The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1804-04-17 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
"By adopting REPUBLICANISM for our Polar Star, we shall endeavor 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 NATHANIEL S. & W. PEIRCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
SHOES & BOOTS.
Robert M'Cleary,
RESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Portsmouth and its vicinity, that he has just received, and now ready for sale, at his store in Congress-street, three doors west of the Bell Tavern, a handsome assortment of
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN'S
SHOES;
which are as follows,
 Ladies and Gentlemen's black morocco SHOES & SLIPPERS;  do. English & American black, blue, pink, straw, purple & plaid Kid do.  do. Red, yellow, green & morocco do.  do. Jane and Nankkeen, do.  do. Assorted Stuff, do.  do. Leather, do.  Misses Leather, Morocco & Kid, do.  Boys lin'd & bound, & common Shoes.  Children's red, green and yellow Morocco, do.  do. Leather, do.  Ladies red and black Morocco Walking, do.  do. English & American Cork Soles; do. do. that Lace.  Men's and Boys HATS.  MASONIC APRON PATTERNS.  Red, yellow & black Morocco SKINS.  SUWARROW BOOTS. Also,  A variety of  TRUNKS. 
*** All the above articles will be sold low for cash, but no credit by retail. Allowance made to wholesale purchasers, for cash or approved notes.
Portsmouth, April 10, 1804.
VARIOUS EDITIONS OF THE
HOLY BIBLE,
Just Published by MATTHEW CARY, of Philadelphia, and now received and for sale by C. PEIRCE, Portsmouth.
 No. 1, Quarto Bible, 3 dolls. & 50 cents  2, do do 3 dolls. & 75 cents  3, do do Four dollars  4, do do 4 dolls. & 25 cents  5, do do 4 dolls. & 75 cents  6, do do 5 dolls. & 25 cents  7, do do Five dollars  8, do do 5 dolls. & 50 cents  9, do do Six dollars  10, do do Seven dollars  11, do do 7 dolls. & 50 cents  12, do do Eight dollars  13, do do 8 dolls. & 25 cents  14, do do Nine dollars  15, do do 9 dolls. & 25 cents  16, do do 9 dolls. & 50 cents  17, do do Ten dollars  18, do do 10 dolls. & 25 cents 
Also, small School Bibles, 1 dollar. C. PEIRCE has also lately received from Europe, an assortment of BIBLES, from 1 to 18 dollars each, all of which are exceedingly cheap, according to their sizes, and the execution of the work. And he hopes, since New-Hampshire produces such an extensive affluence of Bibles, there will not be one family in this enlightened State, without one of those inestimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge in it.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having demands against JOSIAH BLAKE, of Portsmouth, are desired to bring in their claims immediately to the subscribers, they being appointed by the principal creditors (and have power from said Blake) to receive all claims and collect all debts for the purpose of a dividend.—And all persons indebted to said Blake by Note or otherwise, are desired to call and settle immediately, otherwise they will be put in suit without further notice.
JOSEPH ELA,
ASA DEARBORN.
Portsmouth, April 10, 1804.
THE SUBSCRIBERS
BEING duly appointed commissioners to examine the claims against the estate of ELISHA SEVER, late of Kingston, husbandman, deceased, represented intestate,—hereby give notice, that they will attend upon that business at the house of Major JACOB PEASLEE, innholder in said Kingston, the first Monday of April next, and of the four following months, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
LEVI BARTLETT,
JACOB PEASLEE.
Kingston, March 20, 1804.
WANTED,
A steady, sober and industrious man, well acquainted with Farming. Such a one, may get employ for the season, or for the course of six months.
For further particulars apply to
MOSES WOODWARD.
Portsmouth, April 10, 1804.
Grand-Lodge.
THE officers and members of the GRAND LODGE of New-Hampshire, the district deputy grand masters, and the masters and wardens of subordinate lodges are informed that the annual election and grand quarterly communication will be held at the lodge room in Portsmouth on Wednesday the 25th inst. at 7 o'clock P. M.
By order, L. SPALDING, Grand Sec'y. Portsmouth, April 10th, A.L. 5804.
Cure for the JAUNDICE.
WHEATON'S genuine, patent, Jaundice BITTERS,
ARE TO BE SOLD BY JOHN JACKSON, At his shop in Buck-street, at the reduced price of fifty Cents per box.
THE many encomiums already passed upon the virtues of this excellent medicine, and the abundant testimony from long experience corroborating them, supercede the necessity of enlarging at present.
Wheaton's patent ITCH OINTMENT, sold at the same place. Also, (as usual,) a general assortment of Drugs & English patent Medicines, Pocket Instruments, Spring Trusses, Elastic Catheters, &c. and Painter's Colours. April 10, 1804.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
SCHEME
OF THE SECOND CLASS of a Lottery for raising two thousand dollars for the use of the ATKINSON ACADEMY, exclusive of incidental expense, granted by a law of said State, passed June 11th, 1803.
This Class consists of 10,000 Tickets, at 2 dollars each—to be drawn in Prizes subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 pr. cent.
   1 of 1500 dolls. is 1200 dolls.    1 : 600 : : 600  1 : 400 : : 400  1 : 300 : : 300  2 : 200 : : 400  4 : 100 : : 400  11 : 50 : : 550  15 : 30 : : 450  20 : 15 : : 300  520 : 8 : : 4160  2810 : 4 : : 11240  
3386 Prizes. 20000
6614 Blanks.
The Prize of 600 dollars is assigned to the last drawn blank.
Drawing to commence the first Monday of September, 1804.
JOHN CALFE, } Managers. EZEKIEL GILE, } LEVI BARTLETT, }
WHOLE & QUARTER TICKETS in the above Lottery, for sale at N. S. & W. Peirce's, Congress-street, Portsmouth. April 10, 1804.
Improved Patent Bedstead.
THE Subscribers having observed and experienced many inconveniences attending the fixing, putting up, and taking down that necessary Article of Furniture, the Bedstead, have invented an improvement to remedy those inconveniences. Being equally applicable to common Bedsteads, with Sacking Bottoms, as to more costly ones, they persuade themselves it will meet with general approbation. It would exceed the limits of an advertisement to be particular in describing the structure and advantages. It may suffice to say, the Bedstead is firmly fastened at the corners, without the troublesome operose contrivance and use of screws. It may be easily put up by one person, and little more time is required for taking it down by one person, than would be necessary for putting up and taken down the leaves of a Dining Table. These advantages are obvious in an article which requires frequent examination, and is frequently removed, but the special advantages in case of Fire will be perceived at once by those who have been obliged to remove and save furniture on such occasions of hurry and distress—The subscribers flatter themselves that an invention combining simplicity, usefulness, and cheapness, will be encouraged by a generous public. The new constructed Patent Bedstead may be seen at Mr. Wyatt's work shop in Daniel-street.
WARD GILMAN, } Paten. WILLIAM JACKSON, } tess. Portsmouth, April 10, 1804.
(By AUTHORITY.)
EIGHTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, at the First Session begun and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday the seventeenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and three.
AN ACT
Further to amend the act entitled "an act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the collectors of the direct tax, under whose direction, or by whom any tract of land may have been sold for non-payment of such tax, and where the time limited by law for the redemption of such lands shall not have expired before the passing of this act, to transmit within three months after the passing of this act, correct transcripts of the lists of all the tracts of land or lots, which have been sold either in whole or in part, for non-payment of the said tax before the passing of this act, to the supervisor or to the officers to whom the duties of supervisor may have been transferred, or in case there be no such person, to the marshal of the district within which such lands may lie; and the said collectors shall likewise transmit to the same officer, within three months after the completion of any sale made subsequent to the passing of this act, similar transcripts of the lists of all the tracts of land or lots which shall, after the passing of this act, be sold either in whole or in part, for non-payment of the said tax, which several transcripts shall, in every case, specify the tract or lot sold, in whole or in part, the quantity of land which has been sold; the time when sold; the amount of tax, charges and costs for which it was sold, and the amount paid by, and the name of the purchaser; and shall also designate all those tracts or lots which shall have been redeemed by the original proprietors, or for their benefit, in conformity with the provisions for that purpose heretofore enacted; and it shall also be the duty of the said collectors to pay over, within the time aforesaid, to the officer, to whom the above mentioned transcripts may have been transmitted, the amount of all the monies paid to them by or for the benefit of any original proprietor of lands or lots sold for non-payment of the tax, and subsequent to such sale redeemed in conformity with law, by or for such proprietor, which shall not at the time of transmitting the said transcripts, have been repaid by such collector to the purchaser of such lands or lots: And any collector failing to comply with the provisions of this section, or with any of them, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars with costs of suit.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any collector shall fail to transmit the transcripts required by the first section of this act within the time aforesaid it shall be the duty of the supervisor, officer acting as supervisor, or marshal, as the case may be, of the district within which the collection district of such collector may be, to prepare within six months after the passing of this act, from the lists or such other documents as may be in his possession, a similar transcript of the list of lands which such collector had by virtue of the second section of the act, entitled An act to amend an act, entitled "An act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States," been authorised to sell for non-payment of the said tax; which list shall likewise specify in every case, the tract or lot described in the original assessment and the amount of tax, charges and costs for which it was liable to be sold, and any supervisor, officer acting as supervisor, or marshal as the case may be, failing to comply with the provisions of this section, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars with costs of suit.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the supervisors, officers acting as supervisors, or
marshals, as the case may be, to exhibit the before mentioned transcripts, whether transmitted by the collector, or prepared by themselves; and also, to keep open the original assessment lists, and whenever required within the time limited by law for the redemption of lands, or lots thus sold, to any person wishing to ascertain whether any tract of land, or lot, has been sold for non-payment of the tax, to receive, within the same period, from any person tendering the same, the amount of the tax, charges and costs for which any such tract of land or lot, has been sold, with the interest which shall have accrued on the same as fixed by law, and execute a receipt for the same; which payment, by whomsoever made, shall always be considered to be made for the benefit of the original proprietor: and to pay over, at any time, within the same period, when applied for, the monies and interest received from, or for any original proprietors, who shall have availed themselves of the right of redeeming their lands, agreeably to law, to the person who may have purchased the tract of land or lot, so redeemed, when the same was sold for non-payment of the tax, or to the representative of such person.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said supervisor, person acting as supervisor, or marshal, as the case may be, to file, at the end of two years after the completion of the sales of lands sold within their district, for non-payment of the direct tax, with the clerk of the district court within whose district such lands may lie, correct transcripts, similar to those prescribed by the first section of this act, of the lands or lots sold in whole, or in part, for non-payment of the direct tax, and which shall not have been redeemed by, or for, the original proprietor within the said two years; and also to pay into the clerk's office of the said court, for the use of the purchaser, or his representatives, any monies remaining in their hands which shall have been paid by such original proprietors, as shall have availed themselves of the right of redemption: And it shall also be the duty of the said supervisors, officers acting as supervisors, or marshal, as the case may be, when any collector shall have failed to transmit to them, or any of them, the transcripts of the lists of lands sold for non-payment of the tax, as required by the first section of this act, to file with the clerk of the said district court the receipts given by such collector, either for the purchase money of lands or lots, thus sold, to the purchasers or for the redemption of the same, to original proprietors which shall have been delivered by the purchasers, or original proprietors as the case may be, of lands, or lots, thus sold, to the said supervisors, officers acting as supervisors, or marshals, in the manner, and within the time prescribed by this act.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the several Marshals for the time being, of the said district courts shall alone have the authority in all cases where the time limited by law for the redemption of land sold, shall not have expired before the passing of this act; and are hereby authorised and required to execute deeds for so much of the said lands and lots as shall have been sold to satisfy the amount of the direct tax, charges and costs due thereon, and which shall not have been redeemed by or for the original proprietor, within the time limited by law, to the purchasers of such lands or lots, or their legal representatives: Provided however, and it is further enacted That no such deed shall be executed except for lands or lots contained in the transcripts filed with the clerk of the proper district court, in conformity with the preceding section, or unless the purchaser of any tract of land or lot, sold for non-payment of the tax, shall have filed within three months after the passing of this act, or within three months after such sale, with the supervisor, officer acting as supervisor, or marshal, as the case may be, a receipt from the collector for the purchase money, dated within thirty days subsequent to such sale, and specifying distinctly the original description of the land assessed and the quantity sold: And provided also, That no such deed shall, in any case, be executed for any land purchased by or lot purchased by or for a collector of the direct tax, and not contained in the
transcript files with the clerk of the district court; nor for any land, although not returned as redeemed by the collector, which shall appear by a certificate, or receipt of the said collector filed with the supervisor or officer acting as supervisor or marshal, as the case may be, before the completion of two years after the sale of such land, and filed by such officer with the clerk of the court, in conformity with the preceding section, to have been redeemed by or for the original proprietor by payment of the tax, charges, costs and interest to the said collector previous to the time limited by the first section of this act, for the transmission of transcripts by the collectors of the direct tax.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That where any lot or tract of land shall have been sold before the passing of this act, for non-payment of the direct tax, and for a larger sum than the amount of such tax, with the legal charges and costs, the collector of the said tax shall be accountable to the purchaser for the excess of money paid by such purchaser beyond the amount of such tax charges, and costs: And deeds shall be executed in favor of such purchasers, only for so much of the land as shall bear the same ratio to the whole quantity of land sold, as the amount of the tax, charges and costs bear to the sum for which the land was sold: And whenever a deed shall be executed for a part only of any tract of land, not described previous to the sale, such part shall be laid off at the expense of the purchaser, under the direction of the district court, and in conformity with the instructions given to the collector by the supervisor, or officer acting as supervisor, respecting the sales of lands sold for non-payment of the direct tax: Provided, That hereafter it shall not be lawful for any collector of the said tax, to sell more of any lot or tract of land than will pay the amount of such tax, with the legal charges and costs.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That for the services prescribed by this act, the following fees shall be allowed and paid by the party respectively, that is to say:
To every supervisor for examining the transcripts of land sold, twenty five cents; for receiving payment of the tax, charges and costs for which any tract of land, or lot, may have been sold in whole, or in part, fifty cents; and for filing a certificate or receipt of the collector deposited by the purchaser, or, original proprietor, six cents.
To the marshal of the court, one dollar for preparing and executing a deed.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A BURR, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. March 3, 1804.
APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
POLITICAL.
American Glory and Felicity. No. II.
IT is the glory of Americans, that they have a citizen at the head of their government, who has, more than ever man did, shown himself to be the same, [in one of those exalted stations which has turned many a great man's head,] as he professed himself to be when in lower spheres of life; the same friend to liberty and the philanthropic republican principles he ever warmly advocated,—the same inflexible opponent of arbitrary power of monarchical and aristocratical violence. The conduct of Mr. Jefferson, in the offices he formerly sustained, rendered him in the highest degree respectable. The eyes of all the friends of our republican government were fixed on him, as the man every way qualified for the Presidency. His administration has, in every instance, answered their expectations. "Many [said the late Dr. Priestly, in his dedication to him of his ecclesiastical history,] have appeared to be the friends of liberty while subject to the power of others, and especially when suffering for it; but I do not recollect one besides yourself, who retained the same principles, and acted upon them in a situation of actual power. You, fir, have done more than this; having voluntarily proposed to relinquish part of the power the constitution gave you; and, in

Read of adding to the burdens of the people, you have endeavoured to lighten them, though with the necessary consequence of a proportionable diminution of your influence."
No greater character can man sustain than this. Such is the PRESIDENT of the United States.—May this great example, [continues Dr. Priestly] which I doubt not will demonstrate the practicability of truly republican principles on the equal rights of all the members of a State, by the actual existence of a form of government calculated to answer all the useful purposes of government [giving equal protection to all, and leaving every man in the possession of every power he can exercise to his own advantage without infringing the equal liberty of others] be followed in other countries, and at length become universal." The eyes of all the nations of the earth are fixed upon Americans, beholding with wonder the grand and sublime effects of a genuine republican system of government wisely administered, and the greatness of the enlightened American spirit, to establish the divine system against all the formidable efforts of both foreign and internal enemies. President Jefferson will undoubtedly prove the richest blessing to our country, and to the world, united with the great and virtuous citizens co-operating with him in the management of the public affairs, and meditating the grandest things for the increase of the happiness of America, and of all nations. Our government maintains a dignified and commanding attitude; affording to the world the sublime spectacle of an administration at once mild and pacific, strong, energetic and determined.
The science of politics embraces a vast variety of subjects; it requires an enlarged and capacious mind to attain a just knowledge of them, & to improve & practise upon them in conducting the public business of a nation. President Jefferson has shewn himself equal to all this, in every act of his administration; though his enemies have endeavoured to represent him as unequal to the high office to which he is advanced. But facts and experience have daily contradicted their insidious misrepresentations. In vain have they used every base means to injure him with the people, sounding the tocsin of alarm throughout the country, that, by means of his utopian schemes and his enmity to religion, all was going to ruin;—while on the contrary, religion flourishes more than ever, and, through his "wise, humane and magnanimous policy," we enjoy all the blessings of peace, rapidly improving in agriculture, "the great business of the nation," and its chief support in manufactures, and all the useful and ornamental arts. Every one sits quietly under his vine and fig-tree, and there are none to make him afraid.
THE French are now a military people; a people completely military, following scarcely any other civil profession than that of cultivating the earth. In such a nation nothing is fluctuating; nothing that can suddenly and materially effect the value of property; nothing that can induce the government to abandon its projects; and, particularly, to make a peace that shall leave us in safety. With such a people for our enemy, and having the Doctor and his brethren for our guardians, where are we to look for hope? For the death of Bonaparte, and some consequent overthrow of the government and power of France?—Foolish and base hope! Every person that returns from France, on whom reliance can be placed, represents the people as being generally well pleased with their ruler. There are no visible discontent; the ambition of the people is highly gratified by the achievements of their government; and indeed, when they look at their proud ruler, with respect to all other nations, and especially with respect to us, and especially with respect to us now humbled rival; when they compare the talents and measures of the people who rule them, with the talents and measures of the miserable fools, to whom the affairs of this country are committed, who can wonder, that they are reluctant to hazard the consequences of a change?
Porcupine.
Letters from the city of Washington state, "That dispatches have been received from Com. Preble, informing that Hamet Basha, the rightful sovereign of Tripoli is in force, and in a pitched battle with a detachment of the troops of his brother, who now usurps the authority in Tripoli, had gained a decisive advantage over him; that he can bring a formidable army against the reigning Usurper, and that he offers to co-operate with the force of the United States on the conditions formerly proposed."
William Johnson, of South-Carolina, is appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, vice Alfred Moore, resigned.
EIGHTH CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21.
Mr. Nicholson, from the committee of ways and means, presented a bill further to protect the seamen and commerce of the United States against the Barbary powers.
The bill provides that an additional duty of two and half per centum be laid upon all imported goods at present charged with a duty ad valorem, and an additional duty of ten per cent. on all such duties payable on goods imported in foreign vessels—The proceeds of these duties are to constitute a fund to be called the Mediterranean fund. The duties to cease within three months after a peace with Tripoli, in case the United States are not engaged in war with some other of the Barbary powers, in which case they are to cease within three months after a peace with such powers. The president is authorised to be caused to be purchased or built, two vessels of war to carry 16 guns each, and as many gun boats as he may think proper—One million of dollars, additional to the sum heretofore appropriated, is placed under the direction of the president for the naval service, which sum he is authorised to borrow at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent.
Mr. Nicholson moved that this bill should be made the order for this day.
Mr. R. Griswold moved to morrow. The question on "to morrow" was lost—Ayes 43—Nays 50—when Mr. Nicholson's motion prevailed.
Mr. Thomas, from the committee to whom was referred the amendments of the senate to the post office bill, reported that it was expedient to agree to the same, with the exception of one amendment.
The house concurred in the report and agreed to all the amendments but one, which authorises a new route to N. Orleans, to which they disagreed.
A letter was received from the secretary of the treasury exhibiting a statement of the situation of the mint for the last year.
Mr. R. Griswold moved that the bill respecting the imposition of new duties be printed.
The motion to print was carried—Ayes 68. The bill laying more specific duties on certain articles and imposing light money on foreign vessels entering the ports of the U. S. was read the third time.
The question was after considerable discussion taken on the passage of the bill, and carried in the affirmative by Yeas and Nays—Yeas 65—Nays 41.
The following bills were received from the senate, and referred to a committee of the whole.
An act for the relief of Wm. A. Barron. An act for erecting a light house at the mouth of the Mississippi, and other light houses in different places.
An act making further appropriations for extinguishing Indian claims.
A bill was also received from the senate fixing the next meeting of Congress on the first Monday of November.
Mr. Jackson moved to make the bill the order for the 1st Monday in December, and requested the yeas and nays to be taken.
The yeas & nays were accordingly taken, and the motion rejected—yeas 37—nays 65. When the bill was made the order for to-morrow.
The house passed to a third reading the bill supplementary to the act respecting consuls and vice consuls, and for the further protection of the seamen of the U. States.
Judge Chase —On the 26th inst. Mr. Randolph, as chairman of the committee, appointed for the purpose, presented the following report to the house of representatives, U. S. It is presumed the trial of the judge will take place immediately after the meeting of Congress in November:
REPORT
Of the committee appointed to prepare Articles of Impeachment against SAMUEL CHASE, One of the associate justices of the supreme court of the United States.
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT.
Articles exhibited by the house of representatives of the U. States, in the name of themselves and of all the people of the U. States, against Samuel Chase , one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the U. States, in maintenance and support of their impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors—
ART. I.—That, mindful of the solemn duties of his office, and contrary to the sacred obligation by which he stood bound to discharge them "faithfully and impartially, and without respect to persons," the said Samuel Chase, on the trial of John Fries, charged with treason, before the circuit court of the United States, held for the district of Pennsylvania, in the city of Philadelphia, during the months of April and May, one thousand eight hundred, whereat the said Samuel Chase presided, did, in his judicial capacity, conduct himself in a manner highly arbitrary, oppressive, and unjust; viz:—
1. In delivering an opinion in writing on the question of law, on the construction of which the defence of the accused materially depended, tending to prejudice the minds of the jury against the case of the said John Fries, the prisoner, before counsel had been heard in his defence.
2. In restricting the counsel for the said Fries from recurring to such English authorities as they believed apposite, or from citing certain statutes of the United States, which they deemed illustrative of the positions, upon which they intended to rest the defence of their client.
3. In debarring the prisoner from his constitutional privileges of addressing the jury (through his coun-
fel) on the law, as well as on the fact, which was to determine his guilt or innocence, and at the same time endeavouring to wrest from the jury their indisputable right to hear argument, & determine upon the question of law, as well as the question of fact, involved in the verdict which they were required to give.
ART. II.—That, in consequence of this irregular conduct of the said Samuel Chase, as dangerous to our liberties, as it is novel to our laws and usages, the said John Fries was deprived of the right, secured to him by the eighth article amendatory of the constitution, and was condemned to death without having been heard, by counsel, in his defence, to the disgrace of the character of the American bench, in manifest violation of law and justice, and in open contempt of the rights of juries, on which ultimately rest the liberty and safety of the American people.
ART. III.—That, prompted by a similar spirit of persecution and injustice, at a circuit court of the United States, held at Richmond in the month of May, 1800, for the district of Virginia, whereat the said Samuel Chase presided, and before which a certain James Thompson Callender was arraigned for a libel on John Adams, then president of the United States, the said Samuel Chase, with intent to oppress, and procure the conviction of the said Callender, did over-rule the objection of John Basset, one of the jury, who wished to be excused from serving on the said trial, because he had made up his mind as to the publication from which the words charged to be libelous, in the indictment, were extracted; and the said Basset was accordingly sworn, and did serve on the said jury.
ART. IV.—That the evidence of John Taylor a material witness on behalf of the aforesaid Callender, was not permitted by the said Samuel Chase to be given in, because the said witness could not prove the truth of the whole of one of the charges contained in the indictment, although the said charge embraced more than one fact.
ART. V.—That the conduct of the said Samuel Chase was marked, during the whole course of the said trial, by manifest injustice, partiality and intemperance; viz:
1. In refusing to postpone the trial, although an affidavit was regularly filed, stating the absence of material witnesses on behalf of the accused:
2. In the use of unusual, and contemptuous expressions towards the prisoner's counsel; and in insinuating that they wished to excite the public fears and indignation, and to procure that in subordination to law, to which the conduct of the judge did at the same time manifestly tend:
3. In repeated and vexatious interruptions of the said counsel, on the part of the said judge, which at length induced them to abandon their cause and their client, who was thereupon convicted and condemned to fine and imprisonment.
4. In an indecent solicitude, manifested by the said Samuel Chase, for the conviction of the accused, unbecoming even a public prosecutor, but highly disgraceful to the character of a judge as it was subversive of justice.
ART. VI.—That, at a circuit court of the United States, for the district of Delaware, held at New Castle, in the month of June, one thousand eight hundred, whereat the said Samuel Chase presided,—the said Samuel Chase disregarding the duties of his office, did descend from the dignity of a judge and stoop to the level of an informer, by refusing to discharge the grand jury, although entreated by several of the said jury so to do: and after the said grand jury had regularly declared, through their foreman, that they had found no bills of indictment, nor had any presentments to make, by observing to the said grand jury, that he, the said Samuel Chase, understood "that a highly seditious temper had manifested itself in the State of Delaware, among a certain class of people, particularly New-Castle county, and more especially in the town of Wilmington, where lived a most seditious printer, unrestrained by any principle of virtue, and regardless of social order,—that the name of this printer was"—but checking himself, as if sensible of the indecorum which he was committing, added—"that it might be assuming too much to mention the name of this person, but it becomes your duty, gentlemen, to enquire diligently into this matter:" and that with intention to procure the prosecution of the printer in question, the said Samuel Chase did, moreover, authoritatively enjoin on the district attorney of the United States the necessity of procuring a file of the papers to which he alluded, (and which were understood to be those published under the title of "Mirror of the Times and General Advertiser") and by a strict examination of them to find some passage which might furnish the ground work of a prosecution against
the printer of the said paper: thereby degrading his high judicial functions, and tending to impair the public confidence in, and respect for, the tribunals of justice, so essential to the general welfare.
ART. VII.—And whereas mutual respect and confidence between the government of the United States and those of the individual states, and between the people and those governments, respectively, are highly conducive to that public harmony, without which there can be no public happiness, yet the said Samuel Chase, disregarding the duties and dignity of his judicial character, did at a circuit court, for the district of Maryland, held at Baltimore, in the month of May one thousand eight hundred and three, pervert his official right and duty to address the grand jury then and there assembled, on the matter coming within the province of the said jury for the purpose of delivering to the said grand jury an intemperate & inflammatory political harrangue, with intent to excite the fears and resentment of the said grand jury and of the good people of Maryland against their state government and constitution, a conduct highly censurable in any, but particularly indecent and unbecoming in a judge of the supreme court of the United States: and moreover that the said Samuel Chase, then and there under pretence of exercising his judicial right to address the grand jury, as aforesaid, did, in a manner highly unwarrantable, endeavor to excite the odium of the said grand jury, and of the good people of Maryland against the government of the United States, by delivering opinions, which even if the judicial authority were competent to their expression, on a suitable occasion and in a proper manner, were at that time and as delivered by him, highly indecent, extra judicial and tending to prostitute the high judicial character with which he was invested to the low purpose of an electioneering partisan.
And the house of representatives, by protestation, saving to themselves the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter, any farther articles or other accusation or impeachment against the said Samuel Chase, and also of replying to his answers which he shall make unto the said articles, or any of them, and offering proof to all and every the aforesaid articles, and to all and every other articles, impeachment or accusation, which shall be exhibited by them, as the case shall require, do demand that the said Samuel Chase may be put to answer the said crimes and misdemeanors, and that such proceedings, examinations, trials & judgments may be thereupon had and given, as are agreeable to law and justice.
BY THE LAST MAILS.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 28.
CONGRESS yesterday brought their session to a close, after passing Sixty-one acts. At no antecedent session, has there, perhaps, been before the national legislature more important business. Among the measures adopted are:
The several acts carrying the Louisiana convention into effect.
The acts for the government of that territory and the collection of revenue therein.
The proposed amendment to the constitution respecting the mode of electing President and Vice-President.
The conviction of John Pickering of high crimes and misdemeanors.
The impeachment of Samuel Chase.
The imposition of two and a half per cent on articles paying ad. valorem duties for the protection of the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers.
The opening of several new land offices for the disposition of western lands.
The substitution of specific in the room of ad. valorem duties, and the imposition of light money on foreign vessels.
The repeal of the bankrupt system.
NEW-YORK, MARCH 29. FROM FRANCE.
Capt. Godden, in the brig Eagle, from Bourdeaux, informs, that a few days previous to his sailing, general Angereau, with 40,000 men had passed through Bourdeaux, from the frontiers of Spain, and were about to embark for Rochelle. A number of gun-boats and pinnaces had already failed for that place. Every thing was in the most active state of preparation for the invasion.
French papers received by the Eagle, mention that there has been a great fire at Bayonne, which commenced at 6, P. M. and continued burning 40 hours.—Ten large stores, filled with brandy, tar, and other inflammable matters, were blazing at one time. The brandy, tar, &c. formed a stream, and ran in flames into the river where the account states it to have presented the singular and terrible spectacle of a river on fire. The flame from the stores is mentioned to
have ascended 200 feet in the air.—Several lives were lost. The loss of property is estimated at 1,800,000 francs.
It is remarkable that the month of January has passed entirely without ice. This winter is truly extraordinary for the mildness of its temperature; the lillies and the roses of the Thuilleries are ready to open their buds; the country is six months advanced. We find record of a similar season in 1596, but it is remarked that there was much sickness in Paris that year.
Capt. G. further informs, that the seat of government was removed from Paris to Dunkirk—in order, probably, that Bonaparte, who was on the coast might at the same time attend to both state and military affairs.
BOSTON, APRIL 12.
Yesterday arrived at this port, the regular trading ship Minerva, Capt. Clements, 30 days from London. The political news that we have been able to collect is contained in the following extracts:
A letter from a gentleman of respectability in London, dated in March, says—"I have not much information to convey to you. The Old World is quite in a new state. England is solely occupied in self-defence, for violating the treaty of peace, which she ought to have fulfilled. We are daily threatened with invasion; and as our first military and naval characters allow that is practicable, it appears most probable that Bonaparte will make the attempt, when he is thoroughly prepared. After what he has accomplished, who can determine the result? The nation is in military array, and London is more like a garrison than a commercial city. Amidst all this, the king is again in a state of insanity."
"I always rejoice in your national prosperity; and here, we think you the freest, the most happy people on the globe. Your President and his administration have the applause of all ranks, both in England and throughout Europe."
BANK BILLS.
The business of counterfeiting Bank Bills has for some time been going on swimmingly; and notwithstanding the vigilance of the civil officers and the exertions of several active citizens, the seat of mischief has long lain concealed, and the credit of the banks, and the property of individuals threatened with ruin. Some important information having been obtained during the two last weeks arrangements were made for the apprehension of the villains, and a little before sunset on Sunday evening last, the important blow was struck, which we hope will suspend, at least for a time, this new kind of Banking business. Four men were arrested, by surprise, at the house of Mr. John Lynch, in New-Boston, in the very act of striking off the bills, and just before they had finished their Sunday's work! They had with them between fifteen and twenty thousand dollars! in bills of different descriptions, and the plates, on which they were impressed. The plates and bills were, "Beverly Bank" 30 dollars; "New-Hampshire Bank" payable in Philadelphia, 10 Dollars; Boston "Union Bank," 10 Dollars; "Essex Bank," Salem, 8 Dollars; and "Portsmouth Bank" 4 dollars. The plates were extremely well executed, and the best judges of bills have declared, they should have had no hesitancy in receiving any of them, had they been signed, and the blanks filled. Yesterday morning one other person was arrested, and brought to town, who had 80 10 dollar bills of the New-Hampshire bank, payable in Philadelphia, 40 of which were signed, and is supposed to be the person, who has been the principal hand in signing the bills. Several have been committed to goal, and others laid under heavy bonds for their appearance at the Superior court to be holden at Hopkinton the last Tuesday of the present month.
To provide a more suitable punishment for this crime seems to have become absolutely necessary; and we hope soon to see it exciting legislative attention. Until this is the case, our citizens must be continually exposed to the impositions of the basest of mankind. Amberst paper.
Accounts received in Charleston from Edisto, state, that on the 14th ultimo, Mr. Daniel Jenkins, with his two brothers, Richard and Thomas, Mr. Henry Bailey, Mr. Benja. Scott of St. Helena Island, Mr. Wood of Beaufort, and twelve negroes, in attempting to go out of Frampton's Inlet, in a large open boat, for Beaufort, she struck upon a bank filled and over-set—they all attempted to make to the shore but in vain—the only one saved out of 18, is Mr. Henry Bailey. He is so much injured, that he can give no particular account in what manner it happened. The bodies have all been found except that of Mr. Richard Jenkins.

Portsmouth.
Tuesday, April 17, 1804.
SUMMARY—FOREIGN.
LONDON dates to the 9th ult. have been received at Boston, from which we have made the following extracts;—The expedition was ready to sail, and preparations on the part of England were prosecuting with the utmost vigor.—Accounts from Holland state, that the French have searched the shops of the principal shopkeepers at Hiffengen, Flushing and Veere, and forcibly taken from them all such goods as they alleged to be of English manufacture; and that under pretence of looking for spies, they have exercised a very vexatious search in private houses;—it was reported also that upwards of 100 waggons laden with goods expedited from Embden, have been stopped by the French on the frontiers.—The President and members of the governmental department of Zealand, have in a letter to general Monnet, exercising the command of Flushing and the island of Walcheren, entered their solemn protest against the measures pursued by him, in that place and Veere.—On the 24th of February a dispatch from Lord Nelson, supposed to contain important intelligence, was received in London—it was reported that 15 sail of the French gun-boats had been taken and carried into Deal and Dover; rumour says, they were captured by Sir Sidney Smith.—The King is said to be mending in health.—The Prince of Wales having come to an explanation with the Duke of York, respecting their correspondence, concerning his military command, have come to a perfect reconciliation.—About one thousand gun-boats of different descriptions are completely equipped, and ready for immediate service in England.—A misunderstanding subsists between Ad. Nelson and the Dey of Algiers.—Dispatches are said to have been received by the British government, from their Minister at Berlin, stating that the proposition made some time since by the First Consul, to form a close alliance with his Prussian Majesty, has at length been decidedly rejected by the latter.—The English, with an intent of choking up the French and Dutch harbours, have ordered several old vessels to be filled with stones and chalk, and to have them sunk at their entrance.—From Germany we hear, that that nation is a prey to the most violent dissensions; in the late business of the indemnities, the several states which changed hands, were delivered to their new masters with whatever burdens they might have been charged; in the whole of them, the native nobility possessed certain hereditary rights and jurisdictions—those who ceded their states to others could give no more than themselves possessed; the former possessors therefore delivered them to their new masters charged with these rights. Of these rights and jurisdictions are the new possessors desirous of depriving the Equestrian order, in other words to extinguish the order and all its claims. The Emperor comes forward as the head of the empire, to protect his nobility. He asserts that these rights are equal to those of all the states of the empire, and are secured to them by the constitution, confirmed by the peace of Westphalia—he concludes his imperial declaration upon this subject with asserting his resolution to maintain the security and integrity of the German constitution—The king of Prussia and France, support the cause of those who seek the extermination of the order.—Accounts from Vienna of the 4th February state, that the greatest bustle prevails among the ministers of that court; and that the troops were in motion, and that every thing indicated an approaching change of affairs.—A plot against Bonaparte, we are told, has been discovered and Moreau arrested;—the Police are in pursuit of Pichegru and Georges—an embargo has been laid at Schiedam, on the part of the French government, on all outward-bound ships, in order to prevent Pichegru from escaping;—Another revolution has taken place in France, it is said, inimical to Bonaparte;—in consequence of this sudden change of affairs all the ships, cutters and brigs ready for sea in the Downs, went immediately to sea.—Every thing in England seems to shew that some secret expedition is in contemplation; a general embargo has been laid in the ports of Great Britain, on all outward bound vessels, and the execution of a vigorous and decisive measure was said to be at hand;—A rumour prevailed in London that Pichegru and Moreau had been guillotined.—In December last an embargo was laid at the Cape of Good Hope, in consequence of the failing of an expedition for Batavia; it was pretty generally believed in London that the French fleet had escaped from Toulon, and that Lord Nelson was in pursuit of it.—The French Ambassador
at Copenhagen, lately made renewed demands of that Cabinet, respecting the shutting of the sound against British vessels, accompanied by a threat; that if the Danish government declined doing so, France would assume to herself the execution of the measure. A courier was immediately despatched to Peterburgh, and the Ambassador was informed, that his Danish majesty could not accede to the wishes of his court.
Extracts of a letter from one friend to another. "Bonaparte has pledged himself to France, Europe and the world, to attempt the Invasion; and he must be a subject of reproach, and perhaps ridicule, if he should fail in his engagements. Indeed it may subject him to dangerous discontent in the army, and throughout the French nation, if he should change his system—and yet this is apparently his best policy—for an attempt to invade would be desperate on the part of France, whilst the mere preparations will be unattended with risk to her, and will continue that state of alarm in Great Britain, which is ruinous to her commerce, manufactures and finances."
"I perfectly agree with you in the importance of the acquisition of Louisiana, and I have no doubt, that, if well conducted, it will be a source of vast revenue, and a benefit to the United States; it will likewise free us from the dangers of foreign conflicts, in regard to the navigation of the Mississippi, and territorial boundaries."
THE Editor of the Repertory has, with the most consummate impudence, made an attempt to prejudice the public mind against this paper, by asserting it to be "one of the most deceiving papers ever conducted by an American" he adds "and merits no confidence." If in supporting the Constitution and warning Americans against the wiles and deceptions of Tory fiction, we have been guilty of "deception," we acquiesce in the truth of the charge brought against us; if by advocating "the rights of men" of Americans, if by exposing the attempts of a vile and abandoned party to overthrow American freedom and convert freemen into abject slaves, we have forfeited all claim to public "confidence" then we plead guilty to the charge. As respects the return of votes; we gave them such as they came to hand. We are no ways inclined to make the Courier of New-Hampshire, the Repertory or any other vile paper, the vehicle for public information—their character for veracity and decorum, are too notorious. The returns of last year, we rest satisfied were as accurate as the means of information would admit of—it could answer no purpose to have made erroneous statements; the event of the Election was too well known to admit of this. "Honest representations are not to be expected of papers, purchased to support a party." Insinuations like these, are not to be wondered at, when they proceed from John Park; but though all his artillery should be plied at us, we feel persuaded abreach will never be made. We never yet have moved nor laid claim to the subscriptions of any party. Something has been said respecting the votes returned for Mr. Sullivan and Strong—if the editor of the Repertory had carefully perused them, he would have perceived, we made returns for the County of York only.—Should wis-acre Park again attempt attacks upon this paper, we beg him to confine within the limits of truth and mean while to be assured that we set at defiance and despise alike him, and they.
Mammoth Loaf.—The tale of the Mammoth has been long the fruitful subject of the federalists. A "mammoth cheese," was a charge of an obnoxious nature for a considerable time. A Mammoth Loaf, is now the high indictment against the President! It seems he is not to eat his bread and cheese in peace. As he does not trouble the Tories in their feast of shells, why should they be so uncharitable to him in his innocent repasts? As to the fear-ras charge of impiety, in the paper of the Essex Junto, printed by a hireling who could not get his bread and cheese in Newburyport; it would be an affront on the President to pretend to prove the falsity of the assertion. None but fools or knaves would credit such infamous scandal.
Chron.
Appointments by the President & Senate. Hon. JOHN S. SHERBURNE, Esq. to be District Judge of New-Hampshire; and JONATHAN STEELE, Esq. Attorney.
List of Votes for GOVERNOR.
Table with 3 columns: Town, Votes, Total. Includes Langdon, Gilman, Alton, Middleton, Stratham.
Considering the favourable return of votes from the towns of Middleton and Alton, which last year gave Mr. GILMAN a much larger majority than they now do, and the 16 towns which are to be returned, being in favour of Col. LANGDON—we are assured that he will have the most votes, if not elected Governor the present year.
Marine Memoranda.
Portsmouth, April 17, 1804. Arrived here on Thursday last brig Ceres, Capt. Underwood, from St. Vincent's—Left there March 14, the following vessels, viz.—Brig Alert, Rollins, for Portsmouth, in 15 days; brig Montezuma, Moore, for do. in 8 days; sch'r Tripe, for do. in 10 days. Brig Ferdinand, Lane, for Boston in 25 days; do. Lark, Gilpatrick, for do. in 10 days. Brig Governor, Burr, from Tobago for Rhode-Island, in 15 days. Sch'r Sophia-Ann, Dennis, Newbury-Port, 15 days. Stopt at St. Vincents March 2, brig Hero, Snow, from Norfolk, of Portland, for Guadalupe; March 9, Equator, Stone, from Kennebec, for do. March 10, ship Rover, Heard, bore away for do. Spoke in lat. 34 50, long. 63 36, brig Eliza, from Salem, 3 days out; left the day before her deck load of flock. Arrived here on Monday last, brig Polly, Capt. Bailey, 40 days from Demarara. Same day arrived ship Florenzo, Capt. Barnes, 40 days from Demarara. The ship Four Sisters, of Portsmouth, N. H.—The ship Mercury, of Providence, and the brig Dolphin, of Salem, have gone ashore on Sandy Hook. The ship Gov. Strong, of Boston, has been condemned at the Isle of France; as not sea-worthy.
MARRIED
In this town Capt. WILLIAM TREDICK, Jr. to Miss MARY NORRIE.
DIED—In this town on Thursday morning last, Mrs. ANN SHEAFE, aged 38, consort of Mr. WILLIAM SHEAFE, merchant—The death of this amiable lady was attended with the most affecting circumstances; she has left a young family of 11 children, the eldest under 15 years, the youngest not 5 weeks—She was the 4th child and ed. daughter of the late Mr. THOMAS WENTWORTH.—To describe the affliction of the bereaved husband and children, her nearest connections, and the distress of her numerous friends, is beyond the power of any pen—we may almost say with Solomon, "many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all." She indeed was the model of a domestic carriage—she had such a fixedness of character and justness of thought, that she had the utmost abhorrence for every thing that was evil—she was retired in the choice of her company and friends; where her affections and attachments were placed, they were unalterable and died only with her—In the character of the mother and mistress of a family, she shone with peculiar lustre and an undivided share of eminence. Indeed it is not too much to say of this exalted character, if she has not left her equal among her sex, she has not left her superior. Also, in this town. Widow ELIZABETH TUCKER, aged 78.
At Nottingham, on Wednesday last, after a lingering and distressing illness Capt. NATHANIEL WILLIAMS, aged 38. The character came too late for this days paper.
Mr. MUSSEY's Dancing-School will open To-morrow, should a sufficient number leave their names at the Bookstore of the Printers hereof.
Black & color'd Sewing Silks. Brown Hollands. Nankins. Tapes. Black Lustrings & Sinchaws, Just received and for sale by James Rundlet.
A few Shares in the New-Hampshire Fire and Marine Insurance Company, for sale. April 17.
NOTICE.
THE co-partnership of N. S. & W. PEIRCE, was dissolved by mutual consent on the 14th inst. All persons having accounts with said firm are requested to exhibit them for settlement to WASHINGTON PEIRCE, as an immediate adjustment is become indispensably necessary. Those who cannot conveniently make an immediate discharge, will be pleased to give their notes.
NATHANIEL S. PEIRCE, WASHINGTON PEIRCE. Portsmouth, April 17, 1804.
NOTICE.
THE public are respectfully informed that the subscribers have formed a connection in business under the firm of Peirce, Hill and Peirce, and that they will, as heretofore, carry on their respective avocations. The New-Hampshire Gazette will, no less than formerly, be devoted to the cause of true republicanism; no endeavours shall be wanting to render it a useful vehicle of public information; as such, we beg the continued patronage of the Citizens of New-Hampshire.
NATHANIEL S. PEIRCE, BENJAMIN HILL, WASHINGTON PEIRCE. Portsmouth, April 17, 1804.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber begs leave to inform his friends, and the public at large, that he has entered into co-partnership under the firm of PEIRCE, HILL & PEIRCE. He will continue his business as before, at the store he now occupies, and solicits the continuance of their favours. Those who have accounts with him are desired to present them for an early settlement. BENJAMIN HILL. Portsmouth, April 17, 1804.
WANTED—A HOUSE, suitable for a large family, with convenient Out-Houses. Inquire of the Printers.
FRESH Turkey FIGS; PRUNES; CITRON; Malaga RAISINS per cask, and best Table OIL in flasks.—Just received, and for sale by E. Wentworth, at his store, head of Buck-street. April 17, 1804.
For SALE at the Store of Ebenezer Thompson, 1500 wt. Clover and 20 bushels Herds Grass SEED, cheap. Portsmouth, April 17, 1804.
Nathan B. Folsom, HAS just received by the Galen from London, via Boston, and offers for sale at Store No. 3, High-street.—A complete assortment of Clothiers dying Drugs Woods, &c. Clothiers & Hatters Tools. also for sale as above—
Cogniac, Bourdeaux and Alicant Brandy, per Pipe or less quantity; Hollands and American Gin, per do. Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, Port, Claret, Malaga and Aloque Wines, per qr. cask or retail—6 casks Red Wine on consignment, very low; an assortment Teas, Coffee, Sugar, &c. and other Goods sufficient to constitute a general assortment of GROCERIES;—Cotton per Bale; 20 Tea Sets China; 60 Oven Frames; 200 pieces India Chintzes; 1000 lbs. Bemis's & Elliott's Snuff, in kegs and Bottles; 1000 lbs. Cotton Yarn, assorted numbers; 50 lbs. candle Wicking; 20 yds. cotton bed Ticking; 50 doz. cotton & wool Cards; chests Hyson Tea; 50 boxes mould Candles; boxes bar Soap, &c. Hats, &c. and many other articles.—Any of the above articles will be sold very low for cash or approved credit.
N. B. He expects a quantity of English, Dutch & American Gun Powder; and an assorted quantity patent Shot, by the next Caster from Boston and will in future keep a constant supply for sale at the Boston prices—Cash advanced on consignments. APRIL 17, 1804.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of DRYDEN, in the county of Grafton, in said State; that to much of each of the following rights or shares of land in said township, as will pay a proprietary Tax of ten dollars on each of said rights or shares, and incidental charges, will be sold as the law directs on the 5th day of July next at ten of the clock A. M. at the dwelling house of JOSEPH LOOMIS, Esq. in Colebrook in said county of Grafton, unless prevented by previous payment—viz. The Original Rights of
Sam'l Aversill, Aaron Quinby, Sam'l Hungerford, Josiah Quinby, Edward Burling, Joseph Cornwell, Elias Osgood, Joseph Cornwell, jr., Jacobus Blecker, Drake Palmer, David Leflinard, Aaron Palmer, Dan'l Hawxshurst, Nathan Palmer, William Ames, Benj. Cornwell, James Besley, Jacob Deyckman, Henry Coutant, John Abiel, James Fowler, James Abiel, Peter Hungerford, Garritt Abiel, Thomas Seymore, Edw. Burling, jr., Tho's Seymore, jr., Jonathan Quinby, David Matthews, Jacob Underhill, John Beckman, Jos. Ferrington, jr., Henry Van Vleck, Uriah Field, Cornelius Cuyper, John Cornwell, James Beckman, jr., Josiah Quinby, John Beckman, Isaac Underhill, Gerandas Beckman, John Hallock, Thomas Beckman, Andrew Abrams, Theodore Beckman, Anth'y Lipinard, Timothy M'Carthy, Rich'd Burling, William Proctor, Thomas Martin, Garden Proctor, Leo'd Lipinard, Thomas Miller, Anth'y Abrams, Christopher Miller, John Temple, eq., Vincent Mathers, jr., Theo. Atkinson, eq., Thomas Matthews, Mark H. Wentworth, eq., Peter Farmer, John Nelson, eq., John Gibbs, His Excellency, Benjamin Ferris, Benning Wentworth, eq.
JABEZ PARSONS. Collector for the proprietors of said Township of Dryden. Dryden, April 3, 1804.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of HOPKINTON, who have not paid their state, county, and highway taxes, for the year 1800, that unless they pay the same, together with incidental charges, to me the subscriber, on or before the 28th day of June next; so much of their land as will pay the same, will then be sold at public vendue, at the house of Lieut. THEOPHILUS STANLEY, in said town, at 10 o'clock A. M. of said day.
Table with 5 columns: Land owned by the Massachusetts proprietors at the westerly end of the town, Lot of land at the N.E. corner of the town, Two lots of land sold at public vendue, Part of a lot of land sold at public vendue, Carr, on the north side of Contoocook river. Includes columns for Acres, Lots, and Price.
THIS DAY At S. LITTLE'S Office, SIX chests Souchong TEA; 10 pieces CHINZ; Silk Umbrellas; Cotton Velvets; Men's HATS; 1 gilt framed Looking-Glass; a pair Steelyards. Also, at 11 o'clock,
A large number of Books and Pamphlets, of various kinds—the oddity of which will well reward the purchaser.
For Sale at Public Auction, THAT noted FARM in Durham, known by the name of the Clough Farm, within one and a half miles of the landing, and Meeting House, containing 150 acres more or less, said Farm is well watered, and wooded with good mowing, tillage and pasturing, with a large quantity of oak timber, and is under very good improvement, said Farm will be sold at Joseph Richardson's, innholder in Durham, on Wednesday the 25th inst. at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for cash on delivery, an indisputable title will be given, any person wishing to purchase may have an opportunity of viewing said Farm previous to the day of sale. Durham, April 9.
TAKE NOTICE. THE Fellows of the New-Hampshire Medical Society, are desired to attend at the Assembly Chamber of EZRA HUTCHINS, in Exeter, on Wednesday the 30th of May next, at 10 o'clock P. M. for the purpose of transacting their annual business agreeable to order. L. BARTLETT, Secretary. Rockingham, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given, that at the Probate Court to be held at Londonderry in said county, on the third Wednesday of April next, we shall exhibit our account of administering the Estate of SAMUEL CLARK, late of Windham, in said county, yeoman, deceased, for settlement and allowance. March 30, 1804. MARY CLARK, ROBERT CLARK, } Administrators. N. B. Said CLARKS, are of Windham.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. THE proprietors of Amoskeag Bridge are hereby notified that a meeting of said proprietors will be held on Monday the thirtieth of April instant, at the house of Col. SETH WALKER, innholder in Portsmouth, at six o'clock P. M. 1st. To choose a Moderator. 2d. To choose a Clerk, Treasurer and Directors. 3d. To see what method the proprietors will take to settle the accounts of the former and present treasurers, and to transact such other business as they shall think proper when met. OZIAS SILSBY, Clerk. Portsmouth, April 16, 1804.
LIST OF LETTERS, Remaining in the Post-Office, Portsmouth N. H. April 9, 1804.
A. AMOS Allan; George Adams; John Adams, Kittery; Jacob Abbot, Hampton-falls. B.—Eliza Brown, Seabrook; Nathan Burgess, 3; Alexander Baker; L. Baker, 2; Jonathan Brink; Josiah Bartlett, Lee; Robert Burley; Elizabeth Brackett, Lee; John Boody; John Brecken; Benjamin Brown, Hampton-falls; William Beallan, 2; John Badger, 2; James Blair; Robert Badger; Mr. Bartholomew. C.—Susanna Clough, Lee; Joseph Chase, Seabrook; Wm. Cunn, Kittery; Robt. Colman, 2; Sickerand Call, Kittery; Levi Clapham; Nath'l Crowell; Edward Carrington; Nathan Chase; Edward Cole; John Channel; Ann Cuts; Benja. Crawford; Thomas Cartridge, 2. D.—Simon Deban, North-Hampton; Simon Deban, Hampton; Simon Deban, North-Hill; Thomas Dennett; Joseph Deban, North-Hampton; Sally Dodge, Hampton-falls; Joseph P. Dowe, Kittery; Mr. Dug. E.—William Eaton; Jacob Emerson, Isle-of-Shoals; Caleb Emery, Kittery; Caleb Emery; Nancy Emery, Lee; William Egan; Samuel Elam. F.—John Fisher, 2; Nancy French; Nabby Fowler; Josiah Flagg; Winthrop Frost, Lee; Elihu Fernald, Kittery; Tho's Furber. G.—Samuel Grant; Nicholas Gilman, 2; Susan Gunnison. H.—Naid Harriet; David Hall; Seth Ham; Elias Hull, Seabrook; Sargent Huse; John Harriet; John Hunt, Seabrook; John Hinslow; Lucy Hill; William Ham, 3; Sam'l Hooper, New-Castle. J.—Mary Jansey; Robert Jenks, 2; Enoch M. Jenkins. L.—Daniel Lowd; John Leach; David Lowd; Moses Leavett, Hampton. M.—David Metcalf; James Mathers; Hannah Marshall; Nath'l Marum; William Mattix; Jona. Milmore, Stratham; James Milmore, 40, 3; David M'Lean, 4; Jason Mack. N.—David Norton, Stratham; Tho's Nudd; Fanny Nason. O.—Sam'l Odiorne, Kittery; Dan'l Orr; John Pike, Hampton-falls; John Prentice, 2; Joseph Putman; Oliver Peabody; Sam'l Pray, jr.; Mary Paul, Kittery; Sam'l Pincum, Lee; John S. Place; Edmund Pettoze; Dudley Pease, Stratham. R.—Nabby Remick, Kittery; Pat Robinson; Peter Rix; John Rollins, Hampton-falls. S.—Daniel Simes, Madbury; John Sanbourne, North-Hampton; Mary Stevens; Mrs. Savage, Rye; Sam'l Sawyer, Lee; John Sawyer; John Stevens, Isle-of-Shoals; Mary Stacy; Tho's M. Shaw. T.—Tho's Turner; Tho's Thorne. V.—William Vans. W.—Clement Weeks, Greenland, 4; Jesse Willocks; S. Welsh. Y.—Mary Young, Kittery; Mary Yeaton. The names with no towns annexed, are directed Portsmouth. M. SIMES, P. M.

Miscellaneous Repository.
ODE To the two Gilman Squires who have so stoutly denied their being present at the celebration of the acquisition of Louisiana, and who have so ably defended the 'cause of truth' both in cogent prose and playful rhyme.
SURELY Sirs, no reasoning man can wonder, That you should spit and be as mad as thunder! What could bewitch the clodpate's brain? Can we suppose a man correct as M——, Would deviate from truth so pure and plain, Or dare or will t' impose on any body?  Your vile traducer must be more than mad To think you for your country's glory glad. Shall H—— replete with sweet bienveillance, Or M——, fed'ral to the quick, At such an acquisition sing or dance Enough to make a new made Justice sick?  Your toasts too were of such a simple nature Then look'd, for all the world, like milk and water. "All honest L——yers"—is there such a thing? Did not friend W——d——n spurn the toast, And puff'd with rage, did not the gothic king Go home for fear his living would be lost?  "Ladies of Gilmanston"—characteristic! Plain, simple, easy; neither keen nor mystic. Greatness and beauillness are rarely mix'd, And yet some folks, regardless of the matter, Altho' a bean is volatile not fix'd Would make a compound just like oil and water.  How much, Sirs, might the fed'ral laureat ask For his sublime and truly wondrous task? Has he the promise of a new commission, To soothe his mighty soul and calm his fears? And will you both subscribe his next petition, And save his eyes a multitude of tears?  Can semp'ring H—— with Silver's art prolong The cat-gut notes, and scrape your poet's song? O, Orpheus! father of the tuneful string, If sounds alone could make the forests dance, With words like his how would the centre ring, And huge Olympus shake his shanks and prance!  What can this celebration monger mean, To tell of wonders never heard nor seen! Dinners and suppers, concert, toasts and ball With all its eccentrics of your civic feasts; And then to clap the cap sheaf on it all, To make two fed'ral Squires partaking guests?  As well might light and darkness copulate, Begetting mongrel runaways for the great. What, shall a piping hot, bran new commission, Just from the mint, descend to such a station? And shall a bean of very last edition Forfeit and lose each sanguine expectation?  'Tis clear as light that you are both malvreated, Nor is your vengeance greatly over heated. 'Twas nat'ral, Sirs, to have a scribe to write Those hand-bills, which have made your reputation; Because 'tis known you neither could indite A piece so fit and nice for publication!  But had a death like vengeance seiz'd your brain, What ca-nage had betrew'd th' enfanquin'd plain! How would the dirgeful wale of picked hill Have swept the groaning chords of woe, Whilst briny tears had swell'd the mur'm'ring rill, And croaking ravens caught the sound below!  ARTHUR MACKENZIE. Dublin, April 2, 1804.
ON EDUCATION.
WHEN we consider the influence that right notions of virtue and vice, or good and evil, have upon the happiness not only of individuals, but, more especially, of society, can we be surprised at the carelessness and inattention, which too many parents show in the education of their children? The professor of agriculture, who neglects to manure his soil and cast the necessary seed into the earth, would surely be ridiculed, for expecting a luxuriant harvest of delicious fruits. And does not he merit the same ridicule, who foolishly fancies, that his posterity will appear eminent in knowledge and virtue, who have had no opportunity for acquiring the former, and no examples to instil the latter. Independent of the disadvantage which the individual experiences by a neglect of education, the community suffers a great, an irreparable loss, by being deprived of his assistance, to increase the happiness of society. Education is the strongest barrier against tyranny and despotism; and the first step towards enslaving a people: is to render them ignorant, by taking from them the means of obtaining knowledge. Look, Citizens of independent Columbia, at the unhappy fate of many of the eastern nations, once famous for science and for liberty! Contemplate the states of Greece, when listening to the orations of a Demosthenes, and the annihilated, but still famous empire of Rome, fast sinking into oblivion! Contemplate the vicissitudes of states and empires, and tell me, did not a neglect of instructing youth in knowledge and virtue, and an introduction of them to scenes of immorality and cruelty, precede the destruction of those once glorious states? If my conception of the consequences, which may result from a negligence of education be just, how "feelingly alive" ought every parent to be, in giving his children that instruction, which will enable them to preserve that liberty, on which his happiness depends! ( Rural Lucretia. )
The jealousies of European nations of the trade of America, occasion them to hold intercourse, criminal intercourse, with the pirates of Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers and Morocco! The ocean is the great public road of nations, and it is infested by those highway robbers, the Algerines and their piratical associates. To treat with them, to send consuls, ministers, and other public agents to reside among them is to hold public connexion with and countenance them. To pay them tribute, and to send them vessels, arms, and warlike stores is to abet and aid them. It is just therefore that we have imposed a new duty upon the manufactures of those foreign nations who from a criminal hostility to our trade support and assist the pirates of Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers and Morocco. It might be well to make the duty much higher, and to exonerate vessels and goods of and from those nations, who shall sincerely and truly refrain from thus being accessories to these pirates on the property and persons of our citizens.
SCRAP.—ALPHONZO , king of Aragon, says, that to make a marriage happy, the husband should be deaf, and the wife blind—that he should not hear the reproaches of his wife, nor she see the errors of her husband.
War Department, Feb. 8th, 1804. Notice is hereby given,
THAT separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary for the Department of War, until the eighteenth day of May next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of October, 1804, until the 30th day of September, 1805, both days inclusive, at the following places, viz.
 First. At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Chicago, Fort Wayne, the post on Miami of the Lakes, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Ohio, and at any place or places within the Indiana territory north of the 41st degree of north latitude.  Second. At South West Point, Tellico, Knoxville, Nashville, and within the Cherokee nation between Tennessee and Georgia, and on the Tennessee river, and on the road between said river and Nashville, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Tennessee and Kentucky.  Third. At the garrison near Vincennes, on the river Wabash.  Fourth. At Fort Mifflin, near the mouth of the Ohio, Kaskaskia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the Indiana territory, south of the 41st degree of north latitude. (Vincennes excepted.)  Fifth. At St. Louis, New Madrid, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in Louisiana, north of the settlements on the river Arkansas.  Sixth. At Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas, Natchez, Fort Adams, Fort Stoddart on the Mobile, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the Mississippi territory, and on the road between Natchez and the Tennessee river, (the post on said river excepted.)  Seventh. At New Orleans, and any place or places on the Mississippi river, below Fort Adams, & at Opelousas, Natchitoches, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in Louisiana, not before mentioned or provided for.  Eighth. At Fort Wilkinson, Cockspur-Hill, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Georgia, and on the Indian boundary between Georgia and the Creek nation.  Ninth. At Charleston, Rocky Mountain, on the head waters of the Santee, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of South and North Carolina.  Tenth. At Norfolk, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Virginia.  Eleventh. At Fort M'Henry, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Maryland and the district of Columbia.  Twelfth. At Fort Mifflin, Pittsburgh, Carlisle, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.  Thirteenth. At Fort Jay, West-Point, Albany, Schenectady, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New-York, (Niagara excepted.)  Fourteenth. At Fort Trumbull, Fort Wolcott, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Connecticut, Rhode-Island and Vermont.  Fifteenth. At Fort Independence, (Boston Harbour) and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Massachusetts, (the district of Maine excepted.)  Sixteenth. At Portsmouth, Portland, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New-Hampshire and the district of Maine. 
A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of beef or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whiskey or Brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and one half of candles, to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the ration should be specified; but the United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price for the whole ration.  The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara and Chicago for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the western waters for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the Commandants of fortified places or posts to call for at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in the case of urgency such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the Commandant shall be deemed proper.  It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense & risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredation of an enemy, or by means of the troops, of the United States, shall be paid by the United States at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or more persons of credible characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.  The privilege is understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies which may be fur-
nished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the Sea board or Indian frontiers, not exceeding three months.  H. DEARBORN, Secretary of war. 28. May 15.
PROPOSALS FOR CARRYING THE
Mails of the United States, ON THE FOLLOWING POST-ROADS, Will be received at the General Post Office, in Washington, until the 15th day of June next, inclusive.   1. From Portsmouth by Hampton Falls, Salisbury, Newbury-Port, Ipswich, Beverly, Salem and Lynn to Boston, six times a week. May 1 to November 1. Leave Portsmouth every day, Sunday excepted, at 2 p. m. and arrive at Boston the next day by 11 a. m. Leave Boston every day, Sunday excepted, at 1 p. m. and arrive at Portsmouth next day by 7 a. m. November 1 to May 1. Leave Portsmouth every day, Sunday excepted, at 2 p. m. and arrive at Boston the next day by 9 a. m. in 19 hours. Leave Boston every day, Sunday excepted, at 2 p. m. and arrive at Portsmouth the next days by 10 a. m. in 20 hours.  2. From Portsmouth by Dover, Rochester, Middletown, Ollippee, Moultontown and Center Harbor to Plymouth, and from Plymouth by New-Hampton, Meredith, Gilmanston, Nottingham and Durham to Portsmouth, once a week. Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday at 2 p. m. and arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 p. m. Leave Plymouth every Friday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Portsmouth on Monday by 8 a. m.  3. From Hanover by Orford to Haverhill, once a week. Leave Hanover every Friday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Haverhill by 5 p. m. Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Hanover by 6 p. m.  4. From Haverhill, Ms. by Chester, Pembroke, Concord, Boscawen, Salisbury, Plymouth, Romney and Haverhill to Newbury Vt. once a week. Leave Haverhill every Tuesday at 2 p. m. and arrive at Chester by 5 p. m. arrive at Concord on Wednesday by 10 a. m. Leave Concord at 4 p. m. arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 p. m. and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 p. m. Leave Haverhill at 5 1/2 p. m. and arrive at Newbury by 7 p. m. Returning—Leave Newbury every Saturday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Concord on Monday by 10 a. m. Leave Concord on Monday at 11 a. m. and arrive at Haverhill on Tuesday by 10 a. m. 
NOTES.
 1. The Post-master General may expedite the mails and alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contracts, he stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby.  2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time is specified.  3. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the time prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continues until the departure of an ensuing mail, whereby the mails destined for such ensuing mail shall be delayed, an additional forfeiture of 5 dollars shall be incurred.  4. Newspapers as well as letters are to be sent in the mail; and if any person making proposals, desires to carry newspapers, other than those conveyed in the mail, for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals for what sum he will carry with the emolument, and for what sum without that emolument.  5. Should any person making proposals desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals the alteration desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of the contract.  6. Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly, in the months of August, November, February and May, in one month after the expiration of each quarter.  7. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail.  8. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals.  9. The Post-master General reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end whenever three failures happen which amount to the loss of a trip each.  10. The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of October next, and are to continue in force for two years. 
GIDEON GRANGER, POST-MASTER GENERAL. General Post Office, Washington City, February 23, 1804.
FOR SALE on reasonable terms, A FARM in Nottingham, a one story HOUSE thereon, 36 by 30, and a BARN 60 by 30— Said Farm contains between 60 and 70 acres, and is a capital place for a Tanner, &c. Apply to JOHN FROST. Durham, March 31, 1804.
To the Hon. JONATHAN WARNER, Esq. one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace throughout the State of New-Hampshire.
THE subscribers, owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of FRANCONIA , situate in the county of Grafton, in the State of New-Hampshire—request you to notify or warn a meeting of the proprietors and owners of the said township to meet at the dwelling-house of Zebedee Applebee , inn-holder in said township of Franconia, on the 22nd day of May next, ensuing, at one of the clock, P. M. on said day, to act on the following articles, matters and things:—
 1st. To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting.  2d. To choose a Proprietor's Clerk.  3d. To choose Assessors, a Collector, a Treasurer, and such other officers as the proprietors may think proper to act for them in all cases whatsoever.  4th. To see what method the proprietors will take to settle the lines of said township, with other towns and places.  5th. To examine into all former surveys, allotments, drafts and divisions of lands in said township, and into all former proceedings, and in case the boundaries and lots are found not agreeable to the lines and lots, and boundaries and lots by which the proprietors drew and divided their lands; to make a new survey and allotment, and make up the deficiency to any proprietors or claimers in other lands in said township—or to vote any particular lots to such claimer or claimers, as part of their rights, as they think reasonable—or to make a new division by draft, or partly by voting pitches and drafts, as the case may be; and petition the General Court, on the premises if thought necessary.  6th. To settle all former accounts with their former officers—and take such methods relative thereto, as is thought necessary.  7th. To sue, prosecute and defend any actions which may be brought by the proprietors for trespass, or on ejectment.  8th. To raise such sum or sums of money as may be thought necessary. 
JONAS MINOT, ABRAHAM MONROE, DUDLEY HARDY, JOSEPH NIXON. March 24, 1804.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. Rockingham, ss.
Portsmouth, April 6, 1804. THE proprietors and owners of the township of FRANCONIA aforesaid, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes aforesaid. Given under my hand and seal this day.
JONATHAN WARNER, Justice of the Peace throughout said State.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. Hillsborough, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of lands in the town of WARNER , in the county of Hillsborough, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1802—that unless they pay them to me the subscriber, on or before the fourteenth day of June next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, on said day, at the house of Ezra Flanders , in said Warner, at one of the clock in the afternoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   NAMES. Division. Number. Quantity. Value.     Samuel Barnard & Stephen Colby, 1 7 60 90   Nathan Goodwin, 2 21 53 29   Peter Sargent, 2 54 80 16   Jacob Rowell, 2 4 80 24   Ezekiel Dimond, 2 18 40 8   Sam'l & Israel Straw, 2 7 80 32   Dea. George Abbot, 2 34 80 16   Jeremiah Flanders, 1 40 60 24   Capt. David Bagley, 2 32 60 18   Col. Henry Morrel, 1 29 33 38   Benjamin Currier, 2 16 20 6   Joseph Eastman, 2 25 67 12   DANIEL FLOOD, Collector.  
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the township of DANBURY , in the county of Grafton, and State of New-Hampshire, who have not paid the taxes assessed on said land for the year 1803—that unless said taxes are paid to me the subscriber, on or before Wednesday the thirteenth day of June next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, at the dwelling-house of Lieut. Jacob Favour , in Danbury, at ten o'clock before noon on said day.
No. Div. Qu'y. County. Lit. way. " " " " " " " " " "
WANTED —In a small family, a BOY, of 11 or 12 years of age. Inquire of the Printers. April 10, 1804.
WANTED —Two Hundred DOLLARS, for which good security will be given in the town of Portsmouth, and interest paid quarterly. Inquire of the Printers. April 3.
BATH three cent tax.
WHEREAS the Legislature of the State of New-Hampshire, at their last Session granted a tax of three cents per acre, on all the lands in the town of BATH , in the county of Grafton, in said State, (public rights excepted) for the purpose of making and repairing public highways and bridges in said town; and the subscribers were appointed a committee to assist and superintend the collection and appropriation of the same. We therefore hereby give public notice to the owners of land in said Bath, that they are allowed to pay each his proportion of said tax in money or labor performed on said public roads and bridges, under the direction of said committee, any time between the first day of May, and the first day of October next, at the rate of six cents per hour, for every hour's actual labor performed on said roads and bridges, by an able bodied man, finding his own diet and tools; and the same price per hour for each yoke of oxen.—And that we will be ready to receive the same in payment of said tax any time within the term aforesaid.
AARON HIBBARD, SAM'L HUTCHINS, MICHAEL BARTLETT, Bath, March 20, 1804.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. Grafton, ss.
To INCREASE ROBINSON, Esq. Clerk to the Proprietors of the township of CHATHAM .
 THE subscribers, proprietors and owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of CHATHAM , in said State and county, request you to notify and warn the proprietors and owners of said township, to meet at the dwelling-house of William Cox , innholder in said Chatham, on Monday the 6th day of August next, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, viz.—  1st. To choose a Moderator, to govern said meeting.  2d. To choose a Proprietor's Clerk.  3d. To choose a Committee, to call on former Treasurers, Collectors, Committees and other proprietary Officers, and make settlements with them; and adjust all accounts which may be presented against said Proprietors as may be just, and make a statement of their proceedings on the business, in a certain time to be directed therefor by the Proprietors.  4th. To see if the Proprietors will lay out a Road across a part of the south-end of said Chatham, to Bartlett, and appoint persons to do the same.  5th. To see if the Proprietors will confirm the Roads in said Chatham, which have been built or marked out, and choose surveyors and other suitable persons to lay out the same, and make returns of their surveys in a certain time.  6th. To raise such sums of money, to be assessed on each Right and other Lands in proportion, as may be thought necessary for making Roads, defraying Proprietary expenses, and discharging subsisting demands.  7th. To choose a Treasurer, Collector, and other Officers, necessary for carrying into effect the business above mentioned.  8th. To choose a Committee, to enquire whether the Proprietor's Book of Records be brought forward at said meeting and delivered to the Clerk; and if not, for said Committee to call for said Book, and deliver it to said Clerk as soon as possible. 
MOSES CANNY, ISAAC WALDRON, JOSHUA HEATH, WILLIAM COX, junr. ICHABOD CANNY, NATHANIEL WALKER. STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE— Grafton, ss.
*** PURSUANT to the foregoing request, I do hereby notify the Proprietors and Owners of the township of CHATHAM , to meet at the time and place aforesaid, for the purposes set forth in the above request to me directed.
Given under my hand and seal, the 22d. day of March, A. D. 1804. INCREASE ROBINSON. Prop'r's Clerk.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. Hillsborough, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the town of WARNER , in the county of Hillsborough, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1801—that unless they pay them to me the subscriber, with the incidental charges, on or before the fourteenth day of June next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges at the dwelling-house of Ezra Flanders , innholder in said Warner, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   NAMES. Division. Number. Quantity. Value.     Joseph Jewett, 2 20 60 12   Samuel Barnard, 1 7 60 20   Stephen Colby, 2 23 80 24   Nathan Goodwin, 2 19 40 8   Jacob Rowell, 2 4 80 32   Ezekiel Dimond, 2 18 40 8   Samuel & Israel Straw, 2 7 80 32   Dea. George Abbot, 2 34 80 16   Benjamin Currier, 1 29 33 7   2 16 20  
DANIEL FLOOD, Collector. Warner, March 21, 1804.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of BENJAMIN MASON , late of Stratham, deceased, are requested to present the same to the subscriber for settlement.
MARGARET MASON, Adm'x. Stratham, April 2, 1804.