Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1785-08-26 00:00:00

AND GENERAL
THE ADVERTISER.
F R I D A Y,
AUGUST 26, 1785.
PORTSMOUTH: 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. 1504.
THOUGHTS on the Trade between AMERICA and the WEST-INDIA ISLANDS.
By BRYAN EDWARDS, Esquire.
(Continued from our last.)
I AM the more inclined to suspect that government is not rightly informed in this particular, of the exports, because Lord Sheffield, who appears to have been refused no information that office can give, speaks of them in general (the article of rum excepted) as inconsiderable, and of little value. With respect, however, to the imports, it is impossible but that the fullest and most correct information has been obtained; and amongst the numerous accounts collected by his lordship, it would have been a proof of his candour if he had stated also an account of the imports in question to the public, and thereby have rendered this intrusion on their patience unnecessary.
In truth it is the knowledge of the magnitude of the imports from the United States (seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling laid out in such cheap and bulky commodities as provisions and lumber!) that chiefly demonstrates the mockery of referring the disappointed planter to Canada and Nova-Scotia. Even if nature had not, as unfortunately she has, shut up the navigation from the former of these provinces six months in the year, and devoted the latter to everlasting sterility; there is this plain reason in the nature of things that forbids the planter to look to those countries for effectual relief. "It is inconsistent with the nature of commerce, to furnish an adequate supply to so vast and so various a demand; coming immediately and unexpectedly. The demand and the supply must grow up together, mutually supporting, and supported by each other." It will require a long series of years to bring them to a level.
This principle applies too in a great degree, as well to England; as to our few remaining provinces in North-America. I will suppose, however, that Great-Britain can actually furnish the chief of those articles which the planters formerly obtained from the United States, yet it must be remembered, that the price of them in Europe, from the advance of freight only, will at least be doubled. The freight of lumber, even from North-America, a short and safe passage, is a moiety of the first cost of the goods. Nevertheless (as was well observed by a noble Earl in the House of Lords) "it is the readiness and cheapness of the navigation that supports the intercourse. From the vicinity of the American Continent, and the West-India islands to each other, the trade is carried on by small sloops and schooners; nay, even by half-decked boats with two and three men, and perhaps a boy on board of each; the value of one cargo, inconsiderable as it is, being more than sufficient to pay the prime cost of the whole vessel*."
With the advance of freight on goods purchased in Europe, (to say nothing of the augmented cost of the goods themselves) must be reckoned also the loss which the planter will sustain in the sale of his produce. I mean in the difference he will experience between the prices he usually obtained from the American trader (who, dealing on barter, and for a homeward freight, could afford to pay liberally) and those which he is likely to obtain at a glutted market, and subject to enormous duties in Great-Britain. Part of his staple commodities too, as we have shown, if he cannot sell them to America, must remain a dead loss on his hands. It is, therefore, cruelty and insult to tell him of supplies in Great-Britain, if he has not wherewithal to purchase them. There may be corn in Egypt, but there is no money in the sack's mouth.
Under circumstances of such accumulated distress, it is absolutely impossible that nineteen out of twenty of the planters can subsist. If it be asked, How it came that they subsisted during the war, when all immediate intercourse with the associated provinces was cut off? The answer is obvious. They obtained American supplies by means of the prize vessels which were condemned and sold in their ports: and, if this resource proved deficient, the advanced price of West-India produce at the British market, enabled the planter to purchase such articles in Great-Britain, as Great-Britain could supply. The recourse and its alternative no longer exist. And here it may not be improper to shew on what terms the planter was usually supplied at the British market with those commodities which he formerly obtained from North America. An instance or two will suffice. Among other necessaries, flour, and packages for rum, constituted two important articles. Of the flour, a
third, at least, perished before it reached its place of destination; and with regard to puncheons for containing rum, it is to be observed, that pipestaves from the Baltick, though affording the necessary material, are not prepared for the use of the West-Indies; being too long for a single puncheon, and not long enough for two; neither are they properly manufactured in other respects. The planter was compelled, therefore, to purchase ready made puncheons in Great-Britain; the average price of which, during the war, was about twenty shillings each*, to which add six shillings for freight, insurance, and charges, and the whole expence on delivery in the West-Indies, exclusive of the iron hoops, was 26s. sterling. Now the whole cost in the West-Indies of the same article, prepared from American staves, was usually about 11s. only. Some part of this expence, however, was repaid; but it is no exaggeration to aver, that in this instance alone, trifling as it may appear, by importing their rum-packages from Great-Britain instead of America, the islands sustained a loss of at least 50,000l. sterling per annum. From hence some judgment may be formed what little dependance, even the most opulent of the West-India planters, can place on the Mother Country for the supply of necessaries. The recourse itself is ruinous in the extreme.
The preceding observations have, I trust, fully obviated the first objection above stated, and anticipated in some measure an answer to the second. I most readily admit that Great-Britain is of right entitled to the monopoly of the produce of her West-India possessions, as long as she continues to them the monopoly of her market. This reciprocal obligation I consider as founded on an implied convention, on the faith of which the sugar islands were settled; but I contend that a vent in America (though no longer a part of the British dominion) of those articles of their produce, for which the demand in Great-Britain seldom affords a saving price, may very reasonably be requested. For not tending in the smallest degree to the prejudice of the mother country, it cannot surely be considered as a breach of that convention which I have supposed to subsist between her and her children. It were indeed strange policy in a parent state to deprive her colonies of any resource, the loss of which though an injury to them, is productive of no advantage to herself, nor can any contract warrant so extensive an interpretation. Sugar, indigo, cotton wool, dying woods, &c. being raw materials, for which Great-Britain affords a sufficient demand, she may perhaps, properly enough confine to her own market; but all or most of the remaining West-India products ought to lie under no such restriction; and I shall offer some reasons to prove, that the principal staple, sugar , ought to be allowed a free export to America as heretofore, even in point of true policy on the part of Great-Britain.
It is incontestibly true, that if the Americans are not permitted to purchase this article from our own islands, they will obtain it from those of France. We are told indeed by Lord Sheffield, that "neither Holland nor France will suffer the American States to carry sugar from their ports in the West-Indies;" but unless his lordship alludes to some recent regulation of those governments of which I have not heard, he will find it difficult to reconcile this assertion with that which immediately precedes it, in the same page and in the same paragraph of his book. "The difference of price, says his lordship, between French, Danish, and Dutch, and British West-India sugar, was so great, that above two thirds of the sugar imported into America came from the foreign islands." This indeed I believe, and whether such sugar was imported clandestinely from the foreign islands, or otherwise, it is a circumstance of which Great-Britain ought certainly to avail herself, by encouraging as much as possible the Americans to deal with her own sugar islands, for this article among others, instead of laying out their money with the French, the Danes and the Dutch. It seems not to be sufficiently understood, that every addition to the prosperity of our sugar islands is absolutely and entirely an augmentation of the national wealth. Envy perhaps may not be willing to allow this, and ignorance may not comprehend it; but such is the fact.—It is to Great-Britain, and to Great-Britain alone, that our West-India planters think themselves belonging.—It is here that their children are educated; their wealth centres here, and it is here that their affections are fixed. Even such of them as have resided in the West-Indies from their birth, look on the islands as a temporary abode only, and the fond notion of being soon able to
go home (as they emphatically term a visit to England) year after year animates their industry and alleviates their misfortunes; of which by the bye, no people on earth have received a greater share from the hand of omnipotence than themselves. On what principle then of reason or justice, are we called upon to deprive these colonies, thus attached to us by every tie of interest and affection, of any one advantage in the disposal of their produce, which is not immediately prejudicial to ourselves? Are we by mistaken prohibitions to compel their old customers, the Americans, to deal with foreigners, whether they incline to do so or not? Very different was the policy of our former system; for why was a duty of five shillings per cent. levied on sugars of foreign growth, imported into North America, while that of our own islands was admitted duty free? evidently that the tax on foreign sugars might operate as a bounty on our own. This system it is true, has ceased with the allegiance of America; nevertheless, if the vessels of the United States are freely admitted into our West-India ports, it is probable, in the assortment of their homeward freight, that sugar will still constitute some part of their cargoes. I believe in truth, a small part. But whatever may be its amount, the value of it, if sugar itself is prohibited, must be paid in ready money, which will afterwards probably find its way to those plantations where a wiser policy prevails. It follows therefore, and the fact undoubtedly is, that as we restrain our own sugar islands, we support and encourage, in the same degree, those of our rivals and enemies, the French.
I am not unapprised of that narrow selfish argument, that the British revenue will be injured by the export of our sugar to North-America; but judging of the future by the past, I maintain, that the plenty of sugar at the English market, as it has always kept, so it always will keep pace with the reduced price of necessaries in our sugar plantations, and the ease with which labour there, is upheld and promoted. It is not the sale of an inconsiderable portion of their great staples to the North Americans, that ultimately lessens its general exports to Great-Britain. On the contrary, by a reduction in the planters annual expence, an advantage which he owes to an immediate, and therefore beneficial exchange of commodities (sugar among the rest) with America, a desire of improving and extending his possessions, urges him to new undertakings; his ambition is awakened; his faculties expand, and cultivations increase with a rapidity unknown to the cautious inhabitant of the colder clime, and less vigorous soil of Europe. Thus it is, that the islands will gratefully repay the generous indulgence of their parent. By permitting a direct exportation of sugar to America, the will soon find a proportionate increase of the same staple, at her own emporium; while the consumption of her manufactures will enlarge with the augmentation of her navigation and revenues. The improvements that were visible in the island of Jamaica within the short space of fifteen years, previous to the late unfortunate war, establish the truth of this reasoning beyond all contradiction. They may be judged of from this, that in 1757 the import of sugar into the port of London, from that island, was 24,494 hogheads; in 1772, it had risen to 45,889 hogheads! Let us now no longer be told, that an exportation of that commodity to North America is prejudicial to the revenues of Great-Britain!
I come now to the loudest of all the objections that have been urged against the establishment of a liberal intercourse with the Americans; namely, the supposed danger of their engrossing the navigation and carrying-trade of this kingdom; on which, however, it is sufficient to observe, with respect to our sugar colonies, that the argument whereon this objection is founded (if I rightly comprehend its meaning) takes for granted what yet remains to be proved; since it implies, that the admission of American vessels into our West-India ports allows them also a free trade from thence to Great-Britain. But assuredly this does not necessarily follow. Whether it may be prudent in Great-Britain to consent to so liberal an extension of her navigation laws, is a question of general policy, whereon it would be presumptuous in the West-India planters to offer their opinion. Impressed with the dread of impending evils, they confined themselves, to their own particular situation, requesting only, that America may be permitted, as formerly to bring them food, and such other necessaries as Great-Britain herself cannot furnish. They are told that "Canada and Nova Scotia shall satisfy their wants." We have demonstrated the folly of this expectation. "But Great-Britain claims the monopoly of their produce." It has been shown that she will still possess it to every beneficial purpose. Obstacles,
* Lord Alvingdon's Speech, July 15, 1783.
* The price is now 18s.

...al terms, that I really believe, many will maintain who have grown hoarse in repeating it, have no idea of its meaning to this hour. If the sense of it be this, that American ships will supply foreign markets with British plantation sugar, to the prejudice of the British refinery ; the noble author of whom I have made frequent mention, and who has clearly given it this interpretation has himself furnished an answer; for he repeatedly affirms, that the French islands can supply, not only the American consumption, but that of all Europe besides, on far cheaper terms than our own. Does the noble Lord suppose, that America will buy dearer , with a view to sell cheaper , than the French? Their past conduct has afforded no proof of such egregious folly. I must observe too, that our islands have already permission (by 12 Geo. II.) to send sugar to the southward of Cape Finisterre; yet, during a residence of 15 years in the West Indies, I never heard of but two vessels that tried the experiment, and the owners had no encouragement to repeat it. If the objection signifies, what I believe it was meant to signify, on the debate of Mr. Pitt's provisional bill; namely, that American ships, having discharged their cargoes in the West India islands, will enter into a Competition with British vessels loading there, for freight to Great Britain ; it is, I confess, a matter deserving consideration; but Great Britain surely may administer a preventive less dangerous in its effects than the project of starving her sugar colonies, by interdicting all intercourse whatever between them and the United States. The disease, in this case, is, indeed, by far the lesser evil.
(To be concluded in our next.)
L O N D O N,
June 6. Yesterday being the first day of the shop tax, the retail dealers of this metropolis, agreeable to their previous resolution, observed it as a day of general mourning. There was darkness over all the land; the most part were wholly closed; in some places, only, they were partially opened. On one shutter was piously scrawled in chalk, Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Pitt! Another exhibited, A good king and a wise minister, for ever! And in all quarters of the town were to be read, No Pitt; No tax on trade; No tax on shops; No diabolical shop tax, &c. &c. We observed upon one window a paper importing that the Shop was to be let , and a direction was given To enquire of Mr. Premier, in Downing Street ; but the most happy perhaps was a short intimation of Gone to Ireland! On one of the churches in the Strand, some christianly spirit had written, Hang Pitt! Burn Pitt! which had drawn the following couplet from a gingling genius, whose poetry seems not quite equal to his patriotism:
Let Pitt be hang'd on any tree,
But only burn his effigy.
Some persons hung out crape bat-bands , and other ensigns of sorrow; while others, more ingenious, turned artist on the occasion, and exhibited caricatures of Mr. Pitt hanging on walls in company with certain vulgar hieroglyphics , to which it is said, the Premier bears no very passionate attachment.
It is said that Mr. Adams, the American ambassador, was so embarrassed at his first audience as not to pronounce the compliment prescribed by etiquette.—The great person before whom he stood, very good-naturedly passed by the omission, and told him, that tho' it could not be a pleasing circumstance to receive an embassy from those who were once his subjects, yet as the right was insured to them by treaty, he Mr. Adams, might depend upon being treated with every mark of regard and protection.
Extract of a letter from Paris, June 3.
“Dr. Franklin, having seen his successor installed in his diplomatic functions, is preparing to return to Philadelphia. As he cannot bear the fatigue of a carriage, he will embark at Seine, which runs before his house at Passy, and go to Rouen, and from thence to Havre, where the ship is getting ready that is to carry him to America.”
Extract of a letter from Dunkirk, June 7.
“An American ship, the Virginia Packet, Captain Steane, from Maryland, is seized here for a contraband trade; and, as is customary all the crew sent to prison. The American Minister will probably be favoured with a release of the people, but ship and cargo are forfeited.”
June 17. The principal object of Mr. Adams's mission to the British court, is to restore the intercourse between the United States and the British islands in the West Indies. His ability to gain this point is much confided by Congress—And it is an incontrovertible fact, that both the United States, and the British islands, equally desire it, and stand in great need of it.—The States know not where to send all their provisions and lumber; the islands, not where to get these articles. An intercourse, under certain regulations, is for the interest of both. Some time ago, the West-India merchants solicited our Ministers to grant this intercourse, but met with a refusal. Whither the address of Mr. Adams will have better fortune, time will shew.
June 18. Yesterday a man was observed by Mr. Haynes, one of the officers belonging to the gentleman under the black rod to write the following lines on the door of the Court of Request.
Wat Tyler now is dead, And brave fellow in his stead; Or Pitt this day would loose his head!”
Mr. Adams the new American Minister, is to dine with Mr. Pitt on Thursday next, at the Treasury; after which his Excellency will be treated by all the other Cabinet Ministers in their turn.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Savannah, in Georgia.
“The people are as poor as the bitterest of their enemies could wish them, a few foreigners excepted; hardly a man in the place can afford a bottle of wine; the state wished to send a member to Congress, but
hour called the British merchants together, and told them, that he must require them to raise among themselves 300 guineas to send the members to Congress, and that he would make a point of having confiscated property sold to repay them. There is little or no trade; the merchants will become bankrupts; there are only three ships, two brigs, seven schooners, and two sloops in the state, loading at present, and all bound for British ports. South-Carolina, I understand is in the same predicament.”
N A S S A U, (Bahama) June 18.
About seven weeks since, an immense quantity of mahogany, chiefly belonging to the King, and which had been collecting at the Havana, in order to be sent to Europe, was accidentally destroyed by fire. The loss, publick and private, was estimated at two millions and an half of dollars.
CHARLESTON, (S. C.) July 12.
There are in and near the city of London, 100 almshouses, 20 hospitals and infirmaries, 3 colleges, 10 publick prisons, 15 flesh-markets, 1 ditto for live cattle, 2 for herbs, and 23 for corn, coals, hay, &c. 15 inns of court, 27 publick squares, 49 halls for companies, 8 publick or free schools, 131 charity ditto, which provide education for 5054 poor children; 207 inns, 447 taverns, 551 coffee houses, 5975 ale-houses, 1000 hackney coaches, 400 hackney chairs, 7030 street-lamps, courts and alleys, and 130,000 dwelling-houses, containing 1,000,000 inhabitants.
Provisions consumed annually.—Black cattle 48,244, sheep and lambs 7,125, calves 194,760, swine 186,932, pigs 52,000, poultry and wild fowl innumerable.—Mackerel sold at Billingsgate, 14,740,000; oysters, bushels, 105,536; small boats with cod, haddock, besides great quantities of river and salt fish, 11,398; butter, pounds weight, 1,630,000; cheese, do. 20,000,000; gallons of milk, 5,000,000; barrels of strong beer, 1,172,494; do. small, 798,495; tons of foreign wines, 80,084; gallons of rum, brandy, and other distilled waters, 11,000,000.
R I C H M O N D, (Virginia) July 30.
A few days ago Capt. Lunsford on his way up the river, bound for this place, was hailed by three whitemen in Bewell's bay, whose names were Moore, Butler, and Cowling, on pretence of putting letters on board for Richmond; as soon as they had got on board, they presented a musket at the Captain, and ordered him to bring his vessel to, which he was obliged to comply with, they then ordered one of the men to bring up a trunk of goods which was in the hold, and after breaking it open and examining the contents, put it into their boat with a number of other articles which they plundered the vessel of, after taking as much as they thought necessary, they ordered the Captain to proceed for Richmond, and then left him; Captain Lunsford instead of complying to his orders followed them until he saw their vessel enter Nansemond river, when he immediately proceeded to Hampton, and made complaint to Commodore Barron, who ordered Capt. James, in one of the State boats, to pursue them, as quick as possible. Capt. Lunsford accompanied them, and had the satisfaction that evening to recover the goods, and see the villains properly secured and carried to Hampton, where they now remain in irons till their trial.
N E W - Y O R K, August 8.
The very ancient and highly honourable fraternity of Free Masons in Edinburgh have established a Lodge on a very select plan; it is to be the uniform practice that all orations, nay even the more minute common business, shall be performed in the Latin tongue. The title of the Lodge is the ROMAN EAGLE, Dr. Brown, Master; they have met once, when the business was conducted with the utmost propriety and decorum.
The Irish Congress have broke up, never to meet again. Their debates not having been published, we know not with what degree of unanimity they were carried on: They have published in a very short compass, a plan of Parliamentary reform, which they have recommended in the most earnest manner to the people at large.
Accounts from London mention, that the operation of a late tax upon retail shops has greatly altered the disposition of the people of Great-Britain, in regard of their late favourite Minister, which proving odious and offensive to the nation in the utmost extreme, and following so directly Mr. Pitt's favourite object, the Propositions for regulating the trade of Ireland, which are apprehended to threaten the annihilation of the British manufactures, give cause to apprehend many tumults and insurrections in those parts of the kingdom where the grievance may be most immediately felt. We have received by the Commerce, lately arrived at Philadelphia, some alarming incidents already produced by the forcing down this business, which is like to prove fatal to the political existence of its parent.
A U G U S T 15.
We learn from Kingston, in Jamaica, that Charles Kelly, the seaman that escaped from the Schooner Friendship, on board of which the piracy and murder were committed by Johnson, Keating, and Twentyman, for which Keating suffered, and the latter sentenced to die, is arrived there, and underwent a long examination before three magistrates, in which he made every discovery, and the most ample information for the conviction of Johnson, who is still in goal, and whose trial has been postponed for want of evidence. It is said that he has also related some circumstances of Johnson's cruelty, which have not yet been made publick, and tend greatly to the aggravation of his guilt.
It is reported that a new effort has been made by the King of Spain for the restitution of Gibraltar; but that Mr. Pitt, the British Premier, had put a positive negative upon that requisition.
Other reports are circulating, that great part of the island of Hispaniola has been offered as a compensation for Gibraltar, without effect.
to their exercise determined on a reference to their master, who decided in favour of the junior, which so much irritated the senior, that, when the scholars were dismissed, he seized his competitor, threw him on the ground, and trampled him to death. The unfortunate boy's corps was brought to this city on Friday last.
By the laws of Licurgus, celibacy in men was held infamous, and punished in an extraordinary manner. The bachelor was constrained to walk naked in the dead of winter through the market-place, and to sing a song in disparagement of himself, and never had any of the honors paid him which otherwise belonged to old age. If a man did not marry at the time of life fixed for marriage, he was liable to an action.
A large Swedish ship is arrived at Annapolis, Maryland, from the East-Indies with a valuable cargo.—She was fitted out at Calcutta, and bound to Baltimore, whither she was to proceed when the wind admitted.
It is now confidently asserted, that the British ministry have at length determined to give up the posts on our frontiers, as soon as others can be prepared for the reception of their troops and stores within their own lines, as settled by the treaty of peace. However honest and sincere their intentions may be in this respect, yet they will undoubtedly deprive America of the benefits and advantages that would otherwise accrue to her subjects from the fur trade, in that quarter, this and the ensuing season. A chain of forts, necessary to preserve an extensive communication along their borders, cannot possibly be erected this fall, for, by the time the engineers, who are gone to survey the ground for this purpose, trace the lines and make report, the inclemency of the weather will compel their troops to seek for shelter in winter quarters.
State of New Hampshire.
P UBLIC Notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General Court, by General John Stark, setting forth, that he purchased sundry lots of land lying in this state, of persons who served in the late war with Great-Britain and France, which tracts were granted by the late Governor Benning Wentworth, to those persons pursuant to a proclamation of the King of Great-Britain as a reward for the bravery of those officers in his service during the said war, who at the conclusion thereof were disbanded:—That the lands where those grants took place, are now claimed by gentlemen, called the Masonian Proprietors, who have asserted their claims in such a manner, that he cannot dispose of said lands, nor persuade people to settle them, lest they in future, should not hold them, notwithstanding their grants are considerably above sixty miles from the sea, which is the utmost extent of the Masonian Grant: That the expence and hazard of a law trial with men of their opulence is such a serious matter, that he in this state of life cannot think of entering into, and without the aid of the General Court, must sit down under the loss, wholly occasioned by a set of men who have made a great stride to monopolize great part of this state for a very trifling consideration:—That he would not thus trouble the General Court with an history of this kind, did he not think the state might reap great profit by attending to this matter, and by running out and ascertaining the boundaries of that patent, many thousand acres will be found to belong to no bona fide purchasers, and is really and justly state property, and if properly applied, would redeem a very important sum of our public securities, and do no person any real injury, for it is a matter of great notoriety, that the Masonian Proprietors (so called) in marking out their grant did it ex parte, and have greatly exceeded its just extent. Therefore he, in behalf of himself and the good people of the state, recommends to the General Court, that they take such effectual measures as will ascertain the true boundaries of Mason's patent, which may be done by measuring sixty miles from the mouth of Naumkeag river westward, and sixty miles from the mouth of Piscataqua river northward, and then mark such a line from the two extremes as the grant dictates, as this grant is so precisely bounded there cannot be the least perplexity in marking out its just extent. That an examination into this matter by persons who have the good of the state so much at heart as to induce them to do it with faithfulness, will certainly be attended with many real benefits, and be injurious to no person, if caution is used with respect to bona fide purchasers, and if any claimers appear under any other description, it cannot be thought, they merit favour in distinction to the many poor inhabitants of this state, who have poverty to struggle with, not only to provide for themselves daily bread, but in supporting government.
Upon which petition, the General Court voted, that the hearing on the aforesaid petition, which was to have been before them on the second Thursday of the present session, be heard on the second Wednesday of the next session; and that in the mean time the Secretary be directed to publish the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon six weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest. JOSEPH PEARSON, Dep. Sec'y.
Portsmouth, June 24, 1785.
T O B E S O L D,
(on reasonable Terms)
A VALUABLE Lot of Land, laying on the West Side of the Road leading from Col. Boyd's Mills to Newington; together with the Potter's House on the same. Said Land has a good Brick Yard on it, and will answer for a Potter or Brickmaker. Enquire of WILLIAM COTTON.
Portsmouth, August 24, 1784.

A CORRESPONDENT in your paper observes, it is truly pitiable that the "mind your business," was not more strictly attended to. I am very apprehensive your sage correspondent does not, in the strictest sense apply himself to his own labours, and most probably is attempting to pick the more out of his neighbour's eye while the beam remains in his own. Its truly pitiable indeed, that there are any so degenerated as to direct the most venom'd shafts of satire in a public manner at the characters of those whom they wish to charge with that shameful practice at street-corners. A question arises. Is your correspondent's character the most unspotted? the answer is ready; Touch a galed horse and he will wince.—Your correspondent evidently appears to be out of the way, and not in the paths of that fair goddess, whom he with so much devotion and piety invokes. A jealous disposition, and a dealer of ill-nature is not the most eligible character for a reformer of mankind.—He is therefore advised to regulate his unruly passions, and instead of a jealous and uncharitable temper, put on bowels of compassion, meekness and long suffering, agreeable to the precepts of his Master, to whom he affects to be thought a faithful servant.
NO HYPOCRITE.
HARTFORD, August 15.
The Right Reverend Bishop Seabury has lately made a visit at Middletown, where he received every mark of attention and congratulation from that part of his diocese.—During his stay in that city, one Priest and five Deacons received ordination from his hands.—The first fruits of his labours as a Bishop, and the first episcopal ordinations ever conferred in America.
NORWICH, August 4.
Last week, a child of Mr. John Waterman, of this city died: his death was occasioned by sucking some of the blows of the weed commonly called stinking weed, which is suffered to grow in the publick streets, and which has proved fatal to a number of children in this town and its vicinity. This is mentioned as a friendly caution to parents, hoping they will think proper not to suffer such a baneful weed to grow near their houses, or in the public roads, by which the lives of their children are hourly exposed.
LITCHFIELD, July 26.
A description of the Mineral Waters, west of Saratoga, in a letter from a gentleman who had visited them, to his friend in this town.
"DEAR SIR,
"IN your last, you requested a description of the curious Mineral Springs near Saratoga; I herein comply with your request, as far as my own observations, and the chymical experiments of my friend Doctor T—, during the time we visited them, have enabled me.
"They are eight or nine in number, situated in the Margin of a Marsh, formed by a branch of Kayadarossa Creek, about twelve miles west from the Confluence of Fish-Creek and Hudson's river. They are surrounded by a rock of a peculiar kind and nature, formed by the petrefaction of the water.—One of them, however, more particularly attracts the attention; it rises above the surface of the earth five or six feet in the form of a pyramid:—The aperture in the top, which discovers the water, is perfectly cylindrical, of about nine inches diameter.—In this, the water is about 12 inches below the top, except at the time of its annual discharge, which is commonly in the beginning of Summer.—At all times it appears to be in as great agitation as if boiling in a pot, although it is extremely cold.—The same appearances obtain in other springs, except that the surrounding rocks are of different figures, and the water flows regularly from them.
"By observation and experiment, we found the principal impregnation of the water to be a fossil acid, which is predominant in the taste of the water, and in the taste and smell of the petrified matter about it.—From the corrosive and dissolving nature of the acid, the water acquires a chalybeate property, and receives into its composition a portion of calcarious earth, which when separated, resembles an impure magnesia.—As the different springs have no essential variance in the nature of their waters, but the proportions of the chalybeate impregnation, it is rendered probable that they are derived from one common source, but flow in separate channels, where they have connection with metallick bodies, in greater or less proportions.
"The prodigious quantity of air contained in this water, makes another distinguishing property of it.—This air, striving for enlargement, produces the fermentation and violent action of the water before described. After the water has stood a small time in any open vessel (no tight one will contain it) the air escapes, becomes vapid, and looses all that life and pungency which distinguish it when first taken from the pool.—The particles of dissolved earth are deposited as the water flows off, which, with the combination of the salts and fixt air, concrete and form the rocks about the springs.
"The effect it produces upon the human body is various; the natural operation of it, when taken, is cathartick, in some instances an emetick.—As it is drank, it produces an agreeable sensation in passing over the organs of taste, but as soon as it is swallowed, there succeeds an unpleasant tang, and the eruptions which take place afterward, have a pungency very similar to those produced by the use of cider or beer, in a state of fermentation. I am, &c."
PROVIDENCE, August 22.
Wednesday last, a brig, bound to New-York, took fire off the harbour of Newport, from whence she sailed the same day, and was consumed. The crew got on board another vessel.
The conduct of Capt. Stanhope, commander of the British frigate which lately conveyed a number of transports from Halifax to Boston, to get a supply of live cattle, &c. has been a matter of much conversation in town and country. Captain Stanhope on his arrival at Boston, was treated with the respect due to a stranger, and had attention paid him in all polite companies.—One evening as he was walking in the mall with some of his officers, &c. he was accosted by an American seaman, who, it seems, had during the war, been a prisoner on board of a British man of war, where Capt. Stanhope was then an under-officer, and had been very ill-treated by him;—the American tars have as high notions of honour as the British—he demanded satisfaction of Capt. Stanhope, and, from some answer given by Stanhope, began to attack him; he was seconded by some mess-mates—Stanhope retreated—the seamen pursued—and as they run through the streets a number of boys, &c. collected. Stanhope and his companions, arriving at the door of a friend's house, made a stand and drew their swords.—Some gentlemen, among whom was the High-Sheriff for the County of Suffolk, who happened accidentally to be near by, interposed, dispersed the people and protected the officers. Stanhope, it is said, made a very serious affair of it, and his lively imagination led him to suppose that he was attacked by hundreds; he wrote, it is said, in very high terms to the Governor, and required him to issue a proclamation to apprehend four or five hundred people, who had "assassinated" him the evening before.—In short, his indecent behaviour to his Excellency and some others, caused an enquiry into his conduct, which was found to be inconsistent as a man of honour, and unworthy the commander of a British or any other ship.
BOSTON, August 18.
The London Universal Register, of the 14th June, has the following article:—
"Seest thou a man diligent in business (said Solomon) he shall stand before princes and great men," &c.—Ala-mode John Adams, the American plenipo, formerly, as is said, a disinterested composer of differences, under the name of an attorney; but now laying his head together with cabinet ministers, and holding familiar tete-a-tetes for the publick welfare. What exquisitely fine feelings must have pervaded royal and noble breasts, on seeing a quondam declared rebel in an elevated independent station! but the time is now come, "when the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, when the calf and the lion, and the fating, shall herd together."
It is whispered, that the celebrated Dr. Price is political father confessor to the new plenipo, and has already given him absolution."
AUGUST 22.
A few days ago arrived at New-York, via Jamaica and Philadelphia, the Hon. Temple Luttrell, son of the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Carhampton, and brother to her Royal Highness the Dutches of Cumberland. This gentleman was to embark in a few days for Europe. He is the third of the noble Viscount's sons who has visited our continent.
On the 26th ult. the old American Company of Comedians landed at Annapolis, in Maryland, from the island of Jamaica, where they have performed the last ten years with great reputation. On the coming forward of the late revolution, Messrs. Hallam and Henry, their Managers, were desired by the late honorable and most worthy Peyton Randolph, Esq. first President to the Congress, to remove from the continent untill the Independence of America should be secured and acknowledged.
A L I E !
IT has been most falsely reported about the country, that his Excellency the Governor was very intimate with one Stanhope, Captain of the British frigate Mercury, and that he dined with him on board the ship.—Whether this was reported by Stanhope himself, to induce others to notice him, or by any of those who with to injure the reputation of the Governor, (for the best and most respectable characters have their enemies) we know not; but we do assure the publick, that, let the report have originated either with the one or the other, it is totally false:—The Government has too much penetration to treat such a character as Stanhope's with any more than that civility which his own station requires of him towards all strangers who are titled gentlemen, and such Mr. Stanhope may be called from his station, though not from his conduct.
PORTSMOUTH, August 26.
On Thursday, the 4th instant, departed this life in the 48th year of her age, Mrs. MARY MACCLINTOCK, the amiable Consort of the Rev. Mr. MACCLINTOCK, of Greenland, and the day following her remains were in interred in the presence of a numerous mourning assembly, whose pensive countenances were expressive of the high esteem in which they held the deceased. In her were united, the dutiful and affectionate wife, the tender mother, the generous, hospitable, and faithful friend, the pious and devout christian; exhibiting the most exemplary patience, fortitude and resignation, under a long and distressing languishment, waiting in a joyful hope and earnest desires for her departure to the realms of a blessed immortality. Blessed are the dead that thus die in the Lord.
M A R I N E L I S T! PORT of PISCATAQUA, August 26. ENTERED,
Brig Kitty, Thwing, from St. Domingo. Brig Bee, Fletcher, from St. Eustatia. C L E A R E D, Schooner Polly, Chase, for South-Carolina. Schooner Betsey, Manning, for Martinico. Schooner Sally Peiry, for St. Peters. Sloop Mary, Gunnison, for Tobago.
Dr. COLDSMITH'S Description of a Country. Luxury is taking Place of Innocence. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes. But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd; In nature's simplest charms at first array'd; But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he sinks without one arm to save, The country blooms—a garden and a grave.
From the New-York Journal.
Written Extempore on the Act for the destruction of DOGS.
THE era's come, the thund'ring bolt is hurl'd Which deals destruction to the Canine world: Vain party scribblers prostrate now may lie, For if he barks, the rogue must surely die; The man who's bit most loudly may complain, While stones and dirt shall sanctify his reign, See Modest*****ranging thro' the town, Each honest man shall strive to knock him down: To save their chief, each mongrel whelp's in pain, From Canvass-town up to the Bowery-Lane: But Vain attempts confirm their founded fears: Their tails are couchant, couchant are their ears: See puppies mounted, but to grace my lays, T** on horse back, R** in chaife. Then why should curs, whose venom far exceed The frothy substance of the canine breed, Yelp thro' our streets, nor our resentment feel, While justice calls aloud for bemp and fiel.
State of New Hampshire.
To the Hon. NATHANIEL FOLSOM, Esq. one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace throughout the said State:
HUMBLY show, the subscribers owners of more than one sixteenth part of the lands formerly owned by the Honorable SAMUEL ALLEN, Esquire, deceased, more especially that part of said lands commonly called and known by the name of Mason's Patent, in said State; which lands are now claimed by the Heirs of said Allen, and their Assigns.
That a meeting of said Heirs and their Assigns is necessary for the following purposes, viz
1st. To choose a Moderator. 2d. To choose a Proprietor's Clerk, Assessors, Collectors and any other Officers that may be necessary. 3d. To choose and empower an Agent or Agents in some just and equitable manner to quiet such persons in their settlements as have made in their own right improvements thereon. 4th. To appoint and empower an Agent or Agents to enter and take possession of any Lands belonging unto said Heirs or their Assigns, and also to sell or convey any parcel or parcels thereof, as said Heirs and Assigns may direct at said meeting, and also to prosecute any person or persons, who may embarrass or hinder the cultivation, improvement and quiet possession of said lands or any part or parcels thereof. 5th. To pass a vote for raising such a sum or sums of Money as may be thought necessary for the foregoing or other purposes. 6th. To agree on measures for quieting the Honorable Major General John Sullivan, Esquire, in his claim to certain Lands in Ossipee-Gore. 7th. To agree upon a method for calling meetings in future. 8th. To pass any other vote or votes that may then and there be thought necessary especially to establish the proceedings of any former meeting in the whole or in part. And therefore pray your honor to notify and warn a meeting of said Heirs of the said Samuel Allen, Esq. deceased and their Assigns, to be holden at the dwelling house of James Thurston, inholder in Exeter, in said county of Rockingham, on Monday the 19th day of September next, at three o'Clock, P. M. for the purposes beforementioned.
SAMUEL LAUCHLEN, MOSES DOW, PETER GREEN, NATHANIEL PEABODY.
August 10, 1785.
State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss.
IN pursuance of the above request to me directed, I hereby notify and warn the Heirs of Samuel Allen, Esq. above-named, deceased, and their Assigns, to meet at the place above-mentioned, for the purposes aforesaid.
Given under my Hand the 25th Day of August, Anno Domini, 1785.
NATH'L FOLSOM, Justice Peace throughout the said State.
Strayed or stolen from
out of Col. Samuel Sherburne's Pasture, a large red-roan colour'd HORSE, height not exactly known, supposed to be upwards of ten Years of Age, Trots and Paces, but most natural to a Pace; his Tail is short, and his Back, instead of sinking rises in a Swell somewhat similar to that of a Camel's. Whoever will give intelligence of the above Horse, so that he may be returned to the Printers hereof, shall from them receive a Reward adequate to their Trouble and Time.
T O B E S O L D.
A LARGE well finished HOUSE AND BARN, with out-Buildings, and about six Acres of Land, well situated for a Trader or Tradesman, about a mile and half from Dover Landing, on the main Road leading to Rochester. Also, about fifty Acres of Land within one Mile of said House, now under improvement, for Mowing, Pasture and Tillage, and well-wooded and watered. For Price and Payment, enquire of the Sub-scriber, living in the House.
WILLIAM BROWN.
Dover, August 3, 1785.

A WORD to the WISE is enough.
(Published by particular desire of a Correspondent.)
THERE's a report the General Court, To regulate the lawyer, Of late in fact have pass'd an act, But quite forgot the Lawyer.
Whose avarice is such a vice, The country scarce can bear ; Whose fees and words (as well as boards) Should all be brought to square.
To stop the use, and sad abuse Of all fermented liquor ; Pray make a law, and then we'll saw Our boards a little thicker.
To regulate affairs : state, Requires a close attention ; But to bind some while others run, Is not a good intention.
Good wholesome laws may be a cause Of curbing depravation ; But virtuous ways is what gets praise Unto a state or nation.
(Heniker.)
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Heniker, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, on Thursday the 1st day of September next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Timothy Gibson, Esq. inholder in said town, to pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Names Acres. War Tax. State.   N. R. s. d. q. s. d.    John Logan, jr. 100 5 1 2 2 1 2 5  Daniel Cheney, 6 3 9  James Wilson, 100 7 1 1 3 0 1 5  William Holmes, 87 10 1 1 3 0 1 5  John Duncan, 100 11 1 1 3 0 1 5  Minterial Lot, 100 13 1 1 0 3 1 9  Law Lot, 100 19 1 1 3 0 1 5  John Logan, jr. 100 6 2 1 10 2 2 1  John Barr, 100 17 2 1 6 3 1  Ditto, 100 9 5 1 6 3 1  Robert Cockran, 100 18 2 1 3 0  George Duncan, 100 19 2 1 3 0  Hugh Wilson, 50 3 3 0 11 1  Nathaniel Aiken, 38 1 4 0 7 2  Ja. Wilson, south 100 6 4 1 10 2  John Scoby, 100 18 4 0 10 2  Alex. M c Murphy 100 19 4 1 6 3  James Humphrey, 50 4 0 0 11  James Ewens, 50 18 6 0 11 1 1 0  John Taggot, 40 11 8 0 6 0 0 7  John M c Colin, 50 18 9 0 7 2 0 8  George Duncan, 50 19 9 0 1 1 1 1  Common Land, 100 0 11 1 0 1 1 5  Ditto, 100 6 12 1 0 1 1 5  Joseph Bell, 38 11 0 0 0 0 7  Law Lot, 100 12 1 0 2 2 1  John M c Colin, 100 19 12 0 7 2 0 8  William Eayrs, 100 2 4 1 10 2 3 1  Joseph Wilson, 50 10 8 1 3 0 1 5  W. Rogers, south 18 11 0 4 2 0 4  James Smith, 100 2 1 10 2 2 1  Robert Livingston, 25 7 3 5 2 0 6  
JOSE H AM DEN, Collector.
Heniker, August 2, 785.
[ Raby. ]
HILLSBOROUGH, fs.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Owners of non-resident Land in Raby, who are delinquent in paying their Taxes and incidental Charges, on or before Wednesday the xth Day of October next, so much of their Land be sold at Vendue, on said Day, at the House of Capt. Samuel Douglass, Inholder in said Raby, at One o'Clock, Afternoon, as will pay said Taxes and Charges : The Taxes are as follow :
   Names No. Acres. State-Tax. War-Tax.   f. d. q. f. d. q.    John Davidson, 100 7 6 1 11 0 2  Simeon Gillson, 58 1 0 1 4 5  Abraham Morle, 60 3 9 2 5 6 1  Common Land, 50 2 9 2 5 6 1  Com. Land, No 1 150 10 10 0 14 3 3  where Pattinlives  
JAMES MCINTOSH, Constable.
Raby. August 18, 1785.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of George Knight, late of Durham, in the County of Strafford, joint, deceased, are desired to make immediate payment, and all Persons having Demands on said Estate, are desired to exhibit them for Settlement, to the Subscriber, Executrix of the last Will and Testament of the said Deceased. SUSANNAH KNIGHT.
DURHAM, July 26, 1785.
TOBACCO.
I HAVE just received from Virginia a quantity of Excellent Tobacco, which is ready for Sale by the Hhd. or Retail.—Also, N. England Rum, pr. the Cask, of a very good Quality—Choice Bohea Tea pr. dozen (warranted good) Naval Stores, &c. &c.
N. McIntire.
Portsmouth, August 5, 1785.
TO BE SOLD, A few CASKS of Excellent Fresh Raisins, By SAMUEL PENHALLOW, jr.
ALL Persons having Demands on the Estate of PETER FRENCH, Esq. late of Durham, deceased, are desired to exhibit their Claims, and those indebted, are requested to make immediate payment to NATHANIEL FRENCH, Administrator. Sandown, August 18, 1785.
WE the Subscribers being appointed Commissioners, by the Honorable Charles Johnston, Esq. Judge of the Probate Court in said County, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors of the Estate of John Young, late of Hanover, in the County aforesaid, Esquire, deceased, represented insolvent, and six Months from the Date hereof being allowed for that Purpose ; do hereby give Notice, that we shall attend that Business, on the third Tuesdays of the six following Months, from Ten of the Clock in the Morning, to Five in the Afternoon, each of said Days, at the Dwelling-House of Mrs. Fisk, Inholder in Haverhill, in said County, except the Third Tuesday of November, at which Time we shall attend at the Dwelling-House of Col. Ebenezer Brewster, Inholder at Hanover aforesaid.
ASA PORTER, EZEKIEL LADD, DANIEL STEVENS, } Commissioners Haverhill, 28th of July, 1785.
To be Sold at Public Vendue,
On Tuesday the 30th Day of AUGUST inst. at Two o'clock P. M. at the House of GEORGE LIBBEY. Inholder in Greenland, about SIXTY ACRES of choice LAND, with a HOUSE, BARN and a good ORCHARD on the same, pleasantly situated on Winnecott River, together with a Tide MILL on said River, lately the property of JOHN JOHNSON and WINTHROP JOHNSON of Greenland :—Any Person inclining to Purchase, may view the Premises and know conditions of Sale by applying to DAVID SIMPSON or JOSEPH WIGGINS. Greenland, August 10, 1785.
ALL Persons having any Demands against the Estate of EPHRAIM FOLSOM, late of Durham, deceased, are desired to exhibit the same to EPHRAIM PICKERING, Esq. of Newington, Attorney to DOROTHY FOLSOM, Executrix of the last Will of the deceased ; and all Persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to make speedy Payment to said Attorney. August 8, 1785.
ROCKINGHAM, fs.
THE subscribers being appointed commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of JAMES DWYER, late of Portsmouth, in said county, inholder, deceased, represented insolvent, give notice, that six months are allowed said creditors from the 20th of July to bring in their claims, and that attendance will be given to receive the same, at the house of Capt. WILLIAM BREWSTER, inholder in Portsmouth, on the last Wednesdays of the five following months, from 6 to 9 o'clock P. M.
THOMAS MARTIN, JOHN PARKER, SUPPLY CLAP, } Commissioners. Portsmouth, July 28, 1785.
NOTICE is hereby given, that there is to be sold by public Vendue, by the Subscriber, Collector of Taxes of the Parishioners of the first Parish in Portsmouth, at the North Meeting-House in said Portsmouth, on Monday the fifth Day of September next, at Ten o'clock, Forenoon, sundry PEWS, of the following Numbers, or the parts thereof owned by delinquent Parishioners, viz. No. 2, 10, 21, 71, half Pew ; 43 ditto, 46, 47 two Thirds ; 50, 52, one Third ; 57, 58, 66, 68, half Pews, : The following in the lower Gallery, No. 80, 83, 95 ; half Pews, 98, 99, 84.
WINTHROP BENNET. Portsmouth, August 10, 1785.
TO BE LET, (on reasonable Terms)
A SHOP, situate in Buck-Street ; also, to be sold, a Shop, in Congress-Street. For further Particulars enquire of the Printers.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-Resident Proprietors or Owners of Land in the Town of Fitzwilliam, who have not paid their Proprietary Taxes for the Year 1784, that unless they pay the same to me the Subscriber, on or before Thursday the 8th Day of September next, by Ten o'Clock, A. M. so much of their Lands will be sold at Public Vendue, at the Dwelling House of Capt. Sylvanus Reed, Jr. Inholder in said Town, as will pay the Taxes and Charges unless prevented by previous payment. The Taxes on each Lot is six Shillings and five Pence two Farthings.
   No. Range.    Isaac Goodenow, 1  Joshua Willard, half 13  Ditto, 3  John Wilson, 5  Thomas Spaulding, half 6  Samuel Bent, 66 acres, 8  Esquire Jenks, 2  Ditto, 3  Ditto, 4  Ditto, 5  Levi Wilder, 6  Ditto, 7  Matther Osborn, 10  Joseph Farewell, 11  Col. Stoddard, 12  Salmon Whitney, 17  Benjamin Edwards, 3  Levi Wilder, half 6  Ditto, 8  Philip Amadon, 10  Col. Stoddard, 75 acres. 13  Samuel Winch, half 17  James Butler, 18  Jonathan Haven, 19  Samuel Kittridge, 21  Col. Stoddard, 1  Nathan Hall, 23  John Whitney, 69 acres, 3  Sampson Stoddard, 8  Benjamin Davison, 8 acres, 15  Levi Wilder, half 2  Ditto, 1  Ditto, 2  Joseph Stone, 28 acres, 8  Jason Stone, 31 acres, 21  Daniel Farrar, half 23  Jesse Forristall, 1  Levi Wilder, 6  John Allen, 14  Daniel Mellen, half 10  Joseph Hemmingway, half 18  John Bowker, 20  Isaac Stone, 21  John Farrar, 23  Levi Wilder, 1  Ebenezer Boutwell, 7  Thamer Bringham, 8  Heirs of Jonathan Bruce, 62 acres, 21  Levi Wilder, 9  Curwin Wallis, 15  Levi Wilder, half 17  Daniel Farrar, 21  Daniel Gould, 22  Thomas Tolman, half 23  Levi Wilder, 3  Ditto, 5  Silas Colborn, 6  Jonas Geany, half 7  Ebenezer Bourwell jr. half 7  Heirs of George Libbey, 10  Nathaniel Brooks, 11  Col. Stoddard, 12  Ditto, 13  Levi Wilder, 15  Daniel Gould, jr. 66 acres, 20  William Clark, 21  Daniel Adams, 22  Isaac Jackson, 23  Josiah Goodale, 40 acres, 1  Asa Bennett, 7  Nathaniel Brooks, 10 acres, 11  Col. Stoddard, 12  James Reed, 14  Levi Wilder, 17  John Gooding, 21  John Sweetland, 22  Jacob Serjeant, 1  Benjamin Bennett, 2  John Batchelor, Esq. 59 acres 4  Allen Grant, 7  Levi Wilder, 8  Ditto, 9  Peter Wheeler, 33 acres 10  Levi Wheeler, 11  M. Thornton, 13  Col. Stoddard, 16  Nathaniel Treadwell, 17  Thomas Clark, half 18  Rufus Buckland, 19  Ezekiel White, 35 acres, 20  Lyman Bringham, 21  Agabus Bishop, 22  Jonathan Whitney, 19  John Whitney, 20  William Farrar, half 22  John Allen, 72 acres, 15  Samuel Patrick, half 17  Samuel Barnard, 44 acres 14  
JONATHAN WHITCOMB, Collector.
Fitzwilliam, July 22, 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.