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Cheap India Goods.
JUST RECEIVED BY
PETER COFFIN,
A large afortment of
INDIA COTTONS,remarkably cheap,
feme for only 2 dollars per piece. INDIA
CHECKS, sot I 1/6 ps. Fine yd. wide CHINTZ
ES for 8f ps. Blue check HANDKER
CHIEFS, for ac cents. Colored NANKEENS,
for i/^. Bandannoes, with an extenfroe afort
tont of Other GOODS, as nfual, equally as
cheap as the above. J&ue_i6.
India Cottons.
B. BRIERLEY,
HAS just, received a large affoitment of
India Oftons,
feme of which nrr~tf ^ very fapefor quality.
June 16, 1804. , _____
FOR saLri
at Store No. 11, Thomas SheafeU. Wharf,
French Brandy
from the house of Cazeaux, Freres k Co. Bour
deaux. ALSO,
India Cottons
by the Bale. Jure 11
FOR-SZLE, "~,
A NEW SCHOONER, of
about seventy-five tons, now Iv
£^lll^ ^ " Ring's Wharf; she was built
the best materials, by good carpen
&^%ters,and it is believed will make a fast
sailing vessel. The price will be reasonable, as the
owner wishes to make immediate sale other A!fly &o
WILLI AM G ARLAND,
Who has a general assortment of piece
GO ODS,
which he is willing to exchange at very low prices
for cash.— Also —
In a feperate Store Branday and Gin
per Pipe or Bbl. Hyson skin and Shoushong TEAo,
per chest American Gun Powder.
N. B. He calls on all indebted to him for a re#
sonable attention, otherwise
Portsmouth, June 16, 1804.
Joseph Chafe,
A&7, Long Wharf—Has for Sale,
40 Hhds. good flavored RUM.
SUGAR & MOLASSES per hhd.
or less quantity.
150 B'ols. TAR.
June 16. _
sewing Twine.
NETT and Seine ditto „ Lines, Netts and
Hooks of all fixes ; just received and for
file, bv he bale, box, or any less quantity, by
ROBERT RICE.
,< re-flreet, North-end. sane 2.
S. Sprague,
Has fir Sale, No. ;, Daniclflrffl,
GENUINE Hair Powder; hard and
fofc Pomatum ; frafh Balls ; Italian (hav
ing Soap: Milk of Roses for purifying the skin;
down Puffs, find Powder Bags ; Cutling'l ongs;
.—various kinds of hair Ribbon ; (having Boxes ;
Combs of all forts ; Brushes of all kinds ; play
ing Cards ; warranted Razors in cases ; Sugars ;
Black Ball -afa rew invented box Blacking for
Shoes and Boots.
Wig.making&Hair-dressing
as usual. 3 une 1 1204.
70 BF. SOLD
A FAR'''' 1° Holdernefs,
called the L&wer Intervals
cemaining one hundred and
Lit <y act es of intervale, and two
luroarcCThundred of upland adjoining.
Terms or payment will be made ealy to the
purchafer—enquire of George W Livermore,
£fg. of Hotdernefs %„e 14. 1804.
Farm for sale.
TO be fold at Public Auction on Thursday,
the 19th July next, at Major Walker's
Inn, the Farm lately owned by Deacon John
Noble deceased-r-containing about 105 Acres,
with a Dwelling Hpufe and out hoofes thereon,
about two Ind an half miles from Portsmouth
State-House, on the Poft-Koad, The terms of
payment will be made known at the time and
jplace of fate. ~ Portfmoutb, June 16, 1804.
A LL Pirfons indebted to or having demands
ag^inft the estate of
SAMUEL FRENCH
late of Epping, in the county of Rockingham,
husbandman deceased, are requeued to present
the fame for settlement to
Dearborn French, Executor.
Epping, June 5, 1804.
f',HE fabfcnber being duly appointed Erec
{ utor to the last Will and Leftament of
WILLIAM BOARDMAN,
(late of Newmarket, yeoman, dece'afed, has taken
upon him that trust, by proving the laid Will,
and giving bonds as the law diteds. He there
fore requests all Perrons who are indebted to the
estate of the laid deceased, to make immediate
payments and tbofe who have any demands
thereon tQ exhibit the fame for settlement to
William . Boardman, Executor.
•
Vol. XIV.]
or ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS
WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY
RELIGION and MORALITY ARE INDISPENSA
BLE SUPPORTS •Wafeigta's Legacy.
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BIOGRAPHY..,
Extracted from a work entitled " British Pub, l
Lie Characters. l
_^or
PICHEGRU.
WHEN hostilities with the Emperor were emi
nent, the want of Generals iu France was matter of
, triumph to the aristocrats, and of despair to the pa-'
I triotic party. The loss of Maillebois, de BrogUoyand
deCastries was thought (reparable, and the fortune
of the State entrusted to the driveller Rochambeau,
to La Fayette,a partizan in petit guerre of America,
and to stupid Luckner, who, after 30 years service
in the French army, knew not enough of th^l&u
, gunge to return thanks for a compliment paid him'
bv the jacobin,. It was natural, however, to sup
pose, that whey th, qualifications of General were
extended to the whole army raor, would be -found ,
than when it was confined to &£ew individuals. And
so upon experiments.proved. In cve^: campaign
we !r% ^0 private ^digr,.%cvai citizens givings
proofs of the highest rd, itayy fepeht§ ; and have oh
ten been Monished at . receiving the news of a
splendid victory slong wigi the first mention of the -
successful General's name. Q& these Generals,
except perhaps Bonaparte, no ope has gained great
er renown than Richegru.<
G,ie;;al Pichegru was torn iu 1761, at Arboi^in :
Franche-Comte. His parentage was mean hut he
received a good education, . under the tuition pf. the
monks belonging toa. caiyent in his native town.
Having made gr„t progress in' the abstruse sciences
he was sent by tfe gooufriara to teach philosophy,.
and„the raatheraates, in a college belonging to their
order ,at Brieune. This circwnstance it was, which
gave rise to the ill-founded report of his having been
a monk. c , ;
He afterwards enlisted in the artillery and soon
rose to the rank of serjeant, the highest to which
a plebian could aspire ; but when the .revolution
came, and Opened a read for untided merit, he was
promoted step by step to the command of "11 army.
He had not been long in that eminent station, when
in conjunction with Hoche, be marched to attempt
the relief of Landau. Though it was in the midst
of a severe winter, the attack on the Austrian posi
tions was renewed day by day, with doubtful success
On the fifth Pichegru was seen in the front of the
line, in the midst of a tremenduous fire, waving his
hand and exclaiming, point de retrait sujourd'oui
mes enfam !* Th,at day there was no retreat, ; : and
very shortly after Landau was relieved.
At the beginning of the ensuing campaigne, he }
was appointed to oppose Cobourg in the north ; and ,
ordered Robespierr's committee to conquer.—This|
imperious command, which plainly implied that the'
guilotine would be the reward of ill success, was ac-]
companies by directions to press the Austrians inl
the centre, and to content himself with harrassingj
them upon the flanks. Finding that the bipod of his
soldiers flowed to no .purpose as long as he did so :
he lek Landrecies to its fate, and boldly advanced
into the enemy's country upon Cobourg's left. The
victories ot Mencron, Courtray, and Hoodledeiijus
tified tins movement. Jourden who commanded the
Sambre and Meuse army, under Pichegru's orders, 1
being ultimately successful upon the right, Prince
Cobourg wasobliged tp fall back with his centre, and'
abandon his conquests in French Flanders as well
as the whole of the Austrian Netherlands, This
campaign would have been more decisive, ifa plan
devised Dy Pichegru and Carnot could have l>een
put in execution. While a sufficient force was :
acting upon the front of the allies, and while fifty
thousand men were guarding the passage of the
Rhine, to prevent their receiving reinforcements,
the army of the Moselle was to have fallen upoii
I their rear. This plan, by placing. Prince Cobourg
between two fires, would have insured his total ruin
and have broken the sinews of the war at a single
blow ; butits execution w:« sprevented bv the neces
sity of incorporating the army of the Moselle with
that of the north.
Having thus rid himself of the Austrians, Piche
gru turned to Holland, and availing liimselfof a sea
sonable frost, which gave troops a free passage
across the rivers and canals, and pushed the British
and Dutch army before him, and entirely over ran
a country, unconquerable perhaps in any other cir
cumstances.
In this long course of conquest Pichegru made
great innovations in the art of war. Contrary to
the practice of other generals, he never laid siege
to a fortified place that was not necessary to secure
his position. Instead of filling the enemy's ditches
with the dead bodies of his best troops, he very
wisely preferred driving their armies out of the
field at much less expence of blood, and confident !
that the fortresses would afterwards fall of them-|
selves.—Pichegru was also the inventor of that sys-1
tem of incessant attack, which is so congenial to the
temper of the French nation, and which so complete
ly baffled all the deliberate plans of the coalesced
powers. Os this system the value was well under
stood by the King of Prussia, who, in a letter to the
Emperor, expressed himself in the following words
—" The French Generals pursue incomparable
plans of operation, which disconcert and defeat all
cur projects."
The official accounts that Pichegru gave of his
victories in which he seldom mentioned more than
the result, formed a singular contrast with the ro
domontade of the National Commissioners,who never
failed to call the enemies slaves and cowards: and
to make thousands of them bite theduet with th€loss
of some half dozen republicans. A great part of
Pichegru's modesty, is however, supposed to h^ve
originated in a fear of exciting the jealousy of
Rotespierre and his associates. In spite of all this
caution a member of the mountain party reproached
him at Brussels with the greatness of his reputation.
Citizen Representative, answered the General I
perceive that aristocracy hue only changed hands
among us. *
Pichegru's humanity is no less honourable to him
than his noble atchievements in the field.. He con
stantly resisted the barbarous decree which forbade
the giving of quarters to English or Hanoverians,
as well as that which directed the execution of the
Austrian garrisons of Valenciennes Conde, Lc Ques
nev, and Landrecies if they did not surrender upon
the first summons. This latter decreq he meant
to elude by not summoning them till they should be
reduced to the last extremity ; but he was over-ruled
by the National commissioners, to whom the brave
Commandant of Le Quesnov made answer, that he
knew of no ript one nation hud to order another to
ORACLE POST.
Er^rtCT^reCT^TCmi^ 1 ^ 51 *^^^
TUESDAY, June 26, 1804.
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dishonor itself. The mercy of the French Generals
to sparing the lives of these deygud men, nearly
cost them :hcir own.—The ruffian Robespierre de
nounced P^hegra; Moreau, and some, others, the
veiy uQ before his fall, and certainly would have
purged them to die guillotine, if he had not been
brought to it himself.
Holland being subdued, Pichegru took the com
of the armies upon the Rhine ; and made
considerable progress in Germany in the following
rtp^ ; but at the end of it, the tide cf war
mid drove hrm back upon the French iron
'" 'he end of his military career.—
§° w ^ amoved from his command, and offered
to Sweden as a compensation. He
driver however, to refuse It, and retired to
kityUriveYown in such narrow circumstances that
ho Y, obliged to sell his horses and camp equip
his support.
rr^n this poverty, neglect, and privacy, he was
rescued by his feltyv-cithcns, by w^om he was e-
I,', 2 member of the Legislative Body § the pre
f,?t^* J 7 ??. Whence tank his w£, th% whole
°?,~dg Five 'hundred rose, as ainark of respect
"'"''" ''> -??nrn:d hrn th^r hist Resi
" %'&s Senate Piacfra was invari%dv in opnosi-'
rtina to the Executive Ratify ;, and <^ffi&£ to
m-bet hit plans that ^ere bro't "forward. 'to favor the
# rsrfn~bf the eakgrth^ ^g priests,till he was ar
ressed as a principal c^riff iftger' in a supposed plot
: T t<i produce a counts ^c^oluti an, ^kl.ordered by the
Wlfeghiative &*frto be transported Without & trial !
q ffyhe^u.is &.qt, athletic; and well fitted by' na
ture to enc&inter the fatigues of war.. Upon a first
, alftlintanye there is something austere about him ;
but thik roughness wears off yith i itae intercourse.
Though by no ireans of a plegmatic disposition ; he
is always cool and .deliberate in his conduct. This
extent and. versatility of his talents Were fully
shewn by his taking the lead in the Senate as well
as in the field. In a word, though,Pichegru may
be a great traitor, it cannot be denied that he is a
very great man.
*JVo retreat, my lords to day.
=SQ i'r 4> ^ !& ™ B - —
LITERARY SELECTIONS.
FROM; THE UNITED STATES GAZETTE.
From Carr's Stranger in France we select the fol
lowing circumstances respecting the infernal
machine. They exhibit in a striking light the in
trepidity, and perhaps the rashness, 4 the Corj
cap hero.
Upon leaving madam B- ,- I passed the place
de Carousel, and saw the wins of the houses, which
suffered by the explosion pf the infernal unarchine,
whig afforded so much conversation in the world at
the ^me by which the first consul was intended to
h ±v^ been destroyed in his way to the National in
stitute of Musick. This affairhas been some what
involved in mystery. It is now well known, that
mons; Fouche, at the head of police, was acquain
'ted with this conspiracy from its first conception,
and by his vigilant agents,was informed of the daily
progress made in the construction of chia dcstrusti-re
instruments the plan of which he had a copy. The
c aspirators procedud with perfect confidence, mad
as they thought, with perfect security. Three days
before it was quite completed and ready for its fell
purpose, from some surprise or dread of detection,
the; changed their place of meeting, and in one night
removed the machine from the spot where it'had
bee 1 usually deposited. The penetrating eye of the
police lost sight of them. Fouche and his follower's
1 exercised thier unrivalled talents in pursuit and
discovery to no purpose. The baffled minister then
waited upon Bonaparte, to whom he had regularly
imparted the result of every,day's information re
specting it, and told him that he could no longer,
trace the traitorous instrument of his assassination,
and requested him as lie knew it must be comple
ted by this time, not to go to any public places, un
til he had regained a knowledge of it. Bonaparte 4
replied that fear only made cowards St conspirators
brave, and that he had unalterably determined to
go with his accustomed equipage to the National
Concert that very evening. At the usual hcuy the
Ifirst consul-set off undismayed for the Thuilleries,
a discription of the machine, which was made to
resemble a water cask, being first given to the
coachmen, servants and guards. As they proceed
ed, the advance guard passed it unobserved, but
the coachman discovered it just as the consular car
riage was on a parallel with it ; instanly the dex-,
trons and faithful charioteer lashed his horses into
full sliced and turned the corner of the Rue Marcem.
In one moment after, the terrible machine explod
ed, and covered the streets with ruins. The thun
der of its discharge shook the houses of Paris and
was heard at a considerable distance in the country.
The first consul arrived in safety at the Hall of
Musick, and with every appearance of perfect tran
quillity, entered his box amidst the acclamations of
the crowded multitude. The range of buildings
which was shattered by the explosion, had long of
fended the eye of taste, and presented a gloomy and
very inconvenient obstruction to the grand entrance
of the palace. Bonaparte, with his usual judgment,
which converts every event into some good immed
iately after this affair purchased the houses which
were damaged, and the whole of this o cencc of ruins
and rubbish is removing with ^ll possible expedition
to the great improvident of this grand approach.
^farther extract from the same tvork.
Th^wissardee whose name alone will awaken
sortie fraction in the mind of the reaper, from its
horrible union with the barbarous massacres which
discoloured the capital with blood during the revo
lution have been from time immemorial accustom
ed, upon any great and fotunate event to send # a
deputation of their sisterhood to the kings and min
sters of France, and since the revolution to the
various rulers of the repablick, to Oiler their con^,
gratulations, accompanied by a large bouquet %
flowers. Upon the elevation of Bonaparte to the,
Supreme authority of France, according to the cus
tom they sent a select number iron] their bouy to
present him with their good wishes and usual lf ag
rant donation. The first consul sterlily received,
them, and after rejecting their nosegays fiercely ?
told them to retire, and in future to attend to their
husbands, their children - and their fisheries and
never more to attempt an interference in matters
relating to the state.—Upon whit*, he ordered the,
pages in waiting to close the door upon them. He
thought no doubt, that “Omnium marubus res hn,
manae egent ; paucorum capita sufficient. = Hu
man afoirs retire the tends of all, white U IC heads
of tor are sufficient.''
-- ^'V-- 1 - -_- «-?---. —- —7-
These formidable dames, so celebrated for their
ferocity, retired chagrined and-cliapfallen from the
presence of the imperious consul, and have not at^
tempted to force either their congratulations or their
bouquets on any of the public functionaries since
that period. Such a repulse as this, offered to a
body of people more formidable from their influence
than the lazzaroni of Naples, would in all human
probability have cost any one of the kings of France
his crown. I received this anecdote from the bro
ther of one of the dnibisiers of France, to whom this
country is much indebted. Before the high daring
of Buonaparte every difficulty seems to droop ana
die.
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Massachusetts Legislature.
House of Representatives.
THURSDAY, JUNZ 14.
ELECTORS,
The Resolve from the Senate, prescribing the
mode of choosing ELECTORSof President &Vicea
President, was taken and after a short verbal con
. vermion,^e q^aiop, ehaU this Reaol&tion ?
, Wus car,"led in &8 afLaALkoe leas 1~5 Nays
10%„
Mr. Morton then read in his place a PROTEST
of himself, atid others of the Minority, against the
Resolution, in which aming other gross insinuations
the Majority were charged with being actuated by
a party spirit, in the measure adopted ; As soon ay
he had finished the Speaker observed,that as; a par
agraph pf;the protest impeached the motives ofthe
# majority of that House, he held it to be his duty as
a guardian of its honor, not to put the motion of the #
gentleman from Dorchester, until the abusive par
agraph was expanged, or he was expressly directed
by the House so to do. The motion, that the Pro
test be entered on the journals, was very spiritedly
opposed by Messrs. Bigelow, Ashmun, Whitman,
Ely and Whitwell.—Mr. Merton attempted to frit
ter away the meaning cf the paragraph; which had
been as he phrazed it, “ denounced" from the chair :
and offered to alter the same ; —but concluded by
observing, that he was very indifferent as to the fate
of his motion. Mr. M'Fariand,said, he had signed
the protest but did not consider it as going the
, lengths it had been represented ; and was willing it
. should be withdrawn. The question was then taken.
Whether the Speaker should fat the question of
Mr. Morton ; and it was determined in the nega
tive :—Yeas 53—^Nays 172.
FRIDAY, JUNE 15.
The ordor of the day, on the motion of Mr. Ely,
for an amendment of the Constitution, [see a cofy
of the motion in our last,] was taken up when after
an animated debate, which continued beyond the
usual hour of adjournment; it was moved that the
further consideration of the subject be postponed un
til the next session of the General Court ; The
question to postpone was put, and negatived,Yeas 92
—Nays 111.
The question on the Resolution, was then taken ;
and passed, for it, 104 —against it 52.
And Messrs. Bigelow, Ely and Wade, were ap
pointed to report a Resolution on the defect.
JUDGE BOWEN.
THE Governor of Georgia has removed Judge
Bowen, from office, at the request of the two
Branches of the Legislature. The following are the
charges which were preferred against him:
Exhibited against Jabez Bowen.
FIRST, That the said Jabez Bowen, actuated
by motives unworthy of and highly criminal in a
Judge, did, in or about the month of January last
past, burn or destroy a certain Record of the Supe
rior Court of the county of Chatham, that is to say,
a certain plea or answer of Thomas Gibbons, to an
action instituted against him, in the said court, by
Oliver Bowen, deceased.♦
Second —That the said Jabez Bowen, regardless
of the sacred duties of his office, the laws of the
:land, peace and safety of the state and inhabitants
thereof did, on the 23d day of April last past, in the
superior court of the county of Chatham, while pre
siding as Jud^e, utter, arid deliver, under the title
or color of a charge to the grand jury an extra ju
dicial speech or address, containing principles in the
highest^degree dangerous to the lives and proper
ties of tne good people- of the state tending to excite
insurrection, and to involve the country, in all the
horrors of domestic warfare.
Third —That the said Jabez Bowen, did, at div
ers times and places, endeavor to promote and in
cite insurrection, by holding converse with slaves
tending to inflame their minds and otherwise, and
threatening to raise and head such insurrection him
self, aiid destroy all the white people in the country.
Fourth —That the said Jabez Bowen, did, on the
24th day of April, illegally commit the grand jury
of the county of Chatham^ to the common jail of the
said county, for barely exercising their constitution
al right and duty, of presenting persons and crimes,'
and daring to disapprove and censure the said vio
lent and inflammatory charge or address, delivered
to them, by him the said Jabez Bowen as aforesaid.
Ftyth- —That the said Jabez Bowen, forgetful of _
the dignity of his office, end in derogation of the
same, did go to the Court house of the said county
of Chatham armed, and did there, while on the
bench, and during the sitting of the court, draw
forth and present a pistol- at and against a multi
tude of citizens there assembled, using at the same
time tiie most violent and indecent language.
Lastly —That the said Jaliez Bowen, in violation
of his duty, and of the respect and obedience due to
the state, the Legislature, and the Laws, hath In
sulted the dignity .of the state and endeavoured to
bring its Legislature and Laws into contempt. By
which said several crimes and-misdemeanors, the
said Jabez Bowen hath rendered himself unworthy
the high and dignified office of a Judge of this State."
From the London Traveller.
'A Female Swindler..
Last autumn, a lady calling herself the bareness
Von Fittan, arrived at Vienna, in a brilliant equip
age, attended by four men servants, Sud two maids.
She took Very elegant apartments,which shp furnish
ed in style. All her expends were paid tin ready
money and in gold. She was preserved at .court,
and in the first circles, as the widow of a Prussian
colonel immensely rich. In Noventer she receiv
ed a credit from a banking house at "Hamburgh, up,
on one of the first bankers in Vienna, for :u,oooflor^
ins. Her expedites and insinuating manner, with it
tolerable good person, and lhe charac^erof a wid*
-ow in affluence, procured her numerous admires,
[No. 38.