The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-12-18 00:00:00

To please the Wife is easy, but to correct the Folly of Fools, is like taking a Razor to cut down Trees.
SINCE custom prevails so much amongst men, that they cannot meet & be merry without drinking, nor get drunk without proposing toasts; let them use the following; if they don't serve to mend their morals, they will at least mend their manners.
1. May the King never want health and his subjects never want obedience.
2. May wisdom direct the ministers, and state-menders learn to mend themselves.
3. May liberty never make us licentious, and restraint never make us sad.
4. May we never seek more liberty than constitutes our happiness, nor more freedom than tends to public good.
5. May we never condemn that in others which we could pardon in ourselves.
6. May we never feel the jealous fury which gnaws the breast of the ambitious fool.
7. May the cares which haunt the heart of the covetous, never disturb our peace.
8. May we never desire plenty but to relieve the unhappy, & succour the distressed.
9. May we be happy enough to find friends but never so miserable as to put them to a severe trial.
10. May the deformity of other men's vices teach us to abhor our own.
11. May we be more ready to correct our own faults, than to publish the faults of others.
12. May the consideration of other men's follies teach us to correct those we have, and shun those we may have.
13. May we never be such cowards as to refuse to die when we must, nor wish to die, when we must not.
14. May we never be afraid to do that at any time, which we know we must do once.
15. May we never be so base as to envy the happiness of others.
16. May we never give ourselves the denial, by asking what we have no right to obtain.
17. May our imaginations never create unkindnesses, and remember them, nor unmake past favours and forget them.
18. May we never be such slaves to custom as to take one step in vice, for fear of being unfashionable.
19. May we enjoy our blessings, but never lament the loss of those we cannot keep, nor grieve for the want of those we cannot obtain.
20. May we never rashly believe the reports we hear, nor hastily censure the man we hear not.
21. May we never condemn by hearsay, nor applaud by fashion.
22. May nought be the object of our hatred but vice, and nought be the object of our veneration when virtue is wanting.
23. May we never desire money, but as a passport to travel through the world without begging.
24. May we never be so far misled as to think a rich man wise, merely for his wealth.
25. May we never be so debased as to permit our tongues to betray the whispers of worthy men.
26. May we never detract unworthily, nor flatter those who can hear us.
27. May we never spend our means ambitiously, nor endeavour to supply them wickedly.
28. May the bounteous heart never suffer poverty, nor the generous heart adversity.
29. May we be faithful to our friends & generous to our enemies.
30. May we never assume the liberty of tying all men to our own tenets.
31. May we never speak what we are ashamed to repeat, nor do that which we may blush to hear repeated.
32. May we never injure the absent nor the innocent, nor willingly deceive the man that trusts us.
33. May we never despise the poor, because we are twins by nature, nor despise the ignorant, because nature seemed to despise him.
34. May we first conquer the enemies that are within us, and then those that are without.
35. May we always have one guard to keep the heart from extravagancies, another to keep the enemy from approaches.
36. May we learn to know our own heart better, and trust them less.
37. May we never pronounce certain judgment, without certain knowledge.
38. May we never think ourselves so much above others, as to treat them with scorn.
39. May no man's weakness occasion our greater weakness, by proud contempt.
40. May we make the choice of our companions one of the most weighty concerns of our lives.
41. May we be thankful in prosperity, and undaunted in adversity.
42. May poverty never tempt us to mean actions, nor prosperity prompt us to mean pride.
43. May our imaginations never delude us with hopes of finding perfect happiness, or perfect misery in the world.
44. May we never think our own state lamentable, by seeing others decked with honour and greatness.
45. May envy and ambition never make us more miserable, than the state which liberal nature hath allotted us.
46. May we never imagine ourselves in want by looking at the abundance of others.
47. May the better fortune of others never put us out of conceit with our own.
48. May we never pick our sorrows from other men's joys, nor our joys from other men's sorrows.
49. May we never be so proud as to scorn a corrector, nor think it too mean to learn of an inferior.
50. May the law never have power to strike our virtue, nor fortune to subvert our wisdom.
51. May our pride never increase our enemies, nor put our friends to flight.
52. May our modesty chide us from bad company, and our virtue restrain us from bad enterprizes.
53. May our modesty restrain the uncivil tongue, and chain up the licentious hand.
54. May the modesty of women be like the Angel's flaming sword, to keep vile men from the paradise of their chastity.
55. May we be justly ashamed to be seen by those things which carry a just infamy with them.
56. May we rather endeavour to kill an injury by neglect, than injure ourselves by revenge.
57. May we be more assiduous to gain our enemies by deserving their friendship, than punish them for being enemies.
58. May we never murmur at the things that must be, but patiently bear the ills we
cannot redress.
59. May the thoughts of what is past never augment our cares, nor the hopes of what's to come ever encrease our fears.
60. May the brazen bell of our tongues never strike to make the world believe we have the church within us.
61. May we never so much remember our own virtues, as to teach others to remember our vices.
62. May the consciousness of our own innocence ever afford us that pleasure, which the lewd man never enjoy and the guilty never felt.
63. May we never be so deceived, as to find charms in beauty, where modesty is wanting.
64. May we respect our superiors without meanness, treat our equals with affability, and our inferiors with tenderness and humanity.
65. May the unhappiness of others rather melt us to tears of sensibility, than the smiles of indifference.
66. May we never be so extravagant as to beggar ourselves for being ashamed of poverty, nor so covetous as to live like beggars for fear of being poor.
67. May we never be so idle as to suffer the Devil to catch us napping, nor so busy as to have no time for ourselves.
68. May we always be assured, that happiness is a jewel, not to be purchased by all the acres and bank notes in the world.
69. May our friends ever love us, wise men ever esteem us, and fools never hate us.
70. May bright talents never be employed to make virtue appear contemptible, nor humour and wit, to make vice alluring.
71. May our delicacy never meet with a frigid reception, nor our modesty with a cool indifference.
72. May the practice of our religion ever be the first of our cares, and the laugh of fools the last of our fears.
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B O S T O N, December 10. Monday Captain Skimmer arrived here from Newcastle, last from Plymouth, in 6 Weeks: From the public Prints we have the follow- ing Articles, viz.
C O P E N H A G E N, October 6, 1772.
ALL our advices from the North have a warlike appearance. At Hamburgh, Altona, in the Holstein, at Dantick and Bremen, are Russian, Austrian, Danish, Swedish, and Prussian Officers raising re- cruits; and as trade is dead, and provisions scarce, they meet with great success. In Denmark and Sweden, as well as in Russia, they are fitting out ships with the utmost expedition: the Duchy of Holsteine is likely to be attacked by Russia, and Norway by Sweden, and his Prussian Majesty will prob- ably not be idle on this occasion. In short some politicians think there will be a ge- neral war in Europe. The accounts we re- ceived by the last post are, that the Courts of Russia, Berlin, and Sweden, have made an alliance: Sweden makes pretensions to Finland, and Prussia to Pomerania, but Prussia is to pay four millions of rubles to Russia.
Extract of a Letter from Sverin, in Mecklen- burg, dated September 28.
“The Prussian Alexander, the legislator of Germany, the scourge of his Neighbours, the Master of politics of Europe, has at last resolved to discover his scheme, by sending a large body of Troops into the Duchy of Holstein, namely, into that Part belonging to the Grand Duke. Our Merchants have the Commission from the Agents for the Prussian Army to provide Magazines of cheap kind necessary for a large body of Troops, in their March thro’ this Duchy. These Magazines are to be stationed upon different roads in the way to Holstein; but as we see the alliance between Prussia and Russia, concerning the affair of Poland, we rather believe that the neighbouring Pro- vinces, as Danish Holstein, Sleswick, Got- torp, and Jutland, would have more reason to prepare a warlike resistance, as these pro- vinces are in the hands of the King of Den- mark, from the beginning to this present moment, by an illegal possession.
LONDON, October 10.
Letters by the foreign mails yesterday de- clare, that a body of 40,000 Prussians were in full march for Hamburgh, which seems to indicate that city will not long continue under its present form of government.
An experiment has been made of the New Steering-Wheel, invented by Lieut. Savage, on board his Majesty’s ship Fowey, in the Passage from Plymouth to Boston in North-America, which is found to steer with ease and safety, and allowed by several Of- ficers of the Navy, and other eminent me- chanics who have examined it, to be a most useful and a very ingenious invention.
The Jail distemper is universal in New- gate, and it is said that the prisoners are daily dying.
Mr. Smith, the foreman, and two or three others of the Jury, at the last Sessions at the Old Bailey, died a few days since at Fulham of the Jail distemper; and three others are given over.
Yesterday, after a Scrutiny was demand- ed against the Aldermen Wilkes and Town- send, Mr. Piper addressed himself to the Gentlemen of the Livery as follows:
Gentlemen of the Livery,
“The Ministry & their protesting Tools “have echo’d throughout the whole King- “dom, that the Patriots and Friends to Li- “berty are the Disturbers of the public “Tranquility, & those Ministerial Gentry “declare if it costs 100,000l. they are de- “termined to go thro’ with Scrutiny, there- “fore be submitted to their Consideration “which Party justly deserved that odious “Appellation.”
Mess. Ald. Halifax and Shakespear having upon the most frivolous and ill grounded Pretences, demanded against Mess. Alder- man Wilkes and Townsend, a Scrutiny of the Poll for Lord Mayor of this City for the Year ensuing, manifestly calculated for the Purposes of putting this City into the most alarming Disorder and Confusion, of
creating and fomenting amongst its Inhabi- tants unhappy Feuds, Beckerings and Ani- mosities, and of wantonly and vexatiously loading the Friends of Mess. Wilkes and Townsend with a most heavy, cruel and e- normous Expence: It is therefore earnestly requested and recommended to you by the Committee appointed to conduct the same on their Behalf, that you do use your utmost and most speedy Endeavours to detect and find out every legal Cause of Disqualifica- tion to any of the Voters who polled for Mess. Halifax and Shakespear.
October 13. What renders the Scrutiny so very odious is this circumstance.—Every Person who has at any Time accepted of Charity, however affluent his Fortune may now be, is disqualified. Now many Men who are at present very rich and indepen- dent, may have received Assistance from Companies and other Bodies of Men, but they are not very fond of having this Ane- cdote made known to all the World.
The Circumstance of the Scrutiny has, it is certain, given great Disgust to all the sen- sible and reflecting Part of the Livery, in- somuch that there is the greatest Reason in the World to believe, that if there was to be a new Poll, Mr. Wilkes would have ten Votes where he has now but one.
Mr. Wilkes has always threw by Opposition. Had not the Ministry exerted themselves to tru- strate his Election in the City and in Middlesex, he might have perhaps passed without Notice; for, notwithstanding his Merit, as a Thorn in the Side of the Ministry, the People were not so much influenced by that Circumstance as by the Spirit of Opposition, which from long Practice has become a Habit, & is in fact the last An- chor of the Constitution.
By accounts from various parts of the town the damage done by Mr. Wilkes’s people on Tuesday night is much greater then could be conceived. The famous Quaker in Cheapside and Alderman Harley suffered much; and the windows of those Scotch tradesmen where the mobs found no light, they had no mercy on; in short, there is scarcely a street where they did not leave some testimony of their patriotism, notwithstanding the greatest diligence of the Inhabitants to comply with their request The terror and consternation that many fa- milies were thrown into on the occasion were also very great. If this be liberty may heaven avert it.
CHARLESTOWN, (S. Carolina) Nov. 16.
On Tuesday last his Excellency the Right Hon. Lord Charles Greville Montagu, Governor in Chief, &c. of this Province, was pleased to dissolve the General-Assem- bly with the following Speech:
The SPEECH of his Excellency the Right Hon. Lord CHARLES GREVILLE MONTAGU, Captain-General, Gover- nor and Commander in Chief, in and over his Majesty’s Province of South-Ca- rolina, &c. to the General Assembly of the said Province, at Charlestown, on Tuesday November 10th, 1772.
Honourable Gentlemen, Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Commons House of Assembly,
AT my first Meeting of the General As- sembly I manifested my Desire to be- nefit this Province, by speaking to you in an open and candid Manner, I made every advance to induce a good Understanding between us, and to prevail with you to ad- minister, as far as might be in your Power, the most immediate Relief to the long dis- tressed Situation of our public Affairs.
I fairly explained to you the Causes of all our Distresses, I warned you against the dan- ger of innovating upon the Constitution of your Country; but, to my Concern, I find, I spoke to some Men, who would not at- tend to the Advice I then gave; which had it been followed, might have ere this time, in a Manner wholly remedied the political Disorders of this Country.
Instead of annihilating former Innova- tions upon the Constitution, the Commons House of Assembly have proceeded to make other Innovations. It is my ardent Wish that I could, with Propriety, suffer this Ge- neral Assembly to exist for a longer Time, but the Proceedings of the Commons House
make an immediate Dissolution absolutely necessary.
It is highly proper for me to observe to you, that the Commander in chief of this Province has a Right, at all Times, to in- spect the Journals of the General Assembly; And I am sorry that I must charge the pre- sent Speaker of the Commons House * with having acted in an unprecedented Manner; it seems that the Commons House of As- sembly having upon their Journals a Re- port of a violent and unconstitutional na- ture, the Speaker took the Journals into his Possession; and, altho’ I wrote to him to demand them, I could not procure them until the next Day, and then only a very short Space of Time before the Meeting of the House. Is it in such a Manner that violent Measures in a Commons House of Assembly are to be concealed from a Go- vernour, until almost the Moment of their being carried into Execution.
To check such a Behaviour, as well as to furnish the Commons with another Op- portunity to read a Tax Bill, de novo , there- by that they might have more time to think of forming it in such a Manner as from long experience they might, have known, could only render it capable of doing good to the people, I did at our last Meeting prorogue you to this Day; designing then to suffer you to sit for the Dispatch of Business.
But having perused the Journals of the Commons House of that Day on which the last Prorogation took Effect, I find that af- ter they had received my Commands then immediately to attend me, they did conti- nue to sit, to put a Question, and to form Resolves and Orders.
A Behaviour which, as it is unpreceden- ted in parliamentary Proceedings, so it is of a most dangerous Tendency, besides a Proof of their Contempt of the King’s Pre- rogative, which is a Part of the law of the Land. Being at the Head of the General Assembly, I cannot suffer such a Proceed- ing to pass with Impunity.
I shall part with this Commons House of Assembly with less Reluctance, because they seem wanting in Justice to their Con- stituents, whom they endeavour to delude, pretending to serve them by a Measure, which, from Experience and even from the Information of their Agent, they know has not even a Chance of procuring Relief to the distressed public; unprofitably spending their Time in impugning that Exercise of the Prerogative, which the uninterrupted Si- lence of the House of Commons has con- fessed to be constitutional; wantonly shew- ing how little they regard the Laws of Par- liament, by their innovating upon them: Acting in such a Manner as is unknown in parliamentary Proceedings, from which it is my Duty, if possible, not to permit any Deviation: And I will be sure not to give Encouragement for any, by acting with un- seasonable Lenity on my Part; I do there- fore dissolve this General Assembly, and it is accordingly dissolved.
C. G. MONTAGU.
* In answer to the Governor’s charge, this Gentleman pub- lished a vindication of his conduct.
The Report brought here some Time ago, by the Master of a Vessel from the West Indies, of the Death of his Excellency Governor Leybourne is not true.
Nov. 19. We hear a Party of Cherokee Indians have lately murdered Capt. Gueff of Virginia, and some other Gentlemen that accompanied him in viewing the Lands lately ceded by the Nation of Cherokees to the Colony of Virginia.
A young Negro Fellow, belonging to Mr. George Blackie, having for some Time past complained of a violent Pain in his Head, a Puke was given him Yesterday, as the Cause was imagined to proceed from a foul Stomach, when he brought up a large flat Worm, upwards of Nine Yards in Length, to the Surprise of every Person who saw it.
N E W Y O R K, Dec. 7.
Sunday arrived here Capt. Prince from Cayenne, and Capt. Richardson from Gibraltar. The former acquaints us, that a Number of the Indians at St. Vincents had laid down their Arms, and delivered themselves up to the Governor, and that he yesterday saw three Sloops and a Schooner ashore between the Hook and Barnagat. Flour at Barbados, 30s. the 27th of October.
Capt. Prince in his Way from Cayenne, touched at Barbados, and left that Island the 27th of October, and acquaints us, that the Slaves in a French Brig belonging to Martinico, from Af- rica, had killed the Crew on the Passage, took Possession of the Vessel, were cruising to windward of the Island, and had fired upon several Ships, &c. that had arrived in the West-In- dies, and that two Sloops were gone in Search of her; that a ship belonging to Liverpool, with 350 Slaves on Board, was lately brought into Barbados, by another Guineaman, after a Warm Engagement of 4 Hours. the Slaves having killed all the Whites on Board but one little Boy.

PHILADELPHIA, December 2. Extract of a Letter from Barbadoes, Octo. 17. "On the Second of this Month, I fell in with the Sloop Ripton, Capt. Lewis, from New-Haven bound for Antigua, out 42 Days, who informed me, that in a Gale of Wind he overset, which obliged him to cut away his Mast, having lost 16 Head of Cattle, and one Man, overboard; being when I spoke him in Lat. 24, Long. 61."
By Capt. Symmonds, from Barbadoes, we learn, that the Ship Mercury, Capt. Steel, from Port, arrived at that Island the 25th of October, having met with a very hard Gale of Wind on his Passage, in which he laid on his Beam-Ends, lost his Boats, and was obliged to cut away his Mainmast.
BOSTON, Thursday, December 10. Last Thanksgiving P. M. Mr. Allen, a British Bostonian, preached a sermon at the Reverend Mr. Davis's Baptist meeting house from those words, Micah VII. 3. That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man he uttereth his mischievous desire, so they wrap it up.
Saturday evening Lieut. Col. Leisly, of the 64th regiment, arrived in town from the southward.
About the time Capt. Skimmer failed from Plymouth, a number of Transports failed for Ireland to take on board two or three regiments who were to relieve those in the West-Indies.
We hear from Brookline, that they have lately erected an elegant new Steeple to their meeting house, and have hung a fine new bell of 7 or 800 weight, perhaps equal of its bigness to any in America, which was the gift of Mr. Nicholas Boylston, late of Boston.
The Julius Cæsar Tender, with Volunteer Seamen for his Majesty's ships at Plymouth, was lost in Bristol channel the 8th of October, and thirty men were drowned.
We hear from Springfield, that two lads about ten years of age, playing with a loaded gun, one of them shot the other in the Groin, and mortally wounded him, so that he died within two hours after.
Last Evening John Daly, one of the prisoners that broke out of goal last was taken in a Gentleman's yard, stealing cloaths off the line, and again committed to goal.
The names of the money makers taken in Albany county, are Joseph Bill, John Williamson, John Wall Lovely, William Hurlbut, Festus Drake, Silas Robinson, Gill Belcher, Wane Cafe, John Johnson, John Stannard, Simon Claviland, & Humphry Denning.
MONDAY, December 14.
On the 4th of December his Majesty's Ship Swan, Capt. Ayscough, was off New-London Harbour, and had made a seizure of a vessel bound in there from New-York.
Friday last arrived here his Majesty's armed Schooner Halifax, from Casco Bay, commanded by Lieutenant Crespin.
We hear from East-Hampton, on Long-Island, that on Monday the 30th of Nov. being training day there, as the company were discharging their muskets, in order to break up, a young man, named Osborne, thinking to make a louder explosion than the rest, spat into the muzzle of his gun, and struck the breech against the ground, when he went off, and the whole charge entered at his left eye, and blow'd his brains out.—He expired in a few minutes after.
S A L E M, December 15.
The Governor of South-Carolina has issued Writs for calling another Assembly, to meet at Charlestown on the 1st of January, 1773.
Last Sunday se'night the Swan Frigate, Captain Ayscough, returned to Rhode-Island from a Cruise after the Pirate Schooner which was lately reported to have been on this Coast, but saw nothing of her.
Captain George Tucker, in a Schooner from this Place, is arrived at Bermuda, in fifteen Days.
MARRIED.]—At Sligo, in Ireland, —William Mooney, Tobacco-Spinner, aged 18, to the Widow Vincent, aged 105.
"Encouragement for OLD MAIDS.—Married, last Fifth Day, at Danvers, Isaac
Varney, sometimes a Preacher amongst the Friends at their Meetings in this Town, not yet 21 Years of Age to Hitty Buffum, a Maiden of forty-eight."
DIED.]—At Virginia, the Hon. William Nelson, Esq; President of his Majesty's Council in that Colony.
Last Thursday Evening an Express came to Town from New-York, (which left that Place the Sunday Morning before) with Dispatches brought thither by the Cruiser Sloop of War, Capt. Howe, who failed from England the beginning of September, destined to this Port; but meeting with bad Weather, &c. was obliged to put away for South-Carolina, where she arrived the 10th of November, and has since got to New-York. In consequence of the above Dispatches, the Lizard Frigate, Capt. Inglis, with some of the armed Schooners, which lay unrigged in this Harbour, received Orders from the Admiral on Saturday Morning to be immediately fitted for the Sea, and accordingly before Night were equipped ready for sailing, with a Design, (as we are told) to repair to the Colony of Rhode-Island. The same Morning an Express set off from hence for New-York, with like Orders for the Arethusa to sail for the same Place and Letters to General Gage, and Governor Tryon.
Another Express was sent to Captain Keeler, Commander of the Mercury Frigate at Newport. But the Consequence of this unexpected Naval Manœuvres we must leave for Time to discover; though should any Thing of Importance transpire, further than that his Majesty's Ships lay this Winter in the Harbour of Newport with the same Security from Storms and Tempests that they have hitherto done in that of Boston, we shall not fail of informing our Readers thereof.
It is also further said, that two Regiments are to be sent to Rhode-Island from New-York; and that a Motion was intended to be made at the next Session of Parliament to have the Charter of that Colony vacated. The Lizard has not yet failed from hence.
P O R S M O U T H, December 18. We hear from Putney on Connecticut River, that a House was lately burnt there with two Children in it.
In the Mast-Ship, which has failed for London, went Passengers, JOHN BERNARD, Esq; Eldest Son of Sir FRANCIS BERNARD, Captain EDMUND WENDELL, and Mr. COSSET, who is gone for Holy Orders for the Town of Haverhill on Connecticut River in this Province.
The CONTRAST, or the happy Fire-Side.
B LESS'D is the Man, devoid of Cares, Who his paternal Acres shares, From all Incumbrance free; Who breathes a pure and healthful Air, Reposing with his virtuous Fair, And lives in social Glee; Whose Bed is crown'd with Hymen's Joys, In sprightly Girls, and playful Boys, Enjoying rosy Health; Whose easy Fortune can afford, To spread for them the plenteous Board, And not decrease his Wealth; When Business calls him from his Home, His Partner's true, nor loves to roam Around the tattling Town; And fondly, while the Moments roll, Expects the Darling of her Soul, Her Happiness to crown: His chattering Fondlings round the Fire, Now climb each Knee and kiss their Sire, And meet his raptur'd Smiles; What Joy can be compar'd to this, 'Tis the Perfection of true Bliss, And ev'ry Care beguiles; Ye roving Sparks, who love to fray, Thro' fancied Pleasure's airy Way, Some lasting Bliss to find; This sacred Truth and Secret know, We are not happy here below, Unless in Wedlock join'd; 'Tis here our heavy Griefs are shar'd, Who, then can wish to live unpair'd, To bear them all alone? But if false Fears, and Jealousy, Disturb this heav'nly Harmony, The Fault is all our own; Then happy they, who tie their Hands, With sacred Wedlocks silken Bands, Returning Love, for Love; The Gods must feel an envious Hate, To see on Earth a rival State, To the bless'd Realms above.
This Evening,
At the ACCADEMY-ROOM, the EXHIBITIONS will be performed as usual, with Alterations. And on
Tuesday Evening,
(For the Benefit of Mr. Deacon the Minor,) Will be exhibited a new Pantomime Entertainment.
The Particulars will be inserted in the Bills.
Tickets to be had at the Printing Office, of Mr. Morgan, and the other usual Places. To begin precisely at six o'Clock.
A LL PERSONS Indebted to the Estate of Charles Libby, late of Berwick, in the County of York, deceased, are desired to make Payment to Daniel Libby junr. and Ebenezer Libby, Executors of the Last Will and Testament of said deceased, and all Persons that has any Demands upon said Estate, are desired to bring in their Claims in order for Payment. Berwick, Dec. 12. 1772.
-Post to College.
MR. PORTER of Lebanon, in this Province, sets out this Day, at 12 o' Clock, for Dartmouth College, and intends riding once in three Weeks, during the Winter Season, by the Way of No. 4 or Charlestown, and carries the New-Hampshire Gazette, Letters, &c. to those Persons who will employ him.
Portsmouth, Dec. 18, 1772.
JUST IMPORTED, AND TO BE SOLD, BY
CARUTH & NASH.
At their Shop, at Mr. Abbot's Tavern, on Kingston Plains,
A Large and general Assortment of Scotch and English GOODS, which will be sold, Wholesale and Retail, as cheap for Cash as at any Shop in Boston. Those who are pleased to favour them with their Custom, may depend on the best Usage, and the smallest Favour gratefully acknowledged.
HARD WARE of most Kinds may be had at said Shop.
N. B. Constant Attendance given.
Province of New Hampshire, County of Hillsborough, NEW-ALMSBURY.
WHEREAS at legal Meetings of the Proprietors of the Township of New Almsbury, so called, at their Meeting in New Almsbury the 13th of March 1771, a Tax of One Pound Four shillings, and at another Meeting the 25th of March 1772, a Tax of Eighteen shillings Lawful Money was voted to be laid on each original Right or Share in said Township, and chose me the Subscriber Collector of the same; this is therefore to desire the several Proprietors or Owners to pay the said Sums at my House in Salisbury, on or before the first Day of February next; on Failure thereof, their Rights or so much as shall be sufficient to pay said Taxes, with Charges, will be advertised for Sale, according to LAW.
BENJAMIN EVANS Collector.
December 12. 1772.
A LL PERSONS Indebted to the Estate of Joseph Ricker, late of Berwick, Yeoman, deceased, are desired to make immediate Payment to Tristram Ricker, and Joseph Ricker, Executors. And all Persons that have any Demands upon said Estate, are desired to bring in their Accounts for Adjustment. Berwick, Dec. 15. 1772.
GLOUCESTER, (in England) August 31.
ON Friday afternoon was executed, and afterwards hung in chains on a gibbet 30 feet high, erected for that purpose on Campden-Hill, in this county, William Kelly, for the murder of Richard Dyer, of Campden, Gardener. He persisted in denying the fact in the most solemn manner, calling God to witness his innocence till he came within sight of the spot where he committed the murder. He could then hold no longer, but confessed "that he alone committed the murder; and declared that the want of money was the temptation; that he overtook Dyer on the road to Campden, walked with him some way, and as they passed along he (Kelly) picked up a stake that lay in the road; that at that instant and not before, the tho't of murdering Dyer came in his head, and soon afterwards, as Dyer was getting over a stile, he knocked him down with a stake and killed him; but when he saw Dyer lie dead on the ground, he said his heart would not let him search him but he immediately ran away." His father and mother met him on the road not far from the place of execution, and the scene of their parting was very affecting. When the executioners left him, he put a little straw in his hand to give the signal by, and afterwards being told by one of the officers, that when he was ready he was to drop that straw, he with great eagerness answered, Do ye think God Almighty is ready for me? and soon after gave the signal and launched into eternity.

The Compleat CHARACTERS
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GENTLEMEN'S
FROM noble birth our virtuous hero came, In him the scholar and the martial fame, Inspir'd by patriotic zeal to rule, They all admire and fear at his controul. No less for valour than for sense renown'd ; Possess'd with virtues, and with honors crown'd, With person fair, he had a genius bright, Furnish'd by nature and improv'd by art. His passions calm, with steady reason join'd, Nor pride nor folly ever haunt his mind ; He loves the virtuous and detests the vile, Assists the poor, and is a guide to all. In learning great, with ev'ry art endow'd, His greatest pleasure was in doing good ; Religion's friend. His morals strict and just, Alive esteem'd, and dead, with mem'ry blest.
LADY'S
A LADY fair ! to virtue soon resign'd, In beauty matchless, as in thought refin'd Her actions grac'd, both modest and polite ; Learning and sense with ev'ry charm unite. By Fortune highly blest, yet void of pride ; Esteem'd by all, and to her sex a guide ; Not flattery e'er seduc'd nor plots avail'd To turn her mind where merit ever fail'd, Pursuits for honor is her noble view ; Her arms are virtue, and her foibles few ; Ev'ry moral virtue in her is nam'd ; Renown'd for wisdom, as for beauty fam'd ; A look sincere denotes the tender mind ; Young, yet the glory of the female kind.
DIRECTIONS for the CONDUCT of LIFE.
FIXED in deep meditation on the condition of human life, I lost myself in a pleasing illusion, and glided imperceptibly into the visionary region of sleep. I seemed to be transported to a spacious plain, where I view'd with admiration the beauties of nature. The swains watched over their fleecy charge with tenderness and alacrity, beguiling the gloom of solitude with the melody of their pipes. The lustre of the sun diffused a universal smile, and I breathed the fragrance of a paradise. In this agreeable situation I saw at a distance a venerable Personage, at whose nearer approach I was struck with silent awe. His piercing eye seemed to penetrate my inmost soul, his countenance was furrowed by the rinkles of age, & his head brightened with silver hairs. An elegant vest adorn'd his body, and his whole deportment commanded reverence. He soon relieved me from my anxiety, and with a kind aspect accosted me in these terms:—" My friend, whether are you wandering without a guide and companion, expos'd to the assaults of rapine, and the artifices of fraud ?" To which I answered, " Venerable sage, I am entirely unexperienced in the ways of men, and have not long trod the path of life. Unbass'd by prejudice, I am susceptible of any impression. Duly sensible of the want of assistance, I should esteem it a singular favour to receive the benefit of your admonitions. You are leaving that theatre into which I am entering, and are able to direct me to a proper choice of the part which I am to act."
He then replied with a look of complacency, "I applaud your modesty and diffidence, and will assume, with the most heart felt satisfaction, the office of a preceptor ;" He thus began his solemn harrangue. "The ultimate end of human industry is happiness. From the sceptered monarch to the rustic peasant all are in pursuit of it. In this pursuit they all agree, however they may differ in the means of attainment. I have survey'd every scene of life, and experienced every vicissitude of fortune, and at length find that true happiness is not the lot of man. There are indeed some intervals of rest scattered round every station, but there is nothing that deserve the name of happiness, a word which heaves the fruitless sigh in every breast. Every moment this globe hastens to its dissolution, when a new state of things will be exhibited. Then will the mystery of nature be revealed, and the dis-
penations of Providence justified. Then will our future fate be determined by our present conduct, & the actions of this world extend their influence to the next. Therefore we should not center our hopes in this transitory life, but endeavour by a discharge of the duties we owe to the supreme Being, our fellow-creatures, & ourselves, to secure hereafter a station in the universal system which may adequately satiate the desires of the soul. It should be our constant care to pass through life with innocence, with gratitude for the good and resignation to the evil. In the choice of your station, I advise you to consider your circumstances and the disposition of your mind : for men are generally formed by nature with an attachment to some particular pursuit, and great part of the confusion that is in the world arise from those who possess places, for which they have neither ability nor inclination. It should be the business of parents to study the genius of their children, and not predestinate them as it were to employments that they will never be able to manage. Beware of external appearances, lest emerging from the shade of obscurity, you should be dazzled with artificial splendor, & rendered incapable of seeing things in their real forms. The wisdom of the serpent must be mixed with the innocence of the dove ; for a selfish spirit animates the mass of mankind, and destroys the noble principle of disinterested generosity. Life is a masquerade, where a fictitious character is frequently assumed ; be not content with a superficial survey of the human race, but examine them behind the scenes as well as in open theatre. The purposes of society require a mutual intercourse of good offices, cultivate therefore universal benevolence, Yet entrust to few the secrets of your bosom and diligently explore his heart, to whom you intend to yield your own. A faithful friend is a precious jewel, & a strong tower of defence. Your mind at present is contracted within a narrow circle, but the study of men will expand its faculties, and teach you to regard yourself as a citizen of the world. Assert your native liberty, and be not a slave to any sect or party. Let your principles of religion be worthy of God and beneficial to man. Let your idea of government be consistent with the rights of mankind. Constantly revere the oracle of conscience, & support the dignity of your soul." He then took a solemn farewell, and a sudden noise dissipated the delusion of my senses.
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