The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1808-08-30 00:00:00

Laws of the U. States.
[PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.]
AN ACT
Making provision for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the U. States.
BE IT ENACTED , by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the annual sum of two hundred thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated for the purpose of providing arms and military equipments for the whole body of the militia of the United States, either by purchase or manufacture by and on account of the U. States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That the President of the United States be and he hereby is authorized to purchase arms for, and erect such additional arsenals and manufactories of arms as he may deem expedient under the limitations and restrictions now provided by law: Provided also , That so much of any law as restricts the number of workmen in the armories of the U. States to one hundred men, be and the same hereby is repealed.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That all the arms procured in virtue of this act shall be transmitted to the several states composing this union, and territories thereof, to each state and territory respectively in proportion to the number of the effective militia in each state and territory, and by each state and territory to be distributed to the militia in such state and territory, under such rules and regulations as shall be by law prescribed by the legislature of each state and territory.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate pro tempore. April 23, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT
To authorize the transportation of certain documents by mail free of postage.
BE IT ENACTED , by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the members of Congress, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby authorized to transmit free of postage, the message of the President of the United States, of the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and the documents accompanying the same, and the documents accompanying the message of the President of the U. States of the thirtieth of March, printed by order of the Senate and House of Representatives to any post-office within the U. States and the territories thereof, to which they may respectively direct; and it shall be a duty of the secretary of the Senate, and of the clerk of the House of Representatives, to send by the mail printed copies of the same message and documents, or any part thereof that may remain after Congress shall adjourn, and the same shall be conveyed free of postage, as aforesaid, conformably to the directions of the members of each House of Congress respectively: any law the contrary notwithstanding.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEORGE CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate. April 13, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT
For the relief of Philip Turner.
BE IT ENACTED , by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the account of Philip Turner, late hospital physician and surgeon, and that they allow him the compensation equal to the half pay of a captain, agreeably to a resolution of Congress, passed on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one: Provided , the said Philip Turner, on the receipt of the money directed to be paid him by this act, shall execute in consideration thereof a discharge to the United States, of all demands whatsoever, and deposit the same in the office of the Register of the Treasury.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate pro tempore. April 22, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
POLITICAL.
From the Baltimore American.
No. II.
To the Citizens of the United States.
The Tories of the revolution, as I have already said, form the first ranks of the opposition; next, are seen enlisting under the same phalanx;
The disaffected of the revolution, who not succeeding in the establishment of titles of honor and grandeur, for themselves and children, would not condescend to level themselves with the people, who had raised them:
The disappointed who, though brave in the field, could not be employed in office under the federal government, after the armies had been disbanded:
The popish, idle, little creatures, whose fathers' industry had earned wealth; but whose infatuation and ignorance, make them blush to be the offspring of artisans or mechanics:
A legion of lawyers who, because they can utter fine words of the Latin language, and have learnt how to read a passage of the Greek, without comprehending a sentence, think themselves the ne plus ultra of all sciences; and scorn the idea of being equal in right and pell-mell with the people, though they are just emerging from what themselves term the mire :
A band of British factors and agents, to be met with in every corner of the United States, whose honest hearts sigh with love for their good king:
An horde of printers, whose unquenchable thirst for gold, makes them prostitute their talents in pleading the cause of Great Britain against their native country.
The foregoing description of characters, with a very few exceptions, form the phalanx of the opposition, otherwise denominated Federalists .
We have had a full view of the personages who conspire against their country, and arraign our virtuous administration. From the principles upon which the coalition is founded, and the motives which made so many join with it, the expected result would be to grasp at the sovereign power, and bring the people under their sway.
To succeed in this great enterprise, they have long been waiting for a favorable opportunity. The late aggressions of the belligerent powers against our neutral rights and sovereignty, rendered it necessary that we should for a time, suspend our commercial relations and intercourse, and lay an embargo on all our shipping, as a measure of energy, of precaution, and of peace. But this salutary measure has furnished the opposition with a new scope to defame the administration, and practise again, intrigues, deceptions and fallacies, in order to divide the States and the people, and prompt them to revolt against the government, and to resist the execution of the embargo law; which, from the course of events, proves to be the salvation of our merchants, and secures to the nation the rich proceeds of our extensive trade; therefore, I shall abstain from entering further into arguments on this head, as facts speak for themselves, and experience fully demonstrates its propriety.
The engines every where set at work by the opposition, and the base means they make use of in support of their doctrine, are sufficient to mark them out with infamy, and gather upon them the malediction of an irritated people. To be fully convinced of this alarming and painful truth, we need only follow them through the crooked paths they direct their march, and look back, to view the abyss we providentially escaped falling into. To look back on the catalogue of their crimes, during the reign of terror , makes the soul of every good citizen shrink with horror! They must be as fresh in their recollection, as their indignation was great, when touting from their lethargy, they overthrew those faithful apostles of the infallibility of kings!!!
We have now to consider the policy they have been pursuing, since the plans of government were trusted into abler hands. But in order to avoid a prolixity of language, I shall rapidly pass over the excellent management of our domestic and foreign affairs, during the last seven years; and content myself with reviewing the most enormous crimes of the oppo-
tion during that happy period, and those practised since the belligerent powers of Europe, have, by their rapacity, injustice, and assumption of sovereignty over neutral nations, placed our country in a critical situation.
If we regard the salutary repeal of the Sedition and Alien laws—the reduction of our maritime and land forces to a peace establishment—the repeal of the federal Land Tax law—the reversion of said land tax, on a more eligible and enlightened plan, by forming the revenue of the nation out of the import duties on foreign goods and produce—the new system of economy introduced for the appropriation of the public revenues, to extinguish the national debts—the acquisition of Louisiana, and the hostilities undertaken against the Barbarians of Algiers and Tripoli, &c. &c. &c.—In what light has opposition represented these measures, which have produced our national welfare and prosperity! Have they not wickedly alarmed the citizens, and scattered the seeds of discord? Have they not propagated falsehoods of the greatest magnitude, to corrupt the spirit of the people? Have they not made use of every infernal machination to misguide them, and make them believe that the exercise of their legitimate rights, and the delight they enjoyed at tasting the good produced by these measures, were like a cup of poison, which, if drank out, would bring anarchy and confusion—dissolve the political body, and cause its downfall? But the people of the United States could not so much misunderstand their dearest interests, as to listen to the clamorous outcries of a perfidious foe, whose disappointment drove him to madness, and doomed him to fall prostrate to the earth!!!
A REPUBLICAN.
From the New-York Aurora.
THE EMBARGO,
WISE, PRUDENT, EFFICIENT.
Whoever will be at the pains of a moment's reflection will perceive that the embargo measure was wise ; because it prevented the belligerents from making depredations on millions of millions of property belonging to this country. The cautious foresight and eagle eye of Jefferson, and a sagacious Madison, at once discovered the necessity of such a measure. Congress were forcibly impressed with the importance of the safety of our property and the security of our seamen.—What would have been the present situation of all the Banks and Insurance Companies in the United States, had not our government resorted to the embargo? The answer to this interrogation is easy and plain to every man of common capacity. Our country by this time would have been drained of its Specie, Banks, Insurance Companies, Merchants, Widows and Orphans, would have been reduced to abject penury. And in case of war, our situation would be deplorable—our citizens made prisoners—our property safely in the hands of our enemies, and we left destitute of money and merchandise. Such is the spectacle we should have presented.
But it may be remarked that this measure was also prudent . With the means of security in our hands, why should we place the wealth of the nation, with the lives of thousands of our citizens, at the imperious disposal and royal magnanimity of either England or France. Suppose for a moment that our government had pursued a system of selfish popularity, by permitting our citizens to transport their property as usual to foreign climes, under French decrees and British orders of council; what should have been our situation, so critically situated between those two hostile powers? Where would have been our commerce? And after our property was taken, how were we to demand it—by force of arms—by reason against such injustice? With regard to the first , it is out of our power, and probably it is well for us that it is so. And as to demonstrances , in such a case, that would have been fruitless . Power, with crowned heads, constitute right, and sanctions every measure. Hence we may see that our administration have acted with the utmost prudence.—Those who clamor against the embargo, are of all men the most unreasonable.
That this measure of the government is efficient , may be inferred from
the powerful impression it will have on the belligerents. They will see our firm determination to vindicate our rights as a neutral power, and that we will rather sacrifice the interests of commerce than submit to insult and injustice. Besides, this measure will affect those powers at home, from a suspension of their trade with us. Their colonies also will suffer materially from a want of our produce, while at the same time they must endure great losses by not exporting the products of their soil.—These considerations will have weight with the belligerents. Necessity will sometimes produce what reason itself will not accomplish. At all events, it is the most efficient means in our power; and our government were both wise and prudent in its adoption. I shall now, in the third place, consider A Perpetual Embargo .
Those who are ashamed any longer to declaim against the measure, in itself simply, now resort to a pitiful artifice. Such persons tell us that if Mr. Madison is elected president, that we shall have a perpetual embargo —that he will annihilate commerce . These assertions carry the marks of their own falsity with them; and those who propagate them are, either ignorant or wicked. Mr. Madison is not disposed to annihilate commerce; and if he were he has not the power. From the general character of that gentleman—his knowledge of the world—of the situation and temper of our citizens—our condition in having an immense country to cultivate, and from the high confidence reposed in him by Thomas Jefferson, I must suppose he never entertained an idea of a perpetual embargo . Such a supposition is preposterous in the highest degree; and is an insult to the common understanding of mankind.
It cannot be very difficult to fathom the designs of those who make such an outcry against the embargo. With all the pretended self-cunning of these clamourers, they will find themselves on the back ground eventually. Those who over act their part may rest assured of a defeat. Every thinking citizen will perceive the wisdom and integrity of the administration—nor will any firm republican disgrace his character in uniting with these turbulent spirits in opposing the measures of the general government. This he will leave as a distinguishing mark for Tories, turn coats, and disorganizers.
Commerce will again be resumed; and when resumed, it will be regulated on a firmer basis than heretofore. However stout the belligerents may seem to be, they will reason when they cannot employ force; interest will induce them to do us justice. We shall now consider the question, what can be substituted for the embargo?
Situated as we are by two formidable powers, each seeming intent on plans of ruin, as if intending to raze each other to the ground; paying no regard to the rights of neutrals; our government have acted from the best views they had of the hostile intentions of both nations. But since our claimants have made such a noise about the embargo, why have they not pointed out a more happy expedient. Those who arraign the wisdom of the government ought certainly to give us a specimen of their superior knowledge in the affairs of government. If they do not attempt it, or fail in the effort they will be treated with merited contempt. As yet I have seen no reasons offered to shew how our government might have done better. But it will be said that they should have let trade go on—we must have commerce.—What! at all hazards! Send our seamen, ships and property to Europe? And for what? Unreasonable mortals. When you have pointed out a mode which might have been pursued better calculated to ensure respect, save our seamen, vessels and property, then we will listen to you—but until then you will excuse us if we think you petulant, improperly malicious, and under the influence of interested motives.
If we are to immolate our independence at the shrine of commerce, then in the name of heaven let us say so at once. No longer let our ears be tingled with the unmeaning sound of liberty. Why shall we mock all our best notions of freedom, and offer violence to common sense, if we are to be in future under the absolute dictation of Europe! But shall the sons of
America, the offspring of those who suffered severe privations, and all the hardships of a seven years war, now basely submit to the monarch of England, or the Imperial head of France? Say, ye noble sons of Columbia, do ye prefer lucre to freedom and independence? Alas! alas! are ye so soon degenerated and lost in effeminacy—is the hallowed flame of our liberties totally extinguished in your bosoms? O no; it cannot be. For the loss of freedom in America, the celestials themselves must let fall a tear. Rally round your government at this momentous crisis. Let Europe see that Americans are the same now as in 1776. ZENOPHON.
"THE TWO MILLIONS."
Owing to the foul misrepresentation of a British morning print , we are obliged to call the attention of our readers to an extract from the speech of Mr. Quincy, a federalist, on the discussion of the bill authorizing the President to suspend the Embargo laws.
"Congress," said Mr. Quincy, "can vest a general discretion, to borrow or not to borrow, according to the view which the Executive may possess of the state of the treasury and of the general exigencies of the country, particularly in cases where the loan is contemplated at some future day, when perhaps Congress is not in session, and when the state of the treasury, or of the country, cannot be foreseen. In the case of the two millions appropriated for the purchase of the Floridas, such a discretion was invested in our Executive. He was authorized, 'if necessary, to borrow the sum, or any part thereof.' This authority he never exercised, and thus (according to the argument of gentlemen on the other side) he has made null a legislative act. For so far as it depended on his discretion, THIS NOT BEING EXERCISED, IT IS A NULLITY."
So much for the two millions; but an early day shall be devoted to this subject. [N. T. Aurora.]
BOSTON, August 11.
Extract of a letter from a young gentleman of respectability, and extensive information, in London, to his father in this town, dated June 4, 1808.
"The Packet from New-York has bro't but little news—but that little was very pleasing to all the Americans here, as it respected the Embargo ; which we hope will be more rigorously enforced. The vessels which have been permitted to sail from home, under the special license of the government, will become prizes to the British, if they sail with any cargo from a port in France, or the continent. It is, therefore, a matter of no small surprise to us, on this side the water, that they should not better understand the Orders in Council, than to send out vessels at this time. A Schooner from New-York arrived at Plymouth yesterday, detained for prosecution a voyage from New-York to Bordeaux, in ballast; and will undoubtedly be condemned, for attempting to force the Blockade."
"The Orders in Council have had a different effect, I presume, from what the ministry first imagined; and the best informed people in this country frequently observe, that the Emperor of the French could not have struck a more fatal blow to this country, nor could they more completely meet his wishes, to deprive themselves of commerce, had he framed a plan for that purpose."
As the old Tories deceived the British ministry and king respecting this country from the year 1769 to 1775, so the new Tories from the old flock , have been deceiving and deluding their friends in (once great now little) Britain, from 1792 to the present day. Foster Hutchinson, one of the leaders of the old flock, was unremitting in diligence to misrepresent the affairs, the strength and spirit of the colonists. He was, in fact, the Timothy Pickering of that day.—By and by Thomas Hutchinson, the governor of the Massachusetts colony, was recalled and went home to England to answer for his conduct and that of his friend. Being introduced to the king at a levee soon after his arrival there, he presented a letter to his majesty. The king looked at him sternly, and exclaimed, "Mr. Hutchinson, I want no more letters from brother Foster, I have enough of them." This rebuke of the king on his family, affected Mr. Hutchinson so sensibly, that he retired from the levee and soon after gave up the ghost. He died suddenly, just so will be the fate of the British agents of the present day. The British ministry will have to exclaim, "we want no more letters from the Pickerings and Burs of America, we have been most grossly deceived by them." Thus the new Tories will find that their misrepresentations have led their friends into a labyrinth that will perplex, if not totally ruin them at the close of the present unprecedented conflict.—For the Tories and traitors have as much deceived the British as to the real situation of this country, as the British have deceived themselves in their violent measures to entangle and enslave the continent of Europe. They have now, too late, found their woeful error, and discovered their short sighted policy.

From the National Intelligencer. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES—LETTER IV.
We proceed in the necessary review of the manner in which England has enriched and attempted to aggrandize herself at the expence of the true and absolute rights of neutrals, of her own allies, and of adversary belligerents; and in which she has drawn upon us the like treatment from her foreign enemies.
Tho' neutral states can have no war rights against co-neutrals, or against belligerents, their allies, England, then a neutral state, committed all the breaches we have seen of the rights both of neutrals and allied powers in her detentions of the ships, cargoes and property of neutral friends and neutral and belligerent allies from the date of her proclamation of the 15th of November, 1792, till the commencement of her war with France on the 1st of Feb. 1793. England, then neutral, stoped them in her own ports, and captured them on the high seas, particularly in their voyages from the feeble and disjointed Hanseatic towns. The first victims of the crafty naval despotism of neutral England were the weak and disunited Americans, ye are lost forever, if ye do not believe, that the powers of the seeds of disunion among the commercial and agricultural states of America are dangerously hostile to your just influence among the powers of the earth.
The unprecedented engagement between Britain and Russia of the 25th March, 1793, to deprive unblocked France of all neutral commerce, and the neutral states of all innocent French commerce, enormous as it is, must be considered as a fin of neutral England. This convention was published in London as early as the 25th of March, 1793, within fifty three days of the commencement of the war between France and England. It is therefore certain, that the treaty must have been formed full three months before, while neutral Britain, disregarding all decency and public law, was taking the vessels of neutral Hamburg, Bremen and Lubeck, on their voyages with innocent goods, the fruit of the labors of the Westphalian and Saxon subjects of the king of England and of his German relations and allies. If allies, relations and connections by blood and marriage, their own subjects, and confederated Brethren of Hanover were thus treated by neutral G. Britain, by Britain in the time of peace and in the earliest stages of her war with France, an intelligent firmness at this time on our part must be deemed necessary to our existence. "Nemo repente turpissimus." These recorded fins of neutral Britain are nothing to those she has since committed against us. Governed by a legislature, in which the seats are publicly bought and sold. Every thing is reduced to the acquisition of gain, per fas et nefas. Their Berkleys', their Cochrane's, their Whitby's, their Humphrey's, & their Love's, et hoc genus omne, can purchase these seats, to give law to neutrals, with a very little of their neutral plunder. It is no wonder that their navy rules in Britain. As long as we were known perfectly to understand and without measures of remedy to endure these things, it could not be expected, that the other belligerents, enemies of England, would respect our neutral rights. Hence the wisdom and the unavoidable duty of shutting our rivers against their immense sea-army. Hence our exclusion of an impressive portion of their redundant manufactures. Hence the incidental withholding of our precious raw materials and more precious food. Hence the withdrawing of the persons of our honest seamen from the field of undisguised foreign slavery—the use of an odious and infamous instrument.
Of what avail is it that the people of America have acquired an exemption from British rule in all the forms of strict law, public and municipal, if the foreign legislature and crown they successively resisted, openly maintain that rule in fact? Is the American seaman free, who is made a degraded prisoner in any port of the terraqueous globe by a British press gang? Did the ensanguined body of John Pearce, when exhibited to the people by Rufus King, evince the actual exemption of Americans from the domination of England? Did the numerous bodies of impressed Americans, in the defeated fleet of admiral D'Orvilliers, slain and mangled in forced opposition to a sister republic and to the principles of the American revolution, then actually common to America and France, prove the actual termination of all British authority over the people of these states? Did the daily exaction of the convoy duty from American merchants support the important truth, that "taxation and misrepresentation are inseparable?" Do the forcing our ships into British harbors, and the extortion
of money, without a shadow of law, under the fraudulent color of legitimate duties, prove that we are exempted from the avaricious rule of our colonial state?—The degree of resistance, which we had begun to make to this government de facto of G. Britain, occasioned us to be exempted, in reality, from the operation of the French decree of Berlin, down to the time when England under the pretence of retaliation for what we had in truth not acquiesced in, issued her nine orders in Council of November last. The British avowal of an intention to issue such orders, and the declaration at Copenhagen that there could be no neutrals, brought on the execution of the Berlin Decree.
The President of the United States, irresistibly impelled by a sense of public duty, seasonably represented as a solemn truth to our Legislative Body, that G. Britain on the subject of the colonial trade, had interpolated the law of nations. And here we are brought to examine a new example of that inadmissible practice. Instead of a retaliating blockade of France, when France by her Berlin decree blockaded England, the British adopted measures of a different or more excessive nature and called them "retaliation."
She inflexibly ordered us, wherever found on the high seas, to be coerced at arms, to trade through British ports, to France! She adopted a monopoly of commerce! She ordained "a tribute," under the veil of a municipal duty; and she granted "perquisito" out of our property, under the name of fees of office, to men who were impeachable for extorting them, before that act of indemnity for these crimes, that deed of shame which has blasted the reputation of the three states in the British Parliament in the face of the world. When acts of a sovereign legislature, in high contempt of justice and decency are hung, like harlots mantles, upon the unhallowed walls of its public chambers, to cover the perpetrators of any deed of shame, the innocent and just among their own people must too soon lose all courage to endure misfortune or to encounter danger. Conscience must make cowards of the leaders of the nation, and a wounded spirit must unman the good. Such must ultimately be the case with every British observer of every class in society, who traces the contempt of sound policy, of constitutional law, and of all public justice, in the commencement, the progress, and the present state of their orders in council.
What then must be the effect of this long series of orders upon the temper and conduct of the adversaries of England. They know the history of these orders of England from the days of her neutrality in 1792. They know well all that neutrals have done in consequence, and suffered. They cannot but think they have the best grounds to retaliate, as against England; and they would believe that they had a right to retaliate, as against us also, but for the determined stand we have openly made.
The noble protest against all the details of British impressment from the date of Mr. Madison's letter on that subject of January, 1804, to the termination of his recent correspondence with Mr. Rose, appear to have convinced the European continent, that we will not endure the incarceration and enslavement of our marine citizens in the floating prisons of England, nor the perversion of their neutral hands in illegitimate war upon her enemies. Connected with this subject, the exclusion of the whole marine army of England from our ports, in consequence of the affliction treatment of John Pearce, of the impertinent insolence of Love, and of the base and sanguinary outrage on the frigate Chesapeake must carry convictions, the most satisfactory and decided, into the councils of the injured adversary belligerents. The open imposition of an avowed fine on England, by means of the non-importation law, for her early and indisputable violations of the law of nations and for all the consequent injuries she has herself inflicted, or drawn upon us from her allies and her enemies, must add to the convictions of our just determinations, in the European world. The serious effects upon the extensive and complicated British political economy, which the whole world knows our embargo will produce, including all the important business of our own manufacturing system, will convince Europe, that we have devised means to deprive the rapacious navy of England of spoiled food, and replaced a vulnerable foreign commerce by great domestic invulnerable operations, in all the manufactures and the useful arts.
The effects of these well devised, impressive and temperate measures of firm tho' bloodless coercion seem to be perceived in France. As she had not, till goaded by the British proclamation to the Danes and the menaced orders of Council of November, 1807, applied her Berlin decree to us, so now she does not execute by final
decisions her Milan decree upon us, because we do not appear tamely to permit the long series of British orders of Council against our neutral rights to pass without serious attempts at measures of redress. Americans! The way is clear before you. Continue to resist, tho' it be only by efficient pacific coercions, the original English aggressors, and their enemies on the European continent will not probably execute against you those injurious decrees, which the evil example of England, producing an angry spirit of defensive retaliation, had led them to adopt.
* William Cobbet, whom the Pennsylvania democrats expelled by the coercion of the laws, from the city of Philadelphia, in 1800, declares in the 11th volume of his Political Register, A.D. 1807, that he has read in the daily papers of the city of London, fifty-seven public advertisements for the sale and purchase of seats in their imperial Parliament! These were all of his Britannic majesty's most faithful Commons! The right honorable the viscount Melville is, as we know, the recorded standard of the virtue of the Lords, spiritual and temporal! Him, with all his blushing honors thickened on him, his right reverend and right honorable peers have declared to be innocent upon their honors! To complete the system, his imperial majesty of the united kingdoms retains the name of the virtuous Melville upon the list of his most honorable Privy Council, to aid him in the formation of those orders in council, the letter of which that independent prize judge, Sir William Scott, has declared to be the rule of his court! Gracious Heaven! Can it be Timothy Pickering of 1776 and 1793, who now avows an ardent love for that government? Mark what Cobbet, (whom he well knew when President Adams removed him) says of this venal state of things. He gives it plainly to be understood in his own print, under the eyes of all the members of the three estates in Parliament, with all the common law terrors of "contempt," hanging over his head, that he can find "nothing more disgraceful, or more damnable than what is described in these advertisements." If the French understood the X Y Z of corruption in the time of Chief Justice Marshall's embassy, it appears pretty certain, that England must understand the rest of the Alphabet—We might appeal even to Cobbet—"Nothing more damnable" than these overt corrupt sales of seats in the Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdoms of G. Britain and Ireland, says Cobbet, the apostle of the Pitt administration, to the Americans!
IMPORTANT Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, JULY 8. SPANISH AFFAIRS. Catalonia has declared in favour of the Patriots, and thus the bright and steady flame encircles the whole kingdom of Spain—but the French, it will be recollected, were in possession of Barcelona, and the strong fort of Montjuic, which covers the harbor. Accounts however by the Alphaeta state, that a French corps had actually been surrounded in Barcelona. We have not heard that the dispatches confirm the intelligence of Dupont having been attacked and defeated in the Sierra Morena; on the contrary, it was reported, in our last, that he had passed the Sierra Morena, and pushed his advanced posts almost to Cordova. If Dupont has pushed on to Cordova, it should seem as if his intentions were to attempt advancing to Seville. The Patriots, aware of that intention, are sending their force to arrest his progress—they have in Andalusia 60,000 already enrolled, of whom 15,000 are regulars; their head quarters are at Cadiz, about 20 miles from Seville, and their advanced post at Ecija—but some persons doubt the truth of the report of Dupont having relinquished the strong position of the Sierra Morena and advanced to Cordova—for his force never was rated higher in the French papers than 20,000, and probably does not amount to above two thirds of that number.—He could not expect with that force to make head against the whole patriotic strength of Andalusia.
A letter from an officer on board the fleet off the Tagus, of June 13, states—"that an army of 30,000 Spaniards, were on their march towards Lisbon; that Ad. Cotton had sent a flag to the Russian Admiral advising him of the events which had taken place in Spain and Oporto, and proposing to accept his surrender, on the condition of his fleet being restored to the Emperor Alexander on the conclusion of peace; that a body of French troops on their march from St. Ubes to Lisbon, had been surrounded by a detachment of Portuguese and Spaniards, and taken prisoners:—The letter concludes thus,—"We expect to go into the Tagus every hour. I shall probably come home in a Russian man of war."
Globe Office, four o'clock. JULY 9.—It is confidentially and generally reported in the City, that a treaty of PEACE has been signed between Russia, Sweden, and Denmark.
The report of Junot's defeat at Lisbon is not believed. The French army at Bordeaux had received orders to march towards Spain.
From the LONDON GAZETTE, JULY 5. At the Court at the Queen's Palace, the 4th of July, PRESENT, the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
His Majesty having taken into his consideration the glorious exertions of the Spanish nation for the deliverance of their country from the tyranny and usurpation of France, and the assurances which his Majesty has received from several of the Provinces in Spain, of their friendly disposition towards this Kingdom; his Majesty is pleased by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered:
First, That all hostilities against Spain on the part of his Majesty shall immediately cease. Secondly, That the blockade of all the ports of Spain, except such as may be still in possession or under control of France, shall be forthwith raised. Thirdly, That all ships and vessels, belonging to Spain shall have free admission into the ports of his Majesty's dominions as before the present hostilities. Fourthly, That all ships and vessels be-
longing to Spain, which shall be met at sea by his Majesty's ships and cruizers, shall be treated in the same manner as the ships of states in amity with his Majesty, and shall be suffered to carry on any trade now considered by his Majesty to be lawfully carried on by neutral ships.
Fifth, That all vessels and goods belonging to persons residing in the Spanish Colonies, which shall be detained by any of his Majesty's cruizers after the date hereof, shall be brought into port, and shall be carefully preserved in safe custody to await his Majesty's further pleasure, until it shall be known whether the said colonies or any of them, in which the owners of such ships and goods reside, shall have made common cause with Spain against the power of France.
And the Right Honorable Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, are to take such measures herein as to them may respectively appertain.
STEPHEN COTTREL.
PROCLAMATION. NAPOLEON, by the Grace of God, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederacy of the Rhine, to all men, to whom these presents may come, sends greeting: "THE Junta of the State, the Council of Castile, the city of Madrid, &c. &c. have notified to us by their addresses, that the well-being of Spain requires a speedy stop to be put to the provisional Government; we have resolved to proclaim, and do by these presents proclaim, our well beloved brother JOSEPH NAPOLEON, the present King of Naples and Sicily, to be King of Spain and India.
"We guarantee to the King of Spain the independence and integrity of his States in Europe, as well as in Africa, Asia, and America; charging the Lieutenant General of the Kingdom, the ministers, and the Council of Castile, to cause this proclamation to be expedited, and publicly announced, according to the usual custom, that none may plead ignorance hereof."
Given at our Imperial Palace, at Bayonne, the 6th of June, 1808. (Signed) NAPOLEON. H. B. MARET, Minister of State.
PROCLAMATION. Don JOSEPH, by the Grace of God; of Spain, Majorca, Minorca, Gibraltar, of the Continent of America, the Islands, &c. &c. KING &c. To the Vice Roy, Captain-General, Governors, Correjidors, and to all other officers, civil and military, of whatever denomination; and to all the inhabitants of the Spanish dominions in the West and East Indies; maketh known, that,
By virtue of the Treaties of the 5th and 10th of May last, by which King CHARLES IV. and the Princes of his House, have formally relinquished all right and title to the Crown of Spain, and all the dominions belonging to it, in favor of my dear and august Brother NAPOLEON I. Emperor of the French King of Italy, &c. &c. who hath been graciously pleased to confer the same upon me, on the 4th of the present month. My wishes and my ambition hath been to come to Spain, to take upon me the government of the country—to devote myself to the happiness and interest of the people whom Providence has committed to my charge—and to carry into effect the regulations which shall be made by the Junta of the Representatives, and Notables of the Kingdom; which Junta is assembled at Bayonne, and will be again called together at that place on the 15th inst. in order to take into consideration the means of establishing a just and permanent government, and of placing Spain, with all her exclusive dominions, on a better footing, by securing her independence, and raising her to that rank in the scale of nations which formerly distinguished her, and which her inhabitants are still worthy to possess. To accomplish this object I have accepted the crown. I hasten to make this declaration, of my paternal solicitude for your happiness, and to assure you that it shall be exerted equally for the good of the remotest parts of my dominions. Confiding in my royal word, you shall continue to enjoy all your privileges as good subjects. Prosecute your ordinary avocations in peace. Be obedient to your superiors, and guard against the machinations of those who let the laws in defiance. Justice must be administered impartially, and I strictly enjoin all Judges and Magistrates, to comply with my pleasure on this subject. Look up to me as your protector, I shall ever have your interest at heart, and will double my endeavors to defend you from the attack, which the implacable enemies of Spain meditated against you.
I enjoin all Archbishops, Bishops, and Ministers of religion, which I pledge myself to maintain inviolate, to use their influence among the people to make them obedient to the laws, and to guard them against the dangerous consequences of sedition and treason. I repeat my declaration, that the Government shall be founded on justice, and my sole object be the accomplishment of your happiness. All Governors, Judges, &c. are recommended to give the utmost publicity to this Proclamation.
Given at Bayonne, June 12, 1808. I, THE KING. By order of the King our most gracious Sovereign. M. JOS. D'AZANZA.
The islands of Majorca and Minorca had sent the Patriots reinforcements, and arms, and ammunition. The Carthagena squadron remained at Minorca. None of the French fleet were known to be at sea.
GOTTENBURGH, JUNE 13. By advices received from Malmo, this morning, we learn that the convoy bound to the Baltic (consisting of about seventy sail) put to sea last Thursday morning (the 9th) the wind having been very favorable for them, but it becoming afterwards calm, the Danish Gun-boats came from Drago and captured 22 of them, five of which they burnt; 20 sail of Swedish Gun-boats, which were at that time, and with a few hundred yards of the enemy, and might have rendered the greatest assistance, did not think proper to interfere, but returned to port without firing a shot. An English gun brig, laid to be the Turbulent, was engaged for seven hours, but at length was obliged to yield to superior force; and of the 22 that were captured, 14 were Swedes.
It is reported here to-day, that a battalion of Swedish troops, consisting of 600 men, have been surrounded by the Nonweguns, and made prisoners.
LATEST FROM SPAIN
Captain DODGE, of the ship Ocean, who left Gibraltar on the 5th of July, has furnished the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser with papers of the 2d.
He informs us, that an order had been issued by the Supreme Council of Seville to liberate all American vessels detained under the decrees of Bonaparte; and that the ships Betsey and Howard, at Cadiz, were released in consequence.
The English troops under Gen. Spencer debarked at Port St. Mary's, near Cadiz, on the 1st of July, to assist the Spanish patriots.
The Commander of the Spanish squadron of six ships of the line, the Governor of Minorca, and most of the Spanish Provinces, have submitted to the authority of the Junta at Seville, and joined in the declaration of war.
On the 20th of June an embargo had been laid on all vessels in the ports of Portugal.
Mr. Young, Consul General at Madrid, who left that place about the 5th of May, with dispatches from Mr. Irving, for the American government, was stoped, at a small port town, a short distance from Madrid, in consequence of an order from the Supreme Council at Seville, directing all persons with dispatches, to be stoped and sent to Seville. Mr. Y. was consequently sent to Seville, where he was lodged in prison, and all his papers, baggage, &c. taken from him. This was done in consequence of finding amongst his dispatches, some from the Duke of Berg, to the French Consul at Philadelphia, under blank cover to the Secretary of state; in which were others destined for South America—after he was detained in prison for 15 days, a passport was granted him from the Council to leave Spain and to proceed for any port to embark for America.—With this he left Seville, and arrived safe at Gibraltar. Directly after his arrival at this place, a letter was received from Lord Collingwood, ordering Mr. Y. to be detained, or to be taken out of any vessel in which he might be found. This order was given by the request of the Council of Seville. Sir H. Dalrymple, the Governor of Gibraltar, did not however, conceive himself authorized to enforce the order; but permitted Mr. Y. to proceed where he pleased. Mr. Y. however, was given to understand, that he would probably be taken out of any vessel in which he should take passage for America, by a Spanish Gun-Boat. In consequence of this information, Mr. Y. gave up the idea of going to America with his dispatches although he had previously chartered the Ocean for that purpose, and immediately took his passage for England on board a floe ship, which failed on the same day with the Ocean.
CADIZ June 11.—Last night, it was notified to the French Squadron, that a new battery of 30 36 pounders, was ready to open upon it, within half a cannon-shot, in case it should not surrender. This morning, at 7, no answer having been returned, the signal for general action was made on board the Prince; upon which, the French surrendered at 8. The officers wanted to fight to the last; but the Crews revolted against them, and compelled them to strike. The General of our Squadron immediately repaired, in his barge, on board the French Admiral's ship, and returned to his own with the French General. The many vessels which were in readiness, either to give assistance in case of shipwreck, or to remove the crews, in case they surrendered, went alongside the ships of the line, and in the course of the day, the latter were manned by our sailors all the French having previously been removed. The seamen have been conducted to the four Towers in the Carraca, the Marines to Puntales and the Officers on board a ship in the Bay, which has been fitted out for that purpose, and is called Ponton.
Official note of the French Admiral to the captain General of Cadiz, at the time of the surrender. SIR,
I am compelled by the offensive means which you have combined against me, to surrender the ships, without making any further resistance, because I see it is the common interest of both nations that they should not be destroyed.
Although Your Excellency had not promised me security for both the persons and properties of my crews, I place too much reliance upon Spanish honor, and upon Your Excellency's generosity, to be in the least uneasy upon that head.
I wish with Your Excellency may, at first send but few people to remove the crews, ship after ship, in succession, to prevent the confusion which often takes place upon such occasions.
According to the customs of war, I beg you will enable me, or cause me to be enabled, to dispatch an officer to his majesty the emperor, for the purpose of informing him of these occurrences.
I am Sir, with the highest consideration, Your Excellency's Most humble Servant, ROSILLY. On board the Hero, admiral's ship. In the Bay of Cadiz, June 14, 1808.
SEVILLE, June 18.—We learn, by several official papers, that the Grand Duke of Berg has, at the request of the Board of Government at Madrid, suspended the march of the French troops to the provinces which have proclaimed Ferdinand VII.
D. Manuel Barnaeve, Lieutenant of the Pavia Dragoons, who left Madrid on the 8th inst. and joined our army on the 15th, has communicated the following particulars.
The French garrison in Madrid does not amount to 3,000 men. The Duke of Berg continued in the Monclova, whence he intended to remove to the Retiro, as soon as it should be fortified. Moncey's Division, consisting of 4 or 5,000 men, had marched out of Madrid, making inquiries respecting the roads which lead to several provinces, so that its destination is not known. The division, formerly quartered in the Escurial, which had proceeded against Segovia and was 6,000 strong, was beaten by the Segovians, on the 8th, with a loss of 3,000 men.
At Manzanares, there were 300 Frenchmen, who having set out upon their march to Dupont's army, were attacked, in Valdelpenas, by the inhabitants—After an action which lasted two hours, and in which they lost 150 men, and destroyed almost all the houses, they withdrew to Manzanares where they have since been captured.
The Puerto del Rey is guarded by about 3,000 men, and 2 pieces of ordnance are conducting to that point.

MORA, PORTUGAL, JUNE 10. Positive intelligence has been received from Lisbon, that also all the French troops are moving to different points, and that the remainder, with general Junot, are fortifying themselves in St. George's Castle, where they have collected provisions and ammunition. Whatever was in the arsenals, they have removed to the forts; and it is even added, that they intend to enter into articles of capitulation with the nation. The few troops which were in Evora, filed off towards Beja, and were very near being attacked by the people, in consequence of the threats of the French commander, who was under the necessity of departing without the subsidies which he had demanded. We are informed, that, in Beja, all the inhabitants are up in arms, only waiting for the signal to attack, and for somebody to head them.
From a late London Paper.
Bonaparte has issued a decree, which was published at Rome on the 21st ult. abolishing the sovereignty of the Pope, and annexing the whole of the ecclesiastical states to the Kingdom of Italy. The reason he gives for this daring act of oppression, is that the Holy Father constantly refused to declare war against the English. This event has we are assured been some time expected by his Holiness, and we have been assured also, that he was advised, in case it should happen, to excommunicate the French ruler the French ruler; a measure to which it would not be wonderful if he should actually resort, as it is well known that he has expressed a deep regret that he should have been induced to take a journey to France, for the purpose of crowning an Usurper. Indeed this transaction had operated so strongly upon the mind of the Holy Father, that it driven to an extremity, he was confidently expected to resort to such a measure of atonement; and many persons in Rome had begun to speculate on its possible result, in all countries where the Roman Catholic religion is predominant. By the above Decree, all Cardinals, Prelates and other Officers of the Romish Court, born in the Kingdom of Italy, were ordered to return to the place of their birth, before the 5th of this month, on pain of forfeiting all their property.
BY THE MAILS.
NEW BEDFORD, AUGUST 25.
Flagrant Violation.
On Monday night last, a Sloop, loaded with provisions, contrary to the laws laying an Embargo, made her escape from this town by the aid and assistance of a body of men. The officers of government obtained information previous to her departure, that an attempt would be made to run the sloop out in defiance of all authority. An attempt was made to prevent her departure, but the officers, in the discharge of their duty, were beaten with sticks and FIRED UPON from the sloop, a boat with several men went along side of the sloop, to be informed of her destination; they were basely insulted, and in consequence of the resistance made by those on board, the officer commanding the boat thought proper to retire. A Schooner was immediately dispatched in pursuit of the sloop, on board of which was a number of the United States troops, and several citizens, who patriotically volunteered their services to bring her back; and after a pursuit of ten hours, brought her to, and took possession of her; the men concerned in this affair against the laws of the land, had in general, left her previous to her surrender—several however, remained on board when she was taken possession of.
We suspend for the present, all comment on this disgraceful transaction; but shall in due time, give the public the particulars of this outrage against the laws of the land. The names of those concerned are well known; and whenever necessary shall be made public. [Statesman.]
From the Salem Gazette.
MR. CUSHING, I observe in your paper of Tuesday last, an assertion that I was not perfectly correct in the statement I made, "that out of seven vessels which failed from this district for the continent of Europe in the month preceding the commencement of the embargo, not one ever reached her destined port in safety."
When I applied to the Custom-House for information on this subject, a list was given me of all the vessels which had been cleared for the continent of Europe in December, the month preceding the commencement of the embargo. In this list the ship Augustus was not included, as she was cleared at the Custom-House in November, although she did not leave the harbor until early in December; and even this vessel, either before, or immediately upon her entering the harbor of Leghorn, was taken possession of by the French, and the consignee was not permitted to receive her cargo, until he gave bonds for the amount, which remained in force against him or the owners for several months, and then about two thousand dollars were paid as a compensation for those bonds being given up. Is this arriving in safety? I now add, and I am ready to prove, that out of eight vessels, which failed from this district for the continent of Europe in the month of December last, not one ever reached her destined port in safety.
WILLIAM GRAY.
Salem, Aug. 25th 1808.
PORTSMOUTH,
TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1808.
TOWN MEETING.
Yesterday the inhabitants of Portsmouth assembled in town meeting, and after choosing WILLIAM GARDNER, Esq. moderator, proceeded to the choice of five persons to represent the State in Congress—the contest was unusually warm and ended in a complete triumph of the Republican cause: On closing the Poll, the votes were as follows:—
Republican Ticket,
Clement Storer, 747, Daniel M. Durell, 752, Jedediah K. Smith, 752, Francis Gardner, 752, Charles Cutts, 746,
Federal Ticket,
Nathaniel A. Haven, 295, William Hale, 295, James Wilson, 296, John C. Chamberlain, 295, Daniel Bliss, 295,
Scattering, 13.
Citizens of Portsmouth!
YOU have nobly done your duty. You have exerted yourselves in the cause of your country. You have rallied round the constituted authorities. You have bidden defiance to foreign influence. You have shown yourselves Americans! The enemy has retired discomfited from the field to lament over their fallen hopes. They had calculated that every feeling for your injured country was absorbed in your speculations of private emolument; they have deceived themselves; and will now be convinced, if any thing can convince them, that when the National HONOUR is at stake, nothing is so near the hearts of Freemen as their COUNTRY.
CORRECT LIST OF VOTES.
   Republican. Federal.     Newmarket, 143 23   Stratham, 113 27   Greenland, 105 14   Newington, 53 14  
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
By Capt. Kojkin, a passenger in the ship Washington, arrived at Boston from London, which city he left on the 12th July, we learn, that the Embargo had produced and was producing the best effects in England. Capt. H. received assurances from the best-informed merchants in the American trade, that if the Embargo continued a little longer, the most distressing effects would be produced there by it: that unless they received a supply of flax, within one month, the manufacturers of that article would be obliged to shut up their manufactories; that all kinds of American produce had risen to a most exorbitant price. If these effects have already been produced by the Embargo, surely it would be unwise to relax this defensive measure, until those orders are repeated which caused its adoption.
Capt. Hopkins is one of those unfortunate sufferers under the Orders of Council, who was obliged to land his cargo in England, part of which was not allowed to be sold there, nor exported to any other part of the world.
By this arrival we also learn, that the French were in possession of all the Portuguese ports, on the 4th of July, except Oporto.
Embargo Effects in France.—We have seen late letters from Nantz, in which the prices of American and colonial produce are stated as being much higher than ever before known in that port. This circumstance, we should suppose, would be a sufficient answer to all the federal rant about the Embargo being a measure dictated by Bonaparte. Is it probable France would have wished our government to adopt an expedient so injurious in its operation to their interest? The impartiality and wisdom of our government in adopting the Embargo, is becoming every day more evident.
A Plain Case.—Is there "such peace or suspension of hostilities between the belligerents of Europe, as would render our commerce sufficiently safe?"
Every body knows there is not; on the contrary, piracy, tumult and war seem to be increasing; and commerce is more unsafe than ever.
Wherefore then do the federalists talk of raising the embargo before Congress meet?—To create confusion and confusion here, and aid the cause and faction of Great Britain. The means are as good as the end.
Extract of a letter from an American merchant in England, to his friend in Boston, dated Plymouth, 17th June, 1808.
"Nothing new has transpired since my last, except the condemnation of more American property. The people appear to be highly dissatisfied with the war, and particularly the manufacturing towns, whose existence depends on commerce; this being cut off, the workmen have become loud in their clamors, and although their rulers attempt to disguise it as much as possible, yet many of their proceedings have called for the strong arm of power to restrain them. Some of them are now in custody, and will doubtless be hung as examples; but it is thought that this mode of procedure will serve to increase them the more. The resistance which the Spaniards are said to be making against French power, has been received here with great joy; my own opinion however is, that it is premature; for if we once consider the immense power of France, and so near to the very heart of Spain, we have reason to conclude, that it will be a useless resistance, and the occasion of spilling more human blood. The hope of Americans here is, that the Embargo may still continue, and there is no doubt but this country will find it necessary to redress our wrongs." [Chronicle.]
Subscriptions are received at this office for "THE STATESMAN;" a well conducted Republican Newspaper published in Newburyport.
THE FALL OF THE POPE.
Is a remarkable event, by which different people will be differently affected. Some will be reminded of the prediction, that a vial of wrath was to be poured on the seat or throne of the Beast, filling his kingdom with darkness, and causing his worshippers to gnaw their tongues for pain. While they contrast his former dreadful power with his present state, they will be ready to recal to mind the following description:
"They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and shall consider thee saying, is this the man that made the Earth to tremble, that did shake Kingdoms!"
This event will appear to some as a pledge of a more awful one yet to come, even the sinking of Great Babylon; like a great millstone into the Sea, never more to rise.
To others the fall of Rome will appear matter of lamentation; and they will be ready to cry, in language fore-ordained; alas, alas, that great City!—What City is like this great City!
The lovers of a splendid worldly religion, whether Popish or Protestant, must be thus affected.
We have seen the spirit of many of the latter denomination, Clergy and Laity, in their public lamentations over the fall of Popish idols in France. And we are now told in a well known Newspaper, how Protestants in England do, and ought to consider the Popish religion of Spain. That this religion and the influence of the priests should be considered as a potent instrument for recovering their pretended Liberties, that it is just to an army for this purpose, and should be encouraged, and no kind of disrespect to it suffered. Yea that the least word of the kind whether in officer or private, should be punished with instant death!—This is taking a side with vengeance—when it is made thus penal, not to say to protect, but to lip a word against Popery, it would seem high time to discard the appellation Protestant. The time is come when if a man should think himself bound not to be ashamed of Christ and his words before men, and speak accordingly, it is said he ought to be punished with instant death. What then is become of Protestantism, when the bloody retrenchment from which Protestants have suffered so much, is avowed by themselves, against one another, in favour of Popery!
The greatest caution must be used in reading the accounts from Europe. A deep game is playing. No arts are untried; no probabilities are regarded. Treaties are announced upon private wishes—Expeditions from a purpose to increase the public alarm. Victories are gained, where no armies have been marched—Wars are proclaimed for nations at peace. Indeed every artifice is used in Europe and America to distract the public opinion. [Effex Reg.]
All the reports favour the Independence of South America. It is believed that the Colonists will as firmly oppose a subjection to the English as to the French, and if they are finally reduced, it must be by the superior power of Europe, and not by their generous conduct. With the conduct of St. Domingo before their eyes, the West Indies may be soon induced to follow the example. [Ibid.]
On the 16th of Aug. was to be celebrated at Bennington, the anniversary of the Bennington battle. Elder John Leland was to deliver the oration upon the occasion. The Immortal Gen. Stark is still living at fourscore, attached to all the primitive hopes of his country, and in the vigour of his faculties. Not all the convulsions of party have ever shaken his firm patriotism. [Ibid.]
The Vermont papers complain that the licentious invectives against our government have contributed to the melancholy events which have happened in that State. That by vilifying the Administration, the worst of men have been induced openly to violate the laws, and in the face of day to commit murder upon our citizens, and upon the officers of the Government. Who sees not that by teaching children to despise their parents, their morals are prostrated? And who sees not that to insult the laws and the lawgivers is to give unbounded licence to crimes. [Ibid.]
There is one plain question which I think will go home to the opposition. When the French emperor was in quiet possession of Portugal, and under Charles the fourth, influenced the conduct of Spain, did the administration, or those who support it, manifest or express any desire to favor them by sending provisions thither, even when it was known that Lisbon and many parts of Spain were severely suffering for the necessaries of life? No! Yet what is the conduct of the opposition, now the British are concerned in the affairs of Spain and Portugal? Ah! gentlemen; your conduct contradicts all your declarations. [Washington Monitor.]
The arguments of the federalists in favor of removing the restrictions upon our trade as it respects Spain and Portugal, are flimsy indeed.—Both their kings, for they have two if they have any at all, have reneged all their possessions to Napoleon. This is nothing extraordinary, for they have been completely devoted to him for some years. It is said they have been compelled to the measure—this is probably true—but we have no official proof. Government will not act without it. Spain is also said to be filled with commotions—but Bonaparte will soon still them. It would be the height of folly to engage in a trade which could be only of a month or two's duration and must infallibly bring on a war with France. There are a hundred other reasons against the measure recommended. The administration know what method to pursue, and the clamor of Tories will be no great impediment. [National Reg.]
It is now discovered that the federalists are so fond on Washington petitions from every federal sea-port in the union! If these are despised, as they undoubtedly will and ought to be, we have heard them declare that the embargo should not any longer obstruct trade, for that Government would be defied! What say ye to this, fellow-citizens? [Ibid.]
COMMUNICATION—No. 1.
IN a government originating from a people, and their will, the people, have undoubtedly a right to complain through the medium of the press of officers, (who not being correctly known by those appointing them to power) abuse their authority, and draw the cords of their government closer than ever was contemplated by the people, securing imperceptibly the yoke of slavery on their fellow-citizens. This has been the case under similar governments, and has caused much discord, confusion and bloodshed. Whoever will turn the pages of the history on governments, undoubtedly will be convinced that among all the officers they have acknowledged, a military one, abusing his power, is the most oppressive, the most dangerous, and most to be guarded against by Freemen. The cause of those remarks is occasioned by the late overbearing wilful conduct (in the opinion of the writer) of an arbitrary militia officer, who being fond of a little brief authority, plays with his power as heedlessly as a child would with a rattle; and handles his glittering sword as roughly as a bully would a cudgel, insulting all who may come under his command—and (for the sake of gain) does not give the militia laws that liberal construction reasonably contemplated by the people; But on the contrary, giving cause for irritation—raising every difficulty, and grasping all power eagerly within his reach. The writer believes a well regulated militia to be the most natural, and best defence of a Republican form of government, and is willing to be amenable to the laws adopted for its support, when liberally put in motion and properly understood.—An upright Judge (under our mild government) would much rather err, in being too liberal than too severe in the construction of all laws within his power to execute.—Admit for a day (the time is full long) that every officer under government should put in full motion all his authority—what a boundless sea of litigation must ensue!—What a scene of confusion (considering human nature) must inevitably take place!—But although the materials of our militia laws may be good, yet, they want the hand of an able architect to give them uniformity and harmony, which is essential both to the strength and beauty of the edifice. But alas! the best concerted plans of human wisdom, soon become impotent and inefficacious, when opposed by the cravings of avarice, the insolence of power, and the audacity of ambition. A friend to equal Rights.
Published by order of the Selectmen of Andover. To the Selectmen of the town of Boston.
GENTLEMEN, We acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 10th inst. showing the proceedings of the town of Boston, relative to petitioning the President of the United States to suspend the Embargo, either in whole or in part, according to the power vested in him by the Congress of the United States, and the request of the town of Boston, that the same be laid before the inhabitants of the town of Andover, that if they see fit they may adopt similar measures.
We with pleasure, Gentlemen, should embrace this opportunity of concurring with our fellow citizens of the town of Boston, if we thought their proceedings would have a tendency to promote the welfare and happiness of the citizens of the United States. We have viewed the Embargo, and still view it, as the wisest and most prudent measure that could have been adopted by our government to save the property of our citizens from falling into the hands of foreign nations, and our country from a war. We have for years past fully confided in the wisdom and integrity of our Rulers, and have never found ourselves disappointed. Although the town of Boston have a constitutional right to petition their rulers at any time, whenever they may feel themselves aggrieved, yet we cannot but question their policy in exercising that right at this time, when our government is engaged in disputes with foreign nations, and are doing the utmost in their power to obtain the best terms for the United States. We were, in hopes that the town of Boston would have had magnanimity enough to have borne a little longer, a temporary evil for the sake of receiving a lasting good, which we believe would have been realized before this time, if our own citizens had not thrown embarrassments in the way. We feel the ill effects of the Embargo, in common with our fellow citizens, and regret the unjust, arbitrary, and oppressive Decrees of the Belligerent powers, which rendered such a measure indispensable.
As agriculturalists, we do not pretend to be thoroughly acquainted with commercial affairs, but we have collected the opinions of some of the most respectable and wealthy merchants in our county, and perhaps in the United States, and we find them ready to forego any profits, and sacrifice their property, rather than submit to the tyrannical Decrees of the contending powers; which in our opinion would be a disgrace to the American name. On the whole, we believe the town of Andover is willing to bear with fortitude, and endure with patience, the unpleasant effects of the Embargo, in full confidence that our rulers have the welfare of the country at heart, and are doing their utmost to promote the best interests of the people. We do not therefore think it our duty to call the inhabitants of the town together, unless particularly requested by our own townsmen.
With sentiments of respect, we are, Gentlemen, your humble Servants, JOSHUA CHANDLER. STEPHEN BARKER, Jr. JOHN CORNISH, JONATHAN INGALLS, Andover, August 22, 1808.
The Selectmen of the towns of Worcester, Charlestown, and Saco, have returned patriotic answers to the Selectmen of Boston, refusing to concur with them in their proceeding respecting the Embargo.
It is stated that a gang of smuggling speculators near the line between Vermont and Canada, have fired upon a public guard and killed several persons. To this they have for months, been stimulated by the Anglo-Federalists, who, by their toasts and Newspaper publications, have, in language too plain to be misunderstood, recommended not only an evasion of the Embargo, but a forcible opposition to its execution. The smugglers, who actually perpetrated the murder, are, by law, the wretches liable to be hanged for it; but who are most guilty in the sight of Heaven? They or the Federal leaders, who, for electioneering purposes, instigated them to the perpetration of the murderous deed? [Pittsfield Sun.]
The British merchant ship Minerva, Capt. Harker, of 16 guns, was seized on Wednesday last, by the Deputy Marshal, on a charge of arming in our harbour; and was last evening carried to Charlestown Navy Yard.—The Minerva arrived here a short time since from Liverpool, with Salt. [Boston paper.]
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of political intelligence in Vermont to his correspondent in this city—dated a few days ago.
"I think there is no doubt of governor Smith's re-election, together with a republican legislature; but the federalists are straining every nerve, and leave no stone unturned—There is not a single republican opposed to Madison's election." [Washington paper.]
The following gentlemen were selected for nomination to the People as Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, at the approaching Election:—viz. His Excellency
John Langdon, Samuel Bell, Amafa Allen, John Goddard, Robert Alcock, Nathaniel Shannon, William Tartton.
On Monday last departed this life, and on Tuesday was respectfully interred, Mrs. ELIZABETH LOWE, aged 40; the consort of Mr. Joseph Lowe, merchant. In this valuable woman were united all the qualities of the good wife, the affectionate mother, the kind sister, the faithful friend, and the charitable woman. It may be said of her with truth, that the heart of her husband safely trusted in her; for she did him good all the days of her life; for she looked well to the ways of her household; and eat not the bread of idleness; Her children rising up and calling her blessed; and her works praising her in the gates of the city of her people.
DIED.—In this town, Mons. LE BRUN, aged 26. A child of Mr. John Underwood.
G DAME, will commence the 2d quarter for teaching Painting and Dancing, on Monday next, September 5, at the Assembly Room, from 9 to 12 o'clock, for Painting; and 2 to 6 o'clock, for Dancing.
N. B. It would be to the advantage of the Scholars, for every one to attend on the first lesson. August 30.
S. MESSINGER,
Has just received at his Hat-Store, No. 2, Sheafe's Buildings—
A SUPPLY of Youths and Childrens drab & green fur HATS, a few Gentlemens drab do. with large brims—constantly on hand, Gentlemens fine and coarse black do.
GUNS! GUNS!
A FEW Training Pieces, for sale at JACOB WENDELL'S Store, on Church Hill, if applied for soon. August 30.
NOTICE.
THE Managers of the Portsmouth Livery Stable, have voted a second assessment of Five Dollars, on each share, and request the subscribers thereto to pay the same, on or before Saturday next.
GEORGE F. SMITH, August 30. [Treasurer.]
TO LET, A CONVENIENT two story Dwelling HOUSE, at the south part of the town, adjoining Capt. Luke M. Leighton's—Enquire of NATH'L MELCHER.
RANAWAY from the subscriber on the 10th instant, an indentured apprentice named JOHN YORK—all persons are hereby forbidden trusting him on my account, for I shall pay no debts of his contracting. TIMOTHY GRIDLEY. Exeter, August 23th, 1808.
THE Subscribers being appointed by the Hon. Judge of Probate of Wills, &c, for the county of York, commissioners, to receive, examine and adjust all the claims of the creditors to the estate of SIMON FOSTER, late of Kittery, in said county, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent; do hereby give notice that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their respective claims, at the dwelling-house of Capt. ENOCH H. LEWIS, in said Kittery, on the first Monday in September next, and the five following months, from three to six o'clock, P. M. on each of said days.
JOHN DENNET, MARK FERNALD, } Commissioners. Kittery, August 26, 1808.
State of New-Hampshire, Strafford ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietor and owner of land in the town of WOLFborough, in said county of Strafford, who has not paid her town, minister, school, State and county taxes for the year 1806, that unless she pays the same to me the subscriber on or before the first day of November next, so much of her land as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of Capt. John Haines, in said Wolfborough, inn-holder, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, on said first day of November next, unless prevented by previous payment.
Owners Name. County & State. Widow Mary Nudd, 46 21 48 46 29 8 WILLIAM NUDD, Collector. Wolfborough, August 24, 1808.

POLITICAL.
For the N. H. GAZETTE.
Messrs. Printers,
In perusing a late anonymous federal publication, and passing over the former part, which is equivocal and preposterous, I find the writer in the latter, with regard to England enquires—Are her manufacturers sedulous? Is her government terrified? Does it relent, and relax its orders?—To which I answer; her manufacturers are out of employ, and clamorous against the Government for not relinquishing those orders of council; besides, look at the remonstrances of the great commercial cities and towns to Government to restore peace and harmony between them and the United States. To the second enquiry, "Is her government terrified?" If it is not, it ought to be. To the third the answer is plain, which any school boy in the United States might make, viz. The Tories, federalists, in a word the British faction in the U. S. encourage them to adhere to those orders of council, vainly supposing, that the U. S. will finally be tired out and relinquish the Embargo; in which they will find their mistake—and for one I humbly pray to Almighty God, that the Embargo may last till the high seas shall become as free a road for all nations, as it is on the land from hence to Washington and elsewhere;—In my turn I would ask a few questions; Who were our friends in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain?—The Tories? no, the French. Who were the enemies of our liberties?—The Tories, and British faction. Who assisted in capturing Cornwallis and his army? the Tories? no, the French. Who have been our enemies ever since the peace? The Tories, British, and their faction in the U. States. In the revolutionary war we had the British forces in front, and the Tories in the rear; notwithstanding, through the goodness of our God, who was the same God of our forefathers, we prevailed and established our independence. I perfectly remember the British Stamp Act, in which the seeds of the Revolution were sown, and the Stamp masters were obliged to give up their stamps, and I saw Lords Bute and Granville with others hung in effigy, and afterwards burnt, by a people determined never to submit to their arbitrary requisitions. The Provinces then came into a non-importation agreement from North to South, which caused that Government to repeal said acts, except the duties on tea, paints, and glass, which one of the Lords said in Parliament, they should retain to maintain their right to tax America; for which purpose the tea was sent to Boston to begin the quarrel. Many have risen up since those times who pretend to tell us fine things, who know nothing of those days that tried our souls. I have gone through the whole scene, have had all the Tories in Portsmouth under guard in the war, and one of them a worthy gentleman who absconded, returned after the peace, and thanked me as one of the guard for saving his life from the violence of the enraged populace when we as a guard received them at the bridge, and on the parade: not one of those persons can charge me with any incivility; for I esteem it to be the highest mark of cowardice to treat a prisoner ill when you have him in your power;—I am determined not to give up yet without making another trial if called therefor; and was it possible for the matter to be settled by a single combat, were my antagonist a son of Anak, or as tall as Goliath of Gath, I would with my sling and stone, trusting in the God of armies in so good a cause, bring the Philistine to the ground, and sever his head from the trunk, and proclaim victory to my fellow-citizens.
I had like to have passed over one observation of the writer, "Nobody inquires what effect it has produced on France." I answer in my Yankee way; Who ever heard a Tory or Federalist complain of their friends the British for murdering our fellow citizens in the Jersey prison ship, on board the Chesapeake, &c. &c. &c. Nay, I heard one of them say this day that he wished the President had been on board the Chesapeake—and it is my firm opinion, that the most of those characters would have been glad if the ship had been sunk with all on board; nay more, that all the influential Republicans in the United States had gone down with them—then they would have had fine times indeed; they would soon have incorporated Church and State together, Lords Spiritual, Lords Temporal, with all their Romish retinue, Right Rev'd Father in God, &c. &c. &c. Aristocracy would have lifted her head very high! In the Revolutionary war I calculated to have every seaport town burned, as was Portland, New-London, Fairfield, Eufopos, &c. &c. &c. and had it not been for the timely assistance of the French, no doubt that would have been the case—the British government began to think, if we carry on this mode of warfare, the French being in alliance with America will take it in their heads to flip over and burn our cities and towns. And after Portland, Portsmouth was to have shared the same fate, and had it not been for the timely exertions that were then made under the direction of Gen. SULLIVAN, no doubt we should have shared the same fate. These things are recent in my mind, as no doubt they are in the minds of others. I was never afraid to speak my sentiments to Tories or any others, as those that are acquainted with me perfectly know.
Fellow-Citizens be not deceived by any federal anonymous publications; they are only calculated to bewilder your minds, and to divide you in your decisions in elections. Were those writers obliged to annex their names to their publications, be assured, they would be very scarce—be steady and determined. I must here mention what Gov. SAMUEL ADAMS said to me at an interview at his house a short time before his death; his words were these—"My dear child the God of heaven protected our forefathers when they first came to this country, has been with us and carried us through an unjust and cruel war, and established us in our blood-bought rights and independence, and will never give up New-England and North America, if we follow those things which are virtuous and praiseworthy." Let us endeavor to pursue such a course, and no enemy on earth can wrest our privileges from us. If any one should think proper to make observations on what I have written; and will give me his name, he shall be attended to; if without, no attention will be paid. Why do you not, ye libelous federal scribblers come out boldly and sign your names to your productions, and not be ever crouking at the President and the measures of Government, thereby
resembling the assassin who slabs in the dark. I am determined never to accede to aristocratical sentiments, or any deviation from a Republican form of Government till death shall put a period to my existence—and to adopt the words of Cato, "Millions of worlds should never buy me to be like that Cæsar." Fellow-Citizens look back a few years, under the Adams Administration; you were then loaded with a sedition Law, and how violently was it carried into effect; an Alien Bill, a Land and House Tax, and a number of midnight useless Judges. Our present Government have relieved us from all those burdens; and shall we desire a change? God forbid! If we should have another Tory administration, depend upon it we should be ruled with a rod of iron.—therefore Fellow Citizens look well to the right, and be tenacious of your privileges; remember the persecution practiced by Federalists towards Democratic Republicans, during the years 1798, 1799, &c. &c.—and should the enemies of liberty at the approaching Presidential Election again get the ascendancy over us, may we not expect to have the chains of slavery riveted around our necks?
An old Whig of seventy-five, who lives in Buck-street Portsmouth; and is ready to give an answer to any man who may desire to know the reason of his belief in the foregoing observations.
SAMUEL DROWNE.
Portsmouth, August 25, 1808.
WM. JONES, JR.
Will receive in a few days, the following Goods, which will be sold at a small advance for Cash—or short credit—viz.
BLACK Florence Lustring; blk. Crapes; green and white Sarf-nets; color'd & black Lustring Ribbons; Sattin open work and plain Straco Bonnets; a few elegant broad Gargiture Ribbons; black & color'd Spanish Sewing Silks; variety spotted Leno and Jacquet Muffins; glaz'd and unglaz'd Cambrick; cotton Umbrillas; color'd Threads and Cotton Balls; British Shirting Cotton; common dark Callico, &c. &c.
INDIA GOODS.
Bandannoe and Flag Handkfs.; fine Sheetings Baftas; Mon Sannas; Garrahs; Mammodies and Cassas; large supply low pric'd Coating; blue Nankins, &c. &c. August 23.
Now Landing, and for Sale by Isaac Waldron, jun.
400 Barrels Fresh Baltimore Superfine FLOUR: of a superior quality. August 9.
AUCTION.
To be Sold at Public Auction on Thursday the 8th day of September next, at 3 o'clock, P. M. at the Universalists Old meeting house, on Vaughan-street—the following PEWS in said house for the taxes due therefor, for the years 1806 and 1807—unless prevented by previous payment of said taxes and charges—viz
   For 1806. D. C. For 1807. D. C.     No. 1. 8 36 No. 1. 10 60   No. 8. 7 59 No. 8. 12 65   No. 11. 7 59 No. 11. 11 65   No. 13. 6 66 No. 13. 11 10   No. 29. 4 47 No. 29. 7 45   No. 39. 6 90  
NATH'L MELCHER, jun. Collector. Portsmouth, August 23, 1808.
A Stable Wanted.
ANY Person wishing to contract for a STABLE, to be completed immediately, of the following dimensions, viz.—50 feet long, 34 wide, and 18 feet post—will please to apply for further particulars to the Printers hereof. August 23.
NOTICE is hereby given,
That the subscriber, administratrix (with the will annexed) of JOHN WENDELL , Esq. late of Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham, deceased, has taken upon herself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs. All persons having any demands against said estate, are requested to bring in their claims for adjustment; and all persons indebted to said estate are desired to make immediate payment to
DOROTHY WENDELL.
Portsmouth, August 23, 1808.
THE subscriber being appointed by the Hon. Judge of Probate, for the County of York, administrator to the estate of EZEKIEL ALLEN , late of Kittery, deceased, and having taken upon himself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs, hereby calls on all persons indebted to said estate to make immediate payment; and those who have any demands against said Estate are requested to present them for settlement.
DANIEL GOODWIN.
Kittery, August 17, 1808.
TAKE NOTICE.
All persons holding Subscriptions for "the Religious News-Paper " are requested to return them to ELIAS SMITH , Portsmouth, by Mail or some other way, by the first of September next, as the first number will be published at that time. August 9th, 1808.
WHEREAS MARY my wife has absconded from my bed and board, this is therefore to forbid all persons from harboring or trusting said Mary and Children on my account, as I am determined not to pay any debts of their contracting after this date. MICHAEL CHASE. Straubam, August 22, 1808.
The Indian Doctor informs his friends and customers that he has removed his lodgings to Mr. King's on Church Hill. Portsmouth, August 2.
Clarionetts, Drums and Fifes , for sale at C. PEIRCE's Bookstore. Warranted undrawn Tickets in
Dixville Road Lottery , (now drawing in Boston,) for Sale by JOSEPH CLARK, Jun.
William Garland,
No. 8, Merchants' Row—Has for Sale—350 Bbls. best FLOUR, received by the Washington from Baltimore; 20 chests Hyson, Hyson-skin, Souchong and Bohea TEA. August 16.
BANK BILLS.
A LARGE Sheet, containing a description of Counterfeit Bank Bills, for sale at C. PEIRCE's Bookstore—price 20 cts.
MEDICAL.
THE Members of the Eastern District N. H. Medical Society, are hereby informed that their meeting will be held at the house of NATH'L POOR, Esq. in Exeter, on Wednesday the 7th of September ensuing, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
JOSHUA BRACKETT, Notary. August 16.
FOR SALE,
A n elegant ten day CLOCK, warranted, with a mahogany case, at a handsome discount for Cash—enquire of the Printers. August 16.
Improved Patent Illuminators
Or Sky Lights for Shipping.
G IVING a more general light than the common Sky Light, with one fourth part of the expense—They are neither liable to leak, break, or to be injured by the common traffic of the deck, nor are they any incumbrance on the deck, and may be placed in any part of the ship where light is wanting, either in the deck or sides; and are equally applicable to the State Room, Steerage, Forecastle, or Cabin. For Houses, they are equally useful, furnishing light at one half the expense of the common Sky Light, and in no danger from hailstones or falling rubbish. The utility and saving in this, must be obvious to every person acquainted with shipping.
The above are for sale by
Thomas W. Penhallow Market-Street,—who Keeps constantly on hand an extensive variety of Cutlery, Ironmongery and Hardware Goods. August 2, 1808.
CUT NAILS,
Of the Malden Factory of a very good quality—are sold by
P. P. F. Degrand,
No. 9, D. Spear's wharf, Boston, at the following reduced prices; and a discount of five per cent will be made upon any amount above fifty dollars: 8d, 10d, 12d, and 20d—9 1 2 cents per lb. 6d,—10 cents, 4d—10 1 2—For Cash, foreign money. Boston, July 27, 1808.
Barrett & Shattuck,
No. 51, Hanover-street, Boston
CONTINUE to dye & finish of Warrented Colours. Broad-Cloth, Cashmere, Sattin, Lustring, Crape, Shag, Plush, silk & cotton Velvets, Worsted-Cords, Camel's hair Shawls—Also, Ladies Sattin, Lustring, Cambric, Calico & Muffin Gowns, Hosiery & Gloves, Lace Veils, Gentlemen's Coats, Pantaloon and Vests, cleaned and dyed at short notice and small expense.—Goods received at the store of NATHAN B. Folsom, Portsmouth, forwarded and returned to the same place without additional expense.
N.B. Persons sending Cloths or Garments of any kind are desired to have them accompanied with a pattern of the colour they with them made, (as in many colours there are a variety of shades) also to enclose them in paper describing on the outside the contents, colour to be made, and owner's name. Portsmouth, August 1, 1808. (6m.)
THE Subscribers being ap-
pointed by the Hon. Stephen Thatcher, Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of York, commissioners, to receive, examine and adjust all the claims of the creditors to the estate of SAMUEL WILLSON , late of Kittery, in said county, yeoman, deceased, represented insolvent; do hereby give notice that six months are allowed to said creditors to bring in and prove their respective claims, and that we shall attend that service at the dwelling-house of Theodore Parker, in said Kittery, on the last Monday in August instant, and the five following months, from three to six o'clock, P. M. on each of said days.
W. T. GERRISH, JOSIAH GUNNISON, } Commissioners. Kittery, August 1, 1808.
WHEREAS my wife SAL-
LY, has behaved herself in a very unbecoming manner; therefore this is to forbid all and every person, from harboring or trusting the wench on my account after this date.
DAVID H. PROUT. Mark.
Portsmouth, August 11, 1808.
TEN Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS JOSIAH G. FOLSOM, jun'r of Portsmouth, did on Friday morning last, borrow of the subscriber, a black MARE, for the purpose, as he said, of going about four miles, and has not since returned, but in all probability has ran off. Said Folsom is about 20 years of age, had on a blue nankin round jacket, buff colored pantaloon, light waistcoat and no stockings—the fellow is hard of hearing.—Whoever will return said Folsom, shall receive the above reward by applying to NATHANIEL GOSS of Greenland. August 1, 1808.
ONE CENT REWARD.
UNAWAY from the Subscriber on Wednesday the 10th inst an indentured apprentice BOY, named NATHANIEL MARSTON, being about 17 years of age, about 5 1/2 feet high and of a light complexion—whoever will return said Runaway, shall receive one cent reward and no charges paid; all persons are cautioned against harbouring, trusting or employing him as they would avoid the penalty of the law. JOHN WEEKS. Greenland, August 15, 1808.
The person who took from the N. H. Gazette Office the volume of Gazettes for 1795, is requested to return the same immediately to said office.
RENDEZVOUS.
A N OFFICE for the purpose of recruiting for the Army of the United States—is opened at the Brick store owned by Daniel Autlin, Esq. near the Spring Market—
Able bodied citizens, under the age of thirty-five years, who feel disposed to enlist in the service of their country, are now afforded an opportunity, and may receive twelve Dollars bounty, by applying to G o W. PRESCOTT, Capt. 4th Regiment Infantry. Portsmouth, N. H. July 1808.
Spring and Summer GOODS.
James Rundlet
INFORMS his customers and the publick that he has just received a fresh supply of
GOODS;
which added to his stock on hand make a very general assortment of English, French & India GOODS, which will be sold at a small advance by Wholesale or Retail. May 24.
NEW GOODS.
Oliver Briard
Has just received a great variety of
Spring and Summer GOODS,
COMPRISING almost every article usually enumerated in the most lengthy Piece Goods advertisement, which are offered for sale at a small advance for cash, or approved credit, at Store No 2, Market-street, near the Parade.
N.B. All persons to whom he is indebted are requested to render their demands for settlement; and all those who are indebted to him, whose term of credit has expired, are requested to make payment. Portsmouth, May 17, 1808. [9m.]
Nathan B. Folsom,
HAS this day received a large supply of Cotton Yarn, Bed Ticks, &c. which are ready for sale Wholesale and Retail at the Manufactory prices. August 2, 1808.
Bone middlings PORK, Boston Inspection—FOR SALE BY AUG. 9. JOHN C. HART.
Just received and for sale at
NEIL MCINTIRE'S Store,
SOME of the old fashion best sweet scented leaf TOBACCO, and fig Tobacco,—also, Pigtail made from sweet scented Leaf, and ladies fine twill, to be sold at embargo prices. Also, TO LET.
Two brick Dwelling Houses, and two brick Stores at embargo prices, one opposite Market-street, the other opposite Cross-street, and one of the pleasantest situations in Portsmouth, being very handy to the flesh and fish market. August 9, 1808.
DETROIT BANK BILLS
TAKEN for Boots, Shoes, English Goods or Hats. Those bills that are guaranteed, at par—the other kind at 12 1/2 per cent discount—at PELATIAH REA's shoe store No. 2, old State House, Boston, for a few months. August 1, 1808.
TO LET,
ONE lower room, chamber, and shop, in Buck-street,—Enquire of the Printers. August 2.
EMBARGO LAWS.
Just published in a pamphlet, price 12 1/2 cents, and for sale at the Bookstore of THOMAS & TAPPAN,
THE Original and Supplementary EMBARGO LAWS:—passed the 10th Congress of the U. States.
WANTED immediately, in a small family, a girl from 15 to 20 years of age, as an assistant with another maid, to do the necessary work of said family;—none need apply, unless they can bring good recommendations; apply to the Printers. August 9, 1808.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having demands against the estate of BENJAMIN SWETT, late of Portsmouth, merchant, deceased, are requested to present them for adjustment, and all indebted to said estate are desired to make immediate payment to JOSEPH ELA, August 9, 1808. Administrator.
NOTICE
is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administratrix to the estate of ELISHA LOW, late of Portsmouth, in the county of Rockingham, mariner, deceased, and has taken upon herself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs; therefore all persons having demands upon the estate of the said deceased, are requested to exhibit the same, and all persons indebted to said estate are hereby called upon to make payment to me the subscriber. ELIZABETH LOW, Administratrix. Portsmouth, August 8, 1808.
ALL persons indebted to, or that have any demands against the estate of EBENEZER FERNALD, late of Kittery, Shipwright, deceased, are hereby requested to call on the subscriber for immediate settlement. DAVID FERNALD, Executor. Kittery, August 8, 1808.
COTTON YARN, and other American Manufactured COTTON GOODS.
TIMOTHY UPHAM,
Has just received a large consignment, and in future will keep constantly for sale a complete assortment of American Manufactured Cotton Goods, which he is enabled to sell at the lowest prices by wholesale or retail; being appointed an agent for one of the largest Manufactories in the United States,—viz.
COTTON Twist and Yarn, of all the various kinds; best American Bed-Ticking (warranted fast colours;) Cotton Shirting & Sheetings; Stripes; Checks, &c. of a very superior quality. On hand as usual,
A very extensive assortment of European and India Goods.
Also, just received by the Ferdinand from Charleston, S. C. a few Bales of COTTON of a superior quality.
Orders from his friends and customers in the Country will be carefully attended to. June 14.
Room Papers & Borderings.
A LARGE assortment of ROOM PAPERS and BORDERINGS, just received and for sale at C. PEIRCE's Bookstore, CHEAP FOR CASH. June 28.
A Boy!!
WANTED as an Apprentice to the Printing business, a smart, active LAD,—Enquire at the Gazette Office. August, 1808.
FOR SALE,
A HANDSOME new CHAISE and HARNESS; Also, two second hand do.; for cash or lumber—Apply to FRANCIS W. HARDY.
New Spring and Summer GOODS.
Just received and now opened at DRAPER'S
CHEAP CASH STORE, a very extensive variety of the most fashionable, Fancy, and Staple, PIECE GOODS,
adapted to the present & approaching season.
AMONG WHICH ARE, LADIES elegant Mantles and Shawls; 64 damask Shawls; blk. lace Net, for shades; black lace Veiling; elegant white lace Veiling; Spider-net; fine leno and spider-net Mullins; linen Cambricks; fancy Mullins; 4-4 and 6-4 cambrick ditto; 4-4 and 6-4 plain and figur'd book & jacquet ditto. Variety of fashionable
Plaid Lutestrings; shaded tafetta and grumette broad Ribbons; Sattin Gormtune and figured tafetta do. do.; elegant patch Furnitures; low pric'd Copperplates. A great variety of Pink & dark plaid Ginghams; 7-8 and 4-4 London Chintzes, light colours with small figures; white thread and cotton Laces & Edgings; common and cambrick Dimities; blk. Laces. A great variety of
Parafoils, with walking canes; Leghorn straw Flats; cane and willow ditto; chip Flats; straw Bonnets and Hats; figur'd Sattins, suitable for Bonnets; pink, buff, green, blue, and white Sarf-nets; fine white linen and cotton Pocket Handkerchiefs; fancy silk Handkfs.; 6-4 twill'd cotton Shawls; 6-4 lace cambrick and muslin Shawls; pink, blue, buff, salmon, purple and slate Cambricks; 7-8, 4-4 and 6-4 black Cambricks, of a good quality; India blk. Lutestrings; Florence do.; 6-4 twill'd Cambrick; blk. Modes and Crapes; black and green pelong Sattins; Italian Silks; Imperial straw Trimmings; gown Patterns; black and colour'd silk Velvets; black tabby do.; Ladies and gentlemen's silk and cotton Hosiery; Gentlemen's fashionable Marfilles Quiltings; Ladies lace and pic nic Gloves and Mitts; English and French silk Gloves, all colours; silk and kid habit Gloves; men's beaver do.; silk chambray Mullins; black silk Florentine, very nice. Variety of Coquelico; dark, blue, and other fashionable Calicoes; trunk low priced Calicoes; English Diapers; diaper table Cloths; Irish Linens; British shirting Cottons. An assortment of Fans from 3 cents, to 1,75; Tortoise-shell and common hair Combs; plain blk. Lutestring Ribbons, a scarce article; Gold ear Hoops; gown Trimmings; silk Cords; Ladies kid Shoes, cheap; Grandurills; English yellow Nankins; Nankinets; Italian black and colored sewing Silks; silk Umbrellas; cotton ditto; 4-4, 5-4 and 6-4 Oil Cloths; Bandanna and Madras Handkfs.; superfine Broad Cloths and Cashmeres. Variety of Kidderminster Carpetings, of the newest patterns; Gentlemen's super Hats; low priced do. from 1 to 4 dollars; Velvets and Velveteens; silvered Cords; gentlemen's Leghorn and willow Hats; Suspenders; blue and yellow Nankins, superior quality; Madras Stripes; Custahs; blue India Cottons; cotton Checks; fine Shirting, and low priced India Cottons, &c. &c. &c. May 17, 1808.