The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1805-03-05 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.
"By adopting REPUBLICANISM for our Polar Star, we shall endear to our countrymen the true principles of their Constitution, and promote an union of sentiment and of action, equally auspicious to their happiness and safety."
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY PEARCE, HILL & PEARCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
PORTSMOUTH ACADEMY, FOR YOUNG LADIES. Mrs. HART informs the ladies of Portsmouth and in its vicinity, that she can accommodate ten or twelve of her Pupils with board. The branches which will be attended to, are Drawing and Embroidery in its various branches, Painting in water colors, Print-work, Working Mousel, Marking and plain Sewing, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Geography, and use of the Globes. Wanted—At this Academy, a Music Master, one who can give lessons on the Piano-Force, and Piano Forte Guitar; to such an one a generous compensation will be made. Feb. 26 1805.
STEPHEN HARDY, Has for sale at reduced prices, a large assortment of the following articles, viz. PENKNIVES, by the card, dozen or single; Jackknives; Knives and Forks; Carvers & Steels; Razors and Cales; best steel Scissors; scissor Chains and Cales; steel Snuffers; do. Trays; iron, japan'd and brass Candlesticks; silver plated Castors; Decanter-Stands; Bread Baskets; japan'd Waiters; iron and blocktin Table and Tea Spoons; Tea Pots; Canisters and Cades; do. Shells; Thimbles; Sleeve Buttons; Knee-Buckles; Tooth, Comb and Cloth Brushes; black lead Pencils and Cales; Tooth Picks; Snuff, Tobacco and Segar Boxes; Salt and Marrow Spoons; plain, Tortoise-shell, horn, paste and other ornamented Combs; Ladies Pocket-Books, Thread Cales & Purfies; Gentlemen's Pocket-Books; Bugles; garnet, cut-glass and common Beads; Spangles; Pocket-Glasses; Needle Cales; Graters, &c. The whole will be sold at very low prices, for cash or good Town-Cluth—Allo, may be had, Real pearl set & topaz Pins; plain do. various patterns; a large assortment of Gold Rings, Earrings and Necklaces; gilt Pins and Broaches; with a variety of Silver Wares, &c. &c. which will be sold as low as usual. Portsmouth, February 18. 1805.
A FARM in Newmarket, State of New Hampshire. To be Sold at Public Auction, on Wednesday the 13th day of March next, at 2 o'clock P. M. on the premises—A Farm containing as per deed one hundred Acres, more or less, consisting of Orchard, Mowing, Tillage, Pasture and wood Land; with a large well finished dwelling House, out houses, &c. An excellent Well of never failing Water; very pleasantly situated on the great road leading from Berwick in Maine, to Boston twelve miles from Portsmouth, five miles from Exeter Court-house, and sixty rods from Newmarket meeting house and adjoins Exeter River: it is delightfully situated as a country seat or may well suit a Trader, Tavern Keeper, or Mechanic—Said Farm is well Water'd and wooded, and has several other advantages, peculiar to said Farm—For particulars inquire of NATHANIEL ROGERS, Esq. residing in Exeter, or of IGNATIUS WEBBER in Gloucester—Conditions made known at the time of sale. Gloucester, Feb. 25.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscribers have been duly appointed Executors to the last Will and Testament of THOMAS MARTIN, late of Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham, Esq. deceased, and have taken upon themselves that trust by giving bonds as the law directs. All persons having demands upon the estate of the said THOMAS MARTIN are required to exhibit the same; and all persons indebted to the estate are called upon to make payment to Peter Coffin. ANN MARTIN } Executors. PETER COFFIN } Portsmouth Feb. 26. 1805.
ALL persons that have any demands on the Estate of NOAH RAWLING, late of Newington, husbandman, deceased, are desired to exhibit them for settlement; and those indebted to said Estate are desired to make payment to SAMUEL DOWNING, Administrator. Newington, Feb. 22. 1805.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. PUBLIC notice is hereby given that Joseph Dyer and others, have petitioned the General Court, praying for the grant of a tax of Three Cents per acre on all the land (public lands excepted) in Winslow's Location, Dummer, Paulsborough, Mayneborough and Shelburne addition; for the purpose of making and repairing public highways. ORDERED, that the petitioners be heard before the General Court, on the second Wednesday of the next session, and that the petitioners cause that the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette, and in the Oracle printed at Portsmouth, three weeks successively commencing ten weeks prior to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear, and show cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. ATTEST, NATH'L PARKER, Dep'y Sec'y. Concord, Nov. 28. 1804.
New Clover & Herds-Grass SEED, warranted of the first quality, for sale BY PEARCE, HILL & PEARCE, No. 12 Market-street—Also, a mixture of HONEY SUCKLE, do. Feb. 25. Portsmouth, Feb. 23. 1805.
BY virtue of a licence, from the Hon. Nath'l Rogers, Esq. Judge of Probate for this county; will be sold at Public Vendue, on Monday the 20th March next ensuing at 11 o'clock before noon on the premises—
A LOT of LAND, near puddle-dock, in this town being fifty five feet on mast lane, and forty feet, on puddle-lane (commonly called Mardens mast yard)—likewise a water privilege adjoining of twenty feet with the Wharf, &c. Said premises being part of the estate of Mrs. Eleanor Shackford late of Portsmouth, deceased. GEO. WENTWORTH, Executor.
FOR SALE—TWO HOUSES on a lot of land in Water-street, which will be sold separately or together, as may suit the purchaser.—If not sold before one month from date, they will then be sold at public auction—For further particulars inquire of WILLIAM PICKERING. Portsmouth, February 26. 1805.
FOR SALE, A VALUABLE FARM, lying in Collegietown, in the county of Hancock, containing 245 acres, with about 50 acres under improvement, well into grass, suitable for mowing or pasturing; the soil is equal to any in the District of Maine, for tillage or mowing; lying on the main road leading from Kennebec to the Penobscot river, about 17 miles from Hampden corner, intersected also by a road leading from Collegietown to Belfast. A committee are appointed by the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, to survey and establish this road from Belfast to Piscataqua river, a distance of 60 miles. This road will be much travelled, as it passes through the large settlement of the new Ohio, and will save the inhabitants of that place, in journeying to any Western part of the Commonwealth, at least 20 miles travel. The Farm has a 2 story Dwelling House, partly finished, thereon, situated where the roads intersect each other, in as good a place for a tavern as any between the two rivers. Also—110 acres, lying 120 rods East of the above, on said Kennebec road, equal to any for mowing or pasturing, with about 40 acres under improvement, well into grass. Also—A Farm lying in Hampden, within 20 rods of the corner, containing 50 acres of excellent Land, 30 of which are under improvement; has a good wood Lot, and a beautiful young Orchard, of about 70 Apple Trees; with a good Dwelling House, a Barn, Store, and Wharf thereon, and a very convenient Ship Yard, that will rent for fifty dollars a year, adjoining the town landing, and is a most excellent stand for a merchant. * * * The subscriber intends to sell at a very low price—For further particulars inquire of the subscriber, at his house on the premises, in Collegietown. JOHN J. BLASDEL. Collegietown, Feb. 20. 1805.
WANTED, a House frame 18 by 36 feet, to be delivered in June, for further particulars inquire of the printer or JOHN BREWSTER. Portsmouth, Feb. 26. 1805.
Political Miscellany.
From the Political Observator. GOVERNOR GILMAN. "To examine candidly and thoroughly into the conduct of rulers, is not only a privilege, but it is the duty of freemen." Gov. Gilman's speech to the legislature, Dec. 1799.
Whoever reads governor Gilman's speeches, from the time he first came into office, in June 1794, down to the present time, will be astonished at the contrasts they present. Two very glaring inconsistencies have been already stated at length, viz. in relation to amending the U. S. constitution—and on the subject of the N. H. Union Bank. I shall not attempt to call them all into particular notice—their full display would form a moderate volume. It is my intention to select a few more for my future communications—and in the present, a subject will be pursued bearing a near relation to the one last considered. It may be previously remarked that for some years after gov. Gilman came into office, there was little or no competition between him and any other candidate—he had from year to year almost the entire suffrages of the freemen—he had reason to conceive himself well seated in his place—and there was a perfect union between him and the leaders of the national government, when the latter were in pursuit of their favorite energy, and their power appeared to be established beyond the possibility of a check or an overthrow.
Again—within a few of the last years it is known, that a powerful opposition has arisen against the politics of the governor and his party, which opposition has been gradually increasing since its commencement, from year to year, and owes its existence in no small degree, to those flagrant principles and conduct disclosed on the affair of the BANKS, already laid before the reader.
Between these two periods, viz. the former and latter parts of his administration, the governor's public acts and communications are marked, in many points, with a striking difference—and in nothing more than in respect to the requisition for MONEY, and recommendation of TAXES. While he experienced no opposition, and had reason to deem himself firmly seated in power, while he saw the federal government under full and early sail towards its desired Energy, and while the Union Bank was kept from being established by law, his speeches abounded with all the usual fire and vigor of those times, against "disorganizers," the "French" &c. and in favor of "energy," "order," popular "submission," and above all, liberal taxes.—But when he found the freemen roused from their torpor, his political friends driven from the helm of the national government, and his own seat trembling in good earnest under him, then he was found to alter the style of his speeches, to omit recommending what he had before urged as of the first necessity, and to do acts in express contrariety to his former avowed opinions and conduct.
I will state a FACT of which every reader may satisfy himself by going to the Town Clerks' offices and perusing the Journals of the legislature, since 1794; it is this, That the governor pressed the necessity of TAXES at a period when the treasury had much MORE MONEY in it, than it had at other periods, when he was totally silent on the subject of taxes. Or the fact may be thus stated—In the former part of his administration, the treasury of the state was better supplied with money, than it has been in the latter part and yet in the former he urged additional taxes in all his speeches, while for a few years past he has said little or nothing on the subject of taxation.—It would be tedious to quote from all the speeches: I will refer only to those of 1797. [The reader will bear in mind that there was then in the treasury, FIFTY THOUSAND dollars.] In the speech of June of that year, are these words, [See Journ. of H. of R. page 20]
"Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, Considering the magnitude of the debt incurred during our struggle for independence, the state of our treasury has hitherto been as good as could be expected; yet from a view of the prosperous state of our country and the ability of our citizens, [here seems to be the old doctrine, that the people must be taxed because they can bear it,] "I have there-
fore thought it expedient that taxation should be continued."
In his speech of November of the same year, are these words, [See Journ. of H. of R. page 8.] "Gentlemen of the house of Representatives, "Altho' I have repeatedly expressed my sentiments respecting taxes, "I cannot omit asking your attention "to the subject at this time, considering that it is always wise, in time of "peace and tranquility, to make preparation for such changes of circumstances as may happen in the course of human events."
At this session a tax was voted of 26,666 dolls. 67 cts. although there were then in the treasury, 50,000 dolls. [See Journ. for June and Nov.]
These things took place in 1797; but in the governor's speeches of the year 1803 (the year after incorporating the N. H. Union Bank,) not a syllable was employed in recommending taxes, although there was then in the treasury but 15,000 dolls! I have no hesitation to declare, that in my own opinion something more than the general spirit and politics of the times, caused this great difference in the official recommendations of the governor at those two periods. I believe that the urging of taxes in 1797, when the treasury was full, did not arise wholly from the then federal policy to injure the people to taxation, or to drain them into perpetual subjection; nor that his omitting to recommend taxes in 1803, when the treasury was comparatively empty, sprang altogether from a desire to retain popular esteem; but that a latent cause co-operated, which I shall now unfold.
The reader will recollect, that the petition of JOHN LANGDON and others for the incorporation of the N. H. UNION BANK, was brought before the legislature in 1799. That bank had been for some time in operation as an unincorporated institution. The application to the legislature had been expected. Certain men were strongly interested to frustrate its success—it would "ruin the politics of the state," as well as have an effect to lessen the profits on the shares of the old NEW-HAMPSHIRE BANK.—Thus circumstanced, it would be very convenient, if the STATE could be drawn in to become a large proprietor in the old Bank, inasmuch as it would interest the legislature to frustrate the new one, and as it would not be unpleasant to the gentlemen proprietors of the old, to have a little of the State's cash in their coffers, to use and speculate with at their pleasure.
These suggestions will lose nothing by a recurrence to the Journals of the legislature at the period. For there we find an attempt made to persuade the legislature to purchase shares to a large amount in the N. H. Bank, in addition to those before owned by the state. This attempt was made at the same session that Langdon's &c. petition was brought forward and rejected. It succeeded, and the state purchased TWENTY FOUR additional shares in the New-Hampshire Bank!—The minute of the resolve is found on the 10th page of the Journal of H. of Representatives for Nov. of that year (1799) and is in these words,
"The committee on the expediency of appropriating a part of the money in the treasury, to add to the stock owned by the state in the N. H. Bank, reported, that the state take TWENTY-FOUR shares in the Bank, at the present value, and that the treasurer [Mr. Peabody, the man who headed the memorialists against the Union Bank] be directed to negotiate the business:—which report being read and considered, motion was made to accept the same, on which motion the yeas and nays were called" [the names are printed in the Journal] "and were yeas 63—nays 56."
It was adopted by the senate, approved by the governor, and the shares were purchased. The conductors of this arch-manoeuvre certainly deserve credit for their management. A greater piece of finesse was never witnessed in this state—for thus a jonto of individuals, at one stroke, benefitted both their POLITICS and their PURSES—at least as they then imagined, tho' eventually it seriously injured them in respect to the former. In all this, can the reader perceive any special cause for the Governor's calling aloud for TAXES previous to that period while the treasury was already well supplied—aid for his total
silence on the subject of taxation, since the Union Bank (in obedience to public opinion) was incorporated in 1802, altho' the treasury was not so full, by the difference of 35,000 dollars? Could it be, to bring in the State to become more largely interested in the New-hampshire Bank, and thus save the "POLITICS of the state" (to say nothing of his own cash) from "RUIN?"—But I forbear.
One thing further remains to be stated in relation to these twenty four shares. They were ordered to be purchased "at the present value." To ascertain that value, it is said, a reference was made to certain stockholders in the Bank, whose decision was to govern—[a tolerable chance for a speculation at the expense of the state.] These gentlemen stockholders reported the shares to the worth, it is understood, a little rising of 530 dollars each share—whereas an original share was but 400 dollars. The writer believes he is nearly correct, tho' at present he has not access to document, which can determine precisely the amount of the share as purchased, he thinks it was 533 dolls. 33 cts. If there be a trifling error, he is ready to be corrected.—The cost of 24 shares at this price amounted to between TWELVE and THIRTEEN THOUSAND dollars. which enormous sum had been that very year levied in a tax upon the people.
And what do the people get for this money, collected from them while they had "ability" to pay, and deposited in the vaults of the N. H. Bank? In a pecuniary point of view they get about 6 per cent per annum interest; for altho' the dividends on a share are said to be 8 per cent, yet by reason of purchasing the 24 shares at an advanced price, the state really receives but 6 per cent for its money.—In a political point of view, the state came near getting a perpetual thralldom to the principles and schemes of a junto, a monied aristocracy! But the share is broken.
At the time these shares were agreed to be purchased, a very subtil artifice was put in train, to make the state a perpetual owner in the Bank; but by the vigilance of one or two individuals it was prevented, and the right was reserved to the state to withdraw its money at pleasure. Yet notwithstanding this liberty, affairs have been so managed, that the money of the state has been suffered to lie in the Bank yielding an interest of but 6 per cent, while direct taxes have been levied on the people and their cash drawn from them.
A simple question will enable the people to determine whether they have been well used in this business—Are you willing to be taxed year after year, to have your money lie at 6 per cent interest?—Yes doubtless, in a patriotic and noble cause—but are you willing to contribute your cash to send down to Exeter and Portsmouth, for the use of a few private gentlemen there, to speculate with and make their 20, 30, 50 and 100 per cent by its use, allowing you but 6 in return?—And in addition to this, are you willing to be taxed to furnish the means of over-awing your own free born minds and binding you in servitude to the policy of a faction?
Let these things be fully and thoroughly considered—and then let the people say, whether gov. Gilman and his political associates, have "done well enough," and there is no cause for a change.
A FRIEND OF CONSISTENCY.
Melancholy Event.—On the evening of the cold Friday, so fresh in the memory of every one, a Mr. John Johnson, who commanded a sloop belonging to Norwalk, was beating up to the harbour of that place, when he dropped his mitten overboard. The boat lying along side of his sloop, he jumped into it to recover his mitten; but the boat got loose from the sloop; and Mr. Johnson not having an oar to direct it, it drifted to a considerable distance, near White's Island, tho' not near enough to enable him to get on shore. By this time the tide had fallen, and the sloop aground; so that his people could afford him no assistance. Thus, beaten about by the ice which floated down with the tide, he lay till morning; when he was taken off, and carried to his house in Norwalk. His limbs and body were so much frozen, that the flesh dropped from his bones. He lived nearly three weeks in the greatest agony, when he expired, and left a wife and several children to lament his loss.

FELLOW-CITIZENS, attend to the voice of soberness and truth; You will be careful to peruse the following sentences with your most strict attention, as the importance of its demands by all lovers of their country—you will then be able to judge of the value of ribaldry, lies and nonsense that disgrace the sheets, called the appeal to the old swigs of New-Hampshire, now circulating.
In a free government the character of an elector is an honorable one. In our it is entitled to double honour. We are citizens of the United States, as well as of the state of New-Hampshire. In this two fold relation we enjoy elective rights, and have elective duties to perform, regarding both the nation and the state. The national executive has recently been chosen, for the term of four years, from the fourth of March next. It was the fifth Presidential election, under our federal constitution. At the two first, General Washington, whose weight of popularity, acquired by revolutionary services, was unrivalled, was the candidate of all parties. His election was unanimous, although there was a competition for the Vice-Presidency. When he retired, Mr. Adams succeeded by a small majority. That gentleman, in his volumes entitled "A defence of the American constitutions," had broached sentiments favorable to hereditary government. But they were not then generally read or understood; and, from his original attachment to the republican cause, his early patriotism and his meritorious support of our Revolution and Independence many republicans, especially in his native state, still adhered to him. But, under his inauspicious administration, the prevailing party entered into a coalition with the anti-republican opposers of the revolution. With a few honorable exceptions, the Tories thenceforth appeared in the front ranks of federalism. British politics were brought into fashion. By an artful allocation of ideas, Republicanism was charged with all the errors and excesses of the French revolution, as the natural and necessary consequences of republican government. Liberty and Equality, the sovereign People, Democracy, popular Elections, and every name expressive of free government, was, by federal concert, ridiculed and decried, with an evident intention of rendering it, in popular estimation, here as in England, "unamiable as a witch, a blasphemer, a rebel, or a tyrant." So eager were certain partisans for a rupture with France, and a consequent alliance with Great-Britain, that, with a view to an effectual negotiation for peace with the French, even President Adams was compelled, by his own sense of propriety, and his regard to the public sentiment, to dismiss from the office of Secretary of state Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts, a bearer of the Essex junto in Massachusetts, a well known faction that to our disgrace and misfortune has ever been the object of admiration to our federalists—the principles of this faction Gov. Gilman and his immediate friends seem to have adopted; and all their measures have been but copies of the actions of this aristocratic original.
In aid of the federal cause, religious prejudices were addressed with great fervor and considerable success. The language of the pharisees of old, "Rais ye yourselves, we are holier than ye," became the party cant of federalism. That religion, which we esteem divine, was declared to be in danger, as if it were a mere human institution; and the United States witnessed a repetition of substantially the same arts, which the Loyolas, the Cromwells, the Robespierres, and the Hutchinsons of every nation and age have practiced upon the interested and the credulous of mankind, to make hypocrites and dupes, and through their united influence, obtain a dangerous ascendancy at the expense of honest men. A system of policy, which had been introduced with caution, under the former presidency, was now prosecuted with vigor. The two parties in congress divided upon a series of measures, considered by the republicans incongruous with the maxims of the revolution, incompatible with the spirit of our constitution, and repugnant to the interests of the people. On these controverted questions the federalists, although checked in a degree, yet generally prevailed; and their favorite policy was partially adopted. In conformity with the nature of our government, the appeal was carried in the last resort, to the people, in their sovereign elective capacity. After a free and full discussion, the judgment of the nation was solemnly pronounced, in December, 1800, by a majority of electoral suffrages, in favor of the republican candidates for President and Vice President. The federalists, however, availing themselves of the equality and constitutional indiscriminatio of votes, made a desperate effort to defeat the national will; but the intrigue did not take effect. The voice of the nation at length prevailed. Mr. Jefferson was placed in the administration; and republican majorities were returned to both houses of congress.
The change of administration was succeeded by a corresponding change of measures. The alien act, abridging the right of jury trial, and arming the president with despotic authority, was not renewed.—The republicans, now in power, passed no sedition act, of doubtful constitutionality, protecting their majorities and their candidate, but leaving the opposite party and their candidate unprotected, during the process of a national election. The Judiciary, which had been enlarged by the addition of sixteen circuit judges & other appendant officers, was restored to its former state, with some improvements suggested by practice. Against that restoration, which is justified by experience, the whole force of opposition was exerted; and the ex judges still claim their abolished offices, and intervening salaries, which will undoubtedly be granted to them, should federalism ever regain the control of the national revenues. The army was reduced to the standard of our real wants, and judiciously stationed in garrisons and on the frontiers. A part of the navy, which had been defectively though prodigally built, being sold, agreeably to the act of congress passed just before the close of Mr. Adams's presidency, the remainder, with an addition of such smaller vessels as the nature of the service required, was vigorously and successfully employed in defence of our commerce. In spite of federal sneers and omens, an admiring world has witnessed the gallantry of our seamen; and the barbarians of Africa have felt the weight of their arms. Under the direction of a wise and energetic administration, spirited but pacific measures are in train for the relief of our sailors from impressment , to which on account of a sameness of language and similarity of appearance, they are grievously exposed, by the despotic practice of the English government, for manning their navy in time of war.—The direct tax, which, by the permanent offices annexed to its establishment, is proved to have been intended to be repeated and made perpetual, and which is still advocated by federalists, as preferable to an impost, was discontinued by the republicans, to the great satisfaction of our citizens. The stamp act, that child of British policy, begotten upon the harlot federalism, was repealed. The relief of American manufactures from the burden of internal taxes, of which some of the New England States paid an undue proportion, was accompanied by the abolition of near five hundred excise offices, which were held at the pleasure of the President, and which cost the people more than two hundred thousand dollars a year.
This patriotic reduction of public expenses and executive patronage has been the subject of much interested misrepresentation and clamor. Our finances have been simplified. Appropriations have been made more specific. The annual statements, from the treasury department, have been so plain that every one may read and understand them. The revenue has been punctually collected, faithfully applied, and strictly accounted for. Public credit has been, not merely supported, but justly improved. By justice, good faith, and impartial neutrality, the respect of foreign nations in general, especially the two great belligerent powers of Europe, has been conciliated & secured. While those nations have been groaning under the calamities of war, the pacific policy, wily adopted and steadily pursued by our government, although embarrassed by the opposition of Ross and Morris and their par-
tizans in and out of congress, has been crowned with success. In the enjoyment of general peace, we sit under our own vines and fig trees, and have none to make us afraid. No real danger nor artificial alarm has furnished occasion for a provisional establishment of military force. No armies have been sacrificed in Indian wars. No insurrections have disturbed our internal tranquility. The Pandora's box of speculation in public funds and bank scrip has not been re-opened. The sigh of oppression, the murmur of discontent, has not been heard in our land. The people, incessantly stimulated by federal irritations, yet complain of no grievance. They scarcely feel or see any political evil, except the prejudices and passions, occasioned by an obstinate, unavailing opposition, chiefly from this and one or two other states; an opposition, which, it is to be hoped, will soon subside. The forebodings of evil have been proverbially falsified by events.
Among other electioneering predictions, it was pretended that Mr. Jefferson, the patron of religious as well as civil liberty, the friend of an equal toleration and protection of all sects, an exemplary attendant on public worship, and a liberal contributor to its support, would if elevated to the presidency, turn persecutor, and undertake to demolish our churches and destroy our religion. Hypocrisy and credulity, for a moment, gave currency to the ridiculous tale.—To your indignant recollections, fellow citizens, we confidently appeal for the correctness of our statement. With equal confidence we appeal to your senses and your hearts, for the refutation of the calumny. It is a fact, acknowledged with gratitude, that the period of Mr. Jefferson's presidency has been distinguished by reformation in religion, improvement in morals, submission to the laws, and enterprising and industrious attention to business. At no former period has the labour of our citizens been so universally, so productively, or so usefully employed. At no former period has our country increased so rapidly in numbers, wealth, and strength. We have had reason to rejoice in public, as well as individual prosperity.—Our government have borrowed no more millions at eight per cent. interest payable quarterly, while private citizens are restricted, under penalties, from giving or taking above the rate of six per cent. yearly.—The political heresy, that a national debt is a public blessing, is now so effectually exploded, that its former believers are disposed to disavow their creed. But actions speak more forcibly than words. The debt was funded in a manner calculated for increase and perpetuity. A part of it was expressly made irredeemable for a certain time. In place of the just discrimination, contended for by Mr. Madison and other republicans, in favor of the original holders of the public securities, who had earned them by their services, and who were numerous, indigent, and scattered through the nation, the full amount was secured to a few cunning speculators, who had bought them at an eighth part of their nominal value. Thus a paper aristocracy was at once created, and attached to the party, who had helped them to their fortunes: while the poor soldiers, who generally retained the republican principles of the revolution, were subjected to taxes to pay, to their aristocratic neighbours, the debt which was equitably due to themselves.—By assuming about eleven millions of dollars, after a liquidation of accounts between the Union and particular States, a complete and satisfactory balance and final settlement might have been effected. But twice that sum was unnecessarily added to the national debt, by a premature and disproportionate assumption, which, at the same time, left outstanding balances, to be a future bone of contention between the creditor and debtor states. Mr. Hamilton, then secretary of the treasury, who, in his life was the oracle of federalists, and, since his death, is their idol, had officially reported in favor of an indiscriminate assumption of the whole mass of state debts, without any other settlement of the revolutionary accounts; which would have added many millions more to the debt of the nation. The report was advocated by federalists; and, although a majority of Congress could not be prevailed upon to adopt it, the very proposition demonstrates the political views of the secretary and his confidential friends, on the subject of a national debt. From January 1st, 1790, when the funding was completed, to January 1st, 1801, a period of eleven years, the debt under various pretexts of necessity, was increased more than ten millions of dollars, which is near a million of dollars a year upon an average. We all can recollect the time, when it was anxiously doubted whether it could ever be extinguished or materially reduced.
But, behold the contrast! The republican administration have proved their faith by their works. At the very time, when they were diminishing our taxes, they laid a foundation for the effectual reduction of our debt; and, in both these objects, they had to surmount the counteraction of the federalists. Notwithstanding the discontinuance of the land-tax, the stamp act, and all the excises, such economical reformations were introduced, that, without any new tax (except a temporary addition to the impost specially appropriated to the extraordinary expenses of the Mediterranean service, and limited to the duration of the war with the Barbary states) Congress have been enabled to appropriate, at first seven millions, three hundred thousand dollars, and afterwards seven hundred thousand dollars more, amounting, in the whole, to eight millions a year, to the payment of the public debt.—This permanent provision, for extinguishing the debt, was strenuously opposed by the federal members of Congress. The same party, throughout the nation, decried it as visionary and impracticable, calculated merely to deceive the people and acquire a short-lived popularity. The measure has now been tested by a fair experiment. The results is that the republican predictions and calculations, on the subject, are happily verified. The estimates, on which the system was founded, have, in every instance, been exceeded by the actual receipts. It has in fact performed even more than it promised. Between April 1st, 1801, the first treasury quarter day under the present order of things, and Oct. 1st, 1804, a period of three years and a half, more than thirteen millions and a half of the principal of the debt were discharged; and, including the increase of cash in the treasury, and the payment of the first instalment due by the British treaty, there was, during that period, a clear gain of more than sixteen millions of dollars, which is above a million more than the whole sum stipulated for Louisiana. This animating and honorable fact appears by the last annual report of the secretary of the treasury, made, in pursuance of law, to Congress during their present session. It further appears, by mathematical demonstration, that the application of the appropriated eight millions annually, operating, in a compound ratio, upon a decreasing sum, will absolutely discharge the whole of the old debt, before the year 1818, and distinguish the remaining thirteen millions for the price of Louisiana in less than two years thereafter. On this most important point, our duty and our interest are plain. New-Hampshire is much concerned in the provision for paying the federal debt; as a state, she is a large stockholder, and individual citizens in proportion to their wealth have many thousands of the funded debt belonging to them. Our commerce, our navigation, our manufactures, and every branch of business and enterprise are extensively benefited by these payments. Will the citizens of our capital, will the people of the state, at the command of party, shut their eyes against their own interest? Will they paralyze the hand that is doing them good? Will they embarrass the payments due to themselves?—Will they endanger the thousands they own in the public debt, by laking the security on which it rests? and for what? To protract one year longer, in this state, an ineffectual resistance to the national government.
Choose ye, now, fellow-electors, for yourselves and your children, whether the republican system so successfully in operation, shall be continued or reversed. Indeed, you have already chosen. Your choice was recently declared by a great majority of votes, in favour of seven electors, who, according to your intention and expectation, and in accordance with the general voice of the nation, unanimously gave their suffrages for the republican admin-
istration. Of one hundred and seventy-six electoral votes, Thomas Jefferson, President, and George Clinton, Vice President elect, were honored with one hundred and sixty two; and the federal candidates had only fourteen.
Against so fair, so solemn, and so unequivocal a decision of the people, from which there is no earthly appeal, further resistance would be vain; it would be worse than vain: it would be wicked and ruinous.
But passion is deaf, and prejudice is blind. Under their joint dominion, it is to be expected, that a party in this state will prosecute the desperate warfare as long as their deluded followers will stand by them.
The very name of federalism, which once possessed a popular charm, has been an instrument of delusion. It originally imported an attachment to our confederated government. Under that impression, and upon that principle, many unsuspecting republicans joined the party designated by it, and have followed in their train, without perceiving their departure from their original course till, under the continued, but perverted style of federalists, they are now associated with a faction in opposition to the federal government. The force of habit, the prejudice of names, a false pride of persevering in a political connexion once formed, and a dread of the appearance of fickleness and inconsistency, in abandoning a party, even where there is no abandonment of principles, have hitherto prevented some, although not all, of the Republican Federalists, from re-uniting with their brethren in support of the present administration.
Fellow Citizens, will any of you suffer such inferior considerations any longer to prevail against the plain dictates of reason and duty? Reflect, we entreat you, reflect seriously upon the probable consequences of prolonging the federal opposition. Consider the inconsistencies of that once popular and powerful party. When the constitution was adopted, they generally professed a cordial approbation of it, and applied the unfashionable epithet of anti-federal to all those who wished for previous amendments. The explanatory and definitive amendments, which have since been incorporated, have improved the constitution, and reconciled many who were not satisfied with it as originally adopted. Now the federalists attempt to convince you, and other inhabitants of the other New-England states, that "it has sacrificed the interests of the North to the South, in every material point of competition"; and, particularly, that the constitutional ratio of taxation and representation, which originally received their unequivocal applause, as wise and just, is "a rotten principle," and must be expunged, even at the hazard of the union. They go further. They echo the opinion of the late Gen. Hamilton, as stated by his funeral eulogist, Governor Morris, that the constitution "did not contain sufficient means of strength for its own preservation; and that, in consequence, we must follow the fate of other republics, and pass through anarchy to despotism."
In consequence of a proposition from New-Hampshire in 1788, and another from Vermont in 1799, our state legislature, consisting of federal majorities, repeatedly and almost unanimously joined in proposing an amendment of the constitution, so as to distinguish the electoral votes for President and Vice President, as our votes for governor are distinguished: but in Feb. 1801, the federalists in Congress, in their intrigue for the Presidency, had occasion to take advantage of the want of distinction; and, as they did not absolutely despair of being able to repeat the intrigue, when the subject afterwards came before the States, upon the recommendation of two thirds of both houses of Congress, our federal General Court, composed chiefly of the same federalists, turned round, and with the most palpable inconsistency, opposed the amendment, which, in substance they had twice before proposed; and for want of a more plausible pretext for thus changing, & in compliance with the requisition of party, pretended to act not so much with an immediate regard to the interest of this State, as from compassion to the small states, which were themselves generally in favor of the amendment.
When they were in possession of the government, they held, that the constituted authorities were entitled to implicit confidence and respect; and they systematically pursued, with prosecution and punishment, every republican printer, who published any thing capable of being drawn within the limits of inoffensibility. As soon as the government passed into other hands they commenced, and have ever since maintained, a system of slanderous opposition, unexampled in the history of parties. No distinguished republican, from the President down, has escaped their virulent personal attacks. Their toasts, their speeches, and newspapers, teeming with scurrilities, have tended to vitiate the public taste. Even the paper published by the printers to the state of Massachusetts during the session of the General Court, and under the implied sanction of their authority, has been disgraced with the most obscene and vulgar insinuations against the personal character of the president, and a majority of the representatives have refused to discharge those printers from further public employment, and have treated a motion for that purpose as an encroachment upon the freedom of the press. The same conduct would no doubt have been seen in our own legislature, had the same happened here and had a majority of the legislature been federal. Fellow electors, do such partisans fairly represent your sentiments? If not, then in justice to yourselves, and for the honor of the state, apply the constitutional corrective. By your elective voice, teach future legislators and their printers, to respect a chief magistrate, whom you in common with the rest of the nation, have delighted to honor with your choice.
The time would fail us to particularize the numerous inconsistencies of the federal party.
To the support of the republican cause in this country, it is important, that the state governments, in their legislative and executive departments, should harmonize with the general government. Such a harmony between the head and the members of the political family, is, in every point of view, a most desirable object. It already embraces the states in general.
The question regards principles, rather than men. It is not a competition between John Langdon and J. T. Gilman, nor so much between one set of men and another, but between republicans & federalists, between the present and the former system of national administration, between elective & hereditary government.
This, fellow-electors, is the eventful question, on which you will act, in giving your votes for Governor, Councillors, Senators, and Representatives on the second Tuesday of March next.
Those of you who are for adhering to our system of Representative Democracy, in which the people, through their elected and responsible agents, have the whole sovereignty; in preference to a government in which the chief magistrate and senate are hereditary, and the people have only "an essential share in the sovereignty":—
Those who are satisfied with the existing Constitution of the United States, instead of believing that it does "not contain sufficient means of strength for its own preservation, and that, in consequence, we must pass through anarchy to despotism," unless we formally change its essential principles, or gradually strengthen it, in practice, by the artificial aids of debts, taxes, loans, armies, establishments and patronage, till, under a republican form, it shall acquire an aristocratic or monarchical energy:—
Those of you, fellow citizens, who would avoid the disgraceful inconsistency of reverting, on the second Tuesday of March next, to your solemn decision of the first Monday of November last, by electing a state administration hostile to the national administration of your own choice, are invited to give your personal and universal attendance in support of the Republican Candidates. The eyes of the nation and of the world are upon you, in expectation of the result. Let every qualified voter feel, that the issue of the whole Election may depend upon his single vote.

Portsmouth,
Tuesday, March 5, 1805.
4th MARCH.
The Inhabitants of this Town celebrated the Election of our highly respected and venerable President JEFFERSON, with the most unbounded joy and felicity—The day was ushered in by the Citizens in a file of Triumph and rejoicing over the malice and enmity of Federalists beyond any former occasion; Cannon firing, Bells ringing, Colours flying in every part of the Town—upwards of 800 persons in this and from neighbouring Towns repaired to Jefferson Hall , and received that friend of Constitutional Republicanism, our Fellow Citizen, the Hon. JOHN LANGDON, Esq. who congratulated them with every mark of hilarity and respect on the joyous occasion; and in return, received the Compliments of Cheers three times three—After partaking of the joy of the day, the following Toasts were drank—
 By Col. John Langdon, 1—The day we celebrate, may the blessings of Liberty be handed down to the latest posterity—six cheers—  2—Thomas Jefferson, the President of the United States—nine cheers—  3—Prosperity to the State of New-Hampshire—  By John Wentworth, Esq.— The triumph of Republicanism over federalism and faction—three cheers—  By Thomas Manning, Esq. (after Mr. Langdon retired,) Col. John Langdon—nine cheers. 
Fellow-Citizens of New-Hampshire,
While the federalists are every where still founding the term of political war, & irreconcilable opposition to our government and its present wise and faithful administrators, endeavouring to alarm our countrymen about Virginia influence, filing the proved friends of liberty "a dangerous combination—an aristocratic junta, lately organized at Concord, and busily employed throughout this State," threatening the ruin and slavery of New-England, and the total annihilation of American freedom; trumpeting forth the praises of their favorite GILMAN—the superior virtue and political orthodoxy of his supporters, and seeking to persuade the people that nothing can avail to prevent his re-election. It highly concerns you, Republican Citizens by your vigorous and timely exertions on the day of election to counteract the plots of these men, who, abhorring the principles of liberty and equality, aim at nothing less than the destruction of their true and faithful friends, and the establishment of a perpetual tyranny in this country, celebrated throughout the world for its attachment to and enjoyment of freedom, its ennobling sentiments, and superior knowledge and virtue.—Let it never be said, my countrymen, that prosperity has lulled us into a fatal security, and that we possess not the magnanimity to sustain, with equal and firm minds, the full tide of success which has attended our late exertions; rendering us the envy and admiration of the nations around us. But let our distinguishing and resplendent virtues still display their energies, to the utter disappointment and confusion of an unprincipled faction, whom no mildness can soften or reclaim, and which no generous sentiment can influence. You have had fresh instances of their disorganizing views, and incorrigible opposition to the approved measures of the general government, and the wishes of every genuine republican of this state and the Union, sufficient to alarm and rouse the most supine and indolent from lethargic sleep.
TUESDAY NEXT, Republicans, will be the important day of trial, when you are to meet for the choice of public officers. Your punctilious attendance and firmness, will, notwithstanding the big words, the boasted superiority and slanderous aspersions of an impotent and dying faction, undoubtedly secure to you your favourite Fellow-Citizen, for Governor, and those worthy and faithful friends to your liberties, presented to you in the following Republican Ticket.
Republican Ticket.
Hon. JOHN LANGDON, Esq. GOVERNOR.
COUNCILLORS.
 LEVI BARTLETT, Rockingham.  JOSEPH BADGER, Stratford.  BENJAMIN PEIRCE, Hillsborough.  NAHUM PARKER, Gilford.  EZRA BARTLETT, Grafton. 
SENATORS.
 CLEMENT SCORER, District No. 1.  RICHARD JENNESS, " No. 2.  WILLIAM WHITE, " No. 3.  JOHN BRADLEY, " No. 4.  JOHN WALDRON, " No. 5.  NATHAN SHANNON, " No. 6.  JEDEDIAH K. SMITH, " No. 7.  ROBERT ALCOCK, " No. 8.  ELISHA WHITCOMB, " No. 9.  GEN. GEO. ALDRICH, " No. 10.  JESSE JOHNSON, " No. 11.  WILLIAM TARLTON, " No. 12.  NATHAN GILMAN, County Treasurer. JOSIAH ADAMS, Recorder of Deeds.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
The laws passed at the last session of the General Court have not been forwarded for publication, we are informed that a law was passed at that session making it necessary to choose the Moderator, Selectmen and Town Clerk by ballot, otherwise the meeting will not be considered as legal.
The Republican
Citizens of Portsmouth, are requested to meet at Jefferson Hall , THIS EVENING, precisely at 7 o'clock—a punctilious attendance is desired.
Republican Caucus.
THE Republican Citizens of this town and vicinity, are hereby notified and requested to assemble at Jefferson Hall , on Monday evening next, precisely at 7 o'clock, to agree on such measures as may then be thought necessary in support of the Republican Ticket, at the approaching Election; a general and punctilious attendance is requested. March 5, 1805.
WAR!
SPAIN vs. GREAT-BRITAIN.
ACCOUNTS from various quarters, render it next to certain, that Spain, compelled by France, had declared war against Great-Britain. A letter from the house of Gardoqui, (whose brother is Secretary to the Spanish Minister, the Prince of Peace) at Bilboa, to an eminent merchant in Salem, states "that war had been declared by Spain against England." Capt. Remonds, whose arrival at Beverly, from Bilboa, was announced in the last Centinel, informs, that Spain declared war against Great-Britain, the 13th December last.—A vessel arrived at Norfolk, from Cadiz, which left the 3d January, states, that the Spanish King had published a Manifesto of the reasons which had impelled him to declare war against Great-Britain. Such are the facts.
The scurrilous remarks on the supposed author of the "Letter to a Federalist," are in unison with all that low dirty conduct which emphatically designates the tory faction. When they cannot reason, they attempt to defame. The base reflections in the Centinel , are beneath the notice of a gentleman or a scholar, and no man, but the editor, and persons of equal detectable mind and manners, could be guilty of calumniating in such gross terms, the author of a publication, so candid in its principles, and so free from personal inuendo. But the author has this consolation, that by "their roaring, he has hit them right." [ Chronicle. ]
COMMUNICATION.
If the false, envious, malignant fruiting coxcomb, with republicans a republican, but a suspected betrayer of more than one just and honest man, that caused the silly piece from the Repository to be inserted in the last Oracle , in ridicule of a gentleman of this town, supposes any thing he can do or say can injure any man, he deceives himself most woefully—By the above description, the villain, whose ignorance gross as it is, does not prevent us from supposing him the author of the piece, must be known even to Mr. ELWYN, unsuspicious as he may be. The base calumniator, worse almost than a midnight assassin, has no principles himself; and this is so well known, that we can never believe Mr. E. would have spoken to him on any subject unguardedly, much less that he would have abused before him one whom he is known to love and respect, by almost every republican and federalist in the town.—His name is known to many persons, but they will spare his feelings.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
"An election hint to the Citizens of Nottingham" by "a Citizen" has been received, but we regret our inability of handing it to the public;—the length of the "address to the Citizens of N. Hampshire" precludes it. We trust however that the same zeal which pervades the writings of "a citizen" will extend to his townsmen, and that they will be enabled unanimously to elect their State and Town officers, from amongst those, whose attachment to their country and love of liberty, stamps them firm and honest Republicans.
MARINE MEMORANDA.
Portsmouth, March 5. 1805. Tuesday arrived brig Aleri , Capt. Rolins, in 24 days from St. Vincente. Left there, Jan. 31, brig Olive Branch , Brown, New Haven; Feb'y Brave , Frisbee , Portsmouth. Lat. 18, lon. 63, spoke brig Camillus , Kennard; lat. 29, lon. 70, 30, ship Mercury , from Leghorn, out 32 days.—Passengers, JAMES L. CATHEART, (late Consul at Tripoli) and family. Friday arrived brig Hope , Capt. Riley, 25 days from Nevis. Left there, Feb. 3, brig Liberty , Hall, Kennebec, in 30 days. At Tenerife, Jan. 18, brig Washington , Treadwell, of Portsmouth, for New-York in a few days. At Demerara, Jan. 8, brig Pallas , Lake, just arrived from Portsmouth. At Iles-of-May, Dec. 29, ship Monticello , M'Clintock, for Portsmouth, in 20 days.
MARRIED
In this town Mr. GEORGE MASSIE to Miss HANNAH SIMES—Mr. GEORGE DANIELS to Miss ELIZABETH HILL.—Mr. NATHANIEL B. MARCH to Miss SALLY DRISCO
DIED
At Boston, Mr. GEO. PETTIGREW, late of Kittery, aged 25. In this town, Mrs. ELIZABETH HART, aged 38, wife of Capt. Benjamin Hart.—On Tuesday, the 26th, departed this life, to the inexpressible grief of a fond husband, an affectionate parent, and beloved brethren and sisters, Mrs. ANN HOAR, aged 26 years, wife of Mr. Samuel Hoar, merchant of this town. Altho' her residence had been but a few months in this place, yet it had been long enough to endure her to all who were so happy as to form an acquaintance with her. Her amiable disposition, pleasing deportment, and the sincerity of her friendship, rendered only to be known, and she was beloved, and that they were known, and she beloved, wins the tears of poignant grief at following her dear remains to the narrow house appointed for all the living—
Fairwell, bright soul, a short farewell! 'Till we shall meet again above, In the sweet groves, where pleasures dwell And trees of life bear fruits of love! There glory sits on every face, There friendship smiles in every eye, There shall our tongues relare the grace That led us hither to the sky.
THE MANAGERS OF Piscataqua Bridge Lottery offer to the Public the following SCHEME, For the THIRD CLASS.
   Prizes. Dollars.     1 of 8,000 Dolls. is 8 000   4 of 1000 do. : 4000   8 of 500 do. : 3000   500 of 100 do. : 5000   1000 of 50 do. : 5000   1000 of 30 do. : 3000   1000 of 20 do. : 2000   3750 of 8 do. : 30,000  
4111 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: First drawn number against a Blank on the fifth day 1000 dolls. ditto 10th, 1000 ditto 15th, 1000 ditto 20th, 8000 ditto 24th, 1000
500 TICKETS shall be considered as one complete day's 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 day. All Prizes to be paid at the expiration of thirty days, (excepting the highest,) which will be paid within sixty days, after the drawing is completed—the drawing to be completed within twenty-six working days.—Prizes not claimed within one year will be considered as generously given to the Bridge, and will not be paid after that time. The Scheme is calculated at least than two Blanks to a Prize, and is composed of a great number of handsome Prizes, the chance is much better than in any former Lottery, composed of very high and very low Prizes. An early day will be appointed for drawing in Boston. The Managers flatter themselves that the punctuality observed in the two former classes, will insure a ready sale for Tickets in this Class.
Tickets will rise to five dollars and fifty cents, twenty days previous to drawing, and to six dollars on the fourth day of drawing. Tickets for sale at the usual places. Printers who advertised the former scheme, are desired to publish this in their respective papers. THOMAS THOMPSON, Manager. ELIJAH HALL, Esq. Lottery-Office, New Brick-Building, opposite the State House. Portsmouth, Feb. 28. 1805.
JOHN WARNER, HAS for sale opposite the Court-House, an assortment of new FEATHERS, from 150 to 450. A few Hundred of Butter suitable for family use. A few Thousand Clapboards. Portsmouth, March 5.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having demands against the estate of the Hon. WOODBURY LANGDON, Esq. late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to exhibit the same for settlement; and those who are indebted to said estate, are requested to make payment, to HENRY S. LANGDON, Administrator. March 4. 1805.
Just published and for sale by PIERCE, HILL and PIERCE, NOTES upon Mis-Translation, or the present translation of the New Testament, carefully examined and compared with the original Greek, and deviations from it noticed for the better understanding of the meaning. March 5.
WHEREAS a number of the inhabitants of the town of Portsmouth have not paid the Collector their taxes for the year 1804—and on its settlement with the Selectmen, there will be a large balance due the town, uncollected. It is therefore thought best, to have the list of the delinquents read over, at the annual town meeting, on Monday the 25th inst. that the inhabitants may know in whose hands the balance is.
GEORGE GAINS, MOSES WOODWARD, SAM'L HUTCHINGS, ELIJAH HALL.
FOR SALE BY J. LANGDON, JR. 20 Hhds. & 2 tierces Molasses. 10 Hhds. Rum—10 bags India Sugar, of a superior quality—Few pipes Gin—Few half pipes Madeira Wine; Fresh superfine Flour; Philadelphia and Swedes fluted and square bar Iron; ditto, loop Iron; ditto, spike, deck-nail & horse-shoe Nail Rods; 50 Bbls. Rosin; Br. & Bk. Varnish and Spirits Turpentine, at the distillery prices; Sheathing Paper; Liverpool and Isle of May Salt; Also, an assortment of GROCERIES, wholesale and retail. WANTED, a few thousand yards good TOW CLOTH. B. March 5. 1805.
Just Received from Amsterdam and for sale by Thomas P. Drown, ONE Box of Violins and Saf. Vials; do. strings & bows and a few silver cast Watches, which will be sold remarkably low. N. B. Gold and Silver work at cheap as usual. Portsmouth March 5.
Piscataqua Bridge. The Directors of Piscataqua Bridge Proprietors, have this day voted an assessment of TEN DOLLARS, on each and every Proprietors share; and directed the Treasurer to collect the same within one month from the date. The Proprietors are therefore requested to pay the same to the Treasurer, at his office in Portsmouth, on or before Wednesday, the third day of April next. The Proprietors are informed that each year since the Bridge was built, there has been a progressive increase of toll: the amount collected the last year, is more than six per cent. on the first cost. But the repairs the last year, with what must necessarily be expended the ensuing season, for which large advances have already been made by the Directors, amount to more than the toll collected since the last dividend. The proceeds of the lottery cannot yet be realized. SAMUEL ELLIOT, Treasurer. March 1, 1805.
New-Hampshire District. By order of the Hon. John Samuel Sherburne, Esq. Judge of the District Court for New Hampshire District.
WHEREAS the commissioners in a commission of bankruptcy awarded against Henry Prescott, jr. and William P. Prescott of Newcastle in said district, merchants, have certified to the judge of said District that the said Henry Prescott, jun., and William P. Prescott, have in all things conformed to the directions of said statute, entitled "an act to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy thro' the United States."
Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of said statute—their certificate will be allowed, and confirmed as the said statute directs, unless cause to the contrary be shown to said Judge at his office in Portsmouth, on or before Wednesday the 20th day of March instant. R. CUTTS SHANNON, Clerk of the District Court of N. Hampshire district. Portsmouth, March 4. 1805.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE—PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that Stephen Wilson and others, Inhabitants of the towns of Lancaster, Jefferson, Durand and Shelburne, have petitioned the General Court, representing that a road direct from said Shelburne to Lancaster, through said Durand and Jefferson, would be very useful to the public, and essentially so to the said Durand Inhabitants, who are not able to make the road themselves—Wherefore they pray that a tax may be granted of four cents per acre, on all the lands in said Durand, for the purpose of making a road through said township of Durand, in such place as will best serve the interest of the Public and the said Durand Inhabitants. ORDERED, That the petitioners be heard before the General Court on the first Tuesday, of the next Session—And that they cause the substance of said petition and Order of Court thereon to be Published in the New-Hampshire Gazette, three weeks successively commencing ten weeks prior to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and show cause (if any they have) why the prayer thereof may not be granted. Attest, NATH'L PARKER, Dep'y Sec'y. Concord, Nov. 29. 1804.
THIS DAY, At S. LITTLE'S Office, 12 o'clock.
3 Hhds. Rum; 2 ditto Molasses; 1000 weight Bacon, in lots to suit. Also—A quantity of CUTLERY & JEWELRY.
Said LITTLE purchases, sells and collects notes and other securities for an adequate premium.
TO-MORROW, Will be sold at Public Auction, at Eben. Chadwick's store, head of Buck Street, 1 yawl Boat with 2 sails and oars, now lying at M'Intosh's wharf—Large and small Scale Beams and Scales—Half hundred Weights—A Quantity 1, 2, 3, and 4 gallon Kegs; Iron bound Hhds. and Barrels; shoemaker's Benches and Lasts; empty Fish Boxes, &c.—Sale to begin at 11 o'clock before noon. S. LITTLE, Auctioneer. Portsmouth, March 5. 1805.
LIST OF LETTERS, Remaining in the Post-Office, at Portsmouth, N. H. March 24, 1805.
 A. GIDEON Adams; Charlotte H. Atkinson.  B.—Capt. Bailey, Greenland; Josiah Butterfield; Nathan Brown, Hampton Falls; Asa on Buzzell; Sanborn Bachelor; Hampton; John Buman; Capt. Burwell; Ann Barrett; Jacob Brown, jr. Northampton; Josiah Bragdon; Thomas Beal; Alexander Baker; William Brewster; A's Bodwell; Calmeau Bailey; Jonathan Buzzell; Thomas Beck.  C.—Donald Clemmens; John Cronk; William Clark; R. and J. Champey, jr.; Oliver Cross; John Clark; Jonathan Clark, jr.; George Cate; James Colman; William Christopher; William Cole, Kittery; Betty Cole; Moses Cools; Richard Cape.  D.—Elisha Dyer; T. G. Dearborn, Greenland; W. & H. Dickson 2; Robert Dill, jr.; Jonathan Downing, Greenland; John Dyer; William Dyer; Elisha Drew; Mary Dyer; George Dennett; John Dyer; William Dyer, Newington; George Daniels; M. Dames; Manaullah Dutton.  E.—Joseph Ellison, jr.; Daniel Eaton, jr.; Benjamin Emmons; Mary Elery.  F.—Sarah Fowler; James Foll; Folsom and Hunt; Charles Foster; Harriet Fernald; Andrew Fernald, Kittery; John Fitch; Tobias Fernald; Charles Fernald; Dennis Fernald, jun. Kittery; Margaret Farnes.  G.—William T. Gerrish, Kittery; Stephen Goggins; M. Gordon; Harriet W. Greenleaf, jr.; Mrs. Grover; Asa Grosvenor; Elizabeth Goss; Joseph Goss; M. Gullins; John Gile; Edward Gove; J. & H. H. Garrison; Jeremiah Hartsoff; William Ham, jr.; John Hubbard; Ezra Hart; George B. Hobday; Timothy Heman; John Huns; Martin L. Hurlburt, Hampton; Lucy Hall, Kittery; Samuel Ham, jr.; Ruth Hester; M. L. Hildreth; John Hall; John Harrington, Northampton; Mary Hart; Elizabeth How; Mary Harkins; James Hooper; Daniel Hall; James Jenkins; Stephen Jenkins; John Johnson.  K.—Hannah Kennard; A. and R. Kingsbury; Joseph Kingsbury, Greenland; Benjamin Kennebec, Kittery.  L.—Benjamin Lach, Kittery; Alexander Loyal; James Leavens, Hampton; Charles Lued; Jonathan Lane, Hampton Falls; Thomas Lunt; Ebenezer and Hamilton; Lydia Leach; Samuel Lane; John Lane; Ebenezer Lawrence.  M.—Robert Mahon; William Martin; Benjamin Mitchell, Kittery; Jason Mackie; Elizabeth Mattson; Samuel Moore; H. Mahoney; Nathan Melcher; Nathaniel B. March; Moses B. Moody; Edward Moore, Kittery; David Mellen.  N.—Samuel Norton, Northampton; Fanny Nason.  O.—John Owens.  P.—Eleazer D. Peters; S. P. Hall; Colvin Parsons, New-Castle; Samuel Penhallow; Robert Piper; Samuel Parker.  R.—Mr. Ramey; C. P. Ramey; L. W. Redman, Hampton; William Ramble, jr.; Mr. Reading; James Ramey; Robert Ramey; John Robertson; Charles Readman; John Rogers, jun. Kittery; N. Rogers; Benjamin Rounds.  S.—Benjamin Sherburne; Walter Smith; Ichabod Smith; Charles S. Vory; Nathaniel Southerne; Stephen S. Vory; Richard Shaw; Isabella Sharpley; Dolly Spruce; Benjamin Smith, Durham; James Smith, Greenland; Richard Sharman; James Sumner; Geo. Shevrey; Israel Smith; Christopher Tucker; Daniel Tappan; Richard D. Toy; Charles Thomas, jr.; James Treadwell; William Thompson, jr.; Nathaniel Treadwell; Temperance Trefethen.  W.—James Whitten; Eliza Williams; John Weeks, Kittery; John Wilson, Lee; Mark Welch; Isaac Woodwell; John White, jr. New-Castle; Mary Watson; John Widdon, Greenland; William O. Wier, jr.; Abner Witham, Kittery; Deborah Witham; J. Whitlock; Miss Watson. Young; Richard E. Yeaton.  The names with no town annexed, are directed to Portsmouth.
MARK SIMES, Post-Master.
ELEGANT SIMPLICITY.
THE answer and Pleas of the Hon. Sam'l Chase, Esq. one of the Associate Justices of the S. C. of the U. S. to the Articles of Impeachment, exhibited against him in the Senate, by the House of Representatives of the U. S. This inimitable piece of beautiful composition is now printed in a handsome pamphlet, containing 72 pages, & are received and for sale at Charles Peirce's Bookstore, Portsmouth, price 50 Cents on fine paper, and 40 Cents on coarse paper.

Miscellaneous Repository.
For the GAZETTE.  Elegy on a beloved, beautiful child taken away from its mourning parents, in early or infantile state.
THOU well sweet Babe, by kindest heaven To thy unworthy parents given, A brief but precious loan— Blest be the gracious Giver still, Who gave thee, hidden at his will; And then return'd his own.  Sweet babe adieu; now laid at rest, With Jesus thou art fully blest. —May this our portion be, After a few revolving years, When we have paid this vale of tears, To dwell with Him and thee.
Departed this life at Gilmanston, on the 16th of January last, Miss SALLY JAMES , aged 21, eldest daughter of Maj. Jabez James . 'Tis but just of this amiable young lady to say, she was all that we admire in the female character; So long as modest worth commands esteem, will her memory be fondly embalmed in the hearts of her surviving friends and acquaintance; To portray her character, would be a deadly pleasing task, did the writer possess talents adequate to the melancholy office—Let it suffice to say she was the darling and pride of her fondly doting parents; every one was envious to deserve her friendship; The aged admired her modest demeanor and engaging manners; the young considered her a model worthy of imitation—But alas, she is this untimely cut down. Under the ravages of a lingering, wasting consumption, she was patient and resigned, and yielded up her life almost without a struggle or a groan—Fond parents mourn not; you have hope in her death.—An intimate acquaintance pays this sad tribute to her memory.
A farmer in the river towns of the county of Hampshire, when he rides into the meadows to work, carries with him a rope 15 or 20 feet in length, and a flake or hub two feet in length. Being arrived at the place of destination, he tethers out his horse to feed, by driving the flake or hub into the ground one foot, he then ties one end of the rope to the flake that is above ground, and fastens the other end of the rope to the horse's fore foot, that he may feed during the time of his stay, and not range at large to the injury of his neighbours ground.—The horse feeds round the hub, and every step he takes round it shortens his tether and brings him nearer to it, 'till at length he completely winds up himself to the hub by the fore foot, and can feed no further than the length of his neck will admit—He has no skill to unwind himself, and so remains fast at the hub till the owner comes and relieves him. So it is with the federalists ; they have completely wound up themselves to the hub; they had a good length of rope during Mr. Adams's reign, and found a rich pasture, but every step they have taken has shortened their tether round the hub, 'till they have completely wound themselves up; and they have no wisdom to unwind themselves, and must so remain 'till the republicans lengthen out the rope by which they are held in due bounds, and without which they would range at large to the great injury of society. They rage and gnaw the turf, kick and fret themselves, but their foot is fast.
We are favoured with the following Extract of a letter from a Mercantile house in the city of New-York, to a Gentleman in this town.
"IN one of your late letters, you requested some information relative to the fire proof stores burnt during the late fire; there was only one considered completely fire proof which belonged to Messrs. Bailey & Bogert, it was built of Brick and tiles and presented no wood whatever outside, even many of the window shutters were entirely iron and from every circumstance relating to its destruction, there can be no doubt of its having taken fire inside by means of a small cellar window that had no shutter, and the descent of the coals through the chimney;—it was in the midst of the fire and completely exposed, such was the violence of the flames that at the distance of about 150 rods we were in danger from the coals descending the chimney, and entering the store by means of a broken pane of glass, in the sky light;—Fire Proof stores are however in as good repute as ever."
MARRIED. At Amity, (N. J.) Mr. GARIT DECKER , of Brimstone Hill, to the delicate Miss KEZIAH GARDENHOUSE , of Marcy Point, both near Stunk's Misery , in the village of Mount Etna .
DARING THEFT. SOME person or persons entered the house of the subscriber on the evening of the 22d inst. before the hour of 7 o'clock, and from thence took a large mahogany framed Looking Glass & a Portmanteau Bag, in which were a pair of black Pantaloons, & other property to the value of about ten dollars. Whoever will detect said villain or villains so that the owner may get the above mentioned property shall be handsomely rewarded by NATHANIEL MERRIAM , Portsmouth, Feb. 26, 1805.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Grafton, ff.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of CHATHAM , county and State aforesaid, who have not paid their county tax for the year 1801, and their town, school, highway, county and State taxes for the year 1804—that so much of their lands, as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of William Cox , innholder in said town, on Tuesday the seventh day of May next, at ten o'clock, A. M. unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
   NAMES. Division. No. Lot. Range. No. Acres. Town Tax. School Tax. Highway Tax. County Tax. State Tax.     John Bennett, 1 7 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 1 6 5 7   do 2 19 6 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do undivided 3 0 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   Jeremy Bryant, Esq. 1 12 2 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do 2 23 7 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do undivided 3 0 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   Walter Bryant, Esq. 1 3 2 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do 2 10 2 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do undivided 3 0 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   John Burley, jun. 1 5 4 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do 2 21 8 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do undivided 3 0 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   Jeremiah Folsom, jr. 1 9 1 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do 2 10 5 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do undivided 3 0 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   James Goodwin, 1 13 2 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do 2 19 7 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do undivided 3 0 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   Lt. Samuel Gilman, 1 6 7 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do 2 22 8 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do undivided 3 0 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   Thomas Young, jr. 1 10 2 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do 2 3 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   Doct. A. R. Cutter, 1 2 3 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do 2 10 3 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do undivided 3 0 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   John Johnson, 1 7 4 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do 2 9 1 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do undivided 3 0 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   Sam'l Livermore, Esq. 1 8 4 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do 2 7 4 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do undivided 3 0 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   George Meserve, 1 3 3 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do 2 3 3 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do undivided 3 0 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   Jonathan Leavitt, jr. 1 6 3 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do 2 18 8 100 9 6 10 1 50 4 2 6 5 7   do undivided 3 0 0 38 1 2 1 3 6 7 0 3 0 7   Jeremy Bryant's grant 0 23 0 150 14 5 15 1 75 6 39 2 8 5   House Lot, 1 8 1 60 5 7 6 0 3 2 1 5 3 4   Solomon Charles, 1 4 2 80 9 3 9 8 49 4 2 5 5 5   Samuel Bradley, 2 7 1 100 11 3 11 9 59 5 3 1 6 7   William Abbott, 2 2 2 72 6 6 7 2 36 3 1 8 4 1    Chatham, Feb. 15, 1805. RICHARD WALKER, Coll'r.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE—Stratford, ff.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of BURTON , State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their county and highway taxes for the year 1803—that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Francis Elliott , in said town, on Tuesday the 30th day of April next, at 10 o'clock A. M. unless prevented by previous payment.
   NAMES OF ORIGINAL PROPRIETORS. Division. No. Lot. Range. No. Acres. Town Tax. School Tax. Highway Tax. County Tax. State Tax.     Walter Briant, jr. Esq. 18 4 ND 11 2 ND 16 4 SD   John Pickering, 6 4 ND 4 3 ND 24 2 ND   Edward Smith, 16 5 ND 9 2 ND 2 0 ED   John Folsom, 3 5 ND 26 3 ND H 0 ED   Capt. Israel Gilman, 14 1 ND 12 1 ND 12 3 SD   Capt. Israel Gilman, jr. 21 4 ND 6 1 ND D 0 ED   Broadstreet Gilman, 6 5 ND 20 2 ND 1 4 SD   Peter Folsom, 3 3 SD 4 3 SD 14 4 SD   Charles Rogers, 21 3 ND 9 1 ND 5 4 SD   William Rogers, 13 1 ND 8 2 ND 9 0 ND   Zachariah Fols, 11 1 ND 6 2 ND 2 4 ND   Joshua Furber, 12 3 ND 34 1 ND C 0 ED   Daniel Peirce, Esq. 24 1 ND 27 3 ND E 0 ED   Clement March, Esq. 19 3 ND 10 1 ND 1 1   Theodore Atkinson, Esq. 26 1 ND 30 6 ND H 0 ED    Burton, February 5, 1805. JACOB ALLEN, Collector.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE—Stratford, ff.  NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of BURTON , State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their county, town, school and highway taxes for the year 1804—that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Francis Elliott , in said town, on Tuesday the 30th day of April next, at 10 o'clock A. M. unless prevented by previous payment.
   NAMES OF ORIGINAL PROPRIETORS. Division. No. Lot. Range. No. Acres. Town Tax. School Tax. Highway Tax. County Tax. State Tax.     Walter Briant, jr. Esq. 18 4 ND 11 2 ND 16 4 SD   John Pickering, 6 4 ND 4 3 ND 24 2 ND   Edward Smith, 16 5 ND 9 2 ND 2 0 ED   John Folsom, 3 5 ND 26 3 ND H 0 ED   Capt. Israel Gilman, 14 1 ND 12 1 ND 12 3 SD   Capt. Israel Gilman, jr. 21 4 ND 6 1 ND D 0 ED   Broadstreet Gilman, 6 5 ND 20 2 ND 1 4 SD   Peter Folsom, 3 3 SD 4 3 SD 14 4 SD   Charles Rogers, 21 3 ND 9 1 ND 5 4 SD   William Rogers, 13 1 ND 8 2 ND 9 0 ND   Zachariah Fols, 11 1 ND 6 2 ND 2 4 ND   Joshua Furber, 12 3 ND 34 1 ND C 0 ED   Daniel Peirce, Esq. 24 1 ND 27 3 ND E 0 ED   Clement March, Esq. 19 3 ND 10 1 ND 1 1 ND   Theo. Atkinson, Esq. 26 1 ND 30 6 ND H 0 ED    Burton, February 5, 1805. JACOB ALLEN, Collector.
NOTICE is hereby given, that at a legal meeting of the proprietors of the township of COVENTRY , in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, held at Haverhill, the seventh day of November 1804, by adjournment, a tax of four dollars, was voted to be assessed on each original right or share of land in said Coventry, for the purpose of laying out and making a road through said town; and the same is committed to me to collect—Therefore, unless the same is paid to me the subscriber, at my dwelling house in said Coventry, within fourteen days from the third and last week of this advertisement, the land will be advertised for sale as the law directs.  JONA HALE, Prop'r Coll'r. Coventry, January 3, 1805.  ALL persons indebted to, or having demands against the Estate of JACOB HOOK , Esq. late of Kingstown, deceased; are requested to call upon the subscriber for immediate settlement.  JACOB H. SANDBORN, Executor. Kingstown, February 9, 1805.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE—Rockingham, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of CHICHESTER , State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their highway taxes for the year 1802—that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber in said Chichester, on Tuesday the seventh day of May next, at 10 o'clock A. M. unless prevented by previous payment.
   NAMES. Division. Number. Range. Quantity. Highway Tax.     Capt. Joseph Gines, 4 13 1 50 23   William Fellows, 1 20 5 50 33   Town of Pittsfield, 4 84 2 100 67   Unknown, 1 17 1 50 33   George Frost, jun. 1 15 4 18 17    SAMUEL LANGMAID, Collector. Chichester, February 7, 1805.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE—Rockingham, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of CHICHESTER , State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their highway taxes for the year 1802—that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber in said Chichester, on Tuesday the seventh day of May next, at 10 o'clock A. M. unless prevented by previous payment.
   NAMES. Division. Number. Range. Quantity. Highway Tax.     George Frost, junr. 1 15 4 18 16   Capt. Joseph Gines, 4 13 1 50 35   Town of Pittsfield, 4 84 2 100 70   Unknown, 1 17 1 50 30    SAMUEL LANGMAID, Collector. Chichester, February 7, 1805.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE—Rockingham, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of CHICHESTER , State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their highway taxes for the year 1803—that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber in said Chichester, on Tuesday the seventh day