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TUESDAY, July 17, 1798.
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The Ministers Plenipotentiary and Envoys Extraordinary, From the United States of America to the French Republic. To the Minister of Exterior Relations.
(Concluded from our last.)
YOUR second allegation is "that the journals known to be indirectly under the control of the cabinet, have redoubled their invectives and calumnies against the Republic, its Magistrates and its Envoys; and that pamphlets openly paid for by the Minister of Great-Britain have re-produced, under every form, those insults and calumnies without having ever drawn the attention of the government to a state of things so scandalous, and which it might have repressed."
The genius of the Constitution and the opinions of the people of the United States cannot be overruled by those who administer the Government. Among these principles deemed sacred in America. Among those sacred rights considered as forming the bulwark of their liberty, which the government contemplates with awful reverence, and would approach only with the most cautious circumspection, there is no one of which the importance is more deeply impressed on the public mind than the liberty of the press. That this liberty is often carried to excess, that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented; but the remedy has not yet been discovered. Perhaps it is an evil inseparable from the good with which it is allied; perhaps it is a shoot which cannot be stripped from the stalk, without wounding vitally the plant from which it is born. However desirable those measures might be which might correct without enslaving the press; they have never yet been devised in America. No regulations exist which enable the government to suppress whatever calumnies or invectives any individual may chuse to offer to the public eye; or to punish such calumnies and invectives otherwise than by a legal prosecution in courts which are alike open to all who consider themselves as injured. Without doubt this abuse of a valuable privilege is matter of peculiar regret when it is extended to the government of a foreign nation. The underlined are persuaded, it never has been so extended with the approbation of the government of the U. States. Discussions respecting the conduct of foreign powers, especially on points respecting the rights and interests of America, are unavoidably made in a nation where public measures are the results of public opinion, and certainly do not furnish cause of reproach; but it is believed that calumny and invective have never been substituted for the manly reasoning of an enlightened and injured people, without giving pain to those who administer the affairs of the Union.—Certainly this offence, if it be deemed by France of sufficient magnitude to be worthy of notice, has not been confined to this republic. It has been still more profusely lavished on its enemies; and has even been bestowed with an unsparing hand on the Federal Government itself. Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invective with which the wisest measures and the most virtuous characters of the U. States have been pursued and traduced. It is a calamity incident to the nature of liberty, and which can produce no serious evil to France. It is a calamity occasioned neither by the direct or indirect influence of the American Government. In fact, that government is believed to exercise no influence over any press. You must be sensible, citizen minister, with how much truth the same complaint might be urged on the part of the United States. You must know well what degrading and unworthy calumnies against their government, its principles and its officers, have been published to the world, by French journalists, and in French pamphlets. That government has even been charged with betraying the best interests of the Nation, with having put itself under the guidance of, nay more, with having sold itself to a foreign court. But these calumnies, atrocious as they are, have never constituted a subject of complaint against France. Had not other causes infinitely more serious and weighty, interrupted the harmony of the two Republics, it would still have remained unimpaired, and the mission of the underlined would never have been rendered necessary.
gely. You complain of the speech of the President made to congress in May last. It denounces, you say, the Executive Directory, as seeking to propagate anarchy and division in the United States. The Constitution of the United States imposes on the President this important duty. "He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union." It having been deemed proper to recall the Minister from the United States to this Republic, and to replace him by a citizen; the objects of whose mission, as expressed in his letters of credence, were "to maintain that good understanding which from the commencement of the alliance had subsisted between the two nations; and to effect favourable impressions, banish suspicion and to restore that cordiality which was at once the evidence and pledge of a friendly union; the President of the Directory addressed the recalled Minister in the following terms. "In presenting to-day to the Executive Directory your letters of recall, you give to
Europe a strange spectacle, France rich in her victories, strong in the esteem of her allies, will not abase herself by calculating the consequences of the condescensions of the American government to the suggestions of its ancient tyrants. The French Republic hopes moreover, that the successors of Columbus, Raleigh and Penn, always proud of their liberty, will never forget that they owe it to France. They will weigh in their wisdom the magnanimous good will of the French people with the crafty cares of certain perfidious persons who mediate to bring them back to their ancient slavery. Allure, Mr. Minister, the good American people, that like them we adore liberty, that they will always have our esteem, and that they will find in the French people, that Republican generosity which knows as well how to grant peace as to cause its sovereignty to be respected."
The change of a minister is an ordinary act for which no government is accountable to another, and which has not heretofore been "a strange spectacle" in France or in any other part of Europe. It appears to be a measure not of itself calculated to draw on the government making such change the strictures or the resentments of the nation to which the Minister is deputed. Such an effect produced by so inadequate a cause could not fail to command attention, while it excited surprize.
This official speech addressed by the government of France, to that of the United States, through its minister, charges that government with condescensions to the suggestions of its ancient tyrants, speaks of the crafty cares of certain perfidious persons who mediate to bring back the successors of Columbus, Raleigh, and Penn to their ancient slavery, and desires the Minister to assure, not his government, but the good people of America, that they will always have the esteem of France and that they will find in the French people, that republican generosity which knows as well how to grant peace as to cause its sovereignty to be respected.
That a Minister should carry any assurances from a foreign government to the people of his nation, is as remarkable as the difference between the manner in which his government and his people are addressed. His government are charged with condescensions to the suggestions of the ancient tyrants of his country, but the people are considered as loving liberty, and they are to be assured of the perpetual esteem of France. This esteem they are to weigh against the crafty cares of those perfidious persons who mediate to bring them back to their former slavery.
When this Speech thus addressed directly to the government and people of the United States, in the face of Europe and the world, came to be considered in connexion with other measures, when it came to be considered in connexion with the wide spreading devaluation to which their commerce was subjected, with the cruel severities practised on their seamen, with the recall of the Minister of France from the United States, and the very extraordinary manner in which that recall was signified by him both to the government and people, with the refusal even to hear the messenger of peace, deputed from the United States for the sole purpose of conciliation—it could not fail to make on the American mind a deep and a serious impression. It was considered as a fact too important to be held from the Congress by the department of the government which is charged with the duties of maintaining its intercourse with foreign nations, and of making communications to the legislature of the Union. The President therefore did communicate it in the following words:—"with this conduct of the French Government it will be proper to take into view the public audience given to the late minister of the United States on his taking leave of the Executive Directory. The Speech of the President discloses sentiments more alarming than the refusal of a minister, because more dangerous to our independence and union, and at the same time studiously marked with indignities towards the government of the United States. It evinces a disposition to separate the people of the United States from the government; to persuade them that they have different affections, principles and interests from those of their fellow citizens whom they themselves have chosen to manage their common concerns, and thus to produce divisions fatal to our peace. Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority—fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character and interest. "I should have been happy to have thrown a veil over these translations, if it had been possible to conceal them; but they have passed on the great theatre of the world, in the face of all Europe and America, and with such circumstances of publicity and solemnity that they cannot be disguised, and will not soon be forgotten—they have inflicted a wound in the American breast. It is my sincere desire however, that it may be healed."
It is hoped this communication will be viewed in its true light, that it will no longer be considered as a denunciation of the Executive Directory, but as the statement of an all important fact by one department of the American government to another, the making of which was enjoined by duties of the highest obligation.
The underlined have now, Citizen Mi-
nister, passed through the complaints you urge against the government of the United States. They have endeavored to consider those complaints impartially, and to weigh them in the scales of justice and of truth.—If any of them be well founded, France herself could not demand more readily than America would make reparation for the injury sustained. The President of the U. States has said—"If we have committed errors, and those can be demonstrated, we shall be willing to correct them; if we have done injuries, we shall be willing on conviction to redress them." These dispositions on the part of the government have been felt in all their force by the underlined, and have constantly regulated their conduct.
The underlined will not resume, Citizen Minister, the painful task of re-urging the multiplied injuries which have been accumulated on their country, and which have been in some degree detailed in their memorial of the 17th January last. They cannot however, decline to reiterate against a measure which has been announced since that date. The Legislative Councils of the French Republic have decreed that.
18. The condition of ships in every thing which concerns their character as neutrals or enemies, shall be determined by their cargo, consequently every vessel found at sea, laden in whole or in part with merchandise coming out of England or its possessions, shall be declared good prize, whoever may be the proprietors of such commodities or merchandise.
2dly. No foreign vessel, which in the course of its voyage shall have entered into an English port, shall be admitted into any port of the French Republic, but in the case of necessity, in which case the vessel shall be obliged to depart from such port as soon as the cause of entry shall have ceased.
This decree too deeply affects the interests of the United States to remain unattended to by their ministers. They pray you therefore, Citizen Minister, to receive their respectful representations concerning it.
The object of the decree is to cut off all direct intercourse between neutrals and Great-Britain or its possessions, and to prevent the acquisition, even by circuitous commerce, of those articles which come from England or its dominions.
The right of one nation to exchange with another the surplus produce of its labour, for those articles which may supply its wants or administer to its comfort, is too essential to have been ever classed among those admitted to be in any degree doubtful. It is a right in ceding which a nation would cede the privilege of regulating its own interests and providing for its own welfare.—When any two nations shall choose to make a war on each other they have never been considered, nor can they be considered as thereby authorizing themselves to impair the essential rights of those who may choose to remain at peace. Consequently these rights the free exercise of which is essential to its interests and welfare, must be retained by a neutral power, whatever nations may be involved in a war.
The right of a belligerent to restrain a neutral from assisting her enemy by supplying him with those articles which are defined as contraband, has been universally submitted to; but to cut off all intercourse between neutrals and an enemy, to declare that any single article which may have come from the possessions of an enemy, whoever may be its owner, shall of itself be sufficient to condemn both vessel and cargo, is to exercise a control over the conduct of neutrals which war can never give, and which is alike incompatible with their dignity and their welfare.
The rights of belligerents are the same. If this might be exercised by one it might be exercised by every other. If it might be exercised in the present, so it might be exercised in every future war. This decree is therefore on the part of France, the practical assertion of a principle which would destroy all direct or circuitous Commerce between belligerent and neutral powers, which would often interrupt the business of a large portion of the world, and withdraw or change the employment of a very considerable portion of the human race.
This is not all. It is the exercise of a power which war is not admitted to give, and which therefore may be assumed in peace as well as war.
It materially affects the internal economy of nations, deranges that course of industry which they have a right to pursue and on which their prosperity depends.
To acquiesce therefore, in the existing state of things, under a principle so extensive and so pernicious, is to establish a precedent for national degradation which can never cease to apply, and which will authorize any measures which power may be disposed to practice.
France therefore will perceive that neutral governments, whatever may be their dispositions towards this republic, are compelled by duties of the highest obligation, to reiterate against a decree which at the same time invades their interests and their independence, which takes from them the profits of an honest and lawful industry, as well as the inestimable privilege of conducting their own affairs as their own judgment may direct.
It is hoped that the remonstrances of the U. States on this subject will derive additional force from their subsisting engagements with France, and from a situation peculiar to themselves.
The twenty-third article of the treaty of amity and commerce of the 6th of Feb. '78, is in these words:—"It shall be lawful for all and singular the subjects of the most christian king, and the citizens, people and inhabitants of the U. States, to sail with their ships with all manner of liberty and security, no distinction being made who are the proprietors of the merchandise laden thereon, from any port to the places of those who now are, or hereafter shall be at enmity with the most christian king or the U. States. It shall likewise be lawful for the subjects and inhabitants aforesaid, to sail with their ships and merchandise aforementioned, and to trade with the same liberty and security from the places, ports and havens of those who are enemies of both or either party, without any opposition or disturbance whatsoever, not only directly from the places of the enemy before mentioned to neutral places, but also from one place belonging to an enemy to another place belonging to an enemy, whether they be under the jurisdiction of the same prince or under several. And it is hereby stipulated, that free ships shall also give a freedom to goods, and that every thing shall be deemed to be free and exempt which shall be found on board the ships belonging to the subjects of either of the confederates, altho' the whole lading or any part thereof should appertain to the enemies of either; contraband goods being always excepted. It is also agreed in like manner that the same liberty be extended to persons who are on board a free ship, with this effect, that although they be enemies to both or either party, they are not to be taken out of that free ship unless they are soldiers, and in actual service of the enemy."
The two nations contemplating and providing for the case when one may be at war, and the other at peace, solemnly stipulate and pledge themselves to each other, that in such an event the subjects or the citizens of the party at peace may freely trade with the enemy of the other, may freely sail with their ships in all manner of security, to and from any port or place belonging to such enemy.—Not only goods coming from the hostile territory, but the very goods of the enemy himself may be carried with safety in the vessels of either of the contracting parties.
You will perceive Citizen Minister, without requiring the underlined to execute the painful task of drawing the contrast, how openly and entirely the decree of the councils opposes itself to the treaty between France and the United States.
In addition to the hitherto unceded right of a sovereign and independent nation, in addition to the right stipulated by compact the underlined will respectfully submit other considerations growing out of the peculiar situation of the United States, manifesting the particular hardships the decree complained of must impose on them.
In possession of a rich, extensive and unsettled country, the labor of the United States is not yet sufficient for the full cultivation of its soil, and consequently but a very small portion of it can have been applied to manufactures. Articles of the first necessity and comfort are imported in exchange for provisions, and for those raw materials which are the growth of the country, and which its inhabitants are accustomed to raise.
It is at any time extremely difficult, nor is it practicable without great loss, to change suddenly the habits of a whole people and that course of industry in which their population and their real interests have engaged them. An agricultural cannot suddenly and at will, become a manufacturing people? the United States cannot instantaneously, on the mere passing of a decree, transfer to the manufacture of articles, heretofore imported, such a portion of their labour as will at the same time furnish a market for the surplus commodities and a supply for the wants of the cultivator of the soil. It is therefore scarcely possible for them to surrender their foreign commerce.
Independent of the right they possess in common with others to search for and chuse the best markets, it is believed that the supplies they need could with difficulty, in the actual state of the world, be completely furnished without the aid of England and its possessions. It is not pretended that France manufactures, at present for foreign consumption, nor do the underlined suppose that there exists a market where the citizens of the United States can obtain in exchange the articles they need and are accustomed to consume if those coming out of England and its possessions be entirely excluded. A variety of other considerations, and especially the difficulties individuals must encounter, in suddenly breaking old and forming new connections, in forcing all their commerce into channels not yet well explored, in trading without a sufficient capital to countries where they have no credit, combine to render almost impossible an immediate dissolution of commercial intercourse between the United States and G. Britain.
If then the decree complained of shall be executed on American vessels, it can only increase grievances already but too considerable, and transfer the carriage of English manufactures, for American consumption, from their own to British bottoms, failing under the protection of a convoy. Instead of wounding England, it will probably aggrandize its marine, by sacrificing the remnant of that of the United States, and by destroying that system of policy, by which they have heretofore sought to give their own vessels that portion of their own car-
rying trade which would otherwise be enjoyed by British merchants.
You have made some general animadversions on the government of the United States, which the underlined feel themselves bound briefly to notice.
You have charged that government with giving instructions not in the sincere intention of arriving at pacific results, and yet the underlined have offered to change those clauses in the treaty of 1778, which have become inconvenient to France, and to repair any injuries which may have been committed.
You have charged that government with omitting nothing to prolong and augment the misunderstanding between the two Republics—but does not the fact that the underlined are now in Paris, furnish persuasive evidence to the contrary?
You have charged it with searching to justify, by deceitful appearances, the prejudices with which it surrounds at pleasure the name of the Republic, and the system of exasperation and separation pursued in this respect with the strongest obstinacy: But has not this Republic, in terms the most cordial, been again and again intreated to enter into a candid investigation of the mutual complaints of the two nations?—Have not these entreaties been unnoticed, whilst the Ministers deputed to make them, have remained un-accredited?
You have charged it with wishing to seize the first favourable occasion for consummating an intimate union with a power towards which a devotion and a partiality are professed which have long constituted the principle of the conduct of the Federal government, whilst no devotion or partiality has been expressed for any nation except France, have not the United States made, and are they not still making the most extraordinary efforts to restore the broken relations between the two Republics?
In a letter discussing the important interests of two Great Nations, the underlined are unwilling to introduce what relates personally to themselves.
This unwillingness for task has been rendered a duty by ascribing to them opinions and relations which exist in imagination only, and by adducing those supposed opinions and relations as proofs of an indisposition, on the part of the government which has deputed them, towards that accommodation which has been sought so unremittingly thro' all those difficulties and impediments with which the pursuit has been embarrassed.
You are pleased to add, that these intentions are so little disguised, "that nothing seems to have been neglected at Philadelphia to manifest them to every eye.—It is probably with this view, that it has been judged proper to send to the French Republic, persons whose opinions and relations are too well known to hope from them dispositions sincerely conciliatory."
The opinions and relations of the underlined are purely American, unmixed with any particle of foreign tint. If they possess a quality on which they pride themselves, it is attachment to the happiness and the welfare of their country; if they could at will select the means of manifesting that attachment, it would be by effecting a sincere and real accommodation between France and the United States, on principles promoting the interests of both, and consistent with the independence of the latter.
It requires no assurance to convince, that every real American must with sincerity extricate his country from the ills it suffers, and from the greater ills with which it is threatened, but all who love Liberty must admit that it does not exist in a Nation which cannot exercise the right of maintaining its neutrality. If "opinions and relations" such as these are incompatible with "dispositions sincerely conciliatory," then indeed has the federal government chosen unfit instruments for the expression of its pacific disposition.
You contrast the conduct observed by the U. States, under analogous circumstances, towards the Cabinet of St. James, with that which is observed towards this Republic. You say that on that occasion there was a solicitude to send to London, Ministers well known to possess sentiments conformable to the objects of their mission: That the Republic has a right to count upon a similar difference; and that if a like attention has not been observed with respect to it, it is too probable that it must be attributed to the views already indicated.
If unfortunately the cases shall exhibit a contrast, it is not to be found in the characters the U. S. have tho't proper to employ or in the conduct of their government, otherwise than by the superior attention manifested towards this Republic, and never shown to any other nation in deputation to it, with ample powers, three Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary from the three great divisions of the United States. The Ministers sent to the Cabinet of St. James's greatly deserved the confidence of their country; but they did not possess sentiments more conformable to the objects of their mission than those deputed to this republic. They did not with more ardency to effect reconciliation; nor is it believed that any persons who could have been deputed to that cabinet would have submitted to greater sacrifices in order to obtain it. Had their application for compensation for past injuries, and security against their future commission, been only met by requisitions, a compliance with which would involve their nation in ills of which war perhaps might not be the most considerable; had all attempts to remove unfavorable impressions failed; and all efforts to make explanations been rejected, can it be believed that other

Ministers (the first having been ordered out of the nation) would have waited 6 months unaccredited, soliciting permission to display the upright principles on which their government had acted, and the amicable sentiments by which it was animated?
The undersigned are induced, Citizen Minister, to pray your attention to these plain truths, from a conviction that they manifest unequivocally the friendly temper of the federal government, and the extreme reluctance with which the hope of an accommodation with France would be relinquished.
The undersigned observe with infinite regret, that the disposition manifested to treat with the Minister who might be selected by this government, is not accompanied with any assurances of receding from those demands of money heretofore made the considerations on which alone a cessation of hostility on American commerce could be obtained, to which the undersigned have not the power to accede, with which the U. States would find it extremely difficult to comply, and a compliance with which would violate that faith pledged for the observance of neutrality, and would involve them in a disastrous war with which they have no concern. Nor do your answer to the applications which have been made for compensation to the citizens of the U. States for property which shall be proved to have been taken contrary to the law of nations and existing treaties, otherwise, than that you are willing to discuss cases where there has been a departure from certain principles, which principles in fact, involve almost every case.
You have signified, Citizen Minister, that the Executive Directory is disposed to treat with one of the Envoys, and you hope that this overture will not be attended on the part of the undersigned with any serious difficulty. Every proposition of the Executive Directory is considered with the most minute and respectful attention.
The result of a deliberation on this point is, that no one of the undersigned is authorized to take upon himself a negotiation evidently entrusted by the tenor of their powers and instructions to the whole; nor are there any two of them who can propose to withdraw themselves from the talk committed to them by their government whilst there remains a possibility of performing it.
It is hoped that the prejudices said to have been conceived against the Ministers of the U. States, will be dissipated by the truths they have stated.
If in this hope they shall be disappointed, and it should be the will of the Directory to order passports for the whole or any number of them, you will please to accompany such passports with letters of safe conduct, which will entirely protect from the cruizers of France, the vessels in which they may respectively sail, and give to their persons, suite and property, that perfect security to which the laws and usages of nations entitle them.
They pray you, Citizen Minister, to receive the renewal of their assurances of profound respect and consideration.
(Signed) CHARLES C. PINCKNEY, JOHN MARSHALL, ELBRIDGE GERRY. A true copy, HENRY M. RUTLEDGE, Secretary.
TO THE Impartial Public.
WHEN a Public Officer is dismissed, the natural inference is, that he has been guilty of something wrong in order to justify the proceeding—such as mal-conduct in his office, or some atrocious crime; otherwise, it is to be presumed, the President of the United States would not have so severely manifested his displeasure: But as the President has not thought fit to offer any reason whatever for my dismissal, it cannot be deemed presumptuous or even improper to conclude that he was at a loss for such as could be considered warrantable. The power invested in the Chief Magistrate, it is true, admits the right to dismiss; but which right is supposed to be exercised only when the public good shall require it; in which case, his duty constrains him to do, without favor or affection. Sensibly feeling the indignity, prompts me as a free citizen, constitutionally authorized to step forth in my own defence; and do now invite—nay, challenge, any person or persons, in office, or out of office, that have any charge against me, to exhibit the same without delay; in order that my country and the whole world may know it—not willing to conceal my conduct in any particular, either official or political.
Having thus premised—I beg leave to inform the public, that the office of Commissioner of Loans was not sought for by me, being at the time of my appointment (December 1790) Treasurer of the State of New-Hampshire—an office at least 50 per cent more lucrative; which office I was prevailed on to resign, being led to believe that the paltry salary of 650 dollars would be considerably augmented, soon as Congress should be fully made acquainted with the arduous duties of the Loan Office. Indeed, I accepted it upon that condition, not having the smallest doubt but it would have been done. After giving the office a fair trial, I petitioned Congress on the subject, and finding no probability of effecting it, I signified in June 1792, a desire to resign the office; and in consequence thereof received a letter from Alexander Hamilton, Esq. the then Secretary of the Treasury—of which the following is a copy, viz.
Philadelphia, June 14th, 1792. SIR,
The Comptroller has intimated to
me that there are some expressions in a letter from you to him indicating some disposition to resign, in consequence of the insufficiency of your compensation. The manner in which you have executed the duties of your office, has been so entirely satisfactory to me, that I should regret your resignation not a little—and under this impression I am induced to recommend to you to wait the issue of another session. In a report which I made to Congress during the last session, I proposed an increase of your emoluments—and I believe, if it had not been for the lateness of the session, when the impatience of individuals to get homes produced a disposition favorable to objections which tended to prevent the entering upon new business, an additional provision would have been made. The trust of a Commissioner of Loans is so very delicate and important, that it is impossible it can be long left in any state, without such a compensation as will secure a worthy and adequate character in the execution of it.
With much esteem, I am, Your obedient servant, A. HAMILTON. WM. GARDNER, Esq.
In answer to the preceding, I consented to remain in office a longer time, which produced the following reply, under date of July 13, 1792, viz.
"I duly received your letter of the 24th ult. and it gives me pleasure to learn that your determination is in favor of a continuance in office."
The session alluded to passed off and nothing was done.
By another polite letter received in April, 1793, from the said Secretary, I was induced to remain in office still longer. On the 22d Jan. 1794, the same gentleman wrote thus in answer to a letter of mine, viz.
SIR, "I duly received your letter of the 9th inst. on the subject of your salary as Commissioner of Loans. I am fully sensible of the inadequateness of your compensation, and I assure you it will not be for want of my exertion if something is not added in the course of the present session of Congress. With great consideration, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A. HAMILTON."
In a letter from Oliver Wolcott, Esq. the present secretary of the Treasury, dated July 1, '94, the following is inserted, viz. "The opinion which I entertain of the importance of the office which you hold, and of the able manner in which it has been executed, naturally inclines me to wish, that your services were more liberally rewarded."
In another letter from the same gentleman, dated Feb. 6, 1797, he says, "I sincerely lament with you the inconveniences to which all the public officers in common with yourself have been subjected by the enhanced price of living, a fact which I have never ceased to represent upon all proper occasions. I am not without hopes however that the subject of compensation will be taken up at the next session of Congress, and some general plan adopted for rendering the situations of the public officers more comfortable."
Thus it will be seen, that I have been led along from time to time, for almost 8 years; during which period I have deprived myself of almost every rational amusement by a slavish confinement to the business of my late office—at the expence of a ruined constitution and more than two thousand dollars poorer than I was at the time of receiving my commission. Can this be called "eating the Public Bread?" Behold the result!—a dismissal from an office not coveted!! But I will endeavour to find a reason, such as it may be—which is as follows, viz.—About the first of May last, a certain person who has not long been a resident in the town of Portsmouth, was very suddenly converted, (as he phrases it) and to convince his fellow citizens of his sincerity, he with great zeal and activity set about procuring signers to a paper titled an Address to the President, it having been procured by him for that purpose, couched in the strongest language—among others it was handed to me; which it seems was the premeditated plan of a Junta ; observing among themselves, that if I dared to refuse signing it my name should be set on, as they termed it; of which circumstance I was made acquainted when the Address was in embryo—of course could not but view the proceeding as it respected myself, an insult, being a public officer, who had taken the oath to support the Constitution of the United States, &c.—which oath, has ever been, and I trust ever will be held sacred and inviolate—the base suggestions of cowardly assassins to the contrary notwithstanding. The Address was accordingly offered, and I withheld my signature—upon which my reasons were demanded, and although I viewed it an impertinent question, yet I gave them in as mild and decent a manner as I was capable. Soon afterward, even before the Address was sent from this town, the well known Columbian Centinel, printed by B. Russell in Boston, exhibited an infamous publication, grossly reflecting upon several persons—among the number was my name and office annexed; for
not signing the Address alluded to, denouncing me a Jacobin , &c. indeed it called so many hard names too vulgar to repeat; at the same time loudly called for my dismissal from office, together with that of the Collector of Portsmouth, and the Captain of the Revenue Cutter, belonging to this District, and since which similar publications have appeared (all from the same source no doubt) in several of the prostituted Vehicles . The appellation Jacobin , I confess is not within my comprehension; but if a sincere desire to promote the Honor, Interest, Peace and Happiness of my country, constitutes a Jacobin , it is my earnest wish to be one, and Glory in the epithet—and it is to be much lamented that such Jacobins are not more common. But could I suppose my attachment to the country that gave me birth, was in the least degree short of the highest character in it—(believe me or not as you please) I would not wish to exist another day.
This statement of facts is not made with a view to convince "those who know" me "best" but such as do not, in order to wipe off the Odium which is implied in a dismissal from office.
The respectable part of the public, will, I hope, excuse me for thus trespassing upon their patience—being the only mode which I can adopt to vindicate conscious innocence from calumny .
I am, with all due respect, the public's most obedient, humble servant, WILLIAM GARDNER. Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, July 12th, 1798.
P. S. It is requested of those printers in the United States, who wish to do justice to the injured, to insert the preceding statement.
PHILADELPHIA, July 2. The British embarked fifteen thousand troops on the 13th June, from the Mole, on a secret expedition—They failed up the south-side of the island.
Two corvettes have arrived at Guadalupe, from France, and Victor Hughes is confirmed in his government eighteen months longer. A very large party is growing in the island against the General.
NEW-YORK, July 6. Extract of a letter from Hamburg, dated 5th May, to a respectable merchant in this city.
"To-morrow the eldest daughter of the Marquis La Fayette is to be married to a younger brother of Maubeuge, his fellow prisoner. The ceremony is to be performed at the French Consul's."
The Thetis British frigate has engaged with five French privateers, two of 16, two of 14, and one of 10 guns. Three of them were captured, one sunk, and the fifth escaped by means of her sweeps.
BOSTON, JULY 10. GLORIOUS APPOINTMENT.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, of Virginia, Lieutenant General & Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America.
We, this day, present our readers with an article of intelligence that must make every American heart leap with joy.—WASHINGTON, the Saviour of his Country! WASHINGTON, the brave, the great, who, after having through toils, fatigues and dangers, given Liberty and Independence to America, and raised her to a rank among the nations of the earth, flew to enjoy, in the bosom of Vernon's shades, the peace he had so manfully won, is yet willing to leave those happy scenes, again to lead her armies forth; again to testify to an admiring world that Americans will never be slaves. If there is a single son of Columbia who now feels not his whole soul roused, to energetic activity, whose bosom does not glow with the holy flame, let him read the language of our Hero , and then, if he can, suffer his musket to rust, or his trusty blade to remain undrawn in its mouldy scabbard, let him do so, but let him also resign the honorable title of American. Attend to the language of WASHINGTON . We have it from good authority, that when spoken to by a friend on the probability of his appointment, the old General replied, "I am ready again to go with my fellow citizens to the field of battle in the defence of the liberty and independence of my country." Such is the language of every true American; and if we act up to such language, no nation on earth will ever be able to wrest our dear bought Liberties and Independence from us. [Com. Ad.]
JUNE 12. Capt. Pike arrived yesterday from Jeremie, informs, that the British fleet and troops, 9000 in number, which lately evacuated Port-au-Prince, intended an attack on Aux-Cayes.
FRENCH BARBARITY. UNEQUALLED.
Mr. Samuel Prince, who arrived in town yesterday from Basseterre (Guadalupe) via Salem, has communicated the following particulars of a transaction, which must rouse the indignation, and interest the feelings of every American.
Capt. Ebenezer Smith, of the armed ship Hunter , of this place, bound for Martinique, in lat. 14. 38. fell in with a French privateer sch. of 8 guns, & 80 men, who after hailing Capt. S. & demanding him to come on board with
his papers, was replied to by Capt. S. that he was willing to see them on board and exhibit his papers; but that he was engaged in a lawful trade, and being armed, would suffer no other interruption.
The privateer then immediately fired, and repeated it both with cannon & musketry, until she got nearly abreast of the ship, when unfortunately, at the moment Capt. S. was giving orders to point the guns and fire into the privateer, which was executed in part with effect, he was wounded in the groin, and fell to the deck; this unhappy circumstance created confusion on board the ship, the helmsman quitted his station, the vessel fell off, and the privateer instantly laid along side and boarded: previous to this, Mr. Stafford, the boatwain was killed, the mate, and Mr. David Bradlee, a passenger, wounded.
Here commenced a scene which would have disgraced savages. Capt. Smith, wounded as he was, lying bleeding in the passageway, was assaulted, and received more than seven stabs & cuts, in his breast, back, sides and arms. Young Bradlee having discharged a blunderbuss and killed one of the officers on board the privateer, was probably marked out as a victim; those monsters cut him into pieces, and threw him overboard. They also cut and wounded Mr. Prince, who was a passenger on board. A son of Capt. Smith's, about 13 years old, being found in one of the state rooms, was dragged out; and while the poor lad, had his hands over his head to guard it in some measure from the blows which were aimed to dispatch him, had them cut in a shocking manner.
SALEM, July 13. On Tuesday last, arrived here, the sch'r Trial , Capt. Daniel Ropes, 15 days from Guadalupe. Captain Ropes was taken, bound from this port direct to Guadalupe, had made the island, and in a few hours would have been into port, when he was boarded by a 10-gun privateer, carried in and condemned, vessel and cargo, pretending that he intended to go to Montserrat. Capt. R. procured a vessel at Guadalupe, in order to bring home his own people, and other Americans in the same situation. The sch'r Lucy , Holmes, of Plymouth, was taken and condemned, though bound also, bona fide, to Guadalupe, and though he had been before brought to, examined, and permitted to pass, by another cruiser. Capt. Timothy Wellman, also, of this town in the like predicament, was condemned; and the ship Fox , Whippoorwill, of New-Bedford, captured on her return from a whaling voyage to the South Sea. Capt. Holmes and Whippoorwill, with several of their hands, came home with Capt. Ropes.—A Capt. Titcomb of Portland was cleared, not having much value to condemn. Two corvettes, arrived at Guadalupe from France, in 24 days passage, brought instructions (as Capt. R. understood) for the privateers to distress the American trade all in their power, and for Hughes to do every thing against this country, but profess open war.
To the other melancholy accounts from Guadalupe, we are unhappy to add the death of Mr. JOHN NICHOLS, son of Capt. Ichabod Nichols, of this town, Æt. 21.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. TUESDAY, JULY 3.
THE bill passed for the further protection of the commerce of the U. S. 46 votes being in favor of it. Mr. Harper offered the following resolutions.
Resolved, That it is expedient to augment the Provisional Army of the United States, to fifty thousand men.
Resolved, That it is expedient to enable the President of the United States to proceed, whenever he shall judge it conducive to the public welfare, to the appointment of all the officers of the said army, and the organization of its staff; such officers not to be on pay until called into actual service.
Resolved, That it is expedient to enable the President of the United States to raise immediately, and bring into actual service, one division of the said army, to consist of not more than twelve thousand five hundred men.
Resolved, That it is expedient to enable the President of the United States, to raise and bring into actual service, a corps of non-commissioned officers, for those divisions of the said army which may not be immediately raised: the said corps not to exceed the number of twelve hundred, and to do duty as a separate corps of the army, until their services in all or any of the said divisions, shall be required.
Resolved, That it is expedient to enable the President of the United States, to obtain by purchase, loan or other contract, for the use of the United States, any number of vessels of war, not exceeding ten, in addition to those heretofore authorized by law; and of such force, not less than thirty-two guns each, as he may judge advantageous for the public service, and to man and equip the same.
Resolved, That it is expedient to enable the President of the United States to establish one or more dock-yards for the United States, with suitable buildings for marine stores, arsenals and magazines.
Ordered to lie on the table till to-morrow.
Mr. Livingston again laid the resolution upon the table which he offered and withdrew yesterday, proposing an address to the President. He said he should not himself call it up at present; but if any other gentleman chose to do so, he should not object to it.
The Speaker said, that the gentleman must know that when a proposition is offered to the House, it is offered for decision.
The question being loudly called for, Mr. Kittera wished to propose an amendment to this resolution, in the following words, viz. "and in case the said Envoy shall have been ordered out of the French Republic , or taken into custody, then with such other person or persons as the French Directory may select."
Mr. Thatcher seconded the motion.
Mr. Harrison hoped the yeas and nays would be taken upon this amendment. Agreed.
Mr. N. Smith was sorry this motion was made. He thought it trilling with treason. He wished not to be called to give a vote on so infamous a resolution as he considered this to be. (A call to order.)
Mr. Ouis hoped the mover of this amendment would withdraw it. It could only have been intended to cast a censure upon the resolution—a censure much milder than he should himself have been inclined to call upon it, which having been done, he trusted the gentleman would not place his friends in so disagreeable a situation as to be obliged to vote upon it.
Mr. Kittera said, the House must have seen his object in making this motion. The resolution which had been laid upon the table by the gentleman from New-York, was so abhorrent to all his ideas of propriety, that he had taken this mode of shewing his disapprobation of it, in the strongest manner in which he would do it. We have said he, sent three Envoys to the French Republic in order to terminate our differences with that nation; but the Directory have not chosen to treat with these three Commissioners, but have insultingly selected one from amongst them, with whom they say they are ready to treat, but upon the terms offered to all the three. If this one Envoy should be sent off, or imprisoned, therefore before the fresh instructions which the gentleman from New-York wishes to be sent off should be received, it would be proper that the Directory should make choice of some other person with whom they will be willing to treat. Having, however, shown his pointed dislike of the proposition before the House, by the present motion, he would withdraw it.
Mr. Livingston said, he would not have troubled the House with any farther observations on this motion, if not forced to do it by certain expressions which had been used respecting it. One gentleman has called it an infamous resolution; another had said that the motion which had been made and withdrawn, was too mild a censure upon it; another gentleman looked upon it with abhorrence. If this resolution is so extremely abhorrent, he should have been glad if gentlemen would have condescended to have shown wherein its abhorrence lies. What is this resolution: Does it tend to dishonor this country, by proposing to agree with any degrading terms offered by the Directory ? No such thing! What is it, but to request the President of the United States to instruct the Envoy , whom he himself appointed, to make such a treaty with France as shall be consistent with our honor and interest? Yet this resolution is called infamous. If this term was applicable to his motion, he was ignorant of the meaning of words.
The Speaker said, as the gentleman from Connecticut, who made use of this expression, has been called to order, any remarks upon it were equally out of order.
Mr. L. said he would make no comments upon it, but confine his remarks to the resolution itself. It was his desire, if possible, to prevent a war with France , which must involve this country in great distress—which may, perhaps, destroy it, all for the sake of a punctilio . He was not ashamed of this opinion any where. It would be for the interest, for the dignity of this country, to conclude an honorable peace with France ; more so than any war which we could possibly wage. The fate of war must be doubtful—the honor of it extremely so. For his part, he saw none that could be derived from war. He wished to avoid it, if it could be avoided with honor. He was far from proposing to prefer peace at the expence of our honor. All he wished was that the Envoy at present in Paris should, if possible, make a treaty founded upon the instructions originally given. Is there, exclaimed he, any thing so extremely bad in this? On the contrary, he knew it was the wish of a majority of the people of this country that a treaty should, if possible, be made, and by that means prevent the necessity of war.
But it should seem as if gentlemen were ready to say, that it is better to go to war, than that one of our Envoys should make a treaty for us, as if they were ready to draw the sword, and because three feals cannot be put to a treaty, instead of one. He was not for doing this, nor were his constituents; nor did he believe that either he or they should ever be ashamed of this resolution. It would always be a consolation to them that he had endeavored to preserve the peace of the country, so long as it could consistently be done.
It was altogether a misrepresentation, Mr. L. said, to insinuate that the person whom he wished to be instructed to treat, was appointed by the Directory ; he was chosen by the President of the United States, and commissioned by him with separate powers. And yet this man, thus appointed, is spoken of as a man chosen by the Executive Directory of France ! He wished Gentlemen to reconcile this to themselves; he could not do it.
Mr. Matthews thought this resolution ought to be explained, before gentlemen were called to vote upon it. He therefore moved the following amendment: "Whereas this House has lost all confidence in the President of the United States, and his desire of plunging this country in all the horrors of war with our good friends, is so evident, therefore resolved, &c."
This motion not being seconded, the Yeas and Nays were taken upon Mr. Livingston's proposition, as follows:
YEAS. Messrs. Baldwin, Bard, Benton, Blount, Burgess, T. Claiborne, Clapton, Davis, Dawson, Fowler, Gallatin, Gillespie, Gregg, Harrison, Havens, Heister, Jones, Livingston, Locke, Lyon, Mason, McClenachan, McDowell, New, Nicholas, W. Smith, Stanford, Sumpner, J. Trigg, R. Williams. 39. NAYS. Messrs. Allen, Baer, Bartlett, Bayard, Brooks, Bullock, Champlin, Chapman, W. Claiborne, Cochran, Coit, Craik, Dana, Dent, Edmond, Evans, A. Foster,

D. Foller, J. Freeman, Glen, Goodrich, Gordon, Griswold, Grove, Hanna, Harper, Hartley, Hindman, Holmes, Hosmer, Inlay, Kittera, Lyman, Matthews, Otis, I. Parker, Reed, Schureman, Sewall, Sinnickson, Siggraves, N. Smith, Sprague, Sprigg, Thatcher, Thomas, Tillinghast, Van Alen, Varum, Venable, Wadsworth. 51.
Mr. Harper laid a resolution upon the table, proposing that if any state indebted to the United States, in the balance of accounts at the close of the late war, shall expend any money in erecting or enlarging their fortifications, upon plans approved by the President of the United States, such sums shall be considered as in part payment of the said balance.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 4. The House of Representatives met agreeably to adjournment, at 10 o'clock, but on the Speaker's taking the chair a few minutes after ten, and a quorum of members not being present, Mr. Dawson said, as it was not usual to attend to business on this day, he hoped the House would adjourn. The House adjourned accordingly.
ALEXANDRIA, July 6. Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Cape Francois, dated 17th June, to a merchant in this city. "An American armed brig mounting 12 pieces cannon, had a smart engagement a few days ago with a privateer mounting 14 guns, the former had four men killed and the latter six. The brig was boarded and carried into Gonaives."
A French Pirate captured. [No 1.] PHILADELPHIA, JULY 9. Yesterday Capt. Decatur, of the United States Sloop Delaware arrived at the Navy-Office. He informs, that the Delaware failed on Friday last, and on Saturday evening captured a French privateer schooner of 12 guns and 70 men, close in with Egg Harbour, and last evening the prize was brought to Fort Mifflin. Capt. Decatur left his ship at New-Castle, and brought this intelligence to town. Capt. D. after he had got to sea on Saturday morning, met with the ship Alexander Hamilton, from New-York to Baltimore, the Capt. of which informed him, that he had been plundered by a French privateer, and gave him directions what course he had steered. Capt. D. immediately went in search of her, and soon got in sight of four schooners; but not knowing which was the armed schooner that he had received information of, he thought it best to stand off as if he were a merchantman, and alarmed at what might be armed vessels.
The manœuvre had the intended effect, for the armed schooner gave her chase, until she discovered the Delaware to be a vessel of force, when she attempted to steer off and get in land (where she supposed she could be safe, taking the Delaware for an English vessel of war) but she was obliged to surrender after a pretty long chase to the Delaware, and several shot being fired at her. This privateer is a new vessel, said to have been built at Baltimore. She failed from Cape Francois on the 19th June, and has been on our coast only two days, during which time she has captured the ship Liberty, Capt. Verdenberg, which failed a few days since from this port for Liverpool; the vessel was sent to the West-Indies, and the Capt. and crew of the Liberty were put on board a vessel bound for Boston. This privateer had also taken an English brig.
NEW-YORK, July 9. The privateer Revenge, when taken by his Majesty's ship Thetis, was on the way to lay within the Delaware, there to wait the arrival of an American East-India ship that had put into one of the W. India Islands, where she had armed. This information they obtained from an American vessel a few days before, and in consequence suffered a vessel from Barbadoes, partly laden with rum, to pass, not chusing to weaken their force by detachments, as it was their intention to board the American ship, even after she had entered the Delaware.
A Dublin paper of May 8, gives an account of the capture of the Hercules French man of war of 74 guns, by the British ship Mars, of 74, after a long and obstinate engagement, the Frenchman having had 350 men killed and wounded, and the Mars 83. Capt. Hood was killed by a musket ball late in the action, which happened near Brest. The Hercules was carried into Plymouth.
HARTFORD, July 9. On Saturday last returned Capt. Horace Church, late master of the brig Hope, owned in this town. He was captured on his voyage to Cape Nicholas Mole and carried into Port de Paix, where he was stripped of everything except his wearing apparel, and treated with the most insulting language; "Your countrymen are cowards—they dare not fight: we will capture and condemn your vessels so long as we please, &c."—Capt. Church informs that about the 10th of June, six small picaroons failed from Port de Paix, for the purpose of capturing and robbing American vessels.
BOSTON, July 11. The aged WASHINGTON is at the head of the Armies of the United States once more. He gained us Independence; and his soul is too great to suffer the armies of the ferocious republic of France, to snatch this independence from us. WASHINGTON carries still with him the American Cockade, which he has uniformly worn.—Where then is the old, or the young man, that will hesitate for a moment to follow his example.
The appointment of GEORGE WASHINGTON, a Commander in Chief for the military forces of the United States, is one of those glorious events, which no tongue can describe, no pen do justice to. It will unite every American heart; and nerve every arm, in the common cause:—His name alone will strike terror in the heart of the mushroom Warriors of Europe, and his presence through the continent, the tour of which we are informed he means shortly to make, will confirm the doubtful, establish the strong, and give the last pang to expiring Jacobinism.
With pleasure we observe an account that eleven sail of French privateers were taken out of the port of Jean Rabel, on the 11th June, by a British frigate.
Latest from FRANCE. The ship Diana, Capt. White, from Bordeaux, bound to New-York, touched at Newport on Tuesday morning last. She left France the 23rd May. The news by her is, that the Sophia, armed brig had arrived in France, and that in consequence Mr. Gerry had left Paris:—That a fleet of 40 sail of armed ships had sailed from Toulon, about the 14th May, having Gen. Buonaparte on board. The destination of this squadron was not known at Bordeaux:—That preparations for the invasion of England were still going on; and all privateers were embargoed, though it was still doubted by many whether the invasion ever would be seriously undertaken.
A convoy of 200 sail from England, with a reinforcement of 3000 troops had lately arrived at Martinique, where Admiral HERVEY was still with 10 ships of the line, and several frigates.
July 16.—Commissions, granting Letters of Marque and Reprisal, were received at the Custom-House on Saturday; this expedient will give some security to our Commerce.
From NEW-YORK, July 9, 1798. We have no news, saving the capture of a French privateer of 12 guns, by the Delaware sloop of war. Generals Knox, Hamilton, Lee, and Morgan, are appointed Major-Generals of the American army.
Capt. Booth, from Halifax, arrived last evening, informs, that information was received there of 5 French privateers being on the coast; in consequence of which, orders were immediately issued, to take and bring them into port.
PORTSMOUTH, July 17. THE PRESIDENT'S ANSWER to the ADDRESS of the Legislature of this State.
To the Legislature of New-Hampshire. GENTLEMEN, My most respectful and affectionate thanks are due to your two honorable houses for an address transmitted to me by your excellent governor and presented to me by your representatives in Congress. The American nation appears to me as it does to you, on the point of being drawn into the vortex of European war—your entire satisfaction in the administration of the federal government and in the perseverance which has marked its endeavors to adjust our disputes with France is very precious to me—disrespecting and alarming as the political situation of this country is, I am conscious that no measures on my part have been wanting that could have honorably rendered it otherwise. The indignities which have been so repeatedly offered to our ambassadors, the greatest of which is the last unexampled insult, in choosing out one of the three, and discarding the other two, the wrongs and injuries to our commerce, by French depredations, the legal declaration in effect of hostilities against all our commerce and the apparent disposition of the government of France render further negotiation not only nugatory but disgraceful and ruinous. You may tax the French government with ingratitude with much more justice than yourselves. The increasing union among the people and their legislatures, is as encouraging as it is agreeable. The precept "divide and conquer" was never exemplified in the eyes of mankind in so striking and remarkable a manner, as of late in Europe! Every old republic has fallen before it—if America has not spirit and sense enough to learn wisdom from the example of so many republican catastrophes passing in review before her eyes, she deserves to suffer and most certainly will fall. I am happy to assure you, that as far as my information extends, the opposition to the federal government in all the other states as well as in New-Hampshire is too small to merit the name of division; it is a difference of sentiment on public measures, not an alienation of affection to their country.
The war-worn soldiers, and the brave and hardy sons of New-Hampshire, second to none in skill, enterprize or courage in war, will never surrender the independence, or consent to the dishonor of their country. I return my warmest wishes for your health and happiness. JOHN ADAMS. Philadelphia, June 29, 1798.
Congress of the United States. A resolution has passed to raise 12 additional regiments of Infantry and 6 troops of Light Dragoons, to be enlisted for and during the continuance of the existing differences between the United States and France; and another to augment the pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates. The Sedition Bill has undergone some alterations and amendments; the naval appropriation bill passed; and the ALIEN ACT—the act for providing the Militia with arms—and an act to declare the treaties heretofore concluded with France no longer obligatory on the United States, have severally received the signature of the President of the United States.
The Senate has sent a bill to the House, fixing the time for the next meeting of Congress, the first Monday of November next; also a resolution, fixing the adjournment for this day [July 16] It will be recollected, the House had fixed last Monday, but the Senate would not agree to it.
The Members of Congress have mounted the American Cockade.
Extract of a letter dated Halifax, 19th June, 1798.
"From the late decisions of the court and the disposition of our government, we believe there is an end to the capturing of American vessels coming from the Havannah."
In the Legislatures of the four New England States, Addresses have been voted to the President. The number of voters were 518, of which 482 were yeas, and 37 nays. Astonishing unanimity. There cannot be more on any important occasion.
The Galen, Mackay, a very valuable and constant trader between Boston and London, is taken and carried into Bayonne, France.
The Senate have passed a bill fixing the valuation of lands, and the enumeration of slaves, within the United States.
Several persons died lately at New-York, by imprudently drinking large draughts of cold water, while in a heat.
Sir Sidney Smith, the celebrated valiant British Naval Officer, has escaped from a long confinement in Paris, travelled through France and got safe to England.
Extract of a letter from a merchant at the Havannah, to a gentleman in this town, dated June 12.
"Almost every vessel bound to the Havannah is brought in by the French as prizes, and a shilling's worth of English goods is sufficient to condemn them. There are now more than 20 Americans brought in here, and it is expected they will all be condemned."
A friend in Philadelphia informs us, that Gen. WASHINGTON intends making a tour of the Continent, to enliven and strengthen the country.—He will, as he progresses northward, find the prevalence of a spirit, which at the expense of a twenty years war, would have been a cheap bargain.
The frigate Constellation was spoken June 28, lat. 36. 13. long. 75. 10. full manned. The Constitution frigate is under sailing orders.
Federal Appointments. J. Pierce, Commissioner of Loans for the State of New-Hampshire. T. Martin, Collector for the District of Portsmouth, in N. Hampshire. S. Adams, Surveyor and Inspector of the Revenue for the port of Portsmouth, in N. Hampshire. H. G. Campbell, of S. Carolina, master of a Revenue Cutter.
DIED.—At Kittery, the 2d inst. Mrs. ABIGAIL SEWALL, relict of Stephen Sewall, late of Hallowell.
On the 8th inst. Mrs. ELIZABETH BARTLETT, wife of John Heard Bartlett, Esq. The life of this lady was amiable and exemplary, adorned with those graces and virtues that do honor to the christian character; as a wife she was careful and affectionate, as a mother tender and indulgent, as a friend faithful and constant, and as a neighbor kind and friendly.—She bid adieu to this world with an humble resignation to the divine will, an entire dependence on Christ, and with a good hope of a blessed immortality.
In this town, Mrs. Bickford, aged 98; a child of Mr. Samuel Bick; a child of Mr. Thomas Jones; a child of Mr. Russell.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE. District of PORTSMOUTH, N. H. ENTERED FROM Schooner Industry, Trefethen, Grenada. Brig Gustavus, Blunt, ditto. CLEARED FOR Schooner Thomas, Hutchins, Martinico. Ship Lydia, Moore, Norfolk. Schooner Industry, Oram, Curacao.
FOR SALE A new genteel fall-back Chaise, with a good Horse, cheap for cash, if necessary, a generous credit will be given for a part, inquire of G. Doig, Portsmouth.
A chance for 2000 dollars.
WHOLE and QUARTER Tickets in the 5th Class of Dartmouth College Lottery, for sale at J. MELCHER'S Printing-Office and Book-Store, corner of Market and Congress Streets, Portsmouth, where prizes drawn to the tickets purchased there will be paid.
REMOVED. MARKET-STREET, PORTSMOUTH.
Rich'd Evans Has received a very large and fashionable assortment of the best ENGLISH and INDIA GOODS; HE informs his friends he has removed to the store directly opposite the one he formerly occupied—and that he shall be very happy in receiving their commands. He wants to purchase 5000 yards good Tow Cloth.
NANKINS. Richard Evans Has just received a few bundles best NANKINS. Portsmouth, July 13, 1798. FRESH GOODS.
Edw'd Parry Has just received a fresh supply of fashionable SUMMER GOODS, Which he will sell on the lowest terms for Cash, at his store in Market-Street, Among which are—
A COMPLETE assortment of fashionable Chintzes from 2s. per yard to 6/9. Elegant assortment of Tambore, sprig and japan'd Mullins, of the latest fashion. A large assortment of book and jatonet Mullins, check'd and cross bar'd do. a few elegant muslin Dresses. Muffin Handkerchiefs and Shawls of all kinds.
A complete assortment of strip'd and figured Mullins and Dimities.
Fashionable Ginghams and Lute-strings; red and purple and white copper-plate Furniture; broad strip'd Chintz do. of the latest fashion.
Black and colored Modes; black, green and dove colored Satins; black and colored India Taffeties.
Neat assortment of fashionable ladies silk Shawls; muslin and chintz ditto; long lawn and cambric pocket Handkerchiefs.
A large assortment of ladies and gentlemen's yeoman crown Hats. Black and colored ladies satin beaver fancy Hats, and trimmed Bonnets. Bugle and other fancy Trimmings; fancy Plumes and military Feathers.
A large assortment of superfine broad and forest Cloths; black, blue, brown and mixt Kerseymeres; plain and strip'd Elasticks.
A complete assortment of fashionable summer Waistcoating; twi'd and plain Nankins; Jean and Jeanets; English and American Fustians; twi'd Velvets, Corduroys and Thicksets; Durant and Tammy Shalloons; Calamancoes and Ruffs; Mens' cotton and brown thread Hose, silk do.; silk Gloves and Mitts; fine thread Lace and Edgings; Denmark Table Cloths and Diapers; Irish Linens and Sheetings; English carpeting and India matting.
Few London made silver Watches; English sewing Twine; American Looking-Glasses, &c. &c. &c.
Orders from the country will be particularly attended to. Portsmouth, July 13, 1798.
On Wednesday the 15th day of August next will be sold at 10 o'clock, A. M. at
Abraham Isaac's Auction-Room, THAT large and elegant Library of BOOKS, lately owned by Theodore Atkinson, Esq. deceased; now part of the estate of John Sparhawk, deceased;—Also, a great variety of elegant SILVER PLATE.
WANTED FOR the use of the U. S. Fort at Portsmouth Harbour, the undermentioned Gun Carriages, viz. 3 Carriages suitable for 32 pounders. 4 Ditto suitable for 24 do. 1 Ditto suitable for 18 do. To be made of good seasoned Timber, and completed in a workman-like manner. Any persons willing to contract for the above, are requested to send their proposals in writing to
Jacob Sheafe. Portsmouth, July 13, 1798.
ONE CENT REWARD. RUNAWAY from his master the 14th inst. an apprentice boy, named THO'S BOWLER CHADBOURNE, about 18 years old, had on when he went away a blue outside jacket, fustian underwaistcoat, with striped trowsers; whoever will take up said runaway and return him to his master, free of expence, shall have one cent reward, and no charges paid.—All persons are cautioned against harbouring, trusting or trading with said runaway, as they would avoid the penalty of the law, made and provided for such cases. JOSEPH MAN. Portsmouth, July 16, 1798.
THE proprietor of the horse Bold Hunter, respectfully informs his friends who have had the use of his horse for the present season, that he shall leave this State by the first day of August next;—those who are in arrears by making it convenient to pay before that time, will materially oblige him. PHILLIP WEAVER. Greenland, July 14.
FOR SALE, The following valuable real estates situate in Portsmouth, late the property of Messrs. Richard and Joseph Champney, viz. A large and handsome DWELLING HOUSE, In Buck-Street, WITH a valuable
lot of land adjoining, now in the occupation of Mr. Richard Champney, the house and buildings are in complete repair, and the situation very eligible.
The new and elegant Brick Store on spring hill, now in the occupation of Mr. Peter Coffin and others, being three stories in height in front, and five stories in the rear, measuring 25 feet by 44; is calculated to accommodate two or more tenants, and is the best stand for business in the town of Portsmouth.
The Rope Walk with all the utensils necessary for carrying on that business, in complete repair; together with a lot of land adjoining sufficient to erect another Walk thereon.
Also one proprietor's share in the New-Hampshire Hotel and Portsmouth Pier.
The foregoing estates are offered for sale on advantageous terms to the purchaser, and if requested a generous credit with approved security will be given.—For further particulars enquire of WILLIAM SMITH, Esq. Boston, or Mr. NATH'L A. HAVEN, of Portsmouth. Portsmouth, July 16, 1798.
TO BE SOLD At Public Vendue, On the 9th day of August next, at 3 of the clock afternoon, at the late dwelling house of Jonathan Tilton, late of Kensington, yeoman, deceased, BY virtue of a licence from the Judge of Probate, so much of the Real Estate of the Homestead of said deceased, as will pay his debts. JOSEPH TILTON, } Attorneys to ENOCH ROWE, } the Admin'rs. Kensington, July 10, 1798.
For Philadelphia, THE sloop Harmony, Daniel Prows commander, will positively sail in 6 or 7 days, for freight or passage apply to the master on board now lying at long wharf. DANIEL PROWS. Who has for sale 70 white oak Schoons with heading. Portsmouth, July 15, 1798.
THE subscribers being appointed commissioners, by the Hon. Samuel Tenney, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, to receive, examine and adjust all the claims of the creditors to the estate of Captain BENJAMIN CLARKE, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent, do hereby give notice that they will attend on said business at the Town-Clerk's office, in Portsmouth, on the third Wednesday of this, and the five following months, from 2 to 6 o'clock, P. M. GEO: WENTWORTH, } Commis- A. R. HALL, } sioners. WILLIAM SEAVEY, } Portsmouth, July 11, 1798.
Dartmouth-College LOTTERY. Class Fifth.
THE Managers of Dartmouth-College Lottery, to accomplish, as far as possible, the design of the Lottery, are again induced to solicit the patronage of the friends of Literature, and request the attention of the enterprising, to the chance exhibited in the following
SCHEME.   Prizes. Dollars. Dollars.    1 of 2000 is 2000  1 1000 1000  2 500 are 1000  3 300 900  5 200 1000  25 100 2500  30 50 1500  40 30 1200  50 20 1000  110 10 1100  1350 8 10,800  24,000  
6000 Tickets at 4 dollars, are 24,000 Subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 per cent. The Prize of 1000 Dollars will be placed to the last drawn Blank. The drawing will commence at Concord, on Thursday the 22nd day of November next; and when completed, a List of Prizes will be immediately published, and the Prizes paid on demand. JONA. FREEMAN, } Managers. MICHAEL MCCLARY, } WILLIAM A. KENT, } June 19th, 1798.
A Hostler wanted. WANTED a Hostler for the Livery stable of the subscriber; a white man, one that is single, acquainted with the work and willing to do it, such a one will meet with encouragement from J. DAVENPORT. Portsmouth, July 10, 1798.

Public notice is hereby given, THAT proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury for supplying the United States with a number not exceeding forty thousand stands of arms, on the following conditions:
1st. The arms shall be manufactured in the United States, conformable to the Charleville pattern; the barrels shall be proved, and the muzzles inspected agreeable to the rules now practiced and required by the United States: the Locks shall be duly hardened; the Ramrods and Bayonets shall be tempered and the mountings, stocks, and every other particular shall be finished in a workman-like manner.
2d. The proposals must specify the number which the party is willing to furnish and the time or times of delivery: One fourth of the proposed number must be delivered in six months, one fourth in twelve months, and the remainder in eighteen months from the time of signing the contracts; the public will not be considered as bound to receive any arms, which are not ready for delivery within the times proposed.
3d. For every stand of arms, with Bayonet and Ramrod complete as aforesaid, the United States will allow thirteen dollars and forty cents.
4th. When practicable and consistent with existing arrangements, seasoned stocks will be delivered from the public stores in Philadelphia to contractors, at the rate of twenty-five cents each.
5th. The arms will be received in the respective states at places to be hereafter designated: The United States shall not be bound to prove less than five hundred barrels at one time, unless the barrels are transported to some public factory or deposit of arms, in which case any number not less than one hundred will be proved.
6th. The parties contracting will be required to give bonds with sureties for fulfilling their engagements; No money will be advanced unless satisfactory testimonials of skill and ability to execute the proposed contracts are produced, nor in cases where proposals are made for a less number than one thousand stands of arms; the right of judging of the expediency of making the advances of money is absolutely reserved.
7th. Until contracts are made for supplying forty thousand stands of arms, the sum of thirteen dollars and forty cents will be paid at the Treasury for every complete stand of arms manufactured in the United States and which may be delivered in parcels of not less than twenty into the public arsenals, already or hereafter to be established. Those who propose to deliver arms must however indicate their intentions seasonably to the office of the Secretary of the Treasury.
OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
Treasury Department, June 22d, 1798. N. B. The proposals are to be transmitted under cover to the Secretary of the treasury at Philadelphia. [1st Ser.]
State of New-Hampshire. APPLICATION having been made to me by the owners of more than one fifteenth part of the township of Trefethick, in the county of Grafton and State aforesaid, to call a meeting of said proprietors at the house of Mr. Jacob Walden, at the New-Hampshire Hotel, on Wednesday the 25th day of July next ensuing, at 10 o'clock, A. M. for the following purposes, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator of said meeting.
2d. To see what consideration in land or money, that the proprietors will give to Col. Alexander Craige for laying the sixty acre lots in the first division.
3d. To vote a confirmation to said Craige and his assigns, of such lots as he has pitched upon agreeable to any votes of this propriety.
4th. To appoint a committee to apply to the General Court, on what may be thought advisable and necessary for ascertaining the boundaries of said township, which are infringed upon by the adjoining towns and other matters.
5th. To receive, hear and determine upon any memorials of any persons who may apply and present the same to the proprietors at said meeting, respecting their claims to any lands in said town by vote or otherwise.
6th. To appoint an agent or agents to prosecute any trespasser on any land located or undivided in said town, and to defend any actions which may be brought against this proprietary on any account.
7th. To consult on any other prudent concerns of said proprietary at said meeting.
In compliance with the foregoing application, I do hereby warn a meeting of said proprietors of Trefethick, at the time and place aforementioned, and for the purposes aforesaid. JOHN WENDELL, Prop's Clerk. Portsmouth, June 27, 1798.
State of New-Hampshire. In the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight. AN ACT for raising a tax on the lands, and for making a road through the town of Lincoln. WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of the towns of Campton, Thornton and Peeling, have petitioned the General Court, representing that a road has been laid out by a committee appointed by the court of General Sessions of the Peace, in the county of Grafton, leading from said Campton through said Thornton and Peeling, into and through Lincoln, in said county, and from thence to the road leading from Haverhill to the upper Coos; which road has not been made passable by reason of the said Court of Sessions not having authority to assess a tax upon certain lands through which said road is laid, and praying for a tax to be laid on said town of Lincoln, to be assessed, collected and laid out in clearing and making passable said road, which prayer appearing reasonable: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That unless the proprietors of said township of Lincoln, within twelve months from and after the passing of this act, shall cut, clear and make passable the road aforesaid, and within thirteen months from this time, shall produce a certificate from a majority of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for said county of Grafton, and the same certificate within thirteen months deliver to John Mooney, Peter Carlson and Nathan Kiniman, Esquires, who are hereby appointed a committee, and empowered and directed to levy and assess a tax of three cents per acre upon all the lands in said town of Lincoln, public rights excepted, for the sole purpose of clearing and making passable such parts of said road as is within the limits of said town of Lincoln, to be assessed in one lift.
And be it further enacted, That the said committee be, and they hereby are authorized and empowered to appoint a suitable person as a Collector, for the purpose of collecting said tax: And said committee shall assess said tax, and make a warrant for collecting the same, directed to said collector, and he shall levy and collect said tax with incidental charges, from the lands of any delinquent owner or owners, by selling such part or parts thereof at public auction, as shall be sufficient to discharge the same, after having given six weeks successive notice of the assessment, and of the time and place of such intended sale, in the New-Hampshire Gazette, and in some one newspaper to be printed in said county of Grafton, and by posting up a like notification and for the same term of time, in some public place in said town of Lincoln; and said collector is hereby authorized and empowered upon the sale of said lands, or any part thereof, to execute good and valid conveyances of such lands to the purchasers, reserving to the proprietors or owners thereof, the right of redemption, as non-resident proprietors by law now have.
And be it further enacted, That the monies raised by virtue of this act shall be wholly appropriated to the purpose of making and clearing the said road in said town of Lincoln, and that for the performance thereof the committee aforesaid shall give bond to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county of Grafton, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, that they will well and truly appropriate and apply the monies raised pursuant to this act to the sole purpose of cutting, clearing and making passable the road aforesaid, and defraying the expenses thereof; and that they will within three years from this time render a just and true account of their doings, the monies by them received, and of their expenditures, to the Justices of said Court of Common Pleas, and the Justices of said Court, on receiving said account, are hereby directed to set a time and place for settling the same, of which time and place they shall give two months notice, by publishing the same three weeks successively in the newspaper in which advertisements for the taxes on non-residents lands shall at that time, by law be directed to be published in, and in some newspaper printed in said county of Grafton, and the said Justices are hereby authorized to adjust and settle said accounts with said committee.
And be it further enacted, That the collector to be appointed by said committee, shall, before he proceeds to act, give bonds to said committee, and be sworn faithfully to discharge the duties incumbent on him by virtue of this act.
And be it further enacted, That the committee aforesaid shall, as soon as may be, cause this act to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, and in some newspaper published in said county of Grafton.
Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That the proprietors aforesaid, if they shall cut, clear and make passable said road, and procure a certificate as aforesaid, shall pay to said committee for publishing this act, the sum by them paid to the respective printers, together with other necessary expenses in publishing the same. Approved, June 20, 1798.
State of New-Hampshire. County of Grafton.
WHEREAS at a legal meeting of the proprietors of the township of Dryden, in said county, the proprietors voted a tax of eight dollars on each original proprietors right or share of land in said township, public rights excepted; and the said tax being assessed and a tax bill with a warrant put into my hands to collect, this is therefore to notify and warn the proprietors and owners of land in said township to pay the said tax of eight dollars on each right, to me the subscriber or to Hezekiah Parsons, jun. at the dwelling-house of Capt. Hezekiah Parsons, in Coplebrooke, in said county, on or before the first day of September next, or their lands will be advertised for sale to pay said tax, with incidental charges, as the law directs.
JABEZ PARSONS, Collector. Colebrooke, July 9, 1798.
To the Hon. Jonathan Warner, Esq. one of the Justices assigned to keep the Justices assigned to keep the Peace throughout the State of New-Hampshire, and Jonas Minot, Clerk for the proprietors of the township of Bath, under the original grant of Benning Wentworth, Esq. Governor, made September 10, 1761, situate in the county of Grafton, in the State of New-Hampshire, which was then the Province of New-Hampshire.
WE the subscribers owners of more than one sixteenth part of said township, request you to notify and warn a meeting of the proprietors and owners of land in said township, to meet at the dwelling house of Dr. Isaac Moore, innholder in said township of Bath, on the 11th day of September next, at two of the clock in the afternoon of said day, to act on the following articles, matters and things:
1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting.
2d. To choose a proprietors clerk.
3d. To choose assessors, a collector, a treasurer and any other officers that the proprietors may think proper, for conducting business respecting said township.
4th. To raise such sum or sums of money on each original right of land in said township, to pay the expenditures that has or may arise, for bringing forward the settlement of said township, and for protecting and defending the proprietors title to said township, and any other thing the proprietors may think necessary.
5th. To see what effectual method the proprietors will take to settle all disputes respecting different claimants to said township, and to make such grant or grants, deed or deeds, by themselves, their agent or their committee, as may be thought necessary for that purpose or any purpose.
6th. To receive, examine, allow and pay such accounts as may be brought against said proprietors, or act thereon as may be thought proper.
7th. To settle with their former agent, and see what further steps are necessary, respecting the boundaries of said township.
8th. To act on all other matters that may be thought necessary when met.
9th. To see what the proprietors will do with respect to laying out said town, or accept any former survey of said town.
10th. To see what method the proprietors will take to fever and divide the land among the proprietors, establish pitches heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, in such manner as to do equal justice to the owners. JONAS MINOT, LEONARD WHITING, JOHN HOWARD, FREDERIC FRENCH, MOODY BEDEL.
State of New-Hampshire. Pursuant to the foregoing application, the proprietors of Bath are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes aforesaid. Given under our hands and seals at Portsmouth, the 28th day of June, 1798. JONAS MINOT, Prop's Clerk. JONATHAN WARNER, Justice Peace throughout said State.
To the honorable Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, now sitting at Portsmouth, on the first Tuesday of February, 1798.
EBENEZER JOHNSON, jr. of Greenland, in said county, gentleman, guardian duly appointed by the Judge of Probate for said county, of George Lang of Greenland, aforesaid, adjudged by said Judge of Probate, to be non compos mentis, sheweth that before he was appointed guardian to said Lang, he had contracted debts to the amount of six hundred and fifty dollars, and as said Lang was not possessed of any personal estate to discharge said debts, your petitioner prays that he may be empowered to sell and convey so much of the real estate of said Lang as may be sufficient to raise the sum aforesaid. EBENEZER JOHNSON, jr.
Rockingham, ss.
Superior Court, Feb. term, 1798.
Ordered by the Court that the said Ebenezer notify all persons concerned to appear before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature to be held at Exeter within and for the county of Rockingham, on the third Tuesday of September next, to show cause (if any they have) why the prayer of said petition should not be granted, by causing said petition and Order of Court thereon to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, the last publication whereof to be three weeks before said term. Attest, NATHAN ADAMS, Clerk.
Copy examined by NATHAN ADAMS, Clerk.
ROCKINGHAM, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given that Nathaniel Ward, of Kensington, in said county, yeoman, has petitioned the Judge of Probate for said county, representing that he is tenant in common, with others unknown, of about one hundred and sixty acres of land, in the parish of Deerfield, in the township of Nottingham, in said county; being the lot numbered ten in the third range, in the third division of lots in said township, that he owns one quarter of said lot, and seventy-five acres more of the same, and praying for partition thereof, and that his said part may be divided and set off to him from the rest. Whereupon it is ordered, that he be heard at the probate office in Exeter, on the 30th day of July next, at 11 of the clock before noon, when the parties interested may have opportunity to make their objections to the granting such order. By order of the Judge. WILLIAM PARKER, Register. June 26, 1798.
June 30th, 1798.
Public notice is hereby given, PURSUANT to the act of Congress, passed on the 12th day of June 1798, entitled, "an act respecting Loan Office and final settlement certificates, Indents of interest, and the unfunded or registered debt credited in the books of the Treasury."
1st. That on the application of the creditors respectively, or their legal attorneys at any time after the last day of December in the present year, the principal sums of the unfunded or registered debt of the United States credited on the books of the treasury, or commissioners of Loans will be reimbursed at the treasury of the United States.
2d. That interest upon the unfunded or registered debts aforesaid will cease from and after the last day of December in the present year.
3d. That the creditors respectively will be entitled on requisition to receive from the proper officers of the treasury, certificates of funded three per cent stock, equal to the arrearages of interest due on the debts aforesaid prior to the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
By order of the Board of Commissioners, of the Sinking Fund. EDWARD JONES, Secretary.
NOTICE is hereby given to all the non-resident owners of land in the town of Stoddard, that have not paid their highway taxes for the year 1797, that so much of their land will be sold at public auction on the 3d day of September next, at 10 o'clock forenoon, at the dwelling house of Nathaniel Emerson, Esq. innholder in said town, as will pay their taxes with incidental charges, if not prevented by previous payment.
Table with 3 columns: Name, No., Rents. Lists various names and their corresponding numbers and rents, including Col. Stoddard's heirs, Asa Evans, Esq. Varnum's heirs, John Dutton, John Chamberlain, Benjamin Hoar, Thomas Read, Josiah Willard, Mary Parker, Robert Wilson, Oliver Parker, Peter Hunt, James Dunn, Nathan Cummings, Samuel Moore's heirs, Abel Tarble, Matthew Thornton, East End, Joseph Blanchard's heirs, Rolland Cotten, Joseph Read, Reuben Kidder's heirs, Samuel Stevens, Daniel Hunt, Seth Wheeler, Hugh Wilson, Aaron Barden, Henry Forgeon, Blood & Searles, Joseph Crosbey's heirs, Stephen Curtes, Steal & Draper, Jonathan Blood, John Weston, James Wilson, Maj. Mynot, Samuel Perham, John Heley, DANIEL FOSTER, Collector. Stoddard, June 28, 1798.
ALL persons having any demands against the estate of Thomas Peirce, late of Portsmouth, county of Rockingham, gentleman, deceased, are desired to exhibit them; and those who are indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to EDWARD J. PEIRCE, Attorney to THOMAS PEIRCE, Administrator. Portsmouth, June 22, 1798.
NOTICE.
The Supervisor's Office will be removed from this town to Newmarket the 18th inst.
NATHAN ROGERS, Supervisor. Portsmouth, July 2, 1798.
Treasury Department, June 27, 1798.
NOTICE is hereby given, That by virtue of an act, passed during the present session of Congress, so much of the act entitled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt" - passed the third day of March, 1795, as bars from settlement or allowance, Certificates, commonly called Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, and Indents of Interest, is suspended until the 12th day of June, which will be in the year 1799.
That on the liquidation and settlement of the said Certificates, and Indents of Interest, at the Treasury, the Creditors will be entitled to receive Certificates of funded Three Per Cent. Stock equal to the amount of the said Indents, and the arrearages of interest due on their said Certificates, prior to the first day of January, 1791.
That the principal sums of the said Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, with the interest thereon, since the 1st day of January, 1791, will be discharged after liquidation at the Treasury, by the payment of interest and reimbursement of principal, equal to the sums which would have been payable thereon, if the said Certificates had been subscribed, pursuant to the Acts making provision for the debts of the United States, contracted during the late war, and by the payment of other sums, equal to the market value of the remaining Stock, which would have been created by such subscriptions as aforesaid, which market value will be determined by the Comptroller of the Treasury. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury. June 28. [6 m.]
TO BE SOLD At Public Vendue,
By virtue of a licence from the Judge of Probate, on Monday the 30th day of July inst. at 4 of the clock, P. M. on the premises.
THE one half of a Dwelling-House, and 2 acres and 40 rods of land adjoining, situate in Exeter, belonging to the estate of Elizabeth Lamson, late of said Exeter, widow, deceased, and now occupied by Col. John Dennett. Also, sundry articles of Household furniture belonging to said estate.
Conditions of sale will be seen at the time and place of sale. NATHAN PARKER, Administrator to said Estate. Exeter, July 9, 1798.
TO BE SOLD, A HOUSE 2 stories
high, 42 feet by 30, with a good cellar, pleasantly situated at Durham landing on the north side of the river, nearly opposite the meeting house, with 3 1/2 acres of excellent LAND adjoining said house, and running 9 1/2 rods on the river, and well calculated for ship building. For particulars apply to Jonathan Woodman, living near said premises. Durham, June 25, 1798.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of the township of New-Grantham, county of Cheshire, and State of New-Hampshire, that at a meeting of said proprietors, held in said town, on the 4th day of July, 1797, a tax of 75 cents was voted and assessed on all the second hundred acre lots in said town, and 25 cents on each after division, public lands excepted; this is therefore to notify said proprietors that unless said tax is paid to the subscriber, at his dwelling house in said New-Grantham, on or before the 1st day of August next, said lands will be advertised for sale. ROBERT DUNCAN, Prop's Collector. New-Grantham, June 28, 1798.
To John Bradley, Esq. clerk of the proprietors of Philip's Grant.
THE subscribers, owners of one fifth part or more of said grant, request that you would call a meeting of said proprietors to be held at Concord, on Thursday the 6th day of September next, at the house of Benjamin Hanaford, innholder in said Concord, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting.
2d. To choose a proprietors clerk.
3d. To see if the proprietors will choose a committee to perambulate the lines of said grant, and make such monuments as they shall think proper.
4th. To see if the proprietors, will lot out all or part of said land.
5th. To see if the proprietors will admit any new proprietors to the number already concerned in whole or part.
6th. To see if the proprietors will sever and divide the land, the whole or part, or sell and dispose of the same, or part as they may think proper.
7th. To choose an agent or agents to transact any business for said proprietors.
8th. To see what sums of money the proprietors will raise.
9th. To choose assessors, collector, or any other officer that shall be thought necessary.
Pursuant to the above request to me directed, I hereby notify the proprietors of Philip's Grant, to meet at the time & place, and for the purposes set forth in said request.
Given under my hand at Concord this 18th day of June, 1798. JOHN BRADLEY, Prop's Clerk.