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Fr'»n Wellington, March 2,1805.
"Both houses sat all this day, and will sit again to
morrow, Sunday.
"Mr. Burr tbit day tookleave of the senate, in a
very handsome speech of some length— tad left the
town in the evening.
"Mr. Anderson, of Tennessee, was appointed pre
sident of the senate, pro. tern.
"Mmv of the members have left town.
Monday, March 4, 1805.
"Thomas Jefferson and Geo. Clinton, sen. have
Altered upon the duties of president and vice-presi
dent U. S. to which they were elected for four yekrs
commencing this day.
"The president and vice-president were sworn
in as usual. Mr. Jefferson delivered the following
ADDRESS TO BOTH HOUSES.
Proceeding, fellow-Citizens, to that qualification
which the constitution requires, before my entrance
on the charge again conferred on me, it is my duty
to express the deep sense I entertain of this new
proof of confidence from my fellow citizens at large,
sad the zeal with which it inspires me, so to conduct
, myself as may best satisfy their just expectations.
On taking this station on a former occasion, I de
clared the principles on which I believed it my duty
to administer the affairs of our commonwealth. My
conscience tells me, that I have on every occasion,
acted up to that declaration, according to the ob
vious import, and to the understanding of every
candid mind.
Jn the transaction of your foreign affairs, we have
endeavored to cultivate the friendship of all nations,
and especially of those with which we have the
most important relations. We have done them jus
tice on all occasions, favored where favor was law
ful, and cherished mutual interests and intercourse
on fair and equal terms. We are firmly convinced,
and we act on that conviction, that with nations, as
with individuals, our interests soundly calculated,
will ever be found inseparable from our moral du
ties ; and history bears witness to the fact, that a
just nation is trusted on its word, when recourse is
had to armaments and wars to bridle others.
At home, fellow citizens, you best know whether
we have done well or ill. The suppression of unne
cessary offices , of useless establishments and ex
pences, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes.
These covering our land with officers, and opening
•ur doors to their intrusions, had already begun that
process of domiciliary vexation, which, once enter
ed, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching suc
cessively every article of produce and property. If
among these taxes some minor ones fell which had
fct been inconvenient, it was because their amount
would not have paid the officers who collected them,
and because if they had any merit, the state autho
rities might adopt them, instead of others less ap
proved."
The remaining revenue on the consumption offo.
reign articles, is paid cheerfully by those who can
afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts,
being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only,
and incorporated with the transactions of our mer
cantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride
of an American to ask—what farmer—what me
chanic—what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of
ohe United States I —These contributions enable us
to support the current expences of lie government,
to fulhl contracts with foreign nati&s, to extinguish
the native right of soil within our limits ; to extend
those limits, and to apply such a surplus to our pub
lic debts, as places at a short day their final re
demption ; and that redemption once effected, the
revenue thereby liberated, may by a just repartition
among the States, and a corresponding amendment
of the constitution, be applied, in time of peace, to
rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education,
and other ^reat objects within each state :— in time
ts war, if injustice by ourselves or others must some
times produce war, increased as the same revenue
will be by increased population, and consumption,
and aided by other resources, reserved for that cri
sis, it may meet within the year all the expences of
the year, without encroaching on the rights of fu
ture generations, by burthening them with the debts
of the past. War will then be but a suspension of
useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a re
turn to the progress of improvement.
I have said, fellow citizens, that the income re
served had enabled us to extend our limits ; but
that extension may possibly pay for itself before we
are called on, and in the mean time may keep down
the accruing interest ; in all events it will replace
the advances we have made :I know that the acqui
sition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some,
from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of
our territory may endanger its union, but who can
limit the extent to which the federative principle
may operate effectively ? the lirger our association
the" less will it be shaken be local passions ; and in
any view, is itnot better that the opposite bank of the
Missippi should be settled by ourown brethren and
children, than by strangers of another family ? with
which shall we be most likely to live in harmony
and friendly intercourse ?
In matters of religion, I have considered that its
free exercise is placed by the constitution indepen
dent of the powers of the general government. I
have therefore, undertaken, on no occasion, to pre
scribe the religious exercises suited to it : but have
left them as the constitution found them, under the
-direction and discipline ofihe state or church autho
rities acknowledged by the several religious societies
The aboriginal inhabitants of these countries. I
havakegarded with the commiseration their his^
tony^rcires ; endowed with the faculties and the
righ^^Lnen, breathing an ardent love of liberty
and rarependence, occupying a country which left
them no desire but to be undisturbed, the stream of
overflowing population irom other regions directed
itself on these shores ; without power to divert or
habit to contend against it, they have been over
whelmed by the current, or driven before it: now
reduced within limits too narrow for the hunter state,
tamanit 'enjoins us to teaca them agriculture and
the domestic arts ; to encourage them to that in
dustry which alone can enable them to maintain
their place in existence, and to prepare them in
time for that state of society which to bodily com
forts adds the improvement of the mind and morals.
Wehave therefore liberally furnished them-with the
implements ofhusbandry and houshold tfse: we have
placed among; them instructors in the arts of first
necessity; and they are covered with the aegis of
the law against aggressors fromamong ourselves.
But the endeavours to enlighten them pn the fate,
which awaits their present course of life, to induce
them to exercise their reason, follow its dictates, and
change their pursuits with the change of circum &
smogs, have powerful obstacles to encounter ; t^ey
"On Monday, Tuomas Jefferson, president, and
Geo. Clinton) sen. Vice-President of the U.
S. will be sworn into office for the ensuing four years.
"I have this day learned that Jacob Crowniu
shield has been nominated to the office of Secretary
qf the Navy, in the room of Robert Smith, and that
"Robert Smith has been nominated to the office
of attorney general (J. S. in the room of Levi Lin
coln, resigned." — Aurora.
Inaugural Speech I
are combated by the habits of their bodies, prejudi
ces of their nil nils, ignorance, pride, and the influence
of interested and crafty individuals anlongthem,who
feel themselves something in the present order of
things, and fear to become nothing in any other.—-
Tuese persons inculcate a sanctimonious reverence
for the customs of their.ancestors : that whatsoever
they did must be done through all time ; that rea
son is a false guide, and to advance under its coun
cil in their physical, moral or political condition, is
perilous innovation : that their duty is to remain
as their creator made them, ignorance being safety
and knowledge full of danger ; in short my friends
am ong them also is seen the action and counterac
tion ot good sense and of bigotry : they too have
their anti-philosophers, who fin, an interest in
keeping things in their present state, who dread
reformation, and exert all their faculties to main-
that is due in the first place to the reflecting character
of our citizens at large, who, by the weight of public
opinion, influence and strengthen the public mea
sures ; it is due to the sound discretion with which
tain the ascendancy of habit over the duty of im
proving our reason and obeying its mandates.
In giving these outlines, I do not mean fellow citi
zens, to arrogate to myself the merit of the measures :
they select from among themselves those to whom
they confide the legislative duties ; it is due to the
zeal and wisdom of the characters thus selected, who
lay the foundations of public happiness in wholesome
laws, the execution or which alone remains for oth
ers ; and it is due to the able and faithful auxiliaries
whose patriotic = has associated them with me in
the executive functions.
During this course of administration, and in order
to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been lev
elled against us, charged with whatsoever its licen
tiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an
institution so important to freedom and science, are
deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to les
sen its usefulness, and to sap its safety : they might
indeed have been corrected by the wholesome punish
ments reserved to and provided by the laws of the
several states against falsehood and defamation ; but
public duties more urgent press on the time of pub
lic servants, and the offenders have therefore been
left to find their punishment in the public indignation*
Nor was it Uninteresting to the world that'an ex
periment should oe fairly and fully made, whether
freedom of discussion, unaided by power, is not suf
ficient for the propagation and protection of truth
Whether a government, conducting itself in the true
spirit of its constitution, with zeal and purity, and
doing no act which it would be unwilling the whole
world should witness, can be written down by fals
hood and defamation—the experiment has been tried
you have witnessed the scene—our fellow-citizens
have looked on cool and collected.—they saw the la
tent source from which these outrages proceeded
they gathered around their public functionaries, and
when the constitution called them to the decision,by
suffrage, they pronounced their verdict, honourable
to those who had served them, and consolatory to
the friend of 'man who believes he may be en
trusted with his own affairs.
For Philadelphia,
, d^^fThe schooner Enter
prize, to sail n|xt week—for Freight
or passage, apply to\
MARK SIMES.
who has for Salt,
Philadelphia FLOUR ; Maryland CORN;
Philadelphia and Russia IRON ; '
MOLASSES; , N. E. RUM; SALT;
Russia apd Raven's DUCK ; CORDAGE;
Cut NAILS of all sizes ; Nail Plates and JronHoops,
Chain Tires, and Tin Iron ; N, and Spike Rods ;
Horn and Ox Shoe Shapes: -
Cod and Pollock FISH, &c. &C..
March 16, 1203.
No inference is here intended, that the laws pro
vided by the state against false and defamatory pub
lications, should not be enforced : he who has time
renders a service to public morals ft public tranquil
ityjn reforming these abuses by the salutary coercions
of the law : but the experiment is noted to prove that
since truth Sc reason have maitaibed their ground
against false opinions in league with false facts,
the press confined to truth needs no other legal
restraint ; the public judgment will correct false
reasonings and opinions' on a full hearing of
all parties ; and no Other definite line can be drawn
between the inestimable liberty of the press, and its
demoralizing licentiousness. If there be still impro
prieties which this rule would not restrain, Its supple
ment must be sought in the censorship of public
opinion.
Contemplating the union of sentiment now mani
fested so generally, as auguring harmony and hap
piness to our future course, 1 offer to our country
sincere congratulations.—With those! too, not yet
rallied to the same point, the disposition to do so is
gaining strength, facts are piercing through the veil
drawn over them ; and our doubting brethren will
at length see that the mass of their fellow citizens
with whom they cannot yet resolve to act, as to
principles and measures think as they think, and
desire what they desire ; that our wish as well as
theirs, is that the public efforts may be directed
honestly to the public good, that peace be cultivated,
civil and religious liberty unassailed, law and order
preserved, equality ofrights maintained, that state
bf propertyequal or unequal, which results to every
man from his own industry or that of his fathers.
When satisfied, of these views, it is not in human
nature that they should hot approve & support them,
in the mean time let us cherish them with patient
affection ; let us do them justice, and more than jus
tice in all competitions of interest : and we need not
doubt tliat truth, reason and their own interests
will at length prevail will gather them into the fold
of their country, and will complete that entire union
of opinion, which gives to a nation the blessing of
harmony and the benefit of all its strength.
I shall now enter on the duties to which my fel.
low citizens have again called me : and shall pro
ceed in the spirit of those principles which they have
approved. I fear not that at any motives of inter
est may lead me astray : I am sensible of no pas
sion which could seduce me knowingly from the path
of justice ; but the weakness of human nature and
the limits of my own understanding will produce
errors of judgment sometimes injurious to your in
terests ; I shall need therefore all the indulgence I
have heretofore experienced ; the want of it will
certainly not lessen with encreasing years. I shall
need too the favor of that Being in whose hands we
are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their
native land, and planted them in a country flowing
with all the necessaries and comforts of life : who
has covered out infancy with his providence and our
riper years with his wisdom and power ; and to
whose goodness I ask you to join with me in sup
plications, that he will so enlighten the minds of
your servants, guide their councils and prosper their
measures, that whatsoever they do, shall result in
your good, and shall secure to you the peace,
friendship and approbation $f all nations.
Th: JEFFERSON.
March 4.' iBOS.
The ' Oracle.
tOCT
SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1805.
RETURN OF VOTES FOR GOVERNOR.
Gil. Lang. Gil. Lang.
Alton, 93 30 1 Newcastle 1 50
Bamrfead 50 120 I Nottingham 26 118
Barringteh, 215 160 Newington 19 ' 70
Brentwood 62 75 Newmarket 29* 168
Canterbury 59 141 Northill 44 80
Durham 49 157 Northwood 84 94
Dover 109 202 Portsmouth, 252 722
Deerfield 64 203 Rye 2 188
Exeter 144 62 Rochester 32 * 260
Epsom 10 151 Stratham 31 122
Epping 73 112 Warner 14 129
Greenland 6 98 Wolfborough 18 124
Kensington 69 571
Lee, 20 1131
The above are all the returns we have received—
They leave a considerable balance in favor of Mr.
Langdon over the last spring Election.
John Langdon, Elijah Hall, Charles
Cutts and William Ham, jun. are elected Rep
resentatives for this town in the State Legislature.
The President's Speech will be noticed in to
day's Oracle, and to give it place, we have laid over
several articles of a domestic nature, intended for
this ,+per. It is a little" surprising the President
should so warmly animadvert on the strictures of
f^erfl Editors, when he has himself—so publicly,
firiva tly,and in a pecuniary manner, supported the
„ost licentious editors in the United States.
Judge Chase acquitted.
On the final queston in the Senate for impeach
ing this venerable man, there did not appear a
topstitutional majority on any one article for his
impeachment:—The Vice President then said,
“ There not being a constitutional majority on any
one article, it becomes my duty to pronounce that
SAMUEL CHASE, Esq is acquitted on all the ar
ticles of Impeachment.''
We congratulate our counrymen at large, on this
result.
On Toef&y evening last, by the Rer. Mr. Alden,
Charles Cashing, jr. Esq. of Boston, to Miss Ann
H. Sueafe daughter of Jacob Sheafe Esq. of this town.
Mr. Daniel Vaushan to Miss Mart Fuller, on
ly daughter of the widow Fuller, both of this town.
On Wednesday evening in High or School-street,
a Ring with the initials T. W. P. and figures 23
on it, The person who may have found it shall be
handsomely rewarded by leaving it at Messrs.
Treadwell's Bookstore.
Died at Londonderry, on the 4th inst. Mr. David Ab
ami aged 2%, a senior Sophister of Harvard College. A
few months only were wanting to complete his Academic
course, and tointrodace him into a new sphere of action.
But. alas! This short space of time was denied him! the
Irrevocable decree was past, which doom'd him to that
bourne whence no traveller returns!" Those, who were
intimately acquainted with this amiable young man have
loft a finecre friend, and inestimable companion. Os taste
refined, of manners conciliating. In him each social grace
combin'd, te please and to endear. Kind and benevolent,
he was" open as day to melting charity.'' _-The confeien
tioufnef, of his upright intensions, forbade him to fufpe&
di^mulatioo in others. With firmnefs he endured the pangs
of a lingering disease, and at last met his late with pious
resignation. Tho' the mouldering hand of time, may crafe
, from tbi sculptured marble the name, yet, the virtues of
Adams will live in our hearts.
Z. Robinson & Co.-
7fa for sale at their Warehouse at the head of
Portsmouth Pier.
420 Bbls. No. 1 & 2, BEEF ;
160 half Bbls. No. I do; r
27 Bbls. SHIP BREAD;
7 pipes 4th proof Cognac BRANDY;
io Hhdf 2d & 2 proof St. Vincent's
RUM;
Martinico MOLASSES ;
40 Boxes white SOAP;
30 Bbls, MACKEREL;
Clover & Herds grass SEED ;
Waranted ANCHORS ;
CROCKERY, GLASS & CHINA
WARE t as usual put up at the fhort
ett notice, to suit country purchalers.
/''/?•' ^ March 16, 1805.
Afresh euftftly of SEASON ABLE GOODS, alhong
which are,
Mull mull Muslins;
Linen Cambricks ; 6—4 Damask silk Shawls;
Black Lutestrings ; do. Florence do.
Black Crape, yard wide ;
4-4 and 6-4 Cambrick Muslins ;
Book and Jaconet do.
4-4 & 6 4 black Sarsnet Cambricks;
Black Ginghams ; 4-4 & 7-8 Irish Linens;
Chinen's Morocco Jockeys ;
Dark purple long Kid Gloves ; do. short do;
White Camblick Shawls ; Dimetys;
Furniture Chintzes ; Straw Bonnets very nice ;
6-4 Sprig'd Jaconet Muslins;
Fine and common Diapers ; Diaper Table Cloths ;
Italian black Sewing Silks, by the pound;
Children's Pocket Handkerchiefs, 4 cents a piece ;
White and Blue Sarsnetts;
Blue and pink plaid Callicoes ; common do.
Linen Pocket Handkerchiefs ;„
Ladie's Cotton Hose ; Velvet Bindings ;
Cotton Checks f Black Morocco Shoes ;
India Callicoes;
Bandannoc Handkerchiefs; Gilla do.
INDIA COTTONS of every kind, &c. kc. &c.
Partem outh, March 16, 1805.
cter Bank, are hereby notified that the foft semi-an
nual dividend on the capital Stock in said Bank,
willbe declared cn Monday, the ißh instant, and
paid at any time after the 2O'b.
fte? order, NANH'I, ROGERS, Ca^et;
Exeter, March 9,1803. j
The Stockholders in the Ex-
Spring Goods.
Just received and this day aliening at
CHEAP HE W CASH STORE,
DRAPER'S
MARRIED.
Lost
2 Trunks MEN'S CLOTHING,
Consisting of Coats ; Waistcoats; Breeches ; Paua
trioons ; shirts, &c. i silver and f Gold Watch ;
I piece fuperfiue Broad Cloth ; 3 pieces black Vel
vet ; I ditto Caffimere ; 3 Umbrellas; ig yards
fwanfdown ; 60 ditto Chintz ; 15 gross Button# ;
i; dozen Penknives; 3 ditto Jackoives ; ig cases
Knives and Forks ; 50 cases of Razors ; 20 pair
brass scales ; 10 pair plated Candlesticks; 15 grols
Witch teals; 5 Looking Gaffes ; i§ pieces Gal
loons ; 2 hogsheads excellent Tobago RUM; 1
''''o'clock.
NOTES and other Securities pur
chased or cclleded for an adequate premium.
ON Tuefday the 2d day of April next;
at 12 o'clock at noon, at Chadwick's Inn,
will be fold by virtue of a licence from the Judge
of Probate, the Real ERate of HANNAH EL
LIOT, late of Port(mouth, widow, deceased, being
about 12 acres of Laad, lituate about two milts
from the Court House.— And a|fo the right of
redemption in four acres more, adjoining the land
above mentioned. Conditions made known at time
and place of sale.
JACOB WALDEN, Auct'n
TO BE SOLD at PUBLIC AUCTION
ON Thursday the i3th of April next a Houle
and Land io Water-street, now occupied by
the loblcriber, fronting on said street 16 feet, and
running back 119 feet, with an out building
thereon and water privilege belonging thereto, and
will be fold with or without the out building, as
may suit the purchaser, any perlon willing to pur
ch<fe may view the ptemifes previousto that time.
Conditions of file mad» known at the time and
place, apply to
THIS DAY, at S. LITTLE's Office;
TO be fold at Public Vendue, on
Thursday the 21st inst. at 3 o'clock P. M.
about twenty acres of good Mowing, Tillage and
orchard LAND situate in Newmarket, on the post
road leading from Exeter to Dover ; About a half
a mile from the meeting house, being part of the
Estate of John Burleigh,Merchant, deceased which
was set off to his son Henry Burleigh late of Ports
mouth, Merchant, deceased, —also a large finished
BARN standing on the, same, and sold by licence
from the Hon. Judges of the Superior Court for the •
benefit of the heirs of the said Henry.—Sale to b@
on the premises.
JOHN SHUTE jun. Guardian to said heirs.
Newmarket, March 9.
Sundry large House Lots,
on both sides the new road, leading from Boyd's
Bridge to Piscataqua Bridge, near Capt. Edward
Cutts new Dwelling-House, within one mile of the
Court House, & in the most pleasant part of Ports
mouth. The situation Js at once delightful and
healthy—commanding an extensive view of the sel
coast, of the town and harbor,'of Piscataqua river,
and the adjacent country. Terms 0, Payment will
be made easy and convenient. —Apply to
Samuel Elliot,
who has also for sale 40 lots of Land, of 100 Acres
each, in the town of Cockburne, on Connecticut ri
ver, in New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given, that by
virtue of licence from the Horn Nathan
iel Rogers, Esq. Judge of Probate of Wills, &c.
for laid county, that so much of the Estate of
Thomas Leavitt jun. late of Hampton, in said
county, trader, deceased, will be fold at Public Ven
due, at the late dwelling house of the deceased in
said Hampton, on Monday i§tb day of April nexr A
at ten of' the clock before noon, as will raise the
sum of twenty one hundred and fifty dollars to pa,
and difeharge the debts and demands with inciden
tal charges due from said estate.
Said property confits of one half a house and out
buildings, and parts of ieveral pieces of land, and
salt marsh, in Hampton, also of one third part of a
hundred and fifty acre lot, in Northwood lying id
common with land of Samuel J. Leavitt, and Abra
ham Towle. The conditions will be-mad§ known
at the time and place offaie.
THO. LEAVITT, Administrator to said estates
Northhampton, March 18.
Books & Stationary
Which will be opened, marked and ready for file b,
the beginning of the ending week. The a ff,t m m cm.
fits principally of American Editions of Books ; and Bi
bles. Aifo, The Expolicor, or man, mjftcries unravelled,
price 50 cents.
Letter, writing, mu tie, wrapping, press, log, blue pack,
Marble and embofTemed Paper..
Copy flips, and writing, cyphering & account Books of al
tnoft every description—a great variety of Afshin and pa
per memorandum books; Wafers and Sealing Wax; Quills,
Pens; Sand ; Pounce ; Lead and Slate Pencils of the belt
quality ; Slates ; An flawing variety of Inkstands from
6 cents to 6 dollars each, together with a great variety of
other articles, which time being infuflicieht to innumerate
—he requefti all who are in want of such articles as are
f generally kept by stationers, to call aid §EE— tat did I
ay—l meant call and PURCHASE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
iubferiber has been duly appointed ad
ministrator de bonis non, of the estate and ef
fects of MEHITABLE BURLEIGH, late of
Newmarket, widow, deceased ; and has taken upoti
himlelfthat trust bv giving bonds as the law directs,
and all Persons having demands upon the estate of
bid deceased, are requeued to exhibit the fame ;
and all Persons indebted to the laid estate are called
upon to make payment to
GEORGE FROST,
Durham, March 4, 1895. Jdmmistratm
has faft received from Philadelphia, & Boston, an addi
tional assortment of
Woodbury Tucker.
Port (mouth, March 16, 1804.
& Cash given for 3fter cent Stock.
March 16.
Execution Sales.
AUCTIONS.
Public Vendue.
Charles Peirce,
10 o'clock—for Cash.
At Auction,
FOR SALE,