Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1801-04-16 00:00:00, page 3

The appointments of tag President of the
U. S. have already raised a clamor from the op
position. That of Gen. Irwin, to succeed Mr.
Hodgden, is censured, as was predided by Mr.
Jefferson, by those who do not take a view of
fa whole ground. If it Biould appear that Mr.
Hodgden has ablolutely refufed to comply with
orders repeatedly given, before & since Mr. Jes.
FERSON'sadminiftratioD,to repair toWalhington,
the propriety of his removal will be doubted by
no cancid man of any part. The replacing him
with an old and meritorious officer, will be cen
sured by the tories, and this is the bigheft eplogy
that can be desired. The story of Mr. Hodgden's
being an officer in the army is truly ridiculous.
If a condudor and store keeper for upwards of
twenty years, inPhiliadelphia, making an inde
pendent fortune out of the public,is to be put in
competition with a gallant officer, at the head of
a regiment, which fought some of the hardest bat
tles in the revolution, and who left his patrimo
ny and fold his notes for a trifle ; it Blows how
far we have departed from firft principles. But
oppofirion must be expeded ; & if as good or bet
ter reason should juftify the other removals and
appointments, it is not probable they will fatisfy
a disappointed fadios.
- Washington, March 2:
OFFICIAL. Wiliam Kilty, Chief Judge of
the Circuit Court of the Diftria of Columbia.
Daniel Carroll Brent, Marflial of the fame, john
Thomfoa Mason, Attorney of do.
Portsmouth, March 31.
Mr. LANGDON, on his return, last week,
from 12 years service in the Senate of the U. S.
to whose Constitution he was the firft man that
let his name, and to fapport whichhe relioqthed
the office of chief executive magistrate of this state
—this fame Mr- Langdon, whom the well known
d,^ of every republican name, has expreffeld as
antifederal, fadious and unpopular, on his return
hft week from the distance of several miles from
this town, was met by avast number of gentle
men on horseback arid in carriages, and was borne
triumphantly home in the arms of his fellow citizens,
amidst the difeharge of cannon, the ringing of
bells, and the jjyful Ihouts of an immense con
course cf people.
The Packet, Capt. Trott, from Liverpool, has
furnifhed London papers to the fourth of March.
Their contents are highly interesting. Our read,
ers will notice the most important document that
has ever appeared in the world—the grand Mar.
atime Compact of the Nothern Powers, to
free the seas from the despotism of England, and
to make this high road of nations passable to the
innocent traveller.
America, for whose benefit this new code was firft
promulgated, in her late revolutionary war, must
eventually derive a greater benefit from it than
any other country. By her situation remote —
and by her policy and the consent of the only gov
ernment in Europe, to which she was ever pledg.
ed, or ever will be, wholly disentangled from all
foreign political engagements —she must feel the
consequence of her new law, as the firft and fa
vorite offspring of her own liberty. Indeed the
has not been compleatly free until this moment.
Her comercial enterprises, hereafter, will huve the
guarantee of every associated government, pledg
ed each to all and all to each for the common
good. It is the voice of reason, justice and of
nature and it will be heard and refpeded.
In vain will the British government struggle a
gainst the destinies, which prescribe limits to her
pretention. How much more rational this, than
the former law of nations ! The former might
have had the consent or acqiefcence,but this alone
has the approbation of all men, as an emanation
of the public. Since this treaty was firft signed,
by Russia and Sweden, Denmark and Prussia have
acceded to it. And as al) the other nations will
accede, is it likely Great Britain can resist its pow
er when fuppofted by the common sense and the
common interest of the whole world ? The thing
is impossible. Should the protrad the period of
her submission, her convulsions to prevent it will
only render her more impotent in her future op
rations.
The century opens with a most glorious prof
peft. On each quarter of the globe, the standard
of rational freedom is unfurled ; & the progress
ing energies of the human mind will perpetuate
those benefits, to the remotest generations, which
the present have obtained by the facrifice of their
treasure and their blood.
American intelligence.
BOSTON CHRONICLE, April 6.
Boffo#, Apil 4. From LISBON, late.
Letters from a refpe&able merchant at
Lifboh, received yesterday, via Salem,
inform, that the controversy between
Portugal, Spain, and France, had been
fatisfa&orily fettled.
Died, in England, Dr. Herschel, the celebrated
astronomer, and difeoverer of the new planet call
ed Georgium Sidus.
Mr. Madison, as stated in a Philadelphia print,
has not arrived at the feat of government ; nor
has Mr. Dexter retired for one month from the
duties of the < ffice of Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Muhlenberg is not appointed Colledor of
the Port of Philadelphia in room of George Lit
imer.
Mr. Dawfem is not appointed Minister to Por
tugal in the room of Mr. Smith.
Most of statements presented to the public by
the prints ot B iltimore, Philadelphia, and New
york, though ebiunding in mistakes, are declar
ed to be from authority. From this circumstance
a weight is attached to them, which will be apt
to produce extensive misconception. It is fug
gelled whether a regard to correanefs does not
diaate a dfferent mode of statement.
Extraa of a letter from an Officer of the American na
v,, to bis friend in this town, dated on board the
Confutation, Cape Nichola Mole, 24th Feb. 1801.
" You ma, suppose we are not much pleased with
the suspension of affairs ,t present, and wait anx
iously the decision of bur government, refpeaing
the business with France. If the treat, should be
ratified, the Blips will probably be recalled in the
foringiunlefs our good friends the English, should
arouse our new administration to repel the aggra
vated infringements of neutral privilege, still prac
tifed on our commerce, by imitating the laudable
example of the Northern Powers of Europe. The
instances of illegal captures, and the impressment
of our seamen, into worse than Algerine fl 4 very,
are multiplied to that degree, that lean think no
facrifice too great for the accomplishment of a
righteous vengeance. We some time since spoke
the frigate Constellation, lately from America,
she having touched at Guadeloupe, and io run
ning down the islands had some difficulty with the
British frigate Magnahitne, of 44 guus, cut down
from a line of battle Blip ; the circumfbnces of
which are nearly as follow : Falling in wish each
other in the' night, the Constellation being to
leeward, brought to, and prepared for adion, at
the fame time shewing the private signal of the
night; but the Englishman while bearing down
(probably not understanding the signals) fired se
veral foots at theConftellation from her bow guns,
which Capt. Murray resenting, reserved his fire
until the came within bail, and then gave her bis
whole broadside; which being a salute the Eng
lish are of late unaccustomed to, it threw them in
to confufion, and they did not return it, but de
manded of Capt. M. to fend his boat on board
his " Brittannic Mijefty's Blip." This he refufed,
permitting them, however, to fend a boat on
board of him, which they did ; and the bofinefs
was accommodated. The Constellation, on her
passage from America, had nearly been loft in a
gale of wind, by her tore sheet giving way while
Newyork, March 31.
Capt. Noyes, of the Revenue, arrived here on
Sunday, 4 days from Norfolk informs,that a very
serious dispute took place there yesterday week,
between part of the crew of the French frigate Se
milliante,aod a number of British and American
sailors on shore, in which between 23 and 30 of
the former were killed and wounded. Capt. N.
2 of the French killed.
CONCORD, April 16.
@3 The left Mail afforded ver, little ado
ditional intelligence.
Appointments by the PreJident,
William Gardner, Esq. Commissioner of
Loans for the State of Newhampfhire,
in the room of John Peirce dismissed !
Joseph Whipple, Esq. Collector for
the Diftri& of Portsmouth, in the room
of Thomas Martin, dismissed.
[The Salem Register observes, " The above
gentlemen were turned out a few years since by Mr.
Adams, on account of their politics. Mr. Jeffer
fon is juftified therefore by precedent for turning
them in again /]
Error.feus Statements Co<reßcd.
Republican ®a,ette.
The Dartmouth Gazette, of the iith ioft. fays,
" Mat. Lyon fcaodalized Mr. Adams on what
folks call American principles" 0 We would
thank the Mister Dartmouth editor to inform his
patrons on what principles the Hon. General Alex
ander Hamilton, E'q scandalized, cr said, wrote,
uttered, printed, ana publiftied, all he could, with
intent to scandalize Mr. Adams, while President
of the U. S. the Sedition law to tbs contrary notwith
funding Information on that point, would be
worth more to his readers, than the Progresses of
fifty Pilgrims, fetch as WE.
Hhe Gazette aforefaid, gives a New definition to
" Liberty and the Constitution ;" viz. " Liber
#,*e privilege of faying any thing and every
thing, without regard to truth or decency. Cen
fitutioß—made up of hemefpun couplets, and dif
titches, and editorial squibs." As this is truly
a Federal definition, we Brail not contend about
its propriety—lt perfedly corresponds with the ideas
held by the Pupils of the Porenpinian School, frem
Bill Cobbett, the Englishman, down to his hom
bleft satellite.
" PILGRIMS PROGRESS." !!
—— Upon my word
rear " PEN is harmless as a woodenfword."
Adieu ! brother pilgrim, adieu ! o€l
feudding under ber fore-fail, and the sea at the
fame time ftrikiog on her quarter, broach'd her
to, and hove her on her beam ends, but after ftav
iog in her falfe ports, and filling ber waist with
water, she righted without further damage."
The British King's illness originated in a severe
cold ; and setting up very late for several nights
on public business. ^erj— If this King should
happen To die, would it not be at least as proper
a fubjea for the exultation of mankind, as the
Report of Mr. J.fferfon's death was for curtail A
merican printers, who called it " GLORIOUS
INTELLIGENCE !" and who, when it was
found that the Sage of Monticello was still living,
pronounced it an "UNFORTUNATE MIS
TAKE 1" that Death had taken his Negro man,
and left THOMAS JEFFERSON ! Misera
ble, vain, short lighted mortals ! But Mr. Jeffer
fon will only fay of them, " Forgive them, for the,
know ret what they do." Rep. Gaz.
The M^ffabujetts FeJeralift, of April 4th, fays,
Yesterday the Herald sloop of war, Capt. Russell,
went to sea. Yesterday arrived in President-road
the Congress frigate, Capt. Sever, from a cruise.
The following ships of the American navy are
to be fold, viz. George Washington of 34 guns,
Ganges, Connecticut, Maryland, 26 each, Mer
rimac, Portsmouth, Petapfco, 24's, Baltimore,
Delaware, 22's, Trumbull, Warren, Herald, 18's,
Norfolk, Richmond, Augusta, 16's, Eagle 14,
Experiment, Enterprize, Scammel, 12's— Being
fi ft divested of their guns and military stores. 13
frigates are to be retained, seven of them to go in
to ordinary. Those in service, to have but two
thirds of their present complement of men. The
mips in ordinary to be manned, as stated in the
7th No of our Gazette— Officers to be retained
in service, 9 captains, 36 lieutenants, and 150
midshipmen. The cfficers to be on half-pay, ex
cept when in a&ual service. The comrcillioned
and warrant officers discharged, are to receive 4
months extra pay.
The Federalist then elks, " What will those
who live by the " found of the axe and the ham
mer," fay, on perusing the above lift ?• And what
consolation must it afford to the farmer who fur
nifhes fhlptimber, the ft^ipcarpecter, blacksmith,
fhipjoiner, painter, rigger, boatbuilder, maftma
ker, blockmaker, failmaker, ropemaker, caulker,
carver, and, in short, many other mechanics who
have experienced constant employment and ready
pay, in furnilhing our country's best hope, and
commerce's sure protestor, a refpe&able and pro
gressive NAVY ?f
• They will fa,, the government is relieved from a
heavy expense, of paying men to do nothing ; andthe
Jbipe and men be better employed.
t The consolation which the farmer and the mechan
ic will derive from the want of employment for our
late " infant navy," will be such at ever, bones pat
riot feels, when bis Country is at Peace, prosperous and
happy. The advantage which the, will gain by the
loss of those ships of war, will be a revival of Ship
building for commercial nfes: which will be doubly in
creased. Look at a Philadelphia paragraph in the 2d
No. of the Republican Gazette, which we have never
fren coatradided, and which fates, that in one month,
more orders bad been given, and more contrails made,
for shipbuilding, in that port, than for several years
preceding. This is the Consolation, Mr. Centincl, the
American mechanics are to derive from the Sale of what
you are pleaded to call " our country's best hope."
FOR SALE, about 6 acres of INTER=
VALE LAND, about 130 rods East of the Court
House. Enquire at the Republican Gaz. Office,