The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1799-11-20 00:00:00, page 3

Cbe Republican Lap Preaches
“ Wisdom is profitable to dire&" So I have been
thinking—and so will every man possessed of his
senses. Those who are directed by wifdomcannot
fail of doing right—-let them move in ahigh or low
Nation, for wisdom is necessary to all. But all do
not think alike, this cannot be expected ; and
Tome may chance to be miflaken in their notions ot
Vijdom. Hence we are apt to conclude that per
funs, differing from ourselves, in opinion, are not
tinder the direction of wifdom —when at the fame
time we are in the error-—.We are walking in
darkness, and are Coffering for the lack of that wis
dom with the want of which we charge our neigh--
hour. Unhappy indeed is it for that country,
whole rulers futfer for lack of wisdom. In vain
may theyexpeN. better times—ln vain dream of
- peace or profperity—for fays the preacher, when
the wicked are in authority, the land mourns by
the multitude of their oppressions they make the
opprefled to cry. In dur country, we hope bet
ter things. We trust that our rulers are men de
voted to the happiness of the people—men, who
are directed by wifdom,and who will never betray
/the high and important trulls with which they are
invented. Our President appears to be of this
Stamp; his late conduct in an important affair,fheu s
/ that he is awake to the belt interest of his country
and that he is actuated by that wisdom which is
' profitable to dire#,—Yet, Grange to tell, there are
some, so very foolifli, as to charge our worthy
President with a lack of wisdom in appointing
the Envoys to France to fettle the differences
fubfiGing between that country and these U.States.
, True indeed this was a momentous undertaking,
and the President had'need of wisdom to dire# him.
He well knew, that this measure, highly gratifying
to his Republican friends, was equally disgusting
to the Anglo-Federctlifls —Thefe men are not all
Solomons —their thick heads could not fee through
the justice and policy of this measure—they could
not rest easy—they exprefled their anxiety in
looks, gestures, and some of them could not con->
tain themselves, but made use of expressions not;
very favorable to the Prefident —But wisdom is
profitable to direct —and -those who follow her di
reftions, mufl do right. The President has done
right in thus discovering a disposition to aft his
own sentiments maugre the opposition of pretend
ed friends. The inflexibility of his condutt in
this circumstance is worthy of notice, and leads to
an opinion, that he will so conduct, that all who
sincerely love their country, will applaud his ad
ministration—The preacher fays, " Speak not in
the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of
thy words." There 'are some to foolish as to de
spise Lie wisdom of this measure—and to arraign
the motives of him who predicated it—but that
statesman is sensible by this time, that thro' wisdom
an house is builded, and by underfunding it is eflab
lifhedA He is also fenlible that “ Wisdom is too high
for a fool" and that it is not, alwaysgood to have
respect to persons in judgement. Happy, thrice
happy, is that country whole rules are under the
influence of wisdom—-the various channels which
proceed from such a government will all partake
of the source from whence they proceed —difluling
joy and gladness, peace and good will to all its
citizens—Under such a government the people
may rest and be at quiet—sensible that their rul
ers are wife men, and that wisdom is profitable to
dife&. Here the hypocrites reign not,consequently
the people cannot be enfuared. Ambitious and
wicked men may, in vain, attempt to divert and
poison those channels—they will be caught in the
snare, and will, too late, have to lament, that tho
wisdom is profitable to dired, they have turned a
deaf ear to her^ounfels arid set at nought her re
proof, therefore Ihall they have bitterness in their
laftday, and their end be that of a fool!
" Laffert, upon information of the firft authority,
refpefting the New-England States, that excepting
one character, whose opinion, from peculiar cir
cumstances, would seem to be little entitled to
weight in such a case, there is not a gentlemen or
information, whose sentiments are not in direct
opposition to the measure of, again fuppiicating the
brutal tyrants of France, 1 can truly assert the
fame thing of the middle and some of the southern
states from personal observation. The wisdom
' and the honesty of the country speak but one voice;
that voice of reason and of patriotism, and because
i+ was hoped that the public expression of it would
& rendered uuneceffary by the current of events.
“ It was hoped, that before the fatal nomination
could reach Paris, the capture of the infurgente
and other ads of refinance on our pad, would
have To wounded the pride of the Directory, as to
have produced a declaration °f?„ ° r at ' ea "
have effeded an irreparable btdcfcb... rr-or '!",
in the interim, his most Christian Majesty might
have trampled his rcWiow fobjetts beneath dW
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Trouble in the Cabinet.
We hear that the Prefidept is like to lose some
of his friends, by appointing the new embafly to
' France. Timothy is in a rage, Camillus is scratch
ing his head, the old tories hang their faces—in
faft the whole British and ariftocratical party ap
pear to be disconsolate, and unless their friend
Harper should find another clue, or more tubs
Should arrive, what is to become of the dejected
enemies of Liberty, we know not. Corporal
Fenno appears to be much enraged at the proipect
of peace with France. The following extraordi
nary paragraphs we have feletted from his long
epistle of abuse that he has been spouting lately :
« It is said the Frigate United States is waiting
at Newport to convey to the Demoniacal Directo
ry,(thefeVice-gerents of Hell on earth) the august
Representatives of the cohered dignity of this valt
and flourishing empire.• Q
They depart at the mod inauspicious pomt of
time, on which their departure could have fallen ;
and whether they appear in the Den of the Tyger,
as the humble (applicants for mercy, or as the
claimants ofjuftice ; in either case, the catastrophe
of the trembling Commonwealth appears no lets
unequivocal, no ,efs inevitable :—A d at e, w ^' c ?
from its location, from it various and exhauftlefs
resources, its extent of territory, and its popula
tion, and more than all, from the dangerous and
daring principles which pervade it, may vie, in
means and power, with the frongetlm the Union
is about to place itfelf under the Ran of theft
foire, in the direction of villians,alien to our bloo ,
inveterate as death, and unrelenting as the grave ;
the danger (horrible to contemplate !) theiice ant
ing, that an Illuminatut, of the school of France,
the humble instrument of her power, may succeed
to and controul over the destinies of the country,
and deliver her into the dominion of his matters ;
an inflamed and ipextinguilhable humility to the
government, co-operatingwith these profpefts in
other quarters of the country ; all the considera
tions, which, however powerful, yield importance
to others, that exist in defiance to the policy of
The determined purpose of the Brjtifh govern
.ment, to enforce to their utmost extent, the prin
ciples of the " ancient," against the “ modein,
" law" of nations, is now elfablifhed by that con
venient instrument of state policy, a court of Ad
miralty. In which Judge, Plaintiff, and Defend
ant, are all of a fide ; all equally dependant on the
minilter in power. A court formed by the igno
rance, capacity, and insolence of legalifed free
booters ; and supported against the light intelli
gence of the president age. This decilion throws
aside the veil, and ex poses the maritime despotism
oflingland in all its horrors. For what security
t , there be to American propety afloat, when
even the Jhew of refinance is deemed a crime.
NOURISHING OF VIPERS.
As consumers of British manufactures we have
to contribute to the expense of supporting a war
against freedom and the rights ot man, The
Pittite administration has lad a duty of 2% per
cent, upon the exportation of their woollen
°°Eve°ry friend to the ' Republican interest ought
to encourage our home manufadues as much as
possible, and to consume as little as he can of the
British. By purchasing their goods we encreafe
the revenue of that country, and thereby aid the
foes of liberty to accomplish their dangerous de
signs. Let every republican relied upon this fub
jeCt, and if he cannot aid the cause of Republican
ism in Europe, let him avoid injuring it diretUy
or indireCtly.
We ought not to comfort, aid, or abet the men
who are resolved to extirpate the spirit of free
dom, and who are feeding to enclave millions of
our fellow beings. Argus,
The territories which the British possess in the
Eaft-lndies, are much more extenlive than Great-
Britain and Ireland. According to Ntaj or Rennel,
Surveyor General to the Eait-India Company,
these possessions contain 177,000 square miles,
which is more than the square sera even of France
(such as it was before the present war,)and Hol
land united. In these dominions are many rich
factories, flrong forts anq populous cities. Ma
dras contains upwards of 200,000 inhabitants, and
Fort St. David, 60,000. The liland of Bombay,
the harbor of which can conveniently hold 1000
(hips at anchor, has 60,000 inhabitants. Calcutta,
the Capital of Bengal, is even faid,| tho' perhaps
erroneously, to contain 500,000.+, The population
of the whole of these dominions is much above
eleven milli#s, at which, the population of Great-
Britain and Ireland are estimated. The annual
revenues exceed three millons sterling. In short,
the English with their tributaries and allies occu
pied a considerable time since the whole navigable
-course of the Ganges, from its entry on the plains
to the sea, which in its winding course is more
than 1,350 miles. .
To such height had Brjtifh policy and power,
wealth and valor, fraud a^d usurpation, railed the
British Empire in the East, previous to their very
important conquers from the French and Dutch
during the present war.
, The dominions of Tippoo Saib, even after one
I half of them was ceded to the English and their al
lies, remained about the iik^ of England.
foot of his throne. Bat the dignity of Republics
is very nomen inane. It is remarked by Swift, that
the very attitude of climbing and crawling are the
fame-—and France, with equal success, has inter
changeably employed them both, - Thus this hope
proved nugatory, and the duration of the republic
threatens yet to be long enough protracted, tb in
volve us in its ruin.
“ The effect of the nomination Upon the Fed
eral party, even wih their hopes in reserve, was
like that of some tremendous tornado upon a
rich and flourifhing plantation.
" All the tenor ol its foul was loft,' and it ceaf
en from that hour to be a party. Its cause has
since undergone a regular declension, the future
heps of which daily grow more certain. The e
lection of M'Kean we owe to this sole caufe—rhat
ot Munroe in Virginia is its most natural offspring,
and the success of Jeferfon to the Presidential
chair, will become an event which no longer can,
or indeed ought to be opposed."
From the above extracts it is to be seen, that
this federal blockhead has the arrogancy to alledge,
there is but one man* in the eastern Gates, of any
note or credibility, and none in the middle and
some of the southern Gates, but what is opposed to
fettling our differences with France, and that he
was in hopes, that the capture of the Infurgente
would have been fatal to the negotiation!
No doubt but the language of Fenno is the sen
timent of many in our government, and nothing
will fatisfy their intemperance, but that every
man, women, and child in this country, ihould be
at eternal war with every man, women, and child
in France, as Tracy has said on the floor of Con
gress. That the Councils of the Union, and the
prints of America, may no longer be disgraced
with such sentiments as these, mull be the sincere
with of every lover of his country.
* No doubt meaning the President, whose opinion,
from peculiar circumflances, would seem to be lit
tle entitled to weight. , , „
[Centinel of Freedom.
It has been announced that James Napper Tan
dy, the celebrated Irish patriot, has been delivered
up by the Senate of Hamburgh, to his vindictive
enemy, the Britifli government. We hope the re
port is not true, but we fear that the government
of that city has not fufficient magnanimity to refill
the importunities of that infamous, blood-thirsty,
and savage tyranny, which treads down the Irish
nation beneath its feet.
Roberfpierre, the cruel,tyrannical Roberfpierre,
would appear amiable, when compared with the
British government. Exercrable as that man's
character was, he never persecuted the emigrants,
or royalists with that perferving malice, with
which a PiTT has pursued the irifh republicans.
He never required any government in Europe to
deliver up even the traitors who had betrayed their
trust, nor has any preceding or subsequent admin
itiration in France demanded the surrender of the
infamous Dumourier. :
Rejoice, O Washington, for the success which
attended your glorious exertions to save your
country. Ah ! what would have been your fate
had our enemies triumphed over us, and your life
been at their disposal. Your virtuous efforts wo^d
have been rewarded with death, and canting hy
pocrites would have insulted the Divine Being
With their impious thanks for succeeding in ensla
ving a whole continent, for having the gratifica
tion of murdering the heroes who advocated its
rights. Morristown paper.
BRITISH REVENGE!!
tnflem-Houfe, New^ork, §th Nov, '§§.
Copy of a circular letter received this day from
the American Consul at the Hatanna.
Conful ate of the Havannd.
October 17991
[CIRCULAR.]
“ I haflen to inform you, that a decree was yes
terday palled by the government of this island for
the admiffiou of neutrals,'on the fame terms and
regulations as previous to the late rbyal order,
until the determination of his most catholic majes
ty (hall be known, with regard to the representa
tions which will go forward in the packet that is
to fail from this city in a few days ; only exclud
ing from this concession all vessels and property
captured and condemned by the enemies of Spain,
which under no cover or pretext will be admitted.
Be ple&fej, fir, to make this intelligence public.—
I havetie honor to be, refpeftfufy, your obedi
ent servant. JOHN MORTON,
Consul of the United States of America.
The Collector of the port of New-York.
Extra# of a letter from a gentleman at Havannah,
to a merchant in Baltimore, dated O&. 154
“ There are three or four French privateets fit/
ting out here for the express purpose of capturing
Americans. We cannot divine the cause why go
vernment have not sent any of their cruisers here,
as the property imported here from the United
States of America, is more valuable than the com
merce from the United States 10 all the other isl
ands together.''
On Monday evening the 4th inst. the barn be
longing to Mr. Israel Spencer of Long-meadow,
(Mass.) was consumed by fire'with about 20 tons of
nay, 120 bushels of grain, and a number of other
articles; Loss ellimated at 660 dollar's. It was
set on fire by going into it with a candle.
Extra# of a letter from a gentleman in Eoflon, to
his friend at Savannah, dated Sept. 29.
" On Friday last, the fufferers by the British spo
liations chose a committee to wait on the Presi
dent, to know what they had to expert, and what
pofitiori it would be proper for them to take in
consequence of the commissioners riling in London.
The President declared he had not received official
information from Mr. Pickering, of that event ;
(letters from Mr. Gore, American Commissioner,
to his friend here, have been in this town three
weeks to that effect,) but would go on to Phila
delphia a month sooner in consequence of it.—lt
is difficult to determine whether the English or
French are mod execrated. The Envoys to France
leave here soon, and a rupture with England is
considered to be more than probable, indeed it is
expected."
sept. 30. " The President left town this day
for the southward, in consequence of what I wrote
you yesterday."
A letter from the commander of the Danish na
val force in the Mediterranean, contains the disa
greeable intelligence, that the Dey of Tripoli has
declared war against the Hanfe Towns, Hamburg,
Lubeck, and Bremen, and that a Tripoline corsair
has already captured off Alicant, two Danish snips,
and sent them to Tunis, under the pretence of their
cargoes being Hamburgh property.
1 The last Cincinnati paper fays, that major Lud
low has completed the Indian boundary line with
out the lealt hindrance or inconvenience from the
Indians ; and had returned that place.
In the palace of Tippoo Saib, in Seringapatam,
was found a treaty he concluded with the french,
which is sent home by the Governor-General. In
this is astipulation, that Tippoo Ihould divide with
the enemy the English ships that Ihould be captur
ed, and also the different sea ports on the coalls of
Malabar and Coromandel.
German literature is now held in such esteem in
England, that an Englifn printer has had a set of
German characters call, in order to print literary
productions in that language.
We are told that the Executive is about to re
quire fatisfaftion from the British government for
the numerous captures which their cruisers are
constantly making of our property, and the mul
tiplying, harraffing vexations to which they have
fubje&ed our commerce, We hope the report
is well founded and that the spirit of our govern
ment may be manifelted on this occahou, when
our interest and honor demand some reparation
and security againlt the rapacity of English ma
rauders. Albany paper.
Capt. Blake, in a fchr. belonging to this port
has been captured by a French privateer, and lent
into a French port on the main. His mate Mr.
Stephen Potter, was inhumanly murdered by the
savage and biood-thirfty captors. Mr. Potter has
left a difconlolate family, in this town, to lament
his unnhappy death. Portland paper.
James Winchester, Esq. is appointed judge, in
the Federal Court, in the place of Win. ftca,Efq
deceased, for the diftri& of "Maryland..
There has been a report for some days part cir
culated, t?bat the three principal secretaries of the
state have resigned—We have not as yet been ena
bled to afeertain the fafl. l elqp aphe.
One hundred and seventy thousand persons are
stated to have loft their jives by the plague flitch
has raged for four months in Barbary I all c m
munication between the Coalt and Gibralter, has
in coufequence been suspended.
A patent has been granted in England, for an
invention to prevent the taste of tin in liquids pre
served in veflels of that metal.
Tamms Munroe, Esq. it is expected, will be e
letted Governor of Virginia#!his itate, if we
may credit a late statement, does not fail much
short of 1,000,000 inhabitants,
IMPROMPTU,
When little folks begin to bob;
And strut among their betters,
*Tia reason good, they should be taught
In polities tacit letters.
For Should they chance t' assume such airs
As,fame may think tad^U,
Tia ten to one—they „ ddumftiirh
And ergo—to the drui:l
DIED— on the sth of February last, at Bologna,
in the 55th year of his age, the celebrated Galva
Ni, from whom galvanism, which has made so
much noise in the philosophical world, took its
name.
In this town,Mrs. Polly hRVis, aged ft
Accounts from Cape.Francofg, of 0&, if, sett,
that no material engagement had taken place be
tween the armies ofTotifaint and Rigaud; but the,
were both in motion;and an important aclidri fail
momently expeded;
NAVAL AFFAIRS
the Infurgcqt frigate, Capt. MURRAY, is cfnifo
ing in the Mediterranean, in consort with the Enc
giilh frigate Aurora.
/The Adams frigate has arrived fit her ftatibil at
$t Kitts.
'' The Cahges, Capt. Tingey, is to return home,
with a convoy.
Capt. Truxton has fefumed his cortirriahd on
board the Constellation. She is now lying in
Hampton Roads, arid is to proceed froni thence
to the Windward Islands.
The frigate United States, we hear, Will fail did
rest for L'Orient, with the envoys.
[Phil. Dai. Adu.
The frigate George Waffiington, Capt. Fletcher;
Ays the Gazette of the United States, goes out to
bring home the Commissioners from the French
Republic.
The subscription frigate, building at the feat of
Government, is said to be called the City of Phild
delphia—and will be launched in the course of a
month. She has the figure of Hercules for het
head.
TO BE SOLD,
At Public Auaioil,
On Wednesday the 4th of December, by Virtue
of a license from the Hon. Samuel Tenney,
Esq. Judge of Probate for the County of
Rockingham.
A LL the Estate of Mark Ham,
Cabinet-Maker, late of Portsmouth, deceaf 4
ed, confining of
Furniture ; Tools ; Stock in the
line of his business, and a Building on lease land,
at the head of Long-wharf,—where the sale will
be at 11 o'clock before noon, on said day.
Geo. Wentworth, AuH'r.
Portsmouth, Nov. 12, 1799.
A LL persons indebted to, or that
nave any demands against the estate", of
Mr. John Underwood,
late of Portsmouth, Rope-Maker, deceased,
are requeued to present the fame to the fob
fcriber for settlement.
SAMUEL DROWNE.
Executor to the last Will and Testament
of the Deceafed^
Portsmouth, Nov. 19, 1799.
U/HEREAS, my wife, ABI
YV GAIL SIMSON, has behaved it}
an indecent and unbecoming manner, I here
by forbid all persons harbouring or trusting
her on my account after this date, as I will
not pay any debts of her contraaing.
GEORGE SIMSON.
Portsmouth, Nov. 16, 1799. ,
H. & B. Penhallow,
MOST refpe&fully inform their cuftcm
ers, and the public in general, that
they have imported in the brig Betsey, and
Ihip Foxwell, from Bristol, and the Ihip
Packet, from Liverpool, and have now tea-,
dy for sale at their (tore in Market-street-.
/ large affcrtment of
Cutlery, Iron-Mongery, Saddlery
Brass Foundery, and Ihip chandlery Wares
.—ALSO—
Patent-foot, sheet & bar Lead, Pew.'
ter, brass Kettles, Warming-Pans, Frying-Pans,
Shovels and Spades, Anvils and Vices, Patent and
Common Time-GlafTes, Shovels and Tongs, Deck-
Nails, Brads, Nails and Tacks of every size, Win.
dow-Glafs, Tin-Plates, Sheet-Iron, Rotten Stone,
Black Lead and Looking-Glasses.
—LIKEWISE— %
/ LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
Wheel-Boxes of every size, English
and American Iron Hollow-Ware, Sleigh-bells,
& c . &f. &c. PortJmouth, Nor. ig, 1799.
Dame & Penhallow,
GROCERS,
Have for Sale, at their fore on the Parade, th 4
following articles, viz.
HYSON, ) & Loaf Sugar,
Souchong ,TEASi Velvet Corks,
and,Bom) X Smoaking Tobacco,
Nutmegs, N + Baltimore fine No. X.
Cinnamon,) ± ,
Cloves, IcpicES ± Redwood,.
Mace,' ff^ + ^°9
pepper,'.'±Allum, gSUF^.
Ground Ginger, * Copperas, ,
Citron, % Indigo, 0
Sugar'd Almonds, , Roll Brimstone,
Sugar Plumbs, „ ,alk,'
Lozenges, Z Gun-Powder, quality
Olives, a excellent.
Capers, Shot,
Anchovies, ,Flints,
Cayenne, Z 'R'" l '
Multard, •MUrcoS^ar,
Box-Raifms, X Real Hollands Gin ill
Lemons, I Cases.
Oranges, Cherry,
Rappee, Elliot's and & Brandy,
Macula Snuff. Q Malaga Wine,
Shell'd Almonds, Q Molasses,
Table Salt in balkets, & Rock Salt,
Chocolate, , Pollock Fish,
Cake Soap, + 7by,>&Bb, to Wm-
Dipt Candles, * dow Glass,,
Poland Starch, , German Steel,
Hair Powder, ± lb. Pins, and fuudry 0-
Rice, ± , cr ^c^
GOOD S.
HARD-WARE