The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1771-08-02 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the Freshest ADVICES
Friday Aug. 2, 1771.
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 772 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
To the Printers of the New-Hampshire Gazette. The following was written by a Gentleman in England a few Years since; and as the Publication of it here may probably have a Tendency to remove the ill-grounded Prejudices (should there be any still remaining in America) against true Learning, you are desired to insert it in your next Gazette.
An Essay on the Dignity and Usefulness of Human Learning. Addressed to the Youth of the British Empire in Europe and America.
LEARNING consists in a thorough knowledge of books and facts; in a just and accurate acquaintance with the characters of men, times and ages, ancient and modern; in a just search or investigation of the springs & causes of things, in order to explain the operations of nature, the powers of man, and his connections with GOD, and with the universe: That we may point out, and always pursue the noblest ends of our eternal existence, and the best use of our capacities; the highest relish of our enjoyments, and the best application of our faculties; to polish and dignify our nature, and promote the honour of GOD, as the supreme source of existence, and the giver of every good gift.
I. True Learning is true Humanity.
An erect posture on two legs does not make a man. The Beasts have limbs, senses, appetites, and some passions in common with man; and whatever is common between men and beasts, can never be the essential, supreme property of man: Reason is his supreme attribute, and by Reason he must be characterized; not Reason debauched, for this makes a man worse than a beast, but Reason refined: Reason rightly applied: And what is Learning, but Reason elevated and improved?
II. True Learning is true Politeness.
The manners of the uncivilized nations, are rude and barbarous, savage and fierce; their minds are void of right ideas of GOD and themselves, not softened by humanity; and the consequence is that they are wild in their whole behaviour, brutal in their appetites, and violent in their passions of rage, malice and fury, boisterous in their whole conduct, without meaning, without principle, and destitute of every social virtue of the heart.
III. True Learning inspires true Courage.
Courage is a rational firmness to bear attacks, resist all kinds of violence, and with a deliberate resolution oppose, and endeavour to vanquish our enemies. True Learning inspires the mind with fortitude, and gives it a rational firmness and magnanimity, that dares to meet any danger, and encounter any difficulty, at the call of conscience, honour, and duty, under the inspection of heaven, and animated by the goodness of providence.
IV. True Learning promotes private Virtue and publick Spirit.
Solid Learning gives us clear ideas of the nature and eternal difference of good and evil; it purifies and strengthens the mind to discern the beauty of virtue, and the deformity of vice; and this leads us to detest the one, and admire and love the other. Publick spirit is a fixed disposition to promote the safety, welfare, and honour of the country in which we were born, and the government under which we live. True
Learning strengthens and improves this publick spirit, and although it teaches us to consider ourselves as citizens of the world, and to love all mankind, yet it cherishes in us a peculiar love to our country, and a zeal for its solid glory and happiness.
V. True Learning is a firm Support in Adversity.
An ignorant mind is a poor famished being, and for want of proper food must be always ranging from vanity to vanity, amongst the frivolous objects of fancy and appetite; and when these are all cut off by adversity, such a mind must turn in and devour itself with rage and despair, and at last be tormented to death with hunger, and yet never die. What a deplorable condition is this! For a soul to have no right ideas to entertain it in solitude, no good disposition to cheer itself in the gloomy season of adversity; which therefore, for want of knowledge and ideal furniture, must be unhappy! Such a mind is a deplorable spectacle, and a real object of horror.
VI. True Learning is true Riches, and teaches the true Enjoyment of Riches.
Riches consists in a sufficiency of good things for our real wants: True Learning teaches us to moderate our desires, to make a right estimate of our wants, and to possess a spirit of generous and philosophical moderation and satisfaction, with a competence: True Learning secures us from a boundless avarice, and a wild extravagance, luxury and profusion; it teaches us to acquire the friendship of the wise and good, and gives us the sweet fruition of civil liberty and peace.
VII. True Learning is true Honour.
What is true honour, as we are the subject of it, but a noble and generous scorn of acting wrong, and a firm purpose of doing every thing just, worthy and good? Honour is an emanation of virtue.
Honour as we are the object of it, is the esteem and approbation which wise and good men feel for our virtues, and express for our character and usefulness. Honor is the fame and renown of virtue. Honor, in both views of it, is acquired by sound Learning.
VIII. True Learning promotes National Wealth and Power.
Good education is more effectual in preserving order in Society, than a multiplicity of laws. Sound Learning diffused through the body of the people, will more increase national wealth and honour, than a pile of acts of parliament. Lord Bacon observes, that however the choice of preceptors has been neglected by moderns immersed in voluptuous indolence, the wisdom of the ancients always made a just complaint that states were too busy with their laws, and too negligent in points of education— circa leges quidem nimium satagere circa educationem indiligentes esse . True Learning will brighten the splendour of the British crown, and increase the dignity and power of Great-Britain in the eyes of the nations abroad, as well as promote justice and temperance at home. If the methods of good education were faithfully pursued for seven years to come, it would have a more powerful effect upon the morals of the people, than the united force of the twelve venerable judges, or a standing army of a hundred thousand men.
IX. True Learning is true Pleasure.
Pleasure is an agreeable feeling to the mind. Pleasure is a pure sensation of truth and good. Pleasure is a consciousness of something grateful to our taste; 'tis a sweet gratification of the rational powers; a joyous recreation of the mind. Pleasure is the result of perceptive powers, and an object well adapted to those powers. Pleasure is the constant and genuine effect of a suitable object, nicely applied to a rightly disposed faculty, fitted to perceive and enjoy that object. The worlds of science are glorious objects, full of real truth and beautiful goodness; they are finely adapted to a sound mind, an elegant and strong reason; to regale a rich imagination, and to please a correct and quick taste of all that is sublime & beautiful in the whole empire of GOD, in heaven and earth.
X. True Learning is true Dominion over Millions of Mankind, whose Souls are immersed in Ignorance and Barbarism.
True dominion and power consist in having a rational authority over minds. There is no power and dominion comparable with that wherewith knowledge invests and crowns human nature. We always observe that the dignity of commanding, is according to the nature of the subjects commanded: To have dominion over brutes, is no honour; to have command over children as school-masters, is comparatively speaking, of small honour; to have dominion over slaves, is a disgrace rather than honourable; the commands of tyrants over wretches that have lost the common generosity of their minds, is a foul brand of infamy; to be a free monarch over a free people, is at once attended with pleasure and dignity, because the command extends in some measure over the wills of men, as well as over their deeds and services.
† But the dominion of Knowledge and Learning is higher and more noble than the commands of the greatest monarch that ever lived in the world; for 'tis a command over the reason, the assent and understanding of man, which is the noblest part of the mind, and gives law to the will itself. There is no power on earth which sets up a throne or chair of state, in the spirits, thoughts, and souls of men; this is beyond all human civil power in the universe; but knowledge and learning can rule the imaginations, opinions, and faith of men; and we may truly say, the just and lawful superiority over mens understandings, by the clear demonstrations of truth, beautifully displayed in its strongest colours, is, that glory and dignity of dominion which approaches nearest to the image of GOD's dominion over the rational world; or the resemblance of his supreme empire over the immortal spirits.
† Imperium scientiæ, longe celsius est quam imperium in voluntatem, licet liberam, et non astrictam. Illa enim rationi, fidei et intellectui ipsi dominatur, qui est altissima pars animi, et voluntatem ipsam regit. Etenim nulla proculdubio terrena est potestas, quæ in spiritibus hominum, et animabus, eorumque cogitationibus, et phantasiis, assensu quoque et fide, thronum et quasi cathedram suam erigit et collocat, præter doctrinam, et scientiam. Justus et legitimus in animos hominum dominatus, veritatis ipsa evidentia, ac commendatione dulcissima stabilis, sane quam proxime ad potestatis divinæ similitudinem accedit. I BACON, De Augmentia Scient. lib. I. p. 97.
(For the Remainder see the last Page.)

This day will be issued out at the Pay-office, Whitehall, 182 days off-reckonings to his Majesty's land forces, from the 25th of December, 1769, to the 24th of June, 1770, both days inclusive.
In the memory of any living lawyer there never was so little business done in any of the courts, as during this term. The reason given by the attorneys for this failure of employment is not irrational. They say that the late attacks upon the character of the judges has determined most people of arbitration, and to starve the profession.--- Aliquisque mala suis usit in illo.
His most Christian Majesty of late is greatly addicted to drinking, he regularly has punch every afternoon, and is as regularly Enyure ; then it is that he enjoys the greatest pleasure of Madam Barre's company, at which time it is supposed, he would not deny her, was she to ask a like favour, as the Damsel did of Herod,
Richard Haines, who was executed on Wednesday last, declared, in enumerating his exploits, that within about the last six months he had himself shared 2700l. as his portion of the numerous contributions that gang had levied on the public.
May 17, It is now past all doubt, that the unhappy Chevalier D'Eon is carried off to France. Ignorant as French Ministers are in all the wise, great principles of government, which ought to promote the happiness of their people, nothing can equal their refined subtlety and cunning in all the low tricks, which men of liberal, noble minds, contemn and despise. The carrying off the Chevalier D'Eon from this country has long been an object of the politics of the French Ministers. Emissaries were sent, & a deep well-concerted scheme was laid to surprise him in the spring of the year 1765; but as the danger, and the disgrace he was in, were then recent in his mind, he was more vigilant, & then constantly upon his guard, by which he avoided the scheme that was laid to surprise him. Since that time, from his national levity and a constitutional imprudence, he has been of late less sensible of his danger, and he at last has suffered himself to be surprised; and his fate, it is more than probable, will be as tragical as was that of the unfortunate General Ally.
Wednesday night, while the mob were parading Bishopsgate-street, they came to a house which was entirely dark, while all the neighbouring houses were most splendidly illuminated. They applied first to the people of the house, and assured them, if they did not illuminate immediately, they might expect very disagreeable consequences; but the master of the house told them he would not light even a single candle. On which a motion was made, that, to punish his obstinacy, they should immediately break forty five panes in his windows. This motion was instantly carried, and as instantly put into execution. They broke exactly 45, and then retired with an universal huzza.
The malcontents of Corsica keep the French in constant alarms, frequently way-laying and killing any parties they are able to over-power. To reconcile these islands to their new yoke, the French King has resolved to appoint the principal families to offices of trust, jointly with his natural born subjects.
The following odd, but true circumstance happened a few weeks ago at Paris: Two gentlemen going to a masquerade, went to a Place where habits are hired, in order to dress themselves; accordingly, one of them took it into his head to be dressed in resemblance of the Devil, the other something else, leaving their own clothes behind them till the next day. When the masquerade was over they called a coach, and the gentleman Devil was set down near his own house: the other went home in the coach. Mr. Devil knocked at his door, which the footman opened, and seeing the Devil, flapped it to in a great fright, and fainted away. The gentleman not being able to gain admittance, walked a little way to seek for a lodging: at last he spied a light, and a door on the jar, which he entered, and saw no
body but a Minister attending a corpse, (which is customary there); the pious man being asleep, the gentleman did not disturb him, but sat himself down and went to sleep also. Some time after, the Minister waking, and seeing he'd got the Devil to bear him company, ran out in a fright, and presently came back with a number of people; who all stood at the door to look at his Highness, but no one durst advance within. In the scene of astonishment, the people began to upbraid the holy father, (who bore but a very indifferent character) and insisted upon his going in to ask the Devil his business, which he refused: during this the gentleman waked, and was surprised to see such a mob gathered at the door; and upon his advancing towards them, they flew back with precipitation, which he soon guessed the reason of, and immediately discovered himself, much to their satisfaction.
L O N D O N, May 21. The EARL OF CHATHAM's Speech, when he made a motion for the Dissolution of the present Parliament.
My Lords, IT is not many years since this nation was the envy and terror of its neighbours. Alone and unassisted it seemed to balance the half of Europe. Nor was the aspect of its affairs abroad more flattering than at home. Concord and unanimity prevailed throughout the whole extent of the British empire. Whatever heats and animosities might subsist between the grandees, the body of the people was satisfied. No complaints, no murmurs were heard. No petitions, much less remonstrances, for redress of grievances, were carried up to the Throne; nor were hired mobs necessary to keep the Sovereign in countenance by their venal shouts. Nothing was heard on every side but one general burst of acclamation and joy. But how is the prospect darkened; How are the mighty fallen! On public days the royal ears are saluted with hisses and hoots; and he sees libels against his person and government written with impunity; jures solemnly acquitting the publishers. What greater mortification can befall a monarch! Yet this sacrifice he makes to his Ministers. To their false steps, not to his own, he owes his disgrace. By their intrigues the last inglorious peace, the origin of our evils, was effected, & approved by Parliament, though it was loudly condemned by the nation. By their intrigues the last shameful convention received the same sanction. Were this sacrifice of our honour and interest abroad compensated by the wisdom of our domestic government, it would be some comfort.---But the fact is, that Great-Britain, Ireland, & America, are equally dissatisfied, with the Ministry. The impolitic taxes laid upon America, and the system of violence there adopted, have unfortunately soured the minds of the people, and rendered them disaffected to the present Parliament, if not to the King. Ireland has various reasons to complain. An enumeration of them would be tedious. You may judge of their number and magnitude by the present flame. The measures taken to carry the Middlesex election in favour of the Court, the decision of that election, the murders in St. George's fields, the refusal of the Commons to enquire into these murders, and into the conduct of those who advised his Majesty to bestow thanks and rewards upon the persons immediately concerned; the payment of the immense debt contracted by the Crown, without inspecting any account; all these circumstances justly alarmed the nation, and made them uncommonly attentive to the operations of Parliament.---Hence the publication of the Parliamentary Debates. And where was the injury, if the members acted upon honest principles; For a public assembly to be afraid of having their deliberations published, is monstrous, and speaks for itself. No mortal can construe such a procedure to their advantage. It, and the practice of locking the doors, are sufficient to open the eyes of the blind; they must see that all is not well within. Not satisfied, however with shutting their doors, the Commons would overturn the liberty of the press. The printers had spirit and resisted. The irritated Commons exerted their privilege above the laws of the land, and their servants acted illegally in the execution of their illegal orders. The Magistrates of London undertook the cause of the printers, and the protection of the laws, and of the City's franchises. The Commons still proceeded with the same outrageous violence. They called upon the magistrates to justify their conduct, and would not suffer them to be heard by counsel. These men, who had allowed the prostitute electors of Shoreham counsel to defend a bargain to sell their borough by auction, would not grant the same indulgence to the Lord Mayor of London, pleading for the laws of England, and the conscientious discharge of his duty. Accordingly they committed him to the Tower, for not violating his oath. The most sacred obligation of morality and religion they vote criminal, when it happens to stand in competition with their assumed privilege.--- Their next step was the act of a mob, and not of a parliament. I mean the recognizance entered at Guildhall. We have heard of such violence committed by the French King; and it seems much better calculated for the latitude of Paris than London. The people of this kingdom will never submit to such barefaced tyranny. They must see that it is time to rouse, when their own creatures dare to assume a power of stopping prosecutions by their vote, and consequently of resolving the law of the land into their will and pleasure. The imprudence, and indeed the absolute madness of these measures, demonstrate that they are not the result of that Assembly's calm, unbiased deliberations, but the dictates of weak, uninformed ministers influenced by those who mislead the Sovereign. It is impossible that a grave, and once venerable body of men, if left to itself, should have converted government into a scuffle with a single individual.--- Were the Commons not absolute slaves to the man who holds the golden keys of the Treasury, they could never have rendered the very name of parliament ridiculous, by carrying on a constant war against Mr. Wilkes. To them it is entirely owing that he is become a person of consequence in the State. They first made him Representative for Middlesex, and then Alderman of London. Now they seem determined to make him Sheriff, and, in due course, Lord Mayor.---When he set their authority at defiance, in the case of the printers, they repeatedly declared him amenable to their jurisdiction, and actually served him with more than one order to attend. Upon being found refractory, they shamefully gave up the point; after punishing the Chief Magistrate of the City they suffered him to escape with impunity, and, in the face of the world, acknowledged him to be their Lord and Master.
Matters being thus circumstanced, the Commons being both odious and contemptible, there remains but one possible remedy for the evil. In order to save the name and institution of Parliament from ruin, the Commons must, according to the earnest
request of a majority of the electors of England, and the wish of almost all the nation, be dissolved. This step may restore good humour and tranquility on the one hand, and good government on the other. Not that I imagine this act alone sufficient. No; I have no such sanguine expectation; I suspect it will prove but a temporary and partial remedy. The influence of the Crown is become so enormous, that some stronger bulwark must be erected for the defence of the constitution.--- The act for constituting septennial Parliaments must be repealed. Formerly the inconveniences attending short Parliaments had great weight with me; but now we are not debating upon a question of convenience; our all is at stake: your whole constitution is giving way; and therefore, with the most deliberate and solemn conviction, I declare myself a convert to triennial Parliaments. Influenced by all these considerations I move your Lordships to address his Majesty to dissolve the present Parliament, as soon as the business of the session is concluded.
St. CHRISTOPHER's May 2.
On Tuesday last a Court of Vice-Admiralty was held here, for the trial of the Pirates, for running away with the Sloop John and Martha, the property of Capt. Scott, from Bequia; when James Moore, mate of said Sloop and Susannah Richards, were found guilty. The next day came on trial of Thomas M c Ray, and Charles O'Neil, two sailors belonging to said Sloop, who being equally concerned in the Robbery and Piracy with James Moore and Susannah Richards, were also found guilty; the four being brought to the bar, received sentence of death.
St. JAGO DELA VEGA, (in Jamaica) April 13 The principal Planters, Merchants, Traders, and others, having petitioned the Governor to convene the Assembly, for many weighty and interesting reasons: His Excellency, after laying the same before his Majesty's Council for their advice, were unanimously of opinion, that it is not advisable to call the General Assembly, and therefore he cannot comply with the said petitioners request.
Wednesday arrived at Port-Royal, his Majesty's Ship Garland, Capt. Lynn, from G. Britain.
PHILADELPHIA, July 4. A Letter from Detroit of the 25th of May, says, "By Indians who are just now arrived Express from William Tucker, an Indian Trader, we have the disagreeable News that the Sloop Beaver, which sailed from hence the 5th Instant, for Niagara, is cast away upon the Rocks about 10 Leagues below Sundusky, and that Capt. Jacobson, his Crew, and ten Passengers, in all 15, have perished. The Barge was found ashore all smashed to pieces, and a small Trunk with our Letters drove up on the Beach, many of them lost and several others damaged and illegible: There were on board about £.3000 in Poltry, & a large Quantity of Flour for Niagara.
WILLIAMSBURG, June 20, This Day the Rev. and Hon. the Commissary, with his Lady, took shipping for England on Board the Savannah la Mar, Capt. Tomlinson, for the Recovery of their Healths. In his Absence, the Rev. Mr. Wilhe is to act as Commissary, & the Rev. Mr. Henley officiates as Minister of Bruton Parish.
The Commissary is supposed to have gone with a Design to obtain an American Bishop.
A N N A P O L I S, JULY 4
A melancholy Accident happened here on Saturday Night last; Mr. Ralph Dobbinson, officiating Clerk in the Prerogative Office under Mr. Vallette, went in the Cool of the Evening, in Company with Two other Persons, to swim in a Pond of this Place situate near the Ice-House, and was there unfortunately drowned. It appears that One of the Company (who was no good Swimmer) when in the Water called for Assistance; on which the Deceased immediately plunged in to his Relief, but his Humanity cost him his Life: For, after some Conflicts between him and the Person he came to relieve, the latter got safe on Shore but the former sunk and was seen no more.
HARTFORD, July 16. Last Week on Monday, the following melancholy Accident happened at Ermington, viz. As a number of People were raising one of the principal Rasters of a Meeting House in that Place, the Strap of one of the Blocks gave Way, when the Raster fell, and knocked off three Men, viz. Lieut. Abner Curtis, Allen Merrill, and Jonathan Montague.---Merrill's Scull was fr actur'd and otherwise much bruised, so that he died the Thursday following. Curtis had one of his Shoulders broke, and his Arm much wounded, which occasioned a Mortification in it, and his life is despair'd of. Montague was wounded in one of his Hips, but is in a fair way of recovery.

The same Day one Jonathan Rigley of Newbury, in attempting to cross a River in that Place, where there was a swift Current, was carried down the Stream and drowned. His Body was taken up on Friday last.
BOSTON, July 29.
We hear from Newbury-Port, that a Child of Mr. Balch of that Town was lately baptised there by the name of Thomas Hutchinson.
The last Advices from North-Carolina say, That the Disturbances in that Province had subsided; the Troops which had been employed in the Government's Service were returned to their respective Homes and discharged. Most of the Regulators, who had been tried and convicted, it was imagined would not be executed, they having the choice either to enlist in the Regular Service, or receive 500 Lashes; some of whom chose the former. Neither of the outlaws had been taken up, it was thought they were fled to some of the back Mountains, and secured themselves in such a Manner, that in all Probability they could not be easily discovered. A great number of Cattle, which were taken from the Regulators, had been brought into Newbern, and there sold at public Auction.
An Officer of repute, who was in the Governor's Army relates the following Circumstance as matter of Fact. That after several Messages having passed between the Regulators and the Governor and the time allotted being almost, tho' not quite, expired; when one of the Regulators, who had waited on the Governor and received for answer, That he would not have any Thing further to say to them, unless they delivered up their Ringleaders, laid down their Arms, &c. with which Message he was returning to his distressed Brethren; when an Officer said to the Governor, that he thought, that the Message the Man was carrying, would only put the Regulators on their guard and give his Excellency more trouble: On which the Governor told the Officer to call him back. The Officer obeyed, but the messenger refused; on which his Excellency called to him, and told him he should be shot if he did not return; the Man returned for Answer, that he should deliver his Message, and kept on his Way, when he was fired at, shot thro' the back and killed on the Spot. The Governor immediately told his Aid de Camp to order the Captain of the Artillery to fire; but the Captain answer'd, it was a thing of too much consequence, and would not fire without his Excellency's written or personal Orders: Upon this the Governor came up, gave Orders, and the dreadful Slaughter began, while the Regulators were still in Council, and great Numbers were killed by the first Discharge of the Cannon, before they expected it, or the Hour allowed them, by the Governor was expired.
We hear from the Westward, that a number of Men were arming near Albany, in order to dispossess some of the Inhabitants of Bennington; but for what Reason we know not.
On Thursday last came on at the Inferior Court held here, the Trial of the Cause between the Hon. James Otis, Esq; of this Town, and the Hon. John Robinson, Esq; one of the Board of Commissioners, for assaulting, and, with the assistance of others, dangerously wounding said Otis, (as mentioned some time since) for which the Jury, after a fair Hearing, gave in their Verdict £.2000 Sterling Damages and Cost of Court. Mr. Otis laid his Action at £.3000 and has appealed from the Judgment.
We learn from Quebec, that several Attempts have lately been made by some evil-minded Persons to set Fire to that City, particularly in the Night between the 6th and 7th of June last in the Lower-Town, and on the Night following in the Upper Town, which had well nigh succeeded: A Reward of Three Hundred Dollars is offered for the Discovery and Conviction of the Offenders.
We hear from Penobscot, that the Week before last a Man was carrying one Mrs. Pitcher and her Child in a Sail-Boat to St. George's, a sudden Squall arose and overset the Boat, whereby the Woman and Child were drowned: The man saved himself by swimming ashore.
Last Saturday one Mr. Goodwin, a House Carpenter fell from a Stage at the North Part of the Town, and was so much hurt that he died soon after.
A few days since a superannuated Gentleman, as he was making of Hay, espied 7 or 8 wild Ducks to light down in a puddle of Water amongst his Hay-Cocks: and being very desirous to have them, goes to his House, and musters up an old rusty musket, which perhaps he has not handled for more than twenty Years, and having loaded the old Piece well, crawls behind a Hay-Cock, and finding it would not stand upon the Cock, calls for a Brand of Fire, which no sooner touch'd the Powder, than the poor Ducks never knew what killed them. But what was the most remarkable, the report of the Gun was not heard 20 Rods distance. This extraordinary luck happened in the South Part of Shrewsbury.
Lately died at Dedham, the remarkable old Negro, who went by the Name of QUASHEE, and well known in this Town for bringing Sauce to Market.
NEW-YORK, July 22, 1772.
Last Thursday the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonality, of this City, waited upon his Excellency Governor TRYON, with a congratulatory Address upon his Appointment and Arrival in this Colony: After which Mr. Recorder, in behalf of the Corporation presented his Excellency with the Freedom of this City, the Seal to which was inclosed in a Golden Box, with the Arms of the City handsomely engraved on the Lid thereof.
PORTSMOUTH, August 2.
We hear that a Day will soon be appointed by the TRUSTEES, for a public COMMENCEMENT at Dartmouth-College, in this Province, when a Number of young Gentlemen, who have been for 4 or 5 Years under the Tuition, of the Reverend and worthy Doctor WHEELOCK, the President of said College, will receive their Degrees.
AS Newmarket & Stratham LOTTERY TICKETS, in the Fifth Class, are now selling off by the Managers and Printers as fast as Purchasers appear, those who neglect buying till just before the drawing, may miss perhaps of a 100 Dollar Prize, not being able it is possible then to get a Ticket.
TO BE SOLD,
Three LOTS of LAND in Barrington, all adjoining, being Number 252, 253, 254, and in the Sixth Range, containing about 230 Acres.—Enquire of the Printers.
Custom-House, Piscataqua, Aug. 1.
   Inward Entries, From.     Schooner Greyhound, Abraham Trefethen, Clear'd for Departure Quebec.   Brig Mary, Matthew Bell, FOR.   Brig William, Daniel Evans, West-Indies.   Schooner Merriam, Robert White, Ditto.   Sloop Ballard, Peletiah Smith, Ditto.   Sloop Sally, James Budd, Ditto.   Sloop Polly, Robert Olds, New-York.   Ship Plaffey, Charles Henzell, New-Haven.   LONDON.  
TO BE SOLD
By John Moffatt
at his Store on his Wharfe,
Cables of sundry Sizes from 4 to 10 or 11 Inches, a Suit of Cordage which has been wore, fit for a Ship of 170 or 180 Tuns: Likewise Tortuga and St. Martin's Salt, and sundry Sorts of English GOODS:
Daniel Pierce, Jr.
Has just imported by Captain CLAP, from LONDON, a very great ASSORTMENT of GOODS, which he is determined to SELL at the very lowest Price for CASH, at his Shop near the State-House, and almost opposite the Post-Office, formerly improved by Mr. Samuel Bowles. The Particulars whereof, will be in our next.
TO BE SOLD BY Daniel Marquand,
Of Newbury-Port,
A Tract of choice LAND, about Sixty Acres, laying at a Place called Mair's Point in Brumswick. Whoever inclines to purchase the same, are desired to apply to said Marquand, who will give a warrantee of said Land.
AS the SUBSCRIBER proposes to leave this Town in a few Weeks, he ONCE more desires those who are indebted to him, or the late Company of Little and Jackson, to make immediate Payment, that he may with Ease effect his intended Removal: Those who neglect complying with the above before his Departure, are desired to settle the same with Mr. Samuel Hale, junr.
John Jackson.
N. B. A Pair of good Fire Buckets and Bags to be disposed of.
Province of New Hampshire.
THIS is to give Notice to the Proprietors of MIDDLETOWN, that there is a TAX of Twenty Eight Shillings Lawful Money, voted and assessed on each Right, for building a Meeting House, and defraying other Charges, necessary to the fulfilment of the Charter of said Township. I therefore desire the said Proprietors to pay the above Sum, each of them to me, at my House in S. merworth, on or before the 20th Day of August next, otherwise I shall notify their Land for sale, as the Law directs in such Cases.
Somersworth, July 30. Charles Baker, Collector.
Stray'd or Stolen from the Subscriber, on the 27th July last, a red MARE, with a white Face, and white Rings round her Ears, four Years old, Paces and Trots kindly, 13 & half hands high, has white hind Feet. Whoever takes up said Mare shall be handsomely Rewarded; if Stole and the Thief detected, with said Mare, a Reward of 4 Dollars will be given, and all necessary Charges paid.
Newmarket, Aug. 1. Samuel Chapman.
HIS Majesty's Post-Master-General, having (for the better facilitating of Correspondence between Great-Britain and America) been pleased to add a Fifth PACKET-BOAT to the Station between Falmouth and New-York: NOTICE is hereby given, That the Mail for the future will be closed at the Post-Office in New-York, at Twelve of the Clock at Night, on the first Tuesday in every Month, and dispatched by a Packet the next Day for Falmouth. By Command of the
D. Post-Master-General, ALEXANDER COLDEN, Secry. New-York, Jan. 22, 1771.
On Tuesday the 27th August
next, at ten in the Morning, will be sold by public Vendue, to the highest Bidder or Bidders, at the House of James Steedly, Esq; Issuer in Portsmouth;
Sundry Lots of common Land, laying in the Township of Barnstead, viz. No. 97, 98, and 30, in the first Division or Home Lots, 60 Acres in a Lot. Also, No. 36, 41, 39 and 32, in the second Division in said Barnstead, containing one hundred Acres or more, in a Lot, champion Land. Also, the Commons adjoining to No. 64 in the 2d Division, adjoining to the Lot Richard Sinclair now lives on, parted only by a four Rod Road, containing by estimation 100 Acres. Also, the common or undivided Lands, adjoining to the Lots, No. 16, 9, 8, and 7, as laid down in the Plan. The above said common Lands are ordered to be sold in order to pay Richard Jennells, and John M'Duffee, Esq's for making a Road or High Way, thro' said Barnstead. The overplus Money, if any, to be appropriated or applied to such Uses as the Propriety shall order. By Order and agreeable to a Vote of the Proprietors. Benjamin Adams, Newington, July 28th, 1771. Benjamin Colbath, Richard Downing, Com. mittee.
TO BE SOLD
By Peter Pearse,
At his Shop near the Parade in Portsmouth BROAD Cloths of different colours, with trimmings, Plains, fine Bath Coatings, Blanketing, Baizes, Ruggs, Shalloon, Stuffs: an Assortment of Irish Linnens, Sheetings, Dowlas, Russia Linnen, Crates of Ware, Gloucester and Cheshire Cheese, English Loaf Sugar, Sheeps wool, cotton Wool, Powder, Shot and Flints, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, Pepper, Indigo, Mens and Womens worsted & cotton Stockings, Linen Shoes, Barcelona Handkerchiefs, writing Paper, check Linnen, Ozenbrigs, Leather Breeches, Wool Cards, Sythes, Stock Locks, Kippens Snuff, Bunting, Thickset, Fustin, and Jeans, Knives and Forks, Scizars, metal and mohair Buttons, Twist, sewing Silk, Pins, Needles, Buckles, Cork Screws, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. the above Articles he will sell as cheap as can be bought in Portsmouth. Some of them were lately imported directly from the Makers.
John Stavvers,
Who at a very great Expence, has supported a STAGE COACH, Post Chaise, &c. for several Years past, between Portsmouth and Boston, informs the Public, That one or either of these Carriages, will as usual, continue to ply between these two Places once a Week, to set out from the Earl of Halifax Tavern every Tuesday Morning, which is kept by said Stavvers in Pitt Street, Portsmouth, and from Boston every Friday Morning, and be in Town again on Saturdays. A careful Driver will always be provided, and both Carriages and Horses kept in such Order, that Nothing but some unforeseen Accident, shall at any Time give Hindrance, or by any Means retard the Journey.
The Public, after taking these Matters into serious Consideration, and at the same Time reflecting, with what Difficulty, Expence, Discouragements, and very little, if any profit, said Stavvers, when no other Person would undertake it, surmounted every Obstruction, and through Heat and Cold, Rain and Snow Storms, push'd forward, at Times when every other Conveyance fail'd, to bring and carry his passengers, as also the Mails of Letters and News Papers—will now give his Coach the Preference, which he thinks it intitled to, before any others, whose Drivers, big with Importance, new and flitting Coaches, expect mighty Things—However he wishes great Success to their Undertakings, but thinks it would have been full as generous to have omitted (what the first Snow Storm will frighten them into) or at least taken Days and a Road, separate from the Stage-Coach, Number One.
Stationary
OF all SORTS, sold very cheap At the Stationary SHOP on the Parade.

XI. True Learning approaches to Immortality of Duration.
The excellency and glory of Learning appears from the sublime idea of it, that it corresponds with the noblest passions of the human soul; & the ultimate end to which he aspires; I mean, immortality, or eternity of duration. 'Tis the strong passion for immortality that excites men to wish to leave behind them an illustrious posterity, an honourable family, fine buildings, magnificent monuments, and finally, all things that are the object of human wishes. But we always find that master-pieces of art and genius are of much longer duration than the works & labours of mens hands. Have not HOMER's poems lasted two thousand seven hundred years, without the loss of one line? and in the space of these twenty-seven hundred years, innumerable palaces, temples, fortresses, cities, and mighty empires, have sunk into ruins, or vanished like fleeting clouds, dissolved by the breath of Boreas. HOMER's genius lives, and his works are spread through all civilized nations; but where are the proud walls of Troy, or the mighty heroes he celebrates? The works of HERODOTUS exist, and are read by thousands of the brightest men in the world; but where are the empires, and the powerful warriors he describes? The writings of THUCYDIDES are the admiration of all men of taste and learning; but where are the states of Greece, and valiant commanders he records? In short, such is the duration and immortal glory of Learning, that it has outlived the most powerful kings, the most valiant captains the most numerous armies, the most formidable and terrible navies and the most magnificent cities in the universe. Where is proud Babylon with her lofty towers? Where is Tyre with her impregnable walls? Where are the grand cities of Nineveh and Persepolis? All buried in everlasting darkness and dust! and even the statutes of the mighty Alexanders and Cæsars are ruined and lost: But the works of genius and learning survive the ruins of the most strong and extensive empires, and are never to perish but in the last grand conflagration; they will not cease but with the dying groans of expiring nature.
† These remarks may be applied to the Elements of Euclid, which is the most glorious repository of eternal truth that ever was produced in the whole heathen world! to the writings of Plato, Demosthenes, Xenophon, Pindar, Livy and Virgil, Pliny and Plutarch.
Hatts of all kinds, Made and Sold by John Beck,
As usual, at the Sign of the Hatt and Bever, in Queen Street, Portsmouth.
Notice is hereby given to the Proprietors of Sanbornton, that at their legal Meeting, held at the House of Captain Josiah Robinson, Innholder in Exeter, April 8, 1771, a Tax of Nine Shillings Lawful Money, was voted on each original Right of Land, in said Township, to forward the settlement of said Town, which Tax is committed to me to collect: Those who neglect paying the aforesaid Sum, by the 2d Day of September next, to me at my House in Exeter, will have their Rights Advertised for sale, agreeable to Law. David Fogg, Collector.
Six Months from the 22d of August next, being a further Allowance for the Creditors to the Estate of Abner Harriman, late of Plaistow, in the County of Rockingham, deceased, to bring in and prove their respective Claims - The Commissioners to said Estate will attend for that purpose, at the House of Mr. John Hall's Innholder in said Plaistow, upon the third Tuesday of September next, and the four following Months, from 3 to 7 of the Clock, P. M. upon each of said Days. Dated July 26: 1771.
Blanks of most sorts, sold at the Printing-Office, near the State-House.
I the Subscriber, having purchased the Excise on Spirituous Liquors, of the Province of New Hampshire, for the Year 1771, hereby give NOTICE, that I will attend to receive the said Excise, the second and third Days of September next, at my House in Goff's Town. The fourth at Stephen Holland's, Esq; in Londonderry. The fifth at John Webster's, Esq; in Chester. The Sixth from Noon, to the End of the Seventh, at Capt. Samuel Folsom's, in Exeter. From the Ninth to the Twentieth, at Noon, at Capt. Jacob Tilton's, in Portsmouth, Sunday's excepted. I determine to be punctual as to Attendance, and hope all concerned, will not fail to meet me with their Accounts, prepar'd agreeable to Law, and the Method prescribed last Year, at some one of said Places:—Should any neglect to attend, they may justly expect Severity, as I am determined to spend less Time and Money the present Year, then I did the last. I must beg to be troubled with no such lumping and uncertain Accounts, as some offered last Year, and am determined not to receive any such Accounts, tho' sworn to; and hope all those Gentlemen of fair Minds, will not be offended at this Resolution, as I find it is absolutely necessary from some late Settlements, which has been made and swore to a second Time, the last Account differs very widely from the first. I have made some further Discoveries, which will make it necessary to have some of last Years Accounts corrected: Hence it appears that unless Accounts are settled with great Care, the Province will be greatly injured, nor will the Excise Master ever know when he has done settling. THEREFORE I chuse to settle them myself, unless the last Years Form be complied with that particular Oath.
SAMUEL BLODGET.
On Wednesday the 4th Day of September next, will be sold by public Vendue, at the House of Capt. Jonathan Gilman, Innholder in Exeter, ( unless sold at private sale ) on easy Terms of payment, a large and convenient Dwelling-House, Barn Wood-House, Warehouse, and Wharfe, about 35 Rods of Land, with a fine Well, &c. all lying in Exeter, pleasantly situated and convenient for a Trader or a Taverner, &c. Also, 20 Acres of choice Land, lying on the Road leading from said Exeter to Hampton, within one Mile of Exeter Great Bridge. Also two thirds of a Grist Mill, the Iron Work of a Saw Mill, the greatest part of a new Frame of a Saw Mill, with three Acres of Land, lying at a place called King's Falls, within two Miles of said Bridge, all being the Property of THOMAS PARSONS, of Exeter aforesaid, who having fully determined to remove soon into the Country, 70 Miles from said Exeter, therefore takes Leave in this short Method, to desire all those who have Accounts with him un-settled, or are indebted to him by Note or otherwise immediately to settle the same, or he must leave them with an Attorney for that purpose.
THESE are to notify the Proprietors of the Township of WENTWORTH, in New Hampshire, that at a legal Meeting of said proprietors, held at the House of Jonathan Greeley's Innholder in Kingston, on the 27th of March last, the sum of two Pounds Eight Shillings, Lawful Money, was voted to be raised on each original Right, for the following purposes, to build a Grist Mill this present Year, and to make good the Great Province or public Road, that leads from Portsmouth to Coos through said Town, &c. &c. &c. and have chosen me the subscriber to collect the same; These are to give Notice to said proprietors that unless they pay the said Sum, to me at my House in Salisbury in the Massachusetts, at or before the first of September next, their Lands will be Advertised for sale, agreeable to the Laws of said New Hampshire. Salisbury, July 4, Joseph Page.
JOHN HICKEY, LIVING near the Canoe Bridge, gives this Notice, that he will Dye and Press Hemipum Cloth, after this Date, as cheap as is done in Kittery or Stratham. Any Person that understands the Cloathers Business, and wants to Hire a Mill, with all Utensils, may hear of one by enquiring of said Hickey. Portsmouth, July 24th, 1771.
Gillam Butler, INFORMS his Customers and others, That he has remov'd his Shop to the House lately improv'd by the late Major Shackford, in the Street that leads from the Town Wharf to Mr. Sherburne's Wharf, Where he has to sell, a good Assortment of Goods, which are sold on the very lowest Terms, as cheap as at any Store in Town without Exception.
Province of New-Hampshire, Concord, July 4, 1771 WHEREAS Application hath been made to me the Subscriber, Clerk for the Proprietors of the Township formerly known by the Name of Rumford or Pennecock, by said proprietors, Owners of more than a Tenth part of all the common and undivided Land in said Township, to notify and warn a Meeting of said proprietors to meet at the Meeting House, in that part of Rumford, lately incorporated by the Name of Concord, on Monday the 29th of Juy current, at one of the Clock in the Afternoon, then and there to act on the following particulars, v z First, To chuse a Moderator, Assessors and Collectors. Second, To vote a Tax on each Right sufficient to pay their part of Expence, that may be supposed to arise in completing a Settlement with the proprietors of Bow, and others holding Lands under them, within said Rumford. Also, with the proprietors of Mason's Patent and the proprietors of Canterbury. Third, To chuse a Committee to make a final Settlement with said proprietors and others abovementioned, if it can be done on the Terms proposed by the proprietors of Bow, and consented to at their Meeting in April last, and likewise the Terms proposed by Mason's propriety. Fourth, To see what the proprietors will do respecting their Note which some of them gave to Joseph Hall, or order, as security to defray their part of Expence, that might arise by prosecuting or defending any Law suit commenced, or to be commenced by the proprietors of Bow, against the proprietors of Rumford. Fifth, To see if they will dismiss their Committee lately chosen to settle Accounts between the proprietors and the Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker, Benjamin Rolf, Esq; and the Survivors of the Committee chosen by the said proprietors to lay out the common Land, and chuse another Committee to settle with the said Walker, Rolf, and the Survivors of the Committee to lay out Land as aforesaid. Sixth, To see if the proprietors will vote to have Benjamin Rolf, Esq; their former Clerk deliver the proprietors Books, to John Kimball, their present Clerk. In pursuance of which Application, I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors of said Rumford, to meet at the Time and place above mentioned, for the Ends and Purposes aforesaid. per JOHN KIMBALL, Prop's Clerk,
James M'Master, And Company,
NOTIFIES their Customers and others, that they have just now opened at their Store in Portsmouth, an elegant Assortment of English, India and Scotch GOODS, consisting of a variety of Articles, well assorted — Of not filling up the News Paper with the several Articles, it is presum'd will be of no Disadvantage or Hindrance, for which it is a general Opinion, where People can be served Nigh without being at the Trouble and Expence of going Further, hest'd will prefer the abovementioned Store with their Custom, where due Attendance is given in order of quick Dispatch. After first Word no Abatement, and likewise Customers will be supplied with Goods, as cheap if not lower than in Boston, or any other Where, as they endeavour to supply Gentlemen and Ladies to their intire Satisfaction. Good POTASH and West India RUM, taken in at the aforesaid Place.
N. B. Said M'Masters earnestly desires all Persons that has Accounts long Standing open, may come and Settle them either to Portsmouth or Boston, any of the two Places they think convenientest, without being put to further Trouble.
Russia Duck,
Ticklinburg, Oznabrigs, Superfine broad CLOTHS, Wiltons, German Serges and Shalloons; NAILS of every size, with a variety of Ironmongery; GLASS of all sizes and in sheets; PAINTS of various colours; Beaver and Beaveret HATTS; All sorts of CLOTHIERS Materials; — FISH - HOOKS, Lines and Leads; — TOBACCO, Leaf, Cut and Pigtail, by the Quantity; CHINA, Glass, Queens color, Stone, Tin and Iron WARE; GRINDSTONES—Best Hyson and Souchong TEA, with a great variety of GROCERY — SHIP CHANDLERY and STATIONARY— English and West-India GOODS, To be Sold by
Thomas Martin, At his Store in Portsmouth, at the lowest CASH Price.