Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1785-09-16 00:00:00

FOWLE'S NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,
A N D GENERAL
T H E ADVERTISER.
F R I D A Y,
S E P T E M B E R 16, 1785.
P O R T S M O U T H: By M E L C H E R A N D O S B O R N E.
P R I N T E D A N D P U B L I S H E D I N P A V E D S T R E E T.
VOL. XXIX.]
"OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE:—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST."
No. 1508
For the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.
IN Mr. BELKNAP's Election Sermon, page 38, there is a quotation from, and reference to a speech delivered before the House of Commons by Mr. GLOVER, the celebrated author of Leonidas, when he appeared as Agent for the West-India merchants, March, 1775, to support their petition against the bill then pending to ruin our fishery. As we do not remember to have seen this speech re-printed in America, we are happy in an opportunity to gratify our readers with the concluding part of it; referring them for the whole to the Parliamentary Register for 1775, page 355, wherein they will see with what force of reason and truth, as well as elegance and order; the destructive tendency of the measures then in contemplation, was demonstrated and foretold to a deluded ministry, and an unfeeling parliament.
"There are left at large in human nature, certain sparks, whose occasional occurrence produces operations, not to be circumscribed or controuled by art or power, and hath caused wonderful vicissitudes. I allude to that violent agitation of the Soul, enthusiasm. Many without doors have treated the existence of this uncontrollable spirit as imaginary. I did not reason with those who either feel no enthusiasm for any thing serious, or retain just so much as may be requisite in the eager pursuit of diversions, pleasures or profit. I would have accompanied others, more speculative, through their several gradations of hope, still disappointed and still reviving, but for one observation which I have generally kept concealed, but will soon reveal to you. But for this observation, I might have concurred with the public belief, that the capital of a province, now declared in rebellion, would have submitted on the landing a few regiments; this failing, that other provinces, from ancient jealousy and disgust, would not have interfered, but rather sought their own advantage out of that town's distress;—this failing, that they would never have proceeded to the length of constituting a certain inauspicious assembly among themselves;—this failing, that the members of that assembly would have disagreed and not framed a single resolution.—This last hope having proved abortive, a new one is popularly adopted, that the first intelligence of enforcing measures, at least the bare commencement of their execution will tame the most refractory spirits. I will here state the grounds of this and all the preceding hopes, afterwards with your indulgence, the ground of my original and continued doubts.
"Our trading nation naturally assumed that the present contentions would be with traders in America. The stock of a trader, (whether his own or in part, and often the greatest part, the property of others confiding in him) is personal, lodged in a magazine, and exposed in seasons of commotion to instantaneous devastation. The circumstance of such property, the considerations of common prudence, by the sense of common justice to those who have given a generous credit rarely make room for that intrepidity which meets force with force. Hence I admit that mere traffickers would have submitted at first, and will now whenever they dare. The reason why they have not is the foundation of my doubts.
"I am speaking to an enlightened assembly, and conversant with their own annals. In those ages, the reverse of commercial, when your ancestors filled the rank of MEN at ARMS, and composed the cavalry of England, of whom did the Infantry consist?—A race unknown to other kingdoms, and in the present opulence of traffick almost extinct in this, the YEOMANRY of England; an order of men, possessing paternal inheritance, cultivated under their own care, enough to preserve independence, and cherish the generous sentiments attendant on that condition, without superfluity for idleness or effeminate indulgence.—Of such cloth North-America consists.—The race is revived there, in greater numbers, and in a greater proportion to the rest of the inhabitants; and in such the power of that continent resides. These keep the traffickers in awe:—These, many hundreds in multitude, with enthusiasm in their hearts, with the bill of rights, and the acts of settlement, silent and obsolete in some pla-
ces, but vociferous and fresh as newly born among them:—These, hot with the blood of their progenitors, the enthusiastic scourges at one time, and the revolutionary expellers of tyranny at another:—These, unpractised in frivolous dissipation and ruinous profusion, standing armed on the spot, delivered down from their fathers, a property not moveable, nor exposed to total destruction, therefore maintainable, and exciting all the spirit and vigour of defence:—These, under such circumstances of number, animation and manners, their Lawyers and Clergy blowing the trumpet, we are to encounter, with an handful of men, sent three thousand of miles over the ocean, to seek such adversaries on their own paternal ground.—But these, says the general voice of Great-Britain, will not fight.
"Sir, I foresee these differences with America will be composed, and how.—There silence becomes me best.—It will be so late that Great-Britain must receive a wound which no time can heal. A philosophical sense of dignity must step in under the shape of consolation."
L O N D O N,
—To the Printer of the St. James's Chronicle.— S I R,
AMONG the wonders of the present Era, of dancing dogs, reading pigs, flying men, &c. give me leave to point out the sagacity of a magpie, which was equal, if not superior to prince Maurice's rational parrot, as according to Sir William Temple's account, the parrot spoke Portuguese, and the prince was obliged to depend on the veracity of the translator. Now, Mr. Baldwin, some years since being at an Inn in Oxford, I was awakened very early by the chattering of a magpie; and finding that I had no chance of another nap, I got up, with an intention to enjoy a fine May morning's walk before breakfast, but I found the gates as strongly barricadoed against me, as the wicker work cage was against mag. In this disagreeable situation, unwilling to go again to bed, and unable to sleep if I had, I felt myself so out of humour, that I put my hand to the cage, and took mag by the tail, rather roughly, upon which he darted from me, leaving two of his feathers between my finger and my thumb, and instantly called out—Tapster—Tapster—quick—quick—quick.—I repeated the hint the bird gave me, and Jack soon produced the key of the wicket.—I took my walk, having first invited mag to breakfast with me; but whether it proceeded from resentment, or Jack the Tapster's bad education, I cannot say, but I had no sooner given the invitation, than mag replied, Go, and be d—d! Your's, W.
From the INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE. Choice SENTENCES and rare OBSERVATIONS of the late Father BALANCER.
C H A P. I.
GOLD is durable, new wine grows better by keeping, but small beer and paper money can spoil. Lovers and treasurers make many fine promises, but with regard to performance, some of them fall vastly short.
Among a variety of antipathies subsisting among men, I have observed these—a thief hates a justice, a tory hates a committee man, and a niggard cannot endure a collector of taxes.
Some men part with their money freely and cheerfully at taverns, horse-races, and other places of diversion; but to pay their taxes, O how painful is it!—What a groaning do we hear! They esteem the money wholly lost.
As the boy, by lifting the calf every day, lifted him when he was grown to an ox, so an American lad, by accustoming him to drink the thirteen toasts, may learn, at length to drink the whole three and twenty, when the ten new States shall become inhabited and organized.
It would be truly grievous to a man to be plundered, and ruined by Algerine pirates, or by Indian savages; but how much more grievous would it be, if the United States should refuse to pay their just debts, and
thereby bring poverty and ruin upon their benefactors, their brethren, bone of their bone, and flesh of their flesh!
When the old cock crows the young ones learn; so when the fathers of a country pay no suitable regard to their public promises, and are easy and indifferent whether they pay their debts or not, the vulgar observe it, and soon learn to copy after them; thinking it no disgrace to follow the fashion.
Some politicians seem to think it safer for the community to set aside the divine commandments, so far as they respect the payment of the continental debts, than it is to trust Congress with the means of paying them; because they think Congress may perchance abuse their power, and infringe upon our constitutional liberties; which liberties they mean to keep sacred, without the shadow of danger, say what you please about injustice, oppression, or any thing else.—Great is Diana of the Ephesians!
It was a base ungrateful action of a waggoner, who being on a journey caught in a terrible cold storm, and almost ready to perish, took shelter under the roof of a poor peasant, while he warmed and refreshed himself, and then borrowed the good man's surtout to wear home, promising solemnly, and repeatedly, to return it as soon as possible: But when he had got safe home, finding the coat very serviceable and convenient, cast a covetous eye upon it; and knowing the poor man was unable to contend with him in law, he concluded to keep it for his own use. Thus he left his kind benefactor to suffer all the rigour's of winter without a coat, or to get one where he could find it. Happy should we be if this was the only ungrateful wretch in the world!
The end of the 1st Chapter.
Hints to RURAL DIVINES.
By a LADY.
THE most useful subjects for common congregations are the moral and religious duties; not difficult disquisitions, nor the elucidation of obscurities; which come not in the sphere of mechanics, or labourers. Teach them all the advantages of real honesty, distinguished from the quirks of over-reaching cunning. Teach charity in its most extensive sense; as also in the act of alms, where the means afford it. Preach against drunkenness, a vice, that besets the lowest class in every place. Against every vice pour out, in perspicuous language, the dangerous effects to society, and to every individual. Expatriate on the commandments, and fail not to exhibit the beauty, delight, and superlative advantage of every virtue, opposed to the practice of the vice described. Lessons for those in office may occasionally be given, teaching justice attempted by lenity, and power directed with impartiality, and without the pride of superiority.
Fortitude and patience, under all pains, sickness, and distresses, may be frequently taught, and every precept receive its divine sanction, from the unerring rules plainly set forth in the gospels, by the parables and by the sermon on the mount; and the affecting historical narrations in the acts of the Apostles, and the ever useful instructions in the epistles, afford ample subjects to inspire piety, to touch the heart, and mend the morals and manners of mankind, without entering on the explanation of doubts, which are better not to be raised, how well soever they may be answered, since the generality of understanding go on with more safety in the plain road of an unquestionable faith, than when they hazard their security in a labyrinth of objections and replies. Lastly—the inestimable benefits of Christianity should be always introduced with that glow which genuine Christianity cannot fail to inspire in its sincerest votaries; and those benefits should be always enforced with energy, free from enthusiasm.
Blanks of various sorts may be had at this office, on the shortest notice.

C A D I Z, May 27.
Several vessels are arming on the King's account to sail for the different American colonies, to which they are to carry warlike ammunition. Le Ruse, a ship of 60 guns, is fitting out, to be commanded by D. Cajetan de Langara, which after having made trial of a machine for freshening sea water, and of some portable kitchens, after the English fashion, of a new invention, will sail, it is said, to Peru, to be stationed there for some time.
B E R L I N, May 31.
There have been fabricated last year in the manufactures of this city, 400,000 ells of gauze and 1,200,250 ells of silks.
At the end of the year 1783, the New Marche, according to an accurate computation, contained a population of 246,689 souls exclusive of the military. The woolen manufacture employed 1,964 looms, which gave employment to 8538 workmen, and produced that year merchandise to the value of 717,453 rix-dollars. It was computed that in the towns there were 529 weavers looms, and in the villages 476; 194 of which were for woollens, and four only for cottons.
L O N D O N, July 2.
Extract of a Letter from Paris, June 27.
"One of M. de Rosier's Sisters went lately to Court, accompanied by a member of the Museum, in order to solicit some marks of protection for the family of the deceased; her request has been favourably heard. The Comptroller-General has promised to pay the expenses incurred at Boulogn. The pension of 2000 livres, which he enjoyed, is divided, between his mother and two sisters. Several persons have formed a plan for opening a subscription, in order to erect a monument to the memory of the first victim of aerial navigation, who had the honor of being the first aeronaut. Monsieur, the King's brother, has promised to continue his protection to the Museum."
We hear that the ariel travellers Mrs. Sage and Mr. Biggin, alighted in perfect safety on Wednesday afternoon, a few minutes after three o'clock, in Harrow Common field, after a very agreeable journey; they were received by the young gentlemen and neighbours with the utmost politeness, and friendly attention. They returned afterwards to town. It was the intention of Mr. Biggin, with the true spirit of enterprize, to have proceeded farther, after having parted with his companion, but he was prevented by the people about him.
The Emperor's journey into Italy, is a favourable symptom of approaching peace. It is almost a certainty that the cabinet of Versailles have prevailed on the Dutch to make the sacrifices demanded, rather than hazard a war, which would distract their republic, and destroy their chief dependence—TRADE.
Letters from Bourdeaux state that the French possessions in the West-Indies maintain 550,000 slaves, who consume 343 tons of salt beef, 28,600 of salt cod, and 30,000 of meal, making in all 80,943 tons, which would more than lade 100 ships of 200 tons each, the navigation of which, by the arrest of August 30, 1784, is taken from the mother country. The same letters give the following statement of what the Americans can send to the same parts:
   livres. livres.     173,750 barrels of beef, at 70 cost 12,512,500   572,000,000 lbs of cod, at 36 per ct. 20,592,000   240,000 barrels flour, at 60 per ct. 14,400,000   Total 47,504,500  
Amounting to 1,312,254l. 1s. 8d. sterling.
Such, says the writer, is the annual pecuniary loss to Old France by this famous arrest, besides the diminution of the shipping, and consequently cutting off one of the principal nurseries for seamen.
If the above statement be just, the merchants and Parliament of France have no small reason to complain. Time can only shew whether the direct trade between Old France and America will compensate for this sacrifice; but at first view it appears that it will not; on the contrary, most of the trade of the French islands will center in North America, from whence their commodities will be transported to all parts of Europe, Great Britain excepted, and little more brought to France than will serve home consumption, for which the Americans may demand their own price, and which they will insist upon being paid in cash, while with the ready money and the surplus of their goods they repair to other countries, where they can sell with equal and buy to greater advantage. Such are the fruits the French are likely to reap from their so officious interference to secure the independence of America, and such the boasted political skill of the Cabinet of Versailles!!!
The following writing was placed below the head of the Grand Vizir, who deservedly incurred his punishment for betraying the interest of the State and Religion, by managing affairs contrary to the Sovereign will of the Great Master of the Universe; he acted like a tyrant, having from his sordid avarice been guilty of frequent and public oppressions of the people of God."
The French, in their encroachments on the coast of Africa, have had a dispute and an engagement with the natives, of which the intelligence is brought to Brest by the Emerald frigate.
Among the most recent articles of domestick report is that of the commercial negotiation between Great Britain and America; which has received no inconsiderable demur from the refusal of our Court to admit the American ships into the ports of the British settlements in the East-Indies, under any other conditions than those by which other nations are regulated. These circumstances as far as they have come to our knowledge are briefly as follows: Soon after the American Ambassador, Mr. Adams, had been received at St. James's, and delivered his credentials, a time for business was appointed at Lord Caermarthen's office. In the first com-
mencement, Mr. Avery unexpectedly brought forward the East-India trade, and made a sort of demand on the part of the American States, that the American ships should be permitted to trade in the British Oriental ports: The Secretary demurred giving an answer till he had consulted with the rest of his Majesty's confidential servants. A meeting of the Cabinet was accordingly summoned, when it was unanimously agreed, that to admit any power whatever to a participation of the India rights, would be prejudicial to the interest of Great-Britain, and the chartered rights of the British East-India Company in particular. In this state the matter rests.
From an account lately taken at the Admiralty and Naval Offices, it appears that the Naval half-pay list is supported at the annual charge of 227,000l. sterling to the nation. This is occasioned by the very unusual manner in which the lists of Admirals, Captains, Masters, Surgeons, Lieutenants, and Marine officers were swelled during the late war, from the great number of ships in commission. The Admirals, Post-Captains, Masters, Commanders, and Lieutenants, have all half-pay; the Surgeons and Masters only according to seniority and service. In the above account, however, the pensions to the sick and wounded, yellow Admirals, superannuated, and officers widows and children, who died in actual service, are included; the chest of Chatham pensioners, and those of Greenwich Hospital, which are distinctly regulated and charged, being only excepted.
Extract of a letter from Barcelona, June 1.
"On the 14th of last month a fine ship from Brest bound to this port, was captured by an Algerine xebec, after a very desperate and bloody engagement of near two hours, in which the Algerines had upwards of sixty men killed, besides a great number wounded; the Captain of the Ship escaped in a small boat with six of the people, and got safe on shore; the remainder of the crew, together with eight passengers, were all carried to Algiers, and sent up the country into slavery."
A man named Bowers, a lamp-lighter, who lives in Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell, has since Sunday made three attempts to hang himself, and when last cut down was near expiring. He on Tuesday cut his throat, but the razor being snatched out of his hand by a woman who accidentally came into the room, the wind-pipe received no injury. Soon after this attempt, he endeavoured to put an end to his life by suffocating himself in a necessary, but being discovered by a child, she seized him by the hair, and kept his head above the soil, till people came to his assistance. Surely it is not right that a man in so dangerous a state of mind should be at large.
The following is literally part of a Will now lying in the Office of the Three per Cent Consols.
"I give my sister A. B. five guineas, but not to be paid her during her natural life—but into her own hands, immediately after she is dead, in order that she may have a christian burial."
July 8. An elegant house is preparing in Grosvenor Square for the reception of his Excellency John Adams, Ambassador from America.
The allowance of the United States to their Ambassador, is ten thousand pounds per annum.
K I N G S T O N, (Jamaica) July 28.
Last Sabbath day Sammy San-Sity delivered a scriptural harangue to a few select friends, in which he treated of the wickedness of Masonry and the licentiousness of the Press; but being hard pushed for apt and striking texts, he with a tolerant spirit suddenly closed the edifying discourse, by strongly recommending to his boly associates "to bind Printers in chains and their Devils in links of iron."
N E W - Y O R K, September 1.
Compendium of the Intelligence received on Monday evening last, by the Mercury, in eight weeks from London.
"That the profits of a State Lottery are to be appropriated for the use of the American Loyalists. That some of Mr. Pitt's late tax bills have made him very unpopular—that Mr. Pitt's India Bill has given such disgust to the Europeans there [that they brand it with the odious appellation of an inquisition, by which they are to be tried without a jury] and are settling their affairs to return to England—that the affairs on the continent bear a pacific aspect; and that the Dutch will secure the peace by certain cessions, and the payment of a few millions—That the Irish business in the House of Peers goes on slowly, owing to its being clogged with hearing council for the several petitions daily pouring in against it.—That Mrs. and Miss Adams, our Ambassador's wife and daughter, are as accomplished ladies as any at the British Court.—That Prince William Henry, son of George III, past the Board to qualify him as a Lieutenant in his Majesty's navy.—That Mr. Pitt was guarded in going into the House of Commons.—That there is an uncommon quantity of specie in England, most of the guineas lavished here during the late war, having found their way back.—That the sufferings of the loyalists have been great but that their prospects now brighten.—That Mr. West is finishing a picture of the late treaty, in which he introduces the portraits of Messrs. Adams, Jay, Franklin, and Laurens; and also Mr. Oswald."
America has experienced a peculiar advantage over all other countries.—Greece, Rome, and Britain, approached by degrees to magnificence and independence; their aborigines were barbarous, but the first settlers in America were masters of arts and sciences. If we may judge of the body of the people, from those who reside among us, they must possess fertile invention, exclusive genius, and strong judgment. Mr. Adams, their Ambassador, has been successful in every negotiation he has undertaken; the loan he obtained in Holland has astonished the most refined politicians and subtle financiers in Europe. In our schools universities and inns of court, are many American youths of the first rate genius. In the polite arts they are not behind the Europeans. West, Copley, Stewart, and Browne,
are from America. The works of the two latter artists are well known, their performance exhibited at Somerset House, does them infinite credit.
Thursday last His Most Christian Majesty's Packet Le Courier de L'Orient, Captain Coetnemprem, arrived here in 52 days from L'Orient, in whom came passenger Monsieur Otho, charge des affaires from the Court of Versailles to the United States. This gentleman succeeds Monsieur Marbois, who we hear, is constituted intendant of Hispaniola—an appointment both honorable and lucrative.
JUST IMPORTED
FROM LONDON, IN THE SHIP HERO,
AND TO BE SOLD BY
Thomas Sheafe,
AT HIS STORE, NORTH END, ADJOINING
THE TOWN WHARF,
A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF
European Goods,
—VIZ.—
   LONDON Porter, & Gloucester Cheese, 4d. 6d. 10d. 20d. deck, pump, clapper, shoe and sheathing Nails, 3/3 and apron weath Cotten Check, 7/ and yard wide Spittle-field Handkerchiefs, Pen and Cattoc Knives, Case Knives and Forks, Double danett and ward Chest Locks, Common and polish'd Cupboard ditto, Stock ditto, Camblets, Crapes, and Poplins, Denmark Lustres, Tammys, Durants, Prunels, Sattinets and Calamancoes, China Ribbons & Taste, No. 10 Wax Threads, Oznaburgs and Bed-Ticks, Thread & worsted plain and knit Stockings, 3/ and yard wide Linen Handkerchiefs, Silk Lunge, Romals, and Pullicate ditto, Spotted Bandandoes, Looking Glasses, Red, green, white & yellow Drapery and Colchester Baizes, Hunter's Cloths, Yorkshire Plains, Devonshire Kerseys, Beaver Coating, Bearskin,—LINNENS,    SCARLET and other colour'd low priz'd midling and superfine Broad Cloths, Shalloons, Buttons, Twist, Buckram, and Sewing Silks, Gown Silks, Sattin, Modes and Sarfnett, H, HL, and table Hinges with Screws, Goose, Duck and Pid-geon Shot, Deep Sea, Cod, Mackarel, Log and Chalk Lines, London Pewter, Half hour and half minute Glasses, Loaf Sugar, Frying Pans, Black, & white Thread Lace and Edging, Silk Gloves and Mitts, Colour'd Lamb ditto, Lawn, Gauze and Cambrick, Corded superfine Dimoty Ribb'd Delure, Thickfets, Fustians, Cotton Velvett, Hearth & Floor Brushes, Long and short handle Tar Brushes, Scrubbing ditto, Cod & Mackerel Hooks, Braft & Paper Ink-Pots, English Pumps, Queen's Ware by the Crate,   
—A L S O,—
A great variety of other ARTICLES, together with a general Assortment of
West India Goods.
TO BE LETT by said SHEAFE, a convenient STORE, next door to Mr. RICHARD HART's Store, with a Shop in the front, and a Counting Room back of the same.
Portsmouth September 8, 1785.
Wanted a BOY, of about 11 or 12 Years of Age, to live in a Gentleman's House till he is 14 or 15 Years of Age.—Enquire of the Printers.
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the Estate of PHILLIP READ, late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to JOSEPH LOW, Portsmouth aforesaid, Administrator on said Estate, in order for a speedy Settlement.
Portsmouth, September 15, 1785.
TO BE SOLD, (on reasonable Terms)
A HOUSE and LAND, Pleasantly situated near the Mansion-House of Mr. Joseph Moulton, in this Town; said House contains four Rooms on a Floor, besides a Shop, &c.—For further Particulars enquire of
SAMUEL SHEREVE.
Portsmouth, September 15, 1785.
ALL Persons having Accounts
open with JOSEPH SIMES, late of Portsmouth, Painter, deceased, are once more earnestly desired to call and settle the same immediately. It is now become absolutely necessary to have the estate settled without loss of time; therefore the Administrators will be under the necessity of putting the accounts of all those who neglect to settle with them, into the hands of an Attorney, without respect to persons.
Portsmouth, September 13, 1785.

Yesterday being the day of all days appointed to bless the longing eyes of the inhabitants of Dublin with the sight of the most beautiful, and most brilliant of all possible balloons!—millions unnumbered, men, women, children, infants of every age, gentle and simple, nobility and mobility, townsmen and gownsmen, wool-scribblers and paper scribblers, captains of ships and captains of men, peace officers, war officers, custom-house officers, counsellors, and privy counsellors, gentlemen's gentlemen, and gentlemen at large, ladies of easy virtue, lords of no virtue, barbers and surgeons (for they are now divided) volunteers, lads of the brush, and of the comb, sheriffs, tarrers, featherers, and attorneys, all joined in procession to see the wonderful air balloon at Ranelagh.
How did they go? They went in coaches, they went on foot, they went on horseback, they went in gigs, they went in noddies, in litters, in churns, in dancing masters' disobligeants , in sedan chairs, in low-back cars, in wheel-barrow, in bowl-dishes: they walked, they ran, they waded, they flew, they swam, they pushed on, they were pushed on.—Hackney-coaches, from No. 317, down to No. 1, inclusive. No, not a cyclops was left in Dublin; trade stagnated, manufacturers starved, lying-in women crying for assistance; payment was stopped at the bank and at publick offices, bankers and all, merchants and all, Doctors and all, all were gone to see the wonderful air balloon at Ranelagh!
But ah! what pen, what goose-wing artillery could do justice to the feelings of those innobled females, who honoured this unfortunate exhibition with their presence. The societies of Fair Philosophers (for Philosophy is now in fashion) have lost their favourite topic. "Have you seen the balloon at the Rotunda?—Shan't we see the balloon go up at Ranelagh?—I shall be afraid to look at his balloon when he's mounting," was all the chit-chat of ten days past. "Alas! dumb as those mouths where silence never reigned before. The children cried, for Crofbie's balloon could not ascend—the misses fainted, for Crofbie's balloon could not ascend. Some looked sullen—some looked sulky—some laughed, some sighed—all were affected—438 titled ladies fainted.—Oh! Rutland, speedily add an increase to the nobility, nor let the peerage of Ireland in the next generation suffer, because Crofbie's balloon did not ascend—Crack go the carriages—splash the horsemen—and coach meets coach and jostles in the dirt. Nine men transfixed by poles at the first news of the misfortune—1632 drowned in the mud and over-whelmed by wheels running over—738 missing, dead, or dead drunk, all, thank God, of the populace.
S A L E M, September 13.
On Saturday last, the ship Atlantic commanded by Capt. Trefethen, but having on board, as freighter and supercargo, Capt. Jonathan Ingersoll, of this town, arrived here from New-York. On their passage to that place from Grenada, on the 23d ult. they met with a boat, having on board Capt. Duncanson, his mate, boatswain, and three black boys, who were turned adrift from the Schooner Amity , as related in the declaration of Capt. Duncanson, inserted in our last week's paper. He informed, that the next day after leaving the ship Three Cranes , Capt. Brown, by whom he, his mate, &c. were first taken up, they spoke with a brig from Virginia, bound to London, who informed them that they were then 60 leagues from the Cape of Virginia, which being their object, though in a hazardous situation, they declined going on board the brig. At 4, P. M. the same day, the wind blowing hard, the Atlantic hove in sight, when the situation was so alarming as induced them gladly to embrace this opportunity of saving themselves. They accordingly made for the ship, were taken on board, their boat was hoisted in, and they arrived at New-York as above.
While Capt. Ingersoll was at New-York, a pilot-boat arrived, which fell in with, near Sandy-Hook, a Schooner answering the description given of the Amity , (piratically taken possession of by Richard Squire and others) on which an armed vessel, manned with a number of volunteers, accompanied by Capt. Duncanson, his mate and boatswain, failed in quest of her. Though this exertion for recovering the vessel, and capturing the villains, proved unsuccessful, we have the pleasure of informing the publick, that the said Schooner Amity is now at anchor in our harbour, and that the piratical crew are safely lodged in the publick jail of this town, of which event we have collected the following particulars, viz.
Capt. Ingersoll, on his passage from New-York, was three days successively in sight of the Amity , which, from the particulars description he had received of her, he well knew; but circumstances did not admit of her being captured. Just before he got in, he spoke with a fisherman in the Bay, who informed that he had been along side the Schooner, and sold the people some fish, for which they paid the money; but that he knew not who they were.—Capt. Ingersoll, on the day of the day of his arrival, saw the Amity near Cape-Ann, and concluded, from her appearance, that the crew intended to make a harbour. Immediately on his landing, and giving the above intelligence, a fast-sailing brig, belonging to E. H. Derby, Esq. was fitted and armed, in order to go in quest of her, and at 3 o'clock, P. M. she was under sail, with 50 or 60 respectable volunteers on board. Very soon after quitting the harbour, they saw the Schooner standing in; and that their design might not be suspected, inclined to the eastward, till, finding themselves several leagues without her, they tacked, and came in after her. They discovered her at anchor a mile or two from Marblehead harbour; and, on coming up with her, several gentlemen from the brig boarded her, when they found only three white men and a negro; Squire, Mathews, Stewart the mulatto, and a negro, having gone on shore at Marblehead. The Schooner was brought into this harbour, and the men
taken in her committed to prison. Squire, and those ashore with him, were found at a tavern, taken before a magistrate, examined and brought over the next morning, and the whole properly secured in jail.
On board the Schooner, one man, said to be named Wife, or Wiseman, was found in irons. It is said he was taken on board at the Vineyard, as a passenger for Newbury-Port, whither the pirates told him they were bound; but having displeased them, they thought proper to confine him. The remainder consisted of the same persons who were on board when Capt. Duncanson was turned adrift. They had two pieces of cannon, and were armed, besides, with pistols, cutlasses, &c.
The following writing was found on board the above Schooner, and there is scarcely a doubt of the several names and marks subscribed being the real signatures of the villains now imprisoned for piracy.
August the 21=1785
This Is to Certify that the Schooner Sweet belonging to the Seamen and officers of the Said Schooner have Taken In hand to Pursue on a Cruce In Defence of Our Selvs and Against all Other Nation and Nations or Power Powers as We on Oath Volentaerley do a Grea to Stick and obay our Officers Com In any thing that he or we shall Grea to Gather In any Way or Ways to Chais or Give Chais to any Vessel or Vessels What So Ever, and Like Wise that no man Shall Get Drunk Or Be Rangellsum In any Ocations What So Ever—And Who Ever boards any vessel or vessl shall do ther In Dever to Secure all Property that they shall get for our one Use and that they Who Ever Is found Keeping any Goods Clothing Cash or Jewels of any Kind shall forfeit there share of All such Goods or Goodse that Shall Be Capvyvated By us In the Said Schooner—And he or any of us or us Shall Dis Close or Give any Information or Devolvs any agreements that we Shall Be on Othe upon either Wile We Be Long to the said Schooner or at Our Departure shall Be Put to Deth or any Punishment that the Rest Shall think they Justly Deserv as We this 21 Day of August In the Year of our lord 1785 Do take a Voluntary oaths to the Said Articles as our hands Below mentions as Seald Oppysit to our Respective Names
   Names— Stations (With a Seal affixed to each Name.)     Rich'd Squire Captain.   John Mathews Lieutenant.   Alex Evens his   John Rogers x mark   George Stewart his   x mark  
N. B. The person who signed John Rogers, is supposed to be the same whom Capt. Duncanson mentioned by the name of John Boadman.
Capt. Henry Williams, on Saturday last, arrived here from St. Martin's. The day before, a gale of wind obliged him to put into Nantucket, when a melancholy accident happened to George Gardner, Esq. of that island. He and two merchants, having a small vessel lying at the wharf, by moving her round a brig, her pendant halyard got foul of the brig's yard, which broke the stump of the small vessel, and resulting on the head of Mr. Gardner, put a period to his life before the close of the day.
P O R T S M O U T H, September 16.
Since our last, arrived here, from Glasgow, the brig — , Capt. Ritchie, having on board upwards of 50 families, husbandmen and mechanics, destined, as we are informed for the state of Vermont; where, under the wise administration of Governor Chittendon, added to the enterprizing spirit of those famous republicans, these emigrants, no doubt, will meet with every encouragement. It must make every generous mind expand at the thought, that America is now become the asylum for the oppressed and indigent of every nation.
On Monday last, as several French sailors, with the Second Captain of the French Packet, building in this river, were regaling themselves with, and sporting upon the territories of Neptune, in going down the river, the wind blowing fresh, and a considerable sea running, they undertook to jibe, all standing, when their boat immediately fill'd and sunk, making a quick discharge of her hands; who had to stem the waves "with hearts of controversy," and keep themselves upon the surface of the water until they were taken up by a boat which providentially happened to be near. The only person that received any damage (saving a genteel ducking) was the Second Captain, who, we are informed, received a blow upon the head when the boat fill'd. Several boats from the adjacent wharves pushed off to their assistance, but were prevented from being farther concerned in this humane undertaking, by the boat that took them up being in the river.
We hear that the inhabitants of many towns, in Grafton and Cheshire counties have sent delegates to a convention, held at Hanover, on the 30th of last month, to consider on proper instructions to give their Representatives at the next sessions of the Assembly at Concord, to obtain a redress of grievances; and especially that government may adopt some measures to prevent their political existence, as a people, from being destroyed, by the multiplicity of civil actions, which have so increased that the distress is become almost general; and none but the gentlemen of the faculty are benefited thereby. The scarcity of money is so great amongst them that they see no prospect of redress, unless government will make their notes a tender for payment of debts, or cause the oppressing creditor to cease his oppression.—They wish to see his Excellency the President's recommendation carried into execution, by opening roads, and encouraging an internal trade, to enable them to pay their debts and taxes. We have not yet heard the result of this convention. And while one part of the state have their eyes opened, and see a necessity of petitioning the Assembly for relief, the other part seem in
a state of insensibility, and supinely sinking under the same difficulties, without having a disposition to help themselves; but tamely suffer every species of oppression to prevail, without applying to their political fathers to prevent them. Let them call to mind, that they are constitutionally entitled to assemble in a peaceable manner, and to consult upon their common good, give instructions to their Representatives, and to request of the legislative body redress of their grievances.
A glorious privilege!— DIED] A son of Major William Gardner's, aged 10 years.
M A R I N E L I S T. PORT of PISCATAQUA, September 16, ENTERED, none.
CLEARED, Brig Irish Gimblet, Welch, for West-Indies. Brig Kitty, Thwing, Ditto. Ship, Mary Ann, Seward, N. H.
A FARE will be held at GREENLAND on the first Tuesday and Wednesday in October.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General Court by Thomas Odiorne and others, a committee in behalf of the new parish (so called) in Exeter, in said State, setting forth, that Nicholas Gilman, jun. formerly of said Exeter, (now deceased) did, by his last will and testament, dated January 28, 1745, give and bequeath a certain dwelling-house and tract of land in Exeter aforesaid, in the manner following, viz.
I give and bequeath unto my brother Peter Gilman, Esq. and Mr. Daniel Thing and Samuel Gilman, Esq. all of Exeter aforesaid, my dwelling-House, barn, orchard, and twenty-two acres of land on which they stand, and adjoining to them, be the same more or less, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging or in any ways appertaining, which land is bounded as followeth, viz. beginning at the high way by my brother Peter Gilman's land, near the bridge, commonly called the great bridge in Exeter aforesaid, and from thence running southerly and southwesterly by said Peter Gilman's land, until it comes to land heretofore belonging to Jonathan Folsom of said Exeter deceased, and from thence to run by the land that was said Folsom's until it comes to the southerly corner thereof, and from thence to run northwesterly bounding by the land which was said Folsom's, until it comes to the southerly corner of Jonathan Gilman, jun's land, and from thence to run southwesterly bounding by the land belonging to the heirs of Nathaniel Gilman, Esq. of Exeter aforesaid deceased, and by Samuel Gilman, Esq's land until it comes to the aforesaid Peter Gilman's land, and from thence to run southwesterly on a straight line by the said Peter Gilman's land, and by land I purchased of said Peter Gilman until it comes to the great fresh river, and from thence to run down said river bounding on every part thereof until it comes to the highway by the bridge aforesaid, and from thence to run westerly by said highway to the bounds first mentioned; to be improved by the said Peter Gilman, Daniel Thing and Samuel Gilman, for and towards the support of a minister or ministers, which shall or may hereafter be settled in the ministry in the church of Christ, which usually meet or assemble together for the public worship of God in the new meeting-house lately erected in said Exeter, on the northerly side of the highway which leads from Exeter old meeting-house to Kings-town and between Mr. Josiah Gilman's dwelling-house and the dwelling-house of Mr. John Dean, in said Exeter; or for any other pious use—according to their direction, or to the direction of any two of them,—as long as they, or any two of them shall live, and be capable and agree to improve the said premises for the uses aforesaid, and in case of refusal, incapacity or decease of any two of them, my will is, that the said premises shall be improved for the uses aforesaid by the deacons of said church, when there are any such, and if said church shall at any time be without deacons, or in case of said deacons refusal, or incapacity to improve said premises, my will is, that said premises shall be improved by such person as said church shall make choice of from time to time, to improve the same: And my will is, that the yearly rent or income of the said premises shall be applied to the uses aforesaid, and no other forever hereafter.
They also further shew, that the said premises have to this time been used and improved as aforesaid for a parsonage; that two of said persons, to whom the devise was made in trust for the use aforesaid, are deceased; that it is doubtful whether any other persons can legally hold and improve said premises for the use aforesaid agreeably to the pious intention of the donor: That the inhabitants belonging to the said new parish taking the premises into consideration, did at their meeting on the 29th of March last pass a vote to prefer a petition to the General Court, that the above said land and building might be confirmed to the said new parish, and appointed them a committee to make application for that purpose: Wherefore they pray that an act may be passed for confirming the land and building aforesaid to the said new parish, that the pious intention of the donor might not be frustrated.
Upon which petition the General Court ordered, that the petitioners be heard thereon before them on the first Friday of their next session, and that in the mean time, the petitioners cause that the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon, be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette , that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, Dep. Sec'y, Exeter, August 17, 1785.

*****  On a DETRACTOR.  MISTAKEN wretch, industrious to defame With lies thy neighbour, and asperse his name! Unmov'd I suffer thy reviling tongue, Then least injurious, when it most would wrong; Whose praise or blame by contraries are took, Like crabs whose motion contradicts their look, In harmless slander may'st thou persevere, But, on thy life, malicious praise forbear; Lest bent on vengeance, for thy wrongs on me, I next proceed to say the truth of thee.  W. GR—ME, Tryfull.
The MICROSCOSM, translated from Claudian .
By the same.  AS Jove beheld, express'd in glass, appear The wond'rous system of the starry sphere; With words of laughter, from his throne on high, He thus accosts his brethren of the sky: Behold these mortals, beings of an hour, Burlesque the labours of Almighty Pow'r; The laws of heav'n, the secrets of the pole, This prying thief with artful search has stole. A secret soul informs the starry fires, The whole machine an active pow'r inspires; A circling sun his annual course pursues, A little moon her monthly form renews; Audacious man, exulting in his pride, Now wields a world his own, and his own stars does guide! What wonder then Salmoneus should presume To mimic thunder, and the God assume: We now behold a new creation plann'd, And worlds arising from a mortal hand.  *****
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General Court, by General John Stark, setting forth, that he purchased sundry lots of land lying in this state, of persons who served in the late war with Great-Britain and France, which tracts were granted by the late Governor Benning Wentworth, to those persons pursuant to a proclamation of the King of Great-Britain as a reward for the bravery of those officers in his service during the said war, who at the conclusion thereof were disbanded:—That the lands where those grants took place, are now claimed by gentlemen, called the Masonian Proprietors, who have asserted their claims in such a manner, that he cannot dispose of said lands, nor persuade people to settle them, lest they in future, should not hold them, notwithstanding their grants are considerably above sixty miles from the sea, which is the utmost extent of the Masonian Grant: That the expence and hazard of a law trial with men of their opulence is such a serious matter, that he in this state of life cannot think of entering into, and without the aid of the General Court, must sit down under the loss, wholly occasioned by a set of men who have made a great stride to monopolize great part of this state for a very trifling consideration:—That he would not thus trouble the General Court with an history of this kind, did he not think the state might reap great profit by attending to this matter, and by running out and ascertaining the boundaries of that patent, many thousand acres will be found to belong to no bona fide purchasers, and is really and justly state property, and if properly applied, would redeem a very important sum of our public securities, and do no person any real injury; for it is a matter of great notoriety, that the Masonian Proprietors (so called) in marking out their grant did it ex parte, and have greatly exceeded its just extent. Therefore he, in behalf of himself and the good people of the state, recommends to the General Court, that they take such effectual measures as will ascertain the true boundaries of Mason's patent, which may be done by measuring sixty miles from the mouth of Naum Keeg river westward, and sixty miles from the mouth of Piscataqua river northward, and then mark such a line from the two extremes as the grant dictates, as this grant is so precisely bounded there cannot be the least perplexity in marking out its just extent. That an examination into this matter by persons who have the good of the state so much at heart as to induce them to do it with faithfulness, will certainly be attended with many real benefits, and be injurious to no person, if caution is used with respect to bona fide purchasers, and if any claimers appear under any other description, it cannot be thought, they merit favour in distinction to the many poor inhabitants of this state, who have poverty to struggle with, not only to provide for themselves daily bread, but in supporting government.
Upon which petition, the General Court voted, that the hearing on the aforesaid petition, which was to have been before them on the second Thursday of the present session, be heard on the second Wednesday of the next session; and that in the mean time the Secretary be directed to publish the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon six weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest. JOSEPH PEARSON, Dep. Sec'yry. Portsmouth, June 24, 1785.
ALL Persons having any Demands against the Estate of EPHRAIM FOLSOM, late of Durham, deceased, are desired to exhibit the same to EPHRAIM PICKERING, Esq. of Newington, Attorney to DOROTHY FOLSOM, Executrix of the last Will of the deceased; and all Persons Indebted to said Estate, are requested to make speedy Payment to said Attorney.
August 8, 1785.
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State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in EFFINGHAM, who have not paid their State and War taxes for the year 1782, and 1783, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Weare Drake, inholder in said town, on Tuesday the 4th day of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay said taxes and incidental charges, unless prevented before by previous payment: and if said lands are not all sold on said day, the sale to continue from day to day until the whole is sold. I shall set the quantity as they are commonly called, and sell according to unequal quality, or if so much remains unsold.
   Div. No. Qty. s. d. s. d.     Abner Fogg, jr. 2 7 200 3 0   Abner Fogg, \frac{1}{2} paid 2 6 150 2 3   Benjamin Palmer, 1 88 56 12 10   Joshua Wingate, 3d, 2 3 200 9 0   Nathaniel Drake, 1 29 56 2 5 2 11   Ditto, 2 32 200 2 5 2 11   Levi Dearborn, 2 46 200 2 5 2 11   Abner Fogg, jr. 2 7 200 3 0 4 0   Abner Fogg \frac{1}{2} paid 2 5 150 3 0 4 0   Nathaniel Gookins, 2 35 200 9 2 12 2   David Knowls, jr. 1 31 56 2 5 2 11   Ditto, 2 47 200 4 7 6 1   David Knowls, 1 64 56 2 5 2 11   Ebenezer Lovering, 1 17 56 1 4 2 2   Moses Leavitt, 2 48 200 2 5 2 11   Simon Leavitt, 1 45 56 1 4 1 2   Ditto, 2 40 200 9 2 12 2   Simon Marston 1 15 56 0 8 0 8   James Marston, 1 48 56 0 8 0 8   David Marston, jr. 2 36 200 6 8 9 2   Thomas Parsons, jr. 1 24 56 0 8 0 8   Jedediah Prescott, \frac{1}{2} 2 68 50 2 0 2 0   James Wedgwood, \frac{1}{2} 1 19 25 0 4 0 4   Ditto, \frac{1}{2} 2 57 100 3 4 4 7   Ezekiel Russell, 1 30 56 2 5 2 11   Jonathan Wedgwood, 1 52 56 0 8 0 8   Joshua Wingate 3d, 2 3 200 4 7 6 1   Ebenezer Smith, 2 62 200 6 8 9 2   Benjamin Perkins, 1 77 56 1 3 2 11   Thomas Nudd, 1 90 56 1 9 2 3   John Weeks, 1 72 56 1 9 2 5  
WEARE DRAKE, Collector.
Effingham, August 29 1785.
[Pembrook.]
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of lands in Pembrook, in the county of Rockingham, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1782, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue at the house of Richard Bartlet, Esq; inholder in said Pembrook, on Thursday the 29th of September instant, at ten o'clock before noon, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Range No. Names. State tax. War tax   s. d. s. d.     5 7 Jonathan Rollings 4 3 1 10   7 17 Hon. John Wentworth 3 6 1 7   7 15 Benjamin Palmer 3 6 1 7   7 3 Nicholas Perriman 3 6 1 7   8 16 Richard Colley, junr. 3 3 1 6   8 4 Jonathan Dearborn 7 6 3 6  
N. B. All the above Lots are 40 acres each, except the last, which is Jonathan Dearborn, which is 100 acre lot.
JAMES NORRIS, Collector.
Pembrook, Sept. 1 1785.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident Owners of Land in Deerfield, who have not paid their Taxes for the Year 1784, that so much of their Land will be sold at Public Vendue, on Wednesday the 28th Day of September next, at the House of Lieut. David Robinson, inholder in said Town, at One o'Clock in the Afternoon, as will pay the Taxes and Charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N.R. Qty. f. d. f. d. f. d.     John Wadleigh, 28 1 200 7 0 5 8   Jotham Odiorne, 18 2 200 9 9 8   Josiah Hook, 6 2 30 9 9   Kinsley H. James, 9 2 100 5 3 4 6   Mary Wheeler, 29 1 128 4 6 3 8   Richard Tobie, 3 6 8 7   Scribner Gorden, 11 30 1 1 2 6 1   Gen. Jos. Cilley, 14 1 200 5 1 1 6 8   Daniel Sanborn, 3 1 1 1 2  
ENOS SANBORN, Constable.
Deerfield, August 12, 1785.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of the SOCIAL LIBRARY, in Portsmouth, that it is proposed to dissolve said Society, and sell all the Books contained in the Library; and for the prosecution thereof, they are desired to attend the Adjournment of the Meeting of said Proprietors, at Union-Hall, in said Portsmouth, on the last Wednesday in September instant, four o'Clock, Afternoon. Pursuant to Vote, SAM'L PENHALLOW, Clerk. Portsmouth, September 7, 1785.
TO BE SOLD, (on reasonable Terms)
A VALUABLE Lot of Land, laying on the West Side of the Road leading from Col. Boyd's Mills to Newington; together with the Potter's House on the same. Said Land has a good Brick Yard on it, and will answer for a Potter or Brickmaker. Enquire of WILLIAM COTTON. Portsmouth, August 24, 1784.
[Cockermouth, &c.]
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General Court, by the proprietors of COCKERMOUTH, in said State, setting forth, that in October 1780, the State made an Act, entitled an Act, to survey and establish the bounds of sundry towns in the counties of Strafford and Grafton, which towns are particularly mentioned in said Act; and also, in and by said Act, among other things, impowering a committee to survey and lay out the following towns, viz.
Rumney, Wentworth, Warren, Plymouth, Campton, Piermont, and Orford; and a return of said survey being made into the Secretary's Office under the hands of said committee, or any three or more of them in one year from the passing said Act, should be binding and conclusive in law upon all persons upon certain conditions and limitations therein mentioned.
That the running of the lines of the aforesaid towns will be very detrimental to the town of Cockermouth, for the following reasons, viz.
1. That although said Act sets forth, that public notice had been given, and no person had appeared to oppose the same, yet that the proprietors of Cockermouth, who are mentioned in said Act, and are materially concerned in the issue of running said lines, never were notified, neither was said Cockermouth even notified as a town.
2. That the lines of the towns of Lime, Dorchester and Cockermouth, were all surveyed by order of the Superior Court for the Province of New Hampshire, more than ten years ago, which surveys were made use of in trials of actions at law, then depending, between the said proprietors of Cockermouth and Plymouth; and that agreeable to said surveys, said proprietors of Cockermouth recovered in all actions, and have constantly possessed, occupied and improved said lands, paid the taxes thereof, and defended the same against the common enemy, throughout a tedious war, and that a considerable part of the land in said Cockermouth, has been sold for State and proprietary taxes within that time.
3. That by the return of the committee, who were authorised by the before-mentioned Act, they are informed, that the town of Plymouth will have one line of about two miles in length more than their charter gives them, whereas in fact, it appears, that they should come to a point, and leave out the said line of two miles, whereby a very large tract of land is included more than Plymouth charter contains.
Wherefore they pray, that a day of hearing may be assigned them, and that in the mean time, the said town of Plymouth may be ordered not to make any assessment upon the poles and estates of the inhabitants within the claim of the township of Cockermouth, until the boundaries of said Plymouth and Cockermouth, shall be established by the General Court, and that they would be pleased to pass such further order thereon as they in their wisdom shall think fit.
Upon which petition, the General Court ordered, that the petitioners be heard thereon before them, on the second Thursday of their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioners cause that the proprietors of Plymouth be served with a copy of the petition and order of court thereon; also, cause that the substance of said petition and order of court thereon, be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear, and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Sent up for concurrence,
JOHN SULLIVAN, Speaker.
In Senate the same day read and concurred.
JOS. PEARSON, D. Sec'yry.
Exeter, August 17th 1785.
Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'yry.
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons that have any demands against the proprietors of Wakefield, to bring in their accounts, and see the subscribers will attend on the last Monday and Tuesday in September next, to receive and settle at the house of David Copp, Esq; inholder in Wakefield. No accounts will be allowed after said days.
DAVID COPP,
JONATHAN PALMER,
SAMUEL CHAPMAN,
Proprietors committee.
Wakefield, August 24, 1785.
TO BE SOLD,
A LARGE well finished HOUSE and BARN, with out buildings, and about six Acres of land, well situated for a trader or tradesman, about a mile and half from Dover landing, on the main Road leading to Rochester. Also, about fifty Acres of Land within one Mile of said House, now under improvement, for Mowing, Pasture and Tillage, and well wooded and watered. For Price and Payment, enquire of the Subscriber, living in the House.
WILLIAM BROWN.
Dover, August 3, 1785.
To be SOLD or LETT by
JAMES HASLETT,
A Genteel Second-Hand
CURRICLE, with Harness complete.—It will be Lett with, or without Horses.