The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-12-30 00:00:00, page 1

NEW GOODS,
At Wbolefale & Retail. •
^ BENJAMIN BRIERLEY,
/ Late of the Firm of
Lang, Brierley, & Co.
Begs leave to inform bis Friends and
the Public that be is just arrived fam
i Europe with a very general assortment of
Fancy, Fashionable and Staple
GOODS,
Which are now opening, and for sale either
r By Wbolefale or Retail,
for Cash or Short approved Credit,
At the fore on Spring- Hill, nearly oppofte
Mr. Peter Coffin's.
b THE ASSORTMENT CONSISTS OF
I White and color'd Baizes and
Flannels; spotted Swanfkins ; Ratteens ;
Plains', Kerfies ; Forest, Elastic and Broad
Cloths ; Coatings ; Duffils ; Kerfymeres,
and Swandowns.
, A variety of,
Color'd, ftrip'd & plain Durants ;
Calimancoes ; Wildbores ; Tammies ; Shal
, loons ; fancy printed and black Florentines;
f Cambleteens, and cloak Camblets ; Cordu
roys ; Thicksets ; plain and fancy Velvets ;
I ftay Cords ; Dimities ; Muflinets ; some
beautiful white & printed Marseilles Quilt
ing ; a few pieces of very fine cotton Shirt
ing, and a general assortment of Irish Lin
ens.
Chintzes of every description ;
R Cotton Checks and Stripes ; Ladies', Men's
and Boys' Beaver Hats all sizes and prices ;
silk, cotton and worsted HoGery ; silk, cot-
I, ton and leather Gloves extra lengths; a few
I dozen open work, white and colored Cotton
■ditto.
F Mgreat variety of
White, color'd, netted and fringed
I Camels hair Shawls, from 7s. to 245. cot
ton, linen arid cambric pocket Handker
chiefs ; black and fancy silk do. and Shawls ;
fewirig Silks ; Twists ; Threads ; knitting
and mending Cotton ; black and color'd
Gallooms ; Shoe & quality bindings ; round
b and flat Bobbins ; Tapes ; mould and wire
L shirt buttons ; Ferrets ; cotton and silk Bra
dells ; white and chintz Bed Lace ; Line &
! Tassels to match ; white & color'd Fringes.
An extensive ajortment of
Book, Jaconet, plain, figured and
Iftrip'd Mulling; Cambric Mullins from 556
1 to 12s. per yard'; a few pieces of the new
est fafhon spotted arid Itriped ditto ; Likewise
t 9-8 thin cambric for gentlemen's Necker
chiefs.
Black, green and crimson Mohair
, Plulhes ; black and color'd silk Velvets for
Ladies' Bonnets'; a few squares rich black
Velvet for Shawls.
, An elegant afotment of
Ladies' Hats and Bonnets of the
newest fafhion, trimmed and untrimmed.
Fashionable Muffs and Tippets ;
^ Fur Linings for Shawls ; Italian Crapes of
,II colors ; cotton, silk and silver Trim
-Imings.
'A great variety of
Fans ; a few very elegant dress do.
Fancy Feathers and Plumes ; Wreaths and
Ladies Cap Bands ; white and black Laces,
• Edgings, and Veiling.
Ladies' Slippers, Shoes & Clogs,
of all kinds ;'a few with cork soles ; Floss
and silk Rofetts to match.
And per tbejbip Nancies, Capt. Lunt, just ar
rivedfrom Liverpool, is received,
' A general assortment of
HARDWARE & PLATED.
I GOODS.
Which with a few Boxes of
Men's low pric'd HATS,
will be fold wbolefale only.
: The GOODS having been chof
en by himfelf at the manufifiories, and
1 bought with ready money, he presumes will
edible him to serve his friends on the best
terms.
Portsmouth, Nov. 17, lioo. .
NUMBER 19. VOL. II.)
66 WHEN YOU SHALL THESE DEEDS RELATE, SPEAK OF THEM AS THEY ARE ; NOTHING EXTENUATE NOR SfeT DOWN OUGHT IN MALICE."
The Republican Ledger.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY NUTTING & WHITELOCK, MULBERRY. LANE, ADJOINING ROUSSELET's MUSEUM.
^ifcellanp.
The Life, Confeffion, and Lafl Dying Words
■ of Capt. Will am Cunningham ,• former- I
ly the Britifo Provost Marshall in the city
of New-York, who was executed in Lon
don the 10th of August 1791 ; taken from
bis own mouth, by the Ordinary of New
gate
I WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, was
born in Dublin barracks, in the year 1738
My father was trumpeter to the Blue Dra
goons, and at the age of 8 years, I was plac
ed with an officer as his fervent, id which
Ration I continued until I was 16, and be
ing a great proficient in horsemanship, was
taken as an assistant to the riding-matter of
the troop, and in the year 1761, was made
ferjeant of dragoons, but the peace coming
the year following, I was disbanded. Be
ing bred to no profeffion, 1 took up with a
woman who kept a gin-shop in a blind al
ley near the Coal-Quay ; but the house be
ing searched for stolen goods, and my doxy
taken to Newgate, I thought it most pru
dent to decamp ; accordingly set off for the
North, and arrived at Drogheda, where,
in a few months after, I married the daugh
ter of an Excifeman, by whom I had three
sons
About the year 1772, we removed to
Newry, where I commenced the profeffion
of a scow-banker, which is that of enticing
mechanics and country people to ship them
selves for America, on promises of great ad
vantage, and then artfully getting an inden
ture upon them ; in consequence of which,
on their arrival in America, they tire fold,
or ( Niged to serve a term of years for their
passage. 1 embarked at Newry, in the flrip
Needham for New-York, and arrived at
that port the 4th of August, 1774, with
some indented servants I had kidnapped in
Ireland, but were liberated in New-York,
on account of the bad usage they received
from me during the passage.
In that city I used the profeffion of bait- I
irg horses, end
men to ride, but rendering n^felf obnox-I
ious to the citizens in their infatyftrugglesl
for freedom, I was obliged tq fiy^ boar&l
the Asia man of war, and from therite to
Boston, where my known opposition to the
measures pursued by the Americans, in
port of their rights, was the firft thinuhat
recommended me to the notice of wen.
Gage, and when the war commenced, [was
appointed Provost Marshal to the Royal Ar
my, which placed mein a situation to wreak
my vengeance on the Americans. I shud
der at the murders I have been acceffary to,
both with and without orders from govern
ment especially while jn New-York, dur
ing which time there were more than 2000
prisoners starved in the different churches by
flopping their rations, which I fold.
There were also 275 American prisoners
and obnoxious persons executed, out of all
which number there were only about one
dozen public executions, which chiefly con
sisted of BiitiHi and Hessian deferters.—=The
mode for private execution was thus -con
duded ; a guard was dispatched from the
provost about half aftertwelve, at night, to,
Barrack-street, and the neighbourhood of
Upper Barracks, to order the people to shut
their, .window-Gutters and put our theirl
lights, forbidding them, not to perfume toI
look out of their windows or doors, on pair
of death ; after which the unfortunate pri
soners were conduced, gagged, just behind
the Upper Barracks, and hung without cer
emony and there buried by the black pio
neer of the provost.
At the end of the war I returned to old
England with the army,and fettled in Wales
being a cheaper place to live in than any
populous city ; but at length was persuaded
to go to London, where I entered so warm
ly into the prevailing dissipations, that I
soon found my circumstances embaraffed ;,
to relieve which, I mortgaged my half-pay :
but that being soon expended, I forged a
free hundred pounds sterling, on
ts ordnance-—I was detected in
it for acceptance—was appre
^d and convicted ; for which of
here to fuffer an ignominious
e prayers of good Christians, as
well as pardon and forgivnefs of God; for
the many horrid murders I have been accef
fary to. 0
Wm. CUNNINGHAMS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1800.
A CREED FOR St. PAUL't
I Believe in Billy Pitt, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Master of Lords and Commons,
and of all court intrigues, visible and invisi
ble ; and in Secretary 'Henry Dundas, the
only beloved of Billy Pitt, beloved before all
women, men of men, head of heads, min
ister of ministers, beloved, not hated, being
of one opinion with his Patron, by whom
all ministers are made, who, for us men,
and our taxation, came out of Scotland, and
talked much in the House of Integrity, and
was appointed East India Comptroller under
Billy PiD, an d went into Scotland and there
was burnt in effigy ; and the third day he
came back again (according to the newfoa
pefrs) & afctended into office, & fitteth at the
right hand of his Patron, and shall come
again to judge both loyal and disloyal, whose
folly shall have no end ; and I believe in the
House of Boroughs, the loyal representatives
of the people, eleaed by one hundred and
sixty-two persons, either peers or linecures,
placemen, or immediate servants of the
King, who can do no wrong.
And I believe in George the Third, Lord
and giver of Places, who, together with
Billy Pitt, is worshiped and glorified, who
speak by Proclamation ; and I believe in
Paper Money and national bankruptcy as
the visible Prosperity of the Nation ; and I
look not for Remission of Taxes, no, not
till the Refurreaion of the Dead ; and I
look for a better Government in the world
to come. Amen.
From the sun of liberty.
AT the time when the famous a& com
ffionly called the Sedition A&, was ena&ed
'v. Congress, it was strongly opposed by the
minority in that body, on the ground (arrfeng
others) that it was calculated and designed
to be a mere engine of party oppression and
revenge. And with an intention to put one
half of the peoplein the United States at
[the mercy of the other. That in faMt shut
lIL' e mout hs of those to whom any of the
cures of administration were obnoxious
I'''' " iem wholly unprotected from
Ifhe^olcnco otjhc'r opponents, ao(l exposed
to the unrest rained torrent of their hatred,
I calumny and abuse. That such has in fad
been the operation of that law, whatever
was its design, few I believe will now con-
Al m ost every week do we hear of instan
ces ^efei" republicans are arraigned, tried,
and punished for offences against it, but in
no one instance have we heard of a man
fighting under federal banners,el his slanders
affect whom they might,whofe t ranfgreffions
have been thought deferving,of punishment.
Has this happened because the writings
of this party have been free from detraction,
calumny, & licentiousness ?—Surely not.—
From what source have we heard of more
ma 'g|@m&ui slanderous attacks upon the
^ ve a ,l Hraiftration of our government
'han from the ari^ofederal prefles of Porcu
pine and # Fenno? Not to mention the
base revilings upoh Mr. Jefferfon, and other
elevated chara&&s which thofe&other pres
ses of the fame complexion in our vicinity
have coity^^Hy vomittert forth for a long
time paff^Yet these have all palled unno
ticed or disregarded by the informing officers
of our government. But an instance hath
lately occured which muff put to the test the
[true principles and objects of this law, and
Ithe impartiality, uprightness, and indepen
dence of o^cqurts of justice. I allude to
the late faffltyUW extraordinary publica
tion o£,lcxander Hamilton, refpe&ing the
Puh^parafler and conduct of president
A da „!'< : o)^|rei o n which for the ma
hgnit,tfjtempr^es, and the boldness of
its cenfure^ffs not perhaps been heretofore
equalledg^he United States. Whether be
will be arraigned at the bar of the federal
Hurt,#o answer for his conduct, VLm at
@s to determine—-But this I know, that
^ is not, it will be a glaring preparation
public jyftice and the pretence that we all
enjoy equal laws under an equal arid impar
tial administration of them, will be a mere
mockery and insult. Let every man of can
dour and humanity ask himfelf, what would .
be the feelings of his own mind, yere he to
endure the miseries of confinement and so
litude (as many of our fellow citizens have
already done) for ah offence which Alexan
der Hamilton from his foperior elevation ,
and influence might commit with impunity
and even triumph ih the commiffionof. For
myfelf I would as soon submit to be the
humble fubjed of 4 Turkish Balhaw. whose
capricious mandate might consign me to per
petual misery, as the citizens of a country
which boasting of her liberty and the im
partial benifits of diftributiv© justice, could
yet fuffer one of her poorest citizens to en
dure punishment for a crime, which anoth
er might commit with impunity and ap
plause. Well might I lose all the affection
which I ever bore for fudh a government,
and conclude with the misanthropic poet—
'That equal crimes unequal fates tad found,
' And-while one culprit swings another's crown'd.
FYom the Independent Chronicle.
£DID Houthi
To the ESSEX 7UNIO.
"WHENCEand WHAT are ye ^that
"" U d date assemble in conclave, and
assume a prerogative to dired the Executive
a •'' '° vere 'g n an d independent Rates
of America.' This is an arrogance which,
demands the attention of Freemen, and juft
a , c '" s their jealousy and resentment.—
A few of your fraternity were early desig
nated as "a final! party," and your deep
''jatagems were then anticipated as fubjeas
of laughter " at a future day."
„." ?' e People" have since adopted a Con
stitution, on the legitimate operation of
which, their lives, liberties and property are
sacredly pledged, @ nd they trust, permanent
ly secured. They feel superior to the in
trigues of fiaion, tinder whatever mask or
name it may be presented. A Judas, whe
ther he aflaiis them with /w^ri/s and yiatef
or betrays them with a kiss, is equally the
objea ot abhorrence^— whether he receives
thirty pieces of silver, or gives this price to
others, is indifferent to them, for whenever
the aflault commences, the opposition is di
rc&ed to its immediate source. The cul
prit may hang himfelf, but the injury is not
forgotten.
e ls it possible, that the citizens of the U
nited States,within the short period of twelve
years, fhonld be called to their polls, to
guard the portals tff the Temple of Free
dom ? Was it &pe&ed, that we Gould so
soon have bchekHhe political Ark jeopard
ed in its progress, by the unhallowed touch
of a clan of Supercilious projectors r
IWhile under the tyranny of Britain, we
were conflantly alarmed with the base designs
of their profligate Cabinet. We then heard
of Lord North, Lord Bute, and Lord Hillf
borough—but it was never contemplated,
after we had freed ourselves from such a
banditti, that we fbonld be harraffed by an ,
American manufaaured minifry, or a band of
new fangled lordlings.
The Federal Conflitution is so jafticu
larly guarded against any extraneous influ
ence, that it has denied a Council to the su
preme executive. It recognizes no advifo.
ry, much more a felf-created controling body.
Ihe Departments are subordinate for the
purpose of official information, but in no sense
are considered as a negative on the conduct
of the President. p So tenaciots is tbis inffru
ment of identical responsibility, that the
Executive Hands personally answerable in
his public capacity, for his conduct. Heis
liable to impeachment for mal-adminiftra
tion. So far from being above law, he is
the immediate object of Legislative investi
gation—he Hands on a par with his fellow
citizens—he claims no exclusive right to vi-'
olatf the Cqnftitution ; neither has he a
power to make or fanCtion laws to screen
himfelf from public scrutiny.
While the President is thus bound by the
Conflitution, there is a refpeC tdue to his
political capacity. If he cannot deprive a
citizen of his rights, he ^equally entitled to
his official prerogative. It is true, every
man has an uncontroled privilege to express
his mind with decency on public men and
measures.; but when a junto assume such
an afcendency, as to arrest Executive deci
sions , controul his deliberations, and even
venture to intrude themselves into his coun
cils they commit the bigheft crime against
the government. Such government does
not come within rhe trifling consideration of
the present Sedition a&, but forms a more
• exaggerated criminality, “ Unofficial agents,
trespassing on the prerogative of |he Presi
dent, in our own country, are dangerous
with those who repair to foreign nations
for this purpose. It is not merely feditwn,
, but carries a deep tin&uie of treason :
as it leads to the total subversion of the fun
damental principles of the federal compact. ^
Dr. Logan has been grossly abused for t>y.
ing to make peace with France; but if
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