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Robert M'Cleary,
Informs the Ladies and Gentlemen
•f Po> ifmoutk, and its vicinity, that he has
i u ^ received, and now read, for SALE
a' his Store next door to Meffis.
Peirce's Bookflore,Congrefs- dreet.
A Fre(h supply of
Ladies and Gentlemen's sis rale
SHOES,
Among which are the following — '
Ladles English and American
Kid and Morocco She es; Gentlemen's
Morocco and Leather do. —Ladies En
fifo and American Cork do. Misses
Morocco, Leather, and Cloth do. Chil
dren's Morocco, and Leather cio.
A few pieces Black, Blue and
Green FLORENTINE, suitable for
women's Shoes; Black,Blue & Red MO
ROCCO; Striped & Yellow SKINS,
firitable for Binding Shoes ; White Sheep
SKINS, suitable for Free Mafon'sA
prons ; Ruffert & Black CALF SKINS ;
Velvet Binding and Web fdr Boots ;
Ladies MOGGASONS.—^LSO—
Afew elegantly fampt
MafonicApron Patterns.
A Handsome Afotment of
ROSETTS
for Ladies moes.
Boots & Boot Legs;
of the firft quality — a quantity of excellent
SOAL LEATHER.
A variety of
TRUNKS.
*, Those who purchase for ex
portation or Country Sale, shall have any
of the aboire articles as cheap for calh or
approved Notes, as can be purchased in
Boston or this town.
Poitfoouth, Nov. fr
H. &B. Penhallow,
Havej4l received
A LARGE QUANTITY OF
BOX COFFEE MILLS,
of various fizrs, which they offer for sale
by tli edozen or single, very law— Also —
A large assortment of
/Round, oval and odagon TEA
TRAYS and WAITERS, some of them
very elegan', with gilt borders.
. A large afortment of
HORSE & CHAISE WHIPS.
And a great variety of
PATENT LAMPS.
Together with an extenfae addition
to theirformer affirtment of
Hard Ware Goods;
—LIKEWISE—
-200 boxes 6by 8,7 by 9&8 by
10 Bristol Crown WINDOW GLASS
50 boxes 7 by 9 and 8 by 10
Hamburgh GLASS.
Best German Steel MILL
SAWS, &c. &c.
Portsmouth, Nov. ti, Boz.
TO LET.
A^^ A Lar ^ e FARM,
ncar this town,
with fifty head of
Zeal Stock, and all Uten
sils necellary to work at, pos
session given immediately.
Enquire of the Printers.
7 0 UN b,
IN Market-street week before
last, part of a piece of Olive color
rib'd Velvet ; the owner may have the
fame again by proving property,and pay
ing for this advertisement. Apply to the
Printers. '
LOST OR LEFT.
AT Some House and forgot d
bundle of Womens' CLOTHES.
Those in whose possession they are, will
aid the cause of humanity by bringing
them to the Pnrtfmonth Bonkftore.
gK^blANKd—Bills ot Ex
change, Bills of Lading, Quitclaim and
Warrantee Deeds, &c. conf anflyfor sale at
he Portsmouth Bookfore,
Portsmouth
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and Published every
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PoLXiU] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1802.
Os ALL THE DISPOSITIONS .AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL J
prosperity, RELIGION and MORALITY are indispensible /
supports.- WASHINGTON'S Legacy. J
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR
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Wlntteb States
James Rundlet,
INFORMS his friends and cuf.
tomers that he has imported in the
Minerva and Galen from London, and
the John Adams and Warrington from
Liverpool, an cxrenfive assortment of
Staple & Fancy Goods,
suitable for the present and approaching
season, which are now opening and will
be fold at a small advance, by wholesale
and retail, VIZ—
A large Assortment ts
Superfine,midling & low priced
Broadcloths and Caffimeres the mod fa fli
ionab|e colors and mixtures; Devonshire
Kerfeys I Plains; Serges; Forest Cloths ;
Ratteens; brown, blue, drab and mixt
Coatings; fearnaugfits ; Shaggs; Swan,
skins ; Baizes and Flannels of all colors;
6 7 ^ 9 ^ id Rose Blankets.
A great variety of
Elegant silk velvet vest Shapes,
Sawandow and Toilinet ditto; white &
colouredQuilting ditto; men's rich black
Sattin and silk Florentine ; flriped Sattins.
A handsome Afotment of
London Chintzes ; Callieses ;
Patch Furnitures ; Copperplates; Dimi.
ties; Muflinef, ; Damask table cloths ;
India Napkins and table cloths ; Cotton
Fringes.
Black, white, and fancy colored
Camels hair Shawls, elegant silk Shawls,
muslin, chintz and purple Shawls, Linen,
Cotton, Bandanna, Sufterfoy and black
silk Handkerchiefs, cotton and linen
cambrick ditto.
Carpets & Carpeting.
Paper Hangings and borders at
reduced prices.
FOTtfmoulh, OHober <), 1802.
Ase, copies of the Increase of Piety
or Revival of Religion, are fill for sale at
the Portfmoutb Bookflore. Nov. 13.
A few elegant London full dress
Bonnets, Ladies' split straw village Bon
nets, gipfey hat bonnets, gipfey Hats,
girls' and women's common flraw and
willow Bonnets,chip Hats ; straw Trim
mings ; Bands and Tassels, straw Rofetts,
fancy straw Flowers, and Plumes, arti
ficial Flowers and Wreaths, Sunflower
Wreaths. f
A large affortmeiti of
Men's beaver and other Hats of
all prices by the case or retail ; Women's
beaver Hats and Bonnets,with bands and
plumes.
Umbrellas, some with walking
canes ; Parrafols ; Fans,; Cotton and
silk Braces; colored and w bite Threads;
pound Pins, packet and bundle ditto;
|& yard wide Irish and German Lin
nens ; brown Hollands ; India Cottons ;
Cotton stripes and checks, India Calli.
coes ; Sewing Silks and Twills; fafh
lonable gilt and plated coat and vest
Buttons ; Button-moulds; Penknives ;
Pencils ; Scissors ; Ivory Combs ; Vel
vet bindings ; red Morocco Pocketbooks ;
Ladies' Morocco Pocketbooks &Thread
Cases; shirt Wires ; Ink Powder ; Tapes ;
Bobbins, &c.
of great variety of
Men's patent knotted worsted;
Silk & worsted, all silk, and cotton Hosi
ery ; Indies' cotton and silk Hose, some
with laced clocks ; women's long & Short
colored cotton Gloves and Mitts: black
cottot iand worsted ditto; black, white
and colored long and Short silk Gloves ;
Men's beaver Gloves, some lined with
flaniiel, cotton and silk ditto.
Fashionable colored and black
SarfiielCambrirks; blackJackonetMuf
liris,cambrickMuflins, jaconet book,book
fprig'd, and Tambored Muslins ; glaized
Cambricks ; muslin Handkerchiefs ;
Tambored neck Cloths ; flock ftifners.
^great variety of
Florence silks ; India & French
Luftrings; striped and plad Italian Silks;
EngliflAnd India Sattins for Clonks;
pelingSattins ; Modes; Cyprels ; Gauze ;
wide and narrow Italian Crape ; black
silk velvet ; thread Laces and Edgings ;
black Laces; fattin; mode & china Rib
bons; pound Ribbons and Gallooms.
Wildbores ; Cambists ; Shal
loons; plain and striped Cahmancoes ;
Ruflels, Florentines, Durants and Tam
mies; Velvets; Thickfetts ; Coidurpys;
Hunters Cord ; Fuftains; Jeans; Dur
rels and Nankin'ets.
NEW GOODS.
#Ww)i a ffirak
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—of Rhode-Ifand, ^c.
John Stratton, of Newport, being
(worn, declares, that about the month
of August or September, A. b. 1801,he
called at the (hop of Mr. Nicholas Gef
froy on some business, when the said
,Geffroy Was reading a letter, which he
handed to the deponent to read, faying
he did not know what to make of it.
On perusal he found said letter was
signed " Thomas Jefferfon," and dired
ed to the said Geffroy. That in the
poftfeript of said letter, as nearly as the
deponent can recoiled were these words,
“ / do not frank this letter to avoid fufpi
cion;' and the deponent further teftifies,
th,t be particulary noticed at the time,
that the wafer with which foid letter had
been sealed was moift,as if recently put
State of Rhdde-Ifland, &c.
On the 18th day of September, A. D.
ißo2,perfonally appeared Nicholas Gef
froy, of Newport, Watch-maker, and
under solemn oath declared, that some
time in August, A. D. 180.1, he receiv
ed a letter from the poft^office in New
port, purporting to be a letter from
Thomas Jefferfon, President of the U
nited States, and signed with his name ;
relating to various matters with which
the deponent was unacquainted,and ap
pearing to him to have been fabricat
ed ; in which suspicion he was further
confirmed, from the circumftauce of
the wafer with which said letter was
sealed being wet, as if from recent in
fercion,and not from conta& with a moist
ened news-paper ; considering it as an
imposition, he returned the letter to rhe
port-office, apd demanded, a return of
the portage, complaining that he had
been imposed upon: that the letter was
manufactured in this town ; that the
seal was fiefh, and aiding if he had
sealed it himfelf; upon which the pdft
mafter returned the postage without
hesitation and took back the letter. —
That some doubts arising, refpeding
the genuineness of said letter. Mr.
Christopher Ellery informed the depo
nent, that he had some bf Mr. Jeffet,
fon's letters in his poffeflion, which if
the deponent would go with him th his
house, he would compare with the let
ter addressed to him. That he accord
ingly went with Mr. Ellery, who upon
comparing the letters, declared the said
letter to be genuine, and to have been
written by Mr.. Jefferfon. Mr. Ellery
then said to the deponent, that some
person in this town had put gi.c impo
sition upon him, and he would endea
vour (if the deponent would leave the
tetter with him) to find out who it was.
The letter was accordingly left with
Mr. Ellery, who Sometime afterwards,
when the deponent was about going to
New-York, came to him and told him
he expeded that other letters would ar
rive Similar to that before.received,and
requesting pp minion of the deponent to take
up an, such letters as might be directed to
him. That the deponent objected to this
request, informing Mr. Eflerv that he
frequently had letters of consequence
upon business from his correspondents,
which he Should not wilh Should be tak
en up by Mr. Ellery j to which Mr
Ellery replied, that he could eafly know
any letter which might be written by
the fame hand as the other, and he
would not take up any other. After
the deponent returned from New-York,
Mr. Ellery told him he had got anoth
er letter from Mr. Jefferfon, which if
he would go home with him, he would
read to him : and further the deponent
fays, that on this day he demanded said
letters from Mr. Ellery, who refufed to
deliver them#; and afterwards inform
ed the deposit that he had given them
to Mr. Jeff^on. That the deponent
left the lef'/rs with Mr. Ellery with
permission to make inquiry refpe&iug
them in such manner us he thought fit.
NICHOLAS GEFFROY.
Sworn to, and fubfcril'ed
Before me, BEN. HAZARD.
Dep. Sefry, and Pub. Not. ex off;
From the New-1 ork Evening Ptf.
The case of Mr. Rutledge.
[Continued.]
WE invert in some measure the
order in which the tranfadion
has appeared in the Newport Mercury,
merely for the purpose of plainness and
perspicuity, and here present the affida
vit itfelf of Geffroy, which was refer
red to in Mr. Rutledge's letter given
in our last.
to the letter : which circumstance was
also noticed by said Geffroy, and by
Mr. John A, Shaw, who was also pre
sent. JOHN STRATTON.
Newport, Sept, f D. 1802,
Sworn, before me, BEN. HAZARD.
" e h '"* ^ Fob. Not. ex ts.
A few remarks only shall be here in-*
dulged on this affidavit.
It Rates a fadl, which renders it more
than probable that the letters which ap
peared to come from the President were
also forgeries. Geffroy swears that
when he received the letter, as from Mr.
Jefferfon, the wafer was dill wet, as if
from recent insertion, and not from that
moisture which would be communicat
ed to it, fram being placed in cmta&
with wet newlpapers. He also Rates,
that Mr. Ellery,a Senator of the Unit
ed States, told him that more letters
would be received in the fame hand
writing ; which prediction was literally
verified.
It mult not escape remark, rh.it Mr.
Ellery found it necessary to take the
firft Jefferson letter home with him
carefully to compare it with some of
Mr. Jefferfon's hand-writing before he
could afeertain whether it was really
genuine or not. After such comparison,
he decidedly pronounced it to be “ Mr.
Jefferfon's hUrid-writing :” he then re
queued Geffroy to let him take up such
further answers as he predicted would
arrive in, hi§ [Geffroy's] intended ab
sence at New-York. GeR oy objected,
not wishing to expose his private affairs,
by permitting all his letters to be open
ed by a Stranger, to which Mr. Ellery
replied, “ he could eaj/l, know any let
ter which might be written by the fame
hand as the other, and would nor take
up any other." Here rhe honor
able Mr. Ellery suddenly becomes so
perfectly acquainted with the hand
writing of Mr. Jefferfon,that lie knows
it at,h glance. But his ignorance of the
hand-Writing Served to possess Mr. El
lery with the firft letter to Geffroy,and
his intimate acquaintance with it,equal
ly gained him the potfeflion of the sec
ond—The man exposed himfelf to be
detected in a triflng inconsistency, but
ftirely it was a great nortv «n the f,?ne
to feccre the letters. It remains for
Mr. Jefferfon himfelfto declare, wheth
er he ever did write those answers of
not ; and if he has any notions of hon
our; any regard to truth and juftice,he
will rtot hesitate to do it openly and ex
plicitly. We wait to fee what may be
liis conduct on the occasion,and suspend
for the present, any further remarks on
this part of the fubjeft.
We have not forgotten, tha| in our
introductory paragraph,we Spoke of the
letters from Mr. Jefferfon as genuine ;
the truth is, we then thought them so;
for we had not seen, or had not read
Geffroy's affidavit. Perhaps this part
of the transaction may, in the end, as
sume a Shape of more importance than
all the rest ; but it would not become
us, at present, to indulge surmises—We
proceed—
In the conduct of the Newport de
mocratic printer, as dictated to him by
his “ correspondent," who is said to be
no less d personage than an honorable
Senator, we Shall now Show a specimen
of meutiriefs and despotic villainy,which
we believe hris never yet met with ri
parallel in ttii^ country. Cheetham,
whatever may be thought of him,
would have been ashamed of it; and
Duarte, though the fafcal did not hes
itate to circulate the calumny againff
Mr. Rutledge without mentioning 4
word of defence, yet had he been called
upon in the manner Farnfworth was;
we cannot think he would have been
guilty of quite so vile and infamous be
haviour as this half Spirited wretch has
been wrought upon to go through with.
The Newport Mercury contains the
following !—
Mr. Editor.
A decent refped for the bpinions of
my fellow citizens, had induced me to
Notice the late ridiculous arid con
temptible attack made upon me, by
name, in a public paper. To an anon
ymous correspondent I had opposed the
signatures of persons among the. moil
refpedable in this foefefy —to bold a'f
fertions I had opposed declarations on
oath- and all those to whom my hand
writing was familiar, were arrayed a
gainst the imputations of an individual
who did not even affect any acquain
tance with me or my hand-writing.
The calumny was detefted—th^ calum-
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FOURTEENTH YEAR.
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Advertiser.
Saturday Morning, by WILLIAM TREADWELL, & C °
PRICE I DOLLAR 50 CENTS Per Annum. [No. 8.
d,ADVERTISEMENTS reasonably & conspicuously inserted—COMMU
f NICATIONS duly attended to—and every FAVOR THANKFULLY
I ACKNOWLEDGED.
niator identified, and a sober invitation
was held out to him of a manly and
generous decifior., if any thing like
manliness or generosity could be found
in his bread. The invitation is answered
by coarse and vulgar ribufe—the decla
rations on oath, by a repetition of bold
assertions—and the Signatures of men of
worth;refpeaabilrty,truffi& well known
competence of the fubjed, by the insin
uations of one without a local habitation
or a name. All that I think could have
been expected from me has now been
done—my calumniator without produc
ing any proofs on his part, attempts
only to fiieer at mine, arid yet there
would have been one fpecles of proof
completely in his power had his charge
been well founded—his friend the post
master (at whofe.office there is no box
for receiving letters when the poft-office
is not open) could doubtless have giv
en much useful information refpeding
the receipt of a letter Under the impof
in 5 apperirarice of an address to thePre
fident of the United States : to my per
sonal application for that purpose the
post-matter replied; " that is a question
which Ido not choose to anfeer." I
am allied, by Mr. Farrifworth's corres
pondent, for the motives of the forge
ry. It is riot my practice to impute bad
motives to any man, but the motives of
this forgerer are too manifeft to escape
detention. He was defirotis of commu
nicating to " the gentleman high in of
fice" his own wishes, and thole of his
best friends, for the offi e of those bp
pofed to them in politics—-his timidy
forbad the use of his own name oh that
occasion a, on this—the signature of
one to whom “he had ever been a
friend," and whose letters he might
take tip at the poft-office, was no doubt
convenient, and the similitude of the
feigned hand-writing to rhine, if any
such there be, was accidental or mali^
clous. Ori the fubjeft of motives, it
may not be improper to remark the
base and Scandalous motives ackhow
ledged by the “ citizen of Rhode-Ifl
an<r°himlcß; at one bfthofe which im
teited him to the publication.—He asks
" whether the publication was hbt de
manded, to counteract the effect of a
column of panegyric, which graced the
Newport Mercury, evidently calculated
to assist Mr. Rutledge's eleeion !” And
thus, in order that rity re-election may
be impeded, am I charged with the in
famous crime of forger. The other
motive affirmed to himfelf by the citi
zen of Rhode-rfand, must appear in
credible to every onewho confiders that
the charge has been so long delayed,
and is now made at the expected eve
of an election that it was confeffedly in
tended to effect.
-'' At lead I might have fallen by left
despicable hands," was the mild com
plaint of the venerable Coligw, as he
received the stabs of his ^flamn, at the
rhaffacre of the Saint Bartholomew,
and the assassin who has made an at
tempt upon my character (which is far
more precious to me than life) I must
dismiss with the queruolus observation,
that he has already borne away all the
advantage he could expert from such a
contest, in which, when he is defeated,
he has at least the merit of having vil
ified a man of honbur. Mr. Geffroy's
affidavit is now published, and the dec
laration of bis having " made oath to a
Moment offails not trite” will be duly
appreciated by those of his townsmen
who are acquainted with his character.
Some notice should be taken of the un
just, unwarrimtable, arid, I believe, un
precedented tondu& of the printer on
this occasion. When called upon by
me and questioned refpe&iqg the pub
lication in his paper of the 18th in.-
ftant; he hesitated to acknowledge
himfclf the editor of his own paper—he
refuted th give up the name &f his cor
respondent, and to my demand that he
flioufd publish my answer, he replied
tlafhe must firft be fatisned of its not
containing any thing indecent or im
proper, and that he must be possessed of
my original manufeript. How far he
has. fatified the expeditions, knowingly
and wilfully raised up in my mind, by
his req^ifition of conditional arrange
ments, abated to and complied with
on my part :—-How far he has fulfilled
the duties of his function, will best ap
pear from the annexed letters. I must
now resume the ngifelefs tenorrfray <w%
and take my leave of a fubjed to which
I (ball not readily return, trailing ih.^