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James Rundlet,
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FOR SALE,
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(By AUTHORITY.)
EIGHTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, at the First Session begun and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday the seventeenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and three.
AN ACT
To ascertain the boundary of the lands reserved by the state of Virginia, north west of the river Ohio, for the satisfaction of her officers and soldiers on continental establishment and to limit the period for locating the said lands.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the line, run under the direction of the surveyor general of the United States, from the source of the Little Miami, towards the source of the Scioto, and which binds on the east, the surveys of the lands of the United States, shall, together with its course continued to the Scioto river, be considered and held as the westerly boundary line, north of the source of the Little Miami, of the territory reserved by the state of Virginia between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers, for the use of the officers and soldiers of the continental line of that state: Provided, That the state of Virginia shall, within two years after the passing of this act, recognize such line as the boundary of the said territory.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the officers and soldiers, or their legal representatives, who are entitled to bounty lands within the above mentioned reserved territory, shall complete their locations within three years after the passing of this act, and every such officer and soldier, or his legal representative, whose bounty land has, or shall have been located within that part of the said territory, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, shall make return of his or their surveys, to the secretary of the department of war, within five years after the passing of this act, and shall also exhibit, and file with the said secretary, and within the same time, the original warrant or warrants under which he claims, or a certified copy thereof, under the seal of the office where the said warrants are legally kept; which warrant, or certified copy thereof, shall be sufficient evidence that the grantee therein named, or the person under whom such grantee claims, was originally entitled to such bounty land: and every person entitled to said lands, and thus applying, shall thereupon be entitled to receive a patent in the manner prescribed by law.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That such part of the above mentioned reserved territory as shall not have been located, and those tracts of land, within that part of the said territory to which the Indian title has been extinguished, the surveys whereof shall not have been returned to the secretary of war, within the time and times prescribed by this act, shall thenceforth be released from any claim or claims for such bounty lands, and shall be disposed of in conformity with the provisions of the act, entitled, "An act in addition to and modification of the, propositions contained in the act, entitled, 'An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory, north west of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the union, on an equal footing with the original states; and for other purposes.'"
NATH'L MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 23, 1804.
APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
RAGS.
Cash and the highest price given for clean Rags, at this Office.
Political Miscellany.
ROBERT EMMETT.
WE some time since signified that we had received from a friend in Ireland, an authentic copy of the address of Robert Emmett to lord Norbury one of the judges: before whom he was tried for treason. It appears that the government had taken the perfidious pains to prevent the publication of Mr. Emmett's real speech and tortured the sentiments of their victims into meanings and assertions the most remote from his character and wishes. The real speech has been sent to America by a friend, "as the only country in which the virtuous living can find a refuge, or truth find a certain passage to posterity through a free press." Aurora.
MY LORDS,
What have I to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me according to law? I have nothing to say that can alter your predeterminations nor that it will become me to say with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce and I must abide by. But I have that to say, which interests me more than life, and which you have labored (as was necessarily your office in the present circumstances of this oppressed country) to destroy—I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which have been heaped upon it. I do not imagine, that seated where you are, your minds can be so free from impurity, as to receive the least impression from what I am going to utter; I have no hopes that I can anchor my character in the breast of a court constituted and trammeled as this is; I only wish, and it is the utmost I expect, that your lordships may suffer it to float down your memories un tainted by the foul breath of prejudice, until it finds some more hospitable harbor to shelter it from the storm by which I should bow in silence, and meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur; but the sentence of the law which delivers my body to the executioner, will through the ministry of that law, labor in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy; for there must be guilt somewhere; whether in the sentence of the court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated, but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives: that mine may not perish, that it may live in the respect of my countrymen, I seize upon this opportunity to vindicate myself from some of the charges alleged against me. When my spirit shall be wafted to a more friendly port when my shade shall have joined the bands of those martyred heroes who have shed their blood on the scaffold and in the field, in defence of their country; and of virtue, this is my hope and I wish that my memory and name may animate those who survive me, while I look down with complacency on the destruction of that perfidious government, which upholds its domination by blasphemy of the most high, which displays its power over man as over the beasts of the forest, which sets man upon his brother, and lifts his hand in the name of God against the throat of his fellow who believes or doubts a little more or a little less than the government stand ard; a government which is steeled to barbarity by the cries of the orphans and the tears of the widows which it has made. [Here lord Norbury interrupted Mr. Emmett, saying, that the mean and wicked enthusiasts, who felt as he did, were not equal to the accomplishment of their wild designs.]
I appeal to the immaculate God, I swear by the throne of Heaven, before which I must shortly appear, by the blood of the murdered patriots who have gone before me; that my conduct has been through all this peril and through all my purposes, governed only by the convictions which I have uttered, and by no other view, than that of their cure, and the emancipation of my country from the super-inhuman oppression under which she has so long and too patiently traveiled; and that I confidently and assuredly hope that wild and chimerical as it may appear, there is still union and strength in Ireland to accomplish this noble enterprize: of this I speak with the confidence of intimate knowledge, and with the consolation that appertains to that confidence. Think, not my lord, I say this for the petty gratification of giving you a transitory uneasiness; a man who never yet raised his voice to assert a lie, will not hazard his character with posterity by asserting falsehood on a subject so important to his country, & on an occasion like this. Yes my lords, a man who does not wish to have his epitaph written, until his country is liberated, will not have a weapon in the power of envy to impeach the probity which he means to preserve even in the grave to which tyranny consigns him. [Here he was again interrupted by the court.]
Again I say, that what I have spoken, was not intended for your lordship, whose situation I commiserate rather than envy, my expressions were for my countrymen: if there is a true Irishman present, let my last words cheer him in the hour of his affliction [He was again interrupted, lord Norbury said he did not sit there to hear treason.]
I have always understood it to be the duty of a judge, when a prisoner has been convicted, to pronounce the sentence of the law; I have also understood that judges sometimes think it their duty to hear with patience, and to speak with humanity; to exhort the victim of the laws, and to offer with tender benignity his opinions of the motives by which he was actuated in the crime, of which he had been found guilty: that a judge has thought it his duty so to have done. I have no doubt; but where is the boasted freedom of your institutions, where is the vaunted impartiality, clemency, and mildness of your courts of justice; if an unfortunate prisoner, whom your policy and not justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the executioner, is not suffered to explain his motives sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated?
My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice, to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposeful ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the purposeful shame or the scaffold's terrors would be the same endurance of charges and imputations laid against me in this court: you my lord are a judge, I am the supposed culprit; I am a man, you are a man also; by a revolution of power, we might change places, though we never could change characters; if I stand at the bar of this court, and dare not vindicate my character, what a farce is your justice! If I stand at the bar and dare not vindicate my character, how dare you calumniate it? Does the sentence which your policy inflicts on my body, also condemn my tongue to silence and my reputation to reproach? your executioner may abridge the period of my existence, but while I exist, I shall not cease to vindicate my character and motives from your aspersions, and as a man to whom fame is dearer than life, I will make the last use of that life in doing justice to that reputation which is to live after me, and which is the only legacy I can leave to those I honor and love, and for whom I am proud to perish. As men my lord we must appear on the great day at one common tribunal, and it will then remain for the searcher of all hearts to shew a collective universe who was engaged in the most virtuous actions, or attached by the purest motives.
[Here he was interrupted and told to listen to the sentence of the law.]
My lord, will a dying man be denied the legal privilege of exculpating himself, in the eyes of the community of an undeserved reproach thrown upon him during his trial, by charging him with ambition, and attempting to cast away for a paltry consideration the liberties of his country? Why did your lordship infult me? or rather why infult justice, in demanding of me why sentence of death should not be pronounced? I know my lord that form prescribes that you should ask the
question, the form also presumes a right of answering! This no doubt may be dispensed with, and so might the whole ceremony of the trial, since sentence was already pronounced at the castle before your jury was impannelled; your lordships are but the priests of the oracle, and I submit; but I insist on the whole of the forms.
[Here the court desired him to proceed.]
I am charged with being an emissary of France! An emissary of France! And for what end? It is alleged that I wished to sell the independence of my country! And for what end? Was this the object of my ambition? And is this the mode by which a tribunal of justice reconciles contradictions? No, I am no emissary, and my ambition was to hold a place among the deliverers of my country, not in power, nor in profit, but in the glory of the achievement! Sell my country's independence to France! And for what! Was it for a change of masters! No! But for ambition! O my country, was it personal ambition that could influence me, had it been the foul of my action could I not by the education and fortune, by the rank and consideration of my family have placed myself amongst the proudest of my oppressors? My country was my idol; to it I sacrifice every selfish, every endearing sentiment; and for it I now offer up my life. O God! No, my lord, I acted as an Irishman determined on delivering my country from the yoke of a foreign unrelenting tyranny, & from the more galling yoke of a domestic faction which it is joint partner and perpetrator in the patricide for the ignominy of existing with an exterior of splendor and concious depravity. It was the will of my heart to extricate my country from this doubly rivetted despotism.
I wished to place her independence beyond the reach of any power on earth; I wished to exalt you to that proud station in the world.
Connection with France was indeed intended, but only as far as mutual interest would sanction or require; were they to assume any authority inconsistent with the purest independence, it would be the signal for their destruction; we fought aid and we sought it as we had assurances we should obtain it, as auxiliaries in war, and allies in peace.
Were the French to come as invaders or enemies, uninvited by the wishes of the people; I should oppose them to the utmost of my strength. Yes my countrymen, I should advise you to meet them on the beach, with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other; I would meet them with all the destructive fury of war, and I would animate my countrymen to immolate them in their boats before they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced to retire before superior discipline, I would dispute every inch of ground, burn every blade of grass, and the last intrenchment of liberty should be my grave. What I could not do myself if I should fall, I should leave as a last charge to my countrymen to accomplish, because I should feel conscious that life, any more than death, is unprofitable, when a foreign nation holds my country in subjection.
But it was not as an enemy that the succours of France were to land; I looked indeed for the assistance of France; but I wished to prove to France and to the world, that Irishmen deserved to be assisted; that they were indignant at slavery, and ready to assert the independence and liberty of their country.
I wish to procure for my country the guarantee which Washington procured for America. To procure an aid which by its example would be as important as its valour; disciplined, gallant, pregnant with science and with experience; who would perceive the good and polish the rough points of our character; they would come to us strangers and leave us as friends, after sharing in our perils and elevating our destiny; these were my objects, not to receive new task masters, but to expel old tyrants; these are my views, and these only became Irishmen. I know your most implacable enemies are in the bosom of your country!
I have been charged with that importance in the efforts to emancipate my country, as to be considered the key

the combination of 18 men, or as your lordship expressed it, "the life and blood of the conspiracy." You do me honor overmuch: you have given to the subaltern all the credit of a superior; they are men engaged in this conspiracy, who are not only superior to me, but even to your own conceptions of yourself, my lord; men before the splendor of whose genius and virtues I should bow with respectful deference, and who would think themselves dishonored to be called your friend, who would not disgrace themselves by shaking your blood stained hand.
[Here he was interrupted.] What my lord, shall you tell me, on the passage to that scaffold, which that tyranny of which you are only the intermediary executioner has erected for my murder, that I am accountable for all the blood that has and will be shed in this struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor; shall you tell me this, and must I be so very a slave as not to repel it?
I did not fear to approach the omnipotent judge, to answer for the conduct of my whole life, and am I to be appalled and faltered by a mere remnant of mortality here; by you, too, who, if it were possible to collect all the innocent blood that you have shed in your unhallowed ministry in one great reservoir your lordship might swim in it.
[Here the judge interfered.] Let no man dare when I am dead to charge me with dishonor; let no man attain my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen; the proclamation of the provisional government speaks for our views; no inference can be tortured from it to countenance barbarity or debasement at home or subjection or humiliation or treachery from abroad; I would not have submitted to a foreign oppressor, for the same reason that I could resist the foreign and domestic oppressor; in the dignity of freedom I would have fought upon the threshold of my country, and its enemy should enter only by passing over my lifeless corpse. And I, who lived but for my country, and who have subjected myself to the dangers of the jealous, and watchful oppressor and the bondage of the grave, only to give my countrymen their rights and my country her independence, and I am to be loaded with calumny and not suffered to resent, and repel it—No, God forbid!
If the spirits of the illustrious dead participate in the concerns and cares of those who were dear to them in this transitory life—O, ever dear and venerated shade of my departed father, look down with scrutiny upon the conduct of your suffering son; and see if I have even for a moment deviated from those principles of morality and patriotism which it was your care to instil into my youthful mind, and for which I am now to offer up my life.
My lords you are impatient for the sacrifice; the blood which you seek is not concealed by the artificial terrors which surround your victim, it circulates warmly and unruled through the channels, which God created for noble purposes, but which you are bent to destroy, for purposes so grievous, that they cry to heaven—be yet patient! I have but a few words more to say; I am going to my cold and silent grave: my lamp of light is nearly extinguished: my race is run; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom! I have but one question to ask at my departure of this world, it is the charity of its silence! Let no man write my epitaph, for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninformed, until other times, and other men, can do justice to my character; when my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written; I have done.
When we hear of a "war miserably protracted" with any of the Barbary States, we know well from the history of those states, that such wars are peculiar to America, and therefore cannot refuse to admire the great extent of information that has been discovered. Had a democrat made such a remark he would have been ridiculed.—English, French, Spanish and others have finished their wars with the Barbary States in a trice. That Americans only have a long delay, is well known!
As much is said of Gun-boats, and of an economy which we much admire and justify, we wish to know whether the conduct of President Jefferson is unprecedented. Charnock, in his late History of Marine Architecture, speaking of the Seventeenth Century, says, after a comparison of the Spanish, Portuguese, and English, ships "The Dutch and the northern powers were
still more moderate: the former endeavoring to obtain a consequence by dint of numbers; the latter, content with having equipped a force sufficient to maintain a rank in their own secluded quarter of the world, and, while they actually preserved a scale of force relatively equal to that of each other, they did not, for a series of years, disturb themselves to enquire, what was the burden, or what number of guns were mounted on board ships which belonging to states, that, from their distance and unjarring interests, were unlikely to engage in any hostile dispute with their own." The fact was they were unable to enter upon a competition with the powers which held a maritime superiority, and "by an attentive diligence, and a variety of artifices," they endeavored to secure such mercantile advantages as could be obtained without an oppression of their strength, and without any national embarrassments.
From the coolness of the summer we may expect a warm autumn—the heat of the weather about the 12th of May and the 4th July—and the temperature of the political atmosphere since—we may venture to predict, that some of our trimming politicians will have hot work upon their hands.
(Aurora.)
At the last Presidential Election, the Federalists, having majorities in the two branches of our Legislature and a Governor of their party, deprived the People of their constitutional right of choosing their own Electors, by assuming the appointment to themselves, altho' they had been elected for the common purposes of legislation, without any suspicion of their performing that service. The consequence was a general dissatisfaction. Afraid to venture again on such a measure, yet dreading a fair expression of the elective sense of the State, the same party have, in name and form, now condescended to grant the People the choice of their own electors; but have ordered it to be by a General Ticket, modified and shackled in such a manner, as to amount to a mere mockery of Election. The Republicans, on the contrary, contended for an Election by Districts, as in the case of Representatives to Congress, in which plain, convenient, customary mode of voting, the People could act understandingly, according to the true principle of Election and Representation. Surely the Citizens of this Commonwealth will perceive which of the two parties are the real practical friends to our Representative form of Government. It is consistent for those who prefer a hereditary government to an elective one, to embarrass popular Elections as much as possible. Fellow-citizens, apply the good old rule of judging of men by their practice, as of trees by their fruit, to the opposite conduct of Republicans and Federalists on this most important subject, and treat them accordingly. A manly spirit of indignation and abhorrence of such anti-republican acts and practices begins to pervade an injured and insulted community. Under the existing circumstances of this Commonwealth, the Resolve for a General Ticket is admitted to be one of the grossest party measures ever adopted.—But one benefit may result from it. Honest men, who have been deluded into a co-operation with the anti-federal faction, who have assumed the prostituted name of Federalists, will now have a fair opportunity to abandon such unworthy connections.
Sun.
Falsehood and abuse are now the only facts and arguments of wretched federalism. The Legislature of Virginia having passed a Law to prevent the Negroes from holding insurgent meetings and maturing plots for a renewal of the sanguinary scenes of St. Domingo, and to preserve their wives and children from massacre and butchery—the candid, the humane Federalists have declared it a step towards the destruction of Religion; and are endeavoring to alarm the Baptists that their meetings, for the worship of God, are prohibited! But falsehood, black as it is, is known to be insufficient to frighten Republicans from their attachment to truth and principle; therefore abuse, with all its hellish malignity, is resorted to. A respectable citizen of this town, on almost every occasion, has a portion of their malice allotted him—and is charged with the mighty crime of being honored with an office under the National Government. These grumblers are not contented with one out of three appointments, which Mr. Jefferson's magnanimity allowed them under the Bankrupt Act—No, they must have the whole, or the Government must be abused, and its friends condemned to calumny, slander and billingsgate. How degraded such propp for its support!
(Argus.)
Capt. William Fiske was chosen to represent the town of Amherst in the next session of the Legislature of this State, in the room of Hon. J. K. Smith, chosen into the Senate.
BY THE LAST MAILS.
New-York, Aug. 25.—Capt. Barber, to whose politeness we are indebted for the marine intelligence by the sch. John from St. Thomas, informs us, that two privateer brigs, each carrying 18 guns and 150 men, are cruising under Spanish colors off the north side of Porto Rico, and in the Mona passage. They are fitted out at St. Johns, (Porto Rico) and rob every vessel they board. On Sunday the 29th July, one of them took a brig belonging to Philadelphia, bound from St. Domingo to St. Thomas, with coffee, and ran her on shore at the north-east end of Porto Rico.—The crew were sent to St. Johns.
A gentleman who came passenger in the sch. Nostra Senora del Carmen, from Porto Rico, informs that a vessel had arrived there from Corunna, with advices of the Prince of Peace (the Spanish minister) having fled to England, whither he had previously deposited considerable sums of money; and that his precipitate flight was occasioned by Bonaparte's making a formal demand of the king of Spain, that this minister should be given up to justice, as a principle actor in the late conspiracy against the internal and external safety of the French Republic.
In the sch. John, from St. Thomas, came passenger, madame Maria Louis Toussaint, widow of the late General Toussaint Louverture.
A well informed gentleman who arrived here yesterday in the Spanish schooner Del Carmen, from Porto Rico, informs us, that just before he failed a packet arrived there in 28 days from Corunna, by which positive information was received that the prince of peace had left Spain, in consequence of Bonaparte's having demanded his head of the Spanish government, for having been concerned in the late conspiracy against the life of Bonaparte. There was no doubt at Madrid of his having gone to England, as he had previously sent large treasures there, with orders for the erection of a palace for his accomodation.
Yesterday arrived here the schooner Emeline, captain Moran. She sailed from Bordeaux the 13th of July, and brings papers to the 9th.
The preparations for invasion continued with increased vigor. Bonaparte, it was said, was becoming more and more unpopular in France, in consequence of his elevation to the imperial dignity.
It was reported at Bordeaux, when Capt. Moran of the sch. Emeline failed, that Gen. Moreau had passed thro' that place on his way to Spain to embark for the United States.
In corroboration of this information, the following article appeared in a late London paper.
Moreau—It has been announced in the Paris Moniteur, (the government paper) that this general has been banished to America—to what part is not suggested. Other papers mention that he left his prison on the 21st of June, and proceeded for Perpignan, followed by his consort—and that he is to embark from Spain for America. The general it is said, had no intimation of this arrangement, and had just furnished his appointments in the Temple. When he was on trial he was treated with much respect.—After he delivered his speech before the court, he was loudly applauded by the spectators—and the guards presented arms when he passed. Several of the conspirators have been pardoned on the supplication of female relations, who prostrated themselves at the feet of the emperor, and were seconded in their prayers by the empress Josephine and her daughter.
Aug. 27.—Capt. Greene, of the brig Lucy-Ann, of Rhode-Island, in 40 days from Cadiz, was informed by the Vice Consul that it was probable a war would take place between Spain and the United States. The report was out rent in Cadiz. The cause was supposed to be some dispute about Louisiana. It was so much believed by some of the Americans, that they were hurrying to get away as fast as possible."
Capt. Greene, of the brig Hunter, informs us that at the time he left Barcelona the British frigate Juno and an armed brig had just arrived there from Lord Nelson's fleet off Toulon; and that no account of an engagement had been brought by them. Captain G. left Gibraltar on the 18th July, at which time no such circumstance had been heard of.
Capt. Hemplead, of the sch. Delight, arrived at New-London, informs that off the harbour of St. Pierre's, Martinique, he was brought to and boarded by a British sloop of war, by whom he was treated politely, and suffered to proceed. From this circumstance, he concludes that American Vessels, in prosecuting their com-
mercial concerns with the island of Martinique, will experience no molestation from the blockading squadron.
SALEM, AUGUST 30. The following is an extract of a letter from captain Sisson, late master of the ship Hopewell of New-York, dated Point Petre, July 26, 1804.
"No doubt 'ere this you have heard of the capture of the ship Hopewell, and brig Rockland; owing to S. W. and S. S. W. winds, was obliged to go to the callward of Bermuda. On the 30th June, in lat. 27, 38, long. 61, 37, 3 A. M. saw a brig which appeared to be dogging us, and at day light she bore down on us, hoisted an English ensign, and fired a gun to leeward.—We were then under all the sail we could set, but finding she came up with us very fast, we hoisted American colours, fired a gun to the leeward, and shortened sail.—I hailed the Rockland, and desired Capt. Atkins to keep on our lee bow and near us, as I wished to speak the privateer first, and know what he was before we attempted any thing.—She was then on our weather quarter. The Rockland not keeping in her station, dropping more to the leeward and nearly on our lee quarter, the privateer was then almost within hail of us; but immediately up helm and run along side the Rockland and commenced firing under English colours, which was returned from the brig. The privateer being between us and the brig, prevented my firing until I got in a situation to fire clear of the Rockland, which was in less than a moment; when we commenced firing to the best advantage we could. The Rockland fired only one broadside, and some musketry, when she was boarded: they only left three men on board—shivered off and gave us a boardside and attempted to board us—but was repulsed by our quarter guns, pikes and musketry.—They then kept clear of our pikes, and played continually with all their men, with nothing but musketry. Our men seeing their shipmates falling, most of the landmen quit their quarters.—The privateer seeing this, attempt the second time to board us, by cutting our nettings; and overpowering us by numbers, was obliged to haul down our colours, and quit the deck, otherwise be cut in pieces. We had three killed, four badly wounded, and two slightly wounded—the first who fell was poor Mr. Bird, he was standing near me; he received one ball through his body, and another through his head, and never after spoke a word."
"After the Rockland was boarded we engaged the privateer close on board for 40 minutes. When the black general (a passenger) found we were captured, he ran below with a pistol, with an intention to blow the ship up; and with much difficulty we prevented it. He set all the carriages on fire in the cabin, and scupperage, which was in pouch tubs, and only my having the magazine bottle over, saved the vessel and our lives. When he found he could not blow the ship up, he put the pistol to his head and blew out his own brains."
The privateer took out all the passengers, officers and men, except myself, carpenter and two boys and one of our men badly wounded. The privateer continued with us until we arrived in this port, which was on the 17th July, and was immediately put altogether in a most miserable prison, with nothing to eat but stinking beef, and coarse bread and very short even of that."
"They will not suffer me to see any American, nor have any communication with any body. There is a schooner called the Snake in the Graft, bought in New-York, and fitted out at Salem, with five guns, taken and brought in here a few days before me:—one of the mates is allowed to go out at a time, and this was the only opportunity I had to write. They say that orders has gone to America, that every vessel bound to St. Domingo, if taken, shall be treated as pirates. God only knows what they mean to do with us. I beg you will do all in your power to get our government to claim us, otherwise I don't know what they may do—they seem to be inveterate against the Americans, and even told me every ship and captain's name that were armed from New-York."
"Captain Atkins had his mate and one man killed, and several wounded, and died at this place on the 22d inst."
"The schooner Snake in the Graft was commanded by James Mansfield, who is also in prison with all his men, the vessel will be condemned, although they did not fire a shot."
"As no protest can be made here, I thought it best to let the officers sign this letter with me. Several large privateers are getting ready to go down in the Bite after the Americans. The privateer that took us, was the brig Pertrick, Capt. Atwan, with ten long French fives, two twelve pound carronades, one long eighteen pounder, and one hundred and fifty men. The French seem to be very inveterate against the Americans, and insult us as they pass the prison—all that I can say more, is to request you to do what you can with our government, to claim us as Americans. I think the manner in which the French privateer engaged us under English colors, will be a sufficient reason for them to claim us; and further, that your ship and property was defended with spirit until overpowered by numbers."
SURPRISING ESCAPE.
At Abington, on the 30th inst. the house of Joseph Shaw, was struck with lightning in a most remarkable manner. The electrical fluid first struck the chimney, threw off one side of it, and then passed to the ground in 4 different directions. One stream of the electricity passed down the chimney to the lower rooms; another passed forth from the chimney, along the ridge-pole, and so down the end of the house. The other 2 passages were in opposite directions—i down the roof to the front side. In these different passages, the house was shockingly rent and torn to pieces.
At the time fortunately, there were but two persons in the house, Mrs. Shaw and her daughter. One stream
of lightning entered the room in which they were, darted by the daughter of Mrs. Shaw within about 2 feet of her to two guns in the opposite side of the room, one of which being charged went off. It then passed into the yard before the house, and over the road, ploughing up the ground in its passage: it then entered a field on the other side of the road, and killed a sheep.
What is most remarkable, and must be ascribed to a protecting providence, is the safety of the two women. Notwithstanding the lightning passed off in so many different directions, did so much damage, and one stream of it came so very near them, yet they suffered not the slightest injury. They were so little shocked that they distinctly heard the report of the gun, and one of them calmly extinguished the fire it had kindled. Had there been lightning-rods to the house, the shock doubtless would have passed off without doing any injury. Such instances as this, ought to incline every householder immediately to add these necessary and useful appendages to his house.
Yesterday morning, (says the N. York Commercial Advertiser of August 23,) about 6 o'clock, the ship Rebecca, of this port, after a voyage of two years, was fired at and brought too by the Cambrian frigate, and six men impressed from her, not more than two leagues from the Hook, and the ship detained about two hours.
Singular Phenomenon.—A letter from a gentleman at Wyeth Court House, Virginia, contains the following account: "We have, for ten days, been clouded with a dark smoke, and this day I was informed by a gentleman from Kentucky that the Clinch mountain had sunk for many miles, to the depth of 50 feet; after which, clouds of smoke issued therefrom, so that the inhabitants at the distance of 20 miles from the place were not able to discover an object at 20 feet distance. This I suppose was occasioned by the burning of the stone coal, which is in the mountain."
Boston pap.
For the GAZETTE.
Messrs. PRINTERS, "CITIZEN" well knew, as almost every inhabitant of this town knows, that the Seamen have a meeting on every Thursday evening, (the evenings of public days excepted,) throughout the year; and that the gentlemen Firewards, meet in the afternoon or evening of the first Monday of every month in the year, to transact the necessary business of the town; and how much better would it have appeared in him, if he, in his great zeal for the good of the town, had like an honest man, made his representations to them—there is not the least doubt but that he would have had ample satisfaction in every respect; but instead of this, he thought proper to show his exquisite politeness in dealing out his self-stories in a public newspaper; did he think to rally the whole town against their officers? in this he has failed, as they are possessed of more good sense. Suppose some things were not in the condition "Citizen" would have them, would it not have displayed the mania of charity more, to have told a brother his fault in private? I leave my fellow townmen to judge. I suppose he means by my having my "education in Paris, or one of the polite courts in Europe," is because I have detected him in a falsehood, which however is not all the misrepresentations he has made—Suppose I had, I believe if the above was put into the language of the great nation, it would be tolerable good French. I suspect that "Citizen" did not receive his education at Rome, Greece, or at the feet of Gamaliel; if he had, he would have been more cautious; Notwithstanding, if he will own his name, appoint a time and place and give me notice thereof, I will wait on him, and have a conversation; when possibly, we may settle all our matters of dispute without troubling the public with our bickerings in a Newspaper—But should he decline this, and is determined to have the last word, I refer him to my observations in the Gazette of the 14th inst. and to the above, for an answer to all that he may write in future, while I in the mean time, shall attend to my duty.—I am "Citizen," and my fellow-townmen's most obedient serv't.
SAMUEL DROWNE.
Portsmouth, August 22, 1804.
For the N. H. GAZETTE.
Messrs. PRINTERS,
Considering it to be the duty of every one who has experienced relief from the friendship and humanity of his fellow-men in a time of distress, to render due acknowledgments therefor, I am induced to publish the following, which you are requested to give a place in your paper.
ABOUT 4 o'clock in the morning of the 30th of July last, my Barn was struck by lightning, and in less than ten minutes was covered with flames.—Assisted by a genuine spirit of benevolence, my neighbors and friends collected on this occasion, and by the most extraordinary exertions did, from the trees that were then growing in the forest, cut, hew, frame and raise for me, of good and large timber, and in a workmanlike manner a Barn of 84 feet long, and 34 feet wide, in the space of 64 working hours, and in two days more nearly enclosed the frame.
For all favors I have received in this instance, I render the donors my sincere and hearty thanks; and request those who have any demands for their service, to exhibit them, that they may be discharged as soon as possible.
EBEN'S DEMERET.
Madbury, August 28, 1804.
THE above example of benevolence, is indeed highly commendable, and we hope will serve to excite in others a like disposition to do good when opportunities shall offer.

Portsmouth
TUESDAY, SEPT. 4, 1804.
FROM EUROPE.
Since our last the John Adams, Capt. Wood, has arrived at Boston in 44 days from Liverpool, bringing papers to the 14th July.
The powers of Europe do not appear to be making any movements which might indicate a speedy rupture with the Emperor of France...
A letter from Aux Cayes, to a gentleman in Baltimore, dated July 15, says, "This will serve to inform you, that the English Admiral who has communication with the Negroes of this island, has put into the head of Gen. Dessalines, to cause himself to be proclaimed "Emperor of Hayti."
We have information from the best authority, that the yellow fever is prevalent on board a fleet of British ships at New- Providence.
John McDonald who had been confined in the jail of Marlborough District, (S. C.) on a charge of having, in the month of January last, robbed the mail of the United States, has put a period to his existence.
Our republican friends will peruse the address of the unfortunate EMMETT, the WASHINGTON OF IRELAND, with mingled emotions of honest pride and indignation...
Hillsborough, N.H.
WEARE, AUGUST 27.
WHEREAS a seditious and treasonable pamphlet signed Impartialist, has been circulated through the State of New Hampshire...
Therefore voted, That in order to manifest our disapprobation and contempt of the authors, publishers and distributors of such infamous and disorganizing pieces...
Conformably to this resolution, the instrument was solemnly committed to the Constable, and by him committed to the flames...
List of Votes for Representatives to Congress.
Table with 3 columns: Town, Republican, Fed. It lists votes for various towns including Acworth, Alexandria, Andover, etc.
The last returns for Governor in the above towns, gave the Republican candidate 773 votes more than at the present time...
From the above statements we perceive the gradual progress of New-Hampshire in her return to first principles...
trats is again seated in the governmental chair, for the last time. That wise and good providence, which presides over the affairs of men, is pleased to favor the cause of Liberty in this State...
The Federal intriguers are grievously mortified at the exposure in the Farmer's Cabinet, Political Observatory and N. H. Gazette...
MURDER & SUICIDE! On Saturday last, at Reading, in this State, a man, by the name of Chauncy Merchant, struck his wife on the head with a hatchet...
Our "Firmest Friends." Boston, August 21. — Brig Camillus, Capt. Kennard, in 52 days from Guadalupe, informs that he failed on the 16th of January...
Portsmouth, August 30, 1804. Friends & Fellow Citizens, I NOW think it indispensably necessary to make a few remarks on the inhuman and tyrannical punishment which was lately inflicted...
A BROTHER TAR. Marine Memoranda. Portsmouth, Sept. 4, 1804. Thursday arrived brig Eagle, Capt. Rollins, from Grenada...
MARRIED. At Stratham, Mr. SAMUEL TODD, to Miss SARAH GROVER, both of this town. DIED. At New-Hampton, Mrs. NANCY ROBINSON...
SALT for sale ON board the ship CAROLINE, at Portsmouth Pier. — Said Ship is for Freight or Charter.
Fowling Pieces. FOR SALE, A FEW very elegant double and single barrel Fowling Pieces, some with SPRING BAYONETS...
JUST PUBLISHED, BY EDMUND M. BLUNT, NEW BEDFORD, (Massachusetts,) And For Sale by all the Book-Sellers in the United States.
A NEW SYSTEM OF Mercantile Arithmetic; Adapted to the Commerce of the United States, in its Domestic and Foreign Relations...
RECOMMENDATIONS. Newburyport, May 1, 1800. WE, the subscribers, having seen Mr. Walsh's New System of Mercantile Arithmetic...
Salem, Oct. 7, 1800. WE, the subscribers, Merchants of Salem, convinced of the necessity of rendering the forms of business, the value of coins, and the nature of commerce, more familiar to the United States...
PREFACE. THE merit of WALSH'S MERCANTILE ARITHMETIC having been submitted to the public, and established by the most liberal & unequivocal encouragement...
The value of any work must be decided by those to whom it is more immediately useful; and if such persons possess the means of discrimination...
TO LET, HALF of a HOUSE in Jaffrey's Street, convenient for a small family. Enquire of JOSEPH MAN...
to every trading class of the community. This impression has received several valuable additions under the general head of Exchange...
CONTENTS.
NUMERATION; Simple Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division; Miscellaneous Questions; Table of Money, Weights, Measures, &c.; Compound Addition and Subtraction...
THE Members of the Eastern District New-Hampshire Medical Society, are hereby reminded that their meeting will be held in the house of Capt. Ezra Hutchins...
THE Managers of the Atkinson Academy Lottery, find themselves under the necessity of postponing the drawing of said Lottery...
TERRIBLE TRACTORATION! Just received from New-York, (price one dollar,) and for sale at the Bookstore of G. PEIRCE, Daniel-street, Portsmouth.

Miscellaneous Repository.
For the GAZETTE. 52d Psalm, L. M. metamorphos'd. THE FOLLY OF FEDERALISM—OR, THE COMPLETE OVERTHROW OF THE MIDNIGHT RUNAWAY.
WHY should the haughty hero boast, His federal arm his warlike host? While stamps defie his cruel hand, And federal taxes waltz the land. He joys to hear the sufferer's cry, The widow's groan, the orphan's sigh; And when the cruel sword would spare, His federalism spreads the snare. He triumphs in the deeds of wrong, And arms with rage his federal tongue; With pride proclaims his popish power, And bids the trembling States adore. But God behold, and with a frown, Cast to the dust his honors down; Republicans are freed, their hopes recall, And hail the proud oppressor's fall. How low th' insulting tyrant lies, Who dar'd republi's rights despise; And vainly deem'd with popish joy, His arm all federal, to destroy. We praise thee LORD who heard our cries, And lent salvation from the skies; Republicans who saw our day, Will join our grateful songs of praise.
An ADDRESS to the BAPTISTS. No. II.
Friends & Brethren. HAVING in a former number described Monarchy, and shewed you in a few words what your brethren have suffered under such a government, I shall now describe Aristocracy, and mention the sufferings of those who believed as you do, under that form of government. Aristocracy, signifies a government of the nobility, and comes from two Greek words, which signifies "I GOVERN;" meaning, I have a right to make such laws as I please, and a right to command and even force you to submit to them whether you think it right or wrong; Or I will rule and you shall obey. In such a government the supreme power is in the hands of a few, and the people have no kind of voice in the matter. Wherever such a government exists, let the name of it be what it may, all except the privileged few, who think they are born only to rule, are in poverty, ignorance, oppression, slavery and the shadow of death. This is easily illustrated by a description of people under such a government. I will mention only two, Poland and Germany. Poland is considered a mixed aristocracy; the power there is in the nobility; the king's power is circumscribed by them, and the people have none—the monarch and the nobles have both the legislative and executive power; but the people are non-entities. A few citizens are allowed to purchase lands; but the common people are in a state of the most abject slavery; their lords having an absolute power over them, of life and death. These wretched people are classed with the cattle, and are a part of the stock and wealth of an estate. Should a lord kill one of them on a neighbor's estate, he would replace him with one as good from his own; and so the business would end. In Germany, where men are called lords, and have the people at their command, the government cannot justify be called anything but aristocracy. In the 16th century this government prevailed in all its horrors:—the feudal system (where the lands were derived and holden of the crown,) was always productive of tyranny in a thousand shapes, depriving the people of their property and liberty; this existed there, as well as in Poland, under aristocracy. Under this government in this country, the inhabitants were divided into three parts—lords, citizens and rusticks; The rusticks were subdivided into slaves, villains and freemen. The condition of the slaves may be comprehended in seven particulars—1st. Their persons were the absolute property of these aristocratical lords of the soil. 2d. They were allowed only to marry the slaves of their own lords, to whom all their children belonged, as so many animals on the estate. 3d. All the produce of their hard labor belonged to their lords; they had nothing they could call their own except their cruel bondage. 4th. They could make no wills. 5th. They were obliged to furnish their lords with fixed quantities of the produce of the earth. 6th. It was impossible to escape slavery; for besides their taskmasters, the aristocratical laws were so severe, that an attempt to escape was desperate. 7th. The lords might inflict corporal punishment at pleasure; and if they killed them, they were liable only to the payment of a small fine.—They were distinguished by a peculiar dress, and could give no evidence against a freeman. The condition of those called villains, (the inhabitants of a village) was a little better; they paid to their lords fixed rents, the rest was their own; they were confined to the soil, and transferred with the estate; their condition was bad, and they had no remedy. The freemen had some little property of their own, and held farms of their lords by paying a fixed rent. Their condition was so bad that they often gave up the privileges of freemen, and went by choice into the condition of slaves. One of these aristocratical lords, speaking of the peasants, said, "They ought to have nothing but a small knife, a coat and a crust of bread." In this short description of people under this government, you may see aristocracy in its full growth. If you understand what aristocracy means, the very name will be held in abhorrence by you; and every man who pleads for an aristocratical government in this country, will be considered either ignorant of the nature of such a government or an enemy to the government of the United States, and an enemy to that iron, dangerous to aristocracy, which is implanted in every breast, "that all men are born equal." I shall now give a short account of what your brethren have suffered under this kind of government in Poland and Germany. In Poland, under this government a Bap-
tists were called the bottom lie of the devil's heart, and the aristocratical lords by the request of the Roman Catholics and Calvin-ists, banished them, and made a law that such heretics should be suppressed by death, if no other way could do it. In Germany their sufferings from those lordly tyrants were horrible beyond description; The sentiment they held, and for which they were persecuted was this—"That the kingdom of Christ, and the visible church he had established upon earth, was an assembly of true and real saints, and ought therefore to be inaccessible to the wicked and unrighteous, and also exempt from all those institutions, which human prudence suggests, to oppose the progress of iniquity, or to correct and reform transgressors." This was what the Baptists believed in Germany; and as they understood what liberty was, and endeavored to procure it for the poor slaves who were under aristocratical oppression, they were treated with every kind of cruelty a set of tyrants could inflict. The rebellion in Munster, has been laid to the Baptists, though it begun among the slaves who rose against their cruel masters, and applied to a Baptist preacher for counsel in this important matter. I venture to affirm and prove it, that rebellion under such a government, was virtue and not a crime. If this is not sufficient to prove the unrighteousness of this kind of government, enough may be easily produced.—I hope, my brethren, you will never be so lost to all sense of liberty and equality, as to be the advocates of such a tyrannical form of government as this, where a few with in addition to their own rights, the rights of all others. A friend to civil and religious Liberty.
Second Class of Atkinson Academy Lottery, - Commences drawing in 15 days, Whole Tickets at 2 dolls. and Quarters at 62 1/2 cents for sale by PEIRCE, HILL & PEIRCE—Market Street. Prize Tickets in Piscataqua Bridge Lottery taken in payment. Aug. 28.
Lotteries all the Rage. THE drawing of the First Class of Piscataqua Bridge Lottery was completed on Tuesday last, to the universal satisfaction of every adventurer. We presume the good credit of this Lottery is now so thoroughly established, that the future classes will meet a rapid and advantageous sale. The smallest prizes will be redeemed as soon as the official list is published, and the larger in thirty days.
C. PEIRCE, Daniel-street, and PEIRCE, HILL & PEIRCE, Market-street, now offer the public Tickets and Quarters in the Second Class of Atkinson Academy Lottery, and in the 6th Class of South Hadley Canal Lottery, in exchange for PRIZE Tickets, purchased at any place, or for cash. The former of these classes is to commence drawing the week after next, whole Tickets 2 dolls. Quarters 3/9; and the latter in about two months; whole Tickets 5 dolls. quarters 8/3. We give this timely notice that every one may supply themselves before they rise. Please to apply soon. August 28.
ALL persons indebted to the Lottery-Office for TICKETS sold by them, or received by notes—are requested to make immediate payment to the Managers, that they may be enabled to pay the PRIZES which will soon become due—and to close every account relating to the First Class. N. B. Tickets for the 2d. Class, may be had at the usual places of sale. Portsmouth, August 28, 1804.
Thou shalt not Kill ! !
A DISCOURSE in consequence of the late Duel, addressed to the North Congregational Society of Newbury-Port, August 5, 1804—by SAMUEL SPRING.—Just received and for sale by C. PEIRCE, Daniel-street, Portsmouth. Price 20 cents.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of lands in the following townships in the county of Grafton, who have not paid their county taxes for the following years, viz.—In the towns of Dummer, Dalton, Kilkenny, Shelburne, Success, Whitefield and Cambridge, for the years 1801, 1802 and 1803—Trecothick, for the years 1801 and 1802—and Lincoln for the year 1801. That the lists of County taxes assessed on the Lands in said townships for said years, are left with the subscriber—That unless the said proprietors and owners pay the same either to him or the Sheriff of said county, within eight weeks from the first publishing of this advertisement, so much of their Lands will be advertised for sale, as will pay the same with all legal charges. NATHANIEL PARKER, Receiver of Non-resident Taxes. Exeter, August 1, 1804.
ALL persons having demands against the estate of Capt. NATHANIEL WILLIAMS, late of Nottingham, deceased, are desired to exhibit them to Jacob Cilley Administrator of said estate—and those indebted to said estate, are desired to call & make immediate payment to said Administrator. JACOB CILLEY. Nottingham, August 17, 1804.
N. H. GAZETTE PRINTING OFFICE AND STATIONARY STORE REMOVED. Peirce, Hill & Peirce, HAVE removed their Printing-Office and Stationary Store, to the brick Store, nearly opposite Messrs. H. & B. Penhallow's, Market-street, —where they have for sale, a complete assortment of CLASSICAL BOOKS, among which are Webster's 2d. and 3d. parts; ditto Spelling Books; Perry's, ditto; Walth's Arithmetic; Merrills, ditto; Dictionaries, of various kinds—&c. also—a general assortment of STATIONARY—such as Demi Printing Paper; Foolscap and Pot Writing Paper; Letter, do. of various prices; Wafers; Sealing Wax; Black Sand; Quills, from 80 cents to 2 dolls. per hundred; Pocket Books; Ink-Stands; Sand Boxes; Slates; Lead and slate Pencils; Cyphering and Writing Books; Ink-Powder, &c. &c.
PEIRCE, HILL & PEIRCE, Have for sale at their Store, Market-street, a general assortment of West-India GOODS AND GROCERIES, by wholesale and retail. Portsmouth, August 21, 1804.
Doct. John Bredou, Regularly educated Physician & Surgeon HAS lately arrived in this town from Europe, and tenders his services to the public in the line of his profession—He cures Billious and Inflammatory Fevers, after a new method now in general and successful practice in Germany; Rheumatic Complaints, even those of long continuance; Venereal Diseases in a short time, without Mercury; Old Wounds. His charges will be proportioned to the abilities of his patients.—His lodgings are at Mr. RAYNES's, in Washington-street. Aug. 14.
THE MANAGERS OF Piscataqua Bridge Lottery offer to the Public the following SCHEME, For the SECOND CLASS. Prizes. Dollars. 1 of 10,000 Dolls. is 10,000 1 : 2000 do. : 2000 4 : 1000 do. : 4000 7 : 500 do. : 3500 30 : 100 do. : 3000 50 : 50 do. : 2500 100 : 30 do. : 3000 100 : 20 do. : 2000 3500 : 8 do. : 28000 3813 60,000 12,000 Tickets, at 5 Dollars. Subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 pr. cent. on payment of Prizes. Capital Prizes determinable, on the following days: The first drawn Blank on the first day shall be entitled to receive 500 Dolls. First drawn on the 5th, 1000 First drawn on the 10th, 1000 First drawn on the 15th, 1000 First drawn on the 20th, 1000 First drawn on the 25th, 10,000 First drawn on the 30th, 2000
Four hundred Tickets shall be considered as one complete days work; and the fortunate Blanks shall be determined at that rate of drawing, whether a greater or less number come out of the Wheels in one, or more days. To those who are impressed with the important object for which this Lottery was granted, little need be said by us, to insure their continuance in well doing. To fortunate Adventurers, we are brief to declare, that no Lottery whatever, holds out a fairer chance for gain, than this—presenting so many capital Prizes, compared with the small number of Tickets, and determinable on the fairest principles. THOMAS THOMPSON, } Managers. THOMAS MARTIN, } ELIJAH HALL, } An early day will be appointed for drawing. Portsmouth, July 24, 1804.
TRY HERE. WILLIAM RAMSDELL, Informs his customers and all others, that he has removed to that convenient Shop, situated on Buck and Chappel streets; where he will carry on the Boot & Shoe Making Business, with neatness and dispatch. Also—Ladies' and Misses black Morocco and Kid SHOES—All rips few-ed gratis. August 7, 1804.
AT the Gazette Book-store, Congress-street—An ORATION, delivered in this town, on the 4th July, 1804. By JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq. "Mens profunda pulchrior evenit." Portsmouth, August 5, 1804.
NOTICE is hereby given that we the subscribers, have appealed from the decree of the Judge of Probate for the County of Rockingham relative to the account of WILLIAM WEEKS, Esq. deceased, and NATHAN JOHNSON, deceased of their administration of the estate of JOSEPH MELOON, late of Greenland, yeoman, deceased, to the next Superior Court of Judicature to be holden at Exeter in and for said county on the third Tuesday of September next. CLEMENT WEEKS, NATHAN JOHNSON, Executors of said Wm. WEEKS, and NATHAN JOHNSON, deceased. Greenland, August 11, 1804.
FOR SALE, AT the Gazette Book-store, Congress-street—An ORATION, delivered in this town, on the 4th July, 1804. By JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq. "Mens profunda pulchrior evenit." Portsmouth, August 5, 1804.
Dr. J. H. PIERREPONT, Has just received per the Charles, Capt. Prebble from London; an assortment of PATENT MEDICINES, and other articles, viz.— ANDERSON'S, } PILLS. Hooper's and Lockyer's Peppermin, Heart-burn, and } LOZENGES. Colts-foot, Kenedy's Corn-Plaster. Wintor Soap. Walth-balls. Pill-Boxes, fortified. Glafs's Magnesia. Bougies. Gawlard's Lotion. Churchc's Cough-Drops. Milk Roses. Lavender-Water. Balsam Honey. Breast-Pipes. Sucking Bottles. Hungary-Water. Squire's Grand Elixir. Bateman's Drops, true & common. Ol: Anisi; do. Lavend: Do. Cloves; do. Mint. ** Physicians and others, supplied with Medicines, &c. as cheap as in any place. Portsmouth, August 21.
FOR SALE BY E. Wentworth, Head of Buck-street, Fresh OLIVES; Black Zant CURRANTS, of an excellent quality; CYTRON, and PRUNES. Also, an assortment of Pickle POTS. Portsmouth, August 21, 1804.
REMOVED. Stephen Hardy, HAS removed next door to Wm. and C. NIEL, where he has for sale a large assortment of JEWELRY, & other Fancy GOODS. Just received one dozen and an half of PLATED CASTORS, and one elegant plated EGG FRAME—All of the above articles will be sold low for cash.
John Frost, RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he has just received a consignment of DR. WHEATON's patent Jaundice BITTERS; a famous cure likewise for billious complaints, so prevalent at this time. Also—WHEATON's Patent Itch Ointment, an infallible cure for that disagreeable disorder, and it will free the skin of all other pimples. Likewise, to be sold at his store a general assortment of CLOTHS, &c. A small assortment of Hard Ware and Crockery, and a good assortment of West-India GOODS and GROCERIES. All of which are for sale on the most reasonable terms. Durham, August 16, 1804.
Malaga Wine, &c. THIRTY quarter casks of Malaga Wine of an excellent quality—Also, a few small Casks of SOUCHONG TEA, warranted to be of the best kind,—and English wrought Nails, for sale by Edmund H. Quincy, at the head of Jacob Sheafe Esq's. wharf, Water-street. August, 21.
FOR SALE ON reasonable terms an excellent FARM situated in Lee, about half a mile from the meeting-house, and within twenty rods of a Saw-mill and Grist-mill; being the same Farm on which Capt. Remsen Hill formerly lived. Said FARM contains about one hundred and sixty ACRES, and is well wooded and watered; a proportion of excellent Tillage and Mowing Land: Likewise, a complete young Orchard, good buildings, &c. and is a good stand for a Tavern or Trader. Any person wishing to purchase, may apply to SAMUEL THOMPSON living on the premises. Lee, August 18, 1804.
FOR SALE, AT the Gazette Book-store, Congress-street—An ORATION, delivered in this town, on the 4th July, 1804. By JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq. "Mens profunda pulchrior evenit." Portsmouth, August 5, 1804.
FOR SALE, WALSH'S MERCANTILE ARITHMETIC, at the Book-store of PEIRCE, HILL and PEIRCE, Market-street,—by the gross, dozen or single. Just published, and for sale by Manning and Loring, No. 2, Cornhill, Boston, and at the Gazette office, Portsmouth.
THE "CLERGYMAN'S LOOKING GLASS, No. 4; Or, the Main Pillar of Anti-Christ's Kingdom shaken, and the folly of James manifested;—being a reply to Dr. Olsgood's discourse on Infants Baptism." By ELIAS SMITH. August 14, 1804.
For Sale, Freight or Charter— THE Ship LEDENAU, 3 years old, burthen 231 tons; coppered to light water mark, and well found—also THE Brig Regenerer, of 160 tons, coppered, and well found—Either of these vessels may be fitted for sea at a small expense. For terms, apply to THOMAS BROWN. Portsmouth, August 21, 1804.
For Sale, Freight or Charter— THE good brig MARIA JANE—176 tons burthen; now lying at Portsmouth Pier—A strong, burthen-some vessel.—Apply to JOHN SALTER. Also for Sale, Rum, Sugar and Coffee, per Hhd.; Flour, Pitch & Tar, per Bbl.; Salt, per Hhd.; Russia Duck per bolt, &c. &c. July 31.
THE Subscriber cautions all Persons against purchasing a Note, signed by himself and payable to SAMUEL WILLEY of Concord, for FIVE DOLLARS, dated some time in February or March 1804—For which Note no value was received. JOSES PHILBRICK. August 4, 1804. 35-3W
Portsmouth Bath. STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. SCHEME
OF the SECOND CLASS of a Lottery for raising two thousand dollars for the use of the ATKINSON ACADEMY, exclusive of incidental expence, granted by a law of said State, passed June 11th, 1803. This Class consists of 10,000 Tickets, at 2 dollars each—to be drawn in Prizes subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 pr. cent.
Table with 3 columns: Prize, Dollars, Number. 1 of 1500 dolls. is 1200 dolls. 1 : 600 : : 600 1 : 400 : : 400 2 : 200 : : 400 4 : 100 : : 400 11 : 50 : : 550 15 : 30 : : 450 20 : 15 : : 300 530 : 8 : : 4160 2810 : 4 : : 11240 9385 Prizes. 6614 Blanks. The Prize of 600 dollars is assigned to the left drawn blank. Drawing to commence the first Monday of September, 1804. JOHN CALFE, EZEKIEL GILE, } Managers. LEVI BARTLETT, }
THE Subscriber after returning their acknowledgment to their customers and other friends for the liberal encouragement given, would inform them and the public in general, that having received a fresh supply of Furs and Trimmings, they continue the Manufacturing of Hats of all kinds, at their Manufactory bottom of Daniel street, where they trust those who will please to call, may suit themselves, both as to number and quality.—They will supply Gentlemen with Hats, by the year, at a moderate price. SPARHAWK & CURTIS.
A Journeyman BAKER WANTED—one that is master of his business, and can bring good recommendations.—Inquire of the Printers.—August 21, 1804.
FOUND in this town on Tuesday last—a black velvet Vandyke, trimmed with a rich broad lace, the owner may have it by paying charges—apply to this office. August 14.
Journeymen Printers. ONE or two good Workmen may have employ and good wages, by applying at J. MELCHER'S NEW PRINTING OFFICE, CONGRESS-STREET, Portsmouth, N. H. August 7.