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LADD and SMITH have received
from New+Yotk a consignment of Anchors,
from too to 1300 lb. which are for sale at the
Boston prices. Alfo —f° r sale, fir!! quality
Souchong TEA, and Canada RUM.
N° 5, Merchants Row.
: 'for sale,
, — A NEW SHIP, now on
Athe stocks at York,of the
following dimeufions: seventy feet keel, twenty
fix feet beem, eleven and half feet hold, five feet
between decks ; (he will be ready to launch by
the firtt of November. For terms apply to
Samuel Clark, Portsmouth, or
Josiah Clark, York.
JulylW, 180 4.
:Salt Afloat.
FOUR orfive thousand bufbels of very
good SALT, now lying on board (hip Oro.
ze mto, at Mr. Wm. Sheafe's Wharf, ^d for
a)eS by WAG dUXu.
To fortunate Adventurers, we are brief to d e .
glare, that no Lottery whatever, holds out a fairer
change for gain, than this—presenting so many
capital Prizes, compared with the small number of
Tickets, and determinable on the fairest principles.
THOMAS THOMPSON,
THOMAS MARTIN, > Managers.
ELIJAH HALL, .>,.
j4n early day quill be aftfiointed for drawing.
Portsmquth, July 2,th, 1804.
New-Hampshire District.
By Order ts the Han. John Samuel Sherburne,
Esq. Judge of the District Court for Jew-
Hampshire District,
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons con
cerned, that a Libel is filed in said Court
by Edward Harvty and others, against th#
brigantine called the Betsey, her tackle, apparel,
and furniture, John M'Kay late master, " for
the recovery of wages, alledged to be due to the
libellants for their services as mariners on board
said brigantine," and that trial will be had on
the aforefaid libel, at a special Diftria Court, to
be ho'den at the Court Honfe in Portsmouth, in
said Diftrift, on Thursday the ninth day of
Au^uft next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
THOMAS CHADBOURN,
Deputy Marshal.
The Fourth N. H. Turnpike.
THE^ Treafnrer requests the Portsmouth
Proprietors to be prepare 1 the week pre
ceding the Exeter Anguft Court, to pay the
balances due. .
The Sixth affefrent, being thirty Dollars, is
now payable.
His Vendue for the sale of flares, was ad
journed to give further notice.
Salisbury, July <7, 1804.
New-Hampshire District.
By Order of the Don. John Samuel Sherburne,
Esq. Judge of the District Court for New-
Hemftshire District,
NTOTICE is hereby given to all persons con
cerned, that a Libel is filed in said Court
by Joshua Martin, against the brigantine called
the Better, her tackle, apparel, and furniture,
John M'Kay, late master, “ for monies advanced
for supplies for said brigantine, as set forth in
said libel," and that trial will be had on the
aforefaid libel at a special Didria Court to be
holden at the Court Hotife in Portfroouth, in fatd
Diftrid, on Thursday the ninth day of August
next, at ten o'clcck in the forenoon.
THOMAS CHADBOURN,
Deputy Marshal.
THE MANAGERS OF
Piscataqua Bridge Lottery,
offer to the Public the following
SCHEME
For the SECOND CLASS.
Prizes. Dollars,
lof 10,000 Dollars is 10,^0
1- 2000 do. - 2000
4 ^ 1000 do. - 4000
7- 500 do. -
30 - 100 do. - 5000
- 50 do. - 2500
100 - 30 do. - 3000
te . do. - 2000
3500- 8 do. - 28000
60,000
12,000 Tickets, at 5 Dollars.
S£fcqt to a deduction of 1^ per cent, err payment
of Prizes.
Capital Prizes determinable, on the following days :
The first drawn Blank -' '^crfiioUar#
entfo^to recede 53) Dollars,
First drawn on the Sth, 1000
First drawn on the 10th, 1000
First drawn on the 15th. 1000
First dragon on the 20th, 1000
First drawn on the 25th, 10,000
first drawn on the 30th, 2000
. Four hundred Tickets shall be considered as one
Complete days work ; and the fortunate Blanks
Shall be determined at that rate of drawing, whether
a greater or less number come out of the W heels in
•ne, or more days..,,
To those who are impressed with the important
object for which this Lottery was granted, little need
be said by us, to insure their continuance in well
Vol. XIV.
Portsmouth, July 24, 1804.
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY, AAZfGZOJr and MORALITY ARE INDISPENSABLE SUPPORTS.— Washington.
Portsmouth, July 24, 1804.
ANCHORS.
OR ACLE POST'
With such instances of the delusion and folly of a
Seoplc rejoicing at their own destruction, what re
acting citizen of these States can divest himself of
apprehension and alarm, when he sees the same de
lusions practised here—the same deceptions bubbles
for rejoicing—the same fatal infuriated party rage ?
The present administration and their friends,
have assumed to themselves a merit and 4 tone of
exultation respecting Louisiana, by no means war
ranted by their conduct. The cause of this event
originated in Europe, without their knowledge or
agency ; and I maintain, that the western country
was in jeopardy for two years, from the ignorance
and imbecility of our Executive. The acquisition
of Louisiana, if it was cause for rejoicing, owes noth
ing to our Government : it was produced by a con
currence of events which amount almost to a mira
cle, which no human foresight could calculate and
which we had no hand in effecting. So far as we
have escaped tlie fangs of the French Consul, (which
he had opened ready for his prey) by these miracul
ous events, the people of this country have indeed
cause to rejoice ; but for them to be deceived and
the Government to claim a laurel, where they have
to my mind deserved impeachment is a mockery
and insult upon their understanding.
Let us trace this subject, and notwithstanding so
much has been said upon it, I must have the vanity
to believe, and the temerity to assert, that a proper
and plain representation has no where been made
for the information of the public. The public mind
is uninformed of the means by which it was effect
ed, and the fatal consequences which must flow
from it. The Government have seized this acci
dental event, to bury their errors and enhance their
popularity ; but a true statement will crop their un
earned plumes..
Spain was in possession of Louisiana, [including
Orleans] the Florida^, and the bank of the Missippi
as higli up as the 31st degree of north latitude.
Then on the east commenced the territory of the
United States. By our treaty with Spain ; we had
a riglit to the free navigation of this river to its
mouth ; and moreover we had a right to deposit our
produce and goods at Orleans, and if the Spanish
Government should thereafter deprive us of this
right of deposit at Orleans, they were bound to fix,
for us some other place. Thus did things stand
and we heard of no complaints or interruption to our
commerce, until the latter end of the year 1802. The
Spanish Intendant about this time, issued a procla
mation, prohibiting the right of deposit rat Orleans,
without assigning another place, which was a man
ifest viotai3&& the treat,. This was ^Arming to
the western people, and was the first intimation our
Government gave of the danger, which had hung
over them for two years ! This event was to most
of us a mystery ; but was it so to the President of
the United States. Did he not know or can any
man believe he did not know that Spain had ceded
this country to France by treaty as early as 1800, at
least two years before r A treaty between Govern
ments is a public act, and the Ambassadors of o
ther powers have a right by the law of nations, to
demand an explanation of the nature of them when
they affect such Ambassador's country. Can it be
possible we should have an Ambassador in both
France and Spain, and they know nothing of the trea
ty of Ildefonso, for two years ? And could the Presi
dent have heard nothing about it from the Ambass
adors, or else where? I believe he did : for we
saw that the British knew it, by the debates in Par
liament, long before the evil was disclosed to us of
ficially ; and be it remembered, that this was nev
er done until the Intendant's proclamation. I say
he must have known it, and whatever the Execu
tive might have done, to have our Eights on the
Missistypi recognized, we know that it was never
done. Facts will speak ; they will expose the weak
ness and misconduct of the mest artful man. If then
our rights were not secured by France,the President
ought to have made the communication to Congress
that provision might be made to enforce them. If
however Bonaparte had been able to lull our Ex
ecutive during the warin Europe, all doubts must
have vanished, when immediately after the peace of
Amiens, he embarked a large force under General
Victor, to go and take possession of Orleans, and
Ids new purchase. And was not this proof enough
of his design ? Will the Government say, they knew
nothing of this ? It is impossible, to be sure ! Ought
not the Executive to have informed Congress of this
event ? And was it done ? No !—The first news they
got ofit, was from the Spanish Intendant at Or
leans ! This is the conduct of the Government
which is to bedeck them with laurels ! But mark
what followed.—Bonaparte began immediately af
ter the peace to make alarming encroachments up
on other powers, and Great-Biitan determined to
have an explanation. This large armament for
Louisiana, she supposed might endanger her West-
India possessions, perhaps Canada, and until sat
isfaction could be had upon several points where her
interests were concerned, she determined to block
- ade this armament and prevent their sailing. This
it was, that got us Orleans and Louisiana, and not
our Executive ! This blockade lasted for several
months before another war was declared ; but sup
pose Bonaparte and the King of England has settled
their disputes, how then would we have stood ?
Would not the armament have come on to Orleans ?
Would they not have reached it, nearly as soon as
the intelligence could have reached us r And if they
had done, so, was not the western country lost for
ever ? For notwithstanding all that had passed, in
defiance of every rule of caution and self-defence,
we had no means provided to do ourselves justice !
It is an undeniable maxim, that we are not to judge
of the conduct of men by events, but from the cir
cumstances existing at the time. Knowing there
fore, that Bonaparte had got the country ceded to
him : knowing that our rights under Spain wer lost:
knowing that alarge French army was coming to
possess it ; and knowing that once possessed by them
Pct/,' D^^ ''
Cassar had his triumphs, whilst he was over
turning the liberties of the Romans ; Roberspierre
had his fetes, whilst he was massacreing the citizens
of France and destroying their holy religion—and
Bonaparte his grand festivals whilst he was exer
cising a despotism over his countrymen and neigh
bours, and meditating a tyranny over the whole race
of man.
— — —t^,*r
From the Washington Federalist
Miscellany.
plain facts.
TUESDAY, August 14, 1804.
it was forever lost to the Union ; what man will
say that reproach will not await the present admin
istration, in the page of faithful history ? Will the
Government say it was at their intercesion, that the
British fleet blockaded the armament ? I believe not.
Mr. King our Ambassador in England at the time,
is here, to speak the traith : and I wish he Would
speak. It is evident therefore from the history of this
affair, enveloped as it has been in executive secresy,
that the western country might have been saved by
our own exertions ; but would have been inevitably
lost by the supinhness of the present ruling party if
unfortunately Great-Britain had not an interest of her
own which prevented it. After such a continual
blundering on our port the new war obliged the
Consul to reland his troops, and our western country
was saved for this time 1 The President, to appease
the murmurs occasioned by such misconduct sent an
Envoy Extraordinary (Mr. Monroe) to purchase
• Orleans, and we know that Louisiana was never
thought of ; when he reached Paris he found Mr.
Livingston had haade the treaty for 'the whole of this
inlntp so territory. Bonaparte, finding himself dis
ap-fauk in his projects hy. th^. Beilin determined
to get from ns as muck money as possible, and of
fered the whole country; the bargain was made,
arid is a sad melancholy evidence of the weakness of
our councils, and the infatuation which pervaded the
business from the beginning! It would really seem
as if Buonaparte had determined upon our ruin by
some means, and the British having prevented him
from doing it by force, he resorted to stratagem ! I
am sorry to believe, be has effected his purpose.
Instead of securing what we really required, our
treaty has tacked to it a country at least two thou
sand miles from us, peopled by a motley race of va
gabonds, who are to be our citizens. This country
is large as the present territory of the United States,
and must, as sure as cause produces effect, first or
last destroy the Atlantic States. Before I enlarge
upon this painful part of the subject it is worthy of
remark, to see the conduct of our Executive as a
treaty-making power. The Constitution has re
strained. the treaty-making power less than any
other, and in the instance before ns, it has been ex
tended to dangerous and unlimited pretensions.
They have gone far beyond the constitutional lim
- lits, in receiving into our Union this monstrous uw
wieldv mass of territory, uhicli must be a fatal
drain to impoverish the Atlantic States. Such an
abuse of power is a dangerous precedent ; for if
they can by treaty extend, nay break through the
fixed and established constitutional limits of the U
nited States on the west, tliey can with the same
propriety curtail them on the east ; or if they can
add a limb to the political body, they can take one
away 1 In the name of Heaven, I ask, where will
the present party stop ? They censure their adver
saries with seeking power, while they spare not e
ven the Constitution of our country, in using it them
selves ! Is there nothing will open the eyes of our
countrymen, short of universal destruction ? Who
ever will read the writings of the present men in
power, upon the British treaty will find their pre
sent conduct is a shameful departure from their
own doctrines, and have gone very far beyond any
thing ever thought of by the Federalists.
But since this vrst territory on the west ofthe
Missisippi must be hung about our neck, because we
are to hart the advantage cf Orleans and the river,
and because it gives Bonaparte more money, it fol
lows as a natural inquiry, why we extended the
purchase so far ? The Government must answer
this question. But this much I will be bold to say,
notwithstanding the puffs of Government Printers,
and the swaggering exultation of their friends, that
although Orleans ought to have been secured at any
price, this country being included in the purchase,
upon the terms of the treaty, not only countervails
the advantages of the island of Orleans to our form
er western brethren, but must be ruinous to the
Atlantic States. Suffer me to state the probable
consequences. This country has been in the pos
session of France and Spain for ages, and the pro- :
bability is that most of the fine lands are engrossed ,
by Frenchmen and Spaniards, and by this very
treaty their rights are secured to them. If then, it
is so rich, so fertile, as it is represented, and these
old settlers hold immense tracts of waste lands, will
they not for ages to come be able to undersell cur
western lands ? Will not crouds of our people emi
grate there ?—and will not our western lands,which
have been appropriated by law a fund to redeem
our national debt, be left without purchasers ?
Will not that fund cease to be useful to our treasu
ry ? Apd will not the money, which purchasers
wish to vest in lands, go into the hands of the Span
ish and French grandees of Louisiana, for their
lands, instead of coming into the possession of the
Government ? Again, could our Executive feel no
interest for our old soldiers, who have been planted
in the/wilderness under the faith of Government,as
a reward for their revolutionary services ? Could
they feel nothing for the thousands of our own peo
ple, who have bought our western lands under a
plighlpd faith ? No- all must be sacrificed in one
common ruin, in a moment of madness and folly ?
These lands must lose their value-—the treasury
must want these resources—and the public, too
late, will find the errors of the present Executive !
That millions of the Atlantic citizens will go to
this country, there can be no doubt ; and let it be
inquired, what they will cultivate? The plain an
swer is, cotton and tobacco. Will there not be a
moral certaintv that these articles will come down
to a mere drug ? Maryland, depend upon it, and the
States south of it, will rue the day we bought this
country ! The great, the solemn, the inevitable e
vils are yet to be thought of in this account. One of
two things must happen, and probably both. In the
first place, Louisiana is of such extent, that many
new States must and will be formed in it, and they
will give such a preponderance in our national
councils, as must produce a secession of our eastern
brethren. Such an event would be deplorable ; but
another more fatal is the alternative. The dis
tance of this new country from the Atlantic States
and the seat of Government is so great, their inter
course so partial, that they will erect an indepen
dent government for themselves. The Atlantic
States will be drained of their citizens, and we sh\ll
have on our frontier a numerous and dangerous pow
er. If such a series of misfortunes and national ca
lamities, is thought a subject worthy of joy and cel
ebration by the people of these States and the Dis
trict of Columbia, posterity will blush for their ig
norance and delusion, while they will execrate the
memory of the author.
I February Ist. 1804.
g"—..'■ ■ >i I" .> i■, ,■..,■„—,
From the Charleston Courier.
IN one respect Bonaparte may be considered
as having done some good to the world, though he
intended none but to himself. His restoration of Chris
tianity to France, that great fountain of faith
for cental persons in America, ever since 1793,and
his dismission of the religion of reason, have made
it quite unfashionable for any one to lie less than a
Christian, at present ; and our American heralds
of Atheism,and priestsand preachers ofthe Goddess
and lemple or Reason) with that faction which the,
serve and support in this country, so far from endea
vouring pubuckly to extend their doctrines have
lately employed themselves in endeavouring to un
load their 'great patron and friend of the heavv
charge of infidelity, which has for some.time lain
upon hiyhoulders. Never did France in "the pal
, my day ," of her monarchy,more prescribe the fash
ion hi drees to Europe, than sue has. since the over
throw of the Monarchy, given the fashion in reli
gion and politics, to the present majority of Ameri
ca, and to all men of their way of thinking all over
the world.—-If one was for revolution, the others
were for revolution too---if one was in insurrection,
the others, endeavoured to follow her example by
raising; an insurrection also,—if one was jacobin,
perhaps whether she had been or not, the others
were jacobins too^-if one by public legislative act,
denied not only Christ, but the existence of a God,
the others went as far as they could in that road---
if <mc cut off the head of, and barbarously butchered
their sovereign, one of the best of sovereigns, the
I outer his true had no king to kill, but did their best,
I by exerting all their might to destroy their chief,
the lather, the friend and the founder, and the pro
tector of their freedom. As the voice of the people
then not complete!, tuned to strike chords with the
'° n .° °* i' c D>ci'le and atheism, prevented the name
or Gad from being decreed into nonexistence, it
prevented the entire destruction ofWashington also,
put the taction and its leaders had all the merit of
singing Ca Ira in time, to the chop of the Parisian
guillotine, though at a distance, and though they
could not hope to murder the man made lusty ef
forts to murder his fame and character. Thus,
before the monarchiai reign of the enlightened gov
ernment f France —the reign of the moderate,
mild merciful, modest, (what other name ?) mon
scer Bonaparte, our followers of the fashions of
France on this side of the Atlantic, were pretty
gentleman to be sure, and dressed,(even some of out
ladies and quakers, modest and pure though they
always are uy profession)—aye, to a very shred a
la mode he Sun Culottene de Paris ; a pretty fesh
b ion ! —to the high relish fur which, some sagac
ious persons J tribute the still prevailing paucitv of
petticoats. With every turn of the whirling wneel
of Paris, we hud car turn teo in the best manner
wecould contrive it ; making up cur poor home spun
like their tissue and brokade, and their deeds with
our deeds or where we could not do, with our
wishes, ringings, and cravings ; being either in de
sire or in fact, by turns revolutionist, constitution
killers,insurgents, jacobins, deists,atheists, and then
good Christians again like Bonaparte. Had the a
tfair with Tripoli fortunately happened in time,we
might perhaps, like that great and good man, have
been Mussulmeu also St our President have had an
opportunity of sporting a prettiness on the enligh
tened sect of Ali orOnar,no matter which)or both;
and Ali or Omar been added to the plain Thom
as Jefferson instead of the abdicated Mister, that
wicked anti-republican sound.
Two things still remain untried ; and whether
the fashions of France shall be followed in them or
not, depends upon two events, one at no very great
distance, the other we apprehend not altogether so
nigh—One,the next election for President--the other,
that President's acquiring the genius and vigour of
Bonaparte. Should these svents take place,we may
assure ourselves that as we have followed France
I in every other part of the bloody farce, or farcical
tragedy, we shall follow her in the denouement and
see our misled population, in the stupid frenzy into
which it is daily further and further driven by the
impositions of demagogues, setting down their names
as voters for some idol's being First Consul and then
Consul for life, and then that vety Consul following
his leader in all things, imitating his great prototype
and, as the world has seen Bonaparte witli his" en
lightened government, erecting himself into Em
peror of the Gauls, we shall see one man of the peo
ple bestriding the Union and crushing it with, an im
perial Crown, while the cajoled wretches, half
pleased, half angry, half laughing, half crying, at
their own wretched foolish work, and ashamed of
it, yet more ashamed to own themselves wrong,and
afraid to rouse the rage of their new tyrant, shall
hail him with a whimper, and cry with aching heart
" long live the Emperor of the Mohocks,
This has been ever—this ever will be—(God avert
it in our case by turning the public mind intd its
true course !) —this ever will be the end of unmixed
democracy.
——o=- —
From late London papers.
CHRISTO SACRUM.
A NEW religious society has lately been formed
in l Holland, entitled, Christo Sacrum. At first it
consisted of only four members ; but in short time the
number of the sect incresed so rapidly, as to amount
to from three to four thousand. The object of this
society is^to unite all religious sects. The principal
place of meeting is at Delft, where the society has
already built a church, in which we find Calvinists
Lutherans, Menonnites, Catholics, and persons of
various other religious persuasions, amicably assem
bling. The society does not admit of any dominant
or exclusive system ; they have no priest, but only
orators, who, while delivering their discourses, stand
at the alter. The service is divided into that of wor
ship and ofitstruction ; the object of the former being
to shew the greatness of God, by directing our atten
tion to the admirable regularity which reigns in all
the productions of nature. For this purpose they
assemble every Sunday at six or seven O'clock in
the evening. The service of instruction isheld every
fifteenth day when they discourse about different
subjects , and particlarly revealed religion six times
each year they assemble to celebrate the Lord's sup
per ;and during the prayer and the blessing the
whole congregation continues prostrate. The Dutch,
• jrgv have srongly opposed this society, : l.mt with
out effect ; andthe present Dutch govern)ent favours
the new sect.
[No. q. 5.