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JAMES RUNDLET,
RefyeQfully informs bis friends &
CKjbmers that be has taken a Store in
Congrtffreet, between the Bell Tav
dm and the State H^ttfe, cohere he has
^ro ready for fak his flock in trade,
^bich IMS rescued from the general
conflagration, by the spirited arid timely
exertions of bit friends, to %om be
beg leave to tender his grateful ac
knorwbdgrnents. —
His atf>rtment confiOs of the following :
Superfine, midling and low
Priced Broadcloths and Caffimeres
the most fafhionable colors and mix
tures ; Devonshire Kerfeys ; Plains ;
Serges ; Forest Cloths ; Ratteens ;
brown, blue, drab and mixt Coatings;
Fearnaughts ; Shaggs ; Swanskins ;
Baizes and Flannels of all colors ;
fy| 9 & ^ Ros e Blankets.
A great verity op :
Elegant silk velvet vest Shapes;
Sawandow and Toilin^t ditto ; white
and coloured Quilting ditto ; mens'
rich black Satin and silk Florentine ;
Griped Satins.
A kandJome Affoimrat <f
London Chintzes ; Calicoes ;
Patch Furnitures ; Copperplates ;
Dimities ; Muflinets ; Damask Table
Cloths ; India Napkins and Table
Cloths 6 Cotton Fringes.
Black, white, and fancy co
lored Camels hair Shawls, elegant silk
Shawls, muslin, chintz apd purple
Shawls, Linen, Cotton, Bandanna,
Sufterfoy & black filk.Handkerchiefs,
cotton and linen cambrick dittos
Wildbores ; Camblets ; Shal
loons ; plain and striped Calimancoes;
Rnfels, Florentines, .Durants and
'Percies • Velvets : Thickfetts ; Cor
duroys ; Hunters Cord ; Fuftains ;
Jeans ; Durrels and Nankinets.
A great variety of .
Meris' patent knotted worffed,
hik and worsted, all silk, and cotton
Hosiery ; Ladies' cotton & silk Hose,
tome with laced clocks ; womens'
long and Short colored cotton Gloves
and Mitts ; black cotton and worked
ditto ; black, white and colored long
and ffiort silk Cloves ; Mens' beaver
Gloves, some lined with flannel, cot
ton and silk ditto. ;
Fashionable colored & black
Sarfnet Cambricks ; black Jackonet
Muslins, cambrick Mullins, jaconet
book, book fprig'd, and Tambored
Muslins ; glaired Cambricks ; muslin
Handkerchiefs ; Tambored neck
Cloths ; Stock ftifners.
A great variety f
Florence silks ; India & French
Luftrings ; striped and plad Italian
Silks ; English and India Sattins for
Cloaks ; peling Satins^ Modes ; Cy
press ; Gauze ; wide and narrow I
talian Crape ; black silk velvet ;
thread Laces and Edgings; black
Laces; satin, mode and china Rib
bons ; pound Ribbons and Gallooms,
A few elegant London full
dress Bonnets, Ladies' split straw vil,
lage Bonnets, gipfey hat Bonnets, gip
fey Hats, girls' and womens' common
draw and willow Bonnets, chip Hats ;
draw Trimmings ; Bands and Tas
sels, straw Rofetts, fancy straw Flow
ers and Plumes, artificial Flowers and
Wreaths, Sunflower Wreathe
A large assortment of
Mens' beaver and other Hats
of all prices by the case or retail;
Womens' beaver Hats and Bonnets,
with bands and plumes.
Umbrellas, some With walk
ing canes; Parrafols ; Fans; Cotton &
silk Braces ; colored & white Threads ;
pound Pins, packet and bundle ditto,
and yard wide Irish arid
German LINNENS; brown Hollands;
India Cottons ; Cotton stripes & checks
India Callicoes ; Sewing Silks and Twists ;
fafhionable gilt and plated coat and vett.
Buttons ; Button-moulds ; Penknives ;
Pencils ; Scissors ; Ivory Combs ; Velvet
bindings ; red Morocco Pocket books;
Ladies' Morocco Pocket books and Thread
cases; shirt Wires; Ink Powder; Tapes;
Bobbins, &c.
Carpets 8 Carpeting
PAPER HANGINGS & BOR
DERS, at reduced prices.^
&All those indebted to him
and whole time of credit has expired,
are fefpedfully requeued to make
payment, without a more particular
motion.
Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH, N. H. Printed and Published every
Vol. XIII.] SATURDAY, January 29,1803.
to
Or ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL)
PROSPERITY, RELIGION & MORALITY are indispensable /
supports.— Washington's Legacy. J
Wteb States
AFRICAN independence twenty yea#.
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Jeremiah Libbey,|
(Though late,yet with no less Sincerity);
returns his thanks to his friends and ;
fellow-citizens for their exertions dur-"
ing the late diftreffiog fire, in saving his
papers and property,and informs them ,
and the public, that he has taken a!
store on Spring-hill where he tranfadsl
business as usual, and where is for sale !
A general assortment of
W.l.Goods & Groceries,
viz. Rum, Brandy, Gin, Molallcs,
Coffee, Cotton, Loaf, India and
Brown Sugars, Hylon, Souchong
and Bohea Teas, Russia and
Swedes Iron, Salt pr# Hhd, 4d,
6d, lod, and 2od Nails, Powder
and Shot, Flints, Indigo, Pepper,
Spices,Ginger, Allum, Copperas,
Dye Woods, Raisins, Tobacco,
Segars; Wine Glasses, Tumblers,
Decanters, together with many
other articles, as cheap as at any
store in Portsmouth.
N. B. The following articles
were laved from the flames, but
are yet miffing, viz, 1 bbl. Sugar,|
I bag Pimento, 1 box containing
Poland Starch; and 1 final! calk
Rice, any information refreshing ;
them will be thankfully received, 1
and any person having them in |
possession is requested to return
them. January 21, 1803;
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t-hfofefcfc^«+ «frtskte+eA
^ Occasioned by the late diftreffngfire. T
,Joseph & Joshua Haven, $
* Have removed to the store lately occupied#
so by Meffrt.Lang Brierty ^Co. in Court Street,
"find nearly opposite the Nrabampfoire Union,
£Bank ; where they have for Sale a new and^
!extenfive assortment of Fall and WintirE
GOODS, wholesale and retail.
i N. ft. American made BEAVER HATS,^
\and Broerl,„BED TICK as usual. 1,
Portfmoutb, January 7, lßoj. I
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James Henderson,
HAS taken a (hop in the
Dwelling-Houle of Mr.
Richard Billings, Congress-street,
where he is opening a general afr|
fortment of English and India
GQODS
Cheap for Cash. January 14.
WH ER^ASMT^AMUEL
ha^y, st his own, and great |
expence, bum a Wharf, and made a
Dock, fafe and commodious for vessels, at
his Jfland at the Shoals, which have been
of great advantage to those concerned jn
Navigation and the Fithery : And where-j
as these works have been the means, under
Providence, of saving the lives and prop
erties of many, yet have never yielded him
any profit, but on the contrary he lias been
at great expehce in keeping them in re
pair, which he is no longer able to fop
port. And whereas the wharf has lately
luffered great damage, and the works must
be irreparably ruined uulefs some repairs
are foot )made, and that before the Com
monwealth, or the United States, (both
Os which have been applied to for relief)
can take up the matter, and interpole to
lave them.
Therefore the said Samuel Ha
ley for his own and the benefit of
the Public has opened a fubjerip
tion paper and those merchants and
Mariners who are disposed to affif
in this ireful and philanthropic
work are defred toforward a small
film to Mark Simes,e/g. pojl-mafer
Portfmouth. A
The Portland printers are requeued to
insert this gratis.
Portsmouth, January 21, 1803.
^ Wanted to Hire,
A HOUSE capable of ac
commodating a genteel
family of 10 or 12 persons. ap
ply to the Printers.
NEW ALMANAC -
A new Almanac for Ladies and Gentlemen,
by Asa Houghton, is just received mud for sale
at the Portsmouth Bookstore.
Cafb, and the highest price
given for RAGS, at this office.
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Spanish Cruelties.
T c
1 N the Aurora, a paper as r ofe\ to
be more particularly under patron
age of the Fixlidene Ufo other,
the editor, remarking on ameetingoi
the merchants 6f Philadelphia to con
fider what Reps it would be proper to
pursue to obtain redress for Spanish
injuries, observes, “ their tilence we ap
plaud, as an aft of decency and dis
cretion. The beji disposition prevails in
Spain towards our government." — Thus,
this infilent foreigner, who has no na-;
tire attachments here, this infoleut
outcast, takes every opportunity, as
mightrfoe expected,to fide with foreign-I
ers, whether French or Spanish,againß|
the Americans. And our good, hn-1
mane, and patriotic Prefldent, has'dif-;
tinguilhed, and continues to diffinguifh
him as his particular favorite !
The following is a more particular
account of the ill-usage of capt. Row
an than what we lately published. —
The A mefican people will fee from the
perolal of it, in what manner )we are
blejed with peace and jiiendfoip 'abroad,
according to the President ; and of the
beftdifpofition of the Spaniards, according
to his editor.
The seizure of the Ship Hazard,capt.
Rowan, of Providence, at V^paraifo,
has been already mentioned. The
fallowing particulars of that Shameful
tranfadion have been communicated
by a gentleman who was art eye-wit-:
nefs, and belonged to the Ship Maionto- ;
nomi, of Connecticut, seized 4nd con
demned at Valparaiso.
The Ship Hazard, Capt. Rowan,
bound to the N. W. Coast, put into
Valparaiso for refrefliment,. After ly
ing in the harbour Gine ur '^ theGov->
ernor demanded capt. R's papers, and ,
invited him ashore, in order to their de
livery. He accordingly went alliore,:
when the Governor told him be !
must deliver up what muskets hel
had on board, before he should re-|
turn his papers. Capt.. R. replied,he|
should not give them up, unleG com
pelled bv a superior force, and repaired
on board. In the afternoon, capt. IL
feeing the Governor with a strong
guard of soldiers coming from ihore, ,
immediately ordered his guns loaded,
and placed ceatries at the gangways.
The Governor intimidated at his pro
cedure,went alongside of the brig Lilia-
Bird, capt. Staler, of Virginia, then at
Valparaiso, who understood the Span
ish language, and requested hiip to afc
capt. R. why he charged his guhs ? He
replied to defend his property. The
Governor then requested hitri to aik
capt. R. if he with his guard could be
permitted on board ?. Capt. R replied
that he Should be happy to wait on the
Governor, but should not permit his
guard on board. He accordingly took
capt. Shaler into the boat, went along
fide, and, the Governor and cuttom
houfe officer went op board ; but on
capt. R's refufing to deliver his muskets
the Governor repaired on Shore, order?
ed the guns of tb e fort, loaded, and di-,
reded a large Ship of 24 guns, then in
the harbour, to be. manned, and her
guns loaded,when they hoitHd theSpari
ifh flag on Shore and on board the ship,
and fired a Shot at the Hazard. Capt.
R. immediately hoisted the American
ensign at his mizen-peak, and pendant
at the main-top-gallant-bead, and or
dered them both nailed^ They then
hailed capt. R. and told him to come
on Shore, or they would fink him. He
replied " fink and be d d." Bufo
nets remained in this filiation for two
days, the Spaniards not daring to fire
on the Ship. They, however, erected
batteries along the beach, and kept
matches lighted continually.
Capt. IF. observing their manoeuvres
and Superiority of force, lent word to
the Governor,if he would fend on board
three men, agreeable to the treaty,and
give him a certificate of seizure, of his
muSkets, he would deliver them up ;
which was agreed to, and done— Capt.
R. now drew the charges from his guns
and hauled down his colours ; but the
Spaniards still kept lighted matches on
Shore. Tbe Governor then sent for
capt, R. on Shore, who returned for an
swer, that if he would give him his
word and honour that his person Should
not be Injured he would go. The Gov
ernor replied, he could not. Capt. R.
now feeing they were determined to lake
i iaiI yI 1 l u.. .»-> irtha.. jm^., ... w .fe/QQ_te/m>t&fr a _
his fliip, refolded f, go on Shore- a r y
: threw hmifelfinto their hands. He a<.
cordingly ordered a >oa\ and made ev
l ery thing in readineG to go on Shore
^. r on the ro # =nmg be bveTwed to ,^
drl;,;fflfe? 4,!%vl{i>y!'k
hundred men ffom die aforementioned'
flitp; under preterite of going affiore
at Almaaia, as usual, for a load of'
wheat, the men lying in the bottom of
the boat and covered with bags.—
It being very 'early in the morn
ing, the greater part of capt. R's
men were in their hammocks, and
;he'riot being in a fate of defence, the
I villains took the advantage, and cut
} the n^en to peices -hardly one escaping
; without a wound ! One of his meti
I being tick in his hammock, was thrown
I out, and Shot through the arms while
failing. The villains now began to
i cry out for the captain, who on feeing
their determination, had, with the fur
, geon Secreted himfeif in his date-room,
the clerk and two mates being in the
run. They then began to fire into the
cabin through the sky-lights and cabin
doors, not daring to venture in. A
Spanish captan of a brig then lying
there, luihed into the date-room, and
told the villains if they killed the one
they should the other, and by this
means saved capt. R's life. But be
fore they got him into the boat they
robbed him ofhis watch, coat, and hat,
he went on thore in his shirt sleeves,
and bareheaded, and was, dohed by the
j inhabitants until conduced to the castle
jand elofely confined. -The villains now
:having , pofeffion of the fhip,hoided the
American ensign union down, about
half-mad, then hauled it down, and
damped on it. They then, after taking
all the officers arid men out of the grip
; and robbing them in the fame manner
" as they had done capt. R. began plun
-1 dering, which laded all that day and
night, and indeed the next day, when
the ship was lighted 1 $ inches..
[Providence Gar.
' ™«> tffl to^*" CTM *MraroUflty|fflflHtytEflrcmmommmt^ - ^——— ——■—
I The following judicious duel well written
1. Defence of Federal Editors,
;from the Gazette of the United States will
richly reward a clcfe, attentive perifat.
WE find ourselves irrefidibly called upon,
in justice to that cause, which it has been
4 our earnest labour ta support, to Hand forth in
a direct and serious vindication of the manage
ment of our press and our conduct as editors,
We have the heart to comply with the imperi
ous and extraordinary circilmftances, which
command this exertion, and @e hope, that our
nonefty, our candour pod our zeal, will be found
equal to the talk. Attack from every quarter,
and on every fide, from the chief magistrate of ,
the nation down co the ioweft menial of his par
ty, from individuals and frpm public bodies,
from Legislatures and, from Governor, is ftiri
oufly and indifcriminatdly directed against the
presses, which are under the direction of federal
men. There must then be an astonishing and
unwarrantable licentiousness in the ufc of a mod
invaluable right ; or if tkere is not, it is fair to
conclude, that the free and just exercise of this
right has excited a fcrious dread of the conse
quence, and produced, a daring and impudent
attempt to curtail or destroy it. Tp investigate
tfe fafl, and place this.bufinefs upon a fair foot
ing,we {ball proceed to declare,with freedom,the
principles, by whigh we avow ourselves to be
governed, and to foew that the character of oar
own. ,paper, and the .management of our press
exhibit no striking aberration from these princi
pled '>
We have declared heretofore, that with u,
private character is fared ; but upon this point
we would be folly underload. The individual
citizen, who quietly purines his business, and
who is removed from all concern with the gov
ernment and the adminiftracion of its affairs is
mod effectually fhiclded, in character and con
du&, from our analysis or remark. If such an
one thinks tit,rity"er by open outrage or by secret
vice, to violate me positive institutions of socie
ty or to spurn at moral restraint, be is left both
for punifhmept and corredbon, to the condem
ning voice of his fellow men, and to the ven
geance of infrared law. We touch him not.
If, however, an individual steps forth as an ad
vocate of opinions, either imprudently or insi
diously hoflile to that constitution, those prin
ciples of government, and those laws, which we
deem ourselves bound to support and transmit
unimpaired, or to that fyfletn of moral and re
ligious duty which, we conceiye to be inter
woven with the dearest interest of foeicty, we
shall never regard the attack with unconcern^
n6r by our fflence give fan&ion to the sacrilege.
Every innovator upon established fyflem Should
confided, that the public avowal of bis theo'ry is
not a mere sport of opinion,and a mere challenge
to argument,but that by such avowal he pj< fonts
his own character & CQndu&forfcrutiny,b, which
may be tested the foundoefs and operation of his
opinions. Such an one, therefore, is a
fair object of attack, when the attack is re
trained within these limits and governed ty
this principle. Let us shew, fforn the private
charadler And conduct of the apostles & preach
ers of democracy and irreligion, that the arts of
the former, lead dire&ly to the attainment of
power which is fought for merely to tffc& the
proftratiou of liberty, law, and right, and that
Satu,<la. Morning,by W,ll'm <f Da^'l. Treadwell.
I?RfCE bSE ^LI AR AND FIFIY CENTS PER ANN. [No. 16,
f C:LADrV? VIS^MENTSr^.z " 10 4% conspicuously inserted —COMMIT
<'NtCAWfo« - AAj attended io- .f ec^y Fai da thankfully acknowl-
C EDGED.
— ™^& > FOURTEE^H YEAR. ^
Advertiser.
®ratte, anb
the prircipka of the latter tend dire&ly toriakr
fotiet, ravage ar.J rhe world a wilderncQ and
co min purely will contend that we havtyhneh
ed ~ ir:.te chapes ufrnftly & withou'A cause
Let us (hew. that the mao, who bawls loudest
hr 'for of liberty and equality, who lifts up
'U??'*- ? :^i°fc the rid^ of the kvi,
'sfwge£ them wgfottypi©Bty #4 ^regard 3
right, is himfeff the matter ot fhves, id a fern
tyrant in his own petty dominions, or that ha
knows no refraint and acknowledges no law
ion his own farrti, or in his uwn neighbourhood;
; and we thus surely giew to fotiety, that the
I counsels of Tuch.a man are as rotten as his prin
' ciples, that he fecks not the welfare of his fel
§low-citizens, but an extension of hi# own au
thority, an expansion of the limits of his QWij
:tyranny. Let us (hew, that the man, who pro
;mulges the creed of atheism, who publicly,
preaches, chat that holy religion, which was the
flay of our fathers, and is the hope of that
children, is an idle device and an empty fable,is
himfelf the 11ive of lawless pallion, of gross and
sensual appetites, is the seducer of innocence,the
Violator of the marriage bed, and the destroyer
bf female peace, that he ctibats his neighbour,
wrongs his friend, and tramples upon law,fight,
and feeling, Inflead of offering violence to
private charter we merely shew, by living ex
ample and from practical operation the perni
cious, fatal and abhorrent tendency of an evil
opinion.—lt is in this particular, in cases of at,
tack tfpbntpernicioiis doarine, by forcible ^nd
pungent i!luftraticm of its confeauences, th#t
we are, often filfely condemned, that ouC
motives are most nncharitably mifconbeived,an4
our exhibition ol the individual as a pattern of
his principles erroneously taken fob wanton per
fonalicy and accrue! attack upon private char
ader. But cur diftinaiog is a marked one,
and the judicious will nut fail to perceive it.
In the neic place, we are free to avow the 0-
pinion, that, the h,do whose courses in private
life arejricinify and immoral, whose practice 8c
habit#formate a disregard of the laws and in
t+reftt.< fotitty ought to be considered as des
titute cl an clfential qualification for office.—
Hence it ^ ill be feco that we regard as a duty
of prime importance, to Scrutinize with nicety
but at the fame time withtruth and fairnefs,the
characters of men in office, and the charader#
of men who are; prerented to the public eye as
candidates rorofficial Stations Upon these points
we Should expect -to find a difference from dur
opinion: uriy among Lose WOTakHs and.ftiit
looser politicians. Let the question be tried ei
ther by opinion ^r feeling. Afle the citizen of
plain judgment and uncorrupted morals, wheth»
er he can confect to fee at the head of the gov
ernmett, as the source of that po&er which is
to execute the laws of the land, a man, who has
himfelf forgotten all law, who has invaded
the dearr,ft rights ofhis friend, who has Slander
ed the pi?reCfcharacter in our fotiety, who has
made a mockery of our religion, and who is the
associate, the companion, the friend, and Sup
porter of thieves, of drunkards, of outcasts and
infidels F Afc him if it is befitting, that the
laws of the land should be^made by men who
have drank the. tears of the widow, and fat
tened Upon the fpoils.of the orphan ? Aik him
to look at drunkenness and-fury in the chair of
State, at knavery and profligacy in the receipt
of the public money ; at treachery and perjury
in the limy ; at imbecility in our public cm
baffies ; and at incest in the high road to exal
tation upon the feat of,judgment. His feelings
and his opinion will afford no weak or tardy il
lustration of the fopridnefs of our principle. The
truth is, that the connexion is roost near, inti
mate and important between puttie and private
cbaraaer ; and if a falfe and frivolous philoso
phy be fuffered to fever this connection, all fa
cial excellence is gone forever. Who then will
fay, it is not rhe duty of those who profefs tg
give information to their fellow-citizens upo^
great and national fubjeCls, thoroughly to fcaia
the characters of the rule, and of the candi
date for public favor ? It is from a strong ini
preiTiTCufduty io this particular, that we have
fought to analyze the characters of our politi
cal adtferfaries, to prefect them fairly to the
eyes of their constituents, and to exhibit those
traits of unworthiness, which justly cause the
detestation of good men aid a forfeiture of the
public confidence.
We have no^ freely unfolded the
principles, which we declare to govern
ntir press in all scrutiny of character, and
we again repeat our solemn disavowal
of any inyafion of the privacy of retired
life, and of any violence to private fee'
ling. Wealfo utterly disclaim all uau
ton and unfounded attack upon the char
ader of public men, but we are bold
in the affection of our right, and read/
in the acknowledgment of pur duty and
difpofftion, to deleft political and mor
alimpofture, to (trip off Rolen plumes;
arid to expose villainy, meanness and
pollution, when covered by the robes
of office. We shall be fuffered, now, tp
advert to the high and imposing char-^
ges, that are made against us, which,
if substantiated would go to the destruc
tion of our credit with the public, bu^
which; if Ihewu to be unfounded, will
recoil with tenfold ffrength upon our
exalted accusers. It Shall, therefore,
be our attempt to shew, so fasas M
pia&icable, the unison between out
principles and cm practice.
I The difficulty of Shewing what wt
i have not done, will be obvious to every
candid reader. We Shall, therefore, iri
the hot place, challenge the whole heft
of our political adversaries, including
governors, fegiffatures and printers, te
exhibit in the management bf our Gan