New-Hampshire gazette, or, State journal and general advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.), 1780-09-09 00:00:00

THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE; OR, STATE JOURNAL, and GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[ Vol. XXIV. ]
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 1780.
[ No. 1246. ]
THE SCOURGE, No. VII.
LONDON, Saturday, March 11, 1780.
Must LITTLE Villains then submit to Fate, That GREAT ones may enjoy the World in State.
To the notorious Plunderer of the People, Corrupter of Parliament, State Criminal and public Traitor LORD NORTH.
MY LORD,
HALL a highwayman or pick-pocket be hanged at Tyburn, for taking the paltry sum of a few shillings or pounds, and such a parricide as your lordship, who has robbed a whole nation
for years and ruined a mighty empire, not only escape punishment, but honored and rewarded ? Shall villainy be sanctified by the greatness of it; and impunity be purchased by deserving the axe or the halter ?—Forbid it Heaven, forbid it Justice! this is inverting the order of things, confounding virtue and vice, whilst nature revolts at the idea.
A man robbed on the high-way, or in his own house, has the restitution of his property again where it can be made, and he has the life of the offender, if he can be apprehended; thus he receives from the law all public satisfaction; vengeance is at once taken for the crime committed, and a terrible example made of the author to prevent a repetition of it.—But, my lord, when such a monster of iniquity and traitor of his country as your lordship, is once grown ungovernably rich by national plunder , delusion and state craft, holding the iron hand of power over the people whom he has made poor by every means of oppression and villainy; supported, protected and encouraged in a system of public robbery , by a corrupt parliament and an unfeeling tyrant lost to all sense of human woe, and living in pomp and grandeur upon the miseries of mankind, he is out of the reach of COMMON JUSTICE ; and therefore new kinds of vengeance, new tortures and new engines of misery ought to be invented to make the punishment of such a traitor as much exceed common punishments, as his crimes exceed those of the worst sort of malefactors.
There can be no analogy, my lord, between the crimes of private men , and those of public ministers ; the first can go no farther than the injury, sufferings or death of single persons; the other subvert the laws and the policy of nations; destroy the peace of millions, ruin thousands, and create general want, discords, insurrections and civil wars.—But of all crimes, my lord, which regard a state, the greatest and blackest, is that of robbing the publick, because upon a frugal and just administration of the national treasure, the very being and existence of the common wealth depends.
Lord Coke calls it, Tutela pacis, and firmamentum belli ; and embezzling of it is death by the civil Law , and ought to be so by all laws. It is the worst sort of treason , it draws all other crimes and treasons after it; it discords all the measures and necessary economy of government, and lays the foundation of sedition, rebellion and all kind of public misery.
You, my lord, and your pious master , by the basest and most treacherous arts, in conjunction with a few other state villains of less note and consequence, have in the course
of ten years, robbed this nation of more than three times ten millions of money; you nobly scorn little pilferings , and in the dark; small sums will not do, you despise the practice of former times, and common rogues; figures have lost their use in arithmetic; they no longer signify hundreds and thousands, but MILLIONS . We now see, my lord, that you can with the most consummate assurance, and with unblushing impudence publicly rob the people at noon day, to support the diabolical measures of a tyrannical, corrupt and abandoned court, for the vilest and most internal purposes. You laugh at the miseries of your fellow-subjects, you are deaf to their complaints, you insult their wrongs, and bid defiance to PUBLIC JUSTICE . Secure in a majority of venal rascals in the house of commons (who receive from your hands a part of the people's money) and screened behind the throne, you think yourself safe; it may be so, my lord, at this moment, but the day of retribution is near at hand, when no sifterfuge , no artifice, nor all the power of an obstinate lawless tyrant, will be able to save you, from that punishment and death, your crimes so justly merit; unless your lordship, in imitation of some of your predecessors, (to prevent a public ignominious end) should put a period to your own existence, with a pistol or sword.
Although, my lord, you now refuse to give any account, and prevent all inquiry into the expenditure of those immense sums, you have for years past basely and wickedly drawn from the pocket of industry, labour and even distress; you may live to lament that you was ever the common plunderer of the nation, the subverter of her laws and the vile oppressor of mankind; you may, and will, have cause to wish you had acted the part of a faithful servant to that public, who generously and liberally paid you for all your toil and labour in the public service, in order to put you above the meanness and the temptation of robbing your friends and benefactors; or monster like, of creating and tormenting a horrid unnatural war against your fellow subjects, which breathes nothing but destruction, private ruin and public desolation, and which could only be done to gratify the will of a humane pious tyrant , and to aggrandize yourself and your vile dependants with the public spoil.
We may trace in vain, my lord, the history of this and all other nations, to find in the long and black catalogue of traitors , one in any degree equal to your lordship. The public treasure is profusely squandered away and divided amongst the creatures of the court, and such as will betray their country; new taxes and burthens are daily laid upon the people to continue and support an execrable war in America , against the common rights and liberties of mankind. Public corruption and abuses daily grow upon us; fees in most, if not in all the offices of state unnecessarily and shamefully increased; places and employments greatly multiplied, for the vile and wicked purpose of increasing the power of the crown, with no other design, but to procure another parliament equally as corrupt and infamous as the present; who will readily join in all the dirty work of St. James's , and in every ministerial plan of despotism and public ruin. Salaries have been augmented, and pensions granted out of number to the most worthless and unprincipled wretches, who for money would betray their God and their country. Mul-
titude of families, my lord, are ruined by you, and sunk from independent fortunes and circumstances, to poverty and want; children born, as they imagined to live in ease and affluence, now doomed by your lordships villainy, and ruinous system of government, to want bread, or to beg it; this, my lord, is enough to pierce every heart, except your lordship's and that of your pious master , and a few other hardened parricides . All these misfortunes have been brought upon us, by a too rash confidence in your knavish management of public affairs, you have, my lord, deceived the nation for a series of years by low cunning, vile tricks and contemptible lies.
You seem, my lord in the true spirit of tyranny, determined to reduce mankind to the condition of brutes, and to make that reason which God gave, useless to them; you want to deprive them even of the blessings of nature, to starve them, in the midst of plenty, and to frustrate the natural bounty of the earth to men; for nature smiles in vain where you or your master frowns. The very hands of men given by nature for their support, are now turned by your Lordship and the state craft of St. James's , into instruments of their misery, by being employed in a damnable destructive war, to gratify the ambition and vanity of the best of kings; who suffers neither virtue, knowledge, plenty, nor any kind of happiness to dwell within the extent of his power.
Nothing, my lord, that is good or desirable can subsist under him or your lordship, nor within your reach; because you subsist upon nothing but what is detestable and wicked. You are supported by general ruin; you live by the distresses and the destruction of mankind; and as fraud and villainy, and every species of violence and cruelty are the props of his throne and your power; so you measure your own happiness, security and strength, by the misery and weakness of the people; continued oppression and rapine being the studied and necessary arts of governing; by which you can render the people poor, abject and wretched.
My lord, it would have been wisdom, it would have been bravery in the people of England, to have fallen by the hand of God long since, rather than by such an execrable monster as your lordship, and your associates, that we are fallen, is an evident and fatal truth, not only visible in every face, but in the destruction of our trade, the glory and riches of the nation, and the livelihood of the poor. But complaining does not mend the matter, yet who can help it, that sees this once great flourishing kingdom, groaning under the weight of such mighty evils, brought upon it by such base and contemptible instruments.
For a nation to bear this treatment quietly, is of the most dangerous consequence, it invites fresh injuries; and people who would not suffer many wrongs but have and opposition shall not suffer one. An injured people should do themselves justice with speed and with vigour; by delay the edge of resentment goes off, and the offender is leisure to fortify himself by new villainies.
I would therefore advise my countrymen to make a virtue of their present anger; and prove to the world, that as they always scorned to be the property of tyrants, they will not be the prey of so vile a traitor as your lordship.

From the London Gazette, June 6.
By the K I N G.
A P R O C L A M A T I O N.
G E O R G E R.
WHEREAS it hath been represented to Us, That a great number of persons, in consequence of advertisements or hand-bills inciting them thereto, did on Friday last, the 2d of this instant, June, assemble in a riotous and tumultuous manner in St. George's Fields, in the county of Surrey, from whence they proceeded in several bodies to Palace yard, Westminster, surrounded both Houses of Parliament, and possessed themselves of the avenues to the same (the said Houses of Parliament being then sitting) where they continued in a riotous & tumultuous manner, committing great outrages and violence against several of our subjects, and feloniously taking money from them; after which, in the evening of the same day, they insulted and attacked the houses of some of the public Ministers of Foreign Princes, and States, residing at our Court, and broke into, spoiled, and set fire to chapels, which in every civilized country are allowed to such public Ministers for the free exercise of the religion of their country, to the great scandal and offence of all truly pious and good protestants. We therefore, in order that the reproach of so frantic and atrocious an outrage against the precepts of religion, as well as the obligations of all laws, may not remain a disgrace to Our kingdom, but may be confined to the authors, abetters & perpetrators of the said outrage, and that they may be brought to speedy and condign punishment, and that such dangerous and wicked practices may hereafter be prevented, have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to publish and declare Our resolution to put the laws in force against such offences: And We do hereby enjoin and require all Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Mayors, Bailiffs, Constables, and all other Our loving subjects, to be aiding and assisting to the utmost of their power in suppressing such illegal & tumultuous assemblies, and in detecting, apprehending, and bringing to Justice the persons concerned in assembling or instigating the same, and guilty of any of the violences above mentioned. And for the better detection of the persons who were concerned in the outrages committed at the houses of the said public Ministers, We are graciously pleased to promise, that if any person shall discover any other person or persons who, directly or indirectly, were concerned in pulling down, or beginning to pull down, or in setting fire to the chapel of any Public Ministers, so as that the person or persons discovered may be
prosecuted for the same, such discoverer shall have and receive, upon conviction of such offender or offenders, the sum of FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS, and also Our gracious pardon for the said offence, in case the person making such discovery shall himself be liable to be prosecuted for the same, except the person who first broke in to, or began to pull down or set fire to the said chapels. And the Commissioners for executing the office of Treasurer of Our Exchequer, are hereby required to make payment of the said rewards accordingly.
Given at Our Court at St. James's the 5th day of June, One thousand seven hundred and eighty, in the twentieth year of our reign.
G O D Save the K I N G.
L O N D O N, June 10.
Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, a Council was held at Lord Stormont's office in Cleveland-row. It broke up at one o'clock, when the Lords in Administration went to St. James's, where his Majesty had a levee; his Majesty retired to the closet soon after two, where a cabinet council was convened, to take into their serious consideration the most effectual means of securing the promoters of the late alarming combinations. In consequence of the above Council, a warrant was issued by his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, directed to Mann and Stanley, two of his Majesty's Messengers in ordinary, for the apprehending and taking into safe custody, the Right Hon. Lord George Gordon. The Messengers on receiving their warrants, instantly repaired to his House in Welbeck-street, and getting admittance, were introduced to his Lordship, whom they made immediately acquainted with the nature of their visit;—Lord George only replied,—“If you are sure it is me you want, I am ready to attend you!”—Upon which, a hackney-coach being previously got ready, and a party of light-horse having received orders to attend in an adjacent street, his Lordship was conducted safely by them, about six o'clock, to the horse-guards.—A long examination took place in the War-Office before the Lord President, Lord North, Lord Amherst, the Secretaries of State, and several other Lords of the Privy Council; and at half after nine, Lord George Gordon was committed a close prisoner to the Tower. The guards that attended him were by far the greatest in number ever remembered to guard a state prisoner. A large party of Infantry proceeded in front, his Lordship followed in a coach, in which were two officers, two soldiers rode behind the coach, and immediately followed General Carpenters regiment of dragoons; after which came a Colonel's guard of the foot-guards, besides a party of the militia, which marched on each side of the coach. The cavalcade passed over Westminster-bridge, through St. George's-fields, the Borough, and so on to the Tower, where his Lordship alighted, seemingly in good spirits, about ten o'clock.
His Lordship rested last night in the Governor's apartment. The populace who attended on this occasion, conducted themselves with singular decorum.
Lord George's two servants were likewise apprehended, and after undergoing an examination, were re-committed to the custody of the messengers. After his Lordship's apprehension, the messengers were sent to seize his papers, all of which that were found loose, they took possession of; but, with the consequence of general warrants before their eyes, they did not think proper to break open any locks; they returned, therefore, to consult the law officers of the Crown, who did not, however, venture to authorise the execution of the order, but contented themselves with ordering them to seal up his Lordship's
escritoirs, &c. without removing any thing more from the house.
This day, Mr. Fisher, Secretary to the Protestant Association, was also taken into custody by one of his Majesty's messengers, under a very strong guard to the Tower.
Mr. Hopkins, one of the principal managers in the Association for the Protestant Petition, was likewise taken and carried under a strong guard to the Tower.
About fifty of the principal rioters were taken up by the military on information.
Yesterday two boys were detected by Alderman Wooldridge delivering bills about city to acquaint the populace at what houses they may meet and be brought together in a short time. The Alderman advised to discover who employed them, telling them if they refused they were liable to be hanged. On their not complying with his request, they were locked up in a room in the Poultry Compter till they can be examined.
Letters from Brest say, that Mons. Duchassault, with 30 sail of the line, nine frigates, four zebecs, several cutters and store ships, put to sea on the 3d inst. in the morning, and stood with a crowded sail to the S.W. with the wind at N. N. E. blowing fresh.
On Saturday last died, at his house near Brompton, Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; late Governor of Massachusetts-Bay, in the 69th year of his age.
June 12. A strong party of Soldiers headed by Mr. Alderman Wilkes, on Saturday surrounded the House of Mr. Thompson, the publisher of a scurrilous paper called the Scourge, for his having sent forth hand-bills, recommending the assembling of a mob to relieve Lord George Gordon from the Tower. The Master, Mr. Thompson was absent; but two young men, his servants, were taken into custody, and conveyed to a place of safety. And,
Yesterday Mr. Moore, the reputed author of the Thunderer, Scourge, and other productions of the like nature, together with his wife, and two apprentices of the printer of those writings, underwent an examination of several hours before Mr. Alderman Wilkes, at the Globe-tavern, Fleet-street. Warrants were issued by the Privy Council on Friday night, to apprehend the author and printer, in consequence of the publication of hand-bills, entitled “ENGLAND IN BLOOD,” and promoting the late outrageous disturbances. But the printer has hitherto escaped. The Alderman remanded the others to the Tower under a guard of soldiers.
B A R B A D O S, June 10.
On Tuesday last arrived an express from St. Lucia to Admiral Rodney, he informs that the French fleet had refitted and were at sea. Same day arrived the Cyclops frigate, from a cruise; she gave an account of seeing a very large fleet, supposed to be Spaniards: On this information the Admiral got under weigh with 18 sail of the line, and immediately proceeded in quest of them.
B A L T I M O R E, July 18.
It appears by the last accounts, that the British Channel fleet, under the command of Admirals Geary, Darby and Digby, consists of 42 sail, viz. Four of 100 guns; nine of 90; two of 80; thirteen of 74; three of 70; seven of 64; and four of 50 gun.
August 1. Capt. Johnson brings advice, that the combined fleets of France and Spain, consisting of 35 sail of the line, a number of frigates and cutters, with 110 sail of transports, having on board 18,000 land forces, sailed from Martinico the 1st of July; touching at Guadaloupe and Portorico, where having augmented their troops to 26,000 effective men, they proceeded to Jamaica; an attack on that island being now past all doubt. The 10th ultimo the above fleet and armament passed by the island of St. Croix—were at St. Lucia: And that a British 74 gun ship, in the last engagement with M. Guichen, was so disabled, that after being towed into port by a ship of the line and three frigates, sunk in 15 fathom of water.
August 8. On the 7th of last Month, the American Troops, destined to act under the Order of General Gates, were encamped near Deep-River, in North-Carolina, where

they were waiting to be reinforced by the Militia of that State and Virginia. The British Army, commanded by Earl Cornwallis, were posted on the Banks of Pedee, about fifty Miles from our troops.
AUGUST 15.
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in the American Army, to his friend in this Town, dated Peck's Kill, August 4, 1780.
“Clinton has closed in prudence what he had commenced in folly. It is certain that he is returned to New-York, to prevent us from getting there. Our Demonstrations against this Place, were no less violent than his against our allies, at Rhode-Island. These, and the resources of the country, being pushed on this occasion, must have had a considerable weight in hurrying him back.
“The object that brought us here, having thus ceased, we, of course, recur to whatever was the original plan for the campaign. To day the army is to re-cross the North-River, and will move down to Dobb's Ferry, which it is intended to occupy, as a preliminary to future operations. We shall then be as near Fort Washington, as Clinton was to West Point, when he held the posts at King's Ferry. This position will reserve to us the forage of that part of the country, which we may hereafter want, and at the same time shorten our transportation of supplies; both of no little importance.
“It does not appear that measures for a lengthy operation can be compleated for some weeks. Most of the States which have been called upon for supplies, &c. have acted with a spirit, I was going to say, superior to applause. From what has come to my knowledge, Maryland has added sagacity to this spirit, by engaging the quota of troops to fill up her battalions for the War. This is, actually to ease her people, and to save their money, which would otherwise be thrown away upon short enlistments, or squandered on a militia while her agriculture must languish. But our affairs seem so nicely circumstanced, that if there is only one State, which forgetting her own happiness, denies what is called for, there is no telling to what consequences it will lead. War is founded on calculation. Every thing that has been demanded from the States, is absolutely essential. Nothing therefore, should be withheld. But, much is yet to be done. Pennsylvania is to furnish a great deal, tho' not more than her proportion; but, as a government, it is strangely, unaccountably capricious, perverse, or bewildered. When it does bestir itself, it is like an over grown angry spider, tearing its web, in pursuit of the carcasses of a few half dead flies.
“For these reasons, among others, it may so happen, that the French armament at Rhode-Island, will be continued there, till every wheel is put in order, and arrainged for the most perfect motion. Be assured, never were troops more anxious for this moment than ours, and those of our allies; and if they are but supported by the States, the States, I am convinced, have the best of ground whereon to build a glorious and successful issue to the campaign.”
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 18.
Late Advices from the Southward inform, that the Continental Forces and Militia have beat the British in several skirmishes; that Lord Rawdon and 600 men had been stormed in a fort, his lordship and almost all his party killed; that Lord Cornwallis, very much weakened by sickness, desertion, and loss in killed and wounded, was endeavoring to retreat to Charlestown; but as Gen. Gates was in his front, and Baron Kelbe pressing upon his Rear, it was thought his lordship would surrender, and not risk the lives of his soldiers; where there was so little prospect of effecting an escape.
August 25. Last Thursday the brig Belona arrived here as a flag from Charlestown with a number of ladies, who speak very highly of the police, attention and humane treatment they received from the gentlemen both in the military and naval departments, when they applied for the flag. We learn from that quarter, that all the troops, except a regiment or two of Hessians, had some
weeks ago been drafted to join Lord Cornwallis, but that his Lordship had returned to town, and quarters were taken, as was believed, for the whole force, which were said to be retreating into the town. Reports said that the British horse had been mostly cut off in an action with our people, and that Col. Tarleton was wounded, and Lord Rawdon killed; other reports had a body of our troops between the enemy and the town, & our horse within 45 miles of Charlestown, and that General Gates was at Camden, and the Continental colours flying at Georgetown. This much, however, is certain, that for some weeks past, they had no accounts from our army which they chose to publish, and that our friends in town had formed very favourable prognostics from Jemmy Simpion, a noted refugee (the Joseph Calloway of Charlestown) and some others of the principal refugees, having taken their passages for England. By the flag we learn, that the enemy as well as the citizens were very sickly, and that upwards of 600 of our troops had deserted from them.
POUGHKEEPSIE, August 14.
Our last advices from the frontiers, were that the enemy had committed great ravages, and that 40 families had been carried off, of whom there were not the least intelligence; we have heard nothing since the Governor went up, who is not yet returned.
T R E N T O N, August 23.
By Capt. Grinnel who made his escape from the prison ship at New-York on the evening of the 15th inst. we are informed, that the same day a very hot press took place in the city. Seven hundred men were procured by that means before he came off; among whom were many refugees, labourers & carmen; and the press continued when he left the prison ship; that more lenity was shewn to the prisoners than usual; and that about 200 were on board the Strumbulo and 120 on board the Scorpion, from which he escaped; among them were Capt. M'Gee, Thompson, Keble, Preby, Cester, Spencer and Venter, besides several others.
Wednesday last his Excellency Joseph Reed, Esq; President of the common wealth of Pennsylvania, with his Suite, came to this place from Philadelphia, to take command of the militia of that State; a large body of them being now encamped on common below the town.
August 28 We have no official accounts from Head Quarters, but we hear that several persons from the lower parts of the country, report, that General Washington, or a least part of the Continental army, are advanced very near the enemy's lines in New-Jersey, particularly, at or near Hobuck, which is within eight of the city of New-York. The greatest harmony subsists between the Americans and the French troops at Newport, where they are in the highest health and spirits, all ready for action, only waiting the arrival of the second division, every moment expected from France. Several persons, from New-York report, they are remarkably sickly there, burying sometimes from 20 to 30 a day.
N E W - L O N D O N, Sept. 1.
Two deserters from the Queen's Ranger, came to town last Sunday, from Long Island, who informs, that General Clinton was at East-Hampton the Wednesday before, and on that day set out, with his attendants, for New-York, having previously given orders for all the troops on that part of the Island to march for New-York, which they accordingly did on Thursday.
B O S T O N, September 7.
Capt. Charles Dyer, in a brig belonging Plymouth, arrived at Bedford on Monday last, in 20 days from Cape-Francois, who sailed with a fleet of the line, and upwards of 200 transports and merchantmen. Capt. Dyer left the fleet in lat. 26, bound northward.
Governor Trumbull, of Connecticut State, has issued a proclamation taking off the late embargo, and granting “free liberty and permission to all persons who are friendly to, and subjects of these States; to carry or bring by land, provisions or other commodities to and from any of the United States, in such way and manner as to avoid the same falling into the hands of the enemy.”
We learn from New-York that the inhabitants of that city are very sickly.
Extract of a letter from St. Eustatia, May 12.
“The 10th Instant we were surprized with the most remarkable Outrage perhaps
that was ever committed by a licens'd offender---Six Virginia Vessels (two ships, two brigs and two Schooners) were chased into the very road of St. Martin's, by two frigates and a sloop---The two pursuers anchored near them for the day of their arrival, and the succeeding morning departed---The 9th (three or four days after) one 40 gun ship, three frigates, and a sloop of war, enter'd the harbour, and sans Ceremonie took possession of the six Americans.---They then sent a barge on shore to possess themselves of the Tobacco that had been landed.---However on the appearance of two gentlemen-claimants (these were men who had purchased the cargoes of the vessels), their pretensions became void---and tho' they had power in their hands, they did not carry the Tobacco off. Some charg'd this indulgence to the purchasers being better Englishmen than Burghers. “Admiral Rodney, with his fleet, consisting of 14 sail of the line, &c. sail'd from St. Kitts for St. Lucia on the 12th, where he will remain during the hurricane months.”
At a Town Meeting on Monday last, the Honorable JOHN HANCOCK, Esq; had 358 votes out of 923, as Governor of this Commonwealth.
P O R T S M O U T H, September 9.
By a Gentleman from the Eastward, we have the following a Gentlemen, Woolwich, Aug. 26, 1780.
THERE has of late been several barbarous and inhuman Murders committed in this vicinity, no doubt by persons under your protection and command.---Such acts of more than savage cruelty, is shocking to human nature!---You must be sensible it is in our power to Retaliate in kind; and where there is no other way to prevent such outrages, the necessity of the case would justify the conduct. But, your putting a stop to such enormities, may be the means of saving the lives of many innocent persons, as well as others, who ought not to be sent into eternity by such violence.
I wait the consequence of your interposition, and am, Gentlemen, yours, &c.
THHINEAS NEVERS, M. Gen.
Commander of the Forces raised by the American Associates, The Commanders of the British forces by sea and land, at Major-baggaduce.
Extract of a letter from Thomaston, dated 28 September 1780.
Yesterday was executed at this place, agreeable to the sentence of a Gen. Court Martial, Jeremiah Brown, for aiding a party of the Enemy thro' the Woods from the Head of Sheepscut to Penobscot-River, and putting them in a way to Bagaduce. His last Words were a confession of the justice of his Fate, and a pathetic Exhortation, to the Spectators to fear God and be true to their Country.
Last Saturday the Barn of Brigadier Colhing of Pownalborough was set on Fire, and wholly destroyed, with all his Hay and Grain.
All Persons indebted to, or that have any Demands on the Estate of Mr. CALER KIMBALL, late of Exeter, deceased, are desired to call on Capt. PORTER KIMBALL, of Brimwood, in order for adjustment of their Accounts, Brimwood, Sept. 9 1780.
Notice is hereby given to all
Persons that have any Demands upon the Estate of SAMUEL DICKEY, late of a Place called the Society Land, in the County of Hillsborough, deceased, to bring their Accounts immediately to the Subscribers for a Settlement.
ROBERT POYD, Administrator. ALEXANDER PARKER, Executors. September 6, 1780.
Ranaway from the subscriber
in Berwick, on Saturday the second Instant, a Negro Man named Boston, about 34 years old, about five Feet eight inches high; a thick set Fellow; speaks good English. Whoever will apprehend said Negro, and convey him to his said Master, or commit him to any Goal, and give Information to the subscriber, shall receive One Hundred Dollars Reward, and all necessary Charges paid. Noah Ricker, Berwick. Sept. 8. 1780.
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WHEREAS the proprietors of the Town of MIDDLETON, in the County of Strafford, & State of New-Hampshire, at a legal Meeting, notified and held at the House of Frances Marble, in said Middleton, on the 29th of March last, which Meeting was adjourned to the 12th of April, at the House of Jonathan Gage, Innholder in Dover, then voted a Tax of Fifteen pounds twelve shillings on each original Right or share of Land in said Town, seven pounds six shillings on the first Division, and seven pounds six shillings on the second Division, and committed the same to me the subscriber, Collector for said Propriety. This is therefore to notify said proprietors to pay the said Tax to me at my House in MIDDLETON, within eight Weeks from this Advertisement, and on Failure thereof, their Lands will be advertised in the New Hampshire Gazette for sale, as the Law directs.
William Chamberlain, Collector. Middleton, Aug. 30, 1780.

L O N D O N, May 8.
On Friday last in the Lower Assembly, General Conway rose, and after a long introduction, moved to bring in a bill for quieting the troubles that have for some time subsisted between Great-Britain and America, and enabling his Majesty to send out Commissioners with full power to treat with America for that purpose.
In candour, he said, he would read the bill "he intended to bring in (if leave should be given him by the House) from which they would be better able to see at one view what his intention was, than they could learn it from all he had been saying. He then read the bill. In the preamble it reminded America of the nature of her alliances, by mentioning despotic and Popish Powers. It then proceeded to enact, that the Tea Act, the Boston Port Act, the Tonnage Act, the Intercourse Act, and every other Act America has complained of, should be repealed, and Trial by Jury, the Post-Office, the Admiralty Courts, &c. restored, from the moment America claimed such a benefit, on the conclusion of a Treaty of Peace and Conciliation with his Majesty: And it authorises his Majesty to send out Commissioners, with full powers to treat with the Colonies.
Having read it, the General said he was neither so mad nor so obstinate as to be attached to the wording of the preamble, or of the rest of the bill, or to any part of it, as to give way to better words or wiser clauses should the House either propose the one or the other; he only begged them to receive it, to alter it, add to it, diminish it, new mould it, take the bad out of it, and keep only what was good in it. In short to do with it what they pleased, provided they agreed to something on the same principle. Lord Nugent seconded the motion.
Mr. Eden expressed his sentiments against the motion, and gave the following, among other reasons, for objecting to it. That the generous inclinations and affections of Great-Britain were sufficiently known to all the world. The Colonies were now in the very moment of recollection. "The ballance of desperate rebellion, and returning loyalty is now, he said, equally poised; it trembles on its center; at such a moment manly confidence, wisdom, moderation, and the avoiding of untoward events, might decide in favour, but precipitation in our councils, superfluous discussions, domestic divisions, unadvised and premature overtures, might turn the beam forever against us." He deprecated the discussion; he wished to dismiss the business with all possible respect to its mover, and therefore moved the order of the day.
Several other gentlemen spoke to the question, and a quarter past twelve the House divided, on the motion for the order of the day being put, which was carried by 123 against 81. The House rose at half past twelve.
MAY 15. About half past five, Governor Pownall moved for leave to bring in a Bill, "to enable the King to make a convention or treaty, or to conclude a peace with the Colonies on terms convenient and necessary &c." He stated previously his unwillingness to offer such a motion, unless upon reading it to the House he should observe a disposition to receive and adopt it. He took notice also of the mischief attending debates on such topics, unless they tended to something certainly useful, and therefore desired leave to defer further on the subject 'till he should bring in the Bill, &c.
He was seconded by Mr. Dempster, who, among other topics, pointed out the awkward situation of concluding to great a war, in which no person could enter the field to propose or consult upon terms of peace, without being liable to be seized as a criminal.
The Speaker then put the question, which seemed likely to pass without any dissent.
When Mr. Eden interrupted it. The Poles are alarmed at the number of troops which the King of Prussia is marching, under pretence of foraging, into the neighbourhood where the Diet is shortly to be held.
Extract of a letter from Rochfort, May 16: "Mr. Adams, who is deputed by Congress to assist at any conferences that may take place for the purpose of bringing about a peace, has been here some time, and has had the honor of being introduced to their Majesties and the Royal Family."
May 18. The Brest fleet were in Brest harbour on Tuesday last, riding at single anchor, and with all their sails bent, ready to put to sea at a few hours notice.
Notice is hereby given, that there is a Tax laid on a Tract of Land belonging to Mrs. Mary Whipple of Kittery, for the Year 1779. then in Possession of Richard Hayley, which is about 50 pounds L M for State, Town and Parish Tax—and unless said Tax is paid by the 25th, of Sept. next, it will then be advertised for Sale so much of said land as will pay the Tax with incidental charges by me the subscriber, said Land lies Eastermost side of Spruce Creek in said Kittery.
Kittery, Aug. 14. William Dearing, Constable.
George Skinner Homans,
Inform his Customers, and others, that he carries on the Tailor's Business as usual, opposite Dr. Brackett's, in Broad-street; where any Gentleman may be supplied on the shortest Notice, and at a reasonable Rate. Said HOMANS has for SALE, Rum, Wine, Molasses, Annaseed, Logwood, Indigo, Allipice, Ginger, Combs of different sorts, Acl Blades, Brimstone, Pocket-Books with clasps and without, Knitting-Needles, Pins and Needles, Cards, Watch-Seals, &c. &c. &c.
Portsmouth, Aug. 21.
Cash given by JOHN GOOCH, for old Pewter Brass or Copper: Or one pound of new Pewter for two pounds of old, who makes and Sells all kind of new Pewter.
Portsmouth, Aug. 17.
To be sold by public Vendue,
At the house of Dr. Nathaniel Breed, in Packerfield, in the county of Cheshire and State of New-Hampshire, on Tuesday the third day of October next, at ten o'clock, A. M. and so continued 'till the whole is sold,
A number of lots, parts of lots and rights of unimproved LANDS, lying in said Packerfield, near the center and easterly part of said town upwards of 2000 acres in the whole; said lands being part of the estate of Breed Batchellor, Esq; an Absentee, late of said Packerfield and is sold by virtue of the laws of the State of New-Hampshire, and by order of the Judge of Probate, for the use of the State, and to pay his just debts. Conditions and Inventory to be seen at time and place of sale, and by inquiring of the subscriber at Packerfield.
NATH. BREED,
(Trustee to said estate.
Packerfield, Aug. 23, 1780.
N. B. Those persons who have deeds of land, not on record, are desired to acquaint said Trustee before the time of sale.
Notice is hereby given to the
delinquent proprietors and owners of Land in Chichester, that unless they pay their taxes, with incidental charges, for the year 1779, to me the subscriber, that so much of their lands will be sold at public Vendue on the 21st day of September next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at my house in said Chichester, as will pay the same.
  Peter Weare, jun. 2 8 6   Nathaniel Haley, 2 12 4   Christopher Page, 2 7 6   Nicholas Gilman, 3 14 6   Nathaniel Lock, 3 14 6   William Stanfor, 3 19 2   Shubael Sanborn, 4 7 4   Benjamin Thomas, 2 15 4   Samuel Marston, 3 6 6   Jonathan Garland, 3 2 6   Daniel Weare, 2 7 6   John Prescott, 0 19 0   Rev. Joseph Whipple, 0 19 0   Joshua Wingate, 2 9 4   Nathaniel Weare, 1 13 4   John Sherburne, 2 7 6   Jonathan Philbrick, 0 19 0   Charles Steward, 3 15 6   Moses Blake, 0 19 0   Jacob Freeze, 1 18 0   Nathaniel Drake, 1 0 7   Josiah Dearborne, 2 12 4   John Batchelder, 2 17 0   Bazaleel Tappan, 1 13 4   Jarvis Ring, jun. 0 19 0   Capt David Currier, 2 7 6   Cyprian Jaffery, 3 16 4   Hunking Wentworth, 3 2 0   Jeremiah Sanborn, 2 9 4   Hezekiah Jehu, 0 19 0   John Pleasance, 0 19 0   James Davis, 2 17 0   John Gilman, Esq; 1 18 0   Andrew Wiggin, 0 19 0   John Downing, 1 1 2   William Fellows, 0 19 0   Capt. Paul Gerrish, 3 9 4   Richard Jennis, 4 12 0   John Sanborn, 4 5 7   James Jaffery, 0 19 0   Governor Belcher, 0 19 0   Col. Mark Hunking, 6 4 0   Edward West, 1 18 6 
Aquila Moffatt, Constable.
Chichester August 15 1780.
A House to be let at the North End. Enquire of the Pinter, Portsmouth.
FREQUENT applications having been made to me, relative to the exchange of the non-commissioned officers and privates of these States, who have from time to time been made prisoners, and admitted by the enemy to return within these lines upon parole: I do hereby certify, that full compensation has been rendered them, for every such prisoner, heretofore released, and that every obligation, (expressed in their paroles,) either, of returning to their captivity, or of preserving a neutrality of conduct in future, is thereby made void. After this public notification, it is to be presumed, no prisoners of this class, under the pretence of a parole, will excuse themselves from taking that active part the exigencies of their country require of them.
Given in my office, at the Head Quarters of the army, the twelfth day of April, 1780.
JOHN BEATTY, Com. Gen. Prisoners, The Printers are requested to publish the above:
State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham, ss.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,
NOTICE is hereby given, that a LIBEL is filed before me, in Behalf of George Thompson, Commander of the armed Privateer Schooner called the IRISH-GIMBLET, the Officers, Marines and Mariners, and all concerned therein, against the Schooner called the ROSANNA, burthen about 20 Tons, her Cargo and Appurtenances, Waitstill Lewis, late Master; which Vessel and Cargo so libelled, is said to have been taken on the high Seas, about the 20th Day of August, and bro't into the Port of Piscataqua, in the State of New-Hampshire: For the Trial of the Justice of said Capture, a Maritime Court for said State will be held at the Court House in Portsmouth on Tuesday the 19th Day of September next, when and where the Owners or any Persons concerned therein, may appear and shew Cause (if any they have) why the same should not be condemned.
J. BRACKETT, Judge of said Court. Portsmouth, Aug. 21, 1780.
WHEREAS GEORGE GAINS of Portsmouth, in the County of Rockingham, hath preferred a Petition to the General Assembly, of this State, setting forth, that Ruth Nudd did on the 26th Day of October A. D. 1756, prefer a Petition to the General Assembly of the then Province of New Hampshire, for Leave to bring in a Bill to dock the Entail on a certain Estate in Portsmouth, then under her Administration, and now owned by said Gains, that the then Heirs at Law to said Estate consented that the Prayer of her Petition should be granted, and accordingly it passed both Houses, but by some Neglect no Bill was bro't in.
State of New Hampshire, in the House of Representatives, June 28, 1780.
Upon Reading and considering the foregoing Petition, Voted, That the Petitioner be heard thereon before the General Assembly on the second Thursday of their next Session, and that in the mean Time he cause the Substance of the Petition and Order of Court thereon to be published in the New Hampshire Gazette, three Weeks successively, that any Person may then appear and shew Cause (if any they have) why the Prayer thereof may not be granted. Sent up for Concurrence.
JOHN LANGDON, Speaker.
In COUNCIL, the same day read and concurred.
J. PEARSON D. Sec'y.
To be sold at the Store next to Samuel Cutt's, Esq; 4d, 6, 8d, 1od, 2od, 24d, Nails by the thousand. Also, 4 & half inch Deck Nails — Womens English Shoes, Gloves and Gauze. Portsmouth, Aug. 24.
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham ss.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the Honorable PHILLIPS WHITE, Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the County aforesaid, Commissioners, to receive and examine the Claims of the several Creditors to the Estate of STEPHEN HOLLAND, late of Londonderry, Esq; an Absentee from this State, (and six Months only being allowed the Creditors for bringing in and proving their Claims: Hereby give Notice, that we shall attend said Business at the Dwelling-House of Mr. NOAH EMERY, junr. Inholder in Exeter, on the last Monday of this and the five next following Months, from two to six o'Clock Afternoon on said Days.
ELIPHALET HALE, JOHN T. GILMAN, NOAH EMERY, jr. Commissioners.
Exeter, September 1, 1780.
Loft on Saturday the 28th July last, near Mr. William Marshall's Chaise Makers Shop, (an English Horse Whip,) whoever will return the same to the Printer hereof shall have 40 Dollars and no questions ask'd. Portsmouth. Aug. 17.
TO BE SOLD, Two Rights of Land, or proprietors Shares, in the Town of Dummer; lying on Amascogan River. Enquire at the printing office, in Portsmouth.