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Sec. 2. And be it further enabled, that in case
'of the re-exportation from the United States of
goods, wares, and merchandizes, imported
thereinto in foreign Chips or vcffels, no part of
the additional duty imposed by law on such
goods, wares, and merchandizes, on account of
their importation in such Chips or vcffels, shall
be allowed to be drawback ; but that the whole
of the said additional duty shall be retained in
planner aforefaid, in addition to the rate per
centum by this and former ads directed to be
retained.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
. Speaker of the House of Rcpefcntatiles.
Tn: JEFFERSON,
Vice- Pref dent of the United States, and
Pref dent of the Senate.
Approved—May 13th, A. D. i^co.
JOHN ADAMS,
Prfdent of the tended States.
Published by Authority.
Sixth Corf^refs oj the United States,
At the firfl fcffion, begun and held at the city of
Philadelphia, in the Hate of Pennsylvania,
on Monday the 2d of December, 1799.
Lin ACT to retain a further fam on draw
backs, for the exhelifer incident to the al
lowance and payment thereof, and in lieu
offamp duties on debentures.
_ T)E it enabled by the Senate and House of
°°' 1) Reprefentutiiu of the United States
of America, in Congress assembled, That from
and after the thirtieth day of June next, two
and one-half per centum on the amount of all
drawbacks, allowed or to be allowed by law,
upon and for the reexportation from the Uni
ted States of goods, wares, or merchandizes
imported therinto, shall be retained for the
use of the United States, by the collectors pay
ing such drawbacks refpe&ively; and in addi
tion to the sum of one and one quarter per
centum 'j retofore directed by law to be so re
tained.
An ACT to appropriate a certain Jum of
money to defray the expense of holding a
treaty or treaties ^ith the Indians.
See. I. DE it enuAed by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States
of America, in Congress affembted. That a sum not
exceeding fifteen thousand dollars be appropri
ated, to defray the expense of such treaty or
treaties, as the President of the United States
shall deem it expedient to hold with the Indians
fouth of the river Ohio : Provided, nothing in
this a& contained shall be construed to admit
an obligation on the part of the United States
to extinguish, for the benefit of any Rate or in
dividual citizen, Indian claims to any lands ly
ing within the limits of the United States; and
that the compensation to be allowed to any of
the commissioners, who may be appointed for
negotiating such treaty or treaties, shall not
exceed, exclusive of travelling expenses, the rate
of eight dollars per day during the time of
a&ual service of such commissioner.
Sec. 2. And be it further enabled. That the
sum aforefaid shall be paid out of any monies
in the Treasury of the United States, not other
wise appropriated.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Tu: JEFFERSON,
Vice-Pref dent of the United States, and
President of the Senate.
Approved—May 13, A. D. 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of the United States.
BE it enabled by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America, in
Congress ffmbled, That the proper accounting
officers of the Treasury be, and they are here
by authorized to fettle the accounts of the mili
tia, who served on an expedition commanded
by major Thomas Johnson against the Indians,
in the year one thousand seven hundred and
ninety-four, and that the fame be paid out of ti
ny monies in the Treasury not other wife appro
priated.
An ACT directing the payment of a de
tachment of the militia under the com
mand of major Thomas fohnfon, in the
year one thousand fam hundred and
ninety-four.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
, Speaker of the House of Reprefcntatives.
Tn: JEFFERSON,
Vice-President of the United States, and
Prudent of the Senate.
Approved—May 1% A. D. 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
President of the United States.
'An ACT to amend an aft, intituled " an
act to efablif) the 'Judicial Courts of
the United States."
BE it enabled b, tbe Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That Jurors to serve in the
courts of the United States shall be designated
by lot, or otherwise, in each Rate or diftrift re
fpedtively, according to the mode of forming
juries to serve in the highest courts of law there
in now pradifed; so far as the fame fhali ren
der such designation practicable by the courts
and marshals of the United States.
THEODORE SEDGWICK,
Speaker of the House ts Representatives.
Th: JEFFERSON, ,
Pice-Prefdent of the United States, and
Prefdent of the Senate.
Approved —May 13th A. D. 1800.
JOHN ADAMS,
Prefdent of the United States.
Laws of the Union.
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR.
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PORTSMOUT H, N.H. Printed and Published every SATURDAY
the United States,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1800.
CHAPTER LXIV.
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE INDISPENSTBLE SUFFORTS.
CHAPTER LXIII.
CHAPTER LXII.
CHAPTER LXI.
The BRITISH MINIS L'ER and the
JACOBIN CHIEFS.
Every rcfident in Philadelphia for
these two winters pad mutt have no
ticed the manner in which the Jacobin
chiefs, in and out of Corigrefs, have
swarmed round Mr. Liston and his la
dy. On every occasion, at every levee,
at every dinner party, at every supper,
and every ball given by the minister,
the party assembled was composed of
at least two thirds Jacobins. If at a
distance in the street you saw a bow un
usually servile, or an affected smile from
ear to car, aimed at the Britifo Pair,
on a nearer approach you were fare to
find a Livingtton, a fefferfon, a Galla
tin, a M'Kean, or a Dallas, thus engag
ed in " grinning horribly their ghastly
smiler.” And what is more extraordi
nary, we find that Mr. Liston has ac
tually been at Monticello to return the
attentions of Mammoth—and for what
we know, to attend a Caucus of Jaco
bins—What does all this mean ?
A QUERIST.
N. B. To increase our alarm the Ja
cobin Editors have not said one word
against Britifo Gold, for a long time
past! Philad. Gaz.
' [What does all this mean? Is it ano
ther " coalition flory—is it truth —-or is
it fun ?]
This extraordinary eater has been sick nearly
3 years, and confined most part of the time, till
very lately he has recovered his health to such a
degree that he is able, with some afilftance, to
walk his room and ride out.
Happy for New-HampChire, that this gor
mandizer inhabits the regions of Vermont,
where bis kindred Lion may welcome him to the
enjoyment of a goodly inheritance.
The following account of eating and drink
ing to excess, is said to be an absolute fa&. A
man, not more than 4 leagues from this place,
drank, at one breakfaft, 18 large cups of tea, and
ate victuals in proportion ; immediately after
this he consumed three pints of bread and milk ;
and this, 0 glutton, did not fatisfy his voracious
appetite !
" Ten rods from my liotife is build
ing the Brig Marietta of eighty tons.
She will be laden with flour, and other
produce of our fcttlement, and will de
feend the Ohio and Miffifippi, to the At-,
lantic, in February next, carrying 800
barrels of flour. The industrious per
severance of the YANKEYS, have
travelled here with us. It is matter
of congratulation to us, in this fettle--
ment, that the Connecticut Reserve is
soon to be peopled with inhabitants
from New-England, whose manners &
habits are more congenial to ours, than
those of the other parts of the territo
ry."
NEW-HAVEN, AUGUST 17.
Extract of a tetter from a Gentleman at Marietta,
to bis friend in this City, dated July 20, I 800.
" Our country is populating with I
mazing rapidity, and we shall loon form
a State of the Territory. Forests bow
beneath the hardy hand of industry.
Towns spring up, as it were, out of the
earth. Qur Rate will be of considera
ble importance in a few years. From
its centre the navigable rivers flow on
one hand, by the Ohio and MiHifippij
into the Gulph of Mexico ;—on the o
ther, by the lakes, into the Gulph of St.
Lawrence. Thus our commerce will,
in time, occupy those two grand arte
ries of North-America.
St. Nicol's.]
St. Nicols, Feb. 28, 1800.
SIR.
OBSERVING in the Philadelphia
Daily Advertiser of Sept. 7. 1799,
an article dated Alexandria, Adg. 23 —
" Died on Friday morning the 16th
inst. near Dumfries, Mr. Daniel Ford,
in the 20th year of his age, of that
dreadful malady the Hydrophobia, ve
ry much and very justly refpe&ed " —
(He was bitten, as I observed by a mad
dog, in the neck) I have here sent you
an infallible cure for the bite of a mad
d°g;
The leaves of rue, picked from the
stalks and bruited—Venice treacle or
mithridate, and scrapings of pewter,
each four ounces—boil all these togeth
er over a flow fire in two quarts of ale,
till one pint is consumed—keep it in a
bottle close flopped—give of it nine
fpoonfuls, a little warm to the person
bit, seven mornings fucceflivcly, and fix
to a dog, to be given for nine days af
ter the bite ; apply also some of the in
gredients to the part bitten,
N. B. This receipt was taken out of
Cathrop Church, in Lincolnshire, the
whole town almost being bitten, and
not one person that took this medicine
but what was cured.
[Thefollowing me have jnjl received from England,
from the Rev. Wm. GORDON, Redior of
Your humble firv^r. Wro GORDON.
From the Gazette of the U. S.
HANOVER, SEPT. 8.
ASTONISHING !
convoy; as Capt. Talbot in a very proper man
ner, was so well acquainted with the vcffels
under his charge, that he assured the Lieutenant
' of the Chip, whom I sent on board for that pur
pofc, that upon his hono> they were all belong
ing to fubje&s of the U. S. and carrying no
property belonging to the enemies of Great
Britain; that he was well acquainted with the
owners and others concerned in every one of
them. After such an affiirance from Capt. Tal
bot, who appeared to aft in the most honora
ble manner, I could have no cause to doubt his
word, nor wish to delay him one moment lon
ger by claiming that right of Powers at War,
of examining allNcUtAl veffclsaccording to the
practice and laws of all nations, more especially '
coming from an enemy's port. 1 have already |
wrote to Capt. Talbot; and 1 beg you will ;
take the earliest opportunity, and most public,'
to attend to my request ; and Ihould it have ap
peared in other Newspapers, that the Editorsi
of such may also contradict it.
I am, Sir, yours, &c. ROBERT LAURIE.|
Captain of His Britannic MajeffsJbip th ;
Andromache. ;
" It may be necessary further to obferVe,that,
, while thofeOrders tend to encourage fuch.Com
merce immediate', nvitb Great Britain or Ireland —•
they will probably be confirmed into a tacit per
mission to harrafs dill further the trade carried
on by neutrals with the enemies of those coun
tries.— At any rate, vcrills not provided with
the Certificates mentioned in this Order, will
be liable to interruption in their voyages, to be
carried into port by English cruifcrs, (public
and private)—and probably in many instances
will be condemned in Courts of Admiralty,
where the property is not indubitably proved
to be neutral—the burthen of which proof will
be thrown on the claimants.
To the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser.
His Majfly'sfof Andromache,
SIR, Halifax, Sept. 3, 1800.
I have observed in your paper (the Mercan
tle Advertiser) of the 22d August, an article of
information from Capt. Parsons of the schooner
Fox, from Charleston, Augufr 8, Rating, that
on his passage from Cape Francois,under convoy
of the U. S. frigate Constitution, Capt. Talbot,
on the 30th July, an English ship came into the
fleet, sent his boat on board the Commodore,
afterwards made fail, and flood to the westward.
" We learnt from the Commodore," fays he,
" that fr.e was called the Andromache, from
Halifax. The captain of the English frigate re
quelled the Commodore to permit him to over
haul the fleet; But he would not permit him."
As the last paragraph is lb notorious a falfe
hood, inferred (as I conceive) only to depreciate
the character of a British officer, in the eyes of
the ignorant and uninformed ; as I can hardly
believe any others would give credit to it, as
the whole world mull have learnt that the
British navy will do its duty upon all occasions;
I request you will take the earliest opportunity
to contradict it ; and I am certain that Capt.
Talbot so far from having given the informa
tion your Paper mentions, if he had seen the a
bove mentioned paragraph, feeling as an officer
must do, whose character is at stake, by such
villainous and dangerous misrepresentations,
would himfelf have desired you to contradict it.
I had no cause to have wished to overhaul the
George R.
Infractions to our Courts of Admiralty, and to
Commanders of our Ships of War and Pri-
L. S. vateers. Given at our Court at St. James's
the twelfth day of June, 1800, in the For
tieth Tear of our Reign
WHEREAS by an Adi passed in the present
Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Alt to
permit the importation of Goods and Commodities
from Countries in America, belonging to any Foreign
European Sovereign, or State, in Neutral Ships,
until the tsuenty-nintb day of September, One Thou
jand Eight Hundred and One." We are author
ized to grant Licences for the importation into
this Kingdom, from any Country in America,
. belonging to any Foreign European Sovereign
or State, any Goods or Commodities of the
Growth or Produce, whether manufactured or
otherwise of any such Country, not prohibited
to be used or consumed in this Kingdom, un
der certain Reftri&ions, in any Ship or Vcffel,
belonging to any State in Amity with Us; —
We are therefore graciously pleased to direct,
that Neutral Ships coming with such Cargoes,
under the Protection of our Special Licences, grant
ed under the Authority of the said ad; shall
not be interrupted in their Voyages by oar
Cruizers, and Private Ships of War, upon produc
ing the, Licences so granted ; and if they should be
brought into our Ports for Adjudication, they
shall be forthwith liberated by. our Courts of
Admiralty, upon its being ffiewn that the
Claimants have obtained such Licences, and
have conformed to the Regulations prescribed
therein. By bis Majesty's Command,
PORTLAND.
The Dock Company of Hull, have reduced
the “ Dues" on American vessels entering that
Port from 3/6 to 1/9 pr. ton, provided one talf
the cargo consists of Weft India Produce for
exportation. This regulation is to continue in
operation for 12 callehdcr months. This infor
mation has been officially communicated to the
American Consul.
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER Ip.
Important to Commerce.
pKtraa of d letter from Halifax, Sept. Bfi,lßoo.
“ Presuming that any new Orders or Induc
tions relative to American, or neutral Com
merce, may be eagerly fought after by Merch
ants and. others engaged in such Traffic, I have
procured the original printed inftruaions, re
ceived per the last Packet from England, by
the judge of the Vice Admiralty Court for this
Province ; and herewith enclose you a correct
copy, just taken, and compared by & with the
original.
" We have now lying in this harbor a num
ber of vessels with American colors flying, sent
in, under different pretexts, for examination—l
can truly fay that the fight is very difagrecable
to me, and I fincercly wish that the two coun
tries (Great Britain and America) may come
to a better understanding with each other."
ARTICLES PER MAILS
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TWELFTH YEAR: N
©rack of tbe ^p.
— - ——-=, .^..^^—_—t&—rp_^~^pqc^_^^^_^^„
Morning, by CHARLES PEIRCE, Printer & rhe Laws &c. of
in New-Hampihire.
PRICE 1 DOLLAR go CENTS Per Annum
The Editor of the New-Tori Gazette fays —
"We have it from authority which we canntt
doubt, that Burk, the fellow who some time face
printed the " Time Piece" in this city, was lately
bung in England.
PORTLAND, SEPT. 8.
Number of inhabitants in the town of Portland
according to a late Census.
WHITE MALES.
Under io years of age, - 560
Between 10 and 16 yeats - 29%
Betweeh 16 and 26 - - 421
Between 26 and 45 - - 414
45 years arid upwards - - 110
Total white males, 1797
WHITE FEMALES.
Under 10 years of age - - ji6
Between 10 and i6years - - 262
Between 16 and 26 - - - 413
Between 26 and 45 ... 390
45 years and upwards - - 177
Total white females 1758
Total of whites 3555
People of colout 122
Total of Inhabitants 5677
In the course of fix weeks, forty-five persons,
mostly children, died of the Dyfcntery, in Pe
terborough N. H. and about the lame number
in Antrim. at Baltimore.
Sept 11. Deaths the hl 124l 24 hours, 38 ; lick
in hospital, 77. at pr^viuence.
Sept. 14. Since the last report, two persons
have deceased of the fever ; three have recover
ed ; three new cases have been reported ; and
eight persons ate now sick. Twenty-two per
sons have died of the fever this summer in this
town. Forty-fcven is the whole number that
have been fuk
Boston, sept. 23.
A letter from Richmond, by yester
day's Mail, dated Sept. 1, 1800, fays,
" A very important fubjed now occu
pies the attention of the Executive. A
nioft alarming plot of the blacks hav
ing been difeovered which was to have
been put in execution last night, had it
not been detected—in which an undis
tinguished massacre of the whites was
to have taken place without regard to
age or fcx. We are happy to add, that
the leaders are taken, and we have no
doubt will be brought to condign pun
ishment."..
A London Paper of July 9, fays, “ by private
letters from Bourdeaux (France) we are inform
ed, that the only carriage now in that once opu
lent city, belongs to the American Minister's
Lady, Mrs. Fenwick ; in that city, which once
contained five hundred splendid carriages !" .
[Mr. Fenwick is not an American Minifler
at France : he was formerly an American Con
sul there ; and report, whether founded in truth,
or the contrary, is not known, has implicated
him as being one of the number of those Ame
ricans in France who have fitted out privateers
to prey upon the commerce of their country.]
delphia.
" Our apostate Parson, Joel Barlow, is actu
ally employed by the Minifler for Foreign Af
fairs, Talleyrand, at a salary of 7500 livres (about
1400 dollars) to take the lead in the American
private correspondence. This ought to be
known, that he may be lindcrftbod in future."
AT NORFOLK.
Sept. 6. Deaths, for the hft four days, fwen/,-
ibree ; new cases of the fever, fifty-two.
When the Ganges arrived in the Delaware,
eleven of her crew had the yellow fever, three
have since died, the others are convalescent, and
no new cases has occurred.
SPRINGFIELD, SEPT. X.
Au Accident on Training. Day.
We hear the following unfortunate accident
took place at South-Hadley on Monday the :§th
ule the day on which a company of militia
were to assemble for the purpose of perfecting
themselves in manual exercise, as preparatory
of their appearance at the general review in
September inst—A few young men proceeded
early in the day to the house of one of their
companions, who was lately chosen into a sub
ordinate office in the company, with a view to
honor him with a salute, and to execute a deal
of beroifm, commonly termed taking an officer. —
The firft who arrived, had taken their officer,
and where regaling themselves with a treat,
when two others were seen advancing toward
the house; the front door was then closed. As
toon as these two arrived, one of them difeharg
ed his piece at the foot cf the door, which imme
diately burst op^n; he flopped forward unper
ceived, and just raised himfelf high enough up
on the steps to receive the contents of a gun
(discharged from within, at about fix feet dift
auce) under his left bread, which penetrated
through his coat, veil, shirt and carried awaf
about one inch of a rib, but did not penetrate
into the body of the lungs. A piece of the rib
has been discharged, but the wad, which was
of paper, and the remaining part of the rib is
set behind—the difeharge of blood was consi
derable. He was a firm young man, and is now
the fourth day, in much better condition than
could be expected from such an injury. It is
very surprising that the force of the powder did
not drop him ; but he remained ered, and was
only by its force faced to the right. He appear
ed insensible of injury, until the queflion was put
are you hurt? Then calling his eye upon his
left bread, and raising his arm, perceived the
blood issuing from beneath, cried out, lam a
dead man. —Although in th*, infiance the young
men violated the orders and repeated cautions
of their superior officers ; yet there may be in
flances in other companies where the officers do
not take pains to prevent firing before roll call,
& after they are dismissed. It is very unfoldier
like to difeharge a gun on training days except
by express order of the commanding officer.
Extras of a letter from Paris, received at Phila-
STATE OF DISEASE.
Iconjurationsl conjurations or d,e EkAiQn of a President " has just
I been delivered to the public from the press of
* Mr. J. Furman. The able author has compref
;fed within a final! compass such proofs of Mr.
Jeffirfon's hoftility to the Bible, and to the
I pelfem and religion of Jesus Chrifl, as mull diffi-
I pate the errors which have been entertained on
I that fubjed by many honefl men. I shudder
iwhen I think that multitudes who profefs to
I embrace the gospel as the richest boon of f^a
, ven, are yet so infatuated as to exert them
selves to place in the Prefidentid chair, a man
who feoffs at the record of God, and vilifies the
Lord Jesus Cbriftwho is their hope. Surely this
portends no common judgement. If they have
really disbelieved the infidelity of Mr. fcffer
fon, we forgive the past; but as the demonstra
tion of that fad is now before their eyes, their
future incredulity will be without excuse. They
are intreated to read, to ponder, and to open
the cars of confcicricc to the voice of truth.
(N r. Gaz.)
[Tbe subsequent paragraphs are extracted from arc
Addreft delivered at Orrington, on Penobfeot Ri
ver, by Oliver Leonard, Ufa. at the late celebra
tion 0, American Independence. — The, are near
tb, of record.]
" Let every man who loves his country,
place himfelf as upon a watch tower, and guard
agiinft every innovation and encroachment up
on the eflablifhed principles of religion, moral
ity and civil government. While these arc
kept inviolate, our country is in fafety ! but let;
religion and its. divine precepts be set at nought,
moral arid sacred obligations vanifh.like a turn
ing dew, virtue and good government fall in the
ruins, and the final catastrophe can be no bet
ter portrayed, than to behold the French nation
in their present concalfionsf
See the effe&s of independence and good go
vernment in our own neighbourhood. Bur a
few years ago, the waters of this river flowed
solitary down the spacious channel, with here
and there an Indian bark, now bears tall ma
jestic ships, laden with the wealth of Europe and
the Indies. Those fair fields, where flocks and
herds of domestic animals graze and fatten, were
the lonely walk; and hiding places of the
Moose and Cariboo:—Temples creating to the
worship of GOD and the en joy ment of religion,
private dwellings of elegant and comfortable
appearance, shew, that prosperity is the reward
of virtue and independence."
This infed has made its appearaned
three times within my memory ; in that
part of Pennfylvama, lying between °
the Alleghany arid the Delaware. The
firft was in the year 1766 ; the second
in th- year 1783, and now in iSoo.
They undergo no transformation,
but from their embryo or egg Rate, to
the fliape they are in when found in the
earth, and from that to the Rate in
Which they appear when winged.
They are hatched from the egg by the
heat of the fun, being nourished by the
sap of the tree, (for the egr will perish
if the twig is cut off) and their firft ap
pearance is in the shape we find them
in the earth, they are then about the
size of a flea, and as aftive as they are
ever afterwards found to be ; they
remain in the earth seventeen years and
return at their appointed time—They
appear to live by absorbing the nutri
tious juices of the earth while there, as
the eggs do that of the tree while in
that ftite—when they corn: urn the
male takes a icanty supply of sap by
means of a final! tube he is provided
with for that purpose with when a?
penetrates the bark of the twig on which
he alights ; but their great purpofc in
air is that of propagation —.his lads
about a month, and they peri'h.
r Their appearance in liferent pirts
of America, are in different years —ln
the forks of Youghiog inia at one time,
in the Glades at another, and at a dif
ferent tinlein the Jersey, near the De
laware. Information refpeaing the
times and places of their appearance,
would be gratefully received, as they
are a nfeful animal, both palatable and
salutary for human food ; and their vi
sitation a blessing and not a curse to
the country.
I am, fir, your's &c. E. L.
Lewiibargh. June 13. 1800.
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