Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-02-03 00:00:00

F O W L E's  NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, A N D  GENERAL THE  ADVERTISER.
F R I D A Y,
F E B R U A R Y 3, 1786.
P O R T S M O U T H: By JOHN MELCHER,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN PAVED STREET.
VOL. XXX.]
"OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE.—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST."
No. 1529.
PUBLICK OPINIONS.
THAT hot-headed partisans on either side the question, and zealous bigots, do more hurt to society than thieves, or pick-pockets, " the law's delay, and insolence of office. "
That an unprincipled opposition in our Legislature, at this time , will be peculiarly pernicious.
That money was never scarcer than at the present time—and if times do not suddenly alter, we shall all go to pot.
That business was never duller than it is now, and if times do not alter we shall all go to pot.
That Luxury and Effeminacy were never more prevalent, than at this day—and if times do not alter we shall all go to pot.
That men who live beyond the limits of their income , will most assuredly FAIL .
That when publick finances are distressed—the Great Officers should serve their country gratis .
That the doings of government put people in mind of Penelope's web .
That taxes are high—that duties are numerous, and that the Lord only knows what becomes of the money .
That justice, honour and publick faith on the question on the admission of the refugees, is opposed by prejudice, selfish views, and national dishonour , and that every true christain will say with Shakespeare ,
"Alas ! Alas !"
Why, all the souls that are, were forfeit once, And he, that might th' advantage best have took,
Found out the remedy. How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? Oh ! think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your lips Like man new made,"
That Tailors, Shoemakers , in fact all mechanicks dressing in silk stockings and lace ruffles will ruin the country.
That the women by wearing balloon gauzes, balloon ribbons, and balloon hoops , will ruin the country.
That merchants, Shop-keepers, &c. displaying in their dress the wealth of the Indies—and figuring in carriages, equipages and entertainments, will ruin the country.
That in fact, the country will be ruin'd, ruin'd in spite of fate !
That Old batchelors and dogs, ought to be heavily taxed, with snarling pevish curs of every description.
That one grain of honesty is worth all the knowledge and excellency of the world without it.
BON MOT.
A WHITE Man meeting an Indian, asked him, "Whose Indian are you?" To which the copper-faced genius replied, "I am God Almighty's Indian, whose Indian are you?"
To the LADIES.
INDEED, and indeed there is something in this world which very properly is called sense , and which, or something much like it regulates the actions of men in many respects, and particularly in the choice of a wife—at least, they so far prefer interest to pleasure, that I believe the sacrifices to mere beauty are now-a-days very few.
What does a man chuse when he chuses a wife ? Does he chuse an almanack, that will be useless at the end of the year ? No. Does he chuse a house-clock, the tongue of which is going every minute, and accurate only once a week ? Does he chuse a devil, and be tormented before his time ? Or does he chuse an angel, and worship it ? No—He chuses a companion for life ; one, who will make time pass agreeably, who has South-Carolina , her husband, and would not see him at Saratoga uneasy, even if she was to sacrifice all her favourite amusements to make him happy—One whose mind has received as much cultivation as to make her a companion for herself, and who has as much common sense as to be a companion for others—for common sense , in the common affairs of common life, is as much superior to every other sense, as virtue is to every qualification that distinguishes between man and beast.
This then being the case, it follows, as of necessity, that affectation is by no means absolutely indispensable in the catalogue of a young lady's virtue—Nay, some very sensible people have the confidence to say, that it may be left out altogether, and no great loss neither.
Pride likewise, as being a shewy kind of a substance, and not very necessary for any purposes of goodness or character, may perhaps, be as well confined to beaux and fools.
Pride however, is positively of two kinds, proper pride , and, of course, improper pride —The first teaches us to keep up our proper deference for our own reputation and dignity. It preserves us from meanness, and gives a manliness and respect which vulgar minds are strangers to—The second teaches us, to be most confoundedly ridiculous to others, and to ourselves, if we possess any powers of reflection ; it teaches us to disregard our superiors in point of merit, and to look for respect and reverence from none but those who are low in every respect—low in mind, low in manners, and low in purse.
Lastly, sheer ignorance , though very common, is a thing that very few people stand in need of, and for which I never could find an use. They who have it do not seem to make a better figure than they who are without it ; and really, considering the present state of matters, I think that ignorance is no ornament, and knowledge ne-
ver appears so truly lovely as in a female. it is lovely in itself, and it gives loveliness to those who possess it.
If my advice be taken, I venture to assure my fair readers, that no mischief whatever can ensue ; for whatever some whimsical people may say, female improvements of mind, is the surest proof of wisdom, and the strongest recommendation to respect, esteem and happiness. A FRIEND.
Of the Manner in which the Indians bury their dead.
From CARVER's TRAVELS.
AN Indian meets death when it approaches him in his hut, with the same resolution he has often faced him in the field. His indifference relative to this important article, which is the source of so many apprehensions among almost every other nation, is truly admirable. When his fate is pronounced by the physician, and it remains no longer uncertain, he harangues those about him with the greatest composure.
If he is a chief, and has a family, he makes a kind of funeral oration, which he concludes by giving to his children such advice for the regulation of their conduct as he thinks necessary. He then takes leave of his friends, issues out orders for the preparation of a feast, which is designed to regale those of his tribe that come to pronounce his eulogium.
After the breath is departed, the body is dressed in the same attire it usually wore whilst living, his face is painted, and he is seated in an erect posture on a mat or skin placed in the middle of the hut, with his weapons by his side. His relations being seated round, each harangues in turn the deceased, and if he has been a great warrior, recounts his heroick actions nearly to the following purport, which in the Indian language is extremely poetical and pleasing :
"You still set among us, Brother, your person retains its usual resemblance, and continues similar to ours, without any visible deficiency, except that it has lost the power of action. But whether is that breath flown, which a few hours ago sent up smoke to the Great Spirit ? Why are those lips silent, that lately delivered so expressive and pleasing language ? Why are those feet motionless, that a short time ago were fleeter than the deer on yonder mountains ? Why useless hang those arms that could climb the tallest tree, or draw the roughest bow ? Alas ! every part of that frame which we lately beheld with admiration and wonder, is now become as inanimate as it was three hundred years ago. We will not, however, bemoan thee as if thou was forever lost to us, or that thy name would be buried in oblivion ; thy soul yet lives in the great country of Spirits, with those of thy nation that are gone before thee ; and though

we are left behind to perpetuate thy fame, we shall one day join thee. Actuated by the respect we bore thee whilst living, we now come to tender to thee the last act of kindness it is in our power to bestow: that thy body might not be neglected on the plain, and become a prey to the beasts of the field, or the fowls of the air, we will take care to lay it with those of thy predecessors who are gone before thee; hoping, at the same time, that thy spirit will feed with their spirits, and be ready to receive ours, when we also shall arrive at the great country of souls."
In short speeches somewhat similar to the above does every chief speak the praises of his departed friend. When they have so done, if they happen to be at a great distance from the place of interment appropriated to their tribe, and the person dies during the winter season, they wrap the body in skins and lay it on a high stage built for that purpose, or on the branches of a large tree, until the spring arrives. They then, after the manner described in my Journal, carry it, together with all those belonging to the same nation, to the general burial-place, where it is interred with some other ceremonies that I could not discover.
On Human Nature.
HUMAN nature is so motley a composition, that our imagination is alarmed to find united in the same breast, virtues which can have no less than divine extraction, and vices, on the other hand, which can be supposed to derive their existence from hell itself. Among the latter may be classed, Envy, one of the most sordid, selfish and malignant: it is that passion which is the characteristic of weak minds, and is excited when they behold others (in their esteem no more than equals) exalted to a station, at which they never can expect to arrive—when they see them esteemed and caressed by mankind, either for their pleasing behaviour, virtues, good graces, or any adorning qualities which they have the misfortune not to possess. There is no person, whose virtues are rendered conspicuous by being placed in an advantageous light, who ever fails to attract the Envy of his acquaintance; and there is no one, who, by discovering any marks of genius, or from any other cause, suddenly meets with the applause and approbation of men of sense, and escapes the censure of this enemy of mankind: even those, who before perhaps were his most intimate friends, now begin to look on him with a malicious eye—If a genius, and his productions are submitted to their inspection, they are received with indifference; and all his endeavours to appear agreeable to his friends, serve but as fuel for this diabolick flame.
As Envy appears to be the specious progeny of false ambition, and jealousy, of consequence no vice is a greater enemy to the social affections. Who would take to his bosom the man who only waits for an opportunity of completing his ruin? Who would enter a friendship with the man, who, if he should be so kind as to spare his life, would deprive him of a far more precious diamond—his reputation?
The causes and effects of Envy are almost imperceptible. Not only persons of rank and refinement are exposed to the darts of this venomous animal, but persons who undesignedly provoke those of lower stations are attacked by this concomitant of every thing virtuous.
The Inconsistency of our DESIRES.
AS most of the unhappiness in the world arises rather from disappointed desires, than from positive evil, it is of the utmost consequence to attain just notions of the laws and order of the universe, that we may not vex ourselves with fruitless wishes, or give way to groundless and unreasonable discontent. The laws of natural philosophy, indeed, are tolerably understood and attended to; and though we may suffer inconveniences, we are seldom disappointed in the consequence of them. No man expects to see the trees blooming in verdure, or hanging with ripe fruit, in the midst of severe winter, or when he has planted an acorn, to see it become a large oak in a few months. The mind of man naturally yields to necessity; and our wishes soon subside, when we see the impossibility of their being gratified. Now, upon an accurate inspection, we shall find in the moral government of the world, and the orders of the intellectual system, laws as determinate, fixed
and invariable, as any Newton's Principia . The progress of vegetation is not more certain than the growth of habit; nor is the power of attraction more clearly proved, than the force of affection, as the influence of example. The man therefore, who has studied the operations of nature in mind as well as matter, will acquire a certain moderation and equity in his claims upon providence. He never will be disappointed either in himself or others. He will act with precision, and expect that effect, and that alone, from his efforts, which they are adopted to produce. For want of this, men of merit and integrity often censure the dispensations of providence for suffering characters they despise, to run away with advantages which, they yet know, are purchased by such means as a high and noble spirit could never submit to. If you refuse to pay the price, why expect the purchase? We should consider this world as a large mart of commerce, where fortune exposes to our view various commodities, riches, ease, tranquility, fame, integrity, and knowledge. Every thing is marked at a settled price. Our time, our labour, our ingenuity, is so much ready money, which we are to lay out to the best advantage.
Examine, compare, chuse, reject; but stand to your own judgment; and do not, like children, when you have purchased one thing, repine that you do not possess another which you did not purchase.
For the NEW HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.
MR. PRINTER,
MUCH is expected from the present session of the General Court; it is rather unfortunate that there is but one seaport in this State, in consequence of which the mercantile part must be very unequally represented, but from the collected wisdom and candor of the whole, every thing impartial is hoped for—nothing can be more pitiful and contracted, than that individual members should only govern themselves by the single interest of their separate towns, these narrow ideas have obstructed commercial regulations more than any thing else. To regulate trade is a business of great consequence, many fair schemes which look well enough on paper, will be found to be mere quackery in practice; heavy duties of any kind in our present situation will prove very injurious to our trade, it will instantly throw the most of the trade of those dried articles into the other States, it will in the next place open a large field for smuggling and contraband trade, every body knows that no laws nor exertion of officers can prevent this practice when the object is worth pursuing—perhaps a group of petty waiters who would cost double what they saved might be some little check—Small duties, to say the best of them are smaller clogs to trade, and these are more punctually collected than heavy ones—but it needs no great deal of argument to prove that these little duties, and even the present impost of two and half per cent. are both impolitic and anti-commercial. This tax is almost wholly paid by the importer, without ever being reimbursed by the consumer—I appeal to the merchant, whether he has not been obliged for this last year or two, to sell his goods for about prime cost, in order to procure money in hand or to pay this impost—but admitting that, in a few instances, the consumer pays a part or whole of this tax, for what reason should the importer be called on to advance this money for him? And to pay in two months or four for what he may not dispose of in as many years—Another objection to the present impost is the partial manner of the collection, one part of the State pays near double to what those pay who are in the vicinity of the other State; the peculiar situation of our seaport in the corner of the State renders this difficulty insurmountable; let the act be framed in any shape whatever, there never will be a farthing be collected, and as this evil is without a remedy, it is a forcible objection to any impost act whatever—To these considerations may be added the inability of the importer to pay any duty; every body knows the great losses sustained by the trading part of this State during the war; the neighbouring seaports engrossed almost the whole of our trade, and it has not yet reverted to its old channel, every encouragement should be given to the merchant to enable him to divert the trade into its old course, which he can only do by selling his goods on better terms to the purchaser than he can find them elsewhere—instead therefore of taking from him a fortieth part of his interest every time it comes into the State, which may be three times a year, it would be better to give him a bounty of some sort—if it should be found necessary to substitute some other tax in the place of this impost, it may be either by excise, in which case the consumer will more directly pay it, or by a tax on mortgages, deeds, notes, &c.
A. Z.
LONDON, Oct. 7.
Extract of a letter from Paris, September 6.
"An odd affair has lately happened. A young English lady in one of our monasteries, in the midst of the very ceremony of taking the veil, shrunk from her resolution. On being asked whether it was through her own inclination she was going to take the habit of the holy order, she very faintly answered, yes.—On the priest addressing her in these terrific terms, "Aurex vous assez de courage pour embrasser les traves & les austerites de cet ordre?" "Will you have sufficient courage to embrace the labours and austerities of this order?" she answered emphatically, No!—She is a smart pretty girl, but very unhappy. She has relations here, who are much disgusted with her conduct."
Oct. 28. A few days ago was married, the Rev. Mr. Blewit, to the wealthy landlady of the Castle Inn, Chesterfield. Preferring the sound of the bar-bell to the solemn toll of the parish tenor, he philosophically relinquishes the ambitious pursuit after church preferment, consoles himself with the enjoyment of domestic comforts and a well stocked cellar, and bids fair to be one of the most respectable landlords in the county.
Nov. 6. A letter from Lisbon, by a ship arrived in the river, lays, "that two men of war are ordered to sail to the Maderas, to take under their convoy three American ships loaded with wheat and flour, which were bound to Lisbon, but were afraid to proceed, for fear of being taken by the barbarians, as they have some time ago taken two."
Nov. 7. Last week sixteen young clergymen, who have been lately ordained to the ministry by letters demissary from the Bishop of London, embarked for America, where they are to settle.
Nov. 3. By a gentleman, arrived in town on Friday from Cadiz, we are informed, that the King of Spain is about prohibiting all English manufactures throughout his dominions, as well in Europe, as in Asia, Africa and America:—His Catholic Majesty is prompted to this, through compliance with his French allies, who always endeavour to lash England. If this news be true, the Spanish prohibition will, in its consequences, be much more prejudicial to this country than the French act. The Spaniards having but few manufactures, and those not on the best footing, their trade with England has hitherto been considerable; and when it ceases, will be severely felt throughout the kingdom.
Nov. 8. A Scotch correspondent remarks, that it is strange the friends of the courts and religions of France and England should complain of the customs and manners of the Protestant Republican States of America . If they don't like Republican principles, why do they go to America? Let them quietly enjoy the blessings of Monarchy at Madrid, Paris, and London, in all its perfetions, the Inquisition, the Bastille, and the Tower, which indeed are blessings, both of a spiritual and temporal nature, which the Bostonians have no relish for.
A council of war was held about ten days ago in Paris, on an officer for wearing the cross of St. Louis, without being invested with it; and, according to the rules of the Order, he was sentenced to twenty years and one day's imprisonment.
Nov. 12. Our last letters from Poland contain the account of a very surprising phenomenon.—The Forest Jemanilice, in the province of Padolia, has suddenly disappeared, and all that large tract of land was swallowed up, without any commotion or oscillation of the earth having preceded or followed so extraordinary an event.
BON MOT.—A few mornings after the marriage of Miss Young with Mr. Pope, a lady of her acquaintance met her, and after the usual compliments had passed, of congratulations on the marriage,—"Pray," says the lady to the new bride, "how do you like Pope's Essay? " The new-married lady archly replied, "I find a similarity of sentiment in all those works perfectly consonant to Young's Night Thoughts. "
JAMAICA.
KINGSTON, Nov. 1. From the late wet weather this town has become uncommonly sickly; scarce a house that is without its patient; indeed

It may not improperly be stiled a General Hoi —Such havock has not been felt these years.
The brig Liverpool , Captain Logan, on her passage from Charleston, in lat. 28, saw a ship, polacre rigged, four leagues to windward of him, firing guns, and being full of men; she bore down on Captain Logan, firing many guns to bring him to; but he, not liking her appearance, made sail and got clear of her. She could not have been a vessel in distress on any account, the island of Providence being on her lee, but bore every mark of being a pirate; and if so, it is to be feared her depredations, on defenceless vessels, may be great before any vessel of force comes up with her.
Now. 12. By letters from Georgia we learn that the rice plantations at that place have every appearance of being extremely productive in their crops, and that several small American Guinea Men had arrived there with slaves, and met with exceeding good markets.
S A R U M, (England) Sept. 12.
A few days since, a carpenter, who was at work at a grocer's shop in Romley, being suspected and accused of proloining two cakes of chocolate, the property of his employer, with a view to exculpate himself, and throw the blame upon an innocent servant girl, who, he pretended, had slipt the same into his pocket, held forth his right arm, and, with many imprecations, wished that he might lose the use thereof, if guilty, when the arm suddenly became useless, and has remained so ever since.
N E W - B R U N S W I C K.
St. JOHN'S, Dec. 6. General Arnold arrived in this city on Friday last, and is much indisposed; he came in the brigantine Lord Midleton .
A letter from Quebec says, that the fur trade with the Indians, this year has been unusually great, so that the ships will return home not only full, but with very valuable cargoes.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, Jan. 13.
A scheme was some time since laid before the English government for the employment of 200 male convicts in the island of Portland, in the stone quarries, and 100 more in the granite mines of the island of Guernsey. The chief difficulty likely to occur is in the securing them to their work, which is now under consideration.
Last week a poor woman having imprudently left her child, a boy of about three years old, alone in her room, in Fifth near Arch Street, on her return, found that he had miserably perished by his cloaths catching fire, which it is supposed the child had been playing with.
N E W - Y O R K, Jan. 21.
A very sovereign antidote has been lately discovered for the dreadful malady the lock jaw , which has proved mortal to so many of the human species, and baffled the art of all the Sons of Gallen—It is electricity, the powerful effects of which was recently experienced to the Eastward, on a young woman languishing under all the symptoms of a speedy dissolution.
After the example of Frankland, the Eastern Counties of the Massachusetts are attempting to raise their crests, and demand a separation. A solecism truly ridiculous, and without a definitive step is shortly put to its baneful influence, it will become epidemic.
We are told that the insult lately offered Governor Bowdoin, by Capt. Stanhope, will be considered nationally, and resented as such.
In November last two petitions were presented to the assembly of New-Jersey, from sundry inhabitants of the county of Sussex, praying an impost may be laid on all foreign merchandise imported into that state from the neighbouring states, which was read and ordered to lay on the table for a second reading.
M A S S A C H U S E T T S.
CHARLESTON, Jan. 27. It is said, that just at the conclusion of the war, the late Elect Lady, so called, had congregated a large number of Shaking Quakers, at a town on Hudson's river, to display her power in raising the dead.—The supposed corpse was carried to a plain, and the important ceremony began, when a continental officer, who was stationed at a small distance, came up with a file of soldiers, intimating a design to fire a few braces of balls through the body, by which her authority might be more fully displayed.
This being spoken in a loud voice, and the soldiers being ordered to make ready, so alarmed the subject to be acted upon, that he instantly kicked off the top of the coffin, and made a precipitate retreat, to the no small diversion of many unconcerned spectators.
B O S T O N, Jan. 30.
The government of Vermont have made the generous donation of twenty three thou sand acres of wild land to Dartmouth College, in consideration of its contiguity to that State. —This, in time, will be a very valuable interest.
Capt. Lewis, in a schooner from St. Eustatia, informs, that the Mountain Negroes of an adjacent island, to the amount of 6000, lately made an excursion on the plantations, carried off great quantities of produce, and committed other depredations.
The following unhappy accident happened at Milton, some time last week—The company of artillery in that town, having turned out to fire a salute on the celebration of a wedding, in loading one of the pieces, which was not sufficiently cleaned, the cartridge took fire, by which one of the company, in the action of loading unfortunately had one of his arms shot off, and was otherwise much hurt.
Extract of a Letter from Capt. Charles C. Russel, dated Cape Francois, Dec. 13. 1785.
"On the 24th of November last, in latitude 33, and long. 61, (after a very heavy gale of wind) spoke a ship, Thomas Knights, commander, from Waterford, bound to New-York, having been fifteen days water logged, and in a most dismal situation, with seven feet of water in the hold; the Captain and crew of which I took on board my vessel;—in a short time after the ship sunk. The next day, meeting with an English brig, bound to Antigua, I put on board Capt. Knights, his mate, and eight hands; the remainder, seven in number I brought in here."
There has been lately published, and advertised for sale in New-York, "the History of the Revolution of South-Carolina, from a British Province to an Independent State—by David Ramsay, M. D. Member (and at present Chairman) of the American Congress—in two volumes."—"The author being unknown to the literary world, felt an unwillingness to pre engage purchasers by subscription: He has therefore taken on himself the risk and expense of the whole edition, amounting to more than four thousand nine hundred dollars."
We find, by the Connecticut Courant of last Monday, that at sunrise, on the 17th inst. at Hartford, the mercury in Fahrenheit's thermometer fell to 14° below 0—Wednesday the 18th, to 20 below 0—Thursday the 19th, to 24 below 0—and Friday the 20th, to 17 below 0, and at 2 o'clock, P. M. it rose to 18 above 0.
"The thermometer with which the above observations were made hath been verified, at the points of freezing and water boiling."
The General Assembly of New-Jersey have passed an act, authorising Congress to regulate foreign trade.
P O R T S M O U T H, Feb. 3.
We hear agents have lately been sent to the piratical powers of Algiers and Morocco. Mr. Lamb, lately a captain in the American army, is deputed to the former; and Mr. Barklay to the latter. These gentlemen are now in Europe—and we have every reason to hope the commerce of the United States will soon feel the good effects of their mission—in lowering the present exorbitant rates of insurance.
The Rev. Mr. Miltimore, was on Wednesday last ordained to the pastoral Charge of the Church of Christ, in Stratham. The good order, decency and serious attention of a numerous assembly, convened on the occasion, were noticed with great propriety, by the following gentlemen.—The Rev. Dr. Haven began with prayer.—The Rev. Mr. McClintock preached a sermon suited to the occasion, from the 1st Chap. of Heb. 1st and 2d verses.—The Rev. Dr. Langdon gave the charge.—The Rev. Mr. Buckminster gave the right hand of fellowship, and the Rev. Mr. Mansfield closed the exercise.
Last Wednesday the Hon. Gen. Court of this State, met at the State House in this town, pursuant to adjournment, and proceeded to business.
It is said that the duke of Richmond, still refuses to touch a shilling of his salary, as master-
general of the ordnance. He has declared, that it is his intention to let it accumulate for the purpose of building a fort, but should he not remain long enough in office till that is accomplished, it is to be applied towards the payment of the national debt.
M A K I N E L I S T.
Port of Piscataqua, February 31, 1786.
E N T E R E D, none.
C L E A R E D,
Brig Viscount D. Arrot, Miller, for Tobago. Brig Jane & Elizabeth, Fraser, West Indies.
D I E D —John Moffat, Esq. aged 92.—Mr. Samuel Beck, aged 78.—Miss Sarah Sauer, aged 27, daughter of Capt. Titus Sauer.—A child of Mr. Samuel Drowne's—At Boston, on Thursday evening last, aged 37, Mrs. Mehitable Sullivan the amiable and virtuous comfort of the Hon. James Sullivan, Esq. of that town.
The 15th ultimo, about five o'clock, P. M. departed this life at Hampton-Falls, in the 73d year of his age, his late Excellency MESHECH WEARE, Esq. after a lingering illness, which he bore with uncommon patience and fortitude, and met death with as much calmness as he had lived; and the 18th, his remains were honorably interred; leaving behind him a numerous offspring to mourn their loss, with multitudes of others. A gentleman so conspicuous for wisdom and every virtue, that it is not easy for an ordinary pen to do justice to his character: But it is a comfort to think that it is already so well known throughout these United-States that less need be said. It need only to be observed for the sake of some who knew him not, that he descended from ancestors, for two generations at least, who were men of eminence and renown in this State, and bore some of the highest offices in it with honor and to the great acceptance of the public. And it will be readily allowed that the deceased President was far from falling short of his honorable ancestors. To give a few lines of his character is all that will be attempted. Heaven favoured him with an happy genius, which was cultivated by a liberal education, and by such after studies, that his knowledge became very extensive; all which gave his mind such an elevation as few arrive at. Accordingly, he was early in life called into public business, and went through all the important offices of the State, too many to enumerate, for about 45 years together, with great dignity, and to as universal acceptance of the public, as was, perhaps, ever known, till he arrived at the chief Seat of Government, which his bodily infirmities occasioned him to resign, which he signified before the last election. —And such was the greatness and calmness of his humble soul, that not the least alteration was perceived in him, upon all his advancements, not even the last; but he remained the same modest, pleasant, amiable Christian he ever appeared before. Not to enlarge —What shone as characteristic of this great and good Man, was his extensive knowledge, accompanied with great modesty, a clear and discerning head, a calm mind, unruffled by any of the passions, an upright heart, which no temptations could corrupt, a most friendly, amiable benevolence towards all men, and a sweet and heavenly smile for his friends, and the greatest prudence, diligence and industry in serving the public, and discharging the various duties of the christian life: "So that we cannot doubt, but he is gone to receive the reward of a good and faithful Servant, in the mansions of eternal blessedness."
The vain hear the flatteries of their own imagination, and fancy them to be the voice of fame.
A solemn Owl puffed up with vanity, fate repeating her screams at midnight, from the hollow of a blasted oak. And whence, cried she, proceeds this awful silence, unless it be to favour my superior melody? Surely the groves are hush'd in expectation of my voice, and when I sing, all nature listens. An Echo rebounding from an adjacent rock, replied immediately, "all nature listens." The Nightingale, returned she, has usurp'd the sovereignty by night: her note indeed is musical, but mine is sweeter far. The voice confirming her opinion, replied again, "is sweeter far." Why then am I diffident, continued she, why do I fear to join the tuneful choir? The Echo still flattering her vanity, repeated, "join the tuneful choir." Roused by this empty phantom of encouragement, she on the morrow mingled her bootings with the harmony of the groves. But the tuneful songsters, disgusted with her noise, and affronted by her impudence, unanimously drove her from their society.
W A N T E D,
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Parnassian Spring.
The BACHELOR's last SHIFT.
COME sweet fifteen, come thirty-five, Come misses who your charms survive, Come widows of a social vein, Who live in hope to try again; Come honour'd madam, come plain goody, Of aspect fallow, pale or ruddy; (With me good sense, good wit, good nature, Will well supply defect of feature) Come all, and listen to my cry; A bachelor, ah! must I die? No longer I my cares dissemble, At thirty-five believe, I tremble, And here expect a bill of fare, Which charity is wish'd to spare: —Of constitution firm and hearty, I love my country, laugh at party; Of temper chearful, kind and pliant; Not quite a dwarf, tho' far from giant; Of wit—none think they lack their share, Of features—almost—regular; Of worldly means—enough for one; No pedant, not to books unknown, Not destitute of signs of grace, Can shew at church a thoughtful face; All forms of cruelty detest, And hate the rancour of a jest; And pleas'd when merit finds its meed, Nor envy, if a knave succeed; Mammon I seek not, nor refuse, Which pride and ignorance abuse; Peace, competence, be still in sight, Three meals a day, sound sleep at night. —These, ladies, are my chief pretensions, Which ponder well, I hate inventions: Let (pride and conquesty apart) Each proper female ask her heart. Should that incline, may her fair hand Her humble servant's fate command.  A desponding Bachelor.
ON A MARRIED LIFE.
BUT happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentle stars unite, and in one mind, Their hearts, their fortunes, & their beings blend, The faithful wife, the husband, and the friend. The Gods cement their union from above, Attuning all their passions into love; No jealous, fordid passions they endure, Love answers love, and renders bliss secure; Let him who barter for the loathing fair, Well merited consume his nights in care; While those whom love cements ne'er shed a tear, But free as nature live, disdaining fear; Survey the mind, or mind-illumin'd face, See goodness, honour, harmony, and grace; Whatever fair high fancy forms be giv'n, The richest bounties of indulgent heav'n, A smiling offspring soon encrease their joys, "The mother views the father in her boys." The sire, enraptur'd with the mother's bliss, Sends Fanny, as his proxy, with a kiss; Then infant reason grows—and seems to ask A parent's tender care—delightful talk! To rear the tender thought, and from the root, To teach the young idea how to shoot.
Whether sailor or not, for a moment avail Poor Tom's mizen top sail is laid to the (mast, He'll never turn out, nor again heave the lead, He's now a back-nor will sail shoot a-head, He always was brisk, and tho' now gone to wreck, When he hears the old whistle, he'll jump upon (deck.
WHEREAS the laws of this State require that all inholders, and retailers of spirituous liquors, shall once in every year, at the court of General Sessions of the Peace in the several counties, and as that court will sit at Portsmouth, on Tuesday the fourteenth day of February next, there will then be an opportunity for any whole year is expired, or those that are disposed to retail, to obtain licence: Therefore as public notice is given, that no person may be found breaking the law, and incurring the penalty, which is great.  Portsmouth, January 1786.
This Day the Company of MEL- CHER and OSBORNE, being mu- tually dissolved, all persons hav- ing any demands upon the late Company are desired to exhibit the same for adjustment, and all those indebted are once more re- quested to make immediate pay- ment to the late company,
John Melcher.
Portsmouth, January 20, 1786.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given that a petition hath been presented to the General Court, by Oliver Lawrence and Benjamin Cummings, setting forth, that they were bondsmen for Samuel Cum- mings, Esq. late of Hollis, an absentee, to the judge of Probate for the county of Hillsborough, for the just settlement of the estate of his father Samuel Cummings, late of said Hollis, Esq. deceased —and that the said Samuel was ordered by the decree of the said judge of Probate, to pay to Ben- jamin Cummings, the youngest son of said deceased, his equal portion out of his said father's estate, and that said Samuel went off and was considered as an absentee, and never paid said Benjamin Cummings his portion, and his estate declared con- fiscate to the State, by reason of all which the said Benjamin hath never received his portion, and your petitioners stand liable to pay the said Ben- jamin's portion, with interest ever since the date of said decree. They also say that it is repre- sented to them that Capt. Leonard Whiting of said Hollis, hath presented a petition to the Gene- ral Court, praying to be restored to law for the recovery of a debt that the said Samuel owed him, they also further say, that it is in their power to shew that the prayer of the said Whiting's peti- tion ought not to be granted; —Wherefore they prayed for a day of hearing on the matter before the General Court; upon which petition the Ge- neral Court ordered that the petitioners be heard thereon, before them, on the second Thursday of their next session, and that in the mean time the petitioners cause the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'yry. Exeter, January 2, 1786.
TO BE SOLD
By John Nelson, of Gilmantown,  A good FARM, pleasantly situated on the province road, contain- ing one hundred and eight acres, being more or less, having a good house and barn thereon, and an orchard with 237 trees; said farm is well wood- ed and watered, and near two meeting houses.— Blacksmith and Mills in the first parish.
To whom the late Hon. MARK WENTWORTH, Esq. was indebted are desired to call and receive payment; and all who are indebted to said deceased are re- quested without further notice to settle the de- mands against them, as the most speedy settlement of the estate is intended. —TO BE LET, the CRANE WARE-HOUSE of the deceased, with the WHARF whereon it stands, now occupied by Thomas Martin, Esq. and a STORE near liberty bridge, in the occupation of Mr. George Howe, with the WARE-HOUSE thereto belonging.  ELIZABETH WENTWORTH, Executrix. Portsmouth, January 19, 1786.
TO BE SOLD, BY
John Penhallow, jr. At his STORE on LONG WHARF, Flour, Bar-Iron, Tar, Turpen- tine, Pitch, &c. &c.  Portsmouth, Jan. 13.
A few Tons of good BAR-IRON, to be sold cheap, by Jeremiah Libbey.
A few Hogheads of  West-India RUM, and Casks of BRANDY, To be Sold CHEAP for CASH, By John Sparhawk.
THE Vendue, for selling the delinquent pro- prietors lots, in the town of Shapleigh, in the county of York, stands further adjourned to Tuesday the 21st day of February next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house of Nathan Lord, Esq. inholder in Berwick: when and where the remaining delinquent lots will be exposed for sale, unless the taxes and in- tervening charges thereon are paid before that time.
By order of a Committee. DANIEL SEWALL, V. M. Berwick, January 17, 1786.
WHEREAS in and by a law of the State made to establish an equitable method of assessing rates and taxes, among other things, it is therein enacted that "the buildings of non-resi- dents shall be taxed at the rate of half of one pr. cent. according to the real value thereof." And whereas in the several lists which I have received from the selectmen of the town of Portsmouth, the estates of a number of non resident proprietors are there- in assessed, some of whom are still delinquent for taxes in the sums hereafter mentioned; this is therefore to notify all such delinquent proprietors of houses and lands, or their agents, that unless they respectively pay me the sum or sums due on or before Wednesday the 22d day of February next, 11 o'clock A. M. so much of their lands or buildings will then be sold at public vendue, at the house occupied by Capt. William Brewster, inholder in said Portsmouth, as will be sufficient to pay said taxes together with the incidental charges.
   Estates. 1781. Ditto. 1782. 1783. Silver. N. emiffi. silver. silver.   l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s.     Elizabeth Wallingford 7 0 3 18 10 0 0 7 0 0   James Gilmore 5 5 0 3 6 5 0 4 7 6   John T. Mason, Esq. 7 3 6 3 18 10 5 0 5 0   Samuel Hobart, Esq. 7 0 3 18 10 0 0 7 0 0   Nathaniel Rogers 0 14 0 0 6 1 0 0 0 0   Joseph Sherburne 9 19 9 5 2 13 2 6 5 13 9   Thomas Smith 10 10 0 6 12 10 0 8 15 0   T. W. Waldron, Esq. 3 2 0 1 10 5 13 9 1 1 0   James Stilson 7 17 6 4 10 11 0 0 7 0 0   J. Nelson, Goldsmith 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 6   Capt. J. Bradford 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 0    JOSEPH AKERMAN, Collector. Portsmouth, January 24, 1786.
BY virtue of a licence from the hon. Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, will be sold at public vendue, on the 9th day of Feb- ruary next, at 2 o'clock P. M. at the house of Mr. Lang, in Portsmouth, TWENTY SIX & HAL- F ACRES OF LAND, being the real estate of the widow Susannah Lang, late of Portsmouth, de- ceased, represented intestate: MARK LANG, Administrator. Portsmouth, January 25, 1786.
THE time allowed for receiving and deliver- ing the mails being so short as to prevent the charging of any letters; gentlemen who at- tend, or send to the Office will recollect that charge is necessary, as the Post Master is not always pro- vided with it, and the letters will be detained un- til paid for.  Post Office, Portsmouth, Jan. 27.
State of New-Hampshire.
THE subscriber begs leave to remind the inhabitants of this State, who are pos- sessed of unliquidated claims against the United States, that by a resolution of Congress the 17th March, 1785; any per- son or persons, who shall neglect to deliver an account of such claim to the commissioner for settling accounts against the United States, in the State in which they reside, within twelve months from said date, shall be ex- cluded from the benefit of settlement or al- lowance.
Therefore those who wish not to be pre- cluded from an adjustment of their claims, will please to apply before the 17th of March next, as none will be received after that date.
STEPHEN GORHAM, Commiss'r. Exeter, January 24, 1786.
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