The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1805-09-10 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY PIERCE & GARDNER, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Lately received and for sale at No. 6, Bow-street,—a quantity of Brown's new RUM; West-India, ditto. and an handsome assortment of Swedes IRON, cheap for cash or approved credit,—also for sale as above, A large, elegant and fanciful assortment of House and Travelling TRUNKS, and a well assorted Collection of Books & Stationary, at the lowest wholesale prices.
Tickets in 4th class Piscataqua Bridge Lottery, and Tickets for the Portsmouth Lottery. N.B. the GOODS lately for sale at No. 12, Market Street, are removed to No. 6, Bow-street. Sept. 3, 1805.
For Sale or to Let,
A LARGE, new, two story House, with five rooms finished, the remaining part unfinished. The house is situated in Water Street, opposite to Capt. Abraham Shaw's, near Liberty Bridge. The house fronts on two streets, with a large convenient Wood House, and Barn sufficient for one cow; a good garden, a large yard, and a cellar under the whole house, an excellent well of fresh water, a pump fixed and very near the house. The premises are situated in such a manner as not to be incumbered or molested by any of the neighbours—For particulars apply to CHARLES B. GRACE.
To Land Speculators.
LANDS for Sale in Vermont and New Hampshire.
FOR SALE, the following rights of land in Vermont, called the Governor's Rights, (of five hundred acres each) together or separately—Terms of payment easy—to wit—Lemington, Highgate, Underhill, Averill, Ferdinand, and Granby, Worcester, Wenlock, Stratton, Winhall, Bristol, Jamaica, Stockbridge, Mansfield, and Reading, near Windsor. In New-Hampshire—Littleton, Unity, Dryden, Warren, Franconia, Preston, Woodbury; (Effingham, Mark Hunking Wentworth's right, two hundred acres.) For particulars apply to JOHN WENTWORTH. Portsmouth, September 3, 1805.
TO LET,
THAT large & convenient Fire Proof Brick Store, lately occupied by Pierce, Hill and Pierce, in Market Street. Inquire of WILLIAM SIMES. Sept. 3.
TO LET,
A HOUSE at the lower end of Pitt-street, lately occupied by Mrs. Mehitable Darling. For further particulars, apply to MARY ELIZABETH SYMMES. Sept. 3, 1805.
Prize Money!
THE list of prizes in Piscataqua Bridge Lottery, (third class) is now received. Fortune's favorites are invited to call and receive their prize money, or exchange their tickets, for Tickets and Quarters in Amoskeag Canal Lottery, which commences drawing next month. This is the lucky Lottery for Portsmouth, the highest prize having been drawn here, besides several other good lot prizes, in almost every class. Please to apply soon to C. PIERCE's Bookstore, before the Tickets rise. Whole Tickets 3 dollars,—quarters 8/3. Portsmouth, Sept. 9.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscribers are appointed commissioners to receive, examine and adjust the claims against the estate of MOSES CLARK, late of Exeter, trader, deceased; represented insolvent—that they will attend upon said business at Mr. Hutchins' tavern in said Exeter, on the second Monday of September next, and of the five following months, from 3 to 6 o'clock P. M. on said days. JEREMIAH LEAVITT, NATHANIEL PARKER, JOSEPH SMITH. August 25, 1805.
WANTED, a BOY, about 14 years of age, as an apprentice to the sail-making business; an able bodied lad, with a good disposition will meet with good encouragement.—Inquire of the Printer.
SALT afloat. 800 Hhds. Bonavista Salt, of an excellent quality for Fishery, for sale on board brig George Washington, South side Rindge's Wharf. ALSO, In store, A few puncheons RUM; do. Hhds. MOLASSES; Apply to Thomas Chadburn, jr. Portsmouth, September 3, 1805. FEATHERS
Just received and for sale by JOHN WARNER, A QUANTITY of geese and fowl FEATHERS of superior quality, remarkable cheap. Sept. 3.
Linens, &c.
Edward Parry, Has just received two cases of EXCELLENT LINENS, from 2/6 to 7/6 per yard—also, a large assortment of Silk Chambray Mullins; elegant MUSLINS; mullin cambric DIMITIES. a complete assortment of Fashionable superfine Broad Cloths all colors, from 7/6 to 45/ per yd.—white KERSEYMERES, EPAULETTES and Military FEATHERS—together with a general assortment of other GOODS, as usual—all of which he will sell CHEAP by Wholesale and Retail. Portsmouth, August 27, 1805.
For Sale by Elisha Whidden, 200 Quintals scale FISH. 50,000 Merchantable pine BOARDS. Portsmouth, August 27, 1805.
TO LET,
THE New Hampshire Hotel, a convenient Boarding House; To be entered upon at or before the first day of January next—also, Four brick Stores, fire proof, with convenient DWELLINGS above them—and Store No. 10 on Portsmouth-Pier, now vacant; all or any of them will be let on reasonable terms. Inquire of ELIJAH HALL, No. 17, on said Pier. Portsmouth, Sep. 9, 1805.
For Charleston, (S. C.)
The sch'r Washington, will take a few tons of freight, if offered immediately. Apply to NATH'L DEARBORN, or JOHN F. WEARE, Spring-Hill. Portsmouth, Sept. 3, 1805.
This day published, and For sale by the author, and Booksellers in Portsmouth,—
THE christian's Magazine, reviewer, and Religious Intelligencer, No. 2.—Consisting of Subjects Historical, Doctrinal, Experimental and Poetical—Published for the benefit of the world by ELIAS SMITH. Contents, Explanation of the word Clergy, and the origin of that order of men; History of the clergy in the third, fourth and fifth centuries,—The Doctrine of Christ described,—Baptism described,—Infant sprinkling a Pagan practice,—Conversion of an African,—Dr. Baldwin's sermon preached at Sedgwick, reviewed,—Mr. Allen's sermon on baptism reviewed,—Woburn matter settled,—Deacon Burley's excommunication from the baptist church in Exeter,—Text, "What shall they do which are baptized for the dead," explained,—Baptism of nine Negroes in Boston,—Affliction at Epping, June 1805,—Revival of Religion in Portsmouth, in 1805,—At Gilmanston,—Quarterly meeting of the Freewill Baptists at Somersworth, August 1805. The above are sold in Boston, by Daniel Conant, No. 9. Br. Street; in Salem, Haverhill and Kennnebunk,—also at the Gazette Office. Portsmouth, Sept. 3, 1805.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any just demands against the estate of BENJAMIN RUNDLETT, late of Exeter, deceased; are requested to settle the same immediately with BENJAMIN P. SHERIFF, Administrator. Exeter, August 19, 1805.
(By Authority.) STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, (L.S.) In the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred & five. An ACT to repeal sundry acts therein mentioned.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court convened, That the following acts be, and the same are hereby repealed, namely—An act for the appointment of special Justices, passed June 26th 1786.
An ACT to regulate Flaxseed, Potash, and Pearlash for exportation, passed June 23d, 1785.
An ACT in addition to an act entitled "An act to regulate flaxseed, potash, and pearlash for exportation; this additional act passed June 27th 1787.
An ACT in addition to and for the amendment of an act entitled, An act to regulate flaxseed, potash, and pearlash for exportation, this last additional act passed September 27th, 1787.
An ACT to regulate the exportation of beef and pork passed June 16, 1791.
An ACT for repealing a clause in an act for regulating the exportation of beef and pork, passed the sixteenth day of June last, the latter act passed December 27th 1791.
An ACT to encourage the manufacturing of linseed oil within this State, passed June 21, 1786.
An ACT to encourage the erecting of mills for slitting, rolling, and plating Iron, and to encourage and promote the manufacturing of nails within this State, passed September 27th 1787.
An ACT to encourage the erecting of proper buildings for carrying on the manufacture of sail cloth or duck within this State, passed the 3d day of February 1789.
An ACT providing remedy when executions are levied upon estate, not the property of the debtor, passed February 1, 1791.
Provided always, That the present act shall not be construed in any degree to infringe or impair any rights acquired under either of the acts aforesaid.
State of New-Hampshire, In the House of Representatives, June 17th, 1805. The foregoing bill having had three several readings passed to be enacted. Sent up for concurrence. SAMUEL BELL, Speaker.
In Senate, June 18, 1805. This bill having been read a third time was enacted. CLEMENT STORER, President.
APPROVED, June 18th, 1805. JOHN LANGDON, Governor. A TRUE COPY—ATTEST—PHILIP CARRIGAIN, jun'r, Secretary.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, (L.S.) In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five.
An ACT to divide the fourteenth regiment of Militia, and to constitute a new regiment in the second division, and sixth brigade in this State. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That the companies in the towns of Plymouth, New-Holderness, and Rumney shall form a first battalion, that the companies in the towns of Campton, Thornton, Peeling and Elftworth shall form a second battalion, which shall constitute the fourteenth Regiment.
That the companies in the towns of New-Chester and Bridgewater shall constitute a first battalion, and that the companies in the towns of Alexandria, Groton, Hebron, and Danbury shall form a second battalion, which shall constitute the thirty fourth Regiment.
And be it further enacted, That there be allowed one company of Light Infantry and one company of Cavalry, to be raised out of the thirty fourth Regiment, and that the same be raised
in the manner and form as the law in that case provides.
State of New-Hampshire, In the House of Representatives, June 17, 1805. The foregoing bill having had three several readings passed to be enacted. Sent up for concurrence.
SAM'L BELL, Speaker. In Senate, June 18, 1805. This bill having been read a third time, was enacted. CLEMENT STORER, President. Approved, June 18th, 1805. JOHN LANGDON, Governor. A true Copy—ATTEST—PHILIP CARRIGAIN, Jun. Secretary.
Political Miscellany.
From the Litchfield, (Con.) Witness.
162 vs. 14.—WE would remind the people, who are disposed to forget what makes against them, that at the last Presidential election Mr. Jefferson had 162 electoral votes in his favor and only 14 against him—that 9 of these last were furnished by our steady habituated State, 3 by the little State of Delaware, (which sends only one Member to Congress) and 2 by Maryland.
This is the mighty federalism, of which we have heard so much: this is the proud effect of federal flander. Nine tenths of the United States are in favor of the man, who was the friend of Washington, his first secretary of state. No other man has performed such a forty years of brilliant and useful service as Mr. Jefferson has. No other man now lives, who has so high testimony that he deserves the gratitude of his country.
For the good, which Mr. Jefferson has done, the body of the American people have been grateful to him. We have experienced this good in the saving of our lives and money. For the same good the federalists seek to ruin him. Every thing, which aids the common-people, sinks the aristocracies; hence these hate Mr. Jefferson. He builds up the Common People, they wish to pull down and keep down the Common People.
If Mr. Jefferson, instead of removing the midnight judges, had doubled their number: If he had doubled the duty on salt, stamps and carriages, instead of abolishing it: If he had exerted himself for a national religion and a test act. If he had raised a powerful army, or held in force the sedition and alien acts, the tongues of federalists would have cleft to the roofs of their mouths, before they would have attacked him. If Mr. Jefferson had been a weak or wicked man federalists could have borne with him, but his straight forward, discreet course of administration filled them with madness. He did none of the things, which they foretold that he would do. He burnt no meeting-houses, destroyed no bibles: religion revived and flourished, while he has been in power. He applied no sponge to the national debt: he introduced no Roman Catholic religion. While he lives federalists will stand confessed impostures, who told what was not true. While he is in power federalists will exist only as "monuments of the safety, with which error may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it."
FROM THE REPUBLICAN SPT.
To the Editor of the ALBANY REGISTER.
SIR, Mr. Jefferson's description of the Mould Board for the encouragement and improvement of Agriculture, and the consequential reflections he was naturally led to make on the occasion, are highly worthy of a man of virtue and talents, as well as sound judgment and moderation. After making various remarks on the wretched and ruinous effects of war, and its "inefficiency for redress of wrong; that it multiplies instead of indemnifying losses," he infers, that "these truths are palpable, and must in the progress of time, have their influence on the minds and conduct of nations. An evidence that we are advancing towards a better state of things," &c. These ideas are so correspondent with the declarations of divine revelation, respecting the latter times, that we are naturally led to suppose he borrowed them from that source. Query—Who are the greatest infidels, Mr. Jefferson or his calumniators, who are constantly in the habit of asserting
that mankind are incapable of self-government; or in other words, of being governed without an exclusive and independent sovereignty to control them? That this has always been the case with mankind hitherto, (with a few transient exceptions) and that it will always be the case hereafter.—These assertions are evidently in contradiction to divine revelation itself, which they profess with much parade and outward show of zeal to believe in.
Can our federal Maris , or son of Jupiter , who are capable of the smallest degree of human sensibility, read those reflections without a blush? Who upon the slightest degree of depredation made on our trade by any of the belligerent powers, are in the habit of crying out, war, war, and a formidable navy , as the only expedient for vindicating national honor. This description of federalists spurn at negotiation as being too humiliating—
Is not this looking through a false perspective for national dignity? From whence this prejudice and clamor for war, upon every slight occasion? Is it not from a habitual fondness of patronizing monarchy? Do they consider on what principles the true dignity of a free and generous people ought always to be founded? Do they consider on what ground we stand with regard to the old and formidable nations of the eastern world? Or do they suitably appreciate the effusion of blood, and the waste of treasure and property, on the uncertain event of a war? Before we engage in a war with any nation, we ought to be certain of its being the best and only expedient for national redress; and unless we are well assured of success, we ought never to engage in a war with any nation, until it becomes an unavoidable alternative of defence. We ought ever to hold it as a maxim of truth and justice, always consistent with national dignity—that no war, whatever, is or can be justifiable, but a defensive one.
Negotiation and a temporary suspension of commerce, on necessary occasions, is the only eligible staff we have in our hands; and this we always have in our power without a possibility of deprivation—And when a uniform disposition of justice & peace is manifested by a people, it will rarely fail of success.
A FRIEND TO PEACE.
That a system of "political intolerance, as despotic as wicked," has been pursued by the republicans is loudly asserted by the federalists; & their papers in New England are continually teeming with virulent declamation on the subject. Setting aside the falsity of their assertion, it will be discovered from the following address, with what propriety they make this incessant clamor. It is from a young man of talents, the reputed editor of the North-hampton Spy, a paper which, in originality, correctness and decision, is, perhaps, exceeded by none in New England; and whose former editor experienced still more serious effects of federal intolerance and antipathy to the freedom of the press. It discovers the real character of that class of people whom Mr. Adams calls the "aristocracy of nature," and whom he very justly declares ought to be put into a "noose" by themselves.
FROM THE REPUBLICAN SPT.
TO THE PUBLIC.
IT looks like arrogance, in a young man, to obtrude his name upon the public attention.—This consideration however shall not deter me, from a vindication of my own character.
It is generally the fact, that when a man addresses the public on his own cause, he becomes rather an object of merriment, than of commiseration.
As I have no whining, whimpering, "tale of woe" to relate, it is not likely that I shall excite pity . The serious charges, I shall adduce against a set of infamous scoundrels, will preclude the possibility of laughter . Because my name has been placed on the list of proscription, by a pack of lawyers, I shall not in the imitation of Roman examples, go into mourning, to excite the public compassion. I shall rather attempt to arm the popular resentment against the plunderers of the people. I shall not whimper myself but shall set foes a thronging. I shall not ask the public, to patiate or excuse, my frailties , but to punish their crimes .

I should have submitted, to the injuries, which the petty malice of the Bar of the county of Hampshire could inflict, without a sigh and without a murmur; indeed I had much rather be on bad terms, than on good terms, with such a gang; for a quarrel with these sharpers, evidently shews, that I have not been a partner in their crimes; but when these men who are a disgrace to the species, openly boast of a deed of their own villainy—a deed perpetrated to heap disgrace on my character I think it my duty to speak out. I shall speak plainly.
I should not have troubled the public with a detail of the villainy of the Hampshire Bar, had not a scurrilous writer in the Hampshire Gazette of last week insinuated that I "was refused an admission to the Supreme Court." It is not true that I was refused an admission to the Supreme Court. It is only true that the Bar refused to recommend me to the Court for admission. I leave the public to determine from the following statement, whether this conduct will redound much to their honor or my disgrace.
After being a practitioner in the court of common pleas, almost three years without any exceptions being taken either on account of my practice, my talents or my morals; I procured my name to be entered as a candidate for admission to practice in the Supreme Court. This was at May term 1804. In August following, in compliance with the usual forms, I propounded myself to the Bar, (through the medium of John Hooker) as a candidate for admission. The moment I made known my intention, a horrible grin distorted his knotty countenance. Whether this grin, proclaimed a more rigorous enforcement of the Sunday laws or not, I could not tell; that his groveling foul, was swollen beyond its ordinary compass, by meditating upon some act of low and detestable villainy, I could not doubt. At that time however, I had not the least suspicion that that grin, foreboded an attempt to accomplish my own destruction. I was soon undeceived. My ruin was determined on. A Bar meeting was called, not as is usual for the purpose of promoting the interests of the craft, but to make me a victim to its vengeance. Heretofore it has been as easy to gain an admittance to the Supreme Court after the applicant has practiced three years in the lower Court, as to gain an admission into a negro lodge, after paying the fees. An admission to the Supreme Court, has been a thing of easy attainment to the most consummate blockheads. It was my destiny however, to meet with a rebuff in the very onset. The Bar influenced by Hooker, Hinckley, and E. P. Ashmun, three of the brothers in law of the Governor, refused to recommend me to the Court. It was known that I was a Democrat, and it was said that I was the Editor of a Democratic paper; with these blots upon my character, it was no difficult thing and certainly to them it was a desirable object for a federal Bar in a federal county, to pass a vote that I was a fool and a scoundrel. The Bar determined that I had neither morals nor talents, of course, I was unfit to practise in a court, with such GIGANTIC GENIUSSES , with such UNSULLIED CHARACTERS as the Lawyers of Hampshire County.
Let the impartial observer enter the Court house of the country; let him survey the Bar from the gross and bloated carcass of Bill Ely , down to the puny frame of Sam. C. Allen ; after the lawyers have passed in review before him, let him place his hand upon his heart, and ask his own conscience, if talents and integrity are necessary requisites, to gain an admission to the Supreme Court.
I must confess that it was mortifying to my feelings at first, that the Bar had treated me in the manner they did; but when I reflected, that such miserable fellows as Hinckley, and Ward and T. Strong, had been recommended by them, as men of integrity and talents, I thought myself fortunate in having escaped their approbation. The insult offered to me by the Bar of this county, was like a kick from a Jack Ass an indignity which one would chuse to avoid, but certainly one which a man of spirit would not resent.
As the junto of inquisitors, had pre-determined to destroy me, my case was settled without a hearing on my part, and without deliberation on theirs. A much valued friend of mine, who was present at the meeting, indignantly that I should receive such scurrilous treatment, from a caucus of lawyers, desired them to abandon the general charges of a want of talents and destitution of morals, and point out particular crimes and bring forward proofs of alleged incapacity.
A fellow by the name of S. F. Dickenson, (who looks more like an abortion than a human being) a lawyer and a deacon of the church, rose and with sanctimonious grimace, told the assembled lawyers that he had
heard me swear, next rose Eli P. Ashmun. Gentle reader can you conjecture what mighty charge he brought against me. Did I steal a church? No! but merely that I returned one night late from the theatre, and that I said "I had drank a great deal of wine, and should drink a great deal more before I left Boston." A man that would become the retailer, of such a paltry anecdote to injure the character of an individual is a pitiful rascal . Let Eli enjoy all the honor that must necessarily redound to him, from the disclosure of this important fact .
These were the only particular charges which the Inquisitors brought against me, these, however, were sufficient to afford the holy fraternity of Lawyers a miserable pretext, to pronounce the sentence of my condemnation. Even this execrable horde of speculators, were compelled to acknowledge, that my professional practice had been fair and honorable, and that no client of mine had ever suffered on account of the pretended incapacity. Perhaps this was a secret reason why I could not gain the approbation of the gang; as my practice had been the very reverse of their's.
I have now come, as the lawyers say, to the very gist of my action against the Hampshire Bar. These men of the glass house , began to throw stones, without reflecting that they themselves, lived in a fragile tabernacle . They must blame their own rashness, if they, in their turn, get a pelting.
In the first place, step forward from your lurking hole, thou king of misers—Hinckley. Cast off the native guilts of thy look, and assume, for once, the port and carriage of an honest man. Answer me these questions. Had you not demands to the amount of 6000 dollars, sent to you for collection, by the Messrs. Amorys of Boston? Did you not, after you had secured the debt, make such representations to those gentlemen, as induced them to sell the debts to you at a discount of ten per cent? Was not one of these demands against Messrs. Wright and Stoddard? and did you not after you had bought the debt, oblige them to pay you a fee of twenty dollars each in consideration of your lenity ? Had you not taken a mortgage of some property, of Mr. Russell Atwater, of Blandford, on account of a debt due to a gentleman in New-York? Did you not receive preremptory orders from the creditor to discharge the mortgage? You did. But with a shark like rapacity, you obliged Mr. Atwater to pay you a fee of ten dollars after he had paid the debt.
Did you not compel a poor constable to share with you the fees for serving your own writs?—You dare not deny the fact.—Has it not been a common practice with you, to stay Execution, in consideration, that the debtor paid you half the fees of the Sheriff. Pitiful wretches retire from the view of man. Seclude yourself from the world, lest the reddened arm of insulted justice should be raised, to dash you in pieces.
Next to Hinckley in point of talents and morals, stand Sam. C. Allen, of New-Salem, and Wm. Ward, of Shutesbury.—These men disgrace, even the holy brotherhood of Hampshire Lawyers. They deserve to be pitched over the Bar, and kicked out of society. They were both arraigned before a Bar meeting for malpractice; what is worse, the charge was clearly substantiated against both. This however, was a time, before party politics were used as a shield to protect the offender. These men are now good federalists, they can now practise fraud with impunity.
Ward has a fort of instinct at money-catching. Besides this, he has not a talent. His head is as hard as a block of granite.—The Governor has honored Mr. (I ask pardon) Esquire Ward with a Justice's Commission. Ward is now an important spoke in the federal wheel. It must be confessed that he looks majesterially, with blue yarn stringings in his ears.
The character of Theodore Strong is well known. As a gambler he is notorious, as a debauchee—infamous. He was indicted upon the duelling act, and suffered to enter into a recognizance in the paltry sum of one hundred dollars, from no other reason, than that the public could ever conjecture, that he was the Governor's son. This fellow was recommended by the Bar of this county, as a man of talents and a good moral character. He was the son of the governor. I the son of a private citizen. His father had justice's commissions in plenty to distribute among the lawyers. Mine had none to bestow. He was a federalist and a democrat. As to young Strong's talents let his Father decide. It seems that the governor has a very mean opinion of the law learning of his son, or he would not have solicited the Court to remove him from the Bar to the inglorious office of clerk of the court. This must be admitted, or it must be allowed that his Excel-
lency has manifested rather too great an itching for family aggrandizement.
I am now fairly before the public. I regret that I have troubled them so long. It is of very little consequence either to the public or myself whether I am admitted to practice before the Supreme Court or not. It is however of consequence that the machinations of villains should be exposed. I have endeavored to expose them. For this necessary service rendered to the public, I am sensible that I have subjected myself to the pitiful assaults of a junto. I defy their utmost malice. I leave it with an impartial public to determine whether if I had been a federalist like Richard E. Newcomb, and could have sworn like him with an "ore rotundo" I should have met with the least obstacle to my wishes, from the Hampshire Bar. Had I like Painchas Ashmun, been a member of a federal committee, and like him in a drunken revel, had burst in upon a congregation in the midst of their devotions; let the public judge, whether it is not probable that the federal lawyers, would have permitted me to pass smoothly into Court upon the current of their approbation.
CHARLES SHEPHERD.
* Last winter Hooker rode himself in the county of Worcester, on the Sabbath, and with a serupulousness of conscience worthy of the man, at the last court of common pleas, drew a bill of indictment, against me, for the same offence.
† At the time I proposed myself for admission, among 50 lawyers who composed the Hampshire Bar, there was but one republican.
‡ It is not my intention to bestow an indiscriminate censure, upon all the lawyers of the Hampshire Bar; there are among the "crowd" some few men of honor and integrity.
§ If I have not got the charge correct, Eli will please to set me right.
BY THE LAST MAILS.
PETERSBURGH, (VIR.) AUG. 27.
We understand that a MURDER was perpetrated at Perkinsonville in Amelia county, on Saturday the 17th inst. by Edward Jones, (generally called Georgia Jones) upon the body of John Hill. We have not learnt the exact particulars; but from all we can collect, it seems that Hill was a harmless inoffensive man, somewhat deranged in intellect; that he was indebted to Jones a small sum of money which perhaps he was unable, or unwilling at the time, to pay; and that in consequence of it Jones resorted to this brutal and bloody way of obtaining satisfaction.
A Draught from the Militia of this town took place on Saturday last, agreeably to orders.
BALTIMORE AUG. 30.
We have been favored with the perusal of a letter from a gentleman in Savannah (Georgia) to his friend in this city, dated the 15th inst. which states that the Negroes had shewn evident signs of an insurrection—and had begun poisoning a number of the white inhabitants. Thirteen of them had been committed to Waynesborough jail; the greater part of whom were under sentence of death—they had already burnt one alive, hanged two besides a number of others who received punishment according to their deserts. The number of robberies and burglaries were daily increasing.
WASHINGTON, AUG. 30.
The illustrious MOREAU has at length reached our shores. May his virtues and his talents here receive the homage they merit! It might be a difficult, and would certainly be an unpleasant task, to investigate either the truth or the nature of the charges which have imposed upon him the necessity of abandoning his native country. It is, however, agreed on all hands, that this step is dictated by reasons of state, arising from circumstances which do not implicate his moral character, and which consequently do not render him in any respect less worthy of esteem. Without then entering into a discussion connected with this point, let it be our pride to receive this distinguished man in a stile suitable to his illustrious career; that, though deprived of the society of his old friends and countrymen, the associates in his glory, he may still find happiness in the tranquil scenes of a peaceful nation, and in the just tribute paid to his virtues.
PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 3.
The Adams frigate has failed on a cruise. It is said, the following is the tenor of the instructions to her commander. She is to cruise within three marine leagues of the coast;—if she finds American vessels employed in a lawful trade, in the possession of the armed vessel of any nation she is to release them. Vessels trading to St. Domingo to receive no protection. Beyond the nine miles she is not to act, nor is she permitted to capture the armed vessels which have made prizes on our coast, provided they are regularly commissioned.
New-York, Aug. 31.
Captain Weymouth from Richmond, informs us, that on Thursday evening a British sloop of war, (called the Hawk, alias the Driver) brought to a ship (with yellow sides and white head, of about 300 tons, and deeply laden) detained her two hours, and at dusk was standing off with her.
SEPTEMBER 2.
On the 29th Aug. in sight of the Highlands, capt. Kempton, of the ship Mac, from Liverpool, had two of his seamen, who were native Americans, and who exhibited their protections, impressed by his Britannic Majesty's ship Cleopatra. The names of the seamen are—Leonard Johnson, of Kennebec, and George Atkins of Baltimore; and James Wylie, passenger.
The following note is from capt. Burger, of the ship Augusta:
On the 9th Aug. Sandy Hook bearing N. by W. distant 5 leagues, I was boarded by his Britannic Majesty's sloop of war Hawke, capt. Thompson, who pressed thirteen passengers out of the Augusta, and treated him in every respect with very great rudeness. Mr. Hughes in particular, made use of the most abusive language, and threatened to take me on board the sloop of war and have me punished unless I instantly presented on deck all my passengers, of whom I had forty-nine.
On the 31st, Sandy Hook bearing N. N. W. distant 3 leagues, was boarded by his Britannic Majesty's frigate Cleopatra, and treated very politely.
The following are the names of the passengers who were impressed:—John Allan, Edward Lowry, James Davidson, Jenkin Killian, John Patterson, George Weir, Samuel Bishop, James Chambers, John Crozit, John Beatty, Daniel Campbell, John M'Conagh.
JAMES D. BURGER.
A public Dinner was given on the 23d ult. to Mr. Livingston, by the Civil Authority of Kingston, in Ulster County, New-York; at which he was presented with the following Address:
"To Robert R. Livingston, Esq. The Trustees of the freeholders and commonality of the town of Kingston, availing themselves of your presence, take this opportunity of congratulating you, on your return to your friends, and to the bosom of your country, in health. We feel a confidence, that you on your part, experience the greatest satisfaction and most ample gratification, in again beholding the place of your nativity.—And we fondly trust that the able and faithful manner in which you have fulfilled your late embassy to the Court of France, will secure you the affection and friendship of good men as long as patriotism and virtue are esteemed amongst those qualities which Americans delight to honor. To many of us, to those whom we represent, you are known to have been, and others have heard their fathers mention your name, amongst the best and ablest defenders of our country's cause, during the hard revolutionary struggle, in which, you, Sir, had so much to risk. We acknowledge in your person, one of our individual friends, and one of the best of our fellow-citizens. In offering you this tribute, we cannot withhold our warmest wishes and most fervent prayers, that you may receive a full measure of the blessings and comforts of this life, and enjoy the most perfect hope of future felicity."
"By order and in behalf of the Trustees of the freeholders and commonality of the town of Kingston.
PETER MARIUS GROEN, Speaker."
To which Mr. Livingston made the following reply.
"TO THE TRUSTEES, &c.
"GENTLEMEN, You do justice to my feelings when you believe that I revisit with pleasure my friends and my country. That pleasure is however, greatly heightened by the approbation you offer to the manner in which I have discharged the trust reposed in me by the President of the United States.—A full conviction of the wisdom of his measures, and of their tendency to promote the best interest of our country, makes me see with the highest satisfaction that they are in a very important point, duly appreciated by so respectable a class of my fellow-citizens."
The mention you are pleased to make of my revolutionary services is the more flattering, as it is made by you who have shared them, and on the spot on which the pure flame of liberty blazed in the most trying times. It was in Kingston that the sacred fire was kept alive, when the hand of power had almost banished it from the greatest part of the state.
Accept, Gentlemen, my thanks for your professions of personal friendship, which I sincerely reciprocate, and for your good wishes, and permit me to express my hopes that you and your constituents will be blessed with the
smiles of Heaven, and the inhabitants of Kingston enjoy in future, a happiness proportioned to the evils they have suffered in aiding to establish the freedom of our country.
BOSTON, SEPT. 4.
Melancholy Accident. —On the 15th August, Mr. Ellis Damon, of Hanover, in this state, who had contracted to erect a monument* on Boon Island, off York harbor, failed from this harbour, with seven hands, and the materials for the building, in a Hingham Packet, accompanied by the United States Revenue Cutter.—On the 17th, the materials were landed; and on the 25th, the work was completed; at which time there was such a heavy surf running, as to prevent the Cutter's boat from taking off the people. On the 27th, the surf having abated, and the people being in want of water, an attempt was made to take them off, by backing the Cutter's boat towards the rocks:—Mr. Damon, two young men, named Chubbuck, and a young son of Mr. Damon, got on board the boat; but in attempting to take another on board, the boat was hove on the rocks, where she hung until the next sea, which upset her, and put the whole, ten in number, into the breakers;—where Mr. Damon, and the two Chubbucks, were unfortunately drowned. The rest escaped on the rocks. Capt. Williams, in the Cutter, seeing the situation of the people on shore, with the two people left with him, hove up, and ran over to Cape Neddock, procured two boats, and some hands; and on the 28th took off all the people. By this time, Mr. Lincoln, the mate of the Cutter, had repaired the boat; and the remainder of Mr. Damon's people, and the Cutter's crew, safely arrived here in her, on Friday last.—The bodies of the two young men (Chubbucks) washed ashore on Boon Island, and were buried there. The body of Mr. Damon was taken up in Ipswich Bay, about three leagues from Plumb Island, and on Saturday last, carried to Newburyport, and decently interred on Sunday. His papers, containing a plan of the Monument, and a contract with Gen. Lincoln, for building it, are in the possession of the Coroner, at Newburyport.—Mr. Damon is well known, as an industrious, worthy citizen, an ingenious mechanic and valuable member of society.
* This monument is an octagon edifice, 40 feet high.
SEPT. 7.
FRENCH-AMERICAN BILLS.
Many of our readers are interested to learn the progress made in Paris, in issuing the bills drawn on the United States treasury for the awards for French spoliations of American property. The whole sum appropriated to the claims, by the Convention with France is not to exceed Twenty Millions of francs.—[The par of a Franc is 18 cents and three fourths.] Of this sum, at the last dates, bills to the amount of about eight millions of francs had been drawn; and two millions more were ready. The residue would meet some small delay, from the absence of the French Minister of Finance, in Italy with the Emperor. These bills are variously drawn—some at sight, others at 30, 40, 60, and 90 days. Many of them have been received here dated in May and June last.
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
A letter from the American Consul, at Cowes, to the Collector of this port, dated July 5, 1805, informs, that the British quarantine laws require, "That each American vessel, having on board cotton, hoofs, horns and tips, hides (and a number of other articles not usually exported from the U. States) shall produce a declaration on oath, by the owner, proprietor, shipper or consignee, either stating of what country such goods are the produce, or that they are not the produce or manufacture of Turkey, or of any place in Africa, within the Straits of Gibraltar or in West Barbary, on the Atlantic Ocean. Such declaration to be made before some Magistrate of the port of shipping, and attested by such Magistrate, and by the British Consul or Vice Consul, or in case there is no Consul, by two known British merchants. In default of producing such declaration, the ship and cargo will be subject to quarantine."
A letter received at New-York, from a Mr. Hartford, of Darien, (Georgia) no date, says, "Intelligence has reached this place that an English fleet of nine sail of the line and frigates, &c. are at anchor in the mouth of St. John's river, and that their objects is the conquest of Florida. The Spaniards are extremely alarmed, and all is bustle and confusion."
NAVY AFFAIRS.
We understand considerable activity prevails in the Navy Department of the United States. Orders we believe have been given to put a respectable force in a state of preparation.

Portsmouth, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1805.
AFFAIRS WITH TRIPOLI.
In our last we announced the emancipation of our fellow countrymen late captives in Tripoli; and that a peace had been concluded between the United States and that Regency. Since then, the intelligence has been confirmed by Capt. Sigmonds, from Gibraltar; who learnt there, that the terms were, a mutual exchange of prisoners as far as those in our possession would go, and a ransom of 60,000 dollars, for the remainder. Nothing had transpired respecting the fate of our new ally, the Bashaw Sadi Hamet Caramani; nor what agency Gen. Eaton had in the negotiation of peace. The Salem Register, of Monday, says, as speaking with authority, that "Mr. Eaton acted under the express command of the government of the United States."—If this be fact the interests of the above Bashaw cannot be defended by the United States. Letters from Naples, to the 22d June, 1805, mention the treaty of Peace as having been concluded with the reigning Bashaw of Tripoli.
General Moreau has been waited on in the most respectable manner, by the principal characters in the city of Philadelphia, and has accepted an invitation for a public dinner, to be given in October next. He left Philadelphia on Thursday, for his seat at Morristown.
A letter from Paris states, "that the drawing of the Bills for American claims was fast progressing."
ANOTHER EXPEDITION.
Capt. Taylor, arrived at Charleston, from Malaga, which he left the 22d July, informs, that a French and Spanish expedition, composed of six ships of the line, and 6000 troops, had sailed from Carthagena, supposed for Egypt; and had been followed by an English force of equal strength.
HEALTH OF OUR TOWNS.
We have accounts of the prevalence of excellent health in all our towns, excepting Philadelphia. A malignant fever exists in one of the Liberties of that city; and the board of Health has ordered daily returns to be made of its victims. At our last dates, the contagion was confined to narrow limits. Deaths in Boston, from Friday August 30, to Thursday the 5th September following, both included, 43.
On the 6th of August departed this life, at the Havannah, Mr. GEORGE CLIFFORD, the only son of Ebenezer Clifford, Esq. of Exeter,—this valuable young man, inherited a double portion of those excellent mechanical powers, for which his father, is so eminently distinguished; and having served an honorable apprenticeship, with the ingenious Mr. Boardman of this town, he repaired to the Havannah, in the fond hope of obtaining more than a competence; and anticipated a partial repayment of the manifold obligations of infancy, childhood and youth, to a parent whom he revered, a mother that he was filially attached to, and sisters, whom he delighted to please;—but death reaped in the aisle of 6 months; and loosed the silver cord of life, at early 22.—Thus the most flattering expectations are blasted; the hope of youth is unrealized, and the staff of age broken in pieces! Come, resignation, Oh! from heaven descend! And pour thy balm on the rankling wound; Be thou, henceforth, a father's constant friend, And circling round rest charities around, On a fond mother's anguished bosom shed; That calm submission which resigns the dead; To HIM who gives, who takes; and yet in all his ways, Is ever worthy of eternal praise.
DIED—At Concord (N. H.) Mr. HUBBARD GALE, aged 25 years. In Newburgh (N. Y.) John Skey Eustace, Esq. aged 46. He was aid-de-camp to Gen. Charles Lee, and of considerable merit as an officer during the revolutionary war. In this town, a Child of Capt. John Underwood.
Cure for the Jaundice.
At this season of the year, when so many are afflicted with jaundice complaints—It is a pity, that the good effects of Doctor Wheaton's Jaundice Bitters were not more generally known. They have helped in many instances, where all other remedies have failed. They are highly approved at this season of the year, to either remove that sickly, indigestive, laxity habit of the stomach and bowels, or to ward off those complaints, common at this season, and keep all the pores of the body in their proper tone. A fresh supply of this excellent medicine is just received and for sale at the Book-store of C. PEIRCE, Portsmouth, price 50 cts. a box. Portsmouth, September 10.
Fourth Turnpike.
NOTICE is hereby given to those Proprietors of the Fourth Turnpike Road in New-Hampshire, who reside in Portsmouth, that the Treasurer will attend at Chadwick's Inn, in Portsmouth on Tuesday the 24th inst. for the purpose of receiving the assessments due on their shares. THOMAS W. THOMPSON. Treasurer.
Sept. 4, 1805.
NOTICE is hereby given to the creditors of Doctor GODFREY WALDO, of Gilmanton, in the District of New Hampshire, against whom a Commission of Bankruptcy has been awarded and proceeded on, that the commissioners named in said Commission, and the Assignee of the estate and effects of the said Waldo, will meet at the office of Charles Catts, Esq. in Portsmouth, in said District, on the fifteenth day of October next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of making the third and last dividend of the estate of the said Bankrupt; when and where those creditors of the said Waldo, who have not proved their debts, must come prepared to prove them, otherwise they will be excluded from the benefit of said dividend. STEPHEN MOODY, Assignee. Gilmanton, August 30th, 1805.
To the Honorable General Court to be convened at Concord, on the first Wednesday of June next,—We whose names are hereunto subscribed, respectfully beg leave to represent;—
THAT the common highway thro' Stratham is extremely circuitous, subjecting all who travel from the country through Exeter to Portsmouth, to the necessity of performing a circuit (between Exeter and Greenland) of more than eight miles and three quarters, when a road might be made on ground very favorable for the purpose, which would shorten the distance of travel between the towns last mentioned, more than two miles, as appears by an actual survey, which we beg leave herewith to present to the view of the Honorable court.
That we consider it a very desirable object to promote the increase of our principal seaport town, and with this view are disposed to facilitate the intercourse between it and the back country, by all the means in our power;—We beg leave to suggest that measures of this tendency appear to be peculiarly necessary from a geographical view of the situation of Portsmouth, which is less favorable for commercial intercourse with much of the back country, than the position of several seaports in the state of Massachusetts;—and may we be permitted also to state, that we are superintended to trouble the Honorable court on this occasion, by a full persuasion that states derive no small share of their relative weight and importance in the scale of the nation, from the wealth and respectability of their capital cities.
We beg leave also to represent that the inhabitants in & near Exeter, are interested in navigation to a considerable amount, and on account of obstructions in the river, they are under the necessity of loading and unloading their vessels at Portsmouth, and are constantly subjected to the necessity of travelling about fourteen and an half miles; when by opening a road from Exeter to Greenland, and freightening the road from thence to Portsmouth, a saving would be made of about three miles; in addition to the essential benefit of having a freight and wide road, so much less liable to obstructions from heavy falls of snow, than the narrow, crooked roads now in use.
Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray, that we and our associates may be incorporated and empowered, to lay out, make and keep in repair a Turnpike road, four rods wide, from the Court house in Exeter, to Greenland square near the meeting house, on a line as direct as the nature of the ground will admit, with liberty to erect gates on and across the said road, and with power to collect a toll to defray the expence of making and keeping said road in repair, with such privileges, and under such limitations and restrictions as to the Honorable court may seem meet,—and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.
Signed by EPHRAIM ROBINSON, Exeter, Feb. 1805. and 63 others.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE—In the House of Representatives, June 8th, 1805.—
Upon reading and considering the foregoing petition and the report of a committee thereon,—Voted, that the petitioners be heard thereon before the General Court, on the first Tuesday of their 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, three weeks successively, the last publication to be six weeks prior to said day of hearing, also cause that the like substance, and order of Court be published in some public place in the towns of Exeter, Stratham and Greenland, the like term of time prior to said hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer may not be granted.
Sent up for concurrence, SAMUEL BELL, Speaker, In Senate the same day, read and concurred. JOHN A. HARPER, Clerk.
A true copy—ATTENT JOHN A. HARPER, Clerk of the Senate.
Duck, Cordage, &c.
LADD & SMITH,
Have for sale, FIRST, 2d. and 3d. quality Ruffia Duck; Raven's do. Ruffia Sheeting; Cordage and Boltpore, of various sizes; Iron &c. new vessels supplied with Anchors; sail Cloth; Rigging; and other Ship Chandlery, on good terms. Portsmouth, September 10.
SHOES.
WILLIAM ROSE,
Respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Portsmouth and its vicinity, that he has received and now offers for sale at No. 1, Market-street, a large and handsome assortment of Ladies and Gentlemens' SHOES, viz.
Ladies kid & morocco Shoes, do. cork sole and walking do. Gentlemens' Morroco do. do. Leather do. of a superior quality. Misses morocco and leather do. Mens' neats-leather do. Boys do. Fancy stuff do. Childrens' red morocco do. Suwarrow BOOTS; curried Goat Skins suitable for shoes or bindings; waxed and grained Leather for Suwarrow Boots or shoes.
Suwarrow & drawed Boot-Legs; blew, green, red and black MOROCCO SKINS, by the dozen or single; striped binding, do. &c. C.N. B. Those who wish to purchase for exportation or for country sale, may depend on good Shoes, and large sizes, and as low as can be procured in Boston or elsewhere. Portsmouth. Sept. 10.
A WATCH LOST.
LOST between Col. Walker's and Mr. Wm. Simes' Store; an English Silver WATCH; whoever has found the same and will return it to William Smith, Exeter, or to the printers hereof, shall receive five dollars reward. Sept. 10, 1805.
State of New-Hampshire—Stratford, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non resident owners of Land in the town of EFFINGHAM, in said county, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1805; that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, on or before the twenty-fifth day of December next, so much of their lands as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Carr Leavitt, in said Effingham, at ten o'clock A. M. on said day, unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 7 columns: NAMES, Number, Division, Quantity, County, School, Town. Lists tax amounts for various individuals in Effingham.
State of New-Hampshire—Stratford, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of MOULTONBOROUGH, county and State aforesaid, who have not paid their road, county, town and school taxes for the year 1805; 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 Samuel Burnham, innholder in said town, on the 25th day of December next, at 10 o'clock A. M. unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
SECOND DIVISION. COMMON.
Table with 7 columns: NAMES, Number, No. Acres, Road, County, School, Town. Lists tax amounts for various individuals in Moultonborough.
NEW FLOUR.
Now landing from Sloop Mary, 150 Bbls. Superfine FLOUR, from new Wheat, and a few bales up-land COTTON, For Sale by WALDRON & HOLMAN. Sept. 10th, 1805.
Important Notice.
OBSERVING in the last New-Hampshire Gazette, an Advertisement addressed "to Land speculators," offering for sale rights of Land, called the Governors rights, in Lemington, Highgate, Underhill, Averill, Ferdinand, Granby, Worcester, Wenlock, Stratton, Winhall, Bristol, Jamaica, Stockbridge, Mansfield, and Reading, in the State of Vermont, and in Littleton, Unity, Dryden, Warren, Franconia, Preston, and Woodbury, in New-Hampshire, which Advertisement is dated at Portsmouth, and signed John Wentworth—I am constrained in justice to myself, to such as may see that Advertisement, to all concerned, and to the public at large, to declare, and do declare, that the said John Wentworth has no power or authority to treat with any person in any manner respecting said rights of Land—that they are the sole and exclusive property of me the subscriber, as are also all the other Lands belonging to the Estate of the late Governor Benning Wentworth—I only have the power of disposing of them, and am ready to treat with any person respecting the sale of them—That no other has any such power from me, or otherwise. That I have duly revoked and annulled (before said advertisement)—all power and authority I ever gave the said John Wentworth, in any way or to any purpose. And do hereby in the most explicit manner, renew and make known that revocation. MARTHA WENTWORTH. Portsmouth, September 10, 1805.
WANTED
A smart active Lad, about 14 years of age, as an apprentice to the chaise making business—Enquire of the Printers, or WILLIAM SMITH, Exeter.
AUCTIONS.
THIS DAY.
Taken by Executions, AND to be sold at Public Auction this day at 10 o'clock A. M. on long Wharf, 14 Hhds. of MOLASSES; 6 Hhds. of RUM; 1 pipe BRANDY; 2 bales of India Cottons; 2 Chaise; 1 Coach; 7 Horses; 15 boxes of Tin Plate;—conditions made known at the time and place of sale. Portsmouth, September 10.
For Sale at Public Auction, THIS DAY,
13 Hhds. good favor'd Rum, at the Store, adjoining Mr. Robert Rice's, North-End—Conditions made known at the time and place of Sale. Sale to begin at 11 o'clock. C. BAYLEY, Auctioneer. September 10.
For Sale at AUCTION, TO-MORROW, September, 11,
at the house now occupied by Mr. Delande, in Buck Street, a variety of Household Furniture,
TABLES; Chairs; Looking-Glasses; Beds; Bedsteads; Carpets; China and Glass-Ware; Hand-Irons; Shovel and Tongs, &c. &c. With a variety of KITCHEN FURNITURE, and a number of empty Casks.—In Shop, Castle Soap; 1 Bbl. Almonds; 3 doz. bottles sweet meats; 12 bottles fresh Capers; 100 lb. best American Honey; 50 lb. Sulpher; 1 Sheat Iron Stove and funnel; 3 bushels Walnuts; Cinnamon; Cloves; Nutmegs; Allspice; Salt-petre; 10 doz. London Dolls; 100 lb. Sugar Plumbs; 50 lb. Peppermints; together with sundry other articles in shop, and Shop Furniture. N. B. Also 2 barrels old Vinegar. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock, terms known at the time. CAZNEAU BAYLEY, aud'tr. Portsmouth, Sept. 10.
TO-MORROW.
To be Sold at Auction on Wednesday next, at 12 o'clock, on the premises,
THE HOUSE and Land in Buck Street, now occupied by Mrs. Horney. Terms made known at the sale. S. LITTLE, Auctioneer. Portsmouth, Sept. 10, 1805.
To be Sold at Auction on
Saturday next, September 14, at Bayley's Auction Room, Daniel-street, viz. 1000 pair Womens' Morroco and Cloth SHOES; 100 pair Misses' Morroco do. 200 do. Childrens' do. do. 40 do. Suwarrow BOOTS. Conditions made known at time and place of Sale. Sale at 10 o'clock, A. M. C. BAYLEY Auctioneer. September 10.
To be Sold at AUCTION,
On THURSDAY, the 19th day of September, on the Premises, THAT House and Land in Buck Street now occupied by the subscriber, terms made known at the sale. S. LITTLE.
S. LITTLE, wants to purchase, 500 Bbls. CIDER, and pay in English or West-India Goods. Portsmouth Sept. 10.
To be sold at Auction on Tuesday
24th Sept. inst. if not previously sold at private sale.
A NEW Dwelling-House, 40 by 30 feet, two stories high, land fronting on Water Street 51 feet and 82 feet on the Street leading from Water to Washington-street, with a good well of water and pump, wood-house and barn, with other conveniences,—this valuable property is fronting opposite to Capt. Abram Shaw's fourth end, near Liberty bridge;—Conditions, one third to be paid down, one third in six, and the remainder in 12 months, on giving approved notes,—a warrantee deed will be given,—sale at 11 o'clock a. m. on the premises. ALEX'R EWEN, auctioneer. Portsmouth, Sept. 10, 1805.
FOR PHILADELPHIA.
THE Schooner SYLVIAN, Wm. Trefethen, master, now lying at Mr. Jacob Sheafe's wharf, to sail in 5 days;—for freight or passage, apply to the master on board. Portsmouth, Sept. 10, 1805.
Rockingham ss.
ON Monday, the 16th day of September instant, I shall exhibit to the Judge of Probate, my account of administering the estate of SIMEON STEVENS, late of Stratham, deceased, for examination and allowance. NICHOLAS ROLLINS. Sept. 3, 1805.

Miscellaneous Repository.
The following elegant trifle is from the American Citizen.
TO A HUMMING BIRD. Light wand'rer of the summer sky, Whose glossy plumes of beauteous dyes, To my charm'd sight in shades unfold Each lucid tint besprent with gold. Oh! loveliest of the tribes of air, To yonder od'rous shade repair; For there the lily spreads her charms, And soothes thee to her flowery arms; And there the honey-suckle blows, And proudly spreads each rival rose, Repose the mingled blooms beneath, And sounds of softest music breathe; Attention o'er each sense will steal; Each nerve the tender strain shall feel; Of hapless love the tale shall tell, And ev'ry note in its fine swell, To my fond heart thy tale relate, And mourn perhaps thy tiny mate, By treacherous human wiles ensnar'd, And plac'd within the wiry snare, To prove of absence every pain, And of lost liberty complain; Perchance, yet sweeter, the long must be Of love and sad captivity. Oh fly not! quit not yet my sight, Still rest thou airy little sprite! For sure thou art of fairy kind, And for their uses were design'd. Oft hast thou soothed with plaintive strain Of Oberon the jealous pain, Or near the fair Titania's ear, Charm'd to repose her ev'ry care The while her sportive elfin throng, Hung round enamour'd of the song, And when with their green retreat, In mystic dance at eve's soft hour, They press the turf with tiny feet, Thou art the minister of their boon.
CLARA.
WIT AT A PINCH.
A COUNTRY girl one morning went To market with a pig; The little quirk-tail, not content, Squall'd out a merry jig. A gentleman who passed by Laugh'd much, and jeering spoke, "I wonder, Miss, your child will cry "When wrapt up in your cloak." "Why, Sir, (quite pert the girl replied) "So bad a breeding had he, "That ever and anon he cries, "When'er he sees—his daddy!"
Agriculture.
Encouragement of the Plough. The Society of Agriculture and Arts at Paris has been lately occupied with the improvement of the plough, and with much ceremony and compliment have decreed the offer of a Medal to our President for his valuable communications on this subject—the following is a translation from the Monitor of part of the proceedings of the Society. "The Society takes honor to itself for decreeing the second medal to the illustrious Jefferson, President of the United States of America. It is interesting indeed to see the First Magistrate of a great republic, lending his talents and name to the humble instrument of labor—and it is a circumstance worthy of remark in the history of this age, and of the new world, that America having received the plough from Europe, returned the present perfected and complete. The Society cannot offer Mr. Jefferson a more expressive mark of their gratitude than by sending him a collection of the memoirs of this assembly, and an account of its proceedings—This homage indeed is the only one worthy of the friend of the plough—for an elevated mind, a generous heart, receives for the service it renders mankind its true recompence in the benefit itself." Note.—Mr. Armstrong, Ambassador to his Imperial Majesty from the United States, was invited to attend the sitting, to receive the medal destined for the president, but his health did not permit him to appear.
A pound of Turnip-Seed, sown after harvest, upon an acre of light, sandy or gravelly land, that is poor, or worn out by over ploughing, and where manure is wanting (the crop of which being ploughed in, when grown high) will in two months time, die away and rot, and enrich the land, so as to prove as good a manuring as twenty loads of dung, or more, upon an acre.
ANECDOOTE.
As some of the British officers were once conversing with Dr. Stearns, an American astronomer, on the hardness of the times, whilst the late war continued in America, one of them, thinking to smoke the doctor, said to him, "Pray, Sir, as you are a mathematician, can you tell us how long it will take to surmount insurmountable difficulties?" "Yes, Sir, (answered the doctor) just as long as it will take you to get at the bottom of the bottomless pit." "O devil take you, (said the officer), you are too deep for me."
THE MANAGERS OF Piscataqua Bridge Lottery, Offer to the Public the following SCHEME, OF THE Fourth Class.
Prizes. Dollars. 1 of 8,000 Dolls. is 8,000 4 : 1000 do. : 4000 4 : 500 do. : 2000 100 : 100 do. : 10000 100 : 50 do. : 5000 100 : 20 do. : 2000 1 : 100 { First drawn } 100 1 : 100 { Blank } 1 : 100 { Last drawn } 100 1 : 100 { Blank } 3600 : 8 do. : 28800 3911 60,000
12,000 TICKETS at 5 Dollars, is 60,000 Dollars, Subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 per cent.
Capital Prizes determinable on the following days.
First drawn number against a blank on the 5th day, : 1000 Dolls. 10th do. : 1000 15th do. : 1000 20th do. : 8000 24th do. : 1000
300 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 finished 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.
An early day will be appointed for drawing in Boston. The Managers flatter themselves that the punctuality observed in the 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.
Nearly half the Tickets are already engaged. The vendors of Tickets in the remote towns are requested to give as early notice as possible of the number they intend to keep, or have disposed of, that an early day may be fixed for drawing.
Tickets ready for sale at the usual places.
Printers who advertised the former schemes, are desired to insert this in their respective papers. AUGUST 27.
New Publications and EDITIONS.
The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, in 8 large octavo Vols. by Edward Gibbon. price 22 dolls.
The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic, by Adam Ferguson, L. L. D. T. E. S. P. in 3 octavo Vols. price 45/.
The Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece during the middle of the 4th century, before the christian Era, by the Abbe Barthelemy, in 4 large 8 vo Vols. price 9 dolls. handsomely bound and lettered.
The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a view of the progress of Society in Europe, from the subversion of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the 16th century, in 3 octavo Vols. price 45/.
The History of Modern Europe in 5 large octavo Vols. by William Russell, L. L. D. price 13 dolls and 50 cts.
The History of Ancient Europe, with a view of the Revolutions in Asia and Africa, in 2 Vols. Octavo by William Russell, L. L. D. price 5 dolls.
Plutarch's Lives, translated from the original Greek, with notes critical and historical, and a new life, in 6 vols. by John & William Langhorne, handsomely bound and lettered. price 7 dolls.
The above, with a great variety of other valuable Lots of Books, suitable and very excellent for public, private or social Libraries, are just received and for sale at CHARLES PEACE'S Bookstore in Daniel-street. Portsmouth Aug. 27, 1805.
TAKE NOTICE.—A bargain.
John Underwood, HAS prepared Yarns for a GANG of shrouds superior for fineness to any that he has ever spun, and now offers for sale,—any person who wishes to purchase, can call and see the Yarns for themselves; the yarn is seven fizes smaller than the rule is for government.
YARN & CORDAGE, of different fizes, cheap for call. Portsmouth August 25, 1805.
For sale at No. 12, Market-street, A neat volume of SERMONS, —By ELIAS SMITH. Price, 3/9.
Installation.
THE Morning Star Lodge of Ancient Masons will be installed at Moultonborough, on Monday the 30th day of September next, in due form.
Brethren of the Craft, who can make it convenient, are invited to attend. Per Order, CHARLES LITTLE, Secretary. August, A. L. 5805.
FOR SALE,
THE brig HOPE, 110 tons burthen, well calculated for the West India trade; a remarkable fast sailer, and in every respect well found. Apply to JOSEPH CHASE, No. 7, Long-wharf. Aug. 20.
NEW GOODS.
Henderson & Cooper,
Have just received a large assortment of
FASHIONABLE & OTHER
GOODS,
WHICH ARE NOW OPENING—VIZ.
A great variety of
PLAID, plain, salmon color'd and black Chambray Muslins; elegant laced Cambrics; emboss'd Cambrics; pink, dark, mourning, and common Calicoes; Furnitures; tape-stripe, narrow and corded Dimities; Muslinets.
Black and colored Sarfnet Cambrics; farfnet jacquet, book jacquet and Cambric Muslins; spotted Book Muslins; black Cypress Shawls; black Crapes; black Bombazens.
Cambric fatin check'd, color'd cambric, purple & chinz Shawls; Peacate Veils; black Veils; white and black Netting; black and white Cypress.
A large assortment of
Fashionable corded, silk velvet, white and figured Mercilless Velveting; printed Jeans; Men's plain and ribb'd Satins; silk Nankinees; cotton Cashmeres; yellow Nankinees; Jeans; Fustians; plain and ribb'd Velvets.
A large variety of
Women's habit, black grain and extra long kid Gloves; long white kid Gloves; black and white pic nic Gloves, and Mitts; extra long white black and colored silk Gloves; women and men's white and color'd cotton Gloves; beaver Gloves; fashionable white, black and spangled Crap Fans; Parasols.
Women's white and black silk Hose for 10/ pair; women's superfine white and black cotton Hose; Millies cotton Hose; men's outsize plain and fine ribb'd cotton Hose; men's black cotton Hose; youth's white & colored Hose; men's brown Hemp Hose; mens vandyke & imperial Hose.
India & Florence Lutestrings; Modes; Sarfnetes; Gaufes; Milinees; black Laces; Edgings; Linen, cotton, bandannae, check'd and black silk Handkerchiefs.
Silk and cotton Umbrellas; cotton and silk Braces; colored Threads; Ferrers; Gallons; Cap Wire; shirt Buttons; Flots Thread.
Irish Linens; brown Hollands; Sewing Silks; black Velvet Bindings; worsted Bindings; gilt and plated Buttons; India Cottons; India Chintzes; Madras long Cloths; Checks.
Superfine and common blue and black Broad Cloths; Cashmeres; woolen Cord; Thicksets.
Callimancoes; Satinets; Durans; Moreens; plain and ribb'd black Wildbores.
A large assortment of
Men's and youth's HATS.
India NANKINS. No. 3, Cheap-side, Market-street. Portsmouth, May 7, 1803.
THREE convenient
BRICK HOUSES, finished off in a genteel manner, each having a good cellar, with or without Stores, or two Stores without Houses; to be let on reasonable terms. For particulars, inquire of NEIL MINTIRE. Portsmouth, August 12, 1805.
WHEREAS Deborah my wife, has absented herself from my bed and board, without my consent, and against my will and will,—This is to caution all persons against harboring her, or trusting her on my account, as I am determined not to pay one cent of any debt which she may contract. PHILIP HARDY. Pelham, August 20, 1805.
NOTICE.
THE person who took a WATCH out of the subscriber's house on Sunday morning last, August 25, between the hours of six and seven o'clock, are informed that if they will return said Watch immediately, there shall be no questions asked,—otherwise the person shall be exposed to the public, as their name is well known, and were seen to go into the house at that time. BENJAMIN MOSES. Portsmouth, August 27.
Stone PICKLE POTS.
S. LARKIN, has just received an assortment of very nice STONE PICKLE POTS, from a quart to 3 gallons—Also, an assortment of STONE JUGS all fizes, for sale at his store, nearly opposite the Brick Market. August 20.
JOHN WARNER
Has for Sale, opposite the Court-House, INDIA Calicoes; Cotton Checks; India Chintzes; India Handkerchiefs; blue Gurrabs; India Cuffs; plain Calicoes; Chintzes; Linens; Shirting Cottons; glazed white cotton Cambrics; brown Hollands; olive and black Cords; Velvets and Thickset; black and fancy Nankinees and Nankinees; yellow and blue India Nankinees; olive Jean; Fustian; English Boff Nankinees; mixed cotton Caffe-mere; patent twilled blue do. Marceilles Quiltings; Fancy Jeans; flate and drab Cambrics; black do. flate Ginghams; white cotton Cambrics; sprigged Muslins; Book do. 3-4 4-6 4-8 black, Laloc and plumb colored farfnet Cambrics; Dimities; white, pink, buff and flate colored long silk Gloves; long and short kid do. Cotton do. Chambray Muslins; Persians; Bandana Handkerchiefs; black Morocco Shoes; white and colored Threads; straw Bonnets; Chip Hats; Cotton Hose, various kinds; felt Hats; pocket Handkerchiefs; 9-8 Table Cloths; purple Shawls; Cotton Umbrellas; India Fans; Bed Ticks; Ruffles; Shalloons; blue, black, mixed and Corbeau Broad Cloths; Cashmeres; twilled and plain drab colored Coating, &c. Also as above.
20 Hhds. good flavored
RUM,
Pipes of BRANDY and GIN; Chests Souchong TEA; A few casks RAISINS, and Fig TOBACCO. July 16.
HOUSE LOTS for sale.
For sale, on long credit and at reasonable prices,
FORTY House Lots, of 50 by 100 feet, adjoining Illington road and near the dwelling-house of Joseph Akerman, Esq. in a very elevated and dry situation—Also—
Thirty House Lots of the same dimensions, lying near Middle road, opposite the mansion house of Mr. Austin; all of which are within 100 rods of the State-House. For further particulars, apply to the Printers. Portsmouth, August 6, 1805.
FOR SALE,
On Monday, the 16th of September.
Will be sold at Public Vendue, on the 16th of September next, one o'clock P.M. on the premises—
A FARM in Nottingham, containing one hundred & fifty acres, lying on the road leading from Northwood to Portsmouth or Exeter, and is under good improvement; it has a good House and Barn, with mowing, pasturing and wood Land, and a large young orchard with good accommodations, well watered—Any person who wishes to purchase, may expect to pay a small part down, for the balance with interest, a generous time will be given. SAMUEL WILLEY. Concord, August 15, 1805.
THE old adage says
"It is a cross dog that bites before he barks," THE subscriber has been alternately growing and barking at some of his customers, for two years past and he is confident if he is now obliged to bite, the appropriation of being a "cross dog" cannot with justice be affixed to his character.
As the contract for carrying the mail ends the 1st of October next delinquent customers will please to settle their accounts previous to that time.
WILLIAM THAYER.
N. B. The subscriber not expecting to ride after the above term of time, informs those indebted to him, that all accounts unfunded will be left with a Lawyer.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE subscriber not intending to follow his old business any longer than October next, earnestly requests all indebted to him either by note or account, to settle the same before the last of September next, otherwise he shall be under the disagreeable necessity of calling in a more serious way. Those who live off the road will leave their business with some person on the same, to settle in their absence, as it is inconvenient for him to go off the Post-road. Accounts will be made out up to October 1st, 1805; he will be ready for a settlement by the first of September next.
The subscriber returns his sincere thanks for all favors received from those gentlemen who in the world of times have proved themselves to be his sincere friends, and should be happy to serve them—As a settlement is absolutely necessary at this time, he wills every one to be in readiness. JONATHAN EDGERLY. Epping, August 15, 1805.
ALL persons who are in-
debted to the Estate of JOHN HARVEY, yeoman, late of Nottingham, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscriber; and all who have any demands against said estate are requested to exhibit them for adjustment to
ROBERT HARVEY, Admin'r. Nottingham, August 25, 1805.
LIME.
115 casks of Thomastown LIME, for sale by E. THOMPSON. Bow-street, August 20, 1805.
RAGS
Wanted—apply to this office.
Peter Coffin,
Has just received per the ships Galen, Packet and John Adams, from England; a great variety of Fashionable, Fancy & Staple GOODS; which are now opening.—Viz.—
A great variety of CHINTZES and Calicoes; Chintz, dimity and copperplate Furnitures; Muslinets; Dimities.
Book, jacquet, cambrick and lace Mullins; color'd farfnet Cambricks; muslin Handkerchiefs; linen, cotton, bandanno and black silk Handkerchiefs.
Lustrings; Italian and Florence Silks; black, white, and green double Sarfnetes; India Persians; Modes; Satins; Tiffanies; black and color'd Crapes; black and white Parafnet; Gauzes; Milinets; black Cypres.
Elegant white and black lace Veils, from 3 to 15 dollars; blk lace Cloaks and Spencers; wide black Lace for Cloaks and Shawls; a large assortment thread Laces and Edgings; a variety of Ribbons; cotton and silk gown Trimmings; gold & silver Trimmings; Fringes; silk Cords; cotton and silk Girdles.—A great variety—
Cane, willow and straw Bonnets and Hats; fancy Flowers and Wreaths; Feathers; a variety of Fans; Parasols with and without walking canes; cotton and silk Umbrellas; a great variety of black and fancy kid Shoes; Rofets.
Men's and youth's cotton, hemp and silk Hose; women's white, black and color'd cotton Hose; women's white, black and flate silk Hose; some with lace clocks; women's plain pic-nic and vandyke silk Gloves and Mitts; cotton Gloves and Mitts; kid Gloves; men's beaver, woodstock, thread and silk Gloves; stock Stiffeners; cotton and silk Braces.
Superfine, middling and low priced Broad Cloths; Cashmeres; Fashionable Waistcoating; Jeans; Fustians; Cotton Cashmeres; Patent buff Nankinees; black and colored Nankinees; Thicksets, Velvets.
Linens; Sheetings; Brown holland; Table Cloths of all fizes; Counterpanes; Diapers; yellow and green Canvas; check Linens; Threads; embroidering and sewing Silks; white and chintz bed Lace, Fringes, Cords and Tassels.
Tammies; Durants; Shalloons; Ruffles; Calimancoes; Moreens; Florentines; Satinets; Lastings. a large assortment
India Cottons; cheap India Chintzes; a great variety of CARPETING, &c. &c. &c. Portsmouth, May 14, 1805.
CHEAP,
NEW & FASHIONABLE
GOODS.
Just received by DANIEL WEEKS,
at No. 2 Market-street, a variety of Seasonable Goods, among which are,
Lace Cambrics; Japan'd Mullins; black and plaid Chambray Mullins; Elegant & Lace Cambric Shawls; Fashionable muslin do.;
A great variety of
1/8 and 1/4 black and colored Sarfnet Cambrics; 1/2 and 3/4 white Cambric Mullins; 1/2 Glazed ditto;
Ladies black, white, flate and rose colored Silk Hose;
White and flate colored cotton do.;
Pic nic Gloves and Mitts;
Fashionable willow and straw Bonnets;
Clip Flats for Bonnets;
Fashionable Ribbons;
Cheap black Crapes; India Cottons;
Blue Nankinees; Fine Dimities at 2s. per yd.;
Superfine Broad Cloths and Cashmeres;
Black and Olive Velvets;
Cotton Cashmeres;
Beaver Hats; Morocco Slippers, &c.
The above with a variety of other Articles just received will be sold remarkably Cheap. July 15, 1805.
One gallon Cider reward.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber on the Twenty-fifth ult.—a person by the name of JOSEPH BROWN, a pauper, aged 75; the father of the town having put the above named person in the care of the subscriber, he therefore forbids all persons harboring or trusting him, as they would wish to avoid the penalties of the Law: Any person returning said pauper, shall receive the above reward, and no charges paid. JOSIAH BLAKE. Kennington, August 25, 1805.
THE
CHRISTIAN'S MAGAZINE.
No. 2,—For sale at the Gazette office.