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:The following pufoges are tiken from a pamphlet
ice jly pubefted in Philadelphia,^ Mr. l)/clin/,
entitled " The claims of Thomas Jefferfon to
the Pre/iJency, examined at the Bar of Cbrjliani
ty; luLieb for correllnefs and energy of style, ner
vons eloquence, and cogent reasoning, Iran, ends
t.• v other performance on the fame febpß. The
enlightened candor of the author, in the Jlatement
es the claims and arguments of lis opponents, is
only equalled by the masterly frength of bis refu
tation.]
exo ^e-tew^o
I know yoQwell, my countrymen. You are
but men, happily diflibguifhed by the bkf
fings of a wife government, from other men,
but just like thole that have gone before, and
will come after you, in the confutation of your
minds ; impelled hither and thither by froward
passions; thwarted, fettered and led like cap
tives, by felf-interefts, and ignoble appetites ;
deciding as ancient habits or specious illusions
prompt; and concealing even from yourselves
the bondage in which you are detained by fel
fifhnefs and prejudice. In running over the ca
talogue of these causes, that have determined
your political conduct and opinions, what a
tissue of folly apd weakness presents irfelf, and
how little does the wisdom of your dccifiGDsln
dicate that re-creating influence which some
fond dreamers attribute to the age in which you
live, and others to that wholesome equity which
ennobles your political institution.
Each of you has taken his fide. Already
are you prepared with your huzza for this, or
that idol—an idol with most of you, he un
doubtedly is, whom your imagination invests
with ideal excellence, and whose worship you
preach with ignorant or felfifh views. Some
of you have caught the faith of the last speaker;
some of you decide thus because your neighbors
have done so, or your parents, kindred, or tutor,
or pallor have thus decided. Some fay yes, be
cause the man, whom they hate or despise, fays
no ; because A dollar will be added to their re
venue, or a {billing taken from that of some
one who is feared or envied. Money, in some
(hape, lucre, mere lucre, is the criterion of truth
with thobfands. With others it is some long
remembered injury, fuffered from some foreign
individual . •some inherited, er in-infancy acquir
ed antipathy, or some remote view to their
own aggrandizement, or that of those with
whom they are connected, by the ties of friends
fliip or relationship.
Such causes are they which give the firft bias
to the mind ; that give speculative points, the
beautifying luftre Ihed by the hovering angel
Jdination ; that make ftedfaft the wavering
iootftcps, and fit them going in that path where
every ne w advance fortifies the firft conviction,
and multiplies the auxiliaries of argument and
fephiftry.
It Should seem an useless talk to invite you,
thus fettered and influenced, to an audience of
the truth, but far ami from thinking that all
my countrymen are inaccessible to argument, or
deaf to cgpoftulation. Far am I from thinking
that any of them have adder's ears, or are inca
pable of forming a true decifon, provided the
truth shall possess an earnest and impartial advo
cate, and they can be persuaded to attend to
him.
One of the persons, whom you are persuaded
to ex,alt to the highest authority known in these
states, is Thomas Jefferson. Have you
deeply pondered on the character of this man ?
Have you weighed well the confequeuccs that
will flow from his election ? At moments w hen
your winds are freeft from the inftigatidns of
felf inrereft, what fay you to the question —
Shall Thomas Jeeferson be the chiej magflrale
¥ if these States?\
1 have put tbiW question to myfelf. I have
endeavored to abftracl my mind from personal
confederation. I have taken the broadest view
that I was able, of the true interests of my
country. I have lifteticd to the pleas and ad
monitions of others, and 1 have, finally, answer
ed from my inmost -foul —GOD FORBID!
Let me now expostulate with you, who are
of a different opinion. Ail of you are citizens
and men, but all of you do rot agree, on the
reafors of your judgement. You are all inter
zfted in the wife administration of the govern
^mient, and you believe that the political maxims
of Mr. J fillfun are right. But there i. a part
of his character which you view in different
logins. Some of you regard his opinions on
the fubjeft of religion, as a recommendation to
your choice, because those are your own opin
ions To such I shall not urge, as a difqualifi
catibn or demerit, that he is no Chri^ian. To
such, it is a source of gratulation, and a claim
to favor, and to such therefore, I fhal| address
reafbnings that are purely political. But all of
yob regard not Christ as a phantom and religion
as a fable. Some of you are earnest believers in
the faith of your fathers, and to you, fuffcr me
to put again this question—Shall Thomas fef
ferfon, who denies the truth, and avows the per
nicious folly of all religion, be your governor.
Methinks I fee you hesitate and faulter. —
Some of you, the honest and impartial, who
mean *dl, however hitherto erroneous your
decisions may be, feel some reluctance to rcjc&
him on this fcorc. While you appprove his
political creed, and do not object to the gene
ral morality of his condua, you are averse to call
him away because he is without religion. Yet,
as your faith is sincere, it is impossible for you
not to hesitate. You cannot be blind to the
flagrant ijicoufift^cy of railing ore to the su
preme office, who is not a Chrira©, You can
not but fee that this is an open renunciation of
your faith |, an unlimited confeffion, that reli
gion as a principle' of action, is wholly indiffe
rent ; that to want it, is no defe& ;and that the
highest office, a post in which the power of re
, filling temptation is most requisite, may yet be
houeftly adwiniftered by one who has no reli
gion./.
Obey not that impulse of your minds which
leads you to extenuate the force of this objec
tion. Let your heart shrink at the n<re ap
proach to the Ark of your God. Be diligent
to ffiun the firft tendencies to profanation, and
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at a fife and,.awful distance from the gulf,
which is gaping for your dettru&ion.
You put on, perhaps, the amiable guise of
charity. You dwell on the unimportance of
these differences, which diftinguilh one feet from
another, and love to magnify the weight and
force of those tenets in which they all agree. —
Any one, who expatiates on the necessity, not
only of a general agreement, but ofa lull and
absolute concurrence in religious opinions ; who
endeavors to per fuade you, that Christianity can
be but one thing, simple a<d entire, and that he,
who admits to the name of Christian, one
whose notions, of the attributes or precepts of
Christ, differ from his own, fully acknowledges
that h?s own peculiarities of doctrine are either
frivolous or lalfe. He that persuades you to
this, may be branded as intolerate or bigoted;
and a Syr'eri may reduce you from the true path,
because she wears though face, and counter
feits the witching accents of Charity.
Be it so. Let this persuasion be regarded *>
flowing from an inhuman or falfe zeal. There
is no danger that I fnould incur the ihame of
such bigotry. Since Thomas Jefferfon differs
from you, not merely as Quaker differs from
Calvinilt,or Lutheran from Fapift,but he dif
fers from you totally, inasmuch • he is in no
feme and according to no form a chriftian.—
He wears not a Hired; he spurns at every frag
ment of the religion of Christ.
Some there arc among you, who indulge the
fatal spirit of abftra&ing religion, or all of reli
gion, that is necessary to future happiness or
moral rectitude, from written and partially pre
vailing creeds; from faith in the exigence or
authority of this man or that volume; from be
lief in Moses or Zoroaster, or Christ or Maho
met. With, these it fuffices that the man believes
in the guardian (hip; the presence; the right
and the power to distribute pumlhmcnt and re
compense, of a God.
I mean not to dispute this point with you.
lam no divine. My voice you never heard
from bar or pulpit. 1 mean not to detain you
by arguments, to prove that the -adoption of
this opinion, is a virtual denial of the Saviour of
men. Such arguments, thoughjuft ^d saluta
ry on all occafions,,e of no particular impor
tance now since Thomas Jefferson believes not
the moral Superintendence and the distributive
justice of a Deity. He is nd adherent of the
vague and barren doctrines of what is called
natural religion. With him, God has the fame
species of exillence, if any existence be allowed
him as the meaneit "and inprteft of his work.
He is prime cause perhaps; he is all contriving
intellect ; he is every thing that the reveries of
a mere geomatrician can make him : but actu
al fupermtendant, moral governor, punisher of
the wicked, rewarder of the good, in ana after
life, he is not.
And now, you who are Christians, lay your
hands upon your hearts. Can you dill pcrfill
in faying—ncverthelefs, this man shall be our
Prefidetac ? No. You will hesitate. You aban
don your darling tenets, the dogmas of your
politics, with reluctance. You look round for
auxiliaries; for advocate#; for some one who
shall renovate your languishing zeal, and furnifli
you with some plea, to countenance your ad
herence to the old cause.
Mr. j v fferfon, lays his advocate, is no pro
tiigate, no diffcmbler;no duty-breaker, no bane
to the peace of families, no example or teacher
of blafphcmy, adultery or theft, and yet mark,l
I pray you, the conclusion —Qe believes not, he [
profiles not religion.
Religion, 1 suppose; is, in your eye, sacred,
and true, and neceflary. And why ? Does it
not impart force and harmony to morals ? Does
it not inspire with a just zeal in the cause of ha-|
man happiness ? Does it not make the hands
strong and the heart strenuous, and while it
furnuhes the only adequate motive, Applies the
only certain clue to the great end of individual
and national good ?
What arc its tendencies ? its views ? Does
it not regard this world, merely as the thresh-I
old of another? As a region of trials and|
milE/hro' which our paflage is fwift, and in }
*hich we arc placed as 111 a seminary, for thel
exercise es fell-denial, and the acqudition ofl
merits, which entitle us to recompense hereaf- ,
ter ? Does it not tach us, not merely that vir- I
tuc has a lure and liberal retard, in another|
liak ; 'that vice will hereafter meet with con
dign and inevitable punishment, but hkewife|
(that in which all other teachers have failed) I
does it not teach us what virtue is, and what is
vice?
Docs it rot warn us of a Bate to comd, of a
God whose eyes are pure, and who isprefent
to cur inmolt thoughts; whose will is the cri
terion of truth : aruT whose decree will regu
late our eternal allotment,? Docs it riot teach us
that the sole merit confiris in preference of a
remote, to a prefect good; in referring every
action to the eternal and.future happiness of o
thersand of ourselves ; in fubniiffion to the ex
plicit will of a divine judge; and the model
ling of our whole conduct, by the hope of his
approbation ?
I will not talk to you of your redeemer. I
will net quote the sacred volume to lhcw tire
necessity of belief in bis name, to present happi
ness and ulefuhicfs, and to future Safety. I dd
drels you, indeed, as Christians, but I concern
not myfclf with the forms or tenets which dif
tinguilh you from others that call thepifelvcs
by the fame name, These differences weigh
nothing in the balance that I hold. I assail you
not, by arguments forcible or feeble, according
as your faith-is that of Luther or Calvin, or
Barclay or Webley, but by pleas, td which you
arc bound to listen, and which your understand
ing must admit to be irrefragable, in -as much as
you are Chrijiians ; have faith in a revealed and
wiitten will of your Maker, in the duty of fub
miffionto that w ill in the distribution of bliss or
woe, Lereefter, according to out acknowledge
ment or defiance, our negledl or observance of
that will.
As such, then, let me aik you, what it ig to
deny those truths; to make confcioulnefs and
attribution die with the body ; to deny a writ
ten or revealed will of God : the connexion
between the stages ofcbeing on this, and beyond
death ? He who does this, robs virtue of the
only ground upon which it can rest— but that is
to betray the cause, to palliate iniquity by fpe
cidus naitee. Io suppose tLat the Spurrier at
And will not this ; this signal preference ofl
one who knows not religion, be such a declara- ;
tian ? Where lays the excellence of piety, if it>
form ho title to our favor, no security lor right i
conduct ; no claim to be our guardian and coun
sellor? And where are the evils of impiety, if
it form no bar in the road to our confidence &
veneration ; no difqualificatioq for the posses
sion of authority and influence?
It is not the man who serves your tea-table
with milk; or one who makes your clothes ; —
or who supplies your wants from afar; or who
cures the maladies of your children, or educates
their minds ; of whose merits you are called up
on to judge. Even in cases like these, none but
the covert unbeliever, the hypocrite, the luke
warm or the giddy, will deride you for refled
jng upon the moral qualities of your neighbor,
before you adopt a conduct towards him, which
evinces your reliance on his probity, or esteem
for his wisdom ; and for deing guided in your
judgement of his claims to this raped: and this
confidence, by his ^dmiflion or rejection of reli
gious truths.
There are those indeed, who will revile you
arid trusting to your thoughtlessness will calll
your deliberation by the names of intolerance
and bigotry, but hearken not to their revilings;
or rather, while you lillen, retort their fcornl
with pit,, and repulse their Artful stratagems, I
by hmple but irrefiftibfe truths.
Call to mind the true nature of piety ; and re-|
fled that if her dictates be sacred, those who re- !
ceive them not, are blind ; that they want the|
only sure compass to guide them on this sea of l
temptations and paflions; that they have not, f
what truly distinguishes and effeaually recom-i
mendfyittu&.
Virtue ! They have the tuerd, it is true, but |
the meaning of the term in their mouths is vice.
The set of motives and views which they call
by that abused name, excludes every function,
rejects every standard, and denies every attri
bute which you deem indifpenfible ; which
you account, not merely an appendage, a cor
roborative, a thing to be put on or off, an ingre
dient to be rejected from, or admitted to thej
mass, without injuring or changing the efeace.
No, you deem that which they reject, the en
tire and unalterable thing, virtue.
You have no alternative ; no middle Way;-
you cannot tend hither or thither ; recede, or ;
linger, or advance at pleasure. Either the irre- I
ligious are Grangers to true virtue ; are victims '
of dire allusions ; have no title to reverence &:
service, or— Religion is a lie. If, in your treat
ment of the most infignificant of your neigh
bours, you confer efte<m, benefit and power,
without regard to, or in contempt of these
diftinftions, what wretches,do ye make of your
selves !
God forbid! let or net be found thus auda
ciously rejecting, thus open!, belying a sacred
principle. Os what avail is it, that oar lips a
vow religion, while our actions deny it; that
we maintain the neceffry of these truths to the
welfare of man, present and future, while our
endue absolutely affirms that they are futile
and falfe ?
What is that man who denies religion ? what
are 1113 merits ? Shall we pile up our offerings
before him ? Shall we "V" ' c him as a true guide?
Shall we invert him with homage, aid life him
to power, and place the defttuies of mankind in
his hands ?
religion and the rebel to God, only changes the
name and the form of virtue, is falfe. Heabol
ifocs the thing : he annihilates the essence : he
rears a Molock wh< fe banquet is blood : be
bites an apple fair and enticing, perhaps to the
eye, but found, on proof, to be bitter foes : he
hides the disappointment: he makes himfelf
vender, and trumpets the baneful mass as nutri
tious and delectable.
But r he case before you, is no trivial con
sultation on the claims of butchers or taylors, es
preceptors or physicians. You are called upon
to manifeft the last, the most open and flagrant
contempt of every sacred principle, by railing
one, without religion, to be the arbiter of the
lives, liberties and properties of far millions of
men ! The arbiter, I call him, justly call him ;
not in the feufe of royal, or imperial, or despotic,
but in the sense which the defects of human so
ciety, the extent of our country, and the vices
of our countrymen, render necessarily, but dan
gerously wide.
I invoke nothing but companion ; fuccour
from Divine mercy, and the aid of human be
nevolence on the head of the contemners of re
ligion. I alk you not, to banilh or to persecute ;
to maltreat or revile those who are so greatly
unfortunate. All angry passions, all contume
lies, every note of infamy, every instrument of
torment are excluded from the School of true pi
ety. The lessons that are there taught,are fuc-
Cour to all ;--confolation to all the sons of
wretchedness ; admonitions to the erring ; and
such an exhibition of the truth, so lucid and
so strenuous, as to win the love, and gain the
convictions of the most obdurate and stupid.
But hold—The blamcbfs deportment of this
man has been the theme of encomium. Ay !
He is no felon, net pick-pocket, nor adulterer.
Heis chaftc, temperate, hospitable, affectionate
and frank.
Should you place jeffeifon,my fellow-citizens
over you, you will not have railed one in whom
the law has found offence. You will not be so
basely low as to have rescued a felon from ptm
ifhment, or have robbed the tap-hoafe or the
stews of a profitable customer. These private
qualities, which his age, his ample fortune, his
habitual attachment to study, make it natural
that he possesses, are worthy of eftcem in any
one. In him they are more remarkable, be
cause religion, that finishing and excellence to
private virtue, is wanting. Even temperance
and affability are not seldom abandoned by-him
tho rejects the guide of religious/principtes,
To what purpose is this eulogy ? Do his ad
vocates imagine that to prove him neither ruf
fian nor outlaw, is to prove him fit for the high
est office in the nation ? That he who obferyes
the usual forms of good neighbourhood ; who
is unrequitable king in his own household, and
ckrffetted now and then, with an alembic or a
teltfcope, is therefore qualified to fit upon a
throne with dignity ; to watch for the welfare
of millions, and to maintain the public rights a
gainst the artifices, or menaces, or affauks of for
eign powers ?
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• The returns of malignant feyer in our large
towns have been ^Pufually frequent, for the
last tea years. But similar calamities have oc
curred, in other periods, with equal and greater
feveriry—Our forefathers experienced, once and
ugain, mort fatal epidemics, and cfpec ially be
tween the year 1690 and 1700 ; and in addi
tion todifeafes, they were repeatedly alarmed
with a profpeC t of famine, owing to a failure of
crops. Were the people of this day to read a
complete hiffofy of the fuffering of their ancef
toft, in consequence of mortal fevers ; inffcad of
wondering and repining at their lot, they would
bleb God for having chafli/ed the children less
than their fathers. But so ignorant are most
people of the hiftory of Man and sols domfic
fate, that they wonder at things which have hap
pened many times, in every century, since the
days of Moses. New-rork paper.
while others who have trodden in the soot-steps
of C^far and Cromwell, have hkewife been
dirtinguilhed by their conciliating manners, and
their r Uraint from sensual excesses. The social
virtues have (hone brightly in him, who, in his
dealings with mankind at large, and with his
country, has been cruel and perfidious ; and at
tachment to the feiences is good or ill accord
ing to the end that Is meditated, and is nothing
in an climate like this, unless it be a fault.
Science and government are different paths.
He that walks in one, becomes, at every step,
less qualified to walk with fteadfaflucfs or vigor
in the other. The most lamentable preluce,
the word preparation pofible, for a ruler of
men, was a life passed like that of Newton.—
Would to Heaven that the parallel that some
cheofe to suggest between that divine sage and
the sage of Monticello, were complete ; and
that those disastrous incidents had never occur
red, which have/nade Jefferfon the point of union
with his party.
Would he continue to pursue a sequestered
tenor, and glean from books the ideas already
formed, or investigate the hiftory of the meaner
claries of exifteike, with his own eyes, he might
gratify himfelf without direct injury to others.
He might live, little indeed to the benefit of
mankind, and not at all to the honor of his ma
ker, but without perpetrating any ample or
lading mifehief. 0/ bonafi sea norit ! O that
his friends were aware that to him the only
honorable ftarion is a private one, that mankind
would fuffcr his talents and energies to be harm
lessly exhausted in adjufting.the bones of a „,=
dfoipt animal, or tracing the pedigree of sav
age tribes, who no longer exist, and forbear to
bring them forth into a feene untried; a feene,
in which his most ardent worshippers may trem
ble 4 for his magnanimity, and those who hold
his opinions in abhorrence, may be certain of
his failure.
Toad, to {peculate, are different functions.
Poverty and incapacity to reason, are fametimes
found in one, whose deeds are illtiftrious and
full of design ; and who that knows any thing
of mankind, will build his hopes of a firm and
upright use of power, on the lucubration of re
tirement : on what the man resolves or prom
ises to do before the curtain is lifted ; and of
what avail are gentleness of manners and harm
less reveries, when reputation agd life, the
curses or buffings of a world hang upon out
decision ?
Then is the call for great facrifices, the atro
tern animum, the foul that holds its pu_ofes faft,
in spite of blandishments or menaces, of infamy
or death ; that gives failure and success to the
winds, and is prepared to smile whether heaven
is propitious to his efforts, or leave nothing to
his dying hour but the confcioufocfs of meaning
well.
On Epidemic Sickness, Ac. Ac.
The public attention has been heretofore cal
led to the unusual phenomena of the seasons in
the southern states, during some months past.—
The earthquake, the death of fiih on the coast,
the meteors, the tempests, the aflonilhing fall of
snow and severe cold in the Carolinas and
Georgia, have been noticed. The prevalence
of malignant difeafee, fore throats ind yellow
fever, in the fame region of country mull not
be omitted: The philosopher Ihould avail
himfelf of these fads and compare them with
events in other periods and in distant countries.
In the hiriory of Pestilential Diseases, vol. I.
325, mention is made of the Influenza in Europe
in 1797, and the following remark is added by
the author ; “ I have no particulars of the vio
lence or extent of this disorder : but if it was
severe and general, no event is more certain
than that sickly seasons will follow."
It may now be observed that the plague fol
lowed the influenza in Turkey, Egypt and on
the African coast; while diseases of the throat
and malignant fevers have been raging in most
countries of Europe ; in many places with the
mortality of the plague ; and this as well in
countries at peace as those engaged in war.—
The yellow fever has prevailed in Cadiz the
summer past.
It is however consoling to observe, that in
the northern States of America, the inflamma
tory constitution of the air is evidently abating ;
diseases are less frequent, less violent, or of a
different character—fruit is in higher perfection
than for some rears past —and crops remarkably
good in Pennfylvaufa, New-Zork, Connecti
cut &c. &c. The cities of Philadelphia and
New-York have enjoyed usual autumnal health,
and the country is remarkably healthy, except
ing a few places where the dysentery has raged.
The report circulated in the public papers, 01
a defea of snow on the mountains weft of the
Miffifippi, defervea feme enquiry, A general
failure of snow, and a very mild winter has
sometimes preceded great eruptions of fire from
%i^noes —This wasremarkably the fad in 1765
and 1779. Unfortunately, we have no direct
means of learning the state of the Volcanoes on
the North Eart Coari of Asia—which would
seem to have the nearest connexion with the
seasons on the North Weft Coast of America—
It is wifned that American Navigators would
colled and preserve fads relating to these fub
jrdls, in whatever quarter of the globe they may
learn them.
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pair of well assorted
SHOES & SLIPPERS
Os every description^—with a general 1C
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which will be fold as low as can poflibly
be afforded ; where may also be had. Hats,
Weft-India G OOD S,
G ROCERIE S,
CROCKERY-WARE, &c.
—^so
il general assortment of Leaths
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Informs his friends and Cufomets
that he has just Received
A general assortment of Fall and Winter
GOOD S,
At hts Store in M^kett-ftrect,
—,4mon^ which are —•
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ions; L dies and Gentlemen's Beaver
Hats; Cotton and warfel Hfe; bIaCE
& colored Sarins; Irilh Linens & India
Cottons, &c. &c. all of which will be
fold as cheap as at any Store io town.
Portsmouth, Nev 7, 1800.
Wm. Lang, & Co.
Late of the Firm of
Lang, Brierley, & Co.
T)EGS k^ve to inform ins Friends
, Hid the Public,!°n a ;j c isjuft arrived
from Europe, wito a very general
^forimmt of
Benjamin Brierley,
t, Wanted, an actze ftcady BOY to
attend in the Store ; one accustomed to
the 'uGod's woujd be preferred.
And for file at bis Store in Mar
ket Street, at the lowest Cath
Prices. Portsmouth, OR. 18, 1800.
I^hole/ale dr Retail
For C^fh, or fiinrt approved Credit ; they
are now opening, and on Tuefday next
will be ready for their intp c aioo, at the
Store on Spring-hill, nearly oppose Mu.
Peter Coffin's
CHEAP STORE.
Fancy, Fashionable and Staple
. GOODS,
\% hich he offers lor Lie, at very moder
ate prices, either by
The GOODS, having been
chosen by himftlf at the manufaaories,
and bought with ready money, he pre
sumes will enable him to serve his friends
on the best Terms.
Jo/eph & %fota Haven,
who are now opening a general afford
ment of GOODS, suitable to the feafen.
He calls upon those who are indebted
to him to make speedy payment to
prevent farther trouble.
Joseph Haven,
INFORMS the public, he has this
day entered into Copartnerfhip with
his Brother, JOSHUA HAVEN :—.
The business in future will be done un
der the Firm of
GOOD S,
Os the latest Importation,
Frefli Fall and Winter
OLIVER ERIARD,
Hopley Yeaton,
FOR CASH QNL Y.
JUST RECEIVED By
Port/mouth, O%oe? 1, ISeo.
Foit,m mfh. Nov. 7, ISo3.