The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1807-03-24 00:00:00

NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed executor of the last Will and Testament of JONATHAN GODDARD, late of Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham, State of New Hampshire, Merchant, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs; all persons having demands upon the estate of said deceased, are requested to exhibit them and receive their pay; and all persons indebted to said estate, are called upon to make immediate payment to him at Boston, or to JOHN GODDARD, Esq. of Portsmouth, his Attorney.
Benjamin Goddard, Executor. Portsmouth, March 17th, 1807.
NOTICE. THE death of Mr. Jonathan Goddard, renders it necessary that the affairs of the late company of John & Jonathan Goddard, should be closed with all convenient dispatch,—all persons therefore who have any demands against said firm, will please to exhibit their accounts; and those indebted are requested to make payment, to
JOHN GODDARD, Surviving Partner. Portsmouth, March 17th, 1807.
JOHN GODDARD, INFORMS the customers of the late company of John and Jonathan Goddard, and others, that the HARD WARE business will be continued by him on the same terms as heretofore practiced by said company; and requests a continuance of their favors. Portsmouth, March 17th, 1807.
NOTICE. THE subscribers being appointed by the Hon. Judge of Probate, commissioners, to receive, examine and adjust, all the claims of the creditors, to the estate of NATHANIEL WHITE, late of Deerfield, in the county of Rockingham, gentleman, deceased, represented insolvent, do hereby give notice, that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims; and that we shall attend that service at the dwelling-house of Capt. Richard Jennens, in said Deerfield, on the last Monday of March, and the five following months from two to six o'clock, P. M. on each of the said days.
Moses Barnard, Richard Jennens, H. G. Cilley, Commissioners. Deerfield, March 12, 1807.
Rockingham ss. NOTICE is hereby given that on the seventh day of April next, at two of the clock afternoon, I shall exhibit to the Judge of Probate my account of administering the estate of NATHANIEL WILLIAMS, late of Nottingham, gentleman deceased. Jacob Cilley, Administrator. March 16, 1807.
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed administratrix on the estate of GEORGE W. ALLAN, late of Eastport, in the county of Washington, mariner, deceased; and has taken upon herself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs. All persons having demands upon the estate of the said George W. Allan, are requested to exhibit the same—and all persons indebted to the said estate are called upon to make payment to
MARY C. ALLAN. Eastport, Maine, Feb. 19, 1807.
ALL persons having any demands against, or indebted to the estate of ELIZABETH TUCKER, late of Portsmouth, widow, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same for settlement to
JOSHUA BRACKETT, Administrator. Portsmouth, March 17, 1807.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of SAMUEL SHERBURNE, late of Portsmouth, yeoman, deceased, are requested to exhibit them for settlement to the subscriber at Hopkinton, executor to said estate, or to Joseph Sherburne, of Portsmouth, who is authorized to transact the above business. ANDREW SHERBURNE, Executor. March 17.
MRS. REED, intends to open her School the first of April, for the tuition of young children, at the house of the widow Day's in Pitt-street. March 17.
LAWS OF THE UNION.
[PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.]
AN ACT Authorizing the settlement of the accounts between the United States and William Eaton.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers be, and are hereby authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the accounts subsisting between the U. States and William Eaton, late consul at Tunis, upon just and equitable principles, under the direction of the Secretary of State.
NATH'L MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
S. SMITH, President of the Senate pro tempore. APPROVED, March 3, 1807. TH: JEFFERSON.
A LIST OF ACTS
Passed during the Second session of the Ninth Congress.
1. An act to suspend the operation of the act, intitled "An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods wares and merchandise," and to remit the penalties incurred under the same. 2. An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. 3. An act making appropriations for the support of the military establishment of the United States during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. 4. An act for the relief of George Little. 5. An act to alter the time of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of North Carolina. 6. An act for the relief of Seth Harding, late a Captain in the navy of the United States. 7. An act for the relief of William Hearn. 8. An act to provide for the survey of the coasts of the United States. 9. An act authorizing the erection of certain light-houses, and the fixing of stakes, buoys and beacons at certain places therein named. 10. An act for the relief of sufferers by fire in the town of Portsmouth, New-Hampshire. 11. An act for the relief of Edmund Briggs. 12. An act supplementary to the act, intitled "An act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States." 13. An act to annex certain shores and waters to the district of Mississippi, and to authorize the building of a custom house at New-Orleans. 14. An act to extend the power of granting writs of injunctions to the judges of the district courts of the United States. 15. An act establishing circuit courts and abridging the jurisdiction of the district courts in the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio. 16. An act to punish frauds committed on the bank of the United States. 17. An act authorizing the President of the United States to accept the service of a number of volunteer companies, not exceeding thirty thousand men. 18. An act to continue in force for a further time, "An act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States, and certain parts of the island of St. Domingo." 19. An act further supplementary to the act, intitled "An act concerning the district of Columbia." 20. An act respecting seizures made under the authority of the United States; and for other purposes. 21. An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military warrants, and for returning the surveys thereon to the office of the secretary of the department of war; and appropriating lands for the use of schools in the Virginia military reservation, in lieu of those heretofore appropriated. 22. An act for the relief of John Chester. 23. An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States, until authorized by law. 24. An act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight. 25. An act authorizing the employment of the land and naval forces of the United States, in cases of insurrections. 26. An act making appropriations for finishing the fourth wing of the capitol; and for other purposes. 27. An act respecting claims to land in the territory of Orleans and Louisiana. 28. An act for the relief of Stephen Sayre. 29. An act for the relief of Oliver Pollock. 30. An act for the relief of Daniel S. Dexter. 31. An act to prevent settlements on the public lands, until authorized by law. 32. An act regulating the grants of land in the territory of Michigan. 33. An act making appropriations for the support of government, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. 34. An act making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, and their companions. 35. An act disapproving of an act passed by the governor and judges of the territory of Michigan, intitled "An act concerning the bank of Detroit." 36. An act making appropriations for carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw tribe of Indians, & to establish a land office in the Mississippi territory. 37. An act making appropriations for carrying into effect certain treaties with the Cherokee and Piankeshaw tribes of Indians. 38. An act for the relief of William Eaton. 39. An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands, situate between the United States military tract and the Concessional reserve; and for other purposes. 40. An act making further appropriations for fortifying the ports and harbors of the U. States. 41. An act concerning invalid pensioners. 42. An act confirming claims to land in the district of Vincennes; and for other purposes. 43. An act to reduce the expenses attending the administration of justice in the district of Columbia. 44. An act repealing the act laying the duties on salt, and continuing in force, for a further time, the first section of the act, entitled "An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the U. States against the Barbary powers." 45. An act to establish certain post-roads; and for other purposes. 46. An act making compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Indiana territory for extra services.
FROM THE AURORA. Politics for Farmers.—No. 6. At the commencement of the coalition formed at Mantua and Pilnitz against France in the year 1791, the plan of partition and plunder was not at first avowed; and it was understood that Great Britain should be allowed time, to work up the national temper which was then in favor of the French reforms of government; Burke's famous and infamous writings were the fuel used to excite this universal conflagration; and very soon, by the excitement of terror and fear—addressed against levellers and republicans, covered the tables of the British parliament. These addresses made a great noise, as was intended; their number appalled the farmers of England, who were adverse to a war, and indeed adverse from interest to any concern with the internal affairs of other nations—for which they could see no purpose or end, and the expenses of which they knew must ultimately fall upon themselves. However after counting up the number of signatures to those voluminous addresses, it was found that the whole of the advocates for war and destruction were less than 35,000—out of all the population of Great Britain!—that is, out of eleven millions! It was this small number of 35,000 which playing into the hands of the placemen and pensioners of St. James's, who plunder the whole population of that devoted nation, that put England in the high road to that destruction which the now rapidly approaches. The clergy of the established church, petitioned for war. Those men feared for their tithes, the tenth part of the farmer's produce in England and Ireland is theirs—this would possibly have been superseded by an equitable stipend in the event of a reform. The insurance offices petitioned for war. Those institutions gain ten times the profits by war that are gained by peace risks. The merchants petitioned for war. They hoped to monopolize the commerce of the world, and to double the usual peace profits. The banking traders, petitioned for war. Those hoped to profit by the paper money loans—and by the employment of banking funds in underhand usury. The monied interest petitioned for war. Because they expected to receive 8 per cent. interest. Every idle fellow, above the "dull pursuits of civil life" petitioned for war. Because he expected to live on the sweat, and the labour, and the industry, and the talents of the virtuous part of the nation.—Bankrupts in fortune and character; gamblers of all descriptions; men of desperate fortune and profligate life; all petitioned for war. Because in peace and prosperity they could not exist. Nine tenths of the public papers were in the pay of the clergy, the insurance offices, the banks, the merchants, and monied interest. They of course obeyed the mandates of their employers and they petitioned for war—and they inflamed the minds of the people with fear and misrepresentation; because that was rendering homage to the views of their patrons. All those men knew that the taxes and expenses of the war would fall not on themselves, but on the farmers. In opposition to this small, corrupt, heterogeneous, but active body of civilized savages, was opposed the representations of but few—and of those few some were men, screened by their parliamentary privileges; for the great proportion of the population were terrified into silence by ministerial libels—by the burning down of dissenting meeting houses, by the seizure of men upon artificial and fictitious accusations—by the charge of jacobinism, and being the adherents of France. However some were found bold enough to raise their voices, against this reign of terror—this artificial terror. Whenever we have it in our power to do justice, by shewing their good deeds—nothing can afford us more pleasure than to speak well of the quakers; to their immortal honor they boldly, in opposition to the current of war, then bearing down or paralyzing every virtue before it, without "fear or trembling" approached the foot of the throne of George III. and there in spite of the frowns of courtiers, and the menaces of renewed intolerance, they entered their protest against the bloody measures. A truly great man, who, from his entrance into the cabinet of George III. seems to have sickened at the revelation of iniquitous deeds, of which his station forced upon him the knowledge. Charles Fox and those who sheltered themselves under his name, who held the skirt of his garment (but to whom he has not left his mantle!) likewise advocated peace, and in that famous and prophetic speech which he made, the night before the declaration of hostilities against France, that great man too truly foretold that the destruction of the old monarchies of Europe would be the consequence of their deplorable rashness and infatuation. But what avails the exhortations of wisdom to a stupid or a besotted people—to a people who suffer their liberties to be destroyed and their power and rights frittered away by executive encroachment and corruption—the court prevailed, the petitions of the clergy, the banks, the merchants, the insurance offices, the lazy, preponderate—and to use the metaphor of an adherent, she threw her "sword into the scale"—but the effect has been not to maintain the balance—the scales themselves are destroyed. The charge of jacobins, of agents of France, of cowards, was resounded from all quarters by the deluded and appalled population of Britain, against the Quakers, the dissenters, (that is the Calvinists, Methodists, &c.) and the party of peace of every civil and religious denomination. The bill of rights so much boasted of, fell beneath the fangs of a profligate and unfeeling minister—the habeas corpus act was suspended—sedition bills, and licences of the press on such principles as were advocated by Mr. Kean in his late speech, passed the British houses of parliament—and proclamations were sent forth as laws, though Charles I. had perished on a scaffold for that among other offences. It was a reign of terror indeed—dismal and gloomy! Well, war they have had; and after pursuing war for twelve years with every consequence that had been predicted by Fox—with her 700 sail of ships of war—with her 250,000 soldiers—with her battle of the Nile—the cabinet of Britain supplicated for peace—from that nation which it had by means unheard of in civilized times, fought to destroy and extinguish—to blot out from the map of Europe as the great apostle of wickedness, Edmund Burke declared to be the purpose. But unfortunately for them they found too late that such was the corruption generated by war, such was the number of dependants on war, such the number of pensioners of half pay officers, of excisemen, of the younger branches of the families of the well born, who were by war educated in habits of vain idleness and luxurious iniquity, such the influence of the insurance offices, of the contractors, of the money lenders and other blood suckers—and such the slavery and wretchedness, and supineness and broken heartedness, of the poor miserable farmers, who with barracks erected in every town were under the constant apprehension of the bayonets and sabres of a standing army, THEN DARE NOT SPEAK! A peace was indeed made—a hollow peace—for it was found that this heap of corruption could feed and be supported, only by war. And war, was again commenced with new horrors and on pretences impious and confuted by the very terms
employed to justify re-aggression—and, behold the effect; with her 700 sail of ships of war—with her 250,000 soldiers—with her three hundred millions of dollars annual expenditure—with her battle of Trafalgar—Britain as before was defeated; and that arch fiend the Robespierre of Britain, Pitt, appalled and confounded with the ruin he had brought on all the monarchies who had fallen into the "embraces of the harlot" terrified at the impending prostration of his own country from her once proud place in the political map of Europe—was dying of despair when the roaring of the cannon of Austerlitz, hastened his haunted and enfeebled spirit—to his account. The use of history is example—to shun what is evil, to pursue what is good:—how gloriously and happily different is the fate of America and her Farmers—compared with that of England or any other nation. We see here as in Britain, printers and others sold to the destructive influence and corruption of Britain. We have seen her emissaries almost trample on the necks of our citizens in the highways and freets. Men the uniform advocates of war. Men who like the description of these we have counted in Britain, are tossing their infuriated torches and like fiends of Hell, breathing slaughter and destruction, where they have no provocation; but who seal up their lips and muzzle their presses, when the cloven foot of the political Devil of Europe, is discovered, beneath the domino of the traitor. But, thank God, they are the minority—not only as they were in Britain, always in numbers; but here in influence. War, standing armies, navy, fortifications. Whenever these become items in our fundamental policy—then, as in Britain, will our farmers no longer bear perhaps not even the name of freemen—but, like the Cappadocians, they will become willing slaves. The farmers of America, are 17 parts of 20, of the population of the U. States. The farmers of America, never will give up their right to the revenue of the United States, into the hands of British emissaries, or to their iniquitous and perfidious clamors. The farmers of America, will always count their strength, they will not be affrighted, by the miserable factions that countenance such emissaries as the Cobbets and the Cullens; nor will they be imposed upon by being called jacobins, or with being friends of peace, in common with the author of the declaration of independence. Major Jackson recommends the hanging of all Spanish spies—why and wherefore does he not make it a common proscription of all foreign spies and incendiaries, of whatever nation they may be, who conspire against the peace and liberties of this only free nation. Why are Bronson, and Relf, and Parke, and Cullen, chopfallen? Farmers of America—"this silence is eloquence"—you see in it the only source from which real danger is to be apprehended—from that nation which can command, by her influence, direct or indirect—the plaudits or the silence of our presses. If then the quakers in England, if Charles Fox, if every good man, who was an enemy to war, and all its horrors, were branded with the epithets of jacobins, of atheists, of deists, of agents in the pay of France—for their opposition to a ruinous and unprovoked coalition—should we not be proud that the Aurora, does not escape—that it is signified by the hatred and the rage of every russian, blinded by power, by profligacy, or venality. The principles of the Aurora, are those of Penn, of the quakers of England, of such as Charles Fox inculcated in the early stage of the memorable war of the coalitions. All our solicitudes are peace—war only on the defensive. Let then the advocates of war rave, be they of what sect they may. Tired with war, last year on the death of Pitt, that man Charles Fox, that man who was loaded with as much abuse as the President of the U. States has been by British agents—who was like him, called atheist, deist, agent in the pay of Bonaparte, was called by the awakened population of Britain to take the reins of power to rescue the nation from the verge of destruction.

We will not say that federal printers are absolutely in French pay; but we may venture to assert that were they pensioners of the Emperor of France, they could not show more zeal to subjugate this country to his yoke than they now do. In the same breath in which they astonish us with a dreadful description of the power of France, in order to induce a belief that an attempt on our part to resist that power would be vain; they portray in the most affecting terms our own weakness, to encourage him in his supposed design to invade this country; they hold up to his view at once the immense wealth and resources he might possess himself of by an attack upon this country, the perfect safety with which that attack might be made, and the certainty with which it would succeed. In short, nothing that could induce the French to make the attempt is omitted, and nothing that has a tendency to prepare Americans for quiet submission is neglected.
These ideas have frequently occurred on reading federal papers. They were particularly revived by a piece in a late Boston-Palladium. It commences by abruptly observing that 'We have grown rich by the wars and sufferings of other nations. We are ripe for conquest, and the period is near when the stunted ox will be cut up to satisfy those whose appetites are made keen by exercise and privation.' After describing the destructive effects upon our commerce of the late Decree of the French declaring England in a state of Blockade, it says, 'this decree in its worst aspect is no more than the pick of a pin to what we shall soon be called upon to endure. It is but the precursor of our annihilation as an independent nation. In what manner this will be effected is uncertain. It may be, by means of a direct invasion, after the manner of Prussia, &c. or, by means of a controuling and absolute influence over a mere nominal government, after the manner of Spain, &c. In either case the result will be the same, the loss of our independence and the complete surrender of our national resources and strength.'
Further, says this sagacious politician, 'In considering the first, and surveying the actual state of the country, we are strongly impressed with the opinion that we are, at this moment, a half-conquered province of France, and whether we shall be completely so, depends more on events without us, than obstacles within us.' Why, to what deep degradation are we in a moment reduced! We established our independence against the efforts of a nation possessed of ten times the means of annoying us that France has, and employed with as magnanimous a disposition as ever the French possessed. Indeed, but a short time since we were thought to hold the balance of the world in our hands, and by the very class of politicians to which this Boston writer belongs, were conjured by all ties that were sacred and interests that were dear to us, to wage 'a war of extermination' against this very same France! And yet later has every bloodhound in the pack raised his hideous yell, to urge us to a war with Spain; and this too when they well knew that as a treaty of alliance subsisted between France and Spain, the former must, in case the latter was involved in war with us, necessarily become our enemies—How sudden our fall! So lately able to confront both France and Spain, in the tented field, and now 'half conquered' by the former without a gun fired, or the least shadow of hostility discovered!
The treatment which Britain will give us in case of an attack from France is next exhibited. She will make peace, and yield us up to be buffeted by that more than Satan, Bonaparte. After boasting of what she has done to stem the torrent of universal despotism, and upbraiding us for not lending a helping hand, she closes the address to us by saying—'You have hitherto stood aloof as Prussia did—you may now, like Prussia fight and be subdued.' This is exactly what we always believed, tho' we did not expect British Editors to confess it. Had Federalists been able to draw us into a war with France, nothing is more probable than that Britain would immediately have made peace with that power, and joined her arms against us. This would certainly have been a justifiable means of reducing to submission her 'rebel colonies'—at least, so laudable an end would have been fancified such means!
But lest France should not invade us this Boston federal or rather British writer holds up to her view the riches she might amass and the strength she would acquire by it.—Our revenue amounts to more than twelve millions of dollars—great wealth is deposited in our banks—there are many men who if squeezed according to Bonaparte's method, will produce one, two, three, four and five hundred thousand dollars—that we have a million of tons of shipping, which he can supply with powder and guns, &c. &c.—What a temptation to such a money loving and power-seeking Man as Bonaparte! If he does not come here, it will not be the fault of Federalists.—But how would he govern this country? This writer gives the answer: by his Generals: He has twenty of these unprovided for who are waiting the issues of war to be comfortably established—four were provided for by the conquest of Prussia—this country including Louisiana, would furnish a respectable number!—Good encouragement for his Generals to second him heartily in his enterprise! And that nothing like the expectation of danger or difficulty shall deter Bonaparte and his Generals from the conquest of this country, this well informed writer takes care to remove all their apprehensions: 'What, (says he) have we (begging pardon of our gun-boats) to oppose to an invading power? Not a ship of the line, a few rotting and rotten frigates only; and as to any fortifications of our coasts and harbours, magazines of arms and military stores, they do not come within our plans of policy. Bonaparte may therefore choose his points of landing.'—Again, 'Fifty thousand men may enter the Chesapeake, fifty thousand the mouth of the Mississippi, land, and march thro' the country!' & 'France, with Spain and Holland at her elbow, has ships enough in time of peace to transport and land three times the number on our shores, before we can hurt a hair of their heads!'
How powerful have the French and their allies all at once become by sea—and how harmless and spiritless the Americans! But we will seriously ask our Readers, are sentiments like the foregoing the sentiments of Americans? If we view Bonaparte as a dangerous enemy, is it our policy to try to provoke his wrath? If we really apprehend an attack, is it wisdom to proclaim to the world our inability to resist and our readiness to submit? If we consider him as desirous to reward his comrades in arms to the extent of their wishes, is it discreet to tell him how many Dukedoms America would furnish his Generals with? If we look upon him as thirsting after immense wealth, is it Yankee acuteness to inform him how rich are our citizens; how full our bank cells, how over-flowing our national coffers?
One at first glance is at a loss to discern the object of such publications as this we are noticing; but a little attention will discover it to us. Britain is on her last legs. Yet a little while, and the most sink beneath the dreadful pressure of that arm which she has so often and so wantonly provoked and defied.—No European power can rescue her from impending destruction. They have all been tried, and found deficient. America is now her only hope. Could America be brought to make a common cause with her—furnish her with men and means—support her tottering credit, and replenish her exhausted coffers—build and man navies for her use, and fight her battles wherever she was hard-pressed—she might gain a respite of a few years—she might keep her head above water yet a little longer—at least she might make an advantageous peace, by offering her aid to partition America between France and herself.—Hence the efforts of her emissaries here to embroil us with France—to excite our hatred of Bonaparte, and his jealousy of us—to make us suspect his intentions, dread his power, distrust our own strength, and consequently throw ourselves into the arms of Britain for protection! Hence the threat that if we do not join Britain now, she will make peace, and let us fall an easy prey to the conqueror of Prussia! Hence the clamor for 74's, and frigates, and naval preparations. It is not to serve ourselves, but to aid our Step Mother. Let us have a Navy once afloat, and if Britain cannot get its aid by negotiation she can by force—if we will not willingly assist her, she will help herself to our assistance.
Friends of their country will reflect seriously on these things, and not countenance the efforts of foreign incendiaries to involve us in the flames of war. Peace is our true interest, honor and happiness. Let us strive to preserve it. Bonaparte has not injured us—he has shown no disposition to do so—his successes on the Continent have been a safeguard to us on the ocean.—Tho' we may not thank him for the benefits we derive from his conquests, let us not strive to provoke him to an enmity of which as yet he has shown no symptoms. Above all, let neither arts nor intrigues, sophistry nor declamation, bribes nor threats, induce us to unite our destiny with that of a nation, which, if God is just, must drink deeply of the wrath of Heaven for its manifold crimes and iniquities—its violation of all laws human and divine—and whose day of dreadful retribution is at hand!
Honorable Praise. The following panegyric on our illustrious President, and his excellent administration, is from a Liverpool paper of January 24th: From the blood-stained fields of Europe, the din of arms, the noise of battle, the thought of which is enough to sicken the heart, we turn our attention and look with pleasure across the Atlantic, to that country where peace reigns and plenty abounds; whose government seems as anxious to decrease the quantum of taxation, as those of the old world are to increase it. The wisdom and moderation of the American government must be acknowledged by all. The reading is it has manifested to repeal the act which prohibited the importation of British goods, shews their desire of peace and friendship; for we cannot give into the common opinion of the day, that commerce is as necessary to America as to us. That a breach of friendship, and a cessation of trade between the two countries, would be of mutual disadvantage, we admit, but our own country would be the greatest sufferer. Although America may not at present be able to carry on manufactures to any considerable extent, yet is she able to produce what is calculated for the support and convenience of life: the loom and the shuttle are not unknown even among some of the Indian tribes in America. Millions of acres yet remain to be cultivated. Cattle abound, and fuel is plentiful. What are the wants of man? Our poet says: "Bread, clothes and fire: What more? he answers: Fire, clothes and bread."
BY THE MAILS. THE TREATY.
Very much is said about the English Treaty—what it ought to be, what it is, and will be; but no sufficient information is yet given to direct the public mind. The jealousies of parties, the private interests of individuals, and the foreign influence in the states, will necessarily produce much impertinence on the subject, as well as a full investigation. The government deserves our confidence, and as it is vigilant for our peace, it will pursue no measures which will involve us in unnecessary controversies with any nation. But it can hope nothing from mean concessions. Many reports are abroad about secret articles, and additional explanations. Many things are said already of the duty of the President. First he had the treaty, and would not submit it to the Senate. Then he had it not, till their session expired by constitution.—We may soon expect official explanations.
The Treaty, the Treaty! that is the wonderful subject of the day; at any rate the Treaty.—Ask no questions—Catch at the first offer. Perhaps if you ask one right, Britain may not be disposed to grant it. Take just what Britain will give, and ask no questions.—If you say one word, the Treaty will certainly be withdrawn. And then remember, if you claim your rights, it will be said, not that you have to do with the Devil, but what is worse, with the French: And tho' you ought not to give up a tittle to the French, you ought to let the English do just as they please, because they have always done right. Did they not do right with your charters? Was not the Boston Port bill a good thing? Was not the adjudication plan the best of good things? What nation can show a better disposition to do right, even in disputing the independence of the United States? Besides still, if you do not take the Treaty as it stands, there are great men in Virginia who will get advantage in their choice of a new President, and it will be believed that the treaty has not been received to hurt the persons concerned in the negotiation, who love their country so well, that they do not wish justice to be done, if they can serve themselves. And besides, the people of England had rather die without our trade, than see justice done to us.—They will be certainly affronted if we ask for justice, if we do not make them the sober judges of all our claims;—This honest people begin already to talk of giving away too much in the Treaty, and we know this honest people talk as sincerely as they who think that it will be rejected because of the ensuing elections;—The British never say any thing in their prints to be repeated in our own, to deceive us! Could any person soberly believe that such is the contemptible trifling with which our country was to be amused? And yet who does not see it? And who does not see the delusion spreading, while some with pretended concern read such things to their simple followers? The President is friendly to our peace. He has been often reproached on that account. The President has been often blamed for neglect of our rights. The case of our poor seamen has been repeated often, and the guilt of their suffering charged upon a weak administration. Shall the President give up their rights because it now serves a turn to insinuate that their rights ought not to stand in the way of other good articles of a treaty? Read the charges against the President and the administration.—And is it to be a crime to have energy? the energy of declaring the sense of the nation against the worst precedents that can be established? Let us remember on this, as on all political subjects, endless fallacies will be propagated. We are already told not to believe any copy of the Treaty. If before our eyes charges are given, we are to believe they are inventions, and that the real treaty contains all we wish. Can more barefaced insults be offered to the people? The President will not suffer the treaty to be seen! And then he who attempts to disclose it, means to deceive! If such are the first attempts at delusion, what can we expect? If we can pretend to form an opinion from such representations, what may we not believe? Such things are insults to the understanding, and ought to establish a firm confidence in that administration which nothing has yet deceived, and nothing can corrupt.
FOURTH OF MARCH. FREEPORT, (Maine) MARCH 5. YESTERDAY being the sixth anniversary of the accession of our beloved JEFFERSON to the Chair of State, the Republicans of this town (about forty in number) assembled agreeably to appointment at Kendall's Inn, at 4 o'clock P. M. and partook of a very handsome entertainment, provided for the purpose, after which the following toasts and sentiments, inspired by the occasion were drank, accompanied with a number of patriotic songs, cheers, &c. 1. The United States of America—May the chain of her Union, never be broken. 2. The President of the United States—May the magnanimity of his conduct and mildness of his measures, protect us from foreign invasion and domestic broils. 3. The Vice-President of the United States of America. 4. Our Envoy—May they obtain a treaty on terms the most honorable to their Country. 5. The Militia of the Union—May their spirit and discipline forever supercede the necessity of a standing army. 6. "Should invasion impend," May every American be a Republican, and every Republican a Host. 7. The American Flag—May it prove a sufficient protection to our commerce and our seamen. 8. The Congress of the United States. 9. The Clergy—May they be submissive to their government and their God, and remember "that their kingdom is not of this world." 10. Aaron Burr and his associates—May they be suspended between Heaven and Earth, as a solemn Memento to all Traitors. 11. The Fourth of March 1801. 12. Speed to the Plough and freedom to the Press. 13. Our State Constitution—May it never decay the right of suffrage to the inhabitants of a Free Government. 14. Republicans throughout the Union—Their enemies, i.e. the enemies of their Country. 15. Political Prodigals—May they become truly penitent, and return to partake of the Fatted Calf of Republicanism. 16. Citizens of the United States, from the President to the Labourer—May they combine and form a rampart round the Liberty of their Country, impregnable to British tyranny, French duplicity, Spanish barbarity, and Savage cruelty. 17. The Fair of Maine—Honor for Mothers, Virtue for Daughters, and Pleasure for Wives. Select Toast.—The Press—Although Governors & Judicial despots shall combine to destroy it; it shall still speak a language terrible to the hoary speculator, and shall make the unjust Judge tremble on the bench.
NASSAU, (N. Y.) Feb. 3. Extract of a letter, received at Kingston, dated London, November 4. "The trade to St. Domingo is in some degree opened from hence. Mr. Robert Sutherland goes out in a vessel of 1000 tons, and a cargo of one hundred thousand pound sterling to Port-au-Prince: five other ships are to follow. The King's License to him is the most general thing ever issued, he may do what he pleases under it. The rage for speculation to Buenos Ayres also exceeds any thing ever known—nearly fifty valuable cargoes are going out from the different ports of the Union—from Belfast alone, five are about sailing. On board of one of the ships, Mr. Tyrrell, late Secretary to General Nugent, goes out as supercargo."
PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 12. NATIONAL OBJECTS.
The two following resolutions were offered in the form of motions in the senate of the United States, before the close of the last session; we congratulate the nation on the wise and politic views which these resolutions indicate; that they may be carried into full effect, every friend of America must wish, as they must not only contribute to the public prosperity of all parts of the union, but, greatly tend to increase its strength and progress in all the arts and advantages of peace and prosperity among a free, civilized, and scientific people.
Resolved, that the secretary of the treasury be directed to report to the senate, at their next session, the best information he can acquire, as to the practicability, and probable expense of forming a turnpike road throughout the Atlantic states, commencing at the city of Washington, and running each way towards the north eastern and south western extremities of the union; together with his opinion as to the most suitable route for the same, and a plan or plans for the application of such means as may be most convenient to the government, and within the power of congress, to aid in carrying the same into execution.
Resolved, that the secretary of the treasury be directed to prepare and report to the senate, at their next session, a plan for the application of such means as are within the power of congress, to the purposes of opening roads, and making canals, together with a statement of the undertakings of that nature, which, as objects of public improvement, may require and deserve the aid of government; and also a statement of works of the nature mentioned, which have been commenced, the progress which has been made in them, and the means and prospect of their being completed; and all such information as in the opinion of the secretary shall be material, in relation to the objects of this resolution.
SALEM, MARCH 19. Counterfeiters.—On Friday last nine persons by the name of Jackson Neal, and Polly his wife, where apprehended in this town, on suspicion of having repeatedly passed counterfeit bills.—They were carried before Ralph H. French, Esq. for examination, and by order of said justice [not being able to procure sureties] they are both falsely lodged in Salem goal to take their trial at the Supreme Judicial Court on the 4th Tuesday of April next. The bills passed by them and found in their possession are, tens of the R. Island Union Bank, viz. two altered to tens which are masterly well executed, and not easily detected. Of the Exeter N. H. bank, six dollars, viz. one altered to a six, which bank issues no bills of this denomination. Of the Haverhill Coos Bank, four, viz. ones altered to fours.—These are very easily detected by the four lines passing transversely across the one, the original 1. remaining tolerably conspicuous; and in the body of the bill the one may easily be read in the four. All of which bills, particularly the parts thereof which have been altered, favour very highly of the spirits of turpentine.
Marblehead, March 16, 1807. At a late Court in the county of Rensselaer, (N. Y.) Ira Johnson and Archibald Turner were convicted of passing counterfeit money, and Ala Baker of forgery, and they were sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for life.—Throughout the Union a disposition has been discovered to increase the penalties for a crime, to which the temptations are continually increasing, with great mischief to all the honest citizens of the United States.
From Orrington, (Maine) Feb. 27. THE LATE FRESHET.
The oldest men in this part of the country, have never witnessed such a Freshet, as now overflows the banks of the Penobscot River. The water is about 25 feet on a level, higher than the highest tides ever known; but as the river is broken up and vast quantities of very thick and heavy ice, is driven down by the current, it sometimes lodges against the high banks and ledges and stops the water for a short time, when it flows back in a most astonishing manner, and overflows all the neighbourhood. Houses, Stores and Workshops are ingulfed overturned, and torn to heaps of floating rubbish.—Some buildings flt off entire down river; one Store about 30 feet by 20 filed mostly with empty Casks, went down the river yesterday, swimming as erect as it stood on the ground, and about three feet of it under water.—Large quantities of Lumber are among the ruins, also Hay and Cattle.—6 Oxen belonging to one man were drowned. The destruction of Mills and Bridges is very great; but it is impossible any correct estimate of the aggregate loss of property.
COW-POX. Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Callao, Peru, South America, dated June 14, 1806, to his friend in Boston. "Had I arrived three months earlier with the Vaccine matter in as complete a state as we brought it here, it would have fixed me for life, as at its introduction, the Bells were rung, High Mass performed, Te Deums sung and Boos fired exhibited. I am always doomed to be three months too late."

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 18. A Council of the Ministers was held yesterday, and War was declared against Russia. The Ulemas have pronounced it to be just; the standard of the prophet has been hoisted; all the country is in motion; the Pashas of Romelia have received orders to advance with their troops towards the Danube; another Army advances from Asia, and will follow the same direction: the Grand Visir will take the command, and march with the holy standard.
LONDON, JAN. 15.
Treaties to furnish Russia, Sweden, and Prussia, with subsidies to the amount of five millions sterling, have been entered into by government.
JAN. 22.—The accounts from Poland still assert, that sickness prevailed in the French armies, and that not less than 40,000 men had been carried off by it.
Gen. PAOLI died on Thursday night, at a very advanced age, at his house, near the Esgware road, famous for the part he took in the affairs of Corsica, in the reign of Louis the Fifteenth, & the good father of Bonaparte.
Such is the official account of the battle of Pultusk [published at Petersburg]—In every point of view it deserves to be considered as a great victory. We shall be told, perhaps, that no ground was gained, and that it did not produce the effect of forcing the French to abandon the Narow, and fall back on the Vistula. But it is the first decisive check that the arms of Bonaparte have experienced upon the Continent. He has gone on from victory to victory, in an unbroken series, till at last it had almost began to be believed that wherever he carried his arms they must be successful. The Russians, however, have weakened that belief, and beat him in a battle in which he commanded in person, superintending the operations, and directing all the movements. Had he not been there, it would have been said that the battle was lost because he was absent. It is to be remarked too, that the French were beat, not by superior numbers, but by the promptitude and decision of the Russian movements, by the dexterity and skill of the Russian manoeuvres.
Considering the victory in this point of view, deeming it an achievement highly honourable to the Russian arms, and affording us an earnest of future successes, we must say we were disgusted at the cold, cheerless manner in which the Government Gazette speaks of the battle. Instead of the tone of congratulation and triumph, we find a chilling, comfortless acknowledgment that the Russians, "though unprepared for this contest, have made their retreat without any considerable loss, certainly with an army unbroken—with a victory, by their own accounts."
By the middle of this month, the Russian Army between the Niemen and the Vistula will be 300,000 strong.
LONDON, FEB. 10.
It is supposed that the campaign is over, and that as the French are gone into winter quarters, no warlike operations will take place for some time. But it should seem from the last dispatches from Russia, as if Marshal Kaminskoy had concentrated his army within the circuit of a few miles, for the purpose of resuming offensive operations immediately. He is only waiting the supplies that are on their way to him of forage and provisions. The Russian troops are peculiarly calculated for carrying on war during the winter, and we should imagine that Kaminskoy will attack the French in their cantonments—The two armies are so near each other, particularly those detachments that are between the Omulcio and the Oryce.
The Russian Army is in the best state, full of confidence and enthusiasm and impatient to meet the enemy.
PARIS, JAN. 5.
They write from Vienna, that tho' the most profound secrecy reigns with regard to the conferences which the ministers of Russia and Prussia have had with count Stadion, the minister of foreign affairs, they pretend to know in some circles of this capital, that the cabinet of Petersburg has taken great pains with that of Vienna, to influence the latter to oppose with all its vigor the re establishment of Poland. But we are nevertheless assured, that the court of Austria has recently declared to the Russian minister, that it would persist in its resolution to observe the strictest neutrality, and that if the restoration of the kingdom of Poland should take place, the Austrian court would find no fault with the measure, and that it would consent to make a cession of the two Gallicias, provided Austria should be indemnified for their loss.
The following article of information is copied from the Norfolk Ledger of the 2d instant, and bears an aspect Not quite so "ALARMING." We can say from undoubted authority, that orders have been received (by the January packet) by the commander in chief of his Britannic Majesty's naval forces in America, to release every American seaman who has not voluntarily entered.
The foregoing is corroborated by the following paragraph from the Norfolk Herald of the day following.
We are happy at having it in our power to announce the pleasing intelligence, that orders have been received by the commander of the British naval forces in this country to liberate all Americans who can give proof of their citizenship.
The last London papers state, that not only the regular men in all the royal navy yards are ordered to work double tides, but that fresh gangs of carpenters are sent to all the merchant yards; and a great exertion was making throughout the kingdom, to equip for sea every kind of vessel calculated to carry troops; and that it was expected attempts would be made on various and distant quarters of France, while the French had so great an army in Prussia and Poland; and so many Prussian prisoners in France. The French troops which had passed the Oder up to Dec. 22 last, amounted to 280,000 men.
Lord Hutchinson, who commanded the British army in Egypt, is at the H. Q. of the Russian army, in Poland, to see that it amounts to the number stipulated by treaty.
Letters from London say, the British government were called upon by the people to take more efficient and energetic measures to counteract the French blockading decree; and that it was in contemplation to declare all the French islands in a state of blockade.
Extracts from a London Courier, Jan. 9.
An order of Council has been issued to his Majesty's ships of war and privateers, to detain and bring in all ships and vessels belonging to neutrals trading from one port of France to another, or any port under the control of the French government, where British vessels are not permitted to trade.
This is a very excellent measure, and Ministers deserve the highest credit for it. It will at once bring the question to an issue, whether France and the countries under her control can do without foreign trade? without receiving any supplies from three parts of the globe, and without being able to export her or their produce to any part of the world? For as to the ships France can send out from her own ports to export or import articles, they are so few in number as scarcely to deserve being taken into our consideration.
The Americans of course will not be able to trade with France, Holland, Spain, Italy, and other parts, so that if the treaty of navigation and commerce lately concluded with them shall have, which we trust it has not, abandoned the rule of the war in 1756, and permitted belligerent produce to be carried under certain regulations to France, or to any power or port under her control, it will be of no advantage to them during the existence of this order of Council, which we hope will be rigidly executed.
The only powers with which neutrals have leave to trade are, this country, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Sicily, and Turkey. Austria has one or two ports, but they are in a state of blockade.
Col. BURR.
The affairs of Mr. Burr attract notice from the singular circumstances which attend them.—A Proclamation has been published by the governor of the Mississippi Territory to apprehend Mr. Burr, as having made his escape. Two thousand dollars are offered as a reward for taking him.—when Mr. Burr was brought before the Grand Jury, the Attorney General stated that no evidence given brought the offences within the jurisdiction of the Courts of the Mississippi Territory. Col. Burr objected, but the Judge declared against discharging the grand jury, unless Col. Burr was also discharged. The grand jury were discharged, and Col. Burr made his escape. The grand jury, before they were discharged, presented, as a grievance, all the proceedings against Col. Burr. Such is the representation made of the proceedings in this affair. A more minute history of these transactions must prepare the mind for an impartial judgment respecting them. Col. Burr has had the same success in this second examination, as he had in his first at Kentucky. The proclamation says, "he was bound to continue to appear
from day to day, until discharged by the court, which he has failed to comply with, and, as it appears, has made his escape."
[Salem Register.]
Burr had expended perhaps half a million of dollars in an enterprise supposed to be treasonable—and bail is taken of him to prevent his proceeding in ten thousand dollars!—"O righteous judge, how do I honor thee!"
[Trenton True American.]
Beaumarchais' Claim.
With feelings of indignant contempt we have read a paragraph, in some of the federal papers, in which this claim is called "tribute to France," although congress has not yet decided upon its legality. Nothing could more clearly expose the disposition of the federalists than conduct like this. To find fault, whether occasion exist or not, is to them a pleasing and habitual employment; and their pleasure is enhanced in proportion to the enormity of the crime with which they can accuse the republicans. Sincerely would they rejoice were the present administration to commit some egregious error, by which the existence of the nation would be placed in jeopardy. And yet these abandoned jacobins call themselves the friends of the country!
[Observatory.]
Return of Votes for State and county officers.
In CHESTER.—For Governor, His Excellency John Langdon, Esq. 115, scattering 7—Counsellor, Hon. Levi Bartlett, 81; Senator, Hon. Wm. White, 113—Register of Deeds, Josiah Adams, 109—County Treasurer, Nath'l Gilman, Esq. 128.—Representative, Henry Sweetser, Esq.
In MEREDITH.—For Governor, John Langdon, Esq. 122, J. T. Gilman, Esq. 29—Counsellor, J. Badger, Esq. 113, D. Barker, Esq. 39.—Senator, N. Shannon, Esq. 126, S. Shepard, Esq. 48—County Treasurer, J. Plumer, Esq. 104—Recorder of Deeds, J. C. March, Esq. 112.—Representative, Stephen Perley, Esq.
GAZETTE MARINE LIST.
Portsmouth, March 24, 1807.
Arrived at Boston on Thursday last, sch'r Washington, Capt. Eades, 31 days from Basse Terre, (Guad.) Capt. E. mentions, that he has no doubt of the fitting out of many French privateers from St. Bartholemews; but that when he failed from Guadalupe, (Feb 21) they had not sent any American vessels into that island.—He adds, that the English were capturing all that came in their way, and sending them to Antigua; and if cleared, make them pay all expenses.
The principle adopted by the Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court, at Antigua, is this:—"If French goods are entered for exportation, there can be no doubt of an ultimate French destination—that they were duly imported, is not sufficient. I must have good and sufficient proof that these goods were not imported for the purpose of being exported, but had become part of the national stock."—An order for further proof was decreed as to the French articles—the American produce acquired.
The Boston editors have been favored with a list of vessels at St. Johns, Antigua on the 8th ult. (19 in all) sent in for adjudication. Among them, Sch. Lark, J. Lewis, supercargo, from Guadalupe for Boston; coffee and sugar—released on paying costs.—Brig Hazard, Donald, from Martinique for Portland, just brought in.—A north-east built sch. deep waist and yellow sides, and a sch. with yellow sides and ports.—He also says there were several Danish vessels detained, and almost the whole business of the place arises from American vessels brought in there.—The sch. Horizon, of Newbern, condemned vessel and cargo for having cash on board to purchase coffee and sugar.—They appeared to rejoice at the prospect of a failure of the negotiation with this country.
Vessels spoken.—Feb. 23, lat. 36, long. 69, brig Hero, 20 days from St. Thomas, for Portsmouth, in a leaky condition; had the day before stowed 4 water casks in a gale, was supplied with one, and intended making the first port in the U. S.—Feb. 24, lat. 23, 19, N. long. 60, 23, W. sch. Pedernal, Gunnison, from Port Royal, for Guadalupe. The brig Montezuma, Odiorne, 73 days from St. Croix for Portsmouth, put into Antigua in February last, in distress, having been completely dismasted on the 4th Dec. lat. 25, 30, long. 73.
.....DIED.....
At Kittery, Mrs. BETSY DENNET, wife of Capt. John Deuret, aged 35;—Mr. Edward Ingraham, aged 85.
At Rye, Mr. William Davison, aged 31. In this town, Mr. WILLIAM DAME, merchant, aged 50;—Widow SARAH CARTER, of Kittery, aged 75.
TO BE SOLD,
THAT pleasant situation on the road to little harbor, formerly belonging to Capt. Shores, consisting of a HOUSE, and about one acre of arable or mowing Land suitable for a Garden, about one & half miles from the State-house, with a good cellar and well of water, —also, a lot of LAND in Jeffrey Street, at the eastern end of the Work-house, eighty feet on the street and sixty feet back, with two good stores, thereon, the whole or one half as may best suit the purchaser will be sold and time of payment made easy.—Enquire of MOSES WOODWARD. Portsmouth, March 24.
To Let, a FARM in Greenland, to be entered on the first of April.—Inquire of the Printers. Portsmouth, March 24.
TO LET,
A CONVENIENT HOUSE, at the South part of the town, —inquire of BENJAMIN HOLMES, jr. Portsmouth, March 24.
20,000 DOLLARS!
THIS is the Lottery to purchase in, if you would make your fortunes at once!! Harvard C. Lottery, 2d Class, Presents to the Public.
1 Prize of 20,000 DOLLARS
1 Prize of 5,000 DOLLARS
6 Prizes of 1,000 DOLLARS
12 Prizes of 500 DOLLARS
100 Prizes of 100 DOLLS.
besides FIFTIES, and a multitude of smaller Prizes. But what adds much to the value of this Lottery, is, that THREE THOUSAND of the first drawn BLANKS, will be intitled to SIX dollars each!!!
Those who wish for PRIZES of any denomination, will please to send to C. PEIRCE'S Brick Book-store and Lottery Office, No. 5 Daniel-street, where whole Tickets are now selling at a great rate, for only five dollars each, and Quarters at 8/3. only—CHEAP purchasing TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!—Ah that it is!! It will draw soon. Remember Harvard College is the Lottery, if you wish for good fat Prizes and prompt PAY!!! C. Peirce's Lucky Lottery Office, March 24.
New Grocery Store.
REUBEN S. RANDALL and ABRAHAM WENDELL,
HAVING entered into Co-partnership under the firm of RANDALL & WENDELL, have opened a Grocery Store in Water Street, directly opposite the New-Hampshire Hotel, where they respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they intend to keep articles of the first quality, and hope by their assiduity and attention, to give general satisfaction.
Among the variety are
Hyson, Mace, Cloves, Young do. Nutmegs, Hyson Skin Cinnamon, Cassia, Souchong, Memento, Pepper, and Bohea Ginger, Mustard, Coffee, Cayenne, Citron, Chocolate, No. 1, Figs, Prunes, 2 & 3, do. Shells, Almonds, Raisins, Loaf, Lump, pr cask do. pr. box, white Havana, Zant Currants, na, India per, Olives per jar, bag, and Capers per bottle or lb. Brown per barrel, Molasses, Sweet Oil pr. flask. West-India Salt Petre, Allum, New England, Copperas, & old Jamaica, Red, Log Woods Old Cognac Brandy, and Fustic Holland Gin, Catile and Hibbert's Porter Brown Soap, per doz. Indigo, Bottled Cider Spermaceti, per doz. Mould Dipt Velvet Corks and Rush per gross, Sperm. Oil, Madeira Weak Yarn, Lisbon Spanish Cigars, Sherry, American do. and Vidonia India Chroots, Claret, Poland Starch, Red Port & Rice, Malaga
West-India and Georgia Cotton, Flour per barrel, Navy & Pilot Bread, Gun Powder, Shot of all sizes, Roll Brimstone, Nails of all kinds, Connecticut Corn, &c. &c. &c.
N.B. Commission business transacted. Ship Stores put up at the shortest notice. TO LET,
THE apartments over said store, consisting of a Parlour, Kitchen, and five Chambers, suitable for a small family—Said store is perfectly safe, being fire proof. March, 24, 1807.
LOST,
ON the 18th day of February last, between Barnstead and Meredith Bridge, a black leather POCKET BOOK, containing about thirty dollars in money, and sundry notes of hand payable to the subscriber, among which were the following, viz. three signed by Samuel Doe, dated April 14, 1806, one for five hundred dollars, one for three hundred dollars, and the other for one hundred dollars; one against John Folsom, for one hundred and thirty-five dollars, dated January 10, 1807; one against Henry Batchelder, for one hundred and twenty-four dollars, dated March 14, 1806; and one other against John Johnson, for forty dollars, dated January 2, 1807; and several other small notes against different persons; whoever will return said Pocket Book, with the contents, shall be handsomely rewarded.
All persons are hereby cautioned against purchasing any of said notes, which were made payable to the subscriber, as the payment of the whole have been stopped, and a part have since been renewed. JAMES CROCKETT. Gilman, March 16, 1807.
NOTICE.
IT has been represented to the Secretary of State, that Joseph Smith, James Forth, Richard Weaver, David Johnson, Jeremiah Cutter, Samuel Bond, Peter Rivers, Henry Wright, Aaron Young, John Twelves, John Green, Enos Dickson, Ebenezer Berry, Joseph Mariner, John Morris, John Cappit, John Marks, Joseph Jones, Samuel Brown, John Hunt, William Gould, John Marshall and John Bolton, who call themselves citizens of the United States, have been impressed into the British service, and are detained for want of documents to prove their citizenship. The friends of these men are therefore notified, that upon their transmitting to the Secretary of State proof of the citizenship, together with a description of the persons of the above named seamen, measures will be taken to obtain their discharge. Department of State, February 28, 1807.
AUCTION.—TO-MORROW. SHERIFF'S SALES.
Taken by Execution and will be sold TO-MORROW, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on THE PARADE,
250 Waistcoats; pieces of plaid Ribbon; 7 1/2 gross Medals; elegant Watch Chains and Seals; 1 gross Bed Lace; 1 do. Shoe-ties; 6 do. Shoe Rosettes; 60 dozen Strings Beads; Nankeen Breeches and Trowsers; Shawls; Silver Watches; Women's silk & cambric Gowns; silk and dimity Skirts; Trunks; Furniture, &c. also, 300 pieces India COTTON.
ALEX'R EWEN, Aufr.
Portsmouth, March 24.
THURSDAY next, 26th instant, will be sold at Auction, without reserve, on Reuben Shapleigh's wharf,
30 puncheons good flavored West-India RUM; also, 8 Chefts Souchong TEA; For approved notes at 90 days—Sale at 11 o'clock. A. EWEN, Aufr.
Charlotte Chapouil,
Has received an elegant and compleat assortment of
ROSCIUS BONNETS and HATS, whose beauty and elegance will not fail to ensure a speedy sale; those who wish to purchase are requested to call and suit themselves;—also, as usual, a handsome and complete assortment of MILLENARY.
Orders faithfully executed and with the most possible dispatch. Portsmouth, 24th March, 1807.
Rocuss Hats & Bonnets, of the newest fashion.
EDWARD PARRY,
Has just received an elegant assortment of NEW fashion Summer Hats and Bonnets,—also,—Best superfine Broad-Cloths; Irish Linens; India Cottons, &c. all of which will be sold cheap—and other Goods as usual, at his store, N o 10 Market-street. March 24, 1807.
NOTICE.
PERSONS holding Tickets in 5th Class New-York Lottery, are informed that a complete LIST of the PRIZES is just received, and may be seen gratis at the Book-store and Lottery Office of
THOMAS & TAPPAN,
Opposite the Court-House, Where a few Tickets and Quarters, are yet to be sold in Hatfield Bridge Lottery, which commences drawing the 15th next month. March 24.
Fresh Garden Seeds.
A GOOD assortment of Garden SEEDS of last year's growth, is just received and for sale at C. Peirce's Book-store, N o 5 Daniel-street. Portsmouth, March 24, 1807.
NOTICE.—The subscribers being appointed commissioners by the Hon. Judge of Probate, to receive examine and adjust all the claims of the creditors to the estate of JOHN CALEF, jr. innholder in Kingston, deceased, represented insolvent,—do hereby give notice, that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their claims, and that we shall attend that duty at the dwelling-house of Sally Calef, innholder in said Kingston, on the first Monday of April next, and on the first Monday of the five following months from three to seven o'clock, P. M. on each of the said days.
AMOS GALE, jun.
ISAAC WEBSTER,
SAMUEL CALEF, Commissioners.
Kingston, March 23, A. D 1807.
NOTICE is hereby given to the resident and non-resident owners of land in the towns of Bethlehem, Franconia and Lincoln, in the county of Grafton, State of New-Hampshire; that they have liberty to work out a two cent tax, granted by the Hon. General Court at their June session, 1806, on each acre of land in the above towns, for making a road through said towns agreeable to the aforesaid act, at any time between the first of June next and the first day of October 1807, at eight cents per hour, finding their own tools and diet, and for oxen by the day at the rate of eight cents per hour: And that we the subscribers being appointed a committee to levy, collect and lay out said money, will be ready to receive the same in payment of said taxes as aforesaid.
SAMUEL GREELY,
JOHN BROWN, jr.
BENJAMIN BARRON, Commissioners.
March 9, 1807.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of JOHN FRENCH, late of Stratham, trader, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same for settlement, to TIMOTHY FRENCH, Administrator. Stratham, March 23d, 1807.
To LET, That convenient and pleasant House in Gates street, now occupied by Capt. O. Blunt,—apply to CHARLES HARDY. Portsmouth, March 24.

Miscellaneous Repository.
INNOCENCE UNGUARDED.
SHE came from the hills of the west, A smile of contentment sheild of contentment she wore; Her heart was a garden of rest; But Oh! the dear season is o'er!
ON GAMING.
I know not one comfort of which gaming is productive; I know not one misery which it hath not occasioned. A gamester by profession is a villain; he insinuates himself into the bosom of his friends, and plunders from security what he despairs to acquire by skill.
If this restless infatuation could proceed from any other passion opposed to the desire of gain, the victims of a deluded intention might possibly meet with compassion. Did a man wish by the chance of a die, to accumulate, that he might have it in his power to serve the indigent, to raise the fallen, to pour the balm of comfort into sickness, and bid the man of sorrow bound with joy—however he might execrate the means, the intention might be surely justified; but as it proceeds from a source the most corrupt and unfeeling in human nature, as its obvious aim is avarice, a passion that is most universal, and sovereignly despised, its practices cannot be inveighed against with too much force and execration.
Look at this wretch at the hour of dissolution, when he would give (oh! dreadful sacrifice) his immortal soul to continue his mortal existence; when his worship of mammon is converted to repentance, and even the situation of a beggar, whose misery he derided, is become a state of envy to him—observe him at this awful and decisive moment, when the pride of wealth is sunk by conscience, and then tell me, ye senseless accumulators, of what avail are all those treasures, which cannot purchase a moment's ease, much less a bodily redemption?
Clover and Herds Grass Seed. A quantity of Clover & Herds Grass SEED, for sale by STEPHEN PEARSE. Portsmouth, March 17.
WAR DEPARTMENT.
February 23, 1807.
NOTICE is hereby given, that separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary for the department of war, until 12 o'clock at noon of the first Wednesday in June next, for the supply of all rations that may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of October 1807, until the 30th day of September 1808, both days inclusive, at the following places, viz.
First, At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Fort Wayne, Chicago, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of Ohio, and territory of Michigan, and at any place or places within the Indiana territory north of the 41st degree of north latitude.
Second, At the new military post opposite the mouth of the Hiawatha, and within the Cherokee nation between Tennessee and Georgia, and on the Tennessee river, and on the road between said river and Nashville, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Third, At the garrison near Vincennes on the river Wabash, at Fort Maffac, New Madrid, Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas, Natchez, & Fort Adams, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited in the Mississippi territory, except the county of Washington, and at any place or places in the Indiana territory south of the 41st degree of north latitude, and fifty miles east of the Mississippi river.
Fourth, At St. Louis, St. Charles, Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the territory of Louisiana north of New Madrid, and at any place or places in the Indiana territory within fifty miles east of the Mississippi river, and south of the 41st degree of north latitude, Fort Maffac excepted.
Fifth, At New Orleans, Plaquemine, Point Coupee, Oacheta, Nachitoches, Appeloosa, Atakapa, Fort Stodder, Fort St. Stephens, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the territory of Orleans, or in the county of Washington in the Mississippi territory, and at any place or places on the west side of the Mississippi river below Arkansas.
Separate proposals will also be received as aforesaid for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January 1808, to the 31st day of December of the same year, both days inclusive, within the several states hereinbefore mentioned, viz.
Sixth, At the Ocmulgee Old Fields, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Georgia, and on the Indian boundary between Georgia and the Creek nation.
Seventh, At Charleston, Rocky Mount, on the head waters of the Santee, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the states of North and South Carolina.
Eighth, At Norfolk, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Virginia.
Ninth, At Fort M'Henry, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Maryland and the district of Columbia.
Tenth, At Fort Mifflin, Carlisle, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Pennsylvania, east of the mountains, and within the states of New Jersey and Delaware.
Eleventh, At Pittsburg, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Pennsylvania west of the mountains.
Twelfth, At Fort Jay, West Point, Albany, Schenectady, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New York, Niagara and its dependencies excepted.
Thirteenth, At Fort Trumbull, Fort Wolcott, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Fourteenth, At Fort Independence (Boston harbor) and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Massachusetts, the town of Springfield, and the district of Maine excepted.
Fifteenth, At Portsmouth, Portland, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of New Hampshire and the district of Maine.
Sixteenth, Proposals will also be received as aforesaid, for the supply of all rations, which may be required by the United States, for the troops which are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the town of Springfield in the state of Massachusetts, and for the officers and other persons employed in the United States' armory at that place, from the 1st day of January 1808 to the 31st day of December in the same year, both days inclusive.
A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whiskey or brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and a half of candles to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the ration shall be specified; but the United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid, as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price of the whole ration. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit and Chicago for six months in advance; and at each of the other posts on the western waters for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places or posts, to call for, at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper.
It is understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid by the United States at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or more persons of credible character and the certificate of a commissioned officer, stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies, which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued, until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed; and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the seaboard, or Indian frontier, not exceeding three months.
H. DEARBORN, Secretary of War. February 25. ($8w—5m.)
REV. MR. ALDEN'S ACADEMY AT PORTSMOUTH FOR MASTERS AND MISSES.
THE object of this institution is to teach, in separate apartments, both sexes in the same branches, which are usually taught at the most noted academies in the United States; so that the masters may have opportunity to prepare for the counting room or for college, and the misses for acquiring such an education, as to preclude the necessity of going abroad for that purpose.
As much time is reserved for vacations, and as much also is devoted to the business of instruction, as is customary at other academies. EVERY pupil, who has never been under MR. ALDEN's tuition, pays one dollar at entrance. THE masters pay seven dollars a quarter. THE misses, who attend to the instructions of the preceptor and to common needlework, pay six dollars a quarter. Those who attend to the ornamental branches of needlework, pay the additional sum of a dollar, that is, seven dollars a quarter. EACH pupil pays twenty five cents for room rent. THOSE, who wish to take lessons on the piano forte can receive instructions from MR. HOLYOKE by paying three dollars, at entrance, and fifty cents a lesson. MR. ALDEN has two keyed instruments, of which his pupils can have the use, at three dollars a quarter. MR. ALDEN has accommodations for boarding a number of misses, at three dollars a week. Their washing is done, at fifty cents a dozen. A preceptress, of the desired accomplishments and of experience, has been engaged for the summer establishment, which commences on the fourteenth of April. AN assistant preceptor, of liberal education and abilities, will be employed. SHOULD the encouragement be equal to what MR. ALDEN has reason to anticipate, an assistant preceptress will also aid in carrying on this institution. 3d March, 1807.
LADIES ACADEMY.
MRS. HART, informs the Ladies of Portsmouth and its vicinity, that she is ready to receive and educate a small number of young Ladies in the following ornamental and useful accomplishments: Drawing and Embroidery in its various branches; Painting in water colors; Print-work; Working Muffin; Marking & plain Sewing; Reading; Writing; Arithmetic; English Grammar; Geography and use of the Globes. Portsmouth, Feb. 24, 1807.
PORTSMOUTH SHOE & LEATHER STORE.
corner of Congress and Market streets. Samuel Mudge & Co.
Inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Portsmouth and its vicinity, that they have just received, a fresh supply of Shoes and Slippers, warranted good, consisting of LADIES' English and American kid and morocco of every description; childrens morocco and leather Shoes; women's cloth and leather Shoes and Slippers, all of which will be sold as cheap (according to goodness) as can be purchased in town or state. Also, Gentlemen's calf and morocco SHOES and PUMPS; men's and boys Shoes of various kinds and prices. BOOTS. Fashionable Suarrow, light top'd and short; fishermens' long and short ditto. Black, red, green and yellow MOROCCO SKINS, by the dozen or single, cheap for cash; strip'd binding Skins; white sheep do. suitable for welting or aprons. Also, LEATHER. Red and yellow foal Leather; bridle, harness and saddle Skirting; wax'd and grain'd upper Leather; Calf do.—a handsome assortment of ROSETTES and Shoe Bows of the latest fashions; TRUNKS, &c. &c. N. B. They inform the public that they have commenced the Boot and Shoe Manufactory in this town, and that any orders left at the above store will be punctually attended to, and every favor gratefully acknowledged. Portsmouth, March 10, 1807.
Constantly for Sale by E. WENTWORTH,
At his Store head of Buck-street, MADEIRA, Tent, Lisbon, Sher-ry, Redport, Claret & Malaga WINES; excellent flavored Grenada and St. Vincents RUM; old Cognac & French BRANDIES; old Spirits; real Hollands GIN; Spanish SUGAR in small bags; Philadelphia Loaf, Lump, Havanna white, India and best brown ditto; Hylon Chulan, Hylon, young Hylon, Hylon-skin, Souchong and Bohea TEAS.
Muscadel & cask RAISINS; nice Turkey FIGS; shell'd Almonds; Nutmegs, Mace; Sperm. Rush and other CANDLES; Velvet Corks. Georgia COTTON of an excellent quality, &c. &c. As his Goods are purchased principally with Cash, they will be sold very low, by Wholesale and Retail, and on credit, if requested. March 17.
WHOLESALE & RETAIL GROCERY STORE.
William Hill,
Has for sale at No. 7, Merchant's Row, Hyson, Madeira, Young do. Lisbon, Hyson Skin Sherry, Souchong, Red Port, and Bohea, Vidonia. Coffee, Hibbatt brown Chocolate & Shells, Stout & American Mace, PORTER, Nutmegs, Old Cogniac Cinnamon, Brandy, Cloves, Spanish do. Cassia, Holland Gin. Allspice, W. I. Rum, Pepper, & old Jamaica Spirits. Ginger, Old Spanish Cigars Poland Starch, N° 1, Chocolate, English Mustard, Rice, Upland Cotton, Carolina Indigo, Cotton, brown Sugars, Spanish Float do. First quality Sweet Capers, Currants, Oil, Basket Salt, best Jorden shell'd Common do. Almonds, Grapes, Pollock Fish, Loaf, Havanna, and India SUGARS of the very first quality; Muscadel Raisins; cask ditto; Turkey Figs of a very superior quality, and of the latest importation; Molasses. Foreign and American Gun-Powder; Salt Petre; Heart and club Steel; Halbacks best do.; Blistered do. NAILS of all kinds. A small assortment of Hard Ware. Grindstones. Also for sale, FISHING GEAR, 18 thread St. Peters Lines; 15 thread do. do.; 12 thread long shore do.; 9 thread do. do.; Mackrell Lines; Chalk Lines; Squid Lines; Herring Nets; 7 score 16 Rans; 8 score 20 Rans; 9 score 22 Rans; 12 score 30 Rans; Hard head Nets; 2 and 3 thread Herring Twine; 2 & 3 thread Mackrell ditto; Salmon Twine; Sewing Twine; small I. P. Cod Hooks; Large Quarter ditto; Middle Quarter ditto; Small Quarter ditto; Mackrell ditto. The above Goods are warranted of the first quality, and will be sold on the lowest terms, for cash or the usual credit. Portsmouth, March 17, 1807.
John Langdon, jun.
No. 5, Langdon's Wharf—NO. 1 and 2 BEEF; Grenada RUM; Calcutta SUGAR; boxes No. 1 and 3 CHOCOLATE; Philadelphia IRON, spike and nail Rods, TAR, PITCH and TURPENTINE. TO Let, a three story Store, situated in Buckstreet, opposite Portsmouth Pier. March 10.
JOHN SALTER,
400 Quintals scale FISH, in excellent order for shipping; 4 Hlds. good retailing SUGAR. March 17.
Country Produce.
DANIEL BROWN, Has for sale at No. 2 Bow-street, 4000 lb. best new-milk Cheese; Butter; Wheat; Rye; Rye Meal; Corn; Barley; Oats; White-Beans; Green and Yellow Peas; 2000 lb. excellent Flax; 1000 lb. Clover Seed; Herds-Grass Seed, &c. March 10, 1807.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber on the night of the 24 February, an indentured Apprentice Boy, by the name of WILLIAM PERKINS, about 19 years old, light complexion, light hair, light eyes, had on when he absconded, a dark brown coat, a striped swan-down waist coat, he may be known by his hearty laughing, and an uncommon appetite; who ever will stop said runaway, and return him to his master, shall receive the above reward and no charges paid; masters of vessels and all others are forbid harbouring, trucking, or employing him, if they would avoid the penalty of the Law. ANDREW GILMAN. Newmarket, March 7, 1807.
Copartnership Formed.
THE Subscribers take the liberty to inform their friends and the public, that they have formed a connection in trade under the firm of WINTHROP B. NORTON and Co. And have taken the Brick Store opposite the Fifth-Market, fourth side of Bow-street—where they will keep constantly for Sale a general assortment of W. I. Goods and Groceries; by wholesale and retail—Traders from the Country can be supplied with Goods on the best terms, for Cash, Country Produce, or approved Credit.—Constant attendance will be given, and every favor gratefully acknowledged. WINTHROP B. NORTON, AMBROSE ALLEN. Portsmouth, March 10, 1807.
SOAP.
William Garland, HAS FOR SALE 300 boxes brown SOAP; 40 kegs LARD No. 1. 17th March, 1807.
THE Proprietors of New-Castle Bridge are reminded that the first Monday in April is the day appointed for their annual meeting, and they are hereby notified to meet at the house of the widow Elizabeth Trefethen, in New-Castle, on Monday the sixth day of April next, at three o'clock P. M.—To choose directors, and all other officers for the year ensuing, also to transact any other business the propriety may judge necessary. HENRY PRESCOTT, Pro's Clerk. New-Castle, March 13, 1807.
NOTICE.
THE Subscribers being appointed executors of the last will and testament of SAMUEL CLARK, late of Portsmouth, cooper, deceased, and having accepted the trust and given bonds as the Law directs, call upon all persons having demands on said estate to present them for adjustment; and all indebted thereto, to make payment without delay. George Richards, Thomas Chadbourn, jr. Executors. Portsmouth, March 10, 1807.
A BARGAIN.
FOR sale—a FARM, in the town of Elsworth, containing about 136 acres of land, saw Mill, grist Mill and other buildings, well wooded and watered,—said Farm was formerly owned by Alexander Craig, Esq.; a liberal credit may be expected.—Also, An Oil Mill in Exeter, calculated not only for the Manufacture of Oil, but Snuff, Chocolate, &c. &c.—Also, A pasture near the town, containing between 20 and 30 acres of excellent land, well watered,—any person desirous of purchasing either of the above privileges—are requested to call on the subscriber at Exeter. SIMON WIGGIN. N. B. Any Letters (post paid) directed as above, shall be duly attended too.
NOTICE.
THE proprietors and parishioners of St. John's Church are hereby notified, that the annual parish meeting will be held in the west chamber of the Court-house in Portsmouth, on the 30th inst. (being Easter Monday) at ten o'clock, A. M. to act on the following business, viz.— To choose Wardens, Vestrymen, recording Clerk and Parish Clerk. To vote the salaries of the respective Officers, and the sum necessary to be raised for the ensuing year. To act on any other matters that may then and there be thought necessary. Portsmouth, March 14, 1807. THOMAS BROWN, SAMUEL LARKIN, Wardens.
State of New Hampshire.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that Timothy Dix, jun. of Boscawen, in said state, has petitioned the General Court, representing that a road to lead from Connecticut river, through Stuartstown, townships N° 2, N° 4, and George Wentworth's grant, (so called,) to intersect in Errol, the road which leads from Connecticut river, to the district of Maine, is very much needed, and would prove of very great public convenience and utility; that a part of said road is now made, and measures taking for effecting the other parts, excepting in said George Wentworth's grant; wherefore he prays that a tax may be ordered of three cents, on each acre of land in said grant, for the purpose of effecting said road through the same. ORDERED, That the petitioner be heard on his petition, before the General Court on the first Tuesday of their next session; and that the petitioner give public notice thereof in the New-Hampshire Gazette, and in the Boston Centinel; three weeks successively commencing twelve weeks prior to the day of hearing; that any person or persons may then and there appear and show cause, (if any they have,) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. J. A. HARPER, Clerk of the Senate. Hopkinton, June 18th, 1806.