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nd frooo foot ; the Co-nmo dore by the guns of
the Couftitotion, New-York, John Adams, and
fmalter reflet# ; the above mentioned squadron
were ranged immediately under their batteries,
and with a determination, thouid the negotia
tion fail, to commence an immediate attack up
on the town ; however, this was rendered unne
cessary, by an immediate compliance on the part
of the Emperor, with every demand—a peace
(was the result, fUmes exchanged, and every spe
cies of proviGgns, (which they have in the great
est abundance) distributed among the fleet. Thusl
terminated an affair that threatened the com- :
mercial interests bf the United States in those 1
seas, with annihilation ; theygave ibin their;
power, from filiation, to harrafs our commerce
more than every other Barbary power combined.
“We left Tangier on the 18th and came too in
this bay on the 14th, we leave this to-morrow
morning for Leghorn, from thence we (hall pro
ceed off Tripoli, where we (hall cruise until the
latter end of December, when We shall proceed
TO Maha and remain during the remainder of the
winter. The John Adams and New-York are
aow bound home. We expe& to be reinforced
•by the Congress and Essex frigates some time in,
«he ensuing firing.”i
0
NEWTORK, JAN. 5.1
^xtr^a of a tetter from London, dated November X. ।
he American &p Alexander Hodman, belong- ;
Tnii ;o Bolton, that was captured in July last, near]
Gibraltar, by a 3riifh (loop of War, and Carried in-]
;o Plymouth, has at fall been brought to trial at the ;
High'Court of Admiralty; th# (hip and cargo ac
< itted, as both appeared to be neutral property.
The American clinnant, however, has been obliged
to pay charges, and submit to all damages. It ap
peared on trial, that this Chip failed from bofton
with 60,000 dollar, in September 1802-—that the
loaded with pepper at Batavia, in March, and flop
* ped at the Ifle-of France in April last—the captain
there made a contrad with & French merchant to
' deliver his cargo at Marfeilies, where it was to be
• paid foron its fafe arrival.—The contrad set forth
that the cargo was actually to remain at the risk of
the American owner, until it arrived at Marseilles,
• and was there paid for by the French house. It
appeared clearly to the Court, that the American
owners did nut contemplate war when the (hip fail
cd from Boston, and when they gave their orders to
the captain of said fllip; and it appeared further,
that the contrad was made at the Iflc-of France be
fore the war broke out in Europe, and that nothing
was paid towards the cargo by the French house at
the Ifle-bf-Fra'nce. All this appearing clear to
the Court, it.,was considered as a fair neutral transac
tion, and the (hip and cargo were ordered to be re
ftoied ; but had such a cotHrad been-made in war,
it would have been cenfidered as a delivery of the
goods.and the property would have been condem
ned. —
St. Domingo
Is now under the dominion of the black trium
virate. St. Nichola Mole, the last strong hold of
•he French, ^ar evacuated the §th December. The
.agents of risnrique Republic have dilperfed their
'BAarauoo of Independence in CY^fyfort of the
United States ; and,it is intimated in advices from
< ne-'ra^ ^ El?ck Minister will be sent
to W^nnftun toFJffit the aeknowl&tgrtnent of
'their Independence by'the United State-, and the
conclusion of a treaty of commerce. H # w the ad-/
vocates oh quality—who by the bye hold half a
million of bucks in flitery— will receive a fable
Amb^Vdot is'hatd iodertnite.
Boston, Jan. 23. I
f FIRE! 1
On Saturday morning tail, it about half pad !
7 o'clock, a dirtreffing fire br<&e out in the brick
ttore in State-ttre<t, occupied by Mr. Jofephl
fierce, jr. merchant, and Gilbert and Dean,
Printers ; though the assistance of the inhabi
tants was rendered at an early hour, and with
its wanted activity, ttill the means were ineffec
tual ; the raging element defied the power of
human exertion, and continued its devaluations
until the combustible materials of that and the
adjoining store, with the principal part of their
valuable contents were cenfamed. Ihe fuffer
<rs by this calamity, as occupiers, and owners of
goods lodged in the Mores, are Messrs. John Par
ker, Joseph Peirce, jun. N. and R. Freeman, E.
artd N. Wethington, and Gilbert and Dean.—
Mr. Darker has fwllained a loss of about 20,0c0
dollars, in the buildings, and goods ttored there
in for himfelf and others; Mr. Peirce, about
, 5000 dlls. Messrs. Freeman's, about tyoGO dlls.
Messrs WitbingtoM, about 500 dlls. only,& Mffrs.
Gilbert and Dean, from 4 to 5000 dlls, in books,
printing Apparatus, &c. including about 1300
dlls, in bit s, of the Salem, Beverly, Gloucester
and Newburyport priks^hd a number of Lot
tery Tickets. Aggregate amount of damage
not fardrom „,m dlls. This is a calculation
of% firft loss only ; but who (hall estimate the
injury which a total derangement of bufintfs ;
and the deprivation 'of almost every resource for
renewing its career, mud naturally create. We
are not authorized to apply this remark to any
of the present fufferers excepting Messrs. GIL
BERT and DEAN ; to them, however, it will
ftrialy apply ; for by Qis unhappy event, they
are not only Gripped of every vestige of that lit
tle property which they had accumulated by un
wearied efforts of industry, but are loaded with
1 debt of above 2000 dlls, in Cash and Tickets,
the property of the Managers of South Hadley
Canal Lottery. -—— :
From Wallington, Jan. 7.
"We had hopes the bolide designs of democracy
had ceased, and that in its triumphs we (hould have
discovered that magnanimity of Ipirit which is pe
culiarly ornamental to the vi&or. But the fame
vtoSiaive and perfecting Ipirit which aided its
conquest is still its guide.
"The House of Representatives have for three
days past been engaged in difeuffing a resolution
brought forward by Mr. J. Randolph, jun. for the
purpose of investigating the conduct of Judge
CHASE of the Supreme Court of the U. S. and
Judge PETERS, Diltria Judge of Pennsylvania, to
ascertain if there can be any ground of accusation
»giinA them.-Or to speak tn more appropriate
hn^^e, % haveimdroned in thNai^
£,, ala m^ede Roßtoimz. The House by a
great majority I think, 80 to 40, puffed the refoki
tion and an inquisitorial Committee of fdv&r, has
'been appointed, whbfe natural accutenefs, fbarp
ened by the famulus of party feelings will be paying
enough to dete& their approbrious deeds.l
"The resolution contains no ipedfic charge. ,
But it is fufpefted that one or the other or both of ।
tbefe Judges have fame how, fame where at some ,
time, done some thing which renders them fit ob-j
jeds of legift,tive vengeance. The, they are goil-|
ty of an attachment to the Conflitution at adminiftued
By Washington and Adams, and though his is fuf-|
ficient to incur the displeasure of the present majo- f
rity yet it can hardly be believed they would
willing to ground an impeachment on this chargej
alone. It may be possibly made to appear that one q
or other of these Judge's in some unluckly 'hioment ।
has expressed an opinion thit'k is withih their prov.l
ince to decide on the conftitutidnalify or hneonfti- 1 ?
turiouality of a law pf Congress, thereby -ptefump- —
tuoufly maintaining the independence df the Judi- ]
ciary as a diftina branch of the government. But ,
if tills is correa,'(hall Congress assume the right to
make it criminal, and thus extend their power to
despotism. The ostensible ground of this resolu
tion however is that on the trial of Fries, who you
recoiled tewconviaed of treason and pardoned,
;thefe Judges, who then composed the Court, would
I not permit M<, Dallas and Mr. I„ewis to argue to
I the jury the law that was to govern their decision,
j fr vnty t*ihe CouH, ctatfflfig it as the province
i of the Court to declare the law, while the jury
' were to decide ihe fact. —You know the maxim
iof law "/Id q^oeftionttajaai,,refpondeffl jndices ;ad
ftef.icnemjw isnon ?eJpndtntjmadores^" and though
a violation oi this maxim by the judgment of our
wit- kg:ftjtrrs may prove them pettifoggers, it ®i||
not imprets the, world with an opinion of their jhf.
tier.— It is alft bid that in the trialof Callender the
concilia of Judge Chase was arbitrary and bp.
prelfiv?';=-but we knew bis conviaion was by a
jury of Virginians.
" It will be four years nert mqpth since the trial
of Frits. It took place in Philadelphia Then Con
greltwds in feffi f m,& all the ocenbeifces at the trial
were ihen pelln.lv known. Why the arm of Juf.
ti(< has 0”t nitil this time been (hitched cut in
terror to these men, can only be acccounted foron
this ground, that it requires the occurrence of two
'birds of the Senators present to convi& on impeach,
ment, and now it is conceived that number may be
obtained!! Which of the Judges of the fupremei
Court or Diftria Court will next have their turn ofl
denunciation we cannot tell.—The work is in good
hands ; —And after the conftfimion is repealed and
public option has made another, New-England I
hope will be restored to her senses,"
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The Oracle.
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SATURDAY, January 21.
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From NATCHEZ, Due. 24.
" The New-Orleans Mail has not arrived—
-SQP troops (militia) from Tennessee, arrived
here yesterday."
From Port Republican.
Captain Dolby, arrived at Philad. from Port-
Republican, informstfa the blacks were tevelhhg
all the fortifications at Port Republican, andi
1 ereaing nothing but wooden buildings, with the[
intention of setting fire to them, and retiring to
their faftneffes in case the French should at any 1
I future period meditate their fulyugation They
compelled the whites, men, women, andxhildren,
;to assist in these works.
I The French areiaid to have fitted out a strong
secret expedition from the Isle of France.
I J
' Mr. Thomas Cooper, of Pennsylvania, an emigrant, late
ly a great favourite with the democratic party in that
state, has recently written on the fide of Governor M'Keap,
ogatnft one of the bills, to the paifege of whieh the Gover-|
nor was confeientioafly opposed. A writer in the Aurora
fays, Mr. C, “ appears to have intended to prove, that
' the mass of people in this country have neither integrity
nor understanding fuffifeut to regulate their own affairs."
IGeorge Hay, Esq the autagonift pf Callender it is &Q
;has been appointed Attorney General of the State of Vifc
' ginia.
Thomson Mason, Bfi |is appointed # Brigadier Gener
' al in the Militia of the State of Virginia, to (apply the fate
I cancy occasioned by the death of General Stevens Thump.
I son Mason.
Mr. and Mrs. BUONAPARTE, it is said, are on a visit it
Washington.
On the ,th ult as Mr %/ Pirfa nf Newark, (N ft,
was exceeding a young horse in jumping, the animal flirted
on a full gallop, bafled all hie endeavors to restrain him,
and finally threw him with such violence agoinft a treea,
as to fradure his fall so dangerously that his life is defyait.
At Dcmerara, Dec ~ Srig Hitt, Moore, of Fortfmouth,
just arrive!, fchr. Hero, Pray, to fail for do, in to days;
bWg George and Jane, Sullivan, of pmfmouth, to fail for
Newyork in 26 days, (hip Eunice, Marshall, of and for
Pefpr&rtugb, in 16 days, brig Camillus, Kennard for
rortfautA , in 20 days.+^
On Saturday the 7th inst. ^boct 6 o'clock the
sloop Polly Capt. Defhon, of New London from,
Frederickfburgh, Virginia, with a cargo of flour
for Boston, then at the Vineyard, caught fife'
under the cabin Deck, by the exertions of the"
inhabitants and seamen in the harbour, the fire
was ettinguilbed at midnight, after filling the
vessel with water and cutting up the deck and
quarter deck. Cargo much damaged-
MARRIED! -In England, Thomas Campbell, Bffe
author of the Pitafurcs of Hope, to Miss Matilda Sinclair,
At Wilton, N. H. Mr. Henry Lovejoy, to Miss Perfies
Abbot, daughter of Abiel Abbot, Esq.
Ifn Boxborough, Mass. Mr. F.vi Roger; of Littleton, wer-
I chant, ty Miss Sarah foal Wilted, daughter of the Rev.
1 Joseph Willard, of the forraer place.
DIED] In England, Sir Lionel! Durrell-George Big
gin, Esq. who once accompanied Lunardi in an terfol eg,
curfion —John Tucker, a foldiar in Alhford barracks—He
' died at 4 o'clock ic the morning , before ra on the fame
day, his widow was married to another man, and in the
evening the ty, couple followed the cotyfe of the firft
husband to the grave as eiitf oooartm.
MlfrhfrwfcMT* frsTdm fr.«+ ttefcHb
FRESH FLOUR.
atoct—wm I fo°\'
, TUST received per the Harriot, Balch
I J frern Richmond, and for file at the Store of
Jambs Smiafs— A quantity of.
;FreOi Superfine FLOUR ih bbls, and
1 half bbls. January'2l.
'LETTERS,
Remaittin^a^ie Port-Office at E.^ter,
I, 1803,
W ILLL W PARKER ; SirWtllinm
vw Phim fTDiniel Clark; Eliphafet Gld
dings-and son f,hn BarcheHor; Bradbury Jann
fon •; Francis 3'beafe*; Daniel Coaly ; Samuel
Wiggin ; James Weeks ; Charles Gordon ; Jo
seph Lamlon ; Noah Emery, ^ ; Rebecca Gfiy;
Betsy Gilman ; Samuel Gilman; George Gilman ;
Archibald Mihail ; Mary N. Frost ; Zerubable
Matterfon ; Betijamin Loverin ; Tenphilus Love,
rin, Exeter ; Abraham Morril; Samuel Thing;
Dudley Thing; Edmund S, Young ; Toomas
Ranney; Richard York , John Woodbury ; Sam
uel Shephard; Joseph Robnfoh ; Jonathan Smith;
Benjamin Shephard-; "Vid nwn Me : oon, Brentwood
Paine Wingate; Junes Diman,sratliam; Tho-!
mas Leavitt , Benjimi n Leavitt, Hampton ; Sarah"!
Falls; Levi Hea^y, Hampton-Fills ; Jeremiah
F°gg, Kensington ; Abel Brown, East Kingstown,
Sophia W. Neal, Nt>rth Hill; John Burnham
Londonderry.
%&. G[LM/IN, P o fl M&r.
- — — — — — _ __.l
John B. Sewall
Q AS received at his (hop in Buck-
P street, afo INDIA COTTONS, and
yard IRISH LINENS, which, he ;
will fell cheap.
N: B. Geese & Sea Fowl FEATHERS,
CROCKERY & GLASS WARE for 1
fate at thefame place. January 21, 1804.
India Goods.
„Q
A FEW Bales India Chintzes; India
Cottons, and Nankins, for sale very
cheap, by the bale, or piece, for ca(h or approv
ed credit, at the (lore of
NATHAN B FOLSOM,
No 5, High street, Portsmouth, Jan. 21, 1804.
__ L — =_ .4
For sale by
Joseph Noble,
A QUANTITY Superfine FLOUR;
24 bbls. SHIP STUFF.
Portsmouth, January at, 1804.
""-Books:
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W. & D. Treadwell's
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Subfribers are requeued to cgll for their Books.
r FOR SALE AS ABOVE.
The Minor Encyclopedia, or Cabinet
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IThe Entertaining, Moral & Religious
IReroHTOkv, containing upward# of three score separate
performances, all of which are written in a firple yet plea
;ftng style —lt is said Miss Hannah Moore has contributed
Imuch to this work— 3 volt. ixmo. well printed, ajo^j.
Letters addressed to a Young Man on
hie entrance into life, and adapted to the peculiar circum
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Wash's new Mercantile Arithmetic.
Locke's Eflays on the Human Under-
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large Evo vol. %jo<<nh.
Clarke's Sermons, large gvo. 2,25 cts.
etc IIM HIM— * —— ill; IB mi nil ua^ro -?<
Philadelphia Leather
goo wt. of Philadelphia Skirting Lea
'ther; and
A few Hog's-skins f(* Saddles, are just
received from Philadelphia, and fe file by
C. PEIRCE.
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also, an additional fu, pl, of
Careys elegant family & other BIBLES
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European BIBLES, from 1 to iS dal
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Testaments & School Books of almost
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Massachusetts and U. States Registers,
all for fate at the Brick Bookfae, Drad-freet,
re & Jatmaty
'New-Hampftire Fire & Marine
Insurance Company.
NOTICE is hereby given that a;
Dividend was declared the 13th Decern-;
ber, and ready to be paid at the New-Hampshire
Fire & Marine Insurance Office. By order ts the
Prudent a&i Direflors.
John Wardrobes Secretary.
December %
" s^vTl^^^:
Turnpike Road<
THE Proprietors are notified that
their Annual Meeting will be held at the cast
Chamber of th# St^c-Houfe in Fortfowib, on Tuefday
the 14th day of February next, ats o'clock in the afternoon.
Samuel Elliot, Proprietor's Clerk.
. yt#7 at, 1804.,
;t ——— d —
Found at Sea, |
A LARGE Moles Boat, no marks.
The owner foil tove ter by applying to
EIiphALET §i.aEPE,, at Rye, and paying charge,.
,CT7r,it, 1804. '^ . ' • i
State of Newtampyhta.
s.) In * e } ' ar ° f ° ur "** °' e thousand
\" ) eight hundred and three.
An ACT to incorporate a Company by the name of TH*
"PROPRIETORS OF THE PORTSMOUTH SALT
Works
BE it enußei by the Senate and House of Re^rejentmtirer, ia
General Court convened, That Timothy Alden, jan. Jacob
Shade, Nathaniel A. Haven, John Haven, Thoma, Sheafe,
John Peirce, Benjamin Leverett, James Sheafe, Edward
Parry, Joseph Haven, William Haven. Isaac Waldron, jura.
Silas Holman, Matthew S Marih William Sheafe, Joihua
Maven,'Luke M Leighton; Henry Haven. Daniel AuftiD,
Samtet Ham, Ebenezer Thompson, Benjamin Brierley,
William Marlhall, Nathaniel Adams John Hamilton, Ed
ward Cotta, and Eliphalet Ladd, and their associates and
ficcerfora be, and they hereby are incorporated and made
a body corporate and politic forever, by the name of THt
PROPRIETORS OF THE PORTSMOUTH BALT
WORKS' and hereby are invested with all the privilege
and immunities decenary vd incident to such a corpora
tion, and by that name may sue and be fried, profecu:c end
defend in all adioris, and the tame purfuc to final'judgmcnc
and execution.-
And he itfurther eneßed, that the said PROPRIETORS raR,
from time to time, whenever it shall be thought oeceffury,
meet for the purpose of tranfading any business relating to
the ohjed of fad inco i poratioh,at u bich meetingVany pro
prietor may by written power, authorize fy other perfda
to appear and vote fgr him, which power ihall be filed witty
the Clerk, and each (bare present or represented, at any
meeting of said proprietors, mail be entitlea to one vote.
The reverend Tiraoth, Alden, jun. is hereby authorifed
To call ' the firft meeting of said Proprietors by advertising
the fame in the Portfinauth Oracl-, the firft advertdemeat
to be fourteen fas previous to said meeting, and (ball pre-
Tide at the fame , •at which firft meeting the Proprietors
present cr represented (hall chafe a CLERK, whd ihkll be
sworn to the faithful difchar^e of the duties of his office,
'and Ihall also agree on a method of calling future meet
into, which method they may alter at hoy regular meeting,
as shall be found nectffary; and the major part of said Pro
prietors, present er represented, >t any legal meeting, ma,
make and cßablilh such rules and by laws as to them (half
seem necessary or convenient for the regulation and govern
ment of said Corporation, and may caute 'the fame to be ex
ecuted, and annex penalties to the breach thereof, provide!
^id rules and by-laws are hot repugnant to the Constitu
tion and Laws of the State.
The Clerk Ihall keep a fair ahd regularrccor d of this aft,
the rules and by laws, regtflations and proceedings of said
Corporation, in a book or books, to be provided for that
purpose.
And he it further taaaed. That said Corporation be and
hereby arc authorifed to purchase and hold any real eftaca
necefory for eroding, carrying on had Wtfeding the objeda
of said incorporation.
State or New- ? In the House of Reprefentatrves, De
Hampshire. J cember 13, 1803, The foregoing Bill
having had three several readings, paged to be cnaded.
Sent up for concurrence,
JOHN PRENTICE, Speaker.
In Senate, the fame day, This Bill having been read ft
third time was coaded.
AMOS SHEPARD, PreGdent.
Approved, December 17, 1803.
J. T. GILMAN, Governor*
A true C^y.
Attest, NATHANIEL BARKER, Dep. Sec'y.
Agreeably to the above a&, and for the with
in mentioned purpose, I hereby advertise THE
PROPRIETORS OF THE PORTSMOUTH
SALT WORRS to meet, at Major Walker's
Tavern, at (even o'clock, Tuefday evening, the
last day of the present month.
TI OTHY ALDEN, jan.
9th January, 1804.
THE subset iber. Executor of the last will and
tdlament of
MERCY NEWHALL,
late of Portsmouth, in the country of Rocking
ham,'fingle woman, deceased, intends offering her/
last will and teftamemt for probation, at the
<ourt of Probate of Wills, &c. to be held #
Portsmouth, in and for the country of Rocking,
ham, on the third Wednesday of February next
enfuing,<he date hereof. : 11 persons concerned
m ay govern themselves accordingly.
CAZNEAp BAYLEY.
_Jj£" a !% '3,
ALL Perlons having any demands
against the efface of
widow MARGARET LITTLE,
late of Londonderry deceased, are desired to exhibit the
fame to the fubferiber for fettlcment, and all persons in
debted to said effete are requeued to make immediate pay
ment to Thomas Patterion, Executor.
Lon Cerry, January 2, 1804.
=^™" o =T b ^ p +-ptceetetr—cw ,0- r -in—up. ±#—tF_metcre_to-tdß
Josiah Blake,
HAS for sale at his Stor^, at the head
of Buck Greet,
100 quintals of Pollock and Cod Fish ,
l 6 bbls of Mackerel ;
300 boxes of fmoakect Herring ;
Oil and Blubber, &c.
N.B SHOES % Boots of all kinds, for
sale cheap for Cash-No credit given bj retail.
The bigheft calh price given for Sole
Leather and Thick Shoes of all kinds.
Portsmouth, Jan. ?!, 1804.
,Stratham, ,axuary 9, 1804.
IriOHE Members of the Eaflern Dis-
I trift Nev- Hampshire Medical Society,
1 willpleafe to takenotice ?M a meeting will be
; holden at the inn of Ezra Hutchins in Eie-
Iter, the firft day of February ensuing, at to
i o'clock, A.w.—By DireAion.
J. Bartlett, Notary;
— ~T^bTlet,
A FARM near the town of Portf
mouth,—-enquire at this Office.
, Wanted Immediately,
A Man who is well acquainted with
A the Tanning nnd Currying of Leather,
to fupetintend a Tab Yard at Amofkeag Canal,
tinder very advantageous circumflances. A
fr.trt active petfoff who will #tend to the bwG
nefs will be handsomely rewarded— For further
? particulars enquire of \ ',
William Blcdget, at said Canal.
Dr^ ^j^'ryn, t!%