The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1788-09-25 00:00:00

A MERCHANT and his two SONS.
A Certain merchant had two sons, the eldest of whom was of so bad a disposition, as to behave with great hatred and spitefulness towards the younger, who was of a temper more mild and gentle. It happened that the old gentleman having by his trade, acquired a large estate, left it by his will to his eldest son, together with all his ships and stock and merchandise, desiring him to continue in the business, and support his brother. The father was no sooner dead than the elder brother began plainly to shew his ill-will to his brother, thrust him out of his house, and without giving him any thing for his support, turned him loose into the wide world. The young man was much dejected with this usage, but considering that in his father's life-time he had acquired some knowledge in business, he applied himself to a neighbouring merchant, offering to serve him in the trade. The merchant received him into his house, and finding from long experience, that he was prudent, virtuous, and diligent in his business, gave him his daughter and only child in marriage, and when he died bequeathed to him his whole fortune. The young man, after the death of his father-in-law, retired with his wife into a distant country, where he purchased a fine estate, with a splendid dwelling; and there he lived with great credit and reputation.
The elder brother had, after the death of their father, carried on the trade, and for some time met with great success in it: but at length a violent storm arising, tore to pieces many ships, which were coming home richly laden; and, about the same time, some persons failing, who had much of his money in their hands, he was reduced to great want; and, to complete his misfortunes, the little which he left at home, was consumed by a sudden fire, which burnt his house and every thing in it; so that he was brought quite into a state of beggary. In this forlorn condition, he had no other resource to keep himself from starving, than to wander up and down the country, imploring the assistance of well disposed persons. It happened one day, that, having travelled many miles, and obtained but little relief, he espied a gentleman walking in the fields, not far from a seat: to this gentleman he addressed himself, and having laid before him his misfortunes, and his present necessitous condition, he earnestly intreated him to grant him some assistance. The gentleman, who happened to be none
other than his brother, did not at first know him, but after some discourse with him, he perceived who he was. However, concealing his knowledge of him, he brought him home, and ordered his servants to take care of him, and furnish him for that night, with lodging and victuals. In the mean time he resolved to discover himself to his brother next morning, and offer him a constant habitation in his house, after he had got the consent of his wife to the proposal. Accordingly, next morning, he ordered the poor man to be sent for. When he was come into his presence, asked if he knew him. The poor man answered, he did not. I am, says he, bursting into tears, your only brother, and immediately fell on his neck, and embraced him with great tenderness. The elder quite astonished at this accident, fell to the ground, and began to make many excuses, and to beg pardon for his former cruel behaviour. To whom the other answered, Brother, let us forget those things; I heartily forgive you all that is past; you need not range up and down the world; you shall be welcome to live with me. He readily accepted the proposal, and they lived together with comfort and happiness till death.
THOUGHTS on MAN.
Considered as a Microcosmos, or little World.
MAN has been considered, and with good reason, as an abstract or model in miniature of the universe. God made him the last and most excellent of his creatures. He internally endowed him after his own image, with a divine understanding, whereby he might contemplate and serve his Creator; and he furnished him with the powers and faculties of reason that he might govern the world and all the creatures subject to his command. God also having created three sorts of living natures, viz. angelical, rational, and brutal, gave to angels an intellectual & to beasts a sensitive nature; but to men he vouchsafed both, together with the rational abilities peculiarly belonging to him; and hence he became the bond or chain of union of all three, and by his participation of them may be truly said to be a little world, as presenting so exactly its component parts.
God therefore placed on earth the man he had made, as it were another world; the great in the small; For out of the earth and dust was formed the flesh of man, and therefore strong and durable. His blood, which is dispersed by branches of veins and arteries throughout the
body, may be resembled to those waters, which are called brooks and rivers over all the earth; his breath to the air; his natural heat to the warmth which the earth contains in herself, and which, stirred up by the heat of the sun, assists nature in the speedier procreation of those rarities which the earth bringeth forth; his radical moisture, oil, or balsam, on which the natural heat feeds and is maintained, to the fat and fertility of the earth; the hairs of his body, which adorn or overshadow it, to the grass, which covers the upper face and skin of the earth; his generative power to nature, which produces all things; his determinations to the light wandering and unstable clouds, wasted away by uncertain winds; his eyes, to the light of the sun and moon; the beauty of his youthful days, to the flowers of the spring, which either the fierce puffs of wind blow from the stalks, or in a short time the sun's piercing rays dry up and wither; the thoughts of his mind to the rapid and instantaneous motion of the celestial spirits; his pure understanding to those intellectual natures which are always present with God; and his immortal soul, while righteous and exalted by the beauty of holiness, to the image and similitude of God himself; for though in respect to God, no man is just, or good, or righteous, yet with such a kind of difference as subsists between the substance and shadow, goodness may be found in man, and God being pleased to accept it, has therefore called him the image and similitude of his own righteousness.
The elusion may be drawn out to a still greater length, and man as the measure of all things may again resemble, by his seven ages, the seven planets. Our infancy may be compared to the Moon, in which we seem only to live and grow as plants; the second to Mercury, wherein we are taught and instructed; our third age to Venus, the days of love, desire, and vanity; the fourth to the Sun, the strong, flourishing, and beautiful age of man's life; the fifth to Mars, in which we seek honour and victory, and in which our thoughts travel to ambitious ends; the sixth to Jupiter, in which we begin to take account of our time, judge ourselves, and grow to the perfection of our understanding; last, and seventh, to Saturn, when our days are sad and overcast. In these we find by dear, and lamentable experience, and by losses never to be repaired, that of all our vast vain passions and affections the sorrow only abideth. Our attendants are sicknesses, and sundry infirmities,
and by how much the more we are accompanied with plenty, by so much the more greedily is our end desired. When time has made us unfociable to others, we become a burden to ourselves; and are of no other use than to withhold the riches we possess from our successors. In this time it is, that we for the most part, and seldom before, prepare for our eternal habitation, which we pass on to with many sighs, groans, and doleful thoughts, and in the end, by the workmanship of death, finish the sorrowful business of a wretched life, towards which we are always making advances both sleeping and waking; never have those beloved companions of honour and riches any power to hold one day, by the flattering promise of entertainments; but by what crooked path soever we walk, the same leads on directly to the house of death, whose doors lie open at all hours, and to all persons. For this tide of man's life, after once turning and declining, ever runs with a perpetual ebb and falling stream, but never flows again; our leaf once fallen springs no more: Neither does the sun or the summer adorn us again with the garments of new leaves and flowers. For if there is any baited place or rest, in the course or race of man's life, these me might then be perpetually maintainal. livings, and as the sap and juice, wherein the life of plants is preserved, does evermore ascend or descend; so it is with the life of man, which is always either increasing towards ripeness and perfections, or declining towards rottenness and dissolutions.
The following is a genuine Copy of a Publication, which Mr. M——, one of the Parties, procured to be printed at New-London, in the Year 1746, probably to pass on the Meeting-House Door, agreeable to the Custom of that Day
GOD who created, redeemed and preserveth us, R Y—L D M R—N of Lyme, and M—R Y—K—L O G of Colchester; Widow, hath knit our Souls together in the Bond of divine Love, called Charity; hath also disposed our Understandings, bowed our Wills, and inclined our Affections towards each other for the purpose of a temporal Marriage:—Whereupon our Souls have blessed the Lord, and desire all the Saints to join with us therein. And all you Saints of the Most High to whom this may come, pray for us, that we may abound in the enjoyment of strong Consolation and Hope of the conforming Effect of the Divine Na

ture, of which we are made Partakers, according to those great and precious Promises of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 Pet. 1. 4. And that we may walk in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord Blameless.—And that it may please God to bless us in all our temporal Employments and Enjoyments. All which we desire to ask in a deep Submission to the Divine Will, wherein after a short Pilgrimage, we shall be swallowed up world without end, AMEN.
June 26th, 1788.
For the GAZETTE.
GANGANELLI to an ABBE.
IT is of importance to the Orator as well as the Poet, to know when to stop properly. The panegyric of Iranjan, beautiful as it is, has always seemed to me to be too long. Theirs is even a certain degree of satiety in the finest things which should engage us to be moderate in our manner of writing or in our discourses, when we employ the charms of eloquence and the slights of genius. A parterre is always of less extent than a garden; the flowers are more pleasing to the eye when they are in small quantity. The sky, although enriched with an infinite number of stars, presents to our view but a fixed number. The best preachers tire us when they surpass the bounds of a discourse.
Eloquence is no longer of force than while it expresses the heat and strength of the fire with which it is animated. I have heard it objected to our illuminations, as well as our most beautiful fire-works, they last too long. That sentiment which is the effect of admiration, and which suspends the activity of the soul and the senses, is always but of short duration, and you may depend upon it, that the audience will be but little affected when it is over.
There is one at Bologna, who, though one of the most eloquent of men, was never more than half an hour in the pulpit, but it was said of him, that he appeared there only to thunder and lighten. When he described the honours of a life of sin, he gave the most masterly picture of a tempest; and painted the most beautiful sky, when he displayed the beauties of virtue.
GANGANELLI to Doctor BIANET.
IT is requisite that merit should be recompensed for the shafts aimed at it by calumny and envy; otherwise men would sink under the weight of their talents, and dread, above all things, to be possessed of them.
Providence has ordered things so wisely, as to compensate the bad with the good; and that a man of merit may not fall a prey to despair, or be swelled with pride, she put him in a balance in which he is alternately elevated and depressed. We would grow too haughty, had we none but Panegyrists; and be too much humbled, did we meet only with detractors. An equilibrium is necessary, which may keep us on the level of humanity against the influence of Panegyric on the one hand, and Satire on the other.
Eternal wisdom, my dear Doctor, has displayed its power and benevolence in the disposition of the world; if at one time it presents to us the cup of bitterness, at another it gives us the most pleasing draught. Let us drink alternately in this double mysterious cup which is presented to us, and we shall avoid the dangers of unruly joy, and the attacks of excessive sorrow. Happy is the man whose soul is of a strong temper, and suffers not himself to be cast down by any misfortune.—The just man, described by Horace, raises envy; but that of the gospel is the only pattern of imitation. Always uniformly happy, he never sees his repose disturbed either by reverse of fortune, or calumny; because his existence is intimately united with the divine eternity.
R O M E, June 14.
We have not hitherto experienced any uncommon heat of weather, yet many of our people seem to have had their brain turned. Never was there such a rage known for suicide; and our hospitals for lunatics are crowded. Among the victims to despondency whom we have cause to lament is, the respectable Maitre d' Hotel de Marini, who drowned himself last week.
V I E N N A, (Germany) June 28.
The last advices from the head quarters of our army, mention, that the greatest attention is given to the movements of the troops under the command of the Vizir. They are said to amount to 180,000 men.
The advance guard of the Vizir's army, consisting of 10,000 men, has already advanced to Boscharova. On its advance, our volunteers retired, and we are sorry to add, that the Turks massacred all the Christian inhabitants, for having harboured and assisted our troops.
JUNE 9. It is this day currently reported that a courier has arrived from the Prince de Cobourg with the important intelligence, that in the neighbourhood of Bendor there has been an action between the troops under General Soltikow and the Ottoman troops, in which 12,000 of the latter were slain.
L I S B O N, June 6.
Our last letters from the Straights contain melancholy accounts of the present condition of Gibraltar, from the united ravages of disease and famine.
On the 27th of May the small city of Richsberg, in Westphalia, was almost entirely destroyed by fire. This devoted place sustained a similar calamity about ten years ago.
P A R I S, June 26.
FRENCH COMMOTIONS.
The parliament of Dauphine has presented an address, with the process verbal, as follows:
"SIRE,
"We now approach the throne, with hearts as heavy as they can be, under disaster and dismay. We come from those who cast a dreary look over their city, and see in it, alas! Scarce more than the tomb of all who dwell in it!
"Your Majesty cannot hear without emotion, the perversion of your intended bounty! That the new laws, meant no doubt, for our better welfare, must doom us to our ruin!
"Sire—Why should we retrace, what time can ne'er obliterate, the marks already upon us, these laws have left; Regard the petitions of your provinces! The remonstrances of your courts!—The honest abhorrence of every citizen!—The collective opposition of the whole community.
"That your Majesty should oppose this opposition, and strive to controul, by any compulsion but of kindness, is what we cannot apprehend—For your Majesty is the father of your people, and would of course rule over them, less through terror, than in love!
"Deign, Sire, to look at the troubles of your kingdom. But look and they are calm. At authority not guaranteed by yourself, your people tremble. They tremble as they demand their allowed immunities, and common laws!
All France addresses you as with one voice, in supplication for the assembly of the states. Deign, Sire, to grant this prayer, and all will be well. Again happy in recovered rights, the disfranchised province would droop no more—the kingdom would be restored—each faithful subject would be happy!
"As sure as evils are traceable to their source, they would, also, in their scourge be rectified!
"Under the eye of your Majesty, and the efforts of your people, what consequence could be hopeless?—Even when the national debt shall be liquidated, who would mind the burthen, but as he might be proud to bear it? What impatience could be seen in any citizen, but to distinguish himself by his ability to do and suffer—by the vigour of his policy, the superiority of his sacrifice! If extent of resources can be formidable, well might the enemy tremble!—For our finances would be unexampled—our patriotism not more sure—our loyalty not more buoyant!
"The officers of your parliament, have risked their lives and liberties in defence of the laws, and your authority. Thus they exemplify on the duty of submission. They display also the satisfaction of political self-approbation!—They have saved the capital—the whole province from destruction!
"Such has been their obedience to your commands!
"Such is our hope—your justice will ordain their revocation!"
The date of this spirited address is Greemoble , 9th June, 1788.
It was presented the latter end of last week, at Versailles.
HIS MAJESTY'S ORDINANCE, Declaring the protest and deliberations of Parliaments and Courts, seditious and libellous.
It having been represented to the King that several writings has been clandestinely published, and that his indulgence had been much abused by no notice having been taken of them. That besides—fictitious signatures have been made use of to give them consequence:—
These and other weighty reasons have determined his wisdom to prohibit and suppress them.
Those writings, under the title of Resolutions, or Protests of different bodies and communities, carry with them an air of disobedience and revolt, contrary to the duty of subjects, and especially of the officers of those bodies, whom the King forbids to hold any farther assembly or deliberation, and from whom alone they hold the authority of exercising their professions.
Those writings are in their form—illegal, in the effect they are intended to produce—fallacious; their contents are equally reprehensible, and assume a superiority over the royal authority. Some declare the King's acts, absurd in their form, despotick in their principles, tyrannical in their effect, destructive of monarchy, and the rights and capitulations of provinces.
It is his Majesty's wish to hold out to the nation its true interest, in the same manner to bring it back to its proper powers.
His goodness has delayed him hitherto from taking notice of those writings, hoping that his subjects would reflect and repent of their errors, and induce his Majesty to forget their past conduct.
His Majesty owes to his own authority—he owes it to his faithful subjects—he owes it to the people at large, to prevent for the future such acts, which, made without power, out of the places of the ordinary sittings, against the express command of the King, escape the notice of a formal proceeding to annul them by the very vice of their formation, since to annul them would be to suppose they had a regular existence; but which, spread abroad as they have been, to mislead the nation from the true intentions of his Majesty. The King being in his Council, orders, that the deliberations and protests of his Courts and other Assemblies, made since the publication of his laws of the 8th of May last, and tending to prevent their execution and effect, are and shall remain suppressed as seditious treasonable to the Royal Authority, made without power, and with a design to mislead his People; defends all persons, particularly officers of the Courts, or other Judges, to assist in future at such assemblies, or make such protests, on pain of forfeiture and loss of estate, commission, civil or military appointment, against all those who shall assist at, or sign them. Defends in like manner, and under the same penalties, all and every officer in the different tribunals throughout the kingdom to pay any regard to such decrees and protests, or the impressions they may have made.
His Majesty declares likewise, that he will take under his special protection, for the present and to come, all those tribunals and others of his subjects, who submitting to such laws, stand forward to put them in execution, & holds himself to guarantee them, on every occasion, against any feeble and seditious menaces which might alarm their fidelity.—Commands in the same manner all officers and commandant of provinces to pay strict attention to the execution of the present ordinance, which shall be printed and stuck up wherever it shall be found necessary, and notified, by the express order of his Majesty, to all the grand bailiwicks and presidencies throughout the kingdom.
Made at Versailles the 20th of July, 1788. (signed) BARON DE BRETEUIL.
July 2. The affairs of this country become every day more alarming. The flame not only spreads, but what is worse, seems approaching nearer to the capital. The parliament of Rouen, which at first appeared to acquiesce under the late ordinances, have at length taken a decided part with the opposition. In their last resolutions, they have not only asserted the rights of parliament, but have gone so far as to accuse the two leading mini-
sters as traitors to their King and country and to demand that they should be brought to publick justice. The consequence is, that letters were yesterday dispatched for sending all the members of parliament into exile.
L O N D O N, July 5. Extra of a letter from Gibraltar, June 11.
"A very serious quarrel had like to have happened lately between the Dey of Algiers and the Emperor of Morocco, which most people here wished might have taken place, but the Emperor finding he was wrong, and wisely considering who he had to deal with, thought proper (though with reluctance,) to come to the Dey's term.
"The old fellow knew too well his own interest, than to involve himself into a war with such a powerful and vindictive enemy."
Amsterdam is at the expence of 10,000 florins every week, to support a Militia to keep the public peace; and 40,000 people are supposed to have emigrated since the commencement of last September.
By a letter from France we learn, that the War-Office is shut up exactly in the same manner it usually is when they are at war, and where no person is suffered to enter, but must speak to any one they want therein through the door.
A youth about sixteen years of age, who had been to see the unhappy malefactor hanged on Tuesday last, who was condemned for setting his house on fire, returned from the execution extremely thoughtful, and on being questioned as to the cause, said he would first beg to have his question answered. He then asked his father where those people who died under the gallows, went after death? His father replied to heaven . Soon after which the youth, without any previous intimation of his design, went up stairs into his own bed chamber, and having previously left upon the table a paper containing the following sentence, " Father grieve not, I am gone to heaven ," fastened a cord to the frame of a bed, and was found hanging, by the maid servant, about an hour after. All methods to revive him, were tried in vain.
July 3. The ordinance of the French King is by far the strongest, he has yet ventured to declare it strikes at the very fundamental rights of the subjects, who have ever had the right to petition, which this act annuls. Let whatever come after, it cannot be more arbitrary.
July 4. The last war was the era of humiliation to Great-Britain.—She lost a whole continent, and was despised by every power in Europe.—Every ally had a kick at the sick lion. The day of retribution is come, and France and Russia are at this moment just as low as their enemies could wish. They affect to care for nobody, and nobody cares for them.
Poland—the little remains of a kingdom, dwindled to a Republic—will remain where it is, during the life of the present Monarch, who by the by is one of the best good characters that ever wore a crown—he has the pledged word of the Emperor for the security of his dominions—but on his death, his kingdom will in all probability be divided by the Imperial crowned heads. It possesses no strength to resist and preserve its independence. Its revenues annually are not so much as our King is allowed for his privy purse, being no more than 800,000l.
D U B L I N, June 28.
By letters received per the Rover, Captain Breicken, arrived here a few days ago from Baltimore in North-America, we are informed, that there has been a tolerable good demand for our coarse woolens and linens at the American market, but that, it was somewhat difficult to procure produce: they also mention, that the federal constitution had been acceded to on the part of the Province of Maryland, and that affairs in general in most of the Provinces were beginning to wear a very favourable aspect.
V I R T U E.
A MAN of merit is a flower, which is not valued for its colours only; we call it by its name; it is cultivated for its odoriferous scent and beauty; it is one of the graces of nature, one of those things which beautify the creation: It has been admired by all men in all ages; our fathers set a high value on it, and we in imitation of them have as great an opinion of it; nor can the disgust antipathy of any particular persons injure its reputation.

CARLISLE, August 20.
By sundry accounts from the falls of the Muskingum, we hear, that on the morning of Saturday the 12th of July, a party of Chippawa and Ottowa Indians attacked some people near that place; and after killing two soldiers, and a negro belonging to Mr. David Duncan, they attempted to plunder, but without effect. They were on the point of scalping Mr. Duncan, when one of them was knocked down and killed, and some others wounded, and were beat off without further loss to our people. Soon after their retreat they were followed and overtaken, after a march of upwards of fifty miles, and six of them brought in, two of whom were particularly identified on oath as perpetrators of the above horrid barbarities.
NORFOLK, Aug. 27.
"On the 19th instant about 2 o'clock came on the most terrible gale of wind known in these parts. It began to blow with greater violence than usual from the S. E. but at once shifted to the S. W. and blew for about 20 minutes with tremendous fury, continually increasing, which spread a solemn amazement universally among the inhabitants. Buildings more or less, in every town, unroofed, blown down or otherwise injured—Fences leveled with the ground, and many rails carried a considerable distance; beautiful and flourishing orchards not only stripped of their fruit untimely; but many of the trees blown down, and some nearly ruined. Horses and cattle killed more or less in every town in the upper part of the county, as also in the towns adjacent in the state of Massachusetts.—Excellent forests and groves sequestered, consisting of pine and other valuable timber, swept down, so that in some there is scarce a tree standing. Through divine mercy no lives are lost as we yet hear of: but had it been the pleasure of HIM, "whose way is in the whirlwind and in the storm," to have continued the blast with proportionable increase of its violence twenty minutes longer, there can be no doubt but our dwellings would have been all levelled with the ground, and many lives lost."
NEW-YORK, September 16. BY THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS assembled, September 13, 1788.
WHEREAS the Convention assembled in Philadelphia, pursuant to the resolution of Congress of the 21st of February, 1787, did on the 17th of September, in the same year, report to the United States in Congress assembled, a Constitution for the people of the United States: whereupon Congress, on the 28th of the same September, did resolve unanimously, "That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several Legislatures, in order to be submitted to a Convention of Delegates chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the Convention made and provided in that case." And whereas the Constitution so reported by the Convention and by Congress transmitted to the several Legislatures, has been ratified in the manner therein declared to be sufficient for the establishment of the same, and such ratifications duly authenticated have been received by Congress, and are filed in the Office of the Secretary: Therefore,
Resolved, That the first Wednesday in January next, be the day for appointing electors in the several States, which before the said day shall have ratified the Constitution; and the first Wednesday in February next, be the day for the Electors to assemble in their respective States, and vote for a President; and that the first Wednesday in March next, be the time, and the present seat of Congress the place for commencing proceedings under the said Constitution.
The Philadelphians appear to be exceedingly solicitous, that the United States in Congress assembled should fix upon their city, as the place of holding the sessions of that Honorable Body—We have had Philadelphia represented to us as the centre of population—the mistress of arts and sciences—the emporium of commerce—and the arbitress of America. Quere , Is not this great Babylon , which they have built?
A Carlisle, Pennsylvania paper of August 20, contains the three following paragraphs:—"Letters from the Five Nations of Indians, dated 8th July, were received by the Superintendent, at Muskingum, informing him that their Chiefs were gone to the place where the whole of the Indians were to rendezvous, in order to go collectively to the intended treaty."
"It is hoped, if a general assemblage of the savages should take place, at the proposed treaty, that there will be no more mischief done by them."
"If after this general treaty that is proposed, the savages should prove faithless to a resolution of peace, we think government will be well taught to what purpose they have so often held treaties and loaded them with presents, that might have been better applied in protecting the scattered inhabitants of the frontiers, or in totally routing those savages from the neighbouring settlements."
HALIFAX, August 21.
Friday last arrived here his Majesty's Ship Resource , Capt. Minchin, with two American vessels, taken at Crow Harbour for trading contrary to the treaty of peace, one of them is the Schooner Polly , Capt. Clark, belonging to Boston, and the other is the Schooner Nancy , Capt. Saunders from Rhode-Island.
The return of two vessels, lately, which went to Quebec for cargoes of wheat, without any of that commodity, contrary to expectation, shews that we are not to rely on that quarter for supplies—and that we must still depend on our usual resources.
BOSTON, September 24.
On Monday the Right Honourable the Marquis de SAINNEVILLE, and the principal officers of his Most Christian Majesty's squadron, dined with his Excellency the Governor. After dinner, the Marquis and the officers took their leave of his Excellency's lady, and were escorted by the Independent Corps of Cadets, commanded by Col. Bradford, to the Long-Wharf—at which place, the Governor having previously arrived in his carriage, joined the procession.
On the arrival of the procession at the place of embarkation, the Cadets formed line, opened ranks, and saluted them as they passed—The Marquis, after taking an affectionate leave of the Governor and receiving his Excellency's warmest wishes for his happiness, went on board his barge—when a great body of citizens assembled on the occasion, saluted him with three hearty cheers, in which his Excellency joined—which was returned by a like compliment from the Admiral, and the crew of the barge. The Cadets then fired three rounds—and afterwards returned to Faneuil-Hall, where they were dismissed. The most perfect good order marked every part of this ceremony—if that may be called a ceremony —in which the feelings of the heart were so deeply interested.
Yesterday His Excellency the Governor, and a select number of gentlemen and ladies, dined with the Chevalier MACARTY DE MARTIGUE, on board the Achilles . The company, who arrived on board about one o'clock, were received with the customary naval honours, and were entertained with that delicacy and ease which so peculiarly characterize the gentlemen of the French nation. After dinner, 13 toasts were drank—the two first accompanied by a discharge of thirteen guns from all the ships. At 4 o'clock, his Excellency took his departure—when the yards of all the ships were manned, and a salute of 13 guns from the fleet fired.
The fleet will sail this day or to-morrow, if the wind permits.
The Neptune , Capt. Scott, and the Mary , Capt. Barnard, were to leave London, the first week in August, for this port, and are hourly expected.
A letter from a Captain of a vessel in Port-au-Prince, dated August 17th, to his owner in this town, contains—"Yesterday we had a very hard squall from S. E. lasted for two hours, in that time the most part of 40 sail of American vessels parted their inshore cables, eight of which drove on shore and to sea, viz. Brig —, Turner , Virginia, lost his foremast and sunk in 16 feet water. Brig —, Tucker , Cape-Ann, on shore, mainmast & foretopmast lost. Brig —, Jones , Portland, on shore. Brig Goodhue , Newbury, on shore. Sloop —, Todd , Boston, on shore. Brig —, Pilsbury , Newbury, to sea. Sloop —, More , Carolina, to sea. Five French vessels drove on shore two of which have lost all their masts, and sunk.
SEPTEMBER 18.
It is a fact which reflects dishonour on the country, that many articles of our own manufacture, equally good, if not superior to those imported, remain in possession of the industrious mechanick.—Large quantities of writing paper manufactured in this state, not inferior in quality, and much cheaper, cannot be vend- ed, in consequence of the preference given to imported paper.
The Federal Constitution (says a correspondent in its present form , so completely met the wishes and ideas of the citizens of this metropolis, that they received it as a messenger of good tidings, and the harbinger of future peace and prosperity—and so universally did federal sentiments prevail on the happy occasion, that among the whole body of the natives of the town, scarcely a breeze of antifederalism was heard.—Have they changed their opinions? Are they less sensible at the present moment of the excellency of the Constitution, than they were at the above period? By no means.—Their anticipations of future prosperity, are founded on the Constitution as it is —not on what it will be, when the spirit of it is taken away or destroyed by the pretended amendments of the Antifederalists.
We have happily (continues our Correspondent) got rid of the old Confederation, which was emphatically "a rope of sand."—Shall we be so infatuated as to revert to a state of national imbecility and contempt, by electing for our Federal Rulers, men who will by alterations of the new system extract the essence and spirit of it, till nothing but the shadow of a Constitution remains? Heaven prevent us from such delusion.
SALEM, September 16.
We hear, that lately a new dwelling-house, almost complete, was consumed by fire in Cape-ann, belonging to Mr. David Knights, then absent on the Banks. His known character, as peaceable and industrious, moved the social feelings of his townsmen; and to the honour of Col. WILLIAM PEARCE, (who generously undertook the subscription) he, with that avidity which he generally discovers when a favorite object is in view, and his fellow-creatures to be benefited, not only used his influence but his purse, and in a fortnight had the building nearly as complete as it was before. When Mr. Knights came home, and was informed of what had been transacted, the big tear of gratitude stopped utterance—his silence spoke more than language can express. The poor man is now happy!—God reward the charitable!
EASTERN MAGNIFICENCE.
Mrs. Middleton, wife of Mr. Middleton, who was second under Mr. Hastings in the East Indies—possesses, a pair of SHOE BUCKLES, made of real brilliants, which cost in India thirty thousand pounds sterling . Search all the Heaven of Beauty in Europe, America, or elsewhere, on what feet sparkle their fellows? But by what means was the money acquired by her husband to purchase them? That's the question—and the rub.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 25.
On the 13th inst. Congress appointed three commissioners, in conformity to the ordinance of the 7th May, 1788, who were finally to settle accounts between the United States and the individual States; the gentleman chose are John T. Gilman, Esq. of New-Hampshire; General William Irvin of Pennsylvania, and Abraham Baldwin, Esq. of Georgia.
The French, in compliment to their allies, the States of America, have just launched at Brest, a new 74 gun-ship called the America .
JOSEPH HOWELL, Esq. is elected Commissioner of Army accounts, in the room of JOHN PEIRCE, Esq. deceased.
Died since our last, Mr. John Dunlap, aged 48 years; Miss Anna Pearne, aged 21 years; also a child of Mr. Nathaniel Treadwell; and a child of Mr. Johnson.
NAVAL OFFICE.
Port of Piscataqua, September 25, 1788 ENTERED from Schooner Adventure , Trefethen, C. Francois, Sloop Dolphin , Riley, St. Thomas. Brig Nancy , York, St. Bartholomew. CLEARED for Brig Polly , Boadge, West-Indies.
ANECDOTE.
AS a gentleman, in a certain coffee-house, was writing a letter to his friend, there being a good deal of company present, a pert young fellow posted himself behind him. The gentleman concluded his letter with this: "I should write more, but there is an impertinent puppy looking over my shoulder. The macaroni instantly turned upon his heel, and exclaimed aloud. "I'll be d——'d if I was looking over your shoulder!"
York vs. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
AT a Court of Commonpleas began and held at York, within and for the county of York, on the second Tuesday of April, 1788; on the petition of Jonathan Young of York, in said county of York, husbandman, shewing that he is seized and possessed of thirty two shares in the lot called and known by lot number five, in the first division of the inner or stated commons lying in York aforesaid, in common and undivided with Jonathan Sargent, Tho's Boston and Jonathan Hutchins, each of whom own two fifth parts of two shares; and the petitioner knows of no other owners to the said lot, and prays that his part of the same may be divided and set off to bold to him, his heirs and assigns in severality.
Ordered that the said Jonathan Young the petitioner, notify the other owners with him in the said lot, by inserting the same in the public prints agreeably to law. Attest,
J. H. BARTLET, Clerk.
Old York, Sept. 4.
JUST COME TO HAND,
And for sale at B. DEARBORN'S Shop in Market-Street,
THE History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts, in the year 1786, and the rebellion consequent thereon, By George Richards Minot, A. M.
Portsmouth, Sept. 11, 1788.
WHEREAS Hannah, the wife of me the subscriber, has eloped and refuses to bed or board with me, and threatens to run me in debt, this is therefore to caution all persons from harbouring or crediting her on my account, as I will not pay one farthing she may contract after the date hereof.
MOODY MORSE Salem, New-Hampshire, April 26.

Parnassian Spring.
THOUGHTS on HARD DRINKING.  W HEN man to drinking bends his mind, And sucks away without controul, To jovial company's inclin'd, Charm'd with the pleasures of the bowl; Soon shall his senses and estate, Like April snow drifts waste away, Nor shall the sot's distressing fate, Occasion wonder for a day. Yet do we not too often see, Men form'd by nature brave, or wise, Reduc'd to want and misery, 'Till fools their company despise: Lodg'd in a loathsome goal at last, Their utmost farthing goes for charge; Friends, senses, fortune, failing fast, Leaves him a vagabond at large. But when the loathsome custom gains Ascendance in the female breast, How great her friends and husband's pains, How small their comfort or their rest. Beware ye beauteous nymphs, beware! Your fame, your virtue, all depends! When drink your senses shall impair Farewell to chastity and frinds!
BLANKS of all sorts printed and fold at John Melcher's Printing- Office, in Market-Street, very cheap.
TO BE SOLD,  By PUBLIC VENDUE, on Thursday the 2d day of October next, at ten o'clock, A. M. at the dwelling-house of Mrs. Abigail Sparhawk;—all the personal estate of JOHN SPARHAWK, Esquire, deceased;  CONSISTING OF  House-hold Furniture, English Goods—A convenient Store— a second-hand Chaise—Whiskey, and several other articles. Portsmouth, Sept. 17th, 1788.
FOR SALE, ON REASONABLE TERMS,  A CONVENIENT  Dwelling-house & land, with all the privileges thereto belong- ing; on the south side of Buck-Street, nearly opposite to Major William Gardner's:—For further particulars inquire of the printer hereof. Portsmouth, Sept. 16th, 1788.
THE Creditors to the Estate of Capt. JOSEPH HOLBROOK, late of Portsmouth; are desired to call on the Subscriber for their respective Dividends.  BENJAMIN DEARBORN. Portsmouth, Sept. 15th, 1788.
TO BE SOLD OR LET,  A Grist-Mill & Saw-Mill, in good repair, situated in Wolfborough, on a stream where there is plenty of water all the year, with 100 Acres of Land, and a good House and Barn on the premises—Inquire of Judge Sewall at Old-York, or Ammi R. Cutter, of Portsmouth.
N. B. The Mills are so situated between two large ponds, that no freshet can affect them.
THE subscribers give notice that six months longer, from the 14th day of August last, is allow'd by the Judge of Probate, for the creditors to the estate of FREDERICK MOR-  DANT BELL, late of Dover, deceas- ed, represented insolvent, to bring in their claims, and that they will attend that business, at the dwelling-house of Mr. JONATHAN GAGE, innholder in Dover, on the third Monday in this and the four following Months.  CHARLES CLAPHAM, } Commis-  MOSES HAM, } sioners. Dover, September 1st, 1788.
THE creditors to the estate of  LEANORD HARAMAN, late of Conway, deceased, represented insolv- ent, are hereby notified to bring in their claims to the subscribers, who being duly authorised, will attend to receive and examine the same, at the dwelling-house of Mrs. Anna Hara- man, in Conway, on the last Thursday in this month, and the fourth Thursday of the five following months, from ten o'clock, A. M. to six o'clock, P. M.  RICHARD KIMBALL, } Commis-  ABIAETHER EASTMAN, } sioners. Conway, September 10th, 1788.
State of New-Hampshire, Cheshire, ss. Walpole, Sept. 1st, 1788.  APPLICATION having been made to me the subscriber by more than one sixteenth part of the proprie- tors of the township of Preston, in the county of Grafton, in said State; to warn the proprietors of said township, to meet at the dwelling-house of the widow Eunice Holbrook, innholder in Stratford, in said county of Grafton, on Thursday the twenty-third day of October next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles,—viz.—
 1st, To chuse a Moderator to govern said meeting.  2d, To chuse a proprietors Clerk, Collector and Treasurer.  3d, To see if the proprietors will grant a sum of money to defray the charge of surveying and laying out said township; also, a further sum to clear out roads in said township; and also, a further sum to build mills, if they shall think proper.  4th, To chuse necessary Committees and Surveyors to do said business.  5th, To see if the proprietors will ratify and confirm any former votes or transactions already done or acted, respecting said township.  6th, To transact any other business to forward the settlement of said town- ship, that they shall think proper when met, and raise such sums of money as may be found necessary to carry on said business. 
THIS is therefore to notify and warn all the proprietors of said township, to meet at time and place above-mentioned, to act on the above- mentioned articles.  ENOCH HALE, Justice Peace.
NEW-CHESTER AND BRIDGWATER.  STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the townships of New-Chester and Bridgewater, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber on or before Wednesday, the fifteenth day of October next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon on said day, at the dwelling-house of Samuel Worthen, innholder in Bridgewater, unless prevented by previous payment. Silver. paper. loan-office. county.
   N. D. Q'ty V. s. d. q. d. q. s. d. q. d. q.     Thomas Packer 4 3 100 20 0 10 3 4 1 0 11 3 2 3   16 4 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   John Tolford, Esq. 28 3 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   29 4 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   38 1 90 10 5 2 2 3 1 2   22 2 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   24 4 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   45 3 100 25 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 2 3 2   39 4 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   57 2 100 10 5 2 2 3 1 2   7 3 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   69 4 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   Matthew Thornton, Esq. 67 1 31 5 2 3 1 2 3 3   89 2 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   77 4 100 25 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 2 3 2   4 4 100 15 8 1 3 8 3 2 1   13 2 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   6 4 100 15 8 1 3 8 3 2 1   71 2 100 15 8 1 3 8 3 2 1   19 3 100 25 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 2 3 2   82 2 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   41 3 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   87 4 100 25 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 2 3 2   39 3 71 10 5 2 2 5 3 1 2   86 1 90 10 5 2 2 5 3 1 2   87 2 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   45 4 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   60 2 100 25 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 2 3 2   51 2 100 25 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 2 3 2   79 4 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   Hugh Tolford 3 3 100 15 8 1 3 8 3 2 1   William Tolford 12 4 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   Samuel Moore 5 3 100 15 8 1 3 8 3 2 1   67 3 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   Mark Carr 13 4 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   18 3 9 3 2 3 1 1 3 1   Robert Fletcher 33 4 100 15 8 1 3 8 3 2 1   27 3 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   19 4 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   Joseph Clark 35 1 90 10 5 2 2 5 3 1 2   10 3 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   Meserve & Company 36 1 59 8 4 1 3 5 1 1 1   5 2 71 21 11 1 4 2 1 1 1 3   10 4 86 12 6 0 2 2 6 0 1 3   Joseph Blanchard 42 1 90 15 8 1 3 8 3 2 1   3 2 100 15 8 1 3 8 3 2 1   85 3 100 25 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 2 3 2   55 4 100 15 8 1 3 8 3 2 1   William Parker 43 3 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   Capt. Jonas Minot 60 1 90 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   93 2 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   38 3 100 15 8 1 3 8 3 2 1   75 4 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   76 3 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   Archabald Dunlap 93 4 100 15 8 1 3 8 3 2 1   Henry Hall 16 3 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   Solly & March 21 1 90 10 5 2 2 5 3 1 2   70 2 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   26 3 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   30 4 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   Robert Forsith 65 3 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3  
THOMAS LOCK, Constable. Bridgewater, September 6th, 1788.
NEW-CHESTER AND BRIDGWATER.  STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the townships of New-Chester and Bridgewater, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1786, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber on or before Thursday, the sixteenth day of October next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at ten o'clock in the forenoon on said day, at the dwelling-house of Ephraim Webster, innholder in New-Chester, unless prevented by previous payment. Silver. paper. loan-office. county.
   N. D. Q'ty V. s. d. q. d. q. s. d. q. d. q.     Stephen Ferrenton 74 2 100 20 0 10 3 4 1 0 11 3 2 3   John Gorden 32 2 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   Jeremiah Colburn 61 3 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   27 4 100 15 8 1 3 8 3 2 1   62 2 100 25 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 2 3 2   28 1 90 12 6 1 2 2 6 2 1 3   Joshua Tolford, Esq. 52 2 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   68 3 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   54 4 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   Thomas Wallingsford, Esq. 68 1 90 10 5 1 2 5 3 1 2   63 2 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   56 3 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   78 4 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   Henry Herring 8 3 100 20 10 3 4 1 11 3 2 3   John McMurphy, Esq. 61 2 100 30 1 4 2 6 1 1 5 2 4 4   52 3 100 25 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 2 3 2   37 4 100</