The constitutionalist — Exeter, N.H., 1810-09-24 00:00:00, page 3

The last Aurora announces, that the
letters received from France, in tho
cartel Ann—and which no doubt were
written by Warden, in Armstrong's
office—"indicate something worse
from France than any thing that has
yet been experienced."—What! Some
thing worse than violation of treaties,
Robbery, CONFISCATION! and
orders to " Sink, burn and Destroy !
Yet Another Decree !
The Hamburg "Correspondent"
of July 24th, contains an official- De
cree of the King of Prussia dated Ber
lin, 19th July, 1810, " to discontinue
the Commercial Intercourse with the
U. States of America." The King in
the decree says, he finds himself indu
ced, "in conjunction with the Impe
rial Gourt of France," to enforce more
strictly the Continental System, and
therefore orders, "that from the , date
of the publication, no vessel coming
from any American port, or belong
ing to any citizen of the U. S. will be
permitted to enter into any ofour har
bors, on this side. —But every vessel
of that nation, when appearing upon
our Hoads, or before any Prussian
NEW-JERSEY.
TRENTON, SEPT. 10.
The following curious circumstances
are certified to us by several respecta
ble citizens of this county, and pub
lished at their request .• —
On the 3d of July last, as a number
of men were raking hay in a meadow,
belonging to Daniel Thatcher, in the
lipper part of this county, they raked
up a number of Snake's Eggs. Dan
iel Pels, who was one of the company
took up one of the Eggs, and said he
would swallow it for 25 cents. This
being promised him he instantly swal
lowed it accordingly. In about three
quarters of an hour he began to com
plain of feeling sick, and went to the
bouse, when he took successively three
pints of warm water—a pint of sweet
milk—ls 6 drops of Antimonial wine
—and a spoonful ofsweet oil— to ena
ble him to throw the Egg off his stom
ach —but in vain. He continued to
complain of a gnawing ag his stomach,
until the morning of the 27th August,
when he vomittedup a live snake, be
lieved to be a pilot, seven inches long !
The snake died soon after it was dis
charged, but is preserved in rum.
Pels is of opinion that there are yet
" a considerable number" of snakes on
his stomach—and this is rendered prob
able, by the fact that those Eggs which
were broken open had each six or sev
en young Snakes in them.
. NEW-YORK..
new-york, sept.l3;lßlo.
A Spanish General whb has solicit
ed the aid of the English at Antigua to
subdue the Revolutionists of S. Amer
ica, has been promptly refused.
Bonaparte rails iimiself a Christian ;
—the dey of Algiers is denominated
an Infidel; yet the former, in viola
tion of the Sth Commandment, steals
an American vessel, and sends it into
Algiers ; and the latter restores it to
its owners !
SQUALLY.
country, and he got possession of her
again by paying a salvage of about
400 pounds.
Capt. Heard, while'll prison, wrote
to Gen. Armstrong, but received no
other assistance from him than what
could be derived from a few lines of
consolation, byway of answer.
PENNSYLVANIA.
phiAad. siiPT. 14, 1810.
Another Imperial Decree.
We are indebted to a friend for a,
copy of the following French Decree,
received in this city from Bayonne :-
Decree of July 5, 1810.
Thirty African vessels may import
into France, cottons, fish, oil, dye
wood, salt-fish, col-fish, skins and
furs. ,
They may export wine, brandy,
silk, linen, cloth,jewels and other pro
duce of our manufactures.
They cannot sail; from any other
ports than Charlestoh and New-York,
and must bring a Gazette- of the day
of their departure, that is an Ameri
can Gazette, besides a certificate of
the origin from the French consul, in
which there will be A sentence in
CYPHER.*
The French merchants who send for
these Americans, must prove that they
are in partnership with the heads of the
manufactures of Paris, lloucn and o
ther cities.— Gazette of the U. States.
NOTE.
* What this sentence in cypher on board
the 30 favored vessels will be is not hard to
divine. We leave it to the American mer
chants and the American government to
pursue the subject. If they suffer them
selves to be bearded to their faces they de
serve it. A word to the wise is enough.—
Freeman's Journal.
Why, we ask the American apol
ogists of Bonaparte, "Why his Conti
nental System should be directed d
gainst, and solely against, the Com
merce of the U. States!
CONNECTICUT.
NEW-LONDON, SEPT. 12.
From France.
On Sunday last arrived at this port
ship Ann Prendergast, from St. jean
de Luz, (12 miles from Bayonne) in 63
days, bound to N. York, with a load of
American victims to French perGdy. —
William Lee, Esq. the United States
Commercial Agent at Bordeaux, Mr.
John Barney, of Baltimore, &c. are
passengers. We are indebted to the
politeness of Mr. Barney, owner of the
ship, for some Bayonne papers up to
the 6th of July, (which are barren of
news) and the following particulars.
The French government having re
fused to Gen. Armstrong any one of
the sequestered American vessels to car
ry home their crews, the ship Ann was
chartered by Mr. Lee, American Consul
at Bordeaux, for this purpose, and sail
ed from St. Jean de Luz, on the night
of the Bth of July, with one hundred
and eighty Captains, Mates, and Sail
ors on board. The day proceeding,
an order was received at Bayonne to
prevent all foreigners from leaving
France, without special permission
from the Minister of Police at Paris.
The Ann being nearly ready for sea,
fortunately got under weigh before this
order could be carried into effect a
gainstjhem.
Mr. Lee, the day before his depar
ture from France, received a letter from
Gen. Armstrong, at Paris, in which he
informed Mr. Lee that from the present
appearances he should not be able to
leave France in six months ; that as
soqp as the report of the repeal of the
non-intercourse law, had reached Paris,
the Duke of Cadore addressed a note
to him—-" marked wth an unusual
degree of anxiety to have ascertained
the fact of the repeal." A few days
after, the American cargoes sequester
ed in Spain were advertised to be sold
in Bayonne, at Auction, on the Ist of
August, and those seized in Holland
and the north of France, were sold at
Antwerp in June ; the probable pro
ceeds would amount to eight million
of dollars.
A letter from the Advocate General
of the Customs at Paris, stated that
the Emperor had decreed on the 26th
June, that all compromised vessels
which had resumed the American flag,-
should be sequestered. Several were
on the point of sailing in ballast, not
being permitted to take cargoes on
board.
" New-York, May 15, 1810.
" Letters from Washington confirm
what we have already stated about the
dissentious which exist in the National
Cabinet. A contest has arisen between
the President and Mr. Smith, and the
latter has quit Washington. It is re
ported that Mr. Jackson will be invi
ted to return and renew his negocia
tions. In what a strange world we
live! How is it possible to disbelieve
in miracles when we see President
Madison turned Jacksonite. General
Moreau gave a ball at his house in
Pearl Street, on Monday, in lionourof
the Ex-British Minister and his lady."
Mr. Lee was the bearer oft impor
tant despatches to our government,
which were forwarded to Washington
by yesterday's mail.
Several vessels which had been restor
ed on compromise with the captors,
were expected to sail a few days after
tlie Ann ; but from the recent orders
which had arrived for the detention of
all foreigners, it is not probable they
were permitted to depart.
Passengers on board the ship Ann.
William Lee. Esq. Consul at Bor
deaux; Mr. John Barney, of Balti
more; Mr. Charles Field, of Philadel
phia.
"Captains —Thomas Brown, Edward
Barry, G. W. Steinnauer, Wm. Sloan,
of Philadelphia ; M. S. Bunbury, Sam
uel Yover, of Baltimore.
Males-Daniel Bean, Hugh Cogn,
George Brown, Wm. Ray, Charles
Porquet, Prince Bunker, Noah Smith,
Stephen Forman, Phillip Lefevre, of
New,York ; Charles Miles, Daniel
Jewet, Benjamin Nave, Edward Tay
lor, Jasper Moylen, Henry Harris,
Samuel Bishop, Asa Smith, John Ors
bora, of Philadelphia; John Gavot,
John Neal, Thomas Thomas, of Bal
timore ; Benjamin Hammond, ofßos
ton ; John Sage, James Jones of Sa-,
I Cotton had risen thirty sols per lb.
in consequence of an intended prohibi
tion of that article; and colonial pro
duce had augumented considerably, as
all hopes of any relaxation in favour
of commerce were extinguished.
In the Moniteur of July 2d, was
published the following extract of a
letter dated
port, shall be warned off-; and in case
of contravention, besides the confisca
tion of vessel and cargo, shall be fur
ther investigated and punished."
Under the New-York head will be
found a new Decree of the King of
Prussia, dictated by Bonaparte, for
shutting the Ports of Prussia against
American Commerce. Letters from
Copenhagen, received yesterday via
Salem, mention the arrival of news of
the decree there the 27th July.—One
of them adds :—" The Prussian Decree
may be looked upon as a prelude to a
similar declaration from Denmark.
The Prussian decree has, however,
one good feature, and is not like the
ungenerous conduct of this court,
which under the mask of friendship is
inviting us into her points, and then
finding pretexts for condemnation.
Since m, last of 23d inst. the Mars, of
Portsmouth,and Pallas, of New-York,,
have been cleared, and the Drummond,
of Philadelphia, condemned ; the schoo
ner Nouesuch, of Baltimore, is said to
to have received the same sentence
this morning ; the ship Nancy, from
Philadelphia, laden with teas, has been
carried into Farsand, in Norway, and
two valuable ships into Callenburg,
in the great Belt, and one with Spices
from N. York, into Samsoe.
" The Helvctius, of Philadelphia,
with about 50 sail of vessels; under
neutral lings, were captured on the 19th
by five Danish brigs and carried into
Christiansand find the neighboring
ports.
" Eleven sail of Americans from
Gottenburgh, are reported to have
been captured in the Belt within these
few ilays ; but their names are not yet
known.
TURKISH AFFAIRS.
A letter from St.. Petersburg, dated
July 12, says, "Though a favourable
wind had been blowing for 20 days,
there had been no arrival at Odessa,
9th June, from Constantinople, The
Russians have lately taken Silistria [on
the Danube,] arid they were marching,
to attack the Grand Vizier at Schumla,
who will probably retreat to the Bal
kan mountains. .If the campaign is
carried on with vigor the fate of the
Ottoman Empire in Europe may this
season be broughtto a crisis. It is
said the object of the war is only to
confirm to Russia the two provinces
she has conquered, and compel the
Turk to adopt the Continental Sys
tern of excluding the British flag from
its ports."
lem; Samuel Cox, of Beverly ; Phil
ip White, of Marblehead— and One
Hundred and Fifty Seamen t
The following is taken from the
Log Book of the ship Ann. —The brig
Ida from Boston, bound to Nantz, run
ashore at La Teste on the 20th June,
and was immediately seized.
Unexpected Result.
Yesterday the Governor and Coun
cil, who have been in session in town,
several da^s, counted the votes for Re
presentatives to Congress—and the re
sult, unexpected and unpleasant as it is,
appears to be as follows:
Federal Candidates.
Sullivan, 11,473. Hale, 11,454.
Vose, 11,424. Blaisdell, 11,412.
Wilson, 11,207.
Democratic Candidates.
Bartlett, 11,558. Harper, 11,304.
Morrill, 11,168. Dinsmoor, 11,525.
Hall, 11,390.
Scattering Votes, 1035.
Necessary for a choice, 11,496.
Messrs. Bartlett and Dinsmoor are
elected.
EXETER,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1810.
George Sullivan, William Hale,
Roger Vose, Daniel Blaisdell, Obed
Hall, John A. Harper.
We understand that the return from
Lebanon was rejected on account of
its being too late. Not having learnt
the circumstances particularly respect
ing that return, we shall at present de
fer comment. Why the election turns
out so differently from all the news
paper accounts, democratic as well as
federal, published since it took place,
we cannot pretend to account; but
this we can say with truth, that in the
accounts.we have collected and publish
ed, a desire to give our readers correct
information -has been our invariable
guide.
The Executive, we learn, has de
termined to defer the election till
March meeting.— Oracle.
" Protections have within these few
days been granted by this government
against its privateers for American ves
sels from Gottenburg to come here and
have their papers examined; and if
found correct, are allowed to proceed
into the Baltic. After the recent deci
sions in the Prize Court, I do not affix
any great value td them, for let your
property beever so clear, they will find
some ground for condemnation !"
[Centinel. '
Candidates for neat Choice.
More vexation of Commerce !
FROM the very nature of republi
can institutions, our rulers are neces
sarily somewhat imbecile, and incom
competent; yet is it an interesting fact,
that a great part of the evils, whifh,
as a nation we really endure, or suffer
merely in imagination, are to be attri
buted, not so much to any pusillanimi
ty of the government, as to a certain
blind precipitancy, which, influenced
by unreasonable partialities, both they
and the people discover in passing judg
ment on the various acts of foreign
policy. Blinded, as are a large pro
portion of our countrymen by the mists
of French philosophy, and led captive
by an excessive and unwarrantable de
votedness to jacobin projects and jaco
bin institutions, they do not suddenly
arid easily open their eyes upon the
incidental views, or long premeditated
complex schemes of the grand arbiter
of nations; hence their continual lia
bility to err on the side of prejudice
and passion, and their so frequent oc
casion to murmur at the proceedings in
continental Europe; and that too,
with all the impotency of unavailing
regret ;. for there is a striking differ
ence between physical and political er
rors, since repentance for the latter al
most always comes too late. Unfortu
nately for liberty & happiness, very few,
especially of our own countrymen, have
either inclination or potter to form any'
• adequate idea of thegrand Machiaveli
an system of measures, by which the
arch Napoleon coritemplates the sub
jugation of the world! To be sure,
the mor'e prominent features of that
system are obvious to every eye; for
they are these of unblushing robbery
and rapacity ; but the lowest and most
dreadful operations of the all-destroy
ing hand of French philosophy is, to
vulgar optics, invisible! Strange that
its real object should be mistaken, in.
conceivablc'that men should be lulled
into security, when so many of the
most Arcadian portions of Europqand
Asia remain as everlasting monuments
of its horrible vengeance! But, not
withstanding the warning voices which J
^Philadelphia Repertory.
It must be highly gratifying to am
ateurs of science and friends of polite
learning, to watch the rapid improve
ments daily making in this country,
in every department of literature.
While the Port-Folio nod the An
thology deservedly stand at the head
of our belles-letters, apd are not to be
surpassed by any similar European
publications; it would be unjust, not
to afford all encouragementin our pow
er to many,minor literary papers and
magazines, daily issuing from our
presses, and which, tho' the offspring
of time and laborious exertion; may
yet frequently vie with them, in point
of taste and elegance. Among those
of this description, we notice with
pleasure the Philadelphia. Reperto
ry, of which, the twentieth number
has appeared. It is published weekly,
consisting of eight quarto pages, and,
so far as originality of composition arid
judiciousness of selection are concern
ed, reflects the greatest honor on its
able conductor.
Philo, the arch Epping demagogue,
that "super serviceable, finical rogue,"
must possess something more than the
craftiness of a monkish priest; he
must not merely exhibit miracles, he
must work them in reality, before his
vile catering in the deast changes the
" epilcptick visage" of the Concord
Patriot, or he procures that share of
popular favor, he so ardently wishes,
and for which, he lately employs every
specie's of shuffling and twisting.
" No contraries hold more antipathy.
Than I and such a knave."
Who, unless he were told, would think
that Philo were Impartialis ?
" Those kind of folks, I know, which in this
plainness
Harbour more craft, & more corrupter ends,
Than twenty silly ducking observants,
That stretch their duties nicely."
—t^Z^^X^t-
COMMUNICATION.
'' A velvet purse of a sow's ear."
Public Auction.
TO be sold, a FARM, in Newmar.
ket, containing about 100 acrea
more or less,with a good DWELLING
HOUSE well finished & in complete
repair, & a BARN. —Said Farm con
sists of Wood Land, Pasturing, Til
lage, Mowing, & Orcharding, & wi'l
be divided into three lotsj Na.l^2, & 3,-
& sold without reserve, to the highest
bidder. Sale to be on the' premises da
the 10th day of , October next, at 2
o'clock, P. M.
Lot No. 1, will include the House,
Barn, & Orchard, with an excellent
Well of Water, is very pleasantly sit
uated on the road leading from Exe
ter to Durham, about 100 rods from
Newmarket Meetinghouse, 5 miles
from Exeter, vid twelve from Ports
mouth, and will contain from 3 to 6
Acres ds may be convenient. Lots No
2, & 3, will contain the residue of
said Farm, divided as equally as may
be convenient, and extend from Lot
No 1, to Exeter River.
Conditions of sale, which will be
liberal, made known at the time and
place of sale.
Sept. 15, 1810.
Qf various kinds ke pt conHaMly far
Sale, at the Exeter Book-Store.
are daily uttered by the ghosts of efr
pires, little or no impression is pro.
1 duced on men, who would not believe,
" if one should arise from the dead."
Should the patriot succeed in rousing
the attention of the people to the dan
gerous encroachments of the Imperial
conqueror ; still has he to contend with
partialities changeable as Porteus, and
indestructible as an Hydra !
'' 0 ccecas hominum mentes /"
CHEOPS.
The gallant Captain Jahleel Bren,
tqn, who commanded the Spartan frir.
ate in the late engagement with a Fren li
fleet near Naples,* is a native of New.
part, Rhode-Island ; —he had com.
marided a merchant vessel out of that
port, but left this country about twen
ty years since, and entered into the
British navy.—He has relations now
residing in this city.
Charleston Courier.
* For an account of the engage
meat, see last page.
ON Tuesday the 2d of October
next, unless previously dispos
ed of at private sale,
Will be sold at Public Auction,
at the pasture near the house of the
subscriber, Sixty MERINOS of the
flecks purchased and shipped by Will.
Jarvis, Esq. American Consul at Lis
bon—and are of that breed which is
in the highest estimation for their wool
of any in Spain—as appears by the
certificates of the Marquis de la Ro
mana and the Junta of Badajoz, which
accompany them.
The sale will commence at 10 o'clock
A.Mr —For further particulars respect
ing the same, apply to
JACOB LITTLE.
Belville—Newbury.
Sept. 24. #
And for Sale at the Exeter Bookstore,
rrtHE Eloquence of the British
Senate, being a selection of the best:
Speeches of the most distinguished English,
Scotch and Irish Parliamentary Speakers
from the beginning of the reign of Charges "
I. to the present time, with notes biograph
ical, critical and explanatory—by Wuliaux
Hazlitt, in 2 vols. octavo.
Hints on the National Bankruptcy of
Britain, andon ,her resources to maintain
the present contest with France—by John
Bristed. An Essay on the Principle of
Population; or a view of its past and pres
ent effects on Human Happiness—by T.R.
Malthus, A. M. late Fellow of Jesus Col
lege, Cambridge, in 2 vols. octavo, first:
American from the third London edition.
The British Cicero, or a selection of the
most admired Speeches in the English lan
guage, arranged under three distinct heads
of popular, parliamentary and judicial Or
atory; to which is prefixed an introduction
to the Study and Practice of Eloquence—.
by Thomas Browne, L. L. D. in 3 vols. oc
tavo. Reports of Cases argued and deter
mined in the Supreme Court of Judicature
of the state of Vermont, with cases of Prac
tice and Rules of the Court, commencing
with the 19th century —by Royall Tyler,
chief Judge of the Supreme Cour, vol. 1..
to be continued. Universal History, an
cient and modern, from the earliest records
of Time to the general Peace of 1801, ini
25 vols. duodecimo, with plates —by Wm.
Mavor, L. L. D. A plain, elementary and
practical System of Natural experimental
Philosophy, including Astronomy and
Chronology—by the late Rev. John Ewing,
D. D. Provost of the University of Penn
sylvania. Wood's Dictionary of the Holy
Bible, wkhplates, in 2 vols. octavo. New-
York Conspiracy, or a history of the Negro
Plot, &c. ' Sept. 24.
Full Blooded Merino
SHEEP.
Just received,