The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-10-09 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday Octob. 9, 1772.
T H E
Vol. XVII
GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 834 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
Messieurs Printers.
Please to insert the following.
Reflections upon the Fashion of profane Swearing. "Out of the abundance of the Heart the Mouth speaketh."
THE reigning principles of the heart, are always discovered in the life. A noble mind animated with principles of honor, virtue, and benevolence, never passes long concealed; these shining qualities, like the sparkling diamond, attract the eye and raise esteem: A mind filled with ignoble sentiments and influenced by sordid motives, is known with equal ease; and as the former kindles affection and esteem, the latter begets destination & contempt. But of all the follies that stigmatize & disgrace humanity, profane Swearing , is the most absurd and stupid; at once condemned by the united voice of reason, revelation, and the common sense of mankind.
"The Swearer proclaims his own stupidity and wickedness, and paints to public view the black colours of his heart."
This scandalous sin, does not always mark the beginning of an infamous life, but it commonly attends the close, and mingles with other vices to fill up the measure of stupidity, & consummate a mortal's infamy! —So glaringly vile and impious is this practice, that no one not even the DEVIL himself ever had the stupidity and impudence to attempt its vindication.
Can those who are elevated by wealth or power, who are made conspicuous by their stations, and would be esteemed men of honor, in such mingle with the dregs of their species, and practice what is condemned by all mankind, even by the vilest of mortals—Who can forbear to weep for human nature—and turn from a subject too black for contemplation!
Let just contempt be the reward of this odious vice—shame and infamy cover the wretch, however dignified, who dares to violate the laws of Heaven, and set an impious example to corrupt and bebase mankind.
It is shocking to behold the lowest, most uncultivated & ignorant of mankind, spending their breaths in unmeaning oaths, and wasting life in dirty scenes; but who can look on a ruler, a magistrate, or any man distinguished for his advantages in life, that is walking in this circle of infamy, without a mixture of pity, indignation and astonishment! Is any sight under the sun equally deplorable, equally mortifying to an enlightened mind animated with noble passions and full of love to mankind?—
Surely a sin, so prevalent, so dishonourable to GOD, & big with destruction to men, demands the solemn attention of the legislature. Laws ought to be made to exclude profane persons from the benefit of making oath to their accounts, or swearing in any case where they have the least interest depending; or some other mark of disgraceful distinction should be put upon them that would effect their honor and interest: that by touching the two principal springs of action, they may be stimulated to guard their tongues and regulate their lives by the dictates of wisdom and rules of duty.
Some will pretend, that altho' they swear, they are men of strict honor and pay a sacred regard to truth, justice, and the welfare of mankind: but as "he who tells me he is an Atheist, tells me is a villain," so he that swears, regardless of the word of God, tells
me he is dead to virtue, lost to honor, and destitute of those noble sentiments that should animate the soul. HUMANITY.
An Account of a Terrible Hurricane, Extracted from the St. Christophers Gazette. BASSETERRE, Sept. 2. 1772.
WE inserted in our last the account of a hard gale of wind from S. W. with some accidents that attended the same, which to this island's inexpressible grief were no more than a prelude of our destruction; for on Monday last, at the dawn of day, our angry hemisphere predicted violence from the N.E. which by degrees broke forth upon us with such rage, not to be paralleled in memory by the oldest man living, in devastation on the sugar works and plantations in general, and in course nothing escaped its fury, the vessels of all denominations for safety put to sea, and by 12 at noon we were in hopes that the all gracious Providence had finished this fatal catastrophe, but to our mortal sorrow we were very unfortunately disappointed, for about that time the wind shifted to S. W. and S. which brought on us such an incessant horrible scene of destruction till 8 o'clock in the evening, that is beyond the power of man to relate, nothing else threatened us, as we feared, than a total annihilation of the island, and those vessels that in the morning went in search of safety and was not foundered, returned and driven on shore on several parts of the island, and scarce a house, sugar mill, tree, or plant in this town, Sandy-Point, Old-Road, or island but what was blown down or very much damaged, the loss sustained by the planters, house-owners, and inhabitants is inestimable, the loss of lives as we hear are considerable, only which particular names as have yet come to our knowledge are, Richard Mathews, Esq; Mrs. Thomas, relict of Mr. Thomas, silversmith, and a great number dangerously wounded. As also is come to our knowledge vessels foundered and run on shore, the brig Tryton, Mannan, Schooner Relief, Moore, brig Mercury, Seaton, Schooner—Buckle, supposed to be foundered; ship Farley, Cook, ship New-York, Craig, snow Thistle, Hunter, and Schooner Hazard, Butler, all on shore, the snow Thistle was loaded with sugar for London.
Vessels run on shore the 28th, which was omitted in our last, are, at the Salt Ponds, Mr. Corlet's sloop & hulks, Mr. Lawrences's sloop of Nevis, Captain Reap, Mr Ross's Schooner of Nevis; at Sandy-Point, Messrs. Woodburne and Garnet's Schooner, Mr. Somarfall's sloop, and a North-American Schooner.
Extract of a Letter from St. Jago de la Vega, in Jamaica, June 11.
"On the 31st ult. Mr. Andrew Ross, Overseer on Jones's Penn, near Passage Fort, was barbarously assassinated by a Mulatto man, named Sam, the head Driver, who principally kept at a grass-piece, about seven miles from where he committed the murder, and from whence he had followed the Overseer on horse-back to perpetrate the horrid deed. Mr. Ross was an infirm aged man, almost unfit for labour. By the evidence it appeared that the Driver, whose influence surpassed the general deport of negroes, ordered every negro from their employ, and they implicitly obeyed. When the insatiable wretch was murdering, or in
softer terms, cutting off old age an hour or two before its wonted time, the deceased cried out, "Murder! Murder! Help me!" He had seized the bridle of the poor man's horse, dragged him off, bucked him, and, with a felling axe, cleaved him through the skull: He then put the deceased on his horse, and left him to a better world, imagining the fracture would be attributed to a fall. Nothing further appeared but hear say evidence, until, by the activity of Angus Campbell, Esq; the body of Mr. Ross was found on Sunday the 5th inst. On Monday the Coroner's Inquest sat on the remains, when, after the examination of several Negroes, the corroborating circumstances of the neighbours, & Sam's voluntary confession, Charles Boswell, Esq; cum sociis, brought in a verdict of wilful murder committed by Sam. On Wednesday he was tried before Samuel Howell and Charles White, Esqrs. Justices, Scudamore Winde and Benjamin White, Esqrs; and Mr. William Butter, Freeholders, when a tale near to the former being related, he was found guilty, and sentenced to be staked to iron crows, and burnt. The fire being set at a small distance, and continued burning till it came to his feet, he bore it with savage sullenness and brutal ferocity, as if he was deprived of inward and outward feelings.
"On Thursday nine negroes, belonging to the same estate, were tried as accessaries and abettors, and for secreting the said murder. Two men were sentenced to be transported to the Bay, one to have his nose cut off at the Passage Fort, and one to be whipped in the Negro market of this town and at Passage Fort; two women to have their noses cut off, and one to be whipped as above, and two were acquitted."
Cambridge June 19. One day this week died, at his seat in Hertfordshire, Perram Esq; originally a horse-heel rubber, but being expert in his business, turned horse jockey and cock-fighter, and amassed upwards of 1000l. per ann. besides a great sum of money which he has left to a distant relation, a youth about nine years of age he never saw.
We are told, that in the will of Perram Esq; he has bequeathed 60l. plate to be run for at Newmarket; 100 guineas to be paid as a marriage portion to the first woman who can prove she was married nearest to the minute the foregoing plate was won; 50l. per ann. to his housekeeper, and 500l. more on her marriage, provided she marries a man under forty years of age; and many other like singularities.
PROVIDENCE, Sept. 19. At the Superior Court, held here this Week and last, Bills of Indictment were found by the Grand Jury against three Persons for counterfeiting Money, who are to take their Trials at the next Term.
Monday Night last some evil-minded Person or Persons broke the Windows of several Places of Worship, at Rehoboth. Particularly at the Reverend Mr. Hyde's and the Reverend Mr. Peck's Meeting-Houses, a great Quantity of Glass was destroyed.
L O N D O N, August 6. Universal Rejoicings at Lisbon, on Account of the Death of the Prime Minister. The whole Cargo of a Ship from America, with Flour, to be sent back—as unmerchantable.—A French Fleet was lost in the East-Indies, on the last of February—An Army of 40,000 effective Men now in the Capital and Suburbs of Paris.

The following dismal Account of the Hurricane, came to hand after that publish'd in the first Page of this Paper, was put to the Press, and being more particular, shall insert also.
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Sept. 2.
NO state, though ever so happily circumstanced, can promise itself duration of felicity. We may flatter ourselves, indeed, but vain is that flattery if the hand of Providence interferes to blast our hopes. We mentioned in our last, that when the paper went to the press, a gale of wind continued, and that evening several vessels were drove ashore, viz. a sloop belonging to Mr. Satherwaite was stranded near Londonderry Fort, one of Mr. Corlet's, and another of Mr. Reap's of Nevis, at the Salt Ponds, with all the hulks, three others at Sandy-Point, yet still the measure of our woes was not full, that dreadful event was reserved for Monday the last day of August.----- Words are too faint to paint the horrors of that day! The Hurricane began about nine o'clock in the Morning, and continued with unremitting fury, almost north, till eleven; in which time about forty Houses were levelled with the ground, and the helpless inhabitants beyond expression wretched:----- Horror and dismay seized all ranks and conditions, and destruction seemed suspended by a thread over the heads of all. The new court-house was rent in ten thousand pieces, and hardly left the foundation standing.---Some part of the roof of the church carried away: the roof of the stores of Messrs. Henderson and Murray, and Messrs. Sharry and Sanderson, were carried bodily into the streets. The largest tamarind trees were torn up by the roots, and removed to considerable distances from the places where they grew. By this storm upwards of forty-houses besides out offices, inclosures, negro houses, &c. were thrown down. Mr. Rawlings and Mr. Beach's houses on the hills were demolished, and all the vessels in the Road drifted to sea. About 12 the storm began again from the southward, with redoubled vigour, and proved by far more dreadful than the first. The vessels were all drove back again and wrecked. It is impossible for us to give a just account of this terrible visitation of Providence in this day's paper, our accounts being too imperfect to be relied on; for, as we mean to be as circumpect as possible in the accounts we shall give of this ruinous disaster, we shall suspend the particulars till we are better informed: As to generals we shall at present only observe, that Richard Matthews, Esq; (some say Mr. James Mathews) Mrs. Brown, near Sandy Bay, Mr. Gaitwood, and Mrs. Thomas, relict of the late Mr. Isaac Thomas, were all killed by the fall of the houses where they were; that the church at Cayon has not one stone upon another; that Nicholas Town church is in the same situation; that every house in Deep Bay is totally destroyed; that not more than ten houses remain up in Sandy-Point; that all the buildings in Charles Fort are laid smack-smooth with the ground; that Old Road is one continued wreck; that Basseterre has lost above one hundred houses; that there are not 10 Negro houses left in the whole island; that most of the windmills, at least in the Basseterre quarter, have had their round houses carried away; and that the next year's crop will at least fall short fourteen or fifteen thousand hogheads of sugar. Yet amidst this general detail we must beg leave to introduce to the readers attention two cases most distressfully circumstanced, we mean that of Mrs. Bibby in Irish Town, & Mr. John Fahy jun. The first, a widow, and her daughters, young ladies of reputation, had their house in an instant reduced to atoms, and their wearing apparel whirled into the air, insomuch as to leave them destitute of a second suit; but though their loss does not amount to half of the tythe of what others have sustained, yet they have lost their ALL; and the reader must observe they have neither husband, father, nor brother to protect them. With regard to Mr. Fahy, most of what he had in the world was centered in his tavern. His large stock of liquor, his household furniture, and his books, are inevitably lost; and so sudden was the fall of his house, that he had scarce time to remove his wife and daughter, before the walls gave way, and crushed all within them to shivers. Ill fated man! to toil so long for what he is deprived of in a moment.
A gentleman told me yesterday that the damage sustained in the single parish of Cayon, amounts to more than two hundred thousand pounds sterling, exclusive of the crop; and some are of opinion the general loss is more than a million. In our next we shall endeavour to be circumstantially particular.
L O N D O N, July 2, 1772. Extract of a Letter from Annapolis, Maryland, dated April 15.
“THIS last year the Americans have imported above double the usual quantity of British Goods; yet the prices, instead of falling have arose from 25 to 30 per cent. above what they formerly bought in the stores; which plainly proves an increasing opulence as well as an increasing population; and the face of things daily changes here for the better.—In the most distant back parts of the country, the planters houses, formerly little better than Welch huts, now assume the appearance of Yorkshire farming houses. The lands brings a yearly rent to the owners as far inwards as the Allighany mountains, and even among those hills, the glens, or low ground, between surrounding hills, are tenanted by Dutch, or High Germans, who prefer those wildernesses with liberty, to their native enslaved country, although, in many of these spots, you cannot see the Sun till nine o'clock in the morning, nor after three o'clock in the afternoon; nor can they discover his rising or setting but by the appearance or disappearance of his rays on the trees growing on the summits of the environing mountains. So dear is liberty to the human breast even in the opinion of a man born a slave in Germany, that he prefers these wilds, with that security which English laws afford, to a country to which he is wooed by all the most endearing ties of blood and friendship.—How tender then, and how careful ought we to be of a constitution, which even in
the eyes of foreigners is so highly valued” In Virginia their new Scotch Governor began his government with negligence and disregard to the duties of his office. His Lordship was hardly ever visible, very difficult of access, and frequently could not be spoke with, when the most urgent business of the public called for his attendance.—These spirited colonists could not bear these haughty airs, but deputed one of their lawyers to remonstrate against that supercilious behaviour, so inconsistent with the public convenience, and the service of the great Prince whom he represented. At first he stormed, but at last he agreed to name office hours, when every person concerned might attend business. Since which time all things have gone on very peaceably, and his Lordship has become much more tractable, to the honour of his Master, and the great advantage of the important colony he presides over. Thanks to the true American spirit of liberty.
WILLIAMSBURGH, (Virginia) Sept 10.
On Friday evening last, between five and six o'clock, his Majesty's Ship Glasgow, lying in Hampton Road, was struck with Lightning. The fore Top-gallant Mast, Topmast and Foremast, were rendered useless; and several of the People were struck but none much hurt. On examining the Mast it was observed that the Lightning had reached within a Foot of the Magazine, its Course of Direction having been altered by the Resistance it met with at the lower Deck.
A N A P O L I S, Sept. 17.
On Friday last, as Mr. Henry Child was walking over his Plantation, Part of Anne-Arundel Manor, a Gust suddenly arose; the Rain caused him to take Shelter under a Stack of Straw, which was soon set on Fire by the Lightning; the Family seeing it in a Blaze his Son went out, and found his Father dead and his Body consuming in the Flames.
CHARLESTOWN, South-Carolina, August 20, 1772.
Three thousand and seventy-six new Negroes have been imported here since the 31st of October last; and the prime slaves have been sold this year for more than double the price they were sold at ten years ago. The Virginians have permitted to assent to an act for restricting the future importation of slaves.
Last week about three hundred settlers arrived here from the north of Ireland.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 23.
From St. Christopher's we learn, that Admiral Parry arrived at English harbour, in Antigua, on the 31st of July last, to relieve Admiral Man, on that station; and that Admiral Man was to sail for England on the third of August.
Capt. Brown from Cape-Fear, informs us, that on the 31st of August, 14 Vessels were drove ashore and totally lost, with several seamen: Captain Brown was assisted by his Majesty's Ship Tamer with an anchor and cable: On the 7th, his Majesty's sloop King Fisher arrived there from Boston, who had thrown overboard 8 guns, and carried away two top-masts, and all her sails.
Capt. Kollock from St. Eustatia, informs, That on the 27th ult. as he lay in that road, a Hurricane came on and drove ashore a great number of vessels, 5 of which were entirely lost: Capt. Kollock lost his bowsprit, anchor and cable: On the 31st in lat. 23. long. 64. passed by a brig standing to the southward that had lost her masts, boom and bowsprit; she had a low black single deck, a long quarter-deck, and no head; she made several signals for Capt. Kollock to come to them, which he would have done but was in great distress himself, and it blew very hard. The Church at St. Eustatia, and the greatest part of the houses on the hill were blown down, whereby a great number of lives were lost, and that four large Dutch ships foundered at their anchors and all on board drowned.
At St. Martins several vessels were drove from their anchors, three of whom were lost, one of them a Brig belonging to Pitcairna and Capt. Culkens in a schooner belonging to Norwich, the other a sloop belonging to New-York.
On Wednesday put in here to rest, the brig Acorn, Captain Briscoe, from Liverpool to North-Carolina, who relates, that on the 31st ult. he met with a heavy gale of wind, and ship a sea which stove his long boat, every thing on deck, and the water casks in the hold, damaged all the bread, overset the brig, and destroyed the sails: In that condition they lay three hours with the vessel under water; but by cutting away the mainmast she righted again.
Capt. Harvey from Hull, on the 17th inst. in lat. 39. long. 68. passed by a schooner full of water, the mainstay unbent, and all the running rigging unreeved and only the masts and shrouds standing:--- There were two water-casks lashed on her main-deck, a large hen-coop on her quarter, the main hatch and fore scuttle open; had hoghead and pipe staves in her hatchway, and a red oak bottom.
Boston, October 1.
Capt. All is arrived at Philadelphia from London, and Capt. Chambers and Lawrence from London, Captain Hervey from Hull, and Capt. Clark from Bristol, are arrived at New-York. Capt. Lawrence on his passage, Aug. 31. lat. 38. long. 40. met with violent gales of wind, saw a sloop dismasted the weather moderating, the next morning, Sept. 1. hoisted out his boat and went to her: She proved to be the Polly, Capt. Thomas Avery, junr. from Boston, who in the gale lost his mast, boat, and every thing of his deck, with all his sails, except his mainstay. Capt. Lawrence supplied him with sundry articles of which he stood most in need. Mr. Henry Bowers of New-England and several other gentlemen were passengers in Capt. Lawrence.
The Earl of Bute has been pleased to present to King's College at New-York, a copy of Dr. Hill's Vegetable system, ele-
gantly bound, in 20 vols. folio.
Tuesday last arrived here the Ship Marquis of Rockingham, Capt. Reed, in 6 weeks from New Castle, in whom came passenger Capt. Eleazer Calender of this town.---They left New-Castle the 19th of August last, but brought no public prints.---Capt. Roach in a brig for this place failed 3 weeks before Capt. Reed.
Monday October 5. The Hurricane in the West-Indies it is feared has been very extensive, as almost every vessel that has lately arrived, met with heavy gales of wind the beginning of September even as far northward as the grand banks:---We hear a brig belonging to this place, having on board about 200 barrels of oil, who was returning from the Western Islands, was laid upon her beam ends by the violence of the gale, and were obliged to cut away her mainmast before she righted again, upon which the forecast soon after went away, and left the vessel in such a shattered condition, that the people, it is said, quitted her and went on board a sloop in company, who also took out of her about 100 barrels of her oil, but is not yet arrived.
A caution was given the inhabitants of this town in a late paper against leaving things of any value in their windows.---The necessity of its being attended to was verified by a theft that was committed one evening in the last week, when a window of a room was open'd unperceived, where a large company were at supper, and a remnant of about nine yards of fine Irish linen with a ruffled shirt wrapt up in it, was carried off and the thief remains undiscovered.
Last Friday evening four or five young lads at the south part of the town, having got together about 4 pounds of gun-powder, which they were making up in serpents and other fireworks, it was, thro' the carelessness or imprudence of one of them set on fire and blew up, by which means three of the boys were much burnt, one of them in such a manner, that his life is tho't to be in great danger.
Thirty sail of ships are arrived at Amsterdam from Davis's Straits; all of whom (except one) have ten fish each.
To the PRINTERS.
I have been a Whig ever since I remember and I know not for what reason I am of late called a Tory. When I consider the origin of Whig and Tory, that one was a word used for four milk, and that the other was a name given to the Irish Rapparees, and that both were terms of reproach, they seem hardly worth contending for. However, as I always have been and still am a Whig, I chuse to be called a Whig still. I am sure my principles in government are the same they always have been and the same which the Whigs have professed in the latter part of the last and for more than one half of the present century. The Whigs were always for preserving the constitution inviolate and so am I. They opposed the attempts of one branch of the constitution to assume all Power to itself by an invasion of the rights of the other branches so do I. They had a most grateful sense of their deliverance from popery and tyranny by King William, so have I. They revered his memory, so do I. They abhorred the attempts to exclude the house of Brunswick, from the British crown, so do I. They looked upon the accession of King G. the first as a great Blessing to all parts of the British dominions, so do I. Upon his demise they rejoiced that the crown descended to his Son, so do I. They wished his long life and reign might have been still further continued, so did I. They bless themselves when they experience the virtues of his successor, and pray that his life and reign may continue as long as any of his predecessors, so do I.
But how unlike to all this are those who now assume the name of Whigs! They strive with all their might to overthrow the constitution, pretending that it is incompatible with their natural rights, so do not I. They struggle to place all power in one branch to the exclusion of the other two, so do not I. They forget all our obligations to King William who rescued us from popery and tyranny, so do not I. They vilify his deeds, reproach his memory, and call him a surly Dutchman, so do not I. They wish the attempts to exclude the house of Brunswick from the crown had succeeded, so do not I. They call the accession of George the first and George the second misfortunes, and pronounce their reigns inglorious, so do not I. They are traitors to George the third so am not I. They call the father of his people and a sovereign who is most tender of the rights of his subjects a tyrant and an oppressor, and threaten a revolt and rebellion, so do not I.
They mask themselves with the name of Whigs, but espouse the principles of Tories. I hate the principles as well as the name. But if they will be called Whigs let it be New Whigs. I love the principles and I desire the name of an OLD WHIG.

HAPPINESS ONLY IN THE MIND. IT is a worn-out, but it is, nevertheless, a sensible adage, that every man knows where his own shoe pinches, though he has little or no feeling for the corns of his neighbour. Hence we find our friends continually murmuring at their respective situations in the great system of existence, and ridiculously imagining that none are so disagreeably placed as themselves. The man of business, for instance is eternally talking of the fatigue he undergoes, and eternally envying the owner of each little hut he sees, in his occasional tours round the skirts of the city. On the other hand, the object of this envy thinks with a sigh upon the inferiority of his circumstances, and wishes his stars had kindly fixed him in those happy regions of industry, where the exertion even of moderate talents, in a variety of employments, is sure of acquiring a plentiful fortune. The ecclesiastic, struck with the splendor of military parade, would gladly exchange his sable for the glittering regimentals of the soldier : while the soldier, torn from his family, and sent upon a desperate expedition, would as gladly resign his hopes of a truncheon for a peaceable parsonage, to rest in security with his now weeping wife and children.
Let us go farther ; let us go to those elevated spheres, which are above the exercise of profession, and which the bountiful hand of Providence has blessed with the amplest means of happiness—yet shall we find happiness there ? Alas ! the Nobleman, in the midst of all his thousands, is the slave of ambition and the victim of Regret. In vain does a second paradise open for his reception in the sultry suns of summer ; in vain does the magnificent winter palace invite him to repose ; in vain a blooming progeny crowds about his knees ; and in vain the melting voice of beauty addresses his ear ! Lost to every blessing, dead to every enjoyment that surrounds him, he languishes for office, and pines to be the pilot of the state.—Behold his wishes crowned at last ;—behold the numberless dependants that bow at his levée, or throng in his hall, for the honor of a word. Is he contented now ? why must I mention, that he is now more wretched than ever ? Traduced, misrepresented and villified by party, his best actions ascribed to the worst motives, unable to gratify all the demands of his friends, and unwilling to bear all the malevolence of his enemies, he sickens for retirement, yet shudders at the idea of retiring.—The misery of his situation is hourly aggravated, & his pre-eminence in rank is purchased by a pre-eminence in distress.—What, however, must he do ? To resign, is to give opposition the greatest of all triumphs ; and to continue, is to suffer the greatest of all mortifications. Thus circumstanced, his tranquillity falls a martyr to his pride ; he determines to resist every storm of faction, and endeavours to strengthen his power by every means ; till at last, having conquered his shame in courting some, and his humanity in punishing others, he becomes wholly divested of principle, and wholly regardless of reputation. The best men now join the very worst to hunt him from the presence of his Sovereign, and the clamour grows universal.—He falls before it.—A new minister is chosen from the most deadly objects of his aversion, and he buries himself in some solitude, equally detesting, and detested by society.
Though there is nothing new in the foregoing reflections, still there is something not a little necessary to elucidate the end of this letter. It is generally allowed, that a man must be very happy, who is exempted by the easiness of his Circumstances, on the one hand, from the drudgery of business, and on the other, defended from the dangers of ambition, by the humility of his wishes. Yet enviable as this situation may be thought, I am myself an instance, that neither a comfortable competence nor a limited expectation, is sufficient to secure us in the possession of real satisfaction. By the death of a rich uncle, I became, at an early age, the master of a good estate, and by a
natural love of prudence, my income is considerably larger than my expences. I am nevertheless, one of the most discontented fellows in America. I am fatiguing myself for ever, because I have nothing to do, & am forever miserable, because I have no one vigorous spring of action. I get up merely to lie down I ride out merely to ride home again, & try a thousand ways to kill the hours as they approach, unanimated by motive, and uninformed by novelty. My wife is a sensible woman, and a fine one ; but she has been my wife these ten years : we have long discussed every subject upon which we could possibly talk ; and as to her beauty, it is too familiar to be preceptible. Our conversations without doors chiefly turn upon the weather ; and within, the article of dinner is the principal employment of our intellectual faculties. If the sun is intensely hot, we discover that the day is very warm : if it happens to rain, why then we determine that the day is very disagreeable, In the country we frequently walk miles together without opening our lips ; and in town we constantly entertain each other with a snore from the opposite sides of the chimney corner, the moment the servant has removed the table-cloth.
In short, the life of laziness is the most insupportable of all drudgeries—and I envy the meanest artisan that occasionally works for me, when I see with what pleasure he enters upon his duty, and find how amply he thinks himself gratified by the punctual discharge of his bill ; the agreeable expectation of payment gives his mind a tone of perfect harmony, and he feels an inconceivable delight in portioning out his future little hoard for the various purposes of his family. Whereas, my time is not enjoyed but suffered ; I see whole days before me, which I know not how to fill up ; & whole weeks which I am utterly at a loss to render tolerable. Amusement becomes labour when we make a business of amusement ; and those enjoyments cease to give us pleasure, which we are enjoying perpetually : and yet a moral use may be made of this universal dissatisfaction, which we all express at our several conditions in life ; it may teach us to disregard the transitory trifles of this world, and fill us with an honest ambition of meriting that amplitude of unabating happiness which is promised to the virtuous in the next. LORENZO.
No Entries from the Custom-House this Week.
Monday next.
By Reason of bad Weather, Mr. Morgan was obliged to postpone his Exhibition at the Academy House, till Monday next, when, for the benefit of the Poor of the Town, the following will be exhibited ;
1. A Prologue in praise of Charity. 2. The Politicians, or what News, a Dramatic Satire ? 3. A Comic Dance, called the Irish Lilt. 4. A Pantomimical Entertainment in Grotesque Characters, called the Escape or Harlequin turn'd Doctor.
To Conclude with an Address.
Tickets at 3 Pistereens 2 Pistereens & 1 Pistereen each, to be had at Mr. Stavers's Tavern Mr. Tilton's Tavern, Mr. Appleton's Store, the Printing-Office, and of Mr. Morgan.
By particular Desire of the Subscribers, the Doors to be opened at three o'clock, and the Curtain to be drawn up exactly at four. October 8.
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N OTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of the Township of UNITY, in the County of Cheshire, that unless they pay the Taxes which has been assessed on each original Right or Share of Land in said Township, by the Fifth Day of November, next, to Benjamin Hunton of Kingstown, in New Hampshire, Collector of said Taxes, they may depend upon it their Lands will be advertized for Sale at public Vendue according to Law.
BENJAMIN HUNTOON, Collector. Kingston, September 30th, 1872.
Province New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss.
[ Relhan. ]
P URSUANT to a Vote of the Proprietors of RELHAN, impowering their Clerk to call a Meeting of said Proprietors upon an Application of more than a 16th Part of said Proprietors ; and such Application being made for that Purpose—The Proprietors are hereby notified and warned to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton, Innholder in Portsmouth, on Tuesday the 17th Day of November next, at five o'clock, P. M. Then and there to act on the following Matters and Things.
1. To chuse a Moderator. 2. To receive the Report of the Committee, respecting the building a Bridge over the River Mascamy, which they have been to view for that Purpose, agreeable to a Vote at a former Meeting. 3. If it should be determined upon to build a Bridge over said River, to chuse a Committee to contract with suitable Persons for building the same as soon as the Season admits. 4. To receive and examine the Accounts of the Treasurer of said Propriety, who is now considerably in Advance. 5. To see if the Proprietors will vote another TAX for the Payment of what Balance may be due to the Treasurer, and to pay the Cost of building a Bridge over Mascamy River. 6. To chuse a Collector or Collectors for the said Tax. 7. To see what Encouragement the Proprietors will give for building a Saw Mill and Grist Mill, or whether they will vote to build such Mills at the Expence of the Propriety, and provide for the Expence of the same. 8. To chuse a Committee to consult with the Proprietors of Grafton, Alexandria, or Protection, about laying out a Road through the said Towns to Pemigewasset or Merrimac Rivers, which it's thought will be the most direct Road from Dartmouth College towards Portsmouth, and also, through Hanover to Reuben. 9. A vote to consult upon some effectual Methods to forward the Settlement of the Township. The Meeting it's desired may be generally attended by the Proprietors, as it is of Consequence.
JOHN WENDELL, Prop. Clerk.
Portsmouth, October 9
Leather Breeches of all sorts.
Made as neat as cheap & as good as any in New-England by
James and Mathew Haslett, Leather-Dressers, & Breeches Makers, in Kingstreet. Portsmouth.
For London,
T HE Ship Plassey, Burthen 800 Tons, has a very large commodious neat Cabbin , will sail the last of the present Month, or beginning of November certainly. Passengers may apply to Charles Henzell , Master of said Ship, now riding at Anchor in Piscataqua Harbour, New-Hampshire, or of Joshua Wentworth , Merchant in Portsmouth, where they can be as well accommodated perhaps, as on board any ship that will Sail from the Continent this Fall.
Forge Masters,
(who refine B A R - I R O N)
MAY be supplied with good PIG- METAL, at Twenty Dollars per Ton, on Application to Mr. JOHN MOR- TON, Merchant, on Hunter's Quay, in New-York.
A Quantity of Grenada RUM, MOLASSES, COTTON WOOL, and COFFE, just imported, and to be sold By JOHN EVANS, at his Store on Capt. Janvrin's Wharf in Portsmouth.
THE Person, who said he was sent by, and took a Ridinghood, for Mrs. — Clark of Greenland, from a House in Town, is desired to deliver the same, in order to prevent further Trouble.
Choice Vinegar for Pickles, by the Barrel or less Quantity, to be sold by SAMUEL BOWLES, opposite the Post Office.

To DANIEL ROGERS Esq; one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace through the Province of New Hampshire.
WE the Subscribers who are Proprietors of more than one sixteenth Part of a New Plantation called Perry's Town in said Province, desire that you will issue your Warrant for warning said Proprietors to meet at the House of John Hall, Innholder in Plaistow on Monday the 26th Day of October next at nine of the Clock in the Forenoon to act on the following Articles, viz.
1st. To choose a Moderator, a Clerk, Treasurer and Collector or Collectors for said Propriety.
2d. To rectify and confirm, or disannul any former Vote of said Propriety, that do respect Taxes or Assessments not yet collected or other Affairs in said Propriety.
3d. To choose Assessors for said Propriety with Power as a Committee to examine and settle the Accounts of former Collectors or Treasurers, and to commit all Assessments for Taxes not collected to such Collector or Collectors as they may think best for compleating the several Collections.
4th. To vote such Sums of Money as may be thought proper to defray the Charges for obtaining the Grant of a longer Term for settling said Town, or for other Charges.
5th. To impower the Assessors or some other Persons to examine with Respect to those Persons who were under special Obligations to the Propriety to settle Families in said Town; and to determine how far all those who have settled Families there shall be favoured in the Charges for regranting said Town; and to compound and settle with all those who by neglect forfeited their Bonds or Obligations for settling there.
6th. To choose a Committee to determine what private Ways are necessary to be opened or cleared for Settlers, with Power to lay out or exchange such Ways where wanted, and to make a due Return thereof and also to labour or employ others for making said Ways Passable, all at the Charge of said Propriety.
7th. To see what the Propriety will vote about building a Grist Mill in said Town, by a grant of Land or otherwise.
8th. To direct the Treasurer to demand, sue for and recover all Money due to said Propriety.
9th. To examine and allow Demands or Claims on said Propriety.
10th. To determine what is necessary to be done to finish clearing the Country Road through said Town.
11th To determine and vote a reasonable Allowance for collecting Money.
Lastly to determine the Method for warning future Meetings of said Propriety.
And we shall as in Duty bound ever pray Enoch Bartlet, John Knight, James Parker, Thomas Noyes, Benjamin Kimbal, Stephen Harriman.
August 29th, 1772.
Province of New Hampshire.
To Enoch Bartlet, Esq; of Haverhill, in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay one of the Proprietors of Perry's Town mentioned in the foregoing Petition Greeting.
YOU are in his Majesty's Name hereby required to notify and warn the Proprietors of said Township (in Time and Manner as the Law directs,) to meet at Time and Place and for the Purposes mentioned in said Petition, Given under my Hand and Seal the Third Day of October, A. D. 1772. In the 12th Year of his Majesty's Reign.
DANIEL ROGERS Jus. Peace.
PURSUANT to the foregoing Warrant I hereby notify and warn the Proprietors of said Perry's Town, to meet at the House of John Hall, Innholder in Plaistow, on Monday the 26th Day of October Instant, at nine of the Clock in the forenoon, for the Purposes set forth in the foregoing Petition.
Oct. 3d, 1772. Enoch Bartlet.
RAN away from his Master George Berry of Falmouth a NEGRO MAN named Dick, the 11th of last Month, he is about five Feet and a Half high, forty Years old, something Pock-broken, walks with his Toes turned in; he had on a Mous-color'd homespun Coat, lined with green Baize, mohair Buttons, a striped homespun Jacket, and striped Shirt; short Trowsers and blue homespun Stockings; a small felt Hat, and dark color'd Wig, has a Scar on his under Lip—Whoever takes up said Servant, and conveys him to his said Master shall have four Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid by me George Berry.
Falmouth, Sept. 7, 1772.
Hopkinton, Province New Hampshire, June 23, 1772.
Whereas when Samson Colby, the Brother of me the Subscriber, went to live with John Townsend, Esq; Practitioner in Physick and Surgery, to learn his said Arts, I, with my said Brother, signed and delivered to the said Townsend, a promissory Note, dated Aug. 1st, 1769, for forty five Pounds Lawful Money, to be paid to him, or his Order, at or before the 13th of Nov. 1771, for my said Brother's Learning. Sometime after, the said Townsend said, he had lost the said Note, whereupon I and my said Brother, signed another Note for the same Sum, to be paid as specified in the Note which he said was lost. The said Note (viz. the second Note) was dated at New Ipswich, June 6th, 1770. And he the said Townsend gave a Receipt expressed thus.
This Day received of Ebenezer Colby a Note of Hand, signed by him and Samson Colby, for 45l. Lawful Money, which is in full for a Note of Hand I have against him and Samson Colby for the same Sum. per me John Townsend.
Witnessed by Samuel Parker Nathan Cutter.
Some time after this I paid the last of the said Sum of 45l. to the said Townsend, and thought I had taken up the Note; but if I did I lost it again presently. I informed the said Townsend thereof; whereupon he gave me a Receipt expressed thus.
Reciev'd January 9, 1772, of Ebenezer Colbe four shillings in full for a Note which I once had against him, which is supposed to have been lost by him after having been delivered up to the said Colbe. Said Note was dated New Ipswich, June 6, 1770.
Witness my Hand, John Townsend.
Test. Timot by Clements.
Therefore if the said Notes, or either of them should be found, this is to caution all persons against pretending to recover the Sum mentioned therein of me or my Brother, for we shall not pay it again, unless we can be compelled thereto by Law.
Ebenezer Colbe.
TO BE SOLD at PUBLICK VENDUE, By the Subscriber, on Wednesday the 28th Day of October next, at One of the Clock Afternoon, ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED ACRES of LAND in Deerfield, near Pleasant Pond, about 25 Miles from Portsmouth, being the FARM where Capt. John Dudley now lives, which Farm is well situated on a main Country Road, with a good House, Barns and Sheds, and many Conveniences, too many to enumerate in an Advertisement; and as there is a very great necessity for raising the Money for said Farm, it is likely any Person inclining to purchase, will have it at very reasonable Terms: The Subscribers will likewise attend with a Lot Layer of the Parish, on Monday and Tuesday before Sale, in order to shew the Lines of said Farm, &c. &c. The Conditions of Sale to be seen on the Day of Sale, at the House standing on the Premises.
Deerfield, Sept. 24. 1772. Simon Marston, Patten Simpson, James Page, Daniel Page.
Sam l Livermore, and Richard Cutts Shannon, Having entered into Partnership in the Practice of the LAW, have opened an OFFICE, next Door to the Rev. Dr. HAVEN's in Portsmouth, where constant Attendance will be given by one or both said Partners.
TO BE SOLD
At PUBLIC VENDUE,
TO the highest Bidder, at the House of Capt. Joseph Cielley junr. in Nottingham, on Monday the 26th Day of October next, a certain Tract of Land, lying in the Parish of Deerfield in the County of Rockingham, it being Part of the Lot No. 15 in the 5th Range, with a House Frame and boarded. 24 Feet long, and 28 wide—with about 14 or 15 Acres cleared, about 7 or 8 of it mowing Ground, and the rest of it good Wood Land, with considerable white Ash Timber on it, and is fit for a Settlement—Lumber or Cattle will be taken for two thirds of the Payment: Conditions of Sale to be seen at Time and Place.
Sept. 11, 1772. Enoch Page.
Province of New Hampshire, Sept. 22, 1772.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Court of Appeals in this Province, which by Law is to be holden on the second Tuesday of October next, will be adjourn'd to Tuesday the eighth day of December next, of which all Persons concerned, are to take Notice and govern themselves Accordingly.
By Order,
THEODORE ATKINSON, Secretary.
Eben. Bridgham,
At the Staffordshire and Liverpool Ware House in King-Street, BOSTON, has just imported directly from the Pot-Houses in Staffordshire and Liverpool, a full & compleat assortment of Delph, Flint and Glass Ware, consisting of
PRINTED , printed and gilt, and plain cream colour'd, white, blue & white, black, brown, agate, tortoise, pine apple, colly flour, mellon, fruit pattern, enamel'd and every other kind of flint WARE; Delph Bowles of all sizes, plates, dishes, cups and saucers, &c. &c. double and single flint plain, enamel'd cut and engrav'd wine glasses, wine and water and cyder glasses, beakers, salts, mustard pots, cream jugs, cans, mugs, decanters, pattys, candlesticks, lamps, salvers, cruets, &c.—boxes of glass ware, & crates of ware neatly assorted for shopkeepers; a great variety of china ware, pipes by the box, chimney tile, best London porter, and a great variety of other articles, all which he will sell as low as they can be bought in London, and he is determined not to be UNDER SOLD by any person in America; and while he adheres to this resolution he doubts not his former good customers (to whom he takes this opportunity of returning his grateful acknowledgements for past favours) will continue to favour him with their custom.
N. B. Said Bridgham having lately procur'd packers from England, his customers may depend on having their ware packed in the best manner.
JUST IMPORTED from LONDON, And to be SOLD
By Stephen Hardy
At his SHOP the lower End of King-Street, SUPERFINE scarlet, black, blue, green, white, Raven grey, drab colour'd and brown broad Cloths, second and low priz'd ditto, fine German Serges, Shalloons and Tammies, bath Coatings, white Swanskins, Breeches Patterns of various Colours, silk Garters, Silk and Hair, silk Twist, sewing Silk, black and brown Buckrams, glazed Linnens, gold and silver Buttons, Garters, Edging, gold Lace, a Variety of mohair and gilt Buttons, metal and black horn Buttons by the Groce, horn Moulds, color'd lawn Handkerchiefs, Men's and Children's worsted Hose, 7 8 cotton Checks, Camblets, common and book Muslin, china Plates, Bowls, Cups and Saucers, blacking Balls, yard wide Irish Linens from 15d. to 3s. pr. Yard sterling Cost, at very low Advance by the Piece, white chappel Needles and fine Pins, a large Assortment of genteel Ribbands, wholesale or retail, and a Number of very good hair Trunks, of various Sizes.
WHEREAS Sarah Dow, the Wife of me the Subscriber, hath eloped from me, and refuses to dwell with me as an obedient Wife, this is therefore to forbid all Persons to credit her on my Account, as I will not Pay any Debt so contracted by her. Epping Sept. 22d 1772. Benjamin Dow.