The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1806-09-02 00:00:00

NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE
[No. 39.—VOL. II.]
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1806.
[TWO DOLLS. PER ANNUM.]
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY PEARCE & GARDNER, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Treasury Department OF THE UNITED STATES, JUNE 21, 1806.
WHEREAS the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, at a meeting held on the 28th day of April, 1806, did resolve, that the sum remaining to complete the expenditure of the annual appropriation of EIGHT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS...
This is therefore to give notice, that the principal of the said NAVY SIX PER CENT. STOCK, with the interest due thereon, will, on surrender of the certificates, be paid on the 1st day of October next...
It is further made known, for the information of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the NAVY SIX PER CENT. STOCK, either from or to the books of the Treasury, or from or to the books of a Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the 1st day of September ensuing...
ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury.
Wm. GARLAND,
Has for Sale, at No. 8 Merchants Row. 10 pipes Holland Gin, } entitled to 8 do. Brandy, } debenture.
COTTON per bag. 24 chests Souchong TEA. 18 do. Hyson Skin do. 10 do. Hyson & Young Hyson Tea. 160 lbs. Spanish Float Indigo.
RUM per Hhd. N. E. do. pr. Hhd. or Bbl. Flour; Pepper; Pimento, &c. Also,
40 Kgs best No 1 Butter. R. and W. O. Shooks. 3000 Yards Tow CLOTH. August 26, 1806.
A FEW Hhds excellent flavored Grenada and St. Vincents
RUM;
For sale by E. WENTWORTH, Head of Buck Street. Portsmouth, August 26, 1806.
HEARTWELL,
Has for sale at his store opposite the Court House, 17 Hhds. high 3d proof Grenada and Tobago RUM of a superior quality; 1000 wt. good Soak Leather; Together with a general assortment of Groceries, wholesale and retail.
—ALSO— 200 Bushels CORN and RYE, (northern production.) 300 wt. Excellent FLAX; SHINGLES; CLAPBOARDS; Red & white oak SHOOKS, &c. &c. all very cheap for cash or credit. Portsmouth, August 26, 1806.
Corn & Flour
FOR SALE BY WASHINGTON PEARCE, at No. 3, on the Pier, 800 Bushels CORN; 100 Bbls. Baltimore & New-York, FLOUR. Portsmouth, August 26.
LAWS OF THE UNION.
[PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.]
AN ACT For establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States.
(CONCLUDED.)
Article 56. Whosoever shall relieve the enemy with money, victuals, or ammunition, or shall knowingly harbor or protect an enemy, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a court martial.
Article 57. Whosoever shall be convicted of holding correspondence with, or giving intelligence to the enemy, either directly or indirectly, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a court martial.
Article 58. All public stores taken in the enemy's camp, towns, forts, or magazines, whether of artillery, ammunition, clothing, forage or provisions, shall be secured for the service of the United States; for the neglect of which the commanding officer is to be answerable.
Article 59. If any commander of any garrison, fortress or post, shall be compelled, by the officers, and soldiers under his command, to give up to the enemy, or to abandon it, the commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, or soldiers, who shall be convicted of having so offended, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be inflicted upon them by the sentence of a court martial.
Article 60. All sutlers and retainers to the camp, and all persons whatsoever, serving with the armies of the United States in the field, though not enlisted soldiers, are to be subject to orders, according to the rules and discipline of war.
Article 61. Officers having brevets, or commissions, of a prior date to those of the regiment in which they serve, may take place in courts martial and on detachments, when composed of different corps according to the ranks given them in their brevets, or dates of their former commissions; but in the regiment, troops, or company, to which such officers belong, they shall do duty and take rank, both in courts martial and on detachments, which shall be composed only of their own corps, according to the commissions by which they are mustered in the said corps.
Article 62. If upon marches, guards or in quarters, different corps of the army shall happen to join, or do duty together, the officer highest in rank of the line of the army, marine corps, or militia, by commission there, on duty, or in quarters, shall command the whole, and give orders for what is needful to the service, unless otherwise specially directed by the President of the United States according to the nature of the case.
Article 63. The functions of the engineers being generally confined to the most elevated branch of military science, they are not to assume, nor are they subject to be ordered on any duty beyond the line of their immediate profession, except by the special order of the President of the U. S. but they are to receive every mark of respect, to which their rank in the army may entitle them respectively, and are liable to be transferred at the discretion of the President, from one corps to another, regard being paid to rank.
Article 64. General courts martial may consist of any number of commissioned officers from five to thirteen, inclusively, but they shall not consist of less than thirteen, where that number can be convened, without manifest injury to the service.
Article 65. Any general officer commanding an army, or colonel commanding a separate department may appoint general courts martial whenever necessary. But no sentence of a court martial shall be carried into execution until after the whole proceedings shall have been laid before the officer ordering the same, or the officer commanding the troops for the time being; neither shall any sentence of a general court martial, in time of peace, extending to the loss of life, or the dismissal of a commissioned officer, or shall, either in time of peace or war, respecting a general officer, be carried into execution, until after the whole proceedings shall have been
transmitted to the secretary of war, to be laid before the President of the U. S. for his confirmation or disapproval and orders in the case. All other sentences may be confirmed and executed by the officer ordering the court to assemble, or the commanding officer for the time being, as the case may be.
Article 66. Every officer commanding a regiment, or corps, may appoint, for his own regiment, or corps, courts martial, to consist of three commissioned officers, for the trial and punishment of offences, not capital, and decide upon their sentences. For the same purpose all officers, commanding any of the garrisons, bays, barracks, or other places where the troops consist of different corps, may assemble courts martial, to consist of three commissioned officers, and decide upon their sentences.
Article 67. No garrison, or regimental court martial shall have the power to try capital cases, or commissioned officers; neither shall they inflict a fine exceeding one month's pay, nor imprisonment, nor put to hard labor, any non-commissioned officer or soldier, for a longer time than one month.
Article 68. Whenever it may be found convenient and necessary to the public service, the officers of the marine shall be associated with the officers of the land forces, for the purpose of holding courts martial and trying offenders belonging to either; and in such cases the orders of the senior officers of either corps who may be present and duly authorized, shall be received and obeyed.
Article 69. The judge advocate, or some person deputed by him, or by the general or officer commanding the army, detachment, or garrison, shall prosecute in the name of the U. S. but shall so far consider himself as counsel for the prisoner, after the said prisoner shall have made his plea as to object to any leading question to any of the witnesses, or any question to the prisoner, the answer to which might tend to criminate himself; and administer to each member of the court before they proceed upon any trial the following oath, which shall also be taken by all members of the regimental and garrison courts martial.
"You A. B. do swear that you will well and truly try and determine, according to evidence, the matter now before you between the U. S. of America, and the prisoner to be tried, and that you will duly administer justice, according to the provisions of "An act establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States," without partiality, favor or affection; and if any doubt shall arise, not explained by said articles, according to your conscience, the best of your understanding, and the custom of war, in like cases; and you do further swear, that you will not divulge the sentence of the court until it shall be published by the proper authority; neither will you disclose or discover the vote or opinion of any particular member of the court martial, unless required to give evidence thereof as a witness, by a court of justice, in a due course of law. So help you God."
And as soon as the said oath shall have been administered to the respective members, the president of the court shall administer to the judge advocate, or person officiating as such, an oath in the following words:
"You A. B. do swear, that you will not disclose or discover the vote or opinion of any particular member of the court martial, unless required to give evidence thereof as a witness, by a court of justice in due course of law. Nor divulge the sentence of the court to any but the proper authority, until it shall be duly disclosed by the same. So help you God."
Article 70. When any prisoner arraigned before a general court martial shall, from obstinacy and deliberate design, stand mute or answer foreign to the purpose, the court may proceed to trial and judgement as if the prisoner had regularly pleaded not guilty.
Article 71. When a member shall be challenged by a prisoner, he must state his cause of challenge, of which the court shall, after due deliberation determine the relevancy or validity, and decide accordingly; and no challenge to more than one member at a time shall be received by the court.
Article 72. All the members of a court martial are to behave with decency and calmness; and in giving their votes, are to begin with the youngest in commission.
Article 73. All persons who give evidence before a court martial, are to be examined on oath or affirmation in the following form:
"You swear or affirm (as the case may be) the evidence you shall give in the cause now in hearing, shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help you God."
Article 74. On the trials of cases not capital, before courts martial, the deposition of witnesses not in the line or staff of the army, may be taken before some justice of the peace, and read in evidence; provided, the prosecutor and person accused are present at the taking the same, or are duly notified thereof.
Article 75. No officer shall be tried but by a general court martial, nor by officers of an inferior rank, if it can be avoided. Nor shall any proceedings or trials be carried on excepting between the hours of eight in the morning, and three in the afternoon, excepting in cases, which in the opinion of the officer appointing the court martial, require immediate example.
Article 76. No person whatsoever shall use any menacing words, signs, or gestures, in presence of a court martial, or shall cause any disorder or riot, or disturb their proceedings, on the penalty of being punished at the discretion of the said court martial.
Article 77. Whenever any officer shall be charged with a crime, he shall be arrested and confined in his barracks, quarters, or tent, and deprived of his sword, by the commanding officer. And any officer who shall leave his confinement before he shall be at liberty by his commanding officer, or by a superior officer, shall be cashiered.
Article 78. Non commissioned officers and soldiers, charged with crimes, shall be confined until tried by a court martial or released by proper authority.
Article 79. No officer or soldier who shall be put in arrest, shall continue in confinement more than eight days, or until such time as a court martial can be assembled.
Article 80. No officer commanding a guard, or provost martial, shall refuse to receive or keep any prisoner committed to his charge, by an officer belonging to the forces of the United States; provided the officer committing, shall, at the same time, deliver an account in writing, signed by himself, of the crime with which the said prisoner is charged.
Article 81. No officer commanding a guard, or provost martial, shall presume to release any person committed to his charge, without proper authority for so doing, nor shall he suffer any person to escape, on the penalty of being punished for it by the sentence of a court martial.
Article 82. Every officer or provost martial, to whose charge prisoners shall be committed, shall within twenty-four hours after such commitment, or as soon as he shall be relieved from his guard, make report in writing, to the commanding officer, of their names, their crimes, and the names of the officers who committed them, on the penalty of being punished for disobedience or neglect, at the discretion of a court martial.
Article 83. Any commissioned officer convicted before a general court martial of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, shall be dismissed the service.
Article 84. In cases where a court martial may think it proper to sentence a commissioned officer to be suspended from command, they shall have power also to suspend his pay and emoluments for the same time, according to the nature and heinousness of the offence.
Article 85. In all cases where a commissioned officer is cashiered for cowardice or fraud, it shall be added in the sentence, that the crime, name, and place of abode and punishment of the delinquent, be published in the newspapers in and about the camp, and of the particular state from which the offender came, or where he usually resides, after which it shall be deemed scandalous for an officer to associate with him.
Article 86. The commanding officer of any post or detachment, in which there shall not be a number of officers adequate to form a general court martial, shall, in cases which require the cognizance of such a court, report to the commanding officer of the department who shall order a court to be assembled at the nearest post or detachment, and the party accused, with necessary witnesses, to be transported to the place where the said court shall be assembled.
Article 87. No person shall be sentenced to suffer death, but by the concurrence of two thirds of a general court martial, nor except in the cases herein expressly mentioned, nor shall more than fifty lashes be inflicted on any offender, at the discretion of a court martial, and no officer, non-commissioned officer, soldier, or follower of the army, shall be tried a second time for the same offence.
Article 88. No person being liable to be tried and punished by a general court martial for any offence which shall appear to have been committed more than two years before the issuing of the order for such trial, unless the person by reason of having absented himself or some other manifest impediment shall not have been amenable to justice within that period.
Article 89. Every officer authorized to order a general court martial shall have power to pardon or mitigate any punishment ordered by such court except the sentence of death, or of cashiering an officer; which in the cases where he has authority (by article 65) to carry them into execution he may suspend until the pleasure of the President of the United States can be known; which suspension together with copies of the proceedings of the court martial, the said officer shall immediately transmit to the President for his determination. And the colonel or commanding officer of the regiment or garrison where any regimental or garrison court martial shall be held may pardon or mitigate any punishment ordered by such court to be inflicted.
Article 90. Every judge advocate, or person officiating as such, at any general court martial, shall transmit, with as much expedition as the opportunity of time and distance of place can admit, the original proceedings and sentence of such court martial, to the secretary of war, which said original proceedings and sentence shall be carefully kept and preserved in the office of the said secretary, to the end that the persons entitled thereto may be enabled, upon application to the said office, to obtain copies thereof.
The party tried by any general court martial, shall upon demand thereof made by himself or by any person or persons in his behalf, be entitled to a copy of the sentence and proceedings of such court martial.
Article 91. In cases where the general or commanding officer may order a court of inquiry to examine into the nature of any transaction, accusation or imputation against any officer or soldier, the said court shall consist of one or more officers, not exceeding three, and a judge advocate, or other
suitable person as a recorder, to reduce the proceedings and evidence to writing, all of whom shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duty. This court shall have the same power to summon witnesses as a court martial, and to examine them on oath. But they shall not give their opinion on the merits of the case, excepting they shall be thereto specially required. The parties accused shall also be permitted to cross examine and interrogate the witnesses, so as to investigate fully the circumstances in question.
Article 92. The proceedings of a court of inquiry must be authenticated by the signature of the recorder and the president, and delivered to the commanding officer; and the said proceedings may be admitted as evidence by a court martial, in cases not capital, or extending to the dismissal of an officer, provided that the circumstances are such, that oral testimony cannot be obtained. But as courts of inquiry may be perverted to dishonorable purposes and may be considered as engines of destruction to military merit, in the hands of weak and envious commandants, they are hereby prohibited, unless directed by the President of the United States, or demanded by the accused.
Article 93. The judge advocate, or recorder, shall administer to the members the following oath:
"You shall well and truly examine and inquire, according to your evidence, into the matter now before you, without partiality, favor, affection, prejudice or hope of reward. So help you God."
After which the president shall administer to the judge advocate or recorder, the following oath:
"You A. B. do swear that you will, according to your best abilities, accurately and impartially record the proceedings of the court, and the evidence to be given in the case in hearing. So help you God."
The witnesses shall take the same oath as witnesses sworn before a court martial.
Article 94. When any commissioned officer shall die or be killed in the service of the United States, the major of the regiment, or the officer doing the major's duty in his absence, or in any post or garrison, the second officer in command, or the assistant military agent, shall immediately secure all his effects or equipment then in camp or quarters, and shall make an inventory thereof, and forthwith transmit the same to the office of the department of war, to the end that his executors or administrators may receive the same.
Article 95. When any non-commissioned officer, or soldier shall die, or be killed in the service of the United States, the then commanding officer of the troop, or company, shall, in the presence of two other commissioned officers, take an account of what effects he died possessed of, above his arms, and accoutrements, and transmit the same to the office of the department of war; which said effects are to be accounted for, and paid to the representatives of such deceased non-commissioned officer, or soldier. And in case any of the officers, so authorized to take care of the effects of deceased officers and soldiers, should, before they have accounted to their representatives for the same, have occasion to leave the regiment, or post, by preference, or otherwise, they shall, before they be permitted to quit the same, deposit in the hands of the commanding officer, or of the assistant military agent, all the effects of such deceased non-commissioned officers and soldiers, in order that the same may be secured for, and paid to their respective representatives.
Article 96. All officers, conductors, gunners, matrosses, drivers, or other persons whatsoever, receiving pay, or hire, in the service of the artillery or corps of engineers of the United States, shall be governed by the aforesaid rules and articles, and shall be subject to be tried by courts martial, in like manner with the officers & soldiers of the other troops in the service of the United States.
Article 97. The officers and soldiers of any troops, whether militia or others, being mustered and in pay of the United States, shall at all times, and in all places, when joined, or acting in conjunction with the regular forces of the United States, be governed by these rules and articles of war, and shall be subject to be tried by courts martial, in like manner with the officers and soldiers in the regular forces, save only that such courts martial shall be composed entirely of militia officers.

Article 98. All officers, serving by commission from the authority of any particular state, shall on all detachments, courts martial, or other duty, wherein they may be employed in conjunction with the regular forces of the United States, take rank next after all officers of the like grade in said regular forces, notwithstanding the commissions of such militia or state officers may be older than the commissions of the officers of the regular forces of the United States.
Article 99. All crimes not capital, and all disorders and neglects which officers and soldiers may be guilty of, to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, though not mentioned in the foregoing articles of war, are to be taken cognizance of by a general or regimental court martial, according to the nature and degree of the offence, and be punished at their discretion.
Article 100. The President of the U. S. shall have power to prescribe the uniform of the army.
Article 101. The foregoing articles are to be read and published once in every six months, to every garrison, regiment, troop or company, mustered or to be mustered in the service of the U. S. and are to be duly observed and obeyed, by all officers and soldiers who are or shall be in said service.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in time of war all persons not citizens of, or owing allegiance to the U. S. of America, who shall be found lurking as spies, or in or about the fortifications or encampments of the armies of the U. S. or any of them, shall suffer death, according to the law and usage of nations, by sentence of a general court martial.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the rules and regulations, by which the armies of the U. S. have heretofore been governed, and the resolves of Congress thereunto annexed, and respecting the same, shall henceforth be void and of no effect, except so far as may relate to any transactions under them prior to the promulgation of this act, at the several posts and garrisons respectively, occupied by any part of the army of the U. S.
NATH'L MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate pro tempore. APRIL 10, 1806. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
POLITICAL.
FOR THE GAZETTE. To the writer of a piece which appeared in the Oracle of the 23d ult. signed a good Republican.
The citizen of Stratham requests the self-named good Republican (more properly neighbor simple,) to get another lesson from the more knowing ones, and be ready to recite the first opportunity. Something new would be more acceptable. The "garden of the new world, tribute to France, and salt mountain," have been repeated so often that every scholar in the school has gotten them by heart. He is thanked for his information respecting the boundaries of Louisiana, and the situation of the Floridas. No man ever made so great progress in geographical knowledge, in so short a time, as neighbor simple. The citizen of Stratham wishes he had tarried a few "months" longer at the "aculemy," and devoted his whole time to the study of geography, that he might have known as much as neighbor simple, and have been as capable of writing pieces for the "news-paper." It is as happy for neighbor simple as for the "inhabitants of Louisiana," that the "mountain of salt was not destroyed"—he may want some of it to preserve his publications from taint: such noble hints as he gives want good salt, that they may be kept pure, and serve as models of ingenuity in composition, for the next century. Neighbor simple appears to be worried about "the credit of the town," in his last piece: I wonder he had not tho't of this, and his own "credit" when he wrote his July piece; if he had, I am sure he would not have published such a scandalous lampoon against the town as he then did, and palm it on one of the company who met to celebrate American Independence.—You complain for want of "argument"—who do you think would argue with you? you value yourself wholly on buffoonery, as evidently appears in all your publications. A blackguard knows nothing about fair argument. I suppose you thought to give me a heavy blow by saying "some would call that good Irish, but it is just such nonsense as those who know you would expect from you." This is nothing more than might be expected from one whose pen is dipt in wormwood and gall. We had a specimen of this on the 17th of last March—but more of this hereafter. You must put up with this "Irish nonsense" for the present, and when I have leisure to write a more "labored performance" (for it requires labor to answer your witty sayings) and "couch it in language that you can understand," you will hear from me again.
A CITIZEN OF STRATHAM.
FROM THE AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Young Austin.—I am sensible of the impropriety of publishing any thing at this time on the untimely death of this amiable young gentleman, but my apology is the party paragraphs which have appeared respecting it in the Evening Post. Under the pretence of abolishing party efforts, Mr. Coleman has wantonly called up party feelings. With what I have to say on the causes which led to the death of the young gentleman, I will however mingle as little of party as possible. The Public seem to call for information concerning the murderer. The facts which follow are verbally communicated to me by an intelligent gentleman from Boston, and they are strengthened by written information.
In Boston, as here, the federal party have for several years made it a point to discountenance the celebration of our independence, asserting that it is inconsistent with a cordial amity with Great Britain. With them therefore, to be consistent, the celebration was every year becoming more & more a farce. The republican party in Boston have, however, celebrated the day with splendor, and this year, elated with the fair prospect of republicanizing the state, it was commemorated by them with unusual magnificence.
Finding that they are descending in the state without perhaps the power of retarding their fall, the federal party, as a state trick, had this year recourse to a commemoration of the day. Resolving, as an expedient, to celebrate it, every thing possible was to be done to make a good exterior appearance.—They were sufficiently early in their arrangements to secure to themselves Faneuil Hall. As the republicans were to be together, they had therefore house accommodation to seek.
The republican committee, of which Mr. Benjamin Austin, father of the deceased, and known during the reign of terror as the writer of Old South, was chairman, waited on the keeper of the Jefferson Inn, at the foot of Copp's hill, and engaged with him by written contract to provide dinner for 400 persons.—He agreed to furnish 400 with dinner at one dollar each, the company finding their own wines. The inn-keeper had resided in Boston but about 14 months.
As soon as the written agreement was made, the chairman of the republican committee, hearing that the Tuillean ambassador and Mr. Cathcart had arrived in town, sent them a note of invitation to dine, which was accepted; besides these the committee invited eighteen gentlemen, there were therefore twenty extra covers to be furnished, which was stated to the Jefferson inn keeper, and to whom it was added that an adequate compensation would be made for the extra number. The day was joyfully spent.
A few days after, the committee, with its chairman, called to pay their bill, which was stated by the landlord to be 700 dollars. The committee offered him 400 dollars, according to agreement, and 50 dollars for the twenty extra, but he insisted on 700 dollars, alleging that in bringing an extra number the agreement was broken. The inn-keeper said that he had consulted with T. O. Selfridge, the murderer of young Austin, who had advised him to demand the 700 dollars, and offered to carry on a prosecution against the chairman of the committee for its recovery, gratis. The committee then offered the landlord 100 dollars for the extra number, but he refusing to accept it the committee retired.
In the next number of the Repertory, a federal paper, said to be partly edited by Selfridge, the committee and the republican party generally were attacked as a set of scurvy fellows who had not paid the poor inn holder for their feasting. The Repertory is published by a coxcomb of the name of Park, who copying Mr. Coleman, imitates his meanness.
Finding that Selfridge, for little party purposes had thus abetted extortion, the committee to get rid of the inn-holder whom they found to be a federalist, paid the 700 dollars.—After the money was paid, the attacks continued in the Repertory.
Mr. Austin, chairman of the committee, being told on the exchange as a sort of disgrace, that the man's bill was unpaid, he answered that it was not, and added a relation of the part that Selfridge had acted with the landlord. Next day Selfridge met Mr. Austin in the street, and asked him if he had stated that he had advised a prosecution? He answered that he had, and that he could and would prove the fact. Having sworn that he would either make Mr. Austin "eat his words or make an apology," Selfridge retired.
The same evening, but without further communication with Mr. Austin, Selfridge sent a note to a federal paper, "posting him as a liar, a scoundrel, and a coward." Mr. Austin received a proof sheet of the note the night be-
fore it was published, so that on the same day it was thus answered in the Chronicle, a republican paper.
"Considering it derogatory to enter into a newspaper controversy with one T. O. Selfridge, in reply to his insolent and false publication in the Boston Gazette, of this day; if any gentleman is desirous to know the facts on which his impertinence is founded, any information will be given by me on the subject."
"BENJAMIN AUSTIN. Boston, August 4."
When Selfridge saw the note, he loaded his pistols, put them in his pocket, and went to seek Mr. Austin, swearing that he would shoot him wherever he could find him.—Selfridge went to one of the insurance companies where Mr. Austin was, but it happened that he was in a back room, where he was not seen by his fell seaker.
Unable to meet with Mr. Austin, walking up a street, he met his son, a youth of 19.—Selfridge accosted him. As they were alone no one can tell what conversation took place, but a witness who lived opposite to where they stood and saw them, stated in his evidence before the coroner's inquest, that they had been but a few moments together when Selfridge pulled a pistol from his pocket and lodged the contents of it in the bosom of the young gentleman, who immediately expired!
The Jury, consisting of ten federalists, gave a verdict of "murder with malice aforethought." Mr. Russell, editor of the Centinel, a federal paper, was on the jury.
From the Baltimore Evening Post. The fact now is and always has been, that in the United States, as well as in every individual state, the villified and traduced democrats bear and have born "the burthen and the heat of the day." They pay nine tenths of all the impositions of government, drawn from the natural or inherent resources of the country: they are the mean of its prosperity in peace, and defence in war; yet the men of "virtue and talents" have considered no epithet too degrading to express their disrespect and contempt of this class of society!
The republican interest is chiefly composed of farmers and mechanics, and of men who labor. Let truth be twisted as it may—let it be ever so much obscured by the chicanery of lawyers or hypocrisy of priests, it still remains the same—it is an incontrovertible fact, that the laboring class of the community pays the taxes of the government under which they live, and are the only sure medium of its opulence and prosperity.
The laboring class are also to be depended upon in case of an appeal to arms. It is not the "silk stocking" gentry, the luxurious and the "well born," who will meet the dangers and fatigues of the soldier—we speak generally. It is the hardy yeoman whose arm has received energy from a life of labor; whose constitution has not been enervated by riotous living; whose soul has not been corrupted by the "flesh pots" of aristocracy; who prizes his liberty as the dearest of blessings; and the inheritance of a free man as the most glorious enjoyment—these are they who voluntarily take up the musket to defend the privileges they enjoy from Nature's God, and the virtue of their ancestors, who, with the "assistance of a kind Providence," wrested them from the iron hands of a tyrant.
That man who lives upon the income of an estate left him by his forefathers, or acquired without much labor, knows not the value of the possession—is not sensible of the condition of the poor. He has little to fear from a change of masters in comparison with the yeomanry of this country. A rich man may enjoy himself under almost any form of government—but for the poorer to enjoy life it is necessary they should be free. Hence more political virtue, as well as every other virtue, is always found among what is usually termed the middle rank of society than with the affluent portion of it.
This is no new doctrine. It is as old at the flood, and as immutable as truth. But the aristocrats among us, as well as in all other places, affect to contemn and despise the laborer, without whose aid their possessions, however extensive, would be of no value, and their comforts of life indeed, but few!
From the National Register. When a fretful child clamours for a thing, and has it: and then murmurs because you gave it to him, there is no better way than to leave him to his own perverse temper: and take but little notice of him.
He will say, I want Louisiana, I must have Louisiana, I will have Louisiana. And when you get it for him, I had land enough before; I did not want so much land. Yet if Spain claims a little piece of this despised land, Contentious he cries, It was all bought for me—I will have it all—and I won't be easy if you give me all—I've shall beat
Spain—Tu shall beat her all to pieces—But Miranda comes, and asks you to help him beat Spain. Now the complaint is, You have let this wicked Miranda escape—You have affronted Spain—You should have put him in jail, and then delivered him up to Spain as an outlaw—what if you did not help him yourself? Ogden & Smith have been encouraged to break the law, because you let Miranda dine with you—Now let this Ogden & Smith be tried. They are tried and they are acquitted. Immediately, It was tyranny to prosecute them—I am glad they are acquitted.—And we are glad too, and glad that the child is pleased for once. But what next? "A large vessel laden with military stores, and full of men, and bound to the West Indies, but whether to supply the Emperor Desjalines, or to reinforce the revolutionary Miranda, is not known, has been seized at Philadelphia by government, after she had got under way. In the eyes of a reflecting world, it may appear absurd that a nation, who, when oppressed and struggling for freedom, called earnestly upon all the world to assist them, should, after being comfortably seated in the chair of Independence, and surrounded with Wealth, Plenty, and Power, not only look with aversion on the struggles of those now contending for Liberty, but to use the strong arm of that power to prevent even the appearance of an effort to succor or relieve them. We do not wish to see the laws violated; but inconsistent and unjust laws ought to be repealed."
This peevish disposition has been discovered a long time. A thousand things this froward child would have, and he would not. If you attempt to gratify him in every thing, he will try to pick your eyes out. To whip him, as he deserves, is not only disagreeable, but will do no good. The only chance is to treat him with neglect. I have sometimes known an ill natured child, tired out by his own fractiousness, reform himself.
See Saturday's Centinel of the 9th ult.
BY THE MAILS.
CHAMBERSBURG, AUGUST 12. "Many are the shapes of death, And many are the ways that lead To his grim cave."
On Wednesday last Mr. Charles Martin living on the plantation of Simon Eaker, in Antrim, and Mr. John M'Farlan, of Washington, in this county, fell victims to the imprudence of entering a well on the place of Mr. Eaker, infected with fixed air, or "suffocating choke damp." The circumstances attending this melancholy accident, are as follows:—The water being low in the well, Mr. Martin had procured a person acquainted with the business, to remove some rocks near the bottom which obstructed the passage of the bucket to the water. This person having taken a lighted candle in his hand, had not descended far before he discovered the effects of the noxious and mephetic vapours upon the candle, and immediately ordered the persons at the windlass to draw him up. As not being willing to descend again, Mr. M'Farlan insisted upon descending, which was permitted—he scarcely reached the bottom, when upon being requested, he agreed to be drawn up; but when he had arrived about three fourths of the way, the deleterious air he had respired overpowered him, and he fell to the bottom! Mr. Martin's feelings of sympathy having stifled every sense of danger, rashly and fatally resolved to descend (without being tied) and endeavor if possible, to rescue M'Farlan from total death. He immediately slipped down the rope, (the bucket having been previously let down) near to the bottom; but finding no symptoms of life in M'Farlan, and probably feeling the effects of the damp, he fixed himself in the bucket to be drawn up; but alas, when within about four feet of the top of the well, like M'Farlan, he fainted away and fell backwards out of the bucket!—On taking their bodies from the well, by means of a hook, it was found that their heads had been shockingly bruised in falling.
Mr. Martin was an industrious, sober man—he has left a wife and four small children, and his circumstances being low, renders his death to them an irreparable loss. We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of stating that the independent farmers of Antrim have resolved to assist the widow of Mr. Martin.
MELANCHOLY!
PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 23. By the arrival of the brig Endymion, capt. Suter, 16 days from Laguire, we are informed that a part of the crews of Miranda's Schooners, taken some time since by the Spaniards, viz. Captains Donohue & Gardiner, Messrs. Lippincott, Ledlie, Paul George, Kirkland, a Polish gentleman, and one Smith a butcher, of N. York, where all hung and their heads set on poles, a few days before the Endymion failed, and the other part of the crews 43 in number were condemned to the Mines for 10 years. The same accounts say, that Miranda
had received a reinforcement of 10 sail, and gone against the Carracas; but that no fears were entertained by the Spanish government.
Extract of a letter from captain Suter of the brig Endymion, arrived at the Lazardette, from Laguire, date August 22, 1806.
"I arrived here after a passage of 16 days from Laguire—I was boarded by the Brutus armed Schooner from Antigua and politely treated. In the Mona Passage was boarded by one of his majesty's brigs from Europe, behaved very mean, detaining us and pressed several men from the brig, leaving me only two seamen on board.—He would not tell his name nor his vessel, lat. 26, 20 long. 71—spoke sch'r Caroline, 9 days out, from Trinidad bound to Philadelphia; lat. 34, 56, lon. 72, 30 spoke sch'r Trent, from Edenton bound to Guadaloupe.
"Eight days before the Endymion failed, 10 of the officers of Miranda's Schooners captured, were hung and 48 put into slavery ten years, those who were hung had their heads cut off and hung up in iron cages on the different roads through the country. Four boys remain in the Castle.
Left at La Guira, sch'r Polly, Seler, for Boston."
NEW YORK, AUGUST 23.
Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron was off Antigua the 17th July, and intended to remain in that quarter for the protection of the islands, in case Jerome Bonaparte should suddenly return there.
The Commercial Advertiser of last evening says—"Capt. Allcorn, of the ship Clyde, arrived from Trinidad, informs that a day or two previous to the sailing of Miranda's Squadron, the commander in chief received direct intelligence that the whole of the Carracas was in a state of revolt, and that two armies, consisting of from 10 to 15,000 men each, were in the field, awaiting the arrival of General Miranda—the one is commanded by Don Pedro Minto—the name of the other commander is not recollected."
Captain M'Combs, arrived at Baltimore from Trinidad, informs, that General Miranda failed the 25th July, accompanied by a ship, 2 brigs, and 3 or 4 Schooners—supposed for Margaretta.
"The Western World."—A paper with this title has been established at Frankfort Kentucky. It has already set the "western world" in a ferment. Kentucky in her wildest days scarcely experienced greater uproar. The editors of the "World" have undertaken to prove that several influential characters in that quarter, particularly General Wilkenfon, and John Brown, Senator of Congress from Kentucky, have been engaged in various projects for the separation of the western counties from the Union; that such a project still exists, and that Mr. Burr is privy to the fame. How much truth, or appearance of truth, there is in these statements, we cannot as yet determine.—In regard to Mr. Burr, we have long been of opinion that he is a very dangerous man to the peace of the Union. With a good share of abilities and popular address, and a mind fraught with restless and unprincipled ambition, though now apparently in a humble, harmless condition, we consider him as well qualified to raise a storm, and direct it to his purposes.
(Amberst Cabinet.)
WORCESTER AUGUST 27.
On Friday last a most violent hail storm passed over the centre of this town. Its direction was from West to East, in a vein of about half a mile in width. The wind was unusually high and the rain fell in torrents.—Great injury was sustained in the corn fields and the glass in the houses opposed to the fury of the storm, was principally destroyed. Hail stones of nearly the size of a hen's egg were picked up after the rain. We understand that it did considerable damage in Roxbury and Dorchester. Part of a ropewalk, many trees and fences, and several chimneys were blown down.
A warm Gubernatorial electioneering campaign has commenced in Vermont. The Hon. ISRAEL SMITH, late member of Congress, is the Republican candidate, in opposition to his Excellency ISAAC TICHNOR, the present milk sop, half way federal Governor. No doubt is entertained of the election of Mr. SMITH. For the honor of our sister state, we hope, she will no longer exhibit the preposterous figure of a body disconnected with its head.
(Eggs.)
It is asserted under witnesses, in a Bennington paper, that the present Governor of Vermont asserted at a review, that "Bonaparte, well landed in America, with 25,000 men, would be able to march through the Continent."

Portsmouth, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1806. LATEST FROM EUROPE. Friday last, the arrival of the ships John Adams, and Sally, from Liverpool, furnished us with London papers to the 19th July, and Liverpool to the 21st.
An intercourse of couriers was kept up between England and France, and fruitful crops of rumors, &c. was the consequence. One of these rumors stated, that the outlines of a pacification had been drawn. All the continental arrangements of Bonaparte were to be recognized; and Britain was to have Hanover restored, and Malta and the Cape guaranteed to her. But all this was sheer conjecture. Nor was there any certainty of the arrival of a Russian negotiator at Paris. On the 18th July, 3 per cent. consols were 63 1-2.
Troops were embarking in England; and an expedition to Sicily was fitting out with activity. In Germany, things remained stationary; except that some of the Austrian prisoners had recommenced their march homeward; and there were indications of the evacuation of Germany by the French. The New Constitution of Germany was under discussion.
The Prussians had evacuated Bremen. The gallant Prince of Hesse, continued with unabated constancy to defend Gaea. The Duke of Sussex, one of the British Princes was to come out to Jamaica, as a kind of Viceroy. The report of the intended elevation of Bonaparte's mother to succeed his "Holy Father," was contradicted. The commissioners on the charges respecting the Princess of Wales had not reported. [Centinel.]
The Gazette of the United States is anxious to obtain extracts from Mr. Munroe's dispatches. Is this intended to call to mind the outrages which England has committed on our commerce and to show that by Mr. Munroe's silence, justice is not to be had at the hands of that nation, which may be fairly called and proved to be the fomenter and perpetrator of universal evil. It is most probable that no justice nor any thing like justice, is to be expected at the hands of Britain—she is willing to give us setters and shame , under the name of a treaty—perhaps she may with us to subscribe to terms of humiliation as execrable as those which Jay subscribed; but Mr. Munroe will never put his hand to such an instrument of humiliation—of impolicy —and of sacrifice not only to the rights and interests of this nation, but of the general law of nations.
Mr. Munroe, we have reason to think, has been asked to dis-ace himself and his country, he has spurned the shame & protected for his country, against any sacrifice of right, honor, or the law of nations—& he is to return in the fall, for he is not a loiterer in anti-chambers—nor one who can commit the credit of his country by underhand dealings and preliminary commitments with under secretaries or underlings in office, as his predecessor did; what he has attempted to do for the service upon which he was sent, the executive must be acquainted with, and when congress sits, no doubt that body to whom communications are regularly made—and thro' which they always regularly reach the public, will learn the particulars.
If there were any exigency to demand it, congress would be called together and the public then duly apprized of the state of things;—the constitution entrusts the negotiations with foreign powers to the executive—and the executive can constitutionally act only in the mode which its form and usage points out.—Let not the pretended friends of the constitution write indirect satires on it; let them rather be satisfied, that since congress has not been called together, nothing that requires such a step, exists, that nothing has been done, nor is expected to be done which congress could forward by an assembly at this time. Those who are so solicitous, however, on English injustice, had better wait awhile—perhaps they may find it expedient at no very remote day, to consider the least said on the subject the better. [Aurora.]
We understand that advices of a very unpleasant tenor have been received from Halifax. The court of admiralty at that place it is said, have determined to condemn all produce of enemy's colonies, and bound to enemy's ports, whether it be found on board neutral ships importing the same or otherwise. By this latitude of condemnation, it follows, that the whole of our foreign trade will be entirely destroyed. Admiral Berkley, who was to succeed to that station, had not arrived. It therefore does not clearly appear whether this destructive principle is derived from recent orders or not. [Philadelphia paper.]
Among the speculations of the present day, we have one upon the subject of the St. Domingo trade. And because the British, at open war with the French, presume to interfere with the most valuable colony the French claim, it is presumed that the Americans might as confidently have taken the same measures, without just offence to the French, and as a neutral nation. The English may pay a very high price for this trade; for no man can imagine that slaves free in St. Domingo, and in the Spanish Colonies, would leave their fellow slaves without assistance and without hope. [Saleus Register.]
MARRIED. In this town, Capt. NATHANIEL KENNARD, jun. to Miss RUTH WALKER; Mr. JOHN BALL to Miss NANCY RUSSELL.
DIED. In Virginia, MERIWETHER JONES, Esq. Commissioner of Loans, for that state. In New-York, during the week ending the 23d inst. 16 men, 10 women, 25 boys and 25 children, total 76; of flux infantile 20, consumption 6, small pox one. In Providence, R. I. Mr. George Field. In the goal, John Norman; he was imprisoned for the murder of Toby Miller, and hung himself. In Newburyport, Mrs. MARGARET HUNNEWELL, wife of Mr. Daniel H. and daughter of Capt. Benja. Connor; Mrs. Elizabeth Goodhue, aged 70;—Mr. Tristram Coffin. In Bow, (N. H.) Dea. ISAAC WHITE, aged 77. In Deerfield, (N. H.) Lt. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STARK, aged 28, youngest son of John S. In this town, Mrs. FIELD, wife of Capt. FIELD; Mrs. DANIEL WARD, 41; Miss Mary Lowe, aged 5; daughter of Mr. Joseph Lowe. This is the second child Mr. L. has lost within a fortnight; A child of Mr. Samuel Tucker.
Melancholy & distressing. DIED.—At Nottingham, N. H. on Thursday the 21st ult. Mr. BENJAMIN TRUE of Deerfield, aged 46,—his death was occasioned by the falling of a poll which had but a few minutes before been reared for a flag staff—while the carpenter was preparing to fasten it in its place, it fell and struck Mr. TRUE on his head,—The best medical assistance was had to no purpose, as he survived only about 12 hours.
Mr. True was an honest, agreeable and very useful member of society, and as such is truly lamented by all who had the happiness of being acquainted with him,—by the poor in particular who emphatically "rise up and call him blessed."—He has left a wife and seven children—also, his aged Parents, who considered this son as the staff of their old age.—Never was there a family wherein love and harmony more cordially existed—but alas! death has marred their joys, and turned this happy joyous house to the most solemn house of mourning, ever witnessed in this vicinity.—His remains were interred the evening following his death, attended by a numerous train of mourning relatives and an uncommonly large concourse of spectators, whose eyes and countenances well bespoke their grief.—A Sermon, pathetic and appropriate, was preached by the Rev'd Mr. UPHAM of Deerfield, from Job. 23. 2.—"Even to day is my complaint bitter; my stroke is heavier than my groaning."
Melancholy Accident! —In Waterford, (Mall) on Tuesday afternoon, the 19th ult. while a number of persons were raising the frame of a house, a sudden gust of wind raised it to the ground, while a number of persons were on it; a Mr. Stone was killed—a Mr. Jewell dangerously wounded; and another person very much hurt.
Drowned. —In Salem harbor, Mr. JOSEPH TRASK. He sent his son by swimming to recover a small boat which had gone adrift from his vessel, and finding the boat was carried by the wind faster than the lad could swim, he went into the water to retrieve the youth, was seized with the cramp, and was drowned before assistance could be given him—aged 47. He has left a wife and 8 children.
Mr. Wrifford, takes the liberty to notice, that he expects to tarry in town six or eight weeks, and that he should be pleased with employment during that time, in his profession, teaching the art of Writing , by rule & method. By method, children and young persons of proper age, genius and application, may acquire a fair regular hand by receiving thirty lessons; others may renew and correct their hands with twenty; and others who are tolerably versed in writing, may amend and correct with ten; Ladies can be attended at their own houses, or at a place Mr. W. will provide. Time of attending is one hour at each lesson; no larger number than seven is attended to at a time. Those who may think proper to improve this opportunity, are requested to make application this week or the beginning of next, that proper arrangements may be made. For further particulars inquire of Mr. Wrifford, at the boarding-house of Mr. Payson, No. 14, Market-street. Portsmouth, September 2. 1805.
NOTICE. THE subscriber having received from Mr. Benjamin Leverett an assignment of all the debts due him, calls on all Persons indebted by note, account or otherwise to said Leverett, to make immediate payment to him. Those who neglect this notice more than thirty days, will be called on by an attorney. William Garland. Portsmouth, Sept. 2, 1806.
New FLOUR for sale. PEARSE & WALKER, HAVE just received, Alexandria Superfine and fine FLOUR; do half bbls. Crackers, and Bbls. SHIP BREAD. Sept. 1, 1806. New Flour. 100 whole and half Bbls. Superfine FLOUR, from this years wheat, for sale by Stephen Pearse. Sept. 2.
Flaxseed, Pot & Pearl-ashes wanted, FOR which cash and the highest prices will be given by Abel & Robert Harris. Portsmouth, Sept. 2d, 1806. For Freight or Charter, If applied for immediately, THE SCHOONER ABIGAIL, Jesse Berry, Master, burthen 104 tons, in good order, and sails well; for terms apply to PEARSE & WALKER, No 11, Merchant's Row. Likewise, for sale on board said Schooner 70 Bbls. fresh Superfine FLOUR—apply on board. Sept. 2.
Room Paper. THOMAS & TAPPAN, [Sign of the BIBLE, opposite the Court House.] Have for sale, Paper Hangings, low as usual. Portsmouth, September 2. NOTICE. THOSE who are indebted to the estate of COL. ELIPHALET LADD, late of Portsmouth, deceased, are informed that all demands which are now due, will be put into the hands of an Attorney for collection, if not paid on or before the first day of December next. HENRY LADD, Executor. Portsmouth, Sept. 2, 1806. [§3mD1.]
State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ss. To the Hon. Nathaniel Rogers, Esq. Judge of Probate for said county of Rockingham. HUMBLY shews, Joshua Haven of Portsmouth in said county merchant, that John Wardrobe late of said Portsmouth, merchant deceased, in his life time, to wit, on the tenth day of September A. D. 1803, made a certain contract in writing with your petitioner, whereby said Wardrobe in consideration of certain sums of money agreed to be paid by your petitioner, stipulated to convey to your petitioner in fee simple, one certain lot of Land situate in said Portsmouth, bounding southerly by a dwelling-house, and land then owned and occupied by said Wardrobe eighty feet, westerly by a lane leading from Jaffrey-street to Broad-street, northerly by land lately owned by the heirs of Benjamin Parker eighty feet, and easterly by Court-street forty nine feet and nine inches, with a floor then standing thereon,—and also all his, the said Wardrobe's right and title in and to the one fourth part of a certain lot of land and buildings thereon situate in said Portsmouth, bounding westerly by said lane leading from Jaffrey-street to Broad-street, northerly by Broad-street, easterly by Court-street, and southerly by the aforementioned lot of land,—that your petitioner on his part hath performed said contract by paying such part of the purchase money as was thereby agreed to be paid, before the death of the said Wardrobe, and is now ready to pay the residue, but that the said Wardrobe was by death prevented from conveying said premises to your petitioner.—That administration of the estate of the said Wardrobe hath by your Honor been granted to Benjamin Brierley of said Portsmouth, merchant, and Ann Wardrobe widow of the deceased. Wherefore the said Joshua Haven, prays that he may be admitted to verify his aforesaid allegations and that thereupon your honor will license and empower the said administrators to execute a deed conveying said premises to him, said Joshua Haven, in fee simple—and as in duty bound shall ever pray, &c. JOSHUA HAVEN.
August 27, 1806. Rockingham, ss.—Probate Court at Exeter, August 28th, 1806. Upon considering the foregoing petition, it is ordered that the petitioner be heard thereon at the Probate Court to be held at Portsmouth on the third Wednesday of October next, at eleven of the clock before noon—and that he cause notice thereof to be made in some public newspaper in this state three weeks successively, thirty days at least before the said day. Wm. PARKER, Register. Copy Examined, Pr. Wm. PARKER, Reg'r.
NOTICE. THE subscriber having received from Mr. Benjamin Leverett an assignment of all the debts due him, calls on all Persons indebted by note, account or otherwise to said Leverett, to make immediate payment to him. Those who neglect this notice more than thirty days, will be called on by an attorney. William Garland. Portsmouth, Sept. 2, 1806.
This Day published by Elias Smith and for sale by him— The Christian's MAGAZINE No. 5—Containing A N history of the Clergy in the 15th century; Doctrine of baptism and laying on of hands explained; a christia described; Review of the Catechism, in which the contradictions, fallacies and impossibilities contained in it, are shown to the world; Review of Mr. Sweeny's and Fletcher's sermons on baptism; Woolwich Address; Yearly meeting in New-Durham; Baptism in the Ganges; Associations described; Remarks on the minutes of the New-Hampshire Association in 1806; Life of John Calvin, who burnt Servetus; The Clergy turning from federalism to republicanism; New Testament Dictionary; Present time; A word to the wife, &c. &c. Sold also by Daniel Coosan, No. 9, Back street, Bolton; Benjamin Carter, Wiscasset; N. Patch, Gorham; Alden Spooner, Windsor; Vt. Richard Ransom, jr. Woodstock, Vt. John Bergin, Eastport, (Maine,) and by the booksellers. At the above places may be had numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Christian's Magazine. September 2, 1806.
To Robert McMurphy, Esq. clerk for the Proprietors of the lands granted by the name of Alexandria, situate in the county of Grafton, in the then province of New Hampshire, now in the state of New Hampshire, and now called Alexandria and Danbury; also for the proprietors of the lands granted by the name of Alexandria Addition in the county of Hillsborough, in said province, now state of New Hampshire, now called New-London:—
WE the subscribers owners of more than one sixteenth part of each of said tracts of land, request you to notify or warn a meeting of the proprietors and owners of Alexandria and Danbury to meet at the dwelling-house of Mr. David Atwood, innholder in said Alexandria, on the twenty-fourth day of September, A. D. 1806, at eleven of the clock, A. M. on said day; and to notify a meeting of the proprietors and owners of said Alexandria Addition, now called New-London, to meet at the dwelling-house of Joseph Colby, Esq. in said New-London, on the 26th day of September next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on said day,—at each of said meetings to act on the following articles, viz. 1st. To choose a Moderator, to govern said meeting. 2d. To see if the Proprietors will accept of the resignation of their former Clerk. 3d. To choose a Proprietors Clerk, Attorneys, Collector, Treasurer and any other Officers they think best. 4th. To examine into the survey and allotments of said lands, and finish any allotments they think not properly finished, especially in Alexandria second and third division; or act on the premises as the proprietors think reasonable. 5th. To examine into the courses of the lines of said township of Alexandria or Addition, and to see if they are conformable to the grant, and act on the premises as they think best. 6th. To raise any money they may find necessary, to effect any of the above purposes they may think reasonable, or any other purpose. 7th. To see what method the proprietors will take respecting the encroachments of the claimers under New-Checker, and take such measures on the premises as they think best. 8th. To settle all accounts since the grant of 1773, as they think reasonable. August 6, 1806.
JONAS MINOT, JONAS MINOT, for SAMUEL PARKMAN, JONAS MINOT, JR. State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ss. The proprietors and owners of the lands in Alexandria and Addition as above stated, are hereby notified and warned to meet at the times and places and for the purposes above mentioned. ROBERT McMURPHY, Proprietors Clerk. August 26, 1806.
To the Hon. John Orr, Esquire, one of the Justices of the peace and of the quorum in and for the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire.
THE subscribers, proprietors and owners of more than one sixteenth part of the town of GOFFS-TOWN in said county, request you to call a meeting of said proprietors to meet on Thursday the second day of October next, at one of the clock in the afternoon, at the dwelling-house of Robert M. Wallace in said Goffs-town, then and there when met. 1st. To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting. 2d. To choose a Proprietors Clerk. 3d. To see if said proprietors will by vote confirm to the legal heir of Samuel Griggs, Lot No. 6 in the 7th range in said town, on the north side of Piscataquog river, in lieu of Lot No. 5 in said range, as said No. 5 appears to have been originally recorded to the school right and to said Griggs, and said No. 6 not having been recorded to any proprietor. 4th. To see what the proprietors will vote to be done with the common and undivided land in said town, and to make all appointments and votes necessary for carrying the same into effect. July 29th, 1806.
ALEXANDER GILURST, JOHN BUTTERFIELD, WILLIAM McDOEL, ROBERT KENNEDY, JOHN HOLBROOK. Bedford, August 2d, 1806. Pursuant to the foregoing request the proprietors of Goffs-town, are hereby notified to attend at time and place and for the purposes above mentioned. JOHN ORR, Justice Peace.
SALES AT AUCTION. The sale of the Furniture at Little Harbor, advertised in the Gazette is postponed until the next Spring. To prevent disappointment, persons who have fixed upon any article for sale, may be accommodated on private contract by applying to CAZNEAU BAYLEY, Auctioneer, at his Office, in Daniel-street. Portsmouth, September 2.
ON THURSDAY NEXT— Capital Auction. On Thursday, the 4th September, will be sold at Auction near the Parade, AN entire flock of GRO-CERY GOODS, among which are, 3 hlds. W. I. RUM; 3 pipes BRANDY and GIN; 1 hhd MOLASSES; Casks of Madeira, Lisbon, Sherry Claret and Malaga WINE; Porter and Ale in bottles; English corked Claret; 1 pipe Vinegar; Chests Hyson, Young Hyson, Souchong and Hyson skin Tea; Tierces Rice; boxes Prunes; Sweet Oil, Capers, Nutmegs, Tumblers, Mugs, Indigo, Saltpetre, 8 kegs Ginger, Flax, Cloves, Mustard, boxes Candles, Soap and Chocolate, &c. &c. too numerous to particularize—A very great number of empty casks (several large painted for spirits) and boxes. Conditions liberal—Sale to begin at 10 o'clock. By order of the Assignee. A. EWEN, Auctioneer. Portsmouth, September 2.
AUCTION. To be sold at PUBLIC AUCTION, on Saturday, September 6 inst. on the premises. A VALUABLE Lot of LAND, adjoining Mr. Joshua Haven's store, one of the first stands for business in this town, situated on Fore street 30 feet, and forty five deep, to Water street, with every convenience, suitable to the same; terms liberal, and made known at time and place of sale.—Sale at 12 o'clock, M. Cazneau Bayley, Auctioneer. Portsmouth, Sept. 2, 1806.
THOMAS & TAPPAN, [SIGN OF THE BIBLE, OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE.] HAVE JUST RECEIVED, Reeves' Indelible Permanent Ink. For marking linen warranted never to wash out. BULLER'S NISI PRIUS...NEW EDITION. PEAKE ON EVIDENCE, &c. &c. ALSO, AN ASSORTMENT OF Razors, Spectacles & Penknives, OF THE VERY FIRST QUALITY. Merchants and others, supplied with STATIONARY, of every kind, on the most reasonable terms. Sept. 2.
Land for Sale. TEN thousand acres of Land, in the county of Coos, formerly the county of Grafton, state of New Hampshire, being the southeastern part of a tract of 40,000 acres granted to Dartmouth College; bounded west by Connecticut river; north by Canada line; east by the Amarisicoggin river; southwest by Stuart-Town. The above tract of 10,000 acres has been surveyed into farms of about 200 acres each, has a number of mill privileges, is in a growing part of the country and is well worth the attention of any person concerned in the land speculation. Conditions liberal, and made known by application to E. GREELY & Co. Portland, August 18.
BOOK-BINDING. Benjamin Floyd, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public in general, that he carries on the Book-binding business as usual at his bindery No. 4 Congress-street, opposite the Court-House; where all orders for any kind of Binding will be punctually attended to. Account Books of all sizes and kinds, ruld and bound to any pattern, with or without spring backs, may be had at the shortest notice, cheaper than can be made in this town or elsewhere; English and West-India Goods taken in part pay if required. Gilt, morocco, calf or sheep Binding, executed with neatness and dispatch. Also as above. BACKGAMMON BOARDS, made in the neatest manner. Portsmouth, Sept. 2, 1806.
N. B. Any person wishing for Account Books ruld with lead lines, by leaving a pattern with the subscriber, may depend on having them immediately, and as cheap as can be possibly afforded. He will wait on any person at their stores and take patterns if requested.—The smallest favors thankfully received. B. F.

Miscellaneous Repository.
A MAXIM.
THIS maxim long the ancients knew, "Pay ev'ry man his honest due," To this if all would now aspire, And pay the laborer off his hire; 'Twould energy and strength impart, While gratitude warm from the heart, Should flow thro' in the storms of winter, From whom?—Enquire of the Printer.
MISCELLANY.
From the Baltimore Evening Post.
"How Wonderful is man."
I have sometimes in my more serious moments been led to reflect a little upon the dispositions of man, and observe in "my minds eye" his "kickings and cullings to accomplish nothing!" The passion to be great is almost universal—few are contented to settle themselves down in the station in which it would appear they might enjoy the primary consideration of every rational being, happiness! man's maniacal ambition prompts him to go on with his exertions, to be yet a little richer, a little greater—until the slender thread, on which depends all his hopes, snaps in twain, and he becomes the food of noxious vermin! A solemn reflection! An indubitable certainty!
"What do you propose to yourself in this expedition against the Romans?" said Cineas to Pyrrhus. "To conquer Italy," answered the monarch. "And what next?" "Next we will make Sicily our own." "And then?" "Why then we will sail to Africa, and bring that country into subjection to our arms." "And after this?" "After this we will sit down and be merry." "And what," return Cineas, "prevents your majesty from doing so at present?"
Pyrrhus, at this time, was king of one of the most mighty nations in the then known world and possessed of a power that could command its obedience. He abounded in wealth; he partook of such luxuries or pleasures as he willed: at his mandate the first fruits of the earth were displayed on his table and the most delicious viands of the east sparkled in the golden goblet—yet he would not rest satisfied till he had conquered Italy, then Sicily, then Africa—and then he would have regretted, like Alexander, with tears, that he could not extend the glory of his name and his arms beyond this narrow world, or, like the Titans of old, would have dared to war even against heaven.
Behold the wealthy fool—silvered over with age and bending under the load of years—see the misery painted upon his countenance—what troubles rend his heart strings! Whence the cause of this distress? Is he under anxiety about that part which never dies? Does he behold the yawning grave ready to receive him, and feel himself unprepared for the solemn journey? No; his care and trouble arises from this—a poor man, a tenant of one of his houses, has been unable to pay him the rent at quarter-day—a week has passed, and he fears ten thousand things, though he would not miss the whole amount from his plenteous stores, but in imagination—he contemplates a seizure of the poor man's goods, yet dreads the tears and cries of his wife and children, who have seen better days. A few weeks hence and the worldly cares of that old man will cease. Death has already put him into requisition, and then whose will these things be that he has gathered with so much anxiety? His heirs, while quaffing the rosy wine, will make a jest of the troubles the old fool gave himself to afford them the means.
See that man treading with hasty step to the notary's! ever and anon he clenches his fist, or strikes his forehead in anguish. He has reason to believe that a certain note he has discounted at the rate of sixty per cent will be protested, and intends to wait at the office to discover if it comes from the bank, in order to make instant arrangements to secure him payment of the money. One would suppose from his looks that the loss would ruin him. It is no such thing. He possesses thousands—aye tens of thousands more than he can ever have the heart to spend or the necessity to want, provided he will be content with his present immense fortune, and not in the attempt to make it greater, hazard it.—He lives despised by the people, and will depart hence burthened with the curses of those on whose distresses he has plundered.
I once knew a captain of a vessel whom good fortune had blessed with affluence. At his return from every voyage, when solicited by his wife, whom he tenderly loved, to remain at home, constantly said, "One more trip and then." But, sorrowful to relate! that then never arrived. The hurricane came upon him—his ship was overwhelmed in the ocean—his wife had to repine the loss of an endeared husband and his youthful offspring,
the stay and support of their tender years!
That rational creatures, who are every day convinced by melancholy experience of the instability of their hopes and expectations, should continue in the line of conduct too many of us pursue, is really astonishing. Man, ever engaged in grasping for some new object, deprives himself of the enjoyment of those already in possession. "For this sin fell the angels," and man, proud man, could he rule the world, and command all the myriads of celestial spirits, would still desire a place more elevated, if it were possible for his imagination to conceive one!
Ambition, if restrained within proper bounds, is the stimulant to great and glorious actions. But when it settles in self; in the simple desire to gain wealth, it debases mankind, and places the "image of God" upon a level with the meanest of the creation. A truth to which all give assent, and yet how few practise the precepts it inculcates.—Well may we exclaim "How wonderful is man!"
We know "it is appointed for all men once to die, and after that, the judgment," yet we live as if this transitional state was to continue forever, and as if we should never be brought to an account for any of our actions in it.
LITERARY.
The number of literary productions of the first character now republishing in the United States, is a flattering proof of the growing taste of our countrymen, and of that number, the complete works of the Immortal EDMUND BURKE, now put to press by Messieurs West & Greenleaf, of Boston, deserve a high rank and a liberal encouragement. They have made arrangements to display a style of mechanical execution, which will reflect credit on the publishers, and gratify the prevailing partiality to elegant editions.
On the merits of Mr. BURKE, as a beautiful writer, a statesman and a moralist, we might justly expatiate; but the prepossession already existing in his favour, renders any new encomium unnecessary.
From Philadelphia we are promised the Life and Works of the Great Franklin. This edition is to be given to us from all the documents which the family of Dr. Franklin possessed, and from all the assistance which he afforded for the express purpose of a correct edition of his works. It will be under the direction of Mr. Duane, who has all the ambition necessary to exhibit every valuable paper which the Doctor has furnished to science or friendship. At a time when we have been taught to put the highest value upon the character of Dr. Franklin, and to appreciate most justly his services to his country, such a proposal comes with a most hearty welcome. But from the confidence we have in the Editor, we are persuaded that no partiality will stamp such a value upon the writings of an unguarded moment, as may expose the best of men to censure, from ignorance or prejudice, and by the warm expressions of private confidence.
(Salem Register.) Subscriptions for the above works, are received by C. PEIRCE, Portsmouth.
For Sale at Auction, on Wednesday the 10th of September next, (if not previously sold at private sale,)
That elegant situation now occupied by Mr. Thos's Morton; said building is new and completely finished, 58 feet in length, with three stacks of chimneys, being the first House easterly side of the goal, and about 100 rods from the State house; immediate possession will be given; for terms of payment, which will be made liberal, inquire of THALES G. YEATON, Buck-street. Portsmouth, August 26.
TAKE NOTICE.
State of New-Hampshire, Grafton, ss. TO be sold at Public Auction, by virtue of a licence from the Hon. CHARLES JONSON, Esq. Judge of probate of wills, in and for said county of Grafton, at the late dwelling house of ELIPHALET GALE, late of Alexandria, deceased, on Thursday the twenty-fifth day of September, 1806, at ten o'clock A. M.—so much of the real estate of the deceased, as will pay the debts, together with incidental charges. Conditions to be made known at time and place of sale. STEPHEN GALE, Administrator. Alexandria, August 9th, 1806.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber will exhibit his administration account to the Judge of Probate, in Exeter, on Tuesday the twenty third day of September next, for settlement, and the dividend will then be made on the estate of JAMES McDUFFEE, late of Chester, deceased, represented insolvent. HENRY SWEETSER, Administrator. Chester, August 25, 1806.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
To Ammi R. Cutter, Esq. Clerk of the Proprietors of the township of Dummer, in the county of Coos, in said State.
THE subscribers, being owners of more than one sixteenth part of said township of DUMMER, request you to call a meeting of the proprietors of said township, to be held at the dwelling house of Nathaniel Brown, innholder in Portsmouth, in said State, on Tuesday, the 23rd day of September next, at 3 of the clock, in the afternoon, to act on the following purposes, viz.
 1st, To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting.  2d, To choose a Proprietors Clerk, Treasurer, Collector, and Assessors, of taxes, and all such officers as may be thought necessary.  3d, To do what the Proprietors shall think best for encouraging the settlement of said township, by laying out any new roads, building bridges and mills, and making grants to settlers, or otherwise.  4th, To hear and pass all such accounts as may then and there be exhibited.  5th, To raise such sum or sums of money as said proprietors may see fit for all or any of the above purposes.  6th, To determine the method of calling proprietors meetings in future.  7th, To ratify and confirm the proceedings of former proprietors meetings and the doings of the officers of said Propriety, which may need this sanction.  8th, To do and transact any other business and pass such votes as may be thought beneficial to the Propriety. 
Portsmouth, August 14th, 1806. NATHANIEL A. HAVEN, JOHN PEIRCE, JOSEPH HAVEN, CLEMENT STORER.
In pursuance of the foregoing request I hereby notify the Proprietors of Dummer, to meet at the time and place, and for purposes therein mentioned.
AMMI R. CUTTER, Proprietors Clerk.
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford ss. To Nathaniel Shannon, Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said county.
WE the subscribers, being owners of more than one sixteenth part of the common and undivided land in MOULTONBOROUGH, in the county of Strafford, in said State, hereby request you to call a meeting of said proprietors, to be held at the house of George Freese, Esq. innholder in said town, on the first Wednesday in October next, at one of the clock, in the afternoon, for the following purposes, viz.
 1st, To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting.  2d, To choose a Proprietors Clerk.  3d, To see if the Proprietors will survey and liven all common and undivided land in said Moultonborough, or any other method the Proprietors may think proper when met, relative to said land.  4th, To see if the proprietors will raise such sums of money, as may defray the expenses of said Propriety.  5th, To choose Assessors, Collector and Treasurer, and all such other officers as may be necessary, and to transact all such other business as may be requisite.  6th, To see if the Proprietors will grant to Duncan Mc'Norton, their right and title in and unto a certain tract of land in the 2nd division in said town, being lot No. 7, in the 7th range, which lot was laid out and numbered, but never drawn; in the lieu of a common right, in case it should be more than his proportion, he paying the overplus in money. 
NATHAN HOIT, BRADBURY RICHARDSON, JOSEPH RICHARDSON, BRADBURY CILLEY, THOMAS SHANNON, JONATHAN WIGGIN, DUNCAN MC'NORTON.
Strafford ss. In pursuance of the foregoing request, I hereby notify and warn the proprietors of the common and undivided land in said town of Moultonborough, to meet at the time and place mentioned, for the purposes of transacting said business.
Given under my hand and seal, at Moultonborough, this 24th March, 1806. NATH'L SHANNON, Justice Peace.
NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Proprietors of the Blodget Canal at Amoskeag Falls, will be held at the dwelling house of Samuel Blodget, Esq in Derryfield on the first Tuesday of September next at three o'clock, P. M. for the following purposes (viz.)
 1. To choose a Moderator to govern said meeting.  2. To choose officers for the ensuing year, and generally to do and transact all such business as the Proprietors may think proper when met together. 
By order of the Directors, SAMUEL P. KIDDER, Proprietors Clerk. Derryfield, August 12th, 1806.
TO LET, THE Store lately occupied by C. & I. W. MARCH, in Congress-street, two stories high.—Apply to GEORGE J. OSBORNE or the subscriber. WM. TREADWELL. Portsmouth, August 5.
Cash given for RAGS, BY THOMAS AND TAPPAN.
MEDICAL.
THE members of the Eastern Dist. N. H. Medical Society, are hereby reminded that their meeting will be held in the house of Capt. Ezra Hutchings, in Exeter, on Wednesday the 3d day of September ensuing, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon. JOSHUA BRACKETT, Notary. Portsmouth, August, August, 1806.
CONCORD, N. H. August 11. 1806.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Public Lands belonging to the State of New-Hampshire, consisting of Townships, No. 1, No. 3, and No. 4, situated in the county of Coos, in said State; and other tracts lying also in the northern parts of the State; are to be sold at Public Vendue at Hopkinton in the county of Hillsborough on the 1st Monday of the next session of the General Court, at ten of the clock A. M. at the place of adjournment; which Session is to commence on the first Wednesday of June next, at Hopkinton aforesaid.
The conditions of payment are, one half of the purchase money to be paid within two years, and the other half within four years from the time of sale, with interest from that time.
Satisfactory security will be required for the payment of the amount of the respective purchases.
This Vendue is to be in pursuance of a vote passed by the Legislature at the last June Session, and this Advertisement is published by the subscriber in obedience and in conformity to that vote.
Gentlemen who may incline to purchase, can at all times, at the Secretary's office in Concord, have a survey of those Lands, taken by a Surveyor; those of the appointed Townships having the Field book of the Surveyor, defining their respective boundaries, and describing their qualities of soil.
Those who live at a distance, by writing to the subscriber, may have accurate copies of those plans with the surveyors minutes, transmitted agreeably to their orders.
PHILIP CARRIGAIN, Jun. Secretary. The several printers of news-papers in this State are requested to publish this advertisement in their respective papers, three weeks successively, commencing from the above date, and three weeks successively in the month of April next, and charge it to the State.
PHILIP CARRIGAIN, jun. CASH GIVEN FOR Flax Seed & Bees Wax, BY NATHAN B. FOLSOM. Portsmouth, August 19, 1806.
NEW EDITIONS. THOMAS & TAPPAN, [Sign of the BIBLE, opposite the Court House.]
HAVE just received the following BOOKS, which are new and elegant editions, viz.
Travels of Anacharsis the younger, in Greece; Crucian's Concordance, 4 to; Curran's Speeches; Life of Richard Cumberland, written by himself; La Fontaine's Fables; Desautels Surgery; Hume's History of England; Duncan's Cicero; Virgil Delphin; Schrevill's Lexicon; Young's, Answor's and Ennis's Latin Dictionaries; Jackson on Fevers; Massillon's Sermons; Cowper's Life; Spectator; Tattler; Guardian; Citizen of the world; Goldsmith's Essays; Don Quixote; Johnson's Dictionary; Taplin's Farrier; Watts' Psalms and Hymns, small pocket editions; Smith and Jones' collection of Hymns, elegant pocket Editions. Bibles, &c. &c.
Also, just received an assortment of DAY BOOKS and LEDGERS, of excellent paper, strong binding, and charged uncommonly low. August 19.
THOMPSON'S SNUFF, MANUFACTURED by Deacon Thomas Thompson, Newburyport—kept constantly for sale (at the factory prices) by
Daniel Brown, at his Store, N o 2, Bow street. Portsmouth, August 19th, 1806.
BOOK-BINDING.
THE subscriber informs the public that he has taken the chamber adjoining the Gazette office, N o 11 Market street, where he intends carrying on the BOOK BINDING business—orders for any kind of binding will be punctually attended to—ACCOUNT BOOKS of all sizes, bound with or without spring backs, old Books rebound so as to look equally well, as new.—Sets of Rollin's Ancient History, and Washington's Life, bound in calf, or sheepskin.
William Hart. Portsmouth, August 12, 1806.
POCKET-BOOK LOST.
LOST on Thursday evening last, between the Court house and Long wharf, a red Morocco Pocket Book containing about thirty dollars; any person having found the same, and will return it to the Gazette office, shall receive FIVE Dollars Reward. August 19.
TO BE LET, a CHAMBER in the second story of a brick store in Market street,—inquire of WM. SIMES. August 19.
NOTICE.
The friends of Samuel Hill and W. R. Woods, seamen and citizens of New-Hampshire, who have been impressed into the British service and are now detained, are hereby notified that if they will produce at this office proof of the citizenship of said seamen accompanied with description of their persons, they shall be forwarded to the department of state, where measures will be taken to obtain their release. Custom-House Portsmouth, August 26.
To the Ladies
DRAPER Has just received from Providence (Rhode-Island,) a good assortment of two and three threaded
Factory Cotton YARN. Likewise, Sewing COTTONS, Wick YARN and single Yarn bleach'd. Portsmouth, August 12.
Blistered STEEL.
TWO Tons of Blistered STEEL for sale,—being a consignment, will be sold cheap, apply to R. C. Wiggin & Co. Portsmouth, August 26.
Mr. EMERSON'S SERMON, ON THE DEATH OF MR. CHARLES AUSTIN, FOR SALE AT THE BOOK STORE OF THOMAS & TAPPAN.
For Sale, at N o . 8, Bow street, 130 puncheons high 3d proof Grenada
RUM; of an excellent quality—apply to S. LITTLE. August 26.
Hds. and Bbls. of retailing SUGAR;
Rum & Molasses pr hhd. or bbl. 10 barrels No. 1 PORK, for sale cheap for cash or approved credit, by ROBERT RICE. Portsmouth, August 5.
TEA.
Just received and for sale by Edmund H. Quincy, N o 8, Water street, near Portsmouth pier, Hyson, Hyson skin, } TEAS, warrant-Young Hyson, } ed of the first quality. Suchong
TEAS are constantly kept on hand as above, by the chest, box or smaller quantity, for family use. Aug. 9.
BATHING TUBS,
For Sale, or to Let. ON reasonable terms, made on the most approved plan, by BENJA. EVANS, Daniel-street, Who has for sale a handsome assortment of plainished Japann'd and common Tin WARE, which being of his own manufacture, he offers for sale as cheap as can be purchased in this State. August 12.
TO BE SOLD,
A House, Barn and about 7 acres of land, with an orchard, lying in Berwick, by Great Hill Meeting house, well situated for a mechanic. Said premises will be sold upon liberal credit—Inquire of Dea. BENJA. KNIGHT, near the premises. Berwick, August 11, 1806.
A Good BARGAIN.
FOR SALE, a new DWELLING-HOUSE, two stories high, with three rooms on a floor, pleasantly situated in Vaughan street, together with out houses, and Land—opposite Col. Clapp's dwelling house—the land is 43 3/4 ft. in width, running back to Mason's lane 124 feet;—for terms of payment, which will be made easy, apply to S. SPRAGUE, on the premises. Portsmouth, August 26.
Store in Market street to LET.
THE Store now occupied by Mr. Jones, fronting Bow street, will be to let on the 1st of September next—Inquire of C. STORER. Portsmouth, August 12, 1806.
For Sale, or to Let.
ONE half of a Dwelling House, near Akerman's Ropewalk;—Inquire of EDMUND DAVIS. Portsmouth, August 26, 1806.
THE person that lost a travelling TRUNK on Saturday last, may have the same by enquiring of the printers at the Gazette-Office. August 26.
Cash given for RAGS at the Bookstore of C. PEIRCE, Daniel-street. July 29.
For sale at this Office, A quantity of Royal Demi printing PAPER.