The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1802-12-28 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
Appointed to publish the LAWS of the UNITED STATES for the District of New-Hampshire.
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. & W. PEARCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
NEW GOODS.
JAMES RUNDLET,
INFORMS his friends and customers that he has imported in the Minerva and Galen from London, and the John Adams and Warrington from Liverpool, an extensive assortment of
Staple and Fancy GOODS,
suitable for the present and approaching season, which are now opening and will be sold at a small advance, by Wholesale and Retail, VIZ—
A large Assortment of Superfine, midling and low priced Broadcloths and Cassimere the most fashionable colors and mixtures; Devonshire Kerseys; Plains; Serges; Forest Cloths; Ratteens; brown, blue, drab and mixt Coatings; Fearnoughts; Shaggs; Swanskins; Baizes and Flannels of all colors; 7/8 & 3/4 & 1/2 & 1/4 Rose Blankets.
A great variety of Elegant silk velvet vest Shapes, Sawandow and Toilnet ditto; white and coloured Quilting ditto; mens' rich black Satin and silk Florentine; striped Satins.
A handsome Assortment of London Chintzes; Calicoes; Patch Furnitures; Copperplates; Dimities; Muslins; Damask Table Cloths; India Napkins and Table Cloths; Cotton Fringes.
Black, white, and fancy colored Camels hair Shawls, elegant silk Shawls, muslin, chintz and purple Shawls, Linen, Cotton, Bandanna, Suterfay & black silk Handkerchiefs, cotton and linen cambric ditto.
Wildbores; Camblets; Shalloons; plain and striped Calimancoes; Russells, Florentines, Durants and Tammies; Velvets; Thicksets; Corduroys; Hunters Cord; Fustains; Jeans; Durrels and Nankins.
A great variety of Mens' patent knotted worsted, silk and worsted, all silk, and cotton Hosiery; Ladies' cotton & silk Hose, some with laced clocks; womens' long and short colored cotton Gloves and Mitts; black cotton and worsted ditto; black, white and colored long and short silk Gloves; Mens' beaver Gloves, some lined with flannel, cotton and silk ditto.
Fashionable colored & black Sarfnet Cambricks; black Jacketon Muslins, cambric Muslins, jaconet book, book sprig'd, and Tambored Muslins; glaized Cambricks; muslin Handkerchiefs; Tambored neck Cloths; flock fishers.
A great variety of Florence silks; India & French Lustring; striped and plad Italian Silks; English and India Satins for Cloaks; peling Satins; Modes; Cy-pres; Gauze; wide and narrow Italian Crape; black silk velvet; thread Laces and Edgings; black Laces; satin, mode and china Ribbons; pound Ribbons and Galloons.
A few elegant London full dress Bonnets, Ladies' split straw village Bonnets, gipsy hat Bonnets, gipsy Hats, girls' and womens' common straw and willow Bonnets, chip Hats; straw Trimmings; Bands and Tassels, straw Roquets, fancy straw Flowers and Plumes, artificial Flowers and Wreaths, Sunflower Wreaths.
A large assortment of Mens' beaver and other Hats of all prices by the case or retail; Womens' beaver Hats and Bonnets, with bands and plumes.
Umbrellas, some with walking canes; Parasols; Fans; Cotton and silk Braces; colored and white Threads; pound Pins, packet and bundle ditto.
2/3 and yard wide Irish and German LINNENS; brown Hollands; India Cottons; Cotton Stripes & checks, India Calicoes; Sewing Silks and Twills; fashionable gilt and plated coat and vest Buttons; Button-moulds; Penknives; Pencils; Scissors; Ivory Combs; Velvet Bindings; red Morocco Pocket books; Ladies' Morocco Pocket books and Thread cases; shirt Wires; Ink Powder; Tapes; Babbins, &c.
Carpets & Carpeting. Paper Hangings and bord-ers at reduced prices. Portsmouth, Oct. 19, 1802.
SOLD BY John Jackson, Buck-street, Portsmouth, WHEATON'S GENUINE PATENT JAUNDICE BITTERS,
Secured to him by Letters Patent from the PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES, January 17, 1801.
A MEDICINE extremely useful when JAUNDICE and BILIOUS COMPLAINTS are so prevalent among the Citizens of America and the West-Indies. They are a useful and efficacious MEDICINE for curing jaundice and bilious Disorders, and removing that sucking, faint, distressed feeling at the stomach, difficulty of breathing, loss of appetite, and sleepy, dull heaviness in the fore part of the day, weakness and trembling of the limbs, dizziness of the head, and yellowness of countenance, complaints so common to jaundice and bilious people.
Also removing constipation of the bowels, obstructions of urine, cholicky complaints, pukings and purgings, indigestion, sick headache, rheumatic complaints, &c. (which arise from a collection of four, bilious matter, in the stomach) and at length restoring the constitution to strength and vigor.
They are also found very useful to carry off worms, and cure tickety children, and may be used with safety in all constitutions, ages and sexes.
The above Medicine bears no analogy whatever in its effects to others of a similar title, it being loosening to constipated bowels, and regulating those that are relaxed, and carrying off bilious and jaundice matter; and at the same time restoring the appetite, and giving universal strength.
The many cures that have been effected in New-England, by the above Medicine (as may be seen in the bills) prevent the necessity of further recommendation.
Wheaton's Patent Itch Ointment;
The only Medicine in the world which will certainly cure the ITCH, without having in it any thing either dangerous or disagreeable; it being composed mostly of ingredients never before discovered or used in that disorder.
One Box cures a Person, and there need be no washing after the use of it, as the skin is generally left cleaner and smoother after the use of it than before.
No family ought to be without this valuable Medicine; for, on the first appearance of this disorder on the wrists and betwixt the fingers, &c. a slight application of this Ointment will cure it, and prevent its progress, and likewise its being taken by others. It may also be used as a preventative, by touching the hands, or the inside of the gloves, once in a while with a little of it, when there is a suspicion that the disorder is prevalent, and there is danger of taking it: For which reason, no people abroad on business, no student, traveller, soldier or sailor, should be without this Ointment, which is neatly put up in tin boxes, with suitable directions accompanying them, convenient to carry, agreeable in its smell, and will last good for a long time. By this precaution, neighborhoods, societies, and schools, might be freed from this tormenting disorder. Should the Patient have any other eruption or breaking out, which he mistakes for the Itch, an application of this Ointment will do no harm, but often cures the common breakings out, which arise from a sharp, hot humor in the blood, and leaves a smooth polish on the skin.
—ALSO,— Wheaton's Restorative Paste
For the TEETH and GUMS.
This PASTE will cleanse and whiten the TEETH, and take off the foulness and feale like substance at the bottom; which if not remedied, will in time, moulder away, and finally ruin them. It likewise will cure the SCURVY in the GUMS, and cause them to grow firm and close to the Teeth, and remove the disagreeable smell from the breath, which arises from scorbutic gums and rotten teeth. The Paste is agreeable in its smell, and leaves not an unpleasant glow on the gums and lips. It is neatly put up in small tin boxes, and will keep good for a long time.
Portsmouth, December 21, 1802. Wanted Immediately, FORTY thousand first quality Hogshoad Hoops.
A few hogshoads excellent MOLASSES, for retailing, for Sale,—Apply to SAMUEL HAM.
Portsmouth, Dec. 21, 1802.
Landing from Sloop Juno, And For Sale by Waldron & Holman, Superfine GALEGO'S FLOUR. In Store—IRON; STEEL; NAIL RODS; N. E. RUM; COTTON; TAR; BEEF, &c. Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802.
Late Foreign News,
By arrivals at New-York from England.
LONDON OCT. 29. THE 30th September, the Thames frigate arrived at Gibraltar from Malta. Immediately the Gibraltar, of 80 guns; Superb 74, Dragon 74, Triumph 74, and Renown 74, were equipped with stores and provisions for six months, and ordered to sail up the Mediterranean immediately. They are to reinforce the squadron under Sir Richard Bickerton; and to watch the squadron fitting out at Toulon.
The order for the return of the Guards has been countermanded. Expresses have been dispatched to Falmouth, for the immediate sailing of the packets for Lisbon, and the Leeward Islands.—The Princess Amelia packet is ordered to take six months provisions on board, and sail, with sealed orders. All the other packets at Falmouth are ordered to be held in readiness to sail at two hours notice.
Vessels continue to sail almost daily, with sealed orders, from Portsmouth, Plymouth and Falmouth.
All the absent officers of the regiment at Malta, and in Egypt, are ordered to join their corps immediately.
Great naval preparations are making in all the ports of France; and it is said Bonaparte means to visit Brest, and other ports, to give spirit to those preparations. At Toulon, a squadron with troops on board, has been for some time in readiness for sea.
General Oakes is appointed Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean.
NOV. 3. It is said Prince Ruspoli has refused to accept the office of Grand Master of Malta.
DOVER, NOV. 4. Yesterday evening, the French Ambassador, General Andreossi, arrived at Calais, and was received with every civil and military demonstration of respect. This morning he took passage, under a salute of artillery; and at four o'clock this afternoon landed here, accompanied by M. Portalis, his Secretary, and suite. They will set off for London to-morrow.
Lord Whitworth will depart immediately for Paris; attended by two of the King's Messengers.
VIENNA, OCT. 6. In order to improve the state of our finances, a great reform in our army is proposed. It is asserted that at least one half the soldiers of the regiments of infantry are either to be disbanded, or have leave to return to their homes, till they may be again summoned. A 4th part of the cavalry are to be disposed of in this latter way; and the useful horses will be sold to the highest bidder.
In Croatia, where great want, and scarcity of money prevails, some disorders have arisen; but the Count has dispatched thither considerable sums, and skilful officers to reduce the unruly to obedience.
In Hungary, too, provisions are dear and scarce; in consequence of which the exportation of grain, &c. so lately again permitted, has been once more prohibited.
A report is current, that the number of the Imperial Counsellors of Court, consisting of 16 Roman Catholics and 4 Protestants, is to be reduced to 12, viz. 8 Roman Catholics and 4 Protestants.
BERLIN OCT. 8. On the 6th, the Hereditary Prince of Orange arrived at Hildeheim, and shortly afterwards at Brunswick. The Prince Bishop of Fulda still continues refusing to suffer possession to be taken of his states; however that Prelate has been given to understand that in case an obstinate perseverance on his part should render the march of the Prussian troops necessary, the expence attending such measure shall be deducted from his future pension.
BERNE, OCT. 15.
ADDRESS OF THE COUNCIL OF WAR OF THE LEAGUE TO THE BRAVE SWISS, THEIR BROTHERS IN ARMS.
“Friends and Brothers,”
“WHEN you separated yourselves from your wives, your children, your fathers and your friends, to conquer for your children, liberty, independence, and prosperity, you abandoned with alacrity and courage your cottages and your flocks. This idea, “the God of our fathers is with us, and protects us,” gave you force to brave all the dangers, and to despise the fatigues of war. You quitted with songs your mountains and your valleys, to enter into the field and defend the cause of liberty and your country. The Almighty blessed your arms, and heard the just wishes of a nation known only by its rectitude, and which had armed for its liberty and independence. Our enemies, our oppressors, the soi disant Helvetic Government, with its feeble party, have been chased almost to the Frontiers of the confederate Cantons.
“But, brothers and friends, we have received a notification, that if we did not by our conduct give proofs of an entire confidence in the First Consul of the powerful nations of France, who has caused a declaration to be made by his envoy, General RAPP, to our fathers assembled at Schwitz , that he wishes to interpose as mediator in the war which we are carrying on against the odious Helvetic Government, we should be compelled to it by the victorious arms of the French warriors. Brothers, friends, confederates, who among us could conceive the thought of menacing ourselves with the numerous and experienced armies of France? No, friends, no: We wish to await peaceably
the determination of the First Consul, and with that order, that moderation, and that discipline, which have hitherto guided your steps, you will receive, we are convinced, the fatherly orders of your superiors, of your general; and even, if it should be necessary, you will return to your residences, in order that our country may not be exhausted by the entrance of foreign troops; that we may not be deprived of the scanty harvest of this year, which we hoped to consume with our children; and that we may not be plunged into indigence and misery. It is only the Helvetic Government, directed by its passions and private interests, that could call in the aid of foreign troops; we, who took up arms only for our country and tranquility, have no need of troops to attain our object. But relying on our conduct, we dare to hope, that the First Consul of France, who has guaranteed our independence and who has been deceived by false reports, will as soon as he shall have been informed of the true state of things, take measures, which will secure our honour and the prosperity and independence of our country. May the Almighty deign to grant this, who has caused us to make an important step towards our future happiness, and crowned our arms with his benediction.”
Political Miscellany.
From the Centinel of Freedom.
THE self styled federalists in this country, after preaching up for a long time the slavish and absurd doctrine of passive obedience and non-resistance, seem at present to vie with each other in acting in opposition to those sentiments.
No sooner was our present Chief Magistrate, the illustrious Jefferson, placed at the head of the government by the voice of his fellow-citizens, than we see these “friends of order” endeavoring (by misrepresentations and calumny) to withdraw the confidence of the people from not only the President, but likewise from almost every other officer of the government. Finding, however, that our citizens in general were well satisfied with the administration of their affairs, they have of late vented the whole of their malice and spleen in making a most infamous attack on the private character of the President. Scurrility and personal abuse has always been resorted to when every thing else has been tried without effect, particularly by the aristocratic faction in this country—but even Cobbett, who has been filed the “prince of blackguards,” would hardly have prostituted his pen so much, as a number of the editors of the opposition papers have in calumniating the President; but the character of that worthy and meritorious Citizen stands too fair to be injured by such unprincipled wretches as have undertaken to asperse it. Mr. Jefferson instead of following the example of his predecessor by taking measures to put a stop to what was formerly called the “licentiousness of the press,” looks with pity and contempt on his bale calumniators—Conscious of the rectitude of his intentions, and gratified with receiving the plaudits of a large majority of his fellow-citizens, he stands firm as a rock, unmoved by the thundering attacks of his implacable foes, determined to pursue those salutary and wise measures which he has already commenced, and such others as the real interest of the country may require.
Notwithstanding all the clamors of the opposition party, every candid person must admit that the papers attached to this party, exceed all bounds in vilifying the characters of men who have been intrusted with the affairs of their country, and who certainly merit the thanks instead of the abuse of any American. But fortunately for the honor of our country, not many amongst the calumniators of the President were friends to the revolution; on the contrary his most bitter enemies are to be found amongst the British faction ; these men can never forgive him, for his constant opposition to the plans which they had formed to bring this country once more under the dominion of its ancient tyrants .
It is a fact, that together with the British faction there exists a party in this country, who are bent upon either bringing us under our former yoke, or destroying our present excellent constitution, and establishing on its ruins either an aristocracy or a monarchy.—This faction is too well acquainted with Mr. Jefferson's firmness, and also his attachment to the cause of liberty ever to hope that he will favor their views—they are therefore determined to destroy his popularity, and thereby put it out of his power to obstruct them in their pernicious designs.—We have reason to believe that they will be disappointed, but the republicans ought not to be confident themselves as entirely free from danger as long as this faction exists amongst us, for although their number is every day decreasing, still with the aid of their European friends, they might give us much trouble; we should recollect that although the Tories were but small in number, still our country suffered much by their ravages during the war. As the opposition party (which is composed of the old Tories, and the friends of the late administration) are indefatigable in their exertions to place themselves at the head of the government, every friend to the constitution and liberties of his country is earnestly called upon to support the present administration in the exercise of their constitutional authority, and thereby prevent the reign of terror from being introduced in our country.
FRANKLIN.
For the N. H. GAZETTE.
COMMENT on the Extracts from a Thanksgiving Sermon—
Concluded from ours of the 14th instant.
TO set up a National or State Church, an earthly Israel; is a favourite point with modern Teachers. In pursuing this, finding the New Testament speaking only of a Heavenly Church or Kingdom, they have recourse to the Old . There they find indeed that God had once an earthly Kingdom, and tho' it is manifest that he has abolished it, they wish to restore it; and to set up a church adapted to, and consisting of, a nation of this world. The Judaizing Preacher of this Thanksgiving Sermon, speaks of the command to Israel, as tho' it was now to be obeyed by New England, or the United States, as a modern Theocracy—as tho' God was now speaking to the American Nation, and regulating their Elections—and commanding them to chuse out of their tribes—able men—fearing God—and hating covetousness—Could he shew that immediately after election, our Rulers were endowed with the gift of prophecy as in Israel at their first election, this would be saying something; 'till something like this be done, the modern Theocracy must appear extremely incredible.
The New Testament regulates with great precision the choice of officers in christian societies, gathered wholly by the Gospel, but lays not a word of State Elections—In the history of the Apostolic times, there is not a hint of christians voting, or electioneering for one another—It does not appear that it ever entered their heads, that the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus, qualified a man to rule in the State, or that their religion would ever be a recommendation of them to office, or to public trust and confidence. Christians were chiefly of the poorer and unlettered classes.—We read of one great man who once said he was almost persuaded, and some few mighty, wife and noble, were altogether convinced. Some Rulers might come down to be christians, and fade away in their ways, but we read not of one christian rising to be a ruler—The respect then commanded, and paid to rulers, did not go on the ground of their being christians; for it had no such ground to go upon.
In process of time professors of christianity, their leaders going foremost, became deeply tinctured with ambition and avarice. It then became an interesting object, who should dispose of, and who should possess the honours of the State; politics became mingled with religion, to serve the worldly interest of religious men. And from that time to this, the interest of religion , meaning that just now mentioned, has become common approved style.
The name christian has quite changed its signification. It now denotes a character quite opposite to that of the people at Antioch, to whom it was at first given—The Preacher would have christians in the modern sense of the word, exclusively chosen. These are advocates for an earthly Israel, a State-Church, and Church-State. It would be easy to shew, that in the true or scripture meaning of words, these neither fear God, nor hate covetousness. And if this author or his friends, wish to see the proof, I think it will not be withheld.
These things being considered, we need not be surprised at the air of lamentation in the sermon, that “religious principle is now no recommendation to public trust and confidence”—In other words there is little encouragement, in these evil days, to be a christian! Men of religious principle are like to be quite disheartened in their race—after wealth and honour!
The name infidel has also acquired a new meaning. It used to signify an unbeliever in opposition to one who believed on Christ for righteousness. There was no middle character, no neutral ground between these. Every man was one or the other. Now the contrast is stated between a sort of unbelieving believers , men who say they believe, but most of them do not pretend to obey the christian institutions, on the one hand, and men who on the other hand deny or reject the scriptures . The former of these, and all who set aside Christ's doctrine and laws, and all sticklers for a worldly

national church, according to the Apostles are infidels; according to modern complainant religious maxims, they are called christians, and glory in the name. Yea so full of zeal for it are they, that when they speak of a professed infidel, they call him, 'that infidel, that blasphemer.' While they thus glory over fellow sinners with an air of 'stand by thyself,' they seem to forget the blasphemies of him, who litteth in the temple , where open infidels do not pretend to sit. Why does this discourse, and why do other late publications shock all sober people, with quoting the blasphemies of an infidel? Why do they become the means of spreading them, where but for their disgusting repetitions, such words might never have been heard? Is this merely to shew their abhorrence of evil?—A few lines of poetry lately published in a well known paper, seem to shew the doctrine and spirit of modern religion. A great man, of whom there is no evidence that he believed, is by name placed in Heaven; an address, Catholic like, is made to him as a glorified saint, and then in the same lines it is asserted with confidence of a certain professed infidel, that he never can have a place in Heaven. It is spoken in the way of wit and a pun, but the meaning is obvious—As tho' the God of christians had taken to Heaven one man because of his great character and useful actions, and could not in mercy give repentance unto life to another, because he is an unbelieving sinner! did such men ever read the story of the crucifying Jews, of the crucified thief, and of Saul the blasphemer?—Surely unlimited mercy, (whatever may be said by those who thank God they are not as other men) can reach and bless open infidels, and barefaced antichristians. The writer of this to his shame, has had a deep share with the latter, and has no cause to glory over either of these—being in no wise better than they—He cannot therefore interest himself in the warm, zealous discussions of this and other declaimers on religious politics, whether, and how far our Rulers are favouring infidels, or infidelity. On this they are answerable to God.—Christians who were wont to pray for persecuting Governors, will be grateful for such as grant free toleration; which is all they want.—The Apostles declared that unbelievers continuing such, high or low, open or disguised, must perish; but it does not appear that they ever expected that Rulers would favour christianity.* They knew that God could bring them, tho' at present unbelieving, to the knowledge of the truth, and save them. But having no party schemes, no political plans in view, they made no attempts to excite odium or disaffection against the Ruling Powers, because they were unbelievers, or favoured such.—A zeal of this sort sprung up, with the corruption of after times.—It is nearly related to the zeal which now spreads an alarm as tho' christianity was in danger: a zeal which denies the promised protection of him, who builds the church; and who will defend it against the open attacks of infidels, and the more insidious minings of antichristians. A man who holds the New Testament, and not tradition, to be the standard of christianity can never bring himself to believe with this preacher, that the going to meeting to hear (political) sermons on a Thanksgiving day, is a declaration that men are christians. It shews them to be willing to conform to tradition, to pay a compliment to the State religion, and its teachers. But a christian finding no hint in the New Testament of any authority given to Gentile Rulers, to make annual holy days, either for feasting or fasting, will content himself with the weekly Thanksgiving day appointed for disciples, by Divine authority; and pay little regard to holy days of man's making. In regard to the first day of the week, the primitive christians considered it a great privilege when they might assemble on that day, to do what Christ had commanded, no man forbidding them. They did not wish for the authority of human laws to compel men who disregarded Christ's authority, profanely to come together to break bread on that day. It did not grieve them that unbelievers pursued their common business or amusements on that day: They expected no less. Religious people now, who take up the lamentation in this sermon, cannot enjoy themselves, but are troubled in mind that while they are so religiously employed at meetings, others, called Christians too, are at work, or at play.—No wonder the preacher would have the old laws for "the sanctification of the Sabbath," again regarded—For without this legal, hypocritical sanctification, enforced by the law and the fashion, on the people to lay aside all excuses, and go to hear the preachers, these might soon come to have very thin audiences; as the primitive ministers or elders had; and then a long farewell to
clerical honours and emoluments!—But if any present possessor of these, should lose them by turning to the acknowledged rule, the word of God, I will venture to assert, that the loss would be great gain in the issue.—I with the Author of the discourse this happiness—and thus take my leave. *The first christians would have looked with amazement on a Church patronised and supported by human laws, as John did on a woman riding on a scarlet coloured Beast!
National Legislature.
SENATE of the United States.
Monday, Dec. 13.
SEVENTEEN members, constituting a quorum, attended.—Whereupon the Senate proceeded, in the absence of the Vice President, to the choice of a President pro tempore.
On the 1st ballot, Gen. Bradley, of Vermont, had 8 votes—Mr. Tracy, of Connecticut, 7—Mr. Baldwin 1, and Mr. Logan 1. No election, a majority being requisite—2d & 3d ballots, same as the first.
On the 4th ballot, Mr. Bradley had eight votes—Mr. Tracy 7, and two blank votes.—No election.
Tuesday, Dec. 14.
Eighteen members present. Stephen S. Bradley was chosen President pro tempore.—Mr. B. had 9, and Mr. Tracy 7 votes.
On the election of the President, Mr. Bradley withdrew, and 9 became a majority of the members present.—The Rev. Dr. Gantt was chosen chaplain: 10 members voting for him.
House of Representatives,
Monday, Dec. 13.
THE petition of James Bell, heretofore presented, was referred to the committee of claims.
The petition of Joseph M c Lellan & Hugh M c Lellan, John Taber and Daniel Taber, of Portland, M. was read, praying a remission of the duties of import and tonnage on foreign vessels, in the case of the ship Eliza, to which they have been subjected in consequence of one of the owners of the said ship having omitted to take the oath or affirmation within the time prescribed by law, was read and referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures.
Mr. Davenport from the com. of revision and unfinished business, made a report in part.
Tuesday, Dec. 14.
Mr. S. Smith moved the reference of the bill for the relief of Henry Messonnier, with the papers accompanying it, to the committee of commerce and manufactures.—Agreed to.
A message was received from the Senate, informing the House that they had made a quorum, and had chosen Stephen R. Bradley, President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President of the U. States, and were ready to proceed to business.
The petition of — Fowler was referred to the committee of claims.
On motion of Mr. Dawson, resolved, that a committee be appointed on the part of this house, to unite with a committee on the part of the Senate, to wait upon the President of the United States, and inform him that the two Houses have formed, and are ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make to them.
Mr. Dawson, Mr. Lowndes, and Mr. Van Nels, were appointed the committee.
A message was received from the Senate, advising the House, that they had passed a similar resolution, and had appointed, on their part, a committee, consisting of Mr. Wright and Mr. Theodore Foster.
On motion of Gen. S. Smith, the memorials of sundry manufacturers, presented last session, were referred to the com. of commerce and manufactures.
Mr. Dennis stated that he understood, that at the same time that this House had passed a resolution for the appointment of a committee to join a committee of the Senate to wait on the President, the Senate had passed a resolution to the same effect. There appeared, therefore, to be two concurrent resolutions, each originating in one house but neither of which was acted upon by the other. He therefore moved a concurrence on the part of the House in the resolution of the Senate.—Agreed to.
Mr. Green presented a number of petitions from citizens of the Mississippi Territory, praying that the land office, to be opened, may be within the limits of the Territory, and that the actual settlers may have preemption rights extended to them; and praying for sundry alterations in the terms of the ordinance, under which they are organized.—Referred to a com.
The House took up the motion, made four days since, by Mr. Gregg, for the appointment of two Chaplains, of different denominations, to interchange weekly.—Mr. Davis expressed himself against the resolution.
It was defended by Messrs. Dennis, Griswold, Nicholson, Smilie, Claiborne and Elmer.
Mr. Dennis moved to strike out "of different denominations." This motion was supported by Mr. Smilie, and opposed by Messrs. Nicholson, Elmer, and Claiborne—Lost, ayes 24.
The resolution was then agreed to, without amendment.
On motion of Mr. Dennis, the petitions of Wm. Ray and John Fallowell, heretofore presented, were referred to the committee of claims.
On motion of Gen. Varnum, the petition of Edward Barnes, heretofore presented, was referred to the committee of claims.
Mr. Alston moved that a committee be appointed to enquire and report what alterations may be necessary in the acts for the establishment of post-offices and post-roads, with power to report by bill or otherwise.—Com. of seven appointed.
Mr. Davis moved that the committee appointed on post-offices and post-roads be instructed to enquire into the expediency of making provision by law, to prevent postmasters from becoming contractors for carrying the mails.—Agreed to.
On motion of Gen. Varnum the petition of Joseph Ward, and the report of the Secretary of the Treasury thereon, was referred to the com. of claims.
Mr. S. Smith moved the appointment of a committee of ways and means of seven members. Agreed to.
Mr. Dawson, from the committee appointed to wait upon the President, reported that they had delivered the message of the House to the President, who replied, that he would make his communication to Congress by message to-morrow.
Dr. Mitchell gave notice that immediately after the receipt of the President's message, he should offer a specific motion on the subject of French spoliations.
President's Message.
Wednesday, Dec. 15.
THIS DAY, At 12 o'clock, the following Message was delivered to each House by Mr. Lewis, Secretary to the President.
MESSAGE.
TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.
WHEN we assemble together, fellow-citizens, to consider the state of our beloved country, our just attentions are first drawn to those pleasing circumstances which mark the goodness of that Being from whose favor they flow, and the large measure of thankfulness we owe for his bounty. Another year has come round, and finds us still blessed with peace and friendship abroad, law, order and religion at home, good affection and harmony with our Indian neighbors, and our burthens lightened; yet our income sufficient for the public wants, and the produce of the year great beyond example. These, fellow citizens, are the circumstances under which we meet; and we remark with special satisfaction, those which under the smiles of Providence, result from the skill, industry and order of our citizens, managing their own affairs in their own way, and for their own use, unembarrassed by too much regulations, unoppressed by fiscal exactions.
On the restoration of peace in Europe, that portion of the carrying trade which had fallen to our lot during the war, was abridged by the returning competition of the belligerent powers. This was to be expected and was just. But, in addition we find, in some parts of Europe, monopolizing discriminations, which, in the form of duties, tend effectually to prohibit the carrying thither our own produce in our own vessels.—From existing amities and a spirit of justice, it is hoped that friendly discussion will produce a fair and adequate reciprocity. But should false calculations of interest defeat our hope, it rests with the legislature to decide whether they will meet inequalities abroad with countervailing inequalities at home, or provide for the evil in any other way.
It is with satisfaction I lay before you an act of the British Parliament anticipating this subject, so far as to authorise a mutual abolition of the duties and countervailing duties, permitted under the treaty of 1794. It shews on their part a spirit of justice and friendly accommodation, which it is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations. Whether this would produce a due equality in the navigation between the two countries, is a subject for your consideration.
Another circumstance which claims attention, as directly affecting the very source of our navigation, is the defect or the evasion of the law providing for the return of seamen, and particularly of those belonging to vessels sold abroad. Numbers of them, discharged in foreign ports have, been thrown on the hands of our Consuls, who, to rescue them from the dangers into which their distresses might plunge them, and save them to their country,
have found it necessary, in some cases to return them at the public charge.
The cession of the Spanish province of Louisiana to France, which took place in the course of the late war, will, if carried into effect, make a change in the aspect of our foreign relations, which will doubtless have great weight in the deliberations of the legislature connected with that subject.
There was reason, not long since, to apprehend that the warfare in which we were engaged with Tripoli, might be taken up by some other of the Barbary powers. A reinforcement, therefore, was immediately ordered to the vessels already there. Subsequent information however has removed those apprehensions for the present. To secure our commerce in that sea, with the smallest force competent, we have supposed it best to watch strictly the harbor of Tripoli. Still, however the shallowness of their coast, and the want of smaller vessels on our part, has permitted some cruisers to escape unobserved—and to one of these an American vessel unfortunately fell a prey. The captain, one American seaman, and two others of color, remain prisoners with them; unless exchanged under an agreement formerly made with the bashaw, to whom, on the faith of that, some of his captive subjects had been restored.
The Convention with the state of Georgia has been ratified by their legislature, and a repurchase from the creeks has been consequently made, of a part of the Tallahassee county. In this purchase has been also comprehended a part of the lands within the fork of Oconee and Oakmulgee rivers. The particulars of the contract will be laid before Congress so soon as they shall be in a state for communication.
In order to remove every ground of difference possible with our Indian neighbors, I have proceeded in the work of settling with them, and marking the boundaries between us. That with the Choctaw nation is fixed in one part, and will be through the whole within a short time. The country to which their title has been extinguished before the revolution is sufficient to receive a very respectable population, which Congress will probably see the expediency of encouraging, so soon as the limits shall be declared. We are to view this position as an Outpost of the United States, surrounded by strong neighbors, and distant from its support. And how far that monopoly, which prevents population, should here be guarded against, and actual habitation made a condition of the continuance of title, will be for your consideration. A prompt settlement too of all existing rights and claims within this territory, presents itself as a preliminary operation.
In that part of the Indian territory which includes Vincennes, the lines settled with the neighboring tribes fix the extinction of their title at a breadth of twenty-four leagues from East to West, and about the same length parallel with and including the Wabash. They have also ceded a tract of four miles square, including the Salt-Springs near the mouth of that river.
In the department of finance it is with pleasure I inform you that the receipts of external duties, for the last twelve months, have exceeded those of any former year, and that the ratio of increase has been also greater than usual. This has enabled us to answer all the regular exigencies of government, to pay from the Treasury, within one year, upwards of eight millions of dollars, principal and interest, of the public debt, exclusive of upwards of one million paid by the sale of bank stock, and making in the whole a reduction of nearly five millions and an half of principal, and to have now in the treasury four millions and an half of dollars, which are in a course of application to the further discharge of debt, and current demands. Experience too, so far authorises us to believe, if no extraordinary event supervenes, and the expenses which will be actually incurred shall not be greater than were contemplated by Congress at their last session, that we shall not be disappointed in the expectations then formed. But nevertheless, as the effect of peace on the amount of duties is not yet fully ascertained, it is the more necessary to practise every useful economy, and to incur no expense, which may be avoided without prejudice.
The collection of the internal taxes having been completed in some of the states, the officers employed in it are of course out of commission. In others they will be so shortly. But in a few, where the arrangements for the direct tax had been retarded, it will still be some time before the system is closed. It has not yet been thought necessary to employ the agent authorised by an act of the last session, for transacting business in Europe relative to debts and loans. Nor have we used the power, confided by the same act, of prolonging the foreign debt by re-loans, and of re-deeming instead thereof, an equal
sum of the domestic debt. Should however the difficulties of remittance on so large a scale, render it necessary at any time, the power shall be executed, and the money thus unemployed abroad shall, in conformity with that law, be faithfully applied here in an equivalent extinction of domestic debt. —When effects so salutary result from the plans you have already sanctioned, when merely by avoiding false objects of expence, we are able, without a direct tax, without internal taxes, and without borrowing, to make large and effectual payments towards the discharge of our public debt, and the emancipation of our posterity from that mortal canker, it is an encouragement, fellow-citizens, of the highest order, to proceed as we have begun in substituting economy for taxation, and in pursuing what is useful for a nation placed as we are, rather than what is practised by others under different circumstances. And whensoever we are destined to meet events which shall call forth all the energies of our countrymen, we have the firmest reliance on those energies, and the comfort of leaving for calls like these, the extraordinary sources of loans and internal taxes. In the mean time, by payments of the principal of our debt, we are liberating, annually, portions of the external taxes, and forming from them a growing fund, still further to lessen the necessity of recurring to extraordinary resources.
The usual account of receipts and expenditures for the last year, with an estimate of the expenses of the ensuing one, will be laid before you by the Secretary of the treasury.
No change being deemed necessary in our military establishment, an estimate of its expenses for the ensuing year, on its present footing, as also of the sums to be employed in the fortifications and other objects within that department, has been prepared by the Secretary at War, and will make a part of the general estimates which will be presented you.
Considering that our regular troops are employed for local purposes, and that the militia is our general reliance for great and sudden emergencies, you will doubtless think this institution worthy of a review, and give it those improvements of which you find it susceptible.
Estimates for the naval department prepared by the Secretary of the navy for another year, will in like manner be communicated with the general estimates. A small force in the Mediterranean will still be necessary to restrain the Tripoline cruisers: and the uncertain tenure of peace with some other of the Barbary powers, may eventually require that force to be augmented. The necessity of procuring some smaller vessels for that service will raise the estimate: but the difference in their maintenance will soon make it a measure of economy.
Presuming it will be deemed expedient to expend annually a convenient sum towards providing the naval defence which our situation may require, I cannot but recommend that the first appropriations for that purpose, may go to the saving what we already possess. No cares, no attentions, can preserve vessels from rapid decay, which lie in water and exposed to the sun. These decay require great and constant repairs, & will consume, if continued, a great portion of the monies destined for naval purposes. To avoid this waste of our resources, it is proposed to add to our navy yard here a dock, within which our present vessels may be laid up dry, and under cover from the sun. Under these circumstances, experience proves that works of wood will remain scarcely at all affected by time. The great abundance of running water which this situation possesses, at heights far above the level of the tide, if employed as is practised for lock navigation, furnishes the means for raising and laying up our vessels on a dry and sheltered bed. And should the measure be found useful here, familiar depositories for laying up, as well for building and repairing vessels, may hereafter be undertaken at other navy yards offering the same means. The plans & estimates of the work prepared by a person of skill and experience, will be presented to you, without delay, and from these it will be seen, that scarcely more than has been the cost of one vessel is necessary to save the whole, and that the annual sum to be employed towards its completion may be adapted to the views of the legislature as to naval expenditure.
To cultivate peace and maintain commerce and navigation in all their lawful enterprizes; to foster our fisheries as nurseries of navigation, and for the nurture of man, and protect the manufactures adapted to our circumstances; to preserve the faith of the nation by an exact discharge of its debts and contracts; to expend the public money with the same care and economy we would practise with our own, and impose on our citizens no unnecessary burthens; to keep in all things within the pale of our constitutional

powers, and cherish the federal union, as the only rock of safety; these, fellow citizens, are the landmarks by which we are to guide ourselves in all our proceedings.
By continuing to make these our rule of action, we shall endear to our countrymen the true principles of their constitution, and promote an union of sentiment and of action, equally auspicious to their happiness and safety. On my part you may count on a cordial concurrence in every measure for the public good; and on all the information I possess which may enable you to discharge to advantage the high functions with which you are invested by your country.
TH: JEFFERSON.
December 15, 1802.
Portsmouth.
THURSDAY, DEC. 30, 1802.
Distressing Conflagration!
Unparalleled in America! (OF LATE)
For the size of the place.
At 4 o'clock on Sabbath morning last, a fire broke out in the back part of the building occupied as the New-Hampshire Bank in Court-street, (which had gotten to a great height before discovered) the whole town was threatened with immediate destruction, and notwithstanding the great exertions of the citizens, it swept every building up to the corner of said street; then both sides of Daniel-street about one third of the way down—every building both sides and all through Market-street, and about half through Bow-street, nearly to the Church. Every building through Fore-street as far as Madam Whipple's large dwelling house & stores; every store and house (except one) through Ladd-street, and part of Congress-street, as far as the west corner of the State House; every building in Cross street as far as Capt. Swan's. Here, and at several other places it was stopped by the great exertions of the inhabitants in pulling down buildings, &c. &c. So that by 3 o'clock on Sabbath afternoon, our hopes revived, that a part of the town would be preserved. But to attempt to describe the distress of the widow, the fatherless, the orphan, the old and respectable grey headed owner and occupant; the young enterprising Merchant and Trader, and the poor tenants of the chambers and back buildings, language is insufficient; and we can only drop a tear over them, and pray Heaven to open the hearts of the rich to distribute of their abundance unto them, and let them bear in mind that "whoso hath this world's goods, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him."
Let it be recorded to the honor of a great number of females, that after being burnt out of house and home, instead of fleeing from the fire in despair, they immediately joined themselves to the company and lanes of the harder sex, and stood and handed water, until they were on the point of fainting!—dying!—
Every European Goods store (2 or 3 only excepted) were destroyed. The whole beauty of the town is gone! is gone!!!—We understand that the greater part of the West-India, English and India Goods, were saved; but the Hard-Ware Goods principally fell victims to the flames.
It is not yet ascertained in what manner it took fire. Tho' it is confidently asserted that no fire had been made in that part of the building where it caught, for several days.
The fire commenced in, and entirely destroyed the building
occupied as the New-Hampshire Bank, Insurance Office, and as a dwelling house, by Mrs. Hart; the new Brick Market; a small house back of it owned by the late Dea. Bowles, and occupied by Mr. Enoch Thompson; a new store owned & occupied by Stephen Pearse; a store owned by Peter Pearse, jr. & occupied by Wm. & Dan'l Treadwell, as a Bookstore, Printing-office and Bookbinder's shop; Peter Pearse, senior's dwelling-house; the dwelling-house of the widow of the late Dan'l Peirce, occupied by herself and family, & by Mr. Sam'l Sprague, barber; a dwelling-house owned and occupied by the widow and family of the late Dea. Sam'l Bowles; the dwelling-house & bookstore of Charles Peirce and the building back, lately occupied by him as a Printing office; a dwelling-house owned by Wm. Hart, and occupied by Capt. Sam'l Pearse; a store owned by Mrs. Hart, and occupied by Cazneau Bayley; a shop occupied by Wm. Hart; the dwelling-house and a store back owned and occupied by Jacob Walden; a store of Capt. Elijah Hall's; a large old house owned by Capt. Keyron Walsh and occupied by Geo. Dame; a new handsome house owned and occupied by John Frothingham; a dwelling-house & bakehouse owned by Samuel Elliot, and occupied by Mr. Folsom, baker, Mr. Newhall as a shoe store, and Mrs. Seavey as a dwelling-house; a shop occupied by John Badger, tinman; an elegant dwelling-house and barn owned by Jacob Sheafe, Esq. and occupied by Daniel R. Rogers; a row of stores owned by Jacob Sheafe, Esq. and occupied by Rich'd Evans, James Rundlet, Sam'l Haven, jr. Oliver Briard, Nath'l Dean, merchants; the dwelling-house and out houses owned and occupied by Henry Haven; Judge Pickering's dwelling-house; the dwelling and out houses owned and occupied by John Penhallow, Esq. a new store full of Hard-Ware Goods, owned by H. & B. Penhallow; a store & large dwelling house and barn owned by Wm. Boyd, and occupied by James Henderson, J. B. Sewall, and Nathan B. Folsom, as English and W. I. Goods stores, & as a dwelling-house by Wm. and Dan'l Treadwell; a large dwelling-house owned and occupied by Dan'l Austin; two row of stores owned by the late Geo. Jeffrey, Esq. and occupied by Dan'l Eaton, Stephen Little, Benj'n Leveret, Clem't Jackson, Mr. Noble, Ebenezer Chadwick, Robert Mendum, Nutter, Coleman, Ball, Jenkins, Beck, &c. &c. the store owned by the underwriters in Mr. Peirce's insurance office & occupied by Wm. Seavey; a number of stores above owned and occupied by various persons; a row of small houses owned by the late Geo. Jeffrey, back of his stores, and occupied by a number of poor families; Mr. J. Day's pot ash store; Mr. Rymes's shop; a store owned by Mr. Thompson of Durham; a store owned by Isaac Rindge, Esq.; the Fifth Market; the large brick stores owned by Joseph Haven, James Sheafe, and Keyron Welsh, & occupied by Peter Coffin, Joseph & Joshua Haven, Henry Ladd, N. A. & J. Haven, Sam'l Jones, Wm. Jones, Theodore Furber, Nath'l Dearborn, and part of the middle story as the Custom-House, &c. the stores owned by Sam'l Hill, and occupied by himself, Jona. Clark, Alex. Ewen, Joseph Gavet, & Nathaniel White; the stores
owned by the heirs of the late Jona. Hamilton, and occupied by James Shapley, and Long & Hamilton; a store owned and occupied by Geo. Cutts; a store owned by Woodbury Langdon, & occupied by Abel Harris; a store owned by Miss Ann Alcott and occupied by Geo. Cate & others; a house owned by Col. John Langdon and occupied by Capt. Will'm Rice; the elegant house of the late Sam'l Cutts, Esq. and occupied by his widow & family; the large dwelling-house and store owned and occupied by Neil M'Intire, and 3 adjacent buildings belonging to him; a dwelling-house with a shop in front, owned by Col. John Langdon, and occupied by E. Chadwick as a dwelling-house, and Rowe & Sleeper as a store; a dwelling-house and store belonging to the estate of the late Capt. Martin Parry, and occupied as a dwelling-house by Capt. Henry M'Clintock, and store by Capt. S. Larkin; the dwelling-house owned and occupied by A. Ewen; 2 small houses back of Mr. Ewen's; a house owned by Nich's Roussel, and occupied by James L. Giles, Mr. Hooper & Mrs. Carter; a dwelling-house owned by Mrs. Furness and occupied by herself, and by Nathaniel S. & W. Peirce as a dwelling-house; a large store owned by Joseph Whipple, Esq. & occupied by Benj. Brierley; a large dwelling-house with two shops in front, owned by Col. Clement Storer, and occupied by Col. Nathaniel Folsom as a dwelling-house, and one of the shops by Benj. Sweetser, the other was unoccupied; the dwelling-house with 2 shops in front and out houses back, belonging to the heirs of the late widow Simes, and occupied by Wm. Simes, goldsmith, and 2 of his sisters; the dwelling-house, with 2 shops in front, and barn back, belonging to the heirs of the late Dea. John Noble, and occupied as a dwelling-house by Oliver Briard, and the shops, one by a widow daughter of the late Dea. Noble, and the other by Dr. Josiah Dwight; a large store with 2 shops in front, owned by Edw'd Parry, one occupied by himself, and the other by Joshua Blake; a large brick store owned by John Goddard, Esq. and occupied by his brother, Jonathan Goddard, as a commodious hard-ware store; a large row of 3 story brick stores, owned by Col. Eliph't Ladd, and occupied by himself, James Foster, Sam'l Thompson, N. Wire, Mr. Hasty, widow Hardy, Mr. Gordon, Richard Perry, Mrs. Winkley, and others; a house owned and occupied by Isaac Smith; a workshop occupied by Geo. Simes; a store owned and occupied by Jere'h Libbey, Esq. and Wm. Walker; a dwelling house and very large store, with six shops in front, owned by John Melcher (late printer) and occupied by himself as a dwelling house, and Henry Burley, Wm. Garland, Robert M'Cleary, N. S. and W. Peirce as a Bookstore and Printing-Office, John Gains, and Isaac Stanwood; a store with two shops in front, owned by Widow Nelson, Mrs. Harris & Miss Mehitable Man, and occupied by John Nelson and Job Harris, also the dwelling house back owned and occupied by Widow Nelson, a dwelling house with a shop in front, owned by John Peirce, Esq. and occupied by Benj. Swett and Henry Burley as a dwelling house, and John Man for a shop; an old house with a shop in front, owned by the Widow Warner, and occupied
by herself and children; besides various others we do not recollect.
AT a meeting of the Selectmen of the town of Portsmouth, the 28th day of December, 1802,
VOTED that JOHN LANGDON, DANIEL HUMPHREYS, NATHANIEL ADAMS, JAMES SHEAFE, & JOHN GODDARD, Esquires, be a committee to receive any donations which the Charitable may be disposed to make to those who suffered by the late distressing fire, which has destroyed so great a part of this town, whereby many persons have lost their ALL—And the same Committee are requested to distribute the same in such manner as they think proper, and return an account of their proceedings to the Selectmen.
GEORGE GAINS, MOSES WOODWARD, SAMUEL HUTCHINGS, ELIJAH HALL, SAMUEL CUTTS, Selectmen.
THE committee above named beg leave to inform the public, that they are ready to receive donations from the humane and benevolent, for the relief of the sufferers, among whom are many Widows and Orphans who have lost their houses, which in several instances was nearly their whole property—All donations of the compassionate will be gratefully received & faithfully appropriated agreeably to the benevolent intention of the donors—A record will be kept of receipts and distributions open to inspection.
The printers of Newspapers are requested to insert the foregoing, in aid of the cause of humanity.
N. S. & W. PEIRCE, inform their friends and customers, that in consequence of the late calamity by fire, in which they were heavy losers; having the buildings burnt which they occupied for their office Bookstore and family, and their Printing-press and apparatus being forced in such confusion into the street, that it has been utterly impossible to collect them together, to publish their paper before the present moment—and they have to lament the loss or mislayment of several advertisements and original Communications, which, if they are found or come to hand again, shall be inserted in their next Gazette.—They will carry on their printing-business in future, in the building formerly occupied as an office by Mr. Osborne, a few doors east of the bell-tavern, in Congress street, and have taken a Shop in Buck-street nearly opposite the Post-office for their Book-store, Where they have for sale,
Books & Stationary, of all kinds, cheap for CASH. * * * Advertisements, &c. for the Gazette, left either at the Office or Book-Store, will be carefully attended to, by
THE EDITORS.
Portsmouth, Dec. 29, 1802.
Samuel Larkin,
begs leave to inform his Friends and the Public in town and Country, that (in consequence of the late distressing fire) he has opened a Store in Broad-street, nearly opposite to Major Hale's corner, where he offers them for sale a general assortment of
West-India GOODS AND
GROCERIES,
at the lowest prices, and as he intends keeping no goods but such as are genuine, he solicits a share of their favours—constant attendance given and punctual attention paid to orders, however small. Dec. 29, 1802.
CHARLES PEIRCE informs his friends and customers that he has taken a Shop in Buck-street, opposite Wm. & Ch's Neil's, where he is collecting what Books he saved from the flames, and shall have them ready for sale in a few days.
THIS DAY,
On THURSDAY, the 30th December next, 12 o'clock, M. will be Sold, At Public Auction,
ALL the right, title and interest of SAMUEL STORER a Bankrupt, in and to a certain tract of land lying at Broad Bay in the district of Maine, bounded as follows, viz. beginning at a Pine tree marked on the most westerly branch of said Bay, from thence running North Northeast by Muscongus river eight miles; then Northwest by West eight miles; then South Southwest eight miles; thence Southeast by East eight miles to the Pine tree begun at.
The SALE to be at the Bell Tavern where the conditions will be made known.
JOHN GODDARD, HENRY S. LANGDON, CHARLES CUTTS, Portsmouth, Nov. 29, 1802.
THE proprietors of KENNEBEC PURCHASE, are hereby notified, that their next meeting will be holden at Rochester, at the dwelling-house of Ann Dearborn, innholder, on Thursday the 13th day of January next, at 10 o'clock before noon, at which time and place they are requested to attend. By order, W. K. ATKINSON, Clerk. December 26, 1802.
Dr. Dwight,
Tenders his thanks to his friends for their exertions in assisting him in saving his property exposed by the late fire; likewise informs them that at present he may be found at Mrs. Briard's, in School-street. Should a difference of local situation take place with him, he will be particular in noticing it through the medium of the Newspapers. December 29, 1802.
James Rundlet,
INFORMS his friends and customers that he has taken a store in Congress-street, a few rods N.W. of the State House, where he shall be ready in a few days to wait on his customers with a good assortment of
English & India Goods, by wholesale and retail.
JOSHUA BLAKE,
HAS taken the Store formerly occupied by Mr. Timothy Winn, in Buck-street, leading to and near the Pier, where he offers for sale, a large assortment of
ENGLISH GOODS, as cheap as ever: Portsmouth, Dec. 29, 1802.
William Garland,
informs the public that he has taken the Store, opposite No. 2 Portsmouth Pier, where he has for sale
10 Hhds. W. I. Rum, 9 do. Molasses first quality, 40 casks Gun Powder, Whole, half and quarter chests COHEA TEA, with a general assortment in his line. Dec. 29, 1802.
Nathan B. Folsom,
HAS recommenced business nearly opposite Mr. Davenport's tavern, in Buck-street, where he will continue to sell West-India Goods, Groceries, & Clothier's Dyestuffs, as usual,> as usual, at as low prices, as they can be purchased for in town, for cash only. Portsmouth, Dec. 29, 1802.
Peter Coffin,
has taken a Store in Broad-street, lately improved by Col. Moses Woodward.
B. Brierley,
has taken a Store in Broad-street.
TAKE NOTICE.
ALL persons, who have demands against the estate of WILLIAM ROBINSON, late of Exeter, hatter, deceased, are desired to exhibit the same to the subscriber, administrator of said estate, and all who are indebted to the same, to settle with JEREMIAH LEAVITT. December 18, 1802.
NOTICE.
ANY Person having property in possession belonging to the sufferers by the late Fire, and not knowing to whom it belongs, are requested to carry it to the State House. Thursday, December 30, 1802.
THE GAZETTE will in future be published on Tuesday's as usual.

Miscellaneous Repository.
To those who practice shooting FOWLS, on CHRISTMAS-DAY.
I SAW a Hen one Christmas day, Caught by a man, & carry'd away, And being helpless, she was bound, And laid upon the frozen ground, 'Bout thirty yards from where I stood, The hapless hen, without her brood, Lay trembling there to hear the sound Of guns and bullets rattling round. While thus the harmless victim lay, I thought I heard her try to say, "Ye men of morals and of sense, Why will you be at this expense? Have I committed any crime, That you must thus cut off my time? Have I not done my duty well, And bro't up chickens from the shell? Have not my eggs been eaten too? And made delicious food for you? Are not my chickens kill'd in haste, To please your appetites and taste? And I refuse not, (when you please,) To die; But let it be with ease. While thus I plead my life away Upon this sacred Christmas day, A Saviour for me is not found, Though innocent, yet I am bound, And doom'd to die in misery, As was your Saviour on the tree, Whose birth-day you should consecrate To prayer for mercy, not my fate. Remember you must also die, But not so innocent as I. For acts of cruelty you must Repent, or be forever curst. I am not capable of sin, Therefore I am at peace within; But you my murderers cannot say, You are not charg'd with sin to day, But know, oh! man, though I am dumb There is a reckoning day to come."
MELANCHOLY EVENTS.
On the morning of the 17th ult. departed this life, in Bennington, Vermont, Daniel Stratton, son of Mr. Joel Stratton, in the 80th year of his age. This youth was seized with what the physicians termed the Sciatica, in July 1791, in a dreadful manner, and at different periods endured a dislocation of most of the joints of his body. For eight years past, last October, he never stepped on his feet: his back was drawn out of joint before he was confined to his bed, and soon afterwards all his joints one after another, and even to his fingers were dislocated and rendered useless, except the right elbow which enabled him to move his right hand about an inch or two up and down on his breast. For six years last past, he was not turned in his bed or moved any way, but by moving his bedstead and all together. For three years ending in March last, his jaws were set and all his sustenance administered, sliced so thin as to be thrust in the orifice, about the size of an inch wide, and the disorder affecting his eyes deprived him of his sight for three years. He was afterwards, by the inveteracy of his disorder, rendered entirely deaf of one ear, and received no liquid but what he sucked through a straw for two years before his death. What is remarkable in his case is, that he retained his senses through the whole term, and his power of utterance never failed him. He knew people by the tone of the voice, or their footsteps, as quick as any one in the house, while his hearing remained. In his last moments he called the household together and bid them farewell in an affecting manner, and died calm and composed; a dreadful influence of the mighty power and solemn dealing of God in the dispensations of his providence, and a sacred proof of the operations of his hand, exceeding the power of intellectual nature to account for.
DUNSTABLE, (N. H.) DEC. 13.
On Saturday morning about 8 o'clock, Timothy Hadley, aged about 18, was found dead in bed: a large quantity of froth, mixed with blood, covering a considerable part of his face, presented a shocking spectacle. A young man (Charles Roby) of 21 years of age, who slept with him, appeared also in a pitiful situation, though living. He was unable to speak or open his eyes, was considerably swollen and in great distress. He was immediately removed, and medical aid was administered to him. It appeared in evidence to the Coroner's inquest on the deceased, that the young men, who slept in a small and pretty tight chamber in which there was no fire-place, had, about 9 o'clock, carried into their chamber a kettle of lighted charcoal; that both the young men were well when they went to bed; and that nothing appeared in their previous conduct, which could raise a suspicion that they could have taken any thing with a design to shorten life. The jury's verdict was, that the deceased came to his death by misfortune. No doubt is entertained but it was the poisonous quality of the charcoal which affected the young men. On Saturday night, the charcoal which was not consumed, was again lighted in the same chamber, and a cat shut up in it. In the morning, the charcoal was about half consumed, and the cat dead. She appeared to have died some time before morning. Roby is yet living: on Saturday he was entirely senseless; on Sunday morning he recovered his senses, but recollected nothing after he went to sleep on Friday night. It is expected he will recover.
ANECDOTE.
A CERTAIN woman having lost her only son, a neighbour came in to sympathize with her in her affliction; I think (said she) that your trouble must be very great to see your only son a lifeless corpse, but I hope your child is in Belzebub's bosom. O! said the mother, you mean Abraham's bosom. Ah! said the other, it is no matter which, they are both scripture names, if he is in either, he is where he will be well used.
MORAL.—Many people think if they only have a Scripture name, to what they believe or practise, it is not much matter whether it is right or wrong, if they are only sincere.
A FARM to Let or Rented. A VALUABLE FARM , situated in the north part of DERRYFIELD, lying on the banks of the Merrimack, as pleasant a situation as any Farm in the country—will be Let or Rented, and possession given the first of April next, said Farm cuts Hay sufficient to winter 35 head of cattle, and other stock in proportion; is well watered, a large House, and three large Barns, and other out Houses thereon, and as easy tilled as any Farm in the Universe,—No person need apply, who cannot produce good recommendations for Industry, Morality and Religion.—For further particulars apply to General STARKE, the owner, on the premises, or to BENJAMIN F. STARKE, of Goffstown. Portsmouth, December 7, 1802.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in MERRIMACK, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1801, that so much of their land as will pay the same, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of DANIEL INGALLS, innholder in said Merrimack, on the twenty-second day of February 1803, at two o'clock, P. M. unless prevented by payment. John Wendall, Esq. town tax, 88 School and county, 15 Minister, 18 ABEL GOODRIDGE, Coll'r. Merrimack, Dec. 8, 1802.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of DORCHESTER, who have not paid their taxes of three Cents, on each Acre of Land in said Dorchester, agreeable to an act of the General Court, passed June, 1801—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 Joseph Burley, Esq. in said Dorchester, on the first Monday of March next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Original Proprietors Names. No. Lot. Acres. Due.     Mark H. Wentworth, do. 2 65 100 3 0   John Parker, Esq. 3 231 100 3 0   John Hurd, Esq. 3 149 50 1 50   Samuel Parker, John Nelson, do. 2 245 100 3 0   John P. Williams, William Gardner, Joshua Brackett, Ebenezer Lewis, John Marchal, Benjamin Rice, Joseph Day, David Woodward, Thomas Porter, Isaac Burnap, John March, Isaac Williams, William Walch, Henry Sherburn, Thomas Floyd, Thomas Davison, Joseph Sheburn, do. 3 290 50 1 50   Samuel Hubart, do. 1 17 100 3 0   Theodore Atkinson, do. 3 237 100 3 0   Nathan West, JOSEPH BURLEY, JACOB NORIS, JEDEDIAH HOLT, do. 1 2 100 3 0   4 68 50 1 50   3 243 26 0 78   1 145 50 1 50   8 67 50 1 50   8 133 100 3 0   3 79 50 1 50   1 117 50 1 50   1 19 100 3 0   1 146 50 1 50   2 129 70 2 10   1 3 100 3 0   1 1 100 3 0   1 116 100 3 0   3 193 100 3 0   1 1 100 3 0   2 132 100 3 0   2 113 100 3 0   3 198 100 3 0   3 140 100 3 0  
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of DORCHESTER, who have not paid their county tax for the year 1802—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 Joseph Burley, Esq. in said Dorchester, on the last Monday of March next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Original Proprietors Names. No. Lot. Acres. Due.     Mark H. Wentworth, do. 2 65 100 3 0   John Parker, Richard C. Shannon, William Gardner, do. 3 231 100 3 0   John Marchal, David Woodward, John Marsh, do. 3 220 100 3 0   William Welch, do. 2 78 100 3 0   Thomas Davison, Joseph Sherburn, John Hurd, Esq., Nathan West, Joseph Day, Samuel Parker, John Smith, JOSEPH SAWYER, Collector. 2 85 100 3 0   3 237 100 3 0   2 68 50 1 50   3 67 50 1 50   3 147 100 3 0   3 213 100 3 0   3 140 100 3 0   3 219 100 3 0   1 1 100 3 0   2 116 100 3 0   2 205 100 3 0   3 140 100 3 0   1 145 100 3 0   3 245 100 3 0   2 96 100 3 0  
WANTED—A FEW SHIPPING HORSES. Inquire of the printers. Dec. 14, 1802.
NOTICE! For Sale at AUCTION , at the Office of Alexander Ewen , In Market-street, Portsmouth, a valuable assortment of MERCHANDIZE , Consisting of SUPERFINE & low priced Broad-Cloths; Cassimeres; Calicoes; Tambor'd Chintzes; Purple Shawls; Pocket-Handkerchiefs; Hats; Linens; Knives and Forks, &c. &c. **The above articles will be sold for Cash without reserve, and sale to be continued from time to time, till the whole is sold. N. B. He has for private sale, 50 casks fresh RAISINS , and a few CURRANTS . Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802.
STONE LIME.
Now Landing, and for Sale at E. Chadwick's Store, Bow-street, ONE hundred and fifty Casks STONE LIME , of a superior quality. Also — Bar Iron; Salt; Malaga Wine; India Sugar, & other GOODS as usual, cheap for cash or approved credit. Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802.
FOR SALE, At Jacob Walden's Auction Office, TWO NEW ELEGANT Piano-Fortes , Cheap for cash, if applied for soon. Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802.
Valuable Real Estate, FOR SALE,
Belonging to the estate of Dea. Sam'l Bowles, late of Portsmouth, deceased.— Viz. A CONVENIENT DWELLING HOUSE in Daniel-street, with a Stable and other Out Houses. To Sell or Let immediately, A small convenient Dwelling House and Shop at the east end of the Brick Market. Also, to Sell or Let, A large convenient Dwelling House, with Out Houses, in Washington-street, lately improved by Mr. Sweet. Likewise, to Sell or Let, A convenient Dwelling House near the south mills, and a number of House Lots with a water privilege adjoining, for which a good part of the pay would be taken in joiner's work, and a generous credit given for the remainder. Also, for sale, A small House, with about half an acre of Land, within a few rods of the Pound, in this town. Two rights of Land in the township of Success ; two do. do. in Britain Woods ; one do. do. in the township of Orange ; one hundred acre lot of Land in Wakefield ; one fifty acre lot in Gilmanton . The above out lands will be sold on reasonable terms, and country produce received in payment.
H. BOWLES wishes to inform her country friends and customers that she still continues to keep a BOARDING HOUSE , next door to Mr. C. Peirce's Book-store, in Daniel-street, where she will be happy to wait on customers as usual; has also remaining on hand, and for sale in her shop, an assortment of WEST-INDIA GOODS and GROCERIES , viz. Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Rum, Rice, Flour, Candles, Indigo. An assortment of Men's, women's and children's Shoes & Slippers, whole & half Boot Legs, Spermaceti Oil, &c. Portsmouth, Dec. 7, 1802.
Rowe and Sleeper,
Inform the public, that they have received a fresh supply of West-India GOODS AND GROCERIES , which they offer for Sale, at the lowest cash prices. Portsmouth, Nov. 8.
Notice is hereby given, THAT NANCY MOULTON, of Portsmouth, has been duly appointed administratrix on the estate of Capt. JOHN WATTS MOULTON , late of said Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, and has taken on herself that trust, and given bonds as the law directs: And all persons having demands upon the estate of the said John Watts Moulton , are required to exhibit the same; and all persons indebted to said estate are called upon to make payment to her attorney, ROBERT NOBLE , who will be ready to receive the same, at the store of Capt. JOSEPH NOBLE , Fore-street, Portsmouth. ROBERT NOBLE , Attorney to the administratrix before named. Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802.
NEW GOODS.
Joshua Blake Has received an extensive and very large assortment of Staple & Fancy Goods , Suitable for the Season, AMONG WHICH ARE A large Assortment of COATINGS and Ratteens , of the most fashionable colors; superfine & low priced Broad Cloths; striped and plain Kerfeymeres of all colors; Elasticis; Orleans Stripes; Plains; Serges; Forest Cloths; Devonshire Kerseys; Duffils; Fearnoughts; Baizes and Flannels of all colors and widths; Domets; an assortment of Blankets, Swanskins. A variety of
Superfine and low priced Swansdown Waistcoatings; toileret, quilting, lainet and silk do; silk Velvets men's Satins, and silk Florentines; striped black Satins for vests; Broglio; Pantaloon Patterns; best twil'd, black and color'd cotton Velvets; Constitution Cords; Thicksetts. A large assortment of
Men's black, white & mixt, ribb'd and plain worsted Hose; knotted and vandyke do; silk and worsted do; cotton and worsted do; youth's worsted and cotton do; men's black, white and fancy cotton do. Some with laced clocks; men's black, white and fancy silk do; do. laced clocks; ladies' white cotton laced clocks, and plain do. of all prices; ladies' plain and laced clocks silk Hose; ladies' black worsted Hose; black worsted Gloves and Mitts; men's worsted Caps; Socks; Morocco and cloth Shoes; children's leather Shoes; ladies' extra long, black, white and color'd silk Gloves; habit do; black, white and color'd cotton Gloves, both nett and plain; nett and plain cotton Mitts; black and color'd silk Mitts; ladies' white and color'd kid Gloves; habit do; men's black and white silk Gloves; black and color'd cotton do; beaver, Woodstock, leather, worsted and mill'd do. A variety of
Mock Sable, bear, brown and grey fox, Baranka and camels hair Muffs and Tippets; Fur Trimmings; Silk Wadding for Cloak linings; black, white and colour'd nett-fring'd camels hair Shawls; Tambor'd and Silk stripe do; black, white and coloured Silk Shawls; a variety of check'd, figured and plain Silk Handkerchiefs; Bandannas; Black Silk Handkerchiefs; black, white and colour'd nett fringed Cambrick Shawls; Tambor'd Cambrick and Muslin Shawls; patch, colour'd and purple Shawls; Jacomet and Book Muslin Handkerchiefs; Mens' Tambor'd and Cambrick Handkerchiefs; Cambrick Pocket Handkerchiefs; Cotton and Linen do.; Romalls. A large assortment of
Black & color'd Cambricks and Ginghams; black and color'd Calicoes; Copperplate & Patch Furnitures; figur'd Cambricks and Chintzes of the newest fashions; a variety of Book, Jacomet and India, plain, spotted and sprig'd Muslins; glaz'd and unglaz'd Cambrick Muslins of all prices; Dimities; Muslinetts and Quiltings; Linen Cambricks. A variety of
Straw, Chip and Cane Bonnets; Misses Straw Bonnets; Straw Trimmings; Plumes; Turkish Silk Bands for Bonnets; Silver Lace; Chinelle Trimmings; Cap Wire; Silk and Cotton Fringes; Silk Girdles; cotton do.; Glove Ties; Cotton Cords; Necklaces; an assortment of White Thread; Laces & Edgings; black & white silk Laces; black and white Silk Lace Veilings; Netting do.; Netting Vandynes; wide black Silk Laces for Shades; Crape, Netting, Cypress, Plain and Figur'd Gauzes; black, white and color'd Silk Crapes; black Cypress; black and white Millinets; black, white and color'd Tiffanys and Sarfines; wide and narrow Modes; black, white and color'd, wide and narrow Satins for Cloaks; Pelong do.; black, white and color'd India Lutestrings; French and English Lutestrings of the most fashionable colors; Satin, Mode and Lusting Ribbands, figur'd and plain; black gauze ribbands; a beautiful assortment of Watch Ribbands; Silk Ferrers; American and Dutch Hair Ribbands; Galloons; Bindings; Tapes. An assortment of
Diapers and Diaper Table Cloths; 7/8 and 3/4 Irish Linens; India Cotton of all prices; check'd Linens; Check'd and Striped Cotton; wide Sheeting Linens; Oil Cloths; yellow and white marking Canvas; Russells; Calimancos; Shalloons; Durants; Tauntes; Morcans; Taboreans; Crapes; Wild Bores; Cambies; Brown Hollands; fashionable Coat Buttons; Vest do.; Sewing-Silks; Twists; Bobbins; white and color'd Threads; Morocco Pocket Books; Steel Scissors; Thimbles; Velvet Bindings; Tastes; Ivory Combs; Elastic Knitting Pins; Needles; Pins; Button Molds; Umbrellas; Parasols; Tiffany Fans; Cotton and Silk Suspenders; Stock-Sifters; Mens' Beaver Hats; Womens' Beaver Hats and Bonnets; youths Beaver and Felt HATS. Portsmouth, Oct. 12.
FEATHERS.
Abraham Isaac, INFORMS the public in general that he has just received a great quantity of NEW FEATHERS , which he will sell very cheap. ** He keeps CROCKERY & GLASS WARE as usual, as cheap as can be purchased in town. Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802.
NOTICE!
To be Sold at Auction, On Wednesday, 5th Jan. 1803, at 12 o'clock, on Rindge's Wharf, THE SCHOONER SWALLOW , as she came from sea, about 28 tons. And the Schooner JACK , as she now lies at Noble's Island. Also, about 80 boxes and kegs of HERRING , with sundry other articles. Inventory to be seen at time and place of Sale, and terms of Payment made known. ALEX'R EWEN, Auctioneer. Portsmouth, Dec. 21, 1802.
TO BE SOLD,
A HOUSE & LAND , pleasantly situated; the Land is 22 feet on Buck-street, and 80 feet on Washington-street. The House is two stories high, and in good repair, with a good cellar under the whole; being an excellent place for trade. Apply to JACOB WALDEN. Portsmouth, Dec. 21, 1802.
William C. Hunneman,
BEGS leave to inform the Public, that he has purchased the Right of making and vending the New Invented Patent Fire Engine , which (from the simplicity of the construction, the largeness of the Valves, the ease with which all the parts of the Engine can be repaired, the very great force with which it throws the water, and the very great distance to which it is thrown) claims the first place in point of utility in extinguishing Fires. Orders for the Patent FIRE ENGINES , will be executed with the utmost dispatch, and on the most moderate terms, by W. C. HUNNEMAN No. 56, Fore-street, near the Draw Bridge. Boston, June 14, 1802. 6-m.
THE SUBSCRIBER
PROPOSES to open a SINGING SCHOOL , on Wednesday the 22d inst. at the house belonging to Capt. John Salter, in Washington-street, then and there any person may apply and be received on liberal conditions as before proposed. ASA SHAW. The Base Viol taught likewise. Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802.
TO LET,
A LARGE and convenient SHOP , in Market-street, suitable for English Goods. Inquire of the Printers. Dec. 21, 1802.
LOST on Saturday the 10th inst. between Portsmouth and Greenland, a Black Morocco POCKET-BOOK , containing two Notes, one against Mr. Nathaniel Bailey, for 57 Dollars and 25 Cents—the other against Mr. Thomas Dawning, for 3 Dollars, with other Papers valuable to the owner—Whoever has found the said Pocket-Book, and will leave it at the GAZETTE OFFICE , shall be handsomely rewarded by TIMOTHY CRUMET. Greenland, December 20, 1802.
Tickets and Quarters,
IN the Second Class of South Hadley Canal Lottery, which commences drawing next month, are for sale at C. Peirce's Bookstore.
WANTED,
AN active, capable LAD , of about 15 years of age, to attend in a store in this town. Inquire of the printers. Portsmouth, Dec. 21, 1802.
ACCOUNT BOOKS.
JUST RECEIVED from the Southward and FOR SALE by CHARLES PEIRCE , No. 5, Daniel-street; and N. S. & W. PEIRCE, corner of Congress and Market streets, Portsmouth; A large assortment of
BLANK BOOKS,
from 50 cents to 12 dollars each, such as Ledgers, Waftes, and Journals; Letter, Record, and Memorandum Books, the whole comprising a complete assortment, and warranted as cheap as can be purchased in Boston or this town.
TRUNKS
of all sizes and prices kept constantly For sale by N. S. & W. PEIRCE. Books & Stationary AS USUAL.