The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1801-04-07 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
— MY COUNTRY'S GOOD SHALL BE MY CONSTANT AIM —
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE)—PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY BY JOHN MELCHER, PRINTER TO THE STATE, AT HIS OFFICE CORNER OF MARKET STREET, WHERE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THIS PAPER, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND ARTICLES OF INTELLIGENCE ARE THANKFULLY RECEIVED.
No. 15, of Vol. XLVI.]
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1801.
[One Dollar 3 half pr. Annum.]
Congressional Acts.
The following is a list of the Acts passed by Congress during the last session.
An act extending the privilege of franking letters to the delegate from the territory of the U. States, northwest of the river Ohio;—and making provision for his compensation.
An act for the relief of Solomon Berson.
An act to provide for the erection and support of a light house on Cape Poge, at the north easterly part of Martha's Vineyard.
An act to provide for the more convenient organization of the courts of the United States.
An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for the Refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia.
An act making the port of Biddeford and Pepperellborough, and the port of New Bedford in Massachusetts, ports of entry for ships or vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, and from places beyond the same.
An act to establish the district of Bristol, and to annex the towns of Kittery and Berwick, to the district of Portsmouth.
An act to discharge Samuel Lewis, sen's from his imprisonment.
An act freeing from postage all letters and packets to John Adams.
An act for the relief of Nathaniel Holmes.
An act to continue in force the acts laying duties on licences for selling wines and foreign distilled spirits by retail, and to much of the act laying certain duties on snuff and refined sugar, as respects a duty on refined sugar, on property sold at auction, and on carriages for the conveyance of persons.
An act declaring the consent of Congress, to an act of the state of Maryland, passed the twenty-eighth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, for the appointment of a health-officer.
An act to allow the transportation of goods, wares and merchandise to and from Philadelphia and Baltimore, by the way of Appomattox and Sassafras.
An act for the relief of Arnold Henry Dorhman or his legal Representatives.
An act concerning the district of Columbia.
An act further to alter and to establish certain post-roads.
An act to amend the act, intitled, "An act to establish a general stamp-office."
An act providing for a naval peace establishment, and for other purposes.
An act concerning the mint.
An act to amend the act, intitled, "An act to provide for the valuation of lands and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States;" and to repeal the act, intitled, "An act to enlarge the powers of the surveyors of the revenue."
An act to add to the district of Mastic on the Ohio, and to discontinue the district of Palmyra in the state of Tennessee, and therein to amend the act, intitled, "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage."
An act making appropriations for the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and one.
An act supplementary to an act intitled, "An act to divide the territory of the United States north-west of the Ohio, into two separate governments."
Resolution respecting certain property of the United States, in the possession of Thomas Claxton, James Mathers and Tho's Dunn, doorkeepers to Congress.
An act directing the mode of eliminating certain foreign coins and currencies, and of making out invoices in certain cases.
An act to augment the salaries of the district judges in the districts of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, respectively.
An act in addition to an act, intitled, "An act making provision for the further accommodation of the household of the President of the United States."
An act for altering the times and places of holding certain courts therein mentioned, and for other purposes.
An act making appropriations for the support of government, for the year one thousand eight hundred one.
An act for erecting light houses on New Point Comfort, and on Smith's Point, in the state of Virginia; and on Faulkner's Island in Long-Island Sound, in the state of Connecticut, and for placing buoys in Naragansett Bay.
An act to amend the altering the district of Bermuda-Hundred and City Point.
An act supplementary to the act, intitled, "An act concerning the district of Columbia."
An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ clerks for completing the abstracts of the valuation of lands and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves.
An act making appropriations for the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred one.
An act authorizing the remission of duties on certain teas destroyed by fire, while under the care of the officers of the customs in Providence, Rhode-Island.
An act giving a right of pre-emption to certain persons who have contracted with John Cleve Symmes or his associates, for lands lying between the Miami river, in the territory of the United States, north-west of the Ohio.
REMOVED.
John Gains,
Clock and Watch Maker,
INFORMS his customers and the public in general, that he has removed from Fore-street to the Store lately occupied by William Stanwood, Market-street, where he carries on the business of Clock and Watch-making in its various branches; He has just received a handsome assortment of warranted Watches—also chains, strings, seals and keys as usual.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, That William Cummings and others, inhabitants of Hebron, have petitioned the General Court, representing that the public road leading from Lime thro' Dorchester, Groton, Hebron and Alexandria, remains in a situation unfit for the passing of carts and wagons, &c. notwithstanding all the efforts of said inhabitants to remedy the same—also, that a new road, lately laid out from Plymouth to Bridgewater, east of New Found Pond, so called, if made passable would be of great utility to the public.—Wherefore they pray that a tax of three cents per acre, on all the lands both of residents and non-residents in said Hebron (public rights excepted) may be granted to the use of making and repairing said roads through said Hebron aforesaid; and that some suitable person or persons may be appointed to superintend and see that the money so granted, may be laid out for the best good of the public.
Ordered, That the petitioners be heard before the General Court, on the first Tuesday of the next Session, and that the petitioners cause that the substance of said petition and order of Court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette, three weeks successively, commencing six weeks prior to said day of hearing; also cause that a copy and order be posted up in some public place in the town of Hebron, the like term of time previous to said hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, NATH'L PARKER, Dep'y Sec'y. Concord, Nov. 24. 1800.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, That the Selectmen and other inhabitants of Groton have petitioned the General Court, representing that the roads from Lime, thro' Dorchester, Groton, Hebron and Alexandria, are not passable, nor can be made so by the inhabitants without some relief—and praying that a tax of three cents per acre, may be granted on all lands both of residents and non-residents, to be appropriated to the sole use of making and repairing the roads thro' said Groton, not only from Dorchester to Hebron, but also from Weuworth to said Hebron.
Ordered, That the petitioners be heard before the General Court, on the first Tuesday of the next Session, and that the petitioners cause that the substance of said petition and the order of Court thereon be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette, three weeks successively, commencing six weeks prior to said day of hearing; also cause that a copy and order be posted up in some public place in the town of Dorchester, the like term of time previous to said hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, NATH'L PARKER, Dep'y Sec'y. Concord, Nov. 25. 1800.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, That Jedidiah Holt and others, inhabitants of Dorchester, have petitioned the General Court, representing that the public road from Lime, thro' Dorchester, Groton, Hebron and Alexandria, is by no means comfortable for passing with carts and wagons, and the inhabitants settled on and near said road, so remote from one another, and not able to make said road passable.—Wherefore they pray that a tax of three cents per acre, may be granted and laid on all the lands, both residents and non-residents, and to be appropriated solely to the repairing the road aforesaid.
Ordered, That the petitioners be heard before the General Court, on the first Tuesday of the next Session, and that the petitioners cause that the substance of said petition and the order of Court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette, three weeks successively, commencing six weeks prior to said day of hearing; also cause that a copy and order be posted up in some public place in the town of Dorchester, the like term of time previous to said hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted.
Attest, NATH'L PARKER, Dep'y Sec'y. Concord, Nov. 24. 1800.
ALL persons indebted to, or who have demands against the estate of JOHN MOULTON, late of Hampton, Esquire, deceased, are desired to settle with JAMES LEAVETT, of said Hampton, innholder, attorney to the subscriber, executor of the will of said deceased.
ADNA PENNIMAN, Executor. March 30, 1801.
Five or six single deck Burthensome Vessels,
FROM 100 to 140 tons, are wanted to take freights of live oak timber from Georgia to Portsmouth—for terms apply to JACOB SHEAFE. Portsmouth, March 23, 1801.
WHEREAS a commission of bankruptcy has been awarded and issued by the honorable John Pickering, Esq. District Judge of the District of New-Hampshire, against Richard Champney of Portsmouth, in said District, Trader, and he being declared a bankrupt—is hereby required to surrender himself to the commissioners named and authorized in said commission, on Thursday the second day of April next, and on Wednesday the twenty-second day of said April, and on Monday the fourth day of May next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon of each of those days, at the office of Edward St. Loe Livermore in Portsmouth in said District, and in all things to conform to the directions of the act of Congress, intitled, "An act for establishing an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,"—at the first of which meetings the creditors whose respective debts shall amount to two hundred dollars and upwards, are to come prepared to prove their debts and choose assignees—at the second of which meetings all other creditors of said Richard Champney are to come prepared to prove their respective debts, and at the last of which meetings the said bankrupt is to finish his examination, and the creditors are to attend or dissent to the making and allowing the final certificate of said bankrupt. Given under our hands at Portsmouth, this 23d day of March, 1801.
EDWARD ST. LOE LIVERMORE, JOHN PIERCE, JEREMIAH LIBBEY, Commissioners.
To the Honorable Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, for the county of Cheshire, begun and holden at Keene, within said county on the third Tuesday of October, A. D. 1800.
PHEBE MONTGOMERY, now resident at Fitzwilliam, in said county, libels, preopounds, and gives the Court to understand, that about seven years ago, she was married to David Montgomery, late of Marlborough, in said county, and that she has ever since endeavoured to discharge the duties incumbent on her in that relation—But the said David, regardless of his marriage vows has for several years last past, treated your libellant with extreme cruelty. Wherefore she prays, for the cause aforesaid, that a divorce from the bond of matrimony by this honorable Court may be decreed.
PHEBE MONTGOMERY.
Cheshire, ff.
Superior Court, October Term, 1800. Ordered by the Court, that the libellant notify the said David Montgomery, to appear before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, to be holden at Charlestown, within and for the county of Cheshire, on the third Tuesday of May next, to shew cause (if any he have) why the prayer of said petition should not be granted, by causing said petition and order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, the last publication whereof to be six weeks before said term.
Attest, NATH'L ADAMS, Clerk. Copy examined by NATH'L ADAMS, Clerk.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the town of Peeling, in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, that a tax of three dollars on each hundred acre lot in said town, drawn to said proprietors, and also on lots reserved for settlers, is duly assessed and committed to me to collect, agreeable to the proprietors vote of the fourth of June A.D. 1799; if said tax is not paid to me at my dwelling-house in Madbury, in the county of Strafford and State aforesaid, on or before the 6th day of April next, the same will be levied by sale of so much of the interest or property of the proprietors or owners who shall be delinquent in payment fourteen days after the third and last week of this advertisement, the delinquents land will be advertised for sale accordingly.
EBENEZER DEMERIT, Collector. Madbury, Feb. 20, 1801.
To be SOLD, or LET, A VALUABLE Estate situate at the corner of the post road leading from Kingston plains to Chester, consisting of an elegant Dwelling-House, Barn, and other Buildings, two excellent Wells, and about seven acres of Land.
The various roads which necessarily unite in forming a common thoroughfare to Newbury-Port, Haverhill, Boston, Exeter, Portsmouth, &c. renders it one of the most eligible situations for a TAVERN in New-Hampshire.—Terms, (which will be made easy) may be known by applying to THOMAS HYDE. Portsmouth, March 16, 1801.
CLOVER & HERDS GRASS SEED, for sale by Elisha Whidden At his shop near Portsmouth Pier, Likewise West-India Goods & GROCERIES.
Sheathing Paper
For sale at J. Melcher's Bookstore. Imported in the ship Harriet from Bristol, a general Assortment of GOODS in the SHIP CHANDLERY LINE: AND FOR SALE BY
Long & Hamilton,
At their Store in Fore-street:
  RUSSIA & RA. Sheathing.  8 pint ditto.    Russia Sheathing.  12 pint ditto.    Prich. Tar.  Speaking Trumpets.    Rosin. Brimstone.  Horn Lanterns.    Black Varuth.  12 pint ditto.    Sheathing Nails.  Sailors Pots.    Deck Nails.  Coffee Pots.    20d, 10d, 6d, & 4d Nails.  18, 15 & 12 thread Lines.    2d & 8d Sprigs.  Deep Sea Lines and Leads.    Pump Nails.  Hand Lead Lines & Leads.    Scupper Nails.  Marline.    Club Axes.  Whipping Twine.    Carpenters ditto.  Sewing Twine.    Coppers Adze.  Mackerel Lines.    Ships do.  Buntings.    Haichess.  CHARTS, viz.    Iron Shovels.  Romans Gulf, W. India Charts.    Jack & Smoothing Planes.  Coast of France.    Frying Pans.  Mediterranean, North Sea.    Belt Steel Plated Hand-Saws.  St. Geo. Channel.    Iron ditto.  Coast of Guinea.    A Variety of Butt and HL Hinges.  Moore's Epitome.    Gimbels. Chisels.  Seamen's Journals.    Gouges. Augurs.  Ink Powder.    Bung Borets.  Ink Stands.    Draw Knives.  Brass Compases.    Brass Cocks.  Wood ditto.    Tin'd Iron Table Spoons.  Telescopes.    Tea ditto.  Quadrants.    Gridirons.  Round Sea Hooks.    Tormentors.  Sail Needles.    Ladles.  Paint Brushes.    Wood Screws.  Tar Brushes.    Pot Coffee Mills.  Salt Tools.    Pump Hammers.  Scrubbing Brushes.    Carpenters ditto.  Clamps. Mops.    Tinder Boxes, with Flints & Steels.  Flasks.    Japan'd Candlesticks.  Time Glasses.    Chest Locks.  Binnacle Lamps.    Cabin door Locks.  Dividers.    Banbury Locks.  Gunter's Scales.    Padlocks. Knives.  Ground SPANISH BROWN.    Palm Irons.  Ground yellow Oker.    Pin Mauls.  Venetian Red.    Caulking Irons.  Russian Blue.    Making Irons.  Vermillion.    Marking ditto.  White Lead.    Quart black Jacks.  Red Lead.     Logs & Log Reels.     Lead Pencils.     Philadel. Camboos.  
West-India Goods as usual.
WINES; BRANDY; TEAS; IRON, &c. Portsmouth, March 17, 1801.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. February 28, 1801. To Edward St. Loe Livermore, Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum, throughout the State.
WE the subscribers, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the town of Lincoln, in the county of Grafton and State aforesaid, request you to notify and warn the proprietors or owners of land in the township of Lincoln aforesaid, to meet at the house of Joseph Russel, in Peeling, in the county and State aforesaid, on the 28th of May next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, to act on the following particulars, viz.
 1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting.  2d. To choose a proprietors clerk, a treasurer, assessors, collector, agent or agents, or any other officer that may be thought necessary, also to fix and establish the lines of said town in whole or part or otherwise, as they may think proper when so met.  3d. To see if the proprietors will agree to run out the town into lots, and sever and divide the same in whole or part, or dispose of such lots as they may think best, to forward the settlement of said town, and accommodate the settlers that are now on the land.  4th. To see what sum or sums of money the proprietors will raise to defray the necessary charges. 
THOMAS COGSWELL, EBENEZER THOMPSON, WM. K. ATKINSON, BENJAMAN BARRON, STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Strafford, ff.
Pursuant to the foregoing request, the proprietors and owners of said township of Lincoln are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place aforesaid, for the purposes mentioned in said request.—Given under my hand this 28th day of February, A. D. 1801.
EDWARD ST. LOE LIVERMORE, Justice Peace throughout said State.
THE subscriber sensible that nothing more than a hint is necessary for many of his good friends. He takes this opportunity to inform them that their semi-annual bills will be presented for payment by the first week in April next, when it is expected that all, without discrimination, will call for a settlement.
CASH is much wanted by
OZIAS SILSBY.
To Sam'l Plumer, jr. Esq. one of the Justices of Peace in and for the county of Rockingham, in the State of New-Hampshire.
THE undersigned, owner of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Maynesborough, in the county of Grafton in said State, request that you would notify and warn the proprietors and owners of said township of Maynesborough, to meet at the dwelling house of Majr. Benjamin Butler, innholder in Deerfield, in said county of Rockingham, on the first day of July next, at 10 o'clock A. M. for the following purposes.
 1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting.  2d. To choose a proprietors clerk.  3d. To see if the proprietors will adopt and establish a different mode of calling future meetings, from what they have usually practiced.  4th. To see if the proprietors will raise a tax for the purpose of lotting said town, making roads, erecting mills, procuring settlers, paying public taxes assessed on said township, and for fulfilling the conditions of the charter thereof.  5th. To choose assessors, collector of taxes, and treasurer.  6th. To see if the proprietors will lot the rest and residue of said township, and appoint an agent or agents for that purpose.  7th. To see if the proprietors will at an adjournment of said meeting, draw and sever the lots in said township.  8th. To see if the proprietors will direct their treasurer for the time being, to pay such parts of the Direct tax, as remains unpaid on said township, and all State and county taxes that shall be hereafter assessed on the same.  9th. To choose an agent or committee, with power to procure settlers, make roads and build mills in and for said town.  10th. To see if the proprietors will vote a certain sum to such proprietors and proprietors agents, as shall attend said meeting or any adjournment thereof, or any future meeting.  11th. To see if the proprietors will establish a method of settling accounts that now or hereafter shall exist against said proprietary. 
WM. PLUMER. Epping, March 17, 1801.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Rockingham, ff.
Pursuant to the foregoing application, I hereby notify and warn the owners and proprietors of said township of Maynesborough to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes aforesaid.—Given under my hand and seal this 17th day of March, 1801.
SAMUEL PLUMER, jr. Justice Peace.
Hard-Ware Goods.
H. & B. Penhallow,
Have imported in the ships Sally, and Venus from Liverpool, and the Harriet from Bristol, a large and general assortment of Hard-Ware Goods,—
Among which are a great variety of Cutlery, Ironmongery, Ship-Chandlery, Sadlery, Cabinet and Brass Foundry Wares.
  —A L S O—     4 casks brass kettles.  5 casks Pewter.    14 bundles Frying-Pans.  2 casks Flat-Irons.    12 bundles Shovels and Spades.  2 casks Rotten Stone    12 bundles of Plate-Iron.  1 cask Pumice Stone    20 casks Sheathing and Deck Nails.  1 cask Black Lead.     6 rolls Sheet Lead.     10 casks Brads and Tacks.  
—LIKEWISE—
Anvils; Vises; English Pots and Kettles; Iron Dogs; Sley-Bells; 8 by 10 Crown Window Glass.
All which will be sold by wholesale and retail, on the best terms for cash.
Cash and the highest price will be given for Old Copper and Brass. Portsmouth, February 1, 1801.

Domestic News.
WASHINGTON, March 20.
ERRONEOUS STATEMENTS CORRECTED.
As from the half manner in which articles of an interesting nature frequently gain admission into the public prints numerous errors occur, the editor of the National Intelligencer proposes occasionally under the above head to notice them, and though he is far from desiring to produce an impression that he is exempt from error, he will in this department be particularly attentive to avoid it.
 1. Mr. Wagner, is not appointed the private Secretary of the President.  2. Mr. Short has never been nominated, much less appointed minister to the French Republic.  3. Wade Hampton is not appointed Post-master general.  4. Mr. Dawson is not invested with any power of negotiation in relation to the ratification of the French treaty. He is merely the bearer of that instrument, and in that character, and none other, compensated for his services. 
[National Intelligencer.]
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.
Our letters from Washington are to the 20th. They state that Mr. Jefferson is going fast out of the favor and confidence of all moderate men, by a direct departure from his professions in the inaugural speech.—It is feared that some of his most violent party adherents, who remained with him there a considerable time after the session, have prevailed on the President to act the part of Mr. Kean to a great extent. He has had the imprudence to stop the commissions of several Justices of the Peace appointed by Mr. Adams for the Territory of Columbia, and to substitute some of the most ignorant and ill-qualified men in their stead.—As the Justices were by law to exist for five years, and were appointed by the former President and Senate it is probable that Mr. Jefferson will be obliged to give up the commissions which have been thus illegally detained.
A postscript to this letter informs, that the President had given up Mr. Stoddart's commission as a Justice of the Peace for the Territory of Columbia, and that he still retained six commissions.
Our letters state that the circumstance of Mr. Jefferson's having delayed making his appointments during the sitting of the Senate, has excited much alarm at Washington, not merely among the political friends of the late administration, but among the candid friends of Mr. Jefferson himself.
One of the first Commercial Characters in Boston, as well for talents and general knowledge of the world, as for what regards the true interests of his country, writes thus to his correspondent in this city:—
"Masters of the greatest moment at present must engross all the attention of the ministers of Great-Britain, and John Bull will have his hands full; but he will do well enough, if all remain quiet within. The external war with Europe, he will carry on, for a time at least, very successfully; and some one of the coalition, by common consent, be the medium of commercial communications with all parties;—perhaps our ships may do some part of this business, if so the better for us, if our new administration take care not to involve us in trouble with Great-Britain. Every thing that regards the United States, (I mean every thing in the European world) goes perfectly well for us as yet; and I hope Heaven has not so great a curse in store for us, as by our own folly to involve us in the present war, which would be ruinous to our country, and might, very probably, end in the total destruction of the federal government—and that would prove the reverse of our present prosperous and flourishing situation."
TRENTON, March 24.
The burning of the house of Mr. Humphrey Wall, of Chesterfield, mentioned in our last, it appears by the information we have since collected, was not the effect of accident but of design. The unfortunate Mr. Wall is supposed to have been murdered previous to the burning of the house—his house keeper was absent at the time the circumstance occurred.—The person suspected of the crime is a black man, formerly in the employ of Mr. Wall, and who, for some misconduct while in his service, had been prosecuted and imprisoned by the deceased, since which he has been heard repeatedly to declare his resentment in threatening language. On his examination, he confessed that he saw the fire, and several articles of wearing apparel were found on him at the time of his apprehension, and also at the house where he was found, which were proven to have belonged to Mr. Wall. The fellow has been committed
to Burlington gaol. Upon a second search of the house where the Negro had been harboured, we learn that the woman (also a black) delivered to the officer the sum of 4 dollars, which she said the accused had left with her, and informed that he also put into her hands a watch which she supposed was Mr. Wall's, but which she had thrown into a neighboring creek. It appears probable, from several circumstances, that the negro man was not the only person concerned in this diabolical transaction.
NEW-YORK, March 23.
We understand, by a Gentleman who left Albany on Friday morning, that on that day a resolution was to be submitted to the legislature, which had for its object to enquire of the Governor whether or not it was his Excellency's intention to convene the Council of Appointment together for the dispatch of public business; and if not, whether council did not possess the right to nominate and appoint without the consent of the Governor, and without violating the Constitution of the State.
March 24.
At Lord Grenville's dinner at the Foreign Ministers on the 19th Jan. there was no bread whatever used at table. Toasted slices of potatoes were the substitute.
The Aurora says, "On this day (21st March) Mr. Dexter retires from the duties of the office of Secretary of the Treasury, for one month, during which period James Madison, Esq. who is arrived at the city of Washington, will execute the functions of Secretary of the Treasury."
"Mr. Lincoln, Attorney-General, continues for the month, to execute the duties of Secretary of State."
ROME, March 9.
A few days since, a Squaw, by the name of Eunice Peters, wife of George Peters (an Indian) of this town, was found dead and mangled in a most shocking manner, in the house where they lived. A jury of Inquest was immediately called, who, after examining the body of the deceased, and several witnesses which were produced on the inquiry, gave as their verdict, that the said George Peters willfully murdered the said Eunice with a wooden stick or cudgel. He was immediately delivered to the Sheriff to be committed to prison, there to wait his trial at the next court of Oyer and Terminer, to be held in this county.
NEW-HAVEN March 24.
The damage done at Waterbury, (Con.) by the rising of the waters in consequence of the late rains is estimated at 20,000 dolls. Mr. Benj. Baldwin, Æt. 48, was drowned in attempting to save part of a bridge.
BRIDGEPORT, March 24.
FLOOD.
As heavy a fall of rain, as was ever remembered, commenced on Tuesday night last, and continued with very little intermission until late on Thursday: The rivers and brooks were raised to a height hardly ever known before, and the damage done to Mills, Bridges, Fences and Roads is incalculable. The earth near the surface, is full of water, and much inconvenience is experienced from water in cellars, which is in many places two and three feet deep, where none was ever known to stand till since the rain.—We have not learnt the particulars of the damage done, but in few instances:—Mr. Thomas Hull, of Greenfield, lost a Mill, and a large quantity of corn which it contained.—The Bridge at Berkshire, near this place, was swept away, with some part of the mill-dam over which it was built; and all the small bridges for many miles around, are either swept quite away or are very much injured.
NORWICH, March 25.
Since our last, we have experienced a S. E. gale, accompanied with rain, which fell in such torrents as to raise the rivers to an uncommon height. Several parts of the place were so completely inundated as to prevent passing except in boats. No material damage has been sustained here, though we understand two bridges were destroyed in Windham.
HARTFORD, March 30.
THE LATE RAINS.
A correspondent at West-Simsbury has favored us with the following account of the damage occasioned by the late rains, on the Farmington River.
"On this river and its branches have been carried away and destroyed seven grist-mills, five saw-mills, fourteen bridges, two clothier's shops and works, one dwelling-house, 2 barns several small out-houses, besides immense quantities of timber and fencing from all quarters. The only instance of mortality come to my knowledge is the son of Mr. Josiah Adkins, of West-Simsbury, about 14 years of age; this lad and his sister went into Mr. Cleveland's mills to take down an old weavers loom belonging to the family, and
while they were busily engaged, the mill and its appendages went off. It seems the girl first took the alarm and made an effort to get out, but the instant she stepped on the plank leading from the bank to the threshold of the mill door, the end drew off the bank and tumbled her headlong into the current. She floated down the stream about 30 yards, when she caught hold of a small limb and drew herself to the shore. The boy it seems continued in the mill, which was borne down the stream some distance in an erect position, the boy at the mill door begging assistance from those who stood on the shore, but who were totally unable to help him; the mill, after passing down some distance in this manner, struck a large rock, over set and tumbled to pieces, and in this concussion it is supposed the boy was killed. Judge what must have been the feelings of the parents, who stood on the shore and witnessed the whole catastrophe, hearing the cries of their darling son in distress, and unable to afford him any relief! Imagination will want assistance to figure a scene of the whole group. The boy was taken up a few hours after, at half a mile below, his head was bruised in a shocking manner and other evident marks of violence caused by the timber; he was carried home to his family, and the next day decently interred. It is suggested that one instance occurred near Capt. Dudley Case's in which were seen five buildings, viz. one grist-mill, one saw-mill, one dwelling-house, one clothier's shop, and one bridge, in regular succession, floating down the river! To estimate the damage done on this river, is not my province; suffice it to say, that it is much more than all before this from the first settlement of the country.
In Harwington the damage done by the late rains is computed at 6 or 700 dollars.
WINDHAM, March 20.
Extract of a letter from an eminent Clergyman, in the South, to his friend in this State.
"We have had a most agreeable visit to the West, and I have been an eye, an ear and heart-felt witness to the work of God, in Cumberland, at the West end of Tennessee, among the Presbyterians and Methodists (called by the people of the world the union Presbyterians and Methodists) perhaps four hundred souls have been brought home to God, the summer past, and the work goeth on still.—It is chiefly at Sacramental seasons, they pray, preach and commune together, Methodists and Presbyterians. Their meetings commonly hold four days and nights—days, in the open woods; they have wagons, and provisions, and fires in the night—people come from various parts, 30, 40 and 50 miles.—This Presbytery, Synodical and general assembly Presbyterians, are very different from those in the East."
BOSTON, March 30.
Address to Mr. ADAMS.
[On Thursday morning last, the Hon. Samuel Phillips, Esq. President of the Senate, and Edward H. Robbins, Esq. Speaker of the House of Representatives, a Committee from the Legislature of this State, waited on JOHN ADAMS, Esq. our late beloved President, and presented him with an address from the two branches, voted at the last session. A large number of the citizens of Boston, always desirous of testifying their esteem and veneration for real and distinguished merit, though at scarce an hour's warning, assembled in carriages and on horseback, to escort the Committee to the seat of Mr. ADAMS. Many gentlemen from the neighboring towns, by joining the escort, honored the committee and themselves; and had a further notice been given, thousands of other grateful citizens would have joined the procession. Mr. ADAMS received the Committee, and the gentlemen forming the escort, with that urbanity, affection and dignity, which are combined only in the truly great; and which are sensibly and feelingly noticed only by the really grateful. A tear started in his venerable eye, when Mr. PHILLIPS, with his accustomed impressiveness and sincerity, pronounced that cordial and affecting part of the Address, which declares, that "we receive him with open arms, esteem and veneration; confidently hoping, that he will possess, undisturbed, those blessings of domestic retirement, which great minds always appreciate and enjoy with dignity."—The scene was affecting.—Gratitude was pouring out the fullness of her heart; and Mr. ADAMS, conscious of his merits, beheld with mingled sentiments of humility, love and admiration, the representatives of his native State, offering the homage of its thanks and veneration at the shrine of his virtues.]
THE ADDRESS.
To JOHN ADAMS, Esquire. At the moment, Sir, that you are
descending from the exalted station of the First Magistrate of the American Nation, to mingle with the mass of your fellow-citizens, the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, your native state, embrace the occasion, to pour forth the free will offering of their sincere thanks, for the many important and arduous services you have rendered your Country.
In the performance of this act, the Legislature have but one heart, and that vibrates with affection, respect, and gratitude for your virtues, talents and patriotism.
We conceive it unnecessary to detail the character of him, whose life, from earliest manhood, has been eminently devoted to the public good; this will be the delightful employment of the faithful and able historian.
Our posterity will critically compare the illustrious characters, which have elevated the condition of man, and dignified civil society, through the various ages of the world, and will with grateful effusions and conscious pride point to that of their beloved Countrymen.
The period of the administration of our General Government, under the auspices of Washington and Adams, will be considered as among the happiest eras of time.
The example of their integrity possesses a moral and political value, which no calculation can reach, and will be justly estimated, as a standard for future Presidents of the United States.
We receive you, Sir, with open arms, esteem, and veneration; confidently hoping that you will possess undisturbed those blessings of domestic retirement, which great minds always appreciate and enjoy with dignity.
We devoutly supplicate The Father of the Universe, that you may realize, while you continue on earth, all the happiness of which human nature is susceptible; and, when your course shall be finished here, that your Spirit may receive the transcendent rewards of the Just.
THE ANSWER.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts.
THE very respectful, affectionate and obliging address, which has been presented to me by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, by your order, has awakened all my sensibility, and demands my most grateful acknowledgements.
As the various testimonials of the approbation and affection of my fellow-citizens of Massachusetts, which have been indulged to me from my earliest youth, have ever been esteemed the choicest blessings of my life, so this final applause of the Legislature, so generously given, after the close of the last scene, of the last act, of my political drama, is more precious than any which preceded it. There is now no greater felicity remaining for me to hope or desire, than to pass the remainder of my days in repose, in an undisturbed participation of the common privileges of our fellow-citizens under your protection.
The satisfaction you have found in the administration of the general government from its commencement, is highly agreeable to me, and I sincerely hope that the twelve years to come will not be less prosperous or happy for our Country.
With the utmost sincerity I reciprocate your devout supplications for the happiness of yourselves, your families, constituents and posterity.
JOHN ADAMS.
Quincy, March 26th, 1801
The French frigate Semillante, arrived at Norfolk from L'Orient, brings intelligence, that three Expeditions were ready for sea in the port of Brest, viz. One commanded by Vice Admiral Ganteaume, consisting of 9 ships of the line. A second commanded by Vice Admiral Lotouche, composed of 5 ships of the line. And a third, commanded by Vice Admiral Bruix, composed of 15 Spanish and 15 French ships of the line.
DENMARK and RUSSIA.
Some disagreement certainly occurred between Denmark and Russia, the latter part of January. The Danish Minister and his suite were ordered, & departed from Petersburg, and the Russian Ambassador was recalled from Copenhagen. The latest accounts report that these Courts are reconciled again. But most of the powers mentioned as forming the new confederacy have different views. Their long coherence is not to be expected.
We have not much faith in the philanthropy of the Emperor Paul. We believe he is really as indifferent to neutral rights as to the rights of his subjects. Those republicans must be weak who suffer themselves to be used for his exclusive purposes. A Despotism and a Republic linked together in the cause of Liberty is ridiculous!
APRIL 2.
On the 13th ult. the Citizen Louis Andre Pichon was received by our Government as Charge des Affaires of the French Republic; and on the next day he received the President's exequatur as Commissary General of Commercial relations for the French Republic: This Exequatur grants Mons. Pichon all the powers and privileges allowed within the United States to the Consuls of the most favored nations, and is counter-signed by Levi Lincoln, acting as Secretary of State.
Letters received at New-York from the City of Washington state, that President Jefferson will revoke the major part of the appointments made by Mr. Adams, previous to his retirement.
WORCESTER, March 25
AGRICULTURAL.
Mr. Joseph King of Rutland, in the spring of the year 1799 planted in a part of his garden a small quantity of seed taken from the balls of Potatoe Vines, which produced him one half bushel of potatoes—in the spring of the next year he planted this half bushel of potatoes, on a spot of ground in his field prepared as usual for potatoes, which produced him 35 3/4 bushels. These were of different kinds, of the common size, and of an excellent quality.—It is also remarked that the third year's produce is much greater from the same quantity of seed.
HANOVER, March 28.
ADDRESS
Of the Selectmen of Hanover, in behalf of the Inhabitants, to Jonathan Freeman, Esq. late Representative in Congress.
MARCH, 19, 1801.
SIR,
The inhabitants of the town of Hanover, by their unanimous vote, have bidden us welcome you, on your return among them, from the late Congress, and congratulate you, on your safe arrival to the embraces of your family.
The uniform consistency and firmness with which, as a Representative of this State, in the General Government, for four years past, you have pursued the best interests of Americans, has entitled you to the gratitude of your fellow-citizens.
Your zealous co-operation to support the administration of Government, commenced by our Washington, and continued by an Adams, has impressed us with the warmest feelings of approbation. It remains for us to regret your resolution to withdraw, at this crisis from public employment.
That the unalloyed pleasures of domestic enjoyment, and the pure satisfaction of an undisturbed intercourse with your friends, in social life, may afford you the compensation which your political life has thus far merited, is the sincere wish of your fellow townsmen.
SAMUEL SLADE, } Selectmen JOHN DURKEE, } of WM. WOODWARD, } Hanover. Hon. JONATHAN FREEMAN, Esq.
Answer to the foregoing.
The Selectmen of Hanover.
GENTLEMEN,
The Men in whom public trust has been reposed, next to the consciousness of having done their duty, the approbation of their constituents must afford the highest satisfaction; and to me, the unanimous testimony of so respectable a portion of mine, as the Inhabitants of Hanover, is peculiarly gratifying.
Our excellent system of Government, which has been the source of unexampled prosperity, must attract to its support all, whose views are not blinded by gross misrepresentation, or perverted by depravity of heart.
If in the discharge of my duty, for the last four years, I have contributed, in some small degree, to its support, I have done no more than the protection afforded me by the Government, the confidence reposed in me by the people, and my own engagements to them demanded.
I am much obliged by the polite attention, and congratulations of my fellow-citizens, on my return to my family and friends;—and be pleased, Gentlemen, yourselves to accept my thanks for the obliging manner of your communication.
J. FREEMAN.
March 19, 1801.
FRESHET.—A Brattleborough paper of the 23d inst. says, "The freshet of last week destroyed in this and the adjacent counties, more than 2,000,000 dollars of property—mills, bridges, &c."
SNOW.—We learn, that in the course of last week's storm, not more than 20 miles East and West of this place, there fell about 18 inches of snow!

Latest Accounts from Europe.
By the Packet, Capt. Trott, from Liverpool, in 26 days—London dates to March 4th.
Respecting the Northern Powers.
COPENHAGEN, (Denmark) FEB. 14. THE Swedish Admiral Cronstadt is arrived here to confer on the subject of the naval preparations now making.
Fourteen ships of the line are almost completely ready for sea.
FEB. 18. One hundred and thirty nine Danish vessels have been embargoed in the English ports.
STOCKHOLM, FEB. 6. Our fleets will be ready for sea, by the end of March, if our harbors are free from ice.
HAMBURG, FEB. 11. Sweden and Denmark will furnish 20, and Russia 30 sail of the line to oppose England. These will be joined by a Dutch fleet of from 15 to 18 sail. This powerful force, will oblige the English to reinforce their North Sea fleet from the Grand Channel fleet.
HAMBURG, FEB. 10. If the English embargo on Danish and Swedish vessels is not taken off, it is believed that Hanover and Hamburg will be occupied by Prussian troops.
The intelligence that an English frigate has cut out several Swedish vessels from Norway causes great sensation here, as it is considered as a formal rupture between England and Sweden. Denmark, on the contrary, endeavours to ward off the blow, and has nothing so much at heart as to keep on good terms with England.
The English property sequestered in Russia was falling at the latest dates.
LONDON, MARCH 3. A reconciliation, it is said, has taken place between the Emperor of Russia and King of Denmark, and hostile preparations proceed with activity in the North.
The exertions in the marine department at Portsmouth, to meet the Northern Confederacy early in the spring, are beyond all example great. All the men deemed capable of sea duty, are immediately to be drafted, and such as can make themselves useful in the dock-yards are to be sent there.
A most formidable armament will be ready to sail much sooner than the coalesced powers can be in a condition to receive them handsomely. Elsinburg and Elsinore, it is generally believed, will be the first in that quarter to taste of the British thunder; and Copenhagen, about 8 leagues distance, will probably be honored with an early visit.
Among the ships which are stated to be intended for this service are,
   Guns. Guns.     London 98 Gelykeld 68   Neptune 98 Ardent 64   St. George 98 Agincourt 64   Blenheim reduced to 74 Veteran 64   Invincible 74 Monmouth 64   Monarch 74 Agamemnon 64   Powerful 74 Polyphemus 64   Princes of Orange 74 Raisable 64   Zealous 74 Asia 64   Defence 74 Lion 64   Bellona 74 Dotrecht 64   Ramillies 74 Director 64   Ganges 74 Prince Edward 60   Edgar 74 Texel 54   Utrecht 68 Glatton 54   De Ruyter 68 Madras 54   Leyden 68 Assistance 50  
La Pomone, 44; La Defiree, and La Gloire, 40; Amazon and Latona 38; Fortune, 36; Soleby, Shannon, and Lis, 32; Dart, 30; Holden and Lapwing, 28; Waarzand and Jamaica, 26; Hydra and Squirrel, 24; Ann, Albion, Selby, and Leighton, 22; Ariadne and Perseus, 20; Jalouse, Vifior, Kite, Plover, Harpy, and Pylades, 18; Martin, Inspector, Bittern, Driver, Cruiser, L'Espegle, L'Espeir, Favorte, Lynx, Ranger and Shark 16; Speedwell, 14; and Trial, 12; Sulphur, Hecla, Volcano, Zebra, Terror, and Explosion, bombs; Alecio, Discovery and Otter, fire-ships.
Other accounts state, that the fleet will consist only of 51 sail of the line, and five large frigates, besides cutters, gun boats and fire-ships.
France and Great-Britain.
Accounts from Paris to the 26th ult. state, the recal of Mr. Otto, in consequence of the order of our government to capture all French fishermen, on the ground of their having been put in requisition to equip and arm the fleet at Brest; but Mr. Talleyrand's letter, declares, that the French government will not make reprisals on our fishermen.
The French Squadron.
MARCH 4. Accounts are said to have been received by the Admiralty, that the French squadron from Brest had been seen off Malaga, steering E. If this information be correct their destination is Egypt. If Sir Robert Calder should not overtake them. Lord Keith has, off the coast of Egypt, a force more than equal to cope with them.
Ad. Cornwallis is appointed Commander in Chief of the Channel Fleet, and has hoisted his flag on board the Ville de Paris.
Letters from Bayone, of the 16th February, announce the certain intelligence of the declaration of war by Spain against Portugal.
Letters from Vienna state, that Count Cobenzel is appointed Ambassador on the part of the Emperor, to the French Republic.
Mr. Fox attended his duty in the British Parliament, the 3d March.
It is said that Mr. Pitt had a long audience of the Prince of Wales, in consequence of a request transmitted to Carleton House in the morning. The object of the visit was to represent to the Prince his own peculiar situation—together with that of the country, in consequence of the king's sudden and unexpected indisposition, and to submit to his Royal Highness the measures he considered necessary to be taken. It was true that he had tendered his resignation to his Majesty; that the resignation had been graciously accepted and publicly announced, and that he had only remained in office for several days past, for the specific purpose of facilitating that part of the public business which had come most immediately under his observation and department. The conclusion, however, was, that notwithstanding all that had passed, he was still de facto in office, and he thought it his duty to hold his situation until his Majesty's recovery, or until some other disposition of affairs.
FEB. 26. "The American ship Lucy, of Salem, Capt. William Russell, of 310 tons, bound from Amsterdam to Madeira—was lost on the night between the 10th and 11th inst. at the distance of a league from Calais. She had on board fifty-two thousand piaftres, which were saved and conveyed to Calais. The rest of her cargo, consisting of brandy, gin, cheese, oil and colours, will, it is hoped, be saved. The crew consisted of 18 men."
HAMBURG, FEB. 18. From Berlin we learn, the Prussian Ministry on the 13th Feb. gave another note to Lord Garryfort, in which his Prussian Majesty expresses his astonishment that England should consider the Northern Confederacy as hostile—its object being merely to secure the neutral trade. The note concludes by declaring, that as Prussia had acceded to the Northern Convention, she would support it, agreeably to her engagements, and if the embargo on Swedish and Danish vessels were not taken off, the would be under the necessity of employing the means which providence had placed in her hands to procure justice for her friends and allies.
Austria and France.
VIENNA, (Germany) FEB. 12. The following notification has been transmitted from the States Chancery to the Agents and States of the Empire:
"The French Republic has required, as an express condition of the new armistice for 30 days, that during that time, not only the peace with Austria shall be finally concluded, but that the Emperor, as head of the Empire, shall act definitively for the German Empire, in order to avoid the delays inseparable from a Congress. The Emperor has not been able to refuse consenting to this proposition, and finds it necessary to give this notice of it to the States. He will, on this occasion, exert himself as much as shall be in his power, for the good of the whole empire; but should the result not prove conformable to his wishes, it must be considered as a consequence of the unfavourable circumstances in which he finds himself; and such of the States, as shall conceive themselves to have cause of complaint, must apply immediately to the French Republic."
Miscellaneous.
COURLAND, JAN. 22. The preparations for war are continued with great activity in Russia. An army will be embarked, which in conjunction with other powers, and especially with a French army, will endeavor to effect a landing in Ireland.
RATISBON, FEB. 13. Several public prints report, that Gen. Lecourbe, with 30,000 men, will march against Turkey.
ST. JOHNS, (N. B.) March 7. An act for better securing the navigation of Passamaquoddy Bay within Deer Island has passed our Legislature.
WASHINGTON, March 10. The contemplated appointment of Mr. Pinckney as minister to Madrid, in the room of Mr. Humphreys, will not be properly understood without the mention of a circumstance that took place at the nomination of the latter.
He was appointed by Gen. Washington, who having established a rule that no foreign minister should remain abroad for a longer period than that of eight years had this determination flat-
tered to Mr. Humphreys thro' the secretary of state.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25. In our paper of Thursday last, we noticed the production of an affidavit in the Supreme Court, upon which was grounded a motion to show cause why a rule should not be granted to file an information against Judge Addison, of the 5th Pennsylvania District. The discussion of this motion came on before the Court yesterday; after which the Court gave it as their opinion, that though the conduct of Judge Addison, in this instance, might have been highly reprehensible, yet they did not conceive the matter to come within their cognizance. There might be a remedy, but it was not their province to point it out.
BOSTON, April 4. FROM LISBON—LATE. Letters from a respectable merchant at Lisbon, received yesterday, via Salem, inform, that the controversy between Portugal, Spain and France had been satisfactorily settled.
We learn, that the President of the United States, has directed, that the corvette Berceau be delivered to the orders of Citizen Pichon.
The Hon. Elizur Goodrich, of Connecticut, has resigned his seat in the 7th Congress.
The British King's illness originated in a severe cold; and setting up very late for several nights on public business.
Letters from Washington, mention, that the duties of the navy department are performed by Mr. Tobias Lear, who was Secretary to Gen. Washington. It is reported, that the President will revoke the major part of the latter appointments of President Adams. It is also said, that the commissions of some late appointed Justices of the Peace for Columbia District have been withheld.
The Maryland, sloop of war, with Mr. Dawson, bearer of the French Treaty, and a number of gentlemen passengers, failed from Baltimore for France, on the 22d inst.
Mr. Dawson is not invested with any power of negotiation respecting the Treaty. He is merely the bearer of that instrument. A southern wit says, he is rather a convoy than an envoy .
APPOINTMENT. William Kilby, Esq. of Annapolis, is appointed chief justice of the district of Columbia, vice Thomas Johnson, Esq. who declined accepting that office.
It is confidently stated, that the persons who have been taken up in France upon suspicion of being inimical to the Consular Government will not be sent to Cayenne, but to the island of Madagascar.
[Lon. Pap.]
Northcote has finished his long expected picture of Buonaparte, and it is already in the hands of the engraver. The Chief Consul is on horseback in the field of battle. The horse is stationed upon an elevated spot just over the artillery, and it is in the act of starting, as if roused by the tremendous sounds of war. The figure of the Consul is well placed upon the horse, and his features are admirably expressive of vigilant observation and determined fortitude. The face is nearly in profile, and is taken from a bust acknowledged to be a perfect likeness. The artist has had every advantage that could arise from accurate description, as to countenance and complexion, and it is admitted by all who have seen the picture and the original, that the resemblance is exact. The engraving is to be a Mezzotinto, by Reynolds. [Lon. paper.]
A very curious and interesting scene passed, on the 23d January last, at a sitting of the London Royal Society: some valuable books, magnificently bound, were presented to the Society from the National Institute of France. A letter of compliment accompanied this present, signed Buonaparte, President of the National Institute, and First Consul of France; and on the letter was a finely executed vignette, representing Liberty sailing on the open ocean in a scallop shell, with the following motto; Liberte de Mer . Sir Joseph Banks read the letter, and put the question that a letter of thanks be returned to Buonaparte, which was unanimously carried.
It is said, that the President has remitted the farther punishment of Brown and of Callender, convicted of sedition. May rogues conclude from this, that crimes in one administration will be pardoned in another?
The Vice President of the United States has returned to New-York.
OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS. John Shee, Esq. Marshal of the
eastern district of Pennsylvania, Alexander J. Dallas, Esq. Attorney for the same district.
Presly Kerr Lane, Esq. Marshal of the western district of Pennsylvania. James Hamilton, Esq. Attorney for the same district.
David Fay, Esq. Attorney for the district of Vermont. John Willard, Esq. Marshal for the same.
Gen. William Irvine, Superintendent of Military Stores.
No appointment of Secretary of the Navy has yet been made: But Mr. Stoddert certainly retires.
Judge Lincoln acts as Secretary of State, in the absence of Mr. Madison, who had not arrived at Washington, at our last date.
Mr. Dexter, positively leaves the Treasury Department immediately; and Mr. Madison will oversee that department until an appointment is made. Mr. Gallatin has not yet been appointed; but is in the interior of Pennsylvania, winding up his domestic concerns.
AMHERST, March 28. THE RAINS.
It is judged, that at a moderate calculation, seven thousand dollars would not indemnify the small town of Milford, for the losses sustained by the late remarkable freshet; mills, bridges, fences and dams were wrecked and swept away, & whole fields of delightful intervall almost ruined by the violence of the waters. The prospect exhibited by the waters flowing through fields, intervalls and orchards is truly indescribable. In short such and so wonderful fierce was the rise of the waters, that it may almost with truth be said as of the ancient Nile, "That the wild deluge overtook the haste Even of the Hinds that watch'd it."
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 7. It is now well ascertained that His Excellency JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN, Esq. is again re-elected Governor, by a very large majority.
Santibanes, one of the authors in the St. Domingo tragedies, is said to be implicated in the late conspiracy against Buonaparte.
The Earl of Fife stated in the House of Lords, that he could no longer support the Ministry, and some members of the House of Commons are said to have made similar declarations. [Lon. paper.]
Marine Intelligence. Philadelphia, March 25. A pilot, (Mr. J. Holman) arrived in town this morning, and informs, that among the vessels which lay under Cape May, was the Eliza, Suter, from Liverpool to N. York. Capt. Suter stated a few days previous to making the land, he fell in with the ship Rebecca of Charleston, the captain of which a few days before, had spoken the brig Lydia, having on board the captain and crew of the ship Columbia, from Philadelphia to Liverpool, whom he picked up at sea. It appears the Columbia foundered in a violent gale of wind on the banks of Newfoundland; captain Skillings and his crew subsisted on one ounce of bread and one gill of water for nine days, when they were happily relieved by the Lydia.
The brig Traveller, Capt. Lee, of Boston, was captured by a French privateer in lat. 17, N. long. 90, 30, E. on the 29th Oct. last, all hands sent to Calcutta; a valuable vessel.
At Port Republican, 23d Feb.—Minerva, March, Newbury-port, just arrived; Fidelity, Simson, Portsmouth; Betsy, Stoves, Portland.
Hymenaal Register.
MARRIED. At Newmarket, Capt. Edward J. Long, of this town, to Miss Dorothy A. Rogers, daughter of Col. Nathaniel Rogers of Newmarket.
At Durham, William Simpson, merchant of Boston, to Miss Elizabeth Hanson of Durham—Mr. Andrew Drew, to Miss Esther Bickford.
Bill of Mortality.
DIED. At the Hospital in Calcutta, Mr. Joseph Dennet, of this town, aged 23—and Mr. Broadstreet Gilman, jr. aged about 23, son of Mr. Broadstreet Gilman of Newmarket.
At Demarara, Samuel Jones, aged 18, of this town.
At Tobago, Capt. Hovey, of Newburyport.
At Boston, Mr. Moses Peck, in the 84th year of his age—after a painful and distressing sickness which he bore with Christian patience and resignation.
New-Hampshire Bank. NOTICE is hereby given to the Stockholders in the New-Hampshire Bank, that the annual meeting for the choice of Directors will be held at the Bank, on Wednesday the 29th inst. at 3 o'clock, P. M. DANIEL R. ROGERS, Cashier. Portsmouth, April 7, 1801.
Public Vendue.
TO BE SOLD, On TUESDAY the 14th day of May next ensuing, at Eleven of the clock, A. M. at the Town Clerk's Office.
THAT tract of LAND lying on the north side of the road leading over Great Swamp, (so called from Portsmouth to Greenland, containing 187 acres, to be sold in lots of ten acres each, from No. 1 to 18, to suit the convenience of those who may want a small lot, as on a plan, which may be seen by applying to the subscriber, owner of said TRACT; a road of two rods wide from north to south, is opened for the convenience of the purchasers—It consists of between thirty and forty acres of arable, with good pasturing, abounding with an innumerable growth of White Oaks, Beach trees, Maple trees, Pines, &c. in abundance, not a single tree has been cut down for 19 years past, unless to repair fences, which are few. Any person or persons desiring to view the premises, by applying to Mr. Tobias Lear, who lives on Mr. Warner's farm, adjoining said Land, will show them the property and give any information relating to the premises they may require, the conditions of Sale will be made known at time and place of Sale.
George Wentworth.
Portsmouth, March 30, 1801.
AUCTION.
Taken by Execution, and to be SOLD at Abraham Isaac's Auction Room, on Friday next at 10 o'clock A. M.
114 pieces Bandanna Handkerchiefs.
1 bale of India Cottons. 40 pieces do.—6 cakes Raisins. All of which will be Sold without any reserve whatever. April 7.
THE subscriber, as Guardian to DAVID FOLSOM, of Epping, judged non compos mentis , hereby forbids all persons from harboring or trusting said DAVID on my account.
WINTHROP FOLSOM. Epping, April 1, 1801.
The Selectmen of Portsmouth.
HEREBY notify and request the Inhabitants of said town, to exhibit to them, a just and true account of their rateable estate agreeable to Law, as follows, viz:—
 No. of Male pools from 21 to 70 years of age.  No. of Stallions or Stud Horses that have been wintered 3 winters.  No. of other horses and mares that have been wintered 5 winters.  No. of other horses and mares wintered only 4 winters.  No. of other horses and mares wintered only 3 winters.  No. of other horses and mares wintered only 2 winters.  No. of oxen that have been wintered 5 winters.  No. of cows that have been wintered 5 winters.  No. of neat flock that have been wintered only 4 winters.  No. of ditto that have been wintered only 3 winters.  No. of ditto that have been wintered only 2 winters.  No. of acres of orchard land.  No. of acres of arable or plough land.  No. of acres mowing land.  No. of acres of pasture land.  The net yearly rent or income of wharves, ferries and mills.  The number, situation and value of all other buildings, whether improved or unimproved, owned by the inhabitants or non-residents.  Amount of Stock in Trade.  The amount of all money on hand or at interest, more than the owner pays interest for.  The amount of all property in the public funds. 
The Selectmen will attend at the Town-Hall, in the Brick School-House, every Thursday evening, from seven to nine o'clock, until the fifteenth day of May next, for the purpose of receiving said Invoices, and it is hoped that special attention will be given hereunto.
GEORGE GAINS, MOSES WOODWARD, SAMUEL HUTCHINGS, ELIJAH HALL, EDWARD CUTTS, Selectmen.
N. B. Those persons that have the Staff or Badge of a Fire-Ward, that are not chosen to that office this year, are requested to send their Badge to the Work-House, as soon as may be.
Portsmouth, April 3, 1801.
TAKEN from the store of
Capt. Theodore Farber, Spring-Hill, on Friday last, a PILLOW-CASE, containing half hundred of BROWN SUGAR—Whoever will return the same to the subscriber shall be generously rewarded.
STEPHEN NOBLE. Portsmouth, April 7, 1801.
TO BE SOLD, AT PRIVATE SALE.
IF applied for soon, a small FARM, one moiety of which was the property of Peter Ball, deceased, the whole containing 33 acres of mowing, tillage, and pasture land, of the first quality, lying on Clarkson's Creek, and the road leading to Little-Harbour, is very pleasantly situated; also four acres of Salt Marsh adjoining said Farm; the conditions of sale will be made easy to a purchaser, and may be known by applying to MARK ROGERS. Portsmouth, Feb. 27, 1801.

MADELINE OF ABERDEEN.  SO fair a maid was never seen, As Madeline, Of Aberdeen! When she tripp'd lightly o'er the green, Her face was rosy gay, her mien, And happy had I ever been, Had I ne'er known young Madeline!  So mild a maid was never seen, As Madeline, Of Aberdeen!  She danc'd upon the flow'ry green, And like a Sylph of sportive vein, Yet Dian had not worthipp'd been A Goddess—near chaste Madeline!  So neat a maid was never seen, As Madeline, Of Aberdeen!  With ribbands blue and bonnet green, With modest eye and timid mien, Another Venus she had been, Had Paris view'd young Madeline!  So little a maid was never seen, As Madeline, Of Aberdeen!  For while upon the mountain green, She wander'd with a playful mien, The Loves and Graces oft have been Entrapt by gay Madeline!  So rich a maid was never seen, As Madeline, Of Aberdeen!  For sapphires blue, nor emerald green, Could deck her form or flattery mien, And Juno, had she mortal been, Had envied graceful Madeline!  So wife a maid was never seen, As Madeline, Of Aberdeen!  The deathless wreath of laurel green, Might well become her awful mien; And like Minerva she had been, Had earth ne'er known fair Madeline!  Ye lads and lassies who have been Sweet Madeline, Of Aberdeen!  O! bind your brows with willows green And let dark sorrow mark each mien— For six long months the grave has been The silent bed—of Madeline!
Public Vendue,  THE LAND in the Rockfield, proposed to be Sold the 31st instant, is unavoidably postponed to the 28th day of April next, at 3 o'clock P.M. at which time at the Auction Room of John N. Ingalls, Auctioneer in Portsmouth, will be Sold to the highest bidder.  TWO genteel House Lots, fronting on the street to Ilwington, together with sixteen Lots back of said Lots 50 by 80 feet, and will be sold in single Lots; the plan thereof may be seen any time before the Sale at said Auction-Room—The terms of payment will be one quarter part at the time of Sale, the remainder in six months with good notes for the same.  Portsmouth, March 26, 1801.  TO BE SOLD,  At Public Auction, on Wednesday the 18th day of April next, at the house of Capt. James Geddes, in Portsmouth, at 11 o'clock A.M. of said day, by virtue of a licence from the honorable Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham; that pleasantly situated  FARM HOUSE, and about three acres of land adjoining, on the road leading to Little Harbour, together with about thirty-five acres of Orcharding, Pasturing and Mowing, at a short distance from the House; all which lately belonged to the estate of Mr. John Wendell, late of said Portsmouth, merchant, deceased; —the conditions will be made known at time and place of sale: JOHN WENDELL, Administrator.  Portsmouth, March 21, 1801.  NOTICE.  To be Sold at Public Auction, on Thursday the 9th day of April next, at three o'clock P.M. at Mr. John Greenleaf's, innholder in Portsmouth.  SO much of the real estate of WM. LEIGH, deceased, situate at the North part of the town, near Boyd's bridge, consisting of a dwelling-house, currying shop, slaughter house, &c. as will pay the following taxes with incidental charges, viz. for 1799, 8 dollars—for 1800, 9 dollars, unless prevented by previous payment of taxes and charges, to me at my house in Portsmouth.  JOSEPH AKERMAN, Jr. Collector. Portsmouth, Feb. 23, 1801. [6w]  ORANGE.  NOTICE is hereby given, That on the 2d day of May next, between the hours of 10 o'clock A.M. and 5 P.M. on said day, at the dwelling-house of NATHAN WALDO, Esq. innkeeper in Orange, in the county of Grafton, and State of New Hampshire, there will be exposed for sale at public vendue, as the law directs, so much of each of the following farms in Orange aforesaid, for the payment of the taxes due thereon for the year 1800, and all legal coil, unless prevented by previous payment, viz.    Acres.  Sect.  Town.  Sect.    C.M.C.D.C.D.C.M       800  87  1  16    116  2  10  2    0  0  0  0    These incense farm so called, occupied by L. Merrill & H. Williams, A farm which on the 1st April was in the occupancy of Sam'l Bagley    Acres.  Sect.  Town.  Sect.    84  96  8  12    1  50  1  43    8  46  2  0    25  7  25  0    David Fox, NATHAN WALDO, Jr. Collector. Orange, March 7, 1801. [6w]
State of New-Hampshire.  NOTICE is hereby given to the delinquent proprietors and owners of land in the town of Unity, who have not paid their highway taxes for the year 1800, that unless they pay the same, together with incidental charges, to me the subscriber on or before the 15th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay the same, will then be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of JONATHAN GILDEDEN, in said Unity, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, as the law directs.  Proprietors' names. No. Quan'ty. Ran. Cts.    Thomas Clouge,  48  50  5  13     16  50  7  19    Moses Sleeper,  88  50  2  83    John Webber,  49  50  5  13    MOSES WILLARD, Collector. Unity, March 2, 1801.
State of New-Hampshire.  County of Strafford, ss.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of rights, lots, or parcels of land in the towns of Effingham, Ossipee and Wakefield, in the county and State above mentioned, and situated in the 30th collection District, on which the direct tax remains unpaid, which became due and payable on the 8th day of January 1800, pursuant to an act of Congress passed the 14th July 1798, intituled an act, to lay and collect a direct tax, &c. that so much of said land as will satisfy the tax or taxes, affixed to each right, lot or parcel hereafter named, together with cost and charges, will be sold at public auction, at the times and places hereinafter specified, unless prevented by previous payment, viz.—all that remains unpaid of the said tax in the town of Effingham, at the dwelling house of Col. Carr Leavitt, in said town, on the 23th day of May, at 10 o'clock A.M.—all that remains unpaid in the town of Ossipee, at the house of Capt. Jacob Brown, in said town, on the 26th day of May, at 10 o'clock A.M.—all that remains unpaid in the town of Wakefield, at the house of David Copp, Esq. in said town, on the 27th day of May at 10 o'clock A.M.
   UNKNOWN ORIGINAL OWNERS. Acres. No. Division. Cts. Mills.     WAKEFIELD.   Theo. Atkinson, 100 54 1 18 0   Elipha't Cromwell, 67 67 2 40   Eben'r Downs, jr. 100 40 2 36 5   Thomas Downs, 100 72 2 18 5   Paul Geritts, 100 27 2 18 8   Richard Hussey, 55 26 2 14 4   Benjamin Ham, 50 84 1 18   Solly & March, 100 77 2 18   James Marden, 55 74 2 18   Pierce & Moore, 100 88 1 18   Thomas Nock, 100 94 1 18   William Parker, 100 55 2 36 5   Samuel Page's heirs, 91   Benjamin Roberts, 100 28 2 18   Eben'r Roberts, 100 18 2 36 5   Joshua Roberts, 100 59 1 49   do 100 59 2 40   William Stiles, 100 23 2 18   Eben'r Wentworth, 28 53 1 13   Richard Willard, 100 65 2 40   William Willard, 100 97 2 27 5   Th. Wallingford, 100 85 2 41   Daniel Young, 100 29 2 16  
   OSSIPEE.     Theo. Atkinson, 100 9 86 5   do 300 45 65   Jonathan Odiorne 400 32 86   John Moffatt, 200 31 43 2   Th. Wallingford, 400 14 86 5   do 400 36 86 5   Richard Wibird, 400 28 86 5   do 400 33 86 5   Jonathan Steele, 25 17 1 5   John Kenniston, jr. 100 86 5   occupant, road lot 100 86 5   Sundry Lots in the 2d or upper division, 100 9 2 21 5   do 100 10 2 21 5   do 100 14 2 21 5   do 100 27 2 21 5   do 100 28 2 20 5   do 100 32 2 20 5   do 100 39 2 20 5   do 100 42 2 20 5   do 100 61 2 20 5   do 100 61 2 20 5   do 100 62 2 20 5   do 100 65 2 20 5   do 100 94 2 20 5   do 100 95 2 20 5   do 100 96 2 20 5   do 100 99 2 20 5   do 100 100 2 20 5   do 100 101 2 20 5   do 100 102 2 20 5   do 100 103 2 20 5   do 100 109 2 20 5  
   EFFINGHAM.     Jeremiah Avery, 25 41 1 5   Joshua Brown, 200 50 2 21 5   Walter Bryant, 100 27 2 20 5   Nathaniel Drake, 200 32 2 20 5   Levi Dearborn, jr. 100 46 2 20 5   do 56 35 1 82   John Dearborn, jr. 200 54 2 21 5   Simon Dearborn, 56 54 1 4   Nathaniel Hobbs, 7 14 1 5   John Johnson, 15 25 2 5   Benjamin Johnson, 50 60 1 4 5   John Kenniston, 100 24 2 17   Mat. Livermore, 20 6 2 5   Eben'r Lovering, 100 59 2 11   do 56 17 1 4   Thomas Leavitt, 200 86 2 43   Moses Leavitt, 200 48 2 21 5   John Leavitt, 200 1 2 21 5   Thomas Leavitt, 54 86 1 20   Tho's Marston, jr. 56 20 1 6   Simon Marston, 40 61 2 15   Simon Marston, 6 15 1 1   Josiah Marston, 23 61 1 5   John Moffatt, 100 55 2 17   Daniel Marston, 36 58 1 3   Jonathan Marston, 200 75 2 21 5   James Marston, 38 48 1 4   Solly & March, 100 39 2 43   do 28 43 1 3   Simon Nodd, 56 49 1 4   Joiham Odiorne, 56 47 1 6  
   Acres. No. Div. Cts. M.     Benj. Perkins, 170 17 2 37   Joshua Pierce, 150 66 2 43   Thomas Parsons, 56 56 1 4   Jona. Page, jr. 200 69 2 21 5   John Shepherd, 200 11 2 52   Ebenezer Smith, 168 23 2 36   Samuel Smith, 145 2 2 8 5   Daniel Sandborn, 100 58 2 43   John Taylor, 56 37 1 7   Joseph Towle, 32 82 1 2   Jos. Wingate, 3d 200 3 2 10   do 56 100 1 6   Jona. Wedgwood, 200 29 2 26   William Weeks, 200 22 2 34 5   James Wedgwood, 56 19 1 4   John Wentworth, 200 63 2 17   do 56 13 1 3 5   T. Wallingford, 200 60 2 86 5   do 56 16 1 2 5   John Wingate, jr. 56 34 1 4   D. Wedgwood, 120 97 2 8 5   do 56 57 1 4   Jona. Wedgwood, 40 52 1 3   Weare Drake, 200 20 2 43   Nath'l Drake, 56 29 1 13   Joshua Brown, jr. 56 22 1 3 5   Theo. Atkinson, 56 59 1 4    ISAAC FELLOWS, Collector 30th collection District. [9.w.]
   DIRECT TAX.   62d Collection District.   State of New-Hampshire.     NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the following towns and locations, hereinafter named, on which the Direct Tax remains due and unpaid, which become due and payable on the 8th day of January 1800, that so much of each lot, right or parcels of land in each town and location, as will be sufficient to pay said taxes, due on the same with incidental charges, will be sold at public auction, at the dwelling-house of OBEDE HALL, Esq. in Bartlett, in said sixty-second Collection District on Wednesday the 23d day of April 1801, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment, viz.   Bartlett.   — Boman, 550 0 90   Joshua Heath, 1750 1 0   Thomas Lee, 500 0 87   Isaac McService, a part of } Gidley's location, 200 0 28   Locations,   Gidley's, 1500 5 28   Charles Rogers' 1940 3 40   Wentworth's, Rogers' } and Treadwell's, 9000 10 0   Chatham.   Jonathan Warner, 1490 2 10   do 1700 2 80   Proprietors unknown, 7285 8 68   Burton.   Walter Briant, jun. 200 0 35   Robert Barber, do 0 35   Walter Briant, do 0 do   Jeremiah Briant, do 0 do   John Briant, do 0 do   Ephraim Briant, do 0 do   Edward H. Briant, do 0 do   Jeremiah Folsom, do 0 do   Jeremiah Fols, do 0 do   Joshua Furber, do 0 do   J. Folsom, jun. do 0 do   Philip Fowler, do 0 do   Samuel Gilman, do 0 do   Jacob Gilman, do 0 do   Bradstreet Gilman, do 0 do   Simeon Gilman, do 0 do   David Gilman, do 0 do