The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1790-03-03 00:00:00

New - Hampshire Gazette, and the General Advertiser.
Containing the Laws, &amp;c. of the United States, as well as those of this State passed since 1787, with a variety of other matters both useful and entertaining.
PORTSMOUTH: Printed by JOHN MELCHER, at his Office in Market-Street, at nine shillings per Annum.
HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES.
MONDAY FEB. 8.
Committee of the whole, on the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.
MR. FITZSIMONS read several resolutions affirmative of the great objects contained in the report; which he laid on the table.
TUESDAY, FEB. 9.
The first of Mr. Fitzsimons' resolutions was read, and is as follows: That adequate provision ought to be made for fulfilling the engagements of the United States, in respect to their foreign debt.
The question on this resolution being taken, it passed in the affirmative unanimously.
The second was then read, viz.— That permanent funds ought to be appropriated for the payment of interest on, and the gradual discharge of, the domestic debt of the United States.
MR. BLAND inquired why there was a difference in the phraseology of the two first resolutions? He could not see the propriety or justice of making a discrimination between our domestic and foreign creditors. We have pledged ourselves by adopting the first resolution to fulfil our engagements to our foreign creditors, before we have ascertained whether we are able to do it; but the resolution respecting our domestic creditors, leaves them in a very different situation.
MR. FITZSIMONS replied, that the circumstances of the foreign debt were such as left no alternative, but that of coming to a precise and definite resolution upon the subject. With respect to the domestic debt, agreeable to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, a different plan of procedure is offered; till the modification proposed is to be submitted to the option of the creditors.
MR. BLAND then read a resolution respecting the domestic debt, which was similar to that adopted respecting the foreign debt; this he proposed as a substitute for the second resolution.
MR. LIVERMORE entered into a consideration of the circumstances under which the domestic and foreign debts were incurred, and gave it as his opinion that the United States are not under obligations to make a specific provision for the domestic debt agreeable to the face of the securities which are considered as the evidences of the debt. With respect to the foreign debt, it is for loan received from persons no ways interested in the revolution of the country, and it must be paid. He was opposed to the resolution in its present form, as it went to make an unqualified provision for the domestic debt.
MR. SCOTT observed, the legislature is to be considered on this occasion as sitting as referees in a case of equity and justice—the only enquiry therefore is, what is the sum which the United States absolutely and bona fide owe—if on inquiry it is found that the ostensible demand is double what ought in justice to be paid, they will determine accordingly, and strike off that half, nor can we answer it to our constituents to make provision for paying one farthing more than the sum which on a full investigation of the subject shall appear to be due—He concluded by moving an amendment to the resolution by adding the following words, viz. as soon as the same shall be ascertained and duly liquidated.
MR. BOUDINOT replied to MR. SCOTT—and controverted the principle he had advanced, that Congress was to be considered as a judicial body on this occasion—He stated the terms on which the debt had been contracted, the dependence which the creditors had of obtain-
ing final justice from their country; and the pernicious consequences that would result from adopting such a principle.
MR. AMES went into a particular examination of the doctrine advanced by Mr. S. and shewed the pernicious consequences that would result from its operation, as being subversive of every principle on which contracts are founded. That the evidences of the debt possessed by the creditors of the United States, cannot in reason, justice and policy, be considered in any other light than as public bonds, for the redemption and payment of which the lands, the property, and labour of the whole people are pledged. The public in this case, is as it were personified; nor is there any conceivable difference, except it is in favor of the creditor, between the public and an individual in this case. On this idea the public is trusted; and for them to assume the office of judge on this occasion is a meer arbitrary act of power, which never can be exercised but to the destruction of the essential interests of the people, and must terminate in a desolation of the social compact.
MR. SHERMAN said that he agreed in sentiment with the gentleman from Pennsylvania in part, but he could not extend the operation of the principle to such a length as he did. The legislature must necessarily act in a judicial capacity in some cases: It judges of accounts exhibited against the government, and determines upon them: He instanced, in a variety of particulars, the interference of this power, and which, said he, cannot reasonably be objected to; but this power cannot be extended to judge upon debts that are acknowledged by the government; in this light he considered the liquidated debt of the United States. On which the legislature can have no more right to judge than an individual who is a party to a private contract: For if they can thus interfere, the credit of the United States is placed in a very deplorable situation indeed. He moved to confine the provision to that part of the debt which is already liquidated.
MR. GOODHUE reprobated the idea of discrimination, and reliquidation. He observed, that if the object is to take advantage of the depreciated rate of the public securities, it will be wisest to defer all further considerations on the subject at present, for the purpose of availing ourselves of a still lower rate of depreciation.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10.
Mr. Scott's amendment under consideration.
MR. SCOTT observed, that the object contained in the above amendment is of so important a nature that two or three days more spent upon it will be time well employed. It involves the whole doctrine of discrimination and liquidation—those great points established, the way will be opened to proceed in the report. That report, provided the principles of it are just and equitable, is a masterly performance, and does great honor to the framer of it. It has been said that the domestic debt of the United States must be considered in the light of a fair and just contract which cannot be violated. I never considered it in this view—Let us revert back to the time when the public securities, so called, were received by those, who had through blood and slaughter established the liberties of the country—Did they consider them as a contract to be made good agreeable to the terms expressed in the bills they received? No Sir—they did not—How did they estimate their value? Why, Sir, taking into consideration the circumstances of their country at the
moment they had completed and established its independence—in addition to all their other sacrifices they added this, they were contented to receive 2/6 in lieu of 20/ .—He then enlarged on the injustice that would accrue from funding the whole debt agreeable to the face of the securities, and of taxing those who had made so great and noble a sacrifice, to make good the securities to their present possessors—and observed, that strict, impartial justice required that the securities should be reduced to their real value, and a reliquidation of the whole made before funds are provided to pay the interest. When this consolidation is effected, the interest ought to be punctually paid at 6 per cent. From some valuations which he had made, it appeared that some millions of the debt were unliquidated. He controverted the doctrine that the present possessor of public securities stood in the place of the original holder.
With respect to those characters of whom he had spoken so highly, it had been said that many of them held sentiments different from those he was now advocating—to which he observed, that some who were once soldiers, had lost all title to the honorable appellation by commencing speculators. These, like a woman in marriage, having changed their name, by wedding speculation, no longer speak the language of soldiers, but of speculators.
MR. HARTLEY said he was opposed to the amendment, not only on account of the mode of expression used in it, but also on account of the very reasons urged by the gentleman in support of it. I am one of those, said he; to whom the gentleman alludes, having been in the army; though I never speculated in public securities—but beg leave to differ from him with respect to a discrimination, or postponing the present business. He then referred to the resolution of the last session when they resolved that provision ought to be made to support the public credit—the idea of a discrimination I believe never entered into the contemplation of any person—he represented the injustice, difficulty, and expense of the measure of a re-liquidation—the principle on which the public securities were originally issued and received, he insisted were totally different from the idea held up by the gentleman, and the assertion that they were received by the soldier on the idea of their being worth only 2/6 in the pound has no foundation whatever—he shewed the capacity of the country to pay its debts—being in possession of great resources which have not been glanced at by the Secretary, in his report—this circumstance of our ability greatly enhances the obligation to do justice. He defended the principle of a funding system—as wise and politic in itself, and being sanctioned by the experience of the most flourishing countries in the world—Great-Britain, by virtue of her funds, and paper credit, has extended her commerce and manufactures—and raised her character to the most respectable rank, in the scale of nations—He then instanced in the history of Frederick the 2d King of Prussia to shew the effects of a contrary system—that monarch accumulated in his coffers specie to the amount of 100 million crowns—while his whole people were poor and wretched—he added a few other observations, and concluded by saying, that tho' he was sorry to differ from his colleague, for whose judgment he had a high esteem, yet he must vote against the amendment.
MR. BOUDINOT followed MR. H. in reprobating the object of the present amendment—He said that if he could
conceive with the hon. gentleman from Pennsylvania, that the public securities had been received by the creditors of the United States as being worth no more than 2/6 in the pound, he should most cordially acquiesce in the inference he deduced from such a position—he should be for considering them in the same light as he did the bills of credit, or old continental money; as the circumstance of its being understood that they were worth no more at the time, would render it just and equitable to determine their value accordingly—but a recurrence to the resolutions of Congress under which the evidences of the debt now under consideration were issued, will sufficiently explode such a supposition. No idea of payment's being made, by those securities, was ever entertained—they were in fact, and were so considered, evidences of the liquidated and specie sums due to the creditors of the United States—hence it is incontestably evident, that the securities were not considered as payment, any more than the settlement of any private account can be considered as a discharge of such account.—The first evidences of the debt were not transferable, and had not Congress afterwards made those certificates or evidences of the debt transferable, they must have remained in the hands of original holders; but for the particular accommodation and advantage of the original holders, Congress afterwards made them transferable—and this step so far from benefiting the creditors, would have proved a real injury to them, if the assignee could have been supposed to stand in a less eligible situation than the assignor. Upon every principle of affixation of debts and contracts, such an idea ought to be reprobated. He adduced several instances of the disadvantageous circumstances under which the creditors of the United States had been paid—from which it appeared that manifest injustice would be done to many persons in the payments they had received, should the full amount of their securities be paid them in specie—from all which, and many other considerations which he added, he inferred, that no idea existed in the mind of any person, either soldier or citizen, that the securities were considered or received as a full discharge of the demands against the public. MR. B. founded many of his observations on resolves of the late Congress which he read, on his own knowledge of the particular circumstances under which the public paper of the United States had been issued, as he was in Congress at the periods referred to.
MR. SCOTT observed, in answer to MR. B. that other resolutions of the late Congress might be adduced which held a different language—and the conduct of government in regard to the paper money, at different periods, plainly proved that it was considered as just and proper for them to interfere and determine the value of those evidences of debt.
MR. STONE reprobated all funding systems, as productive of mischief and poverty. Factitious credit was but the mode of acquiring the means of shedding the blood and cutting the throats of our neighbours. The credit of this country does not depend on any paper schemes of credit. It cannot be established suddenly, in a day or a year: it depends on the evidence we give of an honesty of principle.
MR. GERRY, after touching upon MR. SCOTT's amendment, turned his attention to an observation which was made by MR. JACKSON—That America owed her independence principally to her foreign loans.—MR. G. in contrasting the foreign and domestic

debts, exhibited in a striking point of light, the injustice of this observation; and, from accurate details from the public accounts, shewed that the domestic debt is in fact as 16 to 1, compared to the foreign debt. He reproached the suggestion, that the citizens of the United States were principally indebted to foreigners for their liberties—the reverse appeared to be evidently the case, from their immense exertions and annual expences during the war, which he stated at 5 millions sterling; so that the debt of the United States bears no proportion to the actual expences and sacrifices of the citizens for the acquisition of their independence. A question here arises, what has become of the residue of the debt? To this it may be answered, that the great mass of the difference has been sunk by depreciation on the paper money, which can be considered in no other light than a tax upon the people, and which has operated as equally, perhaps, as any one that might have been assessed. Mr. G. contrasted the foreign and domestic debts in various points of view; by which it appeared, that if any discrimination should be made between them, it ought to be in favour of the latter. He then adverted to the circumstances under which the domestic debts were contracted, and from these deduced the injustice and ill policy of a reliquidation—he reproached giving the preference to our foreign creditors in the provision to be made for payment of the interest. He replied to the several objections against funding the debt, and, by several familiar instances in common life, enforced the absolute necessity of the measure, as the only possible expedient of doing justice, which presented itself. He added many other observations, and concluded with this striking one, That if the United States, while they make provision for their foreign creditors, should at the same time abandon their domestic, it will give occasion to say, that the ultima lex regum, and not a principle of honour and justice, was the influencing cause.
Mr. TUCKER was in favour of a discrimination among the creditors of the United States. He divided them into three classes—the holders of old continental paper money—the original holders of liquidated securities—and those who held the latter by purchase. The old paper money should be consolidated at 40 for 1, principal, with interest at 6 per cent: for these, and the second class, provision ought to be made without delay to pay them their interest at 6 per cent. With respect to the third class, they are entitled by the engagements of the country to 6 per cent. interest: This they ought to receive when the country shall be in circumstances to pay—he therefore proposed that this class should be referred to a future period for payment.
The question being taken on Mr. Scott's motion, it was negatived by a great majority.
THURSDAY, FEB. 11.
Mr. MADDISON entered into a very lengthy discussion of the subject of the public debt. Towards the close, he proposed a discrimination should be made between the original holders of public securities, and those who hold them by purchase. His plan is, that the first should be paid the full sum promised, with interest at 6 per cent. The assignees or purchasers to be paid the highest average sum they have been sold at, and to those who have alienated them, the residue, and both to receive interest at 6 per cent. government not to avail itself of the least advantage in the transaction.
A FRAGMENT.
Quis desiderio sit pudor, aut modus Tam chari capitis? HOR.
**** POOR Cleora! I knew her when she was possessed of jewels, epuipages, and all the pomp, magnificence and splendour, which affluence could produce: but she is now no more. I saw her breathe her last:
I heard her shrieks of misery, wretchedness, and woe-ful lamentations.
Cleora was young and beautiful; her converse was sensible, prudent and en- dearing. In Cleora centered all the softness of a summer's morn, and the serenity of a mild day, when the sport- ive zephyrs play in each avenue and vale.
Cleora's husband was young, gay, airy, manly, and fond of gaming. Im- patient of contradiction, he was the first to resent ideal injuries.—Florio lost his all at dice.—A friend supposed himself injured by him, and a challenge was the consequence. They fought, Florio fell, but was carried home just time e- nough to expiate his crimes by true re- pentance, and to receive the last fer- vent embrace of conjugal faith and ho- nour.
What a sight for Cleora! what ag- onizing pangs for a heart well fraught with every sentiment of affection and constancy!—her husband mortally wounded, and scarcely a moment to live!—
Florio expired in Cleora's arms, and his death was the commencement of her deeper sorrow. She fainted with her husband's corpse in her arms, and was bereft of her senses two hours, only awaking to a new and more poignant sense of her misery.
The officers of justice had taken pos- session of Florio's house, and were en- tering the dining room where Cleora lay a senseless, melancholy object, al- most as pale and lifeless as her murder- ed husband, with an intention to take an inventory of the goods. They were struck with horror at the sight, and not without painful emotions could they execute their duty. Cleora faint- ly opened her eyes, and gazing wildly around her, saw them marking a pic- ture hanging on the wainscot.—“Vil- lains! villains!” exclaimed the poor Cleora, “’tis my husband's picture!— you have killed him; and will not leave me his shadow!—See where he comes! look how he smiles!—stand off, and let me clasp him in my arms! Oh! he is my life, my joy, my com- fort! he is my Florio!—My hus- band! come, come to my arms, and hide your sorrows in my bosom! Alas! he is vanished!—Vanished! Oh! no, there he lies, a dead and mangled corpse!—Oh! my poor heart!”—She fainted, and never more came to herself.
Reason grows dull, and philosophy cold, when we behold a woman of the fairest fame, and loveliest form, fall a sacrifice to grief and despair. ’Tis more than humanity can support.
I saw Cleora's remains enshrined with her husband's, and wept a tear of sen- sibility over their bier.
AGRICULTURE.
From the HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE. Mr. Printer.
THE growing of Turnips is justly reckoned a very profitable branch of husbandry—every hint, therefore, that has a tendency to advance the cul- tivation of this valuable root, will be acceptable to the public.
THE Farmers in this part of the country generally sow their turnips, for fall and winter use, about the 25th of July. I have been long apprehensive that this sowing is too early. The weather at this season of the year is ge- nerally very hot, and very dry, and drought has a direct tendency to dwarf and spoil a field of young turnips:—The black fly also, a natural enemy of the turnip, is at this period very vor- acious, and the crop is too often destroy- ed or rendered unprofitable, by one or other of these causes.
With a view to remedy these evils, I sowed my turnips, the last year, very late in August—My neighbours laugh- ed at me, and said I should not have a single mess—I had, however, more and better turnips than any of them. En- couraged by this success, I sowed this year on the 25th of August, a small piece of ground, eight rods only, with turnips. They came up well, and not
a fly touched them. When they had four or five leaves, I directed one of my men to clean them of weeds, and thin them so as to have them stand ten or twelve inches from each other. The ground was afterwards slightly stirred with a garden hoe.—The leaves grew rapidly—covered the ground, and pre- vented the further growth of weeds. On the 11th of November I pulled the turnips, trimmed and measured them, and had on the eight rods of ground, (the twentieth part of an acre) forty- five bushels of as large and well fla- voured turnips as I ever saw. This pro- duce is at the rate of nine hundred bushels per acre. The soil is a sandy loam, in good heart, but by no means in high tilth.
I sowed two other small pieces of ground, the one on the first, and the other about the eighth of Sep- tember. Neither of these yielded like the one sowed on the 25th of August; but each of them produced much larger and better turnips than any I have seen that were sowed at the usual time.
I attribute my success altogether to the late sowing—then the heat is less intense—the rain more frequent, the dew copious, the fly harmless, and the crop abundant.
YOUNG FARMER.
Hampshire County, Dec. 1789.
From the MASSACHUSETTS CENTINEL Mr. RUSSELL,
AN old Soldier, who, “in the times that tried men's souls,” risked his life in defence of his country, would in- form the speculating gentry, that not- withstanding all their railing, he feels himself under great obligations to the Hon. Mr. Madison, for stepping forward in the cause of public justice, and in vindication of the claims of the defend- ers of our country, whom necessity o- bliged to sell their notes, received for services in the field, at 2/ for 20/. If the country is to make good those notes, who ought to receive the benefit? Certainly the original holder, who bore the heats and burdens of the day—and who placed his country in the situation thus to do justice, and not the person, who, taking advantage of the necessity of the soldier, and knowing that he must sell his note or starve, would not give him but 2/ for 20/. Do these speculating gentry wish that the poor soldier, &c. shall still be taxed to pay the interest on the very notes he sold, which will amount to three times as much as he got for them? If they do, it is happy there is a MADISON, who, fearless of the wreathing of blood-suck- ers, will step forward, and boldly vin- dicate the rights of the widow and or- phan, the original creditor, and
THE WAR-WORN SOLDIER.
THE FAMOUS SWEDENBORG
Was visited for the first time with those visions of celestial agents which have been so much talked of, on the day which he was to set sail from En- gland for his native country. During the voyage, the Captain of the ship of- ten observed him arranging chairs up- on the quarter deck, and apparently conversing with some invisible beings. Upon inquiring the reason of this con- duct. SWEDENBORG informed him, that some of his celestial friends deign- ed to visit and converse with him. The Captain took no further notice; but upon his arrival, charged SWEDENBORG for the passage of his friends. He was now reduced to the dilemma either to deny the visit, and contradict his for- mer assertions, or to pay the money. He preferred the latter, and the Captain was perfectly satisfied.
L O N D O N, December 5.
It now turns out, on proof, exactly as we expected, that the mighty and dreadful stories of tumults in Paris—of the streets running in blood—of 12000 being slaughtered—of the King and Queen being beset, &c. &c. &c.—are mere fabrications. Yesterday the mails arrived—and our letters came down to Monday last: we have also the jour-
nals and newspapers of Paris, and to that time not the smallest tumult had been seen. It is not easy for the plain sincerity of a Briton to account for the sinister motives that can thus induce men, time after time, to frame and propagate these atrocious fables. They can impose on the most credulous na- tures but for a day or two, and what benefit or triumph they can derive from such silly machinations, we are utterly unable to divine.
It was yesterday confidentially assert- ed, that Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Ou- denarde, and in short all the Austrian Netherlands, except Luxemburgh, Ant- werp and Brussels, have avowedly quite thrown off the Emperor's authority, and are in the hands of the patriots. The imperial troops have marched out of Brussels, and are encamped in its vicinity.
The Emperor, in order to recover the minds of his late subjects, has dis- graced Count d'Alton, and removed him from the command of the troops, which are now to obey Trautmanisdorf.
Schreeder, who commanded at Tou- rouhout, though mortally wounded, has been dismissed the service, and declared incapable of ever serving the Emperor again.
Peace, pardon, and compromise, have been likewise offered, in the Emperor's name to the patriots under any guaran- tee they may chuse, and an armistice proposed till the terms of accommoda- tion can be settled. All these proposals have been unanimously rejected by the people.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 5. Extract of a letter from London, dated November 15, 1789.
“The Prices of Stocks, at present, are very high; and if the commotions in France are accommodated, and the belligerent Powers in the North substi- tute peace for hostilities, the funds of this country must still increase, from their influence in the political scale of Europe, and their immense internal wealth.”
GEORGE-TOWN, Feb. 4. Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Louisville, (Kentucky) to his correspon- dent in Fredericktown, dated Dec. 20.
“Our trade with the Spaniards has been very brisk for some time past, and promises fair to be more so in the spring of the year. Permits have been grant- ed by the Spanish Government at New- Orleans, to a number of persons to im- port Flour, Wheat, Tobacco and all kinds of provisions—a great number of boats are preparing at this place to con- vey the same down the Mississippi, as soon as the weather will admit of it; by the last accounts from New-Orleans, Flour sells at 7 dollars per barrel; To- bacco at 5 dollars per cwt. and every other kind of provisions proportionably high, large magazines of the above articles are laid up by government; the reason it is said, is the approach of a civil war, and the scarcity of grain in South-America; should this be the case, and a free intercourse between us and the Spaniards take place, the ex- ports of this country will be amazing great.—On account of the above intel- ligence, and the large purchases made by those who have embarked in this speculation, Wheat has risen to 5s. Corn to 2s. per bushel, Flour to 22s. per barrel, and Tobacco to 20s. per cwt. our currency.
PROVIDENCE, [R. I.] Feb. 18.
Friday a youth, about 14 years of age, son to Capt. Samuel Godfrey, in skating on the river, fell through the ice, and was unfortunately drowned.
The Lincolnshire ladies (says a late London Paper) under the auspices of Lady Banks, persevere in their patriotic scheme, for the encouragement of their county manufactures. At the last as- sembly, near 400 persons were present, of whom the exact half were ladies; every person was completely dressed in the manufactures of the county. The ladies wore an uniform Stuff Gown. In one of the transparencies was the portrait of Miss Ives, of Spalding, who

has brought spinning to a perfection unknown in England. She has spun 300 hanks out of a pound of woolen yarn, which measures 168,000 yards, or 96 miles. The royal society have rewarded Mary Powley for spinning 15 hanks out of a pound.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.
Flax and hemp, require the particular attention of the farmers and planters at this time. Our navigation being revived, the hemp made is not sufficient for our wants, and the ropemakers were obliged to use so much flax last year, that it was raised at one time 30 per cent. by their purchasers. A heavy duty is laid upon foreign cordage, and after the first of December next, another heavy duty will take place on foreign hemp. The coarse linen manufactory has become considerable, and affords a constant and great demand for flax. Four sail cloth manufactory are established at Boston, Salem, New-Haven and New-Hampshire, the first of which, it is said, has increased its capital, after making a careful experiment, to ten times the original sum. We have no doubt but that Baltimore, Philadelphia, New-York, and other towns, will very soon establish such factories, as the charges of importing sail cloth are full 25 per cent. upon their first cost in Europe.
NEW-YORK, Feb. 11.
The Supreme Court of the United States was adjourned yesterday, until the time appointed by law for holding another session.
To shew that the Moors and Africans are not so very ignorant of arts and sciences as some people imagine, but that they are on the contrary promoters of them, we shall state a new institution which has been lately formed at Fetz in Africa:
On the first of August last, a monthly meeting was instituted at Fetz, composed of Arabian and Moorish poets, which drew together a vast number of people. The orations were delivered in a very beautifully laid out garden, shaded with high palm trees, and refreshed by several fountains of water.
The poet the most applauded received 100 ducats of gold, a magnificent robe, and a very beautiful horse, for an elegant romance he spoke in the Turkish language, and afterwards had a crown of flowers placed on his head by some dancing girls, which finished the entertainment.
Feb. 17. A letter from London, dated Dec. 2, mentions, "That the prohibition of American Wheat into that kingdom, is taken off—and that country seems anxious for a commercial treaty with the United States—which might be done on advantageous principles."
The Commissioners appointed in behalf of this State, have, within these few days past, been in treaty with the Commissioners appointed on the part of Vermont, in respect to the declaring of the Independence of that part of this State, but we regret that they have terminated their business without effecting the purpose for which they were appointed. We learn, that one of the obstacles to a happy conclusion of the business was, a demand on the part of Vermont, to be secured against certain claims for lands, which it seems they are apprehensive would be wrested from them through the means of the Federal Court. The quantity of land in this situation is said to be about 469,000 acres, great part of which is well improved and settled on.
The Story of Sir NICHOLAS LAWLESS, now Lord Cloncurry, is somewhat singular.
His father, having made a very considerable fortune as a woolen draper, and being disqualified by law from laying it out in the purchase of landed estates (being a Roman Catholic), went over to France, where he got himself naturalized, and then purchased a fine estate.
He had some difference about the presentation to a living on the estate with a noble Duke from whom he had purchased it. The Duke took a very singular method of mortifying Mr. Lawless. This nobleman has reserved to himself the royalties of the estate
which he had sold—one of which was the power of trying felons, and causing them to be executed in any part of the manor he should please.—Accordingly, a felon having been convicted of a capital offence, the Duke caused the gallows to be erected just opposite the house of Mr. Lawless, and the man to be hanged on it. Mr. Lawless then sold the estate, went to Ireland, turned Protestant, and became a purchaser in his own country.
He was soon made a Baronet, and is now become a Lord. Thus it may be said—the gallows has exalted the family of the Lawless.
LITCHFIELD, Feb. 16.
Thursday se'nnight, Mr. Dan. Towner, of New-Fairfield, was found dead, in a wood adjacent to his place of residence, suspended by the arm, about six feet from the ground. He was falling a tree, and had taken a position to press against it favorable to his purpose; but having extended one arm over a limb, while the other was employed in cutting off a branch above it, which prevented the tree from falling, he was unfortunately compressed, and could not possibly extricate himself. From the intension of the weather, and the manner of his death, he must have suffered excessive anguish.
BOSTON, February 24.
Yesterday a Bill for increasing the Salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court, passed in the House of Representatives to be engrossed. By this Bill, the Chief Judge is allowed 370l. and the other Judges 350l. per annum.
Extract of a letter from Paris, dated Nov. 3, 1789.
"Your HERO hath become ours, and is, as you know, at the head of the Militia of this capital; as well as of those troops which the emergencies of government may require to embody here. Without doubt, you are not ignorant of the transactions which have followed the first epoch, 200,000 men, resolving to regain their liberties, pronounced his name with acclamations, and hailed him their CHIEF. What a destiny! What Glory! Let us hope, that this generous defender of Liberty will not uselessly support this noble cause! May his talents and virtues, so worthily acknowledged in America, receive a new tribute in his own country. He discovers himself more and more worthy of the eminent stations to which he hath been destined. General WASHINGTON, who hath, we are happy to learn, lately become your Chief Magistrate, will hear with pleasure, that his adopted son—his pupil—his emulous pupil—pursues the path of true glory, in imitating the virtues, as well as the success, of his illustrious and respectable Master."
"GEORGE WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE, the son of the Marquis, whom I often see, continues to merit all the tenderness of his father. He is a Sub-Lieutenant in our militia! Ah young man! What names do you bear! What a glory! What happiness it is to have such parents, and such examples to follow! &c." (U. S. Gaz.)
March 1. The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, has been pleased to appoint Samuel Shaw, Consul of the United States of America, at Canton, in China.
FROM NEW-YORK—FEB. 14, 1790.
We have a packet in from London to-day—All quiet in France, and going on in their National Assembly with great dispatch and harmony.
To-morrow an interesting debate is expected on Mr. MADISON's scheme to pay the purchasers of Securities the highest average market price; and those who sold them the remainder. A plan that will give immortality to speculation; and make sharpers, swindlers and tricksters swarm through the land like the locusts of Egypt. Nemo omnibus bonis sapi.
Those who have a nack at anticipation, tell us that on the question of assumption of the State debts, the numbers will be—for it 30, against it 29—so close as that—however, the weight of argument will prove the preponderating principle. I think that the fate of the government is suspended on a right decision on this important question.
WORCESTER, Feb. 25.
Last week five persons were apprehended at Brookfield, and were on Saturday, committed to the gaol in this town, on suspicion of counterfeiting, altering and passing them as good final settlements, &c. It is said they were well done and difficult to be distinguished.
On Wednesday night last week, seven or eight prisoners who were all confined in one room in the gaol in this town, the other rooms for criminals not being completed, attempted to break out, (breaking gaol having become a science.) It seems they had been industriously at work many hours, and had found means to liberate themselves from the room they were in; but from the general strength & security of the building could not procure an outlet, until daylight dawned upon them, when they were detected, busily engaged in effecting an escape.
PORTSMOUTH, March 3.
At the annual town meeting held in Exeter on Monday last, the following persons were voted for,
PRESIDENT.
 Hon. JOSIAH BARTLET, Esq. 141  JOSHUA WENTWORTH, Esq. 30  JOHN PICKERING, Esq. 5  NATH'L PEABODY, Esq. 5 
SENATORS.
 Oliver Peabody, Esq. 181  Nathaniel Peabody, Esq. 156  Gen. Joseph Cilley, 167  Col. James Sheafe, 100  Peter Greene, Esq. 105  James M'Gregore, Esq. 42  John Pickering, Esq. 12  Col. Nathaniel Rogers, 19  Joshua Wentworth, Esq. 32  Col. Toppan, 5  John Prentice, Esq. 4  John Bell, Esq. 13  William Plummer, Esq. 22  John M'Clary, Esq. 29  George Reid, Esq. 11  Dudley Odlin, Esq. 9 
Accounts from Grenada announce a general alarm among all ranks of people in that island and its dependencies, on account of the King of Spain's proclamation, published in Trinidada, respecting runaway negroes, to whom offers of protection and security are openly made. In consequence of which the Legislature have passed an act, compelling the owner of all canoes, boats, or periaugers, of 14 feet keel and upwards, to give security in the Secretary's Office, and to take out a licence for navigating the same. They have also empowered the Governor to fit out two armed vessels, for the purpose of guarding the coasts and searching all suspicious vessels. The preamble to the act in question, reciting the necessity of the measures adopted, contains a very severe reflection upon the Spanish monarch.
Mention is also made of a conspiracy among the slaves in Demerara being fortunately discovered upon the eve of its accomplishment, and that several of the wretches concerned in it were to be executed in a short time.
DIED Mrs. SARAH WENTWORTH aged 79, relict of the Honorable JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq. and Mrs. Abishag Whitmore aged 77, both of this town.
To FARMERS.
Experience has proved that smoking your Seed Corn, thoroughly before planting will effectually prevent the worms or any other insect from touching it whilst growing. Care must be taken that it is not heated in the smoking lest it should destroy the vegetation. It will therefore be best to bang it where the smoke may gradually impregnate the kernel during the winter season.
Probably the smoking of other seeds may have the same happy effect. Should this be the case, it would save much labor and care in raising squashes, melons, cucumbers, &c.
A FRIEND to AGRICULTURE.
EASY AND EFFECTUAL METHOD OF DESTROYING WORMS.
BURY the belly or paunch of a weather, newly killed, with all its contents in the centre of the place infested with them. Within two days they will all gather there, and may be killed with ease.
TO-MORROW, AT THREE O'CLOCK, P.M.
Will be sold at PUBLIC VENDUE, at
Abra'm Isaac's AUCTION ROOM, In Water Street,
A variety of English Goods, viz.
BLACK and Olive Coloured Velvet, Chintzes, Irish Linnen. Shawls, Gauze, Silk & Linnen Handkerchiefs, Ladies Shoes, Ribbons of different colours, Camblet, Whalebone, Hard Wares, Plated and Washed Buckles, Yellow and White Buttons of different sizes, Green Tea, Cinnamon, Chocolate, Salt-Petre, Gun-Powder, Copperas, Candles, Salt, &c. &c.
LIKEWISE,
Green Windsor Chairs, Common do. Desks, Tables, and a number of other articles.
Sale to begin at three o'clock precisely, and to be held statedly twice a week, on Tuesday and Thursday.
Portsmouth, March 1.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the EXCISE ON SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS AND OTHER EXCISEABLE ARTICLES, in the County of Strafford, from October 1789 to October 1790, will be sold at public vendue, to the highest bidder, at the Court-House in Dover, on Friday the 19th day of March next, at 3 o'clock, P. M.—the same not being disposed of agreeably to a former advertisement, by reason of the highest bidder not complying with his bid.
JOHN WALDRON } Com- EBEN'T SMITH. } mittet. Feb. 22, 1790.
Notice is hereby given
that the Auction of the real estate of JOHN MOFFATT, Esq. stands adjourned to Thursday the 11th day of March next, at ten o'clock A. M. at the house of Colonel William Brewster in this town—At which time and place will be sold the House now occupied by Nicholas Roussellet—and also a large quantity of Land in the township of Tuftonborough in the county of Strafford and State of New-Hampshire.
Portsmouth, February 15, 1790.
TO BE SOLD
A very convenient House, SITUATED in Market-Street, with a good shop in front, the whole House well finished, with a good Cellar under the same,—also—a good Stable, Store and Well, with a large Garden belonging to said premises; its situation for trade is so evident as to need no comment. For terms apply to the Printer hereof.
John Frothingham,
Leather-dresser, from Newbury,
INFORMS his customers and the public, that he has opened a shop opposite Mr. Bowles's in Daniel-Street, Portsmouth, where he has for sale well dressed Deer, Moose and Sheep Skins, which he sells as cheap as any Leather-Dresser in this or any other State.

Parnassian SPRING.
Few Happy Matches.
S AY, mighty Love, and teach my Song, To whom my sweetest Joys belong. And who the happy pairs Whose yielding Hearts, and joining Hands, Find Blessing twisted with their Bands, To soften all their Cares. Not the wild Herd of Nymphs and Swains That thoughtless fly into the Chains As Custom leads the Way : If there be bliss without design, Ivies and Oaks may grow and twine, And be as blest as they. Not sordid Souls of earthly Mould Who drawn by kindred Charms of Gold To dull Embraces move : So two rich mountains of Peru May rush to wealthy Marriage too, And make a world of Love. Not the mad Tribe that Hell inspires With wanton Flames ; those raging fires The purer Bliss destroy : On Aetna's Top let Furies wed, And sheets of Lightning dress thy Bed 'T' improve the burning Joy. Not the dull Pairs whose Marble Forms None of the melting Passions warms, Can mingle Hearts and Hands : Logs of green Wood that quench the Coals Are marry'd just like Stoic Souls, With Offers for their bands. Not Minds of melancholy Strain, Still silent, or that still complain, Can the dear Bondage Bless : As well may heavenly Consorts spring From two old Lutes with ne'er a String, Or none besides the Bafs. Nor can the soft Enchantments hold Two jarring Souls of angry mould, The Rugged and the Keen : Samson's young Foxes might as well In Bonds of chearful Wedlock dwell, With Firebrands ty'd between, Nor let the cruel Fetters bind A gentle to a savage Mind, For Love abhors the Sight : Loose the fierce Tyger from the Deer, For native Rage and native Fear Rise and forbid Delight. Two kindest Souls alone must meet, 'Tis Friendship makes the Bondage sweet, And feeds their mutual Loves : Bright Venus on her rolling Throne Is drawn by gentlest Birds alone, And Cupids yoke the Doves.
NOTTINGHAM. State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Nottingham, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 22d day of March next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock A. M. on said day, at the house of Maj. Henry Butler, in said town.
   Orders. Silver. Ind's S.Cert.   s.d.q. s. d.q. s. d.q. s. d.q. s. d.q.     E. Barker 0 9 1 1 6 3 2 7 3 3 7 3 3 7 3 3 7 3 3 7 3 3 7 3 3 7 3   Wd. M. 2 2 3 0 3 3 7 8 1 10 7 1   Burley 0 8 2 1 1 3 0 2 4 3 2 2   P. Blake 4 0 0 8 0 1 1 3 1 7 0   D. Colcord 1 1 3 2 5 0 4 1 3 5 1 1 0   D. Dow 7 8 1 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   J. Elliot 2 9 3 5 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   T. Harvey's heirs 1 1 2 2 3 1 4 5 1 6 1 2   S. Fogg 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 7 0 0 9 2   S. Piper   Streets and Ranges, Original Proprietors Names. First Range.   N. Q. d.q. d. q.s. d. s. d. q.   S. Coffin 5 5 4 2 2 3 0 8 0 1 1 2   Cutts & Moulton 9 5 4 0 4 2 1 2 1 7 0    ENOCH BUTLER, Collector. Nottingham, February 8, 1790.
E A T O N.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the township of Eaton, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 23d day of March next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on said day, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber in the Location adjoining said Eaton.
   filv. cert. d. d.    Clement March, Esq. — 7 10  Jonathan Moulton, Esq. — 7 10  Capt. Jeremy Folsom — 7 10  Jeremy Gilman — 7 10  John Gilman — 7 10  Capt. Israel Gilman — 7 10  Thomas Tash, Esq. — 7 10  John Tash — 7 10  Samuel Chapman — 7 10  John Watson — 7 10  Jeremy Folsom, jr. — 7 10  John Folsom, jr. — 7 10  John Bryant — 7 10  Ede Hall Burgin — 7 10  Edward Smith — 7 10  John Johnson — 7 10  Barth. Smart — 7 10  David Davis — 7 10  Jonathan Stevens — 7 10  James Burley — 7 10  Nathaniel Folsom — 7 10  Edward Hilton — 7 10  Nicholas Duda — 7 10  Thomas York — 7 10  Samuel Gilman — 7 10  David Gilman — 7 10  Joseph Senter — 7 10  John M'Duffee — 7 10  Joseph Young — 7 10  John Smith — 7 10  John Folsom — 7 10  John Pickering, Esq. — 7 10  Samuel Livermore, Esq. — 7 10  John Brackett — 7 10  Nicholas Hartford — 7 10  Daniel Mason — 7 10  John Mead — 7 10  Benjamin Mead — 7 10  John Mead, jr. — 7 10  Thomas Bennett — 7 10  Nathaniel Evens — 7 10  Joshua Frost — 7 10  Walter Bryant, jr. — 7 10  John Burley — 7 10  Joseph Smith, Esq. — 7 10  Joseph Smart — 7 10  Caleb Bennett — 7 10  William Parker, Esq. — 7 10  Giles Seward — 7 10  Paul March, Esq. — 7 10  John Sullivan, Esq. — 7 10  David Folsom — 7 10    PHILIP JACKSON, Collector. Eaton, February 12, 1790.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the following Towns, viz.—Salisbury for 1785—Cornish 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1789—Jaffrey 1786—Alexander and Hanover 1786 and 1788—Hopkinton 1786, 1788 and 1789—New Grantham 1786 and 1789—Thornton, Warner and Bath 1787 and 1788—Croydon 1787, 1788 and 1789—Amherst, Rindge, Candia and Keen, 1787—Gilmantown, New-London, New-Hampton and Tamworth 1788 and 1789—Deerfield, Peterborough, Dorchester, Acworth and Allenstown 1788—Piermont, Sandwich, Hancock, Andover, Marlborough, Rindge, Weare, Claremont, Packerfield, Lime, Moultonborough, Stoddard, Grafton, Osipe, Northwood, Hillborough, Concord, Washington, Eaton, Bridgewater, Lyman, Northumberland and Antrim for 1789, That their lands in said towns are taxed for the years aforesaid, and if the taxes are not paid within eight weeks from the first publishment of this advertisement either to the Collectors or the Subscriber they will be advertised for sale.
THO'S ODIORNE, Receiver of non-resident taxes. Exeter, Jan. 30, 1790.
P E M B R O K E.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Pembroke, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1786 and 1787, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the 25th day of March next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at two o'clock P. M. on said day, at the dwelling-house of Richard Bartlett, Esq. innholder in said town.
   1786.   filv. cert. R. Q'ty No. s. d. d. d. d. d.    Jonathan Rawlins — 5 40 7 2 2  Benjamin Taylor — 7 40 19 2 2  James Robinson — 0 40 18 2 2  Hon. J. Wentworth — 0 40 17 2 2  Henry Wiggin — 0 40 16 2 2    1787. Spec. Cert. R. Q'ty, N.s. d. s. d.    Jona. Rawlins 5 40 7 2 0 1 8  Rich'd Walden 6 40 18 2 0 1 8  Benj'a Taylor 7 40 19 2 0 1 8  James Robinson 0 40 18 2 0 1 8  Hon. J. Wentworth 0 40 17 2 0 1 8  Henry Wiggin 0 40 16 2 0 1 8  Joseph Low 8 40 14 2 0 1 8  Daniel Moody 0 40 18 2 0 1 8  W. Bryant, Esq. 0 180 0 6 2 5 1  Spafford Ames 0 70 0 4 8 3 10  Will'm Rowel 0 100 0 5 0 4 2  Peter Green, Esq. 0 0 0 4 0 3 6  Gilman Dudley 0 0 0 2 0 1 8    ANDREW ROBERTSON, Collect. Pembroke, February 4, 1790
H A N C O C K.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the township of Hancock, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1787, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before Tuesday the 23d day of March next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of James Hosley Esq. in said town, at twelve o'clock P. M. on said day.
   filv. cert. Acres. No. R.s. d. d. d. d. d.    Wm. Ayers 78 5 4 0 10 7 3 3 6  Drury 100 6 2 1 0 9 4 3 8  S. Law- } 100 5 7 1 0 9 4 3 8  rence  N. Merriam 100 14 2 1 0 0 0 3 0  Ditto 100 15 2 1 0 0 0 3 0  A. Holden 100 0 0 1 0 9 4 3 8  P. Carley 94 0 0 0 11 9 4 3 8  R. Lakin 70 12 5 0 9 6 3 2 5  J. Preston 94 3 7 0 11 9 4 3 7    TIMOTHY MOORS, Collector. Hancock, February 18, 1790.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Hancock, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before Wednesday the 24th day of March next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of James Hosley, Esq. in said town, at 12 o'clock P. M. on said day.
   Cert. filv. cert. Acres. No. R.s. d. d. d. d.    Step'n Lawrance 100 5 7 8 4 4 8 5  Isaac Mitchel 100 1 5 8 4 4 8 5  William Ayers 72 5 4 6 0 3 6 4  Drury 80 6 2 6 8 3 6 4  Fletcher and Wheeler 100 10 2 8 4 4 8 5    OLIVER LAWRANCE, Collector. Hancock, February 18, 1790.
W A N T E D,
Old Continental and
New-Emission Money, Final Settlements, and Loan-Office Certificates, for which Cash will be given, by
Nathaniel A. Haven,
who still continues to negotiate the various kinds of PUBLIC SECURITIES, at his Store in Market-Street. Portsmouth, Feb. 8, 1790.
B R A D F O R D.
State of New-Hampshire.
N OTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Bradford, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1788, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 4th Tuesday in March next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock A. M. on said day, at the dwelling-house of Daniel Creasey, in said town.
   filv. cert. No. s.d. q. s. d. s. d. s. d. q.    T. Packer 71 1 5 1 2 0 1 4 1 4 3  Ditto 53 1 1 0 1 6 1 0 1 0 2  Ditto 58 0 8 3 1 6 0 8 0 8 2  Ditto 73 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2  Solly and March 56 0 8 3 1 0 1