The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-04-17 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday April 17, 1772.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 808 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd }
Within about a Fortnight Ten Sail of Vessels have arrived at Boston from London, by whom we have a number of English News Papers, which contain the following Articles, not publish'd here before, viz.
L O N D O N, February 15. THE following is an exact copy of the Request of the Livery of London, presented to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, for a Common-Hall. To the Right Hon. WILLIAM NASH, Esq; LORD-MAYOR of the City of LONDON. "WE, the underwritten Liverymen, on behalf of ourselves and brethren the Livery of London, do most earnestly request your Lordship will summon a Common-Hall on any convenient day, previous to the 15th instant, for the purposes of giving public instructions to our Representatives in Parliament, relative to the very important motion intended to be made by Mr. Alderman Sawbridge, in the House of Commons, for shortening the duration of Parliaments." Signed by ONE Hundred and FORTY-THREE LIVERYMEN.
When the above was presented to his Lordship, the gentleman received for answer, he would consider of it; and on Wednesday the 15th of February, the following answer was sent to Mr. Charles Sommers, of Walbrook: "The Lord Mayor desires the favour of Mr. Sommers to present his compliments to the gentleman who yesterday made an application to him in writing, requesting him to summon a Common-Hall on any convenient day, previous to the 15th inst. for the purpose of giving public instructions to the City's Representatives in Parliament, relative to the very important motion intended to be made by Mr. Alderman Sawbridge in the House of Commons, for shortening the duration of Parliaments; and the Lord Mayor desires the gentleman may be acquainted, that he is very desirous of embracing every opportunity of testifying the most respectful attention to the wishes of his fellow-citizens; but that as the right of the Mayor to summon extraordinary Common Halls has been brought into question, & is now in litigation of a Court of Justice, he thinks it proper to suspend the exercise of that right till the question has received a legal determination; and the rather, as all motions of consequence relative to matters arising within the City, or in which the Corporation are supposed to be interested, may be submitted to the consideration of the Court of Common Council, which he will be ready to call together on all necessary occasions." Manor-House Feb. 12, 1772.
When the answer was read to the Livery, assembled at the Half-Moon Tavern last night, it was received with universal marks of disapprobation.
The twenty one members deputed by the Commons of Ireland as a committee from them to remonstrate to his Majesty, will not be received, as they cease to be a committee of the Irish House of Commons as soon as they leave that kingdom. Some trifling indiscretions of the poor Queen of Denmark, have by designing people been magnified so, that one might be tempted to imagine that we live in an age of virtue and innocence; but there are few now so innocent and free, either from infirmities or greater faults, as not to be obnoxious to reproach upon one account or other; even the wisest & most virtuous and most perfect among us, have some vanity and affectation, which lays them open to the raillery of whimsical and malicious persons.
The King of Prussia, and Prince of Brunswick, it is rumoured, have been deeply engaged about something of consequence for some time past: and as a woman is looked upon there, as well as here, to be improper person to be entrusted with secrets, when this consequential something was working to a head, it was thought necessary to send a certain Princess to England to spend a few weeks with her friends. She will set off from hence in a few days on her return home, having, we are informed, now received letters of recall.
A correspondent from Ireland informs us, that there is a desperate party in that kingdom determined, at any rate, to bring things to their own footing, when government was exercised by a few of their principal natives, in the most undue and despotic manner.
The Princess Dowager would never once admit that she was ill as to any kind of danger, nor durst any person (even of the faculty) presume to tell her so. On his Majesty only just hinting to her on the Thursday preceding her death, that she did not appear quite so well as usual, she got up from her chair, and ran two or three times round the room, to convince him of his mistake, and (tho' loaded with a complication of complaints) asserted, that she had only a little nervous disorder hanging about her, which would soon go off. On the Friday she got up and dressed, as usual; and did several of her little customary things, such as winding up her clocks, looking over her curiosities, trinkets, &c. &c. The King visited her at the common complimentary hour in the morning, and when the usual time of these visits was expired, was obliged to retire, lest he should suspect any thing from a longer stay with her than he was ordinary wont to do. Apprehended however by the physicians of her danger, he staid (but without his mother's knowledge) in the house. In the afternoon he again repeated his ceremonial visit, and again retired at the usual hour of retiring. The Princess of Brunswick staid with her till twelve o'clock, and then was obliged to withdraw to her chamber, at her mother's peremptory command; whom, however, the Princess of Brunswick had previously persuaded to go to bed, to which the Princess Dowager had seemed rather averse. His Majesty sent several times from the adjoining room where he was sitting up with his sister to await the approaching affecting event) to enquire after her situation; but the answer from the Ladies, who were sitting up in the chamber,
always was, that she was perfectly quiet, and they believed asleep. She having continued thus so long, and the day drawing on, the Princess of Brunswick, being impatient to know how her mother really was, had the curtains drawn aside, and on taking hold of the Princess Dowager's hand, she was found to be dead, and to have been so some time.
The University of Oxford, we hear, refuses to abrogate the statute requiring subscription to the thirty-nine articles, from all who enter themselves of that University; whilst Cambridge, always more moderate, and herein more wise, intend to lessen the weight of any future application to Parliament, by complying with the almost unanimous opinion of the House of Commons, in a repeal of her statute, which exacts the aforesaid subscription at taking degrees. Mr. Jenkinson asserted the University could alter her statutes, and had recently done it in a more essential point. Mr. Wedderburne declared, if they could do it, and would not, the Parliament must do it for them, which was generally assented to.
It is confidently reported, that Mr. S-----, who brings a bill into Parliament on Monday next, to limit the claims of the Church, has offered to the Bishops to introduce any clause their Lordships would draw to give relief to the poor parochial clergy.
A bill is intended to be brought into the House of Commons for the repeal of the Nullum Tempus bill, so far as it respects the Clergy. This is the greatest stroke that has been attempted against the established church since Oliver's days.
On Thursday a gentleman received seven guineas to pay one hundred, if Mr. Wilkes is not the sitting Member for the county of Middlesex within thirteen months, at Alice's coffee-house, in the Court of Requests, Westminster.
There is certain information received that the King of Prussia is the main spring in a Northern Revolution. He has secured Sweden, he persuades Russia, he rules the Councils of Holland, he commands in Denmark; the whole North is at his devotion.
It is looked upon as certain that a Prussian army of 60,000 men will enter Poland by the 1st of May.
By letters from Gibraltar there is advice, that the Algerine Pirates are so numerous in the Mediterranean seas, that almost a total stop is put to the trade in that part of the world; for all merchant vessels they meet with they stop. Spanish and Danish ships they make prizes of; the French they plunder of the best part of their cargoes but suffer the ships to go free; and if they happen to be in a Cess for provisions, they will not scruple to take it from the Eng.
Notwithstanding the bringing about the revolution in Denmark is attributed to the Queen Dowager of that kingdom, it is certain that much abler politicians than she had the planning and putting of it in execution. Juliana Maria is incapacitated by nature from conducting such an important piece of business being little better than an idiot; however, she was a very necessary tool.
It may be depended upon, that the Duke of Cumberland was not once admitted (though the papers have asserted the contrary) to see his mother. Had the Princess Dowager indeed been convinced of her approaching end, there is no doubt but nature would have prevailed over pride, & that she would have seen him; but the fact is, she took leave of nobody, as not foreseeing the necessity of it, and absolutely not allowing any person to mention her indisposition as an illness of consequence. It is however, certain, that the Duke had intelligence of his mother's imminent danger, and that he came on Friday last to Cumberland-house the evening, and sent to beg to be allowed to see her; but the answer returned was (by whom it was ordered to be given we do not presume to say) that he could not possibly see her that night, but should be admitted to her the next morning; the next morning she was dead!
It is, and has long been, a known fact to a few, though never publickly divulged, that the voyage of the late P. D. of W. to the Continent sometime ago, though pretended to be for the health of her Royal Highness, was solely with the design of remonstrating with the Q. of D. on her conduct; the lightness of which, not alone towards one man, but two or three, had been transmitted over here, by a certain Lady of her Court, and at that time caused the utmost uneasiness, to the K. the Q. and P. D.
The Princess of Brunswick was extremely indisposed on Wednesday, and attended by the Physicians of the Queen's Household; she was greatly altered for the better last night. Her disorder is said to be the hysterical kind, attended with frequent deliquiums, or faintings, and is supposed to have been occasioned by the late shock she received from the death of the Princess Dowager.
When the P. D. W. had an interview abroad with the Q. of D. it is asserted as an absolute truth, that after reproving her for her be-
haviour towards the King her husband, and warning her as well of the danger, as criminality of being false to his bed, (of the truth of which she had almost indisputable intelligence) her M. with the utmost composure said, "Well, mother, I suppose you have done—and all the answer I have to give you is—pray leave my conduct to my own management, and do you go home and manage your K. as well as I do mine."
Lord Willoughby, and the Duchess of Argyll, have sat in the Presence Chamber six hours every day since the decease of her Royal Highness, to receive such of the Nobility as go to pay their compliments of condolance to their Majesties, in their present distressful situation.
Leave is given to bring in a bill by the House of Commons, to subject freehold, copyhold, and customary freehold estates, to make them assets for payment of simple contract debts.
We have it from good authority, that the great Leaders in Opposition have been in motion, and have held frequent consultations during the course of this week.
Whether the above-mentioned consultations are relative to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, or to a change in the Ministry, is at present uncertain.
Arrived at Dover. Acworth from Boston.
At Bilboa. Betsey, Rofs, from New-England.
Feb. 5. Arrived the Union, Pease, from Boston. The Providence, Gilbert, from Providence.
Feb. 21. The House having inadvertently thanked Dr. Nowell for his Sermon on the 30th of January, it was delivered to the Members. On reading it, there appeared in all the Members an universal detestation of the high church doctrines contained in it, it being to all intents a libel on King and People; but as the thanks of the House had already been voted, they could not consistently now censure it; but as a side reflection, it was moved, that in future the Sermon should be printed before the Parish was thanked for it. Lord North, though he could not defend the doctrines of the Preacher, yet moved the order of the day, to get rid of such a reflection as this would have been on him.
The passages objected to are these:
"It has indeed been frequently asserted, that this tempest was raised by other causes; that the despotic disposition, the arbitrary proceedings, and the tyrannical government of the King, after numberless oppressions patiently submitted to, roused at length the spirit of an injured people in defence of their liberty and laws; that they had frequently applied for redress of grievances, had often petitioned for their rights, had used every method of persuasion and remonstrance without success, before they had recourse to those measures which a sense of their injuries inspired, and necessity sufficiently justified. But to every unprejudiced person this apology for rebellion will appear as groundless as it is base. Their complaints preceded even their pretended grievances, and continued after those grievances were redressed. They felt indeed one, which, to men of their cast, will ever be a real grievance; the establishment of episcopacy in the church, and monarchy in the state; of both which their levelling principles were equally subversive."
In vain shall we look for the beginning of these evils from any real or pretended grievances, from any undue stretches of prerogative from any abuse of royal power, those favourite topics upon which the enemies of our constitution so vehemently declaim. No; whatever colour these pretences might lend to rebellion, the ground work of it was more deeply laid in the principles of the times, in the factious zeal, and turbulent spirit of men devoted to enthusiasm, phrensy, and madness.
"And while we behold the bright resemblance of those princely virtues, which adorned the Royal Martyr, now shining forth in the person of our gracious Sovereign, let us earnestly address the Throne of Mercy, that the guilt of an ungrateful, abandoned people may not cause this sun to be withdrawn from us, nor quench the light of Israel."

From a much approved Novel, entitled The Fool of Quality.
AT Law! exclaimed Mr. Fenton; then, Sir you are much to be blamed, or much to be pitied.— I hope rather to be pitied than blamed, rejoined Mr. Fielding. Four Suits descended to me on the Part of my own Father, and three on the Part of the Father of my Wife; and my Adversaries, on all Sides are such Cocks of the Game, that no overtures can induce them to listen to any Terms of Compromise or accommodation. If Matters of Wealth or Property, said Mr. Fenton are real Matters of valuable Estimation in Life, it is much to be lamented, that there is no place on Earth, wherein Property can be said to be fixed or ascertained. Throughout the Regions of Mahomet, and Asiatic Despotism, Life and Property are alike Tenures at the Will of the Ruler. Again, throughout the European Continent, no Man, indeed no Nation can be assured of their Possessions, exposed as they are to the Ambition and Avarice of their almost perpetually invading Neighbours. Lastly, in these Northern Islands, whose Defence Nature herself appears to have undertaken by a Guardianship of circling Rocks and Seas, this does not however defend us from intestine Convulsions and Changes. Think what a Change of Property has been in Great-Britain, during the two late Revolutions: I am told, that, in a neighbouring Country, the Alienation has been nearly universal; perhaps a third Revolution is also at hand. It is affirmed, that the Civil Constitution of England is the best calculated for the Security of Liberty and Property, of any that was ever framed by the Policy of Man; and originally, perhaps, it might have been so, when Twelve simple and impartial Men, were appointed for the speedy Trial and Determination of Life and Property. Our Ancestors, unquestionably, were at that Time unblest by the liberal and learned Profession of the long Robe; they would not otherwise have committed the Disposition of Property, (a matter held so much more valuable than of Life) to a few who could have no Virtue under Heaven to recommend them, save the two illiterate Qualities of common Sense and common Honesty. Those were Ages of mental Darkness, and no way illumined, as we are, by those immense and immaculate Volumes of refined & legal Metaphysics that now press the Shelves of the Learned, and are read with such Delight. A Man in those Times had no play for his Money; he was either striped or enriched of a sudden; whereas now, in the worst Cause, Hope is left during Life; and hope is said to be the greatest Cordial in this Vale of Human Controversy.
It is greatly to be lamented, that the learn'd in our Laws are not as immortal as the Suits for which they are retained. It were therefore to be wished, that an Act of Parliament might be especially passed for that Purpose; a Matter no way impracticable, considering the great Interest those Gentlemen have in the House. In truth its highly expedient, that an Infinity of Years should be assigned to each student of the Belles Lettres of our Laws; to enable them to read over that Infinity of Volumes which have already been published, to say nothing of the Infinity that is yet to come, which will be held equally necessary for understanding the Profession of critically distinguishing, and oratorically expatiating on Law against Law, Case against Case, Authority against Authority, Precedent against Precedent, Statute against Statute, and Argument against Reason.
In Matters of no greater Moment than Life and Death, Juries, as at the Beginning, are still permitted to enter directly on the Hearing and Decision; but in Matters so sacred as that of Property, our Courts are extremely cautious of two early an Error in Judgment. In Order therefore to sift and bolt them to the very Bran, they are delivered over to the Lawyers, who are equally the Affirmers and Disputers, the Pleaders and Impleaders, Representers and Misrepresenters, Explainers and Confounders of our Law; our Lawyers therefore, maintain
their Right of being paid for their ingenuity in putting and holding all Properties in Debate. Debated Properties consequently become the Properties of the Lawyers, as long as Answers can be given to Bills or Replies to Answers, or Rejoinders to Replies or Rebutters to Rejoinders; as long as the Battledores can strike and bandy, and till the Shuttlecock falls of itself to the Ground, Soberly and seriously speaking, English Property, when once debated, is merely a Carcase of Contention, upon which interposing Lawyers fall as customary Prize and Prey during the Combat of the Claimants. While any Flesh remains on a Bone, it continues a Bone of Contention; but so soon as the learned Practitioners have picked it quite clean, the Battle is over and all again is Peace and settled Neighbourhood. It is worthy of much Pleasantry and shaking of Sides to observe, that in intricate, knotty, & extremely perplexing Cases, where the Sages of the Gown and Coif are so puzzled as not to know what to make of the matter; they then bequeath it to the Arbitration and Award of two or three plain Men; or, by Record, to the Judgement of twelve simply honest Fellows, who, casting aside all Regard to the form of Writs and Declarations, to the Lapse of Monosyllables, verbal Mistakes and Misnomers, enter at once upon the Pith and Marrow of the Business, and in three Hours determine according to the Equity and Truth, what had been suspending in the dubious Scales of Ratiocination, Quotation, Altercation, and pecuniary Consideration, for twenty and three Years.—Neither do I see any Period to the Progress of this Evil; the Avenue still opens and leads on to further Mischiefs; for the Distinctions in Law are, like the Newtonian Particles of Matter; divisible ad infinitum . They have been dividing & subdividing for some Centuries past, and the Subdivisions are as likely to be subdividing forever; insomuch that Law, thus divisible, debateable, and delayable, is become a greater Grievance than all it was intended to redress.—I lately asked a pleasant Gentleman of the Coif, if he thought it possible for a poor Man to obtain Decree, in Matter of Property, against a rich Man? he smiled, and answered according to the Scripture "that with Man it was impossible, but that all things were possible to God." I suppose, he meant, that the Decrees of the Courts of Westminster were hereafter to be reversed. Perhaps Sir, said Mr. Fielding, neither our Laws nor Lawyers are so much to blame as the People who apply to them for Protection, for Justice, Satisfaction, or Revenge. Might not the Parties, who adventure on the Course of Litigation, begin where they are most likely to end their Career, in the Award of a few Persons, or a Verdict of twelve Neighbours?
But the Nature of Man is prone to Contention and Quarrel. There is a certain Portion of Yeast or Fermentation in his Mass that will have Vent in some Way, and our Courts of Law are the most obvious Receptacles for the Ebullitions of Pride, Avarice, Envy, Resentment, and Wrathfulness, the Inflections of Temper, and Overflowings of Fortune.
Mr. Scruple an Attorney, a very singular Man in his way, lately told me an exceeding pleasant Story, as well respecting the Process and Forms of our Courts of Law, as respecting the contentious Disposition of our Neighbours.—Some Time since Walter Warmhouse, a substantial Farmer in Essex, was advised by Serjeant Craw, that he had an unquestionable Right to a certain Tenement, in Possession of Barnaby Boniface, his next Neighbour, who fattened by the Dint of good Ale and good Humour, Barnaby, who equally hated Debate and dry Bowels, offered to leave the Matter in Question, to any honest Neighbours of Walter's own chusing; but Walter, proud of a weighty Opinion, and as weighty a Purse, rejected the proffered Compromise with Scorn, and took a mortal Aversion to honest Barnaby, because he refused to surrender his Possessions on Demand. Walter accordingly began the Attack in Form; but Mr. Scruple who had the uncommon Conscience to remember, that Barnaby had
once recovered his Purse from a Highwayman, determined as far as possible, to preserve the Property of his old Friend. For this Purpose he kept, warily and cheaply, on the Defensive; and while he held a watchful Eye over the Motions of the Adversary, he followed him close through a thirteen Years Labyrinth of Law-Forms, &c. what with Exceptions to Bills and Replies, expensive Commissions for Examination of Witnesses, Demurrer, Imparance and Essoign, with Hearings and Rehearings, defer of Issue thereon, Costs of Suit and Costs of Office, he pretty nearly exhausted both the Purse, and the Patience of the valorous Plaintiff, Walter Warmhouse. Whereupon his prudent Patron, the good Serjeant Craw, deemed it high Time to consent to a Motion for referring the Case to the arbitration and award of certain Umpires, tho' not of his Clients chusing, as at first proposed—Soon after this Order, Serjeant Craw had Occasion to travel to the farther Parts of Essex, and his Road led to the Concerns of his old Client, Walter Warmhouse. Here Walter happened to meet him, and warned him of the manifold Dangers of the Way, and of the Number of Thieves and Highwaymen, that infested the Passages that lay just before him; and pray then, very smoothly says the Serjeant, is there no Way through your Fields, Mr. Warmhouse? There is Sir, said Warmhouse, as good as any in England; and may I not be permitted to pass? Most safely, and a thousand Welcomes.—Hereupon Client Warmhouse opened the Gate, that led from the Road into the Fields, and being mounted on a round ambling Nag, led his respectable Patron through this Field and that Field, and through this Gate and the other Gate, till having mazed it and circled it for the space of three Hours, he finally conducted the Serjeant to the very Gate at which he had first entered. How! how! exclaims the Serjeant, methinks we are just where we set out; we have not gained an Inch of Ground by the many Miles we have travelled! Quite as much, replied Walter, in a Journey of three Hours, as your Honour gained for me in a Journey of thirteen Years; and I leave you, as you left me just where you found me.
L O N D O N.
A most excellent cure for the Cholick. Jan. 18. An house-keeper of the Duke of — at his country seat, while the family was in town, received a visit from a nephew, whom, after entertaining, it being rather too late for him to return, he desired to stay till the morning. He was laid in a very good room and bed; but, in the middle of the night, being taken with a dreadful fit of the cholick, he got up, and recollecting that he had observed a bottle on the chimney-piece, which he had currently taken to be some cordial-water kept there by his aunt, he made a shift to grope out his way to it in the dark. On opening it, the smell of the spirituous liquor confirmed his imagination. In the violence then of the fit, and in hope of some mitigation of torture, he puts the bottle to his mouth, and dispatches its contents in a few gulps; but could not help observing that something rather stuck in his throat, which he supposed was a preserved apricot or some other fruit. However he got it down. In the morning, at breakfast with two or three more, he mentioned the accident to him in the night, and his recourse for relief to the bottle on the chimney-piece. At which his aunt clapping her hands, in a kind of agony, cried out, "I will be hanged if he has not swallowed the Little Lord !" And what should this Little Lord be but an embryo, preserved in spirits, being the Lady Duchess's last miscarriage.
On HEALTH.
WOULD ye Fair, with Health your Charms adorn, Rise with the Lark, and hail the crimson Morn, To some fair hill, or verdant Lawn repair, And reap the sweets of exercise and air. Health, a kind Gift from Heaven sent, When added to a Mind content, Will every Want and Wish supply, And yield true Joys which never die, What is Grandeur, Power or Wealth? All Fleeting nothings, without Health.

London, March 7. The Lords of the Treasury have now appointed three Gentlemen jointly with John Temple, Esq; to be Surveyors General of the Customs in England, at the Salary of 400l. a Year. John Granier, Esq; is appointed Paymaster of his Majesty's Forces in North-America.
At a late Privy-Council, Measures were resolved on (which are to be laid before the Parliament) for supplying the long-complained want of a PAPER CURRENCY, in the American Colonies.
The D— of R—d begged and prayed, to be sent to the Tower: Upon which a facetious Member said, that they never gave any thing to Beggars in that House.
Lord Rockingham's Toast is, Success and Security to the Hanoverian Succession.
PHILADELPHIA, March 16.
We hear, that three of the prisoners confined in the goal of this city died during the last week, and the coroner's inquest have found that they perished through want of necessaries. Think of this, ye who dissipate the bounty of heaven in idle amusement—who waste more money in one night's debauch, than would support a family for a week: Ye who live in affluence, and who are strangers to the calamities of hunger & cold Oh! forget not to relieve your unhappy fellow creatures from the anguish of them both. Their poor sufferers, like Lazarus of old, ask for nothing but the "Crumbs which fall from your tables." The very refuse of your kitchens, beds, and wearing apparel, would be received by them with joy and thankfulness. We hope the humane part of the inhabitants of this city will guard for the future against accidents of the like nature, & thus wipe off the dishonour which the above melancholy catastrophe has done not only to christianity but to humanity.
BOSTON, April 9, 1772.
Yesterday the General Court or Assembly, of this Province, met at Cambridge.
The following is an Extract from Governor Hutchinson's Speech, relative to the grand Affair, so long and often disputed, whether the Court shall sit at Cambridge or Boston.
Gentlemen of the Council, and of the Assembly; I Have, from time to time, regularly transmitted the Applications which have been made to me, in former Sessions, to convene the General Court in the Town of Boston, together with the Messages, Resolves and Votes of every kind, which have passed upon that Subject, and they have all been laid before the King. This is all I could do, consistent with my Duty, for as I have observed to you, I prorogued the Court to Cambridge, upon a signification of his Majesty's Pleasure to that Purpose, and may not remove it to Boston without his Majesty's Permission.
Our Most gracious Sovereign is ever ready to afford a favourable attention to such Petitions and Requests of his Subjects as do not tend to injure the Constitution, and are, in other Respects, reasonable to be granted; and if you had desired me to carry the Court to Boston because it is the most convenient Place, and the Prerogative of the Crown to instruct the Governor to convene the Court at such Place as his Majesty may think proper had not been denied, I should have obtained Leave to meet you at Boston at this Time; but I shall not be at Liberty to do it whilst this Denial is persisted in. If you shall desist from it and the removal of the Court to Boston shall, for other Reasons, be judged expedient, I have Authority to acquaint you that his Majesty will allow me to comply with your Wishes.
The following is an Extract from the House's Answer to the above.
YOUR Excellency is pleased to acquaint us that "if we had desired you to carry the Court to Boston because it is the most convenient Place, and the Prerogative of the Crown to instruct the Governor to convene the Court at such Place as his Majesty may think proper, had not been denied, you should have obtained Leave to meet us at Boston at this Time; but that you shall not be at Liberty to do it whilst this Denial is persisted in."
We have maturely considered this Point: And are still firmly of Opinion, that such Instruction is repugnant to the Royal Charter, wherein the Governor is vested with the full Power of adjourning, proroguing and dissolving the General Assembly as he shall judge necessary. Nothing in the Charter appears to us to afford the least Grounds to conclude that a Right is reserved to his Majesty of controlling the Governor in thus exercising this full Power: Nor Indeed does it seem reasonable there should; for it being impossible that any one at the Distance of three Thousand Miles should be able to foresee the most convenient Time and Place of holding the Assembly, it is necessary that such discretionary Power should be lodged in the Governor or Commander in chief, who is by Charter constantly to reside in this Province.
We are still earnestly desirous of the removal of this Assembly to the Court-House in Boston; and we are sorry that your Excellency's Determination thereon depends upon our disavowing these Principles: Because we cannot do it consistently with that Duty which we owe to our Constituents. We are constrained to be explicit at this Time; for if we should be silent, after your Excellency has recommended it to us as a necessary preliminary to desist from saying any Thing upon this Head, while we request your Excellency for a Removal of the Assembly for Reasons of Convenience only, it might be construed as tacitly conceding to a Doctrine injurious to the Constitution, and in Effect as rescinding our own Record, of which we still deliberately approve.
The Power of adjourning and Proroguing the General Assembly, is a Power in Trust to be exercised for the Good of the Province: And this House have a Right to judge for themselves, whether it is thus exercised. We cannot avoid taking this Occasion freely to declare to your Excellency, that the holding the Assembly in this Place without any good Reason that we can conceive of, under the many and great Inconveniences which this and former Houses have so fully set forth to your Excellency, is in our Opinion an undue Exercise of the Power; and a very great Grievance, which we still hope will soon be fully redressed.
BOSTON, April 13.
Last Thursday a Son of Mr. Benjamin White's, at the North End, about 5 Years old, accidentally fell backward into a Kettle of boiling Water, and was scalded to such a Degree, that it expired soon after in the greatest Agony.
Last Friday Morning died at Newbury-Port, William Tailer, Esq; Deputy-Collector of that Port, and Son of the late Governor Tailer, deceased.
Wequosaw, last died here, Captain Bartholomew Cheevers, aged Eighty Eight Years.
Extract of a Letter from London, by the last vessel, dated from Palace Yard, March 1772.
"I have now the Pleasure of informing you, that the remaining act, imposing a duty on Tea, will be repealed, having had the last reading in the house, and is ordered to be engrossed."
In Capt. Jarvis came Passengers, Sir Thomas Rich, Captain of the Gibraltar Man of War, and several of the Army. Capt. White from this Place was arrived in London in a short Passage. Capt. Simmes from this Place and North Carolina was arrived in the Downs.---The Sally, Capt. Pierpont from South Carolina, at Cowes.---The Minerva, Ruggles, from Boston, at Plymouth. The Polly, ---, from Piscataqua, at Bristol.
Capt. Hall and Capt. Chambers, were to sail for this Place in March.
Last Friday we had an uncommon Snow storm for the Season, which again retarded the Post-Riders, so that they could not perform their Stages regularly. It is said the Snow in many places in the Country, drifted from 8 to 15 Feet in height. Considerable Damage was done at Rhode-Island to the Wharves on the Narragansett Side---out of ten Ferry-boats, six were drove ashore, and some lost.
PORTSMOUTH, April 17, 1772.
Saturday last fell down the River, and on Monday Morning sail'd for Halifax, the Swan Man of War, which has been here stationed during the Winter.---The polite and good Behaviour of Captain Ayscough and all his Officers while in this Town, was such as gained them the Respect and Notice of the Inhabitants in general; while at the same Time they were active and vigilant in his Majesty's Service.
We hear, that many Bridges are carried away, and considerable other Damage done round the Country, by Freshets.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, PISCATAQUA, April 16.
  Inward Entries  FROM.    Ship Industry, Shadrack Hodgson,  Grenada.    Sloop Betsey and Polly, Eliphalet Ladd,  Tobago.    Schooner Martha, Amos Tappan,  St. Lucea.    Clear'd for Departure  FOR.    Schooner America, Benjamin Rogers,  West-Indies.  
BLANKS
Of most sorts, and Stationary together with a variety of BOOKS, &c. — Sold at the Printing-Office, in the pav'd-Street, leading from the State-House to the Market and Ferry.
TO BE SOLD By Joshua Wentworth, Sundry Sets of largest Size Pot-Ash Kettles, at his Ware-House in Portsmouth, near the Long-Wharfe.
Tar, Pitch, Turpentine, Candles per Box, Doct. Stevens, Clove, Anniseed, Snakeroot and Orange Waters, By the Cask, Kippens Snuff, per Cask or single, also TOBACCO of all Sorts sold by
Neal Mc. Intire; at his Store on Spring Hill, very cheap for Cash.
(RUMNEY)
THE delinquent Proprietors of RUMNEY, that have not paid the following TAXES voted by said Proprietors, to be raised on each original Right in said Town, namely one Tax of twelve Shillings on each Right to defray the Charge of an Action brought against the Proprietors by the Rev. Mr. NILES, at a legal Meeting of the Proprietors of Rumney aforesaid, on the tenth Day of April, A. D. 1771. Also a Tax of two Pounds two Shillings, to pay the Rev. Mr. Niles, for three last Years preaching, voted at a legal Meeting of the Proprietors of Rumney aforesaid, by adjournment on the 14th Day of August, A. D. 1771, are notified to pay the same to JAMES HEATH, Collector of Taxes, at Rumney, on or before the 27th Day of May next; otherwise their Land will be advertised and sold for the same, pursuant to Law.
JAMES HEATH Collector. Rumney, April 16th 1772.
[New-Britain.]
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
THE Proprietors of the Township of NEW BRITAIN (so called) are hereby notified to meet at the House of Capt. Caleb Sanborn, Inholder in Hampton Falls, on Monday the fourth Day of May next, at one of the Clock in the Afternoon, to act on the following Articles, v. z.
1st. to choose a Moderator for said Meeting. 2d. a Proprietor's Clerk. a Committee to call Proprietor's Meetings, Ass. store, a Collector and Treasurer. 3d To see if said Proprietors will agree to build a Meeting House in said Township. 4th to see if said Proprietors will agree to hire Preaching in said Township, some Part of this present Year. 5th. to see what said Proprietors will do towards clearing and repairing Roads in said Township. 6th. To see if said Proprietors will agree to raise any Sum or Sums of Money for the Purposes aforesaid, and to pass any other Votes that may be necessary.
Anthony Emery } Committee: Caleb Sanborn } Hampton April 13th 1772.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss.
[RUMNEY]
NOTICE is hereby once more given to the delinquent Proprietors of RUMNEY who have not paid their Tax to the Subscriber, voted by said Proprietors to be raised on each original Right in said Town---viz. one Tax of twenty Shillings and another of six Shillings, voted the 21st of July, 1767, another Tax of thirty Shillings, voted the 3d of November, 1767, also a Tax of eleven Shillings on each Right voted the 13th of September 1768, and a Tax of twenty four Shillings, and another of twelve Shillings, voted the 15th of December, 1768, that so much of each Delinquent's Rights of Land in said Township as shall be sufficient to pay the Taxes with incidental Charges, will be sold at public Vendue on Wednesday the 27th Day of May next, at one o'clock in the Afternoon, at the House of Daniel Brainard, Esq; in said Town.
The Names of the Delinquents are as follows, v. z.
The Sums annexed are in Lawful Money.
   On each Right     Moses Smart 5 3 0   James Heath 5 3 0   Alexander Cragge 5 3 0   Aaron Brainard 5 3 0   William Pressen 5 3 0   Humphry Colby 5 3 0   Joseph Wright 5 3 0   Tristram Cessia Sleeper 5 3 0   Moses Seavy 5 3 0   Samuel Wells 5 3 0   Israel Spencer 5 3 0   Humphry Lyon 5 3 0   Jabez Chapman 5 3 0   Thomas Mosely 5 3 0   Bickford Long 5 3 0   Samuel Selden 5 3 0  
JAMES HEATH Collector.
Rumney April 10th 1772.
SALE, March 24. 1772.
An uncommon instance of dexterity, in the art of thieving, performed in this town a few days since, is worthy of particular notice.---A person who said his name was Charles Lee, on the fourth instant in company with another man, whom he called Captain Dickenson, came to the house of Mr. Malloon, under pretence of purchasing a quantity of meal: and telling of his being recommended to the purchase by such and such gentlemen, whom Mr. Malloon knew had many times obliged him with recommendations of the like kind before, ingratiated himself, though a perfect stranger, very fully into Mr. Malloon's favor. He then desired some English money in exchange for a dollar; while a desk was opened to get the change, Mr. Malloon left him at it and turning round to look at a sick child & on turning to the desk again, found that his customer Lee had taken five dollars, that he wanted to exchange for English money, which was accordingly changed. Lee and his companion then went away, after saying they should call in the afternoon & pay for the meal, which was to be delivered the friday following. They accordingly came; when Lee desired Mr. Malloon to give him a Johannes in exchange for dollars; and said he wanted one dated Seventeen-hundred and fifty five, in order to make a necklace, as those of that date were the best sort of gold.---Mrs. Malloon then went up chamber to look for the particular Johannes, Mr. Malloon and Lee followed. A considerable number of Johannes being turned into a hat, Lee was very officious in husking and turning them over; then pretended to feel in his pockets for the dollars; which he performed with such inconceivable facility and dexterity, attended with an incessant loquacity, that he actually pocketed, (as afterwards appeared) unperceived by either Mr. or Mrs. Malloon (though their eyes were upon him the whole time, to the amount of between twenty and thirty pounds sterling. He got off before it was discovered; but being immediately pursued, he was taken the same day, and near all the money found with him. He was committed to goal, and will probably meet with a reward in some degree adequate to his ingenuity.
The Captain, while his friend Lee was employed above stairs pretended to be computing the amount of the meal; but it was afterwards discovered that he had robbed Mr. Malloon's desk of about three pounds sterling, with which he got off, and has not since been heard of.
From a Regard many of your Readers, as well as others, have to the Memory of the late Rev. Mr. Whitefield, the following Extract of a Letter, supposed to be his last, he wrote a few Days before his Death to a Friend in England, since published there, I conclude will not be unacceptable.
"Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, September 23, 1770. "POOR New-England is much to be pitied, Boston People most of all, how falsely misrepresented! What a Mercy that our Christian Charter cannot be dissolved.---Blessed be God for an unchangeable JESUS. You will see by the many Invitations what a Door is opened for preaching the Everlasting Gospel:---I was so ill on Friday that I could not preach, though Thousands were waiting to hear.---Well, the Day of Release will shortly come, but it does not seem yet; for by riding sixty Miles I am better, and hope to preach here To-Morrow. I trust my blessed Master will accept of these poor Efforts to serve him; O for a warm Heart, O to stand fast in the Faith, to quit ourselves like Men, and be strong!---May this be the happy Experience of you, and yours."
"I suppose Letters are gone for me in Anderson to Georgia, if spared so long, I expect to see it about Christmas, still pray and praise. I'm so poorly, and so engaged when able to preach, that this must apologize for not writing to more Friends, it is quite impracticable, hoping to see all dear Friends about the Time proposed; and earnestly desiring a continued Interest in your Prayers, I must hasten to subscribe myself,
My very dear Sir, less than the least of all, GEORGE WHITEFIELD. †He died the 30th.
His Majesty has appointed Capt. Shuldbum, late Commander of his Majesty's Ship Royal Oak, to be Admiral and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships on the Newfoundland Station, in the room of Commodore Byron, whose time is expired.

Messieurs Fowles,
Si quid novisti rectius illis, si non, lis utere tecum.
I N your Gazette of the 27th of last Month, you obliged your Readers with some short Animadversions on the present Scarcity of Money in this Province: It is universally confessed that a sufficient Sum for supplying us with a Currency, would be of great Utility, but the Danger of its depreciating counterbalances the want of it: if the Author of those Hints would have pointed out some effectual Method to prevent that Inconvenience, I own I should be desirous of seeing a paper Medium once more circulating. I have often reflected upon the heavy Burthens with which the mercantile Part of this Province labours under, in being necessarily obliged to import their Cash, to carry on their Trade, and even to supply the Country therewith in Payment for their Lumber and Provisions.
It is a known Maxim in Trade, That a Trade which will not pay it's Insurance is not worth following , but if that Maxim was really adhered to with us, we should have no Trade left, as there is none now pursued, (if the Interest improved was all insured) but would sink Money; that the Merchants Profits now mostly lies in being their own Insurers.
I think the Establishment of a Loan Office would be attended with the least Inconvenience, if we may judge from the punctuality with which the former Emission on Loan was paid into the Hands of the Committee for letting out that Money, as we have not heard of any one Estate sold for want of a Compliance; The real Estates in this Province, were never at a lower Value than at Present, and if they should be mortgaged for any Sums taken upon Loan at one half their reputed Value, I should think no better Security could possibly be found to give it Credit, especially when supported by a Law, prohibiting the passing of Silver or Gold at any higher Value than is now given for the different Species of these Commodities, that no Person should be intitled to any public Office or any Execution upon a Judgment recovered, till he first takes an Oath to that Purpose; 50,000. lawful Money would be a sufficient Fund for this Office, one Half to be let to the trading and the other to the farming Part of the Province: The Bills should not carry any interest with them, which will prevent their being monopolized by Ingrossers, the Mortgages should carry 5 pr. Cent. Interest, payable to the Committee punctually at the Expiration of every Year, with 5 per Cent. of the Principal, and the whole to be sunk in Ten Years.— This Money should be received into the Treasury, in payment of all Taxes, and the Committee of the Loan should receive Silver and Gold, in lieu of the Paper, for the Interest and Principal that may be paid in to them, and the Treasurer should be obliged to exchange any paper Money (that is paid in for Taxes) with any Person who brings the Silver or Gold for it, and the Committee should also be obliged to give or exchange any Silver or Gold in their Office, for any paper Money bro't in to them. And a Committee of the General Court should be appointed annually to burn what of the Principal and Interest should be in the Loan-Office, when they sett for that Purpose. The Interest arising from this Loan, should be applied to the publick Use, in building a Province House and defreying the Charges of such Persons as are sick with the small Pox, at the Pest-House, who are unable to pay for themselves, or any other Purposes of Government that may be found necessary.—The grand Difficulty is, whether his Excellency the Governor is impowered to sign any Money Bills? I should think he may sign such an Act with a suspending Clause, with safety, and may recommend the State of the Province to his Majesty's Gracious Favours, and Consideration; and if the Money is secured in any Manner to prevent it's Depreciation; and is found necessary and of public Utility. We have no Reason to doubt but that his Majesty will condescend to gratify the Desires of a People who he has been
pleased to express a tender Regard for; We see every other Colony is privileged with Money or Notes, and we have some issued by our own Treasurer of a small Value, all which we suppose to be done with Propriety, or the different Governors would not have exposed themselves to Displeasure; in this Government we are particularly entitled to this Favour, for that both the Province and it's Individuals, have Money in England, and the Ballance of Trade is in Favour of our Merchants, and would have been much more so, if they had not been so straightened for Money, the Scarcity of which, has obliged them to draw on Great-Britain at a great Disadvantage to themselves in particular, and the Province in general. First to themselves, because their drawing to supply Money here prevents them from trading with Philadelphia, and the other Governments for Pork, Corn and other Provisions, where their Bills would pass as Money, instead of our sending so much Cash out for those Commodities, which is detrimental to the Province, for if those Articles could be Imported to be sold as reasonable as at Boston (and I can't judge why they may not,) the Eastern Wood Coasters would purchase of us, whereas in Fact they now carry out some Thousands Lawful in Cash, and actually send that Money from the Eastward to Boston to purchase such Things as they might be supplied with here, if our Merchants could afford them cheaper, but while we are thus straightened we may expect that every other Trading Province will take the Advantage of our Necessities, and though we may keep ourselves out of Debt, yet can never expect to be rich and flourishing: In short, I think the making of Money would revive and encrease Trade, would encourage the Farmer, and relieve the present Distresses of the honest and industrious Tradesmen and Labourers who are groaning under unsupportable Afflictions, for the Want of the common Blessings of Life, which they are not able to purchase without Money, and that is only in the Hands of the Rich, who in fact are and always have been supported by the Industry of the Poor:
PHILOPATRIÆ.
ROBERT HUGHES,
PERRY-WIG MAKER and HAIR DRESSER From BOSTON, keeps his SHOP near the Long Wharfe, where may be had HAIR ROLLS and CURLS of all Sorts.— Also HAIR POWDER and POMATUM. Wanted by said HUGHES, a BOY out of the Country of about 14 Years of Age, who can be well recommended, to serve at said Business.
A LL PERSONS Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of JOSHUA PICKERING, late of Greenland, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to MARY PICKERING of Greenland aforesaid, Administratrix on said Estate, in order for Settlement.
BROKE out of his Majesty's GOAL in YORK last Night, One JEREMIAH TIBBETS, who had been committed on Suspicion of THEFT and BURGLARY: Any Person that will apprehend the said Jeremiah, and him bring to His Majesty's GOAL in York aforesaid, shall be intitled to receive a Reward of twenty Dollars of me the Subscriber, JOTHAM MOULTON Sheriff. York, April 8, 1772.
All Persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the Estate of Theophilus Smith, Esq; Deceased, are desired to settle the same immediately, with Theophilus Smith, Esq; of said Exeter, sole Executor of the last Will and Testament of the Deceased.
A LL PERSONS Indebted to, or have Demands on the Estate of Capt. JOHN BROWNE, late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceased, are desired to settle the same immediately with the Subscriber Administratrix to said Estate, MARY BROWNE.
Steel & Iron plate Mill Saws, Cheap for Cash or good Boards, made and Sold by ROBERT FURNESS, of Barwick.
Fifty DOLLARS
Reward.
ON Saturday Night last, was broke open the Store of Col. JONATHAN MOULTON, Esq; of Hampton, and many Articles of Value, Stolen from thence; among which are the following, viz. Remnants of Cambricks, one Piece of plain Lawn, spotted Ditto, one Piece of figur'd Mode, one Piece of pink Tammy, brals Ink-potts, Moose Leather Breeches, one Piece of Irish Linnen, Ribbands of various Colours, a Piece of Garlix, Superfine Check Handkerchiefs, Stamp'd Linnen Ditto, (spotted Red,) Tapes, two doz. of black Spittlefield Handkerchiefs, a number of Check Silk Ditto, a Piece of Scarlet Cloth 8 yards, yellow Mettal Buttons, (Coat and Waistcoat Sorted,) worsted Caps, &c. &c. It's suspected that by the Variety of the Articles, the Villain, or Villains that were concern'd in this affair, intend to Peddle round the Country; by which means, it is to be wished they may be discover'd and brought to Justice, for which the Subscriber will give a Reward of Fifty Dollars, to any Person or Persons that will apprehend the Thief or Thieves, so that he or they may receive proper Punishment.
JONATHAN MOULTON.
Hampton, April 13th, 1772.
N. B. There were two Strangers, on Saturday Loitering round about the Fields, about a Mile distant from the Store, one of which, had on a Reddish Great Coat, light Colour'd Waistcoat & Breeches, Grey Hair or Whig, the other a Red great Coat, very Ragged, light Complexion, fair Hair, and a red Beard, middling Stature, about 36 or 38 Years old, whose Hands appeared not to be acquainted with hard Labour.
To be sold at public Vendue,
On Thursday the 23d of April, at Five o'Clock in the Afternoon, by SAMUEL BOWLES, at his Vendue Room, in his Dwelling House, opposite the Post Office, in Portsmouth, sundry sorts of ENGLISH GOODS —A good Silver Watch— Mens Cloathing; Mens and Womens Leather Shoes; Household Furniture, among which is a good new Black Walnut Desk and Table; a few new common Kitchen Chairs. Any Person disposed to enlarge the Sale, may apply at said Place.
Said Bowles, has to sell at private sale, very cheap for Cash only, a general Assortment of English GOODS: Likewise, Bohea Tea, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Mens, Womens and Childrens Shoes of all sorts.
Stolen, a large bay Mare, 12
Years old, from the Subscriber, on the Night following the 22d Ult. a small Star in her Forehead, Paces and Trots. Whoever shall take up said Mare and inform me of the Thief, so that he may be bro't to Justice, shall have Four Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid. The supposed Thief, is about five Feet eight Inches high, about 22 Years old, black Hair, cut short before, had on a blue Coat, large brass Buckles in his Shoes: as such a Man was seen at Chester, Epping and Lee the Day before, on a small black Horse, very poor, and much tired, which he left at my Barn, where the Owner may have him paying Charges. Joseph Sias. Lee, March 23d, 1772.
VOLUNTEERS.
W ANTED some able Volunteers, to complete the Number in the Garrison of His Majesty's Castle of William and Mary, in the Province of New Hampshire; the Men in this Garrison are provided with a compleat Suit of Regimentals once a Year;—They also receive three Dollars per Month pay, and five shillings lawful Money per Week for billeting;—Any Persons inclinable to enter into this Service, are desired to apply to John Cochran, Esq; Commander of the said Castle at the Earl of Halifax Tavern in Portsmouth.