The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-02-07 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday Feb. 7, 1772.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
NO. 798 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
Capt. Wier, from London, is arrived at Boston. From the London Papers to the 30th of Nov. are extracted the following Articles, viz.
THE Parliament is prorogued by Proclamation to the 21st of January, then to meet for the Dispatch of the weighty and important Affairs of the Nation.
L O N D O N
Nov. 12. Last Saturday's Gazette contained his Majesty's order in council, signifying, that as information has been received, that the plague hath broken out, and now rages at Moscow, and other parts of Russia, his Majesty, by and with the advice of his privy council, doth thereupon judge it probable, that the infection may be brought into this kingdom, or the isles of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark or Man, from Archangle, Peterburgh, Narva, Riga, or some other port or place in the dominions of Russia: His Majesty doth therefore order, that all ships, vessels, persons, goods, and merchandizes, now arrived, or that shall hereafter arrive in any port, of this kingdom, or the isles of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark or Man, from Archangle, Peterburgh, Narva, Riga, or from any other port or place in the dominions of Russia, do make their quarantine for forty days (under the restrictions mentioned in the said order) which is to commence and be computed from the day each ship or vessel shall come to anchor in the place appointed for performing quarantine, and not before: And that the place for performing quarantine by such ships and vessels (not having the infection on board) as are bound to the rivers of Thames and Medway, be Standgate Creek; and by such as are bound to any other of the ports of Great Britain, be such places as shall be appointed by the officers of his Majesty's Customs in the ports.
It is said, that a ship from the Mediterranean with the Plague on board, is driving about the North-Sea.
Mr. Eyre was bailed by Lord Mansfield, himself in only 300l. and three Scottish securities in 100l. each, a Kinlock, Farquar, and Innis. Eyre has since made his escape.
To Lord Chief Justice MANSFIELD
At the intercession of three of your countrymen, you have bailed a man, who, I presume, is also a Scotchman, and whom the Lord Mayor of London has refused to bail. I do not mean to enter into an examination of the partial, unutter motive of your conduct; but confining myself strictly to the fact, I affirm, that you have done that, which by law you were not warranted to do. The thief was taken in the theft; the stolen goods were found upon him, and he made no defence. In these circumstances (the truth of which you dare not deny, because it is of public notoriety) it could not stand indifferent whether he was guilty or not, much less could there be any presumption of his innocence; and, in these circumstances I affirm, in contradiction to YOU, Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, that by the Laws of England, he was not bailable. If ever Mr. Eyre should be brought to trial, we shall hear what you have to say for yourself; and I pledge myself, before God and my Country, in proper time and place to make good my charge against you. JUNIUS.
It is reported that Mr. Eyre has received a free pardon, on condition of his distributing 2000l. among the different charities in this city.
The late Sir John Rous's death was occasioned
by his eating too great a quantity of walnuts.
Nov. 16. The physicians of a great personage now abroad, we are told, are using every means to prevent a consumption in their Royal Patient.
It is said that Dr. Febb and Mr. Adair, who are gone to attend the Duke of Gloucester, are allowed 800 Guineas per month each.
There is no doubt that the K—— is exceedingly offended with the D—— of C——'s marriage. Some of the C——, in imitation of the Royal wrath, talk of a bill of exclusion.
EXTEMPORE.
On the Middlesex Election, & a late Marriage.
Of Lutterall's it is truly said The strangest fates their own; The people's rights they first invade, And then attack the crown.
A Gentleman reading yesterday a paragraph in the Newcastle paper, of a person's having married a Lady of fortune who was dumb, an Irishman standing by cries out, "Arrah by my soul, and he was very lucky, for if he cuts her throat after he's got the money she can't tell who did it."
Friday afternoon as two sailors just come home in an East-Indianman were passing by St. Paul's in their way to the play, they took particular notice of the statues round the church: one asked the other if he knew who these men were? Not I, says he. A person passing by told them they were the twelve Apostles. The twelve Apostles? (says one of them) why I can only see six. Why, Bob (says the other) would you have them all upon deck at once (why they are at watch and watch I suppose).
Wednesday a youth about fourteen was tried before Sir John Fielding at Guildhall Westminster, & was sentenced to be transported for life; on his leaving the bar, he said aloud, thank you Sir John, for d——n my e——s you have saved me from the gallows.
A correspondent has sent us the description of the dress of a modern fine fellow:—A coat of light green with sleeves too small for the arms, and buttons too big for the sleeves. A pair of fine Manchester stuff breeches, without money in the pockets. Clouded silk stockings,—but no legs. A club of hair behind, larger than the head that carries it. A hat of the size of a six pence, on a block not worth a farthing.
Yesterday morning a few, named Solomon A. braham, who lives in Shoemaker-row, Aldgate being suddenly taken ill, and touched with remorse of conscience, (imagining he should die) sent for a friend, and acknowledged himself to be one of the nine Jews concerned in the robbery & Murder at Mrs. Hutchinson's at Chelsea, a few Months ago. He desired his friend to inform some magistrate of the above; and having told him the names and places of abode of his accomplices, his friend went immediately to Sir John Fielding's, who sent out his people after them, by which means seven of the gang were taken, & after a long examination committed to different jails.
Extract of a Letter which Prince Gallitz the Russian Minister at the Hague, received the 14th inst. from an officer on board the Russian fleet, in the Archipelago, dated at Tasso, Oct. 19, 1771.
"The transactions of the present campaign, tho' perhaps not so brilliant as those of last year, are nevertheless of some consequence. Before any great stroke could be struck, it was necessary previously to destroy the magazines which were established for the supply of the capital. With this view Count Alexis Ordow went with the fleet and bombarded Negropont, while the troops which landed seized the magazines of
corn and flour. His squadron afterwards cruized along the coast of Macedonia, bombarded Cavallo, destroyed or carried off the considerable magazines at Salonica, and in the gulph of Gallandra. On the other side, Count Theodore Orlow scoured Natolia, cannonaded Rhodes, and afterwards entered the gulph of Macrin. This place since the war has been made the depository of the corn that is brought from Syria and Egypt, which from thence is sent by land to Constantinople. Under the direction of his Excellency I had the honour to command the troops that were sent ashore upon this occasion. The enemy at first made a shew of defending their magazines but were soon obliged to abandon them with the loss of 60 men, besides several wounded and made prisoners. We likewise took some chebecks and four pieces of cannon, and had only two men killed and a few wounded. A transport ship with troops on board was attacked by five Turkish galleys, but after a smart engagement the latter were forced to sheer off. This is the substance of what had passed in this part of the world."
Dublin, Nov. 6. Character of our late Patriot.
DOCTOR CHARLES LUCAS was born in Dublin about the beginning of the present century, and having received a liberal education, was bred apothecary. He was a gentleman of unblemished honor, and endowed with every virtue that could adorn a public station. As a physician, he was eminent, humane and charitable; and as a Senator, unbiassed in judgment, invariable in conduct, and uncorruptible in integrity. In the year 1749, he was voted an enemy to his country, by a venal majority of the most abandoned —— that ever gave laws to this kingdom (except the present) and, like Coriolanus, became an exile for having just merited the thanks & approbation of all his fellow subjects. Several years elapsed, during which he improved his medical knowledge, and became eminent in that profession. In the year 1761, he returned to his native country in consequence of a Noli prosequi, obtained from his present Majesty, and a vacancy happening at the same time for the city of Dublin, by the dissolution of parliament, on the demise of the late King—he was elected a member for this city, by the grateful suffrages of a loyal and free people, who were acquainted with his sufferings, & had most unreserved confidence in his patriotic virtues. He then entered on the theatre of public life, and has ever since continued to discharge his duty to his constituents, with a firmness not to be relaxed; with an integrity, not to be paralleled; and with an intrepidity, not to be intimidated. He remained unmoved amidst every change of government, and every revolution of politics, and persisted to the last moment of his life in an avowed detestation of tyranny and injustice, and a love to his country, which no threats could diminish, nor bribes could purchase. In the midst of venality & corruption, unplaced, unbribed, and unpenioned, he stemmed the torrent of abuse, the opposition of party, and the frowns of power. He was the palladium of constitutional liberty, in this kingdom, and one of those few friends to the public, who have kept the promises made to their constituents, through all temptations of advancement and every sinister artifice of ministerial craft, or viceroyal influence.

To J U N I U S.
YOU seem to delight most in traducing the most exalted and most respectable characters.
You say, Lord Mansfield bailed Mr. Eyre at the intercession of three of his countrymen.
I say that is false; and that what he did was his duty to do as Lord Chief Justice of England, and perfectly agreeable to law & to constant practice.
You say, that you presume Mr. Eyre is a Scotchman.
I say the Culpit is an Englishman.
You say, his Bail were all Scotchmen.
I say, they were. And how did that happen? Because a Scotchman is, by marriage, unhappily allied to him: and why should it be deemed a reproach that they joined in doing a good natur'd office at the request of a countryman? or that they contributed to alleviate the distress of an innocent woman, who, tho' unfortunately connected with the criminal, had no participation in his guilt? Dost thou not know, thou slanderer, that the offence, though felony by law, was of the slightest kind? And wouldst thou not, had that able and amiable Judge (whose name will be an everlasting honour to this country) refused to admit Mr. Eyre to bail, have traduced his Lordship for that very refusal; and charged him with executing the law with wanton rigour, because he was an Englishman?
To the PRINTER.
THE Junius of Saturday whoever he is, knows nothing of Law. He is even ignorant of its most common forms, yet, with his usual effrontery, he presumes to Censure the Lord Chief Justice of England on a subject which he himself does not, in the least, understand. In what country, destitute of law and regulation, has this champion of the constitution passed his youth, when he does not know that the Lord Chief Justice, and other Judges of the Court of King's Bench, are authorized to bail in cases not bailable of right, though a Justice of Peace, how reasonable soever he may think it, has no such authority?
Eyre may have been bailed under circumstances which made it a thing of course; as, in the case of such a man charged with such a larceny; the prosecutor, especially such a prosecutor as the City of London, recommended & approved of the bail. If the prosecutor does not complain, every body ought to presume that the thing was done upon grounds which made it reasonable. Neither has the unfortunate man abused the humanity shown him: he has surrendered in due time; and taken his trial: but the bouncing Junius, notwithstanding his having pledged himself to God and his country, did not appear to object to the culprit's having been admitted to bail.
The writer of Junius is always unfortunate when he descends to facts. The Lord Mayor did not refuse to bail Eyre. He sent his compliments to the Lord Chief Justice, declaring that he wished of all things to have Eyre bailed: but that he doubted his own Power to do it. His Lordship was in the right. The authority of bailing, in such cases, is vested in the Judges of the Court of King's Bench only; and it is a very fortunate thing for the Liberty of the subject that they have that power. It prevents (Junius himself will approve of the remark) a trial from being delayed and put off by Court influence and chicane.
A letter from Dublin mentions that the late Dr. Lucas died in a very narrow circumstances, and that a pension is talked of for his widow, a young lady whom he married but a few years ago. Extract of a Letter from Chatham, Nov. 17.
"His Majesty's ship Pembroke of sixty guns, and the Salisbury of 50, now at Black-stakes; are ordered to be off and laid up in ordinary at this port; their ship's companies are entered on board his Majesty ships Monarch and Magnificent of 74 guns each.
L O N D O N, November 25. The Rev'd Mr. Cooper, President of the College of New-York, is just arrived in the Fox. Capt. Norman from New-York. He is said to have come over at the desire of the clergy, to further the settlement of a Bishop in America.
The affair of the Mississippi government is revived since Lord Hillsborough's return
from Ireland, and we are told that a civil establishment on that river will take place in the course of the present winter.
Early this morning, about one hundred and fifty prisoners under sentence of transportation, were taken from New-gate, & conducted on board a lighter at Blackfriars to be carried down the river, and shipped on board the vessel that is to take them to America. There are amongst these unhappy wretches, two carts loaded with sick, whose stench in particular affected many persons, and may probably produce a malignant disorder.
Lord North, we hear, determines in the course of next sessions to bring in a bill for the purpose of lessening the number of executions, and confining capital criminal (unless convicted of murder) to some public work for life, where it is possible their labour may make an atonement for the violations which they have committed upon the laws of their country.
Nov. 23. This Day the State Lottery began drawing.
A Mr. is arrived from Bengal, who is said to have amassed above one hundred thousand pounds by a monopoly of rice; and to which monopoly, it is said, was chiefly owing the late terrible and affecting famine in that country, by which nearly 100,000 unhappy people lost their lives. Who would with the enjoyment of riches at such a price?
It is confidently asserted that a treaty of marriage is on foot, and will be celebrated in a few days, between her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Bedford, and the Honorable Richard Rigby, Esquire Member of Parliament for Tavistock in Devonshire, formerly Secretary to his Grace the Duke, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
It is said that the seizures made since the first of June last, on the coast of Great-Britain and Ireland, amount to upwards of 90,000l.
The smugglers from the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, taken by his Majesty's cutters in the course of this year, have been computed to 40,000l.
On Thursday last the Right Hon. the Lord Molyneux, and the Right Hon. the Lord Fortrose, both sons-in-law to Lady Harrington, kissed hands at St. James's on being raised to the dignity of Irish Earls. The first as Earl of Slitton, the second as Earl of Seaforth, the public office in Bow-street.
We are informed, that the malady of the P. Dowager gaining ground, and having seized the organs of speech, her R. H. languishes under an inability to express what she suffers.
When Lord R. and Lord S. attended a Great Personage lately, they observed the Royal countenance to be with tears, which affected them so much that several minutes elapsed in mutual silence.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20.
The Brig Conolly, Capt. Robert Miller, failed from Dublin the Beginning of October with near seventy passengers on board for this Port, and by several Letters, &c. from Ireland, we have reason to think that she is cast away on the Welch Coasts and every Person perished.
The Elizabeth, Eaton, from Virginia for London, with 400 Hogsheads of Tobacco is lost about 15 Miles from Cherbourg. Capt. Martin, from Cape Nicholas Mole informs, that a Ship commanded by George Smith, belonging to Liverpool, bound from Carolina to Jamaica with Lumber, was cast away about a Month ago on the Caicos's. The People and Sails saved. There was also a French Sugar loaded Ship cast away about the same Time and Place.
Tuesday Evening about Dusk, a little Girl, about 7 Years of Age, was knocked down at her Father's Door, near Moravian-Alley, by a Man who stripped her of a Velvet Cloak, and made off; there was another Man in Company.
January 23.
Extract of a letter from Capt. Allibone, of this port, dated St. Kitts, December 11.
"About 30 leagues S. E. of our Capes, I took the people viz David Foot, David Clark, and Charles Baker, out of a small Schooner, from North Carolina, bound to New-Haven, who were in great distress, near sinking, sails and rigging all to pieces, out twenty-one days, and no provisions but their cargo of potatoes, and tho' the wind was at that time fair, they would not proceed, but declared they must perish if I did not take them on board, which I did, and landed them at Antigua."
A L B A N Y, December 30.
Extract of a Letter from Bennington, December 25. "A very odd kind of a providence, happened lately in our neighbourhood, viz. Mr. Zebulon Stanhope, a farmer, living about five miles N. E. by N. of this township; having trained up a couple of large Bears to the plough, and other services, clapped them before his sled last week, with twenty schipples of wheat for the New City. The animals drew extremely well for four miles and an half; when the halter of the near Bear giving way, the farmer set about repairing it; but whilst he
was thus employed, the inhuman brute seizing him by the right leg, tore it miserably; and both Bears bailing at once, ran away with the sled; so that with the utmost difficulty, he got home in four hours on foot.
"Messengers were dispatched, to look for the sled and cargo; and two days being spent in fruitless search, they were given up for lost: But on the third, at noon, the noise of a carriage near the house was heard, and young Gad Stanhope jumped up to see who was coming; when--- behold! to his great astonishment, it proved to be the two Bears drawing the sled into the barn, with no earthly thing in it, except four large Bears and three Cubs. The lad and two men that happened to be in the house; ran nimbly, & shut the barn door; with my long gun, shot them all through a crevice. The wheat has since been discovered; but the farmer's leg is expected to calve in a day or two."
B O S T O N, January 15, 1772.
Mr. Uriah Chester of Groton, fell through the Ice at the Ship-Yard in New-London, and was drowned.
We hear from Rutland District, that last Week a Daughter of Mr. Noah Mandell, about 15 Years of Age, having taken some Copperas in a Spoon, thinking it to be Brimstone, it had such an Effect upon her that she died the same Night.
Feb. 3. We hear that Capt. Mark Fera, in a Sloop bound from Glasgow for this Place, with about 20 People on board, after being 14 Weeks at Sea, and their Provisions almost expended, was early on Friday Morning unfortunately driven on Shore at Plumb-Island near Newbury-Port. It is said the Cargo is entirely free from Damage, and it is probably the Vessel may be got off again.
The last New-York Gazette contains the Addresses of his Majesty's Council and the General-Assembly of New-York, to his Excellency Governor Tryon, in which very high encomiums are paid his Excellency for his prudent and spirited conduct during his administration in a neighbouring colony.
The General-Court is further prorogued to the 11th March.
P O R T S M O U T H, Feb. 7.
From Derryfield we hear, that on Friday last, one Mc. Cauley of that Place, standing in the Entry of a House, against Amuskeeg Falls, carelessly fired a Gun, loaded with a Ball across the public Highway; about that instant two Persons rode by the House, the Ball passed within a few Inches of the foremost, but by good Providence, did no Damage. The Man who fired stood so far back in the House, as to be out of the View of Travellers, till they came directly opposite to the Door. The above is published as a Caution, to all Persons against firing Guns in or near the public Roads, without necessity, lest his Majesty's Subjects, passing the same, without suspicion of Danger, run the same Hazzard of Life, as if they should face an Enemy in the Field of Battle.
To Messieurs FLEETS, Printers.
AS some of the people of my species have of late been very busy in barking at and biting, and others in fawning and shaking their tails at a certain creature called Dartmouth; and as I fancy they are not very cleverly employed, I take the liberty to give them, especially two of the most noted, the following friendly advice; which if you will insert in your next, you will oblige your humble servant,
MY brother curs is Dartmouth a dirty bone, 'Twould be your wit to let it quite alone; If growl you will, and snap and snarl and bite, Your bloody jaws may answer for your spite; As when the viper gnaw'd the blacksmith's file, The witless viper to his sorrow found His mouth fore wounded, but the file was found. And you kind Towzer wag your joyful tail, Bark forth your praise, and bite the curs who rail, If Dartmouth with her skins deep bit and fore, Require your healing tongue to lick them o'er, Take heed least while you'd cure and make her clean, You leave her much more wounded and obscene, Nor like a spanniel with a saucy grace, Lap your rude tongue into her modest face--- Take my advice each flattero and each growler And thank your very humble servant. JOWLER. CUSTOM-HOUSE, PISCATAQUA, Feb. 6. 1772.
   Inward Entries, FROM.     Brig Pitt, John Bernard, Cape-Nicholas.   Outward-Bound FOR.   Schooner Success, Daniel Jackson, Clear'd for Departure West-Indies.   Schooner Greyhound, Abraham Trefethen, FOR.   Sloop Cynthia, Joseph Harris Virginia.   Sloop Victory, Samuel Sewall West-Indies.   Brig Elizabeth, William White, Ditto.   Brig William, Samuel Paul, Ditto.   Brig True Briton, Thomas Mace, Ditto.   Ship Rising Sun, Joseph Mead, Plymouth.   LONDON.  
THE CREDITORS to the Estate of William Boynton, late of Kingstown, in the County of Rockingham, Yeoman, deceased, under the Administration of Richard Boynton of Boston, Esq; represented Insolvent, are hereby Notified, that the Subscribers appointed Commissioners to receive and examine their several Claims against said Estate, will attend that Business at the Dwelling House of Samuel Folsom, Esq; in Exeter, on the last Monday of this and the first Monday of the five ensuing Months, from three to six o'Clock P. M.
Feb. 16. 1772 Nathaniel Folsom, } Commis- William Parker, } sioners.
A very few of Newmarket and Stratham Lottery Tickets, may yet be had at the Printing Office, and Bryan Sheehan's Character, dying Speech, &c.

Portsmouth, Feb. 7, 1772.
An act in addition to an act or law of this province, passed in the seventh year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the second, intituled an act for the better regulating highways.
WHEREAS by said act the highways are to be repaired by labour; but the surveyors not having any stated rule to direct them in each person's Proportion of the labour, the burthen thereof is not equitably divided among the inhabitants.
For remedy whereof, BE IT ENACTED by the GOVERNOR, COUNCIL and ASSEMBLY, That every town and parish invested with town privileges within this province, shall at their annual meetings in the month of March, or at any other legal meeting, vote what sum of money they shall think proper for making, mending and repairing the several highways and bridges in said town or parish for that year. And the select-men of said towns and parishes are hereby ordered, to make an assessment upon the polls and estates of the inhabitants, of their respective towns or parishes in the same manner as for the province tax; And the said towns and parishes, may at their said meetings, make choice of as many surveyors of highways as they shall think proper, and the select-men shall within a convenient time after the choice of such surveyors, limit the several districts; and give to each surveyor a list of each person belonging to his district, and of their respective proportions of the Sum voted to repair the highways as aforesaid. And the said towns and parishes may at the time of voting said money, affix the price of the several sorts of utensils and materials to be employed about said highways for that year, as also the price of labour, and if they neglect it, the said prices shall be set by the select-men. And the said Surveyors are directed to warn the several inhabitants of their respective districts, to work on said ways, each man according to his part or proportion of said sum at the prices affixed. And every Surveyor shall give four days notice, (which notice shall be personal, or left in writing at the party's last and usual place of residence) to every person he shall warn of the time, place and tools, when, where, and with which he shall attend; except in cases of sudden emergencies, as the repair of bridges, and making paths in deep snows, which may require immediate remedy, in which cases it shall and may be lawful for the Surveyor to warn them or any of them to attend forthwith. And if any person shall refuse or neglect to work or send a sufficient hand (unless he make a reasonable cause to said Surveyor within four days after the time set for said labour, in which case he shall be notified to work at some other time) the said Surveyor is hereby authorized and required to levy the delinquents parts or proportions of said money by distress in the same manner as the several constables and collectors are enabled to do by law in collecting the province tax: and the said Surveyors are hereby directed to settle accounts with and pay the balance if any there be in their hands, to the select-men or town treasurer, agreeable to the warrants or directions given them by the select-men for that purpose, and if any of the Surveyors refuse, or neglect their duty herein, the said select-men, or treasurer are hereby authorized to proceed with them in the same way and manner as they are by law authorized to proceed with constables or collectors, who are delinquent in collecting and paying the taxes committed to them to collect. And whereas it may happen that by some unforeseen accident as the decay of bridges or their being carried off by freshets, the sum allotted to any particular district may prove insufficient.
Be it therefore ENACTED , that in all such cases, the select-men may order the surveyor or surveyors of any other district or districts with such persons in his or their list as have not worked out or satisfied their respective rates, to work where such accident shall happen.
And whereas a very unjustifiable practice hath prevailed in many places of persons when
at work on high-ways, offering liquors to travellers and demanding money of them; for prevention whereof, be it further ENACTED by the authority aforesaid, that all persons working on the high-way that shall offer or cause to be offered any liquor to any travellers or other person or persons whatsoever and receive or cause to be received any money of such persons to whom liquor shall be offered as aforesaid, shall be liable to the penalties inflicted by law on persons for selling spirituous liquors without licence, and the surveyors of high ways are hereby required to inform of all breaches of this Act.
This Act to continue, and be in force for the term of two Years and no longer, from January the 2d, 1772.
TO BE SOLD,
By Joseph Bass,
Next Door to the Printing Office, the following GOODS at the very lowest Rate for Cash. viz.
S EVEN eight and nine Quarter Bed Blankets, nine and ten quarter Bed Quilts, Crimson and green Harrateen; crimson, green and blue Chaney, green and blue Lincey, ell wide Irish Sheeting, Looking & Dressing Glasses with Draws, green, blue, yellow, scarlet and crimson None so pretties, silk and worsted Laces and Braids for Curtains, brass and pewter Curtain Rings, crimson, green, blue and yellow, worsted and mixt Line and Tossels for Window Curtains; Girth and Sadler's Webbing, brass Nails; 14 oz Tacks, Shoe Nails, Cloak Pins, Leather Casters, Truckles, Writing Paper, TEA, Ginger, Lady's Paste and plain Hair Combs, stone and silver Sleve Buttons, Pinchbeck ditto, Carpit Coverlids, handsome green and blue Chaney and Lincey Curtains; English and Scotch Bed Ticks, Sea Beds and Rugs, Matrasses, black figur'd Horse Hair for Chair Bottoms, Oznabrigs, Quality Bindings, Garterings, Silk and Linnen Handkerchiefs, Buckrams, colored Threads, sewing Silk, No. 4 and 12 Pins, Needles. best Roman Violon Strings, Wool Cards, Pidgeon, Duck and Goose Shot by the Hundred, Pewter quart and Pint Pots, Basons and Porringers, Seive and Seive Bottoms by the Dozen, Horn & Ivory Combs. check Linnen, scarlet and green Worsted Caps, and Stocking crewills, Snuff Boxes, and CRINDSTONES , with a Variety of other Articles.
From Concord, in New-Hampshire, we hear that Monday Morning the 20th ult. died there, BENJAMIN ROBLE , Esq; of that Place. He had the honour of an Education at Harvard College; and was one of those who first adventured their lives, in the midst of Savages to form an English Settlement at said Concord, then called Pennicook, at near forty miles distance from any other English Inhabitants. He was some time a Justice of Peace, and Lieut. Colonel of the Militia: and his Abilities & Integrity were such as would have made him extensively useful in that Province, had it not been for the Prejudice excited against him by unhappy disputes between the Massachusetts Settlers and the New-Hampshire People, in the heat of which (as usual in like Cases) Merit and Justice were too much neglected. Providence rewarded his adventures with a plentiful For one which he has left to his Son and only Off-spring.
Draper's Gazette.
Notice is hereby given, That the COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS OF THE PEACE for the County of ROCKINGHAM will be adjourned to Wednesday the 26th Day of February Instant. By Order of Court, ISAAC RINDGE, Clerk.
Province Excise.
On Thursday the 12th March next, will be exposed to sale at public Vendue, to the highest Bidder, by the Committee of the General Court for that Purpose, The Province EXCISE , in three Divisions, from the 4th Day of September last, to the 1st day of Nov. 1772, at the House of James Steadly, Esq; in Portsmouth. CONDITIONS of Sale shall be made known at the Time and Place of Sale.
By Order, JONATHAN WARNER, Chairman.
ALL Persons claiming Property in the following WHITE PINE LOGS , seized by Order of the SURVEYOR GENERAL , in Goffestown and Wear, in the Province of New-Hampshire, may appear at a Court of Vice Admiralty to be held at Portsmouth on Thursday the 27th Instant, at Ten of the Clock A. M. and shew Cause why the same should not be decreed Forfeited, agreeable to an Information filed in said Court. 200 White Pine Logs from 15 to 36 Inches diameter, lying at Richard's Mill in Goffestown. 250 Ditto from 15 to 36 Inches diameter, at Patten's Mill. 35 Ditto from 36 to 20 ditto, at Dow's Mill. 140 Ditto from 30 to 18 ditto, at Asa Patten's old Mill. 270 Ditto from 36 to 16 ditto, at Clement's Mill in Wear. 164 Ditto from 36 to 15 ditto, at Job Rowles Mill. Also 74 Bundles of Clapboards at Merrimac River. Portsmouth, Feb. 5. 1772. JOHN SHERBURNE, D. Rr.
Province of New Hampshire, January 30. 1772. Whereas sundry of the Inhabitants of the Township of Nottingham, in this Province, have prefer'd a Petition to the General Assembly, praying, for Reasons assigned in their said Petition, that a distinct Parish may be set off, agreeable to a Vote of said Town, passed the 26th day of March 1771, as follows, namely, "all the Land in said Town on the North westerly side of Long street (so called) and so bounded south westerly on Deerfield Line." This is therefore to notify all whom it may concern, that the General Assembly have passed the following Vote thereupon, viz. That the Petitioners cause the substance of the Petition, and order thereon, to be printed in the New Hampshire Gazette, three Weeks successively at the Petitioners Cost, that any Person or Persons may be heard to shew Cause, if any he or they shall have, why the Prayer thereof should not be granted, on the 3d day of the sitting of the General Assembly, after the 10th of February next. Attest, GEO. KING, Dep. Sec.
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of CANAAN , that the Meeting for Sale of Lands of delinquent Proprietors in said Town, stands adjourned to the Third Tuesday in March, at the House of John Scofield, in said Canaan. Lebanon, Feb. 1, 1772. Jed. Hubbard, Col.
Whereas at sundry legal Meetings of the Proprietors of ACWORTH , in New-Hampshire, several Taxes have been voted to be raised on each original Right or share of Land in said Town, to pay for cutting and clearing Roads, building Bridges, Mills, &c. which have been notified as the Law directs; notwithstanding sundry of the Proprietors have neglected to pay the same— This is therefore to notify those who are delinquent that unless they pay the following Sums in Lawful Money to me at my House in Merrimac, by the 10th day of March next, so much of their original Rights or Shares of Land will be sold at public Vendue at the House of Nathaniel Gearfield, Innholder in Merrimac, as will answer the Demand aforesaid and Charges. The delinquent Proprietors are as follows.
  Rev. David MacGregore £. 2 8   James MacGregore, 2 8   Thomas Craige, 2 8   Robert Adams, 2 8   James Miltimmer, 2 8   Alexander Clark, 2 8   Jonathan Gilmore, 2 8   Daniel M'Fee, 2 8   Robert Fletcher, 6 0   William Symes, 6 0   Col. Jonathan Greeley, 2 8   Feb. 15, 1772. Jona. Blanchard, Collector 
TO BE SOLD A LIKELY Negro Woman about 18 Years of age, for want of Employ, Enquire of the Printers. BLANKS of most Sorts, for respective Counties, sold by the Printers.

Just Published, And TO BE SOLD by the Printers hereof,  A Civil, Military & Ecclesiastical  REGISTER of the Province of New-Hampshire , for the YEAR 1772.
CONTAINING a List of the Governor, Council and House of Representatives. Judges and Officers of the Superior Court, and Court of Admiralty. Division of the Province into Counties, Bounds of the several Counties, and the Towns and Parishes included in each County. Justices and Clerks of the Inferior Courts, Sheriffs, Judges and Registers of Probate, Recorders of Deeds and Treasurers of each County. Justices of the Peace through the Province and for each County, with those of the Quorum distinguished. Barristers of Law and Practising Attorneys with their respective Places of Residence. Custom House Officers and Notaries Public. Field Officers of the several Regiments in each County, Trustees and Officers of Dartmouth-College. Ministers, Churches and religious Assemblies of the several Denominations in each County. Times and Places of holding the several Courts in each County. Deputy Sheriffs in the several Counties. Road to Dartmouth - College and the upper Cohos, by the Way of Keene; another by Way of Plymouth, and a third by way of Wolfeborough, with the most noted Houses of Entertainment, &c. &c. &c.
Every Gentleman who holds an Office, and has the Honor of having it recorded in the above Register, undoubtedly ought and will furnish himself with one, — and other Persons should have them, in order rightly to know their Superiors. Price half a Pisteren only.
(LANCASTER.)
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ff.
WHEREAS Application has been made to me the Subscriber by Owners of more than one sixteenth Part of the Rights or Shares in the Township of Lancaster, in said Province, to notify and warn a Meeting of the Proprietors of said Lancaster to be held at the House of David Page Esq; in said Township, on Thursday the thirteenth Day of March next, at Ten of the clock, in the forenoon to act on the following Particulars: First, To chuse a Moderator, also, Clerk, Collector and Assessors. Second, to see if the Proprietors will pass a Vote, for ratifying and confirming all, or any of the Votes past at a proprietors Meeting held the tenth Day of March 1767, or at their last Meeting by Adjournment, Dec. 5, 1771; or to pass any other Vote or Votes, which the Proprietors may judge necessary for making a full Settlement of the Affairs transacted at the abovementioned Meetings. Thirdly, To see if the proprietors will pass a Vote to ratify the Agreement made with David Page, Esq; respecting Building a Sawmill and Gristmill in said Township, by him to be kept in good repair, for four Years at his own Cost and Risque: and to pass a Vote to raise Four Dollars on each proprietors Right for paying said Page, according to said agreement. Fourth, To pass a Vote for raising any Sum of Money, which may be thought needful by the Proprietors for clearing Roads, and to chuse a Committee to inspect, and see the same effectually done; or any other Matter which may appear to the Proprietors to be necessary, and also to pass such Votes as may be necessary for accepting or establishing of any Roads in said Township, or respecting the Mills in said Township or accepting of any Plans; or for settling any Accounts relative to said Proprietors. I do hereby notify and warn said Proprietors to meet at Time and place abovementioned to act on the abovementioned Articles. Jan. 22d, 1772. Messrs Weare, Just. Pac.
[ Barrington ]
WHEREAS sundry Proprietors Rights of Land in Barrington, has not been advertised for Sale, by Reason of the Persons promising to pay said Tax without, These are therefore to Notify such delinquent Proprietors, that unless they pay me the said Taxes at the House of Mr. Silas Drew in Barrington, by the first Monday in March next, their Lands will certainly be sold at publick Vendue at said House, at Two of the Clock Afternoon. The Delinquents Names are as follows, viz.
  Peter Demow, Two Lots £. 0 6 11   Stephen Noble 0 3 0   Stephen Lang 0 4 11   Richard Eliot 0 5 6   Barrington, Jan. 31. JOSHUA Foss, jun. Collector   1772. 
Ames's Almanack, for 1772, may be had at the Printing-Office.
WANTED one or two good Boys that can be well recommended, fourteen or fifteen years of age to serve at the Business of Wigmaking and Hair dressing. Enquire of Isaac Williams. N.B Cash given for good live white Horse hair, also to be sold good English hair Powder by Williams and Stanwood.
[ Bow. ]
Province of New Hampshire, Rockingham ff
APPLICATION having been made to me the Subscriber, by owners of more than one sixteenth part of the Shares, Rights or Interest, of the Township of Bow, in said County, to call a Meeting of said proprietors, as soon as may be, to consider and Vote on the following Articles, viz. 1st. To chuse a Moderator to govern said Meeting. 2dly. To chuse a Committee to take a proper Survey of all the undivided Lands in said Bow: and report to said Proprietors what Quantity they find for a third Division: And also particularly to Re mark all such Lands in said Bow, as are enter'd or trespass'd upon, by any person or persons whatsoever; in order for selling them said Lands so enter'd upon, if they incline to purchase: and fully to impower said Committee in Behalf of said Proprietors, to sell said Lands; or prosecute any or all such Trespassers, as shall neglect or refuse to purchase them — Likewise to impower said Committee to sell all those Forty Acre Lots laid out in said Town that are not appropriated by said Proprietors. In Consequence of the foregoing Application, I do hereby Notify the Proprietors of the aforesaid Township, to meet on Tuesday the 18th Day of February next, at the House of Mrs Love Chase, Landholder at Stratham, in said County, at one of the Clock, P. M. for the purpose aforesaid. Stratham, Jan. 28th 1772. SAMUEL LANE, Pro. Clerk.
STOLEN on the Night following the 8th of this Instant, from Peter Eastman, and Jesse Johnson, of Hampstead in the Province of New Hampshire two Mares, the one a bright Sorrel, with a white Strip in her Forehead, with one white hind Foot, small main and Tail, a small white Spot on her right Buttock, about fourteen Hands high, paces and trots well, nine years old, a gant, lasty carriages Beast. The other a dun Sorrel with a white Strip in her Forehead, thick Main and Tail, something gray, large Belly and thick set about thirteen Hands and a half high; carries her hind Feet very much in; about six Years old paces and trots. Whoever will take up said Thieves and secure them so as they may be brought to justice, or take up said Mares and send them to the Owners or send word so as the Owners may have them, shall receive two Dollars Reward, for each Mare, and all necessary Charges paid by us the Subscribers. Hampstead Jan. 9th 1772. Peter Eastman, Jesse Johnson.
* CORNISH *
NOTICE is hereby given, to the Proprietors of CORNISH, that at two legal Meetings held in said Cornish a Tax of five Dollars, has been laid on each original Right or Share, and a List committed to me the subscriber, to collect the same; this is therefore to desire the Proprietors aforesaid, to pay the same to me the Subscriber, at my House in Cornish, on the first Tuesday in March next, otherwise their Rights will be advertised for sale, as the Law directs. JONATHAN CHACE Collector.
HOUSE ready Furnish'd.
WANTED immediately, a good HOUSE ready furnished, in a pleasant Situation in the Town of Portsmouth of 3 or 4 Rooms on a Floor, with a Celler, Yard and Stable for two or three Horses. Any Person having such a House to Let, is requested to give Information to the Printers. It will be taken for six or 12 Months or perhaps longer.
WANTED , an Apprentice Lad, of fifteen or sixteen Years of Age, of a credible Family, at the butchers trade, enquire of Moses Woodward.
TO BE SOLD One Half of a 360 Acre Lot of Land, No. 10. in the first Range of Lots in Barrington. Enquire of the Printer
L O N D O N, November 25.
A War in Germany is inevitable. The King of Prussia has entered Poland with forty thousand men. The Russians have evacuated the fortified places in their possession, on their Germanic side of Poland, for Prussian garrisons. The unadvised precipitancy of the Court of Vienna, in making a demand of cessions on the side of Moldavia, kindled this flame. The Czarina was enraged; and she set all engines at work to rouze his Prussian Majesty's ambition and natural jealousy against Austria.
The dispute between Great-Britain and Spain will produce no immediate consequences. It was altogether a smuggling affair in the West-Indies; and it will be explained away. In the mean time Spain is arming. France will not continue an idle spectator on the continent; and we, from treaty as well as good policy, must take an active part on the opposite side.
The Cabinet here has declared, in the most solemn terms, against a continental War. I hope the resolution will be kept. But it is apparent, it is certain, that we must in three weeks, begin to arm. The general disposition to war on the continent renders the measure necessary; and I am convinced that every necessary measure will be taken. To be prepared is, perhaps, to prevent war: If we keep to the ocean, hostilities, under a prudent management, will do no harm to commerce. — I would, therefore, advise stockholders not to be bubbled out of their property. There is no fear of public bankruptcy; there can be no fear as long as we are determined to confine ourselves to our own element, the sea.
SCEVA.
Warshaw, Nov. 9. His Majesty the King of Poland, thank Heaven, is pretty well, considering the late horrid attempt made on his sacred person. The wound which he received on the head from a sabre is not dangerous. All those who have seen the coach he was in, and the cloaths he wore that day, agree that the hand of the Almighty had visibly protected him on the occasion. His garment is pierced in two different parts, not only with balls, but seemingly with cut lead, besides a stroke upon the back, which is cut in two, without his Majesty's receiving any wound.
The Heyduk, who lost his life by the courageous resistance he made to save that of the King, was buried the 6th of this month in the church-yard of the Dissidents with the greatest pomp, and the company who followed the corpse amounted to upwards of a thousand persons, amongst whom were three Knights of the King's Orders. The mother of this faithful servant will be amply provided for the remainder of her days. The miller and his wife, to whose house the King retired in the night, have received an hundred ducats from his Majesty, who hath besides given orders for a new mill to be built at his own expence, which is to be possessed by them and their descendants free of all taxes and imposts. The assassins were concealed in the Dominicans convent in the old town, and from that asylum watched the opportunity to execute their barbarous design.
Eight of the assassins who attacked the King are already taken, and brought prisoners to this city.
A Turkish Officer passed through Kaminice, in great haste going in quality of Envoy from the Porte to Petersburg, to treat of Peace.
Extract of a Letter from Leghorn, Nov. 8. "I could not suffer the courier to depart, without the pleasure of acquainting you, that his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester is so far recovered as to be able to bear the motion of the coach without affecting his breath, and to dine with his company as usual. We leave this place the 12th inst. for Pisa, where our stay may be about three weeks; it is then a doubt whether we make Florence in our way to Rome or take it in our return.
Newmarket Lottery Tickets, to be sold at the Printing Office.