The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-08-11 00:00:00, page 3

t But, at uniformity in all the Tea-ports, so far
as the variety of Hate and regulation will permit,
is definable, you will be pleased to report the result
to this Department;, in order to enable me to pro
pose hereafter such practicable alterations as a
general view of the fubjed mas suggest. In the
mean while it is perhaps fopciflnous to observe,
that, in order to prevent any injury which might
arise from the want of such alterations, it will
be proper that the municipal authority should
certify the non-existence of a Board of Health
whenever no ' such inditution exists ip the port, &
that when they (the town and city officers or cor
poration) are ex-officio health officers, they should
^jfo certify the fame.
Whenever it can be done, it will be ufeful to
a %in a certification of the fads, stated in the
Bi&t Health, by the consul or agent of the cot n
trV to wpichthe yeffe! ma, be bound, and from a
late, public notification, this caution seems parti
ctQrly neceffar, in refpeft to vessels defined tor
Spain. This attestation, it will be the interest of
owners of vessels to procure. But in those ports
" here the distance from the place of residence of
the proper consul, may prevent its being obtain
ed, you may, on application of the party, certify
th^t there is not within, the diftriCt, county or
slate, as the aide may be, any confhl or agent for
tfat country to which the vessel is bound.
J As you mud be sensible that there is no law by
/which to compel the mailers of vessels to take cer
tificates of health, the probability is, that in time
/ of sickness they will refufe to receive them. In
J. such case it becomes your duty to inform them
/ that the regulation has been adopted solely for
' the benefit of commerce, and that their arrival in
foreign parts without those certificates, will be
regarded as preemptive evidence of the exigence
of infectious or contagious disorders in the ports
from whence they cleared out.
The President, by whose directions I have ad
dressed you on this fubjed, entertains no doubt
of your carefulnefs in carrying into effect regu
lations, which may in many instances, relieve our
vessels from very injurious and useless deten
tions,<
[COPY]
Letter from the Duke of Portland, to the Lords
, C&m%JJioners of the Admiralty..
J ! WHITEHALL, MAY 2jth, lßoi.
My Lords, L
I TRANSMIT to your Lordships herewith for
your information, an extract of a letter from Mr.„
Thornton, his Majesty's Charge d'Affairs in Ame
rica, to Lord Grenville, with copies of its inclof
pres relative to the capture of American vessels
trading to the Spanish ports, together with a co
py of his Majesty's Advocate General, to whom
by the King's command the papers in question
have been referred. -
I have at the fame time the honour to lignify to
your Lordships, his Majesty's pleasure that you
ffiould direst the judges of our colonial*Vice-Ad
miralty Courts to follow and be guided in their
decifido in cases relating to the trade carried on
between a neutral and belligerent nations, by the
rules and principles established in the High Court
of Admiralty, and laid down in the inclofed re
port of his Majetly^ Advocate General.
And the better to enforce an uniform and strict
adherence to those principles, I am further to fig-'
nify to you the King's commands, that directions
Should be given to withdraw letters of marque &
reprisal in cases where the owners thereof (hall
appear wilfully and knowingly to have captured
and brought in for adjudication, contrary to his
Majesty's exiting inftruftions, vessels trading be
tween a neutral country and the enemy's colo
nies. : I have the honour to be, &c.
? (Signed) ; PORTLAND.
fCOPY.I
Report of the Kings Advocate.
i # ' ' Lincoln's Inn Field. May 23, 1801.
>My Lord Duke, _,
1 AM honoured with your Grace's letter of
the 19 th tranfipittipg to me several papers
which'havd t rcrinfannicated to your Grace
' by Lord Ha wkhlbury, from Ins Maj, s Charge
d'Affaires' th America, with a dire&ion to tike
them inTo confederation, and to report to. your
Grace, for tils M^efty's information, ^P^,,
whether in confeq nene, of what ,
the extract of Mr. Thomsons letter to. Lord
To -,
At a Meeting of the Mayor and Commonalty of
Alexandria, regularly convened on the 2,oth day
of July, 1801. - . .
Ordered, That on application of any master
of veffel' bound from this port to any foreign
port, to the Mayor, or in his absence, to the re
corder, for a certificate of the Bate of the health
of the town and adjacent country, that if conta
gious fever or disease shall exist at the time in the
town or adjacent country, the mayor or recorder
do grant a certificate to ftich master of a vessel,
according to the following form :
" Corporation of Alexandria, to wit :
"I, , Mayor (or Recorder)' of the town of
Alexandria, in the diftrift of Columbia, do here
by certify and make known to those whom it may
concern, that no plague or other contagions dis
ease exists in Alexandria or in the adjacent coun
try, and that no board of health or similar insti
tution is eflablifhed in the town or port of Alex
andria. In teftimbny whereof 1 have hereto fub
fcribed.my name, and affixed the Seal of the Cor
poration, this day of in the year of
And if at the time of any filch application be
ing made, a contagious disease shall exist ;in th^
to\yn or its vicihity, that the certificate be so va
ried, as clearly and unequivocally to .express the
nature of the contagious disease.
A Copy, Test, R. I, TAYLOR, C.C.
Sir,
HAVING laid before the Duke of Portland
your letter to the 18th inflant, with its inclofures
relative to the capture of American vessels trad
ing to the Spanish colonies in the Weft-Indies, his
Crace loft no time in refering them to the confid
eratiop of his Majesty's Advocate General, and I
am "now /directed to transmit to you, for Lord
Hawkefbury's information a copy of his report
thereupon, together wjth the copy of a letter
which the Duke has written upon the fubjedt to
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
* r I am, &c. -
Signed J. KING.
George Hammond, Esq.
I am, fir, with confederation,
# Sir, your obedient servant,
ALBERT GALLATIN.
WASHINGTON-CITY, July 27.
\',• . [COPY.) - 1
Mr. John King, to Mr. Hammond.
Whitehall, May 17th, 180 G
(Grenville, especially that part of it which Rates
“ a principle to have been lately adopted in the
Courts of Vice-Admiralty at Jamaica and Provi
dence, that no commerce would be permitted be
tween ^belligerent and neutral nation in the vess
els of the latter, but such as had been authorifed
previously to the ' commencement of hbflilities,"
it would be adyifeable to make any or what com
munications to the Vice-Admiralty Courts at Ja
maica and the Bahamas for their guidance and dr
region.
In obedience to your Grace's commands, I have
considered the papers referred to me, and 1 have
the honour to report that the principle stated to
have been lately adopted in the Courts of Vice-
Admiralty at Jamaica and Providence, is directly
in opposition to the decisions daily passing in the
High Court of Admiralty and the Court of Ap
peals. It has been held by the Tribunals of this
country, that neutrals cannot be admitted by the
enemy, under the pressure of war, to carry on his
colonial trade, from which in time of peace they
were wholly excluded. But this principle may
be, and has been on account of special circumstan
ces during the present hostilities, to a certain de--
gree, relaxed. His Majesty's inftruttions of Jan.
1798, only order that vessels shall be brought in
for legal adjudication which are coming direst
from the enemy's colonies to Europe, aud not be
ing bound to England or a port of their own
country. A trade between the neutral country
and the enemy's colonies is now clearly permitted.
Colonial produce actually imported into §he neu
tral country may also be re-exported from thence
to any other place, even to the mother country of
the colony of which itjs the produce. His Majes
ty's exiting inftruftions are therefore the rule by
which at present the Judges of the Vice- Admiral
ty Courts ought to govern themselves ; and I
humbly apprehend that it would be advifeable to
convey to the Courts referred to a dire^ton to
that effect; as the application of the more ex
tended principle, upon which they are represent.
ed to aft, may be productive not only of much in
justice, but of great public inconvenience.
I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) J. NICHOLL.
A true Copy, J. WAGNER,
- Chief Clerk, Department of State.
PIRACY.
A certain John Thompjon, by birth a Scotch
man, about 5 feet 5 inches high, flout made, very
broad across the shoulders, dark complexion, a good
deal marked with the small-pox, dark, hair tied
cloje engaged as Mate on board of a Sloop in the
Port of Philadelphia—in which he went to fee on
the 14th July, infant. A few days after being out
he jeduced the crew from doing their dhty, and pre
vailed.on them to join in a protefl againfl the cap
tain, and oblige him to put in another port ; the
better to efe& his purpose, he privately bores a
hole with a 34 auger through the bottom of the
vessel, under the flarboard buttock the vejjel put
back to this port, and he immediately stole on shore
and has not since been fnee sou nd, although there
has been three Constables after him. It is supposed
he is gone to Baltimore: There dre jufficient evi
dences to prove that he has frequently declared that
he hated the Americans to mortality, that he would
never be fatisfied until he wallowed in American
blood, that he is an Englishman and gloried in it
and hoped soon to fee the English flag flying over
the -American.—Then he would Either run away
with the Jloop, fink her, oY kill Jome of the people,
and that he would never perform the voyage.
t^Thefe aud many more diabolical things can be
proved against said John Thompjon, and this ad
vertijement is made to caution all Merchants,
Makers of Feffels, and others agai?tf him. :
, Philadelphia, July 31, 1801. °
N. B, It is to be hoped the Printers throughout
\the United States will publish the abovkfor the be
.nefit of mankind. rt ^U
- ~ - ! .*. ;.:. I.a
Portsmouth, August 11, 1801.
'-(rf^^^"'" }.--/<
We are happy to learn that those young gentle
men who have been inoculated at hbfpital island,
for the Small-Pox, after having had the Kine-
Pox, have not as yet, the 9th day, any symptoms
or appearances of the small-pox ; although, they
have been repeatedly inoculated with frefh final!-'
pox' matter, and have lodged in the room with
a man who has the small-pox the natural way,
very severely. In our next we hope to give a full
and fatisfaftory account of the preventive powers
of the Kiue-Pox.
-c-o^tr-
Extraft of a letter from an American gentleman
in London to his friend in Baltimore, dated,
June 17. '
" Some accounts favorable to France, arrived
yesterday from Egypt, the particulars 1 canriot in
form you, as they are kept among great folks ;
it has however, given a check to the India flocks.'
" Letters from the American Consul at Malaga,
and the Consul at Algiers, mention that eleven
fail of American vessels had been captured by the
Tripolitan cruisers—and th,t noAmerican vessels
were permitted to fail from the Mediterranean
without convoy."
We 'underftand the President of the United
States is on,a visit at his feat at-Monticello. Mr.
,Madison, Secretary of State, is also on a vifitat
his feat in Virginia. } , '
We hear that Jason Fairbank, of Dedham,Maf.
has been found guilty and ' received sentence OT
death, for the murder of Miss Elizabeth Fales.
-faQ^rv . 1
The " Citizen" of New-York, mentions, that
James Watson, who was feme time since a fenatcr
of the United States and a Navy Agent under
Adams ; and whom, the Tories+fet Op as one of
their candidates at the late governmental elec
tion ; —the fame man who bargained for a dock
yard at New-York ; has been arrested by order
of the executive, for the small sum of one hun
dred thousand dollars. This no doubt will be a
new fubjeft for clamor, had not Mr. Watson as
good a right to hold the public money for twenty.
or thirty years, or forever, as Timothy Pickering
or John Adams=would it not be better that, the
Algerine tribute ffiould circulate among a few of
our own great men, than among the Mahomedans
of Africa ? If Mr. Watson will only follow suit,
he will do as another great man has ddife;
refufe to account ; why not give a president ap
outfit as well as an ambassador 1 And if an a:nbaf
or a President, why not a Senatorial^ rcy Agent;
the gift of money would be no more hollile to the
conilitution than theholding of the feat—and W
Ue Republican Ledger,; A
—««-tf4+ 4 ,# > " > " —
When the Bee is not taken out of the Pod-Of
fice we fee it advertife>, “ Mr. Such an One 13
newspapers called the Bee ;" but when other pa
pers are ad ^ertifed they fay, “ Rev. Mr. Such an
One, 3° newspapers," very carefully omitting
their name— The Palladium ; left the Friends of
Order should be offended at the exposure of the
fag of the Palladium's being sent gratis to the
clergy, some of whom despise the paper, 'and the
plan it is published on, too much to takb it out of
the Poft-Offices, to which it is sent an Unbidden
guest.
A poftmafler in Massachusetts advertises, in
the lift of letters lying in his office, 30 newspa
pers for the Rev. Edmund Litchfield. This poll
matter, who is editor of the “ Regifler of genuine
Federalijm, did not publifo that the name of
this paper is the Palladium. Quere. If one cler
gyman funers 30 Palladiums directed to him to
be sent to the general poll-office as dead letters,
and several of his brethren do the fame, will not
the feat of government abound with these bant
lings of Messrs. Duright, Morse & Co ? And how
is this paper fupporred in this gratuitous distribu
tion ; is it by public service money received by
the publishers as printers to the Rate (of Mafla
chufetts) or by secret service money from another
quarter Bee.
[* We hear there are a number of these pious
papers now lying in the Post Office in this town,
directed to the " Rev. Joseph Walton, PortJmouth,
N.H." who refujes to receive them.]
*«fc»l
COMMUNICATION.
The infamous fcurility and abuse which are con
tinually iffiiing from the federal papers against
the administration of Mr. Jefferfon, are convincing
ing proofs who the jacobins and disorganize r. are.
They had the infotence and impudence peculiar
to men of their sentiments, tb Rile every man
Juch, who found fault with the conduct of the
late President, whom they set up as an oracle of
infalibility, or would not wear that ridiculous
badge of federalifm, the cockade. They forget
that Mr. Adams made it a principle to turn every
man out of office who would not join in destroy
ing the principles of Republicanism—they forget
that he dismissed from office Messrs. Gardner and
Whipple of Portsmouth, because they would not
sign a paltry address to himfelf, to support a sys
tem or terror, and involve their country in a war
with France, after receiving the dispatches con
taining the ridiculous conversation of X. Y. Z.
But let them go on, all will avail nothing, Mr.
Jefferfon, we trust, will proceed with firmnefs and
integrity, and remove from office every one whose
principles are inimical to true republicanism, and
especially those of the Essex Junto, wh have been
his constant revilers, and flill hold an office to
which they were appointed under the late cock
ade administration, altho' it may be displeasing to
the Clerical Triumvirate, who are conilantly dis
charging the federal gall in their favorite Palla
dium. , [Telegraph.
'«fc
OFFICIAL.
. Appointments-by the President of the XL. States.
)George W. Erving, of Massachusetts, to be Con
sul at London.
Mr. De La Motte, Vice-Commercial Agent at
Havre.\ -
<Edward Jones, of Columbia dillritt, to be com
mercial agent, at Guadeloupe.
.Thom#rAbppj, of Rhode-lfland, to be com
mercial Agent ^t Cayenne.
j Teter Dobell, of Pennsylvania, to be commer
cial agent at Havre.- — - - . ..^
! Flftwar Skipwith, of Virginia, to be commer
cial agent at Parts.
John C. Murray, of New- York, Consul at Glas
gow. •,•
Joseph Peelis, Consul at Malta.
Eiientie Cathalan, Commercial Agent at Mar
seilles. <
the sum retained by the navy agent is to the Al
gerine agent's perquisite, but as about two to one,
and as to the other outfit as about seven to one,
yet the navy agentjuay have negatively the mofl
merit, inasmuch as he may have been the lead mis
chievous of the three ! Aurora.
We he^r tltat almost one halfof the “Merchants”
in New-,Haven, who signed the remonstrance to
the President of the United-States, are retailers of
pins, needles, tape and gingerbreadl! and that
their commerce is principally confined to the
coasting business.
FEDERAL CANDOR.
Daniel Clark, of New-Orleans to be Consul for
that port.
The Tories talk of moderation and yet com
plain that the Sedition Law is not put in force a
gainst Republicans !—But this is confident
"Moderation in their mouths—dungeons in their
hearts" Aurora.
demote of Ipgmcn.
MARRIED, at Arrundell, Capt. Humphrey Mer
rill, to Mijs Elizabeth M Culluck.
In this town, Mr, Jabez Colbert to Mijs Abigail
Stoodley.
mxereref^^
. ^ortaUtg.,
DIED, in this town, Olr. Benjamin Biggelow,
aged 42- Mrs. Lydia Lewis, aged 55— —^ child
ts Mr. George Bryant.
'• JUST PUBLISHED,
AND FOR SALE AT THE LEDGER .OFFICE)
<[PRICE IO CENTS,] '
AN ORATION,
- '" DELIVERED AT
„ PHILADELPHIA,
ON THE
FOURTH OF JULY,
# a 1801. ~
'By Mr. Beckley.
' KINfrPOX.
Dr. Spalding continues to inoc
ulate, for the Kine-Pox.
- WaJhington-ftreef, 11 Augt. — —^
^ f^TQ LET,„
Avery commodious HOUSE, in
Jaffrey Preet,inquire of BICKFORD KENNI
- ~ Aug. 10,1801.
The subscribers being appointed
by the Hon. Ebenezer Smith, judge of Probate,
&c. for the county of Strafford, Comioffioners to
receive and examine the claims of the several cre.
ditors to the Ettate of JAMES PURINGTON,
late of Sandwich, deceased, reprefeuted infolvcnt,
hereby give notice, that we will attend tor that
purpose on the firft Monday in August, and the
firlt Mondays in the five following months, from
two to fix of the clock, p. M. of laid days, a: the
late dwelling house of laid deceased.
EZEKIEL FRENCH, ) Commif.
NATH'I WEEDE, § loners.
Sandwich, ,ly 2t, rot.
All persons having any demands
againtt the ellate of
JAMES PURINGTON,
late of Sandwich in the county of Strafford, s*d
dler, deceased, are desired to exhibit them ; and
those who are indebted to said estate are request?
ed to make immediate aayment to
HANNAH PURINGTON,
Adprintfratrin.
1 Sandwich, July 21, xßoa,
The Subferiber intending to
leave Portsmouth in a (hort time, requells all
those who have any demands on him prior to this
date, to call on him for Settlement ; and all those
indebted aredefired to make speedy payment.
He offers for sale part of the
DWELLING HOUSE, and the Land thereto be#
longing, now occupied by him, fnuated in Daniel.
Street, Portsmouth, a plan of which will be fhewte
any person wishing to purchase the fame. Thl
Hand is an excellent one tor trade, and the houf^
may be converted into (hops fuitabie either tor
Weft-India or Engli lh Goods, at a small exptufe ;
Also, for sale half of an excel
lent wall PEW on the lower floor in the -Rev,
Mr. Buckminster's meeting house.
Edward J. Pcircc.
PortJmouth, Augufl 1, 1801.
THIS DAY,
(Tuejday, An,Jl 11,)
WILL BE SOLD AT
PUBLIC AUCTION
AT THE OFFICE OF
ALEXANDER EWEN,
In Market-fireet, Portsmouth,
4 chests Hy son Skin,l
2 do. Souchong, and ITFAQ
4 bbls, damaged 80-|
hea J
6 calks GUN POWDER, with
sundry other articles, &c.
Sale at 11 o'clock.
FOR SALE BY
CHARLES GRACE,
At ha shop near Liberty bridge,
100 Menhaiden, put up in
the belt manner.*
1 1-2 tons excellent Oakum.
Portsmouth, Aug. 10, 1801.
Wanted, immediately,
A boy, about 14 or 15 years of age,
as an apprentice to the Cooper's business. to whom
good encouragement will be given—apply to
CHARI FS GRACE.
Motice is hereby given,
To all persons any way interested
a ! ra * ot 'and Situated at a place called Broad-
Bay, in the difiritt of Maine, now kno^n by the
name of Stilfon's grant, which originated under
a large Indian purchase, made in the year 1625, of
the Indian Sagamores, w ho claimed lands in those
parts ; That the fubferibers being interested in
said grant, are desirous of possessing themselves of
the lands contained therein, according to their
refpeftive interest in the fame, and have therefore
agreed to meet at the house of Mr. John Greenleaf,
innholder in Portsmouth, on Wednesday the 91b,
day of Sept, next, at 3 o'clock P. M. to coufult
and agree upon such measures as may be thought
proper for the full accomplishment of the fame,
and they hereby earnestly desire all those who are
any way interested in said lauds, to be present at
said time and place.
FROM FRANCE,
Refpe<ftfully informs the Gentle
men of Portsmouth and its vicinity, that he
has taken a (hop in Water-street, where .
he intends to carry on the Taylor
ing bulinefs, in all its branches.
He flatters himfelf that constant air
tendance to his bujinefs, together with the
neatnejs and diJpatch of the work which
he may be favored with, will meet
the encouragement he wishes,
and Jecure the patronage
of a generous public.
Pulliam Trefetben,
Joseph Blemehary,
William Jones,
Samuel 'Jones,
' Jeremiah Low,
John Bodge,
Robert Neal,
Joseph Smith,
James Treadwell,
Zebulon Dargin,
John Goddard, 1 .
Henry S. Langden, ,^%T ° f
Charts Cun, J 3a ' n Storer.
Portsmouth, July 9, 1801.
TAYLORING ;
IN THE NEWEST & NEAI EST FASHIONS.
Mon£ L. SERRAT,
'GENA LEMEN 's