The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1771-03-29 00:00:00

Having lately published the Appointment of His Excellency WILLIAM TRYON, to the Government of New York, it will not be disagreeable to publish his Speech made to the Assembly of North Carolina, before this Appointment.
NEWBERN, NORTH CAROLINA, Dec. 7. 1770. At the Opening of the General Assembly of this Province on Wednesday last, after the Choice & Acceptance of the Speaker, His Excellency Governor TRYON, made the following SPEECH viz.
Gentlemen of His Majesty's Council, Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,
NOTHING can be more seasonable or more grateful to me than my meeting you at this time, in so full Assembly, while objects the most interesting to this country wait your deliberations. On this occasion I purpose to declare my mind with much freedom, considering that I am now speaking to every freeholder in the province, through their Representatives, on matters on the highest importance to them. Setting aside therefore every lesser consideration for the present, I shall confine myself chiefly to these four points, which, in the most urgent manner, I offer for your consideration.
The abuses in the conduct of the public funds, the general complaints against public offices and officers; the evils arising from the circulation of counterfeit money; and the injuries offered to his Majesty's government at and since the last Hillsborough-uperior Court.
[The three first Points being less interesting are here omitted, the fourth is as follows.]
The papers and depositions I've receiv'd respecting the late outrages at Hillsborough, which I shall lay before you are the proceedings of a seditious mob. Men, who, regardless of the Royal clemency for former trespasses, and in open contempt of the admonition given them by a resolve of your House last session, have (accompanied with circumstances the most insolent & inhuman) torn down justice from her tribunal, and renounced all legislative authority. Were these men, who have thus broken through all the bounds of human society, and trampled under foot the laws of their country, allowed to shelter themselves under those laws, the situation of this country would be deplorable indeed. Social liberty must then yield to brutal licentiousness, and the honest of all conditions become a prey to the wicked. I am told these insurgents are determined in the prosecution of their profligate designs. Admit it to be so; government has already shown itself able to control them, and when armed with your manly determinations, has sufficient force, under the providence of God, effectually to suppress these dangerous commotions, to punish the ringleaders, and to bring back the deluded to the duty of good citizens and good subjects. For the attainment of these desirable ends, I am bound in justice and duty to recommend to you to provide for the raising a sufficient body of men, under the rules and discipline of war, to march into the settlements of these insurgents, in order to aid and protect the magistrates and civil officers in the execution of these laws now existing, or such others as may at this critical juncture be found expedient, for restoring the public tranquility of the whole colony.
You have here my unreserved sentiments of the present state of your public affairs, I have much to wish they may penetrate into your hearts with the same warmth of sensibility that they flow from mine; and that you, with a becoming spirit, stand forth to vindicate the insulted honor and dignity of his Majesty's sacred person and government, in justice to your own violated rights, and in humanity to the duties you owe your much injured countrymen, who, from the very nature and obligation of civil society, claim from the legislature full security and protection in their persons and properties. And I have also much to wish you may wipe away the stain thrown, by these deluded people and their seditious ringleaders, upon an administration that has been
unwearied in every possible attention towards the advancement of the prosperity and perfection of this community.
I gladly embrace the opportunity here offered me of making my grateful acknowledgments to the country for their gift of this very elegant and noble structure, for the residence of myself and successors in administration. A Palace that is a public ornament and credit to the colony, as well as an honor to British America. A construction, I am persuaded, from the strength and choice of its materials, the integrity, diligence, and ability, of the architect, with the skill of the several artificers employed, will remain a lasting monument of the liberality of this country. I have the satisfaction to acquaint you the money already voted, and which has been taken up, will be sufficient to carry the plan into execution, and that too within a few months. The disbursements for carrying on the work are ready to be laid before you, whenever you have leisure to inspect them.
Gentlemen of the HOUSE of ASSEMBLY, I am to apply to you for a continuance of the present establishment of Fort Johnston, and to make immediate provision of powder and lead, for his Majesty's service and the public safety. Let us no longer remain unprovided with articles so essential to our defence, against the attempts of a foreign enemy, who may possibly at this day be in a state of war with Great Britain, the guardian of our commerce, and protector from hostile invasion.
I am directed to lay before you a memorial from some merchants in London, to one of his Majesty's Secretaries of State, respecting the packing and shipping of naval stores to the Mother country; therefore I hope you will give due attention to the regulations recommended in the same.
If these times had permitted, I should have recommended to you to establish a public seminary in some part of the back country of this colony, for the education of youth. An institution of this sort, and in those parts, would be very beneficial, by instructing the rising generation in the principles of religion and virtue, in that healthy and fertile climate. Possibly you may not lose sight of this object, on a more favourable opportunity.
Gentlemen of his Majesty's Honourable COUNCIL, Mr. SPEAKER, and Gentlemen of the HOUSE of ASSEMBLY,
It is a pleasing consideration to me to reflect I have been happy in the favourable attention of this country. I confess I feel an ardent desire to experience the like testimony at this important crisis, and that we may with candour, sincerity, and firmness, co-operate in measures for the public good. Believe me the cause before us is not the cause of an individual, or an opposition merely to administration, but to the constitution. If therefore these seditions are not speedily suppressed, they may spread their contagion through the continent, and disturb the internal tranquility of every colony in his Majesty's American dominions. Suffer not then the malicious rumours of dark designing malice, nor the intrigues of sedition, to turn us from the road of justice, or stagger us in the path of honor. These are the invaluable rights of honest men, and lead to virtues, which cast the brightest lustre on acts of legislation.
I shall detain you no longer than to inform you, as his Majesty has been graciously pleased to indulge me with leave of absence from this government I shall esteem myself honourably rewarded for my invariable endeavours to discharge the duties of my station, in promoting the welfare of this province, if I have the happiness on my return to England, to give my Royal master the assurance, that by your wisdom and vigour, I have been enabled to give stability, and a permanent regularity to the interior police of this country, and to restore among you the blessings of peace.
The Council and House of Assembly in their respective humble Addresses to him, acknowledge the importance of those objects recommended to them by his Excellency, and express their indignation at the Outrages committed at Hillsborough. They concur with the Governor in his sentiments with respect to the Situation of their public
Affairs: The Council concluded their Address as follows:
Your Excellency's intended absence from this Government, by leave from his Majesty, would be more unfavorable to our wishes, if we did not hope it would be attended with the perfect re-establishment of your health: but however providence may dispose of you, Sir, we shall always retain the most grateful remembrance both of your public and private virtues, and we shall ever most cheerfully bear testimony that your Excellency has omitted no part of the duties of your station to render stable and permanent the peace and good order of this country. And from hence we have the surest confidence that your Excellency will receive from his Majesty that approbation which he ever bestows on good and virtuous actions.
His Excellency in Answer to the Council, says, That he shall take a sensible pleasure, on every proper occasion, to acknowledge that much of the success of his public endeavours has been owing to their counsel and advice.
[The Assembly's Address concludes thus,] Your approaching departure from your government is a circumstance truly detrimental to the interests of this province, and is justly lamented. It is a misfortune peculiar to this country, that as soon as its Governor is become acquainted with its constitution, and the temper of its inhabitants, he is by some ill-sated means or other, removed from us. Nothing, Sir, on this affliction occasion, can afford us consolation, but a firm reliance that the well-known benevolence of your disposition, and friendly concern for the welfare of mankind, will dispose you to use that influence your merit and station justly entitled you to, in favour of the constitutional liberties of North America in general, and the interests of this province in particular. — Your steady and uniform endeavours to render every service to this country, have a just claim to the warmest return of gratitude and respect; and whithersoever you may go, you have the united and unfeigned wishes of this people for the peace & happiness of yourself and family.
RICHARD CASWEL, Speaker; To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following ANSWER.
Mr. SPEAKER, & Gentlemen of the HOUSE of ASSEMBLY,
I THANK you for your truly loyal, spirited, & affectionate address. The highly honourable testimonies you give me, of your approbation, of the several matters I have offered for your consideration, with your resolution to pursue vigorous and decisive measures in support of government, give new life to my hopes, and re-animate my zeal for your service. You cannot too much cherish and cultivate the liberal sentiments you have at this juncture embraced; sentiments nobly generous towards your King, and country, and most honourable to yourselves.
I receive with sensations of gratitude and esteem the assurance you give me of the unfeigned wishes of the people of this province, for the felicity of my family. Though many powerful considerations require my return to England, you may rest in confidence, that in whatever circumstances I may be placed, or whatever part of his Majesty's dominions may be my residence, I shall be happy to take part as far as the narrow sphere of my influence may reach, in favour of the true liberties of his Majesty's subjects in America, and the peculiar interests of this province. Neither time nor distance can efface from my mind, the just sense of the obligations I owe you for your favourable opinion of my public services, assurances of support against the secret and open abettors of the insurgents.
TO BE SOLD, cheap for Cash, or good Security, About fifty Acres of Land, in Barrington, a little more than half a Mile from the Meeting House, with a good House and Barn upon it, most of the Land under improvement; on which the Rev. Mr. PRINCE, lately lived. Enquire of Deacon Garland, of said Barrington, or of Major Samuel Hale, of Portsmouth. Barrington, March 25, 1771.

Last Sunday arrived at Boston, Capt. Rowe, in a Snow, in 11 Weeks from London, but brings no later Prints from thence than the 5th of January.
L O N D O N, Dec. 25.
SEVERAL American Agents are to wait upon Lord Hillsborough in a few days, to learn his Lordship's sentiments on the subject of some particulars concerning the protection of the colonies, in case of a War.
It is generally believed Lord Weymouth will join the minority. Dec. 29. It is now generally believed that Junius is the joint production of the Earl of Shelburne, Col. Barre, and Mr. Dunning.
Jan. 2. It is reported that Capt. Preston has received an assurance of being recompensed for his late sufferings, in consequence of the prosecution carried on against him at Boston, New-England.
A report is circulated at the West End of the Town, that the Earl of Hillsborough will be appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the room of Lord Viscount Townshend.
Jan. 3. A Correspondent says, it is very remarkable, that the two Persons who appear at present to be most in the Confidence of the Premier, are Mr. Robinson, Secretary of the Treasury, closely connected with Sir James Lowther, Son-in-Law to the Thane and Mr. Brommel, private Secretary to the Premier, bred up under the Thane.
It is said, that a Bill is preparing to be laid before an August Assembly, to enable his Majesty to appoint the Council for the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, in the same manner as his Majesty appoints the Privy-Council of Great-Britain and Ireland; the right of choosing the Council for the said Colony is at present vested in its Assembly.
Extract of a Letter from Dover, Dec. 30.
"A Vessel, arrived yesterday from Calais, bro't the News, that the Inhabitants there were making great Preparations for to illuminate their Houses, a Courier embarking for England with the News, that a PEACE, not a WAR, was the ultimate Resolution of the Courts of England, France, and Spain."
Jan. 4. It is said a Courier is arrived with Dispatches from the Court of Versailles and Madrid, with Articles of Assurance for an Accommodation of Peace.
Jan. 5. Yesterday after breaking up of the Levee, at St. James's, Lord North, Lord Hillsborough, and Lord Barrington, had a long Conference with his Majesty on Affairs of Importance.
It is asserted that the Government has already contracted for 25,000 Barrels of Irish Beef and Pork.
Letters from Florence say that the Earl of Bute has again relapsed into his old Disorder.
A new system of regulations for the American Colonies, has lately been submitted to the inspection of a great number of respectable merchants; and we are informed will certainly be taken into consideration of Parliament soon after the adjournment.
General Paoli has for some weeks past had very frequent and long conferences with his Majesty, which has given rise to a Conjecture, that he will be honoured with an important Command if a War should take Place between Great-Britain and any foreign Power.
Yesterday several Naval Officers attended at St. James and had the honour of kissing his Majesty's hand, on account of their late promotion.
Yesterday there was a full Board of Admiralty, for receiving the reports of the several Deputies, sent to the different dock-yards of the kingdom.
St. CHRISTOPHER'S, January 16.
We hear from Porto Rico, that a few days ago arrived there sixteen Sail of Setees, and ten Sail of Swedish and Spanish Ships, with 7500 regular Troops, and 1000 Convict Slaves, a number of Brass Cannon, Mortars and Ammunition, from Spain; and a number of Irish Officers, who are now raising a Regiment of Rangers. They work constantly on the garrisons with 700 Men. The women and children are ordered to keep themselves in readiness to leave the town at a minute's warning, 50 Men are taken from every Parish, who are now in town learning discipline; almost all their Officers are Irish. Orders are given to observe no holidays for six months to come.
CHARLESTOWN, (South-Carolina,) Jan. 21.
Lord Dunmore, Governor of New-York, has a Salary of 2000 sterling a year; Mr. Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts-Bay, 1500. sterling a year; Mr. Oliver, Lieutenant-Governor, 300 sterl. a year. Mr. Oliver's is said to be the first Salary given by Government to a Lieutenant Governor of any Province in America.
H A L I F A X, February 19.
Friday last between 11 and 12 o'Clock A. M. a melancholly Accident happened to Mrs. Elizabeth Stiver in the North Suburbs of this Town. It seems she had been out into the town and returned home about 11 o'Clock, when she locked herself into the House, as is said was her Custom, and went to making a Fire, when, by whatever means is unknown, it is supposed some of her Cloaths took fire, which burn't her in the Face, Breast and Legs, &c. to such a Degree that when her husband came home at 12 o'Clock, from the Navy Yard, where he is employed as a Watchman, he being obliged, after knocking at the Door several Times and no one opening it, he burst it open, and found her expired on the Floor.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, February 28.
Capt. Hanse from Jamaica, on the 5th of February about ten leagues to the Southward of Cape-Florida, fell in with a Spanish Fleet, consisting of 5 Xebecs, 6 or 7 large ships, and 2 or 3 Brigs; two of the large Ships gave chase to him but he luckily out-sailed them, the others were lying to; the same night he fell in with a Spanish Brig, supposed to belong to the above fleet; and hailing her, they answered from the Havanna, but would not inform where bound; he imagines they were bound to Old Spain; two of the large Ships had flags at their mast-heads.
Capt. Styles from North-Carolina informs, that he saw a large Schooner ashore on the Frying-pan, but the wind blowing very hard, he could not get near enough to enquire where she was from, or to afford her any relief.
N E W - Y O R K, March 18.
Capt. Campbell, in 31 days from Curacoa, informs, that a large Dutch-Ship that had been at Laguira with 600 Spanish soldiers, had touched there on her way home, she having some invalids to carry to Spain. She was chartered at 300 dollars per month.
Wednesday the Duke of Cumberland Packet failed for Falmouth, with whom went passenger Capt. Moncrief of the 26th regiment.
Capt. Douglass in a Brig from Newfoundland, bound to Philadelphia, is cast away on Long-Island, the Vessel lost, and 5 of the Crew drowned.
N E W - P O R T, March 18.
On Saturday Morning, the 16th Inst. departed this Life, after a long and lingering Illness, in the 40th Year of his Age, the Rev'd. Mr. MARK MADUKE BROWN, Minister of Trinity Church, in this Place; most sincerely and deservedly lamented by his Congregation, and all who had the Pleasure of his Acquaintance.
By Letters from Kingston we hear, that Earthquakes still
frequently happen at Port au Prince; and that there is Water over the Land funk there, by the Earthquakes, sufficient to float a Vessel of 500 Tons.
B O S T O N, March 25.
At a General Council held at the Council Chamber, by Adjournment, last Thursday, His Excellency the Governor, was pleased to nominate,
The Hon. Benjamin Lynde, Esq; Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature for this Province. And,
Foster Hutchinson, Esq; to be a Justice of said Court.
Samuel Quincy, Esq; to be Solicitor-General.
To which Nominations His Majesty's Council did Consent.
We hear that at the Superior Court now holden in Boston, one Charles Bougarbe, a French Boy, who was a Swift Witness against Manwaring and others last Winter, was convicted of Perjury, and was Yesterday sentenced to be set in the Pillory for the Space of one Hour, to be whipped 25 stripes, and to pay Costs.---That one William Marshall, for uttering a Piece of counterfeit Coin, (a Pisterdeen) knowing it to be Counterfeit, was sentenced to be set in the Pillory one Hour, and to pay Costs.---That one William Benjamin, and one Elizabeth Smith, each of them convicted of stealing Goods, were sentenced to receive 20 Stripes each, to pay treble Damages, and Costs.
A Yoke of Cattle about seven Years old, was lately killed at Dorchester by Mr. Robinson, which weigh'd, exclusive of the Tallow, 2612 lb. the rough Tallow and Suet weigh'd 475 lb. the whole 3087 lb.
By Accounts from all Parts of the Country, especially the late Rains, have raised the Rivers higher than has been known in the Memory of Man, and the greatest Numbers of Bridges carried away; so that travelling has been exceeding difficult.
We hear Capt. Symmes of Charlestown, died lately at Statia.
We hear that the Captains White and Stevens, in two Brigs for this Place, were to leave London, in about a Fortnight after Capt. Rowe.
In Capt. Rowe came Passengers WISEMAN CLAGGET, Esq; and the Captains Coffin and Chivers, of Portsmouth.
We are told that a Woman at Wrentham was lately deliver'd of three female Children, two of which are since dead.
The Snow Jenny, Capt. Orr, is arrived from Scotland.
Yesterday Morning, died at Roxbury, in the 77th Year of his Age, His Excellency WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Esq; late Governor and Commander in Chief of this Province.
Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in the Admiralty-Office, dated December 31, 1771.
"The Talk is much of WAR. This Day the Press warrants were renewed for a Year, as also the Press from Protections---Four Fire Ships were ordered Yesterday to be got ready with the utmost Dispatch; between 40 and 50 Sail of the Line preparing for Sea, 25 of them are manned."
We find, by the Papers, that a great Number of Ships were lost in December last on the Coast of England, and Parts adjacent; 7 sail of Colliers, with all their Crews, were lost in Yarmouth Roads; the Peggy Sloop of War was stranded near Halibut, and 40 of the Crew lost; about twenty Sail of Ships, supposed to be mostly Colliers, were thought to be lost on the Home Sand, with great Part of their Crews; besides a considerable Number of other Ships lost at different Places, & most of their Crews perished.
B O S T O N, March 21.
On Monday Forenoon the Merchants and Traders of this Town, waited on His Excellency the Governor with the following Address.
May it please your Excellency,
WE the Merchants and others in the Town of Boston, more immediately concerned in Trade and Commerce, do now take the Liberty of presenting your Excellency with our hearty Congratulations on your Advancement to the chief Command of this Province.
It gives us the most sensible Pleasure that His Majesty has been pleased to appoint at the Head of this Government a Gentleman of your Excellency's known and approved Integrity and Abilities,---one born and educated among us, who has devoted so great a Part of his Life to the Service of the Publick in sundry Places of Importance and Trust, and whose Services have been so eminently distinguished in a Variety of Instances. We would particularly look back with Pleasure and Gratitude upon the Part which your Excellency bore in the important Change of our Medium, (for it must be attributed to your Excellency's Wisdom and Zeal that this Measure was effected, a Change which has derived such happy Consequences to this Province in general, particularly the Commercial Part of it, and which of itself ought to render your Name forever dear to us.
We are sensible that your Excellency is called to the Administration at a very difficult Conjuncture, and that it requires an able Head, and upright Heart and steady Hand, to guide the Helm and to keep the State in its true Channel. But the long Experience we have had of your Excellency's Uprightness, Steadiness and Activity in the several Departments of Government you have already filled, leaves us no room to doubt now you are exalted to the chief Direction, that all Difficulties will be removed and that the true Interest of the Province will be ever kept in view, and invariably pursued. We earnestly solicit your Excellency's Attention to the Trade of this Province, upon the flourishing state of which the Publick Prosperity so much depends. May it find all the Encouragement from you which it stands in
need of; and may your Influence be employed that those Burthens which it at present labours under may be removed. In Confidence of this, we beg leave to assure your Excellency that we will use every Endeavour within our Sphere to render your Administration easy and happy.
To which His Excellency was pleased to return the following Answer.
GENTLEMEN,
YOUR obliging Congratulations upon my Promotion to the Chief Place in Government, and your kind Assurances that you will endeavour the success of my Administration, give me the highest Pleasure.
The Weight and Influence of so respectable a Body will greatly assist me, notwithstanding the difficult State of Affairs, in maintaining the just Authority of Government, consistent with the Rights and Liberties of every subject.
I was, many years, one of your Number---I still retain a great Affection for you---I am very sensible of the great Utility of Commerce: You cannot therefore fail of every Encouragement which it may be in my Power to give you.
There were upwards of One Hundred Gentlemen, who waited on his Excellency with the above Address.
THURSDAY March 21st. the Rev'd Associated Ministers of this Town waited on His Excellency the Governor with the following Address.
To His Excellency THO: HUTCHINSON Esq; Captain General and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay.
The Address of the associated Pastors of the Congregational Churches, in Boston.
May it please your Excellency.
THE most high who ruleth forever, having inclined our Sovereign to constitute your Excellency the Governor of this Province, we take this Occasion to express our Loyalty to the King, and our Respect to His Representative.
As your Excellency is placed at the Head of a Province which is given you Birth and Education, and employed you in its most important Offices, we are encouraged to expect your natural and earnest Care for the Welfare of your Country.---And while your Excellency is shewing your Concern for the Honor of His Majesty's Government, you will exert yourself to secure our invaluable Rights and Privileges; and promote the Interests of Religion and Learning.
Your Excellency's particular Acquaintance with the Religious Principles of your Illustrious Ancestors the Founders of this Colony, will we trust influence you to patronize the churches formed upon the generous and evangelical Plan.
We devoutly pray that your Excellency may be directed thro' the whole of your Administration by unerring Wisdom, to the Acceptance of the Multitude of your Brethren, and the Approbation of the great and impartial Governor of the Universe.
To which His Excellency was pleased to return the following Answer.
GENTLEMEN,
EVERY Instance of your Loyalty to the King and Respect to his Representative will always give me great Satisfaction.
In my past Administration I have made it my sincere Endeavour to discharge with Fidelity the several Duties which you have pointed out to me. I have also endeavoured to maintain and increase in the People an Esteem and Reverence for the Clergy, which should encourage me to expect that by their Influence, my Hands may be strengthened in the Discharge of my Duty in the future Part of my Administration.
A few Barrels of CORDIALS, Consisting of Snake Root, Clove, Aniseed, Doctor Stevens and Orange-Water, warranted genuine;---with a Variety of other Articles, TO BE SOLD BY
Joseph Bass,
At his SHOP next Door to the printing Office, Very low for CASH.

PORTSMOUTH, March 25, 1771. Tuesday Evening came to Town, WISEMAN CLAGGETT , Esq; the late Attorney-General of this Province, who has been in England about two Years. Also the Captains Coffin and Chivers of this Place. These Gentlemen bring but little News Having had a long and tedious Passage of Eleven Weeks. It is their Opinion we shall certainly have a WAR, the Press continuing very hot, and the greatest Preparations making. We hear that two Mills at Exeter, were carried away in the Storm last Saturday.
The Reverend Mr. MARMADUKE BROWN , who died at Newport, the 16th Instant, as appears by an Article in the Rhode-Island Gazette, was the eldest Son of the Reverend Mr. ARTHUR BROWN , Minister of Queen's-Chapel in this Town; a Gentleman well known and respected here, and of Consequence his Death is much regretted, by all who had the Pleasure of his Acquaintance. His Father was sent for the last Week, with an Account of his being dangerously ill, who set out for that Colony Tuesday fe'nnight, and is not yet return'd.
Messieurs FOWLES , Please to insert the following,
Honour is the bright Wheel that turns the Soul. IF this mighty Mover of the human Mind, Honour , was attended to and properly improved, it would be productive of infinite Advantages to Mankind. If none were employed in public Stations but Men of Honour, and Merit was the only Requisite for Preferment, what glorious Times should we soon see? A Prince who makes Merit the only necessary Recommendation for public Employments, will ever be surrounded with great and good Men---it is the same Thing with the Commons, or whoever has the disposal of public Offices; for Men are extremely fond of Promotion, and to be distinguished, and they will ever make use of those Means which they observe are attended with the greatest Success.---If they find that Virtue & Merit are the only Qualifications that will pave the Way to Posts of Honour, and Profit, they will use their utmost Endeavours to adorn their Minds with all necessary Knowledge, with Virtue, and every good Qualification, and also maintain a shining Character unblemish'd with any Deviation from the Paths of Virtue and Honour.---Good Rulers are the great Axis on which the Happiness of a People turns, and the only Way to have such, is for every one to use his Influence to promote Men of Merit, and generously support them in their Office.---Rulers are stiled Gods among Men, because they represent the Great RULER of the Universe, (if they are good) by protecting the Innocent, punishing the Wicked, and promoting universal Happiness,---and none should be Rulers but such as imitate the Divine Example; none but Men of true Religion, whose Souls are too noble ever to prefer their private Interest to the public Welfare. Should any Body of People, (suppose this Province for Instance) observe the above Maxims in choosing, in generously supporting, and honouring their Rulers, and Officers of every Denomination, Imagination would fail to set Bounds to their Happiness and Glory.---Righteousness like a mighty River would run through the Land and bear down all Iniquity! The Wicked would flee out of it to escape Punishment! The Righteous flock into it and be safe! The Rulers would live in Pleasure, ruling in the Hearts of the People, and the People flourish under the Protection of their Guardians, like generous Plants, under the prolific Beams of the Sun.---Religion and Virtue would spread like the increasing Light in the Morning. The sound of Discord no more be heard: Envy and Malice flee away like Night before the rising Dawn---Peace and Joy reign universal---Heaven smile around, and Life taste Sweet!-----
To-morrow will be publish'd, And Sold at D. & R. Fowle's Printing-Office, near the State-House; Price 1s. 6d.
A Plan of Exercise,
extracted from the Plan practiced by the Norfolk Militia; and is ordered by His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, to be observed throughout this Province---containing the Manual Exercise, with Explanations---The Officers Exercise, and the manner of Saluting---The Halberd Exercise, and the Funeral Exercise, &c. &c.
ALSO, To-Morrow, may be had at the Printing-Office,
An ACT for dividing this Province into five Counties,
By the Names of Rockingham, Stafford, Hillsborough, Cheshire, and Grafton.
Notice is hereby given to all the
Proprietors of Monadnock , No. 3, that at a legal Meeting held in said Monadnock on the 23d Day of January, 1770, a Tax of One pound sixteen shillings, Lawful Money , was assessed on each Right for making Roads in said Township; and at another Meeting held the 14th of February 1771, another Tax of One pound ten shillings, Lawful , on each Right, towards building a Meeting House in said Township. These are therefore to desire the proprietors to pay the said Taxes to me the Subscriber, at my House in said Monadnock , by the 22d Day of June next, or their Lands will be advertised for sale, or so much as shall pay said Taxes and incidental Charges
JOSEPH GREENWOOD , Collector.
Monadnock, No. 3, March 14, 1771.
TO BE SOLD OR LETT,
26 Acres and half of Marsh , at Scatter's Hill ---Likewise, to be sold, a proprietors Grant, No. 6, about 57 Acres, near Carter's Mills , both in Scarborough , by Alexander Kirkwood .
BLANKS of most sorts, &c.
With a Number of Books, Sold at the Printing Office.
An Assortment of  Stationary, TO BE SOLD BY  John Sparhawk, At his Shop opposite Messrs Williams and Stanwood's Shop in Queen Street , Portsmouth, viz.---A variety of  Paper, Ink Powder, ACCOUNT - BOOKS of different sizes; Quills, Ink Holders, Penknives, Pounce, Stands, Merry Andrew, Henry the 8th, and Great Mogul CARDS, &c. &c. &c. ALSO, A few Pieces of fine Oznaburghs , and Ticklenburghs ,---very low for Cash.
Nathaniel Sheaff Griffith, Clock and Watch Maker in Portsmouth. REPAIRS and cleans WATCHES in a faithful Manner---And has for sale, all sorts of Watch Ware, such as Springs, Chains, Seals, Keys, &c. &c.
NOTICE is hereby given that at sundry legal Meetings of the proprietors of Plainfield , a Tax of Three Pounds, six Shillings and eight Pence , was voted to be raised on each original Right in said Town; These are therefore to desire all those who are delinquent to pay the above Tax to me the Subscriber, on or before the first of May next, otherwise their Rights, or so much of them will be advertised for sale at Vendue in this Paper, as the Law directs, as will pay said Tax, with incidental Charges.  John Stevens , Collector.  Plainfield, in New Hampshire, March 15, 1771.
WHEREAS the Proprietors of COCKERMOUTH , have been legally notified to pay their Assessments, raised on each Right or Share to me the Subscriber, and several of said proprietors have neglected either in whole or in part; these are to notify said Delinquent Proprietors, that there will be Sold at Public Vendue, on the 24th Day of April next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, at the House of Samuel Hobart , Esq; in Hollis , so much of the Land of each Delinquent Proprietor, as will pay the Sum or Sums that remain due, with all incidental Charges.
The Delinquent Proprietors Names are as follows, viz.
   Names £. s. Names £. s.     Amos Phillips, 3 13 James M'Leilen 1 16   Caleb Farley 3 13 Hugh White 1 16   Samuel Hazelton 3 13 Henry Thompson, jr 1 16   James Gould, 2 18 Ben. Wentworth 1 16   John Thomson 1 16 James Taylor 1 16   Henry Thomson 1 16 William Taylor 1 16   Rufus Thomson 1 16 Jona. Danforth 1 16   Ebenezer Fisk 1 16 Abraham Hunter, jr. 1 16   John Nelson, Esq; 1 16  
By Order of said Proprietors,  Hollis, March 12, 1771.  John Atwell , Collector. N. B. The Proprietors Meeting stands adjourned to Time and Place aforesaid.
THE Proprietors of the Town-
ship of New Britain (so called) are hereby Notified, to meet at the House of Capt. Caleb Sanborn , Inn-holder in Hampton Falls , on Monday the 22d Day of April next, at One of the Clock, Afternoon, 1st. To chuse a Moderator for said Meeting. 2d. To chuse a Proprietors Clerk; a Committee to call Proprietors Meetings; Assessors; a Collector; a Treasurer, &c. 3d. To see what said Proprietors will do relating to clearing and repairing of Roads in said Township. 4th. To see if said Proprietors will agree to hire Preaching for any Part of this present Year, and how much, for the Benefit of said Proprietors and Inhabitants. 5th. To see if said Proprietors will agree to raise any Sum or Sums of Money for the Purposes aforesaid, or to defray any Charge that has or may accrue towards the Settlement of said Township. 6th. To see in what Way and Manner said Proprietors will improve or dispose of the Grist Mill in said Township.
Hampton, March 25th. 1771.  Anthony Emery, } Com-  Caleb Sanborn, } mitt-  Nath. Healey, } tee.
TO BE SOLD
At PUBLIC VENDUE,
ON Friday next, more than one half of a large Dwelling House, at the North End of this Town, late in the Occupation of Mr. Isaac Tucker ; three Rooms below, two Chambers, four Fire Places, a good Cellar,---The Sale to be at said House, at Four o'Clock Afternoon.
BOSTON, March 25 1771. On Tuesday the 19th, his Majesty's Justices of the Superior Court for the Province waited upon His Excellency the Governor, with the following Address, To His Excellency THO s HUTCHINSON Esq; Captain-General and Governor in Chief of His Majesty's Province of Massachusetts-Bay.
May it please your Excellency! THE Justices of the superior Court of Judicature wait upon you with their unfeigned Congratulations on the distinguishing Mark of the Royal Favour, in appointing your Excellency to the Chair of Government in this Province.
Excuse us, SIR! if we feel some uneasiness at that Relation's being dissolved, by which we have been happily connected with you in that Department of the Law where you so long presided as Chief Justice, with Dignity to yourself and to the Court, and with so great Honour to the Province; but it alleviates our Misfortune, while we view you in the more important Character of the Father of your Country.
We are too intimately acquainted, SIR, with your Sentiments of the importance of the Law, that impregnable Bulwark of English Liberty, to ask your Protection of it; your Sentiments are publickly known, and the Publick hath repeated the Advantages of them.
Happy shall we always esteem ourselves, if we can contribute to the Ease of your Excellency's Administration. Be assured, SIR, that nothing can prevent our warmest Wishes, that those Abilities of Mind and that Integrity of heart which have so frequently derived the most salutary Advantages to this Province in the various publick Offices which you have sustained, may secure to you the Applause of all His Majesty's loyal Subjects under your Administration, the Smiles of the greatest and best of Sovereigns, and the all-important Approbation of the King of Kings.
His Excellency's Answer. AN Address so kind and affectionate from Gentlemen of your superior Order and Character, does me great Honour. We have lived long together as Brethren in perfect Harmony, employed in the joint Service, of our Country, no wonder we part with Reluctance. We may still contribute, although in different Characters, to the Advancement of the publick Weal. While you go on with your wonted Firmness, Integrity and Skill, dispensing Law and Justice, the great Supports of Government, I shall be attentive to your Protection and Encouragement to the utmost of my Power.
THE WISH.
Would Heaven but grant me my desire, A small request I would require, A decent house and a good fire A pot of beer to give a friend, And wealth enough for to extend My charity to the object poor, And drive penury from my door. But join to this a loving wife, A stranger to conjugal strife, My happiness would be compleat, I'd envy not the rich and great, But spend my Days exempt from care, Or anxious thought, of proaching war, And quiet sleep under my roof, And ask no more---think this enough.
ON Tuesday the 9th of April, will be sold at public Vendue, at the House where the Newmarket Lottery is to begin Drawing that Day in Stratham , at Four o'Clock, Afternoon.
Seven Acres of choice LAND,
lying in Newmarket , being Part of the Estate of Mr. Jacob Treadwell , late of Portsmouth , deceased, and now sold by Samuel Treadwell , Executor to said Estate.---Conditions of Sale to be seen at Time and Place.
Twenty Settlers immediately
are wanted to settle in the Township of TRECO-THICK , to whom the choice of Land will be given and such Encouragement as must suit any Persons that incline to go, as now is the Season, for that Purpose. Those who first apply will be more particularly benefited, by being employed on the Roads. Enquire of Capt. Hubartus Neal , or John Wendell .

BOSTON, March 4. 1771.
Extract of a Letter from Newcastle.
I called as you desired, at Sedgfield, in the county of Durham, and paid a visit to Hardwick gardens, but must forbear at this time to give you the particulars of the charming walks and shades in these gardens; and indeed my description will convey but a very inadequate idea of their beauties. From thence I went to Gibside, the seat of Lord S. and viewed the walks, &c. which are extremely elegant and well planned. Here was formerly the mansion of hospitality, where the stranger and traveller always found access to refreshment; but, tempora mutantur , there is no admittance now, and Fames seems to stand sentinel at the gates. From this place I proceeded to Newcastle, where I have stayed six days longer than I proposed, merely to see the ceremony of confirmation, as you know we have no bishops in America. The patriots in this part assured me the prelate's business would be but small at this confirmation, on account of his late political conduct in the senate, which had given much offence to them; but the patriots were mistaken: There was never known a greater number to attend, though chiefly the vulgar, or what the ministry call the scum of the earth . So that it is plain, this class of people are very indifferent about their civil liberties, in comparison to the Bishop's blessing. But to proceed; the day on which the ceremony was performed was extremely unfavourable, the water pouring from the clouds in torrents the most part of the day, so that the country people (and many who came from the distance of twenty miles) were wet to the skin. Those who came in boats down the river, appeared, when they landed, as if they had been delivered up by the river gods. They were every thing but drowned. Pitiably yet unpitied they proceeded in large companies to the church, headed by the journeyman parsons of their respective parishes, who strutted with all the consequence of a commanding officer, when marching to attack a few unarmed rioters. Indeed their gesticulations were so particularly striking and awful, that even Satan at their appearance would have abandoned his post and fled: Our Warior Attakullakulla, might have made a valuable acquisition had he been a spectator of the procession: For instead of endangering his life with slaughtering the Indians over the Appalachian mountains, his very appearance would have frightened them to the remotest corners of America. But to conclude, the church was extremely crowded, and the people rather unruly, every one endeavouring with much spiritual warmth, though half drowned, to get foremost to the blessing, whilst the journeyman parsons were excessively vigilant in sowing the seeds of patience and good order; and it might be about three hours before the last Christian received the finishing stroke of religion. After which the clergy were elegantly entertained at the Mansion house, where Bachus confirmed them all. And thus ended this holy farce!
WE the Subscribers, being appointed by the Hon. John Wentworth, Esq; Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for said Province, Commissioners, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of Abner Herriman, late of Plaistow, in the Province of New Hampshire, Yeoman, deceased, intestate, represented Insolvent; and six Months from the 22d. of February last, being allowed by the Judge for said Creditors to bring in and prove their Claims, DO hereby Notify said Creditors, that we will attend that Service at the House of John Hall, Esq; in said Plaistow, on the third Tuesday of this, and the four following Months, from One to Seven O'Clock, P. M.
March 4th. 1771.
Thomas Noyes, Enoch Noyes, Moses Kelly.
The MANAGERS of Stratham
and Newmarket LOTTERY, began Drawing the same last Week, being the Time appointed, but a violent Storm setting in, and other Reasons, obliged them to adjourn to the second Tuesday in April next, when they will certainly proceed and finish drawing.
¶ A few Tickets may be had of the Managers and at the Printing Office.
On the same Day will be Sold
at VENDUE, the Building of two Piers of the Bridge, now erecting between Stratham and Newmarket. Conditions of Sale to be seen at Time and Place.
New and Old West-India Rum, Coffee, Cotton Wool, and Lignum Vitæ, Also, a parcel of Cross-Cut Saws, and some Bar Iron, just imported, and to be sold by
John Evans,
At his Store on the Long Wharf.
Province of New-Hampshire.
THE Proprietors of the Township of BOW in said Province, are hereby Notified, to meet at the House of Mrs. Love Chase, Innholder at Stratham, on Thursday the 4th of April next, (agreeable to Charter) at one of the Clock in the Afternoon, to act on the following Articles; viz. to chuse a Moderator, and all necessary Officers, and Committees for said Proprietors. To receive the Report of the Committee chosen at the last annual Meeting, to treat with a Committee appointed by the proprietors of Rumford (now Concord) relating to purchasing the Lands of Bow within their Claims. And whereas it appears, that said proprietors of Rumford, have voted to purchase the 100 Acre Lots in Bow, of the Owners thereof; therefore to see if the proprietors of Bow, will vote to quit to said proprietors of Rumford, all their common Land within said Rumford Grant, except 162 Acres, in case they purchase said 100 Acre Lots as aforesaid. And chuse a Committee with Power to settle that whole Affair with Rumford Proprietors, or their Committee.
And likewise to see if they will vote at said Meeting, that in case any proprietor or proprietors, shall refuse to sell and settle on the Terms proposed by said Committee; that he or they, so refusing shall defend their Right at their own Cost, without any aid or help from said proprietors of Bow.
Also, to see if said proprietors will vote to sell the 9th Lot in the 3d Range, in the first Division, or any of the common Land towards paying their Debts, and prosecute any Trespassers on the Commons.
And whereas there has been for some Time, considerable Sums of Money, belonging to said proprietors, lying dead in sundry Gentlemen's Hands, to see if said Proprietors will chuse a Committee to recover the same in order to pay their Debts. And to pass any other Vote that may be proper at said Meeting.
Stratham, March 6, 1771.
Samuel Lane, Prop's Clerk.
The Commissioners on the
ESTATE of Mr. NATHANIEL ADAMS, give NOTICE, that the Time for exhibiting the Claims expires on the thirteenth Day of April next, when all those who neglect giving in their Claims, will be wholly excluded. Portsmouth, March 21. 1770.
TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC VENDUE, ON MONDAY the Fifteenth Day of APRIL next, at the Dwelling House of Mr. NATHANIEL ADAMS, deceased.
ALL the Personal Estate of said deceased; the Sale to begin at Four o'Clock, P. M. and to continue from Day to Day 'till the whole is Sold.
And on Tuesday the 23d of April next, will be Sold,
All the Real Estate of said
deceased, except the Widow's Dower, consisting of a very genteel DWELLING HOUSE near the Parade, with a convenient STORE and BARN adjoining; and a large GARDEN. — Also an ISLAND situated in the POOL (so called) where the Masts Ships generally load, containing about ten or twelve Acres, more or less, with a Dwelling HOUSE and large WARE-HOUSE on the same, and a very good WHARFF, more than one half of which is built with Stone. For CONDITIONS of SALE, enquire of JOHN PARKER. Portsmouth, March 22. 1770.
JUST PUBLISHED, AND TO BE SOLD AT
William Appleton's
BOOK STORE in Portsmouth, (American Edition) Of the
HISTORY of the REIGN of CHARLES the Fifth, EMPEROR of GERMANY; and of all the KINGDOMS and STATES in Europe during his Age: To which is prefixed a VIEW of the Progress of SOCIETY in Europe, from the Subversion of the ROMAN EMPIRE, to the beginning of the sixteenth Century: confirmed by HISTORICAL PROOFS and ILLUSTRATIONS. By WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D. D. Principal of the UNIVERSITY of Edinburgh, and Historiographer to his MAJESTY for SCOTLAND.
This Volume can only be Sold to those Gentlemen, who are now willing to subscribe for the second and third Volumes of this celebrated History, which will soon be published, and sold by said APPLETON, price One Dollar each Volume.
TO BE SOLD
330 Acres of good Land, lying in Barrington, with a large stream of Water running thro' the same, sufficient for erecting a Mill on, in the second Range of Lots, and number'd 42. For further particulars apply to HENRY CARTER, Esq; in Portsmouth.
Province of New-Hampshire.
WHEREAS Application has been made to me the Subscriber, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Province aforesaid, by the Owners of more than one sixteenth Part of the Rights or Shares in the Township of Eaton, in said Province, to call a Meeting of said Proprietors, to meet at the House of Jeremiah Folsom, junr. Innholder at Newmarket, on the first Monday in April next; when met, 1st. To chuse a Moderator for said Meeting; then to chuse a Committee or Committees to transact such Affairs as shall then be voted, necessary for the speedy Settlement of said Township; and also to vote such Encouragement to those ready to become Settlers in said Township, as said Proprietors shall then think proper: In Consideration of which Application, I hereby Notify said proprietors to meet at the Time and Place aforesaid, for the Purposes aforesaid. H. WENTWORTH, Jus. Pac.
Portsmouth, March 8th. 1771.
All persons indebted to, or that have Demands on the Estate of Samuel Davis, junr. late of Madbury, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Nathaniel Davis, of said Madbury, Executor to said Estate, in order for a speedy settlement; he will attend that Business at the House of Joseph Drew, Innholder in Madbury, the third Wednesday in March, Inst. and the third Wednesday in the five following Months.
Madbury, March 14. 1771.
All Persons, whose Accounts with Deacon WILLIAM COTTON, late of Falmouth in the County of Cumberland, and province of the Massachusetts Bay, Tanner, deceased, remain yet unsettled, are hereby again requested to settle the same immediately, with the Subscriber, Executrix, of his last Will and Testament; otherwise she must, (though unwillingly) have recourse to the Law, to oblige those who are in Debt to his Estate, to settle and pay their respective Balances.
Falmouth, Feb. 19. 1771.
Martba Cotton.
Stephen Morris,
At his Shop in Portsmouth, opposite Dr. Langdon's Meeting House, on the Parade,
MAKES all sorts of Goldsmiths and Jewellery Work, in the neatest Manner, and is determined to sell very Cheap. Whoever will do him the Favor to come to him for Articles in that Way, may be assured of his using them with Fidelity & Dispatch.
TO BE SOLD,
A very convenient Dwelling HOUSE, Barn and Shop, with about seven Acres of good Land, lying about sixty Rods from Greenland Meeting House, on the Main Road leading from Portsmouth to Boston: — The House has four Rooms on the Floor, with a good Celler, very convenient for a Tradesman or Trader. — Likewise about 100 Acres of Land, lying in Epsom, being the 43d Lett in the second Range, warranted good. — For further Particulars, Enquire of Walter Philbrook, of Greenland, or the Printers hereof.
TO BE LETT,
A convenient HOUSE, with a good Shop, Garden, Well, and other Conveniences, situate in the Street leading from the Corner of the House of the Hon. Daniel Pierce, Esq; Enquire of the Printers.
Just publish'd at Boston, and to be Sold by Samuel Freeman, at Falmouth, Casco Bay, price 6 Coppers.
A Table, calculated to shew the Contents (in Feet and twelfth Parts of a Foot) of any Sled Load or Cart Load of WOOD, having the Length given in Feet, and the height and width in Feet and Inches.
A few of the above Tables may be had at the Printing Office in Portsmouth.
Province of New Hampshire.
THIS is to Notify the Proprietors of Rumney, in said Province, that the Taxes on each Original Right, is £. 5. 3/. it is therefore desired the same may be paid to me the the Subscriber, at Rumney, by the 15th Day of April next, or so much of each Share must be advertised for Sale, as will pay the same. James Heatb, Collector.
Rumney, February 8th. 1771.
TO BE SOLD AT PUBLIC VENDUE, the Eighteenth Day of APRIL next, at the House of Capt. JOHN ROBINSON's in Falmouth, A GOOD FARM, lying in Windham, commonly known by the Name of New Marblehead, on the Back of Falmouth, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay. — Said FARM contains of improved Land about 100 Acres; and 200 Acres of unimproved. For further Particulars, enquire of Capt. Caleb Graffan of said Windham.