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Unites States
Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and Published every
► QXMI.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1802.
Or ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL
PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE INDISPENSABLE
supports.— WASHINGTON'S Legacy.
The above our lands will be fold
on rcafrtahle term), and county produce re
ceived in parent.
H. BOWLES wishes to in
form her country friends and customers
that file still continues to keep a
HOARDING house, next door to
Mr.C.Peitce's i?ookftore,in Daniel. Street,
where file will be happy to wait bn cul
:omeTs as usual ; has also remaining oh
bans, and for sale in her Shop, an affnrt.
ment of WEST-INDIA GOODS and
GROCERIES, viz.
Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Molafies,
Rum, Rice, Flour, Cindies, In
digo. An ajfortment of Men's,
Women's and Children sShoes &
Slippers, whole and half Boot
Leg's, Spermaceti Oil, &c.
Porfcouth, December io.
I CTNEW GOODS.Q I
, ++++++++++
y oseph&Joshua Havent
I HAVE FOR SALE,
I A War AND EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF^
t Fall and Winter GOODS *
WHOLESALE and RETAIL.
I Portsmouth, October ±3.
Elliot & Marlh,
Have on hand, a few hundred yards of
Beverly BED-TICK,
Os the best quality—which they will
fell as low as those of any other manu
faaory can be afforded.
Portsmouth, December 6.
BOHEA TEA,
Os the best quality, in whole,
half & quarter Chests, for sale by
Jo^a. Goddard.
porHmouth t Dec, to.
American MaTCufaEtured
Cotton Bed-Ticks.
THE fubferiber has just received and
can Supply (hopkeepers & others with
any quantity of Pro videnceManufadured
COTTON BED-TICKS,
warranted not to died Feathers ; equal to
the fcvcrlv manufactured. —Alfo —
COTTON YARN, of every
kind, wholesale and retail, at the fame
prices as fold for at the manufa&ory,
with the expences of freight, &c.
CANDLE WICKS, in any
quantity.—Any persons desirous of pur
feting any of the above articles to fell
retail, will be fopplied with the fame
on liberal terms bv
NATHAN B. FOLSOM.
Portsmouth, December 3.
Afew copier of the Increase of Piety
6r Revival of Religion, are still for sale at
the Partfmolh Bookjiore. Nov. 13.
(^Wanted 2 Jmart, afiive, industrious
Lade, as apprentices to the Printing and
hodbindir^ bufnefs ; enquire at thu office.
Also, to Sell or Lht.
A large convenient Dwelling
House, with Out Houfes,in Washington
ftreet, lately improved by Mr. Swet.
Likewise, to Sell or Let,
A convenient Dwelling House
near the fouth mills, and a number of
House Lots with a water privilege ad
joining, for which a good part of the pay
would be taken in joiner's work, and a
generous credit given for the remainder.
Aife, for sale,
A small Houfe,' with about
half an acre of Land, within a few rods
of the Pound, in this town.
Two rights of Land in the
lownfhip of Success ; two do. do. in
Britain Woods ; one do. do. in the town.
Ship of Orange; one hundred acre lot of
Land in Wakefield; one fifty here lot in
Gilmanton.
A CONVENIENT DWEL-
X A LING HOUSE in Daoiel-ftreet,
with a Stable and other Out-Houses.
To %ll or Let immediate!,,
A small Convenient Dwelling
House and Shop at the east end of the
Brick Market.
Valuable Real Estate,
Belonging to the estate of Dea. Samuel
Bowles, late of Portsmouth, de
ceased.— VIZ.
FOR SALE,
Horace Senter, of Newport, physi
cian, being sworn, teftifies, that on
Monday evening Mr. William OSborne
came to his house, and the deponent's
brother Nathaniel being present, observ
ed to Mr. OSborne that he had heard
strange things about him. Mr. Os
borne asked what? the deponent's
brother replied, that it was said he was
going to bring forward his child, to
swear she had carried letters to the poft
office for Mr. Rutledge, directed to the
President of the United States. Mr. Os
borne said he had examined his daugh
ter, and she did not carry the letters;
that she never carried any letters while
at Mr. Rutledge's except a note to Mr.
Read ;he further faid,that if his daugh
ter had carried the letters, she Should
be brought forward to prove it.—This
conversation was in the presence of Mr.
Auboyneau, Mr. Thomas Hornsby and
the deponent's two brothers.
HORACE SENTER.
Newport,O& 14, 1802.
State of Rbode-lf&nd,fc,
Sworn before me, B. HAZARD,
Dep. See, and Pub. Not. ex oft
Albro Anthony being Sworn,declares
that he resides at present in the
family of captain Northam ; was pre
sent at the foregoing conversation, and
teftifies that it is truly related.
ALBRO ANTHONY,
State of Rhode-fond,fc.
Sworn before B. HAZARD,
Rhody Chappell, of Newport, being
duly sworn, declares, that Shortly after"
Mr. Ratledge's arrival from Carolina
she was employed by Mrs. Rutledge in
making up linen and other articles for
I William Moore, jun. of Newport,
merchant, hereby declare, that being
intimate in the family ofCapt.Northam,
and happening at his house on Thurs
day evening, October 14, and feeing
there the little girl called Polly Os
borne, who I understood was hinted at
in the Rhode-Ifland Republican of the
gth inst. as having carried letters to
the poft-office from Mr. Rutledge, I
was induced to ask her some questions
upon the fubjeCt ; in her several an
swers to which, She told me, that she
lived in Mr. Rutledge's family about
two weeks ; (he could not tell exactly
when, but She left it (he said the day
Betsey Chapman was hired, and that
no other white girl was there at the
time die was. I asked her whether (he
ever carried any letters to any person
or place while at Mr Rutledge's ? ffie
replied the never did, except one note to
Mr. Read, which was open. I asked
her if (he ever went to the poft-office
for letters for Mr. Rutledge ? (he repli
ed she never did. I asked her if (he
ever carried any letters to the poft-office
for Mr. Rutledge ? no, she said, she
never did, and she would not fay she
had if all the town wished her to : she
was asked whether any pefon had with,
ed her to fay so ? she evaded this ques
tion, and difeovered great uneasiness
whenever, in any Shape, it was reverted
to ; but being asked whether she had
not told a person that her father, when
he called her home the evening before,
had told her a great sum of money was
offered to the girl who would fay (he
carried the letters, And that the was
the girl who' had carried them ; she
seemed startled, and said, byway of
qualifying, that what she had said was
that her father told her floe might get some
thing handfane if she said she carried the
letters, and,fhe might get herfelf into dif
ficulty. WILLIAM MOORE,jun.
Newport,Od. 15, 1802.
State of Rhode Iflandfc.
Sworn before, B. HAZARD,
Dep. See. and Pub. Not. ex off.
From the New-1 ork Evening Pofl.
Case of Mr. RUTLEDGE.
[Continued.]
Although the difeuffion of
this very extraordinary affair
has engrossed radre of our paper than
we had forefeen, yet, when we confider
it as the measure of a party, originating
we fear, from a higher source than a
Rhode-Ifland Senator, and direded a
gainst one of the most leading federal
ifts & irreproachable men in the union,
it cannot be thought to have occupied
an undue share of our attention. We
(hall now give the remainder of the
testimony which has been produced to
meet this cruel and malicious attack.
Dep. See. Pub. Not. ex off.
R. DULANY.
We are now prepared to make a con
cise recapitulation of the fads.
On the firft of Augift, 1801, more
than fifteen months ago, two letters were
lent to the President of the United States
under the borrowed signature of Nich
olas Geffroy, a watch-maker at New
port, advising and urging him (the
President) to make certain improper
removals and appointments. To which
letters, answers were returned as from
the President, but whether really writ
ten by him or not, cannot perhaps be
precisely affirmed, since they were ob
tained from Geffroy and could never
be seen after they were once in the pos
session of Mr. Christopher Ellery, who
certainly is a principal in the affair. To
the request of Geffroy, made, it does
not appear when, but evidently some
months afterwards, that he would de
liver him the answers of the President,
Ellery said it Was out of his power as
he had delivered them to Mr. Jefferfon
himfelf. Geffroy states, that the wa
fer of the letter recieved by him was, at
the time of his receiving it, wet as from
a recent insertion, and that unable to
comprehend its contents and suppos
ing from thisiappearance of the wafer
that an imposition had been practiced
upon him, he wentback to the Post-mas
ter with his letter,who immediately took
it again and returned him the postage
without hesitation ; thatMr.Ellery who
happened to be present, got the letter
from the deponent, under pretence of
comparing it with some of Mr Jeffer
fon's hand-wrirting at home and after
wards on such comparison pronounced
the answers to be genuine. Nothing
further was heard ofthis circumstance,
nor does it appear to have communi
cated to any one, &11 more than a year
afterwards ; then and not till then, it
being just on the eve of the Carolina e
ledion for member of Congress, there
appeared in the Democratic paper an
attack upon Mr. Rutledge, the federal
candidate for that State, predicated on
these letters. An attempt was made
to impress the public with a belief that
Mr. Rutledge had been the author of
I the fubferiber being present, heard
the above deposition deliberately read
over to Betsy Chapman, and heard her
declare it to be true, aid saw her make
her mark thereunto.
Betsey Chapman being foorn, testi
fies that she went to live at Mr. Rut
ledge's to the best of her recollection,
about the lad of August, 1802. That
while there she never carried #ny letters
to the Poft-office, or to any other place.
She remembered being twice sent for
newspapers to the poft-office, butnever
received there any letters for Mr. Rut
ledge or any other person, And she is
quite positive (he never carried any let
ter, while at Mr. Rutledge's either to
the poft-office or the potmafter's house
l er —
BETSY ^ CHAPMAN,
mark
State of RlAde-Ifand, tfc.
Tauten and sworn to before % October 16, 1802
B. HAZARD,
Dep. Sec'r, andpub. Not. ex cff.
I hereby certify, that Mr. Rutledge
received from me the keys of Miss
Mumford's house inWafhington-Square
on the 16th day of July 1801, and that
be took pofleffion of the fame on the
said 16th, or the day following.
the family. That for tbiee weeks af
ter their removal (which she believes
was about the middle of ,!y) into the
house now occupied by tl/m in Wafh
ingtonSquare,the was at ^ Rutledge's
very frequently ; she bes every o
ther day ; that during tn^eriod Mrs.
Rutledge was put to great inconve
nience for the want of a maid servant
was desirous of hiring one, and had ap
plied to this deponent for the purpose ;
that she was well acquanted with all the
servants of the family, and that to the
best of her knowledge and belief there
was no white girl or woman, no young
female domestic of any fort in the fam
ily, at the time alltided to ; and that
had there been any such, she is persuad
ed it could not possibly have escaped
her recolle&ion
RHODY CHAPPELL,
State of Rhode-Tfandfc.
Sworn to, iyb dry of March A. I) 180%
Before^ B. HAZARD.
Dep, Sec, and Pub Not. ex off
GEORGE LAWTON,
Agent for Miss Mumford.
Odober 14, 1802.
If then by federalist is to be under
ftood,one who for cementing the Union
by a general government, operating e
qually over all the states in all matters
that embraced the common interests,
and to which the authority of the states
Severally was not adequate, for no one
state can make laws to bind another, if
I fay by a federalift is meant a person
of this description, (and this is the orig
in of the name) I ought toftand foft on
the lift of federalifts, for the proposition
for establishing a general government
over the Union, came originally from
me in 1783, in a written memorial to
Chancellor Livtogfton, then Secretary
for Foreign Affairs to Congress, Ro
bert Morris, Minister of Finance, and
his associate Governeur Morris, all of
whom are now living, and we had a
dinner and conference at RobertMorris'
on the fubje&—The occasion was as
follows.
Congress had proposed a duty of five
per cent, on imported articles, the mo
ney to be applied as a fund towards
paying the interest of loans to be bur-
During the time of the old Congress,
and prior to the establishment of the
federal government, the continental
belt was too loosely buckled. The fev
ral states were united in name and not
in faCt, and that nominal union had
neither centre nor circle. The laws of
one state frequently interfered with,and
Sometimes opposed those of another.—
Commeice between state and state was
without protection, and confidence
without a point to rest on. The con
dition the country was then in, was
aptly described by Palatiah Webster,
when he said,“ Thirteen slaves and ne'er
a hoop will not make a barrel."
an empire of laws may be the best of
all governments, or the worst of all ty
rannies. But John Adams is a man of
paradoxical heresies, and, consequently,
of a bewildered mind. He wrote a
book,entitled, " A defence of the American
Confutation;' and the principles of it are
an attack upon them. But the book is
defeended to the tomb of forgetfulnefs,
and the best fortune that can attend its
author, is quietly to follow its fate—
John Adams was not born for immor
tality. But to return to federalifm.
In the hiftory of parties and the
names they assume, it often happens,
that they finiSh by the direst contrary
principles with which they profefs to
begin, and thus it has happened with
federalifm.
those menfederalifed, to support the lib
erties of their country, or to overturn
them ? To add to its fair fame, or to
riot on fa rpo!l§ f The rrame romaine
no defined idea. It is like John Ad
ams's definition of a republic in his let
ter to Mr. Wythe of Virginia. It is,
fays he, an empire of laws and not of men.
But as laws may be bad as well as good,
of my former connexions,whoure men
of the fame principles and friendships
as when I left them. But a nondescript
race, and of equivocal generation, as
suming the name of Federalist, a
name that describes no tharaXer of
principle, good or bad, and may
equally be applied to el her, has since
darted up with the rapidity of ' a
muShroom, and like a mnihroom is
withering on its rootless ftaik. Are
LETTER TH E SECOND.
AS the affairs of the country to
which I am returned are of more
importance to the world, and to me,
than of that I have lately left, (for it is
through the new world the old must
be regenerated, if regenerated at all,)
I shall not take up the time of the read
er with account of feenes that have pas
sed in France, many of which are pain
ful to remember, and horrid to relate,
but come at once to the circumstances
in which I find America on my arrival.
Fourteen years and Something more
have produced a change,at lead among
a part of the people, and I ask myfelf
what it is ? I meet or hear of thousands
against the president and with a view to
bring his adminiftraticn “ into con
tempt." We have seen how the at
tack has been repelled and how it has
been Supported ; a more particular ex
amination of this Grill conclude what
we have to fay on this fubjed.
(To be continued.)
From the National Intelligencer.
THOMAS PAINE,
To the Citizens of the United States,
the Geffro
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FOURTEENTH YEAR.
©Wide, anti
Advertiser.
Saturday Morning, by William & Daniel Treadwell
PRICE I DOLLAR 50 CENTS Per Annum. [No. 10.
O'ADVERTISEMENTS, reasonably & conspicuously inserted—COMMU
( NICATIONS duly attended to—and ever, FAVOR THANKFULLY
1 ACKNOWLEDGED.
y letters from sheer malice
To them it served as a cloak for
treason, a malk for tyranny. Scarcely
were they placed in the feat of power
and office, than federalifm was to be
deftrQyed@d the representative fyflera
As many thousands who were minors,
are grown up to manhood since the
name bf federalift began, it became ne
cessary, for their information, to go
back and Ihew the origin of the name, °
which is now no longer what it origin
nally was, but it is the more neceffar,
to do this, in order to bring forward,
in the open face of day, the apoftacy of
thole who hrit called themselves feder.
alifts.
Two confiderau oqs, however, over
came all objections The one was, the
absolute neceffit„ of a federal govern
ment. The other, the rational reflec
tion that as government in America is
founded on t'ne representative fyflem,
any error in the firft essay could be re
formed by the fame quiet and and ra
tional process by which the constitution
was formed, and that either by thegen
eration then living, or by those who
were to succeed. If ever America lose
fight of this, principle,fhe will no longer
be the land of liberty. The father will
become the assassin of the rights of the
son, and his descendants be a race of
Slaves.
When the plan of the federal gov
ernment, formed by this convention,
was proposed and Submitted to the con
sideration of the several states, it was
Wrongly objected to in each of them.
But the objections were not on antifed
eral grounds but on constitutional
points. Many were Shocked at the idea
of placing, what is called executive
power, in the hands of a single indivi
dual. To them it had too much the
form and appearance of a military gov
ernment, or a defpetic one. —Others
objected that the powers given to a
President were too great, and that in
the hands of an ambitious and design
ing man, it might grow into tyranny,
as it did in England Under Oliver
Cromwell, & as it has since done in
France. A republic must not only be
so in its principles, but in its forms...
The executive pare of the federal go
ernment was made for a man,anJ th ,fe
who consented, against their judgir^nt„
to place executive power in the caiHs
of a tingle individual, r epofed mere on
the supposed moderation of the perfca.
they had in view, than o n the w^oto
of the measure itfelf.
But the embarraffinents encreafing,
° they necessarily mull fiom the want
ct a better cemented union, the date of
Virginia proposed holding a commer
cial convention, and that convention,
which was'not Sufficiently numerous,
proposed that another convention with
more extensive and better defined pow
ers, Should be held at Philadelphia,
May to, 1787.
rowed in Holland. The resolve was
sent to the several Rates to be enaded
into a law. Rhode-Ifland abfolutel,
refufed, I was at the trouble of a jour
ney to Rhode-Ifland to reason with
them on the fubjed. Some other of
the States enacted it with alterations,
each one as it pleased. Virginia adopt
ed it, and afterwards repealed it, and
the affair came to nothing.
It was then visible, at least to me,
that either Congress must frame the
laws necessary for the union, and fend
them to the several Rates to be enregif
tered without any alteration, which
would in itfelf appear like ufurparion
on one part, and paflive obedience on
the other, or some method must be de
viled to accomplish the fame end by
constitutional principles, and the propo
sition I made in the memorial was, to
add a continental legislature to Congrefs,to
be elected b, the feveralfates. The pro
position met the full approbation of the
gentlemen to whom it was addressed,
and the conversation turned on the man
ner of bringing it forward. G. Mor
ris, in walking with me after dinner,
wiffied me to throw out the idea in the
newspapers. I replied, that I did not
like to be always the proposer of new
t)ings, that it would have too assuming
an appearance ; and besides, that I did
not thi^k the country was quite wrong e
nough to be put right. I remember giv
ing the fame reason to Dr. Ruih at
Philadelphia, and to Gen. Gates, at
whofc quarters I spent a day on my
return from Rhode-Ifland, and I sup
pose hey will remember it, because the
observation seemed to Rrike them.