The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1807-03-17 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE
[No. 15.—VOL. LII.]
TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1807.
[TWO DOLLS. PER ANNUM.]
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY PIERCE & GARDNER, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Cheap New GOODS.
Just received at DRAPER'S Cheap new cash Store, A fresh supply of Seasonable Goods, among which are a great variety of salubrious
CHINTZES and Calicoes; Plaid Chintzes; Chambray Muslins; very cheap book; Jacquet and Cambric Muslins; lace Armlets; white silk Cords and Tassels; Gown Buttons; cheap Linen Cambricks; Cambric and common Dimities; thread and cotton Laces and Edgings; 64 silk Shawls; patent black Laces and Edgings; white cambric pocket Handks. low priced linen ditto; Furniture Chintzes, Irish Linens; British shirtings Cottons; India black Lute-strings; black Crapes and Modes; very nice black farinet Cambricks; low priced blk. Cambricks and Ginghams.
English & French silk Gloves; Ladies long and short kid Gloves; lace Gloves and Mts; English Diapers; Diaper table Cloths; real superfine black Broad Cloths; Straw Bonnets; Bandanno Handks; Real and mock madras do.; Italian blk. sewing Silk; Oil Cloths; Country Diapers; Dark purple Shawls; Linen Checks; Cotton do.; India Calicoes; Men's low priced Hts.—a very large supply of India COTTONS, unusually cheap. The above with many other articles in addition, to his former stock make his assortment complete.
to be had as above. Factory Cotton YARN.
March 10, 1807.
PORTSMOUTH SHOE & LEATHER STORE,
corner of Congress and Market streets. Samuel Mudge & Co. Inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Portsmouth and its vicinity, that they have just received, a fresh supply of Shoes and Slippers,
warranted good, consisting of Ladies' English and American kid and morocco of every description; childrens morocco and leather Shoes and Slippers, all of which will be sold as cheap (according to goodness) as can be purchased in town or state. Also,
Gentlemen's calf and morocco SHOES and PUMPS; men's and boys Shoes of various kinds and various kinds and prices.
BOOTS.
Fashionable Suawarrow, light top'd and short; fishermens' long and short ditto. Black, red, green and yellow MOROCCO SKINS, by the dozen or single, cheap for cash; strip'd binding Skins; white sheep do. suitable for welting or aprons. Also,
LEATHER.
Red and yellow foal Leather; bridle, harness and saddle Skirting; wax'd and grain'd upper Leather; Calf do.—a handsome assortment of ROSETTS and Shoe Bows of the latest fashions; TRUNKS, &c. &c. N. B. They inform the public that they have commenced the Boot and Shoe Manufactory in this town, and that any orders left at the above store will be punctually attended to, and every favor gratefully acknowledged.
Portsmouth, March 10, 1807.
Copartnership Formed.
THE Subscribers take the liberty to inform their friends and the public, that they have formed a connection in trade under the firm of
Winthrop B. Norton and Co.
And have taken the Brick Store opposite the Fish-Market, fourth side of Bow-street—where they will keep constantly for Sale a general assortment of W. I. Goods and Groceries; by wholesale and retail—Traders from the Country can be supplied with Goods on the best terms, for Cash, Country Produce, or approved Credit.—Constant attendance will be given, and every favor gratefully acknowledged.
WINTHROP B. NORTON,
AMBROSE ALLEN.
Portsmouth, March 10, 1807.
Cash given for RAGS at the Bookstore of C. PIERCE.
LAWS OF THE UNION.
[PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.]
AN ACT
For the relief of the sufferers by fire in the town of Portsmouth, New-Hampshire. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons, who, being indebted to the United States for duties on merchandise, have given bond therefor, with one, or more sureties, payable to the collector for the district of Portsmouth, in the state of New-Hampshire, or to the collector of the district of Boston and Charleston, and who have suffered a loss of property by the late conflagration at Portsmouth, shall be and hereby are allowed to take up, or have cancelled, all bonds heretofore given for duties as aforesaid, upon giving to the said collector or collectors new bonds, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the said collector or collectors, for the sums of their former bonds respectively, payable in twelve months from and after the day of payment specified in the bonds to be taken up, and cancelled, as aforesaid; and the said collectors are hereby authorized to give up, or cancel all such bonds, upon the receipt of others, as described in this act; which last mentioned bonds, shall be proceeded with, in all respects, like other bonds, which are taken by collectors for duties due to the United States: Provided, however, that nothing in this act contained, shall extend to bonds which had fallen due prior to the twenty fourth day of December last.
NATH'L MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO: CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
February 10, 1807. APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT
To provide for surveying the coasts of the United States.
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 shall be, and is hereby authorized and requested, to cause a survey to be taken of the coasts of the United States, in which shall be designated the islands and shoals with the roads or places of anchorage, within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States; and also the respective courses and distances between the principal capes, or head lands, together with such other matters as he may deem proper for completing an accurate chart of every part of the coasts within the extent aforesaid.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, to cause such examinations and observations to be made, with respect to St. George's bank, and any other bank or shoal, and the soundings and currents beyond the distance aforesaid to the Gulph Stream, as in his opinion may be especially subservient to the commercial interests of the United States.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall be, and is hereby authorized and requested, for any of the purposes aforesaid, to cause proper and intelligent persons to be employed, and also such of the public vessels in actual service, as he may judge expedient, and to give such instructions for regulating their conduct as to him may appear proper, according to the tenor of this act.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That for carrying this act into effect there shall be, and hereby is appropriated, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
NATH'L MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO: CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
February 10, 1807. APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
TO BE LET
And entered upon the 1st of April next, The FARM lately occupied by Mr. J. Place, in Kittery, one mile from Portsmouth Ferry, and opposite the Navy Yard.—enquire of
JOSEPH WHIPPLE.
Portsmouth, March 10.
Interesting Documents.
MESSAGE FROM THE President of the United States, Communicating information of the effect of gun boats in the protection and defence of harbors; of the numbers thought necessary, and of the proposed distribution of them, among the ports and harbors of the United States, in compliance with a resolution of the House of the 5th instant.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.
In compliance with the request of the House of Representatives expressed in their resolution of the first inst. I proceed to give such information, as is possessed, of the effect of the gun boats in the protection and defence of harbors, of the numbers thought necessary, and of the proposed distribution of them, among the ports and harbors of the U. States.
Under present circumstances, and governed by the intentions of the legislature, as manifested by their annual appropriations of money for the purposes of defence, it has been concluded to combine, 1st, land batteries, furnished with heavy cannon and mortars, and established on all the points around the place favorable for preventing vessels from lying before it; 2d, moveable artillery, which may be carried as occasion may require, to points unprovided with fixed batteries; 3d, floating batteries; and 4th, gun boats, which may oppose an enemy at his entrance, and co-operate with the batteries for his expulsion.
On this subject professional men were consulted as far as we had opportunity. General Wilkinson, and the late Gen. Gates, gave their opinions in writing, in favor of the system, as will be seen by their letters now communicated. The higher officers of the navy gave the same opinions, in separate conferences, as their presence at the seat of government offered occasions of consulting them, and no difference of judgment appeared on the subject. Those of commodore Barron and Capt. Tingey, now here, are recently furnished in writing, and transmitted herewith to the legislature.
The efficacy of gun boats for the defence of harbors and of other smooth and inclosed waters, may be estimated, in part, from that of galleys, formerly much used, but less powerful, more costly in their construction and maintenance, and requiring more men. But the gun boat itself is believed to be in use with every modern maritime nation, for the purposes of defence. In the Mediterranean, on which are several small powers, whose system, like ours, is peace and defence, few harbors are without this article of protection. Our own experience there of the effect of gun boats, for harbor service, is recent. Algiers is particularly known to have owed, to a great provision of these vessels, the safety of its city, since the epoch of their construction. Before that, it had been repeatedly insulted and injured. The effect of gun boats, at present, in the neighborhood of Gibraltar, is well known, and how much they were used, both in the attack and defence of that place, during a former war. The extensive resort to them, by the two greatest naval powers in the world, on an enterprise of invasion not long since in prospect, shews their confidence in their efficacy, for the purposes for which they are suited. By the northern powers of Europe, whose seas are particularly adapted to them; they are still more used. The remarkable action, between the Russian flotilla of gun boats and galleys, and a Turkish fleet of ships of the line and frigates, in the Liman sea, (in one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight) will be readily recollected. The latter, commanded by their most celebrated admiral, were completely defeated, and several of their ships of the line destroyed.
From the opinions given, as to the number of gun boats necessary for some of the principal sea ports, and from a view of all the towns and ports, from Orleans to Maine, inclusive, entitled to protection, in proportion to their situation and circumstances, it is concluded that to give them a due measure of protection in times of war, about two hundred gun boats will be requisite. According to first ideas, the following would be their general distribution; liable to be varied, on
more mature examination, and as circumstances shall vary; that is to say, To the Mississippi and its neighboring waters, forty gun boats.
To Savannah and Charleston, and the harbors on each side, from St. Mary's to Curratuck, twenty-five.
To the Chesapeake, and its waters, twenty.
To Delaware bay and river, fifteen.
To New-York, the Sound, and waters as far as Cape Cod, fifty.
The flotillas assigned to these several stations might each be under the care of a particular commandant, and the vessels composing them would, in ordinary, be distributed among the harbors within the station, in proportion to their importance.
Of these boats, a proper proportion would be of the larger size, such as those heretofore built, capable of navigating any seas, and of reinforcing occasionally the strength even of the most distant ports, when menaced with danger. The residue would be confined to their own, or the neighboring harbors, would be smaller, less furnished for accommodation, and consequently less costly. Of the number supposed necessary, seventy three are built or building, and the hundred and twenty seven still to be provided, would cost from five to six hundred thousand dollars. Having regard to the convenience of the treasury, as well as to the resources for building, it has been thought that the one half of these might be built in the present year, and the other half the next. With the legislature, however, it will rest to stop where we are, or at any further point, when they shall be of opinion that the number provided shall be sufficient for the object.
At times, when Europe, as well as the U. States, shall be at peace, it would not be proposed that more than six or eight of these vessels should be kept afloat. When Europe is in war, treble that number might be necessary, to be distributed among those particular harbors which foreign vessels of war are in the habit of frequenting, for the purpose of preserving order therein. But they would be manned in ordinary, with only their complement for navigation, relying on the seamen and militia of the port, if called into action, on any sudden emergency. It would be only when the United States should themselves be at war, that the whole number would be brought into active service, and would be ready, in the first moments of the war, to co-operate, with other means, for covering at once the line of our sea ports. At all times, those unemployed, would be withdrawn into places not exposed to sudden enterprise, hauled up under sheds covered from the sun and weather, and kept in preservation with little expense for repairs or maintenance.
It must be superfluous to observe, that this species of naval armament is proposed merely for defensive operations; that it can have but little effect towards protecting our commerce in the open seas, even on our own coast; and still less can it become an excitement to engage in offensive maritime war, towards which it would furnish no means. TH: JEFFERSON.
February 10, 1807.
Extract of a letter from Gen. Horatio Gates, to Thomas Jefferson, Esq. dated October 19. 1804.
DEAR SIR, I am charmed with your instituting gun-boats, for I believe them to be the properest defence for large harbors that has been hitherto imagined; these co-operating with small batteries of heavy guns upon the projecting heights near the water, are much better, and infinitely less expensive than fixed and large fortifications. The French, who are the best judges of artillery and engineering of any nation in Europe, adopt this plan of defending their harbors: the effects of it are too well known in England. I know not if you have seen a publication which appeared in Paris in May 1802, entitled Lettres d'un observateur sur la marine , it is well worth your perusal; much useful information may be derived from it for the defence of our harbors and our astonishingly increasing commerce: a paltry frigate dare not then insult us, as has been and now is done in the harbor of New-York.
A letter from Gen. James Wilkinson, to Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, dated Washington, Nov. 10. 1804.
SIR, I regret that a variety of interruptions and engagements should have so long prevented my attention to the subject you did me the honor to mention to me.
On turning it in my mind the ideas occurred to me that your proposition could not be better ascertained than by an examination
of the system of defence heretofore adopted for our towns and harbors, and a comparative view of its merits, with those of the plan which you recommend. I have yielded to this suggestion, and shall be happy if the manner or matter of the enclosed reflections should meet your approbation, as they are for you and at your disposal only.
You will find under cover an extract from the reflections of the Marquis of Santa Cruz, an author of great respectability, who wrote early in the last century, from which you will perceive galleys, in other words gun boats, have been long held in high estimation.
I have only to add, Sir, that these observations were committed to paper on the day of their date, and that I have not been able to have them copied sooner, so inadequate are my means to my duties.
With great consideration and respect, I have the honor to be, &c. &c.
NOTE.—This letter was only the cover of Gen. Wilkinson's opinion, and therefore throws only in general terms what that was. The opinion itself was on a former occasion communicated to a committee of the House of Representatives, and was read to the House for its information. This paper cannot now be found; which is the more regretted, as it went much at large into the reasoning on the subject.
A letter from Commodore S. Barron, to Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, dated Washington, February 8, 1807.
SIR, In consequence of a conversation which I had the honor to hold with you yesterday, on the subject of gun boats, I venture to state my reasons for supposing them the proper kind of vessels to afford the most effectual means of defence and annoyance within the bays and rivers of the United States.
The small draft of water enables them to take such positions, as to attack, in a measure with impunity, vessels of any size, and are enabled to approach or retire as may best suit to commit their enemy and protect themselves.
My residence having been always near the Chesapeake, enables me to remark more particularly on the effect of gun boats opposed to ships within the capes of Virginia.
The middle ground, the Horse Shoe, and Wicwoughby's point, are proper positions for gun boats to take to repel attempts to enter the bay and James river. York Spit affords the same advantage in preventing an entry into that river, and near each river is a flat which affords a safe position to annoy, without fearing the near approach of large ships.—Ten or twelve of these boats would probably be sufficient to compel to remove from her position, a frigate, and so on, in proportion to the size and number of the enemies ships. To do more than annoy would be difficult. With those vessels a great number and a long time would be necessary to capture a ship of war; but few commanders would feel secure while open to the attack of an enemy, which however inferior, he could not destroy. An attempt to board might be better opposed by small arms, cutlasses, &c. and in case of the necessity of retreat, the small rivers adjacent, &c. would be found of easy access to the boats, and inaccessible to the enemy. I do suppose that twenty gun boats stationed in Hampton roads and its vicinity, would be sufficient to repel any predatory attack in that quarter, and be very formidable to a larger force. It is impossible for me to enlarge on this subject, being incapable of estimating the force which might be brought in opposition to this mode of defence. I can recollect perfectly the manner and by what means two small boats belonging to the state of Virginia, during the revolutionary war, often intercepted, almost under the guns of large ships, the supplies which were frequently attempted to be afforded them. This was done by means of a light draft of water and good sailing. They were, however, deficient of heavy cannon. The gun-boats building under my direction are so constructed, as to sail fast and to mount one heavy cannon, and can if necessary mount some smaller guns in the waist, so that they can be used in attack on privateers or ships of war, and are competent to an employment (during summer) on the seacoast where the inlets will generally admit them in case of tempestuous weather, or the necessity of retreat from a superior force.
I have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant, (Signed) SAMUEL BARRON.
The efficacy of gun boats in the defence of coasts ports and harbors, must be obvious to every person capable of reflection; when it is considered with what celerity they can generally change their position and mode of attack, extending

it widely to as many different directions as their number consists of, or concentrating nearly to one line of direction. It hardly need be observed that the very small object which a gun boat presents to the attacking enemy, causes it always problematical whether it may be hit by the most expert and experienced marksmen, while on the other hand the enemy attacking is generally with large ships, mostly of the line of battle, and which from their magnitude may be struck by almost every shot. The advantages of gun boats for the defence contemplated are numerous; they cannot easily be surrounded, be the force of the enemy what it may; consequently very few, if any, are likely to fall into the enemy's hands. Their capability of retiring into shoal water, thereby keeping the adversary at long gun shot distance, where nought but a charge of single round shot will reach, in which they will almost always have the advantage, or taking their station behind shoals, where they cannot be pursued by the smallest class of frigates, or even of sloops of war. And in many cases they may have opportunity of annoying an enemy when sheltered themselves by low points of land, where nought but their masts can be seen; of course in a situation comparatively safe, when that of the enemy is considered.
Such indeed is believed to be the great utility of gun boats for defence, that notwithstanding the gigantic power of the British navy, in its present state, a judicious writer in the British naval chronicle, after advising a plan for raising a fleet of 150 or 200 gun boats to assist in repelling the threatened invasion of that country, says, "A gun boat has this advantage over a battery on shore, that it can be removed at pleasure from place to place, as occasion may require, and a few such vessels carrying heavy guns, would make prodigious havoc among the enemy's flat bottomed boats crowded with soldiers."—Respecting those particular ports and harbors in the United States, which may be defended, or essentially assisted in being defended by gun boats, it is believed they would essentially assist in the defence of all the principal ports in our country. For the only place where gun boats could be of no avail, must be such a one where the enemy under sail could advance uninterrupted by shoals, rocks or narrow channels, to the immediate point of attack within pistol shot of the shore.
The above cursory observations are respectfully submitted. (Signed) THOMAS TINGEY. Navy Yard, Washington, February 9, 1807.
SHIPS! SHIPS! SHIPS!
Armed ships—ships of the line, say the federalists—none of your paltry gun boats!—We shall never have a great name among the nations, till our navy can "scour the ocean!"
The salvation of republican America depends upon the respect of the monarchies of Europe!
A government truly republican, is as likely to acquire the much desired respect of ancient monarchies, as the new settler is to acquire the respect of the beasts of the wilderness!
If federalists had continued to rule, our infant navy in the cradle would be before this time have been a Hercules .—"Tons of precious silver" would have been appropriated for the support of national "dignity"—and thousands of your sons, farmers and mechanics, would have been in a hospital of incurables, with the loss of half their limbs—not the sons of the well-born —THEY love green fields and umbrageous groves better than lines of battle—But your sons, federal farmers, must have left your green fields and sickles for bloody decks and boarding pikes.
If your law-making "gentlemen" federalists, who are full of war in the cabinet, had to stand, in the front of the battle, and to lose their limbs or lives before the privates should lose theirs, we should hear nothing of the "extermination," blood, and "thunder" which federalists are forever advocating.
We have before our eyes an example of a GREAT NAVAL NATION. Britain commands the ocean! The navy has been a curse to her in all generations. She has indeed partially defended some colonies, at an expense ten times beyond the value of those colonies to her. She has conveyed transports full of troops to this country to be buried here. Her navy has carried British religion among the Hindoos, and British liberty to the shores of Africa. It has extended a system of devastation over the earth; and has finally been the cause of the present distresses on the continent, which are assuredly and rapidly leading to an end of all continental commerce and alliance with the "mistress of the ocean."
(Has the glorious navy of Britain, have the boasted "tars of Old England" prevented the blockade of all the British territories—a blockade more effectual, and more easily maintained, under present circumstances, than the whole navy of England could maintain against any nation?)
Ships of the line have conveyed the national debt of England up to six hun-
dred millions sterling, and have assured the infinity and eternity of that national blessing—provided the nation shall not be blotted from the map of Europe.
Ships of the line—say the federalists—if you will have a revenue, protect and defend it by a naval force. Be it known to you by these presents, that we are driven to the necessity of such a revenue by your funding system, that sure token by which we shall always remember to hate federalism. We shall give just such protection to our own revenue, as we judge most prudent.—Our people will consume foreign commodities, and our revenue will be secure without ships of the line.
But the merchants pay the revenue, say the federalists; and are therefore entitled to protection. This happens not to be true. The merchant collects the revenue from the consumer, and pays it over to the officer of government appointed to receive it.—The merchant consults not the government about his adventures—he undertakes a fair trade or a contraband trade, as he pleases—runs his own risque, or obtains insurance.—As the case now is, the chances are in his favor; the body of this class of men have been acquiring wealth rapidly during the administration of gun boats. They pay no tax on stamps or carriages; they get a full price for all their produce; and have in fact much reason to rejoice in the era of gun boats.
Cast your eyes through this extensive country—Was there ever, on any part of the globe a people, who so eminently enjoyed the blessings of peace, and the fruits of their labor? Do you wish to make the garden a field of thorns? If you wish to curse it effectually, use ships of the line sufficient to "scour the ocean" and "Nelsonize the world"—Appropriate 10,000 "tons of precious silver" to a navy—ravage the ocean, bombard the ports of peaceable nations—add famine even to the deserts of the east—murder to the plagues of Asia—fire and smoke to the volcanoes of the Mediterranean coasts.—Let commerce float, though the floats in blood, and sends before the sighs of national misery! Carry your religion and steady habits by fire and sword among the palms of the torrid and firs of the frigid zone. This is the certain consequence of a swarm of ships of the line! This is energy—this is the way to strengthen the hands of "gentlemen," the "well-born"—and gather them into the "hole of nobles"—adventurers "above the dull pursuits of civil life"—and weaken those of "butchers," and men whose business it is to "hoe and go to meetings"—This is "glory" and "dignity" for the few—summarily, this is FEDERALISM!
Republicans universally detest the policy of a navy to command the ocean; and they unitedly confide in the wisdom of a peaceable gun boat administration. [Witness.]
Mr. Jefferson is represented as an enemy to commerce, by men who have no more attachment to this country than Mulimuli, the late agent from Tunis. The falsehood of the charge is evident in the whole life of Mr. Jefferson. Who wrote in favour of the fisheries? Jefferson. Who was the first Secretary of State under Washington, and in his official correspondence of that period, proved himself a strenuous advocate for his country's honor, and for the best interests of this nation in her relations with foreign governments? This was Thomas Jefferson. Who finally settled our difficulties with Britain, after the board of Commissioners had ceased to act in Philadelphia, and the American Commissioners in London had been officially informed, on the part of the British government, that no more awards should be made under Mr. Jay's treaty? Answer—Mr. Jefferson, by causing a new convention to be made—in consequence of which our merchants recovered four millions of dollars, and without which not a cent would have been paid. Even Gen. Washington and Mr. Adams united had not been able to extort a single dollar for the captures of American vessels, from 1794 to the time Mr. Jefferson was elected President, in 1801. These are undeniable facts. Who secured 3,750,000 dollars to the American Merchants under the Louisiana Treaty? It cannot be disputed that Mr. Jefferson was the author of this arrangement. And again—To whom are the sufferers from the late British spoliations to look for indemnification? Is it not certain if Mr. Jefferson had not interfered in their behalf, they might have been left to beg their bread? If any thing is to be recovered under the new British Treaty negotiated by Messrs. Munroe and Pinckney—and there can be no reason to suppose that provision is not made for their relief—it must be owing entirely to Mr. Jefferson. Notwithstanding these proofs are as clear as the shining of the great celestial orb, the sun, on a cloudless day, there are still infatuated individuals in the United
States continually telling the world in the federal newspapers, that Mr. Jefferson is a decided enemy to commerce, and to commercial men. Away with such besotted declarations. If the merchants knew their own true interests they would never give countenance to papers whose editors are in the constant habit of propagating these slanders. Does it benefit their interest? No. Does it raise them in the eyes of their countrymen in general, or of European nations? Indisputably it does not. Do the hired and blasted characters who print calumnies so foul, so base, believe what they give to the public? By no means. But it serves a party—a faction rather—and the tales are uttered to the world from presses contaminated, prostituted and polluted as they are, for the sole purpose of deception. [Salem Register.]
LATEST Foreign Intelligence. LONDON, JAN. 11, 1807. ORDER OF COUNCIL.
Yesterday, the following order of Council was announced in the London Gazette: At the Court at the Queen's Palace, the 7th of January, 1807, Present, the King's most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas the French Government has issued certain orders, which in violation of the usages of war, purport to prohibit the commerce of all neutral nations with his Majesty's dominions; and also to prevent such nations from trading with any other country in any articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of his Majesty's dominions; and whereas the said Government has also taken upon itself to declare all his Majesty's dominions to be in a state of blockade at a time when the fleets of France and her Allies are themselves confined within their own ports by the superior valour and discipline of the British Navy; and whereas such attempt on the part of the enemy would give to his Majesty an unquestionable right of retaliation, and would warrant his Majesty in enforcing the same prohibition of all commerce with France, which that Power vainly hopes to effect against the commerce of his Majesty's subjects, a prohibition which the superiority of his Majesty's naval forces might enable him to support, by actually investing the ports and coasts of the enemy with numerous squadrons and cruisers, so as to make the entrance or approach thereto manifestly dangerous; and whereas his Majesty, though unwilling to follow the example of his enemies, by proceeding to an extremity to distressing to all nations not engaged in the war, and carrying on their accustomed trade, yet feels himself bound by a due regard to the just defence of the rights and interests of his people, not to suffer such measures to be taken by the enemy without taking some steps on his part to restrain this violence, and to resort upon them the evils of their own injustice; his Majesty is thereupon pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that no vessel shall be permitted to trade from one port to another, both which ports shall belong to, or be in the possession of France or her Allies, or shall be so far under their control as that British vessels may not freely trade thereat; and the Commanders of his Majesty's ships of war and privateers shall be and are hereby instructed to warn every neutral vessel coming from any such port, and declined to another such port, to discontinue her voyage, and not to proceed to any such port; and any vessel after being so warned, or any vessel coming from any such port, after a reasonable time shall have been afforded for receiving information of his Majesty's order, which shall be found proceeding to another such port, shall be captured and brought in, and, together with her cargo shall be condemned as lawful prize. And his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Judges of the High Court of Admiralty, and Courts of Vice Admiralty, are to take the necessary measures herein as to them shall respectively appertain.
(Signed) W. FAWKENER.
JANUARY 13.
A number of letters, some of them of as late a date as the 7th inst. were yesterday received from Holland by a vessel arrived in the River. From these it appears, that the Decree prohibiting commercial intercourse with England had been so strictly enforced, that no less than 16 vessels, with their cargoes had been confiscated.
VIENNA, DEC. 28.
The march of the Russians through Moldavia and Wallachia has discovered the projects of Russia against its neighbours. Russia declared at the same moment that it acted in concert with Turkey. The Porte ran to arms. Pashwan Oglu and his allies besieged Bucharest with 40,000 men, and this checked the Russian army. The Porte demanded an explanation of the Russian minister, but he declared himself unable to give one. The Pacha of Widdin finding that the Russians had arrested the French consul, arrested the Russian consul. It is surprising that the English support the Russians in such measures, as their commerce will surely suffer for it.
HAMBURG, JAN. 3.
A traveller lately from Sweden informs that the sense of the nation is not in favour of the present measures of that crown, and that many are favorable to the Poles.—That the King is so well acquainted with the opinions at Stockholm, that he resides at Malmoe. He does not appear to wish to enter into the war, but only to defend Pomerania. Some negotiations with the French are expected. All diplomatic relations between Hamburg and Sweden had ceased. A general impatience was discovered to find out what would be done at Copenhagen. The courier from the head quarters of the French Emperor had not returned. Denmark had received propositions from England, but they had not been encouraged. In Stockholm, on the 29th December the King of Sweden had published a decree to be read in all the Churches to prevent all Jews from entering his dominions. A singular method of being revenged on the French.
PARIS, JAN. 14.
It is reported that the Emperor will soon return to Paris.—That the French army during the rigour of the season, is still impatient for victory, but that the Emperor withers, by an honorable repulse, to prepare his army for future victories, while he attends to the great concerns of his Empire.
MENTZ, DEC. 26.
A German Journal, which has great circulation, says, "The position of Russia, at the present moment, is awful. An innumerable French army is marching through Poland, which itself is also collecting all its forces to profit from an opportunity which may never again offer, for the recovery and establishment of its independence. The Turks are rising on the fourth, determined to avenge their long degradation, and forever to prevent its return. In fine, Persia, which has already sent an ambassador to Napoleon, will not suffer to escape so favorable an opportunity to repulse from its frontiers a dangerous neighbour, who is every day penetrating towards the center of its empire. These are sure evils to Russia. And should the king of Sweden, attentive to his true interest, profit from the present state of Russia, he might recover the provinces, his predecessors lost. Attacked on all sides, insecure on the Baltic and the Black Sea, what resistance could Russia make with its bottled empire to an army of French, that could annihilate its resources?"
PETERSBURG, DEC. 20.
The Russian Government have obtained fresh advantages in Asia. The Russians are now masters of the whole Dergeltan, along the river Ker.
CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 25.
The English squadron, under admiral Louis, has made itself master of our passes by sea. Thus the attack made by Russia upon the independence of our Empire, seems to have been preconceived with England. The fortresses of Choczim is actually in the hands of the Russians, and negotiations have commenced for the surrender of Bender.
CASSEL, DEC. 28.
A treaty of peace between the Dural houses of Saxony and the French Emperor, was signed at Posen, 11th inst.—by which the Elector is to join the confederation of the Rhine; and to provide, during the present campaign, 1500 cavalry, 4200 infantry, 300 artillery, and 12 pieces of cannon, &c.
COPENHAGEN, DEC. 24.
Travellers who left St. Petersburg the 30th ult. say, the Russian army in Poland consists of three corps, each of 75,000 men, and a reserve of 150,000 in Lithuania. In the rear of these is another army of 100,000 Cossacks, Calmucks, Tartars, &c. A new levy is to commence on the 21st Jan.
BERLIN, DEC. 30.
It is remarkable, that several English vessels are still allowed to take on board cargoes of grain at Danzic for England. It gives us much pain to learn this, as if this exportation continues, the Prussian Country must soon experience all the horrors of famine: His Majesty the Emperor has been obliged to supply the inhabitants with corn out of the military magazines.
TRIESTE, DEC. 15.
The blockade of Venice still continues. The English vessels, belonging to the squadron of Sir Sidney Smith and Ad. Collingwood, board all vessels bound to our port, and capture those which come from the ports of France.
ALTONA, JAN. 2.
On the 28th ult. a violent hurricane came on at Copenhague, near Elsinore, which nearly destroyed the batteries, bastions, and ramparts, of that fortress. The damage, it is said, is estimated at 3,000,000 of marks currency; and that it will require 3 years to replace the works.
BATTLE OF PULTUSK.
Russian Official Account.
Gen. Benningsen to the King of Prussia. I HAVE the happiness most respectfully to acquaint your Majesty, that I have succeeded in repulsing the enemy, who yesterday morning attacked me on every point near Pultusk. The main attack was made by Gen. Souchet, at the head of 15,000 men, on my left wing, near Farmgaurka, in the view of getting possession of that town; I had only 5000 men under Gen. Baggonaut, to oppose the enemy on that side; they made a brave defence, until I sent a reinforcement of three battalions of reserve, and afterwards three more under Gen. Tolstoy, by which means the right wing of the French was totally defeated. The second attack, equally brisk, was made on my right flank, where Gen. Barkley de Tolly was posted with the vanguard. The wing extended on the road towards Szczecyn to a small wood, where I had placed a covered battery, which the enemy attempted to turn. I therefore made a movement backwards on their right, which succeeded so well, that I not only frustrated the attempt of the enemy, but was also so fortunate as to reinforce Gen. Barkley de Tolly, with three battalions, ten squadrons, and one battery to repulse the enemy; on which the enemy retreated from the wood.
"The attack commenced at eleven in the morning, and lasted until dark. From the relation of all the prisoners, I was opposed by Messrs. Murat, Davoust, and Lannes, with an army exceeding 50,000 men. They have lost about 5000, according to their own account.
"All my troops fought with the greatest bravery. The following Generals particularly distinguished themselves: Officer, Tolstoy, Barkley de Tolly, Prince Dolgorouky, Baggonaut, Sommoff and Sileff, of the Infantry, also Colonel Davidoffsky and Gondoff, &c. &c.
"Field-Marshall Kamenskoy departed from Pultusk for Ostrolenka on the morning of the 26th December, previous to the attack, and again gave the whole command to me, so that I have had the good fortune to command alone in this affair, and to beat the enemy.
"I have to lament that the long expected succour of Gen. Benxhovden had not arrived, although he was but two German miles distant, and even halted half way. I should otherwise have been able to follow up my victory. I have further to lament that the total want of provisions and forage oblige me to retire with my Corps to Rozaw; the enemy had not molested me in my retreat.
(Signed) BENNINGSEN. Rozaw, the 27th (15th) Dec. 1806."
BY THE MAILS.
BALTIMORE MARCH 4.
[TRANSLATION.] City of Carracas, July 25, 1806. The Captain General, with the advice and approbation of the Auditor of War, (a judge appointed to hear the first appeal in military affairs) condemned the companions of the traitor Francis Miranda, to the following punishments, viz:
To be hanged—James Gaidner, Gustavus Adolphus Belignet, Charles Johnson, Miles Hall, John Fers, Francis Ferguson, Thomas Donahue, Thos. Billop, Daniel Kemper, Paul Francis George, a Portuguese.
All the above were commissioned officers under Miranda, and above twenty-five years of age.
Transportation to the Port at Becca Chica, (at the entrance of the harbour of Carthagena) for 8 years hard labour.
Benjamin Nicholson, Samuel Price, Robert Stevenson, William Long, Henry King, William Praix, George Foguel, Joaquim Hoyt, Abraham Head, William Burnside, William Coante Wright, Daniel Newberry, Samuel Tocher, Henry Speiry, Pompey Grand, Benjamin Davis.
Transportation to Omoa for ten years.
John O. Sullivan, David Heckett, Henry Ingersul, John Birch, Robert Saunders, John Estel, Paul Nangui, Jeremiah Powell, John Sherman, Daniel Mackey, John Hayes, John Elliot, Thomas Gill, John Moore, Bayley Negus.
Transportation to Porto-Rico for 10 years. Moses Smith, James Grant, Matthew Buchanan, David Winton, Joseph Bennet, John Vancell, Frederick Riefers, Finias Raymen, Eden Buhugman, John Scott, Stephen Baonis, Alexander Behanen, William Lippincott.
Boys.—Confined at Bocachica, until the determination of the king:—
Red. Joseph Hedelle, Joseph Smith. The foregoing judgments have been regularly executed.
Thus ends the expedition of Miranda, who is said, himself, to have received a Brig. Gen. commission in the British service.
BOSTON, MARCH 12. [Capt. Allen, who arrived here on Friday last, from Malaga, furnished us with the following letter, which he received from the American Consul at that place, on the eve of his departure.]
(CIRCULAR.)
United States Ship Constitution, Gibraltar Bay, 20th Dec. 1806.
SIR—The Tunisian Ambassador, left this on the 3d inst. for Tunis, carrying with him impressions not the most favorable towards our Government, which may induce the Bey to act in a hostile manner to our flag; in consequence of which, I think it prudent to advise you of the circumstance, and recommend to the commanders of American vessels not to fail without first being convinced that hostilities have not commenced.
The present force under my command, are, the Constitution, brig Hornet, and schr. Enterprize, with which I shall render every service in my power to the commerce of the United States.
I have the honor to be, Sir, very respectfully, HUGH G. CAMPBELL.
Wm. Kirkpatrick, Esq. A true copy. Malaga, 30th Dec. 1806. WM. KIRKPATRICK.
Exports—The exports to British dominions last year amounted to 23,229,936 dols. to Dutch, to 20,499,519—to French to 18,575,812. Of the exports to British dominions, 19,179,981, was domestic produce—almost half the amount exported. Of the exports to French dominions, 6,026,524 was of domestic produce. Of the exports to Dutch possessions, 4,364,444 was of domestic produce.
PORTLAND, MARCH 12.
FOURTH OF MARCH. The fourth of March, being the anniversary of the illustrious JEFFERSON's inauguration to the Presidential chair, was welcomed in this town by a national salute from Fort Sumner, at 12 o'clock.
Every friend to his country and the rights of man hailed the auspicious day with the patriotic acclamations of grateful freemen. They looked back with peculiar satisfaction on the wise and beneficial administration of our beloved Chief Magistrate, and rejoiced at the prosperous situation of our country. In the evening a very elegant and splendid ball was given at Union Hall, where there was assembled at this "THE REPUBLICAN JUBILEE" a more numerous collection of Ladies and Gentlemen, than was ever before known in this place. It was conducted with the greatest propriety—perfect harmony prevailed, while pleasure and hilarity illumined every countenance.
The above anniversary was also celebrated at Pittsfield, Freeport, &c. &c. &c.
SOAP. William Garland, HAS FOR SALE 300 boxes brown SOAP; 40 kegs LARD No. 1. 17th March, 1807.
Rockingham ff. NOTICE is hereby given that on the seventh day of April next, at two of the clock afternoon, I shall exhibit to the Judge of Probate my account of administering the estate of NATHANIEL WILLIAMS, late of Nottingham, gentleman deceased. JACOB CILLEY, Administrator. March 16, 1807.

Portsmouth,
Tuesday, March 17, 1807.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
By the arrival of the ship Packet, on Friday last, at Boston, in 26 days from Liverpool, London papers to the 12th February have been received.
The number of French Bulletins which has arrived is continued till the 52d, dated the 19th January. The French after the action of Pultusk, pursued the Russians and made 400 prisoners on the 3d January. The French Emperor was at Warfaw on the 2d, and the Russians were still retiring. The French had not confined their operations to the main army of the Russians, but had invested Bresslau, which had been laid in ashes. The garrison of this city did not at first surrender, but after the defeat of a reinforcement intended for this place, and a considerable loss of men, horses and provisions, Bresslau surrendered to Prince Jerome,—its present population is said to exceed 60 thousand inhabitants. Excepting the capitulation of Bresslau, and some smaller posts in Silesia, no military event of note had occurred since the battle of Pultusk.
A Russian Official account of the battle of Pultusk, will be found under our foreign head. At the last date, the Russian army, under Gen. Kamensk, was concentrated, near Wizna, &c. and were speedily to resume offensive operations. The French Emperor had not left his army at the last date. Our ministers in London had received dispatches from Mr. Armstrong, stating that he had official assurances that American vessels coming direct from America, or returning from England to the U. States, would not be molested by French cruisers, &c.
THE TREATY.
The official treaty has not yet been received by the government of the United States; a draft or copy is in possession of the executive; a copy was received by Mr. Erskine the British ambassador, which we must presume he delivered to the executive.
On the subject of this treaty, our readers will do well not to form any hasty opinions pro or con; if the British government has rendered us justice, as a matter of course the whole nation will loudly applaud; if however any attempt has been made by a separate act of the British negotiators rendering the treaty itself nugatory, unless America should subscribe to her own humiliation; then we presume, that we shall stand as we stood before; and our non-importation law may be found only to be imperfect in as much as it was not more comprehensive. These observations arise from some letters received in town from English gentlemen at New York; who have affected to boast that our government and its negotiators have been duped. Should there be any foundation for the insinuation, we trust, the executive will show that he feels for the dignity of that country for which he drew the declaration of independence. Aurora.
From Washington, March 4.
APPOINTMENTS.
MERIWETHER LEWIS, Governor of Upper Louisiana.
THOMAS TODD, of Kentucky, Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S. for the new circuit recently established.
The House of Representatives were in session on SATURDAY from 7 o'clock in the evening to one o'clock the next morning. They were principally occupied in considering the bill for the repeal of the duties on salt, and for the continuance of the Mediterranean fund. The bill finally passed the House by a large majority, and discontinues the duty of eight cents on salt after the 30th of June, and the duty of twelve cents after the 31st of December; and continues the Mediterranean fund until the 31st Dec.
On MONDAY the House sat from 10 A. M. to half past 4 P. M. and from half past 6 to 10 in the evening.
On TUESDAY the House sat from 10 A. M. to half past 3 o'clock, when they adjourned to half after 6 o'clock, from which time they continued in session until 11 o'clock, when the two Houses adjourned sine die .
TUESDAY last being the anniversary election for the choice of State officers, the inhabitants of this town assembled for that purpose,—the Hon. Clement Storer, Esq. presided as Moderator,—at the close of the poll the votes were as follows,
For Governor, His Excellency JOHN LANGDON, Esq. 514 Scattering, 10 Counsellor, Levi Bartlett, 518 Senator, Elijah Hall, 418 Josiah Bartlett, 79 County treasurer, Nath'l Gilman, 508 County recorder, Josiah Adams, 516 Nathaniel Parker, 11
Representatives to the General Court, Charles Cutts, Richard Evans, William Ham, Jr. & Edward Cutts, Esq's.
The sense of the town was taken on the expediency of calling a convention to revise the Constitution of this State, and negatived, Ayes 54, Nays 60.
ENERGY! ENERGY! ENERGY!
Federalists! what think you of republican ENERGY—of Mr. Jefferson's ENERGY?
'Tis not, you will say, the energy of the king of Prussia, who is affected by the clamor of women and boys, and old war hawks—
Nor that of Russia, bravely marching and countermarching near her own frontiers, while her chief ally is torn in pieces—
Nor that of the Duke of Cambridge, waiting for his camp equipage, till the catastrophe is over—
Neither is it the energy of big words, about "vengeance," & "thunder," and "wrath"—
Nor of cockades nor duels nor a brave resistance to hot water, at the head of a regular army—
Nor of "the glorious pomp and circumstance" of a Scots-plain and Oxford campaign against ben-roofs and fruit-trees —
Nor of high sounding empty words, and false ideas about dignity, and honor, and spirit—
Nor in all the pageantry of empty parade and false glory—
No— But in a union of simplicity and real dignity—of mildness and promptitude—of forbearance and vigilance—of humility and bravery—of patience and activity—
Restless, disaffected grumblers—who are eternally talking of ENERGY! Admire the truly, the practically energetic attitude of our President.
From the first hint of an existing conspiracy, he moves with all the caution necessary in the midst of numerous agents and widely scattered accomplices of treason—with all the patient, candid and diligent investigation due to the rights of individuals—yet with all the unwearied scrutiny, all the prompt and extensive provisions necessary to counteract the movements of an artful and almost inscrutable being. Unmoved by the insolent clamors or obtrusive advice of a faction who have no system but to embarrass, he observes, "with an eye that never winks," the various stages of ripening treason—while with a hand "that never tires," he prepares the antidote. When called upon for a development, the same promptitude is seen, and the nation at once beholds the history of the matter, in the most lucid, simple and perspicuous statement ever communicated to a public body.
This is our ENERGY—more dignified and more amiable; and yet infinitely more effective than the noisy blustering of the petulent "energy" of your war-hawks. [Nathels.]
.....MARRIED.....
At Deerfield, (N. H.) Mr. BENJAMIN U. LAPHAM, of Durham, to Miss CHARLOTTE MILLS, daughter of Joseph Mills, Esq. of the former place.
.....DIED.....
At Washington, Hon. Abraham Baldwin, a member of the United States' Senate. In Boston, on Wednesday last, universally lamented, SAMUEL STILLMAN, D. D. Pastor of the first Baptist Church in that town, aged 70. In Rye, Mr. ROBERT SANDERS, aged 93 years.
C. PEIRCE thinks this a good time to advertise for RAGS to make paper, since the sale at auction of Saturday last, must have stored several families with this useful traffic.
NOTICE.
THE subscribers being appointed by the Hon. Judge of Probate, commissioners, to receive, examine and adjust, all the claims of the creditors, to the estate of NATHANIEL WHITE, late of Deerfield, in the county of Rockingham, gentleman, deceased, represented insolvent, do hereby give notice, that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend that service at the dwelling-house of Capt. Richard Jenness, in said Deerfield, on the last Monday of March, and the five following months from two to six o'clock, P. M. on each of the said days.
Moses Barnard, Richard Jenness, H. G. Cilley, Commissioners. Deerfield, March 12, 1807.
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed administratrix on the estate of GEORGE W. ALLAN, late of Eastport, in the county of Washington, mariner, deceased; and has taken upon herself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs. All persons having demands upon the estate of the said George W. Allan, are requested to exhibit the same—and all persons indebted to the said estate are called upon to make payment to
MARY C. ALLAN. Eastport, Maine, Feb. 19, 1807.
ALL persons having any demands against, or indebted to the estate of ELIZABETH TUCKER, late of Portsmouth, widow, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same for settlement to JOSHUA BRACKETT, Administrator, Portsmouth, March 17, 1807.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
February 23, 1807.
NOTICE is hereby given, that separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary for the department of war, until 12 o'clock at noon of the first Wednesday in June next, for the supply of all rations that may be required for the use of the United States, from the 5th day of October 1807, until the 30th day of September 1808, both days inclusive, at the following places, viz.
First, At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Fort Wayne, Chicago, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of Ohio, and territory of Michigan, and at any place or places within the Indiana territory north of the 41st degree of north latitude.
Second, At the new military post opposite the mouth of the Hiwassee, and within the Cherokee nation between Tennessee and Georgia, and on the Tennessee river, and on the road between said river and Nashville, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Third, At the garrison near Vincennes on the river Wabash, at Fort Mafiac, New Madrid, Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas, Natchez, & Fort Adams, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited in the Mississippi territory, except the county of Washington, and at any place or places in the Indiana territory south of the 41st degree of north latitude, and fifty miles east of the Mississippi river.
Fourth, At St. Louis, St. Charles, Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the territory of Louisiana north of New Madrid, and at any place or places in the Indiana territory within fifty miles east of the Mississippi river, and south of the 41st degree of north latitude, Fort Mafiac excepted.
Fifth, At New Orleans, Plaquemines, Point Coupee, Opelousas, Natchitoches, Apponecoulas, Attakapas, Fort Stoddert, Fort St. Stephens, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the territory of Orleans, or in the county of Washington in the Mississippi territory, and at any place or places on the west side of the Mississippi river below Arkansas.
Separate proposals will also be received as aforesaid for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January 1808, to the 31st day of December of the same year, both days inclusive, within the several states hereinbefore mentioned, viz.
Sixth, At the Oskmulgee Old Fields, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Georgia, and on the Indian boundary between Georgia and the Creek nation.
Seventh, At Charleston, Rocky Mount, on the head waters of the Santee, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the states of North and South Carolina.
Eighth, At Norfolk, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Virginia.
Ninth, At Fort M'Henry, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Maryland and the district of Columbia.
Tenth, At Fort Mifflin, Carlsruhe, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Pennsylvania, east of the mountains, and within the states of New Jersey and Delaware.
Eleventh, At Pittsburg, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Pennsylvania west of the mountains.
Twelfth, At Fort Jay, West Point, Albany, Schenectady, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New York, Niagara and its dependencies excepted.
Thirteenth, At Fort Trumbull, Fort Wolcott, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Fourteenth, At Fort Independence (Boston harbor) and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Massachusetts, the town of Springfield, and the district of Maine excepted.
Fifteenth, At Portsmouth, Portland, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of New Hampshire and the district of Maine.
Sixteenth, Proposals will also be received as aforesaid, for the supply of all rations, which may be required by the United States, for the troops which are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the town of Springfield in the state of Massachusetts, and for the armourers and other persons employed in the United States' armoury at that place, from the 1st day of January, 1808 to the 31st day of December in the same year, both days inclusive.
A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whisky or brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and a half of candles to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the ration shall be specified; but the United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid, as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price of the whole ration. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit and Chicago for six months in advance; and at each of the other posts on the western waters for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places or posts, to call for, at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper.
It is understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid by the United States at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or more persons of creditable character and the certificate of a commissioned officer, stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is underlined to be reserved to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies, which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued, until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed; and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the seaboard, or Indian frontier, not exceeding three months.
H. DEARBORN, Secretary of War.
February 25. (18w—5m.)
Constantly for Sale by E. WENTWORTH, At his Store head of Buck Street, MADEIRA, Tent, Lisbon, Sher-
ry, Redport, Claret & Malaga WINES; excellent flavored
Grenada and St. Vincents RUM; old Cognac & French BRANDIES; old Spirits; real Hollands GIN; Spanish SUGAR in small bags; Philadelphia Loaf, Lump, Havana white, India and best brown ditto; Hyson Chulan, Hyson, young Hyson, Hyson-skin, Souchong and Bohea TEAS.
Muscadel & cask RAISINS; nice Turkey FIGS; shell'd Almonds; Nutmegs, Mace; Sperm. Rush and other CANDLES; Velvet Corks.
Georgia COTTON of an excellent quality, &c. &c.
As his Goods are purchased principally with Cash, they will be sold very low, by Wholesale and Retail, and on credit, if requested. March 17.
WHOLESALE & RETAIL GROCERY STORE.
William Hill, Has for sale at No. 7, Merchant's Row,
Hyson, Madeira, Young do. Lisbon, Hyson Skin Sherry, Souchong, Red Port, and Bohea, Vidonia
Coffee, Hibbart brown Chocolate & Shells, Stout & American
Mace, PORTER, Nutmegs, Old Cogniac
Cinnamon, Brandy, Cloves, Spanish do.
Cassia, Holland Gin Allspice, W. I. Rum, Pepper, & & old Jamaica
Ginger, Spirits. Poland Starch, Old Spanish Cigars
English Mustard, N o 1, Chocolate, Carolina Indigo, Rice, Upland Cotton
Spanish Flour do. brown, brown Sugars, Capers, Currants, First quality Sweet
Citron, Oil, Basket Salt, best Jorden shell'd Common do.
Almonds, Grapes, Pollock Fish, Loaf, Havana, and India SUGARS
of the very first quality; Muscadel Raisins; cask ditto; Turkey Figs of a very superior quality, and of the latest importation; Molasses.
Foreign and American Gun-Powder; Salt Petre; Heart and club Steel; Halbacks best do.; Blistered do.
NAILS of all kinds. A small assortment of Hard Ware.
Grindstones. Also for sale, FISHING GEAR,
18 thread St. Peters Lines; 15 thread do. do.; 12 thread long shore do.;
9 thread do. do.; Mackrell Lines; Chalk Lines; Squid Lines; Herring Nets; 7 score 16 Rans; 8 score 20
Rans; 9 score 22 Rans; 12 score 30 Rans; Hard head Nets; 2 and 3
thread Herring Twine; 2 & 3 thread Mackrell ditto; Salmon Twine; Sewing Twine; small I. P. Cod Hooks;
Large Quarter ditto; Middle Quarter ditto; Small Quarter ditto; Mackrell ditto.
The above Goods are warranted of the first quality, and will be sold on the lowest terms, for cash or the usual credit. Portsmouth, March 17, 1807.
Clover and Herds Grass Seed. A quantity of
Clover & Herds Grass SEED, for sale by
STEPHEN PEARSE. Portsmouth, March 17.
FOR SALE BY JOHN SALTER,
400 Quintals scale FISH, in excellent order for shipping;
4 Hhds. good retailing SUGAR. March 17.
MRS. REED, intends to open her School the first of April,
for the tuition of young children, at the house of the widow Day's in Pitt-street. March 17.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of SAMUEL SHERBURNE,
late of Portsmouth, yeoman, deceased, are requested to exhibit them for settlement to the subscriber at Hopkinton, executor to said estate, or to Joseph Sherburne, of Portsmouth, who is authorized to transact the above business. ANDREW SHERBURNE, March 17. Executor.
AUCTION. Thursday NEXT,
Rare chance for COOPERS.
To be sold at Public Auction on Thursday next, the 19th instant,
PART of the personal estate of Samuel Clark, late of Portsmouth Cooper, deceased, consisting of 2 fett tin Screws, Jointers, Shavers, Scale beams Scales & Weights, Adzes, &c. &c.—forming a complete assortment of Coopers Tools,—together with sandy Stock in hand, such as, Staves, Heading, Boards, Iron & Wood Hoops, &c.; too numerous to insert in an advertisement.—Sale at 11 o'clock, at the shop lately occupied by the deceased, at the North-end. Portsmouth, March 17.
NOTICE is hereby
given that the subscriber has been duly appointed executor of the last Will and Testament of JONATHAN GODDARD, late of Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham, State of New Hampshire, Merchant, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs; all persons having demands upon the estate of said deceased, are requested to exhibit them and receive their pay; and all persons indebted to said estate, are called upon to make immediate payment to him at Boston, or to JOHN GODDARD, Esq. of Portsmouth, his Attorney. Benjamin Goddard, Executor. Portsmouth, March 17th, 1807.
NOTICE.
THE death of Mr. Jonathan Goddard, renders it necessary that the affairs of the late company of
John & Jonathan Goddard,
should be closed with all convenient dispatch,—all persons therefore who have any demands against said firm,
will please to exhibit their accounts; and those indebted are requested to make payment, to
JOHN GODDARD,
Surviving Partner. Portsmouth, March 17th, 1807.
JOHN GODDARD,
INFORMS the customers of the late company of John and Jonathan Goddard, and others, that the HARD WARE business will be continued by him on the same terms as heretofore practised by said company; and requests a continuance of their favors. Portsmouth, March 17th, 1807.
THE Proprietors of New-Castle
Bridge are reminded that the first Monday in April is the day appointed for their annual meeting, and they are hereby notified to meet at the house of the widow Elizabeth Trefethen, in New-Castle, on Monday the sixth day of April next, at three o'clock P. M.—To choose directors, and all other officers for the year ensuing, also to transact any other business the proprietor may judge necessary. HENRY PRESCOTT, Pro's Clerk. New-Castle, March 13, 1807.
NOTICE.
THE proprietors and parishioners of St. John's Church are hereby notified, that the annual parish meeting will be held in the west chamber of the Court-house in Portsmouth, on the 30th inst. (being Easter Monday) at ten o'clock, A. M. to act on the following business, viz.—
To choose Wardens, Vestrymen, recording Clerk and Parish Clerk.
To vote the salaries of the respective Officers, and the sum necessary to be raised for the ensuing year.
To act on any other matters that may then and there be thought necessary. Portsmouth, March 14, 1807.
THOMAS BROWN, } Wardens. SAMUEL LARKIN }
State of New Hampshire.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that Timothy Dix, jun. of Boston, in said state, has petitioned the General Court, representing that a road to lead from Connecticut river, through Stuartstown, townships N o 2, N o 4, and George Wentworth's grant, (so called,) to intersect in Errol, the road which leads from Connecticut river, to the district of Maine, is very much needed, and would prove of very great public convenience and utility; that a part of said road is now made, and measures taking for effecting the other parts, excepting in said George Wentworth's grant; wherefore he prays that a tax may be ordered of three cents, on each acre of land in said grant, for the purpose of effecting said road through the same.
ORDERED, That the petitioner be heard on his petition, before the General Court on the first Tuesday of their next session; and that the petitioner give public notice thereof in the New-Hampshire Gazette, and in the Boston Centinel; three weeks successively commencing twelve weeks prior to the day of hearing; that any person or persons may then and there appear and show cause, (if any they have,) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. J. A. HARPER, Clerk of the Senate. Hopkinton, June 18th, 1806.

Miscellaneous Repository.
IMPROMPTU ON LAWYERS.
Have you not seen a cat for an hour without fail, Run round her and round her in quest of her tail; Till at last with a long and disconsolate face, She leaves off her friskings & gives up the chase? Thus fares it with lawyers when pleading in court; To every bystander they make the same sport; When perplex'd, in the circle of logic they run, And leave it more doubtful than when they begun.
before said, my lord, that we are here met, not individually, nor do we assume pre-eminence; but, in the sacred character of a jury we should be wanting in reverence to the constitution itself, if we did not look for the respect of every man who regards it. We sit here, my lord, sworn to give a verdict according to our consciences, and the best of our opinions, on the evidence before us. We have in our own minds acquitted our duty as honest men. If we have erred, we are answerable, not to your lordship, nor to that bench, nor to the king who placed you there, but to a higher power, the King of Kings! The bench was dumb, the bar silent; but approbation was murmured thro' out the crowd; and the poor man was discharged.
A lesson for JURORS.
Messrs. Printers, The following lesson for Jurors, which cannot be too generally known and circulated, appears to be well calculated for a place in your Gazette.
A Judge who lately travelled the north west circuit of Ireland, came to the trial of a cause, which was a prosecution of a Landlord against a poor man his tenant, for assault and battery, committed on the person of the prosecutor, by the defendant, in the preservation of his only child, an innocent and beautiful girl, from ravishment.
When the poor man was brought into court, and put to the bar, the prosecutor appeared, and swore most manfully to every article in the indictment. He was cross examined by the jurors, who were composed of honest tradesmen and farmers.
The poor man had no lawyers to tell his story; he pleaded his own cause, and he pleaded not to the fancy, but to the heart. The jury found him not guilty.
The court was enraged; but the surrounding spectators, gladdened to exultation, uttered a shout of applause. The Judge told the jury they must go back to their jury-room and re-consider the matter; adding, "he was surprised they could presume to return so infamous a verdict." The jury bowed, went back, and in a quarter of an hour returned, when the foreman, a venerable old man, thus addressed the bench: "My Lord, in compliance with your desire, we went back to our jury-room; but as we found no reason to alter our opinions or our verdict, we return it in the same words as before, not guilty."
"We heard your lordship's extraordinary language of reproof, but we do not accept it as properly or warrantably applying to us. It is true, my lord, that we ourselves, individually considered in our private capacities, may be poor insignificant men; therefore, in that light, we claim nothing out of this box above the common regards of our humble but honest stations; but my lord, assembled here as a jury, we cannot be insensible to the great and constitutional importance of the department we now fill; we feel, my lord, that we are appointed, as you are, by the law and the constitution, not only as an impartial tribunal to judge between the King and his subjects, the offended and the offender, but we act in a situation of still greater confidence; we form as a jury, the barrier of the people against the possible influence, prejudice, passion or corruption of the bench."
To you my lord meeting you within these walls, I for my own part, might possibly measure my respect by your private virtues; but the moment I am enclosed in this place, your private character is invisible; for it is, in my eyes, veiled in your official one, and to open conduct in that only can we look.
This jury my lord, does not, in this business, presume to offer to that bench the smallest degree of disrespect, much less of insult; we pay it the respect one tribunal should pay to another, for the common honor of both. This jury my lord did not arraign that bench with partiality, prejudice, infamous decision, nor yet with influence, passion, corruption, oppression, or tyranny; no, we looked to it as the mercy seat of royalty, as the sanctuary of truth and justice. Still, my lord, we cannot blot from our minds the records of our school books, nor erase the early inscriptions written on our intellects and memories. Hence we must be mindful that monarchs and judges are but fallible mortals, that tyrants have sat on thrones, and that the mercy-seat of royalty and the sanctuary of justice, have been polluted by a Trefilian, a Scraggs, and a Jeffries. (Here was a frown from the bench) "Nay my lord, I am a poor man, but I am a free born subject of the kingdom of Ireland, a member of the constitution; nay, I am now higher, for I am the representative thereof. I therefore claim for myself and fellow jurors the liberty of speech; and, if I am refused it here, I shall assume it before the people at the door of this court house, and tell them why I deliver my mind there, instead of delivering it at this place."
I say, my lord, we have nothing to do with your private character; we know you here only in that of judge; and as such we would respect you: you know nothing of us but as a jury; and in that situation we should look to you for reciprocal respect, because we know of no man, however high his titles or his rank, in whom the law or the constitution would warrant the presumption of an unprovoked insult towards that tribunal in whom the People have vested the dearest and most valuable privilege they possess. I
To illustrate the extraordinary virtues and independence displayed by the above jury, would require more than ordinary talents; suffice it to say, that it ought to be inscribed into the mind, and the lesson engraved on the heart of every man, that he may be prepared for that exalted station.
For sale at Auction, on Tuesday the 28th of April next, at 12 o'clock, M. (if not previously disposed of at private sale.)
A DWELLING-HOUSE, with a lot of LAND 58 by 55 feet, pleasantly situated in Rock-street, near the goal; the premises may be viewed, and terms of payment known by applying to CLEMENT SEAVEY. Portsmouth, March 3d, 1807.
FOR SALE BY THOMAS MANNING, N o 17, Portsmouth Pier, Liverpool Salt; Crates and Coals; Hhds. Rum and Molasses; Tar, Pitch & Turpentine, &c. &c. March 3d, 1807.
TEAS. Just received, and for sale by Edmund H. Quincy, No. 8, Water Street, near Portsmouth Pier, Hyson, TEAS Y. Hyson, TEAS Hyson-skin TEAS & Souchong TEAS warranted of the first quality. TEAS are constantly kept on hand as above, by the chest, box or smaller quantity for family use. (2m. M. 24.) Jan. 27.
IRISH LINENS 4 and 7/8 of a superior fabric and at reduced prices—for sale at DRAPER'S cheap new cash store. Feb. 17.
FIFTEEN PUNCHEONS Good flavored Leguan island RUM, and a few Hhds. tierses and barrels retailing SUGAR, are for sale on reasonable terms by RICHARD S. TIBBETS. March 3.
FOR SALE BY BENJAMIN HILL, Cheap for Cash, or short Credit, 30 M. CLAPBOARDS; 40 do. SHINGLES; Mess N o 1, & Refuse BEEF, &c. Portsmouth, March 2.
LIBRARY BOOK LOST. LOST between Portsmouth Plains and the State house in Portsmouth. The first volume of Correlia , or the Mystic Tomb ; belonging to C. PEIRCE's Library. The finder shall be handsomely rewarded by returning it to C. Peirce's Bookstore.
FLAX SEED, BEES-WAX, POT & PEARL ASHES. CASH and the highest price paid for FLAX SEED, BEES-WAX, POT and PEARL ASHES, —By NATHAN B. FOLSOM. Portsmouth. Sept. 23, 1806—[16m—23]
NOTICE. ALL persons having demands against the estate of FRANCIS JENNESS, late of Newmarket, deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for adjustment; and those indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, to SARAH JENNESS, Executrix. Newmarket, March 2d, 1807.
NEW SCHOOL BOOK.
JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale at C. PEIRCE's Bookstore. THE Arts and Sciences Abridged, with a Selection of Elegant Pieces in reading and speaking, from the most celebrated modern Authors, calculated to improve the manners and refine the taste of youth, particularly designed and arranged for the use of Schools, but will answer as an excellent book for families to read in evenings. Should any person purchase one of the above, and after perusing it, not approve of it, the money shall be refunded on the book being returned. It contains 216 pages, good paper and print, and sells for only 2/3 single and 2/6 a dozen. February 17.
REV. MR. ALDEN'S ACADEMY AT PORTSMOUTH FOR MASTERS AND MISSES. THE object of this institution is to teach, in separate apartments, both sexes in the same branches, which are usually taught at the most noted academies in the United States; so that the masters may have opportunity to prepare for the counting room or for college, and the misses for acquiring such an education, as to preclude the necessity of going abroad for that purpose. As much time is reserved for vacations, and as much also is devoted to the business of instruction, as is customary at other academies. EVERY pupil, who has never been under MR. ALDEN's tuition, pays one dollar at entrance. THE masters pay seven dollars a quarter. THE misses, who attend to the instruction of the preceptor and to common needlework, pay six dollars a quarter. Those who attend to the ornamental branches of needlework, pay the additional sum of a dollar, that is, seven dollars a quarter. EACH pupil pays twenty five cents for room rent. THOSE, who wish to take lessons on the piano forte can receive instructions from MR. HOLYOKE by paying three dollars, at entrance, and fifty cents a lesson. MR. ALDEN has two keyed instruments, of which his pupils can have the use, at three dollars a quarter. MR. ALDEN has accommodations for boarding a number of misses, at three dollars a week. Their washing is done, at fifty cents a dozen. A preceptress, of the desired accomplishments and of experience, has been engaged for the summer establishment, which commences on the fourteenth of April. AN assistant preceptor, of liberal education and abilities, will be employed. SHOULD the encouragement be equal to what MR. ALDEN has reason to anticipate, an assistant preceptress will also aid in carrying on this institution. 3d March, 1807.
LADIES ACADEMY. MRS. HART, informs the Ladies of Portsmouth and its vicinity, that she is ready to receive and educate a small number of young Ladies in the following ornamental and useful accomplishments: Drawing and Embroidery in its various branches; Painting in water colors; Print work; Working Muffin; Marking & plain Sewing; Reading; Writing; Arithmetic; English Grammar; Geography and use of the Globes. Portsmouth, Feb. 24, 1807.
Sail-Cloth and Iron, for sale by LADD & SMITH, RUSSIA Duck, of 1st, 2d and 3d quality; Ravens ditto; Russia and Flemish Sheeting; a few tons Russia Iron. March 3.
COUNTRY PRODUCE. HEARTWELL has for sale at his store, opposite the Court House, a quantity BUTTER and Cheese, from the best dairies in New Hampshire, and warranted of a superior quality; 3000 wt. Clover Seed; 20 bushels Herds Grass ditto, 200 do. Oats; 4000 wt. excellent Flax; 40 bbls. N o 1 Pork & Beef; Rye; Corn; Rye & Indian Meal; Beans; Peas; Barley; few bushels Cramberries; Chestnuts &c.—shocks; Clapboards; Shingles—Also, a general assortment W. 1. GOODS and GROCERIES, wholesale and retail, cheap for cash or good notes. N o 3. Congress Street, March 3.
LIST OF PRIZES. C. PEIRCE, has received a list of all the Prizes drawn in the First Class of Harvard College Lottery—The low prizes are redeemable in thirty days, and those over one hundred, to five thousand dollars, in sixty days—And the highest prize in 90 days—But C. Peirce will begin from this time to redeem all prize Tickets, (let them have been bought from whom they may) by paying for them in Hatfield Bridge Lottery, or Second Class of Harvard College, or tenth Class of Am. Reag.—All prize Tickets bought at his store, he holds himself bound to redeem with cash, should the persons holding the Tickets, not choose to exchange them to others. March 10.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. RANAWAY from the subscriber on the night of the 24 February, an indentured Apprentice Boy, by the name of WILLIAM PERKINS, about 19 years old, tight complexion, light hair, light eyes, had on when he absconded, a dark brown coat, a striped swansdown waistcoat, he may be known by his hearty laughing, and an uncommon appetite; whoever will stop said runaway, and return him to his master, shall receive the above reward and no charges paid; masters of vessels and all others are forbid harbouring, trussing, or employing him, if they would avoid the penalty of the Law. ANDREW GILMAN. Newmarket, March 7, 1807.
Wanted Immediately AN active LAD to convey the Gazette to subscribers at the North part of the town early on Tuesday mornings; such an one will meet with encouragement by applying to the Printers. March 10.
A BARGAIN. FOR sale—a FARM, in the town of Elsworth, containing about 136 acres of land, saw Mill, grist Mill and other buildings, well wooded and watered,—said Farm was formerly owned by Alexander Craig, Esq.; a liberal credit may be expected.—Also, An Oil Mill in Exeter, calculated not only for the Manufacture of Oil, but Snuff, Chocolate, &c. &c.—Also, A pasture near the town, containing between 20 and 30 acres of excellent land, well watered,—any person desirous of purchasing either of the above privileges—are requested to call on the subscriber at Exeter. SIMON WIGGIN. N. B. Any Letters (post paid) directed as above, shall be duly attended too.
NOTICE. THE Subscribers being appointed executors of the last will and testament of SAMUEL CLARK, late of Portsmouth, cooper, deceased, and having accepted the trust and given bonds as the Law directs, call upon all persons having demands on said estate to present them for adjustment; and all indebted thereto, to make payment without delay. George Richards, } Exec- Thomas Chadbourne, jr. } utors. Portsmouth, March 10, 1807.
Half of a new Dwelling HOUSE, on church hill, to be LET, —enquire as above
FOR SALE, 350 cases Cider, 12 bottles each, packed in Sand; 300 kegs fous'd TRIPES; 150 kegs Pickles, of different kinds. The above are packed up for family use or the West India market, and the Cider being of the first quality, is done up different from the usual mode,—Apply to ELISHA WHIDDEN, opposite Long-wharf,—who has for sale, a general assortment of W. India Goods & Groceries, of the first quality, and at the lowest market prices. Portsmouth, March 10.
Just received, and opening by Timothy Upham, Next door to the Fire and Marine Insurance Office, a very large assortment English Thread Laces, Edgings and Footings, at prices not much exceeding what is demanded for cotton Lace; a complete assortment of French Ribbands, of the most fashionable kinds and colors; fancy spangled names; a large supply of Military Plumes and Trimmings, such as white Plumes with red tops, red with black tops, and Scarlet; gold and silver cord and Tassels; fine farfnet and low priced black Cambricks, 3 3/4, 4 1/4 and 6 1/4 white do.; book Muffins; blk. Crapes; a complete and very fashionable assortment of silk, silk and cotton, and cotton chambray Muffins, of a very superior quality; English and German Satins; black India Lustings and black Modos. a large assortment of Silk and other fashionable Shawls; fine and low priced Calicoes and Dimities; brown, red and yellow Bandannoes; English and French silk Gloves, from 6/ to 12/ per pair; ladies kid and beaver habit Gloves; gentlemen's deer-skin, beaver and common leather Gloves; real superfine black Broad-Cloth; men's black Satins, very low; fine Sheeting India Cottons; English twill'd do.; British and India Shirting Cottons; Beverly and English Bed Ticking; with a complete assortment of Linens and other Goods as usual. Also, a large supply of very low priced, Blue and other Cloths, suitable for seamen's clothing, which will be sold at small advance, and on liberal credit.
Men's & Youth's HATS, of the first quality. February 24.
NOTICE. THE following high PRIZES in class N o 1 of Harvard College Lottery, were sold at the truly fortunate Lottery Office of THOMAS & TAPPAN, [Opposite the Court House,] viz. of 500 dolls. N o 8889; of 100 dolls. Nos. 14759, 15310; of 50 dolls. 15,316, 14,704, 15,441; of 15 dolls. 14,782, 11,220, 14,739, 15,405, 15,466, 15,472, 15,454, 15,476, 8719, 14,752; besides 152 prizes of 7 Dollars.
Hatfield Bridge LOTTERY draws the 15th April; Tickets rise 15th March; purchasers are invited to call early; prize tickets in other Lotteries will be received in payment. The first N o of SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS is ready for subscribers. Subscriptions are received as above for BOSWELL'S Life of Dr. JOHNSON, and the Works of the late Rev. DAVID TAPPAN, D. D. Hollis Professor of Divinity in the University at Cambridge.—Orders by letter will be attended to. Portsmouth, March 10.
LIME. FOR SALE BY NATH'L ADAMS & SON, N o 17, Merchants Row, Fore-street, A Quantity of THOMASTOWN LIME. March 10.
For Sale by John Langdon, jun. No. 5, Langdon's Wharf— NO. 1 and 2 BEEF; Grenada RUM; Calcutta SUGAR; boxes No. 1 and 3 CHOCOLATE; Philadelphia IRON, spike and nail Rods, TAR, PITCH and TURPENTINE. To Let, a three story Store, situated in Buckstreet, opposite Portsmouth Pier. March 10.
Ladd & Smith, Have for Sale, 20 barrels New Rum; Also, a few hogheads W. I. Rum, Sugar & Molasses. Portsmouth, March 10.
Country Produce. DANIEL BROWN, Has for sale at No. 2 Bow-street, 4000 lb. best new-milk Cheese; Butter; Wheat; Rye; Rye Meal; Corn; Barley; Oats; White Beans; Green and Yellow Peas; 2000 lb. excellent Flax; 1000 lb. Clover Seed; Herds Grass Seed, &c. March 10, 1807.
Peter Coffin, Has just received per the Ships Liverpool Packet, from Liverpool, and the Romeo from London, an extensive assortment of GOODS, by Wholesale and Retail—viz. WOOLLENS. BEST superfine Broad Cloths of the most fashionable colors; single and double mill'd Cassimeres; Bennet Cords; Toilingnet, fancy cord and swansdown Waistcoating; Coatings; Duffles; Fearnoughts; Flannels; Baizes; Swanskins; Blankets of all sizes; Forest Cloths; Kerseys.
COTTONS, &c. A large assortment of Chintzes; fine London Prints; chintz Furnitures; Ginghams; a great variety of Muffins; cotton Chambrays, plain and laced Cambricks; mullin Veils and Shawls; mullin Handkerchiefs; Dimities; Mullinets; dimity Furnitures; cotton Shirtings; Velvets; Thicksets; color'd Cambricks.
SILKS. English Lustings; Florence Silks; India Persians; silk Chambrays; Satins; Modes; Sarfnet; Tiffanies; a great variety of fancy and other Ribbons; silk Velvets; silk Plush and Shag for bonnets; silk Shawls; blk. Handkerchiefs; black Cypress; net Gauzes.
LINENS, &c. 3/ and 4/ Irish Linens; sheeting Linens; brown Hollands; Diapers; Table Cloths; French Cambricks; cambric Handk'fs; Checks; Threads; Millinets; Napkins.
HOSIERY, &c. Mens and women's cotton, worsted & silk Hose; miffes and childrens cotton and worsted Hose; mens and women's worsted hoods; Gauze Hose; worsted and mill'd Caps.
GLOVES, &c. Mens beaver, York tan, doe skin and worsted gloves; womens kid, beaver and Limerick Gloves; beaver, kid and silk habit Gloves; silk Gloves and Mitts; Pic nic and lace ditto; Grecian Armlets.
FANCY ARTICLES, &c. Gown Trimmings; fancy dress Buttons; dress Frogs; bugle Brooches; silk Girdles; bugle Plumes; Wreaths and Bands; silk Cords; silk and bugle Nets; fancy Plumes and Flowers; silk and thread Laces and Edgings; lace Veiling; ornamented Combs; color'd Crapes; Norwich Shawls; gold and silver Trimmings; Epaulets; silver and gold Threads.
STUFFS. Durants; Tamnies; Shalloons; Rufsels Calimancoes; Wildbores; Camblets; Bombazetts; Bombazeens; Moereens; Satinets.
HATS, &c. Mens, youths & childrens Hats; ladies fashionable beaver Hats and Bonnets.
A large assortment Carpets and Carpeting; Umbrellas; Bed Lace, Fringes, Cords and Tassels; a great variety of mock sable, jennet, and elegant silver bear Muffs and Tippets; Fur Trimmings.
INDIA GOODS. A large assortment cheap India Cottons; India Checks and Chintzes; Bandannoes. October 21.
TO be Let, and entered Immediately, a BUILDING, at the foot of Daniel-street, suitable for a dwelling House, or retailing Store,—for the latter it is well situated, and has a never failing Pump,—for terms apply to GEORGE F. BLUNT. March 9th, 1807.