The Republican ledger — Portsmouth, N.H., 1800-12-09 00:00:00, page 3

Attending circumstances a^d everg probable
cbnfequence of the measures which may be
prepared.
The several fubje&s for legislative consi
deration, contained in your fpeccb to, both
houfesef Congress; shall receive from the
Senate all the attention which they can give,
when contemplating thpfe objects both in
rcfpe& to their national importance, and the
aditional weight that isgiven them by your
recommendation.,
We deprecate with you, fir, all spirit of
innovation from whatever quarter it may a
rise, which may impair the sacred bond that
cements the different parts of this Empire ;
and we trust, that under the proteaion of
Divine Providence, the wisdom and virtue
of the citizens of the United States will de
liver our national compaa unimpaired to a
grateful posterity. ,
From past experience, it is impossible for
the Senate of the United States to doubt of
your zealous co-operation with the legifla
tute in every effort to promote the general
happiness and tranquility of the union.
Accept, fir, our warmest wishes for your
health arid.happinefs. \-
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Late foreign 3|nteHigcnce +
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RATI^RON, SEPT, 29.
A detachment of French fdldiers have taken
pofFeffion of this place.
PARIS, OCT. 1.
^ By a decree of the consuls, no master or mate
of a vessel, lets than 15 tons, is exempted from
Service in national vessels ; persons above 40 years
of age are exempted, if they have fervei eighteen ,
months ; all under that age may be commanded for
Service, without reference to any time they may
have ferved.'
BOIRDEAUX, SEPT. 27.
The French frigate F-a^haife which failed
Wiethe Concord and Medea that were taken,
has returned in fafety to Rochefort.
VIGO, SEPT. ~ 1
A British 74 gun ship has been driven on fhore_
here and deftrhyed. A cutter, a floopand trans
port are loss. The fate of the crews is,uncertain.
.LONDON, OCT, 7.
A convention exists by which the English agreed
to forrendw Malta to the King of Naples, if they ;
took it. The Emperor of Russia willies to pos
sess it ; and the difpolition of it will cause feme
contention.,
Hostilities recommenced in the Grifons before
the new ariniltice was known. The French took
pofleffion of that part of the country which had
before been declared neutral., Several inferior
actions occurred, where information did not ar
rive.
^LONDON OCT.B.
On Monday sass M. Otto delivered to His
Majeftfs Minitiers the final anfwef of the Chiet,
Consul upon the fubje& of a naval Armiftip It
is believed that the two parties cannot agree upon
the conditions ; that the ohe Goveriiment infills*
upon being allowed to supply the Breit fleet with
llores, and Egypt with those n^ceffaries of which
the French army is in want ; and that the other
Government politively refufes to grant this per-:
mission. < 4 7
And thus vanish all hopes of a joint negotiation
with Austria at Luueville ! It isTaid to be the in
tention of His Majesty's Ministers to Uy before the
public the whole of the correfpbndcnce that has
paffedupon the fubjeft. We (hall then be enabled
to decide to which party the praise of moderation
and offincere desire for peace belongs. Already,
however the Minifterialifts begin to hurl their in
fftives at the Chief Consul.
• DOVER OCT. 5.
Eleven fail of vessels, ,with Portland stone, were
taken by Government, and sent under the protec
tion of several tenders, to be funk in the road of
Goree, (0 choak up the entrance to Helvoet, in
Holland ; but a gate coming on, it was found ne
celTary to abandon thefd vessels at sea.
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Domettic information.
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PHILADELPHIA, NOV. 2s'
<FROM LANCASTER.
'Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Penrofe's electoral bill, as amended by the
Senate, confined each house to the nomination of
Eight pe/fons, ind required the fifteen electors to
be chosen from the Sixteen perforin thus nominat
ed. The House of Representatives, on Friday a
mended the amendment of the Senate, by (hiking
out thf wprd eight, a° d infecting in the place of
it the word nine. This amendment was sent to
the Senate arid negatived.
The House of Re ffrefentafives met this morning
at 9 o'clock, and after traufacting some ordinary
bufinegd- , '
ft The following resolution was moved by Mr.
Boileau, Seconded by Mr.iKpberts :, "-
. " Resolved, that this House will not recede from
lit amendments to the amendments ofthe Senate
in'the bill entitled «An a& for effeduating ori
44 behalf of this slate, the constitutional injunction
'' that each Bate shall appoint electors of a Prefi
“ fleat and Vice-President of the United States."
After a few observations on the quellion of or
der, the yeas and nays being called dor, yeas 54—
W4as./'.?
. , The clerk of the House immediately carried the
resolution to the Senate, and a copy of the bill.(
The Senate fat some time doing nothing, +ben
ty, MClay moved an adjournment. Mr. R.
Smith opposed the motion, and it was left as uG
ual. After fitting some time doing nothings it
pleased their high mightinesses to be perfugded
ate, might as well adjourn. A motion being
made accordingly, thatJbf,Honfir Should adjourn
to thrbe o'clock'on Monday', theit ufnal hour, the
motion being put was Ibft, end then the Houfeail
jonrned to ten o'clock on Monday.
So that yon fee the idea of making much of tri,
fles. and trifling with matters of importance, is the
order of the day in the Senate, even unto this day.
What theifr gravities in the Senate mean to do,
I can neither lesro from the members of that, or
the other House. They mean, I believe, to do
Nothing. The House of Representatives, appear ,
; to be disgusted with the repuifive and Scornful
manner in which all their overtures have been
treated, and I believe that they have given up
every idea of any further overtures on thqir part,
so that the disfranchifement of the State is now
'no longer doubtful.
Extra# from Charleston, Nov. 6, 1800, to a mem
"b'er of Congress in Washington City.
“In answer to yours, I have to inform you that
our legislature will give their full vote, when they
meht, ta Mr. Jefferfon, 4 —the contest will be whe
ther Gen. Pinckney shall be on the fame ticket—
all our friends, and the Staunch republicans will
be against it, but how it will terminate I cannot
fay. Our country republican interest is very
Strong and will certainly carry the vote for Mr.
Jetferloiu"
Extra# of a letter from Waftington County, Mary
land, Nap. 19.
" I congratulate you upon the issue of our elec
tion, which terminated favorable to our republi
can candidate, by the refpe3able majority of nine
truly republican votes ; as for Frederick County
they have got a federal elector, owing in forhe
meafore, as it is said, to some malicious federalist
Setting the woods on fire in the Middletown dif
tri&, which prevented the people from turning
out to vote. We have fix good r publican elec,
toss in our slate, who we know will vote like
honed citizens. The old governor and council
are re elefted."
Morris-town Nov. 27.
The following are authentic extracts, from let
ters received on Saturday by a gentleman in this
city.:—
Extra# of a letter received by a gentlemen in Phi-'
ladelphia, from a friend in Washington city.
" Since my letter of yesterday, a letter is receiv
ed from Mr. C. P. to Mr. D. dated " Columbia,'
6th ± November," which States : “ You may rely
upon it, with absolute certainty, that Mr. Jeffer
fon will have every vote in this date. Mr. Adams
will have none."„
“ Ms. Alston from North-Carolina, has just re
ceived a letter from his diftritt, announcing, that
the two remaining eleftorial difiritts of that date
have returned republicans, making nine republi
cans to three federal electors in that state. The
letter is this moment read in public company."
ft Farther authentic news from South Carolina
dated November 6 and from Columbia of fame
date, confirm the intelligence that Mr. J fferfon
will have an unanimous vote in that slate."
“ Six votes-in this date are officially reported to
the great chagrin of the poor Feds, who boasted
of having seven to three."
BOSTON, DEC. 3.
^Mercantile Information
Tn the Trinidad paper of the i^th OR. from
which the Following Proclamation is copied ; and
'which is several days Inter than the Havannah ac
count, which mentions its capture, no .notice is
made of such an event having taken place, or even
expected..-,
TRTNTDAD, OCT. 18.
By hdf Excellency , s ,
THOMAS PICTON, Esq.-
Governor and Commander" in Chief of the IJland of
Trinidad, anddts Dependencies, &c. &c.&c.
^proclamation.
IT being made clearly appear by the re
presentations of the Planters, Inhabitants,;
&c. that there actually does at present exist;
an alarming scarcity of all the articles of
Provision absolutely necessary for the sup-•
port of the slaves employed in carrying on
the cultivation of the Island ; ,and that the
arrival of new settlers, and the daily import
ation of flhves from the other islands, oper
ates to incteafe an evil which already gives
cause to serious alarm ,• and it appearing j
upon ftri& inveffigation, that the quantity
of rum and molasses manufaaured in the isl
and, is far ipfufficient far the. payment of
the necessary fopplies of these effentia! arti- ;
cles :, I have, therefore thought ft to issue this
my Proclamation, to publish and'declare, that
i! (hall be lawful- for vessels, the property
of the fubjeds of the United States of Ame
rica, coming dire&ly from the said dates
with provisions and lumber of all kinds, the
growth and produce of that country, to take
and receivein exchange, to the exa& value
of their refpeaive cargoes, and no more,
any other, article the adua! produce of this
colony, except Indigo, ^Cotton, Lignum
Vitae, and Dying Wood. And the Officers
of his Majesty's Cartoms within this Ittand,
are hereby required to take due notice there
of. This is to continue in force sor r Six
Months from the date hereof.'
Given tadermy hand and seal at arms, at gov
ernment house this iuh Oil. in the year of our
. Lord,iß<s% and as hi^Majefty's reignthe 40th.
THOMAS PICTON.
Thomas ClaphAM, Sec'ry.^
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PRICES CURRENT at CAPE FRANCOIS,
November 3d.
.i American Produce,
Hour, per. barrel! . . • , . , 16 dolls.
Pork, do. . , . . . . 22
Beef, do. . ... . . . it
shad, do. . . . ;. ... jo
Mackerel], do, .... . . . 7
Herrings, do. .# . ~ .) .6
. Codfifli, per qyintufo. .. . . "6;
Lard, lb., . .' .' . . . 30 a35 sous
# Candles, do., 35 a 40 ,
Butter, do. . .. • . .;& ^4O ;
Cheese , do. . , . • . . 35 442
Soap, do. . 6 .'. ;25a 2^
Hams, do. . . • T.a 35''
All kinds of Liquors; such as Gin; Brandy, and
Rum, are high— Claret Wine from 52a^Sduls. ,
.Island Produce.
Sugars, 4# . .. • • • 3: 4 6jdlls.
" Coffee, ....... 26 a3O sous
Molasses, . . . Q. ~ . 50 cts. a weltt
/Logwood and Fuftic, . , . ^4a 2/6 dlls#
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Portsmouth, December 9, 1800.
CLERK OF THE MARKET— Appointed.
Mr. Richard Billings, will be happy to ac
commodate all our country friends with conveni
ent (lands, in the new Brick Market, insure them
good prices, and a quick fide for their provisions.
This Market has been built at a great expence, to
(belter people from the weather.—Wenre sorry to
observe, at this inclement season ; persons shiver
ing in their open Ileighs—when they could be
more comfortable in the houf) & we are also furry
to observe Gentlemen of the town hovering round
the sleighs ; when they ought to recommend the
general use of the Market and prevent foreftal
ling. One of the Committee.
The abuse continually thrown out against the
republicans in Tory papers, by Britilh and tory
scribbler is truly ludicrous ; they are called ' Ja
cobins, diforganizers, deists, athrifts ; these are
the mild epithets bellowed by the Federal tories,
on the friends ofliberiy and equal rights. Every
.artifice has been used, but in vain, to bring repub
"licans and republicanism into disrepute; all their
schemes to (mother the sacred flumes of liberty
have proved abortive. The Jacobins as they are
nonsensically called, increase by thousands and
will continue so to da, notwithstanding the calum
nies and perfections of old tories and apostate
whigs. ~
The Legislature of Penufy |vania, bad not taken
any further Steps with regard to the Eleftion Bill,
by the last accounts.'
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ExtraEl of a letter from a gent leman of South Ca
rolina, dated Columbia, Nov. it.
“ The Federalists of Charleston, have made
great exettions lately in favor of Cten. Pinckney,
and turned their views to every part of the State.
The Charge is not so alarming as to numbers, but
I thing there will be want of nerve, to resist rhe
pretentious of Gen. Pinckney. Mr. Jefferfon will
receive every vote here but there is great danger
that Gem Pinckney will also."
The Feds by art intrigue, and fraud
Try Jefferfon to beat—
The Priests with pray'rs can mock the Lord,
To fan&ify the cheat. bob short.
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Letter to the Editor of the Aurora.
•Washington, Nov. 21.
; DEAR SIR,
It being reported that we have, contrary to the
sedition law, attempted tojnjure our beloved Pre
sident, we take the liberty to assure you that the
report is wholly groundless.
Yours, FEVER and AGUE.
It appears by an article in the Albany Regifler
of the 18th inii. upon, the depositions of seven
witnefles, that the present speaker of the repre-;
fenta live house of congress the noted Theodore
Sedgwick, owes his feat to a stand—the deputy
Sheriff having purposely burnt the returns for the
burrow of tyremen t, in Berkfbire, Massachusetts,
which woplib have given Mr. Sedgwick's rival
candidate a majority of 407 votes ;—This deputy
Sheriff's name was Edward Edwards, and justified
this burning federalifm, that there was no law
which made it bis duty to return them !—that be
ing the duty of-his superior the Sheriff !—ls not
this as complete a Gurueyifm as if made at Lan
caster ?, bw
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That the Aurora man (alias the cat that catch
ed the rat) has been the primary cause of war-of
fice burnings, I Sincerely believe—though I am
certain he did not wifli such an event, as most
surely it deprived him of several columns of very
curious & wel Idigefted matter ; yet wben[we con
sider that Duane has for a Jong time been dealing
with the Devil, and that bis sooty ipajefty has tur
nifhed him with aninvifible coat under cover, of
which garb he has introduced himfelf into federal #
caucuses, public offices, & Secret places, and expos-!
ed in a molt cruel manner federal peculations.
<What security have the exclusive friends ofreligion
and good order against so subtle a difeuife, aided
bj that two edged sword, his accursed pen : but
by destroying the proofs of their own iniquity?
; No doubt but there were several papers in the war
office unfit for the public eye. How could they
be concealed without the affiltance of tire ? Ufe
ful element ? Might not they at this moment
have been published in the Aurora, if it.was not
for that lucky misfortune ? They might perhaps
have lain in eternal oblivion, 'if it was not for
that prying Duane and his confederate editors.—
It ,was the fear of D^ane that canted that deflruc
tion of the War-Office, the fuffocatiou of Oliver
Wolcot, & the dislocation of Mr. Dexter. There
fore we can not fay it was as gross a calumny as
ever was propagated, to aflert that the editor of
the Aurora was the primary cause of the war-of
fice conflagration.:- But 1 trust, that after the 4th
of Marqh next, we shall have no occasion to puri
fy public records by fire and finoak ; a^ under the
virtuous, patriotic, and “ inflexible Jefferfon," no
old tory, apoflate whig, French arifiocrat, or
Britilh emissary. will be employed. That none
but native real republicans, friends to the consti
tution will be in office, who will be careful of the
public money and the trust reposed in them who
will be always ready to exhibit their accounts,
property Substantiated by honclt vouchers.
Amer. Cit.
We are informed, that among many other val
uable papers demolifted by the fire at the city of
Wafhin^tun, there was a French editition of the
Encyclopedia, which cost 2uool. Sterling.
Arrived at Boftou the Wig Reward, Captain
Widgery,, from Liverpool. Capt. W- informs,
. th at the United States Consul gave an entertain
fluent to his countrymen at Liverpool, on the con
duGori of tire Treaty with France ; and all the
American vefiels were drefled in their colours on
the occasion.•
The Britilh Packet Mary has been seized at
New-York, smuggling nineteen pieces of broad
cloth. '. -#
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Extra# of a letter from,the City ofWashington, to
a gentlemen in Baltimore, dated Nov. 18, at 7,
< < A dreadful fire brok out this day in the coffee
houfe at Alexandria ; at three o'clock 15 houses
are said to have been burnt, and the fire is hill
raging. . ~,
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@rine Lie, ,
SEntereu at^ tje €ufiamQufe-
Sch. Sally, Tuttle, St listers
Brig.Geofge, Tredick, St. Kitts,
Cleared.
Sch. Lively, J. h<lmah, Grenada.
Brig Orion, Briard, Tobago.
Brig Hitty, Lord, do.°
Arrived here the brig Hiram, Capt. James
Brown in '2^ days from St Thomas. Nov. 23, Son.
68 40 lat, 39 30 spoke Schooner Bee, Capt. Green
out 4 days trom Marblehead, in a very leaky con
dition, being obliged to throw overboard part of
his deck load.
The New Providence privateers continue to cap
ture American vessels bound to the Havanna.
Boflon Nov, 5
Arrived bt Salem,fch. Trial, Tate Port Repub
lican—-Nov. 12, fyoke brig Eliza, of Plymouth,
from Madeira, for Norfolk. Nov. 30,faw a Sloop
on Hempaga, which appeared to have just run a-
Shore ; and a brig on Atkins's keys. A wreck was
coming from the sloop.
Arrived at Gloucefler, brig Minerva, March,
23 days from Havanria. Sailed in co. brigs Betsy
and Nancy, of Boston, and Capt, Moulton, of
Beverly. Nov. 28, E. Nantucket Shoals, spoke
brig Nathaniel Webber, in diftref's, having blown
out from Turk's Illand, in a hurricane, with the
loss of anchors and boat. He had been taken by a
French privateer, detained.^ hours—difmHTed df
ter being robbed, —Capt. W. was in want of pro
visions and water, but it blowing hard, the Miner
va could not get near enough to supply him.
The British ftorefhip Dromedary, of 24 guns,
Capt. Taylor, has been Shipwrecked in the Gulph
of Pared.
NAVAL AFFAIRS.
The U. S. frigate Essex of 22 guns Capt. Preble
has arrived at New-York, from the India seas.
The U. S. frigate Constitution, of 44 guns,
Capr. Talbot, will fail immediately for the Cape-
Francois Ration.
The U. S. Ship Merrimack, of 44 guns, Capt.
Brown, has carried into St Citts, a French brig of
14 guns, from Curracoa, to Guadeloupe, full of
.men.
The Baltimore sloop of war, of 20 guns Capt.
Cowper, is at Baltimore.
Capt. Richard Derby, is appointed to the com
mand of the U. S. fliip of war, Connecticut, of 24
gubs, vice Capt. Tryon resigned.
Apprehenlions are entertained for the|fafety of the
Pickering, Lt. Hiller, of 14 guns—and the Insur
gent frigate Capt. Fletcher, of 36 guns. The for
mer was out in the severe gales of September, a
b,out which timb, in far. 23, a large copper-bot
tomed birg, with quarter-boards, and a range of
ports, was seen bottom upwards.—The Pickering
was bound to St. Kitts.
the U. S. frigate United States, of 44 guns,
Com. Barry, is ready for sea in the Delaware.
Temple of lenten.
The greater bliA that tongue can tell,
Cbnfitts alone in choosing well;
Hence, every rapture to improve,
Heav'n gave us reason, Nature love.
MARRIED-At Kittery, Hon. Nath'l Wells, of
Wells, to Mils Rebecca Rice, of Kittery.
At Bolton, William Vaiice, Esq. of New-Bruns
wick, to Miss Mary Bell. My. John Elder, to
MiG Mary Wooly.
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^orfafit}
Some men with swords may reap the field,
And plant trefh laurels where they^kill ;
But their Strong nerves at last mult yield,
They tame but one another Still.
DIED- —At Plymouth, Col. George Watson, ag
ed 82.
At New-York, Charles Adams, Esq. second son
! of the President of the United States.
In Batavia, Dr. Parker, and Mr. James Whip
ple; the surgeon and midshipman of the fliip Maf
fachufetts.l
At Boston, the Rev. William Walter, D, D. ag
ed 64.
At Kittery, Capt. Thomas Cutts, aged .69. —
Mrs. Ruth Peirce, aged 55, wife of Daniel Pence,
Esq. ot Kittery, Phyficiau."
In this town; Mrs. Anna Giles, aged 28, wife
of Mr. John L. Giles.
Mils Elizabeth Ross, aged 18.
This day
ylt Twelve o'C/ock,
IPIfL BE SOfD,
At Public Audion,
THE FMST SAILING
Schooner ATLANTIC, *
107 tons burthen about 6 years pld, now ly
ing at Mr. Low's wharf, conditions will
be made known at the time and place bf
file. An inventory may be seen by apply
ing to \.
Thomas, Chadbourne, jr.
Portsmouth, Dec. 1, 1800.
Fresh Fall and Winter
GOO D S,
Os the latest importation,
%/ received by
OLIVER. BRIARD,
And for sale at his store in Market
ftreet, at the lowest cash prices,
PprtJmouth, Dec. I 1800.
ROBERT HARRIS, frT
Will gi-ye the highest price in CNSH, for
Shipping Furs & Bees' Wax,
his Store No. g, ow Langdon';Wharf. j
PfflJmoWh)P£C.9}ißvo.„,