United States oracle and Portsmouth advertiser — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-12-12 00:00:00, page 1

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AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR.
Bitteti States
Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Printed and Published every
Printers of the Laws &c. of the
Tul. XUJ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12,180 1
QF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL ]
prosperity, RELIGION and MORALITY are indispensable >
supports. WASHINGION's Legacy. j
AitßmfatammsraßtSHrap UMB.mß4atflmt.i
^ ailed States. — D^ scl uj New-Hanty/we.
^ JOTICE is hereby given that
TN the Commi(lio^hrs in a Commission
of Bankruptcy, awarded & issued againll
THOMAS MORTON,
of Portsmouth in the Diftrid of New.
Hlampfhire, Trader, and the assignee of
the efface of said Morton, intend to mett
ofl Monday the fourth day of January
next, at to o'clock in the forenoou,a\ the
Court Huufe in said Portsmouth, in order
is miku a dividend of the eliate and cf
feds of said Bankrupt ; when and where
the creditor, who have not already
proved their debts are to come prepared
toe prove the lame, or they will be exclud
ed the benefit of said dividend. And
ail claims not then substantiated will be
disallowed.
JEREMIAH MASON, zfo^
Portsmouth, Dec. 4^, ißot.
WHEREAS WilliamCa-
DOT of Brooklyn*, in rhe County
„' Suffolk and Commonwealth of M. ffa
chui-tts, merchant, and Nathaniel
GoeK'N, °' Portsmouth, in the County
pf Rockingham, gentleman, have peti.
son ed the Judge vl Probate for said cuum
„of R^W^ ^^ f ° rth tbat l ^y
were seized as teninC " >common of one
,third part of the following ' o:i ~ land
&mate in laid Port (mouth, % °" e °'
Mid lots lituate on Market-Ureef, occupy ,
ell by John Ftnhallow, &q the second
rd laid lots lying ealterly of Water-lire^,
iaciuding the long-wharf, with the dwell
ing boule, and fibres thereon; the third
tot lying westerly of Water-street, and
adjoining land of Capt. James Orue, and
Mr. William Denned; the fourth lot
lituate at the South end of fiidPortfmouth
mix Ermine point, so called ; the fifth lot,
'containing about fourteen acres, lituate
on the northerly fide of middle road;
-an also a farm in Greenland in laid
county of Rockingham,containing about
one hundred and forty acres, occupied by
Ebenezer R biofoo; and that John Pen
ballow, Esq. Samuel Penhallow, merch
- ant, John Pciihallow. jurv. merchant,
Huoking Penhallow, merchant, and Ben
jamin Pcubaltow,merchant, DamelAuftin,
merchant, and Mary his wife, Sarah Pen.
hallow, liogle-womaa, Thomas Penhal-
Idw,and Sarah Ann Pedhallow, minors,
1 all offaid Portsmouth, are the owners of
the other two thirds; and praying that a
committee might be appointed to make
partition of Lil effate, and to set their'
part off to them in feveraby whereupon
it is ordered by the said Judge that the
petitioners be heard thereon at the Probate
Office in Eketer in said county of Rock
ingham on the twenty-eight clay of De
cember next at eleven o'clock before
noon, and that they notify the parties con
cerned by cauhng the jubilance of .ud
petition to be pubhfhed three weeks suc
cessively in the United Styles Oracle and
PertfmouM Advertfo.
Win. PARKER, Register.
$ Count, of Rockingham.
Portlmontn, Sep : . 21, 1801.
, To the honorable Judices of the Su
perior Court, now fitting at Ex
eter, in said County.
RESPECTFULLY SHEWS,
JOHN GODDARD of Portfmoutb,
Parent and Guardian of Jane Boyd
Goddard and Harriot Goddard minors;
:th?t laid minors are owners of sundry lots
.of land and buildings within laid county
which are now and mufr net cffarily re
main wholly unproductive while held by
them and that it will be greatly for their
ijutcreft that the faaie be fold,he therefore
pravs the honorable Court that licence
I mav be granted to him to fell said lots &
-buildings, that the proceeds may be veil
fed in other property more productive for
bbeir account. JOHN GODDARD.
Rockingham, fs.
'Superior Court, Sept, term, 1801.
Ordered by the Court that the
^petitioners notify all perlons concerned
fro appear before the Jufticesof the Supe
rior Court of Judicature to be bolden at
^Portfmoutb within and for the County
Xof Rockingham on the firft Tuefday of
fe February next, to (hew cause, if any they
/ have, why the prayer of laid petition
, fbonid not be granted, by canting laid pe
rftion and order of Court thereon to be
p^blifhed three weeks successively in the
States Oracle & Ponfaouth Afoifer;
the last publication whereof to be fix
weeks before laid term.
Asteft, NATH'I ADAMS, Clerk.
Cop examined fyNATH'I AOAMS,c/ct&
Porfjmewh, Dec 4, #8„,;
u^*rcxmuummQßrerata=ra£raac33^^
[To the Hanot able the Justices of
(the Superior Court of fuJicatu?e to be
ho!den at Dover, within and far the county
vs Strafford, on the fid Tuejday of Sep
temper next.
Humbly shews,
JOHN SHEPARD cf Gil-
J mantoo, in the County aforefaid,
guardian of Joseph Huckios of the fame
Gilmanton yeoman, adjudged non-com
poimentis,that the dUte of the said Jo
seph Huckios is indebted to sundry per
f>ns, in the sum of three hundred tixty
eight dollars, and forty-four cents, as ap
pears by the decree of the Judge of Pro
bate for said County of Strafford, and
that there is no personal estate of the said
Joseph to be ported with, besides what is
necessary for the upholding and support
of the family of the said J >feph, to dis
charge any part of the aforesaid debts;
your petitioner therefore prays this hon
orable Court to authorize and impowcr
him to fell and convey so much of the
real etlate of his said Ward, lying within
said County, as will be (efficient to dis
, charge the aforefaid debts, with the inci
dental charges; and your petitioner 's
in duty bound will ever prav.
JOHN SHEPARD.
Gilmanipn .4ugu, igth, 1801.
Strafford,J's.
Superior Court, Sept, term, 180 J.
C^red by tl^ Court, that
the petitioner m\"(v all period Concern
ed to appear before the Justices di 1^
Superior Court of Judicature to be hoi-•
den at Dover, within and for the count,' |
of Strafford, on the fourth Tuefday of
February next, to (hew cause if any they
have, why the prayer of said petition
thould not be granted, by causing said
petition and order of Court thereon to be
published three weeks successively in the
United States' Oracle, and Pot tfmoulh Ad
wtifo, the last publication whereof to
be tix weeks before said term.
AtteJi, NATH'I ADAMS, &k.
Copy examined by
NATHANIEL ADAMS. Clerk.
Stale of New-Harn,fare.
Rockingham, fs.
THE fubferibers being ap
pointed commiffiouftby the Hoir
orable Judge of Probate, fir said County
to receive, examine and adjust all the
claims of the creditors of the estate of
SAMUEL MELCHER,
late of Portsmouth, in said County,block
maker deceased, represented insolvent;
hereby give notice that they Will attend
that service at the store of Jeremiah Lib
bey, in Market-street, in said Portsmouth
on the last Monday of thh and th, five
following months, from 3 to 6 o'clock,
P. M. ISAAC RINDGE,
JEREMIAH LIBBER
Portsmouth, Nov. 28th, 1801.
NOTICE is hereby given that
the Subicribtrs arc appointed and
duly authorized as commissioners to re.
Ccive, examine and adjust all the claims
of the creditors to the Estate of
CHASE WIGGIN,
lateof Stratham, in the countv of Rock
, ingham, and State of New-Hampshire,
Gentleman, deceased, represented infol.
,ent, and that we shall attend for that
purpose at the huufe of Lieut. Walter
Weeks, in laid Stratham, from two of
the clock to fix o'clock P.M. on the firft
Monday of December next, and of the
four following months
JONATHAN WIGGIN,
WALTER WEEKS,
SAMUEL LANE, Jun.
Strachan, Nov. 27, 1801&
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Miniatili e Painting.
George Dame
SOLICITS the attention of the
O Ladies and Gentlemen of Portsmouth,
whom he will wait upon at their homes,
or at his.
Should he fail to take a correct
Lik^nefs, he will require no fatisfadion
for his attempt.
His price is ten dollars, which
he will exped on the delivery of the
Miniver-. '1 Noqumfr 28
A CONVENIENT SI IOP
in Market Street, fuijable
for an English of wefrlndiaGoodfoftore.
Ar patt&tn enquire ts th Printer.
j IteattoEife
^QtyM^!^
HENRY LADD,
Infor-ns the public that he has taken the Store
lately occupied by Messrs. N. A iff J.lla
ven, in Market greet, and has received
Jrom London and Liverpool a
general apartment of
Ship Chandlery,
CONSGTUNG OF ^
Ebony sextants; do.
Quadrants, do. do. with tangent
screws; Gunter Scales; Dividers, do.
with pen and screws; 9 inch, 1 and 2
feet Telefcopts ; 14 & 28 fec<n< lTime
Glaffcs, hall hour do.; Steele's Charts
of the Weft India lOands ; Holland's do.
of the Leeward and Virgin Elands; Jef
ferey's Charls of the Wert India, with
the Windward pillages and directions for
do; Moore's Charts of the Mediterra
nean ; a new and improved Chart of the
North Sea, by Wm. Heather, with the
directions for do; Wert India Pilot with
directions ; the Straits Pilot ; Elements
of Riging, &c.; the art of do. ; do. of
Sail. Making; Sutherland Ship Builders
Assistant ; the art of Marts Making,
Yards,&c. with plates ; Steele's improved
Tables; Ship Maffeis Assistant ; Guth
ru; Grammar; Malham's Naval Gazet
teer ; Writing and Log Book Paper;
Slates and Pencils; Ink Powder; ditto
Stands ; S nd Boxes; Pens.
Deep Sea Lines ; Hand do.
Log do; Chalk do; seaming, fahnon
and ball Twine ; Marlin; Mopheads &
Nails; iron Coffee Mills; Tar & Caboos
Ladles ; fliort and long handle Frying
I RUS ; ^' on Shovels ; Tormentors ;
Scrapers ; jappan'd Cabin Trumpets;
do Cardlc^l"; Ship's Iron Sticking do,
Tinder Bo^ with Flints and Steels;
copper binacle R^ps ; scrubbing Brufo.
es; long ^nd (hurt handle T^ dpjlanit
do; do Tooles; red, bid, and white
Buntings ; bearded Harpoons f: ditto
Grains ; lin'd, iron, tabled tea Spoons;
white bone, (bam, and real back Table
Knives & Forks, pen & pocket Knives;
Buck Pruners; Pewter Piates, Dirties *
Bafons; H. and HL Hinges ; Chert do,
five and fix inch round iron Bolts ; brali
Knob-Locks; iron Stocked do; single
and double spring chert do; Woodllock
do; double and tingle bolted Padlocks;
Marking Irons ; fail Needlesand Palms ;
Caulking and Marking Irons; Bank
best feel, iron, Poilockand Cod Hooks';
large, middling And final! Quarter do. ;
Mackerel and small do.
Spikes; 4od, god, 2od, iod,
64, and 4.d Naiis; ,^4d, and 6 Clout
do.; 2d Pump do; 34 3d, 4d, §d and
6d Brads; Sheathing & (cupper Nail&;
7. 14, and 28 lb deep lea Leads ; thin
Iheet Lead ; Patent Shot; Gun Flints}
Carpenters and Coopers Tools complete.
AlJo, For Sale;
Sheathing Paper ; Brimstone ;
bright Varnifo; German Steel; Gun-
Powder; Rum; Gin; Brandy; M°lal
fes ; Hyfon, Souchong and Bohea Tea ;
Cotfee ; Cotton ; East India, Philadel
phia refined Loaf and Weft-lndia brown
Sugar; Chocolate ; jar, box, and calk
Ratlins; English refined Salt Petre ; do.
Murtard ; Sp hifli float Indigo } Pepper;
Pimemto; Cassia; Cinnamon ; 'NBt
megs; Cloves and Mace.
PertJmoutk, Nov. 28, tß6t.
Just publi/hed andjbrjak
THE
Miscellaneous Poems of
J. M. SEWALL, Esq.
Subferibers are desired to call at the
Porrimonth Bookstore for their Bo°ks.,
JUST PUBLISHED,
And for sale at the Portsmouth Book-Store,
DORVAL ; or,
The Speculator :
a Novel, founded on Recent Falls,
by the Authoress of Julia.
The attention which a dirtuiguilhing
public in this country as well as in Eng
land(where it has run through 2 editions)
have paid to Julia, hr the Illuminate
Baron, has drawn from the lame pen
another volume which we venture to pro-
Bounce not inferiorjo the former, in depth
and delicacy of plot, in imagery and ac
curacy of description,and in strength and
fliade of character • a candid public, will
stand by the offspring of American gen.
ius, DOT, fofer her font or daughter to
languid) through the want of public spirit.
Suo/cribers wH call at Tread-?
well's Store for their books<
fflftertan,.
—— - —.„__ OBrareeotm.
From the [N. r.] Commercial Advertiser.
NUMBER IT.
To the PreJident of the United States.
SIR,
jA.FTER having enumerated the advantages
and blessings enjoyed by the United States, you
proceed to Hate what is wanting to " make us a
happy and prosperous people." Your words
on this subject are as follows. “ Still one thing
more Is necessary, fellow-citizens, a wife &. frugal
government, which (hall retrain men from in
juring one another, shall leave them other wife
free td regulate their own pursuits of industry
and improvement, and (hall not take from the
moutb of labor the bread it has earned.—This
is the sum of good government, and this is
necessary to close the circle of our felicities."
This, fir, is one of the mod audacious im
peachments of the measures of government
which precede your election, that is to be found
cither in your writings or chose of your flat
terers. Your language directly and unequivo
cally implies the affettion that the government
had not been wife and frugal —that it had net re
strained men from injuring one another—that
it had not left them free to regulate their own
pursuits—and that it bad taken from the mouth
of labor the bread it had earned—for you ex
pressly declare this to be the sum of good gov
ernment, and that this is necessary to close the
circle of our felicities. And this impeachment
is in general terms—extending to the measures
of Congress, and of both your predecessors in
office; for your language implies that the good
government you describe bar not been enjoyed by
the U.States. Charges like this made by a private
citizen, would be deemed extremely indecent 8c
difrefpeaful to those distinguished and enlight
ened men, who have guided our public coun
cils for twelve years past. Admitting that the
sedition law had retrained the favorite pursuit of
malicious lying and fonder, or that some unnecel
fary expenses had been incurred in preparations
for national defence, yet groft and systematic
abuses of power, and a wanton useless expendi
ture of public money alone could judify your
unqualified censure of the former measures of
frverdment. And in your situation, fir, such
reproachful language was peculiarly dangerous
Ifo yourlelf and to your supporters ; for it is
jdftly expected of the man who censures others,
tfct he has the disposition and the ability to avoid
or to correct similar abuses. The management
of the 'complicated and extensive concerns of a
great republic, where numerous difeordant paf
tiona, and interfering intereis are to be concili
ated and adjusted so a work of immense magni
tude, and the confeioufneu of the difficulty of
your office, expressed in the itiirodu^ory part of
your address, ihould have guarded you against
encouraging high and sanguine expeclations in
the public mind, of the success of your adminis
tration. For you to fay, on your firft appear- ,
ance upon the Rage, “ my predecessors have
Ihamefully neglected their duty, or abused their
powers; And 1 will act my part with more dig
nity and success," was to attempt to inspire in
your fellow-citizens mote tonfidence, than your
predecessors could command. Besides, Sir, men
in high responsible Itations should recoiled that
power is always the obje& of suspicion—hr
power of course, will be etpofed to the assaults
of the fame feaffiou, and it is safy to fee, that
after you had weakened the public confidence in
the measures of your predeceffors,you had brok
en down the barriers which were to prote&
your own administration from unjust fufpicicn.
The public confidence is the only fafe bulwark
of the Chief Magistrate, and how can you ex
tra the enemy will not enter the breaches,
tehich yoti yourfelf have made? In this particu
lar, as in many others, we fee no marks of great
talents or found intelligence—no proofs of a
clear difeernment of the nature of your duties
and the danger of your Nation ; but unequivo
tal evidence of Vanity, fclf-fufficpicy and ex
treme imprudence.
After having informed us what foas wanting
" to rtiakc us a happy and prosperous people,"
you proceed co declare your political creed,
which consists in a summary of the principles cf
our national and state governments as express
ed in thb Constitution and bills of rights. In
'this summary; you take occasion to recommend
the prefervatinn bf the state governments, as
“ the surest bulwarks against anti-republican
tendencies." In this phraseology, we obferve,l
as ih every part of the address, a studied attempt
to conceal the mod difehgenious reflexions up
on your oppofers and the former administration
under cover of general terms and allusions.—
What is meant by the indefinite and ambiguous
terms, “ anti-republican tendencies." Men
who are acquainted with you arid the state of
parties, are at no loss to understand such lan
guage. It is blear that you meaht to insinuate
what you sally expressed ih your letter to Maz
zei, that the adminiftracors of the national gov
ernment had inclined towards the eftabliihment
of a monarchy, and that the state governments
; were, and are the bud bulwarks against this
tendency.
But infinnations of this fort, are extremely
reprehehfible. They convey and encourage
the idea of feperate and diftinft interests in the
national and date governments. They imply
that the principal danger to our rights and free
b dom, is in the national government, and thus
, expose it to unwarrantable jealcufies. They
1 imply also that the state governments are the
guardians of the national government, author
ifed to control and retrain its proceedings. In
- deed, your opinion on this point has, for its sup
> port, the authority of the Virginia Legislature;
! which has once attempted: to caercife a censo
rial power over thelawsoi; the United States.
[ But alLthis is clearly fQpgu,nt to the Etttt &
ifpirit of our national Conftituuon-
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THIRTEENTH YEAR.
o&tMt anti
Advertiser.
Saturday Morning, by WILLIAM TREADWELL,&C..
'United States, in New-Hampffiire.
PRICE 1 DOLLAR 50 CENTS Per A^„. [No. it.
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(^ADVERTISEMENTS reasonably 3 conspicuously inserted—COMMU
INICATIONS duly attended to—and every FAVOR THANKFULLY
I ACKNOWLEDGED.
In the conclusion of your ~„refs, you rate
refpeaful mention of Gen. Wallington's ' pre
eminent services, but omit your predeceffa £
old revolutionary friend, Mr. Adams—and ob
serve a profound silence on the administration
of both. You then make a number of fi:r
promises of good behavior in your office,ffilgirg
u§ you are ready to retire, whenever the peo
ple become sensible how much better choices
they may make ; and close with an ejaculation
to the “ infinite power that rules the deftioici
of the universe," in favour of your counts, if
by that power you mean the Supreme GUI
heartily unite with you, for we have greac 2nd
pressing oecafion for his assistance.
NUMBER V.
To the S.IME.
I proceed now to a more important part A
this fubjed, a dd'cuffion of the principled avow
ed in your answer to the,remqoftrance of the
New-Haven merchants. In your inaugural ad
dress, we observe what appears to be a continu
ed effort to disguise your real intentions, with
regard to future proceedings—a studied ambi
guity of language which feemr to cover a fp'rfe
of conciliation, impartiality and found political
morality. In the anfiver to the remonftranec.
you throw oft the veil, and enneunceyourfelf th
bead of a party. In this conduct we observe a
degree of candor, which would have done yob
much credit, had it not been preceded by 4 dis
play of oppoficc Laments in the inaugural ad
dress.
In the very firft sentence of the answer, we
meet with a misrepresentation under cover of
an ostensible truth. “ I have received the re
monstrance - on the appointment of Samu
el Bishop to the office of Collector of New-Ha-
Ven, lately vacated by the death of David Aus
tin." This is the mode of expreflion, which
would have been correct, had the office been
vacant at the time of appointment. But as this
was not the fa&, the language, to be correX,
(hould run thus—“ the office which bad been va
cated by the death of David Austin, filled with
Elizur Goodrich, and made vacant again by his
removal."
To understand your meaning, it is nectffary
to resort to a subsequent passage in the answer,
in which you enquire, whether "the preference
of another as the fucccffor of Mr. Austin can
lie candidly called a removal of Mr. Goodrich ?"
There is some thing so puerile in this evafion,that
it does not even deserve the name of fophittry.
Mr. Austin died a month before your entrance
on your office. Was it not the duty of your
predecessor to fill the office without delay ?—
Would he have been justifiable in leaving it va
cant for two or three weeks, to accommodate
his fucc^ffir and his partizans ? Admit the prin
ciple that Mr. Adams was bound to omir a
nomination to the office, or that Mr. Goodrich
was bound, by any rule of decency or expedi
ency, to decline aecpting it, because a charge of
adminiftratioa was ripened, to what coufe
quences will it lead ? IF an office ought not to
be filled, when the vacancy happens within a
I %^ntb of a change of Chief Magistrate, will not
the principle extend to a vacancy that may hap
pen three months fix months, 1 year preceding
such an event ? Where is the limit of right or
expediency in this case ? The Constitution pro
vides none; and the laws are filenr on the fub
jeX. Aftonilhing imbecility of mind! Mr.
Goodrich was appointed a fortnight before you
tame into office,and he had been in office about
three months when he received his difmilbon.
And yet the great, the learned Jefferfon grave
ly alks, whether his preference of another can be
Candidly called a removal of Mr. Goodrich, hi
the name of all the powers of logic & hngfaag*
how can the President of the United States de
grade his chamber by such quibbles. On the
fame principle you piay prove that, your ~ ejer
eneeo,John Swaftout to Aquila Giles, was no,
a removal of the latter, although he had been Iti
office for many-fOTS.And by itrifl analogs,
your logic will prove that not an officer of govern
ment, has been removed, because your preference
of another, cannot be candidly called a removal !
I quit this view of your logic, and,proceed to
the paragraph in which you represent it as a
difficult thing, arid one that excites " anxious
concern" co plate the interest of your fellow
citizens in the harids of" honest men, with un
derstanding fufficienc for their station." No fir,
this is not the point of difficulty—-honeft men of
understanding efficient arc to be fodnd in mul
titudes in every town in the confederacy. The
difficulty with you ha« been to feleX bon ft men
from among your partisans ; and this, in forhe
1 places,is a thing of extreme difficulty. —Another
thing equally emharruTing to you, has h^en so
to distribute officers as to reward your raoßfanb
ful servants with the 0 places, and at the fame
time, give the teaft otterice co thole who could
not be gratified. I (hould aifo h?ve frippofed.
that you had fuffcred a degree of anxiety; in
attempting to render your practice continent
with your inaugural profegione; but on a revise
of your conduct and profeffions, I am persuad
ed that so far from feeling toy folicitudc on that
score, the thought never totered your head.
To jollify your appointment of Mr. Bishop,
,ou tell us, that " time was taken, information
fought and such obtained, as could leave no
room for doubt of his ficnefs. From private
fourcCT it was learnt that his undtrftariding was
found, his integrity pure, and his tbiraaer ##•
faired" [Did you enquire whether A exandec
Wolcott'* character was unstained also ?]
his proper here to s©§ a fa& the
evidence of which admits of no quefi
tion, that you correiporid with your
principal supporters, on bufaefi of party
politics, arid private &wso<i an unoffi
cial way, fat is, without fuffering your
letters to pass through the office o£
state—a practice reprobated by your
predecefovs and degrading to the office
;t)u h, d > ^ ^ ^to your publie