The New-Hampshire gazette and historical chronicle (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1772-08-14 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE AND HISTORICAL
CONTAINING the FRESHEST ADVICES
Friday Aug. 14, 1772.
Vol. XVII. GAZETTE, CHRONICLE, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
NO. 825 { Weeks since this Paper was first Publish'd. }
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On the 27th July arrived at New-York, the Ship Samson, Captain Henry Coupar, in six Weeks and four Days from the Downs, the Advices are from London to June 6.—The few collected in the New-York Paper are as follows, viz.
Office of Ordnance, May 26, 1772. THE King has been pleased to direct, that for the future the Captain Lieutenants, in the royal regiment of artillery & corps of engineers shall have rank, as well in the army as in their respective corps, as Captains; that the present Captain Lieutenants shall take the said rank from this day, & all future Captain Lieutenants from the date of their respective commissions.
L O N D O N, May 26. The King having been pleased to promote to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel by Brevet, a considerable number of Majors, who obtained that rank before the end of the year 1764, an official letter has been sent to all such Majors on half pay, as have not applied for employment, informing them, that if they propose to be comprehended in the said promotion, they are to return to actual service, and apply through the Secretary at War to his Majesty.
The bill for allowing a drawback upon the exportation of tea to Ireland, and his Majesty's Colonies in America, was on the 1st of June read the third time in the House of Lords.
The Commander in Chief of the men of war, stationed in the Mediterranean, has sent for a reinforcement of ships to enable him to protect our trade in those seas, as it now swarms not only with Spanish men of war, but with Barbary Corsairs, and that he suspects the latter have a design upon our merchant ships.
Advice is received of an insult being given by a large Spanish man of war, in the Straits, to an English Frigate.
A private letter from Paris, May 18. "A certain mighty power of Europe has sent word to the Confederates of Poland, that if they would agree to have a King upon the throne, according to his pleasure, meaning the Chevalier Charles Steuart, now King of Corsica, he would assist them to the full extent of his power and influence. A nobleman went through a certain city of France, in his way to London, the 8th of this month, when he carried the intelligence, that the Pretender very soon will be proclaimed King of Corsica."
June 6. The notice which Sir Edward Walpole has given of the Duke of Gloucester's marriage exceedingly embarrasses the administration, as sensible men observe a shameful partiality in receiving one brother with the highest marks of deference, tho' guilty of the same action, for which another has suffered accumulated disgrace in the full face of the community.
Yesterday the corn exportation bill was brought back to the House of Commons from the Lords with amendments, which was ordered to be read, and after undergoing some very secure animadversion it was rejected nem. con.
In a short time the game bill underwent the same fate, with this difference, however that the principle on which it was rejected underwent some discussion. Not one of the ministerial members said a word in opposition to this measure.
The motives assigned by the house for rejecting both bills were, that the house of Lords had no right to alter any bill, by which money was to be levied on the subject.
In the debate of the latter it was urged, that money levied by way of penalty could not be properly looked on in that light; to which Mr. Solicitor General replied, it was not the sum to be levied, nor the manner of levying it, but the precedent which it might establish, and the doctrines and principles it might here after maintain; and concluded by remarking, that it was not 40s, that the glorious Hampden contended, but for the property, liberties, and privileges of his countrymen.
The affair took near 2 hours; the principle speakers were Governor Pownall, Mr. Burke, Mr. T. Townshend, Lord John, & Lord James Cavendish, Mr. Dempster, Mr. Solicitor-General, Captain Phipps, and the Speaker.
Sir Fletcher Norton protested before he put the question yesterday, on the corn and game bills, that he was sincerely for throwing them both over the table, and when they were rejected, he was as good as his word, for he tossed them into the very middle of the house.
So strong a sense have the House of Commons of the inattention, nay the contempt shown to them, by the other house, in a number of particulars, that as the rejected bills lay yesterday on the floor, where the Speaker had thrown them, several of the members, on going out before the house broke up, kicked them about, and tore them with their feet.
Yesterday Mr. Dempster moved for an inquiry into the motives for laying aside the prosecution of our discoveries towards the South Pole. The speakers referred him to the treasury bench, but Lord North and all his colleagues were as still as night, & there the affair dropped.
A great and amiable Lady in this kingdom is said to keep up a literary correspondence with a disgraced great Lady in the North.
Letters from Poland, advise, that the King of Prussia with 10,000 Troops, the Austrians with 50,000, and the Russians with a large Body have entered that Country, and harassed the Confederates: It is said the Imperial Russia and Prussian Courts are to divide that distressed Kingdom between them. The last Letters from Warsaw say, A very great stroke in Politics, which has been kept secret a long time, will be made public there on the first of June, which will astonish all Europe.
Advices from Constantinople say, that the Congress between the Porte and Russia will terminate in Peace.
The report of the second revolution at Copenhagen gains no credit at either end of the town with the intelligence.
Thomas Hosmer, is appointed Captain Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, in the Room of Captain-Lieutenant Carden, who has resigned: Lieut. Edward Page is appointed first Lieutenant.
The Queen of Denmark and her Daughter are both indisposed with the Measles at the Castle of Cronenburgh. The Ships appointed to bring the Queen to Stade, were not arrived in the Sound the 19th of May, —It is said every thing concerning the Revolution in Denmark is settled.
Captain Coupar, on his Passage, June 26th. Lat. 41. 32. Long. 31. 36. spoke a Whaling Sloop from Boston.—July 3. Lat. 39. 15. Long. 39. 44. the Sloop Three Brothers belonging to Boston; and a Schooner Capt. Jarvis, belonging to New-York. both Whalers; the latter had one hundred Barrels of Oil.
May 16. At a late cabinet council a great law Sage, whose abilities are universally allowed, however his politics may be condemned, concluded a long speech with words to this effect: "Above all things let me exhort your Lordship not to think of prosecuting the press. Its own licentiousness advances the views of Government infinitely better than all the fulmination of your power. It is become so gross as to be universally despised, and nothing can be ever formidable which is an object of contempt. This is not all; the licentiousness of the press screens the very errors of Government; for it attacks you so often without cause, that the people disbelieve it wholly where there is even a real ground for accusation."
Arrived at Gravesend, The Thomas, Callahan, from Boston. At Liverpool, the Constant Couple, Coleman from Boston.
Extract of a Letter from Copenhagen. "That part of the account in the London Prints which I have read here, relating to our Queen, is certainly true, though not altogether in the Manner you have it. You must know, our Attorney-General acted with great Spirit in the Trial, and dwelt much upon the part the King has acted in this Business. He reminded them that the King was not the Prosecutor, tho' the Offence was alledged against him; nay, his Majesty did not accuse, but declared he was satisfied with the Queen; he confessed he thought her too good a Woman for him, and acknowledged that he had long since been convinced in his own Conscience, that he was not a Man good enough for her; and tho' he plainly perceived she was no Stranger to his Infirmities, she never would turn her back upon her Husband.—When the High Commission Court heard all this, they began to relent, and instead of the heavy Punishment which was expected, they ordered she should have two stout Men every Night to attend her.
A Fire broke out last Friday at Crediton and consumed near Forty Dwelling Houses.

From the OXFORD MAGAZINE.
A Correspondent has sent us the following, which he minuted whilst reading Dr. CADOGAN, for the benefit of such of our readers who are too fond of their bellies, beds, and easy chairs.
INACTIVITY first forms obstruction in those exquisitely fine parts, upon which the health and vigour both of body and mind depend entirely, and lays the foundation of many diseases to come; which the industrious and active never feel.---No man can have those delightful sensations who lives two days with the same blood, but must be languid and spiritless.---In a state of inactivity, the old humours pass off slowly, the insensible perspiration is so inconsiderable.---In a state of indolence they do not pass off either so soon, or so regularly, as they ought.---Hence the breath and perspiration of indolent people is never sweet.---Is it not strange, that many would chuse rather to take a vomit or a purge, than a walk?---Thus indolence must inevitably lay the foundation of general disease.---The causes often make the rich and great more wretched than the poor.---Nine in ten of all the chronic diseases in the world, particularly the GOUT, owe their first rise to intemperance.---Indeed, I cannot allow him to be strictly temperate who drinks any wine, or strong liquor at all.---Something to give me an appetite---seek it by labour.---All the chain of evils is brought on, and accumulated by indolence and intemperance, or mistaken choice of diet.---Pleasure and happiness are as different things as riot and enjoyment.---Let the man of high experience bear me testimony, that this is true, of all the luxuries of the table, wine, musick, WOMEN, and every sensuality.---Have I not art to skill (says he) to reconcile health and luxury, no remedy, no rare secret to repair, and restore sensation and vigour torn to rags?---No Medea's kettle to boil a new?---If not, do not describe to us a life of moderation, temperance, and exercise, it is not worth having upon these terms.---The poor having this advantage from their poverty, that they are much less afflicted with chronic diseases than we are.---Taking off entirely all its tendency to dissolution and putrefaction, by salting, smoking, pickling, potting, and preserving things that in their own simple nature would soon corrupt and dissolve.---Whatever is hardened, or seasoned, so as to keep long before it be eaten, ought not to be eaten at all, for it will never dissolve in the stomach.---The fumes arising from fermenting liquors of any kind have been known sometimes to kill at a stroke. Wine alone produces more diseases than all the other causes put together. The stomach wants WINE no more than the NOSE does snuff.---Water is the element that dilutes and carries off crudities and indigestion, &c.---St. Paul advises wine as a medicine sometimes, but certainly not every day.---Nature, like a true female, cries out at the first violence, but submits in time, is reconciled, and grows fond of the ravisher.---But it is the business of philosophers to distinguish carefully between the real wants of nature, and the artificial calls of habit. The Dr. wishes to turn the misled opinion of the public from all that imaginary power of restoring health in any of that multitude of ridiculous and most truly contemptible medicines, that are daily obtruded upon the public, with endless lies to recommend them, by a set of the poorest, most ignorant and paltry rogues in the nation, and engage their attention to their true remedy. -----
Every great degree of vexation, whether in the shape of anger, envy, resentment, discontent, or sorrow, has most destructive and delirious effects upon the vitals of the body, whether sudden and violent, or slow and lasting.---Whoever vexes long must certainly want nourishment.---It is in sleep that all nourishment is performed.---It may suffice to have shewn the immediate and remote influence of vexation upon the human body.---We complain of a bad constitution, when we have sported away perhaps a very good one.
The Jubilee of the Jews, which is held every fifty years, in commemoration of their deliverance out of Egypt, was celebrated on Wednesday by that people. This Jubilee surpassed in show any thing of the kind ever before seen in this Kingdom, not only from their extraordinary increase in numbers, but from an emulation that seems to prevail among the several priests of the respective tribes, who headed their different orders riding upon Jack Asses elegantly caparisoned in their habiliments for this occasion, which were not only truly antique but superlatively sumptuous. They assembled at the tabernacle in Duke's place by six o'clock in the morning, whence they set out, according to ancient custom, on a pilgrimage to Highgate, the laity all walking bare footed and bare headed; and Signor Lioui, and several others of the most capital fingers that could be found in Europe, heightened the solemnity of this procession by singing several anthems adapted to the occasion, and accompanied by a band of music, hitherto unequalled for grandeur upon any occasion. When arrived at Highgate, where a temporary Synagogue was erected for the purpose, several living and other sacrifices were offered for the expiation of their sins, according to the Judaical institution.---This over, they returned in the same manner to Duke's Place, where they eat the passover, and met the setting Sun with jocundity.
The following is given us as a faithful translation of a letter sent by the Queen of Denmark to Sir Robert Keith, a few days before her trial, which was intercepted by the officer of the guard.
Sir Robert Keith, Envoy from Great-Britain.
From the first day of my captivity I fore saw that the rage of my enemies would insist upon the loss of my liberty or my life. I am perfectly resigned to my fate either way. But the thought of my reputation being tarnished, and my dear children being abandoned to the mercy of a people unjustly prejudiced against a legitimacy of their birth, overwhelms me with the most pungent grief. Has the ----- my brother, then, abandoned me? Great God, will not one, then, avenge my innocence and my memory? I doubt whether my merciless Arguses will suffer this letter to reach you: In case you receive it, continue to do me all the good offices in your power. I shall never forget the zeal which you have testified in the cause of innocence, and if ever heaven should restore me to the rank and preeminence from which I have been so unjustly degraded, you shall have, more certain proofs of my gratitude. Oh! were I in England, my dear country, where the meanest criminal has the privilege of being tried by his Peers! Am I forgot by the whole universe! I am greatly fallen away, and my health is much impaired, since I have been immured within these walls. There is not any single person about me whom I do not suspect, and I despair of ever recovering my liberty. For the love of God endeavour to visit me: the time approaches when my trial will take the place, but my sentence is already determined. I pray God to take you under his holy protection.
MATILDA.
Cronenburgh, April 11, 1772.
L O N D O N,
May 20. The Petition of Mr. MEIN, late of Boston, New-England, PRINTER, in behalf of himself and OTHERS who were Sufferers, by endeavouring to support Administration at the time of the late American Revenue Acts, is put off to some future day.
Extract of a letter from Copenhagen, May 18.
The most material charges against the Count DE BRANDT, recited in his sentence, are these:---He used to quarrel with the King, and would require satisfaction from his master, when he ought to have received from him with repentance his well deserved reproaches for the crimes he had formerly committed; and have withdrawn from his presence, rather than have provoked him so often.
On the contrary, he concerted with his friend Struensee when and how he should attack the King, and what arms he should make use of for that purpose; he actually got them in readiness, although, after mature deliberation, he did not make use of them. After Struensee had given him notice that the King was alone, and that it was time he entered, fully resolved to be revenged of his Majesty, dismissed the two young men who were in the apartment, and shut the door, that nobody should come in to oppose him, or divert him from his design, or engage the King to put a stop to his speeches or actions.
On this occasion he wounded his Majesty in the neck, bit one of his fingers, and forgot himself so far towards his benefactor and his King, as to utter words that are not fit to be repeated.
The Count DE BRANDT alledges in his defence, that the King had forgiven him that crime; but supposing that to be true, it meant no more than that his Majesty was pleased to bear for a while such an action from one of his subjects; but he had nothing to shew that could prove how far that pardon extended, of which the King alone is able to judge.
Extract of a Letter from a Danish Merchant, to his Correspondent in London.
I don't blame you for defending the Queen Matilda, you are an Englishman; but if you are in earnest, and really believe she is innocent, then I must tell you, that had you yourself but known a Tenth Part of the heinous Circumstances laid to her Charge, you would have condemned her yourself, though you were the best Friend in the World to the House of Hannover. For the Truth is, her Conduct has been so glaringly culpable, that even the common People could not avoid passing the same censorious Reflections upon her here, as the common People did upon her late Mother in London. You can form no Idea of the Execration in which the whole British Nation is held here, intirely upon her Account, seeing the common People conclude that all the English, whom they measure by the Queen's imprudent Conduct, are equally bad and vicious. This young Woman, who is called here the Messalina of Denmark, if perchance she had not seen Struensee for twenty-four Hours, would be sending for him all over the Town of Copenhagen, Messenger after Messenger, and sometimes twenty of them in a Day. So great was her Jealousy, that she forbade many LADIES of Distinction the Court, upon the most groundless Suspicion of their being great with Struensee. As an Instance of her Weakness as well as Want of common Prudence, I must tell you, that last Christmas-Day she made Struensee a Present of a Piece of new fashioned English Silk to make him a Bed Gown; but Struensee, who it seems had a greater Passion for a favourite Italian Actress than for the young Queen, made a Present of this English manufactured silk to this Actress; she, proud and vain of her Conquest, had it immediately made up, and appeared in all the public Walks. The Queen happening one Day to see her walking in the Streets in this new acquired Dress, stung with Rage & Jealousy at her fair Rival's superior Charms, instantly dispatched some of her Domestics, with Orders to tear the Gown from off her Back; the royal Orders were immediately carried into Execution, and the lovely Actress was accordingly stripped stark naked in the public Streets, in the Presence of a Thousand Spectators. I leave you, Sir, to make your own Comments on this true Story, and am persuaded you cannot but think the whole Danish Nation are happy in getting rid of her."
The following Anecdote is talked of in the Neighbourhood of St. James's, But with what Truth we do not venture to acquaint our Readers:---The Sons of a great Personage lately playing together, one of them was ordered to be beheaded in Jest, the great Personage coming by just as the lovely Delinquent was proceeding with much Solemnity to the Place of mock Execution, he enquired what the Matter was, to which the eldest replied, "I am ordering his Head to be cut off for marrying without my Consent." The King upon this asked if the Punishment was not more than equal to the Offence, "Why Papa (returned the Prince) the Offence is merely what I choose to think it, and it is more just to punish the Criminal himself than his innocent Posterity." The great Personage walked away seemingly discontented, and desired that such foolish Plays might be discontinued for the future.
PHILADELPHIA, July 27.
From Charlestown, in Maryland, we are informed, that on Saturday, the 18th inst. a most inhuman murder was committed within a few miles of that place, on the body of Mr. William Simpson, a Gentleman from Georgia in his travels through North-America for his health. He was supposed to have had a considerable quantity of money about him, which induced the villain or villains to perpetrate this horrid crime. The body is not yet found, or his bags and papers; but the horse of which he rode was taken, with the saddle all bedawbed with blood.---Two men have been since apprehended and committed to Charlestown goal on suspicion of the above murder.
NEW-LONDON, July 31.
Last Sunday sailed for Cadiz, the Ship America, Capt. John Deshon, with Cargo brought into this Port in October last, by a Spanish Ship in Distress.
NEWPORT, July 27.
At an Inferior Court held at East-Green-
wich last week, Messrs. Jacob Greene and Co. obtained judgment for £. 295. lawful money, against Lieutenant Duddington, late of the Schooner Gaspée, for taking a freight boat with a quantity of Rum and Sugar, in Narraganset-Bay, and carrying the same to Boston, which Rum &c. was only transporting from East-Greenwich in this colony, to this town. Mr. Duddington has appealed to the next Superior Court.
To the Printers. Please to give the following, being Part of a Letter from my Son in Maryland to his Wife, and you'll oblige A WIDOW.
Eastern-Shore, May 2. 1772.
I Arrived here Yesterday Morning from Patuxant to take in in 480 Bushels of Corn, and had began to take on board this Morning, but fear shall be detained by a melancholy Accident that happened early this Morning on the Beach.
The Owner of the Corn is a Planter and Trader, a Scotchman whose Daughter married a young Man, a Planter about 2 Miles from where our Vessel lies, about 11 Months ago, contrary to her Father's Consent; but Matters it seems had partly been made up: Some Family disputes having arisen about 5 Weeks past the young Man had forbid his Wife going to see her Father, and had given her a Flogging about 10 Days past for persisting in going to her Father's House, which so irritated the old Man, who was on the Beach firing at a Flock of Ducks when the young Man was coming on board us this Morning to buy a Barrel of Rum and some Potatoes, he quickly loaded his Gun again and fired at him, and I beleive mortally Wounded him, but he is yet alive. He has not yet lost his Speech, but very much Blood, and acknowledges his Fault, and generously forgives his Father, and hoped God would forgive him also; and desired he would tell his Wife so, if he died before he should see her. This puts me in Mind my Love of the Uneasiness you & I had just before we sailed about a trifling Affair: I hope this Accident to which I was an Eye-witness will always put me in Mind of idle Rashness and Folly upon trifling Occasions, which often ends with dreadful Consequences.
P.S. His Wife is, since I wrote the above come to her Father's, at whose House he was arrived, and is thought to be near dying. It grieves my Heart to see the Distress of his Wife and her Father's whole Family. We are all apt to see our Error when it's too late.
L O N D O N, March 27.
Munday a Harness maker in Oxford Road cut his Wife's Throat; a Surgeon was immediately sent for, who sewed up the Wound, so that she spoke, Notwithstanding which she Bled inwardly, and Expired in a few Hours. The Husband as soon as he had committed this Rash Action, went and Hanged himself.
The King of Prussia, who Reads all the English Papers, was very much Offended at a Paragraph which insinuated, that he was at the Bottom of the Danish Revolution. He has Authorized his Ambassador in London to Declare in every Company the Falshood of the insinuation.
On Sunday the 2d Instant the following Accident happened at a small Village called Afterton, near Bishop's-Castle, occasioned by a great fall of Snow, which came from a Hill called Longmont: Seven human Bodies were found Dead; two Men were found Dead in a Bed, one Woman with part of her Cloaths on and her Stays in her Hand and three Men were Saved; but one Man, aged 60, lies Dangerously ill: Upwards of 20 Cattle and a Number of Poultry were Destroyed, as was also a great Quantity of Grain, Hay, &c. three Houses were thrown down and several large Trees torn up by the Roots. More than 200 Men have been digging in the Snow several Days past, to find the Dead Bodies.
April 16. On Friday died at Streatham, Elizabeth Russel, aged 108. Upon stripping the body of the deceased, to the great surprize of the beholders, the characteristics of manhood were found in goodly proportion. The manner of the deceased's life furnishes strong hints for what purpose the feminine appearance was assumed. Fortune-telling was the chief business of this bic vel hæc homo.
We hear, that the Armistice between the Porte and Russia, was concluded on the 5th of this Month; and that a regular Correspondence will be established between Jassy (the Place where the congress is to be held) and the Cities of Vienna Petersburg, Warsaw, Berlin, and Constantinople.

B O S T O N, August 6.
On Sunday the 12th ult. the house of Mr. Moses Bush of Great-Barrington, took fire in the time of divine service, and was entirely consumed. It is suspected to have been set on fire by some evil-minded person.
By a vessel from Newfoundland, we learn That on the 17th of last Month a Ship of 300 Tons burthen, from England, commanded by Capt. Lycomb, was drove ashore on the Isle of Boys, where the Vessel was stoved to pieces, and the Cargo of Salt, &c. entirely lost. The People saved their Lives.
We hear, that on Saturday evening last night a seaman drunk and otherwise abused a woman at the north end, so that she died the Saturday following. It is said he has made his escape.
MONDAY, August 10
Last Saturday night, between eleven and one o'clock, we had here a smart gust attended with severe lightning and thunder; severer than have been known here many years. The lightning struck the dwelling house of his Honour the Lieutenant Governor. The lightning seems to have first struck the top of the chimney, and then went down a corner post of the turret built against it, splitting the post from top to bottom; there it met with some sheet lead connected with strips of lead, which covered the north and south east hips of the roof. The latter led it descended to the junction of the gutters at the corner, which is also leaded. It there penetrated through the plate on the brick wall of the house (splitting the plate as it went) into a chamber; being attracted by an iron curtain rod, at the head of the post of a four post bedstead which stood against the wall. The end of the rod, where it entered, might be about thirty inches from the lead in the gutter. It proceeded round the rod to the fourth post, the head of which, for about three feet down it split, and with great force threw off several pieces of it to the opposite side of the chamber; particularly one piece on a horizontal line, and with such force that it stuck by the pointed end of it with great firmness in the plastering. The lightning then jumped to the lower hinge of a window shutter behind the bed post, broke a pane of glass, split the stool of the window frame, and then probably fell about three feet upon the lead covering the ridge and hips of a low building directly under the window, and finally dispersed or went into the Earth.
Friday the 17th ult. the Doctor of the Beaver reported among the marines of the two ships of war in Newport harbour, that the inhabitants of the town of Newport intended to raise a mob, and go down into the neck, and take Lieut. Duddington (late commander of the Gaspee, which was burnt in Providence river) out of Mr. Brenton's house, where he lay sick, and murder him, or at least mob him, &c. Upon this report a gun was fired to alarm the ships, some of whose men were sent ashore, and a number of the marines were posted round Mr. Brenton's house to protect Mr. Duddington. Mr. Brenton told them there was not the least danger, and that he would pledge himself and all he had for Mr. Duddington's safety. But all this would not do, they continued to guard the house all night. After they had been there some time, one of them went a little distance from the rest, and, as he was returning, was hailed by a centinel, but he thinking it could not be him he hailed, but some of the MOB, perhaps, made no answer, upon which the centinel fired upon him, and in all probability would have laid him dead, had not the gun accidentally been charged with an exercising cartridge, without any bullet. This gun, we are told, was Mr. Brenton's family, and greatly frightened his wife, as thinking there might possibly be some truth in the report of a mob, &c. But upon strict enquiry, the whole proved to be as gross a falsehood as ever was invented. Captain Linzee had Mr. Duddington removed on board his Ship.
S A L E M, August 11.
Last Friday one George Mitchell was apprehended in this Town for stealing; and on Examination before a Magistrate it plainly appeared that he had sold, to a Woman in Danvers, a few Hours before he was taken up, about 7 Yards of Chintz, which was known to have been stolen out of a Shop in this Town the Day before. He was committed to Goal, and re-examined on Saturday, when he was remanded back to Prison, and is to be tried at the Court of Sessions to be held next Month at Newbury-Port. It is much suspected that he has some Female Accomplices; and we are not without Hopes that they will soon be detected. He told the Person who bought the Chintz of him, that he had a Variety of Articles for Sale, which it is thought he has secreted in some Field towards Danvers. A Coat and Jacket was stolen out of a House at the upper Part of the Town the same Day this Fellow came into it, which was on Wednesday in Company with one other Man and two Women.
The Lightning, last Saturday Night, was attended with a smart Gust of Wind, and some heavy Claps of Thunder. The Flashes followed in quick Succession as occasioned the Hemisphere; for some considerable Time, to appear almost in one continued Blaze. A Schooner laying in the Harbour, and near ready to sail for the West-Indies, had both her Masts struck by the Lightning, and so much shivered, it is said, as to render it necessary to take them out.
We hear that Mr. Jonathan Sanborn of Pearson-Town owns a Cow that has brought him seven Calves in less than two Years, viz. at one Time 2, in less than a Year after 3, and in less than another Year 2 more.
Edmund Wendell, intending for England in the first Ship, desires all Persons that have any Demands on him, to bring in their Accounts to him, or to Mr. Joshua Wentworth, Merchant in Portsmouth, for an immediate Payment thereof; and all Persons Indebted to him by Book or Note, are desired to discharge the Same, as he does not expect to return to this Country soon again. EDMUND WENDELL.
Portsmouth, August 13th, 1772.
W A N T E D
70 Cords of good Wood,
For the Use of the Work-house, in Portsmouth, enquire at said House. July 22d 1772
(Newbury-Port.)
George Deblois,
Acquaints his Friends and Customers in Town and Country, that he is removed to his new Shop at the Golden Eagle, near the Court House in Newbury Port where he has for Sale,
A large and general Assortment of ENGLISH GOODS, and HARDWARES, which he sells, at the low price they are sold in BOSTON, — Wholesale and Retail — He will thank all those that are pleased to favour him with their Custom — Constant Attendance given early and late. — New Pewter given in exchange for Old.
Forge Masters,
(who refine B A R - I R O N )
MAY be supplied with good PIG-METAL, at Twenty Dollars per Ton, on Application to Mr. JOHN MORTON, Merchant, on Hunter's Quay, in New-York.
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Province of New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the delinquent Proprietors of said Canaan, that the Vendue Meeting of said Proprietors stands adjourned to the 28th of this Instant August, to the dwelling House of Mr. Charles Hill, Innholder in Lebanon, at 3 o'clock Afternoon, and if all the Delinquent's Lands are not sold that Day at said Meeting to be adjourned to the Monday following.
JEDIDIAH HEBBARD Collector.
Canaan, August 31. 1772.
Province of New-Hampshire. Rockingham, ss.
WHEREAS the Clerk of the Propriety of ORFORD, was impowered by Vote to call a Meeting upon an Application of more than one Tenth part of the Proprietors thereof, and such an Application having been made to said Clerk for that purpose, and by him declined; so that there is no Relief to be had, but by Recourse to the Province Law, for calling Proprietary Meetings: And an Application being made to me the Subscriber, by more than one Sixteenth part of the Proprietors of said Township, to call a Meeting of the proprietors to be held on the 28th Day of September next, at three o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the House of Mr. John Stavers, Innholder in Portsmouth, then & there to act upon the following Matters and Things viz. First, To chuse a Moderator. Second, To chuse a new Clerk, if thought necessary. Thirdly, To agree upon some Method to ascertain the Right of Voting at proprietors Meetings, so that every proprietor of a whole or part of a Right, shall have an equal Representation. Fourthly, To see if the Proprietors will agree that a pitch may be made by any original proprietor, (who has not already made his pitch) out of the Hundred Acre Lots laid out, and to cast Lots for said Pitches, provided the same be made in a Time to be allow'd for that purpose, after which period, Draughts to be made for the Residue. Fifthly, To appoint a Committee to allot out all the Common and undivided Lands in said Township, and to agree upon a Time when the same shall be drawn, to the Right of each original proprietor. Sixthly, To appoint another Committee to examine the State of the Treasurers and Collectors Accounts; as also to inspect into the proprietors Records, and make a Report whether any Votes therein made are illegal or not, that the same may be advised upon, by which much Expence may be saved. Seventhly, To see if the proprietors will agree that all future Meetings be held in the Township of Orford, and in such case, that the present Clerk shall deliver the Records of the propriety to any other Clerk that may be chosen.
Agreeable to said Application, I do hereby notify and warn a Meeting of said Proprietors of Orford, to meet at the above Time any Place, to act upon the several Matters notified.
DANIEL ROGERS, Jus. Pac.
Portsmouth, August 13, 1772.
Mr. MORGAN
BEGS leave to inform his Subscribers, and the Public in general, that the 2d Week in September his Exhibition will begin with a Benefit Night for the Poor of the Town, — and the Subscribers Nights will commence the ensuing Evening.
[ Clarmont. ]
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of the Township of Clarmont, in the County of Cheshire, and Province of New-Hampshire, who have not paid their several Taxes to me the Subscriber Collector for said Proprietors, voted to be raised by said Proprietors at their several Meetings, to be raised on each original Right in said Town; (viz) one Tax of the Sum of Twenty four Shillings Lawful Money, to be worked out on the Highways in said Town, and twenty Shillings Lawful Money for the Use of laying out Lots and other incidental Charges, which said Sums were voted by said Proprietors at their legal Meeting on the 20th Day of April, 1768, and another Tax for the Sum of Ten Shillings L. M. voted to be raised on each of said Rights at their Meeting on August the 16th, 1769. And the several Rate Bills, with Warrants to collect the same are delivered to me, and unless the several Sums are paid to me at my dwelling House in said Claremont, on or before the 15th Day of August next, the delinquent Proprietor's Lands will be advertised for Sale as the Law directs. Claremont, July 1st, 1772. JOSEPH IVES Collector.
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss.
ON Tuesday the 25th of August next, at ten o'clock A. M. will be Sold by public Vendue to the highest Bidder or Bidders at the Parish House in Newington — Sundry Lots of common Land, lying in the Township of Barnstead in the County of Rockingham and Province of New Hampshire, viz. The Commons also adjoining the Lots No. 6, 5, 4, 3, 1, all in the first Division. Also a Piece of Common in the second Division, at the Head of the Lot No. 63. Another Tract on the N. West Side of the Lot No. 36, adjoining Suncook River, and the Province Road, so called, till it comes to the Lot No. 30. The Commons also adjoining No. 106 and 107 on the S. West Side of Suncook Pond — And if the above mentioned Lots or Tracts of common Land should not be sufficient to pay off these Persons to whom the Propriety now stand justly indebted, then to sell as much of the common Land elsewhere in said Barnstead, as will pay every Person who has done Service for the Propriety his just Due, with thirty Pounds Lawful Money more to be deposited or lodged in the Treasury of said Barnstead, and to be drawn out as the Proprietors shall order. The above is agreeable to a vote of the Proprietors of said Barnstead the 14th of July Instant.
Newington Ju'y 22, 1772.
Richard Downing } Committee. Benjamin Adams }
I the Subscriber hereby give
Notice to the Public, of my purpose to Ride weekly, and carry the News Papers from Portsmouth through Greenland, Newmarket, Epping, Nottingham, Deerfield, Altonstown, Pembroke, Concord, Bersecauwa, and thence to Canterbury. All who are inclined to encourage this my Design, whether in the Towns before mentioned, or in any near by, and send their Subscriptions by me, for the New Hampshire weekly Gazette, shall have them brought as near as may be convenient, and at the low Price of Eight Shillings, per Ann. and their Favours gratefully acknowledged, by JOHN ERVING.
All Persons Indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Thomas Jewell, late of Hopkington, deceased, are desired to bring in their Accounts to Meriam Jewell, and Jonathan Straw, Administrators on said Estate, in Order for settlement. Hopkington, June 29th, 1772.
TO BE LETT OR SOLD.
By Pierce Long,
HIS HOUSE in Queen Street, Adjoining Mr. Richard Champney's. If any inclines to become the Purchaser, the price and Terms of Payment will be made so easy, that they can have no Objection.

NORTHUMBERLAND.
THE Proprietors of NORTHUMBERLAND, in the Province of New Hampshire, are desired to meet at the House of Capt. Jacob Tilton's, Innholder at Portsmouth, on Friday the 14th day of August next, at 6 o'Clock, P. M. 1. To choose a Moderator. 2. To choose Collectors to collect in the Taxes Voted at a former Meeting, together with what may then be Voted to forward other proprietary Business. 3. To choose a Committee to prosecute any Trespasser on the Lands, within the Bounds of the Charter. 4. To see what Money they will Vote to raise on each Right to defray all necessary Charges, and to do and transact any other Matters that may be thought beneficial to, and necessary for completing the settlement of said Township. By Order of the Assessors,
THO. MARTIN, Prop's Clerk. Portsmouth, July 28, 1772.
(Wolfeborough.)
THE Proprietors of Wolfeborough are hereby notified that a Tax of eight Dollars was voted on each original Right for the purpose of clearing that part of the College Road which goes through said Town, and to defray other incidental Expences of the propriety; and as the Road is nearly finished, they are earnestly desired to pay their respective Taxes to the Subscriber, otherwise their Land will be advertised for Sale as the Law directs. Those Delinquents in former Taxes are desired to pay them speedily. A. R. CUTTER, Collector.
(Hanover.)
WHEREAS the proprietors and Owners of Land in the Township of HANOVER in the province of New Hampshire, have been legally notified to pay an Assessment of a penny half penny per Acre, made on all the Land in said Hanover, both divided and undivided, agreeable to an Act of Assembly for making a Road from Dartmouth College to Wolfeborough, this is therefore to notify those who are delinquent that so much of each of their particular Lots, and parcels of undivided Land as will pay the Taxes with incidental Charges will be sold at public VENDUE at any Dwelling House in said Hanover, on Monday the 24th Day of August next, the Sale to begin at nine o'clock in the Morning—The delinquent proprietor's Names with the Sums due on the several Lots and undivided Land as follows.
   Original Proprietors River 1st Hd. 2d Hd. undivided   Lot. Acres Acres Land.   s. d. q. s. d. q. s. d. q.     John Downing Esq 2 7 2   George March 2 7 2   Col. Joseph Smith 2 7 2   John Knight 2 7 2 12 6 12 6 11 11   Hutchins Storrs Jr. 2 7 2   Prince Aspenwell 2 7 2 12 6 12 6 11 11   William Farwell 2 7 2   Elijah Walcot 2 7 2   Noah Jones 5 8   Abraham Blacknum 2 7 2 12 6 12 6   William Johnson 2 7 2 11 11   Hutchins Storrs 2 7 2   Joseph Storrs Junr. 12 6 12 6 11 11   Moses Walcot 2 7 2   David Richardsen 2 7 2 11 11   Elisha Adams 12 6   John House 2 7 2 12 6 12 6 11 11   Edmund Freeman 2 7 2 12 6 11 11   Prince Freeman 2 7 2 12 6   Phineas Allen 2 7 2 12 6 5 8   Jonathan Freeman 2 7 2   Stephen Walcot 2 7 2   Samuel Herrick 12 6 11 11   Eben. Dunham Jr. 12 6   Nath. Freeman Jr. 12 6 5 8   Sylvanus Freeman 2 7 2 12 6 12 8   Herman Atwood 12 6 12 6 11 11   Nathaniel Hopkin 6 3 12 6 5 8   William Carey 2 7 2   Oliver Barker 6 11   John Walbridge 2 7 2 12 6 12 6 11 11   Ozias Strong 12 6    Hanover July 4th 1772. ISAAC BRIDGMAN Col.
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[Rochester.]
PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss. BY an ACT of the General Assembly of said Province, there is a Tax of One half penny per Acre on all the Lands in the Town of Rochester for the present Year 1772, to defray the Charge of clearing and bridging the Highways in the upper Part of the Town, to be paid the Committee appointed by the General Court, to make and repair said Roads by the Last Day of November next with this proviso that each Proprietor or Owner of Said Lands shall have liberty of paying his Part of Said Tax in Labour on said Roads, at two Shillings and Six Pence per Day, finding themselves, under the Direction of said Committee, the following is the Sum due on each original Proprietor's Share for the present Year. Lawful Money.
   Whole Share Men. One Share between three.     Joseph Kent Thomas Hanson   John Thompson John Hanson   William Leathers Nath. Hanson   James Durgin Tobias Hanson   John Doe Joseph Hanson   Thomas Drew Benjamin Hanson   Joseph Jenkins John Hayes   Cl. Thos Westbrock Peter Hayes   James Bunker Ichabed Hayes   Thomas Roberts Samuel Hayes   Clement Hughes William Hayes   John Bickford Benjamin Hayes   Rich. Waldron jun. Job Clements   First Ministers Right John Clements   Lt. Jen. Woodman James Clements   Lt. John Smith Philip Chesse   Eli Dement Ichabed Chesse   Ebenezer Varney Jonathan Chesse   John Buffel Sylvanus Nock   Thomas Yeung Thomas Nock   Deacon Getham Zachariah Nock   Wentworth Richard Hussey   Ens. Israel Hedgdon Job Hussey   Capt. John Knight Joseph Rankins   Benjamin Gambling Getham Downs   Capt. Fra. Matthes Thomas Downs   Lt. Joseph Jones Ebenezer Downs   Getham Wentworth jun. Samuel Downs   Eph. Wentworth William Downs   Benja. Wentworth Benjamin Stanton   Ens. John Waldron Nathaniel Perkins   Capt. Paul Wentworth Samuel Perkins   Lt. John Ham Joshua Perkins   Arch'b. McPhedrias John Ricker   Capt. Thos Tebbets Maturin Ricker   Peter Varney Ephraim Ricker   Ephraim Tebbets Joseph Ricker   Benjamin Beckford George Ricker   John Dam Jeremy Rollings   George Walton John Wingate   John Usher Moses Wingate   John Wille Samuel Wingate   Capt. Paul Gerrish Valentine Hill   William Furbeur John Nutter   Capt. Stephen Jones James Nutter   Lt. Trustram Hurd Daniel Horn   Capt. Tim. Gerrish William Horn   Lt. Joseph Roberts William Horn Jr.   Capt. Sam. Tebbets James Nute   Capt. J. Downing Samuel Nute   Col. James Davies Thomas Tuttle   Capt. Benjamin Wentworth Sol. Pinkham   Col. Rich. Waldron Richard Pinkham   Sam. Penhallow, Esq. Amos Pinkham   Richard Wibird, Esq. John Trickey   George Jaffrey, Esq. Thomas Trickey   Thomas Packer, Esq. Hatevil Nutter   Governor Shute Edward Evans   Lt. Gov. Wentworth Joseph Evans   Col. Mark Hunking Benjamin Evans   Shadrack Walton, Esq. Ens. Hat. Nutter   Henry Nutter   Eleazer Colman   Thomas Layton   John Layton   Peter Cook   Thomas Starbord   Tho. Starbord Jr.   Benjamin Mason   William Dam   Capt. John Layton   Nathaniel Randal   Samuel Randal   William Randal    A Share between two Men. Lt. Joseph Beard Joseph Plummer John Burnum Robert Burnum Henry Tebbets Ens. John Tebbets Nicholas Harford John Kenney
   Joseph Small 18 9 Salathiel Denbow 18 9   Zachery Small 18 9 Samuel Perkins 18 9   James Bickford 18 9 William Clay 18 9   Joseph Bickford 18 9 John Ronalds 18 9   Ezzer Bickford 18 9 Job Ronalds 18 9   John Sias 18 9 James Clark 18 9   James Burnum 18 9 Nath'l Lammas 18 9   John Sias Jun. 18 9 Joseph Wheeler 18 9   Samuel Edgerly 18 9 Daniel Harvey 18 9   John Edgerly Jr. 18 9 Moses Davis 18 9   Wm. Wormwood 18 9 James Hackins 13 9   Joseph Daniels 18 9 Samuel Williams 18 9   Isa. Daniels Jr. 18 9 John Williams 18 9   Jethro Bickford 18 9 William Hill 18 9   Moses Davis Jr. 18 9 Abner Clark 18 9   Thomas Wells 18 9 Lt Abram Bennick 18 9   Wm. Jackson 18 9 Elias Critchet 18 9   John Hall 18 9 John Moe 18 9   Thomas Hall 18 9 William Ellis 18 9   Samuel Cearl 18 9 George Walton 18 9   Ebenezer Tuttle 18 9 John McPhedrias 18 9   Wm. Twombly 18 9 Nicholas Follet 18 9   James Guppy 18 9 John Buck 18 9   Samuel Aley 18 9 John Conner 18 9   Benjamin Foss 18 9 John Bantum 18 9   William Foss 18 9 Benedictus Tarr 18 9   Samuel Herd 18 9 Daniel Page 18 9   James Herd 18 9 One Share between four Men.   David Watson 18 9 John Twombly 18 9   James Hobbs 18 9 Joseph Twombly 18 9   Joseph Ham 18 9 Benja. Twombly 18 9   John Pearl 18 9 Sam'l. Twombly 18 9   Ebenezer Garlin 18 9 Benjamin Peirce 18 9   Jabez Garlin 18 9 Ebenezer Wirt 18 9   The Wallingford 18 9 John Conner 18 9   Samuel Wille 18 9 John Hodgdon 18 9   John Norway 18 9 James Conner 18 9   Edw. Whitehouse 18 9 Hugh Conner 18 9   Wm. Blackstone 18 9 Thomas Stevens 18 9   Rich'd Hammock 18 9 Richard Brooks 18 9   James Hanson 18 9 John Gray 18 9   Timo. Robinson 18 9 Abner Thrustin 18 9   Samuel Corson 18 9 Thos Westcoat 18 9   John Rawlings 18 9 James Nock 18 9   John Drew 18 9 John Muney 18 9   John Cooke 18 9 William Jones 18 9   Benjamin Pinner 18 9 Joseph Estes 18 9   Joseph Stevenson 18 9 Samuel Bray 18 9   John York 18 9 Merris Fowler 18 9   John Ambler 18 9 John Hoit 18 9   John Allin 18 9 Thomas Alden 18 9   Jonathan Crosby 18 9 Benjamin Green 18 9   Ens. Joseph Chesse 18 9   Joseph Chesse 18 9   Samuel Chesse 18 9   John Williams 18 9  
The Owners of said Lands, that are disposed to pay their Part of said Tax in Labour, on the above Conditions, are desired to meet the said Committee at James Rogers's, Innholder in said Rochester, on Tuesdays the 25th Day of August, and 1st and 8th Days of September next, at 8 o'clock on said Days, or any Day in either said Weeks after Tuesdays, with each Man a good Ax or Hoe, where they will be received and their Wages commence. And those that are otherwise disposed are requested to pay their Money to the Collector, by the last Day of said November, agreeable to said Act to prevent their Lands being advertised for sale as the law directs. By Order, and in Behalf of the Committee, per JONN PLUMMER Collector. Rochester 25th July 1772.
Wanted a Sloop or Schooner, betwixt 50 and 80 Tons burthen.—For further Particulars enquire of the Printers.
RANAWAY from the Subscriber a Man Servant twenty Years of Age, five Feet ten Inches high, wears his own Hair, is of light complexion; had on a light Sarge Coat, striped Ginham Jacket, Deer Skin Breeches, worsted Stockings, silver Buckels; he went by the Name of Daniel Treadle.—Whoever shall take up said Runaway, and bring him to his Master again, shall have One shilling Old Ten. Reward, and no Thanks, By me Jonathan Stillaber. July 20th, 1772.