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Thomas Jefferfon,
Pr^fident of the United States of America.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERNS
ME Citizen Gerard Cazea-x,
having produced to me his Com
mitao? as Vice-Commissary of Com
mercial Relations of the French Re
public for Poitfmouth, in the State of
New-Hamplhhe, I do hereby, recognize
him as such, and declare him free to
exercise such functions, powersand priv
ileges a: are allowed to the Similar a
gears of the mod favored nations.* .
In testimony whereof, I have cacfed
these letters to be made patent, and the
seal of the United States to be here
unto affixed.
Given under my hand at the City' of
Washington, the fifth day of /pri!,
in the year of our Lord, one then
fond eight hundred and three ; and
I rr of the Independence of the United
States of America the twenty
foventb.
(Signed) Th: JEFFERSON.(
By the - Prfident.
(Signed) James Madison, Secretary cfState.
True Copy. Gd. CAZEaUX,
Wice-Commiffary of Commercial Rela
tions of the French Republic for Ports
mouth, (N. H.)
The French Consul's Office is kept
at Mr. Geddes' house, Pitt-ftteet.
A tine opportunity to purchase
HOUSE LOTS.
For fade
A LOT of LAND in Perts
mouth Situated in a pleasant and
'central part of the town ; it fronts on
Pitt-street, and is a part of the Eftaet
whereonthe fubicriber now lives, The
I sna is degated, and the profpea exten
sive. The Situation is retired from noise.
Ir can be divided into five parcels, each
of which will make a good House Lot—
oiin-o a greater or lets number, as will
left halt the purchaser or purchasers.—
Tob terms of payment will be VERY
hb-ra!, as will best accommodate the
buyerand JOHN GREENLEAF.
Povi/moutf April 30, 1803.
C^ORdage, Boltrope and Mar
> lin of 'all Sizes; French and Ravens
Dock ; Russia Sheeting; 6, 9, 12, 15
and 18 thread Fifhiqg Lines; chalk,Squid,
log, deep sea and band lead do ; Herring
Nets of different Sizes , sewing, roping,
ts hipping, ball and Salmon Twine, Sheet
Copper, Sheathing & Wrapping Paper;
Nails and Brads of all kinds and tizes,from
14 oz. Clouts to 10 inch Spikes.
Gould and Patent Logs.
Perkins' Patent Pumps.
Ensigns ; Burges ; Jacks, and
Pendants. —ALSO—
Tar ; Pitch ; Spirits; Turpen
tine ; Oil; roll & lump brimftone;Lamp-
Black ; Spanish Brown; YellowOcbre ;
White Lead'; and almost every article
necessary f or a flip — With
a general affortmoß of
GROCERIES,
kept constantly on lale, for cafa or . ap
proved credit by^
F Henry Ladd, ?
at ,h:s Ship Chandlery Store in
Fore Street. ; . ^ May 7.
~PAT ENTiMED iCTNEs;-
Highly recommended for the Jaundice,
price 50 cents.
To.excelleot pills for Dy fentery, tdl. a box.
Jtch Ointment, §0 cents a box.
Harlem Oil for Strengthening the eyes,
&c. go cents.
Handfume Smelling Bortles, 2; cents.
Worm Lozenges in boxes and packages,
50 cents a package.
Tooth Powder per box 2/3.
just received and forJale by C. PEIRCE
ft R^b dreet. Portsmouth.
CITI N
Nathan B. FeUom,
HAS FOR SALE,
A few sets elegant octagon China
biflns, 5 in a let hShtuable patterns.
A few boxes of Coffee Bowles &
Saucers ; Tea Sets, &c.
A quantity of pound, halfpound
an , quarter do, boules Bemis's Snuff,
of an excellent qulny.•
Ground Logwood for Hatters'
ole, &C. PoQnwth, May 14.
——B!£!^ INDEPENDENCE TWENTY- SIXTI! YEAR
Otitic prates
Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH,.N^ Printed and rabbled every
^Z.XIK] SATURDAY, MAY 21 ,1803...
Os ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS V HICH LEAD TO POLITICAL )
PROSPERITY, RELIGION O' MORALITY are INDISPENSABLE>
supports. WASHINGTON'S Legacy. J
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Circular Addrejs to bis Confituents upon
leaving bis feat in the House of Repre
ferrt lives of tie United States.-
— 0. — ^
THE prefect session of congress ap
proaches to a elofe without affor
ding, in its proceedings, many fubje&s
worthy communication. This' perhaps
is rather matter of congratulation than
otherwise : for it is not neceTary or
proper, to exercise the right to enact
laws, merely because the potter is pos
sessed; and that policy generally is cf
teemed good which curbs, rather than
indulges a proneness to legiflarion. In
addition to these reflexions in the dif
pefition of the men in power, hereto
fore evinced in a manner so deftrußive
to the important establishments of the !
nation. Phis disposition has been ex-'
hibited in the course of the session, but, ,
fortunately, some indications of dis-;
tradion in [he views and councils of the|
prevailing party have been difeovered.
These were seen in the conduct pursued
in the, proposition for erectingaury dock|
and for the repeal of the lav establishing,
in favour ofocr own navigation,diferim-§
inating duties ; both understood to be
favorite projeds of the president, and
originating with him, These projects
were considered and treated as visionary;
schemes, pregnant, with expend and I
milchief, and calculated only, the one
to ere
 a splendid useless building, the
other to injure to an alarming degree j
the extended navigation of the country
—a majority laid them aside. From
this unexpected conflict of sentiment in
the party, hopes are in some degree re
vived, that some of the national estab
lishments may Survive the power of
antifederalifm.
With the elevation of this power was
introduced a spirit of destruction, di
rected, against those establishments,
which has proßrated the energies of the
government, made inroads on the con
flitution itfelf, and after breaking down
its barriers has dcfolated the faired
profpedsof our country. If evidence
is wanting of the progress of this spirit,
a Short reivew of some of the proceed
ings of the laß session will readily af
ford it. The system of internal reve
nue, which had been established at im
mense trouble and expense almost com
mensurate with the importance of the
obje&, was then destroyed ; a military,
'which had been reduced,to a force mere
ly competent to fu(lain our posts, which
fuccour might be obtained equal to
their defence, was deranged to a tize on
ly calculated to render the continuance
of a War Department unnecessary ; a
marine corps, essential to the very ex
igence of a navy,is reduced almoll to in-?
fignificance. The Judiciary, a great 1
and diflina branch of our government,
the conservator of the constitution, and
the bulwark of our constitutional rights
has been Gripped of its independence, |
and proflrated at the feet of the legif-;
lature, whose laws they, were entituled [
to try by the touchstone of the confti-1
tution, and on which they were accor- 1
dingly to decide. This was the progress
of that spirit at the last session. .At
the present session, a like difpofiticn to
destroy was found in the chambers of
legislation, when the members entered1
them<, The Mint—the Discriminating
duties—the Syflem of Bankruptcy—+
and the Territory of Columbia are na-j
lion eftablifoments, and of course, at- 1
tractive bbje&s of attention to ffitifed-1
era! malice : accordingly they werej
all menaced and attacked ; but, cgn-|
trary to the well grounded fears of their|
friends, these establishments, tho' sha
ken, have refitted the assault, and the
hand of the affaiiant for the present
Deems to be arretted : Some ascribe
this to the alarm excited in the weft,
which occafior® the neceflity of draw
ing off the forces for the protection of
that frontier. Nor did this hostility to
national eflablifhrnerits, sleep, during
: the tecefs ef^congrefs. • We had a na
tional bank ; and there a deposit of ac
tive funds increasing daily by the pro
visions of the inftituuon—What has be
come of it i A Genevan secretary of
our treasury has fold it. But it may
be faid,lhaveprefcntedthe reverfeofthe
medal ; that if the other fide is viewed,
we fh?.ll there fee the expenses of the
government diminished— the burthens
of the people lightened—the amount
of the revenue increased ^ the national
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debt in a rapid progress of payment
executive patronage reduced, and e
conomy,the prominent character of the
piece.. To this I anfwei direftly, that
I have taken, this. .view -t have look
ed in vain for the obfecGic which my
attention is directed. As to th^cx
penfes of the.government, f do not find
the salaries of any of the officers redu
ced ; but on the contrary -1 difeover,
that a-law which in time of war was
pa.flfed to augment certain Salaries, and
which by ito own limitation expired at
the return of peace, Ras been revived ;
and the allowance which for 8 or to
years was considered amply fufficief.t
for their predecessors, has for the pre
fect incumbents of office, been largely
increased. It is tree I find the appoint
ment ol minsters reftdent at the court of
Liibon,& at the Hague vacated (a pol
icy extremely questionable to fay the
leatl of it) but I find alio that Mr.
I Dawson was feat over to France in a
Inational ilip, at great expense, merely
I to bear a treaty ; which might have
been trahfmiited by tae matter of any
.merchant vcfeltothe minister by whom
lit was presented—And again, it is to
be found, that by an iff of the lad fef
: fion, the president is a^horifed to ap
point an agent, with a.large filary to
adjust in Holland the payment of the
Dutch debt. We alio have lately seen
Ithat notwithftandintr we have ministers
resident at Paris and Madrid, Mr.
I Monroe, the ex-governbr of the antient
; dominion, is appointed envoy extraor
' dinary to both of those courts ; with
;large outfits and ialary. It does not
therefore appear, that the schedule of
'etyenfes is-much curtailed. is co the
:burthens of the people being lightened
--these burthens never had anyo r her exis
tence than on thq tongues of designing
knaves, or in the Imagination of igno
rant men. We End the internal reve
nues destroyed -but were tie internal
revenues burthens on the people (certain
ly not. A tax on whiskey or brandy
was surely no burthen. It s true some
inconvenuncies were experienced, in
collection of the excise duty on Rills ;
but without destroying the system of in
ternal revenue,, this inconvenience
could have been remedied ; the law
imposing that duty could have been ;
modified, and might nave been repeal-;
ed, and it would hare been so a&ed on. I
Was the tax imposed on carriages of
pleasure a burthen cn the people ? was 1
the duty paid on loaf sugar a burthen; l
—the money levied on . licences to re
tailers of spirits, and the revenue drawn 1
to the treasury from the great com-;
merciai cities by the damp law ; could ;
thefe.be considered burthens on 1 the!
people ? In refped to the increase of|
revenue and the payment of the nation-|
, al debt, it will be recollected, that thel
increale is due to the operation ofthofe ;
plans and schemes of revenue and fir
nance, formed, erected, and matured
Ibylby the federal administration s. To
; their labours we are indebted for the
Iflourishing ftateof ourtreafury ; to them
Ithe merit ought to be awarded ; let
;not therefore the men in power pride
themselves in plumes borrowed from
their predecessors. The fame thing is
to be observed as to the payment of
the public debts for the means, we are
indebted tothe federal administrations.
Del us not be deceived by the ^w of
the last cession pompouCy entitled ",An
a6 tmaking provision for the redemp-
Ipon of the whole Public Debt of the U-
I nited States." 'phis is " but as found
' ing brass, and tinkling cymbal ;" 2
§ mere tub to the whale ;a^ecoy to the
Ifeelings of the community. . If the.pro
vinous of this ad meant any thing, it
was to authorife the president to reloan
the debt ; for the whole Surplus of the
revenues of the U. States were appro
priated before, by the laws then existing
for the discharge of the debt ; and the
payment was in as rapid progress as
the Rate of the nation and the reve
nue would allow. As to to the recltlc
. tion of executive patronage, it is true,
that the officers of rhe internal revenue
no longer exist : they necessarily went
out wih the abolition of the system ;
but life also tiue, that the appointment
of commidioners of Bankruptcy, is giv
en to the president. Formerly it was
veiled in the dish id judges, with whom
a concur exercise of that power was in
finitely more probable on every contid
,eradoii. By this change,apatronage far
exceeding that attached to the appoint-
ment of cbe officers of the abolished re
venue, in many places is created. In
truth no deposition to diminish the in
fluence of executive patronage is discov
erable in the conduct of the adrcinif
tration. " As there are but few deaths,
and no resignations", we find vacan
cies created by pfeiidential authority,
that they may be filled by ; the fries:;:
offbe prefdent ; for it is acknowledged
by high authority, that the time is not
yet arrived, wh m the important ques
tions, concerning a candidate for office
are “ is he honed, is he capab e ; is he
faithful to the constitution ?"
Some- of the foregoing reHeeions
might be deemed fulheienly evincive
that economy is not 16 prominent a
figure on the medal as was supposed —
but a few others will fix this fact beyond
dispute. When the French vessel, the
Berceau was repaired by the orders of
the president, at an expense of upwards
of 30,00 c dollars—an expense incurred
without necessity, and warranted by no
authority—was economy then difeerna
ble ? Did economy preside in rhe coun
cils, when they discharged feverpl hun
dred disciplined marines with their new
uniforms On their backs, and their
bounties in their pockets? Ask the
public Service, and you will be answer
ed no ; we required this force, and
Hiortly after we were obliged to reinlift
them.. Was it economy dilated the
file of bank Stock which,tofay the bed of
it, was little better than a wanton wade
of the public treasury ? A fade made
without necessity to require it ind at a
. loss which no exiting di£culryjuftified.
This is proved by a recurrence to the
Bate of the treasury, when Surrendered
to the present adminillrarion, it then
having near '3,c00,000 dollars appro
priated an I ready for the difeharge of
the Dutch debt ; and to the State of the
treasury at tne end of the lift year.,
there being,ppwards of four millions
dollars lying there inactive, which
might r have been applied to the i
fame purpose. Here it is proper I |
Bruld Bate, to you, that this bank frock :
so fold, amounted to near one million'
01 dollars ; that it was bringing to the
treasury an interest of 9 per cent and 1
Was worth in the market 50 per cent.j
It was fold to pay a debt which called |
for but 5 per cent, interest, and thisl
too, as has been shown, when the trea
sury abounded with the means of dis
charging this debt, without this facri
fee. Let it not he forgotten that the
money then in the treasury, and Bill
there, is bearing no interest ; and, as if
to make the Sacrifice Bill more flagrant,
a large sum due,as interest on the bank
Bock, was thrown into the bargain,anl
given as a premium to the purchaser.
I leave you to make your own com
ments on this tranfadion. The Bate
of the union as it refpe&s foreign rela
tions you have had presented to you by
the public prints. A portentous cloud
hovers over our weftern horizon, The
Spaniards have injured and insulted us,
they have infracted our treaty with
them, and deprived u? of an important
right on which the free navigation of
the Mifhfppidepends; a right in which
the prosperity, the very exigence of
our weftern brethern, as a part of out
union, is involved. One of two things ;
must take place ; the government of
the United .States mull afford protec
tion to this part of the empire, or dis
memberment must ensue. < No dopct
is entertained that Louisiana is ceded
to the French.- This event the presi
dent announced, in his mefige at the
commencement of the session : but at
what time, cr on what terms,-this ces
sion was made, or is to take effect, we
qre yet to learn. Information requir
ed on this head was refufed by the ma
jority, whose confid§4y£ ;k n she execu
tive appears to exceed alt ether conside
rations. It is not underwood that the
French have as yet possessed themselves
of this important acquisition. The pre
sent moment, is apprehended to be of
all others the mod favourable for this
country to attain the great object of en
forcing and securing the important
right just Bated. When our neigh
bours are changed, we ihall haye-lo
combat force, enterprize, and intrigue,
infinitely exceeding -any thing now op
posed toms. Let France once eHab
hCi herfelf in this valuable territory—
foe embraces all our weftern country, i
or we are involved in the moil deftruc
/live war. The honour, the dignity,
the fafety. the integrity ofthe nation,
FUrilfll., GOVERNMENT. FIFTEENTH YEAR.
, ©Rue, to
Advertised
Saturday Morning, by W ill'm & Dan'l. Treadwell,
Price one dollar and fifty cents per ann. [No. 32.
rc^ADV:RriSUMENIT e^ri^b Commu
1 nicat-ons &f attended to—and ever) Favor .thankfully acknowl-
C EDGED.
demand measures promt and energe"^°
But alas!--their calls will not be bear'd
When difficulties accumulate on as
waen the dark clouds of distress, are
about to overwhelm us—then and nor
Until then will pur national eftablifk
ments be duly appreciated. A little ar
my, which, while it served to protect
cur frontier and garrison our pods, aff
orded a school to oar young men of
military call of character, and a rally
ing point a?.d example of dikipline to
cur militia, antifederal economy ha,
demohfred. A marine corps equally
important—reduced. A little navy~=
rotting. And a revenue to be drawn
from curewn resources—abolished. All
these eßabhfhments are now wanted :
they are not to be created or erected
in a day. A lyhem of internal revenue,
every principle of found policy directs,
Ihould be maintained. It is a certain,
source of supply, on which government:
may rely ; fubjed to none of the inci
dents to which an impost is liable, one
depending only on that production c.
our own, are wanting, and probably
we soon Bi ill want the country, the
exertion ofouifelves. When we want the
aid of fucha system, inßead of receiving
itsfupply,we ihallbe engaged in elating
the system or organizing its operations.
Such is our situation. With tht prof
ped before us, we lock around for a
Waffiington ; but we look inivain-
Four councils are no longer contyofed;
of federalists. The friends, the tfa^
mers of the federal conßitution have
been driven from the confidence of the:
people ; and the oppofers, the enemies
of that conftitution,bave affiimed their
places. It is extraordinary, but never
theless true, that with a people, admir
ing, loving their constitution, and sen
sible of the bieffngs of prpfperity the,
enjoyed under and derived from it,fuch
has been the influence of oarty, the ef
fed of factious exertion, that the men
who now administer the federal gov-
I ernment .who pohefs the whole active
I power delegated by that constitution,
:are the fame men who with invincible
Beadinefs and unremitted exertion,have
been opposed to it ; opposed in its ori
igin, hostile in its organization, and a,
I verse to the progress made under's
j influence and energies. 'l'hefe Mien
I now in power, these feSf-ftyled republi
cans, are the real true anti-federalifts.
'1 he change of name was to them con
venient and advantageous, and there
fore they assumed it ; they knew the
people lotted the constitution, to profefs
to hate it, would blast their profoefts.
But the name only is changed—the
men are the fame.
When the president in his inaugu
ral speech, declared « we are di fede
ralists, we are all republicans" the as
sertion was corrie only in one point of
view: all federalists are republicans.--
The federalift prefers the federal con
stitution to all other forms of govern
ment ; he values it for its repuolican
ifm ; he fees in it the whence of civil li
berty ; he esteems it the rock of heuri
ty ; guarded he hop^ as well against
the intrigues of che demagogue leader
cf a miffed mob; as against the abode
of power combined in the hands of a
tyrant, who would make laws to bind
;us without our consent.- He regards
it as the charter of the ration, as the
ruarantee cf Bate fovercirnties and in
dividual rights, as the bond of union,
the chain oi interest, and the promoter
of peace, fafety and prosperity ol his
country. No man can be really a fed
eraliß who is not a republican. It is
to be lamented that there are republi
cans among us who are not federalists ;
men who would willingly depress the
powers of the national government to
elevate those of the Bate governments,
who are solicitous to make the govern
ment of the Union subordinate to that
of the individual Bates, 2nd uho con
template with great complacency the
prof,e&..of eftablithing the fupremqey
of a particular Bate over the govla
ment of the United States. That filch
men Should be regarded and appreciat
ed highly in the Bate, so to be exalted,
is not wonderful ; hut it is farely won
derful,that men with such views Should
be fcßained by the people of any other
Bate.
The bUffings attendant on the a
doption ci the contiitution, and deriv
ed fr^m the government of the Unit
ed States, are net early enumerated^
and tile advantages in profyeft are in
, calculable. Let ns for a monk , v r-