The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.]), 1803-05-31 00:00:00

New Hampshire Gazette.
"By adopting REPUBLICANISM for our Polar Star, we shall endeavor to our countrymen the true principles of their Constitution, and promote an union of sentiment and of action, equally auspicious to their happiness and safety."
PORTSMOUTH: (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. & W. PEIRCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE, AND PRINTERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Hard-Ware GOODS.
H. & B. PENHALLOW, Have just received by the ship John Adams, from Liverpool, a large addition to their former Assortment of
Hard-Ware GOODS, which are now ready for sale, at their Store in Fore-street, leading to the Ferry. — They have also for Sale, Best Scythes, & Sutton Hoes, per dozen or single; Scicles; Sheep-Shears; Cart, Chaise and Waggon Boxes, of all sizes; best Dutch Brushes; Brass Candlesticks; elegant Tea-Trays & Waiters; Looking-Glasses; Plated and common Table Castors; Window-Glass; Coffin Furniture; Nails, Spikes, Brads and Tacks, of all kinds; best German Mill Saws; Devonshire and square Iron Shovels and Spades; Brass Kettles; Cast iron Weights; English iron Pots & Kettles; Pewter, &c.
Portsmouth, May 10, 1803.
Peter Coffin,
Has just received per the ship Friendship, from London—an additional assortment of GOODS, Among which are Black Sarsenet Muslins; Fashionable Satin check and figured Muslins; Purple and chintz Shawls; White and colored Cambric Shawls; Rich Silk Shawls; Black Lace Cloaks, full trim'd; Black Lace Net, for Cloaks and Veils; Fashionable Buff, Check and Bengal stripe Chintzes; Fashionable Waistcoating; Table Cloths; Fancy, Cane and Straw Bonnets; Fashionable Gilt and plated Buttons, &c. &c.
Portsmouth, May 24, 1803.
New English Goods Store.
The subscribers have formed a connexion in business, under the Firm of GARLAND & BLAKE, and are now opening at their Store in Broad-street, it being a part of Colonel Woodward's house, and lately occupied by Mr. Peter Coffin.
a general assortment of Spring and Summer
GOODS, all of which being of the latest importations, will be sold at such prices as to make them worthy the attention of purchasers, who are invited to call and see. WILLIAM GARLAND, JOSHUA BLAKE.
Portsmouth, May 24, 1803.
NEW GOODS.
Oliver Briard RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public in general, that he has just received a fresh supply of NEW GOODS,
adapted to the present and approaching season, which he is selling at the lowest CASH PRICES, at his Store in Congress-street, adjoining the Bell Tavern, and a few rods from the State House. May 17, 1803.
NEW GOODS.
Swett and Weeks, HAVE just received a general Assortment of Fashionable, Fancy and Staple
GOODS, which they offer for sale, at a small advance, for cash—at their Store in Buck-street. Portsmouth, May 24.
RAGS.
CASH and the highest price given for Cotton, Cotton and Linen and Canvas Rags, by N. S. & W. Peirce, at their Bookstore in Congress street. May 24, 1803.
REMOVED. N. S. & W. PEIRCE, Printers, Booksellers & Stationers, INFORM the Public that they have taken the Store lately occupied by Messrs. DAME and PENHALLOW, opposite the North West corner of the State-House, Congress-street—where they have received an additional assortment of
Books and Stationary, which are now ready for Sale, at the lowest cash prices.— ALSO— An Assortment of Gentlemen's and Ladies
POCKET-BOOKS. A handsome Assortment of DRESSING GLASSES.
ALSO— Just received from New York, "A View of the Political Conduct of AARON BURR, Esq. Vice-President of the United States." Portsmouth, May 24, 1803.
REMOVED.
Benjamin C. Sweetser, Saddle, Harness, Cap and Trunk maker,
INFORMS his customers & the public, that he has removed one door West of Messrs. N. S. & W. Peirce's Bookstore, one door East of Mr. Edward Parry's store, Congress-street. * * * Cash given for Sile, Deer and Goat SKINS, with the hair on. Portsmouth, May 24, 1803.
ELISHA HILL, jr. HAS FOR SALE, 33 Hhds. RUM. 60 bbls. cargo No. 1 & 2 BEEF and PORK.
FLOUR per bbl. CORN and BACON. Bar & Cake SOAP per Box. Mould and Dipt CANDLES per ditto. May 24.
Z. Robinson & Co.
At the head of the PIER, Have now ready for Sale, a very large and complete assortment of Crockery, Glass & China Ware, In crates, assorted principally for Country Traders.
CRATES of Blue and White fancy Ware, assorted, do. Blue & Green edg'd, assorted. do. Enamell'd, under glaz'd, do. do. Printed and Penciled, do. 40 Crates Cream coloured, do. Hhds. Enamell'd & Fluted Ware, do. Boxes Glass Ware, assorted. do. Tumblers. do. Decanters. do. Wine Glasses. do. Mugs. Dutch Liquor Cafes. China in boxes, assorted. do. Tea Sets, in single boxes.
* * * All the above Goods will be sold for cash or approved credit, as low as can be purchased in Boston, and any assortment of the above Goods, if desired, will be repacked to suit the purchaser. Also, Few hhds. Molasses. 12 hhds. Rum. Portsmouth, May 17, 1803.
Warranted Good HAVANNA SEGARS, 40,000, for sale by the box or retail, by Nathaniel White, Cheapside, Congress-street.
HE has just received a supply of fresh Lisbon LEMONS and ORANGES; which added to good BRANDY; good RUM; loaf and brown SUGARS; TEAS of the best quality, and the best MOLASSES ever seen—he presumes will secure him the custom of those who want good things. Also, just received, 2400 weight of COTTON, by the bale.
FOR SALE, BY
JOHN SALTER, At his Store in Washington-street, SUGAR pr. hhd. COFFEE pr. do. or less quantity, entitled to debenture. Also— COTTON per bale. RICE pr. cask or less quantity. SALT pr. hhd. or less quantity. Portsmouth, April 26, 1803.
(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.)
SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES,
AT THE SECOND SESSION, Begun and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday the Sixth of December, one thousand eight hundred and two.
AN ACT.
To alter the time of holding the court of the United States in Kentucky district.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of April next, the sessions of the court of the United States for Kentucky district shall commence on the first Mondays in March, July, and November in every year: any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all suits, process, and proceedings of what nature or kind soever, pending in, or made returnable to the said court shall, after the said first day of April next, be continued over until the next court to be held in conformity to this act.
NATH'L MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice President of the United States, & President of the Senate. March 2d, 1803. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON, President of the United States.
AN ACT.
To alter the time for the next meeting of Congress.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That after the adjournment of the present session, the next meeting of Congress shall be on the first Monday of November next.
NATH'L MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, President of the Senate pro-tempore. March 3, 1803. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON, President of the United States.
AN ACT.
In addition to the act, intitled "An Act regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova-Scotia."
BE it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That Samuel Rogers, one of the claimants under the act intitled "An act for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova-Scotia," shall be entitled to two thousand two hundred and forty acres of land to be located in the manner and within the boundaries of the tract designated by the act to which this act is a supplement, and shall receive a patent for the same in the manner directed by the said last mentioned act.
NATH'L MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, President of the Senate pro-tempore. APPROVED, March 3, 1803. TH: JEFFERSON, President of the United States.
CERVANTES.
THIS witty, ingenious, and justly celebrated writer, lived in the most extreme poverty; and, while the productions of his amazingly fertile imagination diverted and gave entertainment to all Europe, he himself was suffered to remain neglected in a prison. And, after loosing a limb in the service of ungrateful Spain, he, in the decline of life, found himself persecuted by the envious, for writing his immortal Don Quixote. Thus, in this singular character, is this truth verified, "that an author is never admired until after he is dead."
Moral Loiterer.
Political Miscellany.
THOMAS PAINE, To the Citizens of the United States. LETTER THE SEVENTH.
RELIGION and war is the cry of the Federalists; morality and peace the voice of Republicans. The union of morality and peace is congenial; but that of religion and war is a paradox, and the solution of it is hypocrisy.
The leaders of the Federalists have no judgment; their plans no consistency of parts; and want of consistency is the natural consequence of want of principle. They exhibit to the world the curious spectacle of an opposition without a cause, and conducted without system. Were they, as doctors, to prescribe medicine, as they practise politics, they would poison their patients with destructive compounds.
There are not two things more opposed to each other than war and religion; and yet, in the double game, those leaders have to play, the one is necessarily the theme of their politics, and the other the text of their sermons. The week-day orator of Mars, and the Sunday preacher of Federal Grace, play, like gamblers, into each other's hands, and this they call religion.
Though hypocrisy can counterfeit every virtue, and become the associate of every vice, it requires a great dexterity of craft to give it the power of deceiving. A painted sun may glisten but it cannot warm. For hypocrisy to personate virtue successfully it must know and feel what virtue is, and as it cannot long do this it cannot long deceive. When an orator foaming for war, breathes forth in another sentence a plaintive piety of words, he may as well write HYPOCRISY on his front.
The late attempt of the federal leaders in Congress (for they acted without the knowledge of their constituents) to plunge the country into war, merits not only reproach but indignation. It was madness conceived in ignorance and acted in wickedness. The head and the heart went partners in the crime.
A neglect of punctuality in the performance of a treaty is made a cause of war by the Barbary Powers, and of remonstrance and explanation by civilized powers. The Mahomedans of Barbary negotiate by the sword—they seize first, and expostulate afterwards; and the federal leaders have been laboring to barbarize the United States, by adopting the practice of the Barbary States, and this they call honor. Let their honor and their hypocrisy go weep together, for both are deceived. The present administration is too moral for hypocrites and too economical for public spendthrifts.
A man the least acquainted with diplomatic affairs, must know, that a neglect in punctuality is not one of the legal causes of war, unless that neglect be confirmed by a refusal to perform; and even then it depends upon circumstances connected with it. The world would be in continual quarrels and war, and commerce be annihilated, if Algerine policy was the law of nations. And were America, instead of becoming an example to the Old World of good and moral government, and civil manners, or if they like it better, of gentlemanly conduct towards other nations, to set up the character of roguery, that of sword and a blow, and the blow first, and thereby give the example of pulling down the little that civilization has gained upon barbarism, her independence, instead of being an honor and a blessing would become a curse upon the world and upon herself.
The conduct of the Barbary Powers, though unjust in principle, is suited to their prejudices, situation and circumstances. The cruels of the church to exterminate them fixed in their minds the immobilitated, belief that every Christian power was their moral enemy. Their religious prejudices, therefore, suggest the policy, which their situation and circumstances protect them in. As a people, they are neither commercial nor agricultural, they neither import nor export, have no property floating on the seas, nor ships and cargoes in the ports of foreign nations. No retaliation, therefore, can be acted upon them, and they are secure from punishment.
But this is not the case with the United States. If the sins as a Barbary power, the most answer for it as a civilized one. Her commerce is continually passing on the seas exposed to capture, and her ships and cargoes in foreign ports to detention and reprisal. An act of war committed by her in the Mississippi would produce a war against the commerce of the Atlantic States, and the latter would have to curse the policy that provoked the former. In every point, therefore, in which the character and interest of the United States be considered, it would ill become her to set an example, contrary to the policy and custom of civilized powers, and practiced only by the barbarous powers, that of striking before the expostulations.
But can any man, calling himself a legislator, and supposed by his constituents to know something of his duty, be so ignorant as to imagine that seizing on New Orleans would finish the affair or even contribute towards it. On the contrary, it would have made it worse. The treaty right of deposit at New Orleans, and the right of the navigation of the Mississippi into the gulf of Mexico are distant things. New Orleans is more than an hundred miles in the country from the mouth of the river, and as a place of deposit is of no value, if the mouth of the river be shut, which either France or
Spain could do, and which our possession of New Orleans could neither prevent nor remove. New Orleans in our possession, by reason of hostility, would have become a blocked port, and consequently of no value to the Eastern people as a place of deposit. Since, therefore, an interruption had arisen to the commerce of the Western States, and until the matter could be brought to a fair explanation, it was of less injury to have the port shut and the river open, than to have the river shut, and the port in our possession.
The New Orleans could be taken, re-captured or retaken, without a plan, nor spirit of enterprise to effect it. It was like marching behind a man to knock him down, and the dastardly flyness of such an attack would have stained the fame of the United States. Where there is no danger cowards are bold, and captain Bobbitts are to be found in leaders as well as on the stage. Even Governor on such a marsh dare have shown a leg.
The people of the western country to whom the Mississippi serves as an inland sea to their commerce, must be supposed to understand the circumstances of that commerce better than a man who is a stranger to it; and as they have known no approbation of the war-hoop measures of the federal Senators, it becomes presumptuous evidence they disapprove them. This is a mortification to those war-hoop politicians; for the case is, that finding themselves losing ground and withering away in the Atlantic states, they laid hold of the affair of New Orleans in the vain hope of rooting and re-inforcing themselves in the western states; and they did this without perceiving that it was one of those ill judged hypocritical expedients in politics that whether it succeeded or failed the event would be the same.—Had their motion succeeded it would have endangered the commerce of the Atlantic states and ruined their reputation there; and on the other hand, the attempt to make a tool of the western people was so badly concealed as to extinguish all credit with them.
But hypocrisy is a vice of a sanguine constitution. It flatters and promises itself every thing; and it has yet to learn, with respect to moral and political reputation, it is less dangerous to offend than to deceive.
To the measures of administration supported by the firmness and integrity of the majority in Congress, the United States owe, as far as human means are concerned, the preservation of peace and of national honor. The confidence which the western people reposed in the Government and in their Representatives is rewarded with success. They are reinstated in their rights with the least possible loss of time; and their harmony with the people of New Orleans, so necessary to the prosperity of the United States, which would have been broken, and the seeds of discord sown in its place, had hostilities been preferred to accommodation, remains unimpaired.—Have the federal ministers of the church meditated on these matters? and laying aside as they ought to do, their electioneering and viridictive prayers and sermons, returned thanks that peace is preferred and commerce without the stain of blood.
In the pleasing contemplation of this state of things, the mind, by comparison, carries itself back to those days of uproar and extravagance that marked the career of the former administration, and decides, by the unstudied impulse of its own feelings, that something must then have been wrong. Why was it, that America, formed for happiness, and remote by situation and circumstances from the troubles and tumults of the European world, became plunged into its vortex and tainted with its crimes? The answer is easy.—Those who were then at the head of affairs were apostates from the principles of the Revolution. Raised to an elevation they had not a right to expect, nor judgment to conduct, they became like feathers in the air, and blown about by every puff of passion or conceit.
Candor would find some apology for their conduct if want of judgment was their only defect. But error and crime, though often alike in their features, are distant in their characters and in their origin. The one has its source in weakness of the head, the other in the badness of the heart, and the coalition of the two, describes the former administration.
Had no injurious consequences arisen from the conduct of that administration it might have passed for error or imbecility, and been permitted to die and be forgotten. The grave is kind to innocent offence. But even innocence when it is a cause of injury ought to undergo an enquiry.
The country, during the time of the former administration, was kept in continual agitation and alarm, and that no investigation might be made into its conduct it entrenched itself within a magic circle of terror, and called it a sedition law. Violent and mysterious in its measures and arrogant in its manners, it affected to disdain information and induced the principles that raised it from obscurity. John Adams and Timothy Pickering were men whom nothing but the accidents of the times rendered visible on the political horizon. Elevation turned their heads, and public indignation hath cast them to the ground.—But an enquiry into the conduct and measures of that administration is nevertheless necessary.
The country was put to great expense. Loans, taxes, and standing armies became the standing order of the day. The militia, said secretary Pickering, are not to be depended upon, and fifty thousand men must be raised. For what? No cause to justify

such measures has yet appeared—No discovery of such a cause has yet been made. The pretended sedition law shut up the sources of investigation and the precipitate flight of John Adams closed the scene. But the matter ought not to sleep here.  It is not to gratify resentment, or encourage it in others; that I enter upon this subject. It is not in the power of man to accuse me of a persecuting spirit. But some explanation ought to be had. The motives and objects respecting the extraordinary and expensive measures of the former administration ought to be known. The sedition law, that shield of the moment, prevented it then, and justice demands it now. If the public have been imposed upon, it is proper they should know it, for where judgment is to be made, knowledge is first necessary. The conciliation of parties, if it does not grow out of explanation, partakes of the character of collusion or indifference.
There has been guilt somewhere; and it is better to fix it where it belongs, and separate the deceiver from the deceived, than that suspicion, the bane of society, should range at large, and sour the public mind. The military measures that were proposed and carried on during the former administration could not have for their object the defence of the country against invasion. This is a case that decides itself—Sir it is self-evident that while the war raged in Europe, neither France nor England could spare England could spare a man to send to America. The object therefore must be something at home, and that something was the overthrow of the representative system of government, for it could be nothing else. But the plotters got into confusion and became enemies to each other. Adams hated and was jealous of Hamilton, and Hamilton hated and despised both Adams and Washington. Surely Timothy stood aloof, as he did at the affair of Lexington, and the part that fell to the public was to pay the expence.
But ought a people who but a few years ago were fighting the battles of the world, for Liberty had no home but here, ought such a people to stand quietly by and see that Liberty undermined by apostasy and overthrown by intrigue? Let the tombs of the slain recall their recollection, and the forethought of what their children are to be, revive and fix in their hearts the love of liberty. If the former administration can justify its conduct, give it the opportunity. The manner in which John Adams disappeared from the government renders an enquiry the more necessary. He gave some account of himself, lame & confused as it was, to certain Eastern wise men, who came to pay homage to him on his birth-day. But if he thought it necessary to do this ought he not to have rendered an account to the public. They had a right to expect it of him. In that tete a tete account he says, "Some measures were the effect of imperious necessity, much against my inclination." What measures does Mr. Adams mean, and what is the imperious necessity to which he alludes. "Others, (says he) were the measures of the Legislature, which although approved when passed, were never previously proposed or recommended by me." What measures, it may be asked, were those, for the public have a right to know the conduct of their Representatives? "Some, (says he) left to my discretion were never executed, because no necessity for them, in my judgment, ever occurred."
What does this dark apology, mixed with accusation, amount to, but to encrease and confirm the suspicion that something was wrong. Administration only was possessed of foreign official information, and it was only upon that information communicated by him publicly or privately, or to Congress, that Congress could act, and it is not in the power of Mr. Adams to shew, from the condition of the belligerent powers, that any imperious necessity called for the war-like and expensive measures of his Administration.
What the correspondence between Administration and Rufus King, in London, or Quincy Adams in Holland or Berlin, might be, is but little known. The public papers have told us that the former became cup bearer from the London underwriters to Capt. Truxton, for which, as minister from a neutral nation, he ought to have been censured. It is, however, a feature that marks the politics of the minister, and hints at the character of the correspondence.
I know it is the opinion of several members of both houses of Congress, that an enquiry, with respect to the conduct of the late Administration ought to be gone into. The convoluted state into which the country has been thrown will be best settled by a full and fair exposition of the conduct of that Administration, and the causes and object of that conduct. To be deceived, or to remain deceived can be the interest of no man who seeks the public good; and it is the deceiver only, or one interested in the deception, that can wish to preclude enquiry.
The suspicion against the late administration, is, that it was plotting to overturn the Representative system of Government, and that it spread alarms of invasion that had no foundation, as a pretence for raising and establishing a military force as the means of accomplishing that object.
The law, called the sedition law, enacted, that "if any person should write or publish, or cause to be written or published any libel (without defining what a libel is) against the Government of the United States, or either house of Congress, or against the President, he should be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years."
But it is a much greater crime for a President to plot against a Constitution and the Liberties of the People, than for an individual to plot against a President; and consequently John Adams is accountable to the public for his conduct, as the individuals under his administration were to the sedition law.
The object, however of an enquiry in this case is not to punish, but to satisfy; and to show by example to future administrations that by an abuse of power and trust, however disguised by appearances, or rendered plausible by pretence is one time or other to be accounted for.
THOMAS PAINE. Bordentown, on the Delaware. N. Jersey, May 12, 1803.
For the Gazette. FEDERAL CHIMERAS.
A continuation of Extracts from an Epistolary Correspondence on the Republican System of Government.
ASPASIO TO HONORIUS.
THE account you have given me of the happy change of sentiment in the minds of many around you, is no other than what I expected; and verifies the predictions in one of my letters to you on the subject, that the good sense of the people would finally prevail over all the artifices of their enemies.—That so many of our fellow-citizens, whose sole dependance is on their own labour and industry, and who knew they must pay taxes, should join issue with the pretended federalists in the support of extravagant measures, through which taxes were imposed to be increased without end, can be no otherwise accounted for, but from the grossest impositions and fabrications of falsehood. They were induced to think highly of men, whose principles and views were withheld from their sight; and they were prejudiced against their real friends, by the vilest calumnies and misrepresentations. False alarms were raised, and frightful images presented to view, to forward the designs of England and monarchy. ADAMS was exalted to the skies for a spirit and measures, that, had they not been timely arrested, would have forever destroyed American freedom. We have been propitiously awakened to our real interests; and experience has dispelled, and continues to dispel the mists of error and delusion. Experience, which effectually confutes false reasoning & establishes truth. The propriety of the measures of the present administration, and the blessings arising from it, are every day becoming more familiar to the observation of those citizens who have been deluded. They are now experiencing the felicity of living under a government which seeks the ease and convenience of all, by a retrenchment of superfluous expences, by an economy and management that will speedily free our nation from debt, advance the interests of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, maintain the public faith, promote and secure peace and good understanding with foreign nations; and from whose wise attention to the resources of our country, the great advantages thence arising, will be enjoyed by the people, and not become the means of self-aggrandizement to a few.
The wildest whimsies sometimes find their serious adherents, even among persons of otherwise good understanding; or it might be matter of wonder, that there should be men entertaining the opinion that a majority of the citizens of the United States would be much better pleased with a monarchical government; and that it cannot be long ere it takes place. Impressed with these ideas, they are impregnable to the evidences of truth; and, deaf to the voice of reason and experience, they lend their aid to the most virulent opposers of our government, who persuade themselves, and as many as they can, that such an event will take place, because themselves ardently wish it; though, to all who have the exercise of their reason, and are acquainted with the history of our country, from its first settlement to the present grand and interesting period, it must appear to be the most groundless and absurd of opinions. England, they say, must effect what France seeks in vain—Unconquered empire; and Americans, as her children, must eventually harmonize with her in political principles: From whence they infer, that a counter-revolution here, must naturally succeed the present state of things. But the truth is, that the wild and vicious principles and views of the English government are, and ever were, abhorred by us; and before England can effect her ambitious designs on our country, her haughty, aspiring, but now imbecile generation, must be rendered giants in strength as they are in crimes, and every single soldier become a thousand: & even then she would find her designs impracticable. It would be a revolution without the shadow of precedent in any age, that a contemptible party should gain a superiority over the enlightened people of this country, or avail to eradicate from their minds the sublime elements of wisdom, and the generous principles of liberty and humanity: It would be a revolution that must utterly efface every magnanimous, ennobling sentiment;—We must unlearn the great things we have learned; throw away all the invaluable experience we have obtained; & forget all the evils which from England's tyranny we have endured. When this shall happen, federal chimeras will indeed prove sad realities: Folly and absurdity will then become enthroned in this land of freedom, science and virtue. Spiritual and temporal principalities and hierarchies will then triumphantly exult in the depression and ruin of a great and illustrious nation, whose genius and virtues outrival the most celebrated of preceding ages. I am, ever your's,
ASPASIO.
Just before the last presidential election, a federalist declared that he did not wish to live a minute after Mr. Jefferson should be President. After the election he has obstinately persisted to eat, drink and sleep as usual. Another declared that he should not consider his flock in the funds worth a dollar in the pound, if Mr. Jefferson should be elected, yet ever since he has held them higher than before. A Sword-cutter declared he should starve if Mr. Jefferson should be chosen, but since he finds that Mr. Jefferson is not in the line of Swords, he has turned his hand to other business, and is doing better than before. A political Clergyman prophesied that christianity would be ruined, if the infidel Jefferson should be President, and the prophet has found his prediction verified in his own person for he has never exhibited one evidence of christianity since the 5th of March 1801.
In the next Congress there will be, on a moderate computation, in the House one hundred, out of an hundred and forty two members, and in the Senate of the United States, more than two thirds in favor of personal liberty and public economy. "What think ye of Congress now!!"
LATEST Foreign Intelligence,
By the Iris, arrived at New-York, in 17 days from London.
PARIS, APRIL 7.
ORDER OF GOVERNMENT.
LIBERTY. EQUALITY. PARIS, 10 GERMINEL, 11th YEAR. BONAPARTE, First Consul of the Republic, decrees,
ART. I. The town of Flushing is placed in a state of siege under the command of the General Brigade, Monnet, who for this purpose is invested with all the necessary powers, and who will correspond directly with the Minister.
ART. II. The Minister at War is charged with the execution of the present decree. The First Consul, (Signed) BONAPARTE.
This decree is also signed by the Secretary of State, and Minister at War, and was proclaimed at Flushing the 5th April, in presence of the whole French garrison under arms. Troops were marching into Flushing, Middleburg, Veere, &c. These towns are in the United Netherlands, at the mouth of the Scheldt.
MALTA.
In consequence of the nomination, by the Pope, of M. Bailhie de Thomaci, to the Grand Master of Malta, his eminence, dispatched the Commander Bussy, to the island. The following documents will show what has hitherto been the result of his mission.
Letter of the Commander Bussy to the Minister of England, at Malta.
"SIR,
"I HAD the morning the honor to state to your Excellency the object of the mission which his most eminent Highness the Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem has charged me to fulfil at Malta.
"To this statement your Excellency replied, that you had no order to cause the island of Malta to be evacuated by the English garrison, and gave me to understand, that it would be better for the Grand Master not to repair thither.
"After having reflected upon this answer of your Excellency, I was of opinion not only that it was not so satisfactory as his most eminent Highness had reason to expect, but also that it required a further explanation.
"As the answer of your Excellency seemed to contain a refusal to surrender the island of Malta to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, conformably to the 10th article of the treaty of peace may have the most important, I would even say, the most fatal consequences as to the repose of Europe: I cannot rest satisfied with the verbal answer which your Excellency has been pleased to give me; and I should betray the confidence of the Grand Master, as well as the duty and the dignity belonging to the character with which he has invested me, did I not request you, Sir, to state, in an explicit and authentic manner, the grounds of so unexpected a refusal.
"I have, therefore, the honour to remind your Excellency, that conformably to the fourth paragraph of the 13th article of the treaty of Amiens, the forces of his Britannic Majesty were to evacuate the island and its dependencies in three months after the ratifications being exchanged, or sooner, if possible.
"This period has long expired. The treaty adds, "that the island shall be given up to the Order in its present state, provided the Grand Master or Commissioners, fully authorized according to the statutes of the Order, shall be in the said island, take possession of it, and that the force to be furnished by his Sicilian Majesty shall have arrived therein."
"This force has likewise long since arrived. There they remained only one cognition to be performed, that of the presence of the Grand Master, or his Commissioners, to take possession of it. I have the honor to observe to your Excellency, that this condition has just been accomplished by the very act of my arrival in this island. His most eminent Highness, the Grand Master has condescended to confer upon me the character of his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, to come in his name to "treat, conduct, finish, accomplish and concert, with the English and French Plenipotentiaries, and also with the existing English Government of the island, all the articles relative to the return of the Order to Malta, and particularly what may have for their object the debarkation and entrance of the Order into the island, with the surrender of the island, &c." Such are the terms of the full powers of which I have the honor to send your Excellency the annexed copy.
"According to the tenor of these full powers, and the accomplishment of the different conditions stipulated by the treaty of Amiens, for the surrender of the island of Malta to the order of St. John of Jerusalem, I formally demand of your Excellency the execution of the 10th article, sect. 4. of the said treaty, and I request you will, upon this point, give me a categorical answer.
"I entreat your Excellency will be pleased to accept the assurance of my high consideration. (Signed) BUSY."
ANSWER
Of the Minister of England to the Commander M. BUSY.
MALTA, MARCH 2.
"SIR,
"I have just received the letter your Excellency did me the honor to write to me yesterday, expressing the little satisfaction you derived from my verbal communication relative to the object of your mission, and requesting that I should state in writing my reasons for refusing to deliver up the government of these islands on the arrival of his Eminence the grand master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
"In answer, I beg leave to observe, that as some of the powers invited, in terms of the 10th article of the treaty of Amiens, to guarantee the independence of Malta, have not yet acceded to that measure, I do not think myself authorized to put an end to the government of his Britannic majesty in this place, until I receive special instructions from my court.
"Your Excellency observes that I wish to dissuade the grand master from coming to reside here. Your Excellency may recollect that I spoke to you, upon this subject, to the following effect:—Upon your observing that
the grand master expected to have immediate possession of the Palace of Government in the fort of Valette, I informed you that, in the present circumstances, I could not accede to the request of his Excellency; for it is absolutely necessary that his Excellency General Villeta, and myself should continue to occupy this Palace for the official affairs of our respective departments.
"I beg, however, to remind your Excellency, that I, at the same time, offered the Palace of the Bochetta, for the residence of the grand master, a situation which I conceived in every respect convenient for his Eminence, until the period when he might assume the direction of Government.
"But as the Palace of the Bochetta is not at present provided with furniture, I took the liberty of suggesting, that it would be more convenient to remain some time in Sicily; and the more so, as his Excellency's residence there would keep him at the distance only of a day's sail from this island.
"For the rest, his Eminence may be assured, that the moment I shall think myself authorized to resign the Government, I shall give him due information.
"I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, your Excellency's most humble and most obedient servant.
(Signed) ALEX. BALL."
ROTTERDAM, APRIL 8.
EXPEDITION TO LOUISIANA.
By an express order from the First Consul, the Louisiana expedition is definitively suspended. In consequence of the French General began the day before yesterday to embark the troops that were on board the vessels; they will proceed, with the other troops newly arrived in this Republic, to different destinations both on the frontiers and elsewhere. In several of our towns, among others, at Nimeguen and Grave, their entrance was at first opposed by the Commandants of the Dutch Garrisons; but after an ulterior explanation, these Commandants thought fit to yield to necessity and force. Persons of good information of what is passing, and who have access to all the principal functionaries in the Government, state, as a matter of certainty, that among the 18 Members of the Government, there is a party which has absolutely protested against the measure of France, in consequence of which the French troops have in such great numbers, entered our territory. The majority has, however, judged that protestation to be, in our present circumstances, impolitic.
The armament for Tobago, at Dunkirk, has 8000 men on board. Gen. Cæsar Berthier commands, as Governor-General of Tobago.
LONDON, APRIL 10.
Letters from Germany repeat, that in case of a war, Prussia will take possession of Cuxhaven, and the whole electorate of Hanover. Duroc, it is said, in one of his conferences at Berlin, with the King, proposed the plan suggested by the First Consul for the occupation of Hanover, which was agreed to. This rumor was partly credited at Hamburg.
Fourteen thousand French troops have already entered Holland.
APRIL 18.
In addition to the correspondencies between the Maltese Commander and Gov. Ball, the Paris Moniteur of the 18th asserts, that the French Minister at Malta, at the desire of M. de Bussy, interfered, and wrote to Commodore Ball, that a refusal to evacuate the island was a manifest violation of the treaty of peace; that if his Britannic Majesty did not disapprove of the conduct of Commodore Ball, the First Consul would feel himself bound to appeal to the tribunal of Europe, where he would find as many allies as there were friends to Peace.
BY THE LAST MAILS.
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 20.
VIRGINIA ELECTIONS.
As much stress has been laid in expectancy by the federal party on the result of the Virginia elections, and, on a late occasion, the notorious Alexander Hamilton of New-York, after stating his hope "that the success of federalism in that state, would form the first link of that chain that should encircle the Union," proceeded emphatically, to declare his decided opinion, founded on recent information, that even in Virginia, the interests of federalism were rapidly progressing, it may be of some utility to the muse of truth and republicanism, to present to the public, the following result of elections in Virginia, to represent that state in the next Congress.
Republicans—in two classes.
  1st. Old members re-elected.   John Randolph 1   John Dawson 2   John Clopton 3   Edwin Gray 4   Thomas Newton 5   Philip R. Thompson 6   Anthony New 7   Matthew Clay 8   David Holmes 9   John Trigg 10   Abraham Trigg 11   Thomas Claiborne 12   John Smith 13   2d. Republican new members elected.   Walter Jones 14   Eppes 15   Thomas M. Randolph 16   George I. Jackson 17   Goodwin 18   Andrew Moore 19 
Federalists
  Stephenson 20   Thomas Griffin 21   Joseph Lewis, juor 22   Thus the whole number of Representatives to which Virginia is entitled in the next congress, to wit, 22 members—   19 are Republican   and 3 federal 
Such are the triumph of federalism of Virginia, so confidently spoken of by Alexander Hamilton.
Extract of a letter to the Editor, dated
HARTFORD, MAY 12, 1803.
"The votes for governor of this state for the year ensuing, is highly flattering to the republicans. I give you a statement of the votes just counted:
  For Trumbull, 14,375   Kirby, 7,148   Majority this year, 6,527   In 1802,   Trumbull, 11,363   Kirby, 4,523   Majority in 1802, 7,845   Majority in 1803, 6,527 
Increase of republicanism, 1,318
The number of votes for Col. Kirby exceed our most sanguine expectations.—Six thousand was the highest that it was calculated that he would have. Republicanism is doing well in Connecticut, notwithstanding the lies and misrepresentation of tory federalists."
The elections in all parts of the Union indicate the encreasing happiness of the people, their confidence in the general administration of the government, and the efficacy of a representative democracy in preserving peace and security at home, and respect abroad. If those who are averse from the American form of government, could but experience, for even a short period, what the difference of their situation is from those who live under other forms of government—could they but test them by experiment, by comparison and by contrast, those insects which revile and emit their venom, those repules whose nature is to poison the fountains of public happiness, would be annihilated by the contempt of many who are now, from their ignorance of the miseries of other nations, and the blessings peculiar to this. A French gentleman who resided several years in the United States, and who returned a few years since under an expectation of finding France established in some degree of order, and likely to afford opportunities for security & happiness, writes thus to the editor of this paper, under date of Paris, 23d Pluviôse:—"I am determined to return to your happy land, with the little fortune I possess—enough to make me independent in the only free country upon earth. I have not been far from this city since my return to France, and am heartily disgusted with this den of darkness, where we have society without pleasure—conversation without confidence—acquaintance without friendship—wedlock without love—magnificence in appearance, but misery in reality.—In short to have lived here alone, to be ignorant of the real blessings of life; but to have lived with you, is to know the only state of society in which real independence and tranquility is to be found, without the alloy of those vices which appear to constitute the only business of what is called refinement, but which is nothing more than a gross and brutal sensuality. Extravagance of every kind reigns here. I long once more to escape from it; and would rather enjoy even the society of savages in your woods, than remain here."
Aurora.
TEXT. "The triumph of federalism in New-York, will form the first link of a chain that will encircle the Union." A. Hamilton.
COMMENT.
Alexander the little spoke more truth in this sentence than in all the other parts of his speech collectively; much more indeed than it could be proper, or wise to speak to an assembly pretending to be the friends of the people. —No person who has ever seen the plan that this arch-enemy of Republicanism, domestic peace and moral virtue proposed in Convention for the government of this, his adopted country, can doubt for a moment that it is his design, and the design of his party, to bind not only the Union, but every State, and every individual, in a chain of their own forging.—"And ye shall bind their rulers with brass, and the people with fetters of iron." Indubitably an hereditary Presidency, and a Senate for life, as Hamilton proposed, would bind the people of this vast country in an indissoluble "chain" of vassalage, and wretchedness. But thanks be to a merciful and superintending Providence, the counsels of these enemies of human happiness have been, and we trust will continue to be turned into foolishness.
CHEAP WHITE PAINT.
From an English Publication.
Take skim milk two quarts, fresh slacked lime half a pound, linseed oil six ounces white Burgundy pitch two ounces. The lime is to be slacked in water, exposed to the air mixed in one fourth of the milk; the oil, in which the Burgundy pitch is dissolved, to be added, a little at a time, then the rest of the milk, and afterwards the Spanish white. This quantity is said to be enough for twenty-seven square yards, two coats: and the expence a mere trifle.

NEW-YORK, MAY 25. We have authority for saying, that in consequence of the unsettled state of Europe, and the probability of war, Mr. King, our Minister in London, has determined not to leave England until his successor shall have arrived.
A letter from Gibraltar, dated March 26, 1803, states, "that Capt. Serret had taken a prize an Imperial polacre, from Smyrna, bound to Tripoli, with very valuable property on board."
BOSTON, MAY 28. MASSACHUSETTS ELECTION. On Wednesday last the Governor, Lt. Governor, and Senators, assembled in this town, agreeable to the Constitution. At ten o'clock, the Senators and Representatives met in their several Chambers, and proceeded to the election of their officers. The Senate unanimously re-elected the Hon. David Cobb, for their President, and Mr. Wendell Davis was chosen Secretary.
In the House of Representatives the number of votes for Speaker, was 200—necessary to make a choice 101.
Hon. PEREZ MORTON, had 73 Hon. HARRISON G. OTIS, 124 Gen. HENRY KNOX, 3 Hon. JOHN LOWELL, 1 Mr. OTIS was declared to be elected. The votes for Clerk were 197—necessary to make a choice 99; Mr. Skinner had 65, Nicholas Tillinghast, Esq. 116, Kilborn Whitman, 16, Mr. Tillinghast was accordingly declared to be elected.
After the two Branches were duly organized, and joined by the Executive, a procession was there formed, under the escort of the Independent Company of Cadets, commanded by Col. Welles, and proceeded to the Old-South Meeting-House, where a Sermon was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Puffer, of Berlin.
In the afternoon the Representatives and Senators assembled in convention, for the purpose of filling up the vacancies in the Senate.
Suffolk County , one vacancy, Messrs. Tilden and Austin, were the candidates. The whole number of votes was 236—necessary to a choice 119 votes; Mr. Tilden had 161 votes and was chosen.
Hampshire County , one vacancy, Messrs. Fowler and McLellan were the candidates. The whole number of votes 232—necessary to a choice 117; Mr. Fowler had 138 votes and was chosen.
York County , one vacancy, Messrs. Cutts and Frye were the candidates. The whole number of votes was 228—necessary to a choice 115; Mr. Frye had 152 votes, and was chosen.
Lincoln, Hancock, and Washington County , one vacancy, Messrs. Hill and Campbell were the candidates. The whole number of votes 214—necessary to a choice 108; Mr. Campbell had 121 votes and was chosen.
After the vacancies in the Senate were filled up, the two Branches of the Legislature separated, and soon after adjourned.
It appears by the above that the Republican candidate for Speaker, in the House of Representatives, obtained 73 votes. This proves to a demonstration that Republicanism has gained ground at the late election. Last year the whole number of Republicans that were in the House of Representatives, did not exceed 71, and when the vote was taken for Speaker on Wednesday last there was (at a low calculation) as many as 25 Republicans absent.—So much for the triumph of federalism in Massachusetts!—a few more such triumphs and our wishes will be gratified.
For the New-Hampshire Gazette. Messrs. PEIRCE'S, I WAS struck with the wonderful appearance of falling STARS, observed at Richmond, in Virginia, and published in a few Newspapers. But little thought that any thing of the kind was observed here. The account appeared to me so extraordinary that I copied it off in short hand from the Centinel. I had just done this, and referring to the paper, a gentleman, (in whose relation I place the fullest confidence,) took the paper in his hand, and told me, to my surprise, that he saw with astonishment the same marvellous appearance here, in company with two of his acquaintance. He then proceeded to give a particular description of it; agreeing with the printed account.—Wishing to learn every interesting particular, I have conversed with two of my neighbours, named by him as being with him. The three agree in every thing material. After the verbal account, I desired of one of them, that he would state the matter in writing—he has done it—and I send it you, for publication. His testimony, in his own words, as an eye witness, would be deemed unexceptionable by those who know him. I am, yours, Y. Z. Portsmouth, May 30, 1803.
Portsmouth, May 24, 1803. SIR, AGREEABLE to your request, I will give you a detail of the circumstances of the Meteors falling.—I think it was about four weeks ago, on Wednesday morning about one o'clock, I went to the door, as soon as I opened the door, the Heavens seem'd to be all on fire, the Meteors fell in every direction; four, six, or eight would fall at once toward the South, that I could count; (you will observe I could not count all that fell) and I could see the light of them which fell toward the North, but could not count them.—I counted one hundred and sixty-seven in about ten or fifteen minutes; I found I could not count them regularly—they fell so fast I counted no more; I stood there until about two o'clock, I then went up to go to bed, and looked out of the window towards the North, and they continued to fall in the same manner as before, I stood there about an hour, and then went to bed—this was about three o'clock.
The circumstance of one was very peculiar, the first I saw of it was directly over my head, it appeared about one foot diameter, it fell to the Eastward, the houses prevented my seeing how far it fell—There was light enough to see a pin on the ground, the tail of it was about one minute disappearing.
Please to pardon the inaccuracy of this statement. Your very humble servt D.
Portsmouth.
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1803.
To-Morrow the Legislature of this State convenes at Concord, agreeably to adjournment.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
An arrival at New-York, from London, has brought papers to the 24th April, many days later than before received. Their contents are important; and many extracts thereof are given. The Editor of the New-York Daily Advertiser, adds, in a summary, "It appears that no change has taken place in the British Ministry, and that the question of War or Peace was not decided."
The expedition to Louisiana has been definitively suspended by express orders of the First Consul, and the troops debarked.
A considerable commotion has taken place in Holland, and the town of Flushing has been declared in a state of siege, by order of Bonaparte.
The correspondence which has passed between the minister sent by the new grand master of Malta and Sir. Alexander Ball, to demand the evacuation of the island, is an interesting document and the article under London head of the 24th of April, speaks a decided determination in Bonaparte, and is a strong indication of war, in case of a refusal to deliver up the place.
A London paper of the 10th of April states, that Gen. Bourdonville, the French Ambassador at Madrid, has demanded a supply, both of men and money, from his Catholic Majesty, in the event of a war with England.
A Dutch squadron, under the command of Admiral Hartink, destined for the Mediterranean, is in readiness for sea."
Behold the revival of FEDERALISM in New-England!
AT a late electioneering caucus in New-York, the noted Hamilton, informed his desponding comrades, "that the tree of Federalism was sprouting from its (lifeless) trunk; that it would soon bud, blossom and bear fruit, and that in New-England the elections had taken a strong turn in favor of his (spurious) federalism. To support a dying faction and a desperate cause, perhaps a little gasconading by a forlorn chieftain, in the view of candor might be pardonable, but it should not exempt bold fallacies from an examination by the touchstone of truth. Let us then compare the present state of Federalism in New-England and the other States at the commencement of Mr. Adams's administration, with the existing period, or the 2d. year of the auspicious and popular administration of Mr. JEFFERSON.—In 1797, when Mr. Adams began his iron reign, among the ten Senators, from the five New-England States, including Vermont, there was but one Republican, a term the Federalists then used by way of derision. But at present, in Vermont both her Senators are Republican. In Rhode Island, which in 1797, was the focus of federal aristocracy, her Senators and Representatives in Congress, are all Republican. At that gloomy and disastrous period, among the entire number of Representatives from the five New-England States, there were but two reputed Republicans, one of these the Federalists incarcerated in a gloomy dungeon, and the other they would have hung, could they have found any colorable pretence, for what they deemed so meritorious an action. At this moment, not only the representation of Rhode Island is wholly Republican, but Massachusetts has elected seven Republicans, eminently distinguished for, and in fact engrossing the whole talents of the delegation. Vermont has already, in addition to her Senators, elected two, and probably will have three Republicans in her representation.—And were N. Hampshire and Connecticut to elect by districts, as Massachusetts and most of the other States do, there is not a doubt, but a considerable portion of their Representatives in Congress, would be Republican. In N. Hampshire this is certain, as in several successive elections for Governor, the two largest of her five counties, viz. Rockingham and Hillsborough, have constantly given the Republican candidate, a handsome majority. What a matchless outrage on truth and decency was it then, for Alexander Hamilton to assert to his deluded followers in New-York, 'that the tree of Federalism was reviving in New-England.' From Congress if we turn to the individual Government of the New-England States, we shall find two of her Legislatures completely Republican, three of the Executives reputedly so, and some of the others annually squeezed into office, by practising the meanest arts on a very lean majority.—Indeed in the three New-England Legislatures, in which the Feds yet claim a majority, we find their interest rapidly declining, and that candid enquiring men, are continually leaving them, as they come to the knowledge of the truth.—But, should we take the whole range of the United States, and compare the political character of our present National Representation with that of 1797, we shall find a change, that can only be ascribed to the fostering care of that kind Providence, which has so often appeared for the deliverance of America, when on the margin of ruin. In the reign of terror, the Federalists could count twenty-three among thirty-two Senators, who had sworn on the Federal altar, to extirpate the last remaining root of Republicanism, and these were supported by an overbearing and persecuting majority in the House of Representatives. But how is it now! Out of thirty-four Senators, the disheartened detected faction, can only number nine misnamed Federalists. Of one hundred and forty-one Representatives, more than one hundred are the Constitutional friends of the People, of order and Republicanism. From this comparative view of the past and present state of our public functionaries, and of the sentiments of the People who elected them, we must be induced, at the sight of so great and wonderful a change, to cry out, it is the Lord's doings, and marvellous in our eyes."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the City of Washington, to his friend in the county of Grafton, in this State. WASHINGTON, Feb'y 21, 1803. "DEAR SIR, I AM happy to find you expressing a sentiment, so accordant with my own, in regard to the payment of the Public Debt; and I ever have consoled myself, that this would be the case with the greatest body of the American People, when they should be informed of the true state of things—but be assured Sir, that this state of things has not been derived from federal policy; nor is it true that the money was in the Treasury when they ceased to govern. For there is nearly three millions of Dollars more in the Treasury at this time than there was then. If there was any truth in their declaration, that they left the money in the Treasury, why did they so violently oppose a repeal of the internal Taxes? and why did they take so much pains to promulgate through the United States the idea, that an appeal to Direct Taxes would be the unavoidable consequence of that repeal?—No Sir, the money was not left in the Treasury by them, nor would a cent of the debt have been yet paid, if they had retained the Administration. Unnecessary establishments have been abolished by the present Administration, which has enabled them to apply the national resources to the payment of the debt. This abolition was also opposed by the Federalists, inch by inch. There never existed a doubt in my mind, that the object of the aristocratic party was a change of the principles of the Government, by taking the sovereignty from the People, and placing it in an Hereditary Chief, agreeable to the plan proposed by Mr. Hamilton in the National Convention, for forming the Constitution, and to Mr. Adams' view of the subject, so often repeated in what he fallaciously intitles his defence of the American Constitutions; and that it was their intention, to make every thing bend to that object; A burthen of taxes on the People, a profuse distribution of patronage and war, have been considered very prominent expedients, to effect the object—time will not permit a detail of the evidence on which this opinion has been formed."
A Baltimore Paper of May 18, 1803. A LETTER from an officer of the United States frigate John Adams, dated, Gibraltar, March 29, 1803, says, "On the 23d. Feb. we anchored off Tunis, and the American Consul insisted on the Commodore's going on shore to pay his respects to the Basha. He accordingly, with Capt. Rogers, went on shore; and in a conference, the Commodore and Basha had a dispute respecting a Tripolitan brig, captured by the Enterprise. On the day following, the Commodore and Capt. Rogers were arrested, and a demand made of 34,000 dollars, to be paid immediately. On investigation, it proved to be a private debt due by the American Consul (Eaton) to a merchant in that place and the account having the seal of the United States affixed thereto, the Commodore was obliged to pay it." Another letter, "The consequence of the discovery of Mr. Eaton's conduct has been, that he has been dismissed by the authority of the Commodore, and Mr. Davis has been appointed in his place. What property Mr. E. possessed has been told to repay the debt." The United States frigate Chesapeake, arrived in Hampton Roads on Saturday last, from the Mediterranean.
On Lord's Day last departed this life, Madam LUCY BUCKMINSTER, in the 82d year of her age, relict of the late Rev. Joseph Buckminster, of Rutland, Mass. Her funeral will be this day, at 4 o'clock, P. M. from the house of her son. May 31, 1803. —DIED— In this town, Madam MEHITABLE ROGERS, aged 78, relict of the late Doctor DANIEL ROGERS.—Mrs. Abigail Ramsdell, aged 54.—Miss Anna Alcock. At Boston, Mr. Isaac Randall, aged 23; Hon. John Codman, Esq. aged 48; Mrs. Mary Newcomb, aged 68; Mr. Thomas Barron, aged 70; Mr. J. Catwell, aged 58. TICKETS & QUARTERS In the 3d. Class of SOUTH-HADLEY Lottery, for sale at C. PEIRCE'S Bookstore.—Those who wish to be in fortune's way, must apply immediately, as the Lottery will commence drawing in 16 days from the present date. May 31, 1803.
dence, which has so often appeared for the deliverance of America, when on the margin of ruin. In the reign of terror, the Federalists could count twenty-three among thirty-two Senators, who had sworn on the Federal altar, to extirpate the last remaining root of Republicanism, and these were supported by an overbearing and persecuting majority in the House of Representatives. But how is it now! Out of thirty-four Senators, the disheartened detected faction, can only number nine misnamed Federalists. Of one hundred and forty-one Representatives, more than one hundred are the Constitutional friends of the People, of order and Republicanism. From this comparative view of the past and present state of our public functionaries, and of the sentiments of the People who elected them, we must be induced, at the sight of so great and wonderful a change, to cry out, it is the Lord's doings, and marvellous in our eyes."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the City of Washington, to his friend in the county of Grafton, in this State. WASHINGTON, Feb'y 21, 1803.
"DEAR SIR, I AM happy to find you expressing a sentiment, so accordant with my own, in regard to the payment of the Public Debt; and I ever have consoled myself, that this would be the case with the greatest body of the American People, when they should be informed of the true state of things—but be assured Sir, that this state of things has not been derived from federal policy; nor is it true that the money was in the Treasury when they ceased to govern. For there is nearly three millions of Dollars more in the Treasury at this time than there was then. If there was any truth in their declaration, that they left the money in the Treasury, why did they so violently oppose a repeal of the internal Taxes? and why did they take so much pains to promulgate through the United States the idea, that an appeal to Direct Taxes would be the unavoidable consequence of that repeal?—No Sir, the money was not left in the Treasury by them, nor would a cent of the debt have been yet paid, if they had retained the Administration. Unnecessary establishments have been abolished by the present Administration, which has enabled them to apply the national resources to the payment of the debt. This abolition was also opposed by the Federalists, inch by inch. There never existed a doubt in my mind, that the object of the aristocratic party was a change of the principles of the Government, by taking the sovereignty from the People, and placing it in an Hereditary Chief, agreeable to the plan proposed by Mr. Hamilton in the National Convention, for forming the Constitution, and to Mr. Adams' view of the subject, so often repeated in what he fallaciously intitles his defence of the American Constitutions; and that it was their intention, to make every thing bend to that object; A burthen of taxes on the People, a profuse distribution of patronage and war, have been considered very prominent expedients, to effect the object—time will not permit a detail of the evidence on which this opinion has been formed."
A Baltimore Paper of May 18, 1803. A LETTER from an officer of the United States frigate John Adams, dated, Gibraltar, March 29, 1803, says, "On the 23d. Feb. we anchored off Tunis, and the American Consul insisted on the Commodore's going on shore to pay his respects to the Basha. He accordingly, with Capt. Rogers, went on shore; and in a conference, the Commodore and Basha had a dispute respecting a Tripolitan brig, captured by the Enterprise. On the day following, the Commodore and Capt. Rogers were arrested, and a demand made of 34,000 dollars, to be paid immediately. On investigation, it proved to be a private debt due by the American Consul (Eaton) to a merchant in that place and the account having the seal of the United States affixed thereto, the Commodore was obliged to pay it." Another letter, "The consequence of the discovery of Mr. Eaton's conduct has been, that he has been dismissed by the authority of the Commodore, and Mr. Davis has been appointed in his place. What property Mr. E. possessed has been told to repay the debt." The United States frigate Chesapeake, arrived in Hampton Roads on Saturday last, from the Mediterranean.
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Portsmouth, May 31, 1803.
Henry Ladd,
Has received by the Minerva, from London, and the Warrington, from Liverpool, a fresh supply of Ship Chandlery,
CONSISTING OF SHEET Lead, from 3 to 6 lb. to a foot; deep sea, hand, & fish Leads, from 1 1/2 to 28 lbs; brass and iron cabin door Locks; Stays; Buttons; Hooks and Hinges; Brads; Pump, clapper, clout, 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, 12d, 20d, 30d, & 40d Nails; Spikes; half inch Rivets; Copper Noses for wood funnels; Harpoons; Grains; Tormentors; Lades; Frying Pans; Grid-Irons; Tea Kettles; Coffee Mills; Tin and Japan'd Ware; Carpenter's, Caulker's & Cooper's Tools complete.
Also, Patent Shot; Balls; Powder; do. Flasks; Gun-Locks; do. Worms; do. do. to extract balls; Hunter's, Sportsman's, Pen, Pocket, and Fish Knives; Paints; Brushes, &c. &c. Portsmouth, May 31, 1803.
S. Larkin,
Keeps constantly for sale, at his Shop in Broad-Street,
MADEIRA, } WINES. Sherry, Lisbon, and Malaga,
Best Coniac Brandy, Holland Gin, Old Rum, Molasses, Coffee, Chocolate, Spices of all kinds, Sugars of various kinds, fresh Turkey Figs, Box Raisins, Shell'd Almonds, Prunes.
Gunpowder, } TEAS, Young Hyson, Souchong, Hyson Skin, and Bohea } all of the first quality.
Together with a general assortment of
GROCERIES.
BOSTON GLASS of all sizes, cheap as at the Manufactory. Portsmouth, May 31, 1803.
NOTICE.
BY virtue of a License from the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, will be Sold, at AUCTION, on TUESDAY the 28th day of JUNE next, at 2 o'clock, P. M. at the house of JOHN HAGGINS, innholder in Berwick—
A Valuable FARM, lately owned by Capt. THOMAS WALINGFORD, of Somersworth, deceased, containing one hundred acres of Land, with a convenient Dwelling-House, and Barn thereon, with a large quantity of Timber, and Fire Wood trees thereon, and is about four miles from Berwick landing.—The terms of payment, with good security, will be at long periods, if the purchaser desire it. Particulars will be further made known at the time and place of sale, or at any time previous by applying to the subscriber in Portsmouth, or to Gen. GOODWIN, of Berwick, or Capt. RICKER, of Somersworth.
ISAAC LYMAN. Portsmouth, May 31, 1803.
ALL persons indebted to, or having demands on the estate of JOSEPH NORRISS, late of Stratham, yeoman, deceased, are requested to exhibit their accounts for settlement, to JOSIAH SMITH, Admin'r. Straitham, May 30, 1803.
A steady GIRL is wanted in a very small family, one who can come with a good recommendation, will be encouraged with good wages—For further particulars inquire of the Printer. Portsmouth, May 24, 1803.
THIS DAY
At S. LITTLE'S Office,
At 12 o'clock precisely,
A GREAT VARIETY
English & India Goods
A quantity Household Furniture,
by order of the Judge Probate;—among
which are,
1 elegant Side Board; 6 fashionable Hair Bottom Chairs,
new; 4 Stuff Bottom do. do.
1 Mahogany Burough; number Mahogany Stands and Tables;
one Sofa; Looking Glasses; Sets China; 1 silver Watch;
1 Portmanteau; 8 boxes Window Glass; 12 thousand Clapboards;
3 Chests Souchong Tea.
Also at private Sale,
100 pieces Nankins; 100 Bandanno Handkerchiefs;
number elegant Looking Glasses.
Portsmouth, May 31, 1803.
TO BE SOLD
AT AUCTION,
On TUESDAY, the 14th June
next, if not previously disposed of at
Private Sale,
A LOT OF LAND,
ON Cross-Street, opposite
Mr. McIntire's new house, mea-
suring on said street 60 feet, and ex-
tending back 80 feet, to a lane of 10
feet.—The said LOT will be conven-
ient for a Dwelling-House or Store;
and is a valuable stand, having the
advantage of the street being made
wider.—For further particulars apply
to Alexander Erwen.
Portsmouth, May 31, 1803.
The Committee of Police,
TAKE this method to in-
form the inhabitants of the town
of Portsmouth, that all nuisances which
come under the inspection of said
Committee, after the publication here-
of, unless immediately removed, will
be rigorously prosecuted according to
law.—And all persons, driving trucks
or carts through the streets of said
town, are hereby informed, that un-
less they carefully attend to, and ob-
serve such methods as may best serve
to keep their horses and oxen under
command, will be prosecuted according
to law.
By Order of the Committee of Police,
R. CUTTS SHANNON, Chairman.
Portsmouth, May 31, 1803.
To all whom it may concern!
THIS will certify, that BETSEY,
wife of me of the subscriber, has
behaved herself in a very unbecoming
manner, and has unnecessarily run
me in debt:—This is therefore to for-
bidd all persons whatever from trusting
her on my account, as I will pay no
debts of her contracting after this
date; having dissolved all connection
with her, the said BETSEY.
JAMES SEAWARDS. Portsmouth, May 31, 1803.
The Proprietors of New-Castle Bridge
ARE hereby notified, that a fur-

Miscellaneous Repository.
KOSCIUSKO.
Written in December, 1794.
BY W. SMITH.
HAS Freedom's flame thy breast illumed? Has reason there her rights assumed? —Warm will thy bosom feel and glow For human bliss, for human woe. Ages roll, and see unblest A nation stretch'd in iron rest! An hero calls—wide ope her eyes— Falls he?—in death again she lies! Saw'st thou, on yon northern plains, The slave exulting 'mid his chains, While Freedom wav'd her banners high, And twin'd the wreath of victory? Proudly swell'd thy generous heart? Warm to thine eyes did rapture start? The banner sinks, the wreath is torn— With me for Kosciusko mourn.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
An instance of the happy effects of GOOD EDUCATION.
From the FEMALE GUARDIAN.
The Female Tutor of a certain metropolis, one evening indulged her pupils in the recreations of masquerade. She was fond of encouraging any innocent diversion that had a tendency to promote health, so essential to the enjoyment and the cheerful performance of the duties of life. The young Ladies had richly profited by the instructions of Honoria, and her sedulous attentions in forming their minds to virtue, and to adorn them with every valuable accomplishment. Some of them however, had conducted their masquerading not in every instance with their wonted prudence and discretion; and, for concealment, they had called themselves by the names of several young Ladies, who were not of their company, and might very justly resent being so freely treated. Honoria could not but reprove their indiscretion, though with her usual soft and engaging mildness, and the good sense of these pupils readily induced them to a candid acknowledgment. They justly reflected that had their deviation from exact propriety been of a more reprehensible nature, their assuming the names of others, might have been attended with unhappy consequences.
The Female Guardian mentions this anecdote, as an instance of the invaluable advantages derived from a good education, and of the generous pliancy of young minds to the gentle reproofs of those experienced friends, who, they are gratefully sensible, are anxiously attentive to promote their highest improvement and celebrity. Those young Ladies immediately determined to be, in future, directed in their amusements and recreations, by their wise and benevolent Tutor; and likewise, to the utmost of their influence, to be as regardful of the felicity of all their young contemporaries, as of their own—A resolve truly ennobling to the Female mind; which is indeed, from its refined and gentle formation, naturally inclined to the tenderest acts of humanity and benevolence—The Female Guardian perceives, with the truest pleasure, the happy effects, in the present age, of the faithful attention of the instructors and guides of the various youthful classes of the Fair Sex, evidenced in the spirit of benevolence and humanity which renders them so lovely and alluring, and their laudable emulation free from foolish pride and envy, to excel in very valuable and ornamental accomplishment, thro' which the charms of Female conversation becomes the sublimest felicity of life.
THE FEMALE GUARDIAN.
Medley.
POPE was much deformed in his person—and very frequently made use of the words God mend me , when surprised of a sudden. It was the custom in London, in dark nights, to have boys to serve as lighters—for their trouble they were allowed three pence to light a certain distance. Pope was returning home a very dark night, when up stepped a lighter to light him home; when he arrived at his lodgings, he asked the boy what he must pay him; six-pence Sir—six-pence, exclaimed Pope—"God mend me, that will never do."—"God mend you Sir! (says the boy, surveying him) he had better make a new one."—Pope was so much pleased with the wit, that he gave the boy two or three shillings.—A man of true wit is pleased with it, although at his own expense.
Charles Peirce,
HAS just received by the recent arrivals from Europe, as complete an assortment of
BIBLES,
As ever was imported at one time into this town. They are from a very small Pocket size, to large Pulpit Folios; from 1 to 15 dollars each. Those are now open and ready for sale.
He has also received a good assortment of BOOKS & STATIONARY, Which he will sell at a small advance.
KINE POCK.
Dr. SPALDING inoculates with the KINE POCK.
NEW GOODS.
James Rundlet,
HAS imported in the Galen and Minerva, from London, a large assortment of
Staple and Fancy GOODS,
which are now opening and will be sold at small advance by wholesale and retail.
About 300 rolls Paper Hangings
to be sold at prime cost.
Portsmouth, May 17, 1803.
REMOVED.
Peter Coffin,
HAS removed to the New Five Proof Store in Market-street, where a large assortment of Fashionable, Fancy & Staple GOODS,
received by the late arrivals from England, are now opened for Sale by Wholesale and Retail,—viz—
LONDON and Yorkshire superfine Broad-Cloths, of the most fashionable colours; Habit Cloths; Cassimeres; strip'd and plain black silk Florentines..
A great variety of
Fashionable Waistcoating; Fustians; Jeans; Denims; plain, twill'd and silk Nankinets; Thicksets; Velvets; worsted and silk Plush.
A large assortment of
Calicoes & Chintzes; Chintz and Dimity Furnitures; Muslinets; Dimities; Copperplates; Table Cloths; Diapers.
A great variety of
Book, jaconet, cambric and sprig'd Muslins; Black and color'd Saranet Muslins and Ginghams; Muslin Handkerchiefs; Men's Neckerchiefs.
Cambric muslin Shawls, with Nettings; silk, Camel's Hair, purple and chintz Shawls; Linen, Cotton, Bandanno and black silk Handkerchiefs.
Fashionable Florence Silks, for Gowns; Lustings; Modes; Satins; Sarefnets; Tiffanies; Italian Crapes; Gauzes; Millinets.
A large assortment of
Thread Laces and Edgings; black Laces; black Lace Cloaks; black Turkey Gauze, for Cloaks; black and white Lace Veils.
A great variety of
Chip, willow and straw Bonnets; Fashionable silk Bonnets, full tim'd; fashionable black Beavers; Men's and boy's Hats.
A large assortment of
Kid and morocco Shoes; Rosettes; Morocco Shoes, with cork soles; Morocco Slips.
A great variety of
Ribbons; Cotton and silk Gown Trimmings; Gown Buttons; gold and silver Laces and Fringes; gold and silver Cords; color'd silk Cords; Glove-ties; cotton and silk Girdles; Straw Trimmings.
A variety of
Black and fancy Feathers, Flowers and Wreaths; Fashionable Fans, some very elegant; crape, glaz'd and common black Fans; Parasols, some with walking sticks; Umbrellas; Garden Fans.
Fashionable pearl Necklaces; gold Ear-drops; gold and silver Epaulets; Spangles.
Mens and Youths cotton, hemp and silk Hose; Womens cotton & silk Hose, some with lac'd clocks; Womens extra long cotton and silk Gloves and Mitts, all colors; Kid Gloves; Mens beaver, wash leather, silk, thread and cotton Gloves; Stock Stiffeners; Cotton and silk Braces.
Cheap yard wide Linens, of a superior fabric; Irish Sheetings; Checks; Threads; embroidering and other sewing Silks; Bindings.
An assortment of
White and chintz Bed Lace, Cords and Tassels: Carpets and Carpeting.
Fashionable gilt, steel, plated & common Buttons; Button Moulds; Sleeve Buttons; steel Knee Buckles; silver Thimbles; steel and gilt Watch Chains, Seals and Keys; Tooth Brushes; Pins; Smelling Bottles.
Tammies; Durants; plain & rib'd Calimancoes; Shalloons; Rufsels; Moreens; Taboreens; Florentines; Lastings; Satinets, &c. &c.
Portsmouth, May 17, 1803.
WANTED
By the subscriber, SHEEP SKINS dressed, suitable for Book-Binding—in which line of business he craves leave to remind his country friends and customers he is ready to serve them.
HENRY SHERBURNE.
May 17, 1803.
Proposals
FOR CARRYING THE Mails of the United States
On the following Post Roads, Will be received at the GENERAL POST OFFICE in WASHINGTON CITY, until the 1st day of July next, (1803) inclusive.
IN NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
1. From Portsmouth by Dover, Rochester, Middletown, Ossipee, Moultonboro, Centreharbour, Plymouth, New-Hampton, Meredith, Gilmanton, Nottingham and Durham to Portsmouth once a week, and by the contrary route the next week, so as to carry the mail alternately.—Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday at 2 p m, and arrive at Plymouth on Thursday 7 p m.—Leave Plymouth every Friday at 6 a m, and arrive at Portsmouth the next Tuesday by 9 a m.
2. From Portsmouth N. H. by Exeter, Kingston, Haverhill, Andover, Wilmington, Woburn and Medford to Boston three times a week.—Leave Portsmouth every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a m, and arrive at Boston by 7 p m. Leave Boston every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3 a m and arrive at Portsmouth by 7 p m.
3. From Exeter by Chester, Londonderry, Amherst, Peterboro, Marlboro and Keen to Walpole once a week.—Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 9 a m, arrive at Amherst on Wednesday by 7 p m. Leave Amherst on Thursday at 5 a m, and arrive at Keene by 7 p m. Leave Keene Friday at 6 a m, and arrive at Walpole on Friday by 10 a m.—Returning. Leave Walpole every Friday at 2 p m, arrive at Keene by 7 p m. Leave Keene on Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at Amherst by 6 p m. Leave Amherst at 7 p m, and arrive at Exeter on Monday by 3 p m.
4. From Exeter by Nottingham, Concord, Salisbury, Grafton, Canaan and Lebanon to Hanover once a week.—Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 9 a m, arrive at Concord on Wednesday by 10 a m. Leave Concord at 11 a m, and arrive at Hanover on Friday by 9 a m.—Returning. Leave Hanover every Friday at 1 p m, and arrive at Exeter on Monday by 3 p m.
5. From Haverhill Ms. by Chester, Pembroke, Boscawen, Salisbury, Plymouth, Rumney and Haverhill to Newbury, Vt. once a week.—Leave Haverhill every Tuesday at 2 p m, arrive at Chester by 5 p m, at Concord on Wednesday by 10 a m. Leave Concord at 4 p m, arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 p m, and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 p m. Leave Haverhill at 5 1-2 p m, and arrive at Newbury by 7 p m.—Returning. Leave Newbury every Saturday at 6 a m on Monday by 10 a m. Leave Concord at 11 a m, and arrive at Haverhill, Ms. on Tuesday by 10 a m.
6. From Hanover by Orford to Haverhill once a week.—Leave Hanover every Friday at 6 a m, and arrive at Haverhill by 5 p m. Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at Hanover by 6 p m.
7. From Haverhill by Bath, Littleton and Dalton to Lancaster once a week.—Leave Lancaster every Thursday at 3 p m, and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 p m. Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 6 a m, and arrive at Lancaster on Monday by 8 a m.
8. From Groton, Ms. by Townsend, Ashby, New Ipswich, Jaffrey, Marlboro, Keene and Chesterfield to Brattleboro once a week.—Leave Groton every Thursday at 5 a m, and arrive at Brattleboro on Friday by 10 a m. Leave Brattleboro every Friday at 2 p m, and arrive at Groton on Saturday by 8 p m.
9. From Exeter by New Market and Durham to Dover once a week.—Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 5 a m, and arrive at Dover by 10 a m.—Leave Dover at noon, and arrive at Exeter by 3 p m.
10. From Billerica by Patucket Bridge, Dracut, Pelham and Windham to Londonderry once a week.—Leave Billerica every Monday at 5 a m, and arrive at Londonderry by 1 p m. Leave Londonderry at 1 p m, and arrive at Billerica by 8 p m.
NOTES.
1. The Postmaster General may expedite the mails and alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contract, he stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby. 2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices, where no particular time is specified. 3. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continue until the departure of any depending mail, whereby the mails destined for such depending mails, lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred. 4. Newspapers as well as letters are to be sent in the mail; and if any person making proposals, desires to carry newspapers, other than those conveyed in the mail for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals, for what sum he will carry with the emolument, and for what sum without that emolument. 5. Should any person making proposal desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals the alterations desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of the contract. 6. Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly in the months of February, May, August and November, one month after the expiration of each quarter. 7. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail. 8. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals. 9. The Postmaster General reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end whenever three failures happen which amount to the loss of a trip each. 10. Those who wish to contract for two years, will make distinct proposals, specifying for what price they will perform the service for one year, and at what price for two years. 11. The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of October next, and are to continue in force for one year, or two years, at the election of the Postmaster General.
GIDEON GRANGER, Postmaster General.
General Post Office Washington City, April 4th, 1803.
FOR SALE,
That pleasant, agreeable, and well known SEAT, at Little Harbor.
THE large and spacious MANSION HOUSE , formerly belonging to
Gov. BENNING WENTWORTH, deceased—consisting of a variety of elegant and convenient Apartments; a large and extensive Garden,—likewise, a beautiful Flower Garden, adjoining the House, both containing all kinds of the best growth of Fruit Trees, Grape Vines, &c. A WHARF, with convenient STORES thereon, two large and commodious Barns, Cyder House, Wash House, Wood House, and other out and convenient Buildings, with two Wells of excellent Water.—The above, containing about one hundred acres of Tillage, Mowing and Pasture Land, together with two excellent Orchards, the whole enclosed with a strong and well built stone wall.
The situation is delightful and romantic, commanding a grand prospect of the sea and adjacent country.—Any person wishing to purchase the above, may know the terms by applying to Mr. EBEN WENTWORTH, or to the subscriber, living on the premises.
MARTHA WENTWORTH. Little Harbor, Portsmouth, May 17, 1803.
T. Morton,
At his Store, SIGN of the
Golden
KEY>
Congress-street,
opposite the
BELL
TAVERN;
Has in store FOR SALE,
WEST-INDIA and New-England RUM , per Hhd. bbl. or less quantity; Cogniac BRANDY; Hollands GIN; Annis, Sherry, Lisbon and Sweet WINE; Porter, and strong Beer; Molasses; Coffee; Chocolate; Box and cask Raisins; Figs; 20 bbls. fine and superfine Flour, fresh and good; 800 wt. of Cheese of superior quality; 1600 wt. of brown and India SUGAR; 300 do. of Loaf, do. Hyson, Young-Hyson, Hyson-skin, Souchong and Bohea TEAS, warranted to be of the first quality, per doz. or less quantity; 100 bushels coarse White Salt; Pollock Fish; a few boxes Herring, in good order; Hams Bacon; Cotton Wool; Cotton and wool Cards; Boston and Newbury Snuff, per kegg; Excellent Spanish and Boston Segars; Hard Soap; Pearl-ash; Straw Tumblers; Wine Glasses; Boxes 8 by 10 Glass; Writing Paper; Crockery WARE; Shoethread; Indian and Rye Meal; Rye; Peas; Beans; Mould and dipt Candles; Cinnamon; Cloves; Pepper; Ginger; Allspice; Nutmegs; Ground Mustard; best Spanish float Indigo; Poland Starch; Oatmeal; Corn Brooms; Bed Cords; Gun-Powder; Sulpher and Roal Brimstone; a few bbls. Blubber, &c.
* Constant attendance from sunrise until 9 o'clock in the evening, where all of the above articles may be bought at reduced prices, for cash only, as he anticipates leaving town in about seven or eight weeks—All who have unsettled accounts with him, are requested to call at said store, and settle the same, before the middle of June next.
Portsmouth, May 10, 1803.
Just Received, and to be Sold by
Joseph Bals,
At his Shop in Broad-street, Portsmouth.
EARLY GARDEN PEAS and BEANS , with a general assortment of English and American New GARDEN SEEDS. Portsmouth, May 17, 1803.
PUBLIC AUCTION! REAL ESTATE!
A fine Chance; on the 9th of June.
To be Sold, at Public Auction, on the premises, that valuable Real Estate of the late Mr. JONATHAN AYERS, Senior.
IT CONSISTS of a MANSION HOUSE, STABLE, excellent Well, good Garden, Fruit trees, and a Lot of Land that runs from street to street. The situation is well known, being opposite to Capt. GEORGE TURNER'S, and next door to Mrs. SPENCE'S.
Sale to be 9th of June 1803. Portsmouth, May 24, 1803.
Strayed or Stolen,
FROM the pasture of Mr. James Chesley, in Rochester, on the night of the 22d instant, a brown bay colored MARE, both hind feet white, either 7 or 8 years old this month, between 14 1/2 and 15 hands high, trots all, steps short, and travels very narrow behind.
Whoever will return said Mare to said CHESLEY, or the subscriber, or give any information so that she may be recovered, shall be handsomely rewarded, and all necessary charges paid by JOHN P. HALE. Rochester, May 23, 1803.
Notice to Debtors.
THOSE Persons who still remain indebted to the Estate of MARTIN PARRY, late of Portsmouth, merchant, deceased, are hereby informed, that the subscribers, administrators on said estate, being obliged to settle their account of administration with the Judge of Probate within a short time, have determined to place the accounts of all delinquent debtors in the hands of an Attorney for collection, unless prevented by an immediate settlement.
MARK SIMES, SAMUEL SPARHAWK.
Portsmouth, May 24, 1803.
Notice to Creditors.
THE commissioners appointed to receive and adjust the claims against the estate of MARTIN PARRY, late of Portsmouth, merchant, deceased; give notice that four months longer from the 20th of April last, the expiration of their commission to receive and adjust said claims, being allowed by the Judge of Probate for that purpose, they will attend that business at the office of JEREMIAH LIBBEY, near Spring-Hill, on the 1st Monday of June, July and August next ensuing, at TEN o'clock A. M.
JEREMIAH LIBBEY, EDWARD SARGENT, DANIEL HUMPHREYS.
Portsmouth, May 24, 1803.
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administratrix on the Estate of Captain ALEXANDER LAING, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased; and has taken upon herself that trust, by giving bonds as the law directs. All persons having any demands on the estate of said deceased, are requested to exhibit the same, and all persons indebted thereto, are called upon to make immediate payment to DANIEL HUMPHREYS, her Attorney.
ANN LAING, Administratrix. Portsmouth, May 24, 1803.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons concerned, that the subscriber, administrator of the Estate of MICHAEL D. JOSE, late of Portsmouth, mariner, deceased, intends to present his administration account to the Judge of Probate for the county of Rockingham, on the third Wednesday in June next, for allowance—when any person interested may appear and show cause why the same should not be approved and allowed.—WILLIAM STAVERS. May 24, 1803.
ALL persons who have any demands against the Estate of MARK JENKINS, late of Greenland, deceased; are requested to exhibit the same for settlement—and all indebted, to make immediate payment to ANNA JENKINS, administratrix to said Estate. Greenland, May 23, 1803.
John Mason,
INFORMS the Public that he is making a quantity of BRICKS, near the North Mills, which will be ready for delivery in the month of June next—any Gentleman may be accommodated with a particular size or quantity on liberal terms, by applying in season at the Brick Yard, or to JOSEPH ELA. Portsmouth, May 24, 1803.