The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1802-12-21 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
Appointed to publish the LAWS of the UNITED STATES for the District of New-Hampshire.
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. & W. PEIRCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Received by the Samson, Capt. Richard S. Tibbetts, from London, AND FOR SALE, BY Cazneau Bayley,
LADIES', Gentlemen's and Youth's BEAVER HATS.—A few dozen extra long, white, black, and color'd SILK GLOVES. A general assortment of HOSIERY. Superfine BROAD-CLOTHS, warranted to cost 18/ sterling, being a consignment, will be sold at the reduced price of 30/ L. M. Portsmouth, Dec. 7, 1802.
Samuel Hill,
HAS FOR SALE, THIRTY tons Swedes, Russia and Archangel IRON, of different sizes, suitable for Sleigh Runners, Chaise Tines, and Wheel ditto; STEEL, Heart and Club, German, Halback, Father and Son; NAILS, 20d, 10d, 6d, 4d English Nails, and American ditto, wrought and cut; Iron Hollow Ware; Frying Pans; English steel pointed Shovels; Grindstones. Rum, per hoghead; Gin; Hyson, Hyson skin, Souchong and Bohea TEA; COFFEE, per bag; Fishing Gear; LINES, of all kinds; NETTS, of all sizes; TWINE of every kind; Hooks, of all sizes; and a variety of other GOODS, too numerous for an advertisement. Any of the above GOODS, sold by Wholesale or Retail, as cheap as can be had in town. Likewise, a QUANTITY OF SLEIGH BELLS. Cash and the Boston price given for SHIPPING FURS. Portsmouth, Nov. 23, 1802.
Fresh GROCERIES.
B. Leverett,
Has just received and has for SALE, at his Store, Spring-Hill, viz. FRESH Jarr and Muscatall RAISINS, per jar or box—do. Malaga pr. Cask, do. black Zant Currants, do. Grapes per jar, do. Turkey, and Malaga Figs, per cask, Shell'd and unshell'd Almonds, Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Cinnamon, Cassia, Citron, Ginger, Pepper—Superfine Flour per bbl. Rice pr. ct. Coffee, Welshes' No. 1 & 2 Chocolate, Mustard per lb. & bottle, Capers, Anchovies, and Sardinians, per bottle, Olives per bottle, Sweet Oil per flask, Liquid Blue per jug, Hair Powder, Windsor, Scented and Crown Soap, Refined Salt Petre per keg or retail, Spanish Indigo—Lorrillard's celebrated Macaboy Snuff per bottle, do. Elliott's per keg or retail, Spanish Segars—Gunpowder, Hyson } TEAS, Young Hyson, Hyson } of a superior quality. Philadelphia Loaf Sugar, per Ct. or Loaf, Double refined, ditto. Jamaica Sugar per Ct. or retail. Madeira, Sherry, } WINES. Malaga, & Claret } West-India Rum, ditto Old Rum, Brandy, Holland Gin, Molasses, Burton Ale per doz. London bottle Porter per dozen, Long Cork'd Claret Wine, per case or doz. Spermaceti, mould and dipt Candles, Spermaceti Oil for Lamps—West-India Cotton— Tumblers per straw, Vinegar Cruets, stone Juggs, from 1 to 3 gals. Stone Pots, from 1 do. to 3 do. St. Ubes and Turks Island SALT, pr. hoghead or bushel. A general assortment of Iron Hollow WARE, &c. Portsmouth, November 23, 1802.
Edw'd Parry,
Informs his friends and customers that he has returned from Europe with A very large assortment of GOODS, Which was purchased from the manufacturers, and which he will sell at small advances for cash or approved credit, by the package, piece or retail; and assures those who have money to dispose of for any articles in his line, that they will find it to their advantage to call at his Shop. His Stock consists of
 150 pieces of Superfine & low price fashionable Broadcloths, from 6/ to 40/ per yard.  200 ps. Plain & Forest Cloths.  50 ps. Superfine Coatings, Rateens and Lambkins.  40 ps. blue, red and green Serges and Fearnoughts.  35 ps. Fashionable Cassimeres, from 6/ to 21/ per yard.  50 ps. fashionable Swansdowns.  150 ps. Baizes and Flannels.  200 pair Rose Blankets, all sizes.  200 ps. Durant's, Tammies and Moreens.  100 ps. Russells & Calimancoes.  150 ps. Wildbores, Camblets, and Cambleteens.  40 ps. Shalloons & Antiloons.  40 ps. blue and black Velvets and Corduroys.  50 ps. Florentine and Lastings.  200 ps. Irish Linens & Sheetings.  1000 gross fashionable & common Buttons.  10,000 yds. fashionable Chintzes & Copperplate Furnitures.  600 yds. Dimities & Mullinets.  1000 yds. sprig'd & tambor'd Mullins, from 3/ to 24/ per yard.  1000 yds. cambric, jaconet & book Mullins.  600 yds. English Bed Ticks.  1200 yds. black Modes & Satins.  200 yds. Pelicee Silk.  30 doz. men's Beaver Hats, of the latest fashion.  20 doz. Ladies' Beaver Hats, some of which are very elegant.  30 doz. fashionable Ranallo straw Hats & Bonnets: Trimmings.  50 doz. camel's hair, silk, muslin, cambric and chintz Shawls.  100 doz. of best Jersey & Wiltshire men's knit Stockings, superior to any ever imported.  100 doz. Ladies' Cotton & Silk Hose, Gloves and Mitts.  2 trunks of fashionable Muffs and Tippets, Furr Shawls and Wadding.  A large assortment of Ladies' London made Shoes with water proof soles to fit.  An elegant assortment of English and French Laces & Edgings. A large assortment of Bed Laces, Fringes & Tassels. English patent white and colored sewing Cotton Thread. Water proof Umbrellas. 20 Bales 15 thread Cod Lines, sewing Twine, Herring Netts, and patent Shoe Thread; With a general assortment of Other GOODS, as usual. Pot & Pearl Ashes, and Flax-Seed will be received in pay. Market-street. Portsmouth, Nov. 23. 
BOHEA TEA
Of the best quality, in whole, half and quarter Chests—ALSO—A few boxes of SOUCHONG, FOR SALE by Jonathan Goddard. Portsmouth, Nov. 23, 1802.
Political Miscellany.
From the National Register. WE exhibited, in our last, a statement and explanation of a long list of pretended misappropriations of public money, under the present administration, which had been industriously circulated through the Federal papers, for the purpose of influencing the elections.
We promised at the same time, to exhibit a counterpart of this statement, which should present to the view of the people, some of the misappropriations and unconstitutional expenditures of public money, under the late administration, with the salutary and prudent retrenchments, in the annual expenses of the Government, by the innovations of the last Session of Congress, upon the former wasteful and profligate system.
In discharge of this engagement, we now file in our account, in favor of the People, against the firm of JOHN ADAMS and Co. for "money laid out and expended," against the letter and spirit of the constitution, and without the least color of legal appropriation. In the language of the statement from the "TRENTON FEDERALIST," we say to the People of New-England.
READ THIS! READ THIS! To expense incurred by the officers & clerks, in removing themselves and families from Philadelphia (beyond the sum of 15,633-00 appropriated for that purpose, including losses on the sale of unfashionable furniture, expense of packing and unpacking, and payment for every chair, table, looking glass, tea-cup and saucer, which was broken,
To misappropriation, by Mr. PICKERING, of money drawn from the Treasury, under pretence of "defraying the expense of intercourse with foreign Nations;"—but which was squandered for different uses, and for which there was no legal appropriation.
To the expense of erecting a Laboratory (or Tower or Bable) on the banks of the Schuylkill, for which no authority was given by law; which is yet unfinished, and can be intended for no other purpose, than to perpetuate the daring profligacy of the late Administration.
To the purchase of Six Navy Yards by Mr. STODDERT, without any pr. nce of an authority by Law; for no other purpose than to give great bargains to the owners, and to create influence, by scattering the public money.
To cash paid Mr. Senator TRACY, (of exterminating memory,) for running away from his creditors and constituents, under pretence of visiting the military posts; at 8 dollars per day, besides expenses, including barbers bill, pill boxes, calomel, and corrosive sublimate.
To cash paid Mrs. FRENCH, for rent of a house, leased to JAMES MC'HENRY, Esq. which was never occupied by him; the term not commencing till one month after his resignation.
To loss on Mr. ADAMS's state coach, and baggage, wagon purchased as a part of his household, worn out in his service, and then turned upon the government, at the first cost.
To secret service money (more or less) expended to buy friends, and influence elections, of which the sum of 1820 dollars, paid Messrs. ROSS and LEWIS of Pennsylvania, just before an election in that state, affords an honourable specimen.
To the above particulars (all of which, but part of the last, are vouched by official documents) may with propriety be added one general item, comprehending the whole of the useless expenditures, during the last years of Mr. ADAMS's Administration, in supporting an idle and licentious army, in the interior of our country, and extending the naval Establishment, beyond the necessary purposes of defence; by preparations for building Sixty-Fours, including commissions to purchasers, losses on the materials &c.—The whole may be fairly estimated (on the lowest calculation) at 1,500,000-00
TOTAL 1,952,109-42 The above account contains only some of the most prominent charges,
and such as have already passed the inspection of auditors. We shall, perhaps, on some future occasion, lay before the public a codicil to this account.—The People will then say, in the language of the Queen of Sheba, to SOLOMON—"Behold! the one half had not been told us!"
As a reverse of this disgusting picture of profligacy, we now hold up to view a statement of annual savings, in the expenses of government, resulting from the various acts of the last Session of Congress. In the triumphant language of Republicans we again call upon the people to
READ THIS In the fortification of harbors, and the defensive protection of the frontiers, being less than the appropriation for the preceding year.
In the support of the ARMY, less than the appropriation of the preceding year
In the Navy, the difference of the appropriation for the peace establishment, including a diminution of the appropriation for the relief of Seamen
In the Repeal of the Judiciary act, by which is saved the salaries of sixteen useless and superfluous Judges appointed for life.
In discontinuing Commissioners of Revenue, and Superintendent of Stamps
In reducing the appropriation for Foreign Intercourse
Ditto—for prosecuting claims for captured property
In disbursing an Army of four hundred and sixty-seven Excise Officers; average a compensation at 500 dollars each,
Total, 1,255,033 This statement exhibits, only, the more important arrangements of the government, in which there has been a retrenchment of former expenses. To pursue it in detail, would carry us beyond the limits assigned to this discussion. A more minute examination would display the same system of frugality, in the more minute appropriations of the public money.
Enough has been said to excite attention and enquiry.—The People possess the faculty of examining, comparing and contrasting for themselves. Let them exercise this faculty, and they cannot be much longer deceived. They know the difference between economy and profusion. They know the former is necessary to the preservation of a Republic. They know the inevitable tendency of the latter to the subversion of a free government.
The time is at hand, when they will look back with horror, upon the perils they have escaped, while they remember, with grateful emotions, the faithful services of those who have rescued their Country from destruction!
PHILADELPHIA, NOV. 22. The entertainment given to celebrate the re-election of Gov. M'Kean, at Francis's Hotel, on Saturday last, attended by near one hundred citizens. The Governor and Mr. Rodney of Delaware, were the only guests invited. The dinner arrangements of the table were in the highest taste. An excellent band of music, and a variety of appropriate songs, contributed much to the pleasure of the day. Thus mirth and good humor prevailed throughout this company, till each citizen retired to his home; reflecting with gratitude upon the change of times in which a Republican might feel happy and dare to announce it.
The following are among the TOASTS that were given:— The right of election: which adds this day's festival to the triumphs of republicanism.
The United States; may they long enjoy peace with independence, and prosperity without pride.
The President of the U. States; his patriotism confers happiness on his country, may his philosophy secure it for himself.
The new star in the federal constellation;—the State of OHIO.
The Rights of Man, founded in Common Sense, and asserted in every Crisis.
The memory of WASHINGTON and FRANKLIN, who died patriots; and the virtues of JOHN DICKENSON and SAMUEL ADAMS, who lived whigs.
"A union of all honest men," upon the principles which led Washington to the field and Jefferson to the cabinet.
Democratic Economy; a debt paid with honor, and treasury guarded by f.ugality, no office without use, and no tax without need.
After the Governor retired THOMAS M'KEAN! may each of his calumniators be answered by thirty thousand voices.
Thanks to Massachusetts and Delaware, and a happy deliverance to New-Jersey.
The American Fair; their happiness our dearest object, their virtues our best reward.
From the National Intelligencer.
The republicanism of the state of Pennsylvania has been most impressively manifested from the date of the dissent of the minority of their representative house in 1798, until the present time. That dissent was the first authoritative and public proceeding, in opposition to the principles which Mr. Adams had too intelligibly displayed before all America. The election of governor, disputed between the supporters of Mr. M'Kean and Mr. Ross, brought the body of the citizens into action on the subject.—Out of seventy thousand votes, the majority for Mr. M'Kean in 1794, was about 5500.—The principles, on the republican side at least were ingeniously avowed by the committee of six, who had been appointed to conduct the election at a meeting of all the republican members of the four houses of federal and state legislature. The variety of interests united against Mr. M'Kean, induced even the foreign and American supporters of the British typographical partisan, William Cobbet, who at that time, conducted a press in the metropolis of Pennsylvania. The combined efforts of the real republicans among the federalists, of the federalists, who are not republicans, and of the foreign supporters of Cobbet's open and audacious attack upon the independency of our public councils, all failed. Governor M'Kean succeeded, at that time, by the majority which has been mentioned.
The house of representatives of Pennsylvania January 1800, were of Mr. M'Kean's politics, but the large majority of 15 to 9 in the state senate, were of opposite sentiments. At the election of 1800, two of those federalists in the senate were thrown out, and the memorable thirteen, who were opposed not only to Mr. M'Kean, but to the election of Mr. Jefferson, remained. They have been complimented, as a Spartan band. Of these thirteen, six were replaced by republicans at the election of 1801, and three have been replaced by republicans at the election of 1802, leaving only four federal members in the senate of Pennsylvania at this time. It is certain that those four would have been removed, if they had stood a poll, because the members of the senate or house elected lately in the same districts, are all republican. Among the senators rejected in 1800, was Mr. Woods, a connexion of Mr. Ross. In 1801 and 1802, twelve senators for Pennsylvania were elected, being two entire classes and every man of them is a decided republican. They represent counties on Delaware, Susquehannah and Ohio rivers, and on the New-York, Maryland, Virginia, and federal boundaries of the state. They are from every quarter. Two federal speakers of the senate were among the rejected. The display of Pennsylvania republicanism has been strikingly great in the election of governor in 1802. Instead of an handsome majority of about 5500, as in 1799, the certain accounts received at Philadelphia on the 28th of October, gave Mr. M'Kean a majority of nearly 29,000 votes, though four counties, in which he would lead, were yet unknown. He will be thirty thousand before Mr. Ross.
This decided spirit is further evidenced by the elections for members of the house of representatives of the United States. Pennsylvania, with the first white population in the union, chooses eighteen members of congress, and she has returned from her eleven districts, eighteen decided republican members of congress, and not one federalist. The representative house, in the state legislature, is proportionally as republican as its senate. The small counties of Delaware & Somerset, have returned four federalists, the former by a majority of one hundred and odd; the splitting of republican tickets has allowed two or three federalists to succeed in republican counties; and the Connecticut intruders have returned men in their interest, who claim to be of federal politics. It is a fact honorable to the republican governor, and his supporters, that the Connecticut intruders and their friends, who voted against him, and for Mr. Ross, are nearly as numerous as all the majorities in all the counties in favor of Mr. Ross.
In the city of Philadelphia five members of the select council and twenty members of the common council, were in dispute, and although a very interesting question touching the watering the city, was alleged to be implicated in the election, success attended twenty-five republicans. A mayor of the same politics was consequently elected.
It is worthy of enquiry what have been the causes which have so readily operated upon Pennsylvania, against the current of the power and influence of the late federal administration:
As the seat of the federal government during Mr. Adams's administration, Pennsylvania witnessed the alarming attacks upon the freedom of opinion, displayed in the removals of the most exemplary labourers in the public service. She saw with horror and disgust the same proscription carried into private business and social life. Wealthy citizens and wealthy foreigners, not only excluded from society men of liberal minds, educations and manners, but the tender sex; and denied their daily bread to the skillful mechanic and the industrious poor—unequal treatment of like depredations on our commerce by two foreign nations: loans, in a frugal state, at a rate of interest one third more than its long established usage; an anti-national government by a party in two eastern states, subordinated for the federal or national government of the country; a marked disregard of the just pretensions of Pennsylvania to a share of the executive, diplomatic, and judicial powers; the alarming abandonment of our territorial rights by Mr.

Ruts in his ever memorable vote to accept, without one safe condition, the cession of the jurisdiction of the Connecticut reserve: the deposition of the federal Connecticut men, upon the subject of the lands of Pennsylvania and New York: the exaction of a federal land tax, when the quota of Pennsylvania could be found in the outstanding internal revenues: the increase of the regular army, and the substitution of a vast body of party volunteers (unknown to the constitution) for the national militia: the consequent evasion of the right of the people and the states to elect and appoint the officers of the greater part of the public force: the increase of the public debt at unprecedented rates of interest: the frequency of anti-republican insinuations and practices, and the occurrence of unequivocal monarchical avowals by the two heads of the federal party: the alarming fact, that one of those heads had committed to the other, with a knowledge of his sentiments, the sword of the federal commonwealth: the votes of the family connexions of Mr. Ruts in the state legislature upon the subject of arming the Connecticut intruders, as faithful—Pennsylvania militia and against punishing assaults, which might be committed upon the agents of the state to be employed in their action: the support given by the Connecticut representative and some of her federal connections, to the views of the intruders, during the last winter, after the most liberal votes of Pennsylvania and New York on the subject of the reserve in 1800: the omission to prosecute Blount and Chisholm: the conversion to confidence produced among wile and good federal men by the conduct of the present national administration in respect to the public debt, public credit, foreign nations, the reduction of taxes, and the un-dutying of all American manufactures: the banishment of violence and the attention to the rights of property by the present chief magistrate of the nation and the state. These, with a long list of similar circumstances, have nearly united the state of Pennsylvania in the republican cause; for it is well ascertained that only six federal men (excluding the two Connecticut men) have been elected this year, though the persons chosen as governor, representatives in congress, state legislators, and members of the city councils, amount to one hundred and thirty-five. To secure public confidence in Pennsylvania, public economy must be observed, menaces and oppressions of men for constitutional sentiments, and a lawful support of them, must be avoided; public loans must be effected at or under the lawful interest;—with the first white population in the union, that state must not be gradually worked out of her share of the principal executive, judicial and diplomatic offices; our militia must not be rejected for an aristocratical corps (unknown to the constitution) upon the tremendous scale of 80,000 men, officered by the president, and not by the state governors or the people; her territorial rights and peace must not be violated to the complete suspension of the prosperity of one fifth of her country; the friends of such measures must not be proposed as her state or federal rulers, and above all things, those who have sworn "to support and defend the constitution of the United States," must not deny the full sovereignty of the people, which that constitution proceeds from and guarantees, nor must they avow in office their preference of an hierarchic, aristocratical and monarchical government . Upon the late occasion, the conduct of the religious societies, professing the doctrine of peace, has been most worthy and most wise. They would not support, by their votes, a man whom they believed to have acted hostily to the peace of Pennsylvania, in reference to the Connecticut claim, and to have injured, more than any other man, that grand and well earned mass of property, which Pennsylvania has acquired by one hundred and twenty years of industry, judgment, and economy. Republicans and Quakers, and Moravians and Mennonites, are equally friendly to the rights of property.
THOMAS PAINE, To the Citizens of the United States.
LETTER THE FOURTH.
AS Congress is on the point of meeting, the public papers will necessarily be occupied with the debates of the ensuing session, and as in consequence of my long absence from America, my private affairs require my attendance (for it is necessary I do this or I could not preserve as I do my Independence) I shall close my address to the public with this letter.
I congratulate them on the success of the late elections, and that with the additional confidence that while honest men are chosen and wise measures pursued, neither the treason of apostasy, masked under the name of federalism, of which I have spoken in my second letter, nor the intrigues of foreign emissaries, acting in concert with that mask, can prevail.
As to the licentiousness of the papers calling themselves federal, a name that apostasy has taken, it can hurt nobody but the party or the persons who support such papers. There is naturally a wholesome pride in the public mind that revolts at open vulgarity. It feels itself dishonoured even by hearing it, as a chaste woman feels dishonour by hearing obscenity she cannot avoid. It can smile at wit, or be diverted with strokes of satirical humour, but it detests the blackguard . The same sense of propriety that governs in private companies governs in public life. If a man in company runs his wit upon another it may draw a smile from the persons present, but as soon as he turns a blackguard in his language the company gives him up, and it is the same in public life. The event of the late elections shows this to be true; for in proportion as those papers have become more and more vulgar and abusive, the elections have gone more and more against the party they support or that supports them. Their predecessor, Porcupine , had wit. These scribblers have none. But as soon as his blackguardism (for it is the proper name of it) out run his wit, he was abandoned by every body but the English Minister that protected him.
The Spanish proverb says, "there never was a cover large enough to hide itself," and the proverb applies to the case of those papers and the shaitered remnant of the fashion that supports them. The falsehoods they fabricate, and the abuse they circulate, is a cover to hide something from being seen,
but is not large enough to hide itself. It is as a tub thrown out to a whale to prevent its attacking and sinking the vessel. They want to draw the attention of the public from thinking about or enquiring into, the measures of the late administration, and the reason why so much public money was raised and expended. And so far as a lie to day, and a new one to-morrow, will answer this purpose it answers theirs. It is nothing to them whether they be believed or not, for if the negative purpose be answered the main point is answered to them.
He that picks your pocket always tries to make you look another way. Look, says he, at yon man to the right of the street—what a noise he has got!—Lord yonder is a chimney on fire! D'ye see yon man going along in the salamander great coat? That is the very man that stole one of Jupiter's fasciiles and sold it to a countryman for a gold watch, and it set his breeches on fire. Now the man that has his hand in your pocket does not care a farthing whether you believe what he lays or not. All his aim is to prevent your looking at him; and this is the case with the remnant of the federal fashion. The leaders of it have imposed upon the country, and they want to turn the attention of it from the subject.
In taking up any public matter, I have never made it a consideration, and never will, whether it be popular or unpopular, but whether it be right or wrong. The right will always become popular, if it has courage to shew itself, and the shortest way is always a straight line. I despise expedients; they are the gutter-hole of politics, and the sink where reputation dies. In the present case, as in every other, I cannot be accused of using any; and I have no doubt but thousands will hereafter be ready to say as Governor Morris said to me, after having abused me pretty handsomely in Congress, for the opposition I gave to the fraudulent demand of Silas Deane, for two hundred thousand pounds sterling, Well I we were all duped, and I among the rest .
Were the late administration to be called upon to give reasons for the expense it put the country to, it can give none. The danger of invasion was a bubble that served as a cover to raise taxes and armies, to be employed for some other purpose. But if the people of America believed it true, the cheerfulness with which they supported those measures and paid those taxes, is an evidence of their patriotism, and if they supposed they were deceived, it was not injustice in them. He that acts as he believes, though he may be wrong, is not conscious of wrong. But though there was no danger, no thanks are due to the late administration for it. They fought to blow up a flame between the two countries; and so intent were they upon this, that they went out of their way to accomplish it. In a letter which the secretary of state, Timothy Pickering, wrote to Mr. Skipwith, the American consul at Paris, he broke off from the official subject of his letter to thank God in very exulting language, that the Russians had cut the French army to pieces . Mr. Skipwith, after shewing me the letter, very prudently concealed it.
It was the injudicious and wicked acrimony of this letter, and some other like conduct of the then secretary of state, that occasioned me, in a letter to a friend in the government, to say, that if there was any official business to be done in France, till a regular minister should be appointed, it could not be trusted to a more proper person than Mr. Skipwith. He is, said I, an honest man, and will do business, and that with good manners to the government he is commissioned to act with, a faculty which that Bear Timothy Pickering wanted, and which the Bear of that B ar, John Adams, never possessed.
In another letter to the same friend in 1797, and which was put unsealed under cover to Col. Burr, I expressed a satisfaction that Mr. Jefferson since he was not President, had accepted the Vice-Presidency, for said I, John Adams has such a talent for blundering and offending, it will be necessary to keep an eye over him . He has now sufficiently proved that though I have not the spirit of prophecy, I have the gift of judging right; and all the world knows, for it cannot help knowing, that to judge rightly, and to write clearly, and that upon all sorts of subjects; to be able to command thought, and, as it were, to play with it at pleasure, and be always master of one's temper in writing, is the faculty only of a serene mind, and the attribute of happy and philosophical temperance. The scribblers, who know me not, and who fill their papers with paragraphs about me, besides their want of talents, drink too many flings and drams in a morning to have any chance with me. But, poor fellows, they must do something for the little pittance they get from their employers. This is my apology for them.
My anxiety to get back to America was great for several years. It is the country of my heart, and the place of my political and literary birth. It was the American revolution that made me an author, and forced into action the mind that had been dormant, and had no wish for public life; nor has it now. By the accounts I received, the appearance to me to be going wrong, and that some meditated treason against her liberties lurked at the bottom of her government. I heard that my friends were oppressed, and I longed to take my standing among them; and if other "times to try men's souls" were to arrive, that I might bear my share. But my efforts to return were ineffectual.
As soon as Mr. Munroe had made a good standing with the French government, for the conduct of his predecessor had made his reception as minister difficult, he wanted to send dispatches to his own government by a person to whom he could also confide a verbal communication, and he fixed his choice upon me. He then applied to the committee of public safety for a passport; but as I had been voted again into the convention, it was only the convention that could give the passport; and as an application to them for that purpose would have made any going publicly known, I was obliged to sustain the disappointment and Mr. Monroe to lose the opportunity.
When that gentleman left France to return to America, I was to have come with him. It was fortunate I did not. The vessel he failed in was visited by a British frigate that searched every part of it, and down to the hold for Thomas Paine. I then went the same year, to embark at Havre. But
several British frigates were cruising in sight of the port who knew I was there, and I had to return again to Paris. Seeing myself thus cut off from every opportunity of returning that was in my power to command, I wrote to Mr. Jefferson, that if the fate of the election should put him in the chair of the presidency, and he should have occasion to send a frigate to France, he would give me the opportunity of returning by it, which he did. But I declined coming by the Maryland, the vessel that was offered me, and waited for the frigate that was to bring the new minister, Mr. Chancellor Livingston, to France; but that frigate was ordered round to the Mediterranean; and as, at that time, the war was over, and the British cruisers called in, I could come any way, I then agreed to come with commodore Barney in a vessel he had engaged. It was a gain fortunate I did not, for the vessel sunk at sea, and the people were preserved in the boat.
Had half the number of evils befallen me, that the number of dangers amount to, through which I have been preserved, there are those who would ascribe it to the wrath of Heaven; why then do they not ascribe my preservation to the protecting favor of Heaven? Even in my worldly concerns I have been blessed. The little property I left in America, and which I cared nothing about, not even to receive the rent of it, has been increasing in the value of its capital more than eight hundred dollars every year for the fourteen years and more that I have been absent from it. I am now, in my circumstances, independent, and my economy makes me rich. As to my health it is perfectly good, and I leave the world to judge of the statute of my mind. I am in every instance a living contradiction to the mortified federalists.
In my publications I follow the rule I began with in Common Sense , that is to consult with nobody, nor let any body see what I write till appears publicly. Were I to do otherwise, the case would be, that between the timidity of some, who are so afraid of doing wrong they never do right, the puny judgement of others, and despicable craft of preferring expedient to right, as if the world was a world of babies in leading strings, I should get forward with nothing. My path is a right line as straight and clear to me as a ray of light. The boldness (if they will have it to be so) with which I speak on any subject is a compliment to the judgement of the reader. It is like saying to him, I treat you as a man and not as a child . With respect to any worldly object, as it is impossible to discover any in me, therefore what I do, and my manner of doing it, ought to be ascribed to a good motive.
In a great affair, where the happiness of man is at stake, I love to work for nothing; and so fully am I under the influence of this principle, that I should lose the spirit, the pleasure, and pride of it, were I conscious that I looked for reward; and with this declaration I take my leave for the present.
THOMAS PAINE. Federal City, Lovell's } Hotel, Dec. 3, 1802. }
To the Editors of the N. H. Gazette.
MUCH conversation has taken place concerning a piece in your last paper signed "An American," and addressed to Thomas Paine. Every person that has read it, approves of it, as far as it distinguishes between the religion (whatever it is) and the politics of this extraordinary person. But, it is not to be expected that it should be very palatable to the expiring party; who wish to smother and conceal any approbation of the distinguished advocate of the Rights of Man; and prevent (by which they will be sure to excite) those exertions that must eventually satisfy the public in distinguishing fairly as to what ought or ought not to impair and govern the public mind, in their judgement on his transcendent merits. It is said by some of the party to be unintelligible ; that is not improbable—But, it should be considered that it might not have been penned for the reading of a person of ordinary capacity, but intended for the sublime genius to whom it is addressed—for we must surely rank universal benevolence, disinterestedness, human charity, and true patriotism, in other words true republicanism, among the sublime attributes of an enlightened mind. Every boy that remembers his school books, remembers that Hercules was the god of prodigious strength, and Anæus the giant of the earth, with which they used to frighten children; they fell a wrestling, like Paine and Burke, and Paine threw him and kept him down: that must be intelligible . Every Tory has read his creed from Mr. Burke the pensioned apostate, therefore must remember the passage wherein the true file of fulsome quixotism and disgusting chivalry, he says "It is now sixteen years since I (I. I. I.) saw the Queen of France, "when ten thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards to avenge a single look." That was so pretty, it is astonishing if the tories do not remember it. Every republican feels with exulting pride that Thomas Paine threw down the gauntlet, with the monster Primogeniture, the root and branch of aristocracy, and requested Mr. Burke to write his epitaph—that the tories will not remember. When it is added, Mr. Burke grew intemperate, it was not in the lying, slanderous, gross sense of getting drunk—such baldness (this is quite intelligible to tories ) never disgraces the writings of a republican. But, "going into the House of Commons, drawing a dagger from his bosom," throwing it across the house, one thought he was about to kill that illustrious patriot Charles Fox—that they must not remember. This is the sense in which intemperate might have been used.
There is a little interruption in the sense by the transposition of the conjunctive particle "because," (no doubt the tories remember their English Grammar) that should come after the parenthesis (the vile unmeaning ribaldry of the low party prints) the sense is then complete; this might happen through the inadvertency of the typesetter: And it is likely the punctuation may be a little irregular for the same reason, as among the egoists, that are enumerated; but what gags (perfectly intelligible) the tories, is the distressing Latin, and spice of Greek; if the tories could only get among their whole fallen crew, a man that could even remember enough of a school book, Cicero confessedly the vainest of egoists, to
find out what is meant by his "me deprecate;" or his Horace, another school-book, for "Exegi monumentum." I. I. I. I. have excised a monument more durable than brass; the vile egoist, like that vile Thomas Paine, whose works must go down, with Horace's beyond the reach of rust or corruption, to untold generations, with his vile egoism, while pillars of brass and marble, in his own happiest expressions, are crumbling and mouldering about their palaces. But that poor Virgil should be forgotten so soon by the tories, is not wonderful, because he was a passionate lover of Liberty. "Libertas quæ sera tamen reflexit inertem—Virg." How beautiful the line, how beautifully apposite to the revival of our late inert republicanism .—I myself am so fond of the Latin and the Greek, that it is to me like going out of a trot into a canter with a roadster. And perhaps he remembered what is laid by critics to be apocryphal, the ego of Virgil, the germinator of the Georgics; and so he packed it off as the tories do their lies.—It turns out to be a stronger egoism than he imagined, by turning to my old worn out Virgil, it is Ille Ego, I am He, that may alter the egoism. It is a pity some of their great geniuses, particularly "their special pleaders," did not understand a little Latin and Greek, it would help them so amazingly, it would assist that long headed self illuminating invention, which, like the candle in a black lantern, finds every thing outside black and dark, except itself. There might be found one of the tories, however, who must have had advantages. I wonder they don't try their hand—as Mr. Paine says, it would make fun. We would tend their controversies to the Professors of Languages, perhaps they would make fun of them all, at least smile at them. For "American" says himself, he has no pretensions to literature, but only offers to greet Mr. Paine in his best manner; rightly asserting that Mr. Paine is richly entitled to the gratitude of America, for his incalculable, his ineffable services. And while I think of it, I beg you will insert in your paper, that when Mr. Paine's health was drunk at the late republican entertainment, it is not true that one unfaithful person left the room: it is a federal lie sent to Boston; the tories were ashamed to tell such a lie here, dexterous as they are in that accomplishment, it would not go down. To return to the egoists, for there are still worse egoists yet; what do the tories think of Pope, the satyrist; the English Horace, he says somewhere, "that he is the last of the Poets in England," this is superlative egoism—yet none, it is thought, has yet equalled him; then Hume's life is a studied panegyric upon himself—he is quite modern of the same thoughts with Mr. Paine. I ask what harm his Essays have ever done to religion or morals, and recommend such who think they have, to read Leland's Deistical Writers ; the luminous Gibbon again of the same turn; Bolingbroke the inferior to the two, thinking the same way, in what they term natural religion. These are mentioned because they are the most celebrated historians of modern times, and most conversant in Ecclesiastical history, and best able to maintain a controversy with Ecclesiastics. For the improvement of the tories, in intelligibility, I will translate TO-RE-PON which is most likely to be unintelligible to them, and what they least practice, (or they would leave off lying) that is "deceit." It has with men of letters a peculiar force, "it is the overstepping the bounds of modesty." This is the application of it to Mr. Paine, that to the tories. I take it for granted, the tories have acumen enough to understand what is the acumen of a critic and author as Junius—the tartness of Anstophanes, he borrowed from Ben Johnson, whom the tories will admit to be a very learned man, if they will admit any thing; because, when this charge of unintelligible writing is placed upon a person who thought he was placing things in a plain view; it is only charitable to see whether it arises from ignorance or malevolence, or both: and I find the charge compounded of both, by all the attention I have paid the letter to Thomas Paine. I think too, as "American" writes, the egoism of the tories is the ignorance that darkens this part of New-England, beyond any other and any person who is disposed to show the light, will either put out their eyes by the suffusion of light, or open them to their improvement, their amendment, their repentance and reformation. As to the religion, which, as he says, is the other instance of the want of an objection—I think it accurately expressed, and no reasonable man but must agree with him. I rather think he has no apology to make to the public or individuals, because TRUTH wants none. Voltaire, whom I do not admire, said Locke, the celebrated philosopher, should have ended his book with the famous chapters on the nature of human testimony. This is the part of the letter that is likely to be most unintelligible to some tories, who practise as little religion as decency. This Voltaire is said to have produced the infidelity and revolution in France; if he did, he likewise produced the usurpation of Bonaparte, and the Roman Catholic Religion—for the establishment of the one, and reformation of the other, grew out of that revolution, from the same causes that would have established an usurpation in America, a desperate faction. But Mr. Paine may live to see the one hurled from his usurpation, as Burke would have hurled the English Monarch from the throne, and afterwards received £1500 sterling, per annum, to write his book from the Minister of the same Sovereign. Consistency and apostasy seldom travel together. I have gone through all the parts of the letter that is not intelligible to the meanest capacity.
PHILO AMERICANUS. Thursday, Dec. 16 th
For the Gazette.
Messrs. Printers, I FIND in the Oracle of Saturday, two pieces of equal decency, addressed to Mr. Thomas Paine, but in fact a calumny upon me.—I most sincerely invite the public to read them both, as specimens of the most contemptible and disgraceful species of composition in the art of lying. I have only two sentences to add—God give you the patience of Job to read them both—And that the last seems to be but a "poor justification for the devouring PRIEST!" AN AMERICAN.
FEATURES OF FEDERALISM.
"The Leopard cannot change his spots, nor the Ethiopian his skin."
IT is impossible to review the conduct of the Federalists of the United States without at once perceiving the applicability of this motto to their character. Neither the voice of the country, which loudly calls upon them for a reformation of their conduct, nor the impressive lessons which they have received from their own experience, can reclaim them from perseverance in error. They still persist in the defence of those measures, and pursue that conduct, which at first impaired their party, and will ultimately produce its desolation, like a man addicted to intoxication, who, feeling the paralytic effects of the last night's draught, drinks a dram in the morning to strengthen his constitution. They have continued to misrepresent till no person is duped but themselves; and have uttered falsehoods till they alone are deceived. While engaged in scenes of oppression and prodigality, to effect their purposes by hood winking our understandings, they were enthusiasts in the cause of religion.
Seasons of election were seasons of religious ardor. The extent of their zeal for Christianity was measured by the magnitude and importance of the office to which a candidate was to be elected. When a constable or collector was to be chosen the cause of Heaven was at the freezing point; a member of Congress excited their piety to summer heat, and a President of the United States boiled the spirit of federal christianity. They seemed to say to their fellow citizens, "it is enough for you to attend to your spiritual inheritance, we will graciously risk our own salvation by taking under our protection all your earthly chattels & hereditaments." Their object was to fix the popular attention on heavenly things, that they might unnoticed be careful only about sublunary things. For while with one hand they were holding out the histories of Robinson & Barruell, with the other, they were grasping after more power, and plundering the pockets of the people. They pretended to inspiration, and in the true style of religious enthusiasm predicted, that if Jefferson were elected President, christianity would be destroyed, and morality set at defiance. But like other pretenders to the art of divination, they have lost the credit of true prophets by the falsity of their predictions. Christianity still flourishes; our churches still exist as monuments of their impiety and arrogance. The ties of morality are not loosened; the bands of social intercourse are not broken; nor is the basis of civil society removed.
With all these evidences of the falsehood of their assertions, the federalists still repeat, that religion and the constitution are in danger. For proof of its truth they no longer rely on Robinson and Barruell, nor on the reverend doctor Morre's tales of illumination, or the reverend doctor Linn's "serious considerations;" these are thread-bare delusions that can no longer impose upon our credulity. Something novel must be invented to awaken our attention to the safety of christianity; for the public mind had slept over these stories as a fable which had been often repeated. Happily for federalism, Mr. Jefferson wrote to Thomas Paine a letter, which they say invited him to this country, and contained expressions of esteem for the services which he had rendered mankind. Here they saw undoubted evidence of a conspiracy to destroy our religion and our government; they eagerly seized the clue, but like Harper's, it has proved unsubstantial as the visionary phantom of a madman's brain. All the comments which they have made on this letter, serve rather to show their malignity than to aid their cause. They wished to impose upon the community a belief that it amounted to an invitation, when not a word or expression can be tortured to mean any such thing. Nothing less could have been written by a person in Mr. Jefferson's situation, who had the least claim of civility, or retained the least gratitude for the services of a man that aided our resistance to the tyranny of Britain, and supported our spirits in the most trying scenes of our revolutionary war. But gratitude for such services has long ceased to be a virtue with federalists. This we might well expect from that spirit which treated the history of British oppression as a subject which ought not to be remembered, which would forget the declaration of our independence! and patronize a wretch who wrote bloody bays to disgrace the principles of liberty, by representing the excesses of the French revolution as the true effects of the sentiments of freedom. Why this letter should have any thing to do with religion or the constitution, it is difficult to conceive. Is Mr. Jefferson an infidel because he wrote to Tom Paine, who wrote the age of reason? Is he an enemy to the constitution because the same man has censu

the character of General Washington who was a friend to the constitution? Must we be supposed to approve of another's faults because we approve of his virtues? Must we behave to a man as though we were destitute of humanity, because he has fallen into error? Where is there a federalist, who, on this principle, would not approve the violation of his neighbour's bed? Where is the federalist who would not be the supporter of falsehood and forgery, who would not consider the constitution no better than a piece of blank paper?
If the federalists be serious when they declare that christianity is in danger, they are not christians; they do not believe the declaration of its founder, that it shall withstand every opposition. Did they place any confidence in his promise, they would not apprehend that Mr. Paine could weaken the evidence of divine revelation, they would rather believe that its truth would shine the brighter, and the purity of its precepts be more conspicuous. But their religious conduct, like their political, is at war with their professions; and in any country less enlightened than this would have erected the standard of rebellion, and lighted the faggots of ecclesiastical persecution. The garb of christianity has been made the cloak of their maliciousness; under its covering they have outraged every christian principle. While they were commanded to utter no falsehood, and to speak evil of no man, they have calumniated the first characters in the Union, and misrepresented the most salutary measures till it has become doubtful whether they are now capable of seeing the truth, or of behaving with decency.
With an affected veneration for the constitution they have, by exciting the jealousy of one state against another, endeavoured to propagate a spirit of disunion and anti-federalism. To compleat their character, and reconcile their practice with their professions, they have ultimately avowed the unconstitutional principle, that the people are the greatest enemies of themselves. With this principle, federalism, like metaphysics, is capable of reconciling the greatest absurdities; it seems to be the general medicine of federal politics, it cures all blunders, and heals all contradictions. With this doctrine the federalists can prove that republicanism means any thing or nothing, they can prove it to be a despotism or anarchy; they can prove that a majority of the people are always wrong in their opinions, and that whatever they advocate is destructive to their interests and happiness. We are much obliged to them for the avowal of this great leading principle of federalism; it will serve to explain many parts of their conduct which to a vulgar apprehension would seem a paradox. We can now account for their adoption of measures in opposition to the wishes of the people; we can now account for their total disregard of public opinion; we can now reconcile useless taxes, unnecessary armies and unconstitutional laws, with the security of the Constitution, and the purest spirit of patriotism. CLERICUS.
From the Trenton (N. J.) True American. "Federal Proposition!"
The public for some time past has been amused with the Propositions of the 26 Federal Members of the Legislature, with regard to the distribution of certain offices. We have now to notice a proposition of a more serious nature—of a nature forever to deprive of public confidence and private respect, the persons with whom it originated. It will be recollected that in the early part of the past session of the Legislature, a Joint-Meeting was held for the choice of certain officers. Among these officers, the most important were, a Governor of the State and a Senator to Congress. Owing to an equal division of the votes between different Candidates, no election took place of either of these officers.
To attain one or both of these was an object of the utmost magnitude to the Federalists. They well knew that if the reins of the State Government remained in Republican hands, their prospect was desperate. They hoped by placing one of their own sect in the governmental chair to acquire thro' his influence the ascendancy at the next election. The office of Governor was therefore to them all important. That of Senator, considering the length of time he was to serve, was of considerable consequence.
After the first and before the second Joint Meeting, while the Republicans shewed no disposition to relinquish the advantages they possessed, or to abandon the commanding position they had taken, one of the Members of Assembly, of the party which calls itself federal, and who is one of the most influential and violent of that party, in the presence of another Member of the same description, made to a Republican Member of Council an offer of an hundred acres of land, laying in the County of Morris, if he would give him two votes for the appointment of officers in Joint-Meeting as he should be directed!
Upon the Republican's observing, in order to sound the depth of the proposal, and to discover whether it was a jest or an earnest, that if it were known that he held his votes in the manner proposed, it would ruin his reputation with the Republicans; the person who made the offer replied, that he need be under no apprehension of its ever becoming public, as he would bind himself by a bond of 1000 pounds (or dollars, the Republican is not sure which) that it should never be divulged by him or his colleague.
The republican now finding the offer was serious and feeling indignant that the Federalists should thus suspect and tamper with his integrity, turned shortly around, and left the disappointed bribers to their own reflection.
Of the truth of the above statement, no doubt need be entertained. It will be substantiated if necessary, by the oath of the Member of Council to whom the offer was made.
Here let the candid, the unprejudiced, the patriotic, Citizen pause! Let him for a moment review the conduct of what is called the federal party in the legislature of this state.—By a violation of every principle of law, of honor and of honesty, in conducting the election—by receiving the votes of aliens, of non-residents, of married women, of persons under age, of paupers, and of slaves, they succeeded in obtaining an equality in the Legislature. They preserve this equality, in contempt of law, of justice, and of precedent, by confirming those members in their seats who, as was established by a report of a committee of their own party, after hearing scarce one tenth of the evidence offered, owed their election to "unlawful and irregular proceedings," to "illegal votes," and to taking "legal votes in an unlawful manner!"—See this same party, after refusing to re-appoint a man to the office of Governor, who his worst enemies acknowledge, had executed his duties with integrity, ability, and industry, and whose worst fault was too great a lenity, towards the enemies of the state, and of himself as its friend.—See this party now attempting to accomplish the ends which they could not reach by fair exertion, by direct bribery and corruption!
If the person to whom the offer was made, does his duty, the agents in this business will be brought to the light; and even should they escape an impeachment, which there is no doubt they richly deserve, and would certainly suffer did justice preside at their trial, they would be made the scorn, the contempt, the derision, of every honest man and good citizen.
Interesting Foreign News.
LONDON, OCT. 16 It is reported in some well informed circles, that the Cabinet Council, which met on Saturday last, took very serious business into consideration, and resolved on very important steps. The affairs of Switzerland, connected with the general conduct of France, were discussed; and it was resolved that not only this country should remonstrate against the conduct of the Chief Consul in attacking the independence of Switzerland, but we should call on other Courts to second our efforts in putting a stop to his ambitious career. For this purpose, Mr. Moore, of Lord Hawkesbury's office, who assisted in the negotiations at Amiens, has been sent from Harwich through Holland to Vienna, to solicit the Imperial Court, in conjunction with that of Great Britain, to remonstrate against the attempts of France to overthrow the ancient government of Switzerland, for an overthrow it will be, since it has been lately re-established at the desire of the people.
SWITZERLAND. LAUSANNE, OCT. 13 That which persons acquainted with the state of Switzerland, must have expected, & in reality have with certainty expected, has taken place. The Diet of Schweiz has adopted all the articles of the proclamation of the First Consul. His Aid de-camp Rapp has received the official intelligence of this; and the Helvetic Government will be removed to Bern the day after to-morrow, under the escort of the first Helvetic half-brigade.
In consequence of the summons of Gen. Rapp, the Confederate troops left Friburg, which is no longer to be occupied either by the Helvetic troops or the forces of the opposite party.—What here causes great astonishment is, that the garrison which defended Friburg, and which was made prisoners of war, in virtue of the capitulation, shall be transferred from Bern to Schwentz, while the forced evacuation of that place, and the disapprobation of Gen. Rapp at the conduct of the insurgents, seemed to indicate that this garrison was to be sent back to the Helvetic army.
The canton of Lucerne, which so long as it was abandoned to itself, gave an example of real public spirit, is fallen into complete anarchy, like the other cantons, since the troops of the Petty Cantons have made themselves masters of them. The provisional Government, composed of the partisans of the ancient system, is without resource, and does not enjoy any confidence. It has been impossible for it, notwithstanding its efforts, to get together a corps of 1200 men, which it should have furnished to the Confederate Army. Hitherto its operations have been limited to abrogate the Helvetic Criminal Code, and to re-establish the inquisitorial question and process. Entiluch, tired of its vexations, has declared to it, that she will constitute herself an independent Republic.
Gen. Rapp left yesterday for Geneva, and returned last night. It is said that he will proceed to Schwentz.
Basel, Oct. 11. As the proclamation of Bonaparte, although suppressed as much as possible by the Oligarchy of Bern, Soleure, Zurich, &c. begins nevertheless to become known among the people, the most rigid measures have been taken to keep the multitude within bounds. A revolutionary tribunal has been established at Bern for summarily judging, and without any other form of process, all those individuals who undertake to act against the present order of things. Arrests begin to multiply. The smallest denunciations suffice to deprive those citizens of liberty whose attachment to the revolution is known. It is very natural, in this situation of things, when the passions are no longer under restraint, that the project of the constitution of the Diet of Schweiz should not find many partisans in Bern. It will remain a project, like many other acts, within these few years, in this unfortunate country.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 21. Orders came down this day, to all the men of war in the harbour, to get ready for sea, and to complete them to four months stores and provisions.
Last night the L'Avanturere of 18 guns failed with important dispatches; but could
gain but little way, the wind being a head. Her destination is not known, the captain having orders not to open his commission until he gets 20 leagues west of the Scilly Islands.
A second packet of dispatches arrived last night, and were immediately sent on board the Childers, which failed this morning, with similar sealed orders.
A P. M. Further dispatches are expected to be put on board the Nimble cutter; she also fails with sealed orders.
LONDON OCT. 16, Not a week passes, that some Spanish, Dutch, or French ships of the line do not pass Gibraltar into the Mediterranean. What is intended? A cutter has failed from Plymouth at an hour's notice with dispatches for our Admiral at Gibraltar.
National Legislature.
SENATE, Dec. 6, 1802. EIGHT members only attending, an adjournment took place until to-morrow.
Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1802. Twelve members only attended. Adjourned accordingly, lighteen are necessary to make a quorum.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, Dec. 6, 1802.
THIS day being prescribed by the Constitution, for the meeting of Congress. Fifty-Three members of the House appeared; who not forming a quorum, adjourned until to-morrow.
Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1802. A quorum being convened this day, the following new members took their seats, viz. SAMUEL HUNT, from New-Hampshire, in the room of JOSEPH PEIRCE, resigned; SAMUEL THATCHER, from Massachusetts, DAVID MERRIWETHER, from Georgia, in the room of Mr. TALLIAFERRO, resigned; THOMAS WINN, of North-Carolina, in the room of CHARLES JOHNSON deceased; and THOMAS M. GREENE, a delegate from the Mississippi Territory, in the room of N. HUNTER, deceased.
An order passed, directing the Clerk to inform the Senate, that a quorum had formed. He was also ordered to furnish each member with three newspapers at his lodgings.
Portsmouth.
Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1802.
We anticipated the pleasure of presenting our readers this day with the PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE:—but the last evening's mail informs us, that on the 8th inst. three members were still wanting to form a quorum in the Senate.
Distressing Intelligence, FROM PORT-REPUBLICAN.
Capt. Wadbury, of the brig William Pitt, arrived at New-York, spoke on the first inst. the ship's Fame, from Port-Republican, out 14 days, the captain of which assured him that the Negroes had succeeded in taking Port-Republican by form, and had PUT ALL THE WHITE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO THE SWORD. The American vessels in the harbor failed in company with the Fame, under convoy of a French frigate.
For the N. H. GAZETTE.
To KRONON HOTON, (a Scribler in the last Oracle.)
Sir—DESPICABLE indeed must be the sect (whether as it respects politics or religion) who cannot support their principles by fair, honorable and manly argument; but are reduced, like a drowning man, at last, to catch at any thing to save themselves!—This, Sir, is evidently the case with you and your party,* seeing that you cannot honorably justify or vindicate your sentiments, either political or religious, you are reduced, at last, to flee to the despicable refuge of ridicule, blackguardism, vulgar wit, and low profanity.—That this is the case, I appeal to every man of sense, that has had recourse (of late) to the federal prints, (as they are called) particularly the last Oracle, which contains your College-larn'd piece of genius and composition!!
Being much averse to all party contentions and disputes, and possessing some faith in the old adage, "the least said being the soonest mended," and recommending it to your attention; I conclude this my short epistle to you, Sir, with wishing you and all your sect, a THOROUGH REFORMATION. AMICUS.
*If I may draw any conclusion from your production in the last Oracle.
Citizens of New-Hampshire look on!—Republicans stand firm!—And you will do your work well. It is time to begin to think at this moment particularly, for the State of New-Hampshire as a Member of the Union.
We are all firm in Portsmouth, and the Tories shake—they have begun; the signal of alarm is given. We, like all other places, have our men of intrigues, and our men of credulity. The way we do, is to look to the PRINCIPLE.—Go and do you likewise, and New-Hampshire is republi-canised.
TWO QUESTIONS.
Messrs. Printers—Please to give the following Questions a place in your useful paper, and you will oblige a number of your customers.
1st. What is the meaning of the word ANTI-CHRIST?
2d. What is the meaning of the word CLERGY?
It is wished that some person, skilled in the Scriptures, would be so kind as to give an answer to these Questions, through this medium, and they will oblige
AN INQUIRER.
TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Comment on the Extracts from the Thanksgiving Sermon, is unavoidably postponed this week. "Americanus" is received, want of room is our only apology for its non-appearance this day.
NEW-YORK, DEC. 13. IMPORTANT.
By the Olivia, from Cape-Francois, we learn that all the ports on the north side of the island, excepting the Cape; and all on the west side, excepting Port-au-Prince and St. Marc, had been evacuated by the French,—who were concentrated at the Cape:—That Gen. Dessalines was killed in the attack on St. Marc;—That Gen. Le Clerc died at the Cape, Nov. 3d, and was embalmed, and put on board a man of war for France;—whither it failed the next day under a discharge of cannon from two 80 gun ships, two 74's three frigates, &c. lying in the harbour:—That Gen. Rochambeau had succeeded Gen. Le Clerc; and when the Olivia came away, a 74 said to have the successor of General Le Clerc on board, was beating up:—and that from the 18th to the 30th Oct. the French arising from the dead bodies in the harbour of the Cape, was inconceivably great, numbers of the blacks having been thrown into the sea, and drowned.
Hymeneal Register.
Love reigns supreme, and spurns controul, But loves the ties that strongest bind, And flies to some congenial soul, And settles with a kindred mind.
MARRIED
At Paris, M. Talleyrand, Secretary of state, to the celebrated Madame La Grande.
At Amherst, Mr. Amos Phelps to Miss Sally Whiting.
At Salem, Mr. John Abbot, of this town, to Miss Rebecca V. Wilson, of the former place.
At Ipswich, Mr. Richard Sutton, of this town, to Miss Lucy Lord, of the former place.
At Cornish, N. H. Mr. Samuel Paine, to Miss Pamela Chase.
In this town, by the Rev. Mr. Buckminster, Mr. Samuel Davis, of Bath, to Miss Frances Mary Ann Goldthwait. Mr. William Tullock, to Miss Eunice Tuttle.
Bill of Mortality.
DIED
At Middletown, Conn. Mr. Jonathan Thayer, aged 102 years and ten months.
At Chester, on the 14th inst. Mrs. Mary Silby, comfort of Mr. Oziias Silby, aged 37.
At Kittery, on the 6th inst. Mrs. Nancy Skirrigens, the amiable and beloved consort of Mr. John Skirrigens, after a long and painful illness, which she bore with christian patience, fortitude and resignation; and at last cheerfully submitted to the all-wise will of her Sovereign and her GOD, leaving this world in the full hope of a blessed immortality thro' a glorious and all sufficient Saviour. She has left an affectionate husband to mourn the loss of one of the best of wives; and two lovely children to lament a kind and tender mother; also, two aged parents to bemoan a dutiful and endearing child; and two sisters to weep over the grave of a loving and beloved sister.
In this town, Mr. Thomas Clifford, aged 49.—A child of Mr. Nutter.
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GRAND LODGE.
THE OFFICERS and MEMBERS of the Grand Lodge of New-Hampshire, are informed that a special Grand Lodge will be holden in the Lodge room in Portsmouth, on Monday the 27th inst. at half past 5 o'clock P. M. for the purpose of installing the worshipful Master and Wardens of KING SOLOMON'S Lodge, No. 13,—where punctual attendance is required.
All Brethren of the craft, not Members of the Grand Lodge, will give their attendance at 6 o'clock, in the Court room adjoining the Lodge. None admitted into the Grand Lodge room after 7. By Order,
I. SPALDING, Grand Secretary.
December 7.
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December 18, 1802.
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TO LET,
A LARGE and convenient SHOP, in Market-street, suitable for English Goods. Inquire of the Printers. Dec. 21, 1802.
LOST on Saturday the 10th inst. between Portsmouth and Greenland, a Black Morocco POCKET-BOOK, containing two Notes, one against Mr. Nathaniel Bailey, for 57 Dollars and 25 Cents—the other against Mr. Thomas Downing, for 3 Dollars, with other Papers valuable to the owner—Whoever has found the said Pocket-Book, and will leave it at the GAZETTE OFFICE, shall be handsomely rewarded by
TIMOTHY CRUMET.
Greenland, December 20, 1802.
NOTICE!
To be Sold at Auction, On Wednesday, 5th Jan. 1803, at 12 o'clock, on Rindge's Wharf,
THE SCHOONER SWALLOW, as she came from sea, about 28 tons. And the Schooner JACK, as she now lies at Noble's Island. Also, about 80 boxes and kegs of HERRING, with sundry other articles.
Inventory to be seen at time and place of Sale, and terms of Payment made known.
ALEX'R EWEN, Auc'tr. Portsmouth, Dec. 21, 1802.
TO BE SOLD,
A HOUSE & LAND, pleasantly situated; the Land is 24 feet on Buck-street, and 80 feet on Washington-street. The House is two stories high, and in good repair, with a good cellar under the whole; being an excellent place for trade.
Apply to JACOB WALDEN. Portsmouth, Dec. 21, 1802.
SOLD BY
John Jackson, Buck-street, Portsmouth,
WHEATON'S GENUINE PATENT JAUNDICE BITTERS,
Secured to him by Letters Patent from the PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES, January 17, 1801.
A MEDICINE extremely useful when JAUNDICE and BILIOUS COMPLAINTS are so prevalent among the Citizens of America and the West-Indies. They are a useful and efficacious MEDICINE for curing jaundice and bilious Disorders, and removing that sinking, faint, distressed feeling at the stomach, difficulty of breathing, loss of appetite, and sleepy, dull heaviness in the fore part of the day, weakness and trembling of the limbs, dizziness of the head, and yellowness of countenance, complaints so common to jaundice and bilious people.
Also removing constipation of the bowels, obstructions of urine, cholicky complaints, pukings and purgings, indigestion, sick headache, rheumatic complaints, &c. (which arise from a collection of sour, bilious matter, in the stomach) and at length restoring the constitution to strength and vigor.
They are also found very useful to carry off worms, and cure rickety children, and may be used with safety in all constitutions, ages and sexes.
The above Medicine bears no analogy whatever in its effects to others of a similar title, it being loosening to constipated bowels, and regulating those that are relaxed, and carrying off bilious and jaundice matter; and at the same time restoring the appetite, and giving universal strength.
The many cures that have been effected in New-England, by the above Medicine (as may be seen in the bills) prevent the necessity of further recommendation.
LIKEWISE,
Wheaton's Patent
Itch Ointment;
The only Medicine in the world which will certainly cure the ITCH, without having in it any thing either dangerous or disagreeable; it being composed mostly of ingredients never before discovered or used in that disorder.
One Box cures a Person, and there need be no washing after the use of it, as the skin is generally left cleaner and smoother after the use of it than before.
No Medicine ought to be without this valuable Medicine; for, on the first appearance of this disorder on the wrists and betwixt the fingers, &c.—a slight application of this Ointment will cure it, and prevent its progress, and likewise its being taken by others. It may also be used as a preventative, by touching the hands, or the inside of the gloves, once in a while with a little of it, when there is a suspicion that the disorder is prevalent, and there is danger of taking it: For which reason, no people abroad on business, no student, traveller, soldier or sailor, should be without this Ointment, which is neatly put up in tin boxes, with suitable directions accompanying them, convenient to carry, agreeable in its smell, and will last good for a long time. By this precaution, neighborhoods, societies, and schools, might be freed from this tormenting disorder. Should the Patient have any other eruption or breaking out, which he mistakes for the Itch, an application of this Ointment will do no harm, but often cures the common breakings out, which arise from a sharp, hot humor in the blood, and leaves a smooth polish on the skin.
ALSO,
Wheaton's
Restorative Paste
For the TEETH and GUMS. This PASTE will cleanse and whiten the TEETH, and take off the foulness and scale like substance at the bottom; which if not remedied, will in time, moulder away, and finally ruin them. It likewise will cure the SCURVY in the GUMS, and cause them to grow firm and close to the Teeth, and remove the disagreeable smell from the breath, which arises from scorbutic gums and rotten teeth. The Paste is agreeable in its smell, and leaves not an unpleasant glow on the gums and lips. It is neatly put up in small tin boxes, and will keep good for a long time.
Portsmouth, December 21, 1802.
WANTED,
An active, capable LAD, of about 15 years of age, to attend a store in this town. Inquire of the printers. Portsmouth, Dec. 21, 1802.

ELLIOT & MARSH, Have on hand a few hundred Yards of BEVERLY BED-TICK Of the best quality—which they will sell as low as those of any other Manufacture can be afforded. Portsmouth, December, 7, 1802.
American Manufactured Cotton BED-TICKS.
THE subscriber has just received and can supply shopkeepers & others with any quantity of Providence Manufactured COTTON BED-TICKS , warranted not to shed Feathers; equal to the Beverly manufactured. —ALSO—
COTTON YARN , of every kind, wholesale and retail, at the same prices as sold for at the manufactory, with the expenses of freight, &c.
CANDLE WICKS , in any quantity.—Any persons desirous of purchasing any of the above articles to sell by retail, will be supplied with the same on liberal terms by NATHAN B. FOLSOM.
Portsmouth, December 7, 1802. NOTICE!
For Sale at AUCTION , at the Office of Alexander Ewen, In Market-street, Portsmouth, a valuable assortment of MERCHANDIZE,
Consisting of SUPERFINE & low priced Broad-Cloths; Cashmeres; Callicoes; Tambor'd Chintzes; Purple Shawls; Pocket Handkerchiefs; Hats; Linens; Knives and Forks, &c. &c.
*The above articles will be sold for Cash without reserve, and sale to be continued from time to time, till the whole is sold.
N. B. He has for private sale, 50 casks fresh RAISINS , and a few CURRANTS .
Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802. On THURSDAY , the 30th December next, 12 o'clock, m. will be Sold,
At Public Auction,
ALL the right, title and interest of SAMUEL STORER a Bankrupt, in and to a certain tract of land lying at Broad Bay in the district of Maine, bounded as follows, viz. beginning at a Pine tree marked on the most westerly branch of said Bay, from thence running North Northeast by Mulconagus river eight miles; then Northwest by West eight miles; then South Southwest eight miles; thence Southeast by East eight miles to the Pine tree begun at.
The SALE to be at the Bell Tavern where the conditions will be made known.
JOHN GODDARD, HENRY S. LANGDON, CHARLES CUTTS, Portsmouth, Nov. 29, 1802.
Valuable MEDICINES.
LEE'S Genuine WINDHAM BILIOUS PILLS , so celebrated in America and the West-Indies, as a mild, safe and sovereign remedy for Bilious and Yellow Fevers, Jaundice, Indigestion, Colicwinds, Dysentery, Bilious Cholice, Dropsy, Worms, Head Ache, Scurvy, &c. &c.—Dose—from one to three or four, to be taken when going to bed. price 50 cents a box.
The virtues and efficacies of these Pills, not only in the above enumerated complaints, but in most diseases of the human body where purges are necessary, are so well known, that any comments upon them must be altogether superfluous.
As there is some dispute between SAML H. P. LEE'S friends and the Public, respecting which are the Genuine Bilious Pills, it may be proper to observe that my Patent was obtained in April, 1796, and the demand soon became so great and benefits of my Pills so amply ascertained and publicly acknowledged, that Saml. H. P. Lee , of New-London, thought proper to take advantage of the similarity of names and of the credit of my Pills, and for that purpose obtained a Patent in June, 1799, and calls them Bilious Pills, the basis of which is Mercury. If people incautiously purchase his Pills for mine, I shall not be answerable for their effects, as there is no Mercury in my Pills. SAMUEL LEE, jr. Patentee.
Tyce's patent Itch Ointment or, Beautifier of the Skin. This Ointment is the most remarkable composition ever yet discovered, for cleaning and beautifying the Skin. It removes all pimples or defects from the Face, and immediately cures all cutaneous distempers. The Itch is cured by it in a few days, with perfect safety and ease.—It likewise prevents every kind of itching sensation of the Skin, either from poison or obstructed perspiration. It is necessary that every member of a family should have a box of this Ointment, to keep by them. price 50 cents a box.
BITTERS! Excellent BITTERS , prepared by Dr. Rawson , of Connecticut, for which he has obtained a patent from the President of the United States. These Bitters are excellent for Jaundice and Bilious complaints; for Indigestion; sickness at the Stomach; four Belchings; Hiccups; complaints in the Liver; loss of Appetite; Fainting Fits, &c. &c.—It is earnestly recommended that every person try some of these Bitters.
The above may be had at the COLUMBIAN BOOKSTORE , No. 5, Daniel-street, Portsmouth, where may also be had a general assortment of PATENT MEDICINES.
A FARM to Let or Rented. A VALUABLE FARM , situated in the north part of DERRYFIELD , lying in the banks of the Merrimack , as pleasantly situated as any Farm in the country—will be Let or Rented, and possession given the first of April next, said Farm cuts Hay sufficient to winter 35 head of cattle, and other stock in proportion; is well watered, a large House, and three large Barns, and other out Houses thereon, and as easy tilled as any Farm in the Universe.—No person need apply, who cannot produce good recommendations for Industry, Morality and Religion.—For further particulars apply to General STARKE , the owner, on the premises, or to BENJAMIN F. STARKE , of Goffstown. Derryfield, December 7, 1802.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of land in MERRIMACK , who have not paid their taxes for the year 1801, that so much of their land as will pay the same, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of DANIEL INGALLS , innholder in said Merrimack, on the twenty-second day of February 1803, at two o'clock, P. M. unless prevented by payment.
John Wendall, Esq. town tax, 88 School and county, 15 Minister, 18 ABEL GOODRIDGE, Coll'r. Merrimack, Dec. 8, 1802.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Grafton, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of DORCHESTER , who have not paid their taxes of three Cents, on each Acre of Land in said Dorchester, agreeable to an act of the General Court, passed June, 1801—that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Joseph Burley , Esq. in said Dorchester, on the first Monday of March next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Original Proprietors Names. Acres. No. Lot. Highway. D. C.     Mark H. Wentworth, do. 65 100 3 0   John Parker, Esq. 231 100 3 0   John Hurd, Esq. 220 100 3 0   Samuel Parker, do. 149 50 1 50   John Nelson, do. 245 100 3 0   John P. Williams, William Gardner, Joshua Brackett, Ebenezer Lewis, John Marchal, Benjamin Rice, Joseph Day, David Woodward, Thomas Porter, Isaac Burnap, John March, Isaac Williams, William Walch, Henry Sherburn, Thomas Floyd, Thomas Davison, Joseph Sherburn, do. 296 50 1 50   Samuel Hubart, do. 17 100 3 0   Theodore Atkinson, do. 287 100 3 0   Nathan West, do. 1 200 3 0   do. 15 100 3 0   do. 68 50 1 50   do. 243 50 1 50   do. 145 50 1 50   do. 67 50 1 50   do. 133 100 3 0   do. 79 50 1 50   do. 117 50 1 50   do. 19 100 3 0   do. 146 50 1 50   do. 129 70 2 10   do. 3 100 3 0   do. 1 100 3 0   do. 116 100 3 0   do. 193 100 3 0   do. 1 10 0 30   do. 213 100 3 0   do. 113 100 3 0   do. 198 100 3 0   do. 140 100 3 0  
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Grafton, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of Land in the town of DORCHESTER , who have not paid their county tax for the year 1802—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 Joseph Burley , Esq. in said Dorchester, on the last Monday of March next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   Original Proprietors Names. Acres. No. Lot. County. C. C.     Mark H. Wentworth, do. 65 100 2 0   John Parker, Richard C. Shannon, William Gardner, do. 231 100 2 0   do. 220 100 2 0   do. 78 100 2 0   do. 85 100 2 0   do. 237 100 2 0   do. 68 50 1 50   do. 243 50 1 50   do. 145 50 1 50   do. 67 50 1 50   do. 133 100 3 0   do. 79 50 1 50   do. 117 50 1 50   do. 19 100 3 0   do. 146 50 1 50   do. 129 70 2 10   do. 3 100 3 0   do. 1 100 3 0   do. 116 100 3 0   do. 193 100 3 0   do. 1 10 0 30   do. 213 100 3 0   do. 113 100 3 0   do. 198 100 3 0   do. 140 100 3 0  
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Grafton, ff.
WANTED—A FEW SHIPPING HORSES. Inquire of the printer. Dec. 14, 1802.
STONE LIME.
Now Landing, and for Sale at E. Chadwick's Store, Bow street, ONE hundred and fifty Casks STONE LIME , of a superior quality. —Also— Bar Iron; Salt; Malaga Wine; India Sugar, & other GOODS as usual, cheap for cash or approved credit. Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802.
FOR SALE,
At Jacob Walden's Auction Office, TWO NEW ELEGANT Piano-Fortes, Cheap for cash, if applied for soon. Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802.
ACCOUNT BOOKS.
JUST RECEIVED from the Southward and FOR SALE by CHARLES PEIRCE , No. 5, Daniel-street; and N. S. & W. PEIRCE , corner of Congress and Market Streets, Portsmouth;
A large assortment of
BLANK BOOKS, from 50 cents to 10 dollars each, such as Ledgers, Wastes, and Journals; Letter, Record, and Memorandum Books, the whole comprising a complete assortment, and warranted as cheap as can be purchased in Boston or this town.
TRUNKS
of all sizes and prices kept constantly For Sale by N. S. & W. PEIRCE.
Books & Stationary
AS USUAL.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT NANCY MOULTON , of Portsmouth, has been duly appointed administratrix on the estate of Capt. JOHN WATTS MOULTON , late of said Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, and has taken on herself that trust, and given bonds as the law directs: And all persons having demands upon the estate of the said John Watts Moulton , are required to exhibit the same; and all persons indebted to said estate are called upon to make payment to her attorney, ROBERT NOBLE , who will be ready to receive the same, at the store of Capt. JOSEPH NOBLE , Fore-street, Portsmouth.
ROBERT NOBLE , Attorney to the administratrix before named.
Portsmouth, Dec. 14, 1802.
WALES'S LOCATION.
WHEREAS the proprietors of Wales's Location, in the county of Grafton, State of New Hampshire, at their adjourned proprietors meeting, held on the fourteenth day of April, A. D. 1802, at the house of Simon Drake , in Pittsfield, did vote a tax of EIGHT DOLLARS , to be paid on each original right or share of Land in said Location, to defray the expense of calling said meeting, and of surveying said Location into lots, and other proprietary expenses—said tax being committed unto me to collect, and I having advertised the same for payment, as the law in such a case directs, and the tax on the following original rights remains unpaid, viz.— Joseph Trumbull, Esq. Nathaniel Wales, jr. Abijah Learned, David Learned, Abel Learned, Nathaniel Wales, 3d. Nathan Wales, Simon Learned, Ebenezer Learned, John Squires, jr. Nathaniel Wales, 4th, Eleazer Wales, Benjamin Learned, Eleazer Robeson, Jeremiah Jackson, Solomon Wales, Eleazer Wales, jr. Seth Wales —I do therefore notify and warn the above mentioned original proprietors or the owners of said rights, that unless they pay said tax of Eight Dollars on each of said rights unto me, on or before the second Tuesday of January next, I shall then sell at public auction, on the 10 o'clock forenoon on said day, at my dwelling-house in Pittsfield, so much of each of said original rights, as will pay said tax, with legal cost.
SIMEON DRAKE , Prop'r's Collector. Pittsfield, county of Rockingham, State of New Hampshire, Nov. 29, A. D. 1802.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Rockingham, ff.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in NORTHWOOD , who have not paid their taxes for the year 1802—that so much of their lands as will pay the same and incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue on the 15th day of February 1803, at the house of Henry Batchelder , innholder in said Northwood, at ten of the clock A. M. unless prevented by previous payment.
   Owners Names. Acres. No. Lot. Town. School. County. Highway. C. C. D. C.     Sam'l Woodman, Abner Davis, John Calf, James Hunger, Nath'l Sargent, George Tuttle, and Sisten. 7 6 28 17 13 3 0 48 7 10 80 33 78 78 90 75 17 13 3 0 48 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  
WILLIAM SMITH , Collector. Northwood, November 29, 1802.
Strayed or Stolen.
FROM the pasture of William Boardman , of Newmarket, on the night of the 6th of November last, a BAY HORSE , 14 hands high, black mane and tail, 7 years old, half hip. Whoever will return said Horse to the subscriber, shall be rewarded for their trouble. JOHN SAWYER. Portsmouth, Dec. 7, 1802.
HARD-WARE GOODS, By Wholesale and Retail.
H. & B. Penhallow, Have imported in the ship John Adams from Liverpool, and brig Union , from Bristol,
A GREAT VARIETY OF
Hard Ware GOODS,
Which together with their former Stock, make a large and complete assortment, Consisting of
BRASS KETTLES;
brass and copper Warming Pans; copper Tea Kettles; brass, Copper and Iron Chafing Dishes; brass, japan'd and iron Candlesticks; brass Skimmers; brass cabinet and clock Furniture; Clock-Faces and Clock Pinions; brass and iron Thumb Latches and Rappers; brass Nails; Pewter; block-tin Tea Pots, of various sizes; Flat-Irons; Frying Pans; a great variety of Shovels and Tongs; Andirons; brass nose and common Bellows; brass and steel Chimney Hooks; Pins, No. 3 1/2, 4, 4 1/2, and 5, pound and packet Pins; Grain-Tin, and Emery.
A great variety of
Knives & Forks; Jackknives; Penknives, Razors; Scissors & Shears; floor, hearth, dust, wax, clothes, scrubbing, whitewash, teeth, paint, tar and shoe Brushes.
A great variety of low priced Looking-Glasses, from 1 dollar to 10 dollars each. A great variety of Patent Lamps; elegant Tea Trays, and Waiters; Snuffer Trays; best and common steel Snuffers; block-tin, composition and tin'd iron Tea and Table Spoons.
Scates; English and American made Sleigh Bells, of all sizes; brass and iron Bellows Pipes; Japan'd Bread Baskets; Knife Trays; Fruit Baskets; Cheese Trays.
Box and steel Coffee Mills, of all sizes; Hones, and Oil Stones; Painter's and Glazier's Knives.
A very large assortment of
SADLERY.
Joiner's, Ship-Carpenter's, Carver's, Sadler's, Cooper's and Shoemaker's Tools; iron and brass Wire; Lanthorn-Leaves; Devonshire and square Iron Shovels and Spades; Sheet-Iron; Patent Shot; Crowley, blister'd, cast, heart and club, and Halback Steel; Anvils and Vises; Screw-Plates; Taylor's Geese.
An extensive assortment of brass & iron Locks, Hinges, Latches & Bolts.
A large assortment of
Files; steel and common plate Saws, viz. pitt, cross-cut, webb, hand, pannell, fash, dovetail, compass, cooper's and key-hole Saws; brass Scales; painted Scale Beams; Steel-yards of all sizes; Callipers; Razor-Cases; Shaving Boxes; Snuff and Tobacco Boxes; Curling Tongs; Ivory Combs; Church Plate; Scales and Dividers; Mathematical Instruments; Surveyor's Instruments; Spy Glasses; Ship Scrapers; Caulking Irons; Pitch Ladles; Cabin Mops; Palms; Sail Needles; Time Glasses; Codlines; a complete assortment of small Fish Hooks; fash and chalk Lines; log, and deep sea Lines; Hadley's Quadrants; Muffkets with Bayonets; Hangers and Hanger Blades; Wood Screws of all sizes; Bed Screws; Bed Keys; house, tea-table, sheep and cow Bells; Cork Screws; Tumbler; Shoe Clasps; Knitting Pins; Rat and Mouse Traps; Curry Combs; Gun Locks & Mountings; best Currier's Knives; common and patent Brick and Plaistering Trowels; Bed and Chair Pans; Coffin Letters, Figures and Ornaments; Slates, &c.
They have also for sale,
6 by 8, 7 by 9, 8 by 10, 10 by 12, 12 by 14, 13 by 18, and 13 by 17 Window Glass; thin Sheet Lead; thin Sheet Copper; English Glue and Glue Pots; best Scicels; Proof Glasses; Pumice Stone; Rotten Stone; Black Lead; Hatter's Irons and Brushes; Crucibles and Lead Pots; Cast Iron Weights; Shovel Pans. A large assortment of Horse and Chaise Whips, some of which are very elegant; Sand Paper; Nourse-Fish-Skin; best White Chappel Needles; Horse Fetter-Locks; Flints; Spikes; Deck Nails; Brads, Nails and Tacks of all kinds; Cart, Chaise and Waggon Boxes of all sizes.
A large assortment of
English iron Pots and Kettles; best German Steel Mill Saws, and many other articles. Portsmouth, Nov. 9, 1802.
Glass Windows.
A number of second hand Sashes, with 8 by 10 Glass; 3 wide and 15 deep; they will be sold reasonable. Inquire of the Printers. Dec. 14, 1802.
Peter Coffin, Has received by late arrivals from England, an extensive assortment of Fancy, Fashionable and Staple GOODS, Consisting of
BEST superfine & low priced Broadcloths; Habit Cloths; Cashmeres; Coatings; Ratteens; Kerseys; Forest Cloths; Baizes; Flannels; Serges; Whitneys; Blankets; Wildbores; Camblets; Crapes; Hairbines; Durants; Tammies; Shallons; Calimancoes; Russels; Moreens; Tabareens; Sattinets; Florentines.
A great variety of Fashionable Waistcoating; Thicksets; Hunter