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Lotteries all the Rage.
" he drawing of the First Class of Pifeataqua
Bridge Lottery was completed on Tuefday last,
to the universal taturtaction of every adventurer.
We piefumc the good credit of this Lottery
i now io thoroughly eftab'ilhed, that the future
chiles wiil meet a repaid and advantageous sale.
she fraalfett prizes will be redeemed as soon as
the official lilt is published, and the larger in 30
days.
C. PETRCE,
Now offers the public, Tickets and Quarters in
the Second Clals of Atkinson Academy Lotte
ry, and in the 6th Class of South Hadley Canal
Letter), in exchange for prize Tickets, pur
chaled at any place, or for cash. Ihe former of
these classes is to commence drawing the week
after next, whole Tickets zdolls. Quarters 359 ;
and the latter in about two months; whole
.• Tickets 5 dolls. Quarters Bsg. We give this
timely notice that every one may supply them
selves before they rife. Please to apply loon.
Augull 24.
John Frost,
Respectfully informs the Public that
he has just received a consignment of Dr.
WHEATON's Patent
Jaundice Bitters ;
a famous cure likewise for bilious complaints,
so prevalent at this time. iILSO,
Wheaton's patent Itch Ointment, an
infallible cute for that disagreeable disorder ; and
it will free the skin of all other pimples.
likewise to be sold at his Store, a general
assortment of
CLOTHES, &c.
a small assortment of
HARD WARE & CROCKERY,
and a good assortment of
Weft India Goods & Groceries,
from France and Holland a variety of French and
Dutch Goods viz.—
Mens and Womens black & white silk HOSE;
black & white silk GLOVES;
A variety of FANS some very elegant Sc cheap ;
Sattin Waisfcoating ;
Dutch CHECKS;
Bretagnic LINENS;
Dutch TAPES —See. &c. all which will be sold
Very cheap. _ July 25,
Janies Rundlet,
Hasjust received per the Felicity,Wil LTamWa lk-
SRCommander,from Amsterdam,anuinberot casesqf
BROWN HOLLANDS ;
WHITE PLATILLES;
BRITTANNIES ; :
CHECKS and STRIPES ;,
j RODENS ;^OIL (7-OTHS; J/
, TAPES and BOBBINS;
which will be sold low per case, or small lots—all
entitled to denature on exportation.
Portsmouth, jlngu,t, 24, 18G4,
Just Arrived
And now landing from on Board the Brig Felicity,
from Amsterdam, and for sale by
Th: & E. D. Brown,
No, 10 Portsmouth Pier,
40 pipes Holland's GIN ;
40 cases LINSEED OTL;
30 casks of White, Green Sc Yellow PAINTS ;
1000 GIN CASES, 12 bottles each.
Heart and Club STF.EL ;
Few bales of LINENS;
—ALSO-
Fi^ The Bri g Felicity, to
Freight, or Charter, in com.
te^fy|a,plete OrderJß2 tons burthen, 6 years
Jffi&Qdold-and Ship Le Default, 242
tons burthen, 3 years old, coppered 6 months;-*
and a Brig 160 tons, coppered one year.
August 24, 1804.
FOR SALE,
AT THE STORE OF
Robert Rice,
Fore-street, .Forth End,
BALES of UPLAND COTTON and TIEL
CES of RICE, suitable for retailing for cash
or credit.
Portsmouth, August 12, 1804.
' 67^ OTICE.
The subscriber begs leave
to inform his triends and cuttomers, that he still
continues in his line of business ; —altho' his
House is a little remote from the centre, yet he
Bill hopes for a continuance of favors from his
former cufloroers, and those gentlemen who
travel in the stages can be accommodated with
lodgings, &c. as the drivers of the Stage will
carry passengers where they wish, as he can en
tertain them in as genteel a manner as at any
otberglnn, or Beaming House in Portfmoulh,
and at as cheap a rate.
ririce or tour Gentlemen can be ac
commodated with Boarding at a moderate price
by the week, month, or year, by applying to
the fubferiber.
Vol. XIV.]
all of which are for Sale, on the most reasona
ble terms. Durham, August 8, 1804°
JAMES A. GEDDES.
Pitt-Street, Fertfmouth, 23d August, I'Bo4.
French & Dutch Goods.
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MOR. LILY ARE INDISPENSABLE SUPPORTS.—wTsTnx
PETER COFFIN,
A /firlC T^
Just Imported by
BE it enacted by the Senate and Flbuseof ReftFr
sentatroeein General Court convened, That the In
habitants of the several Towns and Plantations, and
places in this State, qualified to vote in the ch^ra
of Senators for the State Legislature, shall assemble
in their Respective towns, plantations and places,* n
the First Monday in November next, to vote for
seven persons, inhabitants of this State, Clio shall
not be Senators or Representatives in Congress, or
persons holding offices of proft or trust under th
United States; to be Electors of President and Ya#
President of the United States and the Selectmen
the towns, plantations and places, shall jjfl
fifteen days notice of s§&nc% place, ^ n d
such mFetftig ; and die meeting shall be govatQ
by a Moderator, chosen for that purpose, who shall
impartially preside, and with the Selectmen, whose
duty it shall be, to attend at such meeting, shall re
ceive from all the inhabitants of such towns, planta
tionsand places respectively, present and quacked
as aforesaid, Votes for such Electors, and shall in o
pen meeting, sort and count the same ; of all which
the Clerk M silch town, plantation, or place respec
tively shall make a fair record in the presence of
tie said Selectmen, of the name of every person vo
ted for, and the number of vertex against his nape; &
a full and fair copy of such record shall be madeput
and attested by the Selectman or Clerks respective
ly, & sealed up and directed to the Secretary of the
State, with a superscription expressing the purport
thereof, and transmitted bv said Town Clerks to the
Slieriffs of the respective Counties to which they be
long, within seven days after said meetings, or to
tlie Secretary's Office, on or before the twenty-second
day of November next ; and the several Sheriffs
shall, on or before the said twenty -second day of No
vember next, transmit to the Secretary's Office all
votes that shall be in manner aforesaid transmitted
or delivered to them : And the respective Sheriffs
and Clerks aforesaid, shall be liable to the same pen
alties for neglect of the duties enjoined on them re
spectively by this act, as they are liable to by 1w
for the omission in transmitting the votes of Gover
hor and Senators for this State, and that the Secre
tary shall, on the twenty-third of November next,
lay the same before the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives in Convention, to be by them examined
and counted ; and in case there shall appear to be
any, or the full number, who have a majority of
rotes, the person or persons having such majority
of votes, shall be declared Electors, provided, that
not more than seven persons have such majority ;
but in case more than seven persons shall have a
majority of votes, then those seven per ons,who have
the highest number of votes, shall be declared Injec
tors ; but if there shall not be any, or the whole
number having such majority, the Senate &: House,
of Representatives In ttiivehtiOh as aforesaid, shtflF
cause to be made out a list of the personsnot chosen
having the highest number of votes, equal to double
the number of Electors wanted, and if in making out
such list, it shall happen, that two or more persons
voted for, have an equal number of votes, which
number is also high enough to entitle the candidate
a place in said list, the names of such persons shall
be put into a box, and the Secretary, not being
one of the candidates, shall, in presence of said
convention, draw the number wanted to complete
said list,from which list said Convention shall elect by
ballot, the number of Electors wanted, and the per
^on or persons having a majority of such votes, shall
be appointed and declared Electors.
And be it farther enacted, That in cases where
the Secretary shall be a candidate, and his name
shall be put into the box as aforesaid, said conven
tion shall appoint some other suitable person in his
stead, to draw out the name or names of the per
son or persons, in manner herein before directed.
And be it farther enacted, That his Excellency
the Governor of this State, be, and he hereby is re
quested to cause the several persons who may be
chosen Electors, to be seasonably notified of their
appointment, and request their attendance at Con
cord, on the First Tuesday of December next, at tea
of the clock in the forenoon.
And be it further enacted, That the Electors cho
sen as aforesaid shall meet at said Concord on said
First Tuesday of December, and by twelve of the
clock of mid day of said First Tuesday of Decem
ber, give notice to the Legislature, of the number of
Electors present, who accept of said trust, and if
from such notice, it shall appear, that seven Electors
are not all then present, and accept of said appoint
ment, the two Houses of the Legislature shall then
immediately meet in convention, and by joint ballot,
elect the number wanting to complete said board :
And if any person chosen as Elector, on said First
Tuesday of December, shall not then attend and
accept of said trust said convention shall then im
mediately proceed as aforesaid, and choose others
to supply such vacancy.
And be it further enacted, That the Electors cho
sen and appointed as aforesaid, shall give their votes
for President and Vice-President of the United States
at Concord, on the First Wednesday of December
next, and shall proceed to transact and do all the du
ties incumbent on them as Electors, in manner pre
scribed by law.
And be it further enacted, That his Excellency
the Governor be, and he hereby is requested sea
sonably to issue precepts to the se\ e al towns, plan
tations, and places within this State, directing them
to notify and hold meetings on said First Monda, of
November, for the purpose of voting for Electors as
aforesaid. — ■
STATE OF NE W-HAMPSHTRE.
In Senate, June 20th, 1804, The foregoing bill hay
had three several readings, passed to be enacted.
Sent down for concurrence.
NICH : GILMAN, President.
Tn the House of Representatives the same day, the
foregoing bill having been read a third time, was en
acted. JOHN L/^NGDON, Speaker.
Approved ' June 21st, 18%
J. T. GILMAN, Governor.
A true copy—Attest.
JO§tPH PEARSON, SccTy.
A n Act directing the mode of balloting
IL 8 I for, an d appointing Electors of thiy
State, for the election of a President
„_#+! arid Vice-President of the U; States.
State of Newhampshire.,
IN the year of our lord one thou.
SAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FOUR.
TUESDAY, September 4, 1804.
subject of the three votes in November next."
Here follow the names of 82 members who have
signed a paper, in which they certify how they vot
ed on the first balloting for Treasurer ; viz.
John Orr, Jesse Webster,
Nathan Taylor, Uriah Wilcox,
Selh Payson, Joseph Colley,
Daniel Kimball, Amasa Buck",
Moses P. Payson, Elijah Frink,
James Wilson, Daniel Smith,
Foster Alexander, Phineas Read,
George B. Upham, Enoch Wood,
Thomas I.eavitt, Oliver Hall,
Albe Cady, I. C. Chamberlain,
Samuel Powers, Joseph Philbrick,
William A. Kent, Isaac Appleton,
Samuel Shepard, David Goodall,
John Mills, Isaah Lord,
Joseph Pinkerton, I Nehemiah Sleeper,
Philip Greely, [ Clap Sumner,
Ebenezer Edwards, Samuel Seward,
Josiah Walder, Jonathan Robinson,
John Plumer, Augustus Blanchard,
David Gilman, Simon Willard,
Joseph Curtis, Nathan Barlow,
Samuel Chase jun. Adonijah How,
Joshua Thornton, Isaac Waldron,
Enoch Worthan, Joseph Lomis,
Jesse Eatop, Ebenezer Kimball,
Amos Moody, William Lovejoy,
Jonathan Franklin, Jonathan Palmer,
Joseph Pratt, Andrew Bowers,
Enoch Colby, Samuel Prescott,
Samuel Holmes, Noah Bartlett,
Henery Pike, John Prentice,
Samuel Armor, John Montgomery,
Joseph Burley, Phineas Aiken,
Thomas W. Hale, Andrew Wentworth,
Samuel Griffin, Ebenezer Clark,
Nathaniel Emerson, James Wood,
Phineas F&rar, K. M'Donald,
Ithamar &ase, Benjamin Clough,
John Beede, Moses Lewis,
J. B. Barney, Lockhart Willard,
John Fish, | Wm. Burnham.
The names ofthe other three who have declared tha t
they voted, on the first trial, for Mr. Peabody, are
Messrs. Dix, Brooks, and Peasley. These added
together amount, according to my arithmetic, to
eighty five ; and the whole number of votes being
169, it will appear that Mr. Peabody, if justice had
taken place, WOULD HAVE BEEN DECLAR
ED TREASURER. VERITAS.
state, “ really elected treasurer," and veu will be
called upon to produce evidence in support of the as
sertion. Your statement of the votes given at the
first balloting is erroneous and unsupported by fact.
'Your assertion that “ several members, who voted
for Mr. Peabody the first day, did not vote for him
tie second day," is incorrect, Mr. Frink being the
ohly member who voted for Mr. Peabody at the
first, and for Mr. Gilman at the last balloting 83
vbtes were given for Mr. G. at the first trial, and
90 at the last ; Col. Waldron, who took his seat in
the senate after the the first trial, and Mr. Frink,
make the two votes which were necessary to pro
duce the final result. You are challenged to produce
the list of “ the 85 members" who, you say, have
“ given their names on paper, or have declared that
they voted for Mr. Peabody at the first trial.'.
They cannot be produced. Your insinuation, “ of
a criminal intention" in Mr. Morril, who charged
Mr. Chamberlain with jetting in two votes, at the
first balloting for treasurer, is ungenerous and un
merited. Mr. Morril's character for veracity is t 0
well established to be iujured-by any effusions of
yours in endeavoring to exculpate your friend. You
shall have a farther opportunity to explain upon the
shire." In the last Observatory, in a very intempe
rate essay, under the signature of " A Member of
the Legislature,"is made a violent attack upon the
Sketch alluded to. The " Member," as he st, les
himself, utters to a vast deal of bold defiance, so sim
ilar to the gasconading threats,which appeared last
winter in the affair of Mr. Granger*, that we arc led
to suspect that the real v riter is uo+ yet a member
of Q kgialafy;re. The amupien of the Postrngeterf
uttered many terrible threats,!! that subject was not
dropped by the federalists. The subject was not
dropped. But the threats h tve not yet been put in
execution. -The blustering “ Member," has posi
tively denied a number of the statements contained
in the " Sketch," which are merely speculative o
pinions of the motives of public characters, which
must be determined by those who have observed
their political movements. But the following para
graph contains a challenge and a denial of facts,
which will admit of mathematical proof. It is this :
"It is not true—that Mr. Peabody was, as you
'New and elegant buildings and improvements in
crease yearly in this town. It has been computed
by a gentleman of information and judgment, that
the bricks laid and which will if laid, during the
spring, summer, and autumn of this % ear,will amount
to mere than ONE MILLION per week.
B^.^n ftaftcr.
From the Farmers' Museum.
In several of the federal papers a publication has
appeared, intitled " A Sketch of the proceedings
of thefirst democratic Legislature of Niv- Hamit-
Newhampskire Politics.
Comment.—We shall name only a few persons
among many others, who have experienced political
intolerance by dismission from office, or been obli
ged to resign in consequence of it. Messrs. Dexter
Stoddert, Adams, Smith, Humphreys, Habersham,
Otis, Goodrich, Chester, Sands, Miller, Kittery,
Hodgdon, Talbot Truxton Putnam, and St. Clair.
Among these were heads of departments, foreign
ministers, and other important officers of Govern
ment. Not even the sixteen Circuit Judges, who
were independent of Congress during good beha
vior, could avoid the same fate. The interference
of the Executive, in the case of Bayard and Rodeny
furnishes a striking instance, with what jealous care
he watches over the sacred right of election. As
specimens of economy—Mr. Jefferson threw away
32,000 dollars on the Berceau ; more than 15:000
by Dawson's trip to France, entirely useless, unless
in inviting to this country* the President's clearest
friend, Tom Paine : 9000 by the recal of Col Hum
phreys, as an outfit for Mr. Pinckney ; 152,070 by
Gallatin's sales of the United States' bank stock to
foreigners ; upwards of 13,000 by raising salaries ip
time of peace ; upwards of 11,000 to that foreign re
negade Duane, for printing for Congress the first
session under his Presidency, when a native Ameri
can would have done the same business for two
thirds of the sum ; 200, in violation of the Constitu -
tion, returned to Callender.
If the ingenuity of the Executive, or any of the de
mocratic party, can reconcile this text and comment,
it will exhibit the perfection of genius. Never did
man in an official situation make greater promises,
or more directly falsify them in his conduct. But
we shall consider more particularly some of the cases
we have mentioned.
HCME No,
HAV;XG noticed iac lir.< a\4ffk©mr j
c^ir^o^ with ^c^^.&h;,,Uaffiffl :
nation
next of an, importance ^r ; ]rfQfti^ffffiN'
gin-ai speech.. This prcxluctiou wffi lo^rc^
insmcenty, Wrth, Which the mostbriftotpromiies 1
can be made. The moment in which it was pro- §
n^mced, was perhaps the most favorable of 4
since the formation of the General Government i - .j
cft rating the confatenee and esteem of that ^,
','" 1 ^ nation, which it must ever be destycable for
the Executive to possess. The people-had paid/1
certain taxes, disagreeable, though imposed to repefß-U
the menaces ot a foreign kingdom; and guaru,^-
gainst a fate similar to that of Venice wr^i wncn it.
threatened no The imposition -of these taxes.far
the preserietion of the counts shcb^ilb n^Ato 71
lUMudss a belief cf prexiip,hity itnd/crriqxicn in the V
fqrtc'V ffiforri, had ufogrfov a rest c g„. I
ffict of opinion. By the close. I!X, CT < 2 A thia^u-1
ministration, disputes with foreighuations nacUxen
settled, and consequently the necessity for extraor
dinary expenditures had ceased. Nothing more then
was requisit to unite parties at this period, than a
dignified, impartial & just conduct. This was prom
ised by the President in sy ren language, which for
a while silenced the voice of all though it could not
make many believe him sincere. Indeed the sweet
visions of the inaugnal speech soon fitted away by
the commencement of political persecution. It was
then that the faith of splendid promises was four*
to be delusive. Instead of a procedure tending to N
allay irritation, the President apparently seemed de
termined to banish “ the harmony of social inter
course” from society.
We now proceed to give certain parts of the iinu
gural speech of the President, with bisections mor^^
immediate!)- relating to them, that the publics may
judge of promises and their performance. These
parts of the speech will form a text, on which his
conduct is a comment as unbecoming an individual
and incompatible with goodness of heart, as unwor
thy a Chief Magistrate and ruinous to the interest
of the nation.
Text, —" The will of the majority, to be right
ful, must be reasonable. The minority possess their
equal rights, which equal laws must "protect and to
violate would be oppression. Let us then fellow-citi
zens,unite with one hearts mind ; let us restore to so
cial intercourse that harmony and affection, with
out which liberty, and even life itself are but dreary
things. Let us reflect that having banished from
our land religious intolerance under which mankind
so long bled and suffered, we have gab ed little,
if we countenance a political intolerance,-as
despotic as wicked. Every difference of opinion is
not a difference of principle. We are all republi
cans, we are all federalists." Speakingci the prin
ciples by which his administration was to be direct
ed, he says, '• Equal and exact justice to all men,
of whatever state or prsuasion,religious or political;
a jealous care of the right of eiecti.%; fpcapuir
the public expense ; the enuouragemubF of agricul
ture, and of commerce as its handmaid."
Had the President caused the resignation,or dismis
sed only the breads of departments, after experienc
ing from thgm opposition to measures which he con
scientiously believed promotive of the public good,
he would have been justified in releasing himself
from so perplexed and disagreeable a situation, bv
the appointment of men whose sentiments would
harmonize with his own. But in the commence
ment of his administration, before an opportunity
for opposition to his principles of policy was given,
those officers were necessitated to resign, not from
the unwillingness to perform their duty, but unques
tionably from an intimation, that it was the only al
ternative to avoid d emission. This, however, was
only the beginning of persecution. Well tried ser
vants, veterans in our revolution, and war-worn of
ficers, without an intimation of misconduct, were de
prived of offices, and forced, in the close of life, to
seek other means of subsistence. An adherence trf
the constitution and the principles adopted by Mr)
Jefferson's predecessors was their real, though per
haps not avowed unpardonable sin. His open hostili
ty to their system is irrefragable evidence, that dif
ference of opinion was mere the cause of their pre
scription, than unfaithfulness in < slice. Indeed the
voice of the people has in some instances done am
ple justice tothe victims of Presidential execution by
intrusting to them their most important rights. Mr.
Otis, after dismission, was chosen a Representative
and Speakerof the General Court of Massachusetts;
Mr. Goodrich appointed Clerk, and Mr. Chester,
Speaker of the Assembly of Connecticut ; mr. Sands
chosen a Representative to congress for New-York;
mr. Adams chosen into the Senate of the U. States.
Can an excuse for meh proscriptive proceedings be
From the Cf.wtinkl.