The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, January 11, 1760, Page 2

r o /o Yy be for a time ; for it is imprffible to give wpAn a mak- ner, adl our’trade. The court bas ordered Phe marquis a2 Lawjan to engage the Queen of Spain in our favenr,if fb¢ aitended the King in bis voyage. We expell much from the vijcount &' Aubeiterre, who 1s not aflecp at Madrid. — te writes, that Mr. Wall will not bold lng fir E ngland if the King fbould be for us. It is pretended that Mr. Berkenrode, the Dutch ambaffadir, bas given afjiurances, in the name of the Burgomafiers of Amflerdam, that the States General will declare aga nfi England as fom as they are fure of the difpifition of the Kixg of Sparn, [o that the fate of France depends in fome meafure on bis Catholic majefly. AVerfim of the French Lines, faid to bave been Sruck up ; ' at Verfaiilgs. Ere are boats to be {old, wha'e bet'oms are flit, ; Soldiers to be hir’dy who are not over fat, Having long liv’d on Aliment Powder alone, Whereby they have litcle befides fkin and bone = _“A’minifter tha’s commonly wi{h’d at the de’el : “'Generals that deferve to be broke on the wheel. Thy good fortunes, O France, and thole that perplex, Thy hl[:pinefa, once, a Maid did procure ; ‘t- Were hoth brought about by the feminine fex & o~ “"T'hy ruin a Harlot has new made fecure. .. -1 Thefallowing is a copy of the letter which rd Gcéfgc Sackville fent, on his arrival in 43 Tondon, to Lord Hoiderneff: : « My Lord, ¢ | have the honotr of acquainting your * Lordthip with my arrival in Eogland, in pur- fuance of his Majeflty’s permiffion, fcot to me, at my requeft, by your Lordfhip. ¢ [ thought myfelf much injured abroad by an implyed cenfure upon my conduét ; I find I am ftill more untortunate at home, by being publickly reprefented as having neg- le&ed my duty in the ftrongeft manner, by difobeying the pofitive orders of his Serene Highnefs Prince Ferdinand : as 1 am con- {cious of neither negleét nor difobedience of orders ¢ as I am certain [ did my duty to the utmoft of my abilities : andas | am perfuaded that the prince himfelf would have found, that they had no jult caufe of complaint a- gainft me, had he condeicended to have en- quired in7o my conduét, before he had ex- preffed his difapprobation of it, from the partial reprefentation of others. « | therefore moft humbly requeft, that 1 may at Jalt have a publick opportunity given me, of attempting to juftity myfelf to his Majefty, and to my couniry, by a court- martial being appointed : thatif 1 am guilty, ) may fuffer fuch punithment as [ may have deferved : and if innocent, that [ may ftand acquitted in the opinion of the world : but it is really too fevere to have been cenfured unheard, to have been condemned before 1 was iried, and to be informed neither of my crime, nor of my acculers. lam,my Lerd,&c. bl George Sackville.” ot e o - e e i NEW HAVEN, December 29. Tuclday Morning the 11ch Inftant fundey Perfons in ‘Judea went ou: to hunt Turkeys, onc Jofiah Bafiet of the fame Plics, hearing of the Tlurkeys, intending to have the f.f Chance, went allo after them, unknown to, and snkaowing of the et ; and getting fift to the Place where the Turkeys wcre, was creeping in the Buthes on his Il:inds and Knpees, in order to get up to them ; mean whils the reft [urrounded the Place, and Jefle B.ker having @aited one of the Tuarksys it flew and alighted near the Placz where Jofiah Buffzt was, who had ona dark grey Beaifkin Coat, and had tak:n off his Hat and Cap, and his Hair being thort and black, Baker faw the Glympfe of him thro’ the Buthes, and his Hair and Parts of his Coat, refembling the Colour, and having as then {cen the Appearance of a Turkey, Baker hefitated whether he fhould fhoot or not, when Baff:t made a Noife, imitaiing the Cry of a Turkey, which he did very exaftly. when Baker fired, at the Diftance of fix Rods, and fhot a Ball thro’ his Vitals, and fundry other Shois in his Body 5 he gave one Scream, and the Com- pany ran up, but found kim dead, onc Hand only having a little Motion. It is remarkable, that a Brother of Jefl: Biker’s was fhot in much the fame Manner, about twenty Years 2go, by one Cornelius Holabord ; for this, Jefle Baker, think- ing fuch a Thing coald. hardly happen but by Dcfign, or great Negle&t, was altive in endeavouring to conviét Halabord. The Jury however, broughtin their Ver- di&t Accidental Death, as they did in the laft Cale. Farmington, December 18. ; The following melancholy Affair happened here a few ago, viz Onthe 15th InftantMr. Nathaniel Bunnel (2 healthy young Man in the twenty fixch Year of his Age) went & hupging, nd not returning at N 'ght, his “ as aczeptable as thc Money fome Time hence : Triends were corcern’d at his tarrying. . The next Day his Brother$ and Neighbours went to fearch for him, and finding his Track, tollowed it, and found he had been in:purfuit of fome Deer, and they fuppoled 23 Night was coming on he made the belt of ms Way to “fus Houfe ; and finding where he haa made feveral Hals, ( trying to kindle.a Fiie) snd that he ftept fhort, at length they came to his dead Body, proftrate on the Snow, within a Mile of his own Houfe ; he had ftampt his Hat and Cap into the Snow, which was trod down round sbout him, and his Gun ftood by a Tree, ata little Diftance. The Jury found he died by faiguing himfelf in the Cold. Heleft a forrowful Widow and two Children. ' B O ST O N, January 7. 5 L We have advice from Halifax, that on the oth ult. the Hunter floop of war, Capt. Bickerton, arrived there from New York, with a Jare foip under ber convey. — That an armed [chaner conflantiy lies at Mauger’s beach, the officers of which, as alfo of the batteries, are to exa- mine all vefféls that fail from thence, to prevent catrying off any of the troops dsing duty thire.— And that there is /s good bay axd flabling at Pijguid, near that place, that they advertife to keep oxen at fix, and cows at five pifla- reens per month, each. We have alfo advice from Neva-Scotia, that [everal of the provincial officers, who went from benee, bhave beer chefen members of the affembly of that province. We bear from Shrewfbury, that laft monday [fe'nnight, at midnight, the bounfe of Mr. Jonathan Morfe of that togon was confumed by fire, together with all the furniture, and that "twas with dificulty the family feven in number) faved their iives. We bear that the privateer Game Cock, belonging to Providence, lying at an anthor near Fort Dadpbin, in Hifpanisla, was boarded and taren in the night by aFrench pettiauger privateer. The Earl of Halifax Packet, Capt. Bolderfom, [2il'd from New York with the mail for Falmouth, on Tuefday the 18th ult. iy Capt. Robert Stuart, who arrived at Cape Anne laft week in 29 days from St. Kitts, inferms. that the day be- Jere be failed from therce, a v el arrived from one of the Wefkern lfiands, the mafler of which faid, That Com- modare Tyrrel, with 14 Jail of the line, befides frigates, &5c. and 40 fail of tranfports, with 13,000 tragps on board were there, bound to Martineco. Yeflerday noon, as one Mri. Horton of this town, was dreffing berfelf to go to Meeting, [boe was Juddenly feized with an apoplectic fit, and died in-a few minutes after., PORTSMOUTH. To the PUBLISHER, & AST Year the learned World was gratified with the expedted Vifit of the COMET of 1682, which has greaily confirmed the Neswtonian Philofophy, epe- cially as to the Theory of ComeTs. Another ComEeT now makes it’s Appesrance, which perhaps may afford the Curious a good Advantage of improving and per- fc@ing tormer Obfervations on thofe wonderful Bodies which revolve in our Syftem. It was not obferv’d or heard of here till Sunday Evening ; for probably the full Light of tie Moon which has been paffiag by it, pre- vented it’s Appearance fooner. 1 firlt faw it laft night ; it was very plain,like a Star of abouttheecond Magnitude. in a hazy Clond : [(sPiace, if [am not miftaken, was about 21° below Canis Minor, in a sight Line betwixz thac Star, and another in the Ead of the Tail of Canis Major, This Evening it will sifc about 7 o'Clock ; at nine it will be nearly S. E. and on the Meridian gbout Midnight. The Ingenious will doubtle(s take Notice of it, and foon determine, whether it is ap proaching or going cff, whether it will be remarkable or inconfiderable. Year's, &e. 4. B. Portfmouth, Jan. 8, tj6o. P.S. Fan. 10 Laft Evening 2fforded another fair View of the sbove- mentioned Comet. It has mov'd with furprizing Swift- nefs, about 54 Degre:sia ¢8 Hours, retrograde from its Place lak Monday Lvening ; it feems to have been pafliag very near the Earth in its Alcent from the San, and now to be going off into the remote Regioas of .3 Orbit, as its Light is very much diminiflied. La%t Monday failed out of this Harbour for the Woeft Indies, His M.jefty’s Ship Eccho, Capt. Laforey, and the Wirchelfea Maft Ship, Capt. Long, with about eighteen Top Sail Vflels belonging to this Port. Sandsewn, in Kingfon, in this Province, Nov. 28. laff. This Day the Rev. Mr. Jofish Cotron, ( formerly Minilter at Providence, lately at Woburn) was Inftalled here ; the Rev. Mr. Flaggand Coffin made the Prayers, the Rev. Mr. Ward Cotton preach’d from 1 Thefl. 5. 12, 13. the Rev. Mr. Sccombe gave the Charge. w7 If thofe Cufiemers fur this Paper, who are in Arrears therefor, and live in the near Towns, would be fo kind as to fond the Publifher hereof a few Load of Wood and Bark, Mea!, Corn, Oits, Veal, Legs of Pork, Turkeys, or other Sorts of Provifion, they wil{bj Anc thofe at a Diftance, [ can’t but think, will take Notics and fend a lictle of that which will procure other Ne- cefliries, or, anfwer all ‘Things. And as this Paper has been publifthed threeYears laft Oftob. by the 4th wehope the Promoters of it will fee fairly recorded the entire Reduétion of the French Intereft in North America, as we have given them fuch a mortal Blow, 28 not only to make them flagger, ‘but we have s&uaily festled the Poin: laft Year as to their ftrongeft Helds, and feem now * to have little elfe to do but compleatly perfcéting the Good Work weare {o*farand happily advanced in. “CUSTOM HOUSE. PrecaTaway, Jamuary 10 Cleared Gus; Ship Sarah, William Pesry, tor Virginia. Ship Content, Bartholomew Goodwin, ror Barbados! Ship Prince Ferdinan i, John Seaward, for Aatigua. Shp Prince George, Giegory O’Brien, for Andigua. Snow Am:rica, Juna Pearfon, for Barbados. Sloop Saisnna, John Barde, tur Barbados. Sloop Wiiliam, Wiiliam Stapieton, for S:. Kitts. Sloup Juletn, Mayo Greenleaf, for St Kius. Schoonier Charming Molly, Edward Grow, for N. Caro! Prevince of New Hampthire, Sept. 17th. 1759. A Lit or Aflefiment made on the Non Refident Proprietors Lands liviag out of the Tawn of Pelbim, according to the GENERAL Court's ACT, and committed to Mr. Levi Hildreth, Collieétor, to colle@ and gather. J Ay ' QA A Samuel Waldo,) 6 8 Ephraim Colburn 3 4 E q; his Heirs) 3 Aaron Colburn 18 Eicuzer Tyng,Efq; 2 6 4 {Mofes Colburn’s ) 2 jonas Clarke 14 Heirs . Col. Benj. Brown's) 3 onathan Colburn 2 Heirs ' *hrifto. Williams = 2z 8 Samuel Parkman -1 4 [Sam Brown'sHeirs 3 12 Widow Sarah ). o o James Richardfon t Martin’s Heirs ) A ohn Bowers 1 8 John Cookfon 5 15 6 [Nathaniel Clement 3 4 John Tyng 2 6 4 [Wid. Han. Faraham 6 & Samuel Mugrige) 6.8 Ephraim Curtis 4 his Heirs ) ' benezer Flint 2 8 Capt. PhilipDeme ) 6 Lt. Samuel Goold 2 rick, his Heirs ' '7 © [Thomas Baras 1.8 Jonathan Searls I hcmas Jewell 14 Ephraim Cumings 1 § [Ezek.Fletcher'sHeirs 2 8 The Hon. Jofeph) é [Deacon Sam. Batker 5 Blanchard’s Heiss ) L ofes Gage 10 2 Col. Zac.Lovewel 5 10 Richard Kimball, 68 Thomas Parker 2 ‘14 2z |Wid. Han Bradley 8 4 Deac. Ed. Colburn 15 2 [John Currer 48 Msj. Jof. Varnum 15 2z Cap’. Hen. Baldwia g Lt John Varnum 10 Daniel Badwell 1.3 Lt Tim. Colburn 7 2 Samuel Badwell 52 D:niel Colburn 1 16 'Henry Badwell 1 Jabeth Colburm 3 {Nachaniel Lad 13 Robert Colburn 3 2 |Jofish Gurterlon 5 Abraham Colburn 1o Samuel Claik 15 8 John Colburn 1 10 ;Tho. Fitch’s Heirs 8 8 Lsvi Hriprera, Colleftor. Awmos Gage, { @y Daxier HuTcHENSON, };5;}&11};1::‘ Josern HamsLET, . O e e TO BE SOLD by 7ohn Foewlc at Exeter, beyond the Great Bridge, cheap ror Ready Money, (CHoice Bohea Tea, Sugar, Salt, beft of Devonfhire Kerfey, Broad Cloths fuitable for Creat Coats, Beaver Coaiing, Swanfkin, Checks, Linnens, and other Englith Goods. 'Knives and Forks in Boxes. Jacknives of feveral for:s, and other Catlery Ware. Allo Druggs and Medicines of feveral forts. Books of fundry forts ; as likewife a hearty, likely NEGRO WENCH of I'wenty-four Years of Age, fic for Town or Country Service. To be Sold by Samuel Dalling, Near the Lang Wharfe, Port/mouth ; RENCH Regular’s Small Arms, Blankets, Men's Cloathing, Glafs 10 by 8 sni g by 7, Meu’s Stockings, Crofs cut ‘and Whip Saws, Friz:; Dear Skins in the Hair. N. B. Any good Drefler that will drefs the fzid Skins, may have their Pay for Drefiing in the fame. OST in this Town laft Satur- day three Benefit TICKETS in Newbury LO r- TERY, Part 3d. viz No. 5498, 5500, and 5502, figu’d by Fofeph Atkins : Waoever thall take up the fame, and convey them to Mr. Febn Beck of this Town fhall have Two Dollars Reward. If they are offer’d to the Managers or others concern’d in faid Lottery, it is defi’d they may not be paid off il Notice is given to faid Beck. Port/msatn, Jan. 11 ety A e—— ———— ——— LL Perfons that have any juft Demands on the Eftate of Capt. Fonzathan Bar- bank, late of New-Hopkinton (fo calied)<in the Province of New-Hampthire, deccafed, are defired to brifig their Accounts to Ruth Barbank ot New Hopkinton ~ atorefaid, Adminsftrerrix of faid Eftate : And ail wia, areé indebted to faid Eftate are defired to makefper ko Payment, or to renew their Bonds, to prevent further Troable. New Hopkinton, Dec. 27, 1759, AMES’s Almanack for 1760, To be fold by the Printer hereof. ?fiO—k-Ewiottcry Tickets {cld by the Printer hereof. - PorTsmouTH, Printed by D. FowLe, at One Dollar per Annum. e+ S—— —— S o T — N ”