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To the honourable the Justices of the
Superior Court of Judicature, now
holden at Exeter, within and for
the County of Rockingham,
Respectfully shews Ed.
mund Pearson of Exeter, Esq
Guardian unto Mary Gilman, of said
Exeter, single woman, who is ad.
judged and determined to be non com
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mands due from his said ward, and ex
senses incurred for her support,amount
to the sum of twohtindred dollars. For
the payment and discharge of which it is
necessary Real Estate should be sold.
That she is seized and possessed of a
bout twenty-four acres of land situate
in Exeter aforesaid, bounded northerly
by the Rev. M^ Rowland's land, west
crly, southerly and easterly by land of
Abner Polloff and Noah Barker and
by the Little River. That it would
conduce to the interest of his said ward,
as well as necessary for her support
that the whole of said land should be
sold. He your petitioner therefore
prays your Honors to grant him li
cence to sell the whole of said premises
or such part thereof as you may think
proper and most for her benefit.
EDMUND PEARSON.
Sept. 21, 1810.
VOTICE is hereby given, that the
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BENJAMIN STEVENS,
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JONATHAN STEVENS.
Deerfield, Nov. 3, 1810.
ROCKINGHAM, ss.
Superior Court, September term,
1810.
NOTICE.
ROCKINGHAM, ss.
Ordered by the court, that the pe
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the county of Rockingham, on the first
Tuesday of February next, to shew
cause if any they have, why the prayer
of said petition should not be granted,
by causing said petition and order of
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The following is the summary of the
valuable opinion of that celebrated wit
and illustrious critick, V oltaire.
I" The Romance of Ariosto is so ex
tensive, so full of variety, so fruitful
in every kind of beauty, that after
having perused it, I have more than
once found my appetite excited to read
it again."
“ The ORLANDO FURIOSO
has a merit altogether unknown to the
writers of antiquity. The poet is,
by turns, moral, pleasant and gallant,
but never departing from truth and na.
ture."
five hundred pages each.
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type-
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two elegant engravings (to be exe
cuted by a celebrated engraver) and,
delivered to Subscribers at $2 50
per vol. in boards, to be paid on de
livery.
Those who procure eight Subscribers
and become accountable for the same
shall receive a ninth gratis.
,< Subscriptions received by the
Publishers, and by Booksellers and
Printers of Newspapers throughout
the United States.
Subscriptions to be returned by the
first of January, 1811.
^ Printers of Newspapers, by in
serting the above in their respective
papers will confer a great favpr,
and shall receive the like whenever
requested.
Exeter, N. H. Oct. 22, 1810.
WANTED.
AN intelligent LAD is wanted as
an Apprentice to the Printing Business,
More were unnecessary. The ver
sion by Hoole is in no wise inferi
or to his harmonious "and energetick
translation ofTAsso's Jerusalem De
livered. There are but a few sets
of the above work to be found in A
merica; and, as no pains and expense
will be spared to render the first Amer
ican edition worthy of such distinguish
ed notice, the intended publishers can
not but anticipate the patronage of
the learned and liberal of every class.
HOOLE'S ARIOSTO.
C. Norris % Co. AND E. C. BEALS,
Propose Publishing by Subscription,
An elegant edition of
ORLANDO FURIOSO :
CONDITIONS.
The work will be comprised in three
volumes, Octavo, to contain about
BY the praise bestowed, from every
quarter, on the execution of the late
first American edition of Tasso's Je
rusalem Delivered, the publishers
of that celebrated work are induced
once more to solicit the patronage of a
judicious and enlightened publick. In
offering this second, and superior speci
men of Italian Literature, which pro
cured Ariosto the appellation of
“ Divine," perhaps it would not be
amiss, to transcribe the opinions of a
few, whose particular intimacy with
the writings of the author, and whose
celebrity as authors themselves, justly
entitle them to much respect.
" He possesses all the elegance of
language ; his verses are strong and so
norous ; his descriptions admirable and
often sublime. Ariosto, whether se
rious or pleasant, is every where enter
taining, and preserves a degree of ma
jesty even in his pleasantry : he is the
only author that has found out the art
of blending the serious with the comic,
and the heroic with the familiar; by
which means he is truly original, and
such an original, as no one has yet
successfully imitated."
Gravina an Italian critick of great
taste and judgment, after a detail of
some of the author's peculiar and strik
ing beauties, concludes thus.
" But such is the power of Ariosto,
that while his work is perusing, almost
all his blemishes are lost in the multi,
tude of his excellencies."
Le Sage gives the following charac
ter of the Poet.
TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN OF
Ludovico Ariosto ;
WITH NOTES.
By JOHN HOOLE.
EXETER, (N.H.) MONDAY, NOVEMBER Q, 1810.
" The United States,
To Levin Jones, Dr.
" Feb, 28 1809. For freight
of schooner Wolf, from Bal
timore to Charleston, em
ployed for the transportation
of general James Wilkinson,
major Saunders, major Rob
inson, captain Williams, con
sul Anderson, 25 non-com
missioned officers, musicians
and privates, with their bag
gage, &c. &c. &c. SIOOO
"For 3 day's demurrage at
Norfolk, at 30 dollars per
day, - * - - 90
" For 3 day's detention, pilot
at Norfolk, at 3 dollars per
day, - - - ^ 9
Dollars, 1099
; I ._— —
NOTE.
" General Wilkinson's bag
gage including 50 barrels
flour, and 12 barrels of ap
ples, 375
" Major Saunders, major Rob
inson, captain Williams and
colonel Anderson, at 40 dol
lars each, - - -200
" Twenty-fivenon-commission
ed officers,musicians, privates
and waiters, at 17 dollars
each, - - - - 425
Dollars, 1000
Received at Charleston, February
28, 1809, of lieutenant Samuel Cham
plain, assistant military agent for
South Carolina, one thousand and
ninty-nioe dollars in full of the above
account, having signed i triplicates of
sa %^^
Dollars, 1,099.
The within account is correct and
just, and I hereby direct lieutenant
From the Connecticut Mirror.
SCIENCE OF DRAINING MON
EY FROM THE TREASURY.
-—The Deposition of Wm. Simmons,
Esq. which Was recited at large in form
er papers, discloses many facts, relative
to Wilkinson's illegal and ertrava
gant expenditure of the public money,
which have not heretofore been pub
lished, and some of them, it is confi
dently believed, were not known even
to Congress, until such disclosure took
place, in consequence of the enquiry
of the committee. Some of the items
are not large, but they are not, on
that account, the less illegal and im
proper, and they terid to shew, that
no means have been left untried by this
man to filch money from the public
Treasury. It will be remembered, that
in answer to an enquiry of the com
mittee relative to the charge for the
freight of flour and apples from Balti
more to Charleston, (S. C.) Mr. Sim
mons says :—
“ That on the examination of the
accounts exhibited against the United
States, by the assistant military agent
at Charleston, it appears that in Feb
ruary, 1809, a payment was made up
on the order of General James Wil
kinson, for the freight and charges of
the schooner Wolf, from Baltimore to
Charleston, amounting to 1,099 dolls.in
full for the passages of Gen. Wilkinson,
Major Saunders, Major Robinson,
Captain Williams, and Consul Ander
son,and twenty-five non-commissioned
officers, musicians, and privates, and
waiters with their baggage, including
fifty barrels of flour and twelve bar
rels of apples for General Wilkinson,
from Baltimore to Charleston, where
I have been informed they embarked
on board the brig Hornet, for the Ha
vana, on their way to New Orleans;
and, conceiving that the payment for
the passage of General Wilkinson and
Consul Anderson, and the freight of
, the flour arid apples, was an improper
charge against the United States, I
did accordingly charge the amount
for these objects, being 425 dolls, to
the personal account of General Wil
kinson."
The following is a copy of the Ac
count above referred to, as taken from
the Report of the Committee ; —
(A.)
" Copy of the account, payment of
which was ordered by General Wil
kinson, for freight of flour, §c.
from Baltimore to Charleston.
No. 12.
POLITICAL.
Samuel Champlain, assistant military
agent for South Carolina, to discharge
the same.
" I certify that this paper contains
a true copy of voucher No. 12, for
payments made by Samuel Champlain,
and charged in his account to the U
nited States
The mines of America were drawn into
his coffers. He had every advantage
from that country which the com
pletest conquest could give him. But
his blind and furious ambition urged
him on to a step, by which those ad
vantages Were lost to him forever.
The attempts he had been making to
conquer Spain, have cost him already
more lives perhaps than all his other
conquests put together. And what
has he effected ? The impoverishment
and devastation of a country that had
given the sinews of strength to his own
arm ; the destruction of miriads of
Spaniards who had held themselves in
readiness to fight their battles, and ac,
tually did every thing else for him but
acknowledge him as their sovereign.
After all Spain is not conquered;
nor in all probability will it be con
quered in fact, though most likely it
will be so in appearance. Suppose
the Spaniards, from dire necessity,
should apparently submit to the yoke;
will their proud and lofty necks bear
it long? They are the ,ost haughty
people on earth, and the most deadly
in their hatred. Their ancestors were
men of unconquerable spirit. The Ro
mans tho' they conquered almost the
whole known world beside, could not
entirely conquer them. The Saracens
or Moors took possession of Spain,
and held it for several ages, but at the
expence of torrents of blood ; for the
native Spaniards were perpetually wag
ing war with them, and finally expelled=
them. Hundreds of bloody battles
those proud conquerors had to fight
with a people which they had thought
already subdued ; and at last were driv
en by them into exile. The present
race of Spaniards, from various causes
have become enervated. But the u
surper, by his perfidy, injustice and
cruelties, has aroused the energies
characteristical of their nation. He
has prompted them to deeds of valour
worthy of their progenitors. He has
inflamed their bosoms with most violent
and implacable hatred to himself and to
the people of France; a hatred which
, • . .^ +=-= ^~,:n
: its own interest. It has been remark
ably so with Napoleon, as it respects his
perfidious usurpation of the crown of
Spain. Previously to that black and
villainous deed, his will has been om
nipotent in Spain as in France. The
Spanish court had sacrificed its fleets,
Wm. SIMMONS,
: Acct. Dep. War.
Department of War,
Acct's Office, April 19th, 1810."
The following is the deposition of
Capt. Williams, on this subject, tilso
taken by the Committee :—
I left the port of Baltimore on the
24th of January, 1809, on board the
schooner Wolf, in company with gen
eral Wilkinson ; fifty barrels of flour
having been put on board, belonging
to the general. On our arrival at
Charleston, flour was taken from the
schooner, and put on board the Unit
ed States' brig Hornet, in which vessel
we sailed for the Havana, a few bar
rels were presented to the General of
Marine, an officer of the Spanish gov
ernment, by General Wilkinson."
'' Question. —What do you be
lieve was the quantity of flour put on
board the brig Hornet, at Charleston,
and taken to the Havana ?
'' Answer.—! do not know, that all
the flour shipped at Baltimore, was tak
en to the Havana, but I do believe
that more than one half did arrive
there; a few barrels may have been
gotten rid of at Charleston.
Wm. E. WILLIAMS,
Captain sth Infantry."
" Washington County, ss.
"ON this 24th April, 1810,
before the subscriber, a justice of the
peace for the said county, appeared
Wm. E. Williams; and made oath in
due form, that the facts stated in the
within writing, are true to the best of
his knowledge.
Sworn before, and subscribed,
“ DANL. RAPINE."
(To be continued.)
as of avarice, often makes it blind to
its armies and its treasures to serve him.
The greediness of ambition, as well
(Signed.)
JAMES WILKINSON.
THE BITER BITTEN.
ship betwixt France and Spain is
henceforward impossible^
" For never can true reconcilement grow,
“ Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd
“ So deep"
Therefore on the supposition that
Spain submits, not willingly, as it nev
er can, but on compulsion : what has
Napoleon gained? lie has gained the
mere tituldr sovereignty of a country
impoverished by him, and turned into
heaps of ruins, and whatmas he ios\?
He has lost the immense resources else
stances can cure or diminish. —Friend-
neither time nor change of circum-
he might continue to have in that
rich country; He has lost the friend
ship of ten or twelve million people,
and incurred their deadly and eternal
hatred. They will submit no longer
than they are compelled to it; and
not unlikely, will take the first fa
vourable opportunity to massacre and
destroy every Frenchman that shall be
found amongst them. Finally, he has
killed the hen that lay the golden egg:
he has lost, forever lost, the products of
the mines of America; the very thing
which he aimed to engross to himself.
Formerly, Spain furnished him wifa
great abundance with specie from its
American mines.—-This harvest is past.
For howsoever it may fare with Spain
itself, its mines, which he chiefly cov
eted, are beyond his reach.
The conqest of Spanish America by
France, if the natives prove true to
themselves, will be a thing impossible.
With, or without the assistance of G.
Britain, they may bid defiance to every
invader. Beside that their country is
impregnably fortified by nature, a
bounding with frightful precipices&nar
row defiles, which could enable a handful
of men so stop the progress of an army ;
besides these advantages, the deadliness
of their climate to the Europeans, is a
certain defence against invasion. It
proved so in the attempt upon Cartha
gena, by a British fleet and army, in
the year 1741. A pestilential fever
spread death and destruction among
the invaders. So also in another in
stance, in the 1780. Lord Collings
wood, then commander of the British
frigate Hinchinbroke, buried in four
months at the port of San Juan, one
hundred and eighty out of two hun
dred which composed his whole crew;
and the crews of the other British ves
sels in the port suffefed in about tha
same proportion.
If there were landed in South Amer
ica, a French army of a hundred thous
and men, they wonld soon be destroy
ed, if not by the sword, at least by
sickness. The natives, betaking them
selves to nature's strung holds, their
mountains, and cutting off supplies
from their enemies, might leave it to.
famine and pestilence to do the rest.
—-Napoleon, in usurping the crown of
Spain, acted with as much folly as
wickedness. Like the greedy dog in
the fable, he lost the solid substance,
whilst seizing at the shadow.
Con. Courant.
Telegraphic^ Despatch.!
The amazing rapidity with which
intelligence is conveyed from one part
of the French empire to another, ma,
be comprehended from this circum
stance : Gen.Menou, governor of Ve
nice, died in that City on the morning
of the 13th August=the fact was
known at Paris by a telegraphick des
patch, on the same day=the distance
is (at a rough gUess) about 450 miles.
Balt. Ev. Post,
it I.>
Literary Production;
A work has been published in En
gland, entitled " The Art of becom
ing a Taylor" which is announced as
the just production of a, society of
adepts in the profession, with this
splendid introduction.
" The object of our book'is to fur
nish the world With a complete guide
to ornamental covering; with a com
prehensive analysis of beauty and ele
gance of dress; in which infinite pains
have been taken and various talents
united to form rules, applicabtem all
cases, for cutting out garments; a,
work which will, on the first view,
convince the uninformed mind; that,
with a little application, he may be
come a complete Taylor/' 'tW'
4 ‘^'y*"-"^ lit, i^fey^
ffidmund Randolph, esq. has issued",
proposals for publishing a History pt'
Virginia, " from the first settleniW 1
of the colony, until the adoption /> f ^
the Constitution of the United States. . %
and, perhaps, to the itymM of "
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