The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1803-02-22 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
"By adopting REPUBLICANISM for our Polar Star, we shall endear to our countrymen the true principles of their Constitution, and promote an union of sentiment and of action, equally auspicious to their happiness and safety."
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. & W. PIERCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
WHEREAS a commission of bankruptcy is awarded & issued forth against JOHN MAN, of Portsmouth, in the District of New-Hampshire, merchant, and he being declared a bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to us the undersigned commissioners, on the third, fifteenth and twenty-ninth days of March next at eleven o'clock in the forenoon on each day, at the office of CHARLES CUTTS, Esq. in said Portsmouth, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects, when & 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 GODDARD, JOHN M'CLINTOCK, HENRY S. LANGDON, } Commissioners. Portsmouth, Feb. 15, 1803.
WHEREAS a commission of Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against EDWARD GOVE, of Portsmouth, in the district of New-Hampshire, Butcher and Trader, and he being declared a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to us the undersigned commissioners, on the fourteenth day of this month and on the seventh and twenty-second days of March next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon on each day, at the office of CHARLES CUTTS, Esq. in said 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 GODDARD, JOHN M'CLINTOCK, HENRY S. LANGDON, } Commissioners. Portsmouth, February 8, 1803.
WM. & Cha's Neil, HAVE FOR SALE, RUM pr. Hhd. BRANDY. Hollands GIN.
Sherry, Port, Vidonia, Malaga, Hyson, Hyson-skin, Souchong, Bohca, in half & quarter Chests, } WINES.
FLOUR, per barrel. COTTON. FIGS. RAISINS, per cask. India SUGAR. Loaf, do. COFFEE. Florence OIL. PEPPER. PIMENTO. Elliot's SNUFF. Havanna SEGARS, of the best quality—With a general assortment of } TEAS.
GROCERIES, as usual, on moderate terms. Portsmouth, Feb. 15, 1803.
Now Landing, and For Sale by William Chase, No. 12, Portsmouth Pier, 56 puncheons RUM. SUGAR pr. hhd. or barrel. FUSTICK. SHIP BREAD. Portsmouth, Feb. 15, 1803.
Stephen Delande, Keeps constantly for SALE, at his shop in Buck Street, a general assortment of West-India Goods & GROCERIES. —ALSO—just received a few boxes Fresh LEMONS. CONFECTION, of every kind, as usual. —Favours acknowledged with grati-tude. Portsmouth, Feb. 15, 1803.
S. LITTLE, HAS taken the Store under Rousselier's Museum, for the purpose of an AUCTION OFFICE —where an Auction will be kept 2 days in a week, and oftener if required, in which line he will be happy to serve the public, and they may be assured that the strictest attention shall be paid to execute the orders of those who please to favor him with their services. He also calls on all those indebted to him to make immediate payment, to prevent further trouble. Portsmouth, Feb. 15, 1803.
SHOE STORE.
The Ladies and Gentlemen of Portsmouth and its vicinity, are respectfully informed that Robert M'Cleary, HAS taken a Shop in Col. Gains' house, a few doors west of the Bell Tavern, Congress-street,—where he has just received, and now ready for sale, a handsome assortment of LADIES' and GENTLEMEN'S
SHOES: Among which are the following:—English and American Kid SHOES, some of which are white. Ladies English & American Morocco do. some of which are purple. Gentlemen's first rate do. Ladies & Gentlemen's Water Proof SOALS. Ladies' Cork Soals, some that lace; English and American. Millers Kid, Morocco, and Leather Shoes. Children's Morocco and Leather do. Do. English do. Spence do. Boy's thick do. Men's do. Black & Fancy Stuff do. Ladies' Clogs & Mogerfons. Boots & Boot Legs, OF THE BEST KIND. —ALSO— Black, blue & red Morocco. Wax'd & black grain Calf-skins. Hog and Sheep-Skins.
TRUNKS. A few handsome stamped Masonic Apron Patterns. Also, a variety of ROSETTS. —Favours acknowledged with grati-tude. Portsmouth, Feb. 8, 1803.
COTTON YARN, &c.
Joseph S. Gilman, AGENT for SAM'L SLATER & Co. North-Providence, R. I. has received directly from their extensive and much celebrated Cotton Manufactory at Rehoboth, (Mass.) a general assortment of single and two threaded YARN, which he is selling at the Manufactory prices.—He has also, BED TICKING, as above. Said GILMAN having lately established a CANDLE MANUFACTORY in Exeter, can supply almost any quantity of CANDLES at the shortest notice, and equal in quality to any made on the continent. His Mould Candles are of pure sweet tallow, clarified and bleached, and require not ten days age to give them perfect whiteness. He is also preparing for the SOAP business, and gives generous prices for good Ashes, Tallow, and Soap Grease. Exeter, Jan. 8, 1803. tw-g.
THEODORE FURBER, of Portsmouth, or EPHRAIM PICKERING, of Newington. ALL persons indebted to the Estate of Col. EPHRAIM PICKERING, late of Newington, deceased, either by Note, or Account, are desired to make immediate payment to the subscribers, administrators of said Estate, and those who have any demands, are requested to bring them forward for settlement, to THEODORE FURBER, of Portsmouth, or EPHRAIM PICKERING, of Newington. February 15, 1803.
Political Miscellany.
From the National Intelligencer. THOMAS PAINE, To the CITIZENS of the U. STATES. LETTER THE FIFTH.
IT is always the interest of a far greater part of the nation to have a thing right than to have it wrong; and therefore in a country whose government is founded on the system of election and representation, the fate of every party is decided by its principles. As this system is the only form and principle of government by which liberty can be preserved, and the only one that embraces all the varieties of a great extent of country, it necessarily follows, that to have the representation real, the election must be real; and that where the election is fiction, the representation is a fiction also. Like will always produce its like. A great deal has been laid and written concerning the conduct of Mr. Burr during the late contest in the federal Legislature, whether Mr. Jefferson or Mr. Burr should be declared President of the United States. Mr. Burr has been accused of intriguing to obtain the Presidency. Whether this charge be substantiated or not makes little or no part of the purport of this letter. There is a point of much higher importance to attend to than any thing that relates to the individual Mr. Burr; for the great point is not whether Mr. Burr has intrigued, but whether the Legislature have intrigued with him? Mr. Ogden, a relation of one of the Senators of New Jersey of the same name, and of the party assuming the title of federalists, has written a letter published in the New-York papers, signed with his name, the purport of which to exculpate Mr. Burr from the charges brought against him. In this letter he says,
"When about to return from Washington, two or three members of Congress of the federal party spoke to me of their views as to the election of a President, desiring me to converse with Col. Burr on the subject, and to ascertain whether he would enter into terms. On my return to New York I called on Col. Burr, and communicated the above to him. He explicitly declined the explanation, and did neither propose nor agree to any terms."
How neatly is human cunning allied to folly! The animals we call cunning have given the faculty we call cunning, know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays. Mr. Ogden's letter is intended to exculpate Mr. Burr from the charge of intriguing to obtain the Presidency; and the letter that he (Ogden) writes for that purpose is direct evidence against his party in Congress, that they intrigued with Burr to obtain him for President and employed him (Ogden) for the purpose. To save Aaron, he betrays Moses, and turns informer against the golden calf.
It is of little importance to the world to know if Mr. Burr listened to an intriguing proposal, but it is of great importance to the constituents to know if their representatives in Congress made one. The ear can commit no crime but the tongue may; and therefore, the right policy is to drop Mr. Burr as being only the bearer, and direct the whole charge against the federal faction in Congress as the active original culprits, or, if the priests will have scripture for it, as the serpent hath beguiled Eve.
The plot of the intrigue was to make Mr. Burr President on the private condition of his agreeing to, and entering into, terms with them that is, with the proposers. Had then this election been made, the country, knowing nothing of this private and illegal transaction, would have supposed, for who could have supposed otherwise, that it had a President according to the forms, principles and intention of the constitution. No such thing. Every form, principle, and intention of the constitution would have been violated; and instead of a President, it would have had a mute, a sort of image hand bound and tongue tied, the type and slave of a party, placed on the theatre of the United States and acting the part of President.
It is of little importance, in a constitutional sense, to know what the terms to be proposed might be because any terms other than those which the constitution prescribes to a President is criminal. Neither do I see how Mr. Burr, or any person, put in the same condition could have taken the oath prescribed by the constitution to a President, which is "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States; and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States."
How, I ask, could such a person have taken such an oath knowing at the same time that he had entered into the presidency on terms unknown in the constitution and private, and which would deprive him of the freedom and power of acting as President of the United States, agreeably to his constitutional oath? Mr. Burr, by not agreeing to terms, has escaped the danger to which they exposed him, and the perjury that would have followed, and also the punishment annexed thereto. Had he accepted the presidency on terms unknown in the constitution and private, and had the transaction afterwards transpired (which it is most probable would), for perjury is a thing difficult to conceal
it would have produced a sensation in the country too violent to be quieted and too just to be resisted: and in any case the election must have been void. But what are we to think of those members of congress, who, having taken an oath of the same constitutional import as the oath of the president, violate that oath by tampering to obtain a president on private conditions. If this is not sedition against the constitution and the country, it is difficult to define what sedition in a representative can be.
Say not that this statement of the case is the effect of personal or party resentment. No. It is the effect of sincere concern that such corruption, of which this is but a sample, should, in the short space of a few years have crept into a country that had the fairest opportunity, that providence ever gave within the knowledge of history of making itself an illustrious example to the world. What the terms were, or were to be, it is probable we shall never know; or what is more probable, that feigned ones, if any, will be given. But from the conduct of the party since that time, we may conclude, that no taxes would have been taken off that the clamour for war would have been kept up, new expenses incurred, and taxes and offices increased in consequence; and among the articles of a private nature that the leaders in this seditious traffic were to dispense with the mock President for lucrative appointments for themselves.
But if those plotters against the constitution understood their business, and they had been plotting long enough to be master of it, a single article would have comprehended every thing, which is,
That the president (thus made) should be governed in all cases whatsoever by private janto appointed by themselves. They could then through the medium of a mock-president have negatived all bills which the party in congress could not have opposed with success, and reduced representation to a nullity. The country has been imposed upon, and the real culprits are but few; and as it is necessary for the peace, harmony, and honour, of the union to separate the deceiver from the deceived, the betrayer from the betrayed, that men who once were friends, & that in the world of times, should be friends again; it is necessary, as a beginning, that this dark business be brought to a full investigation. Ogden's letter is a direct evidence of the fact of tampering to obtain a conditional President. He knows the two or three members of congress that commissioned him, and they know who commissioned them. THOMAS PAINE. Federal City, Love's Hotel, Jan. 29, 1803.
For the N. H. GAZETTE. [No. 1.]
Dr. Morse's description of the Clergy in Connecticut, illustrated. See Morse's Geography, vol. 1, page 453.
"THE clergy who are numerous, and, as a body, very respectable, have hitherto preserved a kind of aristocratical balance in the very democratical government of the State; which has happily operated as a check upon the overbearing spirit of Republicanism. It has been lamented that unhappy religious disputes, which have too much prevailed among some of the clergy; and an inattention to the qualifications of those who have been admitted into the sacred office, have heretofore considerably diminished their influence. It is a pleasing circumstance that the rage for theological disputation is abating, and greater fluency is observed in the admission of candidates to the ministry. Their influence is on the increase; and it is no doubt to be attributed in part, to their increasing influence, that an evident reformation in the manners of the people in this State has taken place since the peace."
At such a time as this, when there is so much said concerning the clergy, it cannot be amiss to explain this description of them, given by one of that order.
When the word clergy is used, it is natural to enquire who are they? Is this word found in the scriptures? No, there is no mention made of Ministers of CHRIST. Ministers of reconciliation, Elders, Bishops, Pastors, Teachers, &c. they cannot be preachers of the Gospel. In books concerning Law, we may find a class of men called the clergy. What are they? They are properly spiritual rulers; or according to the English term, Lord spirituals, or lords over men's souls. What qualifies a person to be a clergyman? First, A college education, (not regeneration,) according to the clerical laws, no man can be qualified for this important title without a liberal education; a man might be a preacher of the Gospel, without it. Second, he must be sprinkled with water by a clergyman: (a man cannot be a preacher of the Gospel, without the sprinkling of the blood of JESUS CHRIST.) Third, He must become a member of a federal church, as they begin to call themselves, and partake of what they call the sacrament. Fourth, He must study human divinity, enough to learn several prayers by rote. Fifth, He must be licenced to say over his prayers, and to read piety and morality to the people.
It is not essential that he be a converted man.—This being a general description of the clergy, let us now attend to a particular description of them, given by Dr. Morse. First, They are numerous: Why? because there is no way that a young gentleman can be in business with a small flock to easy, at to be a clergyman—a suit of black,
a few notes, something of a share of hypocrisy, and he can have a parsonage house, several hundred dollars to begin with, several hundred more to continue with, an obligation for life, by which he is sure if the town is sick of him, that he shall have several hundred more to leave off with. No wonder they are numerous, who would not be a clergyman!
Second, They are as a body respectable: This is what all natural men are fond of, even glory of men. All natural men speak well of them, as they did of the false Prophets before them. They are not like CHRIST's ministers hated by the world; no, the world loves their own; they are so happy as to go clear of that perfection which the godly suffer.
Third, They have preserved an aristocratical balance over democracy, in Connecticut: By this aristocratical balance is meant, that the clergy of this State, are an higher order than the rest of the people; they are the nobility, who only have a right (in their opinion) to rule the people. The people hold to a democratical government, where the sovereign power is in them; it would be general, were it not for the clerical nobility, who deprive them of their rights. The power of this nobility preserves the balance, so that the people cannot do as they would, if they were not ruled by the clergy.
Fourth, This balance has happily operated as a check upon the overbearing spirit of Republicanism: According to this declaration, the clergy of Connecticut are happy only as they can check the spirit of Republicanism. There is but one spirit which the clergy are, more opposed to than the spirit of Republicanism, and that is the spirit of the Gospel; if the Dr. speaks the truth, the clergy as a body are opposed to a Republican Government; which is in its nature to overbearing, as to crush the clerical nobility. Should the power of checking, be taken out of the hands of the clergy, they must be overborne, and be reduced to the mortifying situation of Fellow-Citizens. No wonder they lament the rapid spread of the overbearing spirit of Republicanism, in the United States; from every appearance they will ere long be weighed in the Republican balance, and be found wanting.
Fifth, In this description of the clergy, the Dr. tells the world that the clergy were inattentive to the qualification of those who have been admitted to the sacred office; by which their influence is considerably diminished. It appears by this, that Dr. Morse is sensible that there was not attention paid to the qualifications of those who were admitted as clergymen. This we acknowledged true; any man who had a college education could be admitted to preach, without giving an evidence of any spiritual knowledge whatever. This may be one reason why clerical influence fails; but there is another greater reason than this, as fast as Republican principles increase, so fast clerical influence diminishes; and though it may be thought that clerical influence is gaining in Connecticut, yet it is certain that it is decreasing there and every where else, to that degree, that many young fellows who meant to take up with their Father's trade, are all most discouraged, and think of some other plan for a livelihood. This description of the clergy, given by this geographical Doctor, was calculated for the meridian of Connecticut; but it will serve for Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, and Vermont, without any material alteration.
This description of the clergy, given by one of that order shews, that they are a dangerous set of men, because they are opposed to the Republican Government of our Country. Whoever reads their Fast and Thanksgiving Sermons, must be convinced of this. Let the Citizens of New-Hampshire, remember that those gentlemen who come from the college, enter into the clerical ministry, (generally) upon the same principle that they enter upon Law, Physic, Merchandise, &c. which is riches, honor, and pleasure. Consequently they need watching as well as other men—Remember that Dr. Morse says the clergy and the people are inattentive concerning the qualifications of those who are admitted to what they call the sacred order. This is one reason why the clergy in general are such an ungodly set of men, being presumptuous, and not afraid to speak evil of dignities. OLD NORTH.
We would call the attention of our readers to the following imposition; it will show the light in which European politics view some of the PULPIT attacks, on the character of Mr. Jefferson.
Extract from a half-yearly retrospect of American Literature, published in the London Monthly Magazine, for July, 1802. "The most remarkable sermon which comes under our notice, is a discourse delivered on the annual fast in Massachusetts, April 9, 1801 by Dr. Emmons, pastor of the church in Franklin. The character of Jeremiah forms the subject of the discourse, which is drawn from 2 Kings, XVII. etc. "And they made Jeroboam, son of Nebat, king, and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord." The usurpation, impiety, tyranny, and inhumanity of that atrocious monarch, are represented in the strongest light; and after every effort to render these colors as dark and hateful as possible, the author, very modestly applies it to portray the character of Mr. Jefferson, the President of the United States. It has seldom fallen in our way to observe an instance of clerical indecency more shameful, or of party rancour more inveterate."

To the Citizens of New-Hampshire.
GENTLEMEN,
As peace is better than war, it was the will of all good men that the approaching Elections would be met with calm and sober investigation.
This, in a free Country, is certainly the prerogative of the people; it is a privilege exclusively attached to Republican Government, and is a discriminating feature, eminently distinguishing them from all others. But surrounded, as we are, by a disorganized faction better disposed to the corrupt and turbulent systems of European politics, than to the virtuous and peaceful disposition of our own, however desirable peace might be, its continuance was regarded as the calm of a summer's morning, soon to be interrupted by noise and strife. The presentment is already verified, the recommencement of hostilities is announced by the Oracle of Federalism, and the party to whom that paper belongs, like Mother Britain in some of her late campaigns, has made a desperate attack upon the Republicans; and like her, should we stand upon our defence, they will soon see the necessity of a precipitate retreat. The first attack of the Federalists was directed against the very essence and being of our free Government—Spirits, bloated with the pride of birth and fortune, could not bear to see their titles and distinctions brought down to a common level.—and privileges, considered as exclusively their own, lost in the general interest. The Government made no discrimination of title or of birth: it regarded the rich and the poor as existing in one common centre; therefore "the disciples of the old school" were early confederated against it; but the people were too enlightened for the dark and sophistical jargon designed to alienate them from their duty—the Government still stands firm; and while, on the one hand, it reflects the brightest lustre upon the wisdom and virtue of its projectors, on the other, it is a living witness of the folly and importance of its revilers.
The ground that was first taken, to wit, of directly prostrating the Government at the feet of a set of lordlings, was, pretty early abandoned for the project of wounding it through the character of its friends and patrons. To this end the most illiberal and wanton abuse has been heaped upon the first characters in the Union.—The Federal press have literally groaned beneath the pressure of that filth, which, bred in the kennels of their own national, was designed to soil the fair fame of our beloved President—fifty or a hundred columns of that block, the Oracle, were, last year, exhausted upon the character of Mr. Langdon; but as the dull writer of those leaden numbers is now elevated to a more lucrative employment, it was thought that the character of Colonel Langdon would find some respite; but we have been mistaken—for tho' Lucius has ascended on high, yet, like Elijah, he has left his mantle in the hands of Papiinian, his Elisha, who, to make amends for his brevity, is twice as dull as his master. The criad jargon of this scribler, in the Oracle of the 5th instant, is too puerile to excite the smallest indignation, and is noticed only to show that the federal quivers must be nearly exhausted. For when we see, as in the present case, the blackest calumnies promulgated, without so much as the shadow of plausibility to keep them in countenance, we may fairly pronounce them the last agonies of an expiring faction. The writer in that paper asserts, that we see nothing in Mr. Jefferson's administration but deception, duplicity, inconsistency and a spirit to destroy all order, and establishments. Lies are dangerous only when they dissemble and appear in the sacred garb of truth. A liar like Papiinian, who nobody believes, cannot be guilty of defamation, he cannot therefore be a subject of legal resentment; otherwise he ought to be reported to the attorney General, who doubtless would shew him that he deserves well of the halter. Mr. Langdon is accused by the same writer, of prostrating vice in all its hideous forms, and this too, because he shews a disposition to adopt the principles of Mr. Jefferson's administration. Does this fellow calculate that the people of New-Hampshire are fools, or does he suppose them equally wicked with himself? One or the other surely! or how dare he broach such barefaced falsehoods amongst them.
The character of Mr. Jefferson's Administration, and also that of Mr. Langdon are far above the reach of calumny, they are not to be hunted down by the popgun scribblers in any newspaper, much less by those in the Oracle; neither can they suffer any diminution of lustre by the detractions of Papiinian. The one as President of the United States, has a fairer claim to the benedictions of a free and enlightened people, than any man living; while the other, as a Citizen of New-Hampshire, has the highest pretensions to the first Office in the State. This office is in the gift of the people, and it is doubtless their intention, at all times, to bestow it upon such only as feel an interest in their happiness, and have a disposition to promote it. Is this disposition to be found in those who are their constant revilers? The Federalists despise the people—these they constantly denounce the Rabble; and so often as the Republicans assert the authority of the multitude the Federalists resort, that it is no better than the wild and ungovernable outrage of a furious mob.—It is from these, and suchlike over-acts of treason against the sovereignty of the people, that the Federalists ought to be condemned. Then it is possible that the Citizens of New-Hampshire will elect for their leader the man, who, as the chief of the Federalists, takes every occasion to degrade their authority; and who holds in sovereign contempt their common condition? No fellow Citizens! you will assert your native dignity; and if there be any amongst you who are too haughty to be approached, too big to be spoken to, or too proud to mingle with the people, you will not have such an one to rule over you.—But on the other hand, choose ye from amongst yourselves, a man who justly regards your rights, who respects your authority—the man whose candor, affability and dignified simplicity of manners justly entitles him to your affections. These truly republican virtues are no where more conspicuous than in the character of Col. LANGDON—this Gentleman may justly be denominated the long tried patriot, he now is what he was in the
year '75, a friend to the people, and is justly entitled to their undivided suffrages.
STRAFFORD.
National Legislature.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THURSDAY, JAN. 27.
Mr. John C. Smith, from the committee of claims, reported on the memorial of the mayor and commonality of Alexandria, respecting expenses incurred for quarantine, that it would be expedient to pass a law respecting quarantine, but that the request of the memorialists to be reimbursed monies expended by them being unreasonable, ought not to be granted.
Referred to a committee of the whole house to-morrow.
Dr. Mitchell presented a memorial from a number of mechanicks of the city of New York, against the repeal of discriminating duties.
Mr. Bacon, laid the following motions on the table:
Resolved, That it is expedient for Congress to recede to the state of Virginia, the jurisdiction of that part of the territory of Columbia, which was ceded to the United States by the said state of Virginia; by an act passed the 3d day of December, in the year 1789, intitled "An act for the cession of ten miles square," or any lesser quantity of "territory" within this state, to the United States, in Congress assembled, for the permanent seat of the general government."
Provided, the said state of Virginia shall consent and agree thereto.
Resolved, That it is expedient for Congress to recede to the state of Maryland the jurisdiction of that part of the territory of Columbia, which was ceded to the United States by the said state of Maryland, by an act passed the 19th day of December, in the year 1791, entitled "An act concerning the territory of Columbia and the City of Washington."
Provided the said state of Maryland shall consent and agree thereto.
On motion of Mr. Nicholson, a committee was appointed to enquire whether it is expedient to make any, and if any, what alteration in the acts for the establishment of a marine corps, and for fixing the rank and pay of the commanding officer.
Mr. Griswold presented a memorial from eleven of the late circuit judges of the United States, representing that they had been divested by law of their judicial duties, and requesting Congress to define the duties to be performed by them, and to assign some judicial tribunal competent to a decision of their claim for salary.
Mr. Griswold moved for a reference of the memorial to a select committee.
Mr. Gregg moved a reference to the committee of claims.
Mr. Randolph moved a reference to a committee of the whole house.
This last motion, after debate, prevailed—Ayes 53.
Mr. Randolph moved that it be made the order for to-morrow.
Mr. Randolph's motion prevailed.
When the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole—Mr. Dawson in the chair.
Mr. Griswold then submitted two resolutions.
The first to provide by law for defining the duties of the circuit judges.
The second to provide by law for submitting to judicial decision the right of the judges of the circuit court to compensation.
After debate, the committee divided on the first resolution—ayes 34—noes 56—lost.
And the second resolution, ayes 35—noes 57—lost.
Mr. Varnum then submitted a resolution—that the prayer of the petition ought not to be granted, and that the petitioners have leave to withdraw their petition,—which was carried without a division.
The committee rose and reported this resolution, which was agreed to; the Yeas and Nays being called—Yeas 61—Noes 37. (A more detailed statement will be given hereafter.)
The Speaker laid before the house a memorial and remonstrance from the citizens of Alexandria, against a territorial legislature.
FRIDAY, JAN. 28. Mr. Jones presented a memorial from the chamber of commerce of Philadelphia respecting the injurious effects resulting from a construction given at the custom house at Philadelphia of the 14th section of the revenue law respecting the recording and registering of vessels.
Referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures.
Mr. John C. Smith, from the committee of claims, made a report on the petition of George Mason, a revolutionary soldier. The report states that no provision appears to have heretofore been made for allowing a pension to soldiers of the South-Carolina line, of which the petitioner was one; and concludes with a resolution that it is expedient to make provision by law for invalid pensioners of that line.
Referred to a committee of the whole on Tuesday.
Mr. Cutler presented a petition from the merchants, ship owners and ship builders of Newburyport, praying that the acts imposing discriminating duties may not be repealed.
Referred to the committee of the whole on discriminating duties, and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Davis offered a resolution, for instructing the committee of ways & means to enquire into the expediency of suspending for a limited time the collection of all debts or duties due the United States from the citizens of Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, and the Indiana and Mississippi territories.
Mr. Davis said as the government had lately passed a law suspending the payment of duties due by the citizens of Portsmouth in consequence of a fire at that place, he thought the citizens of the western country, from the peculiar situation in which they were placed, had as strong a claim on the indulgence of congress. The produce on land was the means with which they had expected to pay debts due the United States. Many citizens in that country were indebted to the United States. If they were pushed by the government, while the port of New-Orleans remained shut, and executed for debts which they were unable to pay from an inability to sell their produce, great embarrassment and uneasiness would be produced.
On the other hand if an indulgence should be extended, until their ports were opened, the existing debts could be secured by counter securities, under the direction of the supervisor, or such other officer as congress might authorize, by which the ultimate payment will not be affected. He concluded by saying he was persuaded the United States could better afford to lay out of these monies, than the citizens of that country could afford, under their present circumstances, to pay them.
The house immediately took up the resolution, and agreed to it—ayes 58.
Mr. Mitchell made a report from the committee appointed on the subject of Docks—that under a law of the United States 50,000 dollars had been appropriated for docks to be expended under the direction of the president; which sum having, however, not been expended, had reverted to the treasury. The report concludes with a resolution declaring that it is expedient to appropriate the same sum for the same object, to be placed under the direction of the president.
Referred to a committee of the whole on Monday.
Mr. Mitchell who had been appointed chairman of the committee on the Mint establishment in the place of Mr. Dennis (who had requested to be excused) made an application to the house to report by bill. As he knew a diversity of opinion existed on the subject, and there had been some discussion already about it, he had brought the proposition before the house in such a form as to take their sense upon it. If there was a majority against the existence of the mint, they would now have it in their power to shew it by voting against the present motion. If there was on the other hand, a majority in favor of the domestic coinage, it might be shewn by granting leave to report a bill. That the house might the better comprehend his meaning, he would be a little more particular. The act concerning the mint, providing for its continuance at Philadelphia, passed in March 1801, would expire on the 4th of March 1803. That day would soon arrive; and it was desirable to have something done speedily, unless provision was made by law the mint could not continue at Philadelphia. It must be moved to Washington. Money would be necessary for that removal.—The government now owned both real and personal estate in Philadelphia. If not occupied and employed there, legal regulation must be made for the sale of it. On the other hand, if it should be permitted to the committee to report, he was instructed to present a bill for continuing in operation the mint establishment in Philadelphia. By this means, the inconvenience and expense of breaking up this mandatory of money and moving it to Washington would be avoided; and the mint would be continued at work at very little more than the ordinary appropriations. He wished this question had been settled by the house. The committee had been equally divided, and his casting vote had decided in favour of making the present application. In the present want of copper coin and small silver for change, he did not choose to take the responsibility upon himself, of suffering the mint to stop for want of legislative consideration and aid. The house ought to decide upon the propriety of the general question of discontinuance. He would however mention that if leave was granted, it was his intention to report a further continuance of the existing law, and an appropriation of five hundred dollars, which the director had declared to be necessary for purchasing horses, and making repairs to the machinery.
Mr. Dawloo spoke against giving leave to the committee to report by bill.
On which question the house divided—Ayes 45—Noes 32.
Of this business was a letter received from Col. Humphreys, desiring congress to make disposition of a present sent to him by the dey of Algiers, and a present sent to Mrs. Humphreys by the king of Spain, both of which are deposited with the chief clerk in the department of state.
Mr. Mitchell called up his motion respecting French depredations as follows:
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire, by what means, the value or amount of property taken from citizens of the United States by the French during the late war in Europe, can be best ascertained, and the several forms of captures distinguished, and classed, and report their opinion thereon to this house, to the end that indemnification be made.
Mr. Bayard offered an amendment, which was agreed to, striking out the latter part of the resolution, and instructing the committee to report their opinion whether indemnification shall be made.
After a very desultory debate on referring the resolution to a committee of the whole, or to a select committee, and a rejection of the motion of reference to a committee of the whole, the question was taken on the resolution, as amended, which was determined in the negative—Ayes 34—noes 39.
MONDAY, JAN. 31.
Mr. Bacon, from the committee of elections, reported on a resolution respecting the tenure of the seat of Paul Rearing, a delegate from the North Western Territory, that the said delegate is entitled still to hold his seat.
An engrossed bill in addition to an act entitled an act to fix the military peace establishment of the U. States, was read the third time and passed—Ayes 44.
Mr. Dawson, from the committee on so much of the President's Message, as relates to Indian concerns, made a report containing four resolutions, viz:
1. For the continuance of the act for the establishment of Indian trading houses.
2. For the appropriation of 10,000 dollars to obtain further cessions of land from the Indians.
3. For the appropriation of 2,000 dollars to purchase articles necessary for constructing salt works on the Wabash.
4. For opening an office for the sale of lands in the Mississippi Territory, to which the Indian title has been, or shall be, extinguished.
Referred to a committee of the whole, and made the order for Wednesday.
An engrossed bill, authorizing the sale of a piece of land belonging to the navy yard in Salem, Massachusetts, to the Salem turnpike road company, was read a third time and passed.
Mr. Bayard observed that a resolution offered some days since by a gentleman from
New-York (Mr. Mitchell) of considerable national, and of great individual importance to a large description of citizens, appeared to him to have been disagreed to more from considerations of form than substance; as the merits of the subject were not, on that occasion, brought into discussion. In order to meet the ideas of gentlemen, who believed, in the first instance, to decide the principle whether indemnity ought to be made to our merchants, he submitted the following resolution.
Resolved, That provision ought to be made by law, to indemnify the citizens of the United States who, in carrying on a lawful trade to foreign ports, suffered losses by the seizure of their property made by unauthorized French cruisers, or by any French cruiser, without sufficient cause, in violation of the rights of American commerce during the late war between Great Britain and the French Republic, and whose claims for indemnity against the said Republic were renounced by the United States, by their acceptance of the ratification of the treaty lately made with France.
Mr. Bayard moved the taking up the resolution for consideration; on which the House divided—Ayes 39—Noes 45.
Resolution ordered to lie on the table.
The House went into a committee of the whole on the bill for the encouragement of learning, and the promotion of the arts.—Mr. Dawson in the chair.
After discussion of several hours duration on various amendments offered, the committee rose, and the House recommitted the bill to a select committee.
About 3 o'clock the galleries were cleared, and the House remained with closed doors till 4 o'clock, when they adjourned.
TUESDAY, FEB. 1.
Mr. Newton presented a letter from the Chamber of Commerce of Norfolk in favor of a repeal of discriminating and countervailing duties.
Referred to a committee of the whole on that subject.
Mr. Mitchell reported a bill to prolong the continuance of the Mint at Philadelphia.
The bill continues the Mint at Philadelphia for five years, and makes a small appropriation of money.
Referred to a committee of the whole to-morrow.
The House went into committee of the whole—Mr. Varnum in the chair—on the report of the committee of Claims on the petition of Moses White.
The report is favorable to the prayer of the petition, which prays compensation as aid-de-camp to a brigadier general, by brevet during the revolutionary war.
After a debate of considerable length the report was agreed to—Ayes 69.
The committee rose and the House immediately concurred with them, and ordered a bill to be brought in.
The Speaker laid before the House a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in compliance with a resolution of the House, respecting the quantity of fish imported.
The House went into committee of the whole on the bill supplementary to an act concerning consuls and vice-consuls, and for the further protection of American seamen.—Mr. John C. Smith in the Chair.
After making several amendments to the bill, the committee reported the bill with sundry amendments, which were ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. S. Smith observed that in order to allow the fullest time to obtain information of the public sentiment, he should not call up the report of the committee of Commerce and Manufactures on discriminating duties until the 2d Monday in February.
A Summary of the Exports from each State.
   From New-Hampshire, 555,394   Vermont, 31,479   Massachusetts, 13,492,632   Rhode-Island, 2,433,363   Connecticut, 1,606,809   New York, 13,792,276   New-Jersey, 26,227   Pennsylvania, 12,677,475   Delaware, 440,504   Maryland, 8,006,990   Virginia, 4,660,351   North-Carolina, 659,390   South-Carolina, 10,639,365   Georgia, 1,354,951   Kentucky, 626,673   Territory of the U. States, 443,955   Total, 71,957,144  
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Register's Office, Jan. 13th, 1803.
JOSEPH NOURSE, Register.
NEW-YORK, FEB. 14.
Capt. Haley, in twelve days from Cape-Francois, informs us, that the Blacks were completely subdued, and all was tranquil—That a week before he failed, a French 74 gun ship, having on board 1500 troops, arrived from Toulon—That a fleet of 15 sail was hourly expected—That it was healthy at the Cape—That four ships of war failed the day of the Sophia's departure; one of 80 guns, with Admiral La Touche and General Rochambeau on board, for Cape Nicholas-Mole; one for France, and the other two for Port-au-Prince—And, that American produce would barely pay freight—but a rise was expected on the arrival of the troops.
FROM EUROPE.
AN arrival from Rotterdam has furnished papers of that city to the 25th Dec. some days later than before received.
They confirm the accounts of the complete restoration of tranquility in Germany, by the ratification of the plan of indemnities recommended by France and Russia; and that the Emperor had consented to evacuate Passau.
These accounts also add, that twelve sail of transports, chiefly American vessels, of whom several were from northern ports, were lying at Helvoetsluys, waiting to receive the French troops destined to Louisiana and that Gen. Victor, who is to command the expedition, had arrived at Rotterdam; and it was expected would embark in the course of a month or six weeks.
The last London papers contain a report that the vast city of Constantinople was nearly destroyed by an earthquake, the 26th October last.
The British Parliament has voted to grant 50,000 for the present year; almost double the usual Peace Establishment.
Portsmouth.
TUESDAY, FEB. 22, 1803.
Republican Ticket for 1803.
"Firm, united, let us be, Rallying round our LIBERTY."
THE LONG TRIED PATRIOT
John Langdon, Governor
For COUNSELLORS—viz.
LEVI BARTLETT, Rockingham county, JOSEPH BADGER, jun. Strafford do. BENJAMIN PIRCE, Hillsborough do. NAHUM PARKER, Cheshire do. MOODY BEDELL, Grafton do.
For SENATORS—viz.
CLEMENT STOREY, for the 1st district. NICHOLAS GILMAN, do. 2d do. JAMES GIBSON, do. 3d do. RICHARD JENNESS, do. 4th do. JOHN WALDRON, do. 5th do. DAVID COPP, do. 6th do. WILLIAM FISK, do. 7th do. JAMES FLANDERS, do. 8th do. ROBERT ALCOCK, do. 9th do. ELISHA WHITCOMB, do. 10th do. AMASA ALLEN, do. 11th do. WILLIAM TARLTON, do. 12th do. JOSIAH ADAMS, Recorder of Deeds for Rockingham County.
NATHANIEL FOLSOM, Treasurer.
"As a band of Brothers join,
"Peace and safety we shall find."
To the People of New-Hampshire.
[NO. VI]
Friends & Countrymen,
THE fallacious artifices, practised by a desperate faction, serve only the more to expose their disorganizing principles, and their incompetency to the vile task they have undertaken, of arresting the progress and force of truth.—We have in the last Oracle , a description given us of our Republican Government, after a laboured introduction in the usual file of ribaldry. Then follows the federal rhetoric to persuade us, that the men, for whom the writer is pleading, are the true Republicans. This is attempted with the same efficacy that attends his fellow advocate who makes his appearance in the Dover paper, in which the redoubtable champion, after venting his spleen against us, and exhibiting his candidates, pronounces himself a true Republican. And how does it appear that either these writers or the men for whom they advocate, are such real Republicans, such worthy Patriots as have neither done or aimed at any thing subversive of the interests and happiness of a free and independent People? Is it evidenced by the past conduct in the management of the public affairs? The People conceive it to be far from affording any such evidence. Does it appear from their confederacy with old Tories, though under the mask of federalism—from their union in sentiment and action with the ex-President; or from their enmity and rage against the People, because they are determined to think and act for themselves, to exercise their privileges, and by their vigilance and perseverance to defend their rights, superior to all the stratagems of the confederated enemies of Liberty and Humanity, to estrange them from the sacred, generous principles which they have so happily embodied? Convincing evidence indeed. To unmask them, there needs no other. They alk again and again, how it appears that their favourites have deviated from the principles of the constitutions of the General and State Governments, and that we have not been happy under the administration of our State Government for the last ten years, without affording any demonstration that there has been nothing amiss, or producing any proof of the felicity of our situation under the wise, mild and gentle reign of their favourite Chief Magistrate; and is not this really because they have no proof of the one, or demonstration of the other? Their apparent aim is to keep half those they have hood winked, to blind whom they can, and to ease themselves as much as possible, of their pain, by venting their rage and spite against the People, and their well known and proved Friends. In vain will they endeavour, under pretence of attachment to our Republican Government, to prejudice our minds against its ADMINISTRATORS, as democrats, visionary, wicked, enemies to all government and law ;—The prosperity and happiness, enjoyed under THEIR administration, defeat the nefarious attempt. The mischievous plots, hatched in darkness, are brought to light, and rendered abortive. There are now no privileged disorganizers vested with authority, no agents sent to foreign countries to render us contemptible in the eyes of nations. Bribery and intrigue at home and abroad, have lost their destructive power; the mikry of courts, in which tyrants preside, is no more; court flatterers and parasites have vanished. There is no waste of public money, nor enormous increasing debts, nor oppressive taxes and 8 per cent. loans to support navies and armies to humble us in the dust. The principles, and measures of the PRESIDENT, and the Administration, insure to all Citizens the unmolested enjoyment of the fruits of their industry, and all the blessings of

a free and enlightened PEOPLE. Our Government is truly Republican; possessing all the advantages of simple democracy, without its inconveniences;—a Representative Government, protecting us in the full and present enjoyment of all our rights and privileges, much against the wishes and designs of the federal and tory declaimers, who, notwithstanding all their fine speeches about it, would rejoice to see it torn from its foundations. We wonder not at the aversion expressed to the principles of SAMUEL ADAMS, maintained in the RIGHTS of MAN, and by all the genuine Friends of Republicanism, nor at the strong inclination manifested to effect a separation of the States.
These writers prate of the true principles of '76, while they are hand in hand with their most virulent enemies, and while they are abusing the freedom of the press, by belching forth the vilest calumnies against the supporters of those sacred principles. It may well excite visibility, to observe them setting forth themselves and their party, as firm adherents to the principles of '76, as friends and admirers of our State Constitution, and of the Constitution of the United States, and as not the men who are for pulling down government. Sufficiently have they shown their will to pull down our Government, though destitute of the power. They are become weak, their arm is paralyzed, their mighty are fallen, their glory is departed, and my Friends and Countrymen, in their overthrow let us greatly rejoice! The important business before you, Fellow-Citizens, of choosing State Officers, calls for your utmost vigilance and attention. Every thing truly great and valuable depends on your exertions. Be punctual to the moment—be firm—be united—be invincible.
A FRIEND to the PEOPLE.
From a Country Correspondent.
ADDRESSES to the people have been so multiplied as to render doubtful their effect on the minds of the Citizens not unalterably attached to either side of the political dispute; and to no others can a submission of facts and the reasoning thereon, be offered with a well grounded hope of successful experiment.
Were particular men now out of the question, I have no hesitation in believing that the great body of the Citizens of New-Hampshire, as at present informed, would be but of one mind respecting Government and Politics—and to nothing else, in my opinion, but the mischievous consequences of epithets artfully invented and industriously promulgated, by designing men, to divert the attention of the foreigner people (before whom all things must bow obedience,) from the just principles of a free government, are we to attribute the distracted situation in which we now find ourselves. Had the terms Federalist, Jacobin and Democrat, been as little heard of as understood, when in every one's mouth, we should now unitedly and harmoniously be anticipating the important privilege of annual suffrage, without murmuring at Republican jealousy of Public Officers made vain by repeated elections—But unfortunately for the community at large Men have taken place of Measures; and we are imperiously held bound in principle, by the failure of frequent attempts to change our first Magistrate—and in plain language are told that past prevalence of the majority should seal the mouths and restrain the hands of all reflectless Republicans forever—That is the fortunate man, as the greater, should of right rule the minor interest.—If this reasoning be conclusive, in vain do the advocates for life continuations, urge the persecutions of Mr. GILMAN, and the long arming of federal worthies—unimportant must be their recommendations of his firmness in Council, yet ease of access—though novel in point of fact;—Needlessly do they regret the desires of many to fend into private life their immaculate rulers with a bad name, when never to be realized—And if a bad name be inseparably connected with general neglect of re-election, men of weak nerves would do well in refusing first offers; but if found only attached to old servants loosing confidence, it will be absolutely necessary to disarm too patriotic candidates of self destroying weapons, or otherwise to guard them against themselves as their own worst enemies—A belief, however, in their own logic would spare them much trouble, and many absurdities; especially in that of attempting to persuade rational minds that the man ten years in office, elated by repeated gifts, rendered haughty by promises of continual support, and surrounded by his own created tools, will be more likely to serve the public with honest zeal, than one newly elected, impressed with the recent obligation of gratitude, having the same common rights for protection, and a reputation to be established. To avoid the force of professions, it is stated that Republicans advocate frequent changes of all except their own favourites—But does their list of Senators for this year, brand them with such inconsistencies? Is not the contrary evinced? Do you now see the name of Doct. GODDARD, the greatest ornament of the cause which he has so ably supported, being in himself a host, or do you find on the list Col. M'DUFFEE? Neither of these could decline standing candidates through fear of losing an election—but rather to prove their faith by their works. Much is objected to the general nomination of candidates for the whole State, and I confess with some propriety—For the information of the lower part of the State cannot be thought competent to a nomination in the contrary extreme. But my idea of the mode adopted is, that its design of operation goes no further than a suggestion of the propriety of selecting in every county, men whose professions and practices will be found according with the spirit and administration of our National Government, that harmony; long interrupted, may be restored to all its parts.
Comparisons are made, in a late paper, between those so rudely threatened with being sent into private life, and these impudently offering to supply their places—and among the former it is observable that Mr. Payson will not be subjected to the degradation of private life, should he be maliciously turned over to his former living—in which he probably would never have been interrupted but to gratify the secret intentions of certain great men to unite Church and State, and thereby favour, as much as possible, the establishment of a privileged national religion: Or at least to barter such support in proportion to the Parish's aid of linking federalism—From the precedent it is to be dreaded that most of the Clergymen in the State will study and practice more the art of gaining popularity and public preferment, than the uncounted precepts of Gospel truth—if not checked by federal concern for the fate of religion at this eventful period.
Nothing could give me more uneasiness than to incur the imputation of wanton attack on a class of men so highly respected by myself, in their proper places, as the Clergy generally; So much do I esteem them, that I feel it my duty to go almost all lengths in guarding them against the contamination of Court intrigue; And with like freedom would contribute my mite towards protecting the feelings of men, professionally and habitually constrained to decry Atheism and Deism generally, from the irresistible injunction of federal politics, to vote for a well known Atheist and Deist to fill the most important office in the gift of the State. Republicans are called upon to state specific charges—nothing less will be accepted as reasons for change of Officers; and from this bold challenge it was thought all investigation must shrink, which undoubtedly was a good calculation considering the natural backwardness of most individuals to follow the example of federalists, and to enter the list of personal inuendo. Yet it is presumable that citizens might be found pretending to knowledge of the first Magistrate, with his Council's sitting (tho' reluctantly) to hear charges of high crimes and misdemeanors exhibited and proved (to the satisfaction of many) against a certain civil Officer, of approved federal worth, to prevent his reappointment, and at the close of the hearing gravely remarking that they were no Court of inquiry, and proceeding immediately to the reappointment of such officer. If these things, to myself unknown, be true it would afford reasonable ground to distrust, at least, the infallibility of a man now held up for perfection; and would show clearly the force of correction and prejudice complained of, as natural to every man long continued in office. In answer to all objections made against Mr. GILMAN, it is urged that Mr. LANGDON has also many failings, if not faults—that he is in the decline of life—has several times been exposed to public notice, and was rejected, and consequently is not eligible for the office of Governor—These may be sufficient reasons for federal rejection; but Republicans calculate on his living much longer than they would support any man in office—And while the Constitution is suffered to be read they deem his former rejections but partially binding.
But the Republicans are kindly tendered the canvassing of any other man's pretensions to the office except Mr. L. If he were only given up, all would go well—It is very evident where the fears rest. Doubts are entertained whether all their abuse will prove more successful than in the well directed attempt against Mr. JEFFERSON, of hateful memory. Fears remain that all the flattery lavished on the majority of the Citizens may this year be swallowed up in judgment and discernment. Only get Mr. LANGDON out of sight, and the man of all men may have other ten years run; and by that time the people probably will be reduced to such tractsability as to settle the office in a hereditary line. Halcyon days then; No more fighting or crying for the Arbitrary Government now publicly spoken of as the best and cheapest in the world. The pleasing sound of Lord and Tenant might then be listened for; and all federal hearts made glad with the anticipation of such joyful event. CITIZENS, you may treat all this as an idle tale, and I sincerely hope that by your vigilance and good sense you will eventually make it so—But believe me more improbable things have happened, and I am fully convinced that our general Government has recently been rescued from the undeviating course to all those calamities. I neither desire nor expect any one to be influenced by party spirit; Let all examine, judge and act for themselves; Decide candidly on the probability of men's intertwining themselves in office, without other motives than love of Country; See whether you have so completely delegated all power to one man or a set of men, as will justify expressions such as turning out of office. What are your ideas of elective officers? Do they or do they not, to every purpose, expire annually? And if the affirmative, beyond all doubt, be with you, keep up your continual claim to prevent the plea of non-user running against you.
One of the PEOPLE.
REPUBLICANS are requested to attend to the writing of their votes in the County of Strafford for a Counsellor—and to have them JOSEPH BADGER, JUN.—he being the Republican Candidate; every vote given for JOSEPH BADGER, without the JUN. being added to it, will be lost, as every advantage will be taken in counting the votes.
Eleven of the midnight judges, appointed the last night of Federal power, and dismissed by an act of Congress, passed the 13th day of February, 1802, have had their petitions, in the nature of protests, presented to the house of Representatives and read. The memorialists complain that they have been deprived of power by an act of the last session of Congress, and pray the house to define their powers, and pay them their salaries. The house immediately proceeded to consider their claims, and after some debate, it was resolved that their reward should be equal to their services rendered, and that the petitioners have leave to withdraw their petitions. Trenton, Amer. Feb. 22d 1803.
LATEST FOREIGN.
By the ship Delaware, arrived at New-York from Greenock, London papers to the 2d January have been received. The French armament in Holland had not failed for Louisiana.—The last papers say, its departure has been deferred for a fortnight.—A Paris account of Dec. 11th says. "We are assured the duchies of Parma and Piacenza will be united to Etruria, if Spain will cede Florida to France."
An expedition of 4 sail of the line and two frigates, had failed from Brest for St. Domingo, under Gen. Boude; and Paris letters say, that 20,000 troops are to follow. The Swiss deputies have met at Paris; and Bonaparte, in his way, has recommended to them the constitution, which he says will best suit Switzerland.
The war between the Turks and Mamalukes in Egypt still continued sanguinary; and the latter have lately gained a complete victory over the former.
The earthquake mentioned as having destroyed Constantinople, though felt in every part of the Turkish empire, only demolished a few houses in that city. A village, 6 leagues from Algiers, containing 200 houses, was destroyed, and all the inhabitants perished. The English ships of the line felt the shock in a violent degree, thirty miles from land.
The English funds, in consequence of some communications from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, have experienced a rapid rise. The 3 per cents were at 72 the 14th December,—at Jan. Bank Stock 186—4 per cents 85.
All the late indications of war in England, have subsided.
Accounts from New Orleans, to Jan. 3, state that the port continued closed against the American trade.
All commercial intercourse between the Spaniards at Baton Rouge, on the Mississippi, and the Americans, is forbidden by the Governor of that place.
Maria-Jane, Salter, of this port, having fallen to leeward of her port, (Demerara) put into Trinidad.
MARRIED—In this town, Mr. SAMUEL CATTE to Miss SALLY GRANT.
DIED—At Sanbornton, the 14th ult. (on a visit from Grafton,) of a sudden illness, Mrs. CATY SMITH, aged 26, consort of Uriah Smith, Pastor of the centre Christian Church in Grafton, N. H.
SOLILOQUY. O Death! relentless king,—what mingled woe Is spread by thee thro' out this world below! How many friends are torn from friend's embrace, And number'd down among the ghastly race; Old age will not thy craving hand suffice, To glut thy greedy jaws with wither'd sacrifice: But youth, fair blooming in the happy grove, Engag'd in busy scenes of care and love, By thy relentless dart, are plung'd amain, Down to the grove, where death and darkness reign. There lies my friend, entomb'd beneath the ground, Each fragile pow'r in mouldy fetters bound. There shall she sleep beneath the shade, 'Till Gabriel's sounding trumpet wakes the silent dead.
Then hope to meet her in the realms above, Shout forth the praises of redeeming love— Where doubtless she amid the angels sings, Cares't by heav'n, and fan'd by Gabriel's wings.
At North-Hampton, Miss Sarah Gokin, aged 43, daughter of the late Rev. Nath'l G. At Rye, Mrs. SARAH GARLAND, aged 66, relict of the late Col. Benjamin Garland, of that town.
In this town on Tuesday last, Mr. ABRAHAM ISAAC, aged 49;—Mr. HENRY DAME, aged 34;—Mr. BENJAMIN FERNALD, aged 19.
Madam LAFOREST GUIGNOD, formerly of the West-Indies, aged 36.—HARRIOT JANE PEACE, in the third year of her age, daughter of Mr. Charles Peace, bookfeller.
A young Man wishes to get employed as a clerk in a Store or Office, who can produce good recommendations.
ALL persons that have any demands against the estate of SAMUEL CATTE, late of Greenland, deceased, are requested to bring them forward for settlement; and all persons indebted to said estate, are hereby required to make immediate payment, to GEORGE HODGDON Exec'tor to MARY CATTE. Greenland, Feb. 21, 1803.
Wanted—a COW.
WANTED—a good new-milch Cow, for an Ex—Calf, to be delivered by the first of June next. The reason for this previous notice is, that the calf has lately appeared very uncausy, (has been seen blowing about the State, particularly in Dover, Barrington and Rochester,) having been fed on cream for a number of years, furnished by a cow owned by the State; the poor creature has trembled for several springs past, and particularly for fear of a clung gutted cur of Ep—, who has often been seen clinging his tail, and snarling at the keeper of the cow, because he was not suffered to lap a little: therefore the keeper of the cow advised the calf to make some provision for the cur.—Now you must know that this calf is as sagacious as the learned pig—and he persuaded a majority, who were agents for the owners of the cow, to give the cur a sop; but it is thought he has received too great a portion, and the real owners of the cow are much offended. It is supposed the cow will be taken from the present keeper, and should that be the case, and the calf suddenly turned to grass, it might produce so severe a scouring as to prove fatal.
The several Printers in this State, are requested to publish the above.
Found since the late Fire, a Draw and Some Crockery Ware, the owner may have them again by applying to the printers and paying for this advertisement. Feb. 22d 1803.
Neil M'Intire, WISHES to inform his friends and the public, that since his house and stores were burnt, he has erected a building directly behind his former house, where he carries on the Tobacco Manufactory; and offers for sale TOBACCO, of every description, as cheap as possible, wholesale and retail. Also, West-India GOODS & GROCERIES.
At the late fire he had a number of articles saved from the flames, that have not been heard of since, amongst the rest four Bedsteads; any that have any articles in their keeping, that were saved from the flames, and don't belong to them, ought to give notice of what they have in possession; and he will give any person that will inform him where any of his articles are secreted (except the persons that have them in keeping) a generous reward after next week. Portsmouth, Feb. 22, 1803.
John Underwood, WISHES to inform those that carry on the Fishing Business, that he can supply them with any quantity of CABLES or CORDAGE, cheap for cash, or liberal credit.
Two APPRENTICES wanted, apply as above. Portsmouth, Feb. 22, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Hillsborough, ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of LYNDEBOROUGH, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1802, that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the house of JAMES ORDWAY, in said Lyndeborough, on Monday the second day of May next, at ten o'clock, A.M. unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
   NAMES. No. Lots. Acres. Division. Term. Highly. 75. 60. 39. 97. 75.     Theodore Atkinson, 6 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   Benjamin Melerve, 9 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   Dr. Walter's heirs, 0 104 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   do. 0 130 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   do. 0 123 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   Ebenezer Buxton, 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 0 0 0   Ebenezer Crosby, 16   Daniel Dane, 49   Ebenezer Dammon, 46   Ebenezer Dammon, sd, 28   James Hopkins, 77   John Parker, 47   Willard Parker, 27   William Read, 23   Joseph Trow, 38   Joseph Trow, sd, 17   Batchelder & Jenkins, 54   Daniel Dodge, 43    JOHN WOODWARD, Collector. Lyndeborough, Feb. 3, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Cheshire, ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of FITZWILLIAM, county and State aforesaid, who have not paid their highway tax for the year 1801, so much of their Lands as will pay said taxes together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of Thomas Goldsmith, innholder in said town, on the 11th day of May next, at 10 o'clock A. M. unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
   NAMES. Acres. No. Range. Crns. Miles.     Col. Stoddard, 50 2 21 9   John Eamlon, 100 4 3 3   Col. Wallingsford, 100 5 5 3   Sampson Stoddard, 50 8 5 8   West half,   Col. Stoddard, 100 1 6 3   David Brigham, 100 7 6 3   Nathaniel Brooks, 100 12 11 43   Petson Moore, 100 23 11 43   Ditto, 100 23 11 43   Colton, 30 15 1 8   Col. Stoddard, 100 19 6 3    BENONI SHIRLIFF, Collector. Fitzwilliam, February 10, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Cheshire, ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of FITZWILLIAM, county and State aforesaid, who have not paid their highway tax for the year 1802, so much of their Lands as will pay said taxes together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Thomas Goldsmith, innholder in said town, on the tenth day of May next, at 10 o'clock A. M. unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
   NAMES. Acres. No. Range. Crns. Miles.     David Brigham, 100 9 0 6 0   Phineas Bond, 100 7 0 3 6   Ditto, West half, 50 6 5 3 1   Nathaniel Brooks, 100 12 11 52 0   Abijah Larance, 50 3 2 2 9   Ditto, 83 4 1 7 4   Deacon Newton, 50 7 4 3 1   Col. Stoddard, 50 8 2 3 1   Ditto, 100 1 6 6 0   Ditto, 100 19 6 6 0   Thomas Spalding, 100 9 5 6 0   Sampson Stoddard, 76 8 5 46 5   John Felton, 100 23 4 6 0   Joseph Willard, 50 3 3 3 1   Col. Wallingsford, 100 5 5 6 0    BENONI SHIRLIFF, Collector. Fitzwilliam, February 10, 1803.
THIS DAY, At S. LITTLE'S Office, Under the Museum, will be sold at AUCTION, to the highest bidder, ONE trunk Fancy Bonnets; 2 do. Wearing Apparel; 200 yds. coarse Forest Cloth; 100 pr. men's woolen & cotton Stockings; 100 do. do. Gloves; 3 doz. Shirts & Sailor's Frocks; 1 handsome Carpet; 100 papers Kitefoot Tobacco; 10 Silver Watches. And many other articles. Vendue kept Tuesdays & Fridays. Portsmouth, Feb. 22.
To be Sold at Auction, TO-MORROW at 12 o'clock on Rindge's Wharf, THE Sch'r SWALLOW, as she came from sea, about 28 tons.—and the Schooner JACK, as she now lies at Noble's Island. Also, about 80 boxes and kegs of HERRING, with sundry other articles, which were to have been sold 5th January, but postponed on account of the fire. Inventory to be seen at the time and place of sale and terms of payment made known. ALEX'R EWEN, Auc'tr. Portsmouth, Feb. 22.
To be Sold at Auction, ON THURSDAY NEXT, At 10 o'clock A.M. at the dwelling-house of George Nutter, at the bottom of Buck-street— ALL the Furniture & Household Goods of the said Nutter, the Beds and Bedding excepted. By order of the Assignee. SETH WALKER, Auc'tr. Portsmouth, Feb. 22.
To Nathaniel Peabody, Esq. one of the Board of Trustees of ATKINSON ACADEMY, in the State of New-Hampshire.
SIR, PURSUANT to the powers in you vested, in and by the charter of said Academy, we the undersigned, members of said Board, request that you notify and warn the members of said Board of Trustees to meet at the dwelling-house of Nathaniel Peabody, Esq. in said Atkinson, on Tuesday the fifteenth day of March next, at one of the clock, P.M. and when duly organized, to vote and act upon the several matters herein after mentioned.
1st. To make and establish such rules, laws, and ordinances, as may be judged expedient for the well ordering and government of the institution.
2d. To elect and appoint all officers that may be deemed proper and necessary for the Board of Trustees, and for the institution, and to designate the powers and duties of such officers.
3d. To agree upon and establish a method to be observed in future, for calling meetings for the Board of Trustees.
4th. To elect and appoint one or more members to fill vacancies which are or may be made in the Board of Trustees, as occasion may require.
5th. To devise and adopt such measures as may be adjudged most eligible to be pursued for erecting and completing a building for the use of the Seminary; and to transact all such other matters, as may be thought necessary, relative to the institution.
STEPHEN PEABODY, WILLIAM COSGWELL, PETER CLEMENT. Atkinson, Jan. 28, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, IN compliance with the above written application, and pursuant to the powers in me vested, in and by the charter of the Atkinson Academy, I do hereby notify and request the members of the Board of Trustees for said Academy, to meet at the time, place and for the purposes mentioned and set forth in said application. NATH'L PEABODY. Dated at Atkinson, Feb. 3, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of PIERMONT, county of Grafton, State aforesaid, who are delinquent in paying their county and highway taxes for the year 1802, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 6th day of April next, so much of their Lands as will pay the said taxes, with incidental charges, will be sold on said day at public vendue, at my dwelling-house in said Piermont, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Original Grants & owners of Lands. No. Lots. Acres. Range. Crns. Miles.     Theodore Atkinson, 4th Division, 4 5 100 2

Miscellaneous Repository.
VERSES.
On a withered Leaf, which was blown into the Author's bosom.
PALE wither'd wand'rer seek not here A refuge from the ruthless sky; This breast affords no happier cheer Than the rude blighting breeze you fly.  Cold is the atmosphere of grief, When storms assail the barren breast: Go, then, poor exile, seek relief In bosoms where the heart has rest;  O! fall upon th' oblivious ground Where silent sorrows buried lie; There rest is surely to be found, Or what, alas! to hope have I?  Where sepulchred in peace, repose, In yonder field the village dead, Go seek a shelter among those Who all their mortal tears have shed.  But if thou com'st a Sybil's leaf, Such as did erst high truths declare, To tell me soon shall end my grief, I bless the omen that thou bear:  For sure thou tell'st me that my woe An end like thine at length shall have; That wan like thee, and wasted so, I fain to the forgetful grave;  Then come, thou messenger of peace! Come lodge within this barren breast, And lie there till we both shall cease, To seek in vain for nature's rest.
The II. book of Anti-Christ.
CHAPTER III.  1. NOW it came to pass after these things, that Anti-Christ began to exercise his authority over the disciples of CHRIST , by causing them to be put to death.  2. And when this was done, great multitudes rose up against Anti-Christ , and said, we will not have Anti-Christ to reign over us.  3. Then rose up Dominic , and said unto Anti-Christ , let us establish an anti-christian court, and call it the court of Inquisition .  4. And let those who are hereticks, and all who are suspected of heresy, be brought before the court to be examined, by torturing them, till they confess their errors.  5. Now it came to pass, that when this court was established, all who were enemies to Anti-Christ , were brought before the court to be punished, (now this was like the modern gag law, which was to prevent the people from speaking the truth.)  6. And this for some time served to promote the federal plan, and to prevent many of CHRIST 's friends from publicly owning him.  7. Now when Anti-Christ saw how beneficial the court of Inquisition was to his kingdom, and that he wore out the disciples of CHRIST by it, he conferred on Dominic the title of Saint , and from that day to this he has been called ST. DOMINIC .  8. And after this, the cause of CHRIST seemed to be on the decline; and Anti-Christ reigned many years undisturbed, having kings at his command.  9. (For he made one king lie under his table while he sat at meat; another he caused to hold his stirrup when he mounted his horse; another he caused to kiss his great toe, and others he took their crowns from off their heads, till they owned that by him kings reigned.)  10. And by reason of the court of Inquisition , (by which all who were suspected of being enemies to Anti-Christ , were tortured or killed) the number of CHRIST 's disciples became so small, that Anti-Christ concluded he had obtained a complete victory over CHRIST and his followers.  11. Now when this was done, Anti-Christ gathered together all who were members of the federal body, and laid unto them,  12. I have obtained what I once thought I never should, for now my kingdom is established on the ruins of CHRIST 's, and over other kingdoms which are not destroyed, so that they now pay homage to me as their rightful sovereign.  13. Now therefore, as a reward for your faithfulness, I confer on you the titles which I promised many years ago.  14. Then were they all filled with joy when they had received their places of office for life, and they all agreed to be faithful in the federal cause, and to oppose all who rose up against them.  15. And it came to pass in the time of the prosperous reign of Anti-Christ , that many new things were established, which had not taken place since the world began.  16. Now these are some of them— Anti-Christ founded a federal company, called monks, who lived in caves; and also a female company called nuns, who were secluded in a cloister from the world, but not from the federal company.  17. Anti-Christ had also a place called Purgatory , where all (except the Federal Company ) were taught that their friends were suffering for their sins who died without a pardon from Anti-Christ , and that if their friends gave large money to any of this company, they could deliver them from their misery.  18. Anti-Christ and his friends taught the people likewise the importance of praying to Mary , to saints and angels, and that their sins might be pardoned before they were committed, (now this was called indulgence.)  19. There are many things more of this nature, of which I cannot now speak particularly, for if they were all written, the world would scarcely contain the books which would be written.  20. But these things are written unto you who believe Anti-Christ is in the world, & that you may see the power he once possessed, and how much he has lost, & that he will certainly be destroyed, and the federal plan come to nothing. To be continued.  The Printer of the Republican Gazette at Concord , prefers his grateful acknowledgments to his friends in Portsmouth , who have patronized his Gazette, and would inform such as may wish to continue their patronage which is most sincerely facilitated, that they may leave their names with Messrs. Peirce's , and the Gazette shall be forwarded to their order.  ELIJAH RUSSELL.
Joshua Blake,
Respectfully informs his friends and the public, that in consequence of the late fire he has taken the Store lately occupied by Mr. Timothy Winn, in Buckstreet , near the Pier, being the corner store opposite Mr. Blaisdell's house and store, where he has for sale a very large assortment of
ENGLISH GOODS, all of which will be sold so very cheap for cash that he hopes for a continuance of custom, altho' his stand is a little removed from the centre of business.  Among his assortment are  COATINGS and Ratteens, of the most fashionable colors; superfine & low priced Broad Cloths; striped and plain Kerseymere of all colors; Elasticities; Orleans Stripes; Plains; Serges; Forest Cloths; Devonshire Kerseys; Duffils; Fearnoughts; Baizes and Flannels of all colors and widths; Domets; an assortment of Blankets, Swankins.
A variety of  Superfine and low priced Swansdown Waistcoatings; toilet, quilting, lainet and silk do; silk Velvets; men's Satins, and silk Florentines; striped black Satins, for vests; Broglios; Pantaloon Patterns; best twil'd, black and color'd cotton Velvets; Constitution Cords; Thickfets.
A large assortment of  Men's black, white & mixt, ribb'd and plain worsted Hose; knotted and vandyke do; silk and worsted do; cotton and worsted do; youth's worsted and cotton do; men's black, white and fancy cotton do. Some with laced clocks; men's black, white and fancy silk do; do. laced clocks: ladies' white cotton laced clocks, and plain do. of all prices; ladies' plain and laced clocks silk Hose; ladies' black worsted Hose; black worsted Gloves and Mitts; men's worsted Caps; Socks; Morocco and cloth Shoes; children's leather Shoes; ladies' extra long, black, white and color'd silk Gloves; habit do; black, white and color'd cotton Gloves, both nett and plain; nett and plain cotton Mitts; black and color'd silk Mitts; ladies' white and color'd kid Gloves; habit do; men's black and white silk Gloves; black and color'd cotton do; beaver, Woodstock, leather, worsted and mill'd do.
A variety of  Mock Sable, bear, brown and grey fox, Baranka and camels hair Muffs and Tippets; Fur Trimmings; Silk Wadding for Cloak linings; black, white and colour'd nett-fring'd camels hair Shawls; Tambor'd and Silk stripe do; black, white and coloured Silk Shawls; a variety of check'd, figured and plain Silk Handkerchiefs; Bandannas; Black Silk Handkerchiefs; black, white and colour'd nett fringed Cambric Shawls; Tambor'd Cambric and Muslin Shawles; patch, colour'd and purple Shawls; Jacquet and Book Muslin Handkerchiefs; Mens' Tombor'd and Cambric Handkerchiefs; Cambric Pocket Handkerchiefs; Cotton and Linen do; Romals.
A large assortment of  Black & color'd Cambricks and Ginghams; black and color'd Calicoes; Copperplate & Patch Furnitures; figured Cambricks and Chintzes of the newest fashions; a variety of Book, Jacquet an India, plain, spotted and sprigged Muslins; glazed & unglazed Cambric Muslins of all prices; Dimoties; Muslinets and Quiltings; Linen Cambricks.
A variety of  Straw, Chip and Cane Bon- nets; Mill's Straw Bonnets; Straw Trimmings; Plumes; Turkis Silk Bands for Bonnets; Silver Lace; Chinelle Trimmings; Cap Wire; Silk and Cotton Fringes; Silk Girdles; Cotton do; Glove Ties; Cotton Cords; Necklaces; an assortment of White Thread; Laces and Edgings; black and white Silk Lace Veilings; Netting do. Netting Vandykes: wide Black Silk Laces for Shades; Crape, Netting, Cypress, Plain and Figured Gauzes; black, white and color'd Silk Crapes; black Cypress; black & white Millnets; black, white and color'd Tiffanies and Sarisens; wide and narrow Modes; black, wide and narrow Satins for Cloaks; Pelous do; black, white and color'd India Lutestrings; French and English Lutestrings of the most fashionable colors; Satin, Mode and Lufing Ribbands, figured and plain; black gauze ribbands; a beautiful assortment of Watch Ribbands; Silk Ferrers; American and Dutch Hair Ribbands; Galloons; Bindings; Tapes.
An assortment of  Diapers and Diaper Table Cloths; 1/2 and 3/4 Linens; India Cotton of all prices; check'd Linens; Check'd and Striped Cotton; wide Sheeting Linens; Oil Cloths; yellow and white marking Canvass; Russells; Calimaneos; Shalloons; Durans; Tammies; Morcans; Taboreans; Crapes; Wild Bores; Camblets; Brown Hollands; fashionable Coat Buttons; Vell do; Sewing Silks; Twills; Bobbins; white and color'd Threads; Morocco Pocket Books; Steel Scissors; Thimbles; Velvet Bindings; Taffies; Ivory Combs; Elastic Knitting Pins; Needles; Pins; Button Molds; Umbrellas; Parasols; Tiffany Fans; Cotton and Silk Suspenders; Stock Sufners; Mens' Beaver Hats; Womens' Beaver Hats and Bonnets; Xoub's Beaver and Felt HATS.
Portsmouth, Feb. 8, 1803.
A FARM to LET, near the town—Inquire of the Printers.
State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE , is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of BATH , County of Grafton , and State aforesaid, who have not paid the highway and county taxes assessed on said land for the year 1802, that unless they pay the said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the twenty-seventh day of April next, so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of NATHAN FIELDS , in said Bath, at ten o'clock in the forenoon on said day, as will be sufficient to pay said taxes, with incidental charges—viz.
   Ranges & Divisions. No. Highway Tax. County Tax.     1st range, 100 acre lots west Ammonoosuck, 15 83 4   3d range, do. 11 83 4   1st range, west division, 17 83 4   do. do. 18 83 4   do. do. 23 83 4   do. do. 24 83 4   do. do. 25 83 4   50 acres off, 26 42 2   do. do. 28 83 4   2d range, west division, 31 83 4   do. do. 40 83 4   do. do. 41 83 4   do. do. 42 83 4   3d range, west division, 43 83 4   do. do. 44 83 4   do. do. 45 83 4   do. do. 50 83 4   60 acre lots belonging to 4th range of 100 acre lots, w. div. 1 50 2   1st range, 60 acre lots, west div. 2 50 2   do. do. 3 50 2   do. do. 7 50 2   do. do. 9 50 2   do. do. 10 50 2   do. do. 19 50 2   do. do. 20 50 2   2d range, do. 3 50 2   do. do. 4 50 2   do. do. 5 50 2   do. do. 14 50 2   do. do. 15 50 2   do. do. 16 50 2   3d range, do. 17 50 2   do. do. 2 50 2   do. do. 3 50 2   do. do. 8 50 2   1st range, 100 acre lots east Ammonoosuck, 15 83 4   2d range do. 58 acres off, 1 44 2   do. do. 2 83 4   do. do. 5 83 4   do. do. 6 83 4   do. do. 7 83 4   do. do. 9 83 4   do. do. 10 83 4   3d range, do. 20 83 4   do. do. 21 83 4   do. do. 22 83 4   1st range, 60 acre lots east Ammonoosuck, 12 50 2   2d range, 60 acre lots east Ammonoosuck, 13 50 2   do. do. 10 50 2   3d range, do. 11 50 2   4th range, do. 6 50 2   do. do. 7 50 2   do. do. 4 50 2   5th range, do. 1 50 2   do. do. 2 50 2   6th range, do. 3 50 2   Governor's farm, 500 acres, 4 50 2   Common land, 570 acres, 0 415 23   0 478 23  
JONATHAN BARRON, Collector. Bath, Jan. 26, 1803.
State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners and proprietors of land in PEELING , county of Grafton , and State of New-Hampshire , who have not paid their county and highway taxes for the year 1802: that so much of each original right will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Ensign JOSEPH RUSSELL , innholder in Peeling, on the thirteenth day of April next, at 10 o'clock, A.M. as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   ORIGINAL GRANTEES NAMES. No. Highway Tax. County Tax.     Joshua Ham, 0 15 10   William Hanson, 6 2 10   Wm. Twombly, 3d, 21 1 10   Eli Demarit, 0 0 7   Daniel Hays, 0 0 10   William Demarit, 0 0 12   Stephen Pinkham, 0 0 8   John Huckings, 0 0 18   Ebenezer Demarit, 0 0 18   John Demarit, 12 1 11   Daniel Eavens, 5 3 8   Henry Tibets, 2 3 11   Isaac Hodgdon, 0 0 9   Ambrose Bantam, 10 6 10   Ralph Twombly, 21 6 1   John Clark, 14 4 11   Robert Huckings, 0 0 11   William Allen, 16 1 24   Clement Drew, 15 6 10   Joaham Nute, 12 4 15   John Wingate, 4 4 9  
ISAAC SPENCER, Collector. Peeling, Jan. 28, 1803.
At a legal meeting of the Proprietors of CONCORD , county of Grafton , and State of New-Hampshire , held at the dwelling house of SAMUEL YOUNG , innholder in said Concord , on the 19th day of March, 1802, by adjournment.  VOTED a tax of two dollars and fifty cents, on each right of land in said Concord , (public rights excepted) for the purpose of running the out lines of said town, to finish allotting the same, and other necessary proprietary expenses; and as the subscriber is duly appointed Collector of said tax, he therefore gives this notice, that unless they pay said sum at my dwelling house in Concord , within the limited time by law established, so much of each delinquent's land will be advertised for sale, as will pay their tax and cost.  JESSE YOUNG, Proprietors' Collector. Concord, Jan. 25, 1803.
State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in CONCORD , in said county of Grafton , whose taxes remain unpaid for the year 1802, that so much of said land as will pay said taxes and incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of SAMUEL YOUNG , innholder in said Concord , the twenty-fifth day of April next, at ten o'clock before noon, unless previously paid.
   Grantees Names. Highway Tax. County Tax.     Joseph Burt, 66 9   William Hoskins, 66 9   Jonathan Burt, 66 9   Samuel Clark, 66 9   John Moffatt, 66 9   Eleazer Burt, 66 9   Joshua Pomeroy, 66 9   Eliphaz Wright, 66 9   Elijah Mattson, 66 9   Samuel Hunt, 66 9   Aaron Burt, 66 9   Phinehas Wright, 66 9   Phinehas Lyman, 66 9   Woolston Brockway, 66 9   Benjamin Burt, 66 9   Joseph Wheelwright, 66 9   Enos Burt, 66 9   Oliver Warner, 66 9   John Smith, 66 9   Ebenezer Walbridge, 66 9   Shammah Pomeroy, 66 9   Eleazer Pomeroy, 66 9   Stephen Bolding, 66 9   Daniel Bull, 66 9   Samuel Wire, half right, 33 4 1/2   Governor's right, 1 dol. 10 15   William Lang, 66 9   Reuben Smith, 66 9  
JOHN RICHARDSON, Coll'r. Concord, Jan. 18, 1803.
PERCY.  THE proprietors of PERCY , are hereby notified, that at a meeting held the 3d day of December last, at Lancaster, the proprietors of said Percy voted a tax of three dollars and twenty-five cents on each right in said township of Percy , for the purpose of laying out two lots in said township to each right; the same having been assessed, and committed to me to collect, the proprietors are therefore desired to pay said tax to me at my house in Northumberland, by the last day of July next, otherwise their rights will be advertised for sale as the law directs.
THOMAS PEVERLY, Coll'r. County of Grafton, Northumberland Feb. 1, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,  NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of the Lands in the township of LANDAFF , that at a proprietors meeting, duly warned and held on the seventeenth day of November, A.D. 1802, said proprietors voted to raise and assess a tax of FIVE DOLLARS , on each Original Right or Share, with the undivided land; and a list of the same was committed to me to collect, by the Assessors; and in compliance with the laws of said State, I have given notice in the New-Hampshire Gazette of the same, and fourteen days has expired since the last notice. I therefore give further notice, that I shall sell so much of each delinquent's proprietor or owners lands at public auction, at the dwelling house of Jonathan Noyes , Esq in said Landaff , on the eighteenth day of April next, at ten of the clock A.M. as will pay said tax and incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   NAMES OF THE ORIGINAL GRANTEES. No. Highway Tax. County Tax.     James Avery, John Gregg, John Pancher, Abraham Wood, Thaddeus Bell, Jonathan Bell, Samuel Bates, John Butts, Eliphalet Sealey, Gartham Bates, Jeremiah Andrews, James Talmage, Joseph Stevens, Elisha Lead, Robert Andrews, Jacob Slowson, John Bishop, Ephraim Smith, Israel Leads, John Waterbury, John Holmes, John Holmes, Jr. Samuel Penoye, John Newman, Cary Leads, Isaac Hoyt, Benjamin Taylor, Abraham Andrews, John Brewton, Walter Norris, Ezekiel Hawley, Nathan Reynolds, Joshua Loundsbury, John Gregg, Samuel Gregg, Henry Gregg, William Gregg, Justus B. Gregg, Nathaniel Sherwood, Thomas Cose, Joseph Benedict, Nathaniel Mead, Nathan Reynolds, Jr. Edward Brugh, Shubal Brugh, Timothy Wood, Jonathan Hobby, Jr. Joseph Knapp, Theophilus Peck, Ruben Green, Samuel Farns, Joseph Wood, Ezekiel Finch, Jr. Jonathan Knapp, Jr. Thomas Waterbury, Ebenezer Finch, Jonathan Knapp, Joshua Knapp, Jr. Ebenezer Seamore, John Holmes, Nathaniel Barrill, James Nevin, Joseph Newmarch, Mark F. Wentworth, Daniel Bouton, Late Governor Banning Wentworth.   EZRA CHANDLER, Collector for the Proprietors.   Dated at Landoff, February 10th, 1803.  
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, That the inhabitants of the town of CONCORD , in the county of Grafton , have petitioned the General Court, praying that a tax of two cents per acre, on all the land in said Concord , (public rights excepted) be granted for the purpose of cutting and making passable a road from Daily's bridge , (so called) in the north side of Concord aforesaid, in the most direct manner, near to Lieut. John Haynes's , and on to Landaff line; also in repairing the road from Franconia line over Sugar-hill (so called.)
ORDERED , That the petitioners be heard on said petition before the General Court on the first Tuesday of the next Session; and that they cause the substance of said petition, and order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette ; and also in the New-Hampshire Gazette at Hanover , commencing twelve weeks prior to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and show cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Attest,  N. PARKER, Dep'y Sec'y. Conco: June 11, 1802.
Stephen Hardy,
Informs his friends that he has taken a Shop in Buckstreet , opposite Dr. John Jackson's , where he carries on the Gold and Silver Smith's business in its various branches.  HE HAS FOR SALE,  GOLD hoop Ear Rings; knob do. plain Gold Rings, with seals; Garnet do. Seal Rings, with and without devices; gold Shirt Pins; a variety of gilt do. silver Tea Spoons; silver, pearl, plated and bone Salt Spoons; plated and painted Sugar Tongs; plated and silver Scissors Chains; patent Shoe Buckles; plated Scissors Cases; do. Shoe Clasps; silver and silver plated Thimbles; brass do. silver and ivory Bod