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AN ACT
Further to amend the Judicial System of the United States.
BE IT ENACTED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That in case of the disability of the district judge of either of the districts of the United States to hold a district court, and to perform the duties of being shown to the justice of the supreme court, allotted to that circuit in which such district court ought to be held...
Sac. 2. And be it further enacted, That the clerk of such district court shall, during the continuance of the disability of the district judge, continue to certify as aforesaid, all suits or actions of what nature or kind soever, which may thereafter be brought to such district court...
Sac. 3. And be it further enacted, That in case of the district judge in any district being unable to discharge his duties, as aforesaid, the district clerk of such district shall be authorised and empowered by leave or order of the circuit judge of the circuit in which such district is included...
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN MILLEDGE, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 2, 1809. APPROVED. TH: JEFFERSON. AN ACT Freeing from postage all letters and packets to Thomas Jefferson.
Political Miscellany.
The Legislature of N. York adjourned on the 30th ult: According to annual custom, the Republican members of that body, have addressed their constituents on the present aspect of our political affairs, through the medium of the Albany Register. Their language is manly, nervous and dignified, and such as merits the warmest approbation of every one, who has not sold his opinions to a foreign influence...
Extracts from the Address of the REPU- BLICAN MEMBERS, of the Legislature, to the ELECTORS of the State of New- York.
FELLOW CITIZENS! WE deem it our first and most solemn duty, to caution you against the arts of men whose object is the dismemberment of our Union- that rock on which are founded your national glory and happiness. Your old enemies, the Tories of the revolution, united with men whom you have indignantly hurled from office, and aided by a desperate band of foreign agents, spies and pensioners, have chosen the present moment to delude, distract and divide you...
With a rapidity of change, equalled only by their perseverance, they can deny to day what they believed yesterday, and can perform acts now which but a short time since they loaded with the most opprobrious epithets. Every one must recollect with what zealous efforts these men have claimed to be the real disciples of the immortal WASHINGTON. They blazoned his services, they affected to venerate his character, they quoted his sayings as political axioms...
The unity of government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you: it is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad; of your safety, of your prosperity, of that liberty you so highly prize. As this is a point in your political fortresses against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively directed...
ties which now link together the various parts."
Again he says, "All obstructions to the execution of laws, all combinations and associations under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract or awe the regular deliberations and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, and put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party."
Do they obtain the law? Look at the resolutions of the Massachusetts, Boston, Salem, Lynn, Malden, &c. in which they express their determination to arrest and obstruct the officers of government, and in which proposals are made to raise a fund for that purpose; call to your recollection the triumphs of their editors when publishing instances of successful resistance- their encomiums on men who, from cowardice, or from motives more detestable, deserted their posts, and thereby afforded facility to the most shameful evasions of your laws; recollect the public dinners given to those men; look at the attempts of the legislature of Massachusetts to make rebellion legal, and treason constitutional, by passing a bill to punish by fine and imprisonment those who had courage and virtue to execute the laws of the Union, and which, but for the firmness of their Chief Magistrate, would have been a law- at once a record of their depravity, and a monument of their disgrace. Do they attempt to substitute the will of a party for that of the nation? Look at the remonstrance of that degraded legislature to Congress, where you will find the representatives of a free people insulted & assailed by impotence. Do they attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest? It can scarcely be necessary to remind you of their labors for years past to impress the idea that there was distinct and hostile interest between the eastern and southern states, and of their unwearied efforts to excite an enmity against our brethren of the south and of the west. Do they "properly estimate the immense value of our union," and "cherish a cordial attachment to it?"
Look at the threats of dismemberment which daily issue from their hireling presses; Look at the resolutions of Connecticut and Massachusetts, in which their townmeetings, and legislatures declare the acts of congress unconstitutional, arbitrary, unjust and oppressive, and where they audaciously propose a separate confederacy of the states, opposed to the government of the union. Is this conduct congenial with the wishes of our great and good Washington, when retiring forever from public employment, he left us his prayers, his blessing, and his advice? Is it such as you can approve? Are you ready to plunge into the horrors of a civil war and encounter the consequences of a dismemberment of our country?
But the inconsistency of these men has not terminated here. A short time since, they were the exclusive friends of religion and good order. Now are they assembling mobs to decide the constitutionality of the acts of congress, to denounce the laws, to revile the government, and to extend far and wide the spirit of disorganization. They profane religion by prostituting one of its most holy offices to the purpose of these electioneering and seditious meetings. They pretend to be advocates for the effectual defence of our sea ports. And yet these very men, as the last act of an expiring administration, and as some atonement for their waste of public money, caused the diminution of our navy, and on a recent occasion they voted against a bill in congress appropriating a million of dollars for the defence of the country. You have heard their clamors against the embargo. The whole country from Maine to Georgia has resounded with their complaints. They have represented it as unconstitutional, as the effect of foreign influence in our councils. On the first point the proper tribunal has decided, and its decision should have silenced them.
So deficient are they in proofs to justify the foul calumny of foreign influence, that the very imputed author of it has been obliged publicly to disown it, and the base slander now exists
without any father who dares to acknowledge it. Evidence of its truth has been loudly and repeatedly demanded, yet none is adduced. For ourselves we solemnly declare that we utterly disbelieve the charge. In opposition to it we place the whole life of Mr. Jefferson- a life devoted to his country-occupied with the most honorable and the most arduous services for its benefit. Neither threats nor hopes, punishments or rewards, could induce such a man to abandon the object of forty years' care, to the rude buffetings of a foreign tyrant. But if this is not sufficient, the last illustrious act of his life, his voluntary retirement from the most envied honors in the out of his fellow citizens, affords a proof that can neither be denied nor evaded, that he is above all personal considerations, and that in recommending the measure which has excited so much hostility, he was actuated by human motives- his country's good.
But not satisfied with impeaching the motives which produced it, they censure also the act itself. They maintained that a general embargo was unnecessary, injurious to all our interests, and ruinous to commerce. We refer to their speeches in congress, which the advantages of a trade to the unoffending nations, were particularly enumerated and copiously illustrated. And yet these very men within a few days, voted against the partial repeal of the embargo, the very measure which they had demanded. Had they not been callous to shame, and senseless of remorse, they must have paused before they took this last step in the maze of inconsistency.
LETTER OF THE Hon. JOHN ADAMS.
In the early part of the last session of Congress, a gentleman holding an office of high responsibility, wrote to Mr. Adams requesting his opinion with respect to the evils which then pressed upon our country and the remedy to be applied. The answer has occasioned much conjecture and been the subject of many vague conversation. Withholding to do justice to that candid, which regards of party prejudice, calls on age and wisdom for counsel, and to that magnanimity, which forgetting personal wrongs, looks only to the honor of our country, we have obtained leave to publish this interesting letter. We cannot anticipate the comments that may be made; but the text is genuine. [Boston Patriot.]
QUINCY, 26th Dec 1808.
SIR, I received very kindly your obliging letter of the 15th of this month. Ever since my return from Europe, where I had resided ten years, and could not be fully informed of the state of affairs, in my own country, I have been constantly anxious and alarmed at the intemperance of party spirit, and the unbounded licence of our press- in the same view I could not but lament some things which have lately passed in public bodies. To instance, at Dedham and Topsfield, and last of all in the Resolutions of our Massachusetts Legislature. Upon principle, I see no right in our Senate and House to dictate, or advise, or to request our Representatives in Congress. The right of the people to instruct their representatives is very dear to them, and will never be disputed by me. But this is a very different thing from an interference of a State Legislature. Congress must be the "cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night," to conduct this nation; and if their eyes are to be diverted by wandering light accidents, springing up in every direction, we shall never get through the wilderness.
I have not been inattentive to the course of our public affairs, and agree with Congress in their resolutions to resist the Decrees, Edicts and Orders of France and England; but I think the King's Proclamation for the impressment of seamen on board our merchant ships, has not been distinctly enough repudiated. It is the most groundless pretension of all. Retired as I am conversing with very few of any party; out of the secret of affairs- collecting information only from public papers and pamphlets, many links in the great chain of deliberations, actions, and events may have escaped me. You will easily believe, that an excessive diffidence in my own opinions has not been "the sin, that has most easily beset me." I must nevertheless confess to you, that in all the intricate combinations in our affairs, to which I have ever been a witness, I never found myself so much at a loss to form a judgment of what the nation ought to do, or what part I ought to act. No man, then, I hope, will have more confidence in the solidity of anything I may suggest, than I have myself.
I revere the upright and enlightened general sense of our American Nation. It is nevertheless capable, like all other nations of general prejudices and national errors. Among these I know not whether there is any more remarkable than that opinion, so universal, that it is in our power to bring foreign nations to our terms, by withholding our commerce. When the executive and legislative authority of any nation, especially in the old governments, and great powers of Europe, have adopted measures, upon deliberation, and published them to the world, they cannot recede, without a deep humiliation and disgrace, in the eyes
of their own subjects, as well as all Europe. They will therefore, obstinately adhere to them, at the expense even of great sacrifices, and in defiance of great dangers. In 1774, Congress appeared almost unanimously sanguine, that a non importation and non consumption association, would procure an immediate repeal of the Acts of Parliament and Royal Orders. I went heartily along with the rest in all these measures, because I knew, that the sense of the nation, the public opinion in all the colonies required them; and I did not see that they could do harm. But I had no confidence in their success, in any thing without the American People. I expressed this opinion freely to some of my friends, particularly to Mr. Hoxie, of Virginia, and to Major Hawley, of Massachusetts. These two and these only agreed with me in opinion, that we must fight after all. We found by experience, that a war of trade years in addition to the aid of France, Spain and Holland, too, before our purposes could be accomplished. Do we presume that we can excite insurrection, Rebellion and a Revolution in England? Even a Revolution would be of no benefit to us. A Republican government in England would be more hostile to us than the Monarchy is. The resources of that country are so great; their merchants, Capitalists, and principal Manufacturers are so rich, that they can employ their manufacturers and store their productions for a long time, perhaps longer than we can, or will bear to hoard ours. In 1774, upon these principles and for these reasons, I thought it my duty to decide in Senate against Mr. Madison's Resolutions, as they were called, and I have seen no reason to alter my opinion since. I own I was sorry when the late non-importation law passed. When a war with England was seriously apprehended in 1794, I approved of an Embargo as a temporary measure to preserve our seamen and property; but not with any expectation that it would influence England. I thought the embargo which was laid a year ago, a wise and prudent measure, for the same reason, viz. to preserve our seamen and as much of our property as we could get in; but not with the faintest hope that it would influence the British councils. At the same time, I considerably expected, that it would be raised in a few months. I have not counted any of these measures, because I knew the strong attachment of the nation to them; but I think the nation must soon be convinced that they will not answer their expectations. The embargo and the non-importation law, I think ought not to last long. They will lay a kind of foundation of disaffection to the national government as will give great uneasiness to Mr. Jefferson's successors, and will produce such difficulties as I imagine is intended to make of. The naval and military force to carry them into execution would maintain a war. Are you then for war, you will ask? I will answer you candidly. I think a war would be a less evil than a rigorous enforcement of the embargo and non-intercourse. But we have no necessity to declare war against England or France, or both. We may raise the embargo, repeal the non-importation, authorise our merchants to arm their vessels: give them special Letters of Marque to defend themselves against all unlawful aggressors; and take, burn or destroy all vessels, or make prize of them, as enemies that shall attack them. In the mean time apply all our resources to build frigates; some in every principal sea-port. These frigates ought not to be assembled in any one port, to become an object of a hostile expedition to destroy them. They should be separated and scattered as much as possible, from New Orleans to Passamaquoddy. I never was fond of the plan of building line of battle ships. Our policy is not to fight squadrons at sea; but to have fast sailing frigates to scour the seas, and make impressions on the enemy's commerce; and in this way we can do great things. Our great sea-ports and most exposed frontier places ought not to be neglected in their fortifications; but I cannot see for what purpose an hundred thousand militia are called out, nor why we should have so large an army at present. The revenues applied to these uses would be better appropriated to building frigates. We may depend upon it, we shall never be respected by foreign powers, until they see that we are sensible of the great resources which the Almighty in his benevolent Providence, has put into our hands. No nation under the sun has better materials, architects, or mariners, for a respectable maritime power- I have no doubt our people, when they see a necessity, will cheerfully pay the taxes necessary for their defence, and to support their Union, Independence, and National Honor. When our merchants are armed, if they are taken, they cannot blame the government. If they fight well, and capture their enemies, they will acquire glory and encouragement at home, and England or France may determine for themselves whether they will declare war. I believe neither will do it, because each will be afraid of our joining the other. If either should, in my opinion, the other will recind; but if we should have both to fight, it would not be long before one or the other would be willing to make peace; and I see not much difference between fighting both and fighting England alone. My heart is with the Spanish Patriots, and I should be glad to assist them as far as our Commerce can supply them. I conclude with acknowledging that we have received greater injuries from England than from France, abominable as both have been. Whatever the Government determines I shall support as far as my small voice extends. I am, Sir, with respect, &c. JOHN ADAMS. N.B. The tribute and British license must be prohibited under adequate penalties.

Great News!
THE CAUSE OF THE EMBARGO REMOVED.
The United States triumphant! and haughty Britain on her marrow bones ! With inexpressible pleasure we herewith communicate to our readers the important intelligence that Great Britain, after all her insolence and haughtiness to this country—After having rejected our overtures of peace, and spurned our messengers of conciliation, is, in her turn, supplicating our mercy and suing for terms of amity. How must the heart of every friend of the administration beat with joy and rapture when he reflects that the embargo, that much abused and insulted measure, was the slender weapon that humbled the pride of our enemies. Yes, party-spirit may now silence its serpent tongue, for its malignant falsehoods will no more be heard. The friends of England, whose participation in the national councils of this country have disgraced us as a people, may now close their lips forever—John Bull has been starved, not beat into submission—And a great and mighty victory is obtained under the mild aspect of peace. Let those who cavil about the wisdom and intelligence of the late administration, now view their own ignorance and stupidity. Let the friends of the people who would rather subject them to temporary privations than shed their blood in a useless and unprofitable contest, now bear the palm to which their fortitude and intelligence entitles them—Let all America rejoice that Jefferson presided, and that Madison now presides—That they who accomplished the victory are permitted to guide it to the peace, the happiness, and the prosperity of our country—That the accursed faction, whose malignity thwarted every measure calculated to preserve, and whose restless ambition threatened us with the horrors of a civil war, by fomenting sedition and rebellion in the Eastern States , is at length reduced to the necessity of approving what but a few days since, they affected to detest—The triumph of America over her enemies is poison to their hopes! [N. Y. Aurora.]
From the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, of April 19, 1809.
Since the arrival of Mr. Oakley, at Washington, Mr. Smith, Secretary of State, and Mr. Erskine, the British Minister, have been, we understand, every day engaged in discussions in relation to two points of difference between the United States and Great Britain, which, it seems, Mr. Erskine has been authorized to arrange in virtue of powers received from his government by the British sloop of war, now lying at Hampton, subject to his orders. The following Notes show the happy result of these discussions.
(No. I.)
Mr. ERSKINE to Mr. SMITH.
Washington, 17th April, 1809.
Sir,—I have the honor to inform you, that I have received his Majesty's commands, to represent to the government of the United States, that his Majesty is animated by the most sincere desire for an adjustment of the differences which have unhappily so long prevailed between the two countries, the recapitulation of which might have a tendency to impede, if not prevent an amicable understanding.
It having been represented to his Majesty's government, that the Congress of the United States, in their proceedings at the opening of the last session, had evinced an intention of passing certain laws, which would place the relations of Great Britain with the United States upon an equal footing, in all respects, with other belligerent powers, I have accordingly received his Majesty's commands, in the event of such laws taking place, to offer, in the part of his Majesty, an honorable reparation for the aggression, committed by a British naval officer, in the attack on the United States' frigate Chesapeake .
Considering the act, passed by the Congress of the United States on the 1st of March, (usually termed the non-intercourse act) as having produced a state of equality, in the relations of the two belligerent powers, with respect to the United States, I have to submit, conformably to instructions, for the consideration of the American government, such terms of satisfaction and reparation, as his Majesty is induced to believe, will be accepted, in the same spirit of conciliation, with which they are proposed.
In addition to the prompt disavowal made by his Majesty, on being apprised of the unauthorized act, committed by his naval officer, whose recall, as a mark of the King's displeasure, from an important and honorable command, immediately ensued, his Majesty is willing to restore the men forcibly taken out of the Chesapeake , and, if acceptable to the American government, to make a suitable provision for the unfortunate sufferers on that occasion.
I have the honor to be, with sentiments of the highest respect and consideration, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
D. M. ERSKINE.
The Hon. Robert Smith, Esq., Secretary of State, &c. &c. &c.
(No. II.)
Mr. SMITH to Mr. ERSKINE.
Department of State, April 17, 1809.
Sir—I have laid before the President your note, in which you have, in the name and by the order of his Britannic Majesty declared that his Britannic Majesty is desirous of making an honorable reparation for the
aggression committed by a British naval officer in the attack on the United States frigate the Chesapeake ; that, in addition to his prompt disavowal of the act, his Majesty, as a mark of his displeasure, did immediately recall the offending officer from a highly important and honorable command; and that he is willing to restore the men forcibly taken out of the Chesapeake , and, if acceptable to the American government, to make a suitable provision for the unfortunate sufferers on that occasion.
The government of the United States having, at all times entertained a sincere desire for an adjustment of the differences, which have so long and so unhappily subsisted between the two countries, the President cannot but receive with pleasure assurances, that his Britannic Majesty is animated by the same disposition, and that he is ready, in conformity to this disposition, to make atonement for the insult and aggression committed by one of his naval officers in the attack on the United States frigate the Chesapeake .
As it appears at the same time, that, in making this offer, his Britannic Majesty derives a motive from the equality, now existing, in the relations of the United States, with the two belligerent powers, the President owes it to the occasion, and to himself, to let it be understood, that this equality is a result incident to a state of things growing out of distinct considerations.
With this explanation, as requisite as it is frank, I am authorized to inform you that the President accepts the note delivered by you, in the name and by the order of his Britannic Majesty, and will consider the same with the engagement contained therein, when fulfilled as a satisfaction for the insult and injury of which he has complained. But I have it in express charge from the president to state, that while he forbears to insist on a further punishment of the offending officer, he is not the less sensible of the justice and utility of such an example, nor the less persuaded that it would best comport with what is due from his Britannic Majesty to his own honor.
I have the honor to be, with the highest respect and consideration, Sir, your most obedient servant,
R. SMITH.
The Hon. David M. Erskine, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his B. Majesty.
(No. III.)
Mr. ERSKINE to Mr. SMITH.
Washington, April 18, 1809.
Sir—I have the honor of informing you, that his Majesty, having been persuaded that the honorable reparation which he had caused to be rendered for the unauthorized attack upon the American frigate Chesapeake would be accepted by the government of the United States in the same spirit of conciliation, with which it was proposed, has instructed me to express his satisfaction, should such a happy termination of that affair take place—not only as having removed a painful cause of difference, but as affording a fair prospect of a complete and cordial understanding being re-established between the two countries.
The favorable change in the relations of his Majesty with the United States, which has been produced by the Act (usually termed the Non-Intercourse Act) passed in the last session of Congress, was also anticipated by his Majesty, and has encouraged a further hope, that a reconsideration of the existing differences might lead to their satisfactory adjustment.
On these grounds and expectations, I am instructed to communicate to the American government, his Majesty's determination of sending to the United States, an Envoy extraordinary invested with full powers to conclude a treaty on all the points of the relations between the two countries.
In the mean time, with a view to contribute to the attainment of so desirable an object; his Majesty would be willing to withdraw his Orders in Council of January and November 1807, so far as it respects the United States, in the persuasion that the President would issue a Proclamation for the renewal of the intercourse with Great Britain, and that whatever difference of opinion should arise in the interpretation of the terms of such an agreement will be removed in the proposed negotiation.
I have the honor to be, &c.
D. M. ERSKINE.
Hon. Robert Smith, &c.
(No. IV.)
Mr. SMITH to Mr. ERSKINE.
Department of State, April 18th, 1809.
Sir,—The note, which I had the honour of receiving from you this day, I lost no time in laying before the President, who, being sincerely desirous of a satisfactory adjustment of the differences unhappily existing between Great Britain and the United States, has authorized me to assure you, that he will meet with a disposition correspondent with that of his Britannic Majesty, the determination of his Ma-
jesty to send to the United States a special Envoy, invested with full powers to conclude a treaty on all the points of the relations between the two countries.
I am further authorized to assure you that in case his Britannic Majesty should, in the mean time withdraw his Orders in Council of January and November 1807, so far as respects the United States, the President will not fail to issue a Proclamation by virtue of the authority and for the purposes specified in the eleventh section of the statute, commonly called the Non-Intercourse Act.
I have the honour, &c. &c. (Signed) R. SMITH.
(No. V.)
Mr. ERSKINE to Mr. SMITH.
Washington, April 19, 1809.
Sir,—In consequence of the acceptance by the President, as stated in your letter dated the 18th inst. of the proposals made by me on the part of his Majesty, in my letter of the same day, for the renewal of the intercourse between the respective countries, I am authorized to declare that his Majesty's Orders in Council of January and November 1807, will have been withdrawn as respects the United States, on the 10th day of June next.
I have the honor, &c. &c. (Signed) D. M. ERSKINE, Hon. Robert Smith, &c. &c. &c.
(No. VI.)
Mr. SMITH to Mr. ERSKINE.
Department of State, April 19, 1809.
Sir,—Having laid before the President your note of this day, containing an assurance, that his Britannic Majesty will, on the 10th day of June next have withdrawn his Orders in Council of January and November 1807, so far as respects the United States, I have the honor of informing you that the President will accordingly, and in pursuance of the eleventh section of the statute, commonly called the Non-Intercourse Act, issue a Proclamation, so that the trade of the United States with Great Britain may on the same day be renewed, in the manner provided in the said section.
I have the honor, &c. &c. (Signed) R. SMITH.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it is provided, by the 11th section of the act of Congress, entitled "an Act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France, and their dependencies, and for other purposes"—that "in case either France or Great Britain shall so revoke or modify her edicts, that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States," the President is authorized to declare the same by Proclamation; after which the trade, suspended by the said act, and by an act laying an Embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States, and the several Acts supplementary thereto, may be renewed with the nation so doing; and whereas the Hon. DAVID MONTAGUE ERSKINE, his Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, has, by the order and in the name of his Sovereign declared to this Government that the British Orders in Council of January and November 1807, will have been withdrawn as it respects the United States on the 10th day of June next—
Now therefore, I JAMES MADISON, President of the United States, hereby proclaim that the Orders in Council, aforesaid, will have been withdrawn on the 10th day of June next, after which day the trade of the United States with Great Britain, as suspended by the act of Congress above mentioned, and an act laying an embargo on all ships & vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States, and the several acts supplementary thereto, may be renewed.
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, the nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the thirty-third.
JAMES MADISON. By the President, ROBERT SMITH, Secretary of State.
Latest Foreign NEWS.
THIRTY-THIRD BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN.
[Translated for the Boston Chronicle from the Paris Monitor of March 21, 1809—received by the French letter-of-marque L'Esperance , arrived at Bost.]
The Duke of Dalmatia arrived at Bay on the 10th Feb. The whole province is quiet. He was gathering all the means necessary to cross the Minho, on the next day. The river is very wide there. He was to be at Oporto from the 15th to the 20th, and at Lisbon from the 20th to the 28th.
The British were embarking at Lisbon to abandon Portugal; the indignation of the Portuguese was at its height. There were daily some severe and bloody engagements between the British and Portuguese.
In Galicia, the Duke of Elchingen perfected the organization of the province—Admiral Massieu had arrived at Ferrol, and activity was beginning to revive in that important arsenal. Tranquillity is restored in all the provinces under the orders of the Duke of Istria, and situate between the Pyrenees, the sea, Portugal and the ridge of mountains that cover Madrid. Security succeeds to disorders and alarms.
Numerous deputations daily arrive in Madrid to tender their homage to the King. The re-organization and public spirit make rapid progress under the new government.
The Duke of Belluno is marching towards Badajoz; he disarms and pacifies all Lower Estremadura.
Saragossa has capitulated. The calamities which have befallen this wretched city, are a terrible example for nations. Order is re-established in Saragossa, and extends to the whole province of Arragon. The two corps d'armes , which invested that city are now dispensable. Saragossa was the real focus of the insurrection in Spain. It was in that city that the party who wished to call a Prince of the House of Austria to reign on the Tagus , had assembled. The men of that party had inherited this opinion from their ancestors, who were of that sentiment at the time of the Succession-war, and which has just been crushed forever.
The battle of Tudela had been won on the 23rd November, and on the 27th the French army was encamped within a short distance from Saragossa. The populace of the city were armed. The inhabitants of the neighboring country had joined them, and Saragossa contained fifty thousand men formed into regiments of 1000, composed of 10 companies of 100 men. All the grades of generals, commissioned and non-commissioned officers, were filled by monks. A body of 10,000 men who had escaped from the battle of Tudela had retired to that city, the subsistence of which was secured by immense magazines, and defended by 200 pieces of cannon. The image of Our Lady of the Pillar was daily operating miracles, according to the directions of the monks who animated the courage of that numerous population, or supported their confidence. In the field, these 50,000 men would not have stood against three regiments; but, shut up in the city, and spurred on by all the leaders, how could they avoid the evils which ignorance and fanaticism attached to them? Every thing has been undertaken that it was possible to do, to bring them back to reason.
Immediately after the battle of Tudela, it was thought that the opinion entertained at Saragossa, that Madrid would make a bold stand, and that the armies of Somosierra, Guadarama, Elbramadura, Leon and Catalonia would eventually beat the French, would be used by the leaders of the insurgents to keep alive the fanaticism of the inhabitants. It was therefore resolved not to invest the city, and to leave open its communications with all Spain, in order that they might learn the discomfiture of the Spanish armies, and the accounts of the entry of the French army in Madrid. But this news reached only the ring-leaders, who took care that the inhabitants should not know it. Truth, not only was concealed from them, but they were encouraged by lies. To-day, the French had lost 40,000 men at Madrid; yesterday, Romana had entered France. In fine, the British army were rapidly advancing, and the French eagles must fly before the terrible Leopard!
All this time, sacrificed to political views, and to the hopes of being able to calm those heads, heated by fanaticism and error, was not lost for the French army. The General of engineers, Lacoste, aid-de-camp to the Emperor, and an officer of the most distinguished abilities, gathered at Alayon all the tools, equipments of mines, and materials necessary for the subterraneous war which H. M. had ordered.
The General of division Dedon, commanding the artillery, assembled a great quantity of mortars, bombs, howitzers and heavy ordnance. All which were drawn from Pamplona, seven days march from Saragossa. Meanwhile, it was perceived that the enemy were availing themselves of this stagnation, to fortify the Monte-Torrero and other important positions. On the 21st December, the division Suchet drove them from the heights of St. Lambert, and from two other works, out of the reach of the city. The division of Gen. Gassan overthrew the enemy from the heights of San-Gregorio, and the 21st of light infantry and 100th regt. of the line, carried the redoubts in the suburbs which defended the roads of Sueva and Barcelona. He also ordered the forming of a large building near Gallego, where 500 Swifs had entrenched themselves. On the same day the Duke of Cornegliano also carried the works and positions of Monte-Torrero, took all the cannon and a great number of prisoners, and did great execution among the enemy.
The Duke of Cornegliano being taken sick, the Duke of Abrantes took in the beginning of January, the command of the 3rd corps. He signalized his arrival by the taking of the convent of San-Josef, and pursued his successes on the 16th of January by the carrying of the idea d'pont of Huerbas, where his troops made good their stand. The chief of battalion Stahal, of the 14th of the line, distinguished himself at the attack on the convent of San-Josef, and lieutenant Victor de Baffon was one of the first to scale the works.
The investing of Saragossa was not yet complete. They persisted in leaving open the communications, in order that the insurgents might be informed of the overthrow of the English, and their shameful flight out of Spain. It was on the 16th of January that the English were driven into the sea at Coruna, and it was on the 26th that the operations began to take a serious aspect before Saragossa.
The Duke of Montebello had reached it on the 20th, to take the chief command of the siege. As soon as he was convinced that the news sent to the city was productive of no good effect, and that the monks who directed the minds of the people had succeeded in preventing that news from reaching the people, or in altering it so as to perpetuate the delirium of the besieged, he took the resolution no longer to spare them.
Fifteen thousand peasants had assembled at Perdiguera on the left bank of the Ebro. The Duke of Trevifo attacked them with three regiments, and notwithstanding the fine position they occupied, the 6th regt. entirely overthrew and routed them.—The 10th hussars were in the plain to receive them, and a great number remained on the field of battle. Nine pieces of cannon and several stands of colors were the trophies of this encounter.
The Duke of Montebello had sent the adjutant commandant Gafquet to Zuera, to disperse a party of rebels. With only three battalions, this officer attacked 4000 of them and took four pieces of cannon with their horses and equipments. Gen. Vartier had at the same time been ordered with 300 foot and 200 horse, to scour the road to Valencia. He met 5000 of the rebels at Alcaniz, forced them in the very city to throw down their arms in their flight, killed 600 men, and took magazines, provisions, ammunition and arms; among these latter were 1000 English muskets. The adjutant-commandant Carrion de Nizas at the head of a column of infantry, Col. Burthe of the 4th hussars, and the chief of battalion Camus, of the 28th light infantry have particularly distinguished themselves.
These operations took place between the 26th and 26th January. On the 26th, the city was severely attacked, and the batteries were unmasked—On the 27th at noon, the breach was practicable on several points.—The troops lodged themselves in the convent of San-in-Gracia. The division Grandjean occupied about 30 houses in the city. Colonel Chlopisek, and the soldiers of the Vistula, distinguished themselves. At the same time, the General of division Morlot, in an attack on the left, possessed himself of the whole front of defence of the enemy.
Captain Guetteman, at the head of the pioneers and of 36 grenadiers, mounted the breach with a rare intrepidity. Mr. Bobicki, an officer in the Vistula Rangers, a young man of only 17 years of age, and having already received seven wounds, was the first who entered the breach. The chiefs of battalion Lejeune, aid-de-camp to the prince of Neuchatel, and Haxo, behaved well, and were both slightly wounded.
On the 30th, the convents of St. Marquez and the Great Augustines were carried, as were 60 houses taken by pioneers.
On the 31st February, General Lacoste was struck with a musket ball, and died on the field of battle. He was a very brave and distinguished officer. His loss has been much felt by all the army, but more particularly by the Emperor. Colonel Rognat succeeded him in the command of the engineers, and the direction of the siege.
The enemy defended every house—three attacks by mines were carried in front, and every day three or four mines blew up several houses, and opened the way to our troops.
In this way we reached the Corso, (the main street of Saragossa) lodged ourselves on the quays, and took possession of the university and colleges. The enemy attempted to oppose their miners to ours, but, little acquainted with this kind of warfare, their miners were very quickly discovered and killed.
This manner of conducting the siege rendered its progress slow but sure, and less dangerous for the army. Whilst three companies of miners, and eight companies of pioneers, alone are occupied with this laborious war, whose results are so terrible, the city is continually kept on fire by the mortars throwing shells and fire balls.
The attack had been made but ten days before the reduction of the city was considered as not far distant. More than one third of the houses were in our possession. The church of Our Lady of the Pillar, who by so many miracles was to save the city was destroyed by bombs, & no longer tenable. The Duke of Montebello then thought it was time to take possession of the suburbs on the left bank, in order to occupy the diameter of the city, and cross his fire. The General of Division Gazan carried in a very brilliant manner the Swifs barracks. On the 17th, a battery of fifty pieces opened early in the morning. At 3 P. M. a battalion on the 28th attacked a large convent whose brick walls were 4 or 5 feet thick, and carried it. 7000 of the enemy defended the suburbs. General Gazan advanced rapidly to the bridge by which the rebels could effect their retreat into the city. He killed a great number, and took 4000 prisoners, among whom were 2 Generals, 12 Colonels, 19 Lt. Colonels, and 290 officers. He also took 6 ammunition waggons, and 30 pieces of cannon. Almost all the troops of the line in the city occupied this important post, which had been threatened since the 10th.
At the same moment, the Duke D'Abrantes crossed the Corso, and blew up the colleges.
After these events, the Junta, in order to gain time, and to give the people time to get over the horror and surprise with which they were struck, demanded a parley; but their faithlessness was known, and this deception was useless. Thirty more houses were carried by mines or pioneers.
At last on the 31st, all the city was occupied by our troops—15,000 infantry and 2000 horse have laid down their arms at the gate of Portillo, and have surrendered 40 stands of colors and 150 pieces of cannon. The rebels lost 20,000 men during the siege, 13,000 were found in the hospitals, and of these, 500 died daily.
The Duke of Montebello would not grant a capitulation to the city of Saragossa; he only issued the following orders:
"The garrison shall on the 21st, at noon, lay down their arms at the gate of Portillo, after which they shall be prisoners of war. The soldiers of the line who will take the oath of allegiance to King Joseph, and enter into his service, will be admitted into it—in case their admission should not be granted by the minister at war of the King of Spain, they shall be prisoners of war and carried into France. Religion shall be respected. On the 21st at noon the French troops shall occupy the castle. All the artillery and ammunition of every kind shall be delivered to them. All the arms be deposited at the door of every house, and collected by the Ward Alcalde."

The magazines of wheat, rice and vegetables found in the place, are immense.
The Duke of Montebello has appointed Gen. Laval Governor of Saragossa.
A deputation of the clergy and principal inhabitants have set out for Madrid.
The Count of Fuentes a grandee of Spain whom the rebels had arrested on his estates seven months ago was found in a dungeon eight feet square and liberated. The sufferings he has undergone are almost incredible.
Burgos, (Spain) March 5. General Sebastiani pursues his success. — Marshals Junot and St. Cyr are approaching Valencia, which it is expected will not make any defence.
PORTSMOUTH.
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1809.
LATE FROM EUROPE.
The French letter of marque L'Esperance, Capt. Duple, arrived at Bournemouth on Tuesday from Bordeaux, bringing papers of that city to the 19th of March, and Paris of the 15th, with dispatches from the French Government, abrogating, as we have reason to think, the Decrees against neutral commerce.
An imperial decree releasing American vessels detained for the supposed breach of the embargo, will be found below. Eight of these vessels, we understand, were about to sail from Bordeaux, and 45 detained for other causes, expect to sail from that port for America, under the impression that the Decrees would soon be repealed.
There was no declaration of war against Austria, though the French Ambassador and the Ministers of the Confederation of the Rhine had left Vienna. Bonaparte was in Paris at the last dates.
The British fleet, in going out, raised the blockade of L'Orient, from which 3 ships, with the line and four frigates sailed out on an expedition—destination unknown.
The British frigate Prosperine, 42 guns, 290 men, Capt. Otter, has been captured by two French frigates off Toulon, after a short engagement, and carried into port, without the loss of a man, as is stated on the part of the French.
IMPERIAL DECREES:
Of February 25 1809.
ART. 1. American vessels which have been detained in the ports of the Empire, solely by the (French) Embargo, are permitted to return directly to the U.S. This favor is not extended to such vessels as have been detained on account of irregular papers, or from any other cause.
ART. 2. The vessels the embargo on which is thus raised, shall be placed in the disposition of M. Gen. Armstrong, Minister Plenipotentiary of the U. States, to guarantee their direct return to that country. The bonds given on their departure shall only be cancelled by certificates of our Consuls, &c. in America, that their cargoes were landed therein, and were composed only of the productions, or industry of our Empire; and that no part of them was the produce of the soil, of the colonies, or of the commerce of England.
Repeal of the Orders in Council!
The AMERICAN EMBARGO the JEFFERSONIAN POLICY, has effectually triumphed. — England has felt the "weapon of American ranking in her bowels, and has at length been brought to a sense of justice. Tyrannical, oppressive and ungrateful, she has wantonly imposed upon a nation, whose friendship is indispensably necessary to her, and whose enmity might convulse her. A RIGOROUS and FULL enforcement of an American Embargo, for a few months, is the powerful weapon which will at any time cause the laws of justice to be respected. Although this is so undeniably true, yet have the British, with characteristic folly, continued to sport with the friendship of America! Dear-bought experience, however, has at length taught them wisdom; and they have saved themselves while it was in their power. Had they procrastinated the repeal of their Orders a little longer, they would have experienced the most fatal consequences. One thing, however, is incontrovertible that from the encouragement given them by the Tories of this country, they have held out to the last breath. The continuance of their system for one little month longer, would have produced the dangers of insurrection.
Notwithstanding the clamorous and Jacobinical opposition of the Tory Faction to the Embargo, and their shameful violations of it, it has been powerful enough to convince Britain of the necessity of our supplies, and of the firmness and strength of our Government. It has convinced her of the weakness and impotency of the Essex Faction; and that their pitiful ravings have no effect upon the Administration. The British ministry were grossly deceived by the promise of the Tories of 75. (which they could never perform,) and they have been still more grossly deceived by those of 1808, who are placed in the same predicament. This is what calls the Faction. This it is that stings them to the soul. "What! (vociferate they) can it be possible, that after having assured our friends the English, that if they will but hold out in enforcing their Orders, we will compel the American government to crush to them—is it possible, after this, that we should not be able to keep our promise?" "Oh! horrible, horrible, most horrible!" What will his Majesty think of us? He will not permit us to approach with reverential lips and kiss his royal hand! And his serene Sultanship the prime minister, he will think us too insignificant for a single note, either of correspondence or condolence! The noble Duke of York too, will tear himself from the arms of his delectable Dulcinea, to vent his execrations upon our guilty heads! Oh, insupportable burthen! "Oh, heavy day!" "Would we had met our direct foes in Heaven, or ever we had seen this day!" Such will be the language of the leaders of Toryism, behind the curtain:—In public, they will wear the front and semblance of content. "They will have angels' faces, but HELL will know their hearts." To the Tory Faction alone are attributable the delays which have taken place in the settlement of our differences. Had it not been for their rebellious opposition to the Embargo, the American flag would long since have waved triumphant in every sea; and the sails of our merchantmen would have whitened every track of the ocean. From their incendiary and wicked conduct, they have entirely lost the confidence of American freemen. They will fall, like LUCIFER, never to rise again.
[Boston Chronicle.]
"Get thee hence, Satan!"
The Tories claiming to be the authors of the settlement of our national difficulties, is like Belzebub's claiming to be the author of nature. They wish to tempt the people of the U. States to fall down and worship them, as Satan of old tempted the "world's brightest gem," the Saviour of mankind.
"Then the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and saith unto him, all these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then he answered unto him, Get thee hence, Satan." In like manner have the Tories laid claim to possessions to which they have not a shadow of right, and have offered them to those who will fall down and worship them. But an indignant people will "defy them, and their incarnations":—They will say, Get thee hence, Satan! we know thee not.
[Ibid.]
PARSON SPRING.
We have perused a medley of ranting Jacobinism and seditious infidelity, under the mask of the following title:
"Two Sermons addressed to the Second Congregational Society in Newburyport, Fast Day, April 6, 1809 By Samuel Spring, D. D." This kind comes not out but by prayer and fasting."
Were the reverend demagogue prating at the bar-room of a tavern, under the disguise of liquor instead of religion, his discourse would be in character, and if he had not some claim to charity, his ribaldry would at least be entitled to silent contempt. But when a grave clergyman, with the imposing title of D. D. ascends the pulpit, discards at once the charity of the Christian and the dignity of the pastor, and pours out the unhallowed mixture of sacred and profane, all the crudities of party animosity & threadbare calumny, we think it is time for laymen to remind the errant demagogue of the high and solemn duties of his profession—to refer him to his ordination charge, instead of the seditious resolves of a Newburyport town meeting, for the basis of his duty—and for the precepts of his ministry, to the scriptures, instead of party newspapers and electioneering pamphlets.
"As with the people so with the priest," is an old maxim. We have seen enough of the wanderings of the flock, said to be under the pastoral care of Mr. Spring—we now perceive in the pretended shepherd, the bell-wether that leads it astray.
Such examples merit rebuke. And it is some consolation, that their folly, (to use the milder expression,) is so egregious, that they cannot become contagious in a community which has not lost all claim to virtue, sense and decency.
[Boston Patriot.]
More Clerical Toryism!
We learn from good authority, that Parson PARISH, of Byfield, on the late Fast day, delivered a sermon in which he boldly advocated a SEPARATION of the United States! He represented to his hearers, that it would be greatly for the advantage of the New-England States to be disconnected from the Southern—That to obtain so desirable an object, they ought not to dread any consequences however disastrous—That it would be for our interest, although we should indemnify our merchants for the debts due from them by the southern people; (which he eliminated very considerable)—That such an event must ultimately take place and that they must not be surprised if it should be accomplished before the grass grew in their fields, &c. &c. Those that heard it, do not hesitate to pronounce it one of the most TREASONABLE and SEDITIOUS discourses ever delivered in Massachusetts. It is hoped it will be the means of opening the eyes of many of his parishioners, who have been too long deceived by the machinations of the tory faction.
[Essex Register.]
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
By the arrival at Boston on Saturday last of the ship Dykes, Capt. Hutchinson from Liverpool accounts are received to the 17th of March from London. There is nothing later from the Continent of Europe than before received. Contradictory reports respecting Austria, continued in circulation. The Duke of York has been acquitted in Parliament of the charge brought against him, by a majority of 84!—so much for being of the Royal blood!
IMPORTANT.
Mr. Duval, Comptroller of the Treasury, has given an official opinion, that vessels being at a licensed port, may proceed to any port which shall be permitted, under the President's late Proclamation, without a forfeiture of the bond previously given. That is, a vessel, which now clears out for Madeira, and gives bonds, may, after the 10th of June, enter any English port, without forfeiting these bonds.
Glorious Triumph!
The Election for Senator and for Members of Assembly, closed on Thursday last, in New-York. In the city and county of New-York, the Republican Ticket has prevailed against the united forces of Tories, Federalists and British agents. Never was a victory more complete. The Whig Majority is EIGHT OR NINE HUNDRED VOTES.
New-Hampshire Election.
We reiterate a conviction of the truth of our former statement in this paper, that, if Gov. Langdon be not elected, [which however we think extremely probable] that there will be no choice of Governor. A letter now before us from a gentleman in Candia who heard the votes declared in that town by the moderator, affirms as that Judge Smith had only 107, while Gov. Langdon had 81: the former statement in this paper gave Smith 124, and Col. Langdon only 47; leaving Judge Smith's plurality 102. The Keene federal paper in mournful accents says, "Our majority for Judge Smith is much leaner than most of the statements." If so, we may not despair of yet placing the Patriot Langdon in the gubernatorial chair by the suffrages of a MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE. LAUS DEO!
We would remind those who calculate so sanguinely on a federal majority in the House of Representatives, of their 15, 20 and 25 majority in the Vermont Legislature last August, which unfortunately close for republican electors of President, and the resolutions, we believe by a majority of 12, approving the present national administration!
N. H. Patriot.
MARRIED.
In this town, Mr. JOHN ADAMS, to Miss SALLY HODGDON—Mr. SAMUEL GERRISH, to Mrs. MARY G. WELCH—Mr. ELIZABETH JENNESS, to Miss PRISCILLA ALLAN.
DIED.
At Chester, on the 21st of April, Mr. JONATHAN BELL, in the twenty ninth year of his age. He was a young man of knowledge, enterprise, integrity, benevolence and virtue. During his short pilgrimage in this varied scene of trouble and affliction, he bore along with him the good wishes and respect of all who knew him. In the awful moment of dissolution, the lingering approaches of which he viewed with the calmest resignation, his spirit took its flight to the society of congenial spirits, amidst the tears and prayers of his bereaved family and friends. At Kittery, JOSHUA HUBBARD, Esq. aged about 70.
On Tuesday morning April 25th, departed this life, as in a moment, Col. GEORGE GAINS, aged 73. He was seized with apoplectic affection of the lungs, as sitting in his chair, and expired before a neighboring physician, who lived nearly opposite, had time to cross the street.
Few individuals have filled an active sphere of existence, with more faithfulness and zeal than Col. GAINS, and it is probable, that he has left no equal, for indefatigable attention to every species of public or municipal business, with which he had the honor of being entrusted, by the State of New Hampshire, or the town of Portsmouth; and in as much as example is of greater efficacy than precept, it may be of importance to briefly note the principal occurrences of his useful and serviceable life.
Col. GEORGE GAINS was born in the year 1736, and having the misfortune to lose his venerable parents at six years of age, he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker at the age of 15; and serving out his time with reputation, he industriously followed the business to which he had been brought up, until this kind of business failed for want of encouragement; when he applied himself, with the same industry to the occupation of a house carpenter, in which he continued until the year 1765; when his decided opposition to the unjustifiable stamp act, rendered his patriotism an object of general notice, and he was called upon by his fellow townsmen, to act with most of those committees who were appointed as the guardians of the violated liberties of their country—and from this eventful period to the year 1773, he was so unremittingly employed in attentions to the interests of America, as left him but few moments to spare for his private concerns.—In 1773 he was chosen Selectman, and continued in office for more than 30 years. In 1775 he was appointed a Major in the army; and devoting his life to the cause of freedom, he continued in service until after the surrender of Burgoyne, at which capture he personally assisted. In 1784 he was appointed a Justice of the peace, and held his commission with unspotted character. In 1801 he was appointed agent for the fortifications then erecting in the harbor, and some few years after was nominated and commissioned as Commissary General of the State; to which may be added his having served as a Representative of the town of Portsmouth for more than thirty years. A part of these municipal honors he was stripped of in a good old age, by that mutability, which is the characteristic of popular assemblies: But the erasure of his name from the selectmen's ticket—the blotting of it out, from the vote for Representatives, can never obliterate his public services from the grateful remembrance of his fellow townsmen. Too many monuments of his active services still remain, for him to be forgotten, by the people, whom he faithfully served; and all these monuments of his industry, his fidelity and zeal, unitedly say—Well done, good and faithful servant of the state and town, Rest thou from thy labours and let thy works praise thee; for in thee, the grateful remembrance, of the labors of Col. George Gains still lives; and shall live from one generation to another.
The Selectmen, as a testimonial of their personal respect, directed the bells of every society to toll; and did themselves the honor to precede the corps of their former ancient President; to whom the oldest fire society in town, of which the Col. was a member, united itself in solemn procession; and these were followed by a large concourse of the most respectable fellow citizens, who accompanied his remains to that house, which is appointed for all living; and mingled their tears with those of a bereaved family, consisting of a weeping widow and six mourning children.
In this town, Mr. SHERMAN, aged 70—Miss POLLY WINKLE. Mr. WILLIAM CLARKSON, a man of colour, aged 78.
EDUCATION.
CALEB STERNS informs the inhabitants of Portsmouth that his School is open for the reception of Misses and Masters in the various branches of an English Education.—Those who wish to improve the present opportunity will please to call on C. S. at his house two doors below D. Smith's Grocery Store, Buck-street. Portsmouth, May 2, 1809.
The heirs to the estate
of JANE LOVERING, late of Exeter, widow, deceased, are hereby notified that at the Probate Court, to be held at Exeter, on the third Monday of May next, I shall exhibit my account of administering the estate of said deceased for allowance and settlement. BENJAMIN LOVERING, Exeter, April 30, 1809. [Administrator.]
Piscataqua Missionary Society.
THE Members of the Piscataqua Missionary Society, are hereby notified that their annual meeting for the choice of officers, and transacting other business of the society will be attended, tomorrow, in the west chamber of the Court House, at 10 o'clock A. M. at which season the members are requested to pay their annuity to the Treasurer. Information is also given to the friends of Missionary exertions, that a sermon will be preached in the afternoon or evening, and an opportunity offered to contribute to the benevolent design of affording some religious instruction to the vacant settlements in this state and its vicinity. JOSEPH BUCKMINSTER, Sec'y. "There is that fattened, and yet encreaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty." Solomon. Portsmouth, May 2, 1809.
PROPOSALS
For carrying Mails of the United States on the following Post Roads, will be received at the General Post Office, in Washington City, until the 10th day of June next, inclusive.
IN NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
FROM Portsmouth, by Dover, Rochester, Middletown, Ossipee, Moultonboro', Center Harbor and Plymouth to Haverhill and Newbury, Vt. and from Newbury, by Haverhill Plymouth, New Hampton, Meredith, Gilmanstown, Nottingham and Durham, to Portsmouth, once a week.
Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday at 2 p m and arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 p m. Leave Plymouth on Friday at 6 a m and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 p m and at Newbury by 7 p m.
Returning. Leave Newbury every Saturday at 6 a m and arrive at Plymouth by 6 p m. Leave Plymouth at 7 p m and arrive at Portsmouth on Tuesday by 10 a m.
From Fryberg, in Maine, by Conway, Bartlett, Rosebrook and Jefferson to Lancaster once in two weeks.
Leave Fryberg every other Tuesday at 1 p m and arrive at Lancaster on Wednesday by 6 p m. Leave Lancaster every other Monday at 6 a m and arrive at Fryberg on Tuesday by 10 a m.
From Exeter, by Epping, Nottingham, Epsom, Pembroke, Concord, Salisbury, Grafton, Lebanon and Pelham, to Hanover, once a week.
Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 9 a m and arrive at Concord by 10 a m on Wednesday. Leave Concord at 11 a m and arrive at Salisbury by 3 p m. Leave Salisbury at 4 p m and arrive at Hanover on Friday by 8 a m.
Returning. Leave Hanover every Friday at 1 p m and arrive at Concord on Saturday by 2 p m. Leave Concord at 3 p m and arrive at Exeter on Monday by 3 p m.
From Exeter, by Newmarket and Durham to Dover, once a week.
Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 6 a m and arrive at Dover by 11 a m. Leave Dover at 1 p m and arrive at Exeter by 7 p m the same day.
From Haverhill, Ms. by Chester and Pembroke to Concord, twice a week.
Leave Concord every Wednesday and Saturday at 5 a m and arrive at Haverhill by 11 a m. Leave Haverhill every Tuesday and Friday at 1 p m and arrive at Concord by 7 p m.
From Portsmouth, by Exeter, Kingston, Haverhill, Andover, Wilmington, Woburn, Medford and Charlestown, to Boston, three times a week.
Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3 a m and arrive at Exeter by half past 7 a m. Leave Exeter at 8 a m and arrive at Boston by 7 p m.
Returning. Leave Boston every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a m and arrive at Exeter by half past 3 p m. Leave Exeter at 4 p m and arrive at Portsmouth by 7 p m.
From Exeter, by Chester, Londonderry, Merrimack, Amherst, Petersboro', Marlboro', Keene and Chesterfield, to Brattleboro', once a week.
Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 8 a m, arrive at Amherst on Wednesday evening, and at Keene on Thursday by 3 p m. Leave Keene at 4 p m and arrive at Brattleboro' on Friday by 6 p m.
Returning. Leave Brattleboro' every Saturday at 4 a m and arrive at Keene by 9 a m. Leave Keene at 10 a m and arrive at Exeter the next Monday by 3 p m.
From Salisbury, by Andover, New Chester and Bridgewater to Plymouth, and thence by Holderness, New Hampton and Sanbornstown, to Salisbury, one week, and the reverse the next week.
Leave Salisbury every Thursday at 6 a m and arrive at Plymouth by 6 p m. Leave Plymouth Friday 6 a m and arrive at Salisbury by 6 p m.
From Haverhill, by Bath, Littleton, Dalton, Lancaster, Guildhall, Lunenburg and Concord, to Littleton, thence by Bath, to Haverhill, once a week.
Leave Haverhill on Saturday at 5 a m and arrive at Guildhall on Tuesday by 4 p m. Leave Guildhall on Tuesday by 5 p m and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 p m.
From Haverhill, Ms. by Salem, to Windham, once a week.
Leave Windham every Monday at 6 a m and arrive at Haverhill by 1 p m. Leave Haverhill every Monday at 4 p m and arrive at Windham on Tuesday by noon.
From Hanover, by Oxford, to Haverhill, once a week.
Leave Hanover every Friday at 9 a m and arrive at Haverhill by 6 p m. Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 8 a m and arrive at Hanover by 6 p m.
NOTES.
1. The Postmaster General may expedite the mails, and alter the times of arrival and departure, at any time during the continuance of the contract; he previously stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby. 2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mail, at all offices where no particular time is specified. 3. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continue until the departure of any depending mail, whereby the mails deferred for such depending mail lose a trip, a forfeiture of double the amount allowed for carrying the mail one trip shall be incurred, unless it shall be made to appear that the delay was occasioned by an unavoidable accident; in which case the amount of pay for the trip, will, in all cases, be forfeited and retained. 4. Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly—in the months of February, May, August and November, one month after the expiration of each quarter. 5. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail. 6. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals. 7. The Postmaster General reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end, whenever one failure happens, which amounts to the loss of a trip. 8. The contracts are to be in operation on the 1st day of October next, and continue until the 30th of September 1811.
GIDEON GRANGER,
Post-Master General. GENERAL POST OFFICE. OFFICE. Washington City, April 1, 1809.
AUCTION. On Saturday Next,
10 o'clock.
At Store No. 2, Merchants' Row. ALL the personal estate of AUGUST H. N. LE BEC, deceased, consisting of a great variety of Wearing Apparel; Gold Rings; Breast Pins; Violins; elegant Guitars; double barrel Guns; Writing Desk; Bureau; Saddle and Bridle, and sundry other articles. —ALSO—
All the personal estate of Capt. JAMES HOOKER, deceased, consisting of Wearing Apparel; Seamen's Books and Charts; one Hadley's Quadrant; one Spy Glass; two Beds, and sundry other articles. —ALSO—A variety of Gentel
Mahogany Furniture,—viz. one set elegant Chairs, 1 pair Card Tables, Dining Table, 1 elegant Eight day Clock, & many other articles.
May 2. S. LARKIN, Auctioneer.
State of New Hampshire, Grafton ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident owners of land in the town of BRIDGWATER, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1808; that unless they pay the said taxes to me the subscriber, or on or before the third Tuesday of July next, so much of their land as will pay the same with incidental charges, will be sold at public Vendue, at the dwelling house of Robert Craig, in Bridgewater, at ten o'clock A. M. on said day.
Table with 5 columns: Name, Acres, School tax, County tax, State tax. Lists tax amounts for Timothy Ingals, David Atwood, John McMurphy, and others.
DUDLEY HILTON, Collector. Bridgewater, March 24th, 1809. For Sale, Freight or Charter, THE Iron and burthen brig ANNA, 173 tons; can be put to sea at short notice—her rigging newly fixed and ready to go over head. For terms, apply to HENRY TREDICK, Jr. May 3, 1809.
Now opening, a New assortment of School Books,
AT C. PEIRCE'S Store Daniel street, among which are, LINDLEY Murray's English Reader, Introduction, Key, Exercises and Grammar, Burtons Lectures, Blair's ditto Beauties of the Bible; Walker's, Johnson's, Perry's and Webster's Dictionaries, Spelling and Reading Books of Almost all kinds; Columbian Exercises; Morse's Geographies and Elements; a Great variety of English and Latin Grammars, Arithmetics, Primers, &c. Also a great variety of Writing and Cyphering Books made of Good thick Paper.
TICKETS
For the Bath, which is now opened.
For Sale by S. LARKIN, 40 Hhds. Turks Island SALT, May 2, 1809.
ELISHA WHIDDEN HAS FOR SALE A few puncheons of good flavoured St. Croix and Tobago RUM. It being to close a consignment, will be sold low for cash or approved notes.
Likewise—a quantity of good POLLOCK FISH, on reasonable terms. May 2, 1809.
MATRASSES.
FOR SALE BY NATH'L B. MARCH, Opposite the Post Office— CURLL Hair, common hair, and mofs Matrasses;—Also—Saddles, Bridles, Cloths and Gig, Harness, Fire Buckets; Truck and Cart Harness, Trunks, Whips, Portmanteau Bags, &c. N.B. Cloths trimmed or repaired at the shortest notice. May 2.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber having been appointed Sealer of Weights and Measures for the town of Portsmouth, hereby requests all persons to bring in their Weights and Measures to be provd and sealed. He will attend to that duty on every Monday and Friday this month, at his shop in Daniel street. This expected that the above request will be complied with, as 'twill save the subscriber the trouble of calling at their shops and stores, and save the owners of weights and measures about three fourths of the expense.
ALL persons who have any demands on me, are requested to bring them forward and I will pay them—and those who are indebted to me are requested to make payment. JOHN BADGER.
A general Assortment of Tin and Pewter Ware, kept constantly on hand. Cash given for old Copper, Brass, Pewter and Lead. Apply as above. May 2, 1809.
TAKE NOTICE.
ALL persons having any demands against the estate of MOSES BREWSTER, late of Portsmouth, yeoman, deceased, are requested to present them for settlement; and all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the subscriber. MOSES B. DENNITT, Executor. Portsmouth, May 1st, 1809.
TO BE LET,
A SMALL apartment suitable for an Attorney, near the centre of the town—Enquire of GEORGE WENTWORTH. Portsmouth, May 1st, 1809.

To the Patrons of the N.H. Gazette.  SPECIAL NOTICE. ON the 17th instat, the Copartnership which has subsisted for four years last past between PEIRCE & GARDNER printers of the Gazette, was by mutual consent dissolved. To their patrons they tender their grateful acknowledgments. They feel with particular sensibility the favours of those whose punctuality has aided their unwearied exertions. To these it is scarcely needful to hint that the dissolution of the partnership induces a necessity of the settlement of Accounts open with the firm. To others it may be proper to hint at the disagreeable consequences to both parties from a delay of settlement. Bills to those indebted in Portsmouth will be sent to them. Those who have demands against the firm are requested to bring them in for settlement. The Gazette will in future be forwarded to the several Subscribers. According to former terms and usage, subscribers will be responsible severally for their papers, until they give notice that they discontinue them. All concerned will please to make application to the Gazette-Office till further instructed. NATHANIEL S. PEIRCE, SAMUEL GARDNER.
Portsmouth, April 18, 1809.  A RARE CHANCE.  FOR SALE on reasonable terms, The New-Hampshire Gazette, together with all the Printing apparatus belonging to the Office in which it is published. Possession will be given any time between this and the first day of June next. The N.H. Gazette has been the State paper for upwards of forty years, and appointed by the United States to promulgate the Laws of Congress. Its extensive circulation ensures to it the largest share of advertisements of any paper in New Hampshire. Any person disposed to purchase may know the terms by addressing a line to the Gazette-Office, Portsmouth, N.H. when an immediate reply will be returned. April 18.
TAKE NOTICE All that want to purchase the best of  Cordage. The subscriber wishes to inform the public at large, that he can supply them with CORDAGE at the shortest notice, for cash, as cheap or cheaper than can be purchased in town or elsewhere; or on good terms for approved credit, as can be obtained. JOHN UNDERWOOD. Portsmouth, April 18, 1809.
S. LARKIN, KEEPS CONSTANTLY FOR SALE, Gunpowder, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, and Souchong  TEAS, all of the best quality. Old Pedro Madeira, Dry Lisbon, Sicily Madeira, Sherry, Red Port, Claret and Malaga  WINES, warranted pure as imported. Old Cognac Brandy, French ditto, Holland Gin, old Jamaica Spirits, best London and American Porter, Bottled Cyder.  SPICES of all kinds much cheaper than of late, Coffee, No. 1 and 2 Chocolate; double and single, refined Loaf Sugar, best Muscatel Raisins, soft shell'd Almonds. Fresh TURKEY FIGS, Citron, a fresh supply of Lorrillari's Macaboy Snuff in Bottles, Spanish Segars, together with almost every article usually kept in Grocery Stores—all which will be sold as low as can be purchased in town. A few Reams of Letter Paper, may be had as above, at a reduced price—Also, best purified Windsor Soap, by box or retail and Camwood of a superior quality. April 15.
HARDWARE.  Thomas W. Penhallow MARKET-STREET, Imports and keeps constantly for sale an extensive variety of Cutlery, Ironmongery and Hardware GOODS. Also, for sale A few barrels No. 1 PORK. Portsmouth, April 18.
Smith & Haven, Have for Sale, No. 5, Merchant's Row, 100 bbls. N. England RUM; 100 bbls. Superfine FLOUR; 50 bbls. MACKEREL; 40 casks Sherry WINE; 100 bds. Coarse SALT; 10 hds. MOLASSES; Also, by Package or less quantity, Caplin SEINS; Herring NETS of various sizes; 18 and 19 thread LINES; Mackerel ditto; Fish HOOKS of different sizes; Sein Twine; Sewing & Mackerel do. On hand, a general assortment of  SHIP CHANDLERY at the usual credit. April 18, 1809.
For sale at the Store of  E. THOMPSON, Bow-street, 200 Bbls. fresh-superfine Alexandria FLOUR. April 18.
THE INHABITANTS of the town of Portsmouth who are indebted to the subscriber for their town and county taxes are hereby informed that necessity obliges him to finish the collection immediately. He therefore gives this notice to the delinquents that every person who does not pay him on or before the first day of May next, must expect to be proceeded against as the law directs.
Joseph Akerman, Jr. Collector. Portsmouth, April 14, 1809.
Loft on Saturday last, a BUNDLE OF PAPERS; of no use but to the parties whose names appear on said papers. Whoever will leave the same with the printers hereof, will be rewarded for his trouble. April 18.
NOTICE IS hereby given, that the subscribers have been duly appointed executors of the last Will and Testament of  JOHN PENHALLOW, Esq. late of Portsmouth, deceased, and have taken upon us that trust;—All persons therefore who have any claims upon said estate, are desired to present the same immediately; and those who are indebted, to make payment. DANIEL AUSTIN, HUNKING PENHALLOW, BENJAMIN PENHALLOW. Portsmouth, March 28, 1809.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscribers have been duly appointed Executors of the last will and testament of  THOMAS THOMPSON, late of Portsmouth in the county of Rockingham, Esquire, deceased, and have taken upon themselves that trust, by giving bonds as the law directs.—All persons having demands on the estate of the said deceased, are hereby requested to exhibit the same, and those indebted are called upon to make immediate payment to B. BRIERLEY, JOSIAH DWIGHT, } Executors. J. L. THOMPSON, March 25.
State of New-Hampshire, Cheshire ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of STODDARD, in said county, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1808; that unless they previously pay the same to me the subscriber, so much of their lands as will pay said taxes and all legal charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the house of Gardner Towne, Esq. in Stoddard, on Monday the 26th day of June next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
   No. of Acres Range Town Highway Tax School Tax County Tax     Non-resident list.   Heirs of Col. Stoddard West end 28 5 40 50 3   12 7 80 120 60 6   24 6 80 100 50 5   25 2 80 90 45 5   20 5 80 120 60 6   Matthew Thornton 12 7 55 30 15   The heirs of Joseph Blanchard 23 6 40 45 2   Mary Parker 11 3 80 100 5   21 2 65 80 40 4   20 4 80 120 60 6   Joseph Read 3 3 49 35 2   Nathan Whittmore West end 25 6 10 90 45   Jesse Wilson 3 7 80 160 80   4 7 80 160 80 8   18 9 80 240 120 12   Samuel Wilson 14 2 40 80 4   John Wilson 15 2 40 80 4   19 2 40 100 50 5   14 2 40 80 40 4   John Wilson East End 15 2 40 80 4   William Lowring 4 80 200 100 10   2 4 80 200 100 10   John Chamberlain east end 28 6 41 31 16   Joseph Warren 25 8 80 100 10   Joseph Baker Jr. 13 8 100 50 5   Ebenezer Parker's heirs 4 5 80 100 5   John Dutton 12 6 80 90 45   Reuben Kidder's heirs 8 7 4 50 25   Seth Wheeler 2 14 6 10 5   Rolland Cotton 3 14 8 12 6   Ebenezer Pierce 20 5 80 120 6   Charles Lawrence east end 3 0 30 38 19   Thomas Read's heirs 4 0 80 160 80   Daniel Hunt 20 3 80 80 4   Stephen Spaulding 3 13 80 140 70   Jonathan Felt's heirs 1 7 80 240 12   John Blood 23 6 40 80 4   Ambrose Hale 9 9 43 200 10   Jehudi Johnson 16 4 80 600 30   Simeon Stearns 18 3 80 300 15   John Pelfe 17 3 80 100 10   Daniel Gordon 13 6 55 33 15   Bildad Rice 20 6 55 33 15   Thomas K. Breed 34 6 55 33 15   Joseph Hill 19 3 80 100 10   William Robb 9 5 80 180 9   8 5 80 100 50 5   Antipas Dodge 27 3 75 100 5   Thomas Nichols 19 14 80 150 75    NATHANIEL EVANS, Collector. Stoddard, January 31, 1809.
State of New-Hampshire, Hillsborough ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of PETERBOROUGH, in said county, who have not paid their county, school, (town poor bridge) and highway taxes for the year 1808; that so much of their land as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Asa Evans, Esq. innholder in said Peterborough, on Thursday the twenty-second day of June next at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
THE subscriber contemplates keeping a morning School for the instruction of Young Ladies in Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, &c. to commence the first of May—he will continue to give Lessons in vocal Music in evenings as usual—Those who wish to attend on either, will please to call on him at his House in Pitt-street. AMOS BLANCHARD. Portsmouth, March 13, 1809.
To be Sold by  JOSEPH BASS, At his Shop in Broad Street, next door to the Post Office, Portsmouth, A NEW assortment of Early and Late Pease and Beans, with a large assortment of Garden Seeds.—Also—a great variety of Flower Seeds.
Board of Health. AT a Meeting of the Board of Health of the town of Portsmouth, held April 15, the following rules and regulations were adopted, which are to take effect after twenty days from their publication, agreeably to a law of this State, passed in June 1799, (together with an additional act passed in June 1803) entitled "an act empowering the inhabitants of the town of Portsmouth to appoint Health Officers, and for preventing nuisances in said town." As every individual must consider himself interested in the preservation of health in the town: the Board presume the acknowledgment thereof will be discovered by readily aiding in the execution of, and in conforming to said rules and regulations.
Article 1. Waste water of houses, yards, &c. shall be directly conveyed into a sewer or vault.  Article 2. No person shall be allowed to throw any dead animal, or offals of animals, or any vegetable matter into any street, lane, alley, or any dock, or upon any wharf, but shall bury, or throw them into the river beyond low water mark.  Article 3. The Board do order all sellers of fish at the markets in this town, not to leave the offals of fish in any street, lane, alley, or any dock, or upon any wharf, but that these be thrown into the river beyond low water mark.  Article 4. Persons vending meat at the stalls, shall not be allowed to leave any offals of animals over night:—Persons vending vegetables, in or around any of the markets shall not be suffered to leave any refuse thereof; but shall deposit it in some place directed for nuisances generally.  Article 5. The contents of vaults and privies too near the surface, must be removed immediately, as it will be much better to have it done now than in June or July at double expense.  Article 6. The offals of animals must be removed from slaughter-houses, and the yards connected therewith, once in twenty-four hours. The board give notice that neglect in complying with the above rules and regulations, will be prosecuted as the law directs. Portsmouth, April 20, 1809. BENJAMIN SHERBURNE, } Health Committee. JOSHUA BRACKETT, AARON DEAL, State of New-Hampshire, } Portsmouth, Rockingham ss. } April 20, 1809.
Board of Health.
IN conformity to the laws of the United States, and the laws of this State (for the preservation of health by the regular quarantine of vessels suspected of any contagious diseases) the Board of Health have adopted the following rules and regulations, which are to be in force from and after the 15th day of May next, until the 1st day of November. And the Board for the accommodation and safety of vessels subject to quarantine, have established a place in the harbour between Fort Constitution and Clark's Island, so called, to be considered as quarantine ground.
Article 1. Every master or commanding officer, arriving with his vessel at the port of Portsmouth, by night from any foreign port, shall cause said vessel to be brought to an anchor; there to remain till permission to proceed is obtained from the commanding officer at Fort Constitution.  Article 2. All masters or commanding officers of any vessel arriving at the Port of Portsmouth, from any of the West India Islands, from the Dutch or Spanish Main, or from any port or ports within the freights of Gibraltar, or any other port subject to the plague, yellow fever, small-pox or any malignant pestilential or contagious diseases, shall immediately on being hailed from Fort Constitution bring his vessel to an anchor on quarantine ground, there to remain till notice is given by a flag, provided for such purpose, to some of the Health Committee, who will immediately repair on board and give such directions respecting the time any vessel ought to perform quarantine, together with directions for the cleaning as in their opinion may be thought necessary, or by other orders to take off this subjection and restriction, whenever circumstances will admit of it.  Article 3. Every master or commanding officer of any vessel, arriving which is subject to quarantine (after receiving notice of his vessel's being so subject) is forbid landing or suffering to be landed, any person, goods, apparel, bedding, or merchandise of any kind, without permission of the health officers, likewise all persons are forbid going on board any vessel during heretofore quarantined. The above regulations every owner, master, supercargo and consignee is requested strictly to observe, otherwise they may expect to be prosecuted as the law directs; likewise they are requested to pay particular attention to the orders of the commander of Fort Constitution, who is authorised forcibly to detain any vessel attempting wilfully to pass. The expenses for visiting and cleaning, must be paid before a certificate is given. Portsmouth, April 20, 1809. BENJAMIN SHERBURNE, } Health Committee. JOSHUA BRACKETT, AARON DEAL, State of New-Hampshire, } Portsmouth, Rockingham ss. } April 20, 1809.
NOTICE. ALL persons having demands on the estate of Doct. JOHN JACKSON, Physician, late of Portsmouth deceased, are desired to exhibit them to the subscriber for settlement, and all those who are indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment unto ESTHER JACKSON, Executrix. Portsmouth, Feb. 18, 1809.
New Spring Goods.  Tim o Upham Has just received, and is now opening a variety of GOODS suitable for the season:  BEST black, double and single Florence Lustrings; English black Lustrings; double and single black Sarfnetts; black Crapes; black, blue, yellow, drab, dove colour and purple Satins; silk Shawls; white, light blue, green, green and white, blue and white, pink and white with a great variety of other fashionable turban and dress silk Handkerchiefs; silk Stockings; sewing silks of all colours; Nos. 11, 15, 17 and 25 Tapes. Buff, drab, } Washington Cords. mix'd & blk. } Nankins and Nankinets; twill'd and plain black Cambricks; white Cambricks; Checks; Linen; linen Cambricks, and linen cambric Handkerchiefs. Dark, mix'd, black, } SUPERFINE brown, and bottle green } BROAD-CLOTHS. Kidminster Carpeting.  INDIA COTTONS, viz. Sannas, Mow sannas; Callipatty and Chittabity Battas; Coffas Scacapore Coffas; Mamoodies and Gurahs; Bandannas and other India silk Handkerchiefs. Also on hand, a few Hhds. RUM and some Nutmegs, which will be sold on reasonable terms. April 25.
Sewing SILKS.
WM. JONES, Jr. is this day Opening 1 Cafe best Black and assorted Color's Sewing SILKS, which will be sold cheap for Cash. April 25.
WANTED to Purchase— A Burthensome Vessel of from 90 to 100 tons suitable to carry Lumber.—Apply to the Printers. For sale at T. MORTON'S Grocery and Liquor Store Congress Street— A genuine assortment of
WEST India Goods and Groceries of the first quality, as cheap as can be had in town—where Wines, Porter, Beer, Cyder, & other Liquors are retailed, in small or large quantities.—Attendance from sun-rise until 9 o'clock evening.
FOR SALE, A large three story Dwelling-HOUSE containing (on lower floor) a large kitchen, scullery and pantry; a sitting room and parlour of good size; six chambers, four of them large, together with a convenient Stable, Chaise and Wood-house.—The finishing convenience and situation of the above cannot fail pleasing any person who wants a good, convenient and pleasantly situated House.—West India Goods, a small vessel or a part of a vessel will be received in part pay—Or a generous credit will be given for the major part of the above if wished. Inquire as above. Said House will be Let in sixty days from this if not previously sold. Portsmouth, April 25.
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford ss. NOTICE is hereby given to all the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in Wakefield, in said county, who have not paid their town, school, county and highway taxes for the year 1808; that so much of each delinquents land as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of David Copp, Esq. innholder in said town, on Monday the 26th day of June next, at ten of the clock A.M. unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber. N.B. The delinquents are as follows with the several taxes annexed, viz—
   Name No of Acres Town tax School tax County tax Highway tax     Samuel Heard 2 36 110 24 44   William Twombly 2 47 110 12 22   Joseph Gage 7 7 110 12 22   Ebenezer Wentworth 1 53 50 11 20   Ebenezer Hanlon 2 39 110 12 22   John Brown 4 57 110 12 22   Robert Hanlon 1 71 100 11 20   Solomon Hanlon 2 20 110 12 22   Thomas Knox 1 94 100 11 20   Parise & Moore 1 88 100 11 20   Richard Wilbert 2 65 110 12 22   Joseph Roberts 2 58 110 12 22   Theodore Atkinson 2 51 110 12 22   Briar Hay 4 9 60 7 13   William Stiles 4 23 110 12 22   Paul Gerrish 4 27 10 6 11   Thomas Miller 2 1 55 6 11    JOHN DAME, Collector. Wakefield, April 17, 1809.
State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of Northwood, State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their town, school, county and highway taxes for the year 1808; that so much of their land as will pay said taxes together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder, at the dwelling-house of John Furber, Esq. in said Northwood, on Monday the 26th day of June next, at 10 o'clock A.M. unless prevented by previous payment.
   Name No of Acres Town tax School tax County tax Highway tax     Joseph Green 7 18 52 0 74   Leavitt and Drake 9 9 90 1 81   Ditto Benjamin Hill's heirs 9 10 19 0 28   Ditto> Joshua Furber, Jr. 9 15 40 0 46    Northwood, April 18, 1809.
ADVERTISEMENT. Portsmouth, April 11, 1809. At a public town meeting, held this day in the Court House pursuant to notification, the following votes were passed:  VOTED, that a committee of five persons be appointed to receive proposals for the purchase of the Buildings and Land belonging to the present Alms House establishment, and to seek out some proper place whereon to erect a new Alms House; and receive proposals, and make a plan or plans of a new Alms House to be built; with an estimate of the probable expence—and report their doings at the next adjourned meeting. Voted, that the nomination of the said committee be by the Moderator. Voted, that RICHARD EVANS, Esq. Capt. JOHN F. PARROTT, CLEMENT STORER, JAMES SHEARER, & DANIEL AUSTIN, Esq's, be the committee. Voted, that the meeting be adjourned to the 3d Tuesday in May next, at 10 o'clock A.M. A true copy from the Records, Attest, JOSEPH SEAWARDS, Town Clerk.
PUBLIC NOTICE is now hereby given, that under the foregoing commission the said committee are ready to receive proposals for the purchase of the present Alms House and out buildings, with all the land thereunto appertaining; and for a supply of Timber and Bricks for the buildings to be erected: they also give notice that a suitable lot of land is wanted, whereon to erect a new Alms House, &c. RICHARD EVANS, JOHN F. PARROTT, CLEMENT STORER, JAMES SHEARER, DANIEL AUSTIN. Portsmouth, April 24, 1809.
FARM FOR SALE. THE subscribers offer for Sale the whole or part of that valuable Farm in Wakefield, N.H. in the possession of Col. Jonathan Palmer, situated on the great road from Portsmouth, through Dover to Coos—said Farm consists of nearly 800 acres of excellent Land, and produced the last season about 100 tons of English Hay, and pasture for upwards of 100 head of Cattle; the soil of the uncultivated parts of said farm is good and abounds in wood & timber. There is also on the same a dwelling House, 32 by 40 feet, with an ell 28 by 30 feet two stories high, and well finished. Also, three barns and out buildings, with an orchard consisting of about 600 Apple-Trees. The Land is so intersected by said road, as to make it convenient for two or more farms, and will be sold in such quantities as may be convenient to purchasers. Further particulars may be known by applying to Col. Jonathan Palmer of Wakefield N.H. or to the subscribers. ANDREW ROGERS, OFFIN B. PALMER. Exeter, April 21, 1809.
FOR SALE, ABOUT twenty acres of choice LAND with a Mansion-House, Barn and out buildings thereon, in Atkinson, elegantly situated at the junction of four public roads, upon a commanding eminence with a delightful prospect, about sixty rods from the new academy and 150 from the meeting house—a large proportion of Orchard, fruit trees, grape vines, &c. & of the very best quality, with a fine large productive kitchen Garden, and well situated for taking boarders—an excellent stand for business—but a full description of the premises would exceed the bounds of a common advertisement. On the whole, it is a convenient advantageous stand for business—there is near the house as good a well of water as is to be found in the state.—also, About 25 acres of choice land well situated upon the great public road, (about half a mile from the aforementioned buildings) consisting of mowing, tillage, pasture, and about four acres of fine young growing Wood, with good springs of living water on the premises—the whole, without reserve be sold at Public Vendue, at the dwelling-house on the premises—Sale to begin on Thursday the 18th day of May next at one of the clock P.M. unless previously disposed of at private sale—For further information enquire of the Rev'd Stephen Peabody or G. C. Copp of said Atkinson.—There are also for sale, if applied for soon, about forty hundred acres Land of choice Land well situated in different townships in the counties of Grafton and Coos, generally suitable for immediate settlement—These lands with good titles will be sold on reasonable terms, and payment made easy—apply as above to  GEORGE C. COPP. Atkinson, April 15, 1809.