The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1808-10-25 00:00:00

NEW GOODS.
Just received by the late arrivals at Boston, and now opening at
DRAPER'S
CHEAP-CASH STORE, a very extensive and elegant assortment of Fashionable, Fancy and Staple PIECE GOODS, adapted to the present and approaching season.
AN elegant variety of colored worked, Brufels, figured leno, seed mull, mull, diagonal, vinced and lace
 Black, dove, pink, light, buff and black } Canton Crapes.  Fashionable Beaver & Straw } Hats & Bonnets.  An elegant assortment of extra long and habit } Kid Gloves  White Satin, best quality; double white Saracets; white cotton lace Armlets; lace Gloves and Mitts. A great variety of Thread and cotton Laces and Footings; Ladies lace cotton HOSE, a new article. A great variety comprising all colours, Silk Velvets and Plushes.  Leghorn Hats; Black, white, blue, ma- roon, scarlet, orange } CRAPES  Children's straw Bonnets; India plaid Lustrings; Spider Net; An elegant assortment of broad and common width India black Satins and Lustrings; Pink, white, buff and green Saracets; Florence black Lustrings, very nice quality; Very cheap cambricks; } Muslins;  Ladies and gentlemen's silk Hose; Fawn, purple, black } Cambricks.  A very elegant variety of London Chintzes; 2 trunks low priced Calicoes; Plaid Ginghams and chamma Muslins; 7-8, 4-4 and 6-4 colored and black Cambricks; Plaid and plain silk chamma Muslins. A variety of elegant Patch Furnitures; low priced do.; 6-4 twill'd cotton Shawls; 6-4 damask silk ditto; white cambricks pocket Hdkfs. remarkable cheap; linen ditto very fine; Ladies figured Turban and Neck Handkfs.; Linen Cambricks; Irish Linens; Dimities; Cotton Diapers; Ladies and gentlemen's cotton and worsted Hosiery.  Scarlet, purple, brown, dove, fawn and black } Bombazets.  Fawn, purple, black } Tabby Velvets  1 case 3-4, 7-8 and 4-4 British cotton Shirtings; 4-4, 5-4 & 6-4 Oil Cloths. London superfine black, blue, brown and corbeau } Broad Cloths.  Superfine double milled black, blue and drab } Cassimeres.  Fawn, dark green } Pelisse CLOTHS.  Scarlet, fawn and dark green } Pelisse Flannels.  Dark green Cassimeres; purple and black glass Buttons; Gentlemen's fashionable Toilette and other waistcoatings; Real superfine drab Kersey; low priced do.; Silver'd Cords and Satinets.  Velvets and Thicksets; silk and cotton UMBRELLAS. a very large and complete assortment of Men's Hats, from 1 to 7 dollars; a large supply of Baizes; Flannels; Bockings; Plains; Coatings; Fearnoughts; Kerseys; Sarges; and low priced Broad Cloths; Rose Blankets, from 6 to 11-4. Elk, bear, black Jenet and mock sable MUFFS and TIPSETS.  Fine Baftas and Sannabs, suitable for shirt- ing; and a large supply of low priced India Cottons, &c. &c. Just Received, 500 yds. of Providence BED TICKING, which will be sold very cheap. To be had as above, 2 and 3 threaded Factory Cotton Yarn. Portsmouth, October 18, 1808. 
For Sale, at No. 14, Merchant's row, 65 Puncheons Toba- go and Demerara RUM; 74 Hds. MOLASSES; 30 Hds. and Bbls. SUGAR; Crates Earthen-ware; Bbls. and half Bbls. BEEF & PORK. Russia IRON; Cod FISH, &c. Wanted, 100 M. merchantable BOARDS, for which any of the above goods will be given. H. & A. LADD. October 18.
SINGING SCHOOL. THE Subscribers intend opening a Singing School, on the first Monday in November (provided a sufficient number of scholars apply) for the instruction of those who will tuition in this useful and pleasing art. — Subscriptions papers for the above school are at Mr. C. PIERCE's Book- store, and the subscribers shops. THOMAS P. DROWN. NATHANIEL B. MARCH. Portsmouth, Oct. 18, 1808.
Wm. Jones jr.
Has just received and now opening, an extensive assortment of Fashionable, Fancy and Staple Piece Goods, viz.
COLOURED work'd, Li- lac, spot, Japan'd, plain and Picquet Muslins; 4-4 and 5-4 elegant spider net, double and single Taffeta Ribbons, dark and light broad Garnitures; fawn, dove, flax, and black double Florence; fancy Lustrings; plaid ditto; India black Satins, and Lustrings; plumb, green, brown and black silk Velvets; fawn, dove and black tabby Ditto; dark and light pink Ginghams; fine printed dark Cambricks; Calicoes; sets rich patch Furnitures; common ditto and Copperplates; twill'd fawn and black Cambricks; Gentlemen and ladies black and white French and English silk Hose; long and short white kid Gloves, light and dark kid and beaver habit ditto; 5-4 and 6-4 Coquetico and buff cotton Shawls; pointed cotton and thread Laces; brown and black silk Plush; scarlet and black Bombazets; black Bombazets; black Crapes; French, Spanish, and English sewing Silks; silk and fawn Twill; cotton fewings; Dutch Tapes; best London Pins; black, blue and topaz glass Buttons, fancy gilt ditto; British Shir- ting Cottons; brown and white Dutch Lin- ens; black and colored worsted Hose; Men's white mill'd Angola ditto; black and coloured ditto; Ladies' dark pelisse Cloths; black, blue, and brown superfine Broad Cloths; best double mill'd black and drab Cassimeres; Silver-grey Cords; Vel- vets and Velveteens; Velvets newest pat- terns; Devonshire Kerseys; Duffles; Swan- skins; Baizes, and Flannels; Blankets; Shalloons, Durants, Duroys, black Ruffles; 2 calcs men's best London Hats; Bear Muffs and Tippets, Janet ditto.
INDIA GOODS. Checks, Bandannoes, Flag & check'd silk and Madras Handkerchiefs—large supply very fine and common India Cottons, &c. &c. The above added to his for- mer stock, renders his assortment extensive and complete. Portsmouth, Oct. 18.
NOTICE. DEBTORS to the late firm of LADD & SMITH, are for the last time called upon to make pay- ment, every demand not paid by the first of December next, will without discrimination be left with an Attorney for collection. HENRY LADD. Portsmouth, Oct. 18th, 1808
SPECTACLES.
Thomas Tappan, [No. 1. Sheafe's Buildings, Market street.] HAVE just received a large assortment of SPECTACLES, of every age quality and price. Those who may call, cannot fail being suited. Oct. 1.
Flax, Sheeps' Wool, and Junk. ARE wanted at the Almshouse in this town—persons having any of the a- bove articles, that they would turn in for taxes, or receive oakum in pay, will please to give information to either of the Over- seers of said House. October 18.
Willard's patent Washing Machine
THIS Machine is upon a construction entirely new, very sim- ple and not liable to be out of order, it takes up very little room and may be operated upon by two children, it makes no stop and but very little noise; as the clothes are operated upon by smoothe rollers only and compressed without any rubbing or friction, any kind of clothes from the coarsest blanket to the finest muslin may be washed with much less strain than when carefully wash- ed by hand, and in general will need nei- ther rubbing or boiling, and will look clearer than when washed by hand. Any person wishing for further informa- tion or to prove one of said Machines will please to apply to JOHN UNDERWOOD, Portsmouth, or JAMES BURLEY & SON, Exeter. October 18th 1808.
EVENING SCHOOL.
SAMUEL BOWLES, intends to open his School on Monday Eve- ning, 31st instant, at the Brick School- house. October 18.
Evening School.
THE subscriber informs the public that his Evening School will commence on the 17th instant, at the South School-house. N.B. The chamber lately occupied by him, for a school room, situated on Bur- kett, together with a set of forms, conven- ient for that purpose, will be let cheap.— Also, a sheet iron Stove for sale,—For par- ticulars apply to THOMAS JACKSON, at South School. Portsmouth, Oct. 11, 1808.
ALMANACS for 1809,
For sale at C. PIERCE's, Bookstore, Daniel- street. Portsmouth, October 7, 1808.
LATE OMISSIONS.
The following is another most im- portant and powerful attestation to the wisdom of the embargo, and forcibly manifests the light in which that measure is viewed by the most respect- able and best informed men at a dis- tance from the political passions which here discolour every thing. Mr. Mur- dock is a native of the state of Mary- land, where he was educated, and spent a considerable portion of his life in the esteem of his fellow-citizens. During the war he fared with high reputation in our army and has since established himself in mercantile life in London, where he ranks among the most opulent and respectable mer- chants. We add that his politics, when he resided in the United States were federal. [Nat. Intel.]
Extract of a letter from WILLIAM MURDOCH, Esquire, merchant, London.
London, 24th July, 1808. "With regard to your Embargo I think it a wise measure, and if it should be persevered in, it will be the means of preserving peace and saving America from ruin; whereas, if it should be taken off before the orders in council and French decrees are an- nulled, America will suffer, and in the end be ruined, and will furnish an example ever after for any foreign nation to lay any restriction they please on your commerce. If it is right and lawful for this country to compel by her orders in council, all your produce to come here to perish for want of a market, and moreover to tax one of your principal articles 94. per lb. before it can be re-export- ed—I mean Cotton. If this is to be submitted to, it would be far better for you to become colonists again. I ask any one on your side who is op- posed to the Embargo, to point out to me the difference between a foreign nation compelling all your produce to come to our market, there to tax it before it can be re-exported, or to go over to America and collect the tax before it can be exported? There is a difference in the mode, but none in the principle. If one article is li- able to be taxed, every other, by the same rule, is equally so.
"It cannot be denied that every country has a right to regulate her own commerce, and lay what duties she chooses: but she has no right to order the produce of another country into her own ports, and then to tax it before it can go to a foreign mar- ket. The French decrees are equally pernicious and objectionable in prin- ciple as the orders in council, and both ought to be resisted with great firmness."
LETTER
From the honorable Joseph Alston, speaker of the house of representatives of this state to the president of the United States, covering the resolutions of the legisla- ture of the 29th of June last, appro- priatory of the conduct of the administra- tion. Oaks, near Georgetown, S.C. July 6. 1808.
The legislature of South Carolina deeply impressed with the situation in which the United States have been placed, by the unfounded and ar- rogant pretensions of the belligerent powers of Europe; and aware of the force derived, in a government like ours, from public opinion, have thought it right at such a crisis to make known to the world their un- alterable determination to support the rights and honor of our country, and to declare their entire approbation of the prudent and dignified course pursued by its administration. To this manifestation of their own feelings, they have been yet further induced by the expression, in other parts of the union, of contrary sentiments, at a moment when it is conceived, and a sacrifice of the conflicting opinions of individuals, and the animosities of party was demanded alike by found policy and by patriotism.
The resolutions I have now the honor to transmit you, obtained, you will perceive, the unanimous concur- rence of both branches of our legisla- ture. A conclusion from hence, how- ever, either that there existed among us a perfect unanimity of political sentiment, or that the present restric- tions upon our commerce were but little felt by us, would be equally erro- neous.—South Carolina, like her sister states, is, to a certain extent character-
ified by parties. The legislature, which adopted these resolutions, con- sisted, to use the distinguishing appel- lations of the day, of federalists and republicans. But, sir, however we may differ as to questions of ordinary policy, we should deprecate as dif- ficult to us the idea of division where the national honor or interests were concerned. Of the effects at- tendant, in all countries, upon a sud- den suspension of trade, many circum- stances combine to render this state far from inflexible: But, if the incon- veniences or privations refusing to our citizens from the embargo be great, their patriotism and public spirit are still greater; and I am per- suaded that those who compose our legislature have been the faithful or- gans of their constituents, when they declare their determination, at every hazard, "to support the general govern- ment in all measures calculated to main- tain the rights and support the independ- ence of the United States."
I have the honor to be, sir very respectfully, yours &c. JOSEPH ALSTON. Speaker of the house of representatives, S. C.
PRESIDENT'S REPLY.
To the honorable Joseph Alston, speaker of the house of representatives of South Carolina. Monticello, August 4, 1808.
Sir, I have duly received your letter of July 6, covering the resolutions of the legislature of South Carolina of June 29; and I see in those resolutions a new manifestation of the national spi- rit of which South Carolina has given so many proofs. It is the more ex- emplary, as it is certain that no state sacrifices more by the operation of a measure which, whether to avoid war, or to prepare for it has been deemed equally necessary. The unanimity too of these resolutions does peculiar hon- our to those individuals, who differing from the mass of their fellow-citizens in their opinions of government, yet forget all differences when the rights of their country are in question; who, when it is assailed by foreign wrong, and menaced with the evils of war, instead of encouraging enemies by forebodings of weakness and division, present to them one common and undivided front. Persuaded that the sentiments expressed in these resolu- tions are a true specimen of those en- tertained by the great mass of our fellow-citizens, we may regret the evils which a contrary opinion in others may produce, but we cannot fear the result of any trial they may put us to. I receive with particular gratifica- tion assurances of approbation from the legislature of South Carolina, and will not cease in my endeavors to mer- it a continuance of it. I pray you to accept my salutations and assurances of great respect and consideration. TH: JEFFERSON.
From the Essex Register.
Great Britain has done our commerce no essential injury." Pickering's Letter. So say, in amount, the grave and learned gentlemen who composed the resolutions at Toppsefield, in order to aid the election of BENJ. PICKMAN, jr. to represent this commercial District. Well, let us see!—Capt. Holbrook, of the brig Dragon, from Rotterdam for Philadelphia, was captured by one of his Britannic Majesty's vessels of war and carried into the downs, com- pelled to unload 200 pipes of Gin, pay a TAX of 8 pence a gallon, which amounts (calling the pipes only 100 gallons each) to dols. 2962.96
  Five weeks demurrage, at 8 Bri- tish guineas per day, which is not more than the real expences, 1306.66   Pilotage 50.00   Light money, which must be paid the whole way down Chan- nel, whether the lights are seen or not, and for its amount has uni- versally been complained of, 150.00   For a Licence to proceed to A- merica, say 30.38   Lawyers' fees, &c. which cannot be thought high, 200.00   Which make, added together, the sum of 4700.00 
upon a vessel only half loaded. Ma- ny other real charges might be ad- ded—and I appeal to any correct mer- chant for the truth of the declaration — whether there is an item too many? and whether many other charges would not actually accrue? And yet abominable to tell, Wm. Bartlett, of Newburyport, and J. Alston, of this town by their resolutions adopted at Toppsefield, say "England has done
our commerce no essential injury;"— and all this too to aid the election of a man who wants a President for life! Gracious God! is it possible, that we, who obtained our Independence because G. Britain wanted to tax us only 3 pence a pound upon Tea, is it possible we can say "Great Bri- tain has done us no essential injury"? Blush, Federalists, blush, if all shame and decency have not fled from you. TRUTH.
For the N. H. Gazette.
The Oracle calls the DOVER SUN "a De- mocratic paper."—This is incorrect. The Dover Sun is not a Democratic paper. The productions copied thence into the Oracle bear evident marks of federal ori- gin. The article to which immediate at- tention is drawn, appeared in that paper October 18, and is entitled the "Turning Point." Whether this alludes to the point or pivot on which Federalism turns to attack the constituted authorities of the country; or whether it is the point on which those weaker politicians turn who veer with every wind of doctrine, we are not inform- ed. It however, like many other circum- stances which daily present themselves to view in the movements of the opposition, draws our attention more closely to the RALLYING POINT.
It is folly at this time to be disputing about trifles—telling of Mr. M*****'s opinion, of Mr. C*****'s opinion, of Mr. H*****'s opinion or any individual's opinion. "We do not work it right." Answer this ques- tion: Are we so altered; so submissive; so stupid; so lost to a sense of patriotism; so callous to the feelings of national honor; so parched with the thirst for gold; so eager in pursuit of peace, as to give up the great sources of our happiness, our liberty and independence—to abandon the rich inheritance handed down by our fathers who toiled and bled to secure it to us—to suffer tribute to be levied on us by a for- eign nation, for the poor privilege of car- rying on a miserable, dependent, starved commerce, under her dictates and control; to have thousands of our seamen murdered or carried captive, and compelled to fight the battles of strangers? Here is the great question: this demands our attention; for this question we must decide; "it is a signal that demands dispatch;" it is folly to look to foreign nations for favors, for the President has told us plainly, "we must rely on ourselves." Will the natures and habits of New-Eng- land's Sons, allow them to traverse the ocean under the orders of Great Britain, and the restrictions of her acts of Parlia- ment? Have they such an itch for "trade" that rather than suffer a momentary depri- vation of it, they are willing to renounce all the blessings which have defended them from their fathers; to sell their birth- right, to become "beavers of wood and drawers of water" to foreign despots and relinquish the Independence which so much blood and treasure was lavished to obtain? Or, by falling back for a short time on their own ample resources preserve their Independence inviolate, transmit the rich boon to their descendants, and maintain the character of their country among the nations of the earth? Submission, War, or Embargo, are the three points for con- sideration.—The Embargo is the rallying point;—War is a desperate, intricate and un- certain point;—Submission is the "Turning point."
"MILLIONS for defence but not a cent for tribute," was once a very pop- ular toast among the federal tories, but it seems these same consistent char- acters very well relish the tribute re- quired by England.—That "every American vessel trading to an enemy's country shall touch at an English port, unload, and pay duties, after which she may proceed to her original port of destination." Is it possible, that the American spirit can be so degenerate, mercenary and base, as to be willing to purchase such a restricted commerce by becoming tributary to England? Is it in vain that the heroes of our revolution fought, bled and died, in defence of liberty and independence, and in opposition to the right claimed by the British, to tax this country in all cases whatsoever!—and shall their sons, so soon be willing to surrender such dear bought rights and immu- nities, to the tyrant of the ocean, and again become his subjects? No; it cannot, must not be—forbid it spirits of Washington, Hancock, and Adams, for- bid it Genius of Liberty.
The toast given at the London din- ner by Sir Francis Baring, and bis- ted by the British Ministers and Noble- men—was not "the President of the United States of America"—but "the President and United States of Ame- rica"! So that the insult was not of- fered to the Chief Magistrate alone, but to the PEOPLE. Our American tories endeavour to explain this away by asserting that the toast was misun- derstood! But the pretence will not serve. They would persuade us that the British entertain great respect for the Americans—and for proof, will probably refer us to the impression of our seamen, the attack upon the Chesapeake, and a thousand et cetera.

British Emisaries, British Gold, Old Tories, Aristocrats, &c. &c.—The application of those terms is harsh and unharmonious to certain gentlemen among us; they are, say those gentlemen, disgraceful and hackneyed expressions that have lost their force by repetition; but this is not quite the fact, otherwise the effect in their being mentioned would not so evidently appear. The injuries experienced from those characters have made so deep impression on the minds of our countrymen as time cannot efface, and the conviction of their desert cause to them the same unpleasant sensations, as the sound of justice to those criminals that have merited an ignominious death. We have abundant reason to believe that British Emisaries, with British gold, old Tories and new ones, Aristocrats antient and modern, are more numerous, dangerous and active in America, than at any former period;—for any to doubt this, would be like doubting their own existence. Are not our seaports and country towns infested with those enemies to our peace? Their conduct in carrying into effect their nefarious plans are fully understood, and sufficiently evident to prove the reality of the assertion. The federalists my fellow-citizens are mighty in power and strength, many of their leading characters, we have reason to fear, are in league with foreign influence with ambition and vice, and are determined if possible to establish a monarchical instead of a republican government; and what is strange, a large proportion of the Clergy have joined them in opposition to republican principles; this it is hoped, is not in many instances so much owing to a thirst for arbitrary power, as a kind of fashionable acquiescence to the wishes of influential and wealthy men, and a due consideration of consequences. Perhaps it is not uncharitable to suppose, a few of this worthy class of men are influenced in the expectation, that should a federal President be elected, their favorite object would be accomplished, by an established Religion in our Country, whose ministers would not depend on the voluntary support of their parishioners, but receive a salary from the government, which salary would be raised by compulsion from the property within their parochial limits; should those ministers grow remiss in their duty, inconsistent in their conduct, or erroneous in their religious tenets; those trifling objections would have no avail with the unfortunate parishioner, he must pay his ministerial tax punctually, or be compelled to it by the vengeance of the law.—When we consider the strength and influence of this mighty host, we are led to astonishment that the majority of the federalists was not greater at the last election; this must be imputed to the propriety and justice of the republican cause, and ought to animate republicans to greater exertions. Notwithstanding many of the practitioners of the Law, and preachers of the Gospel, are against us; yet the Law and the Gospel are on our side, and the justice and equity of the cause is ours. Perhaps I may be asked what are the principles of republicans? and what the principles of federalists? The former are men of philanthropy, that wish not only the happiness of themselves but others, who have no predilection for a king or nobles, but conceive it necessary to retain all power with the people, they choose their own public officers for a limited time that are servants to the people, and are amenable to them for their conduct. The latter are men directly the reverse, haughty, arbitrary, tyrannical, that with power and aggrandizement to themselves and families at the expence of the community, who have an ardent wish for a king and nobles, and conceive it necessary that a few aristocrats should govern the "swinish multitude," and not be accountable to them for mal-administration. The question will therefore scarcely be admitted whether republicans or federalists will be the most useful, or ought to have the preference as public officers; every man of common sense and common honesty, will naturally and rationally incline to a republican form of government. A republican form is the choice of Americans; the present administration are guided by democratic principles, and are entitled to the honor of having deserved well of their country, by discharging a great proportion of the public debts, increasing the wealth of the nation, and preventing hitherto the horrors of war. Hence the necessity of supporting the republican interest, and preventing as far as possible the choice of men to power whose principles tend to subvert the establishment of our civil rights, and undermine the pillars of our constitution. My brother Farmers revert to the principles and conduct of the Tories and federalists at the commencement of our revolution; were not their designs evidently to enslave their coun-
try? and did they not aid the tyrants of Britain in their arbitrary mandates to destroy the liberties of the people? have those men since that period given evidence of repentance, any symptoms of good citizenship, or proofs of a cheerful submission to our constitution and the principles of the republican cause? their has not been the least appearance of reformation; their principles, my fellow-citizens, (with a few exceptions) are the same at the present day, that they were at the commencement of our revolution, tho' at times they were dormant, yet from that period they embraced every opportunity when there was a prospect of success to destroy our government and promote the British interest. At the present time they are bold and daring, "and express their high joy" at the progress which has attended their intrigues at the late election for members of Congress;—they will be encouraged to double their diligence, and use every exertion to accomplish their design in the electoral ticket.—Should the British influence prevail in the choice of a federal President, that haughty nation would esteem it a greater acquisition than the addition of millions of dollars to her treasury; then would a close alliance offensive and defensive take place between the two countries; nothing could prevent us from a direful war with most of the nations in Europe. Gag acts and stamp acts would follow, our lands would be severely taxed, and every resource called into operation; we should shortly experience the loss of our property, the lives of our inhabitants and the liberties of our country.
Arousing my Fellow-Citizens from your shameful stupor, before the chains of slavery are to firmly riveted, "think on the form that gathers ore your heads and threatens very soon to burst upon it." The duty you owe yourselves, your children, your country, and your God, loudly demand your every exertion in supporting the Republican Electors for President and Vice-President. The finger of reproach points to your supineness in the late election; retrieve your character as Republicans, and place MADISON, at the head of your Government; his integrity, abilities and love of Country, with the blessing of Heaven, will guide our political ship from the dangers of Scylla and Charybdis to the peaceful haven of security; where no foreign influence can disturb her repose.
A FARMER.
FOR THE N. H. GAZETTE.
Leave FREEDOM free."
THE grand object, at which many of the leading Federalists are aiming, is, to establish in this country a Nobility. Altho' the dread of public resentment may prevent the more crafty from an open avowal of their darling object; yet some of the weaker gentry, who suffer their anger to gain an ascendancy over their policy, have in the moments of their political fury, rashly disclosed it.
Americans, could you brook the insults of a haughty Nobility? can you look on unmoved, and see introduced into your government "an odious distinction of rights?" And ye, who arrogate to yourselves "all the wealth, the talents, and the virtue" of the nation, ye federalists, who think yourselves born to compose "the Nobility," pause and reflect, ere you suffer yourselves to be funk, by the weight of your own fancied consequence, too deeply in the mire of British politics. Fortune is precarious; and altho' a man may to-day possess "all the wealth" of which certain partisans ignobly boast, yet he knows not what may be his fate before he dies, or that of his children after his death. Some of them may do well, others may be unfortunate, and sinking thereby into the excluded class, become the wretched vassals of a haughty Lord. The impossibility, therefore, of knowing into whose hands a distinction of rights may ultimately fall, ought to make men cautious how they establish them, lest in the revolutions of fortune, so common in human affairs, they should get into the hands of those who were intended to be excluded, and be severely exercised over those who were designed to inherit them.
Is there any thing in a Republican government, unfavorable to the display of 'talents' or to the exercise of 'virtue'? Some, indeed, might suspect the genuineness of those "talents," and of that "virtue" which cannot flourish under the mild sway of Republicanism. Surely it is in a government, where titles and offices are the rewards of true merit, and where rights are equal, that men will be most emulous to improve in literature, in virtue, and in every amiable accomplishment. These are not hereditary; and patriotism itself is not a gift conferred by high-birth.—Americans, arouse and shew the enemies of your liberties that you are yet determined to maintain your Freedom; that you disdain the idea of submission to a tyrannical Nobility. Cherish and revere the precepts of your beloved WASHINGTON. He who could cheerfully devote his early life, his meridian days and declining years to the service of his country—he who could relinquish the alluring scenes of domestic and social amusements for the useful and benevolent purpose of establishing the equal rights and equal privileges of his Fellow-Citizens, has left behind him a rich legacy of Republican precepts, which cannot be too often read, nor too well remembered. But beware of the secret machinations of those, who profane his name by using it to sanction their nefarious purposes. If you once submit to wear the yoke, which the federalists are preparing for you—if you suffer them to gain the ascendancy and to establish a Nobility, the sun of Liberty will set, perhaps, "to rise no more." You would then have but light enough to render the darkness discoverable, and liberty enough to feel your want of FREEDOM.
FOR THE N. H. GAZETTE.
Citizens of Newhampshire—if the world reposed in a state of profound peace—if the United States enjoyed a free and uninterrupted commerce—if the American flag wherever it waved afforded ample protection to American citizens and American property—if our merchants in their speculations had no other restrictions to encounter, than the municipal regulations of the different countries to which they adventured their property,—And, if, under such circumstances the government had laid an embargo on our trade, the arguments of the federal party would be proper and just:—well might they then allege, that our political fathers were actuated by motives hostile to the mercantile part of the community:—well might they then exclaim—"trade is doomed to destruction; commerce to annihilation!"
But, fellow citizens, the circumstances of the present time are materially, are diametrically different. The world is plunged into an unexampled state of commotion; whilst each successive moment is big with portentous events. The old animosities and new pretensions of European nations have wrought them to the highest pitch of contention, on subjects with which the United States have no concern. The conduct of our government has been so strictly neutral, that no nation has made the smallest complaint of violence, of wrong or of aggression. The great belligerent powers under the absurd pretence of retaliating on each other, are in fact, destroying every vestige of our commercial prosperity. We are assailed by their hostile decrees and arbitrary edicts, and foreign granaries and flour houses are filled with our plundered property.—Tribute is demanded, for the privilege of carrying our produce to its accustomed market. Neither the laws of nations, nor the faith of treaties afford the smallest security. Might has become right, and the only law is the law of the strongest. Our peace violated; our honor insulted; our independence assailed; our citizens murdered or carried captive.—At such a time, and under such circumstances, the embargo is resorted to as the only shield and refuge, against the violence of this political tornado.
Will you abandon the government at such a crisis? Will the true American hesitate to rally round the constituted authorities?—Will the patriot, sit down and count the cost of maintaining the independence of his country?—Fellow citizens, with shame we relate, and with sorrow confess to you, there are men amongst us, who fancying they see in our present difficulties and embarrassments, a fit opportunity to distract the public mind, are endeavouring to render those you have chosen to preside in the councils of the nation, unpopular; and, by appealing to your passions, and obscuring your reason, to produce such a change as shall enable them to seize the reins of government, and introduce their favorite system of standing armies, eight per cent loans, excises, stamp duties, and direct taxes. These men have led you to the brink of a precipice.—Retrace your steps or you are a lost, a ruined people! Those who oppose the embargo with so much vehemence, have never offered a substitute. If it is raised while the orders and decrees of England and France are in force, the alternatives of war or submission present themselves. War should never be resorted to but in cases of extreme necessity, when all other means of redress have failed, nor even then, without a prospect of obtaining the point contended for. War with either France or England in the present convulsed state of Europe, would involve the liberties of the United States in certain destruction. As well might the inhabitants of the fertile plains of Italy mount the summit of the volcanoes, Etna or Vesuvius, and plunge themselves into the crater.—Would the opposers of the government adopt the other alternative and submit?—Listen, then, Citizens of Newhampshire, to the voice of faction!—re-sign your Liberties to Britain!—place yourselves under the guardianship of a designing "Junto!"—raise the embargo!—yield to the orders and decrees of foreign tyrants!—"sell your birth rights for a mess of pottage!"—sacrifice your independence on the altar of mammon!—Your property plundered; your fellow citizens captive—your national honor gone; your country disgraced;—where would you wretched Americans hide your diminished heads.—If you then presumed to quit the borders of your country, the finger of scorn would be pointed at you, by those to whom you had become tributary. The flag you were wont to regard as the token of the independence of your nation, would wither before your eyes like a full blown flower struck by an untimely frost; and the crimson blush would suffuse your cheeks as you paid the exacted tribute into the hands of your oppressors! Like the unhappy gambler, who has staked the rich inheritance earned by the toil and blood of his ancestors, on one unfortunate throw, and is ruined by an unrelenting sharper, you will deplore your unhappy lot in vain. In vain will your distracted minds recur to those happy times when you sat "under your own vines and figtrees, having none to molest or make you afraid." In vain will you sigh for those blessings which freedom had prepared for you "ever flowing, and ever full;" which in a moment of desperation you dashed from your lips. In vain will you curse the vile "Junto" that has ruined you. Disgraced, forlorn, hopeless and miserable,—you will become "hewers of wood, and drawers of water" to vile Satraps and petty Tyrants. Instead of being as you now are, lords of the soil, you will become slaves of Lords who will even the soil.
The picture we have drawn is not too high coloured. The antidote for those evils is in your own possession. The right of suffrage is still yours. In the exercise of it on the 4th day of November next, convince foreign nations, and a domestic faction that you will support the government, and rally round the constituted authorities of your country. Regard not the tales of a perpetual embargo, that "raw head and bloody bones" with which the "Effigy Junto" would frighten you into a subservience to their views. Bellow your suffrages on those who compose the Republican ticket for Electors, with the venerable JOHN LANGDON, your present worthy Governor at their head. They will elect such men to fill the important offices of President and Vice-President as have the good of their country at heart. Men who have no foreign partialities.—Men whose sole aim will be to preserve the Peace, the Honor, the welfare and the Independence of the United States.
A TRUE AMERICAN.
From the National Register.
Federal lies throng to thick upon us, that it would be an endless and unprofitable task to attempt their refutation. Not a day passes, not a mail arrives that does not furnish us with proof against numbers, of the gross assertions of hired libellers. As we are continually reduced to perplexity in making selections for our papers, from the great quantity of interesting matter that crowds upon our hands—we have generally omitted the exposures of federal lies; from an idea that our readers could not be more convinced than before of the barefacedness with which the fashion have always slandered every thing good and great; and the futility of endeavors to stop the torrent of obloquy and abuse.
The story about Madison's declaration that "France wants money, and must have it," has been for obvious purposes circulated with unusual assiduity, and pertinaciously dwelt upon and repeated. Unlike most of the other falsehoods it was of too much importance to be passed over in total silence. Accordingly satisfactory and incontrovertible explanation of Mr. Madison's expression was laid before the public—and the author of the tale stands recorded as a liar. Mr. Madison had indeed remarked—that it was a favorable time for the purchase of the Floridas, for that France was in need of money and must obtain it by some means or other; which would probably induce her to procure a cession of those provinces, as she would herself pocket the purchase money! Such was the substance of the assertion on which the calumny was founded.
In close alliance with this falsehood was that about the transmission of the "two millions tribute to France." This seemed to be too gross to do any harm—a potion that few stomachs were stout enough to swallow—yet by some, we fear many, it was swallowed.
What a disturbance has been made about southern influence! Yet we are well assured from the best authority that the federal Convention at New-York have agreed to support CHARLES C. PINCKNEY, of South Carolina (not Rufus King as mentioned heretofore) for the Presidency! This is rare consistency indeed! If we mistake not, this Mr. Pinckney, some few years since, made the tour of the Northern States with his female negro slave, lashed with ropes, like his trunks, to the back of his carriage!! Huzza for federal freedom and humanity!
SEEDS OF REBELLION!
When Democratic editors have endeavored to persuade the people, that rank federalism, like that which flourishes in Boston, is accompanied with a destitution of principle, and have painted the turpitude of the faction, in black colours; they have too often been disbelieved and their observations estimated as the exaggerations of party. But they are justified by events. A partial and we trust a momentary success, has beyond measure elated the federal leaders. It has put them off their guard. It has surprised them into an imprudent avowal of their real designs. For two or three weeks past the Junto presses in Boston have been laboring to prove the Embargo unconstitutional, although their own party when in office adopted a similar measure! and have been industriously inciting the citizens to a forcible resistance of the authority of the government!! A writer in the Centinel, under the signature of Hampden has even ventured to call upon the Judges and other public magistrates to sanction the rebellions they are advising;—That our readers may not accuse us of making assertions without proof,—we will give them a glance at the following short extract from the Boston Gazette, (which is under the particular patronage of the federal merchants) as a small portion of that mass of testimony which is daily corroborating our statements and fulfilling our predictions.
"We may have next to remonstrate, and AGAIN TO SET UP THE STANDARD OF FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE, before we can regain our lost liberties"!! Here, Republicans, in the face of law in the face of the CONSTITUTION, that many of these INSURGENTS have sworn to defend, you witness a daring and undistinguished declaration, that unless the national rulers will conform the public measures to the will of faction; the "STANDARD"—not of "Freedom"—but BASE REBELLION will be erected! We do not call upon you fellow-citizens, to give vent to the indignation that the reading of such a passage may excite. We do not demand that you should indiscriminately denounce a numerous party as rebels—but we ask you seriously to consider the language of federal leaders—and we ask you to ponder upon the words above recited—with them to reflect upon the continual infractions of the Embargo laws by federal speculators—upon the
dangerous insurrections in Vermont, and the horrid murders that have been committed there—upon the late alarming insurrection in Newburyport and upon the mobs that have disturbed the quiet of our principal towns. After such considerations you cannot hesitate to swear that if blood must flow all of it shall not be shed by the enemies of government—if force must be employed it shall serve to reduce foul traitors to obedience.
BOLD LANGUAGE!
The following EXTRACTS from late federal papers, we give to our readers without comment. They will judge whether Open Rebellion, British Alliance, and a Separation of the States are not recommended in language which cannot be misunderstood.
From the Centinel. "Every man will presume that he is not bound to regard it, (the Embargo) but may send his produce or his merchandise to a foreign market, in the same manner as if the government had never undertaken to prohibit it!!"
From the Reporter. "We know that if the Embargo be not removed, our citizens will ere long see its restrictions and its penalties at defiance.—No Republican government can constitutionally ruin its citizens, charged with no crime. This will remove scruples of conscience, and the people will trade"!!"
From the same. "It behoves us to speak, for STRIKE WE MUST, if speaking does not answer"!!"
New York Herald. "There are thousands every day denouncing the claims made upon that nation (the English) as unjust and unreasonable, and openly declaring that it is our true policy to recind those claims, take protection under the British navy, and unite with her against the Emperor of France"!!"
Boston Gazette. "It is better to suffer the amputation of a limb than to lose the whole body. We must prepare for the operation"!!"
This last extract is a broad hint at the division of the Union. In addition to which the Centinel has published a series of labored essays, whose avowed object is to prove the advantages that would result to New-England from such a division!
Some persons have deemed it a very preposterous conjecture that the British should keep certain American newspapers in pay. But where is the absurdity of the supposition? Have they not hired the Austrians, the Prussians, the Russians, to fight their battles? And why may they not hire venal and profligate printers? [Mon.]
IMPARTIAL NEUTRALITY.
Notwithstanding our Government has been making the most liberal offers to the English ministry, the Federal party have been reviling them for partiality to France.
We have the best authority for saying that the following proposition has been made by Mr. Pinckney, our minister at London, to the British minister, Mr. Canning, viz:
"I am instructed by the President to say that agreeable to the authority vested in him by law, he will remove the Embargo so far as relates to Great Britain, whenever she revokes the Orders in Council—and keep it on as to France, until she repeals her Decrees." Is this French influence? [Chron.]
Dispatches from Mr. Pinckney to the 6th ult were received by the British packet; the bearer of which reports, that our affairs with G. Britain were likely to be amicably settled, and speedily.
The New-York Daily Advertiser says, "accounts are now received which animate us with the hope of a speedy termination of our disputes with the Cabinet of St. James," and it is fully expected a few weeks will renew our accustomed intercourse, so long interrupted by the obstinacy of its ministers. We also indulge the fond hope that the Court of St. Cloud will see its interest in relaxing from that proscription against neutrals which forced us to withdraw our commerce from its grasp. But whatever be the issue of the present negotiations, have we not reason to be grateful to the Governor of the world, that we are free from the dreadful calamities which for years have been the scourge of Europe, and although the belligerents have forced us to suffer some partial privations, still we have just cause to exult in our condition, when compared with that of other nations.—Our government resorted to the only measure in its power to save us from being involved in the vortex of the most eventful struggle the world ever saw. On its efficacy, it has staked its fame and popularity, and we trust the event will thoroughly demonstrate its disinterestedness and its wisdom, and convince our fellow citizens, that we owe gratitude and confidence to those who risked every thing, dear to them as men and citizens to save their beloved country."

Portsmouth,  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1808.  REPUBLICAN TICKET, FOR ELECTORS OF President & Vice-President, OF THE UNITED STATES. His Excellency  John Langdon,  Samuel Bell,  Amasa Allen,  John Goddard,  Robert Alcock,  Nathaniel Shannon,  William Tarlton.
Electors of New-Hampshire! The enemy is busily employed in the subversion of your dearest, your unalienable right, your liberty. Your want of exertion, your inactivity on a late occasion has given them a temporary triumph; and elated by this, they get dare hope for more. Idle chimeras! decisive dream! Their internal arts are vain;—never will they shackles in chains (altho' the links were made of gold) Freedom's favorite sons;—never will they impose upon you a government of Kings, Princes or Nobles. We expect, yea we know you will be up and doing;—you will retrieve the past, wipe off the stain upon the fair fame of this State;—you will humble and cause your enemies to 'bite the dust'; in short you will one and all do your duty, and the approaching Election will prove a complete emancipation from delusion, and a return to correct principles;—it will prove that New-Hampshire is not the least among her sister States.
ELECTIONS. Pennsylvania.—Mr. Snyder, (the Republican candidate) is elected Governor of Pennsylvania, by a majority of 15 or 20 thousand. The Senate and Assembly will be decidedly republican; and there is an accession of strength to their congressional ticket; two republicans being chosen in the room of Messrs. Kelly and Milner, their present federal delegation. New Jersey.—It is now ascertained that the republicans have completely succeeded in New-Jersey. Of the whole number of votes given in for Assembly men in the State the Republican majority is 2740. Vermont.—Mr. Tichenor, (Federal) is elected Governor by about 400 majority.—Mr. Brigham, (Republican) Lt. Governor by about 300; in the council 3 Republicans and 10 federalists;—and 12 or 14 Republican majority in the House—making a majority of Republicans in joint meeting.
THE "Oracle man" appears much troubled for the political reputation of a certain JUDGE. Will the "Oracle man" inform us what right he has to demand the evidence alluded to? We have been already sufficiently explicit on that point. Should we however comply with the pretended wishes of the "Oracle man," and produce the testimony; we do not believe, that on due proof of the fact, the worthy Judge would undergo the ceremony of excommunication; but that he would still be found a favorite officer in the ranks of Federalism; be still renowned and beloved for his rooted antipathy to every thing Republican; be still received into the inmost recesses of the hearts of that cabalistic "Junio," which has so long plotted the ruin of the LIBERTIES OF THIS HAPPY COUNTRY.
WHEN the "Oracle man" was detected in the calumny respecting Lt. Nicholson, he promised to publish the refutation. How long does this political quack allow the poison to operate, before he applies the antidote? We again demand the refutation of the slander respecting Lt. Nicholson.
A certain federalist, on hearing that Bonaparte was willing to rescind his decrees against neutral commerce, provided England would revoke her orders in Council, exclaimed, "this is all owing to the d—d embargo."
Federal Piety. —A pious federalist in his late travels through the county of Strafford, in company who were conversing upon the refutation of the LIE, respecting the Two Millions of dollars, made the following public declaration;—that "he wished that all the Republicans in the United States were in the Floridas, and that the Floridas were sunk!"
A BAD STORY MADE WORSE:
RAW FISH COOKED!! The labours of the Oracle forcibly remind us of the mountain in labor which brought forth a mouse. We expected better things on Saturday last; the promise of a supplement and the extreme lateness of the hour at which the Oracle was distributed, all conspired to strengthen our hopes. Whatever doubts may be entertained by the Oracle to the contrary, we really wish they could produce certificates of fact, and not certificates which begin with "I do hereby certify that I believe," &c.
When the statement respecting the eating of raw fish was first made in the Gazette, the Oracle with its characteristic impudence declared it to be "absolutely false;" consequently true in none of its parts, and we were then told that "the testimony of Deacon Emery, certified to be true by Mr. Ayer & Joseph Emery jr." was before them.—The next Oracle evaded the main question, and without producing the certificates, demanded the author of the original paragraph in the Gazette. In return we published a letter from Hall Burgin, Esq. who need only to be known to be believed, (the infamous fructures of the Oracle to the contrary notwithstanding) and whose statement is perfectly corroborative of the original paragraph in our paper.—The certificates (so called) in the last Oracle are completely ridiculous;—no ways to the point in question (as they refer to boiled and not raw fish) and so absurd that we venture to assert they will never obtain the sanction of any man of common sense. What, eat fish, boiled in "salt-water" and dressed without salt and "stewed in fluff" and this in the metropolis of New-Hampshire? It is too ridiculous, and so totally absurd that it will never be credited.
We rejoice that the raw fish is at last cooked and we rather incline to believe that what "wrought this change, will convert the "salt-water" into fresh, and the "fluff" into pork fat or butter.
Our readers will now know how to appreciate Oracle comments and Oracle truths, and we shall gladly employ our columns more profitably than to follow them through the mazes of prevarication, evasion, and deceit.
TRIBUTE to Great-Britain! The Editor of the Baltimore Evening Post, has published an abstract of the Act of the British Parliament passed March 28th, 1808, giving effect to the Orders in Council of the 11th, Nov. 1807; with a table of the duties or tribute to be levied on the cargoes of American vessels, before they can be permitted to proceed to their port of destination on the Continent.
According to these duties it has been calculated that the port of Baltimore alone would pay an annual tribute to the British government of nearly One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars!!!
But this is not all. It seems the articles we are to receive from the ports of the continent, must also pay a duty even yet less tolerable, to his Britannic majesty! As for instance, the article Gin pays one shilling and three pence sterling per gallon, and the tonnage and other charges, on a ship of an ordinary size, will amount to about fifteen hundred dollars!!!
By the Orders in Council, be it remembered, that nearly the whole of Europe is declared in a state of blockade, and all vessels bound to its ports must stop at Britain, pay these duties and obtain his majesty's Licence to proceed on their voyage, or be liable to capture, adjudication, and of course condemnation!! The duty on a cargo of Cotton of 1000 bales, of 300 pounds each, which is about the common weight, paying 9d. per lb. in England, would amount to the precise sum of 50,000 dollars. The same cargo of Cotton at 14 1/2 cents per lb. the average price for fine Louisiana Cotton, will not cost at New-Orleans 43,500 dollars. Thus the exporter would have to pay 6,500 dollars in London MORE THAN THE ORIGINAL COST, as a Duty for liberty to proceed to the Continent!!!
In the name of common sense, we would ask, if Great-Britain meant really to retaliate upon France, why does she allow commerce to be carried on directly from her own dominions to France upon payment for a Licence? No, her sole object is to tax our commerce as if we were her colony, and to oblige us to trade with Europe only through her ports. If she may thus tax us one dollar, she may a million; and the whole profits of our trade would thus ultimately go to support her revenue. She means to make our trade not worth pursuit, and by bringing her own colonial produce into every market in competition with ours, to under-sell us there, and tax us for the liberty of selling. Merchants of America—Will ye submit to become the "hewers of wood and drawers of water" for the government of Great-Britain?—Will ye sacrifice the rights of your country and freedom of your commerce?
IT has often been alleged that the measures adopted by government, to counteract the baneful effects on our commerce of the Orders and Decrees of the belligerent nations of the great body of commercial men. To show the fallacy of these representations, a list is herewith exhibited of the sea-port towns in the United States which support, and of those which oppose the Government. It will be seen that out of 296,000 inhabitants engaged in external commerce, 234,000 are in favor of the Embargo and other measures which have been pursued to promote the peace and independence of the country.
   Whig towns, viz— Inhabitants.    Philadelphia 80,000  New-York 70,000  Baltimore 30,000  Charleston 20,000  Salem 10,000  Nantucket 8,000  Portsmouth N.H. 7,000  Marblehead 6,000  Savannah 5,000  Norfolk 8,000  Richmond 5,000  Petersburg 5,000  
For the N. H. Gazette.
Republicans of York District,
IT is to you that Liberty looks for support, at this time. View the stragglers of federalism,—View the unwearied efforts that it makes to accomplish the downfall of those principles on which this republic is founded; and ask yourselves, if you ought not to be vigilant? At such a time as this, your activity should have no other object in view, than success, which you are able to procure by being united.
The man who is distinguished by integrity, talents and every quality that endears one good man to another, should bias you in his favor;—nay, one who served you with the greatest zeal and energy for eight years, is entitled to your respect. Can such a man as this be found? Yes, Republicans, RICHARD CUTTS is such a man. He has served you eight years in an important station, and has been found fully adequate to the discharge of every duty, that has fallen on him. Federalism will say he voted for the embargo. Truly he did; and thereby gave a helping hand to the salvation of his country; freeing it from the tyranny of European despots. There was no man on the floor of the House of Representatives, that the embargo could so materially affect as Mr. Cutts and his relatives; yet he voted for that measure, as the only one which could rescue his country from ruinous alliances with foreign powers. In this light Mr. Cutts is a patriot of the first kind, submitting private considerations, to the imperative necessity of public-wealth.
Whenever trade can be re-assumed with safety and honor,—then be assured that Mr. Cutts will be among the first to raise the embargo. He lives by commerce; owns a number of ships that are in different ports of the United States; this being undeniably the case, how can he be so obdurate as to forego his own interest, without he saw it was for the manifest good of his country? No. The genius of America and manhood forbid it!
Republicans —On the first Monday of November you will be called to the biennial election, to choose a Representative; let that man be him who has been in that situation for eight years past. He knows your interests, and can best serve them. He has talents, and converts them to the good of
his country. Such a man ought to meet your approbation in every situation, in which providence may place him. Let republican virtue triumph. Tell the world that Federal intrigue although so base, had no influence over men of patriotic souls—Let the first Monday of November witness a virtuous victory over the insolent vice of domination.—Let all crowd to the place of suffrage, fired with that enthusiastic love of Liberty which characterized a Washington a Franklin and an Adams in support of the
Hon. Richard Cutts, Esq. who duly appreciates the situation of his constituents, striving earnestly to make the prosperity of this nation a paramount object to all others. Such is the man—Let virtue support him, white vice and insidious defamations shrink appalled from the presence of superior merit. Consider well on these things Republicans; go not unprepared for success; you are numerous—you are informed,—let not your numbers and information, be put aside by the arts and intrigues of your political enemies,—Arouse in your strength and victory is yours. Biddford, Oct 1808. IMLAC.
London News, to Sept. 16.
By the brig Confidence, arrived at Boston on Sunday the 16th inst. in 28 days from Liverpool.
CAPTURE OF LISBON AND THE RUSSIAN FLEET. London, Sept. 15.—State Office, Second Edition. We stop the press to state, that this afternoon, at half past four o'clock, a Son of Sir H. Dalrymple, together with Captain Halfhead, Captain of the Fleet under Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, arrived at the Admiralty, and at the Secretary of State's Office, with the important information, that "NOT and his whole ARM are Prisoners of War—that Lisbon is occupied by the British Troops—and that the Russian Fleet has surrendered to Sir R. Cotton. Some French frigates were found amongst them; the whole taken amount to 27 sail."
The Russian ships to be restored in six months after a definitive treaty of peace.
IMPORTANT from SPAIN.
The Spanish accounts to the 9th inst. have been received. They advise that the French have retreated from Burgos, & fallen back as far as Pampelona, where, it is said, they have been again defeated by the gallant PALAFOX. The Spanish forces are all pouring in that direction. The Austrian and Russian Ambassadors remain at Madrid, and carry on their diplomatic correspondence with their respective Courts through Trieste.
In the battle near Pampelona. Gen. Palafox killed 5000 of the enemy, and took 1000 prisoners.
A letter from the Magistrates of Tudela, to General Palafox dated 26th of Aug. announces the evacuation of the French from that city, after a residence of nearly three months.
Gen. Blake has advanced from Leon to Segovia.
The French Senate has been summoned to meet to take the affairs of Spain into consideration.
The escape of the Spanish troops from Holstein is noticed in the Paris papers; and their patriotic leader, the Marquis de Romana, fled a traitor.
Letters from Holland advise that Bonaparte is collecting an immense force, for the purpose of renewing his designs on Spain. It is further said that nearly 300,000 French were already assembled on the Spanish frontiers; and that Bonaparte was determined to send his whole force in that direction, if necessary to the attainment of his object.
Bonaparte appears at length thoroughly rouled to a sense of his danger from the unexpected and glorious efforts of Spain. French detachments are marching from Silicia, from Brandenburg, and indeed from every part of Prussia as well as other quarters, towards the Pyrenees. Marshal Ney has already passed through Bayonne, on his way to Burgos, where he is to assume the command of the French armies in Spain. The conflict is now beginning to assume a new and terrific aspect.
Our latest Paris Journals, which are to the 9th Sept. present a number of official documents of great interest. They give the Message of the Emperor to the Senate, and the Exposé of the several Ministers of the Administration in respect to Spain, and their relations with other powers. In the Message, Bonaparte says:—"I am determined to carry on the war with Spain, with the utmost activity, and destroy the armies which England has disembarked in that country."
The troops sent and to be embarked for Spain from this country, will amount to nearly 70,000 men; they are the flower of our troops, and will compose a greater force than was ever before sent abroad at one time.
Dupont appears not likely to escape from Spain. The manifold infractions of the convention, by which alone his own life as that of his army were saved, are considered so atrocious and dishonorable as to relegate the Spaniards from every obligation which they entered into in that instrument.
Insurrections are stated to have broken out in those parts of France which border on Spain.
The Sea Horse frigate, capt. Stewart, of 35 guns, has had an engagement with three Turkish frigates, one of 50, and the other two of 44 guns each. One of the 44s was sunk, the 50 gun ship and 700 men was taken; the other escaped. The action lasted three hours and a half. The Turks had 200 killed and 300 wounded. The loss of the British 6 killed and 50 wounded. The Prize has reached Malta.
Several original productions prepared for this day's paper, are unavoidably omitted—They will appear in our next.
DIED —In this town. Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkins, the amiable consort of Mr. W. H. Wilkins, merchant, aged 24, and daughter of Capt. John Salter. She was agreeable and beloved in life, she is deeply lamented in death. Mr. Samuel Neal, aged 20. At New-Durham, on Saturday last, Elder Benjamin Randall, aged 63.
NOTICE is hereby given that M. SIMES and S. SPARHAWK intend to present their additional account of Administration on the late Capt. MARTIN PARTY's estate, at the Court of Probate to be held at Exeter on Monday 14th November next. October 22, 1808.
WANTED TO HIRE—  Two Hundred Dollars; for which a satisfactory interest and good security will be given. Enquire of the printer.
Fall & Winter GOODS.
Samuel Goddard
Has received, per the latest arrivals, and is now opening an extensive assortment of fashionable Fall and Winter GOODS, amongst which are
Fawn, drab, brown and blk. pelisse Velvets; Scarlet, slate, and black Bombazets; black Bombazins; Emboss'd Velvet Ribbands; black and fancy colored lutestring do; 3/4, 7/8 & 1 black white and colored Cotton Cambrics; Fawn, slate, black and plum Florence Silks; plaid do; green, white and light Blue Sarfets; black Satins; bottle green, brown and fawn Silk Velvets; thread, cotton and Silk Laces; Silk Chambrays; Cotton do; Cotton Shirtings; Mens and Womens worsted and cotton Hose; Silk do. with laced clocks; superfine, middling and low priced Broad Cloths, Cassimeres and Coatings; Fearnoughts, Swankins and Baizes.
Stuff Goods of every description; cotton Checks; linen'd, cambric and common Dimities; Camels Hair Shawls; Cotton do; Linens from 2/3 to 8/6; Sattinets, Velvets, Cords and Thicksets.
Likewise just received
A few Bear Skin Muffs and Tippets; purple and white glass Buttons; blk. pelisse velvets; fawn and Green Cassimeres; an extensive assortment of Hosiery; olive and black Velvets; lad's black Morocco Shoes. All which he is determined to sell at a small advance for cash. Portsmouth Oct. 25th, 1808.
Smith & Haven,
Have for sale, just received per the Schooner Eliza from Washington, N. Carolina.
300 Bbls. Tar; 100 do. Resin; 10 do. Turpentine; 10 do. Pitch; 35 do. Varnish; 10 do. Spirits Turpentine; 10 do. Fig and leaf Tobacco. October 25th, 1808.
Notice for the last time.
ALL persons indebted to the late firm of JOHN & JONATHAN GODDARD, on book or note, are once more requested to make payment to the subscriber without farther delay.—As said debts all became due long before the Embargo Laws existed, it is expected that some other, and sufficient plea will be offered, if farther delay be contemplated; otherwise such as may remain unpaid after the first day of December next, will be put into the hands of an Attorney for collection.  JOHN GODDARD, Surviving partner in said firm. Portsmouth, October 25, 1808.
REMOVAL.
JUDKINS & SENTER,
INFORM their friends and customers that they have removed to the corner of Broad and Pleasant Streets, where they have on hand a variety of the most fashionable
Cabinet Work, and Chairs, of every kind, which they will sell as cheap for Cash or English and West India Goods, as can be bought in this town or elsewhere. They gratefully acknowledge past favors, and solicit a continuance. All orders will be punctually attended to. October 25.
United States of America,
New Hampshire District ss.
BY order of the Hon. JOHN SAMUEL SHERBURN, Esq. Judge of the district Court of the United States in and for the District of New-Hampshire, I do hereby give notice that the following libels have been filed before the said Judge, viz.
Joseph Whipple, Esq. Collector of the Port and District of Portsmouth, against a certain Schooner called the Lydia and her cargo consisting of 3 trunks of Goods, 16 boxes Candles, 47 boxes Fish, 108 kegs Butter, 60 barrels Flour, 15 barrels Beef, 196 kegs Salmon, 1 barrel Bread, 3 kegs Tobacco, 1 barrel do, 2 remnants Oznabrigs, half a barrel Peas—part of a barrel Bread, and a small quantity of Fish.
Also that one other libel is filed before the said Judge by the said Joseph Whipple against 63 kegs Butter.
And also that one other libel hath been filed by the said Joseph Whipple against ten barrels of Beef and thirty three barrels of Flour.
The said Schooner and all the before mentioned articles of merchandise having been seized at said Portsmouth for breaches of the Laws of said United States as is alleged in said Libels—and trial will be had on such of said Libels at the Court-house in Portsmouth on Tuesday the 15th day of November next at ten o'clock in the forenoon, that any person claiming property in said vessel and cargo and other articles mentioned in said Libels, may then appear and show cause if any they have, why they should not be declared forfeited agreeable to the prayer of said libels. THOMAS CHADBURN Dep. Marshal. Dated at Portsmouth the 17th day of October, 1808.
To be sold at Public
Vendue on Tuesday the 15th day of November next at the late dwelling house of JOHN CONNOR, late of Exeter, deceased, so much of the real estate which belonged to said deceased, as will amount to fourteen hundred dollars, consisting of mowing, tillage and pasture land of an excellent quality.—Also, wood land, in large or small lots, as may suit purchasers. Sale to commence at two o'clock in the afternoon, when the conditions will be made known. DAVID SANBORN, Administrator, de bonis non on said Estate. Exeter, October 22, 1808.
Dancing School.
MR. RICHARDS, most
respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen in Portsmouth, that he purposes commencing a school at the Assembly-room, Tomorrow evening the 26th inst. for the purpose of teaching the graceful and polite art of Dancing. Mr. R. will instruct his pupils in all the necessary parts of the art of Dancing, use his most assiduous endeavors to improve their manners, and to make them graceful performers, as far as their genius and abilities will permit. Terms—9 dollars per quarter, 4 of which are to be paid in advance. The Ladies can have their lessons in the afternoon, if preferred. Letters of recommendation and a subscription paper are left at Major Larkin's store, where those who wish to become scholars are requested to sign their names, or call at the Assembly room on the above mentioned evening. Oct. 25th.
EVENING SCHOOL.
THE Subscriber intends to open an Evening School, at the Brick School-house, on the 31st of the present instant, for the purpose of teaching the elements, and the application of the rules of English Grammar. Also, common Arithmetic, Mensuration of superficies and solids, &c. ELLAZER TAFT. October 25, 1808.
MUSIC.
A SINGING-SCHOOL, two evenings in the week, will be kept during the approaching Winter in a building, in Pitt Street, owned by Mrs. Chase. The instruction will commence 7th November. Price 12/ a quarter. Instrumental music also will be taught one evening in the week. Oct. 25th. AMOS BLANCHARD.
SMITH & HAVEN,
No. 5, Merchant's Row, Have for Sale, 30 Hhds. St. Vincents RUM; 30 Ditto Trinidad MOLASSES; SUGAR in Hhds. and Bbls.
WANTED,
2000 yards of best TOW CLOTH; 2000 bushels FLAX SEED. Portsmouth, Oct. 25.
LIST OF LETTERS,
Remaining in the Post Office, Portsmouth N.H. October 16th, 1808.
A. W. ANDERSON.
 B. James Brown; Richard K. Burnham; Jonah Batchelder, North Hampton; John Blake; Abigail Brown; Thomas Brackett, Greenland; Elias Bagley; Sarah Bishop; Henry Beck.  C. Catharine Crawley; John Curtes; Enoch Chapman; Wm. Christopher; Saml Childs; Wm. Cutts jr.; Mrs. Cazneau Bailey; Ichabod Chadbourne; James Cummings, Charles Cutts; Thomas Clapham.  D. Nathan Dow jr.; Elizabeth Downing; Joseph Dearborn, North Hampton; Levi Dearborn, New-Castle.  E. Reuben Eaton; James Elkins, Rye; Hannah Elliot; Joseph Ela.  F. James Folsom; Richard Flood; Cyrus Frink; Edmund Fernald; Sarah Fernald; Peyton R. Freeman.  G. Maryann Goodwin; Asa Grosvenor; Henry Gilles; William Gray; Betty Gunton; Sally Goodell.  H. Saml Hill; Wm. Hastings; Richard Hall; Thomas Humphrey; Abigail V. Hanson; Richard Hollis; Joseph Howland jr. Thomas Harvy; Robert Hagarty; James Hinds; Joseph Harrold; Joseph Hammond jr.  I. J. Henry Johnson; Mary Jenis; John Jones; Benjamin Jenkins, New-Castle; Sarah Jenkins; Lydia Jones; Betty James; Simon Jeunels, Rye; Rinald Jenkins.  K. Abel Kyes.  L. Thomas H. Lewis; John Larkin; Bryant Larkin; Samuel Little.  M. Prentiss Mellen; John McCann; James Marshall; Joseph Morrill; Elijah Marlow, Greenland; Francis Meagher; Charles Morris; Joseph Manson; Abraham Melune; Thomas Morton.  N. Thomas Nesbit; John Norton Jun.; Lucretia Neal, New-Castle.  P. Joseph Pickering; Samuel Parker; Nathl. Parker; James Potter; Wm. B. Pynn; Joseph Pierce; Ruthy Pickernall; Charles Palmer; George Plasted; Dominic Peduzzi; John Perry; Robert Phipps.  R. Samuel Rand; Mary Roberts; Aaron Rowell; William Reddell; Danl. Ramsdell; Benja. Rounds; Betty Remish.  S. Zebadiah Simpson; Richd. Sherman; Martha P. Sumner; Mr. Seaton; Gustavus Sheafe; Stephen Smith, North Hampton; Louis Saunders; William Saunders; Benja. Smith; Joseph Sanderson; Sally Sprague; Joseph Steedly.  T. Elijah Tucker; Jacob Field jr.; Isaac Thompson.  U. & V. Mary Upton; Samuel Pinnard; M. B. Vibert.  W. Richard C. Wiggin; Mary Worker; Sarah Wallingsford; Jonathan Warcy; John Windfor; Danl. Weeks; Mary Willson, Greenland; John Wentworth; Joshua Wentworth; John Warner; John Walden, jr.; Mary Walton; Hannah Warren.  N. B. Those Names with no towns annexed are for Portsmouth. 
MARK SIMES, Post-Master.
LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining in the Post Office at Exeter, N. H. Oct. 18th, 1808.
 ARTHUR LIVERMORE; John Lee; John Kennedy; Stephen Lamson; Pihlod Brewster; Samuel Tenney; Sarah York; Mary Quimby; George Prince; Rachel Johnson; Abigail Cutter; Albert Carleton; Seth Garet; Richard Elvin Orne; John Folsom; James Ferrer; Rufus Cutler; John Tarlton; I. C. Smith; Betty Durant; Samuel G. Smith; Secretary of Washington Lodge, Exeter.  Bean & Smith; Stephen Leavett; Jonas Marlow; Jonathan Morrill; Samuel Trafe; James Sinkler; Jonathan Smith, Brentwood; James Seamon; Jotham or Jonathan Rollins; Nicholas Rollins; Sherburne Wiggin, Stratham; Ezra Chase, Kennebunk; Rebecca Law, Poplin.  J. W. ELLMAN, Post-Master. 
THE subscriber having been duly appointed administrator of the estate of WILLIAM DAVISON, late of Rye, yeoman, deceased, requests those persons who have any demands to exhibit them for settlement; and calls on all persons who are indebted to said estate to make immediate payment. JOSEPH DAVISON, Administrator. Rye, October 21, 1808.

Miscellaneous Repository.
For the N. H. Gazette.
A correspondent observes, that the spirit of our country may be compared to a River...
A FABLE.
Some hungry Hounds went forth to find Food suited to the Canine kind...
State of New Hampshire, Grafton ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in ORFORD...
Table with columns: Proprietors names, No. of Acres, No. of Lots, Town tax, School tax, Highway tax, County tax, State tax. Includes names like Ben. S. Randal, Eph'm Marsh, Jona. Towie.
Orford, Oct. 13, 1808.
State of New Hampshire, Grafton ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in ORFORD...
Table with columns: Proprietors names, No. of Acres, No. of Lots, Town tax, School tax, Highway tax, County tax, State tax. Includes names like Ben. S. Randal, Eph'm Marsh, Jona. Towie.
Orford, Oct. 13, 1808.
State of New Hampshire, Strafford ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of MOULTONBOROUGH...
Orford, Oct. 13, 1808.
For NEW-YORK.
Sloop William, Abraham Trefethen, master; will sail on Thursday or Friday next.
State of New Hampshire, County of Coos.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of CHATHAM...
Table with columns: Proprietors names, No. of Acres, No. of Lots, Town tax, School tax, Highway tax, County tax, State tax. Includes names like Peter Livius, Jacob Treadwell, George Meserve.
Chatham, October 20, 1808.
State of New Hampshire, Grafton ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of LITTLETON...
Table with columns: Proprietors names, No. of Acres, No. of Lots, Town tax, School tax, Highway tax, County tax, State tax. Includes names like Moses Little, Thomas Webster.
Littleton, Sept. 21, 1808.
Room Paper.
THOMAS & TAPPAN, HAVE lately received large additions to their assortment of PAPER HANGINGS...
Portsmouth, Oct. 11, 1808.
Clarionetts, Drums and Fifes.
for sale at C. Prince's Bookstore
State of New Hampshire, Grafton ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of LINCOLN...
Table with columns: Original Grantees, No. of Acres, No. of Lots, Town tax, School tax, Highway tax, County tax, State tax. Includes names like James Avery, James Hoit.
Lincoln, September 26th, 1808.
State of New Hampshire, Grafton ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of FRANCONIA...
The names of the original delinquent proprietors, their number of acres and taxes are as follows:
Table with columns: Proprietors names, No. of Acres, No. of Lots, Town tax, School tax, Highway tax, County tax, State tax. Includes names like Verbeke farm, Welch farm.
Francis, September 20, 1808.
THIS DAY.
Public Auction.
AT THOMAS FOLSOM'S Tavern, in Exeter, on Tuesday, 25th inst.
A New Recruit of
DRUMS, FIFES, FLUTES, FLAGLETS & CLARIONETS, just received, and for sale at C. Prince's Bookstore.
SINGING BOOKS.
All of which will be sold, wholesale or retail—very low for CASH.
Barrett & Shattuck,
No. 51, Hanover-Street, Boston.
CONTINUE to dye & finish of Warrented Colours. Broad-Cloth, Cassimere, Sattin, Lustrine, Crape, Snag, Plush...
FOR SALE BY
JOSEPH T. BURGIN,
75 Sable Skins, dressed—Also, a large quantity of Pollock, Cod and Scale FISH, caught last year.
Inquire at Mr MARK RICE'S Coopers Shop, North-end—
October 11, 1808.
State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of SUTTON...
Table with columns: Proprietors names, No. of Acres, No. of Lots, Town tax, School tax, Highway tax, County tax, State tax. Includes names like Charles White, David Howe.
Sutton, Sept. 10, 1808.
State of New Hampshire, Hillsborough ss.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of FISHERFIELD...
Non-resident improved lands and taxes.
Table with columns: Proprietors names, No. of Acres, No. of Lots, Town tax, School tax, Highway tax, County tax, State tax. Includes names like Jonathan Temple, James Sheafe.
Fishersfield, September 7, 1808.
JOHN RAYNES proposes
to open a School, at his school-room near Mr. Wm. Simel's dwelling house, Broad Street, for teaching WRITING, ARITHMETIC & Book-Keeping...
Portsmouth, Oct. 10.
TAKE NOTICE.
Whereas Sarah Santclair, a pauper belonging to the town of Hampstead, N. H. hath repeatedly absented herself from those who have had the charge of her...
Jonathan E. Wadley, Jabez Hoit, jun'r. Selectmen.
Nathaniel Little, Hampstead, October 7th, 1808.