The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1800-04-29 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
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PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE)—PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY BY JOHN MELCHER, PRINTER TO THE STATE, AT HIS OFFICE CORNER OF MARKET STREET, WHERE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THIS PAPER, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND ARTICLES OF INTELLIGENCE ARE THANKFULLY RECEIVED.
No. 18, of Vol. XLV.]
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1800.
[One Dollar 3 half pr. Annum.]
Bartlett Adams, Sculptor and Stone Cutter, HAS arrived from Boston with a stock of ITALIAN MARBLE and Quincy Slate Stone, suitable for table slabs, hearths, chimney-pieces, tombstones and grave-stones, and many other uses—which he is determined to sell on reasonable terms, if applied for soon at Mr. Mark Rogers's wharf. N. B. Gentlemen engaged in building, may be supplied with any kind of Stone by giving a short notice. Portsmouth, April 21, 1800.
Colerain Irish Linens & India Cottons
Edw d Parry, HAS JUST RECEIVED, A NEW ASSORTMENT OF \frac{3}{4} & \frac{1}{4} best Colerain Irish LINENS. INDIA COTTONS of superior quality. And Fine British Cotton. Best Superfine Fashionable BROAD CLOTHS, and other GOODS as usual. A. L. S. O., SIX BALES OF COTTON WOOL; All of which will be sold CHEAP for CASH, or POT and PEARL ASHES. Portsmouth, April 22, 1800.
TAKE NOTICE! ALL persons having any demands against the estate of Mr. JOHN BROWN, late of Portsmouth, merchant, deceased, are hereby requested to exhibit the same; and all indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to EDW d d. PARRY, or EDW d d. J. LONG, Executors. Portsmouth, April 21, 1800.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of HEZEKIAH SMITH, late of Brentwood, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same for settlement to the subscriber, at the house of JOHN SMART, in Exeter. BETSY SMITH, Administratrix.
For Norfolk & Richmond, THE Sloop JANE, William Trefethen, master, will sail in six days.—For freight or passage apply to the master on board, or Henry Trefethen. April 23.
WANTED For a Brick building, the following articles, viz. 120 Thousand Bricks. 100 half hogheads of LIME. A quantity of hewn Stones for underpinning and paving. do. Pine Timber for flooring and for the roof. do. clear Joists, Plank & Boards. Any person disposed to contract for any of the above articles are desired to apply to either of the subscribers. GEORGE GAINS, ELIPHALET LADD, THOMAS THOMPSON, JOHN GODDARD, MARTIN PARRY, Committee. Portsmouth, April 9, 1800.
One Cent Reward. R UNAWAY from the subscriber on the 11th inst. an apprentice boy named JAMES ARLIN, about eighteen years old. All persons are cautioned against harbouring, trusting or employing said runaway, as they would avoid cost and trouble;—Any person returning said boy shall receive the above reward and no charges. BENJAH DREW, Madbury, April 15, 1800.
PHNOMENON, THAT beautiful full blooded Stallion, lately imported by Lang, Brierly and Co. from England, will stand for covering this season at the stable of Maj. Thomas Leavett, of Northampton. He is a fine chestnut, rising 3 years old, 16 and half hands high, got by the famous Phenomenon, whose Grand-dam was the noted Eclipse, Dam Recovery by Hyder Ally, Grandam Perdita by Herod, great Grandam by Sampson, and out of the Lass of the Mill. He has already proved himself to be a sure Horse. Price 9 dollars the season, and 5 a leap; to insure a foal, a price that may be agreed on at the time. Stabling and pasturing at the above place, and the best care taken of Mares when left. SAM l F. LEAVITT. N. B. All those persons that are indebted for the service of the above Horse, are requested to call and settle their accounts. April 18, 1800.
Tho's Morton Has just received and for sale at his Shoe & Leather Store, SIGN OF THE GOLDEN KEY, FORE STREET, At the lowest prices possible; A Complete Assortment of Gentlemen's, Ladies, Misses' and Children's SHOES; Whole and half Boots; Boot Legs; Leather of all kinds; Saddles and Bridles. 50 dozen blue & white Cups and Saucers. 200 Straws Tumblers. 200 Glass Decanters. A few black China Teapots, with Sugar Bowls and Creampots, of the newest fashion. 40 dozen cream colored Plates and Dishes. Common Teapots, do. Sugar Dishes, do. Creampots. 100 Fur and other Hats. Cotton; Sugar; Coffee; Tea; Rice; Flour, and Raisins. N. B. Any quantity of BOOTS, SHOES or LEATHER, suitable for any contract may be had at the above Store, by giving proper notice. Portsmouth, March 20, 1800.
TO BE SOLD At Public Auction, On the 28th day of June next, at 3 o'clock P. M. on the premises. That New and well Finished Dwelling House, WITH a convenient SHOP in front, an excellent Cellar, a Well of good water within the House, and convenient out-houses, now occupied by the subscriber. John Boadge. The premises may be viewed any day previous to the sale. Portsmouth, April 9, 1800.
State of New-Hampshire. Strafford, ss. NOTICE is hereby given to the nonresident proprietors and owners of land in New-Durham, who have not paid their proprietary tax for the year 1775, which tax is two dollars and fifty cents on each right; that unless said tax is paid to me the subscriber at my dwelling house in New-Durham, by the last day of June next, so much of their land will be advertised for sale as will pay said taxes with incidental charges. JONATHAN FOLSOM, Collector. New-Durham, April 18, 1800.
From the Commercial Gazette. Something for the LADIES. ON NOVEL READING. IF it be true, that the present age is more corrupt than the preceding, the great multiplication of Novels has probably contributed to its degeneracy. Fifty years ago there was scarce a Novel in the Kingdom. Romances, indeed, abounded; but they, it is supposed, were rather favourable to virtue. Their pictures of human nature were not indeed exact, but they were flattering representations. By exhibiting patterns of perfection, they stimulated emulation to aim at it. They led the fancy through a beautiful wilderness of delights, and they filled the heart with pure, manly, bold, and liberal sentiments. Those books also, which were written with a view to ridicule the more absurd romantic writers, are themselves most pleasing romances, and may be read without injury to the morals. Such is the immortal work of Cervantes. Perhaps the safest books of entertainment, for young people are those of decent humour, which excite a laugh, and leave the heart little affected. Books are more read in youth, than in the advanced periods of life; but there are few perfectly well adapted to the young mind. They should be entertaining, or they will not be attended to. They should not be profound, for they will not be understood. Entertaining books there are in great numbers; but they were not written solely for young people, and are therefore too unguarded in many of their representations. They do not pay that reverence which Juvenal asserts to be due to the purile age. That Richardson's Novels are written with the purest intentions of promoting virtue, none can deny. But in the accomplishment of this purpose, scenes are laid open, which it would be safer to conceal, and sentiments excited, which it would be more advantageous to early virtue not to admit. Dangers and temptations are pointed out; but many of them are dangers which seldom occur, and temptations by which few in comparison are assaulted. It is to be feared, the moral view is rarely regarded by youthful and inexperienced readers, who naturally pay the chief attention to the lively description of love and its effects; and who, while they read, eagerly wish to be actors in the scenes which they admire.—The cultivated genius of Fielding entitles him to a high rank among the classics. His works exhibit a series of pictures drawn with all the descriptive fidelity of a Hogarth. They are highly entertaining, and will always be read with pleasure; but they likewise disclose scenes, which may corrupt a mind unseasoned by experience.—Smollett undoubtedly possessed great merit. He would, however, have been more generally read among the polite and refined, if his humour had been less coarse. His Perigrine Pickle , I am convinced, has done much mischief; as all books must do, in which wicked characters are painted in captivating colors. It is certainly advisable to defer the perusal of his works, till the judgment is mature.
The writings of all such men display, however, the beauties of that genius, which allures and rewards the attention of the discerning reader. But the memoirs, private histories, and curious anecdotes, imported from our neighbouring land of libertinism, have seldom any thing to recommend them to perusal but their profligacy. Yet even these, adorned with specious titles, and a pert vivacity of language, have found their way to the circulating libraries, and are often obtruded on the attention at an early age. The English press has teemed with similar original productions. The coarse taste, which was introduced in the reign of Charles the second, was greedily adopted by the juvenile reader. At an inflammatory age, the fuel of licentious ideas will always find a ready reception. The sentimental manner seems of late to have supplanted it. But it is matter of doubt whether even this manner is not equally dangerous. It has given an amiable name to vice, and has obliquely excused the extravagance of the passions, by representing them as
the effect of lively sensibility. The least refined affections of humanity have lost their indelicate nature, in the ideas of many, when dignified by the epithet of sentimental; and transgressions forbidden by the laws of God and man, have been absurdly palliated, as proceeding from an excess of those finer feelings, which vanity has arrogated to herself as elegant and amiable distinctions. A softened appellation has given a degree of gracefulness to moral deformity.
The languishing and affectedly sentimental compositions formed on the pattern of Sterne, or of other less original Novelists, not only tend to give the mind a degree of weakness, which renders it unable to resist the slightest impulse of libidinous passion, but also indirectly insinuate, that the attempt is unnatural. What then remains to support the feeble efforts of remaining virtue, but the absence of temptation?—Such books, however pernicious their tendency, are the most easily obtained. The prudence of their publishers suggest the expediency of making them conveniently portable. Every corner of the kingdom is abundantly supplied with them. In vain is youth secluded from the corruptions of the living world. Books are commonly allowed them with little restriction, as innocent amusements, yet these often pollute the heart in the recesses of the closet, inflame the passions at a distance from temptation, and teach all the malignity of vice in solitude.
There is another evil arising from a too early attention to Novels. They fix attention so deeply and afford so lively a pleasure, that the mind once accustomed to them, cannot submit to the painful task of serious study. Authentic history becomes insipid. The reserved graces of the chaste matron. Truth are suffered to pass unobserved amidst the gaudy and painted decorations of meretricious fashion. The boy who can procure a variety of books like Gil Blas , and the Devil upon Two Sticks , will no longer find entertainment in his Livys , his Sallust , his Homer , or his Virgil . He will not study old Lily , while he can read Pamela and Tom Jones , and a thousand inferior and more dangerous novels, which are easily procured in every town throughout this kingdom. When the judgment is ripened by reflection and the morals out of danger, every well-written book will claim attention. The man of application may always find agreeable refreshment, after severe study, in the amusing pages of a Fielding ; but the amorous production of the common Novel-wright will be too insignificant to attract his notice. The extreme insipidity of some of our later Novels, it might have been supposed, would have prevented their reception. But insipid minds find in them entertainment congenial to their nature. And, indeed, the futility of the modern Novel, almost precludes its power of causing any other mischief, than the consumption of time that might be more usefully employed. If however, Novels are to be prohibited, in what, it will be asked, can the young mind employ itself during the hours of necessary leisure? To this it may be answered, that when the sweetened poison is removed, plain and wholesome food will always be relished. The growing mind will crave nourishment, and will gladly seek it in true historians, written in a pleasing and easy style, on purpose for its use. Voyages and travels, when not obscured by scientific observations, are always delightful to youthful curiosity. From interesting narratives, like those of Telemachus & Robinson Crusoe , a mind not vitiated by a taste for licentious Novels will derive a very sensible pleasure. Let the boys library consist of such books as Rollin's History , Plutarch's Lives , and the Speakers ; and, together with the improvement of his morals and understanding, which he must derive from reading them, he will have it in his power to spend his vacant time in such mental amusements as are truly and permanently delightful.
TICKETS. W HOLE and Quarter Tickets in the 7th Class of Dartmouth College Lottery, for sale at J. Melcher's Printing-office and Book-store.
FURTHER Foreign Intelligence, BY THE HELEN. LONDON, FEB. 13. T HE following are the names of Gentlemen who usually vote with Administration, that were in the Minority on Mr. Sheridan's motion, on Monday night—Hon. C. Dundas, Sir W. Geary, Dr. Lawrance, J. Langston, Lord F. Osborne, Colonel Patten, Sir M. W. Ridley, and Col. Stanley.—Several Ministerial Members went out of the House before the Division, and did not vote.
FINANCES. FEB. 25. Yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer discharged his unpleasant duty of delivering, for the approbation of the House of Commons, his scheme for the Budget or Taxes of the Year. The disagreeable nature of this task has been much softened by the encreasing trade and prosperity of the country, as well as by those direct and efficient contributions which could alone have enabled the kingdom to meet the expenditure of the present war; and it will strike some astonishment into the unwilling bosoms of our enemies that in the 8th year of the cruel and extended hostilities they have imposed upon us, the Government should have to impose Taxes to no greater amount than the sum of 350,000.
This sum in the present state of our wealth, luxury and resources, we can scarcely state as a charge upon the people. What is imposed upon Rum and Brandies, and more particularly upon British Distillery, is a measure of regulation as well as of finance, and a safeguard of the health and morals of the people. We cannot but hope that these Duties will check the consumption of these unwholesome liquors, nor doubt but the Revenue will receive more from the tax than it is taken at.—220,000. are raised upon these destructive commodities.
The next Tax, and, what is surprising, the only one that remains, is laid upon the high priced Teas, and consequently the poor and the economical are excepted from its operations.—This burthen will not be felt upon the shoulders where it falls, and is no more than five per Cent upon the breakfasts of the rich—not as they are produced at the Grocers, but at the sales of the East India Company; before the duties attach to them.
We have already adverted to those direct and efficient Taxes which have rendered the new impositions so light and imperceptible. The Income Tax, & the convoy Bill, produce eight millions and a quarter.
The Bank Charter diminishes the sum to be provided for to the amount of three millions, but the surplus of the Consolidated Fund, which is the result of general prosperity, diminishes the debtor account in no less than five millions and a half. These sums added to a Loan of eighteen millions and a half, procured at a rate of interest infinitely beneath the legal tariff, leave only 350,000. to be provided for in the manner we have specified, and the whole arrangement and provision for the expenditure of the year, has the rare fortune of imposing no new hardships or privations upon the people, and of shewing our resources to our Allies and our enemies, without burthening our commerce or interfering with private enjoyment.
FEB. 27. It is reported that one of the conditions of the Treaty concluded between this Country and the Emperor of Germany is—that neither of the contracting parties shall make a separate Peace.
The ORLEANS FAMILY. On Saturday the Duke de Montpensier and the Count de Beaujolais, the younger brothers of the Duke of Orleans, arrived at their residence in Sackville-street, from Clifton near Bristol, where one of them had been confined several days by illness. The Duke of Orleans had arrived in town three days before; and his first visit was very properly made to Monsieur, of whom he had requested an audience immediately on his arrival. On Thursday the Duke waited on his Royal Highness, and being in-

introduced into his closet, he addressed him by saying, "that he had come to ask forgiveness for all his faults, which he hoped would be forgotten. They were the effect of error, and were chiefly to be attributed to the evil counsels of an intriguing woman (Madame de Genlis) who had been entrusted with the care of his education." He added—"that he was ready to shed the last drop of his blood in the reparation of his errors, and in defence of the rights of his lawful Sovereign. My Brothers (continued he) whom I have left indisposed at Clifton, participate in my sentiments, and will hasten to offer to your Royal Highness the same protestations of their repentance."
Monsieur then embraced the Duke, and replied, "that he had no doubt of the sincerity of the professions he had just heard. He received them with pleasure; but he recommended to the Duke to repeat them to the King himself, and he should have great satisfaction in forwarding his letters to Mittau." As soon as this conversation had ended, Monsieur and the Duke went into the drawing-room, where were assembled several Emigrants, of the first distinction, before whom the Duke of Orleans begged leave also to make a recantation of his errors. He then expressed his wish to see his Uncle the Duke de Bourbon; and the Duke de Mailhe having been sent to apprise his Highness of the intended visit, it was soon after made, and a reconciliation took place, in the same manner as with Monsieur.
On Friday, the Duke of Orleans again waited on Monsieur with the letter to Louis XVIIIth, at Mittau, which was forwarded on the same evening. Monsieur recommended that another should be written, signed by each of the three Brothers, and in still stronger terms, which the Duke promised to see executed immediately on their coming to town.
May the reconciliation of every branch of this unfortunate and illustrious House be the prelude of returning felicity!
GENOA, JAN. 28.
The apprehension that the fever which prevails in this place should degenerate into an epidemic disease, has obliged us to adopt every salutary precaution. In consequence of the remonstrance of the Superintendents of Hospitals, the Government has just appointed situations without the city for the reception of the sick belonging to the French. There are at present no less than 1500 sick in the Grand Hospital. The sick belonging to the Ligurian Republic are to be taken care of in the Auxiliary Hospitals.
VIENNA, (GERMANY) JAN. 28.
A corps of 10,000 Neapolitan troops, 4,000 of which are cavalry, will join our army in Italy, under the command of Field-Marshal the Prince of Hesse Philipsthal.
PARIS, FEB. 19.
Extracts from the Registers of deliberation of the Consuls of the Republic.
"Paris, Feb. 7."
"The Consuls of the Republic in consequence of the Report of the minister of the Interior, having also heard the opinion of the Council of State, decrees as follows:
"Article 1. The result of the votes given with respect to the Constitution, shall be proclaimed, published, and posted up in all the Communes of the Republic.
"2. A national festival shall be celebrated in all the Communes of the Republic, in honor of the acceptance of the Constitution, and expressly designated as a national consecration of the Union of the French.
"3. This festival shall be celebrated in the decade following the complete pacification of the Western Departments.
"4. The Minister of the Interior is charged with the execution of the present decree, which shall be inserted in the bulletin of the laws, and in the report of the ministers.
(Signed) "Buonaparte, First Consul. (Counter-signed) "H. B. Maret, Sec. of State."
"L. Buonaparte, minister of the interior."
LONDON, FEB. 20.
PETITION FOR PEACE.
In consequence of a requisition sent to the Lord Mayor, signed by several of the Liverymen of London, a Common Hall was held yesterday at Guildhall, in order to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning the House of Commons on the state of public affairs, and that they would use their efforts to cause a negotiation for Peace to be opened between this country and the French Republic.
The Lord Mayor, after having stated the requisition he had received, observed, that it was his firm intention to conduct the business of the day with the strictest impartiality, and he earnestly requested the Liverymen would enable him to do so, by patiently hearing every Gentleman to the
end of his speech, whatever might be his sentiments. His Lordship then went on to state, that he had also received a requisition from another part of the Livery, Mr. Kemble and others, requesting him to take care that no improper persons were introduced into the Hall. His Lordship said he had already done so, by giving particular instructions to his officers. He then requested, that if any Gentleman knew of any Non-Liverymen being in the Hall, that they would point them out.
Mr. Waithman introduced the motion respecting petitioning the House of Commons, and said that it was an assertion of the Minister's, that the people of this country were against the measure of negotiating with the French Republic at the present crisis. It was therefore proper their opinion should be resorted to. Mr. Waithman was then entering into a long detail of the situation of France, but he was obliged to desist. The question being loudly called for.
Mr. Alderman Price with firm and manly arguments opposed the motion, and said he would give way to no man for independence of spirit, nor was there any man that had a more sincere regard for the rights and privileges of the Citizens of London. He was a sincere well-wisher of Peace, though he could not agree to enter into any negotiation with the French Republic at the present juncture.
The question being put, his Lordship declared it was carried in the affirmative.
Here a great altercation took place between the Government and Opposition parties, respecting who had the majority. The question was therefore put a second time, and decided in favour of the Petition, without the trouble of dividing the Hall, which was at one time in agitation. The Lord Mayor endeavoured to his utmost to keep good order and decorum, but was not successful in procuring a fair hearing for those who spoke against the question.
Mr. Waithman here read the copy of the Petition which was intended to be laid before the House of Commons, several parts of it were found objectionable, and were afterwards altered by amendments.
Alderman Watton came forward to oppose it, but could not be heard, owing to the disorderly conduct of several persons in the Hall.
Mr. W. Smith spoke at some length on the propriety and necessity of making Peace, and vindicated the ruling powers in France.
Mr. Dixon spoke against the question, and observed, that the Hon. gentleman who spoke last might justly say that no reasons had been advanced why we should not make Peace with the French, as he must be well aware that the Hall would only suffer one side of the question to be heard.
Mr. Lushington endeavoured to prove how far we were justified in interfering with the internal affairs of the French Republic, and why we ought not to make peace with Buonaparte, who possessed the same principles with his predecessors. He had no objection to make peace with the Devil himself, provided all his propensities for doing mischief were taken away; but that was not the case with the present Ruler of France.
Mr. Hibbert argued against the Petition. He said, some parts of it threw an odium on the British Military and Navy. The deplorable state of this Country, as there described, must be desirable information to the French.
The motion for the Petition having been carried, two other motions were brought forward. The first was, That the Lord Mayor should present the Petition; the next, That the Members of the City of London should be instructed to support the Petition. They were both carried in the affirmative.
Mr. Alderman Curtis observed, that when he first obtained the suffrages of the Livery, it was without restriction; he therefore considered himself a Free Man. If his conduct displeased them, they might soon have an opportunity to put it out of his power to act again contrary to their wishes. He certainly would not be bound to support the present measure.
Mr. Lushington and Mr. Anderson avowed the same principles.
The Lord Mayor considered himself in a similar situation to the Chairman of the House of Commons, whose place it was not to take any part in the debate, but to observe order, he should therefore only say, that he would always be happy to obey his Constituents.
Thanks were then moved to the Lord Mayor for his impartiality in conducting the business of the day, which was carried unanimously.
The last Lisbon Packet brings the account of the loss of his Majesty's ship Weymouth, Capt. Craston, on the 21st January, in attempting to get into the Tagus for the purpose of refitting. She struck on the Bar and soon after went to pieces, no stores of
any kind were saved, but no lives were lost. The Weymouth sailed from Portsmouth with the Cambrian Rangers for Gibraltar.
PHILADELPHIA, April 19.
Neutral Commerce.
Extract of a letter from Mr. KING, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America in London, to Mr. PICKERING, Secretary of State, dated London, 31st December, 1799.
"The provisional Government of France repealed on the 20th instant the law of the 29th Nivose, 6th year (18th Jan. 1798)—and declared that the regulations of 1778 in respect to the rights of belligerents and neutrals should in future be strictly observed."
We have procured a faithful translation of the ordinance of the King of France alluded to above, which is as follows:
REGULATION
Concerning the navigation of neutral ships in time of war. Published by order of the French King, July 26, 1778.
The King having caused the antient regulations concerning the navigation of neutral ships in time of war to be laid before him, has judged it proper to renew the same, and to add thereto whatever to him appeared necessary for the preservation of the rights of neutral powers, and the interests of their subjects, without authorising any abuse that may be made of the neutral flag. In consequence whereof his Majesty has ordered, and does hereby order, as follows:
1st. His Majesty forbids all privateers to take and carry into the ports of his kingdom any ships belonging to neutral powers, even though they should have failed from an enemy's port or be bound thither; unless such ships shall be carrying succours to places belonging to an enemy, then blockaded, invested, or besieged. In case the ships of neutral states shall be laden with contraband articles for the use of the enemy, such ships may be stopped; and the said articles seized and confiscated; but the vessel and remainder of the cargo, shall be released, unless the said contraband articles compose three fourths of the value of the cargo; in which case the ship and cargo shall be entirely confiscated. His Majesty, however reserves the power of revoking the liberty given by this article, if the belligerent powers do not grant the same within six months from the day of the publication of this regulation.
2d. The masters of neutral ships shall be obliged, when at sea, to prove their neutral property, by passports, bills of lading, invoices, and other papers on board; one of which at least must incontestibly prove the neutral property, or must contain a precise enumeration of it. As to charter parties, and other papers which shall not be signed, it is his Majesty's pleasure that such shall be considered as null and of no effect.
3d. All vessels taken, of what nation soever, neutral or allied, upon its being proved, that papers have been thrown overboard from such vessels, or otherwise suppressed or withdrawn shall with their cargoes be declared good prize, upon the simple proof of the papers being thrown overboard, and without the necessity of enquiring what those papers were, by whom they were thrown overboard, or whether the others remaining on board are sufficient to prove that the ship and cargo belonged to friends or allies.
4th. A passport or clearance, can serve but for one voyage only; and it shall be considered as null, if it be proved, that the vessel was not, at the time of preparing for such voyage, in one of the ports of the prince who granted such passport.
5th. No regard shall be paid to passports of neutral powers, when those who shall have obtained them shall be found to have acted contrary thereto, or when a passport expresses the name of a ship different from that it bears in the other papers on board, unless due proofs of the change of name, and the identity of the ship, are expressed in the said papers, and that they have been allowed by the public officers of the place from whence they came, and registered by the principal public officer of the place.
6th. No regard shall be paid to passports granted by neutral or allied powers, either to owners or masters of ships, who are subjects of his majesty's enemies, unless they have been naturalized, or have moved their dwelling into the dominions of the said powers, three months before the first of September of the present year; nor shall the said owners and masters of ships, subjects of his majesty's enemies, who shall have obtained letters of naturalization enjoy the benefit thereof, if after they have obtained them, they shall return into the states at war with his majesty, and there continue their commerce.
7th. Vessels built by an enemy, or whose owner shall be an enemy, cannot be reputed neutral or allied, unless
there are found on board some authentic papers executed before some public officers, which may ascertain the date, and prove that the sale or cession of such vessels has been made to some of the subjects of allied or neutral powers before the commencement of hostilities; and if the said act of transfer of the property of the enemy to neutral or allied subjects has not been duly registered before the principal officer of the place, whence such vessels departed, and signed by the owner or his agent.
8th. With respect to vessels built by an enemy, which shall have been taken by his majesty's ships, or those of his allies or subjects during the war, and which shall afterwards be sold to the subjects of allied or neutral states, such vessels shall not be considered as good prizes, if there shall be found on board documents in due form executed before competent public officers, proving as well the capture as the sale or adjudication which shall afterwards have been made to the subjects of the said allies or neutral states, whether in France, or in the ports of any allied power; but in default of such papers, proving as well the capture as the sale, the said vessels shall be good prize.
9th. All foreign ships shall be deemed good prize, on board of which shall be found a supercargo, clerk or other superior officer, subjects of his majesty's enemies; or whose crews shall be composed of more than one third subjects of his majesty's enemies, or who shall not have on board a proper list of the ship's company (role d'équipage) authenticated by the public officers of the neutral places from whence the vessels shall have failed.
10th. His majesty, however, does not intend to comprehend, within the meaning of the preceding article, such ships whose captains or masters shall prove, from authentic vouchers on board, that they were obliged to take such officers or seamen in the ports they shall have been in order to replace those of neutral countries who died in the course of the voyage.
11th. It is his majesty's pleasure, that, in no case, papers produced after the capture of any ship, shall have any credit given to them, or be productive of any avail either of the owners of the said ships, or of their cargoes: his majesty, willing that on all occasions, regard shall be had only to the papers, found on board.
12th. No vessel of neutral powers, departing from the ports of France, and having on board no other commodities or merchandise than what they received in such ports, and which shall be furnished with a passport from the admiral of France, shall be stopped by any French privateers or brought into any of the ports of France under any pretence whatever.
13th. In case any French privateer shall contravene the provisions of the present regulation, such vessels and their cargoes, except what is liable to confiscation, shall be delivered up, and the said privateer shall be condemned to pay such damages and interest as shall be thought just.
14th. His majesty orders, that this present regulation shall hold good with respect to ships running aground on any of the coasts dependent on his possessions.
15th. It is his majesty's further pleasure that the provisions, under the title of prizes in the ordinance of marine, of the month of August 1681, be executed according to their form and tenor, as far as they are not derogatory to the present regulation; which shall be read, published, and registered in all the courts of admiralty.
His Majesty orders and commands the Duke de Penthièvre, admiral of France, strictly to attend to the execution hereof.
Given at Versailles, the twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight.
(Signed) LOUIS, (Counter-signed) DESARTINE.
BOSTON, April 23.
OUR ENVOYS
Have arrived in the territory of the French Republic. A letter from Bayonne, dated Feb. 16, received by a gentleman in this town, mentions their arrival there, and that they would pursue their journey to Paris.
A Decree of Condemnation was pronounced on Monday, by his Honor Judge Lowell, against the French armed ship Les Deux Anges, prize to the United States frigate Boston. The Deux Anges is a letter of marque, captured by Capt. Little, in January last, on her passage from Cape-Francois to Bordeaux, and is laden with a valuable cargo, consisting of sugar, coffee, cocoa, tobacco and Campeachy wood.
There is an appeal from the decree of condemnation to the next Circuit Court.
A London opposition paper of Feb. 28th, (the latest) says, a new expedition against France is preparing with alacrity. Transports for 20,000 troops are taken up, and contracts made to a very great extent. "The Times" contradicts the statement, and adds, that whatever may be the arrangements of the British Cabinet, to divert the attention of the French from the theatre of war; they are not to be put in operation until the spring.
The alien General Staff the ensuing campaign, it is said, will be thus arranged:—Prince Suwarrows will command in Chief, on the Rhine, with General Kray as his Lieutenant;—the Archduke Charles, on the borders of Switzerland; and Gen. Klenau or Melas in Italy. Buonaparte, it is expected, will be opposed to the first;—Moreau to the second; and Massena to the third.
The Duke of Wurtemberg furnishes 12,000 men to the allied armies the present campaign. He has 30,000. thereof, from Great-Britain.
THE ALLS.
France fights all. Britain pays all. Russia threatens all. Prussia humbugs all. Switzerland is nearly plundered of all. Spain does nothing at all. Germany thinks itself all in all. The United States is spoiled by all. And lest destruction should come upon all, May Heaven have Mercy on us all. AMEN.
The body of Admiral Vandeput, has been buried with military honors, at Nassau, New-Providence.
The judgment of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, on a late conviction of man-slaughter, was, "that Joe be whipped 20 stripes, branded with the letter M on her hand, forfeit all her effects, and be forever disfranchised."
WHALES.—Near 200 whales have lately appeared in Long-Island Sound.—One of them has been caught, which measured 50 feet in length, and 30 in circumference.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
OF LEBRUN,
One of the Inferior Consuls of the French Republic.
Lebrun is distinguished for his talents in composition. When secretary to Chancellor Maupeau, in 1770, he wrote the energetic speeches which the Chancellor delivered in the contest with the Parliaments. He has published a translation of the Iliad, more distinguished for brilliancy than fidelity. He also published a translation of Tasso, which is highly esteemed, and was ascribed to Roussau. He was a member of the constituted assembly, in which he did not make himself very prominent. In the year 1796 he was re-chosen in the Legislative body.
Capt. Dyer, arrived at Castine, from Martinique, which he left the 13th ult. mentions the West-India seas as swarming with French privateers, who commit daily depredations on the commerce of the U. States.
Government not having received any advices respecting the hostility of the Bey of Tunis, occasions doubts of the truth of the report on that subject.
Information is received that about the 12th of March, in the Bite of Leogane, the U. S. frigate Boston, was attacked by 19 of Rigaud's buccaneering barges, completely armed, and having 500 men. They attempted to board the ship as she lay becalmed; but her bow guns being brought to bear, most of the boats were sunk—and the crews perished.
A similar affair is said to have been performed by the Connecticut; sinking 13 out of 15 barges.
A letter from the Captain of the Connecticut sloop of war, to the Secretary of the Navy, mentions, that on the 13th of March, he chased on shore a fine ship of 22 guns, directly from France, which instantly bilged and filled.
A letter from on board the U. S. ship Petapco, says, "We are credibly informed that Midshipman Jarvis, who fell overboard from the Constellation in her late engagement, was picked up five days afterwards."
Information has been received in a very circuitous manner that, in an engagement of 4 hours between the U. S. brig Pickering and two French Privateers, one of 10 and the other of 4 guns, Lieutenant Hillier, who commanded the Pickering, was killed. The account adds, that the largest Privateer was taken and the smaller one driven on shore. This story comes in such a round about manner, as to authorize hopes that it is untrue, so far as respects the death of the brave Lieutenant.

SIXTH Congress of the U. States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. MR. MARSHALL , from the committee on the subject made report, recommending the adoption of the following resolution, viz.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, &c. That in settling the account of William Treadwell, Esq. late Secretary of Elbridge Gerry, Esq. one of the Envoys to Paris, the Secretary of State be authorized to allow the expenses incurred by him in consequence of his being captured on his return to this country.
The report was committed for Monday next.
The Senate informed, they had passed the New Post Road Bill with amendments.
THURSDAY, APRIL 10.
The Western Reserve Bill passed.
The Senate notified that they had passed the New Patent Bill with amendments.
FRIDAY, APRIL 11.
Andrew Montgomery's petition for relief, having been 11 years a slave at Algiers, was committed.
A Bill to enlarge the powers of the Surveyors of the Revenue, was read twice.
The Appropriation Bill for 1800, was ordered to be engrossed.
The Navy Appropriation Bill was ordered for a third reading on Monday.
The Marshal's Sales Bill was ordered to be engrossed.
A resolution was laid on the table for a committee to prepare rules and regulations respecting the territory of Columbia.
The Bill respecting the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, was ordered for a 3d reading on Monday.
The Bill prescribing the mode of taking evidence in cases of contested elections, was ordered for a 3d reading on Monday.
The Bill to incorporate a Mine and Metal Company was read. One clause authorizes the President, when the Company's Capital shall amount to 15,000 dollars, to subscribe 50,000 dollars, on the part of the U. States.
SATURDAY, APRIL 12.
The Secretary of the Treasury presented a statement of the tonnage of the shipping of the United States, at the close of 1798.
The consideration of the Mine and Metal Company Bill was postponed.
A report against allowing any further time for the settlement of final certificates, indents of interest, &c. was concurred in.
MONDAY, APRIL 14.
The Government Appropriation Bill—Navy Appropriation Bill—Marshals' Sales Bill—the Bill for punishing certain crimes—the Bill respecting evidence in cases of contested elections—and the Light-House Bill—were passed.
The House concurred in the Senate's amendment to the Patent Bill.
A resolve that the next annual meeting of Congress should be held on the first Monday in Nov. 1800—was laid on the table.
The further consideration of the Judiciary Bill was postponed to the first Monday in Dec. next.
The Senate notified that they had passed the resolve respecting the Copper Bill.
The President, by message, informed, that he had signed the Fishery Act—and the Act to alter the form of certain oaths directed by the Census Bill.
The resolve for continuing in force the Bill laying an additional duty on Salt, passed.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15.
The House concurred in the amendments of the Senate to the additional Post Road Bill.
SLAVE TRADE. —An Additional Act for preventing this trade was read twice—and committed for Thursday.
The Senate, by message, informed they had passed the Merchant Vessels Defence Bill—and Indian-Trade Bill—with amendments.
The Arsenal and Magazine Bill was ordered for a third reading tomorrow—The sections which exempted armourers from arrest under civil process—and directed corporal punishment for certain offences were struck out.
The Salt Duty Bill was read, and committed for to-morrow.
Certain amendments of the Senate to the General Stamp Office Bill, were agreed to.
The Senate, by message, informed they had passed a law permitting the exportation of certain parcels of gun powder, muskets and cutlasses.
NEW-YORK, April 14.
Extract of a letter from an officer at Fort Wilkinson, to a gentleman in Georgetown, dated March 16, 1800.
"We are well situated, I am told, for health. The fort is on a fine eminence; and the appearance of this command respectable. It is, I believe, viewed in a very acceptable light, both by the neighbouring state and the frontier allies."
"Col. Gaither, has received a letter from Col. Benjamin Hawkins, which he very politely made an offer of to me, that I might be able to afford you some gratification respecting the situation of Indian affairs. Colonel Hawkins writes thus, "The report circulated is that a party of Spaniards, to the number of 500, visited the establishment under the expectation of finding Bowles at home; he was on a visit to some friends, they after a delay of 2 or 3 days, and after destroying by fire, &c. all his property, retired to their quarters. He (Bowles) has many violent enemies in that quarter." Col. H. appears to be confident of his strong bottom, I hope he is not deceived."
BOSTON, April 22.
Charles Holt, Editor of " The Bee " has been convicted by " twelve of his peers " at the Circuit Court at Hartford, of publishing a libel on the Government of the United States; and sentenced to pay a fine of 200 dollars, and suffer three months imprisonment.
On the 4th inst. a mutinous disposition was discovered on board of the Congress frigate, laying at Norfolk. About 200 seamen assembled on the forecastle, and menaced the safety of the ship and officers. The Captain, First Lieutenant and the Lieutenant of Marines were on board. Order was restored by the exertions of the Marines directed by the Officers; and seven of the ringleaders were committed to Norfolk gaol.
APRIL 28.
Latest from the Mediterranean. Capt. Freeman, of the ship Boston, arrived here on Saturday from Leghorn and Gibraltar, informs that while at Leghorn, he saw a letter from the American Consul at Tunis, to our Consul at the former place, which stated, that there had existed some uneasiness with the Bey on account of the nonfulfilment of some articles of the late treaty with him; but that it had entirely subsided, and every thing amicably settled. Capt. Freeman was also informed, while there, that Lord Nelson, in the siege of Malta, had lost one of his line of battle ships sunk under the battery, from which but few lives escaped; and that about the same time, his squadron captured a French 74 from Toulon, bound to Malta with supplies.
While at Gibraltar, Capt. F. was informed by the American Consul at that place, that he had received a letter from Mr. Williams, American Consul at London stating, that the blockade of Cadiz and the coast of Catalonia, by Lord Keith, was unauthorized, and requesting him at the same time to give information of every American detained, or ordered away from those coasts.
Island of Jamaica.
Capt. Bunce, from Jamaica, arrived at New-York, informs that, that island was almost in a state of blockade, by French and Spanish privateers. The merchants had complained to the Lords of the Admiralty, of the supineness and inattention of the naval commanders. However, before Capt. B. failed, the Bonetta and Musquito sloops of war, had partly cleared the coast, captured several of the privateers, and retook a number of their prizes.
GUADALOUPE.
Another French Consular Agent has arrived at this island from France.
Above twenty culprits have been indicted by the Grand Jury, at the Circuit Court now sitting at Philadelphia—They are charged with murder, treason, libelling and conspiracy. Among them are the noted FRIES, COOPER, of Northumberland, and DUANE, printer of the Aurora.
His Excellency ARTHUR FENNER, is re-elected Governor of Rhode-Island, almost unanimously.
The federal candidate for Congress, in New-York, is Col. JACOB MORTON.
The Rev. Dr. COLE, one of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has arrived at Philadelphia from Europe, and will make a tour of the United States. He is the successor of the indefatigable WESTLEY; of similar powers and habits of life.
The U. S. sloops of war Warren and Norfolk have been very active and serviceable on the Havannah station. Although no captures have been made, they have effectually cleared the coast of privateers; and convoyed several valuable fleets. A letter from on
board the Warren of the 1st of April, says, "we see nothing but the stripes, and occasionally St. George's cross, and are convinced there is not a French Cruiser on the north side of the Island. Crew in good health."
April 26, arrived the ship Boston, Capt. Freeman, from Leghorn, via Gibraltar, 35 days from the latter place—Left at Leghorn, March 2d, about 20 sail of American vessels among which was the following:—brig Union, ship Bald Eagle, ship Mount Vernon, ship Industry, and a number of others, names not recollected. Sailed from Gibraltar with the Caroline, Capt. Preble, for this port. Left there, ship Barbara, from the Southward, to Cadiz; was not suffered to enter; was bound up the Mediterranean:—Also left there Capt. Gardner of Salem. Four ships arrived at Gibraltar, while Capt. F. was there, bound up the Mediterranean with Sugar, Coffee, &c. two from Charleston, and two from Salem. Spoke nothing. Flour at Gibraltar was 22 dollars per bbl.
April 27. Capt. Codwise, from N. York to St. Croix, writes to his owners, that "in lat. 27. N. he was crossed by three French pirates, two sch's and a brig, which he outailed. It appears the Frenchmen, being compelled by the vigilance of our cruisers, to quit their usual cruising station, have commenced their depredations in a more northerly quarter, where they meet with less molestation."
NAVAL AFFAIRS.
The Portsmouth, sloop of war, failed for France on the 16th.
The frigate Philadelphia, Capt. Decatur has failed on a cruise.
Brig Los Amigos, prize to the U. S sch Experiment, has arrived at Philadelphia.
We learn nothing further respecting the reported engagement of the Pickering.
The Connecticut, Capt. Tryon and not the Boston is said to have been the American frigate which so handsomely punished the audacity of Rigaud's shaving mills, in the Bite of Leogane.
Capt. Russell, arrived at New-London, from St. Kitts spoke United States ship of war, Connecticut. Capt. Tryon, under the lee of Montserrat.
Capt. Murray of the Infurgente is promoted to the command of the Constellation.
Capt. Truxton, is to take command of the frigate President, lately launched at New-York.
Extract of a letter from Norfolk, dated March 5.
"The Congress will not sail for some time—Her masts are not yet finished. The Conquest of Egypt is arrived here a prize to the Connecticut, captain Tryon. She is a fine brig, mounting 20 guns."
On the 9th inst. the frigate Chesapeake was ready for sea at Norfolk. The Congress was at Cranny Island, with shears up to take in her masts. The Constellation was in Hampton Roads refitting.
A letter from Cadiz, of Feb 5, mentions, that the French Consular Privateer Owners in Spain, have been recalled; and more honest Consuls substituted; and that an American vessel has been lately acquitted, without any examination of her papers.
PORTSMOUTH, April 29.
A gentleman has arrived at Charleston, who was at Martinico when the British packet with the February mail arrived, who says, that she brought intelligence of the American Envoys having arrived at Paris, and that they were well received.
The Congressional electioneering campaign has opened with much spirit in New-York state.
The merchants of Norfolk have given a splendid entertainment to Commodore Truxton.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Cadiz, to a respectable house in New-York, dated Feb. 12.
"By the last mail we have received information, that fifty British transport ships have landed Nine Thousand Men, Russians and French emigrants, in Bretagne."
"Island of Java.—At least one hundred neutral ships have arrived here annually for these five years past, each of which, on an average, must have left 70,000 dollars in specie making the enormous sum of thirty-five millions of dollars; all of which is still on the island, besides immense magazines of produce.—It is the finest island in the east, and with the exception of the port of Batavia, is not unhealthy." (Calcutta pap.)
Mr. King, the Ambassador of the United States, appeared at the British King's levee, in deep mourning for Gen. Washington.
A British artist has advertised a whole length Portrait of General Washington, from the graver of Cheesman.—In advertising it, he says, "The General is represented at the moment of the defence of the Bridge of Trenton, on the 2d of January, 1777.—Having dismounted from his horse, and having observed the critical position of his inferior force, he is meditating the movement, which he so successfully executed the ensuing night, and which changed the character and fortune of the war. The British camp on the left side of the river; the batteries playing on the head of the bridge, and the fires which Washington had ordered to be kept up all night in front of the whole line, where his army stood encamped on the opposite bank (a stratagem which concealed his march) closes the scenery of this excellent performance of art."
The Selectmen of Newburyport have ordered Quarantine to be performed by all vessels arriving at that port from Jamaica, or from any port in the West Indies, where any Contagious Sickness prevails.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived brig Polly, Capt. Samuel Moore, in 29 days from Demarara.
April 13, in lat. 38 5. long. 61. 30, spoke an English Packet from Falmouth, England, 25 days out, bound to New-York.
Yesterday arrived the brig Betsey, Capt. Wentworth, 26 days from Tobago. Left the brig Rising-Sun, Noble; brig Little Cherub, Shackford, and the ship Fanny, Jenkins, waiting for convoy, expected to sail the 15th inst.
Entries at the CUSTOM-HOUSE. Brig Polly, Moore, Demarara. Brig Union, Blunt, Martinico. CLEARED. Ship J. Jessop, Cutter, Demarara.
MARRIED. —At Springfield Rev. Henry Augustus Rowland, of Windsor, (Con.) to Miss Frances Bliss.
DIED. —At Hollis, N. H. April 6, Mr. Moses Thurston, aged 80. It is worthy of notice, that he walked to meeting in usual health; and after meetings, he attended a conference, at which he appeared more than usually animated. It fell to his lot to make the concluding prayer, in which exercise he was exceedingly fervent, and until the last sentence which he uttered, he spoke with more than usual vigor, when his voice failed, and he would have fallen, had he not been supported by a friend—and immediately expired without a groan or struggle. The scene was truly solemn and very affecting to beholders, who might well have exclaimed, "mark the perfect man, and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace." His funeral was attended on the Wednesday following, by a numerous concourse of people, and a well adapted Sermon was delivered on the occasion, by the Rev. Mr. SMITH, from Genesis, v. 24. On the 17th instant, at New-Milford, (District of Maine) Doctor JONATHAN MORRISON.
At Keene, on Sunday evening the 20th inst. the Hon. PERSO SPRAGUE, Esq. a worthy, consistent, and upright man—a firm federalist, and a friend to his country.—Mr. SIMSON ELLIS.
In this town, on Sunday morning, in the 48th year of her age, Mrs. LYDIA SHAPLEY, consort of Capt. REUBEN SHAPLEY, after a lingering complaint, which she bore with christian fortitude; in her death the husband is deprived of an amiable wife, a daughter (and only child) of an indulgent and tender parent, and the poor of an attentive, benevolent and kind benefactress.
On Friday morning, Mrs. CATHERINE HART, consort of George Hart, Esq. in the 58th year of her age.
Mr. CHARLES WATERS.
A child of Mr. William Gibbs. At sea, Mr. Charles Connor, aged 19, an enterprising son of Capt. Benjamin Connor, of this town.
At Abner Newhall's Variety Shoe Store,
Opposite the sign of the Golden Pitcher Daniel-Street, Portsmouth.
A FRESH SUPPLY OF LADIES, MISSES, and CHILDREN'S
SHOES,
Of all sizes and of all kinds, to be sold as cheap as they can be purchased in the United States. Shopkeepers supplied at a generous discount, and the least favor gratefully acknowledged.
Two Hundred Dollars Reward!
WHEREAS some audacious person or persons have again added insult to injury, by breaking off the tops of that beautiful row of young growing trees, at the upper end of Broad-street, on Saturday night last, and thereby defeat the expectations of a generous public.
Therefore the selectmen hereby offer the above reward of two hundred dollars to any person or persons that will give them evidence sufficient to convict the perpetrator or perpetrators of both crimes, before any Court in this county proper to try the same, namely those broke in February last, and those broke in the night following the twenty-sixth of this instant, April, except the perpetrators are idiots or distracted persons, in which case the above reward shall be proportionable; and whereas many young and beautiful trees have been and are now planting in several streets in this town for the benefit of the public; the selectmen earnestly recommend to the inhabitants to keep a good look out, and prevent any damage being done to said trees, and if any person shall be found wilfully or maliciously breaking or destroying them, that notice thereof be immediately given to the selectmen, who are determined to bring the offenders to such punishment as the law will inflict.
GEORGE GAINS, MOSES WOODWARD, SAMUEL HUTCHINGS, ELIJAH HALL, SAMUEL DROWNE, Portsmouth, April 28, 1800.
TO BE SOLD, At Public Auction,
By Jacob Walden, Auctioneer, On THURSDAY the 15th day of MAY next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. At the New-Hampshire Hotel; The following valuable real estates, to wit: a CONVENIENT
DWELLING HOUSE and large Wharf, and Dock, commonly known by the name of Warner's wharf, including four Stores thereon, and a convenient Stable adjoining said House. —Also,
Two dwelling Houses and lots on Pleasant-street, opposite to the House of Mr. Peter Coffin.
The above estates will be sold on credit with good security; the particular terms of which will be made known at the time and place of sale; or before by applying to DAVID PEARCE, jr. of Boston. Portsmouth, April 28, 1800.
Take Notice.
THE subscriber intending to leave Portsmouth, the first of June next, requests all persons indebted to him, and all who have any demands to call for settlement previous to that time.
Samuel Larkin, Portsmouth, April 29, 1800.
THE Members of the
Grand Lodge of the State of New-Hampshire, are requested to attend a Quarterly Communication, to be held at the Lodge-Room to-morrow evening, at half past 6 o'clock. By order of the Most Worshipful Master.
Edward J. Long, Sec'y P. T. Portsmouth, April 29, 1800.
Twenty-five Dollars Reward.
THE Store of the subscriber was broke open last night and robbed of a number of pieces of Calicoes, Mullins, Muslin Handkerchiefs, one piece of red Broad-Cloth, some Hatts, a number of other articles, and cash in the whole amount to between three and four hundred dollars. Whoever will apprehend said thief or thieves so that they may be brought to justice, will be intitled to the above reward from THOMAS LEAVETT, jr. Hampton, April 26, 1800.
THE Fellows of the
New-Hampshire Medical Society are desired to take notice that their annual meeting will be held at the house of ISRAEL HUTCHINS, in Exeter, on Wednesday the 28th day of May next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
Per order, LEVI BARTLETT, Sec'y. Kingston, April 26, 1800.
The printers of the Portsmouth paper are requested to insert this three weeks prior to said meeting.

WASHING WEEK.
HEY! what's the bustle? what's the stir? The cat is kick'd and whipp'd the cur; Women scold, and laugh, and sing, And Scandal stretches wide her wing. One must not look, nor write nor speak, And all because 'tis Washing Week.
How comfortless, and lost to glee, While Delia too, is lost to me— Lost to me, while at the tub See her dip, and see her rub. Gods! that one so sweet and fair, Should the task so arduous share! Muse, behold the charming maid, Not of soap nor suds afraid; But this you must not sing nor speak, For this is busy Washing Week.
Bring the dram and warm the beer, Give the washer-woman cheer: Bring bread and cheese, and then the tea, Liquor of garrulity. Betty hangs the clothes to dry, Bandage o'er her head and eye: What ails Betty? why her tooth Tells she does not love with truth: But the truth we must not speak, For this is surely Washing Week.
But lo! it rains—go strip the line, Clouded Sol forgets to shine. Ne'er were such dismal means, Women scold like scalded fiends: Above, below, and all around, Peace is no where to be found. Sooner I a shirt would lack, Sooner wear one e'er so black, Than be doom'd with mind so meek, To undergo one Washing Week.
In my humble hut, at ease, O grant me, Heaven, a little peace! Grant my mind a little rest, And let my enemies, oppres'd, Contend with thunder, wind, and waves, When tempests howl, and ocean raves! No! might revenge chastisement deal, O! let them feel all that I feel, Where I, in corner snug, my beak Conceal, afraid to move or speak— Sad victim of sweet Washing Week.
ON CALUMNY.
"There is a list in man no charm can tame Of loudly twitting his neighbour's fame; On eagle's wings immortal scandal flies, While virtuous actions are but born & die."
IT is a remark worthy of notice, that, though nothing is more generally despised than calumny, yet few can place sufficient security in themselves at all times to avoid it. If from a discussion of another's merits we are too frequently induced, by private resentment, to calumniate his character, nothing more truly characterises a generous mind than the mode of censure. If we examine our own actions: if, divested of prejudice, we invert our optics into the recesses of the heart, we shall then find all tendency to detraction stopt by the consideration of our own faults, and spare giving our opinions in a manner that favours of ill natured severity.
That man can have but little pretence to merit, who is willing to exalt himself by declaiming against another's imperfections; because it can only be a property of the Divine Nature to be exempt from evil.—We entertain so many ideas from prejudice, that even innocence cannot at all times escape; and too frequently impute those failings to others which we evidently possess in an abundant degree.
Those whose minds are unemployed in rational pursuits, or who do not possess that generous candour which flows from a liberal education, are often engaged in schemes prejudicial to the interests of individuals. They explore other people's business, and publish every circumstance to his disadvantage; but these characters are universally shunned as a pest to society. They cannot taste the sweets of friendship, because they are unable to feel sincerely for any; and drag on a miserable existence, execrated and despised by all who knew them. Nor are these the only disadvantages resulting from detraction; for the injured party frequently seek redress, and that at the disgrace, and perhaps ruin, of the offender.
In fine, there cannot exist a more odious character than the calumniator. He is the bane of society, and dissolver of all social obligations.—He sows dissension between friend and relatives, and engenders a distaste for each other that ends but with life: and, in my opinion, I cannot close this subject better than offering the following quotation from an ancient author: "That he who pretends to correct the vices of others ought himself to be free from the imputation of blame."
FOR SALE, At No. 7, PORTSMOUTH PIER, 15 Bales COTTON. 30 Casks RICE. 10 Boxes RAISINS. April 21, 1800.
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Rochester, in said county, who have not paid their county and road taxes for the year 1799, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the eighth day of July next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling house in Rochester, at ten o'clock A. M. on said 8th day of July, as will pay said tax and incidental charges.
Table with 5 columns: Def., No., Acres, County, Road, Cr. It lists land owners and their tax details, including Col. Mark Hunking, Lt. John Smith, Arch. M'Phedris Esq., Capt. Tho's Tibbetts, William Furber, Capt. John Downing, Richard Waldron, Ebenezer Varney, Two share rights, Nicholas Hartford, John Kenney, Three share rights, Joseph Chesley, Samuel Chesley, John Williams, Valentine Hill, John Nutter, James Nutter, Edward Evans, Joseph Evans, Benjamin Evans, Benjamin Mason, William Dame, Capt. J. Leighton, Samuel Willey, John Norway, Edw. Whitehouse, John Sias, James Burnham, John Sias, Jr., Late David Hurd's improved land, do. the third, do. the fourth, Tim' Robertson, Samuel Corson, John Rawlings, Improved land, John Drew, John Cooke, Benjamin Pinner, Daniel Horn, William Horn, William Horn, Jr., Joseph Ricker, George Ricker, Jeremiah Rollins, Joseph Jenks, Gerham Wentworth, Jr., Improved land, Col. Tho's Westbrook, owned by Daniel Waldron, Improved land, Nathan Randal, Samuel Randal, William Randal.
HATEVIL KNIGHT, Collector. Rochester, April 4, 1800.
State of New-Hampshire.
Public notice is hereby given, THAT ISAAC MESERVE and others, inhabitants of Fowle's, Gilman's, Gridley's, Rogers's, Wentworth's and Treadwell's Locations, have petitioned the General Court, setting forth that said Locations are capable of forming a convenient town—Wherefore they pray that said Locations may be formed and incorporated into a township, to be known and called by the name of...
ORDERED by the court, that the petitioners be heard on said petition before the General Court on the first Tuesday of the next session, and that the petitioners cause that the substance of said petition and order of court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively, commencing six weeks prior to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
NATH'L PARKER, Deputy Sec'y. Exeter, Dec. 11, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the town of Concord, county of Grafton, who have not paid their Highway tax of thirty cents on each right, for the year 1798, that so much of each delinquents lands will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Samuel Young, in said Concord, on the first Tuesday, of July next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as will pay said tax with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment; the names of the delinquents are as follow, viz. William Symms, Ebenezer Severance, jr., Ebenezer Harvey, Willard Stevens, Hopkney King, Stephen Belding, Jonathan Hunt, Jonathan Gilman, Samuel Root, James Nevens, Elijah Hunt, Arad Hunt, Gideon Lyman, Selah Wright, Samuel Wire, Savage Truscott, Silas Hambleton, Medad Pomeroy, John Hubbard, Philip Mattson, Joseph Blanchard, Asahel Burt, Joseph Lyman, Hezekiah Elmore, James Matthews, Elijah Lyman, Woolston, Brockway, Benjamin Shelving, jr., Timothy Root, Moses Harvey, Nathan Harvey, Phineas Wright, and the Governor's right. JONATHAN PARKER, Collector. Concord, April 14, 1800.
NORTHUMBERLAND.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of lands in the town of Northumberland, county of Grafton, and State of New-Hampshire, that a tax of three cents on each acre of land in said Northumberland, public lands excepted, was granted by the General Court at their session, holden in Exeter, December 1799, for the purpose of building a bridge over Ammonoosuck river.—The subscribers being appointed a committee to superintend the business, and collect said tax, inform all concerned that they may work out their several taxes any time between the first day of June and the fifteenth day of September next, at six cents per hour for each able bodied man, finding his own tools and diet; at the expiration of said time the lands of delinquents will be advertised for sale. A copy of the tax list will be lodged in the office of the Deputy Secretary, agreeably to the requirements of the act.
JERE EAMES, JOSEPH PEVERLY, JOHN MOORE, Committee. Northumberland, April 9, 1800.
State of New-Hampshire.
Public notice is hereby given, THAT ARCHIBALD WALKER and others, inhabitants of Sterling's Location, representing that, whereas said Location lieth adjacent to the town of Conway, on the south line of said town, they might enjoy the privileges of incorporated society, as fully as they could with, or as amply as they can ever expect if they were annexed to said Conway—That the two Locations west of Sterling's, viz. Archibald Stark's and Sam'l Stark's are precisely in the same predicament, all adjoining the fourth line of Conway; that the three Locations are of equal extent with said south line, and capable of enjoying all town privileges in a connection with the said town more fully and amply than could be by being annexed to any other town or lands in the State. Wherefore they pray that the said Sterling's Location may be annexed to the town of Conway; also that the other Locations herein mentioned may be equally annexed to the said town, or that such other proceedings may be had for the benefit of said petitioners, and the said Locations as to the wisdom of the honorable Court shall seem meet.
ORDERED by the said court, that the petitioners be heard thereon before the General Court, on the first Tuesday of the next session, and that the petitioners cause that the substance of said petition, and the order of court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively, commencing six weeks prior to said day of hearing; and also serve the selectmen of Conway with a copy of the petition and the order of court thereon, the like term of time, previous to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
NATH'L PARKER, Deputy Sec'y. Exeter, Dec. 11, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire, Grafton, ss. To Joseph Burley, Esq. one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace, within and for the County of Grafton aforesaid.
WE the subscribers proprietors and owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Dorchester, in said county, under the original grant made under the government of Benning Wentworth, Esq. request you to warn a meeting of said proprietors and owners to be held at the dwelling house of Joseph Burley, Esq. in said town of Dorchester, on the 30th day of May next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting, and a proprietors clerk. 2d. To choose assessors, a collector, a treasurer and any other officers that the proprietors may think proper. 3d. To see what method the proprietors will take relative to the plan and survey of said township. 4th. To see what the proprietors will do to settle all disputes between different claimers under different charters in said township. 5th. To see what the proprietors will give to settlers in said township. 6th. To make such grant or grants in land or otherwise, as they may think proper to effect any of the foregoing purposes. 7th. To make such division of their lands by pitches or otherwise, as shall be thought reasonable and just. 8th. To take some method to sue, prosecute and defend any action or actions as may be necessary to support and defend the proprietor's title to said township, and act on the premises as may be thought best. 9th. To raise such sum or sums of money by tax, as may be thought necessary. 10th. To act by themselves, their agent or committee on all such other matters as may be thought necessary. 11th. To see what method the proprietors will take to call meetings in future.
March 20, 1800. JONAS MINOT, CHARLES BARRETT, jr. ELISHA RAYNE, NATHAN WALDO, DAVID PAGE, jr.
March 21, 1800. In compliance with the foregoing request, I hereby notify and warn the proprietors and owners of land in Dorchester aforesaid, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes aforesaid. (SEAL) Given under my hand and seal the above day. JOSEPH BURLEY, Justice Peace.
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State of New-Hampshire, Grafton, ss.
Whereas the Hon. John W. Chandler, Esq. Obadiah Eastman, and Jonathan Hale, Esq's. have preferred a petition to me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum, in and throughout the State of New-Hampshire;
Setting Forth, THAT they are owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Coventry, in said county, and that there are not twenty families residing in said township, and therefore requesting that a meeting of the proprietors and grantees, owners of lands in said township of Coventry might be notified and warned to be holden at the dwelling house of Doctor AMASA SCOTT, inholder in Haverhill, being the nearest shire town in said county, on the last Wednesday of May next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to vote and act on the following articles, matters and things, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting. 2d. To choose a proprietor's clerk, assessors and a collector. 3d. To adopt some measures for removing encroachments upon their lands, made by Warren proprietary; and to raise money for that purpose; also for making and repairing roads. 4th. To ratify and confirm any former votes and grants made by the said proprietary. 5th. To pass all votes necessary to regulate and confirm former pitches made upon certain lots of land, by proprietors and others, and to direct how and in what manner lots shall be drawn, or pitches in future made, in order to complicate the first and second division of hundred acre lots in said township. 6th. To see if the proprietors will agree to sell a strip of land, one mile or more in width, across the east end of said township, joining Peeling line, and agree on the terms and mode of sale. 7th. To accept of the survey and plan of said township, made under their former committee. 8th. To choose a committee to examine into the appropriation and expenditure of monies heretofore raised. 9th. To agree on some mode of calling proprietors meetings in future.
Dated Coventry, March 13, 1800, & signed JOHN W. CHANDLER, OBADIAH EASTMAN, JONATHAN HALE.
State of New-Hampshire, April 8, 1800.
Therefore, pursuant to said request, and the laws of the State of New-Hampshire in such case made and provided, the subscribers, the grantees and proprietors, owners of lands in said township of Coventry, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place and for the purposes set forth and mentioned in the before recited application.
MOSES DOW, Justice Peace.
To the honorable Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, now sitting at Dover, within and for the county of Strafford and State of New-Hampshire, the fourth Tuesday of February, A. D. 1800;
Humbly Sheweth, BRIDGET GILMAN, of Epsom, in the county of Rockingham, in said State, that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six she was lawfully married to one Daniel Gilman, then of Exeter, in said county of Rockingham; that the said Daniel Gilman in violation of his marriage covenants has treated your petitioner in an extreme cruel and barbarous manner; That in the year 1794 the said Daniel willingly absented himself from her, and since that time has not returned or made any provision for her subsistence although in his power to do so. Wherefore she prays that the bonds of matrimony betwixt her and the said Daniel may be dissolved, and that her property may be restored to her, and she as in duty bound will ever pray.
BRIDGET GILMAN. Dover, February 28, 1800.
Strafford ss.
Superior Court, February term, 1800. Ordered by the court that the said Bridget notify the said Daniel to appear before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, to be holden at Exeter, within and for the county of Rockingham, on the third Tuesday of September next, to shew cause (if any he 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, NATH'L ADAMS, Clerk. Copy examined by NATH'L ADAMS, Clerk.
THE subscribers, appointed Commissioners by the honorable Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of JOHN MARSTER, late of Newmarket, physician, deceased, hereby give notice that they will attend that service on the first Monday of May next, and the five following months, at the house of Mr. John Shure, inholder in said Newmarket, from two to five o'clock, P. M.
JOSIAH ADAMS, JOHN SHUTE, DANIEL HILL, Commissioners. Newmarket, April 24, 1800.
State of New-Hampshire, Hillsborough, ss.
To JONATHAN GOVE, Esq. Justice of Peace, within and for said County. Humbly Sheweth;
THE subscribers owners of more than one sixteenth part of the common and undivided lands in New-Bolton, in said county, that doubtshave arisen and still subsist in the minds of many of said proprietors, whether the transactions of their last meeting were valid and according to law, for remedying of which, they pray that a legal meeting may be called to act on the following articles, to wit.
1st. To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting. 2d. To see if said proprietors will vote to ratify and confirm the division of said lands, made by the last chosen committee, or act what they may judge proper, concerning the same when met. 3d. To see if said proprietors will vote to raise a tax to defray necessary expenses, and vote the same, and they as in duty bound will ever pray.
JAMES CARNES, JAMES WILSON, jr. WM PATTERSON, jr. SAMUEL BOYD, jr. ELI BOYD. March 26, 1800.
State of New-Hampshire, Hillsborough, ss.
To Mr. JAMES CARNES, one of the principal proprietors of the common and undivided lands in the town of New-Bolton, in said County.
GREETING. Agreeably to the foregoing request, you are hereby required to warn all the proprietors of the common and undivided lands in the township of said New-Bolton, to meet at the house of Mr. Robert Clark, jr. in said town on the third Tuesday of May next, at one of the clock P. M. to transact all the matters and things set forth in said petition, which by said proprietors may then and there be legally done, and make return of this precept with your doing therein, to said meeting at the time and place above mentioned.
(L.S.) Given under my hand and seal, this twenty-sixth day of March, A. D. 1800. JONA. GOVE, Justice Peace.
WILL stand this season at the stable of Mr. GEORGE LANE, in Wolfborough, on the Corbett farm (so called) until the 18th day of May next, then will be removed to the stable of Maj. ELIAS SMITH, in Moultonborough, and will stand there one week, then will return back to the first mentioned stable and stand the remainder of the season, that beautiful HORSE called the
RANGER,
From a good blooded Mare, and fired by the well known full blooded horse called the Traveller, owned at Cambridge in Massachusetts, and is esteemed by good judges to be the best horse in New-England—The Ranger is large, full sixteen hands high, his colour a strong bay, is as well pointed as any horse in the state, is six years old this spring; has proved himself a very sure horse, and produced some of the finest colts in this part of the country, which may be viewed on the aforesaid farm.
The terms will be three dollars the leap, six for the season, and eight to ensure a foal. —ALSO,
Will stand for the season at the first mentioned stable the
HIGHLANDER,
Sired by an imported horse called the Highlander, formerly owned by the Prince of Wales in England; said horse is of midling size, a beautiful dapple grey, four years old this spring, and will pass examination of the best judges.
Terms two dollars the leap, four for the season and six to warrant a foal; punctual attendance will be given at the aforesaid places by NATHANIEL BROWN. Wolfborough, March 20, 1800.
SUBSCRIPTIONS for the New-Hampshire Gazette are thankfully received by the Editor at his office corner of Market-Street, Portsmouth, at one dollar and fifty cents per annum—no money required till the expiration of one year.
ADVERTISEMENTS inserted conspicuously, on very moderate terms in the GAZETTE, which has by far the most extensive circulation throughout this State, the District of Maine and in every State in the Union of any paper printed in New-Hampshire.