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, STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE-
In the year ofour Lord one thousand eight
hundred and two.
*** ### An ACT to prevent the circulation and
•L. S, currency of Bank Bill* of a denomina
tion lets than five dollars.
BE it enabled by the Senate and House
of Reprejentatives in General Court
convened. That from and after the firft
day of December next, no person shall
pay or receive in discharge of any con
trad or bargain, or for any valuable
consideration whatever, any bill issued
by any bank or any banking company,
other than the Bank of the U. States,
or the Bank or Banks within this State,
of a less denomination than five dollars,
under a penalty of four dollars, to be
recovered as well of the person so pay
ing as of the person so receiving, by ac
tion of debt, with costs of suit, to the
use of any person or persons who fliall
within one year thereafter prosecute the
fame.
And be it further enafted, That the
Secretary cause that said Aid be publish
ed as soon as may be, in all the News
papers printed in this state, fix weeks.
cern, that they may appear before me at
the Court House in Portsmouth aforefa'd,
9 on the tenth day of August next, at elev
en of the clock in the forenoon and fliew
cause if they have any against the allow
ing and confirming of said certificate.
Given under my hand at Poltfmouth this
20th day of Yuly, Anno Domini, 1802.
(Diftria fudge
JOHN PICKERING2 of the Difoiarf
( New-Ham,Jhife
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NOTICE is hereby given to
the creditors of NATHANIEL
DODGE, of Hamptonfalls, Trader, a
gainst whom a Commiflion of Bankrupt
cy has been awarded and issued, that the
Commissioners and Assignee of his estate
and effeAs, intend to n>eet at the office
of William Parker, Esq. in Exeter,
on Monday the 23d day of August next,
at nine o'clock in the forenoon^,in order
to make a dividend of said estate and ef
feds-rwhen & where the creditors who
have not already proved their debts are
to come prepared to prove the fame, or
they will be excluded the benefit of said
dividend;
JEREMIAH FOGG, Assignee.
"uly 22d, 1802.
State of New-Hampshire.
In te Heufe of Representatives fune 17, iSoZ.
The foregoing bill having had three
several readings, passed to be enabled.
Sent up for concurrence,
JOHN PRENTICE, Speaker.
In Senate the fame day, this bill having
been read a third time, was enabled.
AMOS SHEPARD, Prefdent.
Approvd, Jun 18, 180%
J. T. GILMAN, Governor.
True Copy, Attest,
J. PEARSON, Secretary.
The several Printers in this State, are requited to
pubtife the abate Lav,for the term of fix week,
(at the expense of the State) in their several Nety
paper,,for the ixf&rma'm of the public at large.
J. PEARSON, Sevetar,.
^^Attention !
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MAKE READY!
^Notice is hereby given to
the Members of the
O Portsmouth
U ARTILLERY COMPANY,
that a meeting is to be held on the
» I3th August next at 8 o'clock p. m.
At JEFFERSON HALL,
r n where general and Pundual at
tendance is requeued.
P By order,
H. YEATON, Clerk.
Portsmouth, July 24, 1802.
WHEREAS a major part of
the Commissioners io the Com
mission of Bankruptcy, against BENJA
MIN CONNER, of Portfroouth, Trad
er, have certified unto me that the said
Benjamin Conner hath in all things
conformed agreeably to the law of the
United States, made and now in force,
concerning Bankrupts; and that laid
certificate hath been signed by two thirds
of the creditors in number and in value,
who have proved their debts under lair^
commission, whose debts amount to fifty
dollars and upwards.—Therefore notice
is hereby given to all whom it may con-
Cog giro for "Linen and Coito# and L^m
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and Published every
F@!.XII} SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1802.
Os ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL ?,
PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MORALITY are indispensable j
suhpots.— WASHINGTON'S Legacy.
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR
Unites ^tat^
Portsmouth
Whatever may be the internal date
ofFrance,her external afped is extreme
ly formidable. Let it be remembered
that in the most feeble periods of the
monarchy, when her territory was con
fined within the limits prescribed by the
old treaties, she was held to be an ob
je& of continual jealousy, apprehension
and "alarm to Europe. Her advantage
ous local situation, the extent, even
then, of her territory, the fertility of
her foil, the military talents and enter,
prize of her people, and their restless &
intriguing spirit, rendered her, in her
most crippled state, dangerous to the
independence of Europe. At that time
too she was circumferibed by stronger
barriers than any that paper and wax
couldform. The Austrian Netherlands,
Holland, Switzerland,and the immense
fortrefs on the confines sfGermany on
that fide of the Rhine covered the em
pire, and (hut out France from the
ports on the North Seas, while Savoy,
particularly Turin, Mantua, and the
Tyrol covered Italy. Add to this, that
th& fats of Spain and Holland were
IN reviewing the political state of
Europe, France obtrudes itfelf firft
on our notice, not because it poffefTes
any superior claim to refpeCl, but be
cause its revolutions have been the
source of an entire new order of things
in Europe ; and because from its uni
versal encroachments either by con
quest, intrigue, or negociation, the po
litical concerns of every country in that
quarter of the world are more or less
affeded by, or interwoven with its ex
ternal policy.'
The hiftory of human affairs from
the beginning of the world contains no
thing to be compared to that of France
for the last ten years, as a lesson in one
fort of inftrudion—as a scourge at
once and a warning to mankind. What
the wife and learned alone had colled
ed and digested from antient hiftory,
the populace,and the ignorant can now
read while they run in those recent e
vents. Those who admired the French
revolution as a system of liberty, are
now put into the most ridiculous,whim
fical, and contemptible situation imag
inable—/Their great high prie ft Bona
parte has left them all completely in
the lurch. Their dogmas and favorite
opinions he has trampled under foot.
Revolution or innovation can no long
er be very gravely pointed out as the
road to liberty ! Patriotism can no
more be pressed into the service of de
mocratic fraud. Demagogues will
henceforward want even a plausible
pretext for their delations, and at firft
fight be recognized for what they real
ly are and ever have been, tyrants in
etoryo. —The First Consul has entirely
torn the malkfrom democracy,& brand
ed its forehead with infamy forever. —
France has bled through millions of
veins, but she has not bled uselessly.—
Ages upon ages to come will profit by
her losses, her misfortunes & her crimes.
The bloodshed of the last ten years may
be considered as put out at enormous
interest to save the shedding of blood
hereafter. e
The right of every nation to chufe
its government will not be denied by
us. The tranquillity and even joy that
has succeeded the elevation of Bonaparte,
is some proof that the present govern
ment is more palatable to the peo
ple of France than the revolutionary
despotism which preceded it. At all
events it is not our business here to dis
cuss a fubjed which belongs to the peo
ple of France alone, and on which they
have given a decision. Every good
man,however must tejoice at the eman
cipation of that ill-starred country from
the merciless tyranny of Jacobinifm—
Every pious man rejoices at the redo
ration of Christianity. We cannot help
thinking that the true believers ofEgypt
have as great a right as the infidels and
jacobins of Europe to complain of the
treatment, of Bonaparte. They have
both been completely gulled. The idol
of the jacobins and infidels has seated
himfelf on the altar and the throne—
and the quondam disciple ofMahomet,
“ the cheeld of" circumeefion [as Sir
Archy M'Sarcafm fays] has established
chriflianit, in France, and even taken
the sacramental test.
STATE OF EUROPEAN POLITICS.
FRANCE.
Miscellaneous.
From toe N. Y. Evening Post.
always at hand to be thrown into the
scale for the preservation of the balance
of power. Such was her state when she
could be formidable to Europe : Now
mark what is her state when the fapi
er.ee of the British Ministers, and the
wisdom ofParliament can contemplate
her powefr not only without fear, but
with complacency.
In Europe she may be truly said to
possess a far greater part of the conti
nent. The barriers against her en
ci oachments are not only removed but
transferred to her own use and behoof
—the Netherlands and the fortreffes in
Germany in full faereignt, .•—Holland,
Spain, Switzerland, Mantua, Turin,
and all Italy in provincial dependence.
Her influence over Denmark, Sweden
and Prussia is incontestably established.
Portugal is in no state to refill her man
dates. Every port and post in the Me
diterranean, with the exception of Gib
raltar, are under her. The fleets of
Spain and Holland tell the force of
her navy, and the hardy fcamen of the
latter are added to hers; besides tim
ber of the best kind, fufficient for an
unlimited navy, on the banks ofgthe
ceded rivers of Germany is now in her
possession.
In addition to her former possessions
she has got in the East, Pondicherry,
Malie, Cochin, Negapatnam, the Spice
Islands, and the Cape of Good Hope ;
and in the Weft, the whole of St. l)o
--mingo, (worth all the English Isl
ands together) Martinico, St. Lucie,
Guadaloupe, Tobago, Curracna, St.
Pierre, Miquelon, Louifiar.a, Sarrinam,
Demarafa, Berbice, Essequibo, Guiana,
and the mouth of the River Aurazeur
— All these ffie either has in possession
or commands, because she commands
the countries to which they belong.
To such an enormous power, wielded
by a government which unites in itfelf
all the wild energies of one form of
government, and all ;he arrangement,
promptitude, decision, concentration,
and wisdom of another, with above a
million of men trained and inured to
arms, ready at a moment's call for any
enterprize, we confefs ourselves at a
loss to find a counterpoise or resistance
in any probable combination in Europe,
when France shall have breathed and
recruited its strength. The peace has
therefore opened for her art easy passage
to that perpetual objeft of her wishes
and pursuits " Universal Empire."
The only power which can at all be
Rooked Up to by Europe as a flandard
at once to rally round, and a bulwark
to refill the encroachments of France,is
ENGLAND.
And we confefs,that secure as some
statesmen in that country feel, or pre
tend to feel, we are at alofs to find any
just grounds for their confidence. Se
curity has often been deftru&ive of fafe
ty, and must be the word of enemies
where it is the offspring of the will more
than of reason. To the benevolent po
litican, who wishes to fee established
such a balance of power as may pre
serve the nations of Europe in perfect
independence, the present afoed of
British affairs bears nothing in it very
consolatory or promising. That latent
energies and unexpected po vers have
burst forth in nations, at the moment
they have been coafidered as funk for
ever, hiflory produces some proofs ;
that they may dill ^xift concealed in
England we admit : But we will fay,
that they must be immense to keep
pace with the enormous increase of the
power of France. Let us, however, ex
amine the fubieCt more closely.
When the force of a nation, whether
offenfive or defenfive, is to be consider
ed with a view to the security it may
afford her, it muff be taken in a two
fold way ; that is to fay in its relative
as well as intrinsic effect. To speak of
it in mathematical terms, it is in the
direCt ratio of its own strength; and the
inverse ratio of that of its adversary.
In estimating the power of England,
therefore, we must take into considera
tion that of France, and form a com
parison of both, determine on which
fide the balance lies. In this way the
flatefmen who in the British parliament
defended the peace as advantageous,
would find it hard to point out any
thing that England has got by the war
or by the peace to put into the scale a
gainst the enormous increase of power
which France has acquired by the war,
and dill more by the peace. We are
aware of the great foperiority of Brit
Holland dare not renege to his suit ; "a
patient shrug" is all that is left now to
the proteges of France.
From the kind of peace establishment
proposed in Great-britai.fr and the lan
guage of the Ministers as a comment
upon it, it should seem as if the peace
would not be of long duration. Should
the war break out afreffi, after France
has got pofTeffion of all the colonies,
Malta, &c. &c. England will have the
work of a very loug war to recover
what she has just ceded, so that France
will stand on new and ten fold advan
tageous ground. Candor must own
that the concession, in the treaty on the
part of France, are but a sorry equiva
lent for such immense and important
facrifices ; not to mention the almost
exclusive commerce of the world,which
was England's the day of the signing of
the preliminaries, and which she might
have retained by prosecuting the war,
but which are now handed over to
France. On the other hand, if the
peace shall be faithfully and ftridly
maintained, the natural course of cause
and effeft must cease, or England fink
to the condition of a subordinate state.
By negotiation, that is to fay, by solici
tation mixed with threats, the French
Government will exalt fromevery state
of Europe, commercial regulations, to
retrain the trade of England, and pro
mote that of France. Manufactures
will of course follow commerce, and be
encouraged in the latter country,while
the manufacturer himfelf, tempted by
novelty, by enterprize, by well applfo
ed encouragement, and by the cheap
ness of living, will migrate to France
and fettle there. Thus the prop of
the British navy will be frittered away,
and the continental powers of Europe
losing the support of England, will
dwindle,and at last merge in theGREAT
Nation.
Meanwhile the armed Truce (for a
peace with a war eftabliffiment can be
considered as nothing better) will er
baud England, and the danger of in
vasion keep her in perpetual alarm. —
The whole shores of the British Islands
from Caithnefs to Keiry, are continu
ally exposed to French ships ; and
out of every port, from the Baltic to
the Adriatic, squadrons may issue to
'invade England. Nominally at peace
but menaced by invasion, England will
East against Hyder Ally, at the head
of an army of half a million of soldiers.
,But France was then comparatively
final! ; France then wanted “ republi
can energies," she had a mild monarch
on the throne,more fitted for peace than
War ; she had not a Bonaparte, either
in the cabinet or the field ; she was not
as now, an armed nation. Yet with all
those advantages on her fide, if the con
test were reduced to a mere affair of
arms, England would have little reason
to fly the field. As long as she can
support her jiavy she can wage war
with success, and preserve her territori
al possessions and her honor; but it is
in this very point of her strength
she may be most deeply wounded.—
The peace, which has put all the ports
in the Mediterranean, and in Holland,
and the Scheldt, &c. into the dominion
of Bonaparte, has bestowed along with
them the power of flopping the impor
tation of British merchandize into any
of those countries'. The ships of Eng
land may thunder at their ports, and
silence their batteries, but not a bale of
goods will find its way beyond the
reach of their guns. Her commerce
will be gradually crippled, her manu
factures decay, and the very life and
principle of ekiftence of the British na
vy, will be extinguished. Mr. Wind
ham's opinion that it is through her
commerce the arts of France will de
flroy England, will then be verified.—
It seems to,have been a flrange over
sight or elie a very extraordinary con
cession of her negotiators, to give up all
former treaties, to make no prOvifion
for the usual commercial relations, and
thereby to leave so much of the vital
principle of English independence and
security, at the mercy of France. The
consequences are already before the
world—British Merchandize has been
pushed from the shores of France ; and
Holland, at her invitation no doubt,
is following the example. The firft
Consul has led the card of his choice &
ifh troops and teamen ; we recoiled
that during the contest with this coun
try England fought with success against
France, Spain and Holland, and in the
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All those advantages on the part of
France will be sedulously improved by
Bonaparte; exalted to an uftirped
throne, his personal fafety will call up
on him imperiously to keep the public
mind engaged ; to dazzle \tbe people
with conquers ; to glorify their nation
al pride with triumph over an old ri
val ; to prove his claim to their loyal
ty by fubflantial services, and to stop
the mouth of malcontents by brilliant
ads of Republican Magnificence and
enlightened benevolent inftitucions
Already he profeffes his intention t@
augment his marine—already he disclo
ses his views to commerce—already he
talks of a navigation ad for France ;
and he will, no doubt, drain his mind,
capacious of such things, to the accom
plishment of the ruin of England, in
order to put his adversaries in France
to silence. Even the peace itfelf, on
which such reliance is had, may, per
haps, soon turn out (to use the words
of a great statesman in England) “ to
be only a piece of Icdgerdemain to get pof.
fffion of Malta ; to eQabliJh France in
her new colonies ; to re-enter Egypt ; to
receive back thirty foufandfeamenfprifre
ers of war in England ;) and to put the
Chief Corfu! in a situation to re-commence
the war with new & deceive advantages."
undergo all the hazard, the hardships,
the expences, and the ruinou s effeds of
War, without any of those fet-offs whicli
actual aftivc war would afford to her.
THE writer next charges Mr. Burr
with intriguing against Gov. Cling
ten in the early part of '95. Hefaya
Mr. Burr procured letters to be written
from Newyoik to an influential mem
ber of the Legislature then in session at
Poughkeepsie, to induce the republican
party to tepfefent to Gov. Clinton the
expediency of declining to be considered
as a candidate at the ensuing election,
and that they should take up Mr. Burr
as his focceffor. A laudable and fhaip
sighted jealousy of Mr. Burr, had even
then however suggested to the Clintons
that be was a man to be feared ; one
who would stand in the way of their
ambitious family projects, and accor
dingly it was determined to disappoint
him at any rate. But as the old^Gover
nor had prudently determined to de
cline a contest with Mr.Jay,JudgeYates,
the former federal candidate, obliging
ly lent his name to the Clintoaians &
but was unfuccefsful. Here the pam
phletcharges Mr. Burr, with observing
“ a ftriCl neutrality" between the sup
porters of Mr. Jay the federal candi- x
date and the fupportets of Mr. Yates
the republican candidate ,ro tern. This
brings us to the year 1797, when Mr.
Burr firft made a push for the Vice?
Presidency
" But of the 138 votes he had on!,
thirty. His politick Handing was so
y^ung, himfelf so little known general
ly, and his sentiments, where they were
ttnderftood, were viewed as so very am
biguous, that his pretensions were rath&
era lubjea of ridicule than of serious
import. At the fame time, he was fuf
pelted of having tampered with some
of the federal party in our State Le
gislature."
" In this year (1797) Mr. Burr was
elected a member of the State Affem.
bly for the city of Newyork. This was
the firft time, for some years, the Re
publicans had been fuccefsful in that
city."
" The following session of the Legifi
lature, was, in various tefpeds, im
portant. The temporary afcendency
of the Federal party was evidently on
the wane. The fun of Republicanifir,
which had sustained a transient ecliplc
was emerging resplendent from its pre
ternatural obfeurity. The election for
Governor was to occur the ensuing
year. Success materially depended on
the wisdom and vigour of our measures
—on cherishing the party by & cordial
enterchange of sentiment, and by par
suing Heps calculated to diminilb the
numbers and attenuate the fplrit of our
opponents. Mr. Burr, however, was
far from promoting the one or contri
buting to effect the other. In the Le
gislature, he neither exhibited that firm
nefs nor activity fo{ which so muck
OF THE POLITICAL CONDUCT O#
AARON BURR, Esq. VICE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES.
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By the author of the Narrative.
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