The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1801-06-02 00:00:00, page 3

^rter; 3000 English remained on the field ofbat
,le,and 900 cut off by the French cavalry,were made
qprifoners. Gen. Abercrombie is among the latter.
,|Th^s is said to have taken place on the 20th March,
f) Journal les Defenseurs de la Patrie.
, MILAN, APRIL 2.
\ According to intelligence which arrived here
from Naples, on tlie evening of the gbthof March,
.it appears certain, that the English have been
J beaten in Egypt, and obliged to re-imbark.
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HANOVER, APRIL 6.
4 The following is the convention concluded on
I the third of this month, between our regency and
, the envoys of his Majesty the King of Prussia :
His Majesty the King of Prullia having caused to
be communicated to us by the court de'Schulem
bourgh, general of cavalry, miniller of the date,
: of war, and of the cabinet, and his envoy here,
I a declaration written and dated at Berlin, on the
30th of Ma-ch ißoi,refpb&ing the meafores which
his said ihajefty has refolvcd to pursue in regard
j to the German States belonging to his majesty, the
)king of Great Britain and Ireland, onr molt gra-
Icions sovereign, in his quality of Elector of Brunf-
I wick and Lunebourg. His Pruflian majesty hav
f ing besides, invited us repeatedly, and in a pofr
I five manner to conform to the present circum-
Jflances, to enter without delay into the new en
r gagements which lie has proposed, and for that
purpose to draw up a convention in the most ob
ligatory form, otherwise his said majesty would
find himfelf obliged to treat in a hostile manner,
the German states of the king, our most gracious
sovereign, we have agreeably to circumflances,
promised and declared as following :
/The entrance of the Pruflian troops into the
German dates of his Britannic Majetiy fliall take
place without their experiencing any refinance,
, in the hope however, that the number will be di
minished as much as po&ble, to ease the country
and the inhabitants. They shall consequently ob
serve in their full extent all the ordinances and
"difoofitions of his Pruflian majesty, both in regard
to the entry of his troops and to the electoral
slates.
The Hanoverian troops, which have hitherto
been employed in the army on the line of demarc
ation in the north of Germany, shall be disbanded
as well as a proportionate number of the other
troops of, the hleftorate. The Regency of this
country, the commander in chief, and the differ
ent officers of these troops, shall engage not to
employ the Gid troops, nor to fuffemthem to serve
agaiuft his said Prussian Majefty,but to make them
flri&lv observe the royal ordinances, according to
the different meaftires which it may be neceftry
to pursue. The said troops shall be diflribnted
in the cities of Hanover, Lunebourg, Gifhorn,
Welzer, and in the places anil forifolis on the
right of Leine, on the left of the Aller, and behind
tlie Luhe, as far as the Elbe. All the other places
without exception, comprehending the fortress of
Homeln, shall be evacuated and delivered tip to
the Pruflian troops. Particular measures shall be
taken that all deliveries in kind shall be made by
the said country of Hanover, dating from the fiii
of May, this year. In regard rd whatever con
cerns the adminiflration of this state nothing shall
be undertaken, nor fliall be permitted to be un
dertaken, prejudicial to the present dispositions
and engagements ; dn the contrary, the statutes
and orders of the king, in regard io them, shall
be puti&ually observed.,
For these reasons, we here accept, in the mod
solemn manner, the supreme promise made by his
Prussian Majesty, that he will guarantee to the
German dates pf his Britannic majesty, their an
fient conflitution, their fafety and their repose ;
and that their property and possessions fliall be
protested by all means possible.
Done at Hanover, the 3d April, 1801.
(Signed)
Count de Kilmannfegge, De Decker,
De Arnfwalet, De Walmfdpn,
De Steinberg, Sitaborne, F. Marshal.•
LONDON, APRIL 21.
Yesterday afternon, after this paper was at press
Lieut. Col. Stewart of 49'h regiment, arrived at
the admiralty with dispatches from Sir Hyde Par
ker ; the substance of which were communicated
in the evening to the lord major by a letter from
the firft lord of the admiralty, of which the fol
lowing is a copy :
MY LORD, % ,
“ I have the honor to acquaint yohr lordship
that the honorable lieut. col. Stewart arrived this
day with dispatches from Adm. Sir Hvde Parker,
containing the terms of an armistice concluded
with the Danish government on the 9th inst. by
which it is agreed that no aft of hostility shall be
committed by either on the coast of tie different
islands and provinces of Denmark and Jutland;
for the space of fourteen weeks ; and fourteen
days notice to be given before hoftijities are re
commenced. The court of Denmark h^ agreed
to suspend during that period her co operation of
armed neutrality, 1 have the honor to be, my
lord, your lordflip's humble servant,
•“ St.VINCENT?'
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Portsmouth, June 2, tSot.
Mrf<g4>>->.
It is pow reduced to a certainty that a
majority of both houses of the new Congress
as well as the executive are truly Republi
can. Os the Representatives there will be at
least seventy two whigs, and of course but
thirty four tortes at the most, though it is
said there will not be even that pitiful num
ber—What a marvellous change, in so short
a time ; conversions were never more rapid
% since the days of the apoflies, and it is to be
hoped that the dodrines of republicanism,
will be as extensive as those of chriftianity.
Fresh Wreaths for the Republican Column.
The New- England State of Rhode-Ifland
is freed from her federal delufiCT—at her late
elections the torv junto was entirely routed
and dispersed—no speckled character now
holds an office in that state, the government
is in the hands of the whigs, the men of '76,
its only rightful administrators—Not only
her lenators and reolefentatives toCongrefs,
but her governor, State legislature, and all
her judicial officers are puiely republican—]
New-York also has followed the example.
The framer of the Britilh treaty is no long
er to be governor of the extensive and pow
erful state of New-York. The Creolian
Cataline has been defeated in all his base at
tempts to prostrate our liberties at the feet
of the Britilh tyrant —The hoary veteran
Clinton, like the Roman Cincinnatus, is a
gain called to save the date from the de
ftruaion, with which a British faaion'
threatened it. Her legislature is also purg
ed from the remaining leaven of Toryitm—
and the fame spirit now appears to defend
and fectire but liberties, which influenced
the people of America to acquire them.—
The short reign of the Tories, has convin
ced the world, that they will ever, when
entrusted with power, apply it to the de
ftru&ion of the liberties of the very people,
frort whotn they derived it. Let them,
ther *ore, be protested by our laws, in the
enjoyment of their own liberty and property,
but never, never let them again be entrusted
with the protection of the liberty and pro
perty of the people.
Extrafl cf a letter from Portland.
" Last week the new federal circuit court
held their session in this town ; to the Won
der arid grief of many good citizens,who could
not comprehend the necessity of an addition
al court when they had been almost harraff
ed to death; by being so frequently sum
moned to give their attendance as petty jur
ors and grand jiirors at other courts —We
had one federal court here before, with a
judge with a salary of 1000 dollars, who
had little or nothing to do—and these three
new judges have come down with salaries
of 2000 dollars each to help him do that—
What this could be for, there are various
conjectures, feme fay they were created for
the purpose of opposing the present govern
ment, but whatever might be the obje& in
creating this court, which was no more ne
cessary for us than the fifth wheel of a coach,
all unite in heartily wishing that the firft
ad of the next congress may abolish it —
Seven thousand dollars among these judges,
with nothing to do, ill comports with our
ideas of economy in this quarter, and seems
to strengthen the general suspicion, that the
policy of the old administration was to ac
cumulate the public debt.
The condua of the federalifts in congress, in
providing, before their retirement such a multi
plication of unremovable officers, and such an ih
creafe of undiminifhable salaries, for the accom
modation of themselves and others oftheir party,
naturally reminds the attentive reader of his bi
ble, of the parable of a certain Steward, who be
ing accused of wafting his maker's goods, requir
ed to give an account of his llewardfhip, and in
formed that he might be no longer steward, " said
within himfelf, what shall 1 do ? For my Jord tak
eth away from me. the ttewafrdlhip : I cannot dig ;
to beg I aril ashamed. lam resolved what to do,
that when I am ptit out of the stewardship, they
m?y receive me into their houses." So he called
bis lord's debtors unto him and treated them, at
his matter's expense, with measures of oil and
wheat, by score and half hundred, instead of fed
eral dollars by thousands. Thus he wifely secur
ed their future friendship and patronage.
Sun of Liberty.
What an aftonifbing and Talutary change has
taken place in the United States within two or
three years pad ! in 1798 and '99, when the reign
of terror was at its height, individual indepen
dence was crushed, and a few impudent & weal
thy chara&ers, instigated by Porcupine, Fenno,
and other Scribblers of a similar call, carried with
an overbearing hand the eleaiens in every consi
derable seaport and commercial town orrthe con
tinent. Federalism was triumphant ; loans were
every where railing, volunteer military associa
tions were every where forming '; and fitting on
the addfeffes which were pouring ftom every part
of the union, Mr. Adams might have said, like
Cromwell, “ Here I hold the lives and fortunes
of the people (That is, the federal part of them)
of the United States." But tirtie, which brings
all things right, has brought these people to their
senses again. It is unnecessary to detail the er
rors they saw and abjured. At present, Ports
mouth, Bollon, Newport, New-York, Philadel
phia, Baltimore, Charleston, &c.&c. afford hand
feme .majorities in the republican interest, though
they were so decidedly federal a short time Since.
How Short the transition from error to truth ! but
a long while mull elapse before error recovers its
influence.
We fee a continual boating of the universal fed
eralifm of New-England, and smile at the infatu
ation that creates this exultation. We know, and
so do all our cotemporaries know, that near half
of Maffachofetts (more than 4 to 5) are republi
can, two thirds of R. Island, half of Vermont, and
one third of N. Hampshire and Gonne&icut, are
republican, and that the proportion is conflantly
increafibg, notwithstanding she desperate exer
tions, like the last ftrhggles of a drowning man,
of the federal and hierarchical apostles of delusion
in these dates. Proceed, gentlemen, hoggings
yourselves in your fancied superiority, till def
truttion, like a whirlwind, sweeps away your
hopes. The election of two or three more repub
lican governors in N. England, if the choice of
members of congress does not, will soon awaken
you from your dream. [Bee.
GOFERNO^CLINTON
Is certainly elected chief magistrate ofthe slate
of New-York for the three years next enfuing—
our correspondent fays by a majority of 4000. A
city paper gives a lift of the House of Aflembly,
but from its usual incorrettnefs nothing with cer
tainty can be gathered from it. We believe,
however, the republican majority in the. House
will be between 50 and 60.
That there will be a very large majority of re
publicans iu the federal House of Representatives
is absolutely certain ; and the following article
Ifrom Washington, of May 6, informs us that a
Jmajority of the Senate will be republican also..
I “ I-he political complexion of the Legislature
I of Rhode Island is tire more important, as it "ill
enfyre the election of a republican fenajor for th^t
state, in the eufoing congress ; whereby, without
relying upon any change in the political senti
ments of the present members of that.Qody, a ma
jority will tlie next fellion be republican.
From the Weffington National brtelltgffser of
May 22.
This morning Mr. Nicholls; one of the clerks
of the Navy Department, set off for Hampton
Roads with failing orders for, the Squadron about
to fail for the Mediterraheail under Commodore
pile. The 'Veffels employed are the President,
Philadelphia, and Essex, and the schooner Enter
prize, commanded by commodore Dale, Capts.
Barron and Brainbridge, and Lieut. Commanoant
Sterfetts. It is expected they will fail on or be
fore the firft of June.
Extraa of a letter from an American gentleman
now in Barcelona, dated the 30th of March,
1801, to his friend in Salem.
“ We have received an official letter a few days
past, froth the American Consul at Tripoli, of
that Dey intending POSITIVELY to declare War
agairift the United States of America, on the 22d
inst. unless his demands were complied with be
fore that time ; and as the limited period has now
actually expired,,nd no arrangement is made to
alter the Dey's determination, we may calculate
with certainty that his cruisers are now out, and
capture indjfcriminately, every American vessel
that falls in their way. What have they to re
strain them, or to curb their piratical disposi
tion ?" [Look above.] ,
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Accidents by Lightning.
We heal from N.Vork and several other places, that the
weather has been uncommonly boiftercus & that the lightning in
many inban:cs has proved fatal. On the 25th ult. the bat racks on
Gibbet-lfland, near New-York, were blown down. At Ellis's 111.
and, a house was blown down, in which were three persons, one
of whom was killed on the spot and another very badly wound
ed. At New-York, during a violent thunder gult on the 26th,
one of the Btook!ync Ferry boats was upset, in which were 14
passengers 7of whom were drowned. At Worcester on the 27th,
the inhabitant^experienced a very severe thunder horm; during
which, the lightning struck the house and office of a Mr. Bangs,
burst off the clapboards and plahlering, broke the plaffes, and did
considerable damage amongst the furniture ; from thence it pair
ed to an adjacent building in which was a young lady, who re
ceived such a shock as to render her insensible for the space of 14
hours. The fatte afternoon a young woman was killed at Pom
fret. At New-Bedford on the aid, Mr. Peleg Huttlefton, mer
chant, was killed by lightning, and two others amazed in such a
manner as to be insensible for fume time ; several horses, cows,
&c. were killed. At Dartmouth it has also done some damage.
On Connecticut river it struck in two places, abotit four .miles a
ffart ; in one place a Ihip on the flocks, in the other a tree. At
Freetown, on the fame afternoon, during the storm a column of
^lc&ric fluid, apparently a foot in diameter, defeended to the
gtottnd, broke an apple tree by the roots, and dripped the bark
nearly to the top. A quantity of earth, and gravel, estimated at
five tons weight, was thrown a considerable distance into the
air . • Stones the bigness of a man's head, were thrown so high as
to bury themselves on their return to the earth, through a tough
sward. Large bodies of earth, fuppfed to weigh 200, were
removed to the distance of 40 feet ; and a person forced from
the door where he flood, eight feet backwards. A feene so grand
and so majetlically powerful, was never before witnessed by the
beholders.
We hear that during the thunder gust yeflerday afternoon, a
barh belonging to Mr. Welsh of Kittery, was unroofed.
Died, In this toyn, Samuel Cutts, Esq.„ aged 68.
“ A Wit's a feather and a Louisa rod,
" An honeji man's the noblefl work of God."
Cbeatte, portfmoutl
On Wednesday Evening, ^une j,
WILL EE PRESENTED,
For the only time this Seafon;'
A celebrated COMEDY in 5 ails,
(never perform'd here)
CALLED '
The Wife Man of the East.
H'ritfen by F. Von Kotzebue, author of the
Stranger, Lovers Lews, False Shame, Wc. &c.
The unexampled success of this Play in Lon
don, and the very flattering reception it has
met with in the different Theatres on the con
tinent, are the Eigheft encomiums that can be
paid /9 its merits.
Ava Thoanoa, Mr. Harper,
Cleransforth, Mr. Donnie,
Mr. Metland, Mr. Kenny,
Ensign Metland, , Mr. Dickenfon,
Timothy Starch, Mr. Villiers,
Lawley, Mr. Powell,
Bandwell, Mr. Barnes,
Servant, Mr. Parsons.
Lady Mary Diamond, Miss Field,
Ellen Metland, Mrs. Powell,
Rachel Starch, Mrs. Dickenfoo,
Ruth Starch, Mrs. Harper.
To which will be added
A favorite FARCE, in two a&s,
Never performed here,
CALLED
FORTUNE'S FROLIC,
OR
The True Use of Riches.
Robin Roughead, Mr; Villiers,
Snacks, Mr. Dickenfon,
Mr. Frank. Mr. Kenny,
Rattle, Mr. Downie,
Clown, Mr. Barnes.
Villager, Mr. Parsons.
MiG Nancy, Miss Field,
Dully, Mrs. Harper.
v Margery, Mrs. Dickenfon,
Tickets of entrance to be had at the Afembly-
Room. Firfl range of boxes 4x6, Jecond do. 3s.
Doors to be open at half pafi Six, and the per
formance to commence precisely at quarter pafl 7.
fuft received, andfer tale bv
SAMUEL RICE,
North-End,
18, 15 & 12 thread Cod-Lines,
Deep Sea Lines ; Chalk do.
Beft'L P. Cod Hooks, Mackarel Hooks,
Sewing Twine, Seine Salmon Twine,
Herring Nets, herring net Twi^e and Mar
line, by wholefate or retail, at the lowcft
price for cash or approved credit.
Portfmotah, May 26, 1801.
, 70 BE SOLD,
THIS DAY)
At AUCTION,
at the OFFICE OF
ALEXANDER EWEN,
Ln Mirhetflreet, Portsmouth,
... INDLA & ENGLISH
GOODS,
ton fifing of,
305 pieces India Cottons,,
from 3-4 to 5-4 wide.;
45 pieces Broad Cloths, aC
sorted colors.: -
30 ps. book Muffins 4-4 and
78 wide.
25 ps.jaconet do. 4-4 & 6-4
io ps. Tambore do. 4-16,
6 doz. 1 book muslin Hand*
kerchiefs.,
10 dor 4 jaconet do. do.
10 ps. Half-thicks.
5 pieces Ginghams..
12 do. Russia Duck.
20 packets damaged Pins;
40 Rms. Writing Paper.
10 doz. pocket handkerchiefs
15 pieces India do.
20 lb. Herring Twine.
16 pieces Muflinets, assorted.
The above articles with a number of others will
be fold to the highest bidder, and a credit ot 30
days for all sums amounting to 56 dollars, and 60
days credit for all sums amounting to 100 dols.
or upwards, on the purchasers giving a note with
approved endoffers. Sale to commence at 9 o'-
clock..
N. E. He has bn hand for private sale, Hyfon
and Souchong TEA, CORDAGE, and a few box
es HERRING, warranted in good order, with 3
variety of other articles.
LADIES ' ^ GENTLEMEN'S
TAILORING
AND
HABIT MAKING,
IN TEE NEATEST AND NEWEST FASHIONS,
FROM EUROPE.
Mr. Burnham, refpe&fully in
forms the Ladies and Gentlemen of Ports
mouth, that he Hill carries on his business,
back of Mr. Eaton's in Jeffrey's Row, and
as he has been at considerable expense to
gain the molt accomplished and expeditious
workmen for both sexes, frdm different parts
of Europe, he trulls he shall be able to give
universal fatisfiaion, not only to those gen
tlemen who have formerly favored him with
their custom, but the public in general.
The ladies of Portsmouth have an oppor
tunity of feeing a specimen of work at Mr-
Burnham's, which he flatters himfelf can
not fail attra&ing their attention, and merit
ing their approbation—while conffant at
tendance (hall be given, by the Public's 0-
bedient servant, J. B.
N. B. After the ladies have left their mea
fure # and directions, the work is finijhed with
out any further trial.
Porifmouth, June 1, 1801.
TO BE SOLD,
By John Salter,
Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Rosin, black and
light Varnilh, Rice, Butter, lso bufheis
Corn, Salt by the hhd. a few calks Sugar,
Cordage. Also, lri(h Linens per piece or
yard- June 1, (Sot.
FOR SALE,
At fore No. ^, Long-LFharf,
150 b bushels Maryland Corn,
Al/0, on Long Wharf,
, A quantity excellent Lumber,
A few barrels Tar, a quantity ex
cellent Cord Wood, and Hem
lock Bark,
Apply to
DAVID LOUD.
Portsmouth, June r, 1801.
D. BARTLET,
Hair Dresser from Boston,
Has taken a fliop in Jeffrey's-Row, Spring-Hill,
Portfnouth,
Where he pays the greatest attention to his Euli
nefs, and where he shall be happy to wait on all
who may please to favor him with their cus
tom in the Hair Dressing line.—He has tor
sale, excellent HAIR EMUDK, &c.
June 1, 1801.
A QUANTITY OF
STONE LIME,
FOR SALE BY
RICHARD LOW.