Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-12-09 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
“WHEN ANGRY NATIONS PART IN LEAGUES OF PEACE, LET PRIVATE FEUDS AND CIVIL DISCORDS CEASE.”
PORTSMOUTH: Printed and published by JOHN MELCHER, in Market-Street, where Subscriptions, (at Six SHILLINGS and EIGHT PENCE pr. Ann.) Advertisements, &c. for this Paper are taken in, the favours of correspondents carefully attended to, and the Printing Business carried on at a reasonable rate.—Also—Advertisements, Subscriptions, &c. taken in by T. ODIORNE, Esq. Exeter.
B O S T O N, November 18.  W HEREAS the excessive use of articles of foreign growth and manufacture has been attended with the most pernicious consequences, by exhausting our circulating medium, and by diffusing a taste for extravagance: And whereas it is of the utmost importance to encourage industry, frugality, and our own manufactures; to recover a circulating medium; to restore publick credit; and to facilitate the payment of publick and private debts, and thereby to promote the welfare and happiness of our country:
With a view to these salutary and important purposes.—We the subscribers do hereby enter into a solemn agreement and association, to refrain from, and as far as is in our power, to prevent, the excessive use and consumption of articles of foreign manufacture, especially articles of luxury and extravagance; and that we will exert our best endeavours for the promotion of industry and our own manufactures. We do hereby engage to use our utmost influence to promote associations for the abovementioned purposes, within our respective spheres of influence.
  James Bowdoin,  Joseph Hosmer,    Thomas Cushing,  Nathaniel Wells,    Abraham Fuller,  Benjamin Goodhue,    Benjamin Austin,  Hugh Orr,    Samuel Phillips, jun.  Elisha May,    Samuel Adams,  Stephen Metcalf,    William Phillips,  Richard Cranch,    Samuel Baker,  Joseph B. Varnum,    Solomon Freeman,  Josiah Thacher,    Charles Turner,  David Sexton,    Cotton Tufts,  Waterman Thomas.  
It is with pleasure we acquaint the publick, that the above Association was also entered into and signed by the Honourable Speaker and sixty other members of the House of Representatives, previous to their late adjournment (being nearly the whole number present) with a view of lessening foreign importation, and of giving every encouragement in their power to our own manufactures; that by their laudable example, the several towns of the commonwealth may be induced to enter into similar associations.
The great advantages that must result from a measure of this kind, if generally adopted, are too notorious to require a particular enumeration; and it is hoped, and expected, that persons of all ranks will accordingly adopt it and use their utmost endeavours it should become general. We may thereby, in connections with industry, frugality and economy, not only prevent the further exportation of specie, but recover a sufficiency of it to form a circulating medium; and have the satisfaction of seeing publick and private credit revive, publick and private virtue restored, and the commonwealth again made happy. But, on the contrary, should we unhappily continue in the present prevailing taste for foreign tinsel and for extravagant dress and equipage, which are a dishonour to Republicans, and inconsistent with every idea of republicanism, it must prove the ruin of the commonwealth.
It is to be hoped that like Associations will be immediately put on foot in the Capital, and all the other towns within the commonwealth, to carry into effect the patriotick intentions of our rulers, and thereby discourage the unnecessary use of foreign manufactures, restrain the too prevalent taste for dress and false refinement, and to encourage and promote industry, frugality, and our own manufactures. An immediate and spirited exertion in the Capital would, no doubt, be soon followed by similar exertions in the country; And by a Union in such measures, on which the safety and welfare of our country so much depend, our enemies may be convinced, that we have wit-
dom to develope, and firmness to counteract, their deep laid designs against the happiness, and indeed against the existence of the commonwealth.
L O N D O N, August 26.  L ETTERS from Constantinople, dated June 14, declare that the troubles in the distant provinces were daily increasing, and that the famous rebel Kulschuk-Aly, who had been, in the course of the last winter, supposed by the Porte to be dead, was again in arms, at the head of a numerous body of well disciplined troops.
A foreigner, we are told, has discovered a method of curing the dropsy by an internal medicine. This it must be confessed is superior to the miracles of Cagliostro! Let it not, however, be said that “what should be grave we turn to farce;” if this medicine really exists, the discoverer will, we hope, reveal its composition, and thus deserve the praise of every lover of mankind.
Extract of a letter from Marseilles, July 10. “The Russians have applied to the Sublime Porte for the release of two of their ships which have lately been captured by the Algerines. In consequence of which the Grand Signior sent a minister express to Algiers, to request that the Dey might restore the ships so taken, together with their crews. The Dey made the following answer to the Ottoman minister, “Go back, tell the emperor, thy master, that I am sovereign as well as himself, and that it rests with me, and me alone, to make peace or war; as for the slaves they may be set free by paying a proper ransom, but as to the ships and cargoes, they are condemned and sold, and the money distributed amongst my seamen: and I command you to make known to the emperor, that I value not his friendship, neither do I care for his anger.” We wait with impatience to know the result of this imperious answer, and what steps the Divan will take in consequence of it.”
A young gentleman of the customs in Edinburgh, has favoured us with the following Extract of a letter, sent him from Dundee, dated August 17, 1786.
“Very little credit has been given to what Pottopidan, bishop of Bergen, in his natural history of Norway, says of a certain animal called Kraken, but if the declaration made by the master and mate of a Norway ship now here, whereof the inclosed is a copy, may be depended on, it will afford some reason to believe that there is in nature such a creature as he describes.
“It is proposed farther to examine them, and the whole crew upon oath, and if any thing material occurs, I shall acquaint you.”
“At Dundee, the 16th of August. Before J. R. Lamy, one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Forfar, and Mr. John Guild, one of the present magistrates of Dundee, appeared Jens Anderson and Mads Jensen, master and mate of the Margaretta, of Easterker, of Norway, who declare, and it is further confirmed by their several journals produced, That on Saturday, the 5th day of this present month of August, between the hours of nine and ten in the forenoon of that day, being on their voyage to Dundee, and in latitude 56, 16, N. about fifteen or sixteen leagues to the eastward of the island of May, they, as well as the whole crew of the said ship, perceived, within less than one mile's distance to the southward of them, what they conceived to be an animal, called in Norway a sea worm, a creature of a huge size, emerging from the sea: That from its appearance, it seemed to form three low islands, or sand banks, of a greyish colour, thus—
That they conceive the length of it to have been at least three English miles: That it lay stretched from S. W. to N. E. That its breadth appeared to be about twenty or thirty fathoms: That it was in fight fifty minutes, and went down gradually, without any remarkable agitation of the water. From the time of its ascending, and during its appearance on the wa-
ter, the weather was perfectly calm, and it went down again as soon as a breeze came on. The waves broke on those parts of it which were above water, as on a bank. The greatest apparent height it bore above water seemed to be from two to three fathoms.
JENS ANDERSON. MADS JENSON.
Declared and signed before us, J. R. LAMY, J. P. JOHN GUILD, Magistrate.
September 6. The late king of Prussia was hurt in the extreme, when he heard that America had obtained independence.—“Washington (said he) is a brave general. His hand is an army, and his head is a state council. But I am sorry the Howes did not exert themselves to destroy their soldiery and navy for all that. If America had been mine, this hand should never have signed away an inch of her earth.”
The plague may do more to cool the ardour and check the insolence of the Algerines than all the united force that can be opposed to them; the last advices of the ravages of this disorder are truly terrible, more than one hundred thousand having been swept away in Tunis alone.
September 11. His late Prussian majesty was little less distinguished, for his literary than military talents. In his most beautiful little tale of “Avarice and Glory,” which was some time printed before he avowed himself the author, (and which gives a fine picture of human life.) He introduces himself as a shepherd; but, leaving his flocks and the muses, he becomes a soldier. From the field of war, however, he retires to the cabinet; where, as he emphatically says, “drunk with power, and involved in system, he sees, consults, and is pleased only with himself. Convinced of the folly of listening to the voice of ambition, he flies back to his long forsaken cottage, and, resuming his garb of simplicity, passes his days in innocence and peace.”
PHILADELPHIA, November 16.
The Indians complain (says a correspondent) that the Congress and the Big Knife (the Virginians) want to deprive them of a vast tract of country to which neither of them have any just claim or right whatever. They assert that they are their hunting grounds, and that Great-Britain could not cede to Congress what they did not possess, and that they will never relinquish or give them up till they are driven to the setting sun, without a consideration for them. They have ever been disposed, and are still willing, to treat for the sale of the lands. Why then should the whole continent be set in a flame for the sake of a few acres of wilderness, to gratify the ambitious views of a few leading men in any particular state? As soon as the blow is given the fire will spread from south to north, and from north to south. The tribes of Indians will undoubtedly combine and associate for the purposes of war, and we should therefore be exceedingly careful that the world does not consider us as the aggressors. The monies already expended by Congress for the Indian Department, pay of commissioners, &c. we are told, would have been more than sufficient to purchase all the lands in question.
NEW-YORK, November 22.
Extract of a letter from Flint River, August 3.
“The people are all ordered off the Oconee lands; and if they go, the Indians will be quiet; if not, when the time is expired, which is the last of September, then they are to fall on the white people. It seems the Chieftains have all promised to join the Creeks. 700 northward Indians arrived and settled along side the Chickasaws, who say they will be our enemies when once the Creeks begin. M c Gillivray is determined the Oconee lands shall not be settled.”

Board of TREASURY of the United States,
November 20, 1786.
THE United States in Congress, having, by their act of the 20th Oct. last, directed the board of treasury to contract for the cloathing and rations necessary for the troops to be raised in pursuance of the act above-mentioned ; and having further, by their act of the 21st of the said month, made a special requisition on the several states for the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, to be expressly applied for the pay and support of the troops on the present establishment—
The commissioners of the Board of Treasury hereby give notice,
That proposals will be received at their office till the 20th day of December next, inclusive, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the troops on the present establishment, from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of December, 1787, (both days inclusive) at any place or places, betwixt the state of New Hampshire, and York town in the state of Pennsylvania, both places inclusive ; provided the same be not further north than Saratoga, in the state of New York.
AND for all rations which may be required from the 1st day of June to the last day of December, 1787, (both dates inclusive) at the places, and within the districts herein after mentioned, viz.
At any place or places betwixt Yorktown, in the state of Pennsylvania, and fort Pitt ; and at fort Pitt.
At any place or places betwixt fort Pitt and fort M'Intosh, on the river Ohio, and at fort M'Intosh.
At any place or places betwixt fort M'Intosh and the mouth of the river Muskingum ; and at the mouth of the said river Muskingum.
At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the said river Muskingum, and the mouth of Scioto river ; and at the mouth of the said river Scioto.
At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the Scioto river and the mouth of the Great Miami ; at the mouth of the Great Miami ; and from thence to the rapids on the Falls of the Ohio ; and at the said rapids.
At any place or places from the mouth of the Miami river to the Miami village ; and at the Miami village.
From the Miami village to Sandusky, and at Sandusky, from Sandusky to the mouth of Cayoga river.
At any place or places betwixt Fort Pitt and Venango, and at Venango.
At any place or places betwixt Venango and Le Boeuf, at Le Boeuf ; betwixt Le Boeuf and Presq' Isle ; at Presq' Isle, and betwixt Presq' Isle and the mouth of Cayoga river.
At the mouth of Cayoga river, and at any place or places on the route from Fort Pitt to the mouth of Cayoga river.
Should any rations be required at any places, or within other districts, not specified in these proposals, the price of the same to be hereafter agreed on betwixt the Secretary at War and the contractor.
The rations to be supplied is to consist of the following articles, viz.
 One pound of bread, or flour ;  One pound of beef, or 3-4lb. of pork ;  One gill of common rum ; 
  One quart of salt,  } per 100  rations.    Two quarts of vinegar,    Two pounds of soap,    One pound of candles,  
The proposals must ascertain the prices of the component parts of the ration, and specify the longest credit, and the terms of payment, which the persons who offer are willing to engage on.
Those who incline to contract may at their option, send in proposals for supplying the rations at all the places mentioned in this advertisement ; or separate proposals for supplying the rations issuable betwixt the state of New Hampshire, and York town in the state of Pennsylvania. And those which are issuable from Yorktown, to, at, and for any of the places which are particularly specified.
L O N D O N, August 9.
It is impossible to describe the scene of riot and confusion that was exhibited on Wednesday at the custom-house, in consequence of the manifest-act taking place on that day. The merchants knew not how to proceed under it ; whilst even the Commissioners of the Customs, their Solicitors, and every other officer in that department, were equally embarrassed, and could give no directions how entries might be made with safety. Penalties and confiscations lurking beneath every arrangement ; and the whole act presented a system so entirely Utopian , and incomprehensible, that the business of the customs was totally suspended.
The quays near the custom-house, from Wednesday till Friday last, exhibited a spectacle of the most extraordinary kind, being covered with piles of merchandize, almost from one end of the wharf to the other ; the shipping of which was rendered impracticable, from the construction put by the Commissioners of the customs on a part of the eighteenth clause of the most wonderful and abstruse performance, yelect , the manifest act ; a construction which every man of common sense clearly perceived it would not bear, and in consequence of which it was insisted that all merchants exporting, by commission, goods the property of foreign countries, entitled to a drawback, should declare upon oath, on the certificate, at the time of entry, the names and places of abode of the persons to whom they were consigned.
This they protested against, as impolitic and unjust, tending to lay open their connexions, and unfold those secrets in their trade, which ought to be wholly confined to the parties immediately concerned ; the Commissioners were inflexible, and an entire stop was put to the shipping of the goods by certificate for almost three whole days.
Aug. 24. We learn from Copenhagen, by Tuesday's mail, that the heir apparent to the Danish crown has just given a striking proof of his judgment, at an age when growing passions often stifle the voice of reason, and prevent its being attended to with the effect it ought. His royal highness was applied to a few days ago, to check the liberty of the press, by persons such as are found in all states, who are not pleased that the observations of writers would unmask their proceedings.---An increase of the number of censors was asked of him ; a set of men, always useless and dangerous, when they are not guided but by an extraordinary and undiscerning severity. The prince answered, "That since it was impossible to restrain the liberty of thinking, it would be to little purpose to restrain the liberty of the press." Since that writers with less reserve have gone great lengths. It is true that they have not exceeded the limits of propriety. It is also true that some regulations may be adopted, if they should think proper to abuse the fair liberty, which the patronage of a young prince who almost alone sustains the weight of the government of a kingdom, allows them, with a view to oppose ancient prejudices, and expose the folly and danger of them. What an important lesson does this prince, no more than eighteen years of age, give to those ministers of States, in which the subjects have a constitutional right to the liberty of the press?
September 1. The plan formed in Russia of putting into circulation 30,000,000 of rubles, paper currency, is effected, with the joint approbation of her majesty and the senate. It is also in contemplation to establish an assurance-chamber, for Peterburgh and Riga. Specie is at present very scarce at the capital of Russia, and the necessaries of life bear an exorbitant price.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, August 19.
"It is said, that a number of the Royal Irish society has discovered the certainty of longitude,
by an application of the lunar phases. The mode would be deemed imperfect, if the discoverer did not accompany his calculations from the state of the dark, as well as the lucid intervals of this planet. Under the conviction of this discovery, it is said that the celebrated Mr. Parker, intends to accompany Mr. Wyat to the North Pole, for the express purpose of making salt-petre at the extremity of the Arctick Circle."
N E W - H A V E N, November 23.
Extract of a letter from a great Character in Virginia to his friend in this town, dated October 22d, 1786.
"It gives me pleasure also to hear that so many Officers are elected to your assembly ; I am persuaded they will carry with them more liberality of sentiment than is to be found among any other class of citizens.
"The speech of our friend Cobb was noble, worthy of a patriot, and worthy of himself—as was the conduct of General Sullivan.
"But for God's sake tell me, what is the cause of all these commotions ? Do they proceed from licentiousness, British influence disseminated by the tories, or real grievances which admit of redress ? If the latter, why has the remedy been delayed until the publick mind has become so much agitated, and why yet postponed ? If the former, why are not all the powers of government put forth and tried at once ? It is as well to be without them, as not to live under their exercise. Commotions, of this kind, like snow-balls, gather strength and magnitude as they roll, if there is no obstacle to crumble, no opposition to impede them.---Do write me fully, I beseech you, not only with respect to facts, but as to opinions of their tendency and issue.
"I am really mortified beyond expression, that in the moment of our acknowledged Independence, we should, by our conduct verify the predictions of our transatlantick foe, and render ourselves ridiculous and contemptible in the eyes of all Europe."
Abstract of a letter dated Flint River, Aug. 22.
"The inclosed is a letter I wrote a few days ago and sent express ; but the waters were so high, the man was obliged to return—I have therefore sent it by another hand.---I set off in a few days, and am in hopes shall be out of the nation before any mischief is done. A Cherokee half breed, a few days ago, informed me that some of the Creek Indians from the upper part of the nation had fired upon two white men, that were coming into the Cherokees, from some of the white settlements back of the Cherokees, killed one and wounded the other—they scalped them both, but the wounded man recovered and got home again. The Indians were followed by a party of white people, who came on a camp of Creeks, killed one Indian and wounded another, who gives an account of some white people being lately killed by the Cherokees. Several gangs of Indians are gone down to Pensacola to bring up ammunition ; none are to get any but those who are recommended by Mr. M'Gillivray. I believe, if proper measures were taken, satisfaction might be obtained for what mischief has been done. But Mr. M'Gillivray, it seems, is determined the Oconee lands shall not be settled if he can help it.
Extract of another letter from the same place.
"This day they bring us from Sherboon the following accounts : That a few days ago came into that river a species of tygers, not like any ever known in this country. They have already killed an Indian and a Negro, and wounded another black man ; they have made many attempts on most of the houses in the river, one person they killed in his bed, and the other cleaning his gun in his house. The Negroes, terrified out of their wits, refuse to work in the bush. Those animals touch no kind of stock ; whenever they smell human flesh they tear the place to pieces to get at their prey.---Our condition is deplorable, and hardly to be described."
The Felon and his Wedge of Gold.
A FELON in travelling was Money-less and hungry, wherefore to supply his belly, he set his wits to work : coming by a Knight's house about dinner-time, he knocks at the gate, and enquires for the Steward, who coming to him, he asks him if his master would buy a wedge of gold of a foot and a half long ? The Steward imagining he had such a one about him to sell, invites him in, and tells his master of it. The Knight hearing of such a prize, bids his Steward to make much of him, and feast him with the best. After dinner the Knight sent for him into his Parlour, and asks him if he would speak with him ? Yes, said the fellow, I come to know if you would buy a wedge of gold of a foot and a half long. The Knight told him. Yes, he cared not if he did. Then said the fellow, now that I know your mind, if I should find one of that length, I will bring it to you.

CHARLESTON (S. C.)
Nov. 2. A letter from Tugaloo, state of Georgia, dated October 16, says, "The spies I mentioned in my last letter, have lately returned with the following intelligence, viz. That the Creeks were waiting for the army, which they seem determined to attack with a part of their force, and that another part is to march round and attack Tugaloo: That the French, from Canada, are settled at the bent of Tenesse, to the amount of 100, and that an equal number of Delaware Indians are with them as a guard; that the Spaniards at Pensacola have assured the Creeks that they shall not want arms and ammunition to carry on the war against Georgia."
BOSTON Dec. 1.
Every friend to our present excellent constitution will feel pleasure in being informed, that the rage for county conventions, throughout the state, is nearly extinct. In the county of Hampshire, this body has dwindled to a mere cypher, and it is expected will be heard of no more—not one person of even common abilities having attended at their late meeting.
The gentlemen who compose the body of cavalry, under the command of Col. Hichbourn, paraded at 7 o'clock on Wednesday morning, immediately proceeded over Charles River Bridge, and, we hear, have made an excursion of 40 miles into the country, for the meritorious purpose of taking and securing the leaders of the well-known lawless banditti, who inhabit some remote parts of the county of Middlesex: And last evening we had the great pleasure of hearing that their patriotism and gallantry were crowned with the desired success.—Shattuck, Smith, Parker, and several others, we are informed, are taken, and, it is hoped, will this day be safely lodged, with their brother Brock, in the jail of this town. Col. Hichbourn, and the gentlemen of his corps, may be expected in town this forenoon.
Capt. Smith, who arrived here on Monday last, in the Brig Baltimore, from Baltimore, near the Capes of Virginia spoke with Capt. Turner, of the brig Jane, belonging to Rhode Island. He was from Rotterdam, and had been out twelve weeks. The vessel, which was in a very shattered condition, had been long beating on the coast, and had 100 Dutch emigrants on board.
PORTSMOUTH, December 9.
Last Saturday a genteel house just finishing at Dover, the property of Capt. William Horn, took fire and was consumed; the fire communicated to a building belonging to Gen. Moulton, which was also consumed, beside other property. It is said the above misfortune was occasioned by leaving shavings near the fire place, while the workmen went to breakfast. It is a pity so many buildings should be destroyed in the country for want of means to extinguish fires, when Engines for that purpose are made in this town for the small sum of fifteen dollars, with which two persons will throw water over the ridge-pole of any common three-story building, and discharge from half a barrel to a barrel per minute.
We have the pleasure to assure our readers, that by intelligence received by a vessel which arrived in this port yesterday, that the late accounts of Port au Prince being sunk by an earthquake are premature.
A short time previous to the dissolution of his Prussian Majesty, he sent for the hereditary Prince, and, in the presence of his chamberlain and an old general, who constantly attended his Majesty during his last moments, expressed himself with great firmness in the following words:
"I have acquired and preserved what will be thought a great dominion, by the sword; but I have never suffered mine enemy to be out of sight. A great general once asked me, why I placed the portrait of my opposer in all my apartments? I told him what I now tell you, that it was to keep me upon my guard; and I hope, that if the patrimony which you will soon inherit is dear to you, you will find it for your future conduct no unnecessary precept."
The following remarkable occurrence transpired not long since in the state of North Carolina.—A man 65 years of age, was married to a lady who had two sisters. In a short time the wife proved pregnant, and was delivered of three fine children;—and in less than twenty days after, each of her sisters were delivered of three children, and the husband supposed to be father of them all.—As it seems to be the general wish, that our Assembly should tax the Bachelors, it certainly is but reasonable that they should reward (rather than tax) any old man who can prove thus serviceable in promoting an increase of the human species.
NAVAL OFFICE,
PORT OF PISCATAQUA, December 9, 1786.  E N T E R E D. FROM Brig Cooper, Sellers, West-Indies.  C L E A R E D. FOR Brig John, Yeaton, West-Indies. Ship Viscompte D'Arrot, Palmer, Tobago. Brig Astrea, Salter, Cape-Francois.
HIGH WATER at PORTSMOUTH, From Saturday Dec. 9, to Saturday Dec. 16.     Forenoon. Afternoon.     Saturday, 52m after 2 18 - - - 3   Sunday, 43m after 4 7 - - - 4   Monday, 29m after 4 51 - - - 4   Tuesday, 12m after 5 33 - - - 5   Wednesday, 54m after 5 15 - - - 6   Thursday, 35m after 6 56 - - - 6   Friday 17m after 7 39 - - - 7  
AN OBSERVATION,—Proved.
THE most certain way of becoming popular at the present day is by dishonesty, and how ever odd this observation may appear, 'tis most certainly a true one—(Proof)—Few men are more popular than those artful and designing ones, who are continually declaiming against the payment of the public debts,—and as 'tis hard to conceive of a more atrocious species of dishonesty than this—so I think this proves the observation.
Perhaps it might be difficult to give a satisfactory reason why such men are popular, since none of us are willing to believe that dishonesty is more esteemed than honesty .—Nor do I suppose this to be the case—but the reason to me appears to be—that as these men make an external hypocritical appearance of honesty and justice, few examine into their designs, and fewer into the consequence of having them carried into execution. However, 'tis easy for any man of common penetration, who will give himself the trouble of one moments reflection, to see thro' their designs; for they are generally men void of integrity, and of too slender abilities to conceal their intentions from a penetrating observer.
Most of the men who declaim loudly against the payment of public securities, are persons deeply in debt, who by making public securities a handle (to stir up the populace) are endeavouring to make void all contracts whether of a public or private nature.
This is a fact which cannot be denied, and tho' some (few indeed) honest men may be deceived into their measures; yet 'tis because they do not see the consequences, nor consider that if these men succeed in their designs, no one can any longer have any estate which he can positively call his own.
These intriguers very well known that by preaching up that taxes are too heavy, or that the people ought not to be taxed at all, &c. that they shall soon be joined by poor ignorant men , who never look farther than their own private interest, and by preaching up that public securities ought not to be paid , that they shall be joined by all difficult debtors who very well know if public securities are ruined, private contracts will be of no value.
Thus they become popular, and finding themselves joined by ignorant and dishonest men, are ready to think themselves of some importance, and indeed they cannot expect to be of importance amongst any others.
They however endeavour to conceal their designs by an appearance of honesty, and pretend to be great friends to their country, but let us not be deceived—But let this down as an undeniable truth, that those men who declaim loudly against the payment of the public securities, be their pretensions what they may, have not one spark of honesty or honor remaining in them, and only make the public securities a horse on which they may ride into popularity. ZENO.
CONCISE CALENDAR FOR YOUNG FARMERS AND GARDENERS.
January. BUT little can be done this month in the fields and gardens, but remember that at the close of it, the snow may chance to melt away, therefore improve sledging to get your supply of wood for the summer. Visit your corn barns and granaries; see that rats, mice, &c. do not destroy your grain.
February. This month be sure to prune your fruit and other trees. Now get your tools in order for spring work while you have leisure. Remember it is a short month, and your time must be improved accordingly. As this is the last winter month, at the end of it, what is properly your winter work, should be completed.
March. As soon as the snow is off the ground, repair your stone-walls, and mend your other fences. Such work is generally neglected too long to the great detriment of the farmer. The sea-
sons are so uncertain in this country, as to their approach, that it is needless to say when the particular week should be to begin particular farming business. It is best to watch the weather, and be prepared to begin your work when it will permit.
April. Now begin in good earnest to engage in your spring work. Be it your first care to get your seed for spring grain in the ground. Sow flax-seed as early as possible. If the season permits, get all your dung on the ground and your first ploughing completed.
May. This is a very busy month for Farmers and Gardeners. Plant corn, potatoes, beans, &c. Hoe your first crop of turnips and sow a second.
June. Weed your Indian corn; carrots should be weeded before the weeds overrun them, and thinned by hoeing. Melons and cucumbers, attacked by black flies or spiders must be fumigated with tobacco smoke. Cabbages should be often hoed and earthed, nothing will make them flourish better.
July. You may now sow peas and turnips for the fall. Kill your Indian corn—Now for Hay—Attend to your grass, begin by mowing that which is ripest and thinnest. Look after your bees, which in hot weather will swarm. Get your sickles in order for reaping.
August. Reap and mow all kinds of corn as it becomes ripe. Continue to gather seeds of various sorts as they ripen when the weather is dry. Budding or inoculating generally succeeds best when it is performed in cloudy weather, or late in the afternoon.
September. Look to your Indian corn, cut stalks, and take care to dry them well for they are excellent fodder. Get your cider presses in order. Sow wheat and rye. Put your hogs up to fatten. Dig potatoes in dry weather and house them. Take care of your flax that is rotting, that it is not overtaken by severe frosts and kept on the ground all winter.
October. No time in this month must be lost. Gather in your Indian corn. Prune and plant forest trees. Continue gathering in potatoes. Now you may make cider in earnest. Be sure to have your Indian corn husked as soon as possible after it is gathered in heaps: If any of it is not sufficiently ripened, spread it to dry. Stop the growth of all kinds of weeds in your garden. You may prune and transplant fruit trees.
November. Put up your cattle in the barn. Bleed your horses. Move your bees under shelter if neglected last month. Continue to plant fruit and timber trees. It is time you had finished husking your Indian corn. Roots of beets, parley, carrots, potatoes, parsnips, turnips, &c. take up, in a dry day, early in this month to preserve for the winter; cut off the tops close, clean them from dirt, and deposit them in dry sand with the crowns of the roots downwards, over which you may throw some dry covering. Secure your sellers from frost.
December. As very little can be done this month either in the fields or gardens, visit your barns often. Thrash out your grain. Break and dress your flax. Repair, grind, and put your tools in order. Kill your fat Hogs.
Just Published, And ready for sale at this Office, A Treatise on the  Putrid Malignant Sore Throat, wherein is prescribed an infallible cure for that distemper (which has so mortally raged for these several years past.) By a gentleman of the Faculty.
WANTED immediately,  Five hundred Pound, in Orders on the State Treasurer, for which Cash in part will be paid down, and good security given for the remainder, payable within twelve months. Apply to the PRINTER hereof.
Complaints having been made that a number of children are found begging in the streets, and stealing on the wharves, it is requested of every inhabitant who knows of any such to give their names to the overseers of the poor. It is also recommended to such parents as cannot provide subsistence and employment for their children, to bind them out in the country or elsewhere, that the overseers may not be under the necessity of pursuing the steps appointed by law.
*If Wood mail not arrived at this publication.

Parnassian Spring.
THE OLD SOLDIER.
"PITY THE SORROWS of a POOR OLD MAN!" GOLDSMITH.
CLEAR was the blue expanse, the day serene, All nature wore an universal green; Smooth pass'd fair Schuykill's wave, delightful flood!
As, musing, on its verdant banks I stood; There wrap'd in praise, Oh bounteous GOD! to thee,
Who blest this happy land with liberty: And thou, * the instrument in virtue's cause, Who bravely free'd us from oppressive laws! An aged soldier in a voice of grief, Shew'd his grey locks, and thus implor'd relief:— "Oh! youth who yet a stranger to distress, Feel not (like me) the extremes of wretchedness! If, in thy country's cause, thy bosom glows,— That country, late o'er spread by barb'rous foes— In whose defence, life's richest blood was drain'd From these poor limbs, while yet a drop remain'd Now worn with toil, and impotent with age, Soon shall I leave this joyless, mortal stage. Yet if humanity, with genial heat
Expands thy soul to actions good and great, Some trifling help, which you may never need, Oh give, and Heav'n reward the pious deed. Once gay in life, and free from anxious care, I thro' the furrows drove the shining share— I saw my waving fields with plenty crown'd, And yellow Ceres, joyous smile around; Till rous'd by freedom at my country's call, I left my peaceful home, and gave up all. Now forc'd alas! to beg my hard earn'd bread, This crazy body longs to join the dead: Ungrateful country! When the danger's o'er, Your bravest sons cold charity implore."
Children of wealth, in downy pleasure bred, Pamper'd in ease, by fav'ring fortune fed; Who view with thoughtless eye the humble poor, That glean their scanty meals from door to door: Ah! have for me a sympathetick sigh, And wipe the falling tear from sorrow's eye.
* Our great American FABIUS.
COALS.
Louisbourg Coals, of a superior Quality, to be sold on reasonable Terms, for Cash or Lumber.
Apply to Jacob Sheafe, jun.
Portsmouth, December 8.
State of New - Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the township of New-Brad- ford who have yet neglected to pay their taxes, that the vendue for the sale of their lands which was to have been held this day as formerly notified in the Gazette, is adjourned to Tuesday the 9th day of January next, at ten o'clock A. M. and they may take notice that their lands are taxed as follows viz.
   Lot No. f. d. q. Lot No. f. d. q.     72 1 11 1 40 1 11 1   61 1 11 1 102 1 11 1   87 1 11 1 79 1 3 2   78 1 3 2 35 1 1 3   91 1 3 2  
for the year 1785, and that so much of their land will be sold on said day as will raise said tax with inciden- tal charges unless prevented by previous payment.
WILLIAM PRESBURY, Collector.
New-Bradford, November 27, 1786.
THE commissioners appointed by the hon- judge of probate, to receive and examine the claims on the estate of James Hickey, late of Portsmouth deceas'd, represented insolvent, here- by give notice that five months from the 19th October last, are further allowed by the judge for the creditors to bring in their claims.
JOHN SPARHAWK, } Commissioners. SUPPLY CLAP. }
Portsmouth, November 13, 1786.
TO BE EXCHANGED For Merchantable Pine BOARDS,
Several Orders on the State Treasurer. Enquire of the Printer.
State of New - Hampshire, PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a peti- tion signed Ezra Child, agent for Bath, was preferred to the General Court, at their session in June last, setting forth, among other things, that the inhabitants of the said town of Bath, labour under many and great difficulties in repairing and making passable the roads through said town, with- out the assistance of the non-residents: Where- fore they prayed that they might be enabled to tax the lands of the non-residents for the use afore- said, at the rate of three farthings per acre annu- ally:
Whereupon the General Court ordered that the petitioners may be heard thereon before them on the third Wednesday of their next session, and in the mean time the petitioners cause that the sub- stance of the petition respecting said tax and order of court thereon, be published three weeks success- ively in one of the New-Hampshire news-papers, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer there- of may not be granted.
Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON, Sec'y.
N. B. The public hearings, which were to have been before the General Court at their session in September last, are postponed, to be heard on the same days, at their next session.
Exeter, November 20, 1786.
State of New - Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resi- dent proprietors and owners of land in the township of New-Boston, who are delinquent in paying their taxes for the year 1785, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber at my dwelling house in said town, on or before Thurs- day the 21st of December next, so much of their lands as will pay the same together with inciden- tal charges, will be sold at public vendue, at twelve o'clock forenoon on said day, at the dwelling-house of John M'Laughlin innholder in said town, unless prevented by previous pay- ment.
   N. A. s. d. q.     Daniel Parker 23 50 1 10 2   Henry Howel 22 75 3 9 0   John Pearce   Daniel Pearce 12 150 5 0 0   Mary Moore   Henry Howel 6 50 1 10 2   John Spooner 3 66 3 9 0   Thomas Bulfinch 1 50 1 10 3   ditto 98 134 6 6 3   Robert Jenkins 101 118 5   Joseph Right 40 70 2 6 0   ditto 13 150 6 3 0   Patrick Douglas 22 50 2 6 0   Jonathan Clark 25 150 6 3 0  
THOMAS WILSON, junr. Collector. New-Boston, November 7, 1786.
State of New - Hampshire.
AT a legal meeting of the Proprietors of the township of Burton, in the county of Graf- ton, in said State, held the 4th of May 1785, was then voted by said Propriety, to raise and as- sess the sum of three pounds eighteen shillings, lawful money, on each original right or share, in said town; which sum is to be appropriated for the payment of debts, due from said propriety, and other expenditures, as well as to bring for- ward the settlement of said town—which tax is committed to me the subscriber to collect: This therefore is to give notice to all concerned, that unless the above sums are paid to me, at my house in Sandwich, or to Capt. Bradbury Jewell, of Durham in said State, within eight weeks, from the date of this notification, their lands will be advertised for sale as the law directs.
NATHANIEL WEED, Collector. Strafford, November 14 1786.
TO BE LET, That large
Convenient House, lately occupied by Capt. Zechariah Foss, being every way calculated for A Tavern or Boarding House.
For further particulars apply to Col. WILLIAM BREWSTER.
Portsmouth, Dec. 1.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands upon the estate of William Jen- kins late of Lee, deceased, are desired to present the same for on immediate settlement to WILLIAM JENKINS, } Executors. and JOHN JENKINS, }
Lee, November 15, 1786.
Country Traders
AND OTHERS,
May be supplied
At this PRINTING-OFFICE With Low's, Stearn's, Bicker- staff's and Weatherwise's
Almanacks,
For the Year 1787,
By the Groce, Dozen, or less Quantity, as cheap as at any Shop in Portsmouth.
Just Published,
And ready for sale at this OFFICE, and at Mr. DEARBORN's shop, in sheets, or very neatly bound,
Principles of POLITENESS,
AND OF
Knowing the World,
By the late Lord CHESTERFIELD: to which is annexed
A Father's Legacy to his Daughters, By the late Dr. GREGORY, of Edinburgh. The whole admirably calculated for the improve- ment of youth, yet not beneath the attention of any.
A work published for the improvement of youth in useful and virtuous knowledge, is an object worthy the attention of every friend to the interest of learning and morality; to those this volume is presented as most excellently adapted to the im- portant design expressed in the following INTRODUCTION to the PORTSMOUTH EDITION.
The two parts of this work, which have heretofore been printed separate, are now offered to the Public in one volume, as a system of polite and moral in- struction for both sexes: This edition is critically cor- rected, with the special design of furnishing english schools, at a small expence, with a proper book for reading and parsing their own language, that the teacher may be provided with suitable means for mending the manners of his pupils, while he informs their understanding, by analyzing the grammatical construction, and pointing out the beauties of the most approved style.
Coffee-House-Tavern,
William Brewster
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has removed from the house he lately occupied as a Tavern in Congress-street, to that large and elegant house in Court-street, in which President Langdon lately lived, and which is com- monly known by the name of PACKER'S HOUSE, where he has opened a
COFFEE-HOUSE and TAVERN, for the accommodation and entertainment of townsmen and travellers.—The elegance and commodiousness of his house (which, perhaps, surpasses any of the kind in New- England) with the convenience of its sit- uation, induces him to hope, as well for the favors of his former customers, as for the company of strangers, whom he assures, that neither attention or expence shall be wanting to render their situation pleasing and agreeable.—His Stables are large and airy, with suitable coverings for Carriages.
He would likewise inform such Gen- tlemen as wish for private Lodgings, that he has appropriated one part of his house to the accommodation of Boarders, so that those gentlemen who may wish to take Lodgings with him, may be as retired and free from interruption, and be entertained with as much elegance, and as cheap a rate, as in any private House whatever.
Portsmouth, Oct. 25, 1786.
WANTED,
Fifty bushels of CORN, for which the Cash will be given. Enquire of B. DEARBORN