The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1803-05-10 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
"By adopting REPUBLICANISM for our Polar Star, we shall endeavor to our countrymen the true principles of their Constitution, and promote an union of sentiment and of action, equally auspicious to their happiness and safety."
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. & W. PEARCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
NOTICE.
WHEREAS a commission of Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against BENJAMIN FROST , of New-Castle, in the district of New-Hampshire, Merchant, and he having been declared a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to us the undersigned commissioners, on the twelfth and nineteenth days of May, & seventh day of June next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon on each day, at the office of CHARLES CUTTS , Esq. in Portsmouth, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects, when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the second meeting to choose assignees, and at the last meeting the said Bankrupt is required to finish his examination, and the creditors are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate; all persons indebted to said Bankrupt or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom the said commissioners shall appoint.
JOHN M'CLINTOCK, } Commis- H. S. LANGDON, } sioners. Portsmouth, April 26, 1803.
FOR SALE,
THE Schooner HERO , burthen 115 tons, lying at the North End—For terms inquire of JOSEPH MAN , or JOB HARRIS . Portsmouth, April 26, 1803.
Wm. & Cha's Neil,
HAVE FOR SALE
 RUM.   Flour pr. bbl.  Pilot & ship Bread  Elliot's Snuff,  per keg.  Wrapping Paper.  Mould Candles.  Cloves.  Nutmegs.  Cassia.  Cinnamon.  Mace.  Pepper.  Pimento.  Rice.  Spanish Float In-  digo.    Brandy per pipe  Bohea Tea, in  quarter chests.  Souchong do.  Hysop.  Cotton per bag.  Raisins per cask.  Boxes Lemons.  Lisbon, } WINES.  Sherry, }  Malaga, }  Port }  Havanna Sugar.  Loaf & Lump do. 
With a general assortment of GROCERIES , as usual. May 3, 1803.
Just arrived in the brig Alligator, AND FOR SALE BY
William Rice, SEA COAL, FLOUR, & CORN,
on reasonable terms. Portsmouth, May 3, 1803.
FOR SALE, BY
JOHN SALTER, At his Store in Washington-Street,
SUGAR pr. hhd. COFFEE pr. do. or less quantity, entitled to debenture. Also—
SALT pr. hhd. or less quantity. Portsmouth, April 26, 1803.
ORANGES, and Fresh Lisbon Lemons,
Received this day, and for sale by NATHANIEL WHITE. Portsmouth, April 26, 1803.
BRASS FOUNDER'S Business.
Robert Cutts, INFORMS the inhabitants of the town and country that he has taken a Shop in Ark-lane, lately occupied by Mr. Langly Boardman , where he carries on the BRASS FOUNDER'S Business , in all its branches, and would be happy to receive the commands of the public.
Cash given for Old Copper, Brass, Pewter, and Lead. Portsmouth, May 3, 1803.
THE FELLOWS of the NEW-HAMPSHIRE MEDICAL SOCIETY, are desired to take Notice, that the annual meeting of said Society, will be held at the house of Ezra Hutchins , innholder in Exeter, on the last Wednesday of May next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
L. BARTLETT, Secretary. Kingston, April 18, 1803.
(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.)
SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
AT THE SECOND SESSION,
Begun and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday the Sixth of December, one thousand eight hundred and two.
AN ACT
Supplementary to the "Act concerning Consuls and Vice-Consuls, and for the further protection of American Seamen."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That before a clearance be granted to any vessel bound on a foreign voyage, the master thereof shall deliver to the collector of the customs, a list, containing the names, places of birth and residence, and a description of the persons who compose his ship's company, to which list the oath or affirmation of the captain shall be annexed, that the said list contains the names of his crew, together with the places of their birth and residence, as far as he can ascertain them, and the said collector, shall deliver him a certified copy thereof, for which the collector shall be entitled to receive the sum of twenty-five cents; and the said master shall moreover enter into bond with sufficient security, in the sum of four hundred dollars, that he shall exhibit the aforesaid certified copy of the list to the first boarding officer, at the first port in the United States, at which he shall arrive on his return thereto, and then and there also produce the persons named therein, to the said boarding officer, whose duty it shall be to examine the men with such list, and to report the same to the collector, and it shall be the duty of the collector at the said port of arrival, (where the same is different from the port from which the vessel originally failed) to transmit a copy of the list so reported to him, to the collector of the port from which said vessel originally failed: Provided , That the said bond shall not be forfeited on account of the said master not producing to the first boarding officer, as aforesaid, any of the persons contained in the said list, who may be discharged in a foreign country with the consent of the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent there residing, signified in writing, under his hand and official seal, to be produced to the collector with the other persons composing the crew as aforesaid; nor on account of any such person dying or absconding, or being forcibly impressed into other service, of which satisfactory proof shall be then also exhibited to the collector.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of every master or commander of a ship or vessel, belonging to citizens of the United States who shall sail from any port of the United States, after the first day of May next, on his arrival at a foreign port, to deposit his register, sea letter, and Mediterranean passport, with the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, (if any there be at such port;) that in case of refusal or neglect of the said master or commander, to deposit the said papers as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay five hundred dollars, to be recovered by the said consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, in his own name, for the benefit of the United States, in any court of competent jurisdiction; and it shall be the duty of such consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, on such master or commander producing to him a clearance from the proper officer of the port, where his ship or vessel may be, to deliver to the said master or commander all of his said papers: Provided , such master or commander shall have complied with the provisions contained in this act, and those of the act to which this is a supplement.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever a ship or vessel belonging to a citizen of the United States, shall be sold in a foreign country, and her company discharged, or when a seaman or mariner, a citizen of the United States, shall, with his own consent, be discharged in a foreign country, it shall be the duty of the master or commander to produce to the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, the list of his ship's company, certified as aforesaid; and to pay to such consul, vice-consul, commercial agent or vice-commercial agent, for every seaman or mariner so discharged, being designated on such list as a citizen of the United States, three months pay, over and above the wages which may then be due to such mariner or seaman, two thirds thereof to be paid by such consul, or commercial agent, to each seaman or mariner so discharged, upon his engagement on board of any vessel to return to the United States, and the other remaining third to be retained for the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of the passages of seamen or mariners, citizens of the United States, who may be desirous of returning to the United States, and for the maintenance of American seamen who may be destitute, and may be in such foreign port, and the several sums retained for such fund shall be accounted for with the treasury every six months by the persons receiving the same.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, vice-commercial agents of the United States, from time to time to provide for the mariners and seamen of the United States, who may be found destitute within their districts respectively, sufficient subsistence and passages to some port in the United States, in the most reasonable manner, at the expense of the United States, subject to such instructions as the secretary of state shall give; and that all masters and commanders of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, and bound to some port of the same, are hereby required and enjoined to take such mariners or seamen on board of their ships or vessels, at the request of the said consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents or vice-commercial agents respectively, and to transport them to the port in the United States to which such ships or vessels may be bound, on such terms not exceeding ten dollars for each person, as may be agreed between the said master and consul, or commercial agent. And the said mariners or seamen shall, if able, be bound to do duty on board such ships or vessels according to their several abilities; Provided , That no master or captain of any ship or vessel shall be obliged to take a greater number than two men to every one hundred tons burthen of the said ship or vessel, on any one voyage; and if any such captain or master shall refuse the same on the request or order of the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent or vice-commercial agent, such captain or master shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each mariner or seamen so refused, to be recovered for the benefit of the United States in any court of competent jurisdiction. And the certificate of any such consul or commercial agent, given under his hand and official seal, shall be prima facie evidence of such refusal in any court of law having jurisdiction for the recovery of the penalty aforesaid.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the seventh and eighth section of the act, intitled, "An act concerning consuls and vice-consuls," be and the same are hereby repealed; and that the secretary of state be authorized to reimburse the consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents or vice-commercial agents, such reasonable sums as they may heretofore have advanced for the relief of seamen, though the same should exceed the rate of twelve cents a man per diem.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for every consul, vice-consul, commercial agent and vice-commercial agent of the United States, to take and receive for every certificate of discharge of any seaman or mariner in a foreign port fifty cents; and for commission on paying and receiving the amount of wages payable on the discharge of
seamen in foreign ports, two and a half per centum.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That if any consul, vice-consul, commercial agent or vice-commercial agent, shall falsely and knowingly certify, that property belonging to foreigners is property belonging to citizens of the United States, he shall on conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, at the discretion of the court, and be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three years.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That if any consul, vice-consul, commercial agent or vice-commercial agent, shall grant a passport or other paper certifying that any alien, knowing him or her to be such, is a citizen of the United States, he shall on conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all powers of attorney executed after the thirtieth day of June next in a foreign country for the transfer of any stock of the United States, or for the receipt of interest thereon, shall be verified by the certificate and seal of a consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, if any there be at the place where the same shall be executed, for which the person giving the certificate shall receive fifty cents.
NATH'L MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice-President of the United States, & President of the Senate. APPROVED, February 28, 1803. TH: JEFFERSON, President of the United States.
AN ACT
To prevent the importation of certain Persons into certain States, where, by the laws thereof, their admission is prohibited.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of April next, no master or captain of any ship or vessel, or any other person, shall import or bring, or cause to be imported or brought, any negro, mulatto, or other person of color, not being a native, a citizen, or registered seaman of the United States, or seamen natives of countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope, into any port or place of the United States, which port or place shall be situated in any state which by law has prohibited or shall prohibit the admission or importation of such negro, mulatto, or other person of color, and if any captain or master aforesaid, or any other person, shall import or bring, or cause to be imported or brought into any of the ports or places aforesaid, any of the persons whose admission or importation is prohibited as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars for each and every negro, mulatto, or other person of color aforesaid, brought or imported as aforesaid, to be sued for and recovered by action of debt, in any court of the United States, one half thereof to the use of the United States, the other half to any person or persons prosecuting for the penalty; and in any action instituted for the recovery of the penalty aforesaid, the person or persons sued may be held to special bail: Provided always , That nothing contained in this act shall be construed to prohibit the admission of Indians.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no ship or vessel arriving in any of the said ports or places of the United States, and having on board any negro, mulatto, or other person of color, not being a native, a citizen, or registered seaman of the United States, or seamen natives of countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope as aforesaid, shall be admitted to an entry. And if any such negro, mulatto, or other person of color, shall be landed from on board any ship or vessel, in any of the ports or places aforesaid, or on the coast of any state prohibiting the admission or importation as aforesaid, the said ship or vessel, together with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States, and one half of the net proceeds of the sales on such forfeiture shall inure and be paid over to such
person or persons on whose information the seizure on such forfeiture shall be made.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the collectors and other officers of the customs, and all other officers of the revenue of the United States, in the several ports or places situated as aforesaid, to notice and be governed by the provisions of the law now existing, or the several states prohibiting the admission or importation of any negro, mulatto, or other person of color, as aforesaid. And they are hereby enjoined vigilantly to carry into effect the said laws of said states, conformably to the provisions of this act, any law of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding.
NATH'L MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice-President of the United States, & President of the Senate. APPROVED, Feb. 28, 1803. TH: JEFFERSON, President of the United States.
AN ACT
To provide an additional armament for the protection of the seamen and commerce of the United States.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered to cause to be built, or to be purchased (if the exigencies of the service shall require it) four vessels of war, to carry not exceeding sixteen guns each, to be armed, manned and fitted out for the protection of the seamen and commerce of the United States in the Mediterranean and adjacent seas, and for other purposes as the public service may require.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of ninety six thousand dollars be, and hereby is appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, out of any monies in the Treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to cause to be built, a number not exceeding fifteen gun boats, to be armed, manned and fitted out, and employed for such purposes as in his opinion the public service may require; and that a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars be, and hereby is appropriated for this purpose, out of any monies in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated.
NATH'L MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice-President of the United States, & President of the Senate. APPROVED, Feb. 28, 1803. TH: JEFFERSON, President of the United States.
New-York Election!
NEW-YORK, April 29. Last night was closed in this city an election uncommonly contested by the federal party; and although we cannot say that the republicans have been idle, yet it was obvious to every observer that among them unusual remissness in the main has prevailed. The federal party had every advantage that a faction can possess. Defeats, mortification, and revenge had united them as one man—Hope, founded on a certain defection, calculations made on the presumption of a division among the republicans much more extended than experience has proved it to be, animated this little malignant body of oppositionists to unequal exertions. All the arts of federal blandishment and seduction, of delusion and lies, have been exhausted. The acts of the state and general governments have been ingeniously and affably misrepresented—fabrications issued—the passions assailed by inflammatory harangues, the avenues of our houses interrupted by hand bills, and bribes offered, but all to no purpose. The sun of federalism is permanently fixed behind the clouds, and neither threats, nor deceptions, nor coaxing, nor cajoling, could draw him from his appropriate obscurity. New-York is a MOUND that defies the rude darts of eastern federalism. We have triumphed, fellow-citizens, and congratulate you on the boodles, and tranquil victory. The present is a sure pledge of our success at least at the next election—and will yield great satisfaction to your brethren in the other states. Average number of Republican votes 3496 Average number of Federal votes 2744 Republican majority 694 From this result, so honorable to the republicans of New-York, the Post of yesterday infers that federalism increases in this city!!! Mr. Broom's election as Republican Senator, is secured beyond a doubt.

A VINDICATION OF THE MEASURES OF THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION. BY ALGERNON SIDNEY.
"Where Liberty is—there is my Country." No. II.
LASTLY, we were told the measures adopted by the first session of the last Congress, were but part of a system of general destruction, and that the federal fabric would be undermined, piece by piece, until it tumbled into ruins.
It commenced on the 6th day of December, 1802. A quorum of the Senate did not appear until the 14th, and on the 15th the President's Message was transmitted to the two houses. He informed congress of the additional repeal of the countervailing duties by the British Parliament, of the amicable settlement between the United States and Georgia, respecting the Yazoo lands, of the extension of our territory in the Indian country by a cession of more than three million three hundred thousand acres of land, and an improvement in our relations with the natives, of the cession of Louisiana to France, which he remarked, might "make a change in the aspect of our foreign relations," of the prosperous condition of our fisheries and the payment of more than eight millions of dollars of the national debt.
What part of this message exhibits evidence of a disposition to engage in the labors of general destruction? What part of it is hostile to the federal union, to property, peace, quiet, or national happiness?
Congress, so far from proving the existence of a will to render the public establishments insecure or precarious, or to hazard the property, peace or prosperity, either of individuals, or of the nation, is also inclined to high confidence.
It has often been remarked by men of learning, judgment and experience, that a nation has always more to fear from governing too much than too little. A vast difference exists between reformation which are called for by the condition and feelings of the people, and reform with the state of the nation, and the subversion of those institutions, which furnish personal security, and tend to increase our prosperity.
When the change took place in the administration, it was effected by the people, because they felt themselves aggrieved by the measures of government. Men were changed to produce a change of measures. Congress in the winter of 1801-2 repealed the offensive laws; and the administration of government was shaped to the wishes of the people.
The reformation, which had been contemplated, were then effected, and nothing left for the late session, but the performance of the common routine of public business, and an attention to such things as might arise in the progress of government. To detail the proceedings of congress would be tedious and uninteresting; though to the public it may be highly useful to state the principal things which have received their attention. With a sincere desire to aid and improve commerce and navigation, the President in his first message represented the evils to which they are exposed by the discriminating duties of Great Britain; which from the different modes of collecting imposts adopted by the two nations, operate greatly to the injury of our carrying trade, by drawing from our citizens at least three dollars to each one that we draw from the subjects of that nation; whereby British subjects are enabled to command, in a great measure, the freights of the six southern states, to the exclusion of our own merchants, and, particularly, to the injury of the eastern states.
To this subject he invited the attention of Congress, who at their last session, appointed a committee of eminent merchants and others, to consider and report what, in their opinion, could be done in furtherance of trade and navigation. This committee reported in favour of vesting the executive with power to annul our discriminating duties, whenever the discriminating duties of Great Britain should be abolished.
By the persons immediately interested in the carrying trade, different opinions were entertained; some thought the proposed measure would be highly beneficial; others possessed of equal skill, experience and interest, believed it would have a tendency to produce an injury. To furnish evidence to our merchants, of a disposition on the part of government, as well to consult their feelings, as to promote their interests, the consideration of the report was deferred, and probably will be until experience shall shew that, in time of peace, the proposed measure is essential to the carrying trade.
To avoid the waste of our national resources, the President recommended the establishment of a dry dock, to preserve our vessels, sheltered from the weather, and to secure them from the rapid decay unavoidable to timbers daily experiencing the vicissitudes of heat and moisture. The unexpected and serious aspect of things on the Mississippi, rendering it possible that both our money & our ships might be employed in a more active manner, and for purposes more pressing, this useful proposition was with great propriety, postponed for future consideration. Much pains have been taken to represent this as a visionary project of the executive to squander, of the public property, millions of dollars. To save money, not to squander it away was his design: The expense instead of being millions, was not exceed four hundred thousand dollars. Which sum is usually necessary to keep
twelve frigates in repair, while lying in water; the single expenditure of that sum upon a dry dock would make provision, for years, for the preservation of the same number of frigates.
It is known from the experience of Holland and Venice that vessels, if kept dry and covered from the sun, will continue as sound as any other works of wood. Dry docks are erected by all the maritime states in Europe.
Congress have made provision to compensate persons who received known wounds in the service of the United States, during the revolutionary war, for whom no provision had been made.
They have authorised procuring and equipping four small armed vessels for the service against Tripoli; calculated for use near the Barbary coasts. This has been represented as evidence of the weakness and inconsistency of the administration; who are charged with having sold a part of the national shipping imprudently.
Two conclusive answers present themselves: first, these vessels were sold by an order of the executive given in obedience to a law, passed before he came into office; secondly, they were not calculated for a war with the pirates of Africa, and would not answer for the public service.
The only remaining subject of importance which claimed the attention of Congress, was the violation of our rights by our rights by the intendant at New Orleans, in depriving our citizens of the right of deposit at that place, and forbidding all intercourse between the subjects of Louisiana and the citizens of the United States. This flagrant breach of treaty, received as it demanded, the most prompt and vigilant attention of government.
Nor has the cession of that province by Spain to France had a tendency to increase the confidence of this nation in the views of those powers; though government has received from both the most solemn assurances that the rights of this nation shall be respected.
On the twelfth day of May 1786, the United States solemnly proclaimed their rights to the free navigation of the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and of the head waters of these rivers, and all the lakes, gulfs and other streams which connected them with the main ocean.
The full enjoyment of all the rights made known by that declaration must be maintained, sacred and inviolate, so long as the people of these states constitute a nation.
The President, with the consent of the Senate, has appointed James Monroe, minister extraordinary to the courts of France and Spain, to regain the enjoyment of the right of deposit, to remove, and in future prevent the embarrassments under which the western states labor; to enlarge the rights of the nation, and enlarge those already acquired beyond the possibility of dispute or contest.
Congress in furtherance of these views have appropriated two millions of dollars, authorised the President to establish arsenals in the western country, to build and equip fifteen gun boats, and whenever he shall judge necessary to detach eighty thousand troops.
At the close of the session an attempt was made by the opposition to cast an odium upon the commissioners of the sinking fund. This terminated, as every other attempt to injure the administration has, in their defeat and mortification. So ably were the proceedings of that board defended; and so clearly were the wisdom and utility of their measures proved, that of the opposition but twelve members could be found hardy enough to dissent from the vote of confidence and approbation adopted by the house of representatives.
This was the last act of that Congress, under whose authority, no monies were borrowed, no taxes created, no laws passed restricting the liberty of the citizen. Every other Congress increased the burdens of the people—by this they were removed.
When the passion of the times shall have been forgotten—When the waring interests of individuals and the petty bickerings of rival candidates, shall have been assigned to the tomb of oblivion, the future historian shall faithfully record these facts, as a rich legacy to posterity.
Here I might triumphantly demand of the relentless enemy of liberty, to point out that act, which proves the existence of a will to destroy the federal union; which threatens private property, or personal security and respectability; which can reasonably create any fear or jealousy in the minds of the most suspicious politician; which was not required by the state of the country, and does not merit the approbation of the people.
The most striking and efficacious mode of contrasting the present with the last administration, is by an attention to their fiscal concerns. In the two first years of the last administration, the executive was authorised to borrow nine millions eight hundred thousand dollars; a part of which was actually loaned at eight per centum interest—For the two last years, no loan has been made or authorised.
In the two first years of the last administration an additional duty of eight cents per bushel on salt, the stamp duty and a land tax of two millions of dollars were levied—During the present no tax has been levied; the land tax is discontinued; and the stamp tax, with all the other internal taxes, has been abolished. During the last administration, in three years, the national debt was increased three millions three hundred and ninety-four thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars and forty-two cents—Since the present, in two years, the national debt has been reduced seven millions eight hundred and forty-nine thousand four hundred and thirty seven dollars and thirty-eight cents.
During the last administration no payments were made on the deferred debt—On the first of April, 1801, interest first fell due on that debt, and the present administration have annually paid thereon twelve hundred thousand dollars—Once more, when the last administration retired, there were one million seven hundred and ninety-four thousand and forty-four dollars in the treasury—Now in the same treasury there are five millions and twenty thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-two cents.
The actual savings of the two last years may be justly estimated as follows:
Table with 2 columns: Description, Dollars. Rows include: Two years payment of interest on the deferred debt at twelve hundred thousand dollars a year ($2,400,000); Reductions of the public debt ($7,849,437 38); Increase of specie in the treasury ($3,236,185 38); From which sums deduct the proceeds of the bank shares lately sold by order of the commissioners of the sinking fund ($1,287,600).
Dolls. 12,188,028 76 A sum more than six times as large as the land tax levied in 1800 by the last administration. Of which sum nine millions seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand and twenty-two dollars and seventy-six cents have actually been and are in a train to be applied to the reduction of the national debt.
With such bright prospects of a speedy extinction of the national debt, without additional burdens, how careful should government be to avoid every thing tending to increase our expenditure? When that debt shall have been extinguished, the present revenues of government will be equal to its maintenance and to the support of any necessary wars in which this nation can be engaged.
When I reflect upon the surrender by government to the people of a million of dollars annually, in abolishing the excise; upon the rapid reduction of the public debt, and upon the specie in the treasury and call to mind the avowed and known determination of the late administration, not only to continue, but to double the land tax. I am lost in amazement. I cannot discover the existence of that necessity which demanded such repeated and oppressive contributions. Yet I boldly declare that to continue as well the land tax as the other internal taxes, was the design of that administration.—This declaration is made both from a knowledge of the views of the persons then in power and from the provisions of the act directing the valuation of lands and dwelling houses; which clearly proves that a permanent direct tax was contemplated. That act creates the surveyor of each valuation district a permanent officer, and ascertains the compensation he shall receive for each official act. It directs him to keep a record of the valuation of each lot and house; and whenever a transfer shall take place to charge the purchaser, credit the seller and enter it on record. It provides that when a new house shall be erected it shall be valued and added to the valuations made under the act; that all lands exempted from taxation, whenever the exemption shall cease, shall be assessed; and that whenever and so often as a dwelling house, shall be destroyed the valuation thereof shall be cancelled. Neither of these provisions has any relation to the tax levied; they all clearly refer to future taxes.
Indeed the expense incurred in assessing the lands and houses in the different states, and in collecting the tax, forms conclusive evidence, that it was determined to establish an annual land tax. The sums by that administration appropriated for the expense of assessments amounted to four hundred and five thousand dollars.
Table with 2 columns: Description, Dollars. Rows include: The real expense may be estimated at ($400,000); The commissions to the various officers for collections and the contingent expenses, as stationery, printing, advertising, &c. will amount at least to ($180,900); The losses derived from various causes exceed ($125,000); Making the whole loss and expenditure amount to dolls. 705,000 which sum being deducted from two millions of dollars, the amount of the tax, leaves only the sum of one million, two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars, for the public use.
Apporportion to the several states this seven hundred and five thousand dollars, in the same ratio as they paid that tax, and it will appear, that by levying it, there has been expended and lost to the people of Maryland fifty three thousand seven hundred and ninety-one dollars and to the people of Connecticut forty-five thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars, which sums are equal to the yearly expense of these states. On the same principles the loss to North Carolina was sixty-eight thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars—nearly equal to the expense of that state for two years. These were the real losses to the people of the states mentioned, to the people of the other states, they were in the same proportion; and exceed a loss of thirty-five dollars on every hundred dollars collected.
Can any person who investigates this subject believe these expenses were incurred with a view to bring the tax of a single year into the treasury? I think not: It must have been the design to make provision for a durable land tax. No other cause can be assigned for this waste of property, but a will to increase the executive power, by the appointment of a hundred commissioners, a thousand surveyors of assessment districts with established fees of office, and twice that number of assessors and collectors amongst whom should be divided the five hundred and eighty thousand dollars expended.
We understand that the governments of Great-Britain and France have both intimated an intention to maintain a sacred regard for the inviolability of American commerce, and a sincere respect for her neutral flag. There professions are acceptable—and if maintained with the same good faith that our neutrality will be preserved; we shall once more have occasion to bless Providence which has placed us so remote from the theatre of ambition and destruction, and for the happy form of government which abstracts from similar passions and affections. Aurora.
The whole of the republican ticket, Senator and Assembly, has been carried in New York—on an average majority of 700.
Late Foreign Intelligence, From London papers to the 20th March.
LONDON, MARCH 17.
A CIRCUMSTANCE of a very extraordinary nature transpired yesterday, which however, made no noise or impression on the city. On Tuesday night, at half past 10 o'clock, a person arrived expressly at the admiralty from Brighton, with an account of a French vessel having drifted on shore near that place; she had, it seems, been deserted by the crew, excepting a boy, and having been boarded was found to be laden with about 100,000 stand of arms. Before the crew left her, they threw a box in shore near Shoreham, and found to contain stands of green colours, suited to the Irish.—These colours had the word Union on them, and we have heard it stated, with a French and Irish hand union underneath. This is the account which was in general circulation; some said the ship was found off Cork. The admiralty was yesterday engaged in examining green colors of the nature alluded to; but we doubt the reports of the quantity of arms. Those who have been able to investigate all the circumstances can judge whether this ship is a stratagem or not. Nothing is more likely than that Bonaparte would send a vessel with arms, &c. apparently for the Irish rebels, but really designed to fall into our hands to create alarm, and have an influence on the negotiation. At the same time it is not to be forgotten, that nothing is more likely than that Bonaparte would send the Irish rebels succour if the fears expressed in the King's message be founded.
While we find Bonaparte's indignation is not so great as to send forth an instant declaration of war, in answer to the king's message, we learn he does not receive the challenge to fight him single handed with good temper. We yesterday saw two letters from English gentlemen, who were present at the consular audience on Sunday last. They fully confirm the following account, which appeared in a ministerial paper yesterday:
"When Bonaparte entered the audience on Sunday last, his features were menacing, and his whole frame seemed violently agitated. Ld. Whitworth was at the audience. The first consular addressed him immediately upon his entrance; observed with warmth that a war had now desolated Europe for fifteen years, and asked whether it is now to be renewed? Adding, that if it was renewed it would be the fault of Great-Britain.—Bonaparte then went amongst the ladies, but soon after returned to Lord Whitworth, and vehemently declared that the armaments now preparing in the ports of France, were destined only for the colonies, in the preservation of which England was as much interested as he could be. To this no answer was made. He soon afterwards quitted the room, calling on God and man to witness, that he hoped vengeance would be inflicted on that power, which, by a violation of treaty, should cause the renewal of hostilities. All accounts agree that his countenance was throughout almost disfigured by passion: and that his tone was so loud and vehement, that at least half the company present must have heard all that passed on this extraordinary occasion."
Gen. Fox immediately goes to Ireland, as commander in chief.
Government has discovered printed addresses from Arthur O'Connor, circulating in Ireland, in which he justifies his conduct, and confidently speaks of emancipating his country. We understand that several gentlemen in this country, besides his Majesty's ministers, are in possession of those addresses.
The funds experienced a sudden and unexpected rise yesterday. They opened at 93 3/4, and continued dull about two o'clock, when they rose in a short space of time to 95 1/2. It was said that the French courier, Chazel, had brought very favourable intelligence—that the business of Malta had been amicably adjusted. The French ambassador, going to court was considered as a favorable circumstance. Of course as long as he remains in England he will go to court. But it would be absurd to draw from such an event an inference that all the disputes between the two countries have been settled. The proper moment for going to war, and that he will postpone his designs.
The Moniteur, of the 15th inst. which we received this morning, contains an arrest of the preceding day, extending the prohibiting against the exportation of specie and bullion, and every article of gold and silver manufacture. It also contains an arrest, appointing the electoral college of the department of the Seine, to meet on the 22d inst. in the city of Paris, for the purpose of nominating two candidates for a seat in the conservative
senate, and forming a list of presentation for the legislative body and the council-general of the department.—The First Consul has appointed his brother Lucien to officiate as the president of the electoral college.
The following Notice was yesterday issued by Mr. ERVIN, the American consul:
AMERICAN CONSULATE, London, March 18.
Official notice has been received from Lisbon, that his royal highness the Prince Regent of Portugal had issued unlimited orders for the admission of foreign flour into the ports of that country, on paying a duty of forty rees per alquiar, or four hundred and eighty rees, equal to sixty cents, per barrel; and that vessels with clear bills of health, and whose crews are free from any sickness, shall no longer be subjected to quarantine.
The following extract of a letter from an officer just arrived from Carthagena, is important at the present crisis:
"The Spaniards are laying up and dismantling all the ships of war that were at Carthagena. Five sail of the line, one of which is a fine first rate, called the Indian, are laid up as above; and a fine first rate called the Prince, had failed for Ferrol, to be laid up there. The magazines at Carthagena are without stores of every description; scarce a coil of rope, a bolt of canvas, or spar that would make a lower yard. The artificers were discharged for want of money to pay them. Certificates were given to them, as well as to the seamen, for the balance of the wages due to them, which they sold for what they could get, about one half of their stated value."
Courier Office 3 o'clock P. M. We have just heard a rumour, which is in circulation in this city. It is, that an embargo has been laid upon our ships in the French ports.
We mention the rumour: but have not been able at this late hour to ascertain whether it is authentic or not. It produced some effect upon the funds—the 3 per cents, which were at 65 for money, and 66 for account, fell to 64 1/2 for money and 65 1/2 for the account.
Accounts for the Hague state, that the French expedition for Louisiana will sail before the end of March.
MARCH 19.
Bonaparte is stated to have addressed Lord Whitworth thus: "If you will have WAR, my lord, you may have fifteen years of it."
Some time ago we flated a report, that Earl St. Vincent was to retire from the admiralty, and to be succeeded by Lord Melville. (H. Dundas.) The following paragraph, which we copy from the Sun of Saturday night, tends to confirm the report: "Earl St. Vincent's health is so bad, that his immediate retirement from office is again the topic of conversation."
Traveller Office, London, March 19, half past three o'clock.
We stop the press to state, that intelligence has just reached us of an embargo having been laid upon all the British vessels in the ports of France—We do not pledge ourselves for the authenticity of this intelligence.
By a vessel arrived at Plymouth from Cherburgh, an account is received of orders having reached that place on Sunday last from Paris, for all waggons, cars, carriages and horses to be put in requisition, for the purpose of transporting troops and baggage; in consequence of which the greatest bustle and confusion prevailed at that place.
MARCH 20.
* On the arrival of the courier, announcing to Bonaparte the King's message to Parliament, the Consul sent immediately for General Duroque (distinguished by his successful embassy to the Prussian court) and after an audience, which consumed the greater part of the night, Duroque was despatched on a second mission to Berlin; and it is understood that Bonaparte waits the result of this measure, previous to the definitive reply to the remonstrances of our cabinet.
Encampments are to be formed, as soon as the military is organized, in the maritime counties. Lord Cornwallis, it is said, in the event of a rupture, will command in the eastern district. Buxham Downs is to be the head quarters of the Kent district. Lord Moira, Generals Lake, Moore, Coote, and others, are, by report, nominated to commands.
Yesterday morning we received the Moniteur of the 15th; and last night the French mail arrived, and peffessed us of the Paris papers of the 16th. The Official Journal preserves a cautious silence of the subject of the differences existing between the countries.
The news of hostile preparations has created an extraordinary sensation among the Dutch. Their funds have declined in consequence. On Tuesday the reteriprion fell from 66 1/2 to 65 1/2.
A private letter from Lisbon, arrived by the last mail, has the following singular article:
"General Lafnes is arrived. Scarcely had he entered his former hotel, when he wrote to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that he came to resume his diplomatic functions, but that he could not appear at any levee before, all the ministers who were in power when he left Portugal were dismissed."
"The Prince, yielding to circumstances, seeing they would not surrender to him, cashiered his best friends, and appointed his enemies to be their successors. So much for the independence of Portugal!"

BOSTON, MAY 7.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
The ship Cotton-Planter, from Liverpool, arrived at New-York, on Monday last, in 37 days. The London papers, by her, are one day later than those previously received here. The answer of Bonaparte to the Message of the British King of the 8th March, was reported to have been received at London on the 24th: and to have been communicated immediately to a Cabinet-Council, which sat several hours. Rumour states it to be of a hostile nature.
The authenticity of the account of the verbal fracas between the First Consul and the British Ambassador, at the Levee in Paris, is still insisted on. We mentioned on Wednesday, that Bell's "Messenger" of the 20th March, pronounced it to have been a fabrication. Perhaps we ought also to have stated, that the "Messenger" is the only English paper allowed to circulate in France; and appears much more devoted to the defence of the character of Bonaparte, and his measures, than of the British Cabinet. It is, therefore, highly probable, it would be anxious to deny the indecorous conduct which the pertinacity of Bonaparte led him into: But in other respects we have generally found the "Messenger" to be a source of correct information.
Latest! and still Interesting! The Newbury-Port Herald of yesterday, informs, that "Capt. Rutherford, of the brig Lucy, who arrived at quarantine late on Thursday evening, from Guadalupe, spoke four days since, in lat. 39, an English Packet, 38 days from London, for New-York, the Captain of which informed Capt. R. that WAR HAD ACTUALLY BEEN DECLARED previous to his sailing; and that 70 sail of British ships of the line were ready for sea." Thus far the account; — all we shall add is, that if correct in dates, it is the latest from Europe.
FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN.
In the ship Perseverance, which arrived on Thursday from Leghorn and Gibraltar, William Eaton, Esq. our Consul for the city and kingdom of Tunis, came passenger; and will immediately proceed to the seat of government. Doctor George Davis, of New-York, is left charged with affairs.
"As late as the 1st of April, Malta was not evacuated by the English; nor any apparent movements to that effect. It was said that transports were gone to bring off the British garrison from Alexandria: but it is thought, more probably to provision them."
"In consequence of the late mutiny at Gibraltar, the Duke of Kent was about to return to England, and the garrison to be relieved."
"The French government has finally adjusted all misunderstandings with the regency of Algiers, by a general accession to the Dey's terms. Conjecture says, that Talleyrand has touched ducats from the Jews Bocri and Bafnar, and consequently persuaded his young master into a decision on which he had long balanced between commercial policy and private ambition. Bonaparte indeed, might have added one more lure to the laurels which already cloud his brow, by annexing the "Potent Dey" to the catalogue of his slaves, and might have done something handsome for the pockets of the Consuls: But the arch bishop is of an opinion, that it would be killing the goose for an egg—that an Algiers in activity would be ultimately of more utility to the French Republic, and of course, to their sovereign, than an Algiers in ruins : and that notwithstanding all the fanfaronnade displayed on the subject, his piratical highness ought to be secure in the friendship of the First Consul! Consequently that chief of brigands will have nothing the ensuing season to check his depredations on whatever tributary nation avidity shall direct his outrage, whose delinquency may furnish him with a pretext."
"The Dey positively refuses to receive Mr. Cathcart as Consul for the United States; and as decidedly rejects cash in lieu of the naval stores, in payment of the annual tribute for the last and present year. According to the statement of Mr. O'Brien there will be an arrearage due that regency, on the 13th Sept. next of 12473 dollars; it being the tribute and contingencies of two years, including 20,000 dollars, estimated consular presents, and 6,500 dollars, ransom of the master and four seamen of the brig Franklin, from the Barbary of Tripoli, through the intervention of Algiers."
"The Bey of Tunis requires, and is resolved to have, as a demonstration of the real friendship of the President of U. States, a good fragate of thirty six guns; and funary articles of smaller consideration, which he has signified to the government. He asserts a right of free intercourse with Tripoli, in contempt of an actual blockade; and declares his determination to hold the United States amenable for all infractions of this assumed right. He has conged Mr. Eaton, because, he says, he must have an American Consul with a disposition more congenial to the Barbary interests! Or, in the language of his Minister, more pliable to his views. This chief is endeavouring to negotiate a peace with Portugal, with a view of giving his corsairs a greater range, by passing them into the Atlantic. It is yet uncertain which of his loyal friends, the Danes, Swedes or Americans, will be designated as their prey."
"The Barbary of Tripoli, now at peace with all the rest of the world, treats with contempt the overtures of pacification proposed to him in writing by Mr. Cathcart on the part of the United States, in conformity to instructions from the Department of State,—The notion of peace without paying a solecium in Barbary. It is impossible, however, yet to determine what influence the appearance of Commodore Morris will have on the resolutions of this petty pirate, as none of his frigates has hitherto been seen before Tripoli."
FROM NEW-ORLEANS.
We have accounts as late as the 2d April. The French Prefect of Louisiana, Geo. L'Aufant, had arrived there, and issued his proclamation. He was received by the Spanish government with every mark of respect. It was said he would not assume the active administration until the arrival of the troops, &c. The Marquis De Salvo was expected from the Havans, to be present at the relinquishment of the colony.
Portsmouth.
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1803.
THE NEWS. —Our readers will find detailed, important intelligence from Europe. However grating to humanity, however destructive to society, there are strong symptoms of a renewal of hostilities between France and Great-Britain. The self-importance and rivalry of these two nations, both produced in each a degree of watchfulness and jealousy unknown to other modern nations. Each views the other as a lurking foe; and watches every national spring to see if treachery is not concealed in the movement. Like ancient Rome and Carthage, they vie each others greatness, and like them they will probably continue to strive, till one nation shall fall the humble prey of the other.
Hence may be seen the cause that has produced the present difficulties between the two nations, and which threatens to disturb the reign of peace; it is the product of jealousy. The armaments which have long been fitting out in the ports of Holland and France, has awakened a suspicion in his Britannic Majesty that the projects of Bonaparte, were secretly aimed at the welfare of his kingdom; and in his message to the House of Commons, expresses his fears, and recommends the putting of the country in an immediate state of defence.
This intelligence no sooner reached Buonaparte, than it produced the greatest irritation in his mind. And in the drawing room, in the presence of the British ambassador, his passion it seems was roused to the extreme, and in his remarks to the minister, on the improper conduct of England, he concludes, "If you will have war; you shall have fifteen years of it."
Great Britain does not appear to consider this a momentary loss of the passion, but treats it in a light that cannot be mistaken by France, her naval armaments are preparing with the greatest expedition; her armed vessels which had been dismantled, are already equipped, and equipping for sea; press warrants have been issued for the immediate procurement of seamen in various parts of the kingdom; her admirals are hoisting their flags on their respective ships, in order to proceed to their stations, and the militia are about to be embodied, to "march (as the King says) as occasion may require."
The military power of the French on land, and the superior strength and prowess of the British at sea, makes each too independent to brook insult, or be treated with contempt—Thirsty ambition may lead them to the combat, but it will be at the expence of humanity, and the people's felicity.
On Thursday last the Light Infantry Company, commanded by Capt. THOMAS SPARHAWK, made a public appearance for the first time this season.
Marine Articles.
Port of PORTSMOUTH—May 10, 1803.
This day arrived Schooner Sally, Capt. Tuttle, from Tobago, April 17, spoke lat. 24, long. 67. 10. a brig from St. Croix, bound to New-Haven, left at St. Croix Capt. Pray to sail in 8 days for this port. 26th April, spoke in lat. 27, long. 67, Schooner Minerva, Capt. Grant from Demerara, bound to Wiscasset, twenty-five days out, Capt. G. left there brig Hitty, Capt. Parrot; brig Ceres, Capt. Underwood, the brig condemned and bought in again, and brig Centaur, Capt. Peirce, condemned, being unfit for sea. —April 30, lat. 37, long. 69, 45, spoke ship Eagle, Capt. Johnson of Bristol, from Savannah, 5 days out, bound to Hamburg.
Friday arrived ship Magnet, Capt. Charles Treadwell, 23 days from the Havanna, Spoke lat. 40, 10, long. 69, 20, ship Mary, ten days out from New-York, bound to Hamburg; lat. 41, 17, long. 69, Schooner Harriot, Dennis, 21 days out from Guadalupe bound to Newbury-Port: the Harriot spoke ship Experiment ten days out from N. York.
Sunday arrived, brig Polly, Capt. Paul, 46 days from St. Vincents, —lat. 29, long. 69, spoke Schooner Victory, Keithern, from St. Vincents bound to New-York. Lat. 35, long. 74, spoke Schooner from St. Kitts bound to New-London. —Lat. 37, long. 73, o ship from Liverpool out 36 days bound to Philadelphia. Left at St. Vincents, brig Harriot, Buckley, and ship Friendship, Goodrich both for New-London.
At Madeira, April 7, Nancy, Orn, of this port, to sail for Madras in 4 days.
Spoke April 7, lat. 23, 53, long. 69, brig Franklin, of this port, from N. Carolina, for St. Kitts.
At Demerara, March 28, brig Betsy, of this port.
Entered at the CUSTOM-HOUSE.
Schr. Prudence, Fernald, St. Bartholomew. Brig Izette, Shaw, St. Martins. Brig Olive, Bayley, Demerara. Brig Friendship, Mansen, ditto. Ship Magnet, Treadwell, Havanna. Brig Sally, Tuttle, Tobago. Ship Favorite, Rindge, Barbadoes. Brig Polly, Paul, St. Vincents.
DIED
In this town, Mrs. Hannah Blunt, relict of the late John Blunt, Esq. deceased; Mr. Solomon Drow, aged 50.
A CARD.
THE subscriber returns his grateful acknowledgements to the inhabitants of Portsmouth, for their kind assistance and great exertions at the fire which destroyed his stable on Thursday evening last. He feels himself altogether indebted to them, under Providence, for saving his house from a total destruction. ISAAC SHEPHERD. Portsmouth, May 10, 1803.
Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America. TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
THE Citizen GERARD CAZEAUX, having produced to me his Commission as Vice-Commissary of Commercial Relations of the French Republic for Portsmouth, in the State of New-Hampshire, I do hereby recognize him as such, and declare him free to exercise such functions, powers and privileges as are allowed to the similar agents of the most favoured nations.
In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand at the City of Washington, the fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and three; and of the Independence of the United States of America the twenty-seventh.
(Signed) TH. JEFFERSON. By the President. (Signed) JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State.
True Copy. GD. CAZEAUX, Vice-Commissary of Commercial Relations of the French Republic for Portsmouth. (N. H.)
The French Consul's Office is kept at Mr. GEDDES' house, Pitt-street.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Grafton, ft. NEW-CHESTER, April 26, 1803.
AT the request of the owners of a more than one sixteenth part of the township of NEW-CHESTER, in said county, there are to notify and warn the proprietors of said New-Chester, to meet at the house of Majr. Theophilus Sanborn, innholder in said New-Chester, on Tuesday the 31st. day of May next, at 10 o'clock A. M. for the following purposes, viz.—
1st. To choose a Moderator, to govern said meeting. 2d. To see if the Proprietors will vote to allow the proceedings of their Committee, chosen at their last meeting, in regard of letting and bounding undivided Lands in said town. 3d. To see if they will allow the Committee account for surveying and lotting the above said Land. 4th. To choose all necessary Officers for the managing of their business. 5th. To choose a Committee to find out what common Land there is in said town, and empower them to dispose of the same, and that a vote of the Proprietors at any future legal meeting, of the Land so sold shall be allowed a sufficient title to the purchaser or purchasers. 6th. To choose a Committee to prosecute any person or persons that has or may hereafter trespass on any of the common Lands in said town. 7th. To choose a Committee to join a Committee that may be chosen by the Proprietors of Alexandria, to make and establish the line between said towns, beginning at the Hemlock Corner to the Beach Tree, agreeable to the charters of both towns. 8th. To choose a Committee to rectify any mistakes, and to establish bounds where wanting to any Lots of Land agreeable to the plan of said town. JOSHUA TOLFORD, Prop'r's Clerk.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Chehshire, ft.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of MARLBOROUGH, in said State, who have not paid their taxes, for the year 1802, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, so much of their Land as will pay the same with all lawful charges, will be sold at public vendue, on Monday the 18th day of July next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Benjamin Spalding, innholder in said town.
Table with 5 columns: NAMES, No. Acres, Value, Town, School. Rows include Thomas Packard, Jonas Temple, Caleb Swan, Joshua Allen, ABRAHAM GOOLIDGE, Collector. Marlborough, April 6, 1803.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the owners of Lands resident and non-residents, in the town of LITTLETON, that whereas the General Court of this State, on the fourteenth day of June, 1802, granted a tax of Two CENTS per acre on all the Lands in said Littleton, (public rights excepted,) for the purpose of building a Bridge over Ammonoosuck River, and making and repairing Roads in said Littleton, granting to the resident and non residents owners of Lands in said Littleton, the privilege of working out said tax at the rate of six cents per hour for every able bodied man, finding his own tools and diet, for a yoke of oxen the same price, provided the same be done between the first day of June and the fifteenth day of September next.
THIS is therefore to notify all persons concerned, that we the subscribers are appointed to superintend the same, and hold ourselves in readiness for that purpose. ANDREW RANKIN, SAMUEL LEARNED, Jr., PETER BONNEY. Littleton, May, 1803.
REMOVED. Peter Coffin, HAS removed to the New Fire Proof Store in Market-street, where a large assortment of Fashionable, Fancy & Staple GOODS,
received by the late arrivals from England, will be opened in a few days. Portsmouth, May 10, 1803.
Hard-Ware GOODS,
H. & B. PENHALLOW, Have just received by the ship John Adams, from Liverpool, a large addition to their former Assortment of Hard-Ware GOODS.
which are now ready for sale, at their Store in Fore-street, leading to the Ferry.—They have also for Sale,
Best Scythes, & Sutton Hoes, per dozen or single; Scicles; Sheep-Shears; Cart, Chaise and Waggon Boxes, of all sizes; best Dutch Brushes; Brass Candlesticks; elegant Tea-Trays & Waiters; Looking-Glasses; Plated and common Table Castors; Window-Glass; Coffin Furniture; Nails, Spikes, Brads and Tacks, of all kinds; best German Mill Saws; Devonshire and square Iron Shovels and Spades; Brass Kettles; Cast iron Weights; English iron Pots & Kettles; Pewter, &c. Portsmouth, May 10, 1803.
T. Morton, At his Store, SIGN of the Golden KEY, Congress street, opposite the BELL TAVERN;
Has in store FOR SALE, WEST-INDIA and New-England RUM, per Hhd. bbl. or less quantity; Cogniac BRANDY; Hollands GIN; Annis, Sherry, Lisbon and Sweet WINE; Porter and strong Beer; Molasses; Coffee; Chocolate; Box and cask Raisins; Figgs; 20 bbls. fine and superfine Flour, fresh and good; 800 wt. of Cheese of superior quality; 100 wt. of brown and India SUGAR; 300 do. of Loaf, do. Hyson, Young-Hyson, Hyson-skin, Souchong and Bohea TEAS, warranted to be of the first quality, per doz. or less quantity; 100 bushels Corn; White Salt; Pollock Fish; a few boxes Herring, in good order; Hams Bacon; Cotton Wool; Cotton and wool Cards; Bolton and Newbury Snuff, per keg; Excellent Spanish and Bolton Segars; Hard Soap; Pearlash; Straw Tumblers; Wine Glasses; Boxes 8 by 10 Glass; Writing Paper; Crockery WARE; Shoethread; Indian and Rye Meal; Rye; Peas; Beans; Mould and dipt Candles; Cinnamon; Cloves; Pepper; Ginger; Allspice; Nutmegs; Ground Mustard; best Spanish float Indigo; Poland Starch; Oatmeal; Corn Brooms; Bed Cords; Gun-Powder; Sulpher and Roal Brimstone; a few bbls. Blubber, &c. * * Constant attendance from sunrise until 9 o'clock in the evening, where all of the above articles may be bought at reduced prices, for cash only, as he anticipates leaving town in about seven or eight weeks. All who have unsettled accounts with him, are requested to call at said store, and settle the same, before the middle of June next. Portsmouth, May 10, 1803.
Ten Dollars Reward. ON Saturday night of April 2d, ELSA GRANT abandoned herself, and stole from me one black silk Gown, one Table Cloth, one lambskin Jofey, five Handkerchiefs, and a number of other articles. She is about twenty-five years old, her hair is flunged off very short on her head, she has stone nubs in her ears, and a black bonnet, and a dark striped chiniz gown—If any person will take up said thief, and give information to me to that she may be brought to justice, shall receive the above reward by me—BENJAMIN KIMBALL. Kingston, April 29, 1803.
All persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the Estate of SIMEON STEVENS, yeoman, late of Stratham, deceased, are requested to exhibit their accounts for settlement, to NICHOLAS ROLLINS, Administrator. Stratham, May 9, 1803.
KINE POCK. Dr. SPALDING inoculates with the Kine Pock. Portsmouth, May 10, 1803.
THIS DAY, At S. LITTLE'S Office, In BUCK-STREET,
ONE hundred suits Short Clothes; 10 boxes Glass; 30 do. Soap; bags Coffee; boxes China; boxes Lemons; kegs Butter; kegs Rappée Snuff; Joiner's Splitting Saws; 20 pieces India Cotton; 100 yards Jean, for Waistcoating, some of which is of a very handsome figure—a number of Books, Maps, Charts, &c. with many other articles, too numerous to mention. May 10.
READ THIS, MEETING-HOUSE.
The PEWS in the New Baptist Meeting-house, to be erected in this town, will be sold THIS DAY,
At 11 o'clock, on the spot, The Conditions of Sale will be One quarter part paid down; One quarter in three months; One quarter six months; and the last quarter in nine months.
The Meeting-House is to be begun immediately, and completely finished as soon as possible, agreeable to the plan drawn.
It is hoped those who wish for Pews, or parts of ones, in said House, will make up their minds before the day of sale; so that those who are not able to purchase whole pews, may obtain partners, and thus accommodate themselves with convenient seats for their families at a very small expence, and on easy terms of payment. May 10, 1803.
The Charter or Plan on which the Baptist Meeting-house, in Portsmouth, is to be built, shall be as follows—viz.
1st. The house shall be opened at all suitable times and seasons, for the improvement of every ministerial gift of EVERY denomination, who shall be of reputable character; which times and seasons, and other discretionary concerns of said society, shall be decided by the Deacons of the Church, and by the Standing Committee to said society. 2d. No person shall vote or take any part in the transactions of any parish meeting, unless he be a proprietor in said house. 3d. Those who purchase Pews in said House shall receive a Warrantee Deed of said Pew or Pews from the Standing Committee. 4th. If any alteration in said house should at any time be deemed necessary, it shall be done only by a vote of two thirds of the proprietors.
On Tuesday May 17th, 1803, WILL BE SOLD, At PUBLIC AUCTION, if not sold before at private sale—All the real Estate of DANIEL HART, deceased, —VIZ.—
A LARGE two story Dwelling HOUSE, on the north side of Deer-street, four rooms on a floor; with the Land belonging to the same, and a good well of water in the garden, and the water from the Acqueduct, into the scullery and cellar—situated, between the houses of Mr. Samuel Beck and Capt. Kennard. —LIKEWISE—
A large House LOT, nearly opposite the above mentioned dwelling house, (on the south side of the street) with the BUILDING thereon, in good condition, shingled & clapboarded, capable of making a dwelling-house. —ALSO—
A LOT, with a STORE thereon, two story, situated at the North end, and is between the stores of Capt. Samuel Rice and Mr. Richard Hart—and has the privilege of a lane or passage of ten feet wide, from the street into the river. —LIKEWISE—
A House LOT, at the south end of the town, adjoining to the south end of Capt. Elisha Low's house, 37 feet in front, on the street leading to Mill-bridge—running back, but not a square lot. —ALSO—
Another House LOT, on Pleasant-street, 17 feet in front on said street, carrying that breadth back about 100 feet, towards the Meeting-house—this lot is at the south side of Mr. Balche's house, and land adjoining thereto.
N. B. One third of the above estate is sold for the benefit of Mr. Jeremiah Hart's Creditors, and the other two-thirds, for the heirs to the two thirds of said estate.
The same day WILL BE SOLD
A Water Privilege at the North side of Mr. William Sheafe's Wharf, of thirty feet wide, and running into the river as far as said Sheafe's does, together with a Wharf of thirty feet wide, and seventy foot long, with a STORE thereon of forty foot long and twenty feet wide, with a privilege of a Lane of ten feet wide, from the street extending into the River. Portsmouth, May 10, 1803.

Miscellaneous Repository.
The three following original Productions are from the Pen of the Rural Loiterer.
ODE TO SPRING.
SWEET blooming Spring thy genial ray Again inspires my rural lay To sing thy beauties fair! With peace and sweet seclusion blest, No anxious thought disturbs my rest, No grief-inspiring care.
O! how I love to trace these scenes, These verdant meads, these charming greens, Far from the lux'rious great; To view the clear, unclouded skies, The blushing morn of thousand dies, Far from ignoble strife.  In scenes like these the human mind, In search of truth, roves unconfou'd "By fashion's dull controul."  Imagination lifts her eye Above the blue, ethereal sky, And views great nature's whole! Each blooming flower that lifts its head Proclaims the wonders Heaven has spread, Around this spacious earth; While, in the eye, each distant sun Tells what Omnipotence has done; Proclaims their wondrous birth!
A sketch on AGRICULTURE.
If we examine for a moment, the primary and essential causes which have elevated Empires, and raised small and insignificant nations to the summit of glory and of happiness, we shall find none so conducive, so indispensably necessary, as that art, which teaches man to convert the plain, waving with lofty forest trees, into a field of golden grain; that which teaches him to break the stubborn soil with the crooked plough, and extract from the earth treasures more valuable, than are extracted from the mines of Potosi. It was the noble art of Agriculture, which enabled our perfected ancestors to prolong their existence on these shores, which then waved with the pine and the cedar, and abounded with warlike tribes of savages. Then the fascinating baubles and glittering gewgaws of Europe, had not enslaved the free tree residents of Columbia. The prospect of gain had not induced the avaricious speculator, to quit the pleasures of the country, for the rattling of carriages, and the noisy tumult of the city; but content with the abundant gifts which nature bestows, they had not become initiated in those luxurious vices of Europe, which render our populous towns infamous. From the hand of the hardy cultivator must man receive his necessaries, his conveniences and his luxuries, which must ever render that class of men the most important, the most respectable of any whatever. Sensible of the truth of this proposition, we have beheld one of the most exalted characters that earth could ever boast, nobly encouraging this grand art, by his precepts and examples; yes, my enlightened countrymen, one of the greatest warriors, one of the most illustrious statesmen that our country ever produced, that indulgent Heaven ever deigned to bless a mortal soil, exchanged the plough for the sword, and the sickle for the pen. Surely every reasonable man must own that the husbandman, who cultivates one blade of grain, renders more real service to his country, than the merchant, who wastes to our shores the luxuries of every clime—luxuries for which we have substitutes in abundance. When we reflect on the fertile regions comprehended within the United States; the facility with which buildings may be erected suitable to defend the cultivator, from the severity of winter, and the heat of summer; the amazing increase of population, which enables the ancient towns to send out emigrants to the uncultivated wilderness; surely we must own, that Agriculture is the most important of all occupations, and not only in America, but perhaps, in every country. No sooner does the majority of a nation consider Agriculture as beneath their dignity, than that glorious prosperity, which was purchased in those days when labor was not considered as mean, takes her flight from their shores, to light on a country inured to industry and toil. What art so pleasing, as that which spreads the beautiful plains of waving corn, over the dry and apparently barren soil, which opens to man's senses the beauties of nature, and turns his thoughts on their divine Author. How great might be the improvements in Agriculture, did men of exalted genius and affluent circumstances, devote their time to the cultivation of the earth, instead of accumulating wealth by speculation—by extorting from the hand of the farmer, that wealth, which was drawn from the bosom of the earth, by the plough and the hoe! But a pen, which can give the subject more delicate touches, than the Rural Loiterer's, must be used, to induce the dissipated and idle to regard Agriculture as the first and noblest of all employments, and its followers, as worthy of our highest respect.
DETACHED THOUGHTS.
How miserable is that man whose bosom burns with an unbounded ambition! He would gladly deprive others of that praise which is truly merited, that the contrast may not appear so striking between his vices and their virtues.
Vice would soon be banished from the human heart, did not the votaries of it associate together.
THE more Luxury in a Nation, the less Liberty among the People.
SLANDER is an obscure manner of praising ourselves, by publishing the pretended faults of others.
WANTED,
A Lower Room & Chamber, with a privilege of the Cellar and Yard. Inquire of the Printers.
WANTED,
AN active LAD, as an apprentice to the Printing Business—Inquire of HENRY BUFFORD, Portsmouth, April 26, 1803.
Groton Highway Tax.
State of New-Hampshire. Grafton, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the owners of lands, residents and non-residents, in the town of Groton, that whereas the General Court of this State, on the 12th day of June, 1801, granted a tax of three cents per acre, on all the lands in said Groton, (public rights excepted) for the purpose of repairing the public roads in said Groton, granting to the resident and non-resident owners of lands in said town the privilege of working out said tax, at the rate of six cents per hour, for every able bodied man, finding his own tools and diet, and for a yoke of oxen the same price; provided the same be done between the first day of June, and the 15th day of September next.—This is therefore to notify, that we the subscribers being appointed a committee for that purpose, have assessed said tax and shall hold ourselves in readiness to superintend the same agreeably to said act.
EDMD SHATTUCK, jr. ASAHEL BUELL, ABEL LOVEJOY, JOSHUA HEATH, Groton, May 1, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Lands in the town of WAKEFIELD, in the county of Strafford in said State, who have not paid their highway and county taxes for the year 1802, that so much of their Lands as will pay the same with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of David Copp, Esq. in said Wakefield, on Monday the 4th day of July next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
ORIGINAL PROPRIETORS.
   Names. No. Acres. Highway Tax. County Tax.     William Twombly, 2 47 110 29 7 7 1/2   James Kenney, 2 75 110 30 7 1/2 7 1/2   Solly and March, 2 77 110 29 7 7 1/2   Joseph Gage, 2 7 110 16 4 4   Ebenezer Wentworth, 1 53 50 58 14 1/2 14 1/2   ditto, 2 53 40 58 14 1/2 14 1/2   Ebenezer Hanson, 2 39 110 38 10 10   John Brown, 2 57 110 25 6 6   Amos Howard, 2 60 110 20 5 5   Robert Hanson, 1 71 100 20 5 5   Joseph Hufley, 2 4 100 30 7 1/2 7 1/2   Solomon Emerson, 1 95 100 16 4 4   James Kelley, 2 9 55 17 4 4   John Millar, 1 82 40 30 7 1/2 7 1/2   Ebenezer Roberts, 2 18 110 50 12 1/2 12 1/2   William Willand, 2 97 110 40 10 10   Pierce and More, 1 88 100 27 7 7 1/2   Thomas Wallingsford, 2 25 110 53 13 13   Benjamin Horn, 1 84 50 50 12 1/2 12 1/2   Joshua Roberts 1 59 100 54 13 1/2 13 1/2   ditto, 2 59 110 54 14 14   Richard Wibird, 1 65 110 58 13 1/2 13 1/2   Johr. Hanson, 2 38 55 27 6 1/2 6 1/2   Ebenezer Downs, jr., 2 30 110 50 12 12   John Horn, 2 48 110 51 13 13   Love Roberts, 2 25 110 29 7 7 1/2   Samuel Page's Gore, 33 33   Elisha Hayes, 2 2 110 41 10 1/2 10 1/2   William Sikes, 2 23 110 23 7 7 1/2   Richard Hufley, 4 26 55 21 5 1/2 5 1/2   Daniel Young, 2 29 110 30 7 1/2 7 1/2   John Horn, 2 52 55 27 6 1/2 6 1/2  
BENJAMIN COOK, Collector. Wakefield, April 9, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of Land in the town of SHARON, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1802, that so much of their Land will be sold at public vendue on the 28th day of June next, at 10 o'clock A. M. at the house of Caleb Jackson, inn-holder in said town, as will pay the taxes with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Names. No. Acres. Highway Tax. County Tax.     Mark Wentworth's heirs, 120 20 4 44 25 0 13 0   John Penhallow, 120 20 5 44 25 0 13 0   Capt. N. Robbins, 30 78 1 20 12 23 6 28   Cha's Cummings, 20 23 4 9 5 11 4 13    JAMES TAGGART, Collector. Sharon, April 9, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
Grafton, ff.
BETHLEHEM, April 14, 1803. WHEREAS an act was passed by the General Court on the sixteenth day of June, 1802, granting a tax of One Cent and One half Cent on each Acre of Land in said BETHLEHEM, (public rights excepted) to be applied to the sole use of making and repairing the Roads in said Bethlehem,—And whereas in said act it is provided that the proprietors and owners (resident and non-resident) shall have liberty to pay their proportion of said assessment in labour, to be done on said Roads at any time between the first day of June and the fifteenth of September, in any year when the tax is assessed—And whereas the subscribers were appointed a Committee in said act, to assess, collect and lay out said tax on said Roads, and to notify said proprietors of the assessment, and the time when said labour is to be performed; This is to give notice to said owners and proprietors, that they may appear any time between the first day of June next, and the fifteenth of September following, and pay their respective proportion of said assessment in labour on said roads.
LOT WOODBURY,
JOHN TAYLOR, AMOS WHEELER.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
Two smart active LADS, at apprentices to a good business. Inquire of the Printers. March 29, 1803.
Proposals
FOR CARRYING THE Mails of the United States On the following Post Roads, Will be received at the GENERAL POST-OFFICE in WASHINGTON CITY, until the 1st day of July next, (1803) inclusive.
IN NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
1. From Portsmouth by Dover, Rochester, Middletown, Ossipee, Moultonboro, Centre Harbour, Plymouth, New-Hampton, Meredith, Gilmanstown, Nottingham and Durham to Portsmouth once a week, and by the contrary route the next week, so as to carry the mail alternately.—Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday at 2 p m, and arrive at Plymouth on Thursday 7 p m.—Leave Plymouth every Friday at 6 a m, and arrive at Portsmouth the next Tuesday by 9 a m.
2. From Portsmouth N. H. by Exeter, Kingston, Haverhill, Andover, Wilmington, Woburn and Medford to Boston three times a week.—Leave Portsmouth every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a m, and arrive at Boston by 7 p m. Leave Boston every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3 a m and arrive at Portsmouth by 7 p m.
3. From Exeter by Chester, Londonderry, Amherst, Peterboro, Marlboro and Keen to Walpole once a week.—Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 9 a m, arrive at Amherst on Wednesday by 7 p m. Leave Amherst on Thursday at 5 a m, and arrive at Keene by 7 p m. Leave Keene Friday at 6 a m, and arrive at Walpole on Friday by 10 a m.—Returning. Leave Walpole every Friday at 2 p m, arrive at Keene by 7 p m. Leave Keene on Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at Amherst by 6 p m. Leave Amherst at 7 p m, and arrive at Exeter on Monday by 3 p m.
4. From Exeter by Nottingham, Concord, Salisbury, Grafton, Canaan and Lebanon to Hanover once a week.—Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 9 a m, arrive at Concord on Wednesday by 10 a m. Leave Concord at 11 a m, and arrive at Hanover on Friday by 9 a m.—Returning. Leave Hanover every Friday at 1 p m, and arrive at Exeter on Monday by 3 p m.
5. From Haverhill Ms. by Chester, Pembroke, Boscawen, Salisbury, Plymouth, Rumney and Haverhill to Newbury, Vt. once a week.—Leave Haverhill every Tuesday at 2 p m, arrive at Chester by 5 p m, at Concord on Wednesday by 10 a m. Leave Concord at 4 p m, arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 p m, and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 p m. Leave Haverhill at 5 1/2 p m, and arrive at Newbury by 7 p m.—Returning. Leave Newbury every Saturday at 6 a m on Monday by 10 a m. Leave Concord at 11 a m, and arrive at Haverhill, Ms. on Tuesday by 10 a m.
6. From Hanover by Orford to Haverhill once a week.—Leave Hanover every Friday at 6 a m, and arrive at Haverhill by 5 p m. Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at Hanover by 6 p m.
7. From Haverhill by Bath, Littleton and Dalton to Lancaster once a week.—Leave Lancaster every Thursday at 3 p m, and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 p m. Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at Lancaster on Monday by 8 a m.
8. From Groton, Ms. by Townsend, Abby, New Ipswich, Jaffrey, Marlboro, Keene and Chesterfield to Brattleboro once a week.—Leave Groton every Thursday at 5 a m, and arrive at Brattleboro' on Friday by 10 a m. Leave Brattleboro' every Friday at 2 p m, and arrive at Groton on Saturday by 8 p m.
9. From Exeter by New Market and Durham to Dover once a week.—Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 5 a m, and arrive at Dover by 10 a m. Leave Dover at noon, and arrive at Exeter by 3 p m.
NOTES.
 The Postmaster General may expedite the mails and alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contracts, he stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby.  Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices, where no particular time is specified.  For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continue until the departure of any depending mail, whereby the mails destined for such depending mails, lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred.  Newspapers as well as letters are to be sent in the mail; and if any person making proposals, desires to carry newspapers, other than those conveyed in the mail for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals, for what sum he will carry with the emolument, and for what sum without that emolument.  Should any person making proposals desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals the alterations desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of the contract.  Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly in the months of February, May, August, and November, one month after the expiration of each quarter.  No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail.  Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals.  The Postmaster General reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end whenever three failures happen which amount to the loss of a trip each.  Those who wish to contract for two years, will make distinct proposals, specifying for what price they will perform the service for one year, and at what price for two years.  The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of October next, and are to continue in force for one year, or two years, at the election of the Postmaster General. 
GIDEON GRANGER, Postmaster General. City, April 4th. 1803.
Every Day STAGE,
On the Upper Road to BOSTON.
THE Proprietors of the MAIL STAGE from Portsmouth to Boston, thro' Exeter, Haverhill, Andover, Wilmington and Woburn to Boston, inform their friends and the public, that they have commenced running their Stage to Boston every day in the week (Sundays excepted) and they will with the patronage of a generous public. This Stage will start from Davenport's Tavern, Buck-street, every morning, and arrive there at evening. Passengers shall be taken from and delivered to their houses at any part of the town. Those gentlemen who have no particular business thro' the sea-ports, will find it to their advantage to travel this way, more especially at this season of the year, when the beauty and agreeableness of the country far exceeds any thing that can be experienced through popular towns or cities. Gentlemen who may have business at Exeter, can be accommodated very conveniently by going in the morning and returning at night every day: And should it so happen, as is the case at times, that the Stage should be full, they shall be furnished with private conveyances at the same price of Stage fare, and be attended upon in the same manner. They have provided themselves with extra Carriages, purchased a number of good Horses, procured new Drivers, steady men, who are experienced in the business; therefore they put confidence in their friends for encouragement in this new arrangement. Stage Books will be kept at the following places, for those who wish to take passage in the above Stage, viz—Davenport's at Portsmouth; Hutchins' at Exeter; Mr. Nath'l Bradley's Haverhill; Mr. Evans' Ann-street, and Mr. Kendall's State-street, Boston.
JOHN DAVENPORT, EZRA HUTCHINS. Portsmouth, April 19, 1803.
N.B. Though they have been denied the privilege of leaving a Stage Book at Maj. Walker's, by some of the Proprietors of the other Stage, yet those who travel in this line, and wish to quarter there, shall be landed there, or taken from thence, with as much pleasure as elsewhere. Roads on this line are now good, public houses excellent, expenses low, and to add to all, the fare seventy-five cents less than on the other road. Time of departure and arrival will be the same as on the other line, though the distance is shorter.
TO BE SOLD,
At Public Vendue,
On THURSDAY the 19th day of May next, at 11 o'clock A. M. at the Bell Tavern in Portsmouth, all the right of EDWARD GOVE, a Bankrupt, of, in and to the following parcels of Real Estate, viz—
A LOT OF LAND, with a Dwelling-House thereon, situate on the South part of said town, on a street leading from Washington street to Water-street, lately occupied by said Gove, with a Tanyard, Bark-House, Barn, and sundry other small Buildings.
A FARM in Eaton, containing Two Hundred and Four Acres, with a Dwelling-House thereon, situate on the South part of said town, adjoining a Farm of Deacon Samuel Tenney.
A RIGHT in the FRANKLIN PROPRIETARY, the property of said Gove, in the premises, and the conditions of sale will be made known at time and place of sale.
SAMUEL HUTCHINGS, Assignee.
JOSIAH BLAKE, WISHES to inform his friends that he continues to carry on the BOOT and SHOE Making business, at the head of Buck-street,—and has for Sale,—Women's Morocco & Leather SHOES, Children's do. of all kinds.
West-India Goods,
Consisting of—Rum, Brandy, Gin, Molasses, Sugar, Tea, Coffee, Chocolate, &c. &c.
N. B. Wanted to Purchase, a number thick sole SHOES, to be of a large size, from 10 to 12 inches long.
** Any of the above articles will be given in exchange for Shoes. Portsmouth, April 26, 1803.
S. Sprague,
HAIR-DRESSER, Daniel-street, HAS FOR SALE,
English, French and American HAIR POWDER, first quality, from 12 1/2 to 30 Cents per lb.
American double and twisted Hair-Ribbon.
Hard and soft Pomatum;
Warranted Razors, & Cases;
Shaving Boxes and Brushes;
Scented Soap, & Wash Balls;
Milk of Roses, for purifying
the skin;
Down and silk Powder Puffs;
Curling Tongs; Craping, do.
Ivory and horn Combs;
Cloth, tooth, comb, and shoe
BRUSHES;
Best Boston SEGARS, &c. &c. Portsmouth, April 26, 1803.
Notice to the Inhabitants of Portsmouth.
WE, the subscribers, being elected Health Officers for the town of Portsmouth the ensuing year, take this early opportunity of recommending every measure that will probably conduce to the health and prosperity of the town. We shall endeavor to discharge the duties of our office in every respect; but we know without our aid the consent and exertions of the citizens at large, our efforts must fail of having the good effect we wish.—Sensibly affected with the destructive rage of contagious diseases which have prevailed in this town heretofore, we cannot willingly believe any person so destitute of a regard for himself, and compassion for his fellow creatures, as to withhold his hand in such a cause. Deeply impressed with ideas that the health and well being of all populous towns depend greatly upon the internal regulations of the citizens thereof, and urged by our duty to notice particularly every nuisance or thing offensive, we earnestly request all persons to be careful in creating offensive matter, and to use every exertion in destroying whatever tends to endanger the lives and health of their neighbors. We, in a particular manner, request that all vaults of privies may be cleaned by the fifteenth of the ensuing month, as the approaching warm weather will render it more dangerous and offensive.—All powers delegated to us by the laws of New-Hampshire, will be pursued with compassion for all, without respect to any.
BENJA SHERBURNE, } Committee SAMUEL JONES, } of Health. JOSHUA BRACKETT, }
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
Cheshire, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in the town of WENDELL, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1801, that unless they pay the same, with incidental charges, to the subscriber, so much of their land as will pay the same will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of John Chase, in said town, on the twenty-eighth day of July next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Names. No. Acres. Highway Tax. County Tax.     Alex'r Morrison, 85 2 58 2   William Ham, 85 4 2 2    JOHN CHASE, Collector. Wendell, April 26, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
Cheshire, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owner of land in the town of WENDELL, who has not paid his tax for the year 1802,