The constitutionalist — Exeter, N.H., 1810-07-09 00:00:00, page 3

A writer in the National Intelligen
cer says " When Mr. Jefferson recom
" mended the embargo, one of the
" grounds upon which he did it was
" the enforcement of the Berlin decree
" by France against the United States ;
" and the president accompanied his
"message to congress on the occasion
" with the French judicial documents
" which exhibited the condemnation of
" the Horizon." This is the first time
that we have found candour enough in
the democratick editors to acknow
ledge that the Berlin decree was ever
executed by the French against neutral
commerce. They have uniformly de
clared that the Berlin decree was a dead
letter, as it respected America, until
the promulgation of the English orders
in council —But murder will out ! —
and truth must prevail. Here, in the
administration paper, we find it asserted,
that one reason for laying g; embargo
was the " enforcement" of the Berlin,
decree, in the case of the Horizon.
This is what we have always stated.
Bonaparte laid his Berlin decree to
controul all theworld. Our govern
ment was warned of the danger in which
our commerce was placed.—The go
vernment of Great Britain stated that
their situations was such that they
should be under the necessity ofretali
ating; and unless we vindicated our
rights, against the Berlin decree, they
could not avoid collision. Under all
these circumstances, what did our gov
ernment do ? Did they remonstrate
with spirit ! Did they show any dispo
sition to resist with energy? No!—
They instructed Mr. Armstrong to in
squire if the decree was intended to
operate against neutral commerce ! —
Mr. Armstrong did inquire ! —The
answer he received is well known ! —
An answer which would have satisfied
TO one but a coward. We are sorry
to state it—But facts are stubborn
things, and truth must be told, how
ever disagreeable. Mr. Jefferson find
ing himself driven to the necessity of
doing something, recommended the em
bargo ! This, is the most favourable
statement we can make for our gov
ernment. The embargo was laid to
prevent a war with France, Bonaparte
had declared that there should be no
commerce, and our government obey
ed his voice, rather than assume azcar
like attitude !
The writer quoted above says the
embargo was " the only mode that
could be adopted short of war, to pre
serve our property from the grasp of
the Emperor of the French, as well as
from the outrages mediated against it
by the English." The French grasp
ed and the Engl ; sh mediated. We may
be thankful that it was so, for had the
reverse been tlte case, we should have
fared still worse. Had the English
grasped and the French meditated,
our commerce would have been brought
to a period.
The remainder of this '"unthinking
scribbler's" piece is too weak to re
quire any notice; the Editor of the
National Intelligencer himself was
ashamed of it. The thing appears to
come from higher authority than the
said editor, or we should not have
noticed it at all. N. Y.E. Post.
New-Hampshire Legislature.
THURSDAY, JUNE 21.
The Amoskeag Canal additional bill
passed.
A resolve granting to New-Ipswich,
Salsbury, Plymouth, Holmes; and
Chesterfield Academies, township No.
1 in the county of Coes, to be equally
divided between those academies passed
in the negative—yeas 67 —nays 99.
An order of notice was granted on
the petition of David Farnsworth and
others to extend the Croydon Turnpike
from Lebanon to Lvmc.
^ake of enjoying with them the pict
ure of sinking into t^t disgrace whicl
every day in heavy clouds is rolling
upon them; of participating in those
fatal measures which weak heads and
wicked hearts have devised, and which
we have uniformly declared would
turn out just as they have, to the shame
and confusion of the country. Can
we now join in support and approba
tion of the men, the very men, that are
even despised by Duane and Irvin,
that even in theeyes of such charac
ters, are impure, weak, stupid, and
foolish'! Really democracy has most
insufferable impudence, to order her
outstanding conscripts seriously to ask
decent citizens to come forward and
uphold those whom Duane himself, all
vile as he is, actually blushes and re
fuses any longer to support. How
ever the Bashaw may whineand cry—
however he may beg and plead for
federal men to give up their senses, and
lend their shoulders for such upstarts
to mount upon, he might as well save
himself the trouble. One who has al
ready had ten or a dozen offices, has
had enough if profitable, and too
many if unprofitable, to be a right
honest, fair dealing " republican."
More " Serious Confessions !"
Southern arrivals furnish Cadiz ac
counts to the middle of May. Since
the evacuation of Matagorda, no in
teresting military event had occurred.
The British defenders of the Isle of
Leon, were continually receiving rein,
forcments, and the Spanish and Portu
guese patriots daily increased in num
ber,discipline and constancy.-The army
and inhabitants were well supplied,
and none but traitors and French spies
talked of surrendering. As it respects
Spain and Portugal, Napoleon and
his Marshals, have lost credit as sooth
sayers. The imperial standard does
not float on the walls of Lisbon; the
Leopards are not yet driven into .the
sea ; and Marshal Soult, who in one
ofhis "ho% st.rn, and jump" des.
The Committee to whom was re
ferred the several subjects of the State
Prison, reported that the State Prison
be erected in Concord near the Court
House, provided said Concord give the
State two acres of land, on which to
erect the same—make the necessary
roads to the same—give stone in the
quarry within one mile and a half dis
tant from the site sufficient to erect the
buildings, and draw to the place three
thousand tons ofstone—-That said Pris
on be 80 feet in length & 36 in breadth
three stories high each story to contain
36 rooms—attached to the prison the
superintendant's house, 50 by 23 feet,
three stories high—the whole to be
enclosed by a wall 14 feet high, 3 feet
wide at the bottom and 1 1-2 at the
top —a workshop 100 by 25 feet, of
two stories, to be erected within the
wall—That 8000 dollars be appropri
ated for the presant time—That the
building commence in April, 1811—
and that Benjamin, B. Darling, Wil
liam A. Kent. Esquires, and Lt. Jere
miam Pecker be nominated as a com
mittee to superintend the building of
said prison.
A Resolve passed appointing Moses
Hale, Samuel Grant,and Levi Jackson,
Esqrs. a committee to visit the Che
shire Bank, and to examine the affairs
and inspect the books of said Bank,
according to the reservation in the act
of incorporation, and report to the
Executive as soon as may be, a correct
statement of facts. Also a resolve
appointing Jonathan Franklin, Ben
jamin J. Gilbert, and John Rogers,
Esqrs. to a like service in the affairs of
the Coos Bank.
The committee on the petition of Jo
seph Merrin and others praying an a
mendment to the law to prevent persons
digging up dead bodies, and the repeal
of an act appropriating 3450 dollars
for erecting a Medical School in Han
over, reported that it was inexpedient
to adopt any further measures at pre
sent on the subject.
The Governor, by resolve was author
ized to draw on the Treasurer for the
sum of 1000 dollars for the payment
of contingent expences.
A bill establishing the fees of witnes
ses at the Superior and Courts of Com
mon Pleas, passed to be enacted.
We have been informed that the ad
ministration conceive they are author
ised by law to take active and efficient
measures against France, without the
intervention of congress: and that the
attorney general is every day expected
here, whose opinion is to be received
on the subject. If the (administration
are clear in their supposed authority,
the sanction of Mr. Rodney's opinions
is desirable, not, we presume, from its
value, but for the sake of appearances.
[Bid. Am.
Oliver Peabody, Nathaniel Parker,
Esquires, and Capt. John F. Parrott
were appointed to settle with the
Treasurer during the recess.
The Committee on the Dixville road
lottery reported that 1113 dollars had
been raised—that 1141 dolls, and 39
cents had been applied for the purposes
of the road—that the loss to the man
agers in bad debts according to their
statment was 6550 dollars.
John Goddard, and William Gard
ner, Esquires, were appointed a Com
mittee to examine the records of the
Clerk of the Superior Court, to ascer
tain the amount of monies by him re
ceived, which by law he is directed to
pay to the several County Treasurers,
and to the Justices of the Superior
Court.
The committee appointed for the
purpose, on which we observed the
name of Col. Prescott of Jeffrey, re
ported that the act giving a bounty on
wild Cats be amended so as to apply
to that species of cats known by the
name of the Siberian Lynx : said cat
is ofa grey color with a bob or shod
tail ; which report was accepted
EXETER,
MONDAY, JULY 9, 1810.
LATEST FROM SPAIN.
FROM WASHINGTON.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23,
FRIDAY, JUNE 22.
A letter of a late date, received in
Philadelphia from Amsterdam, states,
N'Apollyon has at list succeeded with
his brigades of French custom house
officers in closing every avenue in Hol
land to the admission offoreign goods.
He has however granted licenses for
sending the goods already in Holland
into the interior, to be sold ata hand
some advance lie will make a grahd
patches, predicted in January last, the
immediate fall of all Spain, after four
months, finds himself as far from his
object as ever. Dost. Gaz.
What has become of 'our lives our
fortunes and our sacred honors' reso
lutions; all mute as fish ? No burning
of gin upor i Gallows-Hill, no town or
country meetings, no threats of tar and
feathers—the whole stupendous rob
bery of Bonaparte, has not created so
great a sensation, as the pitiful affair of
captain Simpson at Charleston ; but so
we go on—there is still one comfort
left, that is, when things get to the
worst, any change must be for the bet
ter, and if at last we should chance to
get put of the scrape with our inde
pendence preserved, we may well ex
claim/ with Fallstaff, " honot tomes
unlooked sot, there's an end on it."
[Alefc. Paper.
This is a very fair story, which those
who please, may believe. This is the
same privateer who fired on a coast
ing vessel going into Charleston, and
by which a passenger was wounded.
As we understand a strict investiga
tion is making by the collector & com
modore Rogers, we shall offer no re
marks on the subject at present, nor
stale the reports which are in circula-
The present government is considered
as temporary, and to continue until all
the departments of the province of
Venezuela shall have ratified the mea
sures adopted at.Caraccas, which it is
supposed will soon be the case. There
are only two departments, that of ma
racaybo' and Coro, which have not yet
joined in the late important' change of
government. iff
The deputies from the departments
of Guyana, 'Varinas and Cumana, co
operate with the Junta at Caraccas.
tiori.
Arrived in the Delaware, the sch. 3
Friends, Capt. Schoyen, 18 days from
La Guira. On board this vessel is
Don Juan Edwardo, of Caraccas,
with despatches for the deputies lately
arrived in the United States, from that
province.
This gentleman informs, that the
government of Caraccas is at present
vested in a Junta, consisting of five
persons, who exercise legislative, ex
ecutive, an^ for 'the present, likewise
judicial function's.
The following ministers have been
appointed : one of internal finances,
one for foreign affairs, and one of war
and navy.
Courts of judicature are not yet regu
larly organized, nor is the militia yet
systematised.
Commercial regulations are under
going a favourable change for
United States.
A French Privateer Caught.
Arrived on the nineteenth instant,
in Hampton Roads, the French Priva
teer Revench du Cerf, captain Bonne,
of 4 guns and 50 mcri. The account
given by the master of this privateer,
is that she sailed from Charleston on
the 28th April, bound to France—
that having experienced a severe gale
of wind, which caused the vessel to
strain and leak very much, and having
lost some Spars, it was necessary to
make a port of safety, which as this
was nearest, she put into this port for
refitment. The master reports sixty
packages of dry goods on board, which
he says, he took but ofa Spanish
vessel at sea.
By Capt. Dorr, from Canton, we
learn, that the difference between the
Chinese and the British Had not been
adjusted, the latter declining to sur
render the person who caused the death
of a native, altho' it_was believed the
laws of China would acquit hjm. The
government still refused chorfwclear
ance) to the British vessels, They
csuld depart by force, which it was
expected they would do ; but this might
prevent their being admitted again on
future voyages.
The tranquility of Portugal, we pre
sume, depends in some degree on the
duration of the siege of Cadiz.
Capt. Goodwin, from Lisbon, sailed
on the 13th of May. This is the latest
arrival from that place. The French
had not advanced, and the confidence
of the people in their security was not
diminished.
N' Apollyon turned Merchant.
The Caraccas.
From POR TUG AL.
From CANTON.
[Ledger.
A gentiman lately arr. from Paris
relates the following anecdote of the
emperor, which he says was circulating
there, but not publicly, as nothing but,
panegyric of the emperor, is spoken in
public at Paris. The fact was howev
er believed. After Bonaparte had rid
himself of his Old Wife, and was wait
ing for his sweet arch-duchess, he went
to the Theatre, fell in love with a young
actress who had lately appeared, about
sixteen years of age. The nextday the
young lady had an invitation to go to
the palace. In Paris no one can re
fuse to comply with the invitations of
the emperor. The young lady there
fore proceeded to the palace accompa
nied by her mother. The mother was
soon informed that she might withdraw;
but with this hint she did not think
proper to comply; and like gen.
Armstrong, mustered sufficient cour
age to remonstrate. Her remonstran
ces, like the general's were unavailing:
—she was pushed out of the great
house, and her daughter was seques
tered, and placed in the emperor's
chambre privee. The young lady did
not, like our government, succumb at
once ; she made resistance, and it is
said left some marks of her courage
and her finger nails on the face of his
majesty—but she was overcome by
superior force—she however fared
better than Americans or their prop
erty can expect to do. For after be
ing in the hands of the emperor 36
hours, she was liberated, and seven
thousand livres sent to her mother, as
a reward for her honorable resistance,
and that she might celebrate the glori
ous victory of the emperor over an un
protected female, with proper dignity.
SPLENDID CELEBRATION.
The anniversary of American Inde
pendence was celebrated by the Fed
ral Republicans of Boston with unu
sual gaiety and splendor, an Oration
was pronounced by Alexander Town,
send Esq. The following original odes
were sung on the occasion.
Spec on the American property lielias
seized, by this measure, as those who
buy must give the price he chooses to
ask. If we recollect right, it is not
long since this same modest gentleman,
Mr. N'Apdllyon, called the Ameri
cans and British, nations of shop-keep
ers, which he intended should imply a
term of reproach.
FOR INDEPENDENCE, 1810.
By R. T. Paine, Jan. Esq.
1
ILIIL ! Hail, ye patriot spirits!
Ye chiefs of valiant deed!
To war-scar'd bosoms point no more.
Your wounds no longer bleed.
Oh ! ever bless the festal shrine
Your hoveridg shades explore !
Whlie laurel-crown'd, ye glide around,
And the Seraph Anthem pour—
It is our country's natal day,
We hail it and adore.
2
High o'er the rock of ages,
See independence stride,
Her shield she stretches o'er her vales,
Her spear across the tide,
The harvests of her teeming soil,
She bids the wave,s expand,
Tho' tempest roars around her shores,
It dies along her strand,
For the arm that can the plough direct;
The trident can command.
The stofin that rent her forests
A thousand ages past,
Now sweeps their branches as they fly
Along the ocean blast;
Through every clime her banners float,
And greet the northern wane,
Wire re dimly bright, with wheeling light,
He pales the freezing plain ;
And sees new Stars beneatli the pole,
J\'ew Pleiads on the main.
4.
The Sea is valour's charter—
A nation's wealthiest mine:
His foaming caves when ocean bares,
Not pearls, but heroes shine ;
Aloft they mount the midnight surge,
Where shipwreck'd spirits roam.
'And oft the knell, is heard to swell,
Where bursting billows foam.
Each storm a race of heroes rears,
To guard their native home.
5 - '
But not the storm, that courses
The mountain and the deep,
Like Rapine's secret whirling pool,
With tyrant power can sweep ;
Th' imperial gulf can whelm the keel,
Which tempests proudly bore ;
In smooth serene, it glides unseen,
Till all its caverns roar;
Till all its hidden ledges crash,
And alliU whirlwinds pour.
Anecdote of his imperial Majesty.
Amphion touch'd his heavenly string,
And Sudden rose the Theban towers.
But Thebes and Athens, how they fell
From full orb'd splendor and renown,
With teats their true historians tell,
That discord drew their glory down.
Firm may our independence stand,
Lasting as time, the nation's pride ;
And mock the violating hand,
And fell Napoleon's wrath deride.
Again we hail the festal morn
Which echoes their immortal praise,
Whose work, an empire newly born,
Surpass'd the deeds of ancient days.
When, as the fabling poets sing,
Music possess'd creative powers,
ODE.
eter, June 30, 1810.
Liflet Colcord-Robert Duce--Clerk
of the District Court—Jeremiah Ea
ton—-Noah Emery—Margaret Ged
dings 2 —Kinsley Hall—David Moo
ers 2, —/Benjamin Norris—-Samuel
Philbrick—CesarPaul—Danielßober
son—Samuel Rust —Truworthy Rob
inson Merril Scarlet Samuel G.
Smith 3—Josiah C. Smith—John San
born—Mary Swazey—Joseph Tilton
—Simon Wiggin, Exeter.
Thomas Currier—Jacob Gale, New-<
ton.
Jeremiah Eaton—Catherine Fogg,'
Kensington.
Josiah Colcord or James Thing—
James Gilman—Jabez Smith—Sallr
Thing—-Jonathan Veazey Daniel
Woodman 3, Brentwood.
David Lucy 2—Simeon Rundiet—.
Abraham Tilton—Levi Wiggin, Strat
ham.
Joseph Melcher—Ephraim Motile
ton, Hamptonfalls.
, Robert M'Quillin, East Kingston.
Jacob Smith, Raymond.
J. W. GILMAN, P. M.
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W Country produce of
various kinds received in pay for the
Constitutionalist.
Exeter, june 11, 1810#
In Epsom, Mr. Samuel Lord, Mer
chant of Portsmouth, to Miss Nancy
D. M'Clary. ~,
At New Ipswich, N. H. Mr Altai
Tibbets, to Miss Rachael Wheeler.
In Portsmouth, Mr. John Nutters
to Miss Nancy Loud.
LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining in the Post-Office, at Ex-
ON Monday the 30th JULY Inst,
at 4 o'clock P. M. at the Court
House, in Exeter, about twenty acres
of MOWING and PASTURING
LAND, lying near Little River Bridge,)
on the road to Kingston, lately ownei
by Mr. Amos Blanchard.
Conditions made known at the sale-
J. EMERY, auct.
In Boston Mr. John Devotion, ag^t
44 —Capt. Lewis Glover, aged 34 —•
By falling into the hold qf the ship
Topaz, a labouring man, by the name '
of Josiah Libbey, lately from Ports^
mouth.
Tailors—A London paper, of the
17th April, says, that about twenty
thousand of this fraternity, on Saturday
last, struck for an increase of wages.
In this town of the Hooping Cough.
A child of Mr. Nath. Bickford-*-.&
child of Mr. .Samuel Loud—a child
of Mr. Daniel S. Jones—and a child
of Mr. William Safford.
Henrietta M# Fouruet, of Newbu^
ryport aged 25.
Ina painting, in illuminated glass,,
supposed to be upwards of 400 year;
,)ld, a female figure is represented
with a ridicule in the hand, precisely io
the style of those at present worn by
our fashionable belles ; so that in this
respect, the fashions of our ladies re
semble those of their great great grea^
great great grand Mother.
The Russian land forces are now,
in' the whole, composed of 617,58(»
men.
&
Rise, man's immortal spirit;
Stern Independence, rise :
Mid wrecks, tliat choak the pirate's c^)
Your tatter'd banner lies.
In fierce Napoleon's midnight cells,
Your gallant sailor grieves;
In chains he lies, and wistful sighs
Towards his country heaves.
Rise Independence, seize tliy crown,
Or strip its oaken leaves.
An infallible cure for the Hoople,
Cough.
Dissolve a scruple of sal tartar in 4
gill of water, and ten grains of Cochi.
neal finely powdered—sweeten it witd
loaf sugar. Give an infant a quarter
of a table spoonful four times a day,
a child of 2 or 3 years old, half a spoon.,
full, and from 4 years arid upwards a.
spoonful may be taken. The relief U
immediate and the cure, generally with
in 5 er 6 days.
N. B. The above has been repeat
edly made use of ^nd has ever had ^
happy effect.
CT" AUXUNGIA."^
" Laugh where we must."
Would not the'N. H. Patriot be
more " excrementitious” if its editor
had for his correspondents, a few more:
honourable and honest jail birds ?
Hon. Nathaniel A. Haven, has de
clined being a candidate at the next
election of Members of Congress.
Married,
Auction.
Died,