The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1808-08-16 00:00:00

Hon. Sara Bartlett. Esq.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE
[No. 37.—VOL. LIII.]
TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1808.
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PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY PIERCE & GARDNER, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Laws of the U. States.
[PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.]
AN ACT
Concerning Public Contracts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, no member of Congress shall, directly or indirectly, himself, or by any other person whatsoever, in trust for him, or for his use or benefit, or on his account, undertake, execute, hold or enjoy, in the whole or in part any contract or agreement hereafter to be made or entered into with any officer of the United States, in their behalf, or with any person authorized to make contracts on the part of the United States; and if any member of Congress shall, directly or indirectly, himself or by any other person whatsoever, in trust for him, or for his use or benefit, or on his account, enter into, accept, or, agree for, undertake or execute any such contract or agreement, in the whole, or in part, every member so offending, shall, for every such offence, upon conviction thereof, before any court of the United States, or of the territories thereof having cognizance of such offence, be adjudged guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined three thousand dollars; and every such contract or agreement as aforesaid, shall moreover be absolutely void and of no effect: Provided nevertheless, That in all cases where any sum or sums of money shall have been advanced on the part of the United States, in consideration of any such contract or agreement, the same shall be forthwith repaid; and in case of refusal or delay to repay the same, when demanded, by the proper officer of the department under whose authority such contract or agreement shall have been made or entered into, every person so refusing or delaying together with his surety or sureties, shall be forthwith prosecuted at law for the recovery of any such sum or sums of money advanced as aforesaid.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend to any contract or agreement, made or entered into, or accepted, by any incorporated company, where such contract or agreement shall be made for the general benefit of such incorporation or company; nor to the purchase or sale of bills of exchange or other property by any member of Congress, where the same shall be ready for delivery, and for which payment shall be made at the time of making or entering into the contract or agreement.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in every such contract or agreement to be made or entered into, or accepted as aforesaid, there shall be inserted an express condition, that no member of Congress shall be admitted to any share or part of such contract or agreement, or to any benefit to arise thereupon.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any officer of the United States on behalf of the United States shall directly or indirectly make or enter into any contract, bargain, or agreement, in writing or otherwise, other than such as are herein excepted, with any member of Congress, such officers so offending, on conviction thereof before any court having jurisdiction thereof, shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and be fined in a sum of three thousand dollars.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this act it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Navy, and the post-master-general annually to lay before Congress a statement of all the contracts which have been made in their respective departments during the year preceding such report exhibiting in such statement the name of the contractor, the article or thing contracted for, the place where the article was to be delivered, or the thing performed, the sum to be paid for its performance or delivery, the date and duration of the contract.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate pro tempore. April 21, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
POLITICAL.
From the National Intelligencer. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.—LETTER II.
It will be frankly admitted that the object of the former number of this paper was to render manifest some of the earliest and greatest of those aggressions on the rights and trade of neutrals, and those infractions of the usages of war among civilized nations, whereby it is believed that England has brought the world to its present extreme condition of passion and violence. We shall now pursue the subject.
It is many years, more than ten, since England, through her late admiral, Sir Horatio Nelson, announced to Spain, that for the mere cause of her having made war with England, "it was found right that Spain should no longer have any trade." If Spain now, in concert with France, retaliates that excessive idea, it was England that set her the unfortunate and unwarrantable example, of an unheard of infraction of neutral rights. In the first case, England noticed the neutrals, that they were to conform to this determination. She cannot deny, that such conduct in Spain now, is a simple and undeniable retaliation on her, and a use of neutrals, like to her own use of them. All this was done as punishment to Spain for joining France, and of course gave France a right to consider the irregularity of England towards her allies and towards the neutrals, as matters for which she might take revenge, or such remedy, for which she might retaliate. Thus neutrals were either drawn too close to France and Spain, if they were kind and just, or were subjected to like evils from them, in consequence of these British irregularities and violence.
Britain with Spain early in 1793, before her June orders, openly threatened Tuscany and Genoa with violence, and declared the neutral conduct of Tuscany inadmissible, and forced her to abandon her neutrality. At Copenhagen also in 1807, they declared, that the Danes could not be neutral, and forced them out of their neutrality. The British ministry, through their ambassador to Tuscany, declared in a public letter, that to be neutral in the war against France, was to be "an accomplice" with her, treating neutrality as guilt. If France has been guilty of similar declarations since those acts, has not England by those prior pernicious acts, of fatal example, brought on this excessive conduct of France? England & Prussia drove the French ministers and agents from neutral Hamburg, in 1793, and England and Spain drove the French minister from neutral Florence, in the same year. The same attempt was made in 1793 on Denmark. Thus England used and abused neutrals against France. This was a prelude and provocation to many of those acts, of which England, culpable as we prove her, now complains against the French government. If they now commit such outrages of neutral rights, England, by her pernicious and early examples, has excited France to these things. Towards England they are mere retaliations. We speak known-recorded historical truths. We commend not England or France, but we shew—we prove that England really and long ago began the perversion and injuries of neutrals on shore—on many shores, as well as at sea. She had then no plea of necessity, for she was at first at peace, and afterwards supported in the war by the vast forces of Russia, Sweden, Austria, Prussia, Spain and Holland, against France alone.
Britain has subjugated all India, monopolized its trade, and excluded from it French produce, manufactures, ships and men. And India, as acquired by England, has more millions of men and once had more sovereign princes, than Europe, as acquired or even influenced by France. England holds in chains the commerce of all India. If France does the same by Europe, who set the avaricious, despotic and pernicious example? It would be the extreme of error for G. Britain to think that she is not observed and well understood. It is time to proclaim these things from our house tops, in all our sea-ports, and from our hills and mountains. Let our firm and faithful voices pro-
claim our sufferings from the continental powers of Europe, to be as they really are, from the retaliation of the illegitimate measures of G. Britain. Chapter and verse, day and hour, can be quoted in proof of these early, frequent and continued English provocations of the belligerents, these English aggressions upon neutrals, these English causes of the evils of our country. A conjoint system of foreign 'Orders of council' and 'Imperial Decrees' have cut off our supplies, shut in our crops and forced us into an embargo. For these orders of council, England has no legitimate plea or excuse, and France has no apology but in the prior conduct of England. Thus England is not only deeply mischievous to us herself, but is the real cause of extreme mischiefs to us from others—from all the rest of the civilized world.
To what it may be asked does all this argument tend? To establish truth, we answer, and promote a just estimate of the times: extraordinary times—such as we have never seen before. Shall we draw the sword in the murderous business of original aggression and thus make ourselves accessories after the fact, to the crimes of Britain? Or shall we draw the sword in the wasteful, bloody, impassioned business of a wild retaliation? Let us not swell the rivers of tears, which already flow from miserable man. Let us not enlarge the ocean of blood, which our mangled fellow creatures have already poured upon the reeking earth. Let us not scatter the treasures, saved from the labors of an honest people, wantonly on the ground. Let us rather use a part of the vast sums, which modern armies and navies consume in creating all we want—a great home market for our abundant produce. Let us raise our own Manchester and Sheffield, our own Birmingham and Leeds, our own Norwich and Drogheda. Let household manufactures be the universal care. These are our Lares. Americans look for serious trials, which manufactures in your own families can render supportable; or which these neglected, will pinch you with discomfort and necessity. Look for those outrageous and wicked obstructions, which meet your crops on the free ocean in their way to foreign markets—an evil which nothing can so well annihilate, as the demand of your own anvils and looms, your own carding and spinning machinery, your own processes and your own dexterities in aid or in execution of the useful arts. We do not persuade you to manufacture; we announce to you, that you must manufacture, that you will manufacture. We announce to you, that already you do manufacture. Do you want a just, an innocent, a noble, a complete satisfaction from Britain for all her own aggressions, and all the evils of the retaliations she has provoked? Do you want to free her in millions for her actually producing the embargo? Do you want to bring her to condign punishment for the injuries of forty years long, with which she has grieved you? Then let one set of Americans seize her carding machinery, another her spinning mills, a third her breweries, a fourth her grain and molasses distilleries, a fifth her stocking frames, a sixth her cloth looms, a seventh her hammers, an eighth her anvils, a ninth her rollers, and so with the other branches, till you make all her useful arts, trades and manufactures completely your own, and establish markets for your own produce. This will be death to her naval and commercial usurpations, and life to you. It will lay the sure foundation of her future moderation and of your future independence. All other remedies are demoralizing—bloody—and ruinous in expense. This will feed and clothe instead of murdering man. It will enrich your country, instead of wasting it by foreign plunder and domestic war. It will make the best of our situation and place you in a condition far beyond that of your fellow men. It is impossible to foretell to what height the manufacturing system of a country, forced as ours now is by foreign obstructions to the sales of our produce, may rise. It is impossible to say to what height manufactures, unimpeded by excises, may ascend, how wide they may spread, how deep they may take root. Look at a fact. In the centre of Pennsylvania, a single county, more than 120 miles from Philadelphia, Baltimore and Pittsburg,
has received and sold in six months from the latter place 20,000 pounds weight of cotton wool raised on the Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi. Of this cotton there are eighty millions of pounds weight raised within our country, courting the hand of the maiden and the arm of the manufacturer. The market for produce, afforded by our manufactures, is much more sure than that afforded by our commerce. Foreign plunder, foreign despotism cannot touch our manufactures. Nothing scarcely can protect our commerce from spoliation and violation. To protect manufactures you only require to maintain the blessings of law and order. To protect commerce, you must make and maintain such an immense millstone, as the British government have flung, under the form of a navy, around the necks of their people. Honor, profit, public spirit, a manly remedy of injuries—all these require that Great Britain shall from this day be most impressively admonished, that if we do not plough and trade, we will—we must plough and manufacture.
JURISCOLA.
Light dawning in the South!
This glorious news, first told in the northern papers is now running southward, and when it shall arrive in the Carolinas and Georgia, the people will wonder what the same light can be, and how the people in the north should first discover a light at the southward; but, gentle reader, these lights are first seen at a great distance, and not seen at all when one is at the very place where they are said to be the brightest. They are election lights of which our hemisphere will be full till after the Presidential election. Then those federalists who have seen great lights in many directions, will see no light at all for four years.
Light dawning in the south! This light is neither more nor less than a spunky memorial, drawn up in North Carolina, charging all our present calamities on the wickedness and incapacity of our own rulers! This memorial must have been drawn up by some living federalist, some mortal man, who knows more than our President and congress, and who ought to be instantly sent for, and invested with all the powers of government. It is useless to pay a President, Vice President, Senators, Members and Secretaries, when a single man can do the whole business for nothing. Such men never eat food; they live on ether: this gives such wonderful elasticity to their brains, and such spunk to their memorials.
Light dawning in the south! We at the northward after learning that this light proceeds from one man, ought to form some conjecture about the dimensions of a man, who knows so much; for his body must bear some proportion to the faculties, which are to be dragged about in it. He must be at least a thousand years old, and have been growing ever since he was an infant: he must be taller and thicker than any of the sons of men; probably far beyond the dimensions of the man, who drew up some spunky resolutions, lately submitted to the Boston legislature.
We never need despair of the republic, while men are rising up, from day to day in our country, who know so much more than all the constituted authorities, as even to deserve federal encomium, for abusing them in face of the world, in a day of peril, when our enemies are looking for divisions among us.
Go on, federal editors, comfort yourselves with lights at the southward, and lights at the northward, amuse yourselves with the dancing vapors, which your own useful labors have produced, and make much of the present moment, for lo! these federal lights will soon be extinguished and the odour of their snuffs will be in your nostrils during the days of darkness, which will be many.
American Mercury.
Great Dinner in honor of Mr. TIMOTHY PICKERING.
When the great man returned to Salem, a great dinner was made to welcome the return of a patriot, who had, in these times of danger, charged our President as a conspirator against his country, and the Congress as his blind dupes, and confederates, and had publicly supported the British, in opposition to his own government.
This surely must be a federal patriot, and deserved a federal dinner.
If five Senators cannot rule our Senate, any one of the five has a federal right to charge all manner of crimes on the constituted authorities, and to have a public dinner for it.
It seems not enough to torture all sorts of animals and vegetables in order to make a feast for such a great patriot, but our language must be tortured and thrown into all manner of combustion, in order to give an account of it, so that the patriot's ear may be as much tickled as his palate has been.
The editor of the Salem Gazette introduces his patriot, as an old and venerable patriot, whose steady Roman virtue had provoked the malignance of a host of enemies. We never heard that Roman virtue ever grew together an assembly of Roman patriots, to abuse their native country, and to blast the Roman name, but such Roman things will happen in these days of federal patriotism.
Two gentlemen were deputed to proceed in a carriage to Col. Pickering's seat in Weymouth. Roman virtue always delighted in carriages and country seats! Cincinnatus had a country seat in the midst of his potato ground!
One hundred and twenty young gentlemen on horseback, under direction of marshals, and accompanied by a number of carriages, met the col. near Weymouth line, and escorted him in a brilliant style, into Salem. The houses and streets were crowded with grateful spectators! The vessels in Beverly harbour displayed their flags, and as his carriage arrived at the draw of Salem-bridge a salute was fired! Here was a brilliant and banging display of Roman virtue, in honor of a patriot, who recently tried to ruin his country.
The cavalcade, passing on through thousands of spectators, exhibited many Roman virtues at general Derby's, who, according to the account, has a delightful mansion, but whether of stone, brick or wood, we are not informed. In their important displays of patriotism, the utmost minuteness of description is difficult. A translation from a country seat to a dwelling house in Salem, would have sunk all the figures of speech: the Colonel was introduced into a mansion, not inhabited by such tenants of flesh and blood as the common people are, but by the left blood of the nation. Roman virtue always loomed things of low degree.
After some time spent in mutual congratulations, as honorable to our country, as might be expected from such patriots, they proceeded to Concert-hall, where a most elegant and sumptuous dinner was prepared, in a superior style. Here the illustrious Roman was feasted, here he was surrounded: the old men had lived to the time only to attend, and the young men had hastened their youth, so as to be admitted to see, and be seen by Col. Pickering, who had immortalized himself by writing a letter, charging all the administrators of our government with treachery.
Among the guests were other men of Roman virtue, the honorable Mr. Quincy, several honorable Senators of Essex, the reverend Clergy, the honorable Mr. Goodhue, the honorable Mr. Derby, the hon. Mr. Pickman, the hon. Mr. Prescott—all honorable men.
Fancy was amused in the tasteful arrangement of the tables, and the appetite was gratified with the choicest viands. It is astonishing that honorable federalists can eat nothing but viands on such great days, beef, pork and vegetables would choke a patriot! So they eat viands, and they drank nectar, and the editor says, that "the sentiments, which animated the company, are expressed in the toasts which were given."
There is no doubt of it, and in consequence of such sentiments, and such toasts, and such dinners, the government of England should be deceived into a belief that our country is full of Tories and traitors, and should therefore declare war against us, all such Roman patriots will be made a head shorter. [Ibid.]
Farmers sometimes complain that they are not as much respected as other people, but if they respect themselves and are respected by each other, they are more respected than any other class of men. Their course is more useful than brilliant: their employment exposes them to few of the vices and accidents, incident to other classes.
The soft-handed, and silk-stockined gentry in all countries have little confidence in each other. High life and a lust for wealth without labor, engender habits of artifice, which the honest mind of a farmer would disdain.
Let the farmers continue to enjoy and maintain their due rank: they are at present the majority, and have the government in their power. Thro' divine goodness we are not yet reduced to be divers and dippers, who cannot live out of the water: we are not a nation of mariners and merchants, nor do we live in great navigating states, but we are a nation of farmers. May the farmer's blessing rest on our country. [Ibid.]
There is no man except it be Aaron Burr, the mention of whose name, produces such general disgust and abhorrence as Timothy Pickering. If ever a person was guilty of suicide upon his own character, Pickering was, upon the very little he had left, when he sent some his infamous declensioning letter. [Ibid.]

The following communication appeared in the Salem Gazette of August 5, upon which some remarks were made in the two last Salem Register. We understand enquiry has been made for the author, and he was found to be a Boston Gentleman!!!
Why does Mr. GRAY approve of the Embargo?
Is a question frequently asked by persons of different political parties, particularly by those who live at a distance. Some, not intimately acquainted with him, have been surprised that he should boldly set at defiance the opinions and experience of the other merchants in the country, by applauding the Embargo, and executing the administration in its submissions to France. The Democrats, from Maine to Georgia, have long used his name in support of the measure, because they knew, that as he possesses the navigation of any man in the country, it will be taken for granted by superficial observers, that he will be the greatest sufferer by it, and the best able to judge of its necessity and consequences. This opinion, though known by those around him to be unfounded, and of course has no weight, still may have influence with some who have not the same means of information: it is therefore proper to account for his apparently extraordinary conduct.
In the first place, he is a merchant of eminence, and knows as well, and is governed as exclusively by his own interest as any man. Now, having an immense property (from 200,000 to 300,000 dollars) in France and other countries under the control of Bonaparte—and having far greater risks than any individual in the United States, and perhaps in the world, as an underwriter, under the same contract—his of course willing to see any temporizing policy of the government in a favorable light, if it will prevent a quarrel with the French Emperor.
In the next place, while his poorer countrymen are suffering, he is making a fortune, by the Embargo. The cargoes of India, Russia, and Italian goods to the amount of more than 400,000 dollars, besides other goods which he has on hand, to an immense amount, must rise so much by the Embargo (which now deprives us of our supplies) that even if all his shipping at the outports should be destroyed by storms and the weather, yet on the whole, he would be an immense gainer. In other words, his immense property on hand (while others are now prohibited from importing) will give him a greater profit than is made in common times, without subjecting him to the expense of ships, sailors, marine risks, &c.
Again: With his prodigious capital, speculations are making, and may continue to be made, on his account, throughout the United States, in articles of produce, tobacco, cotton, &c. which the pressure of the times compels the owners to sacrifice, and which will give him incalculable profits.
Who that reflects on these things can wonder that Mr. Gray likes the Embargo?
CUESTA. To these scandalous and infamous charges and insinuations, Mr. GRAY, in the Gazette of Friday last, has given the following answer—in which he exculpates himself from the vile charges brought against him, and shows that he is actuated by the purest patriotism and love of country. [Register.]
M. CESSING.
I observe in your paper of Friday last, over the signature "CUESTA," a piece imputing to me base and sordid motives for approving the Embargo; in consequence of that, I am compelled to declare to the public, facts, and leave them to judge how far selfishness has influenced my opinion and conduct.
It is suggested, that I set the opinions of others at defiance.
I have presumed to think for myself, and made the Constitution my guide; however mistaken I may be, my intentions are at least correct, nor do I defy or condemn others, for thinking differently; and so far from executing the Administration for submission to France, had I perceived symptoms of submission to that, or any other foreign power, sooner than advocate such measures, I would devote my whole property for the support of the Independence of the United States.
When the Embargo law passed, I thought it a constitutional measure, and I did not think proper to oppose it. The policy of the measure has been much questioned; yet I think the then existing circumstances rendered it prudent and necessary; as Great Britain had threatened and had at that time passed (though not officially known to us) the Orders of Council of the 11th November, 1807, authorizing the capture and condemnation of all vessels, bound from the United States, that should sail for France, or the countries of her allies, after the orders of council were known in America; which included all Europe, except Great Britain, Gibraltar, Malta, and perhaps Sweden; at those places very few of those articles, which we generally export, are admitted; and I think fewer still would have brought the cost and charges. Great Britain, it is said, would have permitted us, after touching there, and paying duties, to go to France and the countries of her allies. Is there an independent American, who would submit to such impositions?
Bonaparte had threatened to put in operation his Berlin Decree, which he had however forbore to do, so far as I know, except in one instance, of the Horizon, wrecked upon the French coast; but his severe and tyrannical decree of 17th December last, called the Milan Decree, passed, declaring all vessels, that should be spoken with by the British, liable to capture, which decree almost precluded the possibility of escape from capture or detention. After these restrictions on our commerce, had not the Embargo been laid, I think a great part of our vessels, sent for the continent of Europe would have been captured and condemned by the British (as their orders authorized condemnation) and probably the remainder would have fallen into the hands of the French. Had these events taken place, the effect upon the public mind would I think have produced war; this, added to the immense loss, which the Americans would have sustained by capture and condemnation, must I think have been a far greater evil than the Embargo; though that, taken separately from these considerations, is a serious evil; yet, as a proof that it was necessary, I find, 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. It is insinuated, that I am growing rich, while others are suffering by the Embargo:
I have not reaped any advantage from it that I know of, in any form whatever; those who best know me can say, whether I have benefited others, or taken advantage of their necessity. So far from reaping profit from the Embargo, my estate has declined more than ten per cent in value since its operation, which I am ready to demonstrate to any person desirous of investigating the subject.
William Gray. Salem, August 11, 1808.
From the AURORA.
What continues the Embargo?
The plain answer is—the federalists, or the very portion of the federalists, continue it.—The embargo gives them a faint hope of regaining power; this is communicated to England, and gives England another hope of getting in their friends, or humble tools, and under this vain expectation, they keep up their useless and self destructive orders in council; which must be repealed before the embargo can be raised.
This truth then results, that were there no fed, or tories there would be no embargo.
The tories complain vehemently, and proclaim ruin to the people, while the truth is, they are only mortified, the distress they talk of is not felt. In fact there is no distress, the American people are content with their government, quiet and happy, and they will be happy and content in spite of the tories.
Look to England! she keeps those orders of council in force for the sake, and no doubt at the request, of the tories here; and behold her million of starving mechanics, collected in various mobs—and in the very moment they are starving under orders of council, behold her military employed to keep down her manufacturers! Mark well, that this was three months ago, or but four months after hearing of the embargo!
What is, then, their state now? when a short harvest announces to her people approaching want and starvation, and the troubles in Spain and the armies in Germany, must cause a general scarcity in Europe.—These orders will be recalled—the embargo will be repealed—and our farmers will get three dollars for their abundant crops to feed these unhappy people who are the victims of the corrupt governments of Europe, and the other starving nations and their colonies, which are connected with or dependent on them.
Such will be the end of the embargo. Wicked and unjust nations, as individuals, will be distressed. All that is wanting is a blight, a wet season, or other providential stroke so common to European harvests, and the proud flag of Britain will no longer insult our commerce on the ocean, or violate our national ships and murder our people. She will then be glad to make reparation for the past and give security for the future.
Had she done justice to us at any time, America would not be indifferent to her safety—but as she has done, no open enemy can do us so much injury as her false and hollow friendship. Let her turn her proud navy from insulting and degrading us, and we may with its preservation; but till then it is killing the rod, it is submitting to what our fathers, when few and friendless, did not do—she makes on us an insidious war—and no trust can be placed in her.
How glorious to see the wisdom of our government superior to those proud nations of warriors! To see them humbled for want of that commerce they have abused, while we are but storing up our surplus to supply their wants at advanced prices!
Such, I foretell, will be the result, and in the full hope thereof, every good citizen will rest in peace and plenty, assured that the federalists or tories are the present cause of the embargo, and the only evils that afflict the country.
To prove this take the following view—By her orders in council, England thought to ruin our trade.
The tories advocate this base subjection.
We stop all trade rather than submit to be taxed by any foreign king or parliament.
The tories abuse the government for sparing slavery.
The question now is, can England do as well without trade as we can? Let our happy and comfortable farmers and her starving mobs answer.
But the tories, enemies of our independence, and willing to see us tributary to England, raise a clamor, pretend ruin, and encourage the British to hold on till we give up, and in the vain hope that thereby they will get the government into their own hands, and submit to all they ask. Surely until the elections are over, (unless a short harvest happens) it cannot be expected England will give up; but as soon as they hear the tories have lost all, and deceived them again, they will curse them for blockheads, and then consider them as their own worst enemies, making them more and more hated by the people. A FARMER.
Several flocks of an Earthquake have been felt at the Island of St. Michael's, which have produced some Volcanoes. The Island of St. George's has been nearly destroyed thereby.
The Spanish revolution, by the federal prints, is an awful warning to Americans. It is so, truly. It teaches us to place no faith in the promises of kings: it instructs us to rely upon our own resources, upon our own energies; to avoid alliances with foreign powers; and to form no connections with them which may derogate from our dignity and independence. The federalists have given me the text; will they profit by my commentary, and cease to urge this nation into the clutches of Great Britain? [Monitor.]
Republicans, be on the alert! It is rumoured, and with good foundation, that the federalists, from all parts of the union, are actively, but secretly employed in organizing themselves to oppose and defeat the election of a Republican President. Committees of Correspondence are already formed in the different states; there is to be a convention; and the place of meeting fixed on is New York. Their candidate will be Gen. Pinckney. Surely these are times which call for harmony, activity and concert among the friends of liberty, a free government, and national honor and independence. [Baltimore American.]
The New York Missionary Society are receiving from anonymous letter writers, enormous enclosures, to the amount of 900 dollars at a time; and the board returns thanks for the disinterested generosity, "which has come at a seasonable period, when their prospects are highly encouraging, and when the expenses of carrying their views into effect will be greatly increased!" [Pub. Adv.]
IMPORTANT
Foreign Intelligence.
By the arrival of the ship Union, at New-York, from London, (which port she left on the 11th June,) papers of that City have been received, to the above date.
Doctor Heerman, a passenger, is the bearer of dispatches from our minister at London, and from St. Petersburg, to the Government of the United States. He informs us that the British orders in council, it was expected in London, would be so modified as not materially to affect neutrals.
LONDON, MAY 31. Orders, we understand, have been sent to Cork for the immediate embarkation of 6000 men. Their destination is said to be Cadiz.
A meeting of the Gentlemen connected with the northern Highlands was to be held yesterday at Edinburgh, to consider of the means of relieving the distresses of the inhabitants of that part of the country, arising from the great scarcity of corn, and the general loss of their cattle, owing to the want of fodder.
In addition to our recent statement of the failure of fodder in the Highlands of Scotland, we have to add, that on three small farms in the parish of Latheron, in Caithness, 134 black cattle, besides a number of horses, have died for want. In Sutherland, Ross, Caithness, and Inverness, there is a general and distressing scarcity of provisions—in many places even the grain allotted for seed has been used to keep the people and the cattle alive, and the consequence must be calamitous, if some relief is not promptly afforded.
June 4.—The projected expedition to South America, we have reason to believe, is already in a state of forwardness; and we are rejoiced to find that it is intended to be conducted upon such principles as promise to insure its most complete success—an event which, in the present state of European affairs, must prove of the highest importance to Great Britain.
Russian Commercial Restrictions.
American Consulate, London, June 6, 1808. The following official communication to this office, this instant arrived, I have deemed an incumbent duty to make public, for the information of all American merchants and others affected thereby. (Signed) WM. LYMAN.
St. Petersburg, (14) 26th April, 1808. Sir—I herewith hand you a copy of a note I have lately received from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, which will acquaint you, that measures similar to those pursued by France, with respect to Neutral vessels trading between England and her ports, have been adopted here. All intercourse by means of our flag is thus stopped between Great Britain and Russia. You will please to communicate this intelligence to all those whom it may interest, and believe me respectfully, Sir, your most obedient servant. (Signed) LOVETT HARRIS. WM. LYMAN, Esq. American Consul, London.
"In order to prevent the possibility of any communication whatever between Russia and England. His Imperial Majesty has judged it advisable to order that no vessel coming from an English port, even if it belongs to a nation friendly to Russia and shall not be laden with any merchandise, shall be admitted into the ports of Russia. Every vessel, however, which shall not have been in England, may freely enter the Russian ports, and export the productions of the Empire, with this proviso, that the commercial houses to which such vessels shall be addressed, shall undertake in writing,
that such vessel shall not go to England, but that they will consign their cargoes to some port belonging to a power friendly to Russia. The undersigned thinks it his duty to communicate this new arrangement to Mr. Lovett Harris, Consul-General for the United States of America, and seizes this opportunity to renew the assurances of his high consideration. (Signed) COUNT NICHOLAS DE ROMANOFF. Peterburg, 10th April, 1808. Mr. LOVETT HARRIS
Sweden all-a-back!
LONDON JUNE 11.
Advices from Gottenburg to the 31st ult were received yesterday. They were brought by the Clyde frigate, captain Owen, which is returned to Yarmouth, after having landed at Gottenburg £430,000 for the use of the King of Sweden. Our expedition was still waiting the return of Col. Murray, and Admiral Keats was about to remove the Fleet to a greater distance from Gottenburg in order to be in readiness to proceed upon any service upon which he might be ordered, without loss of time.
A Gottenburg mail arrived last night, but the intelligence brought by it is not of importance. Of the surrender of the Russians in Gotland our readers were informed before. The mails have brought the official report, and the articles of capitulation. The Russians are not to serve against Sweden for twelve months. The Swedish force in Norway remains in statu quo. In Finland some further advantages have been obtained over the Russians, but they are not of much importance.
Extract of information from Spain.
CADIZ, JUNE 19.
Note 1.—Every day circumstances take place to confirm the friendly disposition of the Spanish people as well as the provisional government towards Great Britain. At Algeziras, about the 15th June, a valuable British merchant ship, taken by a French privateer, was sent with a prize crew into Algeziras; but no sooner did she arrive in that port, than the Frenchmen were drove out of her, the British sailors were released, the ship returned to them and sent to Gibraltar—in fact, every hostility between Great Britain and the Spanish nation had ceased, and was succeeded by the most friendly intercourse.
The Spanish fleet of six sail of the line, in Minorea, had made arrangements with Lord Collingwood to remain there until they should receive orders from the Junta of Seville.
Note 2.—On the advance of General Dupont with a detachment of the French army near Madrid towards Cadiz, to support the cause of Bonaparte there, suspicions arose among the people of Cadiz that the captain general of Andalusia, the marquis de Solano, and also governor of Cadiz, was in the interest of Bonaparte; the correspondence between him and the duke of Berg was finally intercepted; the people of Cadiz surrounded his house, and having got the marquis into their hands, tore him to pieces, his house was levelled to the ground, and completely destroyed. In Cadiz a provisional Junta was immediately formed, dependent on the Junta of Seville, and Don Thomas Morla was entrusted with the government of Cadiz, in the room of Solano.
At Barcelona Don Pedro Truxillo was at the same time destroyed by the people of Barcelona, for aiding the French general in that place; and the people discovering that he was in correspondence with the duke of Berg.
Note 3.—When the royal family of Spain went to Bayonne, they were escorted by a regiment of Carabiniers, consisting of 800 men that had done duty as the royal guard. On the fate of the royal family of Spain being made public, some disturbance was apprehended by Bonaparte amongst the Spanish nobility and soldiery. The commanding officer of the Spanish regiment of Carabiniers was ordered to parade his men the same evening for the purpose of their being disbanded. This order he evaded, under a promise of executing it the following morning; however, on assembling his men on their usual parade, all mounted, he informed them of the orders he had received, told them if they followed him he would lead them into Spain; they at once agreed to the proposal, and following their commander, took the road for their own country, and notwithstanding every attempt to overtake them, they made good their retreat.
Note 4.—Certain accounts had arrived at Cadiz of the death of the Duke de L'Infantado at Bayonne.—In some discussion with Bonaparte relative to the fate of the royal family of Spain, the Prince it is said remonstrated in the severest manner against the conduct of Bonaparte; and at last either drew his sword, or on the attempting to draw it, was cut down by Bonaparte's guard in his presence. The French say that before he was destroyed, Bonaparte received a wound in the arm.
The intention of Bonaparte was to place his brother Joseph on the throne of Spain, and the Duke of Berg on that of Naples; there was no doubt that Joseph Bonaparte had left Naples, and it was currently reported, though not officially confirmed, on the 19th of June, that on his way to Madrid, he and all his attendants were destroyed by the armed peasantry of the country through which he attempted to pass.
Note 5.—The intelligence that reached London from the Baltic in the beginning of June informed, that the Spanish troops sent by Bonaparte to the north of Europe were at Lubeck and Altona, the greater part at Lubeck, about 25,000 men; it was then intended by the British government, if these troops wished to return to Spain, to afford them a means of transport. The British transports in the Baltic, that were employed to carry the army to Sweden, would greatly facilitate this measure. At Cadiz it was understood that General Apadaco, and the commissioners sent to London by the Junta of Seville, had in charge to request the aid of the British government to the return of these troops to Spain.
Note 6.—By the latest intelligence that reached Cadiz on the 19th June from Portugal, general Gomez was on his march with an army of 30,000 men to attack the French general Junot in Lisbon; this army was composed partly of Spaniards and part of Portuguese. The Portuguese required the assistance of the British forces under Gen. Spencer, then at Ayamonte, and the fleet off the Tagus. It was understood that on the surrender of Gen. Dupont with the French army at Cordova, general Spencer would move towards Lisbon for that purpose. The troops remained on the 19th June on board the transports.
Note 7.—To secure Cadiz for the interest of Bonaparte, Gen. Dupont was detached from Madrid with 12,000 men; but he had only reached Cordova, when he found that the French fleet in Cadiz harbor, consisting of five ships of the line and two frigates, had surrendered, and the officers and crews made prisoners of war, to the Spanish Junta at Cadiz; to return to Madrid was impossible, the armed peasantry had already seized the passes in the mountains through which the road went; and a large force lay between him and Cadiz—in fact the French army found themselves in a state of siege. On the 18th June a courier arrived at Cadiz to inform the Junta, that Gen. Cordova, who commanded the Spanish army near Cordova, had been joined by 9000 troops of the line from Algeziras, which made his force amount to 20,000 troops of the line, independent of the volunteers and peasantry armed with pikes. The French army by death and desertion was reduced to 9,700 men. On the 19th June a Courier arrived early in the morning, informing that the two armies were engaged; and on the afternoon of the same day a second courier arrived to inform the Junta of Cadiz, that Gen. Dupont and his whole force had surrendered prisoners of war to Gen. Cordova. It was understood that the victorious army would immediately march towards Madrid to act in conjunction with the armies marching from Bayonne, and other parts of Spain, to besiege the French in Madrid.
To the honor of the Spanish nation it has been found, that since the declaration of hostilities against France, by the Provisional government, in no instance has a Spaniard been induced to carry any letters from the French officers to the other posts; by this means every communication between the commanders of the French armies has been cut off.
Extract of a letter to Rear Admiral Purvis, dated at Utrera, June 12, 1808.
"On receiving directions to proceed to the Junta at Seville, I was particularly commanded by Major General Spencer to communicate to you direct, the information I thought of any consequence.
"They described their regular force, joined at the camp at St. Roche, at 12,000, of which 6,000 occupy the position of Carmena, with 15 pieces of from 6 to 24 pounders; their cavalry, and the remaining force, is at Seville, Utrera, and the small houses in the neighborhood.
"The irregular force they have given arms, is by the number of rations given, from 70 to 75,000, and would increase to any number they would wish. This zeal to join the army is repressed by the orders in council just enforced.
"To describe the sentiments of the people I need only observe the lowest class cannot be bribed to convey any intelligence, as appears by the numerous letters they deliver to their magistrates, when the impossibility of knowing they are traitors would ensure them every means of passing and repassing undiscovered.
"General Morla's late suspension of attack on the fleet at Cadiz, has been answered by the most positive orders to take them. The officers and privates are to have their property restored to them inviolate, and the liberty to return to France, if the English approve of the terms; but the unconditional surrender of the fleet is determined on here.
(Signed) K. I. BRADFORD, D Ad. Gen.
"P.S. The intelligence of this day has diffused the most desirable activity into the Junta—A deputy has arrived, acknowledged the supremacy of the Junta—the Junta of La Mancha detail by him the numerous Peasantry in arms, the attack of a French Force in Andrian, with the entire destruction of them.
"The deserters from the French would be numerous, but the Peasants kill every straggler—the Junta here have issued orders on this head.
"A Colonel from the French has arrived with a flag of truce—the obvious motive is to reconnoitre—the Junta have resolved to detain him."
BY THE MAILS.
BURLINGTON (Vermont) AUGUST 5.
We have to record a very melancholy event which took place in this vicinity on Wednesday last. A revenue Cutter from the lines commanded by Lieut. Farrington, with a sergeant and 12 privates, was dispatched by the Collector of the Customs, in pursuit of a large boat called the Black Snake, owned by persons near the lines, well known there to have been some time employed in smuggling. The Cutter pursued her up Onion river, where she was found and taken possession of by Lieut. Farrington, while her crew who were armed, stood on the bank of the river and threatened to fire on the first man who attempted to go on board. The Black Snake was manned by a part of the crew of the cutter, who proceeded with her down the river, while the smugglers repeatedly declared they should never take her out of the river alive. They had not gone more than 100 rods, before they were fired on from the shore, through the bushes, and one man on board the Cutter, by the name of Ellis Drake, was shot through the head and immediately expired. Several more shots were made, when the Lieutenant ordered his men to flee for the shore.
Scarcely had they landed, when the whole contents of a large gun, called a wall piece, about ten feet in length, carrying 16 ounce balls, was discharged upon them, which proved fatal to Alva Marsh, another of the crew of the Cutter, and Mr. Jonathan Ormsby, an inhabitant of this town, who returning from his work, happened to be present at this unfortunate moment. The Lieut. also received a ball through his left arm and was slightly wounded in his head. By the spirited exertions of the people of this village, eight persons were apprehended and are safely lodged in the common gaol, which is guarded by a detachment from the town militia. A Jury of Inquest was immediately summoned, who after a view of the bodies and a careful examination of witnesses, returned their Inquisition that the deceased came to their death by WILFUL MURDER. Two of the persons apprehended will probably make it appear that they were not concerned in this horrid transaction.
An examination of the prisoners has not yet taken place. As soon as an enquiry is made the public will have a minute detail of the facts; in the mean time, it is hoped that all opinion will be suspended. There are three of these desperadoes who have not been taken, but the greatest exertions are making to apprehend them.

NEW YORK, August 3. Capt. Aylelott, from P. P. Guada- loupe, who arrived here yesterday, in- forms, that 5 days previous to his sailing, a vessel arrived there, in 32 days from Bayonne, dispatched by the Emperor Bonaparte, with orders to his officers at Guadalupe, to take possession of South America, and to hoist the French flag in the name of the Emperor of France, King of Ita- ly, protector of the Rhinish Confeder- ation, King of Spain, Portugal, and the Indies.
The above vessel took out 84 bar- rels of flour, which were sold at 45 dollars per barrel.
A letter by the Enterprize, dated Guadalupe, the 14th of July, states, that a few days since the British made an attack on the Island of St. Martins, with 120 men, and after having pos- session of the Island for two hours, they were repulsed, with the loss of all their party killed, excepting 13 men. [Mer. Advertiser.]
BOSTON, August 10. The citizens of Boston, in pursu- ance of notice from the Selectmen, as- sembled yesterday for the purpose of investigating the expediency of pre- senting a respectful address to the President of the United States, re- questing him to suspend the act lay- ing an Embargo.
The object of the meeting was sup- ported by Messrs. Gore, Otis, and Sargeant—and opposed by Messrs. Blake, Jarvis and Austin. At a late hour a committee was appointed to draft an address to the effect above stated; who submitted it to their fel- low citizens at their adjourned meet- ing in the after part of the day— which was accepted.
We understand the committee have also been requested to forward circu- lars to various parts of the State, flat- tering their proceedings, and soliciting a reciprocity in this (we believe) prema- ture and unjustifiable measure.
Published by order of the Selectmen of Salem.
TOWN MEETING. At a very numerous meeting of the Free- holders, and other inhabitants of the Town of Boston, duly qualified and legally warned in public Town Meeting, assembled at Fane- uil-Hall, on Tuesday the 9th day of August, 1808.
Voted, That it is expedient for this town respectfully to petition the President of the UNITED STATES, to suspend the Em- bargo, either wholly, or partially, according to the powers vested in him by the Con- gress of the United States; or if any doubt should exist as to the sufficiency of those powers, that he be requested to call Con- gress together as soon as possible.
A Committee was then chosen to prepare such a Petition, which, having been read, was accepted almost unanimously.
Whereupon, Voted, That the Selectmen be a Committee to communicate the Proceed- ings of this Town to the Selectmen of the other towns in the Commonwealth; to re- quest them, if they see fit, to lay the same before their several Towns for concurrence.
To the Selectmen of the Town of Salem.
GENTLEMEN. In conformity to the directions of the Town of Boston, as above expressed, we in- close you a copy of the Petition to the Pres- ident of the United States, and request you to lay the same before your Inhabitants, that if they see fit, they may adopt similar measures.
CHARLES BULFINCH, WM. PORTER, EBENEZER OLIVER, JONA. HUNEWELL, JOHN MAY, FRANCIS WRIGHT, JONA. CHAPMAN, Boston, August 10, 1808.
To the Selectmen of the Town of Boston—
GENTLEMEN.
We acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 10th inst. containing the proceedings of the Town of Boston, relative to petitioning the President of the United States to "sus- pend the Embargo, either wholly or in part, according to the powers vested in him by the Congress of the U. S." &c. and the re- quest of the Town of Boston, "that the same be laid before the Inhabitants of Salem, that if they see fit, they may adopt similar mea- sures."
We assure you, Gentlemen, it will afford us great pleasure to co-operate with our fellow-citizens of the town of Boston, in any and all public measures which we be- lieve will promote the public good.
We view (as we have done from the be- ginning) the Embargo as a wise and prudent measure, peculiarly calculated, to preserve the United States from being involved in the bloody contests of Europe, and to secure their Commerce from capture and condem- nation, under the authority of BRITISH OR- DERS of COUNCIL and FRENCH DECREES. We consider that there can be no safety in renewing commerce, while the Decrees and Orders of Council are enforced; and confi- dently believe that the President of the U- nited States, without our interference, will remove the Embargo, as soon as it can be done with safety. In this view we are fully supported by the opinions of many of the most respectable and wealthy Merchants in Salem.
We are also apprehensive that the mea- sure recommended, would be attended with no salutary effects, but rather tend to em- barrass the Government, excite irritation, and promote division, already too apparent. We do not therefore deem it our duty, to call the Inhabitants of Salem together to deliberate on the subject, unless urged to the measure by our own Townsmen, ac- cording to the provisions of the law.
We are respectfully, your friends and humble servants.
JOHN HATHORNE, MOSES TOWNSEND, GEO. S. JOHNNOT, JOSEPH ROPES. Salem, August 12, 1808.
Portsmouth, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1808.
LATEST FROM EUROPE. It appears from the news received by the Alligator from Liverpool, that the hopes of England in Spain had evaporated in despair.
The late naval expedition of the Eng- lish to the Baltic had failed in its object. The fleet and army are ordered home.— This is said to be in consequence of the Manchester meetings!
The Emperor of Germany is placing his army on the war establishment.
The rioters in England remained un- repressed.
LONDON, June 14. Letters from Barcelona, of the 21st ult- imo, were yesterday received in town. They state that the utmost tranquility prevailed in that vicinity. All the American vessels which had been for some time embargoed, had been released and loading to come away. This release however was stated to be the result of an understanding with the French commandant.
JUNE 17. An American captain just arrived from Holland states that all the vessels belonging to the U. States which were detained under the Embargo in the Dutch ports, had been just released.
The dispatches from Admiral Purvis are dated the 30th May. The Spaniards at Car- diz did not appear at that date inclined to accept the offer of our troops; the corre- spondence however still continued.
Letters from Holland to the 13th inst. state that 10,000 French troops had entered Cadiz, and taken possession of all the bat- teries, as well as the Spanish fleet. They also mention that Gen. Spencer had attempted a landing, but that our troops were repulsed and regained their transports with great dif- ficulty. A British 74 is said to have been rather roughly handled in consequence of falling under the guns of one of the principal forts of Cadiz.
It was reported in Holland, that a body of French troops, amounting to 3000 at least, had contrived to pass the Belts and reach Zealand. A camp, consisting of from 8 to 10,000 Danish troops was formed at Rends- burgh in the duchy of Holstein.
TORBAY, June 14. Last night, at 3 o'clock, after post, a fash- ran into the bay, under a very heavy press of canvass charged with dispatches it is said, and giving an account that the French fleet had escaped from Brest. The whole of the fleet under Ad. Lord Gambier got under way immediately, but I fear have made little pro- gress down the channel as there is little wind.
IT exhibits a singular want of reflection in the English journals, that they commi- cerate the starving condition of the Portu- guese at Lisbon under the control of Junot the French general, whilst the manufactur- ers of England are themselves in a situation quite as lamentable. [W. B. Monitor.]
What a dreadful thing it is, that the sub- jects of Great-Britain should be starved by the impolicy of the English government, and then be foot for complaining about it.— Americans! such is the lot of those people who live under monarchical rulers; and such is what the Essex Junto would bring you to. [Ibid.]
"We have nothing to eat, (say the unhappy Manchester workmen,) and unless our "wages are raised, we might as well play "and starve, as work and be famished!"— Poor fellows! and for thus complaining, they are fired upon by the military and murder- ed in cold blood. Good God! whose heart will not ache at the recital? [Ibid.]
The British manufacturers ask for bread : their government does not indeed, give them a stone ; but it gives them lead ! [Ibid.]
What is the reason that our federal prints do not break out into a dismal howl against the British, who are making efforts to gain influence upon our borders through the medium of the Spanish provinces? Do they think the British less dangerous neighbors than the French! Their silence shews, at least, where their partialities centre. [Ibid.]
Those who deem the British not trouble- some neighbors, are invited to inquire of the people of Ireland and the nations of Hindustan, concerning English vicinage.— What has deluged Europe with blood for fifteen years past, if it be not the various coalitions formed by the gold and diplo- matic arts of Great Britain? I do not speak from conjecture; but appeal to the various treaties entered into between England and Russia, Prussia, Austria, and other European powers, from 1793 to 1806, which have been published and are notorious to the world. Heaven preserve us from the neighborly regards of both French and Bri- tish; the present wild commotions of the world instruct us but too well what we have to expect from them. [Ibid.]
If Bonaparte be such a terrible neighbor, why is it that the opposition do not give the administration credit for purchasing Louisiana, and thus keeping the French at a distance from us? [Ibid.]
Our paper is this day enriched with President Jefferson's Answer to the Address of the Legislature of New-Hampshire, which passed at their last June session, and was forwarded by His Excellency the Governor, immediately after- ward.
Sir, August 2, 1808. I received in due time your favour of June 24, covering the address of the House of Representatives and Senate of New- Hampshire, and I ask leave, through the same channel, to return the enclosed answer to be communicated to them in whatever way you think most acceptable. Highly gratified by this approbation of the Legisla- ture of your State, as it respects myself per- sonally, the moment, at which it is expres- sed, gives it peculiar value, as a public doc- ument. It is the testimony of a respectable Legislature in favour of a measure submit- ting our fellow-citizens to some present suf- ferings, to preserve them from future and greater: and cannot fail to strengthen the disposition to maintain it which I am happy to perceive is so general.
I tender you my affectionate salutations and, with every wish for your health and happiness, the assurance of my high respect and consideration. TH: JEFFERSON. His Excellency Governor LANGDON.
To the Legislature of New Hampshire. IN the review, Fellow-Citizens, which, in your address of the 14th of June, you have taken of the measures pursued since I have been charged with their direction, I read with great satisfaction, and thankfulness the ap- probation you have bestowed on them; and I feel it an ample reward for any services I may have been able to ren- der.
The present moment is certainly eventful, and one which peculiarly re- quires that the bond of confederation connecting us as a nation should re- ceive all the strength which unanimi- ty between the national councils and the State Legislatures can give it.— The depredations committed on our vessels and property on the high seas, the violences to the persons of our ci- tizens employed on that element, had long been the subject of remonstrance and complaint, when, instead of repara- tion, new declarations of wrong are issued subjecting our navigation to general plunder. In this state of things our first duty was to withdraw our seafaring citizens and property from abroad, and to keep at home re- sources so valuable at all times, and so essential, if resort must ultimately be had to force. It gave us time too to make a last appeal to the reason and reputation of nations. In the mean while I see with satisfaction that this measure of self denial is approved and supported by the great body of our real citizens; that they meet with cheerfulness the temporary privations it occasions, and are preparing with spirit to provide for themselves those comforts and conveniences of life, for which it would be unwise ever more to recur to distant countries. How long this course may be preferable to a more serious appeal, must depend for decision on the wisdom of the Le- gislature; unless indeed a return to established principles should remove the existing obstacles to a peaceable intercourse with foreign nations. In every event, fellow-citizens, my confi- dence is entire that your resolution to maintain our national independence and sovereignty will be as firm as it has been forbearing; and looking back on our history, I am assured by the past, that its future pages will present nothing unworthy of the for- mer.
I am happy that you approve of the motives of my retirement. I shall carry into it ardent prayers for the welfare of my country, and the sin- cerest wishes for that of yourselves per- sonally. TH: JEFFERSON. August 2d, 1808.
COMMUNICATION.
WHEN the federal party were in power, submission to the will of the majority was the theme of their constant declamation;— submission and respect to the constituted authorities were urged from the bench, the bar, the newspapers and the pulpit, with a zeal calculated to inspire a belief that the authors were at least sincere in their pro- fessions. Proofs of this are abundant. In an Oration delivered in this town by Ed- ward Livermore in 1799, the following expression; "I shall always respect the do- ings of our Rulers—they are chosen by ourselves; and in a republican govern- ment we must, and ought cheerfully to sub- mit to their doings; and their decisions must always be by a majority"—(page 14.) and another in page 22, "It is essential to the existence of a republican government that the minority should submit to the will of the majority,—that as no man can pre- tend to perfection, can it be more than a candor in them (the minority) to yield their opinions to the majority of the nation,"— are quoted not as a sample of their talents, (we would not do them such injustice) but as a proof of our assertion. Let us now enquire how far their practice is at war with their professions. When the government of their country in a crisis truly alarming, had adopted the best system of measures which human foresight could devise for re- pairing the injuries and preserving the peace of the nation, they opposed the will of the ma- jority—they openly advocated the cause of the trans- gressor—they encouraged opposition, and justified resistance; they did every thing in their power to bring into disrepute and contempt the authority and laws of the land—they gave their aid and influ- ence to the nation who was committing acts of vi- olence and of war, on the persons and on the pro- perty of our citizens.—These are the men and this is the party who are soliciting your fa- vor.—There are (for the honor of the fed- eral party, there are) many among them who refuse to follow their leaders through the mazes of this inconsistent and dangerous course. It is indeed a melancholy reflection that there are in the bosom of our Republic, wretches, who are capable of betraying the country that gave them birth; men, who represent our government as cowardly and base—our means of preservation unavailing and contemptible,—our citizens divided and disaffected, our nation an easy prey to an invader.—That such have been the doc- trine, and such the representations of the federal party, their conduct, their conver- sation, and their publications in the newspa- pers devoted to their views abundantly shew. However numerous the exceptions, their party is fairly chargeable with this incon- sistency. Even the flagitious outrage on the Chesapeake found justifiers, and the murder of our fellow-citizens found apologists a- mong them. The evidence is recorded in the newspapers of our own country, a monu- ment of political depravity,—a greater de- gree of moral or political turpitude has never before been exhibited. An honest federalist observed to one of his brethren that if their party should possibly rise again to power, the baseness of the means they had made use of would damn them forever in the opinion of all honest men. To have departed from all former professions, and to have openly violated the principles by which they professed to be governed, is
enough to detach honest men from any sec- or party whatever. But when this course is pursued in the face of an enemy who is committing acts of violence and of war, it becomes doubly atrocious. That such a party should expect to succeed, and by such means is reserved for the forlorn expectation of a set of men in whose way no absurdity is too great, no extravagance too monstrous, —but who will find in the refusal that to pronounce the government in the wrong, the enemy in the right, our means of de- fence contemptible, and the people an una- vailing mob, is not the road to their confi- dence—they will have no such rod to their back.
Republican Citizens, Farmers, Tradesmen, Artisans, and Laborers, ye who compose the mass of our population, and the column of our strength, what have the federalists offered you but insult? When they governed you, what did you receive from them, but taxes and contempt; since they have become the minority what have they done?—every thing in their power to disgrace their own country in the estimation of foreign nations, and to encourage them in their aggressions and insults.—And for all this what do they ask of you? to give them your confidence, to bestow on them your suffrages, and what have you to ex- pect? what have you to gain? a repetition of old grievances, a renewal of the old taxes, your country involved in a war, a cumbrous debt engrossed on your estates, your consti- tution changed, your independence jeopard- ized, if not lost.
WE again recommend to Republicans to read the Portsmouth Oracle. Let them also read the Boston federal papers. The con- spiracy of Burr was more extensive than has been imagined. The first object was to overturn the government at one blow: the next, a disunion of the States. Having failed in the first, England is endeavoring to accomplish the second. Burr has gone to England! The Lord Chancellor of England has avowed on the debates in Parliament "that the Orders of Council of the 11th of November were intended to make America at last sensible of the policy of joining Eng- land against France." The Government of the United States determined to maintain your peace; and now a separation of the States is contemplated. This tone is loud in England. The ministerial prints are loud in their call for war with the United States. They urge the present as a most excellent opportunity to accomplish a dismemberment of the Union . England has issued proclama- tions, by which she encourages our citizens to oppose the laws. Federal papers teem with salacious falsehoods and with inflammatory pieces, exciting a rebellion against the Government. And a numerous army is assembled in Can- ada to take advantage of our divisions.
Never before was the country in so much danger as at the present moment. When the revolutionary struggle commenced we were told of the "unseen hand," of the in- fluence of France, that was leading us to ruin—but our fathers believed not these fictions ; shall we believe them now? If we do, the work of the enemy is accomplished, our ruin is complete! Yes People of New- Hampshire, function by your votes the de- claration of the Tories that you are opposed to the Government of your Country, and your ruin is complete. Your enemy is the father of lies: he tells you of the "unseen hand," and of French influence. But we perceive not these things: we behold our Government impartial in its conduct to all nations. The enemy tells you of starvation and distress by the embargo—do you see any one starving? In Europe thousands are starving! Do you know of any distress equal to that of Civil War? You are told that if you support federalists, the embargo will be immediately removed: but how can this be done, not by your new Representa- tives for they could not take their seats until the session for 1809, perhaps 15 months hence . Your present members must attend next session. And if the Embargo can be removed consi- stently with the safety of the country, it will be done. But the enemy will not wait this constitutional mode of relief. He intends to remove the Embargo by other means. He intends a separation of the States. Let New-Hampshire by her votes decide in fa- vor of federalism , and that most wicked junto whose emissaries, paid by the gold of Eng- land are now running to and fro throughout our State to influence our elections, will de- clare to Congress that the New-England States are detached from the Union: and England is ever ready to assist in this ab- ominable design. Then shall we have a King! Lords! and Commons!—but many of us my friends must lie low before this can be accomplished—many an honest heart, now throbbing with anxiety for your freedom, will first cease to beat. Be not deaf to the warning I give you! Read the bold avowal of your enemy in the Boston Ga- zette—"Wherefore is New-England asleep? Wherefore does she submit to enemies in the South who are themselves slaves, and would make us so? Have we no Moses who is inspired by the God of our fathers to lead us out of Egypt?" Now turn to the tender voice of your Father, the great, the good WASHINGTON—"To the efficacy and permanency of your union, a govern- ment for the whole is indispensable." This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature delibera- tion, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting fecundity with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties en- joined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty ."
The following is the Republican Ticket for Representatives to Congress:
CLEMENT STORER, DANIEL M. DURELL, JEDEDIAH K. SMITH, FRANCIS GARDNER, CHARLES CUTIS.
Republicans of New Hampshire,
A little exertion on our part will in- sure to us the important Election of the Republican Ticket. It is devout- ly to be hoped, that the Patriots of New Hampshire will not now relax their exertions. For this is a day which calls for energy ;—and he is unworthy the name of Patriot , who sinks into supineness and neglects his duty when dangers thicken around. Be then at your post; do your duty faithfully; and THE ELECTION IS OURS!
Capt. Picket, who came passenger in the Oriental, arrived at Marble- head, informs that upwards of One Hundred American vessels, which had been CONDEMNED by the prize courts, were lying in the docks at Plymouth, England.
Poor Spain! She has, in reality, got be- tween two evils. Bonaparte pricks her up with the bayonet, and John Bull goads her on with his horn. We may, hence learn the wisdom of our own government in keep- ing aloof from both those powers.
EMBARGO EFFECTS! From Surinam July 2.—Flour is at 60 dolls, and none good. At Barbadoes it is at 40 dolls.
MARRIED. —In this town, Mr. John Brewster, to Miss Deborah Murchmore.
DIED. —In this town, Mr. George Tucker, aged 55; A child of Mrs. Samuel Cotton.
AUCTION.
WILL be sold at Auction on THURS- DAY NEXT, 18th instant, at the Office of Alexander Ewen, in Buck-street, fundry articles of Merchandise, consisting of Broad-Cloth, Coating, Baizes, Flannels, &c. &c. For cash, without reserve. Also, 8 Chests of Hyson-skin TEA, and a few hds. West-India RUM, on a credit of sixty days, for approved notes— Sale at 10 o'clock. August 16.
William Garland,
No. 8, Merchants' Row—Has for Sale— 350 Bbls. best FLOUR, recei- ved by the Washington from Baltimore; 20 chests Hyson, Hyson-skin, Souchong and Bohea TEA. August 16.
BANK BILLS.
A LARGE Sheet, containing a discip- tion of Counterfeit Bank Bills, for sale at C. PIERCE's Bookstore—price 20 cts.
Livery Stable Subscription
STILL OPEN.
THE proprietors of the plan not think- ing two hundred shares would have been so quickly taken up as they were on the day the subscription was first opened, and a much larger number then subscribed for than first contemplated, and many still willing to become interested in so conven- ient and profitable establishment,—it was therefore thought best, and voted, at a pub- lic meeting of the subscribers held on Saturday last, to extend the number from two to three hundred shares, at twenty dol- lars each, payable by installments; that no person be admitted a subscriber who shall be engaged in the business of letting Horses and Carriages,—the plan being calculated as much for convenience as emolument.— The subscription paper is left with Mr. Brown, at the Bell Tavern, to admit Sub- scribers this Day and Wednesday, when it will be taken away. Portsmouth, Tuesday, August 16th.
NOTICE.
THE subscribers for establishing a LIVE- RY STABLE in Portsmouth, are here- by notified, that their meeting stands ad- journed to Wednesday next, the 17th instant, to meet at 3 o'clock, P. M. at the Bell Ta- vern in Congress-street,—a general attend- ance is requested. WM. WALKER, Clerk, Pro. Tem. August 16.
MEDICAL.
THE Members of the Eastern District N. H. Medical Society, are hereby informed that their meeting will be held at the house of Nathl's Poon, 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.
THE Subscribers being ap-
pointed by the Hon. Stephen Tabbets, 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 WILL- SON, late of Kittery, in said county, yeo- man, deceased, represented insolvent; do hereby give notice that six months are al- lowed 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. CERRISH, JOSIAH GUNNISON, } Commissioners. Kittery, August 1, 1808.
WHEREAS my wife SAL-
IZZ, has behaved herself in a ve- ry unbecoming manner; therefore this is to forbid all and every person, from har- boring or trusting the wench on my account after this date. DAVID M c PROUT. Mark. Portsmouth, August 11, 1808.
TEN Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS JOSIAH G. FOLSOM, jun r of Portsmouth, did on Friday morn- ing last, borrow of the subscriber, a black MARE, for the purpose, as he said, of go- ing about four miles, and has not since re- turned, but in all probability has ran off. Said Folsom is about 20 years of age, had on a blue nankeen round jacket, buff colored pantaloons, 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.
RUNAWAY from the Subscriber on Wednesday the 10th inst. an indent- ed apprentice BOY, named NATHANIEL MARSTON, being about 17 years of age, about 5 1/2 feet high and of a light complex- ion—whoever will return said Runaway, shall receive one cent reward and no char- ges paid; all persons are cautioned against harboring, trusting or employing him as they would avoid the penalty of the law. JOHN WEEKS. Greenland, August 15, 1808.

Miscellaneous Repository.
HENRY MELLEN Esquire's smart Song "THE EMBARGO," PARODIED BY SIMON PEPPER POT, the younger.
Now be at your posts, for the mighty man Sin Stands watching the door, to let Fed'ralists in; For something must rule them, no doubt a wife thing, And were it the Devil, they'd call him a King.
TUNE—"Come let us prepare."
Dear Sir, you are wrong To tell lies in a song, And let all the filth you can spare go; For the Mule is quite mad, To view herself clad In falsehood about the EMBARGO. Our wise politicians In spite of divisions, To Johnny Bull won't let a hair go; Tho' his friends with to reign, And their hoarse voices strain, To curie and blaspheme the Embargo. The Tories would twist Till they steal all the grist, And cajole us as far as they dare go; While like turtles, the feds Still poke out their heads, And lils at the prudent Embargo. When Britain did try To put out our eye, Behold the let one of her pair go; So let us be wise, And regard not her lies, And other we'll shut by Embargo. The French we believe, Like the British deceive, They both want a smash at the cargo; But our rulers, who saw The extent of their maw, Have sav'd us the whole by Embargo. Our ships, for a time, Ride safe in our cime, Left with Denmark, we lose ships & cargo; They'd better decay, Than be stoll'n away, By scoundrels who hate the Embargo. Old Britain has slain Our Tars on the main, On our Land, the Lord knows, she don't dare go; For when there she was beat, She took to her feet, As soon when kept off by Embargo. What a fuss do they make About lobsters and hake, And I fear we have let all the share go; But we've pouts and sow fish, A good Fed'ral dish, For those who oppose the Embargo. Our farmers, so gay, With pork, beef and hay To Europe will not let a hair go; Till she is so fair, As to grant equal share, We'll stick to the prudent Embargo. Whil't Eden's best flares Enrich all our shores, We'll venture to make the old mare go, But fed'ralists fret And demand ev'ry debt, And father it all on Embargo. Thus Tommy destroys Intriguer chief joys; But to ruin will not let the Fair go; For he will secure Our damsels, so pure, By keeping off rogues with Embargo. When Fed'ralists dine, And are tipsy on wine, No wonder they call it a RARE go; They kick for lost rosters, Then knock for their hosts, And take on their twentieth EMBARGO.
Mr. BINNS, the Editor of the Philadelphia "Democratic Press," who has heretofore been one of the warmest and ablest advocates of Mr. CLINTON for President, has candidly and publicly announced his determination hereafter to support the Washington nomination, Mr. MADISON for President, and Mr. CLINTON for Vice-President. The reasons which he assigns for the change in his sentiments are—that he is convinced from the decisions of public meetings, in different parts of the Union, from the complexion of Republican papers generally, from the tenor of the toasts at the late celebration of Independence, that Mr. MADISON is the choice of the Republican party, and that Mr. CLINTON could not be elected without the aid of the federal party; any connection with which he deprecates—that should Republicans oppose Mr. MADISON it would at this time be interpreted into a condemnation by them of the measures of the National Administration, and give occasion of triumph to the enemies of our country and Government, &c. He concludes with saying "I am frank to confess my decided conviction that it has become necessary for the whole Democratic party cordially and faithfully to unite in the support of James Madison as President and George Clinton as Vice-President of the U. States. Such unanimity will be fatal to the aspiring hopes of the enemies of our principles at home, and convince the foreign enemies of the United States that they have nothing to hope from Democratic difference of opinion." [True Amer.]
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, Amaia Allen, John Goddard, Robert Alcock, Nathaniel Shannon, William Tarlton.
THIS DAY PUBLISHED And for Sale by the Booksellers; A PAMPHLET containing the origin of the Soul; or, Scripture testimony concerning the Soul and Spirit of Man—The Dead shown to be in a state of total insensibility between death and the resurrection: which overthrows the unscriptural notions of modern preachers with regard to the fate of the dead—supported only by the faith of Heathen Philosophers. August 2.
Now Landing, and for Sale by Isaac Waldron, jun. 400 Barrels Fresh Baltimore Superfine FLOUR: of a superior quality. August 9.
FRENCH SCHOOL. A FRENCH gentleman wishing to tarry some time in this town, desires to take a few scholars to teach in the FRENCH LANGUAGE; and to ascertain his being adequate to the task, he will submit himself to the examination of any gentleman or gentlemen. TERMS—Ten dollars per quarter; attendance three times a week; the lessons to be of one hour for two pupils. Apply to Mr. L. de St. Omer, At Col. Woodward's boarding-house. Portsmouth, August 8, 1808.
Field Meetings. A public meeting is to be held at Hampton, near the meeting-house, the last Wednesday in this present month, August, at 2 o'clock, P.M. On Thursday, September 1st, in Newmarket, at 2 o'clock, P.M. near Mr. Jacob Burley's house. Next day, (Friday) at Newington meeting-house, at 2 o'clock, P.M. Next day, at Dover, near the Bridge, at 4 o'clock, P.M. First Lord's day in September, at Berwick, near the landing, at 9 o'clock, A.M. Monday, at Wells, near William Hobbs, at 2 o'clock, P.M. at the place called Maryland, near Elder Eaton's meeting-house. By an agreement of the Christian Brethren. JOHN RAND. FREDERICK PLUMMER. ELIAS SMITH.
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.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE— In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight. (L. S.) AN ACT to restore LEVI WILLARD to his law. WHEREAS Levi Willard, sheriff of the county of Coos, has petitioned the General Court setting forth that he received of the Treasurer of said county, Extents against the towns of Cambridge, Success and Barker's Location, directing him to collect the county taxes assessed on said towns and Location for the year 1806; and that by accident the copies of said extents were not returned to the Deputy Secretary in due season to enable him to collect said taxes by law, and praying to be authorized to collect said taxes the present year. The prayer of said petitioner appearing reasonable, THEREFORE,
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, that the said Levi Willard shall be and hereby is authorized to collect the county taxes assessed on the towns of Cambridge, Success and Barker's Location for the year A.D. 1806, which remains now unpaid—And the said Levi Willard shall take the copies of the aforesaid extents remain in the office of the Deputy Secretary till the first day of November next—and if said taxes are not paid by the said first day of November, then the said Levi Willard may proceed to collect the same according to law. Provided however that the said Levi Willard shall give public notice of his being restored to his law by publishing this act in the New-Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively, the first publication to commence by the fifteenth day of August next.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. In the House of Representatives, June 9, 1808. The foregoing bill having had three several readings passed to be enacted. Sent up for concurrence, CHARLES CUTTS, Speaker. In Senate, June 10, 1808— This bill having been read a third time was enacted. SAMUEL BELL, President. Approved, June 10, 1808. JOHN LANGDON, Governor. A TRUE COPY—Attest. PHILIP CARRIGAN, Secretary.
State of New Hampshire, County of Grafton. NOTICE is hereby given to the original proprietors and owners of land in the town of LINCOLN, in said county,—That a tax of Four Dollars on each original right, (public rights excepted) was voted by the proprietors at their meeting held by an adjournment the 16th day of January, 1808; that so much of each proprietors land, as will pay said tax and incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling house of Nathan Kinman, in said Lincoln, on the first Tuesday of September next, unless prevented by previous payment. Original Proprietors Names are as followeth,—Viz.— James Avery, Jeremiah Clement, James Hoit, Jabez Wead, Peter Finch, Samuel Andrews, David Slawson, Eleazer Bowton, Thomas Hoit, Reuben Stephens, Stephen Fountain, John Pettit, Alma Jones, Samuel Sellet, Ebenezer Bowton, Seymore Bowton, Zuriel Finch, Abner Barmon, David Bowton, David Sanford, John Adington, jr. Oliver Rowell, Elijah Weeks, Stephen Mangum, Valentine Rowell, Jacob Conklin, William McHorney, David Whiting, Caleb Merrill, Seth Whitney, Samuel Haight, Joseph Forceman, John Tuttle, Reuben Reynolds, Jabez Holmes, Abraham Hoit, Josiah Biggs, Ebenezer Munson, Noah Parkerton, Abel Hoit, Jabez Holmes, Ezra Moot, David Knap, one half of the right of Henry Mead, John Dixon, Daniel St. John, Hezekiah Wiat, Abraham Mead, Henry Wiat, Job St. John, Ezra Bowton, Jeremiah Finch, John Brown, Joseph Hale, the Hon. Richard Wibard, Daniel Warner, John Nelson, Theodore Atkinson, Benning Winthrop two rights. JONATHAN TUTTLE, Collector. Lincoln, August 1st, 1808.
Warranted undrawn Tickets in Dixville Road Lottery, (now drawing in Boston,) for Sale by JOSEPH CLARK, Jun.
Improved Patent Illuminators Or Sky Lights for Shipping. GIVING a more general light than the common Sky Light, with one fourth part of the expense—They are neither liable to break, or to be injured by the common traffic of the deck, nor are they any encumbrance 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, Iron-mongery and Hardware Goods.— August 2, 1808.
CUT NAILS, Of the Maiden 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, Cassimere, Satin, Lustrine, Crape, Shag, Plush, silk & cotton Velvets, Worsted-Cords, Camels' hair Shawls—Also, Ladies' Satin, Lustrine, Cambrie, Calico & Muslin Gowns, Hosiery & Gloves, Lace Veils, Gentlemen's Coats, Pantaloons 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 wish 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.)
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.
Continued Notice. THE creditors of the estate of Captain SAMUEL LANGTON, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased; are hereby notified that a further time of six months from the 15th day of June is allowed by the Hon. Judge of Probate for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims; and that the commissioners will attend for that purpose at the office of Jeremiah Libbey on Bow-street, on the second Tuesdays of July and the five following months, from three to five o'clock P.M. JEREMIAH LIBBEY, JOHN B. HILL, SAMUEL JONES. Portsmouth, July 4, 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.
NOTICE is hereby given to, or that ALL persons having 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.
Good News from far! THE Kentucky Revival, or a short history of the late extraordinary out-pouring of the Spirit of God, in the western states of America, agreeably to Scripture promises, and prophecies concerning the latter day; with a brief account of the entrance, and progress of, what the world call Shakerism among, the subjects of the late revival in Ohio and Kentucky; presented to the true Zion traveller, as a memorial of the wilderness Journey, by RICHARD MCNAMAR, price 50 cents. Cincinnati printed, And for Sale at C. PEARCE's Bookstore, Portsmouth.
RENDEZVOUS. AN OFFICE for the purposes of recruiting for the Army of the United States—is opened at the Brick floor owned by Daniel Aultin, 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. W. PRESCOTT, Capt. 4th Regiment Infantry. Portsmouth, N. H. July 1808.
FLOUR. Just landed from on board Sloop Hope, and FOR SALE BY E. WENTWORTH, One hundred Bbls. Philadelphia superfine and fine FLOUR of a good quality—also, Baltimore & Alexandria ditto in half Bbls. Portsmouth, July 26, 1808.
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 belt 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 pleasant situations in Portsmouth, being very handy to the fish and fish market. August 9, 1808.
COOLERS. Japan'd & plain COOLERS; Also,—New & second hand Tin Ware Japan'd at short notice, by Benjamin Evans, Tin plate worker—Buck street. N. B. A Bathing Tub kept constantly to Let. August 2.
DETROIT BANK BILLS TAKEN for Bills, Shoes, English Goods or Hats. Those bills that are guaranteed, at par—the other kind at 12 1/2 per cent discount—at PELATHAH REE's shoe store No. 2, old State House, Boston, for a few months. August 1, 1808.
GEORGE DAME informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Portsmouth, that his second quarter for teaching PAINTING and DANCING, will commence on Monday the 22d inst. if the number of pupils is sufficient. Days of attendance, every Monday and Thursday forenoon for Painting, and afternoon for Dancing. Price of each 6 dollars per Quarter, giving twenty-four lessons. Three dollars entrance, and the remainder at the close of the quarter. Subscription paper at Mr. C. PEARCE's Bookstore, and at the Assembly Room. He will also keep an Evening School for Dancing, if sufficient encouragement is obtained. He continues to practice MINIATURE and PORTRAIT Painting—warrants accurate likenesses—at his shop, Congress-street. Portsmouth, August 2, 1808.
TAKE NOTICE. THE subscriber wishes to hire Twenty-five good labouring Men to work on a Turnpike Road, to begin the 15th instant. JOHN MELVIN. Chester, August 1st, 1808.
TO LET, ONE lower room, chamber, and shop, in Buck-street,—Enquire of the Printers. August 2.
State of New Hampshire, Strafford ff. NOTICE is hereby given to all the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of WAKENFIELD, in said county, who have not paid their town, school, county and highway taxes for the year 1807; that unless they pay the same to me the subscriber on or before the 3d day of October, A.D. 1808, so much of each delinquents land as will pay said taxes with intervening charges, will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of David Copp, Esq. inn-holder in said town, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. JOHN DAME, Collector. Wakefield, July 11th, 1808.
Clarionetts, Drums and Fife, for sale at C. PEARCE's Bookstore.
Valuable Public Sales.
To be sold at Auction on Monday the 22d of August next, the following valuable property, viz. THE estate occupied by Mr. Peter Coffin, situated in Pleasant street; consisting of a Dwelling-House, Out Houses, &c. The above estate measures 127 feet on Pleasant-street, and continues that breadth 430 feet to the mill pond—A street will be opened from Pleasant-street to the mill pond, and the land divided into convenient House Lots to accommodate purchasers. The sale of the above will be on the premises at 10 o'clock A.M. And at 12 o'clock M. at the New-Hampshire Fire and Marine Insurance office, 3 Lots of valuable Land situated in Tamworth, viz. No. 1 of the 6th Range, } Containing 100 acres each. 6 7th 7 7th A House and Barn on each of two Lots, and a Barn on the other, and about 15 or 20 acres on each lot are under improvement. A lot of Land in Warren, No. 6 of 1st Range, containing 100 acres. 16 Shares in the Newhampshire Turnpike Road. 7 Shares in PISCATAQUA BRIDGE, and 1 Share in the Portsmouth Aqueduct. * * Terms liberal, and made known at the sale. S. LARKIN, Auctr. Portsmouth, July 26, 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 Manufacturers in the United States,—viz. COTTON Twill and Yarn, of all the various kinds; best American Bed-Ticking (warranted fast colours;) Cotton Shirtings & 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.
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 offer'd 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.] 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.
WANTED a capable LAD, of correct habits, about 15 years old, to attend in the subscribers store, No. 2, Market-street. July 12. OLIVER BRIARD. Room Papers & Borderings. A LARGE assortment of ROOM PAPERS and BORDERINGS, just received and for sale at C. PEARCE's Bookstore, CHEAP FOR CASH. June 28.
NOW Landing from on board Sloop Hope, from Philadelphia, at Langdon's wharf—and for sale by John Langdon, jr. 300 Bbls. S. P. Scraped Philad. FLOUR, in Bbls. and half Bbls.; 10 Casks of Loaf SUGAR; 1500 bushels Yellow CORN. July 26, 1808.
A Boy!! WANTED as an Apprentice to the Printing business, a smart, active LAD,—Enquire at the Gazette Office. August, 1808. TO LET, THE dwelling HOUSE formerly occupied by the late Mr. Pomp Spring, situated near the Parade—Enquire of the Printers. June 28, 1808.
C. PEARCE has Thermometers of various sizes for sale of the following prices: 21/2 27/2 30/2 39/2 40/2 42/2 and 48/2—Surely the curious may be suited from such a variety.
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.