The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1804-02-14 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
"By adopting REPUBLICANISM for our Polar Star, we shall endeavor to our countrymen the true principles of their Constitution, and promote an union of sentiment and of action, equally auspicious to their happiness and safety."
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. & W. PEIRCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Just Received, direct from the Patentee's, AND FOR SALE BY CHARLES PEIRCE, Portsmouth, the following valuable FAMIL- LY MEDICINES—viz.
Doctor COOLEY'S VEGETABLE ELIXIR—OR COUGH DROPS.
A REMEDY far exceeding every other yet used, for Consumptions, Asthmas, Spitting of Blood, Coughs, Shortness of Breath, and every other species of a disease to which that organ of life, the lungs, is perpetually exposed. Complaints of the lungs have always been considered the Opprobrium Medicinæ, (or reproach to the art of physic) and it has long been a desideratum in Medical Science, that a remedy might be devised, which should check this wide outlet to human life. The many thousands which yearly fall a sacrifice to this insidious disease, Phthisis Pulmonalis, or Consumption of the Lungs, has ever since my acquaintance with diseases (which is almost thirty years) to excited my commiseration, that a large share of my time has been employed in investigating the cause and cure of it; and from my most unremitted attention and constant research, I have the happiness to proclaim to the world, that in my Vegetable Elixir, a speedy, safe, and effectual remedy is generally to be had.
It is not pretended that this medicine will cure every disease to which suffering humanity is liable, as the case with most patent medicines; diseases which are as completely opposite as an acid and an alkali, they will suffer, are all to be cured by one simple remedy. Such weak impositions have with much propriety brought most patent drugs into disrepute. But the Vegetable Elixir is calculated for one class of diseases only, viz. those to which the lungs are exposed, and I need not oblige that they terminate in consumptions. The precursors or harbingers of this hitherto intractable malady (until the discovery of the Vegetable Elixir) are Spitting of Blood, Pains in the Breast and Sides, Coughs, Difficulty in Breathing, and a great number of complaints, which slender and delicate females are so frequently labouring under, which if attended to immediately on their commencement, will easily be obviated; and those in the last stages will be much alleviated, and many of them effectually cured. Price 75 cents a bottle.
Doctor Rawson's Anti-Bilious and Stomachic BITTERS.
These BITTERS are too well known to need any comment in a public advertisement. Suffice it, therefore, to say, that no Patent Medicine, before discovered, has ever met the approbation of the purchaser as these Bitters have. Price 50 cents a box.
Doc. Rawson's Anti-Bilious PILLS, or FAMILY PHYSIC.
In great colds and sudden attacks of disorders, an early use of these PILLS often produce the happiest effects; and taken once in 8 or 10 days, in cases of Indigestion, Cestiveness, Head-achs, Pains in the Stomach, Bowels, &c.; and the use of my Anti-Bilious Bitters, in the intermediate time, has relieved patients almost to a miracle. Price 25 cents a box.
Dr. Rawson's ITCH OINTMENT.
A certain and safe application for that disagreeable disorder called the Itch. The Proprietor is aware of the numerous compositions offered to the public, with a pretence of safely curing the Itch, some of which are safe indeed, but have no effect, except that of increasing the disorder; others come into the world recommended for feeble constitutions, infirm old age, and infants, the basis of which are some of the most active preparations of Mercury. Having been acquainted with these facts, and at the same time desirous, if possible, to supply the deficit, I made trial of many safe and innocent compositions; and after much labor and experiment, succeeded beyond all doubt, that my Itch Ointment , or Itch Ointment , is a safe and certain remedy, not only for the Itch, but for almost all kinds of cutaneous eruptions. Price 25 a box.
Doc. Nourse's WORM POWDERS.
It is from the long and repeated experience of the infallible nature of this Medicine, in completely destroying and expelling from the body all kinds of WORMS, that it is now offered for general use, having a firm conviction that there is no Medicine in circulation that can vie with it in diseases of this kind. Price 50 cents a package.
Doc. Lee's Genuine (Windham) BILIOUS PILLS.
Doctor Cooley's RHEUMATIC PILLS.
Doctor Thompson's TOOTH PASTE, for the Scurvy in the Teeth and Gums, and for whitening and preserving the Teeth; it likewise takes off all disagreeable smells from the breath. Price 50 cents a box.
Hinkley's celebrated REMEDY for the PILES. Price 50 cents a box.
Very particular directions accompany each of these valuable Medicines. Portsmouth Feb. 7 1804.
Cash given for clean linen and cotton & linen RAGS at this Office. Dec. 20.
DANCING SCHOOL.
MR. MUSSEY presents his most respectful compliments to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Portsmouth, and begs leave to offer Proposals for a Dancing School to be opened at the Assembly Room, in two classes—one in the after noon from 2 to 5 o'clock, for Young Masters & Misses; the other in the evening, from 6 to 9, for Young Ladies and Gentlemen. Mr. M. will instruct in the most approved and fashionable Country Dances, Cotillions, Fancy Dances, Allemands, Marches, Minuets, Ballets, &c. together with all the varieties of easy and elegant dancing. Mr. M. will most cheerfully relinquish the price of tuition, wherever he fails of deserving the fullest approbation. Ladies and Gentlemen who feel disposed to encourage a respectable School are invited to call at the Book-Stores of Messrs. W. & D. TREADWELL, or N. S. & W. PEIRCE, where they may see Proposals, and if they find them agreeable, will oblige by aiding the subscription.
N. B. A general recommendation, signed by some of the most respectable Gentlemen of Newburyport, is lodged with one of the subscription papers. February 7.
Nathan B. Folsom, Has for sale at store No. 3, High street, 24 Boxes China consisting 1 tea sett each; 500 pieces India Chintzes, Cotton and Nankins; 200 yards American Manufactur'd cotton bed Tick; 1500 lb cotton yarn 2 & 3 threaded; a quantity of cotton thread just received. An assortment of Clothiers Dyestuffs and Tools as usual. Likewise a general assortment of Groceries, &c.
Any of the above goods will be sold on the most reasonable terms for cash or approved credit. He has on hand a quantity of
OVEN FRAMES, which are an useful and secure invention.
N. B. Those persons indebted to him are requested to call and settle their respective dues immediately either by Note or payment of the same. Portsmouth, Jan. 6, 1804.
A LIST OF LETTERS, Remaining in the Post-Office at Durham, N. H. Feb. 2, 1804.
ROLAND Sylvester, Abraham Perkins, Thomas Peirce, John Lincoln, William Bartlett, James Pinkham, Mr. Swaddle, Andrew Emerion, Foster Waterman, Benjamin Smith, Miss Leah Best—all of Durham. EDWARD WELLS, P. M.
LOST BETWEEN the towns of Dover & Alton, a Red Leather POCKET BOOK, containing a Note against Josiah French for 80 dollars, and several other papers; whoever has found said Pocket Book, and will leave it at this office, or with the subscriber shall be handsomely rewarded. All persons are cautioned against buying said Note as it is my property. ISAAC DAVIS. Alton, Feb. 1, 1804.
Piscataqua Bridge Lottery.
This is a Lottery of Prizes—every blank drawn is a prize to the citizen of Portsmouth; the Bridge is a great and precious prize to this town; the loss of it, would prove a great and terrible BLANK—Then who would not hazard (very freely give five dollars) to keep it in repair? besides, we have a fine chance to get 8000 dollars. Think of that,—to our country friends tis all in all—it affords them a safe easy and expeditious passage, over a wide rapid river—a few easy turns of the wheel over an even surface, to a good market; which they never could come at before this BRIDGE was erected,—compare this advantage, and contrast it with a dark night, a dismal storm, a rapid river to cross in an open ferry boat, the comparison is odious,—let us keep it up! Town and Country, join—Clap your Shoulders to the BRIDGE, buy Tickets—shew a public spirit, and try your fortunes in this Lottery:—
TICKETS for Sale by N. S. & W. PEIRCE, at their Bookstore opposite the N. W. Corner of the State House, Congress Street, Portsmouth.
(Br AUTHORITY.)
EIGHTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, at the First Session begun and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday the seventeenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and three.
An Act making an appropriation for carrying into effect the 7th article of the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between the United States and his Britannic majesty.
BE it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated for the purpose of carrying into effect the seventh article of the treaty, concluded at London, on the nineteenth day of November, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, between the United States of America and his Britannic Majesty.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized, to allow an interest not exceeding the rate of six per centum per annum, on one third part of the amount of any award made in pursuance of the aforesaid article, and presented at the treasury previous to the passing of this act, to be calculated from the time when such award shall have been presented.
NATH'L MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN BROWN, President of the Senate pro tempore. November 16, 1803. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
An Act to repeal the act, entitled "An act to allow a drawback of duties on goods exported to New Orleans, and therein to amend the act, intituled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act passed on the fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred, intituled, "An act to allow a drawback of duties on goods exported to New Orleans, and therein to amend the act, intituled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," be, and the same hereby is repealed. NATH'L MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN BROWN, President of the Senate, pro tempore. November 25, 1803. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
Political Miscellany.
Miscellaneous Thoughts on political subjects, highly interesting to every citizen of the United States. —Continued.
IN the American Revolution we see a Constitution and government brought into existence by the PEOPLE, formed on the principles of society and civilization. The Constitution is to the government a law from which it has no right to deviate in the smallest instance. "Government has" in reality "no rights, they are altogether duties on which it proceeds." It is "a trust from the people. The Constitution was not a bargain between the people and the government," it is the articles of agreement of the people to a government from which there can be no variation without the general consent; and it has provided that by convention those articles or principles may be revised, altered, or abolished, as from experience should be found requisite. The best for the present moment, may be found far inferior to future improvements. And though as our deceased WASHINGTON observed, we ought to be careful about alterations and amendments, yet we ought not to pay a superstitious respect to established elements, to the hindrance of greater refinement. Our government is truly republican;
democratical in its principle. It is a representative democracy; and, without any thing of aristocracy or monarchy, it enjoys all their advantages wholly free from their evils. The various powers of government arise from one great source—It is from the people that all authority is derived. Every citizen of the United States is a part of the sovereign power, and on them rests the weight of government; the administrators of which are their agents. The Executive is "the organ of their intelligence, the medium of communication" of all matters, concerning our prosperity, both foreign and domestic;—the instrument, of their own devising, by which they act, in the preserving and promoting their invaluable interests. "The general government is charged only with the external and mutual relations of the States. The States themselves have the principal care of our persons, our property, and our reputation, constituting the great field of human concerns." Such is the humane, philanthropic system of our government, a system which renders, and which will continue to render the people of the United States the happiest people, on the globe. Truly our lines are fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 23.
Circuit Court of the United States. On Wednesday, the 14th inst the Circuit Court of the United States, was opened in this Town, by the Honourable WM. STEPHENS, Judge of this district, which has been sitting since. There being no matters of a criminal nature, to continue the Grand Jury, they were discharged on Saturday, after delivering the following presentments:—
We, the Grand Jury of the Sixth Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of Georgia, cannot omit expressing our satisfaction, that no matter has presented itself requiring official censure, which affords the pleasing inference of a growing improvement and reformation in morality and good order.
While we view with sensibility, the out-stretched arm of desolating war abroad, nerved by ambition and self pride of a few tyrants we must felicitate our fellow citizens that those calamities are averted from us by Divine Providence, and we feel ourselves duly impressed with gratitude and thankfulness to the Author of all good, that through him, we have a national head, by whose wisdom, temperance and fortitude, we have escaped oppression and the horrors of war; and take this opportunity of calling on our fellow citizens to bear in mind the precipice they escaped; and to be watchful in their suffrages, that the disguised and insidious endeavours of the common enemy prevail not, in obtaining places of trust.
The glorious and transcendent acquisition of the Louisiana Territory effected by means so wise, equitable and just, will be a monument of never dying honor to our Chief Magistrate, who combines the energy of a Ruler, the wisdom of a Sage, and the affection of a Parent.
With deference we tender his honor or Judge Stephens, our respects and with pleasure offer this public expression of the high consideration we feel for his assiduity and prompt attention in the discharge of the duties of his station, and recommend this our presentment to be published.
JARED IWIN, Foreman, (Formerly Governor of the State, and now a Brigadier General.)
SHIP NEWS EXTRAORDINARY.
NEWBURYPORT, JAN. 30. On Wednesday last failed from this port, on a Voyage of Observations, the new and fast sailing sloop of war REPERTORY, built in this town by subscription, and intended for the protection of the interests of the Essex Junto. Great expectations were anticipated of her usefulness, when on the stocks, and for some time after her being afloat; but the unskillfulness of her commander, (who had never buffeted the tempestuous sea of liberty,) in carrying too much sail, and her want of more solid ballast, soon thwarted the expectations of the concerned, and she struck on the Prince, (a large reef of rocks)
which so disabled her that although her Patent Pumps were continually kept going, she leaked considerably. She had no sooner got afloat again, than a second disaster befel her, on heaving up the misfed stays, and driftened on the Smith breaker, which entirely prevented her proceeding on the voyage, until repaired; she however by the great exertions of the concerned was again embowed in her native element, and has safe arrived at Boston, where, after strengthening her floor timbers, & procuring some new rigging, she will again resume her command. M. Gaz.
The following petition is said to be at present in circulation in New Jersey for the purpose of obtaining signatures:—as we receive it through the medium of a federal print we cannot vouch for its being genuine, tho' we are well aware that the example of Pennsylvania, in relieving the aristocracy of talents! from the grievous trouble of explaining what every man is capable of judging of and determining upon without their interference, has called the attention of the neighboring states to the present number & condition of courts, judges and lawyers.
TO THE Honorable the Legislature of the state of New Jersey.
THE PETITION AND REMONSTRANCE OF THE SUBSCRIBERS,
Humbly Sheweth, "That your petitioners conceive the present practice of obtaining decisions in controversies respecting property, is such as requires legislative interference, and is a real grievance.—It is a maxim that will not be disputed, that the way to obtain justice ought to be plain and easy, and subject to as little embarrassment and delay as possible, and without unnecessary and unreasonable expences to the parties, and to the country; but the reverse is true in this state, owing as we conceive, at least in part, to the unnecessary number of lawyers admitted to interfere in trials at law. We presume no good reason can be assigned why a controversy cannot be decided by a jury, under the direction of the court, without three or four lawyers of a side; it is, no doubt, a very great addition to the expence; and if general observation is right, there are more causes determined wrong, than would be if none, or at most, but one lawyer on each side were permitted to interfere; but the greatest evil attending this practice is, the amazing waste of time occasioned thereby; in common we may suppose twelve notified for trial at a time, the parties' witnesses, and jurors all attending, the whole week is spent and not more than two or three tried for want of time; at an average not less than 100 men are attending, whose time and expenses will generally exceed the sums at issue, besides the cost and disappointment of all the others being put off repeatedly. Perhaps it may be suggested, that the restriction contemplated would be depriving the citizens of a right to which they are entitled.—This objection will not be made but by the lawyers or their interested friends, or by those who wish to take an advantage and defraud others by the practice under the colour of law, for an unjust claim is to be effectually secured only by engaging the weight of the bar on the side of injustice.—But it is not depriving the citizen of his right to limit the number of lawyers, any more than it is to limit the number of jurors, or to say, by law, that a verdict shall not be rendered unless the jury be unanimous, nor is it so much so as to say, that he must pay a lawyer's bill of cost, perhaps to the amount of 50 or 60 pounds, without a trial by jury, or any appeal from the decision of a judge, who is either incapable of taxing such bill, or has himself been a practitioner of the law (dog will not eat dog) and his stepping from the bar to the bench will not inspire him with virtue and firmness sufficient to check an extravagance which he has so long practiced himself. Your petitioners pray, that a law may be passed prohibiting more than one lawyer on a side being allowed ever to speak in courts or in any way to interfere on trials, and your petitioners, &c. will ever pray."

Electioneering.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
To the Citizens of New-Hampshire— FRIENDS & BRETHREN!
ALTHOUGH you participate in the inestimable blessings which emanate from the wisest and most virtuous administration that these United States ever experienced,—yet, the odious stigma of Anti-Republican which has a long time disgraced this State—still exists. Permit me therefore, my friends, to ask you seriously—what has become of that noble spirit which so eminently distinguished you while opposing the mandates of a British King and a corrupt Parliament ? Has it taken its flight forever—or else, why do you suffer yourselves to be indebted to other States for those great benefits which flow from the general Government without your friendly aid? Can any reason be assigned for so great a remissness, other than being under the influence of the most detestable characters? Are you willing to remain the dupes of Tories, and those more corrupt, vile Apostates , who have taken shelter under the mantle of Federalism , in order to aggrandize themselves and posterity, at the expense of your dear-bought Liberty? Be no longer deceived my friends with their hypocritical cant! “The poison of Asps is under their lips.” It matters not by what names they are known—or how honorable or excellent their titles—it is enough that they have by art and cunning manifested the basest conduct in a thousand different ways, and are not to be trusted. Nothing has been wanting on their part to facilitate your subjugation, however specious they may appear!—Recollect the ever memorable reign of terror, while under the auspices of the late President Adams, with his troop of myrmidons . The same spirit still operates in this benighted corner of the Union! But thank heaven the influence of its actors has much lessened, and it is in your power without any magic-art to render them quite harmless; it is only necessary to awake from your political delirium, and exercise the reason which God has given you. “ Divide and Conquer ” is their motto; every effort is therefore made by them to injure and perplex. You are however, nationally considered, beyond their reach—effected by an over-ruled providence, that guided the councils of a large majority of our sister-States:—Their virtues have shined forth conspicuously to their everlasting honor; and as they deservedly reap the laurels of so great an achievement in this world—I trust, they will be crowned with everlasting glory in that which is to come, for their zeal and intrepidity in wresting the government of the United States from the sangs of merciless and unprincipled men, and placing in their stead, those who are worthy of confidence: at the head of whom, is the greatest man America (or perhaps the world) can boast of,—THOMAS JEFFERSON; who, may with propriety be stiled our Political Father ! having done more for his country than any man now existing. He is an enemy to every species of tyranny and oppression—of course, the opposite character to those who believe in the infallibility of JOHN ADAMS, of royal memory —the man who fancied an Sedition Act , an Alien Act , an odious Stamp Act and a House and Land Tax ; thereby creating thousands of dependents to eat up your substance—all which, have been abolished under the administration of our beloved JEFFERSON. The national resources are, notwithstanding the repeal of the late obnoxious Revenue Laws (which comprehended an Excise Act ) abundantly sufficient to pay off (rapidly) the Public Debt, and support Government in an honorable manner—even without the aid of Eight per cent. Loans .—So much for a Republican Administration !!!
Now, after experiencing the great benefits which have resulted from a change of Officers in the National Government , you cannot with the smallest propriety, be opposed to a reform in the State with which you are locally connected—unless you are so deeply immersed in Federalism alias Royalism , as to be destitute of every rational faculty—which surely, cannot be possible!—No, as Sons of New-Hampshire , you are too brave ! too wise ! and too virtuous ! to continue the dupes of a delpicable FEDERAL Junto one moment longer than you shall be convinced of your error, which you have by your credulity been led into:—Therefore, let me my Fellow-Citizens remind you that the period is fast approaching when you will have an opportunity of giving your suffrages for STATE OFFICERS for the ensuing year; and much depends on your exertions to free yourselves from Federal Thralldom . The day on which you are to assemble for that purpose, is (agreeably to a late law) the second Tuesday in March next—when, it will be the incumbent duty of one and all
to appear, and by your votes unabated by fear or reward , rectify your disapprobation of past Federal measures, by electing such men of your choice as are truly Republican —Men, whose tenets are predicated on genuine sound principles.
Impelled by the purest motives, I take the liberty of nominating JOHN LANGDON , Esquire, for your Governor. He is a man that has served you faithfully many years in some of the most important Offices—and in times of the greatest peril—yet was never known to shrunk !—for which, he has had the honor to be abused more than any man in this State by the very people who are the enemies of Republicanism !—and I ask you—What greater recommendation can be necessary to attract the notice of honest men?
VERITAS.
No. II. FOR THE GAZETTE.
BEFORE we proceed to answer the question with which we concluded our first number, or reduce our arguments, why we conceive JOHN LANGDON , better adapted to fill the office of Governor of this State than JOHN T. GILMAN , we beg leave to enlarge on what we conceive indispensably necessary to the formation of a wise government, and what are the measures that ought to be adopted by a free and independent people to secure their individual and national rights and prerogatives. To frame just and equitable laws is not sufficient—something more is required. Let the same wisdom which dictated those laws extend to their administration; let it point out the means of rendering them instrumental to the public good. Laws, however good, can do nothing of themselves. Perhaps some of our aristocratical friends will smile or sneer at the simplicity of our arguing and our language. Well, be it so—They can draw no more than two natural inferences from thence, namely, that the writer's talents were confined, or that he wished to make himself understood by all: In the first instance he begs leave to suggest that, though he may have received but two talents , the consciousness of the faithful improvement of them will ultimately lead to the same joys with him that may have received the five . Again, we would not wish to speak in that ambiguous and complicated stile which many adopt—we forbear to rob dictionaries of their most obscure and far-fetched terms—we would be understood by the honest peasant no less than the learned statesman. But to return—Our Constitution is admirably framed and happily adapted to secure equal and impartial justice to all—it is peculiarly mild and grants a full scope to two of the greatest blessings “ freedom of speech ” and “ liberty of conscience .” The humble cot of the poor is as much under the protection and safe guard of the laws as the noblest dwellings of the sons of voluptuosity . The taxes are few and light, and only serve to defray the necessary expenses of the nation. In short, the Constitution is well calculated to forward and secure the happiness and prosperity of the nation at large. If these are some of the principal characteristics of our form of Government, how careful ought we to be in selecting our Rulers? If our Constitution and laws are mild, the imperious man is utterly unqualified to administer;—if they protect the poor and secure him the peaceful enjoyment of his hard earnings, it would be folly to commit their fate to the guidance of the haughty sons of ambition; if they tend to insure tranquility at home and peace abroad, it would be the height of imprudence and indiscretion to put at the helm of State those spirits that delight in sowing discord at home, and carrying on war abroad; who take pleasure in beholding rivers of blood inundating the earth, and who rejoice at contemplating the tears of the disconsolate widow, of the helpless orphan and forlorn friend, which flow at the remembrance and in memory of their relatives and friends, consigned to an early grave by the ill-timed ambition of imperious men. In fact it is absolutely necessary that individuals entrusted with administering the Constitution should realise in themselves and feel the full force of those principles which form its essence and the foundation upon which it rests. Without this we maintain (as said before) that we cannot expect they will zealously and faithfully perform the duties of their offices. We repeat that they must abdicate themselves; they must be guided by the public good in every legislative act; they must submit their will to the spirit of the laws. This will hold good in every department of public administration, but in proportion as they testify an increase of trust and confidence on the part of the People; so in the same proportion ought the obligations on the part of the Rulers to strengthen and increase. These however are not the only requisites Magistrates should possess; but wisdom, sound discretion and valor ought to be their insepara-
ble companions. Without these, how will they be enabled to make a right use of those endowments with which we must know them to be gifted? I say, we must know; for unless we are in full possession of such a knowledge, we have made an imprudent and injurious choice. Upon this principle we ask once more: “Who could make us sensible that Gov. GILMAN was as well calculated as the Hon. JOHN LANGDON, to be Governor of this or any other State?”
MENTOR.
BY THE LAST MAILS.
WASHINGTON, JAN. 30.
On Friday last the acquisition of LOUISIANA was celebrated in this city by a numerous company assembled at Stelle's Hotel, on Capitol Hill. A most superb dinner was given by a number of the Members of Congress, to the President of the United States, the Vice President, the heads of departments and the other officers of government. The President was escorted from his own house to the place of entertainment by members of both houses, the brigadier general and the colonel of the Washington militia and the officers of government generally. His approach was announced by a discharge of artillery from the hill, and he was received at the door by the president and vice presidents of the day, and welcomed by a full band of music playing “Jefferson's march.” The company consisting of about one hundred, sat down to dinner at 5 o'clock; Gen. S. Smith presided, and Mr. Nicholson and Gen. Varnum acted as vice presidents. On no occasion have the same number of countenances exhibited more real satisfaction, or one ever offered itself upon which mutual congratulation could be more sincere, or mutual good will more generally felt. An assemblage so numerous, to celebrate an event, at once so glorious and so happy, may not occur again for centuries to come. The reduction of a petty fortress, which has cost the lives of thousands; the conquest of a town, in which the widow, the orphan and the helpless virgin have had ample cause to heap curses on the heads of the conquerors, have too often furnished occasion for joy and festivity. But what must have been the sensation of those who were now assembled, when they reflected that without exciting the anguish of one heart they had extended the blessings of liberty to an hundred thousand beings who were added to the population of their country; and by means unstained with the blood of a single victim, they had acquired almost a new world, and had laid the foundation for the happiness of millions unborn!
After dinner the following toasts were drank, each accompanied by a discharge of artillery, and the intervals filled up with appropriate music, from the Italian band.
 1. The people of the United States.  2. The constitution of the union.  3. Our brothers of Louisiana.  4. The nations in amity with the United States.  5. The union of the states.  6. The state governments.  7. The rights of neutral powers.  8. Peace when peace is honourable, war rather than disgrace.  9. Arts and sciences.  10. Agriculture, commerce and manufactures.  11. The river Mississippi—a high road of commerce between citizens of the same country, not a barrier between rival nations.  12. The militia of the U. States.  13. The army and navy of the U. States.  14. The American seamen, protection to them in their youth, and support to them in old age.  15. The memory of General Washington and the other departed heroes who fought for our independence.  16. The memory of Franklin, Hancock and Adams, and the deceased statesmen of our revolution.  17. Livingston and Munroe, our ministers who negotiated the treaty of cession. 
Volunteers.
The President of the U. States. The Vice President. Governor Clairborne, general Wilkinson, and that part of the army and militia which defended the Mississippi with them to take possession of the newly acquired territory of Louisiana. By the speaker of the house of representatives—The real sovereigns of the U. States—The American fair.
The annexed Ode, translated from the Latin, by one of the company, and adapted to the occasion, was sung by several voices accompanied with instrumental music.
PAX BELLO POTIOR.
Almighty Jove, thy suppliants hear; Indulgent grant our ardent prayer; May smiling peace, with olive wand, Long settle blessings o'er the land, And give to grateful man the power Of wisely using every hour.
Where Peace extends her silken wings, The Graces sport, the Muses sing; There Trade expands the flowing sail, And Commerce courts the breathing gale; There justice sacred vigils keeps To guard the couch where Virtue sleeps, But guard the thundering God of war Spreads havoc round in blood stain'd car, Religion seeks the gloomy shade And drooping justice hangs her head, And virtue loses all her charms Amid the horrid din of arms. To Jefferson, belov'd of Heav'n, May golden peace be ever given, And when death at last shall come, To lay him in the silent tomb, May weeping angels gather near, And laurels strew around his bier, And wait him, on the wings of love, To everlasting peace above.
BALTIMORE, (Maryland) JAN. 30. Letters from Cabarras county inform us, that the proprietors of the gold creek (for we understand Reed has disposed of a part of his right in this valuable property) continue to collect this precious metal. Since the lump weighing twenty-eight pounds were found, eight or ten pounds more have been gathered. So that we have every reason to expect that this discovery will become an inexhaustible source of wealth to this part of the union.— Raleigh paper.
VERMONT LEGISLATURE.
WINDSOR, JAN. 26, 1804.
The Speaker communicated to the House an answer of the President of the United States to the address of the general Assembly, at their last session, which was read in the words following, viz.
To the General Assembly of the State of Vermont. I join you, fellow-citizens, in grateful acknowledgments to the Ruler of the universe, for the prosperous situation of our common country, its rapid increase in wealth and population, and our secure and uninterrupted enjoyment of life, liberty and property.—He conducted our fathers to this chosen land, he has maintained us in it, in prosperity and safety, and has opened the hearts of the nations, civilized and savage to yield to us enlargement of territory, as we have increased in numbers, to fill it with the blessings of peace, freedom and self government. It must be a great solace to every virtuous mind, that the countries lately acquired are for equivalents honestly paid, and come to us unstained with blood.
Sensible as we are of the superior advantages of civil life, of the nourishment which industry provides for the body, and science for the mind and morals, it is our duty to associate our Indian neighbors in these blessings, and to teach them to become fit members of organized society.
The spirit which manifested itself on the suspension of our right of deposit at New-Orleans, the cool and collected firmness with which our citizens awaited the operation of our government for its peaceable restoration, their present approbation of a conduct strictly neutral and just, between the powers of Europe now in contention, evince dispositions which ought to secure their peace, to protect their industry from new burthens, their citizens from violence, and their commerce from spoliation.
The falsehoods and indecencies you allude to, in which certain presses indulge themselves habitually, defeat their own object before a just and enlightened public. This unenviable and only resource, be it our endeavour to leave them, by an honest and earnest pursuit of the public prosperity.
I thank you fellow-citizens for the affectionate expressions of your concern for my happiness present and future: and I pray heaven to have yourselves, as well as our common country in its holy keeping.
TH: JEFFERSON.
Dec. 18th, 1803.
EIGHTH CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MONDAY, JAN. 23.
Mr. Dennis moved that the House should take up for consideration his motion so to vary the duties imposed on imported articles as to reduce those on brown sugar.—Motion lost—Ayes 29.
The house went into committee of the whole—Mr. J. C. Smith in the chair—on the bill for the better direction of the collectors of the respective ports of the United States in granting to seamen certificates of citizenship.
The committee rose and reported the bill without amending, and the House ordered it to a third reading.
Dr. Mitchell presented a memorial from the convention of delegates of the several state societies for the manumission of slaves assembled at Philadelphia, praying that Congress will in the organization of the government of Louisiana, prohibit the importation of slaves.
Referred to the committee on the government of Louisiana.
The House went into a committee of the whole, Mr. Varnum in the chair—on the report of a select committee on the bill from the Senate, for dividing the Indiana territory into two separate governments.
The report (rarely published in the National Intelligencer) recommends a disagreement to the bill from the Senate.
After a short debate the committee rose and obtained leave to sit again.
Mr. Bryan moved the following resolution.
Resolved, That the committee of ways and means be directed to bring in a bill fixing the permanent salaries of those officers whose salaries were increased by an act passed on the 2d of March 1799 &c.
Mr. J. Clay enquired whether such a resolution was in order, a similar one having been decided upon before.
The Speaker said it was in order, as the former resolution was general, and this particular. Resolution agreed to.
Mr. J. Randolph, from the committee of ways and means, reported a bill making appropriations for the support of government for the year 1804.
Referred to a committee of the whole on Monday.
TUESDAY JAN. 24.
A letter was received from the Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to a resolution of the House of the last session, on a more equal imposition of duties on imported articles.
A message was received from the Senate, stating that they had elected John Brown, President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice-President.
The House went into a committee of the whole, Mr. Dawson in the chair—on the bill making provision for the application of the monies appropriated for making public roads to the Ohio.
Mr. Smilie moved the rising of the committee, with a view to the postponement of the bill to the next session.
This motion was supported on the ground that the application of the money was premature, there being but about 800 dollars in the treasury, and that the designation of the route would occasion much discussion, which would interfere with the transaction of important business before the House.
It was opposed by Messrs. Jackson, S. L. Mitchell, Holland and Lyon, who contended that considerable time would elapse before the necessary arrangements could be made for making the roads; previously to which, upon a calculation made on a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, 80,000 dollars would be accumulated, and an annual sum accruing thereafter of about 10,000 dollars; and that the present was as eligible a period as could occur for designating the points of the roads to be laid out.—The committee rose—Ayes 70.
When the question being for giving leave to the committee to sit again.
Mr. R. Griswold said he should vote for it. He was of opinion that sufficient information did not exist to designate the points of the roads, and that it could not be had without authorizing the appointment of commissioners to explore the ground, for the purpose of modifying the bill to effect this object alone, he should vote for leave being given to the committee to sit again.
This motion was supported by Messrs. R. Griswold, Dennis, Lyon and Holland, and opposed by Mr. Smilie; and carried—Yea 71—Nays 55.
Mr. J. Randolph, from the committee of Ways and Means, reported a recommendation that the House should agree to some, and disagree to others, of the amendments of the Senate to the bill giving effect to the laws of the United States, in Louisiana.
Mr. J. Randolph from the same committee, reported a recommendation to disagree to the amendments of the Senate on the bill making military appropriations.
A message was received from the President, including a very interesting letter from Gov. Claiborne, stating the tranquility of the province of Louisiana, and the satisfaction and confidence of the inhabitants in the American government.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25.
Mr. Nicholson, from the committee on the memorial of the city council of Washington, reported a bill supplementary to the not incorporating the inhabitants of the city. Referred to a committee of the whole to-morrow.
Mr. Nicholson, from the same committee, reported a bill for laying out a public road, &c. in the county of Washington, district of Columbia. Referred in like manner.
Mr. Latimore, from the committee on the memorial of the Mississippi legislature, and a petition from sundry individuals, made a report, which was referred to a committee of the whole.
Mr. J. Randolph, from the committee of ways and means, reported a bill for fixing the salaries of certain executive officers. Referred to a committee of the whole to-morrow.
The house went into a committee of the whole—John C. Smith in the chair—on the report of the committee of ways and means, on the amendment of the senate to the bill giving effect to the laws of the U. States in Louisiana.
The committee of ways and means recommended a disagreement to the first amendment of the senate, providing for a port of entry at Natchez.
On concurring with this part of the report a debate of several hours ensued on the expediency of constituting Natchez a port of entry, when the question being taken, the committee of the whole voted a disagreement to the report of the committee of ways and means only 33 members rising in favor of it. It will be perceived that this decision is a virtual agreement to the amendment of the senate, for constituting a port of entry at Natchez.
Having made progress in the amendments the committee rose, & had leave to sit again.
The speaker communicated a letter received from the secretary of the treasury with a statement of the exports of the U. States for the past year.

Portsmouth.
Tuesday, February 14, 1804.
SUMMARY—FOREIGN.
ROTTERDAM dates to the 30th Nov. have been received at Gloucester; their contents are uniformly uninteresting as respects political intelligence.—The purchased neutrality of Spain and Portugal, as mentioned in our last, has been confirmed by a late arrival from Lisbon. We anticipate by some of the first arrivals, accounts of active hostility between the contending powers. The state of forwardness of preparations to that effect, previous to the departure of our latest European intelligence, sanction the belief.
DOMESTIC.
The Legislature of Vermont have at their adjourned session granted a Turnpike from Lake Champlain, thro' the four Northern Counties in that State to Connecticut River, in the most convenient direction for Portland, 170 miles—by the name of the Northern Turnpike Company in Vermont. Mr. S. Freeman, of Portland, Mr. J. Dana, of Vermont, Col. Joseph Whipple and Mr. John Wentworth, of this town, with about eighty other persons in the State of Vermont, are named as grantees in the incorporation.—In the Legislature of Massachusetts, the petition of Abiel Smith, Esq. and others, for a new Bank, to be called "the town and county bank" was taken up and not accepted.—The applications for new Banks at Gloucester and Salem, shared the same fate.—The report in favor of the banks at Worcester and Castine, were accepted; and leave given to bring in bills.—On the 31st ultimo a very brilliant ball, numerously attended, was given by the members of congress, at McLaughlin's tavern, George-Town in celebration of the acquisition of Louisiana.—A letter from Savannah, dated 21st January gives an account of a duel which took place there on the 10th of the said month, between the Hon. John Rutledge, of South-Carolina, and Doctor Horace Center, of New-Port. Doctor Center was wounded and died on the 19th January.—Mr. R. was shot through the coat but not wounded.—The Legislature of Rhode-Island, will convene on the 27th inst.—A valuable Soap and Candle Manufactory occupied by Mr. Henry Lang, on Jones's Falls, Baltimore, was destroyed by fire on the 27th ultimo.—A New-London (Conn.) article of February 8 says, "On Friday last, one Azariah Beebe, jun. of Waterford, was committed to prison in this place, for the diabolical crime of violently beating his father; whose life is considered by the attending physician as in extreme danger.—There were no less than 13 wounds in his head; made, to appearance, by strokes with a stone. We deem it not proper at this time to be more particular."—On Monday last, one George Smith, jun. of Waterford, was committed to prison for a similar crime.—The printing office of Joseph Gales, Printer of the N. Carolina Gazette, at Raleigh, together with all its contents, was entirely consumed by fire on the 22d ult. It appears from the N. E. Palladium of the 10th inst. that Wm. C. White, Esq. has commenced a prosecution against Mr. E. W. Allen, the editor of the Newburyport Herald, for an alleged libel upon his character, in that paper of the 20th ult.
Upwards of one hundred persons were found in different prisons in New-Orleans; some of whom have been confined upwards of ten years—some upon mere suspicion! others for very trivial crimes. It is expected that the whole will be set at large with the consent of the Spanish government.
Abstract of Dr. SPALDING's Bill of Mortality for Portsmouth, N. H. for A. D. 1803.
Total number of Deaths 147, of which 61 were males, and 86 females—20 were above 70 years old, and eight above 80 years.—Total number of births 213—males 106, females 107—Portsmouth contains about 6000 inhabitants. The most mortal complaints were cancerous and consumption.
CAUTION!
The public are cautioned against counterfeit bills of New-Hampshire Bank, payable in Philadelphia, as many of them, of 10 dollars are in circulation. They are executed very poorly; and the forgery is discoverable by the least inspection.
A person by the name of Silas Livermore, of New-Hampshire, was apprehended on Sunday last, at Winton, by two black men of this town, who had received a number of these bills, of said Livermore, and one Edmunds. They secured Edmunds in the goal of this town on Saturday evening. By their active exertions they overtook Livermore, on Sunday morning, on his way to New-Hampshire.—Upon searching him, thirty 10-dollar bills were found concealed in one of his boots, most of them not signed. From some observations, accidentally made by Livermore, it is expected many of those bills have been put off in this town and its vicinity. It is hoped that the two black men may be rewarded for their persevering and successful exertions. [Centinel.]
CONCORD, (N. H.) JAN. 10, 1804.
To the Citizens of New-Hampshire.
AT a General Convention of the Republican members of the General Court of New Hampshire and of a large number of respectable citizens from the distant parts of the state—which was held in this town on the 28th day of Dec. last—for the purpose of agreeing upon the proper candidates to fill the different offices within the State for the year ensuing, and for adopting such a system of measures as should appear best calculated to promote union and harmony among the Republicans and for obtaining the election of the advocates of peace, union and the Constitution.—It was, after mature consideration, unanimously agreed that our highly respected and esteemed fellow-citizen—the long tried patriot!
COLONEL JOHN LANGDON, should again be supported as the Republican candidate for the office of GOVERNOR—and that
The Hon. Levi Bartlett, for the county of
Rockingham.
Hon. Joseph Badger for Strafford.
Hon. Benj. Pierce for Hillsborough.
Hon. Nahum Parker for Cheshire.
Hon. Ezra Bartlett for Grafton,
be supported as the Republican candidates for the office of Councillors, for the respective counties to which their names are affixed—and that the following gentlemen be the Republican candidates for Senators, for the Districts to which their names are affixed, viz.
 District No. 1. Gen. Clement Storer.  No. 2. Nicholas Gilman, Esq.  No. 3. Col. William White.  No. 4. Timothy Dix, jun. Esq.  No. 5. Col. John Waldron.  No. 6. Nath'l Shannon, Esq.  No. 7. J. K. Smith, Esq.  No. 8. Robert Alcock, Esq.  No. 9. Col. Elisha Whitcomb.  No. 10. Gen. Amasa Allen.  No. 11. Capt. William White.  No. 12. Col. William Tait. 
and that they do generally and severally receive the united and undivided support of the Friends of Republicanism whose duty it will be, to make every honourable exertion, in their power to effect their election, and that all private piques, personal dislikes, rivalships and jealousies should be sacrificed on the occasion to promote the public good, bearing in mind this maxim that "united we stand, divided we fall."
The great object of these measures is to promote harmony, union and vigilance among the Republican Citizens throughout the state, to repel as well as reprobate all attempts and measures that naturally tend to a dissolution of the union and to use every possible exertion to make the state government harmonize with the national—to disseminate correct political principles and a love and veneration for the Federal and State Constitutions—to strengthen the Republican system of government & every thing, that will tend to heal the political divisions which at present agitate the state; to advocate peace, order, law, and pure and undefiled religion.—In so honorable and virtuous a cause, we should use something more than mere silent wishes.—We should make every fair and open exertion for the election of such men to fill the various offices within the state, as are known to be decidedly and unequivocally republican, and who will use their highest efforts to maintain the public peace and secure the rights and liberties of the nation.—It is believed that the gentlemen here offered to the consideration and for the support of their fellow-citizens, will, if elected, prove themselves adequate to their respective stations and worthy of the public esteem and confidence.
While we reprobate all scurrility as unworthy the cause of Republicanism and unbecoming the dignity of free men—we should esteem it our duty, to enlighten by every means in our power the misinformed, correct their errors and direct them by reasoning and a candid display of facts, to a right knowledge of their interests.—It is confidently believed, that should proper exertions be made at the approaching election, New Hampshire may be restored to her deserved rank among her sister States and to the bosom of the Union—we should therefore exert ourselves, to bring every man to meeting, who is known to be friendly to the election of a Republican Chief Magistrate.—Great care should be taken that the votes be constitutionally given and legally returned.
We have much pleasure in being able to inform, that, on the 26th ult. in the Senate of the United States, the principle was agreed to by 22 to 6 votes, for prohibiting the importation of African slaves into Louisiana.
The general assembly of Virginia, it is stated, have passed a law directing that the election for electors of President and Vice-President of the United States shall be by a GENERAL TICKET throughout that state.
If the good People of New Hampshire were permitted to give their unbiased suffrages at the approaching Election, there could not be a doubt that the Hon. JOHN LANGDON, would be elected Governor of this State. But while a host of emulators are spread over the whole surface of the country, scattering their calumnious fallacies, through a thousand channels, many virtuous & well intentioned Citizens are led to believe that the man, who, in times of eminent danger, gave the most conspicuous proofs of his friendship for the People, has in a time of profound peace become their worst foe—that after having risked every thing for the safety and happiness of the People, he is now endeavoring to destroy the very work he labored hard to accomplish.—With such industry and impudence have these false slanders been propagated, that many, living at a distance, and who from being fellow labourers with him, in our Revolution, knew how to appreciate his worth, have been led to believe that he has apostatized from his first principles. But such may be assured, that, notwithstanding the calumnies of these hireling slanderers; he is still the same firm and inflexible friend to the rights and liberties of the People, that they once knew him to be.—Those who live in the lower parts of the State, and have the best opportunities of knowing him, have uniformly expressed their undeviating confidence, by giving him a large majority of their suffrages. Even in the neighbourhood of Exeter, and of the man, who, by twelve years possession of an office, has had the greatest opportunities of conferring public favors, Mr. L. has received the decided approbation of the People. It is among those who live at a distance, and have not such frequent opportunities of detecting those slanders, that the imposition is successfully practised. But it is requested, when these hired propagators of slander against the most amiable characters, are dealing out their vile fallacies, that the People would call on them for proofs. They would then witness the shame and confusion of these miscreants. They would then find he has never burdened the People, nor snatched the bread from the mouth of labor, to increase salaries; that he never bartered office for influence, nor sought to build his own grandeur on the ruins of his country.
The two following gentlemen will be supported by the Republicans in this county, to fill the respective offices affixed to their names.
NATH'L GILMAN, Esq. Exeter;
County Treasurer.
JOSIAH ADAMS, Esq.
County Recorder.
Marine Memoranda.
Portsmouth, February 14.
Feb. 8.—Arrived brig George and Jane, Sullivan, 32 days from Demerara.
BOSTON—JAN. 13.
Arrived in the Texel, ship Aurora, Bowles, of Portsmouth from Baltimore, Dec. 11, 57 days, and is quarantined 12 days.
Ship Elk, Jones, of Baltimore, bound to Cape Francois in ballast, and 700 Joes on board; taken by the English and ordered for Jamaica, money taken out, re-captured by the French and sent to Cuba.
MARRIED
At Berwick, on Sunday evening, Capt. THOMAS GOODWIN, of Kingston, to Miss SALLY LORD, of Berwick.
At York, Elder JOSEPH EATON, of Wells, to Miss SALLY WEEKS, of York.
DIED
At Hallowell, on Monday the 9th ult. Capt. SETH LITTLEFIELD, aged 46.—In this town, Mr. JOSHUA BLAKE, merchant, aged 70.—Mr. ISRAEL MARSDEN, aged 70.
The Customers to the Gazette are informed, that a settlement of their accounts which have been standing more than one year, is absolutely necessary, and that unless they are discharged
THE Members & Stockholders of the EXETER BANK, are notified and required to meet at Ezra Hutchins's dwelling-house in Exeter, on Monday the 27th day of February instant, at 2 of the clock in the afternoon, to do and transact such matters and things as are authorized and required by the Act of Incorporation, to be done at the first meeting;—particularly, to choose the first Board of Directors, and such other Officers as they shall see fit;—to determine the amount of payments to be made on each share, and the time when the same shall be made;—also the mode of transferring and disposing of the stock of said Bank, and the profits thereof;—to establish a common Seal to be used by the said Corporation;—and generally, to ordain and establish such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, as to them shall appear necessary and convenient, for the government of said corporation, and the prudent management of their affairs.
JEREMIAH SMITH, RAINE WINGATE, NATHANIEL ROGERS. Exeter, Feb. 13, 1804.
LINES AND NETS.
Ladd & Smith,
HAVE imported direct from the Manufactories, and now ready for sale, by the bale, dozen or single, 18, 15, 12 & 9 thread Fishing LINES; Herring NETS of all sizes; 2 and 3 thread Herring and Salmon TWINE.—Also, For Sale,
Beft Bank Steel I P Cod Hooks; large, middle & small quarter do.; Mackerel, Bob, and Gig do.; Fish Leads of different sizes; Fishermen's Splitting and Throat Knives, &c. &c.
No. 5, Merchant's Row, Feb. 14, 1804.
Lines, Nets & Twines,
LATELY IMPORTED. 18, 15 & 12 thread Bridport Lines, pr bale, dozen or single; deep sea, Mackerel, Squid and chalk Lines; Herring Nets, pr bale or singles; Seine Twine, and Herring Net Twine, pr bale, dozen or single lb.; Marline and Houseline; beft I P, Bank and large quarter Hooks, pr box or gross; middle quarter, small ditto, & Mackerel Hooks. Also, on hand,
50 quintals Pollock Fish, beft quality; a quantity of Liverpool 7 by 9 Window Glass; Russia Iron; and a few quarter casks of Malaga Wine.
** The above articles will be sold low for cash, or approved credit, by
ROBERT RICE, Fore-street, North end. February 14, 1804.
Stuarrow Boots & Soar Leather.
Robert M'Cleary,
HAS for sale at his Store in Congress-Street, a good assortment of
SUWARROW BOOTS, low for cash.
Also, Excellent Soar Leather. Portsmouth, Feb. 14, 1804.
Benjamin Floyd,
HAS for sale at his BOOK-BINDING SHOP, in Broad-Street—11 dozen very nice American SHEEP SKINS.
Also, 3 dozen elegant colored do. which he will sell very low for cash.
BOOK-BINDING in its various branches carried on as usual.—Account Books, of all sizes, bound at the shortest notice. Feb. 14.
Perkins' Patent Pumps,
KEPT constantly for sale at No. 5, MERCHANT'S ROW, where may be had, Russia IRON; DUCK and SHEETING. Feb. 14.
12 tons Screw'd HAY,
For sale. Inquire of the Printers. February 14, 1804.
Fifty Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS some mischievous person or persons did at a late hour on Tuesday night last, break open the North Meeting House in Portsmouth, and did then and there ring the Bell, which alarmed many of the inhabitants, and affrighted others, as if the town was on fire.—Therefore, the Selectmen offer the above reward to any person that will give evidence sufficient to convict the perpetrators before any Court proper to try them.
GEORGE GAINS. MOSES WOODWARD, SAMUEL HUTCHINGS, ELIJAH HALL, EDWARD CUTTS, } Selectmen. Portsmouth, Feb. 13, 1804.
The following Act of the Legislature of this state, passed January 20th, 1789, is republished by particular request, for the benefit of those who did not know there was such a Law in existence, and for the preservation of Bats, which notwithstanding the law to the contrary, has frequently been brought to this market during the winter season.
AN ACT to preserve the Fish in Piscataqua river, and the branches thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in general court convened; That from and after the making of this act, no person shall be allowed to fish in the said river, or harbour, or any of the branches thereof, within this state, where the side ebb and flows, with any seine or setting-line, for any fish whatsoever, excepting smelts and shad, and no person shall, by any way or means whatsoever, catch, kill or destroy, any bass, or blue-fish, in said river, or the branches aforesaid, from the first of December to the first of April, annually, on pain that any and every person offending in any of the particulars aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum of two pounds, to be recovered by action or information, before any justice of the peace, within the county where the offence may be committed, one half to the use of the state, the other half to the informer; and any person or persons are hereby authorized to destroy any sein, or setting lines, or nets set for fishing in said river, or the branches thereof, excepting those used for catching smelts and shad; and in case of being soe therefor, may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence, and shall recover double costs; and whoever shall knowingly sell or buy any bass, blue-fish or cod-fish taken contrary to this act, shall forfeit ten shillings, to be recovered by action or information before a justice of the peace, for the use of the informer, allowing an appeal from any such judgment as the law in other cases directs.
AUCTION.
THIS DAY,
At 11 o'clock, A. M. at the House of Widow H. Bowles, in Washington-Street, the following Tracts or Lots of Land—viz.
1 Rights in the Township of Success. 1 Right in the Township of Orange. 1 ditto ditto Britain Woods. 1 100 acre lot in Wakefield. 1 50 acre lot in Gilmanston. Condition, made known, at the time and place of Sale. Feb. 14.
THIS DAY,
At S. LITTLE'S Office,
FIFTY pair Boots; 50 do. Shoes; 10 chests Hyson skin Tea; 100 lbs. Spanish Indigo; India Cottons; Chintzes; Broad Cloths; Coatings, &c. On hand, at private sale, 20 bags Ginger; 50 boxes Chocolate; 40 do. Shells; 30 chests Teas, different kinds; 20 bbls. Tar; 200 lbs. Caffa; a few pipes Brandy; 200 lbs. Spanish float Indigo; 20 boxes Glass; 10 Ruffia Beds; 50 pieces Lungee and Bandanna Handkerchiefs; 50 bags Nutmegs; 20 boxes Scap, good for shipping; 50 lbs. Sewing Silks, all colors; 200 pieces India Cottons. ** Advance made on consignments.
At Alexander Ewen's Office,
TO-MORROW,
the 15th inst. and to be continued. SUPERFINE, fine, and low priced Broad Cloths, Cashmeres, Swansdowns, superfine and low priced Coatings, Chintzes, India Calicoes, India Cottons, Linens, Worsted Hose, Silk Handkerchiefs, Muslin do. Ribbons, Blankets, Shalloons, Knives & Forks. The above articles will be sold for cash, without reserve. At Private Sale—a few hds. Rum; a few crates variegated and blue and white Liverpool Ware. Feb. 14.
The last CHANCE.
Only 15 TICKETS in Atkinson Academy Lottery, (which is now drawing) remains on hand—those who wish to purchase 1000 dollars with two, will do well to call immediately at N. S. & W. Peirce's Book-store. FEB. 14.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Creditors of JOSHUA PICKERING, of Greenland, in the district of Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, against whom a Commission of Bankruptcy has been awarded and where all persons who have not already proved their debts, are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the benefit of dividend—and all claims not then substantiated, will be disallowed. All persons having accounts unadjusted, will call upon the assignee for settlement before that time.
JOSEPH DOE, Jr. Assignee. Newmarket, Feb. 13, 1804.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Proprietors of AMOSKEAG BRIDGE, that a special meeting of said proprietors will be held at the house of Maj. Seth Walker, in Portsmouth, on Monday the 28th day of February instant, at six o'clock P. M.
 1st. To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting.  2d. To settle all accounts with the Directors, relative to the repairs of said Bridge; and likewise with the former and present Treasurers—and transact such other business as shall be thought proper when met. 
By order of the Directors, OZIAS SILSBY, Prop's Clerk. February 10, 1804.
ATTENTION.
ALL persons indebted to the subscriber by Note or Account, are requested to make immediate payment. It is highly probable that he will retire from the present business by the last of March. Those who have been in the habit of negligence, and still persist in it, must expect no favors but such as law, administered in common form, will admit of. OZIAS SILSBY.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE subscriber having been duly appointed Administratrix to the Estate of ISAAC SANBORN, late of Kingston, Husbandman, deceased, has accepted that trust and given bonds as the law directs.—All persons having any demands on said Estate, are desired to exhibit them and all indebted to make immediate payment to ABIGAIL SANBORN, Administratrix. Kingston, Feb. 13, 1804.
NOTICE.
THE person who has in possession the LAWS of this State, belonging to the subscriber, will oblige him by returning it. SAMUEL DROWNE. February 14, 1804.

Aqueduct
RECEIVERS of Aqueduct Water are hereby notified and requested to pay the subscriber SIX MONTHS RENT due on the first inst. January, for water to June 30th.
THOMAS THOMPSON, Agent & Treasurer. Note. —The Water is abundantly sufficient at the Spring to supply, and the Tubes are in good order—but from the wilful neglect of many unthinking people who suffer the water to run waste in cold nights—and thereby empty the tubes, depriving their fellow-citizens, living on high ground from receiving their due proportion—the offenders in many instances are known, and unless they reform after this notice—they will certainly be fined, and ever after deprived from receiving water. January 31.
NOTICE. THE Co-partnership under the firm of NEAL & ABBOTT , was dissolved this day by mutual consent. All persons having accounts open with said firm, are requested to have them in readiness for immediate settlement. ROBERT NEAL, JOHN ABBOTT. Portsmouth, Jan. 30, 1804.
Robert Neal Informs his friends and the public that he will continue the COOPERS BUSINESS as usual, and solicits their patronage. Jan. 31, 1804.
REMOVAL. Benjamin Evans, TIN PLATE WORKER, INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has removed from Ladd-street, to a Shop in Congress-street, next door to Mr. MORRON's, where he makes and keeps constantly for Sale, a general assortment of TIN WARE, for House and Ships use, at the lowest prices—also Japanned & Pewter Ware. Tin Kitchens, which will Roast and Bake at the same time; Roasting ditto, which will bathe the Meat themselves; Common ditto; Handsome Plainish Coffee Pots; Oval Dish Covers; Patent Lamps; Sheet Iron and Tin Stoves and Funnel, &c. N. B. He thanks the public for past favors and solicits a continuance. December, 31.
FOR SALE by the subscriber, at the South-End— 110 bbls. No. 1 BEEF. 18 bbls. Mefs & No. 2 do. 22 half bbls. Mefs, do. 24 rounds of do. 4 half bbls. TONGUES. 28 kegs TRIP, spiced and pickled. * ALL the above are inspected, and were put up in the best manner, by JOSEPH DROWNE. Portsmouth, January 24, 1804.
Hosiery & Hats, Manufactured within 90 days. IMPORTED in the ship Tiger, from London, and for sale at Cazneau Bayley's Hosiery and Hat Store, sign of the Spinning-Wheel, Buck-street, Men's plain and ribb'd light Color'd WORSTED HOSE. Ditto plain and ribbed black do. Men's Worsted Gloves. Men's lamb wool Socks. Worsted Pantaloons, 3 threaded. Women's black Worsted Hose. Do. cotton do. Youth's cotton do. Do. lamb wool Socks. Women's black, white and color'd Silk Gloves, extra size. Do. black, white and color'd cotton Gloves and Mitts. Men's stout black silk Hose. Youth's worsted Hose. Women's worsted Gloves & Mitts. With a variety of other articles in the English Goods line—All which will be sold bargain for Cash. Portsmouth, Jan. 3, 1804.
Philadelphia Leather. 500 wt. of Philadelphia Skirting Leather; AND A few Hogs-skins for Saddles, are just received from Philadelphia, and for sale by C. PEIRCE. Also, an additional supply of Carey's elegant family & other BIBLES—Also European BIBLES, from 1 to 18 dollars each. Testaments and School Books of almost every description, at the lowest Boston prices. Massachusetts and U. States REGISTERS, all for sale at the Brick Bookstore, Daniel-street, Portsmouth. January 24, 1804.
Just published and for Sale at N. S. & W. PEIRCE's Bookstore, THE NIGHTINGALE, A collection of the most popular, ancient and modern SONGS, set to music. Subscribers are requested to call for their Books. January 24, 1804.
ALL Persons indebted to, or that have any demands on the estate of JOHN BRYENT, late of Newmarket, deceased, intestate, are requested to settle the same with JOSEPH YOUNG, Admin'r. Newmarket, Jan. 30, 1804. TO BE SOLD, At PUBLIC VENDUE, On Tuesday, the 28th of February next, A FARM, Containing about forty acres of good Land—consisting of Mowing and Pasturing, with an Orchard, well watered and wooded—a House, Barn and Saw-Mill with its privileges, thereon—situated in Londonderry, about two miles from the east parish Meeting-house, on beaver brook so called.—For further particulars, apply to the subscribers. SAMUEL MARTIN, FORREST MARTIN. Londonderry, December 24, 1803.
Piscataqua Bridge Lottery. THE General Court of New Hampshire having passed an Act at their late session, December 24th, 1803, granting a Lottery for the special purpose of raising Fifteen Thousand dollars , to repair and maintain the Piscataqua Bridge ; and have appointed the subscribers, Managers to conduct said Lottery, who have given bonds and qualified themselves as the law directs for the faithful discharge of their duty—do now offer to the Public the following
SCHEME, for the First Class— Tickets for sale by the Managers. SCHEME for the First Class. 10,000 Tickets at 5 dollars is 50,000. 1 prize of : : 8000 dolls. 1 : of : : : 4000 2 : of 1000 : : : 2000 6 : of 500 : : : 3000 6 : of 200 : : : 1200 97 : of 50 : : : 4850 100 : of 20 : : : 2000 3100 : of 8 : : : 24800 1 : first drawn blank, : : 50 1 : last drawn blank, : : 100
3315 50,000 Subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 pr. cent. Prizes to be paid in sixty days after the drawing is finished. Prizes not claimed in one year from that term, not to be paid, but deemed as generously given for the benefit of the Bridge. The object of this Lottery is to assist the Proprietors, and to enable them to repair and keep passable that extensively useful and commodious Bridge, crossing the Piscataqua river; —the connecting point of Turnpike Roads, already laid out, and others contemplated of still greater magnitude. This Bridge is equally accommodating to Massachusetts, Maine and New-Hampshire—owned by, and travelled on by citizens of both States.—The Managers therefore flatter themselves with support and assistance by all, and a ready sale for Tickets:—This Bridge is truly a public benefit. Individual enterprise erected it at an expense of near 70,000 dollars—and it never has netted 3 pr. cent. interest; is nearly 3000 feet in length, including an arch of 244 feet.—The present defects is sudden and unexpected, and requires immediate remedy. THOMAS MARTIN, THO'S THOMPSON, ELIJAH HALL, Managers. Portsmouth, Jan. 16, 1804.
Benjamin Hill, At his Store in Fore-street, lately occupied by Mr. Samuel Hill, RETURN thanks to his customers for their past favors, and would inform them that he has now on hand a quantity of St. George's LIME , in good order.
West-India GOODS HARD-WARE & COUNTRY PRODUCE, AS USUAL. N. B. "As short credit make long friends," he would inform all those indebted to him by Note, or on Book Account, to call at his store and settle the same immediately, or as soon as possible. Two STORES to let on Moffat's wharf, so called. Inquire as above. Jan. 17, 1804.
John Man, Has for Sale, at the corner of Market & Bow streets, Spring-Hill, UM, GIN, and BRANDY, per bbl. or gallon; Hylon, Souchong and Bohea TEAS; Loaf and brown SUGARS; No. 1, and 2 Chocolate; Coffee; Spanish INDIGO of an excellent quality pr. dozen or less quantity; GINGER pr. keg, dozen, or lb. Gun Powder do; Nutmegs; Cloves; Pepper; Allspice; Salt Petre; Coperas; Allum; Red Wood; Fustic; Soap; Starch; Spanish Segars, with most articles in the GROCERY LINE. Also, American and English Shoels; Frying Pans; Flat Irons; cotton and wool Cards; Blocktin Tea Pots; Pewter Bacon; Spoons; Knives and Forks; Jack Knives; Pen and pocket do. Razors; Scissors; Japan Cannisters; do. Waiters; Pins; Knitting & Sewing Needles, &c. A complete assortment of Iron Hollow Ware, viz. Small and large KETTLES; Pots; Dutch Ovens; Basins; High-Pans; Spiders; Skillets; large and small Cart Boxes; Waggon do. and Chaise do. a large supply of DOGS or ANDIRONS of all sizes; 100 and 200 Hammered NAILS; 4, 6, 8, 10, and 20 cut NAILS; English Blistered, German, Hallbach & Trieste STEEL, some of which is suitable for Shoing Sleighs. Liverpool SALT per hhd. or bushel—all of which he will sell low for cash. Det. 20, 1803.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, County of Grafton. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of LINCOLN , county and State aforesaid, who have not paid their highway and county taxes for the year 1803, that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Ephraim Kendall , in Lincoln, on the third Monday of April next, at 10 o'clock A. M. unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber. Proprietor's Names. Highway. County. James Avery, 1 40 James Hoit, 1 40 Jabez Weed, 1 40 Peter Finch, 1 40 Samuel Andrews, 1 40 David Slawson, 1 40 Ebenezer Bowton, 1 40 Reuben Stephens, 1 40 Alfa Jones, 1 40 Samuel Sellate, 1 40 Ebenezer Bowton, 1 40 Ebenezer Bowton, 1 40 Zariah Finch, 1 40 Abner Barnon, 1 40 David Bowton, 1 40 Robert Arnold, 1 40 David Sanford, 1 40 John Addington, 1 40 Elijah Weeks, 1 40 Stephen Mangum, 1 40 William McHorsey, 1 40 David Whiting, 1 40 Caleb Merrill, 1 40 Seth Whitney, 1 40 Samuel Haight, 1 40 Joseph Foreman, 1 40 John Tuttle, 1 40 Reuben Kennolds, 1 40 Peter Smith, 1 40 Abraham Farris, 1 40 Josiah Riggs, 1 40 Ebenezer Manson, 1 40 Noah Parkinson, 1 40 Abel Hoit, 1 40 James Holmes, 1 40 Ezra Moot, 1 40 David Knapp, 1 40 Abraham Mead, 1 40 Daniel S. Johns, 1 40 Samuel Wint, 1 40 Samuel Waterbury, 1 40 Henry Wint, 1 40 Job St. Johns, 1 40 Ezra Bowton, 1 40 Jeremiah Finch, 1 40 John Brown, 1 40 Timothy Ladd, 1 40 Joseph Hale, 1 40 John Neilson, 1 40 Governor's Right, 2 80 EPHRAIM KENDALL, Collr.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE— Stratford. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of EF. FINGHAM , county of Strafford and State aforesaid, who have not paid their highway and county taxes for the year 1803—that so much of their lands as will pay the same with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of Carr Leavitt , Esq. in Effingham, on Monday the twenty-third day of April next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon unless prevented by previous payment.
NAMES. Number. Division. Acres. Highway. County. Joshua Brown, jr. 59 200 1 56 0 10 5 Zackr Batchelder, 74 200 1 4 0 7 0 Jeremi'h Dearborn, 9 184 1 37 0 5 8 Wear Drake, 20 200 1 65 0 11 6 Jeremiah Lury, 41 1 16 0 4 0 6 The'rs Atkins, 59 1 41 0 22 0 1 4 Joshua Brown, jr. 22 1 55 0 22 0 1 4 Simon Dearborn, 51 1 56 0 17 0 6 1 Abner Fogg, jr. 5 2 173 0 53 0 3 5 Abner Fogg, 7 2 180 0 52 0 3 5 John Johnson, 95 2 170 0 58 0 3 5 Moses Leavitt, 48 2 193 0 78 0 5 2 Ebene'r Lowering, 54 2 200 1 31 5 8 7 do. 47 1 41 0 16 5 1 0 Samuel Marston, 44 1 56 0 26 0 1 7 Simon Marston, 61 2 150 1 56 0 10 5 Daniel Marston, 58 1 38 0 11 0 0 7 Jona. Page, jr. 68 2 200 1 4 0 7 0 Thomas Person, 56 1 46 0 16 5 1 0 Samuel Smith, 2 2 200 0 56 0 1 7 Joseph Towle, jr. 40 1 50 0 56 0 1 7 Abraham Towle, 85 1 200 0 53 0 3 5 do. 85 1 56 0 16 5 0 5 Joseph Towle, 82 1 15 0 8 0 0 5 J'shi Wingate, gd. 3 2 200 0 52 0 3 5 William W. W. jr. 21 2 200 1 4 0 7 0 The'rs Wallingford, 16 1 44 0 5 5 0 5 David Woodworth, 37 1 22 0 11 0 0 7 Jona't Marston, 75 2 200 0 52 0 3 5 Jona't Wedgwood, 58 1 50 0 26 0 1 7 John Leavitt, 1 2 189 0 52 0 3 5 James Marston, 48 1 94 0 19 3 7 9 John Dearborn, 54 2 200 1 4 0 7 0 Daniel Sanborn, 18 1 38 0 6 6 0 5 John Johnson, 69 1 56 0 11 0 0 7 Thomas Parker, 42 2 120 1 4 0 7 0 Jotham Odiorne, 34 2 200 1 4 0 7 0 Henry Batchelder, 70 1 98 0 15 4 1 6 Jona. Marston, 14 2 50 0 26 0 1 7 MORRIS LEAVITT, Collector. Effingham, January 4, 1804
FOR SALE BY Moses Woodward, A QUANTITY of SCREW'D HAY.—Also, 100 barrels of SHIP BREAD.
A Letter Missing, Containing 60 DOLLARS, which letter was said to have been put into Haverhill (Massa.) Post-Office, on the 27th of December last, directed to JOHN ABBOT , Portsmouth, from BUTLER ABBOT , Andover; any person giving information of the same shall be rewarded by JOHN ABBOT. Portsmouth, Jan. 6, 1804.
REMOVAL.
Edw'd Parry INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has removed from Congress-street, to his new brick Store, No. 10, Market-street, where he has opened a large assortment of Fall & Winter GOODS, which he has imported direct from the Manufactories, and will be sold at the lowest advance, by wholesale and retail—consisting of Best superfine London blue, black, drab, mixt, corbee, and bottle green Broad Cloths. Double milled, drab, and other fashionable colour Callimeres; superfine drab, mixed, and Brunswic Foreft Cloths. Twilled Duffils & Coatings; Baizes and Flannels. 6 3/4 8 3/4 9 3/4 10 3/4 Rose Blankets of a superior quality. A large assortment of fashionable Swandown & other Vesting; black, blue, and olive Velvets, Thicksetts and Corduroys. A complete assortment of Stronbridge and Jersey three threaded knit Stockings; Silk and cotton do. Callimancoes and Russels; superfine Durants & Tammies; London Shalloons and Florentines. Muffs and Tippets; Lace, Furr, and other Trimmings. Fashionable Chintzes & Bed Furniture, with a large assortment of Fringes and Tossils to match. Fashionable Mullins of every description; Dimities and Muslinets. Irish Linens and Sheetings. A large assortment of Camel's Hair and silk Shawls of every color; Modes and Sattins; Laces and Edgings of superior qualities. A large assortment of Ladies' & Gentlemen's new fashion Beaver Hats; black and colored Feathers, Wreaths, and Flowers; fashionable shaggy for Hats; gold and silver dress Italian Crapes; black, pink, blue, and white plain do. 25 bales of Sewing Twine; Salmon Twine; Cod Lines and Herring Nets. Portsmouth, Nov. 29, 1803.
William Garland, (Late of the Co. of GARLAND & BLAKE) INFORMS his friends and the public that he is now opening at the Store lately occupied by Mr. Edward Parry, in Congress-street, a large assortment of Seasonable GOODS, Of the latest importation, which will be sold at prices that will give satisfaction to the purchasers,—among which may be noticed in particular, Broad Cloths of all prices, consisting of blue, green, brown, black, and mixt colors; and fashionable Drab for Turbouts; Plains; Serges; dark brown Coatings and Rattenes; handsome Drab do. Baizes; Flannels. An assortment best ROSE BLANKETS, very cheap. Black and olive Velvets; fashionable Drab do. and Cords; Hosiery of all kinds. A neat assortment of Vesting, consisting of Swandown, fatin, and silk Velvets. A variety of Chintzes, of the newest fashions; Furnitures; Camel's Hair Shawls, black, white & color'd, and with elegant fatin borders. A large quantity of India, Cottons and Calicoes, of all prices, cheap; Pelice Silks; Lutestrings. A large assortment of Muffs and Tippets, from 3 3/4 to 21 dolls. Tippets separate; Furs ready dressed for making do. He has also for sale, 5 pipes Spanish Brandy. 8 hlds. West-India Rum. 5 bales Cotton. Gin. 10 chests and quarters Tea. Parish wh. 20th Nov 1803
FOR SALE, or to LET. TO be sold or leased, from one to seven years, by the subscriber, a FARM in Lee, containing One Hundred Acres , with a new Grist-Mill standing within a few rods of the house, on a good stream of water.—Terms made easy and possession given at any time desired.—No tenant will be accepted without testimonials of industry and honesty. JONATHAN STEELE. Durham, January 16, 1804.
New FEATHERS. For Sale by WARNER & WEARE, Fresh Sea Fowl FEATHERS. Portsmouth Jan. 3, 1804.