The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1806-02-11 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE
[No. 10.]
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1806.
[Vol. II.]
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY PIERCE & GARDNER, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
GENTEE BOARDING.
Moses Woodward,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends that he has opened a BOARDING HOUSE in Broad-street, opposite the Post Office, where a small number of gentlemen may be very genteely accommodated. Those that are pleased to favour him with their company, he ventures to assure them they shall meet with ample satisfaction. He also keeps Stabling for HORSES, and the best of Hay.
Portsmouth, February 4, 1806.
Moses Coppis,
RESPECTFULLY informs the inhabitants of Portsmouth and the public in general, that he has opened a SHOE STORE in Buck-street, where he keeps constantly for sale a general assortment of Gentlemen's Boots & Shoes; Also—Ladies and Children's morocco, kid and leather SHOES of all kinds, as cheap as can be purchased in this town. Portsmouth, February 4, 1806.
CHEAP FRESH GOODS.
Henderson & Cooper,
Inform their Friends and the Public, that they have just opened a complete assortment of the latest imported
FALL & WINTER
GOODS,
VIZ.
LONDON Superfine black and blue Broad Cloths, middling and low priced blue, brown, black and mixed do. Cassimeres; fine drab, mix'd and dark palet Coats; drab, brown and dark Coatings, Fearnoughts, Forest Cloths, Kerseys, Serges; green, yellow, white, crimson & blk. Baizes & Flannels, blk. & color'd Wild-bores, Durants, Tammies, Shalloons, Ruffles, Moreens, Calimancoes, Satinets, Florentines.
Elegant black and figured Velvet Vesting, plain, black, silk Velvet, patent Vesting, Swansdowns, Merleilles Quiltings.
Patent worsted Velveteen Velvets; Thicketts, Corduroys, men's nine thread black worsted Hose, men's and women's white and black silk Hose, women's and misses fine cotton Hose, women's black white lace and pic nic Gloves and Mitts, women's long and habit worsted and cotton Gloves, men's cotton velveted Gloves, men's indigo and best pricked seam Gloves, buff, yellow and York tan ditto, men's green and scarlet worsted caps.
Leopard spot, pink, blue, dark and Lt. blue, chocolate and green Calicoes, Furniture Chintzes, Lt. blue, pink & plumbe colored, black and brown Sainet Cambrics.
Salmon, Lt. blue, mix'd and dark cotton and silk Chambray Mullins, Lace Cambrics, book, jacquet and piquet Mullins, gentlemen's fine Mullin Handkerchiefs, black, white and color'd camel's hair Shawls, cambric and silk Shawls, linen, cotton, bandanoe and black silk Handkerchiefs.
Black, slate and Plumb colored Florence Silks, blk. Bombazens, India black Satins, blk. Lustring, blk. Crapes, black Cypress and black silk Shawls, black long and short kid Gloves, black and colored silk Gloves, Gauzes, Modes, Cypress. A large assortment of
Elegant black, Genet and mock Sable Muffs and Tippets, very nice silk Umbrellas, cotton Umbrellas, Parapets, men's Hats
Irish Linens, Brown Hollands, India and English Checks, India Cottons, some very cheap, Madrass long Cloths, Gilla Handkerchiefs, Oil Cloth.
One bale of very low priced Blankets, consisting of 6 4, 7 4, 8 4, 9 4, and 10 4. October 22.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT the subscriber has been duly appointed by the Hon. Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, guardian of NATHANIEL WIGGIN, of Epsom, adjudged and determined to be non compos mentis; and has accepted of the trust and given bonds as the law directs. All persons are hereby warned against making any bargain with the said Nathaniel Wiggin, as all such would be null and void; and against giving him credit, as no debts he may contract will be recoverable or paid. All persons that may be indebted to him, are notified to make payment to the subscriber; and all having any just demands against his estate, to exhibit them. BENJAMIN WIGGIN. Epsom, February 1, 1806.
TAKE NOTICE.
State of New-Hampshire—
Rockingham, ss.
To be sold at Public Auction , by virtue of a licence from the Hon. Nathaniel Rogers, Esq. judge of Probate of wills in and for said county of Rockingham, at the late dwelling house of Ezra French, late of Epping, in said county, deceased, on Monday the 24th day of February, A.D. 1806. at 1 o'clock P.M.;
SO much of the real Estate of said deceased, as will amount to one hundred and seventy dollars, with incidental charges. Conditions of sale made known at time and place. JAMES FRENCH, Administrator. Epping, Jan. 21, 1806.
Edw'd Parry,
Inform his friends and customers that he has imported by the late arrivals from England, direct from the Manufacturers, a complete assortment of
FALL & WINTER
GOODS,
which are now offered for sale at his OLD & ORIGINAL CHEAP Cash Store, No. 10, Market-street— Among which are
15 ps. superfine black, blue, mix'd, brown and drab Broad Cloths, (made particularly for the London market.)
20 pieces fashionable low priced and common Broad Cloths, from 7/6, to 30/ per yard.
15 ps. fashionable Coatings & Duffils.
20 ps. blue and drab Forest Cloths.
6 ps. of the best old fashion Devonshire Kerseys.
20 ps. colored Serges.
500 yards fashionable Vesting.
100 ps. assorted Baizes and Flannels, very cheap.
100 ps. best double mill'd Rose Blankets.
10,000 yards fashionable Chintzes and printed Cambricks, from 20 cts. to 100 cents per yard.
5000 yds. black, plumb, lead and other fashionable colored farinet Cambric Mullins.
2000 yds. fashionable plain white cambric colonade & sprig'd Mullins.
1000 yds. Dimities and Mullinets.
400 color'd and plain Mullin Shawls, from 1/6 to 8 dollars.
300 Camels hair Shawls of all colors and sizes.
450 purple chintz and cotton pocket Handkerchiefs.
2000 yds. of the best Colrain Irish Linens.
3000 yds. India Cotton & Shirtings.
350 yds. Diapers, 200 assorted Table Cloths.
30 dozen worsted & cotton Stockings.
4 doz. elegant Silk Stockings.
20 doz. assorted cotton & silk Gloves.
50 ps. black, blue, green and purple Durants.
40 ps. Calimancoes and Ruffles.
200 MUFFS AND TIPPETS warranted good.
100 yds. Silk Shag, of all colors.
100 yds. cotton silk Velvet.
300 yds. black & olive Cotton Velvets.
100 yds. patent worsted Cord.
400 yds. English India Satins and Bombareens.
500 yds. black and color'd Modes.
20 doz. best London made Hats.
10 doz. Straw Bonnets.
40 doz. white and color'd Threads.
3000 yds. white and black Laces and Edgings.
The above, with every other article usually kept in his line, will be sold as cheap by wholesale and retail, as at any store in New-England—(notwithstanding the cheap and the cheapest new cash stores in this town and elsewhere.)
** Cash advanced for good TOW-CLOTH. Portsmouth, Nov. 12, 1805.
TO LET,
FOUR Chambers, with a privilege in Kitchen and cellar, and will accommodate two small families. Enquire of the Printers. Feb. 4.
LOST—
NEAR the Spring in Portsmouth, a silver cased WATCH; whoever has found one and will apply to Davenport's inn, may there is a particular description of the one lost, and be rewarded for finding, by J. DAVENPORT. January 28.
No deduction from Prizes.
The Amoskeag Canal Lottery, commences drawing the 17th of next month, and consists of the following Prizes, (subject to no deduction,) viz.    1 of 8000 Dollars.   1 " 2000   2 " 1000   4 " 500   25 " 100   41 " 50   120 " 20 and   3150 " " 
TICKETS in the above Lottery, for sale at Five Dollars each—by
S. LARKIN.
Prize Tickets in Piscataqua Bridge Lottery taken in payment. Feb. 4.
For Sale by
Ebenezer Thompson,
Bow-street,
30 Chests and 12 half chests Souchong TEA, of the latest importation; few Bbls. SUGAR; 10 Hhds. St. Vincents RUM; 20 do. MOLASSES; GIN pr Pipe or Bbl. Gin cases; Cod and Pollock FISH; Bonavista SALT; Russia Old Sable IRON; Few kegs Fig TOBACCO; 150 Bbls. No. 1 & 2 BEEF; General assortment
CROCKERY-WARE, among which, are some elegant Gold and White TEA SETTS. Feb. 4.
Now landing from Schooner Dove, and for sale by
ELISHA HILL, JR.
2100 bushels of CORN of a good quality, and will be sold cheap out of the vessel
In Store,
RUM, Molasses, Beef, Pork, Tongues, and tubs of Beef, Mould Candles, Cordage, Tar, &c. Portsmouth Feb. 4, 1806.
FOR SALE,
60,000 feet Lumber;
inquire of SAM'L BOARDMAN, at Ringge's Wharf.
Portsmouth, Feb. 4, 1806.
LIME.—For sale by
EBEN'R. THOMPSON,
Thomastown & Novascotia LIME. Portsmouth Feb. 4, 1805.
TO LET,
A Three story Ware-House at the head of the Pier, apply to JOHN LANGDON, jr. Langdon's Wharf, Feb. 4, 1806.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE—
Grafton, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Lands in the town of DORCHESTER, who have not paid their town, county, highway, and school taxes for the year 1805, that so much of their Lands as will pay said taxes together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of Joseph Burley, Esq. in said Dorchester, on the last Thursday of March next, at ten o'clock A. M. unless prevented by previous payment.
   Original Proprietors Names No. of Acres Town tax County tax Highway tax School tax     John Hurd, Esq. 1139 75 7 19 15   John P. Williams 17 100 15 9 42   2107 100 15 3 42   3222 100 15 3 42   Robert L. Fowl 2109 100 15 3 42   Joseph Sherburne 149 73 10 2 28   2116 100 10 2 28   Jacob Maston 3403 100 10 2 28   M. H. Wentworth 3231 25 2 7 54   James Melcher 3219 25 2 7 54   Paul Langdon 3225 80 18 2 49   Isaac Williams 119 100 20 4 56   Henry Sherburne 2189 70 7 1 19   Thomas Floyd 1 3 100 15 3 42   Benjamer Sallar 3184 100 10 2 28   THOMAS NOYES, Collector. Dorchester, Jan'y 21, 1806.  
NOTICE.
ALL persons having demands on the estate of ISAAC RINDGE, late of Portsmouth, Esquire, deceased, are desired to exhibit them to the subscriber for settlement, and all those who are indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment unto SAMUEL PEARSE, Executor. Portsmouth, Jan. 21, 1806. 6w.
National Legislature.
Ninth Congress—First Session.
IN SENATE—MONDAY, JAN. 20.
Agreeably to notice given on 16th instant, Mr. Wright, asked and obtained leave to bring in the following bill, which was read and passed to a second reading. A BILL, For the protection and indemnification of American Seamen.
WHEREAS, by the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, made between his Britannic Majesty and the United States, at London, on the nineteenth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, by the first article of said treaty, it is agreed, "That there shall be a firm, inviolable and universal peace, and a true and sincere friendship between his Britannic Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the United States of America, and between their respective countries, territories, cities, towns, and people of every degree, without exception of persons or places." And whereas, in direct violation of said treaty, his Britannic Majesty has caused to be impressed out of the ships of the United States, sailing on the high seas, divers citizens of said United States; and has compelled them to serve on board the ships of war of his said Britannic Majesty, in violation of their liberty, and at the hazard of their lives; and in despite of the remonstrances of the government of said United States, continues said unjust practice; and the seamen of the United States so impressed, by force, retains in his service. And whereas, the United States are solemnly bound to protect all those who are bound in allegiance to said United States—Therefore,
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the day of
next, any person or persons who shall impress any seamen on board any vessel bearing the flag of the United States, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, under pretext or color of a commission from any foreign power, shall for every such offence be adjudged a pirate and felon; and on conviction shall suffer death. And the trial in any such case may be had where the offender is apprehended or may be first brought.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any American seamen, sailing under the flag of the United States, on any person or persons attempting to impress him by force, from on board any vessel of the United States, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, to repel such force by shooting, or otherwise killing and destroying the person or persons so attempting to impress him, and shall, as an encouragement to resist, be entitled to a bounty of two hundred dollars, to be paid to him or his order or legal representatives out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That on information being given to the President of the United States, proving satisfactorily to him, that any citizen of the United States, who shall have been impressed or forced by violence or threats, to enter on board any foreign vessel, shall suffer death, or any other corporal punishment by the authority of such foreign power; it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, to cause the most rigorous and exact retaliation on any subjects of that government, whom he is hereby authorised to seize and take for that purpose.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That every American seamen, heretofore or hereafter impressed and compelled to serve on board any foreign ship or vessel, shall be entitled to receive as an indemnification for his slavery and hardship, on board the ship in which he has been, or shall be compelled to serve from the day of his impressment, the sum of sixty dollars per month, for every month he has or shall serve, on board said ship or ships; and that the said seamen, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, shall be entitled to recover the same in the district court of the state in which the port lies, from which the vessel cleared, for the voyage in which he was taken, by attachment of any private debt due from any citizen of the United States, to any subject of that government, by whose subjects he had been
impressed; and that any sum of money so attached out of the hands of any debtor, shall be a payment of so much of said debt, and may be pleaded in payment or discount to the amount of the said sum so attached, and all the costs of said attachment, which shall be allowed as a payment of that amount in any suit for said debt. And that so much of the treaty of London, of the nineteenth of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, as secures the inviolability of such debts as will be infringed by the attachments or recoveries, hereby authorised, shall not (so far as is necessary in the execution of this act only) be regarded as legally obligatory on the government or citizens of the United States.
Jan. 22.—A bill for classing the militia, and assigning to each class its particular duties.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every free able bodied white male citizen of the United States, of the age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five, whose principal occupation is not on the high seas, or the tide waters within the United States, shall be of the militia for the land service of the United States. The persons so to constitute the land militia, shall be enrolled by their names and ages, in their proper districts, and in books kept for that purpose; such enrollment to be made without delay of those now within the description, and from time to time as to others who shall hereafter become so, always noting the date of the enrollment, and placing in a distinct page, or part of the book, those of every different year of age, from forty-five down to eighteen.
The said militia shall be distributed into classes as follows, to wit:—the junior class shall be composed of those above twenty one, and under twenty six years of age; the middle class, of those above twenty six, and under thirty five years of age; the senior class, of those above thirty five, and under forty five years of age; and those above eighteen, and under twenty one years of age shall compose the minor class.
The junior class shall be liable to perform all actual services within the United States, or the countries next adjacent, by tours of duty, not to exceed one year in any two; and in order that the said services may be required of them equally, those of every battalion shall, by its commanding officer, be immediately divided by lot into ten parts, or portions, as nearly equal as may be; each portion to be distinguished by its particular number from one to ten, and to be called into duty in the order of their numbers, such call extending to so many numbers as the exigency may require; and every person so called on, may be assigned to the service of the artillery, infantry, cavalry, or of any other description, as the competent authority shall direct.
In consideration of the arduous discipline required from the junior class, and of the services they shall have performed, or been liable to perform while in it, they shall never after passing into the middle class be liable to actual service, but where the junior class for the time being is inadequate to the exigency; and then in their own or one of the adjoining states only, and by tours not exceeding three months in any year; for which purpose they shall be distributed into portions and numbers, and called on in routine, as is provided in the case of the junior class.
The senior and minor classes shall be liable to be called on to do duty within their own state only, and by tours not exceeding three months in any year, and they shall be separately distributed into portions and numbers, and called on in routine, as provided for the other classes.
Exemptions from militia duty, except in cases of religious scruple against bearing arms, shall only extend to the ordinary duties of mustering and disciplining, after having entered the middle or senior class, but all exemptions shall be enrolled in their classes and numbers, and when called on for actual military service, shall be bound as others are to perform their due tours.
If any person called on to do the actual duties of his class, shall refuse, or

unnecessarily delay to enter on duty, he shall be arrested as a deserter either by the civil or military authority, shall be delivered to the proper military officer and either punished as a deserter, or compelled to perform his tour of duty. But any person so called on, may commute his personal service, by tendering as a substitute, an able bodied white man, a citizen of the United States, fit for the service in the judgment of the officer who is to command him, and willing to engage therein. And all persons while engaged in performing a tour of duty, shall have the pay and rations allowed in the army of the United States, and be subject to the rules, regulations, and articles provided for the government of the same.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That all provisions in any law of the United States, of any particular state or territory, inconsistent with those of this act, are hereby repealed: and all provisions in the laws of the United States or of any particular state or territory inconsistent herewith shall be understood to be left in force, and liable to alteration by their respective enacting authorities.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, JAN. 20. Mr. Olin laid before the house sundry resolutions relative to the amendment to the constitution of the United States proposed by the state of North Carolina, for prohibiting the importation of slaves into the U. S.—These resolutions direct the Senators and request the Representatives of Vermont to aid the proposition and adoption of such amendment to the constitution, as shall tend effectually to prohibit the further importation of slaves. Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Stanton offered the following resolution: Resolved , That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the House a general return of all and singular the warlike stores, the property of the U. S. within the same, comprehending ordnance for garrison and for floating batteries, of iron and brass, from a 42 pounder to canister, grape, &c. with carriages and implements, describing the condition of the same, whether fit or unfit for service, noting the place of deposit, and under whose direction; mortars, howitzers, beds and travelling carriages of different calibres from nine to two pounders, with crioliers, boxes, timbrils, ammunition, waggons with harness, noting where situated or deposited; shot, shells, grape and canister attached to the different calibres, as above, ammunition and composition of powder in magazines, arsenals, and gun houses. Ordered, that the resolution lie on the table.
On motion of Mr. Nicholson, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole—Mr. Varnum in the chair—on a bill making an additional appropriation to supply the deficiency in the appropriation for the naval service during the year 1805.
The chairman having read over the bill, Mr. Nicholson moved to fill the blank with the sum of 350,000 dollars, remarking that this sum, added to that already appropriated, amounted to 500,000 dollars, which constituted the entire deficiency for the last year. This motion was agreed to without debate—Ayes 73.
The committee rose and reported their agreement to the bill with the above amendment, which the house immediately took into consideration and agreed to and ordered the bill to be engrossed for a third reading.
Mr. Jackson, after a few preliminary remarks offered the following resolution, which was agreed to— Resolved , That the committee on the public lands be instructed to enquire into the expediency of providing by law for the legal adjudication of claims set up by persons in virtue of purchases or transfers from the U. States, previous to the emancipation of grants under their authority.
Mr. Lieb called for the order of the day on the bill to extend the time for taking the oath, and giving bond in cases of drawback, and for other purposes—Agreed to. After considerable discussion the committee rose, and the bill was recommitted to the committee of commerce and manufactures.
An engrossed bill making an additional appropriation to supply the deficiency in the appropriation for the naval service during the year 1805, was read a third time and passed.
Mr. Sloan renewed his call for the order of the day on the resolution offered by him, imposing a tax of ten per cent. on every slave imported into the United States.
Mr. D. R. Williams moved that the committee of the whole should be discharged for the purpose of committing the resolution to the committee of ways and means.
The question was first taken on Mr. Sloan's motion—Ayes 49—Noes 32; when the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Dawson in the chair, on the said resolution.
Mr. Sloan spoke in favor of the resolution. Mr. Dana moved to amend it by substituting persons in the room of slaves.
This amendment was supported by Mr. Clark. Mr. Marion spoke against, and Mr. Southard in favor of the resolution. Messrs. Dana and Allison advocated the amendment—Messrs. Smilie and Fisk supported the resolution and opposed the amendment.—When the committee rose reported proceedings, and obtained leave to sit again.
TUESDAY, JAN. 21. The House again went into committee of the whole on Mr. Sloan's resolution for imposing a tax of ten dollars upon every slave imported into the United States. Mr. Clarke spoke in favor of the amendment offered by Mr. Dana. Mr. Sloan opposed it. Mr. Dana replied. Mr. Allison advocated the amendment. Mr. Macon spoke against the resolution. Mr. Nelson and Mr. Southard spoke in favor of the resolution. When the question was taken on Mr. Dana's amendment, and passed in the negative—Ayes 32.
Mr. Early and Bedinger then spoke against the resolution, and Mr. Broom and
Mr. Sloan in favor of it: when the committee rose about 4 o'clock without having taken the question, and obtained leave to sit again.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22. After a few explanatory remarks, the object of which was to show the necessity of uniformity in certain judicial proceedings of the states, Mr. Bidwell offered the following resolution:
Resolved , That a committee be appointed to consider whether any, and if any, what further provision ought to be made by law for prescribing the manner in which the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of the respective states shall be proved, and the effect thereof; and that they have leave to report by bill or otherwise.
The House again went into committee of the whole—Mr. Dawson in the chair—on the resolution of Mr. Sloan, for imposing a tax of ten dollars on every slave imported into the United States.
When after a long debate, the resolution was agreed to—Ayes 70.
The committee rose and reported their agreement to the resolution.
The House immediately took it into consideration; and after some further debate, concurred in the report—Ayes 90—Noes 25—when the resolution thus agreed to was referred to a committee of three members to bring in a bill.
THURSDAY, JAN. 23. The House resolved into a committee of the whole, Mr. J. C. Smith in the chair, on the bill authorizing a detachment of the militia of the United States. Several blanks in the bill were filled up, one authorizing the President of the U. S. to accept as part of the detachment any corps of volunteers who shall engage to continue in service six months after arriving at the place of rendezvous, and another appropriating two millions of dollars for the pay and subsistence of such part of the detachment as may be called into service. When the committee rose and reported the bill with these amendments, in which the house concurred.
Mr. Dana moved to amend the first section by striking out the following words, in italics, relative to the proportions of the detachment to be called from the respective states; "to be apportioned by the President of the U. S. by the militia returns of the last year, in cases where such returns were made, and in cases where such returns were not made the last year, by such other data as he shall judge equitable," and by substituting in lieu thereof the words, "according to the last census."
Mr. Varnum stated several reasons against this amendment.
Mr. Dana withdrew his amendment, and moved a modification of it; which he also withdrew on an explanation made by Mr. Varnum—When the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Monday.
FRIDAY, JAN. 24. The House took into consideration the report of the committee of the whole on the bill to extend in certain cases the jurisdiction of state judges and state courts, and after amending, ordered it to be engrossed for a third reading.
Mr. Early, after some preliminary remarks, offered the following resolutions:
Resolved , That the President of the United States cause to be laid before this House any information which may be in possession of the executive department, relative to the state and condition of the fortifications which may have been erected within the several ports and harbors of the United States; and also the amount of monies which has been expended on each, as well as the probable expense of completing the same; and also any information of which said department may be possessed relative to the practicability of defending by land batteries, such ports and harbors, as have, by any former law, been directed to be fortified.
Resolved , That the President cause to be laid before this House a statement exhibiting the amount of money which has been disbursed on account of the navy in each year, since its establishment, and stating particularly the cost of each frigate.
On which a short debate ensued; in which Messrs. Early, Dana, J. C. Smith, D. R. Williams, and Dawson took a part; when the question was taken on the resolution, the first of which was agreed to—Ayes 88—with the following modification, viz. to add after the words within the United States , "and the territories thereof."
The second resolution was agreed to—Ayes 81—with the following modification, viz. the striking out the word frigate , and inserting in lieu thereof "armed ships or other vessels built or purchased on account of the United States," and by adding to the resolution, "and also the amount of monies that have been expended on each navy yard."
A committee of two members was then appointed to present the said resolutions to the President.
On motion of Mr. Elliot, the following resolution was agreed to without a division, after a few explanatory remarks from him:
Resolved , That the Secretary of the Navy be directed to lay before this House, estimates of the expense of repairing, and of the annual expense of manning and of supporting in actual service the whole of the frigates and smaller vessels of war belonging to the U. S.
On motion of Mr. Dawson, the House again resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the state of the union—Mr. Gregg in the chair.
The chairman having read the resolution appropriating 150,000 dollars for the better protection of our ports and harbors.
Mr. Conrad moved that the committee should rise, that the information which they had called for might be received before they acted on this business.
Mr. Smilie enforced this motion, which was agreed to—Ayes 52—Noes 45.
Mr. Gray offered the following resolution which was ordered to lie on the table.
Resolved , That any member of this House, who shall in future accept of, solicit, or enter into any contract for the expenditure of any money appropriated by law for the service of the U. S. shall, in consequence thereof, be disqualified from a seat in this House.
MONDAY, JAN. 27.
DETACHED MILITIA. The bill authorizing a Detachment of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND Mi-
litia, and appropriating Two Millions of dollars for their pay and subsistence, was read a third time, and passed by a large majority. The opponents of the bill were Messrs. Talmadge, Quinn, Davis, and others.—Its advocates Messrs. Varnum, Bidwell, and others.
The bill for repealing the law admitting Public Papers to be received at par in the payment for the Public Lands, was read a third time.
TUESDAY, JAN. 28. The report in favor of a Bridge over the Potomac, in Washington, was discussed. Mr. Ely advocated the report which was opposed by Messrs. Elliot, Findley, and Nelson. No decision was had.
Mr. Smilie renewed his motion to discharge the committee of Ways and Means, of which Mr. Randolph is chairman, from the consideration of the subject of the invasion of neutral rights.—Messrs. Quincy and J. C. Smith opposed the motion and Mr. Jackson enforced it. But Mr. Randolph not being in his place, an adjournment took place.
BY THE LAST MAILS.
ROCHEFORT SQUADRON. SAVANNAH, JAN. 11.
Capt. Conn, who has arrived here from Nassau, New-Providence, has furnished us with the Nassau Royal Gazette, of the 1st January, containing the following further information of the French squadron of five sail of the line, two frigates, a brig and cutter, commanded by Adm. L'Almane, from Rochefort, viz.
NASSAU, (N. P.) Jan. 1, 1806. Extracts from the Journal kept by Capt. Riley, of the brig Eliza & Mary.
"Sailed from New-York the 16th of September, and arrived at Tenerife the 5th Nov. where he learnt the following intelligence. That the Rochefort Squadron consisting of five sail of the line, three frigates, and two brigs of war, with the Calcutta English fifty gun ship and six English merchant ships, prizes to the squadron, had arrived at Santa Cruz on the 3d ult. which caused an embargo to be laid on all vessels directly, which was to continue while the squadron was in port. They had sunk several English ships that had very valuable cargoes, on account of their bad sailing, not being able to keep up with the squadron; that they had uniformly sunk or burned all neutral vessels they fell in with at sea, that were either bound to or along the coasts of Europe, to prevent intelligence getting to the English fleets—that they had taken out their crews, and told them they must go with them to France, and should be paid by the government, the full amount with damage, &c. that among the neutrals, were the following American vessels, viz. brig Minerva, Salter of N. York, brig Two Friends, Tenwick, of Charleston, with valuable cargoes, were both burned; sch. — Tucker, of Boston, sch. — Sargent, of do. The number of neutral vessels, taken and destroyed by the squadron, amounted to 26, the captains of which, during the day, were allowed the liberty of going on shore, but the same privilege was not extended to their officers or crew. The commander in chief, Monsieur Le Almane, had taken all their papers, and given to each a certificate, stating he had destroyed their vessels and cargoes, and that they must apply to the minister at Paris, for a renumeration."
Capt. Conn adds, that on the 5th December the French squadron left Tenerife; and that an American vessel (the Eliza and Mary, Reilly of New-York) fell in with them on the 10th, Tenerife then in sight, and saw them capturing the outward-bound Cork fleet consisting of about 40 sail, one of which being a fast sailer, spoke the American vessel, and informed, that it was probable most of them would fall into the hands of the French.
WASHINGTON, JAN. 29, 1806.
A resolution, of which the following is a copy, was this morning offered to the house by Mr. Gregg, and is referred to the Committee of the whole on the state of the union.
"Whereas Great Britain impresses citizens of the United States, and compels them to serve on board her ships of War, and also seizes and condemns vessels belonging to citizens of the U. States, and their cargoes, being the bona fide property of American citizens, not contraband of war, and not proceeding to places besieged, or blockaded, under the pretext of their being engaged in time of war, in a trade with her enemies, which was not allowed in time of peace."
"And whereas the government of the United States has repeatedly remonstrated to the British Government against these injuries, and demanded satisfaction therefor, but without effect—"
"Therefore Resolved , That until equitable and satisfactory arrangements on these points shall be made between the two governments, it is expedient, that from and after the day of
next, no goods or merchandise of the growth, product, or manufacture of Great Britain, or of any of the colonies or dependencies there-
of, ought to be imported into the United States.
"Provided, however, That whenever arrangements, deemed satisfactory to the President of the United States, shall take place, it shall be lawful for him, by proclamation, to fix a day on which the prohibition aforesaid shall cease."
WASHINGTON ACADEMY.
At a meeting of the trustees of the Institution for the education of youth in the city of Washington, established under an act of the City Council, held in the beginning of August, THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esq. was unanimously chosen President of the board. The election having been made known to him by Mr. Robert Brent, Chairman of the board, by letter directed to him at Monticello, Mr. Jefferson made the following reply:
MONTICELLO, AUGUST 14th, 1805.
Sir, A considerable journey southwardly from this has prevented my sooner acknowledging letters from yourself, from Mr. Gardiner and Mr. S. H. Smith, announcing that I had been elected by the City Council a trustee for the public schools to be established at Washington, and by the trustees to preside at their board. I receive with due sensibility these proofs of confidence from the City Council and the board of trustees, and ask the favor of you to render them my just acknowledgements. Sincerely believing that knowledge promotes the happiness of man, I shall ever be disposed to contribute my endeavors towards its extension, and in the instance under consideration will willingly undertake the duties proposed to me, so far as others of paramount obligation will permit my attention to them.
I pray you to accept my friendly salutations and assurances of great respect and esteem.
TH: JEFFERSON.
Robert Brent, Esq.
Extracts of a letter from a gentleman, dated Wythe, Virg. Dec. 27, 1805.
"I cannot omit amusing you, with some items of a late discovery in this country. About two miles east of Geo. Wampler's, an attempt was made to sink a pit, to search for salt water. A few feet below the surface, have been found several bones of the mammoth of an unusually large size. One tooth is said to weigh 17lb. and proves it to be a creature that fed on herbage. With these bones are intermixed a number of that of an animal of the largest species of the carnivorous kind; also a number of bones of young or smaller mammoths; and one might conjecture from appearances, that these carcasses have not been more than one hundred years deposited in the earth. Entire pieces of reed, six inches long, and twigs of the pine tree, are found in a large bed of dung, supposed to have been in the intestines of the mammoth, when it was killed. Our acquaintance, the Rev. Mr. Sloniger, is busy in good weather in having a full search made for the whole skeleton, which if he succeeds, it probably will give further information concerning the nature and properties of a species of animals now extinct."
Extract of another letter from the same gentleman, dated, Wythe, January 4th 1806.
Sir—I wrote you in haste about two weeks ago. This day I went to the spot where the Mammoth bones are found, and with my own eyes satisfied my own curiosity. The teeth or rather the grinders, are larger than those I have seen, that were found at Campbell's Saline on Holstein, or even those at the Big-bone Lick in Kentucky; these grinders and the substances that appear to have been in the entrails, prove that this monster of the forest has been a creature that fed on herbage. But the singular appearance of this new Lick, and the variety of large bones already dug up, proves that a part of them belonged to large animals of a carnivorous species. A large tusk or horn has been found, inserted in the head or rather the upper jaw, about two feet long, and eight inches in circumference. There have been seven under jaw bones already found of this latter animal, as Mr. Michael Kimfar informs, on whose land this curious deposit is found; by the shape of the horn, and its place so near the nose, the smaller animal may have been a species of the Rhinoceros, one kind of which is said to be the Unicorn of the ancients. But how so many of them have been laid prostrate on the same spot with the Mammoth, and of those by the teeth found, there must have been several, makes the whole a matter of some admiration.
Fire Companies. —There are 37 Fire Associations in Philadelphia.—According to a statement of the original expenses they have voluntarily incurred, the purchase of apparatus has cost them 34,500 dollars.—They possess about 4,800 feet of hose; 30 engines; 150 buckets; 37 engine houses, &c.
PATRIOTISM.
PHILADELPHIA, January 21, 1806.
FIRST LIGHT INFANTRY.
SPECIAL MEETING—Dec. 23, 1805.
Whereas, by a recent communication made by the President of the United States to Congress, it has been officially stated, that our territory has been violated, and that some of our fellow citizens have been seized and taken by an armed force acting under the authority of the Spanish government, and it further appears by said communication, that persons acting under the same authority have purchased military stores and provisions, and that even his officers, both civil and military, have publicly declared that the negotiations at Madrid had failed to effect the peaceable adjustment of our differences, and that war, with all its train of concomitant evils, must be the inevitable consequences; and that the said preparations were intended to facilitate an unjust attack upon a portion of our territory to the destruction of our peaceable citizens and their property, the prostration of our rights, as well as to the entire degradation of our honour and dignity as a free and an independent nation.
And, Whereas, It is the duty at all times (but more particularly in the hour of danger) of the good citizens of these states, of whatever party, to support to the utmost of their power, the honor and independence of their country but more especially is it the duty of those citizens who, as volunteers, having accustomed themselves to the use of arms, and thereby virtually pledge themselves, as far as in them lies, to repel the wanton aggressions of a hostile foe at the point of the bayonet. And, it further appears highly probable that the services of the volunteer corps of the United States may be required before sufficient number of regular troops can be raised and brought into operation; it, therefore, becomes their solemn duty to be prepared against any sudden emergency that may arise, and resolutely determine to meet the foe and remain free or die:—therefore,
Resolved unanimously , That the officers of this corps, respectfully represent to the president of the United States, that it is the wish of this corps that the same may have the distinguished honor of being first called into the defence of their country's cause and that in such an event, that they be placed upon the same footing with the regular troops of the United States.
PHILADELPHIA, December 21, 1805.
Sir, We have the honor to enclose a copy of a resolution of the company under our command, with a respectful request that you will be pleased to lay the same before the president of the U. S. and in case there should exist any necessity for calling out the volunteer companies, of which in our opinion, there exists a great probability; although for want of correct information, we are sensible we cannot at present be competent judges, yet we deem it our duty most earnestly to request that in such an event, the First Light Infantry may have the honor of being one of the first that may be called into actual service, upon condition of being placed upon the same footing with the regularly enlisted troops of the United States; and we hold ourselves pledged to be in perfect readiness to march at an hour's notice to any part of the continent where our services can be most useful to the country. We have the honor to be, with sentiments of the highest respect, your obedient servants,
FRANCIS SHALLUS, Capt. JOHN STRATTEN, Lieut. JOHN HUFFY, Ensign. The Hon. HENRY DEARBORN, Esq. Secretary at War, Washington.
Whilst noticing the New-York Herald, we cannot silently pass by the following malignant and scandalous passage in one of its columns:—
"Our President's infamy shall not be forgotten. Such is the nature of the praises which the whole course of his past life, of all his acts public and private, is at every opportunity calculated to extort from us."
To this pitiful effusion of malice and envy, I deem it sufficient to affix the following:—
Extract of a letter written by General Washington, in 1779, to a respectable friend.
"Friends and foes seem now to combine to pull down the goodly fabric we have been hitherto raising, at the expence of so much time blood and treasure;—No man who wishes well to the liberties of this country, and desires to see its rights established, can avoid crying out—Where are our men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their country? Let this voice my dear Sir, call upon you JEFFERSON, and others."
Vide Judge Marshall's life of Washington, vol. 4. p. 7, 10.
N. B. If the whole course of Mr. Jefferson's life, public and private, has been infamous, what becomes of the morality and veracity of General Washington? Repub. Advocate.
M. Felix de Beaujour, one of the French Military Nobles, has been accredited at Washington, as French Consul General in the United States.

Extrait of a letter from a master of a vessel to his owner at Norfolk, dated Antigua, December 28.
"It was fortunate that I had not sold, and purchased a return cargo at Martinique, as much loss to you, and anxiety to me have been avoided. It would have been impossible for me to have eluded the vigilance of the British cruizers in these seas. A system has been adopted here, the most inquisitous in itself, and ruinous to our trade that can be imagined. Every American vessel, coming from a French island with a cargo, is certain to be carried in, because the courts in every case, make us pay all expenses. I have informed myself fully on the subject, and know that all the privateers out of this island are ordered to bring every vessel from a French port with a cargo, in for trial, stating that matters are settled between the court and them that the expenses shall be paid in all cases by the Americans."
"The abuses to which we are subjected are intolerable; a junto consisting of the judge, the lawyers, the owners of privateers, and those who become our friends, when we are brought in, have laid their heads together to fleece us—we are sure to be put to great expense, the amount of which the gentlemen share between them. They appear to us to be opposed to each other, but they, I know, divide the spoil. I got my information from one of the party, and what I see every day confirms the information I have received—It is a fact that several American vessels have been sent in here whose papers were never looked at, by those who sent them in. They were ordered to send them in without regard to papers or documents, for the reasons before stated."
BOSTON, FEB. 2, 1806.
Daring Robbery! —Last Wednesday night, about 12 o'clock, as Daniel Runnels, of Haverhill, was passing through Andover, a few rods from Chickering's tavern, two men armed with a gun and bayonet, stopped his sleigh, and demanded his money. But he repeatedly refused to deliver it, when they attempted to stab him in the breast; but as he sprang from them his foot slipped, and the bayonet entered his left side, passed under his clothes, and came out the other side, without doing him any material injury. His pocket-book, containing 255 dollars and several notes, was then delivered up, and they went off. One of them was about five feet ten inches high and rather corpulent, the other shorter, slender, and of a dark complexion, and both dressed in short dark colored coats or sailors' jackets.
WARREN, JAN. 25.
American Seamen Impress'd. Extrait of a letter from Mr. Seth Barton, son of Col. David Barton, of this town, dated
FUNCHALL (Madeira) Sept. 21.
HONOURED PARENT, "I suppose you have been informed of our misfortune. We failed from Rio de la Plata, in the ship Mary Ann, Capt. Cory, of Providence, on the 3d of December, and were captured in the English channel, by his Britannic Majesty's ship Polyphemus, of 64 guns, Capt. Lawson. We then being under Spanish colours, they took all the Spanish seamen out, who were made prisoners of; and us Americans, who had good protection, made slaves. We had the misfortune to be on board the Polyphemus about three months before we got into England; and when we arrived at Plymouth, we wrote to the American Consul in London, and to the Vice-Consul at Plymouth, from whom we got an answer, that Capt. Cory had made application for our discharges—but before the Consul could do any thing for us, they sent us on board the Raisonable 64, Capt. Rowly, and in her carried us to sea. I was in their service 6 months and 19 days; and the Raisonable touching at the Isle of Madeira, on the 28th of August, between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning, I swam from her, and had the good fortune, thro' my Maker's divine pleasure, to get safe on shore, with one pair of trowers, one shirt, a hankerchief, and my protection, with which I went to Mr. Lemarr, the American Consul, and that gentleman received me in a fatherly manner, gave me clothes, and sent me to live in his house, until he could procure a passage for me."
"I left on board five of my countrymen, and old shipmates in the Mary Ann, viz.—Charles Fenner Bowen, of Providence nephew to Doctors William and Pardon Bowen. John Gordon Olin—Thomas Rice Greene, and Benjamin Hatch, all of Warwick, or East Greenwich; and they have all protections but Hatch. I left likewise Thomas Wood, of Stonington. I am sure they never will be liberated, unless by the interference of the government of the United States."
FIRE. —At Marcellus (N. Y.) on the night of the 17th of Jan. the house of a Mr. Fowler, was destroyed by fire. All his children (four) perished, and his wife was much burnt.
Portsmouth,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1806.
REPUBLICAN TICKET for 1806.
HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN LANGDON, Esq. GOVERNOR.
COUNSELLORS.
LEVI BARTLETT, Rockingham. JOSEPH BADGER, Stratford. BEJAMIN PIERCE, Hillsborough. NAHUM PARKER, Cheshire. W'M TARLTON, Grafton and Coos Counties.
SENATORS.
CLEMENT STORER, District No. 1. BENJAMIN BARNARD, No. 2. WILLIAM WHITE, No. 3. JOHN BRADLEY, No. 4. JOHN WALDRON, No. 5. NATHANIEL SHANNON, No. 6. JEDEDIAH K. SMITH, No. 7. ROBERT ALCOCK, No. 8. ELISHA WHITCOMB, No. 9. GEORGE ALDRICH, No. 10. JESSE JOHNSON, No. 11. PETER CARLETON, No. 12. NATH'L GILMAN, County Treasurer. JOSIAH ADAMS, Recorder of Deeds.
LATEST FOREIGN.
An arrival at New-York, from St. Lucar, brings the following additional particulars of the late News from the theatre of war in Europe.
"On the 13th of November the French army entered Vienna; the imperial Austrian court having retired to Brinn."
"On the 14th a body of the French army entered Presburg. The same day the Emperor Napoleon organized for Austria a new form of government, and appointed General Clarke to be governor in chief. Each of the conquered circles is placed under the direction of a superintendant, of which M. Darm, counsellor of state, is appointed superintendant general."
"The Russian army has offered to capitulate, on condition of being permitted to return home; and the same terms would be gladly accepted by Francis the Second."
"Several bodies of the French army were in pursuit of the Russians. The latter were rapidly retreating towards Brinn, and were committing, in their progress murder and every species of hayock."
"General Klein was entering Bohemia. The kingdom of Hungary has offered to capitulate, and it is said her request will be complied with."
"Nearly 3000 pieces of brass cannon and 200,000 muskets have been taken at Vienna."
"Among the great number of prisoners made by the French army, were many French emigrants, some of whom were in Italy during the last war with Bonaparte. The Emperor did not transfer them to a military tribunal, as is usual in such cases; but said to them, "Ye have now no country left to emigrate to; return to your own, and emulate, the glorious example of your countrymen."
* Brinn is a strong town in Moravia, dependent on Bohemia, of which some say it is the capital. It is a place where the flutes meet, and is of great importance. It is seated at the confluence of the rivers Zwita and Swart, 53 miles north from Vienna. The Castle of Spielberg, is its principle defence, and is seated on an eminence without the town.
* Presburg is the Capital of Hungary, where the Crown of that Kingdom is kept. It is seated on the Danube, 38 miles east of Vienna.
We have it from good authority, that the best Superfine Flour is now selling at Alexandria and Frederickburg, at 6 dollars and 6 50 cents—and Pork in Richmond, at 5 dollars, and 5 50 per barrel. ( Norfolk Herald. )
The late extraordinary proceedings of the British against our commerce have for their object, (it is pretended) to hinder us from supplying his Majesty's enemies; however, it appears, if credit can be given to several letters received in this city, that that government makes no objection to its own subjects holding correspondence with some of the belligerents. These letters state that the house of Sir Francis Baring & Co. and two other houses in London, have contracted to supply the Spanish government with 12 millions of dollars, and to take the government drafts on South America.
It is supposed, that by this business those merchants will gain from seven to eight millions of dollars, as the profit on the exchange from Madrid on London has been as high as twenty per cent. and no doubt a discount is allowed on the bills of twenty five or 30 per cent.—as these were the discounts which were allowed generally last war to those who purchased government bills on the Havanna, and as far as one third has been allowed for bills on Vera Cruz.
( Charleston pap. ) The Hon. Isaac Parker, of Portland is appointed one of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court, vice Judge Strong, deceased.
Many of the federal Editors are amusing themselves with sneers and sarcasms at Congress for now-and-then debating or deliberating with "closed doors!"—The situation of our country with regard to foreign nations, is allowed on all hands to be critical and momentous—to require all the prudence as well as energy of Government—yet these same editors, who bluster so much and boast so loudly of their patriotism, would rather that all the ministers, agents and spies of Britain, France, and Spain, should be acquainted with every measure contemplated by Congress relative to their respective nations, and of course that those nations should be prepared to defeat any such measures, than confide in the virtue, honor, duty, interest and oaths of the Representatives of the People in Congress assembled!—We suspect these Editors are apprehensive some blow is meditated at their beloved Britain, and that it will fall so secretly and suddenly as not to give her a chance of warding it off—we trust their fears will be realized, if redress for past wrongs and a guarantee against future injuries, are not speedily given us by that nation.
An attempt has been made to assassinate THOMAS PAINE. A musket was fired at him through a window of his house. The person who made the attempt was taken, but admitted to bail.
GAZETTE MARINE LIST.
Portsmouth, Feb. 11, 1806. The brig Oliver, Peabody, arrived at Barbadoes, in 37 days from Portsmouth. Jan. 18, lat. 24, 40, long. 73 30, was spoke the ship St. Cuthbert, Hooker, of Portsmouth, 156 days from Bengal for New-York. Left at Havanna, Jan. 5, the Hampton, Rollins, of Portsmouth, for N. York. Schr. Stork, of Wiscasset, has been seen off the shoals, dismasted, and full of water. The wrecks of a Schooner and sloop have also been seen.
MARRIED.
In Greenland, by the Rev. Mr. Neal, EBENEZER JOHNSON, Esq. to Miss DOROTHY MARSTON, daughter of Major Thomas Marston. In this town, Mr. WM. STOCKER, to Miss MARY PITMAN—Mr. JOSIAH TUCK, to Miss LYDIA SHAPLEIGH—Mr. ASA DAVIS to Miss ELIZA ADAMS—Mr. EBEN BARNES, to Miss MARY ADAMS—Mr. EDMUND DAVIS, to Miss EUNICE GUNNISON.
DIED.
In Deerfield, (N.H.) Mr. JOHN NEAL, aged 84 years. In York, (M.) Capt. SAMUEL BRAGDON, aged 69. In this town, Mr. EBENEZER L. TISDALE, of Freecown, (Con.) aged 87. Mr. SAMUEL NEAL, aged 95. Mrs. PHOENIX, aged 98—a child of Mr. John Hill, aged 7 months—a child of Mrs. Parker.
FOR SALE.
A NEAT CONVENIENT DWELLING HOUSE, pleasantly situated on Washington and Gate-streets opposite Mr. Amos Fernald's, and lately occupied by Mr. Nath'l W. Fernald—It is accommodated with the Acqueduct and has an excellent cellar under the whole—apply to H. S. LANGDON. Portsmouth, February 11:
LAST NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the subscriber either by note or account, are hereby requested to call on Mr. WILLIAM WALKER, (at No. 1, Bow-street,) and pay the same to him, on or before the first of April next—all demands unpaid at that time, will be lodged with an Attorney for collection. THOMAS KENNARD.
State of New-Hampshire—Coos, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of PIERCY, State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their highway, county, school and town taxes for the year 1805—that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber in said Piercy aforesaid, on the third Monday of May next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment to me the subscriber.
0    Original Proprietors Names. No. Lot. Divisn. No. Acres. Highway tax. County tax. School tax. Town tax.   C. M. C. M. C. M. C. M.     Jesse Johnson, jun. 123 1 60 18 1 8 1   ditto 99 2 120 30 2 0 2   ditto undivided, 0 0 0 6 0 4 0   Mark Rogers, 74 1 60 18 1 2 1   ditto, 80 2 120 30 2 0 2   ditto undivided, 0 0 0 6 0 4 0   Francis Little, 124 1 60 18 1 2 1   ditto, 134 2 120 30 2 0 2   ditto undivided, 0 0 0 6 0 4 0   Hubarty Neal, 32 1 60 18 1 2 1   ditto, 44 2 120 30 2 0 2   ditto undivided, 0 0 0 6 0 4 0   Thomas Martin, Esq. 128 1 60 18 1 2 1   ditto, 68 2 120 30 2 0 2   ditto undivided, 0 0 0 6 0 4 0   Edward Ayers, 34 1 60 18 1 2 1   ditto, 89 2 120 30 2 0 2   ditto undivided, 0 0 0 6 0 4 0   Joshua Martin, 25 1 60 18 1 2 1   ditto, 58 2 120 30 2 0 2   ditto undivided, 0 0 0 6 0 4 0   Samuel Lear, 140 1 60 18 1 2 1   ditto, 79 2 120 30 2 0 2   ditto undivided, 0 0 0 6 0 4 0   John Noble, 151 1 60 18 1 2 1   ditto, 38 2 120 30 2 0 2   ditto, undivided, 0 0 0 6 0 4 0   William Lee Perkins, 11 1 60 18 1 2 1   ditto, 120 2 120 30 2 0 2   ditto undivided, 0 0 0 6 0 4 0  
Piercy February 4, 1806. JOHN WAID, Collector.
NOTICE is hereby
given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed Executor of the last will of SAMUEL HALL, late of Portsmouth, truckman, deceased; and having taken upon himself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs, he requests all persons that have any demands on the estate of said deceased, to exhibit them for settlement—and calls on all persons indebted to said estate, to make immediate payment without delay.
STACY HALL, Executor. Portsmouth, February 11, 1806.
Just received, and for sale at the Bookstore of THOMAS & TAPPAN, a few doors West of the Court-House.
A COMPLETE assortment of Seamen's Books, Charts, and Apparatus—Also, Public Characters, or Cotemporary Biography of the most celebrated personages in Europe and America, a very interesting and valuable work; Blank Music Books; God's Wonders in the Great Deep, recorded in several wonderful and amazing accounts of sailors, who have met with unexpected Deliverances from Death, when in the greatest dangers; English Foolscap and other Paper; Paints; Drawing Paper; Black Paste Board; Battle Dorr, &c. Also, an exact likeness of "The most Noble Lord TIMOTHY DEXTER of Newburyport," engraved by J. Akin—price only 25 cents. Portsmouth. Feb. 11.
WANTED—for which good security will be given, and handsome interest, 10,000 DOLLARS. Inquire of the Printers. Feb. 11.
Prizes! Prizes! Prizes!
A LIST of the Prizes in the fourth Class of Piscataqua Bridge Lottery is now received by C. PEACE. By whom Prize Tickets, (let them have been bought of whom they may) will be received, in payment for Tickets in the next class; or in the Atkinson Academy Lottery, now drawing, or in the Amoskeag Canal Lottery which is to draw the 19th of next month. The Managers have advertised that all Prizes will be redeemable with cash in 30 days. But the above method of exchanging them for other Tickets in the Lottery now drawing, and in that which will draw next month, C. Peace thinks, would be preferred by those who hold prize tickets.
Whole Tickets in Atkinson Academy Lottery two dollars, Quarters in do. 3/9 each. February 11.
State of New-Hampshire—Strafford, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of Wakefield, who have not paid their highway, survey, county and school tax for the year 1805, that so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges at the dwelling-house of Capt. Andrew Gilman, innholder in Wakefield, on the 31st day of March next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Original Proprietors names. Divisn. No. Acres. Highway tax. Survey tax. County tax. School tax.   C. M. C. M. C. M. C. M.     Thomas Downs, 2 72 110 40 18 2   Joseph Gage, 2 7 110 40 6 5   E. Wentworth, 2 53 40 75 24 4   Moses Gage, 1 10 14 35 11 2   Eben Roberts, 2 18 60 50 16 3   Wm. Wellard, 2 97 110 50 16 3   Peirce & Moore, 1 88 100 40 13 2   Benja. Ham, 1 34 50 75 24 4   John Ham, 2 48 110 75 24 4   Joseph Roberts, 2 50 110 50 16 3   Ebenezer Downs, Jr. 2 30 110 50 16 3   Love Roberts, 2 25 55 20 7 3   Theo. Atkinson, 2 51 110 38 8 2   Elihu Hayes, 2 60 32 8 2 1   Wm. Stiles, 2 23 110 40 13 2   Robert Hanson, 1 71 100 48 13 2   Joseph Huffer, 2 4 110 40 13 2  
JOHN GILMAN, Collector. Wakefield, January 15, 1806.
AUCTIONS.
THIS DAY,
At S. LITTLE'S Office,
4 Bbls. Flour; 1 Bbl. Anniseed. 2 Hds. Rum; 1 doz. Chairs. 1 Bedstead; 3 bags ground Ginger. 1 Feather Bed.
Sundry article in the English Goods line.
Cash advanced on consignments.
AT PRIVATE SALE,
Hhd. Rum; pipes Brandy; A few barrels N. E. Rum; 30 barrels No. 3 Beef; a few casks Spanish float Indigo; casks fresh Rice; a few Russia and other Beds; Mattr. Fes.
THIS DAY
For sale at Public Auction, at Bayley's auction-room in Daniel street, this day at 3 o'clock P. M.
The Sch'r DOVE of Kittery, 52 tons burthen; a new vessel fit for sea Portsmouth. Feb. 11.
Positively will be Sold
THIS DAY.
To be sold this day, at Public Auction, six acres of Land, pleasantly situated on the right hand side of the New-road, leading from Portsmouth to Piscataqua Bridge, adjoining Land of Nathaniel Jackson, near Edward Cutts Esq's. seat, about half a mile from the town-house, this land will be sold in acre lots, or the whole together, as may suit the purchasers, this land will make genteel house lots.
Also—
Four acres of Land adjoining the north mill-pond, at private sale, this land will make a number of handsome house-lots, or number of large brick-yards.
Sale at BAYLEY'S Auction-room.
February 11.
NOTICE.
TO-MORROW.
To be sold at Public Auction, at the N. H. Hotel, To-morrow at 12 o'clock, M.
NINE shares in the New-Hampshire Hotel and Portsmouth Pier, unless previously prevented by paying the assessments due on said shares.
ELIJAH HALL, Treasurer.
Portsmouth, February, 11.
THE MANAGERS of the PISCATAQUA BRIDGE LOTTERY,
finding that the Scheme of the 4th Class having met universal approbation, they have been induced to issue the same SCHEME for
The FIFTH CLASS.
 1 of 8000 Dollars
is 8000      

Miscellaneous Repository.
WOMAN. WHEN nature own'd the Almighty's hand, When planets roll'd at his command...
For so the dormant Adam's side, Unconsciously, a rib supplied; Awake—his bosom rapture swell'd, For lo! within his arms he held, A woman.
To soothe his woes, his cares to share, And thus his pristine loss repair; 'Twas fately Heaven's kind design, That man unto his side should join, A woman.
A woman's fear a woman's sigh, The magic of a woman's eye, Her mild and gentle accents prove, The joys allied to wedded love, And women.
To weave the silken cobweb snare, With fyre long allure the snare, With charms resistless rule the heart, Of happy lover, is the art, Of woman.
When vex'd with busy toils of day, To ease, the tired man gives way, With converse sweet the hours beguiles, Repels dull care with placid smiles, Of woman.
What tempts to plough the stormy main, Or roam to distant climes for gain? What prompts the willing hand to toil, But beauty's weakness—beauty's smile, But woman.
When journeying on with weary pace, To meet again the fond embrace, What cheers the way worn traveller's gloom, But thoughts of long regretted home, And woman.
When pensive grief bends o'er the grave, To weep the friend it could not save— And silence sheds on friendship's bier, The tribute of a falling tear, 'Tis woman's.
And when affliction's mournful tale, Of sorrow's notes her ear assail; Oh! then escapes the rising sigh, A glistening tear bedews the eye, Of woman.
Bedey.
A PLUMB PUDDING.
WHEN the late Lord Paget was ambassador at Constantinople, he, with the rest of the gentlemen who were in a public capacity at the same court, determined on one gala day, to have each of them a dish dressed after the manner of their respective countries, and Lord Paget, for the honor of England, ordered a piece of roast beef and plumb pudding. The beef was easily cooked, but the court cooks not knowing how to make a plumb pudding, he gave them a receipt:—So many eggs, so much milk, so much flour, and a given quantity of raisins, to be beaten up together, and boiled for three hours in five gallons of water. When dinner was served up, first came the French ambassador's dish—then that of the Spanish ambassador—and next, two fellows bearing a tremendous pan, and bawling "room for the English ambassador's dish!" "By the mother that bore me," cried his lordship, "I forgot the bag; and these stupid scoundrels have boiled it without one—and in five gallons of water too. It will be good plumb-broth however."
Grinning Match.—A grinning match lately took place at Fowey—The prize a roll of tobacco. A Cobler and a Tailor entered the lists: Snob was three grins ahead, when a fellow, who had betted deeply on Snob contrived to tread on one of his corns, which had such an effect upon his countenance, that he instantly gained the prize! (London Paper.)
CRAMBE, in the memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, said he was every day under the dominion of a certain word; such for instance as the word led, which not only governed him, but all the world besides. For, said he, noblemen and drunkards are pimp-led, physicians and pulses are feel-ed, the patients and oranges are pick-ed, a new married man and an ass are brid-led, an old married man and horse are fed-led. Cards and dice are rat-led, swine and nobility are fly-led, a coquette and a tender box are spark-led, a lover and a blunderer are grou-led.
Anecdote of DEAN SWIFT.
AN opinion which Dean Swift had entertained of that wretchedness, which would overtake him towards the close of life, by the failure of his intellects, clouded his mind with the most gloomy ideas, and tinged every object around him. One time, on a journey, the Dean rode before his company, made a sudden stop, dismounted his horse, fell on his knees, lifted up his hands, and prayed in the most fervent manner. When the company came up, he insisted on their alighting, which they did, and asked him the meaning of his conduct. "Gentlemen," said he, "pray join your hearts in fervent prayer with mine, that I may not be like that Oak tree, which is decayed at the root, whilst the other parts are sound."
J. PAYSON,
INFORMS his friends and the public, that he has removed from Northwood to this place, and has opened a genteel BOARDING HOUSE; flatters himself that his former customers have been so far satisfied with their accommodation, as will not only induce them to call on him, but fully justify them in recommending his house to their friends and acquaintance that may be passing or expect to make this their place of residence for a long or short term—He occupies that elegant spacious and convenient new brick building No. 14 Market-street, has good stabling for horses, and engages that every attention, shall be paid that can possibly be expected or wished for by those gentlemen that may please to favor him with their custom—eight or ten gentlemen can be accommodated and constantly attended to as ready boarders. Portsmouth, January 28, 1806.
WANTED—A steady servant
MAID, who is acquainted with plain cooking and common house work;—Also, a GIRL of 14 or 15 years of age; good recommendations are required. To such generous wages will be given—Apply to the Printers.—Portsmouth, Jan. 28.
State of New-Hampshire—Grafton.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in NEW-CHESHIRE, in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1805—that unless they pay said taxes to me the subscriber, on or before Thursday the 17th day of April next, so much of their land as will pay the same, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber in said New-Chester, at ten o'clock in the forenoon on said day, unless prevented by previous payment. The following lots are in the 3d division—
Table with 5 columns: No. of Lot, Acres, Town tax, School tax, Highway tax. It lists various lots and their tax values.
PHINEHAS SARGENT, Collector.
New-Chester, January 31, 1806.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Hillsborough, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of ANDOVER, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1805—that so much land as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Charles Hilton, inn-holder in said town, on Thursday, the third day of April, 1806, at ten o'clock, A. M. unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 5 columns: Names, No., Acres, Town tax, School tax. It lists tax information for various individuals in Andover.
ELIJAH HILTON, Collector. Andover, Dec. 31, 1805.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Coos, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of Land in the town of Chatham, State and county aforesaid, who have not paid the tax of five dollars assessed on each original proprietors right in said town and all other lands equivalent, for the year 1805,—that unless said tax is paid to me the subscriber, on or before the last Thursday of February next, so much of their land as will pay the same, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling-house in said Chatham, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, on said day.
Table with 5 columns: Original Proprietors, D. C. M., D. C. M., D. C. M., D. C. M. It lists original proprietors and their land details.
ASA EASTMAN, Collector.
Chatham, Jan. 22, 1806.
State of New-Hampshire.—Coos, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given, to the non-resident owners of land, in LANCASTER, who have not paid their taxes, for the year 1805—that so much of their land as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Major Stephen Wilson, inn-holder in said Lancaster, on the 14th day of April next, at ten o'clock, forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 5 columns: Present owners Names, No., Acres, Town tax, School tax. It lists tax information for present owners in Lancaster.
JONATHAN CRAM, Collector.
Lancaster, January 7th, 1806.
State of New-Hampshire.—Coos, ss.
NOTICE is hereby given, to the non-resident owners of land, in LANCASTER, who have not paid their county tax, which was granted at the session of the General Court, held in June, 1805—that so much of their land as will pay said tax, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Maj. Stephen Wilson, inn-holder in Lancaster aforesaid, on the 16th day of April next, at ten o'clock, forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
Table with 5 columns: Present owners Names, No., Acres, Town tax, School tax. It lists tax information for present owners in Lancaster.
JONATHAN CRAM, Collector. Lancaster, January 7th, 1806.
New Book Store,
Portsmouth Newhampshire, (corner of Congress & Vaughan-streets.)
ISAIAH THOMAS, jun. & CHARLES TAPPAN, respectfully inform the Public that they have commenced business in Portsmouth, under the firm of
THOMAS & TAPPAN,
where they are now opening a large and extensive assortment of BOOKS and STATIONARY: which will positively be sold on as low terms as they can be obtained in Boston or elsewhere; among which are the following, viz.
LAW.
Bacon's Abridgment; American Precedents of Declarations; Elphinstone's Digest of the Law of Actions and Trials at Nisi Prius; Laws of the United States of America; Laws of New-Hampshire; Laws (perpetual) of Massachusetts; Montequieu's Spirit of Laws; Story's Pleadings; Tidd's Practical Forms, Pleadings on Contracts, Tidd on Bills of Exchange; Blackstone's Commentaries; Marshall on Insurance.
PHYSIC.
Parkinson's Medical Admonitions to Families; Buchanan's Domestic Medicine; Denton's Midwifery; Smellie's do.; Brown's Elements of Medicine; Edinburgh New Dispensatory; Elliot's Medical Pocket-Book; Beil on Ulcers; Cullen's Materia Medica; Bannwell's Physical Investigation; Townsend's Vade Mecum.
DIVINITY.
Hunter's Sacred Biography; Lathrop's Sermons; Lee's do.; Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul; Wright's new and complete Book of Martyrs; Vindication of Divine Providence; Fuller's Life of Peirce; Newton's Difficulties on the Prophecies; Life of Christ; Erskine's Gospel Sonnets; Arguments natural, moral and religious, for the immortality of the Soul; Fessenden's Explanation of the Science of Sanitary; Whipple's Discourses; Church Prayer Book; Hannah Adam's View of Religion; Alcybion, or the Minute Philosopher; Brown's D. History of the Bible; Beauties of the Bible; Burki's Exposition of the New Testament; Davies's Sermons; Edwards' History of Redemption; Edwards on Religious Affections; Edwards' Dissertation on liberty and necessity; Edwards on the Will; Songs in the Night; Millington's Sermons; Strong's do.; Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with notes; Exercises of Piety; The Four Gospels; Psalms and Hymns; Josephus abridged; Moshem's Ecclesiastical History; Village Sermons; Hervey's Meditations; Mendon Evidences; Maynard's Josephus, (folio); Blair's Sermons; Boston's Four Fold Estate; Jay's Sermons; Logan's do.; Bible Stories; BIBLES of all sizes and qualities; Hawte's Church History; Whitfield's 18 Sermons; Wilberforce's View of Religion; Stoddard on Judgment; Life of Joseph; Price's Sermons; Watt's Glory of Christ; Token for Children.
MISCELLANIES.
Beauties of the Spectator, Tatler and Guardian; Don Quixote; Forsyth on fruit Trees; Greek Testament, printed on a large and fair type; Haller's first lines of Philosophy; Johnson's Dictionary; Zoonomia, or the Laws of organic Life; Davidson's Virgil; Colman's Broad Grins; Obi, or the history of three fingered Jack; The Moral Monitor; The Alcoran of Mahomet; Art of preserving Health, a poem; Atala, or the love and constancy of two Savages in the desert; Belknap's History of Newhampshire; Builder's easy Guide, or young Carpenter's Assistant; Builder's pocket Treasure; Builder's Jewel; Blair's Rhetoric; Volney's Ruins; Massachusett's Justice; Town Officer; Beauties of the Creation; Gordon's history of the United States of America; Pindar's Odes and Smiles; Plutarch's Lives; Life of Bonaparte; Gentleman's Miscellany; Kaim's Elements of Criticism; Female Mentor; Flowers of modern Travels; Cook's Voyages; Sky Lark; Mavor's historical account of the most celebrated Voyages, Travels and Discoveries, from the time of Columbus to the present period; Rollin's Ancient History; Morfe's Universal Geography, new edition, with Atlas; do. do. abridged; Morfe's elements of Geography; Morfe's Universal Gazetteer; American Clerk's Magazine; Hamilton's Letters on the elementary principles of Education; Collesiana; Gwara Minora; Pike's Hebrew Lexicon; a perpetual Almanack, by which may be found, the day of the week or month in any year to come; Farmer's Dictionary; Indian Wars; Cicero's Oration; Federal Calculator; Brydone's Tour; Charlotte Temple; Italian Nun; Beggar Girl; Sallou Boy; Rasselas and Dinabur; Joseph Andrews; Man of Feeling; Wonderful Story Teller; Amusing Companion; Evelina; Goncalvo; Internal Conference; Interesting Anecdotes; Indian Courtship; Israel's Romances; St. Leon; Pleasures of Imagination; Werter and Charlotte; Romance of the Forest; Foresters; Arabian Nights; French Convert; Emily Hamilton; George Barnwell; Farmer's Boy; Fables of Flora; Inchaned Plants; Mock Bird; Ovid's Art of Love; Telamachus; Memorial Tales; Gravelite Abbey; Man of Feeling; Boarding School; Mirror; Edwy and Edwige; Sandford and Merton; Camilla; Vicar of Wakefield; Algerine Captive; Ferdinand and Almira; Don Raphael; Art of Fortune Telling; Baron Trenk; Deson's Travels; Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan; Harris's Encyclopedia; Cowper's Life, do. Poems; Pleasing Instructor; Stanton's Embassy; Cowper's Tale; Sullivan's District of Maine; Memoirs of Gen. Heath; Franklin's Life; Complete Duty of Man; Spectator; Bloomfield's Poems; Elop's Fables (Latin and English); Kaim's Elements; Washington's Letters; M'Neil's Poems; Pinkington's do.; Male and Female Biography, with Engravings; the Poetical Works of Armstrong, Green, Gray, Milton, Watts, Akenside, Thompson, Burns, Pope and Young, with elegant Engravings, each author separate; Carver's Travels; Beggar Boy; Almanacks and Regsters.
SINGING BOOKS.
Worcester Collection, 8th Edition; H. Ives's Music; Bridgewater Collection; Northampton do.; Harmony of Harmonies; Rural Harmony; Village Harmony; Massachusetts Harmony; Law's Musical Primer.
SCHOOL BOOKS, &c.
Murray's English Grammar; Columbian Orator; American Preceptor; Understanding Reader; Perry's, Alexander's and Enick's Dictionaries; Murray's Reader; Sien's Dramatic Dialogues; Orator's Assistant; Perry's Spelling Book, a new and highly improved Edition; Webster's Spelling Book, old and new Editions; Maine Spelling Book; the new School Book of Constitutions recommended by the General Court of Massachusetts; Pikes Arithmetic Abridged; Adams' do.; Waite's Mercantile do.; Scott's Lessons in Elocution; Bibles; Testaments; Primers; Catechisms; Writing and Cyphering Books; Quills; Lilklands; Slates; Pencils; Writing Ink; Ink Powder, and every article commonly used in schools.
Stationary, Fancy Articles, &c.
Elegant Pocket Books; Thread Cakes; Parfes; Penknives; Scissors; Razors; Specacles, of various prices and qualities; elegant and common Spy Glasses; Scales and Dividers; Blank Invitation Cards of all sizes; Ivory, Dress, Cafe and Club Combs; Wafer; Sealing Wax; Blank Books of every description; Chats and Maps; Ladies Lockets; Sand and Sand Boxes; Segars and Sagar Cakes; English Letter Paper; American, do. do. and common writing do.; A large assortment of Fancy Articles, Trinkets, &c.
Country Traders supplied
at wholesale, on the most reasonable terms; all orders will be attended to with the same care and punctuality, as if the person were present, and every favor gratefully acknowledged.
Public and private Libraries
furnished; and a handsome discount made. Constant attendance will be given from ten till late in the evening. Portsmouth, February 4, 1806.
Wholesale and Retail
BOOK-STORE.
CHARLES PEIRCE, at his brick Book-store in Daniel street, Portsmouth Newhampshire, Has just received, an additional assortment of
BOOKS & Stationary,
in the various branches of Knowledge and police Literature—consisting of Divinity, Memoirs, Cookery, Law, Husbandry, Farriery, Surgery, Navigation, Military Discipline, Physics, Poetry, Anatomy, Novels, Midwifery, Romances, Chemistry, Tales, History, Stories, Geography, Architecture, Biography, Arithmetic, Voyages, Algebra, Travels, Book-Keeping, and a most extensive assortment of SCHOOL BOOKS, and STATIONARY,—viz.
Webster's 1st, 2d and 3d Parts, American Preceptors, Columbian Orators, Childs Companion, Child's first Book, Maine Spelling Book, Perry's Spelling do. Dittworths and Pennings Spelling Books, Childs Instructor, Pilgrims, Road to Learning, Little Teacher, Franklin and common Primers, Philadelphia and American Primers, Bingham's, Ullers, Stansfelds, Harris's, Morrays, Lowths, Rudimans, Carvells, Smith, B-glow's, Boveis, Chambaud's, Adams, Grouchers, Websters and Alexanders Grammars, Bigelows Latin Primers, do. Introduction to making Latin, Greek Testaments, Clarks Introduction, Erasmus, Eutropius, Cordier, and Ascop, Sansfords art of reading. Bibles of all sizes and prices from one dollar to fifteen, Staging Books of various kinds, Watts, Harts, Rippone, and Smiths Hymn Books.
Beautiful English and American Writing and Letter PAPERS; all prices, from twenty cents to twenty-four dollars per quire; Account Books of all sizes; Cyphering and Writing Books made of good paper; Slates and Slate Pencils; Gen'l. Men and Ladies Morocco and common Pocket Books; Penknives, Razors and Scissors all prices; Pocket and desk Ink Stands; Ink Powder; Black Sand; Wafer; Sealing Wax; Quills; Ready made Pens, Navigators Books; Scales and Dividers; Maps. Charts, &c. a great variety of Snuff and Tobacco Boxes, Starling Boxes, Specacles all qualities and prices, Regsters and Almanacks wholesale and retail.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having demands on the estate of
WOODBURY MELCHER,
late of Portsmouth, trader, deceased; are desired to exhibit them to the subscriber for settlement—and all those who are indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment unto
NATH'L W. FERNALD, Executor.
Portsmouth, February 4, 1806.
ALL persons that have any demands against the estate of
JOHN PERKINS, late of Newmarket,
deceased, are desired to present the same to the subscriber for settlement; and all those indebted to said estate, are requested to make immediate payment to
MARY PERKINS, Administratrix. Newmarket, February 1, 1806.