Fowle's New-Hampshire gazette and general advertiser ([Portsmouth, N.H.]), 1785-07-15 00:00:00

FOWLE'S NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE,
AND GENERAL
THE ADVERTISER.
FRIDAY
JULY 15, 1785.
PORTSMOUTH: By MELCHER AND OSBORNE,
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN PAVED STREET.
VOL. XXIX.]
"OPEN TO ALL PARTIES—INFLUENCED BY NONE:—WE AIM ONLY TO BE JUST."
No. 1498.
From the UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE. Biographical Anecdotes of the late General LEE.
GENERAL LEE was remarkably slovenly in his dress and manners; and has often, by the meanness of his appearance, been subject to ridicule and insult. He was once attending General Washington to a place distant from the camp. Riding on, he arrived at the house where they were to dine some time before the rest of the company. He went directly into the kitchen, and demanded something to eat, when the cook taking him for a servant, told him she would give him victuals in a moment, but he must first help her off with the pot. This he complied with, and sat down to some cold meat which she placed for him on the dresser. The girl was remarkably inquisitive about the guests who were coming, particularly of Lee, who, she heard was one of the most oddest and ugliest men in the world. In a few moments, she desired the General again to assist her in placing on the pot, and scarce had he finished, when she requested him to take a bucket and go with her to the well. Lee made no objection, and began drawing water. In the mean while General Washington arrived, and an Aid de Camp was dispatched in search of Lee; whom, to his great surprise, he found engaged as above. But what was the confusion of the poor girl! on hearing the Aid de Camp address the man with whom she had been so familiar, by the title of Excellency . The mug fell from her hand, and dropping on her knees, she began crying aloud for pardon; when Lee, who was ever ready to see the impropriety of his conduct, but never willing to change it, gave her a crown, and turning to the Aid de Camp, "You see, young man, the advantage of a fine coat. The man of consequence is indebted to it for respect; and neither virtue nor abilities without it, will make him look like a gentleman."
Another time his Excellency got a most severe drubbing, which seemed to be intended as a mark of justice for his impiety and blasphemy. He was once riding to Williamsburgh, to attend the Assembly, and, as usual, was accompanied by a number of his dogs, among which was one whom he called by the name of our Saviour . A few miles from Williamsburgh, he fell in with a man, who eyed this dog with particular attention, and at last demanded if he would sell him, "Sell my dog! no! (replied Lee) what do you mean by that?" The man, however taking Lee from his dress, to be no way his superior, continued to press him, and offered so large a sum, as to raise the General's curiosity to ask the man for what purpose he was so anxious for the dog. "Why, replied he, I want him to fight the Devil."—Lee, who from the name he had given his dog, supposing the fellow meant to insult him, threatened to cane him: The man returned the compliment, by a torrent of abuse, and Lee, was irritated to strike him; which the fellow returned with such interest, that the General, on his arrival at Williamsburgh, was confined some days in his room, by a variety of colours, which arose round his eyes, and which though esteemed ornaments by the Indians, are considered in a different light by us.—On inquiry, the man proved to be the master of a puppet show, and having lost the dog, which used to attack his infernal Majesty, had endeavoured to procure Lee's for that use; having no idea that the animal's name was so a propos.
Lee had the consolation to find partners in his disgrace. In the same county, and within a few miles of him, was Major-General Stevens, a Scotchman, who was broke for misbehaviour at Germantown; and General Gates's house was likewise close by. On the arrival of the old man, after his unfortunate defeat by Lord Cornwallis at Camden, Lee observed, that Berkley was the first county which had ever been, at the same time, the retreat of three unfortunate Generals.— You, Stevens, said he, was broke for getting drunk, when every man should be in his senses; I, for not fighting when I was sure to be beat; and you, Gates, for being beat when you had no business to engage.
His house was built in a most romantic and agreeable situation, in a delightful valley, watered by a rapid meandering stream. On one side, you beheld the Appalachian or Blue Mountains, which, for height, grandeur and variety of prospect, can hardly be excelled. The neighbourhood is one of the most social in Virginia. The late Lord Fairfax, Col. Martin, Col. Thuston, and several other men of letters, assisted in rendering Lee's situation agreeable. His family consisted only of an old house-keeper, an aged Italian, and a few Negroes. The Italian had been long a faithful servant, and Lee could sooner have parted with a member, than with this useful domestick. To the credit of the Ge-
neral, he has rewarded his past services, and left him in affluence and ease; nor can the voice of slander, with all his faults, tax him with ingratitude, or with forgetting benefits received.
I have been informed, by a lady who was acquainted with Lee in Dublin, when a very young man, that his antipathy to women proceeded from a disappointment he met with in that city. This he never would confess, but flew into a violent passion, that any one should suspect him of being either pleased with the smiles, or affected by the frowns, of a woman.
He always spoke with the highest encomiums of General Burgoyne; but he foretold his misfortune at Saratoga, the instant he found General Howe was gone round to Chesapeake. Lee was then prisoner in New-York, and one evening in company clearly pointed out what must be the event of the campaign. General Howe is no fool said he, but master of his profession—To what, then, can we impute the step he has taken, but to a desire of continuing the war? Or else it must be from a jealousy of the increasing reputation of Burgoyne. The first appears to me to be the cause.
Hewas perfect master of the Italian and French languages. His literary productions are known and admired, and I have seen several little poetical jeux d'esprit , greatly above mediocrity. His library, which was valuable, both in ancient and modern authors, with a great number of capital plans, charts and maps, he left to the youngest son of Colonel Thuston, a young man of an excellent heart, and of whom he was very fond.
Among the manuscripts are several performances of the General's, which I hope will be given to the public, and a M. S. volume of poems, by the late Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.
The treatment he received from many, and particularly from Governor Read, was such as would have broke down a spirit endowed with less fortitude than his. If he had not died so suddenly, he would doubtless have turned the tables against his enemies; and his journey to Philadelphia was with the design. The coolness with which he met dangers was equal to the fortitude with which he supported adversity. When Colonel Hamilton, Aid-de-Camp to General Washington, forced Lee to the field, for ridiculing that General's abilities, Lee received his fire, but refused either to retract what he had said, or to return a shot: "You may fire at me, Sir, all day, if it will amuse you; what I have said I am not disposed to recall; but I should conceive you do your patron no great honour by thus assuming his cause; and as for returning your fire, I beg to be excused. General Lee can acquire no honour by the death of Colonel Hamilton!"
Some time before his death he wrote the following epigram in the French language, at once expressive of his situation and his fortitude; and which may thus be translated:
Seduc'd by error, to misfortune born, Deceiv'd by Congress; made my country's scorn; While foes oppress me, friends I seek in vain, What hope is left?—Yes! I myself remain!
L O N D O N, April 14.
A NEW coinage of guineas and half guineas, to the amount of 30,000l. is now going on at the Mint in the Tower, from fresh dies, by order of the Lords of the Treasury, and will be issued shortly.
A young woman, attendant upon a lady of some rank, happening to die last week, the family undertaker was sent for to remove the body to his own house; which he did, and a very decent coffin was provided, her name inscribed on a brass-plate, and the cover nailed down; but her brother coming out of the country, and having a desire of taking a last look of his sister, forced the nails and found it full of clay, for Mr. undertaker had sold the body to a surgeon.
Extract of a letter from Northampton, March 11.
"A few days ago, Elizabeth the Wife of John Axiom, a labouring man, at Ridgemount, in the county of Bedford, was safely delivered of her twenty-fifth child; she is now in the 38th year of her age, of a remarkable ruddy countenance, and in all probability may be the mother of many more children."
Accounts from Calcutta, dated June 11th, declare, that the new society, established there for inquiring into the natural history, antiquities, arts, sciences and literature, of Asia is daily advancing to maturity. Sir William Jones had laid before the society, some very valuable manuscripts, respecting the geography of Asia, in the Persick language, and was preparing a translation from the Hindoo of some curious researches into the manufactures, agriculture, and astronomy, of the inhabitants.
The above learned body consists at present of 42 members only, who hold weekly meetings, without formality or expense; for the purpose of examining original papers. In case a sufficient number of important articles are contributed, the members intend to present an Asiatick Miscellany to the public at the end of every year.
April 23. The following intelligence is extracted from a private letter received by yesterday's French mail. It is dated Warsaw March 15th. "If we are to credit the last accounts from Petersburg, it appears that the empire is threatened with incursions from the wandering Tartars, who never were reconciled to the subduing Little Tartaria, whose inhabitants they look upon as brethren. The Ubeck Tartars have affected an alliance with the Turcomani, who live near Mounts Taurus and Caucasus. They consulted together which parts they should invade, and it is said that they are come to a resolution of beginning their hostilities by an irruption into the fertile country watered by the river Volga, after having laid waste that of Georgia, whose princes they hold in the utmost abhorrence and contempt, for having put themselves under the protection of the Russians. The Sultan of Samarcando has sent emissaries into Buchari, for the purpose of persuading the inhabitants to invade the northern parts of the empire, whilst the above Sovereign, at the head of 300,000 men, will proceed, towards the Caspian Sea. These accounts, whether doubtful, or at least exaggerated, have occasioned a private council to be called, when it was resolved to march towards that part of the empire, the troops who were ordered for Europe."
Extract of a letter from Madrid, April 12.
"The King has at last consented to the re-establishment of the Manila Company (at the request of the merchants) which has been abolished for near 90 years; and the Prince of Asturias, heir to the Crown, is to be the patron of it. A very valuable branch of commerce will be regained by this means, to which there is no other natural impediment than the extreme distance of these islands from Europe."
Extract of a letter from Malaga, April 2.
"An Algerine rover, of 26 guns, had the audacity a few days since to chase a sloop from hence under the fort of San Sebastian, who firing upon the renegadoe, he returned several shot, one of which dismounted a cannon of 17 pounds, from the ramparts, and killed three men; the pirate's metal must from this have been very heavy. The San Carlos, of 50, a new ship, and the Agnesia, of 28 guns, are fitting now as guarda-costas, to prevent these outrages, and to protect the coasting trade, which is nearly stopped, from the lawless proceedings of these barbarian marauders. Those infidels have at this time 27 sail of vessels at sea, from 40 to 16 guns, and are said to be preparing several more. It is something astonishing that the Barbary powers, who build none but contemptible galleys, should get provided with such stout ships. It is more than probable some of the European states are at the bottom of these disorders, fomented to serve some special purposes not yet brought to open day. One grand effort will be made this summer if possible to subdue those pirates, who are become a terror to all the Powers who have a trade in the Mediterranean sea, the Dutch and English only excepted."
May 6. The following is a summary of the regulations of the newly established French East-India Company, as contained in the Arret of the 20th of last month.
1 All the privileges of the old East-India Company shall be transferred to the new, for the term of seven years, reckoning from the time of the departure of the first fleet for India; the years of war are not to be reckoned, and when a peace is concluded, the privilege shall be prolonged for as many years as the war has subsisted.
2 The isles of France and Bourbon are not comprehended in the exclusive privilege, and the inhabitants of those colonies may, in concurrence with the company, carry on trade from one place of India to another.
3 All private equipments begun, completed, or on their voyage, shall have the space 24 months allowed them to carry on their trade and to return to l'Orient, but to no other port.
4 All the operations of the new Company shall be directed by 12 Administrators who shall be approved by the King.
5 The stock is limited to 20 millions, six of which are to be furnished by the 12 Administrators, each putting in 500,000 livres, or 500 shares of 1000 livres, for which proper vouchers shall be given to those who are desirous of being adventurers.
6 Each administrator shall deposit in his own name, during the time of his administration 250 shares in the treasury of the company.

7. The 20 millions shall be a pledge to satisfy the engagements of the Company.
8. Mess. Girardot, Haller, and Company at Paris, and J. J. Berrard and Company, at l'Orient, shall be provisionally the receivers of the money contributed by the adventurers.
9. The dividends shall be made from the neat profits, deducting the charges, the losses known or apprehended, and insurance; in no case shall the capital be broke into.
10. No proprietor shall have a vote unless possessed of 500 shares, nor shall any have more than four votes; proxies are not to be admitted, unless the principals are absent on the affairs of the Company.
11. The general administration shall by a plurality of votes nominate to all offices by land and sea, in Europe and Asia, and shall have the power of discharging those who have been nominated.
12. They shall insure against all losses by enemies or the dangers of the sea.
13. They shall have the privilege of making such laws for the regulation of their trade, as they think proper.
14. His Majesty shall protect and defend the said Company even by force of arms. He shall furnish it with such officers and sailors as its occasions shall require, and give up to them his warehouses, docks &c. in the ports of l'Orient and India.
15. It shall be entirely mercantile, and not be subjected to the expence nor embarrassments of sovereignty, which ruined the former.
V I E N N A, April 10.
Although England has hitherto seemed inclined to remain entirely neuter with respect to our difference with the Dutch, yet it is not doubted here, but that power will soon enter into a treaty of alliance with our court and that of Petersburg. Indeed it is even said, that the English ambassador is actually busied with the prince de Kaunitz, in drawing up the articles of such an alliance, which uniting the forces of the three powers, would be sufficient to surmount the obstacles which the other sovereigns of Europe would wish to throw in the way, to hinder the success of the great projects of our monarchs.
L O N D O N, May 5.
The accounts from France mention, that the coldness and dryness of the spring have had an effect, which they frequently produce there, of causing an extraordinary madness among the canine species, so that they are obliged to make a general slaughter in many of the provinces, (An example, this, for our brethren in New-England, where these vermin have monstrously prevailed, and produced numberless hydrophobias.)
It is reported, that if the Crown Lands are disposed of, stocks will be taken in payment, at a certain price considerably above the present, by which there will be an annihilation at once of several millions.
Sir John Jehu (Ladd) by his late connection with the Prince, has improved his style and appearance; in stead of a rascally little pig-tail to his hair, it is now bepowdered and pomatumed in the very first taste, and carries a tail as thick as his arm.
When Sir Jacky Jehu and his Dulcinea (Mrs. Smith) came to high words (and these high-mettled people have often high words), the lady's usual mode of pacifying the provoked Baronet, is to smack the china on the middle of the floor, dispatch a pier glass or two, and swear she will hunt with the Prince. This last stroke Jacky cannot bear; the idea of such angelic softness being transferred to another diabolical him; he pays down thirty per cent. for the last hundred he borrowed of this sweet cherub; and thus once or twice a month are family matters amicably adjusted.
S O N N E T
Supposed to be written by WERTER.
MAK E there my tomb, beneath the lime-trees shade, Where grals and flow'r's in wild luxuriance wave; Let no memorial mark where I am laid, Or point to common eyes the lovers grave.
But oft at twilight's morn, or closing day, The faithful friend with fault'ring step shall glide, Tributes of fond regret by stealth to pay, And sigh at the unhappy suicide.
And sometimes, when the sun with parting rays Gilds the long grals that hides my silent bed, The tear shall tremble in my Charlotte's eyes; Dear precious drops they shall embalm the dead. Yes, Charlotte o'er the mournful spot shall weep, Where her poor Werter and his sorrows sleep.
A report is current, that it is the intention of the ministry to submit a bill to the consideration of Parliament, soon after the approaching recess, for constituting a board of commissioners, for the purpose of enquiring into the nature of the commercial intercourse between Great-Britain and the United States of America, and to make a report thereof to the house, preparatory to measures being adopted for establishing on a permanent basis, a system for the regulation of the commerce of the two countries.
Extract of a letter from Paris, April 21.
"It is assured that some preliminary articles that are to serve for the basis of an accommodation between the court of Vienna and the republic of Holland, have been signed by the Emperor's Ambassador, and those of the United-Provinces. Others pretend, nevertheless, that in the conference between these Ministers, nothing was done but the exchanging of their full powers, as the negotiations could not be renewed without that formality. They add, another courier from Vienna was expected, in order to know whether the Emperor will desist from some articles which the States General cannot admit as a foundation of the reconciliation. On account of the distance between the courts interested in the negotiation, the arrangement of the different difficulties require a considerable time."
The late accounts from Jamaica, of the Spaniards arming in that neighbourhood, afford a fresh speculation of the temper and condition of that people towards En-
gland. There is no doubt but they came into the last peace with a bad grace. The failure of Gibraltar stuck in their stomachs, and continues, as an indigestion there still. It should therefore behove administration to have a cautious look out towards their naval armaments. For whether reported to act against Algiers, or on the Musquito shore, it is neither impossible nor unprecedented, but that they may attempt a coup de main against some of the British settlements.
It is confidently asserted that there are letters in London, received by express from the continent, containing accounts that the preliminary articles of peace between the Emperor and the Dutch, were last week signed by the ministers of the respective powers.
In the last dispatches received by Directors of the East-India company from the Governor-General at Bengal, a list is contained of the deaths of officers in the India for the last seven years ending midsummer, 1785; by which it appears upwards of 600 have died by disease, chiefly Europeans, exclusive of subalterns, in that period. There is also a list of the killed, or that have died of their wounds during the late war, by which it appears the loss in seapoy was about 14000, and of European infantry 1300.
K I N G S T O W N, (Jamaica), May 18.
We learn from Cat-Island, one of the Bahamas, that the settlements there, and in the neighbouring islands, are going on rapidly, upward of a thousand negroes (at the former alone) being already employed in cutting mahogany and planting cotton: the woods abound with wild fowl, the rivers and Creeks with delicious fish and turtle, and twelve months provision allowed by government to the new settlers.
Last week Captain Hutt, of his Majesty's ship Camilla, on the passage from Montego Bay, called at St. Ann's, where he seized an American schooner, from New-York, Giles Sage, commander, which he left in the possession of the custom-house officers.
C H A R L E S T O N, June 11.
The following melancholy catastrophe which happened in the county of Meath, in Ireland, exhibits a striking instance of the dangerous tendency of falsehood and duplicity, and of letting our passions get the better of our reason. — "A maid-servant to a butcher having been book-sworn to a young man, and he marrying another woman, she went into her master's barn and hung herself. The master finding her dead, was so enraged thereat, and blaming his wife for being the means of promoting the fellow's marriage, and being thereby instrumental to the young woman's death, struck her on the head with a spade and knocked out her brains, and afterwards cut his own throat."
A N N A P O L I S, June 23.
On Friday last arrived in this port the brig Rebecca, Capt. Garlton, from St. Eustatius—a gentleman on board has favoured us with the following:—
On Monday the 6th inst. at about five o'clock in the morning, lat 34, N. long. 70, 34, W. we saw a sail to windward with colours (supposed to be French) hoisted a signal of distress, and firing to leeward, we concluded she was really so; at seven we hoisted our colours and laid to, until she came along side; she proved a ship of about 20 guns, with Spanish colours; she hailed us, and demanded from whence we came, and where bound, in a language we could not well understand; Capt. Garlton answered, and informed them; they then ordered him to hoist out his boat and come on board; he answered, it leaked so bad he could not; what did they want? They said there was war, that they were a King's ship from Vera Cruze, and wanted to search his hold; they then ordered us to haul round to windward, while they got out their own boat, which they did in a very little time, and were coming on board with twelve or thirteen men; at the same time we saw as many more going aloft. Capt. Garlton immediately ordered his hands to make sail, which they willingly obeyed; the boat seeing our intention, put about and rowed for the ship again, which prevented their firing for some time; after the boat got out of danger they fired and gave chase for about two hours; then hauled their wind and stood to the eastward, but soon after came to.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, June 18.
We are informed, that the venerable Doctor FRANKLIN is momentarily expected from Europe. It is suggested, in case of his safe arrival, that, as no person can be better qualified, he will be called to fill the chair of state in this Commonwealth, at the ensuing election. The faculties of this second Newton, notwithstanding his advanced period of life, are perfectly found and unimpaired; and the community will doubtless continue to experience every advantage that can rise from the superior talent and abilities of so distinguished a philosopher and statesman.
J U N E 29.
In the St. Christopher's Gazette of the first instant, are advertised the sales of the ship Polly (otherwise the Friends) and the brig Ruth, with their respective cargoes, consisting of lumber, condemned in the Court of Vice-Admiralty of that island, for breach of the laws of trade.
The Legislature of New-York, at their last session, passed an act granting a bounty on hemp to be raised within that state, of eight shillings per cwt.—and as a further encouragement to the growth of hemp, and the manufacture of cordage and linseed oil, they laid the following additional duties, viz. on every cwt. of foreign cordage, four shillings; on every cwt. of foreign white rope or yarns, four shillings; on every cwt. of foreign hemp, two shillings; on every gallon of foreign linseed oil, four pence; on every pair of shoes, six pence; for every pair of boots, two shillings; the produce of these duties to be applied to the payment of the above bounties.
The above act contains a clause laying a duty of one and a half per cent. on all goods imported into the state by a foreigner, and not consigned to a citizen,
more than paid by citizens of that state, or of the United States.
And another clause subjecting to a penalty of one hundred pounds, and costs of suit, any person who shall sell as a slave any Negro or other person brought into that state after the first instant.—Every person so sold to be free.
And two clauses respecting the manumission of slaves; by which, if the slaves be under fifty years of age, and of sufficient ability to provide for themselves, the manumitter shall not be obliged to give security to indemnify the state for any expense it might incur by such manumitted slave.
The last clause of this very salutary act states, that slaves shall have the privilege of being tried by jury in all capital cases, according to the course of common law.
A correspondent says, "I would not wish to add to the distresses of those who are already under the greatest afflictions; but I cannot be silent, when I read weekly in the papers of several arrivals in the different ports of the United States from Nova-Scotia; many of them have brought numbers of loyal subjects from that dreary part of the globe, being obliged to return to the country they have injured, or starve."
"Some days ago a vessel arrived in this port from Nova-Scotia, or Shelburneurne, in which came several of those loyal subjects; what their design in coming is, I will not determine: but letters brought by the same vessel, from some who are in the greatest distress for want of food and other necessaries of life, give the caution to their friends, from whom they expect relief, to send the same in British vessels. Humanity shudders at the thought—but what true American can think of paying freight to foreigners for that relief which he would wish to send to any of his unhappy connections, while our vessels are not permitted to enter their ports?"
N E W-Y O R K, June 24.
Extract of a letter from Cork, April 1.
"The merchants of this city having received information that from so long a continuation of easterly winds, many homeward-bound vessels from America and the West-Indies are now near this coast, unable to make the land, and in great want of the necessaries of life have at their own expence, dispatched a fast sailing cutter to cruise off Cape Clare, laden with bread, water, beef, pork, likewise fresh provisions, &c. in order to administer immediate relief to such as may be found in need thereof. The management of this expedition is entrusted to a confidential person, who goes supercargo, and is directed to relieve whoever he may meet with in distress, no matter to what country they belong, or whither they are bound. He has it also in particular charge not to accept the smallest returns for what assistance he may happily afford, as the gentlemen who promoted this undertaking consider themselves amply rewarded by the pleasure which results from so benevolent an action. The humane idea was no sooner suggested, than, in order to carry it into immediate effect, a liberal subscription was filled up with alacrity."
J U N E 30.
By a vessel in 6 weeks from Amsterdam, arrived at Philadelphia, we learn, in confirmation of the advices from that quarter brought by Capt. Palmer, of this city, that all the noise and bustle of a rupture between the United Netherlands and the Emperor, have chiefly subsided and are likely to end in vapour.
His Excellency William Livingston, Esq. Governor of New-Jersey, was on Thursday last, constituted and appointed by Congress, Ambassador to the United States of Holland, in the room of his Excellency John Adams, Esq. who is now in that station at the Court of London.
The same day Major ROGER ALDEN, of Connecticut, was appointed Deputy-Secretary to Congress.
We have the most authentic advice from the northern frontiers of this state, that the British are determined to keep possession of the posts in that quarter; and as a proof of such serious determination, they have lately reinforced the garrison at Oswego with two companies from Niagara, and arbitrarily sent back a number of persons, subjects of the United States, who were on their route to the indian country for the purposes of trade. This conduct must naturally suggest to the states, the absolute necessity of taking effectual measures to enforce our inveterate foes, to comply with their national contract, and to chastise their arrogance and presumption.
On Friday last arrived in this city from Philadelphia, his Excellency Don Gardoqui, Ambassador from the Court of Spain to the United States.
The intended Commonwealth of Kentucky, contains, by a computation made in May last by the convention of that state, 30,000 souls.
We are assured, that by a calculation made by a gentleman particularly skilful in the geography of this country, it appears that the Western Territory of the United States comprehends more than Two Hundred and Sixty Three Millions of acres,—of which Forty Millions of acres are water; so that, with a liberal allowance for mountainous and rough land, we have two hundred millions of acres, capable, by its produce, of rewarding the toil of the husbandman.—England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Sweden, united, do not contain a greater extent of territory;—but those countries support between Thirty and Forty Millions of people.
To be Sold at Public Vendue,
On Tuesday the 9th Day of AUGUST next, at Two o'clock P. M. at the House of GEORGE LIBBEY, Inholder in Greenland, about SIXTY ACRES of choice LAND, with a HOUSE, BARN and a good ORCHARD on the same, pleasantly situated on Winnecott River, together with a Tide MILL on said River, lately the property of JOHN JOHNSON and WINTHROP JOHNSON of Greenland:—Any Person inclining to Purchase, may view the Premises and know conditions of Sale by applying to DAVID SIMPSON or JOSEPH WIGGINS.
Greenland, July 14, 1785.

FRAGMENTS from a MUTILATED MANUSCRIPT.
The PROSTITUTE.
I HAVE neither eat nor drank for two days nor have I laid my head upon a pillow for a week; and I am drenched with the snow that falls upon my almost naked body—O relieve me for heavens sake!
These words respirated with tremulous sound and broken accent, closed with a sigh the most piteous.
They issued from a creature crouched up against a shop door—a female, who had there taken shelter from the inclemency of the night.
The voice of Sorrow, though feeble, insinuates its prayers to the heart with the subtlety of plaintive music—I felt mine in perfect unison, every nerve viberated—I had passed the door and was going back when that curious old virgin Prudence said, Go on.
Turning from the object that accosted me, Charity stood full in front—She laid her hand upon my breast, and instantly put the following interrogatories to me.
Have you a wife, a sister, a daughter, a female relation, or a female friend?
If you have not, yet remember you had a mother; remember you are a man?
While Charity thus urged my feelings, I involuntarily returned to the spot where the unhappy girl lay—There Charity held me fast—and Prudence stepped to the other side of the street, to assist a drunken old debauchee, in calling a watchman to escort him home.
The girl before me was an object demanding immediate assistance from five out of the seven works of mercy—She was hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, and a stranger.
A short conversation discovered she was the daughter of an old friend.
Disappointment broke his heart—Grief deprived his widow of life, and Seduction robbed his daughter of her virtue.
There was but one to administer immediate relief—I clothed her with my surtout—brought her to my chambers, roused up my servant, and insisted on her getting into his bed.
Let us leave her there, and inquire what is to be done with her.
She is a child that Providence has thrown into my way, and must not be neglected.
Profession she had none—or if she had, she wants what the world calls character—or rather she has the worst character in the world—She is unfortunate.
But I will take care of thee, Magdalen.
BALTIMORE, June 10.
The latest advices from France, give us the pleasing intelligence of the enlargement of Monsieur Beaumarchais, from his prison, in the house of St. Lazare, which it is said was far worse than even the Bastille itself. As he has demonstrated his great attachment to America, this news will be agreeably received by the friends of civil liberty. His liberation was effected by the influence of his numerous friends at Court, and particularly by the exertions of the benevolent Monsieur de Bertueil—The temporary eclipse of this great genius will add splendor to his talents and character.
LITCHFIELD,b>LITCHFIELD, June 21.
On Thursday evening last there was a most violent tornado, or hurricane, accompanied with a heavy and severe shower of hail, at and in the neighborhood of Sharon; which, with infinite regret we assure our readers, has materially damaged many, and totally destroyed some very valuable fields of English and other grain, in that vicinity, and greatly injured the fruit, &c. as trees of considerable bigness, were either broken down or torn up by the roots; and fences within the limits of its direction, were likewise so effectually demolished, as to leave many fields entirely open. The roofs of three barns, the property of Mr. Samuel Canfield, merchant; John Canfield, Esq. and Lieut. Taylor, were blown off,—and the dwelling-house of Dr. Asaust, Shepherd, and—Griswold, Esq. were considerably injured; many of their windows being broken to pieces by the hail-stones.
Corroborating accounts, obtained of gentlemen from the state of New-York, give us sufficient confidence likewise, to acquaint our readers, that on Sunday the 12th instant a severe storm of hail, attended with a strong whirl-wind, thunder and lightning, extended itself in different directions, from Kinder-hook, in that to Wash-
ington, in this state; which has laid waste many very large, valuable and flourishing fields of grain, destroyed the fruit, and committed many other ravages. Our informants say that hail-stones were found on the morning succeeding the storm, which measured eight inches in circumference.
The same evening a gristmill, standing in Livingston's Manor, containing upwards of one thousand bushels of wheat, was set on fire by lightning, and, with its contents, entirely consumed.—The awful Exertions of Nature, or of its omnipresent and omnipotent Author, ought to impress our minds with a deep Sense of the divine Majesty, and our Dependence upon God.
BOSTON, July 11.
Last Tuesday evening the frame of the Orchestra, so called, was raised. The Band performed several pieces of music, to the satisfaction of a thronged company that attended.
We have a report, via Port Roseway, that the Tower of London has lately been consumed by fire, and that sundry vessels lying at the Stairs were also burnt.
SALEM, July 12.
We are informed that the General Court, during the last session, resolved upon propositions, to be submitted to the consideration of Congress, and the Legislatures of all the States in the Union, tending to the formation of a Federal convention, for the purpose of revising the Confederation, and rendering it more subservient to the general interest and safety of the several Sovereignties composing the great American Republick.
PORTSMOUTH, July 15.
We hear from Leavitts-Town, that about a week since, as John Leavitt, Esq. of that town, was hewing off the end of a beam that jutted out from a frame he had lately raised; it gave way before he expected, he fell to the ground, and instantly expired.
DIED] Mrs. MARY LONG, aged 42, the amiable consort of the Hon. PIERSE LONG, Esq. of this town.
MARINE LIST.
PORT OF PISCATAQUA, July 15. ENTERE D, Brig Two-Brothers, Haggens, from St. Eustatia. CLEARE D, Brig Betsey, Withart, for Barbados.
The following computation of the quantity of acres comprehended within the territory of the United States, is said to have been made by the Geographer of the United-States, and presented to Congress.
THE territory of the United-States contains by computation, a million of square miles, in which are 640,000,000 of acres.
Deduct for water, 51,000,000 do. 589,000,000 do. That part of the United-States comprehended between the west temporary line of Pennsylvania on the east, the boundary line between Britain and the United-States, extending from the river St. Croix to the north-west extremity of a lake of the woods on the north; the river Mississippi to the mouth of the Ohio on the west, and the river Ohio on the south to the afore-mentioned bounds of Pennsylvania, contains by computation about 411,000 square miles, in which are 263,040,000 acres. Deduct for water, 43,040,000
220,000,000 Deduct for the officers and soldiers of Gen. Clarke's regiment, 150,000 Deduct 1/7th of the seven ranges, for the use of the Continental army, 414,720 Deduct the 16th of every township, for the maintenance of public schools, 080,64
645,340
219,354,640
Estimate of the number of acres of water, north-westward of the river Ohio, within the territory of the United-States.
Acres. In Lake Superior, 21,952,780 Lake of the woods, 1,133,800 Lake Rain, &c. 165,200 Red Lake, 551,000 Lake Michigan, 10,308,000 Lake Puan, 1,216,000 Lake Huron, 5,009,920 Lake St. Clair, 89,500 Lake Erie, western part, 2,252,800 Sundry small Lakes, and Rivers, 301,000
43,040,000 Estimate of the number of acres of water within the Thirteen United-States.
In Lake Erie, westward from the line extended from the north-west corner of Pennsylvania, due north to the boundary between the British territory and the United-States, 410,000 In Lake Ontario, 2,390,000 Lake Champlane, 500,000 Chesapeake Bay, 1,700,000 Albermarle Bay, 330,000 Delaware Bay, 630,000 All the rivers within the Thirteen States, including the Ohio, 2,000,300
7,960,000
Total, 51,000,000
30 Dollars Reward.
Stolen out of the Store of the Subscriber, on the Night of the 6th inst. the following Articles, viz.
ONE piece of fine Irish Linnen; one piece yard wide ditto, two piece ditto, some cut off; one piece of yd. wide black Mode, 63 ells; four dozen large black fringed Handkerchiefs; forty yards narrow black Mode; remnant black Sattin; thirteen yards black Tiffany; fourteen ditto white; twelve yards green Sarsnet; twelve ditto pink; one piece plain Lawn, ten yards; three dozen white Gauze Handkerchiefs; two Tiffany Aprons, very elegant; nine yards plain Lawn, five qrs. for Aprons; four ditto spotted Lawn, five qrs. half dozen white and colour'd silk Handkerchiefs; half dozen women's and half dozen men's white silk Gloves; twelve and half yards olive colour'd Corduroy, fine; five pair women's Cotton Hose; fourteen pair men's Thread ditto; one and half dozen men's worsted ditto, fine; six pieces Nankeen; one piece of wide black Gauze; one piece of narrow plain white ditto; one ditto, striped ditto; remnant white painted Gauze, spotted; a pair Kid Gloves; four large Kenting Handkerchiefs; two red Tiffany Handkerchiefs; Change 18/ &c. &c.
Any Person or Persons, who will give information of the Thief or Thieves, so that he or they may be brought to Justice, shall be entitled to the above Reward from
SAMUEL STORER.
Portsmouth, July 7, 1785.
( Warner. )
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in Warner, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1783, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, on Thursday the 28th day of July, at the house of Doctor John Currier, inholder in said town, at one o'clock, in the afternoon, as will pay the taxes and charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Div. No. Q'ty s. d.     Sam. Barnard & Stephen Colby, 1 53 40 2 2   Doctor Nehemiah Ordway, 3 2 40 0 6   Simeon Morrell, 1 43 80 0 11   2 42 80 2 5   2 6 60 1 2   Benjamin Tucker, 1 59 80 4 5   2 4 80 1 6   Jonathan Pressey, 1 61 80 4 5   1 31 60 1 1   Major Nathaniel Currier, 2 9 80 2 11   2 2 60 1 6   Nathan Goodwin, 2 21 80 1 6   2 60 60 1 9   Aaron Rowell, 1 49 80 2 5   Nehemiah Ordway, jr. 2 22 60 8 1   3 29 40 5 2   Gideon Rowell, 1 1 80 0 11   1 36 60 1 1   2 8 80 1 11   2 25 60 1 6   3 4 40 5 0   Jarvis King, 1 16 80 5 10   1 6 60 3 3   2 15 80 4 7   2 14 60 0 11   3 51 40 0 5   William Straw and Barnard, 1 52 80 8 9   Capt. Jonathan Barnard, 1 14 60 3 4   Thomas Barnard, 2 40 80 1 6   2 42 60 2 2   3 37 40 0 6   Increase Morrell, 1 4 80 2 11   1 26 60 1 1   2 6 80 2 11   2 19 60 1 1   Col. Henry Morrell, 1 39 80 8 9   1 29 60 4 4   2 55 80 1 11   2 59 60 1 1   3 12 40 0 1   Martin and Lowell, 3 29 80 1 5   3 21 40 0 2   John Nicoll, 1 7 80 2 18   1 21 60 1 10   2 5 80 1 2   3 38 60 2 2   9 40 0 4  
DANIEL FLOOD, Collector.
Warner, June 14, 1785.
SHIPPING-PAPERS, printed on superior Paper, may be had at this Office.

To Miss —, who reliev'd a soldier, fainting, in his march to New-York.
WHEN the faint warrior sigh'd and bow'd his head, Stay fleeting life—the lovely Sappho said, This silver charm, brave youth, accept, arise, While tears of pity veil'd her gen'rous eyes.— 'Twas well the soft suffusion hid from sight Those eyes that shine with such a dang'rous light, Else, whom the sounds reviv'd, the looks had slain, And e'en Apollo had prefer'd in vain. But now, new life the quick'ning founds impart, Unwonted vigour swells his glowing heart; The blood obedient to the mandate proves, Strong beats each pulse, and firm the hero moves. Yet here, fair nymph, without thy pow'r to save, The force of art might disappoint the grave; Oft from rich balms a cure the languid find, Each part is free to med'cine, but the mind; Departed health salubrious herbs restore, And pining sickness knows to waste no more; But ills there are which you alone can cure, And yet these ills, despairing, I endure; And shall thy bounty still refuse to heal The wounds thy eyes have giv'n, the wounds I feel? In vain for aid to other charms I fly, Still flows the silent tear, still heaves the sigh, That tear a tear, that sigh a sigh succeeds, And my fond soul to death, unpty'd, bleeds, Oh! form'd to bless, and grac'd with heavenly charms, Whose bosom thus a partial pity warms, Say, whence, dear Sappho, this strange turn of mind? Say, why at once so cruel and so kind? Unask'd to give, and courted, to deny; To bid the stranger live, the lover die!
To be SOLD, By Pierse Long, (Either separately or together) The House & Garden, Tan-Yard and Buildings thereunto belong- ing—as also about 13 Acres of Mowing- Land, with an Orchard in the same, capa- ble of making thirty Barrels of Cyder annu- ally—all which lately belonged to the Estate of Capt. James Clarkson, Tanner, decea- sed. If not sold, any Person wanting to hire, may be accomodated. Also, at his Store, adjoining Liberty-Bridge, new FLOUR and IRON as low as any in Portsmouth. Portsmouth, June 23, 1785.
Nova-Scotia Grindstones, And a few Crates of well assorted Queen's Ware, TO BE SOLD BY Thomas Sheafe, At his STORE North-end, adjoining the Town- Wharf—Also, A general ASSORTMENT of European & West-Indi G O O D S.
PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that a Petition was preferred to the General Court, by Edwards Bucknam, setting forth, That a Ferry is wanted at a place called the Great-Falls, at Northumberland, to accomodate those who shall have Occasion to pass from said Northumberland to the Mills lately erected at said Falls, therefore he prayed that the General Court would grant to him, his Heirs and Assigns, the exclu- sive privilege of a Ferry at said Falls, to extend one Mile up and one Mile down the River from the centre thereof.
On which Petition the General Court ordered, that the Petitioner be heard thereon, on the second Wednes- day of next Session, and that in the mean Time he cause that the Substance of the Petition and Order of Court thereon, be published three Weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette ; and also to serve the Select- men of Northumberland with a Copy of the Petition and Order of Court thereon, that they or any Person or Persons may then appear, and shew Cause (if any they have) why the Prayer thereof may not be granted. Attest. JOSEPH PEARSON, Dep. Sec'y. PORTSMOUTH, June 25, 1785.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that all Persons having demands on the TREASURY, which are pro- perly a Continental Charge, have notice in the New- Hampshire Gazette , to exhibit the same before the last day of next session of the GENERAL COURT, as none can be allowed after that time, By Order of the GENERAL COURT, JOSEPH PEARSON, Deputy Sec'y. Exeter, July 1, 1785.
Merrimack-River LOTTERY. THE General Court of the State of New- Hampshire, having, at their last Session, granted a Lottery for the Purpose of clearing the Falls in Mer- rimack-River, in order to facilitate the conveyance of Masts and other Lumber down the same; and ap- pointed Timothy Walker, Peter Green, John Stark, Ro- bert Mc Gregore and Reuben Kimball , Managers of said Lottery.
The following Scheme is accordingly offered to the Public, which it is to be hoped will meet with their Approbation and Encouragement.
CLASS THE FIRST, Consists of Three Thousand Tickets, at Two Dollars each, 938 of which are Prizes, viz.
1 of 400 is 400 1 200 200 2 100 are 200 4 50 200 10 20 200 20 10 200 900 4 3600
238 5000 The Managers flatter themselves with a speedy Sale of the Tickets, and that they shall be enabled to draw in a short Time, of which public Notice will be given, and a List of Prizes published in the New-Hampshire Gazette , and paid off (if demanded) in thirty Days af- ter drawing said Lottery.
Benefit Tickets not demanded in twelve Months af- ter said Drawing, will be deemed as generously given for the Purpose aforesaid.
N. B. Tickets to be had of the Managers. CONCORD, June 1, 1785.
ROCKINGHAM, IS. THE subscribers being appointed commissioners to receive and examine the claims of the several cre- ditors to the estate of JOHN HART, late of Newington, in said county, Esq. deceased, represented insolvent, give notice that six months are allowed said creditors, from the 15th of June last, to bring in their claims, and that attendance will be given to receive the same at the dwelling house of Capt. William Brewster, on the last Monday of this, and the four following months, from six to eight o'clock, P. M.
JOSHUA BRACKETT, JOHN PARKER, JACOB TREADWELL, } Commissioners. Portsmouth, July 4, 1785.
TO BE SOLD. A valuable SCHOONER, almost new, of about 54 tons, well fitted for the sea; also,— West-India Rum and Molasses, by the hogshead or smaller quantity; Tar and Turpentine by the barrel. Enquire of JOHN SALTER, of Portsmouth.
TO BE SOLD, A CONVENIENT House and Barn, With a Store under said Roof, also, the Land belong- ing to the same, situate in Buck-Street:—The Terms of Payment will be made easy to the Purchaser.—For Particulars Enquire of the PRINTERS hereof. Portsmouth, June 21st. 1785.
ALL persons indebted to or have just demands on the Estate of Capt. JOSEPH HIXON, late of Port- smouth, deceased, de bonis non, are desired to settle the same with GEORGE HART, Administrator. Portsmouth, June 31, 1785.
ROCKINGHAM, IS. WE the subscribers appointed commissioners, by the Hon. Judge of Probate for said county, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of SUSANNAH LANG, late of Portsmouth, in said county, widow, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give notice that we will attend for that business, on the fourth Wednesday in June, and of the five fol- lowing months, from 3 to 5 o'clock, P. M. at the house of Mr. NATHANIEL SHERBURNE, Portsmouth, long lane (so called). SAMUEL JENNESS, JAMES PERKINS, NATHANIEL SHERBURNE, } Commissioners. Portsmouth, May 23, 1785. Salisbury, May 30, 1785.
[Cambridge.] THE Sale of the delinquent Proprietors Shares of Land, in the Township of Cambridge, stands ad- journed to Monday, the twenty-fifth Day of July next, at the House of Dr. Simeon Avery, Inholder in Orford, at 9 o'Clock, A. M. ISRAEL MOREY, Pro. Collector. ORFORD, May 16, 1785.
W A N T E D, To serve in a Family, a BOY, of a good Character, and about eleven or twelve Years old. Enquire of the Printers.
Philadelphia F L O U R, Tar, Pitch, Turpentine, Sulphur (which has been tried, and highly approved of for graving vessels) Brandy of a most excellent flavour and taste, West-India and New- England Rum by the hogshead or barrel, choice Spanish and French Indigo pr. dozen, Bacon, Gin by the case, London Pewter, Bohemian Tea by the chest or dozen, war- ranted good, a few boxes of Lisbon Lemons, Nova-Scot- ia Grindstones:—Also, TOBACCO of all sorts, by WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, SOLD By N. McIntire, PORTSMOUTH. Cash given for FLAX-SEED.
TO BE SOLD, A large Warehouse, On the wharf adjoining to Capt. Janverin's, and may be moved off.—Also, two rights of land, one in Cornish, the other in Gilmantown:—The same will be sold for West-India or English Goods, Cash or consolidated Notes. Inquire at the Printing-Office, Paved Street.
Alexander Liel, From London, ACQUAINTS the public that he carries on the Taylor's business in all its branches, at his room directly opposite the dwelling house of John Sparhawk, Esq.—Where gentlemen's apparel, and ladies habits are made in the newest taste, and at the most reasonable rate
A new French and English GRAMMAR. By J. MARY, French Instructor of the University of Cam- bridge, lately published in Boston, may be had of BENJAMIN DEARBORN, as low as can be purchased in Boston. Portsmouth, June 23, 1785.
A Number of Small Arms with BAYONETS, TO BE SOLD, Very Cheap for CASH, By JOHN WENDELL, jr. At his STORE on CHURCH-HILL, Where may be had the best
ROCK-SALT, By the Hogshead or less Quantity.— Portsmouth, June 16, 1785.
TO BE SOLD, A FARM, Of upwards of forty Acres of very good Land, with two Dwelling Houses and a Barn thereon, situate in the North West Corner of this Town. Any Person in- clining to purchase, may know the Terms by applying to Philip Babb, living on the Premises. Portsmouth, July 12, 1785.
To the PUBLIC. THE Subscriber having lately re- turned to this Town from the State of Massachusetts-Bay, has resumed the prac- tice of the Law here, and opened an Office next Door to the Post-Office: where all kinds of Conveyances and Agreements will be carefully Drawn: Advice in Questions of Law or Equity will be attentively given: and other Business falling within the Line of the Profession conducted with a purposed view to the Principles of Justice, Honour and Hu- manity.
DANIEL HUMPHRYS. PORTSMOUTH, July 15. BLANKS of every Sort may be had at this Printing-Office on the short- est Notice.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for this Paper, at Four shillings & six pence per six Months (exclusive of postage) are taken in at the Printing-Office in Portsmouth and Exeter, where Essays, Letters of Intelligence, Advertisements, &c. are received, and all kinds of Printing performed expeditiously, and at a reasonable rate.