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Thomas Jefferfon,
Prudent of the United States of America.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
r~r HE Citizen Gerard Cazeau'x,
I having produced to me his Com
mission as 1 ice-Commissary of Com
raercia! Relations of the French Re
public for J.'ortfmowh, in the State of
New-Hampshire, I do hereby recognize
him as such, and deciare him free to
exercise such functions, powersand priv
ileges a.; are allowed to the similar a
gents of the mod favored nation's.
In tedimony whereof, I have caused
these letters to be made patent, and the
seal of the United States, to be here
unto affixed.
Given under % band at the City of
Wafoington, thefifth day of April,
in the year of our Lord, one thou
fandeiqbt hundred and three ; and
cf the Independence of the United
States of America the twenty
feventh.
(Signed) Th: JEFFERSON.
By the Prudent.
(Signed) James Madison, Secretary of Stetc.
True Copy. Go CAZEaUX,
Vice-Commifory of Commercial Rela
tions of the French Republic for Portf
'mouth, (N. H.)
The French Consul's Office is kept
at Mr. Geddes' house, Pitt-street.
-— &NOfE^
TAKEN from the store of the fob
fcriber on Long Wharf, in Portland,
loine time yesterday, a hull Trunk, con
taining sundry notes of hand, and oth^r
papers of no value to any person but the
owner, as payment of all said notes is flop
ped, and no advantage can be received
by any perlon who may have the fame
in possession. It is hoped the fame will
be immediately returned—in which case
no questions dial! be asked, norany means
taken h>r further djfcovery ; and a reward
of Fifty Dollars paid 'to the perform
returning it.
All performs who have given notes to the
Subscriber, are cautioned against paying
the fame to any perfin but himfelf ; also
the promifors and endorsers of the follow
ing notes are requeued not to pay the
fame to any but the fubferiber—viz. one
note signed Stefan Cummings, endorsed by
Eleazer Greely and Samuel F. Huffey ;
one signed Thomas lUebfler, endowed by
the fame perlons ; one signed Thomas Per
kins, 3d, endowed Paul Webber ; one
signed Walter Simonton, endorsed James
Neal and Thomas Webster ; one tigned
Neal Shaw, endorsed Caleb Bradley ; one
figued Jonathan Ward, endorsed Seth
Spring ; one signed E. Hamblin, endorsed
E. Thomas.
The public are cautioned agaioft pur
chasing any notes made payable to the
fubferiber, or any of the aforementioned
endorsed notes ; but are requefied to flop
the' fame, if offered, and give information
thereof with the name of the perlons of
fering them, to the fubicriber, or to Sam
uel Freeman, Esq. Poftmarter in Port
land ; and they, with any other persons
wifo will give any information which
may lead to a difeovery, fliall be hand,
fomely rewarded, by
" THATCHER GODDARD.
Portland, ,4a, 2, ißofr
A fine opportunity to purchase
HOUSE LOTS.
For foie
A LOT of LAND in Ports
mouth titrated in a pleasant and
central part of the town; it fronts on
Pitt street, and is a part of the Estate
whereon the fub'eriber now lives, The
L.nd is elevated, and the profpea exten
fve. Toe filiation is retired from noise.
IT can be divided into five parcels, each
of which will make a good House Lot—
or into a greater of lets number, as will
best luit the purchaUr nr purchasers.--
The terms of payment will be VERY
liberal, aS will belt accommodate the
buyerand JOHN GREENLEAF.
Port/mouth, Fpil 30, 1803.
—"RAGS'! ' RAGS !
rff^ HE proprietors of this paper having
undertaken to lupply a paper mill,
call on all ranks of people in Punllnvuth,
and its neighborhood to
Save their R^4G^,
and help the manufaaprp of fhis, : pttful
art^fr in New.Harr pniirfynyHfle ^tln
mibs Rare arvi ngfor the wauL&f, ftoick.
Pro bono Publscti
-'iTMRtd Wanted, affiy to the
Printers
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A^^ INDEPENDENCE TWENTY.^-!! YF . FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FIFTEENTH YEAR
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Miscellany.
[Wordfworth has the fmplicity, but not t'u
Jirength of the following. Every reader
mast be aft&d by this, the pure breath
oftafr, of genius, offeling.]
Anti-Democrat.
THE BEGGAR.
" A H! curfeme not—nocrumbof bread
Has past these lips since yeftermorn,
.No shelter for this aching head
Have I, abandon'd and forlorn.
" Dark is the night, and cold the blast,
With misery am I doom'd to roam ;
All hopeless on the wide world cast,
Without one friend ; without a home.
“ Yet though by every ill oppreft ;
Though pining want affaii my life,
A home I had ; I once was bleft ;
A mother lov'd ; a happy wife.
“ Think not, dear Sir, it is my aim,
A cunning, studied lie to raise,
Like beggars bod, who daily claim
The mite which palling pity pays.
“ My husband kept a little shop;
And well his honesty was known ;
Os credit this the surest prop,
His name would pas- ffiro' all the town.
“ No comforts to his wife deny'd,
A tender husband could afford ;
"Each prudent with was gratiff'd,
Peace fmil'd, & plenty deck'd the board,
“ Why could not this good fortune lift !
Sure heaven intended me for woe;
Did I, unthinking, live too fait
For one so humbly plac'd ? Ah, no !
<c Indeed, dear Sir, I'm not to blame ;
The man who long had been my bride,
Grew idle, gam'd, and loft to Ibame,
The victim of intemperance dy'd.
I " Our few remaining goods were kept
For house-rent due a year and more ;
I We were turn'd out. Ah ! how I wept
As flow I turn'd me from the door.
I “ Tho' now of hulband, home bereft,
Yet, I could make a living sure:
I This comfort to my heart was left,
I Hill might work, however poor.
I 6C Buoy'd up by hope, a little hut
; I took at twenty pounds a year:
!My daughter to a school I put;
'Twas not far off, nor dear.
1" This sweet child was turn'd offc%—
From her my pleasures rose ;
- And file was ufeful too ; for when
I walk'd, she carry'd home the clothes.
I“ Her beauty ripen'd with her years—
A lovelier girl was never.feen —
And now, an anxious parent's fears.
Increas'd with blooming, freffify?/eb.
" Those fears, alas ! were too, too just,
From a fond mother's bosom torn,
She's now to vice and scorn reduc'd,
Would flic had dy'd, or ne'er been born.
“ A villain to fedudion train'd,
With speech so foft, and mien so mild,
By flattery and by love well feign'd,
Ruin'd my unfufpeding child.
" With me ho longer would she rest,
I strove my spirits to sustain ;
I labor'd on, and did my best
A slender livelihood to gain.
“ Two months pad, with her paramour,
I saw her in a gig quite nigh ;
Tho' finely dreft, the charm'd no more,
Wan was her cheek, $d funk her eye,
" I hurried home ; the blow so rude
I fainted and all thought me dead ;
A burning fever thence ehfu'd,
Which fix weeks kept me to my bed.
"Confin'd by illness so severe
And long— my little money went :
Doctors and nurses both were dear ;
And I was in arrears for rertt.
“ When of the fever I was quit,
I fold some clothes to buy me meat ;
Dejeded, weak, for work unfit,
l begg'd my landlord but to wait.
"He would not. Yesterday he came;
With cruel taunts he bid me '-walk" —
Myfelf I wept, but more the Ihame,
An only child—how wild 1 talk —
“ I had one boy, and dear was he,
But, by a roving passion led; •'
He left us all and'v cut to sea,
He's gone so long he must be dead.
“ A sailor, by yon lamp's faint gleans
I fee ybu are ; alas, like you
In garb and manner did he item,
When fund he breath'd his last adieu !
" With all a baplefs mother's grief,
Seven udicu, years iLc lad i mown ;
My darling cannot bring relief —
No ; never will my George return I"
“ Your George I" the flinger falt'ring
^ cry'd,
r "My name is Georgs" —' <George
h what"—" George Rose."
Around her, finking at his fide,
His rugged arms he wisely throws.
Loud fcream'd the wretch, " O God !
J , my boy !"
That woe-worn heart's fad beat is o'er;
So long uiifclt the touch of joy,
It flutter'd, heav'd, and burl—no
more. ..
brom the Palladium.
Messrs. Young & Minns,
TH E inclofd letter was received a few
daysfince, by a ptykian in thistown,
from the Attorney-Genes al of this S^te, at
Worefer, where the Supreme Court is now
Affton.
The imprudent and dangerous prallice of
vending poisonous drugs to persons unknown,
and without directions from a Phyfiian, is
so forcibly exemplified in this unpuiallelled
irfance of malice and depravity, tsat any
fteafure: which may tend to difcou^age it,
j muft be favorably received by the pit lie.
I "I he infances of murder and fuici£ which
,have been attempted in this way, within a
;few years paft,fem to render nectfry,fme
more eftßual means of priventiontban are
now exiting..
Agenerous solicitude for the fable fafty,
1 • prompted the suggestions contained o the let
ter, and they are most earmflly recommended
do the Jerious coyideratrin of the friends of
humanity throughout the Commoiwealth.
I APErdciAK.
Worcefer, fyb Aprils ISO 3.
:/ Sir—Weare commanded tp do good,
& not forget to communicate Wehave
'had a lingular trial in the Supreme Ju
dicial Court now in session here. Oue
Jonathan Eager was indi&d for pro
curing a quantity of aOrric, a^d after
taking cut the pjeh ofcobs of Indian
'corn, placing the arfetfic in 'the hollow
[of the cob% retaining the corn on th&
'cobs, with a malicious intent to feed the
[cattle of John Bigelow. And the in
di&ment further changed hm with haV-|
ing delivered the corn thu; prepared to:
one Azariah Fuller, engaging him a re-I
'ward it he would feed Bigelow's cattlel
with the corn.
I On the trial the ears er corn were ;
[produced, and proved to be the fame ;
Iwhich Eager had delivered to Fuller.
Dr. Fiske examined the corn in the
' court, 2nd found the holfrows filled with
Trfenic.
I Fuller teftife^tbat there wasa quar
rel between Eager and Bigelow. Other
witnesses gave evidence to that fa?. —
^Fuller tetlified, that some time in Feb
ruary, Eager told him that he was go
ing down to - Bolton to obtain some
fmalbpox matter in a bottle well cork
|ed ; ^nd that he would qpen it so as to
Igive it to Bigelow and his family.
>After this, Eager went down, and
returned early in March, faying he had
not obtained any small pox matter, be
taufe as he had not bad the finalhpok
himfelf,he was afraid to meddle with it.
He then produced to Feller a letter
from Dr. , (unsealed) to Dr. Whit
comb, of Clarendon, in the State of Ver
mont; by which it appears, that Eager
had affirmed the name of Taylor, when
he applied to Dr. - -; and that the
application was made in the name of
Dr. Whitcomb ; but there was no evi
dence of there being-such a man.
Dr.• , in his letter, recommended
the kine pox in preference of the other.
I Eager th^n laid to Fuller, that he had
procuied a quantity of rats-bane, which
I would answer his purpose much better
[than the small pok matter would. This
Iwas about nine days before the ears cf
/corn containing the arsenic were deliv
ered to Fuller. His leaving the corn,
thus prepared, with Fuller, with an in
tent that he should feed Bigelow's cat
;tle with them, was proved by Fuller's
-itellimony.
Up^n Fuller's disclosing the affair to
^magistrate, Eager's house was featch
eW.'Dr. 's letter was found in his
&so and a quantity <1 arsenic, more
aban half a pound, was found there
fuiapt in papers
I 'l he jury found Eager guilty, and the
promt sentenced him to two scars clole
(imprifenment, and to find sureties for
his good behaviour for five years after
the expiration of his impiifonmcnt, and
to hand committed Until he mould find
.such luict^s.
This is communicated to you, not as
a matter of amusement, bat upon an
idea that some allocation or agreement
may be come into, in town and country,
that no apothecary or vender of medi
cine, should fell those substances which
nature has prepared as deadly poisons,
to any others than .known and eltablilh
ed characters. The mischiefs already
done by the carelefs,and evil use of arse
nic, opium, &c. feein to urge a legislative
interference inthe faleof those poisonous
fabftauces. . Yours, &c.
JAMES SULLIVAN. .
COMMUNICATED.
Extracts from Dr. Rush's Enquiry
into the EftAs of Spiritous Liquors, Ac.
[continued.]
" FHE next operation of ardent spirits
is upon the understanding. Phis su
blime power of the mind is firft debili
tatea in hard drinkers. They dilcover
a torpor in ever y mental exertion, even
when they are under the 9 immediate m
. fuence of spirits. To this debility in
, the understanding succeed the 1011, of
j memory, and the perversion of all the
I intellectual powers in melancholy and
I madness, and in some cases the total /x-
I tinftion of them in idiotifm.<
Let us next turn our eyes from the
I effect )of spirits upon the body and
I mind, to their effects upon Property ;
;and here freih feenes of mifeiy open
;to our view. Among the inhabitants of
I cities, they produce debts, difgracc. and
Ibankruptcy. Among farmers they pro
duce idleness with its uftial confcquences,
such as houses wiihout windows, barns
without roots, gardens without enclo
sures, fields witl^wfences, hogs with-|
;out yokes, lb meagrel
caTe,teebf. ^^^^^■■femty.h|Lv
, rated. I appeal cn^^^rwons cf
ft my countrymen, whether such feenes
lof wretchedness do not follow the tracks
;of fpiritous liquors, in every part of the
lUnited States.
iThus toye I in a few words pointed
I out the effects of fpiritous liquors upon I
Ithe bodies, minds, and efates eg my fcl-
I low-citizes. Th.fr mifehiefs may be
1 fumebed up in a few words They fill
lourcharch yards with premature graves,
1 they deface the image of Gon in the 1
} foul, they derange or destroy the intel-|
ile&aal powers, they fill our fneriff's
!docket with executions, they crowd our
!hofpitals with patients, and our jails
I with criminals, they lead to places of
Ipublic ignominy and punishment, and
I lastly, they people the regions but it
belongs to another profeffion to thew
their terrible confetuences in the future
;world.
After this melancholy detail of the
!pernicious effects of fpiiituousliquours
upon the human body, it may not be
I improper to enumerate the ufuz) causes
1 which lead to their intemperate use.—
] These are—exposure to efeeffive beat l
and cold : hard labor, drfproportioned
to the strength of the body : hunger,
more especially those degrees of it which
have been excited by long intervals be
itween meals : long speaking or long
fitting in company : fmeking and chew
;ing tobacco : taking medicines in ardent
spirits : breeding sickness : great, do
' medic care :. I have observed this cause
to proauce it, in federal instances in wo
men : domestic vexations, more etpeci
j >ally conjugal infelicity t the infeaipu,
of company that is addi?ed to drink t
debt: the corrodings of a guilty con
feience ; and solitude, where the mind
docs not pefEfs resources in itfelf, in
,1 books, or religion. It is remarkable
ithat an intemperate us: of ardent spirits
is seldom produced by that grief which
• follows the death of relations or friends.
[To be continued. J
PIETT and ERAEERf.
—o—
—inestimable qualities ufuully
accompany each other, at lead real pie-
Ity and true bravery. Sir Humphry
Gilbert,an Admiral in Elizabeth's time,
was an infiance of this : He was seen
in the dreadful temped which fwzllew
ed up his thip, fitting unmoved in the
stern of his vcftlj with a bock in his
hand ; and was often heard to fay,
“ Courage, my lads, we ate as near
heaven at tea as at land.'' He always
wore on his bread a golden anchor, sus
pended to a pearl, which w^s given to
him by Eh^wGih.
(Sy'^^ntfa^amfe.^^. -„-,,.. ~m
PHILADELPHIA, MAY j.
From New-Ori rails.
The following ludicrous performance wai
received by the Susanna,
, Proclamat ion..
T the ns^c oftbe Fre^t Republic.
I/AUSSAT,
Genial PrefAt to the l^wfonians.
xCUR reparation from France marks one of
the mol so .meful epochs of her annals, under
an enfeebled and corrupt government, after an
ignominious war, and a difgraceful peace.
lothat cowardly and unnatural abandon^
meet you prelected the contrail of heroic tom
fidelity and courage. •
1 he heart, of ail Frenchmen were fofra^H
by the f^etaclc. They never let it fl : n
remembrer.:e. The: acnexeLin ci,nich ffl
,oid nave i,v.;firreccak^ to repeat, :iA
t:jc?pFr^swruns ir.-;-„r r ces:e. '
Asiomas nicy had ixgamed Teir
an ! iPcir rfoiy, by the i. \ -hition 3:r'|^^ffl
°f F^'r^ tri^pb, they tmed ;
you ihrir ^^ll^j fotiw.
tsw4 a par: of their tirft neg ^A-ion.W
wahed your rerr.-.eciliou to aeeot.ipany
nalize their f,, peace.
lhc ttm-:~tteariived . h
InjlhuAxjyfin/hh^car,to
^l^olh r .;/;/.! ^ ^.'jn,,^<
w^ om or la., ,111 b to
I'ntbX. l? ru;\b^r)^:4:
1 : ring to nthe ton— ty
Ffoh:., foeJchnnty efid, n:
tAunce tenor fai)if c:.,l■
Tnrli(^ Lis ill:: Vrfio L, h-$
F c,diiuA< .:I fctrr, h,
c,,.:?), indoyan:ruf:, ic ~:?.fl^ '
; . ,thou TtaUi, ff!,o, A•
• re on 1 crc<n,.h,■ {
Are; O: ft@ ct.w Jfe r
rar : .a.fka ah <fherH
1 l.is fiUui, d.cwf.mi.jis
verour u.. From ihlir.^^fflffi
'' :
tl;i:,mthis thru
cefiry to abb:
:...:a.....
.government.
To cu.trratc .
rrih:rii jeer tf^^ffl
yk:uu;I r ae:
critic e,
hunger :u.uc
ouiy ihL ty . a.:
dictate; tc u^r
and economy in Y
public admundrwon ; to '
either the Lies winch the ft.me
ithe fame morals, the time dilpom„|
I have created between tins coionyV f
the moth.rc^untry; thele Louifiani^l
are the honoraole objects of the millnW
of your Captain General Victor, you,
colonial prefect and your chief Judge,
These they are happy to fay, are the mo
tives with which they come to mix
With you.
The reputation of the Captain Gen
eral lias doubilels even here preceded'
him. Companion in, arms With the
Firtt Consul, he didinguifned himfelf
from the commencement of the cam
paign of the famous armies of Italy.
In iefs bi illiant days, he adonifhed Su
warrow by precipitating his flight :
He was in fine, one of the lieutenants of
Bonaparte at the battle of Marengo ! Sur
rounded with those titles, the iliudrious
pledges of his fame, he comes to you
Lodifianains, with a lively delire of
rendering himfelf dear to you by the
exercise of all the virtues, the cares,
and indudry, which devolve on the
chief of a happy people- His ardour
for your prosperity, the uprightness of
his intentions, the agrerablenefs and
affability of his accels and manners,
which ate even ornaments to his milita
ry laurels; will future to him year affet
tioh and confidence. He brings with
him a pait of those tioops who hove
made the earth tremble, even to these
remote (Lores. Batavia, since the peace,
has admired their good condud and
excellent discipline. You will like her,
admire and edeem them.
In ihort Louisianians you find in
your Cheif Judge genius, impartiality
and dilinteredednefs. He comes to
you already known by the fame cf his
talents, by his fufferings and misfor
tunes.
Under every circumstance you will
have reason to rejoice at having be
come French, you willdailyfeelmorerc
more the value of that splendid title,
the obje? of the envy of the uhol©
globe.
We know nevertheless, Louisianians
and will not.ddiimuhite it, that during
thirty years, Spain, by the temperance
of a generous and mild government
has^Jeavowed to &k© „y forgeg