The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1808-04-19 00:00:00

Wm. Ezra Bartlett, Esq.
[No. 20.—Vol. LIII.]
TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1808.
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Mr Monroe to the Secretary of State of the United States.
London, August 14th, 1807.
Sir—I had the honor to transmit you with my letter of the 4th inst. a copy of a correspondence with Mr. Canning, relative to the late aggression in the case of the Chesapeake frigate. You will receive with this a copy of a more recent one on the same subject.
By Mr. Canning's queries in his last note, I was led to consider as preparatory to an embargo on American vessels. I could not conceive why he should request information of me, whether the President's proclamation was authentic, and when it would be carried into effect, if it was not intended to found some measure on my reply, of an unfriendly nature. The information desired was not necessary to remove any doubts of his government on the points to which it applied, or to enable it to do justice to the U. States, in regard to the aggression of which they complained. The presumption that an embargo was intended gained strength from the circumstance that most of the Gazettes had recommended, and that the public mind seemed to be essentially prepared for it. It was my most earnest wish to prevent, as far as in my power, so unjust and pernicious a procedure. As the measure contemplated, whatever it might be, seemed to be suspended for my answer, I was extremely solicitous, by the manner, to deprive this government of all pretext for any of the kind alluded to. By replying generally that I had no instructions from my government, and could state nothing on its part respecting the late occurrence, I avoided giving a direct answer to Mr. Canning's queries; and by drawing his attention to the application which it was to be presumed would soon be made on the part of my government, on that subject, I endeavored to show more strongly the impolicy and injustice which would stamp any such measure on the part of G. Britain in the present stage.
No step has yet been taken by this government of an unfriendly character towards the United States; and from the communication which Mr. Canning made to the House of Commons on the day he received my last note, which you will find in the Gazettes sent, I am persuaded that things will remain in the state in which they are, till your dispatch is received. I trust that a disposition exists to make such reparation on the point in question, as will be satisfactory to the U. States, and that it will be practicable and not difficult to preserve the friendly relations subsisting between the two countries. The party however in favor of war, consisting of the combined interests mentioned in my last, is strong and active, so that it is impossible to foresee the result.
I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) JAMES MONROE.
TO MR. CANNING. No. 10.
Mr. Monroe presents his compliments to Mr. Canning, and has the honor to inform him, that he has just received instructions from his government relative to the late attack of the U. S. frigate Chesapeake, by his majesty's ship Leopard, off the coast of the United States.
Mr. Monroe requests that Mr. Canning would have the goodness to give him an early interview on that subject.
Mr. Monroe requests Mr. Canning to accept the assurances of his high consideration. Portland Place, Sept. 1, 1807.
FROM MR. CANNING. No. 11.
Foreign Office, Sept. 7, 1807.
Mr. Canning presents his compliments to Mr. Monroe, and requests the honor of seeing him at the Foreign Office on Thursday next, at 12 o'clock.
Mr. Canning would have proposed to see Mr. Monroe to-morrow, if he had not been under the necessity of attending the levee and council at the Queen's palace.
Mr. Monroe requests Mr. Monroe to accept the assurances of his high consideration. James Monroe, Esq. &c. &c. &c.
TO MR. CANNING. No. 12.
Portland Place, Sept. 7, 1807.
Sir—By the order of my government it is my duty to request your attention to the aggression lately committed on the peace and sovereignty of the United States, by his Britannic majesty's ship of war Leopard,
in an attack on an American frigate, the Chesapeake, off the Capes of Virginia. The object of this communication is to obtain of his Majesty's government a suitable reparation for that outrage, and such an arrangement of the great interest which is connected with it, as will place the future relations of the two powers on a solid foundation of peace and friendship.
In bringing the subject again to the view of his Majesty's government, it is unnecessary to dwell on circumstances which are already so well known to you. By the documents which I have the honor to transmit you, it is shown that while the outrage was unprovoked and unexpected on one side, there was nothing to extenuate it on the other. The commander of his majesty's squadron on the coast of the U. States, appears to have acted on a presumption, that he possessed the power to make war, and to decide on the causes of war. It will be difficult to explain the conduct of that officer on any other principle; and equally so to find an example of an aggression marked with such high indignity and injustice to a friendly power.
The pretext for this aggression could not fail to heighten the sense of injury which the act itself was so significantly calculated to excite. My government was caught to infer from it, that there was no limit to a pretension which had already produced so much mischief, and against which so many remonstrances had been presented, in its application to merchant vessels. But I find with great satisfaction that this pretension forms no topic for discussion between us in respect to ships of war; and I trust that the just and enlightened policy which produced the decision in one instance, will surmount the obstacle which has hitherto embarrassed it in the other.
The national character of the men who were taken thus violently from on board the Chesapeake, makes no part of the question. It is impossible that it should come into view in estimating the injury which the United States have received. The outrage involves a great and uncontroverted principle, which ought not, in any view, to be affected by appealing to national sensibilities on either side. I have however the honor to transmit you documents which will, I presume, satisfy you that they were American citizens.
With respect to the reparation which my government ought to receive for this outrage, it will only be necessary to appeal to those sentiments which Great Britain would be sure to indulge, under like circumstances; to that sensibility to national honor, which has distinguished so many epochs of her history. It will be recollected that the injury, which in itself was great, was much aggravated by the circumstances which attended it: that the peaceful relations of the United States were violated, and their unsuspecting confidence surprised. But I forbear to recite details which it is painful to contemplate. You will, I am persuaded, be satisfied that in every light in which the subject can be seen, the honor of my government and of the whole nation has been greatly outraged by the aggression, and that it becomes the honor of his majesty's government to make a distinguished reparation for it.
In presenting, in this friendly manner, this important subject to the consideration of his majesty's government, I am particularly instructed to request its attention to the great cause to which this, and so many other injuries of a like kind may be traced; the impressment of men from the merchant vessels of the United States. In many essential circumstances the objections which are applicable to impressments from ships of war, are equally applicable to those from merchant vessels. To the individuals who suffer by the practice, the injury is the same in either case. Their claim on their government for protection is in both cases equal; every maxim of public law, and private right, which is violated in one, is equally violated in the other. The relation of the belligerent to the neutral power, extends to certain objects only, and is defined in each by known laws. Beyond that limit, the rights of the neutral are sacred, and cannot be encroached on without violence and injustice. Is there a question of contraband, is the
vessel destined to a blockaded port in violation of established principles, or does the contraband property, the greatest extent to which the maritime law is carried by any nation? In these cases, she is conducted to port for trial; the parties are heard by an impartial and responsible tribunal, and are heard again by appeal if they desire it. Are any of the passengers on board the neutral vessel in the naval or military service of the enemy? If such are found they are prisoners, but as prisoners they have rights which the opposite belligerent is bound to respect. This practice however looks to other objects than are here recited. It involves no question of belligerent on one side, and of neutral on the other. It pursues the vessel of a friend for an unlawful purpose, which it executes in a manner equally unlawful. Every commercial vessel of the United States that navigates the ocean is liable to be boarded by it, and not an individual on board any of them is secure while the practice is maintained. It sets up every officer of his majesty's navy as a judge, from whose decision there is no appeal. It makes him a judge, not of property, which is held more sacred, nor of the liberty of his fellow subjects only, however great the trust, and liable to abuse on the main ocean, but of that of the citizens of another power, whose rights as a nation, are trampled on by the decision, a decision, in rendering which, every rule of evidence is violated, as it puts the proof of innocence on the accused; and is further highly objectionable, as there is too much reason to believe that it has been often guided more by the fitness of the party for service, than any other circumstance. The distressing examples of this system of aggression, as it has affected individuals, on a scale of vast extent, it is unnecessary to recount here. They may be easily imagined. Vast numbers of documents which prove them, are in the possession of both governments.
It is possible that this practice may in certain cases, and under certain circumstances, have been extended to the vessels of other powers; but with them there was an infallible criterion to prevent error. It would be easy to distinguish between an Englishman and a Spaniard, an Italian, or a Swede; and the clear and irresistible evidence of his national character, and perhaps of his desertion, would establish the British claim to the individual, and reconcile the nation into whose service he had entered, to his surrender. But the very circumstances which would constitute an infallible criterion in those cases, would be sure to produce endless error in the other. Who is so skilful in physiognomy as to distinguish between an American and an Englishman, especially among those whose profession and whose sea-terms are the same? It is evident that this practice, as applied to a foreign nation, to any great extent, has grown out of the American revolution, and that it is impossible for the United States not to see in it the assertion of a claim which is utterly incompatible with that great event. When the character of this claim, and the pernicious tendency of the practice, are maturely weighed, it must furnish cause for surprise, that some just and friendly arrangement has not long since been adopted, to prevent the evils incident to it.
My government is aware that his majesty's government has also an interest of importance to attend to, in this delicate concern—and I am instructed to state, on its part, that the best disposition exists to provide for it. The United States are far from desiring to profit of a resource which does not belong to them, especially to the prejudice of a friendly power. In securing them against a practice which is found to be so highly injurious to their dearest rights, and most valuable interests, every suitable provision will be made to give equal security to those of G. Britain. On this point I am authorised to enter into such an engagement as will, I am persuaded, be adequate to the object.
This great interest of impressment, has been blended in all its relations, as you will perceive, by no act of the United States. Its connection with the late disastrous incident has been produced by an extraordinary act of violence, of which they were the victims only. That act, which exhibits the pretension in its widest range, has
become identified with the general practice, in the feelings and sympathies of the nation, and in the sentiment of the government. I trust, therefore, that his majesty's government will be equally disposed to take up the whole subject at this time, and in making the reparation which the particular injury claims, provide a remedy for the whole evil. My government looks to this complete adjustment with confidence, as being indispensably necessary to heal the deep wound which has been inflicted on the national honor of the United States, by so great and unjustifiable an outrage.
I avail myself, with great satisfaction, of the opportunity which this communication affords, to acknowledge the prompt assurance which you gave me of the disposition of his majesty's government, to make a suitable reparation to the government of the U. States for the injury, of which, by its order, it is now my duty to complain; and for the frank disavowal of the pretension on which it was founded. I hasten to transmit copies of those documents to my government, by whom, I trust, they are by this time, received.
I have the honor to be, with great consideration, Sir, your most obedient humble servant. (Signed) JAMES MONROE. The right hon. George Canning, &c. &c. &c.
Mr. Monroe to Mr. Canning. Mr. Monroe presents his compliments to Mr. Canning, and has the honor to inform him that he called at his office yesterday, for the purpose of making some remarks on the subject treated in the note which he addressed on the instant to Mr. Canning. Mr. Monroe regrets that he had not the pleasure of seeing Mr. Canning at that time, and requests that he will be so good as to give him an interview to-morrow, at such hour as may be most convenient to him. Mr. Monroe will be happy to attend Mr. Canning in the country, should it be more agreeable to Mr. Canning to receive him there. Portland Place, Sept. 9, 1807.
From Mr. Canning, in answer. Mr. Canning presents his compliments to Mr. Monroe, and will be happy to have the honor of seeing him at the foreign office to-morrow at 12 o'clock.
Mr. Canning has but this minute received Mr. Monroe's note. Burlington House, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1807. 3-4 p. 8, P. M.
Duplicate. No.
London, Sept. 16, 1807.
Sir—I had the honor to receive your letter of July 6th, by Dr. Bullus, on the 31st ultimo, and did not lose a moment in entering on the business communicated to me by it, in the manner which seemed most likely to obtain success. The details shall be communicated to you in my next dispatch. All that I can state at present is, that the whole subject has been placed fully before this government in as strong an appeal to its interest and judgement as I could make, and that as a week has elapsed since my official note was presented, I am in daily expectation of receiving its decision on it. The moment is in many views very favorable to a satisfactory result, but still it is not in my power, from any thing that has occurred, to speak with confidence of it. The joint negotiation committed to Mr. Pinkney and myself, was suspended by the intelligence of the affair with our frigate, and has never been revived since. That intelligence reached this about a week after Mr. Purviance, so that we had only been able with the utmost diligence, to take the preliminary step of presenting to Mr. Canning, in conformity to our instructions, a project, and of explaining to him in the most minute and comprehensive manner that we could, every circumstance appertaining to it. No answer was given to our communication; the suspension therefore of the negotiation, was imputable to Mr. Canning; had he answered our communication and proposed to proceed in the negotiation, it would have become a question for the commission to have decided, how far it would have been proper under existing circumstances to comply with the invitation; his silence however relieved us from that dilemma.
Permit me to present to you Jos. A. Smith, of South Carolina, and to refer you to him for much information of a general nature, on the subject of our affairs with this country. Having been long in Europe, and visited almost every part, he possesses great information of the political state of its several powers, especially of Russia, from whose sovereign he received very dif-
tinguished marks of attention. In much communication which I have had with Mr. Smith for a year past, I have found him to be animated with strong sentiments of patriotism towards his country, and as he has expressed a desire of being personally known to the President, and yourself, I have been happy to promote his object, by giving him this introduction. I am with great respect, Sir, your most obt. servant. JAMES MONROE.
P. S. A copy of my note to Mr. Canning is enclosed.
JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State.
FROM MR. CANNING. No. 14.
Foreign Office, Sept. 23, 1807.
Sir—I have laid before the king my master the letter which I had the honor to receive from you, on the 8th of this month.
Before I proceed to observe upon that part of it which relates more immediately to the question now at issue between our two governments, I am commanded, in the first instance, to express the surprise which is felt at the total omission of a subject, upon which, I had already been commanded to apply to you for information: the proclamation purported to have been issued by the President of the United States. Of this paper, when last I addressed you upon it, you professed not to have any knowledge, beyond what the ordinary channels of public information afforded, nor any authority to declare it to be authentic.
I feel it an indispensable duty to renew my enquiry on this subject. The answer which I may receive from you is by no means unimportant to the settlement of the discussion which has arisen from the encounter between the Leopard and the Chesapeake.
The whole of the question arising out of that transaction, is in fact no other than a question as to the amount of reparation due by his majesty for the unauthorised act of his officer: and you will, therefore, readily perceive that, in so far as the government of the United States have thought proper to take that reparation into their own hands, and to resort to measures of retaliation, previously to any direct application to the British government, or to the British minister in America, for redress; in so far the British government is entitled to take such measures into account, and to consider them in the estimate of reparation which is acknowledged to have been originally due.
The total exclusion of all ships of war belonging to one of the two belligerent parties, while the ships of war of the other were protected by the harbors of the neutral power, would furnish no light ground of complaint against that neutral, if considered in any other point of view, than as a measure of retaliation for a previous injury: and, so considered, it cannot but be necessary to take it into account in the adjustment of the original dispute.
I am therefore distinctly to repeat the enquiry, whether you are now enabled to declare, Sir, that the proclamation is to be considered as the authentic act of your government? And if so, I am further to enquire, whether you are authorised to notify the intention of your government to withdraw that proclamation, on the knowledge of his majesty's disavowal of the act which occasioned its publication?
The light in which you are directed to represent admiral Berkeley's conduct, and the description which you give of the character of the measure imputed to him,—that "he acted as if he had the power to make war, and to decide the causes of war;" sufficiently evince the necessity of comprehending in this discussion, all the circumstances which have led to, or have followed the action with the Chesapeake.
Undoubtedly the attack upon a national ship of war, is an act of hostility, and the very essence of the charge against admiral Berkeley, as you represent it, is the having taken upon himself to commit an act of hostility without the previous authority of his government.
The provocation which may have led to such an act, without such previous authority, if it cannot justify, may possibly extenuate it; as the steps which have been taken in reprisal, though they cannot alter the character of the original act, may and do materially affect every question concerning the reparation claimed for it.
On this ground it is, that, while I am commanded to repeat to you (what you consider as so satisfactory) that the general and unqualified pretension to search ships of war for deserters, is not asserted by this country, "I am precluded from concurring in the inference, that therefore the national character of the men who were violently taken from on board the Chesapeake, makes no part of the present question."
If the right to search ships of war for deserters is not insisted upon by this country, it is not because the employment and the detention of British mariners on board the national ship of any state are considered as less injurious towards Great Britain than their employment on board of merchant vessels (a proposition which would be manifestly absurd). It is not intended to allow that the sailors of Great Britain may be justly employed, against their consent, in foreign ships of war; but merely that redress is, in that case, to be sought for by government from government; and not to be summarily enforced by the unauthorised officer of any of his majesty's ships of war.
It follows from this reasoning, that not only the "national character" of the men taken out of the Chesapeake is matter for consideration; but that the reparation to be made by the British government to that of the U. States, would depend, among other circumstances, on the question whether

an act, which the British government would be justified in considering as an act of hostility, had been committed by the government of the U. States, (in refusing to discharge the British seamen in their national service) previously to commission of an act of hostility, of an officer of his majesty.
The act of the British officer would still be an unauthorized act, and as such liable to complaint and disapprobation; but the case, as between government and government, would be materially varied.
At the same time that I offer to you this explanation of the principles upon which his majesty has authorized me to discuss with you the subject of your representation, and that I renew to you the assurances of the disposition to conduct that discussion in the most amicable form, and to bring it to a conclusion satisfactory to the honor and to the feelings of both countries; it is matter of regret that you should have been instructed to annex to the demand of reparation for the attack of the Leopard upon the Chesapeake, any proposition whatever respecting the search for British seamen in merchant vessels; a subject, which is wholly unconnected with the case of the Leopard and the Chesapeake, and which can only tend to complicate and embarrass a discussion, in itself of sufficient delicacy and importance.
In stating the grounds upon which your government expect with confidence that "the whole subject of impressment shall be taken up at this time" and that in making the reparation which is claimed for the particular injury alleged to have been sustained by the United States, in the late unfortunate transaction off the capes of Virginia, "a remedy shall be provided for the whole evil," you appear to have been directed to assume that this act of violence (such as you describe it) is the natural and almost necessary result of the practice of impressment of British seamen from merchant vessels of other states; and to represent the particular transaction and the general question of impressment, as "identical in the feelings and sympathies of your nation, was well as in the sentiment of your government."
With every attention due to the feelings of the people of the United States, I am sure you will readily allow that those feelings cannot properly be considered as affecting the merits of the case.
The first ebullitions of national sensibility may very naturally have communicated an impulse to the proceedings of the American government; but it cannot be expected, that they should guide the deliberate opinions and conduct of the government with which you have to treat. I would farther observe to you, that your government cannot reasonably claim any advantage in argument from the expressed sense of its own people, unless it be prepared at the same time to take upon itself a responsibility (which there is no desire of attributing to it) for the outrage and indecency, with which upon the late occasion, that expression, has in too many instances been accompanied.—It is better for temperate reasoning, and assuredly it is more advantageous for the government of the U. States, that the consideration of popular feeling should be wholly omitted in this discussion.
The right and the practice of which you are instructed to complain, as irreconcilable with justice, and intolerable in all their parts, have been exercised by G. Britain from the earliest ages of the British naval power, even without any qualification or exception in favor of national ships of war.
The grounds upon which such a distinction has been admitted in later times, and upon which, for the course of nearly a century, the crown has forborne to instruct the commanders of its ships of war, to search foreign ships of war for deserters, I have already had the honor to explain to you.—And you will have perceived that those grounds are wholly inapplicable to ships in the merchant service.
That a foreign power will not, knowingly, retain in its national service, mariners the natural born subjects of his majesty, who have been recalled by public proclamation, may be regarded as a presumption arising out of the hostile nature of the act and out of the probable consequences to which such an act of hostility must lead.
But with respect to merchant vessels, there is no such presumption.
When mariners, subjects of his majesty, are employed in the private service of foreign individuals, under private civil contracts, the king's subjects, and the foreign individuals with whom they serve, enter into engagements inconsistent with the duty of his majesty's subjects towards him; but to those engagements the government of the foreign nation has not made itself a party.
In such cases, the species of redress which the practice of all times has admitted and sanctioned, is that of taking those subjects at sea out of the service of such foreign individuals; and recalling them to the discharge of that previous and paramount duty to which they owe to their sovereign and to their country.
That the exercise of this right, involves some of the dearest interests of G. B. your government is ready to acknowledge, and has accordingly authorized you to propose certain regulations which you apprehend would be equivalent in their effect for the preservation of the interests concerned.
There will be no indisposition here to entertain, at a proper time, the discussion of such proposed regulations. But when you recollect that many proposals to this effect have already been brought forward, and have been found wholly inadmissible; when you have, yourself, recently had occasion to experience the difficulty of framing any satisfactory arrangement upon the subject; with all the anxiety which is properly felt by both governments for the speedy adjustment of the difference between them, and for the "healing of that deep wound which you state to have been inflicted on the national honor of the U. States;" surely it is not well-advised to make the termination of that difference, and the healing that wound, dependent wholly on the complete success of an attempt, which has already been made so often, and which has hitherto uniformly failed.
Your own reasoning shows that you are aware of the more than ordinary difficulty which must attend any arrangement for the prevention of desertion, between two nations, whose similarity of manners and habits, and whose identity of language, interpose so many impediments to the discrimination of "national character."
To these circumstances, and not (as you almost seem to insinuate) to any peculiar harshness towards the United States, it is
owing, that the exercise of this right, as with respect to them, is necessarily more frequent, than with respect to any other nation: and is felt by them to be more rigid and exacting. But these circumstances cannot furnish an argument for the suspension of the exercise of the right with respect to America; unless it be contended, that multiplicity of frauds and difficulty of detection are reasons against suspicion or motives for acquiescence.
As little foundation is there for the complaint that the practice has grown out of the recognition of American independence; and that the character of that event is affected by its continuance.
It is needless to repeat that these rights existed in their fullest force, for ages previous to the establishment of the U. States of America as an independent government: and it would be difficult to contend that the recognition of that independence can have operated any change in this respect; unless it can be shown that in acknowledging the government of the United States, Great Britain virtually abdicated her own rights as a naval power; or unless there were any express stipulations, by which the ancient and prescriptive usages of Great Britain, founded in the soundest principles of natural law, though still enforced against other independent nations of the world, were to be suspended whenever they might come in contact with the interests or the feelings of the American people.
I would now recall your attention to the consideration of the question respecting the late transaction between the Leopard and the Chesapeake; which till the receipt of your letter, I imagined to be the only question actually in discussion between us, and in consideration of the delicacy and pressing importance of which, we had, by common consent, waived the consideration of all other matters pending between our two governments.
Into the discussion of this question I am prepared to enter; with what disposition, on the part of his majesty's government, to consult the feelings and the honor of the government of the United States, it is not necessary for me here to declare—for you have yourself done justice to the sincerity of that disposition.
The difficulties in the way of such adjustment are already smoothed, by the disavowal, voluntarily offered, at the very outset of the discussion, of the general and unqualified pretension to search ships of war for deserters. There remained only to ascertain the facts of the particular case, and to proportion the reparation to the wrong.
Is the British government now to understand, that you, Sir, are not authorized to enter into this question separately and distinctly; without having obtained, as a preliminary concession, the consent of this country to enter into discussion with respect to the practice of searching merchant vessels for deserters?
Whether any arrangement can be devised, by which this practice may admit of modification, without prejudice to the essential rights and interests of Great Britain, is a question, which as I have already said the British government may, at a proper season, be ready to entertain: but, whether the consent of Great Britain to the entering into such discussion, shall be extorted as the price of an amicable adjustment, as the condition of being admitted to make honorable reparation for an injury, is a question of quite a different sort, and one which can be answered no otherwise than by an unqualified refusal.
I earnestly recommend to you, therefore, to consider whether the instructions which you have received from your government, may not leave you at liberty to come to an adjustment of the case of the Leopard and Chesapeake, independently of the other question, with which it appears to have been unnecessarily connected.
If your instructions leave you no discretion, I cannot press you to act in contradiction to them. In that case there can be no advantage in pursuing a discussion which you are not authorized to conclude: and I shall have only to regret that the disposition of his majesty to terminate that difference amicably and satisfactorily, is for the present rendered unavailing.
In that case his majesty in pursuance of the disposition of which he has given such signal proofs, will lose no time in sending a minister to America, furnished with the necessary instructions and powers for bringing this unfortunate dispute to a conclusion consistent with the harmony subsisting between Great Britain and the United States. But, in order to avoid the inconvenience which has arisen, from the mixed nature of your instructions, that minister will not be empowered to entertain, as connected with this subject, any proposition respecting the search of merchant vessels.
It will, however, be far more satisfactory to his majesty to learn, that upon re-consideration, you think yourself authorized to separate the two questions.
I hope you will allow me to express, at the same time, the sincere pleasure which I should feel in having to treat with you, Sir, personally for the re-establishment of a good understanding between our two countries.
I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed,) GEORGE CANNING.
Portland Place, Sept. 29, 1807.
Sir—I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 23d of this month, and shall transmit it without delay to my government. I perceive by it, with great regret, that his Britannic majesty's government is not disposed to enter into an arrangement at this time of all the differences that have arisen between our governments, respecting the impressment of seamen from American vessels by British cruisers; that it is willing to look to one object only, the late aggression, and provide for it, while the other is left to depend on future adjustment. My government had presumed that his majesty's government would have seen in the recent and greater injury, a strong motive for bringing the whole subject into one view, and providing for it at the same time. The excess of the latter outrage could not fail to revive in the mind of the suffering party, a high sense of former injuries, and it was reasonable to infer that the great injustice inseparable from the practice, of which the incident furnished so striking an example, would have produced between our governments the most prompt and friendly co-operation in the means of suppressing it. That the United States have suffered a great injury by a recent occurrence, than they had done before, cannot be a good reason, and ought not to be a motive for delaying redress of the others, especially when it is considered
that they were already in a train of amicable accommodation and arrangement.— Since, however, you inform me that his majesty's government is unwilling to take up the subject in a combined view, it is unnecessary for me to press it.
You ask whether I am authorized to separate this latter incident from the general practice, and to treat it as a distinct topic? On this point I have to state, that my instructions, which are explicit, enjoin me to consider the whole of this class of injuries as an entire subject; and indeed to intimate that they are connected in their nature, that it seems to be difficult, if not impossible to separate them for any useful purpose to either party. My government being sincerely desirous to place the relations of the two powers, on the solid basis of permanent friendship, is satisfied, as well by what has occurred in the general practice, as by the more awful admonition derived from the late incident, that that can only be done with effect, by mounting to the source of the evil, and providing an adequate remedy for it. In pursuing this great object, it is my duty to repeat, that my government does not seek to confine the remedy proposed to the injuries which the United States have suffered, and continue to suffer, but is desirous to extend it to those also which are complained of by Great Britain. Experience has shown that both parties complain of injuries, though certainly of a very different character and less urgent nature.—
How much more advisable then is it not, in every view, for them to enter into an arrangement which shall provide an adequate remedy for their respective injuries; which shall bind the honor of each government to do what is just and right in respect to the other, and enlist the feelings of each nation on its side, than to suffer things to remain longer in their present state? How much more advantageous would not such an arrangement be likely to prove to Great Britain, in the particular object which she has in view, than her adherence to a practice which rejects a mean which could not fail to be more productive; a practice which cannot be maintained in principle; which leads by immutable causes, that ought to inspire different sentiments in the parties to each other, to great and constant abuse, and which is also considered by the United States as subversive of their rights, and degrading to their character as an independent power.
So much I have thought it proper to state, in order to place in a just light the conduct of my government on the present occasion, on this great and very interesting subject of impressment. Well knowing its desire to cultivate the most friendly relations with Great Britain, on just and honorable conditions, it would be highly improper that any doubt should be suffered to exist on that point.
You inform me that his majesty has determined, in case my instructions do not permit me to separate the late aggression from the general practice of impressment, to transfer the business to the United States, by committing it to a minister who shall be sent there with full powers to conclude it. To that measure I am far from being disposed to raise any obstacle, and shall immediately apprise my government of the decision to adopt it. Under such circumstances, I perfectly agree with you in the opinion, that it would be useless to pursue a discussion, which it would be impossible for me to bring to a satisfactory conclusion.
It is still my duty to give the explanation which you have desired, of the motives which induced the President to adopt the measures announced in his proclamation of the 2d July last. However great the injury which the United States had received by the aggression complained of, it is just that it should be shown that the President did not lose sight in those measures of the friendly relations subsisting between the two powers. When the hostile nature of the attack on the Chesapeake, is taken into view, and the general conduct of the British squadron within the waters of the United States, before and after the attack, I am persuaded that there was no limit to which the President would not have been justified in going, which he might have thought essential to the honor and safety of the nation. Before the attack, the British squadron had violated the jurisdiction of the United States, by the impressment of men within it, whom the commander had refused to surrender; and after the attack the attitude which he assumed, continued to be of a very menacing and hostile character. An act of hostility, it must be admitted, justifies any act of a like nature towards the party who commits it. The President, however, did not believe that his majesty's government had authorized the conduct of the British squadron, and his measures were evidently founded on that belief. They were marked by no circumstance of hostility, or of retaliation towards Great Britain; but were intended simply to preserve order within the jurisdiction of the United States, to which end the removal of the British squadron without their limits became indispensable. After the acts of violence which had been committed by that squadron, it was impossible that it should remain longer there without increasing the irritation and widening the breach between the two nations, which it was the earnest object of the President to prevent. There certainly existed no desire of giving a preference in favor of the ships of war of one belligerent party to those of another. Before this aggression, it is well known, that his Britannic majesty's ships lay within the waters of the Chesapeake, and enjoyed all the advantages of the most favored nation; it cannot therefore be doubted that my government will be ready to restore them to the same situation, as soon as it can be done consistently with the honor and rights of the United States.
I cannot conclude this communication without expressing my earnest hope, that the differences, which have unhappily arisen between our governments, may soon be settled, on conditions honorable and satisfactory to both the parties. To have co-operated with you in the accomplishment of so great and useful a work, would have been highly gratifying to me. The disposition which you have brought to the discussion, and the sentiments which you communicated on the principal transaction, when the first intelligence of it was received, inspired me with great confidence, that we should soon have been able to bring it to such a conclusion. To have been a party to it, would have terminated my mission to his majesty in the mode which I have long and sincerely desired.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) JAMES MONROE. [TO BE CONTINUED.]
National Legislature.
TENTH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, APRIL 4.
Mr. Boyd a member from New-Jersey in the stead of Mr. Ezra Darby, deceased, appeared and took his seat.
Messrs. Upham & Jenkins, obtained leave of absence for the remainder of the session.
Mr. Randolph, from the committee to whom the subject had been referred, reported a bill making provision for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States, which was twice read and referred to a committee of the whole.
The engrossed bill for raising an additional military force was then read; and the question having been put, "shall this bill pass?"—An extremely interesting debate arose, which occupied the House until they adjourned, without taking a question.
Mr. Clopton spoke at length in favor of the bill. He said that although he was one of the 11 members who voted against an increase of the regular army in 1798, yet he considered the state of things now, as totally different from what it was then. Our circumstances now were truly momentous and awful; it was not a time to halt between two opinions. After suffering numerous injuries with the most unexampled forbearance, new grievances had been lately added to them, which if submitted to by us, would be drinking deeply of the cup of degradation. It was the general expectation that strong measures would be pursued. We should be amply prepared to meet and sustain the contest, no matter from what quarter the assault came.
Mr. Randolph opposed the bill at great length. He had always been of opinion, and this was the doctrine of '98, that in times of danger our first reliance ought to be on the militia; but now it seemed things were to be reversed. In '98 we were at war with France; we captured her ships; and yet it was not then thought expedient, by those who held the opinion he now maintained to increase the regular army. If he had the speeches delivered in '98 he would read that of the present secretary of the treasury on the subject. Mr. R. contended that there was not the smallest danger of invasion, either from England or France; and even if there was, these 6000 men would be of no use. The expense, too, he said, was a considerable object in the present state of the country, when there were many outgoings from the treasury, and nothing coming in: And instead of spending our money in buying epaulets and faced coats, it would be more proper to put arms in the hands of the great body of the militia, upon whom we should have ultimately to rely for defence and protection, and not upon men recruited in ale-houses and tipling shops.—With regard to the prejudices which were said to exist in favor of two particular nations, he hoped the people of this country would consider them as precisely on the same footing, unmixed with ancient recollections. He thought the idea of defending the whole line of our coast with 6000 men was altogether visionary.
Mr. Howard advocated the bill, particularly on account of the defenceless situation of our frontiers.
Mr. Troup, (of Georgia) in his usual energetic style, said he could not perceive any bright prospect of peace opening upon this country; on the contrary, clouds were rising thicker and thicker every day. As to war, we could not determine that, for it depended upon powers who are not controlled by us.—What security have we that we shall not be attacked? Do we expect a solemn declaration of war? All experience is against it.—Recur to the attack on Copenhagen, to the Spanish frigates; there was no declaration of war. Let the embargo press hard on the British colonies—reduced by that salutary measure to the last degree of wretched suffering, the tygers will spring upon you, perhaps, in the dead of night, for food; for although Great Britain has 1000 ships between you and France, behold the Rochefort squadron: in spite of English vigilance it has put to sea, as we are told, with 5000 troops, who, for ought you could do, might be drawn up on your shores in hostile array. You talk of militia! yet you refuse to class and to equip them. In my part of the country they are unfit for service for want of organization and discipline. No man felt more confidence in the militia than he did; they were the chief protection of the country; and class and equip them, purge the country of British and French factions, and they will defend you against the world. Col. Troup was very eloquent and impressive.
Mr. Rhea (of Tenn.) made some pertinent observations in favor of the bill.
Mr. Macon was for the bill, though he disliked standing armies.
TUESDAY, APRIL 5.
A petition was received from the inhabitants of Newburyport, Mass. praying the liberty of exporting fish; which was referred to the committee of the whole on the state of the Union.
Mr. Gardner laid upon the table a resolution to appoint a committee to enquire into the propriety of providing by law for the adjournment of Congress to an earlier period than already provided by law.
The House again resumed the consideration of the bill for raising an additional military force.
Messrs. Talmadge, Southard and G. W. Campbell, spoke in favor of the bill; and Messrs. Moseley, Sloan and Dant, against it, at full length; when a motion was made and carried, that the house adjourn, (5 o'clock.)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6.
Mr. Gardener obtained leave of absence from the House from Monday next.
A bill was received from the Senate by Mr. Otis, for punishing certain crimes and offences against the U.S.
THURSDAY, APRIL 7.
The Committee on adjournment reported
that 30 bills remained to be acted upon; but that an adjournment might probably take place on the 25th inst. and reported a resolution to that effect, which was ordered to lie on the table.
This day, after a long and warm debate, the bill for raising an ADDITIONAL ARMY (of 6000) was passed, 96 to 16. As several amendments have been made, the bill must be returned to the Senate.
FRIDAY, APRIL 8.
BLOCKADES, &c.
Mr. Rhea offered the following resolution, which was ordered to lie on the table: Resolved , That the Secretary of State do transmit to this house authentic copies of the several accredited documents which may be in his office, and which do contain articles of treaties, commercial orders and regulations, and orders and decrees of blockade, affecting the commerce of the United States, which may have been respectively made or issued by the government of Great Britain or France, at any time since the year 1790, exclusively of treaties to which the United States are a party.
EMBARGO.
Mr. G. W. Campbell offered the following resolution, which was referred to a committee of the whole house to-morrow: Resolved , That in the event of such peace or suspension of hostilities between the belligerent powers of Europe, or of such changes in their measures affecting neutral commerce, as may render that of the U. States sufficiently safe, in the judgment of the President of the United States, he ought to be authorized by law to suspend the act laying an EMBARGO on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the U. States, and the several acts supplementary thereto, under such exceptions and restrictions as the public interest and circumstances of the case may appear to require; provided, such suspension shall not extend days after the commencement of the next session of Congress.
BY THE MAILS.
Extracts of a letter from Washington, dated 2d of April, 1808.
"The injunction of secrecy has been taken off, as to the letter from Champaigny, of the 15th January, 1808, and as to a letter from Mr. Erskine to Mr. Madison, of the 23d of February, 1808, and 5000 copies of each directed to be printed; the American nation will be informed by these documents, that France and England are each oppressing us with injuries; and each striving to draw us within their vortex, and that they afford a positive and most satisfactory contradiction to the base and unprincipled calumnies which have been published relative to our councils being under French influence. The letter of Mr. Erskine will show that England is degrading as to the state of colonies; nay, as an independent nation, to a state worse than colonies, restraining our trade unless we trade under British licences, and unless we trade through England, and pay her a tax which she thinks proper to impose, more degrading than the old disgraceful Tea tax. Those documents too are a complete refutation and vindication of the embargo, and the measures of defence adopted by Congress; they also evince the imperious necessity of union at this perilous and momentous crisis; and that all the talents and energies of our country will and ought to be in requisition, to preserve the national safety. And it will be for the consideration of government and of the people, whether a policy ought not to be steadily and firmly pursued to provide for our own defence, and to be connected and involved with neither."
NORFOLK, APRIL 7.
The British frigate Statira, with Mr. Rose on board, sailed from Hampton Roads for England, early on the morning of the 28th ult.
SALEM, APRIL 16.
Wednesday last arrived at Manchester, the brig Nancy, part of Salem, from Alicante, whence she sailed on the 4th of February. On the 13th of March she fell in with an English 74 and a frigate, part of Sir J. B. Warren's squadron, two days out from Bermuda, bound to Halifax, who took out five of Capt. Pert's hands, and put on board a prize-master and 6 hands, and ordered her for Bermuda; but missing the island and being short of water, they were obliged to make for the first port. On Thursday the Nancy arrived at Salem.
FROM THE WEST-INDIES.
Capt. Lawson, arrived at N. York, from St. Croix, informs, that the island of Martinique was in a state of revolt, occasioned by a famine; and that the inhabitants, having received a partial supply of provisions from the British, had solicited them to take possession of the island.
Capt. L. further reports, that two British frigates had captured the island of Marigalante, where they found five millions weight of Coffee, which they were about to carry off in British vessels that had been ordered there for the purpose.

Portsmouth,
TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1808.
In the United States, the State Papers furnish the most interesting enquiries of our citizens. The Embargo with all its calamities, has daily a more ample vindication, as we continually learn we had nothing to hope from Commerce in the present state of Europe. To prove that the sacrifice though wise is not small, we are informed that since the notice of the Embargo, 281 Ships, 366 Brigs, and 821 Schooners have arrived in the U. States. The subject has been mentioned in Congress respecting the power to be left with the President respecting the continuance, or raising of the Embargo. The trial of Mr. Smith, the Senator, who was believed to be deeply concerned with Burr in the late transactions of the Western country, has come on, but has not yet closed. [Essex Register.]
The British have captured about 50, and the French 10 or 15, American ships, under their respective blockading decrees! What would have been the total had the embargo not kept our ships in port?
Extract of a letter from Norfolk, (Virg.) to a gentleman in this town, dated April 4.
"Business at this place and through this State is generally dull, but the inhabitants are far from a starving condition, as represented in many federal papers. It is tho' by all good republicans that the Embargo is one of the best measures government could adopt. Mr. Madison's letter to Mr. Rose is esteemed as genuine, firm, and just, and deserves to be perused by every true American. Government is enlarging this fort, we now mount 20 twenty-four pounders, and when complete, which will be in sixty days, as we have 100 labourers now at work, we shall then mount thirty-five 24 pounders. Government also is to build two Gun Batteries of 12 guns each, somewhere on this river. I should like to have a battery built on Moose-Island, Passamaquoddy, as it is a fine place for one, to command the river."
On the 6th inst. was placed at the Walabot, the corner stone of the tomb for the relics of those prisoners who perished in the British prison ship Jersey. The day was uncommonly pleasant; it seemed as if the sky smiled on the tribute which the true sons of America were paying to the memory of American patriots. The procession, consisting of a very large body of citizens—of the marines—the committee, with the corner stone drawn by horses, under waving colors—and a corps of artillery, arrived at the sepulcher about one o'clock. After the ceremony of placing the stone was over, and the military firings had finished, Joseph D. Fay, Esq. attorney at law of this city, delivered an address, which did honor to his head and his heart. It was spoken with more than common energy and propriety, and drew tears from the eyes of a numerous audience. It is hoped that this address will be given to the public. [New-York Aurora.]
The different Candidates for the office of President have active friends in every part of the Union, but we discover nothing which forbids the honorable election of Mr. Madison. We find no claims equal to those which his great services make upon the American people. [Register.]
The anglo-federalists of New-York have resolved to make a last and mighty effort, as they call it, to revolutionize that State and choose federal electors of President and Vice-President. This will only heap upon them an additional load of mortification as well as infamy. The democratic citizens of that respectable commonwealth are not to be duped by a party so abject and degraded. The cry against the Embargo, and Pickering's lying letter, are their instruments, as well as those of the Boston faction. As they are like to prove fruitless in this State, so will they in that. Every movement of the British party in all parts of the union serve to confirm the suspicion, that Rose was sent here for sinister purposes. For whole days was he closeted in secret consultation with the federal leaders—and no one was seen oftener entering his polluting as well as polluted doors than Timothy Pickering, that sham-patriot, that incendiary letter-writer! What were these secret assemblages for? What end could they have in view? What—but Burr-like plots for the disturbance, if 'not the dismemberment of the union? Rose it appears was sent not to negotiate, but to insult the government—and he performed his errand faithfully! Soon after his arrival, several of the head Tories of Boston were dispatched to the seat of government on purpose to see the British minister—Their object may well be guessed at! Presently appears the famous, or rather infamous libel which has been scattered throughout not this State only—or the neighbouring states—but every one of all the States! The federal leaders seem animated with new vigor—Mr. Rose breaks off his negotiation—returns to England—and in all parts at once the faction set up their war-whoop and prepare for action! Citizens, reflect upon these facts—sleep not—designs, black in their nature, fatal in their end, may now be maturing. Your vigilance only can lift them in their birth.—Be careful whom you elevate to power, whom you trust with authority or confidence—it may be perverted to the purposes of mischief.
Fifty four thousand eight hundred and thirteen barrels and 1930 half barrels of wheat flour, 469 barrels of rye flour, 269 do. Indian meal, 738 kegs of butter, 1232 do. lard, 2594 barrels and 18 half do. of pork, and 62 do. of beef, were inspected within the city of Baltimore during the last three months, ending on the 31st of March.
Notwithstanding the noise that is made, in the eastern and middle states, by the enemies of the administration, about the military resulting from the embargo, it appears to press harder on the southern planters, than on any other class of citizens; yet they cheerfully acquiesce in the wisdom of the measure, and willingly resign themselves to its privations without murmur.
It is notorious, and we have it on authority the most unquestionable, that there now remains in Halifax, American property to the amount of several millions. This property has been legally released by the proper tribunal; but is still detained. Why is it so? The judge dare not take the responsibility on himself—it must be under the influence of secret orders, & held for future sequestration.
The Legislature of Nova-Scotia at their late session passed a vote appropriating root to purchase a sword or piece of plate to be presented, in behalf of the Province, to Admiral Berley. The Gov. Wentworth refused his assent to it. He has since been displaced by the British government.—Does this look like disapprobation of Berkley's conduct? Or does it look like upholding it, and crushing all who do disapprove it?
FIRE. On Sunday the 10th inst. the mansion house of the late Wm. Tyng, Esq. at Gorham (Maine) was destroyed by fire.
For the N. H. GAZETTE. The Admonisher.]—No. 1.
AMERICANS!—The period has arrived which will give you an opportunity of evincing to the world, the sincerity of your love and veneration, for the freedom and felicity of the country which you inhabit:—More than thirty years have passed away, since the brave defenders of the rights of this flourishing, delightful and happy country, threw the gauntlet at the overgrown and rapacious power of Great-Britain. The names of those illustrious personages make a grand and majestic figure, in the history of that memorable and momentous conflict; but many of them moulder beneath the sod, rendered luxurious and green, by the tears of a grateful and affectionate people. At no era, since that important epoch, have these confederated States been placed in a position more dangerous to their union, and more calculated to divide the people, than at this moment. It is a fact, much to be regretted, that the salutary and very important admonitions, of one of the most distinguished characters that adorned the revolution, should be so little regarded, so little practiced.—That instead of banishing all local ideas of northern & southern, eastern & western States, there should be found men (and those too, who most inconsistently call themselves the admirers of that great and good man's maxims,) who, most unwarrantably endeavor, to instill into the minds of their fellow citizens those dangerous and pernicious distinctions, by representing, and striving to prove, that the essential interests of one part of this great confederation is the very reverse of the other. Can such insinuations proceed from the bosoms of men warmed with patriotism, and glowing with an ardent love for the felicity of this country? No, far otherwise, they proceed from men anxious only for personal prosperity & aggrandizement;—from men, who would willingly foment a civil war, and turn the sword of the son against the father, to gain their ambitious and diabolical purposes. Americans! dismiss from your government all who talk of a dismemberment of your union, or whom you suspect even to wish it. Remember, that the moment these States are severed, that moment is the last expiring struggle of American liberty!—Then shall these fields, now cultivated by the hands of freemen, be drenched with the blood of your noblest patriots!—Are these ideas imaginary?—are they the fume of a heated brain?—No, my fellow-citizens, they are what has ever succeeded, sooner or later, the divisions of all states & empires.—Never was there a more imperious call, for the united support of every member of this extensive country, than at the present moment. Our ancient foe, haughty, unjust and overbearing, beyond almost any nation on history, no longer respects the rights of neutrals, or the language of consistency; but, intoxicated with the idea of her own omnipotence, makes power the only arbiter of right and wrong, and already at war with almost every commercial people on the globe, is about adding America to the number of them. Is this a time to strive to weaken, the wise and just measures of our government? Is this a time, O Americans, to sow and cultivate discord and animosity within the bosom of your country? Ought you not, rather, as members of this great political body, to stand to your posts, like honest and brave men, in defence of that freedom, for which your ancestors have gloriously shed their blood.
AN AMERICAN. The Governor and Council are to convene in this town on Tuesday the 10th of May next.
Massachusetts Election.
In 402 towns, the votes for Governor stand as follows:
Gov. Sullivan, 41,169 Mr. Gore, 38,729
Majority for Gov. Sullivan, 2,440 There are between sixty and seventy towns to be heard from, which will increase his majority considerably.
GAZETTE MARINE LIST.
Saturday arrived Schooner Dolphin, Capt. Tripp, 9 days from Charleston, S. Carolina. Monday arrived Schooner Scythian, Capt. Reading, from Richmond Virginia. A British 74 went ashore on Gibraltar point, Feb. 7, and every soul perished. The English country ship Albion, caught fire at Whampoa, Dec. 2, and notwithstanding every exertion of the fleet there, was burnt to the water's edge. She had on board near 2,000,000 for the East India Company, the greater part of which was saved.
DISTRESSING EVENTS.
On Tuesday evening last, Mr. JOHN CRUMMET, of Durham, was drowned in a gundalo, while a sleep in the cuddy, at one of the wharves in this town. As the tide flowed, the gundalo catch'd in the wharf, and filled instantly, she being deeply laden with rocks. It is but justice to the deceased to say he was one of the most temperate, industrious, and honest men that New-England could boast.—He never aspired after the pomp & titles of the day.—But attending to his own business, and studying to live peaceably with all men, he, by his uncommon industry, had accumulated a handsome property of twenty thousand dollars.—His pleasing demeanor toward his employers, always ensured him constant employ. That many may catch his falling mantle, and do likewise, is devoutly to be wished. We sincerely sympathize with the truly afflicted widow and children of the deceased, whose loss in affection and tenderness, is irreparable by mortals. But, may God communicate his love and compassion to their afflicted bosoms, and be better to them than every earthly good.
On Monday evening the 11th instant—Messrs. Thomas Dearing, William English & William Muchmore, all of this town, were drowned by the upsetting of a boat. DIED—In this town, Mr. George Jackson, Mr. Nathaniel Dennett, Mr. George Leavitt, and Mr. Nathaniel Melcher, j. Boat-builder. It is remarkable, that seven widows were added to the already numerous list, in this town, the last week. At Epsom, (N.H.) the 5th inst. Mrs. Elizabeth Osgood, aged 67—consort of Col. Samuel Osgood.
To the Gazette patrons.
Our country friends are informed that the 17th April, 1808—has arrived, and completes three years since the present proprietors of the N. H. GAZETTE have been at the expence of printing and publishing said paper; and we would now ask, whether the labourer is not worthy of his hire?—As we anticipate from every honest man, an answer in the affirmative;—we will only add, pay that thou owest unto us, that we may be enabled to "do likewise." EDITORS.
Drawing School.
G. DAME'S SCHOOL for Drawing & Painting will be opened on Monday the 2d of May next, at the Assembly Room, at 2 o'clock, P.M. where those young LADIES who wish to take lessons, will please to attend. April 19.
State of New-Hampshire.—Grafton.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of PLYMOUTH, in said county, who have not paid their State, county, town, school and highway taxes for the year 1806; that unless said taxes are paid to me the subscriber, on or before the 15th day of June next, so much of their land as will pay said taxes, with incidental charges, will be sold at public vendue, at my dwelling-house in said Plymouth, at ten o'clock, A. M. on said day.
All in the left Division of land in said Plymouth.
   Proprietors & Owners of Land. No. of Acres. Highway Tax. State Tax. County Tax. Town Tax. School Tax. Other Tax. Total Tax.     James Underwood, 3 50 10 8 25 25 118   James Underwood & paid, 4 66 13 11 33 33 156   Samuel Thompson, 2 33 7 6 17 17 76   One half of a hundred acre lot, sold out of the common land to Benjamin Taylor, together with fifty acres more adjoining it, lying near Hebron line, supposed to be owned by Peter Taylor, 100 29 23 75 127    WINCOL WRIGHT, Collector. Plymouth, April 3, 1808.
State of New-Hampshire.—Grafton.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-residents and owners of land in ALEXANDRIA, in the county and state aforesaid, who have not paid their taxes for the year 1807; that so much of each original right will be sold at public vendue at the dwelling-house of Capt. David Atwood, in said town, on Monday the 18th day of July next, at 10 o'clock A. M. as will pay said taxes together with incidental charges unless prevented by previous payment.
DAVID ATWOOD, jun'r, Proprietor's Collector. Alexandria, April 24, 1808.
Mr. Charles Taft.
HAVING commenced his Academy for the instruction of Young Ladies, at that commodious room recently occupied by the Rev'd Mr. Alden, informs the inhabitants of Portsmouth and its vicinity, that he still continues to receive Pupils for the several branches of Education, viz. Orthography, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Composition, &c. &c. Those Parents, who would avail themselves of the present opportunity, will please to make early application.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE several Collectors in the county of York to whom hath been a county tax committed to collect in either of the towns for the last year 1807, who have not yet collected and paid over the same into the Treasurer's Office in York; that they are now earnestly called upon to complete their collection, and to pay over the same by the 14th of April instant, when the several Term Courts as by law are established doth commence to sit in York—the money will then be wanted for their use to enable the Treasurer to pay off the several Grand Jurors for their travel and attendance for one whole year past; also for sundry other Petit Jurors, Committees on highways, &c. and all every of them will then expect to receive their several and respective fees, and have right to it. The last cent of that tax was to have been paid into the Treasurer's office by the first day of January last now past, and no one hath yet been distressed by me for it, as the circulation of cash hath been in the time past rather dull, every order drawn by me on either one Collector in part thereof, is directed to be brought in and be received in part—I have however paid and advanced out of the treasury on the sundry bills since rendering and settling of my accounts at September Term at Alfred, twenty-eight hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-four cents; and our Court-House at Alfred is completely boarded and shingled, and it is expected that every necessary article of lumber and materials are now prepared in the fame and on the spot for the finishing of the same against next September Term there—Any thing in design or intention in any individuals in the cutting off the fifteen hundred dollars from the county tax of 1806, that was granted by the Legislature for the use of the county to the contrary notwithstanding. WILLIAM FROST, Treasurer. York, April 5, 1808.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors and owners of land in the township of Alexandria as originally granted, now called Alexandria and Danbury, situate in the county of Grafton and State of New-Hampshire, that each and every lot and half lot of land which are called one draft, situate in said township of Alexandria and Danbury, allotted and set to the rights of the following original grantees, as will pay a tax of Three Dollars on each lot and each half lot which are called one draft, with incidental charges will be sold to the highest bidder on Monday the twenty-seventh day of June next at ten of the clock A.M. on said day, at the dwelling-house of David Atwood, innholder in said Alexandria, in the county and State aforesaid, if payment be not previously made to me at my dwelling-house in Alexandria in the aforesaid county and State; which sum was voted by the proprietors of Alexandria and Danbury at their meeting on the twenty-fifth day of September, A.D. 1806, to pay the expence of lotting land and other proprietary expences, and also to recit an encroachment which New-Chester has made on said township—which has been assessed and committed to me to collect, with a warrant annexed, and by me advertised for payment, and still unpaid. The original grantees names and lots and half lots called drafts are as follows, to wit: John Moffet Esq'r No 38 1 in 3d division; Thomas Packer Esq'r No 47 in 3d division; John Wentworth Esq'r No 60 in 2d division; Blank Lot No 24 in 2d division; Thomas Wallingsford Esq'r No 3 48 in 1st div'n, No 22 in 2d div'n, No 28 7 in 3d div'n. McIlvaine and Others No 62 28 in 1st div'n No half 16 in 3d division; George Jeffery Esq No 54 in 2d division; Thomlinson and Mason No 60 in 1st div'n, No 4 23 in 2d div'n, No 8 2 in 3d div'n; Soley & March No 69 in 1st division, No. 43 61 in 2d division; William Parker Esq No 32 in 1st division; Joshua Peirce Esq No 15 78 79 in 1st div'n, No 69 in 2d div'n, No 21 in 3d division; Richard Wilbert Esq No 4 29 in 1st division No 29 8 in 3d division; Unknown Blank No 55 in 1st division; John Rindge Esq No 58 in 1 division No 35 in 2d division; Blank No 27 in 1st div'n No 4 3 in 3d div'n; Peirce and Moore No 41 in 2d division, No 49 in 3d division; Joseph Blanchard Esq No 66 77 in 1st div'n No 70 in 2d division; Jotham Odiorne Esq No 45 11 in 1st division No 44 in 2d div'n No 3 42 in 3d division; Theodore Atkinson Esq No 61 81 in 1st div'n No 67 in 2d div'n No 17 in 3d div'n; Unknown Blank No 4 3 in 3d division; Mark H. Wentworth Esq No 64 54 in 1st div'n No 40 15 in 2d div'n No 15 in 3d div'n; Mill Lots No 74 in 1 div'n No 2 in 2d div. Ministerial or Unknown No 42 in 1st div'n No 71 in 2d div'n; Jonathan Bagley Esq No 20 35 in 1st div'n No 37 39 in 2d division; Jonas Minot No 1 23 24 26 all over 100 acres of 39 in 1st division; Ditto in the 2d div'n No 19 32 65 ditto in 3d division No 26 39; Matthew Livermore No 33 in 1st division No 48 in 2d div'n No 35 in 3d division; Matthew Thornton Esq No 6 16 18 72 in 1st division; John Tolford Esq No 37 38 68 in 1st div'n No 11 36 in 2d division; William Tolford No 2 56 73 in 1st division No 1 46 in 2d division; Daniel Rindge Esq No 25 in 3d division; Capt. William Bailev No 14 67 in 1st div'n No 51 in 2d division; Unknown No 44 in 1st division; Unknown No 53 62 in 2d division; Joshua Tolford No 24 in 3d division.
DAVID ATWOOD, jun'r, Proprietor's Collector. Alexandria, April 24, 1808.
AUCTION.—THIS DAY.
To be sold at PUBLIC AUCTION, by virtue of a license from the Court of Probate, on Tuesday the 19th day of April inst. at 12 o'clock, on the premises.
ALL that valuable estate lately owned by Captain JOHN WARDROBE, deceased,
consisting of the dwelling-house, stable and outhouses, of the deceased, and also the right and interest which the deceased owned in the reversion of a certain other lot of land, contiguous to that before mentioned, and lately owned by Benjamin Parker, deceased, or so much of the said estate as will be necessary to pay the just debts of the said John Wardrobe, with incidental charges.—Conditions made known at the time and place of sale. ANN N. WARDROBE, } Administrators. B. BRIERLEY, April 19, 1808.
THURSDAY NEXT.
To be sold at Auction on Thursday the 21st day of April, inst.
A LOT OF LAND lying in Nottingham, near Martin's Mills, so called, containing about 50 Acres, with an Orchard and a Dwelling House on the same.—It is an excellent stand for a trader, mechanic, or innkeeper, lying on the main road from Piscataqua Bridge through Nottingham and Deerfield.—Sale to be on the premises, at 12 o'clock, meridian.—For further particulars Inquire of EDWARD J. LONG. Portsmouth, April 19, 1808.
Sheriff's Sales.
To be sold at Public Auction, at the store lately occupied by Messrs. Wm. H. Wilkins & Co. (opposite the north side of the Court House) a large and valuable assortment of English, India and Scotch GOODS, Comprising almost every article in that line—the Goods are well chosen, and are suitable to the present and approaching season—and every article will positively be sold, without the least reserve.—The terms will be very liberal, and will be declared at the sale, which will commence at 10 o'clock on Wednesday the 27th inst. and be continued from day to day, till the whole are sold. TIMOTHY GERRISH, Dep. Sher. S. LARKIN, Auct. Portsmouth, April 19.
TO BE SOLD,
At PUBLIC VENDUE, on Monday the 9th of May next, (if not previously disposed of at private sale.)
That valuable lot of
LAND, with the Buildings thereon in Rochester, formerly the property of Wm. & G. Dame, and now occupied by the Rev'd Joseph Haven. Sale on the premises, to commence at 12 o'clock, terms liberal, may be known by applying to EBENEZER CHADWICK or GEO. DAME, of Portsmouth. April 16th, 1808.
Now landing from Sch'r Scythian, and to be sold by
NATH'L ADAMS & SONS,
Superfine & common FLOUR; Leaf, fig and Ladies fine twist TOBACCO,—and Richmond COALS of very superior quality. April 19, 1808.
Wanted, two active Lads from 14 to 16 years of age, as apprentices to the Baking business. Apply to ROBERT SMITH.
List of LETTERS remaining in the Post-Office Portsmouth, (N.H.) April 9th, 1808.
A. GIDEON ADAMS. B. Richard H. Burnham; Jacob Barney; John Baker; Jonathan Barnard; Nathaniel Bailey, Greenland; William Brown; Samuel Beckett; James Brown. C. William Call; Hezekiah Cobb. D. Simon Dearborn, North-Hampton; Samuel Davenport; Nathan Dow, jun'r; Mary Dearborn, Greenland; Joseph Dearborn, North-Hampton; Jonathan Downing. E. Daniel Eaton; Joseph A. Ellery. F. Mark Fernald; James Folsom. G. Isaac Gage; Asa Grosvenor; William Gray; Charles Groves. H. Samuel Hooper; Mary Hooper; Cyrus Hicks; William Harper. I & J. Jacob Johnson, Newington; Richard Jennells, Rye; Tho's Johnson; Thomas Jenkins; John Jordan; Richard Jones. K. Abel Kyes. L. Samuel Libbey, Rye; Samuel Lane; Joseph Lerebby. M. Aaron Man; Wm. W. Messer; Nancy Molineaux; John Moses; Wm. Marshall. N. Mason Norton, Northwood; John Nelson, Greenland; Job Norton, jun'r; Nath'l B. Neal, North Hampton. O. Lucy T. Odiorne. P. James Partridge; William Peirce; John Pittman, jun'r; William P. Pickering; John Peak. R. James Rollins; James Robinson; Ephraim Rollings, Newington; Dolly Rollings. S. Joseph Spiney; Thomas A. Stacy; Henry Southwick; William Smith; Samuel Scitkins; Edward Staples. T. Joseph Tetherly; William Tedderan; John Tracy, jun'r; Michael Tucker; George Tuttle, Lee; John S. Tibbetts. U. & V. Abijah Usher; John Veasey. W. Newton Willey; Nancy Walker; William Whitewall; Hannah Webster; Samuel White; James Whidden, Greenland; Samuel Woodman. N.B. Those names with no towns annexed, are for Portsmouth. MARK SIMES, Post-Master.

Miscellaneous Repository.
For the N. H. GAZETTE.
Messrs. Printers, Although, you find not in the following, the beauties of poetry, you will please to gratify a juvenile correspondent by publishing it; as
A TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE.
Now Spring unveils her charms, but say, ah where,
The poets lay to mark its vernal bloom?
Chill winter's past, and zephyrs soft appear,
But feather'd Songsters carol o'er thy tomb.
The eye that beam'd with raptures glowing fire,
Is robb'd of lustre by the tyrants power!
The voice—that sung what nature could inspire,
Is lost in silence, and is heard no more!
Oh, let me wander to the new made grave,
While pensive Ev'ning draws her curtain round:
And mourn that wit, and science, could not save,
Nor e'en a heart, to generous feeling found!
There do I learn, how vain those transient scenes,
Which youth, with joy in fond perspective views,
Which reason tells me, sorrow intervenes,
And which, pale death their termination shews!
Oh then, let genius shed a silent tear,
And cast the bubbles of this life away,
Lo! SWEATL sleep in peaceful slumber here,
Repressing pride, that mortal feelings tway!
ANECDOE.] —Not long since Mr. ***** from Connecticut, being on his way to the westward, was stopped in New York State, on Sunday by a miserly Dutchman, invested with civil authority Mr. B. in vain pleaded the necessity of pursuing his journey unmoistened. At length taking a five dollar bill from his pocket-book,—fir, said he, this is at your service, on condition you will give me a pass.—Yes, I will give you your pass for five dollars—you may write de pass and I will make my mark. Mr. B. accordingly sat down, and drew an order on a merchant in town for 50 dollars in cash and 50 dollars worth of goods; with the Dutchman's signature; and takes his leave with your halting servant. He calls on the merchant, who cheerfully loaned 50 dollars with the idea of fifty per cent interest on his goods. Soon after the merchant calls on our noble Dutchman for the balance of the order; at which he started and exclaimed, "Mine Got, I oze you noting, ize gif to order on you! If ize vant any ting in your store, you know ize cot moneys & always pay." The merchant produced the order, and on seeing his mark, his honor exclaimed, "Tis dat sheating Yankee pass!"—He however found himself reluctantly obliged to cancel the demand, swearing, "Dat if I could catch de sheating rascal, I wool gif him von horsing licken."
A dentist at Paris has made an immense fortune within the last 2 years. He had agents in the late war, to extract the best teeth in the field of battle. By the battle of Jena, alone, he made 2000. sterling.
State of New-Hampshire.
To the Honorable Senate, and House of Representatives, convened at Hopkinton, June 11, 1807. HUMBLE Shews, (that we your petitioners inhabitants of the town of Danbury, in the county of Grafton,) that said town containing only about thirty families, is greatly burthened with maintaining a great length of bad and expensive highways, a considerable part of which lies in the unselected parts of the town, and but little traveled by the inhabitants in general; likewise, they have to build and support three bridges in said town, over Smith's river so called, two of which were entirely demolished or swept away by a late freshet the other very considerably damaged and must soon be rebuilt or undergo a thorough repair.
Therefore we pray this Honorable Court to grant a tax of three cents per acre, on all the lands in Danbury (public rights excepted) for the purpose of rebuilding said bridges and repairing the road throughout the town, and to appoint a committee for the laying out of the same, and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.
Danbury, May 21st, 1807. Samuel Pillsbury, Benjamin Winter, John Whittimore, Benjamin Davenport, Robert Reynolds, Leonard Judkins, Enos Flanders, Jonathan Taylor, Jacob Favor, John Tolford, James Taylor, Nicholas Holt, Jonathan Clark, John Tolford, jr. Anthony Taylor, Samuel Tolford, Amos Taylor, Peter Smith, Samuel Norris, Samuel Clifford, Samuel Norrie, Levi Flanders, jr. Anthony Taylor, jr.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, In the House of Representatives, June 11, 1807. UPON reading and considering the foregoing petition and the report of a committee thereon, voted that the petitioners be heard on their petition before the General Court on the first Tuesday of their next session, and that they cause the substance of the petition and order of Court thereon, be published in the New-Hampshire Gazette, three weeks successively, commencing eight weeks prior to said hearing, also cause that the like substance and order of court be posted up in some public place in the town of Danbury, the like term of time prior to said hearing, that any person or persons who appear, and their cause, if any they have, why the prayer may not be granted.
Sent up for concur rence— CHARLES CUTTS, Speaker. In Senate the same day read and concurred— JOHN A. HARPER, Secretary. Copy Examined by JOHN A. HARPER, Secretary of the Senate. A true Copy Attest— LEVI FLANDERS, jr. 3 Salesman GEORGE NILES, of JACOB FAVOUR, Danbury. Danbury, March 21, 1808.
JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale at G. PEIRCE'S Bookstore, The Village Fifer, Containing instructions for learning to play on the Fife, and a collection of marches, aires, &c. &c. Price 50 cents. Also, The Fifer's Companion, price 6f. Fables of Esop, with plates & without. Beauties of the Children's Friend 6f. Ladies Cabinet of Polite Literature, 2 vols. 12f. Life of the Rt. Hon. Wm. Pitt, 3/9 Anecdotes historical and literary, 8/3. Adams' Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, 4 vols. price 14 dols. Fergusson's Lectures, 2 vols. and a book of maps, 6 dols.—Mease's Geological account of the U. States, 9f. Simson's element of Euclid 15f. Massachusetts Pharmacopœia, 9f. Digest of the Revenue Laws of the U. States, 7/6. Large Church Prayer Books with plates & hot pres'd 5 dols. The above are just received by G. PEIRCE.
FRUIT TREES. 3000 Apple Trees, } All inocu- 200 St. Michael Pear, } lated. 100 Horse Chestnut. 100 Button Wood. Also, Grape Vine Slips, of the sweet water and purple kinds,—may be had at Mount Rural in Newburyport, by JOSIAH SMITH. March 12, 1808. [6w] Just received, and to be Sold by JOSEPH BASS, at his Shop in Broad Street next door to the Post-Office, Portsmouth, EARLY Garden Peas and Beans, with a general assortment of English and American NEW GARDEN SEEDS. Likewise a variety of Flower GARDEN SEEDS. March 15, 1808. [6w.] NEW-HAMPSHIRE Furniture Warehouse.
THE subscriber most respectfully informs his customers and friends, that he now occupies the Factory opposite the lower Bank, Concord, where he has for sale a general assortment of House FURNITURE, and will shortly have on hand almost every article of Cabinet, Hard, and Hollow ware enquired for, for house-keeping, from the plainest kind, to the first London chop,—which will be sold cheaper than can be bought in Boston or at any place in New-Hampshire. Also at Salisbury, at the store formerly occupied by Mr. Nath'l Noyes, may be had all kinds of Furniture, plain and elegant, much lower than the Boston prices. Orders solicited, and will be attended to with fidelity. LEVI BARTLETT. Concord, N.H. March 31, 1808.
NOTICE is hereby given, that at the Probate Court to be held at Exeter on the 18th of April instant, I shall present the administration account on the estate of PHILBRICK BARKER, late of Nottingham, deceased, to the Hon. Judge of Probate for examination and allowance. JOHN MARSTON, Attorney to MARY BARKER, Administratrix. April 4, 1808.
Fifth New-Hampshire Turnpike. THE meeting of the Proprietors of the Fifth New-Hampshire Turnpike Road, stands a adjourned until Tuesday the third day of May next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house of the Hon. Thomas Cogswell in Gilmanston;—at which time three or more Directors, a Treasurer and Clerk will be elected; and an agent appointed to attend the Legislature at their next session, respecting the petition of Samuel Greely Esq. and others. Measures will also be adopted for completing said road. A general and punctual attendance is requested. JOHN A. HARPER, Proprietors Clerk. Meriden, March 25, 1808.
State of New Hampshire—Cheshire. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of UNITY, in said county, who have not paid their highway, town, school, State and county taxes for the years 1806 and 1807; that so much of their lands as will pay said taxes, together with incidental charges, unless prevented by previous payment, will be sold at public vendue, on Monday the 20th day of June next, at the dwelling-house of F. Chase, Esq. innholder in said town, at ten o'clock, forenoon. Unpaid Taxes for the year 1806.
   Original Proprietors' Names Number Quantity Highway Tax Town Tax School Tax State Tax County Tax     John Sherburne, 14 40 3 15 7 7 2   Samuel Dearborn, 44 50 5 15 7 7 2   James Bean, 70 100 2 63 29 19 9   John Swett, 42 50 5 13 0 0 2   Moses Sleeper, 41 50 4 38 7 7 11   Samuel Judkins, 67 100 5 38 7 7 11        Original Proprietors' Names Number Quantity Highway Tax Town Tax School Tax State Tax County Tax     John Sherburne, 14 40 3 10 11 7 2   Thomas Clough, 48 50 5 25 9 6 2   James Bean, 70 100 2 125 44 39 15   Edward Fife, 52 20 2 31 11 7 1   Cornelius Clough, 19 50 4 150 53 36 6   John Swett, 42 50 5 25 9 6 2   Nathaniel French, 41 28 1 56 18 13 2   John Webster, 49 50 5 25 9 6 2   Do. 50 50 5 26 9 6 2   Samuel Judkins, 43 50 5 26 9 6 2   BENJAMIN HUNTOON, jr. Collector.    Unity, March 23, 1808.
RAGS. Cash given for RAGS, at the Store of C. PEIRCE.
Grand Lodge. THE Officers & Members of the Grand Lodge of the State of New Hampshire, the district Deputy Grand Masters, and the Masters and Wardens of subordinate Lodges, are informed that the annual Election of Officers, and the Grand Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge, will be held at the Lodge room in Portsmouth, on Wednesday the 27th inst. at 7 o'clock, P. M. By order, L. SPALDING, G. Secretary. Portsmouth, April 12, 1808.
At a meeting of the committee of the subscribers for re-building St. John's Church held on Monday the 11th of April, 1808— VOTED, that an Eleventh assessment of Twenty Dollars on each and every share, be and is hereby made—payable to the Agents, or their order, on or before the twentieth day of the present month of April. Attest, WILLIAM GARDNER, Chairman Now landing and for sale, On board the brig John Adams, at Thomaston wharf Spring-Hill. 400 Hogsheads of Liverpool SALT; Apply to EDWARD J. LONG. Portsmouth, April 12.
FRESH FLOUR. Just landed, and for sale by E. WENTWORTH, Head of Buck Street, 100 bbls. Alexandria superfine FLOUR; Also, on hand belt of Baltimore superfine ditto. April 12. CORN & FLOUR, Now landing from Schooner Washington, and for sale by WILLIAM GARLAND. April 12, 1808.
JUDKINS & SENTER, RESPECTFULLY inform the public that they have taken the shop directly over N. B. MARCH's saddlery shop, and nearly opposite the Post Office, Broad Street, where they intend carrying on the Cabinet-making Business in all its various branches. All orders punctually attended to, and the small cost favors gratefully acknowledged. April 12, 1808.
LOISA CARTER, INFORMS the Ladies of Portsmouth, that she has taken a chamber over the shop lately occupied by Charlotte Chapout, where is carried on the Millenary, Mantua-making and Seemstring, in the newest fashion—where she hopes to be favored with a share of patronage from the Ladies of this town. April 12.
TO be sold at Public Auction on Wednesday the 4th day of May next, at 3 o'clock, P. M. at the meeting-house belonging to the north or first parish in Portsmouth, the following pews in said house, for the taxes due thereon for the year 1807, unless prevented by previous payment—viz: On the lower floor, N o 25, 10 dols. 45 cents; N o 10, 5 dols. 22 cents. In the lower gallery, N o 26, 3 dols. 8 cents; N o 36, 3 dols. 30 cents; N o 41, 3 dols. 30 cents. JOSEPH AKERMAN, Jr. Paris Collector. Portsmouth, April 12, 1808.
LETTERS remaining in the Post-Office at EXETER, April 18, 1808. THOMAS Folsom, Benjamin C. Gilman, Abigail Gilman 2, Nathaniel Gorden, Samuel Gilman, Phillips Gilman, Benjamin Lovering, Mary Hall, Nathaniel A. Haven, Sophia Colson 2, Mary Carlson, Elizabeth Colcord, J. C. Smith, J. O. Smith, Samuel G. Smith, David Sanborn, Nathaniel Peabody, Samuel Philbrick, John Marble, John R. Maddison, Sally Newman, Samuel Woodbury, Exeter. Richard York 2, E. Flint 2, Bean and Smith 2, John Thing, Brentwood. Samuel Marble, John Marble, Stratham. Rebekah Law, Poplin. J. W. GILMAN, P.M.
State of New Hampshire—Grafton. NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident proprietors and owners of land in the town of GROTON, in the State and county aforesaid, who have not paid their highway, school, town and county taxes for the year 1807; that unless they previously pay the same, so much of their lands as will pay said taxes and all legal charges, will be sold at public vendue, at the dwelling-house of the subscriber in said town on the 24th day of June next, at 1 o'clock P. M.
   Number Quantity Highway Tax Town Tax School Tax State Tax County Tax     Samuel Hobart Esq. 30 1 1 100 50 25   John Hale Esq. 1 6 80 20 10 5   Henry Thompson 4 9 3 100 62 31   James M. Lellen 5 7 3 50 15 8   Stearns Powers 3 8 3 100 75 38   Henry Whight 13 2 3 100 75 38   Henry Thompson, jr. 7 14 3 100 50 25   Samuel Eastman 7 9 3 100 75 38   Dr. Ephraim Laverance 3 5 3 100 90 45   William Taylor 7 8 3 100 75 38   William Tenney 10 18 10 5   Abraham Burnham 7 5 3 100 100 50   A part of Benning 100 100 50   Wentworth's farm   ASA RIDER, Collector.   Groton, April 4, 1808.  
EDUCATION. THE Subscriber respectfully informs the inhabitants of Portsmouth, that he intends opening a school, for the instruction of young MISSES, in Reading, Writing, English Grammar, and Composition—together with the useful and ornamental branches of Needle Work. She will endeavor to render her pupils amiable, by inculcating a graceful and moral deportment. Terms: three dollars fifty cents per quarter for those who attend to English Grammar, Composition, and ornamental needle work. Two dollars fifty cents for those who attend to the other branches. For further particulars, inquire at Mr. Butler Abbot's, Congress-street. Serena Parker Johnson.
N. B. A chamber for the above purpose, is engaged, in a building nearly opposite the seat of the late Mr. Jeffrey's in Daniel Street, and the School will commence on the 18th April inst.—should a sufficient number of Misses apply. April 5, 1808. Now landing from Sch r Washington from Baltimore, and for Sale by Isaac Waldron, Jr. 250 Bbls. Superfine and Fine FLOUR of a superior quality. Portsmouth, April 12, 1808. Fresh Lemon JUICE, For Sale at the Portsmouth Shoe and Leather Store, by the Gallon or less quantity, warranted pure, by J. & S. MUDGE. N. B. Customers SHOES, BOOTS & SLIPPERS, made at the shortest notice. Portsmouth, April 12, 1808.
Quaker Garden Seeds. WM. WALKER has received one case containing an assortment of real Quaker Garden Seeds raised at Canterbury and warranted of the last years growth,—which are for sale at No. 1, Bow Street—Also as usual, English, Dutch & American Gunpowder, Patent Shot, West India GOODS, CROCKERIE, &c. &c. April 12, 1808.
ANY person belonging to the first Regiment of Militia in N. H. who can bring good recommendations for habits of industry and sobriety who may wish to be taught to play on any instrument of martial music free of expence, are requested to call on either of the subscribers and leave their names. JOSEPH BROWN } JOHN B. HILL, } Committee. JOSHUA HAVEN } Portsmouth, April 12.
NOTICE is hereby given, that MARY MOORE has been duly appointed administratrix of the estate of SAMUEL MOORE, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, and has taken upon herself that trust by giving bonds as the law directs;—All persons having demands on the estate of the said deceased, are required to exhibit them, and those who are indebted to said estate are called upon to make immediate payment to WILLIAM WALKER Attorney to MARY MOORE, Administratrix. Portsmouth, April 9, 1808.
TO LET, HALF of a convenient two story HOUSE, near the Goal,—Inquire of STACY KENNISON. Portsmouth, April 2
GOODS THAT ARE NEW. JUST RECEIVED AT DRAPER'S CHEAP NEW CASH STORE. A great variety of New and Seasonable, Fancy and Staple GOODS;—among which are— LADIES FASHION colour'd Beaver Bonnets; Rich white Satins; pink and white Crapes; Thread and Cotton Laces and Edgings; Rich patch Furniture Chintzes; Picnic and Lace Gloves and Mitts; Ladies habit Kid and Silk Gloves; 6-4 Twilled Cambricks, fashionable colours; Ladies Miles with Satin borders; 6-4 Damask Silk Shawls; Plaid Ginghams and Chumbra Muslins; Ladies angola Gloves; Men's Beaver ditto; Black and colour'd Bombazettes. A great variety of Silk Velvets and Plushes; Black and coloured Tabby Velvets; Scarlet and green pelice Flannels; Florence black Lutestrings; black Medes; India black Lutestrings and Satins; black Crapes; 6-4 Twilled Cotton Shawls, fancy colours; Ladies Rose colored Silk Hose, very nice; Gentlemen's black and white silk do.; Black Cambricks, Calicoes & Chintzes; Men's Beaver Hats of the best quality; Irish Linens; English and country Diapers; Bandanna and Madras Handkerchiefs; 4-4, 5-4 and 6-4 Oil Cloths; Italian black sewing Silks; India Calicoes; Silk and Cotton Umbrellas; Ladies straw Hats and Bonnets; Leaphorn Straw Flats; Variety of MUFFS and TIPPETS; a large supply of India Cottons; Blue India Cottons; Broad-Cloths and Cambricks; and a general supply of WOOLLEN GOODS. Feb. 2.
WANTED an active LAD from 13 to 15 years old, as an apprentice to the Painting business—enquire of Henry Bufford. March 29]
REMOVAL. Oliver Briard INFORMS his customers and the public in general, that he has removed from No. 2, Merchant's Row, to the store lately occupied by Messrs. R. C. Wiggin, & Co. and next to Mr. James Rundle's store. He has on hand a general assortment of European Goods, cheap for cash or approved credit, and very shortly expects an addition to his stock. Portsmouth, April 4, 1808.
Fresh Lemons & Oranges. S. LARKIN, Has just received a few Boxes fresh LEMONS AND ORANGES, which will be sold cheap for Cash,—Also, double and single refined Loaf and Lump Sugars of a superior quality; fresh Muscatel Raisins; Shell'd Almonds; bottle and fl. Oil; fresh Capers and Anchovies &c.—Together with a general assortment of genuine Teas, Wines, and Groceries. Portsmouth, April 11, 1808.
THE inhabitants of the Town of PORTSMOUTH are hereby requested to exhibit to the Selectmen, a true inventory of their rateable estates as the law directs, on or before the 30th instant. By order of the Selectmen. WALTER AKERMAN, Chairman. Portsmouth, April 5.
FOR SALE BY JOSEPH LOWE, 40 Hhds. high proof W. India retailing RUM; 30 Hhds. MOLASSES; and a few Hhds. SUGAR. April 5, 1808.
EDUCATION. MRS. HART informs Parents, that she continues to receive YOUNG LADIES for the purpose of Instruction in the following branches of EDUCATION, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Geography & use of the Globes, Embroidery, Plain and fancy needle works, Drawing, Painting, &c. &c. March 22, 1808.
Fresh Garden Seeds. JACOB WENDELL, Has just received at his store in Bow Street, on Church Hill, an excellent assortment of Real Shaker GARDEN SEEDS, warranted to be of the last years growth—viz: Drumhead, Imperial Lettice Low Dutch, Sage, Parsley, and Savoy, Peppergrass, CABBAGES, Radish, Low Balm, Blood red Beet, Lavender, Onions, Carrot, Summer Savory, Parsnip, Burnet, excellent for Salads. Cucumber, Long Ditto, Saffron, Deham Turnip, Water and Musk French Ditto, Melon, Summer & Winter, Hotspur Peas, &c. Squash. —ALSO— Pork, Hogs-Jard, excellent Butter, white beans, yellow & green Peas, Rye, Oats, a small quantity of good Cheese, Cod and Pollock Fish, Fine Salt, mens thick Boots, mens, womens, boys and childrens Leather Shoes, belt Sperm, Oil, Teas, Spirits, and a general assortment of W. I. Goods & Groceries as usual. A few Fowling Pieces, for sale as above. March 22.
Gentlemen's Silk HATS. MARY BRYANT, HAS a neat assortment of Silk HATS, purchasers are requested to call and look at them. April 5.
REMOVAL. SAMUEL NEWHALL, INFORMS his friends and the public that he has removed from the store at the west end of the Meeting-house, in Congress-street, to the store on the corner of Vaughan-street, leading to Piscataqua Bridge, where he keeps all kinds of WEST-INDIA GOODS, Groceries & Country Produce as usual, very cheap for cash. Portsmouth, April 5.
To Let, if apply'd for soon, A convenient House and Shop, in Congress-street, nearly opposite the State-house—a good stand for a grocer, having a deep, dry cellar, and a never failing spring of water therein. Enquire of WILLIAM BOWLES, Portsmouth, March 21.
FOR SALE, A FARM in Deer- field, containing about 150 acres of land, adjoining Pleasant Pond, lies on both sides of the main road from Portsmouth to Concord, and extends three fourths of a mile on said road; on the premises may be accommodated a Farmer, Taverner, Trader or Tradesman,—any person wishing to purchase, may apply to JEREMIAH EASTMAN, on the premises. April 1, 1808.