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Have shared the fate of Demerary, having both
been surrendered to the Enghlh.
The last accounts from Portugal, Hate, that
the French army has made fever,ri motions to
wards the frontiers through Spain ; and that
the Portuguese expeded a visit from them.
It is evident, from the last accounts, that the
late prevailing epidemics in Alexandria, Phila
delphia, and New-York, were rapidly disappear
ing ; particularly in the two former places.
The number of deaths to the r6th October,
inclusive, has been 621. —Of these 467 have died
in the city, 96 at Bellevue, and 58 at the Marine
Hofpi^al.
King's ybungeft son, with a Ruffian Princess ;'
and the electorate of Hanover is to be given
them irith a new title.
Lord Neifon has taken pofleflion of the fort
and city of Medina in Sicily.
William Ainllie Holton, a rebel General offi
cer has been apprehended near Belfaft, and four
ladies, who had secreted him, had been taken
up and confined! He is fufyeded, however, to
have been in the pay and employ of the govern
ment. 0
Boston, Oct. ~
"-Our condition is frightful. For a month past we have
had only 6 or 700 barrels of flour to exit! upon, and this
feeble resource is now almost exhausted: there does not at
prtfent remain in the public (lores moi. than 60 barrels of
flour, and other piovdiousin proportion. The army has
lived fix weeks upon exactions alone. All the beeves
which the inhabitants had saved have been killed for the
troops, and they now began to kill the milch cows, calves,
&c. To add to our unhappinefs,the gtcateft mifuGdertlan
ding exitls among the chiefs. The exemption from military
service, which Gen. Sarazin wished to extend to the marine,
has occafiouedthe most lively contentions among rhe chiefs.
M. Colbert (commissary general) is under airest in his
own hcufe, guarded by five soldiers. All is confufion and
disorder.
“ There is no species of rapine or oppression, that is not
praftifed by the commanders that yet remain with ue.
Their avarice and cupidity are equalled only by their base.
fiefs and cowardice. T c public disorder and misery, so
far from teaching them moderation, fcem only to open a
more exten five field for exadion, peculation, and crimes of
every description. Every thing is put under contribution
and tirade to turn to their profit. No veffJ c n leave port
without dearly purebtfng the liberty of departing : this is paid
to Sarazin &Lavalettc,who receive it as for thefervice of the
road. Reynolds, an American, lately paid 160& dollars.
It is true, that these who depart at present make consider
able profit by the number of passengers, but that does not
juftify the conduct of theft extortioners.
“Pauiffe purfucs a war of peculation against honesty,
yet infinitely more criminal. He seizes from individuals
the wood and forage which they have snatched from the
plain at the mouth of the musket ; the firft he pretends is
for the hofpitil, the second for the horses of the garrison.
When a convoy of potatoes arrives from the country, instead
of being distributed among the miserable driving wretches
in the town, they are seized and monopolized by him, and
fold openly to their original proprietors. To crown the
tfhole, he is now fending his wife to Cuba, with,about
twenty negroes, whom he has floleu from their owners
here." — 0—
A letter from London, of the date of Aug.
36, observes, “ there are daily complaints among
the merchants, of the uncommon stagnation of
business, the want of markets or demand for mer
chandize,and the Scarcity of money or what paHes
for money. There never was remembered a time
when so little business has been done at the custom
house for the last two months, and yet it is to
that source that the minister locks for the chiefs
part of the yearly revenue. The importation
trade cannot but be considerably affe&ed by the
blockade of the Elbe and Wefer, and the num
ber of our cruifeis which are running about the
North Seas in every direction, andcaufing great
alarm even to our allies on the continent, must
have the effect of suspending the ffiipments of
goods which would Otherwise be constantly com
ing in. The stagnation of business at the cultom
houfe, and excise offices, must materially lessen
the receipts at the exchequer. How this defi
ciency will be provided for, or what effect it will
produce, cannot be predicted—l am just inform
ed, that futh has been the distress for cash felt
by the merchants and bankers, that the Bark of
England has been applied to, and asually dis
counted bills to the amount of a million and a
half per weeks, for Several weeks pad.—lt is
hoped, that these evils, which are of a very feri
etis nature, will be of Ihort duration.
BOSTON, OCT. 22.
, FROM EUROPE.
Yesterday we bad several arrivals from Eu
rope ;.put they have only furnifhed us with pa
pers (Liverpool) to the 3d September. Os con
sequence they could not present any news. We
learn, there were packages of papers on board
the brig Dean, Capt. Dean, directed to perforis
in Philadelphia, comtainihg London dates to the
6th September ; but which we could hot obtain.
We are told, however, that they do not record
any event of importance. Capt. Dean left Liv
erpool the 9th September, when it was reported,
that five French gun-boats,- had failed from
Dunkirk for the British coast, about the ill Sep
tember but had met two Britilh gun-brigs,
which drove them back with great loss.
An arrival at New-York from Ireland, gives
Irish dates to the 6 h September. The trial and
execution of the rebels had commenced.
On Thursday night, a '.ckney coach, in con
keying a young gentleman and three young la
dies from the ball, ovei set in a new cellar in O
live-Street, by which one of the young ladies, a
brighter of jofiah Batchelder, Esq. of Chelsea,
on a visit to town, bad her shoulder dislocated,
and badly bruised.— The carriage was dashed to
pieces ; and? ; the passengers, driver and horses,
were all more or less injured.
BERBICE and ORONOKE
From PORT-AU-PRINCE.
(Extract of a letter,— -ug 1803.)
EPIDEMICS.
Cbe Republican Ledger,
“TRUE AS THE DIAL TO THE SUN."
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1803.
On Fiiday last
Arrived in this harbor, the brig Conctufion
Andrew Phillips matter, belonging to Caftine,
put in for a hai bor, 24 days from Nevis—Capt.
P. informs that on the 28th September a (hip ar
rived at Nevis from Liverpool, after twenty-two
days passage—and the Capt. on landing at Nevis
declared that the French had landed at a place
near Edinburgh,—Scotland, and that all the En
glifli forces were to the South of England.
On his passage spoke ship Recovery, belonging
to New Brunswick, bound to Jamaica, who had
taken off the crew of a wrecked schooner belong
ing to Nantucket, from Bonavifta.
Boston, oct. 21.
From England, 4 days later than the above.
The ship Sally, captain Rowe, arrived yester
day, in 40 days from Bristol, Eng. but brought
no papers. Capt. R. informs, that the Northern
Powers had taken no decisive part in the contest
between Great Britain and France. Contradic
tory reports refpefting their measures and difpo
iitions were daily published. The invasion was
still talked of. War had not been declared against
Spain—No event of magnitude had oeccurred.
Britifo Friendfeipvgain !
Edtrafi from the Log-Book of the foip Fsx.
Arrived at Boftun, &n 1 tajday fall.
September 18, long 42, at 4, P M was bailed by a ffiip
under French colours, and ordered to fend our boat on
board—The captain replied he cenld not, as his boats were
not fit to trull the people in—The commander of the crui
zer said, if they had to fend on beard, they would be damn
ed if they would not cut the boats away. They hoiked out
their boat and come on board under Englifb colours, de
manded the papers and log-book, which were sent on board
the cruizer. The officers then ordered our people to get
out our long boat, and lower the boat from the stern, which
they refufed to do without their captain's orders. The offi
cer then flruck the bpatfwain and ordered him aft, and
Philip Jones refufing, he drew his cutlas and flruck him
over the back, cut him on the arm, and kicked him on deck
After abusing the captain, he ordered him be'ow : andon
his refuting to go, the lieutenant flruck him on the head
with his cutlass, and gave him several blows with sis fift,
calling him a damned rascal, Captain Cock, then ordered
his men to lower down the boats, and went below, and
found 2 men belonging to the cruizer, overhauling his chest,
and trunks. On his requefiiog them not to plunder him,
one of them took him by the collar, and pushed him to the
cabin-door, and ordered him on deck. He complied, and
then got into bis own boar, to go on board the cruizer to
enquire the reason of his being abused, but was ordered
not to come along fide on his peril. Captain Cook then
requeued him to refpc& the American flag if he did not
him. The answer was, damn your flag, there is your mas
ter, pointing to the English flag—During the absence of
Captain Cook from his veffef, the persons left on board tried
to get a cask of wine out, but could not—They then, with
a marlinespike, have the bilge of one cask, and drew part
of it —they took oie box of lemons, hove overboard the
captain's pistols, took the captain's flute, pafrnger s spy
glass, a keg of rum, and a number of other articles; then
Ireturned on board their own (hip, and made fail. They
said their (hip was called the Stork, sloop of war, comman
ded by the hon. Captain Murray." —Capt. C. is confident
the cruizer was a privateer ; as officers of national fhin>
in general, by their habits and education, are above such
mean, blackguard and cowardly conduct.
WILLIAM COOK, mafler of tbeJbip Fox.
We lfaac Bridges, of Charleftown, in the State of Maffa
chufetes, and Charles Du Hamel, of the city of Qjebeck,
in the British province of Lower Canada—teftify and fay
that we were passengers on boar J the (hip Fox, 00 her voy
age from Lib >n, and that the above extracts are the truth
and nothing but the truth. ISAAC BRIDGES.
C.Du HAMEL.
Suffolk, IT—Boflon, O& 19, 1803 —Subscribed and sworn
to before WILLIAM STEVENSON, Just Peace.
—0
HUDSON OCT. IT.
Extract from the Protest of ca,t. dJookiar, of the
this port.
Dominica,
BY this public internment of protell be it known
onto all whom it doth (hall or may concern,
That on this firft day of August, in the year of out
Lord one thousand eight hundred aid three, be
fore me, John Wilbraham notary public, by law
ful authority duly admitted and sworn, retiding
and prattiting in the town of Roseau and island
aforefaid,personally appeared John Mookfar; mas
ter of ire brig Maik and Mar,, of the port ot
Hudson, in America, Emanuel Perady, mate, and
Owen Cathcart and Eli d s Thomas Moore, teamen,
who being by me the said notary duly sworn on
the holy evangelills of almighty God, depose and
fay : And fiiit the said John MookLr tor himtell
faith, that he faded in the said brig from Sandy
Hook, in America, on the twenty eighth day ot
June lad, with a cargo confining of alive (tock,
lumber, fait and pickled fi(b, beef, pork, flour &
bread ; That being on his paflage bound to Mar
tinico, on the Ucond day ot July following, the
vessel sprung a leak, by reason of the wind's
blowing a hard gale, and a very heavy sea going,
insomuch that die kept one pump conflantly
working ; That on the twenty ninth day of the
fid month of July he arrived off the north end ot
Mirtinico, and was there boarded by a boat from
his Britannic majHly's frigate Emerald, with an
officer therein, who impreif d and forcibly took
out of the veflel three teamen and a boy, named
as follows, Lynoot) Comffock, Peter Backus, John
B^coa, and Hugh M'Cormack, one of which had
an "American protection & cet tificate of his being
a citizen : That fhoftly after his so taking away
.the men he returned on board and brought with
him an American fai|or and an invalid who had
beena long time in the frigate; That the said
officer, in the name of capt. femes O'Brien,
codimander of said f igate, then ordered hm the
deponent to quit the coast of Martin co immedia
tely, &c. when he flood for Dominica, where be
arrived on the 31st, &c. &c. S~brn to n<
signed by the afurefaid Mooklar, Peradit Cath
tart, and Moore; and witueffed, teftnied and
sealed in proper form.
(Os the above impressed man Lyndon Cbmflock
sias born in this state, and Peter Backus in Rhode
Bland, and John Bacon had a certificate and pro
tection, and Hugh M Cormack was a boy,
apprentice to the owner.)
ON the 17th inst. commenced the firft
fuffion of the eighth Congress. The rati
fication of the treaty which transfers to us
the exienfive country cf LouifianA—An
amendment to the Constitution, lefpe&in^
the choice of President and Vice President
--•And some effective proviGon for the
fecurit y of our feamen.againft imprelfment
•-will probably be the incafurc-s to which
their eariieft attention will be called. That
our readers may have a view of the political
:aft of that honorable body we lay before
them the folowing.
LIST of the Members of the Eighth Con
gress.
C^Thofe in Italics are federal—thofe, to
whole names an ailerifk is affixed, are new
members.
SENATE.
New-Hampshire. Samuel Olcott, Wm.
Plummer.
Rhode-Iflind. Christopher Ellery, *Sam
uel J. Potter.
Massachusetts. *John 9. Adams, *Tim,.
thy Pickering.
Connecticut. James Hiliboufe, Uriah
Tracy.
Vermont. Stephen R. Bradley, # lfraei
Smith.
New-Yoik. Dewitt Clinton, "Theo
dorus Bailey.
New Jersey. Jonathan Dayton, *John
Condit.
Pennsylvania. George Logan, *Samuel
Maclay.
Delaware. Samuel IPbite, William 11.
Welf.
Maryland. Robert Wright, "Samuel
Smith.
Virginia. Wilson C. Nicholas, "John
Taylor.
North Carolina. David Stone, Jelle
Franklin.
South Carolina. Thomas Sumter, Peirce
Butler.
Georgia. Abraham Baldwin, James
Jickfon.-
Kentucky. John Brackenbridge, John
Brown.
Tenth ffee. *Jofeph Anderson, *Daniel
Smith.
Ohio. # John Smith; *Thomas Worth
ington.
Os the above, twenty-four members are
republican, and nine federal ; and thirteen
new members.
There is one Vacancy for Tenneflee, Mr.
Anderson's time having expired.
New-Hawpthire. Samuel Tenny, *Sam
uc'l Hunt, *Dav:d Hough, *Silas Bitten,
*Clifto, Clagget.,
Matfachuietts. William Euftis, Samuel
Thacher, *J.acob Crowninfhield, Joseph B
'fornum, Phanuel Bithop, *Thomfon J
skinner, "Ebenezer Seaver, Richard Cutts,
Seth Hidings, Manaffel) Cutter, *lPil!iam
Stedman, Peleg IFtidJivorth*Thomas Dwight,
*Aabum Mitchell, Lemuel Williams, *phineas
Bruce,, i deficient.)
Rhode Inland. Joseph Stanton,jun. *Ne
henriah Knight.
Conned:cut. ,hn C Smith S F7. Dana,
Calvin Goddard, John Devenport, *Simeon
Baldwin, Roger GriJwold, Benjamin Talmage
Vermont. *Gideoo Olin. # Wm. Cham
berlain, *James Elliot, *Martin Chittenden.
New. York. John Smith,Samuel L. Mit
chell, Pnilip Van Cort landt, "Andrew M'
Cord,*Danl. C. Vcip'ank,*Bcriah Palme ,
David Thomas,* rhomasSammons,*Eraftus
Root,"John Patterfon,"Oliver Phelps, *J^-
ua Sands, *Henry [7, Livingston, K. K. Van
Renfrlaer, *Gborge Tickets, *Gaford Grij
wo/Z "John Cantine.
New Jersey. Not elected.
Pennsylvania. *Jof. C'ay, *Jacobßich^rds
Micheal Leib, Robert Brown, Isaac V n
H^rne, "Emerick Conrad, Joseph Heitter,
*J. Anderson, "John Whitehiil, John Snil
lie, John Stewart, John A.Hanna, *David,
Bird, Andrew Gregg. "William Findley,
*John b. C. Lucas, William Hedge. ,*John
Rhea.
Delaware. "Caesar A. Rodney.
Maryland. Joseph H. Nicholson, "Wil
liam Mac Crcery, John Archer, Daniel
Heister, *N.R. Moore, Walter Bowie, John
Dennis, Thomas Plater, Jhon Campbell.
Virginia. John Randolph, jun. John
Smith, John Clapton, "Thomas M. Ran
dolph, "John W. Eppes, John Dawson,
*>j'-P^ Lewis, jun. Edwin Gray, David
Holmes, Anthony New, Thomas Clair
borne, "Walter Junes, Thomas Newton,
jun. Abram. Trigg, John Trigg, "Peterson
Goodwin, * James Stevenson, *John G. Jack
fun, Thomas Lewis, Mathew Clay, 'Thomas
Griffin, Philip R. Thompfea.
North Carolina. Nathaniel Macon,
Willis AlUlon, Richard Stanford, 'Samuel
D. Puruiance, "Marmaduke Williams,
1 homasWynns, Junes Holland, "William
Blackledge, "Nathaniel Alexander, "Joseph
Winnfton, "William Kennedy, James Gil
lefpie.
South Carolina, William Butle r , Thomas
Lrandu, Richard Winn, "Levi Casey,
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
^Attention.
THE Officers and Members of
Governor Gilman's Blues, are hereby
notified to appear at Jefferfon Hall, on Saturday
next, the 29th infL at half past 8 o'clock, A.M.
wifi Arms and Accoutrements, and in Com
plete Uniform, to celebtate the anniversary of
their firtt Public Parade.
Roll called percijely at nine o^clock.A.M.
PER ORDER.
Isaac Stanwood, clerk. °
October 25.
To be fold
. At AUCTION,
THIS DAY,
On William Sbeafe's wharf at
12 O'clock,
13 Bales Georgia Cotton.
For calh on delivery. Free io the highest
Bidder.
^ LITTLQ^n_.
Tobe fold at
PUBLIC AUCTION,
On SATURDAY next, 2 gtb inst.
12 O'clock
The strong well built SHIP
HAMDEN & SIDNEY as (he now
lays at Woodbury Langdon, Esq's. wharf.
Said thip is well found, and may be put to
sea at a final! ex pence.
Conditions made known at time & place
of sale. C&. 25.
NOTICE
IN pnrfnaneq of the ad to incorporate the
Aflociatqd Mechanics and Manufaaurers
of the State of New-Hampthire —the
Corporation are hereby notified to meet at
the brick school house in Portsmouth, on
Thursday the 3d day of November next, 60'
clock P. M. for the purpose ofchoofing their
firft board of Trustees and to tianfa& such
other business as may be thought necessary.
TOBIAS WALKER.
SAMUEL WYATTS
Cabinet Maker,
Resp dtfully informs the public
hat he has taken the (hop formerly de
copied by the late Mr. Daniel Ringde, in
Daniel ft reet, ..here hecarries on the cabinet
making in all its branches. As he has just
commenced business, he hopes the public &
his friends in particular will favor him with
their custom, and he promises that their or
ders, left with him, (hall be executed in the
belt manner and most modern Ityle.
Oo.§
MARRIED—In this town, C d pt. William
Baily, to the amiable Mils Elizabeth Smith.
Thomas Moore, "Wade Hampton, "John
Earle, Benjamin Huger. N
Georgia. David Merriwether, Peter
Early, "Samuel Hammond, ( 1 deficient.)
Kentucky. John Fowler, "Matthew
Walton, *John Boyle, "Thomas Sandford,
*G. M. Bedin^er. "Mathew Lvnn.
Tennessee. William Dickson, "George
Washington Campbell, "John Rhea.
Ohio. "Jeremiah Morrow.
Miffifippi Territt ry. * William Lattimore.
Os the above, 96 are Republicans, 38
Federal, and 68 new Members.
COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT.
Doubts having gone abroad refpe&ing
the kind cf protection a certificate obtained in
America, would afford to a bankrupt on his
retrieval to a foreign country: The following
case was in consequence made out, and
transmitted to London; it has been lately
returned, and together with the opinion of
an eminent barrister there, is now published
for the information of the trad ng part of
the community.— Cbar/efton. Times.
CASE.
A merchant, resident in one of the princi
pal cities in the United States of America,
becomes in the course of an extensive com
merce, largely indebted to a mercantile house
in London ; but through sudden and heavy
losses in trade, is reduced to bankruptcy.—-
Conformably to the general law of the Uni
ted tates, he is called upon to difeover the
whole ofhis estate and effc&s whatsoever,
and to assign the fame over to truftces, for
the benefit of his creditors : Receiving from
them, a certificate of difeharge, similar to
that granted to bankrupts by the law of
England. The British creditor, by his
attorney on the spot, fefufes to prove his
debt, or come in under the commission in
America. It isafked whether the certificate
obtained in America, in the city where the
trader was domiciliated, duly authenticated
by the commiflioners. and by the court ha
ving jurifdi&ion in such cases, will not
operate as a bar to the demand of the British
creditor, in England, and elsewhere.
Anfaer —“ I am of opinion that the cer
tificate which has been obtained in America,
will operate as a bar to the demand of the
British credi or ; especially as it appears he
had an opportunity of benefiting with the
rest of the creditors." J. A. PARK.
Lincoln's Inn Fields, iql' of 1 ly. 180 g,