The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1800-02-26 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
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PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE)—PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY JOHN MELCHER, PRINTER TO THE STATE, AT HIS OFFICE CORNER OF MARKET STREET, WHERE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THIS PAPER, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND ARTICLES OF INTELLIGENCE ARE THANKFULLY RECEIVED.
No. 9, of Vol. XLV.]
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1800.
[One Dollar 83 half pr. Annum.]
Published by Authority.
ACTS passed at a session of the Hon. General Court, holden at Exeter, December, 1799.
[Concluded from our last.]
An Act to incorporate a company by the name of the proprietors of the Third Turnpike Road in New-Hampshire.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That Frederick Wm. Geyer, Benjamin Bellows, Benjamin West, Amasa Allen, John Bellows, Daniel Newcomb, Peleg Sprague and Josiah Richardson and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby incorporated and made a body corporate and politic, under the name of the proprietors of the third turnpike road in New-Hampshire, and in that name may sue and prosecute, and be sued and prosecuted to final judgment and execution, and shall be, and hereby are vested with all the powers and privileges which by law are incident to corporations of a similar nature.
And be it further enacted, That the said Frederick Wm. Geyer, or Benjamin Bellows, shall call a meeting of said proprietors by advertisement in the newspaper printed at Walpole, to be holden at any suitable time and place, at least thirty days from the first publication of said advertisement, and the proprietors by a vote of a majority of those present or represented at said meeting, accounting and allowing one vote to each share in all cases, shall choose a clerk, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of said office, and shall also agree on the method of calling future meetings, and at the same, or at any subsequent meetings, may elect such officers and make and establish such rules and by-laws, as to them shall seem necessary and convenient, for the regulation and government of said corporation, for carrying into effect the purpose aforesaid, and for collecting the tolls herein after established, and the same by-laws may cause to be executed, and annex penalties to the breach thereof, provided the said rules and by-laws are not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State; and all representations shall be proved by writing signed by the person to be represented, which shall be filed with the clerk, and this act, and all rules, by-laws, regulations and proceedings of said corporation, shall be fairly and truly recorded by the clerk, in a book or books provided and kept for that purpose.
And be it further enacted, That the said corporation are empowered to survey, lay out, make and keep in repair, a turnpike road of four rods wide, in such route or tracts, as in the best of their judgment and skill shall combine shortness of distance with the most practicable ground, from Bellows' falls in Walpole on Connecticut river, through Keene, towards Boston to Massachusetts line.
And be it further enacted, That if said proprietors and the owners of land over which the road may run, shall disagree on the compensation to be made for said land, and the building or buildings thereon standing, and shall not agree in appointing persons to ascertain such compensation, the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the county in which said land lies, if not interested, and if interested, the Judges of the Superior Court, upon application of the said proprietors, or the owners of the land, reasonable notice of such application having been given by the applicants to the adverse party, shall appoint a committee, who shall ascertain the same in the same way as compensation is made to owners of land for highways as usually laid out, and execution, on non-payment, against said proprietors, shall issue of course.
And be it further enacted, That the corporation may erect and fix such and so many gates or turnpikes upon and across said road, as will be necessary and sufficient to collect the tolls and duties herein after granted to the said company, from all persons traveling in the same with horses, cattle, carts and carriages.
And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for said company to appoint such and so many toll
gatherers, as they shall think proper, to collect and receive of, and from all and every person or persons using said road, the tolls and rates herein after mentioned, and to stop any person, riding, leading, or driving any horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, fulkey, chair, chaise, phaeton, coach, charriot, cart, waggon, sleigh, sled, or other carriage of burthen or pleasure, from passing through the said gates or turnpikes, until they shall have respectively paid the same, that is to say, for every mile of said road, and so in proportion for a greater or less distance, or greater or smaller number of sheep, hogs or cattle, viz. for every fifteen sheep or hogs, one cent; for every fifteen cattle or horses, two cents; for every horse and his rider, or led horse, three fourths of one cent; for every fulkey, chair, or chaise with one horse and two wheels, one and half cents; for every charriot, coach, stage, waggon, phaeton or chaise, with two horses and four wheels, three cents; for either of the carriages last mentioned with four horses, four cents; for every other carriage of pleasure, the like sums according to the number of wheels and horses drawing the same; for each cart or other carriage of burthen with wheels drawn by one beast, one cent; for each waggon, cart or other carriage of burthen drawn by two beasts, one and half cents; if by more than two beasts, one cent for each additional yoke of oxen or horse; for each sleigh drawn by one horse, three fourths of one cent; if drawn by two horses, one and half cents; and if by more than two horses, half a cent for every additional horse; for each sled drawn by one horse, half of one cent; for each sled drawn by two horses or a yoke of oxen, one cent; and if by more than two horses or one yoke of oxen, one cent for each additional pair of horses or yoke of oxen; and at all times, when the toll gatherer shall not attend his duty, the gates shall be left open, and if any person shall, with his carriage, team, cattle or horses, turn out of said road, to pass the said turnpike gates on ground adjacent thereto, with intent to avoid the payment of the toll due by virtue of this act, such person shall forfeit and pay three times so much as the legal toll would have been, to be recovered by the Treasurer of the said corporation, to the use thereof, in an action, of debt or on the case; provided that nothing in this act shall extend to intitle the said corporation to demand toll of any person, who shall be passing with his horse or carriage, to or from public worship or with his horse, team or cattle, or on foot, to or from any mill, or on their common or ordinary business of family concerns within the same town.
And be it further enacted, That the said proprietors are hereby empowered, to purchase and hold in fee simple, so much land as will be necessary for said turnpike road, and the share or shares of any of said proprietors, may be transferred by deed duly executed and acknowledged, and recorded by the clerk of said proprietors, on their records; and the share or shares of any proprietor, may be sold by said corporation, on non-payment of assessment duly made, agreeable to the by-laws that may be agreed upon by said corporation.
And be it further enacted, That no toll shall be taken by said corporation for any mile of said road, until six hundred dollars shall have been expended thereon, or a proportionate sum upon the whole number of miles, reckoning from Bellows' falls in Walpole, to the place where said road may terminate.
And be it further enacted, That said corporation may be indicted for defect of repairs of said road, after the toll gates are erected, and fined in the same way and manner as towns are by law liable for suffering roads to be out of repair, and said fine may be levied on the profits and tolls arising or accruing to said proprietors.
Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That if said turnpike road shall in any part be the same with any highway now used, it shall not be lawful for said corporation to erect any gate or turnpike on or across said part of the road, that now is used and occupied as a public highway, any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.
And be it further enacted, That when
said proprietors shall make it appear to the Judges of the Superior Court of Judicature, that they have expended said sum of six hundred dollars on each mile, or a proportionate sum as before mentioned, the proprietors shall have the liberty to erect the gates as aforesaid.
And be it further enacted, That at the end of every ten years, after the setting up any toll gates, an account of the expenditures upon said road, and the profits arising therefrom, shall be laid before the Judges of the Superior Court for the time being, under forfeiture of the privileges of this act in future; and if the net profits for the said ten years, shall exceed twelve per cent. per annum, the said Court may reduce the future toll, so far as that it may not exceed twelve per cent. and if the profits shall not amount to six per cent. the said Court may raise the toll, so that it shall not be less than six nor exceed twelve per cent.
And be it further enacted, That if in ten years, the said road shall not be completed, according to the provision in this act, every part and clause thereof shall be null and void; Provided also, that the State of New-Hampshire, may at any time after the expiration of forty years from the passing of this act, repay the proprietors of said road, the amount of the sum expended by them thereon, with twelve per cent. per annum, in addition thereto, deducting the toll actually received by the proprietors, and in that case, the said road shall, to all intents and purposes, be the property of the State of New-Hampshire, any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved Dec. 27, 1799.
SIXTH Congress of the U. States.
THURSDAY FEB. 6. MILITARY WARRANTS.
A Bill, "Giving farther time to the holders of Military Warrants to locate and register the same," was read three times and ordered to be engrossed. This bill gives 15 days longer for the registry and location of land warrants, and before the drawing of the lottery for the priority of location.
A Bill was also passed for engrossment, which likewise respects lands granted for military services.
N. CAROLINA PAPER MONEY.
Mr. Macon, proposed, that the Collectors of the Direct Tax in N. Carolina should receive the paper money of that State in payment of it. He observed, that little specie circulated in the State, and the paper was in perfect credit. Laid on the table.
INDIAN SUPPLIES.
The laws which appropriate 180,000 dollars for the purchase of goods for supplying the Indians within the limits of the U. S. having expired, Mr. Claiborne thought that previous to passing a new law for such supplies, an enquiry should be made how the money already granted had been expended. He moved, and the House agreed that the papers on the subject should be called for.
THE CENSUS BILL.
Was received from the Senate, with amendments.
FRIDAY, FEB. 7. ACTS PASSED.
An additional Act for regulating the grants of land for military services, and for the "United Brethren" for propagating the gospel among the heathens.—An Act respecting the Mint.—An Act giving farther time for the registry and location of military warrants.
THE CENSUS BILL. Was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
N. CAROLINA PAPER.
Mr. Macon called up his proposition which was negatived. Ayes 31. Noes 46.
FOREIGN INTERCOURSE.
The bill providing for foreign intercourse was debated. Mr. Gallatin proposed to limit its existence to 2 years. The bill was recommitted.
JONATHAN ROBBINS.
The President by Message communicated the papers relative to Robbins, delivered to the British.
The Message and papers were ordered to be Printed.
MONDAY, FEB. 10.
LEGISLATORS' PAY.
Mr. A. Foster laid the following resolution on the table:
RESOLVED, That a Committee be appointed to enquire whether any, and if any, what alterations ought to be made in the compensation allowed to the Officers of the two Houses of Congress.
BONDS FOR DUTIES.
Mr. Smith, from the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, reported the following resolution, viz.
RESOLVED, That the term of payment allowed by law on bonds which have been given, and which shall be coming due, prior to the first day of August next, for duties of import, may be extended for sixty days, in all cases respectively where it shall be required by the parties, and where the recovery of such imports shall not be endangered thereby; Provided, that in every case of such additional credit, there shall be required and paid on such bonds, respectively, interest at the rate of one half per cent. per month, from the time such duties shall be respectively due and payable according to law.
Mr. Smith said, this matter was of great importance to the Merchants of the United States, who had been materially shocked by failures in Europe, and whose situation required the aid now about to be given, as speedily as possible; as it had been submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, and met his cordial approbation; and as it would not injure the revenue, but on the contrary might be of benefit to it—he hoped no objection would be made to the resolution, and that it would be immediately taken into consideration.—He therefore moved for a reference to the Committee of the whole House this day.
Upon the question, there were ayes 33—noes 33.—Mr. Speaker declaring himself in the affirmative, the House went into Committee of the whole on the resolution.—Mr. Rutledge in the chair.—when it was again read, agreed to, and the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures ordered to report a bill pursuant thereto.
MILITARY GRANTS.
Mr. Davis laid the following resolution on the table:
RESOLVED, That a Committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency or inexpediency of passing a law to regulate the manner of entering Caveats to prevent the issuing of patents for land granted for Military Services; and that the same committee be directed to enquire into the expediency or inexpediency of passing a law to prevent the entering of a Caveat in any case to hinder the issuing a patent for land granted for Military Services.
INDIAN SUPPLIES.
Mr. Claiborne withdrew the resolution he laid some days ago upon the table, requesting the President to direct the proper officer to lay before the House, statements of the expenditure of money under certain acts authorizing trade with the Indians, and moved the following resolution:
RESOLVED, That a Committee be appointed to enquire into the operation of the acts making provision for the establishment of Trading Houses with the Indian Tribes; and also into the expediency of reviving and continuing in force the said acts.
This resolution was agreed to, and a Select Committee of five members appointed for the purpose.
MESSAGE.
From the President of the United States, transmitting a Report of the Secretary of State, and sundry Documents relative to the requisition for and delivery of Jonathan Robbins; in pursuance of a Resolution of this House, of the 4th inst.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives.
In consequence of your request to me, conveyed in your resolution of the 4th of this month, I directed the Secretary of State, to lay before me, copies of the papers intended. These copies together with his report I now transmit to the House of Representatives, for the consideration of the members.
JOHN ADAMS.
United States, Feb. 7th, 1800.
REPORT.
Department of State, Feb. 6, 1800. THE Secretary of State has pre-
pared, as directed, and now respectfully submits to the President of the United States copies of the papers which probably were contemplated by the House of Representatives, in their resolve of the 4th inst. although no requisition of the resolve supposed has ever been received, nor any communication made to the Judge of the district court of South Carolina concerning any man by the name of Jonathan Robbins. But by the proceedings before that Judge, as they have been published, it appears that a seaman named Thomas Nash, the subject of the British Minister's requisition, did assume the name of Jonathan Robbins, and make oath "that he was a native of the state of Connecticut, and born in Danbury in that state." The Secretary, therefore, besides the copy of the requisition, and the copies of his letter to the Judge of the district court of South Carolina, and of the Judge's answer, has prepared and herewith incloses, copies of the certificates of the Selectmen and Town-Clerk of Danbury, and extracts of letters from Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, satisfactorily proving, that the Thomas Nash, calling himself Jonathan Robbins, who, on the requisition of the British Minister, was delivered up by the Judge aforesaid, with the assent of the President of the United States, was not an American citizen, but a native Irishman, who to his other crimes added perjury, in the hope, thereby, to escape the punishment due to piracy and murder.
The original certificates of the Selectmen and Town-Clerk of Danbury, are in the Secretary's possession; and he has compared the extract of Admiral Parker's letter to Mr. Liston with the original, and the extract of the Admiral's letter to the British Consul at Charleston, with the passage as recited in the Consul's original letter to Mr. Liston.
All which is respectfully submitted, TIMOTHY PICKERING.
(No. 1.) Copy of a Note from Robert Liston, Esq. Envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, to Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State of the United States.
R. Liston presents his respects to col. Pickering, secretary of state.
A seaman of the name of Thomas Nash, having been committed to gaol, in Charleston (S. Carolina) at the instance of his majesty's consul there, on suspicion of his having been an accomplice in the piracy and murder committed on board his majesty's ship Hermione, and information of the circumstance having been transmitted to vice admiral Sir Hyde Parker, a cutter was dispatched to Charleston, with an officer on board, to whom the man was well known, in order that his person might be identified, and that he should be carried to the West Indies for trial.
But on the application of the consul for the restoration of Nash, in conformity to the treaty of 1794, Judge Bee, and the Federal Attorney, were of opinion that he could not with propriety be delivered up without a previous requisition on my part made to the executive Government of the U. S. May I therefore request, sir, that you will be pleased to lay this matter before the President, and procure his orders that the said Thomas Nash, be delivered up to justice.
Philadelphia, May 23d, 1799.
(No. 2.) Letter from the Secretary of State, to Judge Bee.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Philadelphia, June 3d, 1799.
SIR, Mr. LISTON, the Minister of his Britannic Majesty, has requested, that Thomas Nash, who was a seaman on board the British frigate Hermione, and who he is informed is now a prisoner in the jail of Charleston, should be delivered up. I have stated the matter to the President, of the U. S. He considers an offence committed on board a public ship of war, on the high seas, to have been committed within the jurisdiction of the nation to whom the ship belongs. Nash is charged, it is understood, with piracy and murder, committed by him on board the above mentioned British frigate, on the high seas, and consequently "within the jurisdiction" of his Britannic Majesty; and therefore,

by the 27th article of the treaty of amity with G. Britain, Nash ought to be delivered up, as requested by the British Minister, provided such evidence of his criminality be produced, as by the laws of the United States, or of South-Carolina, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the offence had been committed within the jurisdiction of the United States. The President has in consequence hereof, authorised me to communicate to you "his advice and request" that Thomas Nash, may be delivered up to the Consul or other Agent of Great-Britain, who shall appear to receive him. I have the honor to be, &c. &c.
(Signed) TIMOTHY PICKERING. The Hon. Thomas Bee, Esq. Judge of the District of South-Carolina.
(No. 5.) Letter from Thomas Bee, Esq. to the Secretary of State, dated Charleston, (S. C.) 1st July, 1799.
IN compliance with the request of the President of the United States as stated in your favour of the 3d ult. I gave notice to the British Consul that at the sitting of the District Court on this day, I would order Thomas Nash, the prisoner charged with having committed murder and piracy on board the British Frigate Hermione, on such strong evidence of his criminality as justified his apprehension and commitment for trial, to be brought before me on habeas corpus, in order to, his being delivered over agreeable to the 27th article of the treaty of amity with Great-Britain. The Consul attended in Court and requested that the prisoner should remain in gaol until he had a convenient opportunity of sending him away. I have therefore directed that he remain in prison, until the Consul shall find it convenient to remove him.
I have the honor to be, With great respect, Your most obedient servant, THOMAS BEE, District Judge of South-Carolina. Hon. Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State.
(No. 4.) Danbury, Sept. 16th, 1799. WE the subscribers, Selectmen of the town of Danbury, in the State of Connecticut, certify—that we have always been inhabitants of said town, and are from forty-five to fifty seven years of age, and have never known an inhabitant of this town by the name of Jonathan or Nathan Robbins, and that there has not been nor now is any family known by the name of Robbins within the limits of said town.
Certified per { Eli Mycot, Ebenezer Benedict, Jussus Barnum, Benjamin Hitchcock.
Danbury, Sept. 16th, 1799. THE subscriber late town clerk for the town of Danbury, in the State of Connecticut, certifies, that he kept the town records twenty-five years, viz. from the year 1771, until the year '96, that he is now 56 years of age, and that he never knew any person by the name of Robbins, born or residing in the said town of Danbury, during that term of twenty-five years, before or since.
MAJOR TAYLOR. Extract of a letter from Ad. Sir Hyde Parker, to Robert Lisson, Esq. envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty to the United States, dated in Port Royal Harbour, Jamaica, 9th Sept. 1799.
"I HAVE had the honor of receiving duplicates of your Excellency's letters, numbered 10, 11, and 12, and in answer thereto, acquaint you that in consequence of Nash, one of the ringleaders in the mutiny, murders, &c. on board the Hermione, being delivered up by the United States, to be, he has been tried at a court-martial, and sentenced to suffer death, and afterwards hung in chains, which sentence has been put into execution. He acknowledged himself to be an Irishman."
(No. 6.) Extract of a letter from Benj. Moodie, Esq. consul of his Britannic Majesty, at Charleston, (S. C.) to Robert Lisson, Esq. envoy of his said Majesty, to the United States, dated 19th Nov. '99.
"IN consequence of many obstacles I had to encounter in obtaining the delivery of Thomas Nash, late of his Majesty's ship Hermione, and of the numerous publications to the northward, and in this place, I wrote to Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, requesting he would be good enough to send me minutes of the court-martial, to which he answered under date 13th Sept. last:—"I am to acquaint you that Nash, has been executed agreeable to the sentence of a court martial, and that he confessed himself to be an Irishman—and it further appears by the Hermione's books, that he was born at Waterford; on the 21st of December, 1792, entered a volunteer
on board the Dover, received £3 bounty money, and was removed to the Hermione, 28th January 1793. And with respect to transmitting the minutes of his trial, that is not in my power, but rests with the Lords of the Admiralty only."
RECESS OF CONGRESS. Mr. Otis's Resolution, appointing a time, when Congress should adjourn, was agreed to.
TUESDAY, FEB. 11. The bill extending the time for the payment of bonds, in certain cases, was read twice.—As was a bill in addition to the Military Establishment of the United States. Several local and private articles were acted upon.
BANKRUPT BILL. This bill was again taken into consideration. Mr. Jones, moved the following additional section: "And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained, shall extend to, or in any wise effect or operate upon debts contracted, or transactions which may have taken place, prior to the passing thereof." This was negatived, 24 members only voting in the affirmative. Some other amendments were made and negatived, and the bill ordered for a third reading on Monday next—55 members voting for it.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12. IMPOST BONDS. The bill for granting relief to merchants who owe bonds for Imposts, was re-committed, on the suggestion of Mr. Sheafe, that the indulgence might inconvenience the Treasury, unless debentures were also provided for.
The Senate informed the House, it had passed the Insurgent Suspension Bill. [The votes in the Senate on this bill, were:—For passing it—Hon. Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Bloodworth, Foster, Brown, Cacke, Franklin, Nicholas, Langdon, Marshall, Mason, Pinckney, Bingham, Dexter, Goodhue, Greene, Gunn, Hillhouse, Howard, Livermore, and Paine.—Against it—Messrs. Chipman, Latimer, Wells, Laurence, Lloyd, Read, Schureman, Tracy, and Watson.]
Commercial Intercourse with France. The further Suspension Bill on this subject, was debated in the Committee of the whole, and progress made. LAWS. The President announced his approbation of the Forfeiture mitigating, and Military Land Warrants Acts, and act for relief of John Vaughan.
Military Establishment Laws. The House went into Committee of the whole, Mr. Rutledge in the Chair, on the bill permitting the arrest of persons insinuating into the army of the U. States, for debts previously contracted. Several amendments were suggested; but were withdrawn, and the bill reported to the House without amendment.
In the House, Mr. Nicholas moved, that the laws be so amended, that no person enlisting should be free from arrest for any debt or contract beyond 20 dollars.—This was advocated by Messrs. Varnum, Macon, Nicholas, Jones and Gallatin; and opposed by Messrs. Marshall, Otis, Rutledge, Smith, Shepard and Champlin; and negatived as follows:— YEAS—Messrs. Alston, Bailey, R. Brown, Cabell, Christie, Clay, Claiborne, Condit, Davis, Dawson, Eggleston, Elmendorf, Fowler, Gallatin, Goode, Gregg, Hanna, Heifter, Henderson, Holmes, Jackson, Jones, Kitchel, Leib, Lyon, Livingston, Macon, Muhlenberg, New, Nicholas, Nott, Randolph, Smilie, Stone, Spaight, Standford, Sumpter, Taliaferro, A. Trigg, J. Trigg, Varnum, R. Williams—43.
NAYS—Messrs. Baer, Bartlett, Bayard, Bird, Brace, J. Brown, Champlin, Cooper, Craik, J. Davenport, F. Davenport, Dent, Dickson, Edmond, Evans, A. Foster, D. Foster, Freeman, Glenn, C. Goodrich, E. Goodrich, Gordon, Griswold, Grove, Hill, Imlay, Kittera, H. Lee, S. Lee, Lyman, Lynn, Marshall, Morris, Otis, Page, Pinckney, Powell, Reed, Rutledge, Sewall, Sheafe, Shepherd, Smith, Thatcher, J. Thomas, R. Thomas, Wadsworth, Waln, L. Williams, Woods—52. The question "Shall this bill be engrossed for a third reading?" was then taken and negatived, Ayes 35—Noes 53—and the bill consequently was lost.
THURSDAY, FEB. 13. The resolution respecting the removal of Troops to a distance during elections, was called up by Dr. Leib, opposed by Messrs. Otis and Dana, and supported by Messrs. Randolph, Smith and H. Lee.—Some amendments were proposed, when finally the following motion was unanimously agreed to.
"Resolved, That a committee be appointed to prepare and report a Bill containing such legislative propositions as may be judged expedient either for removing any military force of the United States from the place of holding an election, or for preventing the interference of any such force in such elections."
Several private concerns were attended to.
A Militia Bill, Was presented by Gen. Lee, read twice, and referred to a committee of the whole.
A Bill to extend the time for the payment of bonds given for duties of impost, in certain cases, was read, and ordered for to-morrow. Mr. Livingston laid on the table a resolution for the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States, viz. "No Judge of any Court of the U. States, shall, during his continuance in office, nor within six months after he may have resigned the same, be appointed to any other than a Judicial office of the U. States."
Mr. Otis presented the petition of Moses Gill, which was read, and referred. Mr. Dana laid a petition on the table, respecting the exclusion of strangers from the lobby of the House. The Report of the Secretary at War respecting a Military Academy, was ordered to be printed.
European Intelligence, Received by the ship Turner, Capt. O'Brien, arrived at New-York, from London—45 days from Gravesend.
PARIS, DEC. 12. NEW CONSTITUTION. BUONAPARTE assembled at the Consular Palace, on the 8th of December, the two Legislative Commissions. Roger Ducos took the chair. Dannou read the plan of the New Constitution of which we have only hitherto collected imperfect fragments. The discussion was calm, and every way worthy of so great a cause. They first discussed it in whole and then Article by Article.
Some of the Articles were strongly combated, but they were carried by a great majority; others were rejected; and it was here that Buonaparte manifested his wonderful powers; for, after having collected all the opinions for and against an article, he commented on the argument advanced, and concluded by bringing the majority to agree to the propositions which he made. The assembly did not separate till 7 o'clock next morning; and the estimable Dannou was appointed to digest the alterations which were made; and the Act will be made public in a few days.
Citizen Roederer has now lifted up another corner of the curtain that concealed the new Constitution. The following is the sketch which he gives of the public establishment:
LEGISLATIVE POWER. There is to be a Council of State to propose laws, which Council of State constitutes part of the Executive Power. For the discussion of these proposed laws, there is a Tribune, or a select body of the Representatives of the people; and a Legislative Body to decide upon the propositions after they have been discussed or assented to.
The Legislative Body is to consist of 300 members; the Tribune of 100; and the Council of State of 30.
EXECUTIVE POWER. There is to be a first or principal Consul invested with power to appoint and remove Ministers, Generals, Ambassadors, and Counsellors of State. There are to be two other Counsellors to discuss public matters in concert with the first Consul. They are to have but a consultive voice; their persons are inviolable. They are named for ten years—they may be re-elected; they will have a guard. The grand Consul will have 500,000 francs of salary. There are besides two Councils of State, the one for the Department of Foreign Affairs; and the other for the Home Department. This latter Council will have the initiative.—It will have also to judge and decide on litigated questions in the Department of the Admiralty. Such is the Government.
The Administration is confided. 1. To Ministers, or Councils of Administration, such as the Admiralty. 2. To Administrations of Communes of twenty square Myriametres, assisted by Commissioners to be named by the Consuls. 3. To intermediate Bureaus, charged only with the transmission of the orders of the Ministers to the Communal Administrations, and of the reports of the execution of the orders by the Administrative, as well as of
petitions and appeals of the people to the Ministers, from the acts of the administrative bodies.
The Consular Acts must be signed by a Minister before they can be executed. The Ministers are responsible, each in his department, for the execution of Consular Acts which shall be contrary to the law, and for the non-execution of Consular Acts agreeable to the law.
JUDICIAL POWER. It shall be afterwards organized by the Constitutional means established for the formation of the Laws.
CONSERVATIVE POWER. There is to be a body of from 80 to 100 members elected for life. They must have a qualification in land rental of 25000 francs a year. They name themselves to vacancies in their own body. A person must be 40 years of age to be admissible. This body shall exercise various functions:
1. They elect the members of the Legislative Body and the Tribune, and take them from the list of the notables of the nation, or elected out of the third degree. 2. They shall pronounce on the unconstitutional acts committed by the inviolable bodies of the Legislative or Executive Powers. 3. They shall exercise the right of censure on the list of the Notables of the nation, which they may every year reduce one hundredth part. 4. They are, or they may probably become a grand jury to try the crimes of High Treason, imputed to the great responsible Functionaries. The Consuls in going out of office, or on giving their resignation, shall enter of right into the Conservative Body.
The manner in which the Conservative Power shall fill up vacancies in their own Body is—Three candidates shall be presented to them—one by the Grand Consul—one by the Legislative Body, and one by the Tribune. The Grand Consul will alone be lodged at the Luxembourg: The two others in the palace of the 500. The Tribune and the Senate in the pavilion of the Thuilleries. The Conservative Jury at the Louvre, in the place of the Institute, and the Institute in the buildings of the Sorbonne. The invalids will be transferred to Versailles, and every thing that belongs to the ministry at war, such as the Etat-Major, the administrations, &c. &c.
On the 22d inst. (the 13th Dec.) the Legislative Body will be assembled, and on the 27th the Constitution will be officially transmitted to the Departments.
Several Journals have stated that Citizen Sieyes is to be President of the Constitutional Jury. We think that we can state with confidence that this jury will have no President. All the members composing it will be equally qualified to exercise the functions of temporary President, according to the mode of election to be adopted. A number of other reports of the same nature, which promote this or the other citizen, and confer places before they exist, deserve no greater credit. [Redacteur.]
LONDON, DEC. 17. The Armistice between the French Consuls and Chouan Chiefs has by no means put an end to the hopes of our Government from that predatory war. They learn by private letters, that they still continue in great force, and that they exercise their adherents in open day. The plan of an expedition to the coast of Normandy is therefore persevered in with increased spirit, and they hope to make a descent on France with 100,000 troops of different nations, English, Russians, Swiss and French. Capt. Taylor, the Duke of York's Secretary, goes to St. Peterburgh to assist in digesting the new plan of a subsidiary treaty, and it is believed that we shall contract for more troops than we ever purchased in any former year.—Whether they are to be employed in this service or not, we cannot say; but we know that the rumour of such a design will do more to unite all the hostile parties in France than the affected moderation of the Consuls, or the short lived energy which the government has derived from the late military conviction.
BOSTON, Feb. 20. The advocates of the present government, before it was adopted by the people, were thought to be very sanguine in their anticipation of the blessings which would result from its establishment. It has turned out on the trial, however, that the event has exceeded the expectation—more is perhaps fulfilled than was promised: But many who allow that our situation was deplorable before the union was secured by the new government, and that it is at present more prosperous than the most sanguine could then have expected, yet will not give
all the credit of the change to the new Constitution. But a correspondent thinks it useful to remark, that there is one point in which all parties may agree, which is, that whether the flourishing prosperity of the country is, or is not, in any degree, the work of the national government, it is plain, that nothing can secure the continuance of that prosperity but the preservation of the government: Weakening the government, or overthrowing it, would immediately change the condition and prospects of the people. While we enjoy so much, and hope so much more than we enjoy, we should reverence our government, and consider any attempt to excite the people to destroy it, as more injurious to our wealth, than the Hessian Fly in our wheatfields. That insect attacks but one grain, and not every species of that: But anarchy and civil discord spare nothing. The insect takes the seed—violence would seize the crop. The adoption of the Constitution saved us from these evils: By supporting it we may hope in future to avoid them.
CAPE FRANCOIS. When the intelligence of Buonaparte's Revolution reached the Cape, it was proclaimed in an address to the inhabitants, exhorting them to be assured, from the well known civism of the new rulers, that the most happy consequences will be likely to result from the change of men and measures; and the vessel of state, tossed for ten years by the Revolutionary tempest, is about to enter the port in triumph and peace!
AMERICAN NAVY. We learn from Newport, that the United States frigate Boston, of 32 guns, Capt. Little, has captured and sent into Newport, a large French letter of marque ship, pierced for 32, and mounting 20 guns, from Cape Francois, for Bourdeaux. The prize is expected here the first fair wind.
The above prize, we learn, is commanded by Lt. Hatwell. She has a very rich cargo of coffee; and it is expected is a good prize. Reports mention her to be the property of Toussaint: and that in consequence of her capture, the Gen. Greene frigate had been detained at Cape Francois.—But these are mere reports.
The keel of the Massachusetts 74, to be built in this town, has arrived at the Navy yard—it is in five pieces, and cost 500 dollars. Vast quantities of timber for plank, and other materials, are daily arriving.
The United States frigate L'Insurgente, of 36 guns, Capt. Murray, was spoken Dec. 26, 70 miles to windward of Deseada. At 2, P. M. a lofty war-like-looking ship appeared in sight to windward; but soon took in studding-sails, and hauled her wind; on which L'Insurgente immediately gave her chase.
The U. States ship of war Connecticut, of 24 guns, Capt. Tryon; and frigate Adams, of 32 guns, Captain Morris, were cruising Dec. 26, to windward, in company with the British man of war Invincible, of 74 guns.
Marine Intelligence. New-York, Feb. 14. Arrived ship Commerce, Whipple, 19 days from St. Kitts.—The following is extracted from her log book:
"Sailed the 14th Oct. from Liverpool, and after experiencing several severe gales, was obliged to bear away for the West-Indies on the 10th Dec. having lost our bowsprit and being much scattered in our rigging. Dec. 28, in sight of Antigua, bro't too by a French privateer, who ordered us to send our boat on board, we assured, that our boat was so leaky she would not swim; they again insisted on the boat's coming; as this was hoisted out our boat, and sent her with two hands to bail, in order to keep her from sinking; it was with great difficulty they reached the privateer—they immediately sent back the boat with two armed men, who ordered the boat to return with several of our crew, they did not reach the privateer the second time before the boat sunk, and it was with great difficulty that we saved the people in the boat."
"The privateer's men then boarded us, with pistols, drawn cutlasses, &c. and drove all our crew on board the privateer, except the Captain, two mates, and one seaman, and ordered the ship for Guadalupe, leaving a prize-master and 8 men on board; at dark the prize-master ordered the Capt. and mates into the cabin, not allowing us to have a light; at 7 in the evening, discovered a ship to windward; the prize-master immediately hauled to port; and kept the ship before the wind; we got a light in the cabin, and held it to the window, in order that the ship in chase might keep sight of us; they soon after fired a gun and brought us too—she proved to be the U. S. frigate L'Insurgente, Capt. Murray, who ordered us for St. Kitts, where we arrived the day following. The privateer made her escape."

MONTego-BAY, Dec. 28. A list of vessels captured on the coast of Africa by a French squadron.
Venus, for India, with thirty thousand dollars, belonging to Charleston; John, for do. Baltimore; Concord, R. Island; Valentine, do. Camis Delight, do. Albion, Dodson, Liverpool; Britannia, do. Tartar, Hewit, ditto; Diana, Sellers, do.; Pilgrim, Scott, ditto; Prosperity, Boys, London; a Portuguese, —; Fairplay, Martinique; Young Jonah, Corbit, Barbadoes.
The French squadron consists of the following frigates, each of forty-four guns:—
La Concorde, La Suffisante, and La Lyond.
It is understood application was made by the French Commodore to the Governor of Elmina Castle, for forces to co-operate with them for the reduction of Cape Coast Castle, which had been rejected.
KINGSTON, Feb. 13.
All French male slaves are immediately to be confined in the barracks. Yesterday, M. Daforas was executed here, as a French spy.—He appeared perfectly unconcerned in the march taken previous to his execution; but just before he was turned off he made an exertion to save himself by clinging to the ladder.
FALMOUTH, Jan. 1.
The ship Boddington, Cadenhead, arrived at St. Ann's-Bay, on the 24th inst. one of the last convoy from England, but last from Trinidad. The news by this arrival states the number of Frenchmen in that Island to be more than any other nation; that they had become so treacherous that martial law was laid on; numerous plots for murdering all the English, and getting possession of the colony were discovered; that a gallows was erected across the main street, so wide that twenty could be hanged at once, and scarce a day passed without from one to five being tucked up. Col. Hickton is the commanding officer at Trinidad.
SAVANNAH, Jan. 14.
A snow storm, accompanied with a bright wind, commenced in this city last Thursday evening the 9th inst. and continued all that night, Friday and Friday night incessantly, until Saturday morning, which left the snow above thirteen inches deep, and is not half dissolved yet, though it has been clear, sunshining warm weather ever since. Hasty made sleighs were common in the streets and going out of the city, which were never known or seen here before, and the oldest inhabitant, since the first settlement of the Colony, says though they have seen several snows, none of them were so deep as this.
Previous to the above storm, a number of arrivals at Tybee, reports say 16 or 18 sail of square rigged vessels, besides a number of coasters—but owing to a continuance of the winds at the W. and N. W. they are detained below. Some of them have been driven ashore, but we are happy to say no material injury will accrue.
RICHMOND, Feb. 4.
The Congress of Virginia, which convened in this city on the first Monday in December 1799, closed its labors on Thursday last.—In the course of this memorable session, they repealed the Alien and Sedition Acts—disbanded the Army, and voted the abolition of the navy.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15.
A letter from Col. Gaither, commandant of the Federal troops in Georgia, dated at Fort Wilkinson, mentions that the Captain General of his Catholic Majesty's Provinces, has issued a Proclamation, offering a reward of One Thousand Pounds Sterling, for William Augustus Bowles, who styles himself Director General of Muskogee, to be paid on his delivery at any one of the royal prisons of said Province.
From Gale's Raleigh [N. C.] Register, January 28."
"On Thursday sen'night Colonel John Sheppard was murdered by his brother, who struck him on the head with an axe, at the house of Robert White, Esq. in Glasgow county—both brothers were intoxicated."
A letter from Kingston (Jamaica) dated Dec. 20, received via New-York contains the following information: That the coast was infested with picaroons who capture every vessel they meet; that the whole island, particular Kingston, was in a state of great alarm and confusion.
BOSTON Feb. 24.
Newspapers from Europe, Have been received at New-York, to the 18th December; four days later than before arrived. They contain but few articles of interest.—The
most prominent is the new Constitution of France; which, we learn, has been ratified by the "Powers that are," in that country; and which we present this day.
The Insurgents in France, are capitulating under the clemency of the new order of things.
An article from Berne, of Nov. 26, mentions pacific conferences between a brother of the Consul Ducos, and Prince Charles.
Prince Sawarrow has been diverted from his project of returning to Russia, by the Ministers of the belligerent nations; and a coaxing letter from the Emperor of Germany.
The French and Spanish fleets lay in Brest harbour.—Admiral Gardner, with a British squadron, was watching their slumbers.
The French Consuls have acquitted Talleyrand of all improper motives in the American Negotiation.
Gen. Massena was at Paris, Dec. 8; and Moreau had gone to take the command of the United Armies of the Rhine and Danube.
Denmark, it is said, will engage in the war, if a new campaign must be opened.
The union of Ireland under the Legislature of Great-Britain, is adjusted and determined on.
THE AMERICAN ENVOYS, Have arrived at Lisbon. This agreeable information was brought by Capt. Macher, who arrived here on Saturday last from Cadiz. The intelligence was received at that place by letters from Lisbon, dated the beginning of December.
Extracts of a letter from a respectable Mercantile house in Cadiz, dated Dec. 7, 1799.
"Our government has just received a proclamation, conceived in the following terms:—"That the cases of ships detained or captured by French privateers and brought into Spanish ports, are to be examined by the competent courts in France, and not by the French Consuls resident in Spain who hitherto have possessed faculty to judge definitively in such cases."
Extract of a letter from the gallant Commodore TRUITON, to his friend in Philadelphia, dated on board the Constitution, Basse Terre Roads, Jan. 22, 1800.
"I have not time to say much at present, having arrived only two days ago, and have not yet been on shore. A 44 gun ship and a corvette of 28 guns are at Guadaloupe. I shall give them a fair challenge to come out in a day or two, and am hurrying to put all things in readiness for that purpose."
A Paris article announces, that the city of Anspach, the capital of Aespach and Baruth, in Franconia, belonging to the King of Prussia, is destined for holding a Congress for Peace. The plenipotentiaries of all the belligerent powers will assemble there under the protection of a numerous Prussian army, and will open their new negotiations for a general peace.
NAVAL AFFAIRS.
Extract of a letter from Richard V. Morris, Esq. of the Adams, to the Secretary of the Navy, dated St. Kitts, Jan. 20, 1800.
"The Adams has captured the Onus Vendemaire, of two carriage guns, and 70 men—and the Adams and Eagle, in company, the Fongueuse, of two carriage guns and 51 men."
"It is not in my power to send you the names of all the captures by the squadron under my command, owing to part of them being at sea—but the whole is 17."
(OFFICIAL.)
Extract of a letter from Richard V. Morris, Esq. Commander of the frigate Adams dated Basse Terre Roads, St. Kitts, Jan. 20, 1800.
"The French privateer brig Italique Conquest has been captured by the Connecticut, Capt. Tryon; she struck after receiving the second broadside which carried away her main-topmast, stove her boat, and wounded the Capt. and 2 of the men, 1 mortally."
Capt. Cooper, of the Baltimore sloop of war of 20 guns, has informed the Secretary of the Navy in a letter dated Basse Terre Roads, Jan. 22, that on the 12th Jan. he captured the French Schooner Le Butant Jeunesse, Joseph Madeira, of 6 guns, and 61 men.
The following is a list of the vessels taken by the U. S. brig Pickering, Lt. Hiller, from Aug. 2, to Dec. 31, 1799—Schooner Cynthia, Asa Forstet, from New-York to Martinique, retaken; sloop—an English sloop, recaptured; schr. Helen, Douglas, a French vessel, cargo valuable; brig Helen, Peter Shiel, from Altona, bound to St. Domingo, a Danish vessel recaptured from the French; brig Brothers, George Prince, from Savannah to Martinique recaptured; schr. Voltiguesa, P. Hazard, French privateer, from Guadaloupe, on a cruise;
sch. Harriet, Sears from Newbern N. C. to Antigua, recaptured.
On board the French privateer captured by the Baltimore, were Captain Jeremiah Williams, of Norwich, Capt. Nevens, of Salem, and Capt. Truman, of New-Haven.
Capt. Robert Williams, in a Mid-dleton vessel, was taken by a French privateer and afterwards chased ashore.
A Connecticut paper observes, that for failing, the Connecticut bears the palm in the United States navy. We are happy to hear the excellency the Massachusetts ships, and hope every new ship built will exceed her.
Feb. 19. Arrived sch. Sylvanus, Baker, Trinity, (Martinique) via St. Thomas. Left at the former place sch. Fanny, of Portsmouth. Sailed from the latter in co. with about 50 sail, convoyed by the Pickering. Schooner Jeremiah, Wheelwright, of Boston, was in the fleet. She had been taken by the French, retaken by the English and cleared on salvage. Capt. B. spoke sch. Eliza of Philadelphia which had been taken by the French, and 7 Privateersmen put on board; but the American captain and one sailor retook her.
When a late American convoy sailed from St. Thomas, several privateers were there, and detained by the Forts, till the Americans had got a considerable way on their passage.
Ship Butler, Deering, Portland, sailed from St. Thomas, Jan. 25. She had been taken by the French and retaken by her crew.
From PHILAD.—FEB. 11.
"The President in complying with the request of the House of Representatives, to furnish the papers respecting the surrender of the murderer Robbins, alias Nash, to the British, has put a gag on the mouths of those stupid railers against government, who have for months, been bellowing, lying, and deceiving on this subject. The mover of the Resolutions has been completely quizzed—and if he thought the government would have appeared so just, as the exposure of the papers presents it, he would rather have been doomed to eternal silence than have opened his lips on the subject. It is thus the President triumphs in his integrity; and it is thus the democratic chain is broken link by link."
"Master Randolph has been rather more circumspect in his slypacy, since the seasonable check he received from the "raggamuffins."—The sweet-scented gentleman finds he cannot use with impunity the same language to freemen, he has been in the habit of using to his daddy's negroes in Virginia.—He is here the but of ridicule and contempt."
"M c Kean's administration is confusion worse confounded; and while he continues Governor, we may bid adieu to peace, or quietness."
FOR THE GAZETTE.
Things Very Extraordinary.
Jacobins endeavouring to promote the election of a federal Governor—Federalists uniting with Jacobins to procure the election of a man (undoubtedly a Federalist) in opposition to a known Federalist, and one who is justly intitled to the suffrages of all true Federalists!! What are the views of these persons? The Jacobins do not wish the election of a Federalist—and can they suppose that Judge WALKER is in sentiment with them? If they do they are much mistaken, for he has always declared he detests them. Do they expect he is of so versatile a disposition, that they can warp him, by procuring him to be chosen Governor? Possibly they may think so; but how will this suit the delicate stomachs of those puny Federalists, who have set their faces against Governor GILMAN; merely because they have failed in a favorite scheme of a new Bank? These persons make the most contemptible figure in the business; for they must certainly be duped. Governor GILMAN will be re-elected; and the Jacobin interest will be so far served, that the votes given for Judge WALKER will be set down of their side, and transmitted to head quarters, to prove that New-Hampshire is coming about; so these water gruel feds, will be made a cats-paw; and all the running, and writing letters, and sending tickets round the country, to abuse Governor GILMAN, will have this tendency and none other.
Well may the Jacobins say, "there are some whom powder puff can wind round his little finger."
PLAIN DEALING.
PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 26.
Saturday was observed in this town, agreeable to a proclamation of the Executive of the United States, as a day of mourning for the death of General WASHINGTON: Alas! how chang'd the scene, on this day twelve months, all was hilarity and gaiety, celebrating the birth day, but
now the death of America's political Saviour; all was melancholy and gloom; religious exercises were performed by the different societies who assembled on the occasion. "O, WASHINGTON!—Columbia's endless boast,
In peace her council, and in war her host; Tho' in the dust thy mortal part is laid, The glory of thy name, shall never fade."
THE PERPETUAL MOTION.
It is said in the Gazette of the U. States, that the prisoners at Goshen, who have discovered the Perpetual Motion (as mentioned in this paper) demand, as the price of communicating it to the public, a certain sum to be paid down, a liberation from gaol, and a pardon for past offences. The gaoler supposes they mean to define their pretended discovery by making good dollars, which are as likely to be kept in perpetual motion in a commercial country as any thing within the reach of man's inventive faculty.
The Legislature of the Territory North-West of the Ohio river, has presented an address to the President of the United States, expressive of their high approbation of his administration; and of their attachment to the Constitution.
SAMUEL SITGREAVES, Esquire, has failed from N. York for London. Probably commissioned to adjust with the British Government, the difference relative to the 27th article of the Treaty.
At Norfolk, on the 4th inst. wood was eleven dollars per cord.
Last week two wolves were shot at Newington, and the sportsmen were in pursuit of a third yesterday.
ENTRIES AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE.
CLEARED, Ship Hantonia, Moulton, Liverpool.
MARRIED —In this town, by the Rev. T. Alden, Mr. Sam l Littlefield, to Miss Hannah Whidden, both of this town.
Charleston, Jan. 25, 1800—Departed this life on Thursday evening the 23d inst. His Excellency Edward Rutledge, Esq. Governor and Commander in Chief of this State.
DIED —At Reading, of an apoplexy, Mrs. Rebecca Cordis, wife of Joseph Cordis, Esq. in the 54th year of her age.
At the Bay of Honduras, Captain Joseph Brown, aged 36, master of the ship Jacob, of this port. An enterprising, industrious, and capable citizen. He has left a young widow, and a number of small children, to lament the great loss they have sustained.
At Newbury-Port, in the 28th year of his age, Capt. Joseph Gumnion.
At Haverhill, on the 19th inst. suddenly, in a paralytic fit, Mr. John White, in the 75th year of his age, formerly an eminent merchant in that place.
At Portland, Mrs. Ringe, wife of Capt. William Ringe.
At Dover, Mr. Samuel Place. In this town, Mr. Peter Babb, sen'r.
FOR SALE, BY
W. & C. Neil,
  BOHEA  FLOUR.    TEA,  Poland Starch.    Souchong,  Window Glass.    Hyon,  Nails.    Chocolate.  Gun Powder.    Coffee.  Shot.    W. I. Sugar.  Flints.    E. I. ditto.  Snuff.    Havannah ditto.  Smoking Tobacco.    Loaf do.  Segars.    Rum. Brandy.  Crockery.    Gin.  Turners.    Sherry WINE.  Wine Glasses.    Malaga do.  Spanish Float    Redport do.  Indigo.    Madeira.  COTTON.    Raisins.  Rice. Alum.    Figs.  Copperas.    Almonds.  Dipt and Mould    Florence Oil.  CANDLES.    Pepper. Alspice.  Hair Combs.    Ginger.  Pound Pins.    Cayenne Pepper.  a large quantity    Salt Petre.  CHEESES    Nutmegs.  first quality.    Cloves.  BUTTER per    Cinnamon.  Keg.    Mace. Citron.   
The above Goods
WILL BE sold wholesale or retail ON VERY MODERATE TERMS, for Cash or approved Credit.
Portsmouth, Feb. 26, 1800.
Schooner Sally,
A CONSTANT Packet from Portsmouth to Newbury-Port—for freight or passage apply to Capt. NEWMAN, on board at Portsmouth Pier—or JOHN BOADGE in Daniel-street.
WHO HAS FOR SALE, STRONG BEER, by the barrel, gallon, or less quantity.
TO BE LET, A GOOD FARM
With a noted Tavern, in Epsom, one mile from the Meeting-house.—For further particulars apply to James H. M c Clary.
Wanted a Boy of
about fourteen years of age, that is capable of attending in a Store in the country, and can be well recommended, for which good encouragement will be given. Feb. 23.
NOTICE!
ALL persons having demands against the estate of DANIEL PEIRCE, late of Portsmouth, merchant, deceased, are requested to bring in their accounts well vouched—and those who are indebted are desired to make immediate payment, or they will be treated as the law directs. W m STANWOOD, Jr. Attorney, to JEMIMA PEIRCE, Administratrix. Feb. 20, 1800.
PUBLIC VENDUE.
By Licence from the
Hon. Samuel Tenney, Esquire, Judge of the probate of wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, will be held at public vendue, on Thursday the thirteenth day of March next, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, the real estate of
Richard Leader Nelson, late of Portsmouth, in said county, school-master, deceased, with the incumbrance of the widows 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 sale will be on the premises (if fair weather) if not, the sale will be at the house of Samuel Tucker, commonly called the Globe tavern.—Conditions of sale will be made known at the time and place of sale, by
GEORGE GAINS, Administrator. Portsmouth, Feb. 24, 1800.
FLOUR.
FOR SALE By Peter Coffin, 250 Barrels Superfine FLOUR.
TO BE SOLD
At Public Auction,
At Mr. Greenleaf's Tavern, By Jacob Walden, Auctioneer, On THURSDAY the 13th day of MARCH next, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
THE dwelling House of the subscriber, and the land adjoining in two lots, viz. one lot 69 feet on Vaughan-street, 80 feet on Cross-street, and 72 feet on the north line having a breadth of 65 feet from Vaughan-street at the east end of the lot; with a good well of water within those bounds and a pump to the well.—The other lot includes the House being 134 feet on Cross-street and 94 feet deep, this lot affording a large paved yard at the east end of the House, and a sufficient piece of ground for a garden at the west end; those premises have been advertised for sale in one lot, but concluding that it may be more conducive to the convenience of purchasers to divide it into two lots, I have done it so as to render the division more eligible, which may be observed and examined by those who incline to become purchasers, or any others desirous of inspecting the lots any day previous to the sale.
In a former advertisement a description of the House was given—which renders it unnecessary to add any thing further in this; as the estate is generally known to those who it is probable will become the purchasers, but any further particulars of the estate, also the conditions of payment may be known (previous to the sale) by applying to
Joshua Wentworth. Portsmouth, Feb. 25, 1800.
Portsmouth, February 25, 1800. TEN dollars reward is offered to any person who will give information to the subscriber (so that they may be brought to justice) of any persons who may after the above date cut down and carry off wood, or strip bark for dying or any other use, from black or yellow oak trees, upon the upper end of his farm in Newington; which has been practised for some years past, by which means a large number of good thriving trees have been killed.
Samuel Hill.
AN APPRENTICE WANTED.
WANTED, an Ap- prentice to the Clock-Making Business, a steady LAD may hear of a good place, where he will be well used and taken on liberal terms, by applying to the Printer hereof.

From the Columbian Centinel.
OCCASIONAL ODE, For February 22, 1800.
THIS day in happy union met, We mourn 'Columbia's favorite son,' He's gone, but can we e'er forget The worthy, virtuous WASHINGTON.
THE PRINTER
MOST earnestly requests those of his customers who have been a long while indebted to him, to call or send to his office, and have their accounts settled up to the commencement of the present year, without further delay;
J. MELCHER. Printing-Office, (Corner of Market-street,) Portsmouth, February, 1800.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners and proprietors of land in the town of Chatham, and county aforesaid, that at a legal meeting duly warned and held at the house of Nathaniel Walker, in said Chatham, in the county aforesaid, on the 13th day of November 1799, then voted to assess a tax of three dollars, on each original right or share of land in said Chatham, in proportion to said rights, for the purpose of finishing and completing the roads and bridges through said town, also, further warn the said proprietors and owners to pay a tax of seven dollars, which was voted October 24, 1798, at a former meeting of said proprietors, and unless they pay to me the subscriber, or to Isaac Waldron, Esq. of Barrington, treasurer for said proprietors, on or before the first day of May next, so much of their land will be advertised for sale, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges.
JOSHUA HEATH, Prop's Collector. Chatham, Feb. 20, 1800.
APPLICATION being made to me the subscriber, by the owners of more than one eighth part of the proprietors of the township of Dorchester, that a meeting of the said proprietors be warned for the following purposes:—
1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting. 2d. To choose a treasurer. 3d. To see if the proprietors will choose a committee to draft a plan of said township, and to examine into and confirm (if thought proper) those third hundred acre lots that have been pitched, and also to complete the allotment of those that are not pitched in the aforesaid division of lots in said township. 4th. To see if the proprietors will raise a sum of money sufficient to defray all expenses, and to appoint assessors and a collector to collect the same. 5th. To see if the proprietors will allow any accounts that may then be exhibited, and to do any other business necessary to be done on said day.
These are therefore to notify and warn the said proprietors to meet at the dwelling house of Joseph Burley, Esq. inhabitant in said town of Dorchester, on Thursday the 20th day of March next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon for the above mentioned purposes. JOHN WOODWORTH, Prop's Clerk. Dorchester, Feb. 4, 1800.
TAKE NOTICE!
TO BE LET,
A small Farm
IN EPPING, well known by the name of the Baker place, with a HOUSE and BARN on the same, which will be let (if desired) with only a Garden, and liberty to cut wood to supply one fire.—Likewise, A small place in Chatham, near Bell's tavern.
FOR SALE,
A small Farm in Epping,
With a HOUSE and BARN on the same, formerly owned by James Taylor. Likewise, About 15 acres of good LAND mostly mowing, near the Baker place (so called) in Epping.—Apply to JOHN P. WILLIAMS,
At Newmarket, who will dispose of the same on very reasonable terms.
WANTED TO PURCHASE, A HORSE CART,
It must be a light one and in good condition. Inquire of the printer.
State of New-Hampshire, Grafton, ff. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners or proprietors of land in New-Chester, in the county and State aforesaid, who have not paid their highway and county taxes for the year 1797, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the fifth day of May next, so much of their land as will pay the same together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Edward Blodget, in said New-Chester, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 5 columns: Names, No., Divs., Ac., C. m. C. m. It lists names like John Tolford, Samuel Searl, Mat. Thornton, etc., with their respective land divisions and acreages.
State of New-Hampshire.
Grafton, ff. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of New-Chester, in said county who have not paid their taxes for the year 1799, that so much of their land as will pay said taxes together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Edward Blodget, in said New-Chester on the fifth day of May next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 5 columns: Original proprietors names, No., Div., Ac., C. m. C. m. It lists names like Samuel Searl, Mathew Thornton, Samuel Mores, etc., with their respective land divisions and acreages.
State of New-Hampshire.
Strafford, ff. NOTICE is hereby given, that so much of each original right of land in the township of Kilkenny, situated in the county of Grafton, and State of New-Hampshire, viz.
Table with 5 columns: Jona. Warner, Esq., John Wendell, Esq., George King, Esq., etc., with their respective land divisions and acreages.
Will be sold to the highest bidder on the 5th day of March ensuing, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon at the dwelling house of Capt. JOSEPH RICHARDSON, inhabitant in Durham, in the county of Strafford, and State aforesaid, as will pay four dollars, on each of said rights and incidental charges, if payment be not previously made, which sum was voted by said proprietors at their meeting on the 30th day of October 1799, for the use and purposes mentioned in said vote, and duly assessed and committed to me to collect and duly notified for payment and still unpaid.
WILLIAM BALLARD, Collector. Durham, February 12, 1800.
TO BE SOLD, Half a mile west of the Rev. Mr. Bradstreet's meeting house, in Chester, TWELVE acres of LAND; a Dwelling House; Barn; and Blacksmith's shop, is a beautiful place for business.—Inquire of JAMES STEVENS, on the premises. Chester, Feb. 12, 1800.
State of New-Hampshire.
Grafton, ff. WHEREAS Thomas Peverly, jr., Hezekiah Smith, Betsey Cargill and David Burnside, have preferred a petition to me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum, in and throughout the county of Grafton, setting forth, that they are owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Percy, in said county, and requesting that a meeting of the proprietors and grantees of the said township of Percy, might be notified and warned to be held at the dwelling house of Capt. Stephen Willson, inhabitant in Lancaster, county aforesaid, on the third Monday of March next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day, to vote and act on the following articles, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator for said meeting. 2d. To choose a proprietors clerk, assessors, collector, and treasurer. 3d. To see if the proprietors will vote such a sum on each right or share in said Percy, as shall be sufficient to defray the cost of laying out lots for settlers, and other charges against the propriety. 4th. To see if the proprietors will agree to lay out two lots, of one hundred acres each, to each grantee, if not, to see if they will give each grantee liberty of pitching one lot of one hundred acres, upon conditions that each one so pitching, lays out his lot at his own expense, and clears ten acres on the same in three years, from the time of pitching. 5th. To see if the proprietors will agree to raise money by a tax on each right to cut and make the road through said Percy, leading to Shelburne, and appoint a committee for doing the same. 6th. To agree on some method for calling proprietary meetings in future. 7th. To act on any other matter or matters that may appear necessary.
Dated at Northumberland, 23d Jan. 1800. And Signed, THOMAS PEVERLY, jr., HEZEKIAH SMITH, BETSEY CARGILL, DAVID BURNSIDE. Therefore, pursuant to said request, and the laws of the State of New-Hampshire, in such cases made and provided, the proprietors and grantees, owners of lands in said township of Percy, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes set forth and mentioned in the before recited application. Given under my hand and seal, at Northumberland, the twenty third day of January, 1800. Jeremiah Eames, Justice Peace and Quorum.
State of New-Hampshire.
Strafford, ff. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of lands in the town of Sandwich, in said county, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1799, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber on or before Wednesday the 9th day of April next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling house in said Sandwich, at ten o'clock A. M. on said ninth day of April next, as will pay said tax and incidental charges.
Table with 5 columns: County tax. Highway tax. R. L. Q. cts. cts. It lists names like Eliphalet Coffin, Rev. John Chipman, John Folsom, 3d, etc., with their respective tax amounts.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the town of Eaton, who have not paid their Highway and County taxes for the year 1799, that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 17th day of April next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue on said day, at the dwelling house of Moses Davis in said town, at 10 o'clock A. M. as will pay the same with incidental charges. D. C. C.
Part of M c Neil's location 1300 ac's, 8 4 33 N ath l Martin's location 2000 acres, 15 0 60 Colwell's location, 1800 acres, 13 50 50
Table with 5 columns: Proprietors rights, No., Div., Ac., C. m. C. m. It lists names like Col. Atkinson, John Brient, Ede H. Burgin, etc., with their respective land divisions and acreages.
First Division of lots, no. div. acres
Table with 5 columns: Jere. Brient, John Brient, Ede H. Burgin, etc., with their respective land divisions and acreages.
Second Division of Lots,
Table with 5 columns: Col. Atkinson, John Brient, Ede H. Burgin, etc., with their respective land divisions and acreages.
Lots given to Settlers,
Table with 5 columns: Thomas Danford, Jacob Blaisdell, Rowls, etc., with their respective land divisions and acreages.
PUBLIC VENDUE, ON WEDNESDAY NEXT.
BY Licence from the
Hon. Sam l Tenney, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills for the county of Rockingham—Will be sold, on Wednesday the 5th March next, all the personal Estate of Mr. JOHN BROWN, merchant, late of Portsmouth, deceased—Consisting of the following articles, viz.
Superfine Broad and Dimities. Forest Cloths. Elastics. Callimerees. Swansdowns. Fanny Velling. Velvers. Thicketts. Fancy Cords. Blue, mixt & brown Coatings. Duffles. Blankets. Baizes. Flannels. Carpeting. Black Satins. Lute strings, and a variety of other Silks. Scotch Threads. Mullinees. A large assortment of Snuff and Tobacco Boxes, and sundry small articles.—Also—
An assortment of Hard Ware, with two Trunks Wearing Apparel, &c. &c.
All purchasers under one hundred dollars, to pay cash down—From one to two hundred dollars at 60 days credit—All above two hundred dollars to pay one half in 3 months, and the remainder in six months. Good notes will be expected, with approved indorsers.
N. B. Sales to commence at 10 o'clock A. M. at the store opposite Col. Naish's White's, and to continue till all are sold.
Abraham Isaac,
Auctioneer.
FOR SALE, OR TO BE LET, A SMALL FARM,
Containing 60 or 70 acres—with a good house and barn; on the road leading from Portsmouth to Greenland.—Apply to NATHANIEL SHERBURNE, on the premises. Portsmouth, February 12.
NOTICE is hereby
given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administrator on the estate of WEARE COFFIN, late of Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham, mariner, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust, by giving bonds as the law directs.—All persons having demands upon the estate of the said Weare Coffin, are requested to exhibit the same—and all persons indebted to said estate are called upon to make payment to CHARLES COFFIN, Administrator. Portsmouth, Feb. 14, 1800.
New China STORE.
Abraham Isaac
INFORMS the public that he has opened a NEW CHINA STORE at the sign of the Golden Tea-Pot—where he has for sale, complete Tea Sets of China, wholesale and retail, which he can sell cheaper than Liverpool China.
Crockery and Glass Ware
AS USUAL.
ALL persons having any demands against the estate of Eliphalet Brown, late of Chester, deceased, are desired to exhibit their accounts for settlement, and all those that are indebted are requested to make speedy payment to
THOMAS FOWLER, UNIS BROWN, Chester, January 17, 1800.
JUST PUBLISHED BY J. Melcher,
And for sale at his Printing-Office and Book-Store, THE REV. MR. BUCKMINSTER's Three SERMONS,
ON THE DEATH OF General Washington, The whole, price only 20 Cents,
LIKEWISE,
An EULOGY,
Pronounced at Berwick On the same melancholy occasion, By BENJAMIN GREENE, A. M. Price only 12 and half Cents.
In less than ten days after the above were committed to the Press of J. Melcher, the whole were ready for delivery.
A number of Sermons and Eulogies pronounced on the occasion, for sale at the above place.