The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1803-10-11 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
"By adopting REPUBLICANISM for our Polar Star, we shall endeavor 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."
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. & W. PEIRCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
James Rundlet, HAS imported in the Amphion, from London, and the John Adams, and Packet, from Liverpool, a large assortment of Fall and Winter GOODS, which he is now opening for sale at a small advance, by wholesale & retail. Congress-Street, Portsmouth, Sept. 27, 1803.
FOR SALE BY Oliver C. Blunt, EIGHTEEN hhds. of well flavored, high proof good old TOBAGO RUM. Portsmouth, Oct. 4, 1803.
Ship Chandlery Store. THE subscribers inform the public that they have formed a connexion in trade under the firm of Ladd & Smith, and have taken the new Fire Proof Store No. 5, Fore-street, where they have for sale a general assortment of Ship Chandlery and Groceries. HENRY LADD. GEORGE F. SMITH. Portsmouth, Oct. 4, 1803.
TO BE SOLD AT D. Austin's Store, Opposite the Brick Market, A general assortment of GROCERIES. And a good assortment of PAPER HANGINGS. Parlour Stoves; & 60 casks Nova Scotia Lime. Also, to Let—The STORE lately occupied by Mr. B. Swett, an excellent stand for almost any kind of business, wholesale and retail. Portsmouth, Oct. 4, 1803.
FOR SALE BY Waldron & Holman, ONE hundred Hogheads retailing MOLASSES ; 100 hogheads N. E. RUM ; 200 Molasses Hhds. suitable for cyder. Russia IRON. Sept. 27, 1803.
Elisha Hill, jr. HAS FOR SALE, RUM, SUGAR, and MOLASSES, pr hoghead; COFFEE pr bag; Russia and Swedes IRON per ton. Portsmouth, Sept. 27, 1803.
FOR SALE BY Samuel Boardman, at RINGGEE'S Wharf, TEN hhds. Grenada RUM ; 3000 wt. COFFEE , in bags; TAR and PITCH. Portsmouth, Sept. 27, 1803.
Flaxseed and Barley. Robert Harris, GIVES cash for Flaxseed & Barley, at his Store, No. 5, on Langdon's Wharf. Portsmouth, Sept. 13, 1803.
FOR SALE, A FARM, IN the town of Newmarket, State of New-Hampshire, containing about 90 acres of Orchard, Mowing, Tillage, Pasture and Wood Land; with a good finished House, out-houses, and an excellent well of never failing water.—Very pleasantly situated on the great road leading from Berwick, in Maine, to Boston, and 12 miles from Portsmouth, five miles from Exeter Court-House, and sixty rods from Newmarket Meeting-house, and adjoins Exeter river; is delightfully situated as a gentleman's country seat; or may well suit a trader or mechanic,—is well watered, and has several advantages peculiar to said Farm. For particulars inquire of General JAMES HILL, or NATHANIEL ROGERS, Esq. in said Newmarket. Newmarket, Sept. 26, 1803.
S. Little, HAS received an additional supply of PAPER HANGINGS, which he is selling at a reduced price, at his Office in Buck-street.
The New-Hampshire Gazette, will be delivered on the route from Exeter, N. H. to Brattleborough in Vermont at 2 dollars per annum by William Thayer, Post rider, who will transact business of any kind for any person with fidelity and punctuality. October 4, 1803.
Jonathan Edgerly Post rider from Portsmouth to Hanover, INFORMS the public that he has commenced riding from Portsmouth to Hanover, and that he supplies persons on said route with Newspapers on the most reasonable terms, he informs those who took papers of Mr. Daniel Blaisdell the former Post rider, that as Mr. Blaisdell has finished riding, he shall supply his customers with Newspapers till he has orders to the contrary from them, and that they will be considered as much bound to pay for said papers, as if they subscribed with him.—Business of any kind left for him in his absence at Mr. Dwyer's Hanover, at Mr. D. George's Concord, at the Post-office Exeter, and at N. S. & W. Peirce's Bookstore Portsmouth, will be carefully attended to by him on his return, and faithfully executed. N. B. He leaves Portsmouth at an early hour every Tuesday morning.
 For AMSTERDAM, the ship ZEPHYR, will sail in all this month, about Sixty tons of freight wanted,—apply to the subscriber. EDWARD CUTTS. Portsmouth, October 4.
Z. Robinson & Co. At the head of the PIER, Have now ready for Sale, a very large and complete assortment of Grocery, Glass & China Ware, In crates, assorted principally for Country Traders.
CRATES of Blue & White fancy WARE, assorted, do. Blue & Green edged assorted. do. Enamel'd, under glaz'd, do. do. Printed and Penciled, do. 40 Crates Cream coloured, do. Hhds. Enamel'd & Fluted Ware do. Boxes Glass Ware, assorted. do. Tumblers. do. Decanters. do. Wine Glasses. do. Mugs. Dutch Liquor Cases. China in boxes, assorted. do. Tea Sets, in single boxes. *** All the above Goods will be sold for cash or approved credit, as low as can be purchased in Boston, and any assortment of the above Goods, if desired, will be repacked to suit the purchasers.
Warner & Weare, Offer for sale at their Store, No. 1, High-street, opposite the N. W. corner of the State-House, one door east of N. S. & W. Peirce's Bookstore and Printing-office.
TENERIFFE & Port Wines, Malaga do. pr cask; Barcelona 4th proof and Alicante Brandy pr bbl. W. I. Rum pr do. Hyson and young hyson Teas, Souchong and Bohea do. pr chest. Coffee; Wait's No. 1 & 2 Chocolate pr box. J. W. and common do. pr do. Child's do. Cocoa Shells; Loaf and India SUGAR; West India ditto. Best retailing Molasses; Muscavado Raisins pr box, Bloom and cask do. Cassia, Pimento, Pepper, Ginger; 60 lb. NUTMEGS, ENGLISH MUSTARD, pr lb. or bottle; Bar Soap pr box, Shaving do. Mould and dipt Candles pr box or lb. Fine & Superfine Flour, Rice pr lb. Men's and boy's knapt and felt Hats; Pastboard, pr groce, doz. or less; Writing & Wrapping Paper pr ream; Tow Cloth; SALT; Salt Petre; best tower proof and common English Gun Powder; Patent Shot, of all sizes; Flints pr groce or doz.; patent Black Ball pr dozen; Pound Pins; Awls and Awl-havles pr groce; Shoe Knives, Corks, Bed Cords, Combs, Allum, Copperas, Logwood, Fustic, Spanish Float Indigo, do. Lump. Cotton Cards, Whittemore's No. 3, 4, & 5 Cards pr doz. Sieves, Sieve Rims and Bottoms pr doz. IRON SHOVELS, Flat Irons, Frying Pans, Fig and Pigtail Tobacco, Spanish and American Segars pr box or dozen, Elliot's Snuff pr keg, bladder or lb. Thompson's do. pr do. CROCKERY WARE. Tumblers pr straw, Gin Casks; a few barrels PEASE; a few CHEESES, &c. Portsmouth, Sept. 13, 1803.
LAWS OF THE STATE,
PASSED AT JUNE SESSION, 1803. An Act, in addition to an act, entitled, "An act empowering the inhabitants of the town of Portsmouth to appoint Health Officers, and for preventing nuisances in said town." WHEREAS the provisions of said act are, on experience, found not fully to answer the salutary purposes contemplated thereby:
Therefore, BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court convened, That the Health Officers now in office, and those who may be hereafter chosen, according to the directions of the act aforesaid, shall have power, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, and as in their judgement the health and safety of the said town and of the people may require, to make such rules and regulations, to have effect within the limits of said town and port, as to them shall appear necessary for those purposes; also for removing and preventing nuisances; which rules, orders, and regulations, being approved by two or three Justices of the Peace, one of whom being of the Quorum, shall be binding and strictly observed within the town and port of Portsmouth. And if any person or persons shall disobey or violate the rules, orders, and regulations, of said Health Officers, so made and approved, at any time after three days from the publication of the same in two of the newspapers printed in said town, such person or persons shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered by the said Health Officers before a Justice of the Peace, not being a party, for the use of said town.
And the said Health Officers shall have power, and power is hereby given them, to make orders and regulations, from time to time, respecting Quarantine, in what cases it shall be performed by vessels arriving in said port naming the ports or places from which all vessels arriving ought to be subject to Quarantine, and by other orders to take off this subjection or restriction, when in their opinion the safety of the town and people will admit of it. And all their orders and regulations respecting Quarantine, made, approved, and published as aforesaid, shall be of force; and they are hereby required and empowered, to cause such vessels and all others having infection or contagious sickness on board, or justly suspected of endangering the health of the town, to perform Quarantine, under such restrictions and regulations as they may judge expedient. And any owner, master, supercargo, officer, seamen, consignee, or other person concerned, who shall neglect or refuse to obey the restrictions, directions, or qualifications of said Health Officers, respecting said Quarantine, shall on conviction thereof before the Superior Court, be fined a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding three months, or both at the discretion of said Court.
And be it further enacted, That whenever the said Health Officers shall order, in manner aforesaid, all vessels arriving from a particular port, or from certain ports, to perform Quarantine, they give notice of such order to the pilots of the said port of Portsmouth; and it shall be the duty of the said pilots, to make known the said order of the Captains or Masters of all vessels which they shall board, or have opportunity to communicate it unto. And if any pilot shall pilot any vessel up to the town, to any wharf thereof, said vessel being by such order subject to Quarantine, he shall forfeit his branch, and be moreover fined not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars, at the discretion of said Court, on a prosecution and conviction before said Court. And it shall be the duty of the said Health Officers, to make known such orders by them made as aforesaid, to the commanding officer of the fort or garrison at New-Castle, desiring his assistance and co-operation in stopping all vessels subject by such order to perform Quarantine, and not permitting them to pass Quarantine road, until further order be taken respecting them.
And be it further enacted, That any master or commander of any vessel
arriving, subject to Quarantine by such order, as aforesaid, who, after receiving notice in any manner of his vessel's being so subject shall bring up the same to any part of the town of Portsmouth, or pass up the river, or who shall falsely and fraudulently attempt to elude the directions of the Health Officers, by false and unfounded declarations, as to the port or place from whence he came, or who shall land, or suffer to be landed from his vessel, any person, goods, apparel, bedding, or Merchandise whatsoever, without the permission of the said Health Officers; every such master or commander shall, upon conviction thereof as aforesaid, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or suffer imprisonment for a time not exceeding three months, or both, at the discretion of the said Superior Court.
And be it further enacted, That when the said Health Officers shall think it necessary that any vessel shall perform Quarantine, and be cleansed and purified, they shall direct the master or commander of such vessel to proceed with her, and anchor at or near some convenient place by them appointed and specified in their order, not exceeding three miles from Portsmouth, there to be purified and cleansed, in such manner as the said Health Officers shall direct and order. And all expenses of such purification shall be defrayed and paid by the master, commander, owner, or consignee of such vessel; and they shall either of them, and each owner severally, be answerable therefor; and the expenses shall be recovered by action of the case in the name of the said Health Officers, to and for the use of the said town of Portsmouth. And each and every master, commander, owner, or consignee of every such vessel, who shall neglect or refuse to comply with such directions for purification or cleansing, shall, on conviction thereof before the said Superior Court, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars or suffer imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or both, at the discretion of the Court.
And be it further enacted, That any diseased mariner or other person, sent on shore at the place appointed by the said Health Officers for the reception and cleansing of the sick, shall be there kept, maintained, provided for, and cleansed, at his or their own expense, or that of his or their parents or masters, if able, otherwise at the charge of the town to which he or they belong. And in case such person or persons have no legal settlement in any town or place within this State, then at the charge of the State.
And be it further enacted, That every person, mariner, or other person, who shall presume to come on shore from any vessel infected or, justly suspected to be so, or subject to or ordered for Quarantine, or performing it, or shall leave the place appointed for the sick, or for purification, being placed there by order as aforesaid, and not having obtained permission from the Health Officers; every person, so offending shall, on conviction before the Court of Common Pleas, or the Superior Court, forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars, or suffer three months imprisonment, at the discretion of the Court before which the conviction shall be.
And be it further enacted, That when any vessel shall be ordered for Quarantine and purification, a red flag, of six feet in length at least, shall be ordered to be hoisted at the head of the main mast, and shall be constantly kept up in the day time, during the whole term of the Quarantine, and until said vessel shall be entirely cleansed. And a like flag shall be hoisted on a flag staff to be erected for that purpose, and kept up constantly in the day time, at the place appointed for the reception, cure, and cleansing of the sick, during the time of their remaining there. And if any person shall, without direction or leave of the Health Officers, go on board any vessel, ordered for or performing Quarantine, or go within the limits that may be appointed by said Officers, circumscribing infected persons, substances on shore, he shall be considered as contaminated with infection, and held to undergo purification in the same manner, and under the same regulations, restrictions, and
penalties, as those are subject to who are performing Quarantine; and shall there remain, at his own expense, until discharged by order of the Health Officers. And the persons employed by them there, may, and are hereby empowered forcibly to detain him, until regularly discharged as aforesaid.
And be it further enacted, That the powers before given to the said Health Officers, may, and shall, be exercised by them, or any two of them. Approved, June 10, 1803.
THE REPROVER, No. V.
THE factions in our country against our liberties, gave a tremendous shock, which, however, was not mighty enough to overthrow the grand fabric which we had erected; and which will never be destroyed by the united powers that may arise in opposition. The yeomanry of our country are the substantial pillars which will support and preserve our Constitution to perpetual ages. They are a force which can never be subdued by all the stratagems of those politicians who have been effaying to render our government as arbitrary as is that of Great-Britain, which under the appearance of Liberty, exercise the most cruel tyranny. It would be, as it has been, in vain to remind them of those oppressive laws which persecuted the Roman Catholics and dissenters, the majority of whom were men of honor & virtue and the friends of Liberty. A religious test is wholly set aside by our government; and the citizens of the United States glory in a Constitution, which guards the sacred rights of conscience. Deprive men of the liberty of thinking for themselves, and you do them a far greater injury than depriving them of life: for you render their existence both disgraceful and to the last degree miserable. Toleration in religious matters, implies arbitrary power; as though it lay in the breast of government either to suffer or restrain men in their religious professions. A government truly republican speaks not such language; it declares that no power on earth has any right to interfere about men's sentiments. and that every one has a right from God & nature to think and act for himself in every thing which interferes not with the social compact by which the common interests of society are guaranteed and supported. Agreeably to this it must be maintained, that those public prints which refuse to insert men's opinions on either religious or political subjects, assume an arbitrary power which is rebellious against the principles of a just and righteous government. These observations should awaken our attention to some things which have not long since happened, and which, if slightly passed over by the people, may in the issue prove fatal to Liberty both civil and religious. In our Country a word to the wife is sufficient.
THE REPUBLICANS,
The decided supporters of religious liberty. Too many federalists are fond of the British constitution, and profess that they wish to see such a constitution in America. Mr. Adams, (the late President) praises it in his book in the highest terms, and declares that it does more honor to human nature than any thing else that ever was invented. The federalists are the followers of Mr. Adams. The following paper shews the situation of the Quakers, Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, German reformed church, Dutch Presbyterians and all others whom they call "dissenters from the church of England" in Great-Britain.
The civil state of Dissenters in England.
"Every dissenter in England is excluded from all civil and ecclesiastical employments of honor or profit in the kingdom. No dissenter can be admitted to command in the army or navy were even his country invaded, nor to collect any part of the public revenue, nor act as a magistrate nor to graduate in either of the universities, not even to take a degree of doctor of music or physic, which employments have no reference to the state. Nor will the affirmation of a Quaker be taken in any of the courts, in any criminal prosecution whatever; so that if a man of this denomination were

to see another murder his father or his wife, he could not prosecute the criminal without denying his religion.
No Quaker can practice in any of the courts of law, not even as an attorney.
This civil incapacity makes dissenters be looked upon most uncharitably as rebels and enemies to government, and to a family which they placed on the throne, and in all seasons of alarm and tumult, they have experienced & do experience great evils in this way.
Every dissenter who acknowledges the truth of the doctrine of the Trinity, is barely tolerated in the exercise of religious worship, but he who denies the Trinity is, on conviction, liable to confiscation of goods and imprisonment.
Dissenters pay all taxes and tithes, and are obliged to serve offices in the church which are attended only with labor and expence, a churchwarden &c. subject to heavy penalties if they do not serve, or find at their own expence a proper substitute.— Rippon's London Baptist Reg.
Such, Americans, is the present state of the principal religious societies in England; one denomination protected, patronized and pampered by government; all others plundered, trampled under foot and despised.
How thankful ought Americans to be to HIM, who in their country has placed all sects on an even footing, independent of each other, subject to Almighty God, and free from the control or interference of human government! And how careful ought we to be lest these peculiar and inestimable privileges should be taken from us.
Yet we see some of the ministers and members of these religious persuasions in this country, which in England are most despoiled and oppressed, either assisting or countenancing ambitious and unprincipled men in their attempts to introduce an oppressive government and a corrupt religion into our country, and seconding or smiling upon their slander and abuse of the very man who has been the principle instrument in the hand of God in establishing religious liberty in our land. These things ought not to be so! Let Methodists, let Baptists, let Quakers, let Presbyterians and others beware lest they assist the enemies of our civil & religious rights, in fixing on the necks of our children a yoke which neither ourselves nor our fathers were able to bear.
A FRIEND,
to religious as well as civil liberty.
Thoughts on Slave Trade—No. I.
LET us trace the proceedings of those employed at this trade of human flesh—of those who, devoid of all principles, and in pursuit of their only god, wealth—sacrifice every other sentiment to that of ambition. With these, every virtue becomes a vice—every caution a stigma to commit those very things with which that virtue and that caution are in contradiction. With Eve, obedience was once no doubt a virtue, but as her ambition to be equal with the Supreme, began to predominate, virtue resigned its empire and she fell a victim to that fatal passion which in view of a king her to the summit of the wished for grandeur, plunged her into the deep gulph of vileness and depravity. What followed and still must follow the fall of this our common mother is too well known to need a discussion here and to every rational being it must appear evident, that not only the crimes of Eve but every and any deviation from virtue must be attended with similar circumstances and sooner or later they will experience the wrath of God. But to return let us take passage on board that ship which is ready for a Guinea voyage and behold, when we perceive what company we are in and inquire into the particulars of their conduct, we are soon aware that the far greater number of them are the refuse of society, unable to get employ elsewhere and scarce worthy the name of man, were it not for a hope of their returning to a right sense of their duty. Some may think what I advance too harsh or too inconsiderate, but I appeal to the feelings of every candid reader for the truth of it. And is it to be wondered at? Is not the nature of this diabolical practice such, that none but the unwary and the most depraved wretches would embark in it? The anchor's awe, the fails unloosened and a favoring breeze soon conveys us far from our native shore. To thinking minds how favorable a moment for reflection! How gracious to them appears that Being whose power and goodness are their only safe guard in the hour of calm serenity, and their only refuge in the moment of distress and peril! What awe fills their breasts at the thoughts of offending the mighty and only Governor of the Universe! How oft would a sigh escape that bosom which has been torn from the objects of its affection, esteem and tenderest solicitude! How oft would the soul pour out fervent and humble prayers before the God, to whose care & protection they commit their dearest interests! These and the like sentiments animate the bosom of the good; but alas! widely different are those of whom we now speak. Repair to the cabin and what do you hear? What degrades human nature—what affrights the soul—what my pen cannot paint in colours sufficiently black. They are planning upon those stratagems which will most insure their bloody designs—which will most speedily make up the number of those who are to become their prey. If this is the cabin talk what will and must the sailors say? Lo! I hear a whisper, let us draw a little nearer & catch the heads of their conversation. What other inferences can we draw from it but that it is a confederacy betwixt them, that they are all concerned in the hellish plot. They are already testing upon those tortures which they are to impose upon the helpless vic-
tims of raving ambition. This employed the calmer part of the passage and when the roaring thunder grumbling in the distant clouds or suddenly bursting over our heads; when the lightnings rushes from his den and expands in flames—when the foaming billows—the raging & tempestuous winds and the more rapid hurricanes—when the necessity of the moment compel a suspension of their hateful, but to them favorite occupation, instead of being awakened from their slumber of vice—instead of receiving these awful messengers of Divine wrath and vengeance with that deference and awe which they are so well calculated to inspire, instead of reviewing their past misconduct and resolving to amend—instead of preparing themselves worthy for those summons which in the twinkling of an eye will consign them to a silent grave—I say, instead of considering all this, nothing proceeds from these lips but the most impious oaths—they abuse the name of that Being whose power alone can shield & save them. When death presents itself on all sides and no hopes of returning to some hospitable shore is remaining, even then, the air is poisoned with their blasphemies—they are often heard to implore upon their brother's and their own souls the curse of that being who is infinite in power and would thus plunge themselves head long into eternity, but for the saving mercies of that heavenly Father, who will not "the death of a sinner, but that he live and repent." They dread to be cut off from among the living and for no other reason but that they are going into that state of inactivity which prevents a prosecution of their darling occupation, their well planned schemes, yes they are going into that state where "the wicked cease from troubling." The tempest lulled and thus musing we are safe at anchor on the shores of Africa.
Late Foreign Intelligence,
By the Minerva, in 36 days from London.
HAMBURGH, AUG. 10. THE flag of our commerce increases every day. Our port, which formerly displayed a forest of masts, now resembles a desert. No vessel can enter the Elbe; nor will the English suffer one to go out. This state of things may last for a long time. The French are determined not to quit the left Bank of the Elbe; and the English, not to raise the blockade. The negotiation which was opened on this subject with the Court of London, does not appear to have produced any effect. It is certain that the Russians will preserve their neutrality in the Baltic, and that the coast of Elsinore, and other points, will not be occupied by foreign troops.
Of Turkey.
AUG. 26. From Turkey we learn, that that unhappy Empire is again distracted by another formidable rebellion, on the part of Pashwan Oglou; and to add to the perplexity of the Porte, France demanded, that English ships shall not only be prohibited from entering the ports of Turkey, but prevented from passing the Dardanelles.
A body of troops of Pashwan Oglou has entered Wallachia, and surrounded the intrenchments of Bucharest. This sudden invasion has surprised every body, but the reason assigned by Pashwan Oglou is still more astonishing. It is, he says to avenge the death of a Cure, whom he established in that quality in the village of Zimetz in Wallachia, and to get the head of his murderer. We did not expect to see a Turk take up arms in favour of a Catholic Priest.
Ireland—again agitated.
AUG. 27. The County of Kildare, has been proclaimed as well as the county of Meath.—Our letters from Dublin of Tuesday last inform us, that the Rebels are supposed to be actively, though secretly employed.
AUG. 28. We have letters from Dublin by the mail of yesterday, dated at 10 o'clock on the night of the 23d. which represent all then quiet, but that the most painful solicitude prevailed as to the apprehended events of the following day, which had been appointed for a general rising in conjunction, as the infatuated rabble had been taught to believe, with an army from France.
In most parts of the country the Inhabitants were flying to the towns for safety. The gallant energy of the Yeomanry encreases with the occasion for their service. Nothing can exceed their promptitude and perseverance. In the King's County they amount to six thousand five hundred men; & in most other Counties the Corps are proportionably strong.
Of China.
AUG. 28. One of the Calcutta papers which we have lately received, contains the following articles:—
We little expected that the Revolutionary Scenes which so long agitated the Western Hemisphere, would have extended their influence over so distant—and so jealous a Government as the Chinese;—the principles which actuate the rebels in this quarter, will be found to be in exact accordance with those which produced the French Revolution—the progress threatens to be as terrible, and if we view the character of the nation and the propitious genius of the Empire, it is more than probable that the result will be the same;—the subversion of the antient Government of the Chinese.
The following interesting account of this transaction, we have received from a correspondent:—
There has sprung up within these few months a very numerous body of men, of a description very similar to what we have known for some years past by the name of THE ILLUMINATI.—They are known to one another by particular signs—the bond of allegiance is communicated to any one who is desirous of becoming a member of the Society by drawing blood from some part of his body, and infusing a little of that of one who is already incorporated—or, a mutual interchange of blood takes place—the clans that have already appeared, are alarmingly numerous—inomuch, that the Tionee or Viceroy of Canton has been long absent commanding the imperial troops in person, and has gained some final victories—it was said, indeed, at one time, that he was on the return; but by late accounts there is great probability of further commotions.
It is prophesied that some person will rise up before the year 1804, who will depose the present Tartar race of Emperors, and restore that of the antient Chinese.
Commercially Important.
A firm stand in favour of American neutral rights.
The case of Capt. D. Elliot of the American brig Debby, is offered to the consideration of all the merchants and sea captains of the United States; and the conduct of Mr. John M. Forbes, the American consul at Hamburg, merits the particular attention of all our agents abroad.
From Mr. Forbes's excellent letter, dated at Hamburg, on the 18th July, 1803, it appears that the brig Debby, Capt. Elliot, had failed from that port for the United States, and the British navy officers, then blockading the Elbe had been guilty of ordering our neutral American brig to return to Hamburg, against the law of nations, and in palpable and gross violation of our indisputable rights. Mr. Forbes our consul, when this matter came to his knowledge, immediately furnished Capt. Elliot with an intelligent, correct, and firm instruction to repeat his attempt to make his lawful voyage from the neutral port of Hamburg to the United States. He well observed in those instructions, that during the most vigorous blockade last war , the most extreme cases decided in the English court of admiralty admitted, "that neutral vessels entering even an enemy's ports, and fairly and innocently taking on board a cargo, prior to any knowledge of a blockade, might be allowed to proceed home with a cargo thus loaded. On this head Sir William Scott's opinion on the case of the prow Judith, Volkers, master," (Robinson's admiralty reports, vol. 1, p. 160) will leave no doubt on any mind. This was a case of a vessel coming out of Havre de Grace, August 21, 1798. This being a case as it respects a trade with enemies, I conceive that all precedent must be extremely forced to extend the doctrine of blockade to vessels under similar circumstances, coming out of a port avowedly neutral. Your case is so much the stronger, as you not only had loaded, but failed prior to any knowledge of the existing blockade. On a further perusal of Robinson's admiralty reports, I find that there is not a case in which the subject of blockade is touched, where Sir William Scott does not fully and unequivocally declare the same sentiments.
I cannot believe, that a commanding officer of the blockading squadron will be disposed to give you any unnecessary trouble, or insist on a detention, which will fall very heavily on you or him."
In consequence of this judicious instruction of Mr. Forbes, the Debby, Capt. Elliot, proceeded from Hamburg to America, and though met by the British cruisers again, off the Hamburg river Elbe, they did not venture to force her back again or send her into England "for adjudication." Had Mr. Forbes been less intelligent and firm, our trade from Hamburg would have been impeded by an arbitrary British naval officer, against the law of nations, and against the decisions and authority of the British courts. If Great Britain means to preserve the authority of her own courts and keep on terms with us, the officer who was guilty of so excessive an outrage on their laws, and on our rights, should be brought immediately to a strict public account. It seems to be worthy of consideration, whether the American citizens concerned should not sue in London, perhaps with the aid of our ministers and consuls, for damages, independently of the measures which our government may find proper to adopt, in this and other cases of violation of neutral rights.—Aurora.
(CIRCULAR.)
HAMBURGH, JULY 11, 1803.
SIR,
The blockade of the Elbe, by the English, has been officially announced to the Government of this city. At a crisis as difficult as the present, it is important to the interests of your owners, that you should conform in the strictest manner, not only to the reciprocal and admitted rights of nations, but to the interpretations of those rights given by the principal maritime powers. I advise you therefore, not to load any more goods on board your vessel; to provide yourself with the best proof, "that what is already loaded has been delivered and loaded before your knowledge of the blockade." And to hasten as much as possible your departure.
I am, &c. (Signed) J. M. FORBES, Consul of the United States of America.
To the Captains and Supercargoes of such vessels of the United States of America, as may present themselves at the mouth of the Elbe, being destined for the Port of Hamburg.
GENTLEMEN, At the present unforeseen and very
difficult crisis, an indifference to the Commercial Interest of my country would be highly reprehensible in me. I have therefore thought proper to convene the Merchants of this city who are in habits of business with those of the United States, and to ask their opinion as to the measures which ought to be adopted. Happily for me, I have found my own impressions strengthened by this deliberation. The object of this communication is not to dictate, or controul, but merely to advise you, as to the line of conduct, which it will be most prudent for you to observe, under existing circumstances.
In the first place, I would recommend your going into the nearest neutral port which you may be allowed to enter. In this you will attend to the orders you may receive from the blockading squadron, but avoid entering the ports of any of the Belligerent Powers, except constrained to do it by superior force or necessity. As this circumstance will much increase the risk you may be obliged to incur in any subsequent change of destination.
To those of you who may not have Pilots, or be well acquainted with the Danish Coast, it is well to observe that the river Eyder, is not navigable by vessels drawing more than ten feet water. On your arrival in the nearest neutral port as above recommended, should your cargo entirely be consigned to One House, you will write them for instructions and such arrangements for an additional freight and insurance in case of carrying it to another port, as prudence may suggest. Should it be addressed to several consignees, in forwarding a copy of your Manifest to me, I shall communicate it to them and cheerfully lend my aid for the interests of all concerned. I am &c.
(Signed) J. M. FORBES,
Consul of the United States of America.
The following circular has been received by the collector of the port of N. York, from William Lee, esq. American consul at Bordeaux:
"American consulate, Bordeaux,
Aug. 8, 1803.
"Sir,
I learn from the directors of the customs of this port that an order of government has just been received, not to admit to an entry any neutral vessels coming from, or that may have touched at any British port. With much esteem I am yours truly.
(Signed)
WILLIAM LEE,"
Mr. Pictet, of Geneva, in his account of a late visit of three months to Great Britain and Ireland has astonished the people of the continent, with the following power of English industry: "there is," says he, "a case in which a raw material, value one half-penny, is raised by manufacture to the worth of 35,000 guineas!" This takes place in the art of a watch-spring-maker. A pound of crude iron only costs a half-penny; it is converted into steel, that steel is made into watch springs, every watch spring is sold for half a guinea, and weighs only one tenth of a grain. There are in a pound weight 7000 grains; it therefore affords steel for 70,000 watch-springs. The value of all these, at half a guinea each, is 35,000 guineas.
Lon. Pap.
THE JUDICIARY.
In 1789 the Washington administration formed the Judicial System, of the United States, which experience proved to be good and sufficient.
In 1801, the Adams, administration, at the very close of its career, passed a law altering the Washington judiciary system of 1789, and creating sixteen new and unnecessary judges, with salaries, of 2000 dollars a year each.
When Mr. Jefferson came into office, among other reforms, the new judiciary law of Adams was repealed, and the system of Washington restored—consequently the sixteen new and useless judgeships were abolished, and their 32,000 dollars a year salaries saved to the country.
This is a true state of this plain case.—Yet the Jefferson administration, which only restored the Washington judiciary system, is accused of destroying the judiciary!—With what truth, let the candid judge.
Extract from Judge Griffin's Charge to the Grand Jury of Hancock County, Georgia.
It affords me a particular pleasure, that the vigilance of the Federal administration, enables me to congratulate you on the important acquisition of Louisiana to the United States; that thiscession has been obtained through the channel of negotiation rather than the sword, evinces the wisdom of our rulers, and ought to endear us to the government; a government which is at this day, deemed the only one on earth that may be emphatically styled FREE, where the security, of life, liberty and property, and of every thing else dear to man is held sacred, and where the laws are made by the people, whose conduct they are to regulate, and the taxes laid on by those by whom they are to be paid; and where any individual, if he has talents and merit, may rise to the highest offices and honors of the State. Such a government is the greatest blessing on earth; to defer the continuance of which be it impressed on your minds, that it is an imperative duty, whether as citizens or grand jurors, to promote literature, encourage virtue and religion, and to suppress vice.
Portsmouth.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1803.
SUMMARY—FOREIGN.
SINCE our last we have received London dates three days later than those which reached us before, but nothing of moment appears in them.
In England, the ardor of patriotism is truly characteristic, and their zeal unremitting in adopting measures for the effectual frustrating of the designs of the First Consul. The enforcing of the execution of the act for training and exercising the population of the country, has been deemed unnecessary, in consequence of the numerous voluntary offers, which have been made. Many of these offers have been rejected, and as the number of volunteers is thought to be little short of one million; an immediate reduction is to be made. As this is in contemplation by government, some of the volunteer corps are said to have determined, should any reductions take place, to dissolve themselves intirely.—The Isle of Guernsey has been put in a formidable state of defence and is well prepared for an attack. An army of sea fencibles are daily exercising on board of fifteen hundred gun-boats and bateaux, stationed on the English coast opposite France and Holland, of which Lord Keith and Sir Sidney Smith, have the direction. Numerus and daily instances are displayed in Great Britain of the unanimity of sentiments which pervades in England and Scotland, and unequivocal proofs of their determination to oppose with heart and hand, an invader, become more and more evident. The zeal and patriotic spirit of the inhabitants of some of the inward parishes is such, that they had come to a resolution, should bonaparte not be provided in season, to face the enemy with long pitch forks. The first intelligence from Ireland is likely to prove interesting, as they are bordering upon another violent agitation. The spirit of dissatisfaction is far from being extinct—it only lies dormant and waiting for some favorable moment to declare itself—Great vigilance is displayed by government, and their power is formidable.—A rumour has been in circulation of a late revolution which took place, it is said, in Paris, where Moreau and the greater part of the army in the neighbourhood, hoisted the royal Standard and dissolved the Consular Government. This report is so vague that no credit is to be attached to it. Certain it is, that Moreau has some influence in France, and that Louis XVIII has received assurances of the existence of a formidable party in France. It is no less certain that preparations have been made in England for erecting the royal Standard in France; and it was credited that 50,000 royalists, headed by Pichegru and Dumourier, were ready to join them. Nevertheless the French papers continue to give marks of the affection of the French people for Bonaparte, and their attachment to his government are evident. From travellers we have positive assurance that in the interior of France, every thing remained peaceful and tranquil.—From Hamburg we learn the flag of their commerce increases every day. The blockade of the Elbe, prevents any vessels from going up that river, nor will the English permit the departure of any vessel from thence. All remained tranquil in Hanover, and the French are laid to keep up the best understanding, and the closest intimacy with its inhabitants.—When the last accounts left Turkey, that unhappy empire was again agitated by a formidable rebellion, on the part of Pashwan Oglou;—The French have made a demand of the Porte, not to admit any English vessels in their harbours, and to prevent their passing the Dardanelles.—The Turkish ministry are said to have formed a plan of neutrality, in conjunction with the ex Venetian or seven United Islands, to which all the maritime States of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean, as well as the Court of Vienna, have been invited to accede.—In China, a revolution is aimed at by a numerous party, whose aim seems to be to depose the present Tartar race of Emperors, and to restore that of the antient Chinese. The principles which actuate the rebels bear a great affinity to those which caused the French revolution, and the result will most probably be the same. The Viceroy of Canton has been long absent commanding the Imperial troops in person.—In Italy a copy of a convention is in circulation, said to have been proposed by the Emperor of Russia, for the guaranteeing of Malta; and as a supplement to the treaty of Amiens;—The Emperor of Russia, the Emperor of Germany, the Kings of Spain, Naples and Prussia, are particularly invited to guarantee the same.—It is expected that the blockade of the Elbe and Weser, by the English will cease, as

The French have already withdrawn part of their troops from Hanover, and were expected to retire from the banks of those rivers. — The Northern Powers seem to assume a different aspect to what our last accounts seemed to inculcate. They are seemingly no way inclined to favor the pretensions of the British, of whose naval power they are jealous; though we have no information of their desire to second the views of the First Consul. The seeming military which lurks under the reserved conduct of these powers will soon be done away, and it is more than probable that they will take a decisive part in the war.
The English view of the whole ground, it seems, is to inform and admonish Americans as well as Englishmen. Be sure then, AMERICANS, ye genuine sons of freedom, ye receive the instruction and the monition. — The English government in their view of the whole ground affords us a striking evidence of the desperate condition to which they are reduced in these their last efforts. The grounds of the war, it is said, are to be fought for in the ambition of the First Consul; and the affairs of Egypt, Holland, Switzerland, and Italy are misrepresented. The evils brought on those countries, it is well known, were owing to the opposers and not to the friends and defenders of Liberty. It would require more than the limits of a public weekly print will admit, to give a just view of the various pretences of the English government, set forth in their important considerations for the people. They represent Bonaparte as the author of the renewed war, which themselves only have provoked, urged on by that desperation which seizes a debauched government ruined by its vices and atrocious crimes. Their pretended grounds of the war serve only to open wider the eyes of the nations who are seeking liberty. Bonaparte was for peace, but they for war; and they are like to have their fill of it. They know that peace will prove their ruin, a ruin they have long deserved, and which now rapidly hastens upon them. — The people will be free.
"It cannot be worse until it terminates" say the Anglo Federalist—that is, the affairs of Great Britain are in such a wretched state that they cannot be worse unless the government is totally overthrown. Such a termination would be the decree of HEAVEN in justice for the blood cruelly spilt in America by the hands of that wicked government.
DOMESTIC.
The last accounts from New-York state the number of deaths from the 1st to the 4th October, to have amounted to 51 and the number of new cases to have been 99. On the 3d Oct. it is reported that in the last 48 hours there had been 29 Interments at Philadelphia. It is to be hoped that, the approaching cold weather will put a period to the distresses of these cities. From Alexandria we have more gratifying accounts and the number of deaths from the 27 to the 30th September were only three.
Various parts of New-Hampshire and Vermont have experienced the sad effects of a bilious fever of a malignant nature and of a putrid Dysentery, which have caused in some places great mortality.
We have noticed in our paper the charity lecture which will be on Thursday next at 3 o'clock. The female charity school does honor to the feelings of those under whose auspices it has been erected. How favorable an opportunity for the feeling and charitably disposed, to contribute their mite to alleviate the pressures of poverty; — and how satisfactory will be the thought of providing those young plants with an opportunity of forming their morals to the love of virtue! Thus will they contribute to raise useful & worthy members to society from amongst those whom, if left a prey to their hard lot, would become useless to society and perhaps worse. We hope and trust that we need no excitement to draw our fellow citizens to the north meeting house on the appointed day, but that their zeal & sympathy for those helpless infants will stimulate them to this act of beneficence. The harvest promises a full and plentiful crop, to recompense the labours and toils of the husbandman.
His Excellency the Governor with advice of Council, has appointed Thursday the 17th day of November next, to be observed as a day of Public Thanksgiving, throughout this State.
CONGRESS.
Agreeably to proclamation, the first session of the EIGHTH CONGRESS of the United States, will commence at Washington the 17th inst. when great and weighty matters will be laid before them.
The purchase of Louisiana will no doubt claim the attention of congress, during its present session, and we anticipate with eagerness the opinion of the Representatives of the people on a subject which has been a topic of continual dispute for some time past.
On the second of August Sir John Nicholl moved in the British House of Commons, for leave to bring in a bill to remove certain doubts respecting the validity of certain assignments made under the award of certain commissioners, appointed by the seventh article of the treaty of peace with America. Leave was given, and the bill read a third time and passed both houses on the 12th of August, the day the parliament closed its session.
There have been numerous recent Bankruptcies in England. — We have not learnt how far they have affected our fellow-citizens; but it is stated, that the house of Barclay and Co. in London, had property in their hands, at the times of their failure belonging to merchants in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, to the amount of a million sterling.
Mr. MUNROE, the Minister of the United States, at the Court of St. James, was presented to his Britannic Majesty, at his levee, the 17th August; and delivered his letters of credence.
NEW-YORK, SEPT. 30.
Sympathy with the Distressed.
We perceive with pleasure, that a subscription is raising in Portsmouth, (N. H.) to be forwarded to the Health Committee of this city, for the purpose of assisting them in alleviating the distresses of the poorer class of citizens that have been thrown out of business and reduced to want, in consequence of the sickness with which this city has been for some time past, and is at present labouring under.
The uproar made by some of the leading anti-republicans in Jersey, against judge Patterson is said to be in consequence of his declaring that the "Louisiana purchase was not only cheap but highly honorable to the executive."
Judge Patterson's opinion on the Louisiana question we consider of no other consequence than as it proves that there is some candor and honour to be found among those who have suffered themselves to be so long made the active or tacit enemies of the government.
Judge Patterson of Jersey, has ever been considered as one of the ablest lawyers America has produced; his common-law doctrines, however, have been strained exceedingly high. His conduct in the Trenton decision on the Connecticut invasion of Pennsylvania, was highly honorable to him though it lost him the succession to Jay on the bench.
Four bowr cables of 13 inches, 180 fathoms each, all of American hemp of prime quality, have been just finished at the Navy Rope Walk in Washington city for the frigate Essex.
We have the painful task to announce to the public, that on Sunday morning the 2d inst. about a quarter past seven o'clock, at his house in this town, died, in the 82d year of his age, SAMUEL ADAMS, late Governor of this Commonwealth, the consistent and inflexible Patriot & Republican.
To attempt, at this moment, even to sketch an outline of a character equally conspicuous for private virtue and public service, would betray a want of that information respecting the deceased, which time and profound reflection alone can justly describe. — We shall now only observe, that he has been a prodigy of talents and industry; of which the lapse of ages will not produce a parallel.
In his useful career, his soul seemed occupied with but one sentiment, and that comprehended every circumstance which had any relation to the interests and independence of his native country, and the rights and liberty of the human race.
The foe of tyrants, in every form; the friend of Virtue and her friends, he died beloved, as he had lived respected. — Admiring posterity, penetrated by a just sense of his transcendent merits, will emphatically hail him as the undeviating friend of civil and religious liberty, and the Father of the American Revolution!
On Thursday afternoon last, every tribute of respect was paid to his remains. — All the bells of the town were tolled during the moving of the funeral procession, and the shops of the free-street thro' which it passed were shut; the vessels in the harbour lowered their colors to half mast, and minute guns were fired by the Artillery companies, and at Fort Independence.
The procession was formed at the New State-House, and moved at 4 o'clock P. M. — Major Gibbs, Capt. Brazier and M. J. S. Lovell, superintended the forming of the procession.
The procession passed up Winter-street, down West-street, and through Main-street, round the Old State-House, and thence by Court-street and Tremont-street, to the place of interment. (Boston paper.)
—DIED—
In this town, master W. Ham, aged 15.
THE public are informed that there will be a CHARITY LECTURE at the North Meeting-House on Thursday next, at 3 o'clock P. M. and an opportunity given to the generous and humane, to contribute their free will offerings to promote the design of the Female Charity School, lately instituted in this town.
Marine Memoranda.
Portsmouth, October 11, 1803.
Sunday arrived brig Fidelity, Capt. Jenkins, 50 days from Lisbon — Tuesday the 4th inst. spoke ship Livy, from Halifax, bound up the bay of Fundy.
The Ich' Sally, Capt. George Rapall, from Guadalupe bound to Newbury-Port, was founded on the 17th September, in lat. 37, 51 — The captain and crew, (we are happy to say) have arrived safe here — they were eight days in the boat, when Capt. Southwick, in the brig Mary Ann, of Boston, bound to the Southward, took them up and put them on board the brig Mary Jane, Capt. M'Cobb, bound to Boston, who put them on board a boat off this harbour.
Entered at the CUSTOM-HOUSE. Sch'r Hiram, Christie, St. Bartholomews. Sch'r Prince Edward, Mack, St. Georges. Sch'r Londonderry, —, St. Andrews. Sch'r Quicktempe, Paul, ditto. Brig Polly, Bailey, Copenhagen. Brig Fidelity, Jenkins, Lisbon. Brig Polly, Paul, Demerara. Brig Olive, Ricker, Demerara. —CLEARED— Brig John Adams, Parrott, Barbadoes. Brig Hitty, Moore, Demerara. Brig Hope, Riley, St. Thomas. Brig Washington, Hutchins, Barbadoes. Sch'r Republican Turner, Tobago.
NOTICE.
WHEREAS a commission of Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against
GIDEON ADAMS,
of Henniker, in the district of New-Hampshire, Merchant, and he having been declared a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to us the undersigned commissioners, on the the first, second, and eighteenth days of November next, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon on each day, at the office of CHARLES CURTS, Esq. in Portsmouth, and make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects, when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts, and at the second meeting to choose assignees, and at the last meeting the said Bankrupt is required to finish his examination, and the creditors are to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate; all persons indebted to said Bankrupt or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to whom to whom the said commissioners shall appoint.
JOHN M'CLINTOCK, } Commis- H. S. LANGDON, } sioners. Portsmouth, Oct. 11, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, } Grafton, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of SANDWICH, in said county, who have not paid their county and highway taxes for the year 1803, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber on or before the 28th day of December next, so much of their land will then be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of Jonathan Farrar, inholder in said town, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, as will pay the same, together with incidental charges.
   Names of the Original Proprietors. Acres. Highway C. County C.    John Folsom, gd. 10 22 100 1 10  Jonathan Folsom, 9 5 100 1 50  Enoch Clark, 6 8 100 1 10  ditto, 10 27 100 3 20  ditto, 1 4 100 4 30  Theodore Atkinson, 1 5 100 3 20  ditto, 2 3 50 20  ditto, 11 29 100 1 10  Satchel Rundlett, 13 22 100 1 10  ditto, 13 2 100 3 20  Robert Hale, Esq. 7 13 100 1 10  Daniel Ginnman, gd. 5 27 100 3 20  ditto, 6 29 70 5 40  ditto, 8 7 100 3 20  ditto, 11 19 100 1 10  James Thurston, 9 23 100 4 10  ditto, 6 6 100 1 10  Samuel Harris, 12 13 100 3 20  Nehemiah Cram, 10 25 100 1 10  James Nevins, 10 18 100 1 10  ditto, 5 7 100 4 30  John Wadleigh, 3 27 100 3 20  ditto, 9 28 100 3 20  ditto, 10 6 100 4 30  ditto, 13 20 100 1 10  Edward Bean, 9 21 100 1 10  Joshua Miles, 10 21 100 3 20  John Folsom, 11 21 100 3 20  John Bowden, 13 16 100 1 10  John W. Gilman, 7 9 100 3 20  Moses I. Thurston, 7 2 100 1 10  ditto, 13 27 100 1 10  Wadleigh Cram, 2 7 100 6 50  ditto, 9 27 100 3 20  ditto, 12 18 100 3 20  Thomas Odiorne, 13 15 100 3 20  Benjamin Rodgers, 11 20 100 3 20  Nicholas Gilman, 8 27 100 6 50  Samuel Moody, 7 3 100 3 20  Richard Sinkler, 8 9 100 1 10  Owen Runnells, 6 28 100 3 20  ditto, 8 11 100 1 10  ditto, 9 18 100 4 30  ditto, 10 12 100 6 50  ditto, 13 30 100 2 20  Joshua Gilman, gd. 7 28 100 9 70  ditto, 9 26 100 5 40  ditto, 6 3 100 6 50  ditto, 6 13 100 6 50  Andrew Gerrill, 12 20 100 3 20  ditto, 13 5 100 3 20  Thomas Runnells, 13 18 50 1 10  Joshua Young, 11 30 100 1 10  ditto, 10 13 100 6 50  One half of 13th lot, 9 0 0 20  Eliphalet Coffin, 13 6 100 3 20  Rev. John Cushman, 4 5 100 4 30  ditto, 7 1 100 3 20  ditto, 9 29 100 3 20  Trueworthy Folsom, 9 20 100 3 20  Joseph Ginnman, 11 17 100 1 10  ditto, 13 9 100 1 10  John Folsom, jr. 11 22 100 1 10  Samuel Ginnman, Esq. 12 29 100 3 20  ABRAHAM BEAN, Collector.  Sandwich, Oct. 4, 1803.  
Thursday next, At S. LITTLE'S Office, A valuable collection of NEW BOOKS, free to the highest bidder. Among others of distinguished merit, are the following:
 Works of the celebrated D. Franklin.  Dr. Morfe's Universal Geography, 2 vols.  do. Gazetteer.  Sheridan's Dictionary.  Walker's do.  Zoonomia, 2 vols. by Dr. Darwin;  Park on Insurance.  Espey's Nisi Prius, 2 vols.  Davidson's Virgil.  Universal History of Mankind, by Dr. Wright, 2 vols. large quarto, with a variety of plates.  Works of D. Gilpin.  do. Dr. E. Kine.  do. Mr. W. Lins, 3 vols.  do. Mr. Addison, 2 vols.  do. Dr. Moore, 2 vols.  Travels of D. Berger.  Flowers of Travels, 2 vols. Oct. 11. 
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
Grafton, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners and proprietors of land in PEELING, State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their county and highway taxes for the year 1803, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber on or before the first Thursday in February, 1804, that so much of each original right or lot, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of Benjamin Barron, Esq. in Peeling, on said day, at ten of the clock, as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges.
   Original Proprietors Names. No. Acres. Highway C. County C.    William Hanson, 6 2 0 5 17 1/2  Ichabod Caney, 13 3 18 9 10 25  J. Shua Wingate, 4 6 21 9 10 25  Silas Hanson, 15 5 14 8 10 25  Daniel Hays, 17 2 0 5 17 1/2  William Dement, 3 5 12 9 10 25  Joseph Eaves, 0 0 14 9 5 17 1/2  Stephen Os, 3 6 6 9 10 25  Samuel Alley, 21 2 11 10 10 37 1/2  Ralph Twombly, 0 0 21 10 5 17 1/2  William Leighton, 8 3 13 7 10 25  Solomon Dement, 6 2 20 7 10 25  Silas Tuttle, 13 1 1 9 10 25  James Nevins, 6 5 13 9 10 25  Samuel Ambrous, 13 4 8 10 10 25  Shadach Hodgdon, 0 0 19 10 10 17 1/2  James Chesley, 2 4 0 5 17 1/2  Thomas Hanson, 9 6 14 7 10 25  John Horn, jr. 11 1 0 5 17 1/2  Daniel Horn, 9 5 16 8 10 25  Ebenezer Kimball, 25 5 0 5 17 1/2  Ois Baker, 1 3 17 9 10 25  Isaac Caney, 14 0 8 9 10 25  Timothy Robards, 5 5 22 11 10 25  Wm. Twombly, jr. 20 3 11 8 10 25  Joseph Hanson, 14 1 3 9 10 25  Hatevil Leighton, 21 4 19 9 10 25  Samuel Emerson, 13 6 15 8 10 25  Caleb Hodgdon, 8 4 12 11 10 25  John Clark, 14 4 11 7 10 25  
BENJAMIN BARRON, Collector. Peeling, Oct. 3, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
Grafton, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners and proprietors of land in the township of THORNTON, State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their county and highway taxes for the year 1803, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the second Thursday of January next, so much of each original lot or right will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber in Thornton, at ten o'clock A. M. on said day, as will pay said taxes together with incidental charges.
   Original Proprietors Names. No. Acres. Highway C. County C.    Mark H. Wentworth, 4 110 19 2  Matthew Thornton, 16 200 38 3  William Pynchon, 7 170 32 2  Andrew Clendenning, 17 200 38 3  George Corhean, 21 200 38 3  Samuel Corhean, 22 200 38 3  ditto, 23 200 38 3  Thomas Campbell, 24 200 38 3  George Duncan, 29 200 38 3  Isaac Corhean, 30 200 38 3  George Davison, 31 200 38 3  John Gilmore, 32 200 38 3  Tho's Cunningham, 33 200 38 3  John Doak, 34 200 38 3  Samuel Moreson, jr. 37 200 38 3  Jonathan Gilmore, 40 200 38 3  ditto, 41 200 50 4  John Taggat, 42 100 19 2  James Anderson, 43 100 19 2  William M'Rea, 9 200 38 3  Andrew Jack, jr. 10 200 38 3  Peter Patterson, 44 100 19 2  Thomas Atkinson, jr. 47 200 38 3  James Alexander, 53 200 38 3  William Taylor, 54 200 38 3  Thomas Christney, 57</

Miscellaneous Repository.
FROM METASTASIO.
SIAM NAVI. MEN are like ships upon the main, Expos'd to every gale; Each passion is a fatal blast, That tears away a sail. Each pleasure is a latent rock, And life a stormy sea; But whilst our reason holds the helm, We ride from perils free. Yet oft, alas! our pilot sleeps, Or leaves his place to pride; And then the vessel drives ashore, Before the foaming tide.
For the N. H. GAZETTE. Thoughts on the modern warm Contro- versy respecting BAPTISM.
[No. X.]
VI. The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven includes the Scripture view of Baptism. One branch of this doctrine is, that all who die in infancy are blessed forever in that Kingdom. Another is, that there is a promise of Salvation to a believer's house—and a third is, that the infants of believers are members of Christ's church or Kingdom. The Baptists do not admit this; if they did they must admit the baptism of the infants of believers. The first branch of doctrine, viz. that infants, dying such, are saved and blessed in the kingdom of Christ, we are taught by his own words; "of such is the kingdom of God." He does not say all infants, or infants "indefinitely" belong to the kingdom, for so every human being would for a time be in the kingdom, each one being once an infant. But those who die infants are such as he took in his arms; having never changed the infant for the adult state. This explicit declaration of Christ may remind us of the infants of Bethlehem, the first sufferers on his account. According to a most gracious comforting promise, they are to come again to their border, the border of the true Israel, at the resurrection. Again, in that grand specimen of Christ's kingdom, which was exhibited when he rode into Jerusalem, and proceeded to the temple, we find infants, babes miraculously taught to confess the blessed king, coming in the name of the Lord, owning Him whom the great and wise rejected, and as his subjects shouting his praises in the words of the inspired song. And in this, praise was carried to a high point; or perfected, out of the mouths of babes and sucklings. And there was a glorious display of the grace of the kingdom, hidden from the wise, and revealed to babes. To this glorious appearance of heaven-taught babes, in the kingdom, we may join an observation of what other scriptures teach on this subject. They teach that infants are not subject to the second death by Adam's sin. The common Catechism indeed teaches otherwise, and declares them liable to the pains of hell forever, by Adam's sin. But this is no scripture, yet it is a bold assertion in the face of scripture. Gehenna, hell, or the second death, is the appointed punishment for those who have done evil in the body; which infants have not. They lost righteousness and the life that lies in God's favour, in Adam their head, and are subjects to the first death, which without Christ must have remained forever—without any resurrection. But the resurrection has put an end to that death; and as to the unjust, it is followed by the judgment and condemnation to the second death. Infants who have done no evil, and have suffered the first death, will not be judged out of the books of written or natural law, or conscience, according to their works, because they have no works to be judged by; having never had knowledge to chuse or refuse. Agreeably to this, another book is opened, even the Lamb's book of life—And in this infants must be written. For the condemned are not all those who are according to the first books, destitute of good works; such a condemnation would include destitute infants. But the condemned are those not written in the book of life. And we are led to think that the Lamb, whose the book is, entitles infants who have done no good, and want righteousness, unto his eternal life, by his own obedience, even as they died with Adam by his disobedience. Thus the salvation of infants appears to be a grand doctrine of the kingdom of heaven; and the distinction of infants of believers from other mere infants, respects only the appearance of Christ's kingdom in this world, and not its full appearance at the resurrection. For no man can say that all the babes of Bethlehem were children of believing parents. Thus it is striking to observe that while men would provide for the growth of the kingdom, by bringing in worldly subjects, God working high out of man's light, as every day peopling his kingdom out of every tribe and tongue, barbarous and civilized; and thus we may, (if we believe his word,) view by faith a glorious fulfilment of the promise to Abraham; "in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." Were these things duly considered, we should not hear so much as we do, of the difference between infants and adults. They who receive the kingdom, as a little child receives it; who see and rejoice in the grace that abolishes all the differences set up by human pride, will receive whom Christ receives, and gladly take standing row and even, in the kingdom, just on the footing of these helpless but blessed, saved little ones. They would readily adopt the sentiment expressed in a simple verse which I have read;
"To please the just and saving King, How blest 'd to be a little child! When he in glory comes to reign, Then all his babes shall kings be fill'd."
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons concerned, that the subscriber, Administrator to the Estate of Capt. DANIEL RICHARDS, late of Atkinson, deceased, intends to present his administration account to the Judge of Probate, for the county of Rockingham, on the third Wednesday of November next, for allowance, where any person interested may appear and show cause why the same shall not be approved and allowed. JONATHAN POOR. Atkinson Sept. 19, 1803.
NEW FEATHERS.
Warner & Weare,
HAVE for sale, corner of Congress and High-streets, best Sea Fowl, Russia and Lisbon Feathers, as cheap as can be bought in Boston. Also, Bed Tick of a superior quality, same price as at the Manufactory. Oct. 4, 1803.
PERCY.
State of New-Hampshire, Grafton, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the original grantees of the township of Percy, in said County, who have not paid their tax voted by the proprietors, January 1803, that unless the same is paid to me the subscriber, on or before the third day of November next, so much of their rights or shares, of Land, as will pay said tax with legal cost, will be sold at public vendue at the House of Capt. Stephen Willson, Inn-holder in Lancaster, in said County, at 10 o'clock A. M. of said day; the names of the delinquent Proprietors or grantees are, John Hurd, Esq. Daniel R. Rogers, Mark Rogers, Daniel Spaulding, Silas Marshall, Eliphalet Day, Moses Marshall, Moses Bartlett, Edmund Morse, Reuben Herriman, Benjamin Currier, James Paul, Thomas Burnside, James Burnside, David Burnside, David Paul, George Walton, jun. with the sum of three dollars, and twenty five cents to each right.
THOMAS PEVERLY, Collector. Northumberland September 15, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the township of LANDAFF, in the county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, who have not paid their county and highway taxes for the year 1803, 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 Nathaniel Rix, in said Landaff, on Thursday the fifteenth day of December next, at ten of the clock, forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber. The land where not otherwise designated by number, range, and division, the taxes are as follows:—
   No. Range. Division. Acres. Cents. No. Range. Division. Acres. Cents.    1 1 3 100 10 5 1 3 100 32  6 1 3 50 17 1 2 3 100 10  2 2 3 70 21 4 2 3 50 13  6 2 3 20 5 1 3 3 100 32  4 3 3 40 10 1 4 3 45 29  3 4 3 76 46 4 4 3 90 59  5 4 3 50 21 1 5 3 40 27  2 5 3 100 62 5 5 3 20 9  2 0 3 100 41 1 1 3 100 41  3 8 3 32 13 4 8 3 35 9  2 9 3 20 9 1 1 3 100 32  1 12 3 100 12 1 14 3 100 21  2 14 3 20 4 1 15 3 30 21  1 16 3 50 10 4 1 1 100 10  10 1 1 100 31 11 1 1 100 31  12 1 1 100 41 10 2 1 100 21  11 2 1 100 41 12 2 1 100 41  8 3 1 100 32 9 3 1 100 13  10 3 1 100 10 11 3 1 100 10  5 4 1 100 41 9 4 1 100 10  10 4 1 100 10 11 4 1 100 16  9 5 1 100 16 10 5 1 100 13  11 5 1 100 16 12 5 1 100 9  5 6 1 100 62 9 6 1 100 9  10 6 1 100 13 11 6 1 100 21  12 6 1 66 21 3 7 1 97 60  5 7 1 100 41 6 7 1 100 32  4 7 1 100 41 7 7 1 100 21  8 7 1 100 21 9 7 1 100 21  10 7 1 100 10 11 7 1 100 10  12 7 1 100 10 6 8 1 100 21  9 8 1 100 9 10 8 1 100 9  11 8 1 100 10 12 8 1 100 9  12 3 2 100 9 13 3 2 100 9  14 3 2 100 21 10 3 2 40 21  12 4 2 100 10 13 4 2 100 5  14 4 2 100 10 11 5 2 100 61  14 5 2 100 16 15 5 2 100 21  18 5 2 100 12 13 6 2 100 62  15 6 2 100 13 17 6 2 100 27  18 6 2 100 16 12 7 2 100 41  13 7 2 100 13 16 7 2 100 62  18 7 2 100 16 10 8 2 100 13  11 8 2 100 13 12 8 2 100 31  14 8 2 100 9 15 8 2 100 18  16 8 2 100 32 18 8 2 100 21  9 9 2 100 21 10 9 2 100 21  12 9 2 100 21 13 9 2 100 21  14 9 2 100 16 15 9 2 100 21  10 9 2 100 21 17 9 2 100 13  18 9 2 100 21 9 10 2 100 21  10 10 2 100 16 11 10 2 100 10  12 10 2 100 21 14 10 2 100 21  15 10 2 100 21 16 10 2 100 21  17 10 2 100 21 18 10 2 100 21  14 11 2 100 13 15 11 2 100 13  16 11 2 100 13 17 11 2 100 21  12 12 2 100 16 13 12 2 100 11  14 12 2 100 16 15 12 2 100 16  16 12 2 100 16 17 12 2 100 16  3 5 3 30 18 4 5 3 28 17  4 5 1 35 15  
The gore of land adjoining to Coventry. } 600 2 46 The gore of land adjoining to Lincoln. } 500 2 5 Stephen P. Webster, Lot No. 8, range 43, Salisbury and Higginton. } 57 0 34 DAVID EATON, Collector. Landaff, Sept. 8, 1803.
Picked up adrift, opposite Nobles Island, A Moses BOAT; the owner may have it again by applying to the printers and paying charges. DANIEL CRAIG, Collector. Ellsworth, Sept. 29, 1803.
State of New-Hampshire. PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that the inhabitants of Stratford, in the county of Grafton, have petitioned the General Court, representing that they have two roads about eleven miles in length, through said Stratford, to keep in repair, (that being the main country river road, and the road leading to Shelburne.) That there is now wanted a back road, north and south, through said Stratford, in order to meet a back road from Stewartstown, through Colebrook, Cockburn, and Wales' location, which will shorten the distance from Stewartstown to Northumberland and Shelburne road, a number of miles.—And praying that a tax of three cents per acre on all the land in said town, (public rights excepted) may be granted them, to be expended in cutting, clearing and bridging said north and south road, and repairing the aforementioned roads.
ORDERED, That the petitioners be heard before the General Court on the first Tuesday of their next Session, and that the petitioners cause that the substance of said petition and order of Court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette, three weeks successively, and the last publication to be at least six weeks prior to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and show cause, (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Auth. NATH'L PARKER, Dep'y Sec'y. Concord, June 9, 1803.
NOTICE.
IS hereby given to the creditors of Doctor GODFREY WALDO, of Gilmanston, in the District of New-Hampshire, against whom a Commission of Bankruptcy hath been awarded and issued, that the Commissioners of Bankruptcy and the assignee of said Waldo's estate and effects, intend to meet at the office of Charles Cuts, Esq. in Portsmouth, on Tuesday the 12th day of October next, at ten of the clock A. M. then and there to make the first dividend of the estate and effects of said Bankrupt. When and where the creditors who have not already proved their debts, must come prepared to prove them, or they will be excluded the benefit of said dividend. STEPHEN MOODY, Assignee. September 20, 1803.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. Grafton, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of ELLSWORTH, who have not paid their highway and county taxes for the year 1803, that unless they pay the same, together with incidental charges, to me the subscriber, on or before the 28th day of December next, so much of their land as will pay the same, will then be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of the subscriber, in said Ellsworth, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
   Proprietors' Names. Acres. Range. Division. Highway. County.    Barlow Trecrothick, Esq. 60 6 2 50 3  Daniel Rindge, Esq. 60 27 1 50 3  Leverett Hubbard, Esq. 60 18 4 50 3  Edmund Quincy, Esq. 60 6 4 50 3  Samuel Cuts, Esq. 60 4 5 50 3  John Hurd, Esq. 60 12 3 50 3  John Wendell, Esq. 60 7 4 50 3  Daniel Fowle, Esq. 60 15 4 50 3  George Turner, 60 13 2 50 3  Samuel Noldred, 60 5 2 50 3  Edmund Coffin, 60 22 4 50 3  Joshua Wentworth, 60 7 5 50 3  Pierce Long, 60 22 2 50 3  Monseur Bunbury, 60 21 1 50 3  George Wentworth, 60 11 3 50 3  Thomas Dalling, 60 5 4 50 3  Daniel W. Wendell, 60 4 2 50 3  Timothy Mountford, 60 24 4 50 3  William Whipple, 60 23 4 50 3  Thomas Simpson, 60 3 6 50 3  John Wendell, jr. 60 26 1 50 3  Edmund Wendell, 60 12 4 50 3  Edmund Wendell, jr. 60 10 3 50 3  William Pearne, 60 2 4 50 3  Robert Robertson, 60 18 1 50 3  John Barter, 60 14 1 50 3  George Gregory, 60 15 3 50 3  John Harris, 60 19 1 50 3  Froster Treferin, 60 23 1 50 3  Zachariah Fols, 60 3 4 50 3  John Brown, 60 1 2 50 3  Thomas Record, 60 17 1 50 3  William Doaks, 60 23 2 50 3  Tobias Lear, 60 17 3 50 3  Alexander Welch, 60 8 4 50 3  William Marshall, 60 2 5 50 3  George Treherne, 60 16 3 50 3  Peter Curtis, 60 10 4 50 3  Joseph Bals, 60 8 5 50 3  James Miller, 60 14 5 50 3  Ichabod Clark, 60 5 5 50 3  Ichabod Clark, jr. 60 21 1 50 3  James Guppy, 60 9 5 50 3  William Welch, 60 1 4 50 3  John Langdon, 60 16 4 50 3  Solomon Davis, 60 19 2 50 3  James Holland, 60 4 4 50 3  George Pierce, 60 11 4 50 3  John Frost, 60 6 3 50 3  Vere Royse, 60 20 4 50 3  Matthew Hallett, 60 2 3 50 3  Samuel Fossler, 60 2 1 50 3  Thomas Wendell, 60 17 4 50 3  Daniel Cate, 60 11 1 50 3  David Call, 60 11 5 50 3  Supply Clapp, 60 10 5 50 3  Daniel Brewster