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THE New Hampshire Gazette.
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PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE)—PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY BY JOHN MELCHER, PRINTER TO THE STATE, AT HIS OFFICE CORNER OF MARKET STREET, WHERE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THIS PAPER, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND ARTICLES OF INTELLIGENCE ARE THANKFULLY RECEIVED.
No. 30, of Vol. XLVI.]
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1801.
[One Dollar 83 half pr. Annum.]
Miscellany.
The Count DE PELZER.
THE Count de Pelzer, an officer in the Prussian service, was the only son of an aged widow. He was finely made, brave to an excess, and desperately in love with Mademoiselle De Benkon. She was in her 18th year; gentle, beautiful, and endowed with extreme sensibility—Her lover, at the triumphant age of 21, was as much loved as his mistress was admired, and the day was fixed to crown their nuptials. It was on the 20th of June, 1770. The Prussian troops are always ready to enter upon a campaign; and on the 17th of June, at ten at night, the regiment of the Count received orders to set out for Silesia. He was at Berlin, and his mistress at a castle within four leagues of that city. He therefore was obliged to depart without seeing her, and wrote a letter from the first place where he stopped, in which he declared it was impossible for him to live without her, and requesting that she would follow him without delay, that their marriage might be celebrated at Silesia. The officer wrote also to the brother of the young lady, who was his most intimate friend, to intercede with her parents in his behalf.
The young lady set out accompanied by this brother and the mother of her lover.—Never did time seem so slow as to this charming girl; but the journey was at length over, and they arrived at the city of Herstadt. It was morning; and—"Never," said her brother, "did eyes behold a finer woman than my sister; the exercise of the journey had given a fresh bloom to her complexion, and her eyes were mirrors which reflected what was passing in her heart."
But oh! how deceitful are the hopes of mortals!—How often does the moment of felicity touch the moment of misfortune!—The carriage is stopped in the street, to let some soldiers pass who were advancing with flow steps, carrying in their arms a wounded officer. The tender heart of the young lady was affected at the sight. Little did she suspect it was her lover. Some Austrian foragers had advanced close to the city, and the young Count went out to quell them. Burning with desire to distinguish himself, he darted forward before his troops, and fell a victim to his unfortunate impetuosity.
To paint the situation of this unhappy girl, would be to insult the heart and imagination of every reader of sensibility.—Her lover is placed on his bed; his mother at his feet! his mistress holding his hand.—"Oh! Charlotte!" he exclaimed, opening his dying eyes. He made an effort to speak more, but his voice failed him, and he burst into tears. His accents had pierced his mistress to the soul;—she lost her reason—"No! I will not survive you!" said she, snatching his sword. It was taken from her, and the dying officer makes signs with his hand for her to approach him.—He pressed her close in his arms, and after two painful efforts to speak, he said, with a convulsive sigh—"Live, my Charlotte, to comfort my mother!" and instantly expired.
Extracts from Park's Travels.
"THE king of Bambarra having heard, from the Moors of Sego unfavorable reports of Mr. P. sent him a bag containing 5000 kowries,* and an order to quit Sego, in consequence of which, the traveller, proceeded eastward along the banks of the Niger. Near to a town called Kabba, he observed the people collecting the fruit of Shea trees, from which the vegetable butter is prepared."
"These trees (says Mr. Park) grow in great abundance all over this part of Bambarra. They are not planted by the natives but are found growing naturally in the woods; and in clearing wood land for cultivation, every tree is cut down but the Shea. The tree itself very much resembles the American oak; and the fruit, from the kernel of which being first dried in the sun, the butter is prepared, by
*Kowries, or small shells, 250 of which are nearly equal in value to a shilling.
boiling the kernel in water, has somewhat the appearance of a Spanish olive. The kernel is enveloped in a sweet pulp under a thin green rind; and the butter produced from it, besides the advantage of its keeping the whole year without salt, is whiter, firmer, and to my palate of a richer flavor than the best butter I ever tasted, made from cow's milk."
"The growth and preparation of this commodity; seem to be among the first objects of African industry in this and the neighboring states; and it constitutes a main article of their inland commerce."
"Indecent words admit but this defence, That want of language is want of sense."
THAT the language which people make use of in their conversation, is a criterion by which we may form an accurate judgment of their minds, is a truth that cannot be controverted.—"From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." The education they have received, the company they kept, may be easily determined from it. As man is an imitative being, his manners, habits and language, are formed from those with whom he is the most conversant.—If we see a person vulgar, and indecent in his language, no greater proof can be adduced of his having been familiar with servants, and the dregs of the human race, than this: Whatever airs of politeness or refinement of manners he may assume, if his language does not correspond therewith, the veil is easily seen through, and the vulgar heart stands confessed. No token can be given more strong than a person has been low bred than filling every sentence of his conversation with indecent and profane expressions—and nothing can be more disgusting to one whose ears have been accustomed to pure and decent language. But where it appears still more disgusting, is when it comes from the females, that beautiful part of the creation, the pride and boast of man, who formed by nature to be adored, and to diffuse happiness and pleasure amongst mankind, are in consequence of the superior refinement of their natures emphatically styled the fair. I say, when they lay aside the softness and delicacy of their sex, which justly excites the love and admiration of ours, when they divest themselves of that dignity of manners, so fascinating to a heart of sensibility, and stoop to the vulgarity of a needlessly oath, fill every sentence of their conversation with profane expressions, and on the most trifling occasions making use of the reverential name of their maker—how disrespectful do they appear; admiration is then converted into contempt, and those captivating, enchanting properties of their nature lose their power of pleasing, and appear as a deceitful veil to cover a mind destitute of that delicacy which is the greatest ornament of the sex, and which has the power of irresistibly exciting emotions of exquisite pleasure in those who behold it. Profanity in either sex justly merits contempt—but in the fair, our language wants a word to express its baseness. It is degrading beyond expression.
SOME ACCOUNT OF NEW-ORLEANS.
Communicated in a Letter from an American gentleman, to his friend in New-Jersey.
"MY DEAR FRIEND,
"MY short residence here, has as yet, been entirely engrossed with attention to our business, which is very troublesome, as the whole of our sales is by retail, which of course occupies our time from morning till night. Every thing is conducted in a very different manner than with us. The entries at the Custom-House are very troublesome. Every article is carted thither and lodged in the public ware-house. Every box is opened and inspected, and if the officer pleases, every bail must be unpacked, and each piece of goods inspected to see whether it agrees with the entry. There are modes, however, of abridging this useless labour, and delicate scruples do not prevail. To gratify some little curiosity that may be excited on receiving a letter from the western quarter of our continent, take the following short sketch of a place which one day must rank among the most important emporiums of the commercial world. New-Orleans is situated on an Island of large extent, about 100 miles above the mouth of the Mississippi. Its surface is one uninterrupted level from the mouth of the river for many leagues above without the least rising. It may contain about 1200 houses; the streets are strait, intersected at right angles, about 40 feet wide, raised in the centre, with narrow side walls and gutters; but entirely unpaved except the foot walks in places. The soil being of clay, renders the walking after a rain
not only muddy, but so slippery that you can scarcely keep your feet.—The buildings are in general one story, without cellars—a great number, however, of two, but only one of three, which is superb, and would not disgrace a Washington—I know no private building in New-York or Philadelphia as splendid in its exterior, said to have cost 60,000 dollars and not yet finished. Much taste is displayed in the fronts and battlements of the roofs which are generally flat and tiled. Since the great fire, which a few years ago destroyed this place, all buildings are, by regulation, now constructed with brick and tile or slate roofs. The bricks are very bad, but covered with white lime mortar, which gives a neat appearance. The waters of the Mississippi rise occasionally not more than 6 or 8 feet. An embankment called the levee, keeps the river from overflowing the city and adjacent country. It extends along the river many leagues on each side, and is sufficiently broad to serve as a high road. This levee, in the city is crowded with people of all tongues and complexions.—French, Spanish, Dutch, English, Americans and Indians, by hundreds, with their nakedness scarcely covered by a short waist cloth and blanket. You cannot conceive a more motley assemblage than is daily exhibited in this place. The manners and living are entirely French, which is the language of the whole city, excepting foreigners; the officers of the government alone being Spanish.—The market is abundantly supplied with but indifferent beef and veal, but plenty of fish, oysters, and some of all kinds of vegetables in the greatest luxuriance. We have had green peas and asparagus ever since my arrival. Oranges very fine, for half a dollar a hundred. The orange trees are now in full bloom, and the odour is most exquisite. The inhabitants all dine at 7, and fare sumptuously. At my lodgings I am boarded at 12 dollars per week; seldom less than 8 dishes elegantly dressed, and wine, claret, at breakfast, dinner and supper, without limitation; a neat room, bed and curtains, and servant to brush cloaths and boots. This is a very hospitable place; I have scarcely dined at my lodgings since I have been here; we sup at eight, retire at nine and rise with the sun. I find little intellectual society, all is commercial that is worthy cultivation; gambling is very brief and our foolish Kentucky men spend and lose their money in this place most infamously. The inhabitants are temperate, as their wine, being very small, of which however, they swallow immoderately at meals, they cannot hold enough to intoxicate them; but our northern folks will not relinquish grog, which is poison in this climate. I find no reason to apprehend danger, as to health, if I am prudent. The inhabitants, men and women, are universally as hale, fair and fresh coloured as our own people. They say themselves that this is the Paradise of the world. I shall try its charms, as I do not mean to return until I have made a fair experiment of the country."
"High Life below Stairs."
THE Earl of Rochester, of facetious memory, returning home one dark night in a state of intoxication, stumbled into a blacksmith's shop, and fell down under the bellows, where he lay in a dead sleep. It happened the next morning, that the blacksmith with his journeyman went to their work before the dawn of day, and perceiving the motion of the bellows to be obstructed, they heated each his iron red hot and used them as candles, for the purpose of discovering the obstruction.
At this instant his lordship awoke, and beholding around him a number of sooty men with red hot irons pointed at his head, he immediately concluded himself to be in the infernal regions. In the mean time, the master blacksmith thus accosted him in an angry tone; "Who be you? and from whence did you come?"—Poor Rochester, trembling in every joint, replied, "When I was in the other world I was the Earl of Rochester, a peer of the realm of England; but now I am whatever your devillhips may please to call me."
POLITICS.
SKETCHES OF FOREIGN POLITICS.
THE scenes of the great European theatre shift so often, that it is difficult to give just accounts of the transactions as early as they are called for by the curiosity of our readers.
Three months ago, Great-Britain stood alone, collecting all her might, resolute in asserting against France and the northern powers whom the First Consul had made his dupes, the old maritime law of nations, sanctioned by ages of consent, and manifestly better for neutrals themselves, than the strange and absurd novelties which they affected by dint of arms to substitute in its place. The victory at Copenhagen, and the sudden death of the Russian Emperor, Paul, have broken to pieces this whimsical image of clay and iron. The confederacy scarcely lived to be born, for Russia it seems, does not consider herself at war with England, but opens her ports and resumes her old relations of trade so necessary to her subjects. Few political events indeed will so much puzzle the future historian as the confederacy. Absurd in its principle, monstrous in its connection with France, as France is no neutral, and is hostile to all civilized states, weak and tardy in its means, ill agreed in its object, without mutual convert, confidence or good faith, it could not last; the wonder is that it ever existed. All these northern powers quarrelled with England, their best customer, they prohibited British trade, which threw the weight of the war on their own subjects, who were as much in need to sell their hemp, iron and naval stores, as the English were to buy them, and indeed much more.* They were the blind and insulted dupes of the First Consul; for as soon as he had made the members of the northern league shut their ports against the English, and had forced Naples and other states on the Mediterranean to do the like, he immediately opened the ports of France, which were directly supplied and glutted with goods from London. As the northern powers were wanted only to play a short game, which it was evident was all they could play, the Consul probably cares little about the resentment this unfair proceeding will inspire in the cold bosoms of the Danes, and Swedes, and Russians. The effect he expected from the diversion of the northern contest was the immediate employment of the British force in the Baltic. That effect is visibly produced: For had not Great-Britain felt herself in danger from that quarter, she could have dispatched an army to Egypt, instead of the lean detachment to whose bravery she entrusted this most important expedition. Her success, thus far, greatly exceeds any calculation that was made from an estimate of the strength of Sir Ralph Abercrombie's forces. France would not have undertaken such an expedition with less than forty thousand men. England could spare only a bout twelve. If she succeeds, it will be against the reasonable expectation at the outset. Already she has crippled the French force in Egypt, and if the reinforcements she is sending should arrive in season to act, it is highly probable Alexandria will surrender, and the French will be expelled from that country. Unless they should be driven out, no peace could be made that would last long. Egypt was taken as a station for France to collect her strength, and the two first years of peace would be employed to collect it, for the invasion of Bengal. Why England should desire peace that will give her no rest, no security, that will not suffer her to disarm nor
retrench expenses, that will expose her, with her bosom bare, and her armour off, to the daggers of French intrigue:—A peace, that will renew her adversary's strength, and dissipate and waste her own, is best known to those who are bound to act for the best good of that nation. A vigorous war is better than a treacherous unsafe peace. The field of plunder has become narrow, and affords little better than the gleanings after the harvest. Arts and commerce cannot rise in France till there is peace, nor then, unless there shall be such a government as will protect property and its rights. If that government should be a monarchy, nay if the race of Bourbon were restored to-morrow, France is so vast in her size, her people are so military, her spirit is so impatient for glory and conquest, that Europe would be still exposed to an intolerable dread of servitude under a French yoke.—To live near the giant's castle, and to live with a consciousness that he could eat any one of his victims that he pleases, as caprice or the want of other prey might prompt him, is a state of danger and debasement worse than war, to which the continental powers of Europe are degraded. Portugal seems to be on the Consul's next bill of fare. Holland is said to be marked for speedy destruction as an independent, or seemingly independent State. We hear it is to be annexed to the Great Republic.
There seems to be a strong desire in this country, that France and England should patch up a peace. We acquiesce, in all that real humanity may prescribe. But it is not considered that the industry of our citizens is more called and better paid for in time of war. The wishes of humane and virtuous men are to be respected, and no honest man will wish a sanguinary war to last merely for our profit and advantage. Let it, however, be noticed that France and England are answerable, not we, for the continuance of their contest. We have a good right to take, and while we are taking, to calculate the benefits we derive from their misfortune. This conflicts with humanity, with sympathy for their distresses. A precarious peace, that should leave the passions of the combatants as fierce as ever, that should augment the danger of the universal domination of France, while it would weaken, disjoint and disarm all her foes, cannot be such a peace as our men of humanity, or as found American statesmen could wish for. We leave these sentiments to be cavilled at as usual by the pretty chapmen in politics, who perform scribbling jobs for the jacobin Gazettes. It is easy to misrepresent any thing, and we shall not wonder to see our opinions so distorted and twisted out of shape in the Chronicle that nobody would perceive any remains of likeness.
This country exhibits few interesting events. We see the offices of the government passing out of the hands of its old servants, and who were once esteemed faithful. When all the changes are made that seem to be contemplated, the new administration will certainly stand fully responsible for public measures. They will have no right to charge misconduct on the parasites and tools of Washington and Adams. The present is, therefore, a period of expectation and suspense: It is yet too soon to offer comments on the performance, as hitherto to the play seems to be only in rehearsal.
ANECDOTE.
BISHOP THOMAS, who was a man of humor and drollery, being once on a visitation, was giving an account of his being married three or four times. "Should I lose my present wife," said he, "I would instantly take another; and it is my opinion I would survive her also." "Perhaps," added he, "you do not know the art of getting quit of your wives. I'll tell you how I do—I am called a good husband; and so I am, for I never contradicted them. But don't you know, the want of contradiction is fatal to women. If you contradict them, that circumstance is exercise and health to women; but give them their own way, and they will languish and pine, become cross and lethargic for want of this exercise."
*It is not the interest of nations at war entirely to crush neutral commerce. There is much that a state of war prevents even the power that rules the sea from doing for herself—there is more that she will desire neutral nations to do for her advantage.—Often she cannot so effectually crush her antagonist as by conferring benefits on a friendly neutral state. The one or the other must have these benefits. The interest of Great-Britain, well understood and left to operate on her councils, as it will if our conduct should not be designedly irritating, will exact from her a tolerably correct regard to the rights of neutral commerce, agreeably to the old maritime law.

Foreign Articles.
THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
BREMEN, MAY 20.
THERE has been in circulation since yesterday an article of news too extraordinary to be believed on light grounds.—The King of Prussia is said to have required of the Batavian Republic, 163 millions of florins, and the re-establishment of the Stadtholder, for whom the money is intended as an indemnity for what has been taken from him—that the Batavian Republic has written to Bonaparte, who has returned for answer, that he took no concern in the business; and that the Republic has in consequence sent an ambassador to Berlin.
MISCELLANY.
LONDON, MAY 26. A letter from an officer in the British army in Egypt, dated April 4th, states, that of the Invincible corps which led the attack on our lines the 21st March, only twelve men accepted of quarter. [According to the Paris Moniteur , this corps consisted of 1356 men a short period previous to the battle.] The slaughter was so great on the side of the French that it took our pioneers seventeen hours to bury their dead. The British camp, at the date of the letter was supplied with abundance of fresh provisions, at very moderate prices. A fat sheep of 50 wt. costs only three dollars, three geese a dollar, and a bag of large onions, Egyptian onions, half a dollar.
Sir R. Abercromby, in the action of the 21st of March, killed with his own hand the French Gen. Rioze. The enemy's cavalry had penetrated to the spot where the British Commander had taken post to observe and direct the battle, and were overpowering our party, when Sir Sidney Smith with a division of seamen, arrived to their succour. Sir Ralph was then in the act of struggling with General Rioze for his sword, which wrestling from him he plunged it into his bosom, and immediately after, in acknowledgment of the prompt and gallant assistance of Sir Sidney, presented to him the trophy.
Domestic News.
WASHINGTON, July 6.
On Friday last an Address was delivered by the Secretary of War in answer to the Talk of the Cherokee Chiefs previously made.
The address of the Secretary which was made in the name of the President, conveyed assurances to the Cherokees that all the engagements entered into by the predecessors of the President would be by him rigidly observed; it congratulated them on the advances they had made, and were still making in the arts of civilization, particularly on the introduction of the spinning wheel and of the plough instead of the hoe, and assured them that the President, on proper representation, would have them furnished with the instruments and instruction required to aid their progress in agriculture and manufactures.
After the delivery of the reply of the Secretary of War, the leading chief spoke at considerable length on the affairs of his nation. His mode of delivery, the tone of his voice, and his general expression of countenance, were mild and persuasive, and his deportment and gestures were highly dignified and graceful.
CHARLESTON, July 2.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in London to his friend in this city, dated May 15.
"We have just succeeded in obtaining a decree of the Lords of Appeal, in favour of our mutual friend, Mr. Caspar C. Shutt, in the case of the Gadsden and Frederica; and we expect the rest of his cases will soon be decided in his favour. Though we have not been able to obtain costs and damages, as we tried and hoped, yet we hope the decision will prove satisfactory."
NEW-YORK, July 9.
Capt. Swain, from Nantucket, who arrived here yesterday, on Tuesday last, fell in with the French national ships which sailed from this port on Sunday. They were then steering S. S. E. and were five leagues from Sandy Hook.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Philadelphia, 7th July, 1801.
The United States' Ship George Washington will leave the Delaware about the 25th inst. and touch at New-York; from thence she will proceed to Gibraltar, and take under her convoy any vessels bound that way.
R. F. HOBART, Sec'y.
The Archduke Charles is to marry mademoiselle Beauharnois, daughter of madame Bonaparte. She is one of
the most amiable, virtuous young women in France; many proposals of marriage have been made to her, by young men attached to the government of the day, but she has always declared she would never marry any man, nor the son of any man, concerned directly or indirectly, with the revolution of France. For these two years she has employed herself in the institution of female schools of industry, and superintending the management of them. [ London Paper. ]
BOSTON, JULY 15.
WE are satisfied affairs in the North of Europe are rapidly approaching a pacific conclusion. The British Ambassador, Lord St. Helens, who had been sent to complete the negotiation begun by Lord Nelson, arrived in Denmark early in May—was cordially received—had several conferences with the Danish ministry, and on the 17th May proceeded onwards for St. Petersburg; where, if we may judge from the generally-received opinion of the character of Alexander I. his mission has been successful. Both parties, however, appeared determined to be prepared for war.—The Russian fleet, it was confidently stated, sailed from Revel the 3rd May to join the Swedish squadron at Cronstadt; and on the 12th May Lord Nelson, with a powerful fleet, which was supplied with necessaries from Denmark, was cruising near Bernholm, an island in the Baltic off the coast of Sweden. If, contrary to all appearances, Lord St. Helens has been unsuccessful, we must speedily expect accounts of sanguinary conflicts from the North.
It was confirmed that the Danes evacuated Hamburg, the 23rd May.
The French had taken intire possession of the kingdom of Naples; and had put the Neapolitan navy in requisition; probably to convey reinforcements to Egypt.
COMMENCEMENT.
The annual Commencement was held at Cambridge, yesterday, agreeable to the forms and customs which have long prevailed at the Harvard University. The exercises, we are told, (for we were not present at the exhibition,) were peculiarly chaste, correct, and elegant; and though devoid of party spirit, and personal invective, were nevertheless spirited and commanding. The Order of the Performances was as follows:—
 By the Candidates for the Degree of Batchelor of Arts.  1. A Salutatory Oration in Latin—by Robert Hallswell.  2. A Forensic Disputation upon this question—"Whether Science be in a state of progression?"—by Thomas Bond and Moody Kent.  3. An English Poem upon—"Fashion."—by Wilkes Allen.  4. An English conference upon—"The influence of early education, public opinion, civil Laws, and religious institutions on the conduct of individuals."—by Thomas Dawes, John Gorham, William Bant Sullivan, and Enoch Sawyer Tappan.  5. A Hebrew Oration—by Elias Phinney.  6. An English Poem upon—"Freedom"—by Joseph Mansfield.  7. An English Conference upon—"The invention of the Plough, the Mariner's Compass, the Printing Press, and the Telescope"—by John Abbot, Jacob Abbot Cummings, Luther Lawrence and Charles Chauncy Parsons.  8. A Greek Dialogue upon—"The importance of the knowledge of the Greek Language to the defence of the Christian Revelation"—by Phineas Adams, William Chandler and Stephen Minot.  9. A Forensic Disputation upon this question—"Whether occupancy create right of Property."—by Tyler Bigelow and Timothy Fuller.  10. A colloquial disputation of—"The importance of a National Character to the United States."—by George Sullivan and Nath'l Williams.  11. An English Oration upon—"Public Spirit."—by Benjamin Peirce. By the Candidates for the Degree of Master of Arts.  1. An English Oration upon—"Freedom of Enquiry."—by Mr. Joseph Tuckerman.  2. A Valedictory Oration in Latin—by Mr. Perez Lincoln. 
His Excellency Gov. Strong, was escorted to Cambridge, for the purpose of attending the Exercises, by the Roxbury Cavalry; and re-conducted to town, in the afternoon, by the same company.
"Let us, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind, let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered; we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance, as despotic, as wicked and capable of as bitter and bloody persecution. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even
this distant and peaceful shore; that this should be more felt and feared by some and less by others; and should divide opinions as to measures of safety; but every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans: we are federalists."
[Jefferson's inaugural Speech.]
REMOVALS from OFFICE.
His Excellency Winthrop Sargeant, Esq. Governor of the Mississippi Territory, to be succeeded by Wm. C. C. Claiborne, Esq.
Gen. H. Miller, Supervisor for the District of Pennsylvania, to be succeeded by General Peter Muhlenberg.
REPORTED DISMISSIONS.
Col. Chester, Supervisor for the District of Connecticut, to be succeeded by Ephraim Kirby.
Joshua Sands, Esq. Collector of the Port of N. York, to be succeeded by David Gelston, Esq.
[The want of integrity, capacity, or energy, while in office, are not attributed to these discarded patriots; they have been Federalists it is true; but were federalists from principle , and were soldiers , in the revolutionary war, from patriotism —Are these the measures, which are to "restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection, without which, liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things?"—Well may we exclaim, O, temporal! O, mores! ]
From Paris, May 21.
"It is said, that Mr. Murray, the Ambassador from the United States to the Batavian Republic, and one of those who signed the treaty of Peace between France and America, is to repair to Paris in order to remove some trifling difficulties which stand in the way of the complete and full ratification of this treaty."
Mr. Adams, our Ambassador at the Court of Berlin, who has been recalled, had his audience and took leave of the King of Prussia the 5th of May last.
An extract of a letter from Fort Malborough, dated the 1st of January, a town on the west coast of the island of Sumatra, five miles east of Bent-coolen, in India, says—"A fever, similar to the Yellow Fever, rages with unremitting violence among the troops and inhabitants of this place. The bells have been ordered to cease from tolling for the dead, it had such a melancholy effect on the living."
Prices at St. Martins, Salt 125 cts. per barrel; at Montserrat, Rum 5s. Flour 16 dls. Pork 25, Beef 16. At Fredericksburg, Tobacco 24 a 26s. Flour, 57 a 60s. Wheat 12s. Corn, 22 1/2, Meal 24 a 26s.
In the varieties of female dress, a great quantity of net work is conspicuous. This may be catching, but something more is necessary towards keeping. Swift attributes the most of the unhappy marriages, to young ladies making nets and not cages.
The continuance of the Pheasant loop of war, cruising in our bay, is an unpleasant circumstance in many points of view; she stops and detains almost every foreign bound vessel, which in some instances is attended with serious consequences; she is likewise the cause of much fruitless anxiety in our merchants, from the continual hoisting, at the Fort, of the signal for an inward bound ship.—Citizen Michelan, who has the honor of commanding 'Berceau', the only vessel now in our port, whose commission would authorise a hostile attack against her, will, we hope, resent the insult, these saucy Britons offer us, and as a gallant friend, drive her from our coast.
Capt. Daniel M'Niel is appointed to succeed Capt. Little in the command of the Boston frigate. The report that Capt. Little has been dismissed the service is unfounded. [ Centinel. ]
IRELAND.
In the imperial parliament of Great-Britain, the 27th of May, Mr. O'Hara stated "That at present Ireland wore the face of peace and agricultural pursuits; disaffection was confined to a very few counties, nor could local disturbances be adduced in proof of a general spirit of revolt. With an exception of four or five counties throughout the whole kingdom, Ireland was professedly in a state of Peace."
ALEXANDER I.
This young Emperor appears by the most correct accounts from Europe to act with the utmost circumspection. While on the one hand he endeavors to conciliate the English, he assures France of his friendship. The first acts of his reign were very popular—he sat all the State prisoners free; he revoked the decrees respecting contraband trade;—he restored all the English tars to liberty;—he permitted all kinds of societies to hold meetings; he restored several antient orders of nobility; he repealed
the blue laws respecting dress; he permitted the importation of all kind of books; and allowed all persons to enter, or quit the empire. His wisdom and moderation are as much eulogized in the French as in the English papers.
Yesterday the Ex-American corvette Le Berceau saluted the morn, noon and sun-set with 21 guns each. Whether in honor of the destruction of the Bastille in 1789, or of the establishment of Cayenne Bastiles in 1801; or, as might be conjectured from the number of guns, in commemoration of the sixty-three revolutions, constitutions, &c. &c. in France we have not learnt.
It was quite gallant in Le Berceau yesterday to degrade the British colours, while lying snug in a neutral port.—Especially when it is known that an English ship of an inferior force has invited her to sea to a trial at flag striking.
Neutrals are now making great voyages from the Spanish settlements in South-America. The Spanish commerce being almost totally cut up by the British.—This commerce is specially permitted by the Spanish government.
A lady writes from Paris, that our modifications of the treaty were not entirely relished. It seems determined that French ladies shall have a concern somehow or other with America—We are, however, safe—they cannot resist les manieres, les graces et la politesse of the fair Virginian. "
VACCINE INOCULATION.
MR. RUSSELL,
THERE is an important fact not generally known to those who practise the Vaccine Inoculation worthy a place in your paper. It relates to the preservation of the Kine-pox matter or virus on thread, for the purpose of inoculation. It has been sufficiently proved that in a temperate state of the atmosphere, when the mercury ranges between 40, and 70 degrees of Farnhen. Thermometer, the vaccine matter has retained its activity for three months and even longer; but I have lately found that perfectly active virus, taken from cases every way satisfactory, will lose its virtue when exposed for six or eight hours to 96 degrees of Farenheit's scale. In such a temperature the virus or vaccine aura, is evaporated by the heat. I have inoculated more or less almost every day since the middle of March and have not experienced a single failure when I took the matter from patient to patient, and but very few instances when the thread was used; but during our late very hot, and very dry weather, I have found the thread to fail in many instances. For three weeks past the Mercury has risen almost every day above 90, frequently 95, 96, and some days 97 in the shade, and this great heat has been accompanied with an extraordinary degree of dryness in the atmosphere, as our hay-makers can testify. During this state of the atmosphere when there was scarcely any appearance of dew before sun rise, I placed the phials containing the infected thread in a vessel of cold water, and expect I shall find the advantage of it.
Those to whom matter has been lately sent in the country, will not attribute more uncertainty to this business than actually belongs to it, should the thread obtained at this very hot and very dry season fail them. If a thread for example, dipped in the oil of lavender loses its fragrance by an exposure for several hours to the degree of heat above described, can we wonder that the more subtle aura vaccina should in like manner, evaporate, and thereby become effete? Having noticed very lately some failures in the use of the thread, I was lead to investigate the cause of it, and am satisfied that they arose from the extraordinary heat and dryness which have reigned for three weeks past. What has tended to confirm me in this opinion is a passage in a letter lately received from the celebrated Doctor Jenner. It is this: "I shall just say a word in proof of the extreme delicacy of the nature of the vaccine fluid, to shew how easily it may be disorganized.—In the early part of my practise, I used frequently to evaporate the fluid by the fire upon threads, glass, or lancets, yet with much caution respecting the degree of heat; but experience has taught me, that even this procedure frequently occasioned, an unnatural deviation from its perfect state, and a failure in communicating the disease."
I hope not to be misunderstood—I can never desire more perfectly satisfactory cases of kine-pox, than have occurred at this season, but they have been produced by the recent fluid transferred from patient to patient; whereas thread ever so well soaked in these satisfactory cases, and kept for a week or ten days has lost its virtue,
being as I conceive exsiccated, or evaporated, by an unusual series of hot and dry days. It is recorded that when the Harmattan blows, (which is a very hot, and a very dry wind in Africa, when the backs of books crack open, and cabinet furniture fly to pieces) the small-pox could not be communicated by inoculation. It is probable that the failure arose from the cause just mentioned. Should similar facts have occurred to other practitioners they would do well to communicate them to the public, for the more we know of the laws of this newly discovered infection, the more easily and effectually shall we diffuse the blessings of this invaluable inoculation. BENJ. WATERHOUSE. Cambridge, July 12, 1801.
CASTINE, July 10.
James Smith, and others, against whom the Grand Jury found bills of indictment for riotous proceedings on Knox's Patent, were ordered by the Court, to recognize in the sum of 500 dollars each, for their appearance at the next term, to take their trial on the above indictments. No bills were found against Nathan Parkhurst, Estlin Parkhurst, or Samuel Parkhurst—they were accordingly discharged.
American Independence.
AT NEW-YORK,
THE "Franklin Typographical Association," celebrated the day with an oration by Mr. JOHN CLOUGH; and an elegant entertainment; at the close of which the following Toasts were drank:
 1. The 26th Anniversary of American Independence—May the principles which gave rise to its celebration, be kept alive in the breast of every American.  2. WASHINGTON.— A Hero, form'd on nature's noblest plan, Brave, as a Soldier—Virtuous, as a Man. While we embaln his memory with tears of sensibility and gratitude, such as his glorious achievements demand, let us feel happy and proud, that he was an American; and, in that character, banished tyranny from his native soil.  3. The Constitution of the United States—May those whose duty it is to disseminate its principles, never give the people a bad impression of its merits, by going too far in the pull for unbounded liberty.  4. The executive of the United States—May those characters that compose it, faithfully fill their office, and our Constitution stand proof against the squabbles of party.  5. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, the pride of our profession— His heap is off—his balls are dry, His prels is stript—his form in pye; His case within the rack is plac'd, His galley's warp'd—his frame unbrac'd; Yet shall the WORK he left behind, Impress his worth on every mind; While each is honor'd Image bears, Grav'd on the Badge his bosom wears, Skull cry, and pris it to his heart, Behold "THE PATRON of our ART"  6. Our Fraternity—May it never be disgraced by one whose mocking tongue would give double impressions, or cast a slur on an absent member.  7. Our Brethren of the Art throughout the universe—May their hearts ever beat with benevolent sympathy as a token of distress.  8. The Printers and Booksellers' Association of New-York—May their well-went and laudable exertions to prevent the vast importation of European books meet with complete success.  9. Our fleet in the Mediterranean—May they, though of a nonpareil size, teach the Barbary Powers, that they have a large font of cannon in store, by which, with well distributed balls, they will maintain our Independence against the "squally looks" of those faithless marauders.  10. Agriculture, the nursery of health and plenty, the mother of arts, and the fountain of national happiness.  11. Peace—May the calamities of war which we witness at a distance with horror, teach us the value of this lovely fugitive, who flies to America for her last refuge.  12. The Art of Printing—While we congratulate each other in the profession of an art which has been so essentially instrumental in promoting the Independence of our country, may our conduct in conforming to the rules of virtue and decorum, justify the professions which we make as a society.  13. The Press—May it be free as air—beneficial as light, and as congenial to liberty as sun-beams to vegetation.  14. The memory of those heroes who fell in defence of our Independence.  15. Our fellow citizens throughout the United States, who are assembled to celebrate this auspicious day.  16. The FAIR unfullied fleet of innocence and beauty—May it be our ambition to give it the most elegant impression, that it may be clear from the picks of calumny, the monks of infamy, or the disgusting lightness of a friar.  NOTE. Those words in italics , are technical terms used among printers.

NEW-YORK, July 13. Extract of a letter dated Halifax, June 20, 1801. "The St. Albans is going home with Sir Wm. Parker, and family, the Admiral having been recalled, and ordered to leave Halifax in 12 hours after the receipt of the order."
Extract of a letter from G. C. Morton, Esq. Vice Consul of the United States, at the Havanna, dated 15th of June, ult. to a gentleman in this city. "There are idle rumours of orders having again been issued to close this port against foreign trade. They are false. The order would be absurd, and as impossible to be carried into execution as the one in '99."
BOSTON, July 20. THE SPANISH PORTS. The following is an extract of a letter received by the Spanish Consul at this place dated
HAVANNA, JUNE 19, 1801. "The inhabitants of this city were a few days ago in great consternation about a packet-boat that had arrived from Spain and Trinidad in this island, by which an order was generally expected from the Court, prohibiting the further intercourse with North America; but am glad to say that our apprehension was ill-founded. The papers have already arrived here, and the court of Madrid seems to be well pleased with the behaviour of our government."
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 11. Letters from merchants of the first respectability to their correspondent at New-York, dated the 20th June, make no mention of any order respecting the closing of the ports of the Island of Cuba.
A vessel just arrived at New-York from Trinidad in Cuba, does not mention a word of any such order. A letter from a government officer at St. Jago de Cuba, to his friend in this city, dated the 27th May, is perfectly silent on that score, and rather invites traders to go there.
From these it may be inferred that no alteration has yet taken place in the commerce of neutrals with the island of Cuba, or if any has taken place, it may perhaps consist merely in the closing of the small ports of that Island in order to prevent smuggling, and to concentrate the receipt of the duties in the principal ports.
[While we respect the authority upon which the above communication is inferred, we deem it proper to express our belief that orders have been issued, and we know, positively, that they were enforced on the 5th ult. at Trinidad, in the case of the schooner Widowson of this port. However, it appears that they were only of a temporary nature to answer purposes of local policy, and not extended to all the ports of Cuba, as first stated.]
The French have taken possession of the Island of Elba, off the coast of Florence, in Italy.
It is said, the First Consul of France demurs to the ratification of the modified Convention.—Should he refuse to ratify, the British ship Pheasant will deserve the thanks of the United States for embargoing Le Berceau.
One of the Sovereign People demands of Mr. Prince, whether, when he delivered the Berceau to the French Consul, he made any reservation in case of the non-ratification of the treaty by Bonaparte? And if he did, and the reports from France are true, whether it is not time to think about demanding her re- surrender?
NEW APPOINTMENT. Harmanus H. Wendell, of Albany, has been appointed Marshall for the district of Albany, in the place of James Dole, removed.
An Institution, similar in its principles and object, to the "ASYLUM" established in this town, by the benevolence of the Ladies, has been formed in New-York. It is expressly designed to extend the hand of charity, for education and support such female orphans, as may stand in need of their guardianship.
It appears, by a publication in the New-York papers, that a society had been formed in that city, "for the purpose of disseminating inflammatory hand bills in Scotland, tending to render the inhabitants of Great-Britain dissatisfied with their government, &c." but through the vigilance and spirit of the British Consul, it has been suppressed.
The new Danish Ambassador to the U. S. has arrived at Philadelphia, in the ship Benjamin Franklin.
Mr. Meigs, formerly a professor in Yale College, has been elected President of the University in Georgia.
SALEM, July 17. At the present sitting of the Court of Sessions in this town, the Grand
Jury have made a presentment against the drivers of the mail stages, for travelling on Sundays. The action it is expected, will be tried this day.
FROM INDIA, March 4. Thursday and Friday were proud days to Salem and Beverly—the treasures of the East flowed into the laps of our Merchants—joy sat on the countenance of every one, there was no alloy mixed with the sweets of India, no bitterness in the cup of fortune's rich gifts—on these two days we had the pleasure to witness the arrival of four valuable vessels from the East Indies, viz. the ships Cyrus, Capt. Leach, from Calcutta, the Laurel, Capt. Sage, from Manilla, the bark Eliza, Capt. Lander, from Calcutta, and the brig Rajah, Capt. Carnes, from Sumatra—these vessels have all returned home with valuable cargoes, consisting of Bengal Cotton Goods, Sugar, Indigo, Pepper, &c. and are estimated to be worth upwards of seven hundred thousand dollars, the United States duty upon which must amount to sixty or seventy thousand dollars. We understand that the crews of the four vessels are all in good health, and not a man has died on the voyage.
It appears by the different accounts brought by the East India ships arrived in this town, that a grand expedition had been fitted out from Bengal—there were near one hundred sail of large ships carrying troops, horses, &c. conveyed by several ships of war under the command of Admiral Renier. After the fleet failed, which was about the first of March, from Ceylon, where it had rendezvoused, several small divisions of ships, departed from the Ganges to join. The fleet took in a large quantity of water. There are various calculations as to the force of this expedition. Some estimate it at 10,000 men; others as far as 15,000. There were two European regiments—the remainder is composed of Sepoy troops, selected from their best corps. Several regiments are said to have been sent from the Cape of Good Hope to act in concert. There can be no doubt that this expedition is designed against the French in Egypt, by the way of the Red Sea, and Persian Gulf, although the object was kept as a most profound secret in the East Indies.
Capt. Carnes reports that two American vessels touched at Bencoolen, on the Island of Sumatra, in the month of January last—names unknown.
By an arrival on Saturday last at Marblehead from Bilboa in 26 days, we learn, that that city has been dreadfully inundated by the continual and heavy rains, the water having rose in town, 14 feet * above its usual height. *A feet is about 8 inches. Bilboa was visited by a similar disaster about 50 years since, when all the inhabitants expected to have perished.
Concise Description of LAKE SUPERIOR. THIS immense Lake or rather inland ocean, is said to be the largest body of fresh water in America, if not in the known world.
It approaches nearer the form of a square than any of the largest lakes on this continent, and has a coast of more than 1600 miles. The greatest part of this coast, however, is bounded by mountainous and rocky land, and the lake itself lies upon a vast bed of rocks, which at a certain season, from the limpid clearness of the water, may be seen at a great depth, huge, vast, irregular, in some places exhibiting an appearance of having been hewn, inclining the spectator to believe, that large cities have been sunk by some convulsion of nature, of whose foundations these were the remains.
In the summer time the water, constituting the superficies of the lake are tolerably warm, but if you take up to the depth of only a single fathom it is equally cold with the ice: the long continuance and extremities of the winter's cold prevailing on the temperature of the waters over the short and transient heat of the summer atmosphere.
Lake Superior is, in extent, about 290 English miles from north to south, and about 360 miles in length from east to west; the 48th degree of North lat. passing through the middle of the lake, and its westward extremity in 39 deg. 30 min. west long. from the meridian of London.
This lake includes several fine islands, the undisturbed haunts of the native quadrupeds of the forest, secluded from other parts of America by the vast extent of the lake, and far out of view of all other land.—These islands seem never to have been inhabited by men, a superstitious notion having prevailed among the Indian nations, that they are haunted by invisible powers, inimical to the race of man, avenging with the utmost severity every attempt to penetrate these lonely forests.
One of the islands (Royale) is at least 100 miles in length and about 45 in breadth. Maurepas is something less; both are covered with thick woods and inhabited by Deer, Foxes, Rabbits, and a few other quadrupeds. How these came there is a question not easy to be solved unless we suppose with some free philosophers, that the earth itself is alike productive of vegetable and animal life.
The water in the large extent of this lake, is 80 to 90 fathoms deep, and in some places it is said to be unfathomable. The navigation is equally, if not more hazardous, than that of the Atlantic; the waves swelling to a vast height in gales of wind, and at the same time so short, that it is difficult for a vessel to rise them. Fish abound here, particularly the sturgeon and trout, which grow to a size unknown in the more eastern parts of the United States. Many rivers empty into Lake Superior, of which two are very large on the north-east, and are partly discharged thro' St. Mary's Streights into Lake Huron, and partly thro' subterraneous passages.
Notwithstanding the pretended influence of the moon upon the waters of the great ocean, it has no such influence over the waters of Lake Superior;—which she surely would have to a sensible degree, if there were any truth in the Newtonian system of the tides. There is a gradual swell, however, in the lake, which rises to about 3 feet 4 inches in seven years and a half, and in the same space of time again falls gradually to its former level; nearly the same thing is observed of the Caspian sea in Asia.
PORTSMOUTH, July 21.
The Spanish Consul Don Juan Stoughton, residing at Boston, has given public notice that all vessels bound from this country for Spain, must carry a Bill of Health certified by a Spanish Consul.—The number of deaths by the yellow fever in Spain the last year, amounted to 101,000.
Population of MAINE.
County of York 37,729; Cumberland 37,921; Kennebec 24,394; Lincoln 30,100; Hancock 16,316, and Washington 4436. Total 150,896. North-Carolina it is said, only contains 30,000 more inhabitants now than in 1790.
Samuel Snow, Esq. Consul of the United States for the port of Canton, has arrived at Providence from China.
The Rev. Joseph M c Kean, of Beverly, has been chosen President of Bowdoin College, in Maine.
Another prosecution, making the sixth, has been commenced against the Editor of the Gazette of the United States, for a libel. The present prosecutor is Mr. John Beckley.
Two privates of the Loyal Suffolk Rangers, were lately shot at Halifax for desertion.
TOASTING.
THE following appropriate Toasts were given some time past in York, Pennsylvania, at a meeting of the Mechanic Society, and followed respectively by Yankee Doodle, Stony-Point, Washington's March, and other American tunes. In so interior a part of our country, "Carmagnole, Marfaisloise, Ca Ira, Go to the Devil, and Shake Yourself," are not known. The mechanics of York, it seems, are not Frenchmen, but Americans, without French hotels, French cooks, French airs, or any thing a la Francoise.
Toast given by a Tailor. May fate with her shears, cut the thread of that man's life, dishonor him with the name of goose, and society basle him, who endeavors to cabbage from his country.
Coppersmith. May we be brazed together by a love of country, as by borax and spelter, and riveted by an energetic Government.
Blacksmith. May the States remain one united empire, and the man who attempts to blow the coals of discord, be burned by the sparks.
Nailor. May our Government be well pointed and have a good head.
Painter. The national Government in true colors, neither caricatured nor flattered; and may the brush of honest investigation correct the glare of light given by its friends, and the profusion of shade thrown on it by its enemies.
Hatter. May he who twangs the cords of tumult and discontent, be stripped to the pelt, then dipped in a kettle of blacking, and his head be brought to the block.
Saddler. A curb bit and traverse reign to the importation of foreign luxuries.
Barber. May they be dry shaven, with rough razors on frosty mornings, who excite jealousies between our state governments and our federal govern-
ment—a lathering of tar, and dressing of feathers, to such fomenters of discontent.
Sail-cloth weaver. Dark nights, heavy gales, a lee shore, to the enemies of our commerce and navy.
Baker. May an oven, seven times heated, be the fate of him whose objects are the "loaves and fishes."
Carpenter. May his head be divorced from his body by the broad axe of justice, who offers to remove one rafter of our political mansion.
Shoemaker. May we wax a great and happy nation, and our prosperity as a united people, last until the end of time.
Breeches-maker and Skinner. May he be shorn against the grain, smooked and welted, who is wicked enough to loose the bands of government.
Glazier. May the rays of truth be drawn to a focus by the glass of genius and patriotism.
Weaver. The immortal Washington and his colleagues, who after fighting for our liberty, beat their swords into plough shares, and then sowed the seed of good government which have come up without tares—may the wreaths of laurel, and garlands of honorary flowers, woven for their reward by the gratitude of their grateful country, endure to the end of time.
Potter. The fourth of July—as often as time revolves that day, let gratitude do homage to those heroes who were proven as by fire.
Bricklayer. May the national edifice be squared by the plummet of impartial justice.
Mason. May justice by her sword, protect her scales—may righteousness turn the beam, and may she write on sophistry, what convulsed Belshazzar, "Thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting."
Clock-maker. May virtue continue to be the main spring of our government—May the friends of order wind up its chain, and may its hand always point to the public good.
The following account of a singular animal is extracted from a letter, dated the 10th of April, inserted in the Hamburg Gazette.—"On the morning of the 8th an amphibious animal, shaped like a horse, nearly nine feet high, and of a proportionate length, with a long tail, skin impenetrable to a musket ball, and two fins as sharp as the finest steel, came on shore near Ostend.—His appearance spread the most dreadful panic throughout the country, and every one fled before him. Some musket balls which were fired at him proved fruitless although they struck his body, and he ravaged the plains with impunity. Of a flock of sheep that fell in his way, he devoured no less than twenty, with a voracity greater than that of the most ferocious tiger. After the most sanguinary depredations, he retired, and plunged into the sea. The inhabitants apprehensive of his visiting them the next day, prepared for his reception and thirty of them, the bravest and most skillful marksmen, were selected to stop his furious career. He accordingly made his appearance, and being attacked and shot in the ear, was at length taken in a net."
Trait of the Russian Character. The steadiness of the Russian troops is one of their striking qualities. No danger whatever can drive them from their posts, or induce them to abandon any attempt which they are ordered to make. The following anecdote, in a French book of travels, lately published in London, affords a curious illustration of their character:
"In the year 1777, a sudden inundation took place at Petersburg.—The Empress seeing from her balcony that the water was overflowing that place where the sentinel before the palace was stationed, called out to him to take shelter within the doors, which he refused to do. The Empress asked him whether he knew her; the man replied in the affirmative, and added that nobody but the corporal could relieve him. The water increased, and reached up to the sentinel's knees. The Empress sent several messages to him, but in vain. It was necessary therefore to call the corporal, who was asleep in the guard-house, and he was obliged to swim to the relief of the honest private, who by this time had only his head and shoulders above water, and would quietly have suffered himself to be drowned, rather than quit his post, notwithstanding the repeated orders of his Sovereign."
Marine Intelligence.
Was spoke July 13, lat. 37, 20, long. 62 1/2, the brig Rising-Sun, Robert Noble, for the West-Indies, 10 days out.
The snow Fanny, Parker, Portsmouth, was spoke July 1, in lat. 36, 11 days out from Wilmington for Liverpool.
The ship George of Portsmouth, was spoke June 12, 26 days out from Charleston for London.
The ship Swanwick, Kirkbride, arrived at Philadelphia in 70 days from Liverpool—July 2, Block-Island bearing
N. W. by N. "15 leagues" distant, fell in with the hull of a vessel with no bowsprit or masts standing; lowered down the boat and went along side of her—she appeared to have been a brig, eastern built, her stern painted sky blue, with yellow curtains round the top; sides and decks yellow, but swimming so deep in the water, could not see her name—few several bales of cotton and cakes in her hold.
Picked up at sea, June 25, lat. 40, 45, two barrels of Flour, marked V. K. No. 824, brand R. Sanger; V. K. No. 576, brand F. Child.
Boston, July 15. Arrived, ship Gladiator, Turner, from Halifax, 8 days. This ship was captured on her passage from the River la Plata, carried into Halifax; and after a long and troublesome detention, was acquitted.
The Kingsmill, Marshall, from New-York, for Bristol, has put into Halifax, in distress; she had thrown considerable part of the cargo overboard.
The Magistrate, has arrived at New-York from Ireland with 450 passengers; and the Lydia with 220.
Hymenaeal Register.
MARRIED. At Newington, Mr. Samuel Turner, to Miss Sally Miller.
Bill of Mortality.
DIED. At Buxton, (M.) Mr. Nathaniel Hill, aged 58. Mr. Benjamin Elwell, who attended the funeral, went to Mr. Hill's well, drank some cold water, and expired in an instant.
At Hampton, in the 66th year of her age, Mrs. Sarah Toppan, mother of the Hon. Christopher Toppan, Esq. Possessed of a good understanding, and favoured with an early religious education, she maintained a life of exemplary godliness. Her old age was peculiarly peaceful to herself, and edifying to those with whom she was conversant. Her piety, though ardent, was inviting and cheerful—she relished the society even of the young, and, in language, the most persua- sive, urged them to remember, amidst all their amusements and occupations, that one thing is needful. She habitually expressed a deep sense of the value of the gospel, and of the infinite condescension of its divine author, and desired nothing so earnestly as that her descendents & friends might be partakers in that divine life, with which she was animated. Her joyful expectations, in the day of death, were such as to extort even from the most inconsiderate, the exclamation of Balaam, let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.
At Rochester, Ensign Ichabod Corson, aged 77.—Mr. Israel Ham, aged 41.
At Dover, Mr. Daniel Libbey.—Mr. William Randal, aged 20.
American Seamen.
THE following American Seamen, who are on board British ships of war, alledge they are citizens of the United States, and are detained for want of proof of their being such.
The friends of those persons are informed that on such proofs being exhibited at this office, measures will be taken to obtain, if possible, their release.
The printers in New-Hampshire are desired, on the score of humanity to their fellow-citizens, to give publicity to this information, by inserting the same in their papers.
Persons names. Places of residence. William Hill, } Port- Theophilus Hardenbrook, mouth. Abraham Hunt, } Isaac Wallman, } John Davis, } Unknown. Samuel Tillet, } John Horely, } William Kelley, } John Atkinson, }
J. WHIPPLE. Custom-House, Portsmouth, July 20, 1801.
TO BE SOLD, At Public Vendue,
On Friday, the 7th day of August next, at the house of Mr. BELL, innholder in Newcastle, at one of the clock, P. M.
BY virtue of a licence from the Honorable Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham—All the real estate of Arthur Brancombe, late of Newmarket, mariner, deceased, consisting of about one third of an acre of Land in said Newcastle, with a Ware-House standing thereon, and a good water privilege, well situated for a trader.—Conditions to be known at time and place or by applying to JOSIAH ADAMS, Administrator de bonis non. Newmarket, July 18, 1801.
Wanted to Purchase,
THIRTY elegant HORSES, none under fifteen hands high; colour either black, chestnut or bay, fifteen of them are wanted to be studs of the first rate.—Apply to SAMUEL HAM.

The repenting FEDERALIST and resentful DEMOCRAT.
A FEDERALIST, the other day, Unto an ANTI, said, "Well, DEMO, your's have gain'd the sway, But why should WE be mad? Since each of us is for one cause, And differ but in name, Why should forced epithets alloy, Our country's cause, and fame. Let names like Fed and Demo die, We'll all unite as one— We'll on our Paramount rely, If he be JEFFERSON." "No," the exulting DEMO said, "Each dog shall have his day, Until I'm for my trouble paid, Which office, must repay."
MEDLEY.
SPANISH Poet, we are told, In speaking of the black eyes of a lady, says, that they were in mourn- ing for the murders they had com- mitted. An English poet speaking in a beautiful epigram, of the blood shot eye of his mistress, accounts for it nearly in the same manner— "Oh let it be said thine eye is all red, Nor longer, dear Harriet, be moody; For since so many die by the stroke of that eye, What wonder the weapon is bloody."
IN one of the late engagements in Holland, Col. Van Grotten asked one of his Lieutenants for a Quid of Tobacco. It was in the very heat of the contest, and a cannon ball carried off the Lieutenant in the act of pre- senting it. "I must be obliged to you then," said the Colonel, coolly, turn- ing to another officer, "for you see our friend is gone away with his to- bacco box."
MAYNESBOROUGH.
NOTICE is hereby given to the owners and proprietors of land in the township of Maynesborough, in the county of Grafton, and State of New-Hampshire, that at a legal meet- ing of the proprietors of said town- ship held at Deerfield, in the county of Rockingham, on the first day of July A. D. 1801, they voted to assess a tax of twenty four dollars on each ori- ginal right or proprietors share in said Maynesborough, for the purpose of lotting said township, &c. and com- mitted said assessment to me to collect, and that unless the same is punctually paid to me at my dwelling-house in Epping, in said county of Rocking- ham, by the tenth day of August next, so much of their lands will be adver- tised for sale as will pay said taxes with incidental charges.
WM. PLUMER, Collector. Epping, July 6, 1801.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber ear- nestly requests of all persons who are indebted to him by Mortgages, Bonds, Notes, Rents or on other ac- counts which are now due and pay- able to him, that they would use their best endeavours to discharge or renew the same immediately, as his indol- gence to many has been a real injury to him—He has for sale ten thousand acres of land in Lyman—a valuable township on Connecticut river—eight thousand acres in Springfield, a full settled town about 20 miles east of Dartmouth College, wherein is a very elegant Meeting-House—four thou- sand acres in Wendell, and one thou- sand acres in Goffen, lately taken from Wendell and other towns; five thou- sand acres in Trecothick, and several thousand acres in scattering towns within this state, most of which lands are laid out into 75—85—100—200 and 350 acres each, and will be sold on liberal terms of credit; The pur- chasers paying only one third of the consideration at bargaining.—Also, a Farm in Merrimack, and another in Portsmouth, with a neat new House thereon, and a large house lot, 50 feet by 300, and a smaller one of 34 by 50 feet in said Portsmouth, for terms ap- ply to
JOHN WENDELL.
Five Dollars Reward. RANAWAY from the subscriber on Sunday the 28th of June last, DANIEL BATCHELOR, an indent- ed apprentice, 19 years old, thick set, with red hair—wore a blue coat and overhauls and a pattern waistcoat, —all persons are hereby cautioned against carrying away, trusting or harbouring said apprentice, on pain of prosecution; whoever will return him to his master, will receive the above reward.
ANDREW DEMERITT.
Lee, July 6, 1801.
A quantity of POLLOCK FISH, FOR SALE BY Elisha Whidden, At his store near Portsmouth Pier.
TAKE NOTICE. ALL persons having any de- mands against the Ship PHE- TON, of Philadelphia, are requested to bring in their bills to JAMES SHEAFE, Esq. The said ship will sail in 8 or 10 days, and no bills will be paid after her sailing. RICHARD & PETER BILLINGS. Portsmouth, July 13, 1801.
PAULSBOROUGH. NOTICE is hereby given to the owners and proprietors of land in the township of Paulsborough, in the county of Grafton and State of New- Hampshire, that at a legal meeting of the proprietors of said township held at Deerfield, in the county of Rockingham, on the first day of July A. D. 1801, they voted to assess a tax on each original right or proprie- tors share in said Paulsborough, for the purpose of lotting said township, &c. and committed said assessment to me to collect, and that unless the same is punctually paid to me at my dwell- ing-house in Epping, in said county of Rockingham, by the tenth day of Au- gust next, so much of their land will be advertised for sale as will pay said taxes with incidental charges. WM. PLUMER, Collector. Epping, July 6, 1801.
A BARGAIN!
FOR SALE, A NUMBER of new Window Frames and Sashes, twenty four squares 8 by 10, and some twenty squares—they are all fitted ready to put into a building, and will be sold singly or together, at a very reasona- ble price, much lower than any per- son can now afford to make them for —Likewise a number of Glassed Sash- es, size twenty-five squares of 8 by 10 Glass. Apply to the Printer hereof.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non- resident owners and proprietors of lands in Thornton, who are delinquent in paying their highway, State and county taxes for the year 1800, that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber, before the 17th day of September next, with incidental charges, that so much of their land as will pay the same, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber, in said Thornton, on said 17th day of Septem- ber, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
PROPRIETORS NAMES   No. Acres. State. C. C.     William Pynecheon 7 170 2 38 6 3   George Duncan 27 200 2 27 6 3   WINTHROP BAGLEY, Collector. Thornton, July 1, 1801.  
DIRECT TAX, State of New-Hampshire, 45th Collection District.
BY virtue of an act of Congress, passed on the 14th day of July 1798, intitled, an act to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States, will be sold at public vendue at the house of Mr. Aaron App- leton, innholder in Dublin in said district, on Monday the 31st day of August next, at 2 of the clock, P. M. so much of the under described estates as will satisfy the taxes due thereon, together with costs and charges, unless prevented by previous payment unto Aaron Appleton, of Dublin, aforesaid, or to the subscriber at No 50, Cornhill, Bos- ton.
   Names of reputed owners—ADRES. No. Ran. Acres. D. C.     Josiah Allen 2 3 60 2 20   John Castlew 9 9 25 0 30   Samuel Michel 1 9 50 0 49   Thomas Davison 2 3 17 0 49   Adonijah How 4 1 40 0 49   Steel or Jewett 19 1 100 0 87   William Shattuck 5 1 50 0 70   Richard Wibard 3 7 100 0 98   Mark Wentworth 6 10 400 0 49   John Goodnow 22 1 30 0 44   Jonathan Ordiorne 1 10 100 0 49  
   FITZWILLIAM.     James Bowdoin 3 9 100 1 33   Joseph Bigelow 2 1 64 0 98   Joseph Bellows 4 3 100 0 49   Asa Hunting 12 3 100 0 24   Geo. Libbey's heirs 10 11 100 0 73   John Sweetland 22 12 78 1 96   Col. Stoddard's heirs 1 5 100 1 22   do do 7 5 100 0 49   do do 2 6 50 0 49   Sampson Stoddard 8 5 100 0 49   Willingford 5 5 100 0 73   M. Wentworth 5 6 200 1 22  
MARLBOROUGH.
   Jona. Blodgett (resid) 0 22 0 33   Jon. Belding, do 13 0 94 2 5   James Brooks heirs 26 0 75 0 73   do do 27 0 50 0 49   James Moore 2 3 67 0 49   Daniel Rindge's heirs 12 7 135 1 31   Jonas Temple 6 3 42 0 44   Jonathan Whipple 8 1 50 1 47   Daniel Cutting 5 4 75 2 20   Dunkin Camron 9 7 7 0 19   George Jeffery 19 0 100 1 96   Joshua Pierce 2 7 100 1 96   Thomas Packard 45 0 90 0 87   Samuel Shattuck 46 0 50 0 49   Rich'd Wibard 4 3 200 2 69   John Penhal- low, grantee. 29 0 200 1 96  
E. ADAMS, Collector 45th Collection District. May 27, 1801.
BOOKS, BLANKS and STATIONARY, kept con- stantly for sale at F. MELCHER's Book-Store and Printing-office.
THE subscriber wishes to give no- tice to his friends of his deter- mination to adjust, and settle his bus- iness about the last day of September next—for which purpose he will meet with them at certain places most con- venient to do the business. These lines are cast before your eyes with a view to prepare you for the event, and to enable you to look for the last notification which will appear in the month of September, by which you must be guided or abide the conse- quences. OZIAS SILSBY. Portsmouth, July 6, 1801.
TAKE NOTICE. WE the subscribers being ap- pointed commissioners by the Hon. Jeremiah Smith, Esq. Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. in and for the county of Rockingham, to receive the claims of the several creditors to the estate of widow SARAH FOL- SOM, late of Epping, deceased, re- presented insolvent, hereby give no- tice that we will attend for that pur- pose on the last Tuesdays of the six following months, from four to seven o'clock in the afternoon of said days, at the house of Winthrop Folsom, in said Epping. JONAH DOW, ZEBULON DOW, JONAH CLARK, } Commission- ers. Epping, July 8, 1801.
Grand Lodge. THE Officers and Members of the Grand Lodge of New-Hampshire are informed, that their next communication will be held in ample form, at Exeter, 22d July, 10 o'clock A. M. for the purpose of constituting the Washington Lodge N o 13, and installing its Officers. By order, L. SPALDING, Grand Sct'y. Portsmouth, June 30.
NOTICE. THE subscribers hereby give no- tice to the creditors of Samuel Storer, a bankrupt, the commissioners and assignees will meet at the Court- House in Portsmouth, on Monday the thirty first day of August next, at e- leven o'clock A. M. to make a second dividend of the estate and effects of said bankrupt, at which time and place the creditors who have not be- fore proved their debts, may have liberty to prove the same. JOHN GODDARD, H. S. LANGDON, CHARLES CUTTS, } Assign- ees. Portsmouth, July 7, 1801.
WHEREAS the commissioners in the commission of bankrupt- cy against Thomas Morton of Port- mouth, trader, have certified unto me that the said Thomas Morton hath in all things conformed agreeably to the law of the United States made and now in force concerning bankrupts— and that said certificate hath been signed by two thirds of the creditors in number and in value, who have proved their debts under said com- mission, whose debts amounts to fifty dollars and upwards—Therefore NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that they may appear before me at the Court-House in Exeter, on the 29th day of July next, at 11 of the clock in the fore- noon, and shew cause, if they have any against the allowing and con- firming of said certificate.
Given under my hand at Exeter, this 27th day of June, A. D. 1801. JEREMIAH SMITH, Circuit Judge, 1st Circuit U. S.
DIRECT TAX, 62d Collection District. State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the towns of Burton and Chatham, on which the direct tax remains due and unpaid, which be- came due and payable on the 8th day of January 1800, that so much of each right as will be sufficient to pay the tax due on the same with incidental charges, will be sold at public auction at the dwelling house of the subscri- ber in Adams, in said 62d collection district, on Thursday the 20th day of August next, at one o'clock in the af- ternoon, unless prevented by previous payment, viz.
   BURTON.     Ede Hall Burgin No Acres. Cts   Zachariah Fols 200 35  
CHATHAM. John Haslett 100 31 SILAS MESERVE, Collector of the 62d Collection District. [gwu.]
BRICKS. 140,000 BRICKS, for Sale, and can be had in Portsmouth at three days notice, on good terms for the purchaser: For further particulars inquire of the Prin- ter, or JACOB M. CURRIER, Dover. June 8.
Hard-Ware. H. & B. Penhallow, Have for Sale, a large and general assort- ment of HARD-WARE GOODS, consisting of almost every article usual- ly imported in that line, which they will sell on the most reasonable terms, by Wholesale and Retail for CASH.—ALSO, Sheathing Nails; best Sutton Hoes; Brass Kettles; Cart Boxes; Sad Irons; Sheet Lead; BlackLead; Rotten Stone; Pumice Stone; En- glish Pots and Kettles; Frying Pans; Clock Faces; Sheet Iron; Brads, Tacks and Nails, of all sizes; Cast Iron Weights; large Scale Beams, &c. &c. Portsmouth, May 26, 1801. 6-w
TAKE NOTICE. WE the subscribers being ap- pointed commissioners by the Hon. Jeremiah Smith, Esq. Judge of Probate of Wills, &c. in and for the county of Rockingham, to receive the claims of the several creditors to the estate of Capt. John Moulton, late of Hampton in said county, deceased, represented insolvent, hereby give no- tice, that we will attend for that pur- pose, on the last Wednesdays of the five following months, from two to seven o'clock in the afternoon on said days, at the dwelling house of James Leavitt, innholder in Hampton. COTTON WARD, JONATHAN MARSTON, } Com- JAMES LEAVITT, } mission- ers. Hampton, June 25, 1801.
New Spring GOODS. Benj. Brierley Has received per the ships Packet from Liverpool, and Galen from London, A large assortment of SPRING & SUMMER GOODS, Which are now open for sale, by wholesale and retail at his store in Market- street, opposite Spring-Hill, AMONG WHICH ARE
A FEW pieces of the very first quality London best superfine Broad Cloths, and Cassimeres of the most fashionable colors; Ladies habit Cloths; fancy Waitcoating; Ginghams and Chintzes; 4-4 & 6-4 book, jaconet and cambric, plain and sprig'd Muslins, Chintz ditto; cam- brick, netted and silk Shawls, purple and chintz ditto; Muslins and Dimi- ties; clouded, twill'd and silk Nan- kinets; Fustians; white and color'd Jeans; linen and cotton Handker- chiefs of all kinds, silk ditto; rich, plain and strip'd black Satins; Pelong Satins all colors; Lustrings; Sar- snet and Persians; black Mode, some very rich; white Laces and Edgings, black patent do, and Veil- ing; black and white Veils; a few elegant black lace Cloaks; white, blue, green, purple, yellow, pink, scarlet and black Italian Crapes.
Ribbons of all kinds; black and white Gown Trimming, both silk and cotton; Fancy Feathers & Flow- ers; Fans of all descriptions; Parra- sols and Umbrellas; ladies', gentle- mens' and boy's fashionable beaver Hats; Hosiery; white and color'd, plain and network cotton Gloves and Mitts; Irish Linens; Checks; Sew- ing Silk and Twist; Threads; Gal- loons; quality and shoe Binding, and Thread Leaders for Boot Straps; white and color'd bed Fringe, with Lace, Cord and Tassels to match; 10-4, 11-4 and 12-4 cotton Counter- panes; a few very handsome 12-4 Marseilles Quilting, do. Tammies, Durants, Calamancoes, and all kinds of stuff Goods; Buttons of the newest fashion.—Likewise,
STRAW, CHIP AND FANCY BONNETS. —ALSO— A QUANTITY OTHER GOODS just received pr. the brig Jacob from Liverpool. May 18, 1801.
SALT. FOR SALE BY CLARK & CONNOR, In Fore-Street, Liverpool SALT. St. Martins do. IRON and STEEL. FLOUR and CORN. Kiln dried MEAL. Ship BREAD. BEEF, PORK & TONGUES, &c. &c. Portsmouth, April 25, 1801.
NEW GOODS. Peter Coffin Has received per ships Packet and John Adams, from Liverpool, An extensive assortment of Fashionable, Fancy and Staple GOODS, Which are now opening for Sale, by wholesale and retail—viz— LONDON and Yorkshire superfine Broad Cloths, of the most fashionable colors; Ladies Habit Cloths; plain, mix'd and ribb'd Cassi- meres. A great variety of Fashionable Waitcoating; Fustians; white & color'd Jeans; cotton Denims; clouded, twill'd and silk Nankinets; Thicksets; Velvets; color- d worsted & silk Plush; rich stripe silk Florentines, for Vests and Capes. A large assortment of Calicoes & Chintzes, of the latest fashion; elegant Chintz, Ging- ham and Dimety Furniture; Cop- perplates.
A great variety of Fashionable color'd & check Ginghams; fashionable printed Mus- lins; strip'd and flower'd Muslins; Dimeties; fine Cambricks; large cotton Counterpanes; Table Cloths; green Table Coverings.
A great variety of Book, jaconet, strip'd, check'd lappet, cambric and black Muslins; satin, sprig and fancy Muslins; Mus- lin Handkerchiefs; Men's Necker- chiefs; Muslin Shawls, with fringes; chintz, purple and silk Shawls; Cam- els' hair Shawls, with netted and silk Fringes; romal, linen, cotton, ban- danno and black silk Handkerchiefs; black Silk Shawls.
A great variety of English and India Lustrings. A large assortment of Strip'd, plain & changeable Italian Silks; India Satins; black and color'd Modes; black and color'd bonnet and other Satins; color'd Tif- fany; black, white, blue, green and pink Italian Crapes; plain, picquet, net, crape and cypress Gauzes; Milli- nets; Sarinets.
A large assortment Thread, Laces and Edgings; black silk patent Laces and Edgings. A great variety of Fashionable clouded, strip'd, spotted and check'd Ribbons; black and white cotton and silk Gown Trim- mings; chintz trimmings; cotton and silk Girdles; Glove Ties; gold and silver Laces; gold and silver cord; gold and silver Fringes; gold and silver Epaulettes some very elegant.
A great variety of Fashionable Straw and Chip Bonnets, for Ladies, Misses and Chil- dren; fashionable silk Bonnets, full trim'd; Ladies Satin Beavers, with Bands, Feathers and Coops; fashion- able black Beavers.
A variety of Black and fancy Feathers & Flowers; fancy Straw Trimmings and Bandings.
A great variety of Fashionable Fans, some very elegant; black crape, glazed and com- mon black Fans; Parafoles, some with walking sticks; Umbrellas.
A large assortment of Morocco and Kid SHOES; Shoe Roses; elegant steel Shoe orna- ments and Claps; a great variety of fashionable Necklaces and Crosses; Eardrops.
Men's and Youth's white, random, twill'd, imperial and vandyke cotton Hose; Men's white and black silk do. with lac'd clocks; men's brown thread and cotton do; Women's cotton and silk Hose, some with laced clocks; Women's black, white and color'd silk Gloves and Mitts; Wo- men's white and color'd cotton do; best white kid Gloves; Men's cotton and worked Caps; worsted Panta- loons; Pantaloon Hose; silk, cotton and worsted Pantaloon and Breeches Pieces; Men's beaver wash leather and brown thread Gloves; Stock Stif- fers; cotton and silk Elastic Slings; Shoe Ties; Men's and Youth's fashion- able Hats, some grey with green under.
Fashionable steel, gilt, plated, silver'd, horn, matthewman and Italian Buttons; Button Moulds; Sleeve Buttons; Reel Knee Buckles; silver Thimbles; steel and gilt Watch Chains Seals and Keys; Tooth Brushes; Spangles; Morocco Pocket Books; Pins; Cap Wire.
Irish Linens and Sheetings; India Cottons; Brown Hollands;— Checks; Threads; embroidering and common Sewing Silks; Twist; Gal- loons; Bindings; Ferrets; Tapes; a large assortment of white cotton and chintz Bedlace, Fringes and Tassels. Tammies;