Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1786-07-13 00:00:00

F O W L E's NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,
A N D GENERAL
T H E ADVERTISER.
T H U R S D A Y,
J U L Y 13, 1786.
P O R T S M O U T H: By J O H N M E L C H E R,
PRINTED and PUBLISHED IN PAVED-STREET.
Vol. XXX.]
"Open to all Parties—Influenced by none:—We aim only to be Just."
[No. 1551.]
From the INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE.
On the debate in a certain respectable assembly, whether the Certificates should be called in at their current value, a member addressed the Court thus—
Mr. SPEAKER,
T HE idea of redeeming the various species of our public securities at their present depreciated value, has never 'till now been suggested, and I hope, for the honor of the government, will never be agitated again within these walls; as it not only affects the rights of the subject in a very interesting point, but, if it had the authority of a law, would forever destroy all confidence in the faith and integrity of the public. Society, Sir, becomes respectable on the same principles by which the character of every individual is maintained. Dishonesty in either is equally opposed to wisdom, & equally pernicious to their true interest; it may give a momentary relief, but its favorable effects will soon vanish; distrust, and even abhorrence will succeed, and the imposition once detected, will hang as a perpetual clog on the progress of every future undertaking. It is not then the duty only, but the prosperity, and perhaps even the existence of a country is involved in the performance of its contracts. As to those, therefore, who assert that a measure which is morally wrong may be politically right, they hold a doctrine contradicted by the uncorrupted opinions of the world, and subversive of all political systems: for it is clear to demonstration, that a disposition to take every advantage that power would give, would operate as the most cruel tyranny, however it were sanctioned by the forms of a free government. Such conduct, in my idea, would amount to little short of political suicide, and would go near to sap the foundation of the best established monarchy in Europe. The law, in our private transactions, Mr. Speaker, will always act as a collateral check on the views of the individual, and his principles and fears are both of them engaged in the discharge of his duty. But in our connection with the State, we have little else but its faith to confide in, and of course this faith should be preserved with the most sacred punctuality. When the promise is once plighted, government that moment descends to the rank of an individual, and all it has to do, is to fall on some effectual measures to fulfil its engagements. It cannot hesitate a moment about the worth which the people give to its securities, without incurring the odious and scandalous imputation of being judge and party in its own case.
Why then do we talk of the hardship of being obliged to redeem our certificates at their full value, because they are daily purchased at a far less sum than they were issued by the State. It is a misfortune, indeed, to the original proprietor, that he is obliged to sell at so low a rate; but it cannot be considered as a crime, unless it be a crime in the State so long to have delayed the execution of its most solemn obligations; and if this is really the case, shall the government receive a benefit, for what the law provides a penalty.
But we seem to be afraid that those who have speculated in our funds will grow too rich, and at the expence of the people at large. As to the latter part of the proposition, the people are not the poorer, let who will be their creditors; and as to the idea of wealth being accumulated by speculating in our public securities, there is not a man who has ever trusted the State or continent, persuaded by its assurances, but has been sure to lose by it.
If we examine the policy of every other country, Sir, speculations in the funds are rather encouraged than disapproved by the government. They are considered as the pulse of the body-politic; and though its feeble vibrations may at any time announce both languor and decay, they still
demonstrate those remains of animation which demand relief and preclude despair. They are the barometer, Mr. Speaker, of modern power, and explain the strength of a community beyond the calculations of arithmetic: They are founded in the necessities of mankind, and in the different ideas which different people entertain of the honour and resources of a government; and if those who have the most favourable opinions, and are the most firmly attached to its interest have the best claims to its protections, then surely are we bound by every tie of honour, gratitude and policy, to reward their confidence in our promises. In fact, the warmest friends of the revolution will be the greatest sufferers by a national bankruptcy, while those who have always regarded our public professions, as a trick to deceive them, will have kept their property.
As a proof of the justice of these observations we have only to cast our eye on the state of that nation, from whose detested yoke we are now free'd, and we shall presently see that it is owing to the implicit confidence reposed in her promises, that she still retains her present power and reputation; and is it possible to believe, that we have neither virtue nor wisdom to adopt that policy from an enemy from which she has undoubtedly derived such essential benefits, America, under every advantage which nature and liberty afford—while Britain but presents the mutilated remains of her former grandeur, like a statue thrown from its pedestal, its trunk entire, but its extremities forever separated.
But if we admit the will, and only dispute our ability to do justice to the public creditors, I should wish to be informed as to the evidence in support of this opinion. Are we not in the dawn of life, our population rapid, our resources many of them unimproved, and all of them increasing, perfectly free and wholly unincumbered by those oppressive and enormous establishments, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical, by which the common people of every other country are impoverished? Is not the idea of poverty, which many are fond of inculcating, absurd and chimerical, founded on partial views and erroneous calculations. A spectre raised to disconcert the measures of government, and to impede the course of justice, and for no other reason but to indulge the meanness of avarice, or promote the views of faction.
Should we, however, be forced to confess the melancholy truth, that our country, after all, is not worth the money it has really cost to defend it, and if the peace and safety of the Commonwealth demands the sacrifice of the firmest friends of our independence, in order to its preservation, let us convene our creditors and request their indulgence. Any thing would be preferable to the low wretched arts so industriously played off to perplex and embarrass, without a single expedient being suggested for the common good. In this situation we should then do as honest men ought to do. While we acknowledged our poverty, we should preserve our reputation; and though we might be justly ridiculed for our conduct, after all the parade about the superior blessings of our boasted revolution, we still could not be reproached with dishonesty.
But who are the people, Mr. Speaker, who are thus perpetually talking of our poverty, and offering it as a reason to justify the measures of the delinquent States, either as to the constitutional requisitions of Congress, or as to those federal improvements, without which, experience has already demonstrated the utter impracticability of our preserving the union. At what period have they sought, what money have they loaned or given, or what services have they rendered the Commonwealth, unless murmuring is a benefit, and chicanery a virtue. In this view, they ought to be crowned with laurels for their
patriotic exertions, as their zeal is unremitting. No, Mr. Speaker, there is not a person of this class who ever has, or ever will assist the country with a farthing. They stand unmoved at our distress, and are only afraid that they shall be made to contribute what they ought long since cheerfully to have performed. I blush that such citizens exist, and I lament that they are Americans, for they would be a dishonour to any country, but are the bane of an infant community like ours.
If the clamours of discontent, however, must be admitted as proofs of public infelicity, the annals of every nation, and even in its happiest periods, are authentic evidence that no country has yet been happy, as every era has been marked by the same apparent dissatisfaction in a large part of the community. In our retropect on the past, many are too apt to view none but the pleasing parts of the picture. We think only of the advantages of our former situation, and forget the dangers we have escaped, and the real sufferings by which we have been oppressed. Instead of gratitude to the Great God of Peace for his distinguished mercy, we assail the Heavens with our impious clamours.
This, however, is not a general character of the people—it is but the result of that busy and restless spirit by which faction is always marked, and to the malignant influence of which every free country is exposed, though it ought always to be reprobated.
ANECDOOTE OF OLIVER CROMWELL.
O LIVER having intelligence that a party of the friends of Charles the Second used (after the death of Charles the First, and the ruin of his party) to assemble privately at an inn at Illington, resolved to make one among them. To effect this, he disguised himself like a substantial farmer, and on a horse, as much splashed as if he had rode hard all day, came up to the inn, and called for a mug of ale. When the landlord brought it, Oliver asked him to drink, and falling into discourse, the Protector frequently dropped a treasonable expression, as if by accident; and pretending at last (as they continued drinking) to be affected with the liquor, he became more open, telling the landlord, "the occasion of his journey was a lawsuit he had depending; and as he knew not how long it would detain him, wished he could find a set of honest men to pass his leisure time with, that he might be as little as possible in that d—d town where his royal and blessed Master was murdered." The landlord, convinced by his discourse that he was one of the right sort, introduced him to the above mentioned party, of whom he was the forwardest in drinking "the King's return," "destruction to the Protector," &c. &c. But in the midst of their jollity, a body of the Protector's guards surrounded the house; and the Commanding Officer told the landlord, "he wanted the Protector, who had ordered him to attend him there; and that he was to be in such a company, where he directed the landlord to enquire for him." The landlord assured him in vain, that "his Highness was not in the house!" But poor Sackbut being obliged to comply, goes laughing into the room, and delivers his message. At which Oliver, starting up, answered, "yes! here I am!"—"Now gentlemen," continued he, "you may be convinced you cannot be secret enough to evade my discovering you.—I pardon what is past; but advise you not to let me find you out another time."
A FRAGMENT.
H E that passeth by, and meddleth with a wife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. S O L O M O N.

T U R K Y.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 4. The storm which seemed to threaten us appears now ready to burst: the people are all in a ferment, and the foreign Ministers have quitted this capital, as well as all the strangers whom curiosity had brought hither. It is generally imagined that the Grand Seignior will be deposed, and the Sultan Selim placed on the throne, which will no doubt change the present pacifick system of government; and this is the more likely, as the great dislike of the people to the present Sultan is for his love of peace, which is termed indolence, and even cowardice in him.
L O N D O N, April 20.
The extensive territories of France are divided into a multitude of literary republics. Every publick foundation for the education of youth offers premiums for the investigation of science, and the improvement of those arts from which society can immediately derive advantage. Not a mail that arrives from that country but announces a premium for the elucidation of some important subject.—The sum of 400 livres (about 18l. sterling) is proposed by the Governors of the foundling hospital at Paris, to professors and students in medicine, for the best thesis on the nature, causes, and cure of the apthæ, or thrush, a disease to which many infants, from a day old up to four months, are very liable, and to which multitudes fall victims, both here and in that country.
Extract of a letter from Tangiers, March 7.
“The Emperor of Morocco, before he arrived in his capital, went on an expedition against a formidable gang of robbers, which used to retire to the environs of a castle, situated within four days journey of Salée, and was the residence of a person who passes for a saint. These banditti thought themselves the more secure there, as they imagined that the Emperor would not dare to violate the territory of the holy man.
His Majesty surprized them in the night, invested the castle of Ellmati, and sent him word, “that his enterprize had no other object but to protect him effectually against the depredations of the villains that had retired up his on territory.
“At break of day the Emperor ordered the attack, and the robbers made an obstinate defence. Two hundred of the Emperor's soldiers were killed in the field of battle. This resistance exasperated his Majesty; he gave orders to surround them, and 500 of them were hanged or beheaded on the spot. Their habitations were destroyed, and the soldiers made an immense booty, the Saint was dislodged from his castle and obliged to retire to another province.”
April 29. One of the greatest examples of savage cruelty the annals of mankind can produce, may be seen in the conduct of two men lately executed at Brussels. After gagging the husband and wife of the house they were resolved to plunder, in order to revenge themselves of the husband, who, in his struggle to break his cords, and prevent the robbery, happened to strike the legs of one of those hardened wretches, he immediately snatched an infant then in the cradle, and threw it into the oven, where this poor family were baking bread: the villains then threw fresh faggots into the grated part of it, and, as the father has since deposed upon oath, they drew it out at last with the baking hook, and, in wantonness of unexampled barbarity, tore it to pieces before the faces of the agonized parents, whom they pelted with the lacerated limbs. At what point will the human heart stop, when every principle of nature, religion and law, are broken down and trod upon?
Extract of a letter from Marseilles, March 28.
“Our port is so blocked up by the Moors, that all trade is at a stand; they have chased several ships into the harbour, and yesterday morning took one within half a league of it; it was very fortunate that a frigate from Toulon was just coming up, when an engagement ensued between the frigate and the Algerine, and at the third broadside the latter was sunk, and the ship was retaken and brought in here. It is some consolation that in a few days we are to have a small squadron stationed off here to convoy our trading ships from port to port, and drive these barbarians from this part of the Mediterranean.”
The advices from the continent are all contradictory and absurd! The grand questions there seem to be, “Is the King of Prussia dead or alive?—Is he dying? or is he politically dead? Has he lost his faculties?—Has he lost the power of doing good or evil?”—If so, then there is an interregnum for his secret lurking enemies to advance, in order to make reprisals upon him and his family for the depredations he has made upon them in his prime of life!—The death of the King of Prussia, and the death or deposing of the Grand Seignior, would make a strange jumble if they should happen together! enough to confound and disconcert the Comte de Vergennes himself, that grand master of arts, sciences and politicks, the present helmsman of all Europe.
May 4. A letter from Petersburg has the following article: “A courier has just arrived from Constantinople, and it is reported that our Ambassador has desired leave to return home, declaring that the situation of affairs in that country makes it unsafe for him to tarry there, for that a revolution will soon take place, and then a war must inevitably follow. On receiving the above account, a courier was immediately dispatched to Constantinople, with orders for our ambassador to quit that capital as privately as possible.”
A correspondent assures us, that a commercial treaty was finally adjusted, and reciprocally signed between the American and Portuguese commissioners, last Friday.
However extraordinary it may appear, we assure our readers it is a fact, that on Tuesday last a woman of Lower Darwen, near Blackburn, was delivered of five children. Only two of them were born alive, and they are since dead.
Letters from Spain, via Paris, assure that many bankruptcies have taken place in that kingdom, in consequence of the loss of the St. Peter of Alcantara. Letters received in Paris on the 15th, add, that many other failures are inevitable—hitherto that of Pournier and Co. is the most considerable; it amounts to no less than 1,500,000 piastres. This accident must necessarily affect the circulation of the notes of St. Charles Bank, which are honored only in the capitals of Europe.
Letters from Petersburg, dated March 13, declare, that her imperial Majesty has issued a most liberal ordinance, declaring to all the inhabitants of both the Russias, Tartary, &c. that they are not hereafter to address her as slaves (the term made use of for many centuries) but as her loyal subjects, a circumstance which has added greatly to the Czarina's popularity throughout her vast dominions.
A letter from the Hague has the following paragraph;—“The States General have published their decision on the disbanding the troops: The officers and soldiers retire with a small gratification. The Prince Stadtholder is reinstated in all his functions, and continues to be firmly supported by the King of Prussia, who, unwilling to see the husband of his niece a prey to intestine divisions, had destined ten of his best veteran regiments to subdue Dutch insolence, and restore a much injured Prince to his dignity and honours.”
N O R T H - C A R O L I N A.
NEWBURN, JUNE 8. A correspondent wants to know, how long the wise men of America, will suffer fools to guide the national helm? He observes, that we have a wise Congress, is not doubted, but they cannot guide the helm for want of necessary power, which is withheld by a certain small number of designing men, who are pursuing selfish plans of the ruin of national prosperity: It is equally shameful and astonishing, that America, after conquering all her enemies, establishing a glorious peace, and, possessing every natural advantage for the increase of commerce and wealth, should, by withholding the necessary powers to Congress, languish in disjointed poverty, and thereby invite the insults of all the rascals in creation. Such inconsistent, unnational conduct, demonstrates the want and necessity of a MASTER; and if much longer persisted in will produce ONE. Then will the people know to their everlasting sorrow, that the taxes to support a MASTER, will be fourfold the expense of maintaining LIBERTY; —but as they will merit the curse, let them
bear it without a murmur. If they have not virtue to be freemen, let them be slaves, and lick the dust of a tyrant's foot. The contracted, selfish, jealous spirit, which influences some State Councils, leads to national poverty and humiliation, and despotick power. One long period Rhode-Island was the evil genius of America; she repented and came in. Now, and for many months past, New-York is the political curse of the Union.
It is said flour sells at the excessive high rate of 12 dollars, per barrel, in the Bahama islands: this exorbitant price is severely felt by the poorer sort of people, and occasions great murmuring amongst them. As the inhabitants of this sterile, forlorn place depend almost entirely for subsistence from foreign aid, the late seizures of American vessels must be considered not only as impolitick, but barbarous and severe.
By accounts from Bermuda we learn, that there is not one bushel of Indian corn for sale in that country. That great sickness prevails at Turk's-Island; and they are without medical assistance.—Salt at 1s. to 1s. 4d. per bushel.
B E R M U D A.
ST. GEORGE'S, June 10. His Majesty's sloop of war Bull-Dog, Capt. March, accompanied by four armed gallies, from Jamaica, have lately been cruising about and visiting the Bahama Islands, to keep the American vessels from coming in.
Thursday sailed the sloop Polly, Capt. Watson, for Halifax, Nova-Scotia, in which went passenger his Excellency William Browne, Esq. governor and commander in chief of these islands. Several of the principal gentlemen of St. George's accompanied his Excellency till he passed the forts, the guns of which were fired to salute him.
B A L T I M O R E, June 27:
Charles county court has lately been compelled to adjourn all civil causes, by a tumultuary assemblage of the people, and it is to be apprehended, that other counties are disposed to follow the baneful precedent. No person in Harford county is, by the inhabitants, permitted to bid for property seized upon execution for debt, and disposed of at publick auction. If something is not speedily done to restore our courts to their proper tone and energy (and what that something should be, we cannot presume to point out) this once happy state will be exposed to all the horrors of anarchy and licentiousness. It indeed requires the united wisdom of the wisest amongst us to devise and carry into execution such measures as may alleviate our embarrassments, and sooth the body of the people.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, July 1.
It is with singular pleasure we inform our readers, that Messrs. Charles and Christopher Marshall, jun. have lately established a manufactory of glauber salt, and sal. ammoniac, in the neighbourhood of this city, in which they will be able to manufacture both those salts of as good a quality, and in as large quantities, as were ever imported from Europe. Specimens of these salts were, a few evenings ago, laid before the Philosophical Society.
We learn from Connecticut, that the Susquehannah Company are perfectly satisfied with the late donation of Congress, of a tract of land to the westward of Pennsylvania, in lieu of their claims to the lands at Wyoming—and that the conduct of that incendiary, Ethan Allen, is severely condemned by them.—We are further informed that his atheistical Highness met with a very cold reception from the inhabitants of Wyoming in his late visit to them, and that a great majority of those people express a desire of being united in laws and government with the citizens of Pennsylvania. From these circumstances there is reason to believe that the lands on the east branch of Susquehannah will soon vie in population, order and wealth with the oldest settlements in our state.
B O S T O N, July 10.
A Committee of Congress, to whom was referred the act of New-York, granting the Continental impost, have reported, that the act so essentially varies from the recommendation of Congress, that it cannot be considered as a compliance with the same. The Resolution of Congress thereon is not yet come to hand.

Difficulties of a very alarming nature now prevail in our neighbouring state of Rhode-Island, occasioned it seems, by its late emission of paper bills. The Assembly, which met at Newport on the 26th ult. passed an act, whereby every person who shall, by declining to receive them at their nominal value, or by any ways, means or manner whatsoever, discourage or discountenance the passing of the said bills, or in any degree depreciate them, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds, lawful money; and if convicted of a second offence, to be rendered incapable to elect, or to be elected, to any office of honour, trust or profit within the state, and to forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds.
The above act was passed, in the lower house, by a majority of six. The deputies of the town of Providence protested against it, conceiving it to be introductory of such penalties to enforce obedience as would disgrace the courts of Tripoli or Algiers.—The protest was rejected by the two Houses, as disrespectful, and, by a large majority, refused an admission on the files.
On Friday last, his Excellency the Governor communicated the following important information to the Hon. the Legislature.
“Gentlemen of the Senate, and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives.
“THE last evening, by Mr. Henry Thaxter, I received a letter from Stephen Jones and James Avery, Esquires, dated at Machias, the 29th of June. They mention in it, that by letters from Col. Allen and Mr. Delesdernier (a copy of which was enclosed) they are informed of a most daring insult upon the dignity of this Commonwealth and the United States, committed on the 26th of that month, by the civil and custom-house officers, of the British Province of New Brunswick, in seizing two vessels, the property of the citizens of this Commonwealth, and within the acknowledged jurisdiction of it.
“Col. Allen’s letter, dated at Dudley Island, the 27th June, mentions, that the acts of New Brunswick, which are now published, extend the western boundary of Charlotte county to the western shore of Passamaquoddy Bay; that the seventh parish, called the West-Isles, includes Moore, Dudley and Frederick Islands, expressly; and consequently the United States are wholly debarred from all navigation in, and into that Bay.
“By inquiry of Mr. Thaxter, I find the two vessels were seized, as they lay at anchor, near the western shore of the west passage of Passamaquoddy.—This conduct corresponds to those acts, and both together shew a disposition to exclude us from the navigation of that bay; and at the same time must be considered as a violation of the definitive treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain.”
Nothing is mentioned, in the official information received by the Governor, of the capture, by the Refugees, of Major-General Lincoln, as has been reported.
The curiosity of a gentleman led him to keep an account of Coaches, Chaises, Carts and Horses which passed and re-passed Charles River Bridge on the 21st ult. the 5th day after it was passable, which is as follows: 20 Coaches (including Hackney-Coaches)—135 Chaises—137 Carts—193 Horses—485 from sunrise to sunset.—15 Chaises more in the evening—Total 500.
By the UNITED-STATES in CONGRESS, assembled, June 27, 1786
RESOLVED, That the Judges of the Court of Appeals be, and hereby are authorised and directed in every Cause which has been or may be brought before them, to sustain appeals, and grant re-hearings or new trials of the same, wherever justice and right may in their opinion require it; provided that an order for a re-hearing, or new trial, shall in no instance suspend the execution of the first sentence, if the party in whose favor it may have been, shall give satisfactory security for the payment of such costs and damages as the Court on re-hearing the cause and reversing the decree, may think proper to award; and that the said Judges be entitled each to ten dollars per day, during the time they shall attend the sitting of the said Courts, and including the time they shall be necessarily employed in travelling to and from the same.
RESOLVED, That the said Court assemble at the city of New-York on the first Monday of November next, for the dispatch of such business as may then and there be before them.
CHA. THOMSON, Sec’y.
An Extract of an Act of the State of Maryland, passed March 6, 1786, to extend the time limited for bringing in and settling claims against said State, by the citizens thereof, and for limiting the time for bringing in and settling claims against the said State by the citizens of the United States.
“AND BE IT ENACTED, That all claims against the said State, by any citizen of any other of the United States, shall be brought
in and settled as aforesaid, on or before the first day of December 1786; and that no claim against this State as aforesaid, which shall not be brought in and settled agreeably to the directions of this act, shall hereafter be paid by this State, unless the person having such claim be an infant, feme, covert, a person, non compos mentis, or in some foreign country, in which cases, one year shall be allowed to bring in and settle such claim after the disability removed, or the return of such person to this or some one of the United States, as the case may be.”
State of New-Hampshire.
In COUNCIL, June 7, 1786.
THE citizens of this State are informed by the foregoing extract from the act of the State of Maryland, to render their demands, if any they have, agreeably to the same.
By Order, JOSEPH PEARSON, Sec’y.
For England.
For Poole, or some port near Isle of Wight, the Ship Hope, new and as well built as any Ship on the Continent, commanded by THOMAS THOMPSON, will positively sail by the first of August;—any gentleman may be accommodated with passage or a few tons of small freight if offered soon.—Apply to Messrs. THOMAS and JAMES SHEPHERD, or the master on board. Portsmouth, July 12, 1786.
Best Lisbon
S A L T Just arrived,
And to be Sold CHEAP for ready Money, or on credit for Cash, or Jamaica Fish—Also, a few
Hawfers and Anchors,
suitable for Fishermen.
Inquire at the Store opposite the Post-Office. Portsmouth, July 5th, 1786.
State of New Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident owners of land in Stoddard, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1784, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on the third day of August next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at the house of Capt. Israel Town, innholder in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   N. R. s. d. q.     Col. Stoddard’s heirs 13 15 0 8 3   Ditto 22 6 1 10 3   Ditto 3 4 1 0 0   Ditto 19 9 1 6 3   Ditto 28 2 1 0 0   Ditto 27 2 1 0 0   Ditto 17 2 1 3 0   Ditto 28 7 1 3 0   Philip Boarden 21 4 1 6 3   Elijah Borden 13 7 1 3 0   Joseph Blanchard 19 2 1 0 0   Ditto 23 13 1 10 2   Ditto 25 6 0 8 3   Ditto 14 16 1 0 0   Ditto 20 2 1 3 0   Joseph Read 20 4 1 3 0   Ditto 16 2 0 7 2   Hugh Wilson 15 3 1 0 0   Ditto 5 14 1 6 3   Matthew Thornton 2 N 0 7 2   Ditto 27 9 1 6 3   Ditto 2 13 1 3 0   Ditto 23 2 1 6 3   Elijah Read 14 9 1 10 2   Titus Church 1 6 3   Capt. Charles Barret, half 5 9 0 5 0   Ditto, half 6 9 0 5 0   Stephen Powers 26 7 1 0 0   Timothy Prescott 25 12 2 5 3   Samuel Peck 2 6 0  
NATHANIEL EVANS, Collector. Stoddard, June 5, 1786.
State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss. THE SUBSCRIBERS appointed Commissioners by the Hon’ble Phillips White, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for said County, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of William Parker, late of Portsmouth, Esq. deceased, represented insolvent, and six Months being allowed for that Purpose, give Notice, that they shall attend said Service, at the Dwelling House of Col. William Brewster, on the last Wednesday of this and the five following Months, from 6 to 9 o’Clock P.M.
THOMAS MARTIN, JOHN PICKERING, JOHN SPARHAWK. Portsmouth, June 6, 1786.
Portsmouth, July 13.
A correspondent wishes to be informed whe her it is not as necessary that French vessels bound to the United States, should be furnished with pass-ports from the American Consuls residing in the French dominions, as for American vessels to be obliged to receive such from the French Consuls residing among us, on pain of being refused admittance in their ports. Notwithstanding the plausible pretext of British subjects imposing themselves on them for Americans—your correspondent knows of no indulgence granted to us more than to any other people; their ports (which are denominated free) being open to all nations. What necessity of our having Naval-Offices established, if no credence is to be paid to them by foreigners without the sanction of their Consuls ? We may as well abolish them, and give up at once, all pretensions to liberty, as to suffer such a flagrant infringement on our rights and privileges.—Where is our (much boasted) independence, if we tamely submit to such violations? It is almost now merely nominal, and as we go on, it will be even without the name! An imposition is an imposition, let it come from what quarter it may, as such, it ought to be considered and resented. If we are indebted to foreigners, let us endeavour to pay them with honor, and assert our rights like freemen; not suffer such indignities, because we are under obligations; it denotes servile fear, which Americans ought to be ashamed of.
The scarcity of a circulating medium, observes a correspondent, prevails not in the United States alone: The embarrassments consequent on the want of a due representation of property are equally, if not more sensibly, felt in the provinces of Great-Britain: Great and many bankruptcies have already happened, and others are daily taking place.
Every friend to the commerce of the United States must see with concern the growing importance of the British colonies of Nova-Scotia, &c. those men who barrea the way to the return of a great majority of their present inhabitants, into the States from which they absented themselves.—Their fears on the head, ought not to excuse them—for what in the name of common sense was to be apprehended from unarmed men, neglected by, and dissatisfied with, the party whose cause they had assisted, who when in open war could effect nothing against us. The door may yet be opened—and as our rulers most certainly have the true interest of our country at heart, it is expected that there will be laws enacted, inviting them back to the states again, and holding out to them protection and encouragement. The measure would be politick and benevolent, and the consequence, if we may judge from the spirit of enterprize which it is known they possess, would give a spring to our declining commerce, which may save it from entire decay.
The following is extracted from the monthly Review , printed in London, for October 1785.
“The History of New-Hampshire, vol. 1. comprehending the events of one complete century from the first discovery of the river Piscataqua. By JEREMY BELKNAP, A. M. &c. Philadelphia Printed. Sold in London, by Longman, 1785.
“One proof of the considerable progress making toward general improvement in the new empire of America, is the employment afforded there to the printing-presses, which, as we are informed, are briskly kept in motion throughout the several States, notwithstanding the scarcity of money and the yet unsettled condition of their public concerns.
“Among other literary productions of a recent date, our present attention is engaged by this first volume of an history of one of the New-England provinces; a work which appears to be drawn up with judgment, candour and good sense.
“The historical collections to which our author acknowledges himself obliged for assistance, are those of Neal, Douglass, Hubbard, Mather and Penhallow. The productions of the last three relate chiefly to the Indian wars; and their narratives have been compared with ancient (what an American deems ancient with reference to that country) manuscripts, and with Charlevoix’s history of New France. He justly remarks that though the particular incidents of these wars may be tedious to strangers, yet they will be read with avidity by the descendants of those whose misfortunes and bravery were so conspicuous. He further observes that he has had in view not barely to relate facts, but to delineate the characters, the passions the interests, and tempers of the persons who are the subjects of his narration, and to describe the most striking features of the times in which they lived: In executing this part of his design, we think he has manifested great candor and moderation.
“MR. BELKNAP’s general view of the horrors which usually accompanied the several North America Indian wars, may be given as a specimen of his style, &c. from which the reader will in some degree be enabled to conceive what extraordinary difficulties, distresses and discouragements the first settlers of that inhospitable region had to encounter; and from which, indeed, those settlements are not even yet entirely freed.”
Here follows a quotation beginning at page 282— “On the other hand, however, our author’s candor obliges him to do justice to the virtues of the savages, for virtues they certainly possess.”
Here is another quotation from page 286: And the account is closed by a third quotation from page 77 of the appendix.
NAVAL-OFFICE,
PORT of PISCATAQUA, July 13.
ENTERED NONE.
CLEARED, FOR
Sloop Randolph, Gardner, West-Indies. Schooner Polly, Chase, South-Carolina.

Parnassian Spring.
EPITAPH on a SAILOR.
FREE from the storms and gusts of human life; Free from the squalls of passion and of strife, Here Jack lies, anchor'd—who has stood the sea Of ebbing life, and swelling misery: Tho' poorly rigg'd, prudent eye forefaw, And took a reef at fortune's quickest flaw, He luff'd and bore away to please mankind, But duty urg'd him still to head the wind: A fever's tempest soon his masts destroy'd; But jury health a while he still enjoy'd; Laden with grief, and age, and shatter'd head, At length he struck, and grounded on his bed; While in distress, careening, thus he lay, His final bilge expecting ev'ry day, Heav'n took his ballast from its dreary hole, And left his body destitute of soul.
State Post.
Samuel Bean,
RESPECTFULLY informs the public, that he is appointed by the hon. General Court of this State, to ride Post through the following towns, viz. from Portsmouth, to go through Exeter, Nottingham, Concord, Plymouth, Haverhill, Dartmouth, Hanover, Charlestown, Keene, Amherst, Londonderry, Chester, Kingstown, and so to Portsmouth again. He will leave Portsmouth on Monday, and is to perform the route once a fortnight, viz. At first he goes through Exeter to Nottingham, Concord, &c. and returns through Amherst, Londonderry, &c. and next goes through Londonderry, Amherst and Keene, and returns by the way of Concord, and so rides alternately.
He will supply gentlemen with the New-Hampshire Newspapers at the rate of three shillings per quarter as far as Concord and Amherst; above, at the rate of three shillings and six pence per quarter; the money to be paid at entrance. He will likewise supply them with any sort of Blanks at a reasonable rate, and will transact any kind of business with fidelity, that he may be entrusted with.
Portsmouth, June 21, 1786.
T O B E S O L D
At PUBLIC VENDUE , On Thursday the 27th inst. at the dwelling-house of John Lewis, late of Portsmouth, ship-carpenter, deceased, all the
House-hold Furniture
of said deceased, consisting of Beds, Chairs and Tables.—Also,
A good Silver Watch, &c.
Portsmouth, July 8, 1786.
C A S H
Given for Sheep and Lamb Skins, With WOOL on or off, By JAMES HASLETT , At the Sign of the BUCK AND GLOVE . Said Haslett has for Sale,
A second-hand Curricule, & Harness complete; for which he will take public securities, or West India goods in pay.
Portsmouth, June 18, 1786.
NOTICE is hereby given, that orders have been transmitted to the administrator of the French West-India islands to refuse admittance to all foreign vessels, which will not present a passport from the Consul, Vice Consul, or Agent of his Most Christian Majesty, residing in the port of their departure:—In consequence thereof, all owners or masters of such vessels, in the State of New-Hampshire, as are intended for the French West-India islands are requested to apply for passports to M. Ducher, agent of the Vice Consulship of France, residing in Portsmouth, New-Hampshire.
DUCHER.
Portsmouth, June 29, 1786.
THOSE persons indebted for the New-Hampshire Gazette, Advertisements, &c. for the last six months past, are earnestly requested to make payment in cash, or produce of any kind. June 24.
State of New Hampshire, Concord, June 15,
A PETITION having been preferred to the General Court, by Leonard Whiting, Esq. in behalf of the proprietors of Gunthwait, setting forth that the petitioners lands in Gunthwait are assessed by persons who call themselves the selectmen of Concord, alias Gunthwait, by which means the petitioners lands in said Gunthwait are liable to be sold for taxes so assessed, while the petitioners are deprived of an opportunity of paying the same, and thereby preventing the sale of the lands.
And that said Whiting having prayed the interposition of the General Court in the premises, and that the sale of said lands may be stayed until some way can be pointed out for him and the proprietors he represents, to pay the taxes.
These are therefore to give public notice to all persons concerned, that an order has passed the General Court, that a hearing be had on said Whiting's petition on the third Thursday of the next session; that any person or persons may appear and shew cause why the prayer thereof may not be granted; and that no lands in said town be sold for taxes until the decision of the General Court. Attest, JOSEPH PEARSON , Sec'y.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Boscawen, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1783 and 1784, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the 24th day of August next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling house in said town, at two o'clock, P. M. of said day, unless prevented by previous payment.
   For the year 1784. acres. l. s. d.     Daniel Peirce 100 0 1 5   Ditto, 45 0 0 6   Ebenezer Burrill's farm 0 2 4   For the year 1784.   Edward Emery 100 0 2 2   Ditto 45 0 0 2   James Mitchel 100 0 0 11   Ditto 45 0 1 2   Daniel Peirce 100 0 0 6   Ditto 45 0 0 2   Daniel Richards 80 0 1 8   Jonathan Samson 80 0 2 2   John Wright 100 0 0 11   Ditto 45 0 0 2   Thomas Webster 100 0 0 5   Ebenezer Burrill's farm 0 0 11  
EDWARD CHADWICK, Collector, Boscawen, July 2, 1786.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in Washington, who have not paid their taxes for the years 1784 and 1785, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, on Thursday, the tenth day of August next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, at the house of Major Davis, Innholder in said town, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment. War. State.
   For 1784. N. R. D. Q'ty. s. d. s. d.     Charles Brown 1 1 2 100 2 0 2 6   Peter Niles 2 2 3 68 1 5 1 11   For 1785. State. County.   N. R. D. Q'ty. s. d. s. d.   Doctor E. Wales 3 2 2 100 2 2 4 2   Timothy Taylor 1 1 2 130 2 11 6 3   Widow Sarah Morrison 50   Asa French 120 2 7 4 2   Daniel Hartwell 39 1 10 4 3   Peter Niles 63 1 6 2 2  
JOSIAH DAVIS, WILLIAM PROCTER, } Collectors. Washington, June 5, 1786.
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford ss.
WE the subscribers being appointed by the hon. Judge of probate, &c. for said county, commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Alexander Caldwell, late of Dover, in said county, deceased, represented insolvent; do hereby give notice that we will attend on said business on the second Monday of July next, and the five following months, at the dwelling house of Jonathan Gage, Innholder in said town, from three to six o'clock in the afternoon of each of said days.
John Burnham Hanson, Moses Wingate, } Commissioners. Dover, June 23, 1786.
James Norie,
Tinman from L O N D O N,
Next door to Mr. BOWLES's, makes and sells all sorts of Tin-Ware, at the lowest prices, viz.
   A LE Tasters, H ASH dishes and   Argyles for gravey lamps,   Basters, Hearing trumpets,   Boxes for writing, Jacks Jugs and   Bottle bearers, Turners,   Butter forcers, Kettles,   Biscuit pans & frames, Knife trays,   Broilers, Lanthorns,   Bathing Machines, Lamps,   Bread Baskets, Moulds for blancmange   Cranes, Money boxes,   Cheese trays, Meat screens,   Card racks, Milk pails,   Cream skimmers, Milk sauce pans,   Cheese toasters, Ovens,   Cheese ovens, Oil pumps,   Coffee strainers, Oil kettles,   Coffee pots, Pots and measures,   Chocolate pots, Plate warmers,   Chocolate mules, Punch strainers,   Cullenders, Porringers,   Candie safes, Pepper boxes,   Candie moulds, Pudding pans,   Candle boxes, Pudding pots,   Candlesticks, Saucers,   Cansisters, Speaking trumpets,   Chimney funels, Sugar boxes,   Chair pans, Snuff boxes,   Covers for plates and Suet strainers,   dishes, Snuffer pans,   Cake pans and hoops, Spice boxes,   Dust pans, Slices,   Dripping pans, Scolops,   Dressing boxes, Salvatories,   Egg ladies, Steam kettles,   Extinguishers, Stool pans,   Flour boxes, Soup ladles,   Fish kettles, Splitting basons,   Fishing boxes, Stills,   Funels, Savealls,   Fenders, Turcans,   Garden engines, Tinder boxes,   Gingerbread cutters, Ventilators,   Graters, Water pots, and   Wax boxes.  
If any of the above articles are not ready, they may be made of any size or sort on the shortest notice.—Also for sale, Pewter pots, plates, basons, porringers, funels, spoons, blocktin and iron spoons, blocktin tea pots, japand'd waters, candlesticks, snuffers, lead weights and plummets,—Likewise grain and powder of tin, famous for killing worms in children.
N. B. Copper and brass tined and mended, at the same place, where cash is given for old metal. Portsmouth, July 12, 1786.
THE creditors to the estate of Capt. Daniel Gordon, late of Epping, deceased, represented insolvent, are hereby notified, that six months longer are allowed them to bring in their claims, and the commissioners will attend the receiving them, at the dwelling-house of Col. Samuel Folsom, innholder in Exeter, on the second Monday of the six following months, from three to six of the clock, P. M.
Exeter, June 21, 1786.
35 white pine MASTS , 8 Bowsprits , and 80 Yards of various dimensions, To be Sold at
Public Vendue,
at Portsmouth, in the State of New-Hampshire, on the 25th day of the present month.
Whoever intends to speculate in said Masts, &c. at private sale, are requested to apply to M. Toscan in Boston, or to M. Ducher, in Portsmouth, previous to the day of sale. DUCHER: Portsmouth, July 1, 1786.
Blanks of most sorts may be had this OFFICE, and of THOMAS ODIORNE, Esq. at his shop in Exeter, where may be had a variety of West-India and English Goods, cheap.
Cash given for Rags, at this Office.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for this Paper, at Four shillings and six pence for six Months (exclusive of postage) are taken in at this Office, and by THOMAS ODIORNE , Esq. at his Shop in Exeter, where Advertisements are received, the Favors of Correspondents and all Orders in the Art of Printing attended to with Punctuality and Dispatch.