The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

From the Farmer's Journal.

"He is going to the leeward."

Messrs. PRINTERS,

I have heard this sea-phrase applied with so much propriety to the mis-management of affairs, that I think it may be proper to give a few hints to those, to whom the application can be easily made. A person (says the sea-man, and so do I too) who does not pay up his interest annually, and discharge a small part of the principal; but suffers, on the first of January a new obligation to be given, with the interest of the past year added to the principal; he cannot, properly, be saluted with a happy new year: But, most clearly goes to the leeward, paying compound interest: When you hear of a man beginning to mortgage his property for half its value: Query, whether he will not fall to the leeward. When I hear of a collector paying rates for another man; that man you may observe will fall to the leeward: When I see a farmer, waiting for breakfast until eight or nine in the morning, before he is at his work; I mark him for the leeward. When I see fences leaning almost to the ground, by means of which the crop is very much exposed, and a little time in erecting or tacking it up, would, probably, save it, and it is neglected; the owner is, I mistrust, so the leeward: When I see cows and oxen, nightly, standing in the street, when they might be put into the yard; I conclude, the man is not thorough in his business, and gains very little to the windward- When I see the garden neglected--they are not acquainted with good living: When I see the litter of a kitchen scattered round the door, that family, seldom tastes old pork through the year: When I am travelling, and observe a pile of clam or oyster-shells, in the high road; I have observed this to be a sign of too much leeway. When I see a man at work in the field; and he stops his team and seats himself on his cart or plow, to see me, or even the Governor himself ride by, I readily conclude, that he is looking out for the sheriff's deputy of- When I see a healthy person, in the middle of the day, or in fact, at any other time, lounging about taverns and tradesmen's shops: he has no right to victuals, more than a thief has with stolen goods; and you may depend upon it, he is destitute of his keel, of course drives swiftly to the leeward. When I see the bottle standing on a mechanic's shop window-board; I have reason to think he is charged in the merchant's book, Ditto--When I see the date of a man's account neglected, and it is filled up with ditto, ditto and dittoes; on that account, the lawyer may expect his FEE. When I see the young attorney frequently among the FAIR, I note in my common place book his name with (absque hoc.) When I see two physicians quarrel about the operation of a cathartic; the patient will, very soon, be carried to the leeward. Now when I see the shepherd of our parish, daily, teasing of it, with the noble few--I look out on the sabbath, for a soporiferous dose, which greatly obstructs the carotid arteries- then we of our course fall to the leeward.

OBSERVER.