The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1798-07-24 00:00:00

THE New Hampshire Gazette.
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Vol. XLII.—Numb. 2173.]
TUESDAY, July 24, 1798.
[One Dollar & half pr. Annum.]
From the Farmer's Weekly Museum.
"And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him."
THIS text is more concise, than even SALLUST's history of the conspiracy of Cataline; but I think the prophet Samuel has sketched the features of rebellion with bolder strokes, than the Roman narrator. The words of Samuel, few as they are, may be entitled, A complete view of the motives of revolutionists in every age. Distress, debt, and discontent; what a magazine of combustibles for a disorganizer. What a train of artillery for warfare with legitimate government.
Let us open the Bible, however, once more, search the context, and discover the whole truth, respecting the above described throng of distressed, insolvent, and dissatisfied people.
The palaces of princes are rarely free from inquietude. Man is eternally impatient of a superior; and the frequency of court intrigues is proverbial. The pavilion of Saul, the Jewish monarch, sometimes resounded with other notes, than those of the lyre. Even a careless listener might, in the pauses of the music of the son of Jesse, hear the clamours of competitors, the struggle for precedence, and the bray of discontent. Among the courtiers of Saul, none was higher in the regal favour than David, after his victory over the champion of the Philistines. The sequestrated shepherd was metamorphosed into a court favourite. He was made free of the palace, and at length commander in chief of the royal army. Such was his popularity, that, on his return from a fortunate battle, a higher degree, of military renown was ascribed to him than even to his sovereign. The blooming hopes of the youthful subject excited the jealousy of his master.
"If," the king reasoned, "my people imagine the successful stripling is a greater warrior than myself; if he have the glory of slaying ten, and I only one, thousand of my enemies, what can he have more but the kingdom? The laurels of conquest will not be a sufficient meed for his ambition. He will covet, and perhaps wrest from me, my crown and my sceptre."
Such seeds of suspicion would naturally produce a plentiful harvest of bitterness and enmity; and the angry Saul soon thrust in the sickle . At least, in the vengeful moment, he thrust a javelin to pierce at once the heart and fancied hopes of a suspected rival. The proofs of the king's enmity soon became so flagrant, that David sought his safety in flight; and, after wandering in different parts of the country, and attempting admission at the court of Gath, he retired to the cave Adullam, and was immediately joined by four hundred malcontents; and who were they? Who thronged into a fastness; who repaired to a dark cavern, to plot the darker schemes of sedition and mischief? The answer is obvious, even if it had escaped the pen of the historian. Every one that was in distress, every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented.
It is not the design of this sermon to impeach the motives of David. They were correct. The dread of assassination, and the inveteracy of Saul, were a sufficient cause for the terrified youth to flee, like a partridge, to the mountains. The suspicions of Saul were groundless; and their object abandoned the court from a desire to save life, and not to usurp, or embroil the kingdom. But four hundred poor and restless men did not assemble at Adullam for such valid reasons. This banditti flocked to a wilderness, and shrouded themselves in its gloom, from motives base, as their condition, and desperate, as their circumstances. Saul had not quarreled with this Council of Four Hundred. He was not the source of their misfortunes, he had not urged their creditors to enforce the claims of justice, neither had he raised the cloud of discontent round their anxious brows. By folly and vice, reduced to a low grade in Jewish society, they wished, by a more summary mode than industry, or economy, to rise from the mire of contempt, and to cancel the bonds of the creditor. They wanted power, and place, and riches, and consideration; and, hearing that David had retreated from court in disgust, concluded that this was the lucky moment to change the color of their fortune. Their hopes were probably as wild, their speeches as declamatory, their gestures as fierce, and their hearts as rotten as those of a French National Assembly, or a club of unprincipled Jacobins. An inside view of the cave of Adullam would be worthy the pencil of SALVATOR ROSA. Had he painted at Jerusalem, what an interesting group of ferocious faces, indented with discontent, despair and crimes. Without the aid of the Italian artist, I can, through the optics of fancy, see them in their subterraneous retreat. They are rendered visible by the gleam of a single lamp, whose "doubtful and malignant light" assists one of the rebels to read his Tablet of Proscription. Care sits on their faded cheeks. Their looks are as terrible, as their purposes. Through the deeper shades of the solitary recesses may be discerned the lowering eye of the murderer, and the crimson spots on their daggers. Though it was not the mode for Jewish afflatus to wear a red cap of freedom, yet the ruddy insignia of their office are not wanting; and the silence of their lurking place is broken by the threats, or the schemes of the insurgent. "I shall now wipe out my debts with a sponge,"
says one. "I shall redden the temple with the blood of the priest," exclaims another. "In the jumble of a revolution, I shall rise from the lees of beggary, and become upstart," cries a third. While a fourth vaunts, like Adonijah, "I will be king." This is not a reverie. This is the language, and these are the intentions of men disaffected to government, whether you seek for them in the forests of Judea, or thro' the more murky shades of a democratic club room. In a compound of distress, debt, and discontent, infuse a little ambition; and the receipt to make sedition is infallible and complete.
In an age, when love of pernicious novelties, when aversion to established religion and government, and absurd jealousy of every man in office, are cherished with fanaticism, it becomes the duty of every lover of "the powers that be" to point out the criminal motives, which urge the spurious patriot to tamper with the passions of the restless. In every government, even in our own, the fairest, the mildest, the most liberal; one that has been invented by the wisest heads, and administered by the purest hearts, may be found men, like the associates of David, who groan under a load of debt, who are distressed, alike by the recollection and the commission of crimes, and who are discontented, because unadmitted to the graver counsels of the state. But it were equally madness to believe, that the misfortunes of this class are attributable to the prevailing policy, or that should their visionary hopes be gratified, the sum of national felicity would be increased. Ye credulous and gaping widgones of the populace, ye gossipping Gibbonians, who stretch your long necks to catch the dulcet sounds of the factious declaimer, it is not a melodious of your condition that he seeks. No; he is exploring, with ambitious eyes, the ladder of promotion, and wishing by your strength to reach an upper round. Ye are coaxed to believe that it is to search for your benefit, he wishes for elevation. Dislodge a worthier man. Place the patriot there; and soon "he will scorn the base degrees, by which he did ascend," leaving you still to struggle with the difficulties of your lowly station.
If men should gather themselves against the Federal Government, I should not ask if any of our officers had infringed the constitution, I should not dream of maladministration, or tyranny. Knowing the genius of our policy, and the upright and amiable character of our administration, I could not imagine that our laws were a dead letter, and that the chiefs of the departments were suddenly transformed into Persian Satraps, or Turkish Bathaws. Should, therefore, popular tumults arise, and I should hear the growl of sedition in my walks, I should look narrowly round, and see, whether I had not unfortunately fallen in company with men, who had lost their ears, or been whipped, or distressed by a rope round their necks, or discontented with an uneasy position in a pillory. Criminals of every class make excellent democrats; and if the government of Heaven could be realized on earth, demons and sinners must, of course, rail at the administration.
Now, if History and Experience both teach us that most seditious meetings are nothing but conventions of idle, profligate, restless characters, who, criminal themselves, strive to impute wickedness and corruption to their rulers, it behoves a prudent subject to shut his ears against the clamours of that vicious race, whose schemes, if accomplished, must, from the very nature of the projectors, loosen every social bond, annihilate order, dissipate wealth, degrade talents, vacate morals, and subvert religion.
I would advise that man, who is weak enough to suppose the revolutionary spirit salutary to the state, and who, from groundless terrors of arbitrary power of the few, labours to establish the more tyrannical domination of the many, to read diligently the history of the Grecian commonwealths; the life and adventures of one Lucius Cataline; Memoirs of the Gracchi family; a narrative of the civil wars in the reign of Charles the first; and the exploits of the famous Maximilian Robespierre. Indeed, to this list of books, the entire history of the French, since the year 1789, may be profitably added. Such a course of study would cure political discontent; but unluckily for the success of my advice, many of those, for whose benefit it is designed, cannot unfortunately read, or think. These illiterate reformers can be healed only by the rougher prescription of a whip, or a prison. More enlightened malcontents, from a view of the miseries, arising from revolt, anarchy, rapid rotation of officers, and officious interference with their measures, may possibly learn to submit.
THE LAY PREACHER.
MR. COLT, superintendant of the canal at Fort Stanwix, being provoked at an Irishman, gave him a sturdy kick: "By J---s, (retorted the Hibernian) if you kick to know you are a Colt , what will you do when you come to be a horse ."
A chance for 2000 dollars.
WHOLE and QUARTER Tickets in the 5th Class of Dartmouth College Lottery , for sale at J. MELCHER's Printing-Office and Book-Store, corner of Market and Congress Streets, Portsmouth, where prizes drawn to the tickets purchased there will be paid.
Take Notice!
THE CO-PARTNERSHIP OF Lang, Brierly, & Co.
Will dissolve by agreement, on the first day of January next.
ALL persons having any demands on the said Firm are requested to call at the store in Pleasant-Street, for payment, and those indebted, are called upon to make a final settlement, prior to that time.
The business will be carried on after the 1st of January next, under the Firm of Wm. Lang & Co.
In the same Store, who shall receive a complete and extensive assortment of
GOODS, Early next Spring, consisting of a choice collection of Summer Goods, Hard-Ware and Cutlery.
Said Co-partners have established a House in Liverpool, (England) under the Firm of THOMAS LANG & Co. for the purpose of shipping goods to, and receiving consignments from the United States of America.
Portsmouth, June 29, 1798.
GROCERY STORE.
Benjamin Leverett
Has just received and for sale at his Store, No. 1, Bow-Street, viz.
PHILADELPHIA Loaf Sugar per hundred or loaf; East India and Brown do per hundred or retail; fresh Hylson, Sou-choong and Bohea Teas of a superior quality; fresh Figs; fresh Muscatal Raisins per box or retail; Shell'd & unshell'd Almonds; Oranges and Lemons; Sweet Oil per flask; Capers and Anchovies per bottle; English Mustard per do.
Scout's true liquid blue for blueing silk stockings, &c.; Gunn's spit blacking Ball's for shoes and boots, an excellent preservative to leather, and leaves a beautiful gloss; Elliot's warranted Snuff per keg or retail; warranted Pigtail Tobacco per role, do. Fig.
—ALSO— A general assortment of GROCERIES as usual, as cheap as can be bought at any store in Portsmouth.
Windfor Chairs
of every description, warranted of the best kind, made & constantly kept for sale as cheap as can be purchased at BOSTON or elsewhere
By Josiah Folsom At his shop in PORTSMOUTH.
LOST, on Wednesday the 20th ult. on the road leading from Pembroke to Richard Jenness's dwelling-house in Deerfield, sundry receipts, orders and about thirty dollars in bank bills, with sundry other papers, wrapped up in part of an old newspaper, whoever has found the same, and will return them to the subscriber shall be handsomely rewarded for their trouble.
EPHRAIM PICKERING. Newington, July 5.
WHEREAS PARLOUR, wife of me the subscriber has behaved in a very unbecoming manner, by squandering my property and running me in debt.—This is to forbid all persons harboring or trusting her on my account, as I will pay no debts which she may contract after this date.
his JACK BRAIDY. mark. Portsmouth, June 26, 1798.
ONE CENT REWARD.
RAN AWAY from his master, the 14th inst. an apprentice boy, named THOS. BOWLER CHADBOURNE, about 18 years old, had on when he went away a blue outside jacket, fustian underwaistcoat, with striped trowsers; whoever will take up said runaway and return him to his master, free of expence, shall have one cent reward, and no charges paid.—All persons are cautioned against harbouring, trusting or trading with said runaway, as they would avoid the penalty of the law, made and provided for such cases.
JOSEPH MAN. Portsmouth, July 16, 1798.
FOR SALE,
The following valuable real estates situate in Portsmouth, late the property of Messrs. Richard and Joseph Champney, viz;
A large and handsome DWELLING HOUSE, In Buck-Street, WITH a valuable
lot of land adjoining, now in the occupation of Mr. Richard Champney, the house and buildings are in complete repair, and the situation very eligible.
The new and elegant Brick Store on Spring Hill, now in the occupation of Mr. Peter Coffin and others, being three stories in height in front, and five stories in the rear, measuring 25 feet by 44; is calculated to accommodate two or more tenants, and is the best stand for business in the town of Portsmouth.
The Rope Walk with all the utensils necessary for carrying on that business, in complete repair; together with a lot of land adjoining sufficient to erect another Walk thereon.
Also one proprietor's share in the New Hampshire Hotel and Portsmouth Pier.
The foregoing estates are offered for sale on advantageous terms to the purchaser, and if requested a generous credit with approved security will be given.—For further particulars enquire of WILLIAM SMITH, Esq. Boston, or Mr. NATH'L A. HAVEN, of Portsmouth. Portsmouth, July 16, 1798.
TO BE SOLD
At Public Vendue,
On the 9th day of August next, at 3 of the clock afternoon, at the late dwelling house of Jonathan Tilton, late of Kensington, yeoman, deceased,
By virtue of a licence from the Judge of Probate, so much of the Real Estate of the Homestead of said deceased, as will pay his debts.
JOSEPH TILTON, Attorneys to ENOCH ROWE, the Adminr. Kensington, July 10, 1798.
THE subscribers be-
ing appointed commissioners, by the Hon. Samuel Tenney, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for the county of Rockingham, to receive, examine and adjust all the claims of the creditors to the estate of Captain BENJAMIN CLARKE, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, represented insolvent, do hereby give notice that they will attend on said business at the Town-Clerk's office, in Portsmouth, on the third Wednesday of this, and the five following months, from 2 to 6 o'clock, P. M. GEO: WENTWORTH, A. R. HALL, Commis- WILLIAM SEAVEY, sioners. Portsmouth, July 11, 1798.
Dartmouth-College LOTTERY. Class Fifth.
THE Managers of Dartmouth-College Lottery , to accomplish, as far as possible, the design of the Lottery, are again induced to solicit the patronage of the friends of Literature, and request the attention of the enterprising, to the chance exhibited in the following
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   Prizes. Dollars. Dollars.     1 of 2000 is 2000   1 " 1000 " 1000   2 " 500 are 1000   3 " 300 " 900   5 " 200 " 1000   25 " 100 " 2500   30 " 50 " 1500   40 " 30 " 1200   50 " 20 " 1000   110 " 10 " 1100   1350 " 8 " 10,800   1617 24,000   4383  
6000 Tickets at 4 dollars, are 24,000 Subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 per cent. The Prize of 1000 Dollars will be placed to the last drawn Blank. The drawing will commence at Concord, on Thursday the 22nd day of November next; and when completed, a List of Prizes will be immediately published, and the Prizes paid on demand. JONA. FREEMAN, MICHAEL MCCLARY, Managers. WILLIAM A. KENT. June 19th, 1798.
On Wednesday the 15th day of August next will be sold at 10 o'clock, A. M. at
Abraham Isaac's
Auction-Room,
THAT large and elegant Library of BOOKS, lately owned by Theodore Atkinson, Esq. deceased; now part of the estate of John Sparhawk, deceased;—Also, a great variety of elegant SILVER PLATE.
WANTED
FOR the use of the U. S. Fort at Portsmouth Harbour, the undermentioned Gun Carriages, viz.
3 Carriages suitable for 32 pounders. 4 Ditto suitable for 24 do. 1 Ditto suitable for 18 do.
To be made of good seasoned Timber, and completed in a workman-like manner. Any persons willing to contract for the above, are requested to send their proposals in writing to
Jacob Sheafe. Portsmouth, July 13, 1798.
For Philadelphia,
THE sloop Harmony , Daniel Prows commander, will positively sail in 6 or 7 days, for freight or passage apply to the master on board now lying at long wharf.
DANIEL PROWS. Who has for sale 70 white oak Shooks with heading. Portsmouth, July 15, 1798.
FRESH GOODS.
Edw'd Parry
Has just received a fresh supply of fashionable
SUMMER GOODS,
Which he will sell on the lowest terms for Cash, at his store in Market-Street,
Among which are— A COMPLETE assortment of fashionable Chintzes from 9/ per yard to 6/9/.
Elegant assortment of Tambore, sprig and japan'd Mullins, of the latest fashion. A large assortment of book and jacquet Mullins, check'd and crois bar'd do. a few elegant muslin Do. ffes.
Muslin Handkerchiefs and Shawls of all kinds.
A complete assortment of strip'd and figured Mullins and Dimities.
Fashionable Ginghams and Lutestrings; red and purple and white copperplate Furniture; broad strip'd Chintz do. of the latest fashion.
Black and colored Modes; black, green and dove colored Sauns; black and colored India Taffeties.
Neat assortment of fashionable ladies silk Shawls; muslin and chintz ditto; long lawn and cambric pocket Handkerchiefs.
A large assortment of ladies and gentlemen's yeoman crown Hats.
Black and colored ladies fatin beaver fancy Hats, and trimmed Bonnets.
Bugle and other fancy Trimmings; fancy Plumes and military Feathers.
A large assortment of superfine broad and forest Cloths; black, blue, brown and mixt Kerfeymeres; plain and strip'd Elaphicks.
A complete assortment of fashionable summer Waistcoats; twill and plain Nankeens; Jean and Jeans; English and American Fustians; twill Velvets, Corduroys and Thicksets; Durant and Tammy; Shallons; Calamances and Russells; Mens' cotton and brown thread Hose, silk do; silk Gloves and Mitts; five thread Lace and Edgings; Denmark Table Cloths and Diapers; Irish Linens and Sheetings; English carpeting and India matting.
Few London made silver Watches; English Sewing Twine; American Looking-Glasses, &c. &c. &c.
Orders from the country will be particularly attended to. Portsmouth, July 13, 1798.
A Hostler wanted.
WANTED a Hostler for the Livery Stable of the subscriber; a white man, one that is single, acquainted with the work and willing to do it, such a one will meet with encouragement from
J. DAVENPORT. Portsmouth, July 10, 1798.
THE proprietor of the horse Bold Hunter, respectfully informs his friends who have had the use of his horse for the present season, that he shall leave this State by the first day of August next;—those who are in arrears by making it convenient to pay before that time, will materially oblige him. PHILLIP WEAVER. Greenland, July 14.

CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THURSDAY, JULY 5.
BUSINESS DONE.
A RESOLUTION passed, to increase the four regiments of Infantry of the present establishment, to ten companies of 60 men each.
Another Resolution passed, authorizing the President to raise twelve additional regiments of Infantry, and six troops of Light-Dragoons, to be enlisted for and during the continuance of the existing differences between the United States, and the French Republic. [These resolutions were proposed by Mr. S. Smith.]
A third Resolution passed, proposed by Mr. Allen, that the monthly pay of the non-commissioned officers and privates of the army of the United States should be augmented.
The Sedition Bill, as it came from the Hon. Senate, was taken up. This bill provides,
"That if any persons shall unlawfully combine or conspire together, with intent to oppose any measures of the government of the United States, or to impede the operation of any law, or to intimidate or prevent any person holding an office under the government, from exercising his trust; and if any person shall by writing, printing or speaking, threaten such officer with any damage to his character, person or estate, or shall counsel, advise, or attempt to procure any insurrection, riot, &c. whether such attempt shall have the desired effect, or not, he shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and punished by a fine on conviction, not exceeding 5000 dollars, and by imprisonment not less than six months, nor exceeding five years. And if any person shall by any libelous or scandalous writing, printing, publishing or speaking, traduce or defame the legislature of the United States, by seditious or inflammatory declarations or expressions, with intent to create a belief in the citizens thereof, that the said legislature in enacting any law, was induced therefor by motives hostile to the constitution or liberties and happiness of the people thereof; or shall, in manner aforesaid, traduce or defame the President of the United States, or any court or judge thereof, by declaration tending to criminate their motives in any official transaction, the person so offending, being convicted shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 2000 dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years."
Mr. Livingston moved, That this Bill be rejected. Debate ensued—warm and decided. The motion to reject was negatived—47 to 36. Committed for to-morrow.
BUSINESS PROPOSED.
Mr. Allen proposed a Resolution, for the appointment of a Committee to consider the expediency of DECLARING by a Legislative Act, agreeably to the Constitution, the political state and relation subsisting between the United States and the French Republic. Laid on the table.
FRIDAY, JULY 6.
BUSINESS DONE.
A Resolution passed, proposed by Mr. Harper, providing that the Debtor States to the United States, may expend the balances due the Union, in erecting fortifications therein, according to plans to be approved by the President of the United States. A Committee was raised to report on the subject.
Several resolutions passed, proposed by the same gentleman, providing for the punishment of persons convicted of writing, printing, uttering or publishing against the Government of the United States, &c. with intent to defame them, or bring them into contempt or disrepute; or to stir up sedition and hatred against them; to excite unlawful combinations against the laws and constituted authorities; or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation, against the United States, their people or government.—Providing also, for the punishment of persons convicted of meeting in self-created societies, convened for the purpose of forming, devising, or contriving any plot, conspiracy or combination against the United States, and the constituted authorities and laws thereof;—and of persons carrying on traitorous correspondence with any foreign power, its agents or people, for any of the purposes aforesaid.
The necessary and Constitutional provisions against the abuse of the powers to be vested by the above resolution, were also prepared, and adopted. The whole committed to the Committee on the Senate's Sedition Bill.
Mr. Allen's Resolution, purporting a declaration against France was negatived; in order to take up the following Bill from the Senate, to the same object:—
A BILL To declare the treaties hitherto concluded with France, no longer obligatory on the United States.
Whereas the treaties concluded between the United States and France, have been repeatedly violated, on the part of the French government, and the just claims of the United States, for reparation of the injuries so committed, have been refused, and their attempts to negotiate an amicable adjustment of all complaints between the two nations, have been repelled with indignity;—and whereas under authority of the French government, there is yet pursued, against the United States, a system of predatory violence infracting the said treaty and hostile to the rights of a free and independent nation.
Sec. 1. Be it therefore enacted, &c. That the United States, are of right freed and exonerated from the stipulations of the treaties, and of the consular convention heretofore concluded between the United States, and France, and that the same shall not henceforth be regarded as legally obligatory on the government or citizens of the United States.
This Bill was read a third time; and the question, shall this bill pass, was determined in the affirmative. Yeas 47. Nays 37.
YEAS. Messrs. Allen, Baer, Bartlett, Bayard, Brooks, Bullock, Champlin, Chapman, Cochran, Coit, Craik, Dana, Dent, Edmond, A. Foster, D. Foster, J. Freeman, Glen, Goodrich, Gordon, Guilwold,
Clegg, Harper, Hartley, Hindman, Hoffman, Imlay, Kittera, Lyman, Matthews, Ouis, I. Parker, Reed, Rutledge, Schureman, Sewall, Shephard, Sinnickson, N. Smith, Sprague, Thatcher, Thomas, Thompson, Tillinghast, Van Allen, Wadsworth 47. NAYS. Messrs. Baldwin, Bard, Blount, Burgess, T. Claiborne, W. Claiborne, Clopton, Dawson, Evans, Fowler, Gallatin, Gillespie, Gregg, Hanna, Harrison, Havens, Heister, Holmes, Jones, Livingston, Locke, Lyon, Macon, McClenachan, McDowell, New, Nicholas, S. Smith, W. Smith, Sprigg, Stanford, Sumpner, J. Trigg, Van Cortlandt, Varnum, Venable, R. Williams. 37.
SATURDAY, July 7.
Business Done.
The Naval Appropriation bill passed.
A bill respecting the expenditure of the balances of debtor states, on fortifications, read twice and committed.
Several enrolled bills were signed.
The army augmentation bill, was discussed and amended, and ordered to be engrossed.
The President informed the House, by message, that he had signed the Alien act, the Act for providing arms for the militia, and "AN ACT TO DECLARE THE TREATIES HERETOFORE CONCLUDED WITH FRANCE NO LONGER OBLIGATORY ON THE UNITED STATES."
WEDNESDAY, July 11.
A bill authorising the President of the United States, to borrow five millions of dollars for the public service, was read and passed, as amended.
The District Tax Bill, was also read a third time, amended and passed.
A bill to encourage, by a bounty, the capture of French armed vessels, by the private armed vessels of the United States, was read twice, and committed.
The question, that Congress meet again, on the first Monday of November instead of December, was negatived.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter and statement from the Treasury Department, requiring a farther appropriation to defray the expenses of the Office of the Naval Department, and for other purposes, of 16,720 dollars. It was referred to the committee of ways and means, to report by bill or otherwise.
The President of the United States, informed the House that he had approved and signed the act for the further protection of the commerce of the United States; and an act for the valuation of houses and lands, and for the enumeration of slaves; and an act specifying the time within which claims upon the Treasury of the United States may be presented for allowance.
THURSDAY, July 12.
A committee was appointed to report amendments to the bill laying stamp duties.
A bill was reported supplementary to the act suspending intercourse with France. Read twice, and ordered for to-morrow.
An Act for establishing the office of Accountant in the Navy, was passed.
The Bill respecting Debtor States, was passed to be engrossed.
The bill making appropriations for the Loan Office, was passed.
A supplementary Stamp Act, was reported, read twice, and ordered for to-morrow.
A bill for authorizing a Loan on the credit of the Direct Tax, was read and ordered for to-morrow.
The Senate informed they had agreed to the Sedition Bill—and an appropriation bill, and laid over that respecting Stills.
Mr. Nicholas proposed the adjournment of Congress on the 13th inst.
FRIDAY, July 13.
A committee was appointed to bring in an act relating to the entry of Stills; which was immediately reported and passed.
The Bill respecting Debtor States passed.
The additional Stamp Bill, was passed.
The Loan Bill, passed. A bill granting a bounty for the capture of French armed vessels was considered, but not finally decided. The bounty is, for every two pound cannon, 50 dls; 3 pound, 65; 4 pound, 100; 6 pound, 125; 9 pound, 150; 12 pound, 200; and 240 for all upwards.
The bill supplementary to the act suspending intercourse with France was lost.
Foreign News,
By the Venetia, Bates, from Liverpool. Papers May 24.
PARIS, May 11.
THE Minister whom the Batavian Republic has sent to Vienna, has not yet been recognized by the Imperial Court, although his recognition is one of the Articles of the Treaty of Campo Formio.
The Envoy of the Dey of Algiers at Paris has contradicted the report spread here of the decapitation of Jean Bon St. Andre, who left Algiers some time since, in order to go to the Consuls of Smyrna.
The name of "the left wing of the Army of England" has been given to the troops that are to be embarked at Genoa, Toulon, Bastia, and Civita Vecchia.
It is confidently said, that more than 40,000 men have been put on board the ships at Toulon, Genoa, Ancona, and Civita Vecchia. We have at present in these ports thirty-three ships of the line completely equipped and provisioned, for six months, of which twenty-one have been formerly in the Venetian service. It is supposed that this naval force, when united, will proceed through the Gut of Gibraltar, compel Lord St. Vincent to raise the blockade, and then effect a junction with the Spanish squadron, consisting of twenty-five ships of the line.
A forced loan has been imposed upon all persons of property at Rome, and in the different districts of the Roman Republic. The payments are to be made within the space of 15 months, under the penalty of military execution against those who shall not comply with the terms of it.
The army of Mentz, commanded by General Hairy, is called the "Army of Execution of the Empire."
SWITZERLAND, BASLE, May 1. Hostilities have already commenced against the little Cantons. They write from Arau, that "the General in Chief Schauenbourg summoned, by sound of trumpet, the village of Hagiengen, in the Canton of Zug, to surrender. The inhabitants carried their cruelty to such a height that they cut the trumpeters hands off. The French, greatly irritated by this transaction, marched against the armed troop that defended the village, took the place by assault, and then set fire to it." Another action has since taken place, in which the people of Zug were defeated.
ZURICH, April 25.
We are now in a manner delivered up to the scourge of civil war. The inhabitants of the Canton of Glaris and Oberland are on their march against us. Eight hundred of the former are at Lachen, near the south side of our Lake, and 800 more near Mach. The dispositions of the country people in our Canton is not very consolatory; and we have great disorders to dread. The Avoyer of Glaris, who is an excellent patriot, has been obliged to fly; and four Counsellors of Glaris have been imprisoned on account of being partizans of the new Constitution.
LONDON, May 11.
We yesterday stopt the Press to announce that advices had been received at the Admiralty from the island of Marcon, stating that a French Flotilla of fifty gun-vessels, with five thousand troops, had made a vigorous attack upon that place, which was so well prepared to resist the assault, that, by a brisk and incessant fire kept up from the batteries, the enemy were soon repulsed with considerable loss, and obliged to return to Havre. Six of their gun-boats are stated to have been sunk, and a greater part of the remainder so much damaged, that many of them are supposed to be unfit for further service; their loss of men, killed and taken prisoners, is said to amount to nearly three hundred. The English troops who so heroically distinguished themselves on this occasion were by no means numerous, and consisted chiefly, it is said, of Invalids.—We are happy to add, that the loss on our side was very trifling.
On Wednesday, after the Levee was over, a Board of Privy Council was held at St. James's.—Mr. Falkener, as Clerk of the Council, laid the book containing the list of Privy Councillors before His Majesty, in obedience to his commands; when the King drew his pen across the name of the Right Honorable Charles James Fox, and returned the book to Mr. Falkener.
MAY 16.
We this morning received the Paris papers to the 11th inst. inclusive. Francois de Neufchateau is the Director who is by lot to go out. Buonaparte, attended by Berthier and Merlin, a son of the Director, is gone to Toulon.
Some of the papers say (though there is no official communication on the subject) that Bernadotte is to return to Vienna, "where he will receive that satisfaction which is due to him."
MAY 18.
It was some time ago intimated to the Public, that Mr. Beckford, of Fonthill, who had just then come from France, was charged with a proposition to our Ministry from the Executive Directory. We now learn, that this proposition was, for the British Government to put 50,000. into the private pocket of the Executive Directory, which, it was insinuated, might dispose them to turn a favourable ear to our proposals for peace. The overture was of course rejected, with that scorn which all virtuous men must feel, at the development of such unexampled baseness and venality.
MAY 21.
There are upwards of Three Hundred Gun-boats lying at Middleburg. By letters from Vienna, of May 2, we learn, that the reports of the renewal of war had considerably increased, in consequence of the indignation which had been manifested by the subjects of his Imperial Majesty at the conduct of Bernadotte. The French Consul at Trieste had nearly given rise to another riot, by displaying a tri-coloured Flag. The preparations for War were carried on with great activity.
DUBLIN, May 17.
Extract of a letter from Rathdrum, (County of Wicklow.) "I have the pleasure to inform you, that this County is likely soon to be quietly settled, as this town has been crowded these two days past with the inhabitants of the neighbourhood flocking in to take the oath of Allegiance. A great number of pikes, sent in to the Magistrates, were publicly exhibited in the market place this day; and some of the leaders of sedition near Arklow, Messrs. Graham, Doran, and Neale, men of considerable property—some of them worth 30,000l.—have come forward and acknowledged their crimes, and their determination of giving the fullest information. The above you may rely on, as a copy of their affidavit of recantation I have read this day; it was sworn before three Magistrates."
Official Account of the Affair at Ostend.
[We have received, by the Venetia, a handbill dated May 24, with an official account of the issue of the English expedition against Ostend.—It is given in several letters, which, of necessity, occasions many repetitions. The following contains every important fact. It may be necessary however to observe, that the Bruges Canal was the grand vein of the inland navigation between Holland, Flanders and France; and its destruction was conceived an object of such importance, that Major Gen. Coote, who commanded the troops on the expedition, observed, that if the surf should prevent the retreat of his men, the success of the enterprize would be a full compensation. The whole number of vessels engaged in the undertaking
were 21, large and small, principally gun-boats. Three seamen were killed and sixteen wounded. The number of soldiers made prisoner, private accounts compute at 1300—there is no official statement.]
London Gazette Extraordinary.
Parliament Street, May 22, 1798. A DISPATCH, of which the following is a copy, has been this day received by the Rt. Hon. H. Dundas, from Lieut. Col. Warde, of the 1st Reg. of Guards, dated on board the Expedition frigate, 8 o'clock, P. M. May 20, 1798.
S / R. IN consequence of the Minerva frigate (on board which were the four light infantry companies of the 1st regiment of Foot Guards) having unfortunately lost her situation in the squadron under the command of Capt. Popham of the Royal Navy, during the night of the 18th inst. the command of the remainder of the troops, from that accident, has devolved upon me; and I have the honor to transmit you the most correct account that I have been able to collect.
Early on the morning of the 19th inst. the following troops, under the command of Major General Coote, viz.
Two companies, light infantry, Coldstream guards,
Two ditto, ditto, 3d Guards,
11th Regiment of foot,
23d and 49th company,
with 6 pieces of ordnance, disembarked, and effected their landing, at 3 o'clock, in the morning, to the eastward of Ostend, and completed the object of the expedition, by burning a number of boats destined for the invasion of England, and by so completely destroying the Locks and Basin Gates of the Bruges Canal, that it was this morning without a drop of water; and as I understand all the transports fitting out at Flushing were intended to be brought to Ostend and Dunkirk, by the inland navigation, to avoid our cruisers, that arrangement will be defeated, and it will be a long time before the works can be repaired, as they were five years finishing, and were esteemed the most complete works of the kind in Europe. The troops had retreated, and were ready to re-embark by 12 o'clock the same morning, with the loss of only one rank and file killed, and one seaman wounded, but found it impossible from the wind having increased, and the surf running so high as entirely to prevent their regaining the boats, upon which they took up a position on the Sand Hills above the beach, where they lay the whole of that day and night upon their arms. The enemy taking advantage of the length of time and the night, collected in very great force, and soon after day-break this morning, attacked them, on every side, when, after a most noble and gallant defence, I am grieved to add, they were under the necessity of capitulating, to a very great superiority of numbers.
I herewith inclose a list of the killed and wounded, and I have every reason to believe it correct.
Lieut. Col. Hely, 11th Foot, killed, Major Gen. Coote, wounded, Colonel Campbell, 3d Guards, wounded, Major Donkin, 44th Foot, wounded, Capt. Walker, Royal Artillery, wounded, And near 60 rank and file killed and wounded. HENRY WARDE, Capt. and Lieut. Col. 1st Guards.
CHARLESTON, June 18.
The United States brig Unanimity, commanded by Captain R. Cochran, designed as a cutter for this port, is now fitted and ready for sea. Yesterday she got under way, and failed round the buoy fixed on the lower middle; her sailing, which was very swift, agreeably disappointed spectators. Naval men generally think however, that her lower masts are considerably too taunt, and that she is not in sufficient ballast for the weight of metal she carries. As she failed down the river she gave the city a federal salute, which was returned by the Fort. May success attend her.
BOSTON, July 20.
COMMENCEMENT.
On Wednesday, the period for conferring Collegiate Degrees at Harvard University, was observed in the usual manner. The indisposition of the worthy President, however, damped that ardour of conviviality which has commonly distinguished this festive period. Dr. Howard performed, by election, the duties of President. The Exercises were judiciously selected, ingeniously discussed; and gracefully pronounced.—Capt. Amory's Troop of Cavalry performed the honor of the escort to the Executive, with peculiar propriety.
The following gentlemen were admitted to the Degree of Master of Arts, viz.
Andrew Beattie, Seth Bemis, Caleb Bradley, Nathaniel Bradstreet, Samuel Bumstead, Amos Choate, Oliver Cressey, Henry Cummings, Theodore Dehon, Saml Adams Dorr, Henry Gaffett, Benjamin Gorham, John Heard, Ebenezer Hunt, Amos Kent, Ebenezer Lawrence, Thomas Noyes, Francis Johonnot Oliver, John Phillips, Charles Prentiss, Samuel Jackson Prescott, Ebenezer Coddington Thaver, Benjamin Vinton, Thomas Wales, Joshua Wingate, Timothy Winn.
Mr. Jonathan White, was admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Physe.
The following young Gentlemen to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts.
John Abbot, Isaac Adams, Isaac Allen, William Austin, Tho. Beede, John Buxnam, Abiel Chandler, William Channing, Thomas Cole, Cornelius Coolidge, Andrew Croswell, Isaiah Cushing, Humphrey Devereaux, Joseph Emerson, Samuel Prescott Fay, Isaac Fiske, Ralph Hill French, Jonathan French, Henry Gardner, Uriah Hager, John Hamilton, John Hathorne, Moses Hook, William Hunt, Jonathan Ingersol, Otis Lane, Perez Lincoln, Stephen Longfellow, Nathaniel Lord, Abraham Randall, Samuel Prince Robins, Danl Rogers, Josiah Salisbury, Artemas Sawyer, William Smith Shaw, Matthias Spaulding, William Stackpole, Joseph Storey, Richard Sullivan, Ebenezer Thatcher, Robert Thaxter, Gideon Thayer, Joseph Tucker, John Varnum, Thomas Welsh, Sidney Willard, William Williams, Jonathan Young.
BRITISH JUSTICE.
Extract of a letter from an American Gentleman of respectability, in London, who is well acquainted with the state of American Claims; dated May 12, 1798, received by the Venetia.
"The Lords Commissioners of Appeals have recently done considerable business, and their sentences have been partly favorable to the neutral Claimants. On the 5th inst. they decided on eight American Causes: In seven they decreed restitution (in some with costs and damages); and in one they ordered further proof. I hope their doings this day may be equally favorable. The Martinique Causes yet continue litigation; but we hope some arrangement will soon be entered into respecting them that may tend to facilitate an adjustment."
"It is doubtful whether any Claims for provision cases would now be received by the Board, and it is very certain that no documents will be admissible after the 10th of Feb. 1799. An act of Parliament has just passed, legalizing appeals that were made out of time; and authorizing the Lords to receive appeals in such cases as they might deem just and proper."
Capt. Bates, from Liverpool, in coming out of harbour, May 26, heard a considerable firing of cannon, which he conjectured was the consequence of the receipt of some important intelligence favorable to the English.
The Lively, British frigate, is lost in Cadiz Bay.
A small French Convoy, from Morlaix for Brest, has been driven on shore by an English frigate, at passage Dehon.
Many returns of Members, of the Councils of France, made by the People, have been set aside.
Where the elected are not agreeable to the rulers—they are said to belong to an Anarchical Conspiracy, and refuted their seat.
Papers that do not please the Directory continue to be suppressed, sans ceremony. The Directory is evidence, jury and judge.
The Dispatches from the American Envoys were published in London May 20. Both Ins and Outs execrated the French conduct there exposed. The Courier, (an opposition Print) attempts to screen the Directory; but condemns Talleyrand.
The Congress of Rastadt remains in session. The French Commissioners discover much anger at not having their plan instantly agreed upon; and it seems probable something serious will occur, if the Negotiations are not soon closed.
Capt. Cole, who arrived last evening from Malaga, via Gibraltar, informs, that it was the general opinion at both places, that a speedy accommodation would take place between Great Britain, and Spain. While he was at Gibraltar, Ad. Nelson, sailed into the Streights with a fleet, avowedly to take from the harbour of Malaga, two Spanish frigates which were laying there. They were to be demanded, and if not given up, it was designed to batter the city. Capt. Cole speaks with confidence of their success.
Capt. Bofdet, from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and who arrived last evening, mentions, that a British frigate of 36 guns, had been totally lost on Cape Breton, a short time before he failed. The crew were preserved. Name of the frigate not recollected.
It is said American Stock was 12 per cent above par in Dublin, May 12.
The officers of Le Croyable, French privateer, are at Philadelphia. Her trial has commenced.
Gen. WASHINGTON, was present at the celebration of the 4th of July at Alexandria.
Mr. James Bell was arrested for treasonable expressions, at Carlisle (Penn.) on the 3d inst. and recognised in 600 dollars.
Marine News.
THURSDAY, Arrived brig Ruby, Cole, Malaga, via Gibraltar, 63 days. Captured on the voyage by a French privateer, re-taken by an English cruiser and liberated. On the homeward passage carried into Gibraltar, by a cruiser, but acquitted. Left at the former place, brig Zephyr, Elkins, of Boston, taken 16 days, was acquitted, and to proceed up the Streights; ship Telemachus, Miller, of Boston, ready to sail with a Danish Convoy, ship Hibernia, Tappan, Newbury, ready to proceed further up. At Gibraltar, ship —, Knap, bound Northward, failed same day, supposed put back having no Roll d'Equipage; fch. Nancy, Atkins, Boston, three N. York brigs. At Algeziras, brig Katy, Carter, of Boston; and —, Shaw, prizes to the French.—Six days since on Browns Bank, learnt that a privateer of 20 guns had been seen there, supposed French.—Passengers Capt. Sumner and Mr. Wyman.
Same day, Brig Betsey, Bofdet, Halifax, 13 days.
The Lucy, Lucy, from hence has arrived Alexandria. Lat. 39, was plundered by a Guadalupe privateer of 10 guns and 40 men. A large ship was seen by another vessel chasing a sloop, near this lat. a day or two afterwards.
Ship Thetis, Crocker, of Boston, captured by a French privateer, is retaken by the English, and sent into Plymouth.
ATTENTION!
THE critical situation of the country requiring that immediate attention be paid to our military affairs; each officer commanding a company in the first regiment, will, without delay, cause his company to be mustered, equipped, and disciplined as the law directs. The Captain of Artillery will forthwith call out his company, and report the deficiencies (if any) which, considering the importance of such a company in this town, will doubtless be readily filled up.
The Light Infantry under Capt. Sparhawk, merit the thanks of the public for the exemplary and soldier-like conduct already displayed.
Those officers who have not returned their companies this year, will do it without loss of time.
CLEMENT STOREY, Lt. Col. Com't. Portsmouth, July 24, 1798.

PHILADELPHIA, JULY 16. JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States of America. TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. THE Citizen Joseph Philippe Le-tombe, having heretofore produced to the President of the United States, his Commission as Consul General of the French Republic, within the United States of America, and another commission as Consul of the French Republic, at Philadelphia; and in like manner, the citizen Rozier having produced his commission as Vice-Consul of the French Republic at New-York; and the citizen Arcambal having produced his commission as Vice-Consul of the French Republic at Newport, and citizen Theodore Charles Mozard, having produced his commission as Consul of the French Republic within the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island; and the President of the United States having thereupon granted an Exequatur to each of the French citizens above named, recognizing them in their respective Consular Offices above mentioned, and declaring them respectively, free to exercise and enjoy such functions, powers and privileges as are allowed to a Consul General, Consuls, and Vice-Consuls of the French Republic, by their treaties, conventions and laws in that case made and provided: And the Congress of the United States, by their Act passed the seventh day of July, 1798, having declared, "That the United States are of right freed and exonerated from the stipulations of the treaties, and of the Consular convention heretofore concluded between the United States and France; and that the same shall not henceforth be regarded as legally obligatory on the government or citizens of the United States," and by a former act passed the 13th day of June, 1798, the Congress of the United States having "suspended the Commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependencies thereof," which commercial intercourse was the direct and chief object of the Consular establishments:
And whereas actual hostilities have long been practiced on the commerce of the United States by the cruisers of the French Republic under the orders of its government, which orders that government refuses to revoke or relax: And hence it has become improper any longer to allow the Consul-General, Consuls and Vice-Consuls of the French Republic, above named, or any of its Consular persons or agents heretofore admitted in these United States any longer to exercise their consular functions: These are therefore to declare that I do no longer recognize the said citizen Letombe as Consul-General or Consul, nor the said citizens Rozier and Arcambal as Vice-Consuls, nor the said citizen Mozard as Consul, of the French Republic, in any part of these United States, nor permit them or any other Consular persons or agents of the French Republic, heretofore admitted in the United States, to exercise their functions as such: and I do hereby wholly revoke the exequaturs heretofore given to them respectively, and do declare them absolutely null and void from this day forward.
In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, (i. s.) and the seal of the United States of America to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at Philadelphia, this thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of the said States the Twenty-third.
JOHN ADAMS. By the President, TIMOTHY PICKERING, Secretary of State.
Continental Affairs.
[We have had arrivals from France, which have brought the European Continental dates a few days later than by the Venilia. We need, therefore, to be but brief on the head.]
VIENNA, May 2. The Baron Thugut, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been dismissed, at his own request; and appointed as General Commissary of our new possessions on the Adriatic. [It will be recollected, however, that the French Ambassador demanded the displacement of Thugut. Centinel.]
The reports of the recommencement of the war, increase. New troops are raising.
Bernadotte has set off from Rastadt for Paris.
FRANKFORT, May 5. A large body of French troops is assembling near Dusseldorf, from Belgium, &c. The expedition against England, it is thought, will be deferred until peace is concluded with the Empire.
The Austrian army in the Tyrol is to be reinforced with 6000 men.
RASTADT, May 5. The Deputation of the Empire has received the long expected answer of
the French Minister. It contains the most extravagant demands of cessions on the Rhine.—Demands which we think will be refused with disdain.
The prospect now is more warlike than pacific; and preparations are making for the Arch-Duke Charles, Gen. Mack, the Prince of Furstenburg, and Gen. de Vins, to take the field, as separate commanders, on the Rhine, in the Tyrol, and in Italy.
Letters from Turin, confirm the advantages gained by the royal troops over the Piedmontese Insurgents, near Lake Major.
The Batavian Minister has not yet been recognized at Vienna!
BASLE, May 1. The French troops have entered Zurich. At Heglingen, 100 peasants have been killed by the French hussars. They are marching to Zug. All the small Cantons are to be revolutionized. One of the standards taken from the peasants, bore an image of the virgin Mary, with this inscription.— Defende nos in Præliis.
PARIS, May 2. Council of Five Hundred. The Directory transmitted a long message on the subject of the Elections. In which they denounce the counter-revolutionary principles which have influenced the primary and Electoral assemblies; and conclude with hoping that the Council will not permit men loaded with every crime, to sit in the Legislature; and that they would mark with reprobation those infamous choices, equally derogatory from the dignity of the Republic, and their own Independence.
MAY 7. The Council took up the report of Bailleur, on the Message of the Directory respecting the elections. It was in favor of the opinion of the Directory. It is necessary, says the report, to exclude from the Legislature, and from other public functions, the partisans of the two great parties that agitate the Republic, the Anarchists and the Royalists.
[Mark, readers, these men, thus denominated partisans, had just been chosen by the people, in those places where the Directory could not find bayonets enough to point the choice! Blessed freedom of election! ]
Gen. Jourdon opposed the plan as hostile to the sovereignty of the people, and to the freedom of the Constitution. Bouchin and Quisot did the same. Audouin contended, that the interests of individuals must yield to that of the state; and the measure proposed was necessary to secure the Constitution and the maintenance of true Liberty—"Ever keep in view," said he, "that the eyes of England are upon you. At London every consideration has yielded to the feelings of national pride. I hate this pride, because it is turned against us; but I cannot but admire its principle; and shall the Legislature of France be less united in support of Liberty, than the Senators of England in support of the throne."
Gaban Coutou said, that every period of the revolution has been marked by reactions, because the remedies applied to them were too slow, and at last too violent. "It is, therefore," said he, "Because I fear the interpolation of the Directory, that I am desirous that the Elections should be judged by the Legislature, before the pomp of an Armed Force be displayed to compel it to drive from its circle the enemies of the Constitution."
Garran opposed the plan as hostile to the freedom of election, and the sovereignty of the people, guaranteed by the Constitution. He complained that some excellent patriots; for instance, Bernard (des Sablons) a pure patriot is excluded, and replaced by Bailly, one of those who escaped from the 18th Fructidor, that was an accomplice of the conspirators.—[Violent murmurs, & calls to order.]
The plan was adopted; and by this measure the elections of l'Allier, la Dordogne, les Landes, Loir and Cher, la Loire, Basser, Pyrennes and Haute Vienne are annulled in toto; besides a great many individuals of different departments.
[Americans! Read the above article, then reflect on what tenure the French now hold their boasted boon of Liberty and Equality.]
PHILADELPHIA, July 11. A letter, dated Dublin, May 14th, received in this city, by the Draper, arrived at New-York, yesterday, states, that a conspiracy of the most serious nature was in agitation against the government; that three fourths of the people, Presbyterians, Catholics, Episcopalians, throwing aside religious animosities, were uniting to effect a reform. Several of the most wealthy mercantile characters had been apprehended—Arthur O'Connor, and several others (associates of Earl Fitzgerald) had been apprehended in England, and were to be tried for high treason on the 21st May. Government had offered a reward of 1000l. for Fitzgerald himself.
The negroes who arrived at Charleston (S. C.) from Port-au-Prince were ordered to depart on the 17th ult. and the revenue cutter appointed to carry them out of the limits of the state.
JULY 17. A letter, dated Bourdeaux, May 19, received by a gentleman in this city, says—"I this moment hear, that the United States brig Sophia, is arrived at Havre, and that C. Humphreys has arrived in Paris."
CONGRESS. Yesterday at 4 o'clock, Congress brought the longest and most important session to a close, which has been held under the present government.
The Senate postponed till next session of Congress, the bill further to amend the stamp act; and the bill for altering the time of making entry of Stills; and the bill for the relief of Reuben Smith and Nathan Strong. They also resolved that the bill respecting balances due from the Debtor States, should not pass.
NORFOLK, July 3. We are informed, that on Saturday night, a tall, lank, ill-looking fellow, with a large leather three gable hat, strutted up and down our wharves, declaring, with violent imprecations—that, in a few days he would have the command of a French privateer, with which he would set the Borough of Norfolk in a blaze!!!—We are also told, that a citizen who was passing at the time, not seeming to relish such horrid expressions, tript up the bravadoes heels and laid him prostrate, "to bite the dust."
NEW-LONDON, July 14. Capt. Brewster, 16 days from Point Petre, Guadalupe, has arrived here. Victor Hughes, finding the American vessels were armed, decreed, That all the small privateers should remain in port, and that all the national ships should be manned; which were 2 brigs, and 1 ship; and that all the inhabitants should be under arms, from the age of 16 to 50.
BOSTON, JULY 21. Congress of the United States.
HOUSE.—SATURDAY, July 14. The renewed motion for introducing a new bill for granting a bounty for taking French cruisers, was negatived. Nays 41. Yeas 40. Several laws, which have been noticed, passed various stages.
Marine Intelligence. Yesterday the frigate United States of 44 guns, Commodore Barry, and the Delaware sloop of war, of 16 guns, Capt. Ducatur, anchored in the lower harbour.
Wednesday, July 18.—Arrived Sch'r Annapolis, Young, Nova-Scotia, 9 days.
July 19.—Arrived ship Venetia, Bates, Liverpool, 53 days. Left there ship Orono; Jemison; brig Charlotte, Noble, to sail the 10th June; ship Magnet, Choate, all of Boston; Stockport, Town, of Boston or Savannah; Astrea, Tinkham, of Wiscasset; Caroline, Motley, of Portland; Pigeon, Sinclair, of New-York; Elizabeth, Webb, do. Betsy, Noble, do; Boston Packet, Cooperworth, Philadelphia; Thomas, Keene, do; ship Lovina, of do; Old Tom, M'Kown; do; Sally, Holbrook, of Baltimore; Planter, Driver, for James' River; Flora, Colley, for do; Lucy, Conolly, for Charleston; Neptune, Perkins, of New-London, for do; Sally, Morgan, of do. for New-York. The brig Delight, Clark, for Rhode-Island, failed 4 days before Capt. B. in co. with the Molly, Hodge, for Philadelphia, of 18 guns; brig Peggy, for New-York, and an armed ship for Halifax. The ship Alligator, Harris, of Portsmouth, failed in co. with Capt. B. July 1, lat. 45. 5. long. 50. on Grand Bank, spoke brig Sally, Stacey, 10 days from Marblehead, bound to Corunna.
Our attentive Nantucket correspondent says, "The 5th inst. the ship Commerce, Mother, of Bristol, owned by Bourn and Wodwell, from the Havannah, with 500 hogheads of Molasses, was cast away on Mufketeer, at the west end of this island—the vessel bilged, a number of people are employed in saving the cargo; 160 hogheads are safely landed here, our vessel that had taken a load out was proceeding for Newport, struck a shoal which she crossed, and sunk in 5 fathoms water, the people on board narrowly escaped in a small skiff, and landed on the Vineyard; it is probable most of the cargo will be saved from the ship, though she is now full of water."
Ship John and Martha, Captain Knapp, from Alicante for Hamburg, loaded with barrilla, is taken by a French privateer and carried into Malaga. She will doubtless be condemned.
Capt. Brewster who arrived at New-London, on the 11th inst. in 16 days from Guadalupe, says, Capt. Smith had died of his wounds.
JULY 23. Commodore Barry, and Capt. Ducatur, visited the town on Saturday last; they were received on 'Change with every mark of attention, and welcomed as the brave and patriotic defenders of our country's rights.
Yesterday failed on a cruise, for the protection of our commerce, the frigate Constitution, commanded by Capt. Samuel Nicholson.
Lloyds, May 16. The Galen, Mackay, from London, for Boston, parted company with the convoy the 8th April, and on the 25th, was captured by the Heron privateer, and sent for Spain. The Albany, from Dublin, for Philad. was captured by some privateer, 23d April.
The Heron privateer has since been captured by an English frigate, and carried into Great Britain.—One of the passengers, Mr. Monkhouse, was in the privateer, and has arrived in London.
For the New-Hampshire GAZETTE. WHOEVER may be the villainous author of the scurrilous publication in the last "Oracle of the Day," signed MANLIUS, addressed to the subscriber, is hereby requested to exhibit to public view his name, with authenticated vouchers in support of the base charges therein contained, and he shall be properly attended to; otherwise no other public notice will be taken of his Billingsgate production, being determined not to reply to the libellous writings of an anonymous scribler: In the mean time, the respectable part of the public, will be pleased to consider those vile allegations, and insinuations as grossly malicious and false; being purposely calculated to blind & mislead the credulous; in regard to my dismissal from Office, and with an intent to support and confirm the justice of the proceeding complained of in my statement of facts. The candid public therefore, cannot but view the wretch alluded to as a disgrace to human society. WILLIAM GARDNER. Portsmouth, July 23, 1798.
PORTSMOUTH, July 24. HIGHLY INTERESTING! From an authentic source we are assured that General WASHINGTON will accept of his appointment of Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States.
Agreeable to a late publication on the French finances, the expenses of that government exceed the revenue by more than a million of livres per day.
A letter is received at Philadelphia, from Jeremie, which states that the British have taken Tiburon, Plimouth and one other post, and were in full march for Aux-Cayes. Articles of West-India produce consumed at Paris, at the date of the last accounts were transported by land from Bourdeaux a distance of 600 miles. All accels by the Seine being prevented by the British fleet.
Card"> Cardinal Imperiali used to say, that fortune called upon every man once in his life; but if he did not then find him at home, he never afterward repeated the visit. The remark is strictly applicable to our national situation; if America does not at this period, by the united bravery of her sons, establish her character as an independent nation—she may pant for another opportunity of effecting it—FOREVER!
Lieut. Gen. Washington has reviewed a body of troops at Alexandria. He was in complete uniform. We have accounts of the arrival of the Secretary at War, at Georgetown, on a mission to the Commander in Chief. Mr. Humphrey, who went out with dispatches for our late Envoys at Paris, arrived there about the 14th May.
Neat Toast.—Given in Connecticut—"The Fair Sex—The only mortals to whom we will bend the knee."
Marine Intelligence. Sunday arrived ship Mentor, Capt. Flagg, from Martinique, which he left 25th June, under convoy, and in company with snow —, Hillman, brig —, Phillips, snow —, Rust, and ship Polly, Lambert of Boston; ship Fortitude, Dyer, ship —, Hart, brig Polly, Lowell, schooner Active, M'Clannan, and ship Commerce, Chamberlain of Portland; sch. Active, Endicott of Salem; and sch. —, Lord, of Newbury-Port. July 3, touched at St. Kitts and Tortola, where a number vessels joined and sailed with the convoy, which Capt. Flagg left in lat. 31. in company with sch. Active, M'Clannan, and sloop Jenny, Capt. Nichols of Wiscasset, which he parted with in lat. 41.
Same day, arrived brig Betsys, Capt. Robert Blunt, 17 days from Tortola, failed with the above convoy.
Same day, arrived ship Betsy, Capt. Mark Blunt, 23 days from Surinam, markets very low. In lat. 6. 20. long. 55. 0. was boarded by the schooner Haulker, Capt. Dickerson, from Martinique on a cruise, after strict examination, breaking open all the letters, and detention of 3 hours, was directed to proceed; lat. 27. 10. long. 63. 15. was boarded by the Pardre of 24 guns, Capt. Joy, from St. Kitts on a cruise, was well treated, and after examination directed to proceed;—Came passenger Mr. Minott, of the schooner Marcus, Capt. Moody, taken outward bound from Calco-Bay for Curaco, by the privateer Experience, he was taken on board the privateer, who took on the 2d June the ship Joseph, of Nantucket, Capt. Coffin, from Brazils, loaded with oil bound for Nantucket; on the 18th the Joseph arrived at Cayenne, was condemned and offered for sale before she arrived in the harbour, on her arrival the crew were all turned on shore without a farthing to help themselves. Capt. Mariner in a schooner from Boston for Surinam and a brig belonging to Mungo Mackey and a schooner from Philadelphia are condemned at Cayenne—15 leagues East of Cape Ann spoke a schooner from Barbadoes for Penobscot who informed, Capt. Moody with one man and a boy had rofe on seven Frenchmen and rettook his schooner and carried her into Barbadoes.
June 20th there was an Embargo at Surinam for eight days, could not learn for what purpose.
Same day arrived brig Little-Cherub, Capt. Shackford, from the Havannah, via New-York.
ENTRIES at the CUSTOM-HOUSE. DISTRICT OF PORTSMOUTH, N. H. ENTERED FROM Schooner Mary, Wentworth; Edenton. Brig Betsys, Blunt, Surinam. Ship Betsy, Blunt, Martinico. Ship Mentor, Flag, ditto. Brig Little Cherub, Shackford, N. York. CLEARED FOR Brig Olive, Stoodley, Martinico. Ship & Brothers, Turner, Liverpool.
DIED—At Boston, Thomas Fraser, Esq. of London, long a very eminent merchant of that city, Æt. 65. Justice to his memory and the honor of human nature, demand, this record of his character, that he was in his affections mild, gentle and amiable—in his disposition candid, humane, liberal & generous—in his conduct just, in his dealings, punctual—in his habits, correct and temperate—as a father, tender and interesting—as a friend, constant and affectionate—as a merchant, honorable and assiduous—and as a man and a christian, sincere and exemplary.
JUST PUBLISHED, By J. Melcher, And for Sale at his Printing-Office and Book-Store, corner of Market and Congress-Streets, Portsmouth:— Sketches of Masonic History, IN AN
ORATION Delivered July 25th, A. L. 5798. At St. John's Chapel, Portsmouth, BEFORE THE GRAND LODGE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, Accompanied by St. John's Lodge, AT THE INSTALLATION OF NATHANIEL ADAMS, Esq. GRAND MASTER Of Masons in New-Hampshire. By HENRY MELLEN, Esq.
"'Tis like the ladder in the Patriarch's dream, 'Its foot on earth, its height beyond the skies" PRIOR.
MALE MOOSE.
THAT remarkable Animal called the MOOSE, will be to be seen in this town every hour in the day, and until ten o'clock in the Evening, at the Store next to the Rev. Mr. Buckminster's meeting-house. This Animal is said to be the largest, and to discover the greatest variety in his looks of any that America produces—He is now a year and two months old, and is very near fifteen hands high on his fore shoulders—He divides the hoof, and chews the cud, in which two points he resembles the OX very much. Price of admittance 9 pence, half price for children.
TO BE SOLD, by me the subscriber, Three HOUSE FRAMES, now lying on Dover landing, one 30 by 40, two story high, one 29 by 38, two story, one 18 by 30, one story; one or all will be sold on reasonable terms; any person may see the Frames by applying to me. JOHN TITCOMB. Dover, July 25, 1798.
Ten Dollars Reward.
STOLEN from me the subscriber on the 21st inst. three notes of hand, two of which were signed by David Drake, one for 49 dollars, some cents, the other for 93 dollars, some cents, on interest, dated some time in January last past, the other was against Aaron Lamprey for ten dollars, dated Sept. last past; whoever will apprehend said thief, so that he or she may be brought to justice, shall have the above reward and all necessary charges paid by me. MORRIS LAMPREY. Epsom, June 25, 1798.
Stamped Paper,
For Notes of hand, Bills of lading and Bills of Exchange, and every other description of stamped paper sold at J. MELCHER's Printing-Office, at the same price as at the Supervisor's Office.
Loan Office.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the business of the Loan Office will in future be transacted in the rooms over the Bank in Portsmouth. JOHN PEIRCE, Commissioner of Loans for the State of New-Hampshire. Portsmouth, July 23, 1798.
REMOVED. MARKET-STREET, PORTSMOUTH.
Rich'd Evans
Has received a very large and fashionable assortment of the best ENGLISH and INDIA GOODS; He informs his friends he has removed to the store directly opposite the one he formerly occupied—and that he shall be very happy in receiving their commands. He wants to purchase 5000 yards good Tow Cloth.
NANKINS.
Richard Evans Has just received a few bundles best NANKINS. Portsmouth, July 13, 1798.

A FAVOURITE AIR.  By me the honest man be priz'd,  His blood with tinker's blended,  And let the rascal be despis'd,  From Cloris though descend. That fools should reverence claim from blood,  Fly Hence the base delusion;  He's truly noble who is good,  Hem, this is Constitution. Hard knocks abroad, when I was young, I got upon this hard head: With little craft, on button hung, I was at home rewarded. But to make up for Vides of blood, A patriot's vision, I drink my own, and country's good,  Hem! this is Constitution. When shows shall fall, tho' we retire, Should age make man unhappy? I'll sit beside my cheerful fire, And laugh, and take my nappy. When at my door grim Death shall knock, And think to make intrusion, Pray call again, say I, old cock, For here lives Constitution.
New Goods.
JUST OPENED BY  Peter Coffin, A variety of Fancy and other  GOODS, Among which are— BOOK, jacquet, strip'd, check'd, tam- boy'd, japan and brocade Mullins, some fringed with colours; book mullin Hand- kerchiefs; mullin Shawls; colored silk Shawls; fancy satin Ribbons; fancy, black and color'd Feathers; spangled fancy Fans; Ladies kid and black morocco Slippers; men's beaver, Woodstock and buck Gloves; elastic, cotton and silk Slings; satin Stock Stiffeners; Embroidering and other Sew- ing Silks; Epaukets; Shoe Ties; Purles; gold and silver Thread; do. do. Cord; Parasols. Portsmouth, July 5, 1798.
A Bargain!
To be sold in Epsom, about fifty rods from the meeting house, about two acres of excellent land with buildings thereon, being a house, barn and joiner's shop; with a thrifty young orch- ard containing about forty trees, situated at the crotch of two roads, being an excel- lent stand for a trader or any kind of trad- eman. Also about sixteen acres of pasture land within one mile of the meeting house; for further particulars apply to the sub- scriber on the premises. DANIEL SHAW. Epsom, July 14, 1798.
THE subscribers be-
ing appointed a committee to receive, examine & adjust the claims of the creditors to the estate of JOSEPH WHITTIER, late of Nottingham, yeoman, deceased, re- presented insolvent (6 months being allowed for that purpose)—do hereby give notice, that we will attend said business at the house of Col. Henry Butler, innholder in Notting- ham, on the first Monday in August next, from two to five o'clock in the afternoon, and of the five following months. THOMAS BARTLETT, } Com- GREENLEAF CILLEY, } mittee. SAMUEL GILE, Nottingham, July 17, 1798. State of New-Hampshire. Strafford, ss.
To John Goddard, Clerk to the proprietors of the township of Chatham, in the county of Grafton in said State.
WE the undersigned, owners of more than one sixteenth part of said township of Chatham, request that you notify and warn the proprie- tors of land in said township, to meet on Wednesday the 28th September next, at the dwelling house of Joshua Heath, Esq. in Conway, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, to vote and act on the following articles, matters and things, viz.
 1st. To choose a moderator.  2d. To choose a proprietors clerk.  3d. To choose and appoint assessors and collector with necessary powers.  4th. To see in what way the fet- tlers hold the land whereon they now live, and to settle and regulate all mis- takes that may be made to appear in regard to lands given or granted to settlers, or any other persons by any former vote.  5th. To see if the proprietors will vote to accept the mills that is built in said town by a former vote of the said proprietors.  6th. To see if they will choose a committee to examine and settle all former accounts with Collectors or Treasurer, &c. and all other accounts that may arise.  7th. To see what sums of money the proprietors will vote to raise to discharge any debts that may appear against the proprietors, and for the purpose of cutting and clearing the main road through said town, as laid out by a former committee. 
JOSHUA HEATH, JOSHUA FOSS, jr. ISAAC WALDRON, MOSES CANNEY. In compliance with the above request, I hereby notify the proprietors of Chatham to meet at the time and place and for the purposes abovementioned. JOHN GODDARD, Prop's Clerk. Portsmouth, July 9, 1798.
State of New-Hampshire. In the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and nine- ty-eight. AN ACT for raising a tax on the lands, and for making a road through the town of Lincoln. WHEREAS sundry inhabitants of the towns of Campton, Thornton and Peeling, have petitioned the General Court, representing that a road has been laid out by a com- mittee appointed by the court of General Sessions of the Peace, in the county of Grafton, leading from said Campton through said Thornton and Peeling, into and through Lincoln, in said county, and from thence to the road leading from Ha- verhill to the upper Coos; which road has not been made passable by reason of the said Court of Sessions not having au- thority to assess a tax upon certain lands through which said road is laid, and praying for a tax to be laid on said town of Lincoln, to be assessed, collected and laid out in clearing and making pas- sable said road, which prayer appearing reasonable: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court con- vened, That unless the proprietors of said township of Lincoln, within twelve months from and after the passing of this act, shall cut, clear and make passable the road afore- said, and within thirteen months from this time, shall produce a certificate from a ma- jority of the Justices of the Court of Com- mon Pleas for said county of Grafton, and the same certificate within thirteen months deliver to John Mooney, Peter Carlton and Nathan Kinsman, Esquires, who are hereby appointed a committee, and empowered and directed to levy and assess a tax of three cents per acre upon all the lands in said town of Lincoln, public rights excepted, for the sole purpose of clearing and making pas- sable such parts of said road as is within the limits of said town of Lincoln, to be assessed in one lift.
And be it further enacted, That the said committee be, and they hereby are authori- zed and empowered to appoint a suitable person as a Collector, for the purpose of collecting said tax:—And said committee shall assess said tax, and make a warrant for collecting the same, directed to said collector, and he shall levy and collect said tax with incidental charges, from the lands of any delinquent owner or owners, by selling such part or parts thereof at public auction, as shall be sufficient to discharge the same, after having given six weeks successive notice of the assessment, and of the time and place of such intended sale, in the New-Hampshire Gazette, and in some one newspaper to be printed in said county of Grafton, and by posting up a like notification and for the same term of time, in some public place in said town of Lincoln; and said collector is hereby authorized and empowered upon the sale of said lands, or any part thereof, to execute good and valid conveyances of such lands so sold, to the purchasers, referring to the proprietors or owners thereof, the right of redemption, as non-resident pro- prietors by law now have.
And be it further enacted, That the monies raised by virtue of this act shall be wholly appropriated to the purpose of making and clearing the said road in said town of Lin- coln, and that for the performance thereof the committee aforesaid shall give bond to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county of Grafton, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, that they will well and truly appropriate and apply the monies raised pursuant to this act to the sole pur- pose of cutting, clearing and making pas- sable the road aforesaid, and defraying the expenses thereof; and that they will within three years from this time render a just and true account of their doings, the monies by them received, and of their expenditures, to the Justices of said Court of Common Pleas, and the Justices of said Court, on receiving said account, are hereby directed to set a time and place for settling the same, of which time and place they shall give two months notice, by publishing the same three weeks successively in the newspaper in which advertisements for the said road is advertised, or in some newspaper printed in said county of Grafton, and the said Justices are hereby authorized to adjust and settle said accounts with said committee. And be it further enacted, That the collector to be appointed by said committee, shall, before he proceeds to act, give bonds to said committee, and be sworn faithfully to discharge the duties incumbent on him by virtue of this act. And be it further enacted, That the committee aforesaid shall, as soon as may be, cause this act to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, and in some newspaper published in said county of Grafton. Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That the proprietors aforesaid, if they shall cut, clear and make passable said road, and procure a certificate as aforesaid, shall pay to said committee so publishing this act, the sum by them paid to the re- spective printers, together with other ne- cessary expenses in publishing the same. Approved, June 20, 1798.
State of New-Hampshire. County of Grafton. WHEREAS at a legal meeting of the proprietors of the town- ship of Dryden, in said county, the proprietors voted a tax of eight dollars on each original proprietors right or share of land in said township, public rights excepted; and the said tax be- ing assessed and a tax bill with a war- rant put into my hands to collect, this is therefore to notify and warn the proprietors and owners of land in said township, to pay the said tax of eight dollars on each right, to me the sub- scriber or to Hexakiah Parsons, jun. at the dwelling-house of Capt. Heze- kiah Parsons, in Colebrooke, in said county, on or before the first day of September next, or their lands will be advertised for sale to pay said tax, with incidental charges, as the law di- rects.
JABEZ PARSONS, Collector. Colebrooke, July 9, 1798.
To the hon. Jonathan Warner, Esq. one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace throughout the State of New-Hampshire, and Jonas Minot, Clerk for the proprie- tors of the township of Bath, under the original grant of Benning Wentworth, Esq. Governor, made September 10, 1761, situate in the county of Grafton, in the State of New-Hampshire, which was then the Province of New-Hampshire.
WE the subscribers owners of more than one sixteenth part of said town- ship, request you to notify and warn a meet- ing of the proprietors and owners of land in said township, to meet at the dwelling house of Dr. Isaac Moore, innholder in said town- ship of Bath, on the 11th day of September next, at two of the clock in the afternoon of said day, to act on the following articles, matters and things:
 1st. To choose a moderator to govern said meeting.  2d. To choose a proprietors clerk.  3d. To choose assessors, a collector, a treasurer and any other officers that the pro- prietors may think proper, for conducting business respecting said township.  4th. To raise such sum or sums of money on each original right of land in said town- ship, to pay the expenditures that has or may arise, for bringing forward the settle- ment of said township, and for protecting and defending the proprietors title to said township, and any other thing the proprie- tors may think necessary.  5th. To see what effectual method the proprietors will take to settle all disputes respecting different claimants to said town- ship, and to make such grant or grants, deed or deeds, by themselves, their agent or their committee, as may be thought neces- sary for that purpose or any purpose.  6th. To receive, examine, allow and pay such accounts as may be brought against said proprietors, or act thereon as may be thought proper.  7th. To settle with their former agent, and see what further steps are necessary, re- specting the boundaries of said township.  8th. To act on all other matters that may be thought necessary when met.  9th. To see what the proprietors will do with respect to laying out said town, or ac- cept any former survey of said town.  10th. To see what method the proprie- tors will take to levy and divide the land among the proprietors, establish pitches heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, in such manner as to do equal justice to the owners. 
JONAS MINOT, LEONARD WHITING, JOHN HOWARD, FREDERIC FRENCH, MOODY BEDEL.
State of New-Hampshire. Pursuant to the foregoing appli- cation, the proprietors of Bath are hereby notified and warned to meet at the time and place, and for the purposes aforesaid. Given under our hands and seal at Port- mouth, the 28th day of June, 1798. JONAS MINOT, Prop's Clerk. JONATHAN WARNER, Justice Peace throughout said State.
Treasury Department,
June 27, 1798. NOTICE is hereby given, That by virtue of an act, passed during the present ses- sion of Congress, so much of the act entit- led "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt"—passed the third day of March, 1795, as bars from settlement or allowance, Certificates, com- monly called Loan Office and final settle- ment Certificates, and Indents of Interest, is suspended until the 12th day of June, which will be in the year 1799.
That on the liquidation and settlement of the said Certificates, and Indents of Interest, at the Treasury, the Creditors will be enti- tled to receive Certificates of funded Three Per Cent. Stock equal to the amount of the said Indents, and the arrearages of in- terest due on their said Certificates, prior to the first day of January, 1799. That the principal sums of the said Loan Office and final settlement Certificates, with the interest thereon, since the 1st day of Ja- nuary, 1791, will be discharged after liqui- dation at the Treasury, by the payment of interest and reimbursement of principal, e- qual to the sums which would have been pay- able thereon, if the said Certificates had been subscribed, pursuant to the Acts making provision for the debts of the United States, contracted during the late war, and by the payment of other sums, equal to the market value of the remaining Stock, which would have been created by such subscriptions as aforesaid, which market value will be deter- mined by the Comptroller of the Treasury. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
June 28. [6 m.]
Philadelphia, June 30th, 1798. Public notice is hereby given,
PURSUANT to the act of Congress, passed on the 12th day of June 1798, entitled, "An act respecting Loan Office and final settlement certificates, Indents of interest, and the unfunded or registered debt credited in the books of the Treasury."
That on the application of the cre- ditors respectively, or their legal attorneys at any time after the last day of December in the present year, the principal sums of the unfunded or registered debt of the United States credited on the books of the treas- ury, or commissioners of Loans will be re- imbursed at the treasury of the United States.
That interest upon the unfunded or registered debts aforesaid will cease from and after the last day of December in the pre- sent year.
That the creditors respectively will be entitled on requisition to receive from the proper officers of the treasury, certifi- cates of funded three per cent stock, equal to the arrearages of interest due on the debts aforesaid prior to the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. By order of the Board of Commissioners, of the Sinking Fund. EDWARD JONES, Secretary.
WANTED
A smart active Lad, from 12 to 14 years old, to attend in a small family; Inquire of the Printer.
Public notice is hereby given, THAT proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury for supplying the United States with a number not exceeding forty thousand stands of arms, on the following conditions:
 1st. The arms shall be manufactur- ed in the United States, conformable to the Charleville pattern; the bar- rels shall be proved, and the muskets inspected agreeable to the rules now practiced and required by the United States:—the Locks shall be duly har- dened; the Ramrods and Bayonets shall be tempered and the mountings, stocks, and every other particular shall be finished in a workman-like manner.  2d. The proposals must specify the number which the party is willing to furnish and the time or times of deli- very—One fourth of the proposed number, must be delivered in six months, one fourth in twelve months, and the remainder in eighteen months from the time of signing the contracts; the public will not be considered as bound to receive any arms, which are not ready for delivery within the times proposed.  3d. For every stand of arms, with Bayonet and Ramrod complete as a- forefaid, the United States will allow thirteen dollars and forty cents.  4th. When practicable and consist- ent with existing arrangements, sea- soned stocks will be delivered from the public stores in Philadelphia to contractors, at the rate of twenty-five cents each.  5th. The arms will be received in the respective states at places to be hereafter designated—The United States shall not be bound to prove less than five hundred barrels at one time, unless the barrels are transported to some public factory or deposit of arms, in which case any number not less than one hundred will be proved.  6th. The parties contracting will be required to give bonds with sure- ties for fulfilling their engagements; No money will be advanced unless in- disputable testimonials of skill and a- bility to execute the proposed contracts are produced, nor in cases where pro- posals are made for a less number than one thousand stands of arms; the right of judging of the expediency of making the advances of money is ab- solutely reserved.  7th. Until contracts are made for supplying forty thousand stands of arms, the sum of thirteen dollars and forty cents will be paid at the Treas- ury for every complete stand of arms manufactured in the United States and which may be delivered in parcels of not less than twenty into the pub- lic arsenals, already or hereafter to be established. Those who propose to deliver arms must however indicate their intentions seasonably to the of- fice of the Secretary of the Treasury. OLIVER WOLCOTT, Secretary of the Treasury.
Treasury Department, June 22d, 1798.
N. B. The proposals are to be trans- mitted under cover to the Secretary of the treasury at Philadelphia. [1st So.]
To the honorable Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, now sitting at Portsmouth, on the first Tuesday of February, 1798.
EBENEZER JOHNSON, jr. of Greenland, in said county, gen- tleman, guardian duly appointed by the Judge of Probate for said county, of George Lang of Greenland, afore- said, adjudged by said Judge of Pro- bate, to be non compos mentis, sheweth that before he was appointed guar- dian to said Lang, he had contracted debts to the amount of six hundred and fifty dollars, and as said Lang was not possessed of any personal estate to dis- charge said debts, your petitioner prays that he may be empowered to sell and convey so much of the real estate of said Lang as may be suffi- cient to raise the sum aforesaid. EBENEZER JOHNSON, jr.
Rockingham, ss.
Superior Court, Feb. term, 1798.
Ordered by the Court that the said Ebenezer notify all persons concerned to appear before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature to be holden at Exeter within and for the county of Rockingham, on the third Tuesday of September next, to show cause (if any they have) why the prayer of said petition should not be granted, by causing said petition and Order of Court thereon to be pub- lished three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, the last pub- lication whereof to be three weeks be- fore said term. Attest, NATH'L ADAMS, Clerk. Copy examined by NATH'L ADAMS, Clerk.
FOR SALE
A new genteel fall-back Chaise, with a good Horse, cheap for cash, if necessary, a generous credit will be given for a part, inquire of G. Doig, Portsmouth.
Lang, Brierley & Co. Have received an assortment of  Spring Goods which will be sold low for cash or approved credit. Portsmouth, June 1, 1798.
SCYTHES, Of a superior quality, Manufactured by BARTLETT. FOR SALE BY  J. & J. Goddard. Portsmouth, June 23, 1798.
India Goods.
Just Received by  PETER COFFIN, Per the ship Murdock, from India, A large supply of  India Goods:
Consisting of INDIA Cottons of the following descriptions, by the bale, Pools Coffes, 20 yds long 1 1/2 wide Marras Gunggee, 15 do 1 1/2 Jallopore Mamedy, 20 1 Marras Sammas, 12 3/4 Burbun Gurrabs, 18 1 1/2 Tandah Coffes, 20 1 1/2 Mamedy do 20 1 Ode Mamedy, 20 1 Sutry Guzar, 20 1 Emerty, 15 1 —ALSO—
Santipore, } Tangil Jungle, } Mullmull, } MUSLINS. Chundermore, } Tambourd } Corded and check'd Dureers. Bellisore and Bahar muslin Handks. Fine Bandannoes. Sooty Romals. Taffeties. Portsmouth, June 15, 1798.
FOR SALE BY
Phineas Ellis, A quantity of  Sheathing Paper, At his Store in Market-Street.
India Cottons, Cheap.
Received and for sale at  Bayley's Variety Store, Sign of the Spinning wheel, A QUANTITY of India Cottons, which will be sold very low for ready money. A fresh supply of Beverly Cotton Bed- ticks, warranted not to shed feathers. Portsmouth, May 25, 1798.
ALL persons having any demands against the estate of Thomas Peirce, late of Portsmouth, county of Rockingham, gentleman, deceased, are desired to exhibit them; and those who are indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate pay- ment to EDWARD J. PEIRCE, Attorney to THOMAS PEIRCE, Administrator. Portsmouth, June 22, 1798.
TO BE SOLD
At Public Vendue, By virtue of a licence from the Judge of Probate, on Monday the 30th day of July inst. at 4 of the clock, P. M. on the pre- mises. THE one half of a Dwelling-House, and 2 acres and 40 rods of land adjoining, situate in Exeter, belonging to the estate of Elizabeth Lamson, late of said Exeter, widow, deceased, and now occupied by Col. John Dennett.—Also, sundry articles of House- hold furniture belonging to said estate. Conditions of sale will be seen at the time and place of sale. NATH'L PARKER, Administrator to said Estate.
Exeter, July 9, 1798.
Just received and for sale at  William Stanwood's Shop, opposite the Mason's arms, Buck-Street.
FRENCH superfine scented Hair Powder, plain do; hard and soft Pomatum; Windsor and vegeta- ble Soaps; marble and plain Wash Balls; Face powder; Tooth powder; lip Salve; Court Plaister; Effences in small bottles; Lavender Water; Smelling bottles. —ALSO—
Powder Bags; Down Puffs; shaving Boxes, Razors; high priced Pen- knives; Ivory Combs, do very fine; Ladies and Gentlemen's Tortoise shell poll Combs, dressing and braid do. horn do of almost every kind; shoe, cloth, pocket, flesh, comb, and tooth Brushes; Tooth-Picks and Cases; men's Cawl Night Caps; patent Blacking Cakes, &c. &c. WANTED,
An Apprentice to the Hair Dressing business, apply as above. June 28, 1798.
Books, Blanks and Stationary for sale at J. MELCHER's Printing-Office and Book-Store, corner of Market-Street, Portsmouth.