The constitutionalist — Exeter, N.H., 1810-11-19 00:00:00, page 3

however, who have made observations
on events, know how often " rumors
which run before the battle" have
proved illusory, and the very reverse
of their story has proved true. The
Corunna and Lisbon accounts which
agree in several particulars, relate the
same issue, and the last New-York
papers say, the Corunna account was
received from Lisbon. Corunna is a
bout 350 miles from Lisbon; and an
account of a battle on the 29th Sept,
to have gone first to Lisbon and then
back to Corunna by the sth October,
must have travelled rapidly; but it
could hare been performed. Still we
have nothing official.
Capt. Selman, from Cadiz, who must
have left that city the Ist or 2d Octo
ber, reports, that a few days before he
sailed there were rejoicings in the
French camp before Cadiz, said to be
for the arrival of a reinforcement of
11,000 men. Centinel.
Extract of a letter from London of
Oct. 2d, 1810.
"The accounts from France, par
ticularly from our friend ——- ——
The owner of an American vessel
which arrived at Bordeaux, laden with
cotton, and which had been in France
tyee months prior to the 26th Sep
tember, at that time had not been al
lowed to sell, nor even to have the
controul of his cargo.
official accounts, that a great battle has
been fought in Portugal. Lord Wel
lington, on the 24th Sept, stated, that
the French had made a rapid movement
towards him; and that he had chang
ed his position, and occupied a chain
of mountains, to withstand the attack.
The Oporto accounts corroborate this.
The issue of the battle we have yet to
learn. On the 4th October rumors
had reached London, on the authority
of Americans from France, that a great
battle had been fought and that victory
had deserted the French Eagles. Those,
Salem; Nov. 16.
Gen. Armstrong Arrived !
The Boston Exchange Coffee House
Books, yesterday A. M. furnished the
following intelligence, as obligingly
extracted by Mr. Gilbert, the keeper,
and forwarded to us :—
" Gen. Armstrong arrived at New-
London the 14th inst. in the Sally,
Scott, of Boston, 32 days from Bor
deaux, bound to New-York, put in
for a rudder. She had 60 passengers,
brings no other news, than that our
affairs with France (as says the New-
London paper) looked GLOOMY."
The regulations respecting French
licenced vessels become daily more in
tricate. —Several ' of those regulations,
made since the date of Cadore's tetter
to Mr. Armstrong, impose the most
humiliating and oppressive restrictions
on American vessels ; —while the
books of our Custom-houses shew the
perfect freedom we enjoy in our
trade with Great-Britain.
The American vessels which were
received into the ports of France and
permitted to sell their cargoes, must
have traded under French licences;
and such commerce is far from afford
ing a proof of the repeal of the Ram
"bouillet Decree. The ostensible own
ers of the property, whose names we
know not, are doubtless French a
gents, or their pret-noms. —A Bay
onne letter further avows, that vessels
obtaining such licences, aac disguised
or "neutralized" French bottoms.
Boston, Nov. 14.
Capt. Hill has arrived in Baltimore,
from Oporto, which he left the 26th
Sept, [one day before the rumored
battle began.] —He reports, that the
French were within 15 leagdes of
Oporto; that they had gotten between
the allied array and Lisbon ; that a
General Battle (the armies 130,000
strong each) was immediately expect
ed, to give the English a passage to
Lisbon, and that he hastened away ex
pecting the French on the coast.
We are convinced, from the position
of the armies at the date of the last
FROM CADIZ—
The accounts are to the close of Sep
tember.—That city continued to bid
defiance to the arts and artillery of its
French invaders ; and had scntsuccors
to Portugal. The predatory warfare
was kept up in all parts of the pe
ninsula; and the hope was not extinct
of the eventual extirpation of the mod
ern Moors.
The Great Spariish Cortes assem
bled on the Isle of Leon the 24th Sep
tember. —The event was anounced by
a general salute, and had spread gen
eraljoy. The French batteries were
daily bombarding Cadiz; and the fire
was returned.
The Spanish papers are filled with
accounts of actions and skirmishes, in
which much is lost; but in which the
patriots are represented as always suc
cessful.
Trade with France.
now here, represent every thirig as per.
.fectly prostrate. —Nosoul believes for
an hour in any thing the Government
does.—All the property seized in
France and elsewhere goes into the
Emperor's private chest, and it is sup
posed at Paris, that it lies under his
keeping principally in specie. The re
peal of the Berlin and Milan Decrees
is a complete trick, and calculated to
breed mischief in your country. ^I
am informed that Armstrong(now gone
or going home) has advised the Amer
ican Government that no reliance is to
be placed on their repeal.
" Mr. - thinks that the Council
of Prizes will never restore any
property."
Capt. Quiner, arrived at Marble
head, from Port-au-Prince, sailed Oct.
6: He informs that Christophe had en
tire possession of Cape-Nichola-Mole ;
he had had a battle with Petion's
forces, in which Gen. Evelillard was
killed ; that an insurrection had taken
place near Jeremie, where there were
1500 embodied, and some skirmishes
had taken place ; —that a severe, gale
had been experienced near Aux-Cayes
and Jeremie, and caused great destruc
tion among the shipping ; —that the
brig of war Flambeau, belonging to
Petion, had drifted on shore at Archaia,
was entirely lost, and a number of men
perished :—That Christophe was cap
turing all vessels bound to Petion's do
minions, and obliged them to sell their
cargoes ; and thatit was expected Chri
stophe would blockade Port-au-Prince.
A distemper has long hung about
our administration. It proves to be a
chronick disease, complicated in causes
and alarming in symptoms ; yet, thank
God, there are no contra-indicants.
The process for cure, in such a case is
well known ; but unfortunately, owing
to the political prejudice and blindness
of the people, it is not always practi.
, cable. Continual attrition wears away
the very rock; but the most hardy
submissiop-man will allow that our na
tional credit is composed of less solid
materials. America is the foot-ball of
every petty nation under Heaven ; and
though she has been kicked and bruis
ed without mercy, she yet stupidly
perseveres in the old track ; —she is
yet insensible to her degraded situation.
What she cannot obtain from France
by treaty aud intreaty after treaty and
intreaty, she seems willing to resign
without a murmur. France commits
licensed villdnies ; but with thee wick
ed John Bull, it is not so. If the least
shadow of aggression can be attached
" We arrived at Sweden, after a pas
sage of 35 days; from thence sailed to
Denmark, Prussia, and Russia, and
having made a good voyage, were on
our way home, when we fell in with
a French privateer, on the coast of
Norway, which brought us into this
port, where we have been taken be
fore the French Consul as prisoners of
war. We are not allowed any com
munication with the American Con
sul. Our papers are shortly to be
sent to Paris, and I am to follow
them, and wait the event of a trial.
I wish you could transfer yourself
hither for a single day ; you might
have the pleasure of feasting upon the
finest lobsters in the world. We get
nothing here but fish ; but I like their
diet much more than the inhabitants,
who are the greatest rascals existing.
The Judges here have condemned ves
sels on no other grounds than that they
had ho Atlantick charts on board,
deeming it impossible to cross the At
lantick ocean without them. Such
frivolous charges condemn Americans in
any country, under French influence.
There are now in Norway vessels,
which I know to be American proper
ty with cargoes, worth upwards of four
millions of dollars. Some of them
were captured by little open boats
which were, at first, supposed to be
fishing boats. Had we one of our idle
frigates cruising here, all this might
be prevented.”
Extract of a letter to a gentleman in
this town, dated
" Chrisliansand, Sept. 21, 1810.
EXETER,
MONDAY, November 19, 1810.
e^c^^^^l^^^^se<
From ST. DOMINGO.
to tiled, the American pulse beats high.
Our gorge rises. Wefhme, wefroth,
we roar, we r^nt with indignation, un
til it subsided upon paper.
The news we publish to day is very
important and will, no doubt, draw
many a just but ineffectual curse upon
the system our administration have for
these nine years pursued.
It is a well known fact, that all the
Confiscations of American property
in all parts of Europe has been in con
sequence of the imperious decrees of
the tyrant Napoleon ; and the Amer
ican Captains and Seamen, who are
daily arriving pennyless from Norway,
Denmark, France, Naples, and Spain,
curse this same Napoleon as the sole
author of their losses; and the shades
of those valuable men left in the ship
Margaret cry aloud for vengeance on
his accursed head. Cent.
How very mute and submissive
have our late noisy and riotous Jeffer
sonian democrats become on the sub
ject of TRIBUTE and Foreign LI
CENCES! They, good honest con
sistent Patriots can " submit" to
any imposition when directed by the
lenient hand of their sovereign Lord
and Master Napoleon the Great !
ibid.
The Crier who attends the Corn
Market of Bristol, in England, being
one day sen* for to perform his usual
duties, begged to be excused, and being
asked the reason, replied that "he
could not cry to day, as his wife was
dead."
Given under my hand at Portsmouth,
by and with the advice of Council,
this twenty-fourth day of Septem
ber, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and ten, and
of American Independence the thir
ty-fifth.
JOHN LANGDON, Governor.
ATTEST,
Samuel Sparhawk, Secretary.
OfT The printers in this State are re
quested to publish the foregoing Cir
cular three times successively in their
respective paper's.
S. SPARHAWK, Sec'y.
, Concord, Sept. 28, 1810.
Married,
In New-Ipswich, (N. H.) Mr. Sol
omon Brooks, mer. of York, (Me.)
to Miss Martha Brooks Wheeler, of
Mason, (N.H.)—ln Dorchester, Capt.
Andrew Newell, of Boston, to Miss
Martha Johnson, of the former place.
—ln Boston, Mr. Abel Stevens, mer.
of Eastport, to Miss Sally Thaxter, of
Boston.\
lu this town, Capt, John Rogers,
to Miss Frances Gilman, daughter of
Nathaniel Gilman, Esq. , ^^
The whole number of Representa
tives to Congress not having been e
lected at the late August meeting—the
following Circular Precept has been
directed and forwarded to the Select
men of the several Towns within this
State.
STATE OF NEW-IIAMPS 11IRE
To the Selectmen of the Town of
You are hereby required, in the
name of the State of New-Hampshire,
to notify and warn a meeting of the
Inhabitants of the said town of ,
qualified to votein the choice of Senators
for theStateLegislature,to be held on the
second Tuesday of March next, to vote
by ballot for three of the six persons
hereafter named for Representatives of
this State in the Congress of the U
nited States, agreeably to an act pass
ed June 21, AD. 1792. And in the
warning and notification of said meet
ing, you arc to give fifteen days notice
of the time and place for holding said
meeting. You are also to sign the
copy of the record of said meeting,
with the town clerk ; and certificates,
thus attested, of all votes taken at
said meeting, are to be sealed up, and
directed to the Secretary ofState, with
a superscription expressing the purport,
thereof, and transmitted by the town
clerk to the Sheriff of the County in
which such meeting was holder?, with
in ten days after the time of holding
such meeting, or to the Secretary's
Office in Concord, within twenty days
at farthest from and after the time of
holding said meeting.
The names of the six candidates
who had the highest number of votes
(next after those elected) at the late
August meeting, and from among
which there are to be voted for, as
above mentioned.
GEORGE SULLIVAN,
WILLIAM HALE,
ROG ER VOSE,
DANIEL BLAISDELL,
JOHN A. HARPER,
OBED HALL.
greeting.
Died,
In New-York, Mr. Jonas Utt, aged
76.—1 n Newport, Mr. Samuel Sterne,
aged 45. —In Coventry, Mr. Nath'l
Newman, and his sons Win. G. and
Seth, within a few days of each other.
—ln Augusta, Miss Esther, daughter
of Thomas Bond, Esq. aged 26. —In
Portland, Mrs. Abigail Crosby, aged
71.—1 n Boston, Mr. Ephraim Cope
land, aged 84. —Mrs. Elizabeth, wid
owof the late Mr. Nath'l Colesworthy,
aged 26. —Mrs. Fanny, wife of Mr.
Zaccheus Whitney, aged 27.
State of N. Hampshire.
CORRECT LIKENESSES,
MR. WHEELER respectfully re
quests the attention of the La
dies and Gentlemen of Exeter and the
vicinity, to a new and elegant style of
shading Profiles.
Mr. W. flatters himself from the
great superiority of his patent physiog
notrace and long practice in the art of
drawing Profiles, that he shall be able
to give much more striking and correct,
as well as more elegantly finished like
nesses than any heretofore done in this
place. As his stay here will be very
short, he invites the immediate patron
age of the public, at his Profile Room
in Centre-Street, opposite the Widow
Emery's.
CT An elegant assortment of Pro
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N.B. Persons not satisfied with their
Profiles after being cut, are not re
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Nov. 12.
Ladies' Morocco Shoes.
JUST received, and for sale, at the
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Nov. 5^
Rockingham, ss.
To the Honorable Nathaniel Rogers,
Esq. Judge of Probate of Wills
and granting of Administrations,
. &c. in and for the said County of
Rockingham.
SU EWETII, James Dutton Norris,
of Epping, in said county, hus
bandman, That he with another person
or persons are interested in the follow
ing Tract of Land, situate in said Ep
ping, lying on the southerly side of the
road leading from Exeter to Petucka
way Mills, beginning at the lane lead
ing to the said James Dutton Norris's
house on the easterly side of said lane
at the southwest corner of an acre of
land that Chase Norris and your pe
titioner conveyed to Thomas Norris by
deed, dated July 20th, A. D. 1807,
thence running southerly by said lane
to the said Thomas's land, thence east
erly and southerly by said Thomas's
land to Hackett's land, thence by
Hackett's land, to Jeremy Smith's land,
thence by said Smith's land northerly,
as the fence now stands, to the road,
thence westerly by said road to the
acre of land first mentioned, thence
southerly and westerly by said acre, till
it comes to the bound first mentioned,
containing thirty acres more or less. —
And your petitioner further Shews,
That be is the owner according to quan-'
tity and quality of the one half of said
Tract of Land. He therefore prays
your Honor would cause partition of
said land to be made, and his share in
said estate to be divided and set off to
him by metes and bounds as the law in
such case made and provided directs.
And he as in duty bound will pray.
UPON considering the foregoing
Petition, it is ordered, that the petition
er be heard thereon, on the tenth day
of December next, at the Probate Of
fice in this town, at eleven o'clock,
A. M. and that the petitioner give no
tice according to law.
NATH'I ROGERS,
Judge of Probate.
Copy Examined, per
WM. PARKER, Register.*
Probate Court, Exeter, November
Sth, 1810.
PROFILES.
James Dn. norris.
Epping, March Bth, 1810.
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