The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1798-10-16 00:00:00

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Vol. XLIII.—Numb. 2185.]
TUESDAY, October 16, 1798.
[One Dollar & half pr. Annum.]
TWELFTH LETTER On the Politics of the Day. Addressed to the People!
FROM what has been suggested in the course of these letters, and from an attentive observation of facts and circumstances impossible to be here fully detailed, but which a slight exertion of your own memory will bring home to the mind in all their strength and variety, it fairly results, that France has been long the decided enemy of the United States; that partly from a spirit of ambition, partly from a lust of rapine, and in no small degree from mere envy and jealousy, she has long contemplated to inflict upon this country a mass of injury the most severe, extensive and incalculable. The operation has embraced, either at one grasp or by successive efforts, all that is most valuable, most dear, and most distinguished in the character, or in the enjoyment of this happy land. It has invaded your neutrality, your internal peace and union, your confidence in the government, your commercial resources and growing wealth, your right of self-command, the purity of your elections, and of your administration, and, in fine, the whole body of your national independence and sovereignty. The United States have studiously sought neutrality, upon principles of justice, economy and safety: France therefore has laboured to violate it. The United States have cultivated internal tranquility. France therefore has exerted herself to inflame you. The United States have cherished commercial enterprise, as the primary source of opulence and strength: France therefore has ambushed your commerce in every sea, and cut up and laid waste your navigation in the Atlantic and in the Indies: from Newfoundland to the Cape of Good Hope, and from Brazil to the British Channel. You have cherished union as the rock of your stability, purity of election as the Grand Elizer of liberty, and public confidence as the jewel of representative government: France, therefore, has laboured to divide and corrupt you; to undermine your fidelity, rend asunder the bond of allegiance, and prostrate your public spirit.
Shew me, in the whole history of mankind, one instance of a nation equal in population, in knowledge, in native and inherent strength, and in substantial resource, suffering and continuing to suffer such a mass of aggression, such unremitting insults and oppressions, without an enthusiasm of resentment, without vigorous resistance, without arming at all points the national sovereignty, and asserting instead of negotiating the indemnity of national rights and national honor. I am at a loss to find such an example. And you, if such a case should occur, would be eager and unanimous to condemn. Unbiased by the influence of selfishness, and free from the spell of indolence or vain terror, you would indulge, without restraint, your native and noble sentiments, and speak the true language of the heart.
But how have we answered the provocations you have received? By vain reasonings, by negotiations as hopeless as they were humble, negotiations unsupported by measures of resistance, and martial arrangements; by feeble expedients abroad, and, at home, by still opening wider and wider the door to your enemy. By want of harmony and union, by neglecting to support the government in the line of vigorous policy which circumstances dictated, you have compelled the executive to adopt the degrading measure of sending three Envoys Extraordinary on a forlorn embassy to France, after a former minister had been ignominiously rejected. The time will come (if it has not already come) when this measure will appear to have been as impolitic with respect to France, as it was painful to the President and his friends: You see the natural fruit of this expedient, in the redoubled insolence and contempt with which the Directory has treated you and your government. But delicate and degrading as this measure was, by your supineness and by your want of cordial confidence, you have rendered it necessary. Doubting, or affecting to doubt his pacific disposition and sincerity,
you have required at his hands, extravagant experiments, and means of pacification the most unprecedented and extraordinary. Had there been that just co-incident, that salutary understanding and reciprocal support between our exterior and interior relations and views, the United States, by the energy of its feelings and vigour of its policy, would have commanded respect; while by a course always just and reasonably pacific, it would have secured esteem. But an obstinate and ungovernable opposition has reduced the government to a distressing dilemma. The alternative was a perpetuation of popular jealousy the most baneful in its internal effects; or the commitment of the majesty of the United States to the event of a negotiation equally desperate and humiliating; a negotiation projected under auspices the most discouraging, and in a spirit which presaged and insured its defeat; a negotiation hardly to be paralleled in the annals of the most servile nations; and which might, in the language of ancient British history, be justly styled the groans of the Americans .
I am sensible that the general voice of the people (to judge from their numerous addresses) seems to have given this last pacific overture, the stamp of public approbation. But whether to understand the general expression of this sentiment, as amounting merely to a figurative declaration of their love of peace in the abstract; whether we consider the applause applicable to the case, under all its special and cruel circumstances; or whether it be taken for an absolute approbation of the measure, as in itself wise, politic and honorable, I must confess, I cannot be betrayed from my general view of this momentous subject, by such an imposing authority. Those who determine on the spur of the moment and are content with a short and partial view of the French character, may suppose that in attempting so good a thing we ought not to despair, or give over the pursuit; such may even suppose that it would be just and honorable still to commission another Envoy and renew negotiations. Nay, the thing is avowed and publicly advocated. But with what reasons? and under what pretence? Citizens! the pretence is simply this;—the Directory have insinuated, that they are ready to treat—Ah! the cunning, but bold intrigue!—To treat for what? To treat for a tribute .—And these advocates, these pseudo patriots, these traitorous peace makers, with all their disguises, betray the same meaning, and cherish the same sentiment. Look into their hearts (it is not difficult; for as the spirit is weak, so the covering is thin:) Look into their hearts and you will trace these legible characters—another Minister must go to France—He must be chosen from among the partisans of France—He must prefer peace to independence—His outfit must consist of concessions; and his instructions must be couched in one commodious and conciliatory word—Surrender.—
But to return:—I ask you to consider, what was the actual situation of this country with respect to France at the time of the last mission; Consider well what was then the actual prospect. What new reasons had offered themselves for this overture? On the one hand had not the French government grown more successful, more haughty and insolent, than at the time of the mission of Mr. Pinckney? Was a change of views therefore to be expected from them? Could you contemplate concessions to be made on their part?—On the other hand, had not the United States become more and more an injured party since that period? Had not the depredations on our commerce, and other outrages on the rights of American citizens increased and accumulated to an amazing degree? Were we therefore to make concessions and assume a position still more conciliatory? If explanation was the object,—what new explanation could be offered? What could be added to the full, explicit and satisfactory statements in Mr. Pinckney's instructions?
Permit me a slight review. In the first place, Mr. Adet after many laboured and ineffectual discussions, had terminated his ministry, with indications of invincible prejudice, and marks
of sullen resentment and deep-rooted enmity, and with a solemn announcement that "the people of the United States were to regard the suspension of his functions, as a mark of just discontent, which was to last, till the government of the United States returned to sentiments and measures more conformable to the interests of the alliance, and the sworn friendship between the two nations. " Here you notice a positive declaration,—that France was to maintain her resentment, till the United States should submit to her dictates and condescend to her views. It was a final and fixed resolution, declared after all her pretended grievances had been repeatedly stated and fully examined and sanctioned by an abrupt breaking off of the negotiation, and by the final departure of her minister; which in the ordinary course are received as strong symptoms of fixed hostility, and as leading immediately to a rupture. Thus the friendly intercourse between the two governments,—through one of its branches, was violently closed; and France despairing of making an impression at Philadelphia, reserved her diplomatic skill to entangle us on the foreign ground, by taking advantage of the easy virtue and diplomatic infidelity of our own amphibious minister at Paris.
Secondly—the French government, disappointed and chagrined at seeing its tampering policy with Mr. Monroe blasted by his recall, had uttered through the foul mouth of its chief organ, the most offensive declaration, and most bitter insult, that malignity or man passion could possibly frame against the United States: in which France pronounces, that she is the author of our independence: and that she scorns alike our friendship or our enmity.
Thirdly—Mr. Pinckney, successor to Mr. Monroe, furnished with special powers and charged with the justificatory explanations of our government, had been refused an audience: denied the rights of hospitality; treated, in all respects, with singular contumely, and finally driven from the territory of the Republic.
Fourthly—France had followed up all these hostile movements, all these insulting declarations, by increasing her depredations on the sea; by arming afresh her corsairs against our trade, and by other violations of the existing peace and existing treaties between the two nations.
Compare these four important facts together, bring this fair representation home to your minds and to your hearts; and tell me then, what was the actual state of things; what the existing condition of the relations between the two republics, for twelve months prior to the last mission. Was it a state of amity—of peace? or was it a state of substantial hostility, of inevitable though inchoate war?
I urge and repeat the question; what hope of success remained for this inauspicious negotiation? What facts could be stated or reasons offered? What means of persuasion or machinery of argument could possibly be applied, that had not been used, exerted and exhausted in former discussions? Could it be imagined that the American government would depart from principles, which had been established for five years, as the basis of its whole neutral policy? Or could it be expected that France, rich in the success of her frauds, strong in the spirit of her pride, and blasted already by the hatred of mankind, would recede from the position of defiance which she had taken in her wrath, and retire from the vantageous ground of victorious tyranny? And yet, my fellow citizens, there are many of you, who have or appear to have been deluded by this vain and hopeless pageantry. You stand astonished at the issue, as if success was in the nature of the thing:—You are seized with a sudden alarm, as if this was the first opening of hostility:—You lament the defeat of the embassy, as if it had been the first child of your hopes: and reproach the government of France for its base treatment of your Envoys, in this particular case, as if this was the sum of all your grievances and provocations.
But let us consider the natural tendency and effect of the mission, in another point of view:—By withdrawing her own Minister from his func-
tions here, and at the same time rejecting with circumstances of peculiar ignominy the messenger of peace sent by the U. S. France must have intended an innumerable barrier against negotiation:—She was sensible that such a stroke was a mortal wound to the pacific state;—that according to the use of nations, it amounted to a just and legitimate cause of war; and that this rubicon once passed, there was no retreat, in the ordinary forms. France therefore must have contemplated either immediate preparation for war on the part of the United States, or immediate submission to her despotic will. She could hardly expect another embassy, for any other purpose than as a pledge of this submission : She received it as such; and her treatment of the message accorded with this sentiment. You yourselves have taught her to despise you. You have taught her to rank the United States in the list of humble and obsequious nations, who purchase their peace with daily sacrifices of their honor; and who cherishing an indolent more than an honorable self-love, are ready, at every reproach of their tyrant, to prostrate themselves under the foot that has already trampled on them. Remember with what contemptuous assurance, with what insulting, sneering indifference, she offered to sell you the privilege of a hearing! Why this? did she suppose you would come empty handed to demand an audience which had just before been denied you? She certainly did not. She expected that a second application for favour, after the first had been absolutely and insolently rejected, would have been accompanied with good reasons. Ah! how imperfect were your instructions! How deficient your means of persuasion!
It has been said, that this last effort was necessary, to put an end to the painful struggle of suspense; to hasten the crisis to which things were tending; and to detect and to expose the real and ultimate views of France. This sentiment, while it is partly founded in justice, is wholly founded in dishonor. The hastening of the crisis and the exposure of the perfidy of France were certainly in themselves desirable. But permit me to ask, how many blows are requisite to give motion to American blood, and impressions to American brains? How many injuries and insults are you prepared patiently to endure upon a calculation that it is not yet exactly time to resent? There are undoubtedly some who would yet send another envoy; not indeed to make demands or concessions; but to collect and receive new proofs and specimens of indignity for transportation and diffusion here, as an essential and finishing stimulant to the spirit of the United States.
I mean not to question the purity, the intelligence, or the patriotism, which immediately dictated the late mission, as a measure of prudence and of necessity under all the circumstances of the case. I am indeed too well assured of that elevated and noble spirit of honour, which has ever influenced the President, and to which the citizens of the United States are so greatly indebted for the freedom, and the fame they have enjoyed, to believe for a moment, that the late embassy to France, unavoidably as might be, was not one of the most distressing measures of his life.
If, by this diplomatic enterprize, the American name is sunk in the estimation of Europe; if you have fixed on yourselves a stigma, by voluntarily inviting a repetition of contempt; if you have wasted your spirits in suspense, and your resources by inglorious delay; if you are perplexed and confounded in your course, by not seizing opportunity in the first of the flood; the President is not responsible. You must be answerable to yourselves. To fix this responsibility more particularly, and to give it more minute illustration, would require nice and lengthy discussion; and would more properly belong to a history of the American parties than to essays on the Politics of the Day.
MARCUS BRUTUS.
GOOD RULES.
1. Be temperate in your diet. 2. Rise with the sun; If you want more sleep, go to bed sooner.
3. Never play cards, when you can find any thing better to do. 4. Be constant in friendship; and have your friends well chosen and few. 5. Be very considerate in doing those things which can be done but once. 6. When much pleased or displeased, be cautious, lest prejudice make work for repentance; in both cases there is danger. 7. Expose nobody's foibles, unless somebody's safety requires it. 8. Be a steady, honest, industrious, generous man; and my word for it you will thrive. 9. Begin the business of each day with praise to your Preserver, and implore his blessing. 10. Go to meeting: It is good to have a clean shirt on once a week—to see one's neighbors—and to hear the news; and if the Minister be a man of goodness and good sense, he may benefit your children, and possibly yourself. 11. Keep your children at school, or at work, or at play: Never let them become habituated to idleness, which is the rust of the mind. 12. Keep your children from all extravagance; but when your daughters are grown up, indulge them in having some ribbons, gauze, mode, and wire: And when you send your son on an errand in the evening, let him wear his best hat if he will: It is well for young people to be studious to recommend themselves; by such indulgence, they will be enough more cheerful & diligent in their business, to make up for the additional expense; but remember when you was young, and charge them to be at home in good season. 13. I would also advise you to take the newspaper, and carefully peruse and preserve every paper: This is a valuable source and channel of information—the price is trifling—and it will presently make a man of sense of you. 14. Avoid bad company; be steady; bring up your children well; be a good citizen; love your minister; love your country; be useful to mankind; remember you must die; and, believe me, a little pure religion will never do you any harm.
ANECDOTES.
A GENTLEMAN, desirous of exhibiting striking proofs of his exuberant imagination and pompous language, was paying a very sensible and amiable young lady some very far fetched compliments—comparing her to the sun in its meridian glory, and himself to a dim taper glimmering beside it—forgetting in the mean while to show common politeness to the lady, by whose side he sat with his hat on —Another gentleman went up to him, and while he lifted off his hat, said, "I will snuff the dim taper so it may burn the brighter."
The letter of Talleyrand's, and especially the conclusion of it, is kind beyond measure. It reminds us of the following anecdote.
ANECDOTE.
CATO, an honest, well meaning, goodnatured African, had for a long time borne patiently the scolding, scoffing and insulting conduct of his termagant wife Phillis, till, losing all patience, and every reasonable measure for an adjustment being at an end, he procured a supple hickory twig, and threatened her with a severe chastisement, telling her at the same time that he had tried fair means long enough to no purpose. Citoyenne Phillis, seeing Cato's face divested of its usual smile, began to think he was in earnest, therefore, falling on her knees ( a la Francaise ) she cried out, "O pray now, dear Cato, do let us live in lub and unicorn, so as we us'd to do." "No, Gorra dam you, (says Cato,) do debbil trust you, me bear it long enough and me will have faxesfaxhun now me bout em."
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of NATHANIEL LADD, late of Epping, Taylor, deceased, are requested to exhibit the same for settlement to POLLY LADD, Administratrix of said estate. Epping, October 9, 1798.

Foreign Intelligence [By the last vessels.]
The Emperor of Germany. [The following is the most spirited paper the Emperor has written lately. It has been answered, and affairs between Austria and France, are more critical than ever.]
ANSWER Of the Emperor to the Ultimatum given in by the French. RASTADT, JULY 8. Translations of the note given by Austria in answer to the last note of the French Plenipotentiaries.
THE ministers of Austria, after stating that they had opposed, in an amicable, but energetic manner the new demands of the French Plenipotentiaries, that the deputation of the Empire had already consented, with some modifications, to the most oppressive demands, and that considering the nature of the Germanic constitution, the deputation was not only free from the charge of having temporized, but had even done every thing to accelerate the treaty, proceed in the following manner:
"The last French note of the 22d of June has very much disappointed the flattering hopes that the important motives alledged with a view of obtaining more favorable conditions would at length be rewarded with deserved success, since, with the exception of some trifling modifications, the principal points were insisted on even in the actual form of a demand, which with respect to the free navigation of the Rhine, and the other rivers of Germany, had not been before manifested but in the nature of a wish—Austria has, in every point of view, been influenced only by the dictates of duty, which shall direct her in her present vote. She proposes, therefore, to declare repeatedly in a new answer to the Minister of the Republic, that it is expected
First, "That the Republic will desist from her pretensions on all the islands of the Rhine, and confine herself to the limits required by herself, preserving the way in which the duties are collected, of the navigable part of the river.
Secondly, "That Cassel, Kehl, and the tete du pont of Huningen, belonging to the right bank of the Rhine, shall remain in the possession of the Empire of Germany, and that in general every thing on the Upper Rhine shall be restored to its former state before the present war.
Thirdly, "That the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, shall remain untouched.
Fourthly, "That the sequestration imposed upon the property of the nobility immediately dependent on the Empire, shall be taken off, and a restoration shall be made to them of every thing of which they have been deprived to the present moment. That no distinction shall be made between those situated on the right and left bank of the Rhine, nor between those who have not votes in the Diet of the Empire, and those who sit and vote in it; and that the nobility immediately dependent on the Empire, shall be indemnified for their feudal rights which have been suppressed.
Fifthly, "That with respect to the ecclesiastical establishments, it shall be determined whether the pia corpora shall be comprehended in them, as it is here believed ought to be the case.
Finally, "Austria must propose the frequent representation of all these considerations, and of whatever the Deputation shall think proper to add, to the French Ministers, in amicable expressions, but at the same time in terms of energy, with the intent that the French government may be induced to come to a resolution to recede from her hard demands. There is reason to expect that such will be the event, more particularly as the French Ministers in their last note extol themselves, the liberal system of politics pursued by their government, its respects for humanity, and its sincere desire to accelerate the conclusion of peace. The Deputation places too much confidence in this last declaration as well as in the preceding ones, to entertain a doubt of their being realized."
ANNAPOLIS, Sept. 24. The Governor of Maryland, in a late letter, thus expresses his federalism: "My official duty having led me to this correspondence, I cannot suffer the occasion to pass without expressing the entire satisfaction which I, and I believe all others feel in the measures the President has pursued for adjusting our differences with the French Republic. They are so marked with wisdom, moderation and justice, that they ought, if similar virtues had been displayed on the side of France, to have terminated to the honor and interest of both nations. I hope, and am willing to believe, that when the instructions and the negotiation shall be fairly and impartially viewed, that both at home and abroad, they must,
as they ought, unite all men of candor and virtue in entertaining the most honorable and favorable sentiments of our faith and justice. It is now high time, indeed, to end our difference on all minor subjects of discussion, and to unite and save the honor, dignity and interest of the country, as well from open as secret attacks. And to this great end, all my hopes and wishes are directed."
HALIFAX, Sept. 15. Thursday evening the Prevoyante frigate returned here from a cruise, and brought in with her the ship Bernstorff, laden with sugar; ship Little Mary, with molasses and sugar; brig Free Mason, do; brig William, do; and schooner Harriet, with sugar and some cash:—These five vessels were part of a fleet of upwards of 50 sail, from the Havannah, convoyed by 3 or 4 armed American vessels, which the Prevoyante fell in with on the 26th ult. in long. 79, lat. 29, bound for different ports in America.—Three of them are under Danish colours.
We learn with pleasure, that orders have been given to stop all vessels from American ports at Point Sandwich, until properly examined by a Health-Officer appointed for that purpose.
NORFOLK, Sept. 27. A letter is in town, we understand, from the Collector of the Customs near Currituc, informing that a French privateer of 12 guns has been for some time past cruising off Cape Hatteras, and has taken and plundered several vessels.
Died yesterday, in the 28th year of his age, after a few days illness, Mr. William Read, Chief Surgeon of the United States frigate Constitution.—He was a young man whose amiable qualities and endearing manners gained him the respect and affection of those who knew him. His interment yesterday was attended by the officers and members of Lodge No. 1. by Capt. Myers' company of infantry, Capt. Marsh's Republican Blues, and a large number of the inhabitants of the Borough.
ALEXANDRIA, Oct. 2. Yesterday arrived at the Fort, the ship Bellona, Capt. Dade, from Rotterdam. A few days before Capt. D. left Rotterdam, a number of open row boats, containing 37 armed men each, had arrived at Helvoetsluis from France: for what purpose they were intended was not known.
We are informed that a dreadful mortality prevails among the shipping at City Point and up James' River.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 4. Extract of a letter from a mercantile house in Bremen, to a gentleman in this city, dated July 19, 1798. "We enclose you the copy of a note of the French minister of marine, in case of the ship Adelaïde, from your port bound to Spain, and carried into Bayonne. It seems the French Directory now endeavors to preserve the friendship of your country, and to put a stop to the depredations formerly committed on your commerce. The Eliza, from Baltimore to our port, was carried into Boulogne, but immediately acquitted, and has arrived since. Insurance may easily be procured at 10, 12 and 15 per cent; and although we have already received information of the late decree of the American Congress, to capture all French men of war found on your coast, yet we have no reason to expect an unfavourable change; but hope that peace will be preserved."
The brig David Steward, which arrived this day, left Gibraltar on the 17th August. It does not appear that any certain intelligence had at that time been received respecting Buonaparte's fleet. Seven Portuguese frigates passed Gibraltar in July to join Nelson. Cadiz still continued to be blockaded by Admiral Jarvis.
NEW-PORT, Oct. 6. Commercially Important. Department of State, Sept. 1, 1798. Sir,
Annexed is a copy of a letter from William Fawkener, Esq. communicating to the Commissioners of his Britannic Majesty's Treasury, a resolution of his Privy Council, very interesting to the American Merchants; for whose information I now transmit it to you, requesting that you will be pleased to make it as generally known among them as possible. It would be expedient to have it fixed up in a conspicuous place in your office. The same letter was heretofore published in the newspapers; but a recent case occurring, of a similar nature to that of the ship America, therein mentioned, it is deemed proper to renew the publication in this manner.
I am, Sir, very respectfully, your most obedient servant, TIMOTHY PICKERING. To the Collector of the Customs for the District of Newport, Rhode-Island.
Council-Office, Whitehall, 23d June, '97.
Sir, The Lords of his Majesty's most honorable privy Council, having had under consideration a report of his Majesty's Advocate, Attorney and Solicitor General, on the petition of John Montgomery, and a representation of Mr. Simon Cook, his agent, and papers accompanying the same, requesting the entry at Liverpool of the American ship America, Charles Smith, master, from New-York, notwithstanding it has been objected to on the grounds of the master of the said ship not possessing all the qualifications of an American subject; I am commanded by their Lordships to transmit a copy of the said report to you for the information of the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's treasury; and I am to signify that the council agree in opinion with his Majesty's Advocate, Attorney, and Solicitor General, that a British subject cannot divest himself of the character of a British subject, by being naturalized, or becoming a citizen of any foreign state, as to entitle him to be considered in this country as a subject of such foreign state under the laws of navigation.
But as this is the first case with respect to the United States of America, in which a claim of this nature has been brought forward, their Lordships do not think it would be proper to take advantage of the forfeiture of the said ship, &c. and are even of opinion, that, under all the circumstances of the present case, the said ship America should, according to the request of the memorialist, be permitted to enter her cargo at the port of Liverpool. I am however, directed by their Lordships to desire, that a copy of the said report may be transmitted to the commissioners of his Majesty's customs, and that they may be informed, that after such notice a like indulgence will not again be granted. I am, &c.
WM. FAWKENER. GEORGE ROSE, Esq.
REPORT To the Lords of his Majesty's most honorable Privy Council. May it please your Lordships,
In obedience to your Lordships order of the 16th inst. referring to us the petition of John Montgomery, the representation of Simon Cook, and papers accompanying the same, to your Lordships order annexed, and requiring of us to consider thereof, and report whether Alexander Smith, therein named is to be considered, according to the true construction of his Majesty's order in council of the 31st May, 1797, for regulating the trade between Great Britain, and the territories belonging to the United States of America, is a subject of the United States of America, and whether he is entitled to be master of a ship belonging to the United States, trading to this country, and to confer on such ship the benefit of the said order in council: We have considered the papers so referred to us, and we are of opinion, that Alexander Smith, being a natural born subject of his Majesty, and not having been admitted a citizen of the United States of America until the 6th May, 1796, cannot be considered with respect to this country, as a subject of the United States so as to entitle him to be master of a ship belonging to the United States, trading to this country, and to consider the said order in council. We apprehend this point was submitted to Sir Phillip Yorke, in 1732, in the case of a Scotchman, who had been made a burgher of Stockholm, and was master of a Swedish ship, navigated with Swedish mariners, and that he thought this would not entitle the Scotchman to be considered as a Swede in Great Britain, his native country.
WM. SCOTT, JOHN SCOTT, JOHN MITFORD. June 19, 1798.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 6. The American from Gibraltar, is completely armed and fired a federal salute on coming up, and has made her voyage in 14 weeks. On the outward bound passage the 11th July, entering the Straits of Gibraltar, fell in with 3 privateers under French colors, who gave chase to the brig, one to the eastward, another to the southward, and the third pulling up under the American; shortened sail, cleared for action and gave her the contents of a six pounder, when they all fled, and the brig arrived at Gibraltar that night, being the 24th after leaving Philadelphia. West-India produce was high and in demand, American, particularly Tobacco, low.
A Mediterranean pirate was brought in a few days before the American failed, by a king's brig; after an action of 4 hours, and fighting without colours, she ran up a Genoese flag and struck, she is a remarkable fine ship well fitted, had three sets of papers and three captains and a crew of different nations.
COMMUNICATION. In New-Castle County, heretofore the most ant federal in the state of
Delaware, the federal ticket has succeeded, for Governor, Congress, State Senator, and Members of Assembly. —Two only out of seven of the house of representatives, are supposed to be anti-federal. The other Counties of Delaware state, are mostly right.
WILMINGTON, Oct. 1. We are informed that the French prisoners in New Castle gaol, will be conveyed to Reawing this day, guarded by Lieut. Edwards, and the marines of the frigate United States.
HARTFORD, Oct. 8. A subscription was open in this town on Saturday, for the purpose of loading a vessel with provisions, to send to the suffering inhabitants of New-York and Philadelphia.
BOSTON, Oct. 10. Terrible Disaster.
We yesterday received Halifax papers, which relate the most severe and destructive storm, ever experienced in that place.—It follows:
HALIFAX, SEPT. 26. On Tuesday last, in the forenoon, the atmosphere appeared thick—the sky louring—and every thing gave tokens of an approaching gale. The wind nearly south, about noon began to freshen into a heavy breeze, and backed towards the eastern board to about S. E. Between 4 and 5 o'clock, P. M. a smart shower of rain passed over, which seemed to have given additional force to the wind. The vessels in the harbour prepared to sustain it by striking their top-gallant-masts, yards, &c. letting go their best anchors, and exerting every means which might enable them to withstand its fury, which by this time produced a considerable swell in the road. The first ship which began to drift, notwithstanding all these necessary precautions, was the Penelope, an American vessel, acquitted but a few days before by the Admiralty—she fell athwart the bows of a Danish vessel recently brought in for examination; the Danes bowsprit carried away the Penelope's mizen-mast—the latter then got clear; and soon after was driven up towards the navy-yard. The gale now increased to a most tremendous violence—veered from the eastward, and blew directly up the harbour—The moon which occasionally broke through the clouds, disclosed a prospect which baffles all description—ships driving before the hurricane nearly on their beam ends—others actually upset—many with their masts torn by the board—wharves and stores filled with valuable merchandise, dashed into atoms, and in short one continued scene of devastation and ruin, the whole length of the town, from the King's lumber wharf, to the navy-yard.
The brig Betsey, nearly ready to sail for London with a valuable cargo of sugars, &c. drove from the Long-Wharf, together with the ship Liberty, (a large retaken American vessel that had just landed her cargo)—the head of the Liberty was towards the town—and in her passage up the harbour, she ran foul of and dragged many other vessels adrift, which might otherwise have sustained the tempest without much injury. The ship Matilda, (belonging to Mr. J. Anderson,) and a coasting sloop were completely upset—A schooner belonging to Messrs. Pryos's, drove from their wharf, and forced a passage through the next wharf, nearly 30 feet from its head:—The stores occupied by Messrs. Lawsons on Austin and Kidson's wharves were beaten down by a brig which drove from Tremanin's wharf, and sugars, rice, &c. &c. to a considerable amount almost entirely destroyed: To attempt a detail of the damage sustained would be almost impossible, at present, or even to conjecture its amount. Many thousands will be expended, and much time elapse, before the front of the town, will regain its appearance anterior to this destructive tornado.
On the morning following, the harbour exhibited an appearance truly melancholy; scarcely a single vessel, continued to ride, except the king's ships—the Packet and the Earl Moira, the Matilda lying nearly bottom upwards on the beach leading to the Navy-Yard—the sloop before mentioned a little distance from her—the ships Penelope, Liberty, a Transport and a schooner commanded by Capt. Elmstie, were driven quite up to the walls of the Dock-Yard:—Above it, high on the beach near the Navy-Hospital, lay two of the vessels lately sent in by the Prevoyante—On the Dartmouth side, at the entrance of the Narrows, a large ship laden with cocoa and tobacco, lately sent in by the Lynx, lay bilged—a little further down the harbour, a Danish ship, with a cargo of sugars, &c. the Ann Transport, and the brig Betsey, were stranded. The vessels are now unloading, and it is thought will be saved, as will probably nearly the whole of their respective cargoes—One brig, the William, laden with sugar and
molasses, prize to the Prevoyante, went on shore near what is called the Black-Rock—was entirely dashed in pieces, and the whole cargo lost—On board the latter, perished an unfortunate young gentleman, (Mr. Sutherland) belonging to the Prevoyante; but we are happy to learn, that amidst all this tumult and destruction, but few lives were lost.
By vessels arrived since the gale, from Shelburne, &c. we learn, its effects have been severely felt at that place, and in fact, quite along the coast.
His Majesty's ship Asia, which yesterday returned here from a cruise, met the storm near George's-Bank—but fortunately weathered it without much damage—as did the Hind frigate and Vixen brig which were spoken with by Capt. Murray the day following.
AUTHENTIC.
The following extract of a letter, is from a well informed and patriotic American in Europe, whose situation enables him to judge correctly of the French Government.
***** Aug. 4, 1798.
"MY DEAR SIR, "ALTHOUGH the policy of the Directory towards our country has not yet succeeded according to their hopes, they are by no means discouraged; on the contrary they will practice new arts against which it is more difficult to guard ourselves, than against their arms. Every arrival from the United States brings us a long list of volunteer associations and contribution for the public defence;—these are precious proofs of the patriotism and good sense of the people, and shew that the country may be saved if the Government is true to its trust. But I confess to you, I see with infinite uneasiness the deadly opposition that still continues in the House of Representatives, to every measure which is calculated to ward off ruin; and this uneasiness is by no means mitigated by seeing the new elections in New-York state. It is in vain that the people offer their property and their lives to support the Executive Administration, if they do not purge the Legislature of those foolish or traitorous men, who would betray the country into the hands of its enemies. On this side the Atlantic, the American elections are critically marked as the surest evidences of public opinion, and it is foreseen here, that unless the elections in other States are much better than those of New-York, our government must fall, and our country like the Republics of Europe, must be delivered up to the Ratinats, the Talleyrands and the Merlins of France.
"I am glad to learn that you have more confidence in our affairs, but I cannot think the danger is materially diminished. You may rely upon my information, that the Directory and their agents know perfectly well how to shape their conduct agreeably to the present state of things—they have played this game with success among the people of almost every nation, they see their error in managing the United States, and will rectify it without delay?—you will soon read in your newspapers that the French government has no disposition to injure the United States; they will be represented as full of moderation, equity, affection, and even repentance, for the inconveniences they have occasioned—and those artifices, which Devils themselves practice towards those they mean to destroy, will amuse and deceive some of the firmest patriots of our country.
October 12.
MR. GERRY
Was introduced to the President on Thursday of last week. The President is undoubtedly possessed of many highly important documents, relative to the attempted negotiation with France, which have never yet been published. If etiquette or propriety does not interdict, a few days may give them to the world.
FIREJ—At Rehoboth, on Sunday, 1st inst. a barn of Mr. H. Martin. It is said to have caught through the carelessness of his boys, who were allowed to indulge themselves in shooting at marks, instead of attending meeting.
An account of the Flour inspected in the city of Baltimore, for the three last months, ending the 30th September, '98.—viz.
31,138 whole barrels, and 3,752 half barrels. Published by order, R. H. MOALE, register.
PORTLAND, Oct. 3. We hear from several parts of the back country, that the wind was so excessively violent last Tuesday night that much damage was done; in many places roads were rendered impassable by the trees which were blown down. In the town of Livermore, upwards of ten acres in one piece were stripped of the trees which were standing on the land.

NEW-YORK, Oct. 2. The death of Dr. Treadwell, makes the eleventh physician—all sacrifices to the raging epidemic in this city. We mentioned the name of Anderson instead of Andrews, in our paper on Friday.
BOSTON, Oct. 12. LATE EUROPEAN NEWS. VIA LISBON.
Advises from Madrid, as late as the latter part of August, state, that scarcely a month passes without a change in the Spanish Ministry; That within the last week there had been a total alteration of the Ministers; Two of them, with ten of the principal Grandees, had been banished from Court and from the Chief Cities; That the successor of the Prince of Peace, is extremely ill—that on a consultation of the best Physicians it was declared that he and his whole family were poisoned—the poison had operated most strongly upon him. The Prince of Peace had been hissed and forced to quit the Theatre.
Extract of a letter from Lisbon, received yesterday and dated September eight.
"In public affairs there has not lately happened any thing of consequence. The Peaceable manner in which the French Government has received the spirited behavior of your's, leads many people to hope a rupture may be avoided. It is positively asserted, that they have given orders to their privateers, particularly those in the W. Indies, to pay the utmost respect to the American Flag and Neutrality."
"Cadiz remains blockaded—and provisions are in demand tho' not so much as might be expected. Rice would sell for 6 dollars. A ship from Baltimore, with a cargo of cocoa has been permitted to enter Cadiz—but a ship has just arrived here from New York with provisions which was refused admittance."
"The House of Goodair Young and Co. has failed—they have demanded 6 months to state the situation of their affairs."
"Rice will not answer to ship for this place. Flour and Corn is at a good price. Fish is very dull. Staves middling. The Vintage promises to be more than middling."
Extract of a letter from Spain dated August 25th 1798.
"By a Courier extra from France, accounts have been received that the Convention of Rastadt, had broken up; that the French have marched 40,000 men on the other side of the Rhine; and that every possible preparation is making on the part of Austria as well as France. It is generally believed here that hostilities have ere this recommenced between the two Countries."
"It is also said, that Buonaparte had arrived at the place of his destination, which is a port in the Adriatic, and that his intentions were to fall down on the back of the Emperor's troops in Italy; which, if true, shows that it is a long premeditated plan of the French to break again with Germany. Nelson is said to be close on their heels, and will impede their operations very much, if not entirely frustrate their designs."
The American Minister at the Court of Portugal, Mr. Smith, is held in great estimation.
Prices at Lisbon—Wine 76000 rees pr. pipe. Salt 2700 pr. moy. Lemons 2800, 3000 per box. Dollars 715 to 720 Rees each.
We learn by Capt. Tufton from Halifax, that on the 3d or 4th inst. two vessels arrived there from the Straights, which had fell in with the British frigate Andromache, on the 30th of August, solicited to be convoyed, but was informed, that she was proceeding express from Ad. Nelson's fleet for England, with intelligence of an engagement with the Toulon armada, in which the British had been victorious. The intelligence was accredited at Halifax—and is stated as true in several letters from the first characters in Nova Scotia. The silence of our Lisbon accounts on this subject, may not be an invalidation of the news.
Seven Portuguese frigates passed Gibraltar in July to join Nelson.
Intelligence—Long Expected.
LYON OF VERMONT.
A gentleman of respectability, who came to town from Vermont yesterday, informs us, that the notorious and despised Matthew Lyon, has been indicted for Treasonable Expressions and Libellous Publications against the Government of the United States, at the Circuit Court held at Rutland, on the 6th inst. and was to take his trial last Monday. In the interim he had the great good luck to find Bail. The prosecution will be conducted by Mr. Marsh, the District attorney.—Hon. Mr. Patterson of N. Jersey is the presiding Judge.
The Jacobins are playing off Talleyrandism with Mr. Gerry. But as we believe the great devil effected nothing—so we hope the little ones will be left in the dumps.
A letter to the Editor of the Centinel, from Philadelphia, mentions, "that in that city and New-York, twenty one Printers have fallen victims to the terrible calamity which has desolated those places. To what cause to attribute this uncommon mortality, puzzles many;—but in my opinion adds our correspondent, "it has arisen from so large a number deeming it their duty to be found at their posts:—while most other professions fled. I know nothing peculiarly attractive of disease in the materials used in Printing-Offices;—But as nothing but flight can save; if it appears at another season, I shall consider it a bounden duty to avoid it."
OCTOBER 13.
THE FEVER.
From the great diminution of deaths and new cases, for the last few days, we may fairly hope, that the disease in our City is rapidly declining.
DEATHS in PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 2, Deaths 71. New Cases 39. Oct. 3, Deaths 50. New Cases 41. Oct. 4, Deaths 46. New Cases 22. Oct. 5, Deaths 32. New Cases 25. For 24 hours ending the 5th—were 36. Remaining in the Hospital 101—49 of whom are on the recovery.
PHILA. OCT. 1.
The distresses of the Philadelphians are but little known; and will remain so after many afflicting publications. The following has not been before stated. The Committee of the Encampment at Masters Place, mention that, "the number at present under their care, and which are daily increasing, is upwards of Thirteen Hundred Persons, composed of both sexes, from one hour to eighty years old, but much the greater proportion of them are helpless women and children; about two hundred of the children are at the breast, the mothers of whom are generally without shoe or stocking, and indeed almost every other article of necessary clothing suitable to the approaching season. The committee beg leave to suggest that linsey, flannel, and woolen stockings, would be particularly acceptable, as well as every description of second hand and ready made clothing."
Among the liberal donations received at the Hospital, we notice with pleasure the receipt of 3,000 Dollars, from the Citizens of Baltimore, in part of the sum subscribed.
At NEW-YORK,
Oct. 3, Deaths 36, of the Fever 28. Oct. 4, Deaths 26, of the Fever 25. For 24 hours ending the 5th, 23—22 of the Fever.
Since the return on the 5th inst. have recovered thirteen—have died three—new cases eight—whole number now sick eighteen—of whom are on the recovery three.
By order of the Selectmen, WILLIAM COOPER, Town Clerk. Oct. 8.
Since the last return, on the 8th inst. have recovered five, died one, new cases NONE, now sick twelve, of whom are on the recovery five.
By order of the Selectmen, WILLIAM COOPER, Town Clerk. Oct. 10.
Agreeable Intelligence.
The Selectmen having minutely attended to the reports of the several physicians, and furnished the public with the returns as delivered to them from time to time—have now the pleasure to announce to their fellow-citizens, and the public in general, that agreeable to the opinion of the physicians, the late Epidemic has so far subsided, as to render it perfectly safe for the inhabitants to return, and can assure their country brethren, that they may frequent the town, in the prosecution of their business, with the utmost security.
By order of the Selectmen, WILLIAM COOPER, Town Clerk. Oct. 12.
Marine Intelligence.
Wednesday, October 10. Arrived, ship Franklin, Chaffee, from Russia. In lat 45, long 64, spoke a fishing sch. which had fallen in with the ship Commerce, 12 weeks from St. Ubes, for Newbury-port—had lost her captain and two of her masts. August 24.
Congressional Register, &c.
Gen. Marshall, it is expected, will be one of the Congressional members, in the new House of Representatives. Virginia cannot boast of more worth in one man.
Judge Chipman, it is supposed, will prevail Lyon, in Vermont. The Hon. Mr. Morris, is unquestionably re-elected.
Gen. Smith, we learn, will succeed in his election, at Baltimore. He has
declared himself a federalist;—and did vote for the most energetic measures of the last session. The last state of the poll gave him a majority of 283.
On Wednesday last, the Montgomery Lodge, to be held at Franklin, was installed in ample form, at the meeting house, in Wrentham. The Rev. Bi. Harris, delivered an appropriate Sermon. Dr. Mann, the Master Elect, an Oration; and the Most Worshipful the Grand Master, the usual Charges. The whole was conducted with that decorum and solemnity, which will ensure to the craft, that favorable opinion which it merits from the public.
SALEM, Oct. 9.
From St. Petersburg and Copenhagen.
Capt. Burghes, in the ship Hero, arrived here yesterday from St. Petersburg and Copenhagen. He sailed from Cronstadt with a large fleet under convoy, which he left off the coast of Norway. Off the Naze he spoke a Danish frigate and brig, cruising for the protection of neutral property. Was informed from the frigate, that they would not suffer any French cruisers to capture any vessels bound to or from Danish ports, or to remain upon their coasts. He was also informed, that a French privateer, having put into Christianstadt, was detained there; and the current of conversation at Copenhagen was highly resentful against the French.
The Emperor of Russia, Captain Burghes was informed at Peterburg, had an army of four hundred thousand men on foot, and his navy was completely manned and equipped. His Majesty had publicly declared, that the insults and injuries of the French were no longer to be tolerated.
These accounts corroborate those of a new coalition being forming against France.
It has been said that the policy of Catharine II. would have led her openly into the war against France but that she was restrained by a fear that would occasion the publication of M. de Rulhier's manuscript history of the revolution which placed her absolute on the throne. Paul I. is free from a restraint of that nature.
PORTSMOUTH, October 16.
On Thursday last, a most beautiful copper-bottomed 20 gun ship, called THE PORTSMOUTH, and built for the service of the United States,—was launched from the Continental Navy Yard, Langdon's Island. The launch was conducted on the best principles of the complete ship-builder, and the ship deposited in her future native element with safety.
JOHN ADAMS, Esq. commander of the Revenue Cutter, bade her welcome to old ocean by a federal salute, which was answered by the private armed ship Cato, JOHN WARDROBE, Esq. commander, and an immense concourse of attendant citizens manifested their pleasure, by repeated huzzas.
The Portsmouth is to be commanded by DANIEL M'NEIL, Esq. of Boston, an experienced and valuable officer, who has done honor to himself in every former station, and whose nautical knowledge and various talents are the surest pledges, of not disappointing the public confidence. Capt. Richard Tibbetts, of this town, is appointed first Lieutenant; Capt. Geo: Turner, jun. second Lieutenant, and Capt. Robert Oram, Sailing Master, three excellent officers, who cannot fail of reflecting credit upon their several appointments. The keel of the above ship was laid on the 4th day of July last past, a happy preface of supporting that independence on ocean, which her country has maintained by land. She has been completely built, coppered and launched in the short period of 85 working days. The dimensions of the Portsmouth are 93 feet keel, 31 feet beam, and she is pierced for 20 guns, but probably will mount 24, and rate as a light frigate, or loop of war.
The Portsmouth was built of the best seasoned timber, under the direction of Col. James Hackett, United States' Naval Director, and beneath the superintendence of Col. Thomas Thompson, Agent of supplies, &c. These two gentlemen have repeatedly distinguished themselves for the goodness of the materials, excellence of work and promptness of execution. The able shipwrights of New-Hampshire, guided by their skilful hands learn the true enthusiasm of labor, and reflect the highest honor upon themselves, as ever faithful and true.
It merits an additional record, that within the confined space of 14 months, a six and thirty gun frigate for the Dey of Algiers; an elegant Revenue Cutter of 16 guns, and the beautiful ship Portsmouth of 20 guns, have all been laid at the keel and finished for the water in the same yard.
Capt. M'Neil expects to fit his ship for sea by the 1st of November.
It is to be hoped that the jolly tars of Portsmouth, and the hardy marines of our country towns, will volunteer their services on board, and that Monsieur Talleyrand will honor Captain M'Neil's bills, at the sight of his guns, and thus pay a part of the debt which the terrible republic owes, to an injured, an insulted, and too long a patient and forbearing country.
SPIRIT OF SHIP-BUILDING.
Yesterday the keel of a six and thirty gun frigate to be completely finished of live oak, was raised in the same navy yard, under the inspection of Jacob Sheafe, Esq. as public agent and Col. James Hackett as naval director. And such is the contemplated spirit of enterprize and energy, of industry and exertion, that said frigate is to be launched in 230 working days. When every circumstance is maturely considered, European navy yards, exhibit not more expedition in building; and the superiority of our work is confessed by all judges, on both sides of the atlantic.
The two forty four gun ships, says a gentleman of the first respectability and information, building at New-York and Norfolk, are progressing with the greatest expedition, and that both of them will shortly join their maritime comforts, who are supporting the honor of the American flag, and protecting the commerce of an unjustly insulted, and inhumanely plundered neutral, independent nation.
The Newburyport 20 gun ship was launched on Friday last.
NOTICE.
Those persons who are disposed to celebrate the Birth-Day of JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States, are informed that a subscription is opened at Mr. Larkin's Bookstore, for a Dinner to be provided on Friday the 19th inst. where they are invited to call and put their names without delay. That the necessary preparations may be made in season.
The subscription will remain open for citizens of the town to subscribe till Wednesday evening.
Dinner on table precisely at 3 o'clock, at the Assembly-Room. Oct. 16.
Major General Van Buren, of the New-Jersey militia, lately delivered to the troops of his command, upon parade, a noble and patriotic address which he concludes with the following exhortation:—"Whatever others may do, let us with all our souls exert ourselves in the support of federal men and measures, let this battalion be and remain, as ever they have been, a band of friends, a band of brothers; and when WASHINGTON calls, let us be ready, either to crush internal faction, or repel an invading foe; and if we fall, let us fall at the shrine of our Country's altar; and, O! save our country, Heaven! be our last, our expiring breath."
The total number of deaths in Philadelphia this year, from August 8, to October 3, 2773
Total number in 1793, for the same time, 1847
Excess this year, 926
The deaths in the Burrough of Wilmington, Delaware, from the 7th Aug. inst. have been 181. An unparalleled mortality!
Relief for the Distressed,
In a Day of Calamity.
A box is opened at the post-office in this town, wherein any who please, may deposit their contribution, for the poor and distressed at Philadelphia.—The sums contributed will be faithfully and speedily transmitted by the post-master, to the proper officers there, to be applied at their discretion, to alleviate the miseries and wants of the suffering sick and indigent, which are more easily conceived than described.
On Wednesday last was ordained to the pastoral charge of the first Church of Christ in Old York the Rev. Botsford Messinger, to minister as a son in the Gospel with the Rev. Mr. Lyman, who for more than fifty years has had the oversight of that flock. The public exercises of the day were opened by the Rev. Samuel Haven, D. D. with prayer. The Rev. Ezra Ripley of Concord preached a sermon from 2. Cor. vi chap. and 3d verse. The Rev. Mr. Little made the ordaining prayer. The Rev. Moses Hemmenway gave the charge. The Rev. Isaac Briggs gave the fellowship of the Churches, and the Rev. John Thompson made the concluding prayer. The whole was conducted with the greatest solemnity and propriety, in presence of a numerous assembly, who conducted themselves with a decorum really surpassing what has been usual on such occasions.
Lately married at Lee, Capt. William Rice of this town, to the amiable Miss Abigail Parker, daughter of Capt. Robert Parker of Lee.
DIED —Since our last, Mrs. Sarah Fuller, aged 45; a child of Mr. Thomas Odiorne; a child of Mr. Pinney; Miss Sally Simes, aged 5, the only child of Mr. Thomas Simes of this town.
Friday departed this life, at Exeter, Mrs. SALLY ROWLAND, the amiable consort of the Rev. Mr. Rowland of that town, and eldest daughter of Col. Elphalet Ladd, merchant, of this place.—The funeral solemnities were performed yesterday.
Say, can her eulogy the living wound? The future are not hurt by present praise. Oft a bright chapter wreathes her head around, Does that bright wreath adorn the solar rays? Sure no—then dear, lovd form, this praise be thine, That 'mid ten thousand, thousand virtuous fair, Few rais'd the human nearer to divine By making future scenes their present care.
THE several Mails, during the Winter Establishment; which commences the 15th inst. will arrive and depart from this Office in the following order, viz.
The Southern Mail, Will arrive On Tuesdays at 10 o'clock Wednesdays at 10 o'clock Thursdays at 10 o'clock Will depart On Sundays at 7 o'clock Tuesdays at 7 o'clock Thursdays at 7 o'clock
The Eastern Mail, On Tuesdays at 10 A.M. and Fridays at 10 A.M. On Tuesdays at 12 o'clock and Fridays at 12 o'clock
Dover Mail, On Tuesdays at 11 o'clock and Fridays at 11 o'clock On Tuesdays at 12 o'clock and Fridays at 12 o'clock
The Western Mail, On Tuesdays, 5 P.M. [Wednesdays, 10 A.M.]
The Northern Mail, On Tuesdays at 5 o'clock once in two weeks, [On Wednesdays at 11 o'clock days once in two weeks.]
N. B. The first Mail on the Winter Establishment will be made up on Sunday next, and delivered precisely at 1 o'clock.
All letters should be delivered into the Office half an hour previous to the time of delivering the Mail in which they are intended to go.
MARK SIMES, Post-Master. Post-Office, Portsmouth, October 12, '98.
The GAZETTE
Will be published on WEDNESDAY the 24th inst. and continue to be published on Wednesdays during the above establishment of the mails which will be 'till the 15th of April next.—The very extensive circulation the Gazette has, makes the weekly impression heavy, and renders it necessary to have it put to press at an early hour, to complete the impression in season; our advertising friends who wish to reap the benefit of advertising in the Gazette, whose circulation is far more extensive than any other paper printed in the State, must send their advertisements as early at least as the day before publication, or they will unavoidably be postponed 'till the week following.
The Editor cheerfully embraces this opportunity of returning his sincere thanks to his customers for their very great attention in paying up for their papers, and feels himself happy, that by their punctuality, he is precluded the necessity of saluting them at this time with a dunning advertisement.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are received for the Gazette at the very low price of only one dollar and a half pr annum, one quarter paid at entrance, the remainder at the close of the year. October 16.
ALL those who have demands against either the old, or new revenue cutters Scammel, are requested to send in duplicate accounts thereof for settlement and payment to THO'S MARTIN, Agent for said Cutters.
The Custom-House is removed to the brick store on Spring-Hill, over Mr. Joseph Haven's store. Portsmouth, Oct. 15, 1798.
To the Farmers in the neighborhood of GREENLAND, A good chance to purchase WOOD LOTS.
On Monday the 22d of October instant, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at Huse's tavern in Greenland,
Will be sold, at Public Auction,
A QUANTITY of excellent wood land, in lots of about 10 acres; being the westerly part of the farm in Greenland lately occupied by Richard Tarlton. A plan and description of the lots will be exhibited at the time of sale.—A long credit will be given for the greater part of the purchase sum. October 15, 1798.

THE RAFT, Or, FRENCH ARREARS LIQUIDATED.
(From an English Print.) As Neptune, in his coral bow'r, Pafs'd o'er day, a vacant hour, Discourfing with his wench; Truly, fays he, the news above, Will make you laugh your fill, my love, At thofe mad folks, the French.
They fain old England would invade, But of the means are much afraid, Though of the project fond; Amidft their visionary fchemes, They find it difficult it seems, "To crofs the herring pond."
'Twould be an awkward thing to meet, Half-way, with BRIDPORT and his fleet— "Burnt children dread the fire." 'Tis ten to one, but dire mifchance Would happen to the fhips of France, From one to full of ire:
They therefore thought of fome balloon, A little fmalier than the moon, To fail aloft in air: But from the fea-city of gas, Or call to purchafe it—alas! The fcheme would never bear.
They next propof'd, all hands to creep, Through a long cave, beneath the deep, And undermine our floor; But fearing mifchief over head, This deep laid fcheme no better fped Than o'er the other did before.
At length two men of wondrous craft Have orders to conftruct a Raft, As wide as Howsfow heath; From which their army, one and all, Are f worn to land, 'twixt fpring and fall, In fpite of John Bull's teeth.
Their Cash, Subfcribers will be paid With intereft, when the landing's made! And have it in a lump; As every man on board the Raft Will, in his pocket, bring a Draft At figh—"on Aldgate pump!"
I never heard of fuch a fcheme, (Says AMPHITRITE) fure you dream, They'll all be food for filh: "They will be fo (you jade) I grant, That's juft what the Direftory wants, The very thing they will."
They then no more will feel difmay, About their army and its pay, But banifh all their fears: For when the Raft is overfet, It pays at once the public debt, And LIQUIDATES ARREARS!
THE ADIEU.
CEASE, ceafe thofe fighs! I cannot bear, Hark, hark! the drums are calling; Oh! I muft chide that cowa' tear, Yet kifs it, as 'tis falling.
ELIZA! bid thy foidier go, Why thus my heart-ftrings fever? Ah! be not thou my honor's foe, Or I am loff forever.
Truft, truft that BEING kind above! With mind ferene and fteady, He'll never bruife, believe me, love; The heart that breaks already.
He through the inmost foul can peer, And all its fprings difcover, He'll teach thy weaknefs how to bear, Or give thee back thy lover.
Is he—the Mighty Lord of all, Unable to protect thee? Will He, who marks the fparrow's fall, O'erlook thee, or neglect thee?
Serene yon dreadful field I fee, Whatever fute betide me, Thine innocence fhall fhelter thee, And I've no with befid thee!
State of New-Hampshire.
County of Cheshire.
To Nathaniel Emerfon, Esq. one of the Juftices of the Peace for faid county.
THE underfigned owners of more than one fixteenth part of the townfhip of Boyle, in faid county and State, requeft that you notify and warn the proprietors and grantees owners of land in faid townfhip, to meet at the dwelling houfe of Capt. Samuel Seward, in faid Boyle (now called Sul- livan) on Wednesday the feventh day of November next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to vote and act on the fol- lowing articles, matters and things, viz.
 1st. To choofe a moderator to gov- ern faid meeting.  2d. To choofe a proprietors clerk.  3d. To raife on each original right a fum of money to defray the expen- fes of the propriety.  4th. To pafs all neceffary votes re- fpecting making pitches, and to direct how and in what manner they fhall be made.  5th. To vote, choofe and appoint affeffors and a collector with neceffary powers.  6th. To vote and agree on a method to call proprietors meetings in future.  7th. To choofe any committee or committees, or agents, that may be thought neceffary. 
8th. To do and tranfact any other bufinefs which may be thought necef- fary for the intereft of the proprietors.
FREDERIC FRENCH, NOAH LOVEWELL, JOSIAH DANFORTH, JOSEPH KIDDER. BENJAMIN PARKER, Isaiah Kidder { JOSEPH BLANCHARD, for { JONATHAN COMBS.
State of New-Hampshire.—Cheshire ff. Purfuant to the foregoing requeft I hereby notify and warn the proprietors and grantees owners of faid Boyle, to meet at the time and place and for the purpofes before mentioned. NATHAN EMERSON, Juftice of the Peace. Soddard, October 2, 1798.
To the honorable the Juftices of the Su- perior Court of Judicature, holden at Exeter, in the county of Rockingham, on the third Tuefday of September inft.
SHews, BENJAMIN MOULTON, of Ken- nington, in faid county, husband- man, guardian unto Jofeph Steele, of Exeter aforefaid, an adult perfon, ad- judged to be non compos mentis; that upon a fettlement of his account of guardianfhip of the faid Jofeph, made with the Judge of Probate for faid county on the fixth day of September inftant, there is a balance of one hun- dred and ninety-four dollars and fixty-nine cents, due to the faid guardian; that the faid Jofeph is the owner of nine acres and one hundred and thirty rods of land, fituate in Exeter aforefaid, which it is neceffary fhould be fold in order to difcharge the aforefaid bal- ance, and the overplus, if any, to be appropriated towards the future fup- port of the faid Jofeph.
Wherefore the faid Benjamin prays your honors would grant him licence to fell the aforefaid nine acres and one hundred and thirty rods of land,— that the proceeds thereof may be ap- propriated as aforefaid, agreeably to the provision by law in like cafes pro- vided, he as in duty bound, will ever pray. BENJ. MOULTON. Exeter, Sept. 20, 1798.
Rockingham, ff. Superior Court, September term, 1798.
Ordered by the court, that the faid Benjamin Moulton notify all perfon con- cerned, to appear before the Juftices of the Superior Court of Judicature, to be holden at Portfmouth, within and for faid county of Rockingham, on the firft Tuefday of February next, to fhow caufe (if any they have) why the prayer of faid petition fhould not be granted, by caufing faid petition and order of court thereon to be publifhed three weeks fucceffively, in the New-Hampfhire Gazette, the laft publication thereof to be fix weeks before faid term.
Atteft, NATHAN ADAMS, Clerk. Copy examined by NATHAN ADAMS, Clerk.
ORANGE.
PUBLIC notice is hereby given, that each original right and lot of land, in the town of Orange, and county of Graf- ton, whereon the ftate and highway taxes for the year 1798 are unpaid, will be ex- pofed for fale at public vendue on the 19th day of December next, at the dwelling houfe of Nathan Waldo, Esq., in faid Orange, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, on faid day, for the payment of faid taxes, and all legal cofts; unlefs prevented by previous payment.
The names of the original grantees, and the taxes due on each lot, right and part of right, are as follows, viz.
   Grantee's names. North. South. Acres. Tax. State Tax. Highway Tax.     William Robinson, Undivided, 0 26 66 4 9 23   Roswell Stevens, undiv. 132 6 7 31   Isaac Fellows, Undivided, 10 100 8 40   Ebenezer Craft, Undivided, 11 100 7 6 40   George Hodges, undiv. 132 6 7 31   Oliver Spalding, undiv. 77 4 5 17   Joseph Shepherd, Undivided, 17 10 4 23   Theophilus Clark, Undivided, 20 10 4 23   Amos Payne, Undivided, 31 8 4 19   Isaac Coit, Esq., Undivided, 13 100 4 9 23   William Darbee, undiv. 32 1 5 7   Elkanah Cobb, jr. Undivided, 41 70 3 6 18   John Douglass, Undivided, 56 39 2 10   Eph'm Spalding, jr. und. 100 4 9 23   Roswell Morgan, undiv. 32 1 5 7   Samuel Payne, undiv. 32 1 5 7   Aaron Cleaveland, undiv. 125 6 1 29   Hzekeiah Spalding, Undivided, 30 4 2 20   32 1 5 7  
The following are whole rights, with 11 cents and 6 mills ftate tax, and 55 cents 4 mills highway tax, due on each, viz.— John Larrabee, Jothua Dunlap, Rev. Alex- ander Miller, William Ferriman, Nathaniel Rogers, Esq. Daniel Payne, John Peirce, James Bradford, Rev. John Fuller, Tho's Sumner, Benjamin Cary, John Williams, Samuel Chandler, Esq. Elisha Payne, Esq. Hon. Eliphalet Dyer, Esq. Ebenezer Child, Elkanah Cobb, Benjamin Spalding, Samuel Adams, 3d, Nathaniel Peirce, jr. David Shepherd, Nathan Waldo, Ichabod Ormsby, Samuel Adams jr. David Payne, James Brown, John Green, Thomas Stevens, Perry Clark, Elisha Perkins, Jabez Enloworth, Ephraim Spalding, Samuel Chandler, jr. James M'Hurd, Esq. Arthur Moloy, An- drew Spalding, Daniel Foffer, George Wentworth, Andrew Backus, John Cady, Benjamin Whiting, Esq. Joseph Shepherd, jr. William Bourn, Esq. Zadock Spalding, Rev. Abiel Leonard, John Wendall, Esq. Verney Fellows, Joseph Eaton, Jacob Fel- lows, and Joseph Spalding, jr. NATHAN WALDO, jr. Collector. Orange, Sept. 18, 1798.
FOR SALE
An elegant FARM, CONTAINING about seventy-three acres, fixty of which is in mowing and pafturing, there is about twenty tons of hay cut annually on faid farm, the farm is ex- ceeding good for tillage, and about 12 acres of intervale on faid farm joining Saco river, with a main road leading through the farm from Limbrick to Saco; it is a good ftand for a trader or tradefman, and will be fold immediately, and the terms made eafy to the purchafer.—Any perfon difpofed to purchase faid farm may have to accom- modate them for this feafon, cheap for cash only; for particular inquire of JOHN GORDON. Wells, October 12, 1798.
MOULTONBOROUGH.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-refident proprietors and owners of lands in the town of Moultonborough following, who have not paid their highway and State taxes, for the year 1798; that fo much of their lands will be fold at public vendue, at the dwelling houfe of Maj. Elias Smith, in faid town, on the thirteenth day of December next, at eleven of the clock in the fore- noon, as will pay faid taxes with incidental charges, unlefs prevented by previ- ous payment.
   1st division. No. range. acs. 2d division. No. range. acres. common. road tax. St. tax. dols. cents. cents.    William Simpson, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Thomas White, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Richard Nafon, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  John Ringe, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  John Tayler, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Richard C. Shannon, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Edward Shaw, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Jonathan Shaw, 0 4 100 1 50 18 3/4  Joshua Lane, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  William Vittum, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Solly and March, 2 1 100 4 100 1 75 34 3/4  Benjamin Mafon, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Joseph Johnson, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  William Parker, 0 2 100 1 50 18 3/4  Richard Wibird, 0 3 100 1 50 18 3/4  James Philbrick, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Benjamin Sandborn, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Jona. Moulton, 3d, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Nathaniel Towl, 0 3 100 0 26 15 3/4  Ebenezer Lane, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Samuel Robinson, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Benjamin Page, 0 2 100 1 50 18 3/4  William Lane, 0 5 50 100 0 78 9 3/4  Joshua Towl, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Joseph Palmer, 0 3 100 1 50 18 3/4  Elisha Towl, 0 0 50 0 25 3  Joseph Garland, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Stephen Page, 0 1 100 1 50 18 3/4  John Neal, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Thomas Brown, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  John Lamprey, 5 11 50 0 0 1 0 12 3/4  Simon Nudd, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Christopher Toppan, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Ephraim Marfton, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Jofiah Moulton, 3d, 0 0 0 0 25 3  John Moffatt, 0 2 50 50 0 87 10 3/4  Philip Hooker, 0 0 100 0 50 6 3/4  Thomas Rand, 0 1 50 0 0 75 9 3/4  John Moulton, Esq. 4 1 100 0 0 0 1 0 12 3/4  
BENJAMIN BROWN, Collector. Moultonborough, Sept. 18, 1798.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the non-refident proprietors and owners of land in the following towns, in the county of Grafton, who have not paid their taxes for the following years, viz.—Brittonwoods, Cambridge, Chatham, Cockburn, Cole- brook, Coventry, Dalton, Dartmouth, Du- rand, Errol, Kilkenny, Lincoln, Mills- field, Maynardsborough, Percy, Paulsburg, Shelburne, Succes, Stuart, Whitefields, and Trecothick, for the year 1797, being a County tax for faid year, and Coventry from the year 1780, to the year 1790 inclu- five, being State taxes for faid years; that their lands in faid towns are taxed for faid years, and lifte thereof left with the fubfcri- ber.—That unlefs they either pay the fame to him or the Sheriff of faid county within eight weeks from the firft publifhing this advertisement, their lands will be adver- tified for fale for the payment of the fame; Also of the towns of Franconia in faid county for the year 1795, and Bedford in the county of Hillfborough for the year 1789, that their lands in faid towns are taxed for faid years and lifte thereof left with the fubfcriber, and unlefs they either pay the fame to him or the collector there- of, within eight weeks from the firft pub- lifhing this advertisement, their lands will also be advertised for fale for the payment thereof. NATHAN PARKER, Recd'r N. R. Taxes. Exeter, September 20, 1798.
TAKE NOTICE!
Rockingham ff. SIX MONTHS further from the third day of July, 1798, being allowed the commissioners appointed by the hon. Sam'l Tenney, Esq. Judge of the probate of wills, &c. for faid county, to receive and exam- ine the claims of the feveral creditors to the eftate of Samnel Pickering, late of Green- land, in faid county, gentleman, deceafed, represented infolvent; they hereby give no- tice that they will attend that fervice at the dwelling houfe of Jofhua Pickering, In- holder in faid Greenland, on the laft Thurs- day of October, November and December next, from 3 to 6 o'clock, P. M. SAMUEL FAYBAN, } Commif- JOSHUA PICKERING, jr. } fioners. Greenland, October 1, 1798.
FLAX-SEED WANTED.
CASH, and a generous price given for FLAX-SEED, By ABEL HARRIS, At his Store a few doors North of Mr. Samuel Hill's Store, and directly opposite Mr. Samuel Cutts's Dwelling-House. —ALSO— CASH given for POT and PEARL-ASHES.
Said HARRIS has for sale a confi- gnment of bar Soap and French Hair- Powder in boxes, per invoice at 9 months credit, for approved notes.
TO BE LET, A convenient Dwelling House IN Buck-street, formerly belonging to Edward Dimpsey, and lately oc- cupied by Capt. Prescott.—For terms apply to SAMUEL DROWN. Portsmouth, Sept. 24, 1798.
Advance for 2000 dollars.
WHOLE and QUARTER Tickets in the 5th Clafs of Dartmouth College Lottery, for fale at J. MELCHER's Print- ing-Office and Book-Store, corner of Mar- ket and Congrefs Streets, Portfmouth, where prizes drawn to the tickets purchased there will be paid.
Treasury Department,
June 27, 1798.
NOTICE is hereby given, That by virtue of an act, paffed during the pre- fent feffion of Congrefs, fo much of the act entit- led "An act making further provision for the fupport of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt"—paffed the third day of March, 1795, as basis from fettlement or allowance. Certificates, cum- monly called Loan Office and final fettle- ment Certificates, and Indents of Intereft, is fufpended until the 12th day of June, which will be in the year 1799.
That on the liquidation and fettlement of the faid Certificates, and Indents of Intereft, at the Treasury, the Creditors will be enti- tled to receive Certificates of funded Three Per Cent. Stock equal to the amount of the faid Indents, and the arrearages of in- tereft due on their faid Certificates, prior to the firft day of January, 1791.
That the principal fums of the faid Loan Office and final fettlement Certificates, with the intereft thereon, fince the 1ft day of Ja- nuary, 1791, will be difcharged after liqui- dation at the Treasury, by the payment of intereft and reimbursement of principal, e- qual to the fums which would have been pay- able thereon, if the faid Certificates had been fubfcribed, purfuant to the Acts making provision for the debts of the United States, contraced during the late war, and by the payment of other fums, equal to the market value of the remaining Stock, which would have been created by fuch fubfcriptions as aforefaid, which market value will be deter- mined by the Comptroller of the Treasury. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
June 28. [6 m.]
Philadelphia, June 30th, 1798.
Public notice is hereby given,
PURSUANT to the act of Congrefs, paffed on the 12th day of June 1798, entitled, "An act refpecting Loan Office and final fettlement certificates, Indents of intereft, and the unfunded or regiftered debt credited in the books of the Treasury."
1st. That on the application of the cre- ditors refpectively, or their legal-attorneys at any time after the laft day of December in the prefent year, the principal fums of the unfunded or regiftered debt of the United States credited on the books of the treafu- ry, or commiffioners of Loans will be re- imburfed at the treafury of the United States.
2d. That intereft upon the unfunded or regiftered debts aforefaid will ceafe from and after the laft day of December in the pre- fent year.
3d. That the creditors refpectively will be entitled on requifition to receive from the proper officers of the treafury, certifi- cates of funded three per cent Stock, equal to the arrearages of intereft due on the debts aforefaid prior to the firft day of January, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-one. By order of the Board of Commiffioners, of the Sinking Fund. EDWARD JONES, Secretary.
TO BE LET, HALF of a Houfe pleasantly fituated near the upper end of Long-Wharf, confifting of four rooms, a cellar, garret, &c.—Inquire of the widow Cutts, living in faid Houfe. Oct. 8.
NOTICE is hereby given that the fubfcribers have been duly ap- pointed Administrators to the eftate of MOSES LITTLE, late of Campton, in the county of Grafton, Esquire, de- ceafed, and have given bonds as the law directs.—All perfon having de- mands on faid eftate, are required to exhibit the fame, and all perfon in- debted to faid eftate are called upon to make immediate payment. EBENEZER LITTLE, JAMES LITTLE. Campton, October 8, 1798.
TAKE NOTICE!
THE CO-PARTNERSHIP OF Lang, Brierly, & Co.
Will difolve by agreement, on the firft