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as good troops as any militia can.
' On the first attack they were a little
confused ; but they have since taught
their enemies to respect them. Their
officers also evince a degree of skill that
proves them to be capable and intelli
gent. The other day one of their regi
ments was ordered to surround a village
in which there where some French
dragoons. —The Portuguese officer had
three to one of his enemy, but he did
not, in consequence, rush pell mell to
the attack, thereby losing more men
than was necessary; ffe proceeded
like an experienced officer, effected the
almost total destruction of his enemy
' with very trivial loss on his side."
ed he should long ago? Ite has, or the
French Generals lie, a great superiori
ty of force, then why not advance to
the crisis—why hesitate, or retreat.
Perhaps his inaction qr retreat may
be ascribed to two circumstances.
First a scarcity of bread, and in conse
quence of that scarcity a sick list 23,000
men ; and secondly, the constant deser
tion of every Germany Italian, and
Portuguese (and sometimes French
men) who can escape. This has arisen
to so great a height, and the wretched
mode in which the French army are
paid, and the, regularity in which the
British and Portuguese troops are
paid makes it dangerous for Massena
to place Germans or Italians near the
lines. The troops in the service of Na
poleon get little or no pay until their
return; and if they fall, or die, no ac
count is rendered to their surviving
friends. The difference is known, and
its effects are easily conceived, when it
is told, that a convoy goes up to the
army with hard dollars to pay it. It is
even reported, that some of Massena's
army have retrogaded to Salamanca.
Besides the above causes, the disturb
ances in Madrid may have had the same
effect on the operations of the French.
There is another circumstance which
will at least retard the conquest of Por
tugal.—The system so often adopted
by the French, will be adopted by the
the allied army —that of destruction
before departure. —Thus, when the
French advanced to Pinhei, they found
empty houses and no bread.
“ There is an additional ground of
hope, that this conquest is remote, in
the state of the Poriguese army. By
March, next year, there will be full
100,000 Portuguese in arms, well dril
led, and capable of field service; that
is to say 40 or 50,000 in addition to
those already under Lord Welling
ton. So far they have done well ; and
I cannot see why they should not make
The following is a specimen of the
thousand infamous lies which the de
mocratic papers, in the interest of
Bonaparte, are continually circulating
to deceive and irritate the American
People, and prevent an honourable
adjustment of affairs with England.
It is copied from the " Philadelphia
Evening Star, of October 1, 1810,
to wit:— Centincl.
A great part of the Merinos which
have been imported into the United
States are of the most choice and val-
" The British seem determined by
their partizans in this country to de
feat every attempt of our citizens to
foster the life springs of our infant
manufactures. In Boston, Messrs.
Coolidge & Co, had imported at differ
ent periods a large quantity of Merino
sheep, in order to promote the patri
otic efforts of our citizens in improv
ing the breed.—Some time last week,
the inclosure was forced in the night,
by several hired villains, and twentj
four of the Merinos were found slaught
ered in the morning.—This is connect
ed with the incendiary system of des
troying our work-shops."
This falshood is of a piece with most
of the other assertions which proceed
from the same sources; and the worst
of it is, that though their falsity and
infamy are constantly exposed, yet
every new-coined lie of the kind has
its believers for a time. It was well
known in Philadelphia, when this par
agraph was fabricated, that it has been
owing to the British officers in Spain
and Portugal, that a great part of the
valuable breed of Merino Sheep have
been obtained for exportation to the
United States. The official copies of
Certificates have been published in all
the southern states, testifying, "T'hat
the Junta of Estremadura, on the 24th
June, 1810, sold to Colonel John Dow
nie, Commissary of the British army,
2815 ewes, 1132 rams, 18 dogs, and
5 sumpter horses, all coming from
Don Manuel Godoy's flock, called
Paular," that Col. Downie sold 1000
of these to Messrs. Gould, Brother,
& Co. merchants in Lisbon, besides
those sold to others, and these sheep
have been sent to, have arrived in, the
United States, and have been scattered
Ihrough the country. Theseare facts :
and they shew the infamy of the Phil
adelphia democratic institution. Its
falshood is well known.
SCANDALOUS FALSHOOD.
BOSTON, OCT. 10.
By the schooner Dash, captain Aus
tin, 27 days from Laguyra, we have
accounts from S. America to 2d Sep
tember. We have been permitted to
use the Carracas Gazettes of the 31st
August, and Ist of Sept, from them we
give the official account of the revolu
tion at St. Fe, which took place on
the 19th and 20th Aug. similar to that
at Carracas of the 19th of April.
This caused great rejoicings at Laguy
ra, &c.— The Gazette speaks of, that
event in terms of enthusiastick exulta
tion. He says, the 19th of April and
the 19th of August are days propitious
to the glorious cause of Ferdinand
VIL when an insurmountable barrier
was erected against the ambition of the
detested Bonaparte. A barrier, which,
with the spirit of liberty, aided by the
friendship of Great Britain, shall ex
tend from the shores of Venezuela to
the interiour of Peru. This official
account was published with all speed
by the Junta of Carracas.
Capt. A. adds, that an English ves
sel arrived at Languyra, whose com!
zander informed that the Spanish Isl
anders had declared the main in a stale
of insurrection ; that cruisers were fit
ting out at Porto Rico„&c. to Block
ade Laguyra, Ciwnana, Porto Cavello,
It appears that those strenuous ad
vocates of " liberty and equality," the
democrats of this State, are not so high
ly elated at the issue of the late Elec
tion, as was represented by friend Hill
and others. The following from a
writer in the New-Hampshire Gazette,
exhibits a degree of dissaffection with
his own party, rarely expressed against
the same, by any federal print.-
" Why did you not go up to the
feast, the "feast of reason, & the flow
of soul, and proclaim to the world
that Tyrany shall not prevail ? Could
you not devote one hour, or one day
to the service ofyour country ? When
her honor and independence were,
assailed, could ye not extend an arm to
sheild her from destruction ? Fie! peo
ple of Newhampshire ! degenerate off
spring of severity five ! the spirit of
your fathers "points to their wounds,
—ye have betrayed their cause ;
When you had an opportunity of seal
ing the lips of tyranny, you display a
spirit which invites the yoke! you
basely deserted your post and left the
sheepfold with all the tender lambs to
the mercy of rapacious wolves ! Not
withstanding your demerit a good prov
idence has again protected you ! —but
Heaven will not always sheild the Un
grateful!"
uable of the Spanish flocks, the wool
of which (the Leonesa) has always
had the preference in every foreign
country. In England, Leonesa wool
has been sold as high as a guinea per
pound—But at the last date, from
the immense quantity imported, and
the great increase of Merinos, the
price was rapidly falling.—According
to our last papers Merino wool was
selling from 10 to 12s sterling per
pound; British fine, wools at about a
dollar. In 1809, there were imported
into England, no less than 6,845,888
pounds of Spanish wool, and in the
months of January, February, and
March, the present year, no less than
4,630,416 pounds ; but the stock in
Spain is nearly exhausted, and it is
said, that the late sheering therein only
produced 10,000 bags.—Many of the
millions of the Spanish flocks have been
driven by order of Napoleon into
France.
" Out of three hundred sail of ves
sels which composed the last convoy
from the Baltick, scarcely eighty ar
rived safe, they were either taken or
lost. We were attacked once on our
passage out and three times on our pas
sage home, by Danish Gun-Boats, but
happily got clear."
MORE DEMOCRATIC RAVING.
The same writer, while comparing
the blessings of our own with that of
the English government, makes an as
sertion,pardonable only in a very ignor
ant, or very foolish young man, both of
which he probably is, when he says—
" that it [the English government] re
cognizes in its practices, not a single
unadultered principle of natural law."
—and further argues, that, because it
is a " stupendous fabric of human in
vention" —" it ought not to stand a
nother moment."
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1810.
-—tee^^^^l^^oe^t-
Extract of a letter from a gentleman
of respectability who sailed from
the Baltic, under a British convoy,
to his friend in this town, dated,
HULL, (eng.),ULY 21, 1810.
SPANISH AMERICA.
EXETER,
We are authentically informed, that
General Armstrong has not been to
Bonaparte's Court, since the publica
tion of Merino Sawyer's letter to one
of his constituents, recapitulating the
import of a secret message from the
president to Congress, in which that
minister's opinions against France
were involved. He would not abstain
from paying the usual homage, unless
he had been forbidden to come tb
Court. He did not even offer his con
gratulations on the imperial ' marriage.
Finding him withdrawing from the
established etiquette and stopping the
customary civility%voluntarily to with
hold which would be culpability to
wards his own government, and marked
disrespect towards that of France, we
have a right to conclude that he has
been placed in “ Coventry," a very en
viable and elevated situation, to which
we presume not his own conduct, but
Probably most of our readers recollect
the ground taken by the leader of the
ruling party, Mr. Giles, on the open
ing of Congress,after Mr, Jackson
was dismissed. He appealed in the
most impressive terms he could use to
that regard for national honour, which
he asserted was due from Congress.
Will you, said he, by withholding
your support from the President, dis
grace him before all the world, by com
pelling him to retrace his steps. Such a
a sacrifice he thought would fix an indel
ble blot on the nation, and expose it
to the Scorn and contempt of the world.
Bonaparte tells them all, and throws
it in their teeth, that they have retrac
ed their steps, as to a measure which
was offensive to him, and for which he
seized perhaps twenty millions dollars
of American property.
By the authority of the Emperour
of France, &.erefore, our goverment
is pronounced to have done, what Mr.
Giles himself conceived to be the most
humiliating act a government could
commit. So much for " submission
men, & our " respectability abroad !"
NO NATION ever could or did
tauntingly tell the FEDERALISTS,
when in power, that they had retraced
their steps. They acted consistently,
justly and honorably. They preserv
ed the character of the nation, and
promoted its prosperity, for they were
firm, wise and patriotic. But now—
times are altered. The tyrant whom
we basely court and cringe to,, re
proaches us with our servility. He
knows his party cannot break with
him, without sacrificing themselves.#
Repertory.
Captain Austin, to avoid the cruis
ers mentioned above, came round
Tiberbon. Was becalmed off the Mole
one day. At daylight heard a heavy
cannonading, which continued till past
11 o'clock. Soon after the firing com
menced, saw 7 sail stand in; at 11
three of them returned, and were fired
at from the fort as they came out.
The other 4 were probably captured.
[By an article under the Savannah
head, it appears, that this was Chris
tophe's force of 10 sail ; one a frigate
of 44 guns. [lbid.
&c. and declared their determination
to capture all vessels bound to or from
the blockaded ports and districts.
[N. York Gaz.
Despatches from England. —Our
papers by the Magdalen stated that Mr.
Pinkney had despatched the brig
Wheeler, from London with official
accounts of Bonaparte's decrees being
revoked. The brig Wheeler has arriv
ed at Norfolk, but we hear nota word
of any despatches. The National In
telligencer states that government have
received no official notice of the Duc
de Cadore's letter to Gen. Armstrong.
How can this be ?—A number of ves
sels have arrived from England since
the news was there madepublic. Has
not Mr. Pinkney forwarded the letters
to our government by some of those
vessels ? If he has not we shall begin
to think, with the democrats, that he
is paying more attention to publick
dinners, than he is to his duty. And
then there has been full time for a ves
sel to arrive from France since the
publication of the letter to Armstrong,
in Paris. It was published in the
Moniteur the Bth of Aug. ; had Mr,
Armstrong despatched a vessel imme
diately, as he ought to have done, she
must have arrived in this country long
before this time Has Mr. Armstrong
neglected his duty ? There is a mys
tery in this business ; and we know
not how to account for this long de
lay which has taken place in giving
official information to our government
of the important event which is said to
have taken place. N. Y. E. P.
Foxes love Geese, and Tigers love
Lambs.— Child's Play Book.
"The Emperonr loves the Americans."
[Duke of Cadore's Letter.
comment.
BATTLE IN HAYTI.
TEXT.
In Naples, June 19, the Rt. Rev.
Luke Cancannon, aged 70, the conse
crated catholic Bishop of N. 1 ork, by
Pius VIL He had been arrested at
Naples, bn his way from Rome to the
United States, taken sick and died—ln
Marblehead, Wm. Hooper, aged 20 ;
a member of the senior class of Ilarv
are University^ —Let universal esteem
tell his virtues =ln New-London,
N. 11. MiSs Abigail Ide, formerly of
Attleborough Mass.—ln New York,
Mr. Solomon Williams, bookseller,
aged 39. —In Concord, N. 11. Mrs.
Chapmam wife of Joshua Chapman
aged 22 —In Portsmouth Mrs. Hoop
er, wife of Mr. Samuel Hooper, a
ged 61,
, Married,
In Boston, John Dodd, jun. mer.
to Miss Harriet Perkins.—Mr. Little
Foster, to Miss Polly Clay.—ln Ca
naan, N. H. Capt. A.. B. Currier of
N. London, to Miss Betsy Colby.—
In Salem, N. H. Lt. William Hutchins,
of N. London, to Miss Hannah Bel
knap.—ln Newburyport; Mr. Daniel
Felch, to Mrs. Jane Putnam.
the pusillanimity of his employers has
entitled him.— Balt. Fed. Republican.
The following extract from the Acts
of Congress, passed Ist May, 1810, is
particularly interesting at this mo
ment :—
" Sec. 4. And be it further enacts
ed, That in case either Great Britain
or France shall, before the third day
of March next, so revoke or modify
her edicts, as that they shall cease to
violate the neutral commerce of the
United States, which fact the President
of the United States, shall declare by
proclamation ; and if the other nation
shall not within three months thereaf
ter, so revoke or modify her edicts in
like manner, then the third, fourth,
fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth,ninth, tenth
and eighteenth sections of the act, en
titled "an act to interdict the com
mercial intercourse between the United
Siates and Great Britain add France
and their dependencies," &c. "
shall, from and after the expiration of
three months from the date of the pro
clamation aforesaid, be received, and
have full force and effect, so far as re
lates to the dominions, colonies, and
dependencies of the nation thus refusing
or neglecting to revoke or modify her
edicts in the manner aforesaid." And
the restrictions imposed by this act
shall, from the date of such proclama
tion, cease and be discontinued in re
lation to the nation revoking or modi
fying her decrees in the manner afore
said."
The governor of Pennsylvania has
appointed to the important office of a
member of the board of health of the
port of Philadelphia, one De Puglia, a
Surveyor, who cari scarcely make him
self understood in the English lan
guage; and we suppose the tools of
Simple Simon would tell us that this
was the best selection he 'could make
in all Philadelphia. 0 ! Pensylvania,
how you are degraded !
Some time since it was quite the rage
with the democrats from Maine to
Orleans, to applaud the spirit and jus
tice of Gen. Armstrong's phillippic to
Champagny, in which the injustice,
tyranny, and robbery under the most
false and frivilous pretexts, of Bona
parte, were so manly depicted ; —But
though Napoleon has since added to
his robberies fifty fold, the tune has
changed, and the Aurora and other
papers of its stamp, are labouring to
convince their soft-headed dupes, that
Armstrong was all in the wrong, and
that Bonaparte has always acted with
good faith, and most friendly desposi
tions, and has never done us a cent's
injury but when we deserved it.
A few days after this note was pre
sented, Paine received a letter by a
draymen, couched in the following
terms.—" M. Talleyrand, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, has received Mr Paine's
note, which he laid before the First
Consul, and has been directed, in re
ply, to send per bearer a pipe ofbran
dy, and to wish Mr. Paine a pleasant
passage to the country of his adop
tion, the United States of America."
When Tom Paine was about to leave
France for America, which was some
time after Bonaparte became first Con
sul, he addressed a note to Talleyrand,
with whom he had been intimate, stat
ing that " as he had been honoured by
the French people with a seat in the
National Convention, at an early per
iod of the Revolution, he felt it a debt
of gratitude which he owed to France,
to make a tender of his services in the
country of his adoption, the United
States of America, to which he was a
bout to return."
Died,
Lancaster Journal.
Centinel.
NOTICE.
ROCKINGHAM, ^
To the honourable the Justices of the
Superior Court of Judicature, now
holden at Exeter, within and for
the County of Rockingham,
Respectfully shews Ed
mund Pearson of Exeter, Esq.
Guardian of Mary Gilman, of said Ex
eter, widow, who is adjudged and de
termined to be non compos mentis.
That the debts and demands due from
his said ward, and expences incurred
for her support, amount to the sum of
two hundred dollars. For the pay
ment and discharge of which it is ne
cessary Real Estate should be so^-
That she is seized and possessed of a
bont twenty four acres of land senate
in Exeter aforesaid, bounded northerly
by the Rev. Mr. Rowland's land, west
erly southerly and easterly by land of
Abner Dolloff and Noah Barker and
by the Little River. That it would
conduce to the interest of his said ward,
as well as necessary for her support
that the whole of said land should be
sold. He your petitioner therefore
prays your Honors to grant him li
cence to sell the whole of said premises
or Such part thereof as you may think
proper and most for her benefit,
EDMUND PEARSON.
Sept. 21, 1810.
ROCKINGHAM, ss.
Superior Court, September term,
,1810.
Ordered by the court that the pe
titioner notify all persons concerned
to appear before the Justices of thee
Superior Court of Judicature, to bo
holden at Portsmouth, within and for
the county of Rockingham, on the first
Tuesday of February next, to° shew
cause if any they have, why the prayer
of said petition should not be granted,
by causing said petition arid order of
Court thereon to be published three
weeks successively in tie Constitution
alist, the last publication whereof to be
six weeks before said term.
NATH'I ADA MS, Clerk.
Attest.—Copy examined by
NATH'I ADAMS, Clerk.
BLANKS
Os various kirids kept constantly for
Sale, at the Exeter Book-Store,
Oct. 1^
To the honorable the Justices of the
Superior Court of Judicature, to
be holden at Exeter, within and
for the county of Rockingham, and
State of New-Hampshire, on the
third Tuesday of September, Anno
Domini, 1810,
Leonard white ofHaverhill,
in the county of Essex, and Com
monwealth of Massachusetts, Esq-
Guardian unto Mary Atwo.od, Eliza,
Atwood, Harriot Atwood, John Mul
liken Atwood, Sarah Atwood, Car
shire Atwood, Moses Atwood, Charles
Atwood and Emily Atwood, all chil
dren of Moses Atwood, late of said.
Haverhill, and Minors under the }ige
of twenty-one years—respectfully re
presents, That said Minors are seized
in fee of one half of a Dwelling-House,
and about seven acres of Land, situate
in Kingston, in said county of Rock
ingham. That said house is decaying,
and that it would be greatly for the
^interest of said minors, that said House,
and Land should be sold and the pro
ceeds put on interest for them. Where
fore he prays that he may be authoriz
ed to sell and convey the House and,
Land aforesaid, by giving bonds and
complying with the requisites of the:
law in that behalf.
Ordered by the court that the pe
titioner notify all persons concerned,
to appear before the Justices of tho
the Superior Court of Judicature, to
be holden at Portsmouth, within and
for the county of Rockingham, on the
first Tuesday of February next, to
shew cause if any they have, why the
prayer of said petition should not bo
granted, by causing said petition and.
order of Court thereon, to be publish
ed three weeks successively in tho
Constitutionalist, the last publication
whereof to be six weeks before said
term.
ALL persons indebted to or 4B#
have demands against the Estate
of Amos Knowles, late of Hampton,
Husbandman, deceased, are desired to
call and settle the same with the sub
scriber, Executor of the last Will and
Testament of said deceased..
JONATHAN GARLAND.
Hampton, Oct. 9, 1810.
Superior Court —September Term,
ROCKINGHAM, ss.
Attest, NATH'I ADAMS, Clerk.
LEONARD WHITE, Guardian-
NOTICE.
NOTICE.
1810.