The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1804-04-03 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
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PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. & W. PIERCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
300 hhds. St. Ubes Salt, 40 bolts Russia Canvas, first quality; Sugar, per hhd. or less quantity, FOR SALE BY JOHN SALTER. Portsmouth, March 27. 1804.  Fresh FLOUR, Now landing from Sloop JUNO, 500 Bbls. superfine FLOUR, FOR SALE BY Waldron & Holman. Portsmouth, March 27.  FOR SALE BY William & Charles Neil, 40 bags COTTON; 10 tierces RICE; A quantity of Spanish flax INDIGO; With a general assortment of Groceries & West-India Goods on moderate terms as usual. March 20.
FOR SALE BY T. MORTON, Sign of the Golden Key, Congress-Street, Two doors from the Portsmouth Stone.  HYSON, young hyson, hy- son-kin, souchong and Bohea TEAS, warranted; Cogniac and Bar- celona Brandy; Hollands and Amer- ican Gin; Rum, per hhd. or other- wise; Madeira, Sherry, Lisbon, Claret, Port and Sweet Wines, per quarter cask, or less quantity; Loaf, India, & Brown Sugars; Molasses; Coffee; Flour; Pollock Fish; Salt; Cotton Cards, &c.—together with a general assortment of WEST-INDIA GOODS and GROCERIES, of the first quality, and very low for READY CASH.  ** * Attendance from sun-rise un- til 9 o'clock in the evening. Portsmouth, March 27, 1804. tf.
For Sale by the subscriber, a quantity of Clover and Herds Grass SEED, warranted of the first quality & cheap. BENJAMIN HILL. N. B. To prevent COST, those in- debted to the subscriber are requested to call and settle immediately. Portsmouth, Feb. 28, 1804.
John F. Weare, INFORMS his friends and public that he has taken a Store nearly opposite Mr. E. Chadwick's Buck-street, and has for sale a general assortment of West-India GOODS and GROCERIES. Portsmouth, March 13, 1804.
Morning & Day School. THOMAS JACKSON, in- forms the respectable inhabitants of Portsmouth and its vicinity, who honored him with the tuition of their children the last season, either in his Morning or Day School—that he is now ready to wait on and receive any that intend to make his School their choice throughout the Summer season.
His School is principally intended for the instruction of young Ladies in the various branches of Literature— but being requested to admit some young Masters; and willing to make it convenient to all, he therefore ac- cepts a few at his former prices. N. B. All Scholars that engage and attend his Morning or Day School six months, shall be entitled to the seventh month gratis.
Morning School to commence on the 9th day of April next, at 6 o'clock in the morning, and so continue until the weather is warm; then from 5 or half past 5, to half past 7, that those who attend other Schools may not be detrained too late. For terms apply at his School Room, High Street. Portsmouth, March 27, 1804.
New Printing-Office. J. MELCHER respectfully informs the public that he has lately furnished himself with a new and com- plete Printing Apparatus, and has opened a Printing-Office in Congress Street, opposite the Portsmouth Stone, where Printing is executed with two or three lads as apprentices. Two or three lads as apprentices are wanted at said office, to whom liberal encouragement will be given.
J. & J. GODDARD, Have for SALE, at their Store in Market Street,  RUSSIA & Swedes IRON. Heart and Club, Halback's and blistered STEEL. NAILS, of all sizes, Cut & Wrought. SPIKES, sheet LEAD, sheet IRON. 8 by 6, 9 by 7, 10 by 8, 12 by 10, 14 by 11, 17 by 12.  WINDOW-GLASS. Painter's OIL & COLOURS. GLUE, ROTTENSTONE. BRUSHES, of all kinds. Gilt and Mahogany Frame LOOKING GLASSES. Belt Cogniac & Alicant BRANDY. Holland GIN. Madeira, Sherry, Redport, Vidonia, Lisbon and Malaga WINES. Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson-Skin, Souchong and Bohea TEAS. Philadelphia double & single refined LOAF SUGAR. Hhds. & bbls. BROWN SUGAR. COFFEE, SPICES. Boxes of GLASS-WARE, Consisting of Tumblers, Wine Glasses and Decanters. Hollow IRON-WARE. SHEATHING PAPER. CORDAGE, of all sizes. —ALSO—a very general assortment of HARD-WARE GOODS, by wholesale and retail. Portsmouth, March 20, 1804.
George F. Blunt, Has for SALE on Wm. Sheafe's wharf, for cash or approved credit—  TORREVIEJAH SALT; Coarse Liverpool, ditto. 10 by 8 & 9 by 7 WINDOW- GLASS. 20d, & 10d, Wrought NAILS. COPPERAS pr. cask; WHITING, per ditto. WHITE LEAD, ground in Oil. Crates assorted Liverpool WARE, of different colours, fashions & prices. No. 1 & 2 Cargo BEEF, of an excellent quality. March 13, 1804. (s.w.)
OLD BANK SHARES. ANY person having one or more to dispose of, may hear of a purchaser by applying to the Printers of the Gazette. March 20, 1804.
MISSING. A LARGE black and white DOG, said Dog had his ears crop'd, and his tail cut short; he is about one year old. Any person that will give information to the Printers, so that the owner can obtain him, shall receive a handsome reward.
Lucky Lottery-Office. C. PIERCE, (at the brick Book- store, Daniel-Street, Portsmouth.) has the pleasure to inform the public, that the Lottery Tickets he has sold lately, have drawn considerable more money than the Tickets sold for. He has now a good sup- ply of Tickets and Quarters in Piscataqua Bridge Lottery , which are now selling at a GREAT RATE, and he hopes every per- son will evince to the world their desire to keep that beautiful piece of mechanism, (Piscataqua Bridge) in repair, by coming forward and purchasing liberally of those Tickets—not knowing but in this their at- tempt at doing good, they may have their money returned them in a handsome prize of a THOUSAND FOLD.
Whole Tickets 30s. Quarters 8s. 6d. Eight Thousand Dollars highest prize! besides a great number of other val- uable prizes! each of which would buy a handsome Farm; or let a person up nicely in business. Please to apply soon.
TRUNKS. A large assortment of TRUNKS, just received and for sale by C. PIERCE, at the brick Bookstore, Daniel-Street. Portsmouth, March 15, 1804.
TICKETS! Whole and Quarter TICKETS, in Piscataqua Bridge Lottery , for sale by N. S. & W. PIERCE, at their Bookstore, Congress-Street. A list of Prizes in the first Class of Atkinson Academy Lottery is received, fortunate adventurers are requested to call for their Prize money. Portsmouth, March 13, 1804.
Political Miscellany. FOR THE GAZETTE. American Glory and Felicity. No. 1.  IT is the supreme happiness of Amer- icans, that, far distanced from the old countries, groaning under the thralldom of tyrants arrayed in vari- ous hideous shapes, and over-awing by magical deceptions of their own, or rather of infernal contrivance—we have had leisure to look around, and observe the rise, cause and progress of those political principles which have, in all past ages, produced the most cruel mischiefs, and rendered the na- tions more wretched than the brutal tribes. We originated from Europe, but we left their detestable politics be- hind us. Divinely inspired with prin- ciples becoming the dignity of our nature, with just ideas, and ardent and invincible love of civil and religious liberty, we were a people gloriously distinguished from all the nations of the earth. It was this divine illumi- nation, which has guided and sustain- ed us through a variety of trying scenes, to the present grand, illus- trious day, and elevated us to the sum- mit of human glory and felicity.— Families, from all nations, settling in America, in different periods, agree- ably to the divine decree, in favor of liberty, found themselves in a situa- tion they never knew before.—They found themselves incorporated with FREEMEN, and with them participating in all the blessings of civil and reli- gious liberty.—They felt themselves happy in a country continually open- ing to them its exhaustless treasures. The union of sentiment was then in- diffolubly established. Our country increased in population, and every generous enterprise. That the tyrants of Europe should conceive the project of enslaving such a people, was the most absurd as well as wicked of all conceptions. The event proved it to be such. All the mighty efforts of those haughty and lustful enemies to the rights and liberties of mankind, proved as mad and fruitless as Don Quixote's encounter with the wind- mill, or as the cords with which the invincible Sampson was bound. Such has been the result of all the efforts and vile machinations of our internal and foreign foes combined. We look upon our malicious and inveterate enemies, and hold them in derision. If they have sometimes risen, it was but to fall, and sink the deeper in that pit of disgrace and perdition, which they so impetuously fought. While our European enemies are tortured with wars and dissensions, and our internal foes are gnashing their teeth with pain, we enjoy all the blessings of Li- berty and Peace.
The peculiar circumstances of the province of Louisiana have rendered great precaution and intelligence ne- cessary on the part of the legislature of the union; when considering the best means for preserving the rights of the citizens of that territory, and in- suring a due obedience to the author- ity of the United States. The habits of the residents of that country are so different from those of the people of the Atlantic States, and so little know- ledge of the form of, and proceedings under, representative government pre- valent among them, that it became a general opinion that the necessary offi- cers should be appointed by the execu- tive of the union, and the elective fran- chise introduced when information had been diffused of its objects and use- fulness. The temporary authority, giv- en by congress to the president of the United States to appoint certain offi- cers for Louisiana, has been severely censured by the political opponents of the administration, and the effect of a prudential policy has been termed an evidence of a disposition to clothe the executive with undue powers: how- ever unworthy the insinuation, and unlikely to affect the judgment of a- ny man of discernment, we are glad to find that the grounds for this clam- or will in all probability be removed. A resolution introduced in the house of representatives of the U. S. by Mr. Early, declaring that after the fifth year the people of Louisiana may elect their legislative council, has been adopt- ed by that house and will no doubt pass the senate also—so that the presi-
dent of the United States has merely the appointment of the first council of 13.—The dispersion of the great num- ber of American citizens, who have left the states and determined to reside in Louisiana, and the diffusion of knowledge by other means, will speed- ily enable the people of Louisiana to understand the benefits resulting from frequent elections, and make them as jealous of their rights as the citizens of the Atlantic States are at present. Aurora.
When it was proposed in congress to repeal the midnight judiciary law, we all recollect the clamour and pre- dictions of the federal prints; we were told that on the passage of the repealing act, the liberties of the country would be annihilated, and the constitution be good for nothing—some years have elapsed since the actual repeal of the law, and we find ourselves as free as and more happy than, when the law was in force, and our constitution progresses to perfectibility. These things should now be called to mind when we hear similar clamours about the impeachment of judge Chase; en- quiry into his conduct has been oppo- sed with a zeal, which convinces that it was apprehended sufficient grounds grounds for impeachment would be found, yet the friends of the judge pretended he fought enquiry; if it is true that Mr. Chase is indifferent about the impeach- ment, from conscious rectitude, why such asperity against those who have instituted the enquiry, why the denun- ciations in the federal prints—it can- not be supposed fears are entertained of an impartial and just trial. Mr. Chase will not be denied counsel, or witnesses, nor will the senate decide on the law before the evidence is heard, it will not prohibit him from those rights and favours which justice and benevolence would grant—if he is innocent, it will appear; when all im- proper interference or prejudgement will be a reproach to others; and ren- der him more respectable; but the judge must perceive the great im- propriety of encouraging the malign- ant conduct of the printers who pre- tend to be his friends—the impeach- ment does not endanger the constitu- tion or the just independence of the judiciary; the declaration that it does, if credited, would be highly injurious for if it can once be believed that a properly conducted enquiry and trial are dangerous to the judiciary branch of our government, adieu to the bene- fits which ought to be derived from the responsibility of the judges; offi- cers of other branches will not hesitate to commit crimes of every degree, if punishment of the officer shall become synonymous with destruction of the of- fice. Under a government young as ours, there is the utmost necessity for establishing correct precedents on all great and important subjects, and it is to the vigilance of the present sup- porters of it, that posterity will in all probability be indebted for the enjoy- ment of the blessings it is capable of bestowing, if correctly administered. It is confidently hoped that the decla- ration respecting the impeachment of Mr. Chase, will not have a different effect from that so often heard on sim- ilar subjects—it is full time in all con- science, that federalists should be known as false prophets. Ibid.
A still more concise view of the Savings by Government. The support of government, (by which is meant the permanent expenditures of government arising from its settled establishments,) under the last adminis- tration consumed a certain portion of the revenue from year to year. The support of government under the present administration consumes from year to year a certain portion of the revenue, but less than the former by the difference of something more than one MILLION of dollars annually. The millions of revenue which re- mained to the last administration, after deducting the support of govern- ment, were taken and instead of being applied to reduce the public debt, were laid out upon various objects of a cas- ual or temporary nature, such as raising a provisional army, purchasing navy yards, &c. &c. and millions were bor- rowed and expended on the fame or similar objects. The millions of revenue which re- main to the present administration,
after deducting the support of gov- ernment, are taken and instead of be- ing wholly laid out on casual and tem- porary objects, are applied in large sums to the reduction of the public debt;— the treasury is full, and no money is borrowed. Pol. Objer.
EIGHTH CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THURSDAY, MARCH 1.  Mr. Rodney presented a bill for the appointment of an additional judge for the Mississippi territory. Referred to a committee of the whole. The House went into committee of the whole, Mr. J. C. Smith in the chair, on the report of the committee of elections, respecting the election of Thomas Lewis, the sitting member, declaring him not entitled, and declar- ing Andrew Moore entitled to a seat. Messrs. Findley and Varnum sup- ported; and Messrs. Baldwin, Jack- son and Huger opposed the report. Messrs. R. Griswold, Gregg, Daw- son, Early and J. Randolph deliver- ed their sentiments with a view prin- cipally to obtain explanations of facts or principles involved in the report. When Mr. J. Randolph moved that the committee should rise, in order to give the petitioner an opportunity of being heard at the bar of the House. The committee rose, and Mr. Ran- dolph's motion was agreed to. On motion of Mr. Huger, permis- sion was given to the petitioner and the sitting member to be heard by counsel. The further consideration of the re- port was then postponed until to mor- row. A letter was received from the post-master general, giving by obedi- ence to the order of the house, a detail- ed statement of the expenses of the Post-Office department for the three successive years.
MONDAY, MARCH 5.  Dr. Mitchell from the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, made a report on the seamen of the United States, who in some ports and harbors at home, are excluded in certain cases although sick, from the benefit of hos- pital-money. The committee have taken an extensive view of the subject, in which the interests of our mariners are deeply concerned. The House resumed the considera- tion of the report of the committee of Elections on the petition of Andrew Moore respecting the seat held by Tho- mas Lewis. It was decided that Mr. Lewis, not being duly elected, was not entitled to his seat. Andrew Moore, thereupon appear- ed, was qualified, and took his seat.
TUESDAY, MARCH 6.  General Varnum reported a bill supplementary to the militia law of Columbia. Referred to a committee of the whole to-morrow. General Varnum moved a resolu- tion for the appointment of a commit- tee to consider if any what alterations are necessary in the military peace es- tablishment—agreed to. Mr. Varnum founded this resolu- tion on the expediency of increasing the number of sergeants mates, render- ed necessary by the increased garrisons arising out of the possession of Loui- siana and on an opinion entertained of the propriety of substituting malt, in the room of spirituous liquors.
Mr. Thompson, from the commit- tee appointed on the message of the President respecting the state of the public buildings in Washington, made a report, stating the objects on which the sum appropriated the last session was expended, expressing their op- inion that two annual appropria- tions of fifty thousand dollars ought to be made, and will be sufficient to fin- ish the south wing of the Capital in a commodious manner, & recommend- ing an immediate appropriation of fif- ty thousand dollars—Referred to a committee of the whole. The bill for the relief of the suffer- ers by fire in the town of Norfolk was read the third time and passed. Mr. Randolph, from the committee appointed to enquire into the official conduct of Samuel Chase, one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the United States, and of Richard Peters judge of the district of Penn- sylvania, made a report concluding in

the following manner: that Samuel Chase, Esq. an associate justice of the supreme court be impeached of high crimes & misdemeanors. That Richard Peters doth not appear to have so acted as to require the constitutional interposition of the House.
Referred to a committee of the whole House on Monday next.
Mr. Nicholson said he was instructed by the managers in the case of the impeachment of John Pickering to report a statement of their proceedings. He said that as it had been hastily drawn up at his table, it might be, in some respects, incorrect, and might not embrace a full view of all that had occurred; but he believed that it stated all that it was necessary for the House to be possessed of.
After stating, in detail, the proceedings of the Managers, the report concludes with the declaration, that the Managers will not feel themselves bound or authorized to appear before the Senate until called upon by them to proceed with the trial, or until directed to appear by the House.
A motion was made by Mr. Smilie appropriatory of the conduct of the Managers, on which no decision was made when the House adjourned.
The House came to a resolution, by a large majority, to close the session on the 3d Monday of the present month.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7.
The House went into committee on the bill providing for the settlement of claims to public lands, &c. [This bill provides for the appointment of Commissioners to settle finally these claims, as before stated.]
Two amendments were proposed, requiring the approbation of the settlement, by Congress, before it became valid; which were negatived.
Mr. Randolph moved an amendment to try the merits of the main question, which was also negatived.
Mr. Varnum moved that the committee rise, and report the bill. Mr. Rodney hoped they would first consider the resolutions offered by Mr. Randolph some days since.
Mr. Randolph also opposed the rising of the committee, contending in favour of first acting upon his resolutions.
Messrs. Elmer, Mitchell, Elliot, Ennis, Lyon, and Gregg advocated; and Messrs. Bedinger, Lucas, Sloan, and Macon, opposed the rising of the Committee. The question, Shall the Committee rise, and report the bill? passed, Ayes 59. Noes 48. The committee then rose, and reported the bill.
Mr. Randolph then moved, that his resolution be taken up; which was carried, Yeas 57. Nays 46. The House then adjourned.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8.
Mr. Nicholson announced to the House, that his colleague (Gen. Daniel Heister) had, after a long illness, yesterday departed this life; as a tribute of respect due to his memory, he moved that the members of the House wear crape for thirty days; and that the House should, for the purpose of attending his funeral, adjourn at 12 o'clock.
The House immediately entered into resolutions to this effect, and instructed the Speaker to notify the Executive of Maryland of the vacancy occasioned by the death of General Heister.
About two o'clock the remains of the deceased were conveyed from his late lodgings, attended by the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives.
The body, we understand, will be interred at Hagers town, the place where the General lately resided.
General Varnum reported a bill for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States, which was read, and referred to a committee of the whole.
A message was received from the President of the United States, enclosing a letter from Gov. Claiborne, respecting the importation at New-Orleans of slaves from Africa, and his impression that he did not possess power to interpose respecting the same.
Dr. Leib presented a petition from sundry inhabitants of George-Town, praying for the passage of the bill amendatory of their charter, with certain amendments.
Dr. Mitchell made a report from the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, who were directed to enquire into the expediency of authorizing the President to cause to be explored certain unknown parts of Louisiana.
The report contains much interesting information respecting the topography and natural history of Louisiana, and concludes with the opinion that it will be honourable and useful for the United States to make some public provision for ascertaining the extent, and boundaries of Louisiana, and to appropriate a sum not exceeding 5000 dollars, to make surveys on the Red River and Arkansas, or such other parts of Louisiana, as the President may see fit.
Made the order for Wednesday next.
The House adjourned about 12 o'clock, in consequence of their previous vote to attend the funeral of General Heister.
MONDAY, MARCH 12.
The House went into committee of the whole—Mr. Varnum in the chair; on the following report:
The committee report—That in consequence of the evidence collected by them, in virtue of the powers with which they have been invested by the House, and which is hereunto subjoined, they are of opinion,
1. That Samuel Chase, Esq. one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the United States, be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors:
2. That Richard Peters, district judge of the district of Pennsylvania, hath not so acted in his judicial capacity as to require the interposition of the constitutional power of this House.
The question was then taken on agreeing to the first resolution, and carried—Ayes 74.
The committee then agreed, without a division, to the second resolution, relating to Richard Peters.
The committee rose and reported their agreement to the report of the select committee.
The House immediately took the report into consideration.
The first resolution respecting Mr. Chase having been read, occasioned a short debate.
The question was then taken, by Yeas and Nays, on concurring in the report of the committee, agreeing to the first resolution and carried—Yeas 73—Nays 32.
The report of the committee, in relation to the second resolution, was agreed to unanimously.
Mr. J. Randolph moved that a committee be appointed to appear at the bar of the Senate, to impeach, in the name of the House of Representatives, Samuel Chase of high crimes and misdemeanors.
The motion was adopted, & Messrs. J. Randolph and Early appointed the committee.
Mr. Nicholson moved the postponement, until the first Monday of November, of the bill for the settlement of claims for Georgia lands.
Messrs. Eustis and Jackson opposed the postponement; which was carried—Yeas 59—Nays 49.
TUESDAY, MARCH 13.
A message was received from the Senate, stating their agreement to the resolution of the House for an adjournment of Congress, with an amendment extending the period of adjournment to Monday the 26th inst. The House concurred in the amendment.
The House went into committee of the whole—Mr. Varnum in the chair; on the bill for opening several new land offices in the Indiana territory. Several amendments were made, when the committee reported the bill. The House, after considering the amendments, ordered the bill to a third reading.
Mr. Randolph, from the committee appointed to perform that service, reported that they had appeared at the bar of the Senate, and had, in the name of the House, impeached Sam'l Chase of high crimes & misdemeanors.
On motion of Mr. J. Randolph, a committee of five was appointed to frame articles of impeachment, with power to send for persons and papers.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14.
Dr. Eustis presented a memorial of sundry inhabitants of the city of Washington, praying an act of incorporation for a commercial company.—Ordered to lie on the table.
The House took up Mr. J. Clay's resolution for the appointment of a committee to enquire into the expediency of authorizing the legislature of Pennsylvania to lay a certain tonnage duty for improving the navigation of the river Delaware and the port of Philadelphia.
After a few remarks made by Mr. Clay in support of their resolution, it was negatived—Ayes 36—Noes 42.
The House went into a committee of the whole—Mr. Dawson in the chair—on the bill from the Senate, providing for the government of Louisiana.
Mr. Leib moved to amend the section, fixing the salary of the governor of New-Orleans, by striking out 5,000 dollars, for the purpose of inserting 3,000 dollars.
The sum of 5000 dollars was, he observed, higher than that allowed some of the heads of department, and was, in his opinion, above the necessary allowance.
Mr. Nicholson said he should have no objection to striking out 5,000 dollars; but it would be for the purpose of inserting a higher sum.
The question was put to strike out 5,000 dollars, and passed in the negative—Ayes 40—Noes 44.
Mr. Sloan moved an amendment inhibiting the admission of slaves into Louisiana as well from the United States, as from foreign places.
Mr. Sloan concisely stated his rea-
sons in favor of this provision, when the question was taken, and the amendment agreed to.—Ayes 40, Noes 35.
Mr. Rhea (of Tennessee) offered a new section, declaring all grants of lands in Louisiana made subsequent to the treaty of St. Ildefonso void.
The amendment was then agreed to—Ayes 54.
A section appropriating 15,000 dollars was introduced to enable the President to transfer tribes of Indians, east of the Mississippi, with their consent, to the western banks.
Mr. Early moved to insert a new section in the room of the 4th section.
This section provides for the choice of a legislative body by the people of Louisiana.]
The committee rose, reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again.
Mr. Nicholson said it had been for some time in contemplation to establish a branch bank at New-Orleans. The business had been before the President and Directors of the bank of the United States, who were of opinion that they were not authorized to establish the branch. He therefore moved that the committee of Ways and Means be instructed to prepare and report a bill authorizing the President and Directors of the bank of the United States to establish offices of discount and deposit in any of the territories and dependencies of the United States.
The motion was immediately agreed to; and Mr. Nicholson reported a bill for that purpose.
THURSDAY, MARCH 15.
The House went into committee of the whole on the bill providing rules for the government of the army.
After some consideration of the bill, the committee rose, and the House, by a great majority, refused them leave to sit again. This is probably a virtual rejection of the bill for the present session.
The House went into a committee of the whole on the bill for the government of Louisiana—Mr. Dawson in the chair.
The substitute of Mr. Early for the 4th section of the bill was, with some verbal amendment, agreed to—Ayes 51.
The bill was reported to the House, who concurred with the committee in striking out the 4th section of the bill, (giving the President the power of appointing the Legislative Council,) Yeas 74—Noes 23—and in their agreement to Mr. Early's substitute—Yeas 58—Nays 42.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of lands in the town of WARNER, in the county of Hillsborough, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1802—that unless they pay them to me the subscriber, on or before the fourteenth day of June next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges, on said day, at the house of EZRA FLANDERS, in said Warner, at one of the clock in the afternoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   NAMES. Disburs. Number. Quantity. Amount.     Samuel Barnard & Stephen Colby, 1 7 60 20   Nathan Goodwin, 2 21 53 29   Peter Sargent, 2 54 80 15   Jacob Rowell, 2 4 80 24   Ezekiel Dimond, 2 18 40 8   Sam'l & Israel Straw, 2 12 60 34   Dea. George Abbot, 2 32 80 16   Jeremiah Flanders, 1 40 60 24   Capt. David Bagley, 2 32 60 18   Col. Henry Morrel, 4 29 33 38   Benjamin Currier, 2 16 20 6   Joseph Eastman, 2 25 60 12  
DANIEL FLOOD, Collector.
Warner, March 21, 1804.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the town of WARNER, in the county of Hillsborough, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1801—that unless they pay them to me the subscriber, with the incidental charges, on or before the fourteenth day of June next, so much of their land will be sold at public vendue, as will pay said taxes with incidental charges at the dwelling-house of EZRA FLANDERS, innholder in said Warner, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by previous payment.
   NAMES. Disburs. Number. Quantity. Amount.     Joseph Jewett, 2 20 60 12   Samuel Barnard, 1 7 60 20   Stephen Colby, 2 23 80 24   Nathan Goodwin, 2 21 53 29   Jacob Rowell, 2 4 80 24   Ezekiel Dimond, 2 18 40 8   Samuel & Israel Straw, 2 36 60 24   Dea. George Abbot, 2 32 80 16   Benjamin Currier, 1 29 30 7   2 16 20 6  
DANIEL FLOOD, Collector.
Warner, March 21, 1804.
ADDRESS
Of the Committee of the town of Portsmouth, in the State of New-Hampshire, appointed to receive, and distribute Donations, to the sufferers by the late Fire:
To the numerous benevolent Citizens of this and the other States, who have contributed to the relief of the sufferers by the Fire in Portsmouth.
WITNESSING, and feeling for the distress of our neighbours in that part of the town which was so suddenly desolated, we once addressed you on that subject—Your prompt and liberal relief, in various instances anticipated our statement of the case. Your conduct has evinced that on information of the distress, you hastened to alleviate it.
Permit us once more to give scope to our feelings; and in behalf of the relieved sufferers, and of the town, and in our own behalf, to acknowledge the debt of gratitude.
As a trust was reposed in us, we were bound (at the expence of considerable labour, and much close attention) to discharge it, in such manner as our consciences should point out; that we might be able to account for the distribution, to the candid and impartial. All such will consider the difficulty of the task, the liability to err, especially in a complicated business, and the difference between a complex view of the whole, and a view of a part only. We are confident of your candor, and we feel that you have a claim to know the general ground on which your bounty has been distributed.
The loss by the fire as estimated at the time, was considerably above 200,000 Dollars, exclusive of what was insured. Donations, in money and provisions received for the relief of the sufferers, amount to 45,200 dolls.
Among the sufferers was a considerable number of the very poor, widows, orphans, and persons whose means were very scanty. Many such were dislodged, and lost nearly their little all. Such were particularly mentioned by many of the Donors; they were considered by us as the objects of immediate attention. They were relieved according to their respective cases. And at an early period they received nearly the amount of their losses, so far as these could be ascertained by a careful enquiry.
A second class consisted of trades people, and others in small, and some in straitened circumstances; of widows, orphans, and aged people; whose losses bore a very considerable proportion to their whole property. The cases were much diversified—And this class has received such sums, as in our judgment, bore a just proportion to their respective losses and circumstances, and to the bounty to be distributed. We adopted here no general rule of dividend; but considered the cases as on their own merits, taking a view of the whole.
To a third and numerous class, consisting of the wealthy, we have distributed nothing. Although their losses were great, they are left to bear their own burden, which we trust they will do patiently; while their fellow-citizens who have it in their power, cheerfully and largely take part in the burden of the indigent sufferers; as their contributions from the first evince.
In compliance with the wishes expressed by many liberal donors, we have endeavoured to keep the good of the town in view, and to exert such influence as we justly might, towards guarding against a similar calamity.
This important object has engaged the attention of many liberal citizens, and has been promoted by their public-spirited exertions; co-operating with measures taken by the town—the streets have been widened—much for the time, has been done—and much more is about to be done, in building with brick, and fire proof. And the exertions of the more wealthy, in this way, notwithstanding the checks experienced, afford a prospect that the central part of the town may rise, Phoenix like, fairer from its ashes!
We can only in conclusion, reiterate our warm acknowledgments to our sympathizing benefactors; all entitled to the thanks of the town; while the liberality of some cities, town, societies and respectable individuals has out gone all expectation.
JOHN LANGDON, DANIEL HUMPHREYS, NATHANIEL ADAMS, JAMES SHEAFE, JOHN GODDARD.
Portsmouth, March 26, 1804.
The public-spirited Printers of Newfpapers, especially in Philadelphia, New-York and Boston, are requested to assist in the conveyance of our information and acknowledgments to the addressed, by giving the foregoing a place in their papers.
WANTED As the Building of Stores and Houses will soon take place, Mechanics will find employ and encouragement by applying to the Printers.—There not being a sufficient number of workmen in town, many from the country will be wanted.
Portsmouth.
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1804.
SUMMARY—FOREIGN.
BY the ship Pigeon, Capt. COLLET, which arrived at Philadelphia, in 20 days from London, newspapers to the 19th February have been received, containing news five days later than that received by way of Boston. These papers state that no interesting event had taken place in the interval, and we are yet to conjecture whether or when any are likely to occur. The indisposition of the king of G. Britain appears to have engaged the principal attention, at the date of the last advices; and when the state of Europe and the situation of England in particular, are considered, the solicitude, excited by the illness of this monarch, will not appear surprising: According to the public prints, he had in some respects recovered his health, but the captain of the Pigeon informs that on the 19th and 20th of February it was currently reported and generally believed that the king had died, that the privy council was in session, but that for political reasons the cause and object of their deliberations were concealed, and a desire manifested to persuade that the king was not dead.—Whether this event has actually occurred or not cannot be decided at present, but arguing from probabilities we consider the report entitled to belief—the age of the monarch, the knowledge that he was afflicted with a complication of diseases, that the indisposition we are told he laboured under on the 18th February, was unusually severe, all render it extremely probable that the report of his recovery was deceptive. When the state of parties, and the views of particular men in England, are reflected upon, there will be found reasons tending to impress a belief that the ministry, or privy councillors, had determined to conceal for a time the knowledge of the death of the king. The recent refusal of the ministry to confer on the Prince of Wales any post of honor in the army, was but one of the evidences of that enmity and jealousy with which he has ever been viewed; he is well known to have paid great deference to Mr. Fox and the whig interest, and to have coincided in opinion with them in their opposition to a war, and it may be reasonably supposed that on his accession to the throne he would totally change the face of affairs. The duke of York is the man, whom the opponents to the Prince of Wales desire to succeed to the throne, but how they could accomplish their object under present circumstances we cannot conceive: nothing but death can now prevent the accession of the prince, the object of the Ministry therefore may have been to effect a compromise or to induce the prince, to "agree to terms." We confess we think the death of George III. highly probable, and if such shall be found to be the case, we shall not be surprised to hear of overtures of peace with France having been the consequence—that there will be a change of ministry and a complete one too, we consider as certain.
Of the French expedition the latest rumors intimated that it would not be undertaken before March, as the preparations could only then be completed. One would imagine, from all that has heretofore been said of preparations that it was impossible anything could have remained unfinished in the middle of February, the fact seems otherwise, the building of vessels of every description continued to be carrying on in the ports of France and its dependencies with vigour—troops continued to be collected, and dispositions of the naval force to be made. Bonaparte was to have left Paris early in February for a third visit to the coast.
We have seen nothing in the extracts from English papers relative to the predicted rupture between Spain and England.
The northern powers, particularly Russia, were forming cordon of troops on their frontiers—the cause is mysterious, for we cannot believe the rumours of the English prints, that any of the continental powers are disposed to commence hostilities against France.
The German empire appears to have been considerably agitated in its internal concerns, but the late accounts throw no light on the causes which produced the agitation, nor are we informed whether it continued. An act of partial hostilities had taken place between the German and Turkish troops on the frontiers, which had been made the pretext for a claim on the empire for an additional force "to preserve its territory respected"—future events may explain these circumstances; at present the Ottoman empire appears insecure on all sides—disaffection encreases at home, and in Egypt it is questionable whether the crescent will ever again be respected.
The French and Italian forces in Italy had been encreased and concealed.

cred; but few surmises are thrown out respecting their object. It is however, again stated as probable that Bonaparte meditates another attempt on Egypt, and some even insinuate that the Morea is his object. The next arrival will probably decide the question of the truth of the report of the death of the king of England—if the event has really taken place, the effect on the state of European affairs will be considerable, and our solicitude for information be increased.
DOMESTIC.
THE poor house at Wilmington, (Del.) was consumed by fire on the 17th ult.—During the late northerly gales, a passage has been forced through between Sandy-hook and the New-Jersey highlands; and we are informed that the depth of water in this new passage, at low tide, is 7 feet. Sandy-hook is now become an island. —“We are assured,” says the Northern Budget, “that the State of South Carolina has not postponed the consideration of the question on the amendment of the Constitution, as has been asserted in several newspapers. It is added, that the legislature of that State will, in all probability, sit in the present month. —Not long since, a man by the name of Wilkinson, shot himself at Steubenville, in the State of Ohio. What renders this remarkable, is, that he was married on Thursday evening, and on Friday morning he perpetrated the horrid act in the presence of his wife.—A most atrocious murder was committed in Pendleton district, S. C. on the 27th Jan. Miss Polly Young, an amiable young woman, on the morning of the above day, had left her father’s house to go to mill, 2 miles distant, and was killed on her return, about 10 o’clock, by her father’s negro fellow, in a manner too barbarous and indecent to relate. It was one of the foulest murders ever known in this country. This monster of inhumanity and bloodshed was fairly convicted of the crimes he had committed, and was executed.—On the evening of the 12th ult. the bridge connecting Norwich with Hanover, unfortunately gave way, and was reduced to a heap of ruins.—At Sheffield, (N. Y.) a short time since, David Smith, a taylor, who had been for some time in a state of intoxication, went to the river Suquohannan, in the time of a snow storm, and took off his hat, coat and jacket, hung them on a pole that projected from the bank over the ice; from thence he went to an air hole in the ice, and plunged himself in; there was a strong current, and the water about 5 feet deep—his body has not yet been found. —A boat has been accidentally burnt in the Mississippi, in which were a woman and her three children, who all perished.
Clause of Constitution.
The votes of towns have been frequently lost to the State by neglect or irregularity in returning them to the legislature. We are desired to publish the following clause from the constitution of New-Hampshire containing the provisions on this subject. After specifying the manner of taking the votes of the freemen, it is said, “And the town clerk shall make a fair record of the same at large, in the town book, and shall make out a fair attested copy thereof to be by him sealed up and directed to the secretary of the State with a superscription expressing the purport thereof: And the said town clerk shall cause such attested copy, to be delivered to the sheriff of the county in which such town or parish shall lie, thirty days at least before the first Wednesday of June, or to the secretary of State at least twenty days before the said first Wednesday of June: And the sheriff of each county, or his deputy, shall deliver all such certificates, by him received, into the secretary’s office, at least twenty days before the first Wednesday of June.”
New-Hampshire Election.
Extra of a letter received in town from a gentleman of respectability, in a central part of the state, and whose information may be depended upon as correct, says, “It is ascertained beyond a doubt, that there will be a respectable Republican majority in both branches of our Legislature the present year,” he adds, “Should the votes for Governor be duly returned, the Republican Candidate will be elected, and our State will once more be hailed as one of the fister states in the Union.”—The event will prove how far his positions are grounded as respects the Governor, (for the House and Senate we have no doubt will be Republican) but we anticipate (should a fair return be made) that the event will answer his expectations.
Omission, by mistake, in our list of Town Officers. Winter Surveyors—Francis Marden, John Wentworth, Stacy Hall, Will’m Stavers, George Sparhawk.
List of Votes for GOVERNOR. Langdon. Gilman. 166 towns in our last 11400 11412 Mistake in Piermont 16 10 Chatham : : : : 24 0 Danbury : : : : 6 16 Hindale : : : : 53 30 Lancaster : : : : 7 67 Littleton : : : : 25 45 Lyman : : : : 55 27 Marlow : : : : 68 3 Northumberland : : : 4 20 Nottingham-West : : 73 34 Raymond : : : : 48 56 Stoddard : : : : 48 77 11827 11827
Votes for State Officers in Piermont. For Governor...John Langdon, 71—John T. Gilman, 38. Councillor...Ezra Bartlett, 79—Daniel Blaisdell, 5. Senator...William Tarlton, 69—Moses Payson, 16. Representative...William Tarlton, Esq. We have been credibly informed that the following gentlemen, have been elected Senators for the present year,— District No. 1, Gen. Clement Storer, 2, Nicholas Gilman, Esq. 4, J. Bradley, Esq. 7, J. K. Smith, Esq. 8, Robert Alcock, Esq. 10, Gen. A. Allen. The above gentlemen are known as firmly attached to the cause of Republicanism.
INFORMATION. A letter has been received in this town from Mr. ERVING our Consul in London, informing that in consequence of Proofs sent him from home, and of his applications, orders have been issued from the admiralty, for the discharge of SAMUEL MOORE of Wolfborough, an impressed American seaman. This is inserted for the information of his friends. The Editors of the GAZETTE lament that they are once more called upon to remind their subscribers that an early settlement of their accounts is indispensably necessary, at least those, whose term of taking the paper, has exceeded two years. It is not to be expected that Printers should be enabled to prosecute so arduous and expensive an undertaking with success, where an unwarrantable remissness and backwardness pervades so considerable a number of their subscribers, as is the present case. There are no less than one third of them, who have made no payment whatever since we began our editorial career. With respect to these, they will please observe that unless immediate payment is made, they must expect some other method of collection will be adopted.—As to our other subscribers we shall esteem it a favor to have their yearly accounts soon brought to a close.—As no exertions shall be wanting on our part to render the Gazette acceptable to its readers, we are willing to believe that they will on their part be punctual in the discharge of their accounts.
PIOUS SERMONS.
To those who can find leisure to read sermons, the following are recommended beyond all others.—They were preached by that great and eminently pious and experienced christian, the late George Whitefield, whose memory will always be held in esteem, so long as his sermons can be procured and read, to revive the drooping spirits of God’s people.—They are on the following ALL-IMPORTANT subjects: 18. On Regeneration. 22. Of Justification by CHRIST. 30. On Early Piety. 4th. The Almost Christian. 5th. The benefits of Religious Society. 6th. Intercession, every Christian’s Duty. 7th. The great Duty of Family Religion. 8th. The heinous sin of Profane Swearing. 9th. The eternity of Hell Torments. 10th. How to hear Sermons. 11th. Religion not to be Neglected. 12th. The Marks of the New Birth. 13th. What think ye of CHRIST. 14th. The wife and foolish Virgins. 15th. The indwelling of the Spirit. 16th. Satan’s Devices.
The above are all printed on a large type, and bound up in one handsome volume; making a pious treasure in themselves, and a bank of spiritual worth to every renewed and sanctified heart. They are lately published, and may be had either at C. PEIRCE’s brick Bookstore, Daniel-street, or at N. S. & W. PEIRCE’s Bookstore Congress-street, Portsmouth—price for the whole bound in one volume, only 6/.
THE SUBSCRIBERS
BEING duly appointed commissioners to examine the claims against the estate of ELISHA SEVER, late of Kingston, husbandman, deceased, represented into court, hereby give notice, that they will attend upon that business at the house of Major Jacob Pease, innholder in said Kingston, the first Monday of April next, and of the four following months, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. LEVI BARTLETT, JACOB PEASE. Kingston, March 29, 1804. WANTED —Two Hundred DOLLARS, for which good security will be given in the town of Portsmouth, and interest paid quarterly. Inquire of the Printers. April 8.
PROPOSALS FOR CARRYING THE Mails of the United States, ON THE FOLLOWING POST-ROADS, Will be received at the General Post-Office, in Washington, until the 15th day of June next, inclusive. 1 FROM Portsmouth by Hampton Falls, Salisbury, Newbury-Port, Ipswich, Beverly, Salem and Lynn to Boston, six times a week. May 1 to November 1. Leave Portsmouth every day, Sunday excepted, at 2 p. m. and arrive at Boston the next day by 1 a. m. Leave Boston every day, Sunday excepted, at 1 p. m. and arrive at Portsmouth next day by 7 a. m. November 1 to May 1. Leave Portsmouth every day, Sunday excepted, at 2 p. m. and arrive at Boston the next day by 9 a. m. in 19 hours. Leave Boston every day, Sunday excepted, at 2 p. m. and arrive at Portsmouth the next days by 10 a. m. in 20 hours. 2. From Portsmouth by Dover, Rochester, Middletown, Ossipee, Mount-kennebec and Center Harbor to Plymouth, and from Plymouth by New-Hampton, Meredith, Gilmanstown, Nottingham and Durham to Portsmouth, once a week. Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday at 2 p. m. and arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 p. m. Leave Plymouth every Friday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Portsmouth on Monday by 8 a. m. 3. From Hanover by Orford to Haverhill, once a week. Leave Hanover every Friday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Haverhill by 5 p. m. Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Hanover by 5 p. m. 4. From Haverhill, Ms. by Chester, Pembroke, Concord, Boxford, Salisbury, Plymouth, Romney and Haverhill to Newbury Vt. once a week. Leave Haverhill every Tuesday at 2 p. m. and arrive at Chester by 5 p. m. arrive at Concord on Wednesday by 10 a. m. Leave Concord at 4 p. m. arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 p. m. and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 p. m. Leave Haverhill at 5 1/2 p. m. and arrive at Newbury by 7 p. m. Returning—Leave Newbury every Saturday at 6 a. m. and arrive at Concord on Monday by 10 a. m. Leave Concord on Monday at 11 a. m. and arrive at Haverhill on Tuesday by 10 a. m.
NOTES. 1. The Post-master General may expedite the mails and alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contracts, he stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby. 2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time is specified. 3. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the time prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continues until the departure of any succeeding mail, whereby the mails destined for such succeeding mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of 5 dollars shall be incurred. 4. Newspapers as well as letters are to be sent in the mail; and if any person making proposals, desires to carry newspapers, other than those conveyed in the mail, for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals for what sum he will carry with the emolument, and for what sum without that emolument. 5. Should any person making proposals desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals the alteration desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of the contract. 6. Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly, in the months of August, November, February and May, in one month after the expiration of each quarter. 7. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail. 8. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals. 9. The Post-master General reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end whenever three failures happen which amount to the loss of a trip each. 10. The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of October next, and are to continue in force for two years.
GIDEON GRANGER, POST-MASTER GENERAL. General Post-Office, Washington City, February 23, 1804.
For SALE on reasonable terms,
A FARM
in Nottingham, a one story HOUSE thereon, 36 by 30, and a BARN 50 by 30—Said Farm contains between 60 and 70 acres, and is a capital place for a Tanner, &c. Apply to JOHN FROST. Durham. March 31, 1804.
Please to Observe;
THE Selectmen of Portsmouth, hereby notify and request the Inhabitants of said town to bring in to them, just and true Inventories of all their rateable property according to law. The Selectmen will be ready to receive them at their Office in the Brick School-House in Buck-street, every Thursday evening, until the 10th day of May next, and not afterward. April 3, 1804.
Grocery & Commission STORE. J. Langdon, junr. Informs the public that he has taken one of the new stores lately built by Isaac RINDGE, Esq. at the upper end of Bow-street, near the Spring, where he offers for sale a general and extensive assortment of West-India Goods & GROCERIES, of the first quality, and at the lowest prices, wholesale and retail. ALSO, for sale, a quantity of Fresh Superfine FLOUR. Ships Stores of every kind, put up at the shortest notice. ** Commission Business transacted with the most punctilious attention. Portsmouth, April 3, 1804.
Just received, and to be Sold by Joseph Bais, At his Shop in Broad-street, Portsmouth, EARLY GARDEN PEAS and BEANS; with a general assortment of English & American new GARDEN SEEDS. Portsmouth, April 3, 180, 1804. (4w.)
BATH three cent tax. WHEREAS the Legislature of the State of New-Hampshire, at their last Session granted a tax of three cents per acre, on all the lands in the town of BATH, in the county of Grafton, in said State, (public rights excepted) for the purpose of making and repairing public highways and bridges in said town; and the subscribers were appointed a committee, to assist and superintend the collection and appropriation of the same. We therefore hereby give public notice to the owners of land in said Bath, that they are allowed to pay each his proportion of said tax in money or labor performed on said public roads and bridges, under the direction of said committee, any time between the first day of May, and the first day of October next, at the rate of six cents per hour, for every hour’s actual labor performed on said roads and bridges, by an able bodied man, finding his own diet and tools; and the same price per hour for each yoke of oxen. —And that we will be ready to receive the same in payment of said tax any time within the term aforesaid. AARON HIBBARD, } Com- SAMUEL HUTCHINS, } mit- MICHAEL BARTLETT, } tee. Bath, March 20, 1804.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
Grafton, ss.
To INCREASE ROBINSON, Esq. Clerk to the Proprietors of the township of Chatham.
THE subscribers, proprietors and owners of more than one sixteenth part of the township of CHATHAM, in said State and county, request you to notify and warn the proprietors and owners of said township, to meet at the dwelling-house of William Cox, innholder in said Chatham, on Monday the 6th day of August next, at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, for the following purposes, viz:— 1st. To choose a Moderator, to govern said meeting. 2d. To choose a Proprietors’ Clerk. 3d. To choose a Committee, to call on former Treasurers, Collectors, Committees and other proprietary Officers, and make settlements with them; and adjust all accounts which may be presented against said Proprietors as may be just, and make a statement of their proceedings on the business, in a certain time to be directed thereafter by the Proprietors. 4th. To see if the Proprietors will lay out a Road across a part of the fourth-end of said Chatham, to Bartlett, and appoint persons to do the same. 5th. To see if the Proprietors will confirm the Roads in said Chatham, which have been buff’d or mark’d out, and choose surveyors and other fitable persons to lay out the same, and make returns of their surveys in a certain time. 6th. To raise such sums of money, to be assessed on each Right and other Lands in proportion, as may be thought necessary for making Roads, defraying Proprietary expenses, and discharging subsisting demands. 7th. To choose a Treasurer, Collector, and other Officers, necessary for carrying into effect the business above mentioned. 8th. To choose a Committee, to enquire whether the Proprietors’ Book of Records be brought forward at said meeting and delivered to the Clerk; and if not, for said Committee to call for said Book, and deliver it to said Clerk as soon as possible. MOSES CANNEY, ISAAC WALDRON, JOSHUA HEATH, WILLIAM COX, junr. ICHABOD CANNEY, NATHANIEL WALKER. STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE— Grafton, ss. *** PURSUANT to the foregoing request, I do hereby notify the Proprietors and Owners of the township of Chatham, to meet at the time and place aforesaid, for the purposes set forth in the above request to me directed. Given under my hand and seal, the 22d. day of March, A. D. 1804. INCREASE ROBINSON, Proprietors’ Clerk.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of BENJAMIN MASON, late of Stratham, deceased, are requested to present the same to the subscriber for settlement. MARGARET MASON, Adm’rs. Stratham, April 2, 1804.
At S. LITTLE’S Office, ON SATURDAY NEXT. 30 pieces fashionable Chintzes; 3 pieces Jeanes; 4 pieces mixt and blue Broad Cloths; 3 pieces Kerfymeres; 2 pieces Coating; 14 doz. Men’s & Women’s Hosiery. At Private Sale, 100 boxes bar Soap; 20 boxes shaving do. 10 chests Souchong and Hysan-skin Tea; pipes Gin; bags and bbls. Ginger; 10 bbls. Anniseed and Clove Water;—500 Rolls of Paper-Hangings; a quantity of excellent Lisbon FEATHERS.
NEW GOODS.
PETER COFFIN, Has just received per the ships Packet and John Adams from Liverpool, a variety of Chintzes; black & colored Nankinets; fancy Gandrills; Jeans; Men’s Youth’s and Children’s Hats, &c. &c. Portsmouth, April 3, 1804.
SPRING GOODS.
James Rundlet, HAS this day received per the John Adams, from Liverpool, and has now ready for Sale, by wholesale and retail, an assortment of Olive Velveteens; Calicoes; Black do. Color’d Cambricks; Black fancy do. White & black, doz. Black Nankinets; Ginghams; Blue, do. Diapers; Olive and fancy do. Table Cloths; Jeans; Copperplates, &c. Portsmouth, April 3, 1804.
New English Goods Shop,
In BUCK-STREET,
DANIEL WEEKS,
LATE of the company of SWETT and WEEKS, would inform his friends and the public that he has taken a shop in Buck-street, next door to Mr. Abner Blaisdell’s, where he has FOR SALE, an assortment of Staple and Fancy GOODS, very cheap for cash. Just Received, 1 Cafe 7/ & 1/4 IRISH LINENS of a superior quality. Portsmouth, April 3, 1804.
NEW GOODS.
B. Brierley, No. 9, MARKET-STREET. Has just received by the ships John Adams & Packet, from Liverpool, a very extensive assortment of SPRING GOODS; AMONG WHICH ARE SUPERFINE Broad-Cloths and Kerfymeres, of the very first quality; Fine and common, do. all colors; Printed Calicoes, Dimities, Mullinets and Thicksets; 3/ & 5/ white, black and color’d Jaconet and Cambric Mullins; Check’d do. Black & color’d Chambray Mullins; Cobweb, Tortan, Calanade & Laced ground Mullins; Book, do. all prices; Sarsnet Cambricks all colors; Black, blue & other color’d plain and twill’d Nankinets; Silk striped, do. Black, white and color’d Silk Hose; do. do. Cotton and Silk Gloves & Mitts; Black & white Parafinet; Black cypres & other Gauzes; Black and white, plain and figur’d Patinette; do. do. Patent Laces and Edgings; do. do. Lace Veils; Cloaks, Spencers; Shawls; Mantles & Pelisses; White thread Laces and Edgings; Umbrellas & walking cane Parafols; Linen and Cotton Checks and Stripes;—Likewise, a large quantity of Straw, willow & cane BONNETS; Fans; Gown Trimming, of the newest fashion; Silk Girdles; Silk and Cotton Cords, all colors; Chintz and white Bed Laces; Boot Strapping; Flat and round Bobbins, &c. &c.—making together with his former stock, a most complete assortment of choice Goods, which he offers for sale on very low terms for cash or approved credit. April 3, 1804.
Teas, Wines & Groceries.
Samuel Larkin, KEEPS constantly for sale, at his Store, (on the Parade) the following articles, which he warrants all of the best quality, and of the lowest prices, viz. Gun Powder, Madeira, Hysan, Red Ports, Young Hysan, Lisbon, Souchong, Vidonia, Hysan-skin, Sherry, and Bohea, Claret, & Malaga. Wine, Old Cognac Brandy; Old Rum; Shrub; London and American bottled Porter; Taunton Ale; Bottled Perry and Cider; Coffee; Chocolate; Cotton; Loaf, Lump, and Brown Sugars; Raisins; Figs; Currants; Mustard, Ginger; best Spanish Segars, together with a general assortment of GROCERIES. Portsmouth, April 3, 1804.

Miscellaneous Repository.
From the Charleston Courier.
ODE.
NOW I feel the Muse's fire, Fill my glafs and touch the lyre! Why should care's corroding breath, Waft me twifter on to death?
TRADITION.
THE word tradition fignifies something handed down from age to age without being committed to writing. It is a human invention, or something not commanded in the fcripture; but contrary to it.
See the young man ftanding in the broad Ifle, bowing his head to something read to him, and carrying his child to have a little water fprinkled on him, - ask him the reafon of it, and all he can give is, that it is the fashion, - other people do it.
If any thing is brought forward from the fcriptures, it is opposed at once, why? becaufe it is not tradition. - If the God of heaven has commanded us, let us obey him; but if we have nothing but tradition for a rule of conduct, let us lay it aside and think for ourfelves, and believe the word of God.
LEAP YEAR.
It has from time immemorial been confidered a rightful prerogative of the ladies, in Leap Year, without fubjecting themfelves to any imputation of want of modefty, to make the firft advances in negotiations for matrimonial alliances.
N. Y. Mufeum.
ANECDOLE.
A federalift and a republican meeting a short time fince in a neighboring town, a converfation took place on the rapid increafe of republicanism at the prefent period in this ftate.
NOTICE.
THE Co-partnerfhip under the firm of SWETT & WEEKS, was by mutual confent diffolved on the firft inst.
Portsmouth, March 6, 1804.
FOR SALE, A Fishing Schooner, ABOUT 30 tons burthen - together with all the Fishing Gear belonging to her as the same from sea.
FOR SALE, or TO LET, A TWO Story DWELLING HOUSE, pleasantly situated at the South end of the town;
the Lot is 66 feet by 375; a good Well of Water in the yard. - The Houfe is in good repair.
FOR SALE, A TWO Story HOUSE, and Lot of LAND, in the centre of this town.
A Lot of Land, for sale, IN Merchant's Row - an excellent ftand for bufinefs.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-refident proprietors and owners of land in NEW-CHESTER, county of Grafton,
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-refident proprietors and owners of land in the town of TAMWORTH, who have not paid their highway and county taxes for the year 1803;
Table with 4 columns: No., Quantity, Price, County. Lists lots in 3d division (John Mann, Henry Herring, etc.) and 4th division (Robert Cragg, Jeremiah Colburn, etc.).
THOMAS FAVOUR, Collector.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of TAMWORTH,
Table with 4 columns: Original Proprietors, No., Price, County. Lists original proprietors like Tho's Wallace, Robert Fulton, etc.
WANTED TO HIRE - A Journeyman PAINTER and GLAZIER, - one who understands his business, will find constant employ and good wages through the ensuing season.
NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the Estate of Dea. JAMES BRACKETT, late of Greenland, yeoman, deceased,
WANTED IMMEDIATELY - a JOURNEYMAN BAKER, one that understands his business, and is of good character, will find constant employ and good wages, by applying to
WANTED - A LAD, about 15 years of age, to attend in a Store. Inquire of the Printers.
WANTED to hire, 3 or 4 MASONs, to work on a Brick Building, to begin about the first of April - Good Workmen may find employ, and good wages, by applying to the Printers.
Piscataqua Bridge Lottery.
THE General Court of New Hampshire having passed an Act at their late session, December 24th, 1803, granting a Lottery for the special purpose of raising Fifteen Thousand dollars, to repair and maintain the Piscataqua Bridge;
SCHEME,
Table with 3 columns: Class, Prize, Amount. Schemes for the First Class (10,000 Tickets at 5 dollars) and Second Class (3315 Tickets at 15 dollars).
Subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 pr. cent.
Prizes to be paid in thirty days after the drawing is finished.
Prizes not claimed in one year from that term, not to be paid, but deemed as generously given for the benefit of the Bridge.
The object of this Lottery is to assist the Proprietors, and to enable them to repair and keep passable that extensively useful and commodious Bridge, crossing the Piscataqua river;
THOMAS MARTIN, THO'S THOMPSON, ELIJAH HALL, Managers. Portsmouth, Jan. 15, 1804.
State of New-Hampshire.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that John M'Duffee, Esq. and others, have petitioned the General Court, representing that the communication between the Sea Coast, and the interior parts of this State, might be made much more easy, convenient and less-expensive,
ORDERED, that the petitioners be heard before the General Court on the second Wednesday of the next session, and that they cause the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette,
ATTEST, NATH'L PARKER, Dep'y Sec'y. Concord, November 30, 1803.
War Department, Feb. 8th, 1804.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary for the Department of War, until the eighteenth day of May next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States,
First. At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Chicago, Fort Wayne, the post on Miami of the Lakes,
Second. At South West Point, Tellico, Knoxville, Nashville, and within the Cherokee nation between Tennessee and Georgia,
Third. At the garrison near Vincennes, on the river Wabash.
Fourth. At Fort Mifflin, near the mouth of the Ohio, Kaskaskia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
Fifth. At St. Louis, New Madrid, and any place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
Sixth. At Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas, Natchez, Fort Adams, Fort Stoddart on the Mobile, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
Seventh. At New Orleans, and any place or places on the Mississippi river, below Fort Adams, & at Opelousas, Natchitoches, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
Eighth. At Fort Wilkinson, Cockspur Island, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
Ninth. At Charleston, Rocky Mountain, on the head waters of the Santee, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
Tenth. At Norfolk, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
Eleventh. At Fort M'Henry, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
Twelfth. At Fort Mifflin, Pittsburg, Carlisle, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
Thirteenth. At Fort Jay, West Point, Albany, Schenectady, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
Fourteenth. At Fort Ticonderoga, Fort Wolcott, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
Fifteenth. At Fort Independence, (Boston Harbour) and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
Sixteenth. At Portsmouth, Portland, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed,
A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of beef or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whisky or Brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and one half of candles, to every hundred rations.
The prices of the several component parts of the ration should be specified;
The United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration as aforesaid as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price for the whole ration.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara and Chicago for six months in advance,
It is also to be permitted to all and every of the Commandants of fortified places, or posts to call for at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in the case of urgency such supplies of like provisions in advance,
It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense & risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depreciation of an enemy, or by means of the troops, of the United States, shall be paid by the United States at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid,
The privilege is understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts,
shall be issued until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the Sea board or Indian frontiers, not exceeding three months.
H. DEARBORN, Secretary of war. 2w. May 15.
Just Received, direct from the Patentee's, AND FOR SALE BY
CHARLES PEIRCE, Portsmouth, the following valuable FAMILY MEDICINES - viz.
DOCTOR COOLEY'S VEGETABLE ELIXIR - OR COUGH DROPS.
A REMEDY far exceeding every other yet used, for Consumption, Asthma, Spitting of Blood, Coughs, Shortness of Breath, and every other species of disease to which that organ of life, the lungs, is perpetually exposed.
Complaints of the lungs have always been considered the Opprobrium Medicinæ. (For reproach to the art of physics) and it has long been a desideratum in Medical Science, that a remedy might be devised, which should check this wide outlet to human life.
The many thousands which yearly fall a sacrifice to this insidious disease, Phthisis Pulmonalis, or Consumption of the Lungs, has ever since my acquaintance with distales (which is almost thirty years) so excited my commiseration,
that a large share of my time has been employed in investigating the cause and cure of it; and from my most unremitted attention and constant research, I have the happiness to proclaim to the world, that in my Vegetable Elixir, a speedy, safe, and effectual remedy is generally to be had.
It is not pretended that this medicine will cure every distale to which suffering humanity is liable, as is the case with most patent medicines; distales which are as completely opposite as an acid and an alkali, they will affect, are all to be cured by one simple remedy.
Such weak impositions have with much propriety brought most patent drugs into disrepute. But the Vegetable Elixir is calculated for one class of distales only, viz. those to which the lungs are exposed, and I need not observe that they terminate in consumption.
The precursors or harbingers of this hitherto intractable malady (until the discovery of the Vegetable Elixir) are Spitting of Blood, Pains in the Breast and Sides, Coughs, Difficulty in Breathing, and a great number of complaints, which under and delicate females are so frequently labouring under,
which if attended to immediately on their commencement, will easily be obviated; and those in the last stage will be much alleviated, and many of them effectually cured. Price 75 cents a bottle.
Doctor Rawson's Anti-Bilious and Stomachic BITTERS. These BITTERS are so well known to need any comment in a public advertisement.
Suffice it, therefore, to say, that no Patent Medicine, before discovered, has ever met the approbation of the purchaser as these Bitters have. Price 50 cents a box.
Docl. Rawson's Anti-Bilious PILLS, or FAMILY PHYSIC. In great colds and sudden attacks of disorders, an early use of these PILLS often produces the happiest effects;
and taken once in 8 or 10 days, in cases of Indigestion, Coliciness, Head-aches, Pains in the Stomach, Bowels, &c; and the use of my Anti-Bilious Bitters, in the intermediate time, has relieved patients almost to a miracle. Price 25 cents a box.
Dr. Rawson's ITCH OINTMENT. A certain and safe application for that disagreeable disorder called the Itch. The Proprietor is aware of the numerous compositions offered to the public, with a pretence of lately curing the Itch, some of which are false indeed, but have no effect, except that of increasing the disorder; others come into the world recommended for feeble constitutions, in old age, and infants, the basis of which are some of the most active preparations of Mercury.
Having been acquainted with these false, and at the same time delirious, if possible, to supply the defect, I made trial of many false and innocent compositions; and after much labor and experiment, ascertained beyond all doubt, that my Beautifying, or Itch Ointment, is a safe and certain remedy, not only for the Itch, but for almost all kinds of cutaneous eruptions. Price 25 cents a box.
Docl. Noufer's WORM POWDERS. It is from the long and repeated experience of the infallible nature of this Medicine, in completely destroying and expelling from the body all kinds of WORMS, that it is now offered for general use, having a firm conviction that there is no Medicine in circulation that can vie with it in disease of this kind. Price 50 cents a package.
Docl. Lee's Genuine (Windham) BILIOUS PILLS. Doctor Cooley's RHEUMATIC PILLS. Doctor Thompson's TOOTH PASTE, for the Scurvey in the Teeth and Gums, and for whitening and preserving the Teeth; it likewise takes off all disagreeable smells from the breath. Price 50 cents a box.
Hinkley's celebrated REMEDY for the PILES. Price 50 cents a box. Very particular directions accompanying each of these valuable Medicines. Portsmouth, Feb. 7, 1804.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the Estate of JOSIAH BATCHELDER, late of North Hampton, gentleman deceased; are requested to present them for settlement to the subscriber, administratrix to said Estate. ABIGAIL BATCHELDER. North Hampton, Feb. 25, 1804.
WANTED to purchase, a few loads of good STONE, suitable for a Cellar, to be delivered as soon as possible. For further particulars inquire the at Gazette Office. - March 6.