The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1808-05-24 00:00:00

New Spring and Summer GOODS.
Just received and now opened at DRAPER'S CHEAP CASH STORE, a very extensive variety of the most Fashionable, Fancy, and Staple, PIECE GOODS,
adapted to the present & approaching season.
AMONG WHICH ARE, LADIES elegant Mantles and 64 damask Shawls; blk. lace Net, for shades; black lace Veiling; elegant white lace Veiling; Spider-net; fine leno and spider-net Muffins; linen Cambricks; fancy Muffins; 4-4 and 6-4 cambrick ditto; 4-4 and 6-4 plain and figur'd book & jacquet ditto. Variety of fashionable Plaid Lutestrings; shaded taffeta and gormtune broad Ribbons; Sattin Gormtune and figured taffeta do. do.; elegant patch Furnitures; low priced Copperplates. A great variety of Pink & dark plaid Ginghams; 7-8 and 4-4 London Chinizes, light colours with small figures; white thread and cotton Laces & Edgings; common and cambrick Dimities; blk. Laces.
A great variety of Parasols, with walking canes; Leghorn straw Flats; cane and willow ditto; chip Flats; straw Bonnets and Hats; figur'd Sattins, suitable for Bonnets; pink, buff, green, blue, and white Sarsnets; fine white linen and cotton Pocket Handkerchiefs; fancy silk Handks. 6-4 twill'd cotton Shawls; 6-4 lace cambrick and muslin Shawls; pink, blue, buff, salmon, purple and slate Cambricks; 7-8, 4-4 and 6-4 black Cambricks, of a good quality; India blk. Lutestrings; Florence do.; 6-4 twill'd Cambrick; blk. Modes and Crapes; black and green pelong Sattins; Italian Silks; Imperial straw Trimmings; gown Patterns; black and colour'd silk Velvets; black tabby do.; Ladies and gentlemen's silk and cotton Hosiery; Gentlemen's fashionable Mar-seilles Quiltings; Ladies lace and pic nic Gloves and Mitts; English and French silk Gloves, all colours; silk and kid habit Gloves; men's beaver do.; silk chambray Mullins; black silk Florentine, very nice. Variety of Coquelico; dark, blue, and other fashionable Calicoes; 1 trunk low priced Calicoes; English Diapers; diaper table Cloths; Irish Linens; British Shirting Cottons. An assortment of Fans from 3 cents, to 1,75; Tortoiseshell and common hair Combs; plain blk. Lutestring Ribbons, a scarce article; Gold ear Hoops; gown Trimmings; silk Cords; Ladies kid Shoes, cheap; Grandurills; English yellow Nankins; Nankinets; Italian black and colored sewing Silks; silk Umbrellas; cotton ditto; 4-4, 5-4 and 6-4 Oil Cloths; Bandanna and Madras Handks.; superfine Broad Cloths and Cassimeres. Variety of Kidderminster Carpetings, of the newest patterns; Gentlemen's super Hats; low priced do. from 1 to 4 dollars; Velvets and Velvetteens; silvered Cords; gentlemen's Leghorn and willow Hats; Suspenders; blue and yellow Nankins, superior quality; Madras Stripes; Cultahs; blue India Cottons; cotton Checks; fine Shirting, and low priced India Cottons, &c. &c. &c. May 17, 1808.
Liverpool SALT.
800 Hhds. coarse Liverpool Salt afloat, for Sale—apply to THOMAS SHEAFE'S Store. May 17, 1808.
NEW GOODS.
Oliver Briard
Has just received a great variety of Spring and Summer GOODS, COMPRISING almost every article, usually enumerated in the most lengthy Piece Goods advertisement, which are offered for sale at a small advance for cash, or approved credit, at Store No 2, Market Street, near the Parade.
N.B. All persons to whom he is indebted are requested to render their demands for settlement; and all those who are indebted to him, whose term of credit has expired, are requested to make payment.
Portsmouth, May 17, 1808. [9w]
DOCUMENTS COMMUNICATED TO CONGRESS. [CONTINUED.]
Papers relative to French Affairs.
Extract from a letter to Mr. Monroe from Gen. Armstrong. Paris, 7th July, 1807.
SIR—"The accounts you have had of recent captures made by French privateers of American vessels under cover of the decree of November last, are not correct. At least if such captures have been made, I know nothing of them. The only captures I have at any time heard of, were those made from Porto Ferrajo. They are by no means of recent date, and have all (I believe) been redressed by the council of prizes. Two of these cases, to which I attended personally, received decisions equally favorable and prompt. Interest and damages were given to the plaintiffs, and I know not why decisions, equally favorable, should not have been given in the other cases. I have within a week been informed by Mr. Erving, that he had reason to believe that a French privateer, then in a port of Spain, had plundered American ships, either going to or coming from England, of dry goods, to the amount of 300 dollars. Before any thing could be done in Spain for the recovery of these goods, the ship went to sea, and professedly for the purpose of returning to the port of her armament. Believing her to have arrived there, I put all the evidence I possessed before M. Decree who closes his answer with the following assurance: "Your excellency may be assured that as far as it depends on me, the captains of these vessels, or their owners, shall obtain, if there is ground for it, a prompt and full reparation." I quote this to show you, that there is no disposition in the ministers of this government to sanction, or protect those enterprises upon our commerce. From the uses you may be able to make of the facts, and their relation to your question generally, I subjoin a brief exposition of the construction now given to the November decree. It was, you know, admitted by both ministerial and judicial authorities, that this decree did not infract the provisions of the treaty of 1800, between the United States and France. Still it was contended that vessels (of the U. S.) coming from any port of Great Britain since the date of the edict, could not be admitted to entry in the ports of France. This rule, without some qualifications was likely to become mischievous, and I accordingly obtained the following modifications of it, and hope to obtain a further modification, which will render it perfectly harmless. These changes took place as circumstances rose to produce them, for though the necessity for them was both foreseen and represented, it was only upon real, not upon hypothetical cases that the ministers of his majesty were willing to act.
1. Vessels leaving ports of the United States before a knowledge of the arrest had been promulgated there, are not subject to the rule.
2. Vessels not coming directly from a British to a French port, are not subject to the rule.
3. The cargoes of vessels coming directly from a British to a French port and offered for entry, on proof that the touching of the ship in England, &c. was involuntary, are put in depot or sequestration, until his majesty shall have decided on the sufficiency of the proof offered; or they are at once given up to the consignees on their giving security to abide the decision which shall be ultimately taken by the emperor in these respective cases. The vessels can go out freely, and without impediment of any kind. The former rule of which this is an amelioration was, that ships as well as cargoes, coming under the description, should be sequestrated, &c. The further alteration which I have asked is, the establishment of some principle which shall regulate the kind and degree of proof required with respect to the alleged application of a force majeure, and my own opinion is, that this may best be found in the greater or less correspondence which shall exist between the cargo when shipped in America, and when arrived here. If the correspondence be complete, the evidence ought to be considered as complete also, that they were not in Great Britain for the purposes of commerce, and not being there for these purposes, the inference is fair, that
their going there at all was involuntary. This is a rule the ministers will consent to, whether his majesty will do so also, will be known in a few days. He is expected here about the beginning of August."
Paris, September 18, 1807.
I have submitted, Sir, to his majesty the emperor and king, the doubts of his excellency the minister of marine and colonies, on the extent of some of the provisions of the imperial decree of November 21st, 1806, which has declared the British Islands in a state of Blockade; the following are the intentions of his majesty on the point in question.
1. Can armed vessels, under the imperial decree of the 21st of November last, seize in neutral vessels, either English property or merchandise proceeding from the manufactures of the English territories?
His majesty notified me, that since he had not thought proper to express any exception in his decree, there is no ground to make any in the execution, with respect to anything whatever.
2. His majesty has not decided the question whether French armed vessels may possess themselves of neutral vessels going to or from England, although they have no English merchandise on board.
3. On the question whether French armed vessels are subject to the deduction ordered by the 6th article of the decree of November 21, his majesty has declared that the provision of that article was not susceptible of any restriction; that is to say, that the deduction must take effect on the proceeds of all confiscation of merchandise and property, which have been, or may be, pronounced in execution of the decree, without regard to the place of seizure or character of the captors.
You will be so good, Sir, as to notify these decisions to the council of prizes, to have them entered in the registers, and to acknowledge the receipt of my letter. Accept, &c. &c. the Grand Judge, Minister of Justice, REGNIER. (Signed) Procureur General Imperial of the council of Prizes.
Paris, 24th September, 1807.
SIR—I have this moment learned, that a new and extended construction, highly injurious to the commerce of the United States, was about to be given to the imperial decree of the 21st of November last. It is therefore incumbent upon me to ask from your excellency an explanation of his majesty's views in relation to this subject, and particularly whether it be his majesty's intention, in any degree, to infract the obligations of the treaty now subsisting between the United States and the French empire? I pray your excellency, &c. &c. (Signed) JOHN ARMSTRONG. His excellency the minister of foreign relations.
Fontainebleau, Oct 7, 1807.
SIR—You did me the honor on the 24th of September to request me to send you some explanations as to the execution of the decree of blockade of the British islands, as to vessels of the United States.
The provisions of all the regulations and treaties relative to a state of blockade, have appeared applicable to the existing circumstances, and it results from the explanations which have been addressed to me by the imperial procureur general of the council of prizes, that his majesty has considered every neutral vessel, going from English ports, with cargoes of English merchandise or English origin, as lawfully seizable by French armed vessels.
The decree of blockade has been now issued eleven months; the principal powers of Europe, far from protesting against its provisions, have adopted them; they have perceived that its execution must be complete, to render it more effectual; and it has seemed easy to reconcile these measures with the observance of treaties, especially at a time when the infractions, by England, of the rights of all maritime powers render their interest common, and tend to unite them in support of the same cause. Accept, &c. &c. (Signed) CHAMPAGNY. H. E. General Armstrong, &c. &c.
Paris, November, 1807.
SIR—It was not till yesterday that I received from Mr. Skipwith a copy of the decree of the council of prizes, in the case of the Horizon. This is the first unfriendly decision of that body under the decree of the 21st of Nov. 1806. In this case, and on the petition of the defendant, the court has recommended the restoration of the whole cargo. I did not however think proper to join in asking as a favor, what I believed myself entitled to as a right. I subjoin a copy of my note to the minister of foreign affairs.
And am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant. (Signed) JOHN ARMSTRONG. Mr. Madison, &c.
Paris, Nov. 12th, 1807.
SIR—The document to which these observations are prefixed, will inform your excellency—that an American ship trading under the protection of the laws of nations and of particular treaties, and suffering shipwreck on the coast of France, has recently been seized by his majesty's officers, and adjudged by his council of prizes as follows, viz.
"Our council puts at liberty the American vessel, the Horizon, shipwrecked on the 30th of May last, near Morlaix, and consequently orders to the amount of the sale legally made of the wreck of said vessel, together with the merchandise of the cargo, which according to an estimate made in presence of the officers of the administrations
of the marine and custom house, shall be acknowledged not to proceed either from English manufactures or territory, shall be restored to Capt. McClure, without deducting any other expenses but those relative to the sale.
"And with respect to the other merchandise of the cargo, which from the result of the said estimate shall be acknowledged to come from manufactures or from English territory by virtue of the fifth article of the decree of the twenty-first of November, 1806, they shall be confiscated for the use of the State, the whole to be sold by the forms prescribed in the regulations; and the application of the product to be made in conformity to the arrangements of the said decree, deduction being made for the expense of saving the goods and that of the support of the crew, until the Captain shall receive the notification of the present decision."
The reasons upon which this decision is founded, are at once so new and so alarming to the present friendly relation of the two powers that I cannot but discuss them with a freedom in some degree proportioned to my sense of their novelty and importance.
"Considering" says the Council—"That the neutrality of the ship and cargo were sufficiently established, the whole ought to be restored. (agreeably to the provisions of the convention of the 30th of September, 1800) provided no merchandise of English origin had been found in her, and of course that had not been brought within the limits of the imperial decree of the 21st of November, 1806.
Here is an open and unqualified admission that the ship was found within the rules prescribed by the convention of 1800, that according to these rules, her cargo, her cargo and herself ought to have been restored, and that such would have been the fact but for the operation of the decree of the 21st of November 1806.
In the letter your excellency did me the honor to write to me on the 7th of October last, you thought it "easy to reconcile the obligations of this decree, with the preservation of those arising from treaties." It was not for me to examine the means by which this reconciliation was to be effected. They no doubt fully existed, and yet exist, in his majesty's good pleasure, and taking for granted this fact, I saw in the opinion nothing but proofs of a friendly disposition, and pledges that this was not to be either wantonly destroyed or diminished. How inapplicable however to its authority and the consolation derived from it, is this recent act of the council of prizes? An act which explicitly acknowledges the opposite characters and conflicting injunctions of these two instruments, and which of course draws after it considerations the most serious to the government of the U. S.
The second reason of the council is "that the decree declaring British merchandise good prize, had principally in view captures made on the high seas, but that the question whether ship-wrecked goods ought to be restored or confiscated having always been judged under the 14th article of the regulation of the 26th of July, 1778. And according to their character (that might have rendered lawful, or have even commanded their seizure at sea) there is no room to introduce in this case any new distinction which, however philanthropic it may appear, has not as yet been adopted as a rule by any maritime nation."
The doctrine reified in this passage, and which inculcates the duty of extending protection to the unfortunate is not new to his majesty's council of prizes. They have themselves consecrated it by their decision of the 5th of March, 1800. By that decision they restored an enemy's ship on the single reason that she had been compelled to enter a French port by stress of weather. "I should equally fail" says the attorney general, "in respect to myself and the council, before whom I have the honor to represent the government, were I not to maintain a principle, consecrated by our laws and by those of all nations. In all circumstances let the loyalty of the French government serve as the basis of your decisions. Prove yourselves at once generous and just;—your enemies will know and respect your magnanimity." Such was the principle adopted by the council in the year 1800, and in the case of an enemy's ship, yet we are now told that this very principle so honorable to the court, to the nation, and to human nature, is utterly unknown to all maritime people. And on what occasion do we hear this? When an enemy's ship is again thrown on the French coast? No—it has been reserved for the wreck of a neutral and friendly vessel! for a ship of the U. States! It is not denied that had this ship escaped the rocks and made the port of Morlaix, the only inflexibility to which she would have been exposed, (under the most rigorous interpretation of the law in question,) would have been that of being ordered again to sea—Has then the misfortune of shipwreck so far altered her condition, as to expose her to the injury of confiscation also? And is this among the principles which the defender of maritime rights means to consecrate by his power and his wisdom? It is impossible.
The 3d reason of the council is, "that the application of the 5th article aforesaid, in as far as it concerns the Americans and other nations, is the result both of the general expressions of that very article, and of the communication recently made by his excellency the grand judge; concerning the primitive intention of the sovereign, that the expedition in question, have certainly been undertaken with full knowledge of the said decree, no objection can be drawn with any propriety from the general rules forbidding a retrospective action, nor in this particular case, from the posterior date of the act in which the sovereign decides the question, since that act sprung from his wisdom, not as an interpretation of a doubtful point,
but as a declaration of an anterior and positive disposition."
A distinction is here attempted to be taken between the interpretation of a doubtful point, and the declaration of an anterior and positive rule. This distinction cannot be maintained; for if the rule had been positive, there would have been no occasion for the declaration; neither the minister of marine nor the council of prizes could have had any doubts on the subject; the execution of the decree would have been prompt and peremptory; nor would a second act on the part of his majesty after the lapse of 12 months have been necessary to give operation to the first. Need I appeal to your excellency's memory for the facts on which these remarks turn? You know that doubts did exist—you know that there was under them, even much hesitation in pronouncing—you know that as late as the 9th of August I sought an explanation of the decree in question, and that even then your excellency (surely a competent and legitimate organ of his majesty,) did not think yourself prepared to give it—the conclusion is inevitable—his majesty's answer transmitted to the court of Paris, on the 18th of September following, through the medium of the grand judge, was in the nature of an interpretation, and being so, could not without possessing a retro-active equality apply to events many months anterior in date to itself.
The 4th reason of the council, and the last which enters into my present view of the subject, is, "that though one of the principle agents of his majesty had given a contrary opinion, of which the council had at no period partaken, this opinion being that of an individual could not (whatever consideration its author may merit) balance the formal declaration given in the name of his majesty himself—and that if the communication of this opinion, had as is alleged, given room to and served as a basis for many American shipments, and particularly of the one in question; this circumstance, which may call for the indulgence of his majesty, in a case in which the confiscation is entirely to the advantage of the state, does not prevent a council, rigid in its duty, to pronounce in conformity to the decree of the 21st of Nov. and of the declaration which followed it."
It would appear from the paragraph, that not finding it easy to untie the knot, the council had determined to cut it. Prefixed by the fact, that an interpretation of the decree had been given by a minister of his majesty, specially charged with its execution they would now escape from this fact, and from the conclusion to which it evidently leads, by alleging—
1st. That at no time has the council partaken of the opinion given by the minister; and 2nd. That the opinion being that of an individual, could not possess either force or the authority of one truly ministerial.
It appears to me, as I think it will to your excellency, that the council have in these statements, been less correct than is usual to them on similar occasions, if, as they now assert, they have never partaken of the ministers opinion. If they have never even hesitated on the question, whether the decree of November did, or did not, derogate from the treaty of 1800? Why, I ask, suspend the American cases generally? or why decide as they did in the case of the Hibernia? If I mistake not, we find in this case, the negotiation of the very principle laid down by the minister of marine. That officer says "in my opinion the November decree does not work any change in the rules at present observed with respect to neutral commerce, and consequently none in the convention of the 8th Vendem, year 9;" and what says the council? "Admitting that this part of the cargo (the rum and ginger) was of British origin, the dispositions of the November decree, which contain nothing with regard to their own influence over the convention of the 8th Vendem, year 9, evidently cannot be applied to a ship leaving America on the 6th of the same month of November, and of course cannot have authorized her capture in the moment she was entering the neutral port of her destination." We have here three distinct grounds of exemption from the effects of the November decree.
1st. The entire silence of that decree with regard to its own influence over the convention of 1800.
2nd. The early period at which the ship left the United States, and
3rd. The neutral character of port to which she was destined. If such, Sir, were the principles admitted by the council of the 25th of March last, with what correctness can it be now said, "that at no period have they partaken of the opinion of the minister?"
The 2d fact asserted by the council is, that the interpretation of the decree in question given on the 24th of December, 1806, was private, not public, or in other words, that it was the interpretation of the man, not that of the minister—and as such cannot outweigh the more recent declaration coming immediately from his majesty himself.
On the comparative weight of these declarations I shall say nothing, nor shall I do more to repel the first part of the insinuation, (that the minister's declaration was that only of the individual) than to submit to your excellency my letter of the 20th of December, 1806, claiming from the minister an official interpretation of the decree in question, and his answer of the 24th of the same month, giving to me the interpretation demanded.
To your excellency who as late as the 21st of August last, considered the minister of marine as the natural organ of his majesty's will, in whatever regarded the decree aforesaid, and who actually applied to him for information relating to it—this allegation of the council of prizes, and the reasoning founded upon it cannot but appear very extraordinary, and will justify me in requesting that his majesty may be moved to set a

side the decision in question. I beg, &c. &c. His Excellency The Minister of Foreign Relations.
Paris, August 9th, 1807.
Sir—Your Excellency is not unapprized that soon after the promulgation of the Imperial Decree of the 21st of November last, one of similar character, and injunction as issued by the Prince of Peace, in behalf of H. C. M. Under this order sundry vessels belonging to the citizens of the United States have been captured on the high seas, brought into the ports of Spain, and are now before the court of admiralty for examination. To this brief statement I subjoin an extract from a letter of the 27th ult. from the Chargé des Affaires of the United States at Madrid, which will show your Excellency that the fate of these vessels will depend not on the construction which might be given to the Spanish decree by the Spanish tribunals; but on the practice which shall have been established by France, under her decree of November last, and that Prince Masserano has accordingly been directed to ask from your Excellency such exposition of that decree, and of the practice under it as shall regulate, on this head the conduct of Spanish courts and cruisers towards neutral commerce in general. Assured as I feel myself, that this exposition when given will not be less friendly, and liberal than that already found in the decisions of his Imperial majesty's council of prizes and correspondence of his minister of marine, viz that the provisions of the decree in question do not infract any of the rights of commerce stipulated by treaty between France and the United States, it is incumbent on me to pray your Excellency that it (the exposition required) be given as expediently as possible, to the end that the legitimate commerce of the United States be relieved from all further annoyance, growing out of the doubtful meaning and operation of the Spanish decree aforesaid.
Your excellency will permit me to avail myself of this occasion, to recall to your attention the subject of my letter of the 26th of June last. I learn from Antwerp that the cargoes mentioned in that letter are yet under sequestration, and that considerable loss, as well by diminution of price in the articles, as by accumulation of interest and charges, has been already incurred.
Your excellency will do me the honor to accept the assurances of my profound respect. (Signed) JOHN ARMSTRONG. His Excellency the Prince of Benevento.
Letter from the minister of Foreign Relations, of the 21st of August, 1807, referred to in the preceding page.
Sir—I have received the letter which you did me the honor of addressing me on the 9th of this month, relative to American vessels carried into ports of Spain, in consequence of the measures taken by that power against the English commerce in imitation of France.
As the execution of the maritime measures indicated by the Imperial Decree of the 21st of Nov. 1806, rests naturally with his Excellency the Minister of Marine, and that moreover he has already had the honor of addressing you some first observations on the application of that decree, I transmitted without delay your letter, and asked from him the new explanations which you might desire. When they shall have been forwarded to me, I will have the honor of informing you of them.
Accept the assurance of my high consideration. (Signed) CHAMPAGNY. H. E. Gen. Armstrong. [CONCLUDED.]
POLITICAL.
From the National Intelligencer.
Among the documents lately laid before the British parliament and printed, is a report specifying the amount of supplies of every sort, received by the B. W. I. islands respectively. From this report it appears that for the years 1804—5—6, the whole importations, with the proportions of them supplied from the United States, were as follows:—
Provisions. Whole importation. Proportion from U. S. Per Cent. Corn, bushels 1,870,625 1,218,568 65 Bread, flour & meal, bbls. 871,655 794,586 91 Rice, do. 35,818 35,220 98 Beef & pork, do. 332,140 162,343 49 Fish, dry quintals 740,334 415,452 56 Do. do. bbls. 35,52 1,707 48 Fish, pickled, do. 355,979 114,514 32 Butter, firkins 174,440 24,074 14 Cows & oxen, No. 15,940 12,537 79 Sheep and hogs, No. 11,551 10,464 90 Lumber. O. & P. boards } & timber, ft. 118,199,244 115,068,938 97 Shingles, } do. 130,193,887 120,155,112 92 Staves, } do. 55,185,641 52,817,061 96
The foregoing document furnishes a most conclusive evidence of the effects that may be justly expected from the Embargo, on the West India Islands. Those belonging to G. Britain for the three specified years, have depended on the United States for the immense supplies stated, the value of which we have not immediately before us the materials of estimating, but the amount of which may be confidently taken at a sum between 16 and 20 millions of dollars, which gives an annual consumption of from five to seven millions. It is probable that the other islands would average a consumption but little inferior, making in the whole, an annual consumption of between ten and fourteen millions. All these articles, let it be recollected, are indispensably requisite, either to subsistence, or the preservation and transportation of their raw materials. The distresses arising from the want of them, will be tremendous, such as humanity shudders at, and which nothing but the principle of self-preservation can justify. But this distress, dreadful as it is, does not terminate here. We have not merely supplied the islands with our provisions and lumber; but we have taken in return their products to
an immense amount, greatly beyond the value of the former. This demand on our part will be suspended along with our exportations. We shall either draw on the old stock in our possession, or lessen our consumption of their great staples, probably both. We shall also, by withdrawing our shipping from the ocean, absolutely disable that of England on account of its inadequacy, from carrying their bulky products to the depressed and circumscribed market to be found in England.
Here then will be a triple effect—the distresses arising from the want of food; that arising from a diminished demand on our part for their products, and that arising from a want of the means of transportation.
It is to be hoped, most fervently hoped, that the mother countries will not jeopardize their great colonial interests by suffering the causes to continue, which have driven us into measures whose effects may be so dreadful, which may produce famine and despair, and most certainly will produce discontent and hatred towards the authors of these evils. It is a flattering hope, that those governments will, as soon as the rise of Congress shall assure them of the continuance of the Embargo during the summer, and of the measures taken to render it effectual, revoke their unjust principles, which they will then discern to be as invasive of their interest, as of our rights.
From the National Intelligencer. TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. NO. I.
A momentous crisis has occurred, in your affairs. The injustice of foreign powers has induced you to make a stand against their oppressions. In making this stand, you have chosen the least evil that presented itself, and have adopted a course of measures, defensive of your own interests, and only so far offensive against those of other nations as their own conduct renders them so.
A patricidal spirit has already dared to hold up these measures to ridicule and reprobation. Falsely calculating upon your want of public virtue, and upon your ascendant devotion to the paltry interests of the moment, those who are busy in exciting prejudice and diffusing falsehood, flatter themselves on your want of discernment or fortitude. Yielding implicitly to the old monarchical dogma, that the people always think and act as they feel, they flatter themselves that the temporary distresses produced by the Embargo will render you hostile to it and those who gave it existence.
With you, fellow-citizens, it rests to refute or justify these predictions of faction: to decide, once for all, whether to maintain your liberties, and to place your republican institutions on an impregnable foundation, you have the spirit to bear a momentary deprivation of a part of your luxury and wealth; or, whether at the day of danger you are ready to shrink from the contest, and consent to be slaves, provided you are suffered to indulge, even in a moderate degree, your mercenary feelings. Can there be a doubt on this head? Is there a single American in heart who would not rather sacrifice a moiety of his property than sanction principles, an acquiescence in which would inflict present disgrace, and entail future slavery on his country?
This is the real question. It is not a mere concern of the day, a point of ordinary expediency; but a question of vital importance, one which as much involves the independence of the U. S. as the revolutionary scenes which led us through blood triumphantly to emancipation. France declares that you shall not trade to Britain, or in British commodities; and England declares all the trade, not interdicted by France, unlawful. She, moreover, has enacted decrees for licensing that portion of trade she tolerates, and for imposing upon it the most oppressive burthens;—burthens, which, in some instances, far exceed the original value of the articles taxed. What is this but oppression, in its most odious form, and what would acquiescence on our part prove other than the most abject submission and slavery?
Unlimited riches held on such terms would be infinitely worse than the injoyment of liberty and indifference. For, however, in the first case we might want the gratifications of the sensualist, and some of the comforts of rational subsistence, we should retain a conscience free from reproach, and an elasticity of spirit unbroken by a consciousness of crime. Of a nation composed of such independent minds, it might hereafter be said, to use the language of an elegant writer, "although the massy trunk was bent to the ground, no sooner did the hurricane pass away, than it again rose with fresh vigor and more lively vegetation." The father of a numerous offspring might console himself with the reflection that the hardships he was enduring were for the good of his posterity, and that in leaving to
them a country undebased by a disgraceful vassalage, he left them an ample equivalent for a scanty patrimony. In fact, in the eye of philosophy and reason, which look entirely to the aggregate of human happiness, what are the fleeting clouds, which for a short period cast a shade over human scenes, compared to that total darkness which so often springs from a radical error in the policy of nations? What are the temporary effects arising from a suspension to reap the fruits which ought invariably to flow from good principles, compared to the permanent abandonment of those principles? The difference is as great as exists between an individual of general good health, who is occasionally exposed to disease, and an individual of an habitually debilitated and broken constitution.
This very analogy, which comes home to the feelings of every man, is strictly applicable to our present situation. We have asserted and are contending for principles, which are just in themselves, which no nation on earth has a right to deprive us of, and which we cannot relinquish without infamy. Shall we then consent to wear these humiliating chains, because they are set off with baubles to dazzle our senses, or because a remnant of liberty is left, which is not likely to remain long, after submitting to such daring pretensions? For one, I say no. I would rather dig my own grave, and resign myself to voluntary death, than do an act which would inevitably degrade me in my own eyes, and my country in the eyes of the world.
In subsequent numbers I shall enter more fully into this subject, and others connected with it.
AN AMERICAN WHIG.
EN PASSANT! AS THE WIND BLOWS.
Many are now complaining of the embargo, who, if war had been commenced on 22d June last, would be poor as beggars, who are now rich and secure—for example, a gentleman of great experience and information states, that on the 22d June, the date of the attack on the Chesapeake, the amount of American property eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, was 28 millions of dollars.
By preferring embargo to war, property to the amount of 23,000,000 dollars has since arrived safe in port, and the remaining 5,000,000 are hourly expected.
In this single item of political economy, suppose only half of the 28 millions had been captured, by the enemy! How many who are now busily vilifying their country, and aiding its enemy by their perfidy and ingratitude, would have had their families in utter want—we know several of them—and the time is coming, when their base ingratitude will render it necessary to make them know, because persons so lost to national honor and justice now, are bad enough to be traitors in war.
Citizens who calculate upon peace, we fear deceive themselves by their wishes, rather than by reason. We wish to keep in mind the following circumstance, and to expect by the 20th June, information of the highest interest;—during the last session of Congress, Mr. John Q. Adams, one of our Senators in Congress, wrote to Governor Sullivan as follows:
"From the tenor of Mr. Pinkney's communication, there can be no doubt, but Britain is determined, at all hazards, upon a war with the United States: Mr. Pinkney's unequivocal opinion is, that our only reliance must be upon our own energies."
The sanction to both houses of parliament to the British orders of council—and the numerous troops thrown into the British colonies in our neighborhood; taken together with the inferences which the British are stirring up in Vermont, among the Indians, and in our seaports, too plainly point out what we are to expect.—Aurora.
Copy of a letter from Amsterdam, dated Feb. 23d, 1808, to a merchant in Philadelphia.
"I avail myself of this opportunity, perhaps the last for a long time—we feel sensibly the effect of the rigorous measures from all parts, against the maritime trade; prices of produce have raised to an inordinate rate; enclosed those of to-day, which most probably will get up much more, if a favorable turn does not take place—we hear nothing about the American vessels detained in England, communication with that country being almost impossible. However, vessels direct from America, not detained by the English, may still come here and unload, but in pursuance of the late embargo in America, we can expect none of them here. There is not yet any hope of a speedy peace between England and France; the only point upon which some hope can be founded, is a probability that America will maintain its neutrality, and that the late prudent step of your government may induce the two belligerent powers in Europe to respect those neutrals whom neither of them can do without; if so, we may see again in a few months, the American flag in our harbors—we have not yet intelligence of Mr. Rose's arrival in America—and many people suppose that he is vested with powers to enter into some agreement that may save the American flag from violation—but we are not very sanguine on this head."
From the Richmond Enquirer, May 10, 1808. "We know that a letter has been received here from a FEDERAL Merchant in London, which declares, that if we stick to our Embargo for six months, we shall obtain our terms from Great Britain."
Foreign Intelligence.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
A commercial friend has put the Editor of the N. Y. Mercantile Advertiser, in possession of a London paper (per the Allegany) of the evening of April 7th, two days later intelligence from England than had been heretofore received. It contains some interesting circumstances, of which the following is a brief but general outline.
In the House of Lords, on the 6th of April, Lord Grenville gave notice, that he should, upon an early day after the recess, perhaps between the 5th and 10th of May, move to address his majesty to revoke the late Orders in Council.
The English have established themselves in the island of Lefina, on the coast of Dalmatia, which the Russians occupied several months during their last war with France; it is thought to have been taken possession of for some temporary purposes, and with an inconsiderable force.
Notwithstanding the pressure of war and the daily increasing difficulties to which the commerce of England is exposed, the financial prosperity of the country is represented as keeping pace with the magnitude of the exertions which she is compelled to make, the surplus of the consolidated fund, for the year ending on the 5th April, amounted to four millions and a half sterling, exceeding by one million that of the year preceding.
It was reported in London on the 7th of April, with more confidence than the general fear would allow it to merit, that the American government has offered its mediation between England and France; and that Mr. Noorle, who has arrived at L'Orient in the Osage, is the bearer of a proposal to that effect. It was added, that Mr. Noorle is charged with dispatches to Mr. Pinkney; but that he waits at L'Orient until he hears from our minister at Paris how this offer of mediation has been received.
Two thirds of the mercantile houses in the city of Lisbon have stopped payment, in consequence of the total want of trade and the accumulated oppressions of the French government. Letters had been received in London to the 20th of March, some of which state that in the India houses at Lisbon, were found 36,000 bales of cotton, 16,000 bales of India goods, 13,000 bales of Malabar coast goods, an abundance of cocoa, and other articles of value.—The first installment on the contribution of forty million of crowns has been paid. The amount of it was about 200,000 sterling. In the list of the persons assessed, Mr. Quintella (at whose house General Junot has his head-quarters) Mr. Landeica and Mr. Coldas stand separately charged with the sum of 9,000 sterling, and this only on one-twentieth part of the whole sum to be contributed. The church plate was to be estimated in the next installment.
The report of a naval engagement in the Mediterranean, appears to have been an idle rumor.
From Copenhagen we learn that the Sound was completely covered with ice at the beginning of March; and that at Elsinore, where the passage is narrow and the current more rapid, the masses of ice were seen collecting from day to day; so that if the frost continued a week longer, it would be impossible for foot soldiers to march over into Sweden, where the public mind was said to be in great fermentation. At Elsinore active preparations were making to embark and transport the French army into Scania, and a flotilla was building to protect the movements of the navy and secure the transport from one island to another. In the meanwhile the King of Sweden (who is concentrating his army) has prohibited all communication between his kingdom and Denmark upon pain of death; and has ordered the flotilla of Abbo to be burnt, to prevent its falling into the hands of the Russians, whose operations are effectually seconded by the rigor of the season.
The Porte is making the greatest efforts to establish the army of the Grand Vizier, which during the winter had been considerably weakened. One hundred and fifty thousand men from the Asiatic provinces are to repair to it. Very severe firmans have been addressed to the Governors, and envoys sent to press the execution of the orders of the Grand Signior.
The English squadron continues to have the exclusive dominion of the Archipelago, seizing not only all Turkish vessels, but such as may have entered a Turkish port. On the 8th of January the Dardanelles and the ports of Egypt were officially proclaimed in a state of close blockade, in the name of Admiral Collingwood, with an offer to grant passports to all vessels failing to and from Malta. This proceeding has reduced the commerce of the Levant to a state of absolute stagnation.
In the English Court of Admiralty at Doctors Commons, on the 6th of April, Sir William Scott, proceeded to the adjudication of the American ship Union, Capt. Baker, captured on her passage from Amsterdam to Madeira, and then to Santa Cruz.—The ship had been already restored; and the question now was, as to the national character of the person who claimed the cargo, and who it was contended by the captors was a Dutchman. The court, however, was clearly of opinion that he was to be considered an American, and directed the property to be restored to him.
LONDON, APRIL 4.
During the late unfortunate campaign in Germany, the number of Prussian prisoners who were sent to France amounted to little short of 100,000. By the treaty of Tilsit, it was stipulated that they should be immediately restored; but various pretexts were urged for not executing the article until nearly the whole of the people were induced or enforced into the service of France.
LONDON, Feb. 15.—It will be seen by our Portsmouth letter received yesterday, that the army has failed which is destined for the defence of our North American possessions; and which, if necessary, may be called upon to act offensively against the maritime towns of the United States, if they are determined upon hostility towards us. This army, when augmented by troops which will join it from Bermuda, Halifax, &c. will be greater than the whole disposable force of America. It now consists of the following regiments, viz. the 7th, 8th, 15th, 23d, 32d, 42d, 51st, fifth battalion of the 60th, second battalion of the 82d, with large detachments from the artillery and staff corps—altogether about 9,500 men, to which will be attached the 98th
and the 10th regiments (15,000). His excellency general Prevost, commands this formidable force, which proceeded to sea on Saturday, with a very fair wind.
BY THE MAILS.
NEW YORK, MAY 14.
By the arrival of the ship Connecticut in 36 days from St. Luca, we are indebted to the politeness of capt. Lovett, for the following information—that the Prince of Peace was headed on the 5th of April, and had been exposed in public loaded with chains—the houses of all his officers were destroyed.—Prince Ferdinand was crowned king—and the arrival of Bonaparte was hourly expected at Madrid with 50,000 troops—and that the siege of Gibraltar was no more spoken of.
Rhode-Island Federalism!!
PROVIDENCE, MAY 17.
A paragraph is going the rounds through the federal papers, declaring that the federalists have a majority in the House of Representatives of this State of four, and of three in the Senate. We are under the agreeable necessity of informing the gentlemen able editors, that they are a little mistaken in their calculations—as on a trial of the strength of the parties at the late session, in grand committee there appeared a republican majority of seventeen!
ANOTHER EVIDENCE!
PARIS, (Kentucky) April 19.
On Thursday last we received intelligence by some gentlemen on their way from Natchez, that a party of the Creek nation of Indians, ten in number, on Sunday the 3d inst. attacked a crew of men trading up the Tennessee river in a peregue, fifteen miles above the mouth of Duck. The crew consisted of seven men, mostly Kentuckians, commanded by captain Mortimer, of which two were killed, and three badly wounded: one of the men killed, we are sorry to say, is Mr. Edward Porter, brother to captain John Porter, of this place; the other was Mr. Hervey of Mason county. Capt. Mortimer was wounded in four places, one of which was through the wrist.
From the information it appears there were no circumstances which could justify the attack. Some of the Indians went in a canoe to the peregue to buy powder and whiskey, and upon their being told there was none, they went off muttering, and were overheard to say in English, "damn them they had some for they smelt it." A young man which Capt. Mortimer had hired on the Tennessee river, to assist in navigating the boat, told him, he knew some of the Indians, and that they had a spite against him, and that the captain did not put him on shore, they would probably kill the whole crew: he was accordingly landed; but the Indians ran down and fired on them, and continued the fire for several hundred yards down the river; Mr. Hervey returned the only fire, after receiving his mortal wound. The crew retreated to the mouth of Richland creek, where they buried our two unfortunately murdered countrymen in as decent a manner as their circumstances would admit.
A company of men was raised, and went in pursuit of the Indians, but had not overtaken them when these gentlemen left there.—An express was likewise sent to their nation. One of the wounded it was thought would not recover.
Mr. Helm, of Nelson county, was one of the gentlemen who brought the intelligence, and received his information from Mr. Masters, one of the crew, and brother-in-law to Mr. Hervey who was killed.
Mr. Helm further states, that as he passed through the Chickasaw nation, he was told that the Creek nation had determined to go to war with the whites, and that the six towns of the Chickasaws had joined them. A party of the Creeks had been in the Old-Town for some time, persuading the Chickasaws to go to war; and he was cautioned to take care of the Cherokees, as it was believed they would join the Creeks. When he arrived at the Cherokee nation, he found them holding their war dance: their warriors were red beads, carried knife, tomahawk & scalps, but offered no violence to any of his party.—The Chickasaws appeared friendly, and said if the whites would send an army, they would assist to drive off the Creeks and Choctaws.
These appearances remind us very much of old times, when savage cruelty was rewarded by British benevolence.—What can induce the southern Indians to go to war, at a time when every pains are taken to cultivate their friendship? It must be through the influence of some foreign agents. English baubles glitter in their imagination, and whet their savage desire for freemen's scalps, to feast the eyes of his 'most gracious majesty.' It would seem as if Mr. Pinkney's words were coming true, "that the British only waited a favorable opportunity to do us some serious injury." Americans! how long will your temperance forbear? It is not time we should be making the most active preparations to meet the impending events? The boards of the Chesapeake and the barge of Tennessee, stained with the blood of our countrymen, call aloud for vengeance.

Fortifications at New-York.
NEW-YORK, MAY 12.
The fortifications on Governor's Island progress very rapidly. Between 4 and 500 men are kept constantly employed on the works. The genius of Col. Williams, united with the superior mechanical abilities of Messrs. Hillard and Soyder, has rendered this fortification, in point of strength and elegance, equal to any perhaps in the world. They are at present employed in the erection of a circular tower, which, from its situation, will be of great advantage in case of attack, being placed on a point of the island, from whence it can command the Narrows, and in fact, the whole of the Channel. It will be completed in three months.
At Bedlow's Island, also, they have commenced the erection of a Star, which will be of great service, and the chains are forging which are to be affixed to the blocks to be sunk in the Channel. When the works are all completed, the general complaint that our harbor is defenceless, will, we hope, cease, as whatever nature and art can furnish will be applied, it will be placed in a posture of defence superior to any in the U. S.
MAY 16.
We have received by the brig Prudence, from Bordeaux, files of French papers to the latter end of March: but their contents are either unimportant, or have been anticipated in the Mercantile Advertiser by way of London. We learn verbally that the alleged crime for which Marshall Brune is imprisoned in the Temple at Paris, is, that of having secretly received from the English six millions of livres for permission to smuggle goods into Hamburg. He has been compelled to refund this money; besides incurring the displeasure of his royal master, who is said to have declared that he spared his life only in consideration of his past services, and because of the dignity of Marshal to which those services had raised him.
MORE BRITISH AMITY!
Extract of a Letter from Daniel Frost to his Brother, Ezra Frost, of Danbury, Connecticut, dated "MADEIRA, Feb. 28th, 1808."
"Dear Brother—I am very sorry to write a letter to you from this place, and particularly under my present circumstances. We sailed from Philadelphia the 10th of Novr 1807, bound to Lisbon, in Portugal; and nothing material happened until the 23rd of December, when we were boarded by an English ship of war, and ordered off that place. We then went to Cadiz, and came to a good market, discharged, and took in a Cargo of Salt, and a little Wine; and on the 16th of February, sailed for Philadelphia, and on the 19th were detained by a Privateer Brig, of and from Plymouth, (England,) named the Caroline, Capt. Jones; and that for no other reason, as they say, than that we had broken blockade by a Decree that passed the 11th of November, which was the day after we left Philadelphia. They are determined to take us to England; and, as they say they are justifiable: but merely to make us pay cost and detention. I am almost sick with vexation from the treatment we receive, and the abuse we are obliged to suffer from such Tyrants, and far too much for me who have endured so much. God knows what will be the end. They call us "Damn'd Yankees," "Rascals," "Villains," "Lycas," &c. and I conceive my life in danger every moment; but they shall never take me unprepared—God send us satisfaction some day or other. Our Father's death and the manner in which he died, calls us to revenge, and his spirit will assist us; and may we meet him and our dear Mother, Brother and Sister in another world, where there are no thieves and robbers to molest us.
"Since I began to write, they have been on board; they are going to take out all our Passengers, which are 19; and all our ship's crew (11 men, our people) on board the Privateer, and the Passengers on board another American ship bound to New-York. I am sure I never shall survive this Voyage, for I believe my sufferings will be too great to bear, and the treatment we daily receive. My Love to all—May that God who preserves us all, be ever watchful over your much distressed Brother.
DANIEL FROST."
* He was one of those unhappy victims to British cruelty and tyranny, who PERISHED in the Sugar House at New-York.
KINGSTON, (N. Y.) APRIL 19.
On Wednesday last, a daughter of Jas. J. Graham, of Shawangunk, having taken down her brother's gun, and used the iron ramrod to let her spools run upon to double some yarn, for which it was often used in the family, she then returned it, and went to lay the gun in its place, not supposing it to be charged; but when the brick of the gun touched the beam it went off. Mr. G's two black girls, aged 8, and 10, happening to be passing the room before the muzzle, the charge went through the first and lodged in the second. The first expired in a few hours the other is likely to recover.
A gentleman from Eastport, (Maine,) says, that place is glutted with flour—that some seizures have been made—that a revenue cutter and several custom house boats are continually on the watch—that the Embargo experiment may be fairly made.
Congress have allowed the law to expire which prohibited trade to St. Domingo. If the embargo comes off before the next session of Congress, this trade will be resumed.
The Legislature of Massachusetts will convene in Boston to-morrow, at 20 o'clock.
PORTSMOUTH,
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1808.
EUROPEAN NEWS—
To the 7th April has been received in New-York.
The special Messengers sent by our Government, since the Embargo, had arrived in France and England. Their mission had engendered various reports; one of which was, that they were the bearers of a proffered mediation of Peace between the European belligerents.
In Great-Britain the late Orders of Council continued to be the theme of animadversion:—And Lord Grenville had given notice in the House of Peers of his intention to move an address to the King to revoke them. There were no prospects of peace or of negotiation. On the contrary, the war was carried on with augmented severity. Extracts from the above arrival will be found under our Foreign Head.
We this day finish the publication of the entire correspondence on the affair of the Chesapeake—[lately published in the Gazette.] We again repeat the hope that it will be attentively read by every citizen of this country; and we hazard nothing in affirming, that after such a perusal there can be but one opinion entertained by the great mass of the people. Those in systematic opposition, either to republican principles, or the measures of the administration, may, perhaps, condemn the course pursued on this occasion, as they have invariably censured that heretofore pursued on all others. But, with the exception of this small class of men, who have no political weight in the nation, the award will be unanimous. This award has indeed been already given. If there ever was an instance in which the public sentiment avowed itself without equivocation, it was on the occurrence of this black outrage; and the demand for reparation formed at least as prominent a feature as any other part of the expectation expressed. This demand has been made, in a spirit of unexampled moderation; and in a spirit, in every respect the opposite, it has been refused. And on what ground? On the ground that the proclamation of the President should be rescinded. Why? For reasons which Mr. Rose has assigned, and Mr. Madison answered, in a style, which it were absurd to attempt to elucidate.
We also present our readers with "all the communications, official or verbal, from the French government, respecting the general relations between the two countries, which have been transmitted through our minister there, or through any other accredited channel, since the last session of Congress; to which time all information of the kind had, from time to time, been given them," [as published in this day's paper.]—They will be astonished at the little these papers contain, and at their absolute disposal of the charges of French influence and the withholding of documents which established it. If they are astonished, ought, not those who propagated these charges to be confounded. The charges were propagated in the belief that the Executive would not make the disclosures professedly coveted with so much solicitude; but to their confusion they are made, and the nation, called upon to judge, has thus unexpectedly to them got the materials for forming a just judgment. That judgment will be pronounced.
[National Intelligencer.]
[CIRCULAR.]
[A Letter from the President of the United States to the Governor of New Hampshire; published at the request of the latter;—to the intent that the people may avail themselves of any advantages they may legally derive from the provisions it contains.]
"Washington, May 6, 1808."
"Sir,—The evasions of the preceding Embargo-Laws went so far towards defeating their objects, and chiefly by vessels clearing out coastwise, that Congress, by their act of April 25th, authorised the absolute detention of all vessels bound coastwise, with cargoes exciting suspicion of an intention to evade those laws. There being few towns on our sea-coast which cannot be supplied with flour from their interior country,—flourments of flour became generally suspicious, and proper subjects of detention. Those of New Hampshire may need supplies of flour by sea for their own consumption:—That they may not suffer by the cautions we are obliged to use, I request of your Excellency, whenever you deem it necessary, that your present or any future stock should be enlarged, to take the trouble of giving your certificate in favor of any merchant in whom you have confidence, directed to the Collector of any port usually exporting flour, from which he may choose to bring it, for any quantity, which you may deem necessary for consumption beyond your interior supplies; inclosing to the Secretary of the Treasury, at the same time, a duplicate of the certificate, as a check on the falsification of your signature. In this way we may ensure a supply of your citizens, and, at the same time, prevent those wants from being made a cover for the crimes against their country, which unprincipled adventurers are in the habit of committing. I trust too that your Excellency will find an apology for the trouble I propose to give you in that desire, which you must feel, in common with all our worthy citizens, that inconveniences encountered cheerfully by them for the interests of their country, shall not be turned merely to the unlawful profits of a small part of society."
"I salute your Excellency with assurances of my high respect and consideration. TH: JEFFERSON."
Mr. Rittenhouse, late American agent in Holland for the transfer of stock, reached Washington on Thursday last, and brought despatches from Gen. Armstrong for our government. Despatches have also been received within a few days from Mr. Pinkney, and by Mr. Erskine from his government; but we have been unable to hear anything of their contents.— Waft. Fed.
A Savannah paper says, a boat carrying the mail was sunk on the 21st April, two miles below Fredericks, by a sudden gust. Two Monks from St. Gothard, who were soliciting contributions, and were passengers, perished.
When opening the vault in which Pope Innocent IV was deposited, after 552 years, it was observed that such of his vestments as were of silk were found entire; and while his other vestments were decayed, those of silk were in high preservation. Examples of the preservation of silk, after other vestments have been consumed, have been seen in this town, and the body of Mr. Whitefield, buried in silk at Newburyport, was found entire after 20 years. [ Salem paper. ]
General MOREAU—whose journey into the interior of the continent, excited such a brood of rumors, has returned to the Atlantic States. He was at Savannah, in Georgia, on the 28th April; where he was received with military honors:—and on the 13th instant, arrived at Washington, on his way to New-York. [ Continel. ]
Commodore Barron.—The National Intelligencer, received last evening, gives a statement of the proceedings of the Court Martial in the case of Commodore Barron. From this statement we learn that the Commodore is acquitted on three of the charges and found guilty "for neglecting, on the probability of an engagement, to clear his ship for action." The Court, therefore, have sentenced him to be suspended from all command in the Navy of the United States for the period of five years from the 8th day of February last, during which time he is to receive no pay or official emoluments of any kind.
In the Annals of the Museum of France, in 1804, the professor of Comparative Anatomy begins one of his learned disquisitions in the following words. "Mr. Jefferson, President of the United States, whose virtue and talents are the happiness of the people that he governs, and the admiration of all the friends of human nature, and who has united to these superior qualities an enlightened affection to the sciences, and an extensive knowledge of them, by which he has contributed to very many well known discoveries in them, is the first who has discovered the subject of my communication." Who could believe that the greatest friends of science could apply such language to the man, who is reviled by the meanest of the people, to whom he is the greatest benefactor, and whose judgment the most contemptible declaimers of our country dare to challenge, amidst the shouts of the profligate, the profligate, and the most abandoned wretches of a desperate party! [ Salem Register. ]
In an address to the Madison corresponding Committee, in Virginia, it is observed, "It would be foreign to our purpose, to expatiate on the merits of the man who is put in nomination for the office of President." After enumerating his well known claims, it closes the description by saying, "To such a character, panegyric can add no lustre, and calumny can affix no disgrace." The unrivalled claims of Mr. Madison are happily given in this address, the spirit of which will be felt, we trust, throughout the union. At a late general meeting of the Democratic Republicans of the county of Chester, Pennsylvania, it was resolved to support the nomination of Mr. Madison as President of the United States, and to recommend the nomination to all their brethren in Pennsylvania. [ Ibid. ]
When Rose first arrived at Washington, one of our letters from a member of Congress mentioned, that on his visiting the lobby of the House of Representatives he was introduced by Mr. Erskine to the federal Members of Senate who were there, and was by them received with a great deal of cordiality, particularly by Mr. Pickering.
Some time after, a letter from Washington suggested that some mischievous project must be hatching between Pickering and Rose, as the former was at the lodging of the latter early and late, and even the servants were sent out of the room while they were in conference, &c.
Since the appearance of Pickering's apology for British outrages and injuries and insults, no doubt can remain what occasioned his so frequent visits and private interviews with the British extraordinary envoy.
[Trenton True American.]
Timothy Pickering, like an old termagant, seems determined to have the last word, and to make up for the badness of his cause by his perseverance in supporting it. He has lately addressed another letter to Governor Sullivan, remarkable equally for its disgusting vanity and disgraceful bitterness. If he is to be believed, he is himself one of the best men in the world, and Sullivan one of the worst.—What Timothy lacks in talents, he supplies in impudence—and if he uses but few solid arguments, he gives an abundance of words.—"Bold strokes" are his force, and this letter contains many of his boldest. His reputation is, however, too low for his writings to do Republicanism any injury. [ Democrat. ]
A late statement in the New-York Oracle, says, General Miranda is in England. His connection with Col. Burr is now well known, and that a junction was intended. Several young gentlemen who went with Miranda carried out letters of recommendation to Col. Burr, from persons in this city. There is now one of them in this city, who was in possession of one of those letters. The remark which follows is, "With such proofs so glaringly evident, every exertion is necessary on the part of government to counteract the dangerous plans which are in agitation."
If Burr acted with Miranda, and Miranda with England, what shall we say of British negotiations? Shall we not applaud the vigilance of our own administration, and rise with indignation against all attempts to counteract our own government? It is because the public mind is insensible to the greatness of our danger, that it has discovered so little resentment of the base artifices to betray our Country into the hands of its enemies. [ Register. ]
.....DIED.....
In Dunbarton, (N. H.) Widow Martha Chapman, aged 101. In Brentwood, (N. H.) Isaac Reddington, Esq. aged 75. In Greenland, Miss ELIZA BRACKETT, only daughter of George Brackett, Esq.—for Character see last page. In this town, Capt. JOSEPH CLARK, ag. 63.
By Permission. THE brig Alert, for St. Vincent; will sail in eight days.—For terms of passage or letters, apply to THOMAS MANNING, Portsmouth Pier. Portsmouth, May 24, 1808.
NEW GOODS. TIMOTHY UPHAM,
Has just Received in addition to his former stock, a very large supply of
Spring & Summer Goods,
which he offers as usual,—CHEAP. BUFF, yellow, flat, purple, white, sky and dark blue Satins for Bonnets; Sarsenets of various colors; black Modes; very fine soft black Satins for Gowns; English, India, Florence, French and Italian Lutrings; silk Shawls from 7/6 to 36/; turban Handkerchiefs; Parasols; silk and cotton Umbrellas; printed Cambricks, Calicoes & figured Ginghams of the most fashionable patterns; Grecian Robes.
Straw, chip, willow & Chineil HATS and BONNETS; Leghorn Flats; Linens and linen Cambricks; linen & cotton Cambricks pocket Handkerchiefs; furniture, cambricks & common Dimities; furniture Fringe; Cord & Tassels; silk Cord, do. Tassels; Ladies & Gentlemens white, slate and black cotton Hose; large English silk Gloves for 6/ a pair; a complete assortment of kid and beaver Habit Gloves.
Real superfine London Cashmeres, fashionable colors; superfine and common Broad-Cloths, with a great variety of other GOODS, which being usually kept on hand are not enumerated.—ALSO,
MILITARY GOODS,
Epaulets from 9/ to 48/ each, gold and silver Lace; gold and silver Cord, Tassels & Hat Bands; Plumes of various colors and prices from 3/9 to 18/; Swords and Hangers; real Deer-skin and common buff Gloves; silver Eagles; sword Hocks; Cockades; scarlet and white Broad Cloth and Cashmere, &c. &c. &c.
He will also receive in the course of a few days a supply of Fashionable FRENCH GOODS from New-York, which will be sold at very small advance. May 24, 1808.
Spring and Summer GOODS.
James Rundlet
INFORMS his customers and the publick that he has just received a fresh supply of
GOODS;
which added to his stock on hand make a very general assortment of English, French & India GOODS, which will be sold at a small advance by Wholesale or Retail. May 24.
FOR SALE,
A few boxes white and brown Havana SUGARS, on a credit of 60 or 90 days, apply to WILLIAM PEARSE. May 24, 1808.
Manufactured HAIR.
JOHN REDING, has for sale at his house in Deer-street, near the Distillery, Curled Hair, suitable for Matresses, easy Chairs and Chair bottoms, Cushions & Chaïcs—manufactured in the best manner.—also Cash given for Horses Main and Tail Hair, and Cattle's Tail Hair. Portsmouth, May 24, 1808.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE copartnership of Farrar & Weeks by mutual consent is dissolved.
JONATHAN FARRAR, ELISHA WEEKS. Gilmanston, May 7th, 1808.
TO Let a convenient dwelling HOUSE, with a Shop in front, on Congress-street,—Enquire of GEORGE GAINS. May 24, 1808.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, County of Grafton.
THE proprietors of the town of Haverhill, in said county, are hereby notified that a tax of three dollars and forty-five cents on each of the seventy acre lots, so called, has been assessed agreeably to a vote passed at a proprietors meeting of said Haverhill holden at the house of Col. Simon Toulle, by adjournment, on the 8th day of April 1808, and committed to me to collect; and that unless the same tax shall be paid to me at my dwelling house in said Haverhill, on or before the twentieth day of June next, the lands will be advertised for sale, for the payment of said tax, together with reasonable incidental charges, agreeably to law.
JAMES WOODWARD, Collector. Haverhill, May 7, 1808.
State of New-Hampshire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the non-resident owners of Lands in THORNTON and what has been called Blanchard's Gore; that by virtue of an act of the Legislature, passed June 16th, 1807, the jurisdiction of the town of Thornton was extended over said Gore; and that the Selectmen of said Thornton, assess a tax of two cents on each acre of land (public rights excepted) both in the town of Thornton and said Gore, to the sole use of making and repairing roads and bridges within the said town of Thornton and the said Gore; We the Selectmen of Thornton have assessed the lands accordingly, and by said act the owners are allowed to work out their taxes any time betwixt the first day of June, and first day of October next, at the following rate (viz.) able bodied men finding their own tools and diet, eight cents per hour,—six cents per hour for a yoke of oxen, said work to be laid out under the direction of the said Selectmen.
CALEB CHASE, ? Selectmen of WM. THORNTON, jr. Thornton. Thornton, April 30th, 1808.
Postponed from YESTERDAY. AUCTION,—THIS DAY,
It is said, will positively be held at the highest bidder,
THE HOUSE at the
head of Vaughan street, as described in former papers,—The terms will be liberal and made known at the sale. S. LARKIN, Auct.
May 24, 1808.
AUCTION,—This Day, at 10 o'clock A. M. Will be sold at the Auction-Office of Alexander Ewen, in Buck street, for Cash without reserve, Broad-Cloths, Coating, Flannels, Baizes, Lallings, Calicoes, Furniture Chintzes, Durants, Ruffles, Shalloons, cotton Cambricks, a few pieces Silks, &c. &c. Also, A second hand Chaise & harness. May 24.
THIS DAY, at 12 o'clock M.
Will be sold at Auction at the site to No. 3, Portsmouth Pier, 1800 bushels INDIAN CORN, of an excellent quality—Conditions, sums amounting to 100 dollars and upwards, approved notes at 60 days—all sums below 100 dollars each on delivery. May 24, 1808. A. EWEN, Auct.
To the honorable the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, now holden at Portsmouth, in and for the county of Rockingham, on the first Tuesday of February, Anno Domini 1808—
HUMBLY shew—Joseph Frost, of New-Castle, in said county, guardian unto Miriam Simpson Frost, a minor; Henry Beck, of Portsmouth, guardian unto Joseph Simpson, a minor; and Barrett Potter, guardian unto George Chase, Portland, a minor;—That said minors are heirs to the estate of John Simpson, late of New-Castle, aforesaid, deceased—which estate consists of a Dwelling-House, out-houses, and land adjoining the same, being about one quarter of an acre, more or less; also, a piece of land containing about three acres, and bounded northerly on land of George Frost, Esquire, easterly on the river Piscataqua, southerly on land called the parsonage, and westerly on land belonging unto George Frost: all situate in New-Castle aforesaid—that to the said Miriam Simpson Frost, belongs one undivided eighth part; to the said Joseph Simpson, one undivided sixteenth part, and to the said George Chase, one undivided fourth part thereof,—that it will conduce to the interest of their said respective wards, to have their shares in said estate sold, as the law in such cases provides.
Wherefore the said guardians pray your honors to grant them licence to sell the same accordingly—and as in duty bound will ever pray. GEORGE W. PRESCOTT, Attorney to said Guardians.
Rockingham, ss.— Superior Court, February term, 1808; ORDERED by the Court that the petitioners notify all persons concerned, to appear before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, to be holden at Exeter, within and for the county of Rockingham, on the third Tuesday of September next, to show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted, by causing said petition and order of Court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire Gazette, the last publication whereof to be six weeks before said term.
Attest, NATH'L ADAMS, Clerk. Copy examined by NATH'L ADAMS, Clerk. State of New-Hampshire, Rockingham ss. To the honorable Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Exeter, within and for the county of Rockingham aforesaid, on the second Tuesday of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and seven:—
THE petition of the subscribers humbly shews,—That a Road, or public Highway, was by your honors on the first Tuesday of January, A. D. 1803, laid out in said town of Pembroke, beginning at Buck-street bridge in Pembroke aforesaid, thence running north seventy degrees west, forty-five rods, across Buck-street to Joseph Jennens' land, thence north seventy degrees west, sixty rods, thence north sixty-two and a half degrees west, fifty six rods, thence north fifty-seven and a quarter degrees west, seventy five rods, thence north fifty-nine degrees west, one hundred and seventeen rods, thence north sixty degrees and a quarter west, six hundred and fifty-four rods, thence north fifty-four degrees and a half west, sixty rods, thence north sixty-two degrees and a quarter west, two hundred and fifty-four rods to the highway leading from Pembroke to Concord on the top of low-cook hill, thence on said way north thirty degrees west, eighteen rods, thence north seventy-one and a half degrees west, partly upon Elliot's land, fifty-two rods to a stake spotted on four sides standing on the easterly bank of low-cook river, which road remains impassable; that it is laid out over such hilly, unsuitable, and bad ground, that the expence of building said road will be to the said town of Pembroke very great; that another road on the easterly part of said Pembroke is laid out, which will shorten the distance from low-cook river to Allentown, and over ground much better for making road; It is believed that the public will be better accommodated in travelling the latter road than the former, and the expence to the town of Pembroke trifling, compared with that of the other; that Turnpike Roads lately built have rendered a multiplication of private roads wholly unnecessary. Your petitioners therefore pray, that your honors would order a discontinuance of said road leading from Buck-street bridge to said spotted stake on the easterly bank of low-cook river aforesaid. And as in duty bound will ever pray.
J. EVANS, and 83 others.
ROCKINGHAM, ss.
Court of Common Pleas, January term, 1808. UPON hearing and considering said petition, the court order that the petitioners notify all persons concerned, to appear before the Justices of the next court of Common Pleas, to be holden at Exeter, within and for the county of Rockingham, on the second Tuesday of August next, to show cause, if any they have, why the prayer thereof should not be granted, by causing the substance of said petition and order of court thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the New-Hampshire and Concord Gazettes, the last publication whereof to be six weeks before said term.
Attest, N. EMERY, Clerk. Copy examined by N. EMERY, Clerk.

OBITUARY. On Friday 29th ult. departed this transitory life after a short illness, JOHN WENDELL, Esq. of this town, in the 77th year of his age, and his remains were deposited in the silent grave on Tuesday following; when the funeral obsequies were attended, by a long train of mourning relatives and near friends, and every class of his fellow citizens who on this solemn occasion paid their last respect to his virtuous memory. His departure out of time was marked by the widow and children with deep regret—tears and a tribute which his virtues necessarily drew forth, and his memory is embalmed by the richest perfumes which gratitude can bestow. In this aged gentleman his widow and children have sustained a heavy stroke of God's Providence by bereaving the widow of a fond and affectionate husband, and children that of a loving parent, whose sole delight was in consulting their sole good. But say thy tears the man returns to dust, God his Creator is both wife and just; For some good purpose then each kindred diet, 'Tis but we hope to be in the fates. Without formal profession of piety Mr. WENDELL lived what cold professors preach—without boiling of religion, he performed all that religion enjoins—Benevolence and Charity where the characteristic and governing principles of the deceased, and whilst his eyes were open to see and his ears to hear, his hands was always ready to relieve the distressed and the needy. The tears of the widow and orphan dried away at his approach—in his presence the heart of the wretched rejoice and the harmless stranger could never want a home while within the reach of his aid.—The unfortunate he confessed in their bereavement and the needy he never sent empty away.—Of the duties in his situation in life as a husband—a citizen—and a man, he was ever mindful. As he lived universally beloved, so he died as generally lamented. Filial piety, paternal affection, an ardent attachment to his country, and a never ceasing veneration for his God, shone conspicuous in all the stages of his life.—Who? can say unto the Lord what doest thou? He gave and he taketh away, blessed be his Holy name. And while he is thus reaping the budding plant or the full blown rose, we ought to make just improvements thereof, though we are only tenants at will, and liable to be dispossessed of our earthly tabernacles in a moments warning. The partition which separates time from eternity is nothing more than the breath of our nostrils and the transition may be made in the least particle of time. Through all the changes and vicissitudes of nature he ever maintained that degree of philosophy which tends to smooth the rugged paths of life—he cloathed his latter days with the habiliments of patience, when suddenly he was summoned away, yet in the consciousness of a well spent life, he resigned these numerous blessings without a sigh. And unreluctantly seated himself in the bowers of ease, and rested himself in the shades of security.—He was a father to the fatherless, and the elements so mixed in him that nature might rise up and say this was a man. SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI.
TRIBUTARY LINES.
To the Memory of Miss ELIZA BRACKETT, who died of a consumption, at Greenland, on the 10th of April, 1808—Aet. 17 years. In announcing the death of those who have not reached maturity, it is uncommon for friends to eulogize their characters and virtues—however, in this instance, one has been intimately acquainted and experienced the friendship of the deceased, has, with marked attention observed those amiable traits of character flowing from the heart and displaying themselves in the tenor of her life.—She was, distinguished by the innocence and purity of a heart fraught with the tenderest feelings for those in affliction, and evincing the greatest satisfaction in relieving their distresses.—Integrity, connected with a harmonious disposition, secured a profusion of friends.—Her worth and the corresponding excellencies of her mind created no envy, for it was unaffected and void of ostentation.—Among her companions she was a cheerful associate, her actions were the picture of her heart. The same tyrannical disorder which dissolved the thread of her existence, has but recently bereaved her of several beloved Sisters—leaving their afflicted parents, no other consolation than the recollection of their virtues. Anticipated Joy and Hope farewell, Thou for a moment all our fears dispel; Thou art a transient pleasure quickly flown, And often blessed ere the bud be blown. Farewell ELIZA—farewell thou blest shade, Tho' thou art gone, thy virtues will not fade; Thy gentle manners and congenial ease, Did ever gain respect and cover praise. Mam'x will ever keep thee in our view, T'will tell thy worth and oft thy tomb bemoan. In Heav'n with Seraphs may thy soul e'er rest, By us beloved—by Angels ever blest. Our sanguine hopes, by death's ultimately blast, Are the sweet hours of youthful life were past, Are with afflition and keen grief depos'd, And with the dead in the cold Earth inclos'd. Tain are the charms which youthful life bestows Since we are doom'd to future pains and woes; While hollow transports ever in our view, Our thoughts are charm'd with pleasures ever new. Alas! our thoughts be pure as Angels joys, Death like a tyrant all her hope destroys: Without defence takes us in our bloom, And with dread pow'r be triumphs in the tomb. The person who took from the N. H. Gazette Office the volume of Gazettes for 1795, is requested to return the same immediately to said office.
Garden Seeds A general assortment of GARDEN SEEDS, kept constantly for sale at C. PEIRCE'S Book-store, Daniel-street, Portsmouth. Gentlemen's Silk HATS. MARY BRYANT, HAS a neat assortment of Silk HATS, purchasers are requested to call and look at them. To Let —A Dwelling-House which may be taken possession of, immediately, with a large Garden—situate below the fourth school-house—for terms, apply to THOMAS MANNING.
Dixville Road Lottery. SCHEME OF THE FIRST CLASS. 12000 Tickets at 5 dollars each are 60000 dls. 1 prize of 10000 is 10000 3 prizes 1000 acres of land each, in the township of Dixville, through which the road passes, are 4500 5 prizes 1000 are 5000 40 do 100 - 4000 20 do 50 - 1000 200 do 10 - 2000 3735 do 1 - 3735 4004 5645 Not two blanks to a prize—Subject to no deduction. A part of the above prizes will be drawn in the following manner:—viz. The first drawn blank on the third day shall be entitled to 1000 dls. Do on the 6th, 1000 acres of land, 1500 do Do on the 9th, - 1000 do Do on the 12th, 1000 acres of land, 1500 do Do on the 15th, - 1000 do Do on the 18th, 1000 acres of land, 1500 do Do on the 20th, - 1000 do Do on the 22d, - 1000 do Do on the 24th, - 1000 do Five hundred numbers will be considered a days drawing, and the fortunate numbers which depend on the days will be determined accordingly. The drawing will commence on the thirteenth day of July next in Boston, and shall be completed in thirty days next succeeding. The prize of ten thousand dollars will be paid in ninety days, the prizes of a thousand in sixty days, and all others in thirty days from the time the drawing shall be completed. Payment will be in bills usually current in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Prizes not demanded within one year after the drawing is completed, will not be paid. The price of tickets after the last day of June, will be 5 50. The township of Dixville in which are the lands for the above mentioned land prizes, is situated thirty miles northeast of the white hills, within nine miles of Connecticut river, seventy miles from Hallowell, ninety from Portland, and central in the county of Coos; the lands are of an excellent quality, and are located into lots of an hundred acres each; six settlements have commenced, and a saw-mill and a grist mill, are erected.—The township contains two hundred and eighty lots, thirty lots are taken up for the purpose of settlement; the holders of the land prizes will have an equal chance to draw their lands from the remaining lots, or may choose so many of their lots as they shall make actual settlements on within two years from the time the drawing is completed. Good lots are now worth three dollars per acre, and the value will be much increased by the road. Undisputable titles will be given to the lands. ELIJAH HALL, JOSEPH AKERMAN, jun. } Managers. TIMOTHY DIX, jun. Tickets may be had of the usual vendors, in town and country. Portsmouth, May 10, 1808.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
IN conformity to the Laws of the United States, and the laws of this State, (for the preservation of health by the regular quarantine of vessels suspected of any contagious diseases,) the Board of Health have adopted the following Rules and Regulations, which are to be in force from and after the fifteenth day of May inst till the first day of November.—And the Board for the accommodation and safety of vessels subject to quarantine, have established a place in the harbour between Fort Constitution and Clark's Island, so called, to be considered as quarantine ground. ART. 1st. Every master or commanding officer, arriving with his vessel at the port of Portsmouth, by night, from any foreign port, shall cause said vessel to be brought to an anchor; there to remain till permission to proceed is obtained from the commanding officer at Fort Constitution. ART. 2d. All masters or commanding officers of any vessel arriving at the port of Portsmouth, from any of the West India Islands, from the Dutch or Spanish Main, or from any port or ports within the Straights of Gibraltar, or any other port subject to the plague, yellow fever, small pox, or any malignant pestilential or contagious diseases, shall immediately, on being hailed from Fort Constitution bring his vessel to an anchor on quarantine ground, there to remain till notice is given by a flag provided for such purpose, to some of the Health Committee, who will immediately repair on board and give such directions respecting the time any vessel ought to perform quarantine, together with directions for the cleaning as in their opinion may be thought necessary, or by other orders to take off this subjection, and restriction, whenever circumstances will admit of it. ART. 3d. Every master or commanding officer of any vessel arriving, which is subject to quarantine, (after receiving notice of his vessel being so subject,) is forbidden landing, or suffering to be landed any person, goods, apparel, bedding or merchandise of any kind, without permission of the Health Officers; likewise all persons are forbidden going on board any vessel during her quarantine. The above Regulations every owner, master, supercargo and consignee is requested strictly to observe, otherwise they may expect to be prosecuted as the law directs; likewise they are requested to pay particular attention to the orders of the commander of Fort Constitution, who is authorized forcibly to detain any vessel attempting wilfully to pass. The expenses of visiting and cleaning, must be paid before a certificate is given. Portsmouth, May 13, 1808. BENJ. SHERBURNE, } Health Committee. SAMUEL JONES, J. H. PIERREPONT. State of New-Hampshire—Rockingham—Rockingham ff. We the Subscribers two of the Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum, within and for said county, do hereby approve of the foregoing Rules and Regulations. Witness our hands at Portsmouth, in said county, the thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord 1808. SAMUEL PENHALLOW. R. CUTTS SHANNON. Cash given for RAGS, at the Book-store of C. PEIRCE.
Spring & Summer Goods. Wm. Jones jr. is now opening a very extensive assortment of Fashionable, Fancy and Staple, PIECE GOODS, Imported in the last vessels from England; among which may be found, PLAIN leno, cut Gauze, corded and pearl Mullins; pink, blue, white, green, lead and salmon Sarfnet; white, blue, green, pink, yellow and other color'd Crapes; elegant figured Satins for Bonnets; plain green, blue, yellow, buff & black do. Variety Color'd Tiffanies; damask'd and other silk Shawls; shaded Taffetas; Garnitures and Goffre Ribbons; broad and narrow, plain and figured black Lustre ditto; broad green, slate and other color'd Satin ditto; pink, plaid and dark Gingham. Rich patch Furnitures in sets, Copperplates & common Furnitures; 2 cases small figured dark and light London Prints; 2 cases common Calicoes; black, white, brown, lead and fawn Florence Lustrings; plaid Italian ditto; India black ditto; large supply black Italian Crapes; black Cyprus; 1/2, 3/4 and 1 black Modes; black Crape and paper Fans; black Cambricks & Gingham; plaid, green and other color'd Chambrays. Fine cotton Cambricks and Jacquet Mullins; glai'z'd & unglai'z'd cotton Cambricks; linen Cambricks from 10/ to 27/; extra long white kid Gloves; nice black kid habit ditto; leather do. of every colour and price; black, white and color'd silk habit do.; best English black, white and color'd long silk ditto. Parafoils, with deep netting fringes; ditto without fringes; Tortoise-shell Combs; Leghorn Flats; cane and willow Sheets; straw Trimmings; straw Bonnets; black and assorted colours sewing Silks; broad and narrow patch Trimming; Vestings of the newest patterns; fine and common cambric Dimoties; cotton Umbrillas; table Cloths. 1 Cafe Irish Linens; blue, mix'd and drab cotton Florentines; Nankins; cotton Cashmeres; Velvets; hunters Cord; Thickflets and Corduroys; black and drab Cashmeres; best London black and blue Broad Cloths; brown Holland; Millinets and Buckrams; N o 3 3/4, 4 & 4 1/2 best London Pins; silk, leather and cotton Suspenders. Complete assortment Ladies and Gentlemen's silk and cotton Hosiery; cotton Balls; tabby Velvets; Ruffles; Durants; Duroys; Calimanco's and Shallons. 2 cases Leghorn silk Hats; blue Nankins; yellow ditto; blue Cottons; large supply India Cottons and Checks; Bandannos; China and flag Handkerchiefs. The above added to his former Stock renders it very complete, and will be sold at a small advance for Cash. May 17th, 1808.
Rum, Salt, &c.
80 Hhds. Tobago and Demarara RUM. 250 do. Cadiz Salt; 300 do. Liverpool do. afloat; Scale and Cod FISH; 20 boxes 6 by 8 WINDOW GLASS; and 15 Bbls. Mels PORK. for sale by Henry & Alex'r Ladd, N o 14 Merchant's Row. May 10.
MR. CHARLES TAFT, informs the inhabitants of Portsmouth that he will receive a few Young Gentlemen into his academy, to be instructed in the several branches of education, viz—Reading, Writing, vulgar and decimal Arithmetic, English Grammar, Composition, &c. &c. &c. at six dollars per quarter. N.B. He likewise continues to receive Young Ladies as usual. May 10. Serena Parker Johnson, INFORMS the inhabitants of Portsmouth, that she has commenced her SCHOOL for MISSES in Daniel-street, agreeably to a notice given in a former advertisement, and that she still continues to receive Misses, and instruct them in Reading, Writing, English Grammar, and Composition, together with the useful and ornamental branches of Needlework. N.B. Miss JOHNSON can accommodate twenty Misses, if application is made at Mr. Butler Abbot's in Congress-street, or at her School in Daniel-street, by the 20th inst. May 3, 1808. For Sale, at No. 6, Portsmouth Pier, 100 bbls. Alexandria superfine FLOUR. [May 16.]
FOR SALE. A Philadelphia CHAISE, well built and very light with a bellows top. The Harness silver plated and the whole almost as good as new.—Inquire at this office. Portsmouth, May 17, 1808. The subscriber informs the public that he has opened a HAT Store in Buck-street opposite Capt. Tredick's shop, where he offers for sale a general assortment of HATS, viz—mens black, brown and white HATS; likewise military HATS for call. Cash given for Hatters Furs. May 10. SAMUEL FERNALD.
War Department, April 13, 1808. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: THAT separate proposals will be received at the Office of the Secretary for the Department of war, until 12 o'clock, at noon of Monday the 20th of June next, for the supply of all rations that may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of October 1808 inclusive, to the 1st day of June 1810, within the states, territories and districts following, viz. 1st, At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Fort Wayne, Chicago and in their immediate vicinities, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the Territory of Michigan. 2nd, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. 3rd, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Ohio and the Indiana and Louisiana territories, except Fort Wayne and Chicago and their immediate vicinities. 4th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the Mississippi and Orleans territories. Separate proposals will also be received as aforesaid for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of January 1809 inclusive, to the 1st day of June 1810 within the several states following, viz. 5th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the district of Maine, and state of New-Hampshire. 6th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Vermont. 7th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Massachusetts, the town of Springfield excepted. 8th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island. 9th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New York, Niagara and its dependencies excepted. 10th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New Jersey. 11th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Pennsylvania. 12th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Maryland and Delaware. 13th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Virginia. 14th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of North Carolina. 15th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of South Carolina. 16th, At Ocmulgee Old Fields, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the state of Georgia. 17th, Proposals will also be received as aforesaid, for the supply of all rations which may be required by the United States, for the troops which are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the town of Springfield in the state of Massachusetts; and for the armors and other persons employed in the United States' Armory at that place, from the 1st day of January 1809 inclusive, to the 1st day of June 1810. A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whiskey or brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and a half of candles, to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the ration shall be specified; but the United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid, as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price of the whole ration. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit and Chicago, for six months in advance; and at each of the other posts on the western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places or posts, to call for, at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper. It is understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the U. S. shall be paid by the U. S. at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or more persons of credible character, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed. The privilege is understood to be reserved to the U. S. of requiring that none of the supplies, which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued, until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed; and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the sea board, or Indian frontier, not exceeding three months.
H. DEARBORN, [April 15—Gov.] Secretary of War.
TO LET, AND entered on immediately, the one half of a convenient HOUSE, being in a central and pleasant part of the town; with part of a good Garden, and a privy in a stable, wood house, well, &c.—Enquire of the Printers. May 17. Letter and Writing Papers, At C. PEIRCE'S Bookstore. LETTER PAPERS 25 cts. 31 cts. 37 cts. 42 cts. 50 cts. and 62 cts. per quire, or at a reduced price per ream. WRITING PAPERS 20 cts. 25; 34; 50; 75 per quire; by the ream at a lower rate.
American Hemp. THE Secretary of the Navy will receive until the 1st November next, proposals for furnishing water rotted Hemp of the growth of the United States, to be delivered either at Portsmouth, N. H.; Boston; New London; New York; Philadelphia; Newcastle, Delaware; Baltimore; Norfolk; Wilmington, N Carolina; Charleston, S. C.; Savannah, Geor. or New Orleans. For well water rotted and well cleaned American Hemp, the Secretary of the Navy is disposed to allow a liberal price beyond the usual price of such Hemp when dew rotted. Any person transmitting proposals for furnishing a supply of water rotted Hemp, will be pleased to state the price per ton, the place where, and the time, when it would be delivered. Navy Department, 3d May, 1808.
Cheap & Good Fashionable GOODS,
Suitable for the approaching Season, which are offered for Sale for Cash, and Cash only, at the Store No. 10, Market-street, by Edw'd Parry, Among which are to be found, 2000 yards of Superfine black, blue, mixt, brown, corbeau and other fashionable colour'd Broad Cloths and Cashmeres; 1560 yards Flannels and Baizes of all colours; 850 yards of best black, olive, and other fashionable colour'd Velvets, Corderoy & Thickflets; 1000 yards twill'd Nankenees and cotton Cashmeres; 750 yards Jean and Marfeilles waistcoating of the newest fashion; 5000 yards fashionable Chintzes; 1700 yds. plumb, slate and other fashionable colour'd Cambricks for gowns, etc.; 500 yards copperplate Furnitures; 750 yards pink, plaid and dark Gingham; 500 yards plain, changeable, plaid cotton Chambray; 380 yards elegant silk Chambray; 500 yards common and best cambric Dimoties; 350 yards tambor sprig'd Mullins; 400 yards lace cambric Mullins; 250 yds plain white cambric Mullins; 100 yards leno Mullins; 200 yards sprig'd and dotted book Mullins; 170 yards plain book Mullins; 250 patent sprig'd muslin Caps; 300 patent sprig'd muslin Shirtecs and Hkfs.; 250 yds. lace muslin Trimmings; 2000 pieces India yellow Nankins; 4000 yards Indian Cottons; 2000 yards India cotton Checks; 800 yards English cotton & linen check and striped Cottons; 1000 yards black, purple, blue, pink and slate colour'd Durants and Tamnys; 800 yards Russells and Callimancoes; 700 yards Shallons of all colours; 1000 yards Irish Linens; 500 yards British cotton Shintings; 200 yards Diapers and table Linen; 500 yards brown Linens; 250 elegant muslin and cambric Shawls; 300 black, white & colour'd camels hair Shawls; 250 chintz and chambray cotton Shawls; 150 damask and fancy silk Shawls and Handkfs.; 650 yards blk. and colour'd Lustrings and Satins; 1200 yards broad and narrow black, silk Laces and Edgings; 1000 yards best French and English white silk Laces and Edgings; 600 yards white thread and cotton gown Trimmings. Large assortment of Artificial Wreaths & Flowers; 150 yards best color'd Crapes; 10,000 yards assorted fashionable Ribbons; 100 pair ladies white, black, slate and rose colour'd silk Hose; 200 pair ladies white, nankin and slate coloured cotton Hose; 150 pair gentlemen's white and coloured cotton Hose, 100 pair worsted ditto; 250 pair black, white and coloured silk Gloves and Mitts; 200 pair long and short women's kid Gloves; 150 pair men's beaver, thread and cotton Gloves; 200 sets of Knives and Forks; 8000 dozen Coat and Vest Buttons, new fashion; 250 Men's assorted Beaver Hats; 150 Youth's and Men's Hats, with many other articles—all of which will be sold Cheap, and great Bargains will be allowed to those who will make large purchases. Edward Parry, requests all those who are indebted to him either by note or account, to make immediate payment, particularly those that have been more than three months standing; and those that have an account against him, are requested to call and receive their pay, at his Store, No. 10, Market-street. Portsmouth, May 3, 1808. TO BE SOLD SIXTY Acres of excellent LAND, within one mile of the State House, in lots of six and ten Acres each, as may suit the purchasers.—Enquire of Samuel Sherburne. Portsmouth, May 2, 1808. TO LET, HALF of a convenient two story HOUSE in Washington-street; also, an apartment in Congress-street, suitable for a writing office, or mechanic. Inquire of G. J. OSBORNE, Washington-street. April 26, 1808. FIFES and DRUMS Best black ebony & satin-wood Fifes; excellent Drums, and Music Books—For sale at C. PEIRCE'S bookstore.