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He• aifo wishes to inform 'his customers and the
public in general that he has removed his fllop
from Daniel-ftreer, to Buck Greet, near Adams'
corner, inhere he and William Ramsdell car
ry on the Men's and Women's
SHOE BUSINESS,
and where good attention will be paid to those who
wish to have their feet measured — They have al
so constantly Shoes on hand, as cheap as any in
town of the famequality, and will mend rips gratis.
RAMSDELL & HASTINGS.
Portfmoutb, April ?b, 180$.
TAKE NOTICE.
As the subscriber has many
small debts due him, of a long time handing, and
has not time to collect :l>em, and is in great want
of money—all that he has demands on,that have
been 6xty days due, are requeued to call and fettle
with him at his fliop in Buck Greet, within ten'
days, or he must give their accounts to lomebody,
for collodion.
1 WILLIAM RAMSDELL.
Portsmouth, April 27, 1805.
Just arrived
from New- York, in the schooner Dove, and for Sale
at the STORE on Ayer's Wharf, -
540 bushelsNorthßiverCotn.
Vendue.,
'nro be fold at Public Vendue by vir
tue of a licence from the Judge of Pro
bate for the County of Rockingham, at the Houle
of the lubfcriner in Londonderry, on Thursday,
the „d day of May next, at 2 of the clock, after
noon, two thirds of the Real EGate in Gid London,
derry, of MICHAEL DALTON, late of the fame
place, yeoman, deceased (excepting five acres which
are already fold) also the reversion of the Widow's
third in said eftatc. Articles of fife will then and
there be made known
tyNNAH DALTON, ^inistratrix.
Londonderry, April 22, 1805. r &/; " ; -
* RAGS.
CASH and the highest price given for RAGS, at
the Oracle Office. ,
a large assortment of
INDIA COTTONS, some very good
for 2 dollars a piece.
A great variety yard wide India Chintz
es, for 659 piece. ALSO,
Just opened, cotton and silk Umbrel
las ; Parasols with Walking Canes, &c. &c.
Aftrll 27.
JUST RECEIVED,
Massillon's Sermons.
Sermons by Jean Baptiste Maffillon, bifhopof Clare
,mont. To which is prefixed, the Life of the Au
thor-.-Seleaed and translated by William Dic
kson; and dedicated, by permission, to her Grace
theDutchefs of Buccleugb.-—2 vote. Bvo.
The Monthly Magazine,
,nd American Review—published at New-York.
Kotzebue's Dramatic Works,
translated from the German, by Charles Smith.'
3 vols. Bvo.
Park's Travels.
Travels and Recent Discoveries in the Interior
Diftrids of Africa, in the years 1796 hud '97.id01.
Irish Bulls.
Essay on Irish Bulls, by Richard Lovel Edgeworth,
and Maria Edgeworth, author of Caflle Rackrent,
&c. , ivol. izmo.
The above valuable Works are ju^t received—
Also, SLATES, PENCILS ; fine BLACK SAND ;
QUILLS; WEBSTER'S FIRST PART ; PRIM
ERS, &c. See. for sale by
W. & D. TREADWELL.
Edmund H. Quincy
HAS FORSALE,
Hyson-skin and Souchong in chests,^ FRESH
^Souchong in quarter chests, t TEAS.
Bohea in quarter do. J
April 27.
THE "Copaitnerlhip of JOSEPH
and JOSHUA HAVEN is dissolved.
, Portsmouth, April, 1805.
Isaac Manning
Has for Sale very Cheap,
At his Bake-House, in Mason Street.
2,000 Weght of fresh Ship-Bread, of a
good quality ; 100 kegs of'Shipping Crackers neat
packed for the W. I. Market. March, 27.
1 _____ I'd.
Ten Dollars Reward.
LOST, on Wednesday evening last,
between Mill-Dam and the Pound, a black
Pocket Bo m k, containing about 200 Dollars of
Notes of Hand, and" other papers which are of no
ute to any person but the owner; and nine Dol
lars in cash; and the finder will oblige rhe owner,
by leaving it at his (hop in Buck-street, or the
printers..
WILLIAM HASTINGS.
India Cottons and Chintzes.
Vol. XVI.] 7
Just received by
Peter Coffin,
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS WHICH LEAD ±0 POLITICAL PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE INDISPENSABLE SUPPORTS.—WASHINGTON.
All ACIT PAGT
MIX ALL*# rU3 1,
♦ John Underwood,
Has Yarns prepared for Fish
ermens Cables, and can be delivered at the fliort
eft notice, as cheap as can be purchaled at any
place.
Portsmouth, April 6, 180,
THE Subscribers inform
the Public, that they have formed a connex
ion for the purpose of transacting COMMISSION
BUSINESS, under the firm of
Gilman & Langdon,
and have taken the Store No. 7. D. Spears Wharf,
north side of Long-Wharf, Boston—where they
will be happy to attend to the commands of their
Friends.
JOHN T. GILMAN, jun.
Joshua B. LANGDON.
April 8, 1805._
THE Subscribers having
formed a connexion in business under the
firm of
Pearse & Walker,
offer for Sale at their Store, No. 8, Portsmouth
Pier, Fresh Malaga RAISINS in casks; do in
boxes ; casks RICE ; Souchong TEA in half and
quarter chests ; Hyson Skin TEA j LOAF
SUGAR per Hhd. or hundred ; New-England
RUM per Hhd. or Bbl.; Russia and Swedes IRON;
spike, deck and horse shoe Nail Rods.
WILLIAM PEARSE,
MARK WALKER,
©"Business transacted on Commission.
Portsmouth, March 30, 1804.
John Langdon, jr.
HAS removed from the Store lately occupied by
him in Bow-street, to No 4 and 5, Langdon's
Wharf, at the lower end of Daniel-street, where
He offers for Sale,
Philadelphia fuperfine & fcratCh'd Flour;
New-York do. Superfine do. in whole
and half barrels; Alexandria do. ; Phi
ladelphia IRON in flat and square b^rs ;
Swede's do. do. ; Philadelphia spike,
& deck NAIL RODS ; Hhd: Hoop
Iron; Holland and American GIN, per
pipe or bbl. ; RUM per Hhd. or Bbl.
few Hhds. Molasses ; India SUGAR
per bag ; COFFEE per do. ; ROSIN ;
bright and black VARNISH ; Spirits
Turpentine ; Sheathing Paper ; a few
tons FUSTICK.
jllso, a general assortment off
GROCERIES.
Spring Goods.
D. WEEKS,
At' Num. % Market-street, has just received a
variety of seasonable GOOOB, among tohich
are^
FANCY Chambray Muslins ; Plain do. do. ;
6-4 Black Sarspet Cambrics ; black Ging^
hams ; black Crape, yard wide ; 4-4 and 6-4|white
Cambric Muslins; black, white and color'd Sars
nets for gowns ; black and color'd Florence Silks ;
black India Lustrings at 656 per yard ; a pleasing
variety of Chintzes, very cheap ; black, oite an d
color'd Silk Gloves ; ladies' black, white and slate
color'd Silk Hose ; gentlemen's black arid white
dec; 6-4 Silk Shawls ; Silk Cords ; Velvet Bind
ings ; Straw, Chip, and Willow Bonnets ; Chip
Hats ; white Cambric Shawls ; Dimities ; Irish
Linens ; Shirting Cottons ; Linen Cambrics.
Best Superfine blue, and black BROAD CLOTHS
—black, white and color'd Cassimeres ; mix'd
Grandrells ; Cotton Cassimeres ; patent Buff Nan
keens; India Blue Nankeens ; Cotton Checks, &c.
Portsrhonth, April 20.
Gun-Powder, Shot, &c.
THE Subscriber foas just
received forty quarter casks American
GUN POWDER of a superior quality—being a
consignment, will be sold low for Cash, or an ap
proved note at ninety days.
He has also for Sale,
English and American POWDER, per
cask or retail ;
SHOTT of all sizes;
15 casks frefh RAISINS, &c. &c.
Nathan B. Folsom.
Portsmouth, April 19, 1805.
Raisins, Wine, & Oil, &c. &c.
Just received and for Sale by
Edmund H. Quincy
Water-street,
Fresh Malaga RAISINS;
Malaga WINE;
Florence OIL in cases of goflasks
each ;
OIL in jars;
OLIVES in jars;
Goinee, Hyfon-skin, !nd Souchong
TEAS;
Heavy Sumatra PEPPER ;
Roll BRIMSTONE;
English NAILS. Aprilzb.
TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1805.
Were I again to deliver my sentiments upon the
-amendment, 1 should urge the following objections
to its adoption. In an abstract view of the subject,
instead of rendering the Coestitution more republi
can, which is the professed object of its advocates, it
renders it less so : And it diminishes the influence
and importance of the small states, relatively to the
large ones.,
By the Constitution as it stood originally, the elec
tors were to vote for two persons as candidates for
the offices of President and Vice-President, without
any distinct designation of a particular candidate
for either office. Let us here inquire, what has
been the immediate cause of the yuin of all repub^
lies ancient and modern? the answer is obvious,
The worship of popular idols, or, as the legislature
of Delaware expressed^he idea with equal felicity
and dignity, “ delirow devotion to individuals."
What was the language of the Constitution to the
people in reference to the election of the chief ma.
gistrate? Neither ydirselves nor the electors of
President shall have Any idols. You shall vote for
two men, either of whom shall be qualified for the
Presidency. Could any thing be more truly repub
lican, more hostile Zeven to the elements of aristoc
racy ? But it has been said that this was leaving
the result of the election to the decision of chance.
Let it be remembered that in the republics of Ath
ens and Crete, and even in Rome, important Ma
gistrates were chosen by lot ; and that the sage le
gistators of antiquity considered that mode of elec
tion as the most democratic, and at the same time
operating to exclude corruption and intrigue. A
gain we are told that it may be in the power of a
lew individuals to frustrate the will of the majority.
Impossible. Ifthe majority be not possessed of two
characters equal to the duties of the Presidency,
it ought instantly to dwindle to a minority. Be
sides, if the election of President is always to be con
sidered a mere party question, parties will learn
} wisdom from the circumstances of the election of 1801
'and two candidates will not again receive an equal
number of suffrages from any party. If that impor
tant election is to be divested of all party consider
ations, if another Washington is to unite all hearts^
there can be no possible danger of an equality of
votes. It has also been said that the double ballot
^is favourable to intrigue, and it certainly appears so
to a superficial observer ; but it is extremely ques
tionable whether the general uncertainty of the re
sult of the election does not render intrigue less
probable than a mode of election, which enables the
aspiring demagogue to march directly towards the
object of his ambition.
In forming the Constitution, immense sacrafices
of weight and power were made by the small States,
and none at all by the large States. This important
/fact has never been attended to by the people. By
the original principles of our confederation, as well
as by the unitorm practice of all similar associations,
in ancient and modern times, the small States were
entitled to equal political rights, of every possible
description, with the large ones, without reference
to territory, wealth or population, The double bal
lot'for President, seemed an important privilege to
the small States. No possible combination of large
States could preclude the small ones from either e
lecting a Vice President of their own, or deciding
which of the two candidates presented by the large
States should be the President. This privilege is
now abandoned, and five or six large States may
forever name both President and Vice-President,
and exclude the small States from any agency in
the election. The relative weight of the small
states is not only impaired as it respects the elec
tion by electors in the first instance, but it is lessen
ed, in a still more alarming degree, when the elec
tion comes into the House of Representatives. The
Constitutiorf provided that if no election- should be
made by the electors, the House of Representatives
should, voting by States, from the five highest on
the list of candidates elect the President. Itis cer
tain that the narrower the range allowed to the
small States in the selection of the President from
the electoral candidates, the smaller the degree of
their weight in the election. They are now re
stricted to the three highest candidates. It is cal
culable, then with mathematical certainty, that they
have made the enormous sacrifice of two fiftns of
their weight in the election. This cannot be deni
ed. As well might it be asserted that two and two
do not make four, or that the sun does net shine at
noon day.
The alarming event which occurred at the first
election of Mr. Jefferson, when in consequence of
an equal number of votes between him and Mr.
Burr, and the pertinacious adherents of the ft leral
patty in the House of Representatives to the latter
gentleman, the election was suspended for some
days, has been represented as imperiously demand
ing the alteration of the Constitution, and unques
tionably tended to make that alteration very popu
lar. That event however, instead of displaying the
Weakness; proved the strength of the constitution.
The members of the House of Representatives had
then an awful responsibility resting upon them,
the responsibility which would have resulted from
leaving the Union without a President, and ^rob-
LETTER 111.
UNTIL after the decision in the House of Re
presentatives, of the final question upon the amend
ment of the Constitution, 1 never had contemplated
the subject with a suitatrie degree of cool reflection
arid deep investigation. Having always possessed
R predilection for what is called the designating, or
discriminating principle, I regarded the objections
to it, on the ground of its being injurious to the small
states, as the mere sophistry, or at most, the mere
ingenuity of a party determined to oppose every
measure of the majority. Much patient examina
ination of the subject, at a later period, foas con
vinced me that my first impressions were errone
ous ; and has at the same time, produced in'my
mind, a perfect conviction of the propriety of that
remark, that he who never changed his opinions,
never corrected bis mistakes.
: retO::::^tc
From the Vermont Herald.
Mr. ELLIOT,
TO HIS CONSTITUENTS. -
MISCELLANY.
From the Palladium.
Loss OF THE SHIP JUPITER OF NeW-YoRR.
It is seldom we have to record a more melanchcilh
relation than that which follows, of the loss of the
shift Jupiter, of New- York, of 350 tons, ladered
with bale goods, &c. one of the regular traders
between that city and London. The personspre
served in the yawl have arrived in town.
Marblehead, April 24, 1805.
Arrived this day the sch. Joanna, capt. Henry-
Quiner, having picked up on the eastern part of the
Grand Bank of Newfoundland, the yawl of the ship
Jupiter, late of New-York, with the Captain, Mate,
one Seaman and five passengers, which ship was
foundered by the ice at 12 o'clock on the night of
the 6th inst. on her passage from London to New-
York, having on board seventy-three souls, twenty
seven of whom were lost in the ship, thirty-eight,
including the second mate and remainder of the
crew, took to the long-boat, which parted company
from the yawl,on Monday the Bth, in heavy squalls,
after having left the ice that morning.
The following particulars of the loss of the Jupi
ter, are communicated to us by capt. Law :
Sailed in the ship Jupiter from die Downs for
New-York, March 6th. Nothing remarkable oc
curred, excepting frequent gales and bad weather, /
until April 6:11, being then in lat. 44, 20, lon. by ac•/
count, 49, at 8 o'clock in the morning saw a great'
number.of pieces of broken ice which we passed in l
about three hours, when we supposed ourselves,
clear, steeling West by North, wind E. N. E. aha
foggy moderate weather, at 2P, M. began to discovi
er islands of ice, and by 3 o'clock saw a large field a,
head, which appeared to have no opening, then
wore, ship and kept off to the South and East, cprf
tinuafiy passing small islands until 5, p. M. when we
found the ice extending so far to the North and
South, that we could not clear it, hove about and
stretched to the N<„th among broken ice until niglit
came on and no prospect of getting clear, hove tfo
under double-reefed topsails, in hopes to have Suf
ficient drift to keep clear of the fields to the leewrhd
until day-light but found, at 11, that we were drftt
ing fast upon a large, island, was obliged to tyre
ship and haul to the southward, under easy 4ail,
luffing and bearing away for the broken ice, as oc
casion required, until 12, when we struck ufcn a
small piece, which penetrated through the starford
bow ; immediately rigged both pumps, and gbt the
boats out ; 33 men women and children got iffto the
long boat, and eight into the yawl, and put off from
the ship, which went down in about half art hour
from the time she struck, having on board! at the
time the boats left her, twenty -seven souls, who per
ished with the ship ; we then shaped our cfese to
the westward, continually relieving the chs, and
with difficulty finding a passage for the belts thlm*
the fields of ice which we were passing during the
remainder of that night, the next day and might, un
til about 12 o'clock, on Monday a. fa. halving gone
about one hundred miles W. S. W. froty tire time
of leaving the ship ; at 12, finding after we had
cleaned the ice, a ro^h se& beginning to make, sc
that the yawl was unsafe in tow, and thky not being
willing to increase their number in the long-boat,re^
quested then to cut us adrift,when they immediate-,
ly left ^ steering north, Wai a sail set, and afresh
breeze from the southward ; our situation was now
such, that we were obliged to keep the boat before
the wind, it being very squally wiffi heavy rain, and
tile yawl being so deeply laden as to make us ap
prehensive that she wouta immediately till. About
sun-set the wind abated, and the sea moderated,, so
that we Were enabled to pull to the westward;
which we did from 7 o'clock, until 8 A. M. on Tues
day, the 9th, when we had the happiness to discover
a sail, which we found lo be the sch'r Joanna, capt.
Quiner, who humanely received us on board, and
paid us every attention which was in his power, and
which our situation after suffering much from fatigue
and. being considerably inujred by frost, rendered
necessary for the preservation of our lives.*
When we parted company with the .'long boat, ™
they had plenty of provisions on board, and strong
hopes are entertained that they were so fortunate as
to meet with a vessel shortly after, there;being m^
^^v'h— r..., ~< j
ably without a Constitution, had nd election be
made by the fourth of March. From that re
sponsibility they are released by that part of the
late amendment, so peculiarly objectionable to my
self and others, which authorises them to make no
choice, and to devolve the Presidency for four years
onthe Vice-President. Noris it probable, although
it is indeed possible, that an equality of votes be
tween two candidates would occur again in an age ;
and it is as probable that it may occur now as it
Was before the alteration; notwithstanding the dis
crimination, two candidates may have an equal num
bes of votes, and a ftithre Congress may divide be
tween them with as much obstinacy as did the for
mer one. Again, it has been said that the altera
tion was necessary to secure the re-election of Mr.
Jefferson. Has republicanism so rapidly degener
ated in our country, that already the Consticu
tian must be altered with a view to the promotion,
emolument, or continuance in office, of an individu
al, however eminent for talents and patriotism ? lilt
the reverse of the assertion was the fact. With
or without the alteration, the re-election of Mr.
Jefferson, in all human probability, was equally cer
tain. Witness the committee appointed by a cau
cus of the Majority of the members of both houses,
to devise ways and means to direct the electoral
votes in ^ich manner as to produce the re-election
of the President, should the amendment not be a
dopted.
But other alterations of the Constitution, still
more destructive of the rights of the small states,
were in contemplation ; and of the creation of an a
ristocracy of large states to be guided and governed
by Virginia, the tenement in question was consid
er as the harbir *r. The evidence to support this
assertion, and the character of the intended inno^
vations, will form the subject of a future letter. 'E
qually in a single community and in a confederate
republic, there is a natural effort to make the
strong stronger, and the weak weaker. 1 shall
drop mv pen for the present when it has recorded
the remark, that I have never intentionally given
a vote calculated to reduce the weight of the small
State of Vermont in the American Union, and the
promise that I never will give such a vote in future-
JAMES ELLIOT.
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