The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1803-11-08 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.
Benjamin Hill,
FORE-STREET; Returns thanks to his friends & customers for their past favors, and would inform them that he has just received a quantity of Fresh St. George's I. I. M. E. Also—Swede's and Norway IRON; With a general assortment of West-India Goods & Groceries, as usual—which he is determined to sell low for cash or approved credit. Portsmouth, November 1, 1803.
Encourage home manufactures!
THE subscribers inform the public, that having entered into Partnership under the firm of
SPARHAWK & CURTIS, they have taken the Store at the corner of Daniel and Bow-Breets, where they manufacture the best of Beaver Hats, Castors, &c. equal or superior to any imported—Having procured some of the most experienced workmen, they flatter themselves with the hope of giving satisfaction to those who may please to favor them with their custom. SAM'L SPARHAWK, JOSHUA CURTIS.
**Wanted, one or two Journey-men HATTERS, who understand their work, to whom liberal wages will be given. CASH GIVEN FOR FURS. Portsmouth Nov. 1, 1803.
GROCERY STORE.
B. Leverett,
RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he has removed from his Store in Congress-street, to the Store lately occupied by Mr. Stephen Pearse, opposite the Rev. Mr. Buckminster's Meeting-house—Where he has for Sale, a general assortment of West-India Goods & Groceries,
as cheap as can be purchased at any Store in Portsmouth, consisting of Madeira, Vidonia Sherry, Lisbon, } WINES. Red Port, Claret and Malaga
Gun Powder, Hylon, Young Hylon, Hylon-skin, } TEAS. Souchong, and Bohea
of the best qualities. Philadelphia Loaf and Lump SUGAR, per cwt. or Loaf; India and Brown ditto.
London bottled Porter, and Taunton Ale, per cask or dozen.
Cogniac Brandy; Spanish do. Holland Gin; West-India Rum, old do.—Molasses; West-India and Georgia Cotton; Mace; Nutmegs; Cinnamon; Cloves; Allspice; Pepper; Ginger per keg; Black Zant Currants; Raisins; Almonds; Chocolate No. 1, and 2, do. Shells; Coffee; Oatmeal; English Mustard per lb. do. per bottle; double refined Salt Petre; Oil per flask; Scott's true liquid Blue, per jug; Windsor Soap; Crown do.—Hair Powder; Anchovies and Sardines per bottle; Cayenne per do. or oz.
Lorillard's celebrated Macculloch Snuff per bottle; Elliot's do. per keg or smaller quantity.
Spermaceti, Mould & Dipt Candles. GODFROID's Spanish Segars, per box or retail.
No. 1, 2 and 3, Smoking Tobacco.
GLASS WARE—Viz. Quart Mugs; 1 1/2 pint, do. pint, and 3/4 pint; Pint Tumblers per Straw, and half pint do. Vinegar Cruets; Wine Glasses.
STONE WARE—Viz. 4 Gallon down to 1/2 gallon Pots; 3 Gallon down to 1 gallon Jugs.
IRON HOLLOW WARE, a general assortment.— WRAPPING PAPER per Ream.
Cod and Pollock FISH. 10 by 8, 9 by 7, WINDOW GLASS, per box or half box, &c. &c. Portsmouth, November 1, 1803.
STOLEN or STRAYED,
FROM the subscriber on Friday last, a black HORSE, with a white star in his forehead, about 12 hands high; had on a new Saddle and Bridle, with brimmed Hoofing, and a new blue broadcloth Surchingle; he was last seen at the north meeting-house, on that day, at 3 o'clock. Any person giving information shall be handsomely rewarded by JOHN SALTER. Rye, Nov. 1, 1803.
NEW GOODS.
PETER COFFIN,
Has received per the Gaien and Miner-va, from London, an additional supply of
FANCY & other GOODS, consisting of bell superfine London Blue, Black, and mixed Broad Cloths; Black double mill'd Cassimere; superfine London Waistcoating.
A great variety of fashionable Chintzes; Chintz Furnitures; Dimities; Rich worked colonade Muslins; Cambric and sprig'd book Muslins, black and white Sarfnet Cambricks; Black Ginghams; Wide black Laces; White and coloured Norwich Shawls; Fine twilled Bandannoes; Diapers; Brown Hollands; Threads, &c. Portsmouth, Oct. 25.
NEW-GOODS.
Garland & Blake,
Have received a very large assortment of Fall and Winter GOODS, of the newest fashions, which they offer for sale very cheap for cash.
Among which are BEST superfine broad cloths of the most fashionable colours; second & low priced do; Cassimeres; superfine and low priced Coatings & Rattens; Fearnoughts; Kerseys; forest Cloths; Serges; Swanskins; Baizes; Flannels; an assortment of rose and duffil Blankets; Crapes; Wildbores; Durants; Tamnies; Shalloons; plain and ribb'd Calimancoes; Ruffles; Taboreens.
A large assortment of Fashionable silk Velvet, Swansdown and Sattin Waistcoating; best twilled black and colour'd Cotton Velvets; corded do; Thicksets; Condurys; black silk Velvets; mens black, white and colour'd silk, cotton and worsted Hose; womens cotton & silk black, white and colour'd Hose; womens black worsted Hose; ditto black & white cotton & silk Gloves and Mitts; white & colour'd kid Gloves; mens furr, beaver, worsted, cotton & silk Gloves; mens worsted Caps; cotton and silk Braces; Stockhiffners.
A great variety of Chintzes and Calicoes of the newest fashions; patch Furnitures; Copperplates; India Calicoes; black and colour'd Ginghams; black and colour'd Sarcnet Muslins and Cambricks; sprig'd plain and figur'd book Jacquet and Cambric Muslins; emboss'd Muslins. A large assortment of
Black, white and colour'd camels hair Shawls; cambric Shawls; cotton and silk do; cambric, linen, cotton, romall, bandanna, check'd, figur'd and black silk Handkerchiefs; mens Neckerchiefs; muslin Shawls and Handkerchiefs. A variety of
Black and colour'd Italian and India Lustrings; fashionable pelice Silks; Florence Silks; Persians; black and colour'd Sattins; Modes; Sarenets; Tiffanies; wide & narrow silk Crapes; Cypress nett and plain Gauzes; Millnets; bonnet wire; white thread Laces and Edgings; black and white silk Laces; black lace Cloaks; black and white plain & figur'd lace Veiling.
A large assortment of Muffs and Tippets; kid, morocco and stuff Shoes; Rovers; Glove Ties; straw and cane Bonnets; mens beaver Hats; Umbrellas; Fans; India cottons of all prices, some very fine for Shirtings; Irish Linens; check'd Linens and Cottons; brown Hollands; Diapers; white & colour'd Threads; pound and bundle Pins; Needles; fashionable Ribbands; Buttons; button Molds; Oil Cloths for table coverings; marking Canvass; &c. &c.
Also a quantity of Mock Sable, Genet, Elt and other Furs, suitably dressed for making Muffs, Tippets and Cloak Trimmings, very cheap. Oct. 25, 1803.
NOTICE.
S. LARKIN,
Has removed from Broad-street, to the store lately occupied by Mr. B. Swett, on the Parade—where he has for Sale, a general assortment of W. I. GOODS & Groceries. Portsmouth, Oct. 25.
Louisiana Treaty!
WASHINGTON-CITY, OCT. 21.
YESTERDAY at about 5 o'clock, P. M. the Senate ratified the Louisiana Treaty ; twenty four votes in the affirmative, and seven in the negative; there were eight federal Senators present; but Mr. Dayton, we understand, voted in the affirmative.
We congratulate our fellow citizens on the prompt approbation given by the Senate to this important act. The Treaty, as advised to be ratified by the Senate, and which we have no doubt will in a short time receive the final ratification of the President of the United States, is as follows.
TREATY
BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
THE President of the United States of America, and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, desiring to remove all source of misunderstanding relative to the objects of discussion mentioned in the second and fifth articles of the convention of the 8th Vendemiaire an. 9. (30th September, 1800.) relative to the rights claimed by the United States in virtue of the treaty concluded at Madrid the 27th of October, 1795, between his Catholic Majesty and the said United States, and willing to strengthen the union and friendship which at the time of the said convention was happily re-established between the two nations, have respectively named their plenipotentiaries, to wit, the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said States, Robert R. Livingston, minister plenipotentiary of the United States, and James Monroe, minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of the said States, near the government of the French Republic; and the First Consul, in the name of the French people, citizen Francis Barbe Marbois, minister of the public treasury, who, after having respectively exchanged their full powers, have agreed to the following articles:
ARTICLE I. WHEREAS, by the article the third of the treaty concluded at St. Idelfonso, the 9th Vendemiaire, an. 9. (1st October, 1800.) between the First Consul of the French republic and his Catholic Majesty, it was agreed as follows:
"His Catholic Majesty promises and engages, on his part, to cede to the French republic, six months after the full and entire execution of the conditions and stipulations herein in relative to his royal highness the duke of Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other states."
And whereas, in pursuance of the treaty, and particularly of the third article, the French Republic has an incontestible title to the domain and to the possession of the said territory. The First Consul of the French republic desiring to give to the United States a strong proof of his friendship, doth hereby cede to the United States, in the name of the French Republic, for ever and in full sovereignty, the said territory with all its rights and appurtenances, as fully and in the same manner as they have been acquired by the French Republic in virtue of the above mentioned treaty, concluded with his Catholic Majesty.
ART. II. In the cession made by the preceding articles are included the adjacent islands belonging to Louisiana, all public lots and squares, vacant lands, and all public buildings, fortifications, barracks, and other edifices which are not private property. The archives, papers and documents, relative to the domain and sovereignty of Louisiana and its dependencies, will be left in the possession of the commissaries of the United States, and copies will be afterwards given in due form to the magistrates and municipal officers, of such of the said papers and documents as may be necessary to them.
ART. III. The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
ART. IV. There shall be sent by the government of France a commissary to Louisiana, to the end that he do every act necessary, as well to receive from the officers of his Catholic Majesty the said country and its dependencies, in the name of the French Republic, if it has not been already done, as to transmit it in the name of the French Republic to the commissary or agent of the United States.
ART. V. Immediately after the ratification of the present treaty by the President of the United States, and in case of the first Consul's shall have been previously obtained, the commissary of the French Republic shall remit all military posts of New Orleans, and other parts of the ceded territory, to the commissary or commissaries named by the President to take possession; the troops, whether of France or Spain, who may be there shall cease to occupy any military post from the time of taking possession, and shall be embarked as soon as possible in the course of three months after the ratification of this treaty.
ART. VI. The United States promise to execute such treaties and articles as may have been agreed between Spain and the tribes and nations of Indians, until, by mutual consent of the United States and the said tribes or nations, other suitable articles shall have been agreed upon.
ART. VII. As it is reciprocally advantageous to the commerce of France and the United States to encourage the communication of both nations for a limited time in the country ceded by the present treaty, until general arrangements relative to the commerce of both nations may be agreed on: it has been agreed between the contracting parties, that the French ships coming directly from France or any of her colonies, loaded only with the produce or manufactures of France or her said colonies; and the ships of Spain coming directly from Spain or any of her colonies, loaded only with the produce or manufactures of Spain or her colonies, shall be admitted during the space of twelve years in the port of New Orleans, and in all other legal ports of entry within the ceded territory, in the same manner as the ships of the United States coming directly from France or Spain, or any of their colonies, without being subject to any other or greater duty on merchandise, or other or greater tonnage than that paid by the citizens of the United States.
During the space of time above mentioned, no other nation shall have a right to the same privileges in the ports of the ceded territory: the twelve years shall commence three months after the exchange of ratifications, if it shall take place in France, or three months after it shall have been notified in Paris to the French government, if it shall take place in the United States; it is however well understood that the object of the above article is to favor the manufactures, commerce, freight and navigation of France and of Spain, so far as relates to the importations that the French and Spanish shall make into the said ports of the United States, without in any sort affecting the regulations that the United States may make concerning the exportation of the produce and merchandise of the United States, or any right they may have to make such regulations.
ART. VIII. In future and forever after the expiration of the twelve years, the ships of France shall be treated upon the footing of the most favored nations in the ports above mentioned.
ART. IX. The particular convention signed this day by the respective ministers, having for its object to provide for the payment of debts due to the citizens of the United States by the French Republic, prior to the 30th of September, 1800. (8th Vendemiaire, an. 9.) is approved, and to have its execution in the same manner as if it had been inserted in this present treaty, and it shall be ratified in the same form and in the same time, so that the one shall not be ratified distinct from the other.
Another particular convention signed at the same date as the present treaty, relative to definitive rule between the contracting parties, is in the like manner approved, and will be ratified in the same form, and in the same time, and jointly.
ART. X. The present treaty shall be ratified in good and due form, and the ratification shall be exchanged in the space of six months after the date of the signature by the ministers plenipotentiary, or sooner if possible.
IN FAITH WHEREOF, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed these articles in the French and English languages; declaring nevertheless that the present treaty was originally agreed to in the French language; and have thereunto affixed their seals.
Done at Paris, the tenth day of Floreal, in the eleventh year of the French Republic, and the 30th of April, 1803. ROB. R. LIVINGSTON, BARBE MARBOIS, JAMES MONROE.
CONVENTION
BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
THE President of the United States of America, and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, in consequence of the treaty of cession of Louisiana, which has been signed this day, wishing to regulate definitively every thing which has relation to the said cession, have authorized to this effect the plenipotentiaries, that is to say: the President of the United States has, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said States, nominated for their plenipotentiaries, Robert R. Livingston, minister plenipotentiary of the United States, and James Monroe, minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of the said United States, near the government of the French Republic; and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, has named as plenipotentiary of the said Republic the citizen Francis Barbe Marbois; who, in virtue of their full powers which have been exchanged this day, have agreed to the following articles:
ART. I. The government of the United States engages to pay to the French government, in the manner specified in the following article, the sum of sixty millions of francs, independent of the sum which shall be fixed by another convention for the payment of the debts due by France to the citizens of the United States.
ART. II. For the payment of the sum of sixty millions of francs, mentioned in the preceding article, the United States shall create a stock of eleven millions, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, bearing an interest of six per cent. per annum, payable half yearly in London, Amsterdam, or Paris, amounting, by the half year to three hundred and thirty seven thousand, five hundred dollars, according to the proportions which shall be determined by the French government to be paid at either place; the principal of the said stock to be reimbursed at the treasury of the United States, in annual payments of not less than three millions of dollars each; of which the first payment shall commence fifteen years after the date of the exchange of ratifications: this stock shall be transferred to the government of France, or to such person or persons as shall be authorised to receive it, in three months at most after the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, and after Louisiana shall be taken possession of in the name of the government of the United States.
It is further agreed, that if the French government should be desirous of disposing of the said stock to receive the capital in Europe, at shorter terms, that its measures for that purpose shall be taken so as to favour, in the greatest degree possible, the credit of the United States, and to raise to the highest price the said stock.
ART. III. It is agreed that the dollar of the United States, specified in the present convention, shall be fixed at five francs 333-1/3 thousandths or five livres, eight sous tournois.
The present convention shall be ratified in good and due form, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in the space of six months to date from this day, or sooner if possible.
IN FAITH OF WHICH, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles, both in the French and English languages, declaring, nevertheless, that the present treaty has been originally agreed on and written in the French language; to which they have hereunto affixed their seals.
Done at Paris the tenth of Floreal, eleventh year of the French Republic, (30th April, 1803.) ROB. R. LIVINGSTON, BARBE MARBOIS, JAMES MONROE.

CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
THE President of the United States of America, and the First Consul of the French Republic, in the name of the French people, having by a treaty of this date terminated all difficulties relative to Louisiana, and established on a solid foundation the friendship which unites the two nations, and being desirous, in compliance with the second and fifth articles of the convention of the 8th Vendemiaire, ninth year of the French Republic (30th September, 1800) to secure the payment of the sums due by France to the citizens of the United States have respectively nominated as plenipotentiaries, that is to say: the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of their Senate, Robert R. Livingston, minister plenipotentiary, and James Monroe, minister plenipotentiary, and envoy extraordinary of the said States, near the government of the French Republic; and the First Consul, in the name of the French people, the citizen Francis Barbé Marbois, minister of the public treasury; who, after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed to the following articles.
Article I.
The debts due by France to the citizens of the United States, contracted before the 8th Vendemiaire ninth year of the French Republic (30th September, 1800) shall be paid according to the following regulations, with interest at six per cent, to commence from the period when the accounts and vouchers were presented to the French government.
Article II.
The debts provided for by the preceding article are those whose result is comprised in the conjectural note annexed to the present convention, and which, with the interest cannot exceed the sum of twenty millions of Francs. The claims comprised in the said note which fall within the exceptions of the following articles, shall not be admitted to the benefit of this provision.
Article III.
The principal and interests of the said debts shall be discharged by the United States, by orders drawn by their minister plenipotentiary on their treasury; these orders shall be payable sixty days after the exchange of ratifications of the treaty and the conventions signed this day, and after possession shall be given of Louisiana by the commissioners of France to those of the United States.
Article IV.
It is expressly agreed, that the preceding articles shall comprehend no debt but such as are due to citizens of the United States, who have been and are yet creditors of France, for supplies for embargoes and prizes made at sea, in which the appeal has been properly lodged within the time mentioned in the said convention, 8th Vendemiaire, ninth year (30th September, 1800.)
Article V.
The preceding articles shall apply only, first, to captures of which the council of prizes shall have ordered restitution, it being well understood that the claimant cannot have recourse to the United States otherwise than he might have had to the government of the French Republic, and only in case of insufficiency of the captors; and, the debts mentioned in the said fifth article of the convention contracted before the 8th Vendemiaire, ninth year (30th September, 1800) the payment of which has been heretofore claimed of the actual government of France, and for which the creditors have a right to the protection of the United States; the said fifth article does not comprehend prizes whose condemnation has been or shall be confirmed: it is the express intention of the contracting parties not to extend the benefit of the present convention to reclamations of American citizens, who shall have established houses of commerce in France, England or other countries than the United States, in partnership with foreigners, and who by that reason and the nature of their commerce ought to be regarded as domiciliated in the places where such houses exist. All agreements and bargains concerning merchandise, which shall not be the property of American citizens, are equally excepted from the benefit of the said convention, saving however to such persons their claims in the like manner as if this treaty had not been made.
Article VI.
And that the different questions which may arise under the preceding article may be fairly investigated, the ministers plenipotentiary of the United States shall name three persons, who shall act from the present and provisional, and who shall have full power to examine without removing the documents, all the accounts of the different claims already liquidated by the bureau established for this purpose by the French Republic, and to ascertain whether they belong to the classes designated by the present convention and the principles established in it; or if they are not in one of its exceptions and on their certificate, declaring that the debt is due to an American citizen or his representative, and that it existed before the 8th Vendemiaire, ninth year (30th September, 1800) the debtor shall be entitled to an order on the treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed by the third article.
Article VII.
The same agents shall likewise have power, without removing the documents, to examine the claims which are prepared for verification, and to certify those which ought to be admitted by uniting the necessary qualifications, and not being comprised in the exceptions contained in the present convention.
Article VIII.
The same agents shall likewise examine the claims which are not prepared for liquidation, and certify in writing those which in their judgement ought to be admitted to liquidation.
Article IX.
In proportion as the debts mentioned in these articles shall be admitted, they shall be discharged with interest at six per cent, by the treasury of the United States.
Article X.
And that no debt which shall not have the qualifications above mentioned, and that unjust or exorbitant demand may be admitted, the commercial agent of the United
States, at Paris, or such other agent as the minister plenipotentiary of the United States shall think proper to nominate, shall assist at the operations of the bureau, and co-operate in the examinations of the claims; and if this agent shall be of opinion that any debt is not completely proved, or if he shall judge that it is not comprised in the principles of the fifth article above mentioned, and if notwithstanding his opinion, the bureau established by the French government should think it ought to be liquidated, he shall transmit his observations to the board established by the United States, who, without removing documents, shall make a complete examination of the debt and vouchers which support it, and report the result to the minister of the United States. The minister of the United States shall transmit his observations, in all such cases, to the minister of the treasury of the French Republic, on whose report the French government shall decide definitively in every case.
The rejection of any claim shall have no other effect than to exempt the United States from the payment of it, the French government reserving to itself the right to decide definitively on such claim so far as it concerns itself.
Article XI.
Every necessary decision shall be made in the course of a year, to commence from the exchange of ratifications, and no reclamation shall be admitted afterwards.
Article XII.
In case of claims for debts contracted by the government of France with citizens of the United States since the 8th Vendemiaire, ninth year, (30th September, 1800) not being comprised in this convention, may be pursued and the payment demanded in the same manner as if it had not been made.
Article XIII.
The present convention shall be ratified in good and due form, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from the date of the signature of the ministers plenipotentiary, or sooner if possible.
IN FAITH OF WHICH, the respective Ministers Plenipotentiary have signed the above articles both in the French and English languages declaring nevertheless that the present treaty has been originally agreed on and written the French Language; to which they have hereunto affixed their seals.
DONE at Paris, the tenth of Floreal, eleventh year of the French Republic, 30th April, 1803.
ROB. R. LIVINGSTON. BARBÉ MARBOIS. JAS. MUNROE.
From the Chronicle.
"Truth is beautiful and powerful." THE ratification of the treaty for the cession of Louisiana to the United States, forms an important era in the concerns of the American republic.—Every true American must rejoice at the event, as a measure which crowns his country with glory and wealth.
Perhaps the language of the Rev. Dr. Morse upon the description of that country, may be considered as containing an elegant & patriotic anticipation of the advantages of this important cession. Indeed his words appear as the sure words of prophecy on the occasion. They are these—" Besides, it is well known, that empire has been travelling from east to west. Probably her last and broadest seat will be America. Here the sciences and arts of civilized life are to receive their highest improvements. Her civil and religious liberty are to flourish, unless checked by the cruel hand of civil and ecclesiastical tyranny. Here genius, aided by all the improvements of former ages, is to be exerted in humanizing mankind, in expanding and enriching their minds with religious and philosophical knowledge, and in planning and executing a form of government which shall involve all the excellencies of former governments, with as few of their defects as is consistent with the imperfection of human affairs; and which shall be calculated to protect and unite, in a manner consistent with the natural rights of mankind, the largest empire that ever existed. Elevated with these prospects, which are not merely the visions of fancy, we cannot but anticipate the period as not far distant, when the American empire will contain millions of souls west of the Mississippi. Judging upon probable grounds, the Mississippi was never designated as the western boundary of the American empire. The God of Nature never intended that some of the best part of his earth should be inhabited by subjects of a monarch four thousand miles from them. And may we not venture to predict, that, when the rights of mankind shall be more fully known, (and the knowledge of them is fast increasing both in Europe and America) the power of European potentates will be confined to Europe, and their present American dominions become, like the United States of America, free, sovereign and independent."
These sentiments, well worthy of an American scholar and geographer, are extracted from the second volume of Doctor Morse's Geography, where he gives a description of the Spanish dominions in America; in which is the following account of the climate of Louisiana—"From the favorable-ness of the climate two crops of indian corn may be produced; and the soil, with little cultivation, would furnish grain of every kind in the greatest abundance. Their timber is as fine as any in the world, and
the quantities of live-oak, ash, mulberry, walnut, chery, cypress and cedar are astonishing. The neighborhood of the Mississippi, besides, furnishes the richest fruits in great variety. The soil is particularly adapted for hemp, flax and tobacco; and indigo is at this time a staple commodity, which commonly yields the planter three or four cuttings a year. In a word, whatever is rich and rare in the most desirable climates in Europe, seems to be the spontaneous production of this delightful country."
This is a true description of the country which Mr. JEFFERSON, as president of the United States, has acquired for us without the expense of blood, or the calamities of war. Our reverend geographer did not anticipate such an invaluable acquisition on terms so easy, honorable, cheap and fortunate. He expected the usual course of a revolutionary war to accomplish an end which he believed would be soon produced. He says that "the wretched and wicked policy of New Orleans, unless changed, will hasten a revolution in the Spanish colonies." When the benevolent & good man was thus contemplating the mischiefs of tyranny, and the horrors of a civil, bloody and wasting war, how would his pious heart have exulted on a revelation, that this would soon be effected by the United States, at an expense of fifteen millions of dollars only, to be paid by certain instalments, within fifteen years!
There is no bounds to party rage; nor any principle which governs men who are engaged in the odious broils of political contests. Had Louisiana been purchased by Washington, at a price of forty-five millions, the very men who are now groaning at the enormous expense of fifteen millions, would have let themselves down with the greatest facility to compose eulogies upon him for the measure. Louisiana would then have been what Doctor Morse describes it to be, an invaluable and unequalled tract of country.
There is no hope that the rancor of that party will abate. Disappointment sits heavy on their hearts; and if the present national administration could introduce the millennium it would be an unacceptable thing to them—they would loath and despise it.
It does by no means follow, that because these men with a foreign war, and would willingly see their country involved in calamity and distress, to maintain their own consequence and effect their own plans, that we should either quarrel with or support them. If a state of peace and prosperity is for our interest, we have no other line to pursue than that of placing our confidence in men who will conduct our public concerns to the promotion of those objects. The public opinion ought to be preserved in a state of purity and calmness. The ideas of war are to be deprecated; and while, by our conduct, we convince the world of our determination to live in an honorable peace with all nations, we should consider the resort to arms as the last and most dreadful remedy; but, by a well trained militia, and by other means, we must be ready to defend our rights as a nation.
While we contemplate a state of peace as the most happy and eligible for our country, we are obliged to lament that there is a spirit yet in the land urging us to war and commotion. As the troubled waves cast up mire and dirt, so these men are bent upon evil, and their restless imaginations, are constantly and incessantly provoking war and calamity. They not only urge the Americans themselves to involve their country in distress, but they are forming pretexes for foreign nations to interrupt our repose, and to unearth the barbarous sword of slaughter upon our innocent citizens. One who is not thoroughly taught in the mischiefs in which ambition, avarice and disappointment have frequently involved the world, would not conceive that there could be so much malignity in the human heart; but the fact is demonstrable from the present situation of the parties in our country. No sooner was the federal government in exercise, than a number of men, forming an oligarchy, combining from one local extreme of the nation to the other, assumed the positive direction of our national affairs: and such was the force of their influence, that even the firm and immaculate Washington was compelled, in some instances, against his own opinion of right, to yield to it.—The errors of the funding system, the errors in the national bank, and the mischiefs of the project of the federal city, which are now seen and lamented by every body, were the offspring of their brain. To their projects for a national debt, for an army, for an expensive and idle judiciary, no one dare to object, under the high pains and penalties of being an anti-federalist, in their opinion. A national debt was then a national blessing; because it would produce and maintain a war. But the sum of fifteen millions, as the
price of peace, though attended with the acquisition of a territory, worth at least fifty millions, is now, in their minds, an insufferable evil.
The freedom of thought and opinion, in their reign of terror, was prohibited; and they openly declared that any one who was not united with them in opinion should be deemed as disqualified for office. But now, they even fabricate charges of removal from office, for the exercise of judgment on public concerns, as a thing in the present administration of the highest criminality.
There are many gazettes devoted to this combination, and which are used for the purpose of involving our country in war. In the Centinel of last Saturday, we had two factitious pieces of intelligence, intended to alarm the people of the United States, that the opposition to the Government might be strengthened, and to put into the hands of foreign powers a pretext to interrupt our tranquility. It was there suggested, that the crown of Spain would not agree to the cession of Louisiana; and that the people of New Orleans are averse to becoming citizens of the United States!—No one knows who wrote the letter from Spain published in that paper; or whether it was formed here, or sent by one of the combination from Spain. Nor is there any grounds for the assertion, that the American Spaniards are reluctant to become the members of a free government. We know that the court of London assured our late ambassador, Mr. King, of its perfect acquiescence in our negotiation with France; and we believe it is much to the advantage of the English nation that we should be in the possession of that extensive territory. We shall there consume the British manufactures which France and Spain would not do, and our extent of territory lessens the power of those nations, which are habitually enemies to England.
But this inveterate party would glory in provoking a war, though their country should be buried in its ruins, rather than to allow a state of prosperity under an administration which is not conducted by their hands. We know that our envoy, Mr. Monroe, went from France to Spain, on the completion of the compact between France and the United States, respecting Louisiana; that he proceeded from Madrid to London and was graciously received by the king of the British isles—and we have no reason to believe that he has given our President any intimation of an uneasiness in England or Spain on this subject.
We may take the elegant, the learned, and the patriotic communication of our President, as a chaste description of the state of our nation.
PLAIN TRUTH.
EIGHTH CONGRESS.
SENATE—SATURDAY, OCT. 22.
Agreeably to notice given by Mr. Breckenridge yesterday, he had leave to bring in a bill "To enable the President of the United States to take possession of the Territories ceded by France to the United States, by the Treaty concluded at Paris on the 30th day of April last," which was read:
Ordered, That it pass to the second reading.—The bill is in the following words:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to take possession of, and occupy the Territories ceded by France to the United States by the Treaty concluded at Paris on the 30th day of April last, between the two Nations; and that he may for that purpose, and in order, to maintain in the said Territories the authority of the United States, employ any part of the army and navy of the United States, and of the force authorized by an act passed the third day of March last, intitled, "An act directing a detachment from the militia of the United States, and for erecting certain arsenals," which he may deem necessary; And so much of the sum appropriated by the said act as may be necessary is hereby appropriated for the purpose of carrying this act into effect; to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That until Congress shall have made provision for the temporary government of the said territories, all the military, civil, and judicial powers exercised by the officers of the existing government of the same, shall be vested to such person or persons, and shall be exercised by and in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct."
HOUSE—SATURDAY, OCT. 22.
LOUISIANA TREATY.
The following message was received from the President of the United States by Mr. Harvie, his Secretary: To the Senate and House of Representatives, of the United States.
In my communication to you, of the 17th instant, I informed you that
Conventions had been entered into, with the government of France, for the cession of Louisiana to the United States. These, with the advice and consent of the Senate, having now been ratified and my ratification exchanged for that of the First Consul of France in due form, they are communicated to you for consideration in your legislative capacity. You will observe that some important conditions cannot be carried into execution, but with the aid of the legislature; and that time presses a decision on them without delay.
The ulterior provisions also suggested in the same communication, for the occupation and government of the country, will call for early attention. Such information, relative to its government, as time and distance have permitted me to obtain, will be ready to be laid before you within a few days. But as permanent arrangements for this object may require time and deliberation, it is for your consideration whether you will not forthwith make such temporary provisions for the preservation, in the mean while, of order and tranquility in the country, as the case may require.
TH: JEFFERSON.
Oct. 21 st , 1803.
The Message having been read, Mr. HUGER hoped the reading of the Treaty and Convention would be dispensed with, and that they would be printed for the use of the members. Mr. RANDOLPH hoped they would be read.
The reading, of course, was proceeded with;—which being finished, Mr. RANDOLPH moved a reference of the Message, and of the document, accompanying it, to the committee of the whole House on Monday; which motion was agreed to without a division.
Mr. RANDOLPH begged leave to submit a resolution, arising out of the Message, which he hoped would be considered at that time, for the purpose of referring it to the same committee to whom had been just referred the Message.
BRITISH AMITY.
It is amusing to observe the conduct of the opposition respecting British insults to American vessels. By some, the public are cautioned not to pay any regard to the Democratic papers, because they intend to involve our country in a war with Britain; & therefore clamour loud against British depredations. By others it is printed that the administration ought to be roused, and that it is deficient in character by suffering such injuries without louder complaint.—What are we to determine from such excellent guides of our public affairs?
Extract from the Log-Book of the Ship Fox, Capt. Cook.
Sept. 18, lon. 42, 34 P.M. was hailed by a ship under French colors, and ordered to send our boat on board. The Captain replied he could not, as his boats were not fit to trust the people in. The commander of the cruiser said, if they had to send on board they would be damned if they would not cut the boats away. They hoisted out their boat and came on board under English colors, demanded the papers and log book, which were sent on board the cruiser. The officers then ordered our people to get out our long boat, and lower the boat from the stern; which they refused to do without their captain's orders. The officer then struck the boatman and ordered him aft, and Philip Jones refusing, he drew his cutlass and struck him over the back, cut him on the arm and kicked him on deck. After abusing the Capt. he ordered him below; and on his refusing to go, the Lieutenant struck him on the head with his cutlass, and gave him several blows with his fist, calling him a damned rascal. Capt. Cook, then ordered his men to lower down the boats, and went below, and found two men belonging to the cruiser, overhauling his chests and trunks.—On his requesting them not to plunder him, one of them took him by the collar, and pushed him to the cabin door, and ordered him on deck. He complied; and then got into his own boat, to go on board the cruiser to inquire the reason of his being abused, but was ordered not to come along side on his peril. Capt. C. then requested him to respect the American flag as he did not him. The answer was damn your flag, there is your master, pointing to the English flag. They said their ship was called the Stork, sloop of war, commanded by the Hon. Capt. Murray.
WILLIAM COOK.
We Isaac Bridges, of Charleston, in the State of Massachusetts, and Charles Du Hamel, of the city of Quebec, in the British province of Lower Canada—testify and say, that we were passengers on board the ship Fox, on her voyage from Lisbon, and that the above extracts are the truth and nothing but the truth.
ISAAC BRIDGES, C. DU HAMEL.
Suffolk, ff. Boston, Oct 19, 1803.—
Subscribed and sworn to before WM. STEVENSON, N. P. and Just. Peace.
COME into the inclosure of the subscriber, about the 27th day of October last, a brown MARE, about thirteen years old, with only one eye—the owner may have her again by paying charges.
JOSEPH TENNESS.
Rye November 9, 1803.

Portsmouth.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1803.
SUMMARY—FOREIGN.
THE last London dates which have reached us are of the 19th September, and their contents are uniformly uninteresting. They indicate the approach of active hostility;—France and England are roused from the slumber of inactivity into which they appeared for a few weeks past, and preparations on the coast of France for the projected invasion, have acquired additional vigor;—several gun-boats have eluded the vigilance of the British, and formed union with others at the rendezvous; the French persist in their refusal of admitting any vessels whatever coming from England; a Spanish messenger on board a neutral vessel, a flag of truce and an American vessel were in turns refused admittance. Preparations on the part of England are not less active, and a Liverpool article of the 19th Sept. gives an account of an expedition, said to be commanded by Sir James Saumarez, having failed from England for the purpose of annoying the French preparations near Granville; a heavy and long cannonading was heard in that quarter, but the result had not transpired;—Another expedition under the command of Gen. Moore, which has been ready for sea this some time, was expected to sail soon. We have seen no late accounts of Ireland.—We learn from New-York, that the French have taken actual possession of Hamburg, and pretend to justify this measure, in consequence of the military preparations lately made by Denmark. What will prove the issue is hard to say, but certain it is that Denmark is not pacific in her dispositions toward France; from Russia we have no late accounts, our last authenticated a belief that she was not likely to favour the views of the First Consul; Spain seems to be verging upon a rupture with France; Portugal will in that case no doubt side with her; At Helvetsluy's several American vessels have been detained and French soldiers put on board, for not having certificates that their cargoes were neither English manufactures or produce; A war between the United States and the Emperor of Morocco, is daily expected;—Martinique, is closely blockaded.—The next accounts from Europe promise to be highly interesting, as it is more than probable that active preparations have ere this commenced; the result must be decisive, and finally determine the doom of the European world.
DOMESTIC.
THE elections which have taken place, have for the greater part decided in favour of Republicanism;—New-Jersey, the principal stay of Federalists, (by Federalists we do not mean those who advocate the cause of Britain and disclaim against the proceedings of the French government, but those who are combatting, from interest or through prejudice, against the acknowledged and well framed Constitution of our Country: those who are endeavouring to subvert our form of Government, and to substitute in its stead slavery and tyranny,) is no longer the dupe of that blinded fashion, and by a large majority declared in favour of the existing order of things. Let Federalists gather from thence that resistance is in vain; that all their schemes and plots can but prove ineffectual and will finally tend to overwhelm them with shame, and to sink them still lower in the contempt of every true American, and considering that faults and errors will attend every human institution, let them learn that wisdom, prudence and caution unite in persuading us that it is far wiser "to bear the ills we have, than trust to others that we know not of."
We noticed in our last the rapid decrease of the epidemic in New-York, and we are happy in announcing to our readers that those citizens who had left it may now with safety return to that city. The destroying angel no longer overwhelms our sister states with desolation, the flaming sword is returned into its scabbard, and health promises to return, and with it rich blessings.
Extract of a letter from a member of the Legislature of Vermont, to the Editor, dated Westminster, Oct. 22, 1803. "Some days ago, Mr. Hay introduced the following Resolution:— "Whereas dissensions of the most serious nature, have already arisen, and incalculable evils may further arise, from the mode pointed out in the second article of the Constitution of the United States, for electing a President and Vice President of the United States:—Therefore Resolved, as the sense of this Legislature, that it is highly important that an alteration should take place in the above article of the Constitution of the United
States, by which the future Electors of President and Vice-President shall be directed particularly to designate the persons voted for, by declaring which are voted for as President, and which as Vice-President.—And in pursuance of an undoubted right, inherent in this Legislature, be it further Resolved, That the Senators of the State, in the Congress of the United States, are hereby instructed, and Representatives of the People of this State, in the Congress of the United States, are hereby earnestly requested, to use their best exertions in obtaining the above amendment to the Constitution of the United States, or some other amendment, which will be substantially equivalent."
"After a short, tho' pretty animated debate between Mr. Morris & Mr. Hay, the Resolution was referred to a Committee—and was this day reported in favour of the Resolution.—The first clause was objected to by Mr. Marsh, who proposed to strike out all the words from "Whereas" to "incalculable"—but this, after some debate, in which Mr. Marsh, on the one side, and Mr. Fisk, Mr. Shaw, & Mr. Hay, on the other side, took the most active part, it was carried clearly against Mr. Marsh's motion.—The Question was then proposed on the Resolution, on which Mr. Hay called for the Yeas and Nays—and it ended in Yeas 150 Nays 14." (Gazetteer.)
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The Congressional proceedings forbid the insertion of several communications.—The 'Reprover No. 9'; 'Thoughts on Slave Trade, No. 3'; 'The Correspondent's answer to Mr. Park,' &c. some of which were prepared for our last Gazette, but which we were under the necessity of omitting, will appear in our next.
DIED.
In this town, suddenly, Mrs. SUSANNA REID.—Mr. FAIRFAX ONELE, from Virginia, aged about 24.
NOTICE.
THE subscribers to the ASSEMBLIES the coming season, are requested to meet at Majr. Walker's THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock. November 8, 1803.
Wanted Immediately.
An able skilful MASTER, to teach a Latin Grammar School in the town of Portsmouth.—Apply to the SELECTMEN. November 8, 1803.
For SALE, FREIGHT or CHARTER.
If applied for within a few days.— THE strong, well built ship Hampden & Sidney, now laying at Drisco's wharf, burthen about two hundred Tons, two years and an half old—is a fast sailer, and completely fitted for sea, ready to take on board a cargo, at the shortest notice.—The terms may be known of JAMES DRISCO, owner of said ship. Portsmouth. Nov. 8. 1803.
S. LARKIN,
Has for Sale at his store on the Parade, formerly occupied by Mr. Swett, GOOD West-India Rum, per hhd. or barrel, Cogniac and Spanish Brandy, per barrel or retail; best Holland Gin, per do. Sher-ry, Lisbon and Malaga Wines, per qr. cask; Porter, and Taunton Ale, per cask or doz. Chocolate, No. 1 & 2, per box; Coffee; Pepper; All-spice per bag or retail; India Sugar per bag; Loaf and Lump Sugar per cwt. or single loaf; best Spanish Sugars per box or retail; Sugar per barrel; Souchong and Bohea Teas per chest; 7 by 9, 8 by 10, and various other sizes, Window Glass, together with a general assortment of GROCERIES, all which will be sold cheap, and on good terms. November 8, 1803.
FIG TOBACCO.
A few casks excellent Fig, and 7 cwt. best Pigtail TOBACCO, FOR SALE BY Warner and Weare, at their Store, opposite N. W. corner of the State House.—ALSO—Thompson's, Elliot's and Tenney's SNUFF, kept constantly for sale, per keg or bladder. Portsmouth, Nov. 8, 1803.
Just published and for sale at this Office, The CLERGYMAN'S LOOKING-GLASS, No. II. BEING A HISTORY OF THE BIRTH, LIFE AND DEATH OF ANTI-CHRIST. IN THREE BOOKS. The two first contains a history of his Birth and Life down to the 18th. of June, 1803; the third contains a PROPHECY of what shall take place concerning him hereafter, till the day of his Death—with an account of his Death and Burial; and a SPEECH, to be delivered at his Grave, with a Funeral Dirge, to be sung at the same time by the followers of the LAMB. By ELIAS SMITH, Portsmouth.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the resident and non-resident owners of land in the township of BETHLEHEM, county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, who have not paid their tax of one cent and one half cent, on each acre of land in said Bethlehem, for the year 1803, that so much of their land as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of Lot Woodbury, in said Bethlehem, on the first Tuesday in February next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment to us the subscribers.
Table with 4 columns: Lot, Range, Acres, Dols. Cents. Lot 1, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 65 Cents 00. Lot 2, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 3, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 4, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 5, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 6, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 7, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 8, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00.
Table with 4 columns: Lot, Range, Acres, Dols. Cents. Lot 1, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 2, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 3, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 4, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 5, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 6, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 7, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 8, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00.
The following Lots in the 2d and 3d sale, owners unknown.
Table with 4 columns: Lot, Range, Acres, Dols. Cents. Lot 1, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 2, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 3, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 4, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 5, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 6, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 7, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 8, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00.
The following Lots in Concord Gore.
Table with 4 columns: Lot, Range, Acres, Dols. Cents. Lot 1, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 2, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 3, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 4, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 5, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 6, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 7, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 8, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00.
Following Lots in 4th sale also, designated by numbers only.
Table with 4 columns: Lot, Range, Acres, Dols. Cents. Lot 1, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 2, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 3, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 4, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 5, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 6, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 7, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 8, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00.
Table with 4 columns: Lot, Range, Acres, Dols. Cents. Lot 1, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 2, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 3, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 4, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 5, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 6, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 7, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 8, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00.
LOT WOODBURY, JOHN TAYLOR, AMOS WHEELER. Committee. Bethlehem, Oct. 17, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Strafford, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of OSSIPEE, county and State aforesaid, who have not paid their highway and county taxes for the year 1803, that so much of their land as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Capt. JACOB BROWN, inholder in said Ossipee, on the first Tuesday in February next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
Table with 4 columns: Lot, Range, Acres, Dols. Cents. Lot 1, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 2, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 3, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 4, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 5, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 6, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 7, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 8, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00.
Tax on the one hundred acre lots in the upper division.
Table with 4 columns: Lot, Range, Acres, Dols. Cents. Lot 1, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 2, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 3, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 4, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 5, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 6, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 7, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00. Lot 8, Range 1, Acres 100, Dols. 50 Cents 00.
NOTICE.
WHEREAS a commission of Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against NATHANIEL COGSWELL, of Gilmanton, in the district of New-Hampshire, Merchant, and he having been declared a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to us the undersigned commissioners, on the day of November next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon on each day, at the office of CHARLES CUTTS, Esq. in Portsmouth, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects, when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the second meeting to choose assignees, and at the last meeting the said Bankrupt is required to finish his examination, and the creditors are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate; all persons indebted to said Bankrupt or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the said commissioners shall appoint. JOHN M'CLINTOCK, H. S. LANGDON, Commissioners. Portsmouth, Nov. 2, 1803.
JAMES RUNDLET,
Has this day received per the Galen and Minerva, from London, and the Warrington and Two Pollies, from Liverpool; A fresh supply of Fall and Winter GOODS, which with those received before, make a very extensive and valuable assortment of staple and fancy Goods, which he will sell at a very small advance, by wholesale or retail. Congress Street, November 8, 1803.
REMOVAL.
B. Brierley, BEGS leave to acquaint his friends and the public, that he has removed from Broad Street, to that commodious New Fire-Proof Brick Store No. 9, Market Street,—Where he has for sale, received by the late different arrivals from Europe, A most extensive, and choice Assortment of Fashionable Fancy & Staple GOODS, which will be sold at a very low advance, by wholesale or retail. Portsmouth, Nov. 8, 1803.
A BOOK-BINDER Wanted.
A Journeyman Book-Binder may hear of constant employ, by applying to this office. November 8, 1803.
WANTED TO HIRE, Five Hundred DOLLARS, for which good security will be given—Enquire of the Printers. Nov. 8, 1803.
DOCTOR RAWSON'S Genuine Anti-Bilious and Stomachic BITTERS.
Prepared by Thomas H. Rawson, M. C. M. S. New-London, (Conn.) For which discovery he obtained a Patent from the President of the U. States, in July, 1802.
THE vast demand for these BITTERS, and their efficacy are so universally known and acknowledged, that little need be said in an advertisement.
Perhaps no medicine in the world is so useful and proper for a domestic family medicine. They are the greatest restorative and corrector of the digestive organs, and purifier of the blood, of any medicine ever offered the public.
The following are some of the most prominent complaints in which these Bitters are efficacious, and so universally admired, viz. Indigestion, Debility, Head-aches, Swoonings, Dizziness, Faintings, Tremblings, Lowness of Spirits, Palpitations, Drowsiness, Bilious Congestions, Costiveness, Diarrhoea, Dysenteries, Gravel, Hysteria and Hypochondriacal Affections, Worms, Ages, &c.
THE Patentee having an aversion to pompous puffing, and certificates of cures accompanying almost every medicine offered the public, has hitherto strictly forbidden his agents the insertion of any of the numberless certificates and letters of uncommon cures of this medicine. But the following, coming from such a source, and the character of the man who requests its publicity being so substantially vouched for by three respectable Clergymen, a Judge of the County Court, and a number of characters of the first respectability, and countersigned by Governor Trumbull, that he should think himself blamable in preventing its publicity. East Haddam April 7, 1803.
DOCTOR RAWSON, Sir.—Enclosed are two certificates. My wishes as respects the one to which I have made oath, are sufficiently explained in the certificate. The other which respects my moral character, I with might have equal publicity; for the benefit of those who labor under distressing and complicated bodily infirmities, and who, unacquainted with my character, might not give sufficient credence to my statement as to induce a trial of the medicine. I am Sir, your's respectfully, WILLIAM BURKE.
I WILLIAM BURKE, of East-Haddam, County of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut, hereby certify; that I was for about ten years laboring under distressing and complicated diseases of body, having frequent recurrences of severe head-ache, and almost constantly in pain, either in my joints, bones or small of my back, which was uniformly weak; my bowels unloose moved by some gentle laxative, continually costive, and at short intervals so exercised with cholics that I could not for days together strain myself; my stomach four, and appetite weak at the best; and to crown this catalogue of maladies I was frequently afflicted with that distressing and formidable disease the Gravel.
I found very little relief, and that, but temporary, from Medical applications, until urged by my friends, who from like complaints had found relief in the use of Doct. Rawson's Anti-Bilious and Stomachic Bitters—I procured a box, and began the use of them, in a resolute manner, and soon experienced their good effects. I made use of no other medicine, and in a few weeks was restored to as good a state of health as is common to a man of my age, being about fifty years old. I have now for several months enjoyed my health; my appetite is remarkably good, and I eat any kind of solid food without reserve, and digest it well, and I endure exercise to admiration without being fatigued.
I further certify that I have voluntarily and unsolicited by Doctor Rawson or his friends, now come forward to make oath to this certificate, hereby requesting the Doctor to give it as much publicity as possible, —having an anxious desire that my fellow-citizens, laboring under similar calamities; may make trial of a medicine, which thro' the blessing of God, has wrought on me such wonders. WILLIAM BURKE. Dated at New-London, April 6, 1803. STATE OF CONNECTICUT, ss. New London, April 6, 1803.
Personally appeared William Burke, the signer of the above, and made solemn oath that the aforesaid declaration by him made, is just and true in every particular, to the best of his knowledge and belief. Sworn before me, RICHARD LAW.
Mayor of the City of New-London. EAST-HADDAM, Nov. 27 1803. We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of East-Haddam, in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, hereby certify that we have long been acquainted with Mr. William Burke, of said East-Haddam, and that in our opinion he is a man of strict honesty & integrity, and as such, is a worthy member of society, and a good citizen. Jared Spencer, a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County. Isaac Spencer, Jr. Justice Peace, Middlesex. Timy Gates, 3d. Justice Peace, Middlesex. Jona. O. Moseley, Justice Peace, Middlesex. Jabez Chapman, Justice Peace, Middlesex. Silvanus Tinker, Epaphroditus Champion. Elijah Parsons, Henry Champion, of Colchester. Zebulon Ely, John Gurley. LEBANON, Dec. 12 1803.
The subscriber is well acquainted with the character of the above signing gentlemen, & can cheerfully bear testimony in their respectability and veracity. JONATHAN TRUMBULL.
For sale in Portsmouth, by CHARLES PEIRCE, and in Dover, N. H. by J. WHEELER, Post-Master. Price 50 Cts. per box. —ALSO—
Dr. Haskell's Pills and Powders being a certain cure for the Dysentery, 1 dollar.
Haarlem Oil, being a certain cure for the Gravel, and is found by applying one drop to the corner of the eye every night, to be a very great strengthener of the light, 25 Cents. Nov. 8, 1803.

Miscellaneous Repository.
WRITTEN IN A STORM.
Darkness, dreary darkness flies; O'er the bright and azure skies; Howling winds and tempels roar; On the bleak and desolate shore.
(Rural Loiterer.) For the GAZETTE.
The RURAL LOITERER, No. 9.
There is a charm; a power that sways the break; Bids every p. storm revet or be still;
IN the decline of the year, when nature throws aside her elegant attire, and closes her beauteous bosom from the eyes of mortals, with her veil of frost;
Tune the female heart to pleasure. Armonious, speaking of the enthusiastic rapture which swells in our breasts on hearing harmonious and sweet sounds, says,
Who with wild rage or solemn pomp of sounds, Inflames, excels, and gratifies the soul.
A harmony of sweet sounds is heard by every person, who takes a morning walk through our groves, in the fine season of summer;
What tho' no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found? In real ears they all voice, And utter forth a glorious sound.
BALTIMORE, OCT. 12.
A few miles from Monticello, there is a sign over the door of a tavern, kept by Mr. E. Moore;
Mr. Adams is placed with his back on the people, at his feet the British Lion, couchant, uncrowned with his right hand, Mr. Adams' endeavours to tear the cap from the pole of Liberty;
Extract of a letter dated St. Jago de Cuba, August 12, 1803.
The government of this country has afforded us protection. It has permitted our Negroes to be landed, and has offered to sell to the French refugees from St. Domingo;
Just Published by N. S. & W. PEIRCE, and for sale at their Book Store, Congress-Street.
A DISCOURSE delivered before the Members of the Portsmouth Female Charity School, by the Rev. JOSEPH BUCKMINSTER.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Grafton, ff. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of GRAFTON, who have not paid their highway and county taxes for the year 1803.
Table with 5 columns: NAMES, D. (Debt), C. (Credit), H. (Highway tax), C. (County tax). Lists names like Capt. Aaron Barney, Stephen Smith, Constant Barney, etc.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Stratham, ff. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of NEW DURHAM, county and State aforesaid, who have not paid their highway, county and school taxes for the year 1803.
Table with 5 columns: NAMES OF ORIGINAL PROPRIETORS, D., C., H., C. Lists names like Thomas Langley, V. Manhes, Esq., David Langley, etc.
Table with 5 columns: NAMES, D., C., H., C. Lists names like Jacob Bennett, James Smith, Jona. Cheeley, Jr., etc.
DAVID WILLEY, Collector. New-Durham, October 25, 1803.
An Evening School. THE Subscriber intends opening an Evening School on the first Monday of November next, at his house in Jefferson-Street.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Grafton, ff. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of PEELING, that at a meeting of the proprietors held at Peeling, Sept. 17th, 1803, there was voted to be assessed on each hundred acre lot in said town the sum of three dollars.
WILLIAM BALLARD, Collector, for said Proprietors. Durham, Oct. 24, 1803.
Table with 5 columns: NAMES, D., C., H., C. Lists names like Capt. Nathaniel Adams, Theodore Atkinson, John Bennett, etc.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ff. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of NORTHWOOD, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1803.
Table with 5 columns: NAMES, D., C., H., C. Lists names like Daniel Lampre, Abner Davis, Butler & others, etc.
The second edition of the UNION HARMONY, or Universal collection of Sacred Music, by OLIVER HOLDEN, is received and for sale by N. S. & W. PEIRCE, at their Book-Store Congress-Street.
NEW GOODS. Nathaniel Dean, BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has just received, a handsome assortment of Fall and Winter GOODS.
REMOVED. Oliver Briard, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public in general, that he has removed his Goods from Congress-Street, to No. 2, Merchant's Row, in the new brick store.
FALL & WINTER GOODS. William S. Cooper, BEGS leave to inform his Friends, and the Public, that he has taken the Shop adjoining the Bell Tavern, Congress-Street.
GOODS. BROAD-Cloths; Cassimeres; Coatings; Fearnoughts; Forest Cloths; Serges; Baizes; Flannels; Blankets; Tamnies; Durants; plain and ribb'd Callimancoes; Wildbores.
Elegant silk velvet Vestings; Men's plain and striped black Satins; plain and ribb'd Black Velvets; light Corded & Olive do. Quiltings; Swans down. Latest fashion buff and plaid Callioes and Chintzes; fashionable Chambray, book and jaconet Muslins.
Purple and Chintz Shawls; linen, cotton, romal, bandanna, India and Barcelona black silk Handkerchiefs. Fashionable Pelice Flannels; India Lustrings; Modes; black hove Tiffany; Gauzes; Millinets; Black Laces.
TO BE SOLD AT D. Austin's Store, Opposite the Brick Market, a general assortment of GROCERIES. And a good assortment of PAPER HANGINGS.
John Man, Has for Sale at the corner of Market and Bow-Street, SPRING HILL, A QUANTITY of Pollock FISH; casks Raisins; casks Gun-Powder; Spanish and Spanish Float INDIGO; real French and Alicante Brandy; Gin; Hyson; Souchong and Bohea Teas; Loaf and Brown Sugars; Coffee; Cotton.
Strayed FROM the Subscriber on the 29th of September last, a pair of RED OXEN. one about six feet, the other a little less (hoppole white face) about four or five years old.
FEATHERS. Warner & Weare, HAVE for sale, corner of Congress and High-Street, best Sea Fowl, Russia and Lisbon Feathers, as cheap as can be bought in Boston.
JOHN JACKSON, Has just imported from Europe an assortment of FRESH Drugs & Medicines of the best quality; which he offers for SALE at his Shop in Back-Street.
TURLINGTON'S Balsam of life, Bateman's Drops, Walker's Je-fuits Drops, and Specific Electary, Stoughton's Elixir, British Oil, Franceses's female Elixir, Church's cough Drops, Squires' Elixir, Essence of Peppermint, Oil of do. Essence Penny-royal, Hill's balsam Honey, Cundell's improved do. Greenough's Tincture for the Teeth, Hopwood's chemical vegetable Dentifrice, Salt Lemons, Brodum's botanical Syrup and nervous Cordial, Squires' grand Elixir, Maredant's Drops, Steer's Opedolocy, Dalby's Carminative, Godfrey's Cordial; Lockyer's, Anderson's, Lee's, Hooper's, Speediman's and Vandour's Nervous Pills.
Calcined Magnesia, Glass's do. Tolu, Peppermint and Magnesia Lozenges, Riga Balsam. Wheaton's Jaundice Bitters and Itch Ointment, Clinton's Oil and Snuff for Deafness, Cether, Cephalic Snuff, Scott's Liquid Blue. Pewter Syringes, Ivory do. Hollow Bougies, common do. silver Catheters, elastic do. steel Trusses; Pocket Instruments, Teeth do. Tooth Brushes, Court Plaster, Hatacafe, Vials, Urinals, Gallipots from 3lb. to 1 oz. Smelling Bottles, Milk Roses, essence do.
Painters' Oil and Colours; gold and silver Leaf, Dutch Metal; Copal Varnish, Japan do. Camels hair Pencils; Rotten Stone, Pumice Stone, Sponge, Salt Peter; Oil Vitriol; by carboy or less; Blue Vitriol; Alum, &c. &c. Nov. 1, 1803.
70,000 BRICKS, 20 doz. TILE, for Sale by JOSEPH DROWNE, South-End. Portsmouth, Nov. 1.
Flaxseed and Barley. Robert Harris, GIVES cash for Flaxseed & Barley, at his Store, No. 5, on Langdon's Wharf. Portsmouth, Sept. 13, 1803.
FISH. A FEW quintals best SPRING POLLOCK, suitable for country use, for Sale by Warner & Weare, opposite the N. W. corner of the State House, and next door to N. S. & W. Peirce's Book-Store. Oct. 18.
Fresh FEATHERS and BEDS, FOR Sale at S. LITTLE's Office. Also, a general assortment of PAPER HANGINGS. Oct. 18, 1803.
Wants Employ. A MIDDLE aged man of steady and industrious habits, wishes to be employed either as a supercargo to the West Indies or any other part of the world; or to attend a store in town, or as agent or factor in the metropolis or any of the inland Towns within this state, or in the district of Maine.
NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of SAMUEL RAND, J. late of RYE, Cordwainer deceased, are requested to exhibit the same for settlement to the subscriber. HANNAH RAND, Admin'r. Ry. Oct. 27, 1803.