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fG^b% Apoftfaipt fays, " a gale of wind is
now blowing, and it is expend the frigate will
bilge."
nir. Cathcart, consul at Algiers,forwarded a cred
jt for the maintenance of the officers and crew the
moment he heard of the capture of the Philadelphia.
a From Martinique.
,'?'!'" Bellows, who arrived at Philadelphia, from
Martinique, informs, that the morning he, failed, which
was on the 14th February—“ The British Commodore
lent in aProclamation to the Captain General,informing him
that the agreement entered into, to allow open boats of a
certain description to pass and re-pass. being broken by plan
less, &c. who, ibftead of confining their boats to the car
rying only io hhds. had undecked the most of their coasters,
and carried on a very extensive trade; and also, that he
had taken possession of part of ;the island, having forti
%ed himfelf within 1300 yards of the main Ihore, and the
C', a General having attacked him on the evening of
?hr xh ult. he declares the Island in a state of siege, and
the more effedually to carry into effeft, he has deter
1 cd to raise the siege of Guadeloupe, to elofely besiege
she Island of Martinique, and that all persons are to take
oboi as he ffiall a& accordingly."
Attack on Curracoa.
On the last day of January, two British grips of the
line and two frigates, appeared off Curracoa, and'the
Butch refuting to surrender, 6 or ,00 men were landed,
and took poffeffioo of two forts, compelling a body of/
\ French folaiers to retire. The Dutch had some fkirmilhesJ
forith the Englilh, which concluded in their precipitate re-'
treat. The Lutheran church had been fee entire by some
incendiary, and burnt.—At the date of the last accounts
the Britifr were firing into the town, and almost every
foot went through some house. The inhabitants were re
moving their property.—The Theseus was one of the
'l-Jhips of the line, and the Blauce, one of the frigates §m
ployed in the expedition..
St. Domingo.
The Generals and Chiefs of the armies of Haytis, (ci
devant St. Domingo) on the ift of January last, proclaim
ed John James Deffalines, Governor-General for life, with
the powers of making war and peace, and nominating his
successor. The Generals have all sworn to renounce for
overever the authority of France, and to die rather than
live under its domination.
Extraß of a letter from Malaga, dated February I.
" It appears by the books, that from the ift of Od. to
the middle of December, 13,000 died here of the dileafe
which, prevailed. In January we experienced several
4 earth-quakes, two of which were severe, one lasted three
minutes. The houses rocked like cradles. Some of the
tops of the Churches fell in—many houses were rendered
untenable—and in some places many lives have been loft,
some thousands have perished—The citizens were much
alafmed here, and many fell on their knees in the Greets,
and called out for their confeffors."
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Capt, Williams, at Providence from Martinique informs,
that an English frigate was fun*, by a single shot from a
redoubt, which struck her between wind and water. (This
probably was the tender, whole loss has been heretofore
mentioned.) A body of English troops had been landed
,©n the north end of the island, but were repulsed with
fob. -
It is said, there are twenty-four French privateers fitted
; - fr . of St. ,00 d^ Cuba, whose principal prey are unarmed
• As Gen. Smith, of Baltimore, a, M.C.
^^^^ 2 very w# table ffiip, taken by these picaroons, it is
peba?^ v !Q hear something on the fubjed tfrom
C-%: ^> li.a . 'ench Agent who adjudicates these vef-
X.s. fizzes uc . ork of it ; and has stipulated for 2,000
* ' rs f a demnation.—He too has xßoo dollars
v u for .: .; ting privateers,
Four tbouAnd dollars have been appropriated by Cou
^t^ for Arraying the expenses of the impeachment of
,judge CH.-. d the expenses of the Senators and
Repiefentatives, and it will be found that this prolecutior,
wx. ^ out coue„ a large sum.
The English East India Company have now Ships cf
three defcriptidns in their service ; thofc of the largest
,burden, viz. igdo tons and upwards, are generally employ
ed for China, Coast and China and Bombay and China ;
^ those of 800 tons, employed in the trade to Bengal and
Madras, for bale goods, raw silk, and various other articles ,
and those of 550 tons, employed outward by individuals
and freighted home with falt-pctre, sugar, and goods of
divers descriptions.
An ^count of the arrivals at the port cf New-York;
from thrift of January, 18,3, tathe 3d March, 1804,
gives 124& of these nearly one had were from the Weft
Indies, one feth from England, Scotland and Ireland, and
one seventh feta different.puts of North America not in
the United States; from the Atlantic Ports of France 43,
and of Spain 27 ; from the Mediterranean 26 ; from the
Baltic 18 ; from Batavia, 30; th4 Weftern Illes 25;
b from Portugal 27 ; from the Hanfe towns 13 , and from
Sweden J. In the accountno mention is made of the ton
nage of the veffcls, and therefore the proportion of the
vessels only can be difeovered from the table.
The Oracle.
TUESDAY April 3.
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RETURN.CF VOTES.'
In 158 towns published last week,
Gilman- Langdon ' Graan--Langdon
11,§18 10,884 Lancer 69
Udamr 4 40 LittieiX 45 25
Bartlett 6 56 Marlow 3 68
Burton 3 ,0 Nezubazn^ton, 88 1$
Bethlehem 16 21 Northumberland lb 4
Conway 29 '3 Nczu-Grantbwe 16 66
Baton 66 %pee 30 80
•JHinfdale 30 53 Stoddard 77 47
Lyman 27 55, - . ——,
Total, 11781 1x593
The above are all the returns that have yet
been received. There are 25 towns yet to be
received, and they last year gave a handfomd
majority for Governor Gilman.
Representatives.
From all the information we have gleaned
we can fee no just ground to conclude the Feder
al majority in the House is much lessened in this
,leaion_ Many changes have been effected) some
for better and others for worse.
IThe County of Strafford will fend one more
Democrat than last year. 1\
State Senators.
We have received no authentic information of
the election of the Senators—from all accounts
we have feeri, we think the following Gentlemen
are elected, viz.— C. Storer, J. ?rr, % K. Smith,
Robert Alcock, and S. Payfen.
Counsellors.
ft it said that Benjamin Peirce is elected for
the County of Hillfbor o %h, and William Hale,
for Strafford County.
The Manual Meeting, for the choice of Tewfr-Orro
ClMS,was held in this town on Monday laft;After making
choice of the Hon. JOHN LANGDON, Esq. Moderator,
the following gentlemen were chosen to the refpe&ivc of
fices for the current year ;—viz.
Tran Clerk. —Geo. Wentworth.
Seleamen — George Gains, Elijah Hall, Moses Wood
ward, Samuel Hutchings, Samuel Drowne.
Affefors —John Goddard, William Ham, George Long
Joseph Clark, junr. John Walton.
Committee of Health — Samuel Jones, Benjamin Sher
burne, Jofhma Brackett.
Oierfcre of the Poor—John M'Clintock, Clement- Sto
rer, Thomas Manning, Nathaniel Marlhall, Walter Aker
man, Henry S. Langdon, Robert Ham, Nath'l Felfom,l
Robert Harris.
Auditors of Accounts — Supply Clap, William Gardner,
Samuel Penhallow, jr.
Tything Alen—Samuel Hall, William Dearing, Joseph
Bass, Robert Ham, Richard Jackson.
Fire-Wards —Thomas Manning, Samuel Jones, Clement|
Storer, William Ham, jr, John M'Clintock, Edward Cutts,
Luke Leighton, Daniel Austin, Seth Walker, Daniel
Wentworth, Peter Peirce, jr. Wm. Stavers, Isaac Nclfoo,
Titus Salter, William Rice.
„ ,^'"" Wm. Vaugan, Thomas Moulton, Benjamin
Holmes.
Lot Layers-Wm. Hart, Benjamin Akerman, John Sto
kles, Thomas Jackson.
Fence Viewers—Samuel Hall, W. Akerman, Jeremiah
Dennet. -{
Sealer of Weights and Meafurts—George Gains, *'l
Searchers &no Sealers of Leather —George Cate, Nathaniel
I Jackfoo, Robert Mcndbffi.
Cullers and Packers of Fife—ar.d Cullers of Heofrs and
foen—James Day, Joseph Waltcn, junr. John Pitman,/
Charles Grace, Samuel Clarke, George Fernald, Robert "
Neal. -- - ^.^ - , .
Meaferers of Weed :—Jahn Melcher, Mark Green,John
Walton, Mark Leighton, Samuel Cotton, Joseph Clarke,
Richard Sortridge, Samuel Furnald, Richard Jackson.
Corders of Wood .---Richard Peverly, Thomas Ayers,
John Oxford. George Waldron.
Narkoar Maser—Samuel Jenci *~ ''
Keeper of the Magazine — William Walker.
Keeper of the Pound —lfaac Shepherd. ~ °, :
Nog Reeves.—John S. Sherburne, Clement St oct, Seth
Walker, Thomas Manning, John Wentworth, George
Long, Charles Cutts, Thales G. Yeaton,Richard Sortridge
John & Davis, Charles Grace, Joseph Dodge, E. Drew.f
School Committee.—John Goddard, Henry S. Langdonj
Jefhua Bracket, George Long, John Wentworth, Lyman
Spalding.
Officers of Police.—Thomas Manning John Wentworth, 1
Charles Cutts.Richard C. Shannon, Samuel Jones, George I
Long, Clement Storer, Theodore Furber, Titus Salter, {
Joseph Ela, Edward Hart, Hanson M Hart.
^OBSERVE? ~ §
A meeting of the reliev'd fufferers is requested
at Col. Walker's Hall this evening, precisely at
7 o'clock. — . March 31.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
The lines to the author of Amelia, by Myrtillo ffiall ap
pear next week. Honorius and an unsigned address on
the fwbjea of Turnpike Roads, shall also appear.
ta *k%%«<4feq(^,4«
At Baltimore, Robert Carter, Esq—an aged and much
refpeded inhabitant of that city— At the period when
America made her firft ftrugglcs for Independence, against
the arbitrary power of Great Britain, Colonel Carter was
a member of the Executive Council of the then province
of Virginia/; though clothed with dignity under that order
of things, he was among the firft co strengthen the just
claims of cur country, in defence of freedom and the rights
cf man -Long before his dissolution—by enfranchifing
manflu^dreds^f the African race, whom he held by in
heritance, he completely celled his abhorrence of flavery—
and io apporuubing to ta^oy ts chore unfortunate beings
certain quantities of land, he. thereby added liberty to the
comforts and means of life, end gave an exalted display of
his poilanthropy.
fr+frfr*««<••«< *&m@fr.fy.#fc &. tie
SPRING GOODS.
lames Rundlet,
HAS this day received, per the John
Adams, from Liverpool, and has now ready
for Sale, by wholesale and retail, an affortmeot of
Olive Velveteens; Calicoes;
black do.: CelorU Cambficks;
Black fancy de. White & black do.
Black Nank'netts; Ginghams;
Blue do. Diapers;
Olive and fancy do. Table Cloths;
J cans ; Copperplates, &c. &e.
New Goods?
PEI ER COFFIN, has just received
per the (hips Packet and John Adams from
Liverpool, a Variety of
Chintzes; black and colored Nanki
netts ; fancy Gandrills ; Jeans; Men's Youth's
and Children's Hats, &c. &c.
Naval Stores, r'
THE Cargo of Schooner Eliza, from
North Carolina, consisting of Tar; Rosin;
Pitch ; Turpentine and Spirics-Turpentitie
Also, a few Hams BACON, for sale by
LADD & SMITH,
NojjMerchant's Row, March 31.
Ebenezer Thompson
Has for Sale,
60 bbls, new fuperfine & fine FLOUR ;
3 tierces Country, do.
Whole & half bbs. No 1, and 2, PORK;
Cargo No 1 and 2 BEEF;
I2OQ wt. good Cheese ; 50 bushels
leas ;3, wt. Bacon ; few keggs Hogs Lard ;
'°. Hhds. Cider ; Hops and Malt ;
1500 wt. Clover Seed ; 20 bushels Herds Grass
do. ; IGO boxes Smoked Herring ;
40c White Oak Shooks ; 7000 Oars ;
also, four pipes fourth proof Brandy ;
Hjfon; Young Hyfon, Hyfon Skin,
Souchong and Bohea Teas, Nutmegs,
Gin,&c Portsmouth, March ^.0804.
India Sugar.
A FEW bags INDIA SUGAk, of a
luperior quality, for Sale by
S. LARKIN, Court-freet:
Marcher, 1804.
Cloved and Herd's Greiss
SEED;
for Sale by STEPHEN PEARSE, .oppohe the
~ Now in Pref
and will be immediately published, by
JOHN MELCHER,
at for Net Printing Office, opposite the Portfovutb-
Stone, Gongrefsfo det, Portsmouth.
Whitefield's 16 Sermons,|
on various Important Subjefls .•
# This is a work of great merit, though of ancient date,
its worth too well known to need any encomium to re
commend it to au enlightened world, it has puffed through
,many editions both in Londo, and America, where it hath
met a rapid sale. It will be printed on a fine demy pa
per, izmo. on an entire new type, comprised in one hand
feme volume of 373 pages, and fold at the very low price
j 75 cents handlomely bound and lettered.
^Book-Sellers lupplied in exchange,
sheets, or bound.
Perfeutb, N. H. March 1804.
JUST Pußlithed, a pamphlet, contain
ing,* fliort Difcourle of Mr. John Glas;
and an Eflay if t'h- late Mr Robert Sande
man, on Solomon's Smg ;to which is added, a
.fliort Account of tire People can 4 d Sandemanjans,
Ifrom1 from the Encyclopedia. The abowe Pamphlet
:contain,,' 7| pige., and j 3 /„, ifeprice 9^.
at the Bifck. Baok Stoc of Charles Peirce in
,Daniel-tfee, Portfmomh— alfo. May be had as
I above,
The Afflicted Mourner relieved,
price 2 Gels.
A Poem on the late American War;
-2)CtS.'
Ma&hnfetts and United States Registers and
, Almanacs ;
And Carey's large, middling size, and fmrll BI
BLE> n multitudes. March 31, 1804.
ft W. ^D. Treadwell,
!tT''' j u " published and will offer for sale
or exchange, in the course of the ensuing
;week, Bedloe's Improved Edition of
\Brown's E ements ofMedicine,
; in one Svo vol. of 473 pages.
IK^Great attention has been paid to have the
above work correctly prin ed, and the proof
sheets have peffed the infpe&ien of a physician.
They have jif put to Press
Bunyan's Minor Works;
containing.
The Water of Life, Solomon's Temple fpiritu-
Grace abounding to the alized ;
chief of Sinners; Christ a complete Saviour.
Divine Breathings;
The above work will make 400 i2mo. pages,
will be bound in boards, and fold very cheap.
Portsmouth, March 31.
FOR SALE,
A Lot of Land,
In Merchants Row.
An Excellent Stand for Business, apply to the
Printers. March 24.
Please to Observe ;
THE Selectmen of Portsmouth, here
by notify and request the Inhabitants of said
town to bring in to them, just and true Inventor
ries of all their rateable property according to law.
The Selectmen will be ready to receive
them at their Office in the Brick School H>ufe in
Buck-street, every Thursday evening, until the loth
day of May next, and not afterward.
March 3r, 1304. . ^ < - ,6w.
Morning and Day School.
Thomas Jackson,
INFORMS the refreshable inhabitants
of Portsmouth and its vicinity, who honored
him with the tuition of their children the last
season, either in his Morning or Day School—
that he is now reddy to wait on and receive any
that intend to make his School their choice,
throughout the Summer season.
His School is principally intended for the in
ftfu&ion of young Ladies in the various branch
es of Literature—but being requested to admit
some young Makers ; and wishing to make it
convenient to all, he therefore accepts a few at ,
his former prices.
N. B. All scholars that engage and attend
his M,orning Day. School fix months, Ihall be en
titled to the seventh month gratis.
OMorning School to commence on the 9thl
day of April next, at 6 o'clock in the morning,|
and fy continue until the weather is warm ; then 1
from § or half past 5, to half past 7, that those
who attend other Schools may not be detained
too lite. Fer terms apply at bis School Room,
flighflreet.
Portsmouth, March 31, 1804. __
William Ramsdell)
INFORMS the Public that he has
just entered town and commenced the
Ladies Shoe Making Business,
at bis Shop in Mr. John Waldron's house,
beyond Mill-dam—he intends Shortly to movte into
fMr. Fernald's ihop corner of Washington and
;Gates-(I retis. March 27.
.Joshua Rand
INFORMS his Friends and the Pub
lie, that he has taken the Chamber, lately oc
cupied by Mr. Josiah Blake, (Buck-llreet)
where he carries on the™
Boot & Shoe Making Eufuiefs,
in its valgus branches.!
'°"—°E!'h March 31, 1804. ^
"—[WANTED, a Imart induftnous Wo
■ v man, to do the work of a Family, to whom
the highest wages will be given—also, a young
Girl, 43 or 14 yearsold is wanted iu th: fimeftm
ilj-Tuquirc of the Prints
;. 1 ' ''•"*efr vf=fr -.--- rr - ^#± -< "T? ?' ~ •''" -
NEWGOODS.
B. Brierley,
No. 9, Market-fireet,
HAS just received by the fh ; ps John Adams
& Packet from Liverpool, a very extensive
affortmeat of
Spring Goods,
^Making together with his former Stock, a
mod complete assortment of Choice Goods,
which he offers for sale, on very low terms for
Cash or approved Credit. -*
Portsmouth, April 3, 1804.
Valuable Real Estate.
1 ' ^'■c-zrapr .111 01HQ
ON Monday the 14th April next, will be
fold at 12 o'clock noon, at Maj. Walker's
tavern, by virtue of a license from the Judge of
Probate of the county of Rockingham. The
Dwelling House & land belonging to the estate
of Mr. Abraham Isaac, deceased, now occupied
by Mr. Matthew S. Marffi, tituated in Broad
ftreet,oppofite the manfion-hoyfe of Judge Lang
don ; it has four reoms on a hoor,with a Wood
House, a good well oF water add a convenient
back yard. The House is in good repair, in
painted in the best manner and has aCellar under
the whole. ;
Conditions will be made known at the time
and place of sale.
J. WALDRON, Auctioneer.
:©"Notice.,
THE Public are her by cautioned a
gainst purchasing a note of hand signed
by the fubferiber, payable ro Danie French,
Esq. of Cheiter, or order, for the sum of Seventy
Five Dollars, dated fometire about the fitft of
March,. 1804, as said note was fraudulently ob
tained without any consideration having been
received therefor, 1 am decimtned not to pay it.
. Moses Sanborn.
VO LICE is hereby given to the cred
itors of the estate of
ABNER NEWHALL,
late of Portsmouth, in the county o f Buckingham,'
in the State of New Hampshire, deceased, that:
three months longer i 3 allowed by the bon. Judge
of Probate for said county, for them to exhibit:
their claims against said estate, and that the Com
missioners will attend that service on the firftTburf
day of April, May and June next ensuing, at the
office of Richard Cutts Shannon, Esq. in said
Portsmouth.
Portsmouth, March 26, 1804.
=''='= 1 ——-=——-=MB foßmfl_ma —■_<
.^NOTICE.
Rockingham ft. ; : :
A LL persons indebted either by Note;
or account to the eftate.of
Colonel Ephraim Pickering, Esq.
late of Newington, in said County, deceased, are
requested to make payment, by the fifteenth dayt
cf May next, otherwise their notes and accounts
will be put in suit after that, timer-and all Persons
having any demands agaioft said estate, are requeu
ed to call on the fubicribers for payment.
Theodore. Furber,. lExecu-
Ephraim Pickering J tors.
Portsmouth, 23d March 1803.
ALL persons having demands against
the estate of r ; Q
ROBERT ROWE,
late of Brentwood, deceased, are requested to
exhibit them for settlement—and all who are in
debted to said estate are called on for immediate
payment by
SIMON ROWE, Executor.
- Brentwood, March 21, 1804.
WHEREAS Phillis my wife, has elo
ped from my bed and board, and beha-
I ved towards me in a very unbecoming manner,
I do hereby caution and forbid all persons a
gainst harbouring and trotting her on my ac
count, as I am determined not to pay any debt
she may hereafter contrast.
his
JOSEPH * LAWRENCE.
; mark.
Exeter, Feb. 20, 1804.
20 Dollars Reward, (
I? RAN^VAY ,
UROM the fubferiber on the night of
; the 24th inst an indented lad named John
Johnson, about five feet four inches high, dark
fliort hair had. on when ,he went away, a blue
Broad Cloth outside . Jacket, light Swanfdown
Waistcoat, brown humfpun Trowfers, or blue
Spatterlalhes,felt hat. He took with him agreeh
Broad Cloth jacket lined with green Baize,
blue Broad Cloth Trowfers, Nankeen cutfid^
Jacket and Trowfers, a pair of striped Calltco
Trowfers, one pair white Linen Stockings, one
pair Blue and white Woolen Stockings, one Toe
and Linen Shirt. ;,
20 Dollars reward will be given to any person
on bringing said lad to
William Ferf.ald, Kittery,
f' = LOST '''
NEAR the lower Mill Bridge, a Gold
BOSOM PIN, fetin hair, whoever will leave
jr with the Printer (hall receive a handsome reward,
A CAPABLE, steady Lad 'of good
habits, wants a place in an English Goods
Store, for further particulars apply to the Printers.
~ FOUND
IN Ipswich Bay, an ANCHOR, weigh
ing between 5 and 6©owt. with 6o f^uoms
CABLE, —for further information apply to the
Printers. Marsh