The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1803-08-02 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
"By adopting REPUBLICANISM for our Polar Star, we shall endear to our countrymen the true principles of their Constitution, and promote an union of sentiment and of action, equally auspicious to their happiness and safety."
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. & W. PEARCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Benja. Hill,
East end of the State-House, has just received and For Sale, a general assortment of IRON and STEEL,
CONSISTING OF Russia, Old Sable, Swedes & Philadelphia, in large, small, flat and square bars. Also,
Hart, Club, & Hafen-clever STEEL, by a large or small quantity.
A complete assortment of IRON HOLLOW WARE. A quantity of POLLOCK FISH, Smoak'd HERRING. Best Fig TOBACCO, by the cask or less quantity. Together with a large assortment of West-India Goods & Groceries.
Also, Wheat, Corn, Rye, Bacon, Pork, Butter, Beans, &c. &c. with many other articles—All of which will be sold cheap for cash, or approved credit.
Portsmouth, July 26, 1803. Fifty likely MULES, For Sale by PHINEAS PARKHURST —apply to JOSEPH ELA, on Portsmouth Pier. Lebanon, July 21, 1803.
Henry Ladd
HAS FOR SALE, 100 pieces fine India Cottons; 80 pieces Bandannoes; 40 pieces Lungee Romauls; and a few boxes Havanna Sugars, the above will be sold at reduced prices, also for sale 200 bbls. Richmond Fine and Superfine FLOUR. Portsmouth, July 19, 1803.
Z. Robinson & Co.
At the head of the Pier, Have now ready for Sale, a very large and complete assortment of Crocery, Glasf & China Ware, In crates, assorted principally for Country Traders.
CRATES of Blue & White fancy WARE, assorted, do. Blue & Green edg'd assorted. do. Enamel'd, under glass'd, do. do. Printed and Penciled, do. 40 Crates Cream coloured, do. Hhd's. Enamel'd & Fluted Ware do. Boxes Glasf Ware, assorted. do. Tumblers. do. Decanters. do. Wine Glasses. do. Mugs. Dutch Liquor Cafes. China in boxes, assorted. do. Tea Sets, in single boxes.
* All the above Goods will be sold for cash or approved credit, as low as can be purchased in Boston, and any assortment of the above Goods, if desired, will be repacked to suit the purchasers.
—ALSO— Few hhd's. Molasses. 12 hhd's. Rum. Portsmouth, July 17, 1803.
PROPOSALS
For Publishing by Subscription, A New System of GEOGRAPHY, ANCIENT and MODERN. By J. TYTLER, Compiler of the Treatises of Astronomy and Geography in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
CONDITIONS.
I. The work will consist of three close and large octavo Volumes, with a Folio Atlas, containing Maps and Sea-Charts of America, and of the World. It will be printed on fine paper and new type. Great care will be taken to have the Maps and Sea-Charts correct, well engraved, and on good paper. II. It will be delivered to subscribers, neatly bound and lettered, at Nine Dollars. No money to be paid till the delivery of the Work. III. It will be put to press as soon as the subscription of 500 copies is obtained. IV. Gentlemen desirous of promoting the circulation of a work highly instructive to every American, who is or may be in a situation to contribute to the advancement of useful knowledge in his country, may obtain one copy gratis, by procuring and accounting for the subscription of six, and by lending their names as soon as possible to N. S. & W. PEARCE'S Book-Store Congress Street, Portsmouth, N. H.
LIST OF PRIZES
In the 3d. Class of South Hadley Canal Lottery, is received by C. PEARCE, —Adventurers are requested to call and remove their prize-money. July 26.
New GROCERY Store, and Wine Cellar.
Thomas Morton, HAS opened in the large New Store lately erected, fronting on Congress and Vaughan-streets, two doors from the corner, about twenty rods west of the Court-House, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF West-India Goods and GROCERIES,
of the first quality, amongst which are Madeira, Red Port,—long Cork'd Claret, do. in casks, Sherry, Lisbon, Frontinac, and Malaga Real Cogniac, & Barrel na 4th proof BRAN-DY; West-India RUM; New-England do. Holland's GIN, American do. Bbls. Anns; London & American PORTER, Strong Beer, Vinegar, &c. Hylon, Young Hylon, Skin, Souchong and Bohea Teas, warranted to be of the first quality; Excellent Molasses, Leaf, Lump, India & Brown SUGARS, Box & Cask Raisins, Fruits Figs, Fresh Rice, bbls. and half bbls. Super-fine FLOUR, Chocolate, Chocolate Shells, Coffee, Oatmeal. Scythes, Iron Shovels, Iron Ware, together with many other articles, all of which will be sold very low for cash only, at wholesale or retail, where the Public will find attendance from sunrise until 9 o'clock in the evening, and favors thankfully received. Any articles recommended, that should prove otherwise, will be taken back, and the money returned if desired. Portsmouth, July 5, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
GRAFTON, ff. To the Honorable CHARLES JOHNSTON, Esq. Judge of the Court for the Probate of Wills, &c. in and for said county of Grafton.
HUMBLY SHEWS—STEPHEN HOUGHTON,
of Bethlehem, in said county, mill-wright, that Nathaniel Whitaker, late of said Bethlehem, physician, hath lately deceased, leaving real and personal estate in said county—that said Whitaker hath no relation or kindred in the State of New-Hampshire, to administer said estate—that said Whitaker, at the time of his decease, was largely indebted to your petitioner: wherefore he prays your Honor to grant him letters of administration on the estate of said deceased: And your petitioner in duty bound, prays, &c. STEPHEN HOUGHTON. July 13, 1803. Grafton, ff. At a Probate Court held at Haverhill, in said county of Grafton, on the thirteenth day of July, 1803. Present, the Honorable Charles Johnston, Esq. Judge of said Court. UPON reading and considering the foregoing petition, ordered that the petitioner be heard thereon at said Haverhill, on the last Tuesday of September next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, and that said petitioner cause the substance of said petition and this order, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, printed at Portsmouth, the last publication whereof to be six weeks previous to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then and there appear, and shew cause (if any there be) wherefore the prayer of said petition ought not to be granted. Attest, MOSES DOW, Reg. Probate. Copy examined—Attest, MOSES DOW, Reg. Probate.
DR. BRACKETT,
HAS received some of the true KINE POCK MATTER, with which he will inoculate. Portsmouth, July 26, 1803.
For the N. H. GAZETTE. HONORIUS to PATRICIUS.
IT is much to be regretted, that there are many of our citizens who, though they may well to their country, yet pay little or no attention to its affairs. They profess well to the form of government under which they live, but neglect the maintenance of that political information which as citizens it becomes them to possess. Though members of the community, and enjoying, in common with all, the advantages it bestows, they lend it not their aid by the right improvement of the powers they have received from nature, as rational beings, and as parts of the political body, all the members of which should act in unison for its health and prosperity. Active Patriots, in exerting themselves for the public good, do thereby secure to many unprofitable beings their civil and domestic felicity, for the preservation of which they do not, in the affairs of their country, contribute so much as their votes. Is not this injustice to society? Is it not a shameful and criminal omission of duty? For, the greater the number who lend a helping hand to promote the common weal, the firmer will it be established, and the less influence will its enemies have to its detriment; whose power to do mischief is in proportion to the number of inactive and unprofitable Citizens, who stand condemned, not, like its opposers, for what they have done, but for what they have not done. Let such consider, it is possible the community may suffer in future, through their neglect of the duties they owe it. Their ungenerous example may influence others, whereby the number of inactive Citizens may be enlarged, and the opposition of the enemies of our government may, in consequence thereof, attain a formidable appearance, if not endanger its stability. And how highly criminal must they then become in their own eyes, when they shall have to reflect that their idleness and neglect of duty has given a fatal advantage to our enemies, and when they shall themselves feel its evil effects, both in their persons and families! The weaker the mounds against the flood, the sooner will it rush through its bounds. Let such Citizens regard a seasonable warning, lest their Country and their dearest interests suffer through their neglects. Let them no longer sustain the disgraceful character of unprofitable members of the community, and dead weights to society. It is not enough that we do no harm, or barely pay our taxes; it is required that we do all the good in our power. As it is a Gospel law, that he that will not work shall not eat; The results, before they are aware, may find it equally true, that by neglecting to do their part for the public good, they have lost the blessings they once enjoyed. The disposition which causes our neglect of the duties of Citizens, will sooner or later effect mischiefs personal and domestic. It is a mean selfish disposition, which seeks only its own private ease and emolument. It is therefore highly vicious, and must eventually produce both public and private evils—unless timely eradicated by the force of reason and a sense of duty—unless subdued by the commanding persuasives of patriotism, benevolence and humanity. The time will most certainly be found, when those who shall persist in such neglects, will become their own accusers for the omission of those duties, which the bestower of their talents put it in their power to perform. Such may well be alarmed at the doom of the unprofitable servant, recorded in sacred writ. He is not a member of the community, who has it not more or less in his power to serve its interests; and woe to him that hides his talent in a napkin! Who, regarding the calls of his Country, basely inarks from the duties of a Citizen! And highly aggravated will be his guilt in a Country like this. He is ungrateful both to GOD and Man—and though there is no human law for the punishment of ingratitude, there is a Divine Law—and its sentence will assuredly reach the guilty.
AMERICAN FARMERS,—ATTEND.
A letter from the Rev. Dr. Peters, of London to the owners and keepers of Sheep in the United States of America. GENTLEMEN,
Formerly I lived among you and kept sheep; but could not keep them clean of ticks, enemies of the comfort and health of sheep, and also destroyers of wool and its growth.
Most certainly this inconvenience rested in my ignorance of the efficacious method used in Europe, to prevent or destroy those noxious insects which are pernicious and mortal to sheep.
It is evident that the climates, food and waters of America are as salubrious to sheep and their wool, as the climates, food and waters of Spain, France, England or any part of Europe; yet your sheep in America are not so large and heavy, and their wool is not so long and fine as in Spain, France and England. This difference is artificial, and by no means natural: as I will endeavour to prove, by the wisdom, experience and care of shepherds in Europe.
1. The shepherds of France and England, take special care to give their sheep plenty of food, both in winter & summer, that they may never be struck with poverty.
2. They prevent their sheep taking colds, (which stop the mucous matter slavered through the nostrils, and brings on the Pox, a mortal disease by a shelter that keeps off the snow and rain during the severity of the winter, and leaving the sides and ends of the shelter open to the winds necessary to moderate the heat natural to sheep, which resist all cold wind, but cannot endure humidity.
3. They at all times keep their sheep clean of ticks, which are generated by poverty, dirt, colds, damps and ill health.
I have said, poverty is kept off by a plenty of food: dirt and colds are kept off by circulating air, under a cover which shelters them from dews and rains in winter—and they keep them clean of ticks by means of an ointment, (which I shall describe) they rub on in October annually in the following manner, and for this reason the shepherds call October, the salving month. To save a sheep; the shepherd parts the wool with his fingers on the back bone, from the head to the end of the tail, then with two fingers rub the ointment plentifully on the skin or flesh, so that the ointment may spread by heat of the body a 3 or 4 inches down each side from the ridge-bone. The shepherd then parts the wool as before, two or three inches from the ridge bone, and runs the ointment as before in such abundance, as it will spread two or three inches downwards, then continue the same method all round the sheep. The shepherd will save a score of sheep in one day, and the ointment will kill and destroy all ticks, cure and prevent the scab, soften and supple the skin, promote the growth and increase the quantity of the wool. The sheep being freed of ticks will be quiet, comfortable and healthy, whether fat or lean, and whether with a large fleece or an short. The expense and trouble is too small to be mentioned, when compared to the profit, advantage and humanity of the action. Thus to ameliorate the condition of the sheep in America will increase their numbers, and the fineness and quantity of wool, and thereby enable the inhabitants to supply their wants without the help of Europe. Considering the disadvantageous commerce now going on between America and Europe, and seeing how easy it is for America to be better her condition by taking proper care of its flocks of sheep and their wool, I have persuaded myself to believe that this communication will merit and secure the attention of all Americans between Panama and Greenland.
** Tofts given on the 4th of July last.
The renewal of the war between France and Great Britain, will be productive of new and great events, to the fulfilment of the designs of Providence in this age of wonders. The cloud, which has its dark and gloomy side towards the European world, presents its bright side to the AMERICAN. The events of Louisiana, have been highly propitious to our Country, and reflect the brightest splendor on our beloved PRESIDENT. The Administrators of our Government, with LIVINGSTON and MUNROE, will be remembered for the wise and patriotic parts they have acted, with esteem, love and veneration to the latest date of time. The Councils of our Nation have defeated the designs of the factious to involve us in the distressing calamities of war. The lovers and preservors of peace will feel themselves sublimely blest in the approbation of Heaven, and the plaudits of the good of all Countries. The evils which arose from the British Treaty will, in a short time, be wholly done away, and the neutrality maintained by the United States, will array them with the most brilliant lustre through the great advantages they will derive from thence, and the high respect and admiration of the surrounding nations, for the prudent and philanthropic measures they have adopted, and which they will invariably pursue. Our present happy and dignified station in the world, and the fair prospects before us of increasing glory and felicity, must afford to every true American the most exalted pleasure; must inspire EVERY CITIZEN with the warmest zeal, and to the most cheerful and vigorous exertions for the general good. The insensible, indifferent and inactive Citizens, must be considered as undeserving of the least of the inestimable blessings of the only Republican, the only generous Government in the world, the sole Country in which Liberty reigns triumphant, and, like the luminary of Heaven, diffuses its favours far and wide, even upon the evil & unthankful. HONORIUS.
THE pieces signed HONORIUS, are Extracts from the Epistolary Correspondence on the Republican System of Government.—Several Letters of the Correspondence, contain a defence of Mr. JEFFERSON, against the slanderous aspersions of his enemies, and his character, drawn by an anonymous but masterly pen—both of which ought to be in the possession of every American, and estimated as an invaluable treasure. If those, who are still prejudiced against our PRESIDENT, were to read the Defence and Character with attention, it seems impossible but that every prejudice must be immediately succeeded by the highest esteem and veneration for a man so amiable, a character so illustrious. As for the men who are decidedly his enemies, from those principles of political opposition, which render them inimical to every thing virtuous and praiseworthy—no power can be expected to effect a change in their sentiments, but what is equal to a new creation—Their enmity to Liberty, Republicanism, and to JEFFERSON, is inherent, inexorable.
may spread by heat of the body a 3 or 4 inches down each side from the ridge-bone. The shepherd then parts the wool as before, two or three inches from the ridge bone, and runs the ointment as before in such abundance, as it will spread two or three inches downwards, then continue the same method all round the sheep. The shepherd will save a score of sheep in one day, and the ointment will kill and destroy all ticks, cure and prevent the scab, soften and supple the skin, promote the growth and increase the quantity of the wool. The sheep being freed of ticks will be quiet, comfortable and healthy, whether fat or lean, and whether with a large fleece or an short. The expense and trouble is too small to be mentioned, when compared to the profit, advantage and humanity of the action. Thus to ameliorate the condition of the sheep in America will increase their numbers, and the fineness and quantity of wool, and thereby enable the inhabitants to supply their wants without the help of Europe. Considering the disadvantageous commerce now going on between America and Europe, and seeing how easy it is for America to be better her condition by taking proper care of its flocks of sheep and their wool, I have persuaded myself to believe that this communication will merit and secure the attention of all Americans between Panama and Greenland.
RECEIPT.
The mode of making the ointment to destroy ticks on sheep: viz. Take one gallon of tar, put it into an iron kettle, over a slow fire, until rendered liquid; then having eight pounds of salt butter liquidated in another kettle, pour it gently into the tar-kettle stirring them well together, leaving the salt of the butter, at the bottom, then increase the fire, and make the tar and butter boil together, stirring them all the time; after boiling, pour it into any dish to cool. The next morning the ointment will be of a proper consistence, and fit for use.
N. B. The next day after washing the sheep, they are shorn, and no ticks will appear until the wool becomes in October, and incommoded by summer damps and ill health, which are removed by a new salving. One observation more seems necessary respecting the marine & nitrous salts which are abundant in Spain and England when compared with the lakes and interior parts of America. Sheep and cattle in Spain and England will not lick salt because the air which they breathe supplies them with all necessary salts; but it is exactly the contrary at the lakes, and in the interior part of America therefore shepherds must supply their sheep weekly with marine salt, or they will lose their teeth, appetite and wool, consequently their health and lives.
To ameliorate your sheep and wool in America this article must be strictly attended to.
To the Editors of New-papers in New York, I hope you will have the goodness to give this letter a place in your extensive papers, and desire all others in the United States to print it in their papers, that every shepherd and planter may reap the benefits pointed out which to me appear of no little utility to the citizens of America, many of whom may be yet as ignorant of this puissant cure of ticks on sheep as I myself formerly was.
Should I do any good to my native country, I shall be amply paid, and remain with gratitude to you and all coadjutors. Yours and their very humble servant, SAMUEL PETERS. London, April 18, 1803.
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman in Paris, dated May 15, 1803.
As a political friend without a personal knowledge of Mr. Munroe, I loved him for his republican virtues, and admired his talents, at all times so transcendentally useful to our beloved and incomparable country. Happy, indeed, is it, for the present and future generations, that the most inveterate hatred and calumny of our political foes could not damp his patriotism, nor deprive us of his great talents. Ere this comes to hand, you will doubtless have heard, with what a wonderful rapidity he hath gloriously executed, what our magnanimous, truly virtuous and ever to be revered President had conceived, & in less time than a farm could be contracted for, a most glorious treaty was negotiated; by which, not only all contemplated natural and political advantages are obtained, in absolute sovereignty, but a vast and incalculable territory added to the only land of freedom and real political happiness. And thus is the sanctuary of liberty an asylum of the oppressed from all countries, enlarged beyond our most sanguine expectations.
The purchase of Louisiana confounds the federal party. They did not expect success; they ridiculed the measure, yet acknowledged the country was worth a treasure; and now it is our own, what will the opposition say next? They cannot oppose the purchase—they must approve of it at bottom. What will they do? We advise them to be silent, and "say nothing about it."

From the Aurora.
(No. I.)
Considerations in favor of our seaport towns, and of the Eastern and Northern States, arising out of the purchase of Louisiana.
It has long been obvious to every judicious merchant and commercial politician, that the coasting business of the United States is the most sure and the most valuable branch of our carrying trade, because foreign restrictions cannot affect it. New Orleans may be considered as a modern Alexandria, at the mouth of our American Nile. It is intimately connected with the American Archipelago (the gulf of Mexico) and its neighboring islands and bays, and it must become a vast place of exchange and deposit for foreign goods and for the productions and manufactures of America. The carriage of American and foreign merchandise between our gulf ports and those of the Atlantic states, will appear, in the current year, to be a great and highly valuable branch of our trade. It will immensely and rapidly increase, and it will ultimately become, (in regard to the coasting tonnage it will employ) very far superior to that of any other American port. The cultivated parts of all the West India islands are not, at this moment, equal in acres to the quantity of land we acquire, which is capable of producing West India produce. Sugar, coffee, cocoa, rice, pimento, molasses, cane juice spirit or rum, cotton, indigo, gums, turmeric, saffron, rhubarb, ginger, probably tea, and in general most of the precious articles of produce, which the West India islands do or can yield, may be raised on a number of tracts of land, within the limits of Louisiana, which are equal in size to all the settled plantations of the West Indies, now in actual cultivation for the same articles. There can be no doubt that these Louisiana plantations, many of which have been cleared by the French, by the Spaniards, by the Americans, and by English, Irish, and Scotch people settled there at various times, will be able immediately to produce large quantities of the articles mentioned. These they will sell to our Atlantic merchants, and ship owners who will be able to bring them free of duty and free of war insurance, to every port in the Eastern, Northern and other Atlantic states. The acquisition of half a dozen islands like Porto Rico would not be so greatly and certainly beneficial to our American merchants. The people of those rich Louisiana plantations will be too busy with their sugars, their coffee, their molasses, &c. to concern themselves with the catching of fish, the making of spermaceti, liver and fish oils and candles, ship building, wood cutting and those branches of manufacture, which have arisen and will arise in the Eastern, Northern, and Atlantic ports and countries. Hence our ship owners, mariners, manufacturers and mechanics will derive great and constant advantages from this new acquisition of territory. It is said that our present government and administration and the republicans generally have no merit from our success in this case, although it is a notorious fact that every Frenchman or Spaniard, who has conferred with the friends of the republican cause, in and out of office, has been uniformly led to see the weight and force of the numerous and solid arguments, which were opposed to any foreign colonization there. While some federalists were exciting all the public passions against France and Spain, on account of the alleged mischiefs those nations were to do us on the Mississippi, the friends of our government and no doubt the proper persons in the government itself, were using those facts to convince every considerate Frenchman and Spaniard, that they ought to yield the country about the Mississippi to the United States. The official correspondence will prove, as we believe, its early, zealous, and unceasing endeavors to acquire every thing that could be acquired in that quarter. For the present we shall leave to our readers the serious contemplation of the vast advantages, which will be derived to our ship owners, mariners, merchants, fishermen, manufacturers and mechanics, from their supplying and transporting to our ports in Louisiana all the articles which are shut out of the West India islands by foreign acts of parliament, arrests, orders of councils, proclamations, and the great benefits of receiving from thence all those articles which we are not allowed to bring away from the islands and colonies of the European nations.
COLUMBUS.
False Registers, Invoices and Bills of Lading.
It is the fate of the fair and enterprising American Merchants to see their own country in profound peace, while the maritime nations of the old world are again engaged in a war of the most serious character. It is the right of the mercantile body to be as completely protected, as human affairs will admit, by public measures of precaution in favor of their lawful and honorable trade; and it is undoubtedly the earnest wish of the government to foster and to defend the rightful commerce of our country. During the war of 1793 to 1801, millions upon millions of American property were involved in a course of indiscriminate spoliation by more than one power from a variety of causes, of which it is now our duty to anticipate and prevent the repetition. Among these the practice of covering foreign property, in ships and goods, was a cause of innumerable and immense injuries. This practice has notoriously been pursued in all neutral nations, in all ages, and under an infinite variety of forms. But the nature of the late European war, and the situation of the rich colonies of the belligerent nations, occasioned the temptations to it in the United States to be uncommonly great. Like all cases of great temptations, this produced many instances of a conduct contrary to the laws, the morality, and to the just commercial rights and interests of our country. The fair traders have yet to weep over the evidences of their immense spoiled properties—spoiled by various nations and fairly retributed by none. Let then the business of covering foreign ships and goods with American registers, bills of lading and invoices, meet the earliest and best attention of the merchants and the government, lest we have to lament again, that such unwarrantable practices involve thousands of our worthier traders in ruin, and the flag of our nation in infult and disgrace. Unexampled forbearance has been shown by the Republican prims in not giving the names of persons who have been concerned in this species of fraud upon the public—this violation of the most solemn oaths. But besides the robbery of the public revenue, and the injury done to the real American tonnage, there are other consequences more injurious and fatal to our national character and peace—we could name a single merchant of a capital city not a thousand miles off, who has covered foreign property to the extent of half a million in one year—but who has taken and procured false registers for foreign ships, and failed the foreign ships out of our ports, returning cargoes and defrauding the revenue of the duties the value centring in foreign houses. Yet this merchant not only used every means to depreciate the government at home which he thus plundered, but by the conduct of those ships and commanders covered by forged papers in foreign ports, brought reproach on our government, and jeopardized our neutrality. We have knowledge of persons who, holding commissions under a foreign government, at one of our eastern ports, pursued the same course; who constantly in secret, and frequently in public, reviled all our institutions, and even while holding foreign commissions and boasting foreign allegiance, procured false registers, and made insurance in our insurance offices, and recovered from our insurers the amount of American bottom. These men we know and could name—but these men were well known, their covert dealings and foreign connexions and adherence, to members of high influence in the late administration. A better order of things will correct these abuses.
The Palladium is sorry that federalism has so few friends in the new State Ohio, where it seems only 30 federal votes could be obtained out of 1000 upon a late election, and then adds by way of "consolation" to the junto, "when things are at the worst they must mend." We differ from Mr. Dutton only on this ground—that we think these 30 federalists too few to excite any uneasiness in the breasts of republicans; and we with them to "remain as a monument of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." We suppose these brave 30 were to compose the advance guard of the federal army from that state, which was to descend the river Mississippi and capture New Orleans in the twinkling of an eye.—Alas, poor federalism, how art thou fallen. Salem Register.
The loading federal papers in the United States have already taken their ground against the French, in the present contest. They justified the declaration of War by Great Britain, before a single document appeared from France. Their partiality to England has evinced itself in every thing for the last ten years—but in nothing more than the late extraordinary events. If we intend to take neutral ground, we should be impartial.—"Nothing extenuate nor aught sit down in malice." Salem Reg.
On Wednesday a man, dressed as a country man, attempted to make his way into the Levee, but was prevented by the marshals. He said he must see his Majesty on some particular business, and became very troublesome; upon which Mr. Macmanus, Townsend and Sayers, the officers who were attending, took him into custody, he still urging that he must see his Majesty; and on being asked his business, replied he had rose from the dead, and had got a commission from Heaven to kill Bonaparte, but was directed to see the king of England first. The officers, very properly, to prevent any disturbance, told him they would introduce him to the king, if he would go with them, which he very quickly consented to; but they took him before Sir Richard Ford, at Lord Pelham's office, when the account he gave of himself was, that he had been sacrificed, was buried, and had rose from the dead, with two men of the names of White and Russell; and they were commissioned by Heaven to reform the world, and kill Bonaparte. He said since he had risen from the dead, he had walked from Swansea, in Wales, and was lead to the Palace by meeting with chalk stones in the road, and on turning them up, there was written on them "Go on," and he discovered other systems of a deranged mind. [London paper.]
Late Foreign Articles,
From London papers, Received at Philadelphia, by a ship from Liverpool.
HAGUE, JUNE 4. THE Bishoprick of Osnaburg has surrendered to the French by capitulation. On their approach the Hanoverian garrison evacuated the country. The French, in three columns, are in full march for Hanover. They have a park of 50 pieces of artillery.
Mr. Linton, (English Minister) has demanded his passports.—He will leave a Charge des Affairs.
ROTTERDAM, JUNE 7. The number of French troops, which entered Quackenburch, in the Bishoprick of Osnaburg, amounted to 6000.
LONDON, MAY 20. Some additional papers relative to the late negotiation have been laid before Parliament, among them is the following: Copy of a letter from Mr. Rufus King to Lord Hawkesbury.
London, May 15, 1803.
MY LORD. In the present critical posture of affairs, I lose no time in communicating to your Lordship, for his Majesty's information, that a treaty was signed at Paris on the 30th day of April last, by the Plenipotentiaries of America and France; by which the complete sovereignty of the town and territory of New Orleans, as well as all Louisiana, as the same was heretofore possessed by Spain, has been acquired by the United States of America. In drawing up this treaty, care has been taken to frame the same as not to infringe any right of Great Britain in the navigation of the river Mississippi. I flatter myself that this communication will be received with satisfaction, and regarded as a new proof of the disposition of the United States, to observe towards his Majesty, a spirit of amity and confidence, important at all times, and more especially so in the present circumstances, to the harmony and mutual prosperity of the two countries.
I avail myself of this occasion, to renew to your Lordship the assurance of the distinguished consideration with which I have the honor to be, &c. RUFUS KING. Rt. Hon. Lord HAWKESBURY.
LONDON, MAY 31. Although we have been prevented, by the embargo in the French ports, from receiving for some days past any French papers, yet we have obtained, through a private channel of communication, intelligence that the First Consul of France has issued a decree, of which the following is a copy: Copy of the decree of the French Government.
"Every British subject, (of an age not under eighteen, nor exceeding sixty) who is at present in France, shall be immediately constituted prisoner of war, to answer for such citizens of the Republic as shall have been detained and made prisoners by the vessels or subjects of his Britannic Majesty prior to a declaration of war.
The Dutch mail which arrived yesterday, states that an embargo was laid on Tuesday last on all the English ships in the ports of the Batavian republic.
The packet with a flag of truce and the mails for France of Tuesday and Wednesday last, were received in the harbor of Calais on Friday morning, and the mails landed; the captain was permitted to go on shore, and it is the whole day.
Letters by the Dutch mail state, that an army of 13 000 men under the appellation of the "Army of Hanover," had been collected at Covenhoven, in order to be immediately marched against that electorate.
The works in the harbour of Boulogne are carrying on unceasingly, night and day. The men work by torch light.
Accounts from Jersey, of the 25th inst. state, that two French transports, full of troops, had been captured by our cruizers in La Bayne D'Augume, their destination is not mentioned. These accounts add, that great bustle prevailed at St. Malo in fitting out privateers.
The account transmitted a few days ago from Plymouth of so many of our artificers and seamen being employed at Brest, it true is of the most melancholly and alarming nature. It would certainly be becoming in parliament to investigate the original cause of this national misfortune.
The Gazette of Saturday contains a proclamation for increasing our militia. The men are to be enrolled on or before the 16th July.
The hon. Gen. Dundas, late governor of the Cape of Good Hope, his staff, a number of officers, which Mr. Barnard and several passengers, landed at Portsmouth on Sunday.
Major-general Moore is appointed to the command of the troops on the Kentish coast; his head-quarters are to be at Hythe.
Lord Chatham is to command the troops to be stationed at Canterbury.
Mr. Pelier not having been called up to receive judgement during the late term, has become discharged from the consequences of his conviction. May 26.
The papers which accompanied the message of the first consul, occupy six supplements to the Monitor of the 21st, of a sheet each; and we find five of them filled with the discussions which preceded the treaty of Amiens.
The message of the first consul seems less intended to announce the rupture of negotiation, than to prepare the public mind for that event. From the ambiguity of some of its expressions, it would appear doubtful whether he considered the negotiation at an end, and whether he did not yet expect to meet the same submission on the part of England, which he has found among the unfortunate and defenceless nations with whom he has recently negotiated. He submits to the legislative and other bodies, his first communications with the British minister, the negotiations terminated with the treaty of Amiens, & the new discussions, which appear to terminate in an absolute rupture. He informs them that the negotiations are interrupted, and that France is prepared to fight, if attacked. May 27.
We yesterday learnt that the French Messenger who came over on Tuesday un-
der the pretext of dispatches for M. Schimmelpenick, brought over some new propositions to our government, but which was rejected, and the messenger immediately sent back.
May 28.
Last night Mr. Fox made his promised motion for an address to his majesty, to avail himself of the proffered mediation of Russia to settle the differences between this country and France, and in the course of the discussion which ensued, Lord Hawkesbury stated the readjusts of his Majesty's ministers to explain their views to the Court of St. Petersburg, and to accept the mediation of that power. But repeated what he had stated before, that no direct nor precise offer of mediation had been offered on the part of Russia: it was merely on the lightest species of the assurance of mediation. It was, however, admitted, that meanwhile, the contest into which we have again been obliged to enter, should be prosecuted with vigor, until the views of mediation shall have been realized; and in consequence of Lord Hawkesbury's statement, Mr. Fox withdrew his motion.
Report says that Lord Moira and Mr. Tierney are to join administration, and that the latter has been much employed lately upon the budget, which the minister is to bring forward in the course of the next ten days. Indeed the measure which is to be proposed is said to originate with him.
Lord Grenville, and those connected with him, seem to be the persons most alienated by hostility to the present administration, and we understand he means to propose strong censures upon their conduct in the late negotiation. In the midst of these contending parties, we wish only for a strong government—the situation of the country imperiously calls for it.
Private letters from the Hague say; "the French army assembling near Nimeguen, has for its ostensible destination the electorate of Hanover; but it is a curious fact, that this army is encamped upon the same ground, where, in 1688, the then Prince of Orange, afterwards king Wm. 3. under the pretence of interfering in the dispute then subsisting between prince of Clement of Bavaria and the cardinal of Furstenburgh, collected the army with which he in November in the same year invaded England. It is true, that the prince of Orange had a fleet of 50 sail of war to escort his transports.
Yesterday the following ships were ordered into commission:
   Guns.     Spencer 74 Hon. Capt. Stopford.   Ruby 64 Hon. Capt. Gardner.   Plover (Sloop) 18 Capt. Hancock.   Wasp (do.) 18 Capt. Alymer.  
FALMOUTH, MAY 25.
Arrived this day, the American ship Governor Strong, captain Choat, 34 days from the capes of Virginia, with tobacco, called here for orders. In long, 40, spoke the American ship Hannah, from Havre, belonging to and bound for Philadelphia. On the 20th inst. off cape Clear, spoke the brig Sally, of Portland, Capt. Waite, from Charlesstown for Liverpool, all well. Yesterday she was boarded by his majesty's ship Revolutionnaire, which pressed three of her crew.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 29.
Yesterday evening his majesty's ship La Minerve, sent into this port the French ship Naturaliste, from a voyage of discoveries round the world upon which she was dispatched in the late war, under license from the belligerent powers.
Last night the squadron under Sir Roger Curtis moved from St. Helen's to Spithead. When Sir Roger Curtis left Table Bay a squadron of Spanish ships from Manila, consisting of ships of the line and four frigates, all laden with bullion, supposed to be about four million sterling went in and came to anchor, and may be daily expected to arrive at Cadiz.
Arrived his Majesty's ship Amazon from Gibraltar. Landed his royal highness the Duke Kent at Falmouth. The Juno frigate with general Pigge arrived at the Rock several days before the Amazon failed; left there the Maidstone, Victorius, and Bitero.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 26.
Arrived ship general Wolfe, Tallock, from Aquillas for London.—Spoke the American brig Mary of Salem, bound to St. Petersburg in lat. 48. 36. long. 11, she had four of her men impressed on the 23rd inst. in lat. 49. 20. long. 4. 26. by the Nemesis Frigate.
AN ARABIAN EXPEDITION.
By accounts received by the English India Company, from IMAUM, it appears that a vast body of Wahaby Arabs with a regular force of upwards of 6000 camels, each carrying two malqueeters, and 4 or 500 horsemen, in their late incurson, had made a descent on KERBELLA, under the Bochain of Bagdad, for the express purpose of plundering the celebrated rich tomb of Houssein, for which they have long since been making great preparations. On their arrival, they besieged the town in form. After some trifling resistance, the town was taken by assault, during which a dreadful slaughter occurred. They then attacked the tomb, in which many of the inhabitants had taken refuge, and, shutting the gates, resolved to defend themselves to the last extremity. The Arabs, however, possessed themselves of an adjacent building, and penetrating the area, began to demolish the masonry railing of steel, inlaid with plates of gold and decorated with jewels. They then broke in pieces the case of the tomb, which, in the days of KERAM KHAN, was seven years in building, and had been endowed with gold, jewels and lapis lazuli (the legacies of Emperors, Kings and Pilgrims,) to a vast amount. There were several silver candlesticks, one of which weighed nearly 63,000 drachms, richly embroidered curtains, and carpets of astonishing workmanship and value. Thirty treasurers were killed on the terrace, four or five hundred perished within the railing. Three hundred virgins of high birth and family, were carried off as slaves. This work of slaughter and depredation was performed with such expedition, that this ferocious banditti were only engaged in it from an early period of the morning till the ninth hour of the day, when they loaded their camels and returned into the desert.
LONDON, May 25.
Last Friday, at three o'clock, the following message was delivered by several of the Orators of Government to the Senate, the Legislative Body, and the Tribunate: MESSAGE.
St. Cloud, May 20.
THE Ambassador of England has been recalled: compelled by this circumstance the Ambassador of the Republic has quitted a country where he could no longer hear the language of peace.
At this decisive moment the government submits to your view, and it will submit to the view of France and of Europe, its first relations with the Britannic Ministry, the negotiations which were terminated by the treaty of Amiens, and the new discussions which seem to finish by an absolute rupture.
The present age and posterity will there see all that it has done to put an end to the calamities of war, and with what moderation and what patience it has laboured to prevent their return.
Nothing has been able to interrupt the course of the projects formed to rekindle discord between the two nations. The treaty of Amiens had been negotiated amidst the clamours of a party hostile to peace. Scarcely was it concluded when it was the object of bitter censure. It was represented as fatal to England, because it was not disgraceful to France.—Soon after, alarms were disseminated; dangers were pretended, on which was established the necessity of a state of peace, such as to be a permanent signal of new hostilities. There were kept in reserve and hired, those vile miscreants, who had torn the bosom of their country, and who were intended to tear it anew. Vain calculations of hatred! We are no longer that France which was divided by factions, and buffeted by storms; but France restored to internal tranquillity, regenerated in her administration and her laws, and ready to fall, with her whole weight, upon whatever foreign states may dare to attack her, though united with the banditti whom an atrocious policy would once more cast upon her shores to organize, pillage and assassinations.
At length an unexpected message, all at once terrifies England with imaginary armaments in France and Batavia, and supposes the existence of important discussions which divided the two governments, while no such discussion was known to the French gov't.
Immediately formidable armaments took place on the coasts, and in the ports of Great Britain; the sea is covered with her ships of war; and it is in the midst of these preparations that the Cabinet of London demands of France the abrogation of a fundamental article of the treaty of Amiens.
They wanted, they said, new guarantees; and they despised the faith of treaties, the execution of which is the first of guarantees which nations can give to each other.
In vain did France invoke that faith which had been sworn; in vain did she appeal to the forms received among nations; in vain did she consent to shut her eyes to the actual non execution of the article of the treaty of Amiens, from which England pretended to release herself; in vain was she willing to delay taking a definitive resolution, until Spain and Batavia, both of them contracting parties, could have manifested their disposition; in vain, in short did she propose to request the mediation of the powers who had been invited to guarantee, and who, in effect, did guarantee the stipulations required to be abrogated.
Every proposition was rejected, and the demands of England became more imperious and more absolute.
It was not in the principles of the government to yield to menace; it was not in their power to bend the majesty of the French people to laws prescribed to them with forms so haughty and so new. Had they done so, they would have consecrated in favor of England the right of annulling at her sole pleasure, all the stipulations which bind her rewards France. It would have authorized her to demand from France new guarantees on the slightest alarm, which she might have thought proper to pretend; and hence two new principles would have been placed in the public code of Great Britain, by the side of that by which she has disherited the other nations of the common sovereignty of the seas, and submitted to her laws and to her regulations the independence of their flag.
The government flout at the limit traced out by its principles and its duties. The negotiation is interrupted and we are ready to fight if we are attacked.
We shall at least fight for maintaining the faith of treaties, and for the honor of the French name.
Had we yielded to a vain terror we should soon have to repel new pretensions; but we should have fought, dishonored by a previous weakness, fallen in our own eyes, and degraded in the eyes of an enemy which should have once made us bend to her unjust pretensions.
The nation will reprove itself in the consciousness of its strength, whatever injuries the enemy do us in places where we shall not have been able to prevent them or to reach them. The result of this contest will be such as we have a right to expect from the justice of our cause and the courage of our warriors.
The First Consul, (Signed) BONAPARTE. By the First Consul, The Secretary of State, (Signed) MARET.
BY THE LAST MAILS.
NORFOLK, JULY 16.
TOBAGO.
Captain Flynn, who arrived here yesterday, 12 days from Antigua, informs that on the morning of his departure from that place, news of the capture of the island of Tobago was received; the information relied on, and deemed authentic.
By three French gentlemen who arrived in town from Martinique, and who have brought dispatches for M. Pichon, the French minister, we are favored with the following particulars:
That a short time previous to their sailing from Martinique, (which was on the 4th instant) a French transport

ship of 14 guns arrived there after a very short passage, and brought accounts that the French troops in Holland, under the command of general Massena, had been ordered by the French government to take possession of the city of Hamburg, which was effected, the shipping and other British property was seized and confiscated.
It was also understood that an army had been ordered to march into Portugal.
There had been several captures of English vessels made by the French, which have been sent into Martinique and Guadalupe, particularly a government schooner of 16 guns, captured off Martinique, by the Curieux corvette, of 18 guns, and sent into St. Pierres. Martinique is blockaded by two ships of the line, two frigates and a loop of war. Admiral Joyeuse, governor of Martinique, had issued 22 letters of marque previous to their leaving the island. They mention the capture of St. Lucie, and state that the English lost 150 killed and wounded, and the French 125; the garrison of St. Lucie, consisted of 400, and the English forces employed of 4000 men; immediately after the capture, the squadron divided into separate divisions, and left the island.
The following proclamation has been received through the same source. In the name of the French Republic.
PROCLAMATION. Augustus Ennou, general of division, inspector general of the French infantry, captain general of Guadalupe and its dependencies, To the inhabitants of Guadalupe and to the army.
CITIZENS, The English government will have war! In vain the father of Frenchmen, the immortal BONAPARTE, has exhausted before it every proceeding, every means which could insure to France the enjoyment of that tranquillity, of which she has hardly tasted the first fruits. Every sacrifice has been made to obtain that end; but that implacable enemy of Frenchmen, has not been satisfied with the innumerable advantages which it has obtained by a peace, which it alone ought not to have enjoyed. It is not against France alone that it directs its attacks, but against the whole world. Its ambition embraces all, from the Indian shores to the mouths of the Orenoque, from the Nile to Tagus, it pretends to exercise its tyranny: In the extravagance of its ideas, it believes that on it the empire of the seas is devolved. Among the powers which have supported the destructive war which has rent the continent, which of them has been enriched by the spoils of the other? Is it not England?
Inhabitants of Guadalupe, who have already so victoriously fought her soldiers. You brave warriors, who have seen the phalanxes fly before you in the fields of Hondscoote, on the coasts of Flanders and Holland; prepare yourselves to encounter that enemy who, forgetful of honor and the rights of nations, cowardly takes your defenceless shipping sailing under the faith of treaties. You are now at war with the subjects of that perfidious government. Remember Quiberon, the camp of St. John, and the horrible attempt of the 3d of Nivose.
Soon will the hero of France re-establish the liberty of the seas, soon will he prescribe just limits to the inordinate ambition of that government, alike the perturbator of his country and of the world.
The colony of Guadalupe and its dependencies are placed in a state of siege.
Done at Basseterre, Guadalupe, the 5th Messidor, 11th year of the French republic. (Signed) ERNOUF.
NORFOLK, JULY 19. We learn by the brig Friendship, Capt. Wilman from Aux Cayes, arrived on Sunday, that the situation of the inhabitants in the island of St. Domingo, was extremely distressing. The brigands in the neighborhood of Aux Cayes have surrounded the place in such a close manner, that it is impossible to obtain forage for their cattle, without a strong force being employed to procure it. Turkeys were selling at the enormous price of 8 to 10 dollars each; fowls two dollars, and vegetables in proportion. Two vessels with passengers on board, have been captured by British cruizers, and sent for Jamaica. The Friendship was boarded by a British armed vessel, but being an American, was permitted to pass unmolested. Between 50 and 60 passengers came in the above vessel and as the British cruizers intercept all reinforcements, the inhabitants of St. Domingo are flying in all directions.
HUDSON, (N. Y.) July 19. At the Circuit Court lately held in this county, one of the indictments against Harry Croswell, editor of "the Wasp," for a libel on the President of the United States, was brought to trial. After a very lengthy and impartial hearing, Croswell was convicted: judgment will be passed against him at the next term of the Supreme Court, which will be held on the first Monday in August next. The libel charged Mr. Jefferson with having "paid Callender for calling Washington a traitor, a robber and a purjurer; for calling Adams a hoary headed incendiary; and for most grossly slandering the private characters of men who he
(Mr. Jefferson) well knew to be virtuous." It ought to be recollected that "the Wasp" was created for the express purpose of becoming a receptacle for all manner of publications calculated to wound the feelings and to degrade his political enemies. We thank God that a vehicle so perilous has been arrested in its foul career. Should it be found necessary, we shall hold our duty to enter more at large upon this subject. We repeat it, Croswell had a fair and an impartial trial. The jury who found him guilty was drawn by lot, and was composed of men of both the political sects. He had the assistance of a multitude of counsel, some of whom are gentlemen of celebrity in their profession.
From the Centinel of Freedom.
TWENTY-SEVEN years have elapsed since Americans dared to assert their claim to freedom, and rend asunder the shackles of tyranny, forged by the despotic arm of a British Monarch! Annually they hail the auspicious era which gave liberty to nearly 6 millions of patriots, and which attached to America's name the exalted epithets of "Free and Independent." But vain are rejoicings—vain are the commemorations of this eventful period, while the vindictive arm of a malignant faction is ever raised to crush the Freeman, who dares to promulgate the ideas which reason has taught him to believe are right—in vain do we celebrate our emancipation from a foreign yoke, while domestic discord, with all its train of evils, pervades our country. Already, Freemen, have we beheld a brother torn from his mansion, and ignominiously dragged through the public streets to receive a castigation from an infuriate mob! Already have we seen him cruelly mangled and lacerated! And all for what? Why for daring to exercise that invaluable privilege, of speaking and publishing the sentiments of his heart! for daring to reprobate conduct which had for its tendency the destruction of all order, decency and decorum!!
Reader—reflect a moment upon this violent outrage, this inhuman conduct, and I presume, you'll join with me in pronouncing it, one of the most daring acts of inhumanity and tyranny which is recorded in the annals of America: you'll quickly say, a cruel wound has been inflicted upon our domestic peace.
The following it is presumed may be relied on as a correct summary of the facts, to which allusion is made.
Mr. Wilson, Senior Editor of the "Trenton True American," was some short time since, called upon at his own house by two young men, to demand satisfaction (as they alledged) of Mr. Wilson, for publicly condemning a riotous assembly which had a few evenings previous convened in the State House; Mr. Wilson, suspecting that they harbored views more hostile than was right, refused to accompany them to a neighboring inn, (whither they had requested him to go) but politely invited them to enter his own house—this they refused, and being joined by a number of their juntes, immediately seized him, dragged through the street, and like a gang of savages, inflicted every torture they could devise, by beating, kicking, whipping, &c. they then fled and left him in a death like condition.
And now let me ask, who perpetrated this inhuman deed? Who has dared thus to trample on the rights of freemen? Boldly I answer the sin of Federalism! those very wretches who are weekly boasting (through the medium of the "Trenton Federalist") of their exclusive attachment to order and good government!!!—Citizens of New Jersey! Will you calmly behold this devastation of freemen's rights? will you silently hear the well founded complaints of this injured and much abused citizen? Will you countenance a gang of youthful striplings, in their deeds of villainy? I presume to answer no! never! Mr. Wilson is a man of irreproachable character, he is a man of distinguished talents, integrity and veracity—And while the names of his persecutors, shall be consigned to merited oblivion, his fame shall live, and soar beyond the reach of inveterate malice and fable malignant calumny—his Patriotic firmness and adherence to the cause of Truth, shall stand an immortal monument to his future celebrity; and when he shall be mingled with the ashes of his fathers, posterity will revere his talents and virtues. A Young Democrat.
—DROWNED— At Richmond, (Vir.) on Sunday the 17th inst. JAMES THOMSON CALLENDER, of that city.—He was found dead in the river, between eleven & twelve o'clock; and agreeably to law, the Coroner held an inquest over his body. The verdict of the Jury was as follows. "The Jury say, upon their oath, that James Thomson Callender, on the 17th day of July, 1803, did go into the River, commonly called James River, with an intention to bathe, but being in a state of intoxication, as appears to the Jury, the said James T. Callender came to his death by an accidental drowning, and not otherwise." Such was the verdict of the Jury—But there is much difference of opinion upon this subject. Our own opinion is, that Callender's drowning was not "accidental," but voluntary; and for this opinion we shall state our reasons in the next Examiner. [Richmond Examiner.]
Portsmouth.
Tuesday, August 2, 1803.
The English newspapers have entered into the war with great spirit, and by the end of harvest, the public mind in England is very likely to be wrought up to the highest pitch of zeal against the French. The political tapis already presents many new and unexampled circumstances.
The state of political characters of eminence is a very remarkable one.
Mr. Addington the bosom friend of Mr. Pitt prime minister of England in name and form, and salaries.
Mr. Pitt himself out of office, yet lending a vigorous aid to the ministerial measures.
Mr. Fox always a friend to peace and to a reform of political measures and expenditures, now giving his voice in a qualified way for war.
Mr. Sheridan supporting the principles of a renewal of war with France.
Mr. Grey alone of all the old whig party opposed to the renewal of war.
Mr. Tierney accepting from the ministry the office of treasurer of the navy, and of course becoming the supporter of all the measures of the administration.
Lord Grenville the cousin of Mr. Pitt, in the highest rage for war, yet in open hostility to the administration.
Mr. Windham in the same temper with Lord Grenville.
It is said that all these contradictions are to be explained by the following circumstances.
That (Mr. Jenkinson) Lord Liverpool continues to be the certain counsellor of the British king.
That the British king entertains a strong personal dislike towards Mr. Pitt.
That Mr. Addington has been put into office to secure the aid and influence of Mr. Pitt.
That the Grenville party composed of Windham and a few others, are offended with Pitt for not deserting Addington, and for countenancing Hawkesbury (young Jenkinson).
On the other hand different views and considerations actuate the whigs, Fox, Sheridan, &c.
They are sensible that the war carried on must be a desperate one; that to provide the means, will require immense rigor and danger of revolt by the English people; that to refrain them a strong government (that is a government of terror and cruelty) must be kept up; and that sacrifices such as Defpard, Sydney and Ruffel, must be occasionally offered up on the altar of Bellona.
The leaders of the whigs perceive that they would be the first victims to this English Robespierreism; and they have for some time determined, like Cicero and Atticus, to take ground upon which they may be secure from at least the first dangers.
These latter circumstances, however, point out with an awful significance the desperation and misery which may be expected from the present war.
From MARTINIQUE.
Accounts from the West India islands daily become more interesting. We have accounts from Martinique as late as the 4th ult.—It was then closely blockaded by a strong British squadron. The French shipping were at Port Royal. The French garrison was said to be 3000 strong. The English residents had been ordered to quit the island, and had proceeded to Dominico. The French daily expected an attack; and were preparing for a gallant defence.
Gen. PICTON, late one of the turbulent triumvirate Governors in Trinidad, is appointed Governor of Tobago. There were fourteen ships and a corvette lying at Tobago, when captured.
FROM CAPE FRANCOIS.
Arrived, at Alexandria on Wednesday, 20th ult. brig Active, Capt. Haynes, 12 days from Cape Francois.
When Capt. Haynes failed, the Cape was besieged on the land side by the brigands within a mile of the town, and blockaded by 4 English 74 gun ships, a frigate a brig and sloop. It was supposed they would surrender the Cape to the British in a few days, as there was not more than 15 days provisions in it. General Rochambeau had established his Head-Quarters there. The Hole and Port au Prince was so closely hemmed in by Brigands, that the inhabitants could not go half a mile out without being murdered.
The war is carried on between the French and Brigands, with every species of barbarity their savage minds can invent. When the Brigands take a prisoner they put him between two planks so that he cannot move, and then take a cross cut saw and saw him nearly asunder in different places so as to terminate his existence in the most barbarous manner—and the French in the their turn when they take prisoners tie them neck and heels and throw them into a place where they have a parcel of half starved bloodhounds to be torn to pieces by them.
Some of the federal papers now say, we ought to "make a party in the war" to assist the British; & one declared "we had deserved and merited hostility from England" because we preferred doing our business "in our own way" Perhaps we shall soon be told, that this country cannot purchase Louisiana because it will offend Great Britain, who no doubt would wish to take possession of it for herself; that by seizing a position there, she might overawe the Western States, and shut out from the navigation of the Mississippi. Every thing proves that there are people in the United States devoted to England; they feel very little or no interest for their own country; they worship the Government of Great-Britain, and wish to see us "linked in her deftinies." This fashion is undermining the foundation of our republic, and if the people are not roused to a due sense of their danger, the most fatal consequences may ensue. We place some little dependence on the moderation of the more moderate of the federal party; but our sole reliance is on the Republican energies of the union, seconded by the patriotism and sound discretion of the existing Administration. (Salem Register.)
Sentiment. —THE RIGHTS of neutrality; commerce FREE, our seamen citizens and the American flag their passport.
Several paragraphs, inserted in the N. York Spectator , might with more propriety have been called blundering communications. Toasts are said to be given in one State which were given in another. Newbury-Port , is transported to the place of Portsmouth in N. Hampshire, and Portsmouth to that of Newbury-Port .—This is perfectly consistent with Federal delirium, so prolific in the effusions of lying and blundering.—The virtues and worth of Dr. M c Clintock , it seems, are extremely offensive to the disorganizing fraternity. But that gentleman, and other Citizens calumniated by such wretches, can never be hurt by their malice, and "count their censure fame." The toast given in Portsmouth to the honor of our BELOVED PRESIDENT, has afresh excited their spleen and rage, which is vented in their usual defamatory and abusive language. The blundering may well countenance a suspicion of intoxication added to spite and ill nature. Those and other paragraphs, equally absurd and ill natured, certainly betray confusion and derangement of intellect, as well as shew the rage and malice of the Writers. But their rage and madness are as harmless against the worthy and beloved Patriots of our Country, as the foaming billows against the immovable rock.
LIGHTNING. —We hear from Merrimac , N. H. that in a thunder storm, on Friday, 22d inst. a Mr. Wood, standing at the door of the house, with another person, Mr. Wood was instantly killed with lightning, the other person escaped unhurt.
We hear that the Meeting house in Croydon , N. H. was on Thursday 14th inst. struck by lightning, and entirely consumed.
On Sunday, the 17th inst. a Barn and two sheds belonging to Mr. Joseph Bacon, in Partridgefield , (Mafs.) were burnt by lightning; and a quantity of hay.
extract of a letter from East-Port, dated July 9th, to the Editors. —States.
That on the 6th inst. at Indian-Island in light of this Place, a number of persons had been to the Wolves and collected some large mussels and boiled them for breakfast, of which they eat very heartily; but on their way home they all became sick, and Mr. M c Cloud , died in his boat.—At St. John's , about the same time, a man dropped down dead in the street.
Wisdom cries,—"Be ye also ready."
Marine Articles.
Port of Portsmouth —August 2, 1803. Tuesday arrived here ship Aurora , Capt. Bowles, 37 days from Isle of May. Left there ship James , Warner, Philadelphia, to sail in all June. Ship Franklin , Bowles, Boston, to sail July 8. Ship Prosperity , Joustin, for Philadelphia to sail July 20. Brig Phenix , Ward, for Salem, to sail June 25. Brig Fay , of Baltimore, Peirce, and brig Polly , Peirce of Providence, for St. Jago's U. Indies, to sail June 20. Two days previous to the Aurora's sailing, failed brig Hannah , Barnard for Boston; one day previous, failed Schooner Two Brothers , Linsey, and sch. Traveller , Crofts, both for Marblehead.
VESSELS LEFT.
At Demerara to sail in two days, Ship Florenzo , Barnes, this port; Eunice , Marshall, Peperabaro ; brig Joseph , Salter, this port; Oliver Peabody, Gilman, do.
At Falmouth, (Jam.) June 18th, Little cherub , Appleton, for this port, to sail in 10 days.
At Trinidad, July 10th, Schr. Dispatch , of this port.
Was spoke, July 6. lat. 38, 37, long. 37, Ship Hampden and S. due , Goodwin, 33 days from Alicante, for this port.
—DIED—
At Florence, in Italy, May 27th, LOUIS I. King of Euturia—to which he was elevated by BONAPARTE, in 1801. At Baltimore, Mr. WILLIAM WALLACE, merchant. At Norwich, Capt. JOSEPH HOSMER, late of Salem. At Hartford, Mr. BENJAMIN ROCKWELL, run over by his team and killed. Mrs. SARAH FISH, aged 65, and about the same hour at Enfield, her brother, Captain ALLEN STILLMAN. At Hardwick, Miss ELIZ. DEAN, aged 23. At Brookfield, Mr. GEORGE, son of Dr. Francis Foxcroft, aged 15. At Salem, Mr. BENJAMIN MOSES, aged 66. Capt. EDWARD ALLEN, aged 68, universally lamented. At Waltham, on the 24th inst. Miss FRICILLA LAWRENCE.
At Somersworth, on the 12th ult. Miss ALIS YEATON, aged 15. She was beloved by all who knew her, is sincerely lamented by her family and friends to whom she endeared herself by her virtuous conduct and amiable manners.
Ah—Alas! tho' thou art fled, To realms of ever-lasting joy, Thy virtue's never will be dead For not e'en death can them destroy. In Heaven's bright sphere, thou reign'st above
An angel, ever lovely fair, For Heaven beheld with pitying love, And snatch'd thee hence—a cherub there.
In this town, Miss SALLY MITCHELL. Miss SARAH MUSHAU, aged 86. A child of widow Sarah Tukey. A child of Capt. Benjamin Shapley.
TRUNKS.
Of every description, made & Sold by BENJ'N C. SWEETSER, Saddler, Harness, Cap & Trunk maker, next door West of the Gazette Office, Congress-Street.—Some of which are covered with very beautiful Seal skins.
TRAVELLING TRUNKS of any size or kind, made or repaired at the shortest notice, cheap for cash. Portsmouth, August 2, 1803.
THIS DAY At S. LITTLE'S Office, 100 pair of Men and Women's Cotton Hose; 10 pieces of Blue Nankeen; 100 do. Yellow do. damaged; 1000 Garden and Bamboo Fans; India Chintzes; do. Cottons; Bandanno Handkerchiefs; Silk do. 20 gross of Mackerel Hooks; Spanish Segars; 1 bbl. Walnuts, and many other articles. ALSO—at private sale, a number of Russian FEATHER BEDS. August 2, 1803.
TO-MORROW, AT AUCTION, At 11 o'clock, A. M. on the premises, THAT valuable corner Lot of LAND lying on Cross-street, opposite the Widow Hardy's,—being about 75 feet on said street, and on High-street about 120 feet—it will be sold in two parts or the whole together, as will best suit the purchasers. ** The conditions made known at time and place of sale. JACOB WALDEN, Auctioneer. Portsmouth, August 2, 1803.
TO-MORROW, At 10 o'clock A. M. on the premises, will be Sold, by licence from the Hon. Judge of Probate, free of incumbrance, A LOT of LAND on Wash- ington-street, and running back into the creek, with a small Dwelling- HOUSE thereon. Said Land is ad- joining the estate of Capt. KEYRON WALSH. August 2, 1803.
Mechanic Association. THE Members of the MECHANIC ASSOCIATION, are hereby notified that their quarterly meeting will be held at the Chamber of the Brick School House, next Thursday evening, at 8 o'clock precise. By order of the Board, JOSEPH CLARK, Jr. Sec'y. N. B. As there are a number of applica- tions for admittance, punctual attendance is requested. Portsmouth, August 2, 1803.
NEW AND USEFUL.
THE subscribers have purchased the right of using and vending to others to be used, KENNEDY'S PATENT WINDOW SPRINGS, in the counties of Rockingham and Strafford, in New- Hampshire, and the District of Maine, ex- cept the towns of Berwick, Sanford and Wells. The object of this invention was to furnish a secure fastener for Windows, and convenient machinery to raise and lower both the upper and lower Sash, and by the assistance of Springs to support it at any height that is wished.
Gentlemen, who have viewed Win- dows fitted with these Springs, are of opinion that the invention will be of great util- ity, and acknowledge that the design of the inventor is completely accomplished. The expense of fitting a Window with these Springs is but about a fourth part so much as that of weights and lines; at the same time more durable and less liable to acci- dental injury. Old windows may be fitted with Springs as well as new ones.
Those who wish to purchase Springs, or to have them put on, may apply to any one of the subscribers, who have associated themselves in a company, in the above purchase, and in this business will use the signature of ELISHA WHIDDEN & Co. ELISHA WHIDDEN, BENJAMIN ADAMS, JAMES NUTTER, JOHN LOCKE, EBEN'N CLIFFORD, Exeter. WILLIAM ARMS.
N. B. All persons are cautioned against using these Springs in the limits of the pur- chase aforementioned, without authority from the subscribers, if they would avoid the penalty of the law. Portsmouth, July 26, 1803.
Medical Volumes.
ELEMENTS of Therapeutics; or a Guide to Health; being cautions and directions in the treat- ment of Diseases—By Joseph Town- send, author of the Physician's Vade Mecum. Price 15f.
A brief history of Epidemic and Petilential Diseases, with the principal Phenomena of the physical world, which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated. 2 Vols. price 18f.
Anatomical Tables of the Human Body—by William Cheselden. 6f.
A view of the Science of Life—by J. Brown, M. D. 6f.
The Anatomist's Vade Mecum. Solomon's Guide to Health. 6f. Willich's Health and long Life. 2 Vols. 12f.
A concise view of all the most im- portant facts concerning the COW POX—by C. R. Aiken. 3f.
Hooper's Medical Dictionary. 6f.
The above, with many other Me- dical Authors, may be had at N. S. & W. PEIRCE'S Bookstore, opposite the N. W. corner of the State House, Congress-street, Portsmouth.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY. A Journeyman BAKER—one of good character, will meet with encourage- ment by applying to MOSES WOODWARD. Portsmouth, August 2, 1803.
WANTED. An active LAD, about 14 or 15 years of age, as an Apprentice to a good busi- ness,—Inquire of the Printers.

For the Gazette.
BIOGRAPHY.
Sketch of the character of MR. LEVI ROBINSON , formerly of Newmarket, and who died at Belfast, on the 10th day of December last, in the 24th year of his age.
It is only those, whose noble minds "judge by the merit and not by the splendor of actions," that I expect, or wish to amuse, by this short and imperfect delineation of a character, which, altho' obscure and unknown in the polite world, yet the feeble exertions of my pen shall not be wanting, if not to transmit its name to posterity, at least to give publicity to its many amiable qualities.
It is to be regretted, that biography is chiefly confined to those persons, who have made a bulwark in the world, and that the remembrance of the virtues and eminent qualities of the obscure individual, sink into oblivion, with the defoliation of his frame. This is depriving mankind of an example, which might have a powerful influence, in reclaiming the vicious, while it robs the deceased of that honor, to which he is justly entitled. It was these considerations, which induced the writer, to draw these traits of a character, replete with the noble principles of morality and virtue, joined to an ardent desire to promote the happiness, not only of those with whom he was connected, by the immediate obligations of nature, but the felicity of mankind in general. Deficient of the advantages which a finished education affords, he was far from being a stranger to the writings of the most distinguished authors; and without any very lucrative employment, his industry procured him a competence, and his philosophic and unambitious mind knew how to prize it. Profiting by the mistaken calculations of dishonesty, he ever avoided that fatal rock, on which so many of the ambitious have split.
The brilliancy of his genius produced many poetical pieces, which his modest pen never communicated to the world. As a son, he was eminent in filial duty; as a brother, affectionate and beneficent; and as a member of society, exemplary in all his actions. He neither headed armies, nor gave advice in council; but he governed his own passions, and dictated the length they should run. To sentiments refined from vulgar opinion, he joined friendship inviolable, and constancy unshaken. With a mind capable of the most assiduous and persevering study, were connected a quickness of apprehension, and depth of thought, seldom excelled.
ELEGIAK LINES.
HARK! thro' the vales and intermingled grove, Sweet scents of love, where midnight fairies rove, I hear the zephyrs sigh, and mules weep, As 'long the icy paths they slowly sweep. No more they dance upon the frozen lake, 'Till fair Aurora bids the morning wake; But, when the ev'ning shades involve the sky, They in their cells in mournful silence lie. But yonder comes a maid in white array, Pure as the dew-drops in the morn of May; Around her brows immortal roses blow, Beneath her feet eternal verdure glow. See! as she steps she snows dissolve away, And Spring's gay beauties in her passage lay; Her air, her mein bespeak a noble mind, With awful honor, awful greatness join'd. But ah! her cheek is wet with dewy woe, And from her eyes the briny torrents flow; Celestial Goddess, let a mortal know What is th' event that fills thy breast with woe?  Deign, heaven-born maid, thy source of woe, to tell, Whence springs the grief that all thy bosom fills?  "Young mortal, know, if you've not heard before, My darling son, young ROBINSON's no more!  Two nights have past, or slowly linger'd by, Since he first in the dusty tomb did lie. Two tedious nights has Cynthia call her beams Upon the mournful tides and silver streams; Two nights has she with sickly languor shed, Her loaned rays on my distressed head. Two nights have I, seated beside his tomb, Indulg'd my sorrow in the dreary gloom, Since he, immortal youth! his breath resign'd.  The muses' friend, and glory of his kind! Oft has it been that Jove benignant smil'd To view the struggles of my dailing child; His studious eye, unwearied with the toil, Scan'd o'er the writings of each distant soil; With noble learning, stor'd his fertile head, And gleaned knowledge from the learned dead.  But Jove, lest vice should wrinkle in his brow, Call'd him from mortal scenes to heavenly row; Up the bright road of heavenly day he trod, And scap'd the wonders of Almighty God.  What tho' the glittering gold that misers prize Could not procure his clear, undazzled eyes; What tho' his foul, immortal and refin'd, Above the laws of vulgar custom shin'd— Yet still Benevolence, celestial maid, Around his brow her golden mantle spread, And soft humanity, a lovely child, Dwelt in his breast, & o'er his wits beguil'd.  But O! I mourn his flight from mortal scenes!  Be sad, ye mountains, & ye sprouting greens; With hoarse voice, thou rolling current, flow, And echo louder o'er the plains of woe!  The foaming billows, on the rocky shore, With louder thunder shall his fate deplore; His native plain, the seat of rural ease, Shall mourn his absence, with the budding trees:  While I o'er oaks, beneath whose cooling shade, His active limbs in contemplation laid, Shall cease to whistle to the ev'ning breeze, But sigh their sorrows to the neighboring trees.  The blades of grass that decorate his tomb, Like him shall perish in their early bloom; Like him, decline before maturing Spring, Shall to perfection all their beauties bring. O! canst thou wonder at my boundless woe, That I should weep & sorrow at the blow,
When worth, when virtue, genius fair and bright Are buried in the tomb of endless night!
But say, young mortal, wouldst thou happy be, Honord by mortals and caress'd by me, Then strive, like ROBINSON, to live & die, Foster each virtue, every vice defy. My name is Virtue, friend to all the good, Oft thro' the air I cross the raging flood; I fix the wreath upon the Poet's head, I raise the honors of the learned dead; My sons I cherish, and their death deplore; She stoop'd—and vanish'd from this earthly shore.
O! he is gone, his soul immortal fled! Shut from the living, numbered with the dead!
And shall his tongue no more of science talk, As thro' the meads we take a rural walk? No more, admiring, view the varied scenes Of towering mountains & extensive greens? No more his eye the blushing morn behold, Gilding the eastern clouds with purest gold?
O! how I mourn that sad disastrous day, The gale that bore the lovely youth away! That fill'd the whiten'd sheet, and bore him o'er
The foaming billows, to return no more! That day, when he of Portsmouth took his leave,
And left his friends in agony to grieve; Dash'd all the joys his many virtues gave, And fell a victim to a foreign grave; Drew gushing tears from every tender eye, And hove each bosom with the grieving sigh.
Devoted youth! to death an early prey! How were you snatch'd in morn of life away!
Like some fair flower, which, with the morning rose, Before 'twas noon thou languish'd in repose; In life's gay morn death nipt your early bloom, Lodg'd all your glories in the silent tomb. Few years may roll, and I perhaps shall be Plac'd in a grave, my friend, as low as thee! Few months, or days, these eyes now blest with light, Shall close, shall sleep in an eternal night!
RURAL LOTTERY.
NEW GOODS.
EDWARD PARRY, Has imported in the ships Nan-cies & Friendship, from LONDON, a general assortment of Fashionable
GOODS, FOR SALE BY
Joseph Clark, jr. At his shop in Buck-street directly opposite Dr. John Jackson's.
HANDSOME Gold Finger Rings. A complete assortment of Gold ear Hoops and Knobs. A very handsome assortment of Gold Breast Pins. Gold, coral, gilt, glass, and common Necklaces; handsome gilt Breast Pins; childrens' Silver Whistles with corral and bells; Silver Table and Tea Spoons; Plated do.; handsome stone, silver, steel, plated and black Knee Buckles; silver, plated and common Hat-Buckles; silver and plated Sugar Tongs; silver, plated and common Shoe Claps; silver Pencil and Pen Cases; silver Tooth and Ear Picks with silver cases; silver, plated and common Thimbles; silver, cork-shell, pearl, and common Sleeve Buttons; silver, steel, and ivory Tags; gold and silver Spangles; gold and silver Brooches; a handsome assortment of Lockets; Miniature Chains; silver, plated, pearl, and bone Salt-Spoons; silver Segar-Tubes; silver Watch and Scissor Chains; plated Cadee Shells; Ivory Needle Cases; Tweezers; white and black Bugles; Ring Cases; Segar Cases; Pocket-Books; Scissors and cases; Enamell'd Snuff-Boxes; Book Tobacco Boxes; Key-Rings; Crucibles, &c. &c.
N. B. Wanted an Apprentice to the Goldsmith's Business, about 13 years of age, apply as above.
FOR SALE, 10 puncheons RUM. 40 caiks RAISINS. 14 chests Hyson skin, and Souchong TEA. 8 bags Georgia COTTON. Brandy & Gin pr. pipe or bbl. Quarter chests BOHEA TEA. Bbls. W. I. SUGAR. —also 1 ton Pearl Ashes, apply to GARLAND & BLAKE.
W. GARLAND informs his customers that the above Co. will keep in a Store separate from their Dry Goods, many articles in his late line, and will thank them for a continuance of their favors. Portsmouth, July 12, 1803.
JONATHAN MENDUM, INFORMS his customers and the public, that he continues carrying on the BOOT and SHOE Making business, in all its branches, and in the best manner, at his Shop in Vaughan-street. Portsmouth, July 26, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, County of Grafton, ss.
To EBENEZER SMITH, Esq. one of the Justices in and for the county of Strafford, in said State of New-Hampshire; W E the subscribers, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the town of COLEBROOKE, in the county of Grafton and State aforesaid—request your Honor to notify and warn a Meeting of the proprietors and owners thereof, to be held at the house of Joseph Loomis, Esq. in said town, on the twenty-fifth day of August next, at 10 o'clock A. M. to consider of and act upon the following articles—viz.—
 1st. To choose a Moderator, to govern said meeting.  2d. To choose a Clerk, and other necessary proprietary Officers.  3d. To examine the present survey of the town, made by Capt. Jeremiah Ames , and see if they will accept and confirm the same.  4th. To choose a Committee to view the Roads already made, and lay out such others as may appear necessary for the settlement of the town, cause the same to be opened, and made passable, and have them legally established.  5th. To look into and examine the former proceedings of the proprietors and owners, and take such measures relative thereto, as shall appear most eligible, and to reconsider their votes, and to confirm or disallow any or all, as may appear necessary and reasonable.  6th. To examine into the state of the settlements in said town, and the claims of all settlers, and confirm them in their respective pitches, so far and upon such terms as shall appear reasonable and just.  7th. To see if the proprietors will ratify and confirm their former votes or grants of Land which they made for the encouragement of the settlement of the town—or as a compensation for expenditures and exertions made for promoting the settlement, opening Roads, building Mills, Bridges, &c. and what new grants they will make for said purposes.  8th. To make a division of the Lots to the Original Grantees rights or shares, and to the owners thereof in said town—and confirm such division as has already been made, so far as shall appear just and reasonable.  9th. To lay a Tax or Taxes, to raise money if found necessary, to defray expenses that have accrued or may accrue in the proprietary business.  10th. To choose a Committee to examine, adjust and settle all the proprietary accounts.  11th. To choose an Agent or Agents, and to empower them to prosecute all trespassers upon the land of the proprietors or owners, and to defend against any suit or suits that may be brought against them—And to do and transact all matters and things that may be necessary for carrying the business specified in the foregoing articles into effect. 
Colbrooke, April 12, 1803. AMASA KEYES, JOHN SMITH, PETER R. FIELD, WILLIAM THOMPSON, GILES LOOMIS.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Strafford, ss.
To the Proprietors of the town of Colebrooke, in the county of Grafton & State aforesaid; P URSUANT to the foregoing petition, Notice is hereby given, that a Public Meeting of said Proprietors will be held at the dwelling-house of Joseph Loomis, Esq. in said town of Colebrooke, on the twenty-fifth day of August next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purposes set forth in the petition aforesaid.
Given under my hand at Durham, in said county of Strafford, July 5th, A. D. 1803. EBENEZER SMITH, Justice Peace.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of Land in the township of DRYDEN, situate in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire—That a tax of TEN DOLLARS, on each Original Proprietors Right or share, (public Rights excepted) was voted by said proprietors at their meeting held the 11th day of April last, to defray proprietary expenses, which tax is assessed accordingly, and the assessment with their warrant is committed to me for collection.—THEREFORE said proprietors and owners are notified to pay said tax of Ten Dollars on each Original Right or share they own, to me at my dwelling-house in Colebrooke, in said county of Grafton, on or before the 25th day of August next, or the same will be levied by sale of so much of the interest or property of the proprietors or owners of Land in said township of Dryden, who shall be delinquent in payment, and the delinquents land will be advertised for sale, and sold accordingly, unless prevented by previous payment. JABEZ PARSONS, Collector for said Proprietors. Colebrooke, June 25, 1803.
SINGING SCHOOL.
MR. SANGER, informs the Ladies and Gentlemen, that he has opened a SCHOOL , for the instruction of Church Music, at the School Room now occupied by Mr. Jackson, in High-street, nearly opposite Messrs. N. & A. & F. Haven's store. Evenings of tuition, Monday, Wednesday and Friday.—For terms, apply at those nights. July 19, 1803.
NEW BOOK STORE, ON AN OLD SPOT.
CHARLES PEIRCE has removed from Buck to Daniel-street, on the very spot he formerly kept—where he is opening a complete assortment of BOOKS and Stationary , of almost every kind, description and quality, which he is determined to sell on such terms as will not fail to give satisfaction to every reasonable person, be they man, woman, or child.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
SCHEME
OF the First Class of a Lottery for raising two thousand Dollars, for the use of the Atkinson Academy , exclusive of incidental expenses, granted by a Law of said State, passed June 11th, 1803.
Said Class shall consist of 6000 Tickets, at a dollars each—12000 dollars. To be drawn in Prizes subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 pr. cent. —To wit—
 1 of 1000 dolls. is 1000 dolls.  1 of 500 - - 500  2 of 100 - - 200  6 of 50 - - 300  16 of 30 - - 480  36 of 20 - - 720  70 of 10 - - 700  300 of 6 - - 1800  1575 of 4 - - 6300 
2027 Prizes. 12000 3993 Blanks. N. B. The last drawn Blank to be entitled to the 500 dollar Prize.
The Managers flatter themselves that the sale of the Tickets will be such as that the drawing may commence on the second Tuesday in October next.
JOHN CALFE, EZEKIEL GILE, L. BARTLETT, } Managers. July, 1803. m*3.
TICKETS in the above Lottery, will be for sale in course of a few days, by N. S. & W. PEIRCE, Congress-street. July 19.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
To GEORGE GAINS, Esquire , one of the Justices of the Peace in said State.
THE subscribers, proprietors and owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of SHELBURNE, in the county of Grafton, in said State, request you to notify and warn the proprietors and owners of said township, to meet at the dwelling-house of SETH WALKER , keeper of the Bell Tavern, in Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham, in said State, on Monday the twenty-second day of August next, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes:—
 1st. To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting.  2d. To choose a Clerk, Treasurer, Assessors, and Collector.  3d. To raise a tax for the purpose of paying debts or demands, that now or hereafter may exist against said proprietary.  4th. To pass a vote or votes directing what papers relating to said township, and the former proceedings of the proprietors thereof, shall be received and recorded by the Clerk; and also to receive and ratify his report of the loss of the records and papers belonging to said proprietary, that were destroyed by the late fire in Portsmouth.  5th. To ratify, confirm and establish all or any grants, conveyances, divisions of said township, lotting thereof, drawing and severing of said lots, and all or any vote or votes by said proprietary heretofore made and passed; and that said votes, when so ratified and confirmed by said meeting, shall have the same validity and effect in and with the proprietary, and those claiming under them, as the record of the original votes.  6th. To sever and divide the lots in said township, and the addition to said township belonging to and among the proprietors thereof, in such way and manner as said meeting shall establish.  7th. To receive, examine, allow and pay all such accounts and demands as exist against said proprietary.  8th. To settle and establish a method for calling future meetings of the proprietors and owners of said township. 
Portsmouth, July 16, 1803. DANIEL R. ROGERS, ELIPHALET PORTER, JOHN RINDGE, ISAAC RINDGE, JOHN PEIRCE, HUNTINGTON PORTER.
PURSUANT to the foregoing request, I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors and others, owning land in said Shelburne, to meet at the time and place aforesaid, for the purposes set forth in the above request to me directed. Given under my hand, this 16th day of July, 1803. GEORGE GAINS, Justice Peace.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, ROCKINGHAM, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given, That Moses Brown and James Duncan, jun. two of the administrators of the estate of SAMUEL WHITE , late of Haverhill, in the county of Essex, Esquire, deceased, with his Will annexed, (which Will has been proved and allowed in the Probate Court for the said county of Essex) have produced a copy of the said Will, and a copy of the Probate thereof, duly authenticated, unto the Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, where the testator had real estate, whereon the said Will may operate; and in writing desired the same may be filed and recorded in the Probate Office in said county—and that the said Judge has assigned the nineteenth day of September next, and the Probate Office in Exeter, in said county, the time and place, for taking the same into consideration—when any person may appear and shew cause against the filing and recording the same. By Order of the Judge. WM. PARKER, Register.
RAGS.
CASH and the highest price given for Cotton, Cotton and Linen and Canvas Rags, by N. S. & W. Peirce, at their Bookstore in Congress-street. May 24, 1803.
REMOVED.
Peter Coffin, HAS removed to the New Fire Proof Store in Market-street, where a large assortment of Fashionable, Fancy & Staple GOODS, received by the late arrivals from
England, are now opened for Sale by Wholesale and Retail,—viz—
LONDON and Yorkshire superfine Broad-Cloths, of the most fashionable colours; Habit Cloths; Cassimeres; strip'd and plain black silk Florentines..
A great variety of Fashionable Waistcoating; Fustians; Jeans; Denims; plain, twill'd and silk Nankinets; Thicksets; Velvets; worsted and silk Plush.
A large assortment of Calicoes & Chintzes; Chintz and Dimity Furnitures; Muslinets; Dimities; Copperplates; Table Cloths; Diapers.
A great variety of Book, jaconet, cambric and sprig'd Muslins; Black and color'd Sarfnet Muslins and Ginghams; Muslin Handkerchiefs; Men's Neck-cloths.
Cambric muslin Shawls, with Nettings; silk, Camel's Hair, purple and chintz Shawls; Linen, Cotton, Bandanno and black silk Handkerchiefs.
Fashionable Florence Silks, for Gowns; Lustrings; Modes; Satins; Sarefnet; Tiffanies; Italian Crapes; Gauzes; Millinets.
A large assortment of Thread Laces and Edgings; black Laces; black Lace Cloaks; black Turkey Gauze, for Cloaks; black and white Lace Veils.
A great variety of Chip, willow and straw Bonnets; Fashionable silk Bonnets, full trim'd; fashionable black Beavers; Men's and boy's Hats.
A large assortment of Kid and morocco Shoes; Rosettes; Morocco Shoes, with cork soles; Morocco Slips.
A great variety of Ribbons; Cotton and silk Gown Trimmings; Gown Buttons; gold and silver Laces and Fringes; gold and silver Cords; color'd silk Cords; Glove-ties; cotton and silk Girdles; Straw Trimmings.
A variety of Black and fancy Feathers, Flowers and Wreaths; Fashionable Fans, some very elegant; crape, glaz'd and common black Fans; Parasols, some with walking sticks; Umbrellas; Garden Fans.
Fashionable pearl Necklaces; gold Ear-drops; gold and silver Epaulets; Spangles.
Mens and Youths cotton, hemp and silk Hose; Womens cotton & silk Hose, some with lac'd clocks; Womens extra long cotton and silk Gloves and Muffs, all colors; Kid Gloves; Mens beaver, wash leather, silk, thread and cotton Gloves; Stock Stiffeners; Cotton and silk Braces.
Cheap yard wide Linens, of a superior fabric; Irish Sheetings; Checks; Threads; embroidering and other sewing Silks; Bindings.
An assortment of White and chintz Bed Lace, Cords and Tassels; Carpets and Carpeting.
Fashionable gilt, steel, plated & common Buttons; Button Moulds; Sleeve Buttons; steel Knee Buckles; silver Thimbles; steel and gilt Watch Chains, Seals and Keys; Tooth Brushes; Pins; Smelling Bottles.
Tamnies; Durants; plain & rib'd Calimancoes; Shalloons; Ruffsels; Moreens; Taboreens; Florentines; Latins; Satinets, &c. &c. Portsmouth, May 17, 1803.
THE DIVINE HARMONIST, A collection of SACRED MUSIC,
IN four parts, designed for Public Worship; to which is added, an APPENDIX, containing a few Pieces particularly adapted to the service of the Protestant Episcopal Church—by JOHN COLE —is received and for sale by N. S. & W. Peirce, at their Bookstore, Congress-street, Portsmouth.
STRATED,
FROM Capt. Samuel Ham's Farm, about a month since, FOUR CALVES ; one is a Bull, one Heifer and two Steers—any person giving information of the same, shall be handsomely rewarded by
NOAH HOOPER. Portsmouth, July 26th, 1803.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the Estate of DUDLEY NORTON , late of Portsmouth, husbandman, deceased; are hereby requested to exhibit the same without delay for settlement, to MIRIAM NORTON, Administratrix. July 14, 1803.