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Vol. XLIII.—Numb. 2229.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1799.
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Mr. PAINE'S Oration.
AN ORATION
Written at the request of the Young Men of Boston, and delivered, July 17th, 1799, In Commemoration of the Dissolution of the TREATIES, And Consular Convention, between FRANCE and the United States of AMERICA.
By THOMAS PAINE.
"Tribute! wherein, una una? 'tis an ex- action, Most pestilent to the hearing! Why this hag, Whose tongue outvows all the worms of Nile, Stirred up by home-bred putters on, would From every tree, lop, bark & part of the tim- ber, And tho' she leave it with a root, thus hack'd, The air would drink its sap. Oh! 'tis most vile! If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not, And dullest were thou, than the weed that fails On Lethes wharf, yet would'st thou stir in Let not thy cold heart freeze allegiance in it, This net-work Treaty, this jam'd Gordian Knot, May be untied, familiar as thy garter!"
THE struggle between Liberty and Despotism, Government and Anarchy, Religion and Atheism, has been gloriously decided. It has proved the victory of principle, the triumph of virtue. France has been foiled, and America is free. The elastic veil of Gallic perfidy has been rent; the mystic charm of diplomatic policy has been dissolved; the severing blow has been struck; and the exulting Ocean now rolls between our shores an eternal monument of our separation.
We are convened, my young friends and fellow-citizens, to commemorate, at a distant period, the first glorious anniversary of that eventful day*, when our national Senate and House of Representatives declared the Treaties and Consular Convention which had hitherto subsisted between the U. States and France, should be no longer obligatory on the Government and People of America. It is a day, which will forever be illustrious in our annals. It is the completion of our Liberties, the achme of our Independence. The 4th of JULY will be celebrated by our latest posterity as the splendid era of our national glory; but the Seventh will be venerated as the dignified epoch of our national character. The one annihilated our colonial submission to a powerful, avowed and determined foe; the other emancipated us from the oppressive friendship of an ambitious, malignant, treacherous ally. The former asserted our political supremacy, which preferred to us our country from subjection, our liberties from encroachment, and our government from foreign control: The latter united to the same momentous object, a declaration of our moral sovereignty which refused our principles from subjection, as well as our persons from slavery; which secured our cities from massacre, as well as our inhabitants from desolation; which preserved our fair ones from violation, as well as our religion from bondage. In fine, the Declaration of Independence, which dissolved our connection with Great-Britain, may be correctly denominated the Birth-Day of our nation; when, as its infant genius was ushered into political existence, a lambent flame of glory played around its brows, in preface of its future greatness. But the period, which tendered our alliance with France, may be pronounced the day of our nation's manhood; when this Genius had become an Hercules, who, no longer amused with the coral and bells of "liberty and equality" no longer "Pleas'd with the rattles, tickled with the fluffs,"
of "health and fraternity;" no longer willing to trifle at the dikeff of a "lady Negotiator," boldly inwoven himself in the toga virilis, and assumed his rank in the forum of nations.
It will therefore in all ages be pointed to, as a luminous page in our history, when the patriotic statesmen of America, with a decision of character, which has shot a ray of enthusiasm into the coldest regions of Europe, cut asunder the inexplicable knot of so contagious a connection, and forever abolished the impolitic and deleterious instrument which had created it: When that memorable treaty, which had linked together two heterogeneous nations, in an unnatural, unequal, and hateful alliance, after an attenuated life of twenty years, was ignominiously committed to the grave, where, in the language of French philosophy, "its death will prove an eternal sleep."
That this was a measure of the highest prudence, foresight and necessity, has been acknowledged by every honest American, whose political intelligence has flowed through any other channel, than the polluted sewers of a French Consul's Office. The history of the events which compelled the dissolution of our national intercourse with France, is a history, on the one part, of injury accumulated on injury, aggravated by insult following upon insult; and on the
* The law of the United States, dissolving the treaties and Consular Convention with France, was approved by the President on the 7th of July 1798. From the vicinity of this day to our National Anniversary, and other causes, this event was celebrated on the 17th. This anachronism is not only venial in itself, but is also sanctioned by undeniable precedent.
other, of the dignified policy, which preferred negotiation to arms, and a magnanimous forbearance to resent or retaliate, while there remained one rational, one manly hope of an honorable accommodation. The crisis soon arrived, when to be silent was to submit; to submit was to be vandalized.
France had formed a digest of piracy, in which plunder, imprisonment and massacre, were some of the milder penalties, denounced by the Great Nation. Her most unprincipled and abandoned citizens, who had nothing to lose, but a life, which was a burthen to themselves, and of no value to their country, swarmed the ocean in predatory hordes, under the seal of the republic, and the sanction of her palm-branching ministers.—Our commerce was at this period the carrier of the world. For five years preceding, it had extended in a ratio of increase, nearly parallel to arithmetical progression. So unexampled in any former time was its prosperity and its wealth, that our navigation almost monopolized the whole burthen of taxation. Its revenues supplied the exigencies of our government, and its peaceful and respected flag had made the harvests of all climates our own.
At this most critical period of the present contest in Europe, when the combined armies and fleets had established a Popilian circle round the territories of the French Republic, so portentously gloomy and eventful was the aspect of her revolution, that had not the officious friendship of Americans, with the exuberant productions of their fertile fields, lavishly freighted every plant, that was afloat in their seas, to snatch from famine the myriads of Robespierre, and to pamper with luxury the pimps of Marat, our humiliated government had not since been compelled to sue for justice from the treacherous tyrants it had preferred, nor meanly stooped
"To lick the hand, just rais'd to shed its blood."
For national favors, so immediately instrumental in the salvation of their republic, what novel and brilliant system of compensation, did these eloquent theorists, who are eternally preaching on the purity of the social contract, invent and adopt, to express the ardent gratitude which consumed them, and exonerate the mountainous load of obligation which depressed their modest sensibility ? Was it by an honorably mention in the bulletin?—The union of the flags of the two republics in the hall of the Convention?—Or the friendly care they bestowed, to initiate the un-illuminated mind of our consul Munroe, in the true principles of religion and government? No—These were supererogatory benefits, gratuitously conferred! Frenchmen were more nobly actuated! They kindly condescended, for our exclusive profit, to place our defenceless commerce under their fraternal protection, left our property should be seized and confiscated by British free-boots! They converted our vessels to the use of the republic; left they should be sunk and destroyed by British cannon! They stored our cargoes in their National Granaries, left we should trust them to British merchants and be defrauded of our payment! And they have beaten and imprisoned our seamen, and murdered our Smiths and our Bradlees,* left they should fall into the hands of British buccaneers!! Dismembered generosity of a wonderful people! It is worthy of Frenchmen!
Such was the tender affection of the "magnanimous republic!" France was as fair, and as false, as the beautiful statue of the tyrant Nabis—Her syren charms, though more baleful than the wrinkles of the wild sisters , wore the celestial semblance of truth and innocence—Her smiles allured us to her fond embrace—We rushed into her arms, and in her treacherous fold, felt the keen dagger, in her breast concealed, pierce to our heart.† Yes, my fellow-citizens, America had nearly been suffocated in the extatic raptures of the "hug fraternal!"
From a mistaken notion of the principles of France in the assistance she afforded our revolutionary struggle, have flowed many of the evils and indignities, with which our country has been assailed and corroded. Deluded by a fictitious gratitude, an almost fatal misconception of the French character had hitherto pervaded the minds of our citizens. The description, which one of their greatest philosophers and statesmen has given of its leading features was considered as illu-sory as his theological writings. But the late luminous development of her moral and political levity, and turpitude, has established in America the celebrated opinion, that the national character of France is an amalgamation of the two most opposite qualities in the composition of human nature—the artful ferocity of the Tyger , and the thoughtless frivolity of the Ape .—From the barbarous reign of Clovis, when the skull-bone of an enemy was used as the festal goblet at the banquet of victory, to the sullen empire of Madame Talien, whose Idalian palace is decorated with the pictures and flutes of
* Capt. Eben Smith, and Mr. David Bradley, of the ship Hunter , bound to Martinique, who were slain in an action with a French Privateer. The gallant Smith was inhumanly gashed with wounds after his vessel had surrendered; and Mr. Bradley was assassinated piecemeal, and thrown overboard. When to our national debt of "gratitude" to France be discharged?
† The tyrant Nabis, when any of his rebellious subjects refused to loan him the sum of money he demanded, ordered them to embrace his Apega , which was the statue of a beautiful woman, moving by invisible mechanism, with a dagger concealed in the vestments that ornamented her bosom.
Italy, the French nation has been successively occupied in giving fashions to Europe, or in deluging it with blood. Paris, as the contrariant propensities have predominated, has been alternately the toy-shop of folly, the divan of conspiracy, or the charnel-house of massacre. The French Republic has exhibited all the vices of civilization, without one of the virtues of barbarism.—It is true that France, at some periods of her history, has been considered an amiable nation . But these polished intervals have seldom occurred, but as the ominous precursors of new political convulsions. They have resembled the awful pause that predicts the ravages of the hurricane, the horrible silence that preludes the eruption of a volcano.
Political empiricism has never attained in any age or nation, so universal an ascendancy, as at the present day among this " illuminated people !" Unfettered by the fear of innovation, and unshackled by the prejudice of ages, the modern Frenchman is educated in a system of moral and religious chimeras, which dazzle by their novelty those volatile intellects, which prescriptive wisdom could never impress with veneration. Every Frenchman, who has read a little, is a pedant: and the whole race of these horn-book Philosophers is content with the atheism of Mirabeau, the historic pages of Rollin and Plutarch, the absurd philanthropy of Condorcet, and the visionary politics of Rousseau.‡ These are the boundaries of their literary ambition, of their political science. Hence it is, that they pretend to be too enlightened for belief, too virtuous for government.—Hence too it is, that their courts of jurisprudence are but a solemn mockery of justice. In its present state of corruption, the French trial by jury is more preposterously barbarous than the Gothic decision by camp-fight , and more venal and precarious than the verdict of an Inquisition . Professing to discard every religious obligation, it is the first creed of republican France, that there is no God; and the sanctity of an oath is held in equal solemnity by a French Juryman , with the truth of a sonnet to his mistress's eye-brow, by a French Poet ! By annihilating the sacred source of justice, the common assurances of liberty must be subverted and destroyed; and in this universal dilapidation of principle, the institutes of Justinian will share the same fate with the papal decrees of Gregory, or the municipal policy of Alfred. The protecting arm of the law has been paralyzed by the leporous poisons of vice and infidelity; and life, liberty and property , the imperceptible rights of every one, are now reduced, by these disinterested disciples of equality, to a mere lubricious dependence on the will of the Director . The substance of these unrendered privileges has been refined to a vapor; and the splendid evanescence that remains, is nothing but the air-blown bubble of the school-boy, whose tenuous essence has scarce weight enough to gravitate, or density to rari-fy, and will vanish in a sun-beam, or dis-solve at the touch.
The cabinet of the Luxembourg having thus introduced and effectuated a scheme of national demoralization, have removed the strongest barrier that could be opposed to the accomplishment of their ambitious designs—a military despotism. The impracticable system of a permanent oligarchy can never have been the uniform consummation, to which these modern Cromwells have inspired. The essence of all their plans is to consolidate in the executive all the powers of the government, by reducing the popular branches to such sequacious docility, that, like the States General under the Monarchy, they may be convened and dismissed at the beck of an arbitrary master.—"Every one," says Mallet du Pan, "who has aspired to the administration of the revolution, has been laboring only to force open for himself the door of wealth and power, and then to shut it after him." This has been the continued issue of their policy from the philosophers of '89 to the tyrants of '98—from the martyrdom of their Monarch to the dethronement of their God! And from the present apparent solution of this political riddle, it is highly probable, that the French nation, after having been successively deluded by the splendid follies, the magnificent crimes, and fascinating theories, with which its revolution has been disgracefully embellished, will at last return to its original servitude, with the loss of their former morals, the stain of accumulated barbarism, and the corrosive reflection of having deferred every misery it endures.
While this aspiring project of concentrating the public authority has been generating and maturing in the council-chamber of the Director , and waiting only a propitious juncture for its establishment: the more ambitious scheme of universal dominion,† which has for ages descended, like an
‡ See "Residence in France," described in a series of Letters from an English Lady—prepared for the press by John Gifford, Esq.
† In a late celebrated "Historical Essay on the Ambition and conquests of France," printed in London, 1797, the American politician will find it satisfactorily demonstrated, that the boundaries, to which the republican rulers of France are aiming to extend her dominion, are the same, which her monarchs have for three hundred years been struggling to obtain. The same rumous ambition , which characterizes the present French ministers, is incontestably proved to have existed in the time of Richelieu, and is peculiarly traced through the wearisome reigns of Louis the superb, Louis the libertine, and Louis the invincere , unto the present Louis-le-Bon form of government."
heir-loom with the royal palace of France, has been revived by these thrifty speculators in humane misery, with an enthusiasm, that would characterize the madman of Sweden; has been prosecuted with more fantastic ferocity, than formerly desolated the plains of Palestine; and has been rendered more illustrious by its heroes and its achievements, than the hitherto unparalleled glory of chivalry, the siege of Candia. The pageantry of its victories concealed the subtle policy, which had secured them. The ludicrous doctrine of a moral, physical and personal equality, and the fanatical plan of universal liberty, were the most captivating allurements, to enlist the prejudices of the people under the crusading banners of Infurrection. This political fruit of temptation, like the apple from the tree of knowledge, could not be withheld by the curiosity of mankind.—It was so artfully presented, it bloomed so deliciously fair, and looked so invitingly innocent, that surely there could be no harm in a taste !—But, to the untempted gaze of the distant spectator, to the analyzing eye of the real philosopher, this stupendous doctrine of confusion assumed a portentous and alarming aspect. Terrible in its splendor, it seemed like the comet approaching its perihelion, in so elliptical a path, that its flaming progress must intersect every orbit in our system, ere it could complete the tour of its destination, and return into the regions of Chaos.
The great foundations of those European governments, which have been enslaved by republican liberty, were loosened and undermined by the torrent of French principles , before the attack upon their out-works was commenced by the French artillery . Their bulwarks were tottering to their fall, before these illuminated knights-errant approached the battlements to conquer the people into freedom! By opening the wall of allegiance, the fatal breach was made, through which the Wooden Horse was to be inducted; and to the folly of popular superstition were alike destined to be sacrificed, the humble dwellings of the credulous multitude, the splendid palaces of the nobles, and the venerable temples of the Deity.
The all-devouring republic has spared neither the imbecility of the weak, nor respected the sanctity of the sacred. Not content with the succumbing pliability of Spain, the coerced neutrality of Prussia, and the trophied wrecks and servile prostration of Italy, her carnivorous appetite has pampered its gluttony on the temporalities of unoffending bishops, the charters of free cities, and the feeblest electorates and dukedoms, from whose enmity she had nothing to fear, from whose plunder she had little to gain. Her only attributes have been intrigue and voracity; she has been ingenious only to corrupt, and valiant only to destroy!—
Wherever the revolutionary mania has prevailed, confusion and conspiracy have been the symptoms of the disease, and misery and massacre its crisis. Holland was bit by the French tarantula ; and nothing could cure the wound but French music . No other remedy would do; and for six years, she has been dancing round a pike-staff, to the tune of Ca Ira , till her treasury is exhausted by the expenses of the piper !
The once fertile and flourishing provinces of Belgium; have been incorporated, plundered and depopulated. Their firesides have been polluted by the debaucheries of Frenchmen; their dikes have been filled with the bodies of their fellow citizens.
Venice, the elder sister in the family of modern republics, after being embraced by the "Terrible People," has been sent to market, like a Circassian beauty, tricked out in her gaudiest attire, and sold for the houzah service of the Emperor.
Geneva was once the bee-hive of Europe.—Active, harmonious and skillful, it was the most industrious, the most ingenious, the happiest of nations, till its crude, unpolished, antiquated notions of liberty were alchymized in the all-dissolving crucible of French Philosophy. Art, genius, industry; vanished in the subtlety, of the experiment; and Geneva now exists only on the map of the geographer.
The inhabitants of Switzerland, whose unconquerable forefathers had resisted and repelled the concentrated forces of Austria, for five hundred years enjoyed as pure a system of liberty, as could subsist in the pastoral state of mankind.—But, alas! These honest and gallant Helvetians, who had been the faithful allies of France above a century and an half, have also been entangled in the fate-woven toils of her friendship. Their hereditary love of democracy was severed to infatuation by the modern refinement of " rights and liberties ;" and in the poignant experience of these blessings, they are now writhing under the disastrous influence of the right to groan , the liberty to starve ! They had only to unite and to conquer, but they have been divided and enslaved.—They could find no protection in the rugged height of their mountains, no shelter in the happy humbleness of their valleys. Their persevering benefactors pursued their victims above the clouds, and deluged their meadows with the blood of their cultivators. But, tremble Frenchmen! the Swiss will not live to be slaves; and though your perfidious alliance is as palliating as the touch of the Torpedo , they will struggle for their lost independence, while one of their descendants remains unwhetched by your fraternal benevolence. Yes! the shade of Tell has already risen from his grave; and the Spirit of Liberty , terrible in arms, again stalks on the Blood-crimsoned tops of the Gla-ciers .
That the same gigantic principle of domination, which has impelled France to the mad enterprise of subduing and barbarizing Europe, has invariably controlled her conduct to our own country, is a truth, as irrefragable, as it is momentous. From the first signing of the treaty of alliance whose dissolution we this day celebrate, the ministry of Versailles had conceived this iniquitous project. To check the pride of an inveterate rival, they generously condescended to assist our infant republic in its struggle with an overweening step-mother; in the hope, that the incautious child, overwhelmed with a sense of gratitude, would leap into the arms of its disinterested benefactors: or, if its obstinate principles of independence should remain unbaken, that, deprived of the nurturing power, and exposed to the systematic resentment, of Great Britain, it would soon be compelled to receive the protection of Frenchmen on their own terms, and fall an easy prey to their arts and their arms, their gold and their gunpowder. When the treaty of peace was in negotiation, a new outline of the same elaborate system was betrayed. By the fiend-like hypocrisy, and collusive machinations of the French Minister, the whole navigation of the Mississippi from its sources to the ocean, with an immense tract of the most valuable contiguous country, was to be ceded to Spain; and the American rights in the fisheries of Newfoundland, an inexhaustible mine of commerce, from which our enterprising citizens might enrich the coffers and strengthen the nerves of our government, was to be sacrificed to Great Britain.* The calculating cabinet of France readily suggested and countenanced these degrading propositions; because it well knew, that to environ the two extremes of our territory with the colonies of European powers, whom she could at any time render hostile to our interests, was one great stride towards reducing us to a state of dependence on her bountiful aid; and because it clearly fore-saw, that our extended line of seacoast would soon need a naval defence, and that the fisheries, if left in our power, would be the nurseries of our seamen, the hardest race of our inhabitants, who have now become the avenging protectors of their country, and the ocean that laves it. But with such specious plausibility was this pregnant measure conducted, that even the acute judgment of a Franklin, whose elevated mind could behold the thunder-cloud in its ignition, as a subject of philosophical experiment, was duped and deluded by the Gobelin tapestry , which concealed the mighty mischief. And America, at this day, is indebted, for these important branches of her national commerce and aggrandizement, to the firmness and wisdom of that enlightened patriot, the calumniated Jay; and to the penetrating policy, and inflexible decision of that virtuous and unrivaled Statesman, who has now rendered his countrymen as happy and as glorious by his administration, as he had before made his country immortal by his talents.
To detail the progress of this ravenous ambition, by which France has been adusted in her designs on the Government and People of America, since, the convulsions of Europe have given ample scope to her diplomatic dexterity, would be but to repeat the voluminous history of her unblushing perfidies, and the melancholy record of our national degradation. Who does not remember the letter to Mazzei, or the arrival of Genet? Who has forgotten that dubious era in our history, when illuminated fraternities, were scattered, like the pestiferous effluvia of the poison-tree of Java, from Alamaha to St. Croix ? When anarchy and disorganization were the order of the day, and French consuls , and French agents the order of the night? When our " civic feasts " were introduced to celebrate French victories, and our " water-melon frolics " to disseminate French principles? When political infidelity was a paramount title to the suffrages of the people? When Foreign influence, like the golden calf, seduced multitudes from the worship of true liberty? When our government stood trembling on the crater of revolution, whose combustible materials were kindling for its destruction? Who does not recollect that disastrous juncture, when the epidemic of atheism and anarchy was so fatally virulent, that though some few of the leaders of the nation had been regularly inoculated by French Mountebanks, more than half of the people of America had taken it in the natural way ? To check this distemper, the depleting medicine of Reagan was an abortive prescription: You might as well attempt to restore a lunatic to his senses by a decolion of poppies, or to cure the pestilence of Smyrna by the panacean elixir of Don Quixote.
At one period, so rapid and extensive was the current of these republican ethics, that the terrible alluvion had well nigh swept away every monument of civilization, that
* Great Britain, our inveterate oppressor was willing to acknowledge our national independence, and our rights in the fisheries; but France, our trusty ally , was opposed to both of these claims, and intrigued with every court in Europe, with which we had opened a negotiation, to reject our haughty demands ! Count Vergennes even reproached Mr. Fitzherbert for the passive surrender of such mischievous Sovereignty ! But two of the American Commissioners detected this plan, before it was ripe for execution; and, by stealing a march on its propellors , obtained for their sine qua non country an Honorable Peace , to which France was afterwards compelled to accede, by the fear of standing alone in the gap of hostility!

brightens society:—whelm every virtue, that corrects the obliquities of human life; and desolated every hope of happiness, that attaches man to a future existence!
The fanaticism, that infected the people, extended its contagion even to the administration. Who has not heard of the philosopher Randolph, and the discovery of the "flour plot"? The anxiety, incident to crime, generally furnishes the clue to its detection; and the designs of this Apostolic of democracy had never been ascertained in the extent of their baleful, had not his own guilty garrulity, "drawn like French wire," and besotted with fillagree syllogism, prattled and quibbled through many a meagre page, to prove himself the Traitor he was called! The Roman capitol, and the liberties of America, have both been preserved by the cackling of a goose!
Still, however, the faction, like Antaeus, grew stronger by its fall; till its midnight cabals, its secret complottings, and Catalinian conspiracies, were detected, exposed and confounded, by our guardian WASHINGTON; who, like Uriel descending on the sun-beam, discerned the latent fiend entering our paradise in a mist! But so audacious was the apostasy of their idolatry, that the development of their crimes only served to harden their effrontery. The obituary "Hic Jacet" of our federal constitution was already written in blood by these disciples of Barras; and this fair domain of liberty, this last and noblest empire of time, was first to be lulled into a deceitful security by the hypocritical cant of French philosophy, and then to be reassembled into conviction by the cogent logic of French bayonets.
When the flame of indignation, enkindled by the dispatches from our Envoys, burst spontaneous from the bosom of every honest American, where was the boasted sincerity of this amicable nation? She denied the officiality of her corrupt agents, and with malignant contrition solicited a new diplomatic intercourse! But what was the object of this temporising policy—what these hostile professions of peace? Were they not new baits for our credulity,—new "springs to catch Woodcocks?" To cool public resentment by delay, to give direction and confidence to her proteges; and to collect her dissipated influence for the decisive blow? But I trust, my young friends, and fellow-citizens—that you are now deeply convinced, that France, under its present rulers, will make no TREATY with you, which you ought in honor to sign; and that a Government, which has derided religion as a farce, denounced the laws of nations as "worm-eaten codes," and torn up the foundations of social virtue, has no pledge to offer for the sincerity of its intentions, no sanction to seal the obligation of its contracts! To expect a rigid adherence to the maxims of national justice, from a people, which has thus annihilated all its religious, and political duties, would be as fatal, as it is vain. It would be more rational and safe, to sleep with the crocodile on the banks of the Nile, or repair to the den of the panther for the hospitable banquet.
But is this metaphysical depravity, this false system of reason and morals, forever to disconnect the two countries? I answer, No! Though our political alliance with France is, I trust, forever dissolved, yet when the frivolous fluctuations of her government shall have subsided to a permanent organization, it is probable a new commercial relation may be adopted. But let not the virtue and allegiance of our citizens be seduced by the hopeful delusions of emolument. The feculence of party is not yet drained of its rankest sediment. The worshippers of democracy, though their altars are thrown down, are not yet converted from their devotions. The frozen snake has still some sparks of animation; and if placed by compassion near your hospitable fires, he will yet revive with exasperated venom, and sting the dallying fool that fostered him. Deal therefore with these ferocious demoralizers, as our crafty mariners trade with the savages of the Indian ocean—with your men at their posts, your guns loaded, and your flow matches burning!
A pure, unmixed Jacobin, of the seconda-ry order , is an enemy to all governments, under which he holds no office. Be it a republic, it is venal;—an aristocracy, it is feudal;—a monarchy, it is despotic. In short, he barks for a pension, and raves at his obscurity.—Reverse the scene—present him a piece of parchment with the Prefident's Seal appendant, and you will see
"That lowliness is young Ambition's Ladder,
"Where the climber upwards turns his face,
"But when he once attains the topmost round,
"He then unto the ladder turns his back,
"Looks in the clouds, scorning the base de-
"grees,"
"By which he did ascend."
Invest a Jacobin (of this minor species) in the enviable dignities of a Federal Commission, and his former virulence will be instantly mollified to the most submissive servility. He will attack his old companions in iniquity, and beat them at their own weapons;—he will write federal libels on the public faces, and break the windows of the Chronicle-Office! From a most ferocious, he is transformed to a most tractable animal;—and from a town-meeting caviller against priests and placemen, he becomes the very scavenger of administration! Such is the legitimate plebian democrat;—a mere poisonous fungus, produced by the effervescence of the times, "like the green manse on the standing pool," by the putrid exhalation of a summer's sun.
But a Jacobin of Weisaupt's school never changes his principles;—honors and promotions never alter a title of his creed; and he aspires to office only for the purpose of embezzling the revenues, and prostrating the happiness of his country. A character, so inveterately perverse, has no capacity to appreciate the real blessings of Religion, Government or Liberty. His whole science is directed to unhinge society, his whole ambition to plunder it. He is too ravenous to be content with a system of order himself;
* This character is only applicable to the more advanced of the disorganizing craft, who, from their natural habit, and the inculcated maxims of puritanic education, can't relish the sublime horrors of arbitrary profligacy; and are therefore deemed unfit candidates to be initiated into the higher mysteries of Illuminatism!
and too selfish to permit its enjoyment by others. Like a HOG IN A FLOWER-GARDEN, he sets no value on the variegated foliage he destroys, and seems only desirous to root out every twig of vegetation, that can satiate his voracity.
That a free government should always be corroded by a desperate faction, is as natural, as that the luxuriance of the soil should be known by the rankness of its weeds; that the majestic oak should be entwined by the baleful ivy; or that the most fruitful productions of the vegetable world should be selected by the cancerous tooth of the caterpillar.
In the fickle climate of democracy, it is not rational to expect a settled season of unclouded tranquillity;—the torpor of the elements,—and the serenity of the sky, are the surest harbinger, that the storm is generating. But to use the metaphor of Mr. Jefferson, should the "tempestuous sea of Liberty" again dash its audacious billows against the sides of our government, it will become the duty of our political pilots, in imitation of sacred example, to seize the unrighteous Jonah, whose treachery has roused the angry spirits of the deep, and plunge him into the foaming waves, to appease the rebellious element.
The same implacable principle of opposition, which has hitherto directed the virulence of our leading demagogues against every thing, that is American either in Religion or Laws, has levelled their most pointed opprobrium against this celebration of an important anniversary, which has reflected so much honor and dignity on the enterprising and discerning patriotism of the Young Men of Boston. The most antiquated and "woe-begone" among these acute politicians, who are also the most inveterate in their prejudices, & the most despotic in their principles, have assailed you, my young friends with the charge of juvenile presumption in thus contemptuously daring to oppose the rickety decisions of their ridiculous wisdom. To so feeble an attack, it will be only necessary to reply, that the young men of Boston have not yet grown grey in the vices of childhood, nor remained stupid in spite of experience.
The solemn oath of America has ascended to heaven. She has sworn to preserve her independence, her religion and her laws; or nobly perish in their defence, and be buried in the wrecks of her empire. To the fate of our Government is united the fate of our country. The convulsion, that destroys the one, must desolate the other. Their destinies are interwoven, and they must triumph or fall together. Where then is the man, so hardened in political iniquity, as to advocate the victories of French arms, which would render his countrymen slaves, or to promote the diffusion of French principles, which would render them savages? Can it be doubted, that the pike of a French soldier is less cruel and ferocious than the fraternity of a French Philosopher ? Where is the youth in this assembly, who could, without agonized emotions, behold the Gallic invader hurling the brand of devastation into the dwelling of his father; or with sacrilegious cupidity plundering the communion table of his God? Who could witness, without indignant desperation, the mother, who bore him inhumanly murdered, in the defence of her infants? Who could hear, without frantic horror, the shrieks of a sister, flying from pollution, and leaping from the blazing roof to impale herself on the point of a halbert? "If any, speak, for him have I offended!" No, my fellow-citizens, these scenes are never to be witnessed by American eyes. The foul of your ancestors still lives in the bosom of their descendants; and rather than submit this fair land of their inheritance to ravage and dishonor, from hoary age to helpless infancy, they will form one united bulwark, and oppose their breaths to the assailing foe—Not one shall survive to be enslaved; for ere the tri-colored flag shall wave over our prostrate republic, the bones of four millions of Americans shall whiten the shores of their country! This depopulated region shall be as desolate, as its original wilderness; the revegetating forest shall cover the ruins of our cities; and the savage shall return from the mountains, and again rear his hut in the abode of his forefathers. Then shall commence the millennium of political illumination; and Frenchmen and wolves, "one and indivisible," nightly chant their barbarous orgies, to celebrate the PHILOSOPHIC EMPIRE OF DEMOCRACY!
That America will ultimately be reduced under Gallic control, is the "flattering unction," which our disorganizers have "laid to their souls." They have long been predicting the crisis of a new explosion; and are now anticipating the Christian luxury of triumph and revenge. But let them be no longer deceived—Americans are as enlightened, as they have proved themselves invincible; and the rock-ribbed foundations of their government can only be shaken by a revolution of the moral world!
The progress of TRUTH is slow, but irresistible. Its temperate light has at length dawned in Europe, dispelled the fickle vapors of illuminatism, and awakened the dormant spirit of nations. The armies and fleets of France will oppose its diffusion in vain. The gilt folios of her Savans cannot divert its operation. It will overwhelm all obstacles in its passage, like the cataract in its fall; and affect every region in its career, like the motion of this "great globe itself." Already have the boasted conquerors of Italy, covered with disaster, disgrace and defeat, retracted their blood-printed footsteps through the realms they had desolated! Already do the nations, enslaved by their perfidy, shake off their ignominious submission, and rise to "break their chains on the heads of their oppressors." The fictitious fabric of French glory, like
+ To do justice to his subject, the style of a writer must conform to it. Were a poet to conjure down every planet and constellation, that "shets with gold the vaulted roof of heaven," or to pilfer every mosaic from the bosom of Flora, he would not find, in the whole molley mess of his plunder, a fit sum for a Jacobin! He must descend to the molten wax and churchills of the brute creation. The great Burke himself, in some of his most celebrated speeches in parliament, and particularly in his "Letter to the Duke of Bedford" was compelled to commit this outrage on the delicate taste of a critical public!
the Pantheon at Paris, is already cracked in its Dome, and will ere long crumble into ruins beneath the ponderous pressure of its own incumbent magnificence.
The government of our country, rich in its resources, happy in the blessings it dispenses, and strong in the allegiance of its citizens, is daily maturing in its wisdom and respectability, like the character of the people it governs.—Essential to its very existence is PUBLIC VIRTUE. It is the BARK of our political tree, which conveys the sap to its branches—the channel, which supplies its vegetation with aliment. Should this vital principle of republics be perpetuated in its vigor and purity, we may fondly hope the longevity of our government will be indefinitely protracted. Then may we prophecy, that, when this century, in the obscuring retrospect of time, shall be numbered with the years beyond the flood, when the confused fragments of its stupendous events, covered with the venerable honors of antiquity, shall be traced by the future historian, as the wonderful traveller, in his classic pilgrimage, now contemplates the ruins of Balbec, the revolving sun shall not behold, in his journey of ages, a nation so illustrious in its Independence, so happy in its Laws.
Then shall the heroes and statesmen, who have preserved and exalted our country, never be indebted to the charity of a foreigner, that their memories are rescued from oblivion; nor their tombs to the reproachful paling of iron that their ashes are protected from violation. Then shall America, fired with the noblest emulation of NATIONAL SPIRIT, and disdaining to discharge her debts of honor by the contracted ledger of republican gratitude, never want the cannon of a TRUITON to shake the ocean with her resentment; the lightning of a PICKERING to flash conviction on her foes; nor the arm of a WASHINGTON to catch the thunderbolts of France on his buckler! The oaken Garland of triumphal LIBERTY shall bloom with unfading honors;—the solid Cement, which connects the hemispheric arch of our UNION, shall acquire new strength and durability from the tempests of time; and the prayers of each succeeding generation, proudly exulting in the blessings transmitted to them, shall, in unison with ours, To heaven's high throne with rapture be addressed.
Long live COLUMBIA, and be ADAMS blest!
‡ The oaken garland was among the Romans, the trophy of honor, that encircled the brows of a victorious general.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, June 10.
The Emperor has nearly restored the ancient order of things at Venice. The nobles are for the most part reinstated in all their rights and public situations.
It is reported that the elector of Bavaria has consented to the passage of 45,000 Russians through his territories, and has sent a minister to Petersburg.
The Bishops, Priests and Noblemen, who were taken prisoners by Moreau's army near Mondovi, were instantly shot on the field of battle.
[If generosity and magnanimity are kindred virtues with bravery, this conduct is a sorry proof of Moreau's valor. To rob her Bishops, Priests and Nobles of their wealth and honors, and exile them from their country was consistent with the new-light philosophy of France:—but to treat them, thus expatriated from their country, as voluntary and treacherous deserters from her standard, is a dastardly crime, which must forever blacken the character of the perpetrator.]
The Executive Directory has published an arrest, which expresses its satisfaction at the conduct of its agent, Victor Hughes, at Guadalupe.
[In this instance, we do not complain of directorial justice. Victor Hughes has deserved well of the French nation—he has been a faithful servant in their interest—and the directory are fit instruments to trumpet his praise.]
The Paris papers report that the King of Prussia has ordered the suspension of all payments on account of Russia.
An article from Aschaffenburg mentions preparations for war, both by the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel and the King of Prussia. The former Prince, it is stated, had declared that there was an end to the neutrality, and that his army would march against Mentz.
In the Military Gazette published at the head-quarters of the Archduke, it is stated that in Italy, within the short space of six weeks, the Imperialists have killed and wounded 20,000 French; 12,319 prisoners, taken 630 pieces of cannon and 24 mortars, together with an immense quantity of ammunition stores, &c. &c.
The following account of the destruction of an English and a Russian frigate in the harbour of Constantinople, which was mentioned in the last French papers is given in a letter from Constantinople, dated May 18, brought by yesterday's Hamburg Mail:
"Yesterday afternoon we were alarmed by an explosion like the roar of thunder and a terrible crackling. In less than two minutes, the cries of "Treachery! Imposture! our ships are lost!" resounded in all the streets. We actually found a Russian frigate of 36 guns, an English one of 40, and 2 Turkish corfairs, of 13 guns, well fitted out, and full of men and provisions, struggling, with destruction in the harbour. The Russian frigate was blown to pieces, by setting its powder
room on fire and only pieces of wreck were to be seen of her. Holes had been boared in three different parts of the English frigate which sunk, with the purser and seven seamen, all the guns and other effects. The Captain alone was saved. The Turkish corfairs which had also holes bored in them were saved. The strictest enquiry being made, 3 of the villains who perpetrated this horrid act were taken. They are all three Frenchmen who had disguised themselves as sailors. Their names are Le Monville, Larouche and Bruinet.—They are now confined in the Seven Towers, and will it is said, be roasted alive."
SAVANNAH, July 30.
Last Saturday put an end in distress, the schooner Little Tartar, of St. Thomas's, in 19 days from Cape Francois; brings accounts of provisions being very scarce: every thing quiet at the Cape, Gen. Toussaint at the time this vessel left the island was at Port-au-Prince, having had recently an engagement with Rigaud, in which many lives were lost on both sides, tho' the former was in the end victorious. No talk of any treaty with the English, the people in general being averse to it.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9.
MASSENA A PRISONER.
A letter from Lisbon received yesterday morning, by the Dominick Terry, dated June 19th, mentions the arrival of a vessel from Hamburg in a short passage, the Captain of which positively declared a very decisive battle had been fought on the Rhine, in which Massena and the greatest part of his army were made prisoners. It also mentions the expulsion of the French out of the Swiss country.
Another letter from Lisbon, of the same date, mentions the King of Spain having signed a permission for the French troops to march through his territory to attack Portugal. The French are entirely expelled from Italy. Switzerland has risen en masse. At Lyons opposition to the Republic has again reared its head. Genoa is taken by the Austrians—the French just before leaving it, levied three hundred thousand pounds sterling. Mantua is taken. The Cisalpine republic is no more—its directors have fled. A division of Macdonald's army has been destroyed by the Romans; several expressies, requiring his retreat, have been intercepted. The Russians neither give nor receive quarters. Every Italian found in arms is shot or hung.
A number of American vessels have been captured by the French privateers and carried into different ports in Spain, and condemned without reserve by the French consul.
A gentleman who came passenger in the ship Dominick Terry, from Lisbon, brings the following articles, which he says were received at Lisbon by a Portuguese brig of war from Falmouth:
Falmouth, June 18. By the arrival of Capt. Giert, in 8 days from Hamburg, we have the following intelligence:
Gen. Massena, in a very bloody engagement with the Archduke Charles, lost 10,000 men killed, and 8000 taken prisoners—which the captain says appeared in all the public papers, and was universally believed:—Further confirmation this morning, 20th June, by the arrival of a Portuguese brig of war, 6 days from Falmouth, in which came passenger the duke of Luxembourg's son, who confirms the above, authentically received in England—with an addition, that Massena himself is taken prisoner, together with the military chest and all the camp equipage—that the peasants, in consequence of the victory, have risen en masse, and the remnant of Massena's army, who had fled, fell prisoners to them.
Letters from Carthagena, dated 31st Mar.
Yesterday, at 3 o'clock in the evening, arrived from Cadiz the Spanish fleet, under command of Gen. Don Massaredo, consisting of 17 sail of battle ships, 4 frigates and 3 brigs; having suffered, as undermentioned, by the tempest of the 16th inst.
Conception, very much damaged in hull, with masts sprung, and loss of foremast.
St. Anna, very leaky, 30 inches water in her hold, and with much difficulty saved her masts from going over the sides.
St. Juan, loss of bowsprit, and mainmast much damaged.
St. Paul's rudder much damaged. Conquestador, loss of all her masts, one of her guns got loose and did much mischief, wounded 16 men—she was near foundering.
Mexicano, loss of all her masts. Matilda, do.
Pelago, loss of mainmast and topmasts, with other damages.
Soberano, loss of mainmast.
St. Elmo, loss of main and mizen masts.
Oriente, loss of mizen mast and all the topmasts.
Ozia, loss of all her topmasts.
Buy Vine, loss of bowsprit and topmast.
The following passage, or one better expressed, may be found in the page of some future chronologist:
"1800.—The Centurial year—Final downfall of the French Republic—Regicides punished—Europe restored to order—Universal Peace."
Paris, long the Paradise, has now completely become the Pandemonium, of Fools. Goaded by a million of deadly impulses, they rise up in the agonies of despair, crying Vengeance! vengeance! let us execute vengeance. Like one who, when life was at its last ebb, desired to be mounted on his horse, to give the enemy another charge! but expired in the attempt.
ALBANY, August 2.
The very extraordinary phenomenon has lately appeared in the vicinity of Palatine, on the Mohawk river, of an epidemic distemper amongst the wild pigeons. Strong evidences, it is said, on dissection, have been discovered of a morbid affection in the throats of these animals; and a very general apprehension of contagion has prevailed among the inhabitants, from some instances of persons being afflicted with the malignant sore throat who had imprudently fed on the flesh of the diseased bird.
PROVIDENCE, August 10.
The ship Rebecca, Metcalf Bowler, of this port, bound for the Havannah, is captured by the British sloop of war Bark, and carried to New-Providence, on pretence of illicit trade. About 18 or 20 other American vessels were there, waiting adjudication, among them capt. E. Brown, in a brig from Newport.
BOSTON, August 15.
The conduct of the King of Prussia, so far as it can be traced to any leading motive, seems to incline in favor of France. We are not informed whether the suspension of all payments on account of Russia, (mentioned under the London head,) is of public or private debts. It seems to show, at first view, a species of policy unjust in itself—friendly to the treasury of Prussia,—favorable to France, and inimical to Russia and her allies.
Frederick reminds us of a cool, calculating gambler—the nations of Europe are deeply engaged in a game of Loo—he knows England holds the pan, Germany has all at stake, he suspects France is deficient in trumps, but holds a good hand himself, wishes to loo the Empire, and is only waiting to see if honest John Bull does not show a pan flush, before it comes to his turn to rap the board.
A London paper of June 5, has the following paragraph:—"The United States of America, in their opposition to the infamous demands of France, has exhibited an energy of character, which, while it has astonished has also stimulated the almost disheartened nations of Europe to a manly and successful opposition to the aggressions of French tyranny."
SALEM, August 16.
Yesterday returned here from Guadalupe, Capt. Daniel Gould, late master of the schooner Tabitha. He sailed from this port in May last for St. Thomas's, and was taken to the northward of the island by a government ship, of 16 guns, from Guadalupe, to which place he was carried. The same ship took, during that cruise (about 45 days) 15 Americans and three English vessels, 17 of which had arrived; and Capt. Gould, from the time of his capture to his arrival at Guadalupe (9 days) was boarded or spoke by nine French privateers. Here we think is some work for our public ships—the English are very indifferent to these privateers. Capt. Gould was cast into prison for several days, in the western part of the island, and afterwards removed to Bassetterre, where he was again sent for prison, but was immediately relieved by the influence of a Mr. Buchong, a merchant with whom he had formerly done business, and who was exceedingly friendly to him. There were at Guadalupe among other American prizes, a sloop, Ephraim Perkins, master, a schooner, Hubbard, master, and another vessel, from Kennebec; a schooner, Graves, master, from Marblehead; and several from Newburyport.
Brigs Franklin, Morris, of Wilmington, (D.) and Nancy, Anenburgh, from Vera Cruz, are captured by the Fr. sch. Buonaparte, of 11 guns, manned with 4 Frenchmen, and 88 Spaniards, and sent into Campeachy—Cargoes valued at 240,000 dollars.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13.
Extract of a letter from John Gavino, Esq. American consul at Gibraltar, dated 19th June, 1790.
"On the 12th inst. Ad. Sir Charles Cotton called off this port from the coast of Ireland with 16 British ships of the line, and 5 frigates; they all went up the straits to reinforce the fleets there."
"It is reported another squadron will soon appear to resume the blockade of Cadiz."
"Vessels from the coast of Morocco are not permitted to anchor in this port, or to have any communication, on account of the disorder which reigns there, and which is looked upon to be the plague."
BOSTON, August 15.
O B S E R V A T I O N.
We see the aggrandizing projects of the French nation frustrated, in every quarter—their "exalted hopes vanishing in air," and their victorious enemies, pursuing them in every direction—our resentment will pursue them, with their indignant foes to their own territories—there we are willing to leave them to their fate, and bestow on them our resentment, sympathy, or congratulation, as their future conduct may deserve. Should the tragedy of the dismemberment of Poland, be acted over in France, it would evidently be for the benefit of England.—However such a scene might be viewed by the elated conqueror, or those who have been trampled under foot by this haughty republic, it must, in its consequence, effect the interest of America, and more immediately of European nations. From France, at present, there is little to fear; in that event, England would be above control. There is nothing to hope, but every thing to fear, from that nation, which has no check but its own generosity.
AUGUST 17.
A gentleman 8 days from Halifax, informs of the arrival there of a vessel in a short passage from England; and that he read in the papers official accounts of the defeats of Moreau, in Italy, and Massena, in Switzerland.—The gentleman brought no papers.
Capt. Truxton, previous to his resignation of the command of the ship Constellation, was addressed in a respectful manner in a letter, signed by the officers of the gun-room; the following excellent injunction, is the closing period of his answer:—"I now impress on you as my last command, (and when I have commanded you, I never had a doubt of implicit obedience) that whenever you meet our foes, to think of your old friend, and to do your duty, as I have seen you, like BRAVE AMERICANS, do it before."
Our fears of an Indian War appear to have been without foundation. All misunderstandings have subsided, and those fickle tenants of the shade again express their cordial approbation of the conduct of the President, and citizens of the U. States.
THE NAVY.
The Montezuma, Capt. Malony has again failed on a cruise.
The Constellation, will proceed to sea, from New-York, immediately on receiving her new commander.
The Eagle, Capt. Campbell, is in the Delaware.
Capt. Truxton, of the Constellation frigate, has resigned his commission in the Navy. We understand this measure to be owing to the (by him) unexpected operation of the graduated rank designated in 1794;—by which Captains Talbot and Dale are established as his seniors—whose rank was provisionally suspended, on account of the discontinuance of building the ships to which they were first appointed.
Capt. Barron, we learn, will be appointed to the Constellation.
By the grade of 1794, the rank of the commanders of the navy commenced as follows: Captains Barry, Nicholson, Talbot, Dale, Truxton, Sever, &c.
PORTSMOUTH, August 20.
On Thursday the 15th every necessary arrangement being previously made, which could possibly facilitate the labours of the day, Col. Hackett, United States Naval Constructor, at the Port of Portsmouth, proceeded to prepare for the positive launch of the Frigate Congress, one of the most beautifully modelled and elegantly finished ships in the service of the Union. Mr. Sheafe, the Naval Agent in this department, having forwarded a polite invitation to His Excellency Gov. GILMAN, he was pleased to accept of the same; and at the confines of the town was met by as many of the commissioned officers of the first military grades, as could conveniently attend, who escorted him
to his lodgings at Col. Brewster's. A large number of respectable fellow citizens there awaited his arrival, to welcome the man whom New-Hampshire delights to honor; the man whom the President loves to praise; and from thence escorted by Capt. Sparhawk's Independent Company of Light Infantry, he passed over to Continental Island, in the Congress' barge, handsomely decorated, and followed by a vast number of boats, containing the military, militia officers, citizens, clergy and strangers of distinction. At the moment of his Excellency's embarkation the flag of the United States was hoisted at the flagstaff on the island; the American standard displayed from the frigate's stern; the stars on a blue ground at the bow, and the Continental pendant amidships. Orders at the same moment were expedited to hasten the knocking away of the blocks and every workman's hammer was plied with that redoubled activity, and exactness of incessant strokes which constitute the harmonies of the shipwright. A federal salute announced his Excellency's arrival, while the countenances of unnumbered spectators spoke the plaudits of a grateful community in more sensible, tho' silent accents, for the language of the heart was never more feelingly expressed, and nothing but the high wrought impressions of the moment, suspended the animated Huzza.
Precisely at 12, a few blocks still remaining in their places, and 16 workmen yet at their numbered posts, the ship, as if self moved by the independent spirit of that illustrious body, whose name she bears, majestically moved off the ways; made one graceful plunge into her future element, and instantly raising her stern in equilibrium with her head, swept on a right line athwart the channel, swung round, and brought up. Her movements on this occasion may be considered as oracular of her future destinies. The stern pitch and instant recovery forcibly said, we only bow to the element on which we float; and bid erect defiance to a world beside. Reiterated cheers proclaimed the sincere pleasure of an immense number of spectators; a federal salute bore the joyous tidings to distant plains, and the huzzas and salutes were returned with animation from the opposite wharves and town hills.
At 1 o'clock upwards of 180 citizens and strangers sat down to an elegant dinner, and nearly double this number were regaled at different parts of the island. Among the strangers of distinction it gave us particular pleasure to notice James Scott, Esq. Col. Allen, Maj. Frazier, and Maj. Sargent, of Boston; Judge Wingate, Hon. John Prentice, Esq. Hon. Oliver Peabody, Esq. Maj. Cals, Maj. Graves and many others whom we do not recollect, whose distinguished urbanity and politeness, heightened the pleasures of the day, and embellished the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Some most excellent songs were sung with peculiar spirit and effect, and a series of sentimental toasts added to the felicities of the hour.
At a little past 4, His Excellency, returned to town in the same manner as he had left it: A federal salute announced his departure, and Capt. Sparhawk's company received him at landing, escorted him thro' the principal streets, and attended him to his lodgings, after which they were dismissed. Two Aboriginal Chiefs of the Eastern tribes were present on the island, and appeared to enter with spirit into the firings, evolutions of the military, &c.
Minutes relative to the building of the Congress.
Exactly 258 working days were employed in the building of this noble ship. The number of shipwrights never exceeded 100, and frequently did not average more than 60 per diem. The regular working hours were from sun to sun; One half hour being allowed for breakfast and 1 hour for dinner. Gentlemen from all parts of the continent have visited the yard, and acknowledged that they never witnessed such regularity, order, harmony and unity. The length of the Congress is 145 feet keel.—Breadth of beam 41 feet; depth from the upper deck 26 feet 7 inches; tonnage 1250 tons: she is destined to carry 36 18 pounders, but may easily carry 44 guns, or in fact be rendered equal to any 50 gun ship.—The inside and outside work of the Congress is pronounced vastly superior to any European ships, and equal to the very first file of American building. We pronounce her to be the Non Pareil.
Anticipated Seventy-Four. It is expected that when the Secretary of the Navy shall compare the estimates of building the Crescent, Scammel, Portsmouth and Congress, in point of expence, labor, materials and various works, with sums already paid for building vessels of the same size, model and tonnage in other ports; and examine the excellent workmanship of these ships; their neatness of
finishing and beauty of appearance, and discern every solid advantage in a clear saving of at least one third money and time, that he will expedite his orders to erect the keel of one of the 74s at this navy yard, and that the waves of Piscataqua will float another line of battle, besides the America.
CAPTAIN SEVER
Did himself great honor in the opinion of all maritime judges of naval property, for altho' he had a most excellent pilot on board (Capt. George Turner,) who alone was adequate to the task of mooring the ship in perfect safety, and who in fact was responsible for her good anchorage; nevertheless Capt. Sever never came over the sides until the frigate was totally secured, although he knew that his absence would be regretted at a table where every gentleman wished to participate in the pleasure of his company. If manliness of behaviour, goodness of heart and amiable manners insure success in obtaining men, Capt. Sever will soon receive his full complement. The sailing master is said to be a man of great knowledge in his peculiar department, and as thorough bred an officer as ever stepped between stem and stern.—We may expect the Congress to sail in 90 days.
Mr. SHEAFE, Naval Agent.
This gentleman's attentions have been unremitting to every needy supply, and the duties of his office executed with a precision and punctuality which has commanded admiration and applause. At the same moment that no ill timed parsimony on his part has retarded public service, he has been peculiarly attentive to the true interests of the continent.
Col. HACKETT,
May be accounted as one of the most experienced master builders in the Union. During the late revolutionary war he built for the United States, the following ships of war:
   Tons. Guns.     The Raleigh frigate, 750 32   The Portsmouth, 300 18   The Ranger, 300 18   The Bellona, 300 18   The America, 1700 74    And since the 25th of October, 1796, he has raised, finished and launched the following ships:     Tons. Guns.     The Crescent frigate, 600 36   The Scammel, revenue cutter, 130 14   The Portsmouth, 480 24   The Congress, 1250 36  
What naval Constructor can shew a nobler list? Whose workmanship will compare with Hackett's? Let government examine the bills and determine whose are cheapest. An experienced, tried, faithful servant merits constant employ.
Mr. William Deering,
Has displayed much taste and neatness in the execution of the carved work, which is finished in a very beautiful style of neat simplicity. It is only to be regretted that this gentleman's native abilities were not called into more powerful action, by proper encouragement, and the fanciful heads of the South would no longer take place of the more solid imagery of the North.
SECRETARY PICKERING.
The distinguished services which this profound and enlightened statesman has rendered his country, will be engraven in perpetuam rei memoriam on the tablet of public remembrance in present and future generations, and even "the Tyger, who crouches before he strikes his prey" will inscribe his name, as the scourge of Jacobins on some adamantine niche in his horrid den. We verily thought that Secretary Pickering could add nothing to the established dignity of his character, nor give more decided proofs of the love of country than those already exhibited.—But in this we acknowledge ourselves mistaken, for he has granted permission that a favorite son, just graduated at Cambridge, should enter on board the United States Navy, in the humble character of a common midshipman; and there wait that regular preference to a more exalted rank which merit alone can ensure. The example of so great a man must command followers of the highest grades in society, and it is with pleasure we add, that the Hon. Judge Dana's son, chief justice of Massachusetts, proposes to share naval destinies with young Mr. Pickering. We hope to see them both rise to supreme command, and that Admirals Pickering and Dana, will be as celebrated in story as Duncan and Nelson .
Capt. SPARHAWK's Company,
A few weeks since completed the 5th public appearance, in the present season. The march and counter-march, of Thursday was a voluntary offering to distinguished merit. It adds highly to the honor of this company that the promptest attentions are always paid by them to the first magistrate of a free people; and that they never omit any opportunity of shewing respect to the constituted authorities of their country. It is to be regretted
that so praiseworthy an example has not been generally followed, and that this one company usually appears, as all the militia of the capital of New-Hampshire, excepting a few commissioned officers, who seem to exist independent of companies or regiments.
NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Col. Hackett would feel himself ungrateful if he did not express his warmest acknowledgments to the very valuable shipwrights of Piscataqua, Maine, and the adjacent parts, who have so faithfully completed their tour of duty, in finishing the Congress. More especially Mr. Wm. Badger is entreated to accept his particular considerations, as master workman. It is true that those who generally serve for stipulated payments, do not expect private thanks; but there is a mode of executing work with that distinguished fidelity and attention which exceeds any given quantum of money; and in this ship it may be said that every workman has merited more than the allotted wages. Indeed there was an animating love of country and generous feeling for the insulted honor of America, which actually exceeded the usual love of reward, and operated as a continual incentive to industry, temperance, and unremitting toil.
For the GAZETTE.
MR. MELCHER, Some of your customers must have seen the indecent attack made against me, in the Boston papers, by a person by the name of WILLIAM LEE; I would inform them, that I intend to lay before them in a few days, the fullest evidence of what I have asserted in my Oration of the 17th of July, relative to French passports—viz. that "it is a well known fact, that a gentleman (by the name of LEE) arrived from France last summer with French passports, which he openly offered for sale"—Some have enquired who this WILLIAM LEE is? It is not the respectable gentleman of that name, of Marblehead: but a man who some few years ago came from Halifax, N. S. and flourished a little while in trade in Boston and failed; and as is said, went to France. Those who read his stupid address must perceive that he does not deny the fact of his having the passports, and offering them for sale: and this has been several times told him in Boston upon change, by Gentlemen to whom he offered them for sale—since he began his attack against me. He seems to lay an emphasis upon the words "openly offered for sale;" but if he offered them to twenty—or ten—or even one—is it not openly offering them for sale? Or is he so ignorant (for he is represented to be very ignorant) as to suppose because he did not offer them for sale at public auction—he did not openly offer them for sale? Some have said he has sold them, but this I do not assert; but if I prove he had them, it remains for him to show what he has done with them. Upon the whole, it will appear, that if he has not acted a very culpable, he has acted a most ridiculous part.
I am, &c. EDWARD ST. LOE LIVERMORE. Portsmouth, August 17, 1799.
On Thursday last died of a bilious fever, Mr. JOHN WENDELL, jr. merchant, eldest son of John Wendell, Esq. of this town, and his remains have been since deposited in the silent grave; attended by a very respectable number of relatives and sympathizing friends. He was in the 42d year of his age, he met the king of Terrors with great serenity and composure of mind, and expired without a sigh: He submitted to the sovereign dispensations of his GOD, well judging with respect to his Providences that "WHAT-EVER IS, IS RIGHT."
To embellish the character of this gentleman, with flattering language and soothing words, thereby to calm the emotions of his bereaved friends is not so agreeable, as only to say that his deportment was that of a gentleman, who was well respected in his life, and greatly lamented in his death: and that his greatest ambition was to sustain the character of an honest man, well knowing that "an honest man is the noblest work of GOD."
When all our golden days of joy are o'er, And we must part, on earth to meet no more, If Heav'n (in all its purposes most wise) The envied lot of longer life denies, If we must daily walk, in griefs sad train Of anxious sorrow and distressing pain, If strokes of death, repeated more must be, Then let us learn to welcome GOD's decree, Who can control it? Who the blow avert? When death hath struck his Poignard to the heart, Reluctless living! could'st thou no longer save A much lov'd Son! from entering his cold grave; But! mighty Monarchs must resign their Queens When thy dark curtains close the shifting scenes, Then, O Almighty, Sovereign, great, just, light
Teach us submission to thy celestial laws, Shew us the paths to thy divine abode, Of life, of light, of liberty and GOD, Then may we say to this terrific king In accents firm, O death where is thy sting: Thy reign is past—we shall no longer die, For now thou'st swallow'd up in Victory.
DIED]—At Moultonborough, Mrs. Polly Paine, aged 21, consort of Mr. John Paine, jr.
On board the sch. Amity of this port, Mr. Nathaniel Cotton, aged 23.
Marine Intelligence.
Arrived here the sch. Amity, Capt. S. Fernald, in 15 days from St. Thomas. Sailed in company with Captains Hooper and Keene, in vessels belonging to this port, with nearly 100 sail of other vessels, under convoy of the Norfolk and Retaliation.—This confirms the account of the re-capture of the Retaliation. Captain Fernald informs that the Norfolk, had captured a French sloop of 10 guns.
Left at St. Thomas' sch. Delight, of Kitty, Joseph Dennet, master, to sail in 6 days for New-York.—Aug. 8, in lat. 35, long. 68, spoke the sch'r Elenor, of Baltimore, Wm. Muchmore, master, out 8 days, all well—bound to Cape-Francis.
Arrived the brig Resolution, Capt. Keene, 17 days from St. Thomas, failed with the convoy.
The brig "Columbia, of Portsmouth," taken up as a deserted ship, and carried into Bermuda, has been libelled there, and the salvors allowed 60 per cent. for protecting and conducting her into port.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE BANK.
THE Stockholders in the New-Hampshire Bank are hereby notified, that a meeting of the Stockholders will be held at the Bank on Wednesday the 11th of September next, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
By order of the Directors, DANIEL R. ROGERS, Cashier. Portsmouth, August 19, 1799.
Attention the Whole!
MAKE READY! THE Subscriber intends to leave this Town in October next, he now calls upon all persons indebted to him either by bond, note, or book, to call and settle the same by the first of Oct. otherwise their obligations will be left in the hands of an Attorney for collection. All persons to whom he is indebted are desired to call and receive their dues.
The remainder of his stock on hand will be sold remarkably cheap for cash or good Lumber.
Cazneau Bayley.
Portsmouth, August 19.
DANCING SCHOOL
SECOND QUARTER to commence September 5th.
MR. MORRIS returns
his most grateful thanks to the parents who have favored him with the tuition of their children, and assures them, it has been the height of his ambition to give them every instruction in his power, that he shall feel himself extremely happy, if the progress the scholars have made in dancing should meet the approbation of both parents and scholars.
Mr. Morris respectfully informs the parents of the scholars that he shall be happy to receive them on Thursday afternoon the 5th of September at the Assembly-Room, to commence a new quarter, and assures them no pains on his part, shall be spared to give them every instruction in his power. New scholars will please to make application to Mr. Morris as soon as possible for admission, or leave their names in his absence at the Assembly-Room, and be sure to attend on the first day.
Evening School.
Mr. Morris's Evening School will begin on Tuesday evening the 3d of Sept. at the New-Hampshire Hotel. Those who wish to attend will please to leave their names with Mr. Walden, at the Hotel, before said time.
WANTED,
An extraordinary good new milch COW, for which a generous price will be given. Inquire of the printer. Aug. 20.
BARLEY.
A quantity of Barley wanted for which Cash and the highest price will be given if delivered within thirty days. Apply to MOSES WOODWARD, jr. Portsmouth, Aug. 20.
STOLEN from a small
close in Kennington, last night, a chestnut gelding HORSE, about ten years old, trots and paces, has a star in his forehead; whoever will take up said Horse and return him to the owner shall be handsomely rewarded, or for Horse and thief ten dollars reward. ENOCH WORTHEN. Kennington, August 10, 1799.
A STRAY HORSE with
one eye and white feet, came to the stable of the subscriber, keeping the tavern on Piscataqua bridge, a few days since, the owner is requested to take him away and pay charges. ANTHONY CHAPOUIL. August 19.

From the Kennebec Intelligencer. MR. EDES. The following lines were composed on leaving one place and going to another at a great distance.—Your publishing them will much oblige one of your constant readers.
A DIEU, my dearest friends, adieu Reluctantly I go from you, To some far distant clime: O'er billowy wastes I soon shall stray, In eastern worlds I take my way, And cross the waves sublime.
Adieu, my patrons of this town, Whose generous deeds deserve renown, Accept my grateful wish: May every blessing rest on you, Health, wealth and peace, and friendship too, And most consummate bliss.
Adieu to that society, Where we in greatest harmony Have long together been; Where Science and Philosophy Disclos'd proud nature's mystery, And her dark works did scan.
To you, companions of my age, Who tread with me the world's wide stage, I wish prosperity, Tho' we shall live in diff'rent parts, Let friendship still unite our hearts In sweetest harmony.
Must I perform th' unpleasant task, To bid adieu to that fair clasp Whose presence gives delight; Whose soothing charms the mind refines, Makes vice flee too; then virtue reigns Triumphant in the heart.
'Tis with reluctance of heart From you, my dearest friends, I part, And lose your company; May some kind angel lead my way, Where e'er I rove, that still I may Find good society. Winthrop, June 1799.
CROSS READINGS.
A person lately reading the Gazette directly across the columns, the following curious combinations occurred:
THE Archduke Charles and General Suwarow run mad and bit two Cows of Deacon Nye.
The French Directory and two Councils received the degree of Doctors of Divinity.
Runaway on the 25th inst. the Breff fleet consisting of 25 sail.
The army of Buonaparte, of 40,000 men, died yesterday very suddenly of an apoplexy.
Some invisible power is stirring up the Indians to fire a grand federal salute.
The French army will give no quarter to Rum, Brandy, Arrac, Whiskey, and other Spirits.
In France every principle of justice and equity will be sold cheap for cash.
The French accounts are favorable to the Republic. N. B. The above are entitled to a draught.
The Breff fleet was seen going into the upper part of Hampshire county.
The violent thunder-gust of Monday last was set on foot by French emissaries in this country.
General Buonaparte has put in requisition four trunks of sprigged and tamboured muslins.
We hear that the Jacobinic Matthew Lyon may be seen every day in the week, Sundays excepted.
July 7th the partnership was dissolved between the United States and the regicide republic.
The justice and honour of the French Republic will be sold to the highest bidder, without reserve.
Jean Debry, after being wounded, escaped; one Cent is offered to whoever shall apprehend him.
Jean Debry received thirty wounds from a sabre—a physician being present prescribed a copious bleeding.
Neil M'Intire
HAS FOR SALE, A quantity of excellent sweet scented VIRGINIA Tobacco by the Hoghead; Cordage of different sizes very good; Cotton pr. bag or pocket.
Old Rum of a fine flavor, by hoghead or barrel; barrels Beef in very good order; 20,000 Segars.
Tobacco of all sorts by retail as usual. Portsmouth, August 5, 1799.
Samuel Hill
HAS JUST RECEIVED A few Whole and Half Chests Fresh Bohea Tea,
It being a consignment will be sold very cheap.
Also may be bought of him, A few hhds. good retailing MOLASSES; a number bbls. excellent SUGAR; ten hhds. W. I. RUM; N. E. ditto; old Madeira WINE, in whole, half and quarter Pipes, and other GOODS as usual.
Portsmouth, August 6, 1799.
NOTICE.
Office of Inspection, Portsmouth, August 1st, 1799.
The owners of Carriages
for conveyance of Persons, and retailers of Wines, and Foreign distilled Spirituous Liquors, in the First division of the District of New-Hampshire, are notified, that the Collector will attend at the following times and places, to receive entries and duties on Carriages, and to receive applications and grant licenses to Retailers, to wit: At Exeter at Mr. Hutchins's tavern on Saturday the 7th, and in the forenoon of Monday the 9th day of September next; at Chester at Deacon Dearborn's tavern on Tuesday the 10th of the same instant; at Londonderry at Doctor Thom's tavern on Wednesday the 11th of the same instant; at Concord at Mr. Stickney's tavern on Friday the 13th of the same instant; at Epsom at Mr. M'Clary's tavern on Saturday the 14th of the same instant at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and at Nottingham at Mr. Butler's tavern at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day.
Attendance for the
like purposes will be given at the subscriber's office, as usual, till the 31st day of December next. But the owners of carriages are reminded, that the time limited by law for the annual entries of carriages expires annually in the month of September.
Samuel Elliot,
Collector of Revenue.
TAKE NOTICE!
WE the subscribers hereby give notice, that on the 8th day of January last past, did then sign a note of hand, payable to one John M'Millen, of Fryburg, in the county of York and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the sum of one hundred dollars, for which note we never received one farthing consideration. Therefore we caution and forbid all persons from purchasing the same, as we are determined never to pay one cent for said note. STEPHEN BURBANK, EBEN R. BURBANK. Conway, July 29, 1799.
FOR SALE, A very handsome, well finished Fall-Back CHAISE on very moderate terms.—Apply to G. DOIG.
An Apprentice wanted at the Painting and Gilding business.—Apply as above.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in New-London, who have not paid their State, Highway and County taxes for the year 1798, 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 Capt. John Woodman, in said town, on the first day of October next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. unless prevented by previous payment.
No. State. Highway. County. Lots of land taken off Keafarge Gore 19 10 38 3 off Keafarge Gore 20 10 38 3 and annexed to New-London 22 10 38 3 the pro- prietors to us un- 25 10 38 3 known. 21 10 38 3
LEVI EVERETT, Collector. New-London, July 16, 1799.
JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE By J. Melcher, At his Printing-office & Book-store, corner of Market and Congress-Streets;
SHEATHING Paper.
Writing Paper, of all prices, from 12 1/2 to 60 1/2 pr. ream. Printing Paper of every size and price. Cannon and Musket Cartridge Paper. Log Book Paper. Stout Wrapping Paper. Ink Powder, warranted of the first quality.
Wafers pr. lb. or box.
Trunks of all sizes and prices.
Spelling Books of all kinds.
Account Books, made of good paper.
Playing Cards.
Morse's Geography.
Webster's 2d and 3d parts.
Plasters.
Bibles of various prices.
Testaments.
Spelling Books of all kinds.
Children's picture books of all sizes, pr. gross, dozen, or single.
With a general assortment of School-Books and Stationary, and a large collection of other books, too tedious to enumerate in an advertisement, may be had at the above place on the lowest terms.
Printing executed expeditiously on very moderate terms, and Blanks of every kind kept for sale as usual.
Edward J. Long Has for sale at his Store in Market-Street, A general assortment of West-India Goods and GROCERIES, Which will be sold very cheap for Cash; —VIZ.—
OLD Coniac Brandy
at 16 1/2 per gallon; Bourdeaux Brandy, very good flavoured.
W. I. Rum; Holland Gin; Aux-Cays Molasses; Sherry, Lisbon, Redport and Malaga WINES.
Hyson, Souchong and Bohea TEAS.
Philadelphia Loaf SUGAR, East and West-India SUGARS.
Superfine FLOUR pr. barrel or retail; Oatmeal; Poland Starch; Rice.
Coffee; Sweetser's No 1 & 2 Chocolate; 12 casks fresh Raisins, excellent box ditto; Figs; Currants; Mustard per pound and bottles; Almonds; Cloves; Mace; Cinnamon; Cassia; Nutmegs; Ginger; Pepper; Allspice; Cayenne in bottles; double refined Salt Petre; Soap; mould and dipt Candles; Table Salt in baskets.
Sweet Oil; Spanish Indigo; Gun-Powder; Tobacco; Snuff; Rock Salt; Chalk; Tumblers; Wine Glasses; Writing Paper per Ream, Wrapping do; Window Glass per box; Bar Iron; Gin Casks; Logwood; Copperas; and many other articles in the grocery line, which will be sold as cheap as can be purchased in this town. Portsmouth, July 12, 1799.
MEDICAL.
AT the Theatre in Dartmouth College, the MEDICAL LECTURES commence the 1st of October; ON ANATOMY and SURGERY.
CHEMISTRY and MATERIA MEDICA.
AND THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PHYSIC. [60.]
TAKE NOTICE!
Whereas the late Partnership of Leigh & Bowles HAS been dissolved for upwards of twelve months, and a number of accounts still remains unadjusted, notwithstanding every pains has been taken to settle the same. Notice is hereby given, that all accounts that remain unsettled after the 1st of September next ensuing, will be put into an Attorney's hands.—Constant attendance given for settlement at the store of the subscriber in High-Street.
WILLIAM LEIGH.
Portsmouth, July 29, '99.
Good Chance for a Printer.
TO BE SOLD on reasonable terms, If applied for immediately, A PRINTING OFFICE, CONSISTING of a sufficiency of Types for printing Books or Newspaper, with a handsome building, and every apparatus necessary for a newspaper, situated near the centre of this State, where upwards of 600 papers are printed weekly.—For further information apply to the printer hereof. July 30.
TO BE SOLD, A VALUABLE LOT OF LAND IN EPSOM, of about 150 acres, which has good white pine TIMBER to make upwards of five hundred thousand of boards. Inquire of the printer. Portsmouth, July 27, 1799.
Hiram Lebunstone, HAS FOR SALE, At his Store in Buck-Street (opposite Captain Martin Parry's dwelling-house), A general assortment of W. I. Goods & Groceries, Which will be sold cheap for cash or Country produce. He is in hourly expectation of receiving A very extensive assortment of English Dry Goods.
N. B. Cash, or part cash, and any of the above Goods, will be given in payment for Pot and Pearl Ashes, Cheese, Butter, Flax Seed, &c. &c.
Said LEBUNSTONE being well acquainted with the European Markets, offers his services to the Public in the line of Commission & Brokerage, He will buy Good Notes, &c. at a reasonable Discount—Honor and Secrecy will be strictly observed, by him, and may be depended on by all who choose to deal with him. Portsmouth, July 11.
State of New-Hampshire.
County of Rockingham.
WHEREAS, a township was granted by the name of Thornton, to Matthew Thornton, Esq., and others, on the sixth day of July, 1763, by Benning Wentworth, Esq., when he was Governor of New-Hampshire, and at a legal meeting of the proprietors thereof held on the 19th day of March, 1798; a tax of four dollars on each original share was granted to be laid out in clearing roads in said town, and the assessors hath made out a list and committed it to me the subscriber, living in Hampstead, in said county to collect.—I do therefore hereby give notice to the owners of said rights in said township, under the said grant, that the said taxes be paid to me by the 23rd day of September next, otherwise so much of each original right as shall then be delinquent in paying such tax, will be advertised for sale as will pay such tax with incidental charges, as the law directs.
The names of the proprietors are as follows:
Matthew Thornton, Thomas Gregg, William Wallace, Thomas Campbell, John Doak, John Campbell, Robert M'Neil, John M'Cartney, John Moore, John Alexander, John Gilmore, John Wilson, James Gilmore, James Doak, Thomas Christy, Jesse Christy, Andrew Jack, Robert Gilmore, John M'Lean, Nathaniel Morrison, Samuel Morrison, John Taggart, Joseph Morrison, James Taggart, James Cocran, James Alexander, David Anderson, John Swan, Alexander Walker, William M'Nea, Matthew Clark, Joseph Caldwell, Thomas Morrison, Patrick White, Jonathan Gilmore, Fitch Pool, Samuel Steel, William Taylor, Robert Clinidin, Thomas Walley, Andrew Clinidin, Isaac Thomas, David Clinidin, Hugh Gillice, Archibald Clinidin, Richard Wier, Andr. Clinidin, jr., Benjamin Davis, Samuel Allison, William Allis, David Steel, William Howard, David Craige, Hon. John Temple, Hugh Ramsey, Theodore Atkinson, Hugh Montgomery, M. H. Wentworth, David Montgomery, Theo. Atkinson, jr., John M'Clench, Col. Joseph Smith, Samuel Gregg, Joseph Blanchard Esq., Nathaniel Holmes, and Col. John Goffe.
His Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq., two shares—the society for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts, one share—one share for a glebe for the Church of England, as by law established—one share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel—and one share for the benefit of a school in said town forever.
JOHN HOGG, Proprietors Collector. Hampstead, July 27, 1799.
To Ebenezer Thompson, Esq., one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the State of New-Hampshire.
THE subscribers owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Kilkenny, in the county of Grafton in said State, request that you notify and warn the proprietors and owners of said township, to meet at the dwelling house of John Greenleaf, in Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham, on Wednesday the 30th day of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to vote and act on the following particulars, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator, proprietors clerk, a treasurer, assessors, and a collector.
2d. To see what method the proprietors will take relative to preambulating the lines of said town, and to divide the same into lots.
3d. To see what encouragement the proprietors will give in land or money towards getting on settlers—and to adopt some mode to effect so necessary a purpose.
4th. To see what method the proprietors will adopt relative to cutting and clearing a road or roads in and through said town.
5th. To see if the proprietors will sever and divide the land in said town among the proprietors or owners, or dispose of all or part of the land in such way and manner as they shall think fit.
6th. To see what sums of money the proprietors will raise.
7th. To agree on a method of calling meetings of said proprietors in future.
8th. To see if the proprietors will grant a compensation to those proprietors who shall attend said meeting, and also to those who shall attend future meetings.
SAMUEL SHERBURNE, WILLIAM BALLARD, THOMAS PINKHAM. Durham, August 9, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire.
Durham, August 9, 1799.
Agreeably to the foregoing request, I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors and owners of land in the said township of Kilkenny, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes therein mentioned.
EBENEZER THOMPSON, Justice of the Peace throughout the State.
Treasury Department,
March 11th, 1799.
Public notice is hereby given, Pursuant to the Act of Congress, passed on the first day of June, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-six, entitled, "An Act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen;" and the Act supplementary to the said recited Act passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine—to wit:
THAT the tract of Land herein after described, namely, "beginning at the North West corner of the seven ranges of townships, and running thence fifty miles due south, along the western boundary of the said ranges; thence due west to the Main Branch of the Scioto river; thence up the Main Branch of the said river to the place where the Indian boundary line crosses the same; thence along the said boundary line to the Tuscarora branch of the Mufkingum river at the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; thence down the said river, to the point where a line run due west from the place of beginning, will intersect the said river; thence along the line so run to the place of beginning;" has been divided into townships of five miles square, and fractional parts of townships; and that plats and surveys of the said townships and fractional parts of townships are deposited in the offices of the Register of the Treasury and Surveyor General, for the inspection of all persons concerned.
The holders of such warrants as have been or shall be granted for military services performed during the late war, are required to present the same to the Register of the Treasury, at some time prior to the twelfth day of February, in the year, one thousand eight hundred, for the purpose of being registered; No registry will however be made of any less quantity than a quarter township, or four thousand acres.
The priority of location of the warrants which may be presented and registered in manner aforesaid, prior to the twelfth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred, will immediately after the said day, be determined by lot, in the mode prescribed by the act first recited.
The holders of registered warrants, shall on Monday the 17th day of February, in the year 1800, in the order in which the priority of location shall be determined by lot as aforesaid, personally or by their agents, designate in writing at the office of the Register of the Treasury, the particular quarter townships elected by them respectively, and such of the said holders as shall not designate their locations on the said day, shall be postponed in locating such warrants to all other holders of registered warrants.
The holders of warrants for military services sufficient to cover one or more quarter townships or tracts of four thousand acres each; shall at any time after Monday the 17th day of February, 1800, and prior to the first day of January, 1802, be allowed to register the said warrants in manner aforesaid, and forthwith to make locations therefor on any tract or tracts of land not before located.
All warrants or claims for lands on account of military services, which shall not be registered and located before the first day of January, 1802, are by the supplementary act of Congress herein before recited, passed on the second day of March, 1799, declared to be forever barred.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
One Cent Reward.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber on the 4th June, an apprentice boy named JONATHAN WILLEY, about eighteen years old.—All persons are cautioned against harbouring, trusting or employing said runaway, as they would avoid cost and trouble; any person returning said boy shall receive the above reward and no charges paid. By SAM'L PLUMER, jr. Epping, June 6, 1799.
William Stanwood, jr.
Market-Street, next door to the printing office
HAS JUST RECEIVED By the Latest Arrivals
A GREAT variety of Summer and other GOODS, which he now offers for sale at a very low advance for cash or short credit. The smallest favors will be gratefully received, and every attention paid.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for the New-Hampshire Gazette are thankfully received by the Editor at his Office corner of Market and Congress Streets Portsmouth, at only one dollar and a half pr. annum, one quarter down, or the whole at the close of the year, as shall be most agreeable to subscribers, and payment made easy to those who live in the country, as they may make payment in produce any time before the close of the year.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted conspicuously on the most reasonable terms in the GAZETTE. To those who wish their advertisements to receive general perusal, this paper is particularly advantageous, as it has by far the most extensive circulation, not only throughout this State, but in every State in the Union, of any paper printed in New-Hampshire.