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Proposals will be received until the last day
of July next inclusive, at the Bank of the United
States, and the Offices of Discount and Deposit
at Boston, New-York, Baltimore, Norfolk, and
Charleston, for the purchase of One Million
and Five Hundred Thousand Dollars of Stock,
directed by the Secretary of the Treafury,to
be iffiied in pursuance of the abovementioned
contract. The proposals most advantageous to
the United States will be accepted, but noStock
will be issued at less than five per centum ad
vance, or one hundred and five dollars in money
for one hundred dollars in Rock. In case the
fams fpecified in similar proposals shall exceed
the amount of Rock offered for sale at the
places abovementioned, they will be accepted,
fubjed to a proportional deduction.
G - SIMPSON, Caih'r.
JUST RECEIVED,
And for sale at the Store f
S. Little,
On Spring-bill, A general assortment of
Engljh^ India GOODS.
— ALSO
A very Cheap and Complete Affirtment 0,
Seamens CLOTHING.
Tin, Crockery & Iron WARE.
About 309 pair Mens' SHOES.
All of which will be fold cheap for
Cath or dry FISH.
Portsmouth, ]Ay 4, 1800.
WHEREAS by an act of Con
gress paired on the seventh day
cf May, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eighthundred,the President of the United States
is authorized to borrow, on behalf of the United
States, from the Bank of the U. States, or from
any other body or bodies politic or corporate,
or from any person or perlons, and upop such
terms and conditions as he shall judge mod
advantageous for the United States, a sum not
exceeding Three Millions Five Hundred Thou
sand Dollafefo however, that no contrail or
engagement De made, which Ihall preclude the
United States from reimbursing any sum or
funis borrowed, at any time after the expiration
of fifteen years from the date of such Loan.—
And Whereas it is declared by said a&, that
so much as may be necessary of the surplus of
the duties on imports and tonnage, beyond the
permanent appropriations heretofore charged
upon them J)y law, Ihall be pledged and appro
priated for paying the interest ; and a,lfo for
paying and discharging the principal sum or
sums of all Qe monies which may be borrowed
according to the term or terms which may be
fixed pursuant to the authority aforefaid.—
AND WHEREAS by the said ad the faith of
the) United States is pledged to eftablilh fuffi
cieLt permanent revenues, for making up any
deficiency that may hereafter appear in the
provisions before mentioned for paying the in
terest and principal sums, or either of them, or
any monies which may be borrowed pursuant
to the said ad. AND WHEREASthc Pre
sident of the United States, did by an Aft or
Commission under his hand, dated the seven
teenth day of May, in the year one thousand
eight hundred, authorize and empower the
Secretary of the Treasury to borrow on behalf
of the United States, any sum not exceeding in
the whole Three Millions Five Hundred Thou
sand Dollars, and to make such contrast or con
trasts as should be necessary, and for the interest
of the United States, in pursuance of the act of
Coßgrefs above recited.
NOW THEREFORE, the undersigned
Secretary of the Treasury, in pursuance of the
a& of Congress and the authority from the
President of the United States above mentioned
— Doth Hereby, on behalf of the United States
of America, contract and engage in manner
following, to wit :
ift. There Ihall be created a funded Capital
Stock, to an amount hereafter to be designated
by the said Secretary, but not exceeding Three
Millions Five Hundred Thousand Dollars,
which Capital Stock Ihall be divisible into shares
of one hundred dollars each, bearing intcreft,
at eight per centum per annum, payable quart
er yearly at the Treasury of the United States,
or at the Loan Offices, where the said Stock
may Rand credited, until the last day of De
cember,in the year eighteen hundred and eight.
2d. After the last day of December in the
said year one thousand eight hundred and eight,
and after reasonable notice to the creditors,
which (hall be given by an advertisement in
some public newspaper printed at the feat of the
government of the United States, the said Cap
ital Stock Ihall be redeemable at the pleasure of
the United States, by the rcimburfement of the
whole sum or sums borrowed, and which may
Constitute the said Capital Stock, either at the
Treasury of the United States, or at the Loan
Offices where the fame may Rand credited.
3d. The credits for the said Capital Stock
ihall and may be separately certified in sums
either for one hundred, four hundred, one
thousand, four thousand, or ten thousand dollars,
and the credits so certified shall be transferable
by the creditors, or their attornies, at the Trea
sury and Loan Offices refpedively, in pursuance
of the rules which have been or which may be
established relative to the transfer of the funded
Stock of the United States.
4th. A fufficient sum of the surplus of the
duties on imports and tonnage beyond the per
manent appropriations heretofore charged upon
them by law—together with the faith of the
United States, arc hereby pledged for the fulfil
ment of this contract, in pursuance of and accor
ding to the terms and conditions of the aft of
Congress herein before recited.
GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of
the Treasury of the United States, at
Philadelphia, this second day of June,
+„ ° ne thousand eight hundred; and ofthe
the Independence the twenty-fourth.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Sec'y of the Treasury.
BANK of the UNITED STATES.
JUNE 21, 1800.
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR.
Obe ©nites States
POR fSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and Published every SATURDAY
the United States,
SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1800.
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND,HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE IN DI SfEN ST BLE SUPPORTS
Thirteenth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Portland in the Dißri& of
Maine. Gloucester, Cape Ann, Salem, Marble,
head, Boston, at Springfield, at Uxbridge, and
at any other place or places where troops arc
or may be Rationed, marched or recruited with
in the limits of the Rate of Massachusetts.
! Fourteenth. Proposals to supply all rations
that may be required at Portsmouth, at Exeter,
at Windsor, at Bennington, at Rutland, or at
any Fort, place or places, where troops are or
may be Rationed, marched or recruited withinl
the States of New Hampshire and Vermont.
Sixth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Norfolk, at Portfmoutb, at
Kempfville, at Charlotte ville, at Winchcßer,at
Staunton, at Richmond, at Alexandria, at Leef
burg, at Frederickfburg, at Carterfville, at Ha
per's Ferry, or at any other place or places
where troops are or may be Rationed, marched
or recruited, in the Rate of Virginia.
Seventh. Proposals to supply „11 rations that
may be required at Fort M'Henry, at Baltimore,
at Annapolis, at Frederick town, at Leonard
town, at Hagers town, at Bladenfburg, at George
town, at Eaftown, at the Head of Elk, and at
any other place or places, where troops arc or
may be Rationed, marched or recruited within
the limits of the Rate of Maryland.
Eighth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Fort Mifflin, at Philadel
phia, at Darby, at, Lancaster, at Wilkefbarre, at
Reading, at Bristol, at York town, at C^flifle,
at Lewiftown (Mifflin county) at Bedford, at
Greenfburg, at Washington, at Eaftown, at
Wilmington, at Chrißiana, at Dover, or at any
other place or places where troops are or m^y
be Rationed, marched or recruited within the
limits ol the Rates of Pennsylvania & Delaware,
except the posts within the Rate of Pennsylvania,
enumerated in the firß proposals aforefaid.
Ninth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Hackanfac, at Elizabeth
town, at New- Brunswick, at Burlington, at
Woodbury, at Trenton, and at any other place
or places where troops are or may be Rationed,
marched or recruited within the limits of the
Rate of Jersey.
Tenth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at New-York, at Weft Point,
at Fluffing, at Harlem, at W~R Cheßer, at
Poughkeepsie, at Kenderheok, at Stillwater at-
Newburg, at Albany, at Conajoharie, at Cherry
Valley, and at any other place or glares where
troops are or may be Rationed, marched or re
cruited within tlic limits of the Rate of New-
York, except the posts within the said state en
umerated in the firft proposals aforefaid^
Eleventh. Proposals to fopply al! rations that
may be required at Hartford, at Hebron, at
New London, at Brooklynn, at Wyndham, at
Litchfield,at Guilford, at New Haven, at Fair
field, at. Danbury, at Middletown, and at any
other place for places where troops are or may
be Rationed, marched or recruited within the
limits of the Rate of Connecticut.
Twelfth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at For: Wolcott, at Brinton's
Point, at Newport, at Providence, and at any
place or places, where troops are or may be Ra
tioned, marched or recruited within the limits of
the Rate of Rhode llland.
Third. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required, at Point-Petre ; at Coleraine ;
at Savannah, and at any other place or places
where troops are or may be Rationed, marched
or recruited within the Rate of Georgia ; at all
forts or Rations on the Oconnee and Alatamaha,
and at all other places in the Creek Nation, within
the limits of the United States, where troops
are or may be Rationed.
Fourth, Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Fort Johnson, at Fort Pinck
ney, at Charleston, or at any other place or
places where troops are or ntay be Rationed,
marched or recruited in the Rate of S. Carolina.
Fifth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at the Fort at Wilmington,
Cape Fear; at Beacon Island, Ocracock ; at
Charlotte ; at Fayetteville ; at Sahlbury, or at
any other place or places where troops are or
may be Rationed, marched or recruited in the
Rate of North Carolina.
Second. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required, at any place or places, on the
east fide of the Miffiflippi river, below the mouth
of the river Ohio, to the southern boundary of the
Rate of Kentucky and within the said Rate ; at
Knoxville ; at all other posts and places within
the Rate of Tennessee; at South Weft Point ;at
Tellico Blockhoufc: at St. Stevens, or other fort
or post on the rivers Mobile or Tombigby, and
any place or places within the Cherokee boun
daries ; below the southern boundary of the Rate
of Tennessee, and within the boundary of the
United States.
Firl Proposals to supply all rations, that may
be required, at Ofwego ; at Niagara; at Fittl
burg; at Prcfqu'ifle ; at Michilmuckinac ; at
Fort Franklin ; at Le Boeuf ; at Cincinnati; at
Picque town, and Loramie's stores; at Fort
Wayne ; at Fort Defiance , at any place below
Fort Defiance, on the Miami river to Lake
Erie ; at Fort Knox, and Ouatanon on the river
Wahafh ; at Maffac; at any place or places on
the east fide of the river Mifliffippi, above the
mouth of the river Ohio, and upon the Illinois
river.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
T^HAT feperate proposals will be received
at the office of the Secretary of the Depart
ment of War, until the expiration of the 25th of
July next ensuing, for the supply of all rations,
which may be required for the use of the United
States, from the ill day October, 1800, to the
30th day of September, 1801, both days inclu
live, at the places and within the two diftrids
herein after firft mentioned , •and also that se
parate proposals will be received at the said of
fice until the expiration of the 25th day of July
next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which
may be required as aforefaid, from the 111 day
of Jan. in the year 1801, to the 31st day of De
cember in the fame year, both days inclusive, at
the place and within the fcvcral Rates herein
alter mentioned, viz.
War Depai tment,
March 12, 1800.
Various rumors have circulated, re
fpe&ing the owners of the fortunate
Tickets, against the numbers of which
the higher prizes were drawn in the
Pbilantb -pie lottery ; and as the truth
io not yet generally known, which has
occasioned several erroneous surmises,
the following may be depended on as
facts : The highest prize, 5000 dolls,
was draw'll by Mrs. Robinson of Bofr
ton ; a widow, and the mother of sev
en children, whom, by industry and
ceconomy the has educated in such a
manner, as to render them reputable
and ufeful members of society. The
money was paid, a few days after the
drawing of the Lottery into the hands
of Capt. Connor, (of the sign of the
bell) at whoft houf; Mrs. R. refilled.
The prize of 3000 dollars was dr^vn
by a quartered number, two part -of
which belonged to two mechanics of
this town, one fourth, was owned by a
young Lady, and the other 4th a young
Lad, both of the country, but of dif
ferent places. The prize of 1000 dol
lars was drawn by a young gentleman
of the law, belonging to Charleftown,
near Boston. This, however, is not to
fatie firft instance of the favor of
fortune.
."the REFORMER—No. 3 ,
Is received, andJhaU Lave a place the next ^ceL
©"THE following work has passed
the ordeal of critical taste, and is pronounced by
the firft literary judges, to be a composition of
sterling merit. Its great object, is to expose the
horrid confcquences of asocial and a moral na
ture, which have flowed and hill flow from
the accursed fountain of French Pbilofopbical ll
luminatism. It is expelled, that all sincere
haters of Gallic Morals, otherwise the Punka
fries of public and private life, will liberally pat
ronize a volume of this nature.
The rations are to be furnifhed in such quan
tities as that there shall at all times, during the
term of the proposed contracts be fufficient for
the consumption of the troops at Michilimack
inac, Detroit, Niagara and Ofwego, for fix
months in advance, and at each of the other
polls on the weftern waters, for at lead three
months in advance, of good and wholesome pro
visions, if the fame fhali be required. It is also
to be permitted to all and every of the command
ants of fortified places, or polls, to call for, at
seasons when the fame can be transported, or at
any time in case of urgency, such supplies of
like provisions in advance, as in the discretion
of the commandant fhali be deemed proper.—
It is to be understood that the contractor is to
be at the expense and rifle of issuing the supplies
to the troops, and at all losses, sustained, by the
depredations of an enemy, or by means of the
troops of the United States, fhali be paid for at
the price of the article captured or destroyed,
on the depofitionsof two or more persons of cred
itable characters and the certificate of a com
miflioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances
of the loss, and the amount of the articles, for
which compensation (hall be claimed.
The privilege is to be understood to be re
served to the United States of requiring, that
none of the supplies which may be furnifhed un
der any of the proposed contrasts fhali be issued,
until the supplies which have or may be fur
nifhed under contrails now in force have been
confirmed,and that a supply in advance may be
always required at any of the fixed polls on the
Sea-board or Indian frontiers not exceeding
three months. [e.,.f.%/,„.]
at the Columbian Bookstore, No. 5,
Danielflrect, Portfmoutb,
JULIA AND THE ILLUMINAT
ED BARON, a Novel, founded
on recent fads which have transpired
in the course of the late revolution of
moral principles in France.
Written by a Lady of Mffacbuftts.
' 'This volume, to the reader's eye diffays
Th' infernal conduct of abandon'd man ;
F/ben French PbUofofby infects bis 'ways.
Andpours contempt on Heac's's eternal fan ;
Reverfag order, truth, and evry good,
And nuLAming nuwlds, ivitb ruin's aiufulJlood,
It is expelled the proposals will also extend to
the supply of rum, whifkey,or other ardent spir
its at the rate of half a gill per ration, and Vin
egar at the rate of two quarts for every hundred
rations. The proposals will fpecify the price of
the several component parts of the ration, as well
as those of substitutes or alternatives for parts
thereof.
JUST PUBLISHED,
Bound & Lettered, and FOR SALE,
The Ration to be supplied, is to consist of the
following articles, viz. Eighteen ounces of
bread or flower, or when neither can be obtain
ed, of one quart of rice,or one and a half pound of
fifted or boulted indian meal, one pound and a
quarter of frefh beef, or one pound of salted
beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted
Pork, and when frefh meat is issued, salt, at the
rate of two quarts for every hundred rations;
soap at the rite of four pounds, and candles at
the rate of a pound and a half for every hun
dred rations.
By Charles Peirce,
JULI A,
AND THE
ILLUMINATED BARON.
Containing 288 pages. price 1 dol.
JAMES M'HENRY, 50 of War.
ri^Q'l'tiorai^'^^
No. ;g. Tol. X.
SMILES OF FORTUNE.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TWELFTH YEAR.
I ®racte of tye ^ap.
Morning, by CHARLES PEIRCE, Printer of the Laws &c. of
in New-Hampshire,
PRICE I DOLLAR 50 CENTS Per Annum
The facceeding day at to o'clock, the
traverser, appeared at the bar to re
ceive his sentence. Judge Chafe after
making some observations upon the
dangerous consequences that must rc
fult from disobedience to the laws, and
recommending molt seriously, the cori-
Uitutional mode of redress, whereby a
law might be deemed a grievance, ad
dreiTed himfelf to the prisoner to in
form him of the determination of the
court—which was that he be fined in
the sum of 200 dollars, imprisoned 9
months, and be bound over, in the pen
alty of 1200 dollars, during the term
of two years, for his good behaviour—
himfelf in the sum of fix hundred, and
to find two securities for three hundred
dollars each.
We hope and trust that this prosecu
tion may have th^ desired effeti, in de
terring others fsm any attempt to
violate the laws of our country-bunder
which banner reds all that is dear to us.
Judge Chafe, when about to pass
sentence on Mr. Callender, observed
that his offence against the laws was
great, and that it was aggravated by
its having been wilfully committed.
He told Mr. Callender that he seemed
to be a man of some information, and
by no means destitute of good under-
Handing—that with these, he must have
known that Mr. Adams was far from
deserving the character which he had
given him ; that it was a fad general
ly known, and of which Mr. Callender
could not plead ignorance, that the A
merican people had repeatedly confid
ed their most important concerns, and
dearest interests to Mr. Adams—that
he was one of the principal characters
in the revolution, and had acted a most
conspicuous part in carrying it on :
that Congress knowing his virtue, abil
ities and patriotism, after having fuc
cefsfully employed him in other .very
important business appointed him as a
minister in conjunction with two others,
to make the treaty which terminated
the war and established our indepen
dence ; apd that the bed parts of that
treaty of peace were to be ascribed to
Mr. Adams, whose conduct was so
greatly misrepresented, and to Mr. Jay,
whose character in this part of the
union, has been so fhamefully vilified—•
that these were fads which he would
mention, because he supposed they were
not generally known in Virginia.—
That Congress highly approved of the
conduct of Mr. Adams in that negocia
tion—that the people of Amerca hav
ing increased confidence in him, elected
him Vice President when the present
constitution was adopted, and re-elected
him thereto—and at last chose him to
the eminent station he now occupies.—
He asked if it was possible for an, ra
tional mind to believe such a man guil
ty of the atrocious crimes laid to his
charge by the traverser ?—To believe
such an accusation was, he said, an at
tack upon the people, themfclves—for
that it was felf evident, that an intelli
gent ftianger, who would read these
severe charges and believe them, must
unavoidably think, that the people who
had elected to so dignified a Ration so
abandoned and infamous a character,
must be depraved and wicked them
selves ; that no people could be virtu
ous, who were capable of promoting so
base and profligate a person—But, that
the truth was,that Mr. Adams had been
long deserving well of his country ;
that in various important fituatidns he
had been thirty years in its service,
which never would have been the case
if the abandoned character ascribed to
him by Mr. Callender had been merit
ed.—-That though Callender could not
have been personally acquainted with
him, and that as he had ample means
of information, he muR have defamed
him wilfully.
Judge Chafe then drew the true dif
tindion between the licentiousness, and
the liberty of the press ; and expatiat
ed largely on the utility of the latter ;
it was true that despotism could not
exist where the liberty of the press was
enjoyed ; but that there was a very
great difference between the liberty and
the abuse or licentiousness of the press :
that the licentiousness of the press would
most certainly destroy any government,
TRIAL OF
James Thompson Callender,
RICHMOND, (Virg.) JUNE 6.
^rHE trial of James Thompson
JL Callender, for sedition took
place on Tuefday last, in the circuit
court ofthe United States, held at Rich
mond, Virginia. The trial was open
ed at ten o'clock and continued till fix,
when the jury retired, and after some
deliberation brought in a verdid—
Guilty.
and particularly a republican form of
government —that it would corrupt
the public opinion, and dellroy the
morals of the people ; and that on
public opinion and the principles of mo
rality and virtue, a republican govern
ment was founded—that undoubtedly
the liberty of the press might be enjoy
ed in the fulled extent to every ration
al and valuable purpose, without its li
centiousness. If calumny, defamation
and falfehood were to be indiferimi
nately tolerated and encouraged, it
would reduce virtue to the level of vice,
and no man however upright his con
duft, could be secure from flander—
there would be no encouragement to
integrity :—-that the liberty of the press
coniifted in the unrestrained but fair
difcullion of principles and conduft; and
could never be said to consist in secur
ing impunity to wilful and malicious
flanderers.—lt was to be lamented,
that this doftrine was not fufficiently
underwood by printers—that some of
the best of them seemed to mistake the
licentiousness for the liberty of the press.
That Callender avowedly for an elec
tioneering purpose, had ascribed to Mr.
Adams a worse charader than the word
minister of the word of tyrants had—
there he represented him in blacker
colors than Sga#uf himfelf. He then
reminded him that as a foreigner he
found an asylum in this country—that
he had been treated with hospitality
and kindness, and ought not in return
to have defamed some of the best char
acters in the country, and sow dissen
sions, difeontent, and discord, among
the people :—that his conduct would
be much more severely punched in
any other civilized country than this ;
that the sentence which the court was
about to pronounce, would Ihew the
moderation of the government, and
how much more mild and temperate
its principles, than those of other go
vernments. He recommended to the
traverser to pursue a different conduct
for the future, and told him that the
government of the U. States did not
wish to punish or oppress, but to enforce
obedience to just laws made by the re
presentatives chosen by the people them
fclves—that there was but two ways of
remedying the evils ofbad laws, to pe
tition thole who made them to repeal
them, or to remove those representa
tives, and choose better men in their
Read—-that bad senators, members of
the House of Reprefcntatives, or a cor
rupt judge, could be constitutionally re
moved. He lamented that there was
a propensity in the human mind to ap
prove of defamation. Many high cha
racters would permit the circulation of
the vilest slander, without contradiction,
they would not command or direct the
propagation of the dander, but they
would listen to it without contradicting
it—men might have their motives for
such conduct, but it was improper.
One of the Paris papers gives the fol
lowing extraordinary account of an
institution for the Blind at Paris, in the
Rue Denis. Those unfortunate persons
are placed on a kind of theatre : "The
curtain rises and presents to view, a
quantity of hands guided by thought,
move and perfect different works of dif
ferent degrees of difficulty. Whilftone
person sings an air corapofed by one of
the bfind, other persons continue their
labors. A child drops her needle, her
neighbor seeks for it with her fingers
and returns it to the child. A spinner
feels her thread break ; the flops her
wheel, difeovers the broken thread,
joins it and continues to spin witli all
the case of a person who poffefles the
best fight. A word, a calculation, are
given to the blind persons ; their hands
fly over the case, and the words and
calculation are composed. Two other
blind persons who are absent, are cal
led ; they feel the characters, guess the
figures, and running their fingers over
the lines, read the words, and explain
the calculation to the fpedators. ft is
the fame with the musicians ; they
have musicians ; they have music books,
the notes of which are traced in relieve,
which they read as quickly by means
of the touch, as if they had their eye
sight. The touch is the eye of the
blind, and nature seems to have doub
led the faculties of the one, to indemni
fy them for the privation of the other.
(T,n. Pa,.)
IMPORTANCE of MASSACh^SETTS.
The inland revenue paid to the U. S. by
Massachusetts, from the commencement of the
present government to the close of the year
1799, amounted to 1,139,588 dollars; where
as Virginia, during the fame period ha, paid
only 522,244 dollars. Yet Virginia tend x.
Members to Congress; and Massachusetts bpt
14. Is this mating Re,refutation and ration
O bond inband? [C,w,W]
WASHINGTON'S Lr^cr.