Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

A Letter from Newport, dated the 5th Sept. last, says, "Yesterday the important cause (the first of the kind that has occurred in this State) on a complaint against our butchers for refusing to receive paper money, came on before the Superior Court, on which occasion a crowd of spectators attended. General Varnum, and Mr. Marchant (as attorneys for the defendants) spoke long and well against the paper money acts, adducing a variety of the best authorities to prove them unconstitutional, and repugnant to the law of the land.--Two of the judges spoke also against the acts, and four were decidedly against them. The chief judge did not declare his sentiments, as the cause was decided without his voting. The opinion of the court was publicly given this morning, and they were thanked by the spectators in an almost universal plaudit. Mr. Goodwin (attorney for the complainant) spoke in favour of the acts, and said we had no bills of rights; but our virtuous citizens are determined to convince the world, that they will not tamely surrender the inestimable birth-right of trial by their peers."