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No. 14, of Vol. XLV.]
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1800.
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New French Constitution.
The following copy of the last Constitution adopted in France, is authentic.—It need only to be read with attention to be approved, as one of the best systems which could be adopted in such a country as France. NEW CONSTITUTION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
CHAP. I.
ART. 1. The French Republic is one and indivisible.
Its European territory is distributed into departments and communal districts.
2. Every man born and resident in France, and of the age of 21 years, who has inscribed his name in the civic register of his communal district, and afterwards remained a year in the territory of the French Republic is a French citizen.
3. A foreigner becomes a French citizen, who after having attained the age of 21 years, and declared his intention of fixing his residence in France, and has resided there for 10 successive years.
4. The title of French citizen is forfeited—
By naturalization in a foreign country.
By accepting any office or pension from a foreign government.
By affiliation with any foreign corporation which supposes distinctions of birth.
By condemnation to corporal or infamous punishments.
5. The exercise of the rights of a French citizen is suspended by a bankruptcy or by a total or partial succession to the property of an insolvent.
By a state of hired servitude, either attached to the service of the person or the family.
By a state of judicial interdiction, accusation or contumacy.
6. In order to exercise the rights of citizenship they must have been acquired by being domiciliated by a year's residence, and not forfeited by a year's absence.
7. The citizens of every communal district shall appoint by their suffrages, those whom they think most worthy of conducting the public affairs. There shall be a list of confidence, containing a number of names equal to a tenth of the number of citizens possessing the right of suffrage. From this first communal list the public functionaries of districts shall be taken.
8. The citizens comprised, in the communal lists of a department shall also appoint a tenth of their number.—These shall constitute a second list called the department list, from which the public functionaries of each department shall be taken.
9. The citizens included in the departmental list shall also appoint a tenth of their number; this 3d list shall consist of the citizens of each department, eligible to public national functions.
10. The citizens who shall have a right of co-operating in the formation of any of the lists mentioned in the three preceding articles, shall every third year be called upon to exercise the power of replacing those who shall have died, or absented themselves for any other cause than the exercise of a public function.
11. They may also withdraw from the list those whom they shall not judge proper to continue, and replace them by other citizens in whom they may have greater confidence.
12. No one shall be erased from the lists, otherwise than by the votes of the decisive majority of the citizens, having the right of co-operating in their formation.
13. No one shall be erased from the list of those eligible to public national functions merely because his name may have been struck out of a list of an inferior or superior degree.
14. The appointment to the list of eligibles is only necessary with regard to public functions, for which that condition is expressly required by the constitution or by the law. All the lists of the eligibles shall be formed in the course of the 9th year.
CHAP. II.
25 The conservatory senate shall be composed of 80 members, of 40 years of age at least, to be irremovable during life.
For the formation of the senate, there shall be nominated in the first instance 60 members—this number shall be encreased to 62 in the course of the 8th year, to 64 in the 9th year, and shall be gradually encreased to 70 by the addition of two members in each of the ten first years.
16 The nomination to the office of senate shall be by the senate, who shall make choice out of these candidates presented to them; the first by the legislative body, the second by the tribunate, and the third by the chief consul.
17 The chief consul upon quitting his office, either by the expiration of his functions, or by resignation, necessarily, and as a matter of right, becomes a senator.
The two other consuls, during the month which follows the expiration of their functions, may take their seats in the senate, but are not obliged to exercise that privilege.
They lose it altogether, if they quit their consular functions by resignation.
18 A senator is always ineligible to any other public function.
19 All the lists made in the departments, by virtue of the 9th article, shall be addressed to the senate. They shall compose the national list.
20 From this list shall be elected the legislators, the tribunes, the consuls, the judges of cassation, and the Commissaris a la Reponsabilité .
21 They shall confirm or annul every act referred to them as unconstitutional by their tribunate, or the government; the lists of the eligibles shall be included among these acts.
22 The revenues of national domains, the terms of which are expired, shall be liable to the expenses of the senate. The annual salary of each of its members shall be paid out of those revenues. It shall be equal to a 20th of that of the chief consul.
23 The sittings of the senate are not public.
24 Citizens Sieyes and Roger Ducos, the two consuls who are to go out of office, shall be nominated members of the conservatory senate; they shall unite with the second and third consuls nominated by the present one. These four citizens shall appoint the majority of the senate, which shall afterwards complete itself, and proceed to the elections entrusted to its direction.
CHAP. III.
Of the Legislative Power.
25. No new law shall be promulgated, unless the plan shall be proposed by the government, communicated to the tribunate, and decreed by the Legislative Body.
26 The plan which the government may propose shall be drawn up under the different heads. In every case in which such plans shall be discussed, the government may withdraw them, and present them again in a modified state.
27 The tribunate is to be composed of 100 members of 25 years of age at least; they shall be renewed by fifths every year, & indefinitely re-eligible while they remain upon the national list.
28 The tribunate shall discuss the plans of every law that may be proposed; it shall vote for the adoption or rejection of them. It shall send three orators taken from its body, by whom the motives of its vote, with respect to each of the plans, shall be stated and supported before the legislative body.
It shall refer to the senate, but for the cause of unconstitutionality only, the list of the eligibles, the acts of the legislative body, and those of the government.
29 It shall express its opinion as to the laws made or to be made, the abuses to be corrected, the ameliorations to be attempted, in every part of the public administration, but never relative to the civil or criminal affairs referred to the tribunal.
The opinions it shall give, by virtue of the present article, are to be followed by no necessary consequences; they compel no constituted authority to come to any deliberation.
30 When the tribunate adjourns, it may appoint a committee from ten to fifteen members, charged to convoke it, if it shall be deemed necessary.
31 The legislative body shall be composed of 300 members, of 30 years of age at the least; they shall be renewed by fifths every year.—There ought always to be one citizen, at least, of each department of the republic present.
32 A member who goes out of the legislative body cannot re-enter till after the interval of a year—but he may be immediately elected to any other public function, including that of the tribune, provided he is in other respects eligible.
33 The sitting of the legislative body shall commence every year on the first Primaire , and shall continue only four months—it may be extraordinarily convoked during the other eighth by the government.
34 The legislative body enacts the law by determining by secret scrutiny, and without any discussion on the part of its members, upon the plans of the law debated before it, by the orators of the tribunate & the government.
35 The sittings of the tribunate and of the legislative body, shall be public—the number of strangers in either of them not to exceed 200.
36 The annual salary of a tribune shall be 15,000 francs, that of the legislative 100,000 francs.
37 Every decree of the legislative body shall the 10th day after it be made, be promulgated by the chief consul, unless in the mean time it is referred to the senate, on the ground of unconstitutionality. Such reference cannot be made with regard to laws that have been promulgated.
38 The first renewal of the legislative body and of the tribunate shall not take place till the 10th year.
CHAP. IV.
Of the Government.
39. The government is intrusted to three consuls appointed for ten years, and indefinitely re-eligible. Each of them is to be elected individually with the distinct quality of chief, second, or third consul. The first time the third consul shall only be named for five years.
For the present time Gen. Buonaparte is appointed chief consul: Citizen Cambacérès, now minister of justice, second consul; and Citizen Lebrun, member of the committee of ancients, third consul.
40. The consul has particular functions and attributes, which when he is exercising, he may be temporarily supplied by one of his colleagues.
41. The chief consul is to promulgate the laws; he is to name and revoke at pleasure the members of the council of state; the ministers, ambassadors, and other principal foreign agents, the officers of the army by land and sea, the members of local administration and the commissioners of the government of the tribunals. He is to appoint all judges criminal and civil as well as justices of the peace, and the judges of cassation, without the power of afterwards revoking them.
In the other acts of the government, the second and third consuls are to have a consultative voice; they are to sign the register of the acts, in order to manifest that they were present, and if they please, they may countersign their opinions; after which the determination of the chief consul shall follow.
42 The salary of the chief consul shall be 500,000 francs for the 8th year. The salary of the other two consuls shall be equal to three tenths of that of the first.
43 The government is to propose the laws, and to make the necessary regulations to ensure their execution.
44 The government is to direct the receipts and expenses of the state; conformable to the annual law, which determines the amount of each; it shall superintend the coinage of money, of which the law alone shall order the issue, fix the value, weight and the impression.
45 When the government is informed of any conspiracies against the state, it may issue orders to arrest and bring before them the persons who are suspected as the authors or accomplices; but if within ten days after such arrest, they are not set at liberty or brought to trial, it shall be considered, on the part of the minister signing the order as an act of arbitrary detention.
46 The government is to superintend the internal safety and external defence of the state; it is to distribute the forces by sea and land, and regulate the direction of them.
47 The national guard on duty is subject to the regulations of the public administration. The national guard not on duty is only subject to the law.
48 The government is to manage political relations abroad, to conduct negotiation, to make preliminary stipulations, to sign and conclude all treaties of peace, alliances, truce, neutrality, commerce, and other conventions.
49 Declarations of war and treaties of peace; alliance, and commerce, are to be proposed, discussed, decreed, and promulgated in the same manner as laws.
Only the discussions and deliberation relative to those objects, as well in the tribunate as in the legislative body are to be in secret committee, if the government desire it.
50 The secret article of a treaty cannot be destructive of the public articles.
51 Under the direction of the consuls, the council of state is charged with the drawing up of the plans of the laws and regulations of the public administration, and to resolve such difficulties as may occur in all administrative matters.
52 It is from among the members of the councils of state, that the orators are to be selected, who shall be appointed to appear in the name of the government before the legislative body. There are never to be any more than three of these orators sent to support the same plan of a law.
53 The ministers are to procure the execution of the laws, and the regulations of the public administration.
54 No act of government can have effect till it is signed by a minister.
55 One of the ministers is speedily charged with the administration of the public treasury. He is to verify the receipts, direct the application of the funds, and the payments authorized by law, and only to the extent of the funds for defraying those expenses such law has determined upon; 2dly, by a decree of the government, 3dly, by an order signed by a minister.
56 The detained accounts of every minister, signed and certified by him, are to be made public.
57 The government can only elect or retain as counsellors of state or ministers, such citizens whose names are inscribed in the national list.
58 The local administrations established, whether for each communal district, or for the more extended portions of territory, are subordinate to the ministers. No one can become or remain a member of those administrations unless he is entered in one of the lists mentioned in the 7th and 8th articles.
CHAP. V.
Of the Tribunal.
60 Every communal arrondissement shall have one or more justices of the peace, elected immediately from the citizens, for three years.
Their principal duty consists in reconciling the parties applying to them, and in case of nonconciliation, to decide their dispute by arbitrators.
61 In civil matters there are tribunals of first instance and tribunals of appeal. The law determines the organization of the one and the other; their competence and territory forming the jurisdiction of each.
62 In cases of crimes, to which are annexed a corporal or infamous punishment, a first jury admits or rejects the charge. If it be admitted, a second jury pronounces on the fact, and the judges composing a criminal tribunal apply the punishment. Their judgment is without appeal.
63 The function of public accuser to a crim-
inal tribunal is filled by the commissioner of government.
64 The crimes which do not amount to corporal or infamous punishment are tried before the tribunals of correctional police, saving an appeal to the criminal tribunals.
65 There is for the whole Republic a tribunal of cassation which pronounces on appeals against judgments in the dernier resort, given by the tribunals in cases referred from one tribunal to another on account of lawful suspicion, or the public safety, upon exceptions taken by the party against the whole tribunal.
66 The Tribunal of cassation does not inquire into the merits but it reverses the judgment given on proceedings in which form is violated, or which contain something contrary to the expressed law, but sends the case back to be tried on the merits by the tribunal, which has cognizance of them.
67 The judges who constitute the tribunals of first instance, and the commissioners of government established at the tribunals, are taken from the communal or departmental list.
The judges forming the tribunals of appeal and the commissioners placed with them, are taken from the departmental list.
The judges composing the tribunal of cassation, and the commissioners belonging to that tribunal, are taken from the national list.
68 The justices, except the justices of peace remain in office for life, unless they should be condemned to forfeit their places, or should not be continued on the list of eligibles corresponding with their functions.
CHAP. VI.
Of the responsibility of the Public Functionaries.
69. The functions of members, whether of the senate or of the legislative body, or of the tribunate, and also those of the consuls or counsellors of state, do not discharge them from responsibility.
70. Personal crimes, to which are annexed corporal or infamous punishment, committed by a member either of the senate, tribunate, legislative body, or of the council of state, are prosecuted, before the ordinary tribunals, after a deliberation of the body to which the person charged belongs, has authorized such prosecution.
71. The ministers arraigned, in their private capacity, of crimes to which are annexed corporal or infamous punishment, are considered as members of the council of state.
72. The ministers are responsible—1st for every act of government signed by them, and declared unconstitutional by the senate; 2d, for the non-execution of the laws, and of the regulations of the public administration; 3d, for the particular orders which they have given, if these orders are contrary to the constitution, the laws, and ordinances.
73. In the several cases of the preceding article, the tribunate denounces the minister by an act on which the legislative body deliberates in ordinary form, after having heard or summoned the person denounced. The minister placed in a course of judgment is tried by a high court, without appeal or recourse, for a reversal.
The high court is composed of judges and jurors. The judges are chosen by the tribunal of cassation and from its bosom. The jurors are chosen from the national list; the whole according to the forms prescribed by laws.
74. The judges, civil and criminal, for crimes relating to their functions, are prosecuted before the tribunals to which the tribunal of cassation sends them, after having annulled their acts.
75. The agents of government, other than the ministers, cannot be prosecuted for acts relating to their functions, but by virtue of a decision of the council of state, in this case the prosecution is carried on before the ordinary tribunals.
CHAP. VII.
General Dispositions.
76. The house of every person inhabiting the French territory is an inviolable asylum.
During the night no person has a right to enter it, except in case of fire, inundation, at the request of the persons within.
In the day one may enter it for the special purpose, determined either by the law, or an order emanating from a public authority.
77. In order that the act which ordains the arrest of a person may be executed, it is necessary, 1st, that it express in form the causes for such arrest, and the law in execution of which it is ordered; 2dly, that it issues from a functionary to whom the law has formally given that power; 3dly, that it be notified to the person arrested; and a copy of it left with him.
78. No keeper or gaoler can receive or detain any person without having first transcribed on his register the act ordering his arrest. This act must be a mandate, given in the forms prescribed by the preceding article, or a warrant for taking the body, or a decree of accusation, or a judgment.
79. Every keeper or gaoler is bound, without any order being able to dispense with it, to represent the person in his custody to the civil officer, having the police of the house of detention, whenever this officer shall demand such account.
80. A representation of a person in custody shall not be refused to his parents & friends, carrying an order from the civil officer, who shall be obliged always to grant it, unless the keeper or gaoler produces an order of a judge to keep the prisoner secret.
81. All those who not being vested by the law with the power of arresting, shall give, sign, or execute the arrest of any person whatsoever; all those who, even in the case of arrest authorized by law, shall receive or detain the person arrested in a place of confinement not publicly and legally designated as such; and all keepers or gaolers who shall act contrary to the dispositions of the three preceding articles, shall be guilty of arbitrary detention.
82. All severities used in arrest, detentions, or executions, other than those commanded by the laws, are crimes.
83. Every person has a right of addressing private

petitions to every constituted authority, and particularly to the tribunates.
84 The public force is necessarily in a state of obedience; no armed body can deliberate.
85 Military crimes are subjected to special tribunals, and particular forms of judgment.
86 The French nation declares, that it will grant pensions to all the military wounded in defence of their country, and also to the widows and children of such military as have died on the field of battle, or in consequence of their wounds.
87 It shall decree national rewards to the warriors, who shall have rendered distinguished services in fighting for the republic.
88 A constituted body cannot deliberate except in a sitting, at which two thirds of its members, at least, are present.
89 A national institute is charged with receiving discoveries, and perfecting the arts and sciences.
90 A committee of national comptability regulates and verifies the accounts of the receipts and expenses of the republic.
This committee is composed of 7 members, chosen by the Senate from the national list.
91 The regime of the French colonies is determined by special laws.
92 In case of the revolt of an armed body, or of troubles which menace the safety of the state, the law may suspend in the places and for the time it determines, the empire of the constitution.
The suspension may be provisionally declared in the same cases, by an arrest of government, the legislative body not being sitting, provided this body be convened at a very short term by an article of the same article.
93 The French nation declares, that in no case will it suffer the return of the French who, having abandoned their country, since 1789 are not comprised in the exceptions contained in the laws against emigrants. It interdicts every new exception on this point.
The property of emigrants irrevocably belongs to the republic.
94 The French nation declares that after a sale legally completed of national property whatever may be its origin, the lawful purchase cannot be dispossessed, saving the right of third persons, if such there should be, claiming to be indemnified out of the public treasury.
95 The present constitution shall be offered forthwith for the acceptance of the French people.
Done at Paris the 22d Firmary, (Dec. 13) in the 8th year of the French Republic, one and indivisible.
Extraordinary STATE PAPERS!
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LONDON, JAN. 8. [Published by Authority.] LETTERS from the Minister of Foreign Affairs in France, and from Gen. Buonaparte, and the answers to them by the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, his Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. [TRANSLATION.]
MY LORD, 1 DISPATCH by order of Gen. Buonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic, a Messenger to London; he is the bearer of a letter from the First Consul of the Republic to his Majesty the King of England. I request you to give the necessary orders that he may be enabled to deliver it directly into your own hands. This step in itself announces the importance of its object. Accept, my Lord, the assurance of my highest consideration. CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND. Paris, the 5th Nivose, 8th year of the French Republic. (December 25, 1799.)
[TRANSLATION.] French Republic—Sovereignty of the People. LIBERTY. EQUALITY. Buonaparte First Consul of the Republic, to his Majesty the King of Great Britain and of Ireland. Paris, the 5th Nivose, 8th year of the Republic.
CALLED by the wishes of the French nation to occupy the First Magistracy of the Republic, I think it proper, on entering into office, to make a direct communication of it to your Majesty.
The war which for eight years has ravaged the four quarters of the world, must it be eternal? Are there no means of coming to an understanding?
How can the two most enlightened nations of Europe, powerful and strong beyond what their safety and independence require, sacrifice to ideas of vain greatness, the benefits of commerce, internal prosperity, and the happiness of families? How is it that they do not feel that peace is of the first necessity, as well as of the first glory?
These sentiments cannot be foreign in the heart of your Majesty, who reigns over a free nation, and with the sole view of rendering it happy.
Your Majesty will only see in this overture my sincere desire to contribute efficaciously, for the second time, to a general pacification, by a step, speedy, intirely of confidence, and disengaged from those forms which, necessary perhaps to disguise the dependence of weak states, prove only, in those which are strong, the mutual desire of deceiving each other.
France and England, by the abuse of their strength, may still for a long time, for the misfortune of all nations, retard the period of their being exhausted. But I will venture to say it, the fate of all civilized nations is attached to the termination of a war, which involves the whole world. of your Majesty.
BUONAPARTE.
*We are at loss to decipher the meaning of this sentence—it is, however, agreeably to the copy.
Downing-street, Jan. 4, 1800. SIR,
I have received and laid before the King the two letters which you have transmitted to me; and his Majesty, seeing no reason to depart from those forms which have long been established in Europe for transacting business with foreign states, has commanded me to return, in his name, the official answer which I send you herewith inclosed. I have the honor to be, with high consideration, fir, your most obedient humble servant,
GRENVILLE.
To the Minister for Foreign Affairs, &c. at Paris.
NOTE.
The King has given frequent proofs of his sincere desire for the re-establishment of secure and permanent tranquillity to Europe.—He neither is, nor has been engaged in any contest for a vain and false glory. He had no other view than that of maintaining, against all aggression, the rights and happiness of his subjects. For these he has contended against an unprovoked attack; and for the same objects he is still obliged to contend; nor can he hope that this necessity could be removed by entering, at the present moment, into negotiation with those whom a fresh revolution has so recently placed in the exercise of power in France—since no real advantage can arise from such negotiation to the great and desirable object of General Peace, until it shall distinctly appear, that those causes have ceased to operate which originally produced the war, and by which it has since been protracted, and, in more than one instance, renewed.
The same system, to the prevalence of which France justly ascribes all her present miseries, is that which has also involved the rest of Europe in a long and destructive warfare, of a nature long since unknown to the practice of civilized nations.
For the extension of this system, and for the extermination of all established governments, the resources of France have from year to year, and in the midst of the most unparalleled distress, been lavished and exhausted. To this indiscriminate spirit of destruction the Netherlands, the United Provinces, the Swiss Cantons, (his majesty's ancient friends and allies) have successively been sacrificed. Germany has been ravaged; Italy, though now rescued from its invaders, has been made the scene of unbounded rapine and anarchy. His majesty has himself been compelled to maintain an arduous and burthensome contest for the independence and existence of his kingdoms.
Nor have these calamities been confined to Europe alone: they have been extended to the most distant quarters of the world, and even to countries so remote both in situation and interests from the present contest, that the very existence of such a war was perhaps unknown to those who found themselves suddenly involved in all its horrors.
While such a system continues to prevail, and while the blood and treasure of a numerous and powerful nation can be lavished in its support, experience has shown that no defence but that of open and steady hostility can be availing. The most solemn treaties have only prepared the way for fresh aggression; and it is in a determined resistance alone that is now due whatever remains in Europe of stability for property, for personal liberty, for social order, or for the free exercise of religion.
For the security, therefore, of these essential objects, his majesty cannot place his reliance on the mere renewal of general professions of pacific dispositions. Such professions have been repeatedly held out by all those who have successively directed the resources of France to the destruction of Europe: and whom the present rulers have declared to have been all, from the beginning, and uniformly, incapable of maintaining the relations of amity and peace.
Greatly, indeed, will his majesty rejoice whenever it shall appear that the danger to which his own dominions, and those of his allies, have been so long exposed has really ceased; whenever he shall be satisfied that the necessity of resistance is at an end; that after the experience of so many years of crimes and miseries, better principles have ultimately prevailed in France; and that all the gigantic projects of ambition, and all the rest-
less schemes of destruction which have endangered the very existence of civil society, have at length been finally relinquished:—But the conviction of such a change, however agreeable to his majesty's wishes, can result only from experience, and from the evidence of facts.
The best and most natural pledge of its reality and permanence, would be the restoration of that line of princes which for so many centuries maintained the French nation in prosperity at home, and in consideration and respect abroad: Such an event would at once have removed, and will at any time remove all obstacles in the way of negotiation or peace. It would confirm to France the unmolested enjoyment of its ancient territory; and it would give to all the other nations in Europe, in tranquillity and peace, that security which they are now compelled to seek by other means.
But, desirable as such an event must be, both to France and the world, it is not to this mode exclusively that his majesty limits the possibility of secure and solid pacification: His majesty makes no claim to prescribe to France what shall be the form of her government, or in whose hands she shall vest the authority necessary for conducting the affairs of a great and powerful nation.
His majesty looks only to the security of his own dominions and those of his allies, and to the general safety of Europe. Whenever he shall judge that such security can in any manner, be attained, as resulting either from the internal situation of that country, from whose internal situation the danger has risen, or from such other circumstances of whatever nature as may produce the same end, his majesty will eagerly embrace the opportunity to concert with his allies the means of immediate and general pacification.
Unhappily no such security hitherto exists: no sufficient evidence of the principles by which the new government will be directed; no reasonable ground by which to judge of its stability. In this situation it can, for the present only remain for his majesty to pursue, in conjunction with other powers those exertions of just and defensive war, which his regard to the happiness of his subjects will never permit him either to continue beyond the necessity in which they originated, or to terminate on any other grounds, than such as may best contribute to the secure enjoyment of their tranquillity, their constitution, and their independence.
(Signed)
GRENVILLE.
Downing-street Jan. 4, 1800. To the Minister for Foreign Affairs, &c. at Paris.
FRENCH INTERNAL COMMOTIONS.
NANTZ, Dec. 7. ORDERS.
"All the troops of the subdivision are apprized, that the General, in Chief of the army of England, informed of the conduct held by the Chouans during the suspension of hostilities which had been agreed to between him and the principal chiefs, is indignant at the horrors and exactions which they have committed. He has in consequence, given orders the most precise to regard as an act of hostility the requisitions of provisions and cattle, the levies of men, the contributions in money, the seizure of horses, and the march into cantonments which they did not occupy before the suspension."
"Brave soldiers, who, notwithstanding your exact obedience and your subordination, have permitted the expression of your indignation at the recital of these horrors committed by the rebels, your arms are now at liberty; and without yet attacking them directly, we shall repel and punish the crimes which they venture to perpetrate."
"Let us prepare to obtain by force the peace which the General in Chief tried to accomplish by clemency and persuasion."
(Signed)
GRIGNY.
FRENCH STATE PAPERS.
Buonaparte, First Consul of the Republic, to the French Soldiers.
Soldiers! IN promising peace to the French people, I have been your organ. I know your valour.
You are the same men who conquered Holland, Italy, and made peace under the walls of astonished Vienna. Soldiers! It is no longer your frontiers that you must defend; it is the enemy's States that must be invaded.
There is none who has not made several campaigns, who does not know that the most essential quality of a soldier is to know how to support privation with constancy: several years of bad administration cannot be repaired in a day.
As first Magistrate of the Republic, it will be pleasing to make known
to the whole nation the corps which shall deserve by their discipline and valor, to be proclaimed the supporters of the country.
Soldiers! When it shall be time, I will be in the midst of you; and astonished Europe shall remember that you are a race of brave men.
Paris, 4th Nivose 25th Dec.
26th Dec. 8th year of the Republic. Buonaparte, First Consul of the Republic, to the General of Division Saint Cyr.
The Minister of War has given me an account, Citizen General, of a victory which you have gained over the left wing of the Austrians. Receive as a testimony of my satisfaction a handsome sabre, which you will wear in the days of battle. Let the soldiers under your command know that I am content with them, and hope to be still more so. The Minister of War will expedite to you the first Lieutenant of the army. Rely upon my esteem and friendship.
(Signed)
BUONAPARTE.
PHILADELPHIA, March 18.
From Capt. Truxton, to the Secretary of the Navy.
"Port Royal Harbour, Jamaica, 12th Feb. 1800."
"I arrived here the 8th inst. in company with the Insurgente, Capt. Murray, with whom I fell in with the day after I wrote you by Lieut. Shaw."
"Finding it impossible to get a master here, I shall use every dispatch in my power to put the Constellation into a condition to proceed to the United States. I have met a kind and friendly reception from Ad. Parker. All the British post Captains here have been on board the Constellation and from seeing our situation, express every sentiment that could be wished by those true Americans who love their country and its honor."
Extract of a letter from an officer on board the Scammel, dated Curacoa, Jan. 30, 1800.
After sailing from Newyork, we proceeded to St. Kitts, where we joined the Delaware, and immediately came to this place, where we have been better than two months, occasionally making a few short cruises. The Delaware and Scammel have been very unfortunate, their crews being very sickly. We have had half our crew taken down with the fever. Some we have lost and a large number now remains sick.
Further account of La Vengeance's condition, damage, &c.
SALEM, MARCH 25.
Mr. David Smith, who was second mate of the brig Neptune, of this port, lately taken and carried into Guadalupe, was one of the Americans that were put on board the French frigate Vengeance, and has returned home together with a Mr. Putnam, who belonged to the same crew. They confirm the accounts we have had of the action between that frigate and Capt. Truxton. The Constellation appeared (in their phrase) but a longboat along side the Vengeance. The Frenchman had run from her in obedience to orders to avoid any conflict if possible; but, when he found the Constellation would come up with him, expected she would be an easy conquest. He soon found his mistake: the fire of the Constellation was much more lively than the Frenchman's, and the effect was terrible. One of the first shot killed two of the Guadalupe Generals, who were passengers, and wounded a number of men. The deficiency of the Frenchmen was in good seamen, and it was the extraordinary exertions of the passengers, who were supposed to have immense property on board, that saved the ship, which otherwise must have struck long before. Towards the close of the action, it was almost impossible to keep the men to their quarters; and had Capt. Truxton's mast stood a few minutes longer, he would have made sure of his prize, as he had related. When the Constellation's mast went over, the French crew gave three cheers; and the Americans, who till then had been below, were desired to come up, and assist to keep the ship afloat, the captain promising them a reward of five joes each, and their liberty, when they got into port.
After the Constellation's mast fell, she dropt astern, and in that situation the Frenchman discharged 3 or 4 shot from her stern guns upon her. When the Americans came upon the deck, it resembled a slaughter-house, so great was the carnage; and those who survived sunk down, exhausted, among the dead and dying, to refresh themselves with sleep. In the action, the Vengeance had lost her mizen-top-mast. The Americans had scarcely got to the pumps, when the mainmast fell, and four or five men who were in the tops perished; Mr. Smith and another American, were somewhat hurt by its fall. Immediately after, the fore top mast fell, with the loss of three men who were upon it. The fore and mizen masts were very badly
wounded, and every rope of the ship was cut to pieces, and the water fast making in the hold. The pumps were cleared by the Americans as fast as possible; and the fourth day after they arrived at Curacoa. It is here to be regretted that so brave a man as the French Captain did not here fulfil his promise to the Americans; for instead of five joes to each man he gave only twelve joes to the whole number.
S I X T H Congress of the U. States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WEDNESDAY, March 12.
THE Post Roads Bill passed to be enacted.
MARINE CORPS.
A bill for the government of the Marine Corps when on shore, was taken up in committee of the whole. By one section, it was required, if an offence was committed by one of the corps, the commanding officer in the vicinity, shall use his utmost endeavours to deliver the offender to the civil authority, on pain of being cashiered, on the verdict of a jury, in a Court of law. It was moved, and carried, that this section be struck out. When the House resumed, the question of concurrence with the Committee of the Whole, was warmly debated, but finally carried.—Yeas 47—Nays 44.
So that the offence stated in the bill is triable, at court-martial. The bill was not gone through with.
THURSDAY, March 13.
Mr. Nicholas, moved, that it be Resolved, That the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States:—
1. That after the 3d day of March, 1801, the choice of electors of P. and V. P. shall be made by dividing each State into districts equal to the number of electors to be chosen in such State, &c.
2. That the election of Representatives to Congress, who are to serve after the third day of March, 1803, shall be by districts, &c. as aforesaid.
Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Marshall presented a petition of William Tazewell, Secretary to Mr. Gerry, while Envoy to Paris, praying a settlement of his account, &c. which was referred.
The bill for removing the United States military from the places of holding elections, was amended and passed to be engrossed.
FRIDAY, March 14.
The act to prevent the interference of any military force in certain elections, passed.
Several reports were made which will be noticed as the decision on them ripens.
Mr. Harper after explaining the motives for the measure, to compel officers of the Revenue to make payment to the Treasury, moved that it be Resolved, That a Committee be raised to report what further provisions are necessary for compelling the receivers of public money to account for and pay over the same. Adopted.
The Pay-Master-General, and Assistant Adjutant-General compensation bill passed to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr. S. Smith, a Committee was appointed to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, to remit any forfeitures under the laws prohibiting the exportation of arms, &c. under certain provisions.
Messrs. Lee and Harper's motion respecting Turnpike Post Roads, were committed.
PATENT BILL.
The bill to extend the privilege of obtaining patents, was debated. But no decision had on it.
After debate, a Committee was raised to report on a general law for the relief of those officers and soldiers of the continental army who lost their warrants for bounty lands, by fraud or otherwise.
MONDAY, March 17.
Mr. Parker after some pertinent preliminary observations, proposed a resolution, directing that a gold medal, emblematical of the recent engagement between the American frigate Constellation and the French ship Vengeance, should be presented to Capt. Truxton, as an acknowledgement of his gallantry and good conduct.
A petition was presented from the widow of Gen. Wooller, and committed.
A resolution was reported authorizing the purchase of the copper bed of Lake Superior.
The Senate notified, that they had rejected the Bill extending the time for the payment of bonds given for duties.
The Loan Bill underwent discussion but was not decided upon.
TUESDAY, MARCH 18.
Mr. Parker called up his resolution respecting presenting a Medal to Capt.

Truston. But it being wished that authentic information might be obtained on the subject from the Navy Office, Mr. P. withdrew his first motion; and proposed
"That the Secretary of the Navy lay before the House such information as he may be possessed of, respecting the engagement which lately took place in the W. Indies between the Constellation frigate, and the French ship of war; and also respecting the conduct of James Jarvis, midshipman on board the said frigate, who voluntarily devoted himself to death, by remaining at his post after being warned of the consequences; to the end that this House may be able in a proper manner to do justice to his memory."
On motion, the part respecting Mr. Jarvis was struck out, and these words substituted, viz. "And also upon the conduct of any officers or other persons on board said frigate who may have particularly signalized themselves in the said action." The Resolution, thus amended, was carried.
The Loan Bill passed to be engrossed.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19. The Loan Bill passed yeas 52—nays 39.
A Bill to establish a military Academy, and better organize a Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, was read twice.
A Resolution was submitted for appointing a Committee to ascertain whether the public debt has been increased or diminished since the establishment of the present Constitution.
THURSDAY, MARCH 20. Amongst others, a bill for dividing the territory N. W. of the Ohio, was read twice and referred.
FEDERAL CITY. Mr. Otis, after a few preliminary observations, laid on the table a resolution for the appointment of a Committee to consider what measures are expedient for Congress to adopt preparatory to the removal of the seat of government.
PUBLIC DEBT. Mr. Griswold's resolution on this subject, somewhat modified, was adopted, and a Committee of seven appointed.
Mr. Harper moved that this Committee should also report a statement of all the incidental and extraordinary expenses into which the government had been drawn by particular circumstances. Laid on the table.
FRIDAY, MARCH 21. The Speaker laid before the House a report from the Secretary of the Navy, respecting Capt. Truxton's engagement. Besides Capt. T's dispatches, the report contained extracts of letters from the American Consul at Curacao, and the Agent at St. Kitts, respecting the disabled state of the French ship La Vengeance.—As to any particular specimen of valor, the Secretary received no information, but that all the officers and men had acted with the most unexampled bravery and decorum was attested by the Captain, whose good management was evinced, by the singular success of the action. The Secretary notices the bravery of James Jarvis, a midshipman, who preferred death to quitting his post—the report and resolution, were referred to the Naval Committee.
The Committee on the petition of Gilbert Dench, again reported against the prayer of the petitioner. The House concurred.
Mr. Otis's resolution respecting the removal of the government to the Federal city, was referred to the suitable committee.
SENATE—MONDAY, MARCH 17. The Consideration of the report of the Committee of Privileges, recommending the ordering of the Editor of the Aurora to attend at the Bar of the Senate, on motion of J. T. Mason was postponed till to-morrow.
TUESDAY, MARCH 18. The report of the Committee of Privileges was again taken up. Mr. Nicholas moved its recommittal for certain alterations; considerable debate ensued. The first part of the report declaring the publications false, scandalous and malicious, was agreed to—yeas 20—nays 8.
Mr. Watson, Senator from N. Y. has resigned.
BOSTON, March 29. A naval Engineer of the United States is now in town on a survey of a suitable plot for the establishment of a Navy Yard.
A decree has passed the government of Batavia, directing American vessels to load with equal proportions of sugar, pepper, and coffee.
All accounts agree, that the Vengeance French man of war, mounted 54 guns—eighteen pounders on her main deck;—That she had 500 men on board, in all: That amongst the passengers were Gen. Desfourneaux, a number of field and other officers,
and part of a regiment of foot. The specie she had on board amounted to between one and two millions of dollars. Two American seamen, who were pressed out of the prisons of Guadalupe, have passed through this town on their way to Salem; they assert, that the killed, and those who died of their wounds, amounted to upwards of an hundred; and it was wholly owing to the assistance rendered the forlorn crew by the Americans who were on board, that they ever arrived in port.
NEW FRENCH CONSTITUTION. The public sentiment on this new constructed instrument is not yet established.—By many it is considered as a heterogeneous mass of absurdity;—while others view it as approximating very near the perfection of human wisdom.—For ourselves, we think it a system which, tho' it would not be accepted in any State of the American union, contains the "necessary curbs and bits for headstrong Frenchmen." It certainly combines much legislative science, in an elegant epitome.—A writer in an Irish (Belfast) paper of Jan. 3, discussing this system, says,—"The new French Constitution gives an influence vast and kingly to the chief magistrate—transfers all responsibility from him to his own creatures, & confers upon him, at the same time, the more than kingly prerogative of being the proposer of all possible laws, in a government of which he and two inferior associates form the Executive; a constitution which elevates the great functionaries and powers of the state into a separate order, never more to become one again with their fellow citizens; nobles for life, and judges and revivers of the acts of the 300 legislators, whom they themselves had previously elected. On all this, and upon far more than all this, the whole nation is called upon to judge and decide, by a constitution, whose prime leading, and fundamental principle it is, that the great mass of the nation have just virtue and wisdom enough to chuse their constables, and no more! By this appeal to the universal suffrage, the sovereignty of the people is admitted in its widest extent; and the people are called upon to exercise it, as the suicide exercises his power over life, only to destroy it forever. The indefensible validity of personal rights is thus expressed as fully as the wildest Democracy could vote it; by a constitution as oligarchic as ever that of Venice was, and which pronounces the people at large a foul and unwholesome element, unfit to be employed in the simplest offices, without long processes of filtration. But this, however, we may perhaps pass over, as a courtly grimace to amuse the half-jacobins; an act of pure tenderness to the genius of Democracy, now on its death-bed: and it would be too rigorous to expect consistency in a mere compliment. Sieyes and Buonaparte are, we presume, sufficiently assured of the affections of the soldiers, and the terrors and hopelessness of the nation, to know, that no deliberation will be called forth, no actual power exercised by the people." With respect to the democratic part of the Constitution, we are in opinion with the Belfast commentator.
MARCH 31. Yesterday afternoon, arrived the ship Thomas Russell, Capt. Jackson, in 56 days from London. We have received by this vessel, London papers to the 3d Feb. but they contain nothing new.
The London Times, of Dec. 30th, says, "The ancient code of neutral navigation is restored in France, as it appears to conciliate the American government, from which Plenipotentiaries have been sent, who have disembarked at Bourdeaux."
The following remarks on the late correspondence between the Arch Consul Buonaparte and the King of Great Britain, are extracted from the Times, of Jan. 3d. a London paper which we conjecture is edited by Mr. Channing, or Under Secretary of State, of whose abilities the readers of this Gazette are not ignorant; and from whose nerve and consistency, the usurpers of France have but little hopes of success, in their deceptive wiles.—If an honorable peace was the real object of Buonaparte, he knew the means by which alone she was to be courted.
The arrival of the French Courier with the letters of Buonaparte and his Ministers, which we announced yesterday, appears to have created more of curiosity than of any other sensation. The public think too justly of the late Revolution and the designs of its Author to argue any thing propitious from those proposals, which were never offered, nor perhaps dreamed of, before he had failed in his attempt to detach the Emperor of Germany from our alliance. Unable to corrupt the fidelity of the Cabinet of Vienna, the Arch-Consul could entertain no sanguine hope of prevailing upon the British Ministry to break the faith of our engagements with that
Court, and the Emperor of Russia. If he designed only to dupe the most credulous and ignorant of mankind, he must have offered to treat for a General Peace in a Congress of ministers from all the Powers at war. All separate propositions he must have known were inadmissible, without a sacrifice which he could never hope for, of the national honor and character; and he knew that his object in offering of them would be instantly detected by the grossest capacities.
Buonaparte, however, had another object in view, which seems to have no little power in his newly acquired palace of the Thuilleries. He affects the kingly dignity and uses the style of it, and he had now the opportunity of addressing a Monarch upon a footing of equality. He determined therefore to write in his own name to his Majesty, while Tallyrand Perigord was directed to open the correspondence with Lord Grenville. His letter is addressed to "His Majesty, the King of Great Britain and Ireland," (the omission of France is not very material) and its signed "Buonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic."
Such has been the form of the present communication. The contents of these important letters there is no doubt will in due time be submitted to the Public eye; though beyond the threshold of the Cabinet they are as yet of course undivulged.
In the very outset, however, and first intercourse of this negotiation, there appears evidently to be an insidious intention of perplexing the steps of the British Court. An occasion of offence seems anxiously to have been sought for, in addressing the King personally upon the subject. The regular channel was through his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and all the negotiations with the predecessors of Buonaparte in the usurpation had been conducted through this road. But it occurred to the new Monarch, that if the dignity and the forms of the Court of London could permit this novelty, it would environ his government with respect, and induce his disfranchised millions to imagine him admired, with as much stupidity in foreign nations and by lawful Princes, as in the market-places of Paris, by sycophants and slaves. He might pretend that his Sovereignty was acknowledged by the States of Europe, and prolong its duration at home by that accession of lustre from abroad. If the negotiation were confined by the English Government to the usual channel, and the personal communication declined by the Royal Representatives of the Nation; he hoped to be able to represent it as an insult to France herself, represented in his own Arch-Consular person, and thus to deceive the people he has enslaved, by the snare he spread for a foreign Government.
We are not informed what resolution has been adopted by the ministers upon this occasion, and shall therefore suppress the sentiment that arises most naturally in our minds; we shall confine ourselves, at the present moment, to the single reflection, that sincerity in the object of Buonaparte would have interdicted the present manner of attempting it. If he were desirous of peace, he would have sought her in the plain and habitual manner, and have avoided the danger of perplexing his steps in the etiquette, the pride or the caution of his enemies. That he seeks already for pretexts, and causes of rejecting the failure of his pretended negotiation upon the Courts of Vienna and London, is not more evident in his addressing them severally than in the manner of addressing each. Fortunately, he has no Secret Conferences at Seltz to punish; but we have no doubt the Manifesto is already written, in which we shall be charged with the wanton continuance of a War, which he has already announced to his Soldiers, and which he knows to be necessary to the support of his desperate and unprincipled usurpation.
In Exchange language, the King of Great Britain informs Consul Buonaparte, in the late correspondence between them, that if the French nation will restore their ancient line of Kings to the throne, he will take his single note of hand, as a security for Peace; but if they will continue appointing and disciplining the Executive Agents, he will not take their Notes unless with "approved endorser."
FROM THE WEST-INDIES. Port-au-prince, Feb. 20.—Jacquemel is not yet taken; and the vessels sent against it by Toussaint have been captured by the British, condemned and sold:—But the black General has as yet no farther resented this conduct, than by stopping the intercourse between St. Domingo and Jamaica. The money brought in the Infurgent frigate from the West Indies, has been deposited in the Branch Bank, at Baltimore.—It was contained in 46 boxes, and 8 bags—and amounted to 180,000 dollars.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 2. VOTES FOR GOVERNOR. Gov. GILMAN, WALKER. Number published, 6687 3990 Barnstead, 63 63 Barrington, 251 63 Canaan, 78 12 Durham, 100 60 Greenland, 10 84 Middleton, 62 0 Newington, 34 40 New-Hampton, 15 85 New-Grantham, 27 125 Orford, 123 3 Plainfield, 10 190 Rochester, 165 185 Rye, 3 163 7628 5063
RUSSIA—Duke Alexander Paulowitz, has, it is said, formally renounced his right of succession to the throne; and Prince Constantine Paulowitz has been named the heir.
RUSSIAN TROOPS.—A fatal Disease has appeared among those Troops, who were carried to England on the evacuation of North-Holland. It continued its destructive course at the date of our last accounts.
All the Volunteer Corps in England are still held in readiness for immediate service.
FRENCH PRIVATEERING.—The Governor of the Isle of France has issued a Proclamation "requiring the Tribunals to pronounce the confiscation of all the American vessels which have been or shall be brought into that Island, as well as the property with which they may be laden."
CATENNE.—A letter from thence of Dec. 15, states that the Directorial Agent Burnel, had been seized and sent off for France on board the corvette Bonne Aventure. Among a variety of charges against him, his depredations on neutral property are mentioned. This agent was shipped off before Hugues arrived.
Extract of a letter from F. G. C. Spencer, mate of the brig Rebecca, Capt. Henry M'Clintock, belonging to this port, to the owner, dated St. Croix, March 1, 1800.
I have embraced this, the earliest opportunity, of informing you of the misfortune of the brig Rebecca. On the 2d day of February, in lat. 25, 14, N. and long. 67, 30, W. we were captured by le Vailant, French privateer from Porto Rico, out three days, 2 guns and forty-five men; they took on board (after plundering the vessel of all her stores, &c.) your brother and three of the men, Watson, Currier and Harsford, and left me with the cook, Tripe and Teaton, on board the brig, they being sick, and they put on board a prize master and five hands and ordered us into Porto Rico or Guadalupe, but the wind being at South and S. S. E. we made but a slow progress, during this time I made use of all the argument I was master of, to persuade the people to retake the vessel, but to no effect; when I found I could not persuade them, I threatened and endeavored to shake them, but the feelings of the Cook and Teaton were invulnerable. Tripe the young countryman was not so callous, for the next day, which was the 11th, he told me he would stand by me while he had life, so we retook the brig on the same day at noon, without the assistance of the other two men; the 6 Frenchmen being all on deck we had tough work, but thank God we did it without being wounded; but unfortunately we killed the prize master and one hand, and wounded two others; after securing the prisoners, I made sail for Jamaica, but the wind still hanging to the southward, I could make but little progress, and was taken the next day by another privateer, le Hazar, of 12 guns, and 60 men, belonging to the same owner as the former one; they took me and my three people on board and put us in irons below, but they released me and the cook in the course of a few minutes, and sent me again on board the brig with a recruit of Frenchmen; they confined me to the cabin and the cook to the fore-peak, but fortunately, on the 23d in lat. 18, 30, N. and long. 60, 30, W. I was again re-taken by an English Guineaman and brought into this Port, on the 26th. I wrote yesterday to Guadalupe to your brother, advising him of my being here. After having sold and paid the salvage, shall take the benefit of the convoy, and come with the brig to Portsmouth, without contrary orders from you.—Your brother will not be put in prison, for the neutral powers that buy the prizes, give the Governor a joe a head, and they take who they please from the privateers as they come in.—Tankes are cheap at Guadalupe.
N. B. Neither of the privateers had commissions, only a passport for ten days to go to Guadalupe and get commissions.
Friday arrived brig Camillus, Capt. James Drifco, jr. 21 days from St. Vincents; left one hand, Jette Lumbard, of Sacco, died at St. Vincents.—Left there March 7, ship Sally, Gould; brig America, brig Franklin, Howard; sckrs Phenix, Murphy, and Snow Clover, all of Kennebec—sckrs Dunbar, Newport; Schooner Abigail, Perkins, Custine; sckrs Polly, Allen, Casco Bay; brig
America, and sckrs Favoright of Norwich; sckrs Betsy, of Harford; sckrs Hope, of Portland; brig Centaur, Peirce; sckrs Polly, Paul; and brig Eagle Rollings (the latter to sail in three days) all of Portsmouth.
DIED.—In this town, Madam SARAH NEWMARCH, relict of the late JOHN NEWMARCH, Esq. aged 100 years, one month and three days.—Miss PHOEBE HART, the amiable consort of Mr. ELISHA HART, aged 33.—A child of Mr. Lloyd.
JUST RECEIVED AND TO BE SOLD, BY Joseph Bals, At his Shop in Broad-street, Portsmouth;—EARLY
Garden Peas & Beans, WITH a general assortment of English and American new Garden Seeds; a variety of Flower Garden Seeds; together with thirty dozen beautiful Tulips, &c.
N. B. The Upholsterer's business carried on at the above place with neatness, fidelity and dispatch. Portsmouth, April 2, 1800.
FOR SALE BY M. S. Marsh, Russia & Ravens Duck, Archangel Iron; Herring and Salmon Nets. Herring Seines. Sail, Salmon & Herring Twine; Lines, from 6 threaded to 18 threaded. Hooks. Superfine & common Flour. India Sugar. April 2, 1800.
HOUSE LOTS, for Sale. BY virtue of a licence from the Hon. SAMUEL TENNEY, Esq. Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. Will be sold at Public Auction on Friday the 25th of April next at 10 o'clock, A. M. on the premises:— Four large commodious HOUSE LOTS; On the south side of Hlingon road, near Martin's hill; each LOT being about 92 feet in front, and 250 feet back. The Conditions will be made favourable to purchasers, and may be known by applying to Thomas Sparhawk. Portsmouth, March 29, 1800. [r.h.e.]
Lift of Prizes JUST RECEIVED. ADVENTURERS in the Sixth Class of Dartmouth College Lottery, who purchased Tickets at J. Melcher's Printing-office and Brook-street, are requested to call and receive their prize money. April 2.
On WEDNESDAY the 16th inst. WILL BE SOLD At Public Auction, A very large assortment of English piece Goods, without any reserve whatever,—Consisting of
BROAD Cloths. Dimities. Cassimeres. Chinzes. Forest Cloths. Muffin Aprons. Serges. Lawn do. Cassimere. Muslin H'kerchiefs. Thicklets. Lawn do. Corduroys. Copperplates. Velvets. Shawls. Swansdowns. Cotton Hose. Shalloons. Silk do. Durants. Worsted do. Tammies. Silk Mitts. Calimancoes. Worsted do. Russells. Long Kid Gloves. Lattings. Short do. Wildbores. Threads. Camblets. Edgings. Crapes. Black Modes. Poplins. 130 pieces No. 4 Glossierets. Hair Ribbon. Mouselins. Quiltings. Moreens. Color'd Threads. Linens. Quality Binding. Britannias. Shoe do. Brown Hollands. Ladies black and co. Cotton Shirtings. Lord's Beaver Hats. India Cottons. Men's & Boy's Hats. Cotonees. Hat Bands. Jeannees. Shoe Buckles. Muslins. Buttons.
With a great variety of other Goods, too tedious to insert in an advertisement. Conditions of Sale. All purchasers under 100 dollars, cash down—upwards of 100 to 200 dollars, 3 months credit—all above 200 dollars, 6 months for approved notes with endorser. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock, A. M. and to continue till the goods are all sold.
Abraham Isaac, Auctioneer. LOST, ON Monday evening between Mr. Stephen Chase's house and Mr. William Stevens's, a piece of Gold, 16 dollars value. Whoever has found the same and will return it to JACK HALLS, a man of color, who worked very hard to earn it, shall be rewarded five Dollars. April 2.
FOR SALE AT Jacob Sheafe's STORE—A QUANTITY OF SUGAR & COFFEE, entitled to drawback.

AGRICULTURE.  THOU first of arts, source of domestic ease, Pride of the land and patron of the seas, Thrift Agricultural! lend thy potent aid, Spread thy green fields where dreary forests shade;  Where savage men pursued their savage prey, Let the white flocks in verdant pastures play; From the bloom'd orchard and the flow'ry vale, Give thy rich fragrance to the gentle gale;  Reward with amplest boon the labourer's hand, And pour thy gladd'ning bounties o'er our land.  Columbia's sons, spurn not the rugged toil; Your nation's glory is a cultur'd soil: Rome's Cincinnatus of illustrious birth Increas'd his laurels while he till'd the earth, E'en China's monarch lays his sceptre down, Nor deems the task unworthy of the crown.
HUMOUR.  IT is well known that the name of Nicholas has been generally abbreviated into Nick.—An old Negro, by the name of Harry, who lived in New-Jersey some years ago commonly made it his practice, on holidays, to go round among the gentry, begging. One Christmas morning, meeting Mr. Nicholas G——, thus accosted him: "Good morning, Massa G——, wish you melly Clifmas. Please to gib poor old Negrur his pence dis morning." Mr. G. (who well knew the Negro, but determined to have a little fun) replied, with some degree of sternness. "Who are you?"—"Massa no know me?" answered the Negro; "My name Harry, dey call me ole Harry"—"Old Harry!" says Mr. G.—"they call the Devil ole Harry."—"Yes, Massa," replied the Negro, "sometime ole Harry—sometime ole Nick."—Mr. G. was so well pleased with the repartee that he gave the Negro a dollar.
SLANDER.  LET the weak and ill natured enjoy the poor pleasure of whispering calumny and detraction, and let the man of sense display the wisdom and dignity of disregarding them. The dogs bay the moon, but the moon still shines on in its beautiful serenity and lustre, and moves on in its orbit with undisturbed regularity.
THE Heirs to the estate of JOSEPH FELLOWS, late of Kingston, Gentleman, deceased, are hereby notified that on the 21st day of April next, A. M. the account of the subscriber, of his Administration of said estate, will be exhibited to the Judge of Probate for examination and allowance.  JACOB WEBSTER, Executor. Kingston, March 25, 1800.
PUBLIC VENDUE,  TO-MORROW.  BY Licence from the hon. Samuel Tenney, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, will be sold at public vendue, on THURSDAY the third day of April next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of John Greenleaf, innholder in Portsmouth, the real estate of RICHARD LEADER NELSON, late of said Portsmouth, school-master, deceased, with the incumbrance of the widow's dower therein.—Said estate consists of about one acre of Land, situate at the plains, fronting on the main post road, adjoining the train field, and land of Samuel Sherburne, and is a corner lot,—the conditions of sale will be known at the time and place of sale by GEORGE GAINS, Administrator. Portsmouth, March 18, 1800.
A PASTURE for Sale.  TO BE SOLD  At AUCTION, On Tuesday the 15th day of April, at Mr. GREENLEAF's Tavern (if not before disposed of at private sale.)  A VALUABLE Pasture, containing about 15 acres, situate on the north side of the upper millpond, adjoining the estate of Col. S. Sherburne.—Many circumstances combine to enhance its value, among which are, its adjacency to the town, and convenient situation for water carriage, a part of it near the shore, being very suitable for a brick-yard, it contains also a spring of excellent water.  The terms and price will be reasonable, if any person should wish to purchase at private sale—otherwise it will be sold at auction as above. For particulars apply to SAM'L SPARHAWK. Portsmouth, March 25, 1800.
A Morning SCHOOL,  FOR MISSES, WILL be opened at the Brick School-House, the 21st of April. Attendance—From 6 o'clock till half past 7. Price—15s. per Quarter.  Amos Tappan.
ALL persons having demands upon the estate of Mr. PETER BALL, late of Portsmouth, yeoman, deceased, are requested to present their accounts to the subscriber for settlement, and those indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to  MARK ROGERS, Attorney to the Executrix. Portsmouth, March 26, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed executor to the last will and testament of Mr. JOHN WHITE, late of Haverhill, in the county of Essex, merchant, deceased, and has taken on himself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs.—Therefore all persons having demands on the estate of said deceased, are requested to exhibit the same, and those indebted are hereby called on to make immediate payment to  LEONARD WHITE, Executor. Haverhill, (Mass.) March 8, 1800.
State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in Stoddard, in said State, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1799, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, so much of the lands as will pay the same and all lawful charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Nathaniel Emerson, in said Stoddard, on the first Monday of June next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Names. Lot. Acres. Doll. Cents.     Asa Evans, 12 14 40 80   John Chamberlin, 24 5 61 80   Jonathan Odiorne, 21 12 80 40   Jonathan Willard, 17 15 30 15   Mary Parker, 25 13 80 40   Peter Hunt, 10 5 80 15   do 11 5 80 15   James Dunn, 22 4 80 40   Nathan Cummings, 6 14 22 10   Heirs of Joseph Blanchard, 4 14 14 7   do 24 13 30 60   do 26 7 80 15   do 26 3 3 8   Samuel Moor's heirs, 23 13 80 40   Joseph Read, 16 2 38 15   Reuben Kidder's heirs, 8 14 40 80   Mathew Thornton, 27 9 80 40   do 27 5 80 40   do 2 7 80 40   do 2 13 80 40   do 26 5 80 40   do 23 2 81 10   Ephraim Spaulding, 14 8 80 40   do 5 4 80 40   Joseph Crosby's heirs, 9 14 80 40   do 9 15 80 40   do 10 15 40 10   do 9 16 80 40   do 10 16 80 40   Col. Stoddard's heirs, 25 2 70 25   do 28 4 80 40   do 25 4 80 40   do 10 9 80 40    STEPHEN WRIGHT, Collector. Stoddard, March 14, 1800.
State of New-Hampshire.  Grafton, ss.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of lands in the township of Hebron, who have not paid their highway tax for the year 1799, that so much of their land as will pay said tax, together with incidental charges, will be sold at Public Vendue, at the house of the subscriber, in said Hebron, on the ninth day of June next, at ten of the clock, A. M. unless prevented by previous payment.—The lands for sale are described as follows:
   Original Proprietors Names. No. Acres. Doll. Cents.     Jacob Heldrith, N. F. 11 4 0 50   Eben Hartshorne, N. F. 10 4 0 25   Benjamin Parker, N. F. 6 4 0 20   Joseph Warner, N. F. 8 4 0 50   Eben Cummings, N. F. 7 4 0 50   Sam'l Cummings, N. F. 5 3 0 50   Stephen Powers, N. F. 6 1 0 50   do 7 0 1 50   John Harvell, N. F. 8 3 0 25   do 8 12 2 50   S. Cummings, Esq. N. F. 5 2 0 50   Dan. Emerson, jr. S. F. 2 2 0 50   do 6 2 0 50   Elmathan Blood, jr. S. F. 13 2 0 50   Nahum Powers, N. F. 9 2 0 25   Peter Hobart, N. F. 4 1 0 50   do 5 1 0 50   Mathew Pattin, N. F. 12 1 0 50   Sam'l Goodhue, N. F. 9 1 0 50   William Nevens, S. F. 10 3 0 50   J. Willoughby, jr. S. F. 12 2 0 50   do 2 3 0 50   James Nahor, S. F. 1 3 0 50   do 1 1 0 50   Jos. Blanchard, Esq. S. F. 19 2 0 50   Samuel Hale, S. F. 1 4 0 50   do 13 3 0 50   Tho's M c Clure, S. F. 2 4 0 25   do 3 4 0 25   The following are mostly proprietors of Cockermouth, now Groton.   Elnathan Blood, S. F. 5 3 0 50   do 14 2 0 50   Samuel Marsh, Proprietors of Cockermouth now Groton. 7 0 0 100   James M c Lellan, lower interval. 0 0 0 10   Pro's of Plymouth, S. F. 3 0 0 240   Richard Peirce, S. F. 1 1 0 50   do 2 1 0 50   Benjamin Abbot. 2 4 2 28    JOSIAH HOBART, Collector. February 13, 1800.
TO BE SOLD  At Public Auction, At Mr. Greenleaf's Tavern, By Jacob Walden,  TO-MORROW, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
The following Estate, viz.  THE House & Stores with the Wharf, formerly the estate of Daniel Warner, Esq. deceased, a very valuable privilege.
Two Houses with a large garden, situated at the south part of the town, near Mr. Peter Coffin, being part of said estate. Also, The Wharf and privilege which was part of J. Ayer's estate. Also, a valuable FARM at the Plains, about three miles from town, improved by Tobias Lear, containing about 160 acres, with a large House and Barn. Likewise, The Farm adjoining improved by Eliphalet Ayers, with a convenient House and large Barn, containing about 150 acres. Also,
A Farm in Durham, improved by Thomas Vincents, bounded on the river within half of a mile of Piscataqua Bridge, containing upwards of 100 acres. At the same time will be sold at public auction, several house lots, if purchasers appear. Conditions to be made known at the time and place. Portsmouth, March 11.
   Names. Lot. Acres. Doll. Cents.     Thomas Ellett, 1 14 3 100   Rufus Thomson, 3 1 3 100   Jona. Johnson, 24 14 3 100   John Attwell, 5 3 3 100   John Green, 1 3 3 100   Samuel Hart, jr. 18 2 2 50   M. H. Wentworth, 8 3 3 80   Abraham Hunter, a part, 1 2 1 9   Samuel Cutt, 2 0 0 0   John Kambull, 0 0 0 0   part of B. Wentworth's farm, 0 0 0 100   John Nelson, 22 1 1 50   William Pool, 29 1 1 80   Samuel Hobart, 30 1 1 100   do 19 13 3 100   Noah Thomson, 44 0 1 10   do 17 2 1 50   Jona. Eastmond, 42 0 0 10   Thomas Pratt, 46 0 0 10   John Hale, 2 0 0 100   ASA RIDER, Collector.   Groton, March 3, 1800.  
State of New-Hampshire.  Grafton, ss.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Farmington, that are delinquent in paying their county and highway taxes for the year 1799, that unless they pay said tax to me the subscriber, on or before the third day of June next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue as will pay the said tax with incidental charges, at the dwelling house of the subscriber in said town, at ten of the clock in the forenoon.
   Proprietors names. No. Acres. Doll. Cents.     John Allen, 98 4 10 1   Jonathan Crosby, 98 4 10 1   Ens. Joseph Cheley, 47 8 50 2   Joseph Daniels, 47 8 50 2   Joseph Daniels, jr. 47 8 50 2   Jethro Bickford, 101 4 10 1   ditto 101 4 10 1   Moses Davis, 78 8 10 1   James Hutchins, 78 8 10 1   Samuel Williams, 99 4 10 1   Samuel Downs, 113 2 240 10   Capt. Tim's Gerrish, 76 8 60 3   Clement Hughes, 51 2 20 2   Richard Hussey, 51 2 20 2   Job Hussey, 51 2 20 2   Joseph Ranking, 107 2 230 6   Samuel Hard, 107 2 230 6   James Hard, 107 2 230 6   David Watson, 37 2 20 2   James Hobbs, 37 2 20 2   Joseph Ham, 37 2 20 2   John Pearle, 97 4 10 1   ditto 97 4 10 1   Thomas Leighton, 33 3 30 1   John Leighton, 126 3 70 3   John Carter, 126 3 70 3   Joseph Kent, 126 3 70 3   Ens. Hovey Nutt, 126 3 70 3   Henry Nutt, 126 3 70 3   Elizer Colman, 100 4 10 1   ditto 100 4 10 1   John Ricker, 102 2 50 1   Mararin Ricker, 102 2 50 1   Ephraim Ricker, 92 4 10 1   John Sis, 103 3 70 1   Lt. John Smith, 45 8 5 5   Capt. Thomas Tibbetts, 94 4 10 1   Ephraim Tibbetts, 94 4 10 1   Richard Wibird, Esq. 133 35 2 22   Samuel Willes, 56 8 35 1   John Norway, 56 8 35 1   Edw'd Whitehouse, 56 8 35 1    JOSEPH HOLMES, Collector. Farmington, March 10, 1800.
Amoskeag Canal Lottery. THE Legislature of the state of New-Hampshire, having at their late session, passed an act authorizing SAMUEL BLODGET, Esq. to raise the sum of nine thousand dollars by Lottery, for the purpose of compleating the Canal by Amoskeag Falls, on Merrimack River, the subscribers duly appointed Managers, conformably to said act, now offer the public the following
   Scheme of the first and second Class.   FIRST CLASS,   To consist of 5,000 Tickets, at 3 dollars, to be drawn all Prizes, as follows:     1 of 1,500 Dolls.   1 of 50 shares in said Canal, valued at 500   1 of 300 dols. is 300   2 200 400   3 100 300   6 50 300   12 25 300   18 20 360   40 10 400   60 6 360   1156 3 3,468   1200 2 2,400   2500 1 2,500   5000 13,088   Deduction, 1,912  
5000 Tickets at 3 dollars, are 15,000 The prizes will be paid by the Managers, or vendors of the tickets, without any deduction.  EPHRAIM ROBINSON,  SAMUEL TENNEY,  NATHAN L. PARKER, Managers.
   Amoskeag Canal Lottery.   SECOND CLASS,   To consist of 5,000 Tickets at 3 dollars, two prizes to three blanks—Prizes as follows:     1 of 2000 dols. is 2000 dols.   1 1000 1000   1 of 50 shares in said Canal, equal to 500   1 300 300   2 200 400   3