The New Hampshire gazette — Portsmouth [N.H.], 1798-04-04 00:00:00, page 1

IT.
That if any inhabitant or inhabit
ants of the town of Port{fmouth, shall
place and leave, or cause to be pla
ced and left in any street, lane or al
ley within the compa& part of said
town (that is to fay in any street, lane
or alley included in the space between
Pifcataqua river and a straight line to
be drawn from the southerly end of
Boyd’s bridge to the south weft cor
ner of Parker’s lane adjoining Ifling
ton road, and from thence to the south
welt corner of Jaffrey-fireet, adjoin
ing Middle-road, and from thence to
the south end of Pickering’s or Mill
dam bridge) for the term of two hours
by day, or any lesser term of time by
night (that is to fay, between sun-set
ting and sun-rising) any fled, wheel
barrow, cart, trucks, chaise, or other
carriage, or for any term of time un
neceflarily obftrut any of said streets,
lanes or alleys, or shall place or throw,
or cause to be placed or thrown and
to remain therein for more than twen
ty-four hours at a time, any cord
wood or fuel, or shall place or throw,
or cause to be placed or thrown into
any of said streets, lanes or alleys,and
to remain therein for more than two
hours at a time by day, or for any
lesser term of time by night, any casks,
tubs, crates, boxes, dung, dirt, or any
kind of rubbish or other article where
by the passage may be straightened or
obftru&ted, or shall drive any wheel
carriage, or fled drawn by one or
more horses or oxen, on or over the
fide pavements of said streets, lanes
or alleys, or ride, or lead any horse
thereon, Ae, she, or they, so offending
shall forfeit ‘and pay to the overseers
of the poor for the time being, for
each and every such offence a sum
not exceeding three dollars and thirty
cents, nor less than fifty cents and colts
of prosecution, to be recovered as the
law of this State empowering towns
to make By-Laws diretts.—said sum
when recovered to be appropriated
by the overseers aforefaid as they shall
think meet.—Provided notwithstanding,
that the feleétmen may appoint any
places they may fee fit, as stands for
, carriages, wheelbarrows and teams,
and may in writing permit timber,
stones, or any materials for building,
or dirt thrown from cellars to remain
in the streets for any time they shall.
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- That if any person or persons shall
within the compa& part of the town
of Portsmouth, that is to fay, within
that part of said town which lies be
tween Pifcataqua river, andi a dire@®
line'to be d?m from the southerly
ly end of Parker's lane, and from
thence to the south weft corner of
: BY-LAWS
Of the town of Portsmouth.
3 -
THAT if any person or persons
shall, in any street, lane, alley
er public place in the town of Port{-
mouth, be guilty of rude, indecent,
or disorderly condu&, or insult, or
wontonly impede paflengers, or sing
or repeat, or cause to be sung or re
peated any lewd or obscene songs, or
speak, utter or repeat any lewd, ob
icene or profane words, or write or
cause to be written any obscene or
profane word on any fence, wall or
other building, or wantonly injure or
deface any fence, wall or other build
ing, or any sign-board, sign-post, or
sign, by cutting, scratching, chaulk
ing or daubing the fame with paint
or other matter, or wantonly cut or
injure any tree standing in the streets
or highways of said town, or rob any
garden of fruit or vegetables, or in
jure any trees, shrubs or bushes grow
ing therein,or without permission from
the owner, climb on or over the fences
thereof, or aid, abet or advise the com
mission of any of the aforefzid aéts,
he, the, or they, so offending shall for
feit and pay to the overseers of the
poor of said town for the time being,
for each and every such offence, a sum
not exceeding three dollars and thirty
eents, nor less than ff#y cents and costs
of prosecution, to be recovered as the
llaw of this State empowering towns
to make By-Laws direds. Said sum
when recovered to be appropriated by
the overseers aforefaid as they shall
think meet.
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et igﬂmpﬁfjﬁigre 6 a’éetlE
beat a drum (except by the command
of a military officer having authority
therefor), make bon-fires, throw or
let off rockets, squibs, crackers, or
any preparation of gun-powder, (ex
cept by permission from the fele@&men)
or in any street, lane or alley, within
the aforefaid limits, throw any stones,
bricks, piece or pieces of stone or
brick, snow ball, dirt, or any other
thin% whereby a person may be hurt,
or play at cricket or any game where
in a ball is used, or any game with or
for money, he, the, or they, {o offen
ding, on conviction thereof shall for
feit & pay to the overseers of the poor
of said town for the time being, sot
each and every offence, a sum not ex
ceeding three dollars and thirty cents,
nor less than fifly cents, and costs of
prosecution, to be recovered in the
manner which the law of this State
empowering towns to make By-Laws
direts, and said sum shall be appro
priated by said overseers, as they shall
think meet.
IV. '
That no person or persons do pre
sume to carry fire from any house or
place within the compa& part of the
town of Portsmouth, that is to fay,
within that part of said town which
lies between Pifcataqua river and a
dire line to be drawn from the south
erly end of Boyd’s bridge, to the
southerly end of Parker’s lane, and
from thence to the south weft corner
of Jaffrey-ftreet, and from thence to
the southerly end of Pickering’s, or
Mill-dam bridge, unto any house, or
place within said limits, but in 2 warm
ing-pan, or some such fafe veflel well
covered, {0 as to secure the said fire
from the wind, and from being scat
tered by the way, or in the streets or
lanes thereof, on pain that every per
son therein offending shall forfeit and
pay to the overseers of the poor of
said town for the time being, a sum
not exceeding ome hundred cents, nor
less than tawenty cents and costs of pro
secution, to be recovered in the man
ner which the law of this State em
powering towns to make By-Laws
directs, and said sum shall be appro
priated by said overseers as they shall
think meet.
From the CENTINEL.
The Felo de Se ! !—No. IV.
Ory, MUNROE convicted of inconfiften
¢y, infidelity, and ingratitude ; from
his own DOCUMENTS.
Mr. Russere,
I LEFT my readers to pause upon
the refleétion, and to inquire, upon
what principle Minister Munroe could
poflibly demand compensation for cap
tures and {poliations under the pre
tence of enemy’s property, unless in
virtue of the 23d and 24th articles of
the treaty of Amity and Commerce.
I presume every man of moderate
understanding in the United States is
now ripe for the answer, that the trea
ty is the only basis, and that an order
to demand compensation for the cap
tures amounts to an inftruion to
contend for the principle.
But Munroe attempts to find a re
fuge for his condu& in the poverty of
his understanding. I mult burrow
him from his recefs.—ln his 3d letter
which accompanied his humiliating
note to the Committee, which I think
may be aptly termed “ The Beggar’s
Petition,” he fays, * he was not in
structed to desire a repeal of the de
cree, and did not know but it had been
tolerated from the soundest motives
of political expedience.” This cannot
be trye—his inftru&ions do not admit
this conftru&ion. If the government
intended to tolerate these departures,
could they have demanded redress ?
Was he not in poffeflion of Mr. Mor
ris’s correspondence, and did he not
know that the principle was in con
test ? But let us listen to his apology
after. he 'rec‘eive:li express orders to
refs the principle. =~ k]
%’XTEMUNKOE’ s sth-Lerrer! -
Mr. Munroe’s sth- letter is’ dated
Nov. 7, 1794 ; he begins with inform
ing the Secretary of ‘the ill success of
his applications for a decision on his
complaints, and then ﬂeceeﬂs ‘to give
some details of what had passed be
‘tween him'and the committee of Pub
lic Safety; amﬁmmwmmh}g
had’ granted to his-{olicitation. He
fufpeéted the chief opposition to his
claims proceeded from those whocon-
— OUR COUNTRY’s GOOD OUR CONSTANT AIM —
WEDNESDAY, April 4, 1798.
COMMENTARY.
What a lamentable weakness and
inconsistency do we discover in the
Ambaflador’s apology. If his letters
were written in halte, they surely were
not published without refleion.—Let
us then analyfe his defence and fee to
what it amounts. We have thewn
that our claims for compensation de
pended wholly on the Treaty.
But Munroe preferring the disgrace
of his understanding to the admission
of a voluntary breach of duty, has
said that he construed his inftru&ions
differently. When therefore he is in
ftru&ed to demand fatisfa@ion, he con
fiders that he is to abandon the prin
ciple, fee pages 27 and 35 ; and when
he is literally ordered to press the
principle, he again retreats by alledg
ing that it does not amount to an in
struction—see page §B. What then
Citizen Munroe, will amount to a
mandate ? Is the President to address
all his agents in the imperitive mood ?
Are your feelings {o attuned to senti
ments of obedience as to lelith the
stern dictates of a master, in prefer
ence to the plain but forcible, the mo
dest but decide& language of the late
President ? But this fubterfuge, citizen
Minister, will not avail you here ; you
are no longer in a country in which
found is mistaken for sense, or in which
sophistry and canting hypocrisy sup
ply the place of reason and integrity.
In the narrative, page gth, the Min
ister avows that he firlt construed his
instructions rightly, and accordingly
drew up his note déemanding a repeal
of the obnoxious decrees.—ln further
corroboration of the fame sentiment,
he declares in his second letter, cited
in my firlt number, that he should in
stantly apply to have ¢ the order re
fcinded.”—lt' seems then that the
Minister understood the “English lan
guage” oriﬁinally, and intended to
obey his inftruétions’: What then de
termined him to violate them ¢ Here
we remain in total darkness. Isitnot
surprising that the ambassador has fur
n‘iﬂ'}:’\'.d“the public withmoneof that in
ternal };ght which contributed to
chanige'his ‘opinion ? We areleft then
- Mr. Munroe ‘avows that he hates
\ Enﬁaﬂ, and that he loves' France
duéted the publi¢ trade, and whom
he supposes not to be a&tuated by the
most patriotic motives.—He wrote
several pages to prove the ill policy
of establishing agencies and public
trade to the exclusion of individual
enterprize.—But Rando}ph’s letter of
July 30th had been r,ecel_veda and this
enjoined him to press without delay
the principle which was violated. « I
felt, fays Mr. Munroe, extremely em
barrafled how to touch again their in
fringement of the treaty of commerce
~—whether to call on them to execute
it or leave that question on the
ground on which ¥ had firft placed it.
You desired me to contelt with them
the principle, but yet this did not a
mount to an inftru&ion, nor even con
vey your idea that it would be advisa
ble to demand of them the execution
of those articles.”—Mr. Munroe left
the business where he had placed it
soon after his arrival at Paris, that is,
France awas to consult her own interef?
without any regard to our rights, and
we were not only to acquiesce in her
measures, but be pleased with their ef
fects, however ruinous they might
prove to our commerce.—Mr. Munroe
then gives an account of another con
ference, in which he was repeatedly
atked, “ Do you insist upon our exe
cuting the Treaty of 1778 > But he
gave no decisive answer, and yet in
the next paragraph, he avows the opin
ion ¢ that the Committee were solici
tous for a decisive answer, because it
would be the basis of their 6wn alt in
complying with it, and a juflification of
themselves for so doing”> He thinks the
Committee were afraid of being de
nounced as favorers of England, if
they executed the Treaty ; he hopes,
however, soon to have a favorable an
{wer to his “ requelt,” and declares.
himfelf convinced, ¢ that this would
have been the case long since, if the
fubjet was before the Convention in
the light it stands before the Commit
tee—but for him to carry it there, he
fays, would be to denounce the Com
mittee.”’
| rative, page loth, he acknowledges
~that “ political motives did alone de
termine him” to abandon our treaty
and rights—that he “a&ed conforma
bly to his private fgntiments,” or in
other words that he’e violated his orders
to promote the views of his party.—
Let the world read the sentences above
referred to, and judge for themselves
whether he was not conscious that he
was flying in the face of his instruc
tions. : $
Having once overstepped the bounds
of duty, ke attempts to juftify and de
fend himfelf. For the breach of the
treaty on the part of his friends the
French, he apologizes by faying that
it was difficult to diftinguith between
our case and that of other neutrals,
the Danes and Swedes. But he for
gets in his zeal that if France means
as he pretends to support the modern
law of Nations, the Danes and Swedes
are as much exempted from capture
without, as the Americans by treaty.
I leave the citizen Minister, by pro
pounding one more queltion—What
would become of the carrying trade,
that stalking horse of jacobinifm, if
every nation {hould do what he praises
France for doing, adopt the Britith
navigation fyltem ? / |
SCIPIO, Fuwior.
REMARKS 1
On the Presipent’s MESSAGE.
—_———— |
Republicans, Farmers, Merchants, Me
chanics, Manufalturers, Laborers,
and ye holy messengers of Peace : ‘
P } OW is the crisis ! It mult soon
terminate. Palliatives will do
no longer ; the cure must be radical,
or the malady will be mortal. Ponder
well upon your situation. Let us be
orderly,” and not ‘¢ tumultuous ;”
¢ cool,” & not “clamorous;’’ “firm”’ ;
but ¢ unimpafiioned.” Let us dis- |
trust our firlt emowons. Itis only by
the most accurate investigation of the
present measures, and their probable
consequences, that we can arrive at
the TRUTH : We must turn aside
from those councils which are likely -
to evaporate only in words.—The
people, fays a great authority, some
times move flow, like snails, as if they
had a thousand feet ; and at others,
like giants, with a thousand hands,
they destroy every thing before them.
This keen remark might apply, per- ‘
haps, to the inhabitants of an old coun- '
try, where millions of men comprefled
in a {mall compass of territory, feel
the influence of those contagious pas- !
fions which may occasionally spread
thro’ a multitude with the rapidity, |
and even the force of lightning ; but, |
it is to be hoped, for the honour of |
human nature, that it will not apply |
here. The hiltory of our late Glori- |
ous and important Revolution, and its
final and perfe@ success over the deep- ‘
elt conspiracy against the rights and |
liberties of the human race which the |
inventive and indefatigable genius of |
Ariltocracy had ever contrived, must |
refute the assertion. Centuries will |
roll away before such immense repo- |
fitories as those of Europe can be |
formed in' America. In this, and it |
is to be conceived, in almost every
other material point, whether moral
or political, we eflentially differ from |
the inhabitant of the eastern hemis
phere. The alarming appeal of Mr. |
Adams, your firft magistrate, will a
waken you from your repose. It is
the voice of one crying in the wilder
ness, at once strong and impressive, |
If it be the voice of wisdom, let us |
make the path straight before him ;
but if there be even a doubt whether it |
does not originate in disappointed
views, and in wounded pride, ought
we not, in a calmand temperate man- |
‘ner to bear our testimony against the |
further prosecution of that unhappy |
{yftem which has at length brought |
us to an extremity; in comparison of |
which, the worst afpe& of our' politi- |
cal concerns, in the worl} of times is |
but a pleasing landscape. o
. The power of deéclaring war, which |
is'undoubtedly the most consequential
effect of the national wity'is hfapp‘ig
confined to Congress, and is not* en
trusted to the exécative department
by thefederal Constitution. Butevery 1
bzd ~even of .common - information,
mul{ be sensible that this Ta’!urﬁrpr 0-
vision may be eluded in such a manner
without ({e closest attention on' our’
part, as to render it altégether a de
ception. Many of'the modern” wars
in Europe have not been preceded by
formal declaration. Tﬁeir hostile
manifeftos are now considered as no
thing more than so many apologies
for ad@s of violence already perpetra
ted. It'is to be hoped that the good
sense of the country will be superior
to every effort by which our peace is
to be finally committed, let the au
thority recommending it be ever so
exalted. :
It'is not a very pleasing informa
tion that our Commissioners have not
been able to accomplish the obje&s of
their late mission ;—but it would be
highly fatisfadory to be acquainted
with the real nature of these objedts,
before we come to an irretrievable
resolution refpedting them. Nobody
is to be informed, that the secret in
ftru&tion which is not to be revealed
to the community, and the ostensible
paper, which is always written for
public inspection are very different
things. When my Lord Howe, and
his brother the General had their ce
lebrated and decisive interview with
Mr. Adams and Do&or Franklin in
the year seventy-six for the adjustment
of the differences then existing between
the two countries, these clear-sighted
republicans, aware of the consequence,
begg’d to know whether his lordship
had a full power to acknowledge our
Independence, as an indifpenfible pre
liminary. Upon their receiving an
answer in the negative they at once,
closed the negociation 3 nor would
they then hear a single sentiment ex
prefled upon the fubje&t of it.—A fter
all the papers are “decyphered,” and
the personal fafety of onr commifs
fioners is beyend a question, it will be
time then to confider of the /27 appeat
upon the evidence before the public.
In the mean time we muit not defs
pair, that new grounds may be taken,
new instruments employed, and, "in
this view of the case, that such terms
may be obtained, as may be, not only
compatible with our essential interelts
but even consistent with cur national
faith, and those primary engagements
which were made in the course of our
own Revolution. When the honor,
peace, liberty, and fafety of the avlole
people were declared to be in the
molt imminet danger from the over
weening pride and boundless ambi
tion of the Britith Government. It
was then {carcely within the pale even
of poflible supposition, that the order
of things could be {o far inverted in
so short a period, as, that we should
sue for a treaty offenfive and defenfive
with this Government, against the
very nation who was then fighting by
our fide in the attainment of these iden
tical objeéts ; and against that fame
power upon whose friendthip and in
tegrity we are now to relt even the
hope of victory, provided we embarque
in the contefl.
If the maxims which regulated our
proceeding in the Revolutionary war
are explained, they can mean nothing
but a fixed determination on our part
to maintain, unimpaired, the essential
right of giving and granting the pub
lic money by ourselves, or, our imme
diate Representatives in Congress as
sembled, or, in the refpeive state le
gislatures, of which the Union was
compofed—lt seems now that no such
pretension is supported by any foreign
“ power” as that of taxing the peoas
ple, either dire@ly or indireétly, with
out their ‘ advice” and ¢ consent”
firft had and obtained. It was to se
cure this right—for which your blood
was f{hed & your treasure lavithed with
a profufion which could only be jufti
fied by the existing danger. The pre
sent question is very.different, it is en
tangled with a thoutand subtleties, and
1s only thoroutghl): understood, so far,
as to admit of but one opinion with
regard to its final'iffue. If submitted
to. a decision by the {word it must
leave such an impreflion, as will not
suddenly be effaced. It will operate
as the moit dreadful fc‘onrge and the
plagues of Egypt will naturally spring
from the furrows it will make in the
country ‘ 3 ' i
“ s when the potent rod ’ b i
Of dAmram’s son—in Fgypt's evil day,
uéved o'er ifc coast uﬁyfdled a p{gcb
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Lo/ or Annum.