The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, February 19, 1762, Page 3

,cfteemed a valuable prize. © : Exiract of a Letier fram Virginia, to a Genlle- man in this City, dated the 26th ult. By a gentleman juft arrived from the Ha- vannah, we hear that ten fail of Spanifh men of war, are arrived there with two admirals, buton what occafion we know not. . - Scarce a night paffcs now but fome depre- " dation or other is committed in this city, bya gang of fellows yet undifcovered ; for befides their feveral attempts of burglary ; flipping “into houfes in the evening, and fkulking be- hind doors, and under beds, till the family is gone to reft 5 &c. &c...they make nothingof ¥kaocking any perfon down who refufes to fland and deliver 5 as on faturday nighe laft, a’man’ near the Ciry- Hall, was brought to the ground, and wioft inhumanly belaboured, ; B ST Ov¥ Febary k5.....% Laft Friday Sen’sight the following civil Officers ‘were chofen by the General Aflembly, viz. " The Hon. Harrifon Gray, Elg; Ticalarer and Receiver Genersl, : > Ths Hon. Thomas Hubbard, Elq; Commiffary Gzaneral. i The Hon. James Rufle!, Efg; Impok Officer. From New Yoik we learn, that a number of Coun- * terfeit Dollars have lately appeared in that City ; that . they are of the Cob Kind, made of Bell Metal, and filver'd over, and esfily diftinguifhed from the genuine Kind. ‘Tuefday laft Colonel Thwing, Commander of the Regiment of Provincials employed in His Majefty’s Seavice Ialt Year a¢ Nova Scouis, arrived here fiom Hulitax. . # : An ancient and well attelted Regifler, 'which may be depended on, gives us the following very mortifying + Initince of the brevity pf Human Lite, of a hundred ‘Perfons who were born at the fame Time - o At the Ead of 6 Years tnere remained only 62 At the End of 16 Years 46 At the Fnd of 26 Years 25 At'the End of 36 Years 16 At the End of 46 Years 10 At the End of 56 Years 6 At the End of 66 Years 3 . Atthe Endof 76 Years . o, X ‘Add to this Account the mainy thoufends thet perifh ‘every Year by War, by ils frequent Attendane Famine, sad by Peffilence. For fome Years paft, to the great fcandal of our holy Religion and its Author (which breathe nothing bat Pesce and Unanimity) thole' who . ‘call themlelve«Chrifiians, have {laughtered one another in Germany and in ocher Parts of the Warld, with. all fell Rage of wild Barbarians, while the more virtuous b | Diciples of Mabomet live in, Peace sngd Unity among themielves and with their Nzighbours. -And all this walte of Biood a:d | Creafure, is not for eny important point of Religious cg Civil Liberty, but merely to ex- tend the Territories of the contending Princes.— Tt is , amazing, that the Populace thould be fuch Bubbles to the fantaftic Ambi:ica of their Rulers, 8sto cutone an- other’s Throats for Six Pence & Day, when their own ~ Circumitarices will not beé st all improved which ever ‘4.' Party pravails: | & : : Ty 3 The aunung Speeciaof Caled. General of the Sa- gacen Aimy, ‘o the Chriftian Chie's in the Scige of Dumalcus, is jaltiy epplicable to the prelent age. Y our numercus vices, 'Your clathing (:&s, your mutusl rage and flrifej Idave driv’n religionjand her angel guards ) Like out cafts from among you, In her ftead V'Y Ufarping Supe:ftition bears the (way, And reigns in mimic ftate. *midft idol thows Add peaginiry of pow’r. Who-does not mark, . Your lives ; rebellious to your own great Prophet Who mildly taught you. Port of BOSTON, February 13. Eatered In, Cai¢b Lincoln, from Haliiax. / " Cleared Out, ] i g Kenney for Rhode Mlind, Carcwright for Barbados, Mafury for North Carolisa. Cawley for Virginid, Culhing far Maryland. Mouat for Glalgow. POLR-T S MO U TH T : Lat Wednelday -Se’onight died here, after a long Taditpofiticn, Mrs Suersurne, Wile of Mr. SamuEL , SHERAURNE, Of this Town, Merchant, who{e Remains VL were intere’d laft Mo nday, and the Solemity attended by i s all Ranks. And, g ] v . Ona Sabhath Bvening died foddenly Mrs: Abind Webfier of Rye, in the 78th Year of her Age. To the PRINTER. 5 Feb. 12; i A, HORSFE. is the moft ufeful Creature that is em- p?oyed by Mankind, and perhaps none meets with more /Y rough apd uvngenerous Treatment. The Cn._ulty. that { *js often excreifed upon them ought to be publickly exclaimed againlt ; afier thefe poor Animals have ex- erted their utmoft Efforts for our fervice, and either by \ 4 what they Lgve before moft readily done, they wre Whip'd, gor'd, and fome ‘unthinkisg Wretches have not been Satisfied tiil they have even burnt them with Fire Brands ; How theie Perfons will merii the Chara&ler, That a ““good Man is merciiul to his Beaf )’ muit be left to the Reader. Buc to proceed, A remarkable [n- ftance of this Croelty upon a noted good HORSE wex exercifed -the It Week, by twa Perlons, who bad boriowed him to ga in a Slay; #nd having tired him tothet Pregree, he could pot perferm to their Liking, therefore they toak a Fire Brand;in order to force him 5 and brui‘ed him even to s Jeily, 23 appeared after his - Skin was tzken off ; and exerciled other Crueities upon him, which is a fhame and Scandzl hould be memtioned amoung Chriltians ; and the Perlon ivho lent his Horle, is likely to heve no Recompence, and tho’ there 'is nd Law to punith fuch Barbarity, if proved, any ctherwife than paying the Value.of the Creawre ; yet this does not excufe-them, in teking away the Life of a dumb Beaft,who had s Right tq enjoy it uniil forfeited ; there-/ forea fevere Strappsdo ought to be exercifed upon them, as « Warning 10 others, notio be guilty of fuch Wickednefz hereafter. ; oy o) o b ) o, ) The City WINTER EVENING. HE City (warms intenfe. The public Haune, Full of cazhTheme & warm with mix’d Difcourfe, Hums indiftinét. The Sons of Riot flow Down the loofe Stream of falfe inchanted Joy : To fwift Dcfruftion / On the rankled Senl.’ The gaming Fury falls ; and in one Gulph Of total Ruin, Honor, Virtue, Peace, Py Friends, Families, and Fortune, headlong fiak. Up fprings the Dance along the lighted Dome; Mix'd and evolv’d, a thoufsnd fprightly Ways. The glittering Court effufes every Pomp ; The Circle deepens; beam’d frem gandy Robes, Tapers, and fparkling Gems, and radiant Eyes, A foft Efulgent o’er the Palace waves : While a gay Infe&t in his Summer Shine, 4 Ths Fop, light flutiering, {preads his mealy Wings, Man’s LIFE pi¢tured by the Seafons. ey e e —— Here fond Man ! Behold thy pictur'd Life; pals fome few Years, Thy flowering Spring,thy Summer’s ardent Strength. Thy fober Autumn fading into Age, And pale concluding Winter comes at laft, - . And fhuts the Scene. ./ Ah !. whither art thou fled, - ‘Thole Dreams of Greatnels ? Thole unfolid Hopes Of Happinels ? Thofe Longings after Fame ? Thofe reitlefs Cares ? Thole buly buftling Days ? Thofe gay {pent fefliveNights? Thofe veering Thot’s, Loft between Good and Zil; that fhar’d thy Life ? All now are vanith’d! 2Tis Revicion lives, Immortal, never.failing Friend of Man; His Guide to Happinefs on high. : Attend, ye Sons ot Earth, a liftening Ear®: @ .. My Mu'e would crave ; while the Years roul along, Lo meet their finsl Period. . While the Hour, Tmportant. Hour ! thattells the Worth of Time ; Haitens with imperceptable Advance, To prove what Wifdom urges now in vain. Yet liften to -her Council, FHezar Ske calls, - Re tho'dels Youth,why walte yourTime & Strength? Your Powers that fpe k s nobler Blils than Senle, With all her Tlftes, fallacious can [lupply ? , To be Sold by Publick’ Vendue, Oan Thur{day the Twenty fifth Day of February Inftant, st T'wo of the Clock in %.¢ Afternoon, at the Houfe of Col. Fobn Titcomb of Daver, the FARM where I now dwell, in Dover aforefaid, which lies edioining on and near the Mouth of the Back River, {o ctiled, in Daover, on 2 good convenient Road from faid Farm to the.main Road that leads from Dover do Durham. Said Farm contains abont One Hundred Acres of Upland, and about three or four Acres ot Salt Marth and T hatch Bed, which is well improved for Mowing . and Til'age, and upwards of & hundred Rod of Stone Wall on faid Fanm, and a Sufficiency of Pine Timber for Fencing, as far as is needful for 2 Number of Years ( if well Hufbanded) and confiderably well Wooded ; and having likewiie = good two Story Houfe slmoft new of forty Feet long and thirty Feet wide, a good Cellar nnder faid Houle, fix Smokes in the Chimney ; and al{o two good Barns, #nd about three hundred of large Apple and Pair T'rees, from which is made about fifty or fixty Barrels of Cyder and Perry yearly. And there is likewife to He Sold at faid Time and Place, a new Fithing Schooner of. about eighteen Tun, well rig’d and fit for the Sca : And slio a Mumber of neat Cattle and Sheep, and a likely young Mare. Conditions of Sale ta be [2en on {aid Day of Sile. Diger, Feb. 10. 1762. Thomas Laighton. JUST Imperted from LIVERPOOL BY JONATHAN WARNER, : And to he Sold at his STORE, A general Affortment of Stone, Glafs, and common yellow Ware, by large or fmall Quantities, long and {hort Pipes by the Box, Gloucefter Cheefe, Ale per Hogthead, or Dozen, Salt per Hogthead ; as alfo a fine Affortment of other Kuropean GOODS, By His ExcELLENCY Benning WenTtworTH, Efg; Cartain GeverarL, Govrryor and CoMMANDER if "Curerof His MajesT v's Province of Naw Hamrsuirg, &c. &r. &« HE Right Honorab'e the Lords Com- miffioners of his Majesty’s Treafury having been pleafed té appoint the Flonorable Joun Tempre, Efg;:Survivor GENERAL of the KIN-G’s Cuftoms in the Northerg Diftrict of America, and as the faid Surveyor General may have Occafion to call upon the Civil and Military Power of this Province for their Aid and Affiftance in executing the fe- veral A&s of Parliament made for the weil Governing the Trade and Navigation cf His Majefty’s Plantations :— 1 hereby Order and Direct all Officers beth Civil and Military, throughbut this Province, as well as all'orher ‘His Majefty’s good Subjets, whom it may concern, to pay ready Obedierce to the Sur- veyor General’s Requcit, and to be aiding apd aflifting to him and to the Officers of the KING’s Cuftoms, under his Direétion,as well as to all others who fhall produce the Surveyor General’s Warrants; authorizing them to ‘execute the Laws of Trade and Navigation, And all Officers both Civil and Military throughout this Province, are hereby order’d ‘and direted ftri&ly to obferve the fame, 2nd to govern themfelves accordingly; . GIVEN under my HAND and SEAL st ARMS at Port/mouth in the Province of New Hampfhire, the 11th Day of February, in the fecond Year of his MajesTY’s Reign. Anno Domini. 17062, “ .~ B. WENTWORTH. By His EXCELLENCY’: Command, THEODORE ATKINSON, junr. Secretary. TO BE, SOLD A ‘good Double HOUSE, BARN; and one Acre of Land, fiiuated on the Main Road to Bofton, nearly oppofite the Globe Tavern on the Plains. Inquire of Epbraim Sherburne or the Primei hereot, tor Conditioas of Ssle. : ' To be Sold at Publick Vendue by Order of the Hon. Riciarp Wizizp, Elq: judge of Probate, &c. for-the Province of New Hampthire, on Monday the ninth of March next, at the Houle of Mr. Benjamin Garland, Innholder in Rye, at One of the Clock in the Afterncon, a Tra&t of LAND lying in Epfum, contsining sbout 100 Acres, well Timber'd, being Part of the Eftate of Mr. 7ofeph Haines, Tate of Greenland, in faid Province, decealed. Likewile ta be Sold at the Time and Place aforefaid, 2 Lot of Land lying in Brintwood, containing about 30 Actres, well Wooded and Water’d. And alfo 100- Acre Lot in Hales Town,( focalled) The two laft Lgots being the Property of Jeremiab Lock of Rye. Conditions ot Sale to be feen at Time and Plece aforefaid. A Silver Knee Buckle was taken: up a fews Days ago. The Owzner may have it again by Inquring of the Printer. - S TO BE SOLD By SAMUEL HALE Of Portfmouth, the following Tralts of Land in the Townfhip of Barrington, viz. Two Hurdred Acres in the South Part of No. 176 ; the whole of the Lot No. 205 and z59. ¥+ TO whoni it hay CONCERN, - . THIS 1s to give NOTICE, That the NAVAL-QFFICE of the Pro- vince of New- Hampthire, is now kept at Capt. W 1w t1am Pearson’s, in King Street, Port/mouth. ; N. B. Tke Hours of Bufine[s are from Tenm o'Clock in the Morning, to Twelve £t Noont. , Province or NEw-HAMPSHIRE: — NOTICE is hereby given to thofe Perfons who have Accompts with the Town of Por:/- mouth, to meet the Select Men of fxid Town the Firit Monday in March next for their being fettled ; 2nd thole who neglet it, will be excluded in the Settlemens of the Scleét Men’s Accompts with the Town for iii¢ paft Year: Urion Hall, Portfiouth, Feb. 2. 1762. YOSHU A PICKERING, jun, Being about to remove trom Greenland, defires 4l Perfons that bave any Accounts with bim, to [eitle them as foon as poffible, : . Greenland; Feb, 3, N Jothua Pickering, . want of ‘Age reduced (o sn impotibility of perforating