished; he also brings advice of the loss of 65 sail of vessels, from the latter end of November, to the beginning of February, in the Bay of Biscay, between Bourdeaux and Ushant.

By the British Packet Portland, Capt. Spargo, arrived at New York in 30 days from Falmouth, we have the following Articles, viz.
L O N D O N,
March 10. The French have formed an offensive and defensive alliance with the Porte; with Spain, which has covenanted to supply them with ten thousand horse; with Sardinia, with Sweden and Denmark.
March 12. The Queen of France has recently commenced hunts, and in the character of a modern Diana, enjoys the pleasures of the chace with a pack of small deer hounds, lately established for her Majesty.
March 13. "There is now in London," says the Morning Herald, "an Irish gentleman who returned in one of the last vessels from Jamaica. He left Cork for that island a few months since, and intending to settle there, took with him some very strong recommendations. On his landing at Port Royal, he was met on one of the quays by a negro, who, from his intimacy with the Irish, had acquired a perfect knowledge of their language, in which he accordingly addressed the stranger. The latter, staring at the sooty visage of the fellow, made no reply; but on a repetition of the address, he took to his heels, and returned to the vessel with all expedition; and on his arrival there declared his intention "not to stay in that d——d place, where all his countrymen turned blacks." This prejudice thus conceived was too deeply impressed for any argument to remove. He immediately took his passage in a homeward-bound vessel, and is now actually in England, through the apprehensions that he should have turned black in Jamaica."
March 16. The States of Holland so frequently "resume their deliberations," without doing any thing, that we must consider them as the most deliberate people on earth. They seem disposed to dose away the Stadtholdership, and fairly out sleep the Prince of Orange.
The Emperor, in his new code of criminal laws, has enacted the following remarkable one—"That all men who are seen in the street endeavouring to speak to a woman, shall be taken up, and instantly sent to prison." The legislator, by this law, will not only guard the honor of honest women, but revenge the affronts offered them by men, who, under pretence of taking them for other women, often introduce themselves to an acquaintance that proves the source of all evils in Vienna.
March 20. The board of commissioners for inquiring into the American claims will be continued by another act, as they have not yet settled all the business. They are now busied in examining the most important case of all, that of Mr. Hartford, whose claim amounts to 18,000l. a year; his immense estate in Maryland, with all the patronage, having been confiscated.
The ordination of the three American Bishops is an event on which the Universities have formed strange conjectures: these newly-created Right Reverends will, in the American Device, restore the days of the Primitive Fathers, and distinguish themselves by stripes.
The profits of the East-India trade are at this time superior to what they ever were before; last year they sold near seventeen million pounds of tea, which at a profit of only nine pence in the pound, must nett 630,000l.
Extract of a letter from Arcot, July 26, 1786.
"The Marattoes and Tippo Saib are at war, and the Company are rather afraid that it will cause a rupture between us and our old enemies the French, who have lately landed at Pondicherry and the Mauritius near 5000 French troops; the Dutch have also ceded the harbour and fort of Trincomale to the French; so that they are gaining strength in this country every day; and should hostilities commence, there will be a violent contest, as they will strain every nerve to recover their former possessions. However, I trust our superiority by sea will enable us to cope with them."
"This country now wears the face of plenty; and should the peace continue a few years more, the Company's finances will be in a flourishing state."
The Emperor of Morocco is reported to have made a very singular demand on our government, in consequence of the war subsisting between his Moorish Majesty and the Maltese. He has sent an Ambassador to Gibraltar to demand from our Court, two ships of 50, two of 60, and two of 70 guns, to be hired for an unlimited time, offering 150,000 piastres for the first year; that is to say, 100,000 piastres in ready money, and 50,000 in duties on fresh provisions, which the English shall have a right to load at Tetuan. The Emperor's Minister is to remain at Gibraltar till an answer arrives from the British Court. This curious requisition will probably be the means of shutting the port of Tangiers, &c. against our cruisers in the Mediterranean, as it is impossible his Majesty's Ministers can comply with it.
March 28. The East India Company have, at this time, near four millions of tea at market.
April 2. Friday the claims of the inhabitants of St. Eustatius were finally argued before his Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council; and the Counsel being heard on both sides, it was decreed, that Lord Rodney and General Vaughan are to refund the money to the said claimants.
According to letters of the very first and best authority from Gibraltar, the piratical states of Barbary are on the very point of entering into a measure which may finally effect what not all the opposition against their lawless proceedings has hitherto been able to accomplish. A war among themselves is the matter alluded to, the cause of which is briefly related as follows: the present Emperor of Morocco, the most pacific of all the Infidel sovereigns, who is in treaty of alliance with most of the Christian powers, for the purpose of conscientiously discharging his part, did some months since command, that no corsair, frigate or gally, should be permitted to bring or send in any vessel, being a prize from any of the Christian powers, into any of the ports of Morocco. An Algerine frigate, last summer, in defiance of this, carried a vessel, bound from Malaga to Lisbon, of which she made a prize, into Larrache, where the Captain attempted to sell vessel and cargo, but was prevented by the Moorish Governor of Larrache, who obliged the frigate to sail again without his prize, which was restored, by order of the Emperor, to the Consul of the Portuguese nation, for the benefit of the owners. This is the foundation of disputes which are likely to embroil the Moors with the Dey of Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis.
A letter from Leghorn has the following article:—"I am happy to inform you, that the largest of the galleys belonging to the Dey of Algiers, which has a long time infested these seas, and was so daring as to cruise close to the mouth of the harbour, is at length taken, after a severe contest, by a Maltese man of war, and is brought in here; the slaughter on both sides is great, and the hulls of both vessels are much shattered; the Captain of the Maltese and most of his officers are wounded; the Algerine Captain and the two next officers in command were killed, and most of the men either killed or wounded; there is on board the galley, a valuable cargo, of which they had plundered ships of different nations, and a considerable sum of Portugal money."
A L B A N Y, May 10.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in New-York, to his friend, of rank, in one of the southern states.
"Europe is in a profound calm, the Venetians, Russians and Austrians indeed are pecking at the Turks, but I suppose it is only to keep alive pretensions which may authorize the commencement of hostilities when it shall suit them. Great Britain seems to have an eye upon us, and not a friendly one—we do not hope, even, for civilities from her, while France on the contrary has lately made some regulations very favourable for our commerce, and the king has appointed commis-
sioners to examine and report to him such favourable regulations as may be most beneficial to us. The United Netherlands are friendly to us, their money-lenders have unbounded confidence in the justice and uprightness of our views, and their minister here, Mr. Van Berckel, is very desirous of doing every thing in his power to facilitate a most intimate and friendly connection between us."
W O R C E S T E R, May 16.
A gentleman from the northward informs, that some of the rebel leaders in Vermont are inlisting men, for the service of the King of England; they are to serve three months, are promised 18l. bounty, and 40s. per month. He actually saw several inlisting papers, with a number of names on each. This may be depended on."
May 21. The Honourable the Supreme Executive have been pleased to grant to the Traitors who are now under sentence of death in the counties of Hampshire and Berkshire, and who were ordered for execution on Thursday next, a respite until the 21st of June next.
A correspondent is very sorry to hear, that the four convicts who were to have been executed this month, are reprieved, for there is high probability of their wearing green leaves in their hats again. Surely, mercy to them is murder to our country. As we are left in a field of conjecture, respecting the reasons given for reprieving them, we may suppose those that could not have influenced in the measure:—Popularity could not have actuated any; fear, none; whimsical notions could not have entered into the heads of any, however roomy; the elections being incomplete we cannot suppose, had any weight; relationship could not have operated;—but Women, those bewitching creatures, we do believe, had a powerful effect—they made those weep, who never wept before. There were some few, however, it is to be hoped, who could say with propriety, that they had finished their course, and kept the faith.
S A L E M, May 22.
Not long since a young lady in Pomfret, being necessitated to ride in the dusk of the evening, had the misfortune to run her horse on a plough, which was inadvertently left in the road, with such velocity that one of the handles pierced his vitals, which shock threw the Miss precipitately to the ground, without detriment, and instantly put a period to the existence of the horse.
PRICE CURRENT at New-York, May 10.
Dollar 8/ New-York currency.
   By the B U S H E L,     Wheat, - - - 7/6. Albany peas, - 6/.   Rye, - - - 4/6. Fine salt, - - 1/6.   Oats, - - - 2/6. Packing ditto, - 3/.   Indian corn, - 4/. Rock ditto, - 3/ 3/4.   By the B A R R E L,   Fine flour, - 43/. Beef, - 60s. 80s.   Common ditto, - 38/. Pork, - 85/.   Bur, middlings, - 40/.   By the H U N D R E D,   Indian meal, - 12/. Ship bread, - 18/ 20/.   Rye ditto, - 15/ 17/. Musco'do Sugars 56/ 66/.   Rice, - 30/ 32/.   By the P O U N D,   Loaf sugar, - 1/2. 1/3. Hams, - - 7d. 8d.   Havanna ditto, - 12d. Butter, - - 9d.   Hyson tea, - 9/6. 10/. Tallow, - - 10d.   Souchong ditto, - 6/ 8/. Coffee, - - 16d.   Bohea tea, - 2/11.   By the G A L L O N.   W. India rum, - 3/10. 4/2. Molasses, - 1/10. 2/.   Spirits, - 4/6.  
PRICE CURRENT at Demarara, April 6.
   Rum, - 18 flivers, } 55 flivers the dollar.   Coffee, - 6 ———   Cotton, - 18 ———   Sugar, - 2 1/2 — pr. lb.  
State of New-Hampshire.
WE the subscribers being appointed commissioners, by the hon. Joseph Badger, Esq. judge of probate, &c. for the county of Strafford, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Alexander Welch, late of Rochester, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent, and six months being allowed for that purpose; we hereby give notice that we will attend said business on the second Monday in June next, and the second Monday of the five following months, from 6 to 7 of the clock, P. M. on each of said days, at the house of Col. John Goodwin, innholder in said town.
JOHN GOODWIN, } Commiss'rs.
ARON WINGATE, }
Rochester, May 12, 1787.

P E T E R S B U R G H, May 3.
By Capt. Lander, of the Schooner Effex , arrived in James River in 20 days from Aux Cayes, we learn that a fleet of seven sail of the line, and 10,000 troops are arrived at Cape-Francois, from France. Soon after Capt. Lander left Aux Cayes, he met with a Spanish frigate from Havana, the Captain of which sent to him a very pressing invitation to go on board the frigate, which he accordingly did, and found from the Captain's enquiries, he was apprehensive that war was declared between France and Spain; and he assured Capt. Lander that his business with him was to obtain some information respecting it. Capt. Lander informed him that he had heard nothing of it; but the Captain of the frigate believed that a war had already commenced, said to be in consequence of a connection having taken place between France and England.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, May 14.
Yesterday evening came to this city, his Excellency General Washington, one of the Delegates from the state of Virginia, to the Federal Convention. His arrival was announced by a salute of the United States from the Train of Artillery, and the ringing of bells: He was escorted from Chester by the city Light Dragoons; and has taken apartments at Mrs. Houle's, one of the most genteel boarding houses in this city.
Extract of a letter from Dr. Price, dated London, Jan. 26, 1787, to one of his correspondents here.
"The newspapers which you sent me were very acceptable to me, the essays and information they contain have contributed towards gratifying a curiosity which I am always feeling with respect to the affairs of the United States. Your federal government is a point of great difficulty and importance, which I find still remains unsettled. I dread the thoughts of such a division of the states into three confederacies, as you say have been talked of. It is a pity that some general controlling power cannot be established of sufficient vigour to decide disputes, to regulate commerce, to prevent wars and to constitute a union which shall have weight and credit. At present the power of Congress in Europe is an object of derision rather than respect, at the same time the tumults in New-England, the weakness of Congress, the difficulties and sufferings of many of the states and the knavery of the Rhode-Island legislature, form subjects of triumph in this country. The conclusion is that you are falling to pieces, and will soon repent of your independence. But the hope of the friends to virtue and liberty is (to borrow an expression from your letter) that whereas the kingdoms of Europe travelled to tranquility through seas of blood, the United States are travelling to a degree of tranquility and liberty that will make them an example to the world, ONLY through seas of BLUNDERS. God grant this may be the truth."
Monday last a number of the honorable the delegates from the states of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia and North Carolina, to the federal convention, appointed to be held in this city, met at the State House.—The South Carolina members have arrived, and from every information we have reason to conclude that the representation will be complete in a few days.
E L I Z A B E T H T O W N, May 16.
About four weeks since, John Schamahoorn, sen. at Pumptown, Morris county, terminated, dastardly terminated, a life he had not fortitude to support, by hanging himself by the neck; and about a fortnight since, at Tappan, Peter Haring shot himself.—Desperate men! to arrogate to themselves the prerogative of the Deity, and thus affront their God, and the wrath of Heaven defy.
This crime was once so ripe in England, that all their sapience could not restrain it until an edict was passed that their naked bodies should be exposed, and given to carnivorous animals for food.
Self preservation is God's firm decree; Can Self destruction then from guilt be free? As death to murder is by Heaven decreed, Self-murder surely is a fouler deed, And death eternal must that crime succeed.
N E W - Y O R K, May 16.
The United States in Congress assembled, on the 17th inst. ORDAINED —That five Commissioners be appointed by the Board of Treasury, whose duty it shall be to go to the several states, and to the districts respectively, for which they may be respectively appointed, for the purpose of stating the accounts of the states within those districts against the United States.
The Commissioners of the Board of Treasury of the United States have given notice, that on the 21st day of September next will be exposed to sale, at the place where the United States in Congress may hold their sessions, in conformity to a resolve of Congress, the townships and lots of lands in the Western Territory, which were sur-
veyed last year, under the direction of the Geographer General of the United States.
May 17, We learn, from undoubted authority, that Congress have resolved, that all letters and packets to and from the Members of Convention, at Philadelphia, go free of postage.
Barbadoes (says a writer in a late English paper) seems to be devoted to all the calamity of the elements, and this is the more sensibly felt, as it has been long on the decline of trade, owing to such disasters, and the sterility of the soil, which is so exhausted, that the supply of its manure for the sugar growth has been formed from the sea-rock. The present Creole families of that Island, continues he, are chiefly the offspring of the 10,000 Roman Catholicks of both sexes banished by Cromwell, when he over-ran Ireland. The Abbe Raynal remarks, that this small island was once the most populous spot on the face of the earth, containing, within its small circumference, 100,000 whites, besides treble the number of negroes.
W O R C E S T E R, May 24.
Extract of a letter from Warwick, dated May 15th.
"On one morning last week, the following lines, together with a coffin, in which they were laid, were found by the house of Doctor Medad Pomeroy .—The author is not yet certainly known.
(Letter for Letter.)
"Now I have Come you must dy and in my Bowels you Shall ley and if it is tru What God he says youl be a Pray to Daniel Shays But before the Day of June youl think your in an air by Lune But Whether your Go to heaven or hell I am Shur I Cannot Stay to Tell"
Since the above transaction, it is reported, that the Rebels, by force of arms, have seized Mr. Pomeroy , together with Mr. Metcalf of Orange, and carried them off, as hostages for those under sentence of death.
We are credibly informed, by persons from the State of Vermont, that the leaders in the late Rebellion assembled, a few days since, a number of men, to the amount, it is said, of about 200, chiefly of those who had fled from this State; but the authority in Vermont ordered them to disperse, and they dispersed accordingly. It is said their intention was to come into this State and renew their nefarious designs. The conduct of Vermont, in this instance, and others, respecting the Rebellion, is spoken of much to its credit. Rhode-Island! Rhode-Island only, as a state, is the only one that has, by its proceedings, encouraged Treason and Rebellion!
B O S T O N, May 25.
A letter from a gentleman at Weathersfield, received by Tuesday's mail, has the following article.—"Reports say, that two of your insurgents have been down on the back of our state, and enlisted a number of men for their service—I suppose the object is to prevent the executions of those condemned. The Governor and Council have sent to examine the affair, and will prevent their doing any damage."
On Tuesday last, at the Supreme Judicial Court, at Concord, came on the trial of Job Shattuck , of Groton, for Treason; who was duly convicted, and is now under sentence of death.
The brig Hope , owned by Messrs. Cobat , of Beverly, and commanded by Capt. Worsley , was, we hear, lost about the 20th ult. off the bar of Charleston, South-Carolina.
Extract of a letter from New York, May 16.
"The Hon. Mr. KING , I am told, is in the nomination for the Ambassadorship to the Court of London—and it is thought will be appointed."
P O R T S M O U T H, May 26.
A correspondent justly observes, "that the welfare and happiness of mankind, and particularly of the country in which we abide, ought invariably to be the object of the strictest investigation, and every attention given to promote so laudable an undertaking: it is a matter of the highest concern, and the present distracted situation of our country calls for a speedy remedy.—We will for a moment consider what is the cause of our present difficulties. Some will readily answer "that it is the want of money." This hypothesis cannot be supported; for money with us is only a medium, and not an article in trade, and must be considered as a secondary object.—Agriculture and manufactures encouraged by a good government, and properly attended to by an industrious people, will forever command a sufficiency of money to answer all purposes.—Look for a moment at the Island of Great-Britain that produces none of these adorable metals; and yet there is a sufficient quantity of circulating cash. From whence came it? from the mines of Potosi.—Forever let this rest upon your minds, my countrymen, that every yard of superfine broad-cloth will fetch 80 dollars in any of the capitals
of South-America—and it is no uncommon thing in Mexico for a gentleman's full dress to amount to 1000 dollars*. You will wonder at this, call it extravagant, and almost doubt the truth I suppose—Pause for a moment and your amazement will ease.—Silver and gold being the produce of those countries must naturally be considered as articles of trade, and like all other articles will lessen in value when there is a surplusage. This instance alone is sufficient to convince any one of the advantages we enjoy in preference to those who are toiling in subterraneous caves, for gold—A farmer in a country like this, with a few pounds of wool, and about four or five days labour will produce, when carried to these markets, 80 dollars; you may think this picture painted in its most alluring colours, but I'll promise you it is not more attractive than it is just, and well worthy the attention of any one who wishes the happiness of his family, and the prosperity of his country.
Agriculture and manufactures have been the cause, rise, and progress of many splendid empires, and from these alone, it is, that we must expect to derive a consequence worthy of so valuable a country—a country abounding with every thing that heart can wish.
Let your imagination rove for a moment into the interior parts of the United States, there you will find a soil teeming with every thing that is grateful; in short, there is no part of the known world more amply furnished.
Why will you then supinely hang your heads—wrapped in your tattered garments, loitering from place to place, a burden to society?—Rouse from your lathargy, and with a determination worthy of rational beings, resolve to improve what heaven has provided for you."
* Poſtlethwait's Dictionary.
Died since our last, Mrs. Surbinah Walton , in the 60th year of age, and a child of Thomas Neal.
N A V A L O F F I C E, PORT OF PISCATAQUA, May 28, 1787.
   E N T E R E D, FROM.     Brig Mary , Shores, St. Eustatia.   Schooner Success , Jackson, St. Thomas.   Sloop Mary , Gunnison, Tobago.   Brig Montpelier , Miller, ditto.   Schooner Union , Tibbets, Effiequebo.   Brig Carbonear , Briard, St. Thomas.   C L E A R E D, FOR.   Brig Two-Sisters , Meserve, West-Indies.   Brig Hero , Edwards, ditto.   Schooner Polly , Boadge, Ditto.  
The following Letter from Doctor LOBB may possibly benefit the Public, if generally known.
Many years ago (when I lived at Yeovill, in Somersetshire) my advice was desired for a poor man's child, a boy of about eight or nine years of age, one of whose legs was contracted more than when a man is sitting in a chair;—He could not stretch it out, or move it; neither could it be extended by any other, without an injury to the part affected.
I prescribed a relaxing liniment, of which currier's oil was one chief ingredient, and ordered the parts affected to be gently rubbed with it; but it was of no service.
The probable consequences of this poor boy's living without the use of that limb, very much moved my pity; and, while I was considering what further might be done for his relief, it came into my mind that the glovers of the town brought their lamb and kid skins (which were dry, stiff and hard) to be soft and supple as gloves, by rubbing them with a liquor made with the yolk of eggs and water.
Hereupon I reasoned thus with myself, viz. Since this egg-liquor is so efficacious in removing contractions from the parts of dead animal fibres, vessels and membranes (by art made stiff, dry and hard) why may it not be as effectual when sufficiently applied to living animal fibres, vessels and membranes, in a state of contraction? And I resolved to try its efficacy in the case of this poor boy.
I ordered the contracted parts of his leg to be gently rubbed two or three times a day with the egg liquor, and by this means he easily recovered the use of his leg.
This egg-liquor I advise to be made in the following manner, viz.
Take the yolk of a new-laid egg, let it be beaten with a spoon to the greatest thinness; then, by a spoonful at a time, add three ounces of pure water, agitating the mixture continually, that the egg and water may be well incorporated. This liquor may be applied to the parts contracted, cold or only milk-warm, by a gentle friction for a few minutes, three or four times a day.
This remedy I have since advised in like cases, and with the like happy success, and others, to whom I have communicated it, have found the same advantage from it in such cases.

Parnassian Spring.
S H A Y S: A REBEL ECLOGUE. JEDEDIAH—JONAS—TIPPLE.
T WO young Insurgents (where the sign-post high
Stands at the road, and speaks the tavern by) Agreed to try, by song, which most could praise Rebellion's influence, and the name of Shays . With umpire Tipple seated by their side, Thus Jedediah spoke, and Jonas thus replied :
J E D E D I A H.
Hear how the whirling winds around us blow! And see the country bury'd deep in snow! Why shall we joylefs doze away our time? Come! lets begin and waste the morn in rhyme.
J O N A S.
Of Shays and liberty, then let us try— I'll wage you cannot sing so well as I.
J E D E D I A H.
Ho! that's a pity! thou shalt judge, and see— Oh! coulin Tipple , and the umpire be.
T I P P L E.
Make haste, my boys—I'll judge of what you For see! 'tis sun rise, and I want a sling. [sing,
J O N A S.
See this junk-bottle, once my joy and pride, With all these curious letters on its side; Once it was often fill'd!—Now, by my heart, I'll bet this bottle, and it holds a quart; I'll wage my mare—bring you an equal stake—
J E D E D I A H.
—That should be seen, if I had one to make. Father, and I, and all hands labour sore, And hope in time to pay the tavern score. We've four years grievous taxes yet to pay; An hundred mugs of flip to wipe away; But since you will be mad, and wage—here, take This great tobacco-box—'tis all I stake.
J O N A S.
Give us but rum, our pleasure and our pride, A rebel cares not how the world may slide. Though all our evils overspread the land, And vengeful justice should our wiles withstand, Unaw'd by law, and uncontroul'd by sense, Nobly we join to drive the vagrant hence.
J E D E D I A H.
What is Rebellion?—grievances redress'd, 'Tis Policy to most advantage dress'd— Sheriffs and duns could ne'er but conscience fret, We clamour rather at the public debt: Or like a bull to belch—we grieve and groan For public interest, and mean our own,
J O N A S.
Still firm and steady let each rebel stand, Nor dread the weight of Justice' heavy hand; Secure from brother Shattuck's iron box, From whipping posts, and pillories and stocks: See from all counties hosts of Rebels spring! Hear through the ranks the martial musick ring! In cause so great let ev'ry county raise, Her fresh supplies and aid our Gen'ral Shays .
J E D E D I A H.
A little tumult is a dangerous thing, Drink deep, or taste not of Sedition's spring, There mobbing draughts but gently turn the brain,
And bold Rebellion sobers us again. Fir'd at the name of Shays and wars alarms, Fierce in the cause, we tempt the heights of arms, While from the level of our narrow mind, Short views we take, nor see the length behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprize New scenes of tumult and sedition rise! So when at first Machusett-hill we try, Mount o'er the vales and seem to tread the sky, One part attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the crooked way; Th' encreasing prospect cheats our wand'ring eyes, For still Machusett on Machusett rise.
J O N A S.
Where carrion lies, the hungry crows abound, Where plunder is, insurgents will be found, From laziness what chearful pleasures come! Sweet of a morning is New-England Rum! In all these blessed gifts no sweets there be, For dearer than the whole is Shays to me.
J E D E D I A H.
I'll weave a garland for my darling Shays , I'll twigs of hemlock and of dog wood raise: There the green bough of Rebels shall be seen With sprigs of Hemp and Devils-weed between.
J O N A S.
The mighty wolf is baneful to the sheep; Storms in the spring will make the farmer weep; The lagging frosts to blossoms prove unkind, And county courts disturb a debtor's mind;
Of Lincoln's sword more ills does Fame report, Than of the wolves, and storms, and frosts, and county court.
T I P P L E.
Cease to contend—so well, so long you sing, You must be dry—and I too, want a sling. But hark! what noise is this insults my ear, Which strikes my trembling soul with rebel fear, A troop of Lincoln's Horse!—in yonder field!— Lord!—run!—run!—run! or we shall all be kill'd
Samuel Hill
Informs his friends and customers, that he has imported in the last ship from London,
A general assortment of Spring and Summer
G O O D S,
which he has for sale at his Store opposite the Market, viz.
  Yard wide,  Pewter    7-8ths and 3 qrs.  of all sorts,    Irish Linnens,  Desk Furniture,    Dowlas, Bed Ticks,  Joiners Tools,    Check Linnens,  Files of various sorts    Chintzes and Calli-  Sickles,    coes,  Brafs Cocks,    Sattins, Modes and  Writing, Cartridge    Sarfnets,  and Bonnet Paper,    Ribbons of various  Dutch Quills,    forts,  Ink Powder, Wafers    Cambricks & Lawns  and Spectacles,    Black and white  Wool, Cotton and    Gauzes,  Clothier's Cards,    Silk Cotton & Lin-  Floor, Hearth, Cloth    nen Handkerchiefs  and Buckle Brushes,    Worsted, Hemp and  Buckles of various    Thread Hose,  forts,    Broad Cloths,  Rat & Mouse Traps,    Serges, Ratteens,  Cod, Haddock and    Fustians, and Jeans,  Mackarel Lines,    Trimings of all sorts  Hooks for ditto,    Callimancoes,  Sein and sewing    Tammies, Durants  Twine,    and Camblets,  Best English Gun-    Locks and Hinges,  Powder and Shot    Cafe-Knives and  of all sorts,    Forks,  Brimstone, Coppe-    Cutteaus and Pen-  ras and Allum,    Knives,  Best German Steel,    Scissors and Shears,  Plated Stirrups, Bits    Nails of all sorts,  and Spurs,    10 by 8, 9 by 7 and  Hunting Whips,    8 by 6 Window  and many other    Crown Glafs,  articles, too nume-    Frying-Pans,  rous to enumerate.  
May be had at the same place, West-India Goods,
New-England Rum by the large or small quantity, Dye Woods, Iron hollow Ware, English and Nova-Scotia Grindstones,
Cash or any of the above Goods given for Pot and Pearl Ashes, Flax-Seed and Shipping Furs in their season.
Portsmouth, May 18,
A LL persons indebted to Gavon Patter- son, of Greenland , are hereby request- ed to make him immediate payment, as he intends to move from that part soon;—as he is under the necessity of calling upon every person that owes him, he hopes that none will neglect to comply with his request, as all those who should, may depend upon hav- ing their accounts put in suit.
GAVON PATTERSON.
Greenland, April 26, 1787.
TO BE SOLD
By
John Jackson,
At his Shop in Buck-Street, on reasonable terms,
A fresh and general assortment of Drugs and Medicines, of the best quality, Also— the following PATENT MEDICINES, (imported directly from London, and warranted genuine,) viz.
H OOPER's female Pills, An- derson's Scotts ditto, Turling- ton's Balsam of life, British Oil, Bate- man's drops, Dr. Walker's Jesuit's Drops, Stoughton's Elixir, Essence Peppermint, &c.—Likewise,—fresh Raisins, Oatmeal, Wine, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Brimstone, Copperas, Rosin, Rice, Vials by the groce, or less, Pill Boxes, Marble Mortars, Ladies Court-Plaster, &c. &c.
Cash, Pot Ash, Flax Seed (in it's season) and Bees Wax will be taken in payment for any of the above articles.
TO BE SOLD
By Thomas Sheafe,
At his Store, North end, RUSSIA and Ravens Duck, Green and Bohea Tea, India Nankeens, German Steel,
Nova-Scotia Grindstones, also,
A general assortment of
English and West-India G O O D S.
State of New-Hampshire.
W E the subscribers being appointed commissioners by the hon. Joseph Badger, Esq. judge of the probate of wills, &c. for the county of Strafford, to receive and examine the claims of the several cre- ditors to the estate of Mesheeh Drew, late of Madbury,—in the county of Strafford,— husbandman, deceased, represented insolvent, and six months being allowed to the cre- ditors for bringing in their claims and prov- ing their debts, do hereby give public notice that we will attend the business at the house of Silas Drew, innholder in Barrington, on the last Monday of this, and the five follow- ing months, from two to seven of the clock, in the afternoon.
ELIJAH AUSTIN, SAM'L WIGGLESWORTH, } Commissi'rs Madbury, May 12, 1787.
State of New-Hampshire.
W E the subscribers being appointed by the hon. Joseph Badger, Esq. judge of probate, &c. for the county of Strafford, to receive the claims of the creditors to the estate of Ichabod Rawlings, late of Rochester, blacksmith, deceased, represented insolvent, and six months being allowed for that busi- ness, we hereby give notice that we will at- tend the same on the first Monday in June, and the first Monday of the five following months, from three to seven o'clock, P. M. at the house of Simon Torr, innholder in Rochester.
ARON WINGATE, } Commissi'rs. SIMON TORR, } Rochester, May 12, 1787.
A genteel HANGER for sale, Apply to the Printer hereof.