The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1803-08-30 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
"By adopting REPUBLICANISM for our Polar Star, we shall endeavor to our countrymen the true principles of their Constitution, and promote an union of sentiment and of action, equally auspicious to their happiness and safety."
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. & W. PIERCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Amoskeag Canal Lottery.
THE object of this Lottery was to complete the Canal. The sum authorized by the Legislature of the States of New-Hampshire and Massachusetts is little more than half raised and received. The Locks only remain for finishing this Canal. They are mostly framed and on the spot; but are in a suffering condition to be put down; for want of them the public have greatly suffered the present season. Every person who has passed thro' the Slip, is witness to the truth of this fact; and should the Canal be neglected another season, which must be the case without the aid of this Lottery, the market in Boston, especially in the great article of wood, and indeed in all kinds of provisions, usually carried in boats, will be sensibly affected in that town. The Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal must also feel deeply interested in the sale of Tickets, in order to carry the completion of the AMOSKEAG CANAL into effect. The Proprietor flatters himself that these circumstances, in addition to the interest and ardent desire he feels in immediately completing his Canal, will sufficiently apologize for his offering to the public, at this time, the following SCHEME. If it meets the encouragement wished for, this small class will soon be drawn, and the next proceeds immediately applied toward putting down the Locks while the water is low.
This Class is small: and contains only 4000 Tickets, at 4 Dollars each—amounting to 16,000 Dollars. To be paid out in PRIZES, as follows:
   Prizes. Dollars. Dollars.     1 in Cash, 1000 = 1000   1 in 34 Shares in the Canal, at prime cost 1008 = 1008   2 of 42 Shares, 504 = 1008   1 in Cash of 500 = 500   2 200 = 400   5 100 = 500   40 50 = 2000   36 20 = 720   94 10 = 940   1185 5 = 5920   1367 Prizes amounting to 13,996   2633 Blanks.  
4000 Not two Blanks to a Prize. Subject to no deduction.
One of the above Prizes of 200 dollars will be assigned to the first drawn Blank, and that of 500 to the last drawn Blank. The Shares in the Canal will be conveyed by the Proprietor, reserving to himself the privilege of redeeming the same any time within two years from the time the Prize is paid off, by paying the amount of such Prize in money and the interest on the same to the time of redemption. The prime cost of each Share is 12 dollars. Prizes of 20 dollars and under will be paid on demand, and those above in thirty days from the publication of the List of Prizes. All Prizes not demanded within six months after drawing, will be considered as generously relinquished to the use of the design of the lottery. The public may be assured that Managers of approved characters will be soon appointed and duly sworn. The time and place of drawing will be made known. The signer of the Ticket is responsible for the payment of all Prizes, drawn against any number by him signed; and of course his whole Canal guarantees the payment of all Prizes. The Proprietor is sensible of the importance of his being punctual, and is prepared accordingly, by a deposit of Shares in the Canal at prime cost, amounting to double the sum of the whole Class of Tickets. These Shares will be placed in such a situation in Boston, that in case the said signer of the Ticket refuse or neglect to pay the Prize in time, the holder of such Prize can attach Shares to the amount of his Prize or Prizes and sell them at Public Auction, on giving five days previous notice to the signer of the Ticket. Beside this security, bonds are signed, and will be put into the hands of the Treasurer of the State of New-Hampshire. Though the deposit of Shares is quite sufficient and far preferable to the best bond that can be given; for in case the signer of any Ticket refuse or neglect to pay off the Prize in time, the holder of it can avail himself of his demand in five days; but where bonds are given, a long time may elapse before he can recover his money, in consequence of the tardiness of legal process.
N. B. Tickets are now for sale at Four Dollars each, by N. S. & W. PIERCE, Portsmouth; & SAMUEL ROWE, Exeter, and at Mr. JOSEPH KIMBALL's in Plawoff, in the State of New-Hampshire, about three miles north of Haverhill bridge, over which a Stage passes every day to Boston, Sundays excepted. All, who with well to the Canal may easily be supplied with Tickets from the before mentioned places. Tickets will soon be advertised for Sale, in other towns in the State of New-Hampshire.
SAMUEL BLODGETT. State of New-Hampshire, July 20, 1803.
Cheap Paper Hangings.
S. LITTLE has received a Consignment of Paper Hangings, Which will be sold at the same prices as at the Manufactory. Also, A few Hds. RUM at reduced price. A Premium given for Spanish Dollars.
Political Miscellany.
From the AURORA.
[No. VII.]
Further evidence of the federal valuation of Louisiana, and of the unfavourable influence on the negotiation and price, produced by the federal news-papers.
WE have adduced proofs in former numbers of valuations of the Mississippi country, by gentlemen of high federal character in the government, far beyond the price we are to pay. The debate lead to the vast importance of that interesting object. The most serious publication, made by an unknown hand, foreign or federal, has also been shown to place the value of the acquired territory incalculably beyond fifteen millions. Not content by fair means to support the value, it is believed that they resorted to a gross forgery, under the name of a French state paper.
We might now proceed to attach the same very high ideas of value to the province of Louisiana upon the authority of most of the federal newspapers, but as the detail would be tedious proof, the positive and strong will be confined to the Gazette of the United States and the federal paper of Frederick town in Maryland.
It will be found that the impression of the Gazette of the United States, which was published on the 27th May, 1803, after the subject was fully discussed and considered, continues to go every possible length upon the subject of the value of Louisiana. The Frederick town federal Gazette , which is of the most decided party character, had introduced the act of congress concerning the appropriation of the two millions, by a long preface. That preface and the act itself were re-published in the Gazette of the United States. The idea of buying Louisiana and New Orleans is particularly mentioned as being in contemplation. The Gazette of the United States and the Frederick town Herald, however affirm, that "the democrats cannot think the first consul Bonaparte, such a simpleton as to part with that country (Louisiana and New Orleans) for ANY compensation we can make him. " Thus it is represented that nothing in our command is enough for those objects.
We here irresistibly are led from the point of the intrinsic value of Louisiana and New Orleans to the unfortunate conduct of the writers and publishers of such suggestions as these. The two Gazettes promulgated the law of their country which allowed two millions of cash to be applied to this interesting object, merely as a just payment to put a seal upon the bargain; and they add to it a most impolite suggestion under the eyes of the agents of a foreign government (which they are incessantly representing as avaricious) that the government of France may venture to hold up Louisiana and New Orleans to the very highest price, which we may be thought able to pay! did they with the people of America to be subjected to an extravagant price, they could not have used means or language better adapted to produce an extravagant valuation of the object by the French sellers. The paragraph would have been wise and faithful in the Moniteur of Paris; but not in gazettes of Marylanders and Connecticut men. Had they wished to prevent the sale by France and the purchase by us, in order to lead to a quarrel, and a war between us and France, they took the way:—for they proclaimed before Bonaparte that the fine qua non of cordial good humor between our government and his was, beyond any thing we could pay, precious to him. Had they wished the French government to ask so high a price for Louisiana and New Orleans as to procrastinate the conclusion of a treaty of sale of those invaluable objects, 'till a British expedition could be sent thither to take them, they could not have adopted a surer mean, than to persuade the French agents here, that we ought to give an immense price, the asking of which would have obliged Messrs. Livingston and Monroe to write for the further sentiments of our government. If the Gazette of the United States, and the Frederick federal Gazette had produced such a delay the very worst consequences must have followed.—We may observe further, that, if the
editors of those two federal papers wished extravagant ideas of the value, on the part of France, to delay the negotiation, that our western citizens might be forced by distress and led by feeling to seize New Orleans, and bring on a war, which would have cast us into the serious condition of allies with a power, which admits that she can obtain no ally in Europe, the method those editors pursued, was well calculated for that pernicious end. This truly painful view of what has occurred on the subject will be here dropped with a single reflection that nothing can have so much contributed to raise the price for New Orleans and Louisiana upon us, as the full and even extravagant value openly and constantly put upon them by many of the federal editors of our American newspapers. There is not a considerable maritime power on the Atlantic coast of Europe, which is not regularly supplied with our principal newspapers, and political publications. The Frederick Gazette, though very decided in its politics, may have escaped notice in Europe; but it cannot be doubted that the Gazette of the United States must have reached the bureaus of the French department of state.
There is a strong distinction to be taken between the early arguments of the federal members of our government and those continued and latter arguments of our newspaper printers. The former were speaking on the policy of an immediate seizure of the country, the importance of which they therefore naturally placed in the strongest light before the Senate. But after the seizure was decidedly countenanced by a great majority of both houses of Congress, and by the President and all the Executive, when an act leading to a purchase was formally passed, and when a minister was appointed to negotiate with France and Spain, it was an ill conduct with persons, of the American family , to labor incessantly to raise the ideas of the French, as to the value of the object, to the utmost possible point . If the First Consul's ministers were assured by the printers of Maryland and Connecticut (states not having a primary interest in the purchase) that they considered Louisiana so immensely valuable , as to exceed the sum total of all our means (all our cash and all our credit) what must they suppose would be voted for Louisiana by New Connecticut, by West-New York, West Pennsylvania, Ohio, West-Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, the West-Carolinas, West-Georgia, and our organized territories on the Mississippi. Nothing can have been more perplexing and injurious than such publications, after the open rejection of forcible measures, and the appointment of a minister to acquire Louisiana exclusively, by negotiation. This unfortunate conduct of too many of the federal newspapers, will put virtuous, prudent and economical federalists on their guard against the embarrassing and costly effects of such conduct on future occasions. It will not be thought extreme or harsh to make these observations, for it is reduced to an absolute certainty that the minister of the United States in Paris, and the Gazette of the United States in America, were in direct collision. Mr. Livingston's memorial evidences the utmost zeal and exertion to convince the First Consul's minister in Paris, that it was not the interest of France to hold New Orleans and Louisiana, while the Gazette of the United States, and too many others, were laboring to make the First Consul's minister at Washington believe that it would be the most extreme impolicy in the French government to accept any American offer for them. There is scarcely an argument or fact, which will tend to lessen the force of the reasonings and truths in Mr. Livingston's memorial, but what may be found in the columns of some of the American federal gazettes, between the autumn of 1802, and the present time. It behoves government and the citizens of the United States of all parties, seriously to consider this undeniable and evil course of things, and unitedly to search for the domestic and foreign causes of an unfortunate spirit, which promotes the operations or views of rival or conflicting governments at the expence of vast savings and advantages, which, but for such publications might be acquired by
our own.—Observations of this nature are made with the utmost pain, but they are dictated by imperious necessity. COLUMBUS.
Extract from an Oration delivered at Kennelbunk, at the late anniversary of Independence, by STEPHEN TWACHER.
"It has often been remarked that Mr. Gallatin came to this country, when he was but a youth. He was indeed a citizen at the adoption of the constitution, and as such eligible, even to the high office of President of the United States. It should be remembered that foreigners, both in ancient and modern times, have often proved eminent blessings to the countries in which they lived. JOSEPH was a foreigner in Egypt. He came there in circumstances of great poverty, and was barbarously traduced; but the king justified himself in appointing him to the first office in the treasury department by saying, Who is like him? Mordecai, first minister to Ahasuerus, who proved such an universal blessing to the people of Persia, was also a foreigner. He had, it is true, like all good men in all ages, some very bitter enemies; particularly another foreigner whose character was impure, as his was spotless, and who was his unworthy predecessor in office, and who conspired with all his partisans to destroy him. This wicked, unprincipled Haman pretended to dislike Mordecai, because he was a Jew; his own foreign nativity he did not hold to be a crime. The prophets Jeremiah, Ezekiel & Daniel, beside others, were also foreigners. Daniel was a foreigner from his youth. His appointment to the office of first minister in the Persian empire, procured him also the most inveterate enemies, who profaned religion, by endeavouring to convert it into an engine for his destruction. Their signal ruin, and the manner in which they miserably perished in the very pit they had digged for him, ought to be a warning to those wretched politicians, who, in all ages have regarded religion, only as capable of being converted into an instrument of wickedness.
"Numa, the best king of the Romans; Constantine, the first christian emperor; prince Eugene, one of the bravest generals which ever led the Austrian armies; William the 3d, the memorable prince of Orange, with a multitude of others, too numerous to be mentioned, who have proved distinguished blessings to the countries which they have severally adopted, have also been foreigners. The immortal Count Rumford, the celebrated Mr. West, the famous astronomer, Herschel, are also foreigners. Mr. Herschel is a German, and the pride of G. Britain. Count Rumford and Mr. West are Americans. The most distinguished honors are heaped on them in the countries in which they live, countries which have too much good sense, or too little of the madness of party spirit, to entertain the narrow ingenuous prejudice against them, at this time, in question. Even Bonaparte himself, the distributor of the fates of modern Europe, is a foreigner in France. Nor should it be forgotten, as has often been repeated, that Mr. Gallatin is not the first foreigner, who has been appointed to the office which he now holds; that Mr. Jefferson has only followed the venerable example of Washington. Those who framed the constitution, did not think on this point, as some of those do, who profess to hold it in the greatest admiration. If all foreigners must be excluded, how many, of the most distinguished ornaments of the nation, must be proscribed! Who,
*There is sometimes a strange and unaccountable coincidence between names and circumstances.
"Mr. Hamilton was born at St. Croix in the West Indies, and came to the United States at the age of eighteen. Mr. Gallatin was born at Geneva, and came to the U. States at the age of nineteen. They both performed personal services in the revolutionary war. They were both citizens at the adoption of the federal constitution. Mr. Hamilton had been in the United States from about the year 1771, to 1788, seventeen years, when appointed Secretary. Mr. Gallatin had been in the United States from the year 1780, to 1801, twenty-one years, when appointed to the same office."
indeed, is there of us all who is not of foreign extraction? Few can claim the honor of aboriginal citizenship. Such a man as Mr. Gallatin would do honor to any country under heaven. And shall we be deprived of his wonderful talents, merely on account of the geography of his birth? how unexceptionable must be that man's character, when no imputation will suffice against him, but the crime of foreign nativity!"
Late Foreign Intelligence.
PARIS, JUNE 25.
FRENCH EXPEDIENT.
Since the project announced in one of our late numbers to let all ships go to execution dressed in English manufactures, all English goods for wear have acquired the name of Etoffe d'Assassin : As this appellation is properly applied, for more than one reason, none but the most shameless of mankind can more attempt to appear in English manufactures!
The following is the answer of the Consistory of the reformed Church to the letter of Bonaparte, informing of the commencement of war, and requesting prayers that Heaven would bless the arms of France.
Citizen First Consul,
The religion of God is the friend of peace, and this character belongs, in the most decided manner to his ministers. It was therefore the real sentiment of the reformed Church of Paris, which wished you success, when you exchanged the flaming sword of war for the olive branch of peace. But alas, citizen First Consul, why have we not been suffered to enjoy longer the fruits of your labour? Why are you forced, however reluctant, again to try the hazards of war; again to gird on the sword? We regret with you this painful necessity. But confiding with you in the justice of our cause, we unite with all France in wishing you success.
The consistory of the reformed church of Paris, is composed of citizens who, equally as landholders, magistrates, and merchants, are among the number of those who have nothing dearer at heart, than to avenge an unjust attack on their country.
But the same citizens offer you here the homage of the whole congregation. At the same time that sentiments of humanity induce them to wish ardently the return of a peace, consistent with national honor, which cannot but be favourable to the service of God. They also promise you their assistance, to the extent of their abilities, in producing that desired event. Yes, they congratulate themselves, that they are in this respect united with all ranks of citizens who form the extended population of this republic.
Accept, Citizen First Consul, the expression of our zeal for the good of our country; and while our Joshua must fight, our Moses shall not get tired of holding up his hands to the God of Battles, praying his blessings on the efforts of our legions, so much accustomed to conquer; while the rash boastings of our enemies shall only serve to give an additional stimulus to our exertions, and our success will be more valued, the more dearly it is purchased.
Done in consistory at Paris, 12 Prairal, 11 Year. (Signed) P. H. MARLON, President. RABAUT, jun. Secretary.
The First Consul set off on the 4th Messidor, in the evening, upon his journey to the united Departments of the North; he spent the 5th at Morfontaine the feat of his Brother, Citizen Joseph Bonaparte. The inhabitants of Paris look as impatiently for his return as those of the North wished for the happiness of seeing the man to whose matchless valor, wisdom and virtue all Europe is so much indebted.
The English Journalists now loudly revile the august Sovereign of Russia for not having prevented France from taking possession of Hanover, and cry with all hypocrisy of Demon-banality, that force is suffered to take the place of justice. In the very same paper, however, they write with triumphing insolence—"The eastern arm of Plymouth harbour is now quite a Wood of Prizes and detained

ships; there is just room enough left for a passage way: It seems to rain Prizes." How these modern aristocrats can reconcile with justice the capture of ships and property, before any declaration of war, and the detention (as they call it) of neutral ships, is what we candidly confess our total ignorance of: But as to this rain of Prizes, we are sure that it is of the nature of those autumnal rains, by which not unfrequently all the labours of the year are lost: It is a rain which will soon bring after it a torrent that cannot fail to sweep away the present boasters, even in the midst of their transient rejoicings; and will leave England to forrow through a long winter of distress.
Invasion of England.
PARIS, JULY 3.
Among the latest subscriptions for the building of ships of war and flat-bottomed boats for effecting a descent on England, are the following:—Department of the Seine & Oise, 300,000 francs; Department of La Manche, 750,000 francs; Department of the Ourthe, 300,000 francs; Department of the Lower Rhine, sixteen flat-bottomed boats; Department of La Gironde, a vessel of 80 guns; the town of Beauvais, 8000 francs; Department of the Seine & Oise, 120,000 francs; the National Institute, 6000 francs; General Valletaux, of the Legislative Body, 600 francs; the towns of Cherbourg, Saint-Lo, Coutances, and Bayonne, a great number of flat-bottomed boats.
LONDON, JULY 7.
Letters from Guernsey, of the 22d, state that serious dispositions have been made along the French coast, for an invasion of those islands: The principle force was collected at St. Malo. Sir James Saumarez has made the most judicious arrangement of his squadron to defeat the enterprise; and the troops &c. were held in constant readiness for service.
It is confidently stated in letters from Dunkirk, that three encampments are immediately to be formed along the coast from Cherbourg, and to extend into the Batavian territory. The first to be established at Cherbourg, is to consist of 60,000 men; the second at St. Omer, of 100,000; and the third in Holland, of 40,000 men.
The plan of the expedition against this country will, it is said, in letters from Brussels, receive much development from the tour which Bonaparte is making along the coast.
Continental Affairs.
BRUSSELS, JULY 3.
Letters from Upper Germany announce, that General Mortier is employed upon a regulation for the free Navigation of the Elbe and the Weser, which will be made public, immediately.
HAMBURGH, JUNE 22.
The Hanoverian army have already delivered over to the French 460 pieces of artillery, besides 20,000 muskets, and 5000 hussar pistols.
It is reported that some French privateers have captured seven English merchantmen in the North Seas.
NAPLES, JUNE 15.
The following Ordinance has just been published: "In consequence of the declaration of war which has just taken place between the French Republic and the King of England, the King, preserving a perfect neutrality, orders that none of his subjects enter into the service of one or other of the belligerent Powers."
LONDON, JULY 7.
It is now understood on the Continent, that the Hanseatic States will be respected, and it is even reported, in one of the official Journals, that the Northern Powers desire to mediate between the two Countries. The inclination of these Powers to such an office, appears wanting, and what rational hopes could be entertained of their interference, if commenced upon?—When two Powers, fatigued with the sword, resolve to have a respite of peace, a Congress may settle the terms of the reconciliation, but the pacific mind is before evident; but when war is scarcely begun, a Congress to settle grievances, is absurd, until the parties have proved in the field how much can be retained, and how much remitted.
We mentioned in our last that with all the probable stipulations of Prussia, Hamburg would be allowed but a limited independence—Accordingly, it is reported, she has offered a considerable bribe to the French Government to permit her a free intercourse with England.—The States of Hanover, it appears, are oppressed by heavy contributions, and it is certain something is at present negotiating with the Northern Powers respecting its fate.
The ports of Italy are stated to be closely blockaded up by our Fleets.
Symptoms of Pacification.
PARIS, JULY 6.
We are assured that the Prussian Minister at London has offered to the British Government the mediation of his Sovereign, and that he received in reply that the mediation of Prussia would be conjointly with Russia.
LONDON, JUNE 30.
There are strong grounds for believing that a negotiation, the principle of which was first suggested by Bonaparte, is now carrying on between our Government and the Court of Madrid. Spain is extremely desirous to preserve a strict neutrality during the war; and the First Consul has agreed to abstain from any attack on Portugal, as well as from all pecuniary requisitions, if our Government consents to recognize the neutrality of Spain.
JULY 11. The Secretary to the Russian Embassy at Paris is arrived in town. There can be no doubt that he is charged with propositions of importance, relative to negotiation. He was probably the bearer of the dispatches received yesterday.
The hopes of a speedy termination of the war appear to be much more sanguine at Paris than in London.—We received this morning intelligence from Paris, to the 10th, which states, that a belief prevails there of the Prussian Minister at London having offered the mediation of Prussia, which the British Government had consented to accept, conjointly with the mediation of Russia. It is added, that the Court of Berlin has actually drawn up a plan for arranging the disputes between the two countries, the principal points of which are—
1. That Malta shall be occupied by Russian troops for ten years and that they shall be paid by England and France jointly. 2. That Malta shall be ceded to the Order at the expiration of ten years, and shall be garrisoned by Neapolitan troops. 3. That the Island of Lampedosa shall be ceded to Great Britain.
We are wholly unable to state what degree of credit, or whether any is due to these rumours.—We have indeed been officially informed, that His Majesty's Ministers expect little from the mediation of Russia; and it is certain that there is nothing in the present position of either of the Belligerent Powers which can justify any pacific expectation.
Dispatches were yesterday received at the Foreign Office from St. Petersburg. They were brought by a Russian Courier, who reached Downing-street about one o'clock and were instantly forwarded by Mr. Shaw, the Messenger, to Lord Hawkesbury, at Coombe. Messengers were also sent off to Mr. Addington, Lord Hobart, and the other Cabinet Ministers with an account of the arrival at the dispatches. The Russian Courier, after delivering his charge at the Foreign Office, instantly proceeded to Count Woronzow's house. He came from Petersburg by the way of Paris, and brought over several letters from our countrymen in France, which were deposited in the Foreign Office.
JULY 12. The Brussels papers to the 9th, which we received this morning, have brought the important news, that, as the King of England has refused to ratify the Convention of Sublingen, the French Government have sent orders to disarm the Hanoverian troops. For this purpose, the French army has been put in motion, and is to cross the Elbe immediately to execute the orders of the First Consul. The Hanoverian troops are determined not to be disarmed without risking a battle, which is expected to take place as soon as the French have crossed the Elbe. They were expected to cross it on the 11th. The Hanoverians have erected batteries on the North bank of the river, and have taken very strong positions.
The Brussels papers contain also another piece of important news. It is that Alexandria has been taken by a corps of Albanians. These troops formed the flower and strength of the Turkish army: The withholding their pay produced a revolt, and they drove the Turkish Commandant out of the city. This event has produced a great sensation at Constantinople.
HAGUE, JUNE 28.
Notwithstanding the promises made by the English Government to ours, of not interrupting the fishery in the North Seas, some English pirates this morning captured off our coasts upwards of 60 fishing boats, and thus, besides the loss of the boats, have deprived us of 200 excellent seamen.
On the evening of the 25th an extraordinary meeting of the Government was held, in consequence of this proceeding. The result of their deliberation was, that the Council of Marine immediately dispatched orders to all the ports to lay an embargo on the fishing boats.
Copy of a letter from Lord HAWKESBURY to Mr. KING, dated May 19th, 1803.
Downing Street, May 19, 1803.
SIR,
Having laid before the king your letter of the 15th of this month, in which you inform me, that a treaty was signed at Paris on the 30th of last month, by the plenipotentiaries of America and France, by which the sovereignty of the town and territory of New Orleans, as well as of all Louisiana, has been acquired by the United States;—I have received his majesty's commands to express to you the pleasure with which his majesty has received this intelligence, and to add, that "his majesty regards the care which has been taken to frame this treaty as not to infringe any right of Great Britain in the navigation of the Mississippi as the most satisfactory evidence of a disposition on the part of the government of the United States correspondent to that which his majesty entertains, to promote and improve that harmony and good understanding which so happily subsist between the two countries, and which are so conducive to their mutual benefit." I have it also in command to assure you, Sir, that the sentiments which you have expressed in making this communication, are considered by his majesty's government as an additional proof of the cordiality and confidence which you have uniformly manifested in the whole course of your public mission, and which have so justly entitled you to the esteem and regard of his majesty's government. I desire you to accept the assurance of the distinguished consideration with which I have the honor to be, &c.
HAWKESBURY. RUFUS KING, Esq. &c. &c.
WAR MINISTRY.
Lieutenant General Mortier, commander in chief of the Hanoverian army, gives an account to the Minister of war that he made his entry into the city of Hanover on the 16th inst.; the most exact discipline has been maintained, two soldiers of the 48th demibrigade found guilty of pillaging and other excesses have been shot.
The army has found in Hanover 15,000 stand of new arms, 5000 pair of pistols, 60 forage waggons with good horses; 100 pieces of ordnance of different calibres, materials for a bridge for the passage of the Elbe; magazines full of powder; a foundery in excellent condition and well stored.
According to the inventory of pieces found in the fortresses of Hameln, more than 500 cannon were delivered up to the French Army.
The General of Brigade, Frere, who occupies Harzburg State, is on his march for Cuxhaven, in order to prevent the departure of all the English vessels in the river Elbe.
General Rivaud, who occupies Verden, is charged to carry into effect the same operation upon the course of the Weser and at its mouth.
The park of field pieces which belonged to the Hanoverian army, now at Zell, has been given up to General Dulaoy, commander of the artillery; it is composed of 40 field pieces and 100 caissons all drawn by good horses.
General Mortier adds that, although he has found but little money in the chests, they will nevertheless furnish sufficient for the pay of the troops, and that henceforth the French Army in Hanover will only have to receive the orders of the First Consul.
The General of division Nansouty, commandant of the cavalry, was only the arrival of his depot in order to pass in review the different corps and put the cavalry on the best footing.
The inventories already received from different parts of Hanover, mention that more than 400,000 lbs. of gun-powder, 3000 cartridges and 40,000 muskets have been found, in the magazines.
By the muster roll of the Hanoverian army, the prisoners of war, amount to 26 battalions of Infantry, of 500 men each, officers included forming from 11 to 12 thousand men and 23 squadrons of cavalry amounting to about 4000 men, in all.
The company of artillery amounts to near 700 men. The garrison of the fortresses of Hameln was composed of three battalions of Infantry, one squadron of cavalry, one regiment of veterans of a thousand men, four officers of engineers and one officer of the corps of miners.
General Dulaoy writes that he is very actively employed in arranging his grand park of artillery; which wants for nothing, and that he abounds in warlike necessaries.
General Leopold Berthier, chief of the staff, gives an account of the forced marches which the army has made, the least of which was ten leagues a day; these rapid marches were across a boggy country, that presented no sort of resource. The soldiers have supported all these fatigues together with the most painful privations, with a confidence and courage which they constantly received the example of, from the General in Chief, they are now recompensed for these ten days of fatigue and privation, by their present situation, and above all by the satisfaction of having fulfilled by their celerity the intentions of Government.
Extract of a private letter from London— "It is now openly asserted by the most intelligent men here, that the reign of George the third will prove the most disastrous that England has ever seen. It has lasted but too long for any good we have derived from it, and it is likely to last until England has no more to lose. There can be no doubt but Ireland will soon share the happy lot of America and Hanover, in being freed from the iron sceptre of an inept race, possessed of neither valour, integrity,
or honor; and then what can prevent the conquest of Scotland and England?"
"In allusion to all this, a merry fellow cried out the other day in a coffee-house—that notwithstanding the present bulky frame of King George, it was most likely that he would suddenly fall away in such a manner as to afford Charon a very light cargo across the Styx."
The king of England, honing the day after the conclusion of the Peace which sealed the freedom and independence of America, brayed a little from the rest of the company, and getting at last beler with walls, hedges and ditches either too high or too broad to leap over, he asked a farmer to show him the way out. Why, answered the farmer, not knowing him to be the king, take the way you came in. Come, come, resumed his Majesty, a little angry. I am the king; if you don't show me the way, I shall be thrown out. Oh! returned the farmer, I have often heard it said, that if our monarch was not more of a huntsman than of a king, he would never have lost the finest jewel in his crown,—and that if England itself was not tied to his A...., he would lose it also; but I never thought that what he could be to bad a huntsman as not to find his way out of a field after getting into it; and so having the farmer left his Majesty to find his way himself, Hanover, which was not tied to his A...., is also lost! E' vero et ben Trovato.
On the Duke of York's return to England, after his glorious retreat from Dunkirk, an elderly woman, whose son was a private in a regiment serving on the continent, accosted him in the street and returned his Royal highness a thousand thanks. Being asked for what?—Oh, God bless your Highness!" said she, if you had not run away from Dunkirk, my son would certainly have been killed on that day.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge with doublets have a triumphal entry into London on account of his glorious exploits on the banks of the E. be.
BY THE LAST MAILS.
WASHINGTON, AUGUST 19.
A statement, in some measure incorrect, having been made in an Alexandria print of the reported capture of an American vessel by an Algerine frigate, it becomes proper to state the circumstances on which the report is founded.
Mr. Cohearn, our former consul at Tripoli, but residing now at Leghorn, has enclosed to the secretary of state an extract from the Florence Gazette containing an article under the Naples head, dated June 18, stating that an action had a short time before taken place between an Algerine frigate and an American vessel which had lately sailed from Naples, with Mr. Smith, charge des affaires, on board, who had come from Rome for the purpose of taking a passage home. The American vessel was obliged to yield to superior force.
Since the receipt of this letter, another of subsequent date, viz. June 22, has been received from Mr. Caucari, advising that he had received no further information respecting the capture. Considering it, however, possible, he immediately wrote circulars to the several American consuls on the Barbary coast requiring their interposition in case the vessel should prove to be captured.
The belief of this information should, in our opinion, be received with some hesitation. It may be no other than a report arising from the capture, about the same time, of a Neapolitan frigate by the Adams. Or if an American vessel has been captured, it may have been by a Tripolitan cruiser. The vessels of the Barbary powers are so similar to each other in appearance, that frequent mistakes arise in appropriating them to their respective nations.
Kentucky Elections.—The elections for Representatives in Congress have taken place in Kentucky.
John Fowler is re-elected without opposition.
John Boyle, is also elected without opposition.
In the 4th district, four counties give Mr. Sandford 1,509 votes; Mr. Johnson 374, Mr. Henry 370, and Mr. Daves 168, Mr. Sandford is probably elected.
General Walton and Major Bendinger are probably elected by two other districts.
The Frankfort Palladium says "Our republican friends at a distance may rest assured, that Kentucky will send to the eighth Congress an unanimous republican representation."
Thus it appears, notwithstanding all the measures of violence or intrigue, pursued by the opponents of the present administration, to alienate the affections of the Western people, they remain steadfast in the faith of their fathers, and bid fair to leave it as their best legacy to their children. We have been told, from high authorities, that Kentucky had changed her politics. We doubted, and demanded proofs. Our enemies were silent. We now give them demonstration that they have not changed, but that they remain as firm republicans as they ever were.
We believe these sentiments, in that region of America will be immovable—Why?—Because there a spirit, truly American, prevails; there, there are no shackles of prejudice for either France or England; and there the leading interest is agriculture, which will long continue to be predominant.
BALTIMORE, AUGUST 18.
In the month of April last, the Republican sch'r Telegraph brought into Jacmel the ship Union, sloop Dolphin, and sch'r Mary, all of Nantucket, who were found whaling in some bay on the south side of Hispaniola.—At the time of their capture, the nearest to the shore of the above three vessels, was distant three and an half leagues; the other two, from one to two leagues without her. However, the conscientious captain of the Telegraph (to bring them within reach of the law, which Gen. Leclerc had made, and which only affected vessels found within two leagues of the shore) solemnly deposed, that they were all
within half a league of the land, and further, that the sch'r Mary was at anchor, which happened to be the outermost vessel, and at least 5 leagues distant from shore. They were accordingly libelled; the crews driven ashore into the forts, and detained as prisoners, not being able to stir without the ramparts, although they were at the same time stationed at particular guns, and held to defend the place in case of an attack from the brigands, who were within half cannon shot.—The plea for their detention was, that they might possibly have been supplying the insurgents, although the articles they had on board proved, beyond all possibility of doubt, that they were solely following their usual occupation; as, after the strictest search on board, nothing was found but oil, the produce of their fishery, and the necessary implements for carrying it on. Notwithstanding the irrefragable proofs of their innocence, the impartial court at Port-au-Prince pronounced their condemnation; which, however, was so tardy, that before the determination of this case, which took up more than two months, out of 38 men, the number of souls in the three vessels, not one half was left alive from the confinement, bad provisions, and other ill treatment they met with in this detestable country. Capt. Clisby died in the month of June—what became of the other two captains, Smith and Folger, is not known. Such proceedings require no comment—they set the conduct of the French, in that quarter, in its true light.
PHILADELPHIA, AUG. 16.
The London Morning Chronicle of June 13th says that Gen. Stuart is ordered with 3000 men from Malta to Sicily, to protect that island against the attacks of the French. He will take post in the vicinity of Messina, in order to defend the narrow pass, and a British squadron is kept cruising in the straits of Messina, and on the northern coasts of the island.
BRITISH CAPTURES.
American ship Thomas, with wine and cotton captured and sent into the Downs, by the British frigate L'Immortale.
American ship Commerce, from Rotterdam for Philadelphia, with 200 Swifs on board—captured by British sloop of war Ranger.
The Levina, of and from N. York, for Amsterdam, has been sent into Plymouth.
The American brig Peggy, Peters, from Virginia to Havre, is sent into the Downs by the Ranger sloop of war.
The Gofport, Chamberlain, from Virginia, is detained in the Downs.
American Seamen impressed.
Brig Bellona, Capt. Delano, for N. Bedford, from Ireland, boarded off Tenerife, by a British frigate, pressed four of his men.
Schr. Perseverance, Capt. Coyle, of New-York, from Aux Cayes, boarded off Bite of Leogane, by the British sloop of war Snake; took out several letters, & impressed one man.
Brig Favorite, Fryer, of Norfolk, from Antigua, boarded by the British brig Busy, in the harbour of St. John's and Thomas Ross, impressed.
NEW YORK, AUGUST 20.
The ship Oliver-Elsworth, Capt. Henry, arrived here last evening, in 36 days from Rochelle. Capt. H. informs that great preparations are making for the invasion of England. Bonaparte was visiting the coast of France.—On the first of July he was at Bologne, where he reviewed the batteries, &c. of that port. Admiral La Crosse, from Guadalupe, in the frigate La Consolante, had arrived at Rochefort. On her passage she captured an English sloop of war of 20 guns, which was daily expected.
Capt. Nichols from the Cape, informs, that on the 28th July, off that port, in sight of numerous spectators on shore, an English frigate of 20 guns attacked a French 74, and a running fight continued for some time, when a 44 came up, poured a broad side into the 74, and the immediately struck.—There was another 74, and a frigate in company, but they crowded all sail and made off, and were pursued by the British.
KEENE, AUG. 13.
AFFECTING ACCIDENT.
Two children of Mr. Phin's Wright, Roxana, aged 11, and Fanny, aged 8, were unfortunately drowned in Achuelot-river, on the Friday of last week. They went down to the river about 3 o'clock, and probably attempted to pass it, where they had often done before, when the water was low; but the late rains having raised the water, it is supposed they were deceived in the depth, mistook a quantity of moss near the surface of the water for solid earth, and were swept into the current. Their bodies were found about 11 o'clock at night, and on Sunday respectfully interred. The concourse of people at the funeral was immense—about 500 followed in procession.

Portsmouth. TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1803.
SUMMARY—FOREIGN.
By the arrival of the John Adams, Capt. Wood, at Boston, from Liverpool, we are enabled to lay before our readers accounts received from London up to the 12th of July. We learn from them that rumours prevailed there, but more so at Paris, of the mediation of Prussia and Russia in the present emergency of affairs. We are wholly unable to say what degree of credit, if any, is to be given to this report. From various accounts it appears, that the preparations making for the invasion of Great Britain, are very formidable and are to be mature for actual operation soon. This has made great consternation in England, where measures are taking for the raising of a formidable, at least numerous militia. The Senate and Tribunate of France, in their addresses to the First Consul, exhibit a spirit of unlimited confidence in his person, and an unanimous and ardent desire of co-operating effectually in all measures, to be adopted, for the vigorous prosecution of the present war; for the opposing the encroachments of the ambitious and perfidious enemy of France;—and for the establishment of the peace and security of Europe at large. Much has been said by England and her friends, in vindication of the present war: and no endeavours have been omitted to fully the fame of BONAPARTE, and the actual administration of France; under the plausible and ideal pretence of their violation of the treaty of Amiens. These arguments may be of weight with the uninformed or prejudiced; but without appealing to the non-evacuation of Malta, and the diligenious and infincere conduct of the British ministry, during the late negotiation, let us turn our eyes and fix our attention for but a few moments on transactions of a later date;—let us behold the English pirates (notwithstanding their repeated assurances and promises to the Batavian government, to the contrary) let us behold them capturing their fishing boats, and thus depriving them of their most excellent seamen.—And allow us then to ask, what idea impartial men must form of British faith? Some individuals have been zealous in endeavouring to inculcate, that it was with the greatest reluctance that England saw itself involved in war; that ministers would improve the first opening towards a reconciliation. It requires but a few words to convince our impartial readers of the fallhood of these suggestions; in pointing their attention & fixing the same on the offered mediation of the king of Prussia; the recent proposal sent by BONAPARTE, offering the restoration of Hanover for Malta; and their rejection by his Britannic Majesty. Were not these openings towards a reconciliation? The fact is this—England has no other security than her navy, and that navy cannot be supported in times of peace. No alternative remains then but war;—the spoils of which tend to the removing of these difficulties, by enabling them to suffice for the enormous naval expences. For more particular information we refer our readers to the articles of Foreign Intelligence.
Some of our prints have endeavored to propagate a report, that England had intimated to our government their determination of taking possession of Louisiana. We are happy in being enabled to refute these assertions, in laying before the public Lord HAWKESBURY's official note to RUFUS KING, Esq. on the subject, which will be found in the preceding columns.
Bonaparte, it is said, is the most industrious man in all France. It is said George is going to take the field against this Corsican, he must rise early; for he is not to beumbered with the seven sleepers.
It is said the Dukes of York and Cambridge will be the king's aid-de-camps when England is invaded, as they know how to retreat!
If the people of Great Britain are to rise en mass, for the honor of Old England, we hope they will not take the Hanoverians for their patrons. It is more likely some of the good Alde-men will fall en mass: as they have a wonderful alacrity in sinking.
Should all the placemen and pensioners in Britain turn into soldiers, they would form an army of themselves; but unfortunately, like Rofs and Morris, they mean other people should fight the French, while they enjoy the leaves and filices.
A London paper of June 30th, says, Mr. Monroe, whose appointment to the office of Ambassador from the United States, in room of Mr. King, we announced some time since, is now on his way from Paris, and is expected in London this week.
We learn (says the National Intelligencer) that the CONVENTION between the United States and France, ceding to us LOUISIANA was ratified on the part of France by the First Consul the 2nd of May; and that Mr. Jay is on his way to this country with the ratifications. [The New-York papers mention the arrival of Mr. Jay
COMMUNICATION. A writer in the Oracle against Democracy, would be puzzled in proving that the will of the people was ever opposed to moral relations and the fitness of things. They have on the contrary been found to acknowledge, and exert themselves, that laws should be founded in justice and benevolence. The will of the People, assembled to form a government, was never hostile to moral relations and the laws of rectitude, or for establishing any laws of a partial or oppressive tendency. The latter have been always imposed by unprincipalled monsters in human shape, lusting for uncontrolled power. Long have they been the scourge of mankind, the oppressors of the People. But their day is over, and their end is come. That virtue which, by the SUPREME, was implanted in the hearts of the People, is becoming universally victorious over those implacable enemies both to God and man.
That which the writer in the Oracle calls the principle of Democracy, namely that laws are things wholly dependent upon public will, and that what is not the public will cannot be a good law, is truth uncontrovertable, and acknowledged by the best writers of all ages. As the writer desires no other proof of his position than what one state of the Union affords, if that fails him, he must allow himself vanquished? We have then, he says, only to look at Pennsylvania, and what find we there? Do we see the People hostile to moral relations, and making a wicked will law? So far from it, in that State is exhibited a grand and striking view of the PEOPLE OPPOSING AND RISING SUPERIOR TO the wicked machinations of those enemies, who would seize exalt their tyrannic will, and give it a baleful effect by embodying it into a law. But they see the superiority of Liberty and virtue—imbrised disappointment! They see it, and gnash their teeth, and foam in rage and despair.
VERITAS.
One of the most infolent and unprincipled slanderers that infests this or any other country is an Englishman of the assumed name of Carpenter who writes for the Charleston Courier. One of his late papers contains an ordinary article in abuse of democracy, the government of our country, which, he says, "sets out with pernicious folly, stumbles at the threshold, continues to blunder and stumble in a headlong effort till it knocks its own brains out against an opposite wall, and does much mischief to itself and all it comes in contact with—look to Pennsylvania" Are the citizens of this country willing to heat the institutions on which their political happiness depend, insulted and derided in this manner by a British hireling. We repeat, "look to Pennsylvania," to democratical Pennsylvania and obseive the morals, the virtue and the prosperity of its inhabitants; than look to Great Britain, and view the blessings of morality and aristocracy combined; the head must ficken, the heart must faint at the comparison.
This British emissary, too, not content with opposing and contemning the institutions and administration of our country, seeks to embroil it with a foreign friendly power by continual venting his national and implacable hatred against the French. Speaking of the government of that nation he calls them "Bonaparte, Talien, Talleyrand, and the few rigicidies whom the justice and mercy of God has not swept off by violent & horrible deaths." Has this infamous libeller forgotten that his favorite government will not suffer publications of this kind in London? On the trial of Peltier the doctrines on this subject were amply laid down from the royal authority. And that such libels and slanders against foreign nations should not be tolerated in this country, we might infer from the opinions of the anglo-federal party in the United States, who condemn the reading of the declaration of independence, in which the king of England is called a tyrant, on the ground of the injustice and impolicy of exciting animosity and revenge in foreign nations with whom we are upon friendly terms, by recurring to past quarrels and charging its government with crimes and villianies. But that class of men who are employed in endeavoring to "write down" the administration, governed by no principles and bound by no laws, equally disregard the doctrines heretofore professed by themselves or others, when clashing with their present nefarious design. If such violators of decency and disturbers of peace should be dealt with according to the usages of their mother kingdom, instead of abusing the advantage of our mild and equitable laws, out of their own mouths would they be condemned.—Bee.
From Lisbon.—Capt. Norris, arrived at Salem from Lisbon, which place he left the 30th June, informs, that it was rumoured at Lisbon, that a French army was on its march for that place; and that the English merchants were preparing to remove some to America, and among these Mr. Butkley, who had lent his property, by different vessels, to Philadelphia. Capt. N. informs that about the 10th of June, an English frigate failed from Lisbon for Gibraltar, and on the 12th was cast away.
LIFE of Washington. Gentlemen wishing to possess this valuable publication, have now a favourable opportunity of effecting their intentions. Mr. ORMSROD, who has engaged to assist the Proprietor, Mr. C. P. WAYNE, of Philadelphia, in obtaining subscriptions for the above work, is now in this town, on his tour through the eastern States. Mr. O. we understand has thus far been very successful in prosecuting the object of his mission, and, from the public spirit of our citizens, we have no doubt, a handsome addition will be made, in this town and State, to the numerous and honorable list of patrons obtained in other parts of the Union.
Mr. ORMSROD will tarry a few days in this town for the purpose of receiving subscriptions.
Extracts from Washington's farewell ADDRESS.
"Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence therefore it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations, and collisions of her friendship or enmities."
"Our detached and distant situation, invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under a fixed government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude, as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocations; when we may choose peace or war as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel."
"Why forego the advantage of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own and stand upon foreign ground? Why by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?"
Settlement of American Claims on the Government of France.
The following statement is from a correct source, and may be relied on:—The 3,750,000 dollars, that the United States are to pay France, is to be paid to the citizens of the United States for claims they have upon the French government, embraced by the convention, made the 30th of September, by Elsworth and Davie. The second article of that convention is to be considered as null and void. The payment to the United States is to be made to the citizens thereof, in sixty days after the final ratification of the late convention by our government, and exchange of the same, which is to be done here; the payment to be made by bills drawn by our ministers in Paris, on the Treasury of the United States. Claimants are first to have their claims liquidated by the French government, on which claims there are to be allowed six per cent. per annum from the time that the claimants respectively make their demands for payment. After their claims are finally liquidated, a board of three commissioners appointed by our ministers, are to sit in Paris, who are to examine these liquidated claims, to see if they properly are claims that are embraced under the convention of the 30th September. As soon as this is determined, the claimants will receive their drafts, and they will be paid as they are presented; and should the claims embraced by the convention exceed the sum of 3,750,000 dollars, the remainder is a debt remaining due from France, and to be paid the claimants by that republic. It is understood that claims for supplies to the West-Indies, demurrages on vessels from France, vessels taken and not restored agreeable to the convention of the 30th Sept. and supplies under contracts made by officers of the French government in the United States, are the proper claims embraced by that convention.
[Daily Advertiser.]
HEALTH DESIRABLE.
NOTHING is more conducive to preserve health than Beer, made of the Essence of Spruce. This essence may be had in any quantity at C. PEIRCE's shop in Daniel Street, Portsmouth.
Essence of Spruce.
This article is recommended by William Jocelin, in a New-York paper, as a certain cure for the Yellow Fever, he having been witness of its full effects on board the British ship Argonaut, in the West-Indies, 150 of whose officers and men had been swept off by the fever, when this medicine was introduced, which saved every patient who took it.—Directions.—Take three table spoonfuls, put in a quart of warm water, dissolve it and take a half pint tumbler full every half hour till it operates, which is generally before the third dose, and frequently pukes, purges, and produces severe perspiration. August 10, 1800.
From Newport, August 20. Private letters from New-York, represent that the greatest consternation prevailed among the few remaining inhabitants of that devoted city. Out of 60 or 70 thousand persons, there was supposed to be not more than 20 thousand left in the city—and they were continually going out. Shops were generally closed, and business nearly suspended.
There are three packets at present performing quarantine in the cove, without the harbor, lately arrived here from New-York, but no person is permitted to come on shore, on penalty of the law; nor is any one suffered to go on board without liberty from the Town Council. There are upwards of 60 passengers on board the three packets.
The Committee of the Board of Health, of New-York, on the application of the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser for permission to copy and publish the names of the dead, have determined that such a publication at the present would be inexpedient.
Died yesterday in the Fly-market, (New-York, Aug. 20) a man by the name of John Swing. We are informed that he lately arrived in this city from N. Orleans, and it appears, from papers found in his pocket, that he was the commander of a vessel called the Iris Volunteer. Mr. Swing told a bystander yester-day morning, that he had been sick three days in a boarding house, and was, that day, turned out of doors!
MARRIED. At New-York, Major Benjamin Russell, of Bolton, (Editor of the Columbian Centinel) to Miss Campbell, of the City of New-York.
A Concord, Mr. Ozias Sibley, of Chester, to Miss Fanny C. Jones, daughter of Mr. Tho's Jones, of Waterbury, Vermont.
DIED.
At Riverv, DANIEL PEIRCE, Esq. in the 64th year of his age; a Physician in that town near forty years.
At DONT> At Derryfield, Mrs. Hannah Blodgett, aged 76, comfort of Samuel Blodgett, Esq.
At Weare, on the 11th inst. Mr. Tho's Hale, aged 23, son of Mr. Josiah Hale.—
At Wenworth, July 29, Mrs. Mary Page, aged 56, wife of Major Enoch Page.
At New Chester, the following persons, to wit: July 18, a child of Mr. Isaac Colby; aged 3 years—July 24, a child of Mr. Isaac Colby; aged 2 years—July 29, a child of Mr. Wait Stevens; aged 4—Aug. 3d, Wife of Mr. Thomas Dickerson, aged 32—Wife of Mr. Timothy Sargent, aged 59—A daughter of Mr. J. Currier, aged 6—Aug. 16, child of Mr. T. Dickerson, aged 10 months—child of Mr. J. Stevens, aged 16 months—child of Mr. T. Sargent, aged 4 years—18, wife of Mr. Samuel Favour, aged 43—Mrs. Deborah W. Butler, aged 73.
All the above persons died of the dysentery, except Mr. W. Butler, who died of a consumption. The dysentery appears to be very mortal also in Sandborntown; many have died in that town within three weeks; many more remain in an uncertain situation. I think this disorder has been at least as mortal as ever the fever has been in any of the Northern sea ports.
Concord paper. At Kingston, on the 23d inst. a very promising Child of Mr. Dea. born Fogg, aged 3 years.
In this town, Miss Rockaby H. Peirce, aged 9 years, eldest daughter of Mr. Edward John Peirce. A most amiable, promising and endearing child.
Nathan B. Folsom, Has just received and offers for Sale, At Store No. 3. High-street, a complete assortment of Dyewoods & Dying Drugs, &c.
CAMWOOD, Logwood, Redwood, Fustick, Copperas, Allum, Verdigris, Nutgalls, Gum Arabic, Oil Vitriol, Roman ditto, Oiler, Aqua Fortis, Cochineal, &c. &c.—Also, Shears, Plates, Screws, Coppers, Row Cards, Press Papers, &c. Likewise, Hollands and American Gin, per pipe or retail; do. Brandy, per ditto; Bohem, Sotichong, Hyson-skin, Young-hyson, Hyson, and Gunpowder TEA, per chest or retail; Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, Red Port & Malaga WINES, per cask or retail; a few cases excellent Claret, and many other articles on the best terms.
Portsmouth, August 30, 1803.
BOOTS & SHOES.
FOR SALE BY S. LARKIN, Broad-street—A handsome assortment of Gentlemen's fine Calf-skin and Morocco SHOES;—also—A few pair of Swainson's BOOTS, of the latest fashion—all well made and suitable for the season. Aug. 30.
An honest, capable LAD, is wanted to attend in a store. One from the country would be preferred. Enquire of the Printers. Aug. 23.
WANTED.
A steady industrious Woman, to do the work in a small family; such an one will meet with the highest wages by applying to the Gazette Office. Portsmouth, August 30, 1803.
WANTED.
An active LAD, about 14 or 15 years of age, as an Apprentice to a good business.—Enquire of the Printers.
WANTED at this office, an active BOY from the country, that can read well—such an one shall meet with encouragement and be made master of the Printing business. August 30.
Just published, and for sale by N. S. & W. Peirce, WATTS's Catechisms for Children.—Also a Collection of HYMNS, both pamphlets.
THIS DAY, At S. LITTLE's Office, 1 Hhd. RUM; bbls. SUGAR, boxes Soap; 4 casks London bottled Porter; 1 doz. Broad Axes; small invoice ENGLISH GOODS.
ALSO—at Private Sale, A few hogheads good flavored RUM, and Paper Hangings, at reduced prices.
Wanted—2000 Yards of good TOW CLOTH.
A premium given for SPANISH DOLLARS. August 30, 1803.
SATURDAY next,
At 12 o'clock, A. M. will be Sold at PUBLIC AUCTION, at Major Walker's Inn.
THE HOUSE, STORE and LAND, pleasantly situated in Back-street, (late the property of Capt. TIMOTHY MUMFORD, deceased.) The Land has 37 feet front, and 100 feet in the rear.
Terms made known at time and place of Sale. The premises may be viewed any time previous, by applying to JOSEPH SMITH. Portsmouth, August 30, 1803.
Warner & Weare
Offer for sale at their Store No. 1, High-street, opposite the N.W. corner of the State-House,
PORT and Teneriffe WINE, Malaga do. per cask or retail; do. young Minton and Bahia TEAS, per chest or retail; COFFEE, Wai's No. 1, & a CHOCOLATE, E. J. W. common and Wai's do. per box or lb.; Chocolate Shells; Crackers per bbl. or less; Hard SOAP per box or lb.; Shaving do.; Eogh's MUSLARD, per box or lb.; Fine and Super fine FLOUR; Loaf & India SUGAR; W. L. do. per hhd. or retail; RICE per Hhd. or less quantity; CASSIA; PIMENTO; PEPPER; Mould and Dip CANDLES per box or lb.; Bloom and Muculal RAISINS per box or lb.; Casks do. Best rearing MOLASSES; Fig and Pigeon TOBACCO.
RUM and BRANDY per bbl. or retail; Men's and Boys' KNIT and FELT HATS; PASTBOARD per gross, doz. or single; Writing and Wrapping PAPER per ream; GIN CASES; Bitter water proof & English GUN-POWDER; Patent SHOT of all sizes; FLINTS per gross or less; Patent BLACKBALL per doz. Pound PINS; AWLS, and AWL-HALVES per gross or less; ALLUM; COPPERAS; LOGWOOD; FUSTIC; SALT; Whimmore's No. 3, 4, and 5; Cotton and Wool CARDS per doz. or single; Cate's do. per do.; Best Spanish Fiat and um. INDIGO; A few excellent Old CHEESE; SALT PETER; NUTMEGS per lb. or less; SCIVES per doz. or single; LEMONS per box or doz. GINGER per kg. or less.
Iron SHOVELS per doz. or single; FLAT IRONS; FRYING PANS; Spanish and American SEGARS per box or doz. Elliot's and The mpton's SNUFF per kg. or less quantity—Together with many other articles in the GROCERY LINE, cheap as can be purchased in Portsmouth.
FEATHERS.
New Russia and other Feathers, at the lowest Boston prices, Likewise, a few pieces of excellent BED-ICK, being a consignment, will be sold at the same price as at the Factory.
Constant attendance from sunrise till 9 o'clock in the evening. Portsmouth, August 30, 1803.
Forrevieja SALT.
FOR Sale on board ship Hampden and Sidney, now lying at Langdon's wharf, a CARGO of SALT, of the first quality—apply to RICHARD EVANS. Portsmouth, August 16, 1803.
FOR SALE.
A New CHAISE, Cheap for Cash—Apply to HENRY BUFFORD. Portsmouth, August 30, 1803.
NEW BOOKS.
AMERICAN Coast Pilot; American Practical Navigator; the Oriental Navigator, or new directions for sailing to and from the East-Indies; Walsh's Mercantile Arithmetic, may be had at N. S. & W. PEIRCE's Book-Store, Congress Street.
A WATCH LOST.
LOST in one of the streets in this town, a Silver WATCH, with a steel chain: Any person finding the same, and will leave it at Major Walker's Inn, shall be handsomely rewarded. August 30, 1803.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of Widow MEHITABLE PERKINS, late of Epping, deceased, are requested to exhibit them for settlement. NATHAN BACHELLOR, Ex'r. Epping, August 25, 1803.
WANTS EMPLOY.
In some public office, or other gentle situation, a young Man. A letter directed to A. B. and left at this office will be punctually attended to. Portsmouth, August 30.

Miscellaneous Repository.
FOR THE GAZETTE. ON THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST.
H ARK! thro' the skies angelic anthems ring, More soft, harmonious, than the bird of spring! Wide o'er the world the heavenly numbers fly, The earth's more verdant, and more bright the sky. "A Saviour's born!" the heavenly angels found; "A Saviour's born!" the echoing hills resound. This blessed morn, that lights the hills afar, Is born the great, eternal, morning Star. Ye whispering winds, O! waft the heavenly theme, O! bear it on your waves, each purling stream! To every clime the blessed news proclaim, "A Saviour's born," Immanuel his name. No more, ye plains, with purple glee shall flow, Nor sinful man devise his neighbor's woe; The glittering sword shall in its scabbard rest, Nor baneful fear disturb the human breast. The lion with the gentle lamb shall sleep, And o'er the flocks the Shepherd's hand shall keep; The tiger horse shall with the ox abide, And in a string the child their steps shall guide. No more bold warriors press the bloody plain, And spread the earth with bodies of the slain: But peace, sweet peace, and universal love Each heart shall fire, & ev'ry action move; While happy years, eternal courses roll Bless to the heart, and transport to the soul!
Rural Loiterer.
For the New-Hampshire Gazette. Thoughts on the modern warm Controversy respecting BAPTISM.
I AM aware that some of the contending parties for the corrupt doctrine and practice before spoken of, have a subterfuge at hand, to evade the charge of baptizing the ungodly world.—We do not, they will say, plead for a worldly church, but for a visible Gentile church, composed of visible believers.—We do not baptize the world, but the children of members of the visible church, or of visible believers. The right to baptism, says the author of a late sermon on baptism, depends upon a "credible profession of faith in CHRIST." They who make this credible profession with their children, &c. have a right to the ordinance. "Those persons, (he adds) are in visible covenant with GOD; they are his visible church and kingdom, and their children, &c. are included with them." And he appeals to the unprejudiced whether the right of the infants of believers to baptism be not established.—But there seems to be a latent fallacy here. What if it shall turn out that his numerous train of believers are, such as Hopkins describes, visible unbelievers , disobeying the plain law of CHRIST? And what if the credible profession (so called) of faith in CHRIST, turns out to be no profession at all, or one which nobody believes? I shall suppose the writer to be one of the strictest sort, and that his credible profession is what is called owning the covenant.—The prevailing opinion inclines to the exploding this gross doctrine and commandment of men as absurd, and they now rather ground the right of infants to baptism, on their being born in covenant; and many, baptize now, as I have been informed, asking no questions. But suppose that owning the covenant is insisted on, and complied with. In that case, the baptizer knows the covenant to be an unbeliever, by his refusing to obey CHRIST.—The Lord Jesus says, "This do in remembrance of me." The man owning the covenant says, this I will not do —And this refusal is well understood at the time. Yea, the very business of owning the covenant is continued and performed in order to be a baptism cheap, and open to such as chuse to disregard the command to break bread; who will go as far as custom and fashion lead, and no farther. Any profession here appears like theirs who said; "we will not have this man to reign over us." The disobedience is allowed, expected, and follows of course. Are these the visible believers, whose children are to be baptized?—And is this the credible profession of faith in CHRIST? A profession that gets the name only by an abuse of language, and which no body, no not the baptizer believes. For it is well understood on all sides that the man does not pretend to be a disciple, and is not to be received or treated as a church member—Thus it appears that after all the talk about a credible profession, this author does plead for a worldly church, and a worldly baptism. But it may appear further. He has these words, "If then, the children of professing, or initiated parents, once belonged to the church of GOD, &c. they still belong to the church of GOD, unless &c." Initiated and professing are here used as equivalent. A Jew was formerly initiated into the church by circumcision. It was, says this writer, "the rite of admission." And he says also; "baptism admits the subject into the visible kingdom or church of CHRIST."—It is the door of admission—According to this, those who were baptized in infancy and have children, are initiated or professing parents. They came into the visible church at the door. And professing, it is said, are in visible covenant with GOD; "They are his visible church and kingdom;" and their children are included with them. Thus he makes the children of initiated or baptized parents, to be initiated or professing. Yea, these children must be born church members, for they are, he says, included with their parents; who are said to be in and to be the visible church. If these principles are followed out, these young members might claim to be baptized when they grow up, if their right was denied them in infancy—even as an adult Jew might claim to be circumcised, if his friends criminally neglected the ceremony in his infancy—These principles in any view we can take of them, lay a broad foundation for a vast worldly church. And baptism is now made either the right of children born church members, or a rite of initiation or door of admission into a worldly church; and is become about as common and general (in a New-England Israel, profanely so called,) as circumcision was in Old Israel—and this is doubtless, considered as the accession of the Gentiles to the church! I have lately read of a clergyman, settled many years ago in a parish of about forty families, if I recollect rightly—the parish increased, and he grew old, and in the panegyric upon him he is said to have baptized more than a thousand! I speak by memory, and only produce this as an instance to show that baptism is about as common and national a thing in our country, as circumcision was formerly in Judea.
grow up, if their right was denied them in infancy—even as an adult Jew might claim to be circumcised, if his friends criminally neglected the ceremony in his infancy—These principles in any view we can take of them, lay a broad foundation for a vast worldly church. And baptism is now made either the right of children born church members, or a rite of initiation or door of admission into a worldly church; and is become about as common and general (in a New-England Israel, profanely so called,) as circumcision was in Old Israel—and this is doubtless, considered as the accession of the Gentiles to the church! I have lately read of a clergyman, settled many years ago in a parish of about forty families, if I recollect rightly—the parish increased, and he grew old, and in the panegyric upon him he is said to have baptized more than a thousand! I speak by memory, and only produce this as an instance to show that baptism is about as common and national a thing in our country, as circumcision was formerly in Judea.
REMOVED.
Langley Boardman, INFORMS his friends & the public that he has removed from the Shop he occupied in Ark-lane, to his new Store, corner of Vaughan and Congress-streets, where he carries on the CABINET MAKING Business, in all its various branches, with neatness, faithfulness, and punctuality, and the smallest favours will be received with gratitude. Portsmouth, August 23, 1803.
Jacob Wendell,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and customers, and especially the creditors of the estate of ABNER NEWHALL, late of Portsmouth, deceased, that he has to sell at his shop in Washington-street, a variety of Ladies' English and American Kid and Morocco SLIPPERS; Misses' ditto; Women's fancy and black stuff SLIPPERS; Misses' leather and children's MOROCCO SHOES; Men's BOOTS and SHOES; TRUNKS of different sizes, with which he would be happy to supply said creditors for the Administrator, who wishes to make sale thereof to their best advantage, without loss.
Said Wendell has received a consignment of Ladies' excellent black Morocco Slippers; a few dozen of large and small black Morocco, Goat, and Sheep Skins; also, a few dozen of whole, three quarter, and half Boot Legs; and a pleasing variety of cheap Paper Hangings, all which will be sold by him on generous terms by wholesale and retail, to any gentleman who may wish to export any of those articles abroad;—and every favor gratefully acknowledged. Portsmouth, August 23, 1803.
THE Members of the Eastern District New-Hampshire Medical Society, are hereby informed that their Annual Meeting will be held at the inn of Ezra Hutchins, in Exeter, on Wednesday the seventh day of September next, (being the first Wednesday of said month) at ten o'clock A. M. By Directi n . JOSIAH BARTLETT, Notary. August 12, 1803.
THE Treasurer of the county of Rockingham, gives notice to the several Collectors of Taxes in said county, that the tax of the present year, payable the first day of September next, will be wanted by the 20th day of the same month; and that unless he can avail himself of the money, he shall not be able either to pay the Jurors, that may attend the Courts, or any others that may have demands against the County. Exeter, August 12, 1803. General Post-Office, Washington-City, July 22, 1803.
WHEREAS sundry representations have been made to this Office, of losses sustained in the transmission of money by the mail, whereby it appears that depredations may have been committed by some agent of this department. Be it therefore known, that by virtue of the powers by law in me vested, I do hereby offer a reward of Four Hundred Dollars to any person or persons who will give to this office such information as shall produce the conviction and punishment of the perpetrator of any such crime. GIDEON GRAINGER, Post-Master General.
ADVERTISEMENT.
RANAWAY from the subscriber on Monday the 8th inst. an intended servant (mulatto) boy, named JOHN LOCK, aged between 14 and 15 years; had on when he ran off, a dark brown round jacket and trowsers, or blue trowsers, a felt hat, and striped cotton and linen shirt.—This is to forbid any person from harbouring, concealing or employing him, as they would with to avoid the penalties of the law. JOSHUA WENTWORTH. Portsmouth, N. H. August 16, 1803.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A Journeyman BAKER—one of good character, will meet with encouragement by applying to MOSES WOODWARD.
THE SUBSCRIBERS, HAVE again entered into copartnership under the firm of John & Jonathan Goddard,
and recommenced business at their former stand in Market-street—where they have for sale— Russia and Swedes IRON; Heart and Club, Halback's and Blistered STEEL; NAILS, of all sizes, cut and wrought; Spikes; Sheet Lead; Shot; 6 by 8, 7 by 9, 8 by 10, 10 by 12, 11 by 14, and 12 by 17 WINDOW GLASS. Painter's OIL & COLORS; Glue; Rottenstone; Brushes of all kinds; Gilt and Mahogany framed LOOKING-GLASSES.
Best Cogniac and Alicant BRANDY; Holland GIN; Madeira, Sherry, Red Port, Vidonia, Lisbon and Malaga WINES. Hyson, Young hyson, Hyson skin, Souchong and Bohea TEAS.—Philadelphia double and single refined LOAF SUGAR. Hogheads & barrels of BROWN SUGAR. Spices. Boxes of GLASS WARE. Hollow IRON WARE. CORDAGE of all sizes. —ALSO—A general assortment of HARD-WARE.
GOODS, &c. &c. JOHN GODDARD, JONATHAN GODDARD. Portsmouth, August 16, 1803.
SALT.
FOR SALE, By ELIZAH HALL, N o 13, Portsmouth Pier, ONE thousand hhds. coarse white SALT, just landed from on board the Ship Aurora , from the Isle of May;—fit for country use. Portsmouth, Aug. 9. 1803.
Henry Ladd HAS FOR SALE, 100 pieces fine India Cottons; 80 pieces Bandannoes; 40 pieces Lungee Romauls; and a few boxes Havana Sugars, the above will be sold at reduced prices, also for sale 200 bbls. Richmond Fine and Superfine FLOUR. Portsmouth, July 19, 1803.
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, & Barcelon 4th proof BRANDY; West-India RUM; New-England do. Holland's GIN, American do. Bbls. Anns; London & American PORTER, Strong Beer, Vinegar, &c. Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson skin, Souchong and Bohea Teas, warranted to be of the first quality, Excellent Molasses, Loaf, Lump, India & Brown SUGARS, Box & Cask Raisins, Fruits Figs, Fresh Rice, bbls. and half bbls. Superfine FLOUR, Chocolate, Chocolate Shells, Coffee, Oatmeal, Nutmegs, Bagg's Cotton, boxes Lemons, Oranges, Powder & Shot, Cotton & Wool Cards, Sweet Oil in flasks, do. in junk bottles, 100 excellent old Cheeses, full or empty Gin Casks, Mould & Drip Candles, Keggs of Boston and Newbury Stout, Spanish & Boston Segars, Fig and Pigtail Tobacco, Straw Tumblers, A few elegant entry Mats, Corn Brooms, Scives & Scive Bottoms, Reams Paper, Best Spanish float Indigo, Poland Starch, Cloves, Allspice, Pepper, Mustard, Ginger, Cinnamon, Copperas, Roeb. Bed Cords, 100 bushels White SALT, 100 bushels CORN, A few bushels Rye, Wheat, Peas, Beans, Meal, Hams Bacon, Sweets IRON, &c.
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 19, 1803.
PEN-KNIVES. A handsome assortment of PEN-KNIVES, for sale at N. S. & W. Peirce's Book-Store, opposite the N. W. corner of the State-House, Congress-street. June 28, 1803.
NOTICE.
The President and Directors of the New-Hampshire FIRE, & Marine INSURANCE COMPANY, Hereby give notice, that the amount of their Capital Stock is two hundred thousand Dollars, of which fifty thousand Dollars, being the first installment, is already paid and deposited.
THAT they have power and authority in behalf of the Company, to make Insurance against Fire on Houses, Stores, Goods, Wares and Merchandise; also, on Vessels, Freight, Money, Goods and Effects—and against Captivity of Persons, and on the Life of any Person, during his absence by sea; and in case of Money lent upon Bottomry and Respondentia. The Office is now open in the east end of Mr. BILLINGS' house, near the Parade, where they are ready to receive Proposals for, and issue Policies in the name and behalf of the aforesaid Company, to any amount, on any one risk not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars. By Order of the Directors, SAMUEL HAM, President. Portsmouth, N. H. August 16, 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, except 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 Windows fitted with these Springs, are of opinion that the invention will be of great utility, 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 accidental 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 R. CLIFFORD, Exeter, WILLIAM ARMS. N. B. All persons are cautioned against using these Springs in the limits of the purchase aforementioned, without authority from the subscribers, if they would avoid the penalty of the law. Portsmouth, July 26, 1803.
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 2007 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 o 23.
A Lottery worthy encouragement.
WHOLE TICKETS, HALVES & QUARTERS in the First Class of Atkinson Academy Lottery, for sale by N. S. & W. PEIRCE, by whom Prizes will be paid as soon as the Lottery is completed.
Who would not wish to encourage a Lottery on the above literary, benevolent, and philosophic plan? Especially as the proceeds of this Lottery is to rear an Academy on the spot where the common raven (fire) lately destroyed a beautiful fabric occupied for the above purpose. The Tickets are put at the low price of two dollars each, in order that those who have little, may have an opportunity of contributing their mite, to an institution which ought to draw the shiners from the pocket with a willing hand, as well as put every adventurer in a fair way to receive a handsome reward for their benevolent intentions, and the encouragement shown to an institution so deserving & praiseworthy.
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.
Z. Robinson & Co.
At the head of the PIER. Have now ready for Sale, a very large and complete assortment of Grocery, Glass & 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 glaz'd, do. do. Printed and Penciled, do. 40 Crates Cream coloured, do. Hhds. Enamel'd & Fluted Ware do. Boxes Glass Ware, assorted. do. Tumblers. do. Decanters. do. Wine Glasses. do. Mugs. Dutch Light Sugar Cases. 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 hhds. Molasses. 12 hhds. Rum. Portsmouth, July 17, 1803.
FEMALE ACADEMY.
THE LADIES of PORTSMOUTH and its vicinity, are informed that a FEMALE ACADEMY will be opened on the 19th September, by
Mrs. Mary Hart.
The branches which will be particularly attended to, are Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Geography, plain and ornamental Needle work. Those Ladies who wish to place their children under her tuition, are requested to make early application for that purpose. A few Misses may be accommodated with Board. Portsmouth, August 9.
TWO HOUSES, and a Grist and Falling MILL.
TO be Sold or Let, and immediate possession given, in Lee, Wadsworth's Falls, so called, on easy terms, being the valuable Estate where Capt. Asa Folsom has recently lived; with the Barn, Chaise House, and Blacksmith's Shop, and the water privileges.—Inquire of ELIPHALET LADD. Portsmouth, August 16, 1803.
Journeyman Bookbinder.
WANTED immediately, a Journeyman Bookbinder, that is a thorough master of the business; such an one may meet with good encouragement, steady employ, and punctual pay every Saturday night, by applying to this office. August 23.
An ORATION,
PRONOUNCED at Kennebunk, District of Maine, on the Anniversary of AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, July 4, 1803.—By STEPHEN THACHER. O Liberas! sonus detestabilis.—Cicero. Is received and for sale by N. S. & W. PEIRCE, at their Book-store, Congress-street. August 16.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in CENTERHARBOR, who have not paid their highway and county taxes for the year 1802, that so much of their land as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Hugh Kelsea, Esq. in Centerharbor, on Monday the tenth day of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber. Stratford, J. C. C.
John Bean, 1 2 12 12 1 Sam'l Senter, common land, 40 30 2 MOSES KELSA, Collector. Centerharbor, July 25, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in CENTERHARBOR, who have not paid their highway and county taxes for the year 1801, that so much of their land as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Hugh Kelsea, Esq. in Centerharbor, on Monday the tenth day of October next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber. High Coun. Acris. way. ty. C. C.
Sam'l Senter, common land, 40 30 2 MOSES KELSA, Collector. Centerharbor, July 25, 1803.
DR. BRACKETT,
HAS received some of the true KINE POCK MATTER, with which he will inoculate. Portsmouth July 25, 1803.