The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1803-11-29 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
"By adopting REPUBLICANISM for our Polar Star, we shall endeavor to our countrymen the true principles of their Constitution, and promote an union of sentiment and of action, equally auspicious to their happiness and safety."
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. & W. PEIRCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
NOTICE.
WHEREAS a commission of Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against HENRY PRESCOTT, jr. & WILLIAM P. PRESCOTT , both of New-Castle, in the district of New-Hampshire, merchants, joint partners in trade; and they being declared bankrupts, are hereby required to surrender themselves to us the undersigned Commissioners, on the nineteenth day of November instant, and on the twenty-fifth and twenty-seventh days of December next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, on each day, at the office of CHARLES CUTTS, Esq. in Broad-street, Portsmouth, and make a full discovery and disclosure of their 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 bankrupts are required to finish their examination—and the creditors are to attend to, or dissent from the allowance of their certificates.—All persons indebted to the said bankrupts, or that have any of their effects, are not to pay nor deliver the same, but to whom the said Commissioners shall appoint. JOHN M'CLINTOCK, } Commis. H. S. LANGDON, } sioners. Portsmouth, Nov. 15, 1803.
SINGING SCHOOL.
THE Ladies and Gentlemen of Portsmouth, are informed that the subscribers intend opening a school for the purpose of teaching the rudiments of Psalmody, provided a sufficient number of subscribers offer against Monday next; The school will be held at the room occupied by the Rev. GEORGE RICHARDS , in Daniel-street.—A subscription paper is left at N. S. & W. Peirce's Bookstore. JOHN LOCKE, BENJAMIN AKERMAN. Portsmouth, November 22, 1803.
REMOVED.
Benj'a Floyd, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public in general, that he has removed to the store lately occupied by Capt. LARKIN in Broad-street, where he intends carrying on the Book-Binding Business in its various branches, with neatness and dispatch. Account and Record Books of all sizes, ruld and bound at the shortest notice.—Writing Paper; Account-Books, all sizes; Writing & Cyphering do. constantly kept on hand. As he has just commenced business, he hopes that the public will favor him with their custom, the smallest favor thankfully received. Nov. 15, 1803.
Now in the Press and will be published in eight weeks,
THE NIGHTINGALE;
Being a complete collection of the most fashionable ancient & modern SONGS. Set to music, selected and prepared for the press, by a Gentleman of Portsmouth. THIS volume will contain, in addition to the old solid, and always fashionable Songs,—all the popular airs that have been brought forward the last 2 years. A gentleman of skill in Music, will superintend the printing of the notes—and from the character of the printer, we have every reason to hope the work will be unusually correct. It will be executed on a superfine paper made at a mill in this State, and good types, and will contain 300 pages large Duodecimo. Price, one dollar and twenty-five cents per volume, handsomely bound and lettered, and delivered to subscribers in eight weeks.
It is hoped this attempt to improve the style of PRINTING in the State, will meet encouragement, not only from the amateurs in music, but from the patrons of the art in general.
* Subscriptions are solicited—and will be received at this Office. Nov. 15, 1803.
FOR SALE BY
N. S. & W. PEIRCE, Congress-street, A scriptural enquiry concerning what the friends call Spiritual Baptism; being an answer to a publication of a friend in Rhode-Island, by the name of Moses Brown—Also, The Principle of UNIVERSAL SALVATION, examined and tried by the law and testimony, and found to be a direct contradiction to the doctrine of CHRIST , and his inspired witnesses.—By SAMUEL SHEPHERD , preacher of the Gospel. Price, 1/6 each book. Nov. 22.
A BOOK-BINDER Wanted.
A Journeyman Book-Binder may hear of constant employ, by applying to this office. November 3, 1803.
Edmund H. Quincy & James H. Pierrepont,
HAVING entered into co-partnership, inform the public they have taken a Store in Mr. J. Shapley's new building, at the head of J. Sheafe, Esq.'s wharf, where they offer for sale a general assortment of DRUGS and MEDICINES ,—and a well selected assortment of PATENT MEDICINES .—Also, Medicine Chests put up in a neat manner. Physician's Prescriptions correctly attended to. —Likewise—
WEST-INDIA GOODS, and an assortment of GROCERIES.
N. B. Dr. PIERREPONT offers his services as PHYSICIAN & SURGEON—he may be found at the house of Mr. Quincy. Nov. 22, 1803.
Ebenezer Thompson,
Has for Sale at his Ware-House, Bow-street. OLD Sable Russia Iron per ton; Brandy per pipe or bbl; Molasses per hhd; Sugar per bbl; superfine and fine Flour; Liverpool Salt; Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, Souchong and Bohea Teas, per chest; a few boxes Spanish Segars; 200 lb. Nutmegs, in bags of 10 lb. each, which will be sold by the bag or single pound—CHEAP. Portsmouth, Nov. 22, 1803.
Now landing from on board brig Alert, and for sale by
Elisha Hill, jr. LIVERPOOL Salt; Crates of Ware; 20d and 10d Nails; 7 by 9, and 8 by 10 Window Glass; Red & White Lead; Spanish Brown; Yellow Ochre; Whiting; few chal-drons House Coals.
ON HAND,
Rum and Sugar, per hhd. Coffee per bag; Iron per ton. 400 barrels of Beef. 300 M. of Boards; 100 Shooks. The above Goods will be sold low for cash. Nov. 22, 1803.
TAKE NOTICE,
ALL CONCERNED.
THAT the partnership of DAME & PENHALLOW , was dissolved by mutual consent on the first day of June last past.—Any persons having accounts open with said firm, may present them to S. PENHALLOW, jun. in Portsmouth.
Josiah Blake
INFORMS his friends that he continues to carry on the BOOT & SHOE-MAKING business at the head of Buck-street, and has for sale, Womens' Morocco and leather SHOES of all kinds, Childrens do. of all kinds, with a good assortment of American and English HATS, Cash given for good Shipping SHOES. They must be of a very large size, & not very round toed. Portsmouth. Nov. 15, 1803.
THE Managers of the Atkinson Academy Lottery hereby give notice that they will positively commence the drawing of said Lottery the second Tuesday of January next, and request that all persons holding unford Tickets in said Lottery to return the same to the Subscribers previous to said day.
JOHN CALF, LEVI BARTLETT, } Managers. EZEKIEL GILE,
ELEGANT BACK-GAMMON BOARDS, with a book of Directions to play Chess.—Also— PLAYING CARDS, best, common and ordinary, for sale by the dozen or single, at C. Peirce's Bookstore, Daniel-street, Portsmouth. Where may also be had School, Classical & Library BOOKS, by wholesale and retail, as cheap as in Boston or elsewhere. Nov. 22.
Singing School.
THE subscriber proposes opening a Singing School, one evening in each week, from 6 to 10 o'clock, should a sufficient number call at the Book-store of N. S. & W. Peirce , and leave their names, by the 1st December. E. SMITH. Nov. 22, 1803.
POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
For the N. H. GAZETTE.
THE REPROVER, No. XI.
THE character referred to in the preceding number, must be considered as the most disgraceful, as it is the most pernicious.—How shamefully are some men degenerated from the virtues and the unshaken integrity of the parents from whom they derived their existence! To forsake the cause of Liberty, of humanity, how inglorious!—Apostates! They may be said to have apostatized from the profession of Republicanism; but that, with their great knowledge and abilities, and the shining examples of their ancestors, and the thousands of illustrious characters of citizens before their eyes, they should forsake the Republican cause, and join that of its most inveterate enemies, strongly argues, that they were never the men at heart they once appeared to be. 'Tis, however, best such men should be as they now are, than to be deceiving under a mask, and unknown. They will now be trusted by nobody, since they are found to be men seeking only their own emolument, and that by the basest and most low-lived means. Selfish and ungrateful, without virtue, and without honor, they must be ever despised by all parties. Let them then remain insulated from the society of the virtuous; let them hide themselves in igoble retirement; or let them wander forlorn in the country which gave them birth, or seek one where there will be none to recognize them in their detestable characters.—Betrayers, and in design murderers of their country, [for such must have been the effect of the intended destruction of its Liberty and Government; the worst of assassinations]—Can any characters be more vile and criminal? They are like baleful meteors, portending diseases, plagues and desolations. They deserve to wander like Cain, fugitives and vagabonds in the earth, and without thinking their destiny too severe. If any well meaning Citizens have been influenced by such men, [for that such there are appears indisputable] either to join the pretended Federalists, or to become neutrals or indifferent; let them reflect seriously on what must be the consequences to themselves, were it possible the unprincipled opposers of our government should prevail. They could not receive the spirit of Federalism. They would be treated with the most contemptuous neglect, and worse; and bitter would be their repentance for their aberrations from the principles they had cordially adopted, and for having been more or less instrumental in strengthening the enemies of their country. Let them learn then, to be influenced in their determinations and conduct by principles and not men; Let every occasion of difference or dissatisfaction be examined with calmness and serious deliberation, the minds of the People be thoroughly understood; and let them heartily unite with the public sentiment, as men above all private considerations or resentments. It is thus our sacred cause will be strengthened, and our celebrity become permanent. Uniformity and steadiness in sentiment and action, and conscious integrity, will render us great, prosperous and happy. Of this we have indeed the fairest prospect, as it is gloriously conspicuous, that throughout the Union principles are prevailing, and the disorganizing designs of the pretended Federalists becoming every day more discernable.
Unceasing have been the attempts of the Federalists to inspire enmity to Republicans as opposed to Religion. Are the Federalists so very religious? or have they not by those attempts designed to irritate the minds of the People against our government and its administrators? If Religion conflicts in us, they will be more so to you. Orleans will become the emporium of this commerce. Nature has made our interests one. We are the children of the west, not of the east. Let not the old world, cause us to forget that we both belong to the new.
TO the cessions under which we claim, you were parties. The faith of governments, is the faith of na-
tions; and your loyalty was pledged to us through the competent organ. The government of Spain, and then that of France, could rightfully bind you, so long as Louisiana belonged to them; but neither government can bind you, now that it is ceded to us. Will you break your obligations, contracted whilst belonging to these governments, and also those incurred from being united with ours? Pledged by the ties which create allegiance, can disloyalty, attended with war, monopoly and provincial degradation, appear more lovely, than good faith, attended with peace, commerce and federal equality?
It is for your good, or from the influence of ministerial intrigue and jealousy, that Spain will strive to rob you of the brilliant destiny now inviting your acceptance? Will you seize her sword, and vainly endeavour to kill the fate of New Orleans? It is a duty of friendship to arrest the self-murdering arm of a maniac. We will perform this duty.
We send you this talk, because it is reported that Spain will violate her faith; but we hope it is an aspersion. From our cradle we have grown up in habits of friendship and intercourse with Spain. She has been just and honorable to us, and we have been just and honorable to her. It has been our glory to emulate her integrity. Reciprocal good offices have begotten a friendship, which will become stronger, the longer it lasts. But we regard Spain, as a man does an old friend from whom he apprehends an injury. Doubt, affection, regret and resentment, alternately occupy his mind. The dispersion of these sensations, by a continuance of integrity and good faith, would be a new cement to an old friendship, and a strong pledge for its future continuance.
Then, when Spain beholds us extending to you, the descendants of her children and once her subjects every blessing we can gain by the cession of Louisiana, and every blessing we derive from our form of government, our justice and her gratitude, will constitute a new link in the chain of national friendship. But if the corruptions of Europe shall at length have tainted the honor and good faith of Spaniards themselves, fortune has bestowed upon you, the high responsibility, of planting and cultivating them as your best birth-right, in America.
If a state, now in our union, should break its faith, withhold our rights, or be wanting in loyalty; we should act towards it, as we will act towards you. We would enforce our rights, and extort its duties. But we would previously address the people of such a state, as we address you; not as provincials or subjects, but as
therein only his happiness consists. God "most delight in virtue, and that which He delights in must be happy." Reasoning thus, we seek the perfection of virtue and religion; and to this our system of government leads us; perfectly agreeing with the words of our SAVIOUR to his disciples; "the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, but it shall not be so among you; whosoever will be great or chief among you, let him be your minister or servant." If we contemplate the operation of the principles of our government in the perfection to which it is hastening, it is in reality the Deity residing in men, inspiring them with a cordial union, and leading them to the most consummate felicity. And there are many among us, once of the unprincipled Federal party, who, with self-detestation, have renounced the doctrines of the old school, and the tenets of tyrants; and, experiencing the generous effects of the change of sentiments, feel themselves happy as in a new state of existence. Such conversions add strength and glory to the Republican cause.
From the National Intelligencer.
The PEOPLE of the United States, to the PEOPLE of New Orleans.
BROTHERS,
SPAIN has transferred the country of Louisiana to France, and France has transferred it to us. Spain has received the kingdom of Etruria, and France is to receive fifteen millions of dollars. The transaction is fair, and attested by the solemnities which bind nations. But it is reported, that Spain will endeavour to break her contract, and violate her honor.
The injustice and impolicy of Spain, can never inspire us with folly and cowardice. We will have our right, but you are to determine, whether you will participate in that right or invade it for the sake of Spain; whether you will accept a share of our prosperity, or attempt to stem its current.
New Orleans, although old, is yet a dwarf; and states in our confederation, born but yesterday, are already arrived to the prowess of manhood. Planted in a paradise, your growth seems as if checked by drought and nipt by frost; whilst our states up the river with inferior advantages, flourish, as if nourished by the dew of heaven. The freedom and moderation of our government is this dew, refreshed thereby, new blessings will suddenly spring from your invigorated energies. In place of monopoly, you will have commerce—your village will be transformed into a city—and from a province you will become a nation.
Nature has pronounced that the inhabitants upon the Mississippi and on the island of New Orleans, shall be one people; and it is your peculiar felicity, that her decree is to be executed, under the auspices of a philosopher, who prefers justice to conquest; whose glory is to make men free, and not slaves, and who delights in benevolence, and not in splendor. But studious of your happiness, he will not permit you to destroy it, by withholding our rights.
Your alternative is plain. It lies between making your little district, a field of war, or a garden of peace. Circumscribed as it is, the most rigid discipline could not save it from devastation. It is your own fault, which will strew it with ruins or with palaces. Spain may advise you to exclaim "let there be war, and all its calamities." But she will not intend to make you more prosperous, or more happy. She will involve you in war, only to advance the interest of Spain, which nature has not made the interest of New Orleans. We advise you to bestow on yourselves, peace, and all its blessings. In this advice we have also an interest; the benefits of a free commerce. But in these benefits you must share. If they are advantageous to us, they will be more so to you. Orleans will become the emporium of this commerce. Nature has made our interests one. We are the children of the west, not of the east. Let not the old world, cause us to forget that we both belong to the new.
TO the cessions under which we claim, you were parties. The faith of governments, is the faith of na-
tions; and your loyalty was pledged to us through the competent organ. The government of Spain, and then that of France, could rightfully bind you, so long as Louisiana belonged to them; but neither government can bind you, now that it is ceded to us. Will you break your obligations, contracted whilst belonging to these governments, and also those incurred from being united with ours? Pledged by the ties which create allegiance, can disloyalty, attended with war, monopoly and provincial degradation, appear more lovely, than good faith, attended with peace, commerce and federal equality?
It is for your good, or from the influence of ministerial intrigue and jealousy, that Spain will strive to rob you of the brilliant destiny now inviting your acceptance? Will you seize her sword, and vainly endeavour to kill the fate of New Orleans? It is a duty of friendship to arrest the self-murdering arm of a maniac. We will perform this duty.
We send you this talk, because it is reported that Spain will violate her faith; but we hope it is an aspersion. From our cradle we have grown up in habits of friendship and intercourse with Spain. She has been just and honorable to us, and we have been just and honorable to her. It has been our glory to emulate her integrity. Reciprocal good offices have begotten a friendship, which will become stronger, the longer it lasts. But we regard Spain, as a man does an old friend from whom he apprehends an injury. Doubt, affection, regret and resentment, alternately occupy his mind. The dispersion of these sensations, by a continuance of integrity and good faith, would be a new cement to an old friendship, and a strong pledge for its future continuance.
Then, when Spain beholds us extending to you, the descendants of her children and once her subjects every blessing we can gain by the cession of Louisiana, and every blessing we derive from our form of government, our justice and her gratitude, will constitute a new link in the chain of national friendship. But if the corruptions of Europe shall at length have tainted the honor and good faith of Spaniards themselves, fortune has bestowed upon you, the high responsibility, of planting and cultivating them as your best birth-right, in America.
If a state, now in our union, should break its faith, withhold our rights, or be wanting in loyalty; we should act towards it, as we will act towards you. We would enforce our rights, and extort its duties. But we would previously address the people of such a state, as we address you; not as provincials or subjects, but as
FELLOW CITIZENS AND BROTHERS.
By the British system of church and state government, the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, which was originally a christian ordinance, has become a mere civil ceremony; a requisite qualification for holding an office, civil, military or naval. Any blaspheming young rake, who has a commission as an Ensign in the army, a Boatswain of a frigate, or a tide-waiter in the customs, may demand the administration of the Sacrament, in order to qualify him according to law for the duties of his office; and a clergyman must perform the ceremony, under penalty of a suit for damages. This prostitution of Christianity to political uses is the object of admiration and imitation with a once powerful party in the United States! By such means the christian religion has been corrupted in every age and country. Fortunately the hypocrisy of the attempt in this country has become so visible as to incur a scasonable check, if not a total defeat. Sun.
There is nothing to be heard amongst the federalists in New Jersey but weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth—even the family compact appears to have lost its confidence, and its members are preparing for "another and a better world," with all expedition possible; from the federalists of New Jersey we have heard more about religion and Tom Paine, than from those of all the rest of the union, yet there were more fallhoods circulated in that state by these pious geatry than twenty years punishment of the flesh will wipe away. Their late discomfiture is a "solemn warning," that their "days are numbered." Aurora.

THE vanity of being rated above our merits, is a disease of the mind peculiar to many, and is commonly most luxuriant in those, who have the least pretensions to that form of excellence, which they would be thought to possess. This weakness is the source of many troublesome errors, and often betrays the dupes of it, without their knowledge, into glaring absurdities, and most ridiculous folly—when it appears to a display of those virtues, of which it possesses but the shadows, it is rightly denominated hypocrisy; but when it works in a servile affection of the foolish airs, and timid importance of the silly great, it changes its character; what was vice in that case is but meanness in this, and the detestable hypocrite is dwindled into a ridiculous ape.
It is not my plan to enumerate the various absurdities that transform men into apes: this would be an endless labour, no less above my abilities than foreign to my present view. The apes I mean to consider now, are a class of men, whom fortune in some of her giddy and unmeaning frolics has accidentally thrust into notice. A style of conduct suitable to the rank they have unexpectedly attained, must in their opinion, be adopted; and, as delicacy of taste is considered to be the natural offspring of a mind cultivated by a regular education, and replenished with excellence, this is assumed, and a suitable degree of mysterious pomp, superciliousness and reserve annexed to it, the better to show how superior they are to the un fashion'd rabble, whom they now hold in sovereign contempt.—But, unhappily for them, strangers to the proper objects of refined taste, they are compelled to select those with which alone they are acquainted, as beef, pork, mutton, cabbage, potatoes, and other articles of culinary importance, and make those the interesting themes of their equal loquacity. But as there would be no rule for ascertaining the absolute and comparative excellence of those articles, if there were no standard of perfection. England forsooth is declared to be the pink of excellence in all things; and by this every dish brought to your tables is tried, censured, and condemned.—Mention your beef, and you are civilly told it is not to be compared to the beef of England; praise the flavor of your fruit, and you are soon convinced by the most positive assurance that it is infinitely surpassed by the fruit of England. I have been often seized and irritated by the loquacity and impertinence of those creatures; but never in so great a degree as lately at a friend's table, where I chanced to dine. The good lady among her other attentions to an English guest, who sat near her, hoped he was helped to the piece he liked best.—“It will do, Madam,” replied he, “but I find your beef is not to be compared to the beef of London; it wants that flavor,—that—that—” “The fault may,” continued he, “in some measure be owing to your cookery, an art, which I clearly perceive has not yet found its way into this country.” “For my part,” added he, “I have not tasted what may be called a beef stake since I left London.” “Give me your London beef stake,” cried he, “roasted in a pan with butter and onions.” In a word there was not a single dish on the table that did not suffer similar censures, and I observed with no small surprise that he regarded his plate with the most persevering devotion, and cleared it often with unabating vigor and dispatch. Indeed he acquitted himself so well in this way, and apparently too with such good grace, that one would imagine he fancied himself eating at the table of some Lord of his acquaintance in London. Unable to bear the hyperbolical rant of this impertinent upstart, my friend bethought herself of an happy scheme to expose and punish his impudence, and with this intent recommended to him some London porter as the produce of Philadelphia, assuring him it was the best which our infant manufacture afforded. This the rest of the company extolled for its real excellence, but our new made gentleman from London only tasted it, shrugged his shoulders with a grimace of disapprobation, and protested it was inferior to the table beer of London. Well, cried my friend, you shall be regaled this moment with a bumper of your best London. And so saying uncoerced a bottle of Philadelphia beer, filled their glasses, and pledged our gentleman of taste. He no sooner applied the glass to his lips than he exclaimed “ah London!” and swallowed its contents with an air of unspeakable satisfaction. This scene threw the company into an immoderate roar of laughter, which so disconcerted our gentleman from London that he shortly after sneaked off.
I have not indeed, ever before witnessed in any Englishman of my acquaintance such extreme rudeness, absurdity and ignorance as this; but I have been often obliged to hear, not without chagrin, the most extravagant tales concerning England, England's people, laws, government and productions. If the marvelous excellence of all things in England were recited without invidious comparisons, tending to the disparagement of this country and its productions, the impertinence might be tolerated as the windy effervescence of national froth:—the hyperbolical panegyric would carry in it abundant evidence of absurdity, and recoil, without offence to any, on its empty source. But by the contrasts which are continually made of this Country and England, a man naturally credulous, and one who had not conversed much with the world, would be led to believe that heaven had exhausted its utmost bounty on England, and had nothing in reserve for us; that we were but a pigmy race of beings, a degenerate branch of the old stock, doomed to linger in perpetual immaturity of intellect, and condemned to a foil and atmosphere naturally unkind and unproductive of vegetable and animal perfection.
But to come to the main point in view, the neglect, reprimands, affronts, decision, or contempt, with which those coxcombs have been treated, led them to fancy that they have discovered in Americans generally, a deep-rooted and inveterate hatred of Englishmen, and, overlooking their impertinence the true source, they trace it up to a political spring. The feelings of all men who have a common interest, are generally alike in respect to that interest, and whatever can be said of one, may be fairly predicated of all. Sharing in the common interest, and common feelings of my fellow citizens I may declare in behalf of them, as I do in behalf of myself, that no such illiberal and ill-founded antipathy rankles in our breast. On the contrary, we believe the English nation to be an enlightened, polished, and magnanimous people; and treat, with respect and friendship, such of them as we find to be gentlemen, of which description we unquestionably have many among us. These never abuse our constitution, government, laws, manners, and productions, nor do they brand our most illustrious patriots with the epithets—rascals, rebels and cowards. If therefore, we deride, despise or hate any from England, it is not because he is an Englishman, but because he is not an English gentleman.
If the self created nobility, above described, hope to be treated with kindness and respect, they must not be puffing, when admitted to our tables, nor attempt to deceive us by a rodomontade concerning the nobility of their families, the fortunes they have been entitled to, nor boast of the favours which they never received from my Lady B. and the incomparable Miss C. They must not dwell with too much minuteness on the art of cookery, or we shall suspect they have acquired their skill in some kitchen at London. In a word, they must be content with our fare, or we shall admonish them to set sail for London with the first fair wind.
JOHN BLUNT. From the National Aegis.
President's Message.
THE strictures in our last were confined to that part of the President's Message, which relates to the purchase of Louisiana. We have, this week, the pleasure of presenting the convention itself, with the advice of its ratification by the Senate. Although we have no official statement of the votes on this subject, yet report has represented all the Federal Members, (with one only exception) as faithful to their system of opposition. Mr. Dayton, who distinguished himself as an advocate for war; in the last winter's debate, has for once deserted the Standard of his party.
“Among the faithful,—faithless only he!” Whether his conduct on this occasion has resulted from the pride of preserving the appearance of consistency, or a real conviction of his duty, there is a degree of merit in either of these motives, which belongs to but few of his party.
As the House of Representatives is constitutionally invested with the power of providing or withholding the necessary appropriations to carry the convention into effect, and as the resolutions for the purpose will be probably accompanied with a public debate, from which more information may be collected, we shall suspend any further animadversions until the subject shall have past through this discussion.—The business, we believe, is already so well undertaken, that unless it were to keep alive the spirit of opposition; there would be but one general sentiment of approbation throughout the United States.
“And her important acquisition of territory has been made” by a treaty with the tribe of Kaskaskia Indians. The tract which has been secured by
this treaty, is situated on the eastern bank of the Mississippi, between the Ohio and the Illinois. Neither the precise extent of the territory, nor the terms of the purchase are disclosed in the President's Message. To every individual who has merely cast his eye on the map of our country, who has marked the course of the Mississippi, and has noted its connection with the future glory of the Union, no arguments can be necessary, to evince the importance of commanding every rod of the territory, from its source, to its confluence with the Union. But it will be said by the advocates for war and conquest, that it would be cheaper and easier to “exterminate, every man, woman and child” of the Indian tribes, who roam along the margin of this mighty River, than to obtain a relinquishment of their occupancy, by honest and friendly negotiation.—To those who have imbibed the principles of political justice, from the history of Pizarro and Fernando Cortez, or to those who have borrowed their system of national morality from the calender of Warren Hastings, written in the blood of Hyder Ally and the Begums of India, this doctrine may appear adapted to national and individual glory. But to him who delighteth not in the shedding of blood; who prefers the mild precepts of WILLIAM PENN to the ferocious example of these sanguinary butchers of the East and West negotiation will appear more honorable than war, purchase more equitable than conquest, and mutual offices of kindness more grateful than jealousy, vengeance and torture. While the present humane and pacific policy shall be pursued, we shall no longer be reproached with the groans of our dying brethren on the frontiers. The plains of the Miami will not again be whitened with the unburied bones of our youthful heroes. The waters of the Mississippi will no longer flow to the Ocean, tinged with the blood of our tawney countrymen, and every passing gale that sighs over their forests, will no longer bear to us the reproachful murmurs of these persecuted victims!!
During the recess of Congress, the attention of the Executive has been directed, not merely to the subjects of domestic difficulty, which threatened to disturb our repose, but has also embraced the foreign incidents which have embarrassed our intercourse with other nations. The force which was employed in the Mediterranean, under the arrangements of the former administrations, had been found too unwieldy for the service. It was enormously expensive, without accomplishing the purpose for which it was intended. The building of smaller vessels to keep in check the Barbary cruisers, was authorized by Congress in their last session. The resolution has been carried into effect, with unexampled dispatch, and most of the vessels are now on their station.—We have every reason to believe, that unless the measures adopted by Government should terminate in a pacification with the Barbary Powers, we shall soon have a favourable account of our naval operations in that quarter.
As a further proof of the vigilance of the Executive, in guarding against every possible danger of future contention, we notice, also, that a convention has been entered into, for the purpose of defining more accurately the boundaries between the British territories and ours, in the North-Eastern and North-Western angles of the United States.
It is the policy of the present administration, to preserve peace and honest friendship with all nations. The controversy respecting the demarcation of a boundary line, which once threatened to disturb our repose, has induced this measure of precaution, against a future renewal of the dispute. It is not less with Britain than with France, that the friends of peace would deprecate a rupture, and subjects of difference with the one or the other, will therefore be avoided with equal solicitude and attention. The President of the United States, true to himself and his country, revolts at the idea of national partiality; and in regulating our relations with other Countries, he is governed only by such views and motives, as will tend to preserve the peace, the prosperity and independence of our own.
In conjunction with Marcellus and Curtius, who have obligingly proffered their aid, we shall pursue our examination of this interesting subject.
Extracts of a letter from a French gentleman of respectability, to his friend in Philadelphia, dated New-Orleans, Oct. 1, 1803.
“I have been assured, by the Marquis Casa Calve, that the Americans will take possession of New-Orleans and Louisiana in all November; and that they will enter this place with a considerable force. There are to be very great public rejoicings on the occasion in this city.”
EIGHTH CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MONDAY, NOV. 7.
MR. Dawson presented a resolution, in effect to continue the salaries of the public officers for two years longer, by filling up the blank &c. as heretofore.
On the question, there were yeas 53—Nays 55.
This motion being lost. Mr. Dawson moved another resolution in the following words:
“Resolved that provision be made by law, for fixing the salaries of the officers of the several departments of the government.” Agreed to.
TUESDAY, NOV. 8.
The following resolution was moved and passed:—Resolved, that a committee of Commerce and Manufactures be directed to enquire, whether a drawback on duties ought not to be allowed on loaf sugar, exported from the United States to foreign ports.
It was observed, that the present duty on loaf sugar is nine cents per lb. and on brown two and an half cents—brown sugar is entitled to a drawback on exportation; but when manufactured it is not. A great deal is now manufactured in the United States, and a considerable quantity would be exported, if entitled to drawback.—Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY NOV. 9.
Some private and local petitions were read and disposed of. They can be best particularized when decisions are made on them.
THURSDAY, NOV. 10.
Mr. R. Griswold presented the petition of David Valazca, who stated himself to be a merchant, an inhabitant of Venice, and a subject of his Imperial Majesty; that he embarked on board an Imperial vessel about the close of the year 1802 with his whole property consisting of Merchandize, and was taken by a vessel of war belonging to the United States of America, and ordered into Malta. That at Malta he met the Commodore of the fleet of the United States, who declared his certificate to be a forgery, ordered him back to the imperial vessel, seized upon his property and proceeded with him to Tunis, where he laid his case before Mr. Eaton, who released the Tunisians, but detained the petitioner, and ordered him on board the Chesapeake frigate, in which he arrived in the United States in June last, and immediately repaired to Washington, in order to sue for redress for the injuries he had sustained. That through the generosity of Mr. Stille on the Capitol Hill he was afforded protection and relief from want. He therefore prayed that the House would give him relief.
Referred to the committee of Claims.
The petition of Thomas Ketling of Philadelphia Merchant, one of the owners of the ship Washington presented and referred to the Committee of Commerce, &c.
Mr. Randolph, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported, by bill, to repeal the act allowing a drawback upon goods exported from New-Orleans.
Remonstrance of Sundry inhabitants of New-York, stating the grievances they laboured under and the losses they sustained from the conduct of Collectors of the direct tax, and praying relief.
Referred to a committee of Ways and Means.
Expiration of part of the British Treaty!—In the last article of this treaty, it is provided that the first ten articles shall be permanent, and that if the 12th article should not be renewed, or an arrangement upon the subject of it agreed to, before it should expire by its own limitation, (neither of which conditions has taken place) that then the whole treaty except the ten first articles should expire together with it. This limitation was to two years after the signature of the preliminary or other articles of peace, which took place, on the first of October, 1801. Consequently all the articles of the treaty, except the ten first expired on the first ultimo—N. Int.
A federal print of New Jersey, after piteously deplored the infatuation of the people in voting for persons friendly to economy, justice, civil and religious liberty, and expressing the most affliction regret at the governor's turning out a few of the well-born, piously concludes “but there is another and a better world”—it were to be wished that this had been tho't of long ago, in which case we should not have witnessed such shameful means employed to procure “the good things of this world as bribery and corruption—it is remarkable too that the federalists forgot there was also “another and a worse world;” if they do not repent very soon they will only have been displaced and disappointed in this uncomfortable world the better to enable them to suffer in the next.
Portsmouth.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1803.
SUMMARY—FOREIGN.
THE last accounts from Europe bring London dates up to the 4th of October; their contents are no ways interesting, and for the greater part speak of the approaching invasion without communicating any event of moment. They all however seem to agree in this, that offensive measures will soon be taken by the First Consul, and the attack directed toward every accessible point of the British kingdom; and that on their part the English are taking every possible measure to await the event. Their fleets are closely blockading Toulon, Brest and the other ports of Holland and France, whilst their light flotillas are bombarding and cannonading the French coast. It is said, with what degree of truth we are unable to say, that Bonaparte did not only meditate an attack upon England, but that the Turkish Empire was his object also. It is a fact well known that he has a formidable army in Italy, and has a great influence from the foot of Italy to the North Sea. We are told that a squadron was to proceed from Anconia, to take possession of the Morea, at the entrance of the Archipelago, which they purposed to hold as an offset to Malta. It is said that an expedition which had for some time past been fitting out at Toulon, consisting of nine sail of the line and some frigates, made an attempt to leave port on the 11th September, but returned to their moorings without having been enabled to effect their purpose. The accounts we have lately received respecting Spain and Portugal, are so contradictory that we forbear to hazard our opinion as to their situation, and will await the event of authentic intelligence. The Northern Powers still preferve their neutrality. The symptoms of the late rebellion in Ireland, are intirely suppressed for the moment; whether the Irish will long remain in this state of inactivity, is a question, the solution of which we leave to our readers.—Accounts say that Port-au-Prince, Aux-Cayes, St. Marc, La Croix de Bouquets, and Port de Paix, have all been evacuated by the French. Cape Francois is closely blockaded by the English, and invested by the brigands; there remained but ten days provision in the place, and unless supplies arrived before the expiration of that time, it was generally credited that they would be obliged to surrender.
DOMESTIC.
OUR Legislature is now in session at Concord—We learn that three of the robbers of the New-Jersey Treasury have been apprehended at Baltimore and Washington; we understand that they are persons in genteel life, from New-Brunswick.—The Manhattan bank has discovered a farther fraud of about 8000 dollars, committed by Brower, when bookkeeper.—A Pedlar was lately murdered by an Indian named Jacob la France, at the village of St. Regis, on the St. Lawrence; The murderer has been apprehended by the Indians, who have expressed great solicitude to have him punished.—The Hon. Robert Bowie, has been elected Governor of Maryland.—Last week, at the Supreme Judicial Court in Boston, a Mulatto, was convicted of the murder of her child.—It is confidently asserted that Government will take possession of New-Orleans and Louisiana, in all this month.
Extract of a letter from a commercial house in Liverpool, dated October 5th, 1803.
“We have not much alteration to note in our market, since we last wrote; Upland Cottons continue to sell at about 14d per lb. for those of good quality; but the inferior, of which there are large stocks, meet no demand at present, but should the markets get cleared of the better sorts, these may sell before the new arrives; the New-Orleans of this year's importation are generally good, and some of the best of them have been sold at 16 a 17d.—Sea-islands have been almost unsaleable, a few bags sold at 24a 25s. Wheat keeps steady at 8/6 per 70lb.—and Flour sells at 33/ per bbl.—There is but little Rice at market, and some has been sold at 38 a 39/ per cwt. duty paid.—Fresh Boston Pot Attes are enquired for, and would sell pretty readily at 40 a 42/ per cwt.; not much doing in New-York, or in Pearls of either kind. There have been lately some considerable shipments of Coffee to the Continent, which will be some relief to our market.”
We have received the first number of the Political Observatory, a Republican print, lately commenced at Walpole, (N. H.) It is conducted by a gentleman of education, and will no doubt prove a powerful scourge to federal slander in that part of the country.

To our Newburyport antagonist. We did not pretend to confine ourselves to the only two assertions advanced in answer to our articles a few papers back but selected them as sufficient to prove the truth of our assertions. We conceive their can be no injustice in thus treating the subject. And it is an opinion generally received that a man, who in one or two instances knowingly deviates from truth, cannot be called a man of veracity. We might enlarge, but that Mr. Park is willing to submit to our condition, however unjust he conceives it; this tacit acquiescence would seem to indicate his belief of the propriety of our remarks, for it seldom happens that we find so much condescension in the arguing of any favorite and contended point. We proceed to his vindication of the truth of his assertions as respects "the combination of the present leaders of politics in America against the religious institutions." He says "you may there find, (in the Bible) that while the rulers of the Jewish nation were most bitter in their opposition to our holy faith, and persecuted its professors unto the death, it spread triumphantly. Contempt, banishment, bonds and even torture, instead of repressed gained thousands of advocates, for the sacred cause." What did you mean to insinuate, that when our holy faith was thus persecuted by the Jews that its professors enjoyed security? Impossible! For whilst they experienced "contempt, banishment, bonds and even torture" it could not be said that they were secure in their religious enjoyments. This is however what I advanced and what seems to have been passed by in silence or surprisingly misapprehended. Without answering to each of the arguments adduced to substantiate your assertions as respects the "combination against religious institutions" we shall confine ourselves to some general remarks. However in thus treating on this head we would not be understood to acquiesce your articles on the conduct of several individuals, whose proceedings the public are well acquainted with, and to the candid part of which we cheerfully submit the decision of your assertions. When we intended to make a general rule we ought not to rest it upon mere exceptions—we ought not because amongst a man's numerous acquaintance and friends there may be found one infidel, from thence conclude that he must be one also—before we pretend to condemn a man in authority for having different religious opinions to our own or none at all, we ought to reflect whether the power vested in him is made the instrument of abrogating our religious privileges—if an innovation upon these sacred rights is made every citizen has no doubt reason to disclaim against such proceedings—but this is far from being the case at present & it requires no great pains to discover that whatever infidelity or attempts to subvert Religion, as laid to Mr. Jefferson's charge are without foundation.
We now proceed to the second point, the repairing of the Berceau . Our correspondent after expounding upon some part of our articles on this head seems to insinuate that though the Berceau was to be restored yet there was no law which established the necessity of repairs in the case of an unlawful capture. For ourselves we thought there was no need (when a vessel, which had in an unlawful action sustained damages was to be restored) to prove the legality of the necessary repairs, for no individual we imagined would dispute this; as such we forbear to enlarge on the subject. In saying that "in compliance with the established laws of nations, the President ordered said repairs to be made," we did not mean to insinuate that those laws authorized more than the necessary repairs, nor that twelve vessels were to be given in return for one, nor could our correspondent conceive this to be the case. Let us for a moment reflect on this part of his assertion that "the new made Berceau was worth a dozen such as Capt. Scanes commanded on commencing the action," and what shall we conclude? That every man would no doubt be willing to trade with Mr. PARK, if he had any frigates to dispose of at so cheap a rate as 873 dollars and 73 cents each, which would be the price in allowing 8000 dollars, for the necessary repairs of the Berceau , and the remaining 30,000 dollars for the eleven others. What authority the Secretary of the Navy had to oppose the repairs when the President was specially authorized to make the same, we are at a loss to find out, and we conceive that thus empowered the President was entitled to draw the requisite funds from whatever quarter might seem good unto him. We might enlarge, but the limits to which we are confined in the Gazette, forbid the same.
To the cause of Federalism (says the Charleston Courier ) we are in principle attached, and where our judgement does not imperiously forbid will faithfully go hand in hand with those who support it—as a principle. But we confess ourselves wholly unable to go along with those of them who censure the purchase of Louisiana; which we do believe to be a most fortunate event for the U. States.
It will be hard to persuade us that the money paid for Louisiana is misapplied. Until our calculating powers shall be enlightened by some new system of arithmetic, we shall continue to be persuaded that fourteen millions paid for land worth at least fifty millions is rather a good bargain—not to mention the security derived by our counter-occlusion of the French and Spaniards.
We this day lay before our readers, says the same Editor, the President's message to both Houses of Congress. The information it contains may be considered as the most agreeable that has been communicated to the American Nation since the era of her Independence. Of the value and importance of Louisiana to the United States we have already given a decided opinion, which every thing we have since heard tends to confirm. The territory of the Kaskaskia In-
dians is also a valuable acquisition to the Commonwealth; and the measures adopted by the administration, and pursued with so much perseverance and success, for civilizing, instructing and ameliorating the condition of the other Indian tribes within our boundaries, certainly deserve approbation. It is also satisfactory to find that not a dollar of the two millions which Congress placed in the power of the President for the purchase of Louisiana has been touched. He was perfectly right not to pay any part of the price of the commodity until it was received.
IMPORTANT. From the (N. Y.) M. Chronicle, Nov. 19. We learn from Tennessee the very interesting intelligence, that on the 6th instant the governor of that state received instructions from the President of the United States, through the Secretary of war for raising without delay 500 mounted infantry, exclusive of officers, to be well armed and in readiness to move to Natchez within six days after the receipt of the order. In addition to these troops, three regiments are to be raised on Tennessee and in readiness to march by the 20th December next, to aid in taking possession of New Orleans should an opposition render it necessary.
PEACE WITH MOROCCO. Capt. Mugford, who arrived at Salem on Tuesday night last, in 33 days from Gibraltar, brings the pleasing information, that all our differences with the Emperor of Morocco had been accommodated—that the Cruiser captured from him by Capt. Bainbridge had been given up, and had sailed for one of the Emperor's ports. This news says the Salem editor, may be depended on as true.
ORDINATION.] —On Wednesday the 23d inst. the Rev. GIDEON BURT, was ordained to the pastoral charge of the church in Effingham, N. H. The public exercises were—an introductory prayer, by the Rev. Mr. Piper of Wakefield—a sermon from Acts 16, 17, by the Rev. Dr. Buckminster, of Portsmouth—the Ordination prayer, by the Rev. Mr. Hidden of Tamworth—the charge, by the Rev. Mr. Rolfe, of Parsonsfield—the fellowship of the churches, by the Rev. Mr. French of Northampton—and the concluding prayer, by the Rev. Mr. Eastman of Limerick.—The good order and solemnity which were discovered, reflected honor on the attendants, and impressed the hope more strongly that God was present of a truth. The music, performed on the occasion, evinced the taste and high improvement of a choir of singers, who, we hope, will continue to render those hills and valleys vocal with the praises of God.
NEW BOOKS. A LARGE assortment of BIBLES of various sizes and prices, some elegantly bound. School BIBLES by the dozen or single.—Also TESTAMENTS, from 40 to 125 cents each; Webster's and Maine Spelling Books, by the gross, dozen or single; American Preceptors; Jackson's Book-Keeping; Sheridan's Dictionary; do. abridged; Perry's do. by the dozen or single. Curtis' Pocket ALMANAC, for the year 1804—to which is added, a REGISTER of New-Hampshire—containing a list of Officers, Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary, in the service of the United States; with many other Communications, both useful and interesting. Farmer's and Low's Almanacs for 1804. The above, with many other valuable Books, are for sale at N. S. & W. PEIRCE's Book-store, Congress-street. Also, just imported, A complete SYSTEM of PLEADING, comprehending the most approved Precedents and Forms of Practice; chiefly consisting of such as have never before been published—with an Index to the principal work, incorporating and making it a continuation of Townsend and Cornwall's Tables, to the present time; as well as an Index of References to all the Ancient and Modern Entries extant. By JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq. Barrister at Law.
A PREMIUM given for SPANISH DOLLARS—by SAMUEL HAM. STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ss. THE Subscribers being appointed by the Hon. Judge of Probate, Commissioners to receive, examine, and adjust all the claims of the creditors to the estate of JOHN PINGREE WILLIAMS, late of Newmarket, in said county, trader deceased, represented insolvent, under the administration of JOHN MELCHER, JOSIAH ADAMS & DAN'L WILLIAMS. The creditors to said estate are hereby notified, that we shall attend that service at the office of Jeremiah Libbey in said Portsmouth, on the first Monday of December, January and February next, from 3 to 6 o'clock P. M. of each of said days. JEREMIAH LIBBEY, NATHANIEL ADAMS, NATH'L A. HAVEN. Portsmouth, Nov. 29, 1803.
FOR SALE, if applied for in a few days. THE Sch'r JONES's EDDY, about one year old, 97 tons burthen, was built at Jones' Eddy, in Kennebec, entirely of oak. Said Schooner is now laying at Long Wharf. Terms made known by applying to the Master on board. Portsmouth, Nov. 29, 1803.
REMOVAL.  Edw d Parry INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has removed from Congress-street, to his new brick Store, No. 10, Market-street, where he has opened a large assortment of Fall & Winter GOODS, which he has imported direct from the Manufactories, and will be sold at the lowest advance, by wholesale and retail—consisting of
Best superfine London blue, black, drab, mixt, corboe, and bottle green Broad Cloths. Double milled, drab, and other fashionable colour Cassimeres; superfine drab, mixed, and Brunswic Forest Cloths. Twilled Duffils & Coatings; Baizes and Flannels. 6 3/4, 8 3/4, 9 3/4, & 10 3/4 Rose Blankets of a superior quality. A large assortment of fashionable Swandown & other Vesting; black, blue, and olive Velvets, Thicksets and Corduroys. A complete assortment of Stroverbridge and Jersey three threaded knit Stockings; Silk and cotton do. Callimancoes and Russells; superfine Durants & Tammies; London Shalloons and Florentines. Muffs and Tippets; Lace, Furr, and other Trimmings. Fashionable Chintzes & Bed Furniture, with a large assortment of Fringes and Tossils to match. Fashionable Muffins of every description; Dimities and Muslinets. Irish Linens and Sheetings. A large assortment of Camel's Hair and silk Shawls of every color; Modes and Satins; Laces and Edgings of superior qualities. A large assortment of Ladies' & Gentlemen's new fashion Beaver Hats; black and colored Feathers, Wreaths, and Flowers; fashionable snagg for Hats; gold and silver dress Italian Crapes; black, pink, blue, and white plain do. 23 bales of Sewing Twine; Salmon Twine; Cod Lines and Herring Nets. Portsmouth, Nov. 29, 1803.
WASHINGTON MUSEUM OF WAX FIGURES.  Moulthrop & Pardee, RESPECTFULLY inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Portsmouth and vicinity, that there is now opened at the Assembly-Room, and will continue a few days, a new Collection of Wax Figures, large as life—consisting of the following characters: A striking likeness of the late Gen. WASHINGTON, represented as giving orders to Col. Humphreys, his aid.—JOHN ADAMS, late President of the United States.—His Excellency THOMAS JEFFERSON. The famous Gen. WOLFE, who fell in the battle on the Plains of Abraham, represented with the Surgeon supporting him in his expiring moments, and his Aid-de-camp bringing tidings of the victory of the army.—Gen. BONAPARTE, First Consul of France.—A striking representation of the death of Capt. COOK, who was killed by the natives of one of the islands in the South Seas, with the combat between his Lieutenant and the Indian who killed him.—Salem and Friend's Beauty.—A scene from the Beauties of History, representing Virginius, the Roman soldier, slaying his daughter, to preserve her from the hands of Appius Claudius, in defence of her virtue.—The happy meeting of Roderick Random, with his Mother.—The Grecian Daughter nourishing her father in prison.—Maternal Affection, represented by a Lady with two Children.—The Old Maid disciplining her domestics.—The Road to Ruin, or the combat between the two Watchmen and the Rake.—Old Darby and Joan cheering themselves with the bottle and pipe.—The poor Mendicant asking alms—and sundry other Figures, with Music on the Organ. ** The Museum will be opened from 9 o'clock in the morning 'til 9 in the evening, Sundays excepted. Admission for grown persons, 25 cents, and half price for children. *** The above Figures are allowed to be equal, if not superior, to those exhibited in the Museums of London and Paris.
FOR SALE, if applied for in a few days. THE Sch'r JONES's EDDY, about one year old, 97 tons burthen, was built at Jones' Eddy, in Kennebec, entirely of oak. Said Schooner is now laying at Long Wharf. Terms made known by applying to the Master on board. Portsmouth, Nov. 29, 1803.
FOR SALE, if applied for in a few days. THE Sch'r JONES's EDDY, about one year old, 97 tons burthen, was built at Jones' Eddy, in Kennebec, entirely of oak. Said Schooner is now laying at Long Wharf. Terms made known by applying to the Master on board. Portsmouth, Nov. 29, 1803.
FOR SALE, if applied for in a few days. THE Sch'r JONES's EDDY, about one year old, 97 tons burthen, was built at Jones' Eddy, in Kennebec, entirely of oak. Said Schooner is now laying at Long Wharf. Terms made known by applying to the Master on board. Portsmouth, Nov. 29, 1803.
William Garland, (Late of the Co. of GARLAND & BLAKE) INFORMS his friends and the public that he is now opening at the Store lately occupied by Mr. Edward Parry, in Congress-street, a large assortment of Seasonable GOODS,
Of the latest importation, which will be sold at prices that will give satisfaction to the purchasers,—among which may be noticed in particular, Broad Cloths of all prices, consisting of blue, green, brown, black, and mixt colors; and fashionable Drab for furtouts; Plains; Serges; dark brown Coatings and Ratteens; handsome Drab do. Baizes; Flannels. An assortment best ROSE BLANKETS, very cheap. Black and olive Velvets; fashionable Drab do. and Cords; Hosiery of all kinds. A neat assortment of Vesting, consisting of Swandown, satin, and silk Velvets. A variety of Chintzes, of the newest fashion; Furnitures; Camel's Hair Shawls, black, white & color'd, and with elegant satin borders. A large quantity of India Cottons and Calicoes, of all prices, cheap; Pelice Silks; Lutestrings. A large assortment of Muffs and Tippets, from 3 3/4 to 21 dolls. Tippets separate; Furs ready dressed for making do. He has also for sale, 5 pipes Spanish Brandy. 8 hlds. West-India Rum. 5 bales Cotton. Gin. 10 chests and quarters Tea. Portsmouth, 29th Nov. 1803.
Fashionable Drab Broad Cloths and Cassimeres.
'Sweet & Weeks, HAVE received an assortment of fashionable Drab Mill'd BROAD CLOTHS and CASSIMERES, of superior qualities. *Nov. 29, 1803.
Salt Manufacturing Company. THE PATENTEE of a new invention for expediting the manufacture of common salt is happy to state that the PROPOSAL for forming A SALT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, which he took the liberty, some time since to make, has met with the desired encouragement. A sufficient number of shares, at fifty dollars each, have been subscribed to erect works on the plan, which his invention prescribes. The works may be set up on a scale proportionate to the capital employed. Little pains have been taken to explain the invention or to gain subscribers. That a reasonable opportunity may be afforded to others, who are disposed to embark in an enterprise, which it is expected, will be attended with a handsome profit, the Subscription Paper will be left at Messrs. Treadwell's Book-store, 'till next Thursday. The gentlemen who have become, or who may have become patrons of this new undertaking, are respectfully invited to meet at the house of the subscriber in Buck-street, near the Pier, next Thursday evening, at 7 o'clock, in order to take measures for obtaining an act of incorporation. TIMOTHY ALDEN, jr.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Hillsborough, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors & owners of land in the town of Henniker, county and state aforesaid, who have not paid their Highway, Town, School and County Taxes for the year 1803, that so much of their land as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public Vendue at the dwelling house of JAMES WELLS, Inn-holder, in said town on the fourth Tuesday in January next at 10 o'clock A. M. unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
ALL persons indebted to, or have demands on the estate of WALTER WIGGIN, late of Stratham deceased; are desired to exhibit them immediately to George Wiggin, or Daniel Wiggin, Executors to the last Will and Testament of said Walter Wiggin. Stratham, Nov. 3, 1803.
AUCTIONS.  This Day & To-Morrow, Will be Sold at the Office of ALEXANDER EWEN, in Daniel street, Portsmouth, a valuable assortment of MERCHANDIZE—viz. SUPERFINE and fine Broad Cloths, Cassimeres, Swandowns, Coatings, Plains, Bockings, Shalloons, Rose Blankets, Luchoppe Baftas, Superfine India Cottons, Knives and Forks, Table Spoons; dressing, frame, and pocket Looking Glasses; Hair Ribbons; Snuff Boxes, Razors, &c. The above articles will be sold to the highest bidder, for cash, without reserve. Wanted,—a few casks FLAX-SEED, for which the cash will be paid on delivery.  AT PRIVATE SALE, 10 hhds. COD FISH. 20 bbls. No. 1 BEEF. 20 do. No. 2 do. Nov. 29, 1803.
AUCTION.  1000 Acres of LAND. TO be Sold at Public Auction, by virtue of a licence from the Judge of Probate for the county of Strafford, on THURSDAY the 29th day of DECEMBER next, at 11 o'clock before noon, at Maj. SETH WALKER's, in Portsmouth— One thousand acres of Land, lying in Tuftonborough, in said county of Strafford, being an undivided third part of the north-easterly half of 6000 acres, released to the late John Moffat, by Peter Livius, Esq. and is part of the estate of Samuel Taylor, late of Boston, merchant, deceased. ** Conditions will be made known at the time and place of sale. BENJAMIN SUMNER, adm'r. de bonis non of said Taylor. Nov. 26, 1803.
FRESH TEAS. FOR SALE, 20 chests of Souchong, Bohea and Green TEAS. 10 hhds. COD FISH. 20 bbls. No. 1 & 2 BEEF. 10 casks RAISINS. 10 boxes SOAP. 30 bbls. TAR. 20 bags NUTMEGS. 15 bbls. Aniseed and Rose Water. 6 Russia FEATHER BEDS. Broad & Forest Cloths, of different kinds. 1000 lbs. CASSIA— By S. LITTLE, Buck-street, Who transacts all kinds of Commission reasonably, with dispatch. Portsmouth, November 29, 1803.
Warner & Weare, Offer for sale at their Store, No. 1, High-street, opposite the N. W. corner of the State-House, one door east of N. S. & W. Peirce's Book-store and Printing-office,  TENERIFFE & Port Wines, Malaga do. pr cask; Barcelona 4th proof and Alicante Brandy pr bbl. W. I. Rum pr do. Hyson and young hyson Teas, Souchong and Bohea do. pr chest. Coffee; Wait's No. 1 & 2 Chocolate pr box. J. W. and common do. pr do. Child's do. Cocoa Shells; Loaf and India SUGAR; West India ditto. Best retailing Molasses; Muscatel Raisins pr box, Bloom and cask do. Cassia, Pimento, Pepper, Ginger; 60 lb. NUTMEGS. ENGLISH MUSTARD, pr lb. or bottle; Bar Soap pr box, Shaving do. Mould and dipt Candles pr box or lb. Fine & Superfine Flour, Rice pr lb. Men's and boy's knapt and felt Hats; Paltboard, pr gross, doz. or less; Writing & Wrapping Paper pr ream; Tow Cloth; SALT; Salt Petre; best tower proof and common English Gun Powder; Patent Shot, of all sizes; Flints pr gross or doz.; patent Black Ball pr dozen; Pound Pins; Awls and Awl-havles pr gross; Shoe Knives, Corks, Bed Cords, Combs, Allum, Copperas, Logwood, Fustic, Spanish Float Indigo, do. Lump, Cotton Cards, White-more's No. 3, 4, & 5 Cards pr doz. Sieves, Sieve Rims and Bottoms pr doz. IRON SHOVELS, Flat Irons, Frying Pans, Fig and Pigtail Tobacco, Spanish and American Segars pr box or dozen, Elliot's Snuff pr keg, bladder or lb. Thompson's do. pr do. CROCKERY WARE. Tumblers pr ftraw, Gin Cases; a few barrels PEASE; a few CHEESES, &c. Portsmouth, Nov. 29, 1803.
Singing School. Those persons who intend going to Messrs. LOCK and AKERMAN'S SINGING SCHOOL, are informed that the subscription will be closed this evening; and that they must leave their names at N. S. & W. PEIRCE's Book-store previous to that time. NOV. 29.
FOUND, BETWEEN this town and Green-land, a MUFF. The owner may have it again by calling at Mr. Davenport's, and paying charges.
FOUND, BETWEEN this town and Green-land, a MUFF. The owner may have it again by calling at Mr. Davenport's, and paying charges.

Friendship, Truth and Love. SWEET is the blush that gilds the morn, And tiest round the opening ray, How lovely flows the lifting heart, That palest others in sweet May; Come then, O POLLY, come and prove, The joys of friendship, truth and love. How blissful is sweet friendship's theme, When candor warms the lifting heart; When the soft tongue can claim esteem, And just advice with truth impart; Then POLLY, seize the moments fleet, That makes the joys of life complete. If Love, persuasive, should draw near, With silken robes, quite blissful dress, And with soft light allay your eyes; And with Love's sweetest tears be blest; If candor guides the plaintive youth, Give him your hand, your heart, your truth.
FOR THE GAZETTE. Messrs PRINCE'S, WHILE amusing myself the other day with looking over a file of your valuable and entertaining papers, I was sensibly struck with a beautiful Moralist from these words, "What is my Bible worth?" and knowing it is customary with you to republish any piece in so short a period, I almost gave over the idea of requesting the favor, but on second consideration, the valuable truths it contained came so forcibly to my mind, as to outweigh my former idea; and I here enclose it, hoping soon to see your miscellaneous volume again graced with its appearance. Yours, &c. X.
WHAT IS MY BIBLE WORTH? Was a question which occurred to my mind lately on viewing this holy book; in one sense it is of but small value; only 6 shillings did I give for it. When I consider its workmanship—the neatness of the binding, I could not but admire the manufacture, and did not grudge the price. But this answer was not sufficient, the question still continues—
WHAT IS MY BIBLE WORTH? When I consider that it contains the most ancient and beautiful history of Kings and Prophets, and remarkable events—the words of the sweet Psalmist of Israel—the pious instructions of Solomon—the prophecies of holy men of God—the Gospel of Christ, and the way of Salvation by Him, and the sweet doctrines of the Apostles—O! the worth of it is beyond comparison—Nothing on earth can compare with it. The scriptures are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus, faith Paul: And nothing but HEAVEN can equal the worth of these divine writings.
CAMP-MEETING.—At the late camp-meeting, held by the Methodists, near the High Hills of Nottoway, in Sussex county, Virginia, it was supposed that between four and five thousand people attended public worship on the Lord's day. The meeting began at 12 o'clock on Friday, the last day of September, and ended on Monday following, at 12 o'clock—in which time they preached 17 sermons, and had 17 exhortations, given by other ministers at the close of the sermons. There were 27 Methodist preachers at the meeting. On Friday they had preaching at 12 and 4 o'clock at night. On Saturday they had preaching at sun-rising, 10 and 12 o'clock at night. On Monday they had preaching at sun-rising and at 10 o'clock, and then the meeting ended. Sometimes they preached at both stands at once, and others they preached in the meeting house.—They had the under growth bushes, &c. cleared away from a considerable spot of ground, and a stage erected at each end of it, so that there might be preaching at both stages at the same time, without interrupting one another. The tents were pitched around this ground, with the fires mostly in front of them, and the wagons, &c. with the horses back of the tents. The fires before the tents, and the candles burning within them, and the moans rising all the night, made the place appear solemn and pleasing. The meeting held on Friday night till 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning: and on Saturday night it held all night, and the people continued together till after day light. On Sunday night meeting held till about 3 o'clock in the morning, but these long meetings in the night season were all held in the meeting house. There were but few meetings held by day or by night without some one's being converted. We suppose there were about 45 white people converted, and a number of black people, in the course of the meeting. The prayers, cries and shouts of the people in the dead hours of the night, might be heard at the distance of 2 or 3 miles. The most part of the people behaved exceedingly well, by day and by night. There were a few who behaved amiss. A person being appointed to take the number of the different carriages, &c. reported that on Saturday there were 129 chairs, 2 four wheel carriages, 15 wagons, 37 carts, and 44 tents. On Sunday there were 170 chairs, 6 four wheel carriages, 20 wagons, 44 carts, and 48 tents. The greater part of the people who attended the meeting were highly pleased, and much gratified with what they saw and heard. It is expected that morality and piety will be promoted and increased in consequence of that camp-meeting.
Republican.
Friends to LITERATURE attend & read.
Mercantile Arithmetic.
Just Published by  EDMUND M. BLUNT, Newbury-Port, and for SALE—bound and in sheets,
A NEW System of MERCANTILE ARITHMETIC, adapted to the Commerce of the United States, in its Domestic and Foreign Relations; with forms of accounts, and other writings usually occurring in trade.—By MICHAEL WALSH, A. M. Second Edition.
The Proprietor feels a degree of confidence in presenting to the public a second edition of WALSH's Mercantile Arithmetic. Within two years a large impression has been sold, and although the plan was entirely original, no previous work having combined with the common rules of Arithmetic as taught in our schools, a general knowledge of mercantile calculations at home and abroad, including the Exchange as it has actually existed in the latest intercourse between this and foreign countries, fill a decided preference has been given to this work, and its introduction into all the Academies and Schools would have been universal, had the number of copies been adequate to the demand. To say the mechanical part of the work is equal, does not satisfy, and we hesitate not in declaring it better executed than any Arithmetic now extant.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
Newburyport, May 1, 1800. WE the subscribers having seen Mr. WALSH's New System of Mercantile Arithmetic, and being satisfied that it is better calculated than any yet published, to fit a youth for the business of the compting-house, cannot but with it an extensive circulation. The happy elucidation and extended application of the common rules, together with the many original improvements, while they accomplish the student for commerce, are also extremely well adapted to assist and inform the merchant, the mariner, and the trader in their various occupations.
Dudley A. Tyng, M ss Brown, Ebenezer Stocker, William Wyer, jr. William Bartlett, Richard Bartlett, jr. Samuel A. Otis, jr. William W. Prout, Tristram Coffin, Michael Little.
Boston, May 16th, 1800.
WE the subscribers, having examined Mr. WALSH's New System of Mercantile Arithmetic, and being persuaded that it is better calculated than any we have met with, to qualify young men for admission into compting houses, we wish that it may have an extensive circulation. The clear exemplification and pertinent application of the common rules, together with the many useful additions and improvements which it contains, will render it extremely useful for the merchant, the mariner, and all the other trading classes of society.
Marshall Watson, John Lowell, jun. John C. Jones, Joseph Russell, John Codman, Arnold Welles, jr. Stephen Higgison, Jonathan Jackson.
Salem, Oct. 7th, 1800.
WE the subscribers, merchants of Salem, convinced of the necessity of rendering the forms of business, the value of coins, and the nature of commerce more familiar to the United States, as a commercial people, do approve of the Mercantile Arithmetic of Mr. WALSH, and recommend it as calculated to subserve in the best manner the instruction of our youth, and the purposes of a well informed merchant.
Wm. Gray, jun. Jacob Ashton, Benjamin Hodges, William Prescott, B. Pickman, Jacob Crowninshield, Nath'l Bowditch, Elias H. Derby.
*The above valuable work may be had by the dozen or single at the Book-Store of N. S. & W. PEARCE, Congress-street, Portsmouth—and on examination, if the purchaser does not find it superior to any Arithmetic ever published in this country, he has liberty to return it and receive his money. Newburyport, Nov. 15, 1803.
Richingham, Jf.
NOTICE is hereby given, that ROBERT CLARK of Windham, in said county Yeoman, has petitioned the Judge of Probate for said county, representing that he is tenant in common, with the heirs of SAMUEL CLARK late of said Windham deceased, of two tracts of land in said Windham, one called the grove, containing about sixty acres, of which he owns eighteen acres, the other called Morison's Meadow, containing about eight acres of which he owns one half, and praying the said Judge to cause petition thereof to be made, and his said parts of said tracts to be severed, and set off to him to hold in severality: Whereupon it is ordered that he be heard at the Probate Court to be held at Londonderry in said county on the third Wednesday of December next.
By order of said Judge, WILLIAM PARKER, Reg'r. Exeter, Nov. 10. 1803.
NOTICE.
A FURTHER Term of six months from the date hereof is allowed to the creditors to the estate of RICHARD BOYNTON, late of Meredith, in the County of Strafford, Esquire, deceased, represented insolvent, to exhibit their claims to said estate. The commissioners will attend to the business of their commission at the widow Boynton's house in said Meredith on the last Monday in October and December, and third Monday in February next from 10 o'clock A. M. to 4 o'clock P. M. of each day. JOHN MOONEY, } Com. J. HALL WOODMAN, } mis'r. Sept. 12, 1803.
Wanted Immediately— An able skilful MASTER, to teach a Latin Grammar School in the town of Portsmouth.—Apply to the SELECTMEN. November 8, 1803.
JOHN JACKSON,
Has just imported from Europe an assortment of FRESH
Drugs & Medicines
of the best quality; which he offers for SALE at his shop in Buck-street,
Amongst them are a variety of genuine Patent Medicines—such as
TURLINGTON'S Balsam of life, Bateman's Drops, Walker's Jesuits Drops, and Specific Electary, Stoughton's Elixir, British Oil, Fraunce's female Elixir, Church's cough Drops, Squires' Elixir, Essence of Peppermint, Oil of do. Essence Pennyroyal, Hill's balsam Honey, Cundell's improved do. Greenough's Tincture for the Teeth, Hopwood's chemical vegetable Dentifrice, Salt Lemons, Brodum's botanical Syrup and nervous Cordial, Squires' grand Elixir, Marentant's Drops, Steer's Opodeldoc, Dalby's Carminative, Godfrey's Cordial; Lockyer's, Anderson's, Lee's, Hooper's, Speedman's and Vandour's Nervous Pills.
Calcined Magnesia, Glafs's do. Tolu, Peppermint and Magnesia Lozenges, Riga Balsam.
Wheaton's Jaundice Bitters and Itch Ointment, Clinton's Oil and Snuff for Deafness, Cether, Cephalic Snuff, Scott's Liquid Blue.
Pewter Syringes, Ivory do. Hollow Bougies, common do. silver Catheters, elastic do. steel Trusses; Pocket Instruments, Teeth do. Tooth Brushes, Court Plaster, Hatacafe, Vials, Urinals, Gallipots from 3lb. to 1 oz. Smelling Bottles, Milk Roses, essence do.
Painters' Oil and Colours; gold and silver Leaf, Dutch Metal; Copal Varnish, Japan do. Camels hair Pencils; Rotten Stone, Pumice Stone, Sponge, Salt Peter; Oil Vitriol by carboy or less; Blue Vitriol; Allum, &c. &c. &c. Nov. 1, 1803.
Encourage home manufactures! THE subscribers inform the public that having entered into Partnership under the firm of
SPARHAWK & CURTIS, they have taken the Store at the corner of Daniel and Bow-streets, where they manufacture the best of Beaver Hats, Castors, &c. equal or superior to any imported—Having procured some of the most experienced workmen, they flatter themselves with the hope of giving satisfaction to those who may please to favor them with their custom. SAM'L SPARHAWK, JOSHUA CURTIS.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Grafton, Jf.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners and proprietors of land in the township of WARREN, in said county, who have not paid their county and highway taxes for the year 1803, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the last Tuesday of January next, so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of Jonathan Clement, innholder in said Warren, at 10 o'clock A. M. on said day, as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges.
   Original Proprietors Names. Quantity. Number. Range. County. State.     Enoch Chase, 1 100 7 1 5 44 C. C. N. H.   2 100 7 1 5 49   3 75 53 0 2 2 15   William Hackett, 3 44 53 0 2 2 20   Abraham Morrill, 3 75 23 0 2 2 16   John Page, Esq. 1 100 6 1 1 20   3 75 1 2 20   Capt. Thomas Pierce, 3 75 41 1 1 10   John Page, 3 44 60 1 1 10   Rev. Samuel Webber, 3 44 56 1 1 10   Stephen Edmonds, 3 44 58 1 1 10   Emmanuel Stevens, 3 44 59 1 1 10   Samuel Page, 3 44 61 1 1 10  
OBADIAH CLEMENT, Coll'r. Warren, Oct. 31, 1803.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Strafford, Jf.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of MIDDLETON, who have not paid their county and highway taxes for the year 1803, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber on or before the first Thursday in February next, so much of their land as will pay the same, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Silas Whitehouse, in said town, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day, unless prevented by previous payment.
   NAMES. No. Lot. Acres. County. State.     Nathaniel Varney, 77 50 5 0 25   Benning Wentworth, 19 100 6 0 50   Timothy Roberts, 35 100 6 0 50   Benjamin Roberts, 38 50 6 0 50   Stephen Roberts, 46 100 11 1 0   Col. Jonathan Palmer, 99 100 6 0 50   John Bickford, 55 100 11 1 0   Samuel Clements, 80 100 8 0 75  
SILAS WHITEHOUSE, Coll'r. Middleton, Nov. 4, 1803.
TAKE NOTICE.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber on the 7th inst. an Apprentice BOY named WILLIAM ROBINSON, about eighteen years and a half old, who ever will return said boy shall receive one cent reward, and no charges paid, all persons are forbid harboring or trudging said Boy as they would with to avoid the penalty of the Law. THOMAS PIPER. Stratham, Nov. 8, 1803.
DOCTOR RAWSON'S
Genuine Anti-Bilious
and Stomachic
BITTERS.
Prepared by Thomas H. Rawson, M. C. M. S. New-London, (Conn.)
For which discovery he obtained a Patent from the President of the U. States, in July, 1802.
THE vast demand for these BITTERS, and their efficacy are so universally known and acknowledged, that little need be said in an advertisement.
Perhaps no medicine in the world is so useful and proper for a domestic family medicine. They are the greatest restorative and corrector of the digestive organs, and purifier of the blood, of any medicine ever offered the public.
The following are some of the most prominent complaints in which these Bitters are efficacious, and to universally admired, viz. Indigestion, Debility, Head-aches, Swoonings, Dizziness, Faintings, Tremblings, Lowness of Spirits, Palpitations, Drowziness, Bilious Congestions, Collywens, Diarrhees, Dysenteries, Gravel, Hysterical and Hypochondriacal Affections, Worms, A-gues, &c.
THE Patente having an aversion to pompous puffing, and certificates of cures accompanying almost every medicine offered the public, has hitherto strictly forbidden his agents the insertion of any of the numberless certificates and letters of uncommon cures of this medicine. But the following coming from such a source, and the character of the man who requests its publicity being so substantially vouched for by three respectable Clergymen, a Judge of the County Court, and a number of characters of the first respectability, and countersigned by Governor Lumball, that he should think himself blamable in preventing its publicity. East Haddam April 7, 1803.
DOCTOR RAWSON, Sir—Enclosed are two certificates. My wishes as respects the one to which I have made oath, are sufficiently explained in the certificate. The other which respects my moral character, I with might have equal publicity; for the benefit of those who labored under distressing and complicated bodily infirmities, and who, unacquainted with my character, might not give sufficient credence to my statement as to induce a trial of the medicine. I am Sir, your's, respectfully, WILLIAM BURKE.
I WILLIAM BURKE of East-Haddam, County of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut, hereby certify; that I was for about ten years laboring under distressing and complicated diseases of body, having frequent recurrences of severe head-ache, and almost constantly in pain, either in my joints, bones or small of my back, which was uniformly weak; my bowels unless moved by some gentle laxative, continually costive, and at short intervals so exercised with cholics that I could not for days together sustain myself; my Romach sour, and appetite weak at the best; and to crown this catalogue of maladies I was frequently afflicted with that distressing and formidable disease the Gravel. I found very little relief, and that but temporary, from Medical applications, until urged by my friends, who from like complaints had found relief in the use of Doct. Rawson's Anti-Bilious and Stomachic Bitters—I procured a box, and began the use of them, in a resolute manner, and soon experienced their good effects. I made use of no other medicine, and in a few weeks was restored to as good a state of health as is common to a man of my age, being about fifty years old. I have now for several months enjoyed my health; my appetite is remarkably good, and I eat any kind of solid food without reserve, and digest it well, and I endure exercise to admission without being fatigued.
I further certify that I have voluntarily and unsolicited by Doctor Rawson or his friends, now come forward to make oath to this certificate, hereby requesting the Doctor to give it as much publicity as possible, —having an anxious desire that my fellow-citizens, laboring under similar calamities, may make trial of a medicine, which thro' the blessing of God, has wrought on me such wonders. WILLIAM BURKE. Dated at New-London, April 6, 1803.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, ff. New London, April 6, 1803.
Personally appeared William Burke, the signer of the above, and made solemn oath that the aforesaid declaration by him made, is just and true in every particular, to the best of his knowledge and belief. Sworn before me, RICHARD LAW, Mayor of the City of New-London. EAST-HADDAM, Nov. 27 1803.
We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of East-Haddam, in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, hereby certify that we have long been acquainted with Mr. William Burke, of said East-Haddam, and that in our opinion he is a man of strict honesty & integrity, and as such, is a worthy member of society, and a good citizen. Jared Spencer, a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex County.
Isaac Spencer, Jr. Justice Peace, Middlesex. Timothy Gates, gd. Justice Peace, Middlesex. Jona. O. Moseley, Justice Peace, Middlesex. Jabez Chapman, Justice Peace, Middlesex. Silvanus Tinker, Epaphroditus Champion Elijah Parsons, Henry Champion, of Colchester. Zebulon Ely, John Curley. LEBANON, Dec. 12 1803.
The subscriber is well acquainted with the character of the above signing gentlemen, & can cheerfully bear testimony in their respectability and veracity. JONATHAN TRUMBULL.
For sale in Portsmouth, by CHARLES PIERCE, and in Dover, N. H. by J. WHEELER, Post-Master. Price 50 Cts. per box. —ALSO—
Dr. Haskell's Pills and Powder being a certain cure for the Dysentery, 1 dollar.
Haarlem Oil, being a certain cure for the Gravel, and is found by applying one drop to the corner of the eye every night, to be a very great strengthener of the sight, 25 Cents. Nov. 8, 1803.
NEW GOODS,
Sweet & Weeks,
HAVE received an assortment of SEASONABLE GOODS, which they offer for sale at No 9, Merchant's Row, being the north end of the new fire proof Store, Fore-street.
Their assortment comprises almost every article enumerated in the most extensive advertisements, all of which they are determined to mark at such prices as shall ensure a quick sale.
Purchasers are invited to call and examine the prices and qualities of their Goods. Nov. 15.
NEW-GOODS.
JOSHUA BLAKE,
(Removed to the new Brick Store, No. 8, Market-street.) Has received a very large assortment of Fall and Winter GOODS, of the newest fashions, which he offers for sale very cheap for cash.
Among which are
BEST superfine broad cloths of the most fashionable colours; second & low priced do; Cashmeres; superfine and low priced Coatings & Rattens; Fearnoughts; Kerseys; forest Cloths; Serges; Swanskins; Baizes; Flannels; an assortment of rose and duffill Blankets; Crapes; Wildbores; Durants; Tammies; Shalloons; plain and ribb'd Calimancoes; Russells; Taboreens.
A large assortment of
Fashionable silk Velvet, Swansdown and Sattin Waistcoating; best twilled black and colour'd Cotton Velvets; corded do; Thickfets; Condourys; black silk Velvets; mens black, white and colour'd silk, cotton and worsted Hose; womens cotton & silk black, white and colour'd Hose; womens black worsted Hose; ditto black & white cotton & silk Gloves and Mitts; white & colour'd kid Gloves; mens fur, beaver, worsted, cotton & silk Gloves; mens worsted Caps; cotton and silk Braces; Stockfiffners.
A great variety of
Chintzes and Calicoes of the newest fashions; patch Furnitures; Copperplates; India Calicoes; black and colour'd Ginghams; black and colour'd Sarcnet Muslins and Cambrics; sprig'd plain and figur'd book Jacquet and Cambric Muslins; emboss'd Muslins. A large assortment of
Black, white and colour'd camels hair Shawls; cambric Shawls; cotton and silk do; cambric, linen, cotton, romall, bandanna, check'd, figur'd and black silk Handkerchiefs; mens Neckerchiefs; muslin Shawls and Handkerchiefs. A variety of
Black and colour'd Italian and India Lutestrings; fashionable pelice Silks; Florence Silks; Persians; black and colour'd Sattins; Modes; Sarcnets; Tiffanies; wide & narrow silk Crapes; Cypress nett and plain Gauzes; Millnets; bonnet wire; white thread Laces and Edgings; black and white silk Laces; black lace Cloaks; black and white plain & figur'd lace Veiling.
A large assortment of
Muffs and Tippets; kid, morocco and stuff Shoes; Rosetts; Glove Ties; straw and cane Bonnets; mens beaver Hats; Umbrellas; Fans; India cottons of all prices, some very fine for Shirtings; Irish Linens; check'd Linens and Cottons; brown Hollands; Diapers; white & colour'd Threads; pound and bundle Pins; Needles; fashionable Ribbands; Buttons; button Molds; Oil Cloths for table coverings; marking Canvass; &c. &c. &c.
Also a quantity of Mock Sable, Genet, Elt and other Furs, suitably dress'd for making Muffs, Tippets and Cloak Trimmings, very cheap. Nov. 1, 1803.
FIG TOBACCO.
A few casks excellent Fig, and 7 cwt. best Pigtail TOBACCO, FOR SALE BY
Warner and Weare, at their Store, opposite N. W. corner of the State-House—ALSO—
Thompson's, Elliot's and Tenney's SNUFF,
kept constantly for sale, per keg or bladder. Portsmouth, Nov. 8, 1803.
Just published and for sale by N. S. & W. PEARCE Congress-street, by the Author Bridge-Street; and by MANNING & LOANE, No. 2, Cornhill Boston.—Price 10 cents.
A reply to the Congregational Methodist Question: Why cannot you commune with us, seeing we are willing to commune with you?
To which is added, a short History of Infant Baptism, by Elder E. SMITH.
70,000 BRICKS,
20 doz.