The New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1783-05-10 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
Vol. XXVII.]
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1783.
[No. 1384.]
An ADDRESS delivered to the Inhabitants of one of the Towns in this State, previous to their entering on the consideration of the proposed Form of Government.
Friends and Fellow-Citizens,
IT is a circumstance which rarely happens in the world, that a people have opportunity, deliberately to form a Constitution or Plan of Government for themselves. Most nations have been, and are subject to princes who have come in by succession, or by usurpation, and the people having always been used to a government which they had no hand in forming, either quietly submit to those who are over them, or if a revolution happens, change one tyrant for another, without any alteration for the better. The greater part of mankind have no just idea of the rights which God has endowed them with, and calls them on proper occasions to exercise. Such an occasion is now presented to us. We are called in the providence of God, to do that for ourselves, which scarce any people in the world have had opportunity to do; to fix and establish a constitution by which we and our posterity may be governed; by which our just rights may be well ascertained, and firmly established; by which our liberty and property, may be secured; and the blessings of order, peace and union perpetuated among us. You are to be called upon for your free votes on this vastly important point, and can there be any better direction for your conduct at this time than what was once given to the Israelitish nation at a time when they had no regular government, and an important case was bro't before the body of the people.—“Consider of it, take advice and speak your minds.” * Consideration and advice, are our first duties. 'Tis the part of wisdom to consider and deliberate, before we speak on matters of importance. “The fool uttereth all his mind, but the wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.” † But to whom shall we go for advice? I answer—not to your passions, passion is always a bad counsellor. Such matters as these should be considered and debated with all possible calmness and candor. Nor suffer yourselves to be governed by prejudice: Let no opinion be formed without being duly and impartially weighed: Be not sudden, nor hasty, nor tenacious, but give way to a strict search and hear reasons and arguments on both sides. Neither consult Mammon. The question is not whether the constitution be expensive, but whether it be just and reasonable, and calculated for the public good: 'Tis not to be made for to-day, nor to-morrow, but for future years, and perhaps ages, and we are to look forward as far as we can, to the future circumstances of ourselves and our posterity, which we should hope according to the course of things will be much superior in point of wealth, than the present. How many people in the world would give one half of their interest, to have the other half well secured to them! How many are groaning under the oppression of lordly tyrants, their lives and property, every hour in danger of being seized and forfeited for no crime but to glut the avarice, or ambition, or revenge of their princes! And shall we, who call ourselves a
* Judges 19th, 30th. † Proverbs 29, 11.
free people, grudge the expences of government? No government can subsist without expence; and where expences are regulated by persons of our own chusing; and they who apply and expend the public treasure, are accountable for it, and liable to be punished for mispending it, there can be no danger of the expence being inadequate to the benefit.
What is the true end and object of government, but the public good; and is this valuable end aimed at in the constitution now presented to you? Is there any rights but what is well defined? any privilege but what is well secured? any delegated power but what is well guarded? Is it in its general principles consonant to public and personal liberty, public and personal safety? If so, there is an argument in favour of it which cannot be easily overthrown, and if we should reject it for the sake of some trivial and partial inconvenience which we may imagine will attend it, or some punctilio in which it does not correspond with our prejudices, or thro' fear of its being expensive; is it likely we shall have a better? rather should we not deserve to have a worse? should we not deserve to have one palmed upon us without our consent, or to have none at all?
It is a peculiar kind of trial which we are now placed under. We have been contending for our rights and interests, and defending them against hostile attacks; and divine providence has succeeded our designs, even beyond our most sanguine expectations.—We are now to be tried, whether we really set so great a value on these rights and interests as we have pretended—whether we have the virtue to secure to ourselves and our posterity, those privileges which we have paid the price of in blood. How many of our brethren and friends have fallen in this controversy? How many brave officers and soldiers have crimsoned the field with their blood, and with their expiring breath have exclaimed, “O save my Country, Heaven!” How many “daring seamen have been melted into putrid masses, in the stifling black holes of prison-ships, each of their honest, dying hearts, in these circles of misery still “true to his Country's cause!” † How many others who were alive, vigorously and earnestly engaged in the beginning of this controversy, have been accosted by the cold hand of death, and do not see the noble issue of their toils, and dangers, and sufferings! and is it not a debt of gratitude to them, to their families, as well as a duty to ourselves and our posterity, to perpetuate the blessings of freedom and good government, in which we may all have an equal share? Shall it be said that we have suffered, and fought, and bled, and that many of our brethren have sacrificed their lives in the cause of liberty, and that we have not the virtue left to improve the advantage now in our hands, to establish the seat of liberty among us? Can we act so inconsistent a part? I hope and trust we shall not.
My worthy friends, it is a matter of the utmost importance that is now before you. if I had not thought so, I should not have put myself to the trouble of making, nor you of hearing this address—but when I consider
† President Dickenson's conclusion of his address to the Electors of Pennsylvania.
how greatly inattentive many are to this matter, how strangely others suffer themselves to be blinded and misled, and how much depends on this opportunity of securing our civil and religious liberties; which if it be let slip, may never return; but we and our posterity may in time become slaves, and groan under the chains of civil and spiritual tyranny for want of exerting ourselves at this critical period—I thought it my duty to endeavour to rouse you to attend to this valuable interest.
Be persuaded then to consider of it and take advice—and after you have done this, speak your minds—for this is necessary in the present case, where the matter is to be determined by the number of votes. Let every man be present and give his vote, and let none shamefully stand neuter. Let every man look on himself as a man of importance, and consider himself standing at the head of his children, and all his posterity, though yet unborn, and solemnly acting in their behalf: Let him consider himself as entrusted by God with a power of deciding their fate, whether they shall be freemen or slaves. Let him remember that God has now put it into his power to hand down to them a charter of freedom purchased with blood; whereby their happiness shall be secured to them, so far as it is in the power of man to do it; and if we do this now, our children yet unborn, will hereafter rise up and call us blessed.
I shall finish with that noble Apostrophe written by the late elegant Dr. Aken-side, for an inscription on a column at Runnymede.
“Thou, who the verdant plain dost traverse here While Thames among his willows from thy view Retires; O stranger, stay thee, and the scene Around contemplate well. This is the place Where England's ancient Barons, clad in arms And stern with conquest, from their Tyrant King (Then render'd tame) did challenge and secure The Charter of thy Freedom. Pass not on Till thou hast bless'd their memory, and paid Those thanks which God appointed the reward Of public virtue. And if chance thy home Salute thee with a Father's honor'd name, Go, call thy sons; instruct them what a debt They owe their ancestors; and make them swear To pay it, by transmitting down entire Those sacred rights to which themselves were born.”
ALL persons having any demands on SUPPLY CLAP and NATHAN NICHOLS, for business in which they were jointly concerned, are hereby desired to bring in their respective accounts immediately, the said connection being now mutually dissolved. Portsmouth, April 29, 1783.
State of New-Hampshire. Strafford, ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors owners of land in Wakefield, in said county, that there is a tax of eleven shillings and six pence, laid on each original right in said town, by order of said proprietors, and committed to the subscriber to collect: I do hereby notify said proprietors and owners, that unless they pay said tax to the subscriber, at Wakefield, or to Mr. Thomas Odiorne, at Exeter, within three weeks from the first publication hereof, so much of their lands will be advertised for sale as will pay said taxes with incidental charges. Samuel Hall, Collector. Wakefield, April 20, 1783.

The following European advices were received by Capt. Haller, of Boston, who is arrived at Philadelphia, in 5 weeks from Bourdeaux.
V I E N N A, January 26.
The Porte having granted the demands of Russia, it was hoped a war would have been prevented; but warlike preparations are conducted with unabated activity. Recruits are raising, the artillery corps is augmenting, and some thousand horses are purchasing. The Emperor now demands satisfaction of the Turks for several breaches of his last treaty. He even demands Belgrade, Nissa, Weddin, and the whole of the Danube shore as far as Warnar. Belgrade is but 92 miles from Constantinople: it was taken three times by the Turks, the last time in 1739. Nissa is seven day journey from Belgrade, and has been possessed by the Turks since the year 1737.
L O N D O N.
Feb. 22. A cessation of hostilities was agreed to by the Assembly of the States of Holland, by a majority of one voice only.
Yesterday morning Lord Camden went to the levee at St. James's, after which he had an audience of his Majesty, when his Lordship resigned the Presidency of the Council.
We hear Preliminaries with the Dutch were actually signed, and will be declared to the House of Commons on Monday next.
Feb. 25. Yesterday, at the levee, the following Ministers of State intimated to the King their resolution of resigning their respective employments, namely, the Dukes of Richmond, Manchester and Rutland, the Lord Chancellor, Lords Shelburne and Ashburton, General Conway and Mr. Pitt.
Yesterday advice was received by Government from Mr. Fitzherbert, our resident at the Court of Versailles, that the French Cabinet were so much alarmed at our present embarkation of troops for the East Indies, and seemed so little satisfied with the arguments he had urged in defence of the measure, that it would be prudent to be prepared for any hostile interruption which might be given to the passage of the said fleet: in consequence of the above, orders are gone down to Portsmouth for 15 sail of the line to convoy it through the bay to a certain latitude.
March 4. We can assure our readers, that though the principal Officers of State are settled for the new arrangement, yet there is much to be done before the whole can be so completed as to be given to the public; and we are afraid that some of the late Administration, whose services promised great benefit to the nation, are to retire upon pensions.
Extract of a letter from New York, December 19.
"It is impossible to describe our feelings or dreadful situation at present, in this place, on occasion of the late shocking news from England. Who could have imagined, that the Councils of a great and magnanimous nation, such as Britain once was, would have deliberately consented to make the most disgraceful and inhuman sacrifice of her numerous and loyal adherents in this country;—those especially, who have willingly and actively stepped forth to preserve her, and in so doing, have devoted themselves, families and fortunes, on the issue. Yet, after all this, to turn us over to Congress, our most insulting and inveterate enemies, whose tender mercies are cruelty, without any stipulation in our favour, is a stain not to be wiped off but by the exemplary punishment of those who advised the barbarous measure. We know our Sovereign is good and gracious, and that his heart never acquiesced in so ignominious a concession. We yet love and revere him; had tho' about him been as true to the interest and credit of the nation as himself, no such dishonor had happened, but America might have been again re-united to Britain, as one great and essential pillar of her empire."
"Ah! why, why is all this given up to America, at a time when she is at her lowest ebb, weak, almost beyond contempt, in power, in cash, in her army, disused, and distressed in every respect, as a nation?—Why will you force, as it were, independence on a people, the great majority of whom are, in fact, against it—who regard it as a curse, and not a boon? The ruling party, though governing, because the arms are in their hands, speak not the voice of the people at large; these are truly with you—Ah! why then desert them, when it is manifestly in your power to aid and relieve them to your own advantage?"
B A L T I M O R E, April 18
Extract of a letter from Frederick-Town, April 13. "A horrid act was committed here on Saturday morning. Capt. Rim, of the Hereditary Prince of Hesse's regiment, cut his throat with a razor and penknife, of which he died an hour or two afterwards. A surgeon attempted to close the wound by a suture, but the unhappy man forced him away, and pointing to the instruments of death, motioned as if he wished him to enlarge the wound. We knew not the cause of this desperate act. It is said he attempted to kill himself some time past, but was prevented by his friend. He has been low-spirited a long time."
P H I L A D E L P H I A, April 26.
Their High and Mighty Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, have been pleased to constitute his Excellency Dedem Van Peckendam, &c. as Ambassador to represent them in the United States of America. As this honorable appointment was made on the 26th of February last, his Excellency may be shortly expected in this metropolis.
Mynheer C. Yan der Oudermeulen, we hear is appointed Commissary General, and will most probably accompany the Dutch Resident to our Court.
It is further asserted, that Mynheer Van Brasm, is likewise made Consul, and will reside in New-York.
N E W - Y O R K, April 26
The number of inhabitants going to Nova Scotia, in the present fleet, consists of upwards of 9000 souls, exceeding by more than 1000 the largest town in Connecticut, including the out parishes.
A L B A N Y, April 21.
Last Monday passed through this city, on their way from New York to Canada, two officers of the British navy; they were dispatched by Sir Guy Carlton with the intelligence of peace, and had a passport from his Excellency General Washington.
F I S H - K I L L, May 1.
Various reports from New-York, confirm, that a fleet sailed last week for New-Scotland, containing about 9000 souls, men, women and children.
By the best information we can collect, there is but little appearance of a speedy evacuation of New-York; which is very unhappy for this state, as till that period, our navigation must be suspended.
H A L I F A X, April 11.
By the brig Pallas, Capt. Neal, which arrived here last week from St. Lucia, we learn, that an American privateer brig, called the Holker, fitted out at Philadelphia, being a cruising to Windward fell in with the Alcmena frigate:—The Holker, endeavoring to get away, packed all the sail she could crowd, and in an instant, to the astonishment of her pursuers, the funk, and totally disappeared—She had on board 110 men, only 40 of which were saved by the Alcmena, owing principally to the amazing number of Sharks, that were seen to devour them.
B O S T O N, May 8.
We hear from Penobscot, that a certain Captain Charles Stewart, of the Highlanders, on hearing of the Peace, and that the Proclamation was to be read the next day was so incensed at the news that he swore his eyes should never see it in print, and that his ears should never hear it proclaimed, and accordingly he was found the next morning in his quarters, with his throat cut and a razor in his hand, and three stabs with a dirk in his body.
About a fortnight past one Triest, an inhabitant of Townsend, who wore the marks of loyalty, and fled for refuge to the rocks of Bagwaduce, to partake of the loaves and fishes with the rest of those mercenary dependents on the Royal Breath, when the news of peace had reached the Eastern shores, finding all his confidence and protection on his guardians of tyranny was now failing, took the freedom to return to Townsend to his family; but having forfeited the protection of the citizens of America, was taken with a handspike under his crotch, and a halter round his neck, as the only reward of merit suitable for such traitors, he was then hung at the mast head of a sloop from eight o'clock in the evening until twelve next day; he was then taken down put in irons, and sent in a boat with his family to Bagwaduce, having first signed a paper not to return on pain of death.
At a meeting of a number of the respectable inhabitants at New-Haven, (Virginia) it was unanimously agreed upon, to send instructions to their representatives in General Assembly, to promote the bringing in a bill, to prevent the return of any inhabitants belonging to that State, who had left it, and joined the enemy.
A different line of policy from the above, with regard to British subjects, seems to prevail in some of the southern States: In Georgia, 58 British merchants have been admitted as citizens of that State: And in South-Carolina, a number of the same class have petitioned for the same privilege, which, it is thought, will be granted them.
Yesterday arrived a ship from Gottenburg, and a snow from Ostend.
We have now flying in this harbour, six flags of different nations.
S A L E M, May 8.
On Sunday last Captain John Feit, of the brigantine Juno, arrived here from Cadiz, in 36 days passage. He sailed in company with the ship Ocean, Captain Swain, bound also to this port, but who is not yet arrived.
Captain Buffington, of the ship Marquis de la Fayette, was to leave Nantz for this port in four days after Captain——, who is arrived at Boston from that place.
His Excellency Governor Trumbull has published a Proclamation, declaring the lines and restraints between the state of Connecticut and our late enemies at New-York, to be determined, and an end put thereto.
P O R T S M O U T H, May 10.
Wednesday last arrived in this port, under Imperial colours, a large ship from Ostend, but last from St. Kitts, commanded by Capt. Manning, with a valuable cargo of European and West-India goods.
E X E T E R, May 10.
Thursday the first instant, being appointed for the dedication of the building, for the use of the Phillips Exeter Academy, in this town, and for the inauguration of the Præceptor; accordingly, in the afternoon, the Hon. Founder and Trustees, with many other gentlemen, and a respectable auditory, attended in one of the meeting-houses in this town; the exercises began with singing, a prayer succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Rogers; and an oration, on the advantages of learning, its happy tendency to promote virtue and piety, was delivered by the Rev. Mr. McCluer, with an address to the founder, trustees and præceptor. The inaugurating ceremonies were performed by Mr. Thurston, a gentleman of the trust, with a particular address, and a charge to the præceptor. Mr. Woodbridge, the præceptor, publickly manifested his acceptance of the important charge, and pronounced an affectionate address to the trustees and auditory. A prayer was made by the Rev. Mr. Mansfield, and the whole was concluded by singing. Each part was performed with propriety, and a solemnity suitable to the occasion—the whole to universal acceptance.
Thus we behold with pleasing satisfaction, the birth of a new institution, founded on noble principles, for promoting learning, virtue and piety; and we have raised expectations, that this institution will speedily flourish.
Departed this life on the 27th ultimo, Mrs. ELIZABETH HOBART, consort of Col. Samuel Hobart, of this town, and a daughter of the Hon. Joseph Gerrish, of Newbury, deceased: she was a lady, favored with distinguishing natural endowments, and was blessed with a great share of the christian spirit: her natural disposition was kind and engaging, and her life and conversation were exemplary: she encountered a long illness with fortitude and great patience; and we trust that in her change she is unspeakably happy.
To be sold by public Vendue,
On TUESDAY the 27th of May instant, on the premises, at eleven o'clock before noon.
A large Dwelling-House at the North-end of Portsmouth, being part of the estate of Capt. Richard Shortridge, deceased, partly finished, having a good cellar and arch, and also a barn—the land 168 feet, running from one street to the other—situated pleasantly on a broad street, 49 feet front. At the same time, WILL BE SOLD, A small House standing on the same land, which may be easily removed off. Conditions of sale to be known at time and place of sale.
A LL Persons who have accounts open with the late company of Griffith & Bowles, are desired to settle the same immediately, with Samuel Bowles, of Portsmouth.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that the officers for the proprietors of Sandwich, have committed to the subscriber a tax on the proprietors, amounting to four pound ten shillings, on each original right; and that unless they pay the same to me, or to Col. Samuel Foljam, at Exeter, within one month from the date, so much of their lands will be advertised for sale as will pay the tax and charges. Daniel Besde, Collector. Sandwich, May 1, 1783.

State of New-Hampshire. In COMMITTEE OF SAFETY, April 16, 1783. A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the Form of Government agreed upon by this State, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and and seventy six, was (considering the then situation of affairs) established to continue only during the unhappy and unnatural contest then subsisting with Great-Britain :
And whereas the General Assembly of this State in their last session, from information they received, had a promising prospect of a speedy and happy termination of those contests and establishment of Peace ; and taking into consideration the fatal consequences which might follow from being destitute of a regular Form of Government, did pass a Resolve recommending that the present Government be continued in its full force 'till the tenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, notwithstanding a general pacification should take place in the mean time ; provided a permanent Plan of Government for this State should not be established antecedent to that period :
WE therefore hereby make known, That the present Plan of Government for this State, is continued in full force and effect until the tenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, provided a permanent Plan of Government for this State should not be established antecedent to that period.
And all officers, civil and military, and all persons concerned, are to take notice hereof, and govern themselves accordingly. M. WEARE, President. By order of the Committee, J. PEARSON, Dep. Sec'y.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. A Petition having been exhibited to the General Court of this State by Joseph Emer, of Framingham in the county of Middlesex, Common Wealth of Massachusetts, executor to the last will and testament of David Emer of Peterborough, in the county of Hillsborough, State of New Hampshire, deceased, representing that said David died seized of a lot of land in said Peterborough, with a small house and barn and some improvements thereon, that he left two sons and four daughters heirs to said land, that the eldest son is but eighteen years of age, that two of the daughters are about marrying, that the profits of the land do not pay the taxes, that the fences, and buildings are out of repair, that the eldest son is not capable of managing the land, that the daughters who are about marrying are in want of their shares to provide necessaries to keep house, and that it was the desire of the said Emer before his death that the said land should be sold. That it is the opinion of the selectmen and other principal inhabitants of said Town that selling said land would be beneficial to the heirs :
WHEREAS the proprietors of the town of Eaton, in the county of Strafford and State of New-Hampshire, on the 10th day of July 1782, Voted, a tax of four pound ten shillings, to be assessed upon each proprietors right in said town, which tax has been duly assessed and committed unto me to collect, of which I have given notice to the owners of said land, requesting payment as the law directs ; notwithstanding which a great part of said tax remains unpaid. Therefore, public notice is hereby given to the proprietors or owners of rights in said Eaton, who have been delinquent in paying said tax, that so much of each delinquents right or share, as will pay said tax and incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue as the law directs at my dwelling house in said Eaton, on Tuesday the 27th day of May next, at ten of the clock forenoon unless prevented by previous payment. Their names are as follows:
Clement March, Esq; Jonathan Moulton, Esq; Walter Bryant Esq; Jeremiah Gilman, Capt. Israel Gilman jr. John Tash Benjamin Chapman, Samuel Chapman, Jonathan Robinson, John Watson, Jeremiah Folsom jr. John Folsom, jr. Jeremy Bryant Esq; Eze Hall Berghin, Edward Smith, John Johnson, Jonathan Warner, Esq; Col. Atkinson, Bartholomew Smart, Josiah Johnson, David Davis, Nathaniel Stevens, James Burleigh, Nathan Folsom, Edward Hilton, jr. Nicholas Duley, Thomas York, Samuel Gilman, David Gilman, Joseph Senter, John M'Duffee, John Smith, John Brackett, Benjamin Smith Esq; Col. Warner, John Hartford, Daniel Mason, Josiah Yorke, David Hicks, John Mead, John Mead, jr. George Dutch, Winthrop Smart, Arthur Bennett, Joshua Frost, Walter Bryant jr. Esq; John Burleigh, Joseph Smith, Esq; William Parker, Esq; Giles Seaward, Paul March, Esq; John Bryant, Stephen Mason, HENRY WEED, Proprietors Collectors; Eaton; March 21, 1783.
Table with 7 columns: Name, £, s, d, d, s, d. Lists various names and their corresponding tax amounts.
WHEREAS Joshua Atherton, John Wilkins, Oliver Lawrence, David Wright, Stephen Ames, and Benjamin Cummings, have petitioned the General Court, representing that Samuel Cummings late of Hollis, in the county of Hillsborough, in the State of New-Hampshire, Esq; died several years ago, leaving five children, that the Honorable John Goffe, Esq; then judge of the probate &c. for said county, on the 23th day of April Anno Domini, 1774, did decree two-thirds of the said deceased's real estate should be settled on Samuel the eldest son, upon condition that said eldest son should pay out to the rest of the heirs their respective shares, and particularly that he should pay to one of them the said petitioners viz. Benjamin Cummings, who was then under age the sum of fifty-nine pounds, five shillings and two pence, lawful money, and that the others of them the said petitioners gave bond for the performance of said decree. And that the said Samuel (the eldest son) is now an absentee, and hath left the United States, and gone over to the Enemy, without paying any part of said decree to said Benjamin, and left his estate insolvent, and that they think it exceeding cruel and unjust that they as aforesaid should be obliged to pay the said Benjamin, while the real estate of said deceased remains still as the estate of the said eldest son, to part of which the said Benjamin was legal heir. Wherefore they prayed that the said decree so far as it respects the said Benjamin, may be made void, and that his share in the said two-thirds of said estate be ordered to him in the lands of said deceased. On which petition the Court voted that the petitioners be heard before them on the second Wednesday of the next session of the said Court, and that in the mean time they cause the substance of said petition and order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person may then appear and shew cause why the prayer thereof may not be granted, and that the agent of the estate of Samuel Cummings be directed to postpone the sale of said estate till the Court shall determine respecting the petition. March 22, 1783. Attest. E. THOMPSON, Sec'y.
SCHREVELIUS'S GREEK LEXICON, and some New Emission Money, to be sold. Inquire of the Printers.
State of New-Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General Assembly by Oliver Parker of Hollis and State aforesaid, setting forth, That in the year 1778, he was committed to prison in Exeter, where he was confined for the term of eleven weeks, after which, he obtained an order of the General Court that he should be discharged from his confinement on certain conditions, one of which was, that he should confine himself to the county to which he belonged, until he should be liberated by lawful authority ; in consequence of which order, he gave bond with two sureties, was discharged, and repaired to his then home, where he tarried more than three years, without ever going out of the county to which he belonged, and would not then have gone out of it, had not his business compelled him : That he has never been called upon by authority to appear before them for examination or trial since his enlargement from prison, neither hath he (as he apprehends) broken his said bond. Nevertheless at the last Inferior Court of common pleas held at Exeter within & for the county of Rockingham, an action was commenced against him and his bondsmen for the recovery of the penalty of said bond, at which Court the action was continued in order that the pleasure of the General Court might be known in the premises. Wherefore he prays for the rights of a freeman & not to be loaded with further costs, that the action may be dismissed, or otherwise grant him relief as they may think just.
Upon which petition the General Assembly ordered, that the petitioner may be heard thereon before them on the second Friday of their next session, and that in the mean time he cause the substance of the petition & order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, that any person or persons may then appear & shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof should not be granted, and that in the mean time, the justices of the Inferior Court for the county of Rockingham be directed to continue the action triable before them, until the final Determination of the General Court thereon. Attest, J. PEARSON, D. Sec'y. Exeter, Feb. 7, 1783.
State of New-Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that a petition hath been preferred to the General Court by Ward Eddy, and Rebecca his wife, setting forth that Daniel Greenwood, of Dublin, in the county of Cheshire and State aforesaid, went away from his family and left his estate, consisting chiefly of a lot of land containing one hundred acres, mostly wild, there being but small improvements, with a log house, and a saw mill partly finished on said lot, in March 1774, somewhat involved.
That the creditors in September following, attached said estate with two writs, but a suspension of law taking place, prevented the prosecution ; yet the impatience of the creditors obliged the aforesaid Rebecca, then wife to the said Daniel Greenwood, to attempt the settlement of said estate, without the assistance of law, which she has done by selling said lot of land and mill, and paying the debts Wherefore they pray that the general court would take into their serious consideration the peculiar difficulties, which attended the time when said settlement was made, and authenticate the sale and settlement of said estate. Upon which petition, the general court ordered that the petitioners may be heard on the second Friday of their next session, and that in the mean time they cause the substance of the petition and order of court to be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Attest JOSEPH PEARSON, D. Sec'y. Exeter, February 27 1783.
Thursday the 22d of May, instant, will be a continuation of the sale of part of the estate of the late Hon. Daniel Warner, Esq; deceased. At the same time will be sold several houses and valuable lots of land. The sale to be at the house which Mr. James Whittaker now lives in, at ten o'clock forenoon. April 10 JONATHAN WARNER, Administrator. Warrantee & Quit-Claim Deeds, &c. may be had at the Printing-Office.

For the New-Hampshire Gazette. Mess. Printers,
WHEN I reflect upon the fatal consequences which are always attendant upon feuds, animosities and divisions, in a young state, I tremble for the safety of this. The party spirit which at this time prevails, tho' it may not at present be productive of any evil, will lay a foundation for future calamities; and unless it is soon suppressed, we may look upon this period as the beginning of sorrow!
The prosperity of a state in a time of peace, as well as its safety in a time of war, depends wholly upon the unanimity of its inhabitants. Experience fully evinces the truth of this proposition, and we may very justly infer, that similar causes will always produce similar events. The Greeks, Romans, and every other nation of antiquity, whose actions excite our admiration, owed their greatness to the same cause; and we find when that spirit of union droops, they begin to decay; and that their destruction is oftener owing to their internal divisions than to the superior power of their enemies.
An emulation to excel in virtue is laudable, it gives vigor to every political nerve, advances the meritorious, and produces the most happy effects in a community; but a desire of excelling in power, grandeur & popularity, tends to the certain ruin of a society.
Our present situation is truly alarming, and calls loudly for a speedy reparation. We are delivered from our fears and anxieties on the side of Britain, we have gained from her every thing that we could hope or wish for; but we have yet a more formidable enemy to contend with—the vices incident to humanity. We have no regular form of government established, and the disposition of the people is such, that I fear it will be a long time before any can take place: this opens an ample field for ambition, and we have among us but too many who eagerly grasp at the favorable opportunity of raising their fame at the expence of their country, and who may under the specious appearances of charity and benevolence, hide designs not very favorable to the liberties of the people.
We have (more particularly in this town) many who have never exerted themselves in the cause of liberty, and who have never strove for the independence of America;—such characters might at least be content to enjoy the sweets of a peace gained by the exertions of the sons of freedom, and not endeavor to foment divisions which may involve this country in greater difficulties than she has yet encountered, and from which she cannot be so easily extricated.
Justice demands that those who have stood foremost in the contest, and have been firmly and uniformly attached to the cause of their country, should be rewarded with honors and dignities, equal to the toils and hardships which they have borne, and adequate to the merits of their intentions.
A TRUE REPUBLICAN.
Extract from a Law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to prevent the Return to that State, of certain Persons therein named, and others who have left that Commonwealth and joined the Enemies thereof.
“AND be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if the Master of any Vessel shall, after the passing of this Act, knowingly, bring into any Port within this State, any of the Persons therein named; or that if any Person shall wilfully or willingly harbour or conceal any of the Persons therein named or described, after their Return to this State, contrary to this Act—such Master or Person so offending, shall, on Conviction thereof, before the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in the County where the Offence shall be committed, or before the Superior Court of Judicature, forfeit the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds; one Half thereof to the Use of this State, and the other Half to the Use of him or them who shall sue for the same.”
Richard Champney,
Has for sale, at his store opposite the Post-Office, at the lowest cash price, FRESH Bohea TEA, of an excellent quality, by the chest, hundred or doz. yard wide and common Bilboa Handkerchiefs, of various colors, by the quantity or single dozen; green Coffee, by the cask or smaller quantity. A L S O,
A variety of Piece Goods, and other Articles, as usual.
ALL persons having any demands against the estate of Mr. JOHN LANGDON, deceased, are desired to exhibit their accounts to the subscriber; and those who are indebted to said estate, are called upon for payment. JOHN LANGDON, (one of the executors.)
WANTED, An Apprentice to the Painter's Business.—None need apply unless they are willing to be bound. Inquire of G. DORR.
State of New Hampshire. Strafford County. To be sold by public Vendue, at the house of Charles Hodgdon, innholder in Barrhead, on TUESDAY the 27th day of May instant, at ten o'clock, before noon.
Sundry Lots of Land in Barnstead,—in the first division, No. 58 a 60 acre lot; second division, No. 69 77. 84. 112 30. & 47. are 100 acre lots; mill privilege, 40 acres; and several pieces of commons. Conditions of sale may be known at the time and place of sale.
TO BE SOLD, cheap for cash, 430 Acres of good Land in Wolfeborough, adjoining land of Henry Rust, Esq; and Smith's Pond. Also, seventy acres more in the same town, near Tuftonborough line. Inquire of Capt. George King. Portsmouth, May 1, 1783.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident owners of land in Middlestown who have not paid their taxes for the year 1781, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue on Tuesday the 20th day of May next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Richard Hanson in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
Joseph Cooks List.
   N. D. Silver. New Emis.   s. d. l. s. d.    Bedfield Plummer 75 1 2 1 12 3  Richard Goodwin 83 1 2 1 12 3  John Heard 90 1 2 1 12 3  Thomas Varney 89 1 2 1 12 3  Nathaniel Austin 10 1 1 16 2  Joseph Varney half 8 1 1 16 2  John Gage 26 1 2 0  Samuel Varney 49 1 8 1  Benj. Evans 78 1 10 6  Thomas Bickford 73 1 2 1 12 3  Peter Cook 91 1 1 16 2  Alex. Hodgdon 41 1 1 2  Andrew Horn 64 1 1 16 2  
Richard Hansons List.
  Benj. Stanton 40 2 2 1 1 12 3  James Philpot 42 2 2 1 1 12 3  Job Clements 82 2 1 1 1 16 2  Thomas Bickford 73 2 2 1 1 12 3  Peter Cook 91 2 2 1 1 12 3  Joshua Stagpole 60 2 2 1 1 12 3  Tho's Wentworth 29 2 2 1 1 12 3  Job Hufsey 5 2 2 1 1 12 3  Andrew Horn 64 2 1 1 16 3  Benj. Roberts 38 2 2 1 1 12 3  John Heard 90 2 1 3 1 18  Timothy Roberts 35 2 2 1 1 12 3  James Guppy 12 2 2 1 1 12 3  Samuel Heard 30 2 2 1 1 12 3  Tho's Wallingsford 43 2 1 1 16 2  John Calle 20 2 2 1 1 12 3  John Gage 26 2 2 1 1 12 3  John Tash 8 2 1 1 1 12 3  Wm. Whitehouse 71 2 1 1 16 2    Joseph Cook, Richard Hanson, Constables. Middletown, February 24th, 1783.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in New London, who have not paid their taxes for year 1782, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue at my house in said town, on Thursday the 15th day of May next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment. No. State & county. War.
   l. s. d. l. s. d. q.    Col. Mat. Thornton 91 7 11 4 7  34 5 11 3 5 1  21 7 11 4 7 2  54 5 11 3 5 1  87 7 11 4 7 2  133 5 11 3 5 1  128 4 10 2 10  Joshua Tolford Esq; 11 7 11 4 7 2  Meserve & others 83 11 10 6 11  7 7 11 4 7 2  119 7 11 4 7 2  John Wentworth 39 5 11 3 5 1  70 5 11 3 5 1  125 7 11 4 7 2  Proprietor two thirds 45 6 4  two thirds 85 6 4  
   Jonas Minor's Lots. State and County Tax.   No. s. d. No. s. d.    1 5 11 30 11 11  73 5 11 2 5 11  124 11 10 76 5 11  93 5 11 112 5 11  138 5 11 107 5 11  9 5 11 72 7 11  5 5 11 52 5 11  41 5 11 8 5 11  123 7 11 114 3 11  104 5 11 134 5 11  110 7 11 64 5 11  57 11 10 66 11 10  65 11 10 99 11 10  111 7 11 23 5 11  
N. London, April 5, 1783. Sam'l Messer, C.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Perreytown who are delinquent in paying their state and war taxes for the year 1782, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue at the house of David Eaton, in said town, on Tuesday the 13th day of May next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay the taxes and incidental charges, unless sooner paid to me David Eaton. N. D. State tax War tax
   s. d. l. s. d.    John Webster 65 1 7 0 2 8  Thomas Noyes 58 1 5 3 2 8  62 9 2 2 5  Samuel Little 7 2 17 6 6 9  Daniel Roberts 51 1 7 2  18 2 10 6 4 3  John Poor 54 2 7 2 9  Thomas Hale 3 2 10 6 4 3  James Pecker 63 1 14 5 4  Meservey and Cam 12 12 9 1 11 6  
rey of the Lords lots. David Eaton, Constable for said town, Perreytown, March 7th, 1783.
NOTICE is hereby given, to the non resident owners of land in Dublin, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1782, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue on Wednesday, the 4th day of June next, at the house of James Rolins, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay said taxes and incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment. State. War.
   No. R. Ac. f. d. q. f. d. q.    Joseph Turner, 1 1 33 4 6 3 2 9 1  John Morrison, 1 1 67 1 8 1 1 0 1  Benjamin Bullard, 2 1 50 2 2 0 1 3 3  Mat. Thornton, Esq; 3 1 100 6 3 3 3 9 2  Ditto, 4 1 100 8 7 2 5 3 0  Samuel Hogg, 1 3 100 12 11 1 7 10 2  Eleazer Blanchard, 2 3 100 11 6 0 7 0 0  William Spalding, 7 3 100 6 2 3 3 9 2  Joham Odiorne, 10 3 100 14 10 1 9 2 0  Eleazer Blanchard, 3 4 100 6 2 3 3 9 2  Mathew Livermore, 2 7 100 4 3 3 2 7 2  Ezra Carpenter, 1 9 100 14 10 1 9 2 2  Clement March, 3 10 100 6 11 2 4 2 3  Capt. Jos. Twitchell, 10 10 100 3 4 1 2 0 2  
Joseph Greenwood, Constable.
Dublin, April 23, 1783.
PRINTED AT PORTSMOUTH: New-Hampshire.