The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1800-01-08 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
— MY COUNTRY'S GOOD SHALL BE MY CONSTANT AIM —
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE)—PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY JOHN MELCHER, PRINTER TO THE STATE, AT HIS OFFICE CORNER OF MARKET STREET, WHERE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THIS PAPER, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND ARTICLES OF INTELLIGENCE ARE THANKFULLY RECEIVED.
No. 2 of Vol. XLV.]
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1800.
[One Dollar 83 half pr. Annum.]
TICKETS.
Whole and Quarter Tickets in the 6th Class
Dartmouth College Lottery, highest prize 2000 Dollars besides a great number of other Valuable Prizes for sale at
J. Melcher's Printing-Office Where the prizes will be paid immediately after the Lottery is drawn, which will commence on the 10th of January next, the punctuality observed by the managers in drawing the former classes at the times fixed on, no doubt will ensure a very rapid sale of this class, therefore it is hoped adventurers will apply in season at J. Melcher's Printing-Office for tickets, least they be disappointed.
New Flour & Ship Bread.
95 barrels of fresh FLOUR, 20 do. SHIP BREAD, 12 do. superfine Pilot Bread, 200 do. Wheat Bran, Now landing from on board the sloop Harmony, from Baltimore, and will be sold for Cash at the Boston price.
Freight wanted for said sloop for Norfolk.—For particulars apply to DANIEL PROWS. Portsmouth, Dec. 17, 1799.
ALL persons having demands against the estate of Mr. JONATHAN SHACKFORD, late of Chester, deceased, are desired to exhibit their accounts for settlement; and those indebted are requested to make immediate payment to SAMUEL SHACKFORD, Administrator. to said estate. Chester, Dec. 30, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire, Grafton, ss. To Ebenezer Hoyt, Esq. one of the justices assigned to keep the peace within and for the county of Grafton aforesaid.
WHERE the subscribers, proprietors and owners of more than one sixteenth part of the town of Orange, in said county, request you to warn a meeting of said proprietors, to be held at the dwelling house of Capt. Joshua Harris, innholder in Canaan, in said county, on the 15th day of January next, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, to act on the following articles, viz.
 1st. To choose a moderator and proprietors clerk.  2d. To confirm and establish such pitches and locations, as may have been made, on the second division of hundreds or common lands in said town so far as shall be thought best, and to pass such votes as may be necessary to quiet settlers.  3d. To choose an agent to prosecute trespassers.  4th. To make an appropriation of a second hundred acres to each proprietors right in said town, in such way as may be agreed on.  5th. To determine what encouragement the proprietors will give to the first settled minister, to the support of schools, and to procure the building of mills in said town, by appropriating lands for those purposes, or in other ways.  6th. To attend to and settle accounts.  7th. To raise such sum of money by tax, as may be thought best for payment of debts, defraying proprietary expenses, and to be laid out for public uses, to promote and encourage the settlement of said town, and to appoint assessors and a collector of taxes.  8th. To adopt some method for settling the dispute respecting the claim of Plymouth proprietors, and also the claim of Canaan proprietors on said town of Orange, and to choose an agent to commence actions for determining said disputes if thought best.  9th. To act upon such former votes of the proprietors of said Orange, as have not been carried into effect.  10th. To choose a committee to complete the allotment of the residue of the common lands in said town.  11th. To encourage the settlement of the town, by granting liberty to settlers to pitch their common lands so far as may be thought best.  12th. To adopt some method to effect a settlement with the former collectors of said proprietors.  13th. To adopt some method for warning proprietary meetings in future.  14th. To do all such things as may be necessary for carrying the matters contemplated in the afore recited articles into complete effect. 
JONAS MINOT, NATHAN WALDO, NATHAN WALDO, jr. December 16, 1799. In compliance with the foregoing request, I hereby notify and warn a meeting of the proprietors of Orange aforesaid, to be held at the time and place above requested, and for the purposes aforesaid. EBENEZER HOYT, Justice Peace. Grafton, Dec. 18, 1799.
BARLEY WANTED.
ONE Thousand bushels of good BARLEY wanted, for which cash will be given at a fair price, by the subscriber.
Daniel Prows. Portsmouth, Jan. 7, 1800.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of Capt. MICHAEL DENNES JOSE, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same immediately for settlement to the subscriber, administrator of the estate.
WILLIAM STAVERS. Portsmouth, Jan. 2, 1800.
LOST.
ON Tuesday the 10th December, between Exeter and Kingston meeting-house, a Black Leather Pocket Book, containing 465 dollars in Bank-Bills, and various other papers of no value but to the owner.—Whoever has found the same and will return it to the subscriber, shall receive 50 dollars reward. LEVI FRENCH. Portsmouth, Dec. 13, 1799.
Treasury Department, March 11th, 1799.
Public notice is hereby given, Pursuant to the Act of Congress, passed on the first day of June, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-six, entitled, "An Act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen;" and the Act supplementary to the said recited Act passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine—to wit:
THAT the tract of Land herein after described, namely, "beginning at the North West corner of the seven ranges of townships, and running thence fifty miles due south, along the western boundary of the said ranges; thence due west to the Main Branch of the Scioto river; thence up the Main Branch of the said river to the place where the Indian boundary line crosses the same; thence along the said boundary line to the Tuscarawas branch of the Muskingum river at the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; thence down the said river, to the point where a line runs due west from the place of beginning, will intersect the said river; thence along the line so run to the place of beginning;" has been divided into townships of five miles square, and fractional parts of townships; and that plats and surveys of the said townships and fractional parts of townships are deposited in the offices of the Register of the Treasury and Surveyor General, for the inspection of all persons concerned.
The holders of such warrants as have been or shall be granted for military services performed during the late war, are required to present the same to the Register of the Treasury, at some time prior to the twelfth day of February, in the year, one thousand eight hundred, for the purpose of being registered; No registry will however be made of any less quantity than a quarter township, or four thousand acres.
The priority of location of the warrants which may be presented and registered in manner aforesaid, prior to the twelfth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred, will immediately after the said day, be determined by lot, in the mode prescribed by the act first recited.
The holders of registered warrants, shall on Monday the 17th day of February, in the year 1800, in the order in which the priority of location shall be determined by lot as aforesaid, personally or by their agents, designate in writing at the office of the Register of the Treasury, the particular quarter townships elected by them respectively, and such of the said holders as shall not designate their locations on the said day, shall be postponed in locating such warrants to all other holders of registered warrants.
The holders of warrants for military services sufficient to cover one or more quarter townships or tracts of four thousand acres each; shall at any time after Monday the 17th day of February, 1800, and prior to the first day of January, 1802, be allowed to register the said warrants in manner aforesaid, and forthwith to make locations therefor on any tract or tracts of land not before located.
All warrants or claims for lands on account of military services, which shall not be registered and located before the first day of January, 1802, are by the supplementary act of Congress herein before recited, passed on the second day of March, 1799, declared to be forever barred.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
"Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes, in comparison of it, as nothing?"
IT is an occurrence not less interesting, than extraordinary, that the departure of a single man should command the unaffected and indiscriminate lamentation of five millions of people. It is an event, the like of which the world has never witnessed, that the death of an individual should so touch a whole nation, that "the joy of the heart should cease, and the dance be turned into mourning."
The mighty monarch, whose throne is surrounded by armies as numerous as the locusts of summer, and restless as the blasts of pestilence, goes down to the tomb, amid the execrations of oppressed subjects; or sleeps in the grave as unhonored as when slumbering on his bed of down. The prince, whose beneficence has whitened the plains of his country, "walks the way of nature;" and his subjects "mourn in black," but "not in blood," because they fear "an Amurath succeeds." The pomp and power of royalty may cause "mourners to go about the streets," and sorrow may to "royally appear," that thousands will "put the fashion on," and yet none "wear it in the heart."
Most eminently hath the "crown fallen from our head." Most emphatically, are "the tears of Cuthan in affliction." "The father to his children will make known" the mournful story. The veteran, who wrought by his side "in the heat and burden of the day" of our deliverance, will know, that "for this the heart is faint," that "for these things the eyes are dim." The extensive nation, which has received liberty from the valour, and happiness from the counsel, of him who has fallen, will feel that this is "the rod of anger and the staff of indignation."
"His deeds exceed all speech." His fame is "written with a pen of iron with the point of a diamond." His counsel is "graven upon the table of our heart." His deeds, his fame, and his counsel will endure, till "the great globe itself; yea, all which inherit it shall dissolve."
"What solemn sounds the ear invade? What wraps the land in sorrow's shade! From Heaven the awful mandate flies: THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY DIES."
Washington's Funeral.
GEORGETOWN, DEC. 20. ON Wednesday last, the mortal part of WASHINGTON the great—the father of his country and the friend of man was consigned to the tomb, with solemn honors and funeral pomp.
A multitude of persons assembled, from many miles around, at Mount Vernon, the choice abode and last residence of the illustrious chief. There were the groves—the spacious avenues, the beautiful and sublime scenes, the noble mansion—but, alas! the august inhabitant was no more. That great soul was gone. His mortal part was there indeed; but ah! how affecting! how awful the spectacle of such worth and greatness, thus, to mortal eyes, fallen:—Yes! fallen! fallen!
In the long and lofty Portico where oft the hero walked in all his glory, now lay the shrouded corpse. The countenance still composed and serene, seemed to express the dignity of the spirit, which lately dwelt in that lifeless form. Those who paid the last sad honors to the benefactor of his country took an impressive—a farewell view.
On the ornament, at head of the coffin, was inscribed SURGE AD JUDICIUM—about the middle of the coffin, GLORIA DEO—and on the silver plate, GENERAL
George Washington, Departed this life, on the 14th December, '99, Æt. 68.
Between three and four o'clock, the sound of artillery from a vessel in the river, firing minute guns, awoke fresh our solemn sorrow—the corpse was moved—a band of music with mournful melody melted the soul into all the tenderness of woe.
The procession was formed and moved on in the following order:
Cavalry, } With arms } Guard: Infantry, } reversed. { Music, Clergy,
The General's horse with his saddle, holsters and pistols, Pall Bearers, { CORPSE } Pall Bearers,
Colonel Simms, Colonel Gilpin,
Colonel Ramsay, Col. Marsteller,
Colonel Payne, Colonel Little,
Mourners, Masonic Brethren, Citizens.
When the procession had arrived at the bottom of the elevated lawn, on the banks of the Potomac, where the family vault is placed, the cavalry halted, the infantry marched towards the Mount and formed the lines—the clergy, the Masonic brethren, and the citizens descended to the vault, and the funeral service of the church was performed. The firing was repeated from the vessel in the river and the sounds echoed from the woods and hills around.
Three general discharges by the infantry—the cavalry, and 11 pieces of artillery, which lined the banks of the Potomac back of the vault, paid the last tribute to the entombed Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States, and to the venerable departed Hero.
The sun was now setting. Alas! the Sun of Glory was set forever. No the name of WASHINGTON—the American President and General—will triumph over death—the unclouded brightness of his Glory will illuminate future ages.
PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 21. Extract of a letter from Lancaster, dated Dec. 20.
"The Legislature stands adjourned to Thursday next. Previous to the adjournment a message was received from the Governor, announcing the death of Gen. GEORGE WASHINGTON, in the words following, to wit:
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. GENTLEMEN,
THE intelligence has just been received, that GEORGE WASHINGTON, the early, the tried, approved, honored and beloved, patriot of America has paid the debt of nature: He died at Mount Vernon, in Virginia, on the 14th day of the present month.
The record of his virtues and his services, is so faithfully impressed on your hearts—it is so important to the honor of human nature and the glory of his country—that I am sensible, it cannot be strengthened by cotemporary praise, nor impaired by time. Yet the glowing sense, which I, personally cherish of his worth the veneration which his character demands throughout the world, and the public benefit of presenting such an example, conspicuously, to the imitation of the rising generation, impel me to call your attention to the awful and melancholy event.
While therefore, we avoid, in the common affliction of the government, every appearance of servility and adulation, inconsistent with the independence of freemen, let us in the respect which we pay to the singular merits of this great man, rescue Republics from the proverbial stigma of ingratitude.
You Gentlemen, can best devise a proper testimonial of the public feelings and sorrow upon the present occasion: And assuring you of my concurrence, I will venture, likewise to answer for the cordial approbation of our citizens.
THOMAS M'KEAN. Lancaster, Dec. 19, 1799.
The message having been twice read in the Senate, was referred to a committee of five members to consider and report thereon.
A moment before the message from the Governor was presented, the Senate came to the following resolution: "The decease of General GEORGE
WASHINGTON, late President of the United States, and ever the beloved friend of his country, having this day come to the knowledge of the Legislature; and our minds being most seriously impressed with a recollection of his unparalleled services.
"Resolved. That in testimony of our gratitude and in respect to the memory of a character so deserving in all situations, whether as a Soldier, Statesman, or a Man, the members of this house will wear a black crape on the left arm during the present session."
The house of Representatives have adopted a similar resolution.
CINCINNATI.
At a Meeting of the Pennsylvania State Society of the Cincinnati, held at the State-House in this city, on the 21st December, 1799, Brig. Gen. MACPHERSON in the Chair, The following Resolutions were moved by Major JACKSON, and unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That in veneration of the exalted virtues, patriotism, and public services of our late most excellent beloved, and ever to be lamented President, General GEORGE WASHINGTON—and as a tribute of the deepest sorrow, and most affectionate attachment to his endeared and illustrious memory, the Members of this Society will wear mourning, connected with the badge of the Society during six months.
Resolved, That a strip of black ribband, passing along the centre of the ribband of the order, be added on this occasion.
The following resolutions were moved by Gen. MACPHERSON, and unanimously adopted.
Resolved, That Maj. JACKSON be requested to prepare and pronounce an eulogium on the character of General WASHINGTON, embracing a summary review of his civil and military services, and that the same be delivered before the Society on Saturday the 22d day of February next, at one o'clock, P. M. at such place as the standing Committee, to whom the arrangements of the day are referred shall determine.
Resolved, That the President of the United States and his family—the Vice President of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the members of both houses of Congress, the Heads of Departments, the Judiciary, and such other Officers of the General and State Governments, as may then be in Philadelphia, be respectfully invited to honor the Society with their presence on the occasion.
FURTHER Respectful Testimonials, SACRED TO George Washington, DECEASED.
NATIONAL TRIBUTE.
The subsequent Letter of Condolence to The President of the United States, by the Senate, on the death of him whom every heart laments, for sublime elocution and pure susceptibility could be equalled only by the Answer of the illustrious Personage which follows it. They both are monuments of Republican Gratitude, Sensibility and Patriotism.
PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 24. THE Senate of the United States, yesterday sent the following letter of condolence to The President, by a Committee of its Members, to which he returned the annexed answer.
To the PRESIDENT of the United States. THE Senate of the United States respectfully take leave, Sir, to express to you their deep regret for the loss their country sustains in the death of General GEORGE WASHINGTON.
This event, so distressing to all our fellow citizens, must be peculiarly heavy to you, who have long been associated with him in deeds of patriotism. Permit us, Sir, to mingle our tears with yours: On this occasion it is manly to weep. To lose such a man at such a crisis is no common calamity to the world: Our country mourns her father. The Almighty disposer of human events has taken from us our greatest benefactor and

ornament. It becomes us to submit with reverence to him, who "maketh darkness his Pavilion."
With patriotic pride we review the life of our WASHINGTON, and compare him with those of other countries who have been pre-eminent in fame. Ancient and modern names are diminished before him. Greatness and guilt have too often been allied; but his fame is whiter than it is brilliant. The destroyers of nations stood abashed at the majesty of his virtue. It reproved the intemperance of their ambition and darkened the splendor of victory. The scene is closed, and we are no longer anxious lest misfortune should fully his glory; he has travelled on to the end of his journey, and carried with him an encreasing weight of honour; he has deposited it safely, where misfortune cannot touch it, where malice cannot blast it. Favoured of Heaven, he departed without exhibiting the weakness of humanity; magnanimous in death, the darkness of the grave could not obscure his brightness.
Such was the man whom we deplore. Thanks to God, his glory is consummated; WASHINGTON yet lives on earth in his spotless example—his spirit is in Heaven.
Let his countrymen consecrate the memory of the heroic General, the patriotic Statesman, and the virtuous Sage: Let them teach their children never to forget that the fruits of his labours, and his example are their inheritance.
PRESIDENT'S ANSWER.
Gentlemen of the Senate,
I RECEIVE with the most respectful and affectionate sentiments, in this impressive address, the obliging expressions of your regret, for the loss our country has sustained, in the death of her most esteemed, beloved and admired Citizen.
In the multitude of my thoughts and recollections on this melancholy event, you will permit me only to say, that I have seen him in the days of Adversity, in some of the scenes of his deepest distress and most trying perplexities—I have also attended him in his highest elevation and most prosperous felicity—with uniform admiration of his wisdom, moderation and constancy.
Among all our original associates in that Memorable League of the Continent in 1774, which first expressed the Sovereign Will of a Free Nation in America, he was the only one remaining in the General Government. Although, with a constitution more enfeebled than his, at an age when he thought it necessary to prepare for retirement, I feel myself alone, bereaved of my last brother—yet I derive a strong consolation from the unanimous disposition, which appears in all ages and classes, to mingle their sorrows with mine, on this common calamity to the world.
The life of our WASHINGTON cannot suffer by a comparison with those of other countries, who have been most celebrated and exalted by Fame. The attributes and decorations of Royalty, could have only served to eclipse the Majesty of those virtues which made him, from being a modest citizen, a more resplendent luminary. Misfortune had he lived, could hereafter have sullied his glory only with these superficial minds, who believing that characters and actions are marked by success alone , rarely deserve to enjoy it. Malice could never have blasted his honor , and Envy made him a singular exception to her universal rule.
For himself he had lived enough, to life and to glory. For his fellow-citizens, if their prayers could have been answered, he would have been immortal. For me, his departure is at a most unfortunate moment. Truthing, however, in the wise and righteous dominion of providence over the nations of men, and the results of their councils and actions, as well as over their Lives, nothing remains for me, but humble resignation.
His example is now complete, and it will teach wisdom and virtue to Magistrates, Citizens and Men, not only in the present age, but in future generations, as long as our History shall be read. If a Trajan found a Pliny, a Marcus Aurelius can never want Biographers, Eulogists or Historians.
John Adams.
United States, 23d Dec. 1799.
Yesterday in the House of Representatives, Mr. Marshall made a report in part, from the joint committee appointed to consider a suitable mode of commemorating the death of Gen. WASHINGTON.
He reported the following resolutions:—
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a Marble Monument be erected by the United States in the capital of the city of Washington, and that the fam-
ily of General WASHINGTON be requested to permit his body to be deposited under it, and that the monument be so designed as to commemorate the great events of his military and political life.
An. 2d. it further Resolved , That there be a general procession from Congress Hall, to the German Lutheran church in memory of General GEORGE WASHINGTON, on Thursday the 16th inst. and that an Oration be prepared at the request of Congress to be delivered before both Houses that day; and that the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives be desired to request one of the members of Congress to prepare and deliver the same.
And be it further Resolved , That it be recommended to the people of the United States, to wear crape on their left arm as mourning for thirty days.
And be it further Resolved , That the President be requested to direct a copy of these resolutions to be transmitted to Mrs. WASHINGTON, assuring her of the profound respect Congress will ever bear to her person and character, of their condolence on the late affliction, dispensation of providence and entreating her assent to the interment of the remains of Gen. WASHINGTON in the manner expressed in the first resolution.
And be it further Resolved , That the President be requested to issue a Proclamation, notifying to the people throughout the United States, the recommendation contained in the third resolution.
These resolutions passed both Houses unanimously.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES OF AMERICA, A Proclamation.
WHEREAS the Congress of the United States "in honor of the memory of Gen. GEORGE WASHINGTON," have this day " Resolved , That it be recommended to the people of the United States, to wear crape on the left arm, as mourning, for thirty days;" and "That the President of the United States be requested to issue a Proclamation, notifying to the people throughout the United States, the said recommendation:"
Now therefore, I JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim the same accordingly.
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Philadelphia, the twenty-fourth day of December, (U.S.) in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine and of the Independence of the United States the twenty-fourth.
JOHN ADAMS. By the President, TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary of State.
Funeral Honors at Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 27.
Yesterday presented a scene of public mourning, of solemnity and respect, which this city has never before on any occasion witnessed in an equal degree.
Arrangements had been made for uniting every description of the public or private character, civil and military; Thursday having been appointed by Congress for the delivery of a funeral oration in honor of the beloved Commander of the republican armies of America; the military dispositions being made by method, the civil members of the solemnity were distributed with a view to that order and system.
Public orders were issued by the President of the United States, and through the official channels, to the armed corps in the service of the U. States, and the militia of this city.
At eleven o'clock, conformable to the orders, the United States' corps under Brig. Gen. Macpherson, paraded in the centre of Chestnut street, with their right to Sixth-Street, opposite to Congress Hall.
The Militia corps commanded by Col. Shee, but under the direction of Brigadier Gen. Gurney, paraded in Fifth-street.
The officers of the militia, standing army and navy not attached to the corps under arms, formed on the south side of Chestnut-street.
The Grand Lodge of Masons and the several Lodges, with the LODGE in mourning and the LIGHTS EXTINGUISHED, paraded on the right of the militia legion.
The procession commenced at 12 o'clock, with a troop of horse leading down Walnut-street to Fourth-street, where they turned to the left, and crossed Chestnut, Market and Arch-streets, until they arrived at the German Lutheran church in the following order:
Capt. M'Kean's Troop of Federal Horse; Capt. Price's Light Infantry; Capt. Johnson's, Ruhl's, Kelsler's, Duane's, Sweeney's, Sumner's and Hovey's Companies of Infantry; Capt. Nelson's Grenadiers; Capt.
Ferguson's, Crispin's and Ral's Artillery; Capt. Hoff's Riflemen; Capt. Leiper's Dragoons dismounted—Col. Shee, Commandant of the Legion—The Fifes of the whole Military Corps; the Drums, muffled; a Band of Wind Instruments—The Light Infantry of the Blues; the Infantry; the Grenadiers; the Artillery; Capt. Dunlap's Singer's and Morrell's Dragoons; Capt. Coyle's Riflemen—Brig. Gen. Macpherson mounted, and his Aids with the Staff of the Militia—Thirty-four of the Clergy of different Scts, two & two—
THE BIER
Carried by six Serjeants, Pall Supported by six Veterans—Gen. LEE, the Orator of the day—A white Steed caparisoned, led, with a crest of plume and the boots reversed—The Door-keepers of the Senate, carrying white Staves bound with crape—The Serjeant at Arms—The Clerk of the Senate and assistant—The Senate two and two—Door keepers of the House of Representatives—The Serjeant at Arms with the Mace in mourning—Clerk of the Representatives and Assistant—the Representatives two and two—The Heads of Departments under the Federal Government—The Heads of Departments under the State Government—Officers of the Federal Army and Navy—Officers of the Militia not under arms—The Magistrates of Philadelphia—The Grand Lodge of Masons of Pennsylvania—Private Lodges according to Seniority—A Corps of Cavalry from the Country.
It having reached the church in this order, the military corps carrying their arms reversed, now formed two ranks, facing inward, and resting on their arms reversed—the rear of the procession followed the bier, which being deposited in front of the pulpit, beneath an elevated platform, the civil authorities were placed in the centre and the military corps in the surrounding pews.
The religious solemnity commenced with music, and an anthem by a female band placed on the organ loft behind the pulpit.
The funeral service, adapted with great felicity to the occasion and cause of mourning, was pronounced by Bishop White, the deceased being of the Episcopal church.
After the service funeral anthems were performed by Mr. Darley and the band of female performers with accompaniments happily executed.
After which Gen. LEE, who had been seated on the elevation in front of the pulpit, along with other Members of Congress, delivered the funeral oration.
As this admirable production is to be published we shall not attempt a report of it at large; the deceased hero's life, from his public appearance on the Monongahela, and his salvation of Braddock's army, thro' all the arduous scenes of the war; the establishment of the federal constitution; and down to the day of his demise, naturally form the subject of this beautiful and happily tempered Oration, it concludes with a felicitous display of oratorical ingenuity and pathos, under the supposition that the deceased sage and hero, viewing this public mourning from the heavens, invokes the people of America, and advises them on those subjects which are evidently their first interest, and therefore supposed to be nearest to his heart.
After the delivery of this admirable eulogium, several soft airs were performed; and additional anthems.
The ceremonial being concluded, the full band, accompanied by kettle drums, performed several solemn martial airs.
A corps of Infantry, after service, fired three volleys as the conclusion of this impressive and splendid scene of sorrowful commemoration.
The several military corps were then drawn up, and the procession was concluded in the inverted order, that it had commenced, after which the several bodies separated to their several places of meeting.
The President of the United States, and his Lady were present, and a vast concourse of other citizens, of both sexes.
Some military corps from the country joined in the procession, but we could not from local circumstances obtain any information from whence. This whole account is drawn up from observation, and may perhaps be erroneous in some particulars of the order of arrangement.
BOSTON, Jan. 4.
Masonic Funeral Honors.
We mentioned in our last, that Funeral Honors had been paid the late deceased ornament of the craft, by the Rising States Lodge. They were paid in ample Form.—The habiliments of mourning shrouded, all the jewels, implements and columns. The Light in the East was extinguished; when an Ode, composed by Dr. Jenks, was sung with due solemnity; after which the Brethren in humble posture surrounded the Lodge, when
the Rev. Br. Murray, made the following supplication:
"Almighty Architect of the Universe, Bestower of Light, and Creator of Worlds!—From thy Celestial Lodge look down with an Eye of benignity, on thy servants now prostrate at thy footstool—Hear them, O bountiful benefactor, we beseech thee, when they ask of thee to sanctify unto them, and to the Fraternity at large, the affliction, which in the dispensation of thy Holy Providence, thou hast seen fit to lay upon them, in removing from an Earthly Lodge, thy distinguished servant, and their beloved Brother, GEO: WASHINGTON.
Great Author of Being!—Inspire us who now supplicate thee, with Wisdom to acknowledge it was just we should be afflicted!—With Strength to support a calamity, which, while it rends our hearts, fills an Empire with lamentation:—And may we see the Beauty of thy Holiness as resplendent when thou takest away, as when thou givest.
Supreme Grand Master of all Worlds!—We dare not arraign thy mighty workings amongst the children of Men:—But do not turn a deaf ear to our requests, when we ask of thee, in thy Great Goodness, to raise up for us, and our country, another WASHINGTON: To inspire him with like Wisdom;—to endow him with like moderation;—to animate him with like love for the Craft; to adorn him with like Virtues;—that his life may be the same;—and finally to receive him into a like participation of thine immortal Glory. Amen—So mote it be.—Amen, Amen, and Amen.
The rounds were then given, and the Lodge closed.
On Thursday evening like Honors were suitably paid in the Columbian Lodge .
SALEM, Dec. 31.
Yesterday this town, in a very full meeting, passed sundry votes, in order to testify their high sense of the virtues of the late Gen. WASHINGTON, and the deep sorrow they feel for the calamity which has befallen the country by his death. Among these—That an Orator be appointed to pronounce a public Eulogy on the deceased—That a handsome and durable Monument be erected to his memory—That the inhabitants be requested to wear a mourning badge for sixty days from the first of January—That copies of the several Sermons delivered in this town on the last Sabbath, on this distressing subject, be requested for the press, to form, together with the Farewell Address of this Great Man, a volume, to be delivered to each family. A large and very respectable committee was chosen to carry into effect the votes of the town.
NEWBURYPORT, Jan. 3.
Yesterday, being the day appointed in this town, for the performance of solemn funeral honors in demonstration of the public gratitude, veneration and esteem, for the late Gen. Washington, that illustrious man "who has obtained his last victory" and now lives only in the affections of his grateful countrymen;—at 10 o'clock A. M. a numerous concourse of citizens assembled on the occasion, in Market-Square, where a procession was formed under the direction of Col. Tracy and Major Bradbury as Marshals in the following order.
The Artillery Company, Body of Free-Masons, Committee of Arrangements, Orator, and Officiating Clergy, Other Clergy, of the town and vicinity, Judges and Justices of the Peace, Representatives of the town, Selectmen, Civil officers of the United States, Commissioned officers of the army, do. of the Navy of the U. States, do. of the Militia, The Choir of Singers, The Band of Music, Citizens four abreast.
And proceeded with solemn music to the Rev. Mr. Dana's Meeting-House, where, after public prayers by the right Rev. Bishop Bass, and a funeral hymn, an Eulogy on the character of the illustrious deceased was pronounced by Mr. Thomas Paine, A. M. It would require the orator's brilliancy of genius and delicacy of sentiment to give the public an idea of the merits of the performance—but presuming it will appear in print, we shall only observe, that it was in a style of excellence suited to the dignity of the subject, and worthy of the genius of its author. After this throne of grace was again addressed by the Rev. Mr. Spring, in an appropriate prayer.
The Solemnities were closed by an Ode from Dr. Watts Lyric Poems, adapted to the occasion and set to music by Mr. Holyoke, by a numerous choir of singers under his direction, in a manner to interest the feelings and excite the universal approbation of the audience.
The audience was as respectable
and numerous as any ever assembled in this town on any occasion. The order and regularity maintained throughout the day were both an evidence of the sincerity of the public sorrow and an honour to the citizens. The procession moved under the discharge of minute guns, which continued firing and the bells tolling until its arrival at the Meeting-house. The Pulpit, Galleries and Chandelier were judiciously dressed in mourning for the occasion.—The badges of mourning recommended were also worn by the ladies and gentlemen—most of whom added the elegant medal executed by Mr. Perkins. The shipping likewise displayed their flags half mast high—the shops and offices were shut and business suspended during the day.
EXETER, Dec. 31.
ON Thursday last a report reached town of the death of General WASHINGTON, on the 14th current. The universal will, that it might prove unfounded, was attended with an anxious apprehension, that it would be confirmed. The Boston Papers, that arrived in the evening, terminated the public suspense by an authentic account of the truly distressing event. On the morning following, the bells were ordered to be tolled through the day, and a deep gloom feated itself on the countenances of every description of citizens.
The General Court, being in session here, suspended their ordinary proceedings, and appointed a committee "to take into consideration and report the method most proper to be pursued, to manifest the deep impression, which the important event of the death of
GENERAL WASHINGTON
had occasioned." On their report were founded the following resolutions.
"The Legislature of the State of New-Hampshire being oppressed with an occurrence no less affliction, than the death of General WASHINGTON, the illustrious Patriot, who under divine Providence, led our armies to victory, our statesmen to political light, and our country to prosperity, with hearts deeply penetrated, feel the loss of HIM whose name alone "was an host."
"Therefore Resolved, That each member of the Legislature, in testimony of the high respect, they bear to his memory, and of the deep impression made on their hearts by this irreparable loss, go in mourning for the term of three months.
"Resolved, That the Legislature form in procession, to-morrow, at 11 o'clock, and proceed to the meeting-house; and that the Rev. Mr. Rowland be requested to officiate on the occasion."
A committee was accordingly appointed to make the necessary arrangements, and to establish the order of procedure—Another committee was directed to procure a black Curtain for the window behind the Speaker's chair.
On Saturday morning, at an hour previously fixed at the request of the two Houses, his Excellency Governor Gilman, attended by the honorable Council, Secretary and Treasurer, effected by a committee appointed for the purpose, met them in the Representatives Chamber. After a short interval of "expressive silence," the President of the Senate addressed his Excellency in the following words, viz.
May it please your Excellency,
With unequivocal sincerity and the deepest regret, the Legislature of New-Hampshire sympathize and condole with you on the loss of our beloved WASHINGTON—who did so long in war and in peace, sustain our nation; in war unequalled, in peace unparalleled, and in the affections of his country unrivalled. To which address his Excellency returned the following answer, viz.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Senate, Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
YOUR respectful attention on this melancholy occasion is received with the most grateful affections.
Well may we bewail together our great loss by the death of the illustrious and dearly beloved WASHINGTON; a loss not only to our country, but to the world of mankind.
His highly exalted virtues and extraordinary services must render his memory very precious: and while with the deepest sorrow we mourn, let us pay due attention to the RICH LEGACY of advice he has given us—imitate his virtues—and endeavor to follow, so far as opportunity offers and our abilities will admit, the great example of patriotism, which he exhibited.
At 11 o'clock, his Excellency with the Hon. Council, and both branches of the Legislature, with their officers, and a numerous train of citizens, with scars on their arms, moved in solemn procession to the meeting-house by

circuitous route, in the following order, viz.
 A military escort, formed of the Students of the Phillips' Exeter Academy in uniform, with proper badges of mourning.  The Committee of Arrangement.  His Excellency, the Governor.  The Members of the Hon. Council, two and two.  The Clergyman of the town and Preceptor of the Academy.  The Secretary and Treasurer.  United States Officers Civil and Military.  The President of the Senate.  The Members of the Senate and Deputy Secretary, two and two.  The Speaker of the House of Representatives.  The Representatives, two and two.  The Clerk and Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives.  The Selectmen of the Town of Exeter.  Private Citizens. 
The exercises in the meeting-house (the pulpit, communion table and front gallery of which were hung with black) were a hymn, a pertinent prayer, and an appropriate piece of music, well performed. These exercises being ended, the Executive, and members of the Legislature with their officers returned in the same order to their respective chambers and adjourned to the Monday following.
The whole proceedings, on this most interesting occasion, were distinguished by a gravity and solemnity, which demonstrated, that these marks of respect to the memory of our illustrious fellow-citizen were not, as is frequently the case, a mere unmeaning ceremony; but true and lively expressions of the veneration, universally felt for his character, and of the regret, with which every heart was penetrated by the news of his decease.
Altho' it would be equally ill-judged and unavailing to attempt a premature suppression of the manly grief, which now swells the public bosom, it may not be impertinent to suggest these consolatory ideas, that our departed benefactor and friend did not survive his usefulness and reputation; but "died with all his" ripen'd "honors full upon him"—and that he has left behind him a character, which, while it reflects a lustre on the country that gave him birth, on the age in which he liv'd, and on human nature itself, will descend, unrivalled in the past annals of mankind, to the latest generations of men.
State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, Dec. 30, '99. Voted, That one hundred copies of the foregoing, together with the farewell address of General GEORGE WASHINGTON at the time he resigned the Chair of Government, be printed, and that one copy be given to each of the students of Phillips' Exeter Academy.
Sent up for concurrence, JOHN PRENTICE, Speaker. In Senate the same day read and concurred, NATH'L PARKER, De'y Sec'y.
Latest from Europe.
[Via Baltimore—London dates to 24th Oct.]
LONDON, Oct. 18. WE learn from private letters, that the accounts brought by the Inspector of the British forces, and which we stated some days ago, were so far founded that a partial engagement had taken place. Gen. Daendels on the 10th, attacked in person the right wing of the British forces, upon an advanced post near Winkle, under the command of Prince William of Gloucester, with at least 6000 men and 6 pieces of cannon, and endeavoured with every exertion to force his post. To resist this formidable attack his Highness had only 1100 men, chiefly consisting of the 35th regiment, and two pieces of cannon, with which he obliged the Dutch General to retreat, with the loss of one French General and 200 men killed. At the moment of this victory, we have to lament that his Highness seeing a body of 400 Dutch troops rapidly advancing upon his left to support Daendels, he was under the necessity of falling back to Colhorn, where the troops remained all night upon their arms, and the whole of the day following in sight of the enemy, without his attempting any further attack. His Highness upon this occasion lost only one man killed and nine wounded. During the action he had his horse shot under him, but himself received no injury, although exposed to the greatest personal danger under a heavy fire, being frequently in front of the line, animating by his example the exertions of his troops—upon which, on this, as upon every other occasion where the British arms are brought into action, it is impossible to bestow too much praise.
It is with extreme concern we relate, that intelligence was yesterday received at the Admiralty from Capt. Portlock, of H. M. S. Arrow, communicated by Adm. Mitchell, relating the total loss of La Lutine, of 32 guns, on the outer bank of the Fly Island passage, on the night of the 9th inst. in a heavy gale at N.N.W. La Lutine on the same morning (the 9th) failed from Yarmouth Roads with several passengers, and 140,000 guineas, for the Texel; but a strong lee-tide rendered every effort of Capt. Skynner to avoid the threatened danger unavailable, and it was alike impossible during the night to receive any assistance either from the Arrow or the shore, from whence several shots were in readiness to go to her. When the dawn broke, La Lutine was in vain looked for; she had gone to pieces, and all on board unfortunately perished, except 2 men, who were picked up, and one of whom has since died from the fatigue he had encountered.
To this account so full of calamity, it is added, that La Lutine was to have proceeded to Hamburg with money to check the commercial failures in that place. It is even said, that one house in the city, whose active and general benevolence has created more than common interest with the public, had lent 150,000. and that the whole sum, which thus went to the bottom, amounted to half a million, of which 200,000. had been insured.
The King of Naples has not only created Lord Nelson Duke of Bronty, with a revenue of 3000. per annum, but presented him with a Sword worth 60,000 ducats.
A letter from Brest states, that Ad. Brune and Mafferedo are in that port; and that 43 ships of war, victualled for three months, were ready to sail from Marseilles.
The ravages of the Plague in Barbary has this year exceeded all precedent: 274,000 persons having died of that dreadful malady at Fez and the adjoining villages by the 28th of June, amongst which number were 30,000 Merchants and other principal persons. The disorder which has been nearly as fatal in other places, was communicated through the empire by Muley Suleiman marching an infected army to the South. The deaths at Morocco amounted to 3600 a day.
Oct. 18. Napper Tandy and his associates are hourly expected at the Nore; they were put on board the Zenophon frigate the 15th inst. but owing to the contrary winds the vessel did not sail from Hamburg till the 12th.
An exchange of prisoners in Holland is immediately to be negotiated. Major Dyer is the agent appointed by the Duke of York, for this purpose.
Oct. 21. At a late hour last night, Paris papers were received in a regular series, to the 19th inst. the contents of which we have not time to detail, and can only say in general, that they confirm the former accounts, stated in several papers of the 8th, that Suwarrows had been defeated, with the loss of 10,000 prisoners, and 2,000 wounded. The number of slain is not ascertained.—He is said to have retreated, with the remainder of his army, in the Grison country.
A rumour was also prevalent, that the Archduke Charles had been defeated with considerable loss.
EVACUATION OF HOLLAND.
LONDON, Oct. 24. NO further advices from the Duke of York have been received since our last; but as Col. Brownrigg reached the Helder on Saturday last, with the final instructions of Government, it is probable a great part of our troops have ere this embarked, on their return to England. Some of the Dutch Loyalists are already arrived. Six hundred of them were brought over in the Alkmaer man of war, which arrived at Deal on Tuesday, where three other ships full of people, of the same description, were hourly expected, having sailed from the Texel immediately after the Alkmaer.—The Convention, by virtue of which the Anglo Russian army is to evacuate Holland, was signed on the 18th inst. and is to continue in force for 6 weeks from that date, a circumstance which has given rise to a supposition that the treaty embraces more objects than have yet been publicly expressed. If it bears relation merely to the evacuation of the country by our troops, and a general exchange of prisoners, the business might be done in as many days as there are allowed weeks to accomplish it. The probability therefore is that there are involved in the armistice some subjects, the nature of which may require a considerable time to adjust; but upon this topic we shall for the present decline any speculation, under the hope, that a day or two will put us in possession of the fact. All that is at present known for certain is, that we have agreed to evacuate Holland without injuring either the arsenal or New Diep works; that all the enemy's guns are to be
restored; that the Helder is to be left in the same condition in which we found it; and that the prisoners are reciprocally to be given up.
It is understood that we are also to deliver up 8,000 or 10,000 of the French prisoners now in England; but respecting this point we have as yet received no satisfactory information. Upon the whole, if we have the consideration of the humiliated situation in which the event of the expedition has unfortunately placed us we shall find but little cause to regret the nature of the terms to which we have thus been induced to agree. The acceding to them was on our part dictated by the pure principle of humanity, and the laudable determination of saving our brave countrymen, by negotiation, from the destruction which other wise seemed to await them, must be considered as paramount to every other feeling, whether of mistaken honour or national pride.
EXETER, Oct. 14.
We have great pleasure in announcing to our readers the capture of two large Spanish frigates, bound from Vera Cruz to Old Spain, having on board valuable cargoes of Cocoa, Sugar, Cochineal, Drugs, &c. besides the immense sum of nearly Three Millions of Dollars in Specie!!! (about £. 700,000 sterling)—These valuable Prizes are safely arrived at Plymouth.
PARIS, Oct. 17. Extract of a letter from the Hague, dated Oct. 13.
Four thousand Russians, and twenty-five hundred English have been killed, and twenty-four hundred Russians taken prisoners. The Municipality of Amsterdam have published this day, that the remainder of the Russian army, to the number of 6000, have deserted to the French, after having killed several English officers. A whole regiment of Cossacks, who would not join them, were cut in pieces. We have taken 56 pieces of cannon, and a great quantity of baggage.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 30. OFFICIAL.
Extract of a letter from Capt. Baker of the Delaware, dated off Curraoa, Nov. 15. "On the twenty-ninth Oct. I had the satisfaction to fall in with and capture, after a chase of seven hours, the French privateer brig Ocean mounting 10 guns with 78 men."
Extract of a letter from captain R. V. Morris, of the Adams, dated off Guadalupe, 20th Nov.
"Since we have been joined by the Insurgente, I have captured a small French privateer schooner, and recaptured an American schooner."
BOSTON, January 2. [OFFICIAL.]
Extract of a letter from Capt. Murray, of the frigate Insurgente, dated 14th Nov. 1799, off Difeada.
"On the 12th I fell in with the Adams, in sight of Difeada, and hearing that two French frigates were expected at Guadalupe every day, we determined to cruise together for some days. This day, at 5 A.M. discovered two sail to windward, to which we gave chase: the Adams after one to windward, and the Insurgente after the other, which we soon overhauled. She proved to be an English brig of 14 guns, captured yesterday by a French privateer, the one which the Adams is now pursuing, she is gaining upon fast."
The brig had 21 Frenchmen on board, and five of her former crew, including two gentlemen, passengers, very badly wounded. I dispatch her instantly for Martinico, on account of the wounded, and before I can inform you of the result of the chase by the Adams."
January 3. Yesterday the military Funeral Ceremonies, directed in consequence of the death of Gen. WASHINGTON, were performed at Fort Independence on Castle Island. Many Military Officers and respectable Citizens, from Boston, and its neighbourhood, attended on the mournful occasion.
A wish has been expressed (and doubtless a wish is sufficient to accomplish the important object) that every Printer, who may be employed to publish any Sermon, Oration or Poem, on the Death of the illustrious WASHINGTON, would forward a copy of each of such publication to each of the Colleges of New England, and to the Historical Society of Massachusetts.
PORTSMOUTH, January 8.
The different Churches in this town were on Sunday last hung with the insignia of mourning, as a testimony of respect to the memory of the departed WASHINGTON.
The Grand Lodge of New-Hampshire ARE unanimous in opinion, that to mourn with our fellow citizens at large would be more respectable to our late illustrious Brother, and more honorable, than particular society badges of mourning. The loss is deep and universal—so ought to be our testimonies of respect decent and uni-
form throughout the United States. But in our Lodges will be the seat of sorrow.
MINUTES OF TESTIMONIALS.
In this town, a procession was formed from the Assembly-Room, and proceeded to St. John's Church, in the following order.
 Military Bodies.  The Artillery, commanded by Capt. Long, Light-Infantry, do. by Capt. Sparhawk, Gov. Gilman's Blues, do. by Capt. Larkin, Drums muffled. Music in craps.  Arms reversed,—side arms in mourning.  Martial Notes.  The Dead March in Saul.  Brother Masons.  Grand Lodge, St. John's and Visitors.  NATHANIEL ADAMS, Esq. M. W. G. M. (N. H.)  The Orator.  JONATHAN M. SEWALL, Esquire, The pride of eloquence, & the power of Verse.  The Rev. Mr. WILLARD, Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church.  United States Military Officers.  Commissioned Officers, Militia, of New-Hampshire.  Selectmen.  Civil Officers of the United States.  N. Rousselier, Esq. Consul U. S. Demerara.  Rev. Clergy of Portsmouth and Vicinity.  Strangers, two and two. 
Col. ADAMS, Grand Marshal for the day. When the procession entered the Church, a most solemn piece of sacred music was performed on the organ. To this succeeded a Dirge composed for the occasion, [See last page.]—The Rev. Mr. WILLARD, read prayers. A Masonic Hymn, followed, [See last page.]—Mr. SEWALL, pronounced his admirable Eulogy; the christian consolations were chanted with peculiar effect. Mr. Willard solemnly gave the grand benediction. A voluntary on the organ concluded.
The Citizens As one body demonstrated every possible mark of respect. Scarcely an office, store or shop was opened in town, until after the solemn service was concluded. The Flags of all the shipping in the harbor were hoisted half mast high. Mourning Crapes were worn by almost every individual. The Ladies in particular manifested those delicate attentions which refined sensibilities pay to departed heroism and virtue. Infancy caught the pious sorrows of the hour and the rising generation dropt the manly tear.
The Military Who performed the first honors of the day, acquitted themselves to admiration. A detachment of artillery who served the minute guns, executed their duty with uncommon propriety and exactness. The last salute, at the supposed grave of the departed HERO, was admirably performed. During the day, detachments and full companies appeared in different parts of the town, but every soldier's countenance bore a deep impressive solemnity;—A solemnity not assumed for the moment; but felt at the heart.
The Church Was elegantly habited in full mourning. The Pulpit, Organ-loft, Orchestra, Altar, &c. claimed particular notice. A large branch of an ever green fir tree, severed from its roots, and hanging perpendicularly as a chandelier, ornamented with a vast assemblage of black plumes, exhibited a fine specimen of ingenuity and taste: It forcibly spoke a language which sensibility must feel. The severed root, and the living branch addressed the heart.
At ALEXANDRIA—All business was suspended for two days;—all the gentlemen of the town attended the funeral:—the bells were tolled for three days;—every citizen, Male and Female, put on suits of mourning; and all the Churches were hung in black.
MARYLAND—The Legislature of the State has requested the Governor to appoint a day of mourning, humiliation and prayer, throughout that State, to testify their veneration of the memory of the illustrious deceased, and to derive from the just eulogiums of his meritorious services, the best motives for the imitation of his virtues. [The Gov. has ordered it on the 11th of February.] They have also ordered a suitable external mark of their unfeigned grief, to be worn by all in public offices.
At BALTIMORE—The Masonic Lodges voted a full procession, members clothed, and in mourning, and a discourse at one of the churches.
At PHILADELPHIA—The Tammany Society wear craps on their hats for three months, the Episcopal Churches were hung in black, and the pew in Christ's Church, formerly occupied by the General, was shrouded in black.—A monody was delivered at the theatre, by Mr. Wignell.
At NEW-YORK—The Grand Lodge voted that the Fraternity be channeled in mourning for 6 months, and that a monumental memorial be elected in the Grand Lodge room.—The Cincinnati to wear full mourning for six months. Letters of condolence were directed to be sent to the President of the U. S. and the General and State Societies.
At WILMINGTON, (Del.)—A Masonic Procession was voted, and an oration by Br. Bedford.
At TRENTON—The Governor, Mayor, and three Clergymen were appointed a Committee to arrange.
At NEWPORT—All business was suspended for a day; the bells tolled.—The M. W. Grand Master of Masons has directed mourning for nine days.
At KEENE (N. H.)—Bells tolled, flags in mourning, &c.—The Rising Sun Lodge to go in mourning for 3 months.
At NORTHAMPTON—Bells tolled.
The Six Seventy-Fours Ordered by Congress, will be built immediately, at Norfolk, Baltimore, Washington, Boston, and Portsmouth.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Sunday arrived brig Harmony, Capt. Charles Coffin, 83 days from Hamburg, Nov. 2. lat. 46, 45, long. 12, 30, spoke ship Sanfaniel, Capt. Roffetter, of New-York, 16 days from Bristol, was taken by a French privateer, and ordered for Bordeaux. Dec. 1, lat. 24, 25, long. 56, 30, spoke Schooner Hope, Capt. Parsons of Portsmouth, out 27 days, all well. Dec. 22, lat. 36, 37, long. 74, 20, spoke ship Lydia, Capt. Luce of Boston, 8 days out. Monday arrived brig Resolution, Capt. Kane, 38 days from Kt. Kitts, was boarded once by an English and soon after by a French Privateer.
DIED—At Tamworth, SAMUEL GILMAN, Esq. aged 67.—At Newington, SAMUEL ROLLINS, aged 71.
In this town, Mrs. SLADE, aged 29. Capt. EDMUND LINSLEY, aged 28, formerly of Branford, (Connecticut.)
TO BE SOLD AT Public Auction This Day, At the New-Hampshire Hotel, For the benefit of the underwriters and others concerned.
52 Hhds. COD FISH, 120 1/2 QUINTALS loose, damaged, saved from the sloop Dolphin, wreck'd on Cape Cod. Conditions made known at the time and place of Sale, which will commence precisely at 12 o'clock.
THO: THOMPSON, Agent for the Underwriters. January 8.
JOHN GAINS Clock and Watch Maker, RESPECTFULLY informs his customers and the public in general that he has removed from Congress-street to Spring Hill, one door South of Mr. Samuel Hill's store—where he carries on his business of Clock and Watch Making in all its branches.
HE HAS FOR SALE Eight day CLOCKS, A large assortment of WATCHES, warranted good; a great variety of Chairs, Strings, Seals, Keys and Trinkets.
TO BE SOLD At Public Auction, On Monday next, at Mr. Greenleaf's Tavern, at eleven o'clock.
TWO Houses and a Lot on Daniel-street, pleasantly situated; the Lot is about eighty feet square. Also a LOT on Prison-Lane, back of Col. Whipple's and Capt. Turner's, about fifty feet by one hundred. Also the Pound Pasture, so called, containing about 17 acres. Terms will be known at place of sale, if not previously disposed of at private sale. Portsmouth, Jan. 7, 1800.
JUST RECEIVED By the Sloop Amity from Philadelphia, and For Sale by the Subscriber, 150 bbls. fresh superfine FLOUR; 200 Traces ONIONS. Moses Woodward, jr. January 8.
New-Hampshire Bank. THE Stockholders in the New-Hampshire Bank are hereby notified that a meeting of the Stockholders will be held at the Bank on Thursday 30th inst. at 3 o'clock, P. M.
By order of the Directors, DANIEL R. ROGERS, Cashier. Portsmouth, Jan. 6, 1800.
ALL persons that have any demands on the estate of JETHRO FURBUR, late of Newington, deceased, intestate, are hereby desired to exhibit the same—and all indebted to said estate to make payment to JETHRO FURBUR, Administrator. Newington, Jan. 6, 1800.
From New-Brunswick, and to be sold By B. CONNOR, At Jonathan Warner, Esq's. wharf, CEMENT LIME, superior to any ever known imported, being a new found Stone. Portsmouth, Jan. 6, 1800.

The following lines were composed by the Rev. Brother RICHARDS, on the late solemn occasion, and sung at St. John's Church on Tuesday the 30th ult.
Solemn Dirge.
COLUMBIA, VIRTUE, FREEDOM, rise! And sweep the plaintive chords of woe; A NATION's tears; an EMPIRE's sighs, Mourn WASHINGTON, by death, laid low.
II. The PATRIOT, HERO, SAGE, combin'd; The Good, the Great, the Brave, the Just; The SIRE, and FRIEND of human KIND; Of Men the Best, of Men the First.
III. 'Tis WASHINGTON who bows the head! His VIRTUES tower above the grave; The HERO, PATRIOT, SAGE, is dead; GEORGE WASHINGTON, the Good, the Brave.
IV. A WASHINGTON can never die; The Good, the Great, the godlike Brave, In ev'ry tear, in ev'ry sigh Shall live, and triumph o'er the grave.
V. The world's vast sum is VIRTUE's urn; But all our HEARTS shall be his grave; There, LOVE's eternal lamp shall burn; And Life, entomb the Good, the Brave.
VI. COLUMBIA, VIRTUE, FREEDOM, FAME, Shall twine the LAUREL, CIVIC wreath; And Angels bear th' immortal NAME Above;—beyond the grasp of death.
Masonic Hymn.
AT GOD's imperial, high decree, Our MASTER sleeps in dust; His Brethren bend the prostrate knee;— Thy WILL, O GOD! is just.
II. That WILL, GRAND MASTER, most SUBLIME! Lent HIM to guide our way; When darkness wrap'd Columbia's clime, And veil'd the light of day.
III. That WILL, beyond the form of war, Our MASTER's steps convey'd; Our BROTHER left his trophied car, And sought Mount VERNON's shade.
IV. In WAR, in PEACE; in WAR again, COLUMBIA's voice he heard; A MASTER, BROTHER, cried Amen, And bow'd to ADMAS' word.
V. HIS God-like course of glory run— Heav'n's ROYAL ARCH fullume; Mid morn's bright star and LIGHT's full SUN, Enthroned HIS soul divine.
VI. Immortal MASTER, BROTHER, hail! Adieu, farewell, adieu; The CASSIA (sprig on GLORY's vale, Is bath'd in VIRTUE's dew.
To Ebenezer Thompson, Esq. one of the justices of the peace, in and for the State of New-Hampshire.
THE subscribers owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of Burton, in the county of Grafton, in said State, request that you notify and warn the proprietors and owners of said township to meet at the dwelling house of Orlando Weed, Esq. in said town, on Wednesday the 26th day of February next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to vote and act on the following particulars, viz.
1st. To choose a moderator, proprietors clerk, a treasurer, assessors, and a collector.
2d. To see if the proprietors will sever and divide the land in said town among the proprietors or owners.
3d. To see if the proprietors will make any compensation to settlers that have lost their land by Tamworth, or otherwise.
4th. To see if the proprietors will appoint a committee to settle their former account, with full power to adjust the same.
5th. To see what encouragement the proprietors will give in lands or some other way towards building mills in said town.
6th. To see if the proprietors will assess a tax for the purpose of cutting and clearing a road or roads through any part of said town, and defraying their expenses.
7th. To see what method the proprietors will take for calling meetings in future.
8th. To see if the proprietors will grant a compensation to those proprietors who shall attend said meeting, and also to those who shall attend future meetings.
Drawn to AARON FORBES, 4 11 2 5 21 5 7 16 2 5 21 5 7 3 2 5 21 5
ORLANDO WEED, BENJAMIN WEEKS, MOSES CENTER, THOMAS PINKHAM, ELISHA WEED, WILL'M BALLARD, HENRY WEED,
Durham, Dec. 23, 1799. Pursuant to the foregoing request I do hereby notify and warn the proprietors and owners of land in Burton, to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes therein mentioned.
EBENEZER THOMPSON, Justice of the Peace throughout the State.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of Colebrook, in the county of Grafton, that there has been assessed a county tax for the year 1798, of two cents and five mills on each lot; and a highway tax for 1799, of twenty-one cents and five mills on each lot in said town, and the same was committed to me to collect—this is therefore to notify all those who are delinquent that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber on or before the 20th day of March next, so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue at 10 o'clock A. M. on said day, at the dwelling house of Charles Thomason in said town, as will pay said taxes and incidental charges.
Drawn to JONAS MINOT,
Table with 10 columns: No. Lot, Range, County, High-way, Tax, No. Lot, Range, County, High-way, Tax. It lists tax assessments for various lots in Colebrook.
Drawn to WILLIAM CAGILL,
Drawn to JOSEPH WHIPPLE, Esq.
Drawn to JAMES M'GREGORE,
Drawn to AARON FORBES,
Two thousand five hundred acres of undivided, taxed five dollars thirty-six cents for the highway; sixty-two cents and one half for the county tax—well half of the 16th lot in the 6th range, being fifty acres taxed one cent, and one fourth for the county, and ten cents and three fourths for the highway tax; one hundred acre lot No. 17, settlers lot (so called) taxed two and a half cents for the county, and twenty-one and a half cents for the highway tax.
MARK ALDRICH, Collector. Colebrook, December 28, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of lands in the Society Land, in the county of Hillsborough, in said State, who have not paid their highway tax assessed on said lands for the year 1799, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the fifth day of March next, so much of their lands will be sold as will pay the same together with lawful charges, at public vendue, at the dwelling house of True Webster, innholder in said Society Land, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 4 columns: Name, No. acres, Dolls., Cts. It lists tax assessments for various owners in Society Land.
JOHN PUFFER, Collector. Society Land, Dec. 25, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. Grafton, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the township of Lincoln, county of Grafton, who have not paid their tax of three cents on each acre of land in said township, agreeable to an act of the General Court, passed June 20th, 1798, that so much of each original right as will pay said tax together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Ensign JOSEPH WEBSTER, in Peeling, on the 2d Wednesday in February next at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment, to me the subscriber at my dwelling house in Peeling, in said county.—Delinquents are as follows.
Table with 4 columns: Original Grantees, Acres, Doll., Cts. It lists tax assessments for various owners in Lincoln.
CHASE ROBINSON, Collector. Centre-Harbour, Dec. 12, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. Grafton, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of lands in the town of Grafton, in the county of Grafton, in said State, who have not paid their State and highway taxes assessed on said lands for the year 1798, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber on or before the 5th day of March next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with lawful charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Hezekiah Bullock, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day, unless prevented by previous payment. Which lands and the taxes aforesaid, are described in the following list, viz.
Table with 4 columns: Original owners names, Lot, Acres, Doll., Cts. It lists tax assessments for various owners in Grafton.
RUSSELL MASON, Collector. Grafton, October 15, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. Hillsborough, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners or proprietors of land in the town of Warren, in the county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, who have not paid their county tax for the year 1798, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 10th day of March, 1800, so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, as will pay the same with incidental charges at the dwelling house of William Butler, innholder in said town, at one of the clock in the afternoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 4 columns: Proprietors names, Lot, Acres, Doll., Cts. It lists tax assessments for various owners in Warren.
ABNER CHASE, Collector. Sutton, December 20, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. Grafton, ff.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in Alexandria, in the county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, who are delinquent in paying their highway taxes for the year 1799, and their county tax for 1798, that unless they pay the said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before the first Monday in April next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, so much of their lands as will pay the same with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Capt. WILLIAM CRAWFORD, innholder in said Alexandria, unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 4 columns: Name, No. acres, Dolls., Cts. It lists tax assessments for various owners in Alexandria.
MOSES SIMONDS, Collector. Alexandria, December 12, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. Strafford, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Centre-Harbour, who have not paid their highway and county taxes for the year 1799, that so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling house of Benning Moulton, Esq. in said town, on Tuesday the 4th day of March, 1800, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 4 columns: Name, No. acres, Dolls., Cts. It lists tax assessments for various owners in Centre-Harbour.
CHASE ROBINSON, Collector. Centre-Harbour, Dec. 12, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. Grafton, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of lands in the town of Grafton, in the county of Grafton, in said State, who have not paid their State and highway taxes assessed on said lands for the year 1798, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber on or before the 5th day of March next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with lawful charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Hezekiah Bullock, innholder in said town, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day, unless prevented by previous payment. Which lands and the taxes aforesaid, are described in the following list, viz.
Table with 4 columns: Original owners names, Lot, Acres, Doll., Cts. It lists tax assessments for various owners in Grafton.
RUSSELL MASON, Collector. Grafton, October 15, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. Grafton, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners or proprietors of land in the town of Warren, in the county of Grafton, and State aforesaid, who have not paid their county tax for the year 1798, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the 10th day of March, 1800, so much of their lands will be sold at public vendue, as will pay the same with incidental charges at the dwelling house of William Butler, innholder in said town, at one of the clock in the afternoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 4 columns: Proprietors names, Lot, Acres, Doll., Cts. It lists tax assessments for various owners in Warren.
AARON WELCH, Collector for '98. Warren, Dec. 11, 1799.
TO BE SOLD
At Public Auction,
By Virtue of a licence from the Hon. Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, on the 14th day of January next on the premises, if not disposed of at private sale, the
REAL ESTATE of
Anna Johnson, late of Epping, deceased, consisting of forty-nine acres of land; one half of a large two story dwelling house, with out buildings, situate in Epping, for particulars apply to the subscriber David Lawrance Morrill, Adminstrr. Epsom, Dec. 13, 1799.
ALL persons indebted to or that have any demands against the estate of THOMAS HOIT, late of Sandown, gentleman, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same for settlement to
JABEZ HOIT, Administrator. Chester, Dec. 23, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of Alton, who have not paid their highway taxes for the year 1799, 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 Thomas Jewett in said town, on the 20th day of February next, at ten of the clock A. M. unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 4 columns: Name, No. acres, Dolls., Cts. It lists tax assessments for various owners in Alton.
ROBERT E. BUZZEL, Collector. Alton, December 18, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire.
WHEREAS the proprietors of the township of Winchester, in the county of Cheshire, at their meetings held at said Winchester by adjournment on the 10th day of June 1788, and on the 19th day of May 1789—voted to raise a sum of money to defray the expense incurred by said proprietors, in allotting their lands and otherwise, which money was assessed on each proprietors right—notice is hereby given that unless the delinquent proprietors and owners of the following rights pay their proportion of said assessment and incidental charges, so much of their lands as will pay said taxes and the charges incurred, will be sold at public vendue on the first Monday in April next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house of Calvin Doolittle, innholder in said Winchester.
Table with 4 columns: Name, Lot, Acres, Dolls., Cts. It lists tax assessments for various owners in Winchester.
ASA ALEXANDER, Collector. Winchester, December 14, 1799.
NOTICE is hereby given to the
prorietors and owners of land in the township of Kilkenny, situate in the county of Grafton, and State of New-Hampshire, that a tax of four dollars, on each original right of land in said township, is duly assessed and committed to me to collect, for the purpose of perambulating the lines and discharging other expenses agreeable to the proprietors vote of October 30th, 1799. If said tax is not paid to me at my dwelling house in Durham, in the county of Strafford, and State aforesaid, on or before the 7th day of February, the same will be levied on by sale of so much of the interest or property of the proprietors or owners, who shall be delinquent in payment, fourteen days after the third and last week of this advertisement, and the delinquents land will be advertised for sale accordingly.
WILLIAM BALLARD, Collector. Durham, December 17, 1799.