The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-07-01 00:00:00, page 3

It so happens that at the end of the year he
ha\ not expended more than 4090 dollars ;
therefore there remain in his hands unex
pended 6boo dollars. Notwithstanding, at
the end of the year, he draws for 10,000
dollars more, without accounting for the
previous year's expenditure, but promising
it. Here he possesses I^,s^ dollars, and
thus he progresses with a» accumulating bal
ance for several years.,
This balance in the hands of the public
servant undoubtedly the officer is accounta
ble for. But let us fate a fad. On the
24th of February, 189 b the accounts of
the eftate_of the late Sharp Delany col
kaor of the cufiomsfor this port, were fet
tled at the traafury, when it Appeared on the
books that there remained due to the United
Spates a balance of 86,322 dollars and 80
cents.
The question then arises how is the puh-,
lie to obtain this balance ? the estate may be
insolvent, and probably it is, as we go no far
ther than to fay, that such a balance appear
ed due.
Suppose then, that Timothy Pickering
fliould die, with a balance of half a million
of dollars unaccounted for. He fays him
felf that he is poor ;4-wrj poor indeed —; or
we (hall suppose a very improbable case,
but a possible one, that he should take the
benefits of the Bankrupt Latb, paired at the
late ftffion of Congrefs.—"o ! that is im
possible" fays some keep Anglo-Fed, " he.
is not Strader." —To which it might be re
plied, that is a matter to be difeuffed hereaf
ter. ,£Ma. Pickering were to die perhaps
his son might, like another person's son, fay,
his “ father kepHris accounts in a very
loose manner !": at, / -
It will be Urged perhaps this is not coming
to the point —and we promised to lay before
the public Jonathan Daytons account ; we
Ihall now do it— but tet us'once for all con
jure tvery',mart who feels , difpolitioh to be
honest, to con filler these deyelopements feri
cofly:, and as they ought as matter interest
ing to tevefy member of the community.
If it fhail appear that the public money 'has been
withheld from the public coffers, while immerife
sums have been borrp—^d at enormous interest
—if it shall appear that those whir have held those
publie m,miter im^be^r feifolating in princely
elates while they ppfeffed ihofe public monies,
then if 'they cAn fay ; these things ought to be so
—or it is wrong to publish them ; then shall we
confefs th^ % have miftaken,he true -meaning of
&afhs, of public obligations, of the intent of laws,
of the nature of^ur republican government.
• On the other hahd, if it (halt Appear that the
very men who have held these public, monies are
the authors and fa,porter; of the most violent
measures of every species which' the country has
witnessed and deplored.for yf^rs past—then we
shall submit it to honest men, real Americans, de
voted to liberty, virtue, and national indepen
dence, whether confidence tan be placed in such
men, their adherents, or supporters.
We fame time since dated that a Report was in
circulation, that Mr. Dayton was considerably in
debted to the U. S. We now refer them to the
Trcafiify department, for the particulars of Mr.
Dayton's account, as agent for paying Members
& Congress, and that we IQould be more particu
lar, we 'referto the fil^s in the office of Joseph
Nourse;, Esq. Register of that department; for
the following details faithfully taken down.
Mr. Daytbn's accbhrrt fettled in the month of Ju
-0 " ly, 170,, is ft follows :—
To former balance Jf an account fetr
tied 3d March 1 , 1797. - - 2611 60
To warrants drawn by Oliver Wol
cott. secretary of the Treasury on
the Taeafurer of the U. States, in
favor of said Day ton I
No.
,212 dated May 16, „„ for 15,000
72,7 June 13, 15,000
74^4 ~ July 3, 31,000
7721 Nov. 16, 15,000
7787 Dec. 14, 15,000
789, Jan. ¥, 11,3. I 5 G O
,948 reb. 7, 1500°
8059 Mar. It, 15,000
8182 Aor. 10, 15 000
8219 May 3, 15,10
8280 26, 15,000
8360 June 20, 15,000
8491 July 12, 15,000
8,17 July 16, 33,000
S9B, Dec. 7, 15,0'0
9'23 3 a n. 8, 179,, 15,000
,220 Feb. 8, 15,000
9315 27, 29,000
—= 318,000
Dols. 320,611 60
And on this account he was credited as follows ;
Payment of a warrant, No. 277 drawn
on him in favor of the Secretary of
the Treasury, 9,000 00
The amount of payments to the Mem
bers, Chaplain of the Heufe ofße
prefentatives,for their compensation
and his own, agreeable to law, at a
session from the 15th May, to the 10th
_ July, 1797, 53598 68
By amount of payments made to the
fame, at a session from the 13th Nov.
1797, and ending the 16th of July,
1798, 164,483 80
Leaving a balance due from the said
Jonathan Dayton, to the U. States on'
this account, of 93,529 12
Dols. 320.611 60
On the 22(1 Jan. 1800, Mr. Dayton's
accounts as agent for paving com
pensations for members of Congress,
&c. underwent a further settlement,
the flatefnent of whichis as follows,
viz.
so balance du,from Jona. Dayton, to
the United States, of his account fet
tled at the Treasury Department in
July, „„, thefatement, Dis. 90,917 52
He is credited on this amount as follows ;
the amount of payments made by him
to the Members of the House of Re
presentatives for their travel to and
from the feat ofgovernment, and for
their compensation at a feflion from
the 3d Dec. <7,8, to the 30th March,
1799, including the compensation ot
himielf, the sergeant at arms, and
the chaplain, 72,775
Finally leaving a balance due from Jon
athan Dayton, to the U. States, of ' 18,142 52
Dols. 90,917 52
Thus Jonathan Dayton held in his hands a bal
ance ot Dols. 8,611 60 fr^n the 3d March,
1797, to the month of July following, and he held
in his hands the small balance of Dols. 90 917 52
from the month ofJuly, 1799, th the 22d January
1800, and so far as hit accounts are fettled at the
Treasury Department, he appears dill to hold in
his hands the sum of Dols. 18,142 & 52 cents.
The public will discuss this account for a few
days, and we (hall then bring out fometbing BET
TER still. [Aurora.
Captain Serenfon of the Scorpion, on his
outward bound passage from this port, was
boarded off Turk's-Iflind by the British
frigate Retaliation, and detained from ten
in the morning until four in the -evening,
during which term nearly all his cargo was
hoisted on deck, and examined with parti
cular scrutiny. The fame frigate had just
taken the sch. Trimmer, Capt. Peachy of
Baltimore, and sent her to Jamaica ; the
reafen assigned was the captain having a let
ter or written orders from the owners, to
fell his guns at a French port. A schooner
and a floop.from New,York, and a fch'r
from Philadelphia," we're aHo captured +,
said frigate, and sent to Jamaica—-names of
vessels 'or captains not recollected. The
reason assigned for these captures “ their
being consigned to a Frenchman at Pert-
Republicain}'
Capt. Serenfon further obfertfs that the
Britilh cruisers appear to ad with the utmost
rigor towards American vessels, capturing
and condemning on the most frivolous pre
text —such, for instance, on board the Scor,
pion in ovbrhatffinglhe cargo they dtfeoveri
ed a kind of Caflimere, Which they said was
bunting, and threatened in confluence
thereof to fend her to Jamaica.
. ^.^/^ NEWARK, JUNE '6.
The federal tories ar,e quite disappointed
in Mr. Adams, arid censure his late conduct
as leaning to the republican interest. They
now fay he is become a Trimmer, and withes
to please both parties, in hopes of teing re
eleaed President. The embassy to France
was one step out of the true path of federal
ifm ; but the dismissal of the Man Timothy
has ruined him altogether in the eyes of those
true FRIENDS OF ORDER, a time,
server (fay they) is unfit to hold the reins of
government, and therefore Mr, Pinckney,
the staunch federal correspondent of X. Y.
and Z. and the lady, is to be held up as a
candidate for the Prefidentiai chair : How
ever, we are pleased to find, that the Repub
licans in the foulhern States, aware of the
double game about to be played by the fede
ralifts, are determined unanimously to fop
port Mr. Jefferfon for President, but will,
it is probable, scatter their votes for Vicc-
President; be this as it may, we are confi
dent, that those who support Mr. Jefferfon
will not vote for general Pinckney, whose
political principles are diametrically oppo
site to those of the framer of the Declara
tion of Independence, they may vote for the
late governor of South-Carolina, that deter
mined and patriotic republican fcderalift,
The New-York ele&ions have (oread dis
may and terror-among the New-England il
luminati; and the commotions in the fede
ral cabinet have excited wonder and distrust :
they fear-Mr. Adams willin the end prove
an honest man, and of course defers them.
In our quarter of the Union, the federalifis
have become mild and tradable; they fee
that all their efforts will not be fufficient to
stop the current of popular opinion, and
therefore silently acquiesce. Even the Nor-:
folk Herald, ceases to confider thofa as lu
natics, who will undertake the pleating talk
of perusing Jefferfon's elegant notes on Vir-,
ginia.
PHILADELPHIA , JUNE 20.
Extra# cf a letter from Messrs. Berranger and
Company, dated Surrinafos, 12th April, 1800,
Configm es of the (hip Brothers of Philadelphia.
“ The Governor has granted permiflion to all
neutrals to take produce to England, on account
of the scarcity of, veffefs ; and they have paid ho
more outward duties than national ships. We
have been obliged to give security for two thou
sand pounds flerling, in order that the ship may
not enter any enemy's port,(but in case of capture)
—You will therefore forward by the firfl oppor
tunity, certificates of her landing the, cargo in a
British port."
Extra# of a letter from David M. Clarion, Esq.
dated St. Kitts, 17th Blay, 1800, to the owners
of the ship Brothers.
" I have to inform you, with great concern of
the ship Brothers, Moses Hawkins, matter, being
here with a very valuable cargo from Surrinam,
bound to London, and has been seized here with
three other neutral veflels, for having afted con
trary to aft of Parliament, in taking the produce
of the colonies, which is not permitted but in
British fliipL and navigated according to law.'?
r==—
BALTIMORE, JUNE 17.'
' MORE BRITISH AMITY.
BOSTON, JUNE 26.
Communications.
The celebrated letter fard to be written by
the patriotic Jefferfon toMazzei,which was
publiffied nut long fine# in the Telegrapher
has been frepublilhed ih almost all the Re
publicah papers in the United States : 1 he
federal papers are clamorous against Mr.
Jefferfon lor writing this letter, but do not
republic it : This is a little extraordinary,
whether the framer of the declaration of
independence is in sass the author of this
letter or not, has not been fully afeertained,
but the stubborn and damning fads which
that letter points out as a fun,beam, ought
to be w rote in letters of GOLD, to the im
mortal honor of the writer. If it should be
proved to be the production of the Vice-Pre
sident of the United States, it will, if possi
ble, more strongly attach the Republican in
terett to this inflexible friend of liberty and
the rights of man.
—H4+tt«^§3^tt+»> > —
- Portsmouth, July 1, 1800.
CT A SUBSCRIPTION for celebrating
the approaching anniversary of our Indepen
dence at the Affcmbly Room, in this town, it
now open at the InJurance office. All true
friends to the principles of ,be American Re
volution, which difluved the connection between
this country and Britain, are invited t 9 join the
feftival.
^fr.^
From 80/hm, June 27.
From the Wilmington (Del.) Mirror of June 18.
We flop the press to announce the arrival of the
brig Sally, capt. Hampton, of this port, in 13
days from St. Thomas's. Whilst getting under
weigh from said lUand a schooner arrived in 21
days from Bourdeaux, who said that the Ameri
can Commissioners bad accomplished the object of
their tuiffiun.' •
A rumour prevailed in town yesterday, said to
be received by letters from Bilbos—That the Ne
gociation between this country and France had
been broken off; but other letters received from
the fame place, and at the fame time make no
mention of such an event. [Chronicle.
Charles Pinckney, at prefcntfeh,.tor to con
gress from that (fate, and formerly a co-pa
triot of Jefferfon —this uniform and inflexi
ble friend to the rights and libeftie^ of the
PEOPLE, would fill the feednd chair of
date with reputation to himfelf and honour
tp his country*.
• - JUNE 27.
The Junb, a large armed merchant ihrp, u hich
failed from this port a few days since, for Leghorn,
has been detained by the Britilh frigate Cleopatra,
and ordered to Halifax. Her cargo is very valua
ble, the principal part of which belongs to Messrs.
Matthew Bridge and Thomas K. Jones.
Wanton depredations on American property,
either by the Euglifli or the French ought to be e
pually depricated—but the apparent partiality
displayed, as it refpe&s the two nations, by a
British faction, is too obvious to be unnoticed.—.
The Cen'tinel of yesterday prefaces the captures
of the French, with “ Robbery,Robbery, Robbery.”
—But this paper was peculiarly modest in the
account of the capture by the Cleopatra, an Eng
lilh ship of war, of two mips from New-York ;
and the fame Britilh (hip went to New-York for
a supply ofprovifions, &c. Though the violation
of our Neutrality, was in the last itftance, perpe
(rated by a King's ship, and the French captures
were made by privateers. Betides, are not we in
open war with France, by fending our frigates to
capture thdir property and kill their citizens?
But in what instance have commenced such hoflil
ities against England ? Truxton has been thanked
by the President for his heroic conduct against
France, while the English have the effrontery to
enter our harbor, after committing the most wan
ton depredations on our Commerce. "Robbery,
Robbery, Robbery," may well be applied to Eng
land, while France may be considered as retaliat
ing in a moderate manner, as it relaies to our con
duft towards them. If we have given orders to
take, fink and delirpy Frenchmen, can it be ex
pefted, that this nation would accede to it, with
out some specimen of resentment ? Let usjudge
candidly 6n the state of our present conduct, to
wards the two nations-—we have a busy Eflex
Fad ion who are arduous to bury every mifeon
duft of the Britilh, but are equally alive to pro
pagate every 'report which may operate against
France. Let us remember that Truxton is ap
plauded for his captures, and we cannot suppose
that France will become so far the dupes of an
English Faflion, as to look on with indifference.
-<«❖>->-
SALEM, JUNE 30.
Letters were received by Thursday Evening's
Mill froth New-York, informing of the capture
of the lirig Hannah, Henry White, jun. matter of
this port, laden with Sugar and Dry Fish, and
bound for Spain, by the St.™Albans, a British 64 —
and that file had been ordered to Halifax, (alias
Hell-iu fall, to our commerce) for " lawful adju
dication."—She is entirely owned by Capt. Joteph
White, of this town. ——“IfrThus we,ud our
enemies at our very doors !"— —Yea, in our very
harbors!,'
Five of the crew of the brig Hannah, arrived
here yesterday from New-York—the Captain ol
the St. Albans told them to inform their owner
“ That the brig and fifliwould be cleared, and
and the sugar (being the produce of the Spanish
colonies) would be condemned.—ls property thus
situated is liable to seizure and condemnation—
three quarters of the hard earnings of the Merch
ants of the United States will be plundered from
them.
Extract of a letter from capt, —, to his own
ereiw Baltimore, dated Jamaica, 25th May, 1800.
"I am furry to inform you that we have been
sent in here by the Argonaut privateer. We were
captured in fight of our intended porr, after a
pleasant passage of ji days. The fch.Olive has
been sent in here, and a fch'r of Mr. Goldsbor
oughs, and a number of other American vessels.—
I am informed that they have had late orders to
fend in all Americans bound to Spanish ports."
"gentlemen,
Cbe Republican Ledger.
. Boson, Junezß.
Arrived, brig Holbrook, &pt; Sayer, 47 dan
| r °™ Grfenoch, " May 27th spoke the private ~
brig Happy Couple, of eighteen fix pounders,
capt. La Touche, from Gran^Ha, bn a truife.
who treated him politely, and informed him that
, consequence of an Amicable Settlement between
Fiance and th^:United States, be had orders not
take or moled any American veffeh—that he
had previously taken and sent id a veffcl from Vir•
ginia loaded with tobacco, which had been ac
quitted and damages recovered."
"<"<4^>.>-
„late fftb of Earl Stanhope, in the British
House of Lords ife draws a contrail from authen
tic documents, between the population and rev
enue of Great Britain, and thole of France, the
result of which is that the people of England pay
in taxes and in tythes about 61. ios. For every in
habitant ; while the whole of what the French
pay to their government, amounts to left than
'{"' e „h : " And yet (fays the Earl) we are told
that this country, where we pay 61. 10s. is the
belli governed country in the world ; and France,
", ere , e y.P a y ° D 'y 10S - is opprefled by its rulers,
(attracted in its councils, ruined in its finances,
and incapable of defending itfelf !"
A general assortment of Seamen's
and offer
CLOTHING,:
Which they are determined to fell on mod
erate terms, either for Groceries, Weft- In
dia Goods, or country produce ; and as
ever, attention w ill be paid, both to bespoke
and fready made work— -thef solicit the pat
ronage of Merchants, &c. whose orders Ihall
be answered, with fidelity and dispatch.
N. B. Wanted a number of Female Apr
prentices. Portsmouth, Ju^ 1,
or,
LITTLE BLIND FEDERALIST.
A letter from Vermont fays, " a child of
James Walker, born blind, fcand We fuppoje
be is deaf and dumb likewise,] only 5 years
°f a ge, is visited by crouds of people for his
great sagacity and forefight.—He foretold
the coming, and the continuation of the yel
low-fever at New-York and Philadelphia
last season, and the prefect scarcity of bread
in Europe."
He lays, that " before the year 1808, the
Jacobins are to swarm in this country to o
verthrow our prelent government, and to
put to death all the Clergy and religious of
both sexes. That having effected this revo
lution, they will then fall out for the supre
macy, and finally destroy each other with
the sword ; after which the government
will again be restored, and the country flour
ifh for ONE HUNDRED YEARS," & c .
&c. &c.— Umph ! "O! how this world it
given to lying !"
Entered at the Cuflom-HouJ'e.
Juhc *B, brig Felicity, Brown, Antige.
30, brig Refolufion, Keen, Martinico.
brig Oliver Peabody, Chamberlain, St. Kitts..
25, blip Hantonia, Moulton, Liverpool.
30, brig Drake, Tredick, St. Thomas..
CLEARED.
June 18, floop.Enterprize, Shaw, Barbadoes
-30, brig Orion, Holn.es, Tobago.
brig Polly, Neal, Demerary.
24, Hitty, Lord, Tobago. f
27, Ranger, Staw. do.
Olive, Stoodley, Martinico,
39, sch. Lively, Smith, Grenada,"
AUCTION.
To-morrow at 10 o'clock A. M.
Will be fold, at
Abraham Isaac's Auction- Room,
21 Doz. 4-4 Book Mullin Handkerchiefs.
41 pieces 4-4 and 6-4 Book Mullins.
2 do. 6-4 jaconet do.
14 do. 6-4 beautiful Tambore Sprig.
12 do. Fine linen Checks, &c. &c.
N. B. All the above are positively to be
Sold. July 1, 1800.
HYDE & LYEL,
Tailors & Habit-Makers,
FROM LONDON,
Refpeafully inform their friends and the
Public, that they have for Sale,
At the Sign of the GOLDEN ANCHOR,
A SERF'S CONSIDERATIONS.
" a "ding army is to be disbanded in a few
" eeks, The public cannot exult too much on an
w bi c h will cause a saving of more than two
millions of dollars to the public. But great cir
cumfpeftion fliould now be used on the discharge
^ofe troops, who for feverall months trained
up in idleness and the vices and profligacy of a
camp, muff have a dangerous effect on society.—
But there are other evils to be apprehended inore
than from their moral depravity, and it might be
well worthy of the consideration of those who
have large tra fts ot land to hold out the tempta
tion to those men w ho have no profellions, to form
a settlement on some lands which are at present
uufettled. A company of opulent citizens might
be formed, who by advancing a small capital to
provide instruments of husbandry might save the
civilized parts of[cummunity from the licentious
ness of this body of men, but might save them to
them selves add lay the foundation of a new and
flourishing settlement. The agricultural lite has
a tendency to sweeten the mind and take from it
all the courfenefs of public vices.
THE WONDERFUL PROPHET,