Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1785-11-04 00:00:00

F O W L E S  NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,
A N D G E N E R A L
T H E A D V E R T I S E R.
F R I D A Y,
N O V E M B E R 4, 1785.
P O R T S M O U T H: By MELCHER AND OSBORNE,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN PAVED STREET.
VOL. XXIX.]
"OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE:—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST."
No. 1515.
On Wednesday, the 19th ult. the GENERAL COURT of this State met at Concord, pursuant to adjournment, when his Excellency the President made the following Speech:
Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
TAKE peculiar satisfaction in the opportunity of meeting you, at a time when the circumstances of our public affairs call so loudly for your interference and aid; and when the happy termination of a plentiful harvest permits you to attend on the business of the State, without injuring your domestic concerns.
As the happiness as well as the honor of a government, depend greatly on a firm support of its credit, permit me, Gentlemen, to recommend to your immediate consideration, the adopting such measures as will tend to restore and establish the credit of this State abroad and at home, to remove every ground of complaint, and do justice to those to whom the Public stands indebted. In doing this, your attention will be naturally drawn to the present state of the Treasury, and the past mode of its supply.
As our commerce diminishes, the resources of our revenues will fail; and those difficulties will increase in proportion as the remedy is delayed. Our exertions, therefore, should not be wanting to encourage the one, and thus increase the income of the other.
One source of general complaint is, the inefficacy of the measures which have heretofore been used for collecting outstanding taxes. This gives such unreasonable advantages to those who are guilty of a neglect in paying their proportion of the public expence, and is such an increasing evil to those virtuous citizens who conscientiously discharge the demands of that government whose protection they receive, that, I presume, you will not suffer this session to close, without adopting the most effectual means of bringing every public defaulter to an immediate account.
For this purpose a more inviting occasion cannot offer, than this season of general plenty presents, when the earth teems with the bounties of Providence, when the labors of the husbandmen are crowned with unusual success, and our public certificates are so easily procured in exchange for any of the products of the country. Could this just and necessary end be accomplished, the public burden would be light, the wheels of government would move easily along, and we should soon become a people as happy as we are free.
The harmony that subsisted between the two branches of the legislature, during the last session, must have yielded the highest satisfaction to every lover of his country; and now affords a pleasing assurance of a mutual concurrence in every measure that may promote the general good.
The public papers which have been received during the recess of the Court, will be laid before you: Some of these are of great moment, and require an immediate consideration. A neglect in duly taking orders on the public papers, has heretofore been attended with great inconveniences, as well to the business of the Continent as the State; and greatly embarrassed the executive department, in the due discharge of their office. This, Gentlemen, can, in future, be easily remedied; and will, I hope, receive a proper redress.
The commanding officer at the fortress in New-Castle, at the entrance of Piscataqua harbour, has represented to me, that its works are greatly out of repair, and daily falling into ruins. As the jurisdiction of that harbour, and the protection of our shipping, greatly depend on the defensible situation of that fort, you will take such order thereon as your wisdom may suggest.
I need not again mention the necessity of acting on the general affairs of the State, in preference to the concerns of individuals. Could the public business now before the legislature, be fully accomplished, perhaps only two sessions in a year would, in future, be thought necessary—Such a diminution of the public expence is well worthy of consideration.
One thing which concerns the honor of this State, as a Republic, and the immediate interest of every individual, I would earnestly recommend; I mean the encouragement of industry and frugality, both by precept and example. Without these republican virtues, our boasted independence and liberty must soon dwindle into servile subjection to some other power; while their daily practice will insure happiness and peace to ourselves and posterity. To promote these principles, it may be expedient to enact such laws as will discourage every species of luxury, and further the increase of our manufactures. This would speedily multiply the number of our settlements, enhance the value of our lands, lessen the weight of our public debt, and greatly lighten the expences of government.
Being fully convinced of your wisdom to direct, and of your integrity to pursue every measure that can promote the happiness of individuals, and the interest of the State, you may, Gentlemen, place the
firmest reliance on my chearful endeavors to advance such laudable designs.
JOHN LANGDON. COUNCIL-CHAMBER CONCORD, Oct. 19. 1785.
By the UNITED STATES in CONGRESS assembled, Sept. 27th, 1785.
THE Report of the grand committee being amended to read as follows:
Resolved, That for the services of the present year, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, for the payment of one year's interest on the foreign and domestic debt, and as a provision to discharge the balance of the estimate of April twenty-seventh, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, above the sum called for by the resolve of Congress of that date, it will be necessary that three millions of dollars, in addition to six hundred and forty-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, hereafter provided for, be paid into the common treasury, on or before the first day of May next, to be appropriated to the following purposes:    Civil Department, - - -  122,331 Dollars.    Military department, - - -  187,224:32    Purchases of Indian rights of soil, and the incidental expences, -  5,000    Contingencies, the expences under which head shall, on the first Jan. annually, be transmitted by the board of treasury, to the legislature of each state, - - -  90,000  
FOREIGN DEBT.
  10,000,000 livres loaned in Holland, and guaranteed by France, one year's interest thereon, -  74,074    24,000,000 livres public French loan, one year's interest thereon,  222,222:2    174,000 dollars Spanish loan, one year's interest thereon, - - -  8,700    5,000,000 florins, 1st Dutch loan, one year's interest thereon, -  96,527:5    2,000,000 do. second Dutch loan, one year's interest thereon, at 4 per cent. - - - - -  30,838:88    846,710 livres to the Farmers-General of France, one year's interest thereon, - - - - -  7,840     440,252:58  
DOMESTIC DEBT.
Liquidated.    10,517,380:6 dollars, one year's interest thereon, - - - - -  631,042:6    Loan-Office Debt.     3,778,900 dollars, issued to the first Sept. 1777, equal to specie, one year's interest thereon, - - -  226,734    3 459,200 dollars, issued between the 1st Sept. 1777, and 1st March, 1778, which sum is subject to liquidation by the scale, but the interest is payable on the nominal sum, one year's interest thereon,  207,540    5,146,330:8 dollars specie value of uncanceled loan-office certificates, issued after the 1st of March, 1778, one year's interest thereon,  308,780:6     743,054:6    4,823,724 dollars, estimated amount of certificates issued and to be issued to the lines of Maryland, Virginia, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, and Georgia, one year's interest thereon, - - - - -  289,423:4    1,141,551:5 dollars, balance of the estimate of the 27th April, 1784, above the sum called for by the resolution of Congress of that date, - - -  1,141,551:5    Total estimate, - - - - -  3,649,880    Deduction, - - - - -  649,880    Balance to be called for, - - -  3,000,000  

Deduct for part of the Dutch loan applied towards a discharge of the last year's estimate, and which the sums required from the states last year will replace; and for loans now in the hands of the Dutch Commissioners, and hereby appropriated for the purposes of this estimate, 649,880 dollars, and there remains the balance of three millions of dollars to be paid into the common treasury.
The committee find that, for reasons stated in the resolve of Congress of the 27th of April, 1784, there yet remains a moiety of the requisition for eight millions of dollars, and the whole of the requisition for two millions of dollars, to be applied to the use of the United States, before any new requisition ought to be made; they are therefore of opinion, that the states be called upon to make actual payment of three quarters of the remaining moiety aforesaid, on or before the first day of May aforesaid.
The committee have not been able to obtain information how many states have complied with the resolution of Feb. 17, or that of April 18, 1783, relative to a rule for adjusting the quotas of the several states in federal requisitions:—They are therefore of opinion, that the several states which have not decided on that subject, be again solicited to come to a decision thereon, and to send forward the same, as a measure necessary to enable Congress to effect a settlement of accounts with the several states, and to apportion to each a just quota of the publick expenses; but in the mean time, as the publick faith renders it the duty of Congress to continue their annual demand for money, the committee are of opinion, that in the appointment thereof, the quotas of the several states should be adjusted agreeably to the best information which Congress may, from time to time, have obtained on the subject. Upon this principle they recommend to Congress, that in the present requisition for three millions of dollars, the quotas of the several states be as follows, viz.
   Dollars.     New-Hampshire, - - - - - 105,416   Massachusetts, - - - - - 448,854   Rhode-Island and Prov. Plant. - - - 64,636   Connecticut, - - - - - 264,182   New-York, - - - - - 256,486   New-Jersey, - - - - - 166,716   Pennsylvania, - - - - - 410,378   Delaware, - - - - - 44,886   Maryland, - - - - - 283,034   Virginia, - - - - - 512,974   North-Carolina, - - - - - 218,012   South-Carolina, - - - - - 192,366   Georgia, - - - - - 32,060   3,000 000  
Which sums, when paid, shall be passed to the credit of the states respectively on the terms prescribed by the resolution of Congress of the 6th of Oct. 1779, and together with the monies relied on to discharge the aforesaid reduction of 649,880 dollars, be applied in conformity with the several appropriations in the preceding part of this report, giving preference according to the order in which they are stated in the estimate.
As more than two thirds of the sum called for, is to be applied to the payment of interest on domestick debts, the committee are of opinion that the several legislatures may so model the collection of the sums called for that one third of any sum being paid in actual money, the other two-thirds may be discharged by the interest due upon loan-office certificates and upon other certificates of the liquidated debts of the United States. And to ascertain the evidences of interest due upon loan-office certificates the holders thereof respectively shall be at liberty to carry them to the office from which they issued and the holders of other certificates of liquidated debts of the United States to carry the same to the loan-office of that state wherein they are inhabitants, or if foreigners to any loan-office within the United States, and to have the interest due thereon settled and certified to the last day of the year 1784.
Provided that the commissioner of the continental loan-office in any state shall not, on any pretence whatever, settle or issue any certificate or certificates for the interest due on any continental loan-office certificate or other certificate of liquidated debts aforesaid, unless as hereafter provided, until the state for which he is continental loan-officer shall have passed a legislative act, complying with this requisition; nor shall he issue any certificate or take any other measure whereby the interest may be paid by the state, in any mode not pointed out by this requisition; nor shall the commissioner of the continental loan-office in any state that shall have complied with this requisition, issue any certificate or take any other measure whereby a discrimination may be made by such state between the holders of loan-office certificates issued from his office, who are citizens of that state and foreigners or the citizens of any other state that shall have complied with this requisition: excepting from this proviso, such state or states as by the books of the treasury, shall appear to have paid their full quota of the requisition of the 30th Oct. 1781, for eight millions of dollars upon the former and present appointment of the same, so far as to admit the commissioner of the continental loan-office in such states, to issue certificates for interest in the same manner as the commissioners in the states passing legislative acts as aforesaid; provided always, that any continental loan-
officer shall issue certificates for interest
due on continental loan-office certificates issued from his office and belonging to foreigners, and also, to the citizens of such state as shall have passed a legislative act, complying with this requisition, as aforesaid.
Provided nevertheless, that where any state hath made provision by law, for paying any part of the interest of the domestick debt of the United States contained in the estimate on which this requisition is founded, the continental loan officer in such state shall, without delay, ascertain the sum which shall have been so paid pursuant to such law, on or before the first day of Jan. next, and shall make report thereof to the board of treasury, and also to the legislature of such state, who may deduct from their quota of this requisition, and be credited in part payment thereof, the sum so paid not exceeding two-thirds of such quota, every state being held to pay in specie one-third part of the said quota, previously to the admission of such credit. And if any state shall have so paid in discharge of interest as aforesaid, a sum exceeding two-thirds of its quota of this requisition, such surplus shall be admitted as a charge against the United States in the settlement of the general account of such state; but if any interest, after the said first day of Jan. shall be paid by any state contrary to the true intent of this requisition, such payment shall not be admitted as a charge against the United States; and if any commissioner of a continental loan-office shall disobey, or neglect to carry into execution any resolution or order of Congress, or otherwise neglect his duty in the said office, the board of treasury shall suspend him from his office and the emoluments thereof, and immediately report the reasons thereof to Congress; and the board of treasury are hereby impowered to appoint, in the room of the commissioner of the continental loan-office so suspended, a citizen of the state in which the office is kept, who shall have all the powers and emoluments of a commissioner of the continental loan-office, until Congress shall finally determine respecting the suspension.
And every commissioner of the continental loan-office, previously to settling and issuing certificates as aforesaid, for the interest due on certificates of liquidated debts, other than loan-office certificates, shall administer an oath or affirmation, or require a certificate signed by one of the persons whom the state in which the commissioner resides shall, in the legislative act complying with this requisition, appoint, that he has administered to the owner or possessor of every such certificate, an oath or affirmation, that the same is bona fide the property of the particular state in which the said commissioner resides, or of a citizen or citizens of the said state, or of some corporate body or charitable institution within the same, or of some person who is not a citizen of any of the United States; describing the certificate or certificates alluded to in every such oath or affirmation, in such manner as shall be necessary to identify the same, or as may be prescribed by the legislature of the said state.
And for preventing the depreciation of certificates to be issued as aforesaid, the legislature of each state is required to provide in the act complying with this requisition; and if on the first day of Jan. 1785, the said state's quota of the said certificates so to be issued, shall not be in the hands of the State treasurer or other proper officer, the deficiency shall be collected and paid into the continental treasury in specie, which, when so paid, is hereby appropriated to the redemption of such surplus certificates.
Provided nevertheless, that any state which shall have obtained a credit in the books of the treasury for the full compliance with the requisition of the 4th Sept. 1782, for one million two hundred thousand dollars, with the requisition of 27th April, 1784, for completing the payment of one half of the requisition of 30th Oct. 1781, for eight millions dollars, and also with this requisition, shall, at any time after such compliances, be admitted to pay into the treasury of the United States any sum or sums in the said certificates to be issued for interest as aforesaid, and have credit for the same, to be deducted out of the quota of such state in the next succeeding requisition; provided that such sum or sums do not exceed one half of the said quota.
That the board of treasury cause to be made a bank paper, and thereon to be struck the former certificates, to evidence the interest due as aforesaid, and transmit to the several loan-offices a sufficient number of the same. That the said board furnish the several loan officers with such checks and instructions, as they from time to time shall judge necessary, to prevent counterfeited certificates of debts from obtaining a settlement of interest, and to detect counterfeit evidences of interest, and thereby to avoid receiving them in discharge of taxes; which certificates of interest being parted with by the holders of the principal, shall be deemed evidence that he has received satisfaction for the same, and therefore shall be receivable from the bearer in lieu of money in the proportion aforesaid, in any other state in the union, as well as in the state in which they were issued. That the state receiving such certificates and paying the same into the publick treasury, with a proportion of specie as aforesaid, shall have credit therefor; which payment shall be considered as a discharge of the interest due on the domestick debt, in the proportion that each state avails itself of the said certificates of interest. And where loan office certificates issued after the first day of March, 1778, shall be presented to the loan-officer, they shall be reduced to their specie value, conformably to the resolutions of Congress of June 28th, 1780, and that specie value expressed on some part of the certificate, and the interest thereon
used and certified as in other cases.
As a motive for the cheerful payment of the sum now called for, as of the arrearages on that of April 27, 1784, the committee are of opinion that the states be reminded, that Congress have passed an ordinance for the survey and sale of the western territory of the United States, and that the proceeds thereof will be applied as a sinking fund to extinguish the domestick debt. Future requisitions, for interest on the domestick debt, will therefore be reduced in proportion as this fund may be rendered productive.
Resolved, That Congress agree to the said report. CHARLES THOMPSON, Sec'y,
T R I E S T E, June 10.
ALL vessels coming hither from the Levant are obliged to remain for the space of 24 days without the port. This precaution has been judged necessary since the report of the plague's being broke out at Smyrna. The appearance of this dreadful scourge was entirely owing to the imprudence of some people in opening a tomb wherein several persons were buried last year who had died of the plague. Letters of later date however, mention that workmen employed in opening the tomb were the only persons taken ill.
L O N D O N,
Aug. 20. All Spanish ships which have lately arrived in the river Thames, are armed from ten to sixteen guns each, and full of men; the Dons have discovered that there is no way of carrying on trade, on account of the Algerine pirates.
Extract of a letter from Madrid, July 2.
"The Infant Don Louis is at the last extremity at Arenas, his usual residence.
"The last accounts from America are not of the most agreeable nature; they mention that the Indians of Buenos Ayres having approached the Spanish settlements in number about 2000 the Governor sent 200 foot and 50 horse against them; this corps was soon cut to pieces, and a small number only remained. M. de la Piedra, the Intendant of that establishment, was so struck with this catastrophe, that he was seized with a fit of apoplexy, and died upon the spot."
France and Spain view the conduct of our Ministers with the most ineffable contempt. But at the same time there is satisfaction in that contempt, as the system of Government setting England and Ireland at war with each other; and the practice of creating the utter abhorrence of all the manufacturers, must turn out advantageous to the House of Bourbon, which never forgets, that the way to conquer is to divide, and that a soul divided against itself cannot long stand.
Most people are expressing their dislike to the petition now preparing to be presented to the house of Lords, for laying a Sunday's toll on Black Friars road, in order to keep the bridge, &c. in repair. A new impost on drugs and medicines is also spoken of. Should these take place, by way of appendix to the shop and servant-maid taxes, it may then be said, that we can neither take physic to restore health nor walk a broad to preserve it , without payments and imposts extraordinary. In a commercial country, is it not hard, that a man cannot open his shop, nor keep a servant to attend him, without additional expences, at a time when trade, and the strength or wealth of the nation are lessened by the loss of America. The very light of heaven coming through our windows, the hats we wear, and the gloves we draw on, all put us in mind of public necessities and grievances. Nor, in this free country, can we either come in, or go out of the world, without paying at different turnpikes.
Should the Irish Parliament reject the amended Propositions, Lord Camden, and Mr. Pitt mean to lay most heavy and internal duties on all British manufactures, in order to force those stubborn Lancashiremen into Ireland, without the Parliamentary consent of that kingdom. This immaculate pair are determined to do something for the benefit of our sister island, let the consequences be what they may.
Yesterday a messenger arrived at Lord Sydney's office, with dispatches from his Grace the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, which was supposed to contain a requisition for instructions how to proceed, since it has been found absolutely necessary to abandon the commercial arrangement.
A council was summoned yesterday upon the alarming news from Ireland. We understand it broke up very precipitately, and that in the evening messengers were dispatched to the Marquis of Lansdown and the Marquis of Buckingham.
A letter received yesterday from Lisbon says, that news having been received that the Algerines had taken several ships bound to Cadiz, and carried them into Algiers, a fleet of men of war was preparing to sail to Algiers to demand the ships to be released, and refused, to take reprisals of all the Barbary vessels they meet with, and to bring them into some port belonging to the Portuguese, that the crews may be made slaves of.
Parliament has lately become a preposition , the people an interjection , the kingdom a noun-adjective and nothing substantive is to be found, but a determined system of general ruin.
Aug. 22. From the best authority we can assure our readers, that in consequence of the intelligence received by Ministers on Friday last, of the defeat of their scheme in the Irish Parliament—an express was sent off after the meeting of the Cabinet to Lord Sackville; the purport of which is said to be to solicit the noble Lord's assistance in Council, and his advice in regard to the final adjustment of a compact with Ireland.
D U B L I N, August 11.
We are to get, or rather to be continued, the full participation of the trade with the British Colonies in America; that is with the wretched residue which the American revolt has left to England as not worth taking away from her: what is this wretched residue? Eve-

ry one who has leisure to consult the map, may see it consists of a region of ice and snow, from the Cape of God's Mercy, just without the Arctic circle to Eskimaux Bay, in latitude 54, and southward of that along the dreary Bays of Newfoundland, to the desolate island of Cape Breton, and the beggarly province of Nova-Scotia; a tract that altogether does not contain as many inhabitants as the town of Drogheda, the entire trade to which might with ease be carried on by any one mercantile house of character, nor would that one favoured house get rich in haste; and yet we are told of a colonial participation, as an object commensurate with a surrender of our independence, and the adoption of a ruinous code of coercion and taxation. Such an impudent insult on our understanding, is not patiently to be borne.
This is the day—the important day—big with the fate of Ireland. Let it be ever remembered, that Protecting Duties were the desire of our Manufacturers—further would have been absurd. They sought to secure their domestic market from the intrusion of the British dealer—this was denied them—but it is modestly offered them, if they will permit England to legislate for them, to suffer them to meet the English dealer in his own country—all that ever was said, and all that ever can be said upon the subject amounts exactly to this.
The fourth proposition is curiously defended; it is asked, where is the coercive power?—Where is the penalty without a bond?—The answer is plain—the coercive power is in the Resolution—the penalty is war—the bond the national faith.
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) Sept. 3.
It is with the most painful sensations that we attempt to communicate to our readers, some account of one of those awful dispensations of Divine Providence, which this ill-fated island has, of late years, so frequently and so fatally experienced. Scarce had our minds recovered from the consternation into which they were thrown by the dreadful hurricane of last year; we had only begun to feel the happy effects of returning plenty, after the direst prospect of famine, when on Saturday last, the 27th of August, all our hopes were blasted, and our fears roused, by a tempest as formidable in appearance, and as fearful in its effects, as that we had so lately witnessed.
The preceding day had been exceedingly sultry, and the evening uncommonly close until near midnight, that a brisk and chilling north wind sprung up, and continued to blow during the night, accompanied, at intervals, with light rains: Some heavy showers fell in the early part of Saturday, the clouds wore an uncommon aspect, and the wind varied between the north-east and the north-west, until about five o'clock in the afternoon, when it settled in the last mentioned point, and blew with considerable violence. From that hour it continued to increase, with redoubled fury until ten o'clock, when the darkness of the night, the roaring of the winds and rain, and the general convulsion of the elements, exhibited the most striking picture of the deepest horror. Soon after it in some measure abated,—but to return with renewed force, and continued to spread its destructive influences during the remainder of the night.
During the storm the wind repeatedly shifted to every point of the compass, from the north-west to the south-east.
Sunday was squally with heavy rains, which continued to fall during the two succeeding days. The weather has indeed hardly yet put on a settled appearance.
The injury which this town in general has sustained, is very considerable—Many of the houses are unroofed, and some entirely thrown down; almost every old building and out-house in the Savanna, and the fences, with few exceptions, are levelled with the earth. The Penns in this neighbourhood and Liguanea are every one damaged in a greater or less degree; and the plantations throughout the parish of St. Andrew, from every information we have been able to collect, have shared a similar fate. The canes, which wore a most promising appearance, are all lodged, the plain-tain walks destroyed, and the coffee-bushes stripped of their berries. It is even said the ground provisions have not escaped the general destruction.
All the wharves in the harbour are either destroyed or dismantled, that of Messrs. Dennie and Merchant excepted, which remains entire.
In this dreadful calamity many lives have been lost; not less than 100 dead bodies have been found on the Palisadoes, and upwards of 20, chiefly whites, on the opposite shore in the neighbourhood of Port Henderson.
PHILADELPHIA, October 3.
Extract of a letter from Caswell county, in the state of Frankland, dated May 26, 1785, to a gentleman in Washington, Virginia.
“Our public measures seem now to carry an aspect of consistency and effect; judiciary courts have been opened and begun business. A negotiation is on foot with the Cherokees, and the aim will be to incorporate them, and make them very useful citizens. I dare say this project will startle your rigid sectaries;—but you, we expect, will be more liberal, when it manifestly appears, that the interests of humanity and of our own society will be promoted. The poor creatures seem now more desirous of peace than ever, since the commencement of the late war; and indeed well they may, for we have them in our power. The settling of the country between the French Broad and the Tenasee, goes on with amazing rapidity; it is curious in a still morning to hear the Indians and white men, at their works of industry at one and the same time; and at times exchanging the offices of good neighbourhood by borrowing and lending.—This resembles children playing about the cootatrice's den—What a wonderful alteration since our hostile trip in 1780! Such are the foretastes, the fruits of the glorious American revolution!
N E W Y O R K, Oct. 17.
Humanity will, no doubt, prompt Americans to give whatever assistance lies in their power to relieve the distress of the West-Indians, occasioned by the late hurri-
can visited those islands; but sound policy dictates that any supplies they can afford should be in American bottoms, as the British have for some time endeavoured to destroy the usefulness of American vessels.—A correspondent therefore proposes that an embargo should be laid, immediately, on all British bottoms, at least so far as respect their loading with lumber or provisions. This no doubt, is in the power of the Executive Councils of the different states; and this, no doubt, they will do.
The sloop Phebe, Capt. Cartwright, from St. Lucia, where she had been seized and condemned, and afterwards brought in by the Captain, arrived in Alexandria, in Virginia, the 1st inst.—Captain Cartwright informs, that on the 24th ult. near the Capes of Virginia, in a violent gale of wind, he shipped a heavy sea, which carried away his bowsprit, stove about 30 hogheads of rum and molasses, and swept every thing off the deck, and laid the sloop on her beam ends; but fortunately she soon righted. During the gale he saw five dismasted ships, apparently in distress.—After the gale had abated he boarded a large ship, entirely dismasted, loaded with wheat, and without any person on board, which by her papers and some Windsor chairs he took out of her, he supposed to be a Dutch ship from Philadelphia. He spoke the Savage, from Machapungo bound to Philadelphia, dismasted.
The ship Grandbourg, Capt. Le Joyille, in 52 days from Cadiz, arrived at Alexandria, with whom came passengers Capt. Ervin and his crew, who failed from Cadiz, in October last for that port, but were unfortunately taken and carried into Tangiers.—Capt. Ervin informs that neither he nor any of his people were put to service, but, on the contrary, treated in the most humane manner.
Capt. Le Joyille informs, that he met with heavy gales of wind; and from the number of wrecks he saw, it is to be feared great damage has been done.
P R O V I D E N C E, October 22.
Wednesday last Captain Treadwell, in the Brig Lydia, arrived here in 33 Days from Surinam. On the 5th instant, in Lat. 28:14, Long. 67:30, he fell in with the Schooner General Shirley, William Nicoll, Master, from South-Carolina, bound to Jamaica, 10 weeks out, and in a distressed Situation, having a Gale of Wind the 29th of August, off the East end of Cuba, lost his Rudder, and his Sails, except the Foresail and jibb. Capt. Treadwell supplied him with a Sail, as also with Provisions and Water. It was still Capt. Nicoll's Intention to reach Jamaica, if possible.
P O R T S M O U T H, Nov. 4.
We hear that on the 27th ult. a Schooner from New-York, bound to Kennebunk, run a shore at Picatua; a woman and child were drowned but the rest of the people were providentially saved.
On the night of Monday 1st, the Shop of the Widow Appleton, of this town, was broke open and goods to a considerable amount stolen therefrom.
The 24th inst. is appointed by the authority of the state of Connecticut, to be observed as a day of general Thanksgiving throughout that state.
A statute-meeting of the Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is to be holden at the University in Cambridge, on Wednesday the 9th instant, at ten o'clock, A. M.
Died, on Monday morning the 17th ult. at his house in New-York, the hon. Samuel Hardy, Esq; delegate from the commonwealth of Virginia to the Congress of the United-States. The patriotism and extensive abilities which so eminently distinguished this gentleman, renders his death very important to Virginia in particular, and to the United-States in general.—Agreeably to a vote of Congress, that hon. body, accompanied by the foreign Ministers and Consuls, the public officers of the United-States, then in New-York, the corporate and public bodies of that city, with several strangers of distinction, attended at the house of the deceased in Beekman-street, on the evening of the 18th, from whence the procession began to move towards St. Paul's church at six o'clock, under a discharge of minute-guns from the battery, which continued till its arrival at the church, where a sermon, suited to the melancholy occasion, was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Prowost, one of the Chaplains of Congress, to a very numerous audience.—The splendor and admirable order of the procession has never been equalled in America.
On Wednesday the 2d inst. was ordained to the pastoral Charge of the Church of Christ, at North-Hampton, the Rev. Mr. Benjamin
Thurston. The good order, decency, and serious attention of a numerous assembly, convened on the occasion, were noticed with satisfaction, mentioned to the honor of this part of the country, and increased the solemnity of the religious exercises; which were performed, with great propriety, by the following gentlemen.—The Rev. Samuel Langdon, D.D. began with prayer.—The Rev. Mr. Allen preached a sermon suited to the occasion, from 1st Tim. 4 chap. 6 v.—The Rev. Mr. Fogg prayed, and gave the charge.—The Rev. Mr. Thayer, the right hand of fellowship.—And the Rev. Samuel Haven, D.D. closed the exercises.
By accounts from the southward we are informed, that the weather has been exceedingly tempestuous on the coasts of Virginia and the Carolinas: that Portsmouth, in the first mentioned state, has experienced a most tremendous gale of wind from N. E. to N. W. which raised the river in such a manner as to overflow the whole town; vessels were driven from their anchors into the woods; stores floated from their foundations, and property, to a considerable amount, swept away. Upward of 26 sail of vessels were driven ashore, but it is hoped the greatest part will be got off again.—The country for several miles round exhibits a scene of indescribable devastation, and the loss sustained in the town and its vicinity is estimated at upwards of thirty-five thousand pounds.
From Philadelphia we learn, that on the 11th ult. being the day appointed for holding the general election, the inhabitants of that city proceeded to the State house, to exercise the sacred right of investing with legislative and executive powers such of their fellow citizens as should be deemed most worthy of that sacred trust, when the hon. Benjamin Franklin, Esq; was chosen member of the supreme executive council, where, on Monday the 17th, he took his seat, and was, next day, unanimously chosen President.
What a noble idea must we not entertain of that constitution which thus annually strips the garments of office from its servants, awakes them from the intoxicating delirium of power, and plunges them again into the mael of the people! May America prize this inestimable privilege proportionably to its value! May her sons, 'till time shall be no more, esteem life, when compared with it, as beneath the smallest regard! And may her citizens, unbiased by the intrigues of faction, the rage of party, or the blandishments of ambition, thus make choice of men of capacity, integrity, and virtue, to guide their councils!
M A R I N E L I S T.
PORT of PISCATAQUA, November 4. E N T E R E D. Brig Mary, Shores, from Cape Francois. Brig Nancy, Pierce, Ditto. Ditto. Ship Chalkley, Fernald, Ditto. Ditto. Schooner Betsey, Manning, Turks Islands.
Intelligence-Office.
GENTEE LODGINGS for the reception of Ladies or Gentlemen, in a polite, quiet family, a minute's walk from the Court-House.
W A N T E D,
A LAD, 15 or 16 years of age, well recommended, for tending a store.
W A N T S A P L A C E,
A H O U S E M A I D.
Enquire of B. DEARBORN. Portsmouth, Nov. 4th, 1785.
T A K E N O T I C E.
THE Vendue which was to have been held at the house of the Widow Dorothy Pickering, stands adjourned to Tuesday, the 22d day of November inst. at 12 o'clock, A. M.
DOROTHY PICKERING.
ALL Persons having any Demands upon the Estate of the Reverend JOHN TUCK, late of Epsom, deceased, are desired to exhibit their Accounts to the Widow MARY TUCK, of Epsom, Administratrix upon said Estate. And all Persons indebted to said Estate are desired to make immediate Payment to said Administratrix. Epsom, October 20. 1785.
T O B E S O L D,
AT Public Vendue, by Order of the Judge of Probate, on Monday the 7th day of Nov. next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. the real and personal Estate of Capt. John Hart, late of Portsmouth, Mariner, deceased. The Sale to be at the House of said deceased. Portsmouth, Oct. 20, 1785.

On the RETURN of DOCTOR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN to AMERICA.
WHEN in the east th' Arcadian star arose, The Cynosure of peace at rest; And trav'ling still its blessings to disclose, And set with glory in the west.
Thou great first cause, thou hope of all! O! pardon our presumptuous zeal: If like to faints our adoration fall, We too, like men, shou'd also feel.
Forgive, great object of our first regard, Great cause from whence all nature sprang, While we adore thee as our great reward, We too shou'd venerate the man.
To him who rais'd his country from distress, Who sav'd her from oppression's hand: And if not mission'd with the power to bless, Yet born with gifts to save the land.
Free from the noise and hurry of a court, Where jarring interests ever burn: Forsakes the various bustles of resort, And to a life of peace return.
And when insatiate death shall tear him hence, (Tho' we may think the sentence hard) May Heav'n its choicest blessings then dispense, And gain the honest man's reward.
Rise a new star 'ith' galaxy of fame, Consest the greatest and the greatest and the best: To latest time let FRANKLIN be its name, And shine the glory of the west.
AN INTELLIGENCE OFFICE
Is this Day opened, by BENJAMIN DEARBORN, At his HOUSE, in PAVED - STREET, which, in addition to his A U C T I O N, he proposes to attend during suitable Encouragement.
AT this Office, Gentlemen, having Estates, Houses, Vessels, Horses, Cattle, or other kinds of Property except Slaves may hear of Purchasers; and Purchasers find suitable Bar- gains.—Persons wanting to HIRE or LET Houses, Rooms, Lodgings, &c. may here find information. Masters or Mistress, wanting Ap- prentices or Servants, may be accommodated to advantage; and Apprentices or Servants, want- ing Employ, may here find it, if they produce proper Recommendations.
Portsmouth, Oct. 25, 1785.
NOTICE is hereby given, that all Persons who are indebted to the Estate of SAMUEL DODGE, late of Amherst, deceased, intestate, do make speedy Payment; also all Persons who have any Demands on said Estate, are hereby requested to bring in their Accounts to me the Subscriber, Admi- nistratrix on said Estate, for settlement. SUSANNAH DODGE, Amherst, 21st October, 1785.
Just Published
By MELCHER and OSBORNE, And ready for sale by the Hundred, Dozen, or Single, at the OLD Printing- Office in Paved Street, and by the Au- thor at his Seat in York:
SEWALL'S GENUINE ALMANACK
For the Year of Christian Era,
1786:
Being the 2d after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Calculated for the meridian of PORTSMOUTH, NEW- HAMPSHIRE, Latitude 43 deg. 5 min. North, But will serve for any of the NEW-ENGLAND States.
CONTAINING
Every Thing necessary for such a Work; with a variety of Entertainment in Prose and Verse.
Great Allowance made to those who purchase to sell again.
Portsmouth, October 7, 1785.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for this paper, at Four shillings & six pence for six Months (exclusive of postage) are taken in at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth and Exeter, where Essays, Letters of Intelligence, Advertisements, &c. are received, and all kinds of Printing performed expeditiously, and at a reasonable Rate.
To all concerned.
WHEREAS the subscriber is called upon to pay most of the principal demands he has against him, and some very unexpectedly: He is therefore obliged to unite his best efforts to discharge them reasonably.—It is disagreeable to him, that in reviewing his present resources, he finds, he must of necessity, call generally on all those who are indebted to him by personal securities.
He is sure, that his lenity to them hitherto—the obligation he is under to make payment as aforesaid—that his offers will be deemed generous, and that they will exert themselves to oblige him, as well as to avail themselves of the benefit of them.
Had his remittances from his extensive landed interest, and from other business that he has lately been engaged in, been in any considerable degree equal to his expectations, he would not by any means had this recourse to his debtors: but it is well known, that good landed interest in the new country, (however advantageously circumstanced) afford, in general, but a slender prospect for immediate exigencies; and also that trade has taken a great turn against us, and some measures lately taken place, which has in a particular manner affected his business, and cut off a considerable branch of his expectations.
Being thus disagreeably circumstanced, in order to collect his resources, and make payment, where he owes, he must (as one of them) now most earnestly request all those who are indebted to him, by bonds, notes, or otherwise, to exert themselves to make payment according to their respective agreements.
However, as he is very sensible of the great scarcity of money, and the inability of most persons making all payments punctually (at this critical period)—therefore, with the view to give what ease and indulgence, that is in his power, he makes the following offers, viz.
That he will take all merchantable produce at the current cash prices, and will be received either at Center Harbour—at his store at Moultonborough—or at Hampton, any time between the 25th of November and the 25th of December next—such as beef, or beef cattle, pork, merchantable live stock, corn, rye, wheat, flour, peas, or in a word, every merchantable article of produce.—Also, merchantable lumber, delivered at either of the usual landings, at the current price.
All which articles he expects may facilitate his making payment.
The subscriber has reason to assure himself, that after making so generous an offer, and if they will consider the necessity of his calling upon them, those who neglect will not complain, if after that, payment is exacted according to their respective agreements.
JONATHAN MOULTON.
Hampton, October 10, 1785.
Timothy Balch,
WESTERN Post Rider, and Carrier of the New-Hampshire Gazette, calls upon such as are indebted to him for the above paper to settle with and pay him immediately, as he is fully determined, upon their non-compliance with this request, to put their accounts in suit. He informs such gentlemen as may have business for him to transact, that he proposes to arrive in this town every other Friday, and shall take lodgings at Capt. Brewster's. Portsmouth, Sept.
BLANKS for SALE,
at the OLD PRINTING OFFICE, in Pav'd Street, WARRANTEE and Quitclaim Deeds, Justices, Writs and Executions, Court Writs, Executions and Summonses, Recognizences, Collectors Deeds, Shipping Papers, Bills of Sale, Bills of Lading, Bills of Exchange, Indentures, Powers of Attorney, &c. all of which are done on good Paper, and will be sold as cheap usual.
A HORSE, suitable for either Saddle or Carriage, to be sold.
Enquire of the Printers.
THE Subscribers, appointed
Commissioners to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Captain JOHN HART, late of Portsmouth, Mainer, deceased, represented insolvent, give Notice, that three Months, from the Date hereof, are allowed the Creditors, to exhibit their Claims; and that they will be ready to receive them on the first Wednesday of the three following Months, at Captain WILLIAM BREWSTER's, from six to eight o'Clock, P.M.
DANIEL RINDGE, THOMAS MARTIN, JOHN PARKER.
Portsmouth, 19th Oct. 1785.
E X C I S E.
The year having expired for which
the Subscriber purchased the EXCISE, he requests that all concerned, would have their Accounts ready to settle with him at the Times and Places hereafter mentioned, viz. those in Portsmouth, who have not settled already, at the House of Mr. Henry Sherburne, on Saturday, the 29th of October; at Mr. Shadrick Bell's, in New-Castle, on Tuesday, the 1st of November; at Mr. George Libbey's, in Greenland, on Thursday the 3d ditto; at Mr. Benjamin Garland's, in Rye, on Friday the 4th ditto; at Mr. Benjamin Leavitt's, in North-Hampton, on Saturday, the 5th ditto; at Capt. Caleb Sanborn's, in Hampton, on Monday, the 7th ditto; at Mr. John Shute's, in New-Market, on Wednesday, the 9th ditto; at Capt. Robert Clark's, in Epping, on Friday, the 11th ditto; at Mr. Jonathan Blake's, in Kingstown, on Monday, the 14th ditto.
Jonathan Cals, Excise-Master.
N. B. The reason of all the Towns not being mentioned in the Subscriber's District, some are so very handy, and others pay so small excise, he thinks it unnecessary; but he begs they may all be prepared to settle it immediately.
Portsmouth, October 27, 1785.
FOR SALE.
A new CHAISE, with HARNESS complete.
A second-hand WHISKEY, and a pair of new
Chaise Wheels, with sundry other articles.
Inquire of
George Doig.
Notice is hereby given to the following persons, non resident owners of land in Canaan, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, on Tuesday the 3d day of January 1786, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Capt. Robert Barber, in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
JOHN BARTLETT, Collector.
1st hun. 2d. 3d. Intervale
Lewis Leveradge, s. 143 d. s. 9 6 d. s. 4 9 d. s. 25 d. A right to Ebenezer Eames, for encouragement to build 9 6 Mills.
Canaan, September 23, 1784.
T O B E S O L D,
By Public Vendue, to the highest bidder, on Monday, the Seventh of November next, three o'Clock, P. M. at the Store belonging to the Dwelling-House lately occupied by Thomas Penhallow, Merchant, deceased, a Quantity of Glass Ware, consisting of Wine-Glasses, Decanters, Tumblers, Cruits and Salts.
Also,
Several Parcels of LAND, viz. One half of 100 Acre Lot of Land in Raymond, Numb. 14, in the North Division; one half of one 60 Acre Lot of Land, in Derryfield, fourth Division, Numb. 53; one half of one 40 Acre Lot of Land in Chester, fifth Division;—Numb. 27; one half of one 10 Acre Lot of Land, in the sixth Division, in said Chester, Numb. 101; lately the Estate of the said deceased.
JOHN PENHALLOW, Administrator. Portsmouth, Oct. 20.