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TUESDAY, August 28, 1798.
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THE LAY PREACHER.
"Beware lest any man spoil you through PHILOSOPHY and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world."
IT was the lot and misfortune of St. Paul, in his various visits to the cities of Greece, to hear and see a certain loquacious race of sophists, whom, by a nobler name than they deserved, he calls Philosophers. Care must be taken not to confound these sophists with the wise men, who flourished, in an early era of the Republic. The latter not only loved Wisdom, but received and received all her favours; the former, wore her livery, but were not ranked even among her menials. The names of Socrates and Plato will never be forgotten. The names of those metaphysical sophists, who covered the decayed edifice of the Grecian empire with their filthy cobwebs, cannot, easily, be remembered.
From every passage where these sophists are mentioned, in the works of the Apostle of Jesus, it is clear, that they were of the same stamp, had the same stupid heads and the same bald brains, as those of the moderns, who, under the names of Paine, Condorcet, Sieyes and Marat, have "dashed and perplexed the maturest councils."
In an early stage of my Lay labours, I believe I have a ready-given to this topic: an honest and unprejudiced consideration. But the rank portion of philosophy cannot be fully defended, in a single column of a newspaper; and, as, most unfortunately, some philosophers are not only live, but teach in America, it may be useful, in my plain way, again to call my countrymen to beware of such counterfeiters.
These men, professing so much, are the veriest rogues in nature. One might pertinaciously address one of these vain boasters in the language of Job, "Canst thou bind the sweet will of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mizaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
A philosopher, in the modern sense of the word, would define a presumptuous mortal, proudly spurning at old systems, and promptly inventing new. Be the materials ever so naught, be their connexion ever so slight, be the whole ever so disjointed and crazy; be the new, these confident architects will swear that their building will accommodate you better than any you have previously used. To catch the eye, and abuse the credulity of wondering fools, the puppet show philosopher exhibits his "cheime" gorgeously painted, and gloriously lighted, and bellowed all the time in praise of his varnished ware. The whole is artfully calculated to captivate and charm all, except those few, who are not suddenly delighted with such representations, who know of what stuff they are made, for what purposes they are intended, and in what they are sure invariably to end. Such men gaze only to deride. But laugh as you please, the philosophers find in human nature such a fund of credulity, that be their daughes large as they may, no profit is anticipated. It is a bank not merely of discount, but deposit, and bolstered up by all the credit of the great body corporate of all the weaklings in the world.
The moment that a man arrives in this fancy and chivalric land of French philosophy, he beholds at every creek and corner something to dazzle and surprise, but nothing to assist or cure. The surface is flowery, and giants, and dwarfs, and wounded knights, and distaffed damsels abound. Nor are enchanters wanting; and they are the philosophers themselves. They will, in a twinkling, conjure away kingdoms, chain a Prince's daughter in a dungeon, and give to court pages, to lacqueys, and all those "airy nothings," a local habitation and a name. If the adventurer in this fantastic region be capriciously weary of his old mansion, the philosophic enchanters will quickly furnish a choice of castles, "roughly rushing to the skies." They are unstable, it is true, and comfortable, and cold, and cemented with blood, but how speciously at a distance, with portcullis most invitingly open for the free and equal admission of all mankind.
Those who have been professors of the new philosophy of France, and their servile devotees, in America, rain every thing they touch. Like the dead insect in the ornament, they cause the whole to send forth an odious and putrid favour. Instead of viewing man as he is, they are perpetually devising plans for man as he should be. Nothing established, nothing common, is admitted into their system. They invert all the rules of adaptation. They will to fashion nature and society in their whimsical mould, instead of regulating that mould, according to the proportions of society and nature. They glow with intense love for the whole species, but are cold and chill as death towards every individual. Condorcet wrote a kind of general epistle to the churches, which are in Africa. He was eager that the blacks of the isles should be emancipated. Philosophy disdains the tardy step of time, and will not tell even on her fingers the digits of political and moral computation. Condorcet made clear work,—A system is a talisman, and worketh its wonders instantaneously. He told every negro, that could understand him, to run from, or kill his master, and be free. Me mori; nor was hesitation allowed, the whole work might be finished in an hour. A Roman, or Grecian prefect, in the most lawless season of the ancient commonwealths, would
give some time to consideration, and judge some delay necessary for the ripening of his plans. A philosopher, like a wizard, conjures quickly; and calls at once all his hideous phantoms from the "vally deep" of his depraved mind. Condorcet's hope, unlike that of many of his visionary brethren, was lost in fruition; and he had the satisfaction to behold the government of St. Domingo, administered by sable hands. To gain so useful an end, the Frenchman was careless how many houses of the whites were consumed, or how many bodies were butchered. Philosophy instructed him that all men were equal, and to exalt a few slaves to the height of their masters it was not necessary for his system to show that infinite misery would ensue. God forbid that I should be once thought pressing an argument against the injured Africans. I cordially wish they were all happy in their native land, and imbibing all the sweetness of their tropical fruit, and their palmy wine. But, when they are once incorporated with us, even upon terms unequal and oppressive, it is not a Condorcet that can make them happy, by giving the relation, in an hour; it is not his philosophy will mitigate a black man's woes, either in this life, or the life to come.
To men of the complexion of Condorcet and his associates, most of the miseries of France may be ascribed. Full of paradox, recent from wire-drawing in the schools, and with mind all begrimed from the Cyclops cave of metaphysics, behold a Sieyes in the form of a politician, drafting, currante calamo , three hundred constitutions in a day, and not one of them fit for use, but delusive as a mountebank's bill, and bloody as the habitments of Banquo.
Of this dangerous, delusional and Utopian school, a great personage from Virginia, is a favoured pupil. His Gallic masters stroked his head, and pronounced him forward and promising. Those, who sit on the same form, cheerfully and reverently allow him to be the head of his class. In allusion to the well-marshalled words of a great Orator, him they worship; him they emulate; his "Notes" they covet all the time they can spare, from the "Aurora" of the morning, or Talleyrand's letter at night.
The man has talents, but they are of dangerous and delusive kind. He has read much, and can write plausibly. He is a man of letters, and should be a retired one. His elot, and not the cabinet is his place. In the first, he might harmlessly examine the teeth of a non descript monster, the feathers of an African, or the Almanack of Bannecker. At home he might catch a standard weight from the droppings of his eyes, and, seated in his epicurean chair, laugh at Moses and the prophets, and wink against the beams of the Sun of Righteousness. At the seat of government, his abstract, inapplicable, metaphysical politics are either nugatory or noxious. Besides, his principles relish so strongly of Paris, and are seasoned with such a profusion of French garlic, that he offends the whole Senate house. Better for Americans, that on their extended plains "thistles should grow, instead of wheat, and cockle, instead of barley," than that a philosopher should influence the councils of the country, and that his admiration of the works of Voltaire and Helvetius should induce him to with a closer connexion with Frenchmen. When a metaphysical and Gallic government obtains in America, may the pen drop from the hand, and "the arm fall from the shoulder blade!"
THE LAY PREACHER.
MEDICAL.
From a Philadelphia paper.
City Hospital, Aug. 12, '98.
DEAR DOCTOR, OUR want of success in treating the prevailing disease, makes us anxious to hear from you, in hopes that you may have added some new and useful remedy to those heretofore in use. It is true all our patients have been sick at least two, and some of them nine days, previously to their admission. Is there any mode of relieving these unfortunate people which you suppose we are unacquainted with? We recollect your observing that an emetic had been useful after the disease appeared to be mitigated by bleeding. If you can spare a few minutes to write to us on these subjects, you will much oblige your sincere friends, &c.
PHILIP SYNG PHYSICK. SAMUEL COOPER. DR. BENJ. RUSH.
THE ANSWER.
MY DEAR & WORTHY FRIENDS, I AM sorry to discover, by your letter, your want of success in the treatment of our malignant fever at the city hospital. I do not wonder at it. You seldom see the disease in its first stage, and when you do, you meet it in an aggravated state by the motion your patients undergo in being conveyed to the hospital.
In answer to your request, I have fat down to inform you of the practice which I have adopted in our present epidemic. In the treatment of the yellow fever of last year, I have occasionally lamented the loss of patients after reducing the pulse by bleeding, and by the liberal use of purging medicines. I have suspected that death occurred in those cases from the flagration of acrid bile in the gall bladder, or its close adherence to the upper bowels in the manner described by Dr. Mitchell in his account of the yellow fever in Virginia in the year 1741. The slow pulse which occurs about
the fourth day, I suspect further to be the effect of this bile. Its effects in a much less morbid state in the jaundice, in reducing the pulse, is well known. Mr. John Hunter says he once met with an instance in which it fell to 32 strokes in a minute in that disease. Revolving these facts in my mind, I resolved to try to remove this bile by exciting an artificial cholera morbus, about the fourth day of the fever. I was the more disposed to attempt this method of cure, from believing, as I have done for several years, that a cholera morbus is nothing but the first grade of bilious fever thrown upon the bowels, as the dysentery and diothea are in the internal forms of a common bilious or intermitting fever.
I began this mode of treating the fever 8 days ago. My solicitude for the issue of it was very great. Thank God it has succeeded to my wishes, and thereby lessened, in a great degree, the anxiety and distress which accompany our attendance upon this ferocious disease. The medicine I use for shaking the gall bladder and bowels and discharging the contents, are; tartar emetic, gamboge, jalap and calomel, combined or given separately, and in small or large doses according to circumstances. Perhaps Turpet Mineral might be added to this list of vomiting and purging medicines with advantage. In one case I gave four grains of tartar emetic, and twenty of calomel. It operated freely upwards and downwards, and brought away a large quantity of green and black bile, but, without exciting the least cramp or pain in the stomach or bowels. At the time I gave it, death appeared to be creeping upon my patient. The person thus rescued from the grave, was a son of Mr. Richard Renfrew. Indeed I have not, as yet, lost a single patient to whom I have given this powerful remedy. In one instance I fear it will fail. It is in a boy of about 16 years of age, to whom I have given near thirty grains of tartar emetic in the course of a few hours without producing the least evacuation from the stomach or bowels. I have observed the same increased difficulty after its operation that we observe after bleeding and purging in the beginning of the fever.
Vomits are old remedies in the yellow fever of the West-Indies. I gave them on the first day of the disease in the year 1793, and always without success. They uniformly did harm when given in the beginning of the fever in its worst grade, in 1797. The reason of this failure in their efficacy I now perceive was because they were given before the violent morbid action in the system was reduced or moderated by bleeding and purging. After this change is introduced in the disease, they are perfectly safe. The time for exhibiting them should be regulated by the pulse, and other symptoms. In moderate cases of the fever, they are as proper in its first stage, as on the 4th day. As there is a blistering point in all fevers, so there appears to be an emetic point in the yellow fever. It may occur on the second, and it may be protracted to the sixth or seventh day of the disease. I have not given the medicine I have mentioned in any case where the patient complained of pain or burning in the stomach, but I have considered a nausea, and a moderate degree of puking, as no obstacle to its use; for Dr. Physick has taught me by his dissections that these symptoms may exist without the least inflammation in the stomach, and that they have been absent where the stomach has appeared after death to have been highly inflamed.
The cure of the fever should not rest upon a single dose of the medicine. I have given two doses of it in a day in several cases, and have given it in one case, every day for three successive days.
It has often been remarked, that no two epidemics are exactly alike. They vary not only in different climates, but in the same climate in different years. They even vary with the changes of the weather in the same season. The fever of 1797 differed in several particulars from the fever of 1793, and the present epidemic differs materially from both. In many of the cases I have seen it exceed the fever of last year in its malignity. These variations in diseases, call for corresponding changes in our practice. I have communicated an account of the time and manner of discharging the contents of the gall bladder and bowels to several of our brethren. I ardently hope it may be universally successful in their hands!
If any thing new occurs in your practice in the hospital, do me the favour of informing me of it.
With best wishes for your health and success in your present arduous situation, I am your sincere friend,
BENJAMIN RUSH. Doctors Physick and Cooper. August 13, 1798.
MORALS.
PROFANITY.
I WILL say nothing of the indecency of profane swearing; the impropriety of calling God to become witness to trivial occurrences, or of imprecating divine wrath for the slightest offences—I will say nothing of its extreme opposition to every principle of christianity. These considerations have been frequently brought to view. But I will endeavour to prove that profane swearing, cannot be justified, even on principles which the most licentious infidel will allow to be true.
You believe, it may be, that not only the gospel of Jesus Christ, but that natural
religion, such as a belief in a particular providence and a state of retribution, is all a well concerted plan to promote the priest's emolument and the statesman's security. You believe that the doctrine of the souls immortality, and future rewards and punishments was carefully inculcated by every ancient legislator, in order, that his laws might, with the greater ease be carried into effect; that this, and not a conviction of its truth was the reason, which induced Minores Lycurgus, Solon, and the Roman lawgivers to bring this article of religion into view. Be it so. But we cannot suppose that these expedients would have been resorted to, had there been so much necessity for them: i.e. had they not been necessary for the good of society. The understanding of these immortal ages, will not, it is presumed, be called in question. It follows then, that a belief of a heaven and a hell, of happiness and misery after death is necessary for the public good. Consequently, any person, who flatters the general belief in these doctrines, or diminishes the influence, which they naturally have upon the human mind, is evidently, and by the confession even of the most licentious doing an injury to mankind. Yet who does not see that a frequent and ludicrous use of the terms heaven and hell, has a direct tendency to destroy all the regard for the one, or fear of the other? Who does not see that a person, cannot be much terrified by the fear of that punishment, which he imprecates, every day, either upon himself, or others? And it makes no kind of difference whether men disbelieve these doctrines or only disregard them. Their influence on society is as much destroyed by the one, as by the other.
Considered in this view, every person, who swears, does something towards weakening the hands of the civil magistrate, towards preventing him from being able to carry the laws into execution, and by these means, he contributes his part towards introducing into society a state of general disorder.
TERPANDER.
From the CONNECTICUT COURANT.
Messrs. HUDSON and GOODWIN, THE following extract from the Guilliniana, for 1797, is almost prophetic. Though it displayed in glowing colors the once happy state of our country, the latter part of the extract points out, in elegant and highly poetic strains, the present situation of our land. And had the bard been "under the immediate influence of inspiration, he could hardly have depicted the events which are now taking place, with more accuracy than he has done it in the following beautiful lines, which were written nearly eighteen months ago.
"But ere we touch the motley throng, Which calls for Guilliniana's song, Let each Columbian pause a while, Look round, and see his country's file— Think, thro' what woes and dangers pass, Our blifs transferred so much at last; Think what a weight of toil, and care, Has fall'n to our Great Leader's share, How by his guidance blest, were won These regions of the setting sun; Then how the civic crown convey'd, Beam'd glory round his honor'd head, 'Till infant Empire stable grown, And fix'd in systematic tone, Bade Order, Law and Freedom, run Rejoicing round their central Sun. And though, O WASHINGTON! thy name,
Outlines the blaze of Roman fame, With all that time records in story, Of ancient, or of modern glory; Yet resignation calls a shade O'er the vast realm thy virtue sway'd, Still shall thy fun's departing rays, Arch o'er our skies in rainbow blaze, The hope impart that now no more, The storm of anarchy shall roar; While every heart on bended knee, Calls benedictions down on thee; Adieu blest Chief! thy people mourn; But should misfortune by chance return, May thy protracted life allow, Like Cincinnati's from the plough, A sure resource in thee, once more, To save a Realm twice sav'd before."
And now, O WASHINGTON! again Thy country calls thee to the plain; That plain where martial myriads spread, Await their loved their honor'd heads; Again extend thy reverend hand; Again preserve thy grateful land, Against an impious host, who arise, To mar her peace, and mock the skies, Teach all her sons, whom valor warms, To run thy peerless course in arms, When vanquish'd, backward from our coast, Disarm'd, retires the Atheist host— And when Columbian commerce rides, From pirates free, o'er boundless tides, Teach us in peace, to vie with thee, In Virtue, Truth and Liberty. But should th' admiring powers above, Remand thee back to realms of love, E'er peace returns to bless our shore, And found her still small voice once more: Wilt thou, from 'midst the whirlwind's power,
Thy spirit doubly on us shower; At parting, like the Tythbee, shed Thy mantle on our ADAMS' head. May he behold the storm retire— Fashion and Anarchy expire, See wars throughout all nations cease, Be blest'd, and bless our realm in peace.
* General WASHINGTON. The extract was written previous to the expiration of his office, but after he had signified his wish not to be re-elected.
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Foreign Articles.
LONDON.
AT a meeting of the Commissioners under the 7th article of the American treaty, on Monday, April 30, 1798.
Present, JOHN TRUMBULL, Esq. JOHN NICHOLL, L. L. D. JOHN ANSTREY, Esq. CHRISTOPHER GORE, Esq. WILLIAM PINCKNEY, Esq. ORDERED.
That all Persons who have exhibited, or who may exhibit complaints to this board, under the 7th Article of the treaty, be requested to furnish their Proofs in support thereof, on or before the 10th day of February, 1799.
FOR FRANCIS MOORE, Sec'y. (Signed) EDW. MILLEY, Clerk.
LONDON, MAY 21.
Our correspondent from Gibraltar informs us that the armed feluccos, which infested the entrance of the bay, and have done much mischief, have not been so daring in boarding merchant ships since the gallant defence of the Dædalus, one of his Majesty's hired transports under the direction of Lieut. William Bliot: two of these gun-boats engaged and actually boarded the Dædalus, in sight of our garrison, with seventy-five stout men armed. The crew of the Dædalus consisted of only fifteen seamen; one felucca, after having struck, sunk in attempting to gain the shore, with 40 men on board; the other by a manoeuvre of the Lieutenant, who lashed her mast to the quarter of the transport's that captured her, was towed to Tangier Bay: only five Spaniards slightly wounded, were taken prisoners; the rest of her complement, thirty, were killed in the action. The Dædalus had one man very dangerously wounded, and three slightly hurt. There were other empty transports at some distance, which crowded all the sail they could to escape: the enemy's plan was to capture the officer's ship first, and the rest would have fallen an easy prey, as they had separated from the convoy in a fog the day before. The success is attributed to a large caldron of boiling water being poured on the enemy's heads, on their coming first alongside, which being spiritedly followed up by a discharge of blunderbusses, large rock stones, and particularly six pound shot, thrown on their heads, created such confusion, that the Spaniards could not recover, as they expected, no resistance, never having been accustomed to meet with any, before from the many ships they had boarded and taken into Algeziras.
The prizes made by our fleets and cruizers, from the French, Spaniards, and Dutch, amounting to 35 sail of the line, 85 frigates, and 69 sloops and cutters; in the whole 184 ships; while the number of our ships now in their possession is no more than 6 or 7, of which only one is of the line.
DUBLIN, June 2.
Every day brings to our knowledge new acts of atrocity committed by the rebels. In the county of Wexford, among many instances of massacre, the following excites particular detestation and horror. The Rev. Mr. Haydon a Protestant Clergyman, much esteemed having had some of his neighbors to spend the evening with him, a Miss Clifford residing in his house, whose beauty and whole virtues made her the admiration of the country, was requested to sing "Cropies he down,"—she did so, little thinking her complaisance would have been the cause of her death! The next morning the House was attacked by a party of insurgents, and the whole family massacred with circumstances of the most horrid cruelty. The servant who attended the family at supper the preceding night, snatched a pike from one of his brother demons, and plunged it into the beautiful bosom of Miss Clifford, exclaiming at the same time, "There you d—d w—e, take that for your Cropie lie down!!" Four infants were not spared, but tossed in hellish sport on the point of the pikes!
The present is the third instance of martial law being declared in this country in the space of near 108 years. The first occurred when James II. fled to Dublin immediately after the Boyne, when military execution was ordered to be put in practice against any person found out of his house after eight in the evening, or before the same hour in the morning. The second was during the rebellion in Scotland.
NORFOLK, Aug. 11.
Orders have been received by the Naval agent at this place for building with all possible dispatch the 44 gun frigate, the keel of which was laid down last Summer.
The vessel purchased of Messrs. Nash and Herbert at Gosport, for the United States, is to be called the Norfolk,
the command is given to Capt. Williams.
The United States frigate Constellation is off our Capes. The Revenue Cutter, Capt. Bright, spoke her last Thursday evening 7 leagues to the southward of Cape Henry. We understand she has cruised as far south as the limits of the United States, but has not seen a single French privateer.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 15.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Martinique to his correspondent in this city, dated 23d July, '98.
"Our news from England is up to the 13th June, and is only interesting as far as regards Irish affairs. The last Gazette gives an account of a battle, in which the insurgents left 11,000 dead on the field; a number so very considerable to a rebellion in its infancy, has, I hope, totally smothered it for the present; although I think it is probable the virus cannot be completely eradicated for a while."
August 16.
This day, the federal sloop of war, Baltimore, Isaac Philips, Esq. commander, weighed anchor and went down the river. We understand she is to join the Constellation, now in Hampton Roads, from whence they will immediately proceed in company to the Havana, to convoy home the valuable fleet of West-Indiamen, now lying there.
We made a mistake a few days ago in mentioning the force of the Baltimore—instead of 16, she carries 18 nines in her waist.
PHILADELPHIA, August 15.
Arrived last evening, the brig West-Indian, Capt. Wilson, from Madeira, who informs, that on the morning of the 12th ult. (the day he sailed) a Portuguese vessel arrived there, in 5 days from Lisbon, with information of the Toulon fleet, with Buonaparte on board, having been fell in with by the squadron under the command of Admiral Nelson, who had chased them into Corsica, (with the loss of one frigate, (taken or destroyed) where they remained blockaded by an inferior force. The Admiral had dispatched a frigate to Lord St. Vincent's, for a reinforcement, when it was supposed he would attempt to destroy them in port.
NEW-YORK, August 15.
We are told, the sum deemed necessary to fortify the port of New-York, is twelve hundred thousand dollars. Should the Legislature make this appropriation, or any other sum, it will undoubtedly be passed to their credit by the United States, in payment of the balance of two millions of dollars we are owing them on account of the revolutionary war.
It is ever pleasing to have occasion to remark on the prompt readiness of our fellow citizens to contribute to the support of measures of defence—In no instance has a greater degree of this Spirit shewn itself, than in assisting at the Fortifications now almost completed on the battery—where the labor or all ranks has been in daily exercise, from 40 to 70 a day.
August 26.
Mr. Seamen, who arrived in the Galiot, from Martinique, on his homeward bound passage, stopped at St. Kitt's where he remained two days, during which time he lodged in the same hotel with General Pichegru; the General was in perfect health and good spirits, and treated with great attention by the first people in the island, particularly the Governor; he was to embark shortly for England in one of the frigates belonging to Admiral Hervey's squadron. Barthelémy remained at Berbice, being too ill to accompany Gen. Pichegru at St. Kitt's.
A London paper says, that it is calculated here that France has drawn from foreign countries since the year 1794, 750 millions of livres, about 30 millions sterling, in money or plate, besides the innumerable requisitions. Notwithstanding this, however, the penury of the Republic is so great, that the French consul at Amsterdam could not raise a sum of about 800,000 sterling, which were wanted for the repairs of a vessel. Not being able to get it from the minister of Marine at Paris, to whom he applied on the occasion, he was obliged to ask the assistance of the Directory of the Batavian Republic, who advanced it to him.
BOSTON, August 15.
An Extract from Dr. Hillary's Treatise on the Yellow Fever.
"I know no disease, in which the recovery of the patient, so much depends upon the right or wrong method of treating it, at the very first attack, or beginning of the disease, as this Fever does:—For by thus discharging and carrying off the putrid, acrimonious bilious matter, out of the body, before much of it is carried into the blood; not only most of the bad symptoms, which attend the second
state of the Fever are prevented from coming, but the hamorrhages, and the yellowness of the skin also; and the fever soon taken off: For I have never seen any hamorrhage come on, and but little yellowness, or in some none, when they were thus treated."
From NANTUCKET, Aug. 17.
"The ship Industry, from Brazil, has arrived—full ship: The weather has been very hot here, but it was never healthier.—Of adults, I believe there have been but three deaths this month, and two of them took the Boston dock-fickness, and died in a day or two after arriving—the Physicians determined it to be a putrid fever."
Governor Jay has communicated to the Legislature of New-York, the letter from his Excellency Gov. Sumner, inclosing the Resolution of the General Court, for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, providing against the introduction of foreign influence into our National Councils.
The Legislature of New-York have voted very federal replies to Governor Jay's speech.
From CHARLESTON, Aug. 4.
"Our patriotic subscriptions amount to one hundred thousand dollars;—and instead of a 20 gun-ship, we meant to offer to the President a stout frigate."
At a late meeting of patriots, of the town of Attleborough, the following sentiments animated the guests:—
"John Adams—the man without fear, and without reproach."—Washington, the signal of terror and flight to the foes of our country."—The American Navy."—The Navy of Great-Britain, the fortress of unhungated Europe."
The Commissioners for settling the Eastern Boundary of the United States are in session, at Providence.
Lt. Colonel Doughty has declined, we learn, accepting the command of the regiment of Artillerists and Engineers.
The Architects yesterday commenced raising the roof of the new Branch Bank, next the Centinel-Office.
August 24.
There is said to be an arrival at New-York from London.—Dates to June 20th. We learn not what news. Gen. Pichegru has failed from Martinique, for England.
Hon. John Brown, Esq. is a candidate for Congress in Rhode-Island.
The John Jay cutter, of New-York, is again ready for sea.
We are happy in learning that President Willard, is so far recovered as to be able to ride out.
The platform for the battery at Nantasket is laid. A barrack is built for the workmen; and preparations making for erecting a furnace for heating balls.
Yesterday arrived in town from Bayonne, via Marblehead, Mr. Hinkley, late mate of the Galen. He brought no papers, but informs that he heard Lord St. Vincent had gone into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the Toulon fleet, leaving a squadron to confine the Spaniards to Cadiz; That a war was expected with America, and privateers were equipping for the indiscriminate capture of our vessels.
On the Banks of Newfoundland, spoke a fishing schooner, that had fallen in with the brig Maria, of Boston, Capt. Hatch, from Bourdeaux for Charleston, that had met with brig Sophia, from Havre for Philadelphia, on board of which Mr. Gerry was a passenger.
The vessel in which Mr. Hinkley came, was the Hannah, Capt. Befom. She had 56 days passage. In lat. 41, 31, long. 32. was boarded by the French privateer Fancy of Nantz, of 18 guns, who closely examined the papers, and finding her to be only in ballast, suffered her to proceed. Lat. 44, 36, long. 44, spoke brig Angelica, Roberson, of Philadelphia, 24 days from Lisbon. Capt. came on board and delivered Dispatches for Government—thinking they would be safer and arrive sooner in the Hannah.
Left at Bayonne.
Table with 4 columns: Vessels, Owned, State, Value. Lists various ships like Netty & Kitty, Federalist, Superb, Galen, Adelaide, Sisters, Pilgrim, Mercury, Retriever, Esther, Peggy, Albany, Ruby, Hannah, Maria with their respective owners and values.
This computation is much too low. Besides these, six ships have been condemned at Bourdeaux; and no one cleared since Jan. 1798.
Letters have been received in town dated Lisbon, July 7, but containing no news. They came by way of Marblehead.
Extract of a letter from a respectable gentleman in Malaga, dated June twenty-six.
"There is at this time a report circulating that Admiral Nelson, has fallen in with the Toulon fleet, taken some, sunk others and put the remainder to flight. This News is so good, I am fearful it will not prove true."
"The order which recently prevailed here, for detaining all French privateers, and sending their crews to Toulon, has ceased to operate, and they are actively equipping again."
The intelligence received at Baltimore from Martinique, seems to establish the important facts, that there has been a general engagement in Ireland, and that the Insurgents were defeated.
Capt. Wood of New-York, complains with warmth of Mr. Vignardi, the American Consul at Cadiz; and makes a statement greatly to his discredit.
From SURRINAM.
We are informed, that the Governor of Surinam, justly irritated by the irregular conduct and horrid proceedings of the people of Cayenne, has ordered five frigates of 40 guns each, to liberate any neutral vessel, stopped by the privateers of that place, and to enable them to reach the river of Surinam. It is strongly conjectured that a negotiation exists between the British and the government of Surinam, from several reciprocal proceedings, in favor of each other. Markets are extremely high. Provisions very scarce. Lumber and Dry Goods much wanted.
Mr. Lilly, a respectable merchant of Philadelphia, being at Cayenne with a vessel and cargo, at the time Pichegru, &c. escaped, was charged with being concerned in that business, arrested, put in irons, and sent on board a frigate to be carried to France for trial.
Capt. Hill saw a letter at Cayenne from the Governor of Surinam, in which he observed, there had but two vessels arrived with provisions for two months: That there was neither bread nor salt meat there, and that the troops were of necessity fed on Cassadars and fresh meat.
Maj. Andrew Cunningham is appointed inspector of the Fortifications in our harbour which are to be erected at the expence of the State.
Capt. Seth Johnson is confirmed in his Commission as a Major in the Boston Regiment.
Lt. Col. Doughty, it is said, has declined that rank in the U. S. army.
The Eastern Boundary Commissioners are setting.
THE Selectmen have received from the Medical Society, the following recommendations, made at a meeting on the 20th inst. accompanied with a report, wherein they state, that only twelve persons were then sick with the prevailing fever.
By order of the Selectmen, WILLIAM COOPER, Town Clerk.
At a meeting of the Physicians of the MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY, residing in Boston. 1st. It is recommended to the inhabitants of this town, to sprinkle water before their houses morning and evening; sweeping once a day; and removing all filth and dirt from their yards and cellars as often as any is accumulated there.
2. That they avoid intemperance in eating and drinking, especially spirituous liquors, excessive labor and fatigue in the sun; and suddenly cooling themselves when heated, by repairing to cellars or cool damp places.
3. To live as much as possible upon vegetables, weak soups, and ripe fruits.
4. To avoid an intercourse with the docks from the Mill Creek to the Long-Wharf.
U. States Naval Register.
We have observed an advertisement in a Philadelphia Paper for seamen and marines for an armed ship called the Deborah, Capt. YARD, which was to sail in a few days.
On Tuesday the Herald, sloop of War, commanded by Capt. Seaver; and the Pickering, brig, commanded by Capt. Chapman, failed in company on a cruise.
A 36 gun frigate is building at Mr. Hart's Yard N. End, from whence the Constitution was launched.
The merchants of Charleston will build a stout frigate for Government.
Marine Intelligence.
Extract of a letter from Shelburne, N. S. dated Aug. 13.
"This moment has come to anchor the brig Nancy, Capt. Taylor, of New-York, belonging to Messrs. Thomas Buchanan and Co. from that city bound to Madeira; which was captured in sight of that Island by a French privateer mounting 20 guns; and was retaken by the master and two boys, from seven French sans-culottes (the prize master and two men)—Four of whom it was found necessary to throw overboard in the effort to recapture the vessel."
In the ship Fame, Capt. Derby, from Martinique, arrived Capt. Hills, of the brig Leonard, of this port, condemned at Cayenne, when bound to Surinam. Since the last list from Cayenne the following vessels have been condemned, viz. Christiana, Stevens, of Charleston; Ceres, Higginson, of Baltimore; Betsy, Choate, of Boston.—Sailed from Cayenne July 21, in brig Sally, Price, for Philadelphia, having on board sixty Americans, belonging to different vessels condemned there—were allowed only provisions for 30 days, at the rate of half a pound of putrid beef, and a pound of musty bread pr. diem. In lat. 5 or 6, long. 53, had the good fortune to fall in with the sch. Rebecca, Vincent, from Boston for Demerara, who generously supplied us with a hoghead fish, and two barrels bread. Lat. 30, long. 69, fell in with the Nymph, armed brig of New-York, convoying 14 Americans, each ship received on board some of our unfortunate countrymen—and at this time Capt. Hill went on board the Fame. Lat. 40, long. 71, saw an American frigate in chase of a vessel. Aug. 20, spoke Capt. Boyd from Grenada for Wilcasset. The Fame, Tilden, for Boston, was one of the fleet from Martinique. The recent condemnations at Cayenne are because the President does not acknowledge the right of the French to exact a roll d'Equipage.
WISCASSET, August 17.
On Tuesday evening last, Messrs. Henry Hoskins and John W. Scott, Editors and Printers of the Wilcasset Telegraph, were arrested by Mr. Timothy Parsons, for Printing and Publishing, on the 25th day of May last, a piece of Miscellany under the signature of "PHILO JACOBIN."
SALEM, Aug. 21.
Extract of a letter from London, dated June 6, 1798.
"The publication of the correspondence of our Envoys with the profligate Directory, has converted almost every Jacobin here. I hope it has the same effect with you.—I have had the same opinion these five years. I early and always found that the members of that government, and its agents, under every form, were the most unprincipled men that ever existed. We know not how they will receive it in France;—I am afraid they will not instantly declare war. They may avoid it, but continue to take every ship they meet, and keep up their infernal intrigues among you by emissaries, agents, &c. until they work up your Jacobins to an 18th Fructidor."
"If a war takes place, your young men I expect will not be shy of entering both army and navy. No one will object, when he considers for what, and against whom, he may fight."
"I am more and more convinced that you ought to be weaned from any connexion and affection with, or for, any part of Europe. In a few years, I hope, you will be connected with it by no other ties, than you are now with China. You will be prepared to defend yourselves from the insults of any nation."
PORTLAND, August 22.
MELANCHOLY.—A fishing vessel, of about 10 tons, STEPHEN DICKSON, skipper, left hence on Monday night for Kinney, where she belonged—but about three o'clock on Tuesday morning she ran on a ledge of rocks, at the head of Cape Elizabeth, and stove in pieces: owing, it is supposed to Mr. D.'s falling asleep at the helm.—A young man, the only person on board besides Mr. D. was asleep in the cabin when the struck, but got a thore safe.—Mr. Dickson was drowned; his body is found. About thirty quintals green fish was lost together with the vessel.
MAD COW.—Last week a Cow belonging to Mr. Stevens, of this town, run mad, and died in extreme torture. It cannot be ascertained that the cow had been previously bitten by a dog, or any other animal. It's a fact, however, that a strange dog, a few days since, pursued a cat in State-street, and bit her, after which she became mad, and was killed. But we have heard nothing further of the dog. Instances like these have been frequent of late—and should lead to caution.
*A Correspondent assures us, the above Cow was bitten by a JACOBIN, in the rage of political hydrophobia. 'Tis thus, adds he, the Jacobins aim to make not only the human but the quadruped race RUN MAD.—An infallible cure for the BITE on the human kind, is, a careful review of administration with regard to France, and a plaster of tar and feathers applied to the biter.

Foreign Intelligence;
In cullings from late British papers, by the packet.
Symptoms of the new Coalition.
LONDON, June 1.
SOME new connexion with Russia is on the tapis. Count Woronzow yesterday had a long conference with Lord Grenville, on advices he had received from his Court. A powerful coalition against France may be expected.
JUNE 9.
The military of Denmark, including the militia, amount to eighty thousand effective men.
The French are now indebted to the Danish merchants, in the sum of forty millions of livres, for mere captures, independent of other sums.
The exchange from Sweden is 30 per cent in favor of this country.
If Buonaparte makes good a landing on Ireland, he will be the best gauntlet runner in Europe, and will be eminently qualified for as great a pick-pocket as he is now notorious for a treasury-robber. He has now got four Police Officers, with strong gangs, after him—Admiral NELSON in the Mediterranean—Lord St. Vincent in the gut of Gibraltar; Lord Bridport, in the Bay of Biscay, and Admiral Curtis off Ireland—Besides almost innumerable runners, who will continually dog him. Jamaica has been mentioned as an object of the Toulon fleet—So has Lisbon.
PARIS, May 20.
L'Echo declares, that there is no doubt of an alliance offensive and defensive, between the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Russia—to which Sweden has made itself a party.
A line of demarcation troops is to be established; and to be composed of 25,000 Russians, Prussians and Saxons. They are to guarantee the integrity of the possessions of their sovereigns.
REMARK.
[They are fools or idiots who suppose, the people of the United States depend for success, in their opposition to French aggressions, on new coalitions in Europe.—Under God, our dependence is on the ample resources of our country; the spirit, patriotism, and warlike equipment of our citizens; the means and measures of defence pursued and pursuing; the firmness and incorruptibility of the administration; and in our distance from France. It is on these we can safely rely for success—any events in Europe can be but of secondary moment; but as far as they may prevent attempts to our tranquility, will be considered beneficial; and the confirmation of their existence we shall with pleasure announce.] CENTINEL.
RICHMOND, August 9.
Yesterday Gen. Marshall was received here, with every mark of the most dignified respect, and cordial esteem. On the road he was met by several military companies, and bodies of citizens; and salutes from the artillery, the bells, and all degrees of people, from hoary age, to lisping infancy, were given with great cordiality. His Excellency the Governor, was among the citizens; and the Mayor, Alderman, &c. addressed him, in terms bespeaking a high respect for his character, perfect approbation of his conduct in his mission to France; and utter abhorrence of the policy which agitates the French Directory. The following is the General's answer:—It is worthy the brightest page of history.
General Marshall's Answer to the Richmond Address.
"GENTLEMEN,
"I RECEIVE with the most grateful sensibility, the very friendly address with which you have been pleased to honor me. That my fellow citizens, my neighbours, and my ancient friends, those who knew me best, who have witnessed the course and tenor of my life, whose esteem has ever been most dear to me, and who have ever possessed my sincere and real affections, testify joy at my return to them, that to the flattering evidences of that joy which has been so lavished on me, the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Common Council of Richmond, have added the most unequivocal assurances of their participation in it, more than compensates the anxieties inseparable from the mission on which I have been employed.
"WHILE I declare the strong regret I feel in common with you and all my countrymen, that "smiling peace" no longer "makes this her favorite abode;" while I lament that the sincere and long continuing efforts of the American government, corresponding truly with the feelings and wishes of the American people, for the restoration of our broken relations with France, have hitherto produced only increased injury and accumulated contempt, I do not think that either policy or patriotism require me to conceal from you the firm and deep conviction of my mind, that accommodation with the French Republic on terms consistent with the independence of the United States has been long impracticable, & that you judge rightly when you say that "peace was unattainable by any just and honorable means."
"If, as I trust and believe, the people of the United States value rightly their national independence and the blessings of that liberty which we enjoy under our free and happy constitution, if they are awake to the countless dangers which lurk beneath "un-
wise foreign attachments, if they are true and faithful to themselves, I feel a pride in believing that they cannot be compelled to close the long and mournful procession of ruined republics."
"RECEIVE, gentlemen, my warm acknowledgments for your obliging and affectionate wishes concerning myself, and while I sincerely reciprocate them, permit me to assure you that in every possible situation your happiness and the welfare of the citizens of Richmond will be dear to my heart.
JOHN MARSHALL."
The answer of Gen. Marshall to the address of the Corporation of Richmond, deferves to be printed and dispersed by the government throughout every part of the continent. Coming from one, in whom all parties confide, who possesses every republican virtue, that can conciliate popular esteem, and receive general trust, his words so clear and decided, must make numerous converts, especially amongst our southern friends. They will listen to him without prejudice; and wherever that is the case conviction is certain. It forces itself irresistibly upon every unbiased mind.
(N. Y. Gaz.)
BOSTON, August 25.
We believe that Buonaparte is already at the place of his destination, and that the English Admiral who is allowed to have no more than 10 ships, will not have been able to overtake him.
The United States of America are threatened with a revolution. The friends of liberty furious against the Senate, and above all against the President, who openly espouses the cause of the English, to the detriment of the Great Nation, disavow their conduct. The House of Representatives partake in a great degree of this indignation against the accomplices of the British cabinet; and hardly will they wait the elections, which will take place in the autumn, to destroy their fatal influence. [Stories of this kind have been so often sent from America, that we have no doubt they are really believed in France.]
AUGUST 27.
Philadelphia Bill of Mortality.
   Burials. Grown persons. Children.     August 11th, 11 5   August 12th, 15 5   August 13th, 14 3   August 15th, 20 7   August 16th, 13 4   August 17th, 12 2   August 18th, 12 3   August 19th, 23 1   August 20th, 13 3  
Marine intelligence.
Vessels bound to Surinam or Demarara, will do well to go armed, as several pirates out of Cayenne are on the watch for all that sail that way—and certain condemnation, without even the form of trial, but accompanied with every mark of insolence, will happen to all who unfortunately suffer them to come on board.
Sunday, Aug. 26. —This day arrived sloop Polly and Betty, Hall, Turks-Island, 12 days. Nothing new.
Same day, arrived brig George, Bethune, from Cape de Verds, 46 days. Left no American vessels there. Spoke in lat. 32, long. 58, the frigate United States, Commodore BARRY, and sloop of war Delaware, Capt. DECATUR, 10 days from this harbour, bound to the West-Indies.
Capt. Alexander Murray of Philad. is appointed to the command of the Montezuma sloop of war, of 22 guns, now lying at Baltimore ready for sea.
PORTLAND, August 22.
Last evening arrived ship John, Capt. Moses Freeman, 25 days from Jamaica—he was convoyed out by the armed ship Amity, Capt. Cook of Philadelphia, who left him after getting clear of Watling's Island. Capt. F. informs, that a part of the English fleet, about 20 sail, coming out of Port Antonio, (Jamaica) on the day he sailed with a fine breeze, were suddenly becalmed before they got clear of the harbor, when four of the largest of the ships drifted on shore and went to pieces. Capt. F. was boarded 3 days ago, off Georges, by an English 50 gun ship, Goodwin, of Boston, and Schooner, Brown, of do.
SALEM, August 24.
Yesterday Capt. Befom arrived at Marblehead from Bayonne, in France. His original destination was to Bilboa; but he was taken by a French privateer, within a short sail of his port, and carried into Bayonne, where he found numbers of his countrymen, and other neutrals, the victims of a system of plunder, which disregards every principle of justice or morality. An indiscriminate condemnation of captured property was carrying on at Bayonne; that taken from Americans and condemned, amounted to nearly a million and a half of dollars. Capt. Befom lost his cargo, but by some compromise retained his vessel, in which he brought home forty of his countrymen, and saved them from the alternative of entering on board French privateers, or starving. The pretexts for condemning were of the most trivial kind, and amounted to nothing short of a declaration of war against all neutral property.
They expected at Bayonne, that these acts of rapine would finally rouse the Americans to war, and that in consequence their West-India colonies must fail; but these events they disregarded as of no importance, so long as there was commerce for their privateers to prey upon. New privateers, from 16 to 30 guns, were continually building and launching, and they were professedly destined against the Americans, at whose conduct they effect to be much irritated.
But the merchants, and people of information, who were not immediately interested in privateering, discovered, an uneasiness at the present state of things, when they dared to express their sentiments, and appeared to be both tired of their government, and ashamed of the injuries which were heaped upon the Americans.
The military themselves, who are distributed throughout the country to keep the
people in awe, begin to murmur; not at the cause in which they were engaged, but that their pay was considerably reduced.
There was a good deal of talk, at Bayonne, of an expectation that Spain would withdraw her connections with France. This would be extending the field of privateering, and encreasing the emoluments of the Directory, who receive 15 per cent. of the amount of all prizes.
Capt. Befom has favored us with French papers to the 16th of June.
By the Clef du Cabinet des Souverains , of the 10th of June, it appears that the French government had received an English paper containing the dispatches from the American Envoys to the President of the United States, which were communicated by the President to Congress on the 3d of April. In consequence thereof the following letters passed between Mr. Gerry and M. Talleyrand—which letters are also published in the said paper, after a long, insidious, and in many respects false, commentary on the dispatches. It does not appear that the dispatches themselves have ever been published in Paris.
Interesting Correspondence.
The Minister of Exterior Relations [M. Talleyrand] to Mr. Gerry]
Paris, May 30, 1798.
I communicate to you, Sir, a London Gazette of the 25th of May (old style.) You will therein see a very extraordinary publication. I cannot learn without surprise that some persons have availed themselves of the retired manner in which the Envoys of the United States chose to live, to make them propositions and hold with them conversations, the object of which evidently was to deceive them. I beg you to let me know immediately the names of the persons designated by the letters W. X. Y. and Z. and also the name of the lady whom Mr. Pinckney declares to have conversed with him on American affairs. If you have an objection to sending them in writing, please to communicate them confidentially to the bearer. I rely on your zeal to enable the government to investigate these intrigues, of which I congratulate you on not being the dupe, and in your desire to see it perfectly satisfied.
Mr. GERRY'S Answer.
Paris, May 31, 1798.
Your letter, Citizen Minister of the 30th inst. and the Gazette to which it refers have been handed me. The last contains all the informal negotiations communicated by the Envoys to their government.
If authorized persons have come forward, or if having limited powers they have exceeded them, they have abused the French government and the Envoys; I am not competent to judge of this, as they did not produce any document whatever to prove that they were authorized to treat with us. The publications in question suffice to show, how very delicate my situation is, with respect to the names of these persons, and they contain circumstances which I hope will enable you to investigate the affair without insisting upon further communications from me. Desirous however to dispel suspicions by which innocent persons may be embarrassed. I have no objection to declare that three of the individuals alluded to are strangers, and that the fourth acted only as a messenger and interpreter. You will observe, Citizen Minister, the extreme reluctance of the Envoys, to this informal mode of treating, by their reply of October 30th; to certain propositions that had been made them. The 1st of November they determined to put an end to such communications, and have kept their resolution, in opposition to repeated attempts that have since been made. They nevertheless consider it their duty to communicate every thing to their government.
Accept, Citizen Minister, the assurance of my profound esteem, ELBRIDGE GERRY.
The Minister of Foreign Relations, to Mr. Gerry.
Paris, June 1, 1798.
I have received, Sir, your letter of yesterday.—You inform me, 1st, that the Gazette pretended you contains all the informal negotiations communicated by the Envoys to their government; and 2dly, That the persons in question have not produced to your knowledge any document whatever to show that they were accredited; 3dly, That three of the individuals alluded to, (viz. in the order I have placed them, W, X, Y,) are strangers; the fourth, that is Z, has acted only as a messenger and interpreter.
Although I fully conceive of your reluctance to name these persons, I must pray you instantly to subject it to the importance of the object: please either to give me their names in writing, or communicate them in confidence to the bearer; name the woman that Mr. Pinckney alludes to; tell me if any of the citizens attached to my office, and authorized by me to see the Envoys, have said a word that had the least affinity to the disgusting proposal made by X, and Y, to remit any sum whatever, for corrupt purposes.
Mr. GERRY'S Answer.
Paris, June 3, 1798.
CITIZEN MINISTER,
I have received your letter of the 1st inst. in which after having repeated a part of mine of the 31st May, you urge me immediately to yield to the importance of the object, and to give you, &c.
As to the persons designated by X, Y, and Z, I will forward you their names in writing, under my hand and seal, if you will assure me they shall not be published as coming from me, although this measure does not appear to me necessary to discover them; and Z informs me that he will make himself known: as W has never said a word to me relative to X, or any part of our communications, I presume that the manifest inconvenience that would result to me from relying upon mere hearsay, is a sufficient excuse for omitting his name.
I cannot give you the name of any woman, for no one has had any political conference with me since my arrival in Paris.
As to the citizens attached to your office, and authorized by you to see the Envoys in your official communications, I cannot recollect one word from any of them that had the least relation to the propositions made
by X, and Y, in their informal negotiations, to pay money for corrupt distributions. Accept &c.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs to Mr. GERRY.
Paris, June 4, 1798.
SIR, Your letter of yesterday is just received. You may address to me in perfect confidence the names that you announced under your hand and seal. I assure you they shall not be published as coming from you.
[The names have in fact been sent to the Minister, who instantly deposited them with the proper authority.]
A letter follows the preceding, from M. Hauteval, by which it appears that he is the person designated by Z, and in which he represents, that he acted only as messenger and interpreter in the communications that passed directly between the Envoys and the Minister.—It appears from the commentary, before mentioned, that Mr. Gerry was viewed by the French government in a very different light from Melfins, Pinckney and Marshall, and by remaining in Paris he involved himself in the above mortifying, if not degrading correspondence.
READER —Please now to read the dispatches, from our Envoys to Paris, published three months since. If you have them not, send immediately and borrow, or buy it.
DOVER, August 29.
On Monday last agreeable to Orders, the first battalion of the 2d Regiment of this State, appeared on the parade in this town, under the command of Maj. Wentworth, and after going through the necessary manoeuvres they were reviewed by Col. Fisher and other officers—who were pleased to express their highest approbation of the officers and men under arms—and of their exertions in endeavouring to appear well regulated and disciplined.
Capt. Wentworth, (appointed to the command of that quota of men which was to be drafted from this battalion, as our proportion of the "80,000 men") no sooner appeared with his music "beating for Volunteers" than "the true Sons of liberty and New-Hampshire appeared on the piñions of the swiftest gales, they flew to his standard, and the spirit of emulation appeared in its meridian—and so far from having occasion to draft men—that had the whole battalion been called for, not a man would have been found wanting; such is the conduct & such are the hearts of those "hardy sons of New-Hampshire, second to none in skill "ven-terprize or courage in war." as our noble President expresses it—who are determined, to exist but with their liberties—and never to survive its fall.
PORTSMOUTH, August 28.
Yesterday the inhabitants of this town assembled in town-meeting agreeable to notification, for the purpose of giving, in their votes for four persons to represent this State in the Congress of the United States—George Gains, Esq. presided as Moderator; the meeting was very thin, but few people attended, owing to the prevailing sickness.
Notwithstanding the threatening clouds that now hang over the skirts of our political horizon, how much happiness do we enjoy! Look at our supreme executive—In him honor, the strongest tie of great minds, is personified:—His learning celebrated throughout Europe: his mind and views steady and elevated—his devotion to his country unshaken even amidst the flanders of party malevolence and the cruelty of ingratitude. Integrity in him is superior to every personal or family consideration:—Religion, the pillar of the state, finds in him a sincere and exemplary worshipper.—With such a chief, we may rest assured our interests will be maintained, and our insulted sovereignty vindicated. Look at our national legislature, as yet unawed by power, uncorrupted by gold—patriotism is the professed motive of all—public good the general aim:—They have enacted none but wise laws:—They have imposed none but necessary burthens:—They have guarded the sacred palladium of liberty with a jealous vigilance. Some there are who would basely sell their country:—Disappointed in their ambitious hopes-guided by the false light of passion or prejudice—or actuated by a disgraceful foreign attachment, they are prepared to uproot our mild and well poised government, and throw us back again into a sea of uncertainty and a dreadful chaos of confusion; but their efforts thus far have been vain; our guardian genius has defeated their parnicial views:—The counsels of integrity and wisdom have prevailed, and we have reason to rejoice that under the dominion of equal laws, we enjoy a degree of liberty and ease that no nation on earth can boast of. Let us now turn our view to the judiciary authority—Again our bosom dilates with joy to find the feats of justice filled with dignified talents—unfulfilled honor—indestructible industry, and mercy heaven-descended, mingling her earnest entreaties with the stern dictates of a necessary severity. Meantime we possess in its fullest latitude that liberty of conscience to secure which our brave ancestors feared not to encounter the dangers of an unexplored ocean, and the numberless horrors of a wilderness inhabited only by beasts of prey, or men more cruel and merciless than they. Thus secure in our religious and political
rights, what abundant reason we have to bless that benign Providence that has thus heaped blessings in full and overflowing measures on us. This short and imperfect sketch, contrasted with the picture of wretchedness that Europe presents, should teach us this useful lesson, to prefer the certain good we have to the uncertain promises of visionary theorists, which end in crimes and misery without measure or end.
Report of the committee from Monday 20th inst. 1 o'clock, P. M. to Monday 27th inst. 1 o'clock, P. M.
   Taken sick. Died.     From Monday to Tuesday, two, none.   Tuesday to Wednesday, five, none.   Wednesday to Thursday, five, two.   Thursday to Friday, three, three.   Friday to Saturday, four, two.   Saturday to Sunday, one, two.   Sunday to Monday, one, two.   Recovered since Friday last, one.   Monday, 1 o'clock—Seventeen persons in all sick of the fever, twelve of whom are recovering, and one only very dangerous.    JOHN GODDARD. For the Committee.
From the last report of the committee it appears, that the prevalence and malignity of the fever has, in some measure, abated; and among the many melancholy circumstances attending this alarming disorder, it is no small consolation to find that physicians and others, whose assistance has been, and still is so highly necessary, continue unremitted in their exertions for the relief and comfort of the sick and distressed; much credit in this respect is due to Doctor Castex, a French gentleman, resident in this town, whose readiness and assiduity have been truly exemplary.
ORDAINED —Rev. DANIEL STORY, Marietta, N. W. Territory.
On Wednesday last was ordained to the pastoral charge of the second church in York, the Rev. ISAAC BRIGGS. The public solemnities were opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Thompson, of Berwick, the father of the candidate preached a sermon suited to the occasion, from 2 Cor. xii. 14. "I seek not yours, but you." the Rev. Dr. Hemmenway of Wells, made the ordaining prayer. The Rev. Dr. Haven gave the charge, the Rev. Mr. Litchfield, the Right hand of Fellowship, and the Rev. Mr. Buckminster, the concluding prayer. A large concourse of people added to the solemnity of the transaction.
MARRIED —In this town, Mr. JOSEPH CLARKE, jr. to Miss EMMA AKERMAN. Mr. THADDEUS PERKINS, to Miss BETSEY DEVERSON.
DIED.
At Newbury-Port, Mr. Tristram Plummer, aged 44. On board the brig Nancy, commanded by Capt. Follet; Mr. Nathaniel Bowler, aged 22, son of Mrs. Jackson.
In this town, Mr. Johan Rindge, aged 60; Mr. Joseph Fitzgerald, aged 44; Mrs. Hannah Noble, aged 60; Miss Polly Noble, aged 35; Miss Eliza Noble, aged 25; Mrs. Comfort Melcher, relict of Mr. Edward Melcher, aged 26; Miss Sally Sheafe, aged 17; Mr. Mark Seavey, jr. aged 19; Mr. Clement March, aged 17; Master George Hill, aged 10; Master Samuel Fernald, jr. aged 9; a daughter of Capt. Mear; a child of Mr. Peter Babb; a child of Mr. William Bartlett; and a child of Mr. John White, deceased.
The Editor of the Gazette pledges himself, that there has not a single death happened in this town since Tuesday last, but what is mentioned above, from any disorder whatever; that the accounts published in the Gazette are always accurate, and may be relied on.
Messrs. Renard & Barbot
Respectfully inform the parents of the children who have attended their Dancing-School that they have thought it advisable to postpone the school for the present, they are in hopes of being able to open the same again in a short time, when they will give notice to the scholars. Portsmouth, August 24.
GROCERY STORE.
B. LEVERETT
Has just received and for sale at his Store, No. 1, Bow-Street, viz.
   FRENCH Brandy & Coffee, W. India Rum, Fresh Mosaic Rai-   Cherry ditto, 8 fins per box or retail, Red Port, Sherry, Ditto Malaga ditto   Lisbon and Madeira per cask or retail, Wines, Aux-Cayes Molasses, Cinnamon,   Surinam Cotton of Pepper, superior quality, New Rice, Ganges,   Superfine Flour, Black Currants, OAT MEAL, Figs, Hair Powder, Shell'd and unshell'd   Poland Starch, Almonds, Welsh's warranted Sweet-Oil per flask, Chocolate, Fresh Capers & An-   Hyson & Bohea Teas choicest, per bottle, of a superior quality, English Mustard per Philadelphia Loaf, 1 lb. or bottle,   East-India & brown Bakes Salt, Sugars, Scott's true liquid Blue for bluing silk   stockings, &c. Cuno's Spi blacking Balls for shoes and boots, an excellent preserv- ative to leather, and leaves a beautiful gloss.   Elliott's warranted Snuff per keg or retail, Warranted Pigtail Tobacco per role—ditto Fig; ladies small will do—Segars; Span-   ish Indigo.    Portsmouth, August 24.

THE BLACK COCKADE.
GIVE me the lad with black cockade, Who shews his firelock handy; And will not speak nor be afraid To give the French the dandy— Yankee doodle, doodle doo, Brimming fill our glasses; Fight for Father, Mam and Sue, Corn, and pork and ruffles. Nathan sung a duced song, About the British nation— As how they came, like wildcats strong, And threaten'd us starvation: But yankee doodle, doodle doo, We brimming fill'd our glasses, And fought for Father, Mam & Sue, And jaw'd corn, pork and ruffles. And now the Frenchmen want to eat Us out of house and home, Sir, By gings, we'll give them a full treat, When e'er they choose to come, Sir— Yankee doodle, &c. Jeremy Harrow won't he'd go To see Squire Acorn's Hitty— I gings, he'd slump thro' hail and snow, Because the looks so pretty. Yankee doodle, &c. And when he got up to the door, He heard a nation pother; The Squire he stamp'd upon the floor, And frighted Hitt and Mother— Yankee doodle, &c. Why, what the deuce I cry'd Jeremy— A flaring like fluck pig, Sir— To see the Squire to plaguy high, As if he'd burn his wig, Sir. Yankee doodle, &c. Quoth Squire, I've sped from gen'ral court, The French are all a coming— And neighbour Cornstock won't a-swear't, He heard the drums a drumming— Yankee doodle, &c. And I'm so glad I'll run for life, To tell our people 'bout it; So run and get a drum and fife— We'er ruin'd if we doubt it. Yankee doodle, &c. Away ran Jeremy as fast As ever he could break it— I'm sure he never made such haste, When playing at hide and seek it. Yankee doodle, &c. Until he got to Captain Starks, All to a sweat and puff— Soon Ensign Griggs and Corp'l Parks, Begun with guns to muffer— Yankee doodle, &c. The town was quickly up in arms, And at the tavern meeting, And left their shops, and tools, and farms, To give the French a beating. Yankee doodle, &c. And Capt. Starks came sword in hand, With courage stout and bold, Sir; He had three cheers from all his band, And honours manifold, Sir. Yankee doodle, &c. And then we swore, if French came here, To kill each mother's son, Sir, And had they to our town a-drawn near, The deed would have been done, Sir. Yankee doodle, &c. But tho' we'd not been told the truth, As we had got together; We all agreed both age and youth, To mind ne'er wind nor weather. Yankee doodle, &c. But for our liberties to fight, For laws and constitution— For Adams, property and right, With Yankee resolution. Yankee doodle, &c. So each on hat put black cockade, And swore we would stand by it; Of foreign power we're not afraid, But bodily defy it. Yankee doodle, &c.
New Goods. JUST OPENED BY Peter Coffin, A variety of Fancy and other GOODS, Among which are— BOOK, Jacquet, fringed, check'd, tam-bourd, japan and brocade Mullins, some sprig'd with colours; book mullin Handkerchiefs; mullin Shawls; colored silk Shawls; fancy satin Ribbons; fancy, black and color'd Feathers; spangled fancy Fans; Ladies kid and black morocco Slippers; men's beaver, Woodcock and buck Gloves; elastic, cotton and silk Slings; satin Stock Suffers; Embroidering and other Sewing Silks; Epaullets; Shoe Ties; Partes; gold and silver Thread; do. do. Cord; Parasols. Portsmouth, July 6, 1798.
FOR SALE BY John Salter, At his Store in Washington-Street; HEMP of the first quality per ton. Cordage per hundred, of different sizes. 7 by 9 and 8 by 10 Window-Glass per box. Glass Ware. Surnam Molasses per hogshead. Coffee per hundred or less, intended to the drawback. Portsmouth, Aug. 13, 1798. Razors ground in the best manner, by JOSHUA PIKE, at his shop lower end of Buck-Street. August 9, 1798. Books, Blanks and Stationary for sale at J. MELCHER'S Printing-Office and Book-Store, corner of Market-Street, Portsmouth.
Public notice is hereby given, THAT proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury for supplying the United States with a number not exceeding forty thousand stands of arms, on the following conditions: 1st. The arms shall be manufactured in the United States, conformable to the Charleville pattern; the barrels shall be proved, and the muskets inspected agreeable to the rules now practised and required by the United States:—the Locks shall be duly hardened; the Ramrods and Bayonets shall be tempered and the mountings, stocks, and every other particular shall be finished in a workman-like manner. 2d. The proposals must specify the number which the party is willing to furnish and the time or times of delivery—One fourth of the proposed number must be delivered in six months, one fourth in twelve months, and the remainder in eighteen months from the time of signing the contracts; the public will not be considered as bound to receive any arms, which are not ready for delivery within the times proposed. 3d. For every stand of arms, with Bayonet and Ramrod complete as aforesaid, the United States will allow thirteen dollars and forty cents. 4th. When practicable and consistent with existing arrangements, seasoned stocks will be delivered from the public stores in Philadelphia to contractors, at the rate of twenty-five cents each. 5th. The arms will be received in the respective states at places to be hereafter designated—The United States shall not be bound to prove less than five hundred barrels at one time, unless the barrels are transported to some public factory or deposit of arms, in which case any number not less than one hundred will be proved. 6th. The parties contracting will be required to give bonds with sureties for fulfilling their engagements; No money will be advanced unless indisputable testimonials of skill and ability to execute the proposed contracts are produced, nor in cases where proposals are made for a less number than one thousand stands of arms; the right of judging of the expediency of making the advances of money is absolutely reserved. 7th. Until contracts are made for supplying forty thousand stands of arms, the sum of thirteen dollars and forty cents will be paid at the Treasury for every complete stand of arms manufactured in the United States and which may be delivered in parcels of not less than twenty into the public arsenals, already or hereafter to be established. Those who propose to deliver arms must however indicate their intentions seasonably to the office of the Secretary of the Treasury. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury. Treasury Department, June 22d, 1798. N. B. The proposals are to be transmitted under cover to the Secretary of the Treasury at Philadelphia. [1st S.]
Treasury Department, June 27, 1798. NOTICE is hereby given, That by virtue of an act, passed during the present session of Congress, so much of the act entitled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt" passed the third day of March, 1795, as bars from settlement or allowance. Certificates, commonly called Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, and Indents of Interests, is suspended until the 18th day of June, which will be in the year 1799. That on the liquidation and settlement of the said Certificates, and Indents of Interest, at the Treasury, the Creditors will be entitled to receive Certificates of funded Three Per Cent. Stock equal to the amount of the said Indents, and the arrearages of interest due on the said Certificates, prior to the first day of January, 1791. That the principal sums of the said Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, with the interest thereon, since the 1st day of January, 1791, will be discharged after liquidation at the Treasury, by the payment of interest and reimbursement of principal, equal to the sums which would have been payable thereon, if the said Certificates had been subscribed, pursuant to the Act making provision for the debts of the United States, contracted during the late war, and by the payment of other sums, equal to the market value of the remaining Stock, which would have been created by such subscriptions as aforesaid, which market value will be determined by the Comptroller of the Treasury. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury. June 28. [6 m.] THE Fellows of the New-Hampshire Medical Society, are notified that the meeting of the Society stands adjourned to the first Wednesday in September next, to meet at Chester at the house of JOHN S. DEARBORN, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon; 'tis expected most of the Fellows will punctually attend. Per order of the PRESIDENT, LEVI BARTLETT, Reg'd Sec'y. Exeter, May 16, 1798. The Editor of the Dartmouth Eagle is desired to insert this three weeks prior to said meeting.
Office of Inspection Portsmouth, Aug. 11th, 1798. NOTICE is hereby given, that for the accommodation of Retailers of Wines and of foreign distilled spirituous liquors, and of owners of carriages for the conveyance of persons, attendance will be given at Exeter, at Mr. Lamson's tavern, on Monday the 17th day of September next; At Chester at Mr. Bell's tavern, on Tuesday afternoon, the 18th of the same instant; At Londonderry at Mr. Thom's tavern, on Wednesday forenoon, the 19th of the same instant; At Concord at Mr. Stickney's tavern on Thursday afternoon, the 20th of the same instant; At Epsom at Mr. M'Clary's tavern, on Friday afternoon, the 21st of the same instant; at Nottingham at Mr. Butler's tavern, on Saturday forenoon, the 22d of the same instant—and at the Office of Inspection, Market-Street, Portsmouth, at all office hours, other than the above week—at which times and places entries may be made of carriages, and applications made by, and licenses issued to retailers. The owners of carriages are requested to take notice, that the time limited by law for the annual entries of carriages, expires annually in the month of September. For the further information of those concerned, the following extracts from the Laws of the United States are subjoined. Samuel Elliot, Collector of the Revenue in the first division in the District of New-Hampshire.
An Act laying duties on Carriages for the conveyance of persons and repealing the former Act for that purpose. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That any and all persons, who shall commence the having or keeping of any carriages, subject to duties, after the month of September, and before the month of Sept. in the next succeeding year, shall and may, at any time during the month in which they shall so commence the having or keeping of such carriage, make like entry, in manner before prescribed; and on payment of such proportion of the duties laid by this act, on such carriage, as the time, at which he shall commence the keeping of such carriage, to the end of the month of Sept. then next ensuing, shall bear to the whole year, shall be entitled to, and may demand like certificates, subject, nevertheless to the conditions before and hereinafter provided. An Act laying duties on Licenses for selling Wines and foreign distilled Spirituous Liquors by retail. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person, who shall deal in the selling of wines, to be carried or sent out of the house, building or place of his or her dwelling, in a less quantity, or in less quantities, at one time, than thirty gallons, except in the original cask, case, box or package, wherein the same shall have been imported, shall be deemed to be, and hereby is declared to be, a retail-dealer in wines, within the meaning of this act; and that every person, who shall deal in the selling of any foreign distilled spirituous liquors, to be carried or sent out of the house, building or place of his or her dwelling, in less quantities than twenty gallons, at one time, shall be deemed to be, and hereby is declared to be a retail-dealer in foreign distilled spirituous liquors: Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to persons, who, as keepers of taverns, inns, or houses of entertainment, duly licensed or authorized under any law of a state, shall vend or sell really and truly for consumption, within the houses, buildings or premises, only, by them respectively occupied or kept, as taverns, inns, or other houses of entertainment, wines or distilled spirituous liquors, in whatsoever quantity, nor to physicians, apothecaries, surgeons or chemists, as to any wines or spirituous liquors, which they may use in the preparation or making up of medicines, for sick, lame or diseased persons only. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person who on the 30th day of Sept. next, shall be a retail-dealer in wines, or foreign distilled spirituous liquors, as above described and defined, both, or either of them, shall before the said day, and every person, who after the said day, shall become, or intend to become such retail-dealer in wines or foreign distilled spirituous liquors, both or either of them shall, before he or she shall begin to vend, or sell, by retail, any wine or wines, or foreign distilled spirituous liquors, apply for and obtain, in manner herein after directed, a license for carrying on the business of retailing wines or foreign distilled spirituous liquors, as the case may be, that is to say, one license for carrying on the business of retailing wines, and another license for carrying on the business of retailing foreign distilled spirituous liquors, which licenses respectively, shall be granted for the term of one year upon the payment of five dollars for each license; and shall be renewed yearly, upon the payment of the like sum of five dollars for each license. And if any person shall, after the said day, deal in the selling of wines or foreign distilled spirituous liquors, by retail as above described and defined, without having a license therefor, as aforesaid, continuing in force, such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit. And no such license shall be sufficient for the selling of wines, or foreign distilled spirituous liquors, by retail at more than one place; but any person, who by colour of such license shall sell any wines or foreign distilled spirituous liquors, at more than one place, shall be deemed to be, in respect to such of the said articles, as he or she shall so sell at more than one place, a retail-dealer therein without license, and shall forfeit and pay the like sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit.
Dartmouth-College LOTTERY. Class Fifth. THE Managers of Dartmouth-College Lottery, to accomplish, as far as possible, the design of the Lottery, are again induced to solicit the patronage of the friends of Literature, and request the attention of the enterprising, to the chance exhibited in the following SCHEME.
Table with 3 columns: Prizes, Dollars, Dollars. It lists various prize amounts and their corresponding dollar values, such as 1 of 2000 is 2000, 1 of 1000 is 1000, etc.
6000 Tickets at 4 dollars, are 24,000 Subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 per cent. The Prize of 1000 Dollars will be placed to the last drawn Blank. The drawing will commence at Concord, on Thursday the 22d day of November next; and when completed a List of Prizes will be immediately published, and the Prizes paid on demand. JONA. FREEMAN, MICHAEL M'CLARY, WILLIAM A. KENT, Managers. June 19th, 1798. PUBLIC notice is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of lands in the township of Franconia, in said county, who have not paid their tax of three cents the acre, granted by the said court of said State at their session held in June 1796, on all the lands in said Franconia, public rights excepted, for the purpose of making and repairing roads and bridges in said town; that unless they pay said tax with incidental charges to me the subscriber at Franconia aforesaid, on or before the 23d day of October next, so much of each delinquent's lands will be sold at public vendue, to the highest bidder at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on said 23d day of October, at the dwelling house of Mr. Zebadiah Applebee in said Franconia, as will pay said tax and costs. George Gardner, 256 acres, 7 dolls, 68 cts. William Claggett, 41 1 23 Daniel Hopkins, 256 7 68 Jacob Wendell, 256 7 68 Francis Barnard, 256 7 68 William Brattle, 256 7 68 Joseph Penchen, 256 7 68 Oxnbridge Thatcher, 256 7 68 Nathan Blodget, 256 7 68 Caleb Blodget, 256 7 68 William Blodget, 256 7 68 Fitch Pool, 256 7 68 Isaac Willard, 256 7 68 Samuel D. Searl, 256 7 68 Thomas Starr, 256 7 68 Zephaniah Platt, 256 7 68 William Mitchell, 256 7 68 Governor's right, 500 15 Justice Wheeler, 256 7 68 Called & known by the name of Verbach farm, 120 3 60 Maj. Richardson, farm, 100 3 Welch, farm, 100 3 Ephraim Edwards, pitch, 160 4 80 Watson, lot, 160 4 80 Capt. Dutton, mill f. m., 200 6 William Wallace, pitch, 160 4 80 David Sly, pitch, 100 3 Micah Wallace, farm, 27 0 81 David Wallace, 160 4 80 Caleb Baker, 160 4 80 CALEB BAKER, Collector. Franconia, August 9, 1798. To the honorable the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, to be held at Hopkinton within and for the county of Hillsborough, in the State of New-Hampshire, on the first Tuesday of May next; humbly represents SALLY PATCH of Francestown, in said county, that in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, she was lawfully married to one Thomas Patch, late of Francestown aforesaid, yeoman, and that in the month of January, A. D. 1797, the said Thomas absented himself from your petitioner and since that time hath not returned nor made any provision for the subsistence of your petitioner and her children, but has committed adultery and has married and cohabits with another woman, wherefore your petitioner prays that the bonds of matrimony betwixt her and the said Thomas Patch may be dissolved. SALLY PATCH. April 20, 1798. Hillsborough ff. Superior Court, May term, 1798. Ordered by the Court, that the said Sally Patch notify the said Thomas Patch, to appear before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, to be held at Amherst within and for the county of Hillsborough, on the first Tuesday of October next, to show cause (if any he hath) why the prayer of said petitioner should not be granted, by causing said petition and order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, the last publication whereof to be six weeks before said term. Attest, NATHAN ADAMS, Clerk. Copy examined by NATHAN ADAMS, Clerk.
An Emetic for Jacobins! Just Published By J. Melcher, AND FOR SALE At his Printing-Office and Book-Store, corner of Market and Congress-Streets, PORTSMOUTH. Price only 10 cents single—7 for half a dollar—and five dollars per hundred. THE Cannibal's Progress, Or the dreadful horrors of French Invasion, As displayed by the Republican officers and soldiers, in their pettish, rapacity, ferociousness & brutality, exercised towards the innocent inhabitants of Germany. Translated from the German, By ANTHONY AUFERER, Esquire. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. Psalm. They say; come, let us lay wait for blood, we shall find all precious substance; we shall fill our houses with spoil. Prov. [This work contains a circumstantial account of the excesses committed by the French army in Suabia, in 1796. At the present period, when our own country is in danger of being overrun by the same nation, our people ought to be prepared for those things, which they must expect, in case such an event should happen. The pamphlet should be owned by every man, and read in every family. They will there find, from an authentic source, that the consequences of being conquered by France, or even subjected to their government are more dreadful than the heart of man can conceive. Murder, robbery, burning of towns, and the violation of female chastity, in forms so dreadful to relate, in instances too numerous to be recounted, are among them. Five thousand copies of this work were sold in Philadelphia, in a few days, and another edition of ten thousand is now in the press in that city. One large edition at Hartford and another at Newbury-Port have been printed and sold very rapidly.] July 31.
REMOVED. William Stanwood, jr. Has removed to the Store next to the Printing-Office, Market-Street, Where he now has a fresh supply of European GOODS, Suitable for the present and approaching season, selling very cheap for cash. ALSO A new assortment of English and American Paper Hangings, From 2f. to 9f. per roll, Portsmouth, August 6, 1798. Philadelphia, June 30th, 1798. Public notice is hereby given, PURSUANT to the act of Congress, passed on the 19th day of June 1798 entitled, "an act respecting Loan Office and final settlement certificates. Indents of interest, and the unfunded or registered debt credited in the books of the Treasury." 1st. That on the application of the creditors respectively, or their legal attorneys at any time after the last day of December in the present year, the principal sums of the unfunded or registered debt of the United States credited on the books of the treasury, or commissioners of Loans will be reimbursed at the treasury of the United States. 2d. That interest upon the unfunded or registered debts aforesaid will cease from and after the last day of December in the present year. 3d. That the creditors respectively will be entitled on requisition to receive from the proper officers of the treasury, certificates of funded three per cent stock, equal to the arrearages of interest due on the debts aforesaid prior to the 1st day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. By order of the Board of Commissioners, of the Sinking Fund. EDWARD JONES, Secretary.
ALL persons indebted to, or who have demands against the estate of ANNA JOHNSON, late of Epping, deceased, are desired to exhibit them for settlement to the subscriber, administrator on said estate. DAVID LAWRENCE MORRILL. Epsom, July 30, 1798. WHO HAS FOR SALE, Within twenty rods of Epsom Meeting-House; three quarters of an acre of Land, on which is a beautiful garden spot, a small House and Barn, decently finished. THE subscriber being determined to collect his debts due for newspapers, takes this early opportunity to give notice that his semi-annual bills will be ready, and presented for settlement, before the first of October next; he flatters himself that many will attend without delay; and to those who have heretofore been neglected he would observe, that their accounts will immediately be put out of his hands, unless prevented by payment. OZIAS SILSBY. Portsmouth, Aug. 14, 1798. N. B. Dr. LEE's true BILIOUS PILLS, sold by Ozias Silsby, at Chester. ALL persons that are indebted by notes or accounts to the subscriber, are requested to call and settle the same on or before the first day of October next; otherwise their notes and accounts will be put in suit without further notice. JOSIAH FOLSOM. Portsmouth, Aug. 5, '98.