Oracle post — Portsmouth, N.H., 1805-06-18 00:00:00, page 1

John Warner,
NFORMS the public that he intends
to follow the business of an Auctioneer and Com
mission Merchant, at his store opposite the Court-
House, where he will be happy to receive any com
mands in that line. He has received a consignment
of the following GOODS,which will be sold by Auc
tion, on Saturday, 23d June next, previous to which
he will sell in any quantities to suit purchasers, as
low as can be bought by wholesale.
1500 yards India COTTON ;
ijoo do. CALICO;
3 00 do. Copperplate
Blue Gurrahs) Custos, India Hand'kfs ;
INDIA CHINTZES ;
200 yards Brown LINEN;
300 do. Olive & black Cords, Velvets
and Thicksetts ;
Ico do. LINEN ;
9 Shirting COTTON;
400 do. black NANKEEN $
100 do; Olive JEAN;
100 do. Buff NANKEEN ;
200 do. NANKINETT;
200 do. Cotton KERSEYMERE;
Marseilles Quiltings ; Fancy Jeans ;
250 do, slate and Drab Cambricks ;
200 do. black do.
100 do. slate GINGHAMS ;
150 do. ^. white CAMBRICKS;
60 do. Sprig'd MUSLIN ;
40 do. Book do.
48 do. ^ Black CAMBRICK;
48 do. Glazed white do.
400 do. Bed-Tick ;
5 doz. men's dark Cotton Hose;
3 do. do. Random do. do.
10 do. do. Plain do. do.
4 do. do. Ribb'd do. do.
6 do. do. Vandyke do. do.
20 do. Pocket Handkerchiefs;
6 do. Cotton Gloves; Silk do.
4 do. short Kid do;
I case India Fans,
1 doz. % Table Cloths ;
2 do. purple and white SHAWLS ;
Bandanna Handkerchiefs ;
3 doz. cotton Umbrellas ;
10 do. Snuff Boxes ;
2 do. Slates;
10 Russia Feather BEDS ;
A few Straw Bonnetts.
Portsmouth, June Ist.
Cash advanced on consignments.
N. B. Wanted as above 3000 yards TOW-CLOTH;
for which Cash or any of the above GOODS will
be given if delivered immediately.
' SPRING AND SUMMER
GOODS.
Edward Parry
Informs his friends and the ftublic in general
that he has received an additional stiffly of
Spring & Summer GOODS.
«u of which he toil sell by wholesale or retail, as
cheaft as can be purchased in any store in this
town ;for cash or aftfiroved credits
AMONG WHICH ARE
The best and most fashionable
BLUE, black, mix'd anddrab Su
perfine Broad-Cloths ; and Cassimerts ;
best superfine white and figured Marseilles find
Jean Vesting.
a complete assortment of
Cobweb, fattin, fprig'd and collohade
Muslins ; gland and undress plain, White and col
or'd Cambricks and Book Muslins ; Dimity and
Muslinetts ; cambrick and muslin Shawls ; black
and white Laces and Edgings, (very cheap ;)
plain and twilled Nankeens ; jeans and Fustians ;
silk Gloves and Mitts ; Ladies silk and Cotton Hose ;
an elegant assortment ts dress silk Hats and Bon
nets ; Chintzes, of every description, from Is 6, to
6s. per yard ; Irish Linens and Sheetings ; Table
Cloths and Diapers, remarkable cheap ; black
Florence Silks ; black Modes and Sattins ; Cali
mancoes ; Russels, Durants and Tammies ; Shah
ploons, &c,
£, Wanted—lo,ooo yards pf good Country
CLOTH ; for which any of the above articles will
be exchanged at cash price.
Portsmouth, May 18, 1805
New Goods.
Just received and for sale by
Stephen Hardy,
A LARGE assortment of Gold and Gilt
A PINS and BROACHES ; GOLD
^ RINGS ;—KNOBS and HOOPS ;
Together with a variety of
Fancy Goods ,
By dozen or single, cheap for cash. Alss,
' Fifty doz. of KNIVES and FORKS,
which will be sold at the cost.
Portsmouth, Ist June, 1805.
Vol. XVI.]
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY, RELIGION aud MORALITY ARE INDISPENSABLE SUPPORTS.— rras/ZWGrOA:
FOR SALE BY
Waldron & Holman,
120 bbls, fresh Superfine & fine Flour ;
io tons Russia and Philadelphia IRON,
flat and square bars ;
I ton round IRON, large and small ;
20 Hhds. MOLASSES ;
io Hhhds RUM ; retailing SUGAR ;
N. E. RUM ; TEAS ; PEPPER;
GINGER;
50 bbls Tar, Pitch, and Rosin•
Mess No. 1 & 2 BEEF, some whole and
half barrels ;
June, Bth.
New Goods.
JUST RECEIVED AT
DRAPER'S
Cheap new Cash store,
An additional fapply of Jeafonable
GOODS,
Among which are,
Silk & white lace Veil- Black and white pic hie
ings. ' ditto.
Plain & sprig'd patinett Black and white Paris-
Laces for Shades. net Gauzes.
Picquet Muslin Veils. English and French silk
Elegant 6-4 lace Cam- Gloves of all colours.
brick Shawls. Strip'd Sattin Vesting.
Large Silk Shawls. Black Modes.
Cane and willow sheets Sewing Cottons.
for Bonnets. Floss.
White Chip Flats for do. Black add white Laces.
Straw Plumes. Furniture Chintzes.
Straw Sc willow Bonnets. Linen Cambricks, very
Pink, plaid and common cheap.
Calicoes, Ladies' white add col-
Cambric Muslins, same or'd Silk Hose.
very nice. do. Cotton do.
Book and Jaconet do. Irish Linens.
6-4 lace Cambries. Gentlemens' silk Hats.
Yard,wide black Crapes Dimeties.
of a superior quality. English Bandanno Hand-
Dark and light Florence kerchiefs.
Silks. Velvet Bindings.
Black do. Velvets and Velveteens.
India Lustrings. Superfine blue & black
Italian do. Cassimeres.
Walking cane Parasols. Blue, bl: 3. dark
Chambray Muslins. mix'd, ai^ Corbeau
4-4 and 6-4 color'd Sars- Broad Cloths, of a
net Cambrics. superior quality.
Black Cambric 4-4 &6-4 Ladies' Morocco Shoes.
English Nankeens, very Blue and yellow Nan
fine. keens.
Strip'd and plain Cotton India Cottons.
Cassimeres and Nan- Cotton Checks,
kinets. India Calicoes.
Boys' Jockey Caps. Gentlemens' fine and
Black and. white lace common Hats.
silk Gloves. Cotton Umbrellas, &c.
The above together with a great va
riety of other articles, in addition to his former
stock, enables him to offer for sale a very hand
some assortment of fashionable, fancy, and Staple
piece Goods. June 7.
— — — —
Portsmouth Salt Works,
NOTICE is hereby given to all con
cerned, that there will be sold at Public
Auction on Monday the Ist day of July next, at 11
o'clock. A. M. at Cafit. Chadwick's Inn-^tte fol
lowing named shares, in the PORTSMOUTH
SALT WORKS—unless the sixth assessment, irow
due on said shares, is paid into the hands of the
Tresurer previous to that time, viz. 21, 22, 23,
24, 25, /6, 27, 28, 4-3, 44, 54, 55, 58, sg, 60, 61, 62
79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 112, 113, 118, 119, 120.
By order of the President and Directors:
SAMUEL IjARKIN, Treasurer.
T. parsons,'
Dentist, from Boston,
Respectfully informs the inhabitants of Ports
mouth and its vicinity, that his stay here Will not
exceed 10 Pays, during which time he will prac
tise in the line of his Profession, either at J. Daven
port's Tavern or their own Houses.
The loss of Teeth, supplied from a single one to
a whole set, in the most easy and natural manner
—Teeth are cleaned, and rendered white and
beautiful if ever so foul or discoloured, without the
least pain or injury— Loose Teeth are fastened, the
relaxed Gtims braced and made firm—decayed
Teeth are eased and preserved from further decay
-—troublasome foots are extracted, and every oper
ation performed with the greatest ease and safety.
'Twill not be assuming too much to say, that his
mode of practice-sanctioned by an experience of
20 years, and the most eminent Physicians in Eu
rope and America, has given the most perfect sat
isfaction.
A. B, A few Bates of the Antistomacace, the
most sovereign remedy for diseases of the Teeth
and Gums.
Portsmouth, June 8.
William Garland,
HAS FOR SALE
17 bags best Georgia COTTON ;
6 Hlids. Grenada Rum. ;
/ 15 Casks fresh Raisins ;
6 chests Souchong TEA, first quality ;
9 Chests Hyson-skin do.;
Brandy and Gin per pipe of bbl.
14 bbls. N. E. Rum ;1
Kegs Fig Tobacco
Bags Pepper and casks Gun Powder ;
20 bbls. Ship -Bread. May 25,
0^ ArT IP Pn^T
TUESDAY, 18th JUNE 1805.
Massachusetts Legislature.
Friday, June 7, 1805.
Governor's Speech.
Agreeably to assignment, at twelve o'clock—The two
houses mg in convention, when his Excellency the
Governor, preceded by the Sheriff of Suffolk, and attended
by the Lieutenant-Governor and Council, came in, and de
livered the following
SPEECH—
Gentlemen of the Senate and
Gentlemen of the House ts Representatives.
I EMBRACE with pleasure the opportu
nity of congratulating you on the return of the
anniversary, established by our Constitution, and
the proof which yout fellow-citizens have given you
of their confidence. Accept the assurances of my
regard with sentiments correspondent to those by
Which they are dictated.
Our obligations to the public are expressed in
the oaths we have taken to support the Constitution
of the United States, and to defend this Common
wealth, and faithfully and impartially to perform
the duties of our respective offices. It is incumbent
on us, therefore on all occasions, to support the con
stitutional measures of the General Government ;
in this our interest and duty coincide ; for if that
government is not Well established ; if it has not
energy sufficient to suppress insurrections at home,
and resist invasion from abroad, our security will be
lost in perpetual revolutions, and we shall be at the
mercy of every lawless invader.
But as the National Constitution defines and
guarantees the rights, as Well of the States as of the
citizens, it is the duty of the State Governments to
watcli over those rights, and if they should be in
fringed to make such representations as would tend
to procure redress ; thus it is probable a remedy
may be obtained for any evils of this kind to which
a State or part of its citizens may be exposed, in a
manner perfectly consistent with " public order and
tranquility. A disposition to censure and criminate
the measures of government is extremely prejudi
cial ; —if they are good in themselves, we ought not
to ascribe them to improper motives ; and if doubt
ful, candour should incline us to view them in the
most favorable light. But it was not the design of
the Constitution that the Legislatures of the several
States should become blindly subservient to the will
of the General Government ; this would be to lose
the whole benefit of the federative principle, and
would subject Us to all the mischiefs of a complete
consolidation of the States : Indeed such a construc
tion might soon destroy the most essential articles
of the Constitution ;=for if an aspiring man should
gairi a cOUtrouling influence in the Nattaial Legis
lature, and should find that some parts of that in
strument obstructed his views, he would propose,
and be sure to effect such alterations as he should
term necessary.
The system of National Government appears to
be well calculated to preserve itself and perpetuate
the rights of the People. The arrangement and
independence of the Legislative, Judicial and Exe
cutive powers, form the best security that could be
devised against the incroachments of either ; and
as long as the Constitution is Unimpaired, and the
legislative body is actuated by a spirit of integrity
and moderation ;—-as long as it shall leave to the
Executive and Judicial Departments the authority
vested in them respectively by the Constitution) and
shall patiently acquiesce in the exercise of that au
thority ; so long We may hope that the National
Government and the rights of the citizens will be pre
served.
But the experience of other nations will convince
us, that whenever the Legislature assumes to itself
the other powers of government, liberty is subvert
ed. This assumption can be more easily effected by
that body, if unrestrained by principle, than by ei
ther of the other branches : The Legislative is the
supreme power ; —the members are from every
part of the territory ; their number and influence
will enable them-, on frequent occasions, to excite
popular enVy and resentment against the Executive
and Judicial powers ; almost every man from a
connection With some member of the legislature,
feels a peculiar interest in that branch of Govern
ment, and a strong prejudice in its favor. But in
stead of being influenced by these prepossessions we
ought to reflect, that in free States a change in the
frame of Government is attended with hazard, and
that our only safety consists in a firm and inflexible
adherence to the principles of the constitution.,
The Declaration of Rights in this State prohibits
an interference of the Several departments ; it pro
vides that neither of them shall eVerexertise the pow
ers of the other.--And here too an efficient au
thority is requisite fob the ' protection and safety of
the people ; —for if the state Government has not
strength enough to restrain injustice and violence,
of to punish offenders, bUr liberty Will degenerate
to licentiousness ahd we shall fall into a state of an
archy not less debasing than a settled and absolute
despotism.
I* civil causes, the sheriff or constable is suppo
sed to be authorised, by writs of attachment or ex
ecution, to take the goods of the debtor without any
exception. The humanity of creditors has, for the
most part, prevented an undue use of this authority
in collecting their demands from their indigent
debtors ; but I am informed by a number of respec
table persons, that instances have frequently occur
red, in which officers, with Unfeeling Severity,have
taken the most necessary articles of apparel and
furniture, and exposed the debtor and his family
to immediate suffering/—lf such cases have happen
ed within your knowledge, yob will probably think
it reasonable to exempt from seizure pertain arti^
cles which are necessary for upholding life.
Commissioners have, on several occasions been
Appointed, at the request of the Legislature, and
with the Consent bf the parties interested, for the pur
pose of quietting settled on lands in the Eastern parts
of the state ; in most of the cases to which their torn,
missions referred,they have been able to effect an am
icable agreement ; but divers disputes of this kind still
remain Unsettled. The tranquliity of that part of the
Commonwealth, and the happiness of many individ^
jials, would be greatly promoted by a speedy accom
modation of those disputes ; and I shall be happy
to concur with you Gentlemen, in any measures,
consistent with the rights of the parties,which shall
be calculated to effect tliis desirable object.
The operation of banking, while under suit,
able restraints, may Undoubtedly be useful to the
State, by rendering its captal more active than it
would be otherwise. Petitions, have for several years
been presented, at almost every session of the Le
gislature, for the incorporation of Banks. If such
applications are repeated, it will be ^ question ( f
importance, whether an addition to the present
number would be a public benefit: faiTh-' of the
bills of other State Banks, with whose circumstances
and management we are wholly unacquainted, circle
late here ; and the capital stock of the Branch
bank is seven hundred thousand dollars. We have
besides in this State, twenty-one banks which are
allowed by law to issue thirteen million dollars ; by
their last returns it appears, that the whole of the
debts due to them did not amount to eight millions.
If the existing Banks are authorized to loan a grea
ter sum than the circulation can employ, the aggre
gate profits of banking would not be increased, nor
would any additional assistance be given to trade
should a number of other banks be instituted ; they
might indeed emit an additional quantity of paper ;
but the surplus would soon be returned to th? several'
Banks, and exchanged for gold and silver to be ex
ported. New Banks would not increase the quanti
ty of specie, they would only cause a subdivision of
it ; and if they should be induced,from the desire of
gain, or a disposition to afford extraordinary accom
modations, to discount too liberally, the Banks them
selves would be endangered, and 'the directors might
be compelled to diminish their discounts so a^to
Occasion very serious and extensive commercial!
embarrassments.
It has been said, heretofore, that the Bank divi
dends were higher than the legal rate of interest,
and, therefore, unless petitioners were indulged witli
new incorporations, the law which forbids usury
should be repealed. A measure of this kind might
be more injurious than any proposed addition to the
number of Banks. If money was borrowed only on
a calculation of profit from commercial enterprises
the borrower might be safely trusted to make his'
bargain with the lender ; but a great part of the
loans in the country are to persons embarrassed with
misfortune or indiscretion ; by a repeal of the law
against Usury they Would be left to the mercy of their
creditors, and avarice would prey without' controul
Upon ignorance and distress.
I Rave received a letter from the Governor of
Pennsylvania, inclosing a copy of a resolution of the
Senate and House of Representatives of that Com
monwealth, approving an amendment to the Con
stitution, which was recommended by the State of
Kentucky, .nd by which it is proposed to exclude from
the Judicial Power of the United States, controver
sies between citizens of different States=between
citizens of the same state claiming lahds Under grants
from different States—and between citizens of a.
State and citizens or subjects of a foreign State.
Together with those papers, the Secretary
will deliver to you a letter from the Major-Gene
ral of the Third Division requesting that he mi^ht
be discharged from his office in the militia.—His re
quest has been granted-.
In the present state ofpolitical disagreement, you
can hardly expect, by tire most upright and impar
tial discharge of your duty, to escape Censure. But
whatever reflections may be circulated Upon the.
measures of Government, or the conduct of its
members, I hope and trust, they Will have no effect
to weaken your attachment to the public good, or
abate your zeal to promote the public interest.
In many cases, you may be compelled from a sense
of duty to disappoint the wishes of your friends,and!
in some, perhaps, to expose, yourselves to the tem
porary displeasure of a respectable part of the com
munity. But if the measures you adopt are just Sc
useful, tkey will at length appear to be so ; and you
Will then receive the best compensation for public
service, the testimony of your fellow-citizens to vour
merit and virtue.
Caleb Strong.
Jimet. 1805.
ANSWER OF THE HOUSE TO THE GOV
ERNOR'S SPEECH.
May it ftlease your Excellency,
THE House of Representatives With pleasure
offer their congratulations to your Excellency up
on this Annivei^ary established by the Constitution -
and Upon the additional proof which your fellow:
citizens haye given you of their high confidence in
again electing you to the office of Chief Magistrate
of this Commonwealth.
To support the Constitution Os the United States,
to defend this Commonwealth, and faithfully and
impartially to perform the duties of our respective
offices, are obligations so important, as to be deem
ed by us at all times indispensable. We consider it
as an incumbent duty, to support the constitutional
measures of the general government. Withoutan
energetic government, careful and prompt to at
tend to oUr best interests, the attempt to suppress
domestic insurrections', or duly to oppose foreim
aggressions would be altogether futile ; and in the
end, Security Would be lost, and revolutions succeed,
destructive to our peace and happiness, arid we
should be exposed to the mercy of every latvlsss in
vader. As a spirit of insubordination is the usual
harbinger of tyranny, an energetic government a
lone, under Divine Providence, can shield us from
such calamity,
We view with the greatest solicitude otir federal
compact. Those Sages from whose labors it sprang
those who adopted it and made it the bond of our
Union and security, and those who moulded and!
fashioned the government, Which has produced to
us the greatest hationa! prosperity, must eVer be
dear to the citizens of Massachusetts. We consid
er with your Excellency, that it is the duty of the
state governments to watch over the rights guaran
teed to them by the Constitution ; it is equally their
duty to guard.with jealous vigilance, the preser
vation of the Union upon just and equal principles ;
and to feftel every niedsdre calculated to consolidate
the states under the dominion of a single state.
The mutilation of the constitution must be followed
by its destruction ; its destruction by the establish
ment of despotic power upon the ruins of our honour
and freedom. We cannot therefore but consider
the recent proposals made in the Hou eof Repre
sentatives of the United States to makelhe Judiciary
dependent on the will of the Executive, and to ^
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