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Gates, and all the maihihdy and apparatus; for
carrying on these nefarious practices, were found.
BOSTON, APRIL 10.
, From St; Domingo,
Capt. Hodge, arrived at Newburyport, from
Cape-Francois, ftates:— Thar the French people at
the Cape, are in a most distressing fituatioo, ex.
pe&iog every moment a general maflacre ; as it was
known that ChriftopQe had received orders from
.Gov. Deffalines to that ptirpofe. None of them
are buffered to leave the Island, arid American tef
felt are frialy searched both before failing, arid
by the barges outside. A Danish fchoooer which'
failed from the Cape for St. Thomas' was over- I
hauled by a brigand barge, and French paiPhgersj
found on board.'She was immediately carried
into a small port to leward of the Cape,& he Capt.!
crew, and every foulon board foot. The fchooher
wasafterwards brought up to the Cape. The whites
are daily miffing, supposed to be secretly murder
ed, and their property immediately confiscated and
fold at audion. No age or (ex is spared from the
outrage and inhumanity of the blacks, who boast
of their mild treatment when compared with the;
cruelties which they have fuffered from French.|
men. Men, women and Children are held in the
most abjed slavery, and daily expire from hardship I
and fatigue.. They are now obliged to carry can-;
non balls to a fort building in the mountains about
1§ miles back, and are not even permitted to hjte it
clone for them. Grestnurobers drop down with
the fatigue and die on the road. .-
The few Americans who arrive at the Cape are
obliged to be extremely circumfea. For want
of ptoper regulations and from the ignorance and
jeaioufy of the blacks they are fubje&ed to much
hazard and inconvenience.—Chriflophe will take
what proportion of the American cargoes he pleases
at his own price and pay in cotfee at his own
price. One day he will permit certain goods to be
taken on board and the next order them to be
landed again, and no dependance can be placed in
any trade with them. The flighted tranfgreffinn
of their rule is punished very feyerely. An Ameri
can supercargo was kept three days in a dungeon
for going o, foore after dark. In general the A
toericans, uMwithflanding the profeffions of the
blacks are treated extremely ill. The arretes and
proclamations of Declines and Christophe are
mere flummery and fcldom or never, put in execu
tion.
Amherst, May 8, 1804.
AT the late term of the Supreme Court, at
Hopkinton, for the County of Hillfborough %bn
Stewart was indited fcr passing a forged Bill of
the Essex Bank, of eight dollars ; for counterfeit
ing a New-H-mplhire Bill, cf ten dollars, paya
ble at Philadelphia; for having a large number
of said New-Hamplhire B 11s in his possession,
with an intention to pass them, & for a conspira
cy with others to counterfeit the Bills of various
Banks.— Timothy Gall, David Call and 'William
Gilman were indicted federally for aiding and
affixing in 'he forgery of Essex Bills, ofeignt dol
lars, and, together ^ith John Stewart, for a cdn
fpiracy to counterfeit the Bills of various Banks
—John Silver was indiaed for the forgery of a
New-Hampshire Bill, often dollars, payable at
Philadelphia, and for having in fas possession
counterfeit bills of said Ntew-Hampfhie Bank,
with an intention to pass them.—They were ar
raigned, & plead, not, guilty, to all the indi&-
ments. The trial of John Stewart firft came on
The Jury having left the (land, in a few minutes
returned a verdid of guilty. During this trial,
the other prison rs were at the bar and the Law
Was so clearly and forcibly laid down by the
Chief Justice, that they prayed liberty to with
draw their place, -nd to trust in the mercy of
the Court, which was granted ; and they are
now under the following sentences :—Two and
one half years imprisonment on all of them, ex
cepting Sib er, whose imprisonment is only two
years, in addition to pecuniary fines.—Wm. Gil
man and timothy Call, having been befo e con
victed of a similar crime, were further sentenced
tb Hand in the pillory one hour each.
By Monday's Mail.
f ± SaV,INNAB, A °^ir # u 3
The citizens of &&nnah were thrown into a fericus
date of agitation ind alarm the past w^ck, from the very >
reprehensible nature of fomc Sentiments contained in a ,
charge to the Grand Jury of this eonuty, delivered on I
Monday last by Jabez Bowen, jun. Esq. Judge of the
Supreme Court for the Eatlern Dith id of this State ;
and which was intreated by a knowledge of certain obfer
vatious that bad fallen from the Judge antecedent and frtb
fequent to the delivery of the charge, still more highly
inflammatory.
The drand Jury continued to meet the court until Wed
nesday morning when they delivered to the Judge the fol
lowing presentment.
“ Wethc Grand Jury for the body of the county of
Chatham, having taken into re consecration the political
ftrifture delivered to us yesterday as a charge by bishpner.
Jedge Bowen, do upon our oaths, present, That ic is inju
dicial, insulting to our government, and repugnant to the
general interest of o^ ebuptry, by disseminating princi
ples thafmay tend to involve the community in the hor
rors of domestic insurrection. We, therefore, without vi
olence to our conferences, and a total disregard of the dearest
ties of society and its welfare, cannot further proceed with
bufoefs. And we are of opinion from the rcafons atee
mentioned that the laid charge should not' receive publics*
tion ; but recommended that a copy of the charge & this
our preferment, be forwarded by the Clerk of the Su*
preme Court to his Excellency the Governor and he laid
Before the next feffiou of the Legislature for their confide
ration.l
“ William Smith, foreman ; B. Gibbons, Wm. Blogg,!
James M'lntoih, S Shas, Wm Lewden, James Alger,
James Cline, John Gibbons, Isaac Minis, Wm Brown,;
Saul Simons, James J Belcher, J Y White, jofeph Rice, Jo-'
feph Machin, John Pittibone, Sampson Neyle, David Gu-1
gel!, T Barnard, jun. Hencry Putnam."
Inflamed at this temperate yet dignified condua of the
Grand Jury; the Judge inftantiy ordered the Sheriff to take
them to goal—They were proceeding, when there arose
a partial cry of I'm, no, they, Shall not go"—which was
immediately filcnced by the determined deportment of the
Grand Jury. At this cry the Judge pulled from his pock-i
its a brace of pistols, impaffionatdy exclaiming "Where
is the damn'd rascal who dares fay no P few him to me,
and I'll blow his brains but 1" The Grand Jury, howev
er, proceeded to goal, accompanied by most of the gen
tlemen of the oar, who rose in a body and left the 1
court house diredly on their departure— The Bar had a |
meeting immediately, and refolded that they would at(
their own expense entertain and dine with the Grand Ju
ry, in, the goal: and that they viewed Judge Bowen's
prostitution of judicial dignity with abhorrence $ and
that during % fr c f%ra % would ^ take &,
legi it the Ur, nor inter to their atta, but would
attend without the bar at all times when the Grand Jury
should be brought up before the court, for the purpose
of affording such council as their circumstances may re
quire.
The citizens also held a meeting at the Exchange, and
in their refolutious applauded the firm, dignified and pat
riotic demeanor of the Grand Jury, and appointed a
committee of seven to procure a legislative enquiry into
the conduct of Judge Bowen. .1
Thus situated, and taking into view the heinously fla
gitious language of the Judge, a warrant was issued agamft
him for an " attempt to excite domestic infurre&ion r—
and he was apprehended in the evening between 9 and
10 o'clock, but before he was taken he attempted to
smake his escape, and slushed a loaded pistol it the Sheriff,
j The next morning ( Thursday) the Grand Jury through
their council, petitioned the Justices of the Inferior Court,
for a writ of Habeas Corpus, which was granted, and they
;were accordingly released from confinement.
!g, A very lengthy an! minute account of the above transac
tion* ba* been published in the Savannah papers.—lt appears,
that the bar and citizens requeued the printers not to publifo
fudge Bowen's charge ; its nature san therefore only be con
jeaured. fudge B is the son ts a very refpeaable federal
- character in Rbode-Ifland; but is a flaming democrat ; and we
find, that Samuel Howard, Esq formerly of this town, a fede
ralift is of the committee of citizens appointed to address the
; Grand fury for their very proper demeanor on the occasion
|lt is probable the charge touched on *to delicate Jubjeß of the
' ^anumiffign of saves. [Centind.
The Oracle.
TUESDAY, May 15,
THE ships Warrington and Kingston from Eng
land have brought regular files of London papers
to 29th March. From them we have Selected the
mterefting articles which appear in the oppufixe
columns. Paris dates to the 20th March, state that
city to exhibit the fame feene of terror as tinder
Robespierre :—After seven o'clock in the evening
nobody is permitted to pass the barriers, and do
micilary visits continue. The army agents' house
have failed for the amount of 800,000! Gerling. A
private correspondent writes, that Buonaparte has
taken meafurts to displace the principal officers
who served und^r Moreau. The following distin
guished personages have been arrelled—Gen. Du
mas, Madame Dumas, Mons. D'Septeuri, Gen. La
Fayette, the Abbe David, Mons. Roland, Godin a
Tribune, Madam Talien, Madam Ledger, Limo
. din. Bouvet, Charles D'Ofier, Gen. Delmas, &c.
From Vienna, we learn that warlike prepara
tions are going forward with activity—2o,o6o re
cruits above the peace eflabliihment—and 160,000
troops were ready to march at 48 hours notice
-250 oooßuffians were to be encamped before the lit
of the present month, on the weftern and fonthern
frontiers of the Ruffian Empire, to att as dream*
fiances may require.
From Turkey, besides formidable naval arma
ments, 50,000 men are to be sent to the Morea, and
a^arger army will march towards Belgrade. A
courier arrived there from Sr. Peterfburgh, has cir
culated a runiour, that in case all negociations for
peace are without effeft, a clpfe alliance, offenfive
and defenfive, will be immediately concluded be
tween Austria, Rufo, Turkey, Sweeden, Den
mark and Naples. A numerous Ruffian fleet are
ready to fail from Odessa for the neighborhood of
Sicily, having on board 250,606 land troops, moff
ly infantry,—A Petersburg paper fays 3 Ruffian, 3
Aullrian, one Prussian, and one French armies will .
probably Ue collected this summer; in Germany,
and 00 its frontiers.
Private letters by the Lohdon Hamburgh mail,
date that a part of the Hanoverian army will short-
Iv Lake pofieffion of Hamburgh, the DatobiCT of
Ho'Uien and Brunswick.
The Blip Auroia arrived lately at Cadiz from
Lima, with i,Boo coo dollars on board.
DOMESTIC
The left statement we made of our own eleßion
gave Governor Gilman a majority of 165 votes —
returns from EHfaortb, Peeling and Coventry in.
crease the majority to 190—there if flatement
of the Millfield votes in jeveral papers which ,give
Gilman 90, Langdon 40 — but having feme reason to
doubt that account, we have not added it.— The fate
Reprefcntativ@ in Massachusetts were chosen latt
Wednesday, the House will, be much larger than
heretofore, but from accounts received fam many
towns, there is reason to [uppofe the federal majority
will not be lefoned. —In NewTork Mr. Lewis has
feceeded in the eleflion, he will be Governor of that
fate 3 years enftang, and probably all branches of
that liegifature are of the famepolitical countenance—
In thefate Courts of Ohio the qu,.on has been fo
lemnl, difenfed whether the fate Court are bound, in
any i/fance, to carry into execution the Penal Laws
pf the United States —Mr Livingflon who was
turned frosts the office of the United Jlater /Worrit,
forflate of New fork, for delinquency, to amount of
nearly 100,900 dollars, is now promoting a Banking
Institution in cur newly acquired regions.— Frejhets
have been grelit and names OUs anJwe receive by almofl
every mail accedes of the deflrußion of bridges,
dams, and mills. . The summer arrangements of the
Mails came into operation this week—the, Eaflern,
arrives in Portfmoutb at balffaft 7 o'clock A. M.
and leaves at 3 o'clock A. M.—tbe Southern arrives
at"i2 o'clock P. M. and leaves balf past 8 ri M.
Jonathan Weston is appointed Deputy Col|e&br
forth Diftriftand Port of Paffamaquody, and for
the convergence of those who have business to tran.
fa& abthe Cuflom- Houfe ; by cohfent of the Sec
retary of the Treasury Department ; an office is es.
tabi fhedon,fofe Island in said Diftria. ?
MARR ED ?
At Brion, Mr Robert Doncan to miss Sally Brown
In this town, by the Rev. Mr Aldzw, Mr. William
Hackley a reudent, to miss Nancy Cooper; Mr. Seth
Pratt, co miss Hannah Dixon; Mr. Jonathan
Young to miss Lucy Loud. "
Un England, a Mri Mason to a Miss Carpenter
" A good partncrihip for Undertaking tb build a family
DIED
At Bbfon, after d lingering illness, Hans Gram. Esq
formerly of Copenhagen, (Denmark)—This gentleman
was allied to some of the firft families in that country
had fnftaioed several honary offices undir the Danish
Monarch ; and was qualified by education and experience,
to discharge the moll important political fundlions with
energy and prrcifioo. , ,
At Stratford, England, Mrs Ann Robinson aged 76'
foe was the only remaining daughter of the celebrated au
thor of Pamela, Sir Charles GrUudifon, Clarissa, &c—ln
England, General Sir William Fawcet—ln London, the
Dake of Roxbourg.
In this town, a child of Mr Robert M'Clary.
On Thursday morning the loth instant, departed this
^mortal life, Mr Tiieopuilu, Gains in the twenty,feih
year of his age, after a lingering and painful sickness, which
he endured with chriftian patience, and calmly resigned
bimfelf up to the mercy of his Great Greater, through
pic merto of the fety Rfotner, <F 3
I _.£ .P^CY! 1
rA - fcl" e " a "orts on on? commerce hi th Weft ;
Indies, have lately excited conliderable attention i
anrong the merchants ahd fiamen-r and we,
i.following accounts will be deemed of !
futticient importance to occupy, for a few hours,
the attention of administration, a final! portion
of what,is left of the navy, would be Efficient, co
der able commanders, lu pybtea the trade, and
give a good accounts of these marauding scound
rels. •
^T™ " New-York brig Pallas from Porto Rico—has
ballad to the captata - '1
Capt. Sayre furnifhes us with the following ac-I
counts: I foiled in the brig Pallas of Portfmoinb,
from New-York, March ig, commanded by John
1 Flagg ;on the 31# of the fame inst. we were cap- I
tured the French privateer L'Petit Efthel, of !
Martintyue, capt ABaroan 1 ; we were carried into 1
M*yaguis, a fm4lbay in the weft end of Porto R i-'
co, where we arrived the sth of April, the cargo
p was all jak;n out of the b/tg and'put on board a
fchooher belonging to Cdrracoa, without any kind
vs procels or trial whatever ; after they hd pltin-1
dered her of every thing, time gave tbt yeffeimme I
to do as I thought proper with her. They kept I
cap'. Fiagy, find all the crew except myself and;
one fesman) oh board the pryateer and rook one of j
our boats with an intention to let them alhore on
old C,pe Francois which bore s. s. w. from us, dis
-1/ ir gor 6 leagues at the time the brought us too.
It w,& repor'ed and generally believed in Maya
gefettAgteffiyat^ hod no Cotrimiffion. . . -t
While I lay there, two American: were brought
inby the privateer Bondieu, capt. Bernard, of St.
Domingo, ifeir cargoes were taketi out in the fame
manner dndlold without any kin of condemna
tion § the one was the fclir. Helen, ofNorfolk,
Capt. Shanki the other the iloop Eliza of New
port, Slocum, both from the Bite of Leogane, load,
ed with Cotfe. They were taken in the Turki
Island palhge;on the tft of April. The sch. John
Vining, Addington, matter, was taken at the fame
ti^c in comply with them by the fame privateer,
but the had ootbeen heard of tehen I left Maya
guis, which was the 15th of April.
I was informed in Mayaguis, that about fix weeks
previous to my being carries in there, there was a
brig lent in by a French privateer, with a very Val
uable cargo, confiding es dry goods and provisions:
(he had no men on board except the privateerfmen,>
the cargo was all taken out aoj fold, and the vessel
badafted vny deep with stone, and sent out under
thepretecce of going to Sb Domingo to be condem
ned, but file had not been heard of since, and
it„was generally believed in that place that flie was'
taken to sea and destroyed ; the vessel had every
appearance of an American vessel but a Ihoruime
at sea, as the appeared quite clean.&
ri ... .
6hip Magnet, Coffin, of this port, on hersutward paff
¥ to Jamaica, of Cape Francois, was boarded by a French
privateer and robbed of a number of barrels of provisions,
fpMre cordage, and fundr, articles belonging to the maf
tar and mate of said (hip.
The Charleston City Gazette, a democratic paper, fays,
"The Ann, Powers, failed March ii,h from this port,
'and two days after was captured, plundered and robbed
by the French privateer L'Hirondell, Captain Lequit,who
compelled Capt. P. to take oh board captains, owners, fu
percargbes, &c of two or three vcffels he had taken."
0
r ri melancholy Providence.
On Monday at abonc seven in the afternoon, matter
Mark Moore, who was eighteen in March, son of cap
tain John Moore of th'is town, fell from the main yard of
a ship, lying at Mr. Thomas Sheafed wharf, thirty feet,
in such a manner that the back of his deck came dire&l,
upon the capftern of she wharf—By this distressing provi
dence his neck was broken, and death ensued in four bouts.
This premature exit has thrown deep distress upon his fam
ily and connexions, and a gloom upon a refpedable circle
of friends and acquaintances, to whom this youth was en
deared by his amiable disposition, engaging manners, and
promising talents—a very solemn, affeding, and important
lesson on the precarious tenure of the present life.
-.■ rts I === . .ill'.'!■..■: — ==E —= .'.«!'— #sm etfcw
New Goods.
James Henderson,
ITAS just received a general affort
-TIL meat of
Spring and Summer Goods,
which are now opened and for file at his Store
Congrels-ft*et, cheap for cash. May 12.
} *==lfr^ —===^^ —
New Goods.
Benjamin Swett,
No. 8, Market-fireet, has received a gen
* eral afortment of
Spring and Summer Goods,
which he will fell very low for cash.
fc, Wanted 5,000 yards Good Tow
Clothe 1 May 12.
reCT, ,, —I = =- = '= 1
]uft received, and for f Ale at
Samuel Drowne's shop,
Buck-Street,
HANDSQMEgoId finger Rings ; a pleating
assortment of gold Ear Knobs of the late#
fashion ; a handsome variety of gold Bread Pins
by dozen oj^ngle; Gold Miniature Settings ;
gilt do. Chms ; gdd, coral, garnet, glass, and
cemmon Beads ; fiber, and common Table and
f<a Spoons; paste, silver, Reel, plated and black-
Knee Buckles ; Silver and common Thimbles;
eoßklhell and pearl Sleeve Buttons ; silver
' and plated Sugar Tongs; silver and plated
Shoe Clasps; silver, pencil, and Pen Cases ;
silver Tooth, and Ear Picks : silver, steel and
itory Tags; Spangles ; gold and silver Broatch
, es ; silver Segar Tubes ; silver, plated and pearl
Salt Spoons; an assortment of gilt Lockets;
Needle Cases ,I'weafers ; Bugles , ring, enam
el'd- Tobacco, and Snuff Boxes ; Pen and Pocket
Knives ; Scissors; do# Chains & Cases ; Segar
do. Toy Watches [Pungent Salts; Morocco
Pdeket Books ; do Purses; Fifes ; and a few
Violins ; do. Strings, &c. &c. &c.
N. B. Orders in the Gold & Silver
smith's line, executed with neatness, on the Ihort
eft notice. • ~Portframtif W, 12.
1 AUCTION.'
ICT Rare chance for Books.
I- "'fiends of Literature, and tty who purcbafr
for Libraries, or to fell again, are refteftfull, invi
ted at S. Little's Office, Buck-ftreel, Portfmoutb, on
Wednesday the 16th day of May next, precisely at
9 o'clock ri. M. and continue 'till nine in the tan
ingri where is to be offered a
large and valuable aflortment of
\ . NEW BOOKS,
In various branches of ufeful and police literature • con
filling principally of
IDictionaries ; Divinity ; "Hiftory ;
Phytic ; Mathematics ; Miscellaneous
;Works ; Novels, &c. &c.
Including a number of Works really valuable and in
good order ; and the whole presenting an opportunity
worthy attention, and rarely offered in this town. A Ca
talogue of the above Books fan at time Ind place of falc
-I_No Book delivered 'lid after /ale is over.
! Piscataqua Bridge Lottery.
r s HE drawing of Piicataqua Bridge
I Littery will puUtivciy commence on the 1 9th
of Ju',',and finifo in thirty days.
Five hundred Tickets will be considered as one
Complete days work.
The dys fixed for drawing, the firft week will
be ThiuTuy and Saturday, and the second week
Tucktby^Thurfday arid Saturday, further as may
be convenient.
Tickets will continue felling at the present price
of five dollars, until the 20th day of June is ex
pired, after that time the price will advance to five
dollars fifty cents um?l the fifth Ju : y.
All unfold Tickets in the hands of agents on the
sixth day of July mul be sealed up and returned to
the Managers—any Tickets that may remain in
their hands after that day will be considered as fold,
and must be paid for by the holders.
All unfold Tickets will pass from the Managers
to a company before the drawing,commences and
fold under the direaion of said companies agent, at
fix dollars; after the drawing has began.
Thomas Thompson,
Thomas Martin, .
Elijah Hall.
Portsmouth, May tc, 1804.
Engraving in General.
THE public are, refpedfully informed, the
above buGnefs will be carried on very extent
lively by
JAMES AKIN, Newburyport,
wh) having completed his profeffional Studies iti
London, under an eminent Master, and since that;
time resided, and followed his prufeffion in Phila
delphia, (from which place the yellow fever has exiled
him) flatters himfelf to be able to afford much fat-§
isfadion to those who may favot him with their
commands.
Q3°Specimens may be seen in his poQeJ~
son which will teftify bis abilities and more particu
larly in BANK WORK, having executed the bu
fnefs for fevera 1 Banks in the font hern States ; there
fare faicits the attention of the Banks in New-En
gland, a s there appears at present to exist a want fir
the fear it, of their bill Newfary-Port, May fa
Rockingham, ft.
WHEREAS the fubferiber admin*',
iftrator to the estate of BENJAMIN
LEAR, late of feortfmouth, deceased, is impowereff
by the honorable - Judge of Probate for the courit,
of Rockingham, to fell all the real estate of the fai4„
BENJAMIN LEAR. Therefore, notice is here--
by given, that the whole of said estate, confifting'
of about fi*ty acres of land, situated in Portsmouth,
will be fold at public vendue, at the house of Maj-
Walker in Portfmouth,on Thursday the 24th of
May.:
Sale to commence at 2 of the clock Pi M. condi
tions of sale 10 per cent down; one third in three,
months, one third in fix months, one third in nine
months. SAMUEL LEAR, Administrator.
May 14, 1^04.,
THE Public are cautioned against pur
chasing a note of hand signed by'the fubferi
ber, payable to Daniel French, Esq. or order s
dated December the £ 7th, 1801, for 14 Dollars & 3'
Cents, as said note was given conditionally; A note
given at the fame time, to the fame person on the*
fame condition as the one above described, having
been fold; and an action brought against me on it:
in the name of another person out of the county*
L is the catife of my giving this caution.
JONATHAN CASS.
Candia, April 27, 1804.
Improved Patent Bedstead.'
THE Subferibers having observed
and experienced many inconveniences atten
ding the fixing, puttingup, and taking down that
neceflary Article of rurniture, she Bedstead,
have invented an improvement to remedy thole in
conveniences. Being equally applicable to com
mon Bedsteads, with lacking Bottoms, as to more -
coflly ones, they persuade themselves it will meet
with general approbation. It would exceed the
limits of an adtertifement to be particular in de
scribing the ftruAureend advantages It may fuf
fice to fay, the Bedflead is fiemly fastened ac
the corners, without the troublesome operofe con
trivance and use of [crews. It may be easily put
up by one person, and little more time is required
for taking it down by one person, than would be
necessary for cutting up and taking down the leaves
« a Dining rabie. Thre advantages are obvious
in an article which requires frequent examin tiora
and ij frequently removed; but the special advan
tages in case of Fire will be perceived at once by
those who have been obliged to removed and save
furniture on such occefions of hurry and diOrefi—
The fubferibers flatter themselves that an invention
combining simplicity, ufefulnefs, and chrapnefe
will be encouraged by a generous Public.
The right fol making arid vending the above
Patent Bedstead, may be purchased, on appli
cation to either ^ the fubferibers at Portsmouth
New-hampthire- fr .
Ward Gilman,
Willlilm Jackson, j'""%
Portfmruth, May ti.