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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
r T^HAT federate proposals will be received
1 at the office of the Secretary of the Depart
ment of War, until the expiration of the 25th of
itily next enfuiug, for the supply of all rations,
which may be required for the use of the United
States, from the xR day October, 1800, to the
oth day of September, 1801, both days inclu
sive, at the places and within the two diorias
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 enfteng, for the fopply of ail rations which
may be required as aforefaid, from the Ift day
;fJan.in the year lßot, to the 31st day of De
cember in the fame year, both days inclusive, at
the place and within the fevcral Rates herein
after mentioned, viz.
FirQ. Proposals to supply all rations, that may
be required, at Ofwego ; at Niagara; at Fittf
burg; at Prefqu'ifle ; at Michilimackinac ; at
Fort Franklin ; at Le Boeuf ; at Cincinnati; at
Picque town, and Loramie's stores ; at Port
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
Wabalh ; at Maffac; at any place or places on
the east fide of the river Mississippi, above the
mouth of the river Ohio, and upon the Illinois
river-
Second. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required, atony place or places, on the
cast fide of the Mississippi 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 Tenntffec ; at South Weft Point ; at
Tcllico Blockhouse: 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 Tcnncffce, and within the boundary of the
United States.
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,
andatall 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 Charlcßon, or at any other place or
places wheretroops are or may be Rationed,
inarched 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 Salisbury, or at
any other place or places where troops are or
may be Rationed, marched or recruited in the
state of North Carolina.
Sixth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Norfolk, at Portsmouth, at
Kempfville, at Charlotteville, at Winchester, 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 state of Virginia.
Seventh. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Fort M'Henry, at Baltimore,
at Annapolis, at Frederick town, at Leonard
town, at Hagers town, at Blademfburg, at George
town, at Eattown, at the Head of Elk, and at
any other place or places, where troops are 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 Carlifte,
at Lewiftown (Mifflin county) at Bedford, at
Greenfburg, at Washington, at Eaftown, at
Wilmington, at Christiana, at Dover, or at any
other place or places where troops are or may
be Rationed, marched or recruited within the
limits of the Rates of Pennsylvania & Deleware,
except the posts within the state of Pennsylvania,
enumerated in the firft proposals aforefaid.
Ninth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Hackanfac, at Elizabeth
town, at Ncw-Brunfwick, at Burlington, at
Woodbury, at Trenton, and at any other place
or places where troops are or may be Rationed,
matched or recruited within the limits of the
state of Jersey.
Tenth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at New-York, at Weft Point,
St Flushing, at Harlem, at Well Chester, at
Poughkeepsie, at Kenderhook, at Stillwater, at-
Newburg, at Albany, at Conajoharie, at Cherry
Valley, and at any other place or places where
troops are or may be Rationed, marched or re
cruited within the limits of the Rate of New-
Yotk, except the polls within the said Rate en
umerated in the firft proposals aforefaid.
Eleventh. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Hartford, at Hebron, at
New Loridon,at Brooklynn, at Wyndham, at
I.itchfield, at Guilford, at New Haven, at Fair
field, at Danbury, at Middletown, and at any
other place or places where troops are or may
be Rationed, marched or recruited within the
limits of the state of Connecticut.
Twelfth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Fort Wolcott, at Brinton's
point, at Newport, at Providence, and at any
place or places, where troops are or may be sta
tioned, marched or recruited within the limits of
the state of Rhode Island.
Thirteenth. Proposals to supply all rations that
may be required at Portland in the Dißrifl 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 date 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 within
the States of New Himpfli ire and V< rmont.
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR.
Ilie Wniteto ^tate^
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and Published every SATURDAY
the United States,
SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1800;
War Department,
March 12, 1800.
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE INDISPENSABLE SUPPORTS.
OTHE following work has palled
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 consequences of asocial and a moral na
ture, which have flowed and Rill flow from
the accursed fountain of French Pbilofopbical ll
luminatism. It is expected, that all sincere
haters of Gallic Morals, ocherwife the Punica
fdet of public and private life, will liberally pat
ronize a volume of this nature.
The rations are to be furnifhed in fitch quan
tities as that there (ball at all times, during the
term of the proposed contracts be fufficient for
the consumption of the troop? at Michilimack
inac, Detroit, Niagara and Ofwego, for fix
months in advance, and at each of the other
posts on the weftern waters, for at least three
months in advance, of good and wholesome pro
visions, if the fame shall be required. It is also
to be permitted to all and every of the command
ants of fortified places, or posts, to call for, at
seasons when the fame can be tranlported, or at
any time in case of urgency, such supplies of
like provisions in advance, as in the diferetion
of the commandant shall be deemed proper.—
It is to be understood that the contractor is to
be at the expense and rilk 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, shall be paid for at
the price of the article captured or destroyed,
on the demolitions of two or more persons of cred
itable characters and the certificate of a com
missioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances
of the loss, and the amount of the articles, for
which compensation shall 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 contracts shall be issued,
until the supplies which have or may be fur
nifhed under contrasts now in force have been
confumed,and that a supply in advance may be
always required at any of the fixed posts on the
Sea-board or Indian frontiers not exceeding
three months. [e.p.tffuly 25.]
It is expected the proposals will also extend to
the supply of rum, whilkey,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 fevcral component parts of the ration,as well
as thole of substitutes or alternatives for parts
thereof.
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 andahalf pound of
lifted or boulted indian meal, one pound and a
quarter of frefh beef, or one pound of faked
beef, or three quarters of a pound of faked
Pork, and when frefh meat is issued, salt, at the
rate of two quarts for every hundred rations;
soap at the rate of four pounds, and candles at
the rate of a pound and a half for every hun
dred rations.
at the Columbian Bookstore, No. 5,
Daniel street, Portsmouth,
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 Mafochufetts.
“ This, volume, to the reader's eye difplayt
Tb' infernal conduct of abandon'd man;
When French Pbilofopby infeas bis ways,
And pours contempt on Ileav'n's eternal plan ;
Revefng order, truth, and ev'ry good,
And whelming worlds, with ruin's awful food.
AND THE
ILLUMINATED BARON.
Containing 288 pages. price 1 dol.
JUST PUBLISHED,
Bound Sc Lettered, and FOR SALE,
By Charles Peirce,
Spring & Summer
G OO D S,
of the latest importation, which
he now offers for fate at a small advance
fur cash, at his ftorc in Market-street.
Has received his Spring ^ Summer
He is n&w opening and afford them for fate,
on the most advantageous terms.
Has just RECEIVED a Frefo supply of
FRESH TEAS.
FOR SALE BY
Matthew 3. Marsh,
Hyfon Skin TEA, Bohea ditto,
in whole, half, and quarter chests.
Ptyfmouth, July 12, 1800.
Which form a very extehfae assortment of
European & India Goods.
Rich'd Evans
JAMES M'HENRY, &/, of War.
NEW_GOODS.
Oliver Briard.
GOODS,
Staple & Fancy.
JULI A,
No . 40. c Ao/. X.
'THUS heedless of future provision in the
JL lottery of life, and disregarding every prof
pedtive view to the tranquil shades of cale and
affluence, in the coming autumn, fccuied to all,
only by early and indefatigable iudußry, and
attention to the duties which every member of
society owes to himfclf, his connections and
hiscountry, was palled the flower of my life.—
A continued fcenc of diflipatiod and indulgence
in parties of plcafure and amusement, served
but to excite an increased desire for greater and
renewed gratifications in the fields of enjoy
ment. And to avoid the sarcasms of the illiber
al, the whims and caprice of custom muR be
countenanced, the ceremonious etiquette of com
pany niuft be pun&ilioufly observed, or the
harsh epithets of impoliteness or illbrecding
will be the rewards of inattention.
Nothing ever wounded roy., independence of
difpofition,more than the involuntary facrifices
which the fafhions of society render indispensa
bly Decenary ; its foibles ruuft be acquiesced in,
and its changes and humours mull be indulged
with apparent approbation, or the reproach of
impoliteness will be readily affixed to the one
who Rems this popular current. It was my good
fortune to escape an accusation of this kind
being laid to my charge, I might, on the con
trary, be caressed as an obedient child to this
mother of peflilence and deßmaion, wjio con
ceives in fin and brings forth in misery and defo
liation. Fafion, whose votaries are purblind in
the illumined paths of independence, and are
but the mere dupes to her delusive fancy. I
must with regret acknowledge my former vas
salage to her commands, after ihe bad addressed
me in the fafeinating language of a despairing
lover, clad in the robes of splendor and orna
ment, and languishing thro' fear of disappoint
ment. The charms of her eloquence overcame
my reason, while in the suppliant Rile (he ad
dressed me thus: “ Come thou my fondeß
hope, and be my adopted son and friend, assist
me in accomplishing the grand object of my
mission, its charge is important and depends for
success on my own exertions ; and will receive
an additional increase of power from your im
plicit obedience to my maternal commands,—
You will then become a citizen of my unlimit
ed empire, whose domain is limited by no ex
tent, and whose duration hitherto knows no
time, nor ever will while the nature of man is
the fame, and his passions are the incontrolable
sway of his actions. The Philosopher, aping
wisdom and despising the folly of his fellow
men, may be cold to my embrace, yet in the
scale of beings he is 101 l in the infinity of my
dependents ; his austere maxims of felt denial,
and rigid rules of conduct, but ill relish on the
palate of the polished world. Learn from his
errors to glide gently down the current of this
life on the downy bed of ease, and rest secure
on the tide of popular opinon, which will waft
you to the happy shades of glory and retire
ment. Lock with an attentive eye on the na
tions over which my feepter is swayed without
control, and you cannot but admire my influ
ence in the moral world, and reverence my
precepts with fubmiffivc devotion. Rcjeft
with disdain the speculative doctrines of the
Hern moralist, and the illiberal tenets of the
bigotted priest, they are chimeras which Cxift
not in reality, but are the mere delusions of a
credulous noddle, phantoms, that like a vapour
disappear, when approached by the enlightened
ray of reason ; reject those principles, I fay,
which will debar you of the free enjoyment of
those desires which your nature has implanted
in you, and while you enjoy, deprive not others
of the fame pleasure, when it makes not a col
lilion with your own ; and yet for your own
happiness and my interest, you mull be moral
with the moralift,and devout with the religious;
a portion of your time must be given to the
most popular minister of the place you are in,
while you inviolably adhere to my creed, and
literally to that of the Apostle, who wifely
fays, that we mull " become all things to all
men." The experience of ages has proved
this to be the perfection of human wisdom,
both morally and politically so; I need only
refer to the most refined and magnanimous na
tion on the globe, which now has the enlight
ened philosopher, statesman and warrior for
its absolute ruler, and though he has swum
through oceans of blood to obtain his authority,
yet he will rule the enlightened French nation
with glory to himfclf, happiness to his people,
and my everlaftiug credit and honor. This
polite people have more than answered my
mod sanguine wishes, they have revolutionized
the whole system of morality, exploded the
whole farce of religion, and introduced reason
and common sense unaided by revelation or
the doctrine of prieftcraft ; regardless of the
thundering of the whole order of the priest
hood, they uniformly aim at the object of their
pursuit. Their numerous revolutions h
generated men, who have pursued the dec
tating system of their predecessors in office, 4
til they have drained off the blood of al
unenlightened in the fublimeways of rc A
and who clogged the wheels progreffin
this summit of rational wisdom ; hum A
must sincerely deplore the means which ■
been adopted to obtain this laudable aiGP
when the advantages are considered that ■
from such meafurts, we niuft acknov &
their just ice, and sing hallelujahs of pr
these followers of the great Paine.
"The duties that are incumbent upon £
my official character, oblige me to dife
you the advantages and the inconver
that will attend you in becoming a conve R
my principles. The odious epithet of „
will be unavoidably affixed to your cha'
as a term of reproach bythe moral Ftdev
who have recently been Shocked by the ■
valency of my principles in this wefiern % %
If my calculations are not wrong, feccef 4
attend my endeavors to suppress and anni. ]
these moralists and sticklers for what the
order and good government; then shall /
For the United States Oracle of the Dty.
ffltfcellanp.
THE REFORMER—No. 3.
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, TWELFTH YEAR.
Oracle of tlje Dap.
Morning, by CHARLES PEIRCE, Printer of the Laws &c. of
in New-Hampshire.
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" I have the honor to inform you
that his Excellency the Governor has
this day communicated to me, that the
vcffels of the United States are no long
er permitted to take in produce on
freight,or otherwise, for England, & al
lowed to land only lumber, fifh & flour
to take away in payment therefor, mo
lasses only. As in consequence of the
Governor's proclamation for the allow
ing neutral vessels to take away any
produce, giving bonds to land the fame
in England, letters were written to
merchants in the United States, advis
ing to fend vessels here to take freights,
it seems necessary that the revocation
of this privilege should be generally
known' This moment his Excellency's
proclamation on the fubjed is shewn
to me ; but there is no time to procure
a copy to transmit to you by this con
veyance. Officers of the British cus
toms are appointed to fupercede those
appointed by the Commander in Chief
at the surrender of the colony.—ln
ftruftions from his Majesty's minister's
have been lately received concerning
the navigation and trade to this colony :
I have seen them. They are written in
a prefling, censuring style, againil the
admiflion of neutrals to a participation
in the trade, any farther than absolute
necessity will juftify and require. The
admiflion of European neutrals is po
sitively forbidden, and American vef
fek are limited to the landing of lum
ber,fifh & flour, unless the Governor by
proclamation declares that the colony
is in want of Beef and Pork. In re
gard to the taking away produce, mo
lasses and rum are only °'l
the language is not
gard to this ref 1 /fl
to underttaQd|
m°^ rd
ica be happy ; one and indivisible shall be gal
lic and American faith, the Jacobin shall pros
trate the altars of aristocracy and prieftcraft at
the feet of the destroying angel, to rule no more.
These are, (the added) but faint descriptions of
the bright profpeas that present themselves to
my mind in pursuing this narration, but no
hesitancy can for a moment delay your sub
scribing to these proposals, after hearing such
an impartial account of the advantages that
will accrue to yourfelf, and to the cause of rea
son and common sense" JUNIUS.
The great interest which ail good men
take in the good or ill-fortune of their
Benefa&ors has been strongly manifeft
ed in the case of Mr.Pickering,for whose
welfare and success much anxiety is
felt by his numerous friends. To all
such, however, it will be gratifying to
know that Mr. Pickering's project of
fettling in the wilderness, is not the
reful: of a sudden impulse, but had long
been contemplated ; as appears by the
following genuine extract of a letter
written by him the 7th March last; a
bout two months before his difmiffion
from office. Referring to the uncer
tainty of the next Election, whe
ther Mr. Adams or Mr. Jefferson
would be President, he fays, "I am
prepared for either event, determined
to aft independently, whether in or out
of office. My only solicitude is for my
children, that I may have it conveni
ently in my power to give them edu
cations suited to their capacities and
dispositions ; and this I can accom
plith by sales of lands,if other means fail
me. For the rest, though ashamed to
beg, I am willing and able to dig ; and
if it were convenient to gratify my own
inclinations, I would return to the cal
ling of my aaceftors, and become a til
ler of the ground. When the occasion
occurs Ifhall do this without the least re
luftance."
E*trafl of a letter from the American Consul at
Surrinam, to the Secretary of State, dated 14th
May, 1800.
SURRINAM TRADE.
AUTHENTIC.
That its efta in the mass of bread
is to make it worse, and to injure its
digedive and nutritive quality, iVithSut
even adding to the weight or the mass •
of bread. He fays, that it is the most
senseless thing in the world to talk of
the rich eating the bread of the poor,
&c. He, on the contrary fays, that the
poor should eat the bread of the rich,
because it is more economical. The
bran he represents as injurious to the
making of the bread, and dates that
experience proves it to be much less
nutritious. Bran when analyfed is a
quite different substance from flour. In
consequence of his reprefehtations and
experiments, the committee of public
Safety adopted a mode of grinding, the
object of which was to extract the whole
flour, and excluded the bran entirely.
Rice bread—As the article of bread
is now a serious object in house keeping,
it may be an acceptable piece of inform
ation to the public to learn, that many
families have adopted the use of rice
in making bread, in the proportion of
one-fourth.—The rice is previously
boiled for ten or twelve minutes in
three times its weight of water, which
is put to it cold. Thus ten pound and
a half of flour, the quantity used in 3
quartern loaves, when made into dough,
with a pound and a half of what the
baker calls fpunge, will knead up with
three pounds and a half of whole rice so
prepared, and the produce will be fix
loaves instead of four. Hereby a Sav
ing will be made of three pence in a
quartern loaf, valuing the rice at fix
pence per pound, after paying the baker
amply for his trouble, and the consump
tion of the oven will be reduced nearly
to one half. This bread is very palata
ble, lighter and whiter than wheaten
bread.
LONDON, APRIL SO.
Presents to Lord Nelson, for his services
in the Mediterranean, between October the ift
1798, and October the id I/99*
From bis King and Country, a Peerage of
Great- Britain, and the gold medal. £
From the Parliament of Great- Britain, for
bis ron life and two next beirs,per ann. 2CCO
From the Parliament of Ireland, not enaßl,
town, but supposed to be the fame as given
to Earl St. Kincent, and Lord Duncan,, er
annum. 1000
From the East India Company, 10,000
From the Turkey Company, apiece of plate
of great value.
From Alex'r Davidson, est. a Gold Medal.
From the city of London, afword of great
value.
From ditto, to the captains who served under
bis orders in the battle of the Nile, a Sword.
From the Grand Signior, a Diamond Ai
grette, er Plume of Triumph, valued at ICOO.
From the Emperor of Ruffa, a msf elegant
letter and a box set with diamonds, value „00.
From the King of the Two Sicilies, a most
elegant and kind letter, and afword richly
it^mmented with diamonds 5000.
ikedom of Bronti with an efate
annum 3OCC.
of Sas dinia,a mfelegant Ict
''" f" '"i'" diamonds 1203.
'^^^^^©■^adofZante,agoldbeadedfword
Xl^As an acknowledgement, that bad
"' Battle of the Nile, they
been liberated from French
of Palermo, a Gold Box &
Uefented on afiver waiter. Also,
■on of the city of Palermo, which
■ , a Grandee of Spain.
■ A London Paper, fays,
B/ices from the Hague, state,
■ on the 2d May, the Legislative
m^er decreed, that leave should
for the importation from Eng
every raw material which is
L direct produce of that country ;
'^^Kery article not the manufacture
cat-Britain."
eery corpulent traveller, riding through
# city of Parugi, several of the inhabitants,
vro are noted for wit, anted him, Why he
rarried his baggage before him ? He answered,
it ismy custom when I go to • town fell of
thieves.
LONDON, APriL 3.
Bread —A Frenchman of the name of
Alexis Cadet Devaux, in consequence
of having observed in the Englilh pa
pers proposals for making bread with a
mixture of bran, has published some
observations on this fubjed, and be to
tally disapproves of the mixture of bran.
At the time of the Scarcity in France,
in the year 1793, 'a number of experi
ments, he fays, were made by himfclf
in the baking School (Ecole de Boulari
gerie) urider the infpedion of the com
mittee of Safety. From these experi
ments he fays, it appeared, that the
flour of a quintal of wheat without the
bran, gives as much bread as the flour
of a quintal of the fame wheat with the
decreed allowance of bran.
The addition of the bran in the mix'
ture of flour is injurious to its preserva
tion.
Foreign Miscellany.
WASHINGTON'S Legacy.