The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1802-12-14 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
Appointed to publish the LAWS of the UNITED STATES for the District of New-Hampshire.
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. & W. PEIRCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
GRAND LODGE.
THE OFFICERS and MEMBERS of the Grand Lodge of New-Hampshire, are informed that a special Grand Lodge will be holden in the Lodge room in Portsmouth, on Monday the 27th inst. at half past 5 o'clock P. M. for the purpose of installing the worshipful Master and Wardens of King Solomon's Lodge, No. 13,—where punctual attendance is required.
All Brethren of the craft, not Members of the Grand Lodge, will give their attendance at 6 o'clock, in the Court room adjoining the Lodge. None admitted into the Grand Lodge room after 7. By Order,
L. SPALDING, Grand Secretary. December 7.
Received by the Samson, Capt. Richard S. Tibbetts, from London, AND FOR SALE, BY Cazneau Bayley,
a variety of LADIES', Gentlemen's and Youth's BEAVER HATS.—A few dozen extra long, white, black, and color'd SILK GLOVES. A general assortment of HOSIERY.
Superfine BROAD-CLOTHS, warranted to cost 18/ sterling, being a consignment, will be sold at the reduced price of 30/ L. M. Portsmouth, Dec. 7, 1802.
ELLIOT & MARSH,
Have on hand a few hundred Yards of BEVERLY BED-TICK Of the best quality—which they will sell as low as those of any other Manufacture can be afforded. Portsmouth, December, 7, 1802.
Cotton BED-TICKS.
THE subscriber has just received and can supply shopkeepers & others with any quantity of Providence Manufactured COTTON BED-TICKS, warranted not to shed Feathers; equal to the Beverly manufactured. —ALSO—
COTTON YARN, of every kind, wholesale and retail, at the same prices as sold for at the manufactory, with the expences of freight, &c.
CANDLE WICKS, in any quantity.—Any persons desirous of purchasing any of the above articles to sell by retail, will be supplied with the same on liberal terms by NATHAN B. FOLSOM. Portsmouth, December 7, 1802.
Notice to Creditors.
THE Creditors of BENJAMIN CONNOR, a Bankrupt, are notified and requested to meet the subscriber at his office, on Saturday the 18th of this month, at 11 o'clock A. M. to determine whether they will pursue a demand or claim of the said CONNOR, against the French Republic, exhibited some years ago, by an American Consul in France, to the Government there; and advance monies in order to support and recover it, or whether the same shall be sold at Auction, for the benefit of the Creditors. DANIEL HUMPHREYS, Assignee. Portsmouth, December 3, 1802.
State of New Hampshire, Rockingham, ss.
THE subscribers being appointed executors of the last Will and Testament of
THOMAS SIMES, late of Portsmouth, Chaife Maker, deceased, and having accepted that trust, request all persons who have demands against the estate of said deceased, to exhibit them to JEREMIAH LIBBEY, and all indebted to said estate are desired to make payment to said LIBBEY at his store in Market-street without delay.
SARAH SIMES, JEREMIAH LIBBEY. Portsmouth, November 30, 1802.
EXETER
Day Stage.
THE Subscribers propose running their DAY STAGE, for the accommodation of the towns of Exeter and Portsmouth, and for Travellers in general; Leave Exeter every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 9 o'clock, and return to Exeter on the afternoon of the same days;—Passengers who wish not to go through in a day, may be furnished with seats in this Stage and be assured of a passage through to Boston on the following days:—
Passengers who are bound eastward that travel in this line may be sure of a passage on without any delay.
Seats may be had in this Stage by applying at Hutchins's tavern in Exeter and Davenport's Tavern at Portsmouth, where books are kept for that purpose.
Fare from Portsmouth to Boston FOUR DOLLARS.
JOHN DAVENPORT. EZRA HUTCHINGS. Exeter, Nov. 30, 1802.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Grafton, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of Land in the township of WHITEFIELDS, in said county of Grafton, who are delinquent in payment of a proprietors tax of SEVEN DOLLARS, on each original Right of Land in said township, voted the 26th of June 1801, for the purpose of paying for Roads, Bridges, surveying Land, and other expences—which tax has been assessed and committed to me to collect, and by me advertised for payment, and still unpaid—Therefore, so much of each and every of the following original Rights of Land in said township, will be sold at public vendue, on the 10th day of February next, at ten of the clock A. M. at the dwelling-house of Mr. Nathan Fields, innholder in Bath, in said county, as will pay said tax, and incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment, viz.—the rights of Josiah Moody, Tho's Clough, Leavitt Clough, Jonah Long, Eliphaz Neal, William Norton, Phinehas Merrick, William Frothingham, Samuel Cate, Samuel Cate, jr. Phinehas Hodgden, Jeremiah Clough, Esq. Peter Green, Esq. John Flagg, Esq. Samuel Swan, jr. Eleazer Richardson, William Farrington, Holten Johnson, Henry Oliver, Matthew Harrington, Jeremiah Clough, jr. Esq. John Holden, John Lewis, Edward Marden, Henry Clough, Henry Gerrish, Capt. Stephen Gerrish, John Hurd, Esq. Joseph Hurd, Isaac Hurd, William Harris, Benning Wentworth. JOHN BURNS, Collector. November 10, 1802.
State of New Hampshire, Grafton, County.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of the undivided land in CANAAN, who have not paid a tax of one dollar, on each undivided right, was voted October 13, 1802, and committed to me to collect, that so much of their lands as will pay said tax, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Moses Dole, in said Canaan, on Tuesday the 25th day of January next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
NAMES OF THE GRANTEES.
 Thomas Gurtin, Thomas Gurtin, 2d. right, Gibson Harris, Ebenezer Harris, Daniel Harris, Joseph Babcock, Amos Walworth, Joseph Eames, Ebenezer Eames, Ebenezer Peck, Allen Whitman, Jabez Spencer, Eph'm Wells, jr. Thomas Wells, Jabez Lathrop, Clement Daniels, John Chamberlin, Benjamin Chamberlin, Abner Chamberlin, David Chamberlin, Richard Sparrow, George Harris, Caleb Whiting, William Roe, jr. Stephen Kellogg, Israel Kellogg, Aaron Cady, Aaron Cady, jr. John Tabbie, Samuel Dodge, Samuel Meacham, Isaiah Rathbun, William Chamberlin, Thomas Gates, William Chamberlin, jr. George Lamphear, Thomas Miner, Phineas Sabins, Joshua Rathbun, Sylvester Randall, Samuel Dodge, the 3d. Ephraim Wells, Joshua Gates, jr. Lewis Louwerdige, Rufus Randall, James Jones, Jonathan Bebee, the 3d. Jabez Jones, Tho's Gurtin, jr. James Nevins, Esq. Capt. John Wentworth. EZEKIEL WELLS, Collector. Canaan, October 26, A. D. 1802. 
Political Miscellany.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
AT a time when it has become fashionable, with a certain description of persons in this country, to vilify and revile men of Irish Birth, it may be well to recal the attention of the public to the sentiments of those patriots who composed the Congress of 1775, concerning Irishmen and their Nation. Instead of the appellations of "Wild Irish," "Renegadoes," "Imported Patriots," "United Irishmen," and "Foreigners"—which have been profusely bestowed, with taunts and sneers, upon such natives of Ireland, as have already adopted this as their country, and are daily becoming naturalized citizens, of the United States—we find Irish people addressed in language worthy of Americans. The Whigs of that day felt—as those of the present also feel—a manly, generous, and sympathetic attachment towards a People, very many of whose countrymen have "become united to us by all the ties of consanguinity, mutual interest, and affection!" Nor have the Whigs, of either that period or this, ever evinced by their words or by their conduct, a narrow and ill founded jealousy of a people, who "had ever been friends" to the Rights of Mankind." No: The inconsistency of such deportment, with the principles of our Government and the true Policy of our country, is one of the characteristic traits of modern Federalism!
But let the Congress of 1775 be heard for themselves, in the following extracts from their Address to the people of Ireland:
"Permit us to assure you (say they) that it was with the utmost reluctance we could prevail upon ourselves, to cease our connections with your island. Your parliament had done us no wrong. You had ever been friendly to the Rights of Mankind; and we acknowledge, with pleasure and gratitude, that your Nation has produced Patriots, who have nobly distinguished themselves in the cause of humanity and America.—On the other hand, we were not ignorant that the Labor and Manufactures of Ireland, like those of the Silk worm, were of moment to herself; but served only to give luxury to those who neither toil nor spin. We perceived, that if we continued our Commerce with you, our agreement not to import from Britain would be fruitless; and were therefore compelled to adopt a measure, to which nothing but absolute necessity could have reconciled us. It gave us, however, some consolation to reflect, that should it occasion much distress, the fertile regions of America would afford you a safe Asylum from Poverty, and, in time, from oppression also; an Asylum, in which, many thousands of your Countrymen, have found hospitality, peace and affluence; and become united to us, by all the ties of consanguinity, mutual interest, and affection."
"Accept our most grateful acknowledgments for the friendly disposition you have always shown towards us. We know that you are not without your grievances: We sympathize with you, in your distress."
Thus spoke the Congress, of 1775, to the People of Ireland! Such were the sentiments entertained of Irishmen, and such the Invitation held out to them, by that illustrious band of Patriots: An invitation to unfortunate Irishmen, to repair to "the fertile regions of America; as a country which would afford them "a safe asylum from poverty, and from oppression, also."
Among the American Sages and Worthies, who thus addressed the generous tho' ill-fated Sons of Erin—that people, who "had ever been friendly to the Rights of Mankind"—are found the names of Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Samuel Adams, M'Kean, Dickinson, Lee, Livingston, Gadsden, Millin, Sherman, Rodney, and others of high renown.
And what sort of men are they, Americans that are in the practice of calumniating the Natives of Ireland? What are they, that have derided the National Character of the Irish; exulted over their sufferings, stigmatized them with the most odious and illiberal epithets, and striven to repel from our shores, those hapless Fugitives from "Poverty," and "from Oppres-
sion," who, as our Forefathers did, seek an "Asylum" in this land? They are your Otis's your Harpers, your Dayton's, and your Bayards. Such are the characters, who, in order to gratify a silly ambition, and in the hope of accomplishing mad and delusive projects beyond their reach, would sacrifice the interests and the honor of their country. By their indecorous abuse of the Irish, and the hostility they have uniformly evinced, towards the Irish Emigrants, they have believed the language of their great and venerable Predecessors; those Patriots of 1775; with whom compared, these Anti-hibernians—
"Are but the beings of a Summer's day."
There are, it must be confessed, some whose conduct tends to discredit the Hibernian Name. Though, it is believed, their number is comparatively small. For such, no apology is offered. If they offend against the Laws of the Land, they must be amenable, with all others of like description, to the penalties of the Law; nor will they ever receive countenance, in the United States, from the virtuous part of either their Native or adopted countrymen.
But, whilst the meritorious Irish Emigrant enjoys the humane, wise, and liberal protection, to which he is entitled under the equal Laws of the United States—and which he may confidently expect, under the existing republican administration—he has naught to discourage him. And such is the manly generosity of the Irish temper, that the government may count on those Emigrants, with few exceptions, as its faithful supporters; the people, as useful citizens; and the Nation, generally, as good Americans.
We doubt not but the following ingenious history of the three American Kings, will be highly acceptable to our republican readers; it being written in the pure scripture diction, is calculated to enlighten, inform and instruct even those who may think themselves already attained to political perfection.
From the American Citizen.
The First Book of the Kings.
CHAPTER I.
1. NOW it came to pass that there arose in the South, a great man named George a mighty man of valour, and he smote the Albionites, and subdued them, and took Israel and her towns out of the hands of the Albionites.
2. And all Israel gathered themselves together, and spake with one voice, saying, George thou has done mighty things in Israel, be thou therefore our king and ruler over us.
3. So George reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people, and they covered him with honor, yet it grieved him not.
4. And in his days the land was quiet eight years, and after George had reigned eight years he died; and all the people of Israel mourned, for they loved him exceedingly.
5. And about those days there arose in the East a King named John, who was the son of a tanner, of the tribe of the Adamites, which was scattered over Israel. And the people murmured, saying, How cometh it to pass that this man reigneth King over us.
6. Now the Israelites feared John, lest he should rule them, as with a rod of iron: for John was learned in the wisdom of princes, and had written a book teaching for doctrines the custom of the Albionites.
7. Howbeit, the people reasoned one with another, saying, let us have John to rule over us for a season. Peradventure, he hath forgotten the doctrines contained in the book he hath written.
8. So John reigned, but walked not in the ways of George, neither forgot he the words he had written. For he laid upon the people burdens heavy to be borne, and gathered unto him an host of officers, all taken from his own tribe.
9. Then he called together his chief counsellors, and spake unto them, saying, let us make a law and put a gag into the mouths of the Israelites, lest they should gain say & complain unto us of their grievances.
10. Nevertheless many of the people spake boldly unto John, saying unto him, it is not lawful for thee to put a gag into our mouths. Is it not written on the tables of stone, that we may open unto thee our hearts, and speak unto thee freely with our lips?
11. And John was sorely vexed; and calling unto him his judges, he said unto them, smite unto me, every one of you, and understand.
12. Know ye not that the Israelites grow discontented under my yoke, and that out of their lips proceed doctrines grating to mine ears—therefore I say unto you, bring them before the judgment seat, and from some take away their filyer; and the rest sell ye intoison—leave them neither scrip nor scriawl.
13. Now the Judges also, were every one of them of the tribe of the Adamites; and accordingly they did as John commanded them.
14. And the anger of the people was kindled against John, and being pricked to the heart, he called together his whole council, and spake unto them, saying go ye into the country round about, and fetch unto me strong men for battle, chosen from among the scattered tribe of the Adamites, and I will appoint unto me captains over hundreds, and captains over thousands.
15. And my ships shall be in numbers, like unto the Albionites, even as the sand on the sea shore; and I will say unto the people, for a present, let us make war against the Frankites.
16. And when his council had done as John had commanded, it pleased him exceedingly; and he said—behold now I am established in my kingdom, and my fame will go out among all the nations; and I will continue to reign in Israel, I and my son, and my son's son, to the last generation.
17. And all the Adamites said Amen; but the men of Israel said—nay, not so.
18. And they gathered together and appointed unto themselves chosen men of Israel, men of eloquence; and they spake unto John with a loud voice (for it was the voice of truth, which was mighty powerful in those days,)
19. Saying, behold it is not written in the tables of stone—choose ye whomsoever ye will to rule over you.
20. Now the children of Israel were powerful in strength and in numbers; and John feared, lest his crown should fall from off his head; and he reasoned with himself, saying, It seemeth meet unto me, that I should dismiss my chief counsellors, and my captains over hundreds, and my captains over thousands, and my horsemen, and my footmen.
21. (Peradventure it will please the Israelites, and they will choose me again to rule over them.) And he did so; and said unto the people, do ye as it seemeth right in your own eyes; and choose whom ye will have to rule over you, even as it is written in the tables of stone.
22. And they cast lots, and the lot fell on Thomas, a chief man among the Israelites, and all the Israelites with one voice, said—Amen. But John was confounded; for he wot not, that it would be so.
23. Now when it came to the ears of John, that Quincy had lost his birth-right, it grieved him to the soul; so that he lighted his lamps, and mounted his chariot, that he might escape out of the city before morning.
24. And Thomas executed judgment and justice, with wisdom and mercy. He called unto himself for counsellors, wise men from among the Israelites, and his fame was in all the nations round about.
25. In these days the land was quiet and peaceable—and the ships of Thomas rode in safety on the waters. But the Adamites were filled with anger against him because he took not his officers from out of their tribe. So there arose a murmuring among them.
26. And they said one to another—What meaneth this fellow? Doth he not take away from us our occupations, whereby we have our wealth? And he draweth our ships of war upon the dry places, and he beateth our swords into plowshares, and our spears into pruning hooks, that we may learn war no more. Behold! Our craft is in danger.
27. Let us therefore revile Thomas, and lay all manner of evil concerning him; and let us send forth messengers among the people, and persuade them, if possible, that Thomas regardeth not justice, but walketh after strange Gods.
28. Howbeit, the people believed them not; for they knew the Adamites, that they were grasping after loaves and fishes, and that while religion was in their mouths yet as to their hearts it was far from them.
From the National Intelligencer.
THOMAS PAINE, To the Citizens of the United States.
LETTER THE THIRD.
TO elect, and to reject, is the prerogative of a free people.
Since the establishment of Independence no period has arrived that so decidedly proves the excellence of the representative system of Government, and its superiority over every other, as the time we now live in. Had America been cursed with John Adams's hereditary Monarchy, or Alexander Hamilton's Senate for life, she must have fought, in the doubtful contest of civil War, what she now obtains by the expression of the public will. An appeal to elections decides better than an appeal to the sword.
The reign of terror that raged in America during the latter time of the Washington Administration, and the whole of that of Adams, is enveloped in mystery to me.—That there were men in the government hostile to the representative system, though it is now their overthrow, was once their boast, and therefore the fact is established against them. But that so large a mass of the people should become the dupes of those who were loading them with taxes, in order to load them with chains and deprive them of the right of election, can be ascribed only to that species of wild-fire rage, lighted up by falsehood, that not only acts without reflection, but is too impetuous to make any.
There is a general and striking difference between the genuine effects of truth itself, and the effects of falsehood believed to be true. Truth is naturally benign; but falsehood believed to be truth is always furious. The former delights in fecundity, is mild and persuasive, and looks not the auxiliary aid of invention. The latter sticks at nothing.

has naturally no morals. Every lie is welcome that suits its purpose. It is innate character of the thing to act in this manner, and the criterion by which it may be known whether in politics or religion. When anything is attempted to be supported by lying, it is presumptive evidence that the thing to be supported is a lie also. The stock on which a lie can be grafted must be of the same species as the graft.
What is become of the mighty clamour about French invasions, and the cry that our country is in danger and taxes and armies must be raised to defend it? The danger is fled with the faction that created it, and what is worth of all the money is fled too. It is only that have committed the hostility of invasion, and all the artillery of pop-guns are prepared for action. Poor fellows, how they foam! They set half their own partisans in laughter; for among ridiculous things nothing is more ridiculous than ridiculous rage. But I hope they will not leave off. I shall lose half my greatness when they cease to lie.
So far as respects myself I have reason to believe and a right to say, that the leaders of the reign of terror in America, & the leaders of the reign of terror in France, during the time of Robespierre, were in character the same sort of men, or how is it to be accounted for, that I was persecuted by both at the same time.—When I was voted out of the French Convention the reason assigned for it was, that I was a foreigner. When Robespierre had me seized in the night and imprisoned in the Luxembourg (where I remained eleven months) he assigned no reason for it. But when he proposed bringing me to the tribunal, which was like sending me at once to the scaffold, he then assigned a reason, and the reason was "for the interest of America as well as of France."—Pour l'intérêt de l'Amérique autant que de la France. The words are in his own hand writing and reported to the Convention by the committee appointed to examine his papers, and are printed in their report, with this reflection added to them, "Why Thomas Paine more than another? because he contributed to the liberty of both worlds."
There must have been a coalition in sentiment, if not in fact, between the terrorists of America and the terrorists of France, and Robespierre must have known it, or he could not have had the idea of putting America into the bill of accusation against me. Yet these men, these terrorists of the new world, who were waiting in the devotion of their hearts for the joyful news of my destruction, are the same banditti who are now bellowing in all the hackneyed language of hackneyed hypocrisy about humanity and piety, & often about something they call infidelity, and they finish with the chorus of crucify him, crucify him . I am become so famous among them they cannot eat or drink without me. I serve them as a standing dish, and they cannot make up a bill of fare if I am not in it.
But there is one dish, and that the choicest of all, they have not yet presented on the table, and it is time they should. They have not yet accused providence of infidelity . Yet, according to their outrageous piety, she must be as bad as Thomas Paine; she has protected him in all his dangers, patronised him in all his undertakings, encouraged him in all his ways, and rewarded him at last by bringing him in safety and in health to the promised land. This is more than she did by the Jews, the chosen people, that they tell us she brought out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage; for they all died in the wilderness and Moses too.
I was one of the nine members that composed the first committee of Constitution. Six of them have been destroyed. Seyes and myself have survived. He by bending with the times and I by not bending. The other survivor joined Robespierre and signed with him the warrant for my arrestation. After the fall of Robespierre he was seized and imprisoned in his turn and sentenced to transportation. He has since apologised to me for having signed the warrant, by saying he felt himself in danger & was obliged to do it. Herault Sechelles, an acquaintance of Mr. Jefferson and a good patriot, was my suppléant as member of the committee of constitution, that is, he was to supply my place, if I had not accepted or had resigned, being next in number of votes to me. He was imprisoned in the Luxembourg with me, was taken to the tribunal and the Guillotine and I, his principal, was left.
There were but two foreigners in the Convention, Anarchaists Cloots and myself.—We were both put out of the Convention by the same vote, arrested by the same order, and carried to prison together the same night. He was taken to the Guillotine and I was again left. Joel Barlow was with us when we went to prison.
Joseph Lebon, one of the vilest characters that ever existed, and who made the streets of Arras run with blood, was my suppléant as member of the Convention for the department of the Pas de Calais. When I was put out of the Convention he came and took my place. When I was liberated from prison and voted again into the Convention, he was sent to the same prison and took my place there, and he went to the Guillotine instead of me. He supplied my place all the way through.
One hundred and sixty eight persons were taken out of the Luxembourg in one night, and a hundred and sixty of them Guillotined the next day, of which I now know I was to have been one; and the manner I escaped that fate is curious and has all the appearance of accident.
The room in which I was lodged was on the ground floor, and one of a long range of rooms under a gallery, and the door of it opened outward and hit against the wall; so that when it was open the inside of the door appeared outward, and the contrary when it was shut. I had three comrades, fellow prisoners with me, Joseph Vauhuble of Bruges, since president of the municipality of that town, Michael Robbins & Ballini of Lovain.
When persons by scores and by hundreds were to be taken out of prison for the Guillotine it was always done in the night, and those who performed that office had a private mark or signal by which they knew what rooms to go to and what number to take. We, as I have said, were four, and the door of our room was marked, unobserved by us, with that number in chalk; but it happened, it happening in a proper word, that the mark was put on when the door was open and flat against the wall, and thereby
came on the inside when we shut it at night, and the destroying angel passed by it. A few days after this Robespierre fell, and Mr. Monroe arrived and reclaimed me, and invited me to his house.
During the whole of my imprisonment, prior to the fall of Robespierre, there was no time when I could think my life worth twenty-four hours, and my mind was made up to meet its fate. The Americans in Paris went in a body to the convention to reclaim me, but without success. There was no party among them with respect to me. My only hope then relied on the Government of America that it would remember me . But the icy heart of ingratitude, in whatever man it be placed, has neither feeling nor sense of honor. The letter of Mr. Jefferson has served to wipe away the reproach and done justice to the merits of the people of America.
When a party was forming, in the latter end of seventy-seven and beginning of seventy-eight, of which John Adams was one, to remove Mr. Washington from the command of the army on the complaint that he did nothing, I wrote the fifth number of the crisis and published it at Lancaster (Congress being then at Yorktown in Pennsylvania) to ward off that mediated blow; for though I well knew that the black times of seventy-six was the natural consequence of his want of military judgment in the choice of position into which the army was put about New-York and Jersey, I could see no possible advantage, and nothing but mischief, that could arise by distracting the army into parties, which would have been the case had the intended motion gone on.
General Lee, who with a farcical genius joined a great fund of military knowledge, was perfectly right when he said, We have no business on Islands, and in the bottom of bogs where the enemy, by the aid of their ships, can bring their whole force against a part of ours and shut it up . This had like to have been the case at New-York, and was the case at Fort Washington, and would have been the case at Fort Lee if General Greene had not moved instantly off on the first news of the enemy's approach. I was with Greene through the whole of that affair and know it perfectly.
But though I came forward in defence of Mr. Washington when he was attacked, and made the best that could be made of a series of blunders that had nearly ruined the country, he left me to perish when I was in prison. But as I told him of it in his life time, I should not now bring it up, if the ignorant impertinence of some of the federal papers, who are pushing Mr. Washington forward as their stalking horse, did not make it neceffary.
That gentleman did not perform his part in the revolution better, nor with more honour, than I did mine, and the one part was then as necessary as the other. He accepted as a present (though he was already rich) a hundred thousand acres of land in America, and left me to occupy six feet of earth in France. I wish for his own reputation, he had acted with more justice. But it was always known of Mr. Washington, by those who best knew him, that he was of such an icy and death-like constitution, that he neither loved his friends, nor hated his enemies. But, be this as it may, I see no reason that a difference between Mr. Washington and me should be made a theme of discord with other people. There are those who may see merit in both, without making themselves partisans of either, and with this reflection I close the subject.
As to the hypocritical abuse thrown out by the federalists on other subjects, I recommend to them the observance of a commandment that existed before either Christian or Jew existed.
Thou shalt make a covenant with thy senses. With thine eye, that it beholds no evil. With thine ear, that it hears no evil. With thy tongue, that it speaks no evil. With thy hands, that they commit no evil.
If the federalists will follow this commandment, they will leave off lying.
THOMAS PAINE. Federal City, Lovell's } Hotel, Nov. 26. 1802. }
For the N. H. GAZETTE.
To THOMAS PAINE.
I READ with pleasure and as an American with gratitude, that having passed through the dangers of the revolution in France, by the care of divine providence you have been saved from the tempestuous ocean in safety, to the shores of this land of blessings and Liberty, to revisit us, who welcome and felicitate you with the most affectionate sensibility.—I read, with equal pleasure and improvement, the letter from the pen of the author of those immortal compositions Common Sense and the Rights of Man , the effects I witnessed in both the countries for which they were written—and well remember the colossal power of the pen that was hired "to avenge even the look of the Queen of France," when Hercules-like you beat down the modern Antaeus, and prostrated the monster Primogeniture at the feet of "Burke to write his epitaph." I do not know that I am not safe in saying you brought Burke sooner than otherwise to his end; he grew intemperate—left the House of Commons—lost his friends, with his consistency; and sunk into the gloom of a man who had surrendered his independence, his sentiments and faculties. He never could answer your Rights of Man . The aristocrats had no other alternative but to prosecute the book, and it became unsafe to read or give an opinion, nay, even to mention it; and when it was defended by all the abilities England afforded, you said very justly "the advocate made a very good defence: for himself, but not for your book." It was then the hired prints began their attack on your politics, "like the low prints of the day in this country," because, (with the exception of the vile unmeaning ribaldry that these abound with) the Liberty of the Press vanquished, and it became dangerous to avow the Rights of Man . And I suppose as you do, that the prints must be hired here , to do the same. You will be perfectly at your ease from any low party print in this New-England quarter; read their papers for five years, the stile and matter is the same "flat, low, vicious." An European paper would lose the customers from considerations of
decency, by the insertion of the stuff that you see in what are called federal prints: and your sentiment is as just in this instance as in any, "that they represent the whole people of America as destitute of public principle and private manners." Judge of them by the only two points of objection to your first letter; your egotism that they copy out of the letter in large capitals, as they may do from this or any other letter, & religion that the letter has nothing to do with, or they either, as it respects the letter. How little do these low prints, or their editors, value "me deprecante," the "exegi monumentum," the "ego quondam modicus" of the Mantuan. English Horace, who prophesied he was the last of the English poets, and perhaps rightly so.—And a thousand instances, ancient and modern, HUME, GIBBON, BURKE, poets and authors, distinguished for their literary labors. May it not then be permitted to Thomas Paine, to say in a letter to his friends as well as enemies (for you have such enemies as scribblers and barkers, and vile curs, if they can be so dignified)
"I want no place or office, my happiness is "in the independence of my mind—as an "author I can make profit, for I have elf "tablified a literary fame."—The profits of your works that has enriched America beyond human estimation, would of itself enriched you. It is too great a violation of the TO REPEAL, in a literary prodigy, who by his letters may be said to have given birth to Liberty in the new world; and has shook and uprooted the governments of tyranny and despotism in the old, by his letters, to have subdued and palied the greatest and most successful writers of modern times, (himself the greatest of all.) Is it too much for Thomas Paine, the unrivaled germinator of the principles of liberty, excelling in the Acumen of Junius, the rapiers of Aristophanes, the more profound sentiments of the most celebrated historians and orators.—Not to instance the more lively and tender painting of the districts of a king, the enemy of liberty, at the foot of her altars; whilst feeling, benevolence, magnanimity and honor have names and places in the human breast; Thomas Paine, this single effort of your inborn greatness of soul and noble-mindedness, will eternize the penmanship of that pathetic interference for Louis the Sixteenth!!! That alone would have given you the palm of literature inferior as it is to your greatest of all, the Rights of Man, when you are lifted up to the high argument, and Kings and Potentates bow before it. That quarrel with your religion, that your letter does not glance at, except in ascribing thanks to the Supreme Being, for the continued protection of his providence; the other instance of his want of an objection to your letter—it cannot be objected to, it is unobjectionable and unexceptionable; and to use your egotism, I that am a lover of literature, and of literary men, without pretensions to literary excellence, would venture to prove and defend every period for composition or matter. I will be plain—I am sincere in this opinion, that you have nothing to do with my religion, and I confess I have as little to do with yours, where we differ; & it is my further opinion, from what I know of you, that you have as little disposition to interfere with my religious sentiments, as I have with yours. I profess the christian religion, and am fixed in my sentiments as to the divine truth of it, and the consolation it affords in a chequered life. But I confess too, I see much schism among the preachers of the doctrine, that in the main I approve; and have seen as much innate wickedness, villainy and hypocrisy in a Priest, who has the widow and fatherless in his daily prayers (yet in the language of scripture is a "Devourer of Widows") as in any Layman I ever knew; and I should be as little affected with his prayers and piety, as of any other hypocrite; but GOD forbid that I should entertain the like unworthy sentiments of other worthy divines and preachers (New-England politics apart) who are shining examples of piety and goodness, and adorn the doctrine they preach. The general mistake is this—that because any flagitious act in a Priest is apparently more impious; in that way we view it with the greater execration. It is certain, that "in my father's house are many mansions," and in the small town near which I reside, there are no less than six denominations of christians, besides Catholics, Quakers and Jews, who will each of them contest their particular faith with as much fervor as the federal editors, who know as little of your particular belief as I do, and will effect to condemn what they do not understand; each of them have their particular pastor. I am not disposed to interfere with their peculiar tenet, or to blame those who do—I only lament they should differ about what they are not ever likely to be reconciled, and to impair the true religion of Christ. It is very surprising that Lord Bolingbroke, Hume and Gibbon, men of astonishing learning, all eminent historians, (the first more distinguished for his letters on the study of History) not to mention so many others who have managed and argued their polemics with the learned of the clergy, without any personal abuse that I ever noticed—none of them that I could discover ever had much effect on the public, who are generally too much employed to engage in abstract notions of the certainties or probabilities of human and divine testimony—upon which the points hinge. Mr. Locke treated on the former with all his ability, and wistly flopped at the latter where faith began, and made some enemies with the church, I believe the Bishop of Rochester of that day was, however, a christian believer. I only wonder that the editors of the low prints will object to points that all experience has shown, and ever will show to be incapable of rigid demonstration, or that they will deny you the overpowering applause, gratitude, and admiration, ready to flow in upon you from all parts of the Union, as the world are ready to celebrate the statesmen, and love of liberty in Bolingbroke, the learning and stile of Gibbon and of Hume, "who like you is an egotist," and of Locke who had nearly embroiled himself in a dispute with the clergy; and was like you a lover of liberty. I ask why these editors cannot allow you to enjoy your free opinion, and defend yourself in your polemics as well as politicians.
Conceive even the schismatic tendencies of the different denominations in one little
*Episcopalian, Congregational, Methodist, Universalist, Sandemanian, Baptist.
spot.—The Catholic is to think the Episcopalian a heretic; the Episcopalian the Lutheran derides the Congregational, the Calvinist; the Methodist only can be of the elect; the Universalist so far from that, saves the whole human race; the Baptist differs from the Congregational and Methodist, only (from what I can perceive) in the ceremony of baptism, about which there is so much controversy, as to make it necessary to salvation, that in order to baptism you must believe, that it is a spiritual burial by immersion; the Congregational says it is symbolical only; the Sandemanian, who is as good and worthy a man, most meritorious and exemplary, says they are all anti-Christ, that he follows the steps of the Disciples of the Lord; the Quaker differs from all the rest; and last, the Jew, in the continued expectation of the Messiah. Each of these different persuasions have very powerful arguments drawn from Holy Writ: from this I infer it is absurd to bring you forward on the polemical floor, when they cannot and never will be able to adjust their own differences. My object is to show what you are not to be told, that by the low party prints in America alone, could it be possible that a person of your distinction and celebrity, should be abused at the moment when every true American is pressing forward in his best manner to greet you. That controversial points are always left to those who are able to manage them, the public in general have not opportunity, and are the least likely to enter into them. I can promise you in this quarter you will find very little stuff to work upon—Your own inexhaustible resources will supply the apparatus for your mechanical and all the other operations of your creative mind, that will go on undisturbed from any thing you would condescend to notice here; and I beg you to excuse this interruption, that is so cordially meant to congratulate you on your arrival. Your grateful friend, AN AMERICAN. Portsmouth, N. H. Dec. 1, 1802.
For the N. H. GAZETTE.
Messrs. Printers.
READING some curious extracts, in the Boston Centinel of the 4th current, which are recommended as excellent; and as effusions of piety to be reposed upon with delight; I send you the following exposition and comment. In the former of these, I have endeavoured to follow the sentiments of the preacher in order. I have sometimes expressed them in words similar to his; tho' probably less elegant, but have taken the liberty of an expositor, putting into my own words, what appeared to me, the spirit of the piece, and adding motives, connected sentiments, and tendencies, by way of illustration, that your readers may see of what sort the piety published "with agreeable sensations" is; and what such preachers would be at. I with every one who sees this, could compare it with the curious extracts.
yours, &c. Y. Z. December 14th, 1802.
A brief interpretation of the first part of the extracts from a Thanksgiving Discourse; and a short comment on the latter part, For the use of plain unlettered readers.
INTERPRETATION.
IT might tend greatly to raise the declining cause of the Clergy, and that of the State-religion in which they are leaders, could your minds be strongly impressed, with the piety of our Ancestors, the first settlers of New-England, and with the justness of their notions of the union of Church and State. They were brim-full of religion, and well knew its advantages. Men not of religious characters were in little estimation in those happy days. They stood little chance indeed for promotion. Professors, or church-members, were the men who could "burst the doors of public confidence." The religious who were eminent in the Churches were promoted in the State. And these in turn aided the Churches and the Clergy. Thus religion and policy danced hand in hand. And the honour that cometh from men, the esteem of the world, and the expectation of Places and Posts of Honour, became charming incentives, motives almost irresistible for men of any spirit, to assume, and preserve a character for religion. Then religion flourished; then was seen a noble vine, of which we are the favoured but degenerate sprouts.
Some people pretend that "the gracious and protecting presence of God," which was once with the old nation or church of Israel, is now with no earthly nation. That God takes no modern nation to himself, but is visiting the nations to take out of them, a people to his name. That he is now by his word collecting a Heavenly Nation—But we believe, and call you to believe that the prosperity granted New-England is a proof of God's presence with it—Our fathers entered into covenant with God, and tho' no man ever saw the covenant, or can tell in what archives it is laid up, or can shew that God ever agreed to it, yet you are bound to believe its existence. Our fathers have affirmed the fact which teachers have handed down, and we their degenerate sons, (our breaches notwithstanding,) have reaped the privileges of their covenant relation to God—Among the great things done for us, by Divine goodness, the gift of wisdom to frame, and will to adopt the federal constitution holds an eminent place. And yet this would have been nothing without the guidance of men of superior wisdom and goodness. Unexampled wealth and prosperity have been the effects of this first guidance—And Thanksgiving days are suitable seasons to rejoice in worldly wealth and grandeur; which are highly prized by christians of our day.
The continuation was soon afforded. It had to encounter diplomatic skill. This is rather a novel and a hard word, and not found in the New-Testament; but you will find it common in political sermons, and must mark its use there.—The managers of this skill were as cunning as the Devil himself; but the wisdom and goodness of our condudors triumphed. We infer their religion from their wisdom and success, and are persuaded they attended meetings and heard sermons: It is true we never heard in what Churches our great Rulers were members in full communion—And we saw a national Proclamation for a Thanksgiving, which scarcely contained a hint, that the drughtsman had ever heard of the name or religion of Christ. But this gave us no uneasiness, seeing politics moved to our
mind.] The religion of Rulers was taken for granted without enquiry—We never asked whether they were converted men or unconverted infidels. But now alas, we the Clergy see no sign of being patronised by the Government of the States; our interests and the interests of religion, were unaccountably forgotten, or overlooked in framing the constitution. What can be done? It is time to muster up the doctrine of old times, that to be a Christian is a requisite qualification for a Ruler, tho' the constitution makes it no requisite. And if the people can be persuaded that the Rulers are not true believers but infidels, they may possibly be brought to believe that we are in a woful case, exposed to terrible judgments on this account; and much disaffection to Rulers may be promoted by sermons and other publications on this head.
End of the Interpretation. The remainder of this piece is so gross and open a reviling of our Rulers, as to preclude all necessity or propriety of elucidation by a paraphrastic exposition. A few remarks on its most remarkable parts shall suffice, by way of COMMENT on the Thanksgiving Sermon—
THE New-Testament calls christians to pray for those in authority; the Preacher would have the Thanksgiving prayer to contain an accusation against them. He would have the petition to be for integrity and truth in the future measures of Government; thus sarcastically and profanely insinuating to God, and the hearers, that there is little integrity or truth in the present measures. And he would have it further, that the proclamation encourages this making a prayer to God a vehicle of slander against his ministers for good. The preacher brings against our present Rulers the heavy charge of having hired abandoned profligates to slander and traduce our former virtuous and enlightened statesmen their predecessors, when rendering the most important services to their country. He affirms that this now appears. On this I would say, 1st. there are deputies—these, and not clerical men are to impeach, if great crimes are committed. 2d. Our Rulers are treated by this self-made Judge, who at once accuses and passes sentence; with less lenity than gross culprits were of old. It was said not to be the manner of the heathen Romans to condemn these, until they had the accuser face to face, and liberty to answer for themselves.—Here the ipse-dixit, of one claiming a sacred character is the proof, he affirms that there is proof; the people awed by his character are ready to believe, and to say, he knows and condemns, and we must join in condemning and opposing wicked Rulers—Lastly and chiefly, this evil speaking, is a plain breach of a plain Law of God; It is written, "thou shalt not speak evil of the Ruler of thy people." It is not fit to say to such, ye are wicked and ungodly. Paul instead of telling men in the Empire, what wicked men they had for Rulers, calls, and found the Rulers to be Ministers of God for good; as we do—he laid before men their own, not their Rulers sins, and exhorted christians to honour and obey Magistrates; modern teachers do the very reverse.
Not content with this charge, the Preacher proceeds to accuse the National Legislature as acting in so infamous a manner, that he says we are astonished at their shameless effrontery. IF THIS BE NOT A SHAMELESS OPPOSITION TO AUTHORITY AND TO THE CONSTITUTION, IN CONTEMPT OF THE LAW OF GOD, WHAT SHORT OF AN ARMED REBELLION CAN BE CALLED SO? It must needs rank under that sedition which is ranked among the works of the flesh.
This charge is followed by another of profaning the Sabbath. If the accuser knew all the facts, on which a judgment should rest, he knew more than most of his countrymen did, or do—if our Rulers have disregarded and profaned the Sabbath, they are answerable to the Institutor of it; who never appointed Pulpit Orators to avenge offences against him. Secondly, If the Preacher holds forth on the Sabbath the same corrupt doctrines, worldly religion and seditious ways, that he does on the Thanksgiving day. I have no scruple to say, he more awfully profanes the Sabbath than he who dates a letter on that day, or reviews a garrison and military stores. And however the sounds of a drum and of martial music, may grate on his clerical ears, I am bold to say they are innocent sounds, compared with the tones of a modern Clergyman, perverting and corrupting the glorious Gospel of the blessed God, and leading sinful men in the high road to destruction.
(To be concluded in our next.)
AMERICAN SHIP TIMBER.
MR. SHEFFIELD has remarked that the timber of the American ships is strangely prone to rot, especially in the seams. This is conjectured by that observing naval constructor to proceed from the feud and noise some fireships reeking from the holds of ships unsurnished with ventilators, and not purified by alkalies. And the experience of all ship-carpenters proves that the radical vessel decay the fastest.—These important hints deserve to be further traced and explored.

Late Foreign News.
LONDON OCT. 14, 1802. A CHANGE is about to take place in the government of the Batavian Republic. It has been cogitated and determined upon at Paris...
MALTA. The Pope has appointed Prince Rulpoli, Grand Master of the Order of Malta. The island is therefore soon to be evacuated by the English...
A grand Fete has been celebrated at Turin, in honor of the union of Piedmont to France. The conduct of the Italians in this instance bears a strong resemblance to that of the negroes in the West-Indies...
SWITZERLAND. The affairs of Switzerland have reached an interluding crisis. A confederation between the smaller cantons and Berne has been signed...
Extract of a letter from Trenton dated Dec. 2. The Legislature of this state rose this morning, without choosing a Governor or Senator...
JABEZ BOWEN, jun. Esq. (a Republican) formerly of Providence R. I. is appointed by the legislature of Georgia, a Judge of the Eastern District Court...
From a Kentucky Paper of Nov. 13. A report having got into circulation that a French army had actually taken possession of New-Orleans...
WALES: LOCATION. WHEREAS the proprietors of Wales's Location, in the county of Grafton, State of New-Hampshire, at their adjourned proprietors meeting...
Portsmouth.
TUESDAY, DEC. 14, 1802. The next week will in all probability lay before our readers the Message of the President, important in every view to every part of the union...
From Philadelphia Dec. 4, 1802. IMPORTANT. WE learn from very good authority, that the conduct of the Spaniards at New-Orleans, has arrested the attention of the Executive...
From New-York, Dec. 6, 1802. INTERESTING. It is reported by the passengers in the Richard, That the British government had ordered a number of men of war to be got in readiness for sea...
A French commissioner was at Havana, the 2d November, on his way to Louisiana; who is to be followed by 10,000 troops from France, to take possession of that province.
The last ship from England for Botany Bay, had on board 70 female convicts, of whom 29 were under 20 years of age.
The revolution in Switzerland progresses with great rapidity. The seat of government is in the possession of the insurgents, who are headed by the baron d'Erlach and M. de Vatteville...
BRITISH INFLUENCE. The following anecdote, which is derived from an authentic source, will serve to shew how far this predominated in the heads of some of the late administration.
THANKSGIVING SERMON. In our last, we mentioned that Mr. SMITH, was solicited by some very respectable gentlemen, to re-deliver his Thanksgiving Discourse...
GLASS WINDOWS. A number of second hand SASHES, with 8 by 10 Glass; 3 wide and 15 deep; they will be sold reasonable. Inquire of the Printers.
Moses EASTMAN, Esq. is appointed Post-Master for the town of Salisbury, N. H.
Marine Intelligence. Sunday arrived here Schooner Sally, Capt. Smith, 64 days from Madeira, spoke Nov. 18, a Schooner from St. Lucia, bound to Boston...
Entered at the Custom-House. Snow Equator, Rudge, Turks Island. Sch. Sally, Smith, Madeira. Ship La Paz, Delgado, Havana via Boston.
CLEARED. Sch. Franklin, Prows, Trinidad. Ship Zephyr, Stoodley, Jamaica. Brig Ceres, Underwood, Demerara.
COMMERCIAL. At Martinico, Nov. 10. Flour from 9 to 10 dollars—Pork 18 to 21—Beef 15 to 17—Lumber scarce and in demand. Jamaica, Nov. 16. Flour 11 a 12 dollars—London, Oct. 20. The Vintage throughout France, has been generally abundant...
ACCOUNT BOOKS. JUST RECEIVED from the Southward and FOR SALE by CHARLES PEIRCE, No. 5, Daniel Street; and N. S. & W. PEIRCE, corner of Congress and Market Streets, Portsmouth.
TRUNKS of all sizes and prices kept constantly For Sale by N. S. & W. PEIRCE. Books & Stationary AS USUAL. Portsmouth, December 14, 1802.
FOR SALE, At Jacob Walden's Auction Office, TWO NEW ELEGANT Piano-Forces, Cheap for cash, if applied for soon. Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802.
WANTED—A FEW SHIPPING HORSES. Inquire of the printers. Dec. 14, 1802. A FARM to Let or Rented. A VALUABLE FARM, situated in the north part of Derryfield, lying on the banks of the Merrimack...
THE SUBSCRIBER PROPOSES to open a SINGING SCHOOL, on Wednesday the 22d inst. at the house belonging to Capt. John Salter, in Washington-street...
ASA SHAW. The BASE VIOL taught likewise. Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in NORTHWOOD, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1802...
Table with 5 columns: Owners Names, Range, Lot, Acres, County. Includes entries for Sam'l Woodman, Abner Davis, John Galt, James Hunger, Nath'l Sargent, George Tuttle, and William Smith.
FEATHERS.
Abraham Isaac, INFORMS the public in general that he has just received a great quantity of NEW FEATHERS, which he will sell very cheap. He keeps CROCKERY & GLASS WARE as usual, as cheap as can be purchased in town.
STONE LIME. Now Landing, and for Sale at E. Chadwick's Store, Bow Street.
ONE hundred and fifty bushels STONE LIME, of a superior quality. Also—Bar Iron; Salt; Malaga Wine; India Sugar, & other GOODS as usual, cheap for cash or approved credit.
Notice is hereby given, THAT NANCY MOULTON, of Portsmouth, has been duly appointed administratrix on the estate of Capt. JOHN WATTS MOULTON, late of said Portsmouth, mariner, deceased...
NOTICE, In case of JEREMIAH HART, Bankrupt. THE creditors of JEREMIAH HART, a bankrupt, are desired to meet the Assignee at the office of CHARLES CUTTS, Esq. in Broad-street, in Portsmouth, on Thursday the 16th inst. at 11 o'clock, A. M.
NOTICE, In case of JOHN NOBLE, Bankrupt. THE creditors of JOHN NOBLE, a bankrupt, are desired to meet the Assignee at the office of CHARLES CUTTS, Esq. in Broad-street, in Portsmouth, on Thursday the 16th inst. at 3 o'clock, P. M.
Singing School. MR. SMITH will attend and teach a Singing School, once a week, on Tuesday evening next, at the room lately occupied by Mr. C. Peirce as a Printing-Office...
FOR SALE, At AUCTION, THIS DAY, TWO thirds of the Schooner FANNY, of 87 tons burthen, together with her CARGO—Consisting of TENERIFFE WINE, in half pipes and qr. casks. SUGAR and MOLASSES.
NOTICE! For Sale at AUCTION, at the Office of Alexander Ewen, In Market-street, Portsmouth, a valuable assortment of MERCHANDIZE, Consisting of SUPERFINE & low priced Broad-Cloths; Cassimeres; Callicoes; Tambord Chintzes; Purple Shawls; Pocket-Handkerchiefs; Hats; Linens; Knives and Forks, &c. &c.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of DORCHESTER, who have not paid their taxes of three Cents, on each Acre of Land in said Dorchester, agreeable to an act of the General Court, passed June, 1801...
Table with 5 columns: Original Proprietors Names, Lot, Acres, County, No. Lot, Acres. Includes entries for Mark H. Wentworth, John Parker, John Hurd, Samuel Parker, John Nelson, John P. Williams, William Gardner, Joshua Brackett, Ebenezer Lewis, John Marchal, Benjamin Rice, Joseph Day, David Woodward, Thomas Porter, Isaac Burnap, John March, Isaac Williams, William Walch, Henry Sherburn, Thomas Floyd, Thomas Davison, Joseph Sherburn, Samuel Hubart, Theodore Atkinson, Nathan West, Joseph Burley, Jacob Noris, Jedediah Holt.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of DORCHESTER, who have not paid their county tax for the year 1802...
Table with 5 columns: Original Proprietors Names, Lot, Acres, County, No. Lot, Acres. Includes entries for Mark H. Wentworth, John Parker, Richard C. Shannon, William Gardner, John Marchal, David Woodward, John Marsh, William Welch, Thomas Davison, Joseph Sherburn, John Howe, Nathan West, Joseph Day, Samuel Parker, John Smith, Joseph Sawyer.

SONNET FROM SCRIPTURE.
HEW ye down AGAG, cried the offended Lord, Hew ye the tyrant at mine altar down The prophet heard—he fears the god- head's frown, And lifts on high the consecrated Sword Why perish'd AGAG by the voice of God? He was a hero—he led his hosts, To pour destruction o'er the neighbouring coasts, And bathe in slaughter, and his iron rod Spread desolation o'er the wasted land. The sons of many an orphan wretch arise, The groans of many a widow pierce the skies, And call down vengeance from th' Al- mighty hand, Hew ye down AGAG, cried the offended Lord, And frown'd on Israel till they rear'd the sword.
Extract from a Pamphlet entitled "Recent Proofs of a DEFECTION from the CHRISTIAN RELIGION."—No. IV. THE late restoration of the popish reli- gion, limited as it is, may be considered as an extraordinary event. The late breaking of the idols, and robbing the treasures of Babylon, the sweeping vengeance upon her, gave some room to think that the dreadful final wrath was just bursting upon her. But this accursed enemy of Jesus Christ now ex- ists in a little revival. This however will only serve to make her final fall more con- spicuous and dreadful. Her plagues are to come in one day—though she says "I sit a Queen"—She has been the hot bed of athe- ism and infidelity. Through her pernicious ways; the way of truth has been evil spoken of—She has helped to make the infidels of whom the complaints—and the Kings must yet hate her. Such is the word of pro- phecy; and the believers of it, will not be disconcerted at any present confede- racy to revive her. The covenant with death will be dissolved, her agreements with hell will not stand.—The true church is founded on a rock, and this false church is the devil's battering ram against it. But the great Babylon will fall, a stormy wind will rend the assaulting wall and those who are doubting it will be buried in the ruins. This enemy, with her coadjutors, old and new, will become like the dust of the threshing floor. Events only can open the prophecies, and the present feeble re-establishment at the mercy of the state, and for state purposes, this coalition may be the beginning of the predicted gathering of the beast and kings, an event that is to mark the eve of the utter and final desolation of Babylon.—Would not such be the sentiments of a protestant, and are not those of the Centinel an apolo- gy for the Catholic religion now made the leading one in France?
Should it be pretended that he is not the index of the clergy, or that in this instance the hand does not point out right. I will only say he is their avowed patron, and un- til his clients disavow his mode of defence, their satisfaction and acquiescence will be naturally presumed. Should it be said, the Catholic religion is reformed and meliorated, and so it is high time that Protestants should think more fa- vourably of it; I would ask, was it not the religion of the Pope that was established un- der the Louises? It was.—Is it not the same in express opposition to Protestantism, that is now restored in France, as the reigning religion? It is.—If the one were changed for the other, it would not be called a re-est- ablishment or reformation. The sermon on the occasion says, "GOD does not give one religion and another to his people"— "It is the same Altar, the same Temple which the piety of our fathers erected." And after speaking of the homage rendered by the First Consul to the head and chief of the church, & bestowing praises on the So- vereign Pontiff, the preacher adds, "Scarcely railed to the apostolical chair, he seeks to re-establish unity; that corner stone of the Church of Christ, in the same faith, in the same sacraments, in a common obedience, and in the ties of a mutual charity." Thus we see the old Idolatry of the mass, and obedi- ence to the Papal chair. Protestants have had bitter experience of the ways taken by the Pope's Church to establish unity, and of their tens of charity! And although in this half- restoration the power to enforce unity, is a- brogated, yet there is no evidence of a change of will or principle in the church, or in the clergy.—If it were needful, I might ap- peal to Fall and Thanksgiving Sermons, and to one at least, at a late Election, to show that the clergy of our country have lament- ed the fall of the Popish Altars, and order in France, as tho' there had been let up by the GOD of Heaven. We should therefore in- fer, if we were not told it, that they rejoice at their reformation.—Do we need more proofs that they are well affected to the reli- gion, which Idolatry as it is, they call christianity, and consider as well adapted to clerical and state purposes?
In regard to the reformation-sermon, by the Arch-Prelate of Tours; it is a rhapsody, a rhetorical flourish, like New-England Election Sermons, in complimenting the great and being a farago of religion and politics. In one respect it is less profane, as it is not introduced and encumbered with a text—to be perverted. My remaining proofs shall be drawn from Election Sermons and other public discourses. And when the respectability of the speakers and hearers is considered; the time given to mature & correct every sentiment; the occasion raising expectation; the appro- bation with which these performances are re- ceived, & their publication by desire, & diffu- sion, we may fairly consider them as indices of the religious sentiments of the time. Of some of them I will now give a brief account, and subjoin a few remarks.
* A short time previous to penning these remarks, the writer received a Letter from a friend, from which this is an Extract: "Have you seen a late publication in one of the Boston papers, wherein the new coali- tion between Bonaparte and the Pope is con- sidered as the happiest event since the revolu- tion? The writer exults in this restoration of the Christian Religion; that France will be happy, &c. It is evident that the clergy of his country, who have sympathized with the fallen Pope, as his portended their own fall, now solicitate themselves on this shadow of reformation.—They are saying "peace and quiet," &c. But the LORD will soon ap- pear in flaming fire to take vengeance on all the enemies of his Cross!"
CHESTER.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non- resident owners of land in CHESTER, in the county of Rockingham, and State of New-Hampshire, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1802—that so much of their land as will pay the same, with inci- dental charges will be sold at public vendue, to the highest bidder, at the dwelling-house of Capt. Pearson Richardson, innholder in said Chester, on the tenth day of February next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Non-resident Un- known, Proprie- tors Names. Quantity. No. Range. Division. High- way. County. Town. High- way. Acres. Divi- sion. Range. County. Town. High- way. Acres.     Enoch Sanborn, W. fide, 18 1 0 5 1 15   Clement Melharvey, 40 2 0 5 1 15   Benjamin Sanborn, 40 3 0 5 1 15   Col. Richard Kent, 40 4 0 5 1 15   John Silly, 40 6 1 5 1 15   Rev. Nathl. Rogers, 40 7 1 5 1 15   Richard Jaquis, 40 11 2 5 1 15   John Little Hale, 40 12 2 5 1 15   Elisha Smith, 40 13 2 5 1 15   Nathl. Batchelder, 40 14 2 5 1 15   George Jeffrey, Elq. 40 15 2 5 1 15   Jacob Bufford, 40 16 2 5 1 15   Thomas Dean, 40 17 2 5 1 15   John Sanborn, 40 22 3 5 1 15   Jethro Tarlton, 40 24 2 5 1 15   James Fogg, N. End, 20 25 2 5 1 7   Richard Wibard, 40 27 2 5 1 15   Abraham Drake, 40 29 2 5 1 15   Eleazer Ruffel N. end, 40 34 2 5 1 7   John Brown, N. end, 40 37 182 5 1 15   Jona. Clough, 40 41 1 5 1 15   Jacob Gilman, 40 47 3 5 1 15   Samuel Thomlon, 40 54 3 5 1 15   Eph'm Dennet, Elq. 40 55 3 5 1 15   Samuel Mallin, 40 56 3 5 1 15   William Croswall, 40 57 3 5 1 15   Peter Weare, 40 59 3 5 1 15   Benj. Gambling, Elq. 40 60 3 5 1 15   Samuel Shackford, 40 62 3 5 1 15   John Cram, 40 67 3 5 1 15   Joseph Samborn, 30 72 3 5 1 15   John Shackford S. end, 30 75 3 5 1 15   Zechariah Clifford, 40 76 3 5 1 15   Michael Whidden, 40 77 3 5 1 15   Samuel Page, 40 84 4 5 1 15   Edward Emerson, 40 87 4 5 1 15   Caleb Towle, N. end, 21 88 4 5 1 8   Nathaniel Sanborn, 40 91 4 5 1 15   Sam'l Penhallow, Elq. 40 92 4 5 1 15   Samuel Boid, 40 94 4 5 1 15   Samuel Blake, 40 99 4 5 1 15   Nathl. Batchelder, jr. 40 100 4 5 1 15   Benjamin Towle, 40 101 4 5 1 15   Sam'l Smith W. fide, 20 106 4 5 1 7   Jona. Plummer, do. 20 108 3 5 1 7   Thomas Smith, do. 20 111 5 5 1 7   John Preseur, 40 113 5 5 1 15   Ebenezer Dearborn, 40 114 5 5 1 15   Richard Clifford, 40 118 5 5 1 15   James Perkins, 40 119 5 5 1 15   Rev. Thomas Sims, 40 120 5 5 1 15   Rev. Theoph. Cotton, 40 121 5 5 1 15   Wm. Healey, N. end, 20 125 5 5 1 7   Steph' Webber N. end, 32 131 5 5 1 12   Moses Blake, 40 133 5 5 1 15   Stephen Sweat, 40 135 5 5 1 15   Ichabod Robie, 40 136 5 5 1 15   Jeremiah Sanborn, 40 137 5 5 1 15   J. Batchelder N. end, 34 138 9 4 21   Capt. J. Sherborn, do. 54 139 9 4 21   Richd' Wibard Esq., 54 140 9 4 21   N. End, 54 141 9 4 21   Sam'l Penhallow, Elq. 60 142 9 4 22   Sin. Webber w. fide, 51 143 10 4 19   Stephen Jonson, 60 144 10 4 22   Capt. J. H. Wingate, 30 145 11 4 11   John Calfe, 60 146 11 4 22   Jona. Brown, South 60 147 11 4 22   half paid, 60 148 11 4 22   John Shackford, 30 149 11 4 11   Thomas Dean, 60 150 12 4 22   Abraham Drake, 18 151 12 4 1 7   N. end, E. half, 18 152 12 4 1 7   Benj. Gambling, 42 153 13 4 1 16   Elq. S. end, 60 154 13 4 22   Robert Ford, 15 155 14 4 2 22   Col. Shad'k Walton, 60 156 14 4 2 22   William White, 60 157 14 4 2 22   Jona. Emerson, 60 158 14 4 2 22   Stephen Sweat, 60 159 14 4 2 22   Sam'l Thompson, 60 160 14 4 2 22   Zechariah Clifford, 30 161 14 4 11   S. end, 30 162 14 4 11   Thomas Silver, 60 163 14 4 22   Jona. Clough, E. fide, 45 164 14 4 16   James Fogg, 20 165 14 4 1 7   Elec. Ruffel N. East 15 166 14 4 6   corner in Chester, 15 167 14 4 6  
SECOND DIVISION.
Za'h Clifford W. fide, 50 95 17 2 1 18 Dea. S. Shaw E. half, 50 96 d. l. 2 1 19 Moses Blake, E. fide 60 97 17 2 2 22
SIXTH DIVISION.
Description.—Between 62 & 67, forty Acre lots in 5th Division.