The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1771-07-12 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE A N D H I S T O R I C A L
CONTAINING the Frestest ADVICES
Friday July 12, 1771.
T H E
Vol. XV.
GAZETTE,
CHRONICLE,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
NO. 769 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
NEW-YORK, June 27. Tuesday last arrived the Duke of Cumberland, Packet Capt. Marsham, in 6 Weeks and 4 Days from Falmouth, by whom we have the following Advices, viz.
L O N D O N, April 24. Extract of a Letter from General Count Romanzoff, dated March 20, 1771, relative to the taking of Giurgowo by the Russians.
I Have the honour to inform you, that continuing our conquests along the Danube, we have taken the fortress of Giurgowo. The General Olitz, Commander in Chief of our forces in Wallachia, having received my orders to approach Giurgowo, on the side towards Bucharest, the 12th inst. he found there the enemy, consisting of 10,000 men, who attacked him as he was getting possession of the first intrenchment; he could not immediately take the second, because it was defended by the cannon and a very deep ditch. In the night of the 15th, having divided his troops in four columns, he took the second intrenchment by assault, in spite of the fire of the enemy from the fortress. The engagement lasted above three hours, and the enemy left about four thousand dead on the spot; on our part there were only 173 killed, and 794 wounded.
"The Turks retired into the fortress, and continued firing without success till the 18th. Our batteries beginning to play, had such an effect, that the towers and walls were soon beat down, and their magazine of powder blown up. The enemy, finding the loss of the place certain desired to capitulate, which was granted. Gen. Olitz permitted them to retire beyond the Danube. There were found in the fortress 18 colours, 62 pieces of brass cannon, two mortars, and a great quantity of provisions and ammunition."
I T A L Y. Leghorn, March 20.
A L Bey's fortunate progress in the plundering of Syria and Palestine, is confirmed by the last accounts received from Cairo. Besides Jerusalem and Joppa, the towns of Hebron, Tiberias, Caesarea Hippos and Capernaum have surrendered to him and his allies. About 12,000 of the inhabitants of Mount Lebanon make part of this united army which is now before Damascus, and after taking that place is to attack Seyd Tripolia and Aleppo.
Extract of a Letter from Lisbon, March 23.
"A very extraordinary event has happened lately here in regard to commerce. Some days ago French cloths were refused dispatch in the custom house and stop't; & since then a general order has been sent to that tribunal to stop all goods of French manufacture, which are either composed of wool, or have any mixture of that material in them: even their druggets are comprehended. You may easily conceive what an uproar this has occasioned among the French merchants; they have applied to their envoy here, who has sent home their ease and written to his court for instructions."
Extract of a Letter from Abington, April 30.
"Yesterday, at half an hour after five in the afternoon, a smart shock of an earthquake was felt thro' the whole length of this town; it was but momentary yet sufficiently distinguished by many persons so as to find themselves lifted up in their chairs, and the pavements moved at the same time."
L O N D O N, April 23. THIS morning about 10 o'clock, the Rt. Hon Bras Crosby, Esq: Lord Mayor, accompanied by the Committee, went in Coaches from the Tower, through the City, to Westminster-hall, and being brought to the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. Serjeant Glynn opened the matter with great energy and was seconded by Mr. Serjeant Lee, pleading, that as his Lordship, had acted as Chief Magistrate of the City of London, he was answerable to no jurisdiction but that of the Livery and Common Council; the Court was extremely attentive, and took notes, as did several in the galleries, which were exceedingly full, among which were the Rev. Mr. Horne, and Mr. Wilkes. After the Council had ended, the Court spoke with great precision and clearness on the subject, and found that no Court of Justice had any Jurisdiction over the House of Commons, who, in the present case were only acting with respect to their own Members, a thing peculiar to every Society, & shewing a power which was vested in them by the very fundamentals of the constitution; that his Lordship's deed was not only a contempt of the House of Commons, but even of the Citizens themselves, who are virtually a part of the Hon. House by their Representatives; on which account the Court found themselves incapable to relieve his Lordship so that he was remanded back to the Tower.
April 24. On Saturday died at Bath the Right Hon. Other Lewis, Earl of Plymouth Lord Windsor, Baron of Bradenham, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Glamorgan, Custos Rotulorum of the county of Flint, and constable of the castle of Flint. His Lordship was born May 12, 1731, married Catherine, eldest daughter of Thomas Lord Arther, by whom he has left issue. His Lordship is succeeded in his titles and estate by his eldest son Other Lord Windsor, now Earl of Plymouth.
It is confidently reported, that a legacy of 50,000l. has been lately bequeathed to Mr. Wilkes, by a gentleman of the name of Nesbit, near Hull, in Yorkshire.
Leave is given to bring in a bill, for granting a bounty on the importation of white oak staves and bendings, from the Province of Quebec in America.
L O N D O N, April 27.
It is now said, that it is settled that Lord North shall hold the premiership during the recess of Parliament, but that he has to resign before the commencement of the next sessions. If this adjustment is true, it seems to be meant as a sugar-plumb for his Lordship to sweeten the mighty quantity of sour he has been obliged to gulp during the present session.
If his Majesty, as supposed, should dissolve the parliament, it is imagined there will not be an inhabitant left in any village within ten miles of the city. He will be accompanied to and from the House amidst the joyful and dutiful acclamations of a million of his loyal subjects
Extract of a Letter from Portsmouth, April 27.
"We daily expect Admiral Rodney here from London, in order to set sail for the West-Indies, his squadron being ready for sailing."
"We expect 16 ships to be paid off here but the men turned over to other ships."
The Hero, of 74 guns, Capt. Vincent, the Prince of Wales, Capt. Holwell, the Temeraire, Capt. Lecears, the Namur, of 90 guns, Capt. Griffith, the St. Antonio of 64, Capt. Affleck, the Royal William, of 84, Capt. Samuel Hood, are unrigging, and the Men paying off.
In consequence of the last dispatches from Madrid, our Court have actually paid off forty King's Ships.
On Tuesday, in the Upper House, the Duke of Richmond made a motion to rescind the resolution which the House came to last year, That the House of Commons, in the case of the Middlesex election, was final and conclusive. After a long debate, which lasted till half past seven o'clock, there appeared, for the motion, 35; against it, 55.—The speakers in support of the motion were, the Dukes of Richmond and Manchester, the Marquis of Rockingham, the Lords Chatham, Shelburne, Camden, Lyttleton, &c.
On Friday Mr. Sawbridge made a motion, for leave to bring in a bill to shorten the duration of Parliaments. Messrs. Alderman Townsend, Dempster, Turner, Barre &c. &c. supported this measure: They frequently called on Administration to shew any Reasons why a bill should not be brought in, but, to the amazement of most Members, not one word was uttered by Administration: the most contemptuous silence was observed. On this great national question the short appeal was to numbers; and the only declared reasons were 105 to 54.
L O N D O N, April 30.
Yesterday Sir George Rodney set out from his house in Welbeck-street for Portsmouth, to take upon him the command of the squadron destined for Jamaica.
His Majesty's ship the Captain, of sixty-four guns, in which Rear-Admiral Montague is to proceed to his station at Halifax, is now at Longreach taking in their guns and powder.
So greatly have administration increased their power of late, by an enormous number of dependants, that above 700,000l. per annum goes to the several officers concerned in collecting the various taxes.
The army have shewed that they retain the same spirit of liberty, which English armies have always shewn: They have had the Judgment, in the first instance, to nip the attempt of introducing foreign troops into the English dominions, and have dared to vote, in spite of influence, against the bill for the more effectually raising a military force for the protection of the settlements and possessions of the East-India Company, and threw it out, to the great joy of all thinking men, who are friends to his Majesty and the House of Hanover, and the liberties of England.
Dispatches, the contents of which are kept a profound secret, have, within these few days been sent off for the naval commanders on the American station.
May 1, Yesterday the Lords North, and Rochford, had a long conference with his Majesty, at the Queen's palace.
Yesterday morning the Earl of Hillsborough, as Secretary of State for the colonies had a grand levee of Colony Governors, Agents, and American merchants, at his house in Hanover-square.
A patent is preparing for creating Sir Jeffery Amherst, a Peer.

L O N D O N, May 1.
Yesterday morning Lord Sandwich had a grand and numerous levee of Admirals & other naval officers, at his house at the Admiralty.
We are assured, that upon the day the Parliament is prorogued, the whole city of London will meet upon Tower-hill and place adjoining, in carriages and on foot, to attend the Lord-Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver to the Mansion-house. All the bells in the city of London and suburbs will Ring the whole day and the illuminations are expected to be more general than ever were known upon any other occasion.
May 2. They write from Peterburgh, that her Imperial Majesty has lately recalled all of her subjects whomsoever from banishment in Siberia, who had resided in that inhospitable desert for seven years.
Some letters from Madrid mention that two Chiefs of the Spanish Ministry are at present in disgrace at Court, on account of the part they took in a late convention.
May 4. It is said the following motion was made on Wednesday last by the Earl of Chatham in the Upper House: "That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, most dutifully and earnestly beseeching his Majesty, that under the late violations of the rights of the electors of Great-Britain in the election for Middlesex, still unredressed, and in the present conflict which has so unhappily arisen between the claims of privilege of the House of Commons on one side, and those of the Magistracy on the other, his Majesty will, in his paternal wisdom deign to open the way to compose this alarming warfare; and that in order to prevent the said House and the Nation from being involved in intemperate discussions of undefined powers, which in the extreme may endanger the constitution, and tend to shake the tranquillity of the Kingdom, his Majesty will be graciously pleased to recur to the recent sense of his people, by dissolving, after the end of this session, the present Parliament, and calling, with convenient despatch, a new Parliament;" 23 for it, 72 against it.
Mr. Alderman Wilkes, who stood foremost for the discharge of the Printers, will attend the Lord Mayor to the Mansion-house.
The Earl of Halifax was yesterday much better and out of danger.
On Monday last the Rev. Mr. Horne & Col. Lutterel walked and conversed together a considerable time in the Mall in St. James's Park.
Yesterday the committee appointed for erecting the statue of the late William Beckford, Esq; in Guildhall, took dimensions of the place, in order for its being put up next week.
We hear that Mr. Heaton Wilkes, who took up his freedom last October is to be joint Sheriff with his brother.
Some private letters from Lisbon mention a very spirited Remonstrance in the name of the French King, having just arrived at court, couched in terms extremely humiliating to the pride of the Portuguese Premier.
Yesterday some farther complaints from the British merchants at Lisbon and Oporto were received by the Lisbon Mail.
By the last accounts from Brest, twelve ships of the line had just been laid up there and their crews discharged.
Both Houses of Parliament will be prorogued on Thursday next, when the Lord Mayor and Mr. Alderman Oliver will leave the Tower, and be escorted by the most respectable bodies in the city to the Mansion-house.
It is now conjectured from some advices lately received, that the Aurora frigate by accident took fire at sea, a few days after she failed from the Cape of Good Hope.
Several homeward bound vessels, with their crews, were lost in the hurricane on Sunday, the 21st of April.
Mackerel sold at Billingsgate, on Tuesday last for three half crowns a piece.
At Spithead, Admiral Hughes, with 42 Ships of War.
The late Orders to Governor Hutchinson of Boston not to consent to any, Tax Bills unless all Crown Officers are exempted from paying Taxes, have engrossed much of the Conversation of the public, we now publish what passed between the Governor and the Assembly of that province on this Grand Affair; had not this been the Case, should not have inserted them, being as usual very long, and their Speeches in general no concerns of New Hampshire, and of Consequence seldom worth publishing here.
C A M B R I D G E, July 4. THIS Day his Excellency the Governor was pleased to send the following Message to the House of Representatives.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, THE Secretary has laid before me an engrossed Bill intituled an Act for apportioning and assessing a Tax of Fifteen Thousand Pounds, &c.
I find that this Bill is of the same Tenor with the Acts which of late Years have been annually passed by the General Court. By Virtue of those Acts the Assessors in several Towns have taxed the Officers of the Crown who have been resident in such Towns for the Profits which they receive from their Commissions, although their Offices have no peculiar relations to this Province. I doubt whether this could be the Intent of the former Acts, but as this Construction has been put upon them, I cannot sign another Act in the same Form, being expressly forbid by his Majesty's 27th Instruction from giving my Consent to such an Act upon any Pretence whatsoever. I cannot doubt of your being of the same Sentiment with me that such a general Clause as is now in a Bill, which impowers the Assessors to tax all Commissions of Profit needs some Qualification, and that it should extend no farther than to Commissions which peculiarly relate to this Province, otherwise any of His Majesty's Servants who may occasionally reside here for a short Term may be taxed for the Profit which they receive from their Commissions and Places in Great-Britain and every other Part of His Majesty's Dominions.
Cambridge, 4th July, 1771. T. Hutchinson.
As this very important Message appeared to be grounded upon his Majesty's 27th Instruction, the House immediately appointed a Committee to wait on the Governor, and pray that his Excellency would be pleased to order a Copy thereof to be laid before them---Accordingly the Secretary by his Excellency's Order, immediately brought a Copy of said Instruction into the House and laid it on the Table---which is as follows.
His Majesty's 27th Instruction to the Governor of the Massachusetts-Bay.
WHEREAS our Commissioners of our Customs in North-America have made Complaint to us that by the Operation of Laws from Time to Time passed within our Province of Massachusetts-Bay, they have been compelled to pay Taxes for the Amount of the Salaries which we have thought fit to allow to the said Commissioners out of our Revenue for their Care and Trouble in the Execution of that Office. It is therefore our Will and Pleasure that you do not for the future upon any Pretence whatever give your Consent to any Law or Laws by which our said Commissioners or any other Persons employed in our service whose Offices have no peculiar Relation to our said Province, shall be liable either by express Words or relative Implication to pay Taxes during their Residence in our said Province for such Salaries or Allowances as do not issue out of any Monies granted unto us by the Legislature of our said Province of Massachusetts-Bay.
A true Copy, THO. FLUCKER, Sec. This Instruction being read in the House, a Committee was appointed to prepare an Answer to his Excellency's Message. In the Afternoon the Committee made Report which was ordered to lie on the Table 'till next Morning; and on Friday July 5, the House unanimously agreed upon the following Answer, which was sent up by Mr. Hancock, Mr. Adams, Col. Gilbert, Major Foster, Mr. Ingersol, Mr. Denny, Col. Bowers, Capt. Heath and Capt. Farley.
May it please your Excellency, THE House of Representatives have taken into Consideration your Excellency's Message of this Day. The Reason you are pleased to assign for withholding your Assent to the Tax-Bill, is surprizing and alarming.
We know of no Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs, nor of any Revenue his Majesty has a Right to establish in North-America. We know and we feel a tribute levied and extorted from those, who if they have Property have a Right to the absolute Disposal of it.
By the Charter it is expressly granted, that "the General Assembly shall have full Power and Authority to impose and levy proportionable and reasonable Assessments, Rates and Taxes, upon the Estates and Persons of all and every the Proprietors & Inhabitants" of the Province: Hence it plainly appears, that the Power of raising and levying Taxes is vested in the General Assembly; and, that Power which has the sole Right of raising and levying Taxes has an unaccountable Right to order and direct in what Way and Manner, and upon whom such Taxes shall be levied, and raised. Therefore, for your Excellency to withhold your Assent to this Bill merely by force of Instruction, is effectually vacating the Charter, and giving Instructions the Force of absolute Laws within this Province.---And we are constrained to say, that your Excellency's present Determination is to be governed by them, tho' this should be the Consequence. We must further observe, that such a Doctrine, if established, would render the Representatives of a free People mere Machines; and they would be reduced to this fatal Alternative, either to have no Taxes levied and raised at all, or to have them raised and levied in such Way and Manner, and upon those only whom his Majesty pleases.
As to the Operation of Law mentioned in your Excellency's Message, the Law of this Province, at least in this Respect, has rightly operated, as it ever ought: And we know of no Reason, nor of any Semblance of Reason, why the Commissioners, their superior or Subordinate Officers, who are equally protected with the other Inhabitants, should be exempted from paying their full Proportion of Taxes for the Support of Government within this Province.
The same Day it was unanimously agreed by both Houses that the following Remonstrance be sent to his Excellency the Governor relative to his refusing to give his Assent to the Grants that have been made for their respective Agents, viz.
May it please your Excellency, YOUR Excellency having refused to assent to the Grants made at the last Session of the General Court to Mr. Bolland, and Mr. DeBerdt, for their respective Services in England, the two Houses in Faithfulness to themselves and those they represent, are constrained to remonstrate to your Excellency on this Subject: And for that Purpose would observe, that Self-defence, whether it regards Individuals or Bodies of Men, is the first Law of Nature; and that in Obedience to the Law, this Community, when its Rights and Liberties have been attacked, have by their Representatives at different Times appointed Agents for their Defence.---Now although it had been
the usual Practice for the Governor to be concerned in that Appointment, yet when Circumstances became critical, and the dearest Rights of the Province were at Stake---when the King's Ministers appeared resolved to infringe those Rights, and could influence the Governor, who was wholly in their Power, to procure an Agent to their Mind, or to controul the Instructions that might be prepared for him: whereby the End and Design of his Appointment might be frustrated---When this was the Case, it became fit and reasonable that an Agent chosen by either House, and the Instructions given him, should be wholly independent of the Governor; and consequently it must be fit and reasonable that the Pay and Support of such Agent should not be obstructed by the Governor.
The same Reasoning is applicable to the Appointment of the Agent by the Council: with Regard to which it may be observed, that when heavy and repeated Charges had been laid against them by the late Governor, Sir Francis Bernard, of Nettleham, Baronet, designed and calculated not only toasperse their Characters, but to affect the Charter of the Province, the Necessity of the Case required they should defend themselves against those Charges. The Right of Defence, which is necessary to guard and preserve every other Right, is founded in natural Justice and common Law, which do not suffer any one to be condemned without being first heard, and their Defence considered: and of this Right they cannot be deprived, without being deprived at the same Time of their political Existence.
The Council are an Order of Men instituted by Charter, and were censured by the said Governor in their public Capacity; a particular Charge being made upon them, their sole Authority was sufficient and proper to answer it: and the Council being a constituent Part of the Body Politick, their Defence was as necessary to the Good of the Whole, as the Care and Preservation of an essential Part is to the Body natural. The Council being an essential Part of the Body Politick or incorporated Province, and their Defence being necessary and beneficial to the whole, the Province is chargeable to pay for such Defence, and consequently no Governor or other Persons can justly obstruct the Payment.
The Right of Defence includes a Right to all the Means requisite and proper for that defence and consequently a Right to appoint and support their own defender: Without this, the Freedom and Benefit of Defence would be taken away where they cannot appear in their own Persons. From the foregoing Observations, the two Houses think it appears very manifestly that they have a just and clear right, both jointly and separately, to appoint Agents for themselves, without the Concurrence of the Governor; and that the great Principle of Self-defence, inherent in and necessarily active in all Bodies capable of Action, makes it unfit and unreasonable that the Governor should refuse his Assent to Grants made to such Agents for their Services to the Province.
As the Grants made at the last Session cannot operate, new Grants have been made to the said Agents this present Session, which now lie before your Excellency: to which Grants the two Houses hope your Excellency will give your Assent.
At Noon the two Houses by his Excellency's Direction gave their joint Attendance at the Town-House in Cambridge, when his Excellency was pleased to close the Session of the General Assembly with the following Speech, viz.
Gentlemen of the Council, and of the House of Representatives,
I have continued the Session longer than has been usual at this season of the year, that you might have the full time you desired for transacting the public and private business which came before you, and it gives me pleasure to reflect that, in general, a good harmony has subsisted between the several branches of the Legislature. In some parts of your proceedings I have not been able to concur in sentiment with you, particularly,
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, I cannot help disapproving of a certain Instrument which you voted in consequence of a Message from me and which you have caused to be entered upon your Journal and to be printed in the public News Papers. I am obliged to make some remarks upon it before I put an end to the session, although it has not been addressed to me in the usual form. By this Instrument you Protest, as you express it, first, against whatsoever tends to establish ministerial or royal Instructions as laws within the Province? and, secondly, against holding the Court in Cambridge, merely by force of Instructions as an intolerable grievance which ought to be redressed.
The first part of your protest was altogether unecessary and can have no good effect, but may alarm the people when they are in no danger; for by the tenor of my Commission, notwithstanding I am required to follow the King's Instructions, I am to make the Charter and the Laws of the Province the rule of my administration, and upon these fundamentals all my Instructions are framed, and if ever you shall think that you have ground to accuse me of departing from the Charter and the established Laws, I promise you that I will not avail myself of an Instruction for my justification or excuse; but if I happen to differ from you upon the construction of the Charter or your Laws, you must allow me to govern myself by my own rather than by your judgment.
The second part of your Protest appears to me to be repugnant to what has been admitted for more than fourscore years to a part of your Constitution; for notwithstanding you confine your Protest to my removing the Court from Boston by force of an Instruction, you may with equal reason extend it to any act whatsoever done by force of Instructions. I must deal plainly with you, Gentlemen, and let you know that I cannot consider myself at liberty to depart from the King's Instructions in any matters which are not repugnant to the Charter and to the established Laws, and it is not the preservation of my place which influences me, but a sense of my duty to the King and the preservation of his Majesty's just Prerogative: It is a new doctrine advanced by the last Assembly, that the King, by referring to himself the power of nominating and appointing a Governor, hath divested himself of the Right of instructing him. If this had been the case, why did the Assembly in 1692 thankfully receive Sir William Phips's Commission, which was published at the same time with the Charter, and which expressly required him to execute his trust according to such powers and Instructions as he should receive pursuant to the Charter and the established Laws? Why has every Assembly since, until the Assembly of the last year, submitted, without any exception, to Commissions of the same tenor? In the controversy with Governor Burnet in 1728, the Assembly would not admit that his Instructions should bind them, but they never pretended that they did not bind him.
Your observation that by the Charter the Governor is to convene the Court from time to time according to his discretion or as he shall judge necessary, and therefore that the King's Instruction ought not to controul him, does not distinguish this case, because every power, where there is no special limitation, is to be exercised according to discretion or as shall be judged necessary. I must further observe to you that before the date of your Charter, Governors in the Plantations were required to execute their trusts, pursuant to the Instructions they received

from the Crown: When the Crown by Charter reserves to itself the power of appointing a Governor, this reserve must be understood to mean a Governor under the like restrictions; with other the King's Governors, unless there be further words to signify the contrary. I know of no such words in the Charter.
His Majesty expects from me, on the one hand, that I make no invasion upon any of your Rights but then, on the other hand, he enjoins me to give up no part of his Prerogative: I know that the Messages and Resolves of the House the last year which asserted that the Governor is not held to the observance of this Instruction, were very displeasing to the King; I am therefore under an additional obligation to bear my testimony against the like assertion.
I would not, however, have laboured to explain points so clear in themselves, if I was not apprehensive that your Constituents are liable to be prejudiced in favour of the Proceedings of their Representatives, and that there is danger, if I had been silent, that this Instrument would retard that quiet and contentment which I doubt not the Gentlemen of the House, in general, who voted for it, with to see fully restored.
I shall only observe upon your Message presented me this day, in answer to my Message to you of yesterday, that whatever may be the Rights of the General Assembly in matters of Taxation, the Crown hath certainly reserved to itself the Prerogative of disallowing every Law of what nature soever; and as the disallowance of a Tax Act, after it is in part executed, would cause perplexity, I think that his Majesty's Instruction pointing out to you, through me his servant, those parts of your Tax Acts which he disapproves of, should be considered as an Instance of his paternal regard to his subjects, and that it is not liable to the least exception. I shall transmit my Message and this your extraordinary Answer to be laid before his Majesty.
Gentlemen of the Council, and of the House of Representatives, I have given my Consent to the Bills and Votes which have passed the two Houses this Session as far I could consistent with my Duty to the King, and with the Interest of the Province.
Upon mature Consideration of the Grants made to WILLIAM BOLLAN, Esq; and to the Executors of DENNIS DEBERT, Esq; by the last Assembly, I refused my Consent. I cannot yet see Reason to alter my Sentiments and the Objections to my signing the Grants made this Session to the same Persons, to which your Message of this Forenoon refers, are rather increased than lessened. T. HUTCHINSON.
Council Chamber, Cambridge, July 5, 1771 After which the Secretary, by his Excellency's Order, prorogued the Great and General Court to Wednesday the 4th Day of September next.
BOSTON, July 8, 1771.
Extract of a Letter from London, April 22, 1771. "You have no doubt heard ere this time of the Lord Mayor's commitment to the Tower.---The affair has made a great noise here, but is likely to end very quietly. The minority decline daily---Wilkes has lost his former popularity, and several others who bid fair to succeed him in the good opinion of the people have been "bought off," as they call it, by the Ministry. This is notoriously the case of Mr. Wedderburne, who having accepted a place under the Crown, contradicted in one week every thing he had said in the House of Commons in the week preceding. I laid the affair of the Chief Magistrate's commitment was likely to end quietly: By which I mean, that it would end without mobs in the city, or remonstrances at court: But it seems the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver mean to prosecute Sir Fletcher Norton, as the Signer of an illegal warrant---and where that prosecution will end the Judges of England must decide.
"Much has been said lately about a war with Spain; but by what I can collect, I cannot believe that event will take place within the present year. And yet it is very certain that Spain has been preparing herself for the purpose. In general people here do not seem disposed to enter into a war. American affairs have been absorbed this session in matters of more general concern. We are really not of that consequence to this country, which we have been taught to think ourselves. It would raise the highest indignation in you, to hear some members of Parliament haranguing about "OUR American Plantations," as though the absolute disposal of every thing there was vested solely in themselves. Those members who most warmly espouse our cause, are Burke, Barre, Sir George Saville, and Mr. Pownall; to these Gentlemen the Colonies are much indebted for many excellent defences."
A letter from Virginia says, That the Crop of Tobacco now growing there will be lessened at least 25,000 Hogsheads, by means of the late great Freshets in that Country.
Extract of another late Letter from London.
"There never was a Measure more odious, and generally alarming, than the Proceedings of the House of Commons against the Printers, the Lord Mayor, and Alderman Oliver.---The Violation of the most fundamental Principles of a free Constitution, and of the peculiar Franchises of the City of London, has given great Alarm to all thinking, independent Men, and raised a Fury in our great Metropolis, which is with Difficulty restrained from committing the most tragical Acts. But a little while ago, Sir Fletcher declared he should regard the Resolves of the House of Commons, no more than the Resolves of a Parcel of drunken Potters; now he is in the Chair, those Resolves are omnipotent; but Sir Fletcher's Law (astute as he is) is not Gospel, and in general, without Doors, most Men are inclined to frame their political Creeds in direct Contradiction to his Opinions, which are very apt to take their Color from his immediate Object. The Order of the House, that the Lord Mayor should be heard by his Counsel, but that they should not defend the Conduct (for such was the Effect of the Restriction that his Counsel should not speak on the Point of Privilege) has raised the utmost Indignation---this was Tyranny with a Vengeance. Lord North had declared, on a former Occasion, that if he had the Power of working Miracles, without that of multiplying the Loaves and Fishes, Opposition would still be clamorous in that House. Men that could passively hear such an Insult, must be abandoned indeed. If his Lordship's Remark was true, it shewed that, so far as their is a Concurrence with him, it is more owing to the Loaves and Fishes, that have been multiplied, and he has the Power of distributing, than to the Wisdom of his Measures, the Probity of his Conduct, or the Magick of his Eloquence. Wedd-e (one of the Men of blustering Patriotism) has plunged himself over Head and Ears in all the Filth & Pollutions of his new Connexions. His Name is pursued with Reproaches and Execrations; Populus me sibi-let, at mibi plaudo, &c. would suit him as a Motto. The King's Proclamation was issued on the Address of the House of Commons, and its remarkable, that the great Seal was not affixed to it till two Days after it had actually appeared in the Gazette. The Reason of it was this: When the Affair was deputed in Council, the new Chancellor declared vehemently against the Legality of the Proclamation, and absolutely refused to put the Seal to it without an express Mandate, and when at length he received the Mandate, he declared that the Measure was contrary to his Opinion and Advice."
"Lord North, in going to the House, was very near being Bewitted: His Hand was very much wounded, which he held
forth to the House and wept; and it was pitied; but he met not with the generous Applause he would have deserved, if he could have stretched forth the bloody Hand, and said,
" Hæc Manus ob Patriam pugnavit Vulnera passa. How ridiculous is it to assume a Power which cannot be maintained! The Printers bid Defiance to the House of Commons, and continue to give the Speeches to the Publick---even the Speeches made in the Case of their Brethren, who have been censured for such Kind of Publications."
"The late most ignominious Convention will not, it is generally thought, prevent a War. A WAR, especially since the Indignity offered to the City, must of course disband the present Administration. This Consideration gives great Alarm: For such is the prevailing Corruption, that hardly any Point of national Interest will be regarded, when this cannot be preserved; and Administration be supported at the same Time. How great is the Danger that such Men, who must turn out if there be a War, will sacrifice any Thing to prevent it, that they may keep in."
We hear from Abington, that on Saturday last a young Woman of that Town, was struck with Lightning, which deprived her of her Senses.
WILLIAMSBURG, June 13.
We hear from North-Carolina that the Regulators have entirely dispersed since their late defeat; that the Ringleaders have fled to the Mississippi.
PORTSMOUTH, July 12.
We hear from Damiscott, that about three Weeks ago, three Men being in a Canoe, fishing, about half a Mile from the Shore, a large Shark came along Side, and after going several Times round the Canoe, came up and took the Man standing in the Middle, overboard, bit him in two Pieces and swallowed both Parts; afterwards came up to the Canoe again, when the other two, being greatly terrified, hove over all their Fish, and laid themselves down on the Bottom, on which the Shark made towards a Boat, lying at a little Distance, and luckily one of the People had a Gun, and on the Shark's coming up along Side, shot him instantly dead. They afterwards towed him on Shore, opened him, and took out the two Parts of the Man and buried them. He left a sorrowful Widow and three small Children to lament his unhappy Death.
We hear from Plaistow, that last Week was married there, by the Rev. Mr. Brown, of this Town, the Rev. Moses Badger, of Haverhill, in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, Itinerant Missionary for the Province of New-Hampshire, to Miss Mary Saltonstall, of Boston; a young Lady of a respectable Family, and of real Worth; which, with the known Fidelity, Integrity, Honor and Piety of the Gentleman, yield their Friends the most sanguine Hopes, that the Alliance will be Fortunate, the Match happy.....
-----Wealth is a great Provocative to am'rous Heat; It is all Philters and high Diet, That makes Love rampant, and to fly out; 'Tis Beauty alway in the Flower, That Buds and Blossoms at Four-score. 'Tis Virtue, Wit, and Worth and all; That Men divine and sacred call: For what is worth in any Thing, But so much Money as 'twill bring; Or what but Riches is there known, Which Man can solely call his own.
Hudibras, Part 2d. Cant. 1st. MARRIED, At Newcastle, Mr. Stephen Chale, to Miss Polly Frost, Daughter of the late Joseph Frost, Esq; of said Place.
We hear a Mast Ship is arrived at Casco-Bay from England; Several Gentlemen and Ladies came Passengers, who we bear are gone to Boston by Water, and carried with them all the Newspapers. She had Eight Weeks Passage. His Excellency our GOVERNOR, had four very complete Horses, as a Present, come in said Ship.
   CUSTOM-HOUSE, Piscataqua July 11   Inward Entries, FROM.     Brig American Soldier, James Holland, Granada.   Brig William, Daniel Evans, St. Martins.   Schooner Success, Lawrence Furlong, Cadaloup.   Schooner Jolly Robin, Foster Trefethen, Rhode-Island.   Sloop John, James Whitney, Ditto.   Sloop Sally, James Budd, Virginia.   Sloop William & Mary, Shadrick Bell, Philadelphia.   Sloop Almsbury, William Wyer, Ditto.   Outward-Bound,   Brig William, James Stoodly, West-Indies.   Clear'd for Departure,   Ship Pepperhillborough, William Moore, West-Indies.   Schooner Eight Sisters, Epes Greenough, Ditto.   Schooner Joanna, Mathew Lindsay, New-foundland.   Sloop Speedwell, Thomas Smith, Ditto.   Brig Charming Molly, James Guppy, West-Indies.  
TO BE SOLD By Peter Pearse,
At his Shop near the Parade in Portsmouth BROAD Cloths of different colours, with trimmings, Plains, fine Bath Coatings, Blanketing, Baizes, Ruggs, Shalloon, Stuffs: an Assortment of Irish Linnens, Sheeting, Dowlas, Russia Linnen, Crates of Ware, Gloucester and Cheshire Chees, English Loaf Sugar, Sheeps wool, cotton Wool, Powder, Shot and Flints, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Pepper, Indigo, Mens and Womens worsted & cotton Stockings, Linn Shoes, Barcelona Handkerchiefs, writing Paper, check Linnen, Ozenbrigs, Leather Breeches, Wool Cards, Sythes, Stock Locks, Kippens Snuff, Bunting, Thicksett, Fustin, and Jeans, Knives and Forks, Scizars, metal and mohair Buttons, Twist, sewing Silk, Pins, Needles, Buckles, Cork Screws, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. the above Articles he will sell as cheap as can be bought in Portsmouth. Some of them were lately imported directly from the Makers.
A large Assortment of Paper Hangings
For Rooms, to be sold by WILLIAM APPLETON, at his Store in Portsmouth.
To be sold by STEPHEN HARDY, at his Shop opposite Dr. Jackson's, the
True German Blacking Balls, superior in goodness to any hitherto invented. They giving a peculiar power to Leather to resist water, and so softens and nonrishes the Shoes and Boots, that they never crack, and leaves it a most beautiful jet Black, which never daubs or soils the Hands, &c. when dressing. This Composition will keep Years, therefore it is very convenient to carry abroad or far to take into the Country; this Ball has gained Reputation superior to any of its kind for these thirty Years past.
NOTICE is hereby given to the delinquent Proprietors of PERRY'S TOWN, so called, that so much of their Rights will be sold at public Vendue, by me the subscriber, as will pay the sum set against the Name of each original Owner, on the 12th Day of August next, at the House of Mr. Oliver Knight, Innholder in Atkinson, at Five o'Clock Afternoon. The De'inquents are as follows,
   l. s. d. l. s. d.     Edward Barnard 1 4 0 Abraham Perry 1 4 0   John Barker 1 4 0 Ebenezer Perry 1 4 0   Thomas Hale 1 4 0 John Pecker 1 4 0   Jacob Hancock 1 4 0 Mark Plummer 1 4 0   Asa Kimball 1 4 0 Thomas Fallansbeck 1 4 0   Thomas Hale, jr. 1 4 0 Jacob Woodward 0 15 0   Thomas Noyes 1 4 0  
Ebenezer Noyes Collector. Plaistow July 10 1771.
(Perry's Town)
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of PERRY'S TOWN, so called, in the Province of New-Hampshire, that there was nine Shillings raised on each Right of said Proprietors April 1, 1771, committed to me to collect, which unless paid to me immediately at my House in Plaistow, their Rights will be advertised for Sale at Public Vendue, according to Law, in the New-Hampshire Gazette.
EBENEZER NOYES, Collector. Plaistow July 10 1771.
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of PERRY'S TOWN, so called, in the Province of New Hampshire, that so much of their Rights will be sold by me the Subscriber at public Vendue as to pay the sums herein set against the Name of each original Owners of the rights delinquent and lost, if not paid to present the same, on Monday the 12th Day of August next, at two o'clock, Afternoon, at the House of Oliver Knight, Innholder in Atkinson.
   The original Proprietors are as follows, viz.     James Clement £ 0 15 0   Abraham Perry 1 1 0   Daniel Poor 0 14 3   John Pecker 1 1 0   John Plummer 1 1 0  
JOHN KNIGHT, Collector. Atkinson July 2 1771.
The Proprietors and Grantees of the Township of Barrington, are hereby noticed to meet at the Meeting-House in said Barrington on Monday the twenty second Day of Ju'y Instant at eleven of the clock, before noon, for the following Purposes viz. 1st. to choose a Moderator for the Meeting. 2d. to see if the proprietors and Grantees will vote a further sum of money to be raised by a Tax on the Lands in said Barrington in order to defray the Expence of clearing a Road from Barrington to Barnstead. 3d If a Sum is voted to be raised to chose a Committee to make a just and impartial Assessment on the Land of the proprietors and Grantees. 4th. To choose a Committee to examine the Accounts of the former Committee. And fifthly to chose a Collector to collect the money as soon as may be after the Assessment is made.
By order of the Committee, SAMUEL BREWSTER Prop's Clerk. Barrington July 2 1771.
All Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of John Perkins, junr. late of Dover, in the Province of New Hampshire, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts duly attested, to Patience Perkins, Widow, Relect, of said Deceased, and Administratrix, to said Estate in order for settlement.

Messieurs Fowles, Please to insert the following.
Misera est Servitus, ubi, Jus est vagum & incertum.
MY motto is the observation of wisdom confirmed by the experience of ages. The polished inhabitants of Europe evince more strongly its truth, than the savage wanderers of America. A horde of savages enjoys more happiness, without law, than the effeminate Italians with all their multiplicity of legal entanglements. Humanity has been disgraced by the uncertainty of law, and while every other science has been reduced to precision and certainty, it has been the fate of the most valuable knowledge viz. of determining life and property, to remain fluctuating and obscure. I own that huge tomes the production of the plodding northern nations have not been wanting, but their numbers have but increased the mischief. They have described with a tedious minuteness many questions of property, but where save one or two instances were, are or have been the people whose government has arrived to that perfection, that the life of the citizen has not been always at the disposal of the most powerful? English laws have been often subservient to the purposes of a potent faction, and their humanity is, even at this refined period disgraced by the capital punishment of many actions, that derive their criminality only from the prohibition of them. But we have lately refined in our benevolence to felons. The most detestable and abandoned of England are sent to the colonies, doubtless for the improvement of our morals, or as if vice become an exportable commodity, would benefit a country that is unhappy enough to be obliged to import it.
But to digress no farther, be it my part with evidence that shall carry conviction, "to point out the uncertainty of our own laws; the destructive consequences thereof to the people; and if I am able to suggest something that may prove remedial."
Many of our statutes are either uncertain and vague from either their primitive construction, or rendered so, by the different determinations of our several courts of justice, as they have occasionally come before them. That croud of ignorant magistrates under the late administration would have injured the most perfect system of laws that the sagacity of mankind ever discovered. Should the charge on our statutes be contested I should not with an easier task than to prove it to demonstration. A deficiency of statutes in number and matter is no trifling grievance; in New-Hampshire many questions daily arise that the ablest advocate cannot determine, who often finds the injunctions of common sense warranted by the most approved authorities baffled by the event. The great want of publick records in certain departments, where you may in vain search for authenticated, approved precedents in legal proceedings, affords a striking proof of the complained of uncertainty. Nor is it yet absolutely certain to what rules the highest court in their proceedings are restricted, whether to the severer modes of the English common law, or the more discretionary and extensive that the imperial institutes justify. One would guess not to the former, for by that FACT is solely confined to jurors, while the latter trusting to the known abilities and integrity of the court, reposes an unbounded confidence in their judgment. In my second position, the most wanton Imagination would not know where to check its flight. It would have afforded ample cause of triumph to the factious declaimer, who might have dwelt with exultation on the incapacity and ignorance of former men in former times whose inexperience in business and neficence of the constitution have heightened the grievance, and given uncertainty a right to plead in excuse almost ancient prescription.
But the benevolent heart would drop the tear of pity on their urns, and wish now to amend what could not before be avoided. The ignorance of the people throughout the province, without a solecism in metaphysics, is both cause and effect of the deficiency of our laws. We have been criminally faulty in not encouraging literary abilities, for that reason so few have arisen among us, and those who have arisen among us, and those who have appeared, owe their eminence rather to the native strength of their own minds, than to any reward they have received as due to their merit. We have been lulled into the most disgraceful indolence in the late contest for freedom, either from ignorance of our privileges or from the uncertainty of them. I confess some few with athenian fickleness, without spartan firmness, have been clamorous against external encroachments on imaginary immunities, but we have born the most flagrant internal abuses as though callous to the feelings of humanity. The neighbouring governments have produced men of splendid abilities and the greatest virtue, who in the hour of temptation and danger have contemned frowns and resentments, and deaf to the allurements of riches and ambition rejected bribes and offices, steadfastly contending tho' partly in vain for their own immunities, and the rights of mankind; while the frigid soil of New-Hampshire has scarce bro't forth the plant of public virtue much less reared and matured it in one individual. The uncertainty of our constitution is the corrupt fountain that hath contaminated the source of publick life, and rendered us almost as vile as our neighbours have tho't us contemptible. These are consequences, tho' some of them remote of the uncertainty of legislation.-----Remainder if it be palatable in the next.
Province of New Hampshire.
WE the subscribers appointed and constituted Commissioners, by the Hon. John Wentworth, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills for the Province of New Hampshire, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of John Titcomb, late of Dover, in said Province, Esq; Intestate, deceased, represented Insolvent, hereby notify the Creditors to said Estate, that six Months from the 24th of June last past, was allowed by the Judge for that purpose, and that we shall punctually attend at the Dwelling House of said Deceased, to examine and receive all Claims well prov'd on the last Monday of this, and the four following Months, from two to five of the Clock in the Afternoon of said Days.
Dover. July 3d, 1771. John Gage, junr. Joseph Roberts.
TO BE SOLD BY
Jacob Treadwell,
At his Store in Portsmouth, A very fine Assortment of China WARE.
Province of New-Hampshire. BY HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq Captain-General, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over his Majesty's Province aforesaid, and Vice Admiral of the same.
A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the GENERAL-ASSEMBLY of this Province, is now Prorogued to Thursday the 11th Day of July Instant, and nothing appearing for his Majesty's Service, that requires their Meeting at that Time:
I HAVE therefore thought fit hereby further to PROROGUE the said GENERAL-ASSEMBLY, to Tuesday the First Day of October next, then to meet at the Court-House in Portsmouth, at 10 o'Clock, A. M. for the dispatch of Business.
Given at Portsmouth, the 3d Day of July, in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith &c. Annoque Domini, 1771.
J. WENTWORTH.
By His Excellency's Command, THEODORE ATKINSON, Secretary.
Province of New Hampshire.
WHEREAS at a legal Meeting of the Proprietors of LANCASTER, held at the House of David Page, Esq; on the 12th of March last, a Tax of Three Pounds Six Shillings, Lawful Money, was voted to be laid on each original Right or Share of Land, in said Township, for paying the Expences of building Mills, clearing Roads, hiring Preaching, &c. &c. in order to expedite the immediate settlement of said Lancaster; and the subscriber was chosen Collector of the said Tax, who hereby gives Notice, to all the proprietors, that he expects they pay the same, on or before the first of August next, on Failure of which their Rights will be advertised for sale in this Paper, agreeable to Law.
N. B. The aforesaid Mills, when built, are to be sold at public Vendue, for the Use of the proprietors, and the Money applied as they shall order. Lancaster, July 1. 1771. DAVID PAGE, Collector.
(Chichester.)
THIS is to give Notice to the Proprietors of Chichester, that have not paid their Taxes, that they meet me the Subscriber at Hampton, at the House of Mr. Jonathan Leavitt, Innholder, on Wednesday the 17th Day of July next, at Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon, to pay their Taxes that is now due on their Rights in said Town, or otherwise their Lands will be Sold immediately, to pay the Charges for clearing High Ways in said Township. Samuel Jenness, Collector.
N. B. There is to be a Proprietors Meeting at said Leavitt's, the abovesaid 17th Day of July next.
Rye, June 28, 1771.
INN at Newbury-Port.
Robert Calder,
From LONDON,
(late Servant to his Excellency GOVERNOR WENTWORTH)
HAS purchased the Lease of the noted INN, lately occupied by Mr. William Lambert; which is now further repair'd and furnish'd with convenient Accommodations for Travellers, and good Stabling for Horses. The public Favor is humbly intreated, and the best Entertainment with diligent Attendance will be provided for Travellers and others, who may be pleased to favour with their Custom, The Public's most obedient Servant, July 1, 1771. ROBERT CALDER.
WHEREAS at legal Meetings of the Proprietors of the Township of Haverhill in the Province of New Hampshire, November 26, 1770, A Tax was laid on each original Right or share of Land of three pounds Lawful Money. As also, Feb. 21st a Tax of two pounds two shilling, Lawful Money on each Right. This is to give Notice to all the delinquent proprietors that unless payment of said Taxes be made to me at my House in Haverhill, in the province aforesaid, at or before the 20th Day of July next, then the aforesaid Rights or shares will be advertised for sale.
Ezekiel Ladd. Collector.
IMPORTED AND TO BE SOLD BY
William Cooper, jun
At the very lowest Rates for Cash, at his Shop near the Rev. Mr. Cary's Meeting House, in Newbury Port, — A neat and genteel Assortment of English and India GOODS, such as,
MIDLING and low priced Broad Cloths, German Serges, Forest Cloths, Halfthicks, and Ratteens, Kerseys, Duffels, Duffel Blankets, black Everlasting, Velvet and Velveretts, Duroys, Pillow Fustians, Russia Drab, Thicksets, Callimancoes of all colours, Tammies, Shalloons, Camblets and Cambleteens, Poplins, Brilliant, Barr'd Stuffs, Cotton Gowns, Callicoes and Chinces, Bengalla Perriascos, Catgur, Parisett, white and pink-Sarsnett, black, white and crimson flower'd Satins, Grizzelts, Broccies, black, brown, green and blue India Taffeties, Manalia's, Grograms, ————— Damask Table Cloths, silk Damascus, plain and figur'd Modes, sewing Silks, Ribbons, stay Cord, Braid and Gallons, Gold and Silver thread Buttons, worsted, thread and cotton Hose, Breeches Peices; Womens worsted & silk Gloves and Mitts, Mens thread ditto, plain and flower'd Lawns, Cambricks, long Lawn, figured silk Gauze, spotted and plain Gauze, Queen's Gauze, silk Gauze Handkerchiefs, Taylors Threads, silk Knee Straps, Twist and Buttons, Buckram, Irish Linens and Sheeting, Dowlass, Russia Diaper and Linnea, Men and Boys Wool and Calker Hats, Cotton Checks, Mens and Womens black and white shammy Gloves, black and white blown Lace, chipt Hats, fine Straw ditto. Shirt Buttons, Fans, Wax & other Necklaces, silk and other Handkerchiefs, Gimp and Snail, No. 4 Pins, Needles, Cap wire, Andrew and Mogul Cards, Wool Cards, Cod and Mackrell Lines, Cod Hooks, Gun Powder, Shot, Tea, Pepper, Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace, Cinnamon, Allum, Copperas, Brimstone, Jappan'd Candlesticks, Pad Locks, Snuff Boxes, Penknives and Cuttose, Shears Sizzars, Razors, Table Knives and Forks, Ink Powder, yellow and white shoe Buckles, Temple and other Spectacles, Pot Paper, Curry Combs, Money Scales and Waits, Carpenters Rules, Yellow Mettal Buttons, &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.
WE the Subscribers appointed
Commissioners by the Hon. John Wentworth, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills, for the province of New Hampshire, to receive and examine the claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Mr. Benjamin Whitemore, late of Nottingham West, Husbandman deceased, represented Insolvent, and six Months being allowed for that purpose, from the 24th Day of February last, we hereby give notice, that we will attend on that service, on the third Tuesday in this and the five following Months, from two to five o'clock in the Afternoon, on said Days at the House of Sanders Bradbury, Innholder in Nottingham West.
Nottingham, March 3d. Hezekiah Hutchins. Joseph Kelly.
Notice is given to all Persons
having any Demands on the Estate of the late THOMAS PACKER Esq; to bring their Accounts properly proved, that they may be immediately paid; ALSO those indebted thereto, are requested to make speedy Payment, in Order to an immediate and final Settlement of said Estate.
By Order of the Executor, JOHN HURD. Portsmouth, July 1st. 1771.
Province of New Hampshire.
Application being made to me by the Owners of more than one sixteenth part of the Lands in the Township of Apthorp, in said province, for a Meeting of the proprietors of said Apthorp, to be held at the Dwelling House of Captain Caleb Sanborn, Innholder at Hampton Falls, on the 12th Day of August next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, 1. To chuse a Moderator, Clerk, Assessors, a Collector and Treasurer. 2. To chuse a Committee to lay out and clear a Highway thro' said Apthorp. 3. To chuse a Committee to lay out in hundred Acre Lots the whole of the Lands in said Apthorp, which shall remain after the several Tracts granted to the several persons therein named shall be allotted. 4. To vote such Tax on said Lands as shall be thought necessary for payment of the past and future Cost in preparing said Township for speedy settlement. 5. To settle a Method for calling the future Meeting of said propriety.
I do accordingly hereby warn the proprietors of said Apthorp to meet at the time and place above-mentioned for the purposes aforesaid.
Portsmouth. June 28. 1771.
HUNKING WENTWORTH, Just. Pac.
Blanks of most sorts, sold at the Printing-Office, near the State-House: