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often Apt to have the ports of Turkey (hut a
g3in;ft the English.
The Dutch Mail which arrived yesterday,
' states, that an embargo was laid on Tuefday
lad on all the English (hips in the ports of
the Bata vian Republic.
The account transmitted a few days ago
from Ply mouth, of fomany of our Artificers
and Scan ten being employed at Breit, if true,
is of the mod melancholy and alarming na
ture. It would certainly be becoming in
Parliament to investigate the original cause
of this national misfortune.
Accord ing to the last letter received from
Constantintople, it appears that the Arabian
rebel, Abdtil Wechab, is making great pro
gress, and that he has actually made him
felf matter of the city of Mecca.
Hamburg, May 20.
Intelligence has jutt been received here,
by an exprets from Madgeburgh, that all the
roads in that quarter are covered with Prus
sian troops, baggage waggons and artillery,
directing their march towards the Electorate
of Hanover ; which country seems to be one
of the most important operations of the chief
Couful to occupy, provided the Prussians do
not prevent him.
The Cabinet of Berlin, some time ago,
submitted to all the views of that of the
Thuilleries ; but since Russia and - Auffria
have declared it to be their intention to main
tain a drift neutrality during the present
contert, the Prussian cabinet begins to have
the fame sentiments.
Philadelphia, AUG. I.
MAMMOTH. Dr. Wm. Goforth has
discovered in du neighbourhood of Cincinati,
in the Rate of Ohio, the hones of an animal
whicn apoa- to have been of a very extra
ordinary hze. Fs teeth weigh from fourteen
tqtwenty pounds. One ot its thigh bones
weighs thirty-one pounds. Connected with
these teeth, and thigh bone, he has discovered
the upper part of the head, and lower jaw,
together with all its vertibree, the weight and
dimensions of which are not mentioned. He
has discovered 3 horns, one weighing about
Ah hundred pounds, and twenty-one inches
in circumference.; another, five feet in
length, weighing twenty-one pounds, ; and
the third, about seven feet in length. Th
Doaor experts to obtain such a number of
these bones related to each other, as to form
a complete Skeleton.
, Albany, august 2.
A REMARKABLE STORM.
Extrafl of letter from a gentleman in Canaan,
(Columbia county) to the Editors.
" On Friday last, the molt awful itorm of
hail and rain that we ever witnessed. It
began ab%ut 3 o'clock P. M. and continued
as though the windows of heaven were open
ed for two hours or more. Our crops are
Walhed from our fields into the vallies. Some
gardens are under ground, others destroyed
with hail stones ; some of which measured
4| inches in circumference. The rain fell
in such quantities as to fill an empty veflel
of perpendicular fifes with 12'or 14 inches
!of water, and an iron kettle, the mouth 18
inches in diameter, holding four pails full,
was filled in the open air, and seen to run
over before the severity of the shower subsid
ed. We are told there is not a mill-dam
unbroken between this and Kinderhook. The
damage to farmers is great. Five hundred
Dollars would not make good the loss of some
individuals."
U—;— I— 1
Boston, august 6.
From MARTINIQUE.
A gentleman who arrived here yesterday
from Martinique, which he left the fl)July,
informs, that the French were making every
preparation to defend the island against .an
exjefted attack of the English ; that there
were at Fort-Royal about 1200 troops of the
lint ; that the inhabitants were armed, but
the French commander in chief had doubts
of iheir fidelity ; that the British did not
closely blockade the ports ; they appeared off
andon occaGonally, and when they found
American vessels with provisions going in,
they forbad thetn ; but if loaded with lumber
&c. permitted them to continue on. There
was no foundation for the report, of a num
ber of vessels having been cut out of St. Pierre.
The Spaniards at Teneriffe, in expectation
of w ir, have put that island in an ample date
of defence.
Ao counts from Guadaloupe are to the 14th
July ; every thing remained there as per lad
accounts. Some small English prizes had
been 1 ent in there.
Hague, June 4.
Important.
The Bifhopriik of Olnaburg has surren
dered to the French by capitulation. On
their approach, the Honoverian grrifon e
vacuated the country. The French, in
three columns, are in full march for Han-
OTer. They have a park of 50 pieces of
artillery.
Latest by the Mails.
0^ Bcpubltcari Ledger.
"TRUE AS THE DIAL TO THE SUN."
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, lßog.
LATEST—F^ m HAVRE.
By a gentleman, who came in the flage last
night from Bflon, we learn, that there was
an arrival there in go days from Havre —a
Pf/enger by this arrival informs, That the
breHch had got entire poffeffon of Hanover;
and that they had on their coafl an army of
300,000 of their best troops, with a Jufficient
number @f boats ready to land them on the Eng
hJh Jbore immediately.—This is the fubfance
—we may exfeefl particulars by to-night's mail.
From NE^-rORR.
Reports have not ceased circulating of the
prevalence of the yellow fever at Few-York.
Last evening (Jays the Boflon Centind of Sat
urday las) we (aw a gentleman from thence,
whose official situation gave him access to
the best sources of information ; He fays,
that in the vicinity of the Coffee-Houfe flip
five or fix persons had died of what is term
ed yellow fever ; but they were persons of
intemperate habits, who resided in confined
and unhealthy habitations; and that one had
taken contagion from the ballad and sweep
ings of a dirty transport, which had not been
clenfed for some years ; but which was im
mediately ordered into quarantine ground.
No alarm of any extent, exited there.—
Many persons usually retire into the country
during the dog-days ; and it is not unfrequent
for those who do business on the flips, &c.
to remove in summer to less confined situa
tions. —
ARRET TE,
In the name of the French Govern
ment.
The General in Chief, Captain General
of the Colony of St. Domingo,
DECREES AS FOLLOWS:
Art I. That the duties, cftablilhed by the
tariff of loNivofe last, 'December 31) upon
Hour, ihip bread, rice, and all kinds of fail
ed provisions, are suppressed.
Art. 11. The above fpecified articles
shall be allowed to be imported free of all
duties. The importer shall be fubje& on
ly to the usual port charges, and to the oth
er small duties eUablitfed by the custom
house.
Art. 111. This exemption shall be in
force during the continuance of the war,
from the day of the publication hereof, in
all the ports of the colony, which are,
from this time, open to Foreign Com
merce.
Art. IV. The colonial prefect is charged
with the execution of the present arrette,
which shall be infetted in the Official Ga.
zette.
At Head-Quarters of the cape, 16th
Meffidor, year 11. (sth July, 1803.)
(Signed) Dtn. ROCHAMBEAU.
Flour at Cape Francois, on the 15th
ult. from 14 to 15 dollars per barrel, Polk,
22.
Extras of a letter from Cape-Francois, Jul,
14, 1803.
"Three English 74's and fix frigates block
ade this port. They capture all French
vessels, and order them for Jamaica. Not
less than 20 fail have been taken and sent
thither within the last 15 days. Some few
Americans have escaped ; but those which
have arrived were chafed close in with the
harbour.
" A census of the inhabitants was taken
yesterday, that the provisions may be eqaul
ly distributed. We have two 74's and 5 fri
gates in this port, which are preparing tor
France with all possible dispatch. A Hot
press of French seamen ias taken place
both in the harbour and on fhorc. You
may expetl to hear of an engagement before
long." —
More PLOTS!!
Capt. Greenough, arrived at Newbury
port on Friday lalt, in 22 days from Point-
Petre, informs, that a few davs previous to
his failing, all the stores were shut up, and
all the whites able to bear arms, were or
dered on the parade, and enrolled for soldiers
in defence of the Island. Equipments of
privateers,were making ready,but as nothing
officia has been received from France, no
Commissions could be granted.
It is averted in the Wallington Federalist,
that dispatches from the Binilh Court have
been received by the Prelident of the United
States, announcing the intention of the Britth,
to frize on L^iftana immediately ; and in
timating that it will not be for the interest
of the United States to proceed in a hegoci
ation the terms ot which it will not be in
the power of Bonaparte to fulfil.j
On the nth ult. three men were taking
a fail near Green Island, about three leagues
front Portland, playfully throwing water
at each other, one of them, Mb Ichabod
The 15th July, on the road from Wheeling
to Chiheotbe, near the Ohio river, a man wa
found dead. He appeared to have been abor
48, fair hair, sandy beard, had on a blue co;
and linen trowfers ; had a small quantity <
Hore goods, some money, a silver watch, ana
a gold ring. In the watch was the nameo'
IJaac Miller. The jury of inquest reported
that he was killed by lightning.
A Frederic-Town, (Maryland,) paper o'
July 15, fays, "Wehave had norain for 4'
days —the kitchen gardens are burnt up, ar
scarcely a vegetable can be procured in Frei
erick, or for many miles around it. T'^
crops of corn it is feared will be poor in
deed.
" We are informed by a gentleman fron
Gennelle, that no rain has fallen there for 91
days.
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A CAUI ION.
Although no futnmer patfes oVer without
the feeling of humanity being (hacked, and
some worthy families diftrefled by the sud
den deaths of some of their relatives, thro'
the indifereet life of cold water when the
body is in a very heated state, yet (till there
are those who will not profit by the fad ex
perience. Several persons have this season
already been hurried into eternity by this fa
tal practice. Cold Water and Ice Creame are
both extremely pernicious, but the fiilt most
extensively so because it can at any moment
be got from the pumps without money, and
in half a minute the fatal draught can be
fwallowed.'
ORDAINED—AiNorfoIk, (G.) the ^.Thomas
Robbins, as laborer in the service of the Milieu, ,
Society, in the count) o' Trumbull, (Laic ol Onio.
Cempte of ogmtn,
—MAKKILL-
In Kentucky, Jufeph H. Davids, Esq. United
States Attorney, to Miss Nancy Marfliall, liner °1
Judge Marlhall. At Fayetteville, Rev. Juleps
Caldwell, principal teacher at the Univerluy ol
Maflachufetts, to Miss Sirfan Boan.+—At bpiing
field,Mr.Afher Bartlett to M fsOr^a Bement.
At Roxoury, Luther Richardson, Etq. attorney at
law of Borton, to Mils Solan Cralts, ot Koxbiiry.
At Button, Mr. Samuel Hitchings, to Mus
Pegg) Ward ; Mr. Howard Bowker, to Mils Nancy
Gardner, eldelt daughter of Mr. Moses Gardner ,
Dutt, Juba Clark, to Mik Jane Mavkay.
Knight of Falmouth, stepping on the fide o r
the boat, fell into the water, and notwith
(landing the utmost exertions of his com
panions to save him, was drowned.
As nothing seems capable of checking
this inconsiderate indulgence, it may be of
use to inform the citizens generally, that if
they happen to fee any person seized with
taintings, spasms, or fits)which can be
recently traced to the probability that they are
caused by this ralh a& some laudanum mix
ed in a little strong brandy and water and
poured into the stomach, will be of confid
erable benefit, and with trillions of warm
spirits to the extremities, may be employed
till the afliftance of a phyficiar can be had.
One hundred drops of laudanum may b<
lately given to a grown person at once, thn
will be employing time to good purpofe^un
'il the more prefc& help of the phyficiar
can be obtained. —N. Y.pap.
The Vice-Preftdent of the United States
continued but a few days at Providence ;
rom whence he returned to New Fork.
Gov. Trumbull, of Connecticut, has noti
bed the recognition of John Bernard Gil
pin, as his Britannic Majesty's Vice-Confi.
tor the States of Connecticut and Rhode- Island.
— toMmr pu^^ - -
^bw jactos,
Arrivals and Departures face July 30.
ARRIVED./
August 2, brig Joseph, Salter, 32 days iron.
Dem arara.
August 8, fliip Hamden & Sidney, T. Goodwin,
Torn Alicant.
SAILED. .
Aug. 3, fch'r Resolution, M'Lane, Guadeloupe.
5, brig Aligator, Rice, Weft-indies.
7, brig Diana, Blunt, Martinico.
Tuefday Aug. 4, arrived brig J feph, Capt. H.
Salter,from Demarara. Left there, July 4th, brig
Oliver Peabody,Gilman, to fail for Purttmouth 22<
July ; Fortune, Bettings, New-lontion, to fail
Bth July ; Valirous, R. Harding, Bath, for Bolton
Bih ; Thames, Benjamin, Norwich, tor Nevi Lon
don ; Thorn, Pool, Gloucester, uncertain; Horen
zo, Barnes, Portsmouth, for Bohou, Auguftl
Flower, Mitchel, New-London, tor New-York;
Hope, Sargent, New-York, uncertain ; Union.
Marshal, tor Peperelboro' July 6 ; Minerva, Paine,
New-London, tor N. York 14th ; Betsey, 1 ucker,
Salem, 12th. Sailed in co. with the ship George
and Harriot, Capt. S. Allen, in lat. 16 00, \\a>
boarded by an Euglifb privateer from Barbadoes
the Captain of which informed, that St. Lucia and
Tobaga were taken. In lat. 27,5<>J 01 W 66,00
spoke schooner Indullry, Jonathan Cox, malto,
16 daysoul from Salem, tor Havannah.
Died at Demarara, on board the Jojeph, th.
Rheuben WilJon, of Portland.
vessels left — At Maderia, fune 18, /hip 3
cf this port, to fail Joon for (Jle-of May.
pit Guadaloupe July 10, brig George, 1 renewed,
of this port.
MARKETS.—A ices at FrederichJburg, j uly 24.
Flour 5 dols, Indian Corn 2 dots. 20 cutis per bat
rel ; Tobacco 3 dollars 33 cents to 5 dollars per
too ; Wheat 90 to 98 cents per bufhet ; Whiikey
50 cents per gallon ; Hemp clean 160 to 170 dots,
per ton,
Elilha Whidden,
Benjamin Adams,
James Nutter,
ohn Locke,
Ebenezer Clifford, Exe.'er,
William Arms.
N B An perjons are cauttorted againfl uJing
tbeje springs in the limits of the purchuje
uj orementionea, without authority Jrom the
,übfribers, t) they woutd avoid the penalty of
ibe law
i'erfmouth, Augufi 9, 1803.
Warm Weather Drink.
WhAl Drink is there 10 whole
tome in warm weather as Spruce
beer r None !
Well tien, tend immediately to C.
PEIRCES Lore and purcbafe Eflence
of Spruce, in any quantity (from a half
pint to ten gallons) and make Beer fit
tor ule in a tew hours.
May be bed us above,
New-1 ork Medical Repository,
in numbers to the end of the 6th vol.
1 ICKEfS in the South Hadley
Canal Lottery, a e allo for tale at
C. Peirce's Bo k-store, Daniel-street.
Ca/b given for clean linen and
cotton and hnen Nags, at the Ledger
Office, eppofae the Liick Market.
,7 dated to Hire,
A small House, or part of
a Houle, near the parade. Inquire oithe
Printer. 3 1 / 1 ^^ ^oj-
^ottalftp.
=DIED—„
At Wilmington, N.C. Mr. William Harp, aged
.02 years. A? Baltimore, M. J mas Levellai%
French Consul forthe State of Mat laud.— at
Southampton, Rev. Jonathan Judd, agbu 84 d ud
rhe 61st of his miaiflr\ At Ruxburv. Mrs.
Catherine Mayo, aged 81 At Little-Cambridge",
hddenly, Mrs. Mar\ Cmk, aged 28 wife 01 Air!
William Cook. At Charleftown, Mr. Joseph
Abrahams, ageu ,3 At Bolton, Mrs. Urfual
Veils, aged 66, <u>" ^ th' l: " e M'.forouW.
In this town. Mrs. Mary Jackson, contort of
Vlr e Clemrit J ckfm.
HOUSE ^ LAND, for sale.
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On WednefJg, Hugufl 17b,
between the hours of 1 1 &12 o'clock,
WILL BE sold it Mi. Guides ' Tavern,
fy Public Auction
^l^^^A r r'HA'l lar,e and
flyMbH A CT :;i ,'u„te,
lit# M %,i fe
of George Atki fun,
Efq'r. u^rt , aanow copied !, John
Wendell, Elq together w ith the Garden,
out houses, &c. belonging to it. This Lot
measures one hundred and lixt, eight 'ret
and an half on Pitt tire 1, and <ighty-levrn
fret back. The Yard, W o'-H use, &c.
are large and convenient ; a good well of
water, and a log from the aquedia are in
the cellar.
The premises may be viewed at
any time previous to the sale ; at<lan accu
rate Plan <fthe lot and buildings is left st
Mr. Geddes' for the infection of those who
wifi) to purchase.
Conditions made known at the
time and place of file. For any turner
particulars apply to
THOMAS SPARHAWK.
Portsmouth, Aug. §th, iS 3.
NEXVand USEFUL—
THE lubfcribers have purchased
= the rigtit (4 t.!i and lelixirgt> 00.^
to be use 1, Kennedy's patent
WINDOW SPRINGS, in the conn us of
Rockingham am. Strafford, in New-Hamp
ihire, and the Diltrict ol Maine, except the
Towns of Berwick,Sanford and Mullv. The
0 jectof this invention was to tuemjh aJecure
fojtener for windows,and conveniement ma
cutnery to raise and lower both the upper
and lower Salh, and by the alhitaiicc of
Springs to fuppurt it at any height that is
wilhed.
Gentlemen who have viewed
Windows filled with these tarings, arc of
pinion that the invention will be of great
nility, and acknowledge that the delign of
ue inventor is completely accomplished.—•
The expense of fitting a Window with these
Springs is but about a toerih part so much
is that of weights and lines ; at the fame
rime more durable and Ids liable to acciden
a injury. Old windows may be hued with
Springs as well as new ones.
Those who wish to purchase
Springs, or to have them put on, may apply
0 any one of the fubferibers, who have allo
ciated themselves in a company, in the above
urchafe, and in this bujinejs will use the sig
nature of Elisha Whidden & Co.