The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1799-04-03 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
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PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE)—PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING BY JOHN MELCHER, PRINTER TO THE STATE, AT HIS OFFICE CORNER OF MARKET STREET, WHERE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THIS PAPER, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND ARTICLES OF INTELLIGENCE ARE THANKFULLY RECEIVED.
Vol. XLIII — Numb. 2209.]
WEDNESDAY, April 3, 1799.
[One Dollar & half pr. Annur.]
LONDON, Dec. 4.
HOLLAND is in danger of inundation from the dikes, as they have not been repaired since the beginning of the revolution. According to the last accounts from France, the dikes of Dol, in Brittany, were broken down by the sea, an immense extent of country was inundated, a great number of cattle and houses swept away, and about 10,000 families reduced to the utmost misery, without any habitation and resource. This misfortune arose from the dikes having been neglected for these eight years past all over France, to which cause are likewise to be imputed the same disasters that have befallen Morbihan, and La Vendée, and the banks of the Lower Louire. The public roads which formerly were an object of admiration to all foreigners, are now nearly impassable. We speak here, only of physical disasters, for to enumerate all the moral disorders, murders, assassinations, suicides, &c. would be an endless labor.
When the Great General of the Nation was living in Italy at the rate of £20,000 a week, the whole world seemed too little to contain him; the scene is however changed in Egypt, as he wrote some time ago to his brother, that a single room in Paris would content him. Since that period, he would, no doubt, be glad, like his Comptroller General, to get there even "as naked as the back of his hand."
Lucian Buonaparte has drawn on himself a considerable degree of indignation from the agent of the Executive Directory, by his observations on the conduct of the French Government towards the Cisalpine Republic. The Cles du Cabinet of the 13th inst. observes, that "a letter from Lucia Buonaparte, has awakened the hopes of the enemies of the country, because it appears to have sown in France the seed of new dissensions." Citizen Lucian is perhaps indebted only to the fame and popularity of his brother for his existence in France, or even for his privilege of wearing a head. He would otherwise no doubt be qualified to give a faithful report of what his name-sake has attempted, the Dialogue of the Dead .
LORD NELSON.
At the latter end of last year, this gallant officer received a pension of a thousand pounds per annum in consequence, as was said, of the loss of his arm, but in fact as a small recompense for a whole life of danger, hardship, enterprize, and service. Previous to the issuing of the grant a positive custom required, that he should distinctly state his services to his majesty. The following is the memorial which was delivered in upon the occasion: To the King's most excellent majesty, the memorial of Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B. and rear-admiral in your majesty's fleet, Humbly Sheweth,
That, during the present war, your memorialist has been in four actions with the fleets of the enemy, viz. on the 13th and 14th of March 1795; and the 13th July 1795; and the 14th of February 1797; in three actions with frigates; in six engagements against batteries; in ten actions in boats employed in cutting out of harbours; in destroying vessels, and in taking three towns. Your memorialist has also served on shore with the army four months, and commanded the batteries at the siege of Bastia and calvi. That during the war he has assisted at the capture of seven sail of the line, six frigates, four corvettes, and eleven privateers of different sizes; and taken and destroyed near fifty sail of merchant vessels; and your memorialist has actually been engaged against the enemy upwards of one hundred and twenty times. In which service your memorialist has lost his right eye and arm, and been severely wounded and bruised in his body. All of which services and wounds your memorialist most humbly submits to your majesty's most gracious consideration.
(Signed) HORATIO NELSON.
October 1797.
DUBLIN, Dec. 4.
[The following articles will show some of the effects of that pretty system of revolutionizing countries, which our Jacobins have so often, and so zealously admired and approved of.]
Yesterday morning, the noted def-
perado, who called himself General Neil, and was at the head of the plundering gang who lately robbed the mail coaches in the counties of Kildare and Wicklow, was apprehended in bed in Drury lane in the soft embraces of a Dulcinia. His courage was completely out on this occasion, for he was in great trepidation when taken into custody. The doughty General was conveyed to a secure lodging in castle yard, where he still remains.
We are extremely sorry to say, that disturbances and nocturnal robberies will continue to annoy the peaceable inhabitants of the county of Wicklow. Scarcely a night passes in the vicinity of Bray, Newton, Mount Kennedy, Delgany and that quarter, without some outrages of this sort being committed by a detachment of rebel banditti.
No less than 18 fellows have been taken up and committed to prison by Capt. Colthurst. Extract of a letter from Baltinglass Dec. 13.
"Saturday being the Fair day of this town proved a melancholy one indeed. As several of the loyal inhabitants of this neighborhood were at Stohan, between this town and Stratford, on their return home, they were pursued by a party of the rebels who taking advantage of the 89th regiment being under orders to march the following morning, attacked, and (I am sorry to say) killed 7 of them. One, a gallant lad, named d'Macginnes a member of Captain Saunders's corps, was pursued by them to his father's house, and was most barbarously murdered in his mother's arms. Two soldiers of the 89th, who had walked a little way out of town were way-laid and shot in a most inhuman manner. They and the other victims were this day buried with military honors. All this happened so early as three or four o'clock in the evening. The night proved nearly as melancholy as the day. The rebels went to the house of Mr. Wilson who is serjeant in Mr. Saunders's corps, and, in the wantonness of mischief, cut the throats of all his fowl, scattered about all his flour, tea, and sugar on the floor, mixed with glass, and trampled it under their feet, to prevent it from being of any use."
Last night they went to Stephen Wilson's of Barronstown, burnt his house to the ground and destroyed his haggart which was worth upwards of 400l. and were then proceeding to his brother's, when a party of the dragoons quartered at Timolin, came on them and obliged them to retreat, Capt. Ryves, Gen. Dundas' aid de camp, was yesterday fired at behind the hedge. Captain Saunders and two other gentlemen, riding near the Glen of Amali, were some days ago fired at behind a hedge, but received no injury. In short there is scarce a day or night passes that we do not hear of some murder or robbery being committed."
THE NATURE OF THE DOG.
[From a Paris paper.]
A FEW days before the 9th Thermidor*, a Revolutionary Tribunal in one of the departments of the North of France condemned to death M. des R****, an antient Magistrate, and a most estimable man, guilty, at fifty leagues from Paris, of a conspiracy, which had not existed at St. Lazare. M. des R. had a Water Spaniel, of ten or twelve years old, of the small breed, which had been brought up by him, and never quitted him. Des R**** in prison saw his family dispersed by a system of terror; — some had taken flight; others, themselves arrested, were carried into distant gaols; his domestics were dismissed; his house was buried in the solitude of the Seals; his friends either abandoned him, or concealed themselves; every thing in the world was silent to him, except his Dog. This faithful animal had been refused admittance into the prison. He had returned to his master's house, and found it shut. He took refuge with a neighbour, who received him; but that posterity may judge soundly of the times in which we have existed, it must be added, that this man received him trembling, in secret, and dreading lest his humanity for an animal should conduct him to the scaffold. Every day, at the same hour, the Dog left the house, and
went to the door of the prison. He was refused admittance, but he constantly passed an hour before it, and then returned. His fidelity at length won upon the porter, and he was one day allowed to enter. The dog saw his master. It was difficult to separate them: but the gaoler carried him away, and the Dog returned to his retreat. He came back the next morning, and every day; and once each day he was admitted. He licked the hand of his friend, looked at him, licked his hand again, and went away of himself.
When the day of sentence arrived, notwithstanding the crowd, notwithstanding the guard, he penetrated into the hall, and crouched himself between the legs of the unhappy man, whom he was about to lose forever. The Judges condemned the man; and may my tears be pardoned for the expression, which escapes from them, they condemned him in the presence of his Dog. They reconducted him to the prison, and the Dog, for that time did not quit the door. The fatal hour arrives; the prison opens; the unfortunate man passes out; it is the Dog that receives him at the threshold. He clings upon his hand. Alas! that hand will never more be spread upon thy caressing head! He follows him. The axe falls, the master dies, but the tenderness of the Dog cannot cease. The body is carried away, he walks at its side; the earth receives it, he lays himself upon the grave.
There he passed the first night, the next day, the second night. The neighbour, in the mean time, unhappy at not seeing him, risks himself, searching for the Dog, guesses for the extent of his fidelity the asylum he has chosen, finds him, caresses him, brings him back, and makes him eat. An hour afterwards, the Dog escaped, and regained his favourite place. Three months passed away, each morning of which he came to seek his food, and then returned to the ashes of his master; but each day he was more sad, more meagre, more languishing, and it was plain that he was gradually reaching his end. They endeavoured, by chaining him up to wean him; but you cannot triumph over Nature! He broke, or bit through his bonds; escaped; returned to the grave, and never quitted it more. It was in vain that they endeavoured to bring him back. They carried him food, but he ate no longer. For four and twenty hours he was seen employing his weakened limbs in digging up the earth that separated him from the remains of the man he had so much loved. Passion gave him strength, and he gradually approached the body; his labours of affection then vehemently increased; his efforts became convulsive; he shrieked in his struggles; his faithful heart gave way, and he breathed out his last gasp, as if he knew that he had found his master!
ANECDOES.
CUFFY"> CUFFY happening lately to pay his sweetheart a visit, found the jetty damsel had furnished herself with the fine flowing tresses of horse hair; upon which he exclaimed, "What the deuce you got here, Dinah? why, why wool all de fashion, you fool! — Don't you see how our fine white ladies try to look like negroe? Dair hair tick up, and I peck soon brack faces be all de ton among 'em."
AT a trial, a notorious offender being arraigned at the bar, plead guilty to the indictment; on which the Judge ordered the Jury to bring in the verdict "Guilty by Confession." The Jury withdrew, and in a few moments returned, and to the surprise of the whole Court, returned him not guilty . "Not guilty" exclaimed the Judge, "what reasons can you give for so extraordinary a verdict, considering the prisoner's confession." "Reasons, may it please your Honor," answered the Foreman, "we have sufficient; we all know the prisoner to be the greatest liar on earth, and your Honor knows a liar is never to be believed."
THE facetious and eccentric Tom Brown celebrated in the days of the English Charles II. describes new-mongers, or newspaper paragraphists, as lying in sheets for want of better covering.
INTERESTING NARRATIVE
Of Capt. BENJAMIN BALCH, of the ship Strafford , of a Mutiny that took place among the crew of the ship, — in a late passage.
TO THE PUBLIC.
I FEEL myself constrained to address the public on a subject exceedingly interesting to the mercantile and maritime interests of the United States, and all descriptions of persons immediately connected with these. — Left in a destitute, distressed condition, by a company of base mutineers, who took the advantage of my going on board a ship at sea, in order to obtain provisions and assistance; to run away with the ship Strafford ; and further have cruelly injured me by their misrepresentations and aspersions of my character, made to cover their own villainy, on their arrival, (during my absence) in the United States; I take the earliest opportunity after my return to lay the true, well supported state of facts before the Public. Justice to all concerned, to the world, and to my own injured character, requires it. And painful as my feelings have been, I mean not to give a narration tinged by these, but a simple state of facts, in the plain dress of the following protest and affidavit, sworn to in due form at Lisbon, whither I was carried, after the mutineers took my ship from me, and ran away with her. But first, I cannot suppress my warm acknowledgments, my unfeigned thanks, to Mr. Bulkeley, the Consul of the United States at Lisbon, and the American ship-masters and American merchants there, whose sympathy and kindness I ought ever gratefully to remember. They were, Capt. Mallary, Wm. Coleman, J. Steel, Wood, Mitchell, Barker, Ropes, Tyler, Haffron, Woroycutt, Titus Salter, Barker, Mr. John Hamilton, Capt. Phillips and Garde. I now solicit the attention of the public, to the following Protest and Affidavit, which I have sent on to Norfolk, where the lawless crew arrived with the ship Strafford ; that a proper use may be made of them.
BENJAMIN BALCH.
Portsmouth, March 28, 1799.
PROTEST.
BY this Public instrument of Protest be it known and made manifest unto all to whom these presents may come, or in any wise concern, that on the twelfth day of Feb. in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, before me THOMAS BULKELLY, Consul of the United States of America, in the City of Lisbon, &c. personally came and appeared, BENJAMIN BALCH, master of the ship Strafford of Portsmouth in the state of New-Hampshire, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists, deposed and said that on the ninth day of Oct. last past, he failed in and with the said ship Strafford , from the port of St. Ubes, laden with a cargo of salt, bound to Portsmouth, aforesaid; she being tight, staunch, stiff and strong, and well and sufficiently fitted, furnished and provided with every necessary, and a suitable crew for such an intended voyage, and steered his course to the northward, with a determination to make a northward passage, in sailing to the westward as far as the Western islands. — Having very boisterous weather, that on or about the twenty-fifth following, he experienced a heavy gale of wind at different points of the compass, by the violence of which, and his mate and people's not exerting themselves with that energy that was their duty, his best sails were so much injured as to be unfit for service without undergoing great repairs, and the ship from labouring and straining caused to make about 150 frothes of water per hour. Seeing which, together with the loss of his main-top-mast head, he resolved to go to the southward and run the trade winds down; apprehensive of having a long passage, and a winter's course to encounter with, and therefore thought it expedient to put the people on an allowance of one and a half pounds of beef per day, six pounds of bread per week, and two quarts of water per day, and other necessary things; and after sailing to the southward as far as lat. 27.00, and long. 25.00, having light winds and calm weather, prolonging his passage, he reduced the allowance of bread to 5lb per week; at which the
people murmured very much. On the thirtieth of Nov. in lat. 25° 10', and long. 65° 30' West, he spoke with an English brig called the Nymph , from St. Kitts, mounting 12 guns, on a cruise, which being also short of provisions, could not supply him with any. He then continued to the northward and westward as far as lat. 38° 00', North, and long. 68° 00', when having bad weather on the coast, and not being able to depend on his crew, made him very cautious in carrying sail. On the 23d of Dec. the wind being S. E. he steered to the N. W. and had fine weather until 4 A. M. the wind hauling round to S. S. W. he close reefed his fore and main top sails and then left the deck, ordering his mate to call him immediately if the wind hauled any further to the westward, or there was any alteration in the weather; at half past 6 A. M. finding the ship to go through the water very fast, he went on deck and as soon as he could reach the helm, got it up, every sail there was set blew from the ropes, the fore-yard broke off in the slings, and mainfail and mizen that were furlled to the yard, blew away likewise; the wind then had got to W. N. W. and blowing a tremendous gale, and the ship lay to the mercy of the waves, and labouring very much, shipped a deal of water, having one of the starboard main chain bolts drawn, and the larboard gunnel plank split open for 6 or 8 feet in her waist, which kept both pumps going for 24 hours; on the 24th and 25th the weather became more moderate, attended with a tumbling sea, the ship making 300 frothes per hour, and the men giving out one after another, he was then obliged to let the ship lay by for 36 hours before he could get any sail on her, having but two old top sails to put on the yard, and a few light sails left, that seeing the condition of the ship, together with what provisions yet remained, having 3cwt. of bread entirely spoiled, which had been rebaked on board, in consequence of their discovering, when a few days at sea, that the bread, or part thereof, which was bought at St. Ubes, not appearing it to be sufficiently baked, he thought it expedient to bare away for the West-Indies, and determined to stop his course for the Island of St. Thomas. On the 25th at P. M. he set the fore-top-mast-stay-sail and M. T. gallant-sail, in place of a fore-top-sail, the wind being N. W. he steered S. E. by S. at which time Samuel Huffman, boatswain, James Kelly and James Davis, Seamen, were below under pretence of being sick, and the rest of the crew could scarcely be kept to scarcely be kept to their duty, all hands then on an allowance of one and a half pound of beef, 3 3/4 lb of bread and 2 quarts of water per day, and one pint of wine with peas or beans every other day. On the 25th the weather being moderate the aforesaid persons came upon deck, and in the fore part of the day all hands were employed in bending the main-top-sail and getting it set, the appearer ordered the mate to have a spare top-sail yard that was on deck, rigged for a fore yard; and desiring him to do it as quick as possible, as the wind was veering round to the southward, and eastward, some head sail would be wanting on the ship; he expecting it would come on to blow fresh, and having been ill for four months, his own services were not so much as he could wish, but having no one he could depend on, was nevertheless obliged to keep the deck for the preservation of the ship and lives. Night approaching, he went forward to hurry them with the fore-yard, finding work went on very slowly; when Samuel Huffman, boatswain, and Peter Snow, seaman, answered him with very abusive language, called him a damned rascal, told him to go aft about his business, that he was starving them, and that they could not nor would not do any more duty, that the ship might sink and be damned, and if he wanted the fore-yard up he might do it himself; on hearing which abusive language he seized the boatswain, to endeavour to secure him below, who immediately resisted, and taking hold of the appearer, he being to leeward, attempted to throw him overboard, over the lee ruffree, but getting the advantage again he laid the boatswain on the deck, and dragged him aft on the quarter deck, in order to secure him in the steerage, when the latter

In resisting cried murder, upon which all hands left their work and came aft; the appearer was then obliged to let him go, and beg for his own life, and begged of them all to return to their duty. The mate stood present without endeavoring in the least to assist the appearer or suspend the prevailing mutiny. He then asked the mate several questions respecting what the people alleged against him as the cause of their mutiny to which he declined making any answer. The appearer then saw himself necessitated to submit to the will and determination of the insurgents. On the 27th, at 6 A. M. saw a sail bearing for them, which on coming up the appearer hailed, desiring the Captain to heave to, as he was in distress, which being done, the appearer ordered a boat to be hoisted out, and finding the men took their own time in doing it, and not seeing all hands on deck, he went to the steerage hatch and told the men to come on deck immediately, the reply from Sam'l Huffman, and Peter Snow, seamen, was that they should come on deck when they thought proper, he was then obliged to use means of force to get these two men to their duty, and it was an hour and half before the boat was got out; he then went on board said vessel, she proving to be the brig Portland, of and bound for Halifax, John Stuart, master, 12 days from Jamaica, who judged himself in lat. 36° 30' N. and long. 70° 00' W. The appearer acquainted him of his having a mutiny on board, and also of the condition of the ship, but Capt. Stuart could not afford him any relief either by exchanging some of his seamen or otherwise, as he had but 3 able seamen on board his vessel besides himself, and short of provisions, having lost a great part of his water in a gale of wind; however, as bread was the article the appearer was most in want of, Capt. Stuart, spared him 1 bbl. of bread, and in return took 60 gallons of water, and accommodated each other as much as lay in their power; the appearer then begged Capt. Stuart to come on board the ship, which he did, and represented to the crew the distressed situation of both vessels, without its having any effect, as they still continued their murmuring to themselves, particularly the 2 first mentioned mutineers.—Samuel Huffman, said to Peter Snow, now if you will stand by, we will go on board the brig; they observing the appearer, who stood near them, asked him if they might go on board the brig, to which he answered, no, since he had heard what they had said, and that he would shoot the first man who attempted to leave the ship, the wind then being fair, Capt. Stuart returned on board the brig, and at 12 meridian, they parted. At 2 P. M. wind S. S. W. and pleasant weather, the appearer ordered his mate to have the other top sail bent in place of a fore sail, and other needful duty; the reply was from the mate, let him hallow and be damned, we will do as we please; at the same time the boatswain being in the main shrouds on duty, the appearer ordered him, the latter expressed himself in some abusive language, with threatening revenge.—John Kelley, seaman, at the same time at the helm, being a man in whom the appearer could confide more than any other on board the ship, he asked him if he knew how long this mutiny had been in agitation, or if he had any concern in it: He replied, that he had no concern with them, and that the mate was the cause of the disturbance. He then asked said Kelley if he would take charge of his watch and live in the cabin with him, which he accepted. At half past 3 P. M. saw a sail to the westward, standing to the eastward, upon which he hoisted his colours in his lee mizen topmast shrouds, the sail in sight then bore down, and at 4 o'clock the appearer hailed her & desired the Captain to heave to, as he was in distress, which being done, the appearer ordered his boat to be hoisted out, and giving orders to the mate to keep the ship in such a situation as the boat might pass and repair without danger, and if that it came on dark before he returned on board again, for him to answer with a light in a lantern. He then ordered the boatswain into the boat with three men, and went on board the said vessel, in hopes to get supplies of the necessary articles they were in want of, and to get some of the mutineers exchanged, and on going on board said vessel found her to be a Danish barque, called the Eneghaden, Hans Peter Molsen, commander, four days out from Norfolk, bound to Oporto, who judged himself in long. 68° 00' and lat. 36° 30', the appearer informed him of the situation of his ship, and of his having mutiny on board, upon which Capt. Molsen offered to assist him all in his power.—The appearer then questioned those whom he had taken in the boat with him, to know if they would behave as becoming good men, and endeavor to take the vessel enable to the orders of himself, the said master; to which they made an-
swer that they had done what they could, and would not do any more; he then sent the boat back to the ship with a written note to the mate, pointing out to him that there was then an opportunity of getting the necessary supplies for taking the vessel to her destination, and to know his determination, whether he would behave himself as a becoming person in his capacity, and exert himself among the people so as that the appearer might have the command of the vessel, and exercise his power in safety; to which he waited in expectation of an answer, till the day was nearly spent, when he observed his people to make sail upon the ship, and to let the boat go adrift. The appearer then solicited Capt. Molsen to make more sail that he might hail his own vessel, which was accordingly done, and he desired the mate to take in sail, upon which the latter said the people would not do it; when all hands came aft and said that the appearer might stay where he was and be damned, that they had the ship, and would keep it, and night coming on, Capt. Molsen, not being able to keep his barque within hail of them with safety, the appearer on board the barque, got a light hoisted, agreeable to his orders to his mate, previous to his leaving his own vessel, to which the mate made no answer. The appearer prevailed on Capt. Molsen to give chase and keep in sight of the ship till morning, in hopes that something might be done, but in course of the night they lost sight of her, at which time Capt. Molsen resolved to continue on his voyage, apprehensive that the ship Strafford had altered her course—That by contrary winds the said barque Eneghaden, put into this port of Lisbon, and yesterday came to anchor at Bellem—That in consequence of the aforesaid circumstances the appearer declared to protect, and have required an act of me to serve and avail him and all others concerned when and in what place soever occasion may require. Therefore, the said appearer does protect, and I, the said Consul, at his instance and request—Do hereby solemnly and publicly protect against the officers and crew of the said ship Strafford, the winds and seas, and all which in right ought to be protected against, for all losses, costs, damages, expences, detriments and detention that have, or hath arisen, or that may come to the said ship Strafford, the proprietors of the cargo on board the said vessel, or to him the said master in consequence thereof. Thus done and protested, this appearer has hereunto subscribed his name in Lisbon, the day and year above written.
(Signed) BENJAMIN BALCH. Sworn before me, (Signed) THOMAS BULKELEY.
I, THOMAS BULKELEY, Consul of the United States of America, in the city of Lisbon, &c. Do hereby Certify, to all whom it may concern, that the foregoing is a true and literal copy of a protest of Benjamin Balch, late master of the ship Strafford of Portsmouth, in the State of New Hampshire, duly transcribed from the original in my office book.
IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office in Lisbon, this fifteenth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. THOMAS BULKELEY.
AFFIDAVIT. Ques. The name of your ship, and to whom it belongs, and your name? Ans. Ship Eneghaden, Capt. Hans Peter Molsen, belonging to Richlef Ingwerfen, of Hensbury. Q. Whence did you come? Where was you bound to? Ans. I came from Norfolk in Virginia bound to Oporto. Q. The name of the ship you met? and the Capt. Ans. Ship Strafford, Capt. Benjamin Balch. Q. Whence did he come? and what port was he bound to? Ans. Coming from St. Ubes, and bound to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, according to what he told me. Q. In what latitude and longitude did you meet him? Ans. In the lat. 36° 0' long. 68° 0' little according to my calculation, a little more or less. Q. How and what did happen at your meeting? Ans. On the 27th Dec. at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I was hailed by the above ship, and was desired to heave too with my ship, giving me to understand that he was in distress. Directly after doing so, the Captain came on board of my ship, in his boat with four men, three of which entered the ship with him against his order.—The Captain exposed to me his distress for want of provisions and sails, and that his crew were mutinous. I offered him every assistance in my power, as for provisions; but that I could not provide him with sails. Upon which he sent a note on board of his ship, and the same not returning, we saw the ship
get under sail again, before the wind, steering east, and upon my following them, they steered N. & W. and coming up with them at about 7 o'clock at night the Capt. hailed them, asking them why they did not heave by, upon which they answered, that he had nothing to order on board, and that he might stay where he was, and they would stay where they were, damning and cursing him, and calling him injudicial names, upon which they left us again at about 11 o'clock, steering N. and W. and sundry courses, we put up a fire which was not answered. I participated to the Capt. that I could not use my time any more to chase them, being under charter-party, and loaded with grain. Upon which he desired me to do as I thought proper, and I followed my course, making my people stand witness to the whole transaction. Lisbon, 14th Feb. 1799.
HANS PETER MOLSEN, HANS ASMUSSEN HEE, JOHANN FREDERICK X JURGEWITZ, PETER CHRIST. JOCHEMSEN.
We John Ayres, Consul General of His Majesty the King of Denmark and Norway, &c. &c. &c. in this Kingdom of Portugal and its dominions, &c. Do hereby Certify, That on the fourteenth February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, personally appeared before Us, Hans Peter Molsen, Captain of the Danish ship Eneghaden, Hans Asmussen Hee, mate, and Johann Frederick Jurgenwitz and Peter Christ. Jochemsen, boatswain and sailor of said ship, who all and every one in particular, declared and made oath before Us, that the above declaration, is a real and true relation of what has passed. In witness thereof we passed the present certificate, signed by us, and sealed with the seal of our office.
JOHN AYRES. Lisbon, 14th Feb. 1799.
I, THOMAS BULKELEY, Consul of the United States of America in the city of Lisbon, &c. Do hereby certify, To all whom it may concern, that John Ayres, who hath signed the foregoing instrument, is Consul General of His Majesty the King of Denmark in this kingdom, and residing in this city of Lisbon, and that to all acts by him signed full faith and credit is and ought to be given in courts of Judicature and thereout.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office in Lisbon, this 15th day of Feb. 1799. THOMAS BULKELEY.
To PRINTERS and the Public. I earnestly wish for the sake of justice and the public good, that this account may be published in the newspapers, especially at the outward, and shall be much obliged by it, and by any information, respecting the mate and crew, who have probably gone off before I could get home, that if possible they may be brought to justice. Their names are, Michael Welch, mate; Samuel Huffman, boatswain; John Kelley, seaman; James Kelly, do; Peter Snow, do; Peter Rawway. John Cross, ordinary; James Davis, do; John Lewis, do; John Sorway, do; Francis Jasper, cook; Wm. Duglass, ordinary.
Foreign Intelligence. Official Account of the CAPTURE of MINORCA.
Downing-Street, Dec. 23. Gen. Stewart's Aid-de-Camp arrived this day with the following dispatches: SIR, Cicadamela, Nov. 18. I HAVE the honor to acquaint you, that his Majesty's forces are in possession of the island of Minorca, without having sustained the loss of a single man. As neither Commodore Duckworth or myself could procure any useful information relative to the object of the expedition at Gibraltar, it was judged advisable to dispatch the Peterel sloop of war to cruise off the harbor of Mahon for intelligence; where after remaining a few days she joined the fleet near the Columbretes, without having made any essential discovery. So circumstanced, it was agreed to attempt a descent in the Bay of Adaya, and the wind proving favorable on the 6th inst. a feint was made by the line of battle ships at Fornells, and boats were assembled for that purpose under the direction of Capt. Bowen, Capt. Polden, and Capt. Pressland: Previous to the landing of the troops, a small battery at the entrance of the bay was evacuated, the magazines blown up; the guns spiked, and shortly after the first division, consisting of 800 men, was on shore. A considerable explosion to the westward indicated that the Spaniards had also abandoned the works at Fornells. Nearly at the same moment 2000 of the enemy's troops approached in several different directions, and threatened to surround this inconsiderable force, but were repulsed with some loss on the left, while the guns of the Argo, checked a similar attempt on the right flank, and the post was maintained until the disembarkation of the different divisions afforded the means of establishing a
position from whence the enemy's troops would have been attacked with considerable advantage had they not retired in the beginning of the night. The strength of the ground, the passes, and the badness of the roads in Minorca, are scarcely to be equalled in the most mountainous parts of Europe; and what increased the difficulty of advancing upon this occasion was the dearth of intelligence, for although near 100 deserters had come in from the Swiss regiments, and affirmed that the remaining force upon the island exceeded 4000 men, no particular account of the enemy's movements was obtained. Under this uncertainty it was for a few minutes doubtful what measure to pursue, but as quickly determined to proceed by a forced march to Mercadal and thereby separate the enemy's force by passing that essential pass, in the first instance, and from thence advancing upon his principal communications to either extremity of the island, justly depending upon Commodore Duckworth's zeal and exertion to forward from Addaya and Fornells such supplies of provisions and ordnance stores as might favor subsequent operations.
To effect this object, Col. Graham was sent with 600 men, and by great exertion arrived at Mercadal a very few hours after the main force of the enemy had marched towards Cuidadella, making several officers and soldiers prisoners, seizing various small magazines, and established his corps in front of the village.
The persevering labor of 150 seamen, under the direction of lieutenant Buchanan, during the night, having greatly assisted the artillery in forwarding the battalion guns, the army arrived at Mercadal on the 9th, where, learning that Mahon was nearly evacuated, a disposition was instantly made to operate with the whole force in that direction, and Colonel Paget detached under this movement with 300 men to take possession of the town: upon his arrival he summoned fort Charles to surrender,—and made the lieutenant Governor of the island, a Colonel of artillery, and 160 men, prisoners of war, removed the boom obstructing the entrance of the harbor, and gave free passage to the Cormorant and Aurora frigates,—which were previously sent by Commodore Duckworth to make a diversion off that port.
But these were not the only advantages immediately resulting from this movement, it favored desertion, intercepted all fraglers, and enabled the different departments of the army to procure beasts of burthen for the further progress of his majesty's arms.
Having ascertained that the enemy's troops were throwing up works and intrenching themselves in front of Cindadella, it was resolved to force their position on the night of the 13th inst. and preparatory to this attempt, Col. Paget with 200 men was withdrawn from Mahon; Col. Moncrief sent forward with a detachment to Ferarias three light 12 pounders and a five and a half inch howitzer and 90 marines landed from the fleet; when, in consequence of its having been communicated to Commodore Duckworth, that four ships, supposed of the line, were seen between Majorca and Minorca, steering towards the last mentioned island, he decided to pursue them, requested that the seamen and marines might re-embark, and signified his determination of proceeding with all the armed transports to sea; but weighing the serious consequences which would result to the army from the smallest delay on the one hand, and the advantages to be reasonably expected from a spirited attack on the other, it was thought advisable to retain them with the army: and on the 12th inst. the whole force marched to Alpluuz, and from thence proceeded on the 13th to Jupot, Col. Moncrief's detachment moving in a parallel line on the Ferarias road to Mala Garaba.
These precautions and the appearance of two columns approaching the town, induced the enemy to retire from their new constructed defences within the walls of Cindadella; and in the evening of the same day, a small detachment under Capt. Mutur, was sent to take possession of the Torteden Quart, whereby the army was enabled to advance the 14th, apparently in three columns, upon Kane's the Ferarias, and Fornells Roads, to the investment of the town at day break occupying ground covered by the position the enemy had relinquished.
Thus stationed, in want of heavy artillery and every article necessary for a siege, it was judged expedient to summon the Governor of Minorca to surrender; and the preliminary articles were immediately considered; doubts rising on the part of the enemy whether the investing force was superior in number to the garrison, two batteries of three 12 pounders, and three five and a half inch howitzers, were erected in the course of the following night within 800 yards of the place, and at day-break the main body of the troops formed in order
of battle considerably to the right of Kane's Road, leaving the piquets to communicate between them and Col. Moncrief's post.
This line, partly real and partly imaginary, extended four miles in front of the enemies batteries, from whence two 18 pound shot were immediately fired at the troops; but a timely parley, and the distant appearance of the squadron, occasioned the cessation of hostilities, and renewed a negotiation, which, thro the address of Major General Sir James St. Clair Erskine terminated in the annexed capitulation.
Four weeks salt provisions for the Garrison, besides the enclosed list of ordnance stores, were found in the town of Cindadella.
The assistance received from Commodore Duckworth in forwarding the light artillery and provisions, greatly facilitated the rapid movement of the army; and I am happy in the opportunity of declaring my obligations to Lord Mark Kerr, and Capt. Caulfield; for the supplies they sent from Mahon, and their exertions to land two mortars, which in the event of further resistance, might have proved of the utmost importance in securing the army, or compelling the enemy to surrender.
The support I have experienced from Major General Sir James St. Clair Erskine, Brigadiers General Stewart and Oakes, the exertion of Lieutenant Colonel Stewart, my Adjutant General, the zeal and spirit, and perseverance of both the officers and men of the different regiments under my command, have eminently contributed to the success of the expedition, and authorises me to represent their services as highly deserving his Majesty's most gracious approbation.
Capt. Gifford, my first Aide de Camp, who is perfectly acquainted with every circumstance concerning the capitulation of Cridadella, and the reduction of the island of Minorca, will have the honor to deliver this dispatch. I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) CHARLES STEWART. The Right Hon. HENRY DUNDAS.
NEW-YORK, March 22.
CONFIRMATION OF THE DEATH OF BUONAPARTE.
Capt. Clark, of the schr. Greyhound, 54 days from St. Lucar, bro't a manuscript which states, that the Ottoman court at Constantinople on the 17th Nov. notified all the foreign ministers that it had received advices by seven expresses from Egypt, of the assassination of BUONAPARTE and a number of French officers, among whom was Gen. BERTHIER.
It also states, that the Russian and Ottoman fleets have made themselves masters of Zante, Cephalonia, Corfu, and all the former Venetian islands which the French had appropriated to themselves.
Malta is retaken, and is in possession of the inhabitants for the present, under the government of the bishop.—The French are sent to Toulon on parole, not to take up arms during the war. The English, Neapolitans and Portuguese are in possession of the harbour. The French ship William Tell, of 80 guns, the Diana and another frigate, were taken at Malta.
Nelson landed 7000 Neapolitan troops at Leghorn; the king of Naples entered the Roman state with 80,000 men; Gen. Mack notified the French Generals Championet and M'Donald, to withdraw from Rome and the Roman state; the king of Naples and Gen. Mack entered Rome, and remained for some days in full possession of it, exercising all jurisdiction therein; but Championet advised the Directory, that he defeated the Neapolitans the 15th Dec. entered Rome the 16th, made 12,000 prisoners, (says nothing of killed or wounded, took 99 pieces of cannon, 3000 horses and mules,—and 15 standards and colors: that the King and Mack were the first who fled for Naples, which he intended to enter along with them, and it is reported he did the 2d Jan. but that the King and royal family had got off in an English man of war, to Palermo, in Sicily, but this wants confirmation.
The blockade of Cadiz, is carried on very strictly, under command of Lord Keith Elphinstone. Ten sail of the line were expected daily to reinforce it, under Admiral Onslow. Several Americans are detained in the fleet, and many sent to other ports, as well as ships of other nations. A schr. from Salem slipt unseen into Cadiz, with cocoa, coffee, sugar and baccalaw in hds. 'Tis said that Jervis (who is at Gibraltar) is to go to replace Nelson, who comes to the blockade, which gives the inhabitants of Cadiz no small uneasiness.
An American sailor taken on board an English brig, is detained by the French consul at Cadiz, to be sent to France, to take his trial as a pirate.

PHILADELPHIA, March 21. Northampton, &c. Insurrection. War Department, March 20, '99.
SIR, TO suppress the insurrection now existing in the counties of Northampton, Bucks and Montgomery in the state of Pennsylvania, in opposition to the laws of the United States the President has thought it necessary to employ a military force, to be composed in part of such of the militia of Pennsylvania, whose situation and state of preparation will enable them to march with promptitude. The corps of militia first desired on this occasion are the troops of cavalry belonging to this city, and one troop from each of the counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Montgomery and Lancaster: These troops I have the honor to request your Excellency will order to hold themselves in readiness to march on or before the 28th inst. under the command of Brigadier Gen. Macpherson. I have the honor to be, with the greatest respect, Your Excellency's most obedient and humble servant,
JAMES M'HENRY. His Excellency Gov. THOS. MIFFLIN.
SIR, The Secretary of War has this moment communicated to me, the President's intention to employ a military force, in suppressing the insurrection now existing in the counties of Northampton, Bucks, and Montgomery, with a request that the troops of cavalry belonging to this city, and a troop from each of the counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Montgomery and Lancaster, may be ordered to hold themselves in readiness to march on or before the 28th inst. under the command of Brigadier General Macpherson.
You will, therefore, immediately issue General Orders for complying with the President's request; and communicate, by express with the commanding officers of the several corps. As soon as the troops are ready to march, you will make your report to me; sending the returns of the officers, from time to time, as you receive them. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
THO. MIFFLIN. Philad. 20th March, '99, 3 o'clock P.M. To PETER BAYNTON, Esq. Adj. Gen. of the Militia of Pennsylvania.
GENERAL ORDERS.
Philadelphia, March 20.
THE following Corps of Cavalry are to hold themselves in readiness to March on or before the 28th inst.:
 Capt. Dunlap's } Of the City of Philadelphia.  Capt. Singer's }  Capt. Morrell's }  Capt. Leiper's }  Capt. Lecher's, of the county of Philadelphia.  Capt. Sim's, of the county of Bucks.  Capt. Taylor's, of the county of Chester.  Capt. Montgomery's, of the county of Lancaster.  Capt. Kennedy's of the county of Montgomery. 
The officers commanding the above troops of Cavalry will make report to the Adjutant General as soon as their respective Corps are in readiness to march.
By order of the commander in chief, PETER BAYNTON, Adj. Gen. of the Militia of Pennsylvania.
NEW-YORK, MARCH 19.
The following important extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated yesterday, was received this morning by a most respectable mercantile house:
Mr. Lison has news from Jamaica, of late date from Europe, which gives a confirmation of the murder of Buonaparte, and the beginning of hostilities; the king of Prussia in Holland; the Emperor in Switzerland; and the king of Naples in Italy. It seems that the French were not prepared in Holland to oppose an attack."
OUR NATION'S HOPE.
Capt. Chester, from Martinique, informs, that Com. Barry arrived there the 28th ult. with a British letter of marque, of 90 guns, and 45 men, which he recaptured from a French privateer. The English had just fallen into the hands of the French, when Com. Barry came up—The action was severe, and the killed and wounded remained on the deck when the was retaken. A letter from Martinique, dated Feb. 28th adds, in addition to an account of the arrival of the letter of marque, that the Commodore also sent in the privateer, said to be the Democrat, of 18 twelve pounders. Capt. Chester, however, says, the privateer escaped.
The Baltimore sloop of war, has again put to sea. She is commanded by Capt. Speak, late her 1st Lieutenant.
BOSTON, MARCH 28.
Yesterday arrived from Alicante, and in 29 days from Gibraltar, where she touched, the armed brig Alert, Capt. Rich. From him we have understood, that he brought Dispatches from the American Consul at Gibraltar, containing intercepted papers found secreted on board the ship Africa, Capt. Pearse, which sailed from New-York, some time since. These Dispatches were immediately transmitted to The President of the United States, at Quincy. Capt. Rich further informs, that the Capt. of the Africa, Mate, and Passengers, were confined, in order that they might be sent by the first armed vessel bound for the United States.
Letters from Gibraltar received by Capt. Rich, state, that the report of Buonaparte's death was generally believed, though nothing official on that head had been received; nor was there any thing direct and positive respecting the report of the taking of Naples by the French.
A letter from an officer on board the frigate United States, dated Prince Rupert's Bay, Feb. 17, mentions, that the French privateer which they sank was commanded by one Peter Solemianic, and had been four years in service as a pirate on the American commerce; she had been all the time before this cruise commanded by one Williams, an American.
The same letter adds, that the United States national ship on that station had conveyed 84 tail of American merchantmen from the clutches of Frenchmen; and remarks that these defensive measures, ought to stop the clamour of Jacobinism, which has so long raved against the expenses of a naval armament.
In another letter of the same date it is stated, that a report is in circulation that Capt. Nicholson has captured a French frigate after an obstinate engagement of three hours and an half.
Arrest of an itinerant Jacobin.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Andover, dated 23d of March, to his friend in this town.
"A transient person, who calls himself by the name of Brown, was sent from this place yesterday, to be committed to the Gaol in Salem for seditious practices."
A number of manuscripts were found upon him, judged to be calculated to excite the people to Insurrection.
Tho' Brown is not wanting in understanding, there is reason to believe many of the materials were furnished by abler heads than his.
In these manuscripts, the officers of Government, the Clergy and Lawyers universally are represented as the enemies of the people; as having consumed a large portion of their property; endeavouring to engross the remainder, and to reduce the people to abject Slavery.
The bank-holders and Stock-holders are marked for victims of public resentment.
The Merchants and people of property partake of the obloquy.
The main object of the writings is to alarm the Farmers, Mechanicks and Labourers, with an apprehension, that the preservation of their liberty, and property depends on a thorough Revolution.
Brown is a man of great fluency and equal effrontery.
The manuscripts abound with calumny, virulence and art. He says they are his own composition; that he has been in nineteen different States and Kingdoms in Europe, and in nearly all the United States. He professes to know the sentiments of many of the people in eighty towns in this Commonwealth; mentions Attleborough, Bridgewater, Concord, Dracut and Methuen among the towns he has visited; and he says he has had access to the public records in the several States from which he pretends to have taken many of his documents.
Another traveller, supposed to be employed on a similar errand, I am informed, has repeatedly passed thro' this town in the course of the past winter, from Boston into the District of Maine.
It is expected that vigorous exertions will be made, by the disaffected to Government, to produce an essential change in the Executive and Legislative departments of this Commonwealth, at the approaching Elections, as the most eligible measure to accomplish the end proposed. If this should fail, more serious measures may be attempted."
MARCH 20.
CAPT. DUCATER'S PRIZE.
An arrival at Beverly confirms the account of the capture of a French prize, with specie on board, by Capt. Ducater, as mentioned in the last Centinel. A Frenchman who was on board the prize is now in Salem gaol.
MORE AMERICAN BLOOD SPILT! Extract of a letter from Capt. H. Woodbury, to his friend at Bilboa.
"SIR, St. Andero, Jan. 18. "I wrote you by post, that the Schooner which was taken last afternoon, by 4 French privateers, belonged to Marblehead or Beverly: I since find that she belonged to Beverly, and that two men were killed on board of her. I saw the whole battle. She was coming into St. Andero, and was taken between the outer point and the fort, and I know that she could not be made a prize of here, and they have therefore sent her to Bayonne. But Mr. Obrien has written to Madrid about the matter. I think she was commanded by Capt. Jacob Oliver, of Beverly. She had two iron guns, and beat off one lugger; another then came up, but she still bravely continued the combat, till a 10 gun Schooner reinforced the enemy, when she was obliged to strike. Almost every shot came on shore. I stood the whole time outside the fort. The French privateers fired more than 60 guns before she struck."
On Thursday last, one Brown, a fower of sedition, taken up a few days since at Andover, and confined in Salem gaol, was bad before Mr. Justice Bancroft, and examined on the complaint against him for being concerned in erecting a sedition pole in Dedham, and other seditious practices. The Justice after a proper examination ordered Brown to recognize with sufficient sureties for his appearance at the next Circuit Court of the United States, and to be committed to prison until he should find such sureties.
SALEM, March 29.
IMPORTANT FACT.
The President of the United States has recently come to a determination to raise the 24 additional regiments, which a late law of Congress provisionally authorized him to do, and the Officers will be immediately appointed. It seems that an apprehension of imminent danger has operated upon the President's mind, and determined him to this measure.
We are told there is reason to believe that the French have determined on an invasion of some of our Southern States. It is not to be supposed that their designs are to be effected by any great armament from France, but by the more sure and fatal operation of secret emissaries, who will combine the slaves with the enemies of our government in Virginia, Kentucky, &c. and thus employ the force of the country in its own destruction.
PORTSMOUTH, April 3.
List of Town Officers chosen at the annual Town-Meeting, held March 25, 1799.
Moderator—Hon. John Langdon, Esq. Town-Clerk—George Wainworth. Selectmen—George Gains, Moses Woodward, Samuel Hutchings, Elijah Hall, and Samuel Drown.
Assessors—Dott. John Goddard, Tobias Walker, Joseph Akerman, George Long, and Martin Parry.
Auditors of Accounts—A. R. Cutter, Daniel R. Rogers, and Henry Langdon.
Overseers of the Poor—John S. Sherburne, Martin Parry, John M'Clintock, Nath'l Marshall, Joshua Brackett, Joseph Akerman, Walter Akerman, Henry Langdon, and Joseph Whipple.
Fire-Wards—Thomas Thompson, Jacob Sheafe, Eliphalet Ladd, Nath'l A. Haven, Neil M'Intire, Peter Coles, William Sheafe, Edward Cuts, Peter Coffin, Joseph Whipple, Thomas Manning, and Moses Woodward.
Tythingmen—James Sheafe, John Goddard, Seth Walker, Peter Coles, John Pickering, and John Peirce.
Constables—William Vaughan, Nahum Akerman, and Richard Low.
Lot-Layers—William Hart, Mark Simes, and John Stokles.
Fence Viewers—Samuel Hall, Walter Akerman, and Jeremiah Dennett.
Scaler of Weights and Measures—George Gains.
Searchers and Sealers of Leather—Nath'l Jackson, William Vaughan, and Daniel Jackson.
Cullers and Packers of Fish, also Cullers of Staves and Hoops—John Pitman, Charles Grace, Richard Savory, James Day, and Joseph Walton.
Measurers of Wood by land and water—John Melcher, John Beck, Samuel Cotton, John March, Paul Leighton, Nath'l Treadwell, Nath'l Jackson, Joseph Clarke, William Currier, and Joseph Man.
Corders of Wood—Daniel Hight, Thom's Ayers, William Walden, and George Walden.
Harbour-master—James Shores.
Keeper of the Magazine—Jeremiah Libbey.
Keeper of the Pound—John Dennett. Hog-Reeves—John Goddard, John Fisher, Abel Harris, William Boyd, John Peirce, Samuel Storer, Eliphalet Ladd, William Sheafe, George Turner, Thomas Manning, Edward Goye, and John S. Sherburne.
Committee of Health—George Gains, Jeremiah Libbey, and Thomas Thompson.
Officers of Police—Edward Sargent, Samuel Drown, Thomas Manning, Jeremiah Mason, John S. Sherburne, John M'Clintock, William Boyd, John Wardrobe, and Edward Hart.
Recorder of Deeds—Samuel Brooks, 219 votes.
County Treasurer—Oliver Peabody, Esq. 142 votes.
Copy of Record,
GEO: WENTWORTH, Town Clerk.
The Meeting stands adjourned until Thursday the 11th inst. to 10 o'clock, A. M.
Extract from the Answer of the President to an Address from the Legislature of N. Jersey.
The conduct of France towards the United States, which you describe with such energy of language and dignity of sentiment, is capable of no justification, extenuation, or apology, that I can imagine; and not only rendered necessary all the measures of defence which have been adopted, but would have justified more open and declared hostilities. Every war, however, that might be just, may not always be necessary. We have hitherto proceeded no further than we have been compelled by indispensable necessity, and if the conduct of France should render a further prosecution of hostilities unnecessary, they will not be further prosecuted. At present, however, we ought not to unstring a bow, or relax a fibre.
The insult and outrage committed against our national flag, by a superior force in the service of another power, I have always imputed to the indifference of a particular officer, and have hitherto no reason to doubt but that officer, and all others in the same service if any there should be, who stand in need of the lesson, will be taught a different conduct in future by their sovereign. Your approbation of my conduct on that occasion, does me great honor.
Jamaica papers state the conclusion of a treaty between Toussaint and the British government. The latter to furnish frigates to protect the black General's Neutrality.
The first broadside given by the Constellation, in the engagement with the Insurgent frigate, dismounted one of the enemy's guns, and killed every man stationed at it.
A gentleman from Newport informs, that last week a number of sacks of feathers were seized there. They had been bought by Connecticut Feather Dealers at New-York, in beds, shifted, and brought for sale. The beds have been lain upon by persons, who died of the Yellow Fever; and it is a general opinion that Feathers receive and retain infection. As it is possible some of these fellows, who are so 'careless' of the lives of their Countrymen, may bring feathers procured in the same way to this town, the above is stated as a general caution.
[Bost. Mercury.]
Sundry people have enquired what a democrat is?—Writers have divided all simple governments into three kinds;—monarchical, where a king, or other despot, is sovereign; aristocratic, where the nobles govern, and the common people are nothing; and democratic, in which every citizen has an equal suffrage and equal privileges, and the constituted authorities are the people's agents. Such is the species of government in these United States. We have neither despot nor nobility; and every citizen who wishes to preserve the purity of our constitution is a good democrat.
General WASHINGTON, when he retired from the office of President, solemnly cautioned us against party and local prejudices. How has this caution, which is enforced by every consideration, been regarded?
We are loudly called upon by the state of public affairs, to show ourselves firmly determined to support government—to respect the constitution—and to be decided Americans. What nation ever flourished in a state of anarchy? Where was liberty ever enjoyed equally from highest to lowest without a good government?
A sloop belonging to Capt. Hilton, of Wiscasset, from Boston, foundered near Wood-Island, cargo lost, except 6 hogheads rum. She sailed the 6th inst.
MARRIED—On Saturday evening, by the Rev. Mr. Buckminster, Capt. SAMUEL BOARDMAN of Exeter, to Miss MARY HILL, daughter of Mr. Jeremiah Hill of this town.
DIED—In this town, Mrs. Knox aged 43; Mrs. Jackson.
At Kittery Mr. JAMES HANS-CUM, of the Hydrophobia, he was slightly bitten about a month since by a mad dog, the bite had entirely healed and he was apparently well, and about his usual business 'till a day or two before his death.
We hear that several cattle were bitten by the same dog, that several of them have since died, and that a woman and a child were also slightly bitten, neither of which have yet discovered any symptoms of the Hydrophobia.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE. Schooner Nancies, Trefethen, Fort-Royal. CLEARED. Brig Union, Lunt, St. Croix.
FOR SALE BY William Neil
BY WHOLESALE OR RETAIL,
TEAS.
BOHEA, Souchong, Hyson.
SPIRITS.
Rum pr. hhd. bbl. or gallon,
Brandy pr. pipe, bbl. or gallon,
REAL Holland Gin, do. do. do.
WINES.
Madeira, Redport, Lisbon, Sher-
SUGARS.
W. India, E. India, Havanna, Loaf.
Other articles.
Chocolate per box or pound,
Coffee,
Casks Raisins,
Boxes do.
Currants,
Almonds,
Cassia,
Cloves,
Mace,
Pepper,
Alspice, Ginger, English Mustard,
—ALSO—A Cargo of
Turk's Island SALT,
For approved Credit.
Portsmouth, March 29, 1799.
Joseph Taunton,
RESPECTFULLY informs the
public that he has taken the
house lately occupied by Mr. Chapoul,
in Daniel-street, where he has opened
A RESTORATOR,
And intends keeping all kinds of Pro-
vision ready cooked, Pastry, Confectionaries, &c. &c. where any person
may call at any hour in the day, and
refresh themselves.
Families in town may be supplied
with victuals ready cooked, every hour
in the day, for their whole domestics.
Pound and all other kind of Cakes,
may be had, very reasonable at the
above place.
Portsmouth, April 3, 1799.
ALL persons having demands on the
estate of Capt. EPHRAIM HAM,
late of Portsmouth, deceased, are desired to
exhibit them to the subscriber for settle-
ment, and all those who are indebted to
said estate, are requested to make immediate
payment to
WILLIAM HAM, Executor. Portsmouth, April 1, 1799.
Portsmouth, Aqueduct.
THE Directors have voted a sixth Assessment of six dollars on each proprietor's share, and have directed their Treasurer to collect the same, on or before the 31st inst. March. The proprietors are therefore requested to pay the same timely to him at the Custom-House, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and one o'clock P. M. Delinquent proprietors who have not paid up their former assessments, must expect to see their shares advertised for sale, unless prevented by a speedy payment.
THOMAS MARTIN, Treasurer. Portsmouth, March 22, 1799.
TO BE SOLD
At Public Vendue,
On Monday the 15th day of April, at 12 o'clock, on the premises.
On easy terms for the purchaser,
A GOOD FARM
IN Epping, containing one hundred acres of good Land, with a large House and Barn in good repair; the mowing is principally intervalle of a good quality, with tillage and pasturing sufficient. Also, a young Orchard, upwards of two hundred growing trees, said Farm lies about 7 miles from Exeter, on the road to Wadsworth's falls, and may be entered upon immediately.
ALSO,
On Wednesday the 17th inst. at 2 o'clock P.M.
A good House and Shop joining, with good Garden and Barn, on the main street in Exeter, near the Academy, very convenient for a boarding House.—Conditions of sale may be known at time and place.—Credit will be given for the greater part if requested. JOHN HAVEN. Exeter, April 2.
Treasury Department,
March 11th, 1799.
Public notice is hereby given, Pursuant to the Act of Congress, passed on the first day of June, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-six, entitled, "An Act regulating the "grants of land appropriated for "military services, and for the fo- "ciety of United Brethren for pro- "pagating the gospel among the "Heathen;" and the Act supple- "mentary to the said recited Act passed on the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine—to wit:
THAT the tract of Land herein after described, namely, "beginning at the North West corner of the "seven ranges of townships, and running "thence fifty miles due south, along the "western boundary of the said ranges;— "thence due west to the Main Branch of "the Scioto river; thence up the Main "Branch of the said river to the place "where the Indian boundary line crosses "the same; thence along the said boundary "line to the Tuscaroras branch of the Mus- "kingum river at the crossing place above "Fort Lawrence; thence down the said "river, to the point where a line run due "west from the place of beginning, will "intersect the said river; thence along the "line so run to the place of beginning," has been divided into townships of five miles square, and fractional parts of townships; and that plats and surveys of the said townships and fractional parts of townships are deposited in the offices of the Register of the Treasury and Surveyor General, for the inspection of all persons concerned.
The holders of such warrants as have been or shall be granted for military services performed during the late war, are required to present the same to the Register of the Treasury, at some time prior to the twelfth day of February, in the year, one thousand eight hundred, for the purpose of being registered; No registry will, however, be made of any less quantity than a quarter township, or four thousand acres.
The priority of location of the warrants which may be presented and registered in manner aforesaid, prior to the twelfth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred, will immediately after the said day, be determined by lot, in the mode prescribed by the act first recited.
The holders of registered warrants, shall on Monday the 17th day of February, in the year 1800, in the order in which the priority of location shall be determined by lot as aforesaid, personally or by their agents, designate in writing at the office of the Register of the Treasury, the particular quarter townships elected by them respectively, and such of the said holders as shall not designate their locations on the said day, shall be postponed in locating such warrants to all other holders of registered warrants.
The holders of warrants for military services sufficient to cover one or more quarter townships or tracts of four thousand acres each; shall at any time after Monday the 17th day of February, 1800, and prior to the first day of January, 1802, be allowed to register the said warrants in manner aforesaid, and forthwith to make locations therefor on any tract or tracts of land not before located.
All warrants or claims for lands on account of military services, which shall not be registered and located before the first day of January, 1802, are by the supplemental act of Congress herein before recited, passed on the second day of March, 1799, declared to be forever barred.
Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.

O D E, To Capt. THOMAS TRUXTON, COMMANDER OF The U. S. A. Frigate Constellation, of 36 guns. OCCASIONED BY HIS CAPTURE OF The French Frigate L'Infurgente of 44 guns.—Feb. 9, '99.
O FAVOR'D Chief, to whom th' auspicious Have given firm courage, like the soul of Mars! High, o'er thy lofty mast Victoria towers, And crowns with conquest stern Colum- bia's Tars— By thy example fir'd, they deal the blows, Of patriot vengeance on their country's foes.— For thee has Fame th' eternal wreath en- twined— Sparkling with glory's gems it decks thy brow; For thee, within her sacred dome, assign'd A throne, mid heroes who impell'd the prow, Thro' Ocean's crimson waves, in old or mo- dern time, With skill directed h'm and energy divine, See Gallia's vaunting prophecy belie'd— Her breast of boasting—child with fore- dismay!— With her bruck flag—has sunk her impious pride— When TRUXTON triumph'd in the "bloody fray!" Vain Gallia, conquer on Italia's field— Our ships contain no Monks—no CON- VENTS ride the sea: No servile cowards fear thy threat'ning arms; Our hardy marines disdain to yield;— Ahorse, alike determined to be free, Even holy PRIESTS will join the martial host. Rang'd in Battalia on our coast— To guard our cities and defend our farms! Ye Tritons found your loud shell swells— And while alone, the boundless waste of air Shall fame with golden trump declare, The deeds of SEAMAN, emulously brave— Proclaim thro' Neptune's regal courts, Or where, with green-hair'd nymphs he sports In coral groves or chrysal cells, How TRUXTON fought and how the in- dignant wave Blush'd to become the briny grave Of French polluted coasts—Tell him, Ye Who with your clarion's blasts wake surges on the sea— Two kindred Navies now triumphant ride, The world's protectors, guardians of its rights. From waters red with morning's orient light, To realms where sinking day, fades in the Western tide! L*****.
* "The stern and awful to the foes of Rome, "He is all goodness."—CATO. In times of peace poets may sing of fair Co- lumbia.—At present she assumes a majestic courage:—The burnished casque gleams por- tentous from her brow, and her massive shield bids defiance, while in her strong right hand the "heaven attempted spear" threatens de- struction to her enemies.
The TINKER and the CLOCK. THERE is somewhere a story rela- ted to this effect: A countryman and his spouse, happening to hear of the wonderful properties of a clock, conclu- ded to buy one; which at last they ac- complished, & had it put up, and set in motion at their bed-side. The honest couple had no sooner got quietly un- der the clothes, than the clicking of the time piece surprised and disturbed them. They lay watching and sleep- less through the whole night, imagin- ing that the clock was certainly be- witched. As soon as the day dawn- ed, they opened the case door, and perceiving the motion of the pendulum, very shrewdly judged that to be the cause of their disturbance, and of the tinkling of the clock; and they de- termined to embrace the first oppor- tunity of having the nuisance removed. It happened that a few days after, a tinker celebrated through the country for his science in mending old bras, called at the cottage, and was imme- diately informed of the extraordinary actions of the clock. Upon a close inspection, he agreed with the old couple that the pendulum caused all the trouble, and that there would be no peace in the house until it was by some means stopped: and it was con- cluded on all hands that he should try his art upon it.—The clock was in consequence soon uncaused, and the tinker having discovered that the vi- brations proceeded from a very small contrivance in the upper works of the clock, he immediately, by the help of his blow pipe and soldering materials, clapped a stopper of lead upon it.— After which the clock ceased to "click, and the old couple snored away the night without interruption." So goes the tale. Now for the application: Thus it is with a certain class of men, who profess themselves enamored of the constitution of the United States. They admire its structure, and expect wonders from its utility, but no soon- er does the national pendulum begin to move, and their ears are saluted with the "clicking" of government, than they fall into trights and convul- sive terror.—They attempt to "stop the wheels" of the machine; and, tinker-like, supposing that a clock can move without a pendulum, stir up all the paltry pretenders through the country, to try their skill in destroying the political machine. (Trenton Federalist.)
HUMOROUS. AN aged man, being travelling on business put up at a tavern; having rode the whole day in a storm, he desired his landlord to give him a room, fire, and provide him some re- freshment,—which was accordingly done; there soon after came in six- teen young gentlemen, who demand- ed of the landlord the best room in the house; to which he replied, it was engaged, and he was unwilling to disoblige the guest—they then re- quested leave to speak with him, and proposed to hire him to quit the room, leave was given and proposals made and rejected; but the old man had the complaisance to offer to let them spend the evening with him—to which they replied, they should "raise the devil."—Well, says the good man, I will lay him for you—upon which the treaty closed. The young debauchees immediately ordered sixteen bottles of wine, drank them, and broke the bot- tles against the chimney back;—the old man (who partook with them) called for his bottle, and broke it likewise:—The young fellows still determined to oblige the old man to quit his post, and leave them masters of the ground, agreed that some one of the company should make propos- als, and execute them himself first; and that if any person in the room re- fused to follow, he should pay five pounds; to which all agreed:—The first was, to burn all their hats; the second, their coats; the third, their waistcoats; and fourth, their boots; which was accordingly executed by them, and the old man followed suit; After which, he says—gentlemen, now it is my turn to make proposals, to which I demand your compliance under the same penalty as before; to which they readily consented. The landlord was called, and a surgeon or- dered with his instruments—when the old man proposed that every one of the company should have all the teeth in their heads extracted; he sat him- self down accordingly, and ordered the surgeon to proceed; but to their astonishment, the old man had but one stump left to gratify their curi- osity, which was sacrificed to execute the proposal; the young men soon discovered that they were out gene- ralled, and rather than part with their teeth, settled a truce with the old he- ro, paid him five pounds each; paid the landlord his bill for the wine, &c. and had only the consolation to go home naked, and tell their friends, as the Paddy told General WASH- INGTON, when he had made prison- ers of five dragoons—that one ve- teran rank had surrounded and catched them napping.
WANTED, AN Apprentice to the Painters business, to whom good encouragement will be given. Apply to GEORGE DOIG. Portsmouth, March 20, 1799.
Treasury Department, March 5th, 1799.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT by an Act of
Congress passed the twenty-eighth day of February 1799, the following altera- tions and amendments have been made to an act passed on the 6th day of July, 1797, intitled "an act laying duties upon stamped vellum, parchment and paper." The Stamp Duties heretofore imposed upon Foreign Bills of Exchange and Bills of Lading are to cease and determine from and after the 31st day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. The several Stamp Duties hereafter enu- merated, will be levied and collected throughout the United States, from and after the 31st day of March, 1799.
For every skin or piece of Vellum or Parch- ment, or sheet or piece of paper, upon which shall be written or printed either of the instruments or writings following, to wit: Dols. Cts. Any Foreign Bill of Exchange, draft or order for the payment of money in any foreign country. 20 Any note, bill of lading, or writing or receipt in nature thereof, for goods or merchandise to be exported;—if from one district to another district of the United States, not being in the same state. 4 If from the United States to any foreign port or place. 10 Any Policy of Insurance, or instrument in the nature thereof, other than those heretofore specified in the above rec- ited Act, when the sum insured shall not exceed five hundred dollars. 25 When the sum insured shall exceed five hundred dollars, 1 And the said duties are chargeable upon each and every Bill of Exchange and Bill of Lading without respect to the number contained in each set. III. Bonds required in any case by the Laws of the U. States, or of any State, upon legal proceedings, or in any judicial proceeding, or for the faithful performance of any trust or duty, are exempt from the payment of Stamp duties. Given under my hand at Philadelphia, the day and year above mentioned. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
TO BE LET, THAT convenient two story House on Cross-street, at present occupied by Capt. Watts, and two convenient shops joining the same on Fore-street, three stories high, with a cellar under the whole, and possession given the first day of April next; or the above buildings will be sold on very reasonable terms.—To be let one of the convenient Shops lately occupied by Col. Nathaniel White, on Market- street.
TO BE SOLD, That convenient two story House opposite Capt. Joshua Hunsdill's, join- ing Col. Gardner's seat at the south end of the town, also another House two stories high, near the same, with a valuable water privilege.—Likewise a House Lot on Cross-street 30 by 45, pleasantly situated. The above are offered for sale on reasonable terms, and the payment made easy.
Also to let, the Mansion House on Water-street, with a barn and garden, formerly the estate of the Hon. Peirce Long, Esq.—For further particulars apply to SAMUEL STORER. Portsmouth, March 26, 1799.
The Phillips Exeter Academy.
NOTICE is hereby once more giv- en, to all persons indebted to the Trustees of the Phillips' Exeter Aca- demy, that it is indispensably necessary for the support of the Institution, that the Interest on their several Obliga- tions should be punctually paid, an- nually, as the same becomes due.
Those who have neglected to fulfil their engagements in this par- ticular, are hereby informed, that their obligations will be sued unless pay- ment is made immediately. Exeter, March 20, 1799.
TO BE LET, A KITCHEN, a small Parlor, and the Chambers over them, a Wood House, Well, and part of a large Garden, and other privileges, very convenient for a small family.— Inquire of the Printer. March 26.
TO be sold by the subscriber, 50,000 acres of land in different townships, in the State of New-Hampshire, in lots of 100, 200, 400 and 600 acres, some of them sit- uated on the fertile banks of the river Connecticut and its branches, and sub- ject to annual inundations, enriching the soil equal to the luxurious plains of the Ohio and Muskingum—30,000 acres of which are in townships hav- ing 20 to 50 families in each.—These lands will be sold on favorable terms of price, and credit to those who will cultivate them. JOSEPH WHIPPLE. Portsmouth, March 4, 1799.
FANCY GOODS.
JUST OPENED BY Peter Coffin, A great Variety of Elegant Camel's Hair Shawls, From 4 to 11 dolls. Fashionable yard wide London Chintzes; Swan- down, Quiltings and Camel's Hair Waistcoating. Portsmouth, March 8, 1799.
Herring Nett Twine FOR SALE.
Edward Parry Has just received a quantity of HERRING NETT TWINE, And an additional assortment of Fashionable best Superfine Broad Cloths; Chintzes and Mullins, &c. &c. March 11.
Ozias Silsby, REQUESTS his customers to call on him at the several places where their papers are left, on the first or second week in April, and give a reason (if any they have,) why he should not have pay for his expence and trouble in the business. N. B. No suing until after that time.
Morning School, For Young Ladies, At the North School House—by J. P. Payson, At one Dollar and a half per quarter. One Dollar at entrance. Room for 25 Scholars.—Quills and Ink gratis. Admittance until 20th of May. School from 6 to 8 A. M. and from 6 to 7 P. M. School to commence on Monday the 8th of April. Portsmouth, March 26, 1799.
THE subscriber being Executor to the last Will of Dea. ELISHA HILL, late of Portsmouth, deceased, and being desirous of set- tling the Estate, once more requests all persons who have any demands on said estate, or are indebted, either by notes of hand or otherwise, to call and settle the same. Should it not be con- venient for them to pay the balances immediately, a reasonable time will then be agreed on for that purpose. Those who will not attend to so reason- able a request, may expect to have their notes and accounts put into such hands as will make it expensive to them, as well as disagreeable to ELISHA HILL, jr. Portsmouth March 22, 1799.
The inhabitants of the town of PORTSMOUTH ARE hereby notified and request- ed, to exhibit to the Selectmen a just and true account of their polls and estates rateable by law, on or be- fore the 2d day of May next, and the Selectmen will attend that business at their Hall in the Brick School House every Thursday evening, from 7 to 9 o'clock, until said 2d day of May.
GEORGE GAINS, MOSES WOODWARD, SAMI HUTCHINGS, ELIJAH HALL, SAMI DROWNE, N. B. The Dwelling House on Pest-Island is now vacant, a suitable person with a small family may occu- py the same.—For terms apply to the Selectmen as above. Portsmouth, April 2, 1799.
Bargains and Wants.
THE undersigned intends to re- turn with his family unto De- merary, in May next. He therefore desires those to whom he is indebted, that they will be pleased to call on him before that time for the reception of their dues.
He offers his Furniture, to be sold at private sale, to be delivered when he leaves this town, and what remains undispersed of shall be sold at Public Vendue in the month of May coming.
WANTED, An honest Woman between 20 and 30 years of age, to attend a Lady as a companion. —ALSO—
Two Journeymen Joiners, to raise and finish a Dwelling House in Demerary. Conditions will be encour- aging, and those who are inclined to engage themselves, are desired to call on the undersigned for information— it is requested that they should be A- mericans by birth.
TO BE LET, And entered upon by November next, The House and Barn now in the occupation of Mr. John Haven, in Buck-street, a good stand for business.
ALSO—FOR SALE, A House and Land, in Cross- street, 3 stories high, to be entered upon the 1st of April next—Country produce will be received in payment, by
N. Rousselot. Portsmouth, March 8, 1799.
TAKE NOTICE.
TO BE SOLD, By me the subscriber at Public Vendue, at my dwelling house in Chester, on Thursday the twenty fifth day of April next, at 1 o'clock P. M.
ABOUT two hundred acres of A good land, lying in Chester a- foresaid, adjoining on Massabeseck pond (so called) and is called and known by the name of deer neck, well cover- ed with good pine and oak timber, and the finest place in these parts to make a good pasture for sheep or young cattle, about forty rods of fence incloses the whole neck, the remain- der is well fenced by water, articles of sale to be seen at time and place. HUGH TOLFORD. Chester, March 25, 1799.
Farm for Sale.
AN excellent Farm in Madbury, only 15 miles from Portsmouth, consisting of mowing, pasturing, and tillage land, well wooded and watered, an orchard that produces at least sixty barrels cyder; there are cut forty tons English hay one year with another on said farm, which consists of about 120 acres of as good land as any in the town, with a good double House, two large barns, and other buildings, all in good repair, and will be sold very low for ready cash.—Apply to TIM- OTHY DREW, of Madbury, who has for sale a Farm adjoining, of about 100 acres. Madbury, March 27.
WANTED to hire a good able Man, by the year; Inquire of ELIPHALET LADD.
TO BE LET, By the subscriber—a large and CONVENIENT Store, situate on Spring-Hill in Portsmouth, and opposite the Store of Mr. Peter Coffin, it is very suitable for a wholesale and retail English Goods Store, and will be fitted up in a mode that shall be ap- proved of by the person to whom it may be leased. J. WHIPPLE.
State of New-Hampshire. PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that the inhabitants of a place called Bethlehem, in the county of Grafton, have petitioned the General Court, representing that they are settled on a tract of land formerly belonging to said State, and lately sold by order of said State, for the purpose of mak- ing and repairing the road from Con- way to Co's, &c. that the number of settlers being increased to more than forty, it is necessary for the prosperity of said inhabitants that they be vested with lawful authorities to govern them- selves, and transact such business as re- spects them as a people—wherefore they pray that so much of the afore- said land be formed into a town, and incorporated by the name of Bethle- hem, as lies between the following towns and adjoining the said tract of State land, viz. Littleton on the West, Whitefield on the North, Britton- woods on the East, Franconia and Concord on the South, containing a- bout twenty-seven thousand acres.
Upon which petition it is ordered that the petitioners be heard before the General Court on the second Wednes- day of the next session, and that the petitioners cause that the substance of said petition and order of court there- on be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively, com- mencing six weeks prior to said day of hearing, that any person or persons may then appear and shew cause (if any they have) why the prayer there- of may not be granted.
Attest, NATHI PARKER, Dep'y Sec'y. Concord, December 1, 1798.
ALL persons having demands on the estate of SIMON JENNESS, late of Rye, Esq. deceased, are desired to exhibit them to the subscriber for settlement, and all those who are in- debted to said estate are requested to make speedy payment to OLIVE JEN- NESS, Executrix to said estate. Rye, Feb. 23, 1799.
THE subscribers being appoint- ed Commissioners by the Hon. Samuel Tenney, Esq. Judge of Prob- ate for the county of Rockingham, State of New-Hampshire, to receive and examine the claims of the several creditors to the estate of WILLIAM PLUMMER, late of Portsmouth, in said county, merchant, deceased, re- presented insolvent, hereby give no- tice that they will attend on that bus- iness, on the last Monday of this and the five following months, from 4 to 6 o'clock, P. M. at the store of Messrs. Prout and Parsons in Newbury-Port. ABRAHAM WHEELWRIGHT, SAMUEL CUTLER, THEO: BRADBURY, jun. Newbury-Port, March 1, 1799.
State of New-Hampshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the proprie- tors and owners of land in Henniker, who have not paid their State, town, school, bridge, county and highway taxes for the year 1798, 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 James Wallace, in said Henniker, on the 29th day of May next, at 10 o'clock A. M. unless prevented by previous pay- ment.
   Lot. Range. Quarters. Town. School. Bridge. High- way. cts cts cts cts cts cts cts     Stephen Dow 13 11 85 50 50 40 73 81 61   Jona. Easly 8 13 10 18 18 15 26 30 59   Eliza Purinton 10 30 15 15 12 24 20 50   Moses Emerjon 4 12 50 16 16 13 23 20 54   Farm form- erly owned by Eliz. Rice 16 17 50 14 14 11 20 20 46   Daniel Page 6 13 30 5 0 0 8 10 17   Epkm French 17 2 100 12 0 0 18 10 40   Moses Hunt 12 13 50 4 0 0 6 10 13   David Dow 5 12 30 4 0 0 5 10 13    BENJAMIN HOYT, Collector. Henniker, March 15, 1798.
NOTICE is hereby given that at a legal meeting of the proprie- tors of Brittonwoods, in the county of Grafton, held at the dwelling house of Mr. John Greenleaf in Portsmouth, on the 4th day of February, 1799, a tax of four dollars was voted to be as- sessed on each original right, or share of land in said Brittonwoods, and the same is assessed and committed to me to collect, unless the same is paid to me at my dwelling house in Port- mouth on or before the 10th day of April next, the land will be adver- tised for sale as the law directs. SAMI BOWLES, Prop's Collector. Portsmouth, Feb. 27, 1799.
BOOKS, BLANKS and STATION- ARY for sale at J. Melcher's Printing- Office and Book-Store, corner of Mar- ket-Street, Portsmouth.