The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1807-11-24 00:00:00

Mon. G. B. Bantlett, Esq.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE
[No. 51, —VOL. LII.]
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1807.
[TWO DOLLS. PER ANNUM.]
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY PEARCE & GARDNER. PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
NEW STORE & NEW GOODS.
S. GODDARD,
Respectfully gives notice that he has taken the Store lately occupied by Mr. Wm. Jones, jr. Market street, where he has just received by the late arrivals from London and Liverpool, and is now opening a very splendid assortment of
FRESH SEASONABLE GOODS,
OF THE FANCY & STAPLE KINDS & LATEST FASHIONS, among which are,
LADIES black, brown, drab, lawn and white Weymouth Cottages and Vigo BEAVER BONNETS: Ladies beaver HATS of the most fashionable shapes, SILK SHAGS, Pique Flannels and Callimeres, single and double mill'd common and Satin Callimeres, Tabby Velvets, French and English flk do. fashionable colours, Broad-Cloths of every price and shade, Velvets and Velveteens, silver and woolen Cords, Swan-down, toilet and corded Velvets, ladies and gentlemen's Coatings, Swanskins, Devonshire Kerseys, Plains, Duffs, 6-4 to 11-4 Rose Blankets, single and double mill'd Baizes, Domet and common Flannels, extra fine Pique Serges, an uncommonly elegant and complete assortment of fancy Scotch Muffins, Veils, Cloaks and Shawls of every price, Habit Shirts, Cap Patterns, cambric and lace Trimmings &c.: Book, jacquet and India cobweb Muffins, plain and figured.
Also a superb variety of
Calicoes & printed Cambrics, patch and common Furnitures, cotton and silk Chambrays, plain and emboss'd Sarfnet Cambrics of all colors for gowns and bonnets, glazed and unglazed white do.; silk Florentines, Durants and Darnys, Tammies, Shalloon, Calimancoes, Russels, &c. Ladies & Gentlemen's French & English silk Hose with common extra laced and elegant embossed Clocks; do. do. black white and flat Woofed do. Cotton Hosiery of all kinds; Ladies invisible Petticoats. Ladies and gentlemen's gauze Hose and fleecy Socks, do. do. common lambs wool and gauze Drawers—worsted and lambs wool under Vests, elastic night and travelling Caps, mens doe and beaver Gloves, do. fleeced cotton do.; do. cotton worsted and silk do. of all colors, Ladies do. do. including black and white silk Habit do.; FLORENCE and English Lustrings, English and French Ribbons and Crapes, do. do. Satins for Bonnets Cloaks and Velvets, Modes, Sarfnet, Gauzes, Millinery, Bandannas; English French & India pocket and turban silk Handkerchiefs, black Barcelona do. cotton and linen common and cambric Handkerchiefs for the pocket and neck, a great variety of India Cottons, Calicoes, Checks and checked Handkerchiefs; an excellent assortment of
Irish, Dutch and German
LINENS, brown and white; British cotton Shirts and Sheetings, cotton Diapers, Manchester Checks, Twills, India and Italian Sewings, Scotch and parent ball Threads; silk, cotton and linen Thread Laces, Brussels do. Lace Veils; Ladies elegant HEADRESS Ornaments; Buckram, Capwire, Tapes, Bobbins, Oil Cloths, fatin Pads, cotton silk and leather Braces, Ivory Combs, flint Wires, silk Buttons, pocket Books; common and minikin Pins, Perrets, Gailoons, Hat Bands and Buckles, hatters Looping; elegant emboss'd velvet Ribbons of every width and shade; common and extra fine cambric Dimity.
An elegant and extensive assortment of
SHAWLS of the latest fashions, viz. \frac{3}{4} to \frac{1}{2} black and color'd silk, French and English; \frac{3}{4} to \frac{1}{2} Chambray and Camels hair do. rich colors & figures; \frac{3}{4} to \frac{1}{2} common cotton, and fine cambric do. plain and twill'd, white, dy'd and printed, with and without netting and fringe; mock, Circassian do. also Mens and youths HATS, Mens superfine London beaver do. of the newest shapes, Boys felt and fur do. black and fashionable colours.
N.B. Hourly expected a great variety of
English & American MUFFS & TIPPLETS. The above, with numerous other articles, form an uncommonly elegant and complete assortment of EUROPEAN and INDIA PIECE GOODS, which are offered by WHOLESALE and RETAIL, at extremely low prices.
S. G. respectfully solicits the patronage of the public, and feels sanguine, that his exertions, added to the uncommon cheapness and excellence of his Goods, will entitle him to a liberal share.
Portsmouth, October 27, 1807.
At a meeting of the committee of the
subscribers for re-building St. John's
Church, held on Monday the 9th
day of November 1807—
VOTED that an Eighth allotment of Twenty
Dollars on each and every share, be,
and is hereby made—payable to the Agents,
or their order, on or before the twentieth day
of the present month of November.
Attest,
WILLIAM GARDNER, Chairman.
NEW FALL & WINTER GOODS.
Just received by the late arrivals at Boston, from
London and Liverpool, and now opening at
DRAPER'S
CHEAP NEW CASH STORE,
A more extensive assortment of
FASHIONABLE, FANCY AND STAPLE
PIECE GOODS,
than he has ever offered for sale in this town.
among which are
Ladies Beaver Bonnets; London 4-4 Chintzes,
Silk Plush all colors; A great variety of
Silk Vests all colors; Chintzes—Calicoes
Variety of fancy dress; Elegant Furniture
Muffins; Chintzes;
Ladies Mantles; Low priced do.
Black & white lace Cotton and silk Chambray;
Gloves; 5-8 and 4-4 black silk
do. and do. Sleeves; Velvet;
Very nice white Satin Cambric and common
Ladies mouselin Robes, common Dumities;
Plain & plaid Italian English blk silk Vest-
& Florence Lustrings ing, of a superior
Colored & white kid quality;
Habit Gloves; Ladies long and short
Habit silk Gloves, all black kid Gloves;
colors; Mob Caps; Black and white
Habit Shirts; Buckram;
Cap Patterns; English and Russia
Tambored stripe Diapers;
Trimmings; Table Cloths and
Green pink, blue, buff Towlings;
and white Sarfnet; Gentlemen's fashion-
Black and green pe- able Toiletent and
long Satins; Windsor Cord Vest-
Gown Trimmings; ing;
Ladies English rose British cotton Shirt-
colored silk Hose, ings; Long Cloths;
very elegant; 4-4 & 7-8 Irish Lin-
do. black, white and ens, imported by
flat silk Hose; Mr. Wm Neil,
Gentlemen's silk do. Cotton and silk Um-
all colors; brellas; 4-4 5-4 and
Ladies English black 6-4 Oil Cloths;
short silk Gloves; A great variety of la-
Thread and cotton dies and gentlemen's
Laces; Patent black Hosiery;
laces and Edgings; Silver Cord and Vel-
Book, jacquet & cam- vets;
bric Muffins; Camels hair Shawls;
Linen pocket Hank's; Italian Sewing Silks of
very fine, with pencil the best quality;
borders; Ladies black Morocco
Linen Cambrics; Shoes for half price,
Fancy Ribbons; Dark, brown and olive
Silk Cords; Queen's Cloths, suit-
Gown Buttons; able for ladies wear,
Elegant tortoiseshell Dark olive and drab
hair Combs; Callimeres and Calli-
A great variety of La- netts, for ditto;
des Ear Hoops; Pelece Flannels;
Glas Buttons; London superfine
Black, brown & dark Broad Cloths and
green silk Buttons of Callimeres;
the most fashionable 2 cases Gentlemen's
kind for gentlemen's Hats, from 3 to 7
wear; dollars;
Purple, olive, brown A variety of Kider-
& blk. Tabby Velvets minster CARPETING,
Fashionable buff, or- Molekins;
ange, flat and ecclio A general supply of
twill'd Shawls; Coatings, Kerseys,
6-4 damask silk Shawls Stockings, Plains,
Straw Hats & Bonnets Fearnoughts, Serges,
Leghorn Straw Flats, and low priced Broad
6-4 black, blue, or- Cloths;
ange, flat, salmon 1 bale of Rose Blan-
and fawn colored kets from 7 to 11-4
twill'd Cambrics, (a remarkably cheap;
new article.) India Calicoes;
Variety of velvet Vest- Linen and cotton
ing; Pink and dark Checks;
plaid Ginghams; a great variety of Elt,
Blk Crapes & Modes, Bear, black genet,
Black Satins and & mock sable Muffs
Lutestring; and Tippets, mock
7-8, 4-4 and 6-4 black fable Skins, for do.
Cambrics; Baizes and Flannels,
Pink, blue, orange, a large supply of India
salmon, dove, purple Cottons, &c. &c. &c.
and brown do. October 27, 1807.
LUMBER. For Sale by
JOHN HILL,
At his Lumber Wharf, North-End—
LUMBER of all kinds, by the Car-
go, at the shortest notice, likewise by retail.
Said HILL having good accommo-
dations will attend to consignments of Lum-
ber. Every favor gratefully received.
Portsmouth, October 13. [3m.]
SINGING SCHOOL.
JOHN LOCKE, proposes o-
pening a Singing School, so soon as a
sufficient number of subscribers can be ob-
tained. A subscription paper will be left at
Mr. C. Peirce's Bookstore, Daniel-street.
Portsmouth, Nov. 10, 1807.
Room Papers
at reduced prices. As C. PEARCE wishes
to close his sale of Room Papers and Bor-
derings, he has now a thousand Dollars
worth by him, that he would sell much lower
than can be purchased of equal goodness,
elsewhere. He would also exchange a part
or all of them, for seasoned Merchandise
Boards. Also, an excellent second-hand
CHAISE for sale, or exchange for Lumber.
Found about a fortnight since,
between Portsmouth and Greenland, a bundle, containing
Womens Clothing apparel, and sundry
papers, which are principally dated Wiscasset—
The bundle was tied up with new
marked Augusta Parsons—The owner may have
the same by applying to the Printers hereof, and
paying charges. Nov. 10, 1807.
Cash given for RAGS, at the
Portsmouth of C. PEARCE.
William Neil
TAKES the liberty of informing
his customers and the public in
general, that he has removed to Mar-
ket street, into the store formerly oc-
cupied by Mr. Nathaniel Dean, next
door to Mr. Draper, where he will
thankfully wait on such as please to
favor him with their custom—with
GROCERIES & W. I. GOODS,
of the first quality and cheap
Portsmouth, November 10.
NEW FLOUR.
PHILADELPHIA and New-
York superfine and fine FLOUR,
from new wheat—just landed—and for sale by
E. WENTWORTH,
Nov. 17 [Head of Buck street]
Henry MacClintock
Nearly opposite the N.H. Hotel, Water-
street. Keeps constantly for sale.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
W. I. GOOD & GROCERIES,
He intends to sell as cheap as can
be purchased in town, and his
Goods are all warranted of the first
quality.—To those who may favor
him with their custom, he hopes to
give satisfaction, and the smallest com-
mand shall be attended to, with the
most grateful acknowledgments.
Portsmouth, Nov. 17, 1807.
FLAX-SEED, pot & pearl Asbes.
CASH given for FLAX SEED,
BEES WAX, pot and Pearl
ASHES—by
Abel & Robert Harris,
at their Store No. 15, Merchants-Row.
Portsmouth, Nov. 10.
SACRED MUSIC.
JUST PUBLISHED BY
NORRIS & SAWYER,
Exeter, and for sale at their Bookstore,
Wholesale and Retail, the
IMPROVED EIGHTH EDITION OF THE
VILLAGE HARMONY; or
YOUTH'S ASSISTANT TO SACRED MUSIC,
CONTAINING a new and concise Intro-
duction to the Grounds of Music, with such
a collection of the most approved Psalm
Tunes, Anthems, and other Pieces, as are
most suitable for Divine Worship.—Designed
principally for the use of Schools and
Singing Societies.
Musick to rapture swells the lifting mind,
Sooths the sad heart with melting strains refin'd,
Controls the passions, checks impure desires,
And the soul kin lies with Devotion's fires.
Exeter, October 26th, 1807. (5w.)
Rockingham ss.
THE heirs of STILLMAN TARTON, late of
Newmarket, Shipwright, deceased, in-
testate, are hereby notified, that Samuel Tar-
ton, administrator of the estate of said deceas-
ed, has petitioned the Judge of Probate for
laid county, representing, that the personal
estate of said deceased was insufficient to pay
his debts, and the demands due from his es-
tate; and that it would be necessary to sell
part of his real estate for that purpose; but
that selling such part, and not the whole,
would be injurious to the persons interested
therein; and therefore praying for licence
to sell the whole real estate of said deceased.
Whereupon it is ordered, that he be heard
at the Probate Court to be hold

LATE OMISSIONS.
HELPS FOR VIRTUE.—The following intelligence is surely a proof that our judges are men "fearing God, and hating covetousness"—they are a "terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well."
Gracious God! must we become rotten before we are ripe?" Shall traitors be the favourites, when our legislative and executive officers look around to make a selection for office from amongst their fellow citizens!—Read and reflect.
Accounts have been received from Louisville, and Jeffersonville, which state that Davis Floyd, one of the accomplices of Burr, in his treason, had been tried—and found guilty of a "high misdemeanor."—Well! What do the Judges? Why as a cyprian nymph once said, they encourage trade. They impose upon him the dreadful punishment of ten dollars fine, and three hours imprisonment! !—Ten dollars—three hours!—What order of things is it, my countrymen, when, conviction of an heinous crime, is only a qualification for legislative and executive favor? Davis Floyd thus qualified, was patronized by the Governor of the Indiana Territory, and elected by the legislature their CLERK?
These are the effects of retaining in office, men hostile to the principle, of the government.
We are of the venerable William Penn's opinion, that good men are necessary to administer, as to form, laws or government.
Who disgraced the country in Miranda's affair? Smith and Ogden—both Federalists!—Who acquitted Ogden and Smith? apacked jury of Federalists. Who have embarrassed the nation at every opportunity that offered? Federalists! It is safe, or prudent, in our government thus to conciliate tigers or to tame rathincons, by appointing them to places of high responsibility? What we have already stated, are full repliations to all pleas of harmonizing—allying party-heat, and a thousand other very moderate and plausible motives every day alleged by the milk-and-water politicians of our day.
The administration may rely on it, that if they "sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind!" If they keep traitors in office they will have treason stalking thro' the land.
What are the politics of Gov. Harrison, Judges Davis and Taylor?
Harrison is a son-in-law of the ex-governor St. Clair, and a decided Federalist. Davis is one of the 'union of honest men,' need we say more?
If factious beings like these share the beams of executive favor, every torpid snake will crawl into life; and insurrection will follow insurrection. The fable of the Hydra will be realized, in the American Judges. We will shortly publish a more ample account of Floyd's DEATH and resurrection; or in other words, his conviction and promotion.
(Baltimore W'kg.)
The noted letter originally published in the N. York Gazette, implicating Wilkinson in the poisoning scheme, has been proved false, and to have been written by Samuel Swartwout, one of Burr's 'choice spirits.'
Swartwout, a few days ago, sent a challenge to Wilkinson, by Israel Smith. But the General, learning who the letter was from before he opened it, declared he would have no correspondence with traitors or conspirators. On which Smith asked if he meant to include him in that description of persons—the General told him he might do as he pleased, and turned him out of the room.
Swartwout immediately puffed the General, as he called it, as "a coward and poltroon" and among other reproaches, accused the General of treachery!
It is laughable enough to hear the miserable dupe of a frustrated conspirator, denouncing a public officer as a traitor!
The frantic desperation of this fellow, in attempting to provoke the Commander in Chief of an army to put himself on a footing with him in a duel—and his folly in supposing that his ebullitions of rage could impeach the courage of an established military character, is the most fanciful of all Quixotism—but farcical as it begins, it threatens a tragical termination, as will be seen by the following extract from Swartwout's posting letter:
"This is a critical moment in the life of your excellency—your life hangs on the verge of dissolution."
Since such open threats of assassination are hazarded by these desperadoes who have slipped through the hands of Justice, and been let loose on mankind—it behoves every friend of his country, (who, as such, must be obnoxious to them) to take care of himself. [Democratic Press.]
THE PRESIDENT.
The Constitution of the United States. Art. II. Sect. 3, provides, that the President "shall from time to time give to Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient,"—the same section also declares it to be his duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed."
In the late message of Mr. Jefferson he has mentioned his intention of laying before Congress, the whole of the proceeding in the very interesting case of Aaron Burr, that they may "apply or originate the remedy for any defect which they may find in the law, or in the administration of the law" on the subject of high treason. He has treated the subject so delicately, and kept so strictly within the limit of his constitutional duties that he has not even hinted where the defect exists or suggested any specific remedy for the evil. Such however, is the sensibility or sympathy of the federalists for Aaron Burr, or such their inveterate antipathy to Mr. Jefferson and to every thing which he does or says, that their papers already teem with the bitterest complaints as to this part of the message.
The Gazette of the United States of last evening in remarking on this subject charges the President with intermeddling, with audacity, imbecility, and a most atrocious usurpation of power—for merely exercising his constitutional duties, for doing that which by his oath he is bound not to leave undone.—The citizens of the United States will know how to appreciate the official conduct of Mr. Jefferson, when his most virulent enemies have no worse charge to bring, than that he has endeavored to fulfill his oath of office, and "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." [Democratic Press.]
THANKSGIVING.
The New-England practices of annual Thanksgiving, has patrons in the Southern States,—and the Ministers of the Presbyterian, Associate Reformed, German Evangelical, Lutheran, German Reformed, Moravian, the Methodist and Baptist denominations in Pennsylvania, have recommended to their respective charges, to observe the 26th November as a day of Thanksgiving and humiliation, and have accompanied the recommendation with the following suitable ADDRESS.
The Ministers of Christ of the several denominations enumerated above, to the People of their respective charges, with grace mercy and peace.
IF to humble himself as a transgressor in the presence of God, and to approach the divine throne in supplications and with hymns of praise be duties which it becomes each of us, in solitude to discharge, when families, cities, or nations have been receiving the blessings or incurring the chastisement of their Creator, public effusions of gratitude or penitence become reasonable services. Open avowals of reverence Jehovah required from the thousands of Israel, and to the pride and profaneness which occupied their place, he taught his prophets to trace the causes of the desolations which Babylon and Nineveh, Tyre and Jerusalem, present to the view of the reflecting observer.
The philosophy which discovers no controlling power, directing secondary causes to fulfil divine intentions, inspiration teaches you to reject. It teaches you also, that while through the intercession of Jesus, imperfect thanksgivings are accepted, presented through the same medium, the prayers of a righteous man avail much in preventing the infliction of wrath and in opening the characters of Heaven for the descent of mercy.—Whatever shades of difference may distinguish the creeds of fellow christians, you will rejoice to see that, approaching the divine throne, they walk together in the light of the Lord. As the voice of praise should be exalted in proportion to the magnitude of the blessings received, it is manifest that the unspeakable gift, through which our iniquity can be placed from us, far as the east is from the west, depravity subdued, the afflictions of life sanctified and, surmounted, and an abundant entrance into the heavenly city secured has an uncontested claim on our best affections. It becomes us, nevertheless, to forget not any of the benefits of our God.
The privileges we enjoy as a nation are great in the eye of the empires of the earth, and ought to be great in our own. Favored with as large a mass of civil freedom as human infirmity can bear, permitted to enjoy that liberty of conscience which our forefathers crossed a perilous ocean, and encountered hosts of difficulties to obtain, blest with a commerce which unfurls the flag of our country to the breezes of every clime; prospered in agricultural pursuits, so that in the appointed season the mountains stand thick with corn and the valleys laugh and sing; preserved from the carnage which peoples the eastern world with widows and orphans, if America list not her hands in praise, will not the stones themselves cry out? When the allurements of mercy are disregarded, the voice of God is usually heard in the judgment he executes.—Of Israel it is recorded, that "where he flew them there they sought him." By the prayers of the saints may the cloud which threatens in the east be dispersed, on which the anxious gaze of so many of our citizens is fixed. Among the chief cities of our union, Philadelphia is under eminent obligations to gratitude. In the still voice of an influenza, which has entered almost every family and removed several of our venerable friends, God has indeed addressed us, but the pestilence and wasting have not been permitted to approach. We have not beheld with unavailing sympathy the melancholy countenances of citizens flying their habitations, the deserted street has not heard the roll of the dead cart, nor the wide grave been filled with heaps of the slain.
And yet what return, what ungrateful return has the Creator witnessed. He has heard his blessed name blasphemed, he has seen the sacred leisure his Sabbath affords, prostituted to carnal amusements, the voluptuary to his appetite, the pharisee to his virtues, and the infidel to his fortune, have paid homage, but how few alas! have humbled themselves, before the Lord our God.
We have thought it brethren, an incumbent duty to recommend the 26th day of November, as a day of thanksgiving and humiliation. Lay aside, we beseech you, on that day, your secular pursuits, and regarding it for the purposes specified, unite in fervently seeking him whole loving kindness is better than life, and in intreating that thro' these states and among all the nations of the earth, the salvation of the son of God may "go forth as a lamp that burneth."
GREAT BRITAIN.
[The following extract was written and published in England by the Rev. Edward Young, rector of Wolvin in Hertfordshire in 1730, and in 1738 was chaplain in ordinary to king George II, and in 1761 was clerk of the closet to the princess dowager of Wales.]
"If causes should not fail of their usual effect; if our national distemper, far from being cutaneous at present, should reach the vitals of our state, how applicable to this opulent, proud, profligate metropolis (which calls the sea her own, and whose vices, more diffusive, are without a shore) would be the prophet's sacred dirge over ancient Tyre; whose sea-born wealth and hell-born iniquity, let it not be said, was but a prelude, to our own, and yet if we proceed in our infernal career, that most infamous reproach may become too true.
"The sublime and most memorable words run thus, and I cannot but think that at present they must have a formidable sound in a British ear.
'Is this the joyous city, whose antiquity is of days remote, whose merchants were Princes, and her traffickers the honorable of the earth, whose revenue was the harvest of rivers, and her exchange the mart of Nations; who sat as a Queen, stretched out her hand over the seas, and shook
the kingdoms; but she is fallen! she is fallen! Heaven has stained the pride of all her glory, how forely must you be pained at the report.'
"Has not Britain reason to be more deeply struck with this part of Scripture, than the rest of mankind. The prophecy as yet, indeed, (though memory) is unfulfilled in us; but if Britain continues, like Tyre, to sing as a harlot, to take the harp, to make sweet melody, sing many songs, turn to her hire, and commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world—her fall is to be feared, unless the fate of most former empires betray us into mistake, and that national poison, which has ever proved mortal, is mortal no more.
Late FOREIGN ARTICLES.
COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 23.
The Danish ships have all bras guns on their poops, quarters and main decks. The stores in the arsenal are beyond calculation; it will take two months to get them on board; the piles of shot are immense. Exclusive of the stores slipped on board the transports, the men of war, both English and Danish, it is said, are loaded to the bend.
Fifteen sail of the line, besides frigates, are in the roads. The carpenters are pulling to pieces the ships on the stocks, and shipping the timber. In a few days 150 vessels, with stores, (40 of them with sail cloth) will be under way for England. The whole convoy will exceed 300 sail."
GOTTENBURG, OCT. 10.
On the 9th September, the Danish King, Christian VII. issued new orders respecting English goods and persons detained. This was before he got the news of the surrender of his capital. By these orders, Englishmen throughout the Danish territories are to be detained, and English property, ships and goods, to be seized. All persons are to transmit an account of the debts due to the English subjects—the whole of which is to be paid into the Danish treasury. All legal demands, however, by British subjects concerning of Capitals, Annuities, Tontines, and interest in Government State Paper, are to be duly paid. All correspondence with England is prohibited, and letters coming from or going to England are to be seized and sent to the Danish offices.
The accounts from Naples, state, "that the 20,000 French troops destined for the occupation of the Republic of the Seven Islands, were embarked at Otranto, and Bari; the passage to Corfu was short and prosperous, and they formed under cover of the Russian ships."
PARIS, Sept. 17.
The Monitor of this day contains the Capitulation according to which the Isle of Rugen was evacuated by the Swedes, and afterwards occupied by our troops. The King of Sweden has returned to his States.
According to a letter in the Monitor, the King of Sweden, and especially the army, are extremely dissatisfied with the behaviour of the English. The King has given orders to put his ports in a state of defence; and letters from Stralsund assert, that the expedition against Denmark was not concerted with his privicy or consent, as the King of Sweden never heard of the measure till the English fleet arrived in the Sound.
The Monitor also contains the Treaty for an armistice between Russia and the Ottoman Porte, concluded under the mediation of France, and signed by the respective negotiators, on the 24th of August, at the Castle of Slobisza.
The 1st Article stipulates for the immediate cessation of hostilities.
According to the 2d, Russia and the Porte, immediately after the signing of the Armistice, are to send Envoys to negotiate a Treaty of Peace, as soon as possible; and in case this should not take place, hostilities are not to be resumed before the 21st of March 1808.
The 3d Article stipulates for the evacuation of Wallachia and Moldavia by the Russian and Turkish troops.
The 4th Article relates to the evacuation of the Island of Tenedos, and all other places in the Archipelago in possession of the Russians.
The Russian ships of war are to return to their own ports, and leave the Dardanelles and the mouth of the Swaine entirely free and open.
By the 6th Article, all the prisoners of war and the slaves of both sexes are to be given up without ransom, the Mussulmen only excepted, who may choose to become Christians; the same is to be understood of the Russians who may have become Mahometans.
The ratifications were to be exchanged in the course of a week.
LONDON, OCT. 2.
A letter from Cork, dated Sept. 23, says; "Gen. Sir John Stewart has arrived here to take the chief command of the expedition assembling at this port. Admiral Drury, it is said, is also expected to convoy the fleet as far as Madeira. Yesterday the officers were all ordered to embark. The Brazils are said to be their destination."
A letter from a respectable house in Lisbon, dated the 7th of Sept. says—"The return of the Courier, who was sent to Paris with the answer of our government to the demands of France, is most anxiously looked for, as it is expected he will be the bearer of the ultimatum of Bonaparte. Ministers expect he will be here about the 16th inst. by which time ten sail of the line, and 13 or 14 frigates, will be ready to put to sea. The greatest activity pervades every department of the administration as little doubt remains that the court will be obliged to remove to the Brazils."
"Don J. D'Almeida, formerly Ambassador to Great Britain, is going to London, as Envoy Extraordinary."
An evening paper, The Star, says—"We have already had occasion to state, that Government has come to a determination to send out a strong force to recover the possessions we lately occupied in South America.—The command of the fleet we understand, is to be given either to Admiral Gambier or Sir Home Popham—the point is not finally settled."
Our mercantile speculators to South America are, we understand, likely to suffer
to a much greater extent than we were in the first instance disposed to think.
Letters from Holland state, that the whole responsibility of the full execution of the late Decree is vested in an officer of the name of Gogle, who is appointed by Napoleon, and who is to act under instructions from Paris, and is not to be responsible for his conduct to any other tribunal. This has been done to avoid references or applications to King Louis on the matter.
Count Bentinck, to whom the Knyphausen flag belongs, and who arrived in a Dutch port some days ago was not suffered to land by the French director of the customs and executioner of the late decree, though he had a passport signed by King Louis.
OCT. 3.—Before our fleet and army can proceed to any other destination, but particularly South-America, to which the speculators even in the Ministerial circles still determine to send them, they must return home to victual and rest; now transports must also be provided for a voyage to South America. Ministers, therefore, will have ample time to reflect upon this prudence and practicability of the scheme, if such a thing has ever been really thought of, and we are not without hopes that may profit from reflection.
OCT. 8.—We learn that there is a total suspension of all British commerce in Russia and the exchange has fallen to a very low rate. An alarm had been taken at the attack on the Danish fleet, and the most vigorous exertions were made to put Cronstadt into a state of defence. There are only one 74 gun-ship, and three 60 gun ships there; this alarm, however, we consider as groundless.
LONDON, OCT. 12.
AMERICA.
That most important matter, the question of peace or war with America, is now decided, as far as a decision can take place in this country. Our Ministers have delivered to Mr. Monroe and Mr. Pinkney their final answer in regard to all the leading points of the dispute. This answer is of a nature on which it by no means falls within the powers of the American Envoys to decide, and it now becomes their duty to submit the whole, in the speediest manner, to their Government.
National Legislature.
TENTH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, NOV. 6.
Messrs. Garnet and Bacon were appointed to join Mr. Robinson of the Senate, as a committee of enrolled bills.
The speaker laid before the House, the annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, which was referred to a committee of ways and means, and ordered to be printed.
Mr. Gardener presented the petition of William Hanna, and others, of Schenectady, manufacturers of leather, praying that an act may be passed prohibiting the exportation of green hides and skins, as there are not produced in the country more than sufficient for home consumption, and they are now under the necessity of importing these articles from the Spanish Main.—Referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures.
MONDAY, NOV. 9.
Mr. Southard and Mr. Chandler each presented petitions on the subject of post-offices and roads in their respective districts; which were referred.
Mr. Mumford presented a memorial from the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of New-York, stating the defenceless situation of the city and harbor, and praying that an adequate appropriation be made for its protection. Referred to the committee on the aggressions committed within our ports and waters, &c.
Agreeably to the order of the day, the House went into a committee of the whole, Mr. Masters in the chair, on the bill making an appropriation for the further support of the Navy Establishment during the year 1807.
On motion of Mr. G. W. Campbell, the blanks in the bill were filled up in the following manner:
   For pay and subsistence of officers and seamen, Dolls. Cts.     Provisions, 74,750 29   Repairs of vessels, 81,468 15   Pay and subsistence of the marine corps, 142,884 62   Clothing for the same, 18,500   Medicines and hospital stores, 10,139 42   Ordnance and military stores, 1,268 40   Timber for the Navy, 310,554 60   87,500  
Mr. Eppes said, there had been no other expense incurred than those rendered necessary by the situation in which the country was placed by the attack on the Chesapeake; and he believed the present bill included every additional expenditure that was made.
The committee rose and reported the bill, which was ordered to a third reading to-morrow.
TUESDAY, NOV. 10.
Mr. Gardner presented the petition of Abraham Gale, of the state of New-Hampshire, stating that on a settlement of accounts betwixt him and the U. States, in 1776, he received a certificate of the balance due to him, which certificate he had lost, and praying relief. Referred to the Committee of Claims.
Mr. Clopton, from the committee of Revival and unfinished business, made a report of several acts, the duration of which would expire within a short time; which was ordered to be printed.
The bill making further appropriations for the support of the navy of
the United States during the year 1807, was read the third time, and on the question, "shall the bill pass?" a debate ensued which was prolonged to half past 2 o'clock, in which Messrs. J. Montgomery, Randolph, Quincy, Alston, Chandler, Fift, Upham, Storer, D. R. Williams, Eppes, Love, Cook, Dana, Lyon, & Gardner, took part. When the question was taken on the passage of the bill by yeas and nays, which was—yeas 124, nays 2.
DUELS.
WASHINGTON, NOV. 6.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in New-Orleans, to his friend in this city, dated Thursday Oct. 3, 1807.
"This morning at 10 o'clock I shook Lieut. Turner by the hand—and this evening at eight I held in my hand a ball that had passed through his heart.
"The best account I can give you of this melancholy affair is this. A number of officers were amusing themselves with cards, when Lt. Rush came in and was asked to play: he declined, with a quotation from Shakespeare. Some criticism was made on it by T. and an argument of some warmth took place—disagreeable reflections were made, bad language ensued, and this morning T. sent R. a challenge. They met just before night, opposite to this city. D. second to T.—R. L. surgeon: T.—second to R.—W. surgeon. On the word fire! T.'s pistol flashed, and R.'s snapped. On the second, they both fired almost at the same instant, and R.'s ball passed quite through T.'s body and lodged in the left sleeve of his shirt. He staggered a few paces—exclaimed "I am a dead man," fell into the arms of his friend, and instantly expired.
"What a dreadful affair is this! and how much to be lamented the frequency of such occurrences! R. did not wish to fight him, but unfortunately all attempts at accommodation were vain. T. poor fellow, would listen to no proposals. He had a strong presentiment of his fate, and expressed it; but he behaved with the utmost firmness and resolution. R. was much affected, and embraced him in the agonies of death, exclaiming in a frantic manner, "my dear friend! why would you force me to this? Let me declare in your dying ear that I had no enmity to you—that I shall mourn your death as that of a brother."
Extract of a letter from Norfolk, November 9.
"The long expected duel between Capt. Gordon of the Chesapeake, and Mr. M'Connico, took place two days since in Carolina. The first fire at the distance of ten paces, was without effect. The second at six paces, when both were wounded. M'Connico slightly in the thigh, the ball passing through the fleshy part. But Gordon's is said to be very serious and alarming. The business will not, I fear, end here, without the interference of civil authority, or the removal of the Chesapeake."
SALEM, NOV. 13.
Arrived, ship Marques de Somerendas, Capt. Russel, from Cronstadt and Elsinore. Oct. 28th, in lat. 47, lon. 41, fell in with a Boat having on board twenty-one living persons, among whom were a woman and child in a most distressed situation. After taking them on board, they stated, that they sailed from Monte Video Aug 9th, in ship Alexander, Capt. Howard, an English transport, under convoy of a frigate and sloop of war—that there were about 110 persons on board the Alexander—that on the 20th Oct. the ship being in a very leaky situation, they were under the necessity of carrying short sail, by which means they lost the convoy—that on the 22d the leak increased to such a degree that with both pumps going and bailing at the hatch-ways, they could not keep her free—that the captain thought it advisable to quit the ship and took the small boat for his preservation, and rowed round the ship several times—meantime the long boat was hoisted out, but bilged in going over the side; however 13 sailors, 13 soldiers, one woman and child kept in the boat and found means to keep her from sinking.—They had not got far off when the ship blew up and foundered—they afterwards spoke with the captain and others in the small boat, who told them to steer N. E. & N. E. by E. as that course would carry them to the coast of England, from which they were but a short distance—that they had only 4 biscuit, 3 gallons of spirits, and one pound of raisins in the boat—that they had been in the boat 6 days, during which time seven soldiers died for want (two of whom lay dead in the boat when she came alongside)—that they had cut one man up, and eaten part of the flesh! Some remaining in the boat when they saw the ship, but on seeing her they threw it overboard. We made signal to ship Brutus, then in sight, who took eight of the people and the boat. Among those who perished in the ship, were eight women and seven children.—The Alexander was a hospital ship, and many of the people were confined below in their cradles, with the loss of a leg or an arm, &c.—the chief mate and 6 seamen were also in the ship when she went down. The boat was on board the ship when she went down, employed in clearing the stern-boat, intending to take the women out of the cabin window; however saw the boat and had the good fortune to reach it.—A subscription was opened at Salem, to assist these unfortunate people, and between 2 and 300 dollars subscribed.
While Capt. Russel was at Elsinore, a Russian fleet of a sail of the line and 3 frigates from Archangel, passed there, bound up—a passing Copenhagen fired a salute, which was returned.

Portsmouth, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1807.
LATEST FROM EUROPE. On Tuesday last arrived at Boston, the ship Frances, Capt. Curtis, in 31 days from Liverpool. By this vessel London papers of the 10th, and Liverpool to the 14th ultimo have been received.
Mr. Munros had set sail for America three days before the Frances left England. His departure was attended with no circumstances less favorable to accommodation than usual; and is not to be considered as indicating an approaching rupture. He bears the ultimatum of the English government. We have nothing authentic that places our affairs with England in a new light by this arrival. A London Editor mentions the probability that the British government were about to demand possession of the Swedish naval force.
According to all the accounts from Denmark, the Crown Prince continued to refuse the capitulation which general Peyman had made at Copenhagen with the English, and it was expected that an alliance would be formed with the French.
FROM RUSSIA. Capt. Haraden, arrived here, from Petersburg, which he left September 16th, informs of the arrival there of a large number of troops, with artillery:—of the erection of furnaces for heating shot; and of various other preparations against an attack. He confirms the accounts of the changes wrought in the Russian Ministry, by the French Ambassador; but that most of the Nobles considered the late peace disgraceful. On the passage Oct. 4th, Capt. Haraden spoke the ship Pigeon, Collet, seven days from Kronstadt for London, who informed that previous to his leaving Kronstadt, all the English vessels were detained there by order of government.
FROM CADIS, October 6. Capt. Babson, who arrived yesterday, informs, that it was reported 20,000 French troops were to march into Spain. The fleet at Cadiz was preparing for sea with great activity. It consisted of 9 sail of the line and two frigates: and a squadron was expected from the Mediterranean to join them. Some persons conjectured a sudden attack was to be made on Gibraltar, by land and sea. [B.]
The very interesting and luminous report of the Secretary of the Treasury, [published in the supplement accompanying this day's Gazette] will command general attention. To public documents, from their nature, more clearly shew the opposite tendencies of the administration, under the same government, than the annual report of the Treasury department. During the administration of Mr. Adams, the measures pursued, were in universally considered hostile to the prosperity of the country, and such was the extravagance and corruption of the system adopted, that the government were under the necessity of borrowing money, for which they gave Eight per cent.
Since Mr. Jefferson has been Chief Magistrate of the Union, a variety of heavy, oppressive, and enslaving taxes have been abolished; yet so far has the administration been from any thing like pecuniary difficulties, that to the first of October, 1807, twenty five millions, eight hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars of the National debt have been reimbursed, exclusive of six millions, which have been paid, during the same period, in conformity with the provisions of the treaty and convention with Great Britain, and of the Louisiana convention. So marked and decided, so opposite in their effects are the principles of democratic economy and federal extravagance.
It is certain that all this good has been produced and all that evil avoided by the silent and steady operation of the principles of economy. How immense is the difference of the state of the National debt and public funds of the United States now, and what they would have been, had John Adams been continued President. How great is the balance in favor of the American people. It is highly probable, that the eight years of Mr. Jefferson's administration rather than eight years of a continuance of the Adams' administration, will make a difference to the people of the U. States as near one hundred millions of dollars as an average difference to every citizen of 20 dollars.
This however, is not a mere calculation of dollars and cents. The standing armies, the excise laws, the alien and sedition laws, the stamp act of the Adams administration, are all gone "the tomb of the Capulets." May they know no resurrection. The evils we have named, oppressive and vexatious as they were, were only preparatory steps, opening wedges, to the introduction of all the evils of that government, which John Adams had pronounced to be "the most stupendous fabric of human wisdom." By this time we should have had a President for life, a host of nobles, a standing army, a host of excise officers, and be cursed with all the plagues which necessarily flow from so corrupt and corrupting a source.
While republicans contemplate with pride and pleasure, the miseries they have averted, and the good they have effected, let them beware, that no difference of opinion upon minor points, or with respect to individuals, shall so far alienate them from the common cause, the common good of their country, as to be the instruments of raising up the fabric they have overthrown, by putting into office, the men who hold the principles, and would adopt the practice of the memorable period of 1798. [Democratic Prof.]
Commodore BARON—It is rumoured that the report of the Court of Enquiry, recently convened at Norfolk, is extremely unfavorable to the wanted reputation of Commodore Barron.
COMMUNICATION. Messrs. Printers,—You have announced at sundry times the martial appearance and heroic sentiments that inspired the Militia in various parts of the United States of America, in organizing themselves, that they might defend their country from an invasion, and be able to assert their rights to lawful independence, and a fair trade to all inviting parts of the globe.
It is with heartfelt pleasure that I can inform you, that the Militia of DURHAM, can claim their equal right to merited praise.—Like the Lion aroused from his slumbers and marching with firmness over the plain,—so Patriots rising in obedience to the voice of their government, to defend their country, strike with astonishment the spectators, with the sublimity of their greatness. In no place has zeal been more conspicuously displayed under the like circumstances, than here.
The second company in Durham was called out last Thursday, and seven eighths volunteered their services in the cause of their country—This day the first company volunteered to a man. The martial appearance of well proportioned men, flushed with all the luxuriance of health—gives them a commanding presence—especially, when they have heads to conceive their whole duty, and arms that can carry into execution.—It would have given pleasure to the noble hero of Cape Britton to have viewed his sons,—Sullivan in all the pride of man would have admired to have been in the field,—WASHINGTON would have placed confidence in such men to undergo the greatest fatigue and the most hazardous enterprise.
Durham, November 12, 1807. A Duel was fought the 24th Sept. on the west side of the Mississippi, opposite to New Orleans, by capt. J. Newcomb, of the Revenue Cutter Louisiana, and Mr. James Rodney, midshipman of the U. S. navy, in which the former received a dangerous wound.
Thursday next will be observed as a day of Public Thanksgiving, in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
.....DIED..... In Somers, Conn. Seth Chapin, aged 98—7 of his brothers lived to be more than 70 years old; 5 more than 80, and two are now living, one 83 and the other 88. In Durham, Mrs. Mary Thompson, aged 67, relict of the late Judge T. In Berwick, suddenly. Dominicus Goodwin, Esq. aged 66.
AUCTIONS. The Dwelling-House, &c. situated on Mill-street, which was to have been sold at auction this day, has been disposed of at private sale. Nov. 24.
THIS DAY, Will be sold at Auction, at S. LARKIN'S Auction Room, a variety of English GOODS, Such as Broad Cloths, Cassimeres, Linens, Checks, India Stripes, Chintzes, Shawls, Muslins, Waistcoatings, coloured Threads, Camel's-hair Shawls, Shoes, Hats, Velvets, Ribbons Dimities, &c. ALSO, About 350 yds. of Tow, Cotton and Linen, and Woollen Cloths. Also—2 Pipes Gin, & 2 bales Cotton. Sale to commence at 11 o'clock. Nov. 24. S. LARKIN, Auc'tr.
REMOVAL. Alexander Ewen, INFORMS the public that he has removed his Auction-room to the one formerly occupied by brother Abraham Isaac, in Buck-street, where he shall be happy to receive all commands. He also solicits the favors of the public in the line of a BROKER.
Auction. TO-MORROW, At 11 o'clock A. M. at the Auction room of A. EWEN, Buck-street, Souchong & Hyson-skin TEAS, —4d, 6d, and 8d English wrought NAILS; with a variety of other articles, part for cash and part on a credit of 60 days. Nov. 24. ALEX'R EWEN, Auctioneer.
House Lots at AUCTION. ON Saturday 28th inst. at 11 o'clock, A. M. on the premises, will be sold at Public Auction, about twenty-five HOUSE LOTS, situated between the South Road and Pickering's Mill-Pond (so called) in this town; bounded westerly by land of his Excellency JOHN LANGDON, Esq. and easterly on Mount Vernon-street, leading from said South road to said pond. Said Lots are pleasantly situated for building, and command an extensive view of the town, harbour, and adjacent country; two of them are situated on the Pond, which would be an excellent place for a Tan-Yard or Slaughter-House. Terms will be such as cannot fail being satisfactory to the purchaser. A plan of said Lots may be seen at the store of the subscriber any time previous to the day of sale. E. CHADWICK.
N.B. Any Person wishing to exchange West-India Produce for lots, can be accommodated at private sale, previous to the Auction. November 17.
REMOVAL. THOMAS & TAPPAN, [BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS.] INFORM their friends & the public, that they have removed to the Corner Store in Mr. Sheafe's new buildings, facing the parade; where they shall be happy to see those who may please to call. November 24.
LAST CHANCE. TICKETS, Quarters & Eighths, in Amoskeag Lottery, now drawing, for sale at the Bookstore of THOMAS & TAPPAN, corner of Market and Daniel-streets. Those persons who engaged Tickets at the original price, are desired to come and receive them. Nov. 24.
BEEF Wanted!
NOTICE. It is hereby given that the Overseers of the Poor, for the town of Portsmouth, are in want of Beef for the Alms house; all persons who are indebted for taxes within this town, are informed that good Beef fit for packing, will be received, and discounted for taxes, at the market price Nov. 24.
S. Goddard Has just received a further supply of LADIES most fashionable BLACK BEAVER BONNETS, fawn pelisse Cassimeres, cut glass Buttons, Ladies kid habit Gloves, scarlet Bombazets, black India Lustings, cotton & silk Bandannahs, blue India Cottons, mock Madras and Scotch plaid Handkfs, black Crapes, French Ribbons and Taftes, fine linen Cambrics, linen cambric Threads N o 40 to 80; French Hat-cases remarkably low, American light dye Sewings; fashionable dark Robes; elegant velvet and Windsor cord Vestings. Also, PLAIN FAWN and SPOTTED PELISE FLANNELS, and a fresh assortment of black Bear and mock Sable MUFFS and TIPPETS;—all which, though scarce and in demand, will be sold at low prices.
Joseph W. March, HAS received by the New Packet, and Mary-Jane and other late arrivals from England, a large addition to his former stock of HARD-WARE
GOODS: Comprising a very extensive assortment, which are ready for sale for cash or approved credit—viz—
8000 feet 6 by 8, 7 by 9, 8 by 10, 9 by 11 and 10 by 12 Bristol Crown Window GLASS; blister'd Steel; sheet Iron; nail Rods; English Spades and Shovels; fry Pans; Brels Kettles; English wrought Nails; Spikes and Brads; Smith's Anvils and Vices; cart, waggon and chaise Boxes; English mill Saws; fowling Pieces; horseman's Pistols; sheet Lead; patent Shot. A great variety of BRASS WARE, consisting of— Door Locks; Bolts and Hinges; clock Balls; Quadrants; Capitals and Bases; fluted Latches; Door Rappers; comode Nobs; plain screw'd and patent brass Cocks; brass Candlesticks; bed Caps; Escutcheons; brass frame Pulleys; furniture Brasles; brass Nails; warming Pans; chimney Hooks; chafing Dishes; fire Fenders; brass Lamps; lifting Handles; curtain Rings; flush Bolts; table Catches; brass Nobs; lamp Hooks; brass Handles; Castors; screen Springs; Pendants; window Latches; Commodes; brass Skimmers; brass and copper Sheets. Plated gig Furniture in sets; plated and common Stirrups and Bits, harness Buckles and Tips; plated and common Spurs; knee Buckles; horse Whips; curvy Combs. A large assortment of CUTLERY. Table Knives and Forks; sportsman's Knives; Razors; Scissors & Shears; tanners and curriers Knives; pocket, pruning and Pen Knives; cast steel and common Chisels and Gouges; butchers Knives; Carvers; Chopping Knives. Iron Door Locks of all sizes, with brass rings and nobs; Locks; Hinges; Latches and Bolts of every description; cross cut, pannell, web, compass, hand and key hole Saws; Spike, deck nail and common Gimblets; tap and bung Borets; pod Augers; cast steel Trowels; iron Weights from 1-2 oz. to 56 lb. A handsome variety of JAPAN'D WARE. Otagon tea Trays, morocco and black ground with gold and imitation borders; japan'd Caddies; bread Baskets; tea Cannisters; oval and roman Waiters;uffer Trays; Candlesticks and Lamps; knife Trays and lantern Lamps; cheele Wagons; japan'd dressing Cases. Cast steel and common handshaw Files; Raps; 1/2 round and flat ballard Files; goldsmiths and watch makers Tools; coopers Jointers; plain Irons; clock Faces; dressing Cases; pocket Books; patent spring Suspenders; tooth Brushes; lead Pencils; Necklaces; Pins and Needles. A large assortment of BRUSHES. Painters Tools; coat and vest Buttons; clock and watch Furniture; chaise Whips; whip Thongs; tortoise shell and horn Combs; Britannia iron and pewter Spoons; scale Beams; Sicylards; Spectacles; steel spring and common Snuffers, wood Screws. Brass and iron pipe Bellows; Shoels and Tongs; shovel Pans; Devonshire Shovels; Gridirons; copper and sheet iron tea Kettles; coffee Mills; Skimmers and Ladles; sleigh Bells; Looking Glasses; brass, iron and japan'd Candlesticks; tender Boxes; patent Lamps; japan'd Grates; patent and common awl Blades; brass and iron Wire; silver and brass Thimbles; wire and steel rat Traps. London and Bristol Pewter; Cod Lines; bed Cords; brass and copper Sheets; cod and mackerel fish Hooks; thips Scrapers; iron and wood Braces with bits; shawling Boxes and Brushes; hand screw Plates; brass and paper ink Pots; bed Screws; iron Squares; box Rules; souf and tobacco Boxes; table and bottle Bells; elastic and common knitting Pins; brass and iron Jeweharps; block tin tea Pots; bullet Moulds; pistol and gun Locks; coopers Adzes; gun Flints; shingling Hatches; goldsmiths Sikes; camels hair Pencils; razor Straps; wire moule Traps. Joiners Stocked moulding Tools; oval, groving, nicking, table, rabin, frying, jack and smoothing PLANES; quirk, oval and Beads; Quirk O Gees; flanding Phillifiers; Beads and Coves; quarter Rounds; Gothick Sash and Temples; fish Phillifiers; shinglials back O Gees & Beads. He has constantly for sale, Cast Iron Hollow WARE, cut and wrought Nails and Brads of all sizes—by the cask or retail. November 24.
FOR SALE,
A small Farm in the town of Stratham, containing thirty three acres of good Land, with convenient Buildings in good repair, and a never failing Well of water thereon; and Orchard that has produced this present year apples equal to about 50 barrels of cider. Said farm is about half a mile south from Mr. Hatch's tavern, and within 8 miles of Portsmouth. This stand has good privileges for a shoe-maker and tanner. Any person wishing to purchase, may know the terms by applying to THOMAS CHASE of New-Hampton, or to THOMAS WIGGIN of Stratham. N.B. Possession may be given immediately should any person appear to purchase. Nov. 14.
TO LET,
Two Farms within twelve miles of the town of Portsmouth, containing two hundred acres each, with good buildings on the same; barns 100 feet each on said farms, and hay cut to fill the same, which is an encouragement to good industrious men; none but such need apply. Possession of said farms will be given the first of April next.—For further particulars inquire of the printers. Nov 24
State of New-Hampshire—Coos fs.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of CHATHAM, State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their town, school and highway taxes for the year 1807—that so much of their land as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of Asa Eastman, Esq. in said town, on the first Monday of February 1808, at ten of the clock in the forenoon unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
Table with 7 columns: Original Proprietors' Names, No. of Lots, Acres, Town tax, School tax, Highway tax, Amount. Rows include Jacob Treadwell jr., Do. undivided, James Goodwin, Do. undivided, John Dale, Do. undivided, Jeremy Bryant Esq., Do. undivided, John Burley jr., Do. undivided, Jeremiah Bellum, Do. undivided, John Folsum of Greenland, Do. undivided.
Table with 7 columns: Lands in Mt. D'Arnaud's Location, Duniap lot No. 2 in Langdon's Location, Samuel Bradley's lot No. 6, Timothy Stevens in lot No. 1 in Langdon's location, James Hobbs in lot No. 5 first division, E. H. Burgin, John Hazeltine's in lot No. 18 in Langdon's location, John's lot, Lots granted to Herb, Esq. and Walden, Esquires, Moses Conney's grant, Nathaniel Osgood's lot No. 1, 1st division, Amos Hutchins's lot No. 18, in Langdon's location, Judah Dana's lots No. 8 & 9 in the first range and 2d division, Manuel Grace, NATHANIEL WHITTECAR, Collector. Chatham, November 10, 1807.
State of New-Hampshire—Strafford fs.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of MOULTONBOROUGH, State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their town, county, school, and road taxes for the year 1807, that so much of their land as will pay said taxes together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of Samuel Burnham, innholder in said town, on the 26th day of January, 1808, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
Table with 7 columns: Original Names, No. of lots, School tax, Highway tax, Town tax, Amount. Rows include Frederick Horn, do. undivided, Thomas Ransom, do. undivided, Joseph Holbrook, do. undivided, Benjamin Currier, do. undivided, Samuel White, Esq., do. undivided, Jonathan M. Sewall, do. undivided, William Stanwood, do. undivided, Thomas McDonough, Mill Lot, Stephen Sumner, One third of said right, EDWARD ROWELL, Collector. Piercy, October 13th, 1807.
Smith & Haven, Have received for the New Packet from Liverpool and for sale, an additional supply of
HARDWARE & CUTLERY
GOODS, consisting of a variety of articles, among which are, IRON Shovels; frying Pans; tin, tin iron and copper Tea Kettles; polished and copper Coffee Pots; japan'd and block tin Tea Pots; japan'd Canisters; ditto bread Baskets; London Pewter; tin'd-iron Stew Pans; iron and box Coffee Mills; bras and iron Cocks; bras and japan'd Candlesticks; ditto Lamps; gun Locks; stock, door, mortice, closet, trunk, chest, desk and pad Locks; nob and thumb Latches; bras and iron Hinges; Butts; Bolts; wood Screws; Cupboard Tuns; Rings; nobs and cloak Pins a great variety of
Table Knives and Forks; carving and desert do.; sportsman, pocket & pen Knives; pallet and shoe do.; cross cut and web Saws; hand, compass and key hole do.; Files; Hammers; Chisels; Gouges; screw and hand Augers; Raps and plane Irons. with a variety of
Joiner's and Cooper's Tools; 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, 12d, 20d and 24d, wro't and cut Nails; 14 oz. 2d, 3d, and 4d clout ditto; 4d and 6d trunk ditto; Spikes; sheathing & deck do. Also, Tar, Pitch, Roan, and Turpentine; bright and black Varnish; spirits of Turpentine; Sole Leather; American Cordage and Bolt-rope; Russia Iron and Duck. No. 5, Merchants-Row, Nov. 24.
GROCERIES, viz.
Rum; Brandy; cherry Rum; Molasses; Hyson, Souchong and Bohea Teas; Loaf and brown Sugar; Rice; Chocolate; Pepper; Nutmegs, &c.
STEPHEN HARDY, Market-street. Has received a variety of
Jewelry and other Goods, viz. GOLD NECKLACES; pearl set gold Pins and Rings; jet Rings and Pins for hair; plain gold Pins, Rings and Broaches for hair or without; gold Seals and Keys; gilt Pins; Watch keys, Seals and Chains; ornamented Combs; Pocket-Books; Thread-cases and Purses; Spangles; silver Thimbles; steel Snuffers and Trays; Candlesticks.
JAPAN'D WARE, &c. Gold and imitation bordered, morocco and black ground Tea Trays; knife and snuffer ditto; table and desert Knives and Forks; floor, hearth, cloth and hair Brushes; Bellows; Penknives; Scissors; Jackknives; Horse and Chaise Whips; Blocktin and Britannia Tea Pots; table Bells; Japan'd Lamps. November 24.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber, administratrix to the estate of PETER HASSELTINE, yeoman, late of Chester, deceased, hereby gives notice to all concerned, that she will exhibit her administration account for allowance, to the Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire, at the Probate court to be held at Londonderry on the third Wednesday of December next, at which time and place they may attend if they see cause.
HANNAH HASSELTINE. Chester, November 16, 1807.
State of New-Hampshire—Coos fs.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of PIERCY, county of Coos, and State of New-Hampshire, who have not paid the school house and school taxes assessed on said lands for the year 1807; that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 15th day of February, 1808; so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of the subscriber, in said Piercy, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on said day, as will be sufficient to pay said taxes with incidental charges.
Table with 7 columns: Original Names, No. of lots, School tax, Highway tax, Town tax, Amount. Rows include Frederick Horn, do. undivided, Thomas Ransom, do. undivided, Joseph Holbrook, do. undivided, Benjamin Currier, do. undivided, Samuel White, Esq., do. undivided, Jonathan M. Sewall, do. undivided, William Stanwood, do. undivided, Thomas McDonough, Mill Lot, Stephen Sumner, One third of said right, EDWARD ROWELL, Collector. Piercy, October 13th, 1807.

State of New-Hampshire—Strafford, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of BURTON , State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their State, county, town, school and highway taxes for the year 1806; that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber in said town of Burton, on the second Monday of February, 1808, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Original Proprietors Names. Number. Range. Division. Number. Range. Division. Number. Range. Division. State tax. County tax. Town tax. School tax. Highway tax.     Theodore Atkinson, 26 1 N 30 6 N K O E 4 15 39 1 16   Capt. Ephraim Berry, 23 3 N 2 4 S 3 10 26 0 76   Walter Brier, Esq. 16 2 N 5 A N 4 O E 9 4 15 39 1 16   John Burley, 4 1 N 16 1 N 9 4 15 39 1 16   William Butterfield, 2 3 S 8 3 N 18 4 A 9 4 15 39 1 16   John Folsom, 3 5 N 26 3 N H O E 9 4 15 39 1 16   Capt. Jere Folsom, 8 5 N 5 3 N 7 3 N 9 4 15 39 1 16   Jere Folsom, jr. 13 5 N 2 2 N B O E 9 4 15 39 1 16   Peter Folsom, 3 3 S 4 3 S 14 4 S 9 4 15 39 1 16   Jacob Fowler, 1 3 N 22 6 N 2 1 N 9 4 15 39 1 16   David Gilman, 15 5 N 12 2 N C 4 S 9 4 15 39 1 16   Samuel Gilman, 18 2 N 12 4 S 9 4 15 39 1 16   Simon Gilman, 3 O E 7 A N 22 1 S 9 4 15 39 1 16   John Judkins, 29 5 N 7 3 N 20 1 N 9 4 15 39 1 16   Clement March, Esq. 10 1 N 3 1 6 13 0 48   Paul March, Esq. 25 1 N 7 2 N F O E 9 4 15 39 1 16   Hubartus Mattoon, 15 3 N 4 A N 4 4 S 9 4 15 39 1 16   Jonathan Moulton, Esq. 9 5 N 3 2 N 15 4 S 9 4 15 39 1 16   Josiah Moulton, 16 3 N 23 2 N 9 4 15 39 1 16   John Mc Duffee, 4 2 N 7 4 S 6 2 11 25 0 78   George Place, 10 2 N 21 1 N 6 2 11 25 0 78   Samuel Pear, 19 5 N 14 3 N 6 2 11 25 0 78   Robert Pike, 21 5 N 10 4 S 6 2 11 25 0 78   Daniel Peirce, Esq. 24 1 N 27 3 N E O E 9 4 15 39 1 16   Oliver Peavy, 2 A N 20 5 N 11 3 S 9 4 15 39 1 16   James Rogers, 17 2 N 19 1 N 6 2 11 25 0 78   William Rogers, 13 1 N 8 2 N 9 A N 9 4 15 39 1 16   Edward Smith, 16 5 N 9 2 N 2 O E 9 4 15 39 1 16   Nathaniel Tilton, 1 A N 22 5 N 11 4 S 9 4 15 39 1 16   Josiah York, 1 2 N 13 3 S 6 2 11 25 0 78   Locations & other Lots,   Mary Weed, 25 3 N 3 1 5 13 0 39   Ebenezer Gay 10,000 acres, 157 46 261 658 19 76   John Weed, 100 acres, 3 1 6 13 0 38   Obadiah Worth, 100 acres, 3 1 6 13 0 38   Lot No. 3 and 4, by Hales Location, 6 2 11 25 0 76  
Burton, November 10, 1807. HENRY ALLARD, Collector.
State of New-Hampshire—Strafford, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of BURTON , State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their county, town, school and highway taxes for the year 1807; that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber in said town of Burton, on the second Monday of February, 1808, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Original Proprietors Names. Number. Range. Division. Number. Range. Division. Number. Range. Division. State tax. County tax. Town tax. School tax. Highway tax.     Theodore Atkinson, Esq. 26 1 N 30 6 N K O E 3 11 39 78   Ede H. Burgen, 14 5 N 19 2 N 25 2 N 3 11 39 78   Capt. Ephraim Berry, 7 4 N 23 3 N 2 4 S 3 11 39 78   Walter Bryant, Esq. 16 2 N 5 A N 4 O E 3 11 39 78   John Burley, 4 1 N 16 1 N 2 7 25 65   William Butterfield, 2 3 S 8 3 N 18 4 N 3 11 39 78   John Folsom, 3 5 N 26 3 N H O E 3 11 39 78   Capt. Jere Folsom, 8 5 N 5 3 N 7 3 N 3 11 39 78   Jere Folsom, jr. 13 5 N 2 2 N B O E 3 11 39 78   Peter Folsom, 3 3 S 4 3 S 14 4 S 3 11 39 78   Philip Fowler, 32 5 N 3 1 N 28 5 N 3 11 39 78   Jacob Fowler, 1 3 N 32 6 N 2 1 N 3 11 39 78   Joshua Furber, 12 8 N 34 1 N C O E 3 11 39 78   David Gilman, 15 5 N 12 2 N C 4 S 3 11 39 78   Samuel Gilman, 17 3 N 18 2 N 12 4 S 3 11 39 78   Simon Gilman, 3 O E 7 A N 22 1 S 3 11 39 78   John Judkins, 29 5 N 7 3 N 20 1 N 3 11 39 78   Clement March, Esq. 10 1 N 1 4 13 26   Paul March, Esq. 25 1 N 7 2 N F O E 3 11 39 78   Hubartus Mattoon, 15 3 N 4 A N 4 4 S 3 11 39 78   Jonathan Moulton, Esq. 9 5 N 3 2 N 15 4 S 3 11 39 78   Josiah Moulton, 16 3 N 23 2 N 2 7 26 52   John Mc Duffee, 4 2 N 7 4 S 2 7 26 52   George Place, 10 2 N 21 1 N 2 7 26 52   Samuel Pear, 8 4 N 19 5 N 14 3 N 3 11 39 78   Robert Pike, 9 4 N 21 5 N 10 4 S 3 11 39 78   John Pike, 15 4 N 26 5 N 22 7 N 3 11 39 78   Daniel Peirce, Esq. 24 1 N 27 3 N E O E 3 11 39 78   Oliver Peavy, 2 A N 20 5 N 11 3 S 3 11 39 78   James Rogers, 17 2 N 5 1 N 19 1 N 3 11 39 78   William Rogers, 13 1 N 8 2 N 9 A N 3 11 39 78   Gyles Saward, 4 4 N 18 5 N 17 3 S 3 11 39 78   Edward Smith, 16 5 N 9 2 N 2 O E 3 11 39 78   Nathaniel Tilton, 1 A N 22 5 N 11 4 S 3 11 39 78   Josiah York, 12 1 N 1 2 N 13 3 S 3 11 39 78   Locations & other Lots,   Mary Weed, 23 3 N 1 4 13 26   Ebenezer Gay, 10,000 acres, 45 188 696 1292   John Weed, 100 acres, 1 4 13 26   Obadiah Worth, 100 acres, 1 4 13 26   Lots No. 3 and 4, by Hale's location, 2 8 26 52  
Burton, November 10, 1807. HENRY ALLARD, Collector.
State of New-Hampshire—Grafton, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of ELLSWORTH , State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their highway, county, town and school taxes for the year 1807; that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of Gideon Hill, in said town, on the first Monday of February 1808, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
   Proprietors and Owners Names. No. Lot. Range. Division. Number. Range. Division. Number. Range. Division. State tax. County tax. Town tax. School tax. Highway tax.     Samuel Cutts, Esq. 60 4 5 42 2 6 13 19 1 2 6   John Hurd, Esq. 60 7 4 42 2 6 13 19 1 2 6   John Parker, Esq. 60 8 3 42 2 6 13 19 1 2 6   William Whipple, Esq. 60 25 4 42 2 6 13 19 1 2 6   Matthew Hallet, 60 2 3 42 2 6 13 19 1 2 6   Supply Clapp, 60 10 5 42 2 6 13 19 1 2 6   Daniel Brewster, 60 3 5 42 2 6 13 19 1 2 6   Michael Fowler, 60 19 4 42 2 6 13 19 1 2 6   Benjamin McKay, 60 12 1 42 2 6 13 19 1 2 6   Robert Trail, Esq. 60 13 3 42 2 6 13 19 1 2 6   Nathaniel Hurd, 60 15 1 42 2 6 13 19 1 2 6   Seth Ford, 30 7 & 8 1 21 1 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  
Ellsworth, October 24, 1807. GIDEON HILL, Collector.
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Important State Paper.
REPORT of the SECRETARY of the TREASURY of the United States—Communicated to Congress November 6, 1807.
IN obedience to the directions of the act supplement-ary to the act, intitled, "An act to establish the Treasury Department," the Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits the following Report and estimates.
REVENUE AND RECEIPTS.
The net revenue arising from duties on merchandise and tonnage which accrued during the year 1805, amounted to Dollars 14,135,138
And that which accrued during the year 1806, amounted, as will appear by the statement (A.) to 16,576,454
The same revenue, after deducting that portion which arose from the duty on salt, and from the additional duties constituting the Mediterranean fund, amounted during the year 1805, to 12,520,532
And during the year 1806, to 14,809,758
It is ascertained that the net revenue which has accrued during the three first quarters of the year 1807, exceeds that of the corresponding quarters of the year 1806; and that branch of the revenue may, exclusively of the duty on salt, and of the Mediterranean fund, both of which expire on the 1st day of January next, be safely estimated for the present, and if no change takes place in the relations of the United States with foreign nations, at fourteen millions of dollars.
The statement (B.) exhibits in detail, the several species of merchandise and other sources from which the revenue was collected during the year 1806.
It appears by the statement (C.) that the sales of the public lands have, during the year ending on the 30th September, 1807, exceeded 284,000 acres. Some returns are not yet received: and the proceeds of sales in the Mississippi Territory being, after deducting the surveying and other incidental expenses appropriated in the first place to the payment of a sum of 1,250,000 dollars to the state of Georgia, have not been included, but are distinctly stated. The actual payments by purchasers have, during the same period, exceeded 680,000 dollars; and the receipts into the treasury from that source may, after deducting charges and the five per cent. reserved for roads, be estimated for the ensuing year, at 500,000 dollars.
The receipts arising from the permanent revenue of the United States may, therefore, without including the duties on postage and other incidental branches, be computed for the year 1808, at 14,500,000
And the payments into the treasury during the same year, on account of the salt and Mediterranean duties previously accrued, are estimated at one million three hundred thousand dollars, 1,300,000
Making in the whole an aggregate of fifteen million eight hundred thousand dollars, 15,800,000
LAST QUARTER OF THE YEAR 1807.
The balance in the treasury which, on the 30th day of September 1806, amounted to 5,496,969 dollars 77 cents, did on the 30th day of September 1807, amount to 8,530,000
The receipts into the treasury from the 1st of October to the 31st day of December 1807, are estimated at 4,000,000
12,530,000
The expenses during the same period for all objects whatever, the public debt excepted, and including 686,076 dollars for the extraordinary expenditures of the Navy Department, of which the estimate has been transmitted, are estimated at 1,700,000
The ordinary payments on account of the public debt, including the provision for the interest on the Louisiana and Dutch debt, to the 1st of July, 1808, are estimated at 1,700,000
A further sum of about 1,500,000 dollars should also be paid during this quarter, in order to complete the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars. If the whole of this sum, which is applicable to the purchase of the eight per cent. stock, cannot be expended this year, the unexpended balance will form an additional expenditure for the year 1808, charging however the whole to this quarter, 1,500,000
Making an aggregate of 4,900,000 dollars, and will leave in the treasury at the close of the year a balance of about seven millions six hundred thousand dollars, 7,630,000
12,530,000
EXPENDITURES OF THE YEAR 1808.
The permanent expenses calculated on a peace establishment are estimated at 11,600,000 dollars, and consist of the following items, viz.
1. For the civil department, and all domestic expenses of a civil nature; including inva-lid pensions, the light house and mint establish-ments, the expenses of surveying public lands and the sea coast, the fifth instalment of the loan due to Maryland, and a sum of 100,000 dollars to meet such miscellaneous appropriations, not included in the estimates, as may be made by Congress, 1,100,000
2. For expenses incident to the intercourse with foreign nations, including the permanent appropriation for Algiers, 200,000
3. For the military and Indian department, including trading houses, and the permanent appropriation for certain Indian tribes, 1,280,000
4. For the naval establishment, 1,020,000
5. For the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars for the payment of the principal and interest of the public debt; of which sum not more than 3,400,000 dollars will for the year 1808 be applicable to the payment of interest, 8,000,000
11,600,000
To the permanent expenses must be added for the year 1808, a sum of about 800,000 dollars, necessary in addition to the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars, to complete on the 1st January, 1809, the reimbursement of the 8 per cent. stock, 800,000
And for paying the balance of American claims, assumed by the French convention, 200,000
Making altogether 12,600,000 dollars for the expenses of that year, 12,600,000
The receipts of that year hav-ing been estimated at 15,800,000
And the probable balance in the treasury on the 1st of January next, at 7,630,000
Making altogether 23,430,000
Would therefore probably leave in the treasury on the 1st of January, 1809, a balance of near eleven millions of dollars, 10,830,000
23,430,000
PUBLIC DEBT.
It appears by the statement (D.) that the payments on account of the principal of the public debt, have during the year ending the 30th day of September 1807, exceeded 4,600,000 dol-
lars;—making the total of public debt reimbursed from the 1st of April, 1801, to the 1st of October, 1807, about 25,880,000 dollars, exclusively of more than six millions, which have been paid during the same period, in conformity with the provisions of the treaty and convention with Great Britain, and of the Louisiana convention.
Of the twelve millions of dollars, which, according to the preceding estimates, may be paid on account of the public debt, between the 30th September, 1807, and the 1st January, 1809, about eight millions will be on account of the principal. It must, however, be observed, that the unascertained result of the proposition made to the public creditors for the modification of the debt, may affect the amount payable during the year 1808, on account of both principal and interest.
On the first day of January, 1809, the principal of the debt will, if the proposed modification be not assented to by the public creditors, amount to near fifty-seven millions and five hundred thousand dollars. The subsequent annual payments thereon on account of principal and interest, will not, exclusively of occasional purchases, exceed 4,600,000 dollars: and the whole of the debt, the nineteen millions of three per cent. stock only excepted, will be reimbursed in 16 years.
A general subscription would reduce the capital to about fifty-one millions of dollars. The payments would amount to eight millions of dollars annually, during six years, and average less than three millions during the seven following; at the end of which period the whole debt would be extinguished.
An annual unappropriated surplus of at least three millions of dollars, may henceforth be relied upon with great confidence. The receipts of the year 1808 have been estimated at 15,800,000 and the expenses at 12,600,000 dollars. The permanent revenue has been computed at 14,500,000 dollars, and the permanent expenses, predicated on an annual payment of eight millions of dollars on account of the debt, have been stated at 11,600,000 dollars; and this would, if no modification of the debt should take place, be reduced to less than 8,500,000, the annual surplus would then amount to six millions of dollars.—Nor are the seven millions and an half of dollars, which will remain in the treasury at the end of the present year, included in the calculation.
What portion of that surplus may be wanted for necessary measures of security and defence; what portion should be applied to internal improvements, which, whilst increasing and diffusing the national wealth, will strengthen the bonds of union, are subjects which do not fall within the province of the Treasury Department—but it is not impossible, that after making ample provision for both those objects considerable surpluses, and which can no longer be applied to the redemption of the debt, may still accumulate in the treasury.
The previous accumulation of treasure in time of peace might, in a great degree, defray the extraordinary expenses of war, and diminish the necessity of either loans or additional taxes. It would provide, during periods of prosperity, for those adverse events to which every nation is exposed, instead of increasing the burdens of the people at a time when they are least able to bear them, or of impairing by anticipations the resources of ensuing generations—and the public monies of the U. States not being locked up and withdrawn from the general circulation; but on the contrary deposited in banks, and continuing to form a part of the circulating medium, the most formidable objection to that system, which has nevertheless been at times adopted with considerable success in other countries, is thereby altogether removed. It is also believed that the renewal of the charter of the bank of the U. States may, amongst other advantages, afford to government an opportunity of obtaining interest on the public deposits, whenever they shall exceed a certain amount.
Should the United States, contrary to their expectation and desire, be involved in a war, it is believed that the receipts of the year 1808 will be materially affected by the event, inasmuch as they will principally arise from the revenue accrued during the present year. The amount of outstanding bonds due by importers after deducting the debentures issued on account of re-exportations, exceeds, at this time, sixteen millions of dollars. The deductions to be made from these on account of subsequent re-exportations, would, in case of war, be less than usual; for exportations will then be checked, as well as importations, and in proportion as these will decrease, a greater home demand will be created for the stock on hand, and the necessity of re-exporting be diminished.
It has already been stated, that the specie in the treasury at the end of this year, together with the surplus of the year 1808, will amount to near eleven millions of dollars—a sum probably adequate to meet the extraordinary expenses of the war for that year. It will also be recollected, that in the estimated expenses of the year 1808, the reimbursement of near five millions and a half of the principal of the debt is included. The only provision therefore which may render any contingency necessary for the extraordinary service of that year, in order to cover all deficiency of revenue or increase of expenditure beyond what has been estimated, will be an authority to borrow a sum equal to that reimbursement.
That the revenue of the United States will, in subsequent years, be considerably impaired by war, neither can or ought to be concealed. It is on the contrary, necessary, in order to prepare for the crisis, to take an early view of the subject, and to examine the resources which should be selected for supplying the deficiency, and defraying the extraordinary expenses.
There are no data from which the extent of defalcation can, at this moment, be calculated, or even estimated.
It will be sufficient to state, 1st. That it appears necessary to provide a revenue at least equal to the annual expenses on a peace establishment, the interest of the existing debt, and the interest on the loans which may be raised.—2d. That those expenses, together with the interest of the debt, will, after the year 1808, amount to a sum less than seven millions of dollars, and therefore, that if the present revenue of fourteen millions five hundred thousand dollars shall not be diminished more than one half by the war, it will still be adequate to the object, leaving only the interest of war loans to be provided for.
Whether taxes should be raised to a greater amount, or loans be altogether relied on for defraying the expenses of the war, is the next subject of our consideration.
Taxes are paid by the great mass of the citizens, and immediately affect every individual of the community. Loans are supplied by capitals previously accumulated by a few individuals. In a country where the resources of individuals are not generally and materially affected by the war, it is practicable and wise to raise by taxes the greater part at least of the annual supplies. The credit of the nation may also, from various circumstances, be at times so far impaired as to leave no resource but taxation. In both respects, the situation of the United States is totally dissimilar.
A maritime war in the United States, generally and deeply affecting, whilst it continues, the resources of individuals, as not only commercial profits will be curtailed, but principally because a great portion of the surplus of agricultural produce necessarily requires a foreign market. The reduced price of the principal articles exported from the U. States, will operate more heavily than any contemplated tax. And without en-quiring whether a similar cause may not still more deeply and permanently affect a nation at war with the United States, it seems to follow that so far as relates to America, the losses and privations caused by the war should not be aggravated by taxes beyond what is strictly necessary. An addition to the debt is doubtless an evil; but experience having now shown with what rapid progress the revenue of the union increases in time of peace, with what facility the debt formerly contracted has, in a few years, been reduced, a hope may confidently be entertained that all the evils of the war will be temporary and easily repaired, and that the return of peace will, without any effort, afford ample resources for reimbursing whatever may have been borrowed during the war.
The credit of the United States is also unimpaired either at home or abroad, and it is believed that loans to a reasonable amount may be obtained on eligible terms. Measures have been taken to ascertain to what extent this may be effected abroad; and it will be sufficient here to suggest, that the several banks of the U. States may find it convenient after the ensuing year, and as the diminished commerce of the country may require less capital, to loan to government a considerable portion of their capital stock, now computed at about forty millions of dollars.
It might be premature to enter into a particular detail of the several branches of revenue which may be selected, in order to provide for the interest of war loans, and to cover deficiencies in case the existing revenue should fall below seven millions of dollars. A general enumeration seems at present sufficient.
1. Not only the duty on salt and the Mediterranean duties may be immediately revived; but the duties on importation generally may, in case of war, be considerably increased, perhaps doubled, with less inconvenience than would arise from any other mode of taxation. Without resorting to the example of other nations, experience has proved that this source of revenue is, in the United States, the most productive, the easiest to collect, and the least burthensome to the great mass of the people. In time of war the danger of smuggling is diminished, the scarcity of foreign articles prevents the duty ever falling on the importer; the consumers are precisely those members of the community who are best able to pay the duty; and the increase of domestic manufactures, which may be indirectly affected, is in itself a desirable object.
2. Indirect taxes, however ineligible, will doubtless be cheerfully paid as war taxes, if necessary. Several modifications of the system formerly adopted, might however be introduced, both in order to diminish some of the inconveniences which were experienced, and particularly, to ensure the collection of the duties.
3. Direct taxes are liable to a particular objection arising from the unavoidable inequality produced by the general rule of the constitution. Whatever difference may exist between the relative wealth, and consequent ability of paying, of the several states, still the tax must necessarily be raised in proportion to their relative population.—Should it, however, become necessary to resort to that resource, it is believed that the tax raised upon that species of property in each state which, by the state laws, is liable to taxation, as had originally been contemplated by Congress, would be preferable to a general assessment laid uniformly on the same species of property in all the states, as was ultimately adopted.
All which is respectfully submitted.
ALBERT GALLATIN,
Treasury Department, } Secretary of the Treasury. Nov. 5, 1807. }
POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
The American, let his opinions on particular points of politics be what they may, when reflecting upon the contents of the President's Message, will come to a general conclusion, that his country is blessed with the best government yet seen; built upon the public weal, and administered for the common good; the interests of every class of society commanding equal attention and care from that government which every class has constituted.
The language of the Message is worthy a great and free people: it is calm, yet dignified; liberal, yet decided; abounding with interesting information clothed in the most simple drapery; understood by all, and to all, important. At a single glance a correct knowledge of our political concerns may be obtained, so far as they are known to an intelligent & indefatigable executive.
Of our affairs with Great Britain the executive does not appear to possess much information not already before the public from other sources. No advices have been received from our ministers at London since the outrage on the Chesapeake, or relative to the establishment of a principle in regard to our seamen, which our government seems determined to adhere to; to wit, that the same security shall be afforded this description of citizens as to others, in preventing impressments, and giving to them the enjoyment of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
The paper called the treaty, we are expressly informed, was protested against by our ministers, before it was sent hither; they acknowledged it to be built upon principles contrary to their instructions, and that therefore they could not consider our government in any degree pledged for its ratification. Under such circumstances we may wonder why they forwarded it, while all will agree that the President acted perfectly cor-
rect in remitting it without laying it before the Senate. The treaty-making power lies in the Senate and the President, and a concurrent voice is required. A submission of the paper to the Senate would have been useless, while it contained conditions at war with our rights, and such as the President, the Congress and the People would never agree to.
Our concerns with Spain still remain unsettled; but hopes are entertained that the period of adjustment is not far distant. We may observe in this paragraph of the Message relating to Spain, as well as the preceding one in regard to Great Britain, that the interests of our commerce have not been neglected; but that the capacious mind of Jefferson, viewing the whole, directs his attention to every part of our concerns. We shall expect, after such proceedings, that the clamor against him, as the enemy of the mercantile class of our citizens, will cease, if there is any sense of honor among his opponents.
In regard to our Indian neighbours it appears that every measure of prudence and precaution has been taken, and that if intrigue or corruption shall tempt them to take up the hatchet, their ravages will be speedily checked.
Every power vested in the executive has been exercised for the defence of our coasts, sea-ports and harbors.
The paragraph respecting Aaron Burr should be read more than once to obtain its full force on the mind. The President strongly hints at a remedy for evils similar to those interested in the trials at Richmond, and while we have "choice spirits" amongst us, the legislature of the union cannot too promptly attend to this part of the Message. In case of a rupture with Great Britain we have some Tories who probably may quote, as authority, the opinions on this case, and thus avoid punishment for their wicked and mischievous designs. The process of altering a single letter of the constitution is properly, a deliberate and tedious procedure; perhaps some better definition of treason may be wanted before the requisite concurrence of the states can be obtained for the purpose.
The account of receipts and expenditures is not the least interesting item in the Message.—We are the only nation in the world which is paying off their debts to their just and full amounts. While the governments of Europe are plunging still deeper and deeper into debt, and daily approximating to a state of bankruptcy, or despoiling their own subjects, or the people of neighbouring nations, of their hard earned wealth, in new taxes, contributions, sequestrations, &c. we calmly go on in a known road, without exertion or oppression, and have paid off in five and a half years, twenty-five millions and a half of principal, "being the whole which could be paid or purchased within the limits of the law and our contracts, and have left us in the treasury, eight millions and a half of dollars," to be appropriated to measures of defence or improvement, as Congress may deem advisable!
After such attention to our concerns on the part of the administration; after the season of prosperity and happiness we have enjoyed, if any will complain, their natures must be composed of materials very different from those of the great mass of society, and their dispositions be influenced by some other motive, we should presume, than the love of their country. [Balt. Ev. Post.]
If the emperor of Russia shuts his ports against Great Britain, (an event more than probable) and the folly and stupidity of her ministers and agents compel us to resent her injuries to the utmost of our power, what will become of her boasted navy?—From whence has she a prospect of receiving the immense and indispensable supplies? From Canada and Nova-Scotia?
Canada and Nova-Scotia are unable to supply the demand; and if they were, would the Americans permit them? Certainly not.
There never was a period at which it appears more the interest of G. Britain to cultivate our good will and preserve our friendship, than the present; and we do most sincerely and ardently hope, that, if a sense of justice, good faith and moral honesty, has no weight in her cabinet, that the fears of her ministry may operate for the preservation of peace.
The United States can have no desire for war with any nation—we would with "peace with all, entangling alliances with none." Yet there are certain great principles which must be preserved inviolate, or our boasted independence is not worth a cent.—For while our citizens are liable to be murdered because they will not fight the battles of Britain—while property on the ocean lies at the mercy of an admiralty judge, who has a share of its proceeds, while our coasts are insulted by hostile ships, our sovereignty violated, and even our coasting trade interrupted, we are not a "free, sovereign and independent nation." The office of the British king at the peace of 1763 is but nominal, while these outrages and indignities are permitted to exist. [Balt. Ev. Post.]
OCCASIONAL REMARKS.—After perusing the sanguinary relation of the capture of Copenhagen, it is expected we shall hear no more of the humanity, national honor or magnanimity of the British nation. What has been the crime of the unfortunate Danes? Nothing more; than they had a few ships of war, which the British were 'suspicious' might be improved to annoy them, and under that 'supposition' have fitted out a formidable armament to bombard their cities, annoy their commerce, and murder their wives and children. Gracious Heaven, to what desperate consequences is the doctrine of suspicion tending! Nations are falling victims to it, and the citizens may soon fall a sacrifice in our streets from the apprehensions of the abandoned and prodigal. Has not this doctrine of late urged to execute the most fatal purposes?—Suspicion was the cause of the attack on the Chesapeake—suspicion now holds thousands of our seamen prisoners on board of British ships. In short, the doctrine of 'suspicion' tends to subvert all order in government, and all virtue in society.

WHOLESALE. FRESH EUROPEAN & INDIA GOODS. J. H. Goddard & Co. MARKET-STREET.
HAVE received by the brig Hope and other late arrivals from Liverpool, and by the Romco from London, an elegant and very extensive assortment of
Fancy & Staple Piece GOODS, comprising with their former stock, almost every article of ENGLISH, SCOTCH, IRISH & INDIA manufacture, consisting of
West Country Broad-Cloths & Callicoes, Low priced, fine, and superfine Yorkshire do., double mill'd drab and black do., Brown, drab & mixed Bennet Cords, Union Cloths, Swandown, To'Ninet, Patent Cord, Velvet, & Marcelline Vestings of the newest figures, Extra fine white Marcelline, Blue and drab Devonshire Kerseys, Plains of all colours, Bottle green, brown, olive, corbeau, drab, and fawn Coatings Ladies ditto, 4-4 to 6-4 Bearskins and Duffils, twill'd and unwill'd; 6-4 to 11-4 Rose Blankets, Seamen's do., Single and double mill'd Baizes, Common, fine & extra fine Flannels, Donet ditto, Salisbury pelisse ditto, fashionable colours Spotted Swankins, German and common Serges, STUFF GOODS of all kinds:
WORSTEDS, LAMBS-WOOL, and ANGOLA HOSIERY, of every description, viz:— Mens rib'd and plain Hose, assorted greys; mens and womens black, white, slate & lead do., boys & girls do., assorted greys & plain colours; mens pantaloons half hose, gentlemen & ladies fleecy Socks, do. black & white Gauze Hose, Do. do. superfine, common, and gauze Drawers, Ladies under Petticoats, Mens knit Pantaloons mens and womens Gloves, &c.
SILK HOSIERY, viz: Mens black, white & assorted silk Gloves, womens long and habit ditto, Ladies' & gentlemen's Hose, cream, pink, white, & black Silk Hose, some with elegant embroidery; An extensive assortment of Mens, womens, and youths COTTON HOSIERY, including long & habit Gloves, Mitts, white Elastic Caps, &c., Velveteens, Velveteens, Genoa and silvered Cords, Thickfests, Pelice Tabby Velvets, Black, brown, drab, fawn, cinnamon and orange silk Shags; Trunks of common and fine Calicoes and printed Cambrics, containing a great variety of new patterns; 7-8 and 9-8 elegant London Prints, A large assortment of Patch and common Chintz Furnitures, Copperplate ditto; 3-4 to 9-8 British cotton Shirtings, Do. twill'd and unwill'd Sheetings, Cotton Diapers, Linen & cotton Manchester Checks, Cotton Chambrays, a great variety of Plain, and figured silk ditto; Trunks 7-8, 9-8 & 6-4 black and color'd Sarfuet Cambrics, Ditto emboss'd ditto new figures, Glazed and unglazed white ditto; Black, brown, fawn, cinnamon, bottle and grass green Silk Velvets, Silk Florentines, Scotch and Kidderminster CARPETINGS.
They also offer for sale, a general assortment of
DUTCH & FRENCH Goods, and the following STATIONARY, viz: 2 Cakes Quills, completely assorted; 2 do. best London thin post Letter Paper; 1 do. Inkpowder; a supply of American School Books of the most approved editions, and an excellent COPYING MACHINE, with apparatus complete.
The above Stock, comprising more than 100 Packages of Goods, is now ready for sale; they were received direct from the manufacturers, having been carefully selected, and purchased (principally with cash) by an agent on the spot; and as it has been determined that the sales shall be closed before the expiration of the present season, they will be offered per package, piece or dozen, at a small advance, and on terms of credit unusually extended. Portsmouth, October 20, 1807.
Hardware. Thomas W. Penhallow, Has received per ships President Adams, and Mary Jane, from England, an additional supply of
Cutlery, Ironmongery and Hardware GOODS; which are offered for sale on liberal terms by wholesale and retail. Among which are the following articles, viz—
JOINER'S, Ship-Carpenter's, Carver's, Sadler's, Cooper's and Shoemakers Tools; Iron and Brass Wire; Devonshire and square Iron Shovels and Spades; Sheet-Iron; Clock hands; best hoop L. Blister'd, Heart & Club, and Halback Steel; Anvils & Vices; Screw Plates; Church Plate; white Chappel and Superfine white Chappel Needles; bundle and lb. Pins. A complete assortment of
Joiner's stock'd Moulding Tools. An extensive assortment of Locks; Hinges, Latches, Bolts and Screws; Brass & Iron Thumb Latches and Rappers; brass Nails; Pewter; Clock Faces; Horsemens Pistols. Articles for furnishing Houses.
Brass Kettles; common & elegant plated Table Casters; Table & Desert Knives and Forks, Carvers, & Steels; Brass and copper Warming Pans; Tin'd sheet iron, copper and cast iron Tea Kettles; brass and iron Chaffing Dishes; plated brass, japan'd and iron Candlesticks; hard metal and block tin Tea Pots; plated, japan'd & steel Snuffers; plated and japan'd Snuffer Trays; Waiters; tin'd iron and composition Tea and Table Spoons; Flat Irons; Frying Pans; Shovels and Tongs; Andirons; brass Chimney Hooks; brass nose and common Bellows; Lanthorn Lamps; Looking Glasses; Cloak Pins; Floor, Hearth, Duct, Cloth, Shoe & Furniture Brushes; brass and japan'd Patent Lamps; black and morocco ground gold, and imitation border'd Octagon Tea Trays; japan'd Bread and Fruit Baskets; Knife Trays; Tea Cadies and Cannisters; Cheese Trays; iron and brass Skimmers; Flesh Forks, Ladies; House and Tea Table Bells; Grid Irons; Toasters; Chopping Knives; brass wash hand Basins; steel and box Coffee Mills; Decanter Lables; Cork Screws; Tinder Boxes complete; Bed Keys; Bed and Chair Pans; Bed Cords; Pewter Quarts and Pints; Fish Kettles; Porringers; bell metal Kettles and Skillets; Hatchets; black Lead; Rotten Stone, & Stair Rods. A large assortment of
SADDLERY, Viz. Webb's, plush, plated, and tin'd Bits and Stirrups; tin'd inlet and flat set Buckles; polished Roller Buckles; silvered and faded Buckles and Tips; silvered and faded Saddle Nails; steel and silvered Martingale Hooks; polished Cock-Eyes; Breakfast plate and Tug Buckles; plated Spurs; brass Terrets; Fly Rings; Water Hooks; Winker Circles & Pieces; Loops, Buckles, &c. An extensive assortment of FILES. A great variety of
Knives & Forks; Jackknives; Penknives; Razors; Scissors & Shears. Looking-Glasses from 2/3 to 12 dollars each; Scates; Sleigh Bells of all sizes; Hones, and Oil Stones. A large assortment of
Steel & common plate Saws, viz—Cross-Cut, Pit, Webb, Hand, Pannel, Dovetail, Compass, and Key Hole Saws; painted Scale Beams; Steelyards of all sizes; Razor Cales; Shaving Boxes; Curling Tongs; Scales and Dividers; Mathematical Instruments, Surveyor's Instruments; Ship Scrapers; Caulking Irons; Pitch Ladles; Rat Traps; Gun Locks; best Currier's Knives; patent Brick and Plastering Trowels; Coffin Letters and Figures; Slates, &c. ALSO
One hundred boxes best Bristol Crown Window Glass in prime order, consisting of the following sizes, viz. 6 by 8, 7 by 9, 8 by 10, 10 by 12, 10 by 14, 11 by 14, and 12 1/2 by 16 1/2; brass Commodes; best Scicels; Proof Glasses; Cow Bells; Cast Iron Weights, from 1/2 oz to 28 pounds; Shovel Pans; A large assortment of Horse and Chaise Whips; Horse Fetter Locks; Flints; Spikes; Deck Nails; Brads, Nails and Tacks cut and wrought, of all kinds; Cart, Chaise and Waggon Boxes of all sizes; Salt Weights, and Lines.
Best German steel Mill Saws. CAST IRON WARE, viz. Pots and Kettles of all sizes; Dutch Ovens; Spiders; Skillets; Dogs; Basins; High Pans; Tea Kettles, &c. T. W. P. informs his friends and the public, that he has removed to the store lately occupied by Messrs. Henderson and Cooper, next door to Mr. Draper's Market-street, where he respectfully solicits a continuance of their favours. Portsmouth, November 17, 1807.
TO LET, A LARGE convenient Dwelling House, directly opposite the mansion-house of the late Judge Langdon, in Broad-Street, Inquire of Wm. Ham, jr. Nov. 17.
NOTICE. At a special meeting of the Board of Firewards at Union Hall on the 6th Nov. 1807;—Voted Unanimously, That the Law of this State passed November 30th, 1803, authorizing the Firewards to make "By Laws" for the better security of the town against fire, and also an extract of a Law of the State for extinguishing fires, passed the 6th April, 1781, be published in the New Hampshire Gazette and Portsmouth Oracle, together with their By Laws, and 500 copies of the same be printed in hand Bills, for the information of the inhabitants of this town. Per order. SAMUEL LARKIN, Secretary.
LAW OF THE GENERAL COURT. "BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That it shall be the duty of the Fire wards, or the major part of them, within the town of Portsmouth, or any other town where fire wards are chosen, to make such rules and regulations, not repugnant to any law of this State, for preventing fires, or for clearing away shavings, or chips, or any combustible matter that may be thought dangerous, from any house, store, work shop, wharf, or street, as they in their judgment, may think proper. And the said fire wards shall have full power to annex such fines and penalties for the breach of any one, or all, of those rules and regulations, as may be necessary, not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person may fine or prosecute any one, for a breach of any of those rules or regulations so made, before any court of competent jurisdiction to try the same, in an action of debt; one half of which fines shall go to the prosecutor, and the other half to be applied for the use of the engines within the town where the offence is committed."
BY LAWS OF THE FIREWARDS FOR THE TOWN OF PORTSMOUTH. Resolved, That no person, or persons within the town of Portsmouth, shall, hereafter exercise their trades or occupations in stores, shops, work shops, or other places of business by night, near or amongst combustible materials, without having the candles or lamps, by which they so work or are occupied, well and carefully secured in a lantern, or in lieu thereof, a tin or metal candlestick or savel, with a bottom of ten inches diameter, and a rim one inch and a half high, and covered with water, on penalty of forfeiting for every neglect or offence, the sum of TWO DOLLARS. And all persons shall at least three times in every week, cause the chips, shavings, and other combustible materials, to be removed from the buildings, where they are at work or are occupied, on penalty of forfeiting for every neglect thereof, FIVE DOLLARS.
Resolved, That no Cooper or Coopers within the town of Portsmouth shall fire or burn any cask, or other vessel in any shop, ware house, or other place, than in a sufficient brick or stone chimney made convenient for that purpose, on pain of forfeiting FIVE DOLLARS, for every such offence.
Resolved, That no person or persons shall make any bon-fire, or set on fire, any wood, straw, shavings, or other combustible matter, by night or by day, in any street, lane or alley, or in any private or public yard or inclosure in this town, on pain of forfeiting the sum of FIVE DOLLARS.
Resolved, That every person who shall hereafter be employed in graving or caulking any vessel within the town of Portsmouth, on leaving such vessel shall extinguish all fires, and carefully secure all shavings or combustible matter used about such work, on penalty of forfeiting FIVE DOLLARS.
Resolved, That no person or persons who shall hereafter be employed in graving or sheathing any vessel, either hove down at any wharf or lying on any beach in this town, shall make any fire under any pot or other vessel for the purpose of heating any Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, or Rosin, or any other combustible material, unless such pot or other vessel shall be secured and enclosed in good and sufficient brick or stone work, under penalty of FIVE DOLLARS to be paid by the owner or occupant of such wharf or beach.
Resolved, That the occupant of every dwelling House in the town of Portsmouth, shall cause each chimney in such house in which a fire is by him or her usually kept, to be swept or burned once in three months at least, on penalty of forfeiting ONE DOLLAR. And if any chimney shall take fire for want of being regularly swept or burned, and shall blaze out at the top, the occupier of the apartment to which such chimney shall belong, shall forfeit ONE DOLLAR, unless it shall happen within three months after such chimney shall have been swept or burned.
Resolved, That every person using a Stove in any dwelling house or other building, shall cause it to be placed in a chimney or on a secure hearth of such materials and fixed in such a manner as the Firewards shall approve, on penalty of forfeiting FIVE DOLLARS for each and every week's neglect thereof.
Resolved, That no person shall hereafter use, have or carry any lighted Pipe or Cigar, into any street, lane, yard or alley, or on any wharf, or into any building in which hay, straw, or shavings, are usually kept within the town of Portsmouth, on penalty of forfeiting for each offence, TWO DOLLARS.
Resolved, That no person shall hereafter carry any lighted candle, torch or lamp, into any barn, stable, or other building, in which hay, straw, or shavings are usually kept in Portsmouth, or have, hold, or use the same therein, without having such candle, torch or lamp, secured in a closed lantern, on penalty of forfeiting FIVE DOLLARS for each and every such offence.
Resolved, That no person shall hereafter carry fire from any house or place within the town of Portsmouth, unto any other house or place within the same, except in some safe vessel well covered, on penalty of forfeiting ONE DOLLAR for each offence. WILLIAM BOYD, Chairman, SAMUEL LARKIN, Secretary.
Extract from a Law of the General Court. And be it further enacted, That every House of two stories high, which has four fire-places, shall be provided with one leather bucket; every such House having six fire-places, shall be provided with two such buckets, and having eight or more fire-places, with four such buckets as aforesaid, fit for, and to be used in the case of the breaking out of fire; which buckets shall be provided and constantly kept for the use aforesaid, at the charge of the owner of every such house. And every house shall have thereon a good secure ladder or ladders, reaching from the ground to the ridge-pole, provided by the owner or occupant; and if provided at the charge of the occupant to be allowed as aforesaid. And if any person or persons shall neglect to provide and keep said buckets and ladders as before required herein, each person so offending, shall pay two pounds for every three months neglect therein. And the said Firewards are hereby authorized to examine and determine as to the observation and compliance with this act, and shall be allowed as competent witnesses in any suit that may be commenced for any forfeiture incurred by virtue of this act. And all such fines and forfeitures shall be applied by the fire wards to purchase tools and instruments proper to be used at such fires as may accidentally, or otherwise happen in said town."
N. B. The Firewards remark with much satisfaction, the promptitude with which the greater part of their fellow-citizens have complied with their notifications for providing Buckets and Ladders. There are however yet some delinquents. Such, it is presumed, will no longer plead ignorance of the Laws, after this public notice. As the season is fast approaching when every possible precaution is necessary to be taken, to prevent the destructive element, the inhabitants are requested to use their exertions in affixing the Firewards to enforce the Laws, being determined to do their duty without partiality to any one; and are informed that they will meet at Union Hall on the first Monday in every month, at 7 o'clock, P. M. in order to hear any complaints, and to attend to any duty, that may then and there be required of them in their official capacities. Per Order of the Board. WM. BOYD, Chairman. S. LARKIN, Secretary. Portsmouth, November 9, 1807.
Benjamin Hill Has for sale at his Store, Spring Hill, 700 bbls. late made CIDER; W. I. Rum; Patent Rum, Gin & Brandy; French Brandy & country Gin; Teas; Indigo; blistered Steel; country Produce; Bbl. & Hhd Staves; R. O. Shooks; Clapboards, Shingles, &c. &c. Portsmouth, Nov. 17.
HARD-WARE GOODS. JOHN GODDARD HAS received by the late arrivals from England a very large addition to his former assortment of
HARD-WARE GOODS, making together a very uncommon variety, which are open and ready for sale at the lowest BOSTON prices by Wholesale and Retail for Cash or approved credit, viz.— A very general assortment of
SADDLERY, Consisting of Plated and common Stirrups, Bits, martingale furniture, Buckles and tips, saddle Nails, Saddler's Webs, &c. &c. Plated Gig Furniture in sets, Plated and common SPURS. Knives & Forks, Penknives, Jackknives, Butchers Knives, Razors, Scissors & Shears; Curriers Knives. Joiners Tools of almost every kind, Saddler's, Coopers' Turner's, Shoemaker's and Clockmaker's TOOLS: Cabinet maker's turning, splitting and fine ring SAWS. a great variety of
Cast steel & common Files & Rasps; brass and iron LOCKS of all kinds; Stock-Locks. Hinges, Latches, Bolts, wood-Screws, screw Plates; brass thumb Latches & Knockers, brass and iron Rappers, brass Skimmers. Furniture Brasles of the newest patterns; patent & common Brass Cocks; tined and iron Rivets. Horsemen's Pistols, Gentlemen's pocket ditto; gun and pistol Locks, and gun & pistol brass Mounting; brass & iron WIRE of all sizes. Brass Kettles, bell metal Kettles and Skillets; brass Wash Basins, bras and copper Warming Pans. Copper & sheet iron Teakettles, bras and iron Chaffing Dishes; Shovels and Tongs. a great variety of
Japanned Teatrays, Waiters, Cheese-Wagons, bread and fruit Baskets, Cadees, decanter Stands, dressing Cales, knife & snuffer Trays, Cannisters, quart & pint Jacks, Tumblers, &c. Planish'd tin Coffee Pots and Dish Covers; block tin, Britannia and japan'd Tea Pots; Cruets with common & plated stands; brass & japan'd patent Lamps; iron, japan'd bras & plated Candlesticks; japan'd & polished steel Snuffers. Elegant gift frame
Looking-Glasses of various sizes, mahogany frame ditto; pocket Spy Glasses; Surveyor's Compasses & Chains; Mathematical Instruments. Clock Faces, Clock Bells and Glasses; pendulum Springs, Pinions, Trimmings for Clocks, Grain tin. Watch Faces and Crystals; Watch Chains, Seals and Keys, inside Chains, chain Hooks, & Main Springs for ditto. Sundry articles of
Jewelry, among which are Necklaces, breast Pins, Broches, ear-Rings, finger Rings, &c. &c. Gentlemen & ladies Morocco Pocket-Books; Ladies Morocco Thread Cales & Purses; Ivory & Horn Combs. Coffin Letters, Figures and Plates; Fish Hooks of all sizes; superfine and common sewing Needles. A handsome assortment of
Chaise & riding Whips; brass and other Ink Cales; Time Glasses; Spectacles; upright and mahogany Shaving Cales; cow & sheep Bells. BRUSHES of various kinds, brass pipe and common Bellows, bellows Pipes; wire and steel rat Traps; wire and spring Moule Traps. Steelyards to weigh from 30 to 400 lbs.; Scale Beams large and small; brass Scales & Weights; cast iron Weights from 28 lbs. down. Bras head & other Andirons, Toasting-Irons; Gridirons, Coffee-Mills; tin'd and polished iron Skewers; London and Bristol PEWTER; bed and night-table Pans; tea and table Spoons; Sad Irons; ANVILS; Frying Pans; hand, tail and bench Vices; cart, waggon & chaise Wheel-Boxes; Patent SHOT. Shovels & Spades, sheet Iron, sheet Lead, Tin Plates; 8 by 6, 9 by 7, 10 by 8, 12 by 9, 12 by 10, 13 by 9, 13 by 10, 14 by 10, 15 by 10, 16 by 11, and 17 by 12 WINDOW-GLASS; and many other Articles. He also has for sale,
Painters Oil & Colours, paint Brushes, Dutch hearth & floor Brushes; Slates; English Writing Paper; Codlines, sewing Twine, sail & bell Line. Best German and American
Mill-SAWS, Screw Augurs; Halback's, Halinclevers and heart & club German STEEL; NAILS and BRADS of all sizes cut and wrought. Spikes; Cast-Iron WARE; Nail Plates, spike & nail Rods, Iron Hoops, &c. &c. Portsmouth, Oct. 6.
SPECTACLES. A New assortment of SPECTACLES of all ages, just arrived in the Romio from London, and for sale at C. PEIRCE's Book-store. Also, Memoirs of the Life and Experience, travels and preaching of Abner Jones. Nov. 10. [price 2/3.]
FOR SALE, OR TO LET. On reasonable terms at a two story dwelling HOUSE, with a good well of water in the yard, at the South end of the town, for terms apply to CHARLES BLUNT. Portsmouth, Nov. 17th, 1807.
NATHANIEL EMERY'S ESTATE. NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber having been appointed by the Honorable Judge of Probate, for the county of Rockingham, State of New-Hampshire, administrator to the estate of NATHANIEL EMERY, late of Loudon, in said county, yeoman, deceased, and having given bonds as the Law requires; notice is hereby given to all those that have demands against said estate to exhibit them at the next Probate Court, to be held at Exeter on the third Wednesday in January next, for adjustment, and those indebted to said estate are also requested to make payment immediately. JOHN EMERY, Administrator. Loudon, November 9th, 1807.
TO THE PUBLIC. Now preparing for the Press, and will be published some time in January next, A COURSE OF SERMONS, ENTITLED, An Illustration of the Prophecies, to be accomplished, from the present time until the new Jerusalem and Earth are created, when all the Prophecies will be fulfilled. BY ELIAS SMITH. CONTENTS OF THE SERMONS. 1. THE promises made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, concerning the land of Canaan—2. Remarks on the covenant made with the Israelites at mount Sinai—3. Remarks on the new covenant which God will make with the house of Judah and Israel in the latter days—4. The certain return of the Jews to the land of Canaan—5. The appearance of Jesus Christ on the mount of Olives, after the return of the Jews, at which time he will reign personally over the whole earth, in the land of Canaan—6. The thousand years of Christ's reign on the earth, proved and defended from the scriptures—7. What will then take place in the world—8. Temporal and spiritual blessings which will then be enjoyed—9. The holy house which will then be built in the land of Canaan, mentioned by Ezekiel—10. The flourishing state of Canaan at that time—11. The waters which shall flow through the land of Canaan in the thousand years—12. That all nations will then meet in that land, from year to year, to worship Christ, when he dwells there—13. That all nations will then speak one language—14. What is meant by letting Satan loose at the close of the thousand years—15. The general resurrection and last judgment—16. The punishment of the wicked at the day of judgment, being burnt up like the tares, in the earth, which will then be a lake of fire—17. The new heavens and earth, which will be created after the first heaven and earth are passed away—18. The New Jerusalem, where the saints will dwell forever, after all the wicked are punished with the second death, which will be their end, &c. &c. &c. CONDITIONS. 1. To be printed on good paper and neat type, in one duodecimo Volume, containing about 300 pages, neatly bound and lettered, afforded to subscribers at one dollar, the money to be paid when the books are delivered. 2. To be put to the press when 500 subscribers are obtained. 3. Those who subscribe, or are accountable for eight Volumes, to receive a ninth gratis. 4. The books to be delivered to subscribers, at the places where their subscriptions are received. 5. As these Sermons are to contain an account of some of the most glorious and important things ever revealed to man, it is hoped, that those who wish to know what shall be hereafter, will endeavour to encourage this valuable work, by subscribing for the same. Subscriptions will be received by the Author and Thomas & Tappan, Portsmouth; Elder William Dana, Lebanon; Alden Spooner, Wicwasic, Ver.; Richard Ransom, Jr. Woodstock, Ver.; William Weeks, Portland; Norris & Sawyer, Exeter; Elder Benjamin Page, Cabot; Frederick Plummer, New-Bedford. N. B. The above Sermons will be put to the Press in about three weeks. Portsmouth, Nov. 17, 1807.
FOR SALE, OR TO LET. On reasonable terms at a two story dwelling HOUSE, with a good well of water in the yard, at the South end of the town, for terms apply to CHARLES BLUNT. Portsmouth, Nov. 17th, 1807.
NATHANIEL EMERY'S ESTATE. NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber having been appointed by the Honorable Judge of Probate, for the county of Rockingham, State of New-Hampshire, administrator to the estate of NATHANIEL EMERY, late of Loudon, in said county, yeoman, deceased, and having given bonds as the Law requires; notice is hereby given to all those that have demands against said estate to exhibit them at the next Probate Court, to be held at Exeter on the third Wednesday in January next, for adjustment, and those indebted to said estate are also requested to make payment immediately. JOHN EMERY, Administrator. Loudon, November 9th, 1807.
SPECTACLES. A New assortment of SPECTACLES of all ages, just arrived in the Romio from London, and for sale at C. PEIRCE's Book-store. Also, Memoirs of the Life and Experience, travels and preaching of Abner Jones. Nov. 10. [price 2/3.]